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Thanks a lot for advice. I have still more than a year ahead before I need to make a decision so there's enough time to ask around when I narrow my choices. I haven't even made my mind whether I want to get into neuroscience or stay in molecular/cell biology.

Sadly, the situation as you decribed is almost the same with PhD students in the lab where I currently work on my diploma thesis and in some around in the institute. Having seen what I've seen (troubles with disertations and giving the PhD defense go-ahead) that's definitely something I want to avoid.
Not a whole lot. All of the money, culture, and innovation in technology is happening outside of our borders. With few notable exceptions you will find Canadian start ups tend to follow industry trends rather than make them. The salaries are rather anaemic and the jobs are not terribly interesting. On top of that most Canadian tech start-ups are forced to consider the first exit they can get by their conservative backers. Why would you even consider a Canadian company?

(disclosure: I work for a Canadian company.)
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And the combined person-hours spent on many non-essentials (from gardening to sun bathing to gaming) would be enough to solve world hunger, reduce human casualties in natural disaster zones to approximately nothing with notifications and infrastructure reinforcements, detect and stem disease outbreaks in days or hours, provide good public transports in all urban areas, and probably much much more.

Incentives matter.
I wouldn't say it's "bloated", more featureful! In fact, I believe the kernel developers routinely cull old and crufty code.

The features that are in the Linux kernel are used by all sorts of folks. And there is a constant review of developers refactoring and debating how to merge features. And they never seem to merge features unless it is being done right from a technical viewpoint!
Flagged. I think this is just an excuse to get the story about the shooting, which normally wouldn't be appropriate, on to HN. This type of behavior on reddit is also not new. Self posts have been very popular there. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Actually, it's going to the people. The government is representing the people. However, the children inheritances will still far above average after rich inheritance taxes.
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Think outside the box.

I've lived in the US for 10 years, and I follow plenty of world news. It is clear that Columbine-like shootings are (mostly) an American phenomenon. [1]

So what is it so special about the US that makes this a recurring problem?

Is it poor parenting, without much communication? Is it societal pressure, i.e. Mr Popular vs Mr Loser? Is it easy access to guns? Is it the disproportionate amount of media attention that these cases give to depressed folks with low self-esteem? Is it all of the above? None?

I imagine severe depression happens everywhere, but there's got to be something in the US that turns depression into mass murder. I wish someone would analyze the problem from outside the box, not inside.

[1] Before someone jumps the gun about international news, note that terror and drug/gang crimes are very different. They have clear, consistent motives. Columbine-like stuff is puzzling- their motives seem to be all over the place, hence why to this date experts are still trying to figure them out.
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Contrary to the tweets, I think it's perfectly fine to be upset about sparrow no longer being developed.

The days of software being unchanging are gone, that's a pre-internet way of thinking about computing, and it's perfectly fine to be upset that something you rely upon is no longer supporting you into the future.

We live in an era where there is an expectation that our software titles will keep pace with the rapidly changing nature of technology. The business model of ios is simple, the vendor takes 30%, while the developer is free to lure new customers with additional innovations/features without having to worry about the expense of updating everyone who has purchased the title already. It's the life blood of competition and a business model that many titles adhere to.

So whether the developer is updating the code for new devices, adding software features that are relevant to new emerging technologies or simply staying relevant by supporting the latest standards. We treat software like a journey and not a static point. Software titles compete by out innovating each other. The moment this stops the software title is dead, it's competitors overtake it quickly and rarely would any of us rely on a piece of software that is no longer being developed.
I'm getting convinced about an interesting new theory on free will. Our free will isn't exactly "free", and is not certainly a conscious act. What we will is determined by the genetic predispositions and a historical interaction of the self with environment. This creates a feedback loop and the self takes one of the trajectories for which it is NOT responsible. Yet, the consequences of the actions are faced by the self in an immediate sense (imprisonment, sadness, happiness). This creates an unfair situation.

So, in a way, _I_ am not responsible for my actions, yet the blame is put on _me_.

EDIT: grammar
How much has Citizens United really changed the political game?
> Also, is the drivers in linux of higher quality than the ones for example windows?

It really depends on the driver, but, at least, you can look into the code to see if it looks high quality. Or pay someone to do it.
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is it good to use Windows 8 RP and VS2012 as the main environment for developing apps,cause it's just more fluent and responsive than W7/2010 on my machine?
No, components above the Nyquist frequency are filtered out before the ADC because you'd otherwise get aliasing.

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I don't think so. This isn't ground breaking for reddit. The "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon" standard in the HN guidelines is pretty high and I don't think it's reached by the TC article. It doesn't contain any significant analysis, but a rundown of articles that are with a couple excerpts.
I've been back and forth from Berlin for a little while now. My company's home base is in NYC, but I sometimes work out of Berlin.

Even this year while I was there (Feb. - May), the startup scene is exploding. I liken it to the satisfaction of knowing of a great band before everyone else: there's no doubt that Berlin will be muttered in the same breath as the Valley, NYC and London. It's only a matter of time.

The German culture can be a bit harsh to outsiders, but the Berlin startup scene more than makes up for that. The folks there are very kind and always willing to entertain a good conversation.
> signing some rights away.

If a "right" can be signed away, it's not really a right. I recall reading about a case where a woman agreed, in writing, to waive her right to maternity leave under FMLA. She then changed her mind, and the employer sued and lost on the grounds that rights cannot be signed away.

Looked at from that lens, you're arguing that a child's rights can be signed away. My argument is that therefore they aren't rights.
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> how much, if any improvements would they get from upgrading to 3.5?

It depends on hardware and workload. A newer kernel will be able to use hardware an older one wouldn't be able to. It'll also do some newer tricks (I gather the work on TCP is yielding big performance improvements). I also like BtrFS, but won't deploy it to production just yet.
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Attempt 1

"That looks like a personal email address. Please use your email address from your educational institution or company to sign up."

OK, I understand why you are doing that. I always use my gmail account to try stuff out so I don't get endless marketing crap to my College account.

I'll use the College account for this exercise (note: that means cranking up the Citrix ICA client and logging into my College desktop. The Citrix desktop has MSIE 6...)

Attempt 2

"You need an .edu email address to signup to this plan. Looking for our corporate plans instead?"

Are you really not interested in .ac.uk addresses? Cambridge University (whose logo you list on your landing page) staff may have some issues actually using your system, as will the other couple of hundred Universities and colleges in the UK.
[Too late to edit:] In fairness to Posterous, I should note that my embedded YouTube videos were failing in Linux on both Chrome (no addons) and Firefox (many addons), but seem to be working again in Firefox on Windows (also many addons). So, it could have been a temporary issue related to their database problems.
This is a really good report by the NYT about Citizens United actual impact on politics. It really cuts through the talking points that have been parroted by the left for a while now.

Ira Glasser, the former executive director of the ACLU (1978-2001) wrote a good piece about Citizens United here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-glasser/understanding-the-...
Since when is the government the rightful owner of anything? Are we ultimately slaves, then?

If my spouse is dead or I am divorced, and I have a house, and I die, are my children homeless and destitute?

I am honestly flabbergasted at the concept that a government should own things by default. A government is not a kingdom, and it should govern, not own.
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I believe Reddit is the sleeping (not so sleeping actually) giant of social networking. With it's subreddits it's not like digg. I am not saying it's monetizable currently but it probably the biggest website your mother doesn't know about.
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In the old "first to invent" system, BigCorp can make up document of having invent the things first, too. The only different is, with first-to-file, the "filing record" is public, as opposed to the "inventing record" which does not have to be published.

Also, first-to-file means that the sooner they file the patent, the sooner it'll expires. With first-to-invent BigCorp can claim to invent something for ten years and not file for patent, effectively makes their patent lasts "17 plus how many year they keep it secret without filing".

BigCorp will always have more resource than individual inventors, the different is first-to-file system forces everything to be put in public record.
Actually no.

Emotions help us by allowing quick shortcuts in decision. Without them a person loses ability to think within normal limits. Remember last time you wrote your signature on a contract. Imagine taking half an hour to write your signature ? Impossible, well without emotion you will completely rationally debate whether or not to use blue, red or black pen, which ink color is better, etc.

Here is a quote:

For 30 minutes the patient enumerated reasons for and against each of the two dates: previous engagements, possible meteorological conditions, virtually anything that one could reasonably think about. "He was now walking us through a tiresome cost-benefit analysis, an endless outlining and fruitless comparison of options and possible consequences. It took enormous discipline to listen to all of this without pounding on the table and telling him to stop," Damasio wrote.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/feeling-our-way-to-decision-2...

Knowing when to keep your emotions in check is another thing.
Your analogy wasn't very clear. What I'm saying is if they have no way of making money off it what taxes do they owe? If you buy shares in a company that goes bust but you still have the paper should you pay taxes on that if the IRS decides its worth something?
It didn't end well and he made some poor business decisions along the way, but Tesla still deserves consideration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
That's a start... ;-)
I know American's do not like to hear this but I am of the opinion that it's easy access to guns which is the cause of these mass murders. Now that Australia has gun control, the crazy's just stab a few people. It's very hard to kill so many people with a knife.

If you take away easy access to guns then sure the hard criminals will still have guns but the wannabe criminals and the lunatics will do less damage.
Lord Kelvin has to be a contender http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Kelv...
The only new tip I received from the article (I'd pretty much heard the rest before) is to make the peak of your free throw's arc parallel to the top of the backboard.

What I'm really interested in is learning how to dunk...all I need is about 4 more inches to do it comfortably.
Which would rapidly approach equivalence to a New Deutschemark.

Germany has itself in the Euro trap just as strongly as the PIIGS. If they go under, how will Germany keep its currency down and where will it export to?
If we're talking real-time feed... I think app.net's idea is a step in the right direction. However decentralized architecture will take time. The first step is to create a generic feed experience.

We are actually starting to roll out http://friendbox.io - A real-time social platform for apps. Ultimately aiming to create an instant feed for any mobile game or app. Will be open source so you could design and share UI's, flows etc.

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okay, but once you get beyond a 2 or 3 man team and want to attract experienced devs and expand or get investing Berlin has a lot. Its centrally located in Europe, you can jump to Warsaw, Paris, London, all quickly, plus the points I made above. I've never been to Romania so I don't know how international and networked the scene is there for comparison. You mention it being cheaper but its not all about being cheap though, the plus is in berlin its relatively inexpensive for the quality and connections you get.

Sorry, to hear you got robbed! I've only lived in countries with high corruption levels (in the gov't), so germany is kind of a breath of fresh air even though its not perfect - I doubt anywhere is.
This is certainly true of animals, but we as human beings do have the power to control the direction of the feedback loop.In other words we have the ability to decide how we respond to external stimuli, a truly unique ability in the animal kingdom.

"Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant. Therefore, we can predict his future only within the large framework of a statistical survey referring to a whole group; the individual personality, however, remains essentially unpredictable"

- Viktor Frankl, Man's search for Meaning
I've lived in the US for 10 years, and I follow plenty of world news. It is clear that Columbine-like shootings are (with few exceptions) an American phenomenon. [1]

Um, what? I can cite two mass murder incident in Japan off the top of my head. There is the Osaka school massacre and the Akihabara massacre.
Why? It's just a building. Let me just add that I'm from Poland, so I understand what you are trying to say.
Seriously, Greece is a small and fairly unimportant part of the European economy.

The Euro collapsing is an apocalyptic scenario that requires quite a lot of things to go wrong. Much more than just Greece.
I personally don't have an opinion on gun control but it is pretty clear to me that easy access to guns is what stands out.
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I don't think it is clear at all that "Columbine-like shooting are an American phenomenon". The UK has had several massacres where in each case over a dozen were killed with no apparent motive (Dunblane in 1996, Cumbira in 2010), and there have been several smaller scale incidents along similar lines. The same is true in other countries around the world - I'm just citing those I'm most familiar with.

The US certainly has a higher frequency of apparently motiveless mass murders, but I think it is fairly certain that this is due to easy access to weapons. Someone who is mentally unbalanced is probably going to kill fewer people with a knife before being stopped than with a gun.
I thought like you until the middle of the article, in the place I quoted. It's not that they have no way of making money off of it - they are only saying that. I would believe it if they got a letter from the wildlife agency saying, oh, no, we are only exempting your possession: we can't extend it to your selling to a museum. But that's clearly not the situation. They obviously have every ability to sell to, e.g. the museum currently displaying it, and it will be approved.

they're trying to use a technicality - that it's "technically" illegal. don't do that. if they were serious they wouldn't even possess it, since that's "illegal" too. read the article carefully to see what I mean.
So if 17 isn't a minor in your eyes, what's the point of referring to it as a crime against a minor, since the victim was also 17?

The point I'm making is that the guy I was responding to was trying to have his cake and eat it too.
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The modern architecture in Berlin is really astounding. The city also has a lot of parks and green areas, which make it a pleasant place to live in. Not to mention perfect public transportation.
What abilities does it have to interact with the DOM?
A single product likely infringes on thousands of patents (a possibly dubious Google/RPX estimate was 250k patents for a smartphone), in which even $0.01/patent becomes unsustainable. Especially in software, chances are that you didn't learn about the ideas in the patent by reading the patent or observing products that use the patent, but rather on your own while solving a problem.
How do you get 99% accuracy for a 50 person sample? Has to be 100% or 98% surely?
Why is there a need to find out why? Killing spree is a lot like thunderbolt. It has no prediction why it struck, in the path it stuck.

If you only want to minimize risks of future murders, then don't read/watch the news. Each time a murderer has his/her face shown, she/he is glorified in even tiniest of ways (i.e. comic book villain), with a number of murders he/she committed put in front line, number of violent copycat acts will spike.
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Maybe... but two big differences.

First: I live in the UK. I've never wanted to kill someone. If I could legally buy a handgun and use it on a shooting range I would. Let's say someday I, for some reason, become a psycho and want to kill people. Right now I don't have anything like a gun to use, best I could come up with is a kitchen knife. Under US gun law, I'd have a glock, even though when I purchased it I had no intention of using it illegally.

Second: Imagine a psycho in a country where you can't own guns. He could buy a gun on the black market - hell, you can even do that online with bitcoins now - but a.) this creates a waiting time between when he wants to do it and when he can do it, during which he might change my mind and b.) there's a chance he might get caught while buying it - if it's legal to own and carry a gun, then he a killer isn't breaking a law until he starts killing, so a smaller chance of preventing him.
Lets be cynical and say that in most governments it will go to whomever can steal the most.
The US certainly has a higher frequency of apparently motiveless mass murders, but I think it is fairly certain that this is due to easy access to weapons. Someone who is mentally unbalanced is probably going to kill fewer people with a knife before being stopped than with a gun.

In Japan, one mass murderer kills 8 Japanese schoolchildren with a knife. In another incident, a mass murderer kills 3 people with a truck and then killed 4 individuals on foot. They were eventually arrested and sentenced to death.

If somebody was there with a gun, they could have engage the murderer in a firefight instead of defenseless people getting knifed or getting shot.
The US has a large population and media that tries to scare people. I don't think it's any more common in the US than elsewhere, we just hear about it more from the US since it has a larger population.
It's completely incorrect to say there is no explanation why it struck. Maybe it's true that it was impossible to predict, maybe it's true that we will never find out the cause, but can be 100% sure there is a cause.
I don't think there was a rational motive behind this, or we would have heard about it by now. What the scary truth seems to be is, that these individuals are in a severely distorted state of perception, in which the killing of people becomes justifiable for them. He has most likely a extreme case of depression, psychosis or something else along those lines, of which the causes need to be investigated. But there will never be a reasonable "why", other then a sad story of a human being, who's life went wrong at one turn or another and in the end his mind malfunctioned. To prevent this from happening, I'd argue, given the amount of people, the complex society we live in and the unfortunate circumstances some people experience in their live, we need to accept that disturbed personalities like these sometimes "happen", and I'm not sure how to avoid that. In my opinion, the most effective prevention would probably be to restrict easy access to lethal weapons. When we realize that (sadly) our society can produce minds like this, we have to make sure you can't buy smoke grenades at a pawn shop.
Maybe a handgun, but I find it pretty hard to imagine a PhD grad student managing to buy a semi automatic assault rifle or 100 round drum magazines off the street.

It is not entirely coincidental that Aurora and Columbine happened 20 miles from each other.
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