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Literature has not much to do with science, but a bit with history (depends though on if you count social sciences as science, but even then art is art). Math is a pure.. topic, although it is very much used in all other education.

Note that in my country there is no "science" topic, but physics, biology, geology, etc.

> Isn't it impressive and fascinating when someone can speak on the co-evolution of math and science, or the impact of literature on history?

Most certainly, but that is not what the linked article suggests will happen. The article is a bit more on the pragmatic side (the current world state). I, myself, would very much love for a physics teacher to talk about how completely new mathematics was invented when Newton or Maxwell were faced with the problem of expressing physics in mathematics (we did for Newton in my school, as i'm sure many other schools do the same for many other similar examples). Physics and math are very much related, but do you abolish pure mathematics in favor of only biased topics (towards spacial and forces in the context of physics, statistics in the context of some social topic, and such)?

When you look at it, how many things are actually interdisciplinary ? Sure many things are (arguably everything), but how many do you think need their own.. class ?

Climate change is covered by geology. Community (whatever that means) i didn't cover much in school because i went to a technical school, but i'm sure my sister did (although i remember that there was, but i don't remember what topic it was under).

Things were never pure to begin with, but why go into the other extreme ?

I'm sorry. But even though i think that some things in education should be changed, this change is, to me, just moronic. (if it is as the article says, that is)
Oh look, here we are again. Humans are so pathetically easy to manipulate.
> Definitely not the mainstream media,

"Vaccines cause autism" was widely pushed by mainstream media in the UK for some time before the Lancet withdrew the paper.

Here's the daily fucking fail continuing to push it in 2006: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-388051/Scientists-fe...

Here's a nice review of UK press coverage: http://www.sfam.org.uk/en/news-features/news/index.cfm/mmr-a...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/jun/16/whenjo...
I tried it, but it was too clunky for my taste.

SkateJS seems a bit nicer and also produces WebComponents.
You might find the recent HN discussion on this topic useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12894721

From what I gather (welcome to correction, as I haven't looked at this in depth), there are two main things going on here:

- replacing GPL code with BSD code

- staying with earlier versions of GPL code rather than update to GPLv3 versions
Vehicle detection: detect any vehicle, even from the side, even if its shape is rare, even at dark, etc. This could be solved with data.

Control: when to yield, without watching the face of the other driver, etc.

Edge cases: obeying a police officer, yielding to an ambulance, cooperating with other cars.
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No, you're not crazy. While I disagree that managers will be less important, I think that you're making a good decision because technically differentiated managers will be more valuable.

Even if you go back to PM, the ability to code will help you communicate with engineers and identify the right solution for a given problem, enabling you to transcend the project management aspects of PM.

Also, many executives struggle with strategies that entail deep learning or blockchain, because they simply don't understand them. To position for a future where those technologies are critically important, it's a good idea to invest time today to learn how they really work.
""punish" countries that don't take back illegal immigrants by limiting visa access to their citizens."

Astute reasoning.
Strongly discourage this move.

I've made the transition from developer to PM over the last 7 years and it's enabled me to work on progressively larger projects and to set direction.

Being a PM is about making sure the right thing is built at the right time.

Admittedly my technical skills have gone stale and to do any of the really interesting technical things would require 6-12 months of intensive learning if I were to do it on my own. This is with undergrad degrees in Comp Sci and Physics too.

So I decided to hack the problem and join a startup in SF thats doing novel hard tech !(business process automation, ecommerce, apps, small marketplaces etc). Here in Sydney they're few and far between.

I'm pretty excited to be working with them, its an opportunity to work and learn with a smart tight team.

So advice to you would be to is find a smaller business unit in your current company where you are closer to the coal face or go join a 100 person company working on a hard problem. Usually they'll have a team of 5 PM's supporting a tech team of 30.
Learning to code will make you a better software project manager. Unfortunately coding can take a long time to get good at.

Take the coding bootcamp. Do one of the longer ones, like the 6 month one if you can. Or do one of the online ones, and be disciplined about it, such as teamtreehouse.

And then go back to being a PM, but use your knowledge of the difficulty of coding to leverage many developers to work towards an important goal.
I'd say there's a divide between the center (Hillary) and the right (Trump), and the center and the left (Bernie).

I really wish there would be the transition to a ranked ballot to encourage more pluralism.
It's hard to know how many of these people believed that vaccines cause autism, but MMR vaccination rates dropped quite a bit in the UK.

http://www.sfam.org.uk/en/news-features/news/index.cfm/mmr-a...

>> In 1998−9, 88% of children had been immunized against measles, mumps and rubella. By 2003−4, coverage had fallen to 80% and to 61% in some London areas.
Which might (and probably will) fail for a lot of websites.
CDC rolls up data they get from vital stats - but that rolled up product pretty sparse; it's not much more than in the WaPo article:

- http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/suicide/rates_1999_2014....

If they (WaPo) had included CDC instead of the "Federal Health", it might have been easier for you to find?

If you are generally interested in the topic, there are many other "factoids" and scattered data sets. Here are a couple:

- https://www.statista.com/topics/791/suicide/
- https://ourworldindata.org/suicide/
I'm seeing this too: people are locking on a piece they don't like and completely ignoring the rest.

:)
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I think you're missing the point a bit -- the claim is not that the business model prevents these guarantees, but that it's inherently difficult for any party to do.

> had to explain there was nothing I could do... For five days

The good alternative would be that you controlled the infrastructure and it didn't break. The bad alternative is you directly control infrastructure, it breaks, and then you get fired.
Yes, I would really like to use this but don't have the time or resources to build and maintain a separate mobile UI. With bootstrap/react-bootstrap, things usually turn out OK/good on mobile without me having to really think about it.
I use Digg RSS Reader with hundreds of feeds. It became my only go to place after I abandoned social media.
nah, they're developing a game in the 1v1 fighting arena.
This sounds like a variant of the two envelope problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_envelopes_problem

So is this one of those questions that's not possible to answer you're just trying to see how they handle the stress of the unsolvable?
Which countries allow slavery?
One gave world a compiler and a text editor.

Another sells self driving electric cars and may even stop global warming.
Sounds nice, but if you listen to what he actually said in that video it's pretty darn loopy and contorted thinking, no matter how you slice it. And when directly asked, he does say that he thinks climate science is "more pseudo-science" than a real science.
You're probably right, had I probed enough I probably could have found policy they disagreed with. But on surveillance/national security stuff, the self-identified Democrats I know have stood staunchly behind Obama, and view Snowden as a traitor. It's kind of odd how much like most Republicans they sound when talking about these issues (not counting pro-liberty Republicans like Rand Paul, who view these issues like a libertarian would).
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For me, as someone that's been through it, and as someone that other people in my group of friends come to for help, the thing about exercise, cleanliness, and diet is that you're right, it is a hard lifestyle change. For most people. But I notice that almost everyone gets to a point when they hit their own personal rock-bottom, and they're willing to try anything. One of my best friends said something similar when we were talking about his wife, who suffers from PTSD and bouts of depression. He said she wouldn't want to try it because she is stuck in bed all day. And I told him to tell her that the change will be almost immediate, and it will keep up as long as she keeps it up. She got out of bed. Maybe some people don't want to change. But in the pits of despair that I have been in, and my friends have been in, people are willing to do almost anything to make the pain go away. Exercise, cleanliness and diet are not cures for everyone, but they do help, and they help immediately, for long enough to make it to your doctor's appointment. For some reason, I get pushback from people on the internet about this, but it works. The only cure for this is time, and that's just an unfortunate fact. But when people are told those things make positive changes immediately, almost everyone gets out of bed or off the couch to try it. It all comes down to whether or not the person wants the pain to go away. If they do, they'll make the change, even temporarily.
Not all things are supposed to be mobile. All the products we write are supposed to run on a large display for our case.
Isn't that bad because now you're depending on having stressors and shocks to have the best performance?

If you can't control the amount of stressors and shocks, you want a system that is neither antifragile or fragile, but strictly indifferent to the level of shocks.
This is really fun. Thanks for sharing!
> The argument against LIDAR is just this in reverse, humans don't need LIDAR to drive, why should computers?

That is a terrible argument: birds don't need ailerons either.
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Oh man, Valis is the most interesting piece of physicalized mental illness I've ever experienced. I think it helps to already be very familiar with Dick's style when you read it.

And I'll also second all the rest of these recommendations as well.
We will get back to you = buzz off. Just don't expect a response and keep looking for other jobs. Eventually someone will respond. If they get back to you when you already found a job tell them you'll get back to them in two weeks.
My argument is not that free markets solve all problems. I freely accept that only government can solve collective action problems like global warming, create universal education and health care, prevent the race to the bottom tendencies of competitive commerce that incentivized bad practices like child labor and environmental pollution; but you will never be able to strengthen divergent regulatory systems unless you have unified economic relationships. Globalization that creates greater interconnected economic systems will result in improved safety standards in all of these markets. We are seeing that play out in the developing world; but this is not an immediate process - it takes generations. It takes the local population fighting for better systems. It takes the pressure from trading partners like the U.S. demanding that employee protections be put into place. Isolating ourselves behind a wall of tariffs is not going to help these ship workers in Bangladesh.
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Is that really an issue? Why would Liechtenstein refuse to take back one of their citizens?
Deep learning is already being monetized, e.g., at Google.
> I use the keyconv program from vanitygen as a convenient way to do this. Simply running "keyconv -G" generates an address and private key and outputs them.

You have to really trust that vanitygen tool. If there's some bug where there's not enough entropy in the private key generation, ALL your temporary wallets become vulnerable (e.g. someone can generate your private keys).
Which one is sketchy? The Sewell wii2hdmi adapter is great. I use it for competitive Melee all the time.
Ah, I see, thank you. So I'll have to "install" the script into the registry before being able to just "use" it? :(
Was your experience RE: Ceph/Gluster from Stack Overflow? I'd definitely be interested in hearing more about the specifics of that.
You forgot the most impactful change you can make: Stop eating meat and stop consuming animal products.

It's easy and you can start right away. You are reducing your carbon footprint by probably 10 times the amount, of all the other suggestions you listed combined.
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do you think his equates to doxxing someone?
Stallman's use of "free" and "freedom" are best thought of as referring to the software, not the user. I feel like a lot of commenters below are missing this distinction.

The GPL puts (somewhat onerous, some would argue) limitations on the user in order for the software to remain free. Think of it as liberating the software by giving it rights.
TBH, I expected more from what's supposed to be a Palantir project. I mean come on, why is the site not mobile-first?
Not crazy. I did it and couldn't be more happy. I switched from sales to engineering.
It isn't. There's a clear, well defined answer.
No, you're not crazy. Source: I quit a six-figure job as a PM to do a bootcamp and am now working as a software developer at ThoughtWorks.

If you're viewing the decision purely in terms of $$$ (as many other commenters here seem to be doing), it's true that in 10 years you will have earned less money on this path than you would have earned while remaining a PM.

But will you be happier day-to-day? I certainly am. Both careers are well-paid, so why would you pass up a net gain in happiness to earn 15% - 20% more over 10 years? Your happiness is unlikely to change materially because of the extra money, but it could change materially if you start to love your job.

I think a lot of the people giving advice here are software developers who've forgotten what it's like to be unable to build something, with their own hands, that they want to exist in the world. That's such a powerful feeling, especially if you want to start a startup one day.

I did a bootcamp at the beginning of 2013. At that time there were no bootcamps in Australia, so I moved to Chicago for 3 months to do the Starter League (now part of Fullstack Academy). Being in a different city meant I could focus all my energy on the bootcamp. I think this is main advantage of a bootcamp: forced focus for a long period of time, so you learn much faster than you would if distracted by your full-time job.

When I finished the bootcamp, I probably could have been hired as a Junior sometime after an extra month or so of filling gaps on my own, leaning things like TDD and various computer science concepts (algorithms, data structures etc.) My journey personally took longer because I got distracted by travel and other stuff.

As some of the other commenters pointed out, you're probably not going to be able to work on blockchain and machine learning on day #1. You won't have those skills coming out of a bootcamp. You'll probably need to get a job doing Rails or something - don't expect the big 4 or anything like that - and learn that stuff on the side. I would expect you will spend 1 - 2 years doing general software development before you can start working on cutting-edge tech.

But keep in mind that the organisations that do cutting-edge tech are going to be strongly biased toward people with a CompSci degree. Unless you're willing to do a degree, you'll need to learn this stuff really thoroughly on your own and then build some kind of project to demonstrate that you know it. For example, a cool machine learning project. Your bootcamp alone isn't going to get you into these kinds of companies.

You're not going to be able to do a bootcamp and then stop learning. The learning is never going to stop for you. But I think what you're planning to do is doable in a few years. In a few years I went from writing requirements as a PM to writing software to help scientists count mosquito eggs in a lab using image processing. Guess which one was more rewarding?

Feel free to ask me any more specific questions.
They take 30% and still loose money. How can you do better?
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It depends on the definition of slavery and allow. As I understand it, slavery is officially abolished globally. Other forms of forced or coerced labor exist throughout the world, of varying legal degrees. Enforcement is also varies, so whether or not something is legal can be irrelevant if the laws aren't effectively enforced.
Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and Github all do just fine hosting their own physical infrastructure.

It's untrue that "the cloud" is always the right way. When you're on a multi-tenant system, you will never be the top priority. When you build your own, you are.

Google and AWS have vested interests (~30% margins) in getting you into the cloud. Always do the math to see if it's cost effective comparatively speaking.
React wasn't the first. :)

Some of us were out in the wilderness building GWT components back in 2009/2010. And although compiling to JS was a pretty weird option at the time, it mostly worked. Your app looked terrible if you just cobbled together GWT's default components, but if you built your own components with custom CSS, you could end up with a really nice looking application. We even used immutability and one-way data flow where we could, though it wasn't culturally ingrained the way it is in the React community.

I understand why GWT idn't become mainstream. Java was really disliked in the JS community, even more than it is now. But having a big, maintainable web app using DI and all other sorts of fun things was actually kind of fun 6-7 years ago. I like React and Angular 2 better now, though.
Careful. It's not the stories themselves that are or aren't suitable for HN. It's the topic and (to a lesser extent) the mode of inquiry†.

Political stories are flagged from HN not because they don't admit to intellectual inquiry (such as it is around here), but because this community won't react to them in that spirit. Good political stories, bad political stories: all of them generate unbelievably noxious threads.

You're right of course. But, since this is a nerd message board, I feel entitled to point out at tedious length that you're right for the wrong reason. :)

† In very rare cases, you can see academic studies of politics get some traction here.
Try to do the same thing with HC, it will interesting to see what the results of that would be, I mean you could have a point, but I think there's a reason this is Trump we're talking about.

As for my dignity, perhaps I'm more sensitive then most, but this feels humiliating for me. I will not protect a man who would grab, my sister, my mother, my daughter and rape her with his hands. End of story.
Stallman does use his own brain, rather better than average. But some other, richer, people have come to the same conclusion about the 'basic income' bit.

Actually, the fight about it seems to be that it would be a boon to "tech billionaires" more than to other sectors.
His whole reasoning in that section in the video is just stilly. The reason some subjects have "science" in them and others don't is usually just a matter of convention or linguistic accident -- it really doesn't have that much import (and in any case, no bearing at all on the substantive issues behind climate change). And yet, he's trying to draw the conclusion that there's some kind of a deep, revealing "tell" behind it.

Pseudo-intellectual tripe which we're supposed to take seriously (because he's a billionaire, I guess).
> The key difference is learning in animals occurs by breaking things down in terms of modular concepts, so even when things are not recognized new things can be labeled as a composition of smaller nearby concepts. Machines cannot yet do this well at all and certainly not as flexibly.

Actually, that's pretty much what deep learning is doing. For instance: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5027-zero-shot-learning-through...

That paper was from a few years ago, I think the state of the art is better now, but it's trying to do exactly what you're talking about. More broadly, what you're talking about falls under the umbrella of transfer learning (that is, a model's ability to learn helpful information about task Y by training on related task X, preferably by learning and sharing useful features.)
It help on thinking VLOOKUPS as something of the past once you install Excel16 and get to know the DataModel thingie. It really saves you a ton of excel coding everyday.
I appreciate you doing this. I haven't been as zealous lately because I'm shellshocked by the week, and as a result I've been at least once sucked into a political thread that wasted a bunch of my time.
I wouldn't call myself a pro, but I've had plenty of experience in Excel. Some of my most-used shortcuts aren't obvious from the current Excel interface as they're ones that follow the menu structure of Excel 2003. However, Excel 2003 shortcuts still work in the latest versions, so they're still valid, they just take a little more practice to become second nature. Here's a bunch to start with (note that commas in examples below mean you release the previous key before pressing the next one)...

Alt,D,F,F - Set filters

Alt,D,F,S - Clear filters

Alt,W,F,[Enter] - Freeze panes

Ctrl+Shift+DownArrow - Select all cells down from current cell

Alt,O,C,A - Autofit to content of currently selected cells.

To give an example of most of the above (plus a couple more)...

Ctrl+Home

Ctrl+Shift+Right

Ctrl+B

Alt,D,F,F

Alt,O,C,A

DownArrow

Alt,W,F,[Enter]

Assuming your data has column headings at the beginning of a sheet, what the above combination does is formats the column headers in bold text, sets column filters, autofits the width of the columns so that the full name of the columns are all displayed, and freezes the top row so that the column headers will still be shown when scrolling down the worksheet.

One more shortcut tip I'll pass on is for Paste Special. If you want to get the most out of Excel you should learn about Paste Special, it lets you do things like remove formulas, copy formats, transpose columns into rows (and vice versa). To use it from the keyboard, first highlight and copy the cells you're interested in, then use the 'menu key' on your keyboard (Google it if you're not sure where this key is), then look for the underlined letters in each of the menu options to choose the ones you want.

Also, these functions aren't necessarily keyboard friendly but I'd recommend taking a look at 'Text to Columns', 'Remove Duplicates', 'Evaluate Formula' and Pivot Tables, all of which I've found very useful.