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> With some money and growth they could theoretically be offered to everyone in India.

Do you have any proof that charity is close-to-infinitely scalable and dependable to a point that a society can reasonably depend on it for something as basic a need as healthcare?

Or is it that you think that funnelling Government money through a for-profit company to treat people will somehow reduce costs?

While it's great that India has managed to get surgeries down to the sub-$1000 mark in many cases, the fact of the matter is that the Indian poor literally live on about a dollar a day, if not less - for an entire family.
Yes, this is very bad in embedded systems

As in your example, the only source of entropy a network printer has: network data, easy to manipulate or even no activity. So no way to generate keys for example.

In some cases hardware sources are a must. Yes, in the end you'll need to trust them
Ask HN: How much do owners of small design/design shops make?
One of very few positions I never see numbers thrown around for despite there being a ton of seemingly successful 2-5 person shops. Realize it'd range greatly, but anyone with experience?

Moreso just curious if the stress of supporting partners or even an employee is usually compensated for...that is, if they make out better then solo freelancers.
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I've used Yii in a few projects and it's probably the most underrated and least known mature PHP framework out there. Amazingly well organized, documented and powerful. I'm always a little disappointed when a new PHP framework pops up and gets all the attention while not even achieving 20% of Yii's feature set.
You're still competing with Samsung whether you're on Android or not. So now Nokia is competing with Samsung with both inferior hardware verticals and incompatible software. Obvious bit of common sense that a lot of experts seem to miss. It's like Linux competing with Windows on the desktop.

They have a nice camera on the latest phone though - pity it's not Android or it might even be worth trying out. I'm sure if it takes better pictures though, by next year some Android phone will be offering something similar. Open platform and all that.
Read the following EWD to get sneak-peak at Dijkstra's view of mathematics:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EW...

Dijkstra's dream was reducing mathematics to formal logic, Euler's approach was almost on the opposite end of the spectrum, he used a lot of intuitive arguments sometimes dabbling in areas that didn't get a solid logical foundation for centuries to come.
Oh, I'm sure they can easily collect the traffic. I think any secure service needs to be made with that in mind now. But the question is if they can get the data unencrypted.
I honestly never understood the TA thing. Why not just reach out to the professor in their open hours or before / after the lecture?
It never hurts to mix in more random.
I guess the larger point is: the current NSA issue should in no way be considered a conspiracy since it has been well known, and not hidden (if you have been paying attention) from the outset. Also jumping to a conspiracy theory re: what tptacek is saying is shortsighted, unless you have actual relevant evidence to support said conspiracy.
Out of the box it's probably useless but if you spend some time to configure rkhunter it can be a worthwhile help in finding malware. But for anything that goes beyond script-kiddie attempts I'd not count on it.

- It can verify hashes using the package manager.

- It can report use of deleted files. After clearing the false-positives this can help to detect some malware that is only in memory and already deleted on disk

- Support for unhide¹ - This should help against rootkits - but I'm not sure how reliable it is nowadays

1: http://www.unhide-forensics.info/
I have a professor at a large state school who taught a couple of large (i.e. multiple hundreds of students) calculus classes a few years back. He assigned homework, but didn't make it part of their grade. It was just practice (the homework was through an online system). Lectures weren't required. Lots of students get stuck in these classes who shouldn't be, and he felt that they shouldn't be forced to sit through lectures that were a waste of their time. He left it up to them to decide whether they needed the lectures or not.

The result? Most of the students decided that they didn't need to do anything for the class aside from take the final exam. Most of them failed, including almost half of the engineering students (who, as a result, couldn't finish an engineering degree in 4 years), and there was a university-wide outcry.
The protocol may require "pinging the blockchain" by creating another transaction every N days. E.g. every month or year. If the name's config was not updated in a long time, you or someone else can claim it again.
Do you know of any promising companies that are disrupting healthcare? Of the startups I've seen, drchrono appears to be the best positioned to disrupt, but their mission is focused exclusively on electronic health records.

I'd really like to work at a place that attacks some of the flaws in the current system, but most healthcare companies are too invested and/or dependent on the current system to challenge it.
I know a resident who was sued because his signature was the only one on the call list the lawyer could read. He didn't treat the patient, he hardly interacted with him at all, but he was still sued.

That's a problem.
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What math people do for fun.
They don't win. They settle with hospitals.
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Same error in Ubuntu 13.04 for me.
I sympathise with the fact that Debian considers itself the "universal operating system" but there are limits and the Debian developers have to consider the impact of their support decisions on their major consumer: the Linux OS. The Linux OS is the first and primary OS they should support. And as Michael says, to stay relevant, Debian needs to meet the needs of a modern and dynamic OS. That's why I want to see systemd supported and considered first-class in Debian, my OS of choice.
I try to beat on this drum whenever I see people jump to conclusions, in studies, on the media, or on Hacker News, based off one study. The possibility for one study to be screwed up is so enormously high nobody should ever take one at face value.

To date, most studies that review the concept of "some foods make you fatter than others" vs "calories in vs calories out" consistently weigh in favor of "calories in vs calories out".

I always find www.sciencebasedmedicine.org to be a great resource for this. Also, the podcast Skeptics Guide to the Universe is really fun, and they talk about things like this all the time.
this presumes that:

- professors have open hours

- professors can be found before or after the lecture

- professors respond to your email

- professors ever go to their offices
There is indeed a science of consciousness, such as with anesthesiology or pharmacology. These sciences are concerned with the space of awareness of a subject.

I'd also say that there is an objectivity to subjective perception; for example, if two travelers in space find that the distance between themselves is shrinking, while either party may justly argue that it is the opposing side that is moving, and that we are standing still (or some other possible combination), we can still both make objective agreements on what the other party may subjectively see.

We can objectively know that the other party is equally clueless as us in determining our velocities.

I personally think there is an enormous benefit to science to understanding subjective perception. I imagine the problem of distributed AI's having different perceptions, and having to make sense of their different perceptions in order to solve problems.
In Euler's defense, he did his work before Fourier accidentally proved that everything mathematicians believed at that point rested on quicksand.
Thanks! Fixed. https://github.com/abhshkdz/graf/pull/2
More measurements, including ISP level traffic levels:

http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/
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It's certainly true that a lot of Euler's arguments were incomplete and non-rigorous by today's standards, but in many cases they were way ahead of his time. As you say, he was getting results in areas where complete and formal foundations didn't get laid for centuries.

And yet he seemed pretty much always to be right. He didn't fall into any of the traps that await the unwary, and which are the usual reasons for formality being required. It seems clear that he really did understand what was happening at a deeper level, even if the arguments he gave were, in some cases, described now as "superbly reckless."

I'm not convinced Dijkstra would've considered Euler to have been a poor mathematician. Now I wish I'd asked when I had the chance.
In the later years of Byte? In the early years ('70s, '80s) it wasn't really like that (the way I recall, anyway!).
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Provably wrong depends on when the proof was done. Firefox releases occasionally go through performance low points, to the point that I can't stand it. I then switch to Chromium, until I can't stand the user experience anymore, then I switch back to Firefox which by then has usually been fixed. Until next time.
I still respectfully disagree about Spotify :) With CDBaby you can pay $50 and be on all online retailers including paid and free streaming services. With so many services out there (and so many people choosing to use different ones) I think it's best to be on them all or you risk people not being able to listen to you.
That's not relevant here. The point is that in doing harm to the US government while attaining a higher level of truth one may inadvertently create more problems for its citizens than the original act itself causes.

In the marriage analogy, by revealing the affair you may get one partner to be honest going forward but the other partner may not forgive the first, leading to a divorce or a permanently strained relationship. The children may suffer as a result as well.

Imagine what might happen if damaging information were to get out- information more damaging than the NSA information itself. A healthy and informed debate and, if we're lucky, changes to the US security apparatus may take place but at the cost of putting the US in a weakened position influentially and economically. If you're not a US citizen this may seem like no big deal or a good lesson but for me, living in the US, I don't want to see that.
Can you give a high level comparison between yii and cakephp?
Im sorry, but if you think that you can NOT attend a class and do well, you deserve whatever grade you get. It is not the teachers fault for not forcing you to go to class.
Might not even be next year. Even if you don't count the new Galaxy Camera since it is a connected camera, not a phone, Sony is rumored to be pulling technology from their camera division for their next flagship phone, due this fall.
Sounds like in his case the unboxed vector soa rep might be enough, though I'd enjoy hearing more about this too. (Doing some gpu work with Haskell a bunch this fall)
The detailed explanation is in this BlackHat talk where I introduced Convergence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA
Well, people use Intel chips because they don't really have a choice. I assume if Intel cooperates with the NSA, then so does AMD, and then you don't really have many more options.

Yes, manufacturers could plant all sorts of backdoors in your CPU (and other hardware), and they probably have. Still, I can reasonably assume that if I buy consumer hardware in a regular store, run secure and open source software, and am careful about my network, I'll be reasonably safe. Now, Intel introduces RdRand as a black box RNG. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, but if the NSA or whoever wanted to plant an inconspicuous weakness on millions of computers, this would be a nice way. I guess they could also do it with only a handfull of engineers at Intel knowing about it, as opposed to some other attacks that involve the whole processor.
I'd like to see this combined with swagger: https://developers.helloreverb.com/swagger/
DrChrono, from what I have seen, seems oriented towards private practice. This is an interesting choice since private practices are disappearing all over the country.

I'm not really sure they're going to disrupt too much because of that.

It's extremely difficult to disrupt hospital controlled medicine, in part because groups of buyers control what hospitals purchase and they are for the most part extremely conservative.
What’s This : Guess objects based on their shape
My list (using Opera 15):

* Internal pages and tools as pages, specially the downloads manager (I can't stand Firefox's little windows or Chrome's behind-the-scenes crippled manager).

* How it handles extensions by default (little buttons to the right of the address bar).

* The nested Speed Dial and the Stash.

* Off road mode is a really great tool when using slow connections.

* Default synchronization (is not an extension).

On the other side, v 15 isn't as polished as it should had been before being made publicly available (CTRL+Z doesn't work, no bookmarks, small bugs with the address bar).

Anyway, as you can see, most of the benefits are just UI decisions. I just don't like how Firefox or Chrome look and how they display their functionality (which is absolutely subjective).
If it's just as website without selling services then your probably going to be looking at advertising.
Thanks! Youtube videos are my research blindspot.
Also, it's not like Samsung and several other Android OEMs aren't keeping Windows Phone projects going on the side. If Windows Phone does start to get any traction, Nokia will soon see exactly sort of competition they were trying to avoid on the Android side.
Exploits are not weapons, they are research. They are the discovery of the correct sequence of bytes that someone else's program has been written to accept as input and perform actions that the author (probably) did not intend. Exploits are not any act of doing this, they are the knowledge of how to do it.

There is no physical analogy. A bomb doesn't care what its target is, it's an indiscriminate destructive force. You cannot do something similar with an exploit. The exploit only has context within the rules set forth by the programmer of the target software.

Just because I know which inputs you accept that cause unintended behavior, that you put there and I had nothing to do with, does not mean I have "created" something, positive or negative. Fundamentally, exploits are not created, they are discovered.

This discovery process is expensive, and it's easy for you to say that it is ethical for me to share what I've found for free. I think that's arrogant and disrespectful, and I also think that criminalizing my knowledge is far more dystopian than what you think my knowledge might be used for if shared with someone else.

I don't like what some governments are doing with them or that my tax money is feeding the industrial complex, but such a fundamental attack on freedom cannot be tolerated.
The idea of Lisp is that there is no strict difference between programmer who uses language and compiler writer. If you program bottom up style, you extend the language towards the problem you are solving. You have meta-object system, macros, compiler-macros etc. Only the hardware specific back-end is not available to the developer.

Programming frameworks, language extensions (Qt,GWT,..) and their programming conventions are all attempts to build up language towards the problem. Often they would benefit from having parser and compiler, but get buy by relying on programming conventions (object relational mapping frameworks for example) and massive amounts of xml or json configuration files.

Ideally Lisp is like ball of mud - you can throw anything you want into it, and it's still Lisp. You are programmer framework configurator.
Exactly. The question is, what possible legal justification argues for censoring the 90's course material regarding his Bernstein v. United States?
At the time I was working on my startup Defensio and just didn't have time to maintain AjaxWhois. Traffic was high, I was getting love letters weekly but I felt I was I wasn't worthy since I couldn't give it the attention it deserved. Sellin seemed like the right move at the time.

I wish I kept it since even less work was put into it post acquisiiton and the new owner eventually forgot to renew the domain name and it just died. Pretty sad ending for a site that so many people loved. Oh well!
I think the evidence is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler#Contributions_t...:

"While some of Euler's proofs are not acceptable by modern standards of mathematical rigour..."
You're right of course about DDG selling advertising — I assume at much lower cost than Google given their relative inability to gather intelligence about users. The big question is whether they have a non-evil business model on the horizon (sponsored links aren't bad of themselves, but they are the entrance to the rabbit hole Google has long since gone down and expanded into a giant underground complex).
Where Convergence is about changing the way the TLS trust infrastructure works, TACK is about reducing the exposure that a client has to that trust infrastructure.

Currently, your browser is dependent on the CA system for every TLS connection that it makes to a server. The hope for TACK is to reduce your browser's dependence on the CA system to only the first TLS connection that it makes to a server.

At that point, not only do breaches in your trust infrastructure do less damage, but it hopefully becomes easier to solve the problem of transforming the way that trust infrastructure works. This is why most development on Convergence is blocking on TACK.
This is pretty alarming but the article points out something often overlooked: "nowhere in Britain do you have less rights than at the border."
Integers form a closed group (in the group theory sense) under multiplication and addition, so if you were concerned about specific calculations being compromised you could verify the answer via alternative calculations and testing for consistency.

Faking consistency is likely impossible without causing a huge amount other calculations (which the CPU will do as part of day-to-day operations) to fail.
Spotify £10/pm, OVH (Dedicated Server) £10/pm, Github $7/pm

Basically everything else I use is free, or one off fee's
And lo, the students learned a lesson which will be more important to them in the real world than any amount of math would have been.
You can do tail recursion without a stack...but still, you'd have to branch, which GPUs hate doing.
See, that's one of the problems I have with outrageous tuition: it creates dumb expectations from students.

In most European countries, your education is quasi free, and as a result students don't complain about professors not providing "customer service". You go to the university to learn from some of the most eminent figures of your field, people who have devoted their life to it, and you do as they say. If you're not happy, well you can just leave. And sure, some of them are quirky or do dumb stuff, but you're 19- you'll live. And TBH, even the professors I had in college who exposed me to the most BS are nothing compared to some of the BS I've experienced in the real world, with clients/bosses/etc.

If you're going to University of Phoenix, sure, feel entitled to some degree of "customer service". But if you're studying under Dijkstra, just suck it up and soak in as much as you can, even if the "customer service" leaves to be desired. Again, you're 19- you'll live.

Sorry, this is a bit abrasive, but I've been on multiple sides of the equation (student in EU university, student in US university, TA in EU university, TA in US university), and the students who say things like "I pay tuition, I'm a paying customer, professors have to do X/Y/Z for me" are rarely the ones at the top of the class (and rarely aspire to do so).
No it does not. I'm from Europe and the whole rape culture discussion has not really made it over here.

If you say that I'm completely off the mark, then let me ask you this: Would you not agree that male teenagers are incredibly angsty and hyped about all things "sex"? Don't you also experience a certain period of incredibly relaxing calm after sex?

Male sexuality has a tension-release aspect to it. Nobody is talking about rape here. If you take a bunch of young males, lock them in together and restrict their access to porn, they will become tense to the point of aggressiveness, mostly against each other. One example would be the interpersonal stuff that goes down in the training phase of military service (not talking about instructors).
I sort of agree. For that amount of money, you should have your progress checked every once in a while and given advice. On the other hand, I'm not sure if it's the professors job but that of other supporting structures. Also Dijkstra did suggest that he will answer to questions.