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I totally agree. I wanted to expand a little on basic vs advanced screens, and suitability for IB.

At work we had two teams who had very different opinions of IB's usefulness. In our case, it was based on the nature of each application. IB does not provide much value when the majority of the screen is dynamically determined: different elements based on user preferences, locale, document contents, etc. The team that disliked IB, their app was almost all dynamic (and lists/tables, whose cells were also fairly dynamic).

Our team, on the other hand, had a very static UI. It had very little runtime customization (other than the contents of labels, images, etc). We loved IB.

And then child ViewControllers came along, and made it easier to mix static/dynamic content on the same screen.

I haven't used UIStackView yet, but I suspect it also will help with screens that contain dynamic content.
Calling it his "reasoning" with all the connotations that come with that word goes way too far.

This was his polite implicit criticism of the new core, which among other things also teaches much less in the way of EE fundamentals, a topic he's cared about very much since at least the late '70s (i.e. 6.002 is no longer a required course for all EECS majors).

The bottom line is that in the post-dot.com crash panic which saw MIT EECS enrollment drop by more than half, after it had been steady at 40% of the undergraduates for decades, one result was "MIT" deciding that what a MIT EECS degree meant would be substantially different.
If what you said is logical then is it not also logical that you should get a shorter sentence if you murder an older person, or the the victim was a smoker as opposed to not?
Color requires a physician to be involved in the ordering of the test. This is also just an expansion of the genes that they are testing rather than an entirely new test. Smaller panels like this are easier to validate.
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That's how it works in Canada. You keep the malpractice insurance rates low by limiting payouts.[1]

[1]In 1978, the Canadian Supreme Court limited damages for pain and suffering. Adjusted for inflation, the cap now is just over $300,000. The United States has no federal cap on damages, though a few states, including Florida, have imposed them.
The fundamental flaw in that argument is the assumption that the inactive and the active groups share of ownership remains the same. Which it would have to only if:

(1) the initial split was formed by splitting each company into halves between the two groups, and

(2) no new companies were ever formed, or, if they are, they are from initiation split ownership exactly 50/50 between actives and inactives.
The point still stands if you add a couple of shoulds to my response as well.
Moore's law is as much about economics as it is about shrinking. For all you code types, switching to a new device is not just as simple as fabricating a new chip in a research lab. Thousands of experimental devices and chips have been made in many research labs. Moore's law is about being able to consistently manufacture more and more millions (and now at billions) of very small transistors every generation (for silicon, this used to be about 1-1.5 years in the late 90's early 2000's).
The previous post on the same blog debunks this. http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2016/05/passive/
There are a ton of thing I hate about Zucks but have to respect his foresight by making very timely and smart purchases to expand his brand.
Maybe try it on HN threads, don't think Godwin's Law would be as effective
That's not actually true in practice in the US: the morphine dosage used to treat pain for advanced cancers is given knowing full well it's a fatal dose. That it hastens death in addition to numbing the pain is something not much talked about outside the medical profession, but that is what is going on.
> Isn't there a danger that if not enough people actively manage their money, the market won't 'correctly' set prices?

There is no "correct" price aside from the price set through the market.
Indeed - the corresponding research into checklistbundles indicated that they would be quite effective; but I think the lack of anything like 100% uptake is due to the lack of appropriate technology to easily create, maintain and utilise checklistbundles.
Wouldn't posting to a google indexed blog legally amount to the same thing?
I find it sad that from the title alone "Nine years of censorship", I was able to say to myself "oh, that's my country they are talking about! Canada!"
This oversells Jobs' execution. Let's not forget that he once held a whole media event to announce...an ipod dock. And Apple forecast the iPhone as possibly eventually capturing 1% of the phone market.

The iPhone is an extra-extraordinary product, but even in retrospect it wasn't considered as amazing when it came out. The watch reminds me of the iPod in terms of when it entered the market (somewhat early, after others had probed and validated it a bit) and under-the-radar adoption rate.

If you ignore personalities, the question really is: can the machine continue to pump out extraordinary products. Not "can the machine pump out another iPhone".
Well, I'm not a chemist or anything but I, maybe naively, thought that the properties would be similiar. More similar to each other than to silicon anyway.

I mean it's similiarity that makes you think of carbon as an alternative to silicon rather than some other element, no?
We had a similar freshman pan-engineering course at Texas A&M that taught both excel and fortran among other things. Probably the most practically useful course in the entire program.
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>There are several middle-grounds that can help extend life without prolonging it.

This is a beautiful choice of words that sent a chill down my spine just now.

Thanks for taking the time to pick out these particular words.
> Oh, and also claimed to be Satoshi, which implies he owns half a million dollars in BTC

I think you mean half a million BTC, which is about 446 times more right now.
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I'm using a Wileyfox Swift (Aug 2015) with CyanogenOS.
It is my personal expectation it will be supported for as long as Samsung S2 (i9100) :)
This can end up being quite awkward. You end up being the 'belle of the ball' and end up having to weed through a _lot_ of, well, not so great ideas. Remember when everyone had their own idea about the 'uber of x'? That.

I can't speak from experience (or I'd have my own startup) but I think the best non-technical cofounder is found while working a technical job with someone of like mind. Or at Uni it seems.
It's not just the builtin search, the way the content is organized always seem be out of line with the way my brain works.

As a reference, take a look at (if you're not familiar with it already) at PostgreSQL's manual[1]. With Postgres, I don't need to search, I can (nearly always) find what I need by scanning the table of contents by eyeball. Also, I can download the whole thing as a PDF for offline reading (or printing if I wanted to).

This is an example of the standard Microsoft should aim for. And that's just the first example I can think of off the top of my hat. FreeBSD has a great manual, too, and last time I looked, the JDK also came with very good - and well-organized - documentation. I don't think it is hard to do per se, just very tedious, but Microsoft certainly has the resources to do it if management makes it a priority.

I am sorry for ranting a little here, but the state of Microsoft's documentation is very disappointing in light of the resources they have; when I was a Linux newbie and made the mistake of asking a stupid question on a discussion board, I got flamed rather hard about not having read the documentation. I then replied - my second mistake, I guess - that apparently to Unix people, "user friendly" means "comes with more documentation than you'd ever want to read". One of the flamers replied - in a very matter of fact tone - that, yes, documentation is always good, because without documentation you're screwed eventually; with good documentation, no matter how complicated and nasty a program is, at least you have a chance. It took me many years to understand the wisdom in those words, but I think I only came to really appreciate them since I became a Windows admin.

[1]http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/index.html
Typically a nurse working 12 hour shifts will do 3 days one week and 4 days the next week.

The 7pm - 7am shift is actually EASIER then the day shift because a lot less happens. The patient is sleeping, the doctors are away, family is gone, and the test labs are closed. At that point the nurse has one job and one job only, keep the patient alive until morning (a hospitals real job is not to fix you, but to keep you alive. It's your primary's job to fix you).

Of course the ED plays by none of those rules :)
Why is that "the right question?" Why can't you say just the same thing about, say, teaching people to read? Fifth-grade literacy is probably enough to do many jobs, so maybe we should toss out high school too.
Not really good enough. There are massive changes between OS versions. Until a couple days ago, my LG G3 was still on KitKat. The underlying structure, performance, and a lot of other significant details are directly tied to the OS and can only come with an OS update.

And we can't get those because carrier stranglehold, proprietary drivers that need to be compiled for every kernel variant instead of using generic hooks, and so on. Android is still Wild West of smartphones, and it's embarrassing that Google's updates are hilariously terrible compared to Apple.
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Downvotes for summing up the whole article into a simple concept?
Wouldn't "React Native cross-platform bridge core moves to OSS" be a better title?
To reduce this class of errors, perhaps RFID tags could be used? If the medication is prepared in a low-distraction area and tagged there, then the person administering the medicine would scan the tag to make sure it's correct before going through with it. The person tagging the medication could still make a mistake, but it would be harder for everyone else, and perhaps during the tagging process some kind of automatic flagging could be employed if the medication doesn't seem to match the patient's problems.
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Launch windows are pretty specific. Not sure about the next Mars one, but some windows are so narrow that launches can be scrapped if the window is missed by even a couple of seconds.
Some of my family members have died to suicide. One violently after many people could not restrain them. One very much planned, very much like Pieter. Both found reasons to end their suffering, to take authoritative control over their own death. The suffering doesn't go away, it just takes another form in other people. It seems I'm the authoritarian lunatic, the psychopath, because I cannot see what separates euthanasia from every other tragic suicide.

* Is it because someone else performs the injection? Then what about suicide by cop, and cases where the patient injects herself?

* Is it because their family members join them in that initial feeling of peace following their decision (which suicide prevention pamphlets warn to watch for)?

* Is it because a cancer patient really is better off dead? Then so are many other seemingly-hopeless people, who are depressed, abandoned, and addicted. Is it because doctors agree that they are better off dead?

Nobody is pro-suffering, but sometimes we must suffer for the things that make us human. When we hear about deaths, aren't the most painful ones those where a person has said "this human life is not worth living"? No inanimate disease can say something so painful, can affirm it so permanently through willful action.
That seems like it would raise a serious issue of moral hazard.
At the same time, not all Nazi analogies are equally wrong- it's fallacious to claim that moustaches are evil because Nazis had them; it isn't exactly fallacious to claim that persecuting and demonizing a minority combined with enthusiastic nationalism through slowly increasing propaganda campaigns under the leadership of a charismatic leader should seem at least slightly worrying because we have Nazis as a historical example. The Nazis and the 30s and 40s can present real historical lessons- another is that in the 30s, the German Communist party declared "After him, us!" in response to Hitler's rise and their refusal to cooperate with the socialists, with the reasoning being that his disastrous short term would hasten about a communist revolution. Unfortunately, we often see the exact same argument used by both socialists and some of the more extreme Bernie Sanders fans today with regards to Trump. There are historical lessons and analogies in the past which can be genuinely useful to understanding the present. At this rate, it feels like if 1930s Germany had Godwin's law, it would have been used to quash any dissent about the actual rise of Nazism.
>There was a lot wrong

People seem to have a hard time distinguishing between "I disagree" and "is wrong".

Politics, by their very nature, are partisan. I disagreed with many of the previous policies (and agreed with others), but it's hard to point to things that were out and out wrong.
Interesting analogy. I'd say that trains and buses are generally better than cars: arguably we do better with higher efficiency (less effort for similar gain). Why would making "more effort" be better for the value of stocks, if the net result is the same? I would like to think that it is CEOs and boards that manage companies actively, not investors that simply want a certain ROI.

In your analogy, I'd say investors are car leasing companies, and it's unclear if they provide a value that can't be just as well provided by the driver(s) buying their cars outright. It would mean that the driver(s) would have to be on more equal footing to the investors, though (they'd have to be able to afford the car).
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Gawande's essay (and book) on the subject came up just recently in discussion on Hacker News. What it all boils down to is that the medical profession in hierarchical and conservative: doctors don't want to change and don't want anybody telling them what to do.
>>If a degree in the experimental sciences from a top-10 institution does not pay better than a degree from Tumbleweed State then the employment market for scientists is completely broken.

It is the the other way.

Why do you think a guy who can produce a good algorithm from Tumbleweed State be paid less than a person who studied hunting habits of native americans in Stanford?

You are not going to college to buy aristocracy, that you will get lifelong rights to a nice pay regardless of your skills.
What you're missing is that the stock market isn't a zero sum game. More money comes out of it than goes into it, because it represents companies that generally do useful things.
It always surprises me when I learn that more industries haven't adopted standardized approaches like this. Using a checklist when doing anything that may have the chance to seriously injure or kill, like for many things in medicine, just seems like a really good idea to me. Even if it takes a couple extra minutes to run.

I'm a pilot in my spare time; every single thing we do usually has a checklist associated with it. Preflight cockpit, external and cabin, pre-engine start, engine start, pre-taxi, engine runup, pre-takeoff, takeoff, after takeoff climb, cruise, descent, before landing, base and final, after landing, shutdown and park. Every phase of a flight has a checklist associated with it. Emergencies or unusual situations also have their own checklists. Hell, even walking into many FBOs, there are signs reminding you to turn off your master switches and close your flight plans.

In training, it is drilled into new pilots to always, always follow the checklist to the letter. Because when we don't, we stand a good chance of missing something. In extreme cases (just like in medicine), just one missed item on a checklist can get you killed [0].

I've found this obsession with checklists seeping into other areas of my life. I have a 15-item checklist for leaving the house when I go out of town, for instance. And in software development, I have a 10-15 item checklist I always go through before rolling code to master (this has saved me countless embarrassments on the low side and potentially bringing the site down on the high side).

TL;DR checklists are good, and more people should use them.

[0] http://www.rapp.org/archives/2015/12/normalization-of-devian...
Kind of misleading report. They try to explain a bit in the article why it's not an apples to apples comparison, but the damage is done by the article overall, as well as the title.

GM has a much lower repair value "per vehicle" because on average its vehicle price is also much lower than Tesla's. So of course Tesla would pay "more per vehicle".

That's not to say Tesla's cars don't have issues. They're still an early adopter of a new car technology that's still in the process of maturing, and the other car makers are still quite far from catching up as well, but this is not the only reason there's a gap in "repair price per vehicle" compared to other car makers.
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I don't see why the the anesthesiologist should not be held liable in this case (and possibly the hospital). In my opinion, it would be very reasonable for them both to pay a significant penalty.

These abnormally low (and capped) penalties make it easier for those who should not be doing this work to keep showing up every day. I understand that we don't want to scare people in health care out of the field, but those who are clearly inept certainly should be afraid to keep working.
> You contradict yourself.

No. Please try to understand what I wrote.
Also shows how much of an echo chamber it is. You cannot accuse someone of being a Nazi and get upvoted if people aren't already on your side.
In Math, you take Calculus. It's four semesters. Then you take Real Analysis which is the exact same material all over again, but you actually learn it and prove the theorems instead of just memorizing a few formulas and blindly applying them.

It's the same in Economics where you take Micro and Macro and then junior or senior year you do the same all over again but this time you take it seriously with logical reasoning instead of just memorizing a couple stock phrase explanations.

SICP wants to be both. It's a great book so maybe it can do both. But it's hard for a class to do both.
I think one of the difficulties with diamond was that n-type doping was very difficult in the past. However, there have been a huge number of improvements in fabricating various diamond-based devices (driven primarily by the development of various color center in diamond for applications in quantum optics, quantum computing), so it's likely to become more plausible in the future.

I don't know much about the relative performance of diamond transistors versus silicon transistors, so I can't say anything concretely about that. I could maybe see some sort of diamond solution being used as an add-on to current silicon technologies whereby the diamond helps enhance heat transport/cooling of the silicon device.
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So .001 * .78 or, .00078 of comments mention nazis.
Possibly a horrible finding, but this line makes me skeptical:

> They extrapolated that information and found that 251,454 deaths in the US were caused by medical error that year.

I would be interested to see their methodology, but it sounds tenuous.
Apart from housing, can someone tell me what is so overwhelmingly cheaper away from the urban metrocentres that this writer is smugly fleeing?

It's not food (not a consequential part of most reader's here's budget). It's not transportation (public transport is cheaper and more available in high density areas). So, apart from housing, what is it?
>I'm not making the same bet on the US

As The Economist put it, America has "friends to the north and south and fish to the east and west." If anything truly threatens the US, it is ourselves. The idea that anyone could sustain supply lines to invade the States is out of their mind or has fallen asleep too many times to reruns of Red Dawn.
By that logic shouldn't you not look at college degrees at all as more women hold degrees[0]?

[0]http://time.com/4064665/women-college-degree/
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PSD driven development is still a thing? Ugh. What tools are out there to build the UI scenegraph directly from production assets? (there is Rightware for automotive displays)
By the way this is how Rob Pike says you should debug. He is not a fan of debuggers.

FWIW. I am a fan of debuggers. But reading and understanding the code, like the asker says he did, is best!
Android forums aren't the majority of users, though. And if the majority of users did care enough about updates, they'd be pushing for them.
Very large scale storage is fairly cheap as long as it's used every day. The issue is when your pumped storage power plant is only needed 1 month out of the year. However, with solar the daily demand for storage is fairly fixed as excess capacity is all generated at the same time of day.
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Chicago. It would be easier to live on peanuts here than in SV for sure.
Not sure what this author is complaining about? The goal was to achieve diversity and they seemed to have done it by hiring an ex-googler who is female. The author seems to be giving a rant because he had to do more work than calling up his buddy. BTW Temple University is not an HBCU
I'm selling software that runs on a local machine and piracy is a problem for me, my next product will be SaaS for that reason.
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The report[0] this article reference has some puzzling exclusions to its data set. For example, why is Harvey Mudd included, but its next door neighbor Claremont McKenna College not? Some other notable liberal arts exclusions are Amherst College, Swarthmore, Bowdoin and Davidson.

[0]http://www.payscale.com/college-roi
You are likely getting downvoted because your comment is redundant.
Computerized order entry of medications. Poor penmanship and unreasonably unpleasant (or unreachable) physicians is still the root cause of many erroneous orders.

Even today, with the push for electronic systems, many physicians push the entry duty off on someone else thus keeping this kind of error alive.
I think I probably guessed which company this is.

But this doesn't smell right. Feels like a real-world version of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM
I disagree completely. People trust sites like Amazon and prefer them if they have already registered an account or are Amazon Prime members. When you want to buy a new CD, do you just google for the band name or do you head to amazon.com (or your preferred music site)?