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Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058662
Python packaging can be confusing, but this does a solid job of explaining the current state of things.
Software patents are not entirely avoided in the EU, just to be clear. Quoting a little from an essay I had to write, although “programs for computers” are excluded by Article 52 of the European Patent Convention (1963), inventions that include an inventive step and solve a technical problem by the utilisation of a computer program have been upheld on appeal, for example in the case of Microsoft Corporation (data transfer with expanded clipboard features. T 0469/03 - 3.5.01, http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t030...)

They might tell us that computer programs can't be patented, but their courts say otherwise - including states involved in the upcoming European Patent (for those unaware, currently EU states choose which European Patent Office patents to accept, the European Patent will synchronise all states except Spain and Italy). Actually the situation in Europe is quite similar to America - software isn't part of their patent legislation literature either; but such patents have been upheld repeatedly.
>> Regarding #3, what data are you going off to say that Rohypnol has not been detected, and that drugging overall is uncommon?

Wikipedia has links to a couple of studies. It says Rohypnol was detected in less than 1% of cases of sexual assault where drugging was suspected.

I obviously have no idea what you and your friends have seen or been through or what they may have been spiked with. I'm just saying that whenever actual figures are looked at the problem of drinks being spiked with drugs turns out to be far, far behind witting or unwitting consumption of alcohol as the reason for people being in a bad way.

This is in NO WAY whatsoever saying it's acceptable to abuse someone who's drunk, or that it's their fault. People should be free to get as trashed as they like without bad people doing bad things to them.

It may very well be that this stuff doesn't get tested or reported very often, in which case the most we can say is we don't have reliable data.
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i really wish there was a good alternative to this, because I sometimes find myself wanting to write tests for some of my private functions, which just don't really have any need to be exported.

*edit : i should add i have been making use of the fact that a lot of my modules are event emitters to work around this. so even if i don't expose the function as such, i trigger the event rather than use the function directly.
Whether or not you "strongly disagree" doesn't change the fact that it was created independently by other people as well, evidenced by the third comment in one of the links latitude posted (http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/165288) and in archived threads where multiple people came to the current design on 4chan's /gd/ that Daiz posted.
The easiest way to fail is by not going all in - spreading yourself thin and working on a lot of things part time. Your competitors will run circles around you and leave you in the dust. Congrats on your decision.
"Sufficiently advanced testing is indistinguishable from instruction. In a fully adaptive classroom, students will be continually assessed, with every keystroke and mouse click feeding a learner profile. High-stakes exams could eventually disappear, replaced by the calculus of perpetual monitoring."

I see this, combined with more adaptive selection of learning goals, natural learner exploration, and a little bit of 'gamification' as the true future of education.
While I agree with the compartmentalization for content on HN vs, say, the type of content one would get on Reddit, I personally feel the NSA issue is intrinsically tech based and fundamentally tied to the DNA of HN: we are at the heart of the tech community in Silicon Valley and the NSA's issues are at the heart of tech globally.

You cannot talk about "the internet" without consideration for the NSA IF the NSA is slurping literally all global communications an storing them for either real-time, current or future analysis.

If the tech community doesn't feel that the NSA spying on the world via exploitation, coercion, secret court mandated wire-taps, direct/indirect access to the worlds largest tech companies systems or data is "tech related enough" or that this information is not important, then we are screwed.

I have actually had the opposite opinion of all these stories on HN: Utter relief that so many people with the technical capability of actually understanding the HOW of the NSA spying are actually engaged, paying attention and showing their disapproval of such systems.
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Note also signs 11 and 12 in the comments[1], and the later "Eight Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong"[2]. (OK, so there's a bunch of overlap.)

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304#comment-8957

[2] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=458
The logic that you can simply dismiss any room name as being appropriate if those who work with it are mature enough is not valid because there are room names which are so unambiguous, no interpretation but an inappropriate one can be made. My above comment is not a straw-man, it's an example of one such room name that cannot be interpreted any way but inappropriately. Feel free to use a different example if you think the above one is too extreme.
I can never see the term OSI an not think of this classic. It gave me and friends a good laugh back in the day ;p
(original site down but this is a mirror)

http://pablotron.org/files/7_layer_burrito.html
I've heard it said in Java that if your private methods need testing its a sign that those methods should be public methods of another class.

I can't see why this would not also apply to Javascript, other than that Javascript is rarely written in a very pure "OO" way.

For what its worth I find _private methods to be a horrible hack, I'd much rather have true private methods and force the next developer to think about whether they truly want to make that method public in the hope they'd consider restructuring it.
GPS signals are below the noise floor, so it wouldn't take much power to spoof them. You just have to get the gold codes correct (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_code).
Seems that the trend for office design these days is to make a theme park out of business space. I guess the idea is to make the space feel like an enjoyable place to spend a majority of your waking life.
I don't think people are more tolerant of alcohol because it's more familiar. I think people are more tolerant of it because the imbiber is usually cognizant of what they're drinking, and does so willingly. Having something done to you without your knowledge or consent IS scarier than having someone persuade you to get carried away with something you're already choosing to do.
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>> "this random person put a date rape drug in that other person's drink so they could take advantage of their state"

This is the straw man in the situation though - it's usually someone the victim knows.

(edit: I'm not really sure straw man is the right term here...)
Maybe history. Or another of the humanities. :) But TeX takes time to learn to use properly and only people that expect to use it regularly go through the trouble I'd expect.
These photo's are a tad old aren't they? I was there two weeks ago & most of the office has been renovated to have a more industrial theme & feel. It's also missing photos of their kitchen/dining area which was the most impressive part of their office, for me at least.
heh. it was "new" in Dec 2012 as well. Same inventor:
http://www.boston.com/dailydose/2012/12/11/new-straw-detects...

It was also invented by scientists in Tel Aviv in August 2012:
http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/08/24/tel-aviv-researchers-de...

Apparently also in August 2011 by the same scientists:
http://www.geekosystem.com/straw-detects-drugs/
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I tried to give someone a "hug" but asterisks aren't allowed :(
> It's the original and most effective date rape drug, and no one even really objects to people using it for that purpose.

They really do. Drunk consent isn't consent, and people leave themselves open to accusations of, and convictions for, rape if they have sex with drunk people.
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"...application that allows you to connect with friends and loved ones."

...who know what to do next after they click the 'download' button and are forwarded to a GitHub page. I'd like to give the app a try, but I look at that page and I don't know where to start.
Sorry Patrick. Normally I would agree with you, but there is a difference here.

The biggest difference here is if the cost of a heart operation in India would be too high, unlike the US- poor people will have absolutely no option but to die here. That is what it really comes down to. In US it leads to a person getting bankrupt, but in India poor people don't have the luxury of getting bankrupt. In my city(Bangalore) we have government hospitals- though they never acknowledge it officially, but they often administer euthanasia to poor patients. It happens with the poor in nearly all critical illness cases- Heart ailments, cancer, fire accident victims, mental illness. Often the relatives themselves request a euthanasia because the pain, price and duration of treatment is beyond their emotional and financial means.

So you can either make the treatment a little affordable so that people can benefit, while you make some profit out of it. Or they die anyway and you lose some profit.

Innovation in a situation like this is born out of necessity. Its a do or die situation.
I'm not invested in this issue enough to argue about it. I look at a lot of systems like this and was struck by the novelty of the logo, is why I commented. Take that for whatever you think it's worth.
There should be an automated button for this: "hug"
> Getting people drunk to get them to sleep with you isn't really /wrong./

Uh what? Getting someone drunk so you can impair their ability to consent or so you can overpower them is most certainly wrong.
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>> Getting people drunk to get them to sleep with you isn't really /wrong./

It is, sorry.

There's nothing wrong with two people having a few drinks and going to bed together. But it's at the very least creepy to plan to knock someone's inhibitions down that way, or to take advantage of them.

>> It's the original and most effective date rape drug, and no one even really objects to people using it for that purpose.

You've now gone beyond creepy.
I think people are getting personal here and the substance might be getting obscured. I will express my concerns differently: although you are probably right, technically and specifically, about relocating a prisoner to Guantanamo, I think the details are obscuring the gist. The US government acts with impunity, and really always has, against declared threats. Of course there is always a "reason" and a legal mechanism, and people who are concerned often articulate the details of the mechanism incorrectly, this doesn't change the substance of the concern.

Look at Waco, the MOVE bombing, consider that US officials have been unwilling to go on record against the legality of drone strike assassinations against US citizens on US soil, I don't think much hampers the executive branch from acting. Regardless of the label or legal doctrine they use to explain it.

Afterwards, there is always a narrative in the media that describes the people on the receiving end of these acts as crazy, weird, threatening, etc. This makes it appear only natural that the government acted with overwhelming force against its citizens ... but that just means we've fallen for the "rights are only for people like me" fallacy which underscores every system of oppression and exploitation.
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I probably disagree on the Tex one. I know several people with PhDs in engineering and science disciplines who have never used Tex. Several of them know enough math to at least make a reasonable stab at a few of the problems, even if they are unlikely to be successful.
There are quite a few startups around Atlanta, and many of them involve GT alum. What you're probably feeling is that they're not making things that show up on Hacker News that you're excited about. This comes from the lack of local VC investing in the B2C technologies that get people excited about startups, which in turn comes from a lack of local B2C successes. But honestly, there are few B2C successes anywhere lately. An interesting new thing is more likely to have come from Google or Apple than a new kid on the block.

Georgia Tech is following the Stanford model for building local business, which focuses on spinning out new technologies as B2B startups. That happens at the graduate level. Some of them are good, but they're heads down working and not drumming up popular interest. And since they're busy working, the only way to know about them or get a job with them is to have a personal connection to them. Compared to senior high frequency trading or missile guidance engineers, undergraduates might as well be high schoolers who can't program, so it really helps to prove your salt by completing and documenting technical projects. Theoretically you do this in those expensive classes, but sadly we can't trust those anymore.

My advice to undergraduates is thus to build something more difficult than you at first think that you can complete, and write a couple of blog posts about what you have done. You'll learn a lot in the process, and you'll meet interesting people along the way. It might even turn into a startup. If you instead set out to "learn rails and do a startup", my prediction is that you'll slowly learn that most people talk a big game, web programming is more annoying and complicated than difficult, and making money is hard; all of which I can convince you of in 5 minutes.

Also, don't ever say "rockstar" unless you're shredding a guitar in front of a sold out stadium.
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You are very wrong that no one objects to people using alcohol as a date rape drug, and I don't hesitate to condemn anyone who pressures someone else into drinking in order to control them.

Another reason the attitude you display here is alarming is that it may be difficult to tell the difference between a drunk person and a drugged person. It's not like the victim falls unconscious and the attacker carries them away. Someone who has been slipped GHB might be perceived by the people around them as having gotten drunk deliberately, for example.
I work for an organisation who's business model depends on users completing a very long and complex legal form.

The form is paper-based, because it requires a number of signatures to make it legally binding. They brought in a consultancy to move the whole thing online. They've been at it for a year and a half. I started wondering what it was that's so difficult.

The consultancy created a form in which fields, guidance and rules were hard-coded. Part of what took them 18+ months is that the client kept making changes to form guidance.

I got myself a printed version of the form and used it to create a form-builder, which simply generates HTML. A non-technical business admin can change field sequences, guidance, and business rules using a simple UI, and publish those in real time. That took just 3 days.

When I demonstrated my proof of concept I got those 10x comments. Guess what. I'm a festering pile of shit as a programmer. But I've been doing this for 20 years, and have solved this little problem many times in those 20 years. I didn't write much code. I just copied and pasted stuff I had lying around, renamed some entities and methods, and put it onto a server.

It really is just experience.
you're right! I'm fixing it in next push (few minutes).
I had few paying customers a month ago, so I think the idea/payment model may work. Suddenly, the signup rate dropped to almost zero (this month) while the organic visitors has increased, so I was trying to figure out the possible reasons.
That's an interesting observation, I didn't even notice. But I can tell you that men definitely think/feel this way too, I'm one of them! It's like a strange kind of bi-polar disorder where (like Tina Fey expressed) you're either riding the ego trip or trying to slide past the depression.

The worst part are the mistakes that inevitably occur during each 'phase'. When you're riding the ego trip, it's very easy to slip and make a fool of yourself or cause someone else feel stupid when they're not, while on the other end of the spectrum you make poor decisions because you feel like you're not good enough.
You've sort of described kind of how some auth systems work around MITM by having a bidirectional conversation with salt while sharing a the same clock and talking about timestamps during their bidirectional conversations. That doesn't work very well in a broadcast environment where your only source of timestamps is the MITM and technology exists such that the MITM sounds just as good, but louder, than the genuine other guy.

You'd be surprised how many people think GPS is a bidirectional protocol like DME/TACAN or an aircraft radar transponder. Its actually a heck of a lot more like the old fashioned TRANSIT sats or VOR or LORAN or OMEGA, with a thin smear of spread spectrum on top to reduce the impact of simplistic jamming and it sends more metadata on top of the nav data than pretty much anything ever invented.
The OP itself describes how the numbers are going to be heavily skewed because of how the drugs get metabolized and how often people don't report...
Why is it desirable for fresh college grads to be deluded into thinking they can found a company without any real work experience?
I appreciate where you are coming from, as you bring much more real experience into this than me.

Here's an open question, and I'm going to pull some numbers out of the air to just make a point...

Let's say that you have a given math department with 10 faculty charged with education of 4000 students, and your costs are fixed.

Which of these scenarios is best?
1) Each of the 10 teachers teaches 4 classes of 50 people per year. Each student gets 2 ((10450)/4000 = 1/2 per year) large courses over 4 years.

2) Each of the 10 teachers supports 1 large online classes of 400 people each, and teaches 3 classes of 33. Each student gets 4 impersonal online classes ((101400)/4000 = 1 per year) and 1 smaller class per year ((10 * 3 * 33)/4000 = 1/4).

The #s are made up, but the idea is that with a fixed amount of resources, you can have more small group classes with experts if you're willing to accept very large online classes. Or - you can get a lot more classes for the same cost if you're willing to take them online.

Again, this isn't a panacea, and doesn't work for every subject. It also doesn't increase creativity, or encourage research.
Then you can still ask, and if he really can't or won't tell you he'll say no. Curiosity in what's going on over your head, particularly when it comes to structural decisions that will affect you, your employment status, or your day-to-day work, is healthy.
A lot of these schools are free to attend but take a percentage of your salary once you find a job upon completion.
Just a heads up, MRI machines cost 10s of millions of dollars and come with $1M+/yr service contracts. They have pretty substantial power costs as well. They are sufficiently expensive that some big institutions lease them from the manufacturer.

I won't delve into the other parts of your idea, which likely have merit, but just realize that the costs of running such an operation would not be small.
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I think this captures both what I enjoy about coding, and what is also so frustrating. It's hard to explain why this gives me joy to people that don't like to tinker.

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Don’t know what to do?

Good! No one does.

The second thing to learning to program is dealing with failure. Programming is automating, once something is done it’s done, you’ll only ever deal with things that are broken, when something works your job is done.
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Maybe actions in general could be nice.
That's exactly it though, lots of people "experience" being roofied, and then are tested and it turns out they were not. Our "common sense" judgments on situations like this are actually incredibly unreliable.

>Uncommon is pretty broad, if something as severe as being drugged happens to one person out of every 200 each night, it is "common" in my mind.

But evidence suggests it is no where even close to that common. Alcohol on the other hand might very well be used more often than 1 in 200.
I agree with this, but data for data's sake is worthless, which is where many life hackers get lost in the weeds.

Knowing your calorie count helps you understand where you may be overestimating your exercise and underestimating your intake, which is a common problem when people try to lose weight. As you gain more experience, the data itself becomes less and less useful.

I'm not convinced that ever-more-granular access to data (such as precise micronutrients) makes people any healthier than those who don't pay attention to them.

All things in moderation. Including moderation.
Your logo is not very good. You're upset because someone had the same idea as you, and they did it better. That's understandable, but not a reason for them to change it.
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This is a great invention that can help prevent abuse, but I'm worried bars won't buy in for a few reasons:

1) I assume the cups have to be disposable, as the strips probably don't work multiple times. Most bars I've been to don't use disposable cups.

2) Even if they did, it has to be cost effective for the bar to consider using them. If 1000 cups is $250 (0.25/cup) and you can get 10,000 normal cups for that price, that's going to probably factor into their decision.

3) The bar might be worried that having these cups might reflect poorly on their reputation. I can imagine people saying to themselves "Why is the bar using special glasses that detect date rape? Is date rape a problem at this bar?" When you introduce an item like this it might lead to speculation that there is a problem when really you're trying to be safe. It's like if you installed a metal detector at a club and put bars on the windows -- you might be doing it just to be safe, but your patrons might think "do things happen here that warrant security precautions like this"?
These drugs are without consistent ingredients and are always changing. He will need to stay ontop of drug trends and the constant iteration will side track the project. His biggest challenge will be scoring the actual drug to test the sensors... The chances that he will be able to produce these cups for an amount equal to the current cost of a regular plastic cup is doubtful. Etch-it cups can't even come close to the price of a regular plastic cup so how can these sensor cups be priced to attract bulk orders from bars and clubs?

My guess is that he is banking that the patent has value to cup manufacturers but the cup manufacturers probably don't want to hire a slew of scientist for R&D. They just want to make and sell cups.
I think keevie's comment was referring more to a situation in which two strangers meet, one buys many drinks for the other, and then, once very drunk, gets them into bed. If you ask 100 people if that's wrong to do, I'm pretty confident that you're going to get much more conflicting answers than if you ask them about either of your two examples.

On the one hand, it's basically what a lot of people just take as the norm. They think that's what you're supposed to do at bars. On the other, it also just happens to be a way to make someone much less resistant to doing things they would never do otherwise.