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UX Designer — MIT Cambridge, MA

We're looking for someone to help us plan, design, code and test the user workflows, behaviors and interfaces of web-based applications. This role will work to understand the needs of an application's users and translate that knowledge into the creation of workflows and experiences that promote learning, with special emphasis on usability. As a member of the User Experience & Interaction team, this candidate works closely with product management, programmers and other designers to translate product requirements into highly usable web applications using cutting edge technology. The UX Designer must be comfortable addressing a complex and diverse set of interaction problems, and researching and/or developing new solutions to design/technology challenges.

This role must be comfortable working both independently and collaboratively, with good time management skills, solid team experiences and proven judgment in order to plan, prioritize and accomplish goals. Strong creative skills and effective decision-making skills are required.

• Develop conceptual models, storyboards, scenarios, flowcharts, prototypes, detailed UI design requirements and interface designs.
• Build and write design deliverables to effectively communicate functional behavior to stakeholders.
• Create, run and analyze usability tests to measure effectiveness of UI solutions; incorporate results into overall UX design through assessment and prioritization of business, technical and user constraints.
• Knowledge of ARIA, usability, accessibility (508-compliance) and cross-browser compatibility
• Evaluate effectiveness of new and existing projects and features through performance metrics, customer feedback, competitive landscape, and industry standard best practices to evolve and continuously improve user experience.
• Perform necessary research for each project including ethnography, competitive analysis, and participatory exercises.
• Advise client/team/stakeholders on user experience and human factors best practices.
• Present prototypes to client/team/stakeholders and iterates as appropriately.
• Proficiently code in HTML and CSS/SASS; advocate web standards, cross-browser compatibility and semantic mark-up; hold basic understanding of Javascript/AJAX.
• Actively identify product issues, propose solutions, participate in quality improvement activities.
• Maintain strategic outlook and great attention to detail.
• Collaborate within a dynamic multidisciplinary team.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Please submit a CV, portfolio and cover letter to jandw@mit.edu

Thanks!
SWIFT is a messaging system. It is used to send messages and/or instructions between banks, and between client and their banks. The settlement still takes place between the banks.

Let's take a look at the Hong Kong link you provided.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority ("HKMA") appointed the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited as the Settlement Institution ("SI") for the USD clearing system in Hong Kong.

"The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited" is HSBC.

The USD SI is a commercial bank. Each direct participant has to open and maintain a settlement account with the USD SI and USD transactions are settled across the books of the USD SI.

So, to use the USD clearing system in Hong Kong, you need to open an account with HSBC. They then allow you to settle USD transactions with other members of the HK USD clearing system - who also must have an account at HSBC.

All USD on-line transactions are settled real time on a gross basis and across the books of the USD SI.

So, all HSBC is doing is debiting one client's account and crediting the other client's account. Because it's all internal to HSBC, HSBC's USD balance at the Federal Reserve doesn't change. In other words, you can not use the USD clearing system in Hong Kong to settle USD with someone who doesn't have an account with HSBC.

And, if you'd been blacklisted or sanctioned by the US authorities, you wouldn't be allowed to open a USD account with HSBC.

I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark here: You don't have any experience working in financial markets, do you?
I live in Austria, used to ran a TOR relay and this worries me deeply. I am unsure what to do.
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This could be used as a transition from gas to battery cars. Why? Currently one of the most important reasons holding back companies from producing electric cars is the lack of good batteries, but with this, companies can produce cars that convert gas to electricity in order to drive an electric motor. After a few years, when gas becomes even more expensive and batteries get better, we can switch this mechanism to batteries, and that's it.
It's not democracy unless quite a few conditions are met. Elections alone aren't satisfactory. Unless there is free speech, (completely) universal suffrage and honest authorities, there can't be a democracy.

Russia restricts free speech and universal suffrage through relatively "efficient" means, compared with China. Putin ensures his power with a lot less effort than the CCP. Also "honesty" in Russian authorities is something of a bad joke...
If your product is so comparable that customers will move to a competitor because their salesman moved, does the public have any interest in having the government act as protection-money collector?
I hate to resort to this cliche... but our harsh self-view might just be because our industry is so young. We have higher project failure rates than other 'engineering' disciplines; but we're still trying to figure out HOW to build things. Half of the time, it's like giving an engineering crew a new, barely tested material and telling them to build a skyscraper with it.

The way I see it, our negativity is actually quite hopeful. We know we can do better. We know we WILL do better. So we are hard on ourselves because we see how far we have to go and what it will take to get there.
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Well, we are not driven by wanting something positive either.
I kind of hope they overreach drastically for exactly that reason. It'll be a lot easier to get the filters dropped entirely if we can attack them with "useful website X is blocked for no good reason" over and over and over again, than if we have to argue using examples that many people would actually have a problem with.
Unfortunately the mainstream media has taken a stern stance of building a negative image of those services. You always get to read how it's full of pedophiles and drug traffic. The fact that such services help dissident journalists, bloggers or political figures or are invaluable in case of repressive internet shut-down seems to escape their spotlight.

This generalization of tech phenomenon which can be used for both good and bad deeds has led to extreme paranoia. Hence such harsh sweeps when dealing with it, I guess. Those who are under the effect of the judgement are also a part of yet another generalization encompassing an undefined, ridiculously big network of "criminals".
I agree. Unfortunately, this is a DNS server and the DNS RFCs are all like this.

See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt Section 2.3.2
I bet it's not in Siberia.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7677197
I'm using Chrome 35.0.1916.153 m on Windows, and, um, there's something wrong — there's nothing wrong with the web fonts! Apart from the Merriweather Ultra-Bold that's titling De Beneficiis, that is (and a quick check at Google shows that that same font is rough in the bold weight as well). Everything else is clean and well-aliased, and that's never been the case before.
While in terms of reliability, simplicity and power to weight ratios turbine engines are great, they still suffer from low compression ratios.

If I remember correctly about 3 to 1, compared to 10 in 1 for petrol engines and nearly 20 to 1 for diesel engines.

Thermodynamically this makes it very difficult to achieve high efficiency.
IQ as a measure is like comparing computers on speed of the CPU. It is only one measure that defines us and with that many aspects make us what we are.
Wouldn't a more obvious solution be to change the direction by adding a second combustion chamber on the other side?
Just stop running a TOR relay?
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About 30% of US electricity is produced from nuclear power or non-solar renewable sources. Solar may be a hot topic, but it's nowhere near being the top alternative to fossil fuels.
"(an evaluator for programs in an at-least-as-powerful dependently typed language is the only remotely natural example I know of)"

Note, also, that there's an obvious restriction for that case to get something you can write: "evaluate for the next X steps".
‘Smart drug’ not such a bright idea
Have you tried twitter?
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Perhaps they mean the case when you're navigating within the HN site itself.
In places like (e.g.) the financial sector, they have compensation for the duration of the non-compete. Many tech sector employers have no such concession. They basically want you to just 'not work' in the tech sector for the duration of the non-compete, which is completely not fair to the worker.
Is your question rhetorical ? Because that's how ITER (nuclear fusion reactor) generate electricity in a nutshell, if you replace the ball by plasma.

source : https://www.iter-india.org/images/fusion_experiments2.jpg
Nope. It's a medium sized site I don't get any money out of, not linked to any business. I suppose I could theoretically small claims court them, but I'm not sure if I'd win as they can probably piss about with their customers' connections in whatever way they please due to their T&Cs :(
I highly doubt that would be at all practical. You're basically suggesting that if you hire someone and they stay past a certain time, they will own part of your company forever. This removes the agency that owners have over their own businesses, and makes it so that no one would want to keep employees longer than 3-5 years (or whatever the threshold would be), resulting in guaranteed turnover.
Too hard to seal. Ask a RX8 owner about rotor apex seals sometime. The bane of their existence.

In this new motor there's nitrogen on the other end of the piston that provides "rebound". It's probably inside the coolant jacket as well to prevent expansion and the loss of efficiency that would bring.
I think this is just because of the classic leaky abstraction problem. At first a new abstraction seems amazing, but after using it long enough you've seen enough of its leaks to become disenchanted.
These types of non-competes are pretty common in the US in my industry (finance). Generally upon your leaving the firm has the option to enforce your non-compete for a length of time (often 6 months to 1 year), but you are paid some (usually very high) percentage of your salary. That seems fair enough to me - if you're going to force someone not to work, you ought to pay them.
The thing is that in the United States, the right to free association has never been taken to be a right to associate for the purpose of committing crimes.

The 'glory hole' thing in the original post was crude and pointless, I agree. But the EFF here is straight up providing a guide to a category of persons who are vocational criminals on how to do a better job of hiding their crimes from the police. (The primary purpose of the site the FBI seized wasn't discussion, it was solicitation -- the EFF never gets around to admitting that, that I've seen, which AT BEST means they're unintentionally misleading people in the course of their advocacy.)

I think a lot of people who supported the EFF in the past did so with the understanding that they were protecting a lot of speech freedoms and privacy rights. And yes, prostitutes and their clients do have speech and privacy rights. But they're also breaking laws that have nothing to do with speech or privacy, and the website was taken down in accordance with a reasonable police investigation into such matters. If you think prostitution should be legal, that's an entirely separate discussion, to my mind. But the EFF is moving into something that seems really close to straight-up providing advice for criminals in how to get away with crimes. And these aren't crimes against repressive regimes, or civil disobedience, or anything related to what I would've thought of as the EFF's mission. It makes me a lot less comfortable with the EFF being the leading spokesman for digital freedoms.
I believe this is what Chevy Volt does, and it's brilliant. There are two reasons I like this design. First, the fossil fuel engine in the Volt spins at only three pre-defined speeds so it can be optimized better. By contrast, your normal car engine has to run at both 900 RPM and 6500 RPM, with the best fuel economy somewhere between 2000 and 3000 RPM. Heck, you could shut the Volt's engine entirely while it's "idling" and not have to worry about stop & go traffic: the engine is independent of the wheels.

Second, and this is admittedly more long term, it doesn't really matter what type of engine you put into the Volt. This thought was presented to me by one of their dealers, but it makes a lot of sense. The current engine is a "tried and true" gasoline job. But if Chevy found that diesel or bio fuel, or natural gas worked better, they could swap it out without redesigning the rest of the drivetrain.

I may sound like a walking billboard for the Volt, but I am honestly not. I don't own one, and do not work for Chevy/GM. I do happen to think that the Volt is the best compromise between price, range on batteries, and ability to drive long distances. While Tesla's are very cool, I think the Volt is a much more gradual transition from gas to electric.
Along with a weight reduction, they said that, "It can also be run like a diesel, using compression rather than a spark plug to ignite its fuel mixture." This is important as spark plugs require a decent amount of energy to function.
If you want to avoid that, do you have to stick with standard system fonts for chrome windows? Is the issue google web fonts specifically?
Commercialize it? Aren't cache-oblivious B-trees patented by Tokutek?
When I was young, as part of my move into the public school system (from a private school in my first and second grades), I had to take one. Later, I was identified by a gifted program and had to take an entire battery of tests for most of the rest of my schooling, including numerous IQ tests. In those circles, I didn't know anybody who had never taken an IQ test.
I don't think the cartridge port is big enough.
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They last used it in the RX-8, which they discontinued in 2012.

(at least, for production consumer vehicles)
But this is a problem only if it's an exit node, right?
A simple, standard equivalent of __FILE__ and __LINE__ would be 60% as useful as a debugger.
"We fail orders of magnitude more than any other engineering discipline."

Our projects also have a lower barrier to entry than other disciplines. You're not going to invest billions developing a new car or building a bridge unless you're pretty sure you can pull it off.
I'm not sure I agree with you

physical sports sometimes come with sustainable competive advantages

until he gets old, LeBron is always going exceptionally big, and athletic

in contrast, checkers exists on a much more fragile competive advantage
Sure - but the grid + ev combo is still more efficient than a gas vehicle. And of course the grid uses a wide range of fossil fuels which reduces some of the geopolitical concerns. Finally in some places your power is already quite low on hydrocarbons - Seattle City Light is only 1.3% hydrocarbon.
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There is already JSON for humans. It's called YAML and it's quite well established standard. Really, no need to introduce something that doesn't bring any improvement at all.
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Only a small percentage of developers/engineers partake in such ranting, evangelism, conferences.

Those who do are typically "blessed" with various personality traits that may seem to encourage this negativity, arguing, "religiousness".

They are not represenative for the state of the industry and I suspect that it's very similar in many other industries (perhaps experimental physicists, biologists, archeologists could share some insights?).
Wow, I had not expected this. My personal blog (which is about technology) is being blocked by one of the ISPs. I don't host porn nor have I ever, so why is it blocked behind their porn filter? Interesting....

https://www.blocked.org.uk/results?url=http://lucb1e.com

Edit: TalkTalk live chat support reports that I am not being blocked. Citation:

> I can confirm that is not blocked by our Adult Filters as your website does not have any adult content.

So it seems blocked.org.uk has a false-positive...
There are lots of designs where the car is significantly lighter than a typical vehicle driving on American or European roads. The problem with them is that if you get in an accident, you are much more likely to suffer much more damage. There are in fact regulations in the US that effectively require you to build heavier cars. Motorcycles and scooters are great examples of personal transportation that are lightweight and can get ridiculous fuel economy, but in a Vespa vs 18 wheeler, the Vespa will lose every time, which is why you don't see them on the freeway.
Are we really at the point where it's either a big corporation buying you or nothing? Why not: Make something Google or somebody else will buy you out for; then keep it profitable and successful; if some offer comes - consider it.
If you look at the home page of the referred book "Intelligence: A Unifying Construct for the Social Sciences" http://www.ulsterinstitute.org/intelligence.html the first referred reviewer is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Philippe_Rushton who wikipedia links also to racially biased research.

I don't have qualms about trying to understand human condition through measurement - but starting from some very limited, simple hypothesis and applying it to a complex emergent system like the human civilization is scientifically fairly suspect. You will always get correlation between large set of unconnected numbers and the way these guys work is that they collect IQ 'data' and then muddle through the numbers until they reach conclusions for which any 1920's western racial theorist would be proud.

This "research" would be totally in the "Pirates and global warming" category of the Spaghetti Monster creed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster#Pirate... - except it's not funny.
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What a great article! It's put together like a research paper but reads like a novel. I love The New Yorker.
We've been building bridges, roads and other stuff for thousands of years.

We've been building software for maybe 70 years.

I'd give it a little time.
Tangentially, in the documentary The Fog of War, Robert McNamara describes how accounting at Ford was so messed up that they had to weigh the invoices to estimate expenses. So this got me wondering if crooks don't just mail false invoices to large firms in case some pay without checking.
Who cares if it's being "faked", though? The code should just check directly for the existence of process.nextTick, not use a bunch of obfuscatory nonsense to check that the string representation of some object matches some arbitrary string from which you might be able to conclude that you're running on node, from which you can then conclude that you might have access to process.nextTick.
I'm extremely confused by 'midwife' being on the list. In British Columbia, midwives are medical professionals with a significant amount of training, and are able to provide medical advice and even write prescriptions for pregnancy-related drugs.

The idea that one of the people helping my wife give birth could have no training, or that people are being 'kept out' of the role because they don't have training or experience, seems idiotic to me.

This isn't the 1800's, where your midwife was 'the woman in town who knows the most about delivering babies', and we shouldn't act as though it is.
This is a pretty poorly conducted study. First off, they make a causal claim that nutritional intervention induced reversal of CAD progression. This is an observational study so such a claim is inappropriate. This is also a very bold claim and yet this paper is published in a shit journal with an impact factor of < 1. That should be a huge red flag right off the bat.

Indeed, there are huge limitations in this study:

1. No control group

2. Self reported dietary adherence

3. Obvious possibility of the healthy adherer effect (people who voluntarily present for interventions and are adherent to dietary changes will probably also exhibit other healthy behaviors like exercise, mood control, better sleep etc which introduces confounders.

4. No monitoring of medication adherence. Perhaps these people simply started taking their medications more regularly while in this program. Medication adherence among patients with CAD is notoriously terrible.

5. Possibility of sick stopper effect in their non-adherers (sickest people also most likely not to take their meds, precipitating worse outcomes).

6. They note that on average their patients lost 18 lbs; perhaps weight loss alone was responsible for their improvements

7. They exclude some of their sickest patients

8. They report symptom relief in adherent patients but don't mention what that means. Do they report less angina? Did they see plaque size reduction? If the former, you have introduced potential for placebo effect.
That one was disappointing for sure. I guess you can't win them all. The government not listening to them all the time doesn't mean they didn't do a great job though. Last time I voted I didn't see any fancy touch screens (to name one accomplishment).

I didn't say "can't expect them to do their job". I said you can't expect them to keep up with _everything_. Their job is to make legal decisions to the best of their abilities.
Or, in a more reusable/flexible way:

newTime = currentMillis + 6 * HOUR_IN_MILLIS

But an even cleaner solution would be to just use the date/time library for this (depending on the language, of course):

newTime = currentMillis + TimeSpan.FromHours(6).Milliseconds;
> Austria's women and landscapes are beautiful. Austria's legal system, not so much.

I think our legal system is pretty good to be honest. (Then again, I also pretty much agree with the fact that TOR exit nodes are not compatible with Austrian law.)
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> Lawmakers aren't as intelligent as programmers. What's worse is, instead of just telling him to turn off the exit node now he's seen as a criminal by the system for doing absolutely nothing. Imagine applying for a job and trying to explain to them why you were arrested, especially if the interviewer is not tech savvy it might not look so good.

He did not receive a criminal record.
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