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Location: Currently Auburn, AL
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Technologies: Java, Python, Django, MySQL, Matlab, Git
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Email: yzd0013 [at] auburn.edu
New grad, looking for entry level software development positions. Only have experiences of developing web apps(mostly backend) and desktop apps but always love to learn new things. Thanks for your time!
By full file backup are you referring to copying all the data under /storage/emulated/0, /sdcard mount points?
Even considering end point caching I feel bad. Good point about networks being already on anyway.
Wow, I had completely forgotten about writing that interpreter for the PURPLE language [1] in that class. Thanks for the memories!

[1] http://www.mattababy.org/~belmonte/Teaching/CS1/PURPLE_proje...
Do you also think the doctor who brilliantly saves someone's life should be rewarded the lifetime earnings of the person saved? Introduce "Value Based Pricing" in healthcare?

I think medical errors should be (financially and professionally) punished, but only up to some reasonable amount, aimed at the future and on damage to society, not on compensating the victim (which you can't really anyway).

If you want to be compensated in full for everything that might happen to you, then get personal insurance.

Getting insurance against i.e. disability is a better approach anyway, as this also covers cases where it is caused by no-one, by yourself or just by bad luck.

It seems strange that personal insurance is rarely mentioned as a (partial) solution for these situations in the US. Maybe because collective/social solutions have a bad reputation?
No, what he is saying is that you can make any argument appear valid if you cherry pick statistics.

There's less violence according to who? There are more people in prison today then any time in history. I'd argue that imprisoning someone is an act of violence. Violent coercion is also violence. Every time the government violates your rights, at the point of the gun, that's violence. That occurs hundreds of millions of times per day due to the actions of our police state.

Delusional people who talk about the rosy benefits of overpopulation always fail to mention that overpopulation is a direct cause of the 6th mass extinction, the saturation of the environment with chemical pollutants, the overfishing of the oceans, the destruction of tillable fields with nitrogen injection (which also leads to massive dead zones in waterways from runoff), and the list goes on.

Talking about how wonderful overpopulation is and how great we are getting along is like talking about how warm and comforting the fire on the life boat is while you burn your oars. It seems like a great idea until the oars are gone and not only are you cold, but you can no longer row.
What a Year of Job Rejections Taught Me About Pitching Myself (2015)
5 Myths About Growth Hacking
> risk of maternal death for planned out-of hospital births more than double

While your assertion is technically correct, this singular take is a misleading characterization of the source you linked. Per your source:

> Perinatal mortality was higher with planned out-of-hospital birth than with planned in-hospital birth, but the absolute risk of death was low in both settings.

More specifically

> adjusted risk difference, 1.52 deaths
per 1000 births; 95% CI, 0.51 to 2.54

I'm not sure this necessarily follows your original description of "pure insanity."
Hum...

Why does the guy who discovered the time of quantum decoherence (Claude Cohen Tanoudji) says quantum computing might be a scam?

Okay, people may think he is a fraud, but he was able to trap very few photons in a cavity and measure that quantum decoherence disappear with order of magintude of 10^-13seconds.

Ho! And maybe quantum computing is fast, but how fast is it for an operator to translate a NEW problem (different from factorisation) into a quantum code?

Well, least but not last, reading the libquant (freely inspired from quantum mechanics to compute risks) I can't help that notice that most so called smart boys with degrees in maths are totally clueless about quantum mechanic, because quantum mechanics is based on probability, and most human don't grasp it. So how can I trust less than able non -as smart and honest person- as traders to grasp QM?
Batteries were about $650.
I'd really use a Firefox version of this. Wondering how far am I from knowing how to port it myself.
Yes, solar and wind are both below the cost of coal, natural gas, and nuclear, without subsidies (doesn't take capacity factor into account though). I'm always reposting that data here, so I won't dump a full page of citations here, but if you response with contact info, I'd be happy to send detailed information.
The $571B Debt Wall That Points to More Defaults in China
Computationally difficult is a bit of an understatement. It is not possible to alter the bitcoin blockchain once a block is added and confirmed. With limitless resources, you could perform a withholding attack to modify the most recent half-hour to one hour's worth of transactions, but that would take tens of millions of dollars in hardware and only be temporarily successful.
>You were the one using the friend lending example to say there's no new money created when debt is created.

You keep saying I wrote no money is created. I did not. From every single post in this thread:

My first post in this thread: "new money is added through asset purchases, not giveaways,"

My second: "if you think fractional reserve creates money (in the sense that the gain is not balanced by a matching debt), then paying it back "destroys" the exact same amount. Fractional reserve is zero sum"

Third: "Accounting does balance to zero. Debt and money are added, and they sum to zero"

Fourth: "I have stated that the money is balanced by a matching debt"

Literally every single post I wrote in this thread stated that money is added, and a matching debt is added.

Every. Single. One.

Have fun.
Design at 1x–It’s a Fact
Hey, high five to fellow Belgian Pieter! :)

Yes, I was with my dad a month or so ago, same thing. One small injection to make him sleep, then after 5 minutes, one to stop his heart. It was instant, like switching off a light.
Yes, but most people would use a card.
This is really cool. I wonder if this would hold up in court in copyright or patent related disputes.
Those who live by the sword, die by the sword. In this case, the sword is State power.

Researchers are perfectly happy for the might of the State to underpin coercive taxation, because it directly funds their jobs. But they complain loudly enough when a fraction of that might is used to constrain their freedom of expression.

I think the move to un-muzzle State scientists is a good thing. But I have little sympathy for their complaints, either, given the way they're funded.
In the meanwhile, a few other sources argue that the overall ERORI (energy invested vs. energy produced) is well below a somehow 'sustainable' level. The impression I'm getting is that the day oil/gas production starts to fall due to geological limits, so will the production of photovoltaic & windmills.

Please see: https://collapseofindustrialcivilization.files.wordpress.com...

And: http://science-and-energy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/201...

And: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqhC6uI8TUY (for french speakers out there)

Please do convince me that we can run the current industrial civilization, at current rates of energy usage, with only solar & wind, on a long enough run, without oil.
The language in this post is very curious. It seems like they're going out of their way to avoid acknowledging that this was all their fault.

> issues that our users had.

> GitHub infrastructure team were quick to explain that this was because of us hitting CPU rate limits on their end

and finally at the end of the paragraph

> which turned out to be caused, besides the high volume of clones, by the default options we chose to clone this repo.

If it was me writing this, I'd apologise to Github for the (unintentional) bad design of CocoaPods, and the effect it had on their servers.
You are preaching the choir here. :) I ascribe to a global consciousness that we are not quite aware of, yet we exist inside of as symbiant guests. If it becomes conscious on a human level, I would well imagine it would advise us with Wisdom as opposed to dictating behavior.

The reason why I believe this is complicated, but it's based on the assumption that Aesthetic is somehow tied to discrimination (security) and thus can't be forced upon reality without affecting quality.
Unless you mean to build solar manufacturing plants, which even then have very limited applicability for unskilled human labor, the installation and upkeep of solar are absolutely nothing compared to the human cost of coal, oil, or even to a lesser degree nuclear.
I've never used it, but I know that https://www.livecoding.tv/ is a thing.
This is blatantly incorrect. All of the latest evidence suggests that robotic surgery is not associated with clinically (or even statistical in many cases) significant improvements in patient outcomes when compared with other minimally invasive techniques (laparoscopy), currently the only field where robotics may have some benefit is in urology and even then, it isn't all that clear. Robotics have clinically significant improved outcomes only when compared to open procedures.

No one is scared of robotics but it costs the hospital a lot more money to run the DaVinci system and it requires significantly more OR downtime to prep between cases reducing OR utilization and the number of cases you can do.

Robotics may one day be the answer but not yet.

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3254844/
2. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00384-016-2516-7
I think this writeup is a tad lengthy. It's not until the fifth paragraph that I understand what's even going on

>Intelligent matching with software is how hiring should work. Failed technical interviews are a big loss for both sides. They cost companies their most valuable resource, engineering time. Applicants lose time they could have spent interviewing with another company that would have been a better fit.

I feel like that should have been the headline for this. For a company that is meant to match people to companies, I think their external communication should be excellent not just good. How can I trust that this company will communicate my strengths and weaknesses in a way other people can understand if it's difficult for me to follow one of their flagship blog posts?
Facebook awards $10,000 to a 10 years old who hacked Instagram
I think this is more a problem of us being taught in school not to question authorities "who ought to know better" and thereby unlearning to rely on instincts. Teachers in school, GPS on the road, weather forecasts or any apps we use when we can use some extra expertise. I've:

* told a friend in a coastal desert village "It's going to rain, better get the laundry from the roof." - He grew up there and never left village town but still, instead of relying on instincts, took out his smartphone and checked the forecast "No way, mate, no rain today." He had not finished his sentence when the first drop hit the screen of his smartphone.

* pointed fellow passengers on a boat to the rising moon. They took out their smartphone, argued it cannot be the moon because their app says it's going to rise in another direction. Then the app corrected itself, now pointing at the clearly visible rising moon.

* spent a beautiful morning with a flatmate in the garden of our Venice Beach apartment talking about how beautiful and warm the day is. We go back inside, she looks at the weather app and exclaims "holy shit, it's hot outside!"
they built something to take a particular input (hurricane-force winds) and produce a specific output (keep standing). Their calculations and over-engineering led them to expect that output all the way through production. Further investigation revealed that another output was more likely. I call that a bug.
I don't think that's adequate, that explanation is buck-passing. The NFL doesn't care about Madden or EA, it just cares about making money; if someone else offered it more money, they'd sell the license to them. So why has EA been able to keep paying the NFL's bill and keep the fanbase to pay it off? It looks like they've been able to build a brand, and have invested a ton in constant finetuning and additional football-nerd details that a competitor would have serious difficulty in living up to in the first iteration of any AAA competing football game, combined with an annual iteration which means that with the usual 3 year development cycle, any competitor would be obsolete quickly.
Robotic Lawn Mower
> MLK and Gandhi carefully and very specifically structured their movements to account for people falling into such patterns of behavior and besmirching their causes.

I don't know enough of that history to know specifically what you're referring to, could you elaborate further on this point?
AFAIK, it's based on where the malpractice happened.

Plus, that would set a terrible precedence if one hospital couldn't airlift someone out to another hospital that could provide adequate care, because they were afraid of a federal case.
It is never enough money to live (full stop)
So you understand what is coming, on some level. The question for us is how to best handle the transition.
However, their point is not about assigning blame, it's about tracking how many deaths could possibly have been prevented by improving the system rather than ignoring everything but diseases that put people in the system. So now that I think about it, it makes just as much sense to track and improve misdiagnosis just as much as mistakes in the pharmacy...
Good job sneaking in a comparison of Trump to the Nazis without a shred of supporting argument. I'm no Trump fan but the comparisons to Hitler are totally unwarranted.

Take his most controversial proposal. Deporting 11 million people--who don't have the right to be here in the first place--is bad policy and callous, but it's fair.

There's plenty of examples of populist nationalist leaders hurting their countries, like Berlusconi in Italy. No need to raise the false specter of concentration camps, mass murder, and totalitarianism.
> It is, but the cost of better targeting gets exponential more expensive.

Does it? I don't see why. It's not like you have to manually go through the data.
It should work in Firefox 48. See https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-twitter/pull/3 and https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/04/29/webextensions-in-...

Happy to add something to the readme if anyone can test and confirm.
A Mapbox May the Forth from Geografa
[Disclosure: I work for the team that built docs.microsoft.com]

Thanks for the feedback, and we went through a lot of customer feedback already on this. I'll try to be brief in a response

- A good example on why - For our documentation we clearly saw customers jumping around content trying to find the part of the article that helps them. Depending on the article (see point #2) very few people read from beginning to end. A good example here is that instead of having separate articles on how to setup iOS, Android and Windows phone devices with Intune, the previous articles had that as part of a much later article. If an admin who's company has standardized on Android, they want just the Android content, they don't want to have to sift through iOS/Windows troubleshooting to get to the Android setup content. For SEO, it's also much more likely that they'll find the solution by Googling (with or without Bing) to something like "Setup Intune Android" and go directly to the page that takes care of just that task. For developers, we face the same problem where some articles include multiple langauges and code samples are duplicated. Instead of doing that, we would break the article into pieces by language.

- Another key reason is not all content is built the same. We'd get feedback that many of our competitors have a much simpler "Getting Started" tutorial, while ours would be much longer and we'd get feedback that it seems more complex or overwhelming. When you are just starting off, "Hello World" is a lot better than War & Peace. It's about thinking about the right level of content for the task our customers are going through. In some cases, it's fine to have one long article.

- We will also provide the option for customers to have all content together versus having content broken into separate pieces and made available for offline. Customers want both.

- The reason we called this out is that the previous architecture doesn't not even have this as a capability.

I hope this helps give some context on the decision and thanks for the feedback.
> Is it the government's job to prevent mis-reporting of science?

I would say it is certainly part of the government's job to see to it that the public (including the media, who are simply members of the public who happen to exercise the freedom of the press) receives, when receiving information directly from the government, accurate information about things that the government does, including science.

> If so, why not just manage the reporters directly?

Because while it is the government's obligation to insure that the information it (through its officers and employees) provides to the public (including the media) is accurate and presented appropriately considering the direct audience, it has a different role with regard to information shared about government by members of the public, including the media.
When I first heard about this whole mess it seemed to me that the way they use GitHub was somewhat abusive. I'm glad to see they'll forgo shallow clones for full clones but I still find it weird (and abusive) that they use GitHub for this purpose at all. Shouldn't they self host for this kind of thing?
>What, it was worried that the scientist would misrepresent their own research? That's ridiculous!

Why? Just look at that study about sexism on github that came out a couple of months ago, the authors were lying through their teeth. They (correctly) surmised that reporters wouldn't bother looking at the actual results, and so managed to generate tons of media coverage.
I mean to replace the people who actually service you.
If anyone should be required to wear body cams it should be surgeons. Alas, we can't even get our own medical records.

Could it be that the medical profession isn't designed to benefit patients, but is designed to benefit medical professionals?
I just don't get how you can be successful doing stuff that way. People with that little sleep are not going to function optimal. They are going to make mistakes.

But both Tesla and SpaceX seems very successful so I wonder if they are successful despite of this or because of this.
In my case, my lungs are filling up with something that is slowly choking me. I take oxygen and have bad coughing spells, and that's it. No pain yet. When the cancer grows into my stomach it'll be worse. I've no timetable so am guessing a month or two before I need permanent pain killers and am effectively out of action.

(If I can't think and write clearly, I'm finished.)

I'm organizing a party/wake/meetup/barbeque at my place on 5th June, no matter what state I'm in. :)
/r/ukpolitics is somewhat similar.

What does 18 signify?
Robots, and better robotics will help...

The more that can be automated, automatically repaired / etc, the cheaper things get and the less humans will be potentially exposed to hazardous chemicals.

It won't improve single core performance, but it will go a long way towards making devices cost less.
Pictures or it did not happen
It's actually surprising to me that there isn't already some established service for doing this. Situationally useful, but still a pretty cool way to handle things like dating a trade secret without revealing it.
That's a really solid platform! I like that Easter Egg in the demo, haha (hint for those who don't want to look too hard: try changing the organization)
I used to have ideas about negative design where you'd plan the failing interface before fitting the correct working one. So often errors are just there because people spent the time and fun on the 'productive' parts of a component.

But even though computers are often about pre-established rules, protocols and structures. There's also a part dealing with unknowns, probabilities (Ward Cunningham even made some parsing theory based on grammarless systems, very original).

Sadly I never ran into that in my studies.

Good point about the 'value' of life. It should dominate the decisions. That said, I also believe that when a system is dumbed down to a point where nothing bad can happen, people are even more sloppy. Solution lying in the middle, as people say.

ps: about my tone, it's not a flaw to be paranoid, to a certain extent. Not saying we should rejoy about PHP/Wordpress 25% of the web though. Again, balance.
Adding Apache Spark to Astronomer
On HN you are generally expected to 'get started', rather than insulting projects like that without expanding.

I would actually say, though I vastly prefer say Jekyll over WordPress, that generating a static site from a WordPress site probably works pretty well and gets you a very mature CMS UI for your users.

Doing it that way round is probably preferable and better understood at this point than the newer solutions that are trying to bolt CMS backends onto Jekyll sites (CodeCannon, Prose.io etc).
Hmm. I think it's pretty well-known that medical personnel tend to be overworked and stressed out. Is that perhaps because there's a shortage of qualified personnel? If so, and if people are pushed out of the industry because they made a mistake while stressed and sleep-deprived because there aren't enough people in the industry, it seems that that could lead to a continuing decline in the quality of care.
The best part are where he doesn't deny there was a porno shoot going on, just everything else that's mentioned about it.
Chill out, Franz. It was like a one day lab assignment and to be fair, I had no idea what quines were so I did learn something interesting and it led to an incredible discussion about Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust".
6 years in, why are Bing's results still wrong?
Back when IB was a separate tool, I'd agree with you. I'm not going to look for old docs, but I'm pretty sure I ran across something from six or seven years ago that mostly said, "IB can be used by non-programmers to make a UI, and then dev can create the code to hook to the IBActions.", or something like that.

Whether it was written down or not, it seems like a good idea in theory. The old, stand-alone IB wasn't all that hard to figure out (though struts and springs might bring the death of your sanity). Get the UI all prettied up, and hook up an implementation behind it. Not that I've ever seen that in practice, however.
[Disclosure: I work for the team that built docs.microsoft.com]

Thanks, this is great feedback and something we totally agree and want to fix. We recently created a redirection service, which historically did not exist on MSDN/TechNet so that when content moves, we can properly 301 redirect content to the correct place. This will help for net new content that moves, but as you correctly point out, we still have a lot of work to do for existing content.

Thanks again for the feedback!
I'm looking for a technical cofounder with at least 10 years experience in Quantum DevOps
Problematic drug has a byproduct that makes it a great antidepressant
Very sadly, I don't. Beyond the Box Model (and the basic notion of "cascading"), there seem to be very few mental models, as such, out there; if anything, people tend to learn through a collection of experiences (many of them negative, at the outset).

Not that there aren't important concepts to understand. Just that the quirks and exceptions tend to rise up from the mists, and -- just when you thought you got a handle on some particular area of functionality -- overwhelm the nice, tidy, conceptual aspects.

Which is why it has proved to be by far the hardest programming environment I've ever hard to learn.