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I'm surprised and a bit dismayed to read Sussman's reasoning:

"...Sussman said that in the 80s and 90s, engineers built complex systems by combining simple and well-understood parts. The goal of SICP was to provide the abstraction language for reasoning about such systems.

Today, this is no longer the case. Sussman pointed out that engineers now routinely write code for complicated hardware that they don’t fully understand (and often can’t understand because of trade secrecy.) The same is true at the software level, since programming environments consist of gigantic libraries with enormous functionality. According to Sussman, his students spend most of their time reading manuals for these libraries to figure out how to stitch them together to get a job done. He said that programming today is 'More like science. You grab this piece of library and you poke at it. You write programs that poke it and see what it does. And you say, ‘Can I tweak it to do the thing I want?''. ... "

Surely graduates of MIT, of all places, would be the ones building the libraries that ordinary programmers are stitching together and would still need the ability to build complex systems from fundamental CS abstractions? I'm absolutely baffled.
Depends on where you work too....
It still matters if the error occurred when the life expectancy was 7 years or 7 months, so ideally you'd want to count that.
Is ReShape Procedure realy good?
I actually do know what I'm talking about here, and it is true. The art industry has way more supply than demand. This is why art schools can still charge what, purely by the numbers, looks like a bad deal. Some people really want to work in art, and even if you end up "only" managing a gallery, you have to have the right credentials.
I'd second the appeals to authority argument, if only on the grounds that science (the institution) is exactly that: an institution. It is also a game:

http://www.melconway.com/Urban_Teaching/pdf/what_is_science....
I think MVP ≠ prototype. To me prototyping is about the quality of the code, and MVP is about trying to find the minimum feature set.

I think it's a mistake to not throw away a prototype. You could be starting day 1 with so much tech debt that it would take longer to fix it all vs. design and develop an MVP properly in the first place.
Thanks. It's been so long since I've lived in farm land that I forgot about "let's not turn farm land into subdivisions" zoning.
It isn't necessarily necessary to invoke QM to make sense of this, though QM and GR have their place in the detailed formulation of various functions.

With a good read and a little work, one finds that one's experience of the "world" (whatever that is; fortunately, we don't need to know; cf below) can be summarized as:

Xi = ΣPjiIj
Ai = Di(Xi)
Iij = ΣPijAi

Your experience (Xi) is the probability-weighted sum of the impacts (Ij) of all actions, yours and others, aka, "the world", which we model as a space of actions; this includes your digestion, my writing this, your reading this, the temperature in your surroundings, what happened to each of us yesterday, etc.

Your actions, Ai, result from a decision function (Di) that takes your experience-space as its only input; the decision function is arbitrarily complex, but has order likely less than O(nc), since you make decisions in real time (dithering is still a decision, in this sense; you are choosing to continue to attempt to choose to act)... ...unless we are a tightly coupled simulation in NP space and achieve momentary "consciousness" (whatever that means) whenever the simulation reaches "consensus" (but that's overly complicated, so let's use Occam's Razor and stick with the simpler model... ...at least until it fails).

In this case, the limit on "c" would be set by your wetware: Evolutionarily, we are optimized for decisions with order less than

O(n**c)

Any other decisions get us eaten by tigers (because we took too long). The better our wetware, the more complex and thorough can be Di and still produce result(s) in time to keep us alive.

This means our basic decision-making apparatus is short-term optimized, suggesting that many of our decisions for long-term effects will be "bad", i.e., sub-optimal, because we decide for survival and fitness, not optimal - or even good - long-term consequences.

Your impact on anything, including yourself (i) and everything else (Σj), Iij, is the probability-weighted sum of your actions.

This is an even simpler view than the article expresses: He suggests it when discussing that positing the existence of a world, W, is unnecessary, but then digresses to a theory of conscious agents... ...which is also unnecessary, but which may be illuminating.

In the above formulation, a world, W, is replaced with probability-weighted mappings of actions (of one's self and of others) as impacts (on one's self and on others). These probability-mappings may be arbitrarily complex; determining their order is a real poser....

At the very least, any Ij that takes more than time T to "reach" you does not impact your current Xi (though it may impact future Xi).

Interesting. The probability mapping could have a time-based (light cone?) component, or the simple formulation could be replaced with one involving Xif(Xic, Ijic).
Ha! I feel obligated to click when I see "Try a Quantum Computer" in a title.

That's an interesting strategy. I'm going to have to dig deeper when I get a chance. You said you're also using WebGL for a performance?

PS: Those continuous gates are especially cool!
What they describe is arguably fraud beyond what you describe. Ads placed on ineligible websites and fake views/clicks. This is comparable to a TV station selling ads for 8 PM and showing it instead at 11 PM, or selling ads based on fradulent Nielsen ratings.
And all you would need to sell them to the Army would be to make it play the "BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!" from a GAU-8 over the system speaker whenever it is actively crunching numbers.
Oh, I found out - I was looking at a following link from the original page (https://docs.microsoft.com) - which didn't have the problem. It's there on the HN linked page. These days I fix all of these annoying pages using uBlock Origin's "Element Picker mode" and hiding them.
A key aspect of that checklist program was that nurses were empowered to make sure doctors followed the checklist. Doctors are resistant to adopting such programs.

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Estimates peg the cost of preventable medical errors at $100 billion-$1 trillion per year: http://www.wolterskluwerlb.com/health/resource-center/articl.... Applying the methodology of this article to the estimate (250,000 deaths per year) in the Guardian piece, yields an economic cost of death due to medical error of about $250 billion.

Ironically, the recent debate has centered on "defensive medicine" which posits that doctors are too careful because of malpractice claims. But the estimated costs of premature death due to medical error dwarf the estimated costs of defensive medicine, about $50 billion per year: http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics.... In fact, the data suggests that doctors and hospitals are not careful enough.
I don't know exactly what you mean by "art career" with quote marks specifically, but good luck trying. The fact that art majors are baristas and waiters is evidence of my point, not against it. Obtaining an art career is difficult even with the degree.
> I do not think this sounds ethical as a standard practice for initial startup site designs

Why is it unethical? No one is forcing designers to go onto 99designs. They only do it if they think it's worth it.
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I have acquired this habit from the 2 years I've spent playing Starcraft : Brood War and Starcraft 2 semi-competitively.

In the game you have to select units by dragging a box around them, and that habit has carried over to selecting text on the screen in pretty much every computer application.

I know that probably doesn't answer your question, but that would probably require a neuroscientist. It doesn't help me read personally, it just seems to be one of those repetitive tasks that slightly autistic people do.

Some of my coworkers share this habit as well, and they've never played RTS games, so it's acquired in different ways.
And it was a bad idea when he said it, too.
At one point, a brawny ‘minder’ had actually accompanied her to a public hearing to make sure that she didn’t break the rules
This kind of thing should NEVER be allowed to happen. The scientists are paid from public funds. That information is our right. This should upset anyone reading it.
The thing is these people are not idea guys. Throwing a tagline is not an idea, an idea should include the whole plan, or at least a first version to be refined, augmented and improved.

Unfortunately, it seems like calling yourself "an idea guy" is a sign that you actually have no clue. I can't imagine a real idea guy calling himself like that :)

If you know how to code you're already so far ahead :) I remember talking to a guy who told me "and then we'll add the API", I asked "why an API? What is it gonna do?", his answer: "Everybody has an API, we need it if we're serious", he had no clue what an API even was.

In a way, it makes me sad. Most of these people I "interviewed" (for lack of better words) were working full time on their project (or so they claimed) but still had no clue what they were really trying to accomplish.
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Yes, the OS API available in each version.

And although HN usually likes to bash Microsoft about bringing out new libraries and frameworks, Google is also very good at making "last year's best practices into deprecated APIs this year".

Which means multiple code paths if you want to provide good support across all versions, even with the help of SupportLibrary.
There are two types of piracy--there's torrenting (or similar), and then there's black market illicit resale. Torrenting is dominated by people who aren't going to pay for the content anyways--at this stage, the largest barrier that might induce people to torrent is probably geoblocking, and it's not clear if ending that would be more profitable for the content producers.

The sort of DRM that Steam employs is however somewhat useful for targeting people selling effectively stolen keys, as it allows for key revocation. It's this kind of piracy that I (and many content producers) find much more odious, since people think they're buying things legitimately but the producers aren't seeing a dime.
I don't understand. You may still pass nil explicitly if the argument defaults to 16?
Much of this stuff is not visible. Back in the No Child left behind days some people relatively high up in the administration where harassing a researcher based on her research. I found this out from one of her graduate students not the news.

I don't recall all the details, but a large part of the push was centered around a politically connected company selling some education materials. And the research suggested that approach was not useful.

Now extend that to issues people actually care about and I suspect a lot of this stays under the radar.
I'm sorry for your friend, this is a terrible situation to be in.

And it's exactly why many people think pregnancies and births are over medicalized, especially in the US.

Women have given birth for a long time without medical intervention, using competent mid-wives, and now were at a point where every pregnant woman wants an epidural, a scheduled C-section (!!), inducing labor via medicine, etc. It's pretty insane..

The movie "Business of being born" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995061/) goes into detail of how the mindset of handling pregnancies shifted over the last decade, and how pregnancies are almost a "disease" to be treated.

Edit: Since I'm getting downvoted for this, I simply wanted to correlate that more interventions = more risk. No other intent, and definitely not trying to "victim blame" given I have no knowledge of the specific situation above.
and Front Page Sports Football had already tanked with a version that never got patched to actually work. It had a nice package though. I still think FPS: Football was a better game.
And here I was, imagining a kit with a color spectrometer that would measure skin tone, as a predictor. I thought, that's a novel idea... had to dig a bit deeper on the website, to realize it's saliva-based. Makes much more sense.
Genuinely curious: what are some of the interesting things in writing your own shell? Was it the programming language interpretation aspect, or having to learn the kernel's API for forking tasks and redirecting, etc.?
There's some pretty serious downsides to being known as a fraud. Whether being known as Satoshi is that much worse that the ding is worth it is a matter of debate.
>Surely graduates of MIT, of all places, would be the ones building the libraries that ordinary programmers are stitching together and would still need the ability to build complex systems from fundamental CS abstractions? What's going on over there?

Ordinary programmers everywhere are building those libraries, just like your assumed wunderkind are building programs out other people's libraries. The nature of programming has changed for >everyone<.
I don't understand why developers put themselves on such a pedestal here. I have very few real world problems which require deep non-technical knowledge. That deep non-technical knowledge is worth something far more than, perhaps, the ability to scale out an app to 300k users. I'd say it's right on par with the ability to quickly iterate a solution for product match. Knowing the domain reduces market fit risks faster than figuring out the domain while searching for fit.

What I think the real underlying issue is all the "I need a technical founder who is willing to build my idea but only share in 1% of the upside" people. They're equivalent to the spam mail recruiters which plague our industry.
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The story of this checklist has been covered in “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande. It’s a great read on how diligence in work can literally save lives. We can advance medicine by breakthrough discoveries that push our knowledge further, but improving how we apply the existing knowledge is just as (or even more) important.
Interesting, as much as I don't think we need yet another CSS framework you bring up some good points about maintaining and expanding on something like Bootstrap. Are there plans to release a GEM and/or NPM package?
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Yes absolutely.

Why do you feel they shouldn't?
So... No mention of the different errors that occur and lead to these deaths?

A quick look on the CDC site indicates about 70k a year deaths from infections acquired in the hospital (HAIs), but other very reputable sources point towards 100k deaths a year.

What medical error committed is not trivial, and should be listed. Not all procedures carry the same risk.
A triple monitor setup with 2 side monitors in portrait mode seems to be optimal these days.

That way your primary monitor can still be used to watch media and play games in the "standard" widescreen format, but your code and browser can readily be viewed on the sides.
> what can/can't it do that RStudio can't/can?

If it manages to not crash every 30 minutes I'll be a convert.
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It would be fascinating to work towards reducing this problem. Any thoughts on how to get into this field or how software could be applied?
I've always taken the position that the totality of climatic conditions on this planet are not a designed systemic whole, so there is no teleological purpose to it. If this were not so, then we might best be aimed at setting it back to a past condition (such as the Hadean, right after the heavy bombardment stopped and the crust solidified); since anything else is an alteration to its factory default setting.
And vice versa, a lot of companies had (not sure they still do) "disclosure journals" that would publish results that they couldn't or wouldn't patent, so that nobody else could patent them later (which is otherwise perfectly possible).
Sigh. Always someone willing to be the mouthpiece of evil. There's really no defending Harper's actions here, in my opinion. The idea that there wasn't a massive suppression of government scientists runs counter to a considerable amount of evidence and the opinions of none too few government scientists as well. It also fits in with the over the top policies of the administration, which went so far as to cancel the census and eliminate the position of national science advisor entirely. Your narrative is laughable, you want examples? Just use google. There are dozens of examples cited. This isn't a controversial topic.
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Because it's opt-in?
I'll start by pointing out that this article makes no sense whatsoever for large businesses and agency-managed campaigns, where expertise and scale mean CPC and CPM are analytical tools and not goals. When you have enough expertise to integrate data and attribute results, it makes no sense to optimize for anything other than ROI/CPA.

Now. Both Google and Facebook get a lot of revenue from small and medium businesses. SMBs often have short budgets, little expertise and limited work-hours to dedicate to online advertising, so it's not at all uncommon for them to concentrate all or most of their effort into a single platform.

For that reason, both Google and Facebook have a constant incentive to constantly innovate in formats, targeting options and channels catered to long-tail small pockets.

The problem with this article is that it mixes large and small. The over-crowded web display network caters mostly to big fish (common-enough exception: small fish by proxy, through retailer campaigns). Am I saying SMBs running web display campaigns is unheard of? Not at all, but clearly that's not Google's strongest proposition. For SMBs, that would be Search. App display and exclusive channels (such as Gmail's promotions inbox) being the next logical step.

Now I work at a fairly specialized agency so I can only guess what my online advertising portfolio would look like if I were an SMB or a boutique agency with off-the-shelf solutions for SMBs, but I honestly don't see Google being ruled out or even majorly threatened for most use cases by this inflation in the web display network.

Large companies and agencies will keep otimizing display campaigns for ROI/CPA. Small businesses (and their agencies) will flock around either Facebook or Google Search mostly, as they already do.
And people ignore that Google could easily put some clauses on their contracts to force OEMs to upgrade, just like they have clauses obliging them to use Google Play Services if they want to use the store.

It is all a mater of what Google is willing to put on their Android contracts. No excuse.
The cost of inflation (at, say, 3%) is $30 for every $1k you have in your emergency account. That's $150 per year if your emergency fund is $5k, or $300 if it's $10k.

I'd be surprised if the combination of the effort it takes and the fees that are charged are less than that for your method.

That being said, it's sounds like you have a firm grasp on your system and it works for you. That's much more than can be said for a vast majority of people.
cool, it's fun to play with the arrows, might be something in there...this one is a bit convoluted but gives you another idea.

http://imgur.com/O2JnMUH
If the motivation is to punish and stop bad doctors, then the QALY doesn't matter.
How many kids would slog through college and medical school out of purely altruistic reasons? I think 5% of those that enter the medical profession?

And that cook who makes a meal for a whole restauant? Who cleans his dishes and tables when he's done? And almost nobody would volunteer to be a shoe salesman.

This cherry-picked utopian view works for a 5% of the economy and workers out there. But not in reality that I've experienced.
Mostly lower power from what I understand. Do phones, tablets, and small laptops really need more than 4 cores? Probably not. So the only thing you get is lower power and maybe smaller chips (which can help with the economics).
How do you code review?
How does this compare to 23andme which had lots of problems with FDA and quality of advice it was giving? Does it provide much better quality of risk monitoring for instance?
True, but I bet that the NSA could force WhatsApp to issue certificates for fake keys. Obviously can't do that without being noticed, but they could still use it to spy on specific users if they wanted.
Not OP but also had to write my own shell, as well as the kernel APIs for forking and whatnot. The kernel APIs are definitely interesting, but I think the biggest dopamine rush was once the way to parse and structure commands "clicked" and suddenly shells made a whole lot of sense.
Can you be more specific or helpful? I don't know anything about the topic, where can I find what you would call quality content?
The very article you're responding to mentions 3 specific examples of politically sensitive research

But all three demonstrate nothing being suppressed. It points to two people who claim to have left their jobs (moved elsewhere/retired) because of these restrictions (although unburdened they apparently had no big reveal, or even an anecdote about anything being suppressed. But polar bears or something -- the casual allusion being entirely manipulative and intentional), and a salmon researcher who released all of their science, including publication in Science, but couldn't give soundbites as an official representative of the government of Canada. Exactly as I stated, this is a union/workplace issue, and people having grievances about workplace policies, with shockingly little to say about how it actually impacted science.

including its featured example about salmon.

That was the beginning (it was literally the first example of communications policies interfering in someone's feeling of being a freelancer). The salmon industry was already sensitive, and with great fanfare the PR circus began for a paper in Science. The government was sensitive about the misrepresentation of science, not about the science. Again, the paper was published. The science was documented. The same person was presenting at a Salmon inquiry. But they couldn't provide soundbites without it being considered and controlled.

EDIT: Two hours in, and for the many, many down arrows I've gotten by people showing how strongly they feel about this, it's notable that the combined examples of suppressed science catalogued thus far: ZERO.
I remember speaking to my partner's cousin about this, a phd working in Ottawa for the federal government. No love lost between her and our previous federal government, so I figured I'd hear a great rant.

However, she figured it was turned into an issue by the media, and roughly supported the ban; her opinion - adjusted for brevity - being that scientists without media training shouldn't necessarily have carte blanche to speak to press.
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Brilliant. Only a person of the caliber of Buffett can get away with repeating what has been common knowledge since the 1970s and is nowadays written in pretty much every financial self-help book to a rapt audience who record his every word and quote him on Internet forums.
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