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>>> Even European pharmaceutical companies obtain the bulk of their research funds from the US market.

Stop spreading nonsense. This is easily verifiable information and very easy to disprove.

Take Norvatis for example:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/294631/novartis-revenue-...

The US is definitely not the "bulk" of revenue for these companies. A big market? Sure. But nothing special when compared to other rich countries if you take into account population and wealth.
Ok Google, show me Futurama from Netflix on living room. Ok Google, fast forward 27 seconds.

As soon as they get the ability to play specific episodes (it knows what you're asking, it just can't do it yet) and hook it up to the knowledge graph? Ok Google, show me the Futurama episode where Hermes loses his job on living room.
Nah, just pay some cute girls to be that while you narrate.

Ed:

I may have phrased it snarkishly, but that's honest advice -- if you're not good on camera, find a film student to help direct brief bits you're in (so you perform better, are framed well, etc) and get other students to do most of the on camera work.

There's a reason most marketing materials use professional actors, and if your strength isn't presentation, you should too. There are lots of students looking for portfolio work (at very reasonable prices).
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> even if you do all the work, and cover every line in a test, unless you cover 100% of your underlying dependencies, and cover all your inputs, you're still not covering all the cases.

On the other hand, if you do cover all your inputs, you've covered all the cases regardless of what % code coverage or path coverage you have.
My reaction to it is sort of a bitter, FML, hollow laughter.

That's just part of the story that taught me that it doesn't matter how much you like your job, or how good you are at doing it, if some rich asshole can buy it and throw it into the garbage--or move it beyond your reach, or give it to a cousin, or alter it beyond recognition. That was the last job that I actually liked.

Subsequent stories have only reinforced the lesson. Those incidents are why, despite the glaring and obvious flaws of labor unions, I support unions for technical skilled labor unconditionally and without hesitation.

It isn't even about money. I really would have liked to be able to tell the boss at my last job that packing the entire development team and test team around the walls of his corner office while everyone takes turns justifying their existence for a total of at least 45 minutes daily, starting at 8:45 AM, is not a "stand-up meeting". It's not even a status meeting. It's a pointless show of dominance.

I would really like to be able to, if not stop, at least discourage such idiotic behavior, rather than just looking for other jobs and rolling the dice yet again on a different manager that might possibly be less like the high priest of a cargo cult. It would have been nice if voicing my concerns did not paint a target on my back.
For clients outside of the browser, you have a few choices. JWT token passed in authorization header, or a secure random token passed in authorization header, or a signature that verifies the client has access to a secret.

The easiest way is to create a secure random token and store it in database or in-memory cache like Redis. When a request comes in, you extract the token and check your database/cache if the token is valid. The drawback is an additional network call to the database/cache every API call. If your application can afford this extra call, this is a pretty good approach.

With JWT, you don't have to make an extra network call, because the token itself has everything you need to verify if it's valid. But, if you want the ability to revoke the token - then you will need to maintain a blacklist of tokens somewhere, and check against this blacklist on every request. Arguably, at that point, you lose the original benefit of JWT - the ability to bypass the database/cache.

And finally, if your clients are server side applications only, then you can opt in for signature based approaches.
You're trusting any free provider of email with your data ... I think it's unrealistic to expect everyone to host their own email servers.
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Modern HDMI-based systems can do this in one stroke. And by "modern" I mean that pushing my PS3 (yes, 3, not 4) button to start it up starts up my TV, and would start up my audio system were it not too old for that. (Though it occurs to me now to check whether it might do that if I routed HDMI in to it; for historical reasons I route optical audio to it which I believe lacks the channel for this.)

Shutting things back down seems to be a bit more challenging, though. The TV recognizes the PS3 turning off and returns to live TV (the last thing I really want it to switch to, but whatever), but the whole system teardown is a bit more complicated.
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As far as I can tell it's just a web view wrapper for desktop. It's missing all the node features that Electron or NW.js add, which makes me wonder... why not just run it in a browser like normal?
>>generate gluten

Unless I misunderstand, gluten is a protein in the wheat. How is gluten generated? If anything the yeast will break down the carbs and fats in the flower into simple sugars and alcohols. Or was this a misnomer?
How does this compare with Electrino, which was on top of Hacker News a few days ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14260755

And I have to agree with other commenters that this will only truly be an alternative if it could be cross-platform. It seems cross-platform support is possible (by using each OS's own browser runtime), but then you'd have discrepancies between platforms which takes us back to square one.
Even just encoding it differently (base64, bin, hex, etc) would work against that.
It's getting more common to get a DNR/DNI (Do Not Resuscitate / Do Not Intubate ) put into a "living will" that goes to into effect if you are in a situation where you will no longer be mentally cognitive.
Will this be for electronic music?
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Also the Fire Phone, which as I remember was priced at about $650.
Anecdotally in my case that is not true - this may be due to your age that you didn't see the difference, I was I think 47 when this switch happened. I had catastrophic health insurance for $135 per month in California pre - Obamacare with no prescriptions or treatment for pre existing conditions/maintenance of health. The minimum insurance on the CA marketplace was 350 per month for me then, now it's 440 a month.
The joke's on us. Not even Orwell thought people would be willing to pay for that kind of technology. He thought government would have to force people to get it into their homes.
I don't know about the anti-trust aspect, but the situation in medicine goes far beyond "call for prices." It's often impossible, no matter what you do, to find out what a procedure will cost. Billing systems are so complicated that the hospitals themselves barely understand it, and the only way they can find the cost for many things is to go ahead and do it and see how it comes out.
The ratio itself isn't the problem, it's the assertion that we need a growing amount of administrative vs. procedural employees. We can talk in hand wavy abstractions all day long, but for every additional person you have to pay who isn't _writing software_, you need to now pay that much more for your marginal cost of obtaining the software. In almost every other modern domain I can think of as well, efficiency is moving in the other direction. (I think, if I'm trying to be formal here, some aspects of this would seem to be described in 'Baumol's cost disease')

If we're talking anecdotes, from what I've seen of administration in healthcare and military (family is in that business) and at bigCo (my business) we could likely handle a far more lean ratio of knowledge to support workers, but that often goes against leadership incentives/risk tolerance for less conventional strategic decisions. (although I think we're seeing vestiges in this through the pushes for e.g. devops and dev/test merges)
FWIW, email only sorta interoperates...try running your own mail server and unless you get all the elements of server reputation exactly right, your email will probably not get delivered to people using the large email providers. Thanks to spammers, we've allowed our open, interoperable standard to be much more closed.

And SMS is also frustratingly non-universal. After years of having cell service with one of the large providers, I switched to Fi last year since I was going to be out of the country a lot. The biggest annoyance has been most short code SMS not working. Each SMS shortcode is only supported on a provider-by-provider basis.

I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just pointing out that even your examples of open, interoperable protocols are instances where we've traded some of that open interoperability for convenience.
I was battling back and forth FOR A MONTH with their skill certification approval team for a skill update that would allow customers to call people by name, where in the first version it was only by phone number.

They would fail the certification because apparently people didn't know how to test, or used fake numbers to make phone calls and complained the call would not connect, or the certificate validation (that was working before) would fail, etc. All sorts of things. VERY frustrating process. I wouldn't make any change, submit the skill again for certification and get different results.

Now they announce their own calling feature, a week after finally approving our update.
The S&P 500 has a PE ratio of ~20. Which means that for every $20 of stocks that you earn, your portfolio of companies are generating $1 in yearly profit. These profits alone represent a ~5% ROI. That's where the money comes from.
Did you click through and see the offers to bundle security cameras and other IOT products?
When you are writing tests, that's an empirical, rather than a theoretical approach to software correctness.

When programmers change a factor to "see what breaks", that is very much an empirical activity, and it is part of the programmer's theory-building of a phenomena.

If a young child takes a gear from a watch and observes its breaking, that is very much an empirical activity. It is also the beginning of theory-building.

You don't need MANOVA to engage in empiricism.
Is it not a space filled by your cellphone?
Yes, that's a miss. I'll add it as another option. Thanks!
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You may be new here, but asking for downvotes has been in the guidelines for ever.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or proclaim that you expect to get downvoted.
Ask HN: What would a failure to protect US net neutrality mean outside the US?
I am not a US citizen, but my instinct is that the fact of so many of the internet's largest and most successful publishers, innovators, and content providers being based in the US means that the outcome of the current battle to protect net neutrality in the US will necessarily affect all internet users throughout the world.

Are there good resources to help non-US citizens understand the likely impact should efforts to protect net neutrality fail? And are there actions that non-US citizens can take to lobby for the retention of the Title II protections currently in place in the US?
Most economies do, since it reduces friction and allows workers to better allocate labor across the market.

Socialized healthcare, and more broadly social safety nets and services, lubricate the economy to prevent labor movement friction from causing inefficiency.
The code is already in net-next. This means you currently have to build your own kernel if you want to use it. This should be enough to get you going: https://github.com/google/bbr/blob/master/Documentation/bbr-...
Sounds like your issue is with your doctor's billing practices? Seems like a weird reason to let poor people die of treatable ailments.
The Friends episode naming scheme is going to look extra prescient in the future, since they all (with rare exception(s)) are called "The One With [2-6 word summary of the episode's A plot]": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Friends_episodes
Talk about "alternate facts." This is as alternate as they will get without ivacy vpn, tor or IPFS. China's been trying to do the same, maybe going a step pfurther than both Turkey and Russia
Maybe, but I would kind of assume that poorer people already end up emitting a lot less carbon since most carbon emitting activities already have a significant cost involved.
Responding to 0xCPM (sibling comment). IPFS was not designed to hide the sources but thanks to versatility of transports (you can ever run it on cjdns or mesh network) and possibility of using it offline it is not easy to censor.
Yeah Orwell was all about heavy handed government oppression, not willing consumer behavior. This is more Huxley (check another box, the Huxley vs Orwell comparison).

At any rate, the quote would be better served when discussing Snowden style revelations, because we know for a fact that people in the US security apparatus could (and did) abuse their ability to spy on the internet behavior of everyday American citizens without due process.
I agree with you with respect to representation. Pattern/sequence generation is something most DAWs don't have outside of something like Cthulhu which the languages can do easily.

Another thing I've been dying for is an easier way of layering sounds, for example drum hits. Multiple midi sends feels hacky in Ableton and certainly not a first class feature. On the other side of things, the pain of rearranging multiple wavs after wanting to change a note is even more painful.

I totally agree with you about the actions though. Configuring plugins etc can be a huge drain and its very mouse heavy.
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A tablet can do a lot of things that this can't, but your tablet's microphone can't reliably recognize speech at normal volume from a few feet away, let alone from across the room.
Don't forget the workers' lack of access to health care in a post-ACA world.
I like to read about these open source organizations apparently very well administrated. It's a very interesting business model to me.
A country can't really pay for it's 'own' drug research unless that research is never shared or the drugs never made available outside that country. Unlike defense, which requires physical presence in a place, once drugs are created and researched, the cost of production is often very low. With defense, the cost of organizing, training, and equipping troops will never go away.
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Update: Someone got in touch via email to let me know about something interesting that was only donated 3 months ago: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102726903

On the one hand, this is the source code to SketchPad!!!

On the other hand... the scan quality is extremely low, and I'm planning on contacting the CHM to see if they can schedule a rescan at some point in the future - basically before the paper wears out, as there are currently no TX-2 emulators.

But this is awesome.
Ofc! Im working on this cause I wanted to make some electronic music but none of the current daws really let me express myself the way I want.
That's arguing from authority and ignoring the meat of my point.

I know Robert Henke created Ableton Live and it was a tremendous innovation when it came out.

Over time it gradually expanded features but never dealt with a variety of things that might be development intensive but would in no way break the workflow.

For example:

Support advanced midi stuff. Like, any of it. Why is it so mind bogglingly inconvenient for me to hook up my continuum or my linnstrument to Live?

Loops of arbitrary length/non warped loops, as I mentioned in another comment, are unnecessarily hard to implement.

Why can't I midi map to certain controls, why can't I macro map to certain controls.

Why can't I easily lock stuff in the arrangement view so I am not terrified to change the master tempo.

Why can't I group things in arrangement and edit them together.

why can't I intuitively stretch a sample in arrangement view, when the whole sell of ableton is time stretching?

None of that would break the workflow.
Java uses the stack for local variables (including pointers to objects on the heap and primitives), and I believe Python uses a stack for the same as well. Return pointers are the least of stack usage.
Leaving aside interoperability fun and the user experience that /u/smacktoward refers to, TVs don't always switch on very quickly.

My TV takes a good 10 seconds to start producing audio after the google chromecast 'on' command. Putting the screen in themselves gives them control of that experience.
We heard you the first 10 times.

Every time a new Echo is released, the warnings go out. If you don't want one, don't get one.

In the meantime, the cellphone that you carry with you everywhere will report your location, voice, etc much more effectively.

Here's a 2 year old Echo story, maybe we can recycle some of the comments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764723
I didn't mean personal offense in my reply. "Stop pretending making music is clicking on and off in little boxes", is the specific portion I was referring to, but more generally I just aim to promote inclusiveness.
You are just changing the problem, not solving it: the American health care would downgrade (less money to spend) and the people from that countries would complain that their access to health care got worse because of Americans.
> Guess who's convenience was taken into consideration.

4-6 months worth of other patients with similar needs?
It's in kernel 4.9
FireOS is based on Android which definitely runs on x86
That phenomenon isn't unique to medical procedures. The answer to the question "how much is this lawsuit/software project/renovation going to cost?" is almost never going to be a definite number. (It's no surprise that people complain about bills in all these areas. But it's not your contractor's fault that your subfloor rotted and his $X quote for re-tiling now needs to include $Y for replacing the subfloor.)
So if we only look at Apple's successful products, we can agree that Apple's only makes "very carefully designed" things..
no such thing.
You're right that it's a staggering amount of arcane knowledge. But starting out I always recommend experimentation over getting too deep into the theory. It does help to have some baseline understanding of:

1. Frequency
2. Harmonics
3. Oscillators/Waveforms
4. Envelopes
5. Filters

The only problem with the last part of your request is that even if you are to watch people design sounds for a couple of hours you might find that when you try to replicate that somewhere else it doesn't sound right. This is partially because every synth/softsynth is different and will produce different sounds and have different parameters. It can be infuriating to get a tutorial on how to produce that perfect "Bladerunner Blues" synth and come out with something that sounds totally flat and bad.

To make matters worse, there are apparently 0 good tutorials on the subject - I just googled for 15 minutes to no avail. The two below cover some of it but I personally can't bear listening to the people who make these videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvQVQuV-Kys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJVlWdzoZ0w
I know we're all pretty wealthy here on HN and only a very small fraction of us like myself were ever poor (I was dirt poor in my uni years, where to park the Ferrari while I was in the luxury dorms was not a problem for me, LOL).

The point I'm making is has anyone here, anyone, used this?

Because I have some questions. At my employer they get a commission for signing up which comes out of the fees and my employer likes money, so they have tables at the care fair and had salespeople visit each department trying to convince us to let them pay us via a highly fee'd VISA networked debit card instead of "old fashioned" direct deposit to my checking account.

But what I don't understand, and probably should have asked the HR lady and salesperson when they put on the show, is how does this even work day to day? Like I probably don't spend more than $1K retail in total per month, mostly food. And I usually spend on average less than $1K per month online shopping (computer hardware, clothes, just "stuff"). Most of my pay goes into non-credit payable bills. I have a bunch of bills that do ACH direct withdraw from my checking, I hand write 5 paper checks per year, 4 to the water utility that won't online or direct bill because their whole system is like something out of the 60s, and 1 to city property tax but I must pay 5 or 10 bills per month using checking. I'm old enough that I remember in the 90s writing like 10-20 checks per month, now I write like 5 per year LOL, I have two boxes of blank checks which absent the Singularity means I literally have a supply for the rest of my natural lifetime.

I don't even ... how do you ... so lets say you've got a prepaid VISA with say $15K to $20K added per month. OK. Now how does one pay rent when my bachelor pad only accepted checks? All that stuff, none of it accepts credit card payment. I don't even know how I'd pay my water bill. I could mail them a money order if I could get a money order using a VISA card but I don't think that's allowed. I sweep money to an investing account once in awhile and for better or worse the brokerage won't let you gamble by paying via credit card.

My local independent chain supermarket doesn't even accept credit cards because of processing fees, so I'd have to withdraw cash from the (pay) ATM then pay cash for my food, so I couldn't even directly pay for food. Or I'd have to buy all my food at the gas station convenience store which sells no produce nothing fresh, only cooked hot hot dogs and pop tarts, but does accept credit cards? The weekly farmers market is cash only.

How do those cards work in practice for adults with adult expenses? Being poor is apparently very complicated. I can't pay most of my bills with one of those cards, at least not as I understand how they work.
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I could see the use in the kitchen as ask alexa to look up recipes or turn the page while my hands are greasy or covered in flour.

this functionality will probably need a custom firmware tho.
This takes like a second. Drag a sample into an audio track (in arrangement view), copy it, paste it again where the last sample ended, repeat until it goes on as long as you need. Do you not know how to use Ableton at all?
Have you looked at Lilypond? http://lilypond.org/
Are you interested in anything particular? I can provide a lot more detail but I think that none of that will do it any justice. Sign up and check it out when it's out.
It just encourages so much grid based work that you tend to lose perspective on the fact that most of the music made throughout all of the history of ever wasn't actually on a grid.

I love ableton a ton. It just encourages a limited mind set.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted because this is a real problem for so many people, i.e. the whole "you must have a video where you talk to the camera".
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