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I mean about half the problems you could get rid of just by cleaning up all the corruption in pharma and the FDA. The two books I've read that both have some pretty good stats and recommendations on this are:

The Truth About Drug Companies by Marcia Angell

Overdosed America by John Abramson

The problems are way too numerous to list, but they're extremely important.

The second thing that needs to change is that we need more data about the state of health care, as well as unbiased research into drugs. The commonwealth fund makes the case that we actually do a decent job of improving at the things we measure, but for the vast majority of the healthcare system we have no idea how safe or effective it is.

The third thing is that medicine needs to actually be regulated like any other industry. Doctors in this country are basically given a free pass for killing people, and that needs to change.

And lastly, as you say, our education system needs to be fixed. It doesn't work to have a society where only 3% of Americans can actually read at the level that college graduates are supposed to be able to read at.

Oh, and all of this needs to be done by the government, or by a combination of government and NGOs. Having private companies do healthcare is a disaster.
If you read this and intend to make security design decisions based on it (as opposed to reading it just for fun), please read more about the subject from other sources as well. A few statements in it are a bit contradictory, like claiming DH is safe from MITM while at the same time in other words acknowledging e.g. that identity cannot be proven with it. I don't mean to bash the author as primers are a good way to get people interested in stuff, but small oversights can sometimes cause big problems.
I had a similar experience. Xfce could handle my differently-sized dual-monitor setup easily. LXDE failed such that it thought to put some things off-screen where I could never reach them.
sorry I dont understand your last point - can you please rephrase it for me? thank you
Yet another motivation to promote and consider downshifting, degrowth and veganism.
I'm also having one of those days ... I just updated Ubuntu on a newish machine and now have no sound and snow on the screen where video had been. Some days I hate computers and hope they're just a passing fad.
No, they don't. There are no medallions in DC. And any money they "make" goes to the city's general fund anyway.
If you use FileVault on your main drive or on your Time Machine, here are some tips I picked up on Lion, which might make your life easier. Things may have changed, but should still apply to Mountain Lion.

On each machine you have, download the Lion Installer app via the App Store. The app seems to be different for different models of Mac. From experience, it seems one model Mac might not be able to use the installer from a different model Mac. Open the app package and burn the ESDInstall.dmg to a USB stick to use as an installer.

Using the USB installer, erase the drive as a single partition, and perform a clean install of Lion. This ensures the recovery partition is created on the drive.

Launching the USB installer again, format the main partition and then restore from your encrypted Time Machine.

The partition you are restoring to is unencrypted so when the restore is complete, reboot your Mac, and manually enable FileVault (if you want it).
That's just wrong.

When removing packages it just doesn't matter. When installing, it also doesn't really matter. dpkg can't fetch packages from the repositories, but it will mark them and a following apt-get install -f will fetch them flawlessly.

A few years ago you had to be careful when mixing apt-get and aptitude, and thus probably also when mixing aptitude with dpkg, as far as i know that is not the case anymore. Even a following autoremove should work.

You haven't mentioned one single valid cause why it should be wrong to use dpkg, and I'm pretty confident that you won't, because afaik it isn't. And i'm pretty sure.

(Just jumping in because dfc mentioning he really wants to know. Just think about apt-get as a frontend for dpkg which calls dpkg to install and remove .debs, but also fetches them from the internet and notices when they are no longer needed because they were installed as a dependency for a now removed package.)
> The ability for everyday man to broadcast is as big a revolution as the printing press.

In the words of Jason Scott:

> It is not unreasonable to say that a person putting up a web page might have a farther reach and greater potential audience than anyone in the history of their genetic line.

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2402
Buses? Anyone got a 21st century solution? It looks like its about 50 miles from SF to San Jose. Maybe someday they'll build a train that can turn that into a 15 minute commute.

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

Unfortunately, once you reach your destination, you'll spend another 20 minutes on a bus.
"Part of the problem is that affluent tech workers want to have their cake and eat it too-everyone wants to live in cool, trendy neighborhoods in SF, and commute to their fancy jobs in the Valley."

It's a little unfair to make it seem like tech workers are spoiled for wanting to live in areas they'd enjoy living in. I know several people who tried to live in the south bay (burlingame, san mateo, mountain view) close to where they worked. It can be nice, but it can also be lonely and depressing. If you live in the south bay, it's likely all the places you frequently go to will at least be a 10-18 minute drive away from eachother (work, grocery store, your friends house, your favorite bar/restaurant).

San Francisco is one of the only places in the Bay Area where everything you want is in walking distance.

Disclaimer, I've lived in both SF and Palo Alto.
That's you saying there is a point. That's not you telling us what the point is.
Ah you're right.

Only source I could find about revenue is how they added $9.9 million in revenue by increasing the surcharge by 50 cents and recently awarded a $35 million dollar contract to Verifone.

So they must be generating some significant amount of money still.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/post/final-...
Also, Lion did actually come on an installable USB drive (which is more expensive than the App store Installer app). Not Mountain Lion though. Creating bootable disks (USB or DVD) from the installer app is trivial.

Also his other point about losing all installers is actually a point in favor of the app store distribution model. They're always there unlike a physical disk which can go bad on you.

Time machine and Migration Assistant errors he rightly cribs about though. It is imperative that they work right.

All in all it's strange that one of the people who did seminal work in the early days of UNIX and C comes off looking like lost layperson. You'd expect him to be able to be able to deal with this way better.
The motivation is that the question of whether list.forEach (or maybe better, iterable.forEach) is serial or parallel is to be left up to the implementation of the collection. Everything related to multi-threaded code since about Java 5 has been about hiding the details of concurrency and allowing programmers to think about code in a serial fashion, but still get the gains from multi threaded code.

It's not necessarily about parallelism either -- you could just as easily pass in a function as some sort of callback that gets called far in the future, for example,

String error = null;
return createClientWithErrorHandler(e -> { error = e; });

What does that even mean? Does the execution context need to be kept hanging around?

Java already provides good atomic references if you need to have a sum variable or anything similar.
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Do residents in Zimbabwe mostly use a joint water system? Or do they have individual water tanks?
Kind of like how Windows basically took over the world of PC computing?
> Yet another motivation to promote and consider downshifting, degrowth and veganism.

And how many would this kill?
if everyone simultaneously cooperates to increase the demand on any network beyond its capacity then the the network is not able to supply any additional demand.

In the case of the electricity network, either demand is reduced or the whole thing grinds to a halt and nobody gets any power at all when the load exceeds the generation.

In the case of the water supply system water would cease to flow at points in the network when pressure reached zero. what is there to fail? an extended demand exceeding supply could empty reservoirs

folks who engineer communication networks really have the most control over what to do when demand exceeds capacity as they can prioritize some demand and curtail other demand.
> The "invention" of the Internet is one such examples. While the genesis is solidly found in ARPANET not one person in government PLANNED for what we have today. Natural market evolutionary forces made this happen

That's an awfully simplistic way of looking at things. How many of those entrepreneurs would have sacrificed and succeeded without the promises and stability provided by some government regulation and oversight? To say it was all "evolutionary" is like saying life on Earth owes nothing to oxygen, as today's lifeforms are the products of just evolution
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I have to disagree a little there. There's been huge progress in communication but actual physical things (household robots or medical advances) not much. The linked-to articles (as well drones/robocars) show a beginning of a breakthrough in that sphere.

edit: I agree it's basically a continuation (cheaper) but you can say the same about internet (made in 60s but breakthrough in late 90s)
Yeah. I remember going through Snow L -> Lion. I wanted a clean system so had to make an ISO. Process reminded me a linux install from USB from 10 years back.

And I lost iPhoto. Because suddenly my Macbook Air stopped being eligible for free iPhoto.
”I think the point isn't that is impossible to be able to do a clean install of an OS and apps (Time Machine included) you have already paid (premium!) for”

Huh? Mac users don't pay for OS X licenses, they only pay for upgrades. Time Machine is included in the OS, free of charge. OS X applications, and especially Apple's apps, are often cheaper than similar software on other platforms.
Considering that Google does not exactly have a competing product with OSX, why should he be a shill?
Cool! If I remember, you're the same guy who did http://apify.heroku.com/resources, yes? Does this have a lot of shared code with scrapify?
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I see big companies run private bus lines from SF to South Bay.

Has anyone considered starting a subscription based private bus line for employees of start-ups or smaller companies making the same commute? I'd imagine there'd be significant demand for that.
After witnessing my dad's troubles with TimeMachine, I bought a copy of SuperDuper!.

It's amazing software, and it saved me once now, it's been only a year since I've been using it. Hard-drive fails? Plug in external one, and use your computer as if nothing happened.

Their "smart update" feature is very useful.

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription...
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Well this just makes them absolutely nasty cunts then. Surely even the most hardcore Apple fanatic thinks this is completely unnecessary and designed to stifle competition?
20 or 30 minutes on the subway actually to get to Puxi (basically, downtown Shanghai). China's middle class is very cab oriented; it doesn't make much sense to take public transit, especially for 40 or so RMB the maglev costs, when you can hop into a cab and get where you want much sooner (barring horrible traffic).

In Beijing, I taxi to work everyday despite living on the subway route to my office. Taking a taxi is not that expensive while its more comfortable and (not always) faster. This has no relationship to the American situation, I guess, which is tripled screwed by low densities, poorly developed public transit, and high taxi costs.
Wonder why he posted a photo of the inside of his iMac as if it was foreign to him then.
EU has done lots of consumer and 'little guy' laws, like employee rights law, anti-discrimination law etc.
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I think one of the major turning points in the future will be to trigger a "space race" which makes a grand project of developing substantive improvements to medical care and quality of life.

There have been significant improvements here motivated by e.g. battlefield medicine, and great results out of academic or humanitarian labs, but much of our current work is stuck in a loop between patents and the FDA approval process. Good intentions aside, the system acts to motivate certain patterns of action in order to stay profitable and continue growing year-to-year which aren't optimal for our long-range interests.

How one would go about motivating such a grand project - I have no idea. Perhaps it's a matter of continuing to make such small improvements as we can until the system is primed for one giant leap. The road of progress was never a well-paved or straight one except in hindsight.

I think that small teams and open sharing of knowledge are both key ingredients. The amount of resources currently in play in medicine is staggering, but social systems tend to lose efficiency very quickly as they scale. Perhaps startup culture will be a key piece in making this happen, but the timescales involved in speculative medical research tend to be beyond the scope of the typical VC-backed endeavor.
Yes, they are just (ab)using the system that currently exists, but it takes a lot of gall to ask for yet more, when the positive verdict was so precariously and unfairly won (the jury foreman that completely misunderstood what prior art means and invented an "interchangeability" definition for infringement).
I believe it has been governments (societies) putting all its resources into something that has been the driver of pushing things forward. Corporations are experts at optimizing the status quo. Real progress takes real capital and great amounts of risk and investment that won't see returns for decades if ever.
Thanks man, that's especially useful to find the Easter eggs since you can use ctrl + or - to zoom in and out and stay oriented. Between that, and using this as a map, you can pretty much check out the whole comic without getting frustrated:
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I don't really see the problem. Private shuttles are probably more efficient than public transportation because the private shuttles go exactly where its passengers want them to. Public transit is not the alternative to private shuttles, driving is. Private shuttles are not taking commuters off CalTrain, they're taking drivers off the road. (Should people live closer to work? Yes. Give them some incentive other than one train an hour from the middle of nowhere to some other middle of nowhere.)

In New York City and its suburbs, nobody needs private shuttles because public transportation actually runs where people live and work. California made the decision many years ago to build roads instead of transit. The current system exists the way it does because of that.
> You'd expect him to be able to be able to deal with this way better.

You can be able to do something, and still find convienence in paying someone else to handle it for you.
Does anybody have an idea why there's only one pin left untouched?
Man...you should go see what happens at Union Station on a weeknight right after 12AM.

It's essentially a free-fire zone on travelers. Taxis violate EVERY SINGLE RULE on fares that are supposed to protect the public.

If the DC Taxi Commission wanted to have a shred of credibility in this issue, they'd tackle that problem FIRST and leave UBER to the people that can afford the fare.
This is great work. My only request would be slightly more detailed descriptions. Some of these descriptions are terse.
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Some features of the website:

- I've used an exponential decay similar to the one used in HN, except much faster in decaying.

- Only tweets from today are shown.

- The rating of a tweet is determined by 2 factors: the number of retweets and the votes on TweetFad (retweets have a much smaller weight compared to votes).

- Users can add their content by simply including the hashtag '#TwtFad' in their tweets. To submit tweets to a particular category, the users can add #[category_name].

- For each category, I've added some influential twitter accounts and hashtags to monitor for tweets. These are automatically added to the listing if they have a retweet count greater than a threshold.

I would love to hear the comments and suggestions of the HN community. I'm a long time reader of HN, and this community has helped me learn a lot I would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone here!
Does he?

Not a knock on Rob Pike, obviously a very smart dude, but knowing computers at one point doesn't mean you've invested the time to keep up with them since. My dad was a network engineer in the 90's and early 00's and I learned a lot from him, but these days, when he needs to pick out a laptop or something, he asks me. I'm more connected to it than he is now, because he has other things on his plate.
Oh cool, I wasn't aware of this. SSL client side certificates are not quite the same as the public key authentication done using SSH, but it seems like it could still be workable if the UI weren't so awful.

The only real concern seems to be the UI. Issue number 2 (being stolen by malware), could also easily occur with current authentication schemes (malware could steal the cookies on your machine, which would give it indefinite access to all sites you use until you change your passwords on them). All the other issues you mention are really just UI and UX problems.

Another problem is the lack of a real name. "SSL Client Side Certificates" isn't short and catchy, like OpenID or Persona.
What do you do with a basic understanding of limited-slip differentials, frequency modulation, the Maillard reaction, or any other number of subjects? If you're anything like me, what you do is take joy in understanding a little more about how stuff works, however superficially. And who knows when some grain of knowledge could be a useful inspiration in some seemingly unrelated area where you do have expertise? That happens more often than one might think, especially with mathematics.

I get that you worry some well-meaning fool will read this and go implement their own botched RSA-based or DH-based cryptosystem. That concern is legitimate. By all means, post the customary warnings.
Toilets have their own reservoirs, so the flush wouldn't have any effect on the supply side of the system. And I think that's the point: there's more water stored in distributed toilet reservoirs than the city could dump in through a centralized point.

Refilling them all at once may exceed the city's ability to supply pressure though. If pressure is provided by pumps, they'll increase their flow rate to maintain pressure until they reach their maximum rate, at which point the pressure will fall.

On the sewer side, I could see the flush creating water hammers that damage various parts of the system.

I could see them reasoning that they can do the flush and then go ahead and repair any water hammer damage, and that will be easier overall dealing with thousands of blockages.
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Whenever I see amazing new interview techniques, I think of the fun that anti-discrimination lawyers could have with them. It would not be difficult to make the case that having candidates play Xbox games is heavily biased in favor of young males.
Any solution that has to do with upgrading/renovating infrastructure would likely be a huge failure in California.

A private bus line for start-up employees would certainly be feasible solution.
I recently had problems migrating to 10.8 so I just formatted my computer and reloaded the data parts. Still not fun having to reload apps but I'm at least glad that app reloading is simpler than what it used to be when I used Windows. I've tried to kee my computing as data-focused as possible...and hope that big commercial packages, like Photoshop, do their job in surviving OS upgrades
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It would be a major improvement... For users in the United States. For everybody else, it would be completely useless.
The reason people are choosing Uber is because the taxis suck. It's really that simple.

Uber costs more and people will pay it. They pay it because you know what you are getting and you know that if you dont get it then the company will make it right. Uber is the most transparent company I've been able to find when it comes to auto transport. They give you a receipt with the route and the fare. Every component of the tally is right there for you. They even round down the total.

What Taxis are pissed about is that there is a viable competitor for the BEST fares. Taxis dont want to upgrade their product but they want to keep the top of the market. I say good riddance. If every taxi in DC went out of business I wouldn't shed a single tear.

edit:typo.
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Why can't you have both? In Ubuntu, you can update your OS version from the update manager, but you can also download the *.iso and do a clean install. After they tack on payment and drm to the system, what about this can Apple not emulate?
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Can't upvote this enough ... Blogs and "news" sites are publishing headlines that are more and more abrasive and controversial in hopes of getting clicks.

It's apparently working.
This sounds like a gross oversimplification. For one thing - even if 90 minutes is the average length of a sleep cycle, this surely varies between humans. My sleep cycle might easily be 80 minutes or 100 minutes long, rather than 90. If I were to use sleepyti.me, it might recommend that I go to bed at 11:00pm to get up at 6:30am. But if my sleep cycle is only 80 minutes long, it will be 40 minutes out in its recommendation, which means that I would wake up in the middle of a sleep cycle, rather than at end of one - exactly the opposite of what it's supposed to achieve!

In addition, although the first sleep cycle averages 90 minutes, the second to fourth cycles are generally 100-120 minutes [1] which again throws off your calculations.

In short, I'm extremely sceptical that such a simple rule could ever be effective for most people.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Sleep_stages