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As far as I'm aware there have been zero peer reviewed publications showing Watson actually doing something in medicine. When a doctor thinks he or she has a better approach than what is being done, they use the scientific method to find out of their hypothesis holds up. So far I've seen lots of IBM conference presentations and press conferences. But where is the data? Where are the increased survival rates? Where are the reduced medical errors compared to controls? That is science. Everything else is snake oil unless you have that.
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Nope. You can't find a faulty fact because they aren't any. If you could, you'd present one. You're obviously just blustering.
Why are you going after startups? That's the first problem. There are so many established companies in London. Many with deep pockets.

For example, here's an idea for you: look at minicab companies with their own apps; "everyone" wonders what companies like Hailo and Kabbee will do to their business, yet apart from the huge ones like Addison Lee, every single minicab company specific app I've seen looks like crap and most are horrible to use too. In this case, an app has a clear and direct monetisation for them, and as long as you do contracts right they can to a certain extent be "cookie cutter" if you manage to land multiple clients. If they think you quote too much, you focus on how few extra bookings it will take to earn it back - and you can even offer to take part of the payment based on performance (but then make sure to make that high enough that you are likely to make more, because you are taking risk).

Secondly, if you are going after startups, seek out networking opportunities for startups that are actively going after investment. Once a startup has closed a major financing round, there's a ton of pressure on to deliver and deliver quickly, and people understand that short, urgent jobs will cost a lot more. Many of them will also be a lot more willing to spend money on polishing things up right before they go out to seek investment - everyone wants to make a great impression.

If all else fails, there's the risky path of fixed price contracts. If you work quickly, and can estimate your effort well, price it out based on what you want to make per hour with a substantial buffer for risk, and give a delivery date consistent with a lower per hour price. Just be sure that exactly what you are offering is nailed down in excruciating detail, and that you know how much time you are actually spending on things - developers are notorious at under-estimating own effort.
Depends which country you are in. In Australia, both models are still available through the Google Play store. ($249 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB)
I've often felt that in a physical world there is always separation between people. Heaven to me is unification with God and others; a oneness. Thanks for reading this far, now you can downvote me.
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Or it.
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I have no control over how you perceive my posts. I write them in a neutral way, produce text, and it's up to you to read in a tone of voice and mood. You are free to perceive anything about them you want. You are certainly welcome to refuse to reply to them and you always were. I was apparently pleasant enough for you to give glib responses but not enough to reply with anything much of substance more than "you're asking a stupid question and you can never be as smart as me HAHAHA!!" I mean, if that's your answer then you probably are better off not responding to me at all, leaving my question hanging, and not polluting the conversation with such negativity.

As for the start of an answer, what was wrong with just .. starting with that? What was the point of all the other stuff you wrote? Think about it. what is your mission here? to be informative or just to attempt to make me feel bad for being curious?
1. Embed an ephemeral encrypted token (https://owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_(CSRF...) in the HTTP response header that's signed with an HMAC-SHA-256 signature.

2. Sign sensitive requests similar to how Amazon does for AWS API requests (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/signing_aws_api...) -- just make sure your signature is secure (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-12-18-AWS-signature-ver...).

3. Use client-side certificates by using the HTML5 keygen element to have the browser generate the client's public/private key pair, and then have the server sign the client's public key (http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/27961/should-the...).

4. All of the above.
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To be fair, the ludicrous 266 USD/btc spike passed just six months ago. Nonetheless, IMHO the biggest criticism that can be made against bitcoin is that a digital currency based math alone can't hold a value. The recent stability in btc I think is a strong counterargument, and I genuinely can't see anything holding bitcoin back anymore from gradual wider adoption.
BitTorrent’s File Synchronizing Service Sync Launches as an iOS App
Fortunately for us new(er) search engines (I work at blekko), only a small fraction of websites actively block crawlers from new search engines. It's a chicken and egg problem: we're going to have a big index for a long time before we have big traffic.

I also have a bunch of hobby websites, and I agree that bing crawls a lot more than Google and sends me a lot less traffic. And Yandex and Baidu have very little English-speaking usage, so they aren't sending me much traffic.
Polls should always include a honeypot for trolls. Especially ones that only seek response from a small percentage of the community.
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This is HN, we handle our anti-reddit-style-comments policy like the Stasi.
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There isn't a silver bullet answer for that: It depends upon the specifics of your marketing plan — and marketing is really an art form as as anything else so there are no hard rules. You should think of what the product is, who you're trying to sell to and then come up with the details. But I think with a startup you need to spend your initial energy on the product and then think how you would market it.
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I tie myself to the mizzen mast or go sit in the Bastille dungeon, but none of it ever works. I do what I passionately want to do and no punitive restriction sways me. Creativity always slips its bindings.
To be bluntly honest, I'm shocked to see this thread existing. Granted it explains nothing, myself and some other folks have received (very nice, but still) "knock it off" emails from pg for complaining about some unbelievably terrible title reverts.

The problem here, all of the complaints distilled to their base form, is that the policy, its stated reasons for existing, and its execution are not at all consistent or logical. This being Hacker news, that tends to grate on people, especially considering how much time we spend complaining about contra-logical things like politics.

So we've got:

Stated principle: Titles should not be edited, they're common property

Inconsistency: Then why have a title submission box? If titles aren't supposed to be edited ever, why is it an option?

Okay, so there are clearly instances in which titles are supposed to be edited, pg's words above and the recently modified guidelines to the contrary. (Inconsistency the second).

Inconsistency the third: So if title edits are allowed for aesthetic concerns (stated guideline: rewrite headlines that are in the "$num ways to... type"), why are headlines which are clearly and objectively more descriptive than their replacements being reverted?

Inconsistency the fourth: The moderators are clearly expected to use some judgement in what titles to revert, yet that enforcement is hardly 100%, and some of the calls are clearly and egregiously wrong.

Inconsistency the fifth: The suggested course of action to getting around this is to make and submit blogspam, something else which the guidelines don't want you doing.

Guys, I love this site, but don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. People tend to have really good bullshit detectors, and mine are redlining right now.
I remember you could define an array to be indexed by an enumerated type which was nice. I haven't seen that done elsewhere.
Boohoo; 1 or 2 Hubots and Ghost blogs might crash over the weekend. If you're as paranoid as you seem to be, you have someone on call to fix this and wouldn't have dared to have put such an untested technology out in the wild.
It probably wouldn't act like a human-operated browser, even if it said it was.
Of course, but we're at that sort of hack-it-together stage with respect to VR anyway. It might be cool to see it actually work, even if it's slow and clunky.
Is this using the OpenStack codebase or are the APIs reimplemented from scratch?
As a consumer I'm pretty aware of this tactic. I probably still fall for it, but I also notice and think better of sellers that don't use it.
The first result is Amazon.com. Its not an ad. The next ones are local listings. And don't think they are also ads. Those are search results.

And I think Google did a good job here as most purchases for heavy items like Sofas will be made locally.
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It's clear that Everett has a lot more work to do before any of his claims will stand up to scrutiny.

Like I said earlier, it all sounds a little too perfect. Unpolluted by outside contact (because they refuse to learn a language that can't be whistled), the Piraha have no need for past, future, creation myths, kinship systems beyond the first degree, numbers, and so on. It's a dream of what we might be like if we were freed of our corrupt culture.

Is Everett an heir to Margaret Meade?
Is it uncommon to read code?

I didn't think so, but it's starting to seem that way.
Do you want the product that is considered the best value, the product that is the most popular? or do you want the product that the retailers are willing to pay the most to get you to buy?

Google (well, I shouldn't pick on google. All brokers of advertising) optimize to push you towards the product that their customers are willing to pay the highest ad rates for.

Of course, In a company concerned with it's long-term reputation, googlers will point out, this is modulated by a knowledge that they need annoy the customer less than any alternative.

My point is that an ad is always going to cause the broker to have a conflict between what the user needs and what the customer is willing to pay for, while an organic search result (unless it competes with an ad, which it often does) does not cause that conflict for the ad broker.
Indeed. It's a little annoying to keep seeing these IBM PR releases about fictional medical suppositions, when one is working on drug screening, diagnostics, and such from within a reality constrained lab!
Everett argues in the other direction. He believes that the unusual aspects of their language stem from their unusual culture.
Why not just have two titles, the original and the modified one below, if someone feels the need to modify it.
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I'm now working for a San Jose startup from North Carolina ... and not from RTP, but from a much less tech-focused area. My wife's family lives here and that's great for our daughter. Our house here costs 20% what an equivalent house would have in San Mateo, my bay area home from 1995 to 2013.

This place has a nice downtown, a pretty diverse population (a lot of medical research and university action). The food's pretty good and somewhat varied (no Shalimar Pakistani unfortunately, I miss my Saag Gosht).

I miss the bay area but can now get back at least every two months or so to see old friends. If you can swing it, give it a try.
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Let freedom ring!
I think you misunderstood your parent's comment.

While the phrasing of the final sentence was awkward, the post was arguing for exactly the same thing as you.
The whole Silicon Valley advantage is fading. I went there back in 1997 when it was very hard to find technical jobs in my country (Canada) because a lot of those kinds of jobs gravitated to head office cities for large companies, and many Canadian companies were subsidiaries of large American companies. In Silicon Valley, I learned that most startups fail or are acquired within in a year or so. It's like a lottery. Then I headed to London England, found a job fairly easily and lived there for 10 years or so. Not long ago I returned to Canada, Vancouver this time, and found it loaded with startups and other tech businesses that were more established. Another Canadian city that I am familiar with is Waterloo Ontario and it is in a similar condition. I'm told that Toronto is also overflowing with opportunities both startup and more established stuff. If you are going to play the startup lottery, why not do it among folks you know.

And in case you are wondering what this has to do with Miami, I agree with the OP, just stay home and build your business (startup or otherwise) right there. You still have a ticket in the startup lottery if that is the way you want to go, but just like in SV itself, most of those startups don't last very long.

However, unlike SV, if you stay where you are then you have a better chance of building a normal business that grows incrementally by serving profitable customers, reinvesting profits, and taking a longer term view.

Readers of HN should be very aware that there are startups all over the place, and not just in American cities but in most countries of the world. Silicon Valley just isn't as special as it once was because computers and tech and Internet connectivity is now virtually everywhere that there are cities.
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Great Job!!! I am working on an after-school programming club for my son's elementary school. Scratch is currently the main focus of the curriculum, but I could see this being a very enjoyable way to introduce text-based programming without resorting to HelloWorld-style tutorials. What is the best way to provide feedback?
There was also a TIL post about it (presumably from someone who read the ELI5).
Absolutely true. I am a songwriter who happens to know how to program. Equivalences abound.
Are things like these just proof-of-concepts, or are there many people out there that use these? It's things like this that are just promoting the joke that "Emacs is a great OS, but lacks a good text editor." (Honest question)
There are mathematical proofs which can get the bound to 22 moves, so it's just a matter of time. But now that the proof is bruteforced, there isn't too much motivation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_solutions_for_Rubik%27s...
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In light of the current (and ongoing) discussion on editorializing titles on HN:

The article title “Why I moved to Miami & you should too” is very different from the HN submission “Before moving your startup to NYC or SFO”.

I don’t always agree with HN moderators’ title changes, but in this case, I can see why the title would be reversed (it hasn’t been yet, as of me writing this.)
If on a Team or above pricing plan, is it possible to integrate with our Github private repo to have the work results returned to us? How are results of requests typically provided back to a customer?

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Minor editorial note: SFO is the airport, SF is the normal abbreviation for the city.
> Why is it always cancer?

I guess your mother and your grandfather and your first cousin didn't die of cancer. Very difficult to find that situation even combining ALS, MLS, Parkinson's, and Tourette's syndrome.

Maybe some day Watson can cure the most deadly disease of all -- idiocy.
Dropped out of college.
While the security update protocol leaves something to be desired, the possibility of a DoS attach is not quite as bad as a vulnerability that leaks real information. If that were to happen, I'd hope all the steps you've outlined would be followed.
I'm glad to see others have been working on this. I'd been batting the idea of Hz-less displays around in my head over the past few weeks. I was actually going to write a blog post about the idea, as I was surprised that it seemed to have gone unimplemented.

I don't see much info about partial screen updates. I hope the eventual standardization of this sort of thing in DisplayPort will provide for Hz-less partial screen updates. It would be nice to be able to run a 3D application and a movie at the same time, providing 24 or 30 updates/second for the movie, and a dynamic rate for the 3D application. It also allows for cleaner implementation of 3D applications that aren't running fullscreen. Generally, partial updates seem like a more flexible, more natural evolution of the Hz-less display idea, particularly with "panel self refresh" and "partial frame updates" already in DisplayPort.

The obvious downside is that you've got a classic example of resource contention, this time in the case of bandwidth. If you've got two areas that want to be redrawn at the same time on different parts of the screen, only one (or a portion of one) can be sent at a time. This leads to jitter or (depending on how you decide to deal with it) some other visual problem. But let not the enemy of "good" be "perfect": it's still a very useful feature.

The best half-solution to the bandwidth contention problem (IMO) would be to push all the decision making as to who gets access to the "pipe" to the OS. It can decide which application (if any) gets a jitter-free experience (perhaps with user preference taken into account), it can provide hints to applications about when the pipe will be free, etc. The OS really has to manage it in order to provide a good experience.
>What is so terrible about having a lower complexity budget that guarantees 60fps

>Think about it- is having a complexity ceiling the only possible way to ensure 60fps?

I'm really not following you. Are you asking what is the benefit of this technology when games come out every day at 60fps even now? This technology allows them to get the same fidelity and smoothness on less powerful hardware, with more complicated simulations, and lower latency.
Sorry to say that I almost fell off my chair to see a claim that a social network for academia is a radical new idea. This is an old established idea that has been with us for over 150 years. Academia is one of the most successful social networks ever. Sure, there are changes in how it functions but I wouldn't call that radical. Academics were the early adopters of the Internet, creating thousands of mailing lists before the web came along.

I read lots of academic papers and I find them in two ways. One, is that I google for them. And the second is by following up references in papers to find a particular author's web page where they usually have lots of info about their work including a complete list of papers that they have published. Often these are very old school web pages that were started circa 1992 or so. The WWW only went public in 1990.

Ever since academia moved onto the Internet in around 1990, they have been innovating with bibliographic servers that go far beyond a web search engine. It is nice to see some more incremental improvements but the hype about it being radical and new does more harm than help.
Corrected. Thank you!
Maimi is pretty cool. It's too bad they're going to be underwater and the city mostly uninhabitable in about 10 years.
Yeah, but I'll take the weather in Redwood City (mid peninsula) over the oppressive heat and humidity (and cockroaches and mosquitos) of Florida any day. For reference: I've lived both places.
Wow! That makes sense. Sure enough, searching for "沙发" brings up three ads for the PRC market. Here I was thinking that Google scaled back their advertisements significantly, they are just more precisely targetted :)
Perhaps they used ‘SFO’ to mean the San Francisco & Oakland area?
I always round prices up that end with .9x. On Kickstarter when prices are $79 I count them as $80. Saving me that minor calculation makes me more likely to buy something, it simply removes an annoyance. Is that really un-normal?
The last time it rebooted was due to a power glitch at the data center. Came back up just fine. Prior to that, uptime was over 1,000 days :-)
Well, I think the Chinese people are the one who pulled themselves out of poverty, and they did this * in spite of * the government, not * because of * it.
Actually, BT-enabled OBD gateways are a dead risk for security problems.

OBD is by definition directly accessing the internal computers of a car, including brake management, locking and gear shifts in automatic-gear cars. Or even steering assistance or total automatic steering for self-parking cars.

You get where I'm heading? Like James Bond did in Tomorrow Never Dies, just with a bit less range.
Any idea why Wal-Mart uses .88 in their pricing?
Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
I think the research showing that -1 pricing works for commodity items might not hold when the customer is more discerning and thus, as in my case, values a perceived respectful attitude from the company in pricing things on the even.
Then you'd search for "sofa with best value" and "most popular sofa". And lo and behold, the results look quite different.
If 10 years is true, no one would be living there right now. People will already be evacuating. The number is probably around 30-50 years.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/29/climate-n...
There are so many great places to live outside of SF and NYC. For the price of my old Bay Area rental, I rented the upper half of a gorgeous house in the Old Town of Park City, Utah. I was a 35 minute commute from Salt Lake (half of my SFBA commute) and my front doorstep was two short blocks from the ski lift. I could walk or ride my bike to everything that I needed. Sundance screenings were half a block away. In the summer, I could come home after work and still get a two hour mountain bike ride in, with the trails one block away. In the winter, I could ski all weekend or even get in some night runs after work at PCMR. Northern Utah has a thriving tech/startup community so there's plenty of local support.

Sadly, I left Utah to follow my wife's (military) career to Tacoma, WA. When she retires in 9 years, you can bet that we'll head back.
I live in Miami, and prefer Palo Alto weather much of the year.
I realized it's a core offering from Cloudflare.

Now to convince myself that it's worth competing against them on security-as-a-service simply because they'll be too expensive and/or developers don't want to relinquish entire control of their websites for the added benefit.
Cards Against Humanity, or: why UX is actually kind of a big deal.
Maybe write into your contract that you own the copyright of the code until you get paid?
I understand the reason the AGPL exists, but has it ever been used by a project successfully? They can't (or rather, won't) be used by businesses, because corporate lawyers aren't dumb. So that leaves personal and academic projects. I've never seen a successful open source project that could survive on toy interest like that.
Change titles all you want, but remove the user attribution at that point. Do not attribute words to people who have no say in modifying/deleting those words. This is stupid simple.