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The privacy policy says that personal information, such as my name or e-mail address, is private and confidential. I assume that personal information would include the contents of my emails. However, with email privacy policies I'd rather not rely on assumptions and see it spelled out more specifically.
Absolutely agree with learning digital circuit design first. Before writing a single line of HDL, you should know exactly what you want to be synthesized.

Unfortunately all to many courses approach like learning a new programming language. To me this is like teaching CAD before teaching how to draw a rectangle.
I think this is a sensible decision until safety concerns have been adequately addressed. Innovation is great, shorter delivery time is awesome, but not at the expense of safety of general public.
I'm talking about the average/majority case. I also have a colleague who managed to talk his way (after completing a major re-architecture of our product) into a 3 month paid vacation. He gave his notice 2 weeks after coming back from that.

So - if you are a high performing individual, you can make it work for you, but for a lot of people, unlimited days morphs into no days.

But - I think your kicker really captures the impact of this policy "t's just a matter of having a company that actually wants reasonable work-life balance for their employees."
Without paywall: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Talk about hyperbole.
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Steroids like Prednisone were the recommended course of treatment by doctors when I was first diagnosed -- a massive dose of oral steroids for months. Rheumatologists said in no uncertain terms that this was likely going to have complications and long-term health consequences. I decided it wasn't worth it for what amounts to a cosmetic change.

From what I've read, tofacitinib is a a JAK inhibitor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_kinase_inhibitor), as opposed to a cortoicosteroid like Prednisone. It inhibits the activity of a very specific family of enzymes that play a part in regulation of the immune system (cytokine signalling).

It makes a ton of sense to dispense it as a topical cream to limit the potentially complex side effects. I'm also curious whether it's more or less effective for scarring vs. non-scarring alopecia, since scarring alopecia is characterized by active inflammation, and tofacitinib is supposed to be successful in reducing inflammation at the right dosage.

If someone has more background in this area, I'd appreciate more details. JAK inhibitors seem like an exciting area of research!
This is a sweet idea! This can disrupt
From memory signing up for Crowdcube last year (a colleague asked me to review a business he's been referred to), I had to 'tick a box' declaring I was a sophisticated investor (not the right legal term - I think I'm inserting the Australian equivalent into my memory). I presume a slightly more thorough approval process would be involved if I made an investment.

So it's crowdfunding, but not in the "everybody can play" model the article discusses.
I am pretty sure you can hire most Aussies cheaper then you can compared to Silicon Valley or New York, but I consider both of those places the exception to the rule, and someone on a good wage there will tend to take a pay cut to go anywhere.

Look at www.seek.com.au which is pretty much the premiere jobs site for Australia for prices

Senior Dev Roles in Sydney and Melbourne will get ~ $120k AUD per year with Brisbane and other state capitals generally dropping from there. Mid Level in Brisbane (3rd largest city) is generally $65k AUD. Orgs tend to be smaller here, so there are less managers / director / CTO roles then I have seen in the US. As such you can find it more difficult to climb the ladder.

On top of salary though there are a few extra expenses. Employer super is ~ 9% (going up to 12% in the future) on top of salary. States may (or may not) have payroll tax, and you likely also have to pay for things like WorkCover (which is an insurance scheme for injuries sustained at work). On the other hand most companies don't offer health insurance, etc as perks.
I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure when you set foot at a blackjack table at a US casino, there is almost 100% likelihood that you're going to be playing blackjack. This outcome was engineered by the legal system. It's no accident that there's no chance of you losing your money at a casino for reasons you couldn't have researched ahead of time. In other words, the rules of the game are public knowledge.

With a startup, you could lose your money because the founders got into a squabble.

Casino vs startup investing is therefore an invalid comparison.
AFAIK no. I know you're not refuting this, but my general point is that in the UK this system does exist and hasn't created the supposed chaos in the UK that the US financial authority believes will happen in the US.
Thank you all, malnourish, bemmu and viznut -- now I understand how the 8bit synth works in Caustic on my Android tablet. Furthermore, I want to make my own music software on my Raspberry Pi and Adapteva Parallellas and this is the first real step on the path to that.
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All very good points - thank you! Do some of them come from hard won experience?

With regards to sensitive user data - depending on your point of view, that can be fairly wide (passwords through to, say, medical history). Where would/do you draw the line? Obviously as much as is possible/feasible should be encrypted in some fashion, but at what point does even losing the encrypted data become an issue (assuming it's well encrypted, not just hashed with no salts)?
> Couldn't such a system be built voluntarily?

Yes, but would it be as effective as a universal scheme? Also, there is a chicken and egg situation, whereby only people with the advantage of enough wealth to join in the voluntary scheme could access a safety net, biasing against people who do not have advantage but do have the ability to contribute.

> Why should a startup founder be able to bet on someone else's money?

Because we're all linked by, and benefit from, our societal connections and as a society we've collectively decided that it's the best way forward.

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I would also love to use Stripe in NZ. The NZ market really doesn't have any good alternatives.
This is Ali Eteraz. Thank you for recognizing this piece. It was a lot of fun to write. I've actually been to a Ycombinator event. Twice I think. A couple of your alumnus managed to talk me into downloading stuff or getting on email lists that, well, I didn't always use (though they did seem promising!). I am a writer based in the Bay Area and I really enjoy getting to learn about interesting technological developments and human stories within that. So definitely hit me up whenever you're congregating or plotting something interesting. My website is alieteraz.com or I am at @eteraz or FB.

Ali Eteraz

ps - I later got to meet Michael K. at the Unicode conference in Santa Clara, along with the Microsoft Windows team. The Windows Phone people, who I also really wanted to talk to because this is a mobile problem too, did not want to talk to me because they had a new phone coming out.
> If you think that the way science is performed hasn't been significantly changed and refined in the past 100 years, the original timeframe suggested... I don't know what to say. Much of what we call the scientific method has been defined, refined, and expanded in this last 100 years.

Yes, by scientists.
I've had AU for the past 4 years, progressed from AA onset in 2006 (i think). It's good to see something in teh pipeline, but jeeze the side effects are serious. Though, I'll bet those are folks on all kinds of other meds at the same time.

I'll also be keeping a close eye on the trials... in the end, it's not worth catching skin cancer just to have to pay for haircuts again.
If everyone called it pre-ordering and not crowdfunding, I think there would be less "controversy"/ upset people. (I realize the crowd might be providing the funding to make whatever endeavor possible, but if it's ultimately pre-ordering...) the conceptual framework of crowdfunding means you're a part of something bigger. It taps into the language of start up funding. If a successful campaign results in the people putting on the project making tons of money, all you might get is a refund and disappointment. That result is more palatable if all you did was pre-order something.

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jparker165, ask your friend if "Inside the Mirrortocracy" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7930430 applies to his company.
You're right, but the sophisticated investor requirements are very loose.

http://www.seedrs.com/faq/items/65_what_are_the_eligibility_...

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1529/schedule/5/made
For web development, perhaps you could create a simple system that detects if the user's device supports nastaliq. If not convert, it to naskh or Romanized Urdu (not sure which is preferred). As for dealing with all the data already written in naskh and Romanized Urdu, this is a bit more complicated because I am guessing there is not a one to one match between naskh and nastaliq (naskh has less letters), and Romanized Urdu and nastaliq. You would probably need to collect some data and use some machine learning techniques. If it is not too big you could use a client-side Javascript program, otherwise something like a Chrome extension or an API. There are similar things done for Arabic to handle various forms of Romanized Arabic (user does not have access to an Arabic keyboard) and Non-Modern Standard Arabic Dialects: http://www.yamli.com/
There are lots of poorly behaved applications that will allocate RAM that they never touch again.

If you only run applications you wrote yourself, you can prevent this behavior.
Another way to put it is that specialized supercomputers no longer exist, and the top500 is now populated with super-branded racks of PCs running Linux with souped up network cards.

For the young ones in the audience, the supercomputer term has historically been used to describe machines with largely custom hardware from the CPUs up - or at least from the CPUs onwards. Cray vector machines are the canonical example. These were shared-memory / single-system-image machines, software really saw it as one computer instead of a networked cluster.
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There is another problem with fonts. Popular fonts used on the internet only have information about the joining of the 28 Arabic characters. When the extra characters in Urdu are typed they don't join with the other characters in the word. eg. I will type the first line of the couplet here. Note how the third,fourth and seventh word are broken up. اور باذار سے لے آے اگر ٹوٹ گیا

I have written about some other issues with the Urdu language over here. http://upgoerurdu.nfshost.com/technical.html
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Specifically with SSH, I always recommend this:

No passwords. Ever. Turn off PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config. Use SSH keys instead.

Personally, I think if you're running SSH in this mode, it's safe to run it on the default port and not really worry about locking access down to certain IP addresses/ranges.
Really? More than with a device that has a LED on when it is recording?

If you can see what is done with an smartphone how is there are such a number of subreptitious videos and pictures taken with smartphones
Very few people would go to a casino with their life savings with the expectation of retiring off the winnings. Most people understand the risks involved (even if they are very poor at understanding the real odds, they still know they aren't good). Further, casinos would never be allowed to sell their games that way; gambling is a massively regulated industry.

Now consider a company selling itself. With no rules, they are able to say anything they want about themselves. The stock market is seen by many (most?) as an investment, and therefore fairly safe (possibly even safe). How well dispersed is the knowledge that, while investing most of your money in the market is relatively safe, investing it in one dstock is horribly risky? How easy is it for a semi-reputable (much less disreputable) company to paint an overly rosey picture, appealing to somebody's hopes and dreams?

I completely agree you should be able to invest. There is a real problem with how qualified investor is defined today, but I'm not convinced removing that concept is a good idea at all.
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This is an interesting idea, but I don't see how it differs from what Coursera and such are offering. Pay for a structured, college-like learning environment, to prove something to yourself, or brag. (I'm excluding those who are just trying to be more marketable to employers)
Let's say your a 2-4 man startup of industry professionals with a game prototype and a great trailer. You have the potential to bring in upwards of $1,000,000 on Kickstarter. That money is pretty much equivalent to pre-orders plus varying levels of "special edition" perks and physical goods.

How much equity would you put on the table and how much money would you want for it? Keep in mind that if you have a good pitch you can bring in $1,000,000 for no equity and if your game is successful it could bring in another $3,000,000 to $10,000,000.
> AFAIK there isn't a red "recording" light that comes on, right?

Yes, there is
That's pretty much every system in the world. You could say that about credit cards, tax returns, democracy, road rules, marriage... etc. They need to set up a framework that minimises opportunity for cheats and accept there is risk in everything.
> On the other hand most companies don't offer health insurance, etc as perks

IMHO as someone who's worked in the US and now lives in Australia, that's a good thing! I'd argue that one of the major causes of the current health insurance fiasco in the US is the history behind health insurance being offered as a perk for good jobs. My health insurance (medicare & private) in Australia is completely separate from my employer and my employment status, and I very much like it that way.
I think it is pretty safe to assume they're working on hardware to compliment the Oculus headset; gloves, a controller and or other accessories perhaps a full body suit comprised of sensors to map body movement.

I am well and truly excited for the future of virtual reality, Oculus are definitely at the forefront of greatness here.
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As I understand, what's exciting is that tofacitinib isn't a corticosteroid that we're used to seeing, but a JAK inhibitor -- a class of potential drugs that have a very different approach towards suppressing immune function (specifically targeting cytokine signaling.) Tofacitinib was the first JAK inhibitor to be approved by the FDA. This was a super-interesting paper from 2012 that goes into more detail on JAK inhibitors and why they're interesting: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419278/

I completely understand your concern about your daughters. I'm lucky that baldness is culturally accepted for adult men (and even encouraged), so I don't feel too self-conscious about alopecia. Hopefully we'll get a better handle on autoimmune conditions with this new class of drugs. Until then, organizations like NAAF (http://www.naaf.org/) are wonderful in helping people with alopecia cope with its medical, emotional, and psychological impact.
> Utility had defeated tradition.

Is that supposed to be self-evidently bad?
This is the second article in a week where I've read the complaint that banks don't loan money to Aussie startups. However I think you'll find banks don't lend money to startups pretty much anywhere in the world. Banks aren't the place to secure funding for high risk ventures - VCs, Angels and crowdsourcing are.

I think the bigger issue in Australia is that the VCs here have a terrible investment track record, so banks and other investors are less likely to given them funds to invest.

There are a couple of things that could change here to improve things. The first is that it's currently easier to bet $15K on Melbourne FC to win the AFL Grand Final than to invest the same amount of money in an Aussie startup. That's completely crazy - it makes becoming an Angel in Australia a burden.

The second potential is Australia's vast pool of super funds (401Ks in US terminology). They can't invest in either startups or VCs because it's "too risky". However they should be allowed to invest a portion of the fund - say 10%. That would make a huge difference to the funding available to startups here.
It's not THAT bad here. I'm starting a new company and tossing up where to incorporate (Oz v. NZ) as one of the other partners is Australian and most of our sales will be in Australia. What's super annoying is how frustrating doing business between the two countries is, especially considering CER. Oh, and the payment thing straight sucks.
Meanwhile, in the free software world...

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ySTZaXP5XKFg0OpmHZM0...

https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/blob/master/test/shaping/...

(Harfbuzz is the default text layout engine for Linux GUI frameworks: Qt, GTK, etc)
I have alopecia, dont be a pussy who use drugs with side effects. Take it like a man. No Hair, No Problem i can deal with it.
What exactly is the "PLUS" in this client? How does it fare against RoundCube?

The colors could be better.
Mirror if the site is hard to reach: http://static.kattis.com/icpc/wf2014/
Data is stored as Unicode (except some really old desktop app formats that were written before Unicode). Naskh and Nastaliq are font styles, used when the system displays the data. The solution is simply that good Nastaliq fonts be created and then used on websites where Urdu is being used. Since Urdu fonts can be much larger in size than Roman fonts (the fonts have to specify joining behavior between all possible combination of characters), delivering over the web is not really viable. Fonts have to be native to all the OSes in existence, so that websites can use them.

(I don't think Roman Urdu is ever used for anything serious.)
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good stuff mate. A few other functionalities need to be added like embedding videos, tweets, blogpost etc.
And don't forget that now you are completing with Google stories (http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2014/05/google-stories-and-mov...) so you need to be Awesome.
But won't there be a language barrier? And call me a distrustful cynic, but I somehow doubt those countries would accept that I just show up there and demand edumacation.
What are you talking about? I just downloaded a clip vie YouView from YouTube in 4K, just to see if it would work.
Reductions in public services/welfare supposedly matched by temporary levies on high earners. Those levies will be gone soon enough and the high earners will make back any shortfall through super changes anyway.
I completely agree. The refund rates of popular limited-time only specials, 10-20%, would suggest unsophisticated "investors" are willing to do desperate things including risk far more money than they can afford to lose, when an emotional appeal is powerfully made to them. This can very often lead to financial woes.

This is a very real problem.

However, I have an especially hard time believing the government can make Internet-based regulatory initiatives work at all. In the modern day, where what is right and what is wrong is increasingly fought for over social media, I have to wonder what the role of government will be. Saying we need regulation is a nice thought, but it's going to run up against some practical realities that make the current regulatory regime particularly ineffective.

For example, Counterparty [1] enables anyone, located anywhere in the world, to raise money from anyone else anonymously with Bitcoin. It's "pseudonymous", but come on. Is the SEC ready for that world? We are about to witness a completely unregulated global securities market take shape, and we have a government that can't make Healthcare.gov! The most interesting question to consider is how do we protect consumers in a new world where they will be faced with countless, potentially anonymous securities offerings from complete strangers, many of whom will be located overseas or engaged in gray area trades. Talk about a nightmare for slow-moving bureaucracies.

1: https://counterparty.co
This article has been pull by Google - how predictable! I can't find it anymore. Anybody got a copy they could put up here?
This talk at Google by Roozbeh Pournader is very good at laying out the issues with bidirectional language issues in software. This is a non-trivial problem and is rarely ever solved correctly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOEzYefrqo4
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customers: imagine a 50 something, single, white male from jersey. he asks you for a new feature and you explain that someday when you have time maybe. he launches in to a full tirade about being a paying customer and lets you know his whole frustration with the consumer experience. he has never done anything but work for someone else but yet he knows for certain how you should run your business. he takes it very personally that you don't value his impossible opinion and starts to send you creepy emails. the more you ignore him, the more he persists. forget it about a legal recourse. cops could give a shit. sure you can filter his emails, but the fact remains you have some old male obsessed and taking out his midlife crisis on you. im not joking when i tell you i literally have 5 guys like that.

also hard are partner relationships or supplier relationships where you don't have any clout. the uncertainty of internet biz in general. knowing google could throw you a curveball and not give two shits.

finally, competitors act in completely irrational and destructive ways because they're competitive and they just want to win. they're so driven they'll drop prices to zero when you could easily coexist. always worrying about stupid crap like that.

it sucks but it beats working for a dumbshit. i just want to be so rich one day that i can say fuck it all. that is my experience and very much how i feel.
> The stock market is seen by many (most?) as an investment, and therefore fairly safe (possibly even safe).

Well, now, that seems to be what needs to change. Institutional investors rightfully treat non-AAA investment products with all the respect of used toilet-paper (with the mortgage crisis imparting the further wisdom that a AAA rating is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for a product to be a safe backing investment for consumer savings.) How can we get consumer investors to see things the same way? Put big black bars across the tops of stock certificates like they have on packs of cigarettes?