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Greetings from Melbourne - from an Australian who'd be perfectly happy with open carry being legal over here.
Time is probably a significant constraint. Better to waste a million dollars on a trial which could have been avoided than to delay the discovery of a cure by two years.
Hack HN: Make a Capacitive Piano Keyboard for Your iPad
Double-blind makes no sense to me either? T1D doesn't just go away. If the treatment works, it would be obvious...

Verapamil was approved by the FDA in 1982, so I would assume safety is well established.
The story I posted yesterday has more detail, and references.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8568135

Here's the link to the actual article:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/11/06/its-behin...

If you've read this Wired article first then the National Geographic article will feel familiar, but there is more, it's more complete, and it has references.
A heck of a lot cheaper than insulin, test strips, needles, or CGMs, pumps, etc. The clinical trial is 1 pill once a day. $300 / year versus upwards of $10,000 / year.
Big dataviz about Berlin shows that the wall is still visible
The blog says that a 9-year-old girl saw a man matching Luk's description wearing a purple hoodie jump off the Golden Gate bridge on the very afternoon he disappeared. The police report about this incident was tracked down months later by a private detective hired by Yahoo.

Unless I'm misreading the article, it took months to unearth this police report. (The blog explicitly says that without Yahoo's help he would likely still be "missing" as he was for several months.)

This is terrible!

How is it possible that we have an NSA that is so wickedly super-competent that they can listen live to any phone conversation in the U.S.A. by clicking a few keys on the keyboard (per Snowden's claims), and yet the police department is so utterly incompetent (or uncaring) that they can't do the equivalent of a grep on the incident reports for Jan. 1 2014.

search 'purple|violet|red' + 'hoodie|sweatshirt|hooded' + male + radius(Oakland,25miles) in incident_reports_2014-01-01
Thanks, that's a very amusing talk!
Playing with Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables and Bitcoin Transactions
He's all about getting high.
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When I was young I met a Spanish tennis player called Rafael Nadal when he was a kid.

He was managed and coached by his uncle who had experience in being a professional football player.

What shocked me is that he did not sacrifice Rafael's life like most of other kids that could be good(examples like Michael Jackson or in tennis the Wiilians' sisters or Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in Spain).

At the time everybody believed that if Rafael was not sent to Barcelona to a tennis Boarding school without seeing their family and giving it all to tennis, he couldn't make it.

Toni, his uncle, believed that if he were to be a good tennis player sacrificing everything else, it was not worth it.

Rafael got to be the best Spanish player of all time.

When I created my company I wanted to be rich, but rich meant not just money, but having time to make love to my wife, see my children grow or reading and writing in HN.

At the end, you discover you could delegate lots of work.
Dicks API – Dicks as a service
Google Gets Aggressive in 2014 and How to Stay Ahead
How much downtime is acceptable downtime?
I don't see a clear market segmentation. Is it for 10 users or 10,000?

Five bucks per person-month doesn't make sense in either market. It's $5 too much for people building their business on Drive and Evernote. It's too little for 10,000 screen organizations...they know you will go broke. And then there's an asterisk on the free plan and another deal for students, so I'm left wondering if it's worth figuring out the value proposition before I think about learning how to use it.

If it was an enterprise product, it might make sense but that's not live fast. die young, and leave a good looking corpse business strategy compatible. Students probably don't need mobile task updates for group projects. In the middle, though, there are good user stories and price points. $400 per month for up to 20 users...that sounds like a way to qualify businesses and reduce the number of sales.

And if you can't make the bottom line $5000 per year better for 2000 companies, then it's time to throw in the towel.

Good luck.
Why would it take a century? Idk, 2-3 years? Like 5 tops.
I worked at a very successful startup, including getting it off the ground, and rarely worked more than 50 hours per week. I don't know how common my experience was, but I can assure you it isn't necessary.
XBee networks over smartphone using BLE
It only makes sense to branch off production for hotfixes IMO.

In your example feature-B shouldn't have made it to dev.
Sounds like easy money to me. Vague elastic definitions of success are what consultancy is all about.
Seems to be working for them but I would typically advise against too much energy spent on automation and internal tools too early. Tools can really slow you down in the early going when things are changing rapidly. And you can typically throw inexpensive bodies at many of the tasks that are otherwise candidates for automation.

The one thing I do like is that building tools gives more employees experience in building product.
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> The author doesn't mean media isn't profitable, but media retail isn't profitable.

Meanwhile HMV, the UK chain that used to be #1 in music and DVD sales before going into administration a year ago, is now rapidly expanding again (as in: adding more retail outlets) [1], and looks set to overtake Amazon in media sales if growth continues at the current pace. While they posted an overall loss, most of that is one-offs related to the restructuring, and all their stores are reportedly now profitable and they reported 17 million in operating profits.

If you'd asked me a month ago, I'd have said the same. Now I'm not so sure.

[1] http://www.cityam.com/1411962291/hmv-returns-profit-hilco-re...
Try to move beyond the freelance sites as soon as you can. Most of the clients who use those sites are price shopping, and it's hard to get decent rates for yourself.

Avoid passive, low-value channels like putting cards on bulletin boards. You need to go into an active sales process for securing high-value clients.

Looking at your site, I'm thinking the kind of clients you're going after probably don't care about the technologies you use. Instead, organize the content more around the business problems that you solve for your clients.

See if you can find a particular type of business/client is undeserved. Get one of them as a client, and write up a good case study or white paper. Then book appointments with as many of those types of businesses as you can, tell them the story of how you helped the first client, and how you can do the same for them. If they don't sign up with you on the first meeting, follow up consistently.

With an approach like this, you're coming in as an expert and you have much more altitude in the transaction than if you're being hired as a "Wordpress theme integrator" or somesuch.

You're in Chicago, you're not going to run out of leads. You need to start booking as many sales appointments as you possibly can. Put a lot of practice into how you tell your story. Practice answering common questions. Video yourself doing this, review including your voice, tempo, etc. Consider getting sales and/or speaking coaching.

Call design and communications agencies in your area to let them know you're available. Some agencies often bring in freelancers to supplement their teams when demand is high. (For these folks, your technology lists might be slightly more interesting.)

Invest continuously in building your own network, including people who are not your potential clients. Make sure they understand what you do well enough to recommend you within their network when appropriate. Consider offering a referral percentage to people with good networks who refer clients to you.
That is kind of the pop culture view of depression.

Depression is a quite interesting illness, you might want to have a look at this:

Http://youtube.com/watch?v=TIcf-2AFHgw
Thanks. We never took the time to evaluate more our pricing and its impact. We were focused on getting users so we can make them pay later
Home Depot Breach Reveals Similarities to Target Breach
I would focus on simplifying the steps a new visitor to the site takes. I found it confusing. For example, I got to the screen with the h1 text "Welcome", but at the top left was an animated arrow pointing to another Welcome button. Where am I supposed to go?
I think the term loses a lot of meaning if used just for the same distances in the UK as in the US. Particularly because the main consensus for 'suburb' seems to be that it's a residential area, which the commuter flows suggest that Reading is not. Perhaps the best benchmark is merely whether a place is treated as a sub-district (albeit far-flung) of a city? I'd say that doesn't apply to Reading, but perhaps the same is true of Fairfax.

Your final remark is a little confusing - what is consistent looking at commuter flows? You mentioned that large numbers of people commute from west of Fairfax into DC, and I said Reading has a net influx of commuters. Those statements don't directly contradict each other, but certainly don't explicitly agree!
Direct link to step-by-step instructions here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Clothespin-Piano-for-iPad/
As a statement, it is absolute.
One reason is that "cures X in mice" doesn't actually mean "cures X in mice" -- it usually means "cures X in mice which have a genetic mutation which causes them to always develop X". (And sometimes it means "cures X in mice to which we have surgically performed X", e.g., X = spine severing.)

For example, studies of type 1 diabetes usually take place in BB rats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biobreeding_rat) or NOD mice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOD_mice). These animals are known to exhibit the symptoms of type 1 diabetes; but we don't know if their disease progression exactly matches that of humans with type 1 diabetes (and we can't know, because we don't know exactly how type 1 diabetes progresses in humans). It's entirely possible that a cure for NOD mice simply blocks a disease pathway which doesn't occur in humans anyway.
You would be correct, if that were the case here. But Mozilla as a browser vendor is far from remote to the vendor/customer relationship. That is like writing a Linux application and being concerned because arbitrary code of the kernel is called.
A classic watch with Android Wear: LG G Watch R
I'm not missing anything. I understand that point entirely:

"Doing X benefits me. Sod everyone else"

I am fully aware of this attitude that many people seem to have.
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Has there ever been a service with 250M MAUs that couldn't make a profit? Twitter's been focusing on growth (+100M users in past 1.5 years) and increasing margins (they're strongly operating cash flow positive). I don't have a position in the stock but it seems like they're going to be just fine.
Amazon In-Vehicle Gaming – Now Play Games While Driving
ShadowCrypt – automated text field encryption for websites
Also, write-up just posted on HackADay here:

http://hackaday.com/2014/11/07/make-a-capacitive-clothespin-...
وظائف جريدة الاهرام الجمعة 7/11/2014
Amazing reading that how we consider these people a success because they sold their companies but for many of them almost everything they built has been decommissioned. Would we still revere Brunell if his bridges were taken down after 3 years?
Absolutely. Which was the thrust of my argument. Culture can change.
One of the most beautiful articles I've read lately.

Reminds me of how I took the decision of coming back to stay with my family from a far off place, leaving behind an excellent opportunity, just to spend more time with my lovely family
I think the research you linked is for T2D (non-insulin dependent). It's interesting the research into Verapamil apparently is for both T1 and T2, since my understanding was the mechanism of the diseases were entirely different.

With T1D your body stops producing insulin due to beta cell death caused by an autoimmune disorder, so you need to constantly monitor your blood glucose level and carb intake in order to dose yourself with the right amount of insulin multiple times per day, or you go into hypo/hyperglycemia.

I'm much less familiar with T2D, but I thought the body produces more and more insulin but becomes resistant and the insulin fails to adequately control blood glucose level. Beta cell death in T2D is then a follow-on confounding factor due to the persistently high glucose levels.

Mechanisms of pancreatic beta-cell death in type 1 and type 2 diabetes: many differences, few similarities: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16306347
It certainly looks like Flow XO fills a need, but how does it differ from IFTT? I'm familiar with the concept of IFTT, but have never used it.
That line of reasoning also has parallels to irreducible complexity, which time and again has been proven false.

Just because the machine is so sophisticated and extremely delicate doesn't mean its functions will forever remain a mystery. Or that it will never be duplicated and controlled.
Interesting. What if you had dependents? Would you expose them to higher risk in order to (hopefully) facilitate long-term cultural change?
> Double-blind makes no sense to me either? T1D doesn't just go away. If the treatment works, it would be obvious...

They're not just interested in whether T1D "goes away". If insulin requirements drop or A1c %s improve, those would also be useful results (either innately, or as a "look, there's something going on here, we just need to fine tune the dosage"). You can't get good data on those if patients' behaviour is influenced by unblinded treatment.

> I would assume safety is well established.

You can't assume that when you're dealing with smaller populations. For example, short courses of corticosteroids are very safe in the general population, but can cause life-threatening hyperglycaemia in diabetics. So they have to look for side effects; and if they're looking, they need the trial to be blinded in order to avoid seeing a side effect which doesn't really exist.
Really? You genuinely believe that you could usefully reduce the number of guns in the US in 5 years?
The lecture is valuable, the presenter is engaging.

I guess this sums up the lecture :

"How to manage efficiently >irrational< people to get an output"

However I believe my previous comment is on topic & valuable too.
As our web applications get ever more complex, and as a side result less secure (on the premise that complex sites are harder to secure than simple ones, and more likely to use features like this which further complicate security), I think we're going to see more and more of a divide between the 'secure' web and modern rich applications.

One of the reasons that I'm such a big fan of Chrome's End-to-End project[0] is that it looks like it may provide a good way to bring real security to modern rich applications. In the current incantation it's not going to be suitable for use in every site out there, but it appears to be a really solid step in the right direction.

[0]: https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/
There's a big difference between the security of exit nodes (which see all the traffic passing through them in the form in which it travels over the Internet) and using .onion addresses, where the intermediate hosts don't see any of the data unencrypted.

To my mind, accessing the general Internet is not what you want to do with TOR -- ideally the service you want to access will also be on .onion, allowing you to avoid exit nodes. In practice, that's not going to be possible in all cases so exit nodes are a necessary evil requiring extra care.
One of those open coursewares might help
If a student/woman I would suggest GSoC or OPW. That stuff helps for sure
Sorry for going off-topic here to the thread, but ...

As someone studying the language, can you explain what the と portion of the name means? I am aware of the ある (有る) portion, "to exist", and that と is being used here to represent a clause, eg "Xと言った" (X said), "Xと思った" (X thought).

But in this case, there's nothing before とある, so why say と at all in this case? Why not just say あるOS?
I'm sure the journalist in question who should learn not to write gibberish, ensure he's inserted his operational definitions and check his prose for floating abstractions is properly put to rights!
I guess you weren't referring to the actual paper since it can hardly
turn out to be interesting and gibberish at one and the same time.
Testing after merging with develop is a very, very bad practise. And there're plenty of tools to help you don't do that, just kick a build to run all your tests, which will add a tick or a comment to the branch's PR. And never merge anything without that tick or comment.
About 10 years back, I remember a coworker and I discussing my next assignment's location, a naval shipyard, over Google Maps.

"Well the ferry is here, and -- oh, the shipyard is blurred. I wonder if the base up north is too."

"There are two bases that close?"

"Well, one's the shipyard, and the other one... up here? No... ah here... is where they load in the nuclear missiles."

"... but that's not blurred."

"Um, right. I think they should have that reversed. Huh." [Zooms in] "So this building here is actually several stories tall, because they have to load the missiles vertically, and..."
No longer obscured: The Royal Palace of Amsterdam, Chekhov, Gabčíkovo Power Plant.
Testing if somebody controls a particular .onion address should be quite easy. The SSL provider could just say for example: Create a temporary file containing X at http://youronionaddress/Y - If you can do that, you control the .onion and can have an SSL cert for it.
My current company does this also. The team is slightly smaller with 6 but we are in the process of taking on a couple more developers and the peer review process will still remain. The CTO like yourself reviews all code commits as a final sign off once the change has been through a more thorough peer review. So it is possible to do 100% peer reviews.

Your point 10 highlights exactly how I feel about it.