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That's we are trying to solve, the underlying idea. It's broken because it's based on what you just described.

But, getting a rating (or an endorsement) from a stranger, it won't affect you really (it won't always go +1) as it's based on the person's knowledge about that tool.
On the other hand, if the person knows that tool really well (has a good rating), then that's good for you, I guess :-)

Does this make sense?
I have used 1 Apple device in the last 15 years, an iPod shuffle I got as a gift (I shorted it out by sweating near it).

Are other manufacturers doing much better? On my older laptop, the HDD is 2 screws to access. On the laptop my mom used previously, you had to take the CPU fan assembly out after removing the keyboard to get at the HDD.
This takes you down a never-ending and unproductive rabbit hole. We really aren't equipped to encompass the totality of the effects of any particular action we take, which will invariably, at some point in the chain of consequences, have adverse impacts on someone, somewhere.
I'll tell you why to keep being a polyglot: to have a choice of tools for
solving problems and to have a perspective.

I routinely write tools in half a dozen languages and pretty much always I'm
glad that I could choose one or another, because it fits the problem at hand
much better than anything else.

And the perspective is about knowing different approaches to a problem.
Sometimes I transfer the good ideas from one language/runtime/framework to
another, where it makes sense, but is not a common practice. And I can easily
use a language I haven't had much experience before, just because it's the
same paradigm as I already know from several other languages (I did this a few
times already).

And no, I'm not a generalist. I'm quite specialized in my work. I write tools
for OS administration.
This TIME headline seems totally disconnected from the article, which is about COX-2 inhibitors.
When traversing an intersection with odd angles often the voice prompt will say something like "slight right" for the road I think of as straight ahead, or vice versa. A glance at the map clears these up.
I'm not sure this is entirely fair. I've run into a fair number of merges where git couldn't resolve the conflict but meld or p4merge was able to do it trivially. If git were able to better deal with these, I don't think anyone would question it. I suspect over time that git probably has gotten smarter with merges.

I surveyed a fair number of DVCS systems in the run-up to git. I'm hardly an expert, but gracefully dealing with merge conflicts was indeed something system authors were investigating. Darcs went so far as to have a formal theory of patch management [1], which guaranteed never to have a conflict (unfortunately, running the proof engine could take unduly long and in some cases, may never complete).

Anyway, I think it's a tricky balance to strike. You're right that if the SCM resolves the conflict improperly and introduces a logic error, that's really tedious to track down. However, I've encountered far too many cases of bad rebases or merges resolved incorrectly by humans as well. Sometimes it's a small change the developer didn't pick up in line that was edited by both. Sometimes it was a lack of understanding of incoming changes. Sometimes it was just a battle lost to the merge tool (e.g., seeing "<<<<<<<" in source files). In all those situations, I long for a smarter merge tool.

[1] -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_Darcs/Patch_theo...
Many (actually millions of) people take it very seriously, particularly those who thanks to de-industrialisation, will likely lose their jobs, sink back into poverty or give up hope of rising out of it and of course those in northern hemisphere who suffer massively or die from not being able to warm themselves.

Doubtless you think the alternative is armageddon. I get that. But when people read that the <official> estimates of global temperature reduction are of an order too little to detect in return for massive global pain by those least able to avoid it (with consequent enrichment by some of the rest of us), one wonders why the case made for that scenario is not more persuasive to people like Judith Curry for instance (and many other well informed authorities). As a specific recent example: to suggest she'd risk the future of mankind on Earth for the chance of preferment in Trump's administration, as has been suggested is beyond satire.
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Of course, there's severe bias here, in the sense that what we consider abstraction is by definition "human shaped" abstraction

I can read the words here, but I don't understand the meaning.

We abstract to find a common set of features in things that are supposed to be the same but that are not present in things that are not supposed to be the same. Grouping these features then produces higher level abstractions, and so on.

Where would the bias be?

Even if the features differ, the process is the same.

And even the features are often the same. If you reverse a DCNN to see what it uses to classify things as "cats", expect to see whiskers and fur.
This is really an iPad running MacOS, with everything soldered on, zero upgradeability and near-zero repairability. That's the antithesis of a "professional" machine.

I wonder if we'll see a similar trend with the mac pro if Apple doesn't decide to scrap it completely.

We run quite a few mac pros and macbook pros at work, so this has us thinking hard.
I will copy very interesting question from ifixit:

> How do you do a power rest if the machine hangs? Before you held down the power button for a few seconds. Would that work with a touch ID button?

Any ideas?
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On the one hand, it was clear that the website wasn't meant to be informative, since it always recommended the client's drug no matter what the questionnaire returned. Clearly that was a bit shady.

On the other hand... as a general rule, I don't really want software developers deciding what to code based on their personal medical opinions. That can cut both ways.

If the author felt it was unethical at the time (and he says it didn't really cross his mind), the best he could have done would have been to quit. Then, of course, someone else would have taken his place. Perhaps his conscience would have been cleaner, but I doubt any girls would have been saved. The stark reality is that ethical quandaries like this call for an all-or-nothing approach; either you're disturbed enough to report their actions to the authorities, or you don't do anything at all. You can quit, but that won't save anyone, so you're not really helping. (Unless you're irreplaceable, of course.)

There's another important element to the author's story: the sketchy questionnaire and the drug's harmful side effects weren't really linked in any way. Marketing is marketing; as the author says, he knew the job of the site was to promote the drug. Shady questionnaire or not, that's not inherently problematic. If the pharma company misled its customers on the side effects or knew the drug wasn't safe, that's an entirely separate issue that the author simply could not have known of. Drugs are complicated business, and they can be helpful, dangerous, important, and abused all at the same time.

The "last line of defense" statement was a powerful one, but not one I feel I can really agree with. It's often said that pharmacists are the last line of defense for prescription drugs, and that's how it should be; they actually have the training to know what they're doing. Software engineers might be a knowledgeable bunch, but they're not so knowledgeable they should be making calls outside their expertise.
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My sister, despite not even having complete her masters yet, is the leading CRISPR-Cas9 person in my country, and was sent to MIT to improve her technique.

You are completely correct, in fact one thing that was notable about it was how much work intensive it is, she was forced to miss lots of family events because she had to go in the lab work on the cells, it requires lots and lots of manual labor.

That said, the stuff IS awesome, after you figure how to get it right, it can get right a lot. (but she did this with animals, where she CAN attempt trial and error until she figures the right reference gene sequence to use to guide the proteins, I dunno how that would work when you are racing against time to save a live patient for example, specially if you want to edit his heart or some other area that is hard to access).

By the way, one of the motivations of MIT new variations of CRISPR (that don't use Cas9) is that Cas9 technique require big needles if you want to work in a living organism, the new ones would allow you to use much smaller needles, that are more practical to stab into a patient... and it is very forward thinking, because people didn't even tried stabbing CRISPR needles into someone yet, it is just that MIT guys realized it would be impractical with Cas9 and decided to invent another technique before actually trying it.
They already have an iPad they call "Pro". "Pro" doesn't mean anything to Apple anymore. (unless you want to go cynical and say it means Profits)
Maybe we should aim to create within the next century a near perfect simulation of us and our world, run it at an incredibly high speed and see if any knowledge regarding this, and many other things, emerges. ;-)
And of course humans suffer from that too, in a much more sophisticated way.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/nk/typicality_and_asymmetrical_simil...
It is likely not true as this was printed in the New York Times.

Their journalists and editors are mostly Socialists so they are bound to generate one article after another following the narrative that we should ban something because smart technocrats in their infinite wisdom have again found a reason why they know best what we ignorant masses should do.

The mentioned safety expert is probably the NYT journalist who wrote the article. They are experts on every single issue they have an opinion on.

Look, it's even printed in the NYT, so they must be experts by definition.

Edit: You can even see that they are Socialists by looking at the headline. Blame apps instead of reckless individuals.

That's because it's always the fault of some outside force when something goes horribly wrong, people are just dumb sheep in dire need of upgrade to the Socialist Übermensch, didn't you know?

Every solution is a central planning solution, in this case a new regulation. Forget liberty, this is only for backwards rednecks clinging to their guns and religion.
Oh, awesome! The actual renderer is open source (aka free) and I don't have to put it on the "one day when macOS" pile. Thanks. :)

(I will note that the website horizontally scrolls at 1024x768. A lot of sites do, though.)
The sourcepuller code looks almost trivial, at least for the clone operation?

http://sourcepuller.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sourcepuller/...

https://lwn.net/Articles/132938/
> people were assigned standard doses of 100mg celecoxib twice a day, 600mg ibuprofen three times a day, and naproxen 375mg twice a day

> In almost every measure, ibuprofen looks worse, naproxen is intermediate and celecoxib is the best.

> the heart concerns led the FDA to require its maker, Pfizer, to pay for additional studies to ensure that celecoxib did not put people at increased risk of heart trouble

And afaik Celecoxib is the only one marketed solely by Pfizer, at prices 5 times higher than the other 2.

Am I being paranoid thinking this at least deserves more study, not conducted or paid for by pharma?
See, why do you have to use the "it's for consumers" argument when it doesn't apply?

If it's a laptop which includes features which is WAY beyond the requirements of your average consumer, and with the price to boot, it's not a consumer laptop.

Maybe the specs don't quite match certain specific professional users requirements. Maybe certain features are broken. Maybe there are flaws in the product.

Those issues can be addressed on their own.

You don't have to tie it to some misguided idea that Apple is making it with the intent of content consumption.

That people have to attach their critique to some far-fetched speculation about Apples motivations signals that they may not think the critique can stand on its own. Which is a shame, because often it can.
Urgh, medical reporting is almost as bad as Tech reporting. No critical thinking.

this is the gist: "There is a new drug that acts similarly to ibuprofen, but appears to be less aggressive towards kidneys. Equally as bad for the heart."

However 70% of the participants failed to complete the study, so its not long term. No percentage risks are quoted. It also doesn't compare how effective celecoxib is compared to the much cheaper and well understood(interaction wise) ibuprofen.

It also notes that high doses were not tested: "600mg ibuprofen three times a day"

That my friend is a fucking large dose, as in three weeks and you have an ulcer dose.
Not really. Most kids walk or bike to school. In places where public transport is built out kids that need to take a bus to school just use that. In the places that offer dedicated buses to take kids to school the county just charters buses from the local bus company. The idea of a school bus as a visually distinct concept doesn't exist.
Now that AirBnb and Uber are no longer novelties, it seems like supply and demand is simply working to bring the price to its natural level. The nice thing about flexible rates (as opposed to traditional taxis) is that Uber can quickly respond to changes in supply vs. demand.
Quite lousy detection algorithm if you ask me.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcjqwvxdpb455zu/quick_draw.jpg?dl=...
I can only speak for myself, but I use my laptop speakers daily. I have a MBP and bought Boom 2 to make it a little louder when listening to people speaking. I'd certainly rather have them natively play that loudly. For me, the battery life tradeoff is worth it as six hours is about how much battery life I tend to use. That said, I recognize that having ten or twelve hours would change my behavior and expectations.
Nice! But what if I lose my mobile phone or change my number? :D
The abstract drawings benefit a lot from the limited selection and the huge implicit context.

If you'd give these doodles to people that are not Western males it'll do a lot worse. Someone already pointed out it doesn't recognize woman's shoes.
>I advised her to get off the drug ASAP. Thankfully, she listened.

This bothers me, this isn't how medicine works. While there's very, very legitimate reasons to be critical of over prescribing and marketing, "I heard about an adverse outcome in someone else that may or may not be related to a drug she was taking" is not a good reason to recommending another person to stop treatment.

All medical interventions are a cost-benefit analysis and all medical interventions have risk, some more than others. Forgoing medical interventions also has risks and benefits. For all we know the risks were very minimal and the drug helped the sister. This could have been very harmful advice if the drug required, say, tapering down and the sister went off of it without assistance of a medical provider.

The author is themselves handing out incredibly rash and potentiality harmful advice.
I assume the point is as both a warning to others (us) and as a reminder to him. As someone who subscribes to the PKD definition of "hero," I quite like the article for this purpose. Had the author known a bit more about the drug beforehand, he may well have refused to build the site.

"The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and to those whom he loves. This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history. Their names are not remembered, nor did these authentic humans expect their names to be remembered. I see their authenticity in an odd way: not in their willingness to perform great heroic deeds but in their quiet refusals. In essence, they cannot be compelled to be what they are not."

-Philip K Dick
Great story, would be cool if you included this post in the repo.
Mine did that a couple of times even in the short route on which I tried it out. I didn't have trouble understanding what was meant, because the configuration of the intersections made only one interpretation sensible. I can see how that might not be true in all cases, but I'm not sure the occasional disambiguation is worth the distraction of a visible moving map display.
Apart from the reasons posted earlier, "legacy" also comes into play.

Symantec acquired the CA business from the old VeriSign in 2010, which back then was the largest CA and had a large corporate client portfolio accustomed to paying $$$$ per certificate per year. Corporations can become very reluctant to change, even if it benefits them, and there are some who just pay up every year without researching alternatives or even being aware of any.

You will find that there are a lot of similarities with the domain name industry where there is also a company operating with a VeriSign heritage: Network Solutions. Network Solutions also charge premium prices, because their legacy customers expect those. And although market share is slowly eroding over the years and cheap (and even free) competitors rise, more than enough legacy customers stay on board to remain very profitable for many years to come. What definitely helps is that most of the processes in the domain registration and CA industries can be automated and don't need a lot of maintenance.
I believe a lot of fans in modern systems are for worse case rather than average case situations.

As far as I know, there's nothing in the Dell et al. warranty that prohibits you from running a high-load system in a confined nook in a dust-clogged room with a high ambient temperature. So cooling needs to be designed to be sufficient even in pathologically stupid situations.
I had that quote in mind, but could not find a good attribution for it.
causes the same level of heart problems as ibuprofen, but less kidney and GI problems
> Am I being paranoid thinking this at least deserves more study, not conducted or paid for by pharma?

Do their rivals have an incentive to check Pfizer's work? If they're publishing bogus studies to get through regulatory checks, it could delay the new drug from being released.

Further, if they're publishing bogus studies, it seems like the FDA would be partially responsible. So one might expect the FDA to possibly run trials of their own on a random sample of drugs, and compare with what the drug companies published.

Also, Trump has mentioned speeding drugs through the FDA process. There might be less incentive to cheat the results if they don't need to do it to release their drug.
I'm busy. I both work a lot and have a life outside of work.

If a company were to give me a take home assignment I'd see it as them not valuing my time.

When you do a traditional interview the company has skin in the game. They have to "spend" the same amount of development time as I do in the interview. That person interviewing me could be working, if they're interviewing me instead, that's the company signaling that they think I'm worth the time. You don't have that in a take-home problem. It's asymmetrical. I'm investing time on this and they aren't. That's not how I want to start a business relationship.

Then there's the marketplace. I have a lot of options for employment. I'm confident that if I quit my job tomorrow I could have another one, just as good, by Thanksgiving. The job interview goes both ways. I'm interviewing you as well. I want to talk to your current developers. I want to get a sense of your office culture. And I don't want to complete a take-home assignment before I get to do that.

Finally the people I like to work with are like me. They're busy, driven, and good at what they do. I can't imagine they would work for a place that used take-home work for interviews. So even if I did go through with it and get the job; what type of people am I going to be working with?
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I'm not able to use it with angular-cli, could you enhance your instalation steps for the current angular-cli?
Like on iOS's home screen?
I saw nothing in the article that indicated the drug discussed was incorrectly prescribed or promoted.

Honestly, the article could be written about someone doing a marketing campaign for facebook and then hearing about a teenager committing suicide due to facebook. We would all find that absurd, but it is functionally equivalent here. Facebook has been sued for the suicide of teenagers, just like the drug company.
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They could have done 2 if the SSD was user replaceable.

You have to carefully planned your MBP configuration, unfortunately SSD upgrade are terribly expensive. An extra 25% of the price to go from 256GB to 1TB.

Actually that's probably fine for a professional machine, as you will be alright with a smaller disk until you replace the MBP anyway. For a power-user machine that you plan to keep several (5+) years, that's another story.
> “Yes. That’s what the requirements say to do. Everything leads to the client’s drug.”

Working in Pharma Advertising I have seen other devs in my company do exactly that.

I also found out recently that a company I made a website for bought a drug and raised the price 2,000%.

I've already started my new job search.
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Let honesty govern your work. It's a bit difficult to translate and still keep the language clear.
If we're talking about the same studies, then they also found that it was equally distracting to be talking to a passenger. God knows how dangerous it must be to go on a family outing.

In short, I'm skeptical about what those results really tell us.

Having said that, I have some sympathy with the article. I fundamentally don't like touch screens in cars (it stops me from considering a Tesla). They require all of your attention when you're using them and this is a bad thing imo.
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Long time HN user using a throwaway account because of the lynch mob ( both sides )

The article page 3 mentions a crucial get-out-of-jail card that HN is taking completely hypocritically at face value.

Namely that NOAA adjustements are in response to Met Office/Hadley/UEA adjustements.

this should be setting off "tampered" alarm bells

Lets step away to make parallels:

UK Copyright extended to harmonise with US.

US copyright then extended to harmonise with UK copyright

HN response: The copyright holders are colluding to extend the term globally

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NOAA adjustments: We're harmonising because of Met Office / Hadley / UEA adjustments

HN: Yay science, nothing fishy could be going on here because Scientists.
tl;dr Shadows and blur provide visual cues that allow users to better and more easily understand what is going on.
Im not alluding anything, Im telling you whats going to happen just like I told you about non removable SSD when nobody publicly knew about it.
Sorry I don't have links. But yes, I think it was primarily to improve the performance of EBS, not S3 (been a while since I had to work on that sort of thing).
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>"CRISPR is used to mess with a gene, not kill a population of cells."

Look it up, in every paper where they report on that aspect, the vast majority of the cells die. Also, they detect small numbers of mutants in the control (non-"modified") cells.