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This is kind of a bugaboo for me. I am continually surprised by the attitude that seems common in the tech industry that laws governing all other industries are misapplied or useless when it comes to tech. I get that the hacker culture is to beg forgiveness rather than ask permission, but sometimes this causes real hardships.

Imagine they were teaching an older generation of technology: automobile maintenance, say? Or TV repair? And I implied to graduates that they'd get jobs at GM or GE?

It is extremely difficult to check out a new, for-profit school's reputation thoroughly in terms of the success of its graduates and the quality of its instruction. There are thousands of stories of students taking on unsustainable levels of debt to go to culinary school, for example, only to work for peanuts in non-elite kitchens.

What makes software engineering exempt? Alternatively, why should bootcamps be allowed to avoid the law--which applies to all other for-profit post-secondary schools--because they teach Rails and Javascript instead of refrigerator maintenance?
> Contrary to gloating from Apple fans

This isn't necessary, and cheapens a good point.

> This deal now creates a solid competitor to Samsung.

Samsung has solid competitors with strong global brands. You have Sony, which has been around for a long time. You also have LG, HTC, and a lot of other lesser known brands. You have Amazon, BN in the Tablet space.

Not sure what the cheap shots at Apple and Apple fans have to do with this discussion.
That feels to me like it would be painful to type on. What is the use case?
How's that? Say you set up duplicity on your AWS instances. They only need access to the public encryption key and private signing key -- the session (actual encryption) keys will be destroyed after a backup is made. Now, to restore you'll need to provide access to the public signing key (this is public, so no problem), and private encryption key. This should only ever be on-line and decrypted in case of a restore.

Of course, if you set things up differently, then, yes. Compromised by design.
>It's a big terrified nanny state where everyone in charge seems to be too scared to let anyone do anything cause it might hurt them emotionally or physically.

California is quite left of center, a bit of America becoming like Europe. At least, for now, you can still fire, and therefore hire at will, so they haven't gone completely over the edge.
>I fully expected to read the details and see that the headline was some sort of hyperbole

It really is, see the source page for more details:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/dlesaac

The misunderstanding going on in the comments seems to be stemming from a failure to distinguish between personal identifiable data and personal confidential data.

The former:
"This includes patient identifiable data, such as:

NHS number
Name
Address
Postcode
Date of Birth
Date of Death"

and the latter:
"Personal confidential data also includes sensitive data which may include items such as:

Racial or ethnic origin
Political opinions
Religious or other similar beliefs
Physical or mental health condition
Sexual life
Criminal record"

The patient identifiable needs explicit permission from the patient in order to obtain, patient confidential needs a good legal reason + reviewed application.
Higher education in the US is largely self-regulated via the accreditation process. The government has minimal oversight of that self-regulation, mostly through the GI bill. Self-regulation doesn't mean they collude in a bad way (though there are suspicions that the rising cost of tuition is a collusion problem). Self-regulation is a form of collusion that, when done right, is good for producers and consumers - LEED or certain organic food certifications or academic accreditation are easy ways for consumers to know what they are getting and for producers to limit the negative price and quality pressure of "lemons" (bad products) on the marketplace. And it achieves this effect without heavy handed bans that limit consumer choice.
Man, I have to say that as someone who has interviewed students from these classes, I would bet a lot of money that 99% of these students aren't being hired. It made me really uncomfortable thinking about how many people in the room had just spent 15k to hack around with some people in an almost "engineering fantasy camp" type environment. I'm all for this law honestly.
What if manual work is required to produce this intellectual property? And isn't the intent that the rights belong to the inventor or creator?
Out of curiosity, how would you rather have them be implemented? You either return an Option, or you will have to deal with null pointers.
Western medicine has removed from the individual a sense of personal responsibility in the following sense. We are told to ignore what may work for us and to instead try what works a large number of other patients. While the advice may be good advice, it leaves the patient with an attitude that their own ideas about how to treat themselves may be worthless. And this could encourage the patient to place their doctor upon a pedestal - only the doctor knows what is best for you.

Of course, some advice is just always good advice - eat right and exercise. But you don't need a doctor to tell you that. I have observed that it is the same people who take the best personal care of themselves, by eating right and exercising, also engage in alternative medicine. The very act of trying to take control of your own health leads you to focus in on what works (or what you "think" works) for you.
Never really understood person that do otherwise. What's the point ? ruining a perfectly fine night / week end ?
I'd assume it's a collection of stock photos with numerous people crowded around one computer.
I drank your milkshake, ha ha ha.
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You'd think so, wouldn't you? However: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine
Inexpensive mobile market in China is 90% closed source or reluctant open source where they give you something thats almost entirely blobs to barely satisfy GPL. https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mobile/KnEn...

Most are squeezing all they can out of the MTK chipset and don't want their competition to know their mods. I'm betting they will flood US market with $80 MTK phones under the motorola brand
Fair enough, two wrongs don't make a right. Out of curiosity, did you upvote/downvote the potshot about "GNU fans"?
>'Okay, let's just get rid of the federal government as soon as we can'

Another strawman from Chomsky knocked down!

Many anarchists/libertarians call for the destruction of corporatism as well as government. The federal government protects the largest corporations through large corporate welfare grants.
> No

Then don't do it.

> the idea that individuals are able to practically defend their possessions against determines thieves doesn't make sense in most societies where violence is not accepted as a normal part of life

I agree. Defense takes on many forms. In the more forward thinking societies, it's usually done with some sort of arbitration.

> Instead, most of us rely on the state to provide a police force.

OK? So?

> Somalia seemed like somewhere your statement might hold true.

Your straw man is behind the times. Somalia has had a central government for quite some time.
They're charging a nominal additional fee for the additional paperwork involved in ensuring the necessary approvals have been met. You can see the types of organizations that get their "personally identifiable" data requests approved by a separate body here:
http://www.hra.nhs.uk/about-the-hra/our-committees/section-2...

A quick glance at some of the approvals suggests that yes, the information is very personally-identifying indeed but the cohorts are pretty small and not obviously commercially valuable, and the types of organisations getting the data sound no more likely to resell it than my GP (and even less likely to make a profit on it). And my GP and his admin staff and various other NHS employees have had access to it for some years now.
In all seriousness, are suits still a thing for interviews? I don't remember the last time I heard of a company that was anything more than business casual dress (and lets be honest, many firms are much more casual than that).
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> so that may explain NJ.

I'd argue that it also "explain"s USA.
We know the quality of the patents from what they've attempted to assert in courts in jurisdictions all over the world. They've not been successful anywhere.

Unless you want to make the leap that they've been holding back all their valuable IP from their patent assertions for some unknown reason, I think it's a pretty safe conclusion.
he said "...it will make you feel more comfortable and less out place...". in my experience, it is the opposite.

been to a few interviews where the interviewers were wearing a t-shirt, jeans and sandals.
Congratulations Ryan, I feel lucky to be an early part of this (user #3 baby!) when you just sat down to think about doing it. It's come along a long way already, I can't imagine where this is going to end up in a year.
Yeah, nothing screams counter-culture like charging $19,000 for 3-month courses.
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Now where did I ever say "most"? ;)

VLM claimed "Most of them have climbed a zillion other mountains." (I'll interpret 'zillion' to mean "very experienced mountaineers, with years of mountain climbing and 50+ difficult peaks summitted." Perhaps you have a better definition?)

I was curious of the evidence which might back the validity of that claim. It's certainly true that some people who climb Everest are not highly experienced mountaineers. While VLM rejected my original references, I quickly found some counter-examples which show that it is not the case that all Everest climbers are very experienced mountaineers. ("Not all" is obviously not the same as "not most".)

My point stands, which is there is no data backing the claim that "Most of them have climbed a zillion other mountains."

It might be that 95% are very experienced, in which case VLM is justified in making the assertion. It might be that only 30% are so experienced.

Ahh! Here's one possibility. http://www.wemjournal.org/article/S1080-6032%2806%2970297-6/... has in table 1 information about some of the people attempting in 2003. Of the 108 people surveyed, on average there were about 1.47 previous attempts at an 8000 meter peak, of which about 0.7 were of Everest.

The standard deviation is 2.03, which means the distribution is very skewed. One person who did all 14 eight-thousanders balances out a lot of first-timers.

They also asked about the highest previous climb, and report:

> A histogram of previous altitude ever attained (Figure 1) shows a distinct peak at about 7000m. This is likely because of the influence of Mt Aconcagua in South America, a popular training ground for would-be Mt Everest summiteers. Although highest previous altitude ever attained initially appears to be a good measure of a climber's experience, the natural paucity of high-altitude peaks and the strong bias of climbers summiting Mt Aconcagua means that it is not possible, with our data, to determine depth of experience. Many of the climbers in this study may have climbed only once at high altitude, with very little other experience.

That paper agrees with my belief, which is that there isn't enough information to meaningfully claim that "Most of them have climbed a zillion other mountains."
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Thanks for the information -- but this still doesn't spell out any breakdowns of who gets jobs where. This specifies that ~98% get jobs -- but at companies like Adobe and Google? I know plenty of grads from top tier bachelor CS programs at some of the highest ranked schools, and I'd still say that roughly less than half get a job offer at Google. I don't want to sound snobbish... but no doubt these guys would have a better shot than someone who began coding less than 3 months before? Until I see a breakdown it's really hard to say the quote isn't blown out of proportion.
What would be interesting would be to write up this 'opt out' procedure, slightly disguised, as part of a research proposal and submit it to the UK ethics committees. I'd be shocked if they don't all reject it. Any UK academics - with enough tenure that it won't bork their career - up for that?
> Most of the patents have been pretty worthless so far. They are mostly standards essential patents that need to be licensed on FRAND terms

Standards-essential patents that have to be licensed on FRAND terms are "worthless" only in the sense that an ongoing income stream is worthless.
>> Now look how wonderful the code looks with new driver.

Yikes. That is not so wonderful looking. But yeah, it's better than callback hell.
Hm, didn't learn anything new (was hoping I would in Mastering Issues), but Mastering Markdown is better than their markdown tutorial before.
Wearing a suit to job interviews that you would be doing with 7 years of experience working at a defense contractor is definitely a good idea, assuming you had a favorable experience at the defense contractor and were looking for something similar.

People that did not expect you to wear a suit will be fine with it because they will understand after that long in that formal of a workplace it is reasonable that you expect yourself to wear a suit to interviews and other formal meetings. (If they don't then they would likely be a poor 'culture' fit, once again assuming you liked your previous environment)

People that did expect you to wear a suit, are much less likely to hire if you if you don't.
it would have been an excellent example for self regulation if we had let the banks fail. then go into bankruptcy, the surviving banks could then purchase the assets at reduced costs, if not enough banks survived to aquire the assets we could have helped the surviving banks purchase the assets via loans to them. instead we just bailed out the shitty banks and the good banks were penalized for their shrewd investing.
The hypothetical poor chump came out of it knowing how to draw a stickman in javascript, right? Can't be that bad then.

If "coding bootcamps" are really the new "Learn [whatever] in [X] Days", then does that imply that those book are currently regulated, or should be regulated? Should the State of California protect poor chumps from books that might artificially raise their egos?
It's not even the price that is a problem per se the problem is the extraordinary claims. It's like the Bernie Madoff of education schemes. Who wouldn't invest 15k to have a "99%" chance of getting a 6 figure job with Google? Of course when you think about it that is almost certainly a false claim but someone w/o engineering experience probably doesn't realize that.
I get his point and it's a solid plan in most fields.

But for the tech jobs most people want, it's a really bad idea to put a suit on for a interview.
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I dress up a work, even going so far as to put on a tie some days. It has been mentioned by other engineers that they don't feel dressing up is the uniform of an engineer. But I say nuts to that, conformist. I dress up because I don't mind the look, I also like to draw a line between my private wardrobe and my professional one, it helps remind me I still work for "the man" and it drives me forward in the right direction. I say this as a counter point. I buy into the notion of wearing a suit (one that fits).
You will need a deep pocket. I suspect the cash flow hole between turning a flare into feedstock for electricity generation or any other potentially productive use and getting paid for that product is wide and deep.
I was referring, mostly, to what American authorities would think of an Iranian IP address port scanning web servers. That will get the attention of American authorities... and not in a good way.

You just don't go port scanning and probing willy nilly in the US. That's DOUBLY true if you are port scanning and probing sites that the US government has blocked... AND you are doing it from inside Iran.

You're just BEGGING for Homeland Security to take a closer look at you. It's very foolish.

You may know your Government... but I know mine. I can tell you that an Iranian probing sites whose access from Iran is blocked by the American government for security reasons... that's not bright. Authorities here will not take kindly to it.
Maybe you can find a second job? Freelancing without a specific set of skills is a really tough start. Generally when people hire a freelancer they are looking for a skill set that allows them pass off a complex project/task to an outside professional rather than hire another employee.

I know the pressure is on to earn more money right now, but I encourage you to take the long view and start learning a higher level skill that is in demand so that 2 years from now you have more options.
I became a little suspicious of the "learn to code" boot camps when the first of I looked at was female only. Why
female only in this point in history? My conclusion; at
the end of the course--the average Hacker Dude would question the cost if the education, the versaity of "I'm
a Koder now, and it only took a few weeks!".

I'm not for a lot of regulation, but in this case I think
these schools need a through vetting. They are not cheap,
and promise a lot.

Off subject, but I'm still angry that Gov. Brown made it
more difficult to become a Realestate Broker. He did away
with the 4 year degree requirement, as a fast track to getting a broker's license. It's ironic that Governor
Terminator saw right through the B.S., and vetoed the bill.
From that point on; I never vote strictly Democratic. And
yes--I'm off topic. sorry.
"Steve Eisman, the outspoken investor whose huge wager against the subprime mortgage market was chronicled by author Michael Lewis in his bestselling book The Big Short, has set sights on a new target: for-profit colleges"

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2010/05/steve-eisman-big-sho...
I don't think you are banned, since I don't see any comments in your history showing as dead. I don't know what would cause this. When you say you can't comment, is there an error message when you try? Or is there just no 'reply' link visible? As a first try at a workaround, I'd try with a different stock browser (no plugins) and see if you get the same result.
Right, that's my thought also - what % actually at least gets an interview at Google, and what % gets hired?
Did I ever state otherwise? It is a well known fact that Chomsky is an anarchist, and opposes both structures of power. But that is contradictory to the implications of the Ayn Rand quote above, i.e. "Let's get rid of gov't as soon as possible", for it ignores the context -- that is, businesses and corporations running amok breaking regulation. Which is also the case in the context of the article.

Also, allow me to uncover another part of the quote (which I omitted for brevity):

"...tyranny, except the federal government. Now, it doesn't protect them very well, because it's mostly run by corporations - but it still does have some limited effect - it can enforce regulatory measures under public pressures, let's say, it can reduce dangerous toxic waste disposal, it can set minimal standards on health care, and so on."

Reply: ("It massively changes the meaning...") If you say so. I feel like it changes the meaning from "Government should be dismantled only once we get rid of tyranny of corporations" to "Government is flawed because of its entanglement with corporations but should be dismantled only once we get rid of tyranny of corporations". Perhaps I didn't give enough context -- but I feel like Chomsky's well known anarchist sentiments should be enough to evidence that he is at heart - opposed to government.
I don't think Nest has much to do with it. As I see it: 1) Google and Samsung sign a sweet patent deal, 2)Samsung halts or slows down the development of replacements for Google apps and promises not to fork Android, 3)In return Google drops Motorola, a direct competitor to Samsung.
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Successful, not really (though Madoff is in jail and some billions of investor money recovered), but a pretty good example of a place where regulation is necessary. Maybe a better one for this particular issue would be University of Phoenix and other for-profit colleges. I think there's been some success with these bootcamps, but what if that dries up... what then is the difference? Good intentions?

Edit: not trying to be overly harsh on the bootcamps... I think they're pretty neat and a good idea on the whole. I also don't think they should escape the protections government regulation, done properly, can provide.
I'm not sure which way you're trying to argue, but Bill Gates's letter also did a great job of explaining why poor and undernourished populations continue to explode. The short version is that when each child has a low chance of surviving to adulthood, parents have more to hedge the chance the one of their offspring will make it. In addition, in poor countries where adults can't count on social security, they have children instead of a retirement policy.
Police and researchers have provisions to request access to the database under HIPAA

The Harvard researcher probably fell under research for public health. I'd hope private researchers can access public health data. The goal for "ICD" global standardized diagnoses codes is to help research.

There are rules for distribution and compliance that should carry over to each handler of the data sets.

Given all that, I still have anxiety of bad actors handling the private information.
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Indeed, I too started off wondering what kind of regulation the state was interested in imposing. While the article does not mention any specific regulation, the inclusion of a "bootcamp's" claim that 12 weeks and $17,000 would get you on average a "six figure" job made it pretty clear why the state is interested. (For quick reference, keeping an average of 13 students enrolled for a year is $1M revenue, and "getting a job offer" for a "six figure" job doesn't actually make a verifiable claim that these people get or keep those jobs.)
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I love the line "companies like Adobe and Google".

McDonald's is a company like Adobe and Google, in the sense that it has a name and sells things.
Manufactured homes significantly reduced the cost of owning a home, and just the other day I saw an article talking about 3D printing homes with concrete and how it could drive the cost down even further.

The problem is the cost of land, not the manufacturing of homes, per se.
That is awesome. And it makes so much sense, research to feed a growing population, doing it at a school, and in the middle of a city. I'm really impressed.
Well, "companies like Adobe and Google" is a meaningless statement, if you get down to it.
It says in paragraph 3: "Under this deal the search giant will keep the majority of Motorola's mobile patents, considered its prize assets."

This is the silliest HN thread I have ever seen. All the time it was considered proof that Google is evil that they compete with other makers of Android handsets. People who like Google said from the beginning that Google was forced to buy Google because of the patent wars getting out of hand. Now that claim has been validated.

I am really, really surprised by this HN thread. I've been on HN for 6 years and have never seen anything like it.
That is a good point. There's definitely more value provided with SSD.
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In other words, this "race-to-the-bottom" walmart-ization of our economy seems to be, in large part, responsible for the income disparity we see today.

It does the poor no good if they can't even afford the cheapest good.