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The directive is in force now. The government has simply said they won't enforce it for a year. Hence the use of the word "technically" in the title. The news article you link to is also linked to in the original post.
I think the first step is to create a process or set of guidelines for which of these "requests" are worth pursuing. If you can quickly decide if a projects are worth pursuing you will cut down on a lot of wasted emails and only be left with projects that would be a win for your team. After deciding a project is worthwhile I have found that the best way to actually go from a RFP to a client is to develop a relationship with them. Ask for a in person meeting if they are local and if they aren't request a Skype call. Many people respond to you attempting to create that personal relationship and showing that you care about your clients and work. Many people just don't do this anymore and rely too heavily on email, building the offline relationship is still the key to creating new sales opportunities IMO.
One can be pretty certain that if one generates coins early, one can then make money selling them to others.

I don't know about that. Back in 2009 or 2010, Bitcoins were worth practically nothing and almost everyone predicted that they'd never be worth anything. And if no one mined, maybe Bitcoin would never have taken off (to the extent that it has) and it would still be worthless.
Wow, they were skeptical of a report before it even came out. Those skeptics must also be psychics!
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Ehh dont worry about "Group 2B - possibly carcinogenic to humans" when there is already a list "Group 1 - The agent (mixture) is carcinogenic to humans"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_1_carcinogen...

Example:
"Alcoholic beverages"
There should be a NSFW in the link title.
Sure they were available when I was a student. They were even required in science and physics -- and banned in math class.
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Nice! I've always thought emscripten is a bit annoying, as it doesn't integrate with the LLVM infrastructure, but instead re-parses everything in Python...
Good analysis, but…

I think the main problem is not that programmers are programmers… but that they are not designers. I think anyone who is not a designer can make similar mistakes. Ask someone (who is not a programmer and not a designer) to design a interface and you could probably find many of the same problems.

So basically: people who are not designers make mistakes when doing design. Who would have thought?
IndexTank :) Meaning, we wrote a search engine from the ground up. We probably should write a blog post to explain why. We did use a couple of things from Lucene:

- The tokenizers, to be compatible with the query syntax
- The index format for persistence on disk. It's a great format, no point in reinventing that. Analogous to how Open Office can save in .doc format.
OK, but realize that you are treating text as binary. This isn't "handling unicode", it's "doing nothing". (Also, "trust the client" as your correctness mechanism? Not very safe.)

So far, you've gotten lucky because your browser wants and provides UTF-8-encoded text, your xterm assumes everything is UTF-8, your filesystem metadata is UTF-8-encoded text, constants in your source code are UTF-8-encoded opaque blobs, and your database results are returned as UTF-8-encoded text. The second you throw in some other source, things are going to break, and you will need a plan for how to handle things. Otherwise, you inadvertently end up with garbage responses or a database where half the data is UTF-8 and the other half is Latin-1. Not good.
Exactly. I thought perl (and c++) demonstrated that TMTOWTDI is a misfeature pretty convincingly, but I guess some people weren't paying attention.
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> There are some people who make a living asking 100 people a day, and banking on the five people who say yes.

Yeah, I never give those guys any change.
Can we improve iphone's spellchecker?
About 50% of my spelling mistakes while typing on my iPhone happen when I reach for the spacebar and only make it to the letters b or n.

Is. Heybwhats happening, or, no I dont have thatnflavor cake.

iOS doesn't correct two words incorrectly merged together.

Anyway to hack the spellchecker?
Or....

Their point is totally valid. There is no way reliable way to know who DOESN'T open your emails. You can get a list of who definitely opened your email AND said "OK to loading images and/or clicked on a link in the email. But if they don't load images and/or don't click on a link, you have no idea if they opened your email or not. Maybe they're a privacy nut, so they're read your email then type in your website's URL into your browser instead of clicking the link in your email (because they know you or someone is tracking who clicks on what).

Assuming that it is true that Google is NOT linking the two together, I see no reason to delete subscribers that APPEAR inactive.
One thing I've noticed as I've learned other languages is that I've become very keenly aware of, for example, all of the different definitions/parts of speech of the word "that" (each translates differently and takes different parts of speech as its object), and consequently how I structure my sentences.

Of course, part of that could also be a result of my tendency to think about grammatical correctness in terms of type systems.
...surely in a domain-specific corpus such as HN comments you have to take domain, if not context, into account?

That's a great insight and I believe you are correct. In general, I think the domain does have an impact and I am working on some automatic demographic profiling technology. However, for a first-look, I think our general word dictionary covers an abundant set of terms that do not vary much between domains. For instance, your comment has the following anxiety-evoking words:

not, important, but, example, positive, used, hacker, negative, long, bag, but, away

Of all those words, only "hacker" would likely need to be adjusted for the HN domain. For a first look, we'll chalk that up to some minor added noise in the data.

EffectCheck does include the ability to automatically profile the document type (e.g., "Press Release" or "Motivational Speech") based on a training corpus. For example, most press releases have a high degree of confidence-- based on a corpus of press releases, we normalize the levels so that "Very High" on confidence for a press release requires much higher confidence elicited per-word than it would in a complaint letter.
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Yes, there is a correlation in epidemiology, but as far as I know, there is no mechanism identified. Also, yes, Japan has a high relative rate of stomach cancer.
I knew a radiation oncologist in the late 90s, and his reason for becoming a webapp startup founder instead was that radiology was destroying him: in that field, most of your patients die, rather than being cured. You're mostly just prolonging things.
Bribery is also something of a safety valve. When the state stands in the way of (otherwise peaceful and voluntary) exchange, paying a bribe may be a better outcome than not having these productive activities happen (indirectly as well, the state may benefit from increased tax revenues later on). Of course, some bribery can be evil, but the problem is not corruption itself, rather the power that fosters it is.
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The choices are overwhelming!
I can easily believe that you can predict quite well ratings of Amazon reviews by a simple keyword-counting algorithm. Just by counting words like "good", "enjoyed", "fantastic" vs "terrible", "boring", "awful" you're gonna get a very strong correlation in that limited domain.

But what tests have you done on your broader methodology? What experiments can you really do to figure out the extent to which the use of the word "nosegay" is correlated with actual depression?

Also, as someone else said, where are the error bars? If there really is a correlation between word choice and other metrics, then some simple statistics should give you error bars on your other metrics, right?

Oh, one more thing: in the example on your website you say that the sentence:

"That joke kills me!"

is "subconsciously" aggressive. My question: would your algorithm rate that at exactly the same level of aggression as the sentence:

"I'm gonna kill you!"?

cuz, y'know, intuitively one seems rather more aggressive than the other.
It's difficult to assess the situation without having the WHO report or an inspection.

The long and short of it is YES. There are regulations regarding the quality and reproducibility of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes (the CMC - chemistry, manufacturing and controls portion of an IND/NDA) that go a long way to ensure the safety of patients here in the US. Yes, they can be expensive to comply with. But current Good Manufacturing Process (cGMP) regulations are a necessary component to not only protect patients, but also to ensure the validity of the clinical data collected. Without these controls, changes in formulation, lack of reproducible drug substance (Active pharmaceutical ingredients, or APIs), and finished drug products (including container-closure systems), there is no way to be sure what the patient is getting is equivalent to what was used to obtain approval (NDA/BLA/PMA/510k) or consistent across the marketplace.
There was a big push to get manufacturing and studies done "on the cheap" in India, China, SouthAmerica, and Eastern Europe. But over the past few years, many companies have pulled back development in these areas (unless they were planning to launch products in these regions) due to lack of oversight and poor quality of production and study conduct at clinical sites. And rightly so.
If the WHO conducted a thorough audit of his processes and found that they weren't up to par with the FDA or EMA(Europe's FDA) then we should all hope that any development in the US or Europe be conducted in accordance with OUR guidelines and regulations. The India trials could (and should) be used as a benchmark and built upon, but not relied upon out of hand without more diligence and reproducible results across multiple clinical studies (and in various ethnic populations, age groups, and other factors).
The inventor has a duty to obtain results using the most controlled and reproducible manner possible. For all of our sakes.
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What about your loyal users? Are they supposed to fend for themselves now? These types of exits create bad precedents for other startups and will make customers wary of using services from the newer companies.

How about open sourcing some of your code if possible?
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Well, one other tip would be - hold it on when you ahem pull out. You don't want any spillage.

Also, make sure you use the right size. If it's too tight or too loose - increased risk of breakage or leakage.

Ok, now I'm a bit weirded out by myself. I'm a woman, so I guess I'm deeply invested in proper condom usage.
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http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/http-routing#the_heroku...

"The new HTTP stack does not include Varnish (a reverse proxy cache) because it is not compatible with the advanced HTTP features described above. If you wish use HTTP caching headers, rack-cache and the memcache add-on offer features and performance comparable to Varnish, but with the additional benefit of giving you complete control over authentication and page expiration."
"And nowadays we have the opposite issue: gold mining output declines, and is unable to follow the value growth of the world itself. This is one of the reasons why most countries moved first to fractional gold standards and then to convertible currency."

This is just a ruse used by governments as a pretext for inflation. It isn't necessary for money supply to 'keep up' with growth. As demand increases, the value of money goes up, and people simply use smaller units for exchange.
When I was just starting to play with Scala 5 years ago, I found a lot of stuff that's "cool/neat/tight/convenient", I've since watched the language grow into a monster that's trying too hard to be Java++. The xml embedding syntax that looked neat initially looks like an anachronism now.

The result is a Java++ that's worse than C++. It slows down compilation 10x and makes proper tooling (IDE support) 10x hard, while providing no performance advantages. In C++, you can often get nice abstraction idioms (mostly due to template (partial) specialization, SFINAE) with zero performance penalty.

Java folks should just enjoy the superb IDEs (not just 1 but 3) and look forward to Java 8 or something like that (pending the Oracle issues), which will have a reasonable closure implementation ((JSR-335 looks OK to me), which would make much of the user (vs library/framework writer) side verbosity go away.

People use Java because its stability, compatibility and ecosystem, so C# wouldn't be a viable choice for them but an interesting thing to watch and learn lessons from.
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Ah, but they hide the phones under their desks, so the teacher can't see them. Hide the phones in their laps. We're breeding a generation of Luddites by allowing phone-using kids to sterilize themselves :)
Except the general principle of "you don't get what you don't ask for" is true and encompasses your thoughts. Whether it is an introduction to a highly visible CEO or a conference you want to attend for work, if you don't ask, it isn't going to happen. I would argue that even if they didn't offer specifically to help (but didn't make it clear that they don't want to be annoyed by you :), if you think they can help, ask them.

This is a philosophy I've lived by for many years. The only time you need to worry is when the person you are asking is passive-aggressive. They may never give you an indication you are asking too much, while you are unknowingly destroying your relationship with them.
Ok, everybody can do the math:

1) What it is:
"The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer1, associated with wireless phone use."

2) What's the risk:
"Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and most aggressive malignant primary brain tumor in humans, involving glial cells and accounting for 52% of all parenchymal brain tumor cases and 20% of all intracranial tumors. Despite being the most prevalent form of primary brain tumor, GBMs occur in only 2–3 cases per 100,000 people in Europe and North America."

3) How much the risk increases:
"The Working Group did not quantitate the risk; however, one study of past cell phone use (up to the year 2004), showed a 40% increased risk for gliomas in the highest category of heavy users (reported average: 30 minutes per day over a 10‐year period)."

Anybody worried? Really?
Part of what these suggestion contains are the basis for the emerging field of game learning. While the wiki is surprisingly weak on the matter -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_based_learning -- the idea is that structured conditions of gaming/sports success can be applied to teaching and knowledge acquisition. Some of these ideas include:

Coached practicing /
Competitive performance evaluation /
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This whole thing is a waste of bytes.

Simply adding someone to a repo makes it show up in their private repositories list and nowhere else. Annoying? Probably. A big deal? Hardly. (To have it show up anywhere else you have to commit to it.)

The HackerNewsTips twitter account is not confirmed to be a GitHub employee and rtomayko, who is at least somewhat trustworthy, flat out says it isn't.

The only interesting thing here is the bug related to the `[0-9a-f]{40}` regex -- and that's been fixed.

It's over, and it would be great if we could move on quickly from this one.
I'm pretty sure that even when we don't know how accurately it can measure the 'absolute' values, we can clearly see the change which is relative to the comments on the same context and domain. It can be argued if it really measures happiness etc., but I'm sure there's correlation in the change even if it's not accurate.
Both FYI and to confirm to myself that I wasn't wishfully make that up, I looked up the policy for my home state: http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/10-20-life/
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No, it's a place that's energy demands are lower, are growing at a lower rate, while offering a comparable standard of living. Why do you keep trying to make a false dichotomy? It's not a binary choice that has to be made.
C# isn't a realistic option for a lot of people with big investments in the JVM. It is clearly an interesting language, but, it's no F#.

Obviously there are no silver bullets that make software development easy. But after having written a handful of high performance, high availability systems in Scala, the benefits over the other alternatives on the JVM are so evident to me, it's easy for me to get frustrated that they aren't obvious to everyone. Of course we still have occasional bugs, and sometimes they are hard to diagnose. Just exactly like Java, and any other language you care to choose. Bugs are inevitable. But there are a couple of things that make Scala stand out, and I'm a bit surprised at how fickle the community is about this language. One day everybody loves it, the next day, everybody seems to hate it because it didn't make programming easy. Both are extreme; as engineers and scientists we should approach cautiously and methodically; doing so, in my view, makes a few truths unescapable:

1. Scala is far less code than any statically typed language on the JVM. Less code means fewer bugs.

2. The Scala collection framework is a tour de force. If you can't see that, you should keep looking. Seriously, it is quite simply amazing for anyone coming from Java -- there is nothing like it. Not since I first got a taste of STL have I enjoyed the hybrid sensation of aesthetic awe with the 120M volts of power. It is just so clean, so orthogonal, and such a pleasure to work with. It is hard to go back after you have gotten used to this thing.

3. Scalacheck takes testing to another level. When I take the care to properly use a tool like Scalacheck to cover what I'm working on, the number of bugs goes as low as I've seen on any platform, anywhere. I have live code which I am pretty damn sure doesn't have any bugs. The only code I've written in 20 years of doing this that doesn't have any "not critical enough to fix" bugs, is written in Scala. I cannot tell you how satisfied that makes me feel -- it's a long time since I considered that possible.

It is difficult to argue against the idea that there are too many ways to do things in Scala. There is more than one way to do a lot of things, and I personally find the right way for me to be fairly evident after writing a few thousand lines of code. As an engineer, I'm all for constraints to make my job easier. But at the same time, since writing code is a very indirect way to express ideas, it can be nice to have an expressive, fastidiously symmetric, means to do so. The symmetry in Scala is breathtaking ... the edge cases in Scala are an order of magnitude less bizarre than the edge cases in Java. After a few months of Scala, the pathological examples touted in these comments look completely obvious. They are doing a powerful thing. Learning to think in the language is required if you want to be fluent. And what I love about learning to think in Scala, is the extremely intelligent hand of its creator is evident everywhere.
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Which is why you don't enter such a contract yourself, you do it via a corporate entity. If you lose and are liable for millions of dollars just close down the shop. You can always open another entity later, you can even re-hire your employees if you had any. I'm not a lawyer, so this might be complete bullshit, but it seems to me this is exactly why corporations were invented.
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Congrats to Adgrock, but selfishly unhappy about this. I was really looking forward to trying Adgrok in a few weeks when I launch my next site.

Any suggestions for alternatives?
I think for most people it's about pregnancy prevention and not STD prevention. Ask any college kid why he wears a condom, he'll tell you it's because he doesn't want kids right now, not because he's afraid of getting STD's. Although I agree STD prevention is a great ancillary benefit, and it's why I'd still wear one even after an operation like this. But tell a 20 something college kid he won't have to worry about unwanted pregnancies if he get's this operation, the first thing out of his mouth will be an exuberant declaration of how he won't have to worry about buying condoms anymore.
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My team is working on building a platform for companies to share patents. Essentially, we help you barter a license to your patent in exchange for a bunch of licenses to technologies relevant to your field.

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23 here and same deal.
In the US, there are enough of us vegetarians around (and other dietary restrictions) that they're going to expect some people to request alternatives.

I've waited a few tables before (in the US) too. People with food principles and allergies can be downright rude. Waiters are usually going to be so pleasantly surprised if you ask for something nicely and politely, that they will usually try to make you happy if they can.

Bartending is a completely different business however. :-)
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Certainly, but in order to properly appreciate these more advanced aspects, you need to have an appreciation of the precision and logic of more basic math.

More importantly, I'd suggest that you need to know very basic math (simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) on the same level that you can type at your keyboard or drive a stick shift.

If you're spending brain effort on the basics, you've got less of it left for the complexities, making the entire exercise much more difficult.
Saying it is just a ruse for inflation is not being honest. Many, though not all, economists believe that deflation causes money to be more valuable tomorrow than today, which leads to over saving which leads to unnaturally low demand. It's not helpful to act as though there is no debate on the subject. I'm sure there are other problems as well.