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to normalize grant scores by previous grant funding to the PI. i.e., (X papers of Y impact)/Z dollars of funding over the past 10 years.

One way to bypass this would be for larger organizations to internally incentivize their researchers to cite their own organizations papers in preference to, or in addition to, other organizations papers. Thus the larger the organization, the more it can press down on the PI scales.

Alternately, even if it's not a several large organizations, smaller organizations can incentivize citing partner papers in the same way.

Which is just restating the concept that if you measure something, and then base monetary rewards off that measurement, then that number will be hyper-optimized (even if it's not a good predictor of future performance).

I don't have a good alternative, but just mentioning that there are easy circumventions (like you mentioned with double blinding)
How does this effect the supply chain? Let me re-phrase that, are we still criminalizing the supply side? If so, we're just exporting our violence south of the USA border.
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Amusingly, anthropophilia versus zoophilia is genetic. If we all cleared out of Africa completely, those problematic mosquito strains may well go extinct. Now I'm wondering how fast they'd re-evolve. So it's probably more like the case I thought of at the end of my first post, where we'd have to stamp the property back out every time it evolved. It'd be pretty easy, though, and without a major animal reservoir it'd probably give us enough breathing room to eradicate the disease itself with ebola-style quarantines.
I'm unclear on how Kuvée fits into the three-tier system [0]. Are they trying to supplement/replace the incumbent distributors, or are they in between the vineyards and distributors?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-tier_system_(alcohol_dis...
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Oh, that's very nice. Thanks for sharing this here, always nice to see how different people implement the same thing basically :)
These kind of stories are useful to understand to what extent the media has turned into an echo chamber. Everybody has to have (or comment on) the same stories than everybody else has, so fast copying (with or without attribution) has become a de-facto practice in every news outlet out there.

Good for Motherboard to wait and check. Unfortunately this means we will see this article now in all the outlets that published the previous one with a hand-washing disclaimer ("remember that article SOMEONE ELSE wrote that we talked you about last week, well...")
Where is evidence of Apple misleading media? Apple certainly never said they were making money off recycled gold.
Actually there are some in Crimea and some in Bulgaria. Literally less than 100 cases in 10 years, mostly imported, not endemic. Treated in hospitals.
That's a case of corrupt officials using funds to pay themselves more money and other misuses not in the interests of the city. This isn't in the same category as using funds inappropriately for something that is in the interests of taxpayers.
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> Data durability

>

> As a data service our first priority is keeping your data safe. We utilize WAL-E (link is external), the popular continuous archiving tool for Postgres.

A slight aside, but it's definitely worth looking at Postgres' WAL system [1], which is very cool technology that recently got better in 9.4 in that it can stream a "logical" representation of the WAL instead of the previous format which was largely only good for internal use. The WAL-E project that persists WAL to S3 was originally started for Heroku Postgres, but is now in widespread use elsewhere including the new Citus initiative.

Anyway, I'm a little biased because this was bootstrapped by ex-colleagues, but I'm excited to see an alternative to Redshift (not necessarily the target competitor here, but one interesting technology that Citus could viably replace) that allows for more consistent query performance and has all the modern features of Postgres (i.e. as opposed to being permanently locked into 8.0.2 with Redshift).

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/wal-intro.html

[2] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/logicaldecoding-ex...

[3] https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
Learn what? Everyone still wins, Apple won, the media got clicks, everyone is a winner.

Let's be real wars have been fought over similar misrepresentation of the facts, nothing is going to change because all the parties involved make money on this kind of stuff. Tech journalism cares about getting views today, and only today. They can put out a correction tomorrow that no one will read because its about yesterday's news. Apple doesn't care because the initial press makes them look great. It's good for the goose, so don't expect their behavior to change.
Agree 100%. Great conversation tangent over on reddit's FI sub about this article, and specifically, the fear that those of us who were/are responsible will be taxed to support those who were/are not: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/4fhs...

For those of you who prefer the whistling-past-the-graveyard approach, Christopher Buckley's book 'Boomsday' is hilarious.

Anyone care to share how they are protecting their savings against this increasingly likely prospect?
What on earth has Apple to do with this?
> aren't you putting selection pressure on the diseases to be airborne?

> an airborne strain does not have an advantage over mosquitoes borne strain

There are hundreds of millions of people today who don't currently have malaria, but would be at risk to get malaria if it went airborne. Airborne malaria wouldn't be competing with mosquitoborne malaria. It'd be competing with running out of people to kill.

There seems to be a startup lesson here: your competition isn't legacy players. It's non-consumption.
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Well, in this case the publishing medium is presumably owned/controlled by him since it's posted on http://www.stephenfry.com

While he may not have the knowledge to modify the site himself, he could tell the people he's paying to remove the ad. It's most likely the case that he wants the ad.
Real men use C.

Without the standard library.
Leadership principles (LPs) are not contradictory so much as they are in tension with one another. That's not a bad thing, it's a good thing. Navigating the tension is what helps discover good outcomes. For example, if a customer calls up wanting a refund, then granting the refund supports Customer Obsession but contradicts Frugality. When deciding between options, there is always a tradeoff, and the LPs provide a lexicon for identifying and reasoning about what you're trading off. Amazon strives to be the world's most customer-centric company, and hence will generally choose the approach consistent with customer obsession. Identifying and discussing that tension and how to resolve it is constructive.

I don't see them as arrows to knock people down. I see them rather as, well, principles to use when reasoning about a situation. Giving a name to a concept is a good way to reason about it and discuss it. They are used when reasoning about performance, it's true, but it's used across the board: when justifying a promotion, when praising a high-performer who excels within their level, when identifying areas of growth, as well as while discussing job performance with people who are doing less well.

Performance and leadership in a creative job like software engineering cannot be perfectly objective (it's not like an assembly line where you process N units per hour), but the LPs provide some objective concepts and terminology to apply while discussing performance; they break down performance into dimensions that can be discussed individually in the context of examples, which is an advantage over just vaguely discussing things at a high level. For example, "Bob found a creative way to pack more software onto existing servers without harming performance (Frugality)" or "Sally spent two hours on the phone helping our biggest customer (Customer Obsession)" or "After causing an outage, Joe wasn't able to identify anything he'd do differently next time. I'm concerned that he's not vocally self-critical." I'd much rather have a discussion of my performance or leadership in concrete terms like these, rather than vague ones.
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I think a better starting point would be the definition of standard of living.
Healthcare is actually a macro economic question. The private American system is much worse, and more expensive than the British public, universal system which is free at the point of delivery for everyone. Americans spend 17.9% of their GDP on healthcare, while the British only spend 9.6%. Americans are being ripped off by the American healthcare industry.

Personally, I rather pay a 10% tax to cover healthcare rather than 20% of my salary to insurance premiums.

https://docs.google.com/a/hackbinary.com/spreadsheets/d/1aMx...

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jun/30/healthc...
Insanely cool, thanks for sharing - this would be interesting to replace our final filter (if I'm interpreting correctly, a trigram index would still speed up the initial search)

And yeah, Python is a strict requirement since the rest of our code is in Python - figured it wasn't worth throwing in another language when a rough parser worked.
> Jackass

It's easy to understand why someone would lash out in response to having their competence snidely negated, but it still damages the community if you do that, so please don't.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/978/
Not every query is parallelizable. Maintaining performance is a lie. An easy to grasp is example is computing a median. And I mean an exact median, not an approximation.
I'm not sure that making a stand for something deserves protection.

If so, does the protection go to the first device, or the best in six months? The one blessed by the manufacturer?

What's being ripped off here? Instead this sounds like "underserved market getting noticed - more consumer choice coming."
I find out interesting that they got the numbers for pages viewed and password forms filled in: I would think that those activities only involve the client side and should not hit the google backend at all. So those stats would have to be gathered by chrome and sent back to google at some point.

(Unless they are approximate numbers)

I'm aware that complaining about this when using Chrome is like complaining about wet feet when you go diving in the ocean, but just out of couriosity: Is there a list of things that chrome keeps statistics about and a way to access those statistics?
Sounds like people's view of food is just as irrational today as it was then.
Yeah, that sounds similar to our experience. We saw a fairly steady uptick in the difficulty of recruiting engineers between '11 and early '15, then a significant shift around early/mid last year. We've been able to recruit about half the number of qualified candidates compared to the previous few years. I'm interested to hear how others have fared.
From what I understand, legalization is a lot more complicated in relation to international drug treaties that Canada is a part of.
Excellent point...
Some of those reporters are contracted to write five or even 10 posts per day. It's not like a NYT or WSJ reporter spending three weeks or three months on one story.

Also, because Google promotes blogspam without any regard for content quality (see the "freshness algorithm"), you lose money by spending longer on a post.

It's the exception rather than the rule that somebody will come along several days later and hit it out of the park, but well done Jason Koebler.
I must have had S or E... because I never had that problem. My kids and I still play it to this day.
I live in a newly constructed apartment building in a neighborhood in queens that's mostly houses.

I typically guide the taxi driver to it by saying "it's the big, ugly building on the corner"
Here's a thought. If the people who developed these things spent their own money to release them worldwide (yep, not just one continent) because they believe in the safety and importance of it... What would happen to them? And what would happen if they are right and it works great? Would the public really allow them to be punished? Would someone not reimburse them? They claim it's safe and are willing to risk the world, but not willing to risk their own livelyhood and reputation apparently.

If you believe in such a cause, and honestly believe the downside was zero, and you have the tool to do the job... What is holding you back? That's an honest question and I'd love to hear their responses.
How about no music?
maybe she'll run for president in a few years.
I'm pretty sure that people back then were rather clear on the idea that if something you put in the ground makes food and seeds you're gonna want to keep the seeds to make more.
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Netflix enrages Canada by actually following through with VPN crackdown plans
Why would you want to delete merged branches? i like to keep them. It's not costing you any storage.
Just because you personally find something offensive doesn't mean it isn't funny. Humor is subjective. It might just mean you have a shit sense of humor.
The biggest risk is that Amazon will act as a monopoly and jack up the prices of the products once it's destroyed competitors.

Honestly, I don't think that's too likely as amazon's business model is built around razor-thin margins.
Seems unlikely there will be a silver bullet solution, especially one that's considered future technology. We have many low-tech solutions available today like soil carbon sequestration through better land management that can be part of a wide array of solutions.
I appreciate the value you find in this. I too was thinking this but everyone else seems to be find fault in what the article was pointing out.
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This is ironic considering Vice routinely bends the truth in favor of outrage porn themselves. In this case, the author doesn't appear to know exactly how much of the waste in the 90 million pounds figure was actually Apple products, though based on the rough calculation that CRT monitors make up the vast majority of e-waste weight he estimates that it is very little. That appears to be the meat of the controversy here. It's not that no e-waste recycling occurred, it's that the $40 million in gold figure is dubious-at-best. Apple paid the companies to perform electronics recycling, which the article itself says is a non-lucrative business and in large part exists solely because manufacturers pay for these recycling programs. I'm not sure if there's a real issue here(other than perhaps the media taking something and running with it for clicks).
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In theory, analogous RNA based disease should also be possible, where misshaped RNA molecule interacts with another misshaped RNA molecule and causes the same type of chain reaction as the protein in this case.
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Haha! The media reporting this doesn't care as long as they get page views, and this isn't going to affect page views.

If they learn anything here, it will be that they can do less verification on the rest of their stories.
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Wouldn't that have been a concern these last two and a half years anyways?
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Please don't take HN threads on ideological flamewar tangents.
SMBs need to add value on either location and convenience, or service. It's something that has been long studied by management experts (see Porter's Competitive Advantage):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_advantage

If you want them to compete on Amazon's ground, they will lose.
Interest rates are too low and with talk of the possibility of negative interest rates there are no incentives to save money. When was the last time you heard of a certificate of deposit (CD) offering by a bank?
For learning what 'rebase', 'merge', 'sqush', 'git fetch', 'git pull' does it is nice to have a GUI. Command line on the other hand is usefull to restore lost commits with 'git log' and 'git reset' and I find it quite advanced topic. I think all basic commands are all in GUIS so those that I listed in first line.
DuckDuckGo is a great alternative
That's certainly what I was getting at. An AppleTV doesn't take away from sales of any other Apple product (that I know of). Whereas this theoretical product might take away from Xbox one sales (which they target as a TV + multimedia + gaming system).
What team were you on at Google?
Good that they mentioned Netty as inspiration
Should we also help malaria reestablish in the areas we previously eradicated it? You know, Europe, the US.
We need a new bill for the post-modern era, bearing an image with the inscription "This is not legal tender".
>Intel, Westinghouse, biotech in general, and Dow do a pretty good job on the applied piece IMHO.

Private companies are in a great position to do applied research, but they are often slow or unwilling to distribute the research results for the benefit of everyone.
I was joking that the main reason for dismissing C++ for this task so quickly was not knowing it, and when and where C++ is used.

How did I came through, to be so unvoted? I'm confused.
It's great to see a lot of the good DNA from the Heroku Postgres team reflected in this release. Congrats on the launch.
Could be. I wonder if they would be the first to fully legalize on a national level? I can't think of any other country that has.
It may be weird for many of you to think about books, but they are still a reality, and will be for at least the next 10 years.

My hope (and my prediction) is that real (paper) books will prove to be far more resilient than people think at the moment, and will be with us far longer than that (albeit in somewhat limited volume compared to their current peak).

Either way, this sounds potentially awesome ways I don't quite have time to articulate right now. And the fact that you're starting out Guatemala, even more son.
The author might benefit from knowing that the "10,000 Hour Rule" has basically been debunked[1]. Even K. Anders Ericsson, on whose work the concept is based and whom the author cites, has said it's wildly misunderstood and misapplied.

> It has to be deliberate, dedicated time spent focusing on improvement.

Staying in your current job generally won't create that kind of feedback loop. Stretching your boundaries in a new position very well might. I would certainly never say that everyone should run out and join startups, but "take your time building the skills" sounds like an excuse for being too conservative.

[1] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/10000-hour-rule-not...
I am a hardware guy. Cooling would be a small issue (but additional die shrinks may make it possible)

There were 3 generations on Xenon which powered Xbox360 (90nm (2005), 65nm (2007), 48nm (2010+))[1]. Modern processes are 28, 16/14 (10nm is Intel only really and Xenons were fabbed GlobalFoundry) [1]. The 2005 vs 2010 models reduced power consumption reduced power consumption from 177watts, to 88watts (under intensive gameplay) [2].

So realistically there are 2(ish) nodes available 28nm and 14/16nm [3]. Which could likely (best case scenario) halve power down to 50-40watts. Apple TV by comparison uses 1.8watts [4]. Passive cooling is possible, but the case foot print would be larger.

I'm not a thermodynamics guy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_(processor)

[2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/3774/welcome-to-valhalla-insid...

[3] 14nm/16nm are 28nm but a different gate style. Features are still 28nm. Also I'm assuming GlobalFoundry is calling their 45nm node 48nm because they called their 14nm node 16nm.

[4] http://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.php?subaction=showfull&id...
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IMO, the amazing thing about the 360 was how they were able to successfully continue selling it in spite of having the ring of death issues[0]. I know people who would go and buy a new machine when theirs died without thinking about it twice. One even gave me their 360 when the ONE came out. Microsoft sure knows how to build brand loyalty.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems
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And ultimately: A 5-year-old PC still works just fine.

I suspect that is really the dominant factor here. It's not that the progress within the chip industry has stopped; there is far more number-crunching power in the CPU and GPU in my latest PC than in the one from five years ago. And if you're doing things like playing demanding games or modelling skyscrapers in a CAD package, that progress is probably very useful. It's just that for what most people use PCs for, it doesn't matter, because they were already good enough so unless their old one broke they don't need a new one anyway.

Not only that, but when it comes to replacement, smaller and more convenient devices like smartphones and tablets will do everything a lot of people need without needing a PC at all these days. If you mostly used a PC for things like staying in touch with your friends or retrieving information from a web site, rather than anything creative beyond a quick bit of typing or anything that needs more powerful equipment, you might not even have a laptop any more.

Given that Intel has never had much penetration in the mobile device market compared to ARM designs, it doesn't seem that surprising that the demand for their products is waning as the mass market moves in that general direction.
84 million worldwide run is respectable! Is there any breakdown per region? I'm somehow under impression that Xbox360 was, primarily, US hit.
No it's cartel-style behavior. There's significant overlap between CEO's, boards, VC's, and so on. Reduced down to something like this: "I'll authorize you to get stupid rich so long as you let me fo it. We'll keep doing it because we can."

Type "leaked citigroup memos and political gates" into Google to see their people say it. They even went so far as encouraging them to pay themselves even more and invest in luxury goods. Haha.