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I'm pretty good at understanding technical and scientific publications, but this stuff drives me crazy:

- June, 2015, "Climate-change ‘hiatus’ disappears with new data" [1]

- Feb, 2016, "Global warming ‘hiatus’ debate flares up again" [2]

Both from the journal Nature!

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-hiatus-disappears-...

[2] http://www.nature.com/news/global-warming-hiatus-debate-flar...
>How do you get over the asocial aspect of self learning?

Meetups for the weekly and conferences for the monthly / quarterly.

There are a number of slack channels I'm on for various interests. That gives me the daily.

All said there is no substitute for real human interaction. But you have to play the cards you are dealt.
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Their webpage makes me believe they don't know so much about UI design patterns as of 2016.
When were borders not outdated?
I agree. I need to become a more involved member and earn some Karma before I submit something again.
I'd rather get health care from employees who are a bit too comfortable on the job that health care from management that treats me as a cost item of their profit making entity.

At least the lazy employees of the public health care system will not rush me out of hospital hours after a major surgical procedure as some other private health care systems do.

Now of course you might disagree but that's more of a matter of opinion than some objective fact.
How does giving everyone a monthly tax rebate (essentially a negative income tax) change who owns the means of production?
> If I go to two dentists and ask what needs to be done, it is ~ 30% risk they both insist on expensive treatments -- but different ones...

In India, doctors are mostly eager to perform surgery upon you.

In a case where the symptoms clearly indicated Carpal Tunnel Syndrome [0], the doctor insisted upon a CT scan to be followed by surgery claiming it to be muscle atrophy [1]. (This is from personal experience. A couple of months later, a reputed doctor from one of the best medical institutes in the country confirmed that it was CTS and no surgery was required.)

I've heard of multiple cases where they continued to keep a (dead) patient in ICU so that they could continue to keep billing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpal_tunnel_syndrome

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_atrophy
> A more serious problem with higher-kinded types IMO is that they wouldn't interact very well with an ML-style module system

That's interesting. Why is that?
David Graeber in Debt: The First 5000 Years posits that debt and credit appeared before money or barter. These are things that can exist only meaningfully in a society with some degree of trust. I haven't evaluated the truth of this yet, but I'm firmly of the belief that high-trust societies will be economically prosperous and that there is a feedback loop at work here that starts with high trust enabling business and social interactions.

Like other commenters here, I'm from South Asia, and this is one of the most significant differences I've noticed from my home country (India). No-questions-asked return policies make my life so much easier and not having to share the store with too many unethical people makes this possible.
Handling it as tuples is just as fine, but it's important that a language intending to do so be devoid of verbosity and cruft. For example, D supports tuples, but I would not want to attempt Go-style error handling in it: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Return_multiple_values#D

You make a good point, too, that multiple-return being the only way to do errors is more ideal than the language saying "oh, we support that, but we also have exceptions, too!" At least in a language with Go's philosophy, you can expect other people's libraries and your own code to play by the same rules.
I find it amusing in the Business Insider version [1] of this article "managing others" features at the least-susceptible to automation end of the chart. This appears to belie an oversight, that automation job loss is not just about jobs directly replaced by robots, but the jobs (like managing the to-be-automated workers) that simply become irrelevant.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/jobs-that-robots-will-take-20...
Yep. It's a question of liquidity, not trust. People are naturally inclined to do the right thing if they have enough to cover their basic needs. At least a vast majority, sufficient to survive free riders.

A good example of this is how people in developing countries very often will.give a huge chunk of their income to close family members in need, something that rarely happens to such an extend in developed countries. The trust is there, but liquidity and enforcement is not possible beyond close family/clan.
The idea sounds awesome, the execution looks bad.
I was in Greece recently and I noticed that all the apartment blocks had forests of aerials on top of them - one aerial for each apartment. In the UK, the forest is less dense. People are trusting enough to share their aerials.
This assumes both candidates have the same salary requirements.
I dunno. I think by any measure being able to write "x / 3" will gain you productivity vs. "imul eax,2863311531; shr eax,1" (with the trip to the Hacker's Delight page necessary to look up the magic number).
When it comes to running there is a significant difference between different heart rate zones. Try different once to see if one works better than others. http://anerleybc.org/heart-rate-zones/

Also, running can be replaced with cycling as a less damaging cardio workout. Or swimming if possible.
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nahhh... not really
> lambdas, it can be a complicated concept to learn

I'm curious, when was that being said? (Perl 5 was released in 1994, JavaScript 1.2 in 1997)
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Would you class deliberate underfunding of the public sector in order to build public support for privatisation as sabotage?
Oh god yes. My "Cannot unsee" file is overwhelmingly dermatological, or burns.
Always interesting to me how much fear people have of wild animals.

Rattlesnakes aren't dangerous and they're at 100000x more risk of being killed by a human than killing anyone.
>I would really like to see silicon valley startups that offer a new and better forms of local government. I would like to see our political system get improved by disruption. I really believe politicians are vastly overpaid for the non-service they provide.

There was an idyllic notion in the heads of some of the founders of the US that the many towns could be thousands of little laboratories, each testing their own ideas and then, as a wider community of towns, naturally coalescing around the ideas that worked best. The problem, as I see it, is that they don't have the agility and flexibility of a laboratory or startup. In modern times (in the US), towns act as franchises rather than labs, with the exceptions of large cities and a few other special places.

For example, I think most people can instinctively feel the unpleasantness of a place with large chain retailers and restaurants lining the sides of a 6 lane, 40MPH road with openings and stop lights everywhere. Nonetheless, they're everywhere in the US. Places without these awful (and horrendously expensive) development patterns are the exception. The reason is because the US government pushes development decisions. They do it not by saying 'thou shalt construct car sewers,' but through more subtle means. Since 1934, it has been artificially expensive to build multi-use buildings with dwellings over a shop because you can't get an FHA-compliant mortgage and the accompanying subsidies. We push common road engineering standards, which works great for highways, but then towns build highway-compliant roads in town to get federal grants.

Then each state has its own set of policies that create perverse incentives in curious ways. Actually, in CA the state government did effectively mandate car sewers for decades by deciding that car idling and congestion were environmental impacts that had to be mitigated (with more highway-spec supersized roads.)

Anyway, all this is to say: give local governments a little credit. Certainly some of them are bad, and this article shows a particularly disheartening variant, but in a lot of cases it's an issue of asking mere mortals to prevail over the huge obstructions built by other governing bodies.
People reading this should probably know about Arashi. SMAP is big time but Arashi is REALLY entrenched in Japanese media. They have their own game show, which is quite fun to watch, they appear in TV and films frequently. They are in many ways better, songs more catchy. Every member of SMAP is talented in some way but they aren't all good singers despite their popularity in music and culture. In fact, Japan is interesting in it's almost a kind of known joke that some member's of SMAP singing and dancing kind of sucks. Every band usually has a weak link on board but it never really matters. People are drawn to the frenzy, the popularity and enjoy sharing the enthusiasm for what it is.
Google's Tango project is working on depth sensing. They don't expect (in a UX sense) it to work over longer distances because of power requirements.

https://developers.google.com/tango/overview/depth-perceptio...
Because, in ML, a type-level function that one module views as an abstract type constructor might be viewed by another module as a type synonym. Haskell's type language allows type constructors to appear partially applied, but requires type synonyms to appear fully applied, so it can't deal with this discrepancy.
Election after election, the ones in our voting machines are the ultimate placebo buttons.
Don't know about Angola, but in other developing countries what happens is that they bribe some electrician to put the wiring back. It's cheaper than paying the whole bill. Viewed in the larger context it makes total sense. If you don't have enough to survive you will do anything. Those anti-social behavioral patterns take years or even decades to un-learn, even when economic development has ticked up significantly.
You don't have a background in nuclear spectroscopy, and I claim my £5.

The irony of this: what is typically used for nuclear spectroscopy? Semiconductor detectors? If you get one out -- albeit probably a geranium^Wgermanium detector rather than silicon, if you do gamma rays -- potassium-40 products stand out in a typical environment. (I've mostly done that over sandstone -- why the lab was there; it may be different somewhere like Edinburgh.) Concentrated in a calibration source rather than a concrete block, it would be controlled.
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Something like 6-7 years back from now, I was working as a guy who distributes free newspapers on the street in Kraków, Poland, and my assigned street corner was next to an intersection with those crosswalk buttons. I decided to check out the story about placebo buttons then, so I took measurements how long it takes for the pedestrian green to turn on depending on whether or not someone pressed the button. It turned out that the button cut down the waiting time by about 20 seconds, which was at most 50% reduction AFAIR.

So sometimes they may work, but the change may be subtle enough to be easy missed.
You have a point. But Americans generally are not convinced that a Govt. provided healthcare (paid through taxes) is the right solution. I personally don't have a problem with that as long as the main problem of "fear" is resolved. Whatever it takes. The problem is that we are not able to get out of the whole "insurance-company-being-the-middleman-in-everything" business.
Reading through most of the comments, I'm led to ponder what the cross-section of the "about time/let it go" and "use vim/emacs/sublime/$editor and configure your own key bindings" might be. Same with the "use mouse button x/gesture/etc".

Personally, as a heavy keyboard user, I prefer to not move my hand off the keyboard to use the mouse if I can accomplish the same task on solely on the keyboard. One benefit I've found is that I can "queue up" a key motion with my left hand while going back with my right on the backspace key.

Ultimately, everyone is entitled to their own wrong opinion! g
In some places, people do not trust the administrator of such a program. How will they know that the administrator won't abscond with the funds or toggle off the circuit breaker early?

Trust, at the societal level, can take an extremely long time to build. For it to succeed, a sufficient number of people must transition from "knowing it's going to fail" to "believing it might work".

An anecdote to illustrate the point: A friend served as a Peace Corps teacher in a small town. He was part of an effort to help a community effort to clear and farm a small plot of land. The night before the planned harvest, the fields were harvested by unknown actors, and the produce was available for sale all over town.

Such an event can be both reasonable, "If I don't steal the food before someone else does, I won't get any at all" and patently corrosive to trust, as the event is evidence for the idea that, "collective efforts will always fail".

Trust does succeed, though. It's worth the effort.
And I always thought the landmark telephony "net neutrality" decision was Carterfone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone
Can you tell me why the execution looks bad?
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seems to be the canonical view among gophers that Go's paucity of features is about accessibility for programmers that don't understand them or find them cumbersome to work with

Please keep in mind that there are differences at scale. What is "easy to work with" for 1 programmer over a month might not be so for 20 programmers over years.

The argument can't be that paucity is good as a general condition, its that there are forms of abstraction and programming language features that Gophers find unhelpful or difficult to understand

The argument is that simpler is better at scale. Airplanes can move freely in 3 dimensions, but airliners are constrained to fly in particular ways around busy airports and cross country.

I also have a hard time believing that the ability to define parametric types and functions costs you anything. It's almost always self-evident when to use parametric types or functions, things that are "wrappers" or "collections" probably account for 80% of their use.

I could see an argument for parametric collections and parametric sorting in Go. Not, however, for wrappers.

The frustration of using Go is actually that I now have to consider the later as a possibility or trade off type safety by using unsafe casting.

In your experience, what kind of "cost" has there been in unsafe casting to use collections? Even in environments like Smalltalk, where all use of collections amounts to "unsafe casting," I've rarely seen situations where a mistake of this type wasn't found trivially. Does your frustration come from having to abandon the "assured safety" the type system would give you, or does it come from an experience of the costs?
99% of the things I predict will not come true, both good and bad.

[Citation needed]
Depending where you're coming from it might be the contrary view that needs references at this point.
I think that the phrase "When you have everything you have nothing." alludes to commoditization.
Yes, we could, and I imagine we will at some point. It'll have become a user-level problem: the kernel capabilities are there (BPF+everything else), and there's the bcc user-level libraries (written in C) that make using the kernel stuff easier. The easiest way to add a front end would be to consume the bcc libraries. There's plenty of examples of how to use them (the Python and lua interfaces).

So if a scripting interface existed, would you use it? For what? Yes, it'd be nice to have, but I think a lot of people will get as far as using the provided bcc tools and be happy with that.
As an individual, having everything is great, can't deny that, but as a society, it could be a disaster. Asimov described very well the risks of such a society in the "Robots Series".
Just room enough island
Yeah because often times a bad experience is bidirectional
It sounds like preceding the Hush-A-Phone decision, even an acoustic coupler would have been against the terms of service
There's 1ML where those languages are are unified into one language.

http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/1ml/
Yes, that's why I said game reccomendations. I've been meaning to check out UQM for a while now.

Xonotic should run on Solaris. DarkPlaces, the engine codebase, is fairly portable last I checked.

TIS-100 runs atop Mono, but it's probably not using GPU heavily, so it'll probably run in an LX brand if you can get X up and running. As for running X11 on LX, the answer is both simple in its phrasing and hellish in its implications: X Forwarding.

I kid. Although it does seem like X forwarding is the easiest option. Luckily, you're not forwarding over the net, so you should be fine.

But yeah, it's nice to have a simple discussion about running video games in ways not intended, and what games are good, after spending a while explaining why systemd is a bad idea for the 15th time, because some people are still taken in by the sparkly unit files, and aren't paying attention to the beast lurking below the surface. (If such people are reading this thread, I'll give you a hint: Separation of concerns is a good thing, and if the process will panic the kernel if it crashes, I want it doing the job it's required to do. AND NOTHING ELSE.)
She had two options and she took the one recommended to her by a physician.
Why do you need managers if there is no one to manage.
That's how high deductible plans are supposed to work! In exchange for much lower premiums, you pay the first few thousands of dollars out of your own pocket. If you have a severe illness, the insurance covers the rest.

Usually high deductible plans come with a tax free savings account. You sock a little money away each month so when something happens you have a cushion to fall back on.

They certainly aren't for everyone, but if i was young and in good health I'd probably go that route.
Is that actually a thing? I've never heard of that pattern.
Yeah me too. I had great fun and learnt so much. When I ended up doing a little Windows programming at work some years later - I couldn't believe how horrible it was compared to Intuition. No surprise my career majored on *nix. :)
French guy here, I wouldn't say the french system is private, It's a mix between public and private actors. If you want more detail wikipedia seems a good start:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_France

By the way, I've been living in the UK and spain, the small experience I had with NHS was ok. But I managed to get confused with the system to the point I started crying in front of a medical secretary after spending a day trying to get an appointment with a doctor.
It's possible the problem is that we don't have enough qualified staff. Any source showing is that's the issue or it's that a huge number of people are going abroad?
>Why do Americans not look at public provision, paid for via your tax system?

Because raising taxes is bad, obviously one day you'll be big and don't want to pay health care for all the people down there. And of course it's a slippery slope. Today it's health care, tomorrow it's minimum wage and the day after you find yourself in a Gulag /s

Just look at how hard republican states tried to push against Medicaid.
Gilfoyle: Why would Dinesh lie about having friends? Why would Tara lie to me about fucking other guys when we have a totally open and hedonistic relationship that allows for behavior like that? Because people like to lie, Richard. It's a war of all against all. The history of humanity is a book written in blood. We're all just animals in a pit.

Jared: I feel very sad.

Dinesh: Fucking Gilfoyle.
I'm an american that lived/worked in Japan for about 10 years. This aspect of healthcare in Japan was hands down my favorite. Just being able to walk into any doctors office and know that my insurance would be accepted.

I might be an outlier in that all my of coverage while employed in the U.S. has been fantastic.
To anyone who intuitively understands why the maintenance of human health and well-being might suffer for being corrupted by vested interests who are more interested in said vesting than human health and well-being (ie, "opposition to privatisation"), the disturbing aspect is precisely how non-nefarious and academic the synopsis seems.

"Starve the beast" and other traditional conservative anti-public-service techniques are functionally sabotage, yes. I'm not sure what other concept might succinctly describe "cut as much funding as you can, then highlight the resultant disaster as proof that the private sector can do better". The cultural acceptance of the practice doesn't change what the practice is.
Go is more from the typed world than Python where I came from. It will tell you at compile time you are using a string rather than an int (unless you use interface{}).
> Another example is Coursera and the like. You have Ivy League schools recording their lectures. Well... if I can learn CS 101 from MIT for free...

This is an interesting train of thought, and I don't think it plays out that way for most people.

My son recently started college. At the orientation sessions, it was stressed to us parents over and over that students are more likely to succeed (graduate) if they interact frequently with professors, assistants and other school resources.

The poor graduation rate of US colleges is getting a lot of attention. Some people graduate, some people don't. According to the studies cited at our orientation, which sounded reasonable to this tired father sitting in a lecture hall absorbing Too Much Information, the ones that do are much more likely to have interacted and integrated, and the ones that don't are much less likely to have done so.

Which leads me to ask the question: where is the interaction and integration in Coursera et al? It sounds great for a la carte, targeted needs, but maybe not for the broader in-discipline education you get from a degree program. Of course, the question is begged, do you need a degree program to succeed? I think for most average people (and most people are closer to average than not, what with the bell curve and all), the answer is probably yes.

Today's NYTimes has an interesting article on this very subject. Spoiler: engagement is key (though not sufficient in itself, obviously). http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/opinion/sunday/conquering-...
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I'd think the UK population are a bit gunshy about privatization after privatisation of British Rail. I'd also think that the US would have learned their lesson by looking an Enron... but since when have facts gotten in the way of a good story?
But it's not a black box — it's a pretty straightforward thing. Of course, it usually has corellation with racial and ethnical groups, so critique of certain culture will always land close to racism. But also, a lot of naive racists just don't think abiut the issue enough to word it right.

Racism is wrong for two very simple reasons: (1) there's no causation between person's ethnicity and moral values, as you yourself mentioned about Korea, and (2) it's something a person cannot change about himself. At the same time, both things are different for cultures.
The difference is that private organizations that don't perform eventually fail to turn a profit and go out of business.