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Don't know but interestingly the Pike programming language was developed at Linköping University. Perhaps Rob Pike has gained some kind of demigod status there?

If you are using Logitech Unifying Receivers I've found Solaar [https://pwr.github.io/Solaar/] to be very good.

Get some of either.

I'm a fan of workflowy too. As a vim user I was also very pleased to discover that vimflowy [https://vimflowy.bitballoon.com/] also exists.

Watching my own children go through the education system here in the UK I have noticed how much more of a qualification system it is compared to when I was at school/college in the 1970's & 1980's. Education seems to be something you try to get along the way to qualifications.

I've always found it interesting to observe how people approach code debugging for a similar reason; can they see, not just look. Quite often people will think they 'know' exactly where the problem resides and fail to find the problem despite visible evidence to the contrary. Specifically crafted 'debugging' tests are a valuable part of my interview approach, even for non-technicals.

Whilst not as well produced as Trello, https://kanboard.net/ is self hostable.

Yes, but the question is do you even need the DRM or is the 'copy hassle' sufficient? You only need one person willing and able to subvert the DRM to make and then distribute an unrestricted version. Individuals don't need to 'unDRM' content themselves it's out there if they want and know how to get it.

I think that what DRM provides is the illusion of control. This illusion is good enough to allow Netflix and similar companies to gain access to other peoples content upon which they build a very convenient system for media consumption by anybody who can use a TV.

>Moreover, if it works on Firefox/Linux, how can they prevent someone grabbing the video from X and the audio from Alsa? What is the usefulness of DRM in the first place, in this case?

This is such an important flaw in all DRM. At some point all this digital wonderment has to be turned in to light and noise. This is the weakest point in the chain and it only takes one person with a decent re-recording setup to create a copy and then distribute it for any DRM to be bypassed. A £50 mic setup in a home studio will allow a good enough copy of most pop music to be made. Even if the hardware was in on the DRM game (looking at you Apple), my ears and eyes are not.

Yes. One day, in the not too distant future people will look back aghast at how we tolerated the number of deaths on our roads.

On my god it's worse. I think this guy is writing the in-flight entertainment system. If this goes down we are all in for very bad flight!

Indeed one way to devalue this information would be to swamp ISP servers with 'fake' data; hide our real activities in the noise. What we need is someone to release a modified versions of Chrome/IE/Firefox that spends all your browsing downtime accessing 'dodgy' sites. If everyone starting using it this information would soon become either impossible to store and pointless as everyone is a criminal according to the data.

His books are good too.

> But even if software could do a job of a radiologist, it wouldn't replace one any more than your ekg reading program replaced cardiologists.

I don't think the radiologist is going anywhere soon but the role is changing. Radiologists are increasingly having to deal with more and more derived information. They need to understand the algorithms being used as well as the biology, anatomy, physiology and disease being investigated. I can see a time when algorithmic specialists become a regular part of their multidisciplinary team.

Many of the challenges with radiology are historical. Imaging technologies have been treated as a devices for producing images on which measurements can be made, rather than a measurement device from which images are formed. This has lead to difficulties for quantitative imaging techniques and so we continue to rely on the (albeit impressive) qualitative assessment of the radiologist.

This is changing (shameless plug for my company http://www.pulmolux.co.uk) but medicine moves slowly preferring evolution over revolution. Having said that, I certainly detect that the scanner manufacturers (GE, Philips, Siemens, etc) having reached saturation with radiologists now have a thirst for disruption and see the referring physician as the next customer. MRI cardiology being something of an example.

You start by making gun calibres metric. Then they either start using the metric system or stop using guns. Win either way.

We could allow everything to be published and then use a continual monitoring approach. After all the limiting resource these days is not paper but reviewers time, so lets distribute that. What is wrong with model like HN uses for open review and comment on work? Even a voting system to help identify the most 'important' works.

Edit: Haha great minds chmike

And from a couple of days before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12019205

You are right when you say the signal is BOLD and not flow directly. Flow regulation is a key component though. However, I don't think this negates my point. Oxygenation is being equated with brain activity. The approach is sensitive to BOLD signal changes that correlate with the input. I'm not a neuroscientist but I know many that would argue the brain is more complex than this and response are more complicated (what about areas of the brain that are on through out the experiment?)

I spent a few years in the late 90's and early 00's working on fMRI and I've been stunned by many of the claims that appear to arise from it's use. What's being measured relates to blood flow changes that correlate with an input block paradigm, typically from a visual stimulus. This isn't brain activity in the electrical sense but rather which areas of the brain appear to regulate their blood flow in relation to the stimulus. The assumption being that these areas require more 'fuel' to support their increased neural activity in response to the stimulus. Or as I like to think of it, attempting to estimate your home electricity usage by monitoring your water bill. Doing so with MRI, a technology I've spent most of my adult life analysing the data from and still can best describe what it does as 'magical', adding another not insignificant level of complexity.

I'm know there is good science going on in this field, by people that understand the limitations of the techniques and the technologies. However, I worked with psychiatrists - a clinical discipline starved of quantitative measurements until fMRI - that would happily ignore statistically significant activation in the air around the subjects head whilst laying claim as to the importance of those in the frontal cortex. Seeing the visual cortex 'light up' in response to flashing chequerboards is one thing, isolating those areas of the brain responsible for 'forgiveness' is something quite different.

Of course the software has bugs, I personally know people who wrote the package in question and they are extremely smart and also very human. I doubt I've ever published a paper using software that wasn't bug ridden. That's why open source is such an important part of the process, laying bare every last detail of what was done and not just what felt worth mentioning in the paper. The medical imaging research community is particularly good at this with most of the industry software making source code available. The problem with fMRI is not the software.

15000 LOC in bash. You sick bastard.

I guess network security will matter too. A thief could reroute a moving vehicle in transit and send it to their favourite chop-shop. In fact, given that you will only ever be a passenger in a self drive vehicle, why limit yourself to stealing empty cars?

Is this a market ripe for disruption - people are still buying a product that doesn't work? Also the market is likely to change over the next decade. What happens to car crime once a large number of vehicles are self drive?

> Yeah the future of cars is not owning one.

I think it is more "The future of cars is not _everyone_ owning one." The point is that most cars spend most of their time sat, parked waiting for a single user who is also usually the owner. This is inefficient. I'd rather the car I owned was out earning money while I'm sleeping/working and available just when I need it.

Uber has the right idea, and those that own cars will become part of their network.

Two other industries I see impacted; car parks - my car doesn't need to remain near me; home delivery - thanks, I'll send the car to pick it.

As a child raised on Gerry Anderson's designs, this is how aircraft should look!

Also when writing with pen/pencil you are essentially always drawing. I think this allows the writer to capture a lot nuances on the page which might not be ideal for review but at the time of capture they help reinforce ideas as the brain is processing them.

Also in the UK and typically I find I get most items delivered in 2 days even though I always go with the free standard delivery.

> I wish I could see actual updates from people instead of being kept abreast as to what piece of third party content they've liked at some point in time, what third party content they're sharing, etc.

This nicely captures the problem. Facebook (and probably most social media systems - I'm looking at you LinkedIn) are primarily interested in keeping you up to date with Facebook via the medium that is your human relationships. So Facebook wants you to know what your friends did on Facebook today so that you might do that same Facebook thing. This increases Facebook interactions which in turn become more information to propagate to others on Facebook. In the limit there is no need for Facebook because all anyone is ever doing is Facebook.

I've found Davmail [http://davmail.sourceforge.net/] a pretty decent solution to this. You run a local service that exposes Exchange as IMap.

I may have missed it but it looks like the plot from cell 'In [64]' hasn't converted from Euros and GBP to Dollars.