skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some systems automate the sending of dose data, but send it as an image with the data hard burnt into it. Amazingly crap. I highly doubt that radiologists are recording dose as they very rarely do any examinations that give dose. It would usually be radiographers/Medical radiation technologists/Technicians etc (pick your naming convention!). DICOM is capable of handling data other than images, I believe some neurology systems produce data into the format. It has a ton of fields that seem to be able to be filled with user defined data and yet not break the DICOM spec. There are many things about hospital IT that are way more crap than hand recording of radiation doses.
It boggles my mind that this guy thinks he has more than 0 percent credibility at this point. How is he not in prison, or at least fired yet?
What exactly don't you like about IPsec?
how about crowdsourced tutoring, where tutors pay for the app, and students apply and pay for tutors who teach at most 5 students a session? Could it feasibly work?
I love Front end work. Using latest technologies and frameworks in Javascript, CSS3 and HTML5 you can give a WOW feeling to the user.
Also the top github languages for 2013 is also Javascript.
http://adambard.com/blog/top-github-languages-for-2013-so-fa...
That sounds like a great way to boost a struggling supply chain. I wonder if Backblaze could have done this in 2011 (http://blog.backblaze.com/2012/10/09/backblaze_drive_farming...) -- instead of buying huge numbers of drives themselves, getting customers to buy them and mail them in in exchange for cheaper storage.
personally, I believe that front-end /web/ development is the most personally rewarding field to work in. Especially so if you are delivering for wide-reaching or large clients.

I take such joy and pride in being able to build tangible tools and/or visual components in collaboration with great designers to produce work that is used and actually /seen/ and interfaced with by millions of people.

Also, tapping into my OCD side; I have a love for perfection- and I get to exhaust this love day in and day out in the everlasting X-browser css/js battle that front-end is.
Don't know why you are downvoted, but it's clearly a damage control move.
You cant trust the electrical interface to be honest if the hardware isn't honest. If a naughty processor can modify a bunch of instructions, then it can modify its verification results or whatever is provided over the interface.
Re-writing code that nobody understands and hoping that it will work correctly is just wishful thinking. If people really wanted to understand the code, they could do the hard work of reading it, tracing it, writing tests for it, etc. In many cases, you can transform the code into something readable by applying a long series of simple refactorings.

For some code, breaking behavior you don't understand doesn't make a difference. If you're Facebook, you can arbitrarily change the user interface of your site and your users have no say in the matter, since they're not paying customers. But other developers don't have it that easy. If you support code that people have built their own applications on top of, you can't just break stuff. If you make backward incompatible changes to the Linux kernel APIs, or break Microsoft Excel so that macros that have been working for years stop working, people all over the world will be very unhappy.
I agree with Dimitris: you'll be fine with basic JS knowledge. Although I would describe the AngularJS learning curve as Ben Nadel puts it in his blog =) (which by the way is a great resource for learning a bit more advanced AngularJS) http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2439-My-Experience-With-Angular...

I can also recommend the screencasts at http://egghead.io/lessons to get a hang of the basic AngularJS concepts (site seems somewhat broken now however...)
Except of course, as we've learnt over the last few weeks, they're essentially one and the same thing.

You can't trust a third party with your data if you want it kept secure. Period.
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The ruling party was elected by the people twice over, so this comment to escape the fault of corruption and to put the blame entirely on a few doesn't seem to be well grounded.

For example, in my own little world of 100 odd Facebook friends roughly 18 voted for the ruling party and only 26% of my friends voted. So you can imagine, we the people brought it on ourselves. And we have been doing it for a couple of decades. Like it or not, this is exactly how karma or lack of it comes back at you.
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Please reread my post, you seem to have misparsed it. I was not saying that we don't know how they were generated, you can see that I was posting otherwise at the same time elsewhere.
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"But the NSA showing an apparent deep hatred and resentment of the
American public as a whole? That is not only a surprise. It’s
inexcusable. And perverse."

For me, as a European citizen, the
thing that really strikes me is how many American people react to this
entire 'NSA mass surveillance' situation:

Average European interpretation: Mass Surveillance is evil, no matter who's doing it and no matter who's being monitored.

Average American interpretation: Monitoring non-Americans is okay. What, wait,
the NSA is now monitoring Americans? Monitoring Americans is evil!

To me it feels like Americans, like the author of this article, seem to think
of themselves as something 'better than other human beings/world
citizens'. I find this very repulsive.
Climate change, have the numbers been fudged? http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/11/23/climatega...

I don't know if climate change is true or not, but if these leaked emails show anything there is a political agenda behind it and data was concealed and cherry picked to support climate change. Apparently they did not even follow the scientific method? If these emails are true and not fake of course.

But why would they fake data? To manipulate the price of fossil fuels and sell carbon credits? How come more money is spent on climate change studying instead of finding alternatives to fossil fuels? Nobody knows.

The news media is manipulated one way or another, to get ratings and page hits to sell more advertising. I fear that science has become this way as well. People will believe any report as long as it is stamped with 'peer reviewed' on it.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22784/abstrac...

http://people.stern.nyu.edu/wstarbuc/Writing/Prejud.htm

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/26628/...

Oh dear, quite a bit of bias there. Ah well find some peers who will review your papers and confirm them so you can continue to get grants and funding. If anyone asks about bias, keep your mouth shut, it was a double blind study done by a neutral third party even if it was biased in some way. Any peer reviews that find problems or find your paper is wrong, conceal such information and claim it does not exist.

After all what is the worst that can happen?
You are very sure of how he should learn and contribute, why is this?
somebody, somewhere must come with something for the first time.. this copy/mix stuff is more reasonable in more common line of thinking (average people)

how many people would be thinking at relativity when einstein did, or calculi for newton(actually two with ), or marx thougts in "the capital", a music piece by mozart or a painting by van gogh..

they created great things because their toughts were above average, and they where not losing too much time with ordinary things.. like "what will i eat?" "were are the kids" .. "i wanna a big iate" .. etc.. etc..

this kind of tought, that nothing is really original, only diminish the human nature.. and if we mix and copy.. the problem are ourselves.. we can do better, and improve with effort.. than some day.. that something really original, that no human being could ever thought can come into reality

if people wanna think different things, they must first start to look to different horizons, where nobody or almost nobody are looking at..

the innovations starts in the way you think.. you need to observe yourself thinking, and be your own harsh critical
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I know one registrar who built his house while doing the program. I know another who got a few medals sailing whilst doing his etc etc. I'm not sure that you can generalize about how much time people have.
Like you, I have several different e-mail accounts (all "remote") and send through a number of different mail servers (depending on the account, of course). I use mutt 99% of the time, on my laptop, wherever I may be (home, friends' homes, customer sites, public hotspots, etc.). I couldn't (easily) do it with just mutt but with the help of various external tools (such as offlineimap, msmtp, and notmuch) I have no problems or hoops to jump through on a daily basis to make things work.
> In order to sell Windows desktop apps in the Windows store and use all device capabilities you need a company account, and to get a company account you need to be recognized as a company in your own country

There are valid reasons for doing that. In Europe for example one reason would be VAT handling. It may very well be that they were forced in doing this.

But, in European countries at least, you have the option to register as a Sole Proprietorship. Depending on the country of course, this is painless to do, accounting is simpler and taxes are much better (in comparison with starting a LLC and paying yourself a salary). It has downsides of course, but for developers trying to experiment it is perfect.
But football surpasses microsoft:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=football%2C%20%20micr...
Dutch media launch new whistleblower platform
The parameters are derived from the SHA1 of high entropy values of unspecified origin.

It means they very very likely couldn't have algebraically produced a single set of specific magic evil values that enabled them to crack the cryptosystem, a true backdoor, since it would have been computationally infeasible to get SHA1 to output the right values.

However, they could have tried billions and billions of sha1 seeds looking for parameters which met some unknown to us characteristics which made the parameters stronger or weaker. Their "veritably random" procedure could have easily foreclosed this possibility, as was later done for some different parameter sets, but they did not.
There's a big problem with cards : if they're from different heights, it's really hard to float.

I've implemented something like that in a yet to release project recently, without even thinking of the concept of card. Being a responsive app, it looked to me like an obvious choice.

I've put some lorem ipsum content in those cards, and it looked just beautiful. ... then I placed real content. Shit happened.

Simply using float won't do it when cards have different height, it looks too ugly and have a lot of random almost entirely blank lines.

The look and feel of pinterest was good enough for the type of content I wanted to display, so I had a look to how they did it : every card is absolutely positioned to form a compact canvas, which means they have to compute every card position based on which will be shown.

I'm not saying it's impossible to achieve, but it seems to me it's not that responsive friendly, because it's not css friendly : the straighter solution to make it responsive is to have cards using the whole width of the block they're all in, or to have them all the exact same height.

EDIT : to illustrate this : http://jsfiddle.net/uV645/3/
Resize browser by width to see effect.
I am pretty sure that is 300Mbps shared. And you rarely get that even in real world best case scenario. And much worst if you live in City and High Rise Buildings with High Density population.

DOCSIS 3.1 brings OFDM as well as up to 10 DL /1 UL Gbps. At that sort of speed, as well other added reliability features finally makes Cable a decent Alternative.
Speaking from experience in EU and Asia Area. No idea if it is the same in US.
Graph of onion production by year:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+%5B%5B2003%2C+5750...

So production almost doubled since 2004. Data from:

http://agriexchange.apeda.gov.in/India%20Production/India_Pr...

So presumably India should be flush with onions, unless I missed something and demand for onions also doubled. How could traders corner the markt in that situation?
This seems like the kind of headline that would be in The Onion...
I know that's one of the reasons he's saying it, but that's not really everyone else' concern, too, and as I said security should come first. Firefox OS is coming to ARMv6 phones right now, so at the very least they shouldn't start with that in mind when establishing the minimum of performance for encryption.

There's the ARMv7 Cortex A7 chip for low-end now, and ARMv6 chips are terrible for performance anyway. They should not be used as a starting point for very low-end phones anymore.
Monty Zune'mas Revenge!

Anyone remember the Microsoft Zune Music Player? Apparently it is called XBox Music now. Windows 8 Mobile phones that don't sell very well will now be rebranded as 'Surface' phones as Microsoft bought out Nokia. It seems if something is broken, buggy, bloated, and doesn't sell very well at Microsoft or connected to Microsoft, just rename it instead of fixing the problems and hope it sells better rebranded under a different name.

Imagine if Coca Cola had New Coke, and then decided to rebrand it as Coke^2 instead of bringing back the classic formula with Coke Classic?
The title is a bit confusing as probabilistic programming is a research field itself that the book seems to not touch upon. See http://probabilistic-programming.org/wiki/Home
The goal is to have a machine you want to use. You don't want to instill opulence as a corporate policy.
Nobody will laugh at you
Jesus. What do either of those situations have to do with this case? (Spoiler: nothing at all.)
Lol @ stackexchange.com:

Inside virtually every phone charger is a transformer.
Transformers have a finite resistance, and hence there
will always be current flowing through them if they are
plugged in, even if there is no load (i.e. nothing
charging). That's basic physics.

Basic Physics. LOL. And how that charger works with both 110AC and 230AC ;) ?
A fair point. When trying to model what human beings will do, and thus how human beings should strategize with respect to each-other, throwing out the pro-social super-rational aspects of human psychology and devolving to the sociopathic "logic" of a "rational agent" is a pretty dumb idea.
How I learned to game the Bitcoin faucet. [Proof of concept only]
A video explaining the process I used to bypass the 30 minute/half hour bitcoin faucet restrictions. Sorry faucet owners.
In my MSDN Account there are 38 versions of Window 8 and 12 of Window 8 Enterprise.
I would like to second this opinion. I have used Google tools to collaborate but always needed to post process the results in a real presentation make program like Office or Latex.
The important part, the one that should make scandal: male life expectancy is dropping!
The "understanding-first" approach is so right, especially with a topic like Bayesian methods where the logic makes _so much sense_, and yet is so easy to miss by brute-force memorization of equations. IPython notebook is a great choice. I've only skimmed the first couple of chapters but cloned and will definitely spend some time with this.

This seems inspired by the awesome Yudkowsky article that comes from a similar (introductory, not programming-specific) place: http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes/

For anyone that hasn't used IPython notebook and is interested in scientific computing in python, you need to check it out. The ability to mix prose and live python, with effortless plotting, storable in git, sharable with links or nbviewer, is just magic. That probably seems mundane, but for things like exploratory data analysis across a team, it's a game-changer. Another staple in this stack is Pandas ( http://pandas.pydata.org/ )
I wonder if commenters like Aloisius would complain if the army would go and start pillage while out and engaging war. It would surely give the US an economic advantage, which is surely in the mandate of the army. It has all the guns needed to do a armed robbery, to shake out some farmers, or to simply take slaves. The Roman Empire was partially gained through economical advantage of pillaging nearby countries, and surely that was within the mandate of their army.

It would however be News for the rest of the world. The army, the listeners and the spies do have some international Rules that are enforced through political channels. When that fails, the media takes over as a gap action before the army gets involved.

In this case, doing industrial espionage with your military intelligence force is not within the rules.
This reminds me of the HTML export in Word/Excel 2013, which is pretty much unchanged from 2003, complete with setting "Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later" in Web Options causing things like VML to be required that is not supported by IE10 anymore by default. I wrote an Ars Technica forum post on this.
> I don't think that most business users want to pay extra for interactivity in an inventory management system.

That is true, and if a backend programmer gets their hands on Bootstrap people probably aren't even going to notice.

Maybe the high-end front-end programmers are actually a kind of specialist role.
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I wouldn't use the word 'ever'.

Time travel might be discovered so far into the future that time travelers simply don't care about changing things that happened in ancient history.
It's just encapsulation of content, sort of similar to the old 2004 apple widgets that you could flip around.
If you like this kind of Science Fiction check out Neuromancer by William Gibson

But seriously saying Technology is Heroin is like saying Obama is Hitler.

Heroin is a serious fucking drug that will destroy your life. If your a heroin addict you can't just stop doing heroin and go back packing in the forest for a week.

Yet people take breaks from technology and the internet all the time and are perfectly fine. Theres plenty of technology to be afraid of; dying in a car accident, sitting in a chair too much, but Instagraming every meal you eat is not one of them, thats just a little weird.
Ever since Ballmer took over, Microsoft is just scoring 'Own Goals'. Microsoft used to think that Apple was their enemy, that IBM was their enemy, that Sun was their enemy, that Oracle was their enemy, that Google was their enemy? Well Microsoft is their own worst enemy! In fact we have entered a Post-PC, Post-Microsoft era.

Apple knew it was Post-PC and invested in smartphone and tablets and knew the desktop GUI would not work in mobile devices. So iOS got a different GUI/UI than Mac OSX has. Microsoft does not get that, a Desktop GUI for all products! Hey why'd we lose $900M in Surface sales? Oh well better buy out Nokia who failed to turn profits selling Windows Mobile 8 phones named Lumina, and rebrand them as 'Surface' phone so they will sell better.

Microsoft has to fix their broken business model, they tried to steal Apple's model and it backfired on them because they aren't Apple (Duh!) and they don't manage things the same way Apple does. Steve Ballmer is no Steve Jobs or Tim Cook, and he should understand why.

Instead of fixing what is wrong with their products and services, they just 'rebrand' them under a different name. Lumina becomes Surface phone, Zune Music Player becomes XBox Music. Windows 8 gets updated to Windows 8.1 and adds the Windows logo where the Start Menu used to be and it takes you to the Start Page in the Metro UI. But where are the visual clues on how to find the Charms Bar? Where are any visual clues at all in the Metro UI? Why is Windows 8.X the first version of Windows not to have visual clues to the user in some form? Of course the desktop part has them, minimize, maximize, close buttons on Windows. But Metro UI does not.

If I were Tim Cook I would not worry about Microsoft taking away anything Apple has done. I would just develop a less expensive version of the iPhone and iPad series, perhaps the iPhone Lite or iPad Lite that can compete with Surface phones and tablets in price. Then let customers decide when the iOS versions have the visual clues and a UI that works for mobile devices and Surface does not.
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This is a link to a 4 year old blog entry that contains a broken link to the article in reference. An interesting form of blog-spam...
Perhaps this explains the relationship between Ramen, the Mi-Go and the Flying Spaghetti Monster which also goes by the darker name of Chthulu.
I wish he used citations; he tends to mix citable data with personal opinion, so you can never truly tell which of his assertions are actually true.
I don't see any confusion at all. The first few paragraphs of the link say it's based on PyMC, which itself appears in your link under "Existing probabilistic programming systems". So it's a book that's a practical guide to using one of the systems you reference.
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NSA doing industrial espionage now.

How can the international community accept that?

Also:

> Obama said he would investigate the allegations.

How can he still have the guts to play the surprised and innocent one?
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Do I Need To Understand Low Level Programming And Memory Management?
wow. just a year ago I was using this site as a role model for another 'dual market' project.

although, this isn't the first time a similar startup in this space died - teachstreet survived for a couple years before shuttering and the founders joining the amazon local team - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachstreet
A really good front end person is valuable in cases where the interface is the distinguishing feature of the application.

Consider how amazing Gmail and Google Maps were. Not so much because of the headline feature (read email! look up maps!) as their remarkable interfaces.

But for lots of stuff it's not a requirement. Do I need mousewheel-zoom support for an accounts payable report?
>Then the lien holder, who now has title to the property, sells it for whatever the market will bear, and pockets the sale price minus whatever costs he has to pay. That effectively means the lien holder gets whatever equity is in the property once he has foreclosed on it and sold it.

Not normally, no. Usually the lien holder gets the value of the lien and the remainder of the sale proceeds go to the owner. If the owner is really "left with nothing" he didn't actually have any equity in the house.
Friday the 13th is your birthday? O.O
I never said they should be able to ignore the law and judge entirely based on their own good judgement.

A single point of reference argument about people not having good enough judgement to abdicate (which relied on a case of abdication?) isn't a sealed argument that people/judges have bad judgement.

"but the losses on that end are more than made up for by forcing the idiot and asshole judges to adhere to laws written by people who aren't explicitly out to screw you over." Based on what? Why are judges explicitly out to screw you over? And are you joking that judges are more out to screw you over than law makers?

And your argument about idiot and asshole judges out to screw you over is coming from where? If I had to guess I'd say that most judges follow the status quo, a smallish portion can be pricks at times (but within the boundaries of the law), and the ones who truly go out of their way to be exceptional are doing so in the name of civil rights and civil liberties.