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Western medicine has removed from the individual a sense of personal responsibility, and this must change.

I must heartily disagree. Well, perhaps not so much disagree as clarify: Western medicine as it is practiced, perhaps discourages personal responsibility (and how many times would you tell patients to eat better and exercise more if they never did?). Evidence based medicine is just that: based on evidence. There's no "removal" of personal responsibility, there are simply facts, as in your case you have brilliantly demonstrated: when something works for you, you continue to use it. My immediate reaction to "trying something" that you mentioned, however was "how many things did you try?" How many people won't research different options, much less put them into practice, simply because it would require them to try something different, or something hard (like exercise)? How many people would rather take some snake-oil to lose weight than eat less and exercise more? How many people will refuse vaccines because they believe it's a government conspiracy?

And let's not forget all the other confounding factors, such as big pharma with 85+% of their money dedicated to marketing, or the placebo affect, etc, etc.
You can't just buy what you want from them without a legitimate legal basis.

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/dlesaac
Yes and you basically get the same content on Apple TV (Youtube, Hulu, Netflix...)
Well it has different viewing options ("more open" for whatever that's worth). Based on Google's own promotions for Chromecast you gain Google Play and Pandora, and lose iTunes. There's a bunch of other tradeoffs I'm sure (I assume, for example, there's a PBS app for Chromecast just as there is for AppleTV. AppleTV supports Amazon video via AirPlay -- which is good but not great; but Amazon video simply won't play on Chromecast.)

Chromecast is more intelligently architected than AppleTV (you hand off to Chromecast rather than remote-controlling it) but I suspect AppleTV will address this shortly. OTOH AppleTV works with any remote, and you can use any iOS device as a remote, and AirPlay is wonderful.
I'm not worried, there's absolutely no way anyone could identify you with only your NHS number, your date of birth, your postcode, your gender and ethnicity, your medical diagnoses (including cancer and mental health) and any complications, your referrals to specialists, your prescriptions, your family history, your vaccinations and screening tests, your blood test results, your body mass index (height/weight) and your smoking/alcohol habits....

Oh... wait....
It's all built using Pages, so in a way, yes, it already is available to all users today. ;)

http://pages.github.com
Life is ours, we live it our way; All these words I don't just say; And nothing else matters
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"If they tell you to get drunk, everyone in the city is the boss"?
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"Liberal" is the church I was at last month where the pastor said you couldn't be Christian and Republican at the same time. But short of that is the mushy middle of mainstream Christian churches that nonetheless stay away from the fire and brimstone stuff, if only because there's not much of a market for it in most places. Think about it: sex outside of marriage is almost universal in the U.S. There are only so many people who will do that, but then go to a church that tells them they'll go to hell for doing that. Your random Bible Church in the suburbs is not spouting this stuff.
First, the concept of "Western Medicine" is a misleading one. It implies there it is the opposite of "Eastern Medicine". Evidence Based Medicine, the subject of this post, is a much better term. Any methodology is appropriate, so long is it is backed by science.

I think Evidence Based Medicine puts personal responsibility on the individual. Individuals need to realize that Marketing does not Equal better care, all that matters is the science.

Evidence Based Medicine has nothing to do with personalized medicine, it is simply a way of analyzing the efficacy of medicine...science.
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"I am from government and I am here to help" I shudder every time I hear those words.

As long as people have a choice between to attend or not to attend a bootcamp I dont see how government can step in.
Perhaps you can look at it from a different angle: Samsung made it very clear that they would continue to fork Android, unless Google stopped making smartphones and dropped Motorola.
In a way Samsung has much more leverage over Android than Google.
Regulators thinking they know what is best for us and cracking down on those who are vulnerable is nothing new.

Such is life in California.
I don't think that he is well; I wouldn't read to much into it.
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Literally a waste of 3 mins of my life.
Why is there no mention of Average Position of each ad? That impacts CTR wildly! I can't take this post seriously without seeing more data.
Are there any statistics on how long it takes people to land jobs after they graduate from the larger programs?
Well, not necessarily a national emergency. Identifiable data can be released if it is approved by the Confidentiality Advisory Group (these people: http://www.hra.nhs.uk/about-the-hra/our-committees/section-2...). You can see a list of approved studies here http://www.hra.nhs.uk/about-the-hra/our-committees/section-2... , it seems they approve about 30 applications per year.
My favorite part is the header saying: CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT FORWARD
I wrote up the differences on my blog a a while ago http://riobard.com/2013/08/23/chromecast-vs-apple-tv/
Correcting factual errors is constructive. The post implied that all you need is a Samsung Phone, then you have "Permissions Manager". No mention of an app. But then, when you look at the reviews for the app that is linked above, it doesn't give one a lot of confidence in managing permissions on Android.
You miss the point.

Sure, when you have years of programming experience you can just pick up syntax and start coding. How about when you have zero experience? Not so much helpful now.
Most of the patents have been pretty worthless so far. They are mostly standards essential patents that need to be licensed on FRAND terms and in the last 3 years they've had zero enforceable injunctions in their favor.

Relevant: https://twitter.com/reckless/status/428653694998298624
What's the difference between self regulation and collusion?
True, but Google has a number of unprofitable divisions. Technically, if you look at G+, Maps, and to some extent, Chrome and Android, which are given away for free, if these were separate businesses, they would bleeding money. I guess technically you could look at Chrome like Mozilla and imagine some ongoing deal to be the default search box. YouTube had no ROI for a long time, certainly longer than the 2 years Google gave Motorola.

Motorola was probably going to go bankrupt before Google bought them. Like Apple when it was bleeding money in the 90s, it needed a way to gain time to reinvent itself. Google's purchase probably prevented mass layoffs in the short term, but has Motorola been given enough time to turn itself around? I dunno. We will see what happens shortly after Lenovo takes control.

Given Motorola's history in the technology industry, it's sad to see them go under. Reminds me of Silicon Graphics, the company that basically invented the majority of the fundamental facets of modern computer graphics, gone, while people gleefully play games on their mobile GPUs unaware of where we'd be without them.
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probably just an experiment
I just turned off adblock on google to try your tip. Agh my eyes.
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What happened to California? It used to be the center of counter culture, now it's biggest symbol of The Man around. 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.

I've never lived in California, so I may be way off, but it seems like the decline of a once defiant state is a great metaphor for the baby boomers who made it the center of the counter culture. They started off young and angry, fighting against injustice, and as they got older, the turned into the system they were fighting. They became The Man, scared of things they didn't understand and absolutely terrified of not being in control. It's like watching Citizen Kane if Charles Foster Kane was a state.

The quote "the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution," seems applicable here. Are we all doomed to repeat this fate, to fight the system, accomplish our goals, then become the system as we try to hold on to what we've made?
Really? Thinkpads are the most recommended laptops for running Linux. When I ordered mine, Lenovo even gave me a discount when I told them I didn't want Windows and wanted to run Linux.

They even have certified some of their products for Linux...

Not sure where you get your info.
The article was frustrating since it is not clear on what the disagreement is. My guess is that John Kay is referring to the first myth. "POOR COUNTRIES ARE DOOMED TO STAY POOR"

According to Gates, poor countries are making progress.

According to Kay, there is a ceiling on how much progress a country can make.

So really, the positions are not contradictory since there is a big space between the current state of poor countries (which are making progress) and the ceiling that Kay proposes. Furthermore the ceiling it self can move up overtime. And now I hate for Kay for not writing a clear article.
At Hack Reactor, where tuition costs over $17,000, 99 percent of students are offered a job at companies like Adobe and Google.

Am I the only one who is skeptical of this? I'd really like to see the breakdown on this one..
Facebook chart: now trading around $53.53/share:
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=FB+Interactive#symbol=fb;...
Agreed, we have a strict no deployments on Fridays or after 3pm on any day at work. Allows us to go home with a clear head and enjoy our weekends.
Google should be picking another OEM (Lenovo?) and doing everything it can to push its sales, to create competition for Samsung. The whole point of Android was that by making the OS free software, it would neuter the OEMs, not give them the power to fork the OS.
"At Hack Reactor, where tuition costs over $17,000, 99 percent of students are offered a job at companies like Adobe and Google."

That seems at odds with my general perception of who Google recruits and of the tough nature of their interviews... Anyone have first hand experience of going through one of these without prior tech experience and then landing a job at Google or other name-brand employers?
I agree. Think reason Rubin left Android team in Google was because google realized samsung had too much control and google wasn't happy with Rubin too much...
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Did Andy step down or finally have an opportunity to peruse his dream?

> For Rubin, manufacturing is a return to the past. According to a 2007 profile, Rubin began as a robot engineer at lens manufacturer Carl Zeiss and had a brief stint at Apple as a manufacturing engineer before devoting his working hours to developing computers instead. However, robotics remained a hobby, with Rubin both building his own and amassing a collection of robots from Japan.
The current talent crunch has brought a TON of shady bootcamps to the valley that are preying on innocent hopefuls.

I even built http://schools.techendo.co/ to help people under-equipped to evaluate these schools. It's a true problem.

[edit]

Related post:

http://www.techendo.co/posts/are-dev-bootcamps-a-scam-a-hack...
No the rationale for patch Tuesday is shoddy development while continually introducing bugs with your fixes.
A week of iOS dev
There was an interesting Businessweek article[1] on the sale of pseudoanonymised data to private companies in the US. One Harvard researcher acquired one such database and was able to identify some individuals:

>Latanya Sweeney, the director of Harvard University’s Data Privacy Lab, identified 35 patients from a Washington database by buying state medical data and creating a simple software program to cross-reference that information with news reports and other public records. “All I have to know is a little bit about a person and when they went to a hospital, and I can find their medical record in this kind of data,” Sweeney says. She says data in 25 other states are just as vulnerable.

The whole article is an interesting read. Apparently the data is sold pseudoanonymised in some states, leaving it up to the purchaser to truly anonymise the data.

[1]http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-08/your-medi...
Motorola Mobility office is in Libertyville and they are currently moving some employees to an office in downtown Chicago.
I also dropped in to call bullshit on that claim. If I had to guess, I'd say the better students (top 30%) end up at mid-tier tech companies, with salaries in the $60-$80k range.
I know a couple people who've been through them and it seems to have tapered off a bit - at least with respect to RoR bootcamps. If the students stick with it most of them can get jobs within 6 months of starting one of the programs but it seems to be a limited number who get jobs immediately after finishing.
As long as people have a choice between to invest or not invest in Madoff's pink sheets I don't see how government can step in.
Bummer, they should've listened to you...

Some companies are using internal prediction markets, where employees can speculate on various initiatives:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market#Use_by_corpor...

Open allocation seems like the ultimate prediction market - people deciding on what initiatives to work on and invest their time in is a stronger signal than dysfunctional internal politics. And people are likely to be more motivated working on projects they think have value.
Interesting set of moves by Google. Few observations

1.	A lot of people are fixated on the sales prices and the $9.5 Billion “loss”. Contrary to gloating from Apple fans, looks like in the final analysis Google paid about $3 Billion for “majority” of the Motorola Patents. Not a terrible deal.

2.	Apart from the patents, one reason for the Motorola purchase was to provide some competition to Samsung. Given Samsung’s dominance of the Android platform it was going to be problematic for Google in the future. This deal now creates a solid competitor to Samsung. Lenovo is one of the very few Chinese companies that have created a global brand. There are a lot of fantastic Chinese companies that are big but are unknown outside of China. So, with the Lenovo angle, Google gets a strong competitor to Samsung and also a partner to compete within the Chinese market (companies like Xiaomi which are non-Google Android).

3.	The mobile market is like the PC market circa 2004, that is it is maturing and has a few years before brutal competition is going to drive down all profits. The future is connected devices, robotics and other ‘intelligent’ machines. With the Nest and Boston Dynamics purchase, Google has the team and the chance to build the next great hardware/software stack ground up and be well positioned for the big markets in the next decade.

All in all, good set of moves for Google. Alas, Apple in contrast reminds me of Microsoft in the early ‘00s. Hugely profitable but fixated on the current ‘ecosystem’ and extending and controlling it. Microsoft’s fixation on the windows ecosystem proved to a huge distraction and ultimately made them miss the internet/advertising and the mobile markets both which proved to be gigantic compared to the windows franchise.
The "Eastern"/"Western" dichotomy also ignores the existence of many scientifically questionable/discredited practices that originated "in the West". Homeopathy and chiropractic are both examples of prominent "alternative medicine" from 'the West'.

Similarly, plenty of medical techniques developed in 'the East' are backed by evidence.
I don't understand- wine is a perfect example of something that doesn't scale. The process of making wine is fundamentally very different for the typical mass-market grocery store wine than it is for a smaller winemaker. They have to put in all kinds of additives to make the output of high-volume wine production palatable, and the end result is something that may be perfectly drinkable but no one would consider best-of-breed wine. In extreme cases (like white zin), it's closer to artificially flavored and sweetened alcoholic grape juice than what a lot of people would even consider wine. That's not snobbery, that's just how it is.

The process of producing really good wine is very inefficient by comparison, and part of the reason it can be so good is because it requires (for example) very specific grapes that don't even exist in large enough numbers to mass-produce that wine.

I'm not even saying that mass market wine is bad. I've gladly drunk more than my share of dirt cheap wine over the years (and enjoyed it!) but I harbor no illusions that it's the best wine there is.

I could totally see coffee as being a similar thing- you could scale it up and get a pretty decent mass-market approximation of the original, and it might even be pretty darned good, but it's not going to be the same as the original. It can be high-volume, best-of-breed, or reasonably priced- pick any two. I think that's all the original poster was saying. It's not snobbery, it's just the realities of that industry.
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Whether you like her or not, agree or disagree with her, Ayn Rand has two great relevant quotes:

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."

and

"Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
Github could potentially be disruptive in the online programming learning/tutorials space. Most projects revolve around GH in some way nowadays, it would be an interesting move for them.
987654321/123456789 = 8.0000000729
When given the chance to register a domain for free, I chose 0-z-0.com. The idea was that it's a simple, generic domain. I now host things at something.0-z-0.com and if it becomes more than a weekend project I might migrate it to its own domain.
Generators actually solve the callback issue: https://github.com/visionmedia/co
How about Office 365?
One person types and I cannot watch, dear HN what is this web site?
That's just the base price if you do nothing. The costs increase when you actually store and query data.
Doubtful Lenovo would keep Google Apps, Search, Gmail etc on their Chinese-market Android phones.
I went to a California community college as well as a California state college.

The problem with what you are proposing is that they are already so low on classes, they can't cover the basic comp sci curriculum. This means that you are asking to add courses, which will replace what they currently have available. It is not uncommon to cancel classes with low enrollment.

The level of quality in state colleges in California is frighteningly low. I had comp engineering students ask me what constructors were in a data structures course. There is no way to make California schools teach more useful technology stacks if they cannot cover the basics.

Another thing that really annoys me in the California state college level is the apathy of the professors. You have professors who do no research that have watered down the material to an extreme degree. That same person who asked me what a class constructor was graduated with me.

It may be a great way of getting very low level programmers or even people who are looking to change professions, but you would be ruining what little comp sci core material that they still teach.

I attended an iOS bootcamp a while back. I found it to be educational, however, the amount of time you spend on coding is so low, I can't imagine anyone but a seasoned programmer benefiting from the experience.
Response from support in less than in an hour is not amazing???? For anything non-critical such response is indeed amazing.
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In terms of feeling bad, I once had a client who wanted to demo a multimedia project that we currently had in alpha on his Windows 3.11 laptop, but the sound drivers weren't working properly (everything else was fine). He had about an hour before he had to leave for the airport. I started monkeying with the four horsemen of the apocalypse (Windows.ini, System.ini, Autoexec.bat, and Config.sys) as I had many times before but I screwed up saving backups, bricked his machine, and couldn't fix it). In the end it was more embarrassing than anything else, but it was a facepalm stupid mistake.

The lesson from this is pretty obvious. Backup. Make sure your backup is good and safe.

My worst work-related mistake was getting into business with a friend. It cost me the friendship, a very valuable client, and a good portion of my retirement savings. I'm not sure how related it was, but a few years later my (former) friend killed himself.

And the lesson here is not to go into business with friends. Or at least to set up the business as if you're not friends.
I can relate to "coldly professional". Up front, succinct - all good. But I can also relate to people who might have spent 10 or more years in the company. Loyal, motivated, emotionally invested. I think they wouldn't actually mind a hug in the end.
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Buying Moto handsets was a brain-fart from the beginning. It's a good day for Google shareholders that Google decided to take the perceived financial hit (in reality they had taken that hit already) and unload a small-ish mediocre handset OEM and achieve clarity in their OEM partner relationships.

The biggest red flag I had seen re Google last year were the ads Moto ads with the tag line "A Google company." I could not think of a less Google-like company than an old-line handset OEM.
Food banks and their volunteers try to provide the healthiest food they can, but often-times are dependent on donations. I am lucky to volunteer with some folks at one and it's like Christmas morning for us when we've got fresh fruits and vegetables to handout to folks!

Most food banks are barely scraping by on whatever hard-work and good-will the volunteers and their community are able to muster.

I would prefer to see this family (probably working pretty hard right now) to make a living income, with their children seeing the rewards that their parent's hard work and discipline has brought them.

Maybe not spending $75,000 on artisanal strippers in one night, but a fulfilling life of self-agency.
>As much as I'd like for every bootcamp to have altruistic motives, some seem like a money-grab to me.

Regulation should not ALWAYS assume a stupid citizen. Just like total surveillance might make us somewhat safer, total regulation might make things somewhat less fraudulent. But do the benefits justify the costs: bureaucracy, cementing a fast-paced industry in the molasses of government? Creating a new set of taxes, fees, and public employees?
They're probably worth more than that for Google if they are make-or-break for Android.
Well, if you notice closely, it is trading at 60.16 +6.63 (12.39%) in after-hours trading.
Could very well be! And why not follow your dreams when you're rich?
Fact still remains that Android is now under ChromeOS chief Sundar Pichai.
This coversion is muddied by a failure to distinguish confidential information ("I have disease X"), from identifying information (my name/address)