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> For what's it's worth nearly all the excellent executives I've met over the years didn't have an MBA and nearly all the worst ones did...
I sort of draw a comparison between that and something I heard the director of a local accelerator say once: "We look for founders who are open to taking advice from mentors, but at the same time, don't take everything everyone says to them as gospel."
I think there's something similar to an MBA program. The people who do best are the ones who are able to take what they've learned and run with it, rather than use exactly what was taught in school as playbook for every business.
The author definitely knows about it, since the thesis of the article is that Signal would be near-perfect if the multi-device flow were usable but "..the process for setting it up is annoying."

It's fine if the author hasn't tried it, but don't write an article criticizing the usability of something you haven't even tried.
I can relate to that yes. What kept me away from RoR is this strange community that seemed to stubbornly refused to look into anything else, believing that their technology was the silver bullet. Maybe I was wrong, but that's the feeling I got. I have to say, the performance issues in Ruby always were a bit problem to me.

I would hate to see the same thing happen with Elixir which, I believe, can become an amazing technology and finally help give Erlang the recognition it deserves.
Money? These drugs and the companies don't come cheap.

Take Gilead for example, which created Harvoni/Sovaldi for treating Hep-C. It's currently valued at about $150B. Before the release, it was a quarter of the price, so the value of Gilead's Hep-C franchise is in the order of $70-$80B at the very least. That's about the entire net worth of Bill Gates.
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They already do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration#S...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_for_Healthcare_Research...

It clearly ain't working.
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Greed is not the most motivating factor, but it certainly is a key one. If you adopt the rule that greed has no place in "high minded" stuff like saving lives, then all the smart people who are nonetheless greedy will go into areas other than saving lives. There is no correlation between intelligence and selflessness. You give the best and brightest a choice between earning millions on Wall Street or never breaking $150k in science (after 7 years of low-paid doctoral and post-doctoral work) then you'll cut yourself off at the knees.
>I don't really know why you seem to have an axe to grind here.

Not sure about the "axe to grind" thing -- I didn't call any names, and it kind of calls for people to see any kind of reply from me as further "aggression". I merely stated my opinion based on what I've seen 15+ years in IT (including using QT to write some KDE API based apps).

I believe I have a quite good understanding on where QT stands in the "commercial apps" landscape, and common isn't the word I'd use for it. Skype would be the biggest success story, if they still use it, and it looks quite different from the regular QT/Windows look (which is what we were discussing).

So, just by Skype alone sure, you'll find "most Windows PCs used by regular consumers have [a copy] of Qt on them", but that's not enough to call it common in my book. Most regular PC also have had Java applet SDK and even JREs, and one could cite a few apps using it, but few would call Swing "popular" in the desktop space.

As for Qt being a "800k developer ecosystem", a lot of them work on internal enterprise tools, automation software and stuff like that, which has been a traditional market for TrollTech and QT in past decades. Then there's always KDE of course too.
Answer: "This particular MR image, though, was not made for diagnostic purposes, nor even really for science. No one, to my knowledge, had ever made an MR image of a mother and child. We made this one because we wanted to see it."

The question I was wondering about is "how did she get two million dollars to buy a 3-tesla MRI machine". And the answer is, be a professor at MIT. (http://saxelab.mit.edu/)
> Sadly, in a lot of cases this will lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy where you will stop trying to improve your math skills because you weren't "made for it".

But isn't this just semantics? That is, if neither you nor anyone else can convince you that you're capable then, in fact, you are not capable.
This is only if you believe in a private market which works for drugs which I believe is not possible unless for really simple basic meds. I beleive the research should be public on this case, no legal incentive can really fix the drug market. This is one of those markets where the interests of both parties will likely never align.
No, your claim is false. This has been claimed about Signal multiple times now on HN and I've never understood how people came to this conclusion, because it's just not true and never was. All your messages arrive on all your devices, even if all of them are off at the time the message is sent. It's stored in an end-to-end encrypted fashion on Signal's servers until you switch on one of them, at which point the message will be delivered. When you switch on another one, the messages will be present at that device as well. The only thing missing right now is the sync of old messages when you link a new device, but that's only relevant in the first couple of days/weeks of use.
I'm envious of people who get the 'runners high'. I've run for hours to no effect except rubbery legs and boredom. I like riding a bike because going fast is fun, but the work of it gives me nothing.
Why do you assume they aren't someone with a website and have a career?
In theory this might work. In practice, the US is truly terrible at running big projects.

Consider the 2nd avenue subway in NYC. We've been building it since 1972. It's still under construction and is the most expensive subway ever. Compare to the Delhi metro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_Metro#/media/File:Delhi_...

What big projects of any sort have we done a good job with lately? The closest we've had to a success might have been our second attempt at building an ebay for health insurance.

When we run our current crop of big projects well, I'd think about expanding into more. Until then, lets not take chances with something as important as pharmaceutical research.
You can't run scripts out of the box on nix either: you either need to manually mark the script as executable or invoke the interpreter and pass it as a parameter.

Not saying that's a bad thing, just that we (as Unix folks) do things intuitively that we forgot we once not intuitive.

Totally agreed on 2 though 5 though.
> "No right is absolute, and that includes the right to privacy. Criminals, for example, simply don't have it."

Unfortunately, no technology can differentiate between criminal and innocent, only human can. The implication is to decide the priority: privacy for criminals or no privacy for innocents.
So I'm late to the party but I'd say this doesn't really apply to this or similar controversial situations that CM30 solution aims to fix.

On budgetary matters, sure. You want to combine efforts to get legislation through that benefits your constituency even if it's a lot more costly than it would be if you could get your measure approved by itself. An example would be Congressman A has a bunch of people complaining about the all the dangerous intersections in their state, Congressman B has a bunch of bridges that are falling apart, so the two get together and create a Federal Road Improvements Act or whatever to appropriate budget for what is now being considered a nation concern. This is a logical place for riders as it allows federal budgeting to have the greatest reach it can for helping the states.

There is substantially less logical argument when the riders concern law. From your example, if a law ever put a congressman's constituency worse off than they were before, there is no time when that representative should support it. Creating an environment of sweeping bad law into bills set to pass is inherently dangerous because once in place, laws are considered correct until properly invalidated.

But the nature of these riders is different still. This is law being thrown into budget. Just like the super controversial sections in the 2012 NDAA, these are mixing two very different types of bills. Having law riders is dangerous enough as it is, but allowing them to be thrown into budgetary bills that must pass is just insane.

The problem is there is currently no delineation in congress between the two types of bills. Everything they do whether budgetary or policy based is law and is generally "over the head of us simple minded folk" so they have leveraged a tremendous amount of freedom in the way that they can push things through regardless of how much sense anything they do ultimately makes.

I think the first-step solution would be to separate bill types and only allow appropriation riders on budgetary matters and no riders when it comes to new law/policy. If that is too complicated for them, they shouldn't be law makers.
"it is unlikely to be a solution for weird hardware"

But it's there for the taking and tweaking! It's the same as you solve your own problems in the *nix world, but it's for the cases where you really don't have any other solution but but to work with the hardware vendor's black-box provided driver. BTW, don't expect that buying Windows will solve your problems (because Microsoft seems to have acquired a taste for moving fast and breaking things lately).
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So, for a financial services company a MBA will offer vertical expertise.
What comes to mind by 4), is "tee", which powershell also has - but that's perhaps not what you want/mean ?
Miles per second, great. kph is just wrong that we can figure out.
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Do you share data with foreign governments, who then could perhaps side-step your local laws? Just curious as it sounds like a loophole I've seen people talking about.
That's exactly my point, the majority of people who do contact support are just average consumers. If removing third-party bulb support means a better experience for everyone and reduces the burden of support overall (both for users having to contact support and the support load itself), I completely understand their decision.

We tech-savvy people have a better understanding of things like compatibility, the drawbacks of third-party/unofficial accessories etc. But try explaining that to someone who has no interest or experience in this, and they'll just not understand - or care.

If Philips had stuck to their decision, it would've meant that, for anyone contact support, they could handle the entirety of the problem. This avoids the boomeranging of "well it might be your bulb, go speak to the people who made it".

I don't know many people who use home automation, lighting systems like this, but of those that do - all but one is not someone I'd consider tech-savvy.

I have no strong feelings one way or the other about this decision. Honestly, if I ever used this, I'd probably stick to first party products. As I get older, I find that I just don't care or want to spend the time fiddling with compatibility issues. If I'm in the market for automated light bulbs, chances are I'll have no problem stretching my budget to first party bulbs.
I guess pipe collecting was big back in the day:

http://www.aiga.org/uploadedImages/AIGA/Content/Tools_and_Re...
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Do you really need a blockchain?
A certificate chain from the root certificate of the primary device to any secondary device should be enough.
Long ago I used to think I got the 'runners high', but it was really the ephedrine.
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I disagree that Ikea furniture breaks after just five years. I've used an Ikea bed for almost twenty years. It also survived moving (and was easy to transport because you could disassemble it again). A Billy will definitely also last longer than five years.

I can also not believe that there are sofas, for whatever price, that last a lifetime without expensive repairs to the cushions.
Since tech-savvy folks tend not to contact support, I'd wager this would've been viewed as significant.
Too crazy. I can't believe any public person, would say anything like that on record. I wouldn't be surprised if the article was revealed to be fake, but apparently he approved it [0]. So, either the article is real, or this [1] twitter account isn't his, which doesn't seem likely.

This must be a case of damage control [2] going haywire.

[0]:https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/status/677168810432946176

[1]:https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/

[2]:http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/466231/Martin-Sh...
> The error occurred after u2, but the errors thread got descheduled and the userActions thread kept on processing.

Your suggested case is contrived and doesn't apply to JavaScript (the examples were in JavaScript where I assume all these streams are in the same thread). I am not claiming withLatestFrom is the correct mechanism for determining order of events in multi-threaded assumptions. That's an orthogonal concern to the issue at hand.

> I strongly suspect that combining async streams will prove to be a problem in practice

Combining async results is a true problem and people often attempt to solve them with callbacks or heavy usage of Futures/Promises. Rx solves these problems easily, and I've witnessed a lot of developers confirm this when learning Rx. It's not hard to teach the difference between withLatestFrom and combineLatest and their intended use cases. Much easier than managing callback hell, which is what RxJS intends to replace.
So far, we don't know if there are any proofs that are beyond the human intellect. I don't think that we currently believe such a thing to exist theoretically.

Every provable conjecture should be understandable in principle by a generic human mind.

Now, there for certain systems that are so complex that proofs within those systems are beyond us. Not because we couldn't understand them but because learning and applying all the rules of that system takes longer than a human mind is able to live (currently).

But that's just a practical limitation, not a theoretical one.
Very weird indeed. Although I agree with the reasoning, despite of the authority.
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Coincidentally, George Orwell uses the term "dead metaphors" in Politics and the English Language, an essay directly relevant to your thought.
That's my point. He said a judge's order is required for a "wiretap", but other commenters have said (and provided text) that metadata is available without a judge's order. So unless that statement is incorrect and a judge's order is actually required, the entire argument that there's a high bar to wiretap is false. He's just redefined "wiretap", that's all.
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@jacquesm, Or for a counterpoint: maybe it all comes down to an intentional strategy of timing? And our debate of morality vs. objectivity is late to the game.

As in, people of authority are already aware of his actions (versus my original depiction of them as "sleeping giants"), but don't have enough strength (quality evidence, clear-cut violations, etc) to convict so the case proceeds at a glacial pace.

i.e. If they were to present the case at that point in time, they'd encounter too many people in the objective camp (me) vs. the moral camp (you), who'd issue a jury verdict of not guilty.

But with the very negative, public antics that Martin undertakes, he changes public opinion which directly impacts the makeup of his jurors and additional evidence where if the case was presented at the current time, it'd come out with a guilty verdict.

EDIT: left out "and additional evidence" in reply.
This sums up the VR market pretty well, it was at the top of /r/oculus the other day: https://i.imgur.com/Br3wCoU.jpg
True, but limiting their system to first-party bulbs will likely mean a higher resolution rate and avoids the dreaded "sorry, you're going to have to speak to the bulb manufacturer". There's nothing more toxic to a customer support experience than two separate companies saying the other is to blame.
>Lets also not forget that if you can't make money off lifesaving drugs, you also won't bother to invent any new ones.

Let's not forget that there are people who invent stuff and do research outside of monetary concerns too. Not to mention state funded research, which is how we got most of the foundations of the core science/technology we have now (either that or heavily subsidized "private" research, including pharmas).

And let's also not forget that by several accounts, the costs of research for most of those life saving drugs are dwarfed by the costs of marketing and other BS the companies spend their money on, and not even for them (as life saving drugs practically advertise themselves anyway) but for non life-saving drugs like Viagra and co...

>the media has decided he's a villain

And for one, in this particular case, nobody can blame them!
Hmm.

It's easier on men, I guess. It does wound my vanity a bit when young women on the bus offer me a seat. But otherwise, being on the large size and generally glum looking, I don't get people baby-talking me or condescending much.
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There were only two threads stuck, so monitoring the threads wouldn't have set off any alarms. One was a Clojure agent thread, which basically allowed all the clients marked for retirement to queue up.

I used both Yourkit and Java Mission Control for monitoring the JVM. They both have some functionality of deadlock detection, but it did not flag these two threads. Yourkit identified these threads as waiting, not blocked, but I'm not sure how it makes that distinction.
Interesting story! To me it seems Ms Garner is ok with growing old and more fragile, but does not accept being viewed as inferior or respect-unworthy. Good for her! I wish more elderly people would decouple their loss of youth from their self regard.
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Given that the complete audio of the interview is available on youtube, it's 100% without question genuine.

(Ah, they took the interview audio down, apparently. I listened to the complete phone interview, and I can vouch for the transcript being accurate, for what it's worth)
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> I'm not sure why you think dander is an "orphaned" word.

Indeed; anyone with an allergy is well familiar with pet dander; both the word and the "stuff".
This would make a good "Show HN". Adding "Show HN: " to the front of the title will put it in that area.
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I was only trying to make a point because d_theorist seemed to only think security is about hiding the message from third party. Secure communication could even mean not to get a electric shock from your phone while using it.
The leaked win2k was very incomplete.
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> As for Qt being a "800k developer ecosystem", a lot of them work on internal enterprise tools, automation software and stuff like that

Many of which run on Windows, FWIW.
Since A-Frame mentions this => "A-Frame is ultimately just the DOM, so developers can also manipulate it with standard JavaScript methods,"... it means D3.js should work beautifully with it (as should other frameworks that do data <==> DOM binding/manipulation)
I'm always skeptical about stuff like this. Sandberg's springboard into her career was two-fold: working at McKinsey after HBS, and working under Larry Summers, who was her thesis advisor at Harvard UG. She went to Google as a VP after her stint in government.

There is a huge "getting your foot in the door" advantage to that credential. I can totally believe she didn't use much of what she learned at HBS in what she did at Google. But would she ever have gotten that VP job at Google without that sterling resume?
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I can't really claim to have been an ultramarathoner--I ran four or five 36-mile races and one 50, all long ago. I don't remember the ultramarathoners I met (at my own races and a couple of 100-mile races where I handled for a friend) as being particularly spiritual.
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I never said it was impossible.
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That would be the first system like that available to public ever. "It's not that we all agree not to read it unless we really really think the people are bad" is pretty much the definition of the secrecy of correspondence we had since pre-digital era.
"the amount of effort which has gone into ReactOS would have served Wine really well"

That may be partly true. Partly, because you falsely assume that anyone contributing to ReactOS would contribute to Wine. These cover common technical ground (of Windows application binary support), but from different ideological prospectives.
Not exactly a Z80 (more of a 8080/Z80 hybrid), but I'd love to see how a Gameboy port turns out.
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You say that tongue in cheek, but as a non-scientist, I've always wondered how much "mouse science" ultimately translates to humans. My guess is it's very low, but knowing a percentage would help me better understand how to proceed reports like this.
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What about that guy who clearly can't sing yet applies for every casting show there is? Maybe by the day he will die he's got performing Rihanna's Umbrella down to a fine art. But what's the point?
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816 has a relocatable stack and direct(nee zero) page, so that's good. Unfortunately both of those still have to be in the lower 64k bank. So that's a bit frustrating for trying to write OS support for multitasking larger memory systems.
> if you can't make money off lifesaving drugs, you also won't bother to invent any new ones.

Someone call NIH -- I think they believe that part of the annual $30 billion they hand out in extramural research grants is being used just for that.
Are you making a joke or is the "RZA" that he refers to the same?
Neat, but clickbait.
Best news of the day! Glad that little dipshit has some justice coming his way. But lets not forget, there are many, many more people just like him
For finance in particular, yes, but business decisions at any company are driven by similar core concepts taught in those same classes.