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> That's true for the vast majority of law enforcement though.

I think you've completely missed the point. The impression that a layman will take from Chambliss's statement is that it is technically impossible for the NSA to collect emails.

This situation is not the same as your examples like pepper spray because everyone understands that a cop with a can of pepper spray is able to use it or misuse it and no amount of legal mumbo jumbo will stop him in the moment. The naive - and intended - interpretation of Chambliss's statement is the equivalent of saying the cops don't have any pepper spray to begin with.
This is complete informal bullshit. This guy is either stupid or trolling.
The author's point was that your game/business should not rely on tricking the user out of their money. The user should be well aware of how much money he/she is spending and the app should be awesome enough that the user feels "it's worth it!"

This is better for the market because its not a competition for who's the best trickster, but who can make the best apps on which people WANT to spend money.
Google giving up on Android?
Hm. I would've known this if I didn't let the lady sort stuff like that out. Ignorance is bliss.
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Gee, that's spectacular. Now...

If only they would do the reader the simple, and most gracious service of defining precisely what they mean by this obscure "TPS" acronym.

...and before you downvote this comment (because I can smell your itchy little fingers all the way from the otherside of the internet), yes, I can assure you that I did actually Google for the answer. And yes, I did discern what is meant by TPS.

But that isn't the point. The point isn't that I'm a lazy slacker, and/or an ignorant yokle because I didn't already know the meaning of the abreviation innately, and feel inconvenienced by having to open another browser window, and search for some clue.

The point is that the author is assuming everyone will immediately know and understand that acronym, but meanwhile, when I conduct my search, I am forced to assume that my chosen definition is correct, wihout actually knowing for sure.

And for that reason, I'm going to leave out the meaning I've chosen as the author's intended definition for TPS. I have no way of knowing whether my assumption was accurate. So the mystery persists. What does TPS actually mean? Go search for it, you lazy, ignorant slacker.
What are "pound startups"?
By "tuple", I mean a first-class object that has multiple elements; an immutable list of sorts (and by "first-class" I mean an object that can be stored into a variable). E.g. in python:

key, value = {'a': 1}.iteritems().next()

I could also do:

item = {'a': 1}.iteritems.next()
key, value = item

which shows that tuples are first-class.

By "multi-value context" I mean treating expressions differently depending on their context; some contexts are then "multi-value". E.g. in go:

v, ok = a[x]

Here, if `x` is present in `a`, `v` is assigned the value at `x`, and `ok` is `true`; otherwise, `ok` is `false`, and `v` is assigned the zero value of its type.

Note that I cannot do this:

pair = a[x]
v, ok = pair

as `pair = a[x]` has a different meaning in this context: it only returns the value at `x` (or the zero value), and gives no indication of whether `x` is present or not. So, the meaning of the expression `a[x]` changes depending on the context, which can be either "single-value" or "multi-value".
Have been using http://ebay.com/now from the last few months and it delivers stuff within 40minutes.

They offer the same set of retailers which Google has to offer. Why wait a day when you can get it within 1hr?
Bay area born and raised. Reading this makes me wonder what some of the people I chatted with on my last trip overseas (Puglia) though when we asked questions about history and the like. Things change, people and communities adapt, I don't recall what was there but an orchard at one point.
> And I think it's wrong to say that Rust and Haskell don't require discipline; they do. It's still easy to write inefficient or unmaintainable code in those languages, for example.

Yes, but the subject was correctness and the discussion was about the fact that these languages makes it easier to write correct code than e.g. Go or C++.
The reason for your colleague's stomach flu might be because of some unsafe food. Most hospitals and clinics are infact quite clean and well maintained.
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He also throws in some wonderfully obscure historical references: "Last night I killed a man in Brunanburh"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brunanburh
If you think lack of features is a knock against Go, you aren't really in the right mindset (Go might just not be for you). The lack of remarkable features is what is remarkable. The same with heavily built web-frameworks versus like Gorilla (a series of take it or leave tools).

Scala has every feature and language construct under the sun and full access to the astounding landscape of Java -- as well as amazing tools like Akka. This is all wonderful, and I enjoy using Scala because it is rich and you can treat is very functionally.

That said, I now prefer Go to it after shipping two production products on it. A deploy that is second to none, amazingly fast development cycles, easy to build rich custom tools on top of it (for example go-diff, which ignores syntax differences and only shows functional differences), the easiest cross compilation I have ever used, and a focus on this exceptional clear and easy to read code (lack of implicitness / magic). It reminds me a lot of what I like about Erlang -- with some of the more annoying bits stripped away.

But, at the end of the day I am using Go for three reasons:

1) Lets me get work done quicker than other languages (and win contracts / beat competition)

2) I can keep the entire spec (50 pages) in my head, with very little time spent. I have used Scala far longer, but would never make such a claim about it.

3) The tool chain (build, cross-compile, test, format, doc) that comes with it is amazing, the least obnoxious I have ever used. It has warts (get), but all in all -- it makes using anything else exceptionally painful. Once you get used to "go test ./... && go install ./..." to build your app and put it in ./bin -- and you get used to doing deploys with "scp bin/foo server..." everything else starts to feel stupid.
Youtube has a very poor connection around my area in Canada. Video connections are unreliable, unexpectedly dropping or just being slow. Slower than the Kbps of the video I'm trying to watch.

For youtube's client side player this is completely intolerable. Which is why you don't depend on youtube's clientside player for anything. Use SMplayers downloader, or youtube-dl, or videodownloadhelper. These make use of more dependable protocols for downloading the video, and they will download 100% of the video.

You can buffer several videos up and watch effectively.

My user experience is so much better than what people experience through official channels. How can that be? I hacked my user experience together with bits of string and duct tape. Why should my experience be so miserable on official channels when so many manhours have supposedly went into making that experience the best?

Should you really be losing out to bits of string and duct tape?

What the ISP's are doing to youtube isn't fair, but the ISP's are clearly not the only ones at fault.
>> one's own nation and government first, because that is where you have the highest possibility of influence.

(Chomsky is probably bigger outside USA. E.g. the Milosevic regime was a big fan.)

I don't really care why an analysis have very different standards for different countries/companies/etc, that just isn't a quality sign... It doesn't seem more serious if the double standards are motivated by "Hey, I'm a self-hater..."
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Thanks for the feedback. I personally find touch-typing awkward. On the other hand, without touch-typing, most of the analysis of non-qwerty layout does not make much sense from the POV of hands and finger usage.
Peace? Is this some kind of trolling or are you that ignorant?

Pretty much every major conflict in the second half of the 20th century was instigated or at least participated in by the US (Korea, Vietnam, both Gulf wars, Afghanistan, numerous conflicts in South America and SE Asia where the US tried to topple local governments etc). How about supporting various local militia groups all over the world to fight local regimes (Al-Qaeda and the Taliban come to mind).

As for technological inventions, America has definitely given the world the gift of numerous technological breakthroughs in the recent history, but so have other nations, and let's not forget that no nation has ever achieved anything without relying on the foundations laid out by somebody else before them. To quote Isaac Newton, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". If it hadn't been for the European civilization, America wouldn't even exist. And likewise, Europeans would still be savage barbarians if it hadn't been for the Roman Empire and Greece beforehand... and those empires would've had nothing without the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt. The way the human civilization works is through constant collaboration and migration of human intellect, goods and people.

So before you turn this into a pissing contest about how much better the US is than the rest of the world (which you have already done, judging by other posts in this thread), consider what I wrote above.
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Uh what? So you're saying that if a PSA can understand the definition, it's not inventive? That's ridiculous. And you can bet that many patents are indeed examined without a reading of the description, it's often not necessary. The claims are supposed to stand on their own, and only when comes to matters of determining the exact scope of a term in a claim would you refer to the description most of the time. Also the description should give enough information about a topic that someone who's not an expert in the art (and this is distinct from someone who is skilled in the art) can fully understand the invention, but but apart from the clarifications I mentioned earlier, it plays little role.
"Strong" and "weak" have well-understood meanings in mathematical logic and model theory.

For example, imagine there's a true and "important" statement S about Turing machines for which we could prove "it is impossible to prove S using provability logic." In that sense PL would be "too weak" to do computer science.
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Sorry, call me old fashioned (and I love my Star Trek Replicator), but I really like my food unprocessed, before cooking.

I really love to mix ingredients as building blocks of a great, nourishing meal. Not industrially manufactured so called food.
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Don't assume that contractors start at the bottom. I've got personal experience doing DoD contracting and the entire reason I was there was because I was a systems expert. Even if they had not given me root access, I could have had it at any time because I knew the systems better than they did.

The details are fuzzy due to incomplete reporting, but it seems Snowden had worked for the CIA for many years before going to Booz Allen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Career_in_the_U....
I don't know much about the American healthcare system, but wouldn't it be the same incentive when selling any product? If you sell the same quality product for cheaper, you will get more business than your competitors.

That's what competition in a free market is, no?
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> A doctor trained in India is no less qualified than a doctor trained in the US.

In general?

http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/shocking-facts-ab...

> It’s also pretty staggering that hiring qualified staff doesn’t appear to increase this probability. Das and colleagues suggest that part of the issue might be the variation in the quality of instruction in Indian medical training institutions. So there may be some institutions from which a qualification does make a difference. But given the paper’s results, the effect of such institutions must be rather small. The fact that providers working in better equipped facilities don’t have a higher probability of prescribing the right treatment is also alarming.

Obviously, heart surgery isn't rocket science, and our medical training is a bit overpriced, but is it so easy to compare two disjoint systems?
"the US is relatively rural"

Not really - 82.4% of the US population lives in urban areas, which is a bit higher than the UK (79.6%) and quite a bit higher than Germany (73.9%), Italy (68.4%) or Ireland (62.2%):

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

[NB France, Sweden and Finland are even more urban that the US]
It's not greed, it's a consequence of health insurance. Get rid of health insurance and prices would drop 10x.
Litable.el is worth a look, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNO-vgq3Avg
Eval is evil.

Don't pass a string as first argument to setTimeout.
At face value this appears to be a huge opportunity for innovators to take on the whole existing healthcare industry here in the USA.

In reality I think many healthcare entrepreneurs either get caught in the existing framework (and dependent on it), or find the regulatory and other hurdles too hard here.

That said, I still think there is a LOT of room to improve cost efficiency here, and the right entrepreneur could do it. It's been done in other stagnant segments of the economy... I would like to see an Elon Musk-type entrepreneur open efficient hospitals here like this guy is doing in India.
Give it a go, see what you can find.

There are some problems with the wayback machine when it comes to patents. One of which is that if their robots are blocked using robots.txt, they will remove all previous content that would also have been blocked (or at least, the content can be removed by the author though some means). This is pretty shitty when the best citation is something from the inventor themselves, and they go and delete all history of the content.
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The high barriers to entry in the field make it conducive to collusion. I'm not saying there is collusion, just saying that given that the supply isn't going away and that new upstarts cannot disrupt the market, you may make more money by not competing on price.
30 day mortality rate is 1.4% vs. 1.9% in the US in 2008 [1]. The claim is that due to the high volume and single service, the surgeons get an awful lot of practice at the procedure and become very good at it.

[1] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/business-old/the-hen...
I live in Europe and have never heard of it. I'm guessing it's some kind of messaging app.
So because your friend ate some bad food, that country's hospitals must be unhygenic? Yup, I totally see the correlation there.

I'm Australian, visited the US and got severe Salmonella poisoning in Vegas... the US must have really shocking road safety laws.
This is classic disruption at work. There are many procedures e.g. cataract surgery costs have come down but they are such cash cows that the prices were held high. India is doing this because skills can scale if there is a system of training. It wasn't too long ago when I read the Russians invented a factory-line method of doing eye-surgery.
Read the article, it uses a powered USB OTG connector.
30 Decades!!! wow.
Yeah, my first thought was "wow look at all these old white guys". If the pictures weren't right next to each other I'd probably have trouble telling any two of them apart.
The situation in other Asian countries like India, Taiwan, or South Korea is nearly the same.
There are still some obstables.
A different environment and unknown results may be the major ones.
People should try to calculate the overall outcome and costs and maybe come up with some good international insurance packages.
Because someone will come along and copy and paste your broken code and put it into something else and now more people have to deal with it. Just take the steps to make it not suck from day 1 :)
Would they? Or would the poor middle class people not being able to afford cancer-treatment/heard surgery just have a considerably lower life-expectancy?

I am not sure, so I really would love to see the numbers/facts supporting your statement. Would love to learn of this magic fact. [cynicism end]

[Edit]: Typo

[Edit 2:] In Germany, with full health-insurance the cost for a Cardiopulmonary bypass are round about 30k €. So a lot cheaper, than in the US, despite health insurance.

Just wanted to present a fact, not let my comment stand as cynicism only.
There's little excuse for laziness when pursuing new knowledge. A two second Google search and a new tab is not a burden. If you didn't get the answer first time, you should qualify the search with one of the other keywords from the article.

A certain level of reader sophistication is assumed, and not everything is explained with a high level of hand-holding. It's a technical tutorial, not a beginner's tutorial.

TPS = transactions per second.
Well in my case the lowest I need to go is IE8, which both Bootstrap 2 and 3 support. If you need to go lower, BS2 has support for IE7.

Foundation 4 has some caveats when it's being used with IE8 (http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/support.html).

Personally: I'm quite unfamiliar with Foundation so I'd go with Bootstrap 2 or 3. If I had to do it for work I'd go with BS2 because it's stable. Otherwise BS3.
I'd say it's more like "venture anarchy" or "venture lololololol".

There's no central organization and each chapter is self-organizing. I was a trustee of the SF chapter for about two years. :)
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Besides, Cuba is closer. Canada is also a bargain compared to the US and you don't even have to violate state department rules.

However, ironically enough, the USA has a booming medical tourism industry also. At about 60-80k, it is only half as small as India (150,000), though nowhere near Thailand (1.42 million).
The difference between sound and water waves is that sound waves are longitudinal, ie the local displacement of the medium is parallel to the wave travel direction, while in water it is perpendicular. The wave thus does not really have a 'height', it would just fill the entire tube, and there wouldn't really be a way to miss it.
For what it's worth, there's a huge range of private care in India. From expensive hospitals that cater primarily to the upper class to charlatans without a degree holed away in a slum.

The difference between these two ends is incredible. While I can imagine these results at the latter, I find them hard to believe at the former. I'm paywalled away from this for the next two weeks, so if you want the facts, that's where I'd look: what sort of private healthcare.

Edit: To illustrate, another commenter has a link to an news story that says mortality is lower after the Indian procedure - http://m.theaustralian.com.au/archive/business-old/the-henry...
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Medical tourism has hurt most Indians. 1583 USD is almost 100k INR. The average per capita income in India is 1219 USD (72k INR). This figure too is very misleading, since poverty is a huge problem.

A very simple plotting with data from wikipedia and rudimentary extrapolation, shows that more than 1.1 billion Indian's annual income is less than the current cost of heart surgery. India's total population is 1.2 billion.

Medical tourism, though very fine for a lot of folks who want a cheaper alternative, is driving up the cost of medical treatments in India by leaps and bounds. This makes surgeries, that were already very expensive and out of the reach of most Indian's even more expensive and out of the reach of even more people.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India
Simpel graph of the poverty data : http://imgur.com/JngiK8W (I used this to find the number of people with an annual income less than 1583 USD)
In my country I know of a hepatologist who claims to have seen higher than normal rates of hepatitis B amongst people who have travelled to lower cost countries for dental treatment.

One country was mentioned in particular (not India as it happens).
I agree to you. I am living in germany, and we got the social service carrying the basic needs (food, reside, health services, little money on the hands).
But what, life is getting expensiver and all the people calls for more money and more ....i ask you if the next step in this "Hollywood-movie-look-a-like" concept saying (quote):"when there is no one who want something, there is no one who misses something" -using medicines/psychotropes to keep perfect society ?
There are some people doing this, like this surgery center in Oklahoma http://kfor.com/2013/07/08/okc-hospital-posting-surgery-pric...

For most of the market, price competition does not occur because providers will not disclose the price of a service before selling it.
That article doesn't actually compare India to the US. In fact, it says that "It’s also likely the results aren’t India-specific." It would be interesting to see the results of a similar study carried out in the US or UK, for example.

In any case, there is a difference between the general level of competency of doctors in a given country, and the level of competency available to wealthy foreigners travelling to the country for medical tourism.
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I felt that the "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" was also very helpful.
In local news media where I live (Oslo, Norway), there have been stories about the "muslem morality police". These are people who use social control to make sure girls dress properly and don't have too much contact with outsiders.

Although a family may be relatively liberal, they feel pressured by neighbors to control their daughters. In some cases they even are shamed by neighbors calling their more conservative families back home.

The interesting fact is that this "morality police" is driven by more women than men.
I read about this clinic somewhere else, and there it was said this clinic actually outperforms western clinics in terms of complications, which seems to be achieved through staggering case numbers per doctor.
Here's a short list of possible things...

- Email

- File Management

- Text processing

- IRC

- Newsreading

- Server Admin

- Web browsing (esp. documentation)

- Basically anything you can do in a terminal, and more (it'll display/process images, PDF, SVG)

For most of these hardcore users, it's simply more convenient to stay in a highly programmable environment than it is to go and use an "end user" tool.
Okay, it might not be totally obvious, but File implements io.Reader and io.Writer (you can tell by the Read and Write methods.) Therefore, you can use all the functions that take an io.Reader or io.Writer, i.e. all the functions in http://golang.org/pkg/io/ and http://golang.org/pkg/io/ioutil/. It also implements io.Closer (Close() method), which you can use to flush and close the file when you're done.

It would probably be helpful if there was some kind of auto-generated list of the known (or at least stdlib) interfaces a given type implements, even if you don't actively declare it (like Java 'implements'.)