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Sense of smell 'may predict lifespan'
I've heard rumors that VS is a $1b/year business, which is definitely nothing to sneeze at.

How does Eve compare to something like Autodesk's design script?
Would you guys be hiring remote workers?
2TB at $240 isn't high, it's insane. This would be a terribly easy thing for Google to do to cut prices to a point they are still perfectly comfortable with but the competition can't match.
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To go into more detail, here's the typical lecture format at a German university (note that this is "typical", not universal, and professors have a lot of leeway in how they can structure their courses).

There'll be a lecture twice a week (four "semester hours", 2 times 2 * 45 minutes) and a two semester hour exercise session. The lecture will be held by a professor [1]; the exercise session for undergraduate courses will generally be conducted by a TA in smaller groups.

More often than not there won't be a textbook, except for heavily standardized courses (or where the professor chooses to pick one). You'll work off the professor's lecture notes and any notes that you took yourself (sometimes the lecture notes are basically a textbook by themselves, but that's obviously a lot of work for a professor). The lecture notes may recommend additional literature, which is generally available through the library's course reserves (and out of which students will photocopy anything they consider relevant; private copies short of wholesale copies of books are generally legal in Germany) or online (in the case of individual papers).

You'll get homework once a week, distributed as printouts during the lecture (and/or available on the course website). Students are encouraged to work on homework in groups and to even turn in their results as a group.

Homework will be graded, but it doesn't count towards your final grade; instead, you will be required to get 50% of the total points to be admitted to the final exam (this is more an incentive than an actual threshold). You can generally even copy the results from somewhere else (you're doing homework as preparation for the exam, so you're only hurting yourself if you do it).

Homework will be returned and reviewed during the exercise session, usually with either the TA or one of the students presenting the solution to each question on the blackboard and discussing it.

Your entire grade will be derived from the final exam (some courses these days have two exams, one midterm and one final exam so that your entire grade doesn't ride on one day's performance). Some courses may also have an oral rather than a written exam.

There generally won't be grading on a curve (though the professor can adjust the grades if the exam turned out to be harder than intended). If you fail to meet the standards that the university expects of its students, you fail. German professors won't shy away from letting most of the students in a course fail (though they will likely be sad when that happens). That's the price of a mostly open admission system combined with the university's desire to maintain its academic reputation.

In addition to lectures, there will be (depending on the subject), seminars, lab courses, etc. You will also have to write a thesis (including for a Bachelor's degree).

In general, there's very little handholding (that's not specific to Germany, though). You're expected to be able to both study independently and work productively in a group (skills that you should have learned in school) without needing support.

[1] Using the term "professor" broadly to include "privatdozenten" etc.
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Looks beautiful. Our workflow however requires us to view multiple projects under one backlog/workboard. I can't seem to find a way to do that, which is a bummer because this is a really neat looking tool.
Nonsense, you can run a perfectly good student lab with a cheap notch filter and pull a usable spectra off something like polystyrene or Tylenol. What I'm wondering is if this thing could even do that. Looking at the abuse the diffraction grating has taken suggests the answer is no.

As far as a decent scientific bench instrument goes, we're mostly in agreement. I'd love to know if you could make a decent optomechanic system like this on a SLS with a metal substrate.
My attitude towards charity is kind of the opposite. If I am to donate to charity, I want to concentrate on one or a few things, so that I'm able to actually research them and see for myself whether I think that the money will come to good use.

This kind of thing is different from people going door to door, collecting money; instead of someone actively going to you in order to convince you to give to some "good" (according to them) cause, you are the active participant. There isn't much immediate social guilt of having to say "no", in this case. People who collect for charities in the usual, door to door or through other means of confronting people probably want to play on people's feeling of social dignity and that they don't want to appear to be stingy. So then the average person ends up giving to a lot of different charities - because they all ask for a little at a time - and knowing little about each one.

But why would I deliberately want to diversify my charity, if I'm the one who is actively subscribing to it? Isn't it better to research a few good ones, and actively pursue those? Why give up that choice to some other entity, and make it practically impossible for me to keep up with all the different causes (you can't and won't feel motivated to research where every dollar you give goes to, when it all goes to different things). Another user here has it right - it's a black box. And apparently for no good reason.
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I've seen some ministries report a 50% success rate re curing addiction for people who join. So social recovery forms of drug treatment are very successful and might include things like exorcism and whatnot as part of belonging to the flock, I suppose.

Sure, we know from science and Occam's razor that devils and gods probably don't exist, but that doesn't mean participating doesn't show proven benefits. Although the studies that show the benefits of religion tend to find attendance means more than believe, so it is more of a network and support effect than anything actually spiritual.
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Some big data projects I'm aware of also use Python. Beyond that, check job listings to know what tools might be used.
I wonder what they're afraid of here? How would allowing this harm them? There must be some reason (even if it's ultimately misguided), but I've been trying to figure it out, and I can't.
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For an intensely interactive application such as a text editor, performance is part of "make it work".
If the screen is lagging behind keypresses, or trivial commands (e.g. the mentioned reordering of tabs) take long enough to wonder whether the program is hung, the basic contract of user interface has been broken.
Basing the core of a text editor (not only scripting, as in Emacs, but input, rendering, event handling, data structures) on low-performance technology is as wrong as, say, designing it for single-byte character sets only.
Well, the same excuses have been made about the road system, that it's funded by gas taxes, but when people crunched the numbers, it turned out it's only about 50%.

Since the subsidy you link to, varied between 70% and 80%, it could still be the case that the Airport system in California got subsidies within a small multiplicative factor over it's entire lifespan compared to the proposed costs of the high speed rail system.

The objections to high speed rail IMHO, aren't 100% based on economics or funding, because other things have gotten massive subsidies, they're also based on a kind of weird political tribe association people have against trains.

Let me quote George Will as an example: "To progressives, the best thing about railroads is that people riding them are not in automobiles, which are subversive of the deference on which progressivism depends. Automobiles go hither and yon, wherever and whenever the driver desires, without timetables. Automobiles encourage people to think they—unsupervised, untutored, and unscripted—are masters of their fates. The automobile encourages people in delusions of adequacy, which make them resistant to government by experts who know what choices people should make.

Time was, the progressive cry was “Workers of the world unite!” or “Power to the people!” Now it is less resonant: “All aboard!”"

So, to some people, trains are a Euro-socialist kind of thing, anti-freedom.
Is it the talk where they infer programs that will return 6 ?
Incredible Close-Up Drone Video of an Erupting Volcano in Iceland
This doesn't look like a yes/no test; it seems more astrological.
This seems like a great solution. It deals with the dollar that day so you don't end up with a backlog or an inconsistent amount of donations.
This is very neat!

It looks like PowePoint presentations, redesigned to be viewed by people on their computers instead of being projected in front of an audience.
I had an unhealthy obsession with IQ testing. A phase long ago. I remember reading that the average Harvard IQ tested at 130 and the other Ivies in the mid-120s. You can guess based on SAT figures, noting that extracurricular factors (paradoxically) decrease the IQ/SAT correlation (people who beat a top school's extracurricular game are more likely than average to have prepped for SATs and have scores that overstate their IQs). So a 1500 average SAT (out of 1600) ends up mapping to a group average IQ around 130, even though a typical individual with a 1500 SAT is probably around 140 IQ.

These numbers fluctuate and it's quite possible that the increasing usage of socioeconomic/extracurricular criteria has decreased the gap.
Thanks a lot for the pointer! That's most of what we need.
That doesn't add up. By all estimates there are many millions of people addicted to drugs or alcohol in the US alone (as many as 20+ million). If we are to assume that the article's premise that addictions tend to have a lifespan of about 15-20 years or so is due to the fact that the addicts are dying then that would correspond to something like a million deaths per year. In the sub-45 year old population that would absolutely swamp every other cause of death.
That one appears to not work in the UK, for some reason. Unfortunate. Anyone know any alternatives I could use that let me choose which charities I donate to?
Yet another HN article that minimizes the perception that drugs can cause harm.

Yes it is true that most people grow out of addiction.

But many do not. In my circle I count four dead, many more damaged by drugs.
I doubt it was your hard drive screeching you heard. There's nothing happening on that page that would be writing to disk. Maybe the fans were going nuts trying to keep the CPU cool.
Maybe the name could instead reference a hardware bracket? Like something that holds up a shelf, or I don't know, holds up startups to be seen. You could swap out your sports-sytle-bracket-icon for something that looks more like this: http://sugatsune.com/products/Images/C-Bracket-SU-B-P60.jpg
eeek! sorry about that! working on fixing the issues on ff.
True, in places where the only sources of radiation are rare events like GRBs. But I imagine there must be hospitable exoplanets somewhere in the universe that are, for one reason or another, subjected to more intense radiation constantly, in which case rad-protection would have a strong impact on evolution
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I also know some dead and many damaged from drugs. Mostly the legal ones, of course.
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Yes, how do we get the focus off the all-is-economics and refocus on the bigger picture of humanity which also includes all the "useless" non-profit activities that contribute to our culture and humanity, arts, free programming, literature. How is it possible that corporations use free software without giving anything back, or that a local arts scene which enriches the places where we live in a hard to quantifieable way starves out because of insufficient funding.
I liked the "Make us a habit" newsletter signup prompt at the bottom of a story (and website) about drugs/addition.
The article is not trying to minimize the perception that drugs can cause harm. Rather, it is suggesting that we can reduce the harm caused by drugs by understanding addiction in a different way.

Did you read it?
It is funny how "Seamless integrate with social networks" is considered a huge feature in any product or service anywhere, and it is a just a button to share some link to Facebook or Twitter, where it will be totally uninteresting.
Photoshop isn't even used much for visual design these days: it's all pretty much Illustrator. Vectors make dealing with resolution much easier, but redlining is still needed when rasterizing to lower resolutions.

Most of the designers (outside of web to be sure, since I don't live in silicon valley) I know don't use textual formats, that is for developers. Much of the content is too dynamic to work with textually without substantial programming.
Coyne's "How to critique claims of a “blood test for depression”" http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2014/09/25/critique-claim... ; summary:

1. priors for the phenomenon imply many small correlates, and past results have failed to replicate

2. low statistical power for claimed results, from both planned & post hoc perspective

3. small sample biases: can't estimate accurately (without relatively exotic techniques) when p>n

4. measurement error in diagnosing depression: investigators chose a self-report of lower reliability compared to the available alternative data from a more reliable interview that they had,

5. substantial & likely biased attrition of subjects

6. correlational result is confounded by antidepressant usage, smoking, etc (many things correlate with being depressed, so any blood test may be picking out those instead) and by the small sample size, results may not generalize

7. failing multiple-comparison correction of final results
Yes. However, if that is where they make their margins...

Tbh, anything over $.02/GB is overpriced. That is still $20/TB which is plenty. There are CDNs that sell @ $10/TB ffs.
>However, marine organisms would be sheltered from gamma radiation.

Phytoplankton may not since it's on the surface (for sunlight access) and at 50% of atmospheric oxygen comes from ocean algae, at least as much as plants.
CVE-2014-7187 (yet another) Bash arbitrary execution of code
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Addictions don't live inside you, they are part of your behavior.

edit: really - addictions don't live inside you, perched on your heart, making you do bad things. They are not different than you.
The only thing I wanted to know was how to fix shitty rendering of fonts in Chrome and they didn't tell me.
Hope you have a good source of Laugenbroetchen, one of the specialties that are hard to find or recreate here.
Btw, the GPL is a commercial license. I wish people would stop thinking that the opposite of GPL is commercial, otherwise businesses like Red Hat couldn't exist. The GPL explicitly allows selling the software. It just doesn't allow locking it down.

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So what you're saying is that they learned their lessons from the VeriSign Payment Services acquisition, and learned not to actively try to break things that work?

(Yes, still very, very bitter about that. If you have a different perspective on that time/process, I would genuinely like to hear it.)
Note that patch only appeared today, despite CVE being out a few days ago.

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/28/10

There are two local buffer overflows in parse.y that can cause the shell to dump core when given many here-documents attached to a single command or many nested loops.

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-4.3-patches/bash43-028
This is not my experience at all. I studied physics at a public university in Germany. We had about the same number of tutoring hours as lectures each week and had to hand in homework every week for every lecture. That homework got graded and decided if we were permitted to take the final exam. Also from the second semester on we had compulsory experimental courses throughout the year.

On the other hand you are right, there is hardly any general education at university level, but that is (supposed) to happen in high school. At least compared to the UK, high school covers a much broader range of subjects.
Folks do that because it looks "good" on safari on macs and don't realize it looks horrible elsewhere.
yep, gotta love the black text shadow on black text ;)
That's awesome! Would be cool if you could integrate Uber for comparison.
Free link to the published paper, "Blood transcriptomic biomarkers in adult primary care patients with major depressive disorder undergoing cognitive behavioral therapy":

http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v4/n9/full/tp201466a.html
You are right that Denmark is a small country, I've been to USA too, and I talked to a lot of people working in cities 2-3 hours drive away. So by that yes.

However, and I might be somewhat wrong, but I've seen more people beginning to crowd around either Odense, Aarhus or Aalborg the last few years. This is however my own observation from students who finished their education that I've run into.
> Why do those philosophies have to be mutually exclusive? Can't you apply principles of social welfare to the public sector while allowing entrepreneurship in the private sector?

Because they compete for capital. The former requires high taxes, which leave a lot less private capital for investment and entrepreneurship. For example, imagine if the government had taxed away 90% of Elon Musk's fortune.
plumbing, garbage collection, food serving and many more things can be done by machines.