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That's why we don't let people make the laws. People are myopic, panicky creatures. We elect representatives who make educated decisions for us. At least, that's how it works in the USA.
Formlabs isn't a sls printer. Shapeways rent EOS Printers not 3D Sys' (and that's nothing to do with their 2weeks delays...).
Agreed. Even the use of language, "forgiving," is how teachers talk about media, not children.

Unfortunately, if you look closely, the paintings are actually quite awkward (the portrait of his grandfather especially) and are worse for trying to echo a loose, confident style. Even if we accept this hyper-conservative, even regressive approach to art, it's unfair to expect him to have much skill at such a young age (and he doesn't have much at the moment).
For a while I've thought it would be a good idea to make drug paraphernalia that had something like 'Google jury nullification' handwritten on it, and maybe also a brief explanation. The idea is that if it were ever seized then it would have to be read as evidence in the court. You could also add several other features to create reasonable doubt, e.g. an inked thumbprint of another person, someone else's name on it, etc. I think it would make a good Kickstarter project. It would be cool to make 10,000 baggies and a few vaporizers and then to wait for someone to actually get arrested to see how it would work in practice, as sort of a participative art project.
8 individuals - 4 men, 4 women - from an applicant pool of 6,100. All in their 30s. What an accomplishment for them all.
I agree with you that 3D printer is not a consumer item like a microwave oven or a dish washer. At least not for few hundred years until we have molecular level replicators like in the Star Trek. But it's going to be a great thing for creators and educators. But Definitely not a "consumer item".
Word is, apns is still up, only the dev center has been effected.
The author of this article is a friend and former colleague (I had the office next door to hers at Harvard, when I was on the faculty there). Many of the reasons she cites for being "miserable" as a faculty member reflect why I left a tenured faculty job for industry. Nearly all junior faculty I know describe it as a survival process. Given this I fail to understand why being a professor remains such an attractive career path.
People who use catheters correctly under medical supervision can sometimes run out. Being able to print one seems like a useful function of a 3d printer.

Will printers ever be good enough to print contact lenses?

A printer good enough to print glass lenses would be useful for some areas of the developing world.
Agreed. I considered referencing The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Fred Brooks. The central theme is that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later". I think that this theory can be applied to both new and late projects. More people does not typically increase productivity.
It takes a lot of guts to admit that people may have wrongfully died in the past in an attempt to potentially save innocent people in the future. It would have been very easy to be stubborn and let even more injustice occur.
Totally agree with you, but the article was clearly mentioning Microsoft is losing relevancy because the PC is dying... which is not the case.
Like the decision to spy on us.
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Agreed - would love to see this coming from a second-tier grad school faculty.
7000 miles in 18 days is 16 miles per hour on average. The article mentions that the trains move at 50mph, but doesn't say if that's the max speed. But regardless, even if we assume 40mph average, that's a lot of time sitting around not moving at all. I wonder where that time is spent, and how much more of it can be removed from the process. It's presumably largely customs checks, which seems like a straightforward problem to optimize.
I think we, as a society, are ultimately to blame.
This isn't true in computer science at Harvard - I speak from experience, having gone through the tenure process there myself. Being denied tenure in CS at Harvard is about as bad as being denied tenure anywhere else; people don't usually end up in very good jobs afterwards. In my 8 years at Harvard, we awarded tenure to 5 junior faculty, and denied tenure to two.
Gather a bunch of different kinds of hair from a barbershop trashcan and sprinkle it everywhere.
I always go with a throwaway that I can change later. I actually just recently changed the name for an app I'm building and, turns out, the new one is 100X better!
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Yes, I think you have touched on an important point. I did not try to equate the Alpha Engineer with bad behavior. Great leaders set clear vision, lead by example, and bring the team along with them.
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PowerShell takes a lot of what I dislike about cmd.exe and makes things worse. Many cmdlets assume some form of hidden state that isn't documented. Despite needing to use it, I often do so holding my nose. I really wish Windows would adapt the unix paradigm for command line...
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Had anyone tried a twitter like web app Stremly? It's ads free social web app that works like twitter and google+. Check it out at www.stremly.com
Ah yes, representatives. Representatives who are not people. That may well be true.
Good addition. The Alpha needs to be cognizant of the lifecycle of a given project and be able to motivate a broader team.
I think shorter videos are going to become a lot more popular soon. Gif 'videos' have gotten more popular recently (especially on tumblr) and things like vine's 6 second video clips are on the rise. Mobile speeds have caught up where its now possible to download/view videos and also upload a short 6 second video
By good, do you mean faculty positions elsewhere or is it hard in general to even get say senior jobs in the industry after being denied tenure?
> No, they likely took the portal down as soon as they knew there was a breach. Highly unlikely they left it up while they investigated, and it takes time to figure out what happened and how much information was taken.

They still haven't said anything about how much had been taken.

My point is they knew how much could have been taken. They knew what machines were at risk; hence taking them down. If those machines that were at risk had sensitive personal information, they should have notified the people affected right away, not three days later.

Taking the site down, with no indication of why, and waiting three days to tell people that their personal information may be at risk (and remember, the possibly compromised information includes credit card numbers, as there are a number of things you need to pay for in your developer account) is just crazy.

You should be upfront and transparent when the breach first occurs. Of course you don't know exactly what has been compromised; but they are still being plenty vague even three days later. If they had posted three days ago what they posted today, it would be a lot more reassuring.
It might not have been possible for an antivirus to detect Flame, because the people behind Flame likely tested it against all antivirus software before deploying it. They were very, very careful. It's how they escaped detection for so many years.
Douglas Adams had a brilliant definition (used originally for "nerd"): a hacker is a person who uses the telephone to talk about telephones.
At Harvard it really is easy to stop worrying, if you have an open mind.

As a mathematician, I know excellent academics who narrowly missed getting tenured at MIT and Princeton. They were highly in demand, and are now happily working at other top-20 universities.

(ed: I am in math, and described what I observed. I see elsewhere in the thread that mdwelsh observed the opposite.)
Mesmerizing. Shared this with my gf and she was like "Whoooaaa! I could watch this for hours."

PS hello from your next door neighbor at famo.us :)
For anyone (hopefully everyone) against the death penalty there's a charity called Reprieve that do a lot of great work defending people on death row all around the world, they have some active cases in the US at the moment: http://www.reprieve.org.uk/. They've been a part of the release of over 60 Guantanamo Bay detainees and have represented over 300 US death row inmates.
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Heh. Yes, you're right. My point is that I don't think Scott Forstall would work at MS. He's too much of an Apple lifer.
> Who are these middle-class families that have such a need to manufacture their own jewelry and catheters? If you need a catheter, wouldn't you want to talk to a doctor first?

Doctors prescribe catheters, but, as I understand it, you typically get them, once prescribed, from a medical supply house. Print-at-home could be useful in certain situations.

And, of course, people don't need to go to a doctor for anything connected to jewelry.

> A printer good enough to print glass lenses would be useful for some areas of the developing world.

People in the developed world still wear glasses, too, and being able to replace damaged lenses at home would be convenient.
Living in the Bay Area, getting stared at is certainly the exception rather than the rule. It's not a big deal here, or in LA IMO.
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You lost me somewhere between eating the rich, and whales...
So, even if the vulnerability (with insecure keys) is fixed, unless the architecture is changed, I suppose all sim-cards will remain wide-open to intelligence services -- as one would have to assume that they'd put quite an effort into getting their hands on a copy of these keys.
You can buy filters to reduce noise.

http://www.amazon.com/Smarthome-1626-10-FilterLinc-10-Amp-Fi...
If by individuals you mean corporations (as in "corporations are people, my friend"), then yes I agree, those rights are held to be paramount. But if you mean individual as in "my body my right", then I would have to disagree, those are not strongly held rights.
I've done the drive to Richmond in a bit over two hours. A couple generally can mean 2-3. Three is certainly more normal. NEXUS/SENTRI helps.
I have led product in a number of software companies -- some with an Alpha Engineer and some without. The companies with a dominate engineer have outperformed the others when the lead engineer could relate to the other teams and customers. This is a fine reminder, but you should note that no matter how great the star is, he is still part of a team.
Awesome.

On the "stop taking advice" idea: when I was a grad student (and postdoc), I kept notes in a personal wiki. I had a page entitled "Things Other People Have Suggested I Do". I didn't do most of them. Even more so, it was such a liberating feeling to look at it and tell myself, "I don't have to do any of that crap, I have my own research plan."
Agreed. @malandrew mentioned something similar. The Alpha Engineer can be a force for good if she works well and motivates the team.
Thanks. Shortly after I posted this, SSH access was restored and I am back online.
Someone innocent being sentenced to death is a tragedy. However, there are innocent people who get charged with life sentences or many decades, and they end up dying in prison from natural causes, murder, suicide, etc. Even if you get rid of the death penalty there will still be some innocent people who die in prison, or they spend a good part of their life in prison before they are exonerated. Sure they get a big fat settlement, but who cares if you went into prison at 20 and came out at 70 a millionaire. Not worth it. The point is I'm not sure getting rid of the death penalty would statistically save that many innocent lives, as harsh as that sounds.
Well in that case that's a pretty shitty point and goes against what people (e.g. Joel Spolsky) have been saying about team building.
I should have written "institutionalized racism" or maybe "overt state sponsored racism". I wasn't trying to imply that racism no longer exists in South Africa.
It has been my experience that gifted and talented persons are more likely to experience a type of depression referred to as existential depression.

is there any evidence (beyond the author's "experience") that this is true?
So the diesel mileage isn't that good, except for the part where it's significantly better? Thanks for explaining.
I'm not a programmer but I think a site like this makes alot of sense. My last company did pretty strong revenue, well into the 7 figures annually but I wouldn't have a clue how to develop anything. I think many times programmers build products that alot of time don't have strong marketability, but that are "cool" in their eyes. A new set of eyes, a different perspective with a strong business sense might see an angle that a programmer does not for a project that is partially built. I signed up for the waiting list. Good luck!
back to my hometown JiangXi, may be in the end of the year.
Not to sound overly critical, but is it just me or does this come off as a somewhat selfish point of view?

My father was a tenured professor and growing up I heard enough horror stories from his department to know that a career as a professor at a research university is no easy career.

But at the same time, isn't a major part of your job instructing students? I understand the importance of grants, conducting research, etc. as it relates to getting tenure, but if your only focus is jumping through hoops with the end goal of getting tenured there are probably a lot easier ways to get job security and at higher pay. My point is that I would hope that those who go into a career in academia as a professor have a major interest in teaching and aren't just there to get the next promotion.
The real trade with china didn't begin until silver mining took off in the 1550s. Before that, spices and the trade with the 'indies'(India) were the primary trading interests. Most maps didn't even get the eastern half of the Indian ocean correct until the mid-1600s and from the east the pacific ocean was a mystery for longer.

Silver was the item that the chinese intensively desired for monetary reasons as multiple experiments with paper money failed due to runaway inflation and they lacked precious metals of their own. Almost 40% of the silver mined in the late 16th century ended up in china.
3D systems hold them, according to the article. it also seems to imply that they only licenced to others under pressure from a court.
Absent the proper research, it seems to me like avoiding any possible risk would be the wise course of action.
No, we don't.

Sure we do; you go on to say the same thing. You're just emphasizing the "we don't know" part, while I was emphasizing the "there might be some risk" part. We do not know that there is no risk, which, given that alcohol use is avoidable, is the point.

Some research is just poor quality.

Yes, that's true. But the belief that alcohol might harm a developing fetus isn't just based on research. It's also based on common sense: alcohol is known to have the potential to damage your body (at a minimum, harm to the liver and the brain is known to be possible). Why put such a substance into a developing fetus if you don't have to?

And then people have different opinions.

Yes, they do. If a person's considered opinion is that their enjoyment of alcohol is worth whatever risk they believe there is of harm to their child, that's their decision. I'm simply pointing out that, to me, it seems like a no-brainer: you're balancing something that's just recreational for you, vs. a possible harm to your child.

Parents will find it hard to find this information.

That's true of many aspects of parenting, yes. Which is why, as I said above, one shouldn't rely solely on that kind of information; one should also apply common sense.

Let's not forget that parents tend to be sleep deprived and thus cognitively impaired too.

The decision whether or not to use alcohol while pregnant does not have to be made in a cognitively impaired state; decisions like that about how to care for a child should be made before the situation becomes acute.

Plus, the sleep deprivation usually comes after birth, not before, doesn't it?
Alright. I guess we all should just quit what we are doing, throw out our own experiences, and follow Joel's advice.
You nailed it on the head. Often times, with new technologies that are a step function jump, rather than an incremental improvement, people think "what would I do with it that I already do, but faster/cheaper/easier", rather than "what new things does it allow me to do that I couldn't do before?"

The latter question is the correct one to answer with something as weird and new (new to consumer/pro-sumer) as 3D printing.
" The idea is that if it were ever seized then it would have to be read as evidence in the court."

What?
I'm trying to follow this logic, help me out here :)

Among other things (like the fact that there is zero reason anyone would read it to a jury), judges have broad discretion to let evidence in/out.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_403

They would just not let it be read to a jury as evidence. There are a small number of things not subject to 403's balancing rules, i don't think this would fall into any of them.
(Most states have evidence codes based on the federal rules)
Sounds like Weev is about to get some company.
Having a specification and a reference implementation is possible without the reference implementation being proprietary... Personally I would much prefer that.
My wife's from Taiwan and I'm caucasian and we never feel like anyone stares at us as a couple here in Minneapolis.
If you decide to ignore those in your study because you want to study something specific then you should make it very, very clear.

I don't know how cavalle could be more clear:

s/he's not judging the study design, but rather the popular report of the study results.
I've never seen a case where printed material has been considered to "incite or produce imminent lawless action". If I recall correctly, the classic example of "imminent lawless action" is when the KKK is having a rally and they start yelling about lynching someone. That's different from a book about how to hang someone; the government itself publishes material on how to kill people (capital punishment and all that).
You are right that being a mathematician at Harvard, it hardly matters if you get tenure or not. (In fact, for a long time you basically had to win the Fields Medal to get tenure in math at Harvard). Harvard is nowhere near as well known in Computer Science, and is more of a "top 20" rather than "top 5" school.
> If you can't at least talk about ..., you are going to be excluded from a lot of networks.

Not only do I disagree intensely with your post, but I'm a male high-school student, and trust me, I wouldn't want to be included in those "networks" you speak of anyhow. Sports aren't for everyone. Every single positive you have named about sports can just as easily be attributed to other activities. Socialization? What are we doing here on HN? What do kids do when they go to school and talk and gossip? Working in groups toward a goal? What about them tackling a computer programming project together?

I found your comments about bullying and friendships downright belittling. A wider social circle does not mean better friendships, in fact, it tends to be quite the opposite. My wounds are still fresh; it is wiser to have fewer and closer than more and shallower. Physical activity also doesn't have to involve sports per se -- lots of outdoor time is wise. Also, why can't competition be encouraged through academic competition? Or, for that matter, anything intellectual?

This overarching, sexist, and patriarchal view that men have to resort to primal physical exertion in order to be accepted in society is quite insulting, so if you would please broaden your outlooks, we'd be all the better for it.
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People denied tenure in CS at Harvard have gotten senior (tenured) jobs elsewhere, but not in my opinion at places anywhere near as good.
You'd rather pass laws by ballot initiative? I encourage you to go check the public opinion polls on a couple of issues you care about.
Statistics don't matter, even if one innocent person is saved it's worth it. There is absolutely no advantage to the death penalty. I'm sure if you told any death row survivor (eg: Damien Echols) that you don't think it's worth abolishing it because their lives were over anyway they would have a strong disagreement. An important consideration is the way death row inmates are treated too, 10 years on death row is not good for a person so if they are found innocent they will have suffered serious damage (Damien Echols again), it's a complete waste. Damien Echols did an AMA on reddit last year: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/107jib/iam_damien_echo...
I'd say 10 or more in my vicinity. Im in an office with mobiles, cisco ip phones, laptops and desktops everywhere. If you were talking about this floor... then that figure could easily go into the hundreds O_O !
The problem is that no promotion = no job. So if you care about teaching, you need to get tenure.
I don't know that it is always the case that putting a productive developer in charge of a team is the best approach either. Just because someone can code doesn't mean that they can lead - and anyway, by putting them in charge you just added another distraction to the day anyway.
I know Telenor in Norway provides a service called BankID that is tied to Telenor SIM cards -- but I don't know anything about the implementation details (or how they've managed to lock the other providers out of the game).

BankID is a centralized service for authentication used by banks, and the "other" implementation is based on a (browser) java applet.
People optimize for the metrics they are set. To the degree teaching is rewarded, they will focus on teaching.

I know a number of PhDs with aspirations of tenure. Not one has said they went into it to teach.
You're just emphasizing the "we don't know" part, while I was emphasizing the "there might be some risk" part.

Teach the controversy (a la Merchants of Doubt) vs the precautionary principle.
Thanks for my first laugh out loud moment for today.

Out of the 20-30 or so lecturers I can remember from my degree in computer science, there was only maybe two I can think of that had any interest at all in actually communicating ideas and teaching students.

The vast majority of the lecturers were objviously focused on their research and even student questions about assignments / exams / any issue at all were directed to the tutor (who would often be the tutor for 6-7 subjects and be completely swamped by the workload).

The tutors have since been removed from that university due to budget constraints so I feel sorry for the students going there.
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Taking 40k records is more than just penetration testing.
Ha ha, no. I just found it amusing to imply that our representatives are not human.
It is, certainly, a relief that the representatives we elect aren't people.
Yeah that or maybe before writing another post like this, you might want to stop and thing whether you are really in a position to be pontificating about anything.
She doesn't mention any teaching, but I wouldn't take that as not caring about teaching. She discusses the things that she needs to assign a priority to, and risk creeping in (or out).

Not knowing any particulars I would guess that teaching, albeit time consuming, does not pose that risk.
It saves money. That's at least one advantage.
Statistics matter. Not everyone on death row is innocent. How many people on death row kill other inmates?

EDIT: I meant to say how many people serving life sentences. But I suppose it applies to people on death row who never actually get put to death.
Oh, of course. I feel that there should be, however :)