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I was looking for something like this some time ago to integrate a form into a static website. Ended up building a less user friendly version of this. Really nicely done, I think I will use it if I ever need something like this again.
As an IP lawyer, I'd like to say that reading this draft document is super boring. The parts that I skimmed (less than 10%) was all just harmless procedural rules. Can someone point out or quote the controversial parts? Here's the skeleton ToC and a few highlights:

A: General Provisions [seems boring]

B: Cooperation [seems boring]

C: Trademarks

D: Geographical Indications

E: Patents [including genetic stuff - probably controversial]

- Article QQ.E.2387: {Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Genetic Resources}

F: Industrial Designs

G: Copyright

- [basically Fair Use:] - Article QQ.G.Y: {Limitations and Exceptions} - "Each Party shall endeavor to achieve an appropriate balance in its copyright and related rights system, inter alia by means of limitations or exceptions... including those for the digital environment, giving due consideration to legitimate purposes such as, but not limited to: criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, and other similar purposes..."

- [DRM stuff:] - Article QQ.G.10: {Technological Protection Measures}

H: Enforcement
Thanks for that - you've caught me being a bit ambiguous. I've corrected it now.

What I was intending to say is that your HealthKit store itself is never transmitted as a whole /except/ as part of an iCloud backup. Apps can of course move individual data points around with the users permission so long as they say so in their privacy agreements.

'The recorded data is of an incredibly private and personal nature and they’re preventing HealthKit stores from being passed over any kind of network except as part of a secure iCloud backup'
We already had revenue which was paying for my salary, and had been for the prior 6 months. We were in a position where YC's value and my desire to be with my family meant we could spend the cash to achieve both.
Actually, Tokyo is a new Japanese city - and the much older Kyoto has a pretty strict grid layout.
I don't really understand this attitude. HBO paid for the shows to be created, so how is it that the "public" owns it? Some members of the "public" pay HBO to watch the shows that HBO creates, but that doesn't mean that members of the public who don't pay for the shows have some kind of "right" to watch them.
No, that has absolutely nothing to do with Socialism.

Socialism is a social and economic system characterised
by social ownership of the means of production and
co-operative management of the economy, as well as a
political theory and movement that aims at the
establishment of such a system.

If you don't like it, then say that you don't like it. But calling it "socialism" is absolute ignorance. It only demonstrates the fact that you don't know what Socialism is.

Socialism: Medicaid, Postal Office. When the government owns and manages a core service, that is Socialism.

Individual Mandate: Its a regulation, legally its a tax. The government is forcing you to do something, like drive under 65mph or making leaded gasoline illegal to buy. Or making it illegal for you to smoke in certain areas.

In fact, when I hear people call the Individual Mandate "socialist", it tells me two things:
1. You don't know the meaning of socialism
2. You probably don't understand the Individual Mandate.

Maybe you don't like the Individual mandate. That is fine. I don't really like it either and preferred Mitt Romney's solution. It probably was possible to fix the Health Care system without resorting to the Individual Mandate... but to call it "socialism" is wrong.

How about you figure out how to criticize policy without resorting to words you don't even understand.

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Let me help you. I criticize the individual mandate as overhanded, excessive, burdensome regulation, difficult to enforce. Empowering to the IRS. An unnecessary tax on citizens. An abuse of the Commerce Clause.

You know, facts, real reasons why the Individual Mandate sucks. But to call it "socialism" is pure ignorance.
In case the "lack of response" was directed at me, for the very specific Hitman thing: yes, the game penalises you for killing the dancers (hookers?). I'm pretty sure the penalty is lifted if you hide the bodies, though. So, yes, you're penalised, unless you are not. One might almost think you willfully witheld that particular piece of information.

As for the "well gamergate is worse" thing.

It was not what I meant, although I see how it could come off that way. My point was: the people who accuse her of lying have been repeatedly shown to be lying themselves. On the whole, I'd rather trust the person who has not (yet?) been proven to be a liar than the ones who have.

Lastly, it's usually the case that when accusing someone of something, said accusation looses all credibility if its author is guilty of the same thing - regardless of the initial accusation's merit. If you want your argument that she lies to be listened to, then you need to stick to the truth, hard as it can be. If you want to accuse her of witholding information, make absolutely sure you're not doing the same thing.

And, and this should go without saying, if you want to have any credibility, do not willingly associate yourself with people who threaten to rape and kill someone over games (I realise that you haven't explicitly stated you were part of gamergate - you're using the rethoric, but I apologise is my assumption is incorrect).
It puts you at a significant disadvantage. Right or wrong, that's the way it is.
Grant all that. The question remains: what kind of skills can you get taking the 'soft' route? They won't be the same as a University degree, and not nearly the same as a lifetime of devotion to the art. Did we really address that yet?

"Programming knowledge" is a deep, deep well. Its not going to be captured without real effort over a long time.
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I'm not so sure of that. John von Neumann was approximately as intelligent as a human can be, and his mental health was good as far as I know.
I really don't think that is a valid excuse for taking a month to make a one-line critical security patch.
I'd imagine that to begin with medical professionals will only allow this on approved devices (the originating device is stored with the sample). Given that certified devices have to work within defined tolerances, they'd then be able to know roughly how good the data they're dealing with. I guess there's always going to be cases of user error in equipment use, but that's part of what has to be considered when designing such a system.
"RemoteCoder" sounded shorter and sweeter as a name which is why I went with it. So it was really about marketing, no offence to developers/programmers (I'm one myself after all ;)
The difference between Gates' wealth now and where he began as a "rich kid" is mind numbingly huge making what he started with almost insignificant. Yes Gates had a "head start" as many in this world do, but that only got him so far. I would also argue that Gates is really a bad (business/financial) example all around due to his massive wealth which really has no comparison.
I was watching the iphone6 one and I had the same experience as you.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted.
Top 400 is misleading. In US capitalism, single winners like Gates and Zuck Rockettes to the top. Look at the next many thousands, the grandchildren of previous barons who each have a share of inheritance, still far in excess of the productive classes.

Look at the Bush and Kennedy dynasties in government.
Their industrial design was so gorgeous it makes me cry. I have an Octane2 at home, and what I wouldn't give for that kind of build quality, design, and integration in a modern workstation.
You shouldn't be afraid of the Gates and Buffetts of the world. These guys have found their place, they know their value and their worth and they know how to create wealth for themselves and for others. They are secure, confident, valuable human beings.

You should be FAR more afraid of all the incompetent "big shot" politicians who somehow have access to power but, due to their insecurity and low IQ, only use it to benefit by taking from others. These are the plutocrats that rule America, Russia, Europe, regardless of your illusion of democracy. These are the people you should be worried about.
From the article: "On the right, Majumdar and Dean were surprised to find that the distribution dropped off at a rate related to the number of eigenvalues, N; on the left, it tapered off more quickly, as a function of N2."
>>Right, but now we have investment vehicles where you can effectively invest in investments alone.

This is a big problem, and one that is exacerbated by a strong legal system (read - powerful government) that enables, supports, and protects the gains made from these investment vehicles while disproportionately minimizing their downside risks.

>But, without the government, you could likely also just invest directly in competitors to keep them down such that said company still does well.

This is entirely possible, but remember that as an investor, your dollars are competing against other investors' dollars. More often than not, you are also investing as a shareholder with many other shareholders who have interests in seeing that company succeed. While I think what you are saying is theoretically possible, I'm not sure it would be a common occurrence, unless you have evidence to demonstrate otherwise.
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My thoughts exactly. Boston looks more patchwork than chaos. The only one approaching the European style is DC, and even that is not quite the same.
One way: "Limit the power the government has to control the flow of wealth" is a very normal pretext for slashing taxes for the wealthy.
Something similar to what Jeff Atwood meant by "civilised discourse": http://blog.codinghorror.com/civilized-discourse-constructio...

There are problems both of the form of abuse within services, and use of services as an organising platform for abuse campaigns.

Reddit is host to some brilliant stuff. Reddit is also host to some terrible stuff. It semi-deliberately makes no delineation between the two beyond a thin figleaf of "NSFW". Some of the stuff behind NSFW is merely porn, some is a useful safe space for sex discussions, and some is well into the "cannot unsee" category. The "randNSFW" button is rather dangerous. Users aren't bounded either, so you have a lot of people with obscene usernames commenting in otherwise sensible subreddits. And posters themselves encourage cross-pollination. The "creepshots" people eventually got banned, but the only thing you really can't post anywhere on reddit is child porn. Racism is widespread.

Twitter is a brilliant platform for both entertainment and protests. However, it has very poor anti-abuse features, so users may be subjected to large volumes of abuse (Caroline Crialdo-Perez, for example) about which they can do little.

Hacker news prefers to flag "controvertial" topics off the front page, which at least causes arguments to be starved of pageviews and die down. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8458865
Not op but I had potential legal problems with an health insurance company so I described the situation on a legal subreddit and was told to research ERISA lawyers. I would have never found this important advice buy just googling.

Also was given good advice on determining nosing notes (what I was smelling) for a bottle of The Macallan scotch.
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> seeing someone's code is the best way to know they are good at it <

Depends on the context. I have lots of pure crap in my bitbucket and github accounts, because I tinker and explore outside of my day job. I even have one project that is almost complete (that is, it functions without bugs and doesn't make me want to scratch my eyes out when I look at the UI), but because I work on it for an hour here, an hour there, in the capacity of said exploration, the quality of the code is...less than stellar. Yet somehow I manage to be employed without a single gap in my resume.

That I don't have a high-code-quality complete project in these locations says one thing and one thing only about me, with respect to being a signal to employers: I'm not willing to devote myself 100%, heart-and-soul, to programming at my peak for 10+ hours a day.

You're deluding yourself if you think your comment about being a bad career decision applies outside of a small sphere (usually web-dev or mobile-dev for startups seeking a very particular kind of employee (young, naive, willing to work long and hard for relatively lesser pay). I have yet to see a job I'd be otherwise qualified for or interested in list "have a github profile with projects for us to look at" as a requirement, or even a nice-to-have. Certainly that won't necessarily last forever, but right now it's not a bad career decision for a great many (vast majority) to eschew public display of their personal code projects.

Frankly, I view the insistence on public display of personal code in the same category as I view trivia-quiz-interviewing: they're both bandwagon nonsense things that people convince themselves are highly effective ways to measure people.
> Only government programs have ever been enough to do this.

Considering "the war on poverty" is 50 years old with no end in sight. I think it's bold to claim that any government has adequately eradicated the symptoms of poverty.

And why to philanthropies need to scale? What's wrong with numerous hyperlocal philanthropies that treat the particular needs of their communities?
You're the second commenter I've seen today that seems to manually insert line breaks, resulting in what looks on my screen like a poem.

I don't mean this as a criticism about the content of you're message, but I'm just wondering why this happens. Are you commenting from an unusual type of browser, or are you manually adding hard returns, not realizing that simply writing and adding hard returns at logical points (rather than screen positions) is the best approach?

Either way, I strongly recommend you start avoiding the 'return' key except when you want to start a new line of thought (e.g. a paragraph). It would really make it easier for me and perhaps others to read your comment.
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I have found KSnapshot to be the best snap shot utility I have used on any system.
Tokyo is the renaming of Edo, while much younger than Kyoto it can hardly be called a new city when it predates the columbian voyages and gave its name to Japan's 17th-19th century period.

Kyoto is actually an example of "artificial" and inorganic city, it's a replica of Chang'an which stemmed from the highly structured square-based chinese urban planning (although Chang'an wasn't strictly square for astrological and physical reason)
With regard to the mechanics of the "Snowball Effect", my understanding is that the flat tax on capital gains vs the progressive tax on income is one cause in the US.

I would speculate that one other mechanic has to do with time. For the vast majority of people there is a hard cap on wage income based on the hours they can possibly work in a day. People who have money to invest can put that to work for them offline, so to speak.

And at a certain threshhold a person can put their money to use to pay for specialized labor (tax attorneys, finance managers etc) to receive an even greater return.
I got more of a sense of how research is done in college as opposed to high school. I think the simple fact is that there's a lot more information to teach that falls in the "what" category. The actual hands-on work of historians is not something you really study in detail unless you're a history major, I think (I wasn't). In the case of science, I think virtually all children learn about how science experiments are done and the scientific method early in their science education -- perhaps that wasn't quite what you meant. You might be right that the how doesn't get enough focus. But I think that if a student is interested enough in science to be a scientist, that person will not be deterred by missing out on that.
Indeed, that is what has been being done now, by humans, for tens of thousands of years.
I had the same impression after reading these "examples" They seemed like massive outliers and not worth evening mentioning. Also, someone in medical school (or any schooling) isn't guaranteed riches. One could argue that a student in medical school with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt is in fact, still in dire straits despite their future earning potential.
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I assume you want a desktop computer? Dell has great hardware support for debian/ubuntu and RH/Cent OS. I (think) you can purchase a desktop without an OS from their SMB store. Definitely get something with a spinning platter and pop in your own SSD. It will save you a lot of money.Why not build your own desktop? If you want to get the best deal and guaranteed hardware support, read some component reviews on http://www.phoronix.com/ and put it together yourself. Good luck!
See here is an example of the 'everyone is stupid' mindset: I am pretty sure everyone on HN understands how wealth is created through exchange. That is Econ 101 stuff.

If that is the aha moment, you are many years too late.

I just don't agree that all human exchanges necessarily have to be translatable into currency. It seems unnecessarily limiting. I think it is perfectly acceptable for people to agree to systems where no currency or barter exchange is necessary. For example, buying seats in a law making house...how is that an improvement over a representative voting scheme that is not paid for?
I don't see this revelation of the gross incompetence of the CDC et. al. being anything but recent.

And if you admit to the possibility of biological warfare attacks, the same analysis we were doing a few weeks ago about the collapse of the facade of extreme competence of the Secret Service applies.

We can be sure our adversaries are taking note of this and factoring it into their plans. Your claim these are "ghosts" by an absence of action during the period our defenders maintained their perception of competence is less than reassuring going forward.
I always always jealous of those workstations.

To this day whenever I set up a new desktop I always make the window titles with black italics on a grey stripe. Just because that was so cool.
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I completely understand the feeling about focus and slowing down.

I referred to this above, but big partners working on meaty objectives is actually a positive success criteria that the governance model is built for.

That said, we try very hard to ensure that the flow of the project remains unencumbered.

Docker is a community project; one of the beautiful benefits of that is that Docker can change as long as you can reach critical consensus on any design proposal.

Without the partnership, Docker could be brought to Windows at some undetermined point in the future as soon as those native capabilities existed.

With the partnership, we have a set of dedicated Engineers from Microsoft and the community who are eager to build consensus around getting Docker integrated to the new API/Services that they're creating as soon as possible.

There's no free lunch - if the contributions don't stand the scrutiny of the maintainers, they will continue to work with them until it does.

I hope that helps - happy to discuss further!
Agreed. It would be trivial to send out instructions to take special care of someonewho has been in direct contact with Ebola and who has an even slightly unusual temperature, especially when said person has indicated feeling 'feverish'. This is not a large group of people to give special attention to, and sending out such an instruction seems to me rather trivial.
Does is still operate?

Mine is not booting- I don't remember the POST but the fans do turn on. I tried reseating the ram the last time I was bored and pulled it out of the closet.

I would really like to see the IRIX UI brought up to modern standards. I almost feel like I'm looking at it when I look at launch pad in OS X.
Tokyo is still far older than any US cities, and more importantly it grew organically. Kyoto is much older, yes, but it is a stricter grid only because the entire city was built that way in the 8th century. Unlike Tokyo, most European cities, and most American ones, it wasn't a town that grew bigger organically. City architects in those days must have really liked the straight lines.

Edit: Masklinn explained it far more elegantly than I could, listen to them :)
It's funny how this article bemoans the state of Apple. I suppose at the time after languishing under the Pepsi salesman for a decade, they were in trouble. Now, Apple is pretty much the primary source of graphics workstations running unix.
I've always been fascinated by this as well. I've know several Cardiothoracic surgeons who were heavy smokers. Same thing with nurses.

You'd think if anybody would know first hand the dangers of smoking it would be these folks, but nope, they all still smoked heavily regardless.
I think this effect is significant even with IQs much lower than "super-intelligence". Socially, people organize into a hierarchy of authority. A significant rule of this structure is that should should never be smarter than your superiors - finding a better solution than your "betters" is akin to showing them to be wrong and is confused with a display of dominance. Persons of inferior social standing but superior intelligence are treated as a threat.

If there was a genetic component to "super-intelligence" then we would observe it. How many of those great minds listed had parents or children that also made the list: zero. Also, would any of these (suspiciously all European) super-geniuses have been as successful if there were born in a small backwater village? There are probably millions of people with Einstein-level intelligence around the world, but living in environments that are hardly conducive to the expression of their genius.

The breakthrough that we need to realize super-intelligence is not Eugenic or academic, it is social. The only way to allow the best minds in the world to blossom in potential is:

1. Grant access to intellectual resources and opportunities to everyone.

2. Stop the authoritarian practice of crushing dissent.
That's not really relevant to my point. I was trying to demonstrate that it is entirely possible for someone with a lot of money to influence policy in the US, using Gates own activities as an example.

Next time, it could easily be someone who is using their own money to push a policy requiring iPads or Windows tablets into every classroom, or using their own money to fight off an anti-trust lawsuit being brought forward by the government.
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I'm glad Microsoft is doing what law enforcement seems incapable of doing. Microsoft also has a huge vested interest in cleaning up Windows related malware, and huge cash reserves. I expect they spend more than most countries do on combatting cybercrime.
Thanks for adding a filter for contract vs full time work. This is a feature I really wish more job sites had.
Or you could link it to the previous submission (titled Observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with Smartphones):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8454680