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This passage:

> Before this brace becomes the standard of care, it will face challenges. In parts of Brazil, doctors often stay faithful to less effective solutions because they make more money delivering them.

Struck me as mildly derogatory; my impression (I'm not from the US, but I parse Wired as speaking from a US perspective) is that it's not ... completely rare to make that accusation for US doctors, too. :|

Of course, saying "this is a problem in Brazil" is not the same as saying "unlike in the US, this is problem in Brazil", but that's how I read it, for some reason.
Probably these are sites hosted on App Engine or something, you should report them to Google for abusing their TOS.
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Surprised they didn't use 3D printing.
Interesting. Thanks for the reply. I think you're a whole 'nother level than me in regards to thinking about this.
Simply amazing, imagine what a revolution Fin will create..
Diamond Age is quite a fantastic read partly because it is so believable. A world where nanotechnology is thriving, but AI isn't powerful creates a crazy result of a world: violence, secrecy, self actualization, transnational communities, subversion.
I'm guilty of almost never upvoting articles—it's because I'm too lazy. Also the voting buttons are tiny. I actually do appreciate the reminder.
Show HN: First 'real' thing I've built. Incomplete, but advice welcome.
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Canada might actually be harder for you to get into thanks to this scandal[1] made by one of our larger banks. We tried to get a recent-grad from France to stay here - he interned for the startup I work at - and the government denied his LMO. Not saying the scandal was directly related, but the reasons they gave us for their refusal to let him stay reeked of bullshit.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rbc-replaces-...
Learning haskell with ProjectEuler right now. It's great and after solving it, one can always look up the forums and improve the own code or learn different ways to implement the solution!
How does your company treat part time employees? 
I work for a web development company in the Midwest. I read all about today's tech companies and the kind of culture and environment they provide their employees and I do my best to try and emulate them where we can.

The one thing that I have not yet read about is how start-ups, or tech companies in general, treat part time employees? We employee about a quarter of our staff at < 30 hours/week. They are also not all developers- some are tech support and marketing as well. Do the benefits provided by the company (no vacation policy, paid holidays, free meals, etc) flow freely to all employees or is there some sort of cut off?
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Corinna Cortes's (Head of Google Research, NY) talk on item similarity in search
The part that is subject to change at Facebook's whim
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Thanks for the tip -I'll check it out, and now that I know its nepomuk behind the ROSA Timeline thingy, I can investigate things further without much fuss .. appreciate the tip!
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> I will disallow anyone I'm in a conversation with to google facts with their phone. (...) facts aren't as important as the spirit of the conversation.

I prefer my conversations to be both entertaining and factually accurate. I don't know why should we hold conversations to such low standards that facts doesn't matter. But then it's probably how gossips, urban legends and general bullshit-beliefs spread.

I do occasionally Google things on my phone while sitting with friends and family, usually not to fact-check, but to provide some immediate answers to questions raised (recent example - family discussing the Old Catholic Church; we had only vague understanding of their beliefs, and the conversation was significantly improved by me skimming and summarizing the Wikipedia article).

But my point is, how we're to reach the full extend of "extended mind" concepts, if people keep frowning upon using technological improvement in social contexts? It's as much with Googling stuff in a bar, as with the common hate toward Google Glass users. Some of the current social norms are IMO dumb and need to change.
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I believe that's a recent requirement in California for new or updated dwellings. See R314.5: http://osfm.fire.ca.gov/firelifesafety/pdf/Smoke%20Alarm%20T...

Also interesting is that quite a few municipalities forbid connecting the fire alarm system to any external system, unless the external system is UL listed. Could be some regulatory hurdles in Nest's future.
Maps works well for me and I can think of few times when I have found it lacking. Siri, on the other hand, gives me a timeout ~15% of the time.
They did! The images featuring the more transparent plastic parts are actually 3-D printed models of the final design.
I think it really depends on how it's being used. If you just made html pages and shoved php statements all over the place, sure that's a horrible mess. But if you modularize your architecture and use classes, it can be quite maintainable.
I hate to be that guy, but I think if Google's plan really is to tackle tech in the home, it probably isn't going to work out. The attempt to better integrate technology with common household devices and appliances is nothing new [1]. Most of the previous attempts over the last 20 years have have been met with limited success.

The biggest obstacle is and has been that most of the utilitarian devices in homes already do their jobs pretty well. They're also inexpensive. What does Nest/Google have to offer that won't be more expensive and will present some life-changing advantage over a conventional stove/thermostat/garage door opener?

[1] http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/1489021
Often the only way to get better at something is to do it a lot. I don't think much of the actual product of this factory, but I'm hopeful about the contributions they might make to biotechnology.
Our time is still finite, especially when we are in job hunt mode. One party should not expect the other party to invest a lot of time in the process without doing so themselves.

I'm particularly sore because I spent a bunch of time working on learning something domain-specific for a potential employer who verbally indicated the interview process would be proceeding, but then forgot to tell me for a week they had decided to end the process.
I agree. Hence why I said I didn't think Apps were going anywhere either.

Apps have a lot of really cool strengths. But killing the web- that's something people who have trouble seeing long term trends say.
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My route to the US from Europe wasn't typical - I had put my resume up on monster.com of all places and had no thoughts of moving to the US (because I didn't think it would be possible anyway). I got a call about a job in the US, interviewed, they sorted my visa and before I knew it I had moved. It wasn't a fascinating company though (and certainly not within the HN world) - I transferred my visa to a startup a year later.

First things first - you can't get a visa without a job. But you can take a vacation to Silicon Valley/New York and meet people/interview, then return home to start the visa application process. That might be your best first step.

As someone who (according to what you say) doesn't have any work experience, don't immediately reject anything that isn't a startup. I don't regret the year I spent working for a larger organization before going to startup-land because I learnt a lot about the professional world, and it boosted my resume. And larger companies tend to be very open to hiring new grads and are able to deal with the visa process a lot better than some startups.

(I also used to live in Canada and miss it. HN/tech is very Silicon Valley centric but it isn't the only answer. Canada is a fine, fine country to live in and I wouldn't reject it out of hand)
I would surmise that most readers of Hacker News either use an ad-blocker or don't click on ads often/ever. Viewed in this light, traffic to the site from here might even be considered a cost!
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Thanks for the note. Just FYI, I'm the writer and there was no malice intended in my description. The sense I got in the interview was that the medical system in Brazil is fragmented to a much greater degree than in the US/EU where national healthcare establishes a more uniform standard of care. Of course there are cases of this same behavior in the US, but I'd wager they're far more rare.
Are the Nordics the World's biggest contributors to technology?
This isn't a "leak": a leak is a leak, and this isn't a leak... this is just something Valgrind is reporting because it could be a leak due to exhibiting a pattern indistinguishable from something that actually was leaked from the perspective of a tool that only is able to work from a dynamically maintained list of heap allocations and the event "program has now terminated". Saying this is a leak is somewhat equivalent to claiming that because the executable code itself wasn't deallocated by the program before it exited the code was "leaked": it just so happens that as an implementation detail this data structure is lazily dynamically allocated, but it should be considered a static part of the program. In a world where things Valgrind reported were "leaks" as opposed to simply "outstanding heap allocations" then I'd be happier claiming this was a bug in Valgrind than claiming that this feature of the language standard should have the word "leak" used to describe it ;P.
We all know that he means copyright infringement: the content was reproduced without permission. Using the literal definitions of the words "stealing,""theft," and "piracy" mistakes pedantry as rebuttal, and helps no one when discussing copyrights.
>"Having a monopoly is not illegal."

Well that depends on the country. In some countries monopolies are illegal and the government is the only one that can perform ones.

Also, questionable practices are not necessarily illegal. For instance, no that long ago (well 20 years or so is not that long for me), having privileged information on wall street wasn't illegal, but questionable.
What I find even more Gibsonesque is the prospect of China investing in eugenic technology like iterated embryo selection. They've already invested in researching the large patchwork of genes that are correlated with high IQ. Combine this with the fact that most Chinese citizens have far more positive attitudes to designer babies and we are looking at a future where the average Chinese citizen has an IQ more than a standard deviation above the average American. This would magnify their economic dominance considerably.
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Appeals court strikes down net neutrality
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leet-key/

Puts ROT13 encoders and decoders in your context menu, along with a lot of other good stuff.
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Is there a weighting to how points are assigned?

Can this be adjusted? It'd be cool if I could say that the #1 votes get 2X the points as the #2 votes.
http://blog.dave.io/2012/07/chrome-for-ios-is-crap-but-that-...

Ok, it may not be ENTIRELY the JS engine's fault, but it's definitely the biggest part of the problem...
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Ask HN: How to sync an external HDD with Dropbox?
Input:
- data sitting in a Dropbox account (mostly media)
- 2 macbooks that sync with said Dropbox account
- external HDD (that at the moment has a slightly older copy of the data)

Output:
- automated way of syncing Dropbox changes to the external HDD (2-tier backup better than 1-tier, right?)

I guess the solution involves rsync somehow, but I'd like to know what HN thinks is the best way of doing this, and what people use. Bonus Internet points for easily-portable solutions.
Now you can keep it legal, with Google Images usage rights filter
That's pretty much my view. If the US persists, then there's basically no real alliance anymore. NATO is dead.
"You can't put a price on good decisions - But we tried anyway" -- nice plans & pricing intro :)
From public to "more public?"
Why not just start off with Quebec? While it may not present every job opportunity available throughout the rest of North America, it certainly qualifies as North American, and should make a great jumping-off point as you practice your English in the comfort of a Francophone community.
Can someone please get me inline with why we have Fedora in comparison to the CentOS community? It seems as if CentOS was more inline with the Redhat commercial enterprise edition. I've been a Mac user for a while, so my Unix has be branded on Darwin vs. others - so this seems like a legit place to get the difference nailed down. Thanks!
This is great.

Currently my team uses google docs to survey our customers. This works really well because we don't have to organize temporary users or share the results publicly.

Am I able to do something similar with ForceRank?
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"imagine how terrified Microsoft would be of Android-powered PS5s"

I'm not sure I agree with this. According to this article:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2013/01/20/sell-micr...

"Microsoft makes more than 75% of its profits from Windows and Office. Less than 25% comes from its vaunted servers and tools. And Microsoft makes nothing from its xBox/Kinect entertainment division, while losing vast sums in its on-line division (negative $350M-$750M/quarter)."

I realize they're trying to position the XBOX One as your home entertainment hub - but the bigger question is whether there's a future for home gaming consoles at all, or whether that functionality will just be folded into your TV, cast from your mobile devices, or handled by some other connected multi-purpose device.
I worked on shopping cart software for the web in 1996, and the company I worked at, Evergreen Internet, had been around a while before that. I wonder if anything we did constitutes prior art.
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Where does it say that? I'm not talking about assigning foo.example.com as the domain name for the distribution.
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Not yet, although that is something we've heard from at least 1 other person who uses a similar system (that they manually do in Excel)
If those seeds or fruit happen to be on land that someone owns then you are stealing those as well.
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> excellent IDE support with instant type-checking

heh, that's a stretch, perhaps compared to 3 years ago the IDE story in Scala is all roses. It's improved with time, but I still get arggghhh inducing moments where a given source file turns into a sea of red Xs despite SBT compiling the code just fine. Often an ./eclipse -clean is the only way to right the ship.

Perhaps IntelliJ provides a different experience (although I've heard there are issues with the Scala plugin there as well).
I'd suggest to stay away from coding (unless you can't help it of course).

Listen to personal development / inspiration materials / something to enrich your spirit outside of workspace.
I've never met a data scientist that would talk about tableau as if it were anything fascinating. In fact, tableau is squarely in the target market of accessible data science tools.
One option is to enter the US for graduate studies. Noticed that you have a Masters Equivalent. However there is no harm in doing another Masters in US university. Barriers like work permit to job entry is much less on finishing up the masters in US.
Reminds of the Human-AI relationship in this series : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_Heads
This will be especially helpful if I want a certain outcome (tweak weightings, recompile, rinse, repeat).. :)
Another piece of info that is missing: there were elections in germany last autumn. Going into negotiations for a "no-spy" agreement also meant that the administration could say that they are doing something. Even though the negotiations have now turned out worthless (kind of predictable...), the elections are over now and they are in safe waters.
ARM is not an NPE because many of the designs they license are copyrighted as well as patented. If all of their patents were struck down they still would have a viable business, although their revenue would be significantly reduced.

Many software companies have business models similar to ARM's, yet we don't call them NPE's.
I can only speak from early teen years looking at computer game UIs. It's way harder to make a UI work in "native" ways than it appears at first sight. Especially if you do very manual rendering instead of relying on float/clear stuff. There are reasons that many people are going more and more into the embed HTML-controls into native UIs direction. One example: Your own renderer will have to handle text selection, cursor movement, and mouse interaction in exactly the way the surrounding platform does. Including things like "I'd expect Ctrl+A to jump the the beginning of this textbox".
For instance, just now I pulled up directions to the place I drove on Sunday. Apple Maps gives three routes, ranging from 35-40 minutes. Google Maps gives three routes, ranging from 29-33 minutes. In my experience, it will take closer to the time Google says, so if I'm using Apple Maps, the ETA will start out at 35 minute from now, and by the time I get there, it will be 5 minutes sooner. The only "current condition" it is depending on is that I'm driving faster over the route than it expects.
This is a great idea. The point of a tax is to impose penalties that exist in real life, but are not part of the original transaction: externalities. Widespread use of antibiotics has a cost associated with it that must be paid by someone, and it should be part of the price of antibiotics.

Much like there's a cost associated with income inequality, so we tax the rich more to supposedly cover that cost. Costs associate with pollution, greenhouse gases, moral hazard, etc. are all risks and costs that must be mitigated at the transaction level, otherwise the market fails.
Well, they're getting the firehose which is a lot more valuable (real time).
What we need now is more focus towards females. Men are already sufficiently saturated in the maths/CS fields. What we need is to market the idea of maths as fun to more females.
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What's the point of a No Spy treaty if people will break it anyway? Being a cynic, if you're going to spy anyway, isn't it better to have a situation where everyone knows that everyone else is spying, and have fake outrage? (I'm assuming that the treaty won't stop anything)
Here: https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/wiki/Frequently-Aske...

You're welcome.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the usage rights filter been around for ages?
Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s anti-blocking rules
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"(2-tier backup better than 1-tier, right?)" - there's the catch: if it's automated, and you accidentally delete your files on one of the macbooks, the delete will propagate to the other macbook, as well as to the hdd. Dropbox offers synchronization, which is not backup, IMNSHO (it also offers a form of limited backup, keeping the 30-day rolling file history in the cloud, but that's independent of the number of synced devices).

I'd go for rdiff-backup - based on rsync, last version of the backups is accessible without special tools, previous versions can be retrieved using rdiff-backup; plus a daily cronjob to sync it with your dropbox folder.
Winamp’s new owner has big plans for mobile, even car audio systems
I love project Euler. A nice way to improve programming skills in a new language is to go through others solutions in the same language after you solved a problem. This allows to break bad habits. Say you are a C programmer learning Ruby or Lisp, 'C-ish' approach will often seem the most straightforward, but will rarely be optimal and idiomatic in the new language you are learning.
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I'm asleep in about 10 minutes and so can you:
- no computer, tablet, tv 60 minutes before the bed..
- no lights in the bedroom
- breath-in & breath-out while counting from 100 to 1

:)
I remember doing the Heighway Dragon one (somewhere in the 200s). Took me quite a while to write code efficient enough to finish in well under a minute. Then I get to the forums, and it's a simple combinatorics question you can solve instantly. It certainly inspires me to learn more maths.
Steam could be used simply as a distribution method, you have an account to purchase and download. The level of DRM protection is up to the developer/publisher to decide. It's possible for the game to no longer require Steam once it has been downloaded.

Although, if the developer/publisher doesn't include an installer of some sort within the game files reinstalling without Steam might be a bit tough. Makes me wish for the old days when you didn't need installers, you just zipped up the folder as a backup. Need to reinstall? Unzip to new folder.
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Ah, cool. I'm not an OSX developer.

The OpenGL UI libraries I've seen on Windows are pretty horrible/limited.

Those in games are usually based on Scaleform and are also relatively limited in terms of built-in functionality, although it has wide freedom of design:

http://gameware.autodesk.com/scaleform
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No, ssh wasn't installed, yes, I can install it again without rooting Android, it's a matter of copying the binary to a directory with executable permissions and running it using at terminal.

f you downloaded some ssh "app" from Play you probably just downloaded a cute interface to the real ssh--which must place nice with the Google proprietary JVM in order to work.

I didn't need an SSH app, and no, Dalvik is not proprietary. Also, you don't need to get apps from Play, you can just download them from the web or use another repository.

Does the real JVM work on Android? Why not?

For the same reason it doesn't work on Glendix - nobody ported it to that userspace.

There was a presentation posted on HN recently from a Python developer explaining why he can't code Python apps for Android. He explained it pretty well--you must use Eclipse, you must use the Google Virtual Machine. If you do a few searches for "code Android app" the only way is to download Eclipse and compile through the Google Virtual Machine.

No, you don't. You just need to cross-compile it to ARM, copy it and run: http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/13/android-native-apps

And this is nothing new: if you take notice, the post is from 2007.

Joey Hess writes git-annex in freaking Haskell, compiles the binary using Cabal and I run it just fine on my non-rooted Nexus.
The primary use-case of antibiotics remains: curing bacterial illnesses.

We should not seek to increase the price of this for the least well-off in society.

This would potentially have a net negative effect as it allows bacterial infection to spread, requiring increased antibiotic use.

Besides, a tax on use wouldn't impact upon doctor's behaviour in the desired way (reduce non-essential use): since the doctor is still making a net profit from the prescription and it (still) acts as a convenient placebo.