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Wow, I just noticed your nick and wish I could give you more upvotes for that alone!

It looks like you have a background in epidemiology, so not sure if you are seriously concerned or posting for the pure perfection of deploying your nick. But it is an interesting question and assumedly one they thought through.

The alternative inputs they mentioned (head tilts) may have been designed to minimize needing to touch Glass. Certainly touching glass after having ones hands on some patients would be a concern -- and for the health provider given that it's rather close to the eyes.

Providers do touch smartphones, tablets, pens, etc. when they are with patients. I wonder whether Glass can be chem wiped. Many of the chemicals used in the wipes are reportedly weak carcinogens as well (at least where I trained), so personally I would be concerned about putting something on my face that had been wiped repeatedly during a 16 hour shift.

However, if it's not touched, then it's no worse than eyeglasses and likely to be less of a fomite than a white coat or a necktie.[1]

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB125859205137154753?mg=... (Plenty of peer reviewed studies, but this is publicly accessible.)
This isn't a "youth problem". 20-year-olds and 50-year-olds aren't natural enemies, and most people don't think that way. Blaming this on one side is ridiculous. When 50-year-old chickenhawk VCs only want to fund 25-year-olds, that's not the fault of one generation or the other. (Can you blame it on the young for taking the opportunity? No. Can you blame it on the old when it's only a few making those decisions that are hurting most of them? No.)

The real issue is the cool/substance chasm, which the article describes well.

If you want substance, you can work for the government or a big corporation... your salary growth will average 5% per year, your advancement will be political, and you'll probably never be able to afford a house in the Bay Area or New York. You'll also be at the mercy of corporate actions (mergers, etc.) that might move you out of your fun R&D job and into the basement.

If you play for cool, there's a 90% chance you waste years of your life you can never get back, a 9% chance you break even on opportunity cost, a 0.9% chance that you never have to work again (after wearing yourself out over 10 years of a manic-depressive startup existence, and "retirement" being an artifact of adrenal exhaustion, moderate wealth, and apathy), and a 0.1% chance of getting so rich that it was actually worth it.

What we need is a middle path. We have the golden skill that makes us capable of 15-40% annual growth (in salary, economic value, etc.) Between criminally inefficient large organizations (which produce "substance", but inefficiently and with painful wastes of effort) and flash-seeking careerist venture capitalists ("cool")-- a path that might "average" 50%/year career returns but with so much noise that the median outcome is poor-- no one will let us. That's the problem.
QR code on the wall is probably better in this case because it's easier to spot from a head mounted display. The barcodes on wristbands are used mainly for patient ID when administering medications, where the user is close to the patient. Being able to walk into a room and look at the same place each time has the advantage here.
It's incredibly important. the place you are most likely to acquire an infection / disease and die is the hospital, after adjusting for the fact that you're there because you're already sick. Forgive me for not linking to a source on this
Hi guys, i'm part of the dev team and we would love some feedback on our work (both with bug and feature requests).
Then it sounds like you know exactly what you need to do :) Go tackle the giants!
Have you seen Daring fireball?
Thanks for the suggestion. I just posted the answer there [1].

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/22355851/383868
is it me or when an article is titled: "[something] is dead, long live [something]", you immediately want to flag it out of existence? seriously, comes up with a better title.
Why does each user need to be given an ID? How private is this?
The NSA, breaking into US computers, is violating the Third Amendment, in my opinion.

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Kewl. So it's ok to spy on The People, but Congress!?! Omfg you Nazis! How dare you!?!?!?!!?!!??
Ah. So THIS is how you juice your stack overflow ranking. Good to know.
git pull --rebase would take care of those nonlinearities.

In my experience, on projects with a few developers, --rebase is awesome.
I like the idea however it could do with filtering out HTML and Javascript.

Most pages I've tried it on so far without manually selecting text it goes through a bunch of javascript before getting to the content. That may be my bad the way I'm using it but as the site mentions readability I figured it'd chuck it through that first
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The existing systems were created out of necessity, and were fundamental to the establishment of the middle class.

You talk about Roman College as if it were something available to the destitute, 70-year old serf? Come on.

Today we have millions of people working full-time jobs, making less than a living wage. That is a structural, societal problem, and no planning on an individual laborer's level is going to counter that.

How about you get back to us on your 50th birthday and tell us if the best way for minimum wage laborers to pay for basic healthcare is to beg rich people?

The only thing rich people hate more than taxes is bums. Something about moral deficiency, right?
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Someone finally gets a 2 year old joke.
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You're missing the forest for the trees. Yes, there are systemic problems with governments contracting out software.

The substance/cool chasm is real (find my other post in this thread) and vicious.
It doesn't work well. Reads out Javascript and side text/ads on websites.
Not really.

The more expensive certificates offer insurance, but if you read the small print you'll see that it isn't worth much.
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$50k a day over a period of multiple months makes you a millionaire, independent of people's income around you.
grins

It was a perfect use of my nick, but more importantly I'm a computational epidemiologist who works on hospital acquired infections. It's mostly a curiosity, to see if the gesture and command based Glass system results in less carriage than some other tools. It likely cuts down on some things, but I touch my own glasses all the damned time to adjust them, and I'm used to them - I've been wearing them all my life.
My issue isn't that he answered his own question. My issue is that this question might have been closed if he hadn't, since it's likely to solicit opinion.
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For a different view:

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21591748-th...
Just curious if anyone knows the wholesale price of a lowish-cost, low TCO solar setup.
I am a doc and my partner is a medical microbiologist.

Its just about simple bacteria spread - would you want your immunocompromised relative in contact with a doctor that has just been in contact with a contagious infection source without at least trying to minimise the chance of cross infection?

The stethoscope is a similar concern - rarely cleaned properly, often present.
First, those stations are ineffective against some major pathogens (C. difficile and Norovirus come to mind), and alcohol gels aren't particularly well suited for cleaning equipment - they're meant for hands.

We do talk about sterilizing equipment doctors carry - lab coats, ties, stethoscopes, phones, etc. all the time. There's just not a good solution yet, which is one of the reasons one might need to assess:

1. How much of a problem this is for Google Glass in particular?

2. How amenable are the devices to cleaning?

You know, exactly what I said in my first post.
WhatsApp communication between your phone and our server is encrypted.

...

Please be aware of who has physical access to your phone.
Yeah, I'm just not a big fan of the endless stream of stretch goals. Some of them are notable things like an improved mission editor, but a lot of them are "not particularly remarkable star system" and "extra class of fighter that we hadn't mentioned before." As if they weren't going to have a huge pile of star systems and several types of fighters anyway.

It comes across like they're trying to guilt people into upgrading to higher preorder tiers because otherwise there won't be any more ships or worlds. I backed it on Kickstarter for whatever tier buys the game, but I'll pass on the $275 in-game spaceship and spaceship shaped flash drive (plus a pile of other stuff).

But hey, it's their money and if people want to invest it in this, that's up to them. Hell of a lot better than Candy Crush, if you ask me.
Back when patronage was the dominant business model for art creation, "wealthy" was pretty much anyone that had space in their budget for discretionary expenses.

These days, you don't need one person to pay your living expenses while you create. You can get 50000 fans to pay you $1 a year to make the stuff that they think is cool. With cryptocurrency, you can even get fans from other countries to pay patronage.

Sure, rich people will always be able to commission the crap that no one likes but them, but that's no longer the only way to go.
I've never thought much about my reading speed before, but after trying this and finding the deafault setting a bit slow, I decided to compare my natural reading speed.

I was able to read the article I chose in about 85% of the time of the default 400WPM of the bookmarklet (I read the article first with a timer, and then reread with the bookmarklet), which would put me at 470WPM. With Squirt, I was only able to get up to 650WPM before it felt too uncomfortable.

I wonder if people really read one word at a time, especially when they're short words. If people do read more than one word at a time, I think a more intelligent approach might be necessary to really make the experience both comfortable and fast.
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This project may consider a name-change, as googling for this after it's gone from the HN homepage will trigger ... interesting results. Especially if you're trying to show this to a co-worker in the office.

Note to my boss: I'm sorry!
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Hi Ben, why is Aura not coming to OSX?
Is it really so hard to remember these three forms of conditionals?

if ! grep foo /some/file ; then
run_something
fi

if [ $INTEGER -eq 0 ] ; then
run_something_else
fi

if [ "one" = "two" ] ; then
do_something
fi

Those are the only conditionals I ever use. I don't really use conditionals in any other way, and it's really not that complicated to see how they work. Sure, there are more complicated forms, and forms that other shells use (what you see above are fairly compatible, common forms of conditionals, except for the -eq). But if you go back to the original shells and how they did scripting, that should work for most if not all other shells today.

Also, those parts you quote don't contradict anything. It's saying systemd has a "better design", which means it is a shinier, fancier new toy to play with. But the paper never once points out any flaw in sysvinit. But that's obvious; Debian had been chugging along for over over two decades with sysvinit without any problems. If your argument is that suddenly, after 20 years, someone realized sysvinit was some horribly flawed design that needed to be replaced, and it just so happens that systemd came along right when they realized it, I don't buy it. What the paper does spell out, though, is all the advantages of systemd for things other than system init. Basically it says "Hey, we want all these new features, and we need systemd to replace init for it all to work, so please just go along with it because it's a much better design."
Maybe. But the ERs I work in rarely have one patient rooms, and the patients have a tendency to wander.
Kickstarter-like funding? Public money? Donations? Grants?

I don't believe that the law should be trying to protect the current business model of horse breeders/candlestick makers/cinema complexes simply because technology has made possible a cheaper and better equivalent.
There may have been no capital-W Waterfall approach, but implying that projects weren't routinely being run in a waterfall-esque, staged-handoff fashion smacks of revisionism.

I was there. I was on those projects. They existed, and unless everything went perfectly according to plan, they were messes.
I used to work with classified data.

"We" incinerated hard drives at EOL.

"We" did that for a reason. Anything short of destruction means the data can be recovered if somebody has enough will.
Guardian of language? That's a bit of a silly position to take, isn't it?

I would say that almost everyone who studies language agress that "guarding" language is bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription
Thank you for this! I intend to drop the script on my blog, it might actually improve real reading rates (rather than thousands coming in from a reddit link and jumping ship after <9s ).
There's a bug in which it looks like I'm playing about 5 people at once, all moving very fast.
It's ridiculous to suggest that someone's statement to that effect is necessarily true for anyone else, particularly in a place as big as the USA. The economy varies widely between towns, let alone between states.

America is going to hell in plenty of ways... along with most of the rest of the world. This story isn't exactly a big contributor or indicator of those progressions, though.
I’ve always been under the impression that the use case for AngularJS is applications, and by definition it is not intended for anything where SEO is a concern (e.g. 99.9% of AngualrJS apps should be post-login). Is this not the case? What are you doing with Angular that SEO is enough of a concern to try to work around it, but not enough of a concern not to use Angular?

Full disclosure, I’ve never used Angular but it’s next on my list of things to learn.
I've seen this cycle a few times. Let me handwave how it goes:

* Agile Critisism: The snake oil is all over and getting worse!

* Agilista: It's not done properly!

* Agile Criticism: No True Scotsman!

I think the NTS is where things usually leave the line and end up in a lot of splutters and anecdotes.

Sometimes I wonder if the great flamewars and their arguments should be canonized into standard textfiles and passed around. Much like the old story of joking by only using numbers. :-)
None of these are a correct usage of frivolous. You are describing imperious, self-defeating, and short-sighted behaviors respectively, none of which are really the same.
Sorry but I don't think you're right about [ð] (this) and [θ] (thin) being a phoneme. For one, most native English speakers hear a difference if you ask them, and it does seem possible to find a minimal pair, that is, two words that mean different things in English but differ only in those two sounds. (e.g. thigh vs. thy)

A better example of a phoneme in English is the aspirated and non-aspirated [p] sound (transcribed as [pʰ] for aspirated). It's just the difference between holding in a bunch of air and pushing it out, and most English people can't hear a difference.

Edit: I may have been confused, were you just pointing these out as being all different phonemes?
Coming from R, I have to ask... Why am I seeing 'for' and 'while' loops? Why isn't this code vectorized? It looks like both implementations suck.
In that time, the caller will often still hear a "ringing" tone.

actually this was surprising (and news) to me: I'm in Belgium, and I don't think this ever occurred to me. If the phone is not found (as in, truned off), you don't get any ringing. Just some silence followed by either voicemail or some message saying the correspondent is unreachable and then voicemail.
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Confirmation bias? (Due to the experience you had every time you finally did bite the bullet). I ask because by that argument every single person should try every single technology.

For example, by your argument you should try AccDC, Ample SDK, AngularJS, CupQ, DHTMLX, Dojo, Echo3, Enyo, Ext JS, Google Web Toolkit, jQuery, midori, MochiKit, MooTools, PhoneJS, Prototype & script. aculo.us, Pyjamas, qooxdoo, Rialto Toolkit, Rico, SmartClient and SmartGWT, Wakanda, YUI, ZK, Webix, and Web Atoms JS. Why don't you start tomorrow?

While you're at it, don't forget

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Well, see you in 2015!
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The sterility of a doctor's eye-wear is a concern because of the following simple scenario:

A doctor has been seeing patients all day, and visits one with an active C. difficile infection. They touch the patient's bed (which has been shown to be as contaminated with organism as the skin), and then, before they change their gloves, adjust their glasses - transferring the pathogen to a surface it can likely persist on for some span of time.

Later that day, they adjust their glasses again (seriously, I do this like 20 times a day), and recontaminate their hands before examining another patient.

Glasses - along with shoes, ties, lab coats, cell phones, etc. represent potential sources of cross contamination between patients, and are an active area of scientific and medical research.
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Boys moved to affluent area became more depressed (study)
Slightly off topic, but here's a link to a museum site about what was probably the world's first shale oil boom - 160 years ago:

http://www.scottishshale.co.uk/
Almost! People of course have wildly different views. Some people believe that new roads and parking spots are not good things.

Consider, for example, the thesis behind "The High Cost of Free Parking." Here's a summary of the book: https://server1.tepper.cmu.edu/CMUPark/The-High-Cost-of-Free... but in short, there is an "oversupply of free parking" and "parking requirements increase the cost of housing, as well as goods and services."

Someone who believes that thesis is correct is likely to believe that the stated argument for long-distance buses from SF to Mt. View for Google is "frivolous" because it doesn't affect the underlying infrastructure issues. There aren't that many of these people, but they don't agree that it's "proving too much."

However, that thesis is not an objection to letting more people move in. Parking spaces take up space. They are required to exist because of zoning laws, so they can't be replaced by housing. Someone who is against abundant free or subsidized parking in urban areas can still be for more population. It's just that the new residents don't have the economic disincentives to walk, bike, rollerblade, etc. or take mass transit.

Who wants socialized central planning for parking - let the free market decide! ;)
Ask HN: How do you find problems to solve? Finding an idea is tough.
So HN, I have the required skills and motivation, but I just don't have a good idea. How do I find it?

First step is knowing what you want to do. Easy. I want to participate in the convergence of healthcare and technology, especially so in developing nations like India.

Next step is finding a problem to solve, and that's where I fall short. All of my ideas are objectively banal compared to what others in this space are doing. I'm not a healthcare professional, so my ability to understand their needs is limited.

Is there anything I can do to explore and cultivate good ideas?
Apparently, it's all open source[1] and available to be hacked away at[2][3], including cutting out calls back to Google.

1: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/google...
2: https://code.google.com/p/google-glass-kernel-source/
3: https://developers.google.com/glass/tools-downloads/system
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Only one problem - both of these (rather cool) implementations show the incorrect time.
keep getting connection lost, maybe du to server load?
"With no college degree and little experience, it's possible to land a job with a six-figure salary"
My thought is that if they're using Google Glass as a routine tool, they've increased the number of people wearing eye-wear, and those who are not used to wearing glasses will probably be fiddling with them more.
As a counterpoint, when I call a US phone that is shut off, the call seems to go straight to voicemail.
I like this a lot, my only request would be a slightly longer pause at the end of sentences. Right now it pauses on long words so I mentally chunk all that together.
> I wonder if people really read one word at a time

They don't. I always thought the whole point of speed reading was to ingest multiple words simultaneously.

These speed reading tools should be extended so that they can show multiple words at once rather than one word at a time. A really ambitious improvement would be to automatically recognize very common phrases and constructions and to make an effort to always show those as single groups.
So in this model, what is the right way to merge mainline into your branch? Is it "git pull upstream mainline" while in your branch or something else?
I've played four games, and each time it declares the player with the lower score the winner after a seemingly arbitrary amount of time.
Branches are literally just text files that contain a sha in refs/heads. The name of the file is the name of your branch. They are an incredibly lightweight concept that should never be considered the source of any sort of technical debt.
Or just team issues. I recall one friend telling me how open spaces became strategic games.

- You don't wanna be next to this employee (too lazy, friction)
- Being too close to a [bad] manager
- Being moved was a very cheap lever toward fear of inflicted unspoken sanctions
Just a nitpick. It was Cheka(ЧК) and NKVD that were the scary secret police in the bad years of USSR. KGB as an agency didn't exist yet.
Another perspective:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/susanelizabethshepard/wildcatting-a-...
Did you mean you are a self-styled 'nitpicker', and not "knitpicker"?

...wink...

'Emergent' is well-established in medicine to mean exactly how it was used in the linked article. There is nothing 'trendy' about that usage (see link to 1914 Stedman's Medical Dictionary definition below).
isn't this just another very special case of 'modifying history is harmful'?