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I feel that a program should be clear about what it will do, to give you the choice of whether or not to run it on your hardware. Software is pretty dismal at doing that, and I don't know how to improve it. Something like a bullet-point list of properties like "SoundBlob will let you listen to music, but not save it locally" seem like it'd work, but I know that would quickly become a reflexive "click OK to proceed" situation.

I believe that software on my computer shouldn't have restrictions that I don't know about, take actions that I don't know about, etc. But if someone else wants to run some super-DRM app, I don't think that my opinions of what's best for them should limit what they can run on their machine.

In short, I want complete control over what runs on my computer and the chance to reject programs that don't work the way I want them to. I don't think that I have the right to change their intended behavior (although, to be honest, I will when it suits my purposes).
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1 in 3 antibiotics prescribed in U.S. are unnecessary, major study finds
In french I say "astigmate". Either vertical or horizontal lines are blurred. Plus maybe you're tired. Anyway you can follow straight lines and you select something to add a visual clue of your position. "It's all because of" modern designers and their featureless screens.
You've clearly established that you're a troll. While I applaud your desperate fishing for partisan upvotes, hang your nonsensical queries and comments off of other people's posts. Thanks.
Here is a web demo for people to try it out (and actually some documentation)

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/slayer/

From some quick experiments it seems to be weak on malloc, no problem with:

int main() {
char *p = malloc(1);
p--;
free(p);
}
Abundant sunlight is much less rare than abundant oil...
Those laws are, like DRM, made in the interest of companies. They'd have to go as well.
Right, and making sure the base load of energy generation is stable.

We'll get there. I'd just like to make sure we remember that absolutely everything has a cost. The cost of anything is the value it has in its alternative uses.

If we're subsidizing renewable energy, we're not spending money on something else (and we're reducing people's incomes in the process).
Might be overloaded, wasn't able to pull it up.
You make a great argument, but I fear that until we have no global population of have-nots, even an educated society can fall victim to manipulatiors who need not believe their own rhetoric.

The key point to keep in mind, is that such mental phenomena underlie all widespread forms of social injustice. I think people who sincerely believe their own rhetoric aren't just as vulnerable. They are significantly more so.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C. S. Lewis
It might be that the best option is perpetual war against an ineffectual enemy. If you have an enemy that you can absolutely keep in check, and periodically have to fight without much loss to yourself, then you can achieve solidarity and a militaristic spirit without causing too much harm to your own people.

I'm thinking the Israelis vs the Palestinians, for example. If Israel can keep Palestinians as a perpetual enemy, given the much smaller power of the Palestinians, a limited perpetual war will keep the Israeli people ever-united without bringing them much harm. All the benefits of war without downside.
Had a near exact conversation with my then 5 year old. He got really frustrated during the discussion as he wanted a straight answer but later understood what I meant.
How do you type these ALL CAPS keywords, isn't this very daunting?
> Hindley-Milner-Damas types and monads are now everywhere.

Haven't run into those. Perhaps I know them by a different name?
I wish more engineering work would be performed on different chemistries in redox flow batteries. I'd rather spend the capital up front for a much longer-lasting redox flow battery (they are way, way bigger than other batteries, but that's not a concern when you are working with building sites and are willing to put the battery bank underground) than a lithium battery.
Would've made for a more interesting story if the guy hadn't come from money and actually worked his way up from nothing.
I think you are looking at this all wrong.

Just like the designer would benefit from knowing how code works, don't you think the developer would benefit from knowing how photoshop works?

I find it kind of interesting that a developer would even feel a reluctance to understand one of the basic methods used to deliver to them what they need to develop.

You are missing out on great opportunity to have an informed opinion, think about alternatives, find potential business ideas from something thats not optimal and in general just have a better and more productive relationship with designers.

I at least realized that learning to code as a designer, even just a little bit, both taught me a great deal of how to build things for developers, help them solves problems that might require a different way to think about the technical issue of something and not do stuff that are completely retarded and impossible to do.
The ECB is most probably one of the biggest threats to freedom that we currently face.
This was popularized by Yann Collet's work on https://github.com/Cyan4973/FiniteStateEntropy
Medical error doesn't just happen in emergency care.

One of the most important questions you can ask your doctor before getting treatment (whether that treatment is surgery or medication) is "What happens if we don't do anything? If we just watch and wait?"

Here's a short film about involving older people, and their carers, in their healthcare when they enter a carehome setting. This work focusses on a medication review involving a doctor, a pharmacist, the patient, and their carers. The reviews save money, increase quality of life, and reduce risk of death by suicide and accidental death.

http://www.health.org.uk/pills
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Elon Musk: revolt against the propaganda of fossil fuel
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That's what I mean. Wind might be generated "for free," but one cost is what it looks like.

Another is how many birds it kills a year. (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-birds-do-w...)

That's not to say we shouldn't build it. Just that we need to consider what it costs before we do.
Flywheels are really cool. Especially when they explode sending out high velocity shrapnel and/or leaving a molten mass.

Still a flywheel powered car using three flywheels set at opposing angles (so their gyroscopic effects cancel) composed of tightly wrapped layers (so they cannot explode) would be awesome.
One of the big financial problems for CCS (carbon capture and storage) is that CO2 is essentially worthless. If a market would suddenly arise for concentrated CO2, I do not think we would have much of a problem to fill demand.
Oh how clever you are. And also most likely wrong. So it's good that you chose to be clever rather than trying to defend your assertion.

A foster care system is, in my opinion and at least in poor areas of large metros - is a good (and pretty depressing) example of what many people are willing to do for money. To some extend - childcare subsidies demonstrate the same.
Most fail because clients are lied to. They are shown the high-res print ready Photoshop glossies, and told "yes, you can have this, it will use all these assets. And lots of browser control overriding interactions". Then they try to actually build it, it is slow, uses the whole months bandwidth allowance for the mobile user "my whole 10GB gone? But I only browsed the web..", and will crumble under load.

The real problem is letting designers near the web. They were OK on print, well, a lot of printers had problems with the designers as well. Hmm. Maybe it is just the designers.
If that ever happens (which I highly doubt, there is little to no evidence) it is a very long ways off. Hundreds of years at a minimum.
I agree that makes more sense than the childcare argument. I'd still wonder though - what are this person's interests in tech? What do they do in pursuing those interests?

I think these are legitimate questions, since one of the best metrics for success in software is the level of interest you hold in it.
They should setup a different streaming system to stream their own content just to placate the 0.001% (probably too high) of people out there who pay for media and also care about the very existence of DRM?
If you make literally everyone eligible for a basic income, you run into the small problem of the world's GDP per capita being around $13k in US purchasing power: around the levels generally proposed for a BI in a developed country.

It's obviously not feasible to promise everyone that indefinitely with no strings attached so long as they turn up in your country and ask for it. Simplest solution is to make it passport based. This particular proposal appears to insist that young people prove they deserve it too...
It's not just a way to deal with massive job replacement (by machines)... it's also a sensible policy to remove the poverty traps of unemployment benefits, welfare, food stamps, etc. These policies all create an incentive to avoid making money. UBI creates no such incentive - furthermore, it gives people the breathing space to find more productive ways to spend their time than dead-end jobs (such as getting an education).
For context, the average transmission loss between generator and consumption in the US is ~11%. This is generally over relatively short distances when compared to actual transmission.

In the short term, transmission lines are congested during peak hours so we often can't pipe enough power to high demand markets.
I don't think you understand what "counterpoint" means...
Check-lists in medicine (and real life) are a lot more complex depending on the protocol and the patient and are more akin to complex business process flows - around which a whole industry has grown. A colleague in psychiatry spent 12 months designing a simple checklist and data collection form for initial patient evaluation.
It sort of implies that there aren't strict procedures and double-checking in medicine. But there are. The problem is that medicine is more complicated with more people involved. You can't just say "hey, look in Engineering we can build bridges on time and under budget, why can't you do that with software?" The same issue here.
> The idea of basic income is commendable, but do we really want a system that incentivizes large families?

> Simply stating something does not make it a fact.

Your first quote makes it sound as if it was the inevitable outcome.

SOME people. Not all. It's a slippery slope fallacy.

What if the same type of people that try to manipulate the system do it because it seems like the only reasonable way to stay afloat?

It could be possible then that some of them would not have more kids to get more money.
The sorting out is exactly the problem. A mistake in an aircraft, combined with some bad luck, leads to a crash. Everyone knows what that is and it triggers a government review.

In medicine, most mistakes are not obvious. A doctor who makes 5 or 10 times as many mistakes as average might be known to a few colleagues as "that guy who probably shouldn't have his license", but the vast majority of those won't even lead to malpractice cases, let alone clear-cut malpractice verdicts.

That said, we should be engaged in understanding and judging these cases, and figure out how to properly attribute deaths to preventable medical errors. It will be messy but the status quo is a large-scale ongoing disaster.
Wow. These downvotes aren't doing a damn thing to contradict the popular notion of tech workers as brutally lacking in human empathy.
Just like the designer would benefit from knowing how code works, so would a designer benefit from know how a developer works.

The biggest issue isn't lack of communication but lack of understanding each other.

I find it kind of interesting that a developer would even feel a reluctance to understand one of the basic methods used to deliver to them what they need to develop.

You are missing out on great opportunity to have an informed opinion, think about alternatives, find potential business ideas from something thats not optimal and in general just have a better and more productive relationship with designers.

I at least realized that learning to code as a designer, even just a little bit, both taught me a great deal of how to build things for developers, help them solves problems that might require a different way to think about the technical issue of something and not do stuff that are completely retarded and impossible to do.

And so now none of my projects fail unless I want them to.
especially at the beginning of their career.

That's why you spend four years in a university before you start your career. If you're not going to learn all the fundamentals, you might as well go to an 8 week code camp and save your time.
It was mentioned in the article that a worrying point with wind is that the costs have not been coming down. The cost of solar panels has been cut in half over the last few years while hardware for wind has remained roughly constant. Of course wind is deserving of further investment. As far as predictions go, however, solar is looking more promising.
fixing bugs is not a skill. Being able to look pro is, and it requires doing the some arcane black magic to make customers think they are not being scamed. You failed in black arts. That's all.
Hydro power and aluminium are a traditional combo too.
I was just in a hospital lab and saw a very prominent checklist on the wall for use with some procedures (but not what I was there for, so I didn't see whether they used the checklist in practice).
I was very excited to read through this job description (at first). I have become very jaded with the software industry and its pattern of incestuous development (i.e., technology for technology for technology). Teaching, however, is something I've always had a passion for, though never pursued. In my college days, I was always hanging around the computer labs helping people understand course material, both because I enjoyed helping others learn, and I realized that the more I taught, the more I understood the material myself.

Unfortunately, while I'm an experienced full-stack JavaScript engineer (primarily working in the MEAN stack), I have no experience with Rails, nor am I a graphic designer with extensive Photoshop knowledge. So, here I am, in between the UI/UX and Fullstack Mentor positions -- AKA Bummersville.

Either way, the non-traditional education provided by Bloc looks fantastic, and ultimately, I'm very happy to see these programs becoming more popular, even if there's no place for me to be apart of it.
Local kinetic storage like pumped hydro have an efficiency advantage over batteries (at least with current tech)
It's hard to argue with that policy, IMHO.

Even on HN, where discussion is usually quite reasonable, there are people in this thread openly admitting to piracy. The top post as I write this argues that trying to protect the rights granted by law through technical measures should mean giving up those rights altogether. There is very little respect shown towards the people who are creating new content, and even less remorse about ripping them off.

It's hardly surprising that when people are so unrepentant about these things, the people actually doing the work will take steps to protect themselves. It's sad that it's come to this, but too many selfish people have spoiled it for everyone now. I think it's inevitable that for the next few years at least, we'll see content providers increasingly locking their works up either through devices where you don't have full access even if you bought it or through keeping critical parts of the system online where customers can't copy or control it.

For some of us, piracy isn't a morally acceptable alternative to paying for a legitimate copy of a work, but DRM still sucks and often makes what we do get worse than what a pirate would get. I hope there will at least continue to be enough of us around who will make a point of supporting DRM-free alternatives that they continue to be available, but I fear we will be a small minority and so will those willing to distribute their work DRM-free.
While hiring is indeed a big problem that can be addressed with a data-driven approach, I'm not sure the approach of "we have data, just trust us" is fair to all parties.

The naming of Engineering Genome Project is styled after Pandora's Music Genome Project. The difference is that Pandora uses data to provide relevant and immediately verifiable results by the user, such as music along the same genre and artist. In contrast, an Engineering Genome Project uses criteria such as "applied problem solving" and "professional code" that is impossible for a user to interpret intuitively.
I still fall into a rabbit hole every-time i imagine infinity. it started when i was 5 or so. brain goes into a loop and imagines the infinite. for me it was and is connected to space. you have to hit a wall at some point, but then there is something behind the wall.. there can never be something that isn't there. the limited donut universe theory framed the space imagination. but the donut has to be surrounded by something. here goes the infinite loop again.
Today is the day you learned other people have different priorities than you?
If collective survival was the driving influence, we would have been in favor of suicide for people who were a "burden", like cancer patients.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2160/did-eskimos-pu...

Assisted suicide isn't a new freedom - we had it in the past, it went out of favor, and now it's favorable again. Ancient Greece had radical and crazy practices (infanticide, certain sexual pairings) that are revolting "right now". Having to come to terms with those particular practices isn't something that I look forward to doing in the future.
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The market expanded much more dramatically in the 1990s, after Sculley left.

Of course, that massive expansion was kicked off by Windows 3.1 and then Windows 95.

Microsoft's annual turnover went from $3.75bn in 1993 -- less than half Apple's -- to $32.19bn in 2003, which was 5x more than Apple.

Dell is perhaps an even better illustration. Its turnover grew from $2.9bn in 1993 to $35.26bn in 2003.

Apple's "market share started declining rapidly" after 1995 (when it reached $11.06bn) because it couldn't compete with Windows 95.
Absolutely - and UBI would free people who want to work from having to find dead-end jobs. They would have the financial freedom to pursue education, volunteering or educational unpaid internships.
Agreed. In the UK the NHS Choices website aims to resolve this issue and does so quite well.
Your "[1] - searching" made me smile :)

Gonna read and watch your links and do some thinking of my own, thanks.
An anesthesiologist in the US is the highest paid profession, period. They earn more than surgeons. They should be responsible and liable for their mistakes.
There is a lot of evidence that this is how things are moving.

What most people get wrong about a job is that they confuse the human doing them with the job they human is doing.

Most if not all jobs only require you to be a subset of a human to actually be useful. And so there is a general misconception that computers would need a general intelligence to take over a job when in fact most of the jobs we do require only a fraction of our abilities as humans and normally can be broken down in smaller subsets.
Personally I hold the shift key with one of my fingers.
I wouldn't go that far, but removing large notes is definitely a worrying sign of further ratchets in negative interest rate policy.
per a random selection of 1000 comments, how how likely is it that a comment will contain mention of nazis?
The strange thing is long term disability insurance for a group plan is really cheap. My work provides it as an option and I only pay $300/year or so for the premiums, work doesn't pay any percent of the premiums.
In a web app, you’re either the frontend or backend developer.

Riiiiiiiiight.
The original post highlights Watsi as a model but also points out that certain groups in need of help might not be as amenable to having their pictures or personal info shared online (like victims of human trafficking, etc). That would create potential problems for an aggregator of humanitarian projects like this, because the decision on how much personal information to reveal is case dependent. 6degree.org's model is somewhat similar but anonymized [1], which seems to me to be necessary in this case but isn't as effective in some ways because it lacks Watsi's human element. I definitely think that variations on the Watsi-style model could lend themselves to some kind of aggregator, but it might be a challenge to integrate them in a uniform way.

[1] http://6degree.org/
One of the societal/cultural factors I'm talking about is the caregiver's burden. Children, the elderly, and the infirmed are typically(at least in the US) cared for by women. This is a significant time suck. I'm just saying you shouldn't penalize a woman for not doing side projects, she may have more important shit to do in her nonworking hours.

And for that matter, you shouldn't penalize anyone for not writing a ton of code in their free time, there are other things in life, and more demands on your time the older you get. And anecdotally, some of the better developers I know write 0 lines of code in their off hours, they are consummate professionals but leave it at work.
Oh I agree I am just trying to pre-empt the typical discussion about whether someone is intensified to work if they get the basic income covered.

It's the wrong question.
As a college student who followed along Berkeley's SICP lectures online in 2015 (taught by John DeNero), I am kinda confused by the Scheme v/s Python debate. Did I miss out on something having used Python in the entire first half of the course v/s say CS61A taught completely on Scheme (like when taught by Brian Harvey)?
Did this statistic control for how people select certain hospitals (where applicable)?

Obviously, if a hospital is specializing in C-sections, it will handle cases where the likelihood of having a sectino is much higher.

(Similarly, hospitals are very dangerous places if you compare the death rate in a hospital to the death rate at any other place where people stay. Of course it's mostly not because hospitals kill people, it's mostly because people go to hospital when they are sick.)
> Others will fall into various addictions because they haven't found meaning.

Is that such a bad thing? I'm not even sure if the effect would be significantly different than today's situation, in which you can fall into any addiction you want if you have resources.
> You seem to be dismissing the phenomenon of needless c-sections, but it is real.

I never said it wasn't real I simply said it's in a minority of cases because it is. I've met dozens of OBGYNs who all think needless c-sections are simply unethical and who would never do them. But just as your experience mine is yet another anecdote.

c-sections in general are not a majority of births. Needless ones should be a subset of that (though because of the way reporting is done it's hard to determine which ones are and are not needless).
I don't know if checklists can be used in every medical scenario, but they do have a significant positive effect in surgery [1].

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/health/20surgery.html?_r=0