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> When I see something like that my first question is if the doctors involved are real or not.

So the world of doctors and medicine is one that's highly regulated, has a lot of hierarchy and deference built in, and doesn't train people for things other than their job.

This leads people to not value knowing much other than their job since the the hierarchy means that they'll get abused if they offer advice, and the regulation means that nobody can really listen to it anyhow.

What you end up with is people who are fairly trusting and not terribly knowledgeable outside of their discipline. So if an engineer (or someone engineer-ey) tells a doctor that something can be done and there's no obvious reason it can't be (cell phones are powered all day off of a battery, it's not going to fly, it doesn't cure cancer, etc) then it's entirely possible they'll just say "great! when do we start" rather than try and figure it out for themselves. And I mean things today are crazy from the perspective of someone who spent 20-30 years getting educated to make what, $100k-$300k? How many 30-something website billionaires are there? It would be really easy for someone to say "if this wunderkind says it can be done good enough for me" and go along with things.

Further even if 90% of the doctors out there had the background and training and everything to spot this as a fraud, that still leaves 10% which is a large pool of people who you could dupe.
I just want to second what paulmd wrote. I think the story is extremely unlikely to be true but it is almost impossible to provably clean a system compromised by a sufficiently advanced attacker.

Part of the problem was the combination of advanced claims and the breathless breaking-news pace of the discussion. I definitely remember people getting confused because the secondary or tertiary coverage had confused points like this as reporters rushed to publish and people often remember those with the same authority as primary sources.
(speaking as a local) This is hugely important good news for renewable energy in North Carolina. Not so much for the technology itself -- as stated, this is a Spanish developer contracted to install the farm -- but in that it further cements NC as a leader in renewable power generation projects and the media coverage is directly translating into consumer interest. Just last week I found a flyer in my mailbox advertising a free viability assessment by NC Solar Now (http://www.ncsolarnow.com). This isn't novel in California, but it is extraordinary in the Southeast. I, for one, and psyched, and I hope this wind farm succeeds.

It truly is a continuation of the momentum we've already seen here over the past few years, as both Apple & Google build data centers in the state, and both of them power them predominantly using solar farms.
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Such sentiments are only rarely or not at all expressed in any news I consume. While some media are intentionally sensationalistic and some others aggressively push an agenda, I find that they can easily be avoided with some critical thinking.

To give my answer to your first question - yes, while I did think of it as a European achievement, being impressed that so many countries can come together for a common goal, I was more impressed with it as an achievement for humanity as a whole.
Maybe try a more iterative approach to your learning? Try to skim a chapter and then start on the practice problems. When you get stuck go back to the chapter and find the relevant passage.

It might not be as efficient as reading the chapter all at once but I think you'll feel like you're making continual progress by tackling the practice problems sooner.

As someone who has an extremely low attention span I've found that continual progress is the key to sticking with something. This is also why I try to only learn one thing at a time since you progress much faster than trying to learn multiple things at once.
And, lest we forget, Pao has a documented history of misogyny and gender-based hiring/firing decisions. So if there is a hostile culture, it probably is being mitigated by her departure, rather than fueled.
But the transmission time delay is still only 4.5 hours, not 9.5. The onboard clock has simply drifted out of sync with one on Earth.
I had, still have, the same moral issue. I want to make money, I want to earn a 'passive' income from websites. I just don't want to do it by being a son-of-a-gun and making content scrapping crud. I saw the evil, in my opinion, and tried to do it 'right' but couldn't get traction.
I agree. Getting out of the house is great in general, especially for people who work at home (in case that applies). Fresh air alone is worth it, and good for your health. As I've gotten older, I've come to appreciate just how important fresh air really is to the body and mind. And there is never anything fresh about the air in your house. And when you do get out, the stimulation of the world around gets you out of your own head and can be enough sometimes to break the static blah that has been laid over your thoughts.
Sorry, I meant two other countries and you're right; I have edited to clarify.

My point was centered on borders and neighbouring countries. Do you ever see US immigration politics talking about anything else than Mexico? Canada + Mexico + the US occupy something like 95% of the landmass alone.

Whenever you hear people talk about immigration in europe, we're talking about immigration from generally 5+ other countries, and often enough another neighbouring continent. Each of those countries are so incredibly different from one another it is very hard to put it in perspective with the US.
Amen.

Last Sunday morning, I was so excited to move my APIs over to AWS’s API Gateway. That evening, I was ready to kill.

I spent the entire day (9+ hrs) getting merely two API routes working. A GET and a dreaded POST request.

I couldn’t tell from your post if you eventually figured it out, but it is possible to get the POST request body and url params in your Lambda event as JSON.

In my POST Method’s Integration Request, here’s how I get the query string parameter and the request body. I use this Input Mapping.

#set($inputRoot = $input.path('$'))
{
"access_token":"$input.params('access_token')",
"name" : "$inputRoot.name",
“email” : "$inputRoot.email”
}

A “glass half full” way to think about all of this is that the AWS API Gateway is ridiculously strict about what data can be passed in to your Lambda functions, and you must explicitly state that data.

Here are other problems I ran into over the weekend:

- The web console is super buggy with broken links and really, really bad UX.

- The documentation is missing for many essential components.

- No support for API Gateway in the AWS SDKs

- I can't figure out how to copy resource methods, so I have to do tons of redundant manual input when creating each resource method, which includes explicitly stating every HTTP Error response code.

- Returning error objects from Lambda functions also needs mapping.

- Out-of-the-box slow response times. My Lambda function with two simple DynamoDB queries often takes 3 seconds to return a result when its route is hit.

Overall, I'm a huge AWS fanboy but the execution of this product is incomplete and out of touch.

C'mon AWS, you can pull through on this. Keep it simple. Build out from there. We all want you to succeed.
I felt the same way, and I'm happy that I happened upon your post. It just doesn't sound interesting to me. Maybe I had my hopes too high, or maybe my idea over the course of dreaming about this ballooned to be something completely different. Or perhaps I just did not fully understand the concept at the time of that first blog post.
> Well, comparing wet-weather conditions with theoretical max cornering speeds is ludicrous, quite frankly.

Depending on the exact paint (I guess since I haven't had this issue over all markings) fully painted surface can be (much) worse than wet-weather for loss of traction, and those can also get wet making any corner taken beyond walking speed a mortal danger.
In the press conference, the PI was asked about a future mission. He said that he has thought about orbiters and landers and considers the Pluto system to be a valuable science target. But he said that we need to study the New Horizons data for some years, to better design the next mission. At this time, they wouldn't know what the best instruments to send would be. Also, it is far from clear how to send a mission to Pluto that takes a reasonable amount of time to get there (9 years, in the case of New Horizons) but can also stop when it gets there. Cassini took almost seven years to reach Saturn and the orbital insertion burn was something like ninety minutes! I'm not sure how fast it was going at the time, compared to New Horizons at Pluto, but the point is, if you want to get there quickly, you go fast, but then it's hard to stop.
Honest question: would it be better if instead they rolled out a custom Firefox-only Read Later service, as was the original plan?

Is the issue that they "picked a winner" or that Read Later shouldn't be built in to the browser, period?
The complaint is the fact that Pocket is now natively built into Firefox, which if you read the Pocket ToS, can be considered a violation of privacy. That, and the fact that because it is natively built in rather than a default extension, it cannot be removed, only disabled.

It's something that couldn't be farther from necessary. That's the complaint here.
The Propaganda-Elephant in the Room: there is no such thing as "recycling plastics" - but still the word "recycling" is commonly used, even if the described process very clearly is not about recycling. Obviously, this is a downcycling process which will lead to dissolved plastic in the food chain after a few decades, so this is far away from an ecologically sustainable or clean solution, that might be acceptable for our next generations, it is plain stupid.

The solution is to reglement plastic production to a set of about max. 50 different recipes for different applications that actually can be recycled. Today we have thousands of patent-protected artificial substances called "plastic" and the plastics lobby is extremely strong in suppressing any discussion that goes into that direction.
Why can't we see any stars or light in the background?
As long as it's reachable from your client. I answered elsewhere in this thread on how to upload and download if not.
This has been empirically shown
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/april/walking-vs-sitting-...
Thing is, this is also why America is enemies with Iran - without such an enemy, there is no justification for the $Trillions spent on American war hegemony.

So I think we've found the source of the problem: people want to kill each other because its profitable.
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Nice!
Would be interesting to see population numbers along side it.
Most of these locations allow employers to force non-compete agreements on employees. California is still a magnet for the best talent because of this.
What's the difference between removing and disabling? Aren't they effectively the same? The source is still there to read/hack. Do you care about a few lines of inactive code? If so, I'd start the purge with Hello.
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if they continue like this, people will use 'm$' for mozilla, not for microsoft anymore.
It's stored in ~/Library/Application Support. Whether that's safer than your shell's own history depends on your personal threat model. You can turn off "Prefs>General>Save copy/paste and command history to disk" to disable this if your mac is untrusted.
Let me clarify some things:

* There is no money involved in the Pocket thing.

* Pocket was added internally and not as an extension because it was easier.

* You don't become a Pocket user simply by using Firefox, you need to actually use the feature.

* Mozilla helped Pocket create a new privacy policy

* If you don't use it, then it is not doing you any harm. If somehow the presence of a button annoys you, then you can click the "customize" menu item and remove that button.

Firefox Hello is a collaboration, developed by Mozilla with help from Telefonica. Its videoconferencing without accounts. You don't need to create any account and it doesn't track you, how that is not good is beyond me.

The Pocket feature is really useful for those using it and harmless for those not using it. You can always remove the button or replace it with an add-on of your choice.

Instead of offering just a web view, Mozilla is trying to bundle features that the users find useful. None of the said features does you any harm if you don't use them.

Before finishing this comment, let me leave you with a little nugget of advise: Less war and more dating. Instead of being a critic and combating every form of feature that somehow you dislike. Try to see how partnerships and opportunities make things better for everyone.Lots of people are loving the Pocket and Hello features and using them on a daily basis. Instead of removing features we can think of scenarios where they are useful and understand why they are there. And again, if you don't like them, you can use the Customize feature to remove them from the toolbars.
"Resigned" is how executives get fired.
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20 centimeters of air is a LOT more than it sounds like. I personally run a pressure of 14 cmH20 and the airflow needed to maintain this is a LOT higher than that needed for breathing. I run a full face mask and my machine averages flow of around 30 liters a minute. The air needs to be "turned over" constantly since you don't want to be re-breathing stale air.

(As a side note to GP: Reducing/stopping pressure on the exhale is problematic also... for some of us many of our problems are actually on the exhale.
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It's amazing how Disney hasn't deviated from this strategy and vision even today. If anything, the acquisitions of Marvel and Lucas Films reinforce this strategy.
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It's not just you that feels that way. That article is just a torrent of misogynist screed.

For example: "It’s no surprise that the virtual world warehouses sexual rejects who couldn’t cut it in public where their ugliness means they’re not even in the running. BBWs, BBBWs, BBBBBBBBBBBBWs… you’ll find them all online, beached like a herd of walrus." Or later, "Fatties – The internet is great for banging fatties."
I assume you're using 2.9.x here. Try turning off prefs>advanced>avoid repainting the screen when the cursor is hidden. Let me know if that makes a difference.
It's 2015, though, not 1996. If you seriously can't afford to send your visitor a few-dozen-kilobyte file once in a blue moon (because you do have far-future expire dates, right?), you've got bigger problems than CDN'ing your jQuery is going to solve.

If you're serving megabytes of JS such that that is enough to matter... no, it's still true, if that's not sustainable you've got bigger problems than a CDN is going to solve. Even on very JS-heavy sites, the amount of your bandwidth taken up by JS shouldn't be that large on a properly-configured site. (Yes, I can construct some rare exceptions... you've got a demo site for WebGL and your average viewer hits you once with no cache, grabs megabytes of JS and textures, then moves on never to return. But they are rare, even if you can construct them in your head.)
often, it's discipline over motivation.
having a routine helps to actually get you up and doing activities during the day. then the small accomplishments accumulate to motivation returning. break things into small tasks, and socialize.
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You are forgetting that it is your lungs that must move the 2.88KG in an 8 hour period.

The machine just has to maintain a positive pressure during certain portions of the breathing cycle.

What I see here is a possibly overly-ambitious design, but no obvious scam.

BTW, here is a video of Airing's Chairman: https://vimeo.com/130685879
Meteor.js is the future for personal projects. I do not see any jobs for Meteor.js in any popular job board like indeed.com.
Well, "resigned by mutual agreement" which isn't quite the same thing.
It's ok to be lethargic sometimes. If it's very regular it could be a symptom of something else (maybe psychological; depression, general lack of motivation), so maybe you can talk to a therapist about it.

Go for a run? If you don't have the energy to run, go for a walk. If you're not going to do anything during the day, might as well enjoy the sun and visit new places.
The question I’m asking here is what should we do as engineers?

Talk about it and spread the word to others that this is impossible to do.

There's also some interesting discussion here, mostly to the tune of "it won't work":

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/crowd-funded-projects/the-airin...
Fixed, good catch.
Insurance for CPAP is actually fairly generous. Mine will pay for a new mask (~$150) every 3 months, and a new machine every year (~$1k).

Have to meet my deductible first of course, but I suspect most insurance would LOVE to be paying only $3/day.
is that enough to start warping your view of the world

That's certainly how cognitive dissidence works. People will do great mental gymnastics to avoid seeing themselves as one of the bad guys.
I have similar dynamics where phases total lethargy are often followed by episodes of surprising energy. I can second that exercise and the lack thereof can seriously affect your mental wellbeing. Watching sleep hygiene, excise and diet are important. Also check if you might be suffering from depression. Apart from that I have to say that I personally like this alternation and resting. If it does not feel awful for you maybe just accept this as your nature :)
Weight lifting is a form of cardiovascular work.
Very excited to participate. I loved the Google AI challenges and have been eager to do another AI contest.

I just wish there were more AI contests out there, they are some of the most fun I have programming.
AJAX and the ability to manipulate the DOM has been around for about a decade or so, AJAX came out of Microsoft I believe.

Putting bits of AJAX into a web app doesn't make it SPA. Lets say you have a CRUD web application that is tax forms which end up being 5-10 "pages" printed. Then as a SPA you would have to load all the code to generate the 5-10 pages of forms, validation, logic, etc. onto a Single Page. This single page would be where everything is done, the URL would not change and the end user would have a seamless experience.

If the goal is interactivity and seamless operation to the end user, attempting to mimic a desktop app, there are multiple paths to achieving that goal. Limiting the design to a single page seems sort of contrived and a "do it because I can" type of approach, absent of user requirements - in my opinion.
Can I make a C++ program in Notepad then compile and run it in Command Prompt?
+1 fresh air !
I feel your pain - I'm constantly feeling guilty about neglecting one thing or another, but there are only so many hours in the day, and I'm slowly getting used to the fact that I just can't do everything.
I highly doubt that Reddit leadership is/will be responsible for their massive rise or fall in popularity. The people have coalesced around this platform in such numbers that as long as the most basic needs are met for the community to thrive, they will continue to thrive. The few who leave because of this executive turmoil or changes in moderation have already been supplanted by new users who enjoy the system as it is today.
This is one of the biggest reasons why HN needs thread folding. Once the first-loudest voice catches on, it's hard to see the rest of the discussions without distraction.
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> for example you can write a rootkit that lives in the southbridge controller

Those two slides sets don't claim to have a rootkit 'in the southbridge controller'. The second speaks about Option ROMs, which are a well-known attack vector (see practically half the Thunderbolt attack concepts, the other half aiming for the DMA capabilities).

Option ROMs exist on plugin cards (which aren't southbridges) or, for built-in devices like on-board NICs, in the flash part that also hosts the PC firmware (BIOS, UEFI, coreboot, ...) - which sits behind the southbridge, not on the southbridge itself.

There's also firmware for auxiliary processors (eg. IMC or SMU in AMD chipsets), but that also sits in the main firmware flash.

The "security" processors (ME on Intel, PSP on AMD) also fetch their firmware from the main firmware flash (shared with the CPU firmware).

The location of various firmware items is pretty well-known. I'd be more worried about some extra chip (such as a discrete audio codec chip ;-) ) coming with its own rewritable flash memory. But that's unlikely for cost reasons and also not part of the discussion in security research papers, at least as far as I have seen.
Most of them are tiny island nations, everything south of Mexico is generally considered "Central America" by everyone else and everybody ignores Greenland (which is technically still kinda part of Denmark).

Comparing the 41(!) countries of North America[0] with the 58 countries of Europe[1] is really comparing apples and oranges.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_countri...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...
Someone should fork Firefox with all this crap removed. Does IceWeasel have Pocket and Sync and such?
This is a much harder problem than you give it credit for. The pressure has to be maintained over widely and rapidly changing conditions. For instance, if the patient suddenly takes a deep, fast breath, the pressure needs to be maintained.
Yes! The incoming bytestream is now parsed into tokens in a separate thread. There are various other performance improvements as well, such as a fastpath for when no double-width characters are present.
I'm right there with you. My motivation comes from a combination of self-esteem and a large amount of curiosity.

I've found that constant progress is key to keeping engaged with learning. It's tempting to try and learn multiple things at once but each new thing slows down progress exponentially. It's much easier to focus on one thing and get a constant stream of little victories.
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Now I feel slightly (only slightly) bad for using the word "imbecile".
You can do that too, but the download.sh script is much more straightforward: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/master/tests/downloa...
Well it has been a few years from when I took my Thermo course, and yes the proper way to do this is to compute the work required for compression. I'd invite this thread to do a proper job with the math. And if you've used a CPAP as I have you know that it actually assists your chest in moving, which is even a more considerable mass--there's a lot of energy being used in my CPAP device.
You have no basis on which to attack her character. Circumstances have changed significantly since she started. Why is your first assumption that she's weak? Victoria was fired for standing up for users. Maybe Bethanye was being put in a similar position and wanted to leave on her own terms rather than compromise her ideals.