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by skue 13y ago
I genuinely wonder what other sysadmins working at/with the NSA think about Snowden. His actions have probably made their jobs more difficult, but they also work with these same systems, have a sense of their scope, and know the extent
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by skue 13y ago
> Remember, there is a difference between not auditing access to their internal fileservers that they keep their PowerPoints on, and not auditing access to their wiretap data. This will clearly be NSA's response -- whether it'
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by skue 13y ago
> Another [official] said that the NSA has a poor audit capability, which is frustrating efforts to complete a damage assessment. Wow. The NSA spent untold billions building advanced tech to snoop others but never bothered to set up prop
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by skue 13y ago
Only on HN would you get a bunch of hackers going off on a tangent about the proper use of tl;dr right in the middle of a discussion about whether hackers and activists should be considered potential terrorists. :-)
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by skue 13y ago
So Hayden is playing bad cop, while Alexander plays god cop? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6135833
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by skue 13y ago
One wacko on Reddit and a few hyperbolic calls for protest hardly warrants a heavy handed response. What about the constant over-reaction you hear from gun rights activists? You hear far louder and more violent statements directly from nati
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by skue 13y ago
Before I went to med school, I was similarly skeptical about the med/pharma industry. But like the global warming debate, once you understand the science, you begin to realize how facile the conspiracy theories are. Here's the sci
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by skue 13y ago
The meds are not magical at all: they just help you be less distracted. If you have been procrastinating for years and have a regular routine and numerous personal habits built around procrastination, those don't go away when you take
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by skue 13y ago
It depends on the degree. I think the more compelling factors for the OP are that (a) this has been going on for years, (b) he has a very strong feeling that this is holding him back, and (c) his dad is the same way. It's possible that
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by skue 13y ago
The fact that this has been going on for years, and that you feel the procrastination is holding you back from your full potential does sound like it could be ADHD, as others have mentioned. Also, ADHD tends to run in families. So if your d
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by skue 13y ago
The next phase, going from validated new procedure/approach to broader adoption, has its own ethical issues. During my medical training I scrubbed into three surgeries that should have been routine, but where an experienced surgeon dec
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by skue 13y ago
Absolutely. It's called lead time bias, and there's a great illustration on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_time_bias Gil Welch at Dartmouth is one of the experts in unnecessary medical screening
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by skue 13y ago
> "Excellent question!" to any experienced interviewer means... That's an very broad statement. This phrase can come across as gratuitous or stalling, but it really depends on how you phrase it, the enthusiasm you project,
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by skue 13y ago
> If you look at the way YC demo day works, its a pretty reasonable way for potential investors to find startups which are compatible with their investment goals. I think it addresses the challenge of the general solicitation rule... S
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by skue 13y ago
I already have the latest version of cmake installed via homebrew. The problem appeared to be that YCM's install.sh script goes out of its way to determine the active version of python and link against its libraries[1]. For anyone with
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by skue 13y ago
Thanks, that's good to know. I have been using XVim for a while now. It can be quirky, but it's amazing what JugglerShu has been able to pull off. Have you used both Xvim and ViEmu? How does ViEmu compare?
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by skue 13y ago
Ditto. Here was my "super-quick installation" experience on OS X: 1. Read through the full page of installation instructions. 2. Update to latest version of MacVim. 3. Go research Vundle because up until now, I've been happil
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by skue 13y ago
In med school I learned about a mailing list primarily for infectious disease specialists tracking potential outbreaks worldwide. After a few months I stopped reading it -- it was too terrifying. Update: It was probably ProMED-mail[1]. The
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by skue 13y ago
Please stop calling it "offensive" when people have a strong reaction your views.
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by skue 13y ago
When you're young, it's easy to have a knee-jerk reaction to authority. But go spend any significant time in a developing nation that lacks basic infrastructure, get close to the people living there, learn about their struggles an
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by skue 13y ago
Instead of thinking of it as an ongoing subscription model, it could be structured as equity in lieu of cash for whatever services are rendered. Lawyers and advisors will sometimes do this. This should be reviewed with a lawyer, because I b
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by skue 13y ago
You're 5 hours ahead of the east coast, 8 hours ahead of the west coast. Being available 1-6/7pm for the east coast seems fine. And as others have said - it's a great idea, especially given the shortage of technical talent. T
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by skue 13y ago
Not true. The article has been updated to clarify that this model does not use the MotoBlur interface. Apparently the code is still there, and still active.
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by skue 13y ago
The article has been updated to point out that this model does not use to MotoBlur interface. Apparently having (what looked like) a mostly stock Android interface was an important buying consideration.
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by skue 13y ago
Interesting breakdown, though the title is a bit misleading. The numbers do show a 5% annual increase in single person companies making $1MM+ in 2011, but it's difficult to know whether that reflects a true rise without comparing again
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by skue 13y ago
I'm sorry this has devolved into a back and forth. I was trying to offer the perspective of someone who believes passionately about this issue and is looking for ways to get more active, but who cannot get excited about these protests
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by skue 13y ago
No, the predicted attendance is low because no one has heard about this. Only organizing among Redditors, not bothering to reach out to people with more experience organizing protests, and not partnering with affiliated organizations (Tea
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by skue 13y ago
These protests have not been well organized. From the outside it looks like a handful of Redditors who are thinking of hanging out together - and there seems to have been no PR or outreach to folks beyond Reddit. Most of the nation does not
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by skue 13y ago
I disagree that it's off topic. Patrick's email/article gave an example of how easy and valuable it can be to automate something within a doctor's office, then added this: "Many things are easy for software compani
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by skue 13y ago
That is an excellent point about micropayments. Creating a system that pays sites without a middleman that tracks visits would be challenging (though I imagine it's technically feasible).

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