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The point of a liberal arts college was never to teach skills, but the final indoctrination necessary to take one's inherited place as a member of the upper class. Some people saw it as a shortcut to joining that class. In the past, it amused members of the class to allow this, but in these economically straitened times, they're pulling the ladder up. Now, you need to "prove" you're already a member, by stumping up the cash.
This is nice if considered a programming exercise but it's actually pretty useless for real world use.

This data is static, that is it very rarely changes. The whole dataset is also very tiny. It's just better to store this data in-house and don't provide unnecessary point of potential failure by using an external service.

An idea on how to make it more useful is to provide downloadable data dump in several formats suited for immediate import into various data stores. An extra addition might be modules for popular frameworks providing access to this (local) data in all the ways your web service does.

I'm not trying to diss, just trying to find some value for real world usage. The service is neat otherwise.
And remember when they were so angry at that they voted in the candidate that vowed to repeal Obamacare in the next election.

Wait.
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Good. So what are they going to do about it?

1) join StopWatching.us and start lobbying Congress for real anti-NSA reforms, while creating big public campaigns about it, like they did for SOPA and the ITU reunion

2) start adopting ultra-secure and privacy-oriented end-to-end encryption protocols, while creating and supporting others: DarkMail, OTR, ZRTP, CurveCP, etc

3) Start finding ways in which their business doesn't depend so much on user tracking, because, ultimately, as long as that's their main business model, they'll never truly be a user's friend, when it comes to security, and all of their permanent data collection just makes them huge targets for spying agencies.

So they really need to think long and hard about this, and rethink the whole thing. Because even if we have some reforms now, NSA or others like them will never stop trying to hack them, and get the data from them. Make that their next big "moonshot" project.

So will Google do any of these, or will they just remain at the "outraged" stage?
My body naturally gets very warm, very quickly, with very little exercise. If they can make this work, I might actually be able to wear a suit all day! Luckily I don't need to but that's beside the point.

Assuming they can get the size and look sorted so the average consumer doesn't become a social pariah by wearing one (calculator watches come to mind), I wonder how this is powered? And more importantly, would it last for 8-12 hours on a charge?
"An interesting not here: In Norway the official postal service, Posten, has introduced something called DigiPost." "This is essential a secure way of sending information and it is approved by the Norwegian government for sending and receiving sensitive information."
"There is already a big market for sending secure emails."

So there are already working solutions for the problem. I wonder - does it really have to be created some new group of "privacy innovators [that] have [to be] partnered to lead the charge to replace email as we know it today"? A descriptive alliance to measure the adherence to a new solution may be a useful thing, but some new group to reinvent some existing solution is just political in my view.
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Honestly, "the NSA or some secret group with a PR agency created Bitcoin" sounds more like a conspiracy theory than "a lone programmer wanted to experiment with ideas of a peer-to-peer currency"...

There are 2 simple reasons why Satoshi would want to remain anonymous:

#1 He is estimated to own ~1 million BTC ($200 million); many thieves would capture/torture/murder someone for the chance to steal that amount!

#2 Sometimes people just want anonymity by default, like you who posts anonymously for no apparent reason ;)
Perception is everything.

And why should it make the employee uncomfortable its just business as unusual. Unless the employer has been known to retaliate in some way.
Hey, I like the idea from marketing and tech side, kudos on that :)

But I said what I said because I work in the agency and in my opinion we have created an atmosphere that is not working towards our advantage.

* Designers are expected to present their work in advance and the best team will win

* Developers are often considered as coders only and their input is not valued, even after they have solved an impossible taks

This kind of self-deprecating humor does not help and I'm pretty sure you would not see managers and sales people putting themselves in this situation, because it will not help in their jobs.
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I don't imagine this making AC obsolete. It might marginally reduce demand for AC, especially in cooler climates where AC might only be used occasionally if installed.

If made in to a product, I expect it to be popular for outdoor use. I find it appealing enough for that use case that I'm contemplating building one.
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It was part of an organised plan to try and sabotage Obamacare, having lost the legislative battle and the Presidential election.
> The question then becomes, "Why?"

Why not? [/argument]

Not everything needs to be done for a practical reason; that's most art.
I built a heathkit one in the 80s. It had a 7 minute snooze. My current one, bought in .... 2000? is a (IIRC) 7 minute snooze. Not sure where 9 minute ones are.
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What you just said is equally applicable to painting. Only in painting you can slap a piece of excrement on canvas and people will be afraid to call it shit. And it will still sell for $$$. So what kind of new research do they do? Examining Shakespeare and Homer for the 1000s time? They are not willing to adapt and they should go down. And they are, that why they are whining.
But why. Why does your app need realtime? That's the part I'm missing. I see a Rails/Angular app right there, and in the end you'll feel good because your data is in the capable hands of Postgres/Mysql
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Could you share how much these startups were paying recruiters?
Germany has several safety networks:

- Arbeitslosengeld is an unemployment insurance money paying 60% (alone) to 66% (families) of former income for one or two years. But you have to pay into insurance first. Payment is deducted automatically by payroll tax.

- Hartz IV offers Euro350+housing per month, if you are available for the job market.

Now for entrepreneurs Germany offers a Gruendungszuschuss. Thats 60% of the former income + Euro300 for half a year longer then Arbeitslosengeld. Unlike Arbeitslosengeld its completely tax free, and nearly without requirement.

Health, unemployment, and retirement insurance for self employed are voluntary. Most self employed take health insurance, and omit the the other two.

Last not least its possible to go to Hartz IV as a self employment. This is a pain in the ass, as one has to show them your books every month, to get the difference between income an Hartz IV money.

Now the drawbacks. Health insurance for self employed assumes that you at least earn Euro2000, and charges 15% = Euro300 per month minimum. They will charge more, if you earn more, but wont cache back, if you earned less.

Most entrepreneurs don't have retirement insurance, because its to expensive when you start your business, and once you lack retirement insurance by being unemployed or self employed, the payout is less then Hartz IV. Retirement insurance worked fine for my parents, who had been employed for more then 40 years. But I'm 47 now, worked only 3 years as a slave, and would get less then Euro100 for retirement.

There is an infamous politician, called von der Leyen, who came up with the internet Stopp sign, and who is proposing forcing self employed into retirement insurance. I hope she fails here again, as forcing retirement insurance would force many small self employed to close business and to go unemployed again.
I'm curious to know a) if being smart and making a good salary translates to wealth and b) how seriously I should take stories about overnight success. Are they outliers?
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Seriously? Giving people electric shocks for fun? I don't even wanna try that...
It may not be illegal but you still can get arrested.

http://www.infowars.com/illinois-citizens-still-being-arrest...
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My opionion? Fine. Explain why you brought in the "two failed wars" bit if not as an attempt to make this fail look better by comparison. Be specific.

If you think this disaster is going to make it easier to "get to single payer", you're dreaming.
The project where the data comes from actually offers dumps in three different formats: https://github.com/mledoze/countries
I believe the idea is not that it's a nervous system trick, but by heating or cooling a part of the body with high blood flow which occurs near the surface of the skin, you're actually going to impart a meaningful change on overall body temperature. Hospitals already do this for patients with hypo/hyperthermia. This could be monitored/regulated with a second band worn on the upper arm near the armpit which measures body temperature directly.

The question is more one of how much of an actual change can they impart (and under what circumstances?) given the size limitations of something like a wrist strap. My hunch is that this would need to be a fairly large system (including its power source) to have a meaningful impact outside of sedentary activity in an environment which is mildly under/over temperature. So good news for people who get chilly working long hours in their cold offices (which is a completely viable market), but not for runners looking to shed gear. Maybe there's something there for cyclists though, but only if they're willing to put up with a wheel generator.

Also, humidity impacts comfort largely because of its impact evaporation rates. Reducing body temperature reduces the rate of perspiration, in turn reducing the impact of humidity. You're right that it won't eliminate the effects of very high humidity, but it would reduce them.
I would argue that you don't start outright by forming your own business. You gain experience and stability through working for other agencies and companies, in this time you work on your own plans, save your own financing and ease into your own business at a period when self-sufficiency blooms from your and your staffs productivity.

I'm currently at this phase, I wouldn't quit my job and request state handouts because there's no saying that my idea for a business would work and it would be forcing other tax payers to accept the risk. So in other words, the inherent risks which come with entrepreneurship would be placed on the tax payer.

This would also mean people would take more careless business risks. This is similar to why bank bailout made banks less accountable, I think there needs to be a greater separation between state and economy ultimately.

Government subsidies also distort the true market value of services, for example in the U.S. if you invest in a government lobbied program, you can see in the region of 200%+ profit returns, whereas the most wealthiest returns for non-state backed industries are more like 7-10% profit returns. This leads to bubbles, inflation and would automatically mean a higher tax burden for tax payers.

You're definitely correct that something needs to happen to make it easier for start-ups, I would argue though perhaps a tax relief for start-ups once they are up and running, or a reduction in regulation to make it easier to get going. I'm thinking of starting my own business here in the UK and the government forms alone are putting me off and this is before I get slammed with small business rates etc!
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The same way Tor is fundamentally opposed to the concept of regulations on speech but is still funded ~60% by the US military. The US government sees the cost of itself losing some control as worth it to deny China control.
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I actually quite like the idea and am glad it popped up on HN. Sad that the website is hammered so I can't properly take a look. Sent a tweet anyway. Bzzt!
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This is interesting, and in my opinion definitely deserving of the prize they got for it.

But I think it's real value (in contrast to "replacing A/C") is in developing markets, where a little wristband could really improve quality of life (in the sense that one isn't sweating to death in their shanty-town hut). Not only could it improve QoL, but it would also be much cheaper to install than a central air unit, and also much more feasible: everyone has a wrist, not everyone has an insulated home with consistent electrical service that could provide the power for a central air unit. Cool stuff!
I think that's a bit unfair. The Tories were and are socially conservative.
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You made a robot that followed you around and fanned you?! Very impressive, is the source on GitHub? ;-)
And taste is something that cannot be argued with. C64 demos, 4K intros also take a certain kind of people to appreciate.
Decline in CO2 may be 'permanent'
I think it depends on proficiency with the platform more than anything. I've spent 8 out of the past 10 years with Linux as my laptop platform, the other two were split between Windows & MacOS. Both of those were huge productivity steps backward (big enough that 2 of those Linux years were from running Linux on a MacBook Pro!!). Ironically about half of the productivity loss was due to increased administration time. The only real win with the other platforms was somewhat better battery life.
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If they're using Peltier devices it's probably going to require a largeish power supply, and some kind of heat dissipating/gathering device. One possible way to get around this for something like a suit jacket might be to move it from the wrist to the upper back, and to sew thin copper wires into the jacket. Also you could probably get away with having a few thin LiPoly cells placed in pockets around the jacket. Couple it all with an inductive charging coat hanger, and you've got a product worthy of SkyMall!
Biggest problem facing youth looking at college is high school.

A large group of kids learn to pass the test and move on. There's very little unstructured exploration or debate, on the whole. I had some excellent teachers and classes in high school, and I had some awful ones, but I damn sure never had freedom to mentally explore interesting topics in-class. High school was a means to an end; just a way to leave home and go to college. Personally I didn't take that approach but I know a lot of people who did.

At that point, a student's approach is "do academia to get to next stage". It doesn't make you care at all about Shakespeare.

And for families that are monetarily burdened by college (read: every family, save a handful), you're not going to go waste $40k/year for something with no prospects.
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The main problems with this idea is (1) state welfare institutions are not in a good position to judge an entrepreneur's likelihood of success or even gauge if they are an entrepreneur and (2) a welfare's system's priority is to avoid abuse.

Also, I think that the group of people who are willing to live on welfare incomes and the group of people who will start successful companies doesn't overlap very well.

Current welfare systems in Europe sometimes do a good job of promoting self employment by failing. A person on a welfare income is disincentivized from earning officially. They can lose benefits by earning and a lot of the time the fear of these is bigger than the reality. This means that to earn extra they need to work unofficially which is usually some form of self employment. The problem is in allowing the transition from this to larger scale official businesses.
I would bet it's stale DNS from their (HN) migration to cloudflare. The home broadband must cache records ignoring their TTL/expiry.
At first I thought MIT had made AC Power Currents obsolete. An audible "no way!" followed shortly after.
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There is when the client doesn't want to pay for the extra work for the 0.1% of tinfoil hat-wearing people who turn off JavaScript.

"You need to spend an extra 30,000 to get this to work for the 3 crypto-anarchist wannabes who live in your state".

I don't think the client is going to want to pay for that kind of interop.

EDIT: I don't mean to be snarky but you absolutely HAVE to make these kinds of trade offs when working for people. And you have to absolutely discuss them with clients.

When a client asks for 'hey I want it fast like facebook and some of those cool animations I see wasitcalled haych-tee-em-ell five or something right? also it has to work on iphones because my wife has one', there is a hell of a lot of discussion there about tradeoffs. If the project you are building for them is speculative then even more so shit ain't gonna work for some people because they just aren't going to want to spend the money.

The last small job I did, I got a late requirement of "this actually has to work in IE7, 8 and 9", and stupid me, not hammering this down contractually the interop from the get go it ended up taking up nearly 20% of the budget in the end to get this working retroactively, and this was a small project.
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A nice parallel to the question "Why do I click on a floppy disk to save my file?"
Whilst clicking through the related youtube links, I found a 3D representation / rendering of one of these tracks (instead of the 2D one shown on most videos), with the notes cascading downwards onto ten rows of keys - gives a bit more perspective to how they made it.
For me, iOS 7 requires just that little bit more mental effort to grok the interface that my brain engages enough to calculate.

Thanks Ive!
This seem legit...
"Google: Don't be evil, to goats"

Except that one we just killed. I think you're on to something.
Why doesn't Apple enable sustainable businesses on the app store?
Peltier heat pumps are inefficient; typically wanting a whole bunch of watts for achieving a small temperature gradient. So I'm wondering about the practicalities of powering this thing such that it could be worn as a personal item.
Pff, needs more notes in that case. MOAR!
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Also note that the law requires 60 year old women to buy maternity coverage. Is their lovely partner going to make them pregnant?

Given that the Guinness record for the oldest natural conception is 59, I think not (there are a few cases of older women giving birth, but those all involved in vitro fertilization or the like).

What other astoundingly unlikely events do you guys think people should be required to insure against? Meteor impact? Virgin birth? All the molecules of air rushing to one side of the room and suffocating you?
Isn't this related to fitness? If you're physically fit you don't get hot so quickly.
>Third, MPEG LA has not thrown us a bone. Cisco != MPEG LA.

Oh please, Cisco is part of MPEG LA and you'd have to be incredibly naive to believe that this was Cisco striking it out on their own to offer a 'solution'. This is MPEG LA's offering, brought to you by one of it's members.

And likewise it doesn't take a genious to realize that you switching sides one week before the vote came as a result of discussion with Cisco, to offer broader support for h264 as the WebRTC standard.

So yes, I say you sold out.

>Fourth, MPEG LA was not terrified of HTML5 standardizing on a truly RF codec, because HTML5 was never going to do any such thing.

Oh I'm sure this royalty free h264 binary blob offering from MPEG LA was due to the kindness of their hearts.

Of course they were terrified, because even if this was just for WebRTC and not HTML5, it would have set a precedent for a fully open source and royalty free codec, with all the benefits that come along with it, which in turn would increase demands for fully open web video solutions in all areas.

Also you totally avoided the question I posed regarding your 'hardware support' argument, and where that leaves Dalaa as anything more than a toy project.

I held you guys to much too high standards it seems (much higher than any others in the web industry), I was obviously wrong.
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I'd like to see all pages default to a list of 100 items.

I mean it is pure text page that is gzip'ed and should barely add 1k more to make it 100 instead of 30.

If not 100, then 50 as a compromise?
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I wonder how changing the perception actually impacts the body's thermostat. I would gladly sweat and let my body do its thing than have a heatstroke while being tricked into thinking that it is relatively cool outside.
>I believe the idea is not that it's a nervous system trick, but by heating or cooling a part of the body with high blood flow which occurs near the surface of the skin, you're actually going to impart a meaningful change on overall body temperature.

From the article i understand that it is a nervous system trick: "The research suggested that anything with a temperature change greater than 0.1 degree Celsius per second would produce the effect".
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Being a TA at an engineering school, I can say that universities catering exactly to the exam-focused credentialist attitude DOES. NOT. HELP.