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> That's another something I don't know that I don't know!

This is something we don't do well. Situational awareness and expert consults. As a society, field, and individuals.

From grounding elite groupthink, to systematic reviews in medicine, to programming language design, to hardware acquisition, to choosing a javascript library, or crafting its api, to choosing what to eat for lunch. Existing socio-technical infrastructure is painful to use, with highly and variably suboptimal results. And the more interdisciplinary the task, the worse the costs.

Opportunities for improvement are coming. Hybrid human-computer systems, so "I'm planning to do X, can I get a sanity check?" can be addressed with a mix of automation, and AI, and stats, and custom blends of variously-skilled/expensive human expertise.

But there are existing opportunities which are often not taken advantage of. Like maintaining personal review "committees" - people of various expertise to whom you can mention what you are up to, and hope to at least get back a "sounds good"/"have you thought of instead doing X". And like watching for opportunities to mention one's work on fora like HN, to create an opportunity for feedback. :) Engineered serendipity.
Theranos CEO Holmes and former president Balwani charged with fraud
I think it has been ported to .NET but unsure about maintenance: https://www.infoq.com/news/2009/08/SQLite-Has-Been-Ported-to...
"but that can be said of every language? "

What about Haskell?
Nerve agent attack on spy used ‘Novichok’ poison
Sometimes there's a task we need a human for, and it turns out humans can't do it for long periods, but because we've sort of internalised this idea that a working day is 8 hours, we struggle to accept the idea that a person who put in say, two hours with a two hour break has done a day's work. It feels intuitively unfair.

But the universe doesn't care about our intuitions.

The example that immediately comes to mind for me is railway lookout. Sometimes for practical reasons rather than closing a railway to send people onto the track, or deploying technological countermeasures to protect the workers, we have to resort to a human stood at a vantage point looking out for trains and signalling to their co-workers on the track. In principle this should happen only when it's absolutely necessary, in practice humans, even those who actually work on the track, often think it sounds _easier_ and pick it over safer alternatives.

Humans are really bad at being lookout because it's very boring. You stare into the distance, and Either a thing happens, or it doesn't, for minute after minute. With practice, and in the knowledge that if you screw-up your co-workers (probably friends) may die or be gruesomely injured by a train, workers can remain focused on this very boring task for almost an hour in test conditions.

But try telling a team of hard-working manual labourers that an hour as lookout, then a proper break for a couple of hours and then one more session of an hour as lookout constitutes a working day. They can agree intellectually that this is so, having done the job, but stood there, not breaking a sweat, just kind of bored, if one of them is mistakenly not relieved they will try to grit their teeth and carry on. And then, perhaps, the boredom overwhelms them, and before they know it a colleague is lying broken in a ditch, there are blue lights, people crying, investigators are asking them questions about what they saw, what they remember...
> If this is something that worries you, then you should only trust sites that have Extended Validation certificates.

Every user of the web in the world would have to do this in order to avoid this vulnerability.
Low-Income Renters Find Stubborn Affordable Housing Gap
Yeah to be honest I have no idea of the costs of healthcare in the US, just what my US friends say about copay and obamacare and stuff. And reading hackernews. 100k would be low and that's a scary though.
It sounds to me like there needs to be some sort of deep-dive "onboarding" program where new hires can work on a curriculum of projects and learn the SOPs of the organization.

My employer does exactly this, both within the R&D organization and within our services/consulting group. All new hires from college do a 3-4 week "boot camp" where they do all the common indoctrination stuff, from HR paperwork, to learning the shared tools, to a mini programming project.

Expecting a college graduate to show up ready to contribute like a 5 year veteran is ridiculous. As the parent message says, college is mostly for education, not training. Internships and co-ops fill some of the gaps, but high quality internships are few and far between.
So, at first, it will compile, but fail: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rand/pull/197

Then, two weeks ago https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rand/pull/272

> Would anything that depended on that need to use a random function from js instead?

Your instinct is right, that's what the above does. (more specifically, with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/RandomSourc... )
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The Founder’s Paradox: Listening to People You Trust Tell You It Can't Be Done
It's interesting that the brain scan is the thing that opened his mind, but no one else did even though they tried.
This is a major pet peeve of mine. In politicians's mouth it seems so offending, condescending and passive-agressive: "If my words have offended you I give you my apologies". They rarely take responsibility for themselves, offloading it on their « words » and « if » or « may have offended ». Like "I am sorry if you are too emotive to hear my words". Gah.
Has anyone done this recently? Has Equifax upped their small claims court game?
Neil Degrasse Tyson is clearly vying for the slot but seems to make science seem more elitist, more pedantic (read literally any of his tweets) and thus appears to miss the point entirely
Shouldn't it be "while overcoming so much"?
A Celebrity Philosopher Explains the Populist Insurgency
Even if most people aren't cut out to be "Good Will Hunting" auto-didacts, it's hard not to see wider availability of learning materials as a positive development. When it comes to risks of exploitation, I'm more worried that universities will increasingly leverage online courses as a way to increase their profits at the expense of their students' learning experience.
Considering that half of that is not standard C code, and the other is just a standard way of declaring a pointer that doesn’t differ much in any other typed language, i don’t think you’re making a point here.
People would (somewhat rightly) complain that they never signed up to this, experienced PTSD as a result, and quit over it.
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...don't get caught up wasting energy on the argument that could be used towards solving problems.

You must be new here. Welcome to Hacker News. =)
Fantastic bit of earned media for his startup.
From what I read on /r/engineering, a lot of engineers complain that their jobs look like what you described - compiling together parts from different vendors' catalogs. A lot of people are resentful that they get to use maybe 2% of the cool math-based knowledge they got in university. It looks very similar to the resentment a lot of CS grads working in software engineering are experiencing.
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> Rust and possibly even Go would be strong contenders to make a new SQLite-like library/program today.

Go absolutely would not be, one of the purposes of sqlite is to be embeddable in any and all software.
Yeah, i have a family who is bound to my families stone-quary since 5 generations by debt-contract, i can not fathom where the problem is here.
If there's only one, and it's not run by you, how can you scam people with it? Get with the program!
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How much CO2 per kWh does it come to when you divide the total CO2 footprint of the battery manufacture and materials over the charge cycles of the battery?

edit: One study[1] indicates the figures are 150-200 kg CO2 equivalent per 1 kWh of battery. So for 1000 cycle durability, that would make 150-200 g per kWh even without counting the CO2 effects of charging power[2]. Diesel engines emit 250 g per kWh[3] of energy produced. Doesn't sound like such a great tradeoff.

[1] http://www.ivl.se/download/18.5922281715bdaebede9559/1496046...

[2] Even if Norway produces low emission hydro electricity, the same electricity could be used to displace dirty power if exported to Denmark etc.

[3] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/co2-emission-fuels-d_1085...
You have the choice to make online education useful, this would be the same in a traditional education as well.

The only thing that matters between these two different approaches to learning is if you can create value with the knowledge you gained. That is the only thing people will pay for, value.

There is no clear path to demonstrate the value you can create from the knowledge you gained and this is where I think a lot of people get lost.
I have the lowest-cost insurance plan my company offers.

Yes your insurance plan may cost you a little but how much is your company paying on your behalf?

I had this same argument with some of my coworkers who didn't want to pay extra taxes for government healthcare. The company list how much they are paying on your behalf for insurance as part of the ACA it was $12000 a year for the family. Assuming a $120,000 developer salary (reasonable but low for a senior dev in our market). That's 10% of our total compensation. That money comes from somewhere.

They were paying the same $12,000 for the help desk support staff that was probably making $40K at the most - about 25% of their total compensation.
Theranos charged with fraud [pdf]
I had a friend who reviewed AdSense websites for disturbing content for Google.

She had a promising career right out of college and was excited to be working at Google, even though it wasn't what she wanted to be doing. After about a month she would just start crying randomly on nights and weekends when we hung out.

After about a year she quit to become a baker. I really think she has a kind of PTSD from it.

If there was one job I wish the robots could take, its this one. Although its important that it be a super highly qualified AI, and not the crap we have now.
Given how extensive your notes are on most of those books, it would be interesting to know what process you have to take them while reading. I've always been a very lean note-taker and find this is the reasons I quickly forget many valuable insights from the books I read. Any tips?
See http://wiki.c2.com/?SmugLispWeenie for an in depth view of the phenomenon.
> 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM

When are they going to upgrade the memory? All of that is nice, but what I've really wanted is one with at least 3-4GB.
It doesn't have to be any one person, either.

As scientific progress becomes increasingly interdisciplinary, communication becomes increasingly valuable both within teams and with the greater public.

I would be perfectly happy seeing tens of enthusiastic and brilliant physicists stepping up to become the celebrity scientists of the upcoming generation, rather than just one or two.

Until they surface, however, the responsibility falls upon each and every one of us to stoke the fires of passion and wonder in our fellow humans.

I started watching Niel deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos reboot the other day, and the first episode is definitely worth a watch for everyone reading this thread. It was also covered in Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/inspiring-story-young-neil-de...

You don't need a platform or a massive following to ignite a spark of curiosity in another person. Small acts of kindness and encouragement can last a lifetime.
On the other side, it saved us from bad hires that would have been difficult to fire otherwise.
SEC Charges Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes with Fraud
That's a fantastic idea.
That's a fair yardstick
The length of the spec isn't really relevant is it? Or are you implying that C is about as complex as Java?
I think putting your info in your profile would be a great first step. I'm interested, but have no way of contacting you!

In general, do sponsored blog posts on hardware sites - hackaday is a great first one. See if you can get adafruit, or tindie as well.
Theranos and Holmes have agreed to settle the fraud charges levied against them. Holmes agreed to pay a $500,000 penalty, be barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company for 10 years, return the remaining 18.9 million shares that she obtained during the fraud, and relinquish her voting control of Theranos by converting her super-majority Theranos Class B Common shares to Class A Common shares. Due to the company’s liquidation preference, if Theranos is acquired or is otherwise liquidated, Holmes would not profit from her ownership until – assuming redemption of certain warrants – over $750 million is returned to defrauded investors and other preferred shareholders. The settlements with Theranos and Holmes are subject to court approval.

Someone help me out: Does this settlement really make the affected parties feel the pain? Does it discourage other companies from attempting the same thing? Given the scale of the fraud, shouldn't these two simply be in prison right now?
In my experience the innovators must toil in obscurity because they see a vision that others cannot yet see, until the thing is realized.

Then the prototypes get handed off to the main engineers to run with, and support is provided. By the time the thing sees production usage, the original inventor has long since moved onto solving other problems on the horizon.

Praise is attributed to the last and loudest to have touched a project. Innovators are deeply satisfied by that and don't need the praise because it actually gets in the way.
It might be nice to tag the headline (2015). A very moving read, however.
"An Introduction to the Meaning and Structure of Physics", by Leon N Cooper, also another Nobel laureate in Physics. Filled my mind with wonder when I read it some 15 years ago.
I think most people (guess) live in a place they can walk in, yet choose not to. Every small town, every safe large city area. I think the non-safe areas are quite small comparatively speaking.

Then there is the simple notion, take the time to go somewhere to walk. I have relatives that do this, I know it's not impossible based on your living location. If you want to bring economics into this, then there's a vastly more complicated topic.

Yes, it's way easier to walk in Tokyo (any different than New York?), but I was also in rural Japan, and there was no more unique motivation to walk there than in rural USA.

I think social cohesion can be broken with just the introduction of smartphones and social media, so sure, it's possible suburbification made some things worse. But it's now socially acceptable to discuss and display on public media what used to be considered perverted and depraved, did suburbs cause this?

What society can be decent when being decent isn't valued by society?
U.S. Banks Need to Upgrade Their Payments Infrastructure (Without Blockchain)
I was under the impression that the support for unrecoverable errors via panic! creates a runtime structure (allowing for the explicit release of resources) which is not typically present in C programs (unless manually included).
There's often a thin line between "startup founder" and "confidence man".
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> You're not necessarily going green if you use coal-based electricity.

Agreed.

At the same time, moving from direct use of fossil fuels to even indirect use of fossil fuels via electricity is a real move that at a minimum facilitates future sustainability.
>Theranos and Holmes have agreed to settle the fraud charges levied against them. Holmes agreed to pay a $500,000 penalty, be barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company for 10 years, return the remaining 18.9 million shares that she obtained during the fraud, and relinquish her voting control of Theranos by converting her super-majority Theranos Class B Common shares to Class A Common shares. Due to the company’s liquidation preference, if Theranos is acquired or is otherwise liquidated, Holmes would not profit from her ownership until – assuming redemption of certain warrants – over $750 million is returned to defrauded investors and other preferred shareholders.

3 years ago, I never would have thought that such an outcome would actually happen.
I've been working, unsuccessfully, on accounting software for small businesses for like 8+ years now. I am surprised they got so much funding to come into the space. Good luck to them. It's a great space to build software for because people rely on it and they are willing to pay for it. I wish I had that kind of funding to continue doing it.
Are Meredith Perry and uBeam next?
I find the same thing with classifying purchases. Most shops can be classified by the shop itself. But with Amazon purchases it can be anything. I have half a mind to write a script that looks up the purchase and finds the category on the Amazon shop page and updates the qif file.
Python IDEs and Code Editors
1. Russia doesn't have a motive.
Skripal was convicted as a foreign spy and served a prison time in Russia. Then he was pardoned and exchanged for Russian agents. Russian state doesn't have anything to do with him.
2. If Russia has means to do it in London, we should ask what the British are doing? Why Russians do as they please in London? Looks like British special services suck. BTW, Novichok is not some secret, it was thouroughly studied by US military while dismantling Soviet checmical weapons facility in Uzbekistan.
Well at least I'm not impressed with your posturing.
Why don't they have to serve jail time for this?
Four Years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty
Are you genuinely curious or just piling on?
In general I agree with your post, except the part about all colleges becoming job training programs. I think there is value in an environment that exists purely for academics, it just isn't what the vast majority of people look to education for.
>>Since only CL and Emacs Lisp can and do share actual Lisp code

But what exactly is 'actual lisp'. I mean what is this strict definition?

Forgive me, I understand calling Scheme and CL as same might feel like saying Java and C++ as same. But one would be right in saying Java and C++ both come from a C based paradigm.

On the same lines one could say CL and Scheme come from lisp paradigm. At this point in time both communities compared to any major language community are so small that one could refer to both as Lisp.
I admit that I was merely being metaphorical and referencing the comprehensive test suite, wide distribution and usage.

I wish I had intended that pun embedded in the comment, but from now on ;)
I was paging through some old symbolics lisp machine code the other day and while I found some subtle differences in style, it was not so different from modern CL code. I think the differences that are to be found are less about the way one writes lisp and more that these days people make use of "standard" things like quicklisp, alexandria, fiveam, and other utility/portability libraries that didn't exist back then.

Edit:

I suppose a major change was that back then, CLOS was not yet part of the standard. There was a competing system being used at the time called flavors that had a lot of the same features. No one uses that anymore to my knowledge.
Yes, the old PoE hats had two RJ45's on them, and you needed a short cable between that and the Pi. It's unfortunate they had to put a fan on the new hat though.
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I think the parent means native implementations so that these bindings are not necessary. The bindings are an interface to a C library that should be shipped with the device. I can see how that can be problematic if you're targeting OS X, Windows, and Unix systems
How combining schemas and color psychology will improve UX
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I assume this one was sarcasm? It's sometimes really hard to say in this topic. Just checking some of the other comments show some quite out-there opinions made apparently with full seriousness.
Keep in mind there's a part of the Lisp crowd that prefers loop and setf over more functional idioms. Unlike many other languages, Lisp is good for writing functional code, but people tend to forget that it's also a pretty kickass imperative and object-oriented language.
None of those were relevant to the question posed to you.
The whole point of picking Lisp as a language for many people is to have a hiring pool of small but good programmers.
Agreed. I feel like he started off great but as he grew more famous has made it very much all about himself.
is this not normal? Like how planets will orbit a mass of star or black hole at a certain distance depending on their speed?
1) Yes they are

Pharmaceutical R&D spending in 2015: USA $47B, Europe: $33B.

Total drug sales Europe 2015: $190B
Based on the headline, I would have liked to hear about more than 1 person and a slight mention of a few others.
This does named-entity recognition tagging, which is harder. Also POS results are still not that good on out-of-vocabulary words, so using a word representation that includes sub-word ngrams (like FB Fasttext) can improve results on OOV words.
Levenshtein distances (turning WATER into WINE)
Maybe he didn't leave his mark as a programmer/engineer the way HE wanted to, but you definitely have to admire his ability to identify good opportunities. He laments choosing and then using LISP for so long and in a way seems to blame the language for adversely affecting his perspective on programming, but it really seems like it served him well when it was useful. I think the same intuition that helped him choose LISP for solving problems (because it was a nice set of tools at the time) probably ended up helping him choose good professional opportunities, too. If he's frustrated about the way his perspective changed then I have to agree with the other commenters that he would need to work on changing that perspective and not remain complacent.
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