skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COTS for maybe a decade now. Look at sports medicine equipment suppliers. I'm unaware of any breast oriented products but they probably exist.

Google for Esaote (my coworker got scanned a couple times by their product) and "extremity MRI"

As you'd imagine the economics are non-trivial. The machine is smaller and cheaper that a full size MRI (google claims its fraction of a million, like the cost of a house) but obviously something that can only scan knees and ankles and elbows is a pretty tough sell unless you're a sports medicine practice in which case its a pretty easy sell...

On the other hand if a "whole body sized" MRI costs $2500 per scan, then you've only got to scan maybe 100 knees to pay the capital cost of a dedicated extremity MRI. And how long would that take at a busy sports medicine practice, like a week?

I would not describe the machine as portable. Being a giant magnet you probably need a special safe room to operate it, so I don't envision paramedic/EMT ever having a MRI in the ambulance or whatever.

WRT discussion in the comments about claustrophobia I don't mind the small spaces so much as being chained down for an hour or so, that drives me nuts. My MiL went thru some tests for her gallbladder that took hours, I'd be clawing at the walls after ten minutes. Also if I could get nitrous for my wisdom teeth I see no obvious reason a MRI patient couldn't be gassed but they "never" seem to do that, which I find weird. For $2500 for a full body scan you could at least give me a couple shots of vodka.
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This was an exceptionally meaty read. Learning about the Bartle Test was interesting.

I think #4 is the most important real-world lesson. As an adult, you need to be a different person when communicating with different people, but you still need to know how to be your true self around the people that matter.
They did show his ship being shredded by a bunch of glowing particles...
The feedback given look relevant to me (from the article):

"Your version was rejected because of the following problems: 1) Extending the prototype of native objects like Object, Array and String is not allowed because it can cause compatibility problems with other add-ons or the browser itself. (data/toolbar-button-panel.html line 40 et al.) 2) You are using an outdated version of the Add-ons SDK, which we no longer accept. Please use the latest stable version of the SDK: https://developer.mozilla.org/Add-ons/SDK 3) Use of console.log() in submitted version. Please fix them and submit again. Thank you."
Ha, yeh right. They have proven themselves just as bad as mangaging those projects. In fact it is one of the only areas where the UK Parliament Intelligence and Security Committee has really given them a bit of a kicking.

"MI5 abandons multi-million pound IT project"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10053240/MI5-abandons-...
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Named one of the 50 Smartest Companies by MIT Technology Review, Ripple Labs is an 80 person startup backed by prominent investors, such as Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and IDG Capital Partners. The original developers of the Ripple protocol, we now support its growth by contributing code to the open-source software, as well as recruiting and developing tools for financial institutions and payment networks to use Ripple.

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I think it's more likely that sitting in an office insulates you from other risks that are more common in other professions.

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Exactly.

Not to mention, this type of reasoning could be applied to almost any technology company. Every company is theoretically an attractive target for personal information.
Oh yes, that's a great way of putting it! People disparage the idea of "wearing masks," yet we need to do so in order to function in society. I use a different tone and language with my boss compared to my best friend, and that's a good thing.

Glad you liked it, btw.
We use Wordpress for our Blog but it's completely separated from our main website. I guess theoretically it could be infected but we don't distribute any software from there.
https://blog.glasswire.com
Google Webmaster Tools pointed specifically to our installer file that is rated as safe by VirusTotal.com.
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Named one of the 50 Smartest Companies by MIT Technology Review, Ripple Labs is an 80 person startup backed by prominent investors, such as Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and IDG Capital Partners. The original developers of the Ripple protocol, we now support its growth by contributing code to the open-source software, as well as recruiting and developing tools for financial institutions and payment networks to use Ripple.

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> don't use technology you don't understand

What do you mean by this? I struggle to understand the workings of a linear voltage regulator. To even try and suggest that any one person could "understand" anything much more complex is deluded.

How deep does your understanding need to go to allow you to use it? You'd have to go back 40 years to find computers that any one person has a hope of "understanding". Even at that point there was all sorts of abstractions - did the logic designer fully understand the power supply? Did they understand the CRT screen?
> Dalvik VM and ART handle Dalvik bytecode generated from Java the language....

Version 6, with partial support for Java 7 added in Android 4.4 tooling.

> Indeed, it's possible to use lambdas on Android today with Kotlin, Scala, and Retrolambda, for example. It's possible to further optimize handling of lambdas on future releases.

All workarounds for Google's lack of support in the official tooling.
Can the median business owner or store manager independently calculate the money supply of US dollars?

The Fed simply stopped publishing M3 in 2006. Yet, the portion of M3 that is not also in M2 is nearly 30% of the total money supply, and increasing steadily since about 1960, with only a slight setback from 1991-1995. The portion of M2 not in M1 has remained about 50% of the money supply.

By now, everyone who buys or sells knows that the CPI is completely useless as a measure of inflation. The portion of inflation that is visible and obvious to consumers is now about 10% per year. That doubles prices about every 7 years. This is somewhat mitigated on the shelf by adding more air to packages and aggressively hunting foreign suppliers whose costs are not measured in dollars, thus delaying price increases until trade balances are settled. The gallon jugs of Floridian fresh-squeezed orange juice are replaced by 0.75 gallon jugs of blended Floridian and Brazilian frozen concentrate.

I believe that Fed operations since 2005 have been less about stabilizing the value of money than they have been about keeping large changes in the money supply off the Fed's books, and hidden in numbers that have historically been less scrutinized as economic indicators, or perhaps never reported at all. The bond-buying spree appears to be a shell game to manipulate money velocity and leverage monetary reservoirs to replicate the effects of running the printing press, without actually alarming those who cry bloody murder whenever they hear it operating.

Nice use of the bandwagon fallacy, there. They don't necessarily have to fool everyone around the world. They just have to be better than all the alternatives. Since the rest of the world economy is also in bad shape, that is not a high bar to pass. That's a lot like asking why so many customers in Comcast's service area choose to get Comcast. Most of the time, it's because they're the only game in town. It may also be that all those who are not fooled do not have control over institutional investment funds.

Your post contains several implicit and unstated assumptions about economics that I do not necessarily agree with. And I also have several assumptions that I am certain you would not agree with.

I believe that the Fed and the other central banks of advanced industrial economies do have the tools at their disposal to prevent hyperinflation. But I do not believe that the consistent use of those tools are less damaging over the long term than an actual outbreak of hyperinflation. They often simply spread the pain out over a longer period, and prevent reallocation of resources from failed or failing institutions.
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If the new tools and techniques were actually good, they would be enough for a while, and people wouldn't feel the need for even newer tools and techniques the next week.

This should be an obvious and automatic hype-temperer, but for some reason it isn't.
It's fixed with Chrome, thanks! Unfortunately Google Webmaster Tools still says we have malware for some reason. Hopefully it will update soon.
Not only that, but if you change the permittivity and permeability to that of any material, you get the speed of light in that material. And for all this to happen, you get the fact that light is an electromagnetic wave from Maxwell's equations.
Seems like a legit review. Reviews make some people cry though. I think once people start using addons there's more people willing to do a review. Also, just diff'ing from a previous version is quite easy to see the changes. So future reviews will go quicker.

Trust will also grow the longer you are not a badie!

Anyone wanting to help review Add-ons can see what to do here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/AMO:Editors
Wow, awesome list! Thanks for putting the time and effort into putting that together. Sounds like I have a plan laid out to get started over the winter break! Thanks!
Could be for many reasons:

* The cost of acquisition is less than the cost of developing it themselves.
* An aqui-hire. Microsoft wants to pick up the dev talent and skillsets at Accompli.
* To prevent a competitor from getting them. Maybe there was other interest that would let a competitor move in on existing Microsoft products.
* To continue to build its 'modern' image. There's a lot of additional branding to do if they do it themselves, buying Acompli gives them some nice press and puts the Microsoft brand in front of Acompli's users (which may not be Microsoft's traditional demographic).
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==Company Description==

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Mostly through a long grieving process, I would give slightly different advice, or perhaps the same advice said differently: don't feed anger. Don't hold it.

In my youth, I thought emotions were things to be controlled, suppressed. That was terrible for me. Three years ago a lot of bad things happened more or less at once, and my hyperrationalist suppression of emotion failed me. It was sand castles against a tidal wave.

Now I try to treat emotions like weather. I don't get to pick them; I just get to pick how to respond when they happen. So if somebody is feeling angry, I think that's ok. I'd hate for them to justify it, to sustain it, to make it a habit. There's no sense in nursing a grudge against the world, and I certainly wouldn't want them to let the anger spill over onto those around them. That is definitely a waste. When they feel it, they should feel it. But when it passes, they should let it go.
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China is a huge and my guess underserved tech market. I wonder how much of the HN crowd is working on Chinese applications - likely selection bias would mean not that many.
Theoretically, maybe. But completely practically, that info is available for cabs today, for example in NYC[1]. A determined person can even figure out if you tipped[2].

All that without doing anything illegal. It's just a matter of matching pick-up locations and timestamps to people of interest. Which should be easy in case of public officials and companies with known headquarters.

[1] http://www.andresmh.com/nyctaxitrips/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7896537
Why pipes burst the way they do
Thank you for the comments. I agree with your caveat about the difficulty in applying the tools to software or programming. Although invariants are quite useful in programming too, and abstraction is an essential part of any large project. But I decided, perhaps wrongly, not to discuss the programming examples much. For example, an earlier draft had a discussion of abstraction and used the tree minilanguage that I wrote to make the tree diagrams, comparing the high-level abstractions it uses with the low-level lines of postscript or PDF code (near the bottom of the abstraction tower). But it ended up frightening lots of students, so I didn't include it in the published book.

-Sanjoy Mahajan
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