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I've given people basically the above points and managed to persuade them. But like I said, only if they ask. Some people don't wanna hear it cuz they think law school is their only possible life plan, so if you tell them it's a bad plan they get mad.

Also you can find out what schools they are targeting and link them to http://lawschooltransparency.com. Amazing to see the jobless rates of students at even pretty good schools.
Ironic that a company focused on blood tests would have a board of directors with so much blood on their hands.
Case in point, the Turkish I problem has had tragic consequences: http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two...
If I'm reading this correctly, this requires a shared secret on /every/ system that will be establishing a TCP connection with a peer.

Given that large key distribution and management undertaking, it seems that if one were going to go through with the trouble, there are better mutual protection mechanisms available, and with much larger key sizes than 32bits.

This really gets to be challenging where the public internet is involved, and to be frank, I'm not sure how you'd handle that for public services. Let's say you distributed the shared key with your application. Could I then launch a port scan now that I've obtained the key?

I hate to say it, but I wonder if I'm just not getting this, or this is a bit tongue-in-cheek like the "evil bit" of days past.
Well I think it's a disruptive technology to traditional labs. So expect to see a lot of dismissive articles.
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Probably nothing, but I am very glad I found it here. I do not read any of the regular news outlets, and HN is pretty much the only link with the world news for me - because my assumption is, that if something makes it to the front page of HN it's important enough - and I think this is. I live in a country right next to Russia, and these sanctions have a direct impact on our economy,so I want to know what they think about it

I understand that for some US readers it might not be very interesting - but then for EU readers some US news are not very relevant either. It's a site for everyone, and that's a good thing.
> We spend our days using free services and reading free content which is all supported by advertisers. Google, Facebook, Tech blogs, newspapers.

It's kind of funny, it used to be people paid for (or their employees paid for) their homepage hosting for a blog. It's now easier and cheaper than ever to host a static site, and yet a lot of people end up on "free" ad-supported platforms.

I still read a few mailing-lists, and come across the occasional blog that isn't ad-financed (but they are usually not paid for in any direct way, except maybe by an employer -- certainly many are "free time"-projects).

Most of the things I need, have very low resource requirements -- if it wasn't for peoples insistence on using bloated technologies and techniques that add absolutely nothing to the content/value over plain html and images.

And the I read hn of course, which is sponsored, but not ad-supported. Does anyone know what (if any) budget hn has?
Yeah, but he hadn't really had any impact on public life. From memory he'd just taken a senate seat but hadn't really done anything.
Quite fun to play! Couldn't figure out what the two buttons next to the sound on/off button do though.. Any ideas?
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I see dozens of conditions this would be good for. I think you get biased once you spend 8-10 years becoming a gatekeeper to healthcare.

People want to take their health into their own hands and not have to have every test blessed by a $150 doctor visit plus a separate lab visit.

Conditions to test for:

Hemachromatosis
Many other genetic conditions
Vitamin deficiencies (D, B, potassium)
Blood sugar for people prone to diabetes
Lyme disease (test after every tick bite after waiting the required time period)

And that's just off the top of my head.

Many of those are tests I'd like to a few times a year, but don't want to schedule a doctor appointment, take off work, make a copay, schedule a lab test, take more time off, another copay, etc.
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Bvdub - A Moment's Peace : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exr3IAMaLPM

is a favourite track of mine. However, it's just for initiating the session and writing down the TODOs or Goal before starting. I need silence to really think the rest of the time.
You're missing my point, I'm not talking groups of armed criminals, I'm talking groups of armed people. In the US anybody could be armed, not just criminals. So even when meeting with regular citizens they need to be prepared to be up against people with guns. In most European countries only criminals have guns, so cops responding to regular people have a lot less to be afraid of.

So when US Police is up against a group of non-criminal protestors, there's a much bigger chance of somebody with a firearm doing something stupid than in Western Europe. Because of this it doesn't surprise me that US cops don't just carry batons.
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This is happening in NYC too. Over the past couple years, they've installed cameras just past each subway turnstile which are perfectly positioned to capture an image similar to the one shown in this document. Link that data with the swipe-data from your metrocard, which is more-times-than-not associated with a credit card, and you've got a pretty good way to not only pair a face with a name, but also follow somebody around the underground. Additionally, subway stations are gradually adding cell service, providing additional vectors for use in monitoring using Stingray or some other tracking technology.
Probably because for some strange reason the us government isn't allowed to negotiate better rates.

The NHS is much better every 6 weeks I go in and get about 6 or so tests done plus my quarterly's god only knows what that would cost me in the USA
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Glad you shared your concerns but your comment could have been written much nicer & still achieved the same effect.
It's rarely seen in normal society as well. I really don't understand where this person is coming from.
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That is a "design feature" of raft, which allows it to lack the unbelievable complexity of Paxos, Multi-Paxos, or something like ZAB (yet another paxos variant).
Techmeetup http://techmeetup.co.uk/ already covers all of Scotland and has goodish contacts with UCL and Seedcamp and stuff...
If you know a better word for requesting someone not say something I'd consider using it. Rewording things because someone might read too far into connotations wastes a lot of time though, which I guess brings us back to the original point.
Pretty, but I don't need a single tab consistently eating up 50--75% of the overall (quad-core) CPU capacity on my laptop.
This looks fantastic! As a DB researcher, I've found in the past I need some type of consensus algorithm for a system I'm building, but I don't want to spend a lot of time implementing something myself. I can see this being very useful in academia for scenarios like this.
Actually they pretty much came out at the sametime. You're right, NeXT slightly preceded in !993 (NeXTStep 3.1) the classic Mac OS in 1994 (PowerMac 6100 launched). OS X is the descendent of both of these FAT traditions.
Wow. Thanks to the link. Would this be a good way to go for beginner (hobbiest) oculus rift development?

Are there any tutorials out there that explain your process a bit?
I don't know why Go doesn't have a REPL, I'm not familiar with the language. My point is that having static typing does not preclude a nice REPL.
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Thanks for the detailed writeup of your experiences. What would you say would be different for a hobbyiest just learning 3D game development? Would free assets be more viable if you don't need a professional, polished look? Could you still get a playable game?
Quite all of the science and engineering roles are still considered oily and lower class. Look at the major disparity in wages and status for a chartered engineer and a GP (family doctor) or a barrister.

The no2 at Martelsham (Uk's bell labs) wife was once asked what sort of car her husband worked on when she mentioned to some one who she met that he was an engineer.
I have a couple hymnal apps in the Play Store built with Kivy, and reviews suggest that performance is a problem for some people, especially scrolling through long views. I'm in the process of rewriting them using HTML and JavaScript in a WebView.

That being said, Kivy is really nice to work with; the documentation is good and it's a well thought-out library. I'd enjoy using it for future apps that don't happen to have long views to scroll through.
"researchers have found that in darkness most people eventually adjust to a 48-hour cycle: 36 hours of activity followed by 12 hours of sleep". Wondering if this would be possible under normal circumstances (without the isolation, in daylight, with no psychological side effects).
Here is a straightforward use - patient visits the testing center and states their symptoms. Testing center runs the tests. Then the patient shows up in your office, most likely with the labs you'd have ordered already complete. Saves an hour of your (very expensive) time.

If ExpectedValue[Unnecessary Test] < Cost of doctor prescribing tests, this is a win.
I currently use FastSpring and AquaticPrime for the licensing.

Would you be able to be a drop in replacement for them? currently paying them thousands monthly. $25 a month and 0% transaction fees is sounding very inviting.
Really I have seen this attitude recently in a FTSE 100 company and I am sure it was a factor in some of the many multi million pound fuckups they had.
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Everyone loves that. But most people also want to write algorithms that work on different kinds of collections.

I think its just a matter of Go arriving at a good proposal for generics.
Yes, but if we cancel the 6's in 64 / 16, we get 4/1 or 4. :P

Oh, and incidentally, sin(x) / n == 6.
Sort of unrelated, but when I saw TermKit I couldn't help the surface similarities with PowerShell. In fact, I believe what you had there could almost work as a PowerShell host, although things like http://poshconsole.codeplex.com/ share some of the same ideas.
To be fair there are lots of "snack food" articles around these days but few three course meals. I try to appreciate the long form articles that I find interesting for what they are.
I support your overall idea that there must be some kind of universal platform such as the browser. And that Steam and similar services -- as much as I love them now -- are not the long term answer.

But javascript? Is there any reason why we can't have a better language on the browser? Languages and tools do matter, after all.
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I agree, that is why I smile every time I see the discussing of language X being too slow for game development, because of GC, bounds checking or whatever one comes up with.

As I am old enough to have lived through a few programming language generations accused of the same performance issues for game development, C included.
You could try OpenStack's Swift project.
Slightly off-topic; I see you mentioned the Ytterby quarry. I was raised on Resarö, and unfortunately the quarry has been filled to prevent accidents. Don't expect cave spelunking. However, don't let this deter you from visiting: the view from the quarry is still beautiful, the land around it still has strange glimmering rocks lying around, Resarö (and Vaxholm island) are still beautiful places to visit by their own, and you also have the Vaxholmskastellet that I'd suggest you visit if you are in the area.
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You are dead on. This is also the scariest part of net neutrality legislation. Corporations always end up in control of the regulatory bodies that were meant to keep them in check...
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You make a very interesting point that never occur to me. How many of the stories of great men are just that? Makes me look to "history" in a different way.
> Why not use Steam? Because Gabe is going to die someday, and there's no reason to think that his successor will inherit his good judgement. Locking yourself into a monoculture isn't a good idea when your whole business can be smashed by one poor decision by the company pushing that monoculture.

I fully agree with your opinion on this. I also can envision a future where AAA games can run fine on the browser, which would act like a universal platform. Not sure if this will ever come to pass, but it is technically feasible. I just don't like javascript :)
nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Basic discordian philosophy.
I studied undergraduate mathematics, and I think it's a field which requires the student to spend as much of their own time as needed to understand a concept. Perhaps this could be said of all fields, but there is just limited time in a class to absorb, e.g. Euler's Formula, because there are several concepts in play, and if the student doesn't have a firm grasp or recollection of one of them, then they get lost at one step on the chalk board, and the rest of the derivation is useless to them. This happened to me many times, and I'd just have to make a note to go figure something out, and the rest of the class was basically useless to me. Once it became more acceptable to have a laptop in class, I could just just look it up right then, and not have to wait till later, but I still just tuned out the professor.
FFS, another Wired "if you take this interesting-but-very-primitive research result and ignore the orders of magnitude in sampling rate improvement needed, OMG SPYING" article.

Slightly more feasible than the last one which focused on detecting sound via image differences in high-speed (thousands of fps) camera footage, but still...
Works great in IE11 on an X1 Carbon.
According to the BBC article at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28770876, the original article author says "The hemp we use is perfectly legal to grow. It has no THC in it at all - so there's no overlap with any recreational activities."
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Did flattr change? I haven't seen it in years but back then it was basically a tip button for your website. Not a subscription that got you access to a list of premium sites.
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I agree, just look at how Internet English differs from "correct" usage.

If you build the new spellings into predictive text systems then they will become the default pretty quickly.
>people without linguistics training seem to find it useful for discovering nuances in their own languages that they hadn't considered.

Learning any foreign language will tend to do that, though. It's a function of being forced to consider your native tongue as a language, rather than just speaking it. Plus if you learn a foreign language, you will have the advantage of being able to talk to an established base of people who speak it.
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What makes you think private companies aren't already doing this? I was making a license plate tracker back in '97 by myself with no budget.
Nice catch. However, Labcorp has almost no revenue and profit growth in an increasingly competitive industry. A valuation at 15.5x LTM profit does not seem unreasonable.

Comparing the valuation of a growing startup with a stagnant incumbent is always going to look strange if you only consider a snapshot of financial numbers.
That could be the flowchart now where I work if the docs wanted it. It they allowed it, I could walk into the testing center that's already there- and do things exactly as you say.

As it is, for my predictable appointments this is exactly what I do.
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IANAL, and yes, you can not copyright game mechanics or ideas. This is why so many clones of every game exists. Because no one owns the rights to "a tower defense".
Yes, after you've got the shared key from whatever source you can port scan.

However, getting that shared key is not do-able if you really keep it secret (e.g. as an additional security measure for SSH) or really hard to do automatically (e.g. crawling the web or app store)

It's far from perfect, but it probably is the best you can do without breaking TCP (the new "stealth" SYN's are still valid SYN's under current TCP)

However for most use-cases, I don't know if it is a better solution than using a non-standard port.
A recent email thread[0] on python-ideas is relevant to this. Guido is proposing to use the function annotations feature in Python 3 to add optional static type checking to the language using MyPy's syntax.

[0]: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-August/0...
Would it be correct to say that Kivy is the Python equivalent for Ruby Shoes? In which aspect the one or the other is more powerful?
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I can't agree with you more. I go hiking a lot and have gotten tick bites. There is nothing worse than having to schedule an appointment and going to the doctor just to have something simple done. Biggest waste of time, vacation/sick days and all to do something that is so easy.
Have you published this list yet? I'd be very interested to take a look.
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Alumni networks are quite important in CS, though it does depend on what you want to do. Angel investing is particularly network-driven, and alumni networks are one of the important ones (Stanford's being the best, but not the only one). Hiring at many large companies also typically requires at least one of: a strong network, or a strong credential. Even newer companies like Google pay a lot of attention to degrees, and older ones like big engineering companies (Lockheed, etc.) do exclusively.
When the RIAA tries to crucify pirates it rebounds off the Streisand Effect.

I'm not sure what Caesar would do today. Maybe start a band?
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> If a browser is an extra layer of junk, then surely a bunch of the features that come with an OS are unnecessary junk too. Printer drivers, for example. But of course, printer drivers don't impede the ability to make games in any way. The fact that platforms have features which are useful for other purposes is unrelated to whether a platform can be useful for a specific purpose, like making games.

But if you don't want to use them, printer drivers don't get in the way. Even if I'm laying out my screen by hand, I still have to worry about what the browser layout engine will do if the user resizes the window. If I want to capture keyboard input, or even just make API calls, I have to jump through hoops to convince the browser I'm not a malicious remote document. And whatever I'm writing, I have to transpile it into javascript, which is a pain for debugging.

> Why not use Steam? Because Gabe is going to die someday, and there's no reason to think that his successor will inherit his good judgement. Locking yourself into a monoculture isn't a good idea when your whole business can be smashed by one poor decision by the company pushing that monoculture. It's the same reason you don't see any companies built solely on Facebook or Twitter. (Apple is a notable exception, but companies can still live or die based on whether Apple feels like admitting you into their appstore.) Yes, Steam is pretty awesome right now, but arguing against exploring other alternatives is arguing against progress of any kind.

Are you that much safer on the browser? You'll write games that work for one, maybe two rendering engines - one of them made by google, the other made by an organization that gets most of its funding from google. The web's standards might theoretically be open, but they're so enormous and complex; writing your own browser from scratch (to the standard that modern html games require) is beyond the resources of all but the biggest organizations.

I'd certainly favour an open standard for a steam-like games runtime. Which would be a lot simpler than the browser standards, which would make competing implementations much more practical.

> Your objections seem to boil down to "a browser isn't meant for games." Well, nothing short of a gaming console is truly meant for games. But a browser can be used for games, if only the manufacturers would provide a single necessary tool: a place to put them. That is the sum total of my argument, and it mystifies me why so many people are not only against this idea, but somehow offended that a browser might be repurposed for anything other than viewing lines of text.

I am offended, because I have a sense of engineering aesthetics, and bodging everything into the browser is ugly. And from a practical point of view, I fear a future where the only programming jobs require javascript, because having to write javascript makes me very sad.
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They are music, sound effects and vibration. You see, for total immersion the device actually vibrates when you crash providing that extra level of realism:P

Awesome that you like it!
There's a (probably not exhaustive) list at https://github.com/kivy/kivy/wiki/List-of-Kivy-Projects#kivy... .
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This is sad but true. One option is to remove anonimity, but with the online vigilantism(?) we see towards unpopular opinions, I personally would choose to be quiet than take the risk of voicing an unpopular opinion. And squelching debate isn't a good option either.
The real value of something like this is getting rid of the costs from a process and procedural POV of deploying segmented networks in data centers.

Look at solutions like Unisys Stealth. Mostly used in government today, this sort of technology allows for organizations with lots of multi-tenant compliance issues to take weeks off the process of building IT systems.

For a company like Microsoft (one of the co-authors was from there), they have strategic service offerings where solving this problem is a huge benefit (ie. Azure) and have infrastructures that addresses things like key distribution (Active Directory).
I think the main purpose of business cards today is to serve as a physical reminder of who you met, not to provide you contact info which can be found elsewhere.

Memory is not the best keeper of information at conferences where you might meet tens of people.
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During extreme crisis, communication networks are vital in order to minimize casualties.

Lets assume that radio and TV inside Syria informed the public where current fire fights happened, where people should go to seek shelter, and other warnings of dangers to the civilian population. Radio and TV get this information from sources inside government and reporters on the field, some using The Internet to transmit this information.

You cut that communication line and radio and TV do not have current information to broadcast. People dies as a result. A lot of innocent civilians dies. This singular event could have killed more people than horrific event like 9/11 or a meltdown at a power plant.

This is why I ask: How many casualties is a spy agency allowed to inflict until it is no longer acceptable.