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I'm biased. My wife was diagnosed with metastatic cancer 6 months ago. With current standard treatments there is a 3-year survival rate of practically zero, so to me the most important thing is getting new effective treatments developed and brought into clinical practice as soon as possible.

I haven't seen the presentation about the study (a related news briefing is here [1]) so I don't know whether you're correct to say that the researchers haven't shared their methods and data. They seem quite happy to share technical details at the news briefing.

However, regardless of that, I still think it is a good thing if researchers talk about their findings at an early stage, especially if the findings are as dramatic and positive as these. If a treatment is available and you have patients out there dying with no other options, then it is just wrong to hide that away.

In my opinion we treat these things far too cautiously. It is not optimal for the individual and it is not optimal for society. By sharing /and/ opening up options like this to terminally ill patients we can (a) save individual lives and (b) speed up development and refinement of new treatments to benefit everyone.

The problem is that the incentives we have in place treat a cancer death as acceptable, while a treatment-related death is unacceptable for researchers, doctors and drug companies (unless they are shielded by layers of clinical-trial bureaucracy or years of standard practice). The result is that the course of treatment doesn't properly weigh the different sources of risk. Whether the goal is quality-adjusted life years for an individual patient or faster development of effective and safe treatments, the current system is way too conservative.

[1] http://www.eurekalert.org/aaasnewsroom/2016/webcast/?b=38
"Starbucks' venti Grape with Chai, Orange and Cinnamon Hot Mulled Fruit was found to have the highest sugar content of the drinks tested, with 25 teaspoons of sugar per serving, the campaign group said."
I have had the thought that if the Surface machines had good Linux support (still can't stand Windows for development), they'd be a great option. The irony of running Linux on Microsoft hardware would be a major plus also.

With the way MS is going maybe they'll introduce official support!
You're probably an US citizen.

You have zero rights to complain about hacking and acts of war.
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Specs not mentioned are all PET construction. It won't be durable.
> There was only one place I didn't have to do that -- Netflix. It's part of their standard agreement. It even went one step further and said that even if you use their resources, if you do it on your own time you own it, as long as it's not in direct competition with their business. It was a refreshing change for sure.

My current company has this exact policy. It's one of the many reasons I enjoy working there so much. :)
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>In the same vein, neither is it right for a linguist to say whether "more unique," etc. is right or wrong. So, you see, regarding usage, linguists are of no help in matters of taste.

Linguistics studies language and its use, and linguists can and do, determine things that are part of the normal course of the evolution of language (and have happened again and again) and convey specific meanings from plain errors. Linguists often come and dispell common language myths (unscientific ideas about language) like the one we're talking about (and also changes in meaning, like "literally" becoming a stronger "virtually").

It's actually "matters of taste" that are of no importance to determine whether "more unique" is wrong. Taste is taste.
You missed the part about hardware locking and replaceable parts. Because of that, I will never ever buy anything from Apple, it's a big deal for me to replace RAM and HDD whenever I want, for whatever I want. I used to have mac book running Getnoo Linux, until I wanted to add new RAM... I bought new Dell. I have one SSD and one HDD in my laptop (because I don't need cdrom in 2016), I removed it and put HDD there and 4x USBs.
I'm curious, have you explored how ZocDoc works? It's what I used when I was clueless about finding a doctor.
everyone's gdp is slightly misleading.
That's bad long-term, but profitable short-term. It's rare a business that cares about the former.
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This is really bad news for us, and the tone of the announcement grated. Two weeks notice is very bad form, I'm having to come back from vacation to fix this.

When we evaluated options a year ago, kimono was the best fit. We'd happily have paid, and did ask. I don't understand what happened... Did they run out of funding?
You forgot the "Book" part. I guess its for branding.
Yes you can. But from the article:

"However, I don't want a Mac.

Apple has great design, but they sell things that are locked down, both physically and in software. You're not supposed to open them, you're not supposed to replace parts, and if they break you're supposed to take them to your nearest "Genius Bar". Not my style."
I thought that the hardware drivers were independent of the distro? or at least debian? I lazily assumed hardware support on other distros would be crappier.

I think the big issue here is that if a piece of hardware is listed as officially supported and it still doesn't work after you try to fix it with whatever hacks are suggested, it's not a workable situation.
I googled around and found this:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/dell-xps-13-2015-review-batter...

which gives a rated battery life of 18 hours and a real-world use battery life of 9-10 hours

http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/dell-xps-13-battery-life-f...

This article suggests a battery life of 12 hours.

What kind of battery life are you expecting?
From another write-up about the case:

'Lexmark’s cartridges are “regionalized” such that a cartridge sold in Europe, for instance, will not work in a printer sold in North America or Latin America.'
Not disagreeing but there is one notebook and this is how the Macbook should have been:

- Same build quality as Apple

- Thin and light as the Macbook

- Pixel density higher than Retina

- Powerful CPU

- Just released

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-stealth
Actually, archivists and technologists have been working together to solve the problems of digital preservation for a long time. There is an ISO Standards for digital preservation systems - ISO 14721:2012 originally authored by and still maintained by The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS, which part of NASA). There are commercial systems that were developed to these standards, among them Preservica (http://preservica.com/) which is used in many archives in Europe.

Archivists are acutely aware of the obsolescence of digital formats and media. And the solution cannot be just printing them out on vellum or archival paper because increasingly records are being created digitally that cannot be meaningfully or adequately converted into printed formats. I am talking about records that are audio, video, high resolution photographs (like those that NASA is seeking to preserve digitally) etc. Even emails when printed out onto paper would be missing a lot contextual information that would have been kept if you preserved it as a digital format like EML or MSG.

So, existing digital preservation systems may still be imperfect, but nevertheless we still need find improved solutions for preserving them digitally.

I don't work for CCSDS or Preservica. I work for a national archive as a specialist on digital records and archives, but my background is in IT having spent about 15 years in software development.
... and god help you if you ever need the Asus customer support for repairing that thing. A truely horrible experience.

I can provide details of my "experience" with them, but the Internet is already full of horror stories that cover everything that is to say about that topic.

And no, buying a new laptop after a year and a half simply isn't acceptable to me, even if it makes sense in your economic situation.
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For me, the most interesting question I would have is absent from the article.

The court is basically ordering Apple to produce new firmware that doesn't block brute forcing. If Apple were to comply, who keeps this firmware after the fact?

There's no mention of this at all, but if the firmware image stays with the FBI then the implications are much more profound with regard to privacy.
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>India, used to being Nepal's big brother and pushing it around, subsequently closed their border with Nepal

No we did not close any border. This is false information.
Correct, using OSX I still get 7-8hrs battery life from a 2 year old MBP.

Windows 10 via dual-boot empties the battery in around 3hrs.
Everytime a piece about china is posted the comments are quickly the same in tone, "oh but China already surpassed US" uh no it fucking didn't not even close. Especially when the Chinese minister admitted China's GDP is complete fiction. Nobody in China even knows the score because it's super tough with all the corruption to get anything done with accuracy.

It's like there's no room for a China that is fallible. China is perfect the all knowing all seeing for these crowd. China is the future they claim.

Not with that ugly ass communist nanny state system suppressing free speech and censoring media you don't.
> but how else can you characterize voting, multiple times, to not only shut down the whole government but actually trying to make it default on its debt?

A last ditch effort to try to bring some sanity to a budgeting process so broken that the the national debt has doubled since Obama became President.
So, what, India closed the border to a country of 30 million people — the border through which not just fuel but pretty much everything is imported — because LOL?

Southern Nepal — the part of the country that is very closely tied, culturally and economically, with India — went on a general strike for weeks, to the point that there were police killing strikers and strikers lynching police, because they were bored?

Sorry, I didn't read the constitution, myself. I took the word of our local guide, an incredibly bright, aware Nepali gentleman and professor of anthropology in Kathmandu, and pretty much everyone else in the country with whom I spoke about the situation. (The exceptions being people who either didn't understand the situation well enough to comment, or didn't feel comfortable discussing it with a foreigner.)
Except for the bizarro people that seem to use their Macbooks on their bare laps (doing sauna?)
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Dude, I was there. 30 seconds' googling yields citations from Time, the BBC, the NY Times, The Guardian, Wikipedia, and others.

How about the guy whose hands were cut off when he tried to smuggle fuel across the border that wasn't closed?

Or did that also not happen?

EDIT: To be fair, I do remember noting a rather curious difference in tone and content in the reporting about the Nepali constitution's passage and the subsequent border situation between Indian media and everyone else's.
Chase them via linkedin too. If you know their name, great, 2 days after applying (enough time to read your CV) send a request to contact. If you don't know their name, find someone in the company that seems like them and send a tactful message. Most people in a recruiting position should be interested in a conversation and at worst someone to call back in a year's time.
>That depends on your taste. I bought my first retina macbook pro last year and I really don't like it compared to my Air

You might not like the form compared to the Air. Very few won't like the retina compared to the Air's monitor.
That's a neighbour so there's an obvious local power advantage. It's not unimpressive though and I completely agree about there being a scale and general surplus of engineering prowess that the rest of us just can't comprehend.

What is perhaps more alarming is their development of Africa. I passed through a few African countries last year and China was everywhere. They're in the up-and-coming metropolises like Addis Ababa, they're in despot states like Zimbabwe and they own vast numbers of resource mines in places like Zambia (copper) and Namibia (uranium).

Now almost every sub-Saharan African country has Chinese mining activity.

And the story is the same in all these places. China promises roads and power stations for mining rights, then they do all the work. They ship everything over, including workers. If there is any untrained scrot work for locals, they get paid a tiny fraction of what a Chinese worker would —let that sink in— but anything else is Chinese. There's no local training, no real number of local jobs.

They're investing hundreds of millions in exchange for the infrastructure they use to strip-mine a country.

While we're all fretting about how much cash China has, they have built a resource network that covers half the planet. They have millions of engineers and ton of resources and the political power (the debts of every other major power) to get away with nearly anything.
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Ah, the joys of a dynamic language and its implicit conversions.
You can add whatever you want to the end of its name; it's still confusing. This is probably one reason why the blog's author isn't aware of it.
My XPS 13 on Debian lasts around 8 to 10 hours without difficulties for long trips.
Any thoughts on what that will mean for the US real estate market given continued Chinese investment here? My current guess is we'll see more money pour in as people attempt to shelter their Chinese funds.
We did look at trying out a real-time kernel, but decided that if we could achieve tolerable latencies with a stock kernel + tunings, then that would be preferable.

When ~2us jitter becomes an issue, we'll revisit our options, and no doubt share our findings.

Thanks for the link to Xenomai, I hadn't come across it before.
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good article on topic:

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/enterpris...

it's not just that they are price insensitive, but you can use trigger words (auditing, apis, slas) to segment them into a higher tier since they have to have certain services provided.
Do I sound conspiratorial if I suspect this is all PR and NSA has already ways to get around the encryption?

It would entice $EVILDOERS to use a compromised platform.
I would like to shoot at 0.95 forever, even in full midday light, because lenses are dreaming at that aperture. https://www.flickr.com/photos/102221463@N02/24974701115/
> A drone strike typically kills identified terrorist targets but also unidentified targets.

A drone strike typicall kills identified terrorists because they need to be able to say that. It's much better to be able to say "... and some collateral damage" than "We hit a wedding party."
Dell Latitude for the win. I have a E6410 and I am very happy with it. Long battery life, rugged, good build. A little heavy, but that never bothered me. And I get all kinds of curious looks since it looks so different. :)
Because designing a law that makes sense when interpreted strictly formally is a friendly-AI-equivalent problem, i.e. it requires figuring out what values humans actually care about and then implementing it in a system that can outsmart anyone trying to game it. Failing that, people will get hurt by corner cases in such a law, or suffer abuse from people gaming the system.
JavaScript doesn't have XSS. The DOM allows for XSS vulnerabilities, but that's an API, not the language.
Tbh, yum and apt both get in the way for other reasons. Homebrew is nice and straightforward. Very much depends on what development you do though - anything web-related, and you're absolutely fine on a Mac.
Well, that's the "let's assume unlimited resources (inc. time), suddenly nothing is a major problem" scenario.

The actual scenario tends to be "but you have a choice of all these 20 languages; are you just lazy to learn a proper language that's on the list?" My native language has about 10 million users, so I get this a lot (and consequently, most of my digital UX is in English - significantly less hassle for me).
Seems to fail on mobile.
It's staggering, isn't it?

> They're investing hundreds of millions in exchange for the infrastructure they use to strip-mine a country.

They aren't even investing that much. The equipment is all being bought — from government-owned companies — with government grant money.

They're playing a very long game, and they're incredibly good at it.
Harvesting is a viable, but not a simple or easy, option for powering IoT designs. It requires careful consideration of the harvestable source; harvesting transducer type, implementation and siting; energy/power chain efficiency; required power levels; the energy storage component; and the associated power-management electronics. As with any great design, careful planning and assessment will tell you if it is feasible and if so, with what limitations.
While it is smart to take precautions, it still doesn't change the fact that the operation is nothing but fraud, and the people behind should go to jail.
Bernie definitely would, except -- I'm not too sure JFK wasn't an inside job w/ the CIA - I wouldn't put assinating a president past the NSA, heck I wouldn't put anything past them, the more I read--the more I feel like I woke up in 1984, and we're already in some post-apocalyptic world where Big brother controls everything but we just don't know it (yet).
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This is wrong. Engineers who make encrypted devices should do their best to make them undecipherable. This is an universal standard - to do your best.

If encryption cannot be broken it means it has been done right, and engineers should have the highest respect.

Govts, on the other hand, should use appropriate policies, not orders or force or backdoors.
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When was this? I just searched for India and China in their 2015 constitution and it's certainly not there.

http://www.inseconline.org/linkedfile/Bill%20Of%20Constituti...

Meanwhile, Wikipedia claims, "The promulgation of the new constitution was immediately followed by virtual blockade of all checkpoints at Nepal-India border." but without any citation.

turtles all the way down...
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I don't know how things are over in the US, but here in Czech republic, my experience with them was nothing but good. When my SSD broke down after about a month of using the thing, they paid for the shipping to and from the repair shop and replaced the drive in... a week I think. I've been using it for about a year now and I've had no other problems.
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I saw that, and it's fair I guess, but isn't that increasingly the direction hardware is moving industry-wide? (thinner, lighter, sleeker).

I was strongly under the impression that other manufacturers' products were becoming less-and-less hackable by design. Am I wrong?
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Thanks for this explanation. Does Android have anything like this?
I agree with the content, but not necessarily with the headline.

If you need a Desktop PC the options are plenty, you can pick from a large set of components and build pretty much what you want, from decent formfactor to big towers with powerful and good hardware.

For high quality notebooks however I came to the same conclusion as the author. I wanted to buy a new personal notebook last year, and actually did not want to get a Macbook, as I am not that into Apple and OSX. But I could not really find an alternative, even in the same (high) price region, so I got a MBP13 and I'm happy with it. For the windows machines either the build quality is way lower, battery life is lower, screen resolution is lower, input devices suck or the price tag is even higher (X1 Carbon, XPS13. Surface book too, but it wasn't available in germany anyway).

Another thing that influenced my decision heavily was the Touchpad. On the MBP it works beautifully, and in combination gesture features of the OS it makes working on such a small screen and without an external mouse much more pleasant. On the windows machines the touchpad response is mostly somewhere between bad and mediocre, and there's no swipe between workspaces and such stuff.
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The US holds vastly more US treasury bonds than any other country. But look at the data: http://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt

China holds about the same amount as Japan, and if you count Europe as a region, then Europe holds more than either of them.

Furthermore it doesn't really matter: it's not like they can 'call the debt.' China has to wait for their bonds to mature just like everyone else. Really it's rather nice of China to loan us the money.
Sadly, it appears that the Intel drivers do not support Ubuntu 14.04 due to a packaging issue with LTS releases.

https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/intel-graphics-instal...
More like:

"I am aware of several proofs of this theorem. None of them is trivial."
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I don't think that's what the parent is saying. The companies aren't misappropriating his private-time work, merely they own the "work for hire" that he invented while he worked for them.

Turning it around, it would be pretty much untenable if employees could file their own parents on work-related inventions done on company time with company equipment.
Inkjet printers are almost a criminal abuse. The whole idea of putting a chip on a cartridge that simply counts down and after specified amount of prints forces you to replace the whole cartridge is one giant "fuck you" towards the customer.
> Compare to London, where the average deposit needed to buy a first home is £91,000 ($130,000) -- 25% of total price

The deposit required is more like 5-10%. I think a 25% deposit is pretty rare for a first time buyer. Of course this still means you need the income to afford the huge mortgage.

Are you getting confused with the average deposit used by purchasers?
I use a bunch of cheap ip cameras of various brands: foscam, crenova, etc. They all have telnet backdoors, which is actually pretty convenient for me.

I keep mine on a separate lan which can't connect to the internet or the other more-trusted lan. The average grandpa connecting these things to the internet is screwed though.
Yep. A manual, end-to-end smoke test of the firmware: Put the new software image some hardware, turn it on and wait for an email. If you get a correctly-formed picture of your own face, that's a pass.

It's a dirty dangerous hack even for a debug scenario, but you can see how it might come about
I was not even aware of the surface book, and I was recently in the market for a new power user laptop (ended up getting the dell xps 13).
I answered this question elsewhere in this thread.
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The post never talks about testing with actual blind people. The kind of results you see could be significantly different with them. Do you plan to test with real users soon? I'd it possible to test this remotely?
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