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One practice I've found useful, that is more general, was to issue weekly reports breaking down the cost of each activity. That is, I'd solicit a ~5-10 line breakdown from everyone in my team of how they spent their time that week, and I'd apply average costs for their function and tally it up.

So we might see posts like $2k for a planning meeting show up on the report, and suddenly people started paying attention to what time was spent on - both for meetings and otherwise.

And making arguments like the one in your example. It also meant being able to make actual estimates over whether pursuing a certain optimization would be worth it vs. buying more hardware.

Amazingly each place I've done this at, they were initially confused why I wanted to do this, as apparently it was weird and unusual to have engineering issue such breakdowns
why does the UK not value tech jobs as well a the US?
I thought Berlin was known for being very affordable when it comes to housing -- low rents for nice apartments. "Berlin is poor but sexy", which I would think feeds the hipster and start-up cultures.
Scale. Reddit is bigger with hundreds, if not thousands, of subcultures and norms.

While HN has a single stream of stories being voted on, the guidelines for story submissions limits the scope for what can be submitted. The people who read HN are pretty much all technically astute, so when they see an article behind a paywall they don't vote it up - heck, many probably just flag it on principle.

If the article is chock full of intrusive advertising, it gets flagged pretty fast. If it is an interesting article that gets to the front page I guarantee you that there will be vocal complaints about the advertising. But most of us here, I would hazard to guess, have installed uBlock Plus of some sort of ad blocker so we probably largely miss it. And the things we find interesting are usually from sources clueful enough not to be so stupid as to employ anti-adblockers.
are you aware of https://github.com/hassox/warden ?
Is that a legitimate concern? During war-time, I would assume the body's of your enemy would be plentiful.

I always assumed the "no man left behind" spoke more about the excessive abilities of the group. (We are so powerful that we can even overcome our enemy to retrieve our fallen men.)
Sorry, is that your opinion in general or are you giving me what you believe is the overarching idea behind that post? Because I sure as heck didn't get that out of that article!
> When there are no roads left to close people will still get themselves into trouble by not observing enough, not thinking enough, or putting their faith in untrustworthy sources.

Perfect is the enemy of good. Sure, closing dangerous roads won't prevent all deaths, but if it has a good lives saved:cost ratio then it's worth doing.
I think they mean that JS is good for more than just FE which doesn't necessarily mean Neural Networks..
It seemed to me that every time it went sideways, that new vertical had no upper parts to that tree. I wish i could diagram it here, but it seems this one was well-formed. I often check, and after 3 times this happening, I trusted the storyteller. I can' guarantee that another writer wouldn't do this differently as I don't know the tech, but this one seemed well-constructed. Did you not look and see that when you were clicking down and it went sideways to the right, there was no up option on the next slide?
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> There are historical reasons for pretty much all default settings

Don't you see it as a problem? Anyone new coming has to go through all the history to get an understanding of why things work the way they work. Other software evolve over time and follow practices that result in better UX.
I can, in no more than 5 whys, get from ANY problem back to my own personal hobby horse issue.
No. Absolutely not. That's not what is happening at all. I know. I worked on FB trending from the algorithmic side.

The types of trending topics that are blacklisted tend to be low quality trends. Say #FollowFriday, or take examples from the current Twitter trends, #mondaymotivation, #MondayMorning, #DressAFilm, or #MondayBlogs.

They also will blacklist a trend when it's a duplicate of another trend say #GoodWifeFarewll vs #TheGoodWife. In fact, they'd probably try to combine those two if the clustering algorithm failed, and then relabel it "The Good Wife" since it undoubtedly corresponds to a FB page.

The manipulation of the candidate set of trends is there because the trending algorithm and the clustering algorithm is too noisy to publicly surface. The trends you actually see are algorithmically chosen based on your behavior.
Heh, I have 3 projects on that list and I'm still running two of the three. One was a flappy bird clone in Swift; the other is a Touch Visualizer for iOS and the third is https://www.gitignore.io. Pretty interesting analytics; it's funny because I'm in the process of migrating the touch visualizer to a Swift project and a new project owner.
> Python is not, as it can interact with native binaries

It sounds like what you actually mean here is that Python is equally as unsuitable and must instead use native binaries. Which one could just as easily do with JS...

A reasonable argument could be that such native binaries are available in the Python community and already in use as stable existing solutions, but that's more about ecosystem than language suitability.

Additionally, while I'm not too sure what convnet, node-mind, brain.js, etc. referenced in the article are using internally, there are gpu-oriented solutions being written in JS like https://www.npmjs.com/package/weblas
"You guys can probably handle this without me. Do you need for me anything else?"

Or, if that is not acceptable due to workplace hierarchy, talk to your manager and explain the problem. If being present is a political necessity, chances are so is not secluding yourself behind a screen.
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There seems to be some confusion/mis-interpretation about the 5 part.

This is called 五回のなぜ in Japanese ("Go-kai no naze," or Why Five Times) and refers to root cause analysis. Of course the number of times the process need be repeated until the root cause is identified is variable. Five in this case is merely a jingly mnemonic, as Japanese people are so fond of.
Right, and I think that's it (SK does the "nominal charge" thing).
I'm fairly sure most drug companies now spend more on marketing than on R&D/testing.
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see, I'm with you WHEN that's the comparison for the particular surgeon who would be performing my procedure. Not the average of all surgeons vs the computer, since that stat is not necessarily applicable to my situation.
And to plan them better, with the right people, at the right time.

Have an established topic, stick to it, only bring in people for whom it is relevant, make it short and to the point, choose a timing that don't interrupt people activities.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8927720/ns/us_news-life/t/giant-wa...
It's probably not a legitimate concern between two advanced regular militaries who follow the laws of war and would bury your dead with respect if they can't actually return them to you, but if you left a uniformed western body where ISIS can get it then I'm sure that would end very nastily indeed, with photos on social media and so on. Think of the military contractors burned and hanged on that bridge in Iraq.

'No man left behind' is practical, both for the propaganda reason above and unit morale, not about showing off. But like most things in military life I never heard anyone ever bombast about 'no man left behind' like they do in the movies.
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Hardly anyone in the comments has mentioned the work power hierarchy, so it seems reasonable to assume many of them are too coward to address it properly.
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Why throw out illegally gained evidence? Because it's pretty much the only censure a judge can do, and it's a damn powerful one. Yes, evidence laundering is a problem when it come to warrantless surveillance, but simply throwing up your hands and saying "Well, I guess anything taken from any method and without court approval is okay. I guess judicial oversight is an antiquated 18th century idea," isn't the answer.
It doesn't seem like a coincidence that this is coming right after OSVDB shut up shop ( https://blog.osvdb.org/2016/04/05/osvdb-fin/ ), it's a good move by industry to shut out leechers and over hyped snake oil companies.
What you're describing isn't accountability. It's unbiased grading. Grading can be done blind without the college board.

Who does the college board answer to?
I would suggest a emoji based labeling system.
Not too intrusive (grey scale) that somehow could signal if article is paywalled / blocking visitors with ad-blockers.

For a subset of users (either detected or by user preference), there might be another useful symbol as well for indicating if a website is not tor friendly.
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"The Toyota Way" (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0071392319/) probably had more of a hand in popularising it overall.
Receiving anonymous tip isn't a search. Wiretapping -- which is what Stingray does -- is.
I assume the site is mostly aimed at people who have already read the rust book [1].

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
I had a running theory that the spread of Internet and virtual communities would force free exchange of ideas and bring the people of the world together. I am less inclined to believe that now. Developed and under-developed nations show no difference in nationalism. Nothing short of an alien invasion can possibly bring humankind together.
> The probability of the traffic accident is conditional pretty much on the individual case.

Without knowing anything about car accidents, I would say you're very off on that assumption.

Everytime there's an accident involving more than one car, it's unlikely that all drivers involved were at fault.
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If Facebook were to do this, I would agree, but traffic from the vast majority of subreddits and pages is not as substantial as you may think. Some publishers might take notice but I do not think it would stir any kind of immediate action response across the news world.
The subsequent "layers" of reasons are fundamentally different.

For example, applying this to IT when analyzing the underlying causes of a particular downtime or security breach, usually, the first 2 layers of "why" are technical reasons that need to be adressed by the relevant specialists, the next 2 layers are failures of policy and procedures that need to be adressed by the managment chain, and around 5th "why" you get to weaknesses in the organization, company priorities and values which is slow to change but valuable info anyway.

Beyond that you just get to acknowledgements about how life is not perfect that is not actionable, but the first 4-5 layers of 'why' generally do lead to something that can be fixed given proper authority and motivation.
Is that still an issue?

It's unclear if the practice was entirely abolished, since it was introduced as a reinterpretation of existing law (where have we seen that before?) and has never been challenged in court. But this required a lot of dedicated police presence, and was targeted only towards specific individuals, when sanctioned by an elected offical.

It appears the practice was silently discarded because it yielded no results: http://www.hpdetijd.nl/2009-07-10/zin-en-onzin-van-terrorris... (complete evaluation report is https://www.nctv.nl/Images/evaluatie-ct-2011_tcm126-444048.p..., link in article is dead).
Whatever the combination, I'll blame the site I visit. I've seen bad ads on imgur one time I used the Internet without blocking ads. The ad just started downloading "Firefox patch" without me clicking anything.

It is not black and white but it is pretty close.

Edit: I have to give Firefox credit here. It actually just prompted me whether I'd like to save the file. I did and uploaded it to virus total. Probably not a good idea if you do anything sensitive on your computer.
Five whys is a form of simple, expedient root cause analysis. It's meant to be simple enough that you don't need a consultant to teach you how to do it.

That doesn't stop people from trying to take 'shortcuts' though, and those shortcuts are what consultants prey on.
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Nobody here is making the pretty obvious point: Yes, it is wonderful to blame the drug companies (who invented the damn cure in the first place!) for greed -- it feels great. But the real important question you have to ask is HOW ON EARTH do they get away with charging $84k for a year of treatment?!?!?!?!

If they are charging this amount of money, it is because someone, somewhere, in some deep and mischievous and evil place inside those big pharma buildings, has crunched a lot of numbers and figured out this is the "correct" price for them to charge for this drug. That is their income-maximizing price. And THAT is what's insane.

Blaming them for "greed" is idiotic. But you have to scratch your head and think of how on Earth the best strategy for them is to sell a product with a price tag that no individual could really afford!!! That's the real mystery, and when you start asking THAT question, perhaps you end up realizing that the answer isn't so clear.

For starters, maybe ingenious strategy devised by our hero in the article, and the Indian government's positions in generic were foreseen by one of the thousands and thousands... upon thousands of lawyers, and business experts, and consultants that these companies hire, so they quickly realized that the name of the game HAS to be that they need to squeeze everything they can out of the U.S. market to make up for the hits everywhere else.

"But wait, no one will be able to afford the drug," exclaimed one novice executive at the pharmaceutical. "Not to worry," the senior counsel said, "we have medicaid in the U.S., and that's where most of our customers will come from. You see, the government will effectively be our client, and since they won't have an option not to offer this treatment, all we need to do is ensure we have amazing terms with this ONE customer and we'll be aaaaaaalllll set." Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Don't blame the pharma companies. We have ZERO competition in many dimensions of healthcare. We have a drug approval process that costs billions of dollars for a single drug to get through, and the academic evidence is quite clear that it is actually killing more people than it is purportedly saving. I had back surgery three years ago, and a line item in my medical bill was "juice - $25." I stayed in the hospital for 19 hours. It cost me $40,000 FOR NO GOOD REASON whatsoever. I also had shoulder surgery overseas, with a Harvard medical-school trained doctor who operates on world class professional soccer players. I was in a phenomenal hospital for two days, in a private room, with nurses checking on me every hour, the works. The sticker price? $7,000. Without a penny of gov't subsidy.

Big Pharma isn't the issue. Our policies towards healthcare are crippling us to no end.
Give it time, it's inevitable, but not in your current lifetime. It takes generations.
Actually, I find that the Facebook headlines are much less clickbaity than the predominant headlines from news organizations.
It would result in funneling government resources through gullible or cynical citizens into the test prep industry. Only a depressingly small portion would go towards actual education.
Wonder how much "weekly report compilation" would cost :-)
> 'dal' means valley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_(landform)

It's there in English too.
Thanks. It's an agency. Where the client is king. I have tried discussing things but really its an endemic problem. Our teams are multi-cultural, multilingual and tend to be divided into different platforms and technologies. I therefore have to be the dynamic element in this static setup - I have no choice but to adapt myself to the different teams. To the company it is the most efficient (time) solution.

The work culture is not great. I have 3 or 4 different sources of bug reporting, often without enough detail.

Basically there are 10 people constantly testing and reporting bugs. Therefore I am always chasing a moving target and it seems that my output is always buggy. I'm trapped in a circle of hell. In addition to fixing bugs I have to develop new templates and work with outsourced teams in resolving their issues which tend to be things that no on else has been able to solve.

I don't see how I can survive in this position and frankly I don't envy anyone who would replace me.

I would say 70% of it is a work culture problem and the other 30% is down to the wide wide umbrella of issues that fall under front end development.

Just developing responsive templates is in itself a full time job, without factoring in extensive testing and all the javascript logic that goes with it.

I envy the java devs and IT admins. No one bothers them. They seem to sit at work alone in peace all day. Whereas my desk is like Kings Cross station during the rush hour. I know this is a naive view but that is just how I feel about my work now.
In this example, the work-power hierarchy means that employees get paid to waste time in meetings. If they pull out a laptop to do other work, then they are accused of "not paying attention". They aren't cowardly to let this particular sleeping dog lie, they're accepting that, despite their initial attempt to be more productive in otherwise wasted time, the company will pay them anyway.

If the owners (or stakeholders) of the company failed to address this, then they still can't be described as cowardly, just incompetent.

The employees, if they're being paid anyway, aren't going to rock the boat improving the productivity output of the employer, especially after they've been shot down once for attempting to actually be more productive. They'll just shake their heads in disbelief at the fact that the company is willing to pay them to be unproductive.
I was able to access via Firefox/W7 without issue. Incredible story but you can also see the results he had even on Wikipedia as his diagrams are used for Fat Man and Little Boy. His book is on Amazon and most of the buyers work with nuclear weapons or engineering.

Look up Atom Bombs on Amazon by John Coster-Mullen.
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They only put the cop at the right place and at the right time, because they chose the place and time ahead of time.

You will never have information that's so secret that you can't build a parallel construction, because you always create a parallel construction that gives the appearance of random chance. "Well, your honor, we decided to setup a traffic safety roadblock stopping every blue car, and when the defendants stopped they started acting suspicious, and then it just happened that a k9 unit that was returning from delivering coffee alerted on the car. At which I point I searched the car and found the evidence. Somedays, we just get lucky."
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That would be student benefits[1] rather than basic income. At least here in Finland (and other Nordics) we already do that. Basic income is supposed to be given unconditionally to everyone.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_benefits
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It's '5x' for two reasons: (a) that's a reasonable target for how many times you might have to ask it before you hit a root cause and (b) the 'five' is meant in a more metaphorical sense - you're meant to ask until you hit the root cause, but 'five' is catchier.
Thanks, it really doesn't. I work for an agency where the client must be satisfied at all cost.

The pressure that clients put on pm then translates to pressure from the pm's onto me.

In my 10 years I always avoided working for an agency and I guess that was wise.
Your incarceration rate is a different issue from how prisoners are treated (or mistreated), particularly regarding health care in prison.

Over here (Finland), there's a popular meme about "let's put elderly people in prison, so they get a bed of their own, a daily shower, good food and someone to take care of their mental well-being". Even if our old people's care in public institutions is probably one of the better-arranged among nations.
I have a somewhat similar situation. There are three routes: A, B, and C from my home to work. A has a lot of intersections, which would mean more time spent in stops. It also has slower moving traffic due to narrower roads. B also has lots of intersections, but wider roads. Between A and B, depending on your luck, one of the routes might be faster.

C has very few intersections. But it has a 1 km stretch which takes 25 mins to cross if traffic is bad. Google maps always shows C to be the fastest. But local knowledge will tell you either A or B will be faster at peak traffic times.
Mammograms/other imaging also tell you where the tumor is.

Until we have perfect chemotherapy, local treatment with surgery and radiation will remain standard of care. To perform those, you need to know where the tumor is.

I find the utility of this test will be in monitoring for recurrence, perhaps reducing the standard every 3 month restaging examinations; however, once it starts going up, you'll need advanced imaging again to see if it's local or metastatic recurrence.
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