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How do you objectively compare the societal benefit of a mathematician versus a historian so that you can mete their funding accordingly?

From the article:The government will soon start evaluating college majors by their employment rates, downsizing or cutting those studies in which less than 60% of graduates fail for two consecutive years to find work.

Setting aside the question of whether that is a particularly good method, I'd like to suggest that it's at least more objective and quantifiable than just presuming that a degree in any given subject is equally the cause of or prerequisite to greatness in a given field, and therefore of equal value. Great art doesn't depend on art degrees to the same extent that great science depends on science degrees.
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It is far harder to choose the right people and guide the process than people seem to believe. There are so many talented people, yet we get very few good products.
Reasoning based on zero information? Heh. We could say "Pretty likely it was declared National Security and hushed up."

Or we could say "Pretty likely that D. Swenson installed electrodes to quench the effect ...which task he was called in to perform." And Murphy's Law for experimental replication is that the desired phenomenon refuses to emerge except under identical conditions using only the original equipment.
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The Kinect can impossibly be so accurate that it can play violin and such things .. right? It looks ridiculous. The doctor-things looked as good use though.
It's not even the first time it was "dreamed" by some designer, with no technical consideration. You cannot actually do that in a standard way. Dan has a nice article on this:
http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2010/03/23/for-suitably-small-v...
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I think there is a lesson in there somewhere, perhaps you're just missing it.

Please point out the lesson instead of a bunch of handwaving to save face for Jason Fried.
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From a purely programming point of view, this looks like a very difficult task - different peripherals, different host systems. Kudos to their dev team if they can pull it off.
The mission of php-build is to reduce my workflow of testing new PHP versions to one command I can run. php-build also provides a opinionated default configuration, which you can build on and extend.

Without php-build I have to do this when I want to test, for example PHP 5.4.0RC1:

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Cool story, and seems to make a lot of sense.

It brings up one thing I've been wondering about for a while already - I've always found that CouchDB's authentication feels more "bolted on" than anything else, and this is a nice use case where it doesn't fit.

I love Couch, but I'd have loved for the authentication scheme to be an entirely separate layer, more customizable and programmable, less "one per database, period.".

Such a design would probably cause all kinds of other problems again, though, but I wonder to what extent this has been thought through.
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> The very thing I'm trying to avoid is the use of blocks within parentheses.

That, er, makes no sense at all. Javascript's function uses braces, having an anonymous function within anything will yield either a brace-and-parens or a brace-and-comma.

> Your last example almost has it, but the parens are right there where I want them gone.

Then there's no point in using javascript, go do something else because trying to get rid of this will just yield to an idiosyncratic and mostly unusable coding style.
Currently I'm using it with Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora) and on my OSX Lion powered Macbook Air.
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The point is to sharpen your sales skills and realise that experimentation and refinement is the key to developing a good sales strategy.

This is like saying the point in picking up trash at the highway will be refining your work ethic. Sure it helps, but you could be doing something more efficient.

Note how he says to find something that is a "commodity". A commodity by definition is a product that fungible, which means for those of you who haven't taken Econ 101, no one cares who they get it from, they only care about how cheap it is. This tells me that Jason Fried doesn't know what he is talking about even though he made everyone's favorite Ruby on Rails company.
Ahh, like a sticky? To match the two. Good idea. Thanks :)
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> You can just as easily write

No you can't. You've got 8% more character and 2 switches between string context and expression context. It does not "flow" it's something which is forced on the user by limitations of the language.
Currently it does not solve the problem of the sh*tload of dependencies, though I'm filing an issue for now.

php-build currently solves mainly the problem of configuring PHP correctly, so the build is isolated to the prefix it's installed in (it also sets up PEAR or Pyrus correctly).
Max Levchin said much the same thing at Startup School '08, with s/social networks/businesses/. "These sins are so much fun, even though they're deadly people do them anyway."
Well hey there mate, I have a BA in History and program professionally too. JavaEE at work, and python on GNU/Linux all the way at home.
I think he's fundamentally wrong in his careful definitions of blocking and non-blocking sans "IO" term.

For all the hyperbole, Ted Dziuba did directly address this here: http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html
> What other character would you suggest?

Fixing the language so newlines in strings are legal, Python-style triple quoting or some sort of string modifier prefix (similar to Python's rawstring modifier)
Check out this series by Matt Bowen:
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A number of posts have diagrams as well as a video. Some of the older posts point to videos that are broken now, but I was able to find most of them with a google search like "2009 Brady 46-yd TD". You'll find the video clips on youtube or NFL.com.

This post on the route tree will help you decipher some of the posts:
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Not when I worked there, but it's a few years ago. Don't know what they use now.
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Why was the sibling comment from sinope [1] down voted to death, when it was highly relevant, and factually more correct than those around it.

Seriously HN, do you want to share knowledge and discuss things, or filter out people with differing views?

Edit: added link for clarity.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3276199
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> Ultimately, the only way to know if functional programming is better for some problem you have is to first understand its fundamental building blocks.

Without understanding anything about event loops or closures, you can look at http://www.nodejs.org and think "hey wow, that looks just like what I need!"

Why can't the same hold about programming languages? Why do the functional programming aficionados insist that I get all turned on by a quicksort before telling me how immutability with remove all my multithreading headaches?

I mean, F# for example, has a communication system (Agents) which I find really gorgeous on first glance. These help solve real problems, and can do something you can't really do well in C#.
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Someone should train a neural network to be able to do what the kinect does without the kinect (create 3d depth map from 2d images). Obviously microsoft won't do it since then their hardware won't be needed, but with all the millions of kinects out there collecting enough data for this shouldn;t be that difficult.
First, I'd like to say that my intention in this posting was just to give a rough analogy that would make monads a bit less scary for the non-haskellers. I should have stated that more clearly though.

Hoever, I stand corrected. Bash executes the commands in a very different way from the IO monad. Using pure functions like String -> String you'd get the similar effect in Haskell, just like you suggested.

That that would of course disable all side-effects from the "links in the chain". Which is in many cases desired, but that's not Bash though.

I guess I'd need to define a whole new Monad to emulate the way Bash operates. I'm not saying you should emulate it though.
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That doesn't change my point : none of them are completely open source.
Catch an exception of something that isn't exceptional? isn't that the anti-case for exception handling?

I don't get why strict restructuring is a bad thing... as long as it's consistant, it's just a nuance of the language.

Am I missing side effect of this? What are potential pit-falls of this pattern?
This theory makes very little sense to me. First of all, I don't believe that it is rational to ignore time or impact on your life.

Would you take 1 dollar today or 10 in a year? I think what matters more than the actual answer is that the choice has zero impact on your life either way. Would you take 1 billion today or 10 billion in a year? Is that even the same question? In terms of supposedly "rational" financial accounting it is, but I think it would be totally irrational for an average person not to think about these choices in completely different terms.

At some point a quantitative difference becomes a qualitative difference and it would not be rational to act as if this leap didn't exist just because the original quantitative model is unsuitable to account for it. I believe nonlinearity in things like these is the core of what we call intelligence and calling it irrational is nonsense. (Not sure if that theory does that, but it sounds like it might)

The other example they give, studying for an exam earlier or keep playing a game is a different matter altogether. It's a multi factor optimization and there is no way to transform it to a single factor problem (unlike the financial example). Is the pleasure gained from playing the game worth more or less than reducing stress and risk ahead of the exam? On what scale should that be determined?
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This hit home for me. Previously we had identified a problem, but instead of just getting out there and getting started with the quickest working solution, we spent ages building a fully comprehensive service that did it all and more. The outcome: we wasted resources building things we didnt need and werent used, while our competitors sailed off into the sunset.
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You haven't actually read that article have you.
I understand, I think, what you're saying - that a lot of what is perceived as "wrong" with a person with Asperger's is simply a matter of differing perspective and differing levels/types of comprehension.

In some ways, I agree. I think a lot of the quirks in these cases aren't problems, just differences. However, that doesn't explain all of it.

For instance, what about the problems that many on the autism spectrum have with various types of sensory integration? It is often not simply a dislike of loud noises or certain textures of foods, but a physiological response to them, and one that can't always be re-trained.

Or, taking it one step further, I've heard from several people who have or whose children have Turette's Syndrome that it shares so many symptoms and similarities with Asperger's that it feels like it should be on the autism spectrum, itself - though it's currently not.

Sensory processing issues, tics, stimming, etc. can often be controlled to an extent, but not overcome.

Should a healthy brain that just works a bit differently still have these issues? Should it be able to adapt and cope with them? Should a more highly functional brain be more flexible in this regard, or less? I honestly don't know. Maybe our flexibility can be attributed more to our lack of perception rather than an abundance of it.
That is really cool, thanks for the tip

Whenever I save an image as a PNG it is almost certainly bigger but I let PS do the work for me these

I'll take a look at this format as it seems to be a really clever time saver of having to render a version of each image twice
This advice is horribly outdated stuff from the 90's.
With Ebay and Paypal fees eating up at least 10% of your earnings, it is highly unlikely you can just resell iPods or anything else on Ebay and make a profit.

You're missing a trick. A couple of years ago, I spent time either buying items on the US eBay and reselling them on the European sites (specifically, items without grey-market issues), or buying items in bulk (e.g. Sim Cards) and selling them individually.

I wasn't earning huge amounts of money, but as per the suggestion, I learned an awful lot about basic sales. It's not like, e.g., Sim cards aren't a competitive market, right? ;-)
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I am not saying computer modeling can give a reliable answer to this problem, but comparison to LTCM is not fair. The reason why that fund failed so badly was that they applied their models to situations where it was not meant to be applied. As they got bigger, they ran out of arbitrage opportunities, this led to an increased use of leveraging, which ultimately made their fall so spectacular. Leveraging introduces asymmetric risk in your exposure. The original arbitrage models w/o leveraging was not the reason for failure.

I do agree with "... and computer models of financial events are far from infallible, regardless of the amount of money and mental resources used to create them.", but what else do we have? The gut feeling of people who may have a conflict of interest?
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Then there's no point in using javascript, go do something else

No need to be rude. Look, I know JS likes to do things in ugly ways. It has great strength in the consistency of its syntax. That's cool. But by the time you say the word "just" you're being ignorant.
Every human above the age of five who lives or has been educated in "the west" or "the north" knows at least the basics about concentration camps and the jewish genocide or what it's like to live under dictatorship. Every single one of us knows how horrible it was. None of us would want to be a victim or a witness or an actor of such a monstrosity.

But it happened again and it will happen again because there have been, there are and there will always be sociopathic leaders who don't give a fuck how many people they crush on their way to power. They know full well the hows and whys of previous genocides and wasteful wars, they know lots of people suffered but they also know that some people benefited — at least for a while — from all this misery.

They did/do/will seriously consider chasing down minorities, limiting free speech, blocking scientific research, declaring wars.

As long as they get some benefit.

As long as they aren't on the wrong side of the stick.
Sounds great, I'd love to learn more so email me or post on HN.
I think the people who need to read that article and pay attention to its words are the ones getting teary-eyed over my use of the word "programmer."
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And that always reminds me of the final scene of "Fight Club" with crumbling financial buildings.
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Fair enough, but apart from your story all the others I've heard strongly complain about inaccuracy have been about subjective topics.

Still, if it's causing that much trouble in your community, why not fix the articles? Rather than spend time making fun of it, why not spend time fixing it - which is a double-barreled solution: not only do you lose the incorrect links, but people not associated with your group benefit from more correct advice.
For the record, I didn't vote (and generally don't vote on HN). But maxklein's comment wasn't really constructive and didn't offer any specific criticism. I've said before in replies to his comments that I'd love to hear specific constructive criticism:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2778375

But, sadly, it never actually happens.
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In SICP (where I assume this is taken from) they actually solve this problem. They have a dispatch function (as multi-methods have in Clojure) and a map from dispatch values to action functions. In that case you can extend the evaluator by adding new <dispatch value, action function> pairs to the map, which can be done in runtime.
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Pose estimation from just the 3D depth data took 24 hours on 1000-node cluster.
I can't even begin to imagine the massive dataset + computing resources needed to pull this off.

Also, (I might be completely off here since I am not competent enough with the ML) but to take a webcam image and then append the Z coord to a pixel would require someone to sit and label their dataset before it is useful to train the classifier (in which btw, the Z-coord can take anything between 80 - 300 cm - so > 200 classes). This definitely does not look so trivial to me.
I agree. Ebay, Amazon, and Paypal eat up every penny of profit that you would make as a reseller

So all those resellers on eBay are losing money? And distributors lose all of theirs to credit card fees as well?