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The words you're looking for are "liberal arts education." The liberal arts are (roughly) fields concerned with the search for truth and the study of human life: math, philosophy, physics, biology, chemistry, anthropology, psychology, literature, etc. Some computer science programs should arguably be counted among the liberal arts, insofar as they're about something deeper than contemporary software engineering practice. Liberal is meant as in freedom: the objects of study worthy of a free person, particularly if you put a Marxist lens on it and consider wage slavery unfree.

The liberal arts do not have salary optimization or the production of skilled workers of any kind as their mission, though it may be a side effect in some cases. Finance, business, management, engineering, communications, etc. do not count, and a proponent of liberal arts education (like myself) would say they do not belong in an undergrad program.

Many people believe that the primary value of undergrad is a coming-of-age ritual where students develop as intellectuals and learn to be informed and rational citizens of the world. The best way to do this is with mandatory and rigorous breadth in the entirety of the liberal arts [0], and a particularly rigorous specialization in one. Those professions that require additional formal training ought to be studied in graduate and/or professional school, as is the case with law and medicine.

This was a mainstream view until sometime in the late 20th century when the "college as job training and investment in future salary" narrative took off. Many people now (coincidentally almost all are liberals) believe this was a mistake. These are the people you'll find letting their children study non-salary-optimizing fields and lending political support to taxpayer-funded higher education, including in not-necessarily-economically-useful fields.

Start here: http://www.ditext.com/pippin/aims2000.html

[0] This belief is responsible for most gen-ed requirements and core curricula.
Almost literally a blank page and a login with Facebook. I am intrigued by the idea and I am not one to go on and on about sharing. But I won't even try this out because of the landing page.
I'm not the biggest fan of Thiel's thinking, but this line shows that the two founders did their job very well:

>They convinced me there is a surprising amount that has gone wrong with the cancer cell lines people have been studying

This sounds that they managed to explain to him how much is going wrong with HeLa cells (I assume he's talking about HeLa - these are the most widely used).

They're so sturdy that they contaminate everything to the point that some well-known, well-used cancer cell lines turn out to be nothing but HeLa contamination [1]. There's ethical problems as the original cells were taken from Henrietta Lacks without her consent (this is slowly being rectified, have a look at "The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks"). HeLa cells have mutated so much in culture that they have little in common with human cells [2]. I wonder which "human cancer" cells they graft into mice.

All together, this sounds like the founders did their homework on science communication. To scientists this highlights the importance of communication - it's not "just" useful for talking to "the public about the importance of your work", it can make you some serious money!

[1] http://retractionwatch.com/2013/03/11/more-hela-problems-for...

[2] http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2013/09/17/debatin...
"There are good reasons to expect that this will be invalidated somewhere in the next 400 years."

I keep hearing this but I'm very doubtful we could or even should do it.
I am by no means knowledgable in the relevant domain yet this is scary at so many levels. The team that is taking charge of so many critical infrastructure not doing a minimal level of fact finding before pushing for a new kernel module for RPC is a bit obscene.

I may have read things that are biased but I have a feeling it is a useful project and it does a lot of thing elegantly or right. But the project acts like it is the center of the universe and all should act to meet its needs. I have seen such project/modules at work, they usually makes everyone happy to start with and down the road when they finally get stuck and I am forced to consult we are already long way down the slope.
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Yeah for me neither, weird. If you want to read about the protocol, this is the latest draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dejong-remotestorage/...
This is really problematic, IMO. The idea of paying only for what you like, rather than what you read. People will inevitably end up "voting", as it were, only for stories that line up with their biases.
That distinction isn't as easy as you suggest.
Well, most discussions revolving around this try to frame it as if women are being paid less for the same job a man is doing. It's disingenuous, and needs to be scrutinized so that we can all be on the same page and not make knee-jerk reactions that can cause irreparable harm.
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Well...my mind's blown. Astounding technology advancement.
I found this https://github.com/remotestorage/spec/blob/master/README.md after a bit of Googling
I just quit my job, founded a startup, and puked
How can an algorithm which sends O(n^2) messages between n nodes have O(log-star(n)) time complexity? I'm reading the paper now to try and understand, but it doesn't seem possible to me. Doesn't O(n^2) messages mean each node send on average O(n) messages? Perhaps some subtlety of asymptotic notation escapes me here.

For those (like me) who didn't know, log-star is the iterated log function and grows very slowly: IteratedLog[2^65536] == 5.
I find this a very inspiring line of thought for two reasons. 1) Philosophical. What if we could get rid of randomness in our lives? Can we do 'end-to-end' assembly with our health, owning all stages of the process, like Elon Musk does with Tesla Cars? And in the end, will this give you more happiness or more stress? 2) Business. Getting rid of randomness is important for the growth of our startup. This interview gets me thinking: what randomness can we cut out of our business?
We're already got The Washington Post, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and soon The New York Times in our kiosk. The interface is still in Dutch (for now), but it's a start:

https://blendle.com/kiosk/engels

Also, be sure to sign up at https://launch.blendle.com, we're working hard to get this across the Atlantic, stay tuned!
This [1] top of "Restoring Active Memory (RAM) - The end goal of RAM is to develop and test a wireless, fully implantable neural-interface medical device for human clinical use.." [2] and the Sci-fi future will be here.

[1] http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2015-09-11

[2] http://www.darpa.mil/program/restoring-active-memory
That would be the egocentric view, instead of letting the commit stand on its own.
Perhaps same way people associate facts?

PageRank is one of the 200 metrics Google uses nowadays. It's weight is not as great before.
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Ah, so the idea is that universities like MIT and Harvard with very high post graduation salaries, really only have so in average, and many people earn much less. At least to me it is quite surprising that those two statistics are so different.
I think you are misunderstanding the ruling. And while the headline isn't 100% correct! it is more inline with what everyone is discussing than what you claim it is.
At one time the employed commuted to a regional office. From there they would travel to the client site. Now the office is closed, the company no longer has an office in the area. Now the employees commute from their home to a client site. Some days it was longer than before, some days shorter. Before the closure, the company paid for commuting from the fixed office to the site. Now it doesn't. The court said it was wrong, and if you are expected to commute from your home to a non fixed point you deserve compensation.
The fact that the office closed isn't really important. What is important is there is no fixed office that you commute to first.
This is not the case that the new office is further than the old one.
I also got the feeling of this being no more than hard-science-guy bashing the soft-sciences-guy.

As an admitted guy-in-the-middle, I'll add this deliberate provocation to the physicist/hard science guy: if the soft science guy dealt with simple systems as the ones you study [1], then maybe he would care about 100% abstract/infinitely-proof theories.

[1] Simple, as in, without complex organisms and interactions. Simple, as in, with less (or a finite set of) variables to account for.
> Many talented students can't afford or avoid debt in elite universities.

That's actually very very rare. Elite universities will give grants which cover the vast majority of costs for low-income students.

There's a reason the average indebtedness at graduation for Ivies is only a few thousand dollars (and that's not even including the majority who have no debt).
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Would your statement "nor did we ever volunteer" still be true if you could assume that the infrastructure you're running on (ie. baidu) is rigged to act as a passive interception point?
Will a robot take your job?
What's a good book to learn about the new stuff? Async et al..

I learnt Python from "Dive Into Python 3", but that hasn't been updated for few years now. Any similar book with recent updates?
I recommend scanning your 300-440 MHz range - there's an amazing number of devices working in it. Garage remotes, car remotes, smart power meters, ACs, weather stations, tire pressure monitors, I can see 3 periodic signals at home and I don't even know what 2 of them are. (maybe picking up something from neighbours)
Yup, and not even with desktop / mobile OSes. Generally it's the other way around. Where the users go, developers will follow.

There are cases where the relationship is important, like in the early stages of a product - where in some scenarios you need both. And yes, if you need developers, and developing for platform x is hard, and y is easy - all else being equal y would win.
Their already do, or Bild wouldn't be that successful.
Weirdly this post seems to have been submitted multiple times: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=webdav%20dies&sort=byPopularit...

I thought HN prevents this? It seems to be the same exact URL.
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David Post has a legal analysis of this topic, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

"The solution is pretty obvious — a true legislative no-brainer: Amend the Copyright Act to eliminate statutory damages for these orphan works. Surely even Congress can see how idiotic it is that this class of invisible rights holders can keep this treasure trove of information out of the public’s hands, and there has indeed been significant movement recently (including a Copyright Office proposal to this effect) toward just such a change.

.. A [US] court would (as I read the new statute) NOT be permitted to award punitive, or exemplary, damages in orphan works cases – but the TPP seems to require that."
Probably not :(
"I’d envisaged the former owner being some sort of back-woods buck-toothed survivalist who spent his life protecting his family from the oppressive government until he got sick and had to sell his house, guns and alarm system to pay for his medical bills."

Because he had guns? Do all your opinions come from Reddit? I have a Master's in engineering and my teeth are very straight. I own a gun.
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You're not missing anything.

The author seems to be (accidentally or intentionally) part of an ultra-heterodox economic school that believes that all economic value, across all times and places, comes from the consumption of energy.

They base this mostly on that graph near the top of the article that shows that energy consumption was growing exponentially during the industrial revolution.

He then goes on to imagine that 3% economic growth means that in 200 years we'll all have 400 times as many cars and refrigerators (or maybe just one car the size of a luxury yacht), eat 400 times as much food, have houses 400 times as big, etc.
OK, but let's say that value isn't related in any fixed way to material or energy inputs. It's based only on market forces. In that case, why is exponential growth in value not possible?
I find that interesting, considering that most of the points you raised about Clojure not being a Lisp would indicate that you think Racket is a Lisp.

You've also been nothing but vague in terms of what makes Racket not a Lisp, which is ironic considering your previous argument that we should have more clearly defined requirements for what makes a Lisp, but I'm beginning to think that this was mostly hot air.

I think you've mostly proven that the 'vague' definition serves a much more practical purpose than your seemingly arbitrary distinction between these languages, and it will continue to do so, as it implies far more than you've displayed in this thread.
It depends of the complexity of the software. The small Unix utilities like grep or ls are, AFAIK, bug free, because what they do is very simple, but something more complicated is more likely to have small bugs somewhere.
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I deeply agree that human bias is a problem in general, but I prefer the reader's bias for the content over the bias of the advertiser or the reader's bias for click-bait. Do you prefer the current world where clicks, click-bait and other manipulations determine money flows?

The grossly perverted incentives of the ad-driven web aside, is what people read today less subject to bias? People choose, for example, to read/watch the NY Times vs WSJ, Politico vs Drudge Report, or MSNBC vs Fox News based on which publications line up with their biases.

If I don't get to decide whether my reading choices are due to my biases or my ability to discern quality or truth, who does? You? Google? Huff Post? HN's ranking algorithm X the aggregate mindset of HN readers? None of these are biased?

People voting with their wallets is the bedrock of the free market, which despite its shortcomings is vastly better than an economy driven by clicks and the manipukation thereof, and driven by advertisers and their agendas.
“Software Engineer” vs. “Member of Technical Staff”
I've been trying to figure this out for a while now and I haven't been able to really find an answer to these questions.

Is there any implied differences between "software engineer" and "member of technical staff"?

Is there any hierarchy of roles for software engineers?
> Making life harder for introspection tools is hardly a rightful reason for removing a core language feature

Well that's one reason yes, and by itself not really a good enough one. But if you read the PEP there are another 4 good reasons that you omitted from your comment, why is that?
There's some rough numbers in this [0] article that don't disagree with you, but do assert that this can be a metric for quality. Average refunds are 5% of readers of a given article, but gossip articles can go up to 50%.

[0] https://medium.com/on-blendle/blendle-a-radical-experiment-w...
Surely it's going to be hard to maintain that position?

Cloudflare have been involved in a number of projects in conflict with the CCP in recent years. One recent example:

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2014/06/20/cloudflare-hong-kong-d...

There's also Galileo which I'm sure supports a number of organisations which the party would take issue with.

Would such initiatives be at risk?
The answer, of course, is in the paper: "time complexity" here doesn't have its usual meaning, but is defined as "the number of times a processor relies on the adversary to schedule a computation step or to deliver messages". The paper implies that this is the usual definition used in distributed systems analysis.
Then we need to fundamentally re-engineer society.

This is a fundamentally elitist concept that led to countless deaths over the course of the 20th century. Everyone was out to help the common man and somehow ended in an equilibrium involving gulags.
This looks like a fantastic, creative, and polished application for learning and debugging. I'd recommend using this to my network friends.
Yeah I'm not buying the argument. Whether or not we may one day do so, we're talking huge timescales here [1] where we'll be effectively in steady state. Not to mention the insanity of having our economic theory based on this hail mary.

Since the use of economic theory is in guiding our long-term decision making, I'd rather that theory be focused on getting it right with what we have, and be pleasantly surprised if we get a bit more growth from a distant space rock, rather than being reliant on the never ending (and growing) series of space rocks.

[1] Few space rocks besides Mars are particularly habitable, each subsequent one we chase after will be less so, and after that we're going outside the solar system where timescales are massive. Our best knowledge of physics/engineering today is that we can colonize these things, but our best knowledge is not that we can reach them at anywhere near FTL.
>you can't practically recover what was written on it.

Keyword: Practically. In theory, the information is in the mixed up ashes though. Thus, the information is not lost, just scattered and made inconvenient.

If you dropped the ashes in the black hole, the ashes would go into the same state as if you dropped ashes of a paper with different text on it - in other words, it's literally unrecoverable.
A window can obscure what's on the other side. Glare, reflections, lighting conditions, trees.

And sometimes people stretch out their arms to record video, just like you'd hold a handgun.

Now mix that with a tense situation and potential for life and death and I can understand they took the shot "by accident". Mistakes happen.
White House helps you find the right college through open data
Users connect to Cloudflare edge server with its own certificate. Then it's decrypted and re-encrypted to the origin server. Right? I imagine it's like this: http://i.imgur.com/DASFtbw.png
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I didn't see anything about "taking risks" in the article. He's helping young entrepreneurs overcome obstacles like age discrimination and to succeed with their business plans. His own personal history is one of honing his own skills and finding meaningful ways to use them.

This whole "entrepreneurship = taking risks" narrative is getting a little out of hand lately. First and foremost, entrepreneurs should have a worthwhile business idea and the skill and capabilities to assess and realize it. Confidence in doing so comes with skill. Taking risks is for the casino, or for investors who lack the means to evaluate a business proposal.
Can we please stop making Linux as a thing about choice[1] and stop fragmenting the community in the name of following a UNIX philosophy, the rule of KISS or some other nonsense? Are we really going to spend lots of energy the next n years discussing the best init system? Isn't this a pretty simple and solved problem by now?

[1] http://islinuxaboutchoice.com/
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The question is: Why would the black holes swallow up more antimatter than matter, if everything is completely symmetrical?
Has the EFF ever won a copyright battle? Since they lost the big one (copyright term extension), I can't think of a big win.
Is there a reason you can't do that with an ethernet cable?
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I believe in some companies, when you first join and they don't yet know how well you will do, your title is "member of technical staff"

Then after a specific period (e.g. 6 months), after the first performance review cycle, your level gets decided, and you become a "software engineer"
Even with using xenografts instead of cell lines there's plenty of stuff that can go wrong. Animal models are maybe closer to humans than cell lines, but they're still far from perfect.

Derek Lowe posted about this a few days ago on his In The Pipeline blog:

But their rationale is that trying to culture CSCs in vitro runs the risk of having them change character too much, making any assays using them unreliable. My guess is that they’re right about that, but my worry is that xenograft tumors themselves are already unreliable enough to cause trouble (and I have no idea of what happens to them after you “passage” them through multiple animals). Xenograft models are, of course, well known in oncology drug discovery, but one of the things that’s well known about them is that they’re the pure example of “necessary but nowhere near sufficient”.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/09/09/cha...
Or, rather, what's wrong with having robot tell you when to be considerate, or even being considerate instead of you?
Nonetheless interesting. I had not heard of him or his website and just spent a couple of hours there. Thanks to the O.P. for the heads up.
A person holding a cellphone looks nothing like a person holding a gun, especially to someone trained to spot people holding guns.
The cookie and auth management alone makes this worth using. Really fantastic program, will definitely displace my usage of various Chrome extensions to get the job done.
It sounds like just the type of thing that has no use until one day it suddenly does. Ideas like these need a long time to gestate - better to do that before they're needed rather than after.
Yahoo bought broadcast.com for about 6 billion. Groupon is worth about 2, so is twitter and yahoo bought tumblr for 800 million. Aol had a market cap around 200 billion.
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> The author seems to be (accidentally or intentionally) part of an ultra-heterodox economic school that believes that all economic value, across all times and places, comes from the consumption of energy.

Ultimately all life is based on exploiting energy gradients. Economic value without using more energy is ultimately an efficiency improvement, an investment of past energy which is proving beneficial.
What's elitist about it? 'We' need to do it together, not some select group.

I am not saying have some bloody revolution. You would have to be mindful of history and make incremental improvements.
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Oh wow. This is going in the bookmarks. Last time I did REST work, I had to make do with CocoaRestClient and Swagger, and neither were exactly convenient for some things.
I believe Cloudflare provide their own private CA and let customers set this up to encrypt between Cloudflare and the customer's origin servers.

However from speaking to Cloudflare I don't think this is enforced - i.e., Cloudflare allow their customers to indeed send a web users data in the clear over the internet.
Note the complete lack of security.

(A shared secret sent in plain text is not security).
Yes! I think that's why people like to push mind-maps, they "force" you to create all possible connections on a piece of paper.
Data visualizations for the internet of things
I love the concept. I hope the execution will be right. e.g. if I pay for Economist story, I won't be bombarded with their popups.
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Title should really mention "health passports".
You're right - I checked Google Scholar, most of his publications are from the PhD time in the 80s, one in 1997 and 2005, the rest is his popular science books. In the 2005 paper his affiliation is listed as "Department of Physics, Hunter College of CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021 USA" so maybe he focuses on teaching and popular science books?

https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?start=10&q=L+mlodinow&...