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Sometimes, you don't know that you don't know. But you don't care.
For what it's worth, these exact same questions do show up on board exams, so it's not like medical students don't ever learn this information.

What is a bit sad is that data analysis and quantitative skills continue to be de-emphasized in the pre-clinical curriculum for the sake of rote memorization of huge lists and tables, which would seem to be less and less important as instant access to references on smartphones becomes commonplace.
Exhibit B: “A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves.” http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract

Cited by 272(!!): https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1812909520721081729...
I listen to a number of NPR podcasts and don't live in the US.

I used to live in the US and donate to my local NPR station.

It's strange that on every podcast episode they don't suggest a way for me to contribute. Other successful podcasts like The Guardian's highly entertaining Football Weekly podcast also suffer from this.

I'd like to contribute something sometimes. I've bought t-shirts from podcasts that suggest that (Planet Money, 99% Invisible) and am happy to do something.

Also, the ads on podcasts are not well targeted. I've heard of Squarespace...

It's remarkable that there isn't a good clean way to put ads into and better monetise podcasts.
How do they work!
That is so cool. I can only imagine what awesome things people will use this for.
Haha, to anyone who would want to dispel the latest AI hype, tough luck! A pop-science journalist made some ill-informed prediction 20 years ago, so your arguments are invalid.
Cheers, yeah it sounds like you're right

"Multipole magnetic devices may be constructed from discrete permanent magnets,

or by exposing heated magnetizable material to a coded magnetic field." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_magnet
> You're not secure until you whitelist.

No, a whitelist isn't good enough. You can't anticipate an exhaustive list of the programs the user will want to run.

What you can do, however, is enforce a policy by which programs are required to provide machine-checkable evidence, also known as proof-carrying code [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-carrying_code], that they respect the system's safety policy.

> it's a necessary but sufficient condition

Perhaps you mean “not sufficient”?
Any software can languish. Putting much trust in any under analyzed software is a poor idea.

The money from a closed project can buy professional auditors, but their utility is permanently capped by users not knowing if the company retains privileged backdoors. A user can only trust the software as much as they can trust that company. And as interest in the software rises, interest in subverting the company does as well.

Like always, centralization makes the small scale much easier but is fundamentally flawed when scaled up.
Reminds me of Wizardry.
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It is correct because a textual question will always have multiple correct answers. Only a very narrow mind will insist on there being only one correct answer.

Edit: Out of curiosity, and since i can't find it: How is the highest number out of three 9s written with tetration on paper?
Even here on HN we see mixed gender pronouns all the time. In fact I see it more than just seeing 'he did' etc. This world view fits the facts just fine thanks.
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This is interesting for signature based AVs. More interestingly bypassing dynamic AV engines that execute code in a sandbox seems to be fairly trivial as well. For example allocating 100mb or memory, running a few million iterations in a loop during startup will cause most av engines to stop executing the code due to resource constraints. This paper is a really interesting read on the topic[0]

0: http://www.sevagas.com/IMG/pdf/BypassAVDynamics.pdf
I also made a similar service, mostly for my own needs so it's kinda spartan, I find it convenient for grabbing stuff off my clipboard and screenshots/captures:

http://paste.click/

It has a rudimentary android app as well.
> The level playing field I'm talking about isn't between multiple submitters, but between the submitter and other users. On HN, submitting a story confers no special rights to frame the discussion for everyone else.

You can't avoid framing. The act of submitting an article frames a discussion around its contents. If you came up with the submission idea by yourself, you are unavoidably privileged in deciding what the discussion is about.

If there is a collection of 200-word pages on a site, and I submit one of them, nobody will accuse me of editorializing. But if I try to submit a 200-word segment of a large page, it's a problem. Something's off there. The url structure of a site should not be the determining factor in whether editorializing is happening.

> Readers here can make up their own minds about what's important in a story. For that it's important (critical, actually) to have accurate, neutral titles that avoid spin.

In many cases, including this one, the story is the important facts. The story here is not "computer played go in 1997". The story is the prediction. Avoiding spin is great, but a title that doesn't mention the story is a bad title.
That's easy to say. Tons of websites can actually function financially due to those ads and analytics.
Baldur's Gate got it right. Best game since the Ultima Series IMO (well along with Bard's Tale, Wizardry, etc).
I did a couple minutes of looking to find a poisonous mushroom with brown gills:

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

Such simplistic rules are a bad idea when foraging. Before you eat anything, positively identify it.
Even it looks pretty cool, they're unlikely to get adoption because it's not clear to their target market what their benefit is. One way to solve this is to actually take one of the applications and do it themselves and drive interest in the technology.
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A friend and I made this for fun. It is a joke and only here for entertainment value, don't put it in production. https://github.com/JonZudell/Genetic_Expression
I wonder if this will undo a jailbreak? I mainly use CoolReader to read ePub books on my trusty Kindle Keyboard, because of its better kerning and hyphenation.
You could just pepper the b64 with jmp statements and randomly intersperse your decoder code.
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Impressive.

I also thought someone was having a laugh when they told me about the Raising of Chicago.

> During the 1850s and 1860s engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the level of central Chicago. Streets, sidewalks and buildings were either built up, relocated, or physically raised on hydraulic jacks or jackscrews. The work was funded by private property owners and public funds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
I have and had the same reaction as GP. They tasted pretty much like any regular store-bought mushroom.
Not at all. The bit about white gills is probably referring to Amanitaceae, which include some marvelously toxic species that destroy the human liver. But the advice is way too general to be useful. Brown-gilled species are not universally edible, and white-gilled species are not universally poisonous.

To forage safely for plants or mushrooms, you should know the identifying characteristics of your target species and any non-edible lookalikes.

There are definitely no general rules for determining mushroom edibility.

A great resource is Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora.
Looks super cool!
Whoops. I think I downvoted you by mistake.

By the way, I found barriers to be very simple to work with for some rough multithreading. Just line all the threads up, then let them go.
Generally jailbreaks can be saved across kindle updates, but you should update to the latest version of the jailbreak and hotfix first. Some extensions might require reinstalling.

Of course, if you have an old device, it's probably jail breakable even on the newest supported version. Latest jailbreak is for 5.6.5, and it's been confirmed that you can update to the latest version after jailbreaking and keep it.
He'll do the same thing as every other government salesman - make headway on actions that benefit some entrenched power, and forget about anything that would disrupt the gravy trains.
how good of him to turn his life around
We just need a better sandboxing environment and individual permissions per excitable i.e. "Can this excitable connect to blah blah up?" , "can this program read outside of its sandbox folder?"

When you don't root your android or iPhone they handle it a lot better than desktop operating systems.
> The same thing about movies, especially when they rely on CGI - CGI does not age well at all - stuff that was considered great even 10 years ago is a joke when watching now.

I have noticed that people don't care for CGI that much anymore. We see so much of it that we have become inured to it while it used to be a movie "feature". So inured that most of the CGI is actually pretty mediocre but people don't seem to care. It has made me appreciate the old (and more "mechanical") special effects much more.
What? Nobody read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Heck, it was also the first computer game I ever played.
> I would absolutely stand behind "fire some men to get it done"

Sure, but that wasn't the question.
So what's this line all about:

((void(*)())exec)();

Type cast a void pointer to a void pointer, execute the result, then execute the result of that? Or ... Can anyone explain what's going on here?
There are no simple rules like that which can reliably differentiate edible mushrooms from poisonous ones. The best way to start foraging is by learning some relatively unmistakeable edible species and only picking those.
The machine for making those has been around for several years.[1] TechShop in San Francisco has one, along with the design software. I've never seen it used. The machine for making them is just an XY table with a small, high power magnetizing coil; it's the design software that's the clever part.

An obvious application is self-aligning connectors. Magnetic connectors have been around for years, but, like Apple's discontinued magnetic charger plug, they usually have some mechanical alignment guides. A completely flat connector is now possible.

[1] http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1e2t6n_cmr-correlated-magn...
Do you think it's acceptable to use 'kill all (gender)' as a rhetorical flourish?
Who carea if it's novel or not ? Patents are a government granted monopoly defended on the premise that there would be a strong disincentive to invest in R&D if someone could just copy your deaign and a strong incentive for you to not share your invention.

In my mind there is no universe in which Apple dosen't implement swipe to unlock just because it's not patentable - it's just abusing a flawed system (can't blame them for it - they didn't make the rules)
Most Antivirus software makes your system work like it has a virus. Most of them will eventually let intruder in. Waste of money in my opinion.
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I predict Apple is going to buy this company.
How many times do you plan on posting this?
Along those lines, maybe also something like Fleksy or Swype, which are reportedly usable by blind people -- fleksy in particular is very smart about determining the size and orientation of the invisible "keyboard" the user is typing on.
Without reading the article: it looks like it casts exec to a function pointer with void return type and no arguments, and calls it.
(Disclaimer: I'm paid for writing Java :( )
It really depends on how you define "False Positive Rate". There are at least 2 different ways of looking at this:

- Out of 1000 tests 51 will be positive, 50 of which are incorrect.

- Out of 1000 positive tests, 50 will be wrong, 950 will be correct.

The 2 interpretations give vastly different results.
It's hard to even imagine how many different places you could apply this technology in. My mind is blown.
Managing these kinds of projects doesn't need sophisticated software (not that software is a bad thing, in itself). It needs competent managers. Most city managers are political appointments, selected to meet some arbitrary diversity quotas, etc. and are not the most competent person available (often far from it).
So how long until these lose strength, or worse, the patterning altogether?
I deal w/ some big enterprises and the bigger they are, the worst they are with payment. Decent BigCos will pay net 30-45 with the worst of them pulling a 60-75. You take the deal because that's their standard with everyone and it's a take it or leave it sort of thing with others in line who'll gladly take your place. And even with the net75 sometimes they will play stupid games like, oh we missed the last check run, I guess you'll have to wait another 15 days.
especially:

https://youtu.be/IANBoybVApQ?t=5m46s

and

https://youtu.be/IANBoybVApQ?t=6m28s

I want one just as a desk toy.
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This one mushroom is pretty well-known to be deadly here in Russia, knew that since age 3 or so. Good thing, it is easy to recognize.

Anyways, never ever try out your luck with mushrooms, if you were not well-taught to deal with them by someone experienced, in person (internet advice / taking and sending m-room photos do not count, period).

Couple seasons of mushroom-hunting alongside someone, willing to teach you, is a minimum before you ever decide to put any mushroom you picked up yourself into your (or someone else's) mouth.

Btw, even experienced people sometimes do not pick up mushrooms, they have suspicions about (there are some not quite deadly ones here, masquerading as edible in my place, for example).
I closed the tab almost immediately after opening it. There's nothing there that the HN crowd doesn't already know. In fact, NYT reporters could improve their reporting about this issue if they stopped by the HN comments section every once in a while.
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Yet the authors don't offer the data and statistical code.
I just want to say as an NPR-junkie of 20+ years, the lady that currently reads the promotional announcements makes me want to smash my phone, so I now mute quite often.
>>As long as litigation is of a positive net present value (i.e. expected return is positive) then they have a duty to their shareholders to undertake it.

This is a myth that has been debunked many, many times.
I would agree with you in the case of Diablo 2 (and probably 3, though I haven't played that one). But the first Diablo holds a special place in my heart precisely because of the atmosphere.

Gameplay-wise it was actually pretty broken. Gold takes up space in your inventory, and there was no concept of a stash, so you'd just dump your gold on the ground in town. The best strategy was to fight through the dungeon until your inventory fills up, then go back to town, sell off everything, buy the best stuff you can see, rinse and repeat.

Online multiplayer wasn't much better, mostly because of the "duping" bug which allowed players to easily duplicate items.

That said, it's still a fun game to play through, because of the atmosphere of it. Multiplayer is also great with friends so long as you don't break the game. And you can set challenges for yourself to make it more fun (e.g. "Ironman" mode, where you can't buy items or go back to town without dying).

Diablo 2 and 3 are great games in their own way, but as you say, they rely on that addictive random loot-fest, which I never really liked.
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Almost. It's casting exec to a pointer to a function that "returns" void and takes no arguments and then calling the function. Search for "C right-left rule" (without quotes) to see some hints on how to read complex declarations (mostly applies to casting too). I like http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~cs30x/rt_lt.rule.html
It's actually a cast to a function pointer with signature: void exec(). The trailing brackets () then make the program call the function.
Wow. Those are some seriously self-righteous tweets.

There's a delicious irony in people using the canonical example of unprofitable social media to criticize NPR's decision(s) to prioritize its lucrative distribution network over the free-media flavor of the moment. Say what you will about NPR, but the affiliates pay their bills.

I don't know if this is the "right" decision, but I'm willing to wager that NPR will be around long after Twitter has filed for bankruptcy. Distribution the top challenge for any product, and NPR's distribution -- and therefore, primary value generator -- happens because of its large affiliate network. It isn't a "tax" to invest in that system. Unless digital distribution is self-sustaining, it's the other way around.

(Edit: I just got a downvote before my comment was visible. Not sure how that's possible, unless someone is systematically down-voting my comments...)
Some advantages of web apps is that they are multi-platform out of the box, don't require any setup or admin privileges and don't require installing dependencies (e.g. the link you point to, while looking like a really great product, depends on gtk).
That's not true - there's heurystic analysis techniques, generic signature detection etc. Of course they may not meet your definition of "reliably"
This is a common way of executing shellcode in a PoC.

Exec (before the cast) points to memory containing the shellcode data.

To actually start executing the shellcode, you just need to somehow cause the program counter to point to the address of the shellcode.

An easy way to change the program counter is by calling a function ... which is what this line does.

Read this as "cast exec to a pointer to a function that takes zero arguments and returns void and call the function with no arguments."

This is the same as:

typedef void (*some_func)();
some_func func = (some_func)exec;
func();

To familiarize yourself with C syntax regarding pointers, read about the "right-left rule" [1]

[1] http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~cs30x/rt_lt.rule.html
Hell yeah! Thanks for the link!
They should use real video on their homepage instead of CGI. I immediately thought this had to be a scam until I watched the Smarter Every Day video linked in the commments.
Appreciate the reference. Is that OSS? I cant recall...
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No. The deadly webcap is an example of a poisonous mushroom that had brown gills. It can be found in northern Europe. Further, there is a broad category of difficult to identify mushrooms referred to as "little brown mushrooms" that includes poisonous brown filled species.

The notion that brown gilled mushrooms are safe whereas white gilled mushrooms are not sounds like region-specific folk knowledge, and given the way mushroom species migrate and the existence of relatively rare mushrooms, I wouldn't count on it to be reliable anywhere in the world. Positive identification is the only safe way to select edible mushrooms, and as this article points out even that bears the risk of false identification, particularly if you aren't fully aware of what other similar species to check for.
Had an interesting experience with this - we haven't updated my wife's older Kindle and Amazon mailed us a paper postcard warning about this. Losing the ability to OTA update puts them in a tough situation...
So, they're not illegitimately strongarming people because they want to, only because someone is paying them to do it?

Is that supposed to make it better?

I really hate how people hurry to come up with excuses for corporations and their representatives acting like jerks. They can take responsibility for their actions just like the rest of us.
Thanks for that info. It's been so long since I've done the jailbreak that I barely remember the process.
If you hyperventilate your body can't tell how much air you have left.
Not to mention, I'm sure once Xach has a look at this it'll be in a main quicklisp update soon.
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Paying directly for something is better than paying indirectly. Because you consider the cost of a resource before you use it.

If we all paid a hotel tax instead of paying for hotel rooms, a lot more people would be staying in hotels and there would be no way to allocate scarce resources when demand is high, other than first come, first served.

That would mean chronic hotel shortages and ever-increasing amounts of public money being spent to build new capacity so that nobody goes without when demand is high.

And that's exactly what many people face at rush hour: a shortage of available road. Except we've been conditioned to think this is somehow normal and unsolvable, when its actually artificial.

In Singapore, they have demand pricing and a lot less congestion at rush hour.
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Correctly identifying any given mushroom can be hard, requiring the right taxonomic keys (and the comprehensive ones come in multiple volumes), a microscope, various stains and reagents, and lots of training. Field mycologists have a term, LBM, meaning "little brown mushroom", which speaks to the pain of separating such specimens to species level even with lots of ID experience.

On the other hand there are many edible species which are unmistakeable and which you can quickly learn to reliably identify based on obvious features. In many European countries, foraging for wild mushrooms is a traditional pastime and intimately linked with national cuisine.
Now if they'd just stop their pledge drives..
The problem is more deep-rooted in most biology and medicine education. In many fields of biology and medicine people from faculty to undergraduate lack a systematic education in statistics and probability, and this problem keeping reflected in the research and publications. I collaborated with many people in these fields, and surprisingly the statistical analysis is just clicking a few buttons in a software and copy-pasting the alpha value. Another reason why this problem is so rampant in the fields, I think it is because the graduate and postgraduate training in these fields still like apprenticeship. So you learn mostly from what senior members do in the lab, what the classical papers in the field did, and what your paper's reviwers ask.
If law enforcement doesn't have a case without the contents of a phone -- law enforcement simply doesn't have a case.

It's not like bluffdale doesn't have it. They most certainly do.
And then you change the code a tiny bit and the signature doesn't catch it anymore.
Aren't local affiliates an artifact of an outmoded content delivery system (terrestrial radio)? I understand that it's sad to have the local affiliate hurt, but I think the age of affiliate broadcasting is drawing to an end. It's something that will become a larger issue in the mid-term future, IMO.
Drake's Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory does emphasize the tree enumeration of possibilities in it's presentation of probability. It's an excellent introductory text. I remember remarking to a fellow student that the book was so good you didn't need to go to lecture. His reply was that Professor Drake's lectures were so good you didn't need to read the book.

However, in probability thing can quickly get complicated and, for me at least, intuition can't always be trusted. (I probably needed to go to the lectures and read the book.) For examples see either Schwarz's 40 Puzzles and Problems in Probability and Mathematical Statistics or Grimmett and Stirzaker's larger One Thousand Exercises in Probability.
Your original post said that Neonode is not prior art for the claim asserted. The CAFC disagree with you, they used Neonode to rule that the claim 8 is obvious.

I don't know what are you arguing right now