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We work in an environment where heresay [sic] and taste drive change instead of studies and models. We are stumbling in the dark.

Another way to look at it is that we’re making progress, but with lots of false starts, like most progress. Hearsay and taste are what happen when people are working with imperfect information. Probably not even Knuth has perfect information about all the studies and models that might be relevant to any nontrivial project.

The author’s point seems to be not that programmers should understand the math behind their work, but that they should do work that’s more like math. It’s true this would mean fewer bugs. But there are a lot of problems that people in the real world would rather have mostly solved by a slightly buggy dynamic program with mutation and state hiding than not solved by a formally proven program.

A lot of programming is stuff like simple CRUD web apps. I’d rather do that in Python than Haskell for the moment. If the author wants to argue that Haskell could be made friendlier without giving up its advantages, that’s an essay I would welcome.
I'm sure the front-end took only .5% of the cost, others were research/discovery phase, pictures/videos/travel costs and as qq66 said integration with their systems.

Bill Gates owns a percentage of the company, not sure what role he plays but I'd like to think they would ask him for some advice and recommendations.

If anyone finds out who redesigned it, let us all know!
If you are still in one of those AAA-rated countries it would seem so since Germany's getting negative interest for theirs apparently.
Google 'improperly' accessed Kenyan rival Mocality's database
What's hypocritical about that is that restricting the Internet will discourage creation and sharing of knowledge.
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Actually, copyright and patent exclude the right to destroy.

A patent must be filed & public to be granted.

A copyright must be registered to file suit.

To allow destruction would violate the very purpose of patent/copyright.
What do you mean? Obviously that are paying for various Microsoft licenses. Although it works differently, it's just like any other virtualized service.
No, it's not part of standard search. And since you seem to know everything that goes on between Twitter and Google, perhaps you could share with us the documents showing Google has the permission it needs to include Twitter results in this very not-standard-search feature?

Edit: By the way, are you a lawyer? If not, even given your apparent insider knowledge of Google and Twitter goings-on, how do you know your legal understanding is correct?
This G+ post is a PR blunder. You should never apologize for something and then say that you are still gathering the facts about it. Second, you don't offer to sacrifice other people (while not yet having the facts). You either don't or you self sacrifice. Third, telling the public about an apology to someone else seems desperate. Just apologize. If there is actual public fervor, wait a few days and, like things your dog ate, news of the apology will come out from the other end. Finally, if you're a business with lots of money that other people want, it's probably best not to say anything. Get your lawyer to say it. That is what they are paid for.

And Google is evil. they track everything you do online, where your phone goes, and what you search for and sell that information, for fuck's sake.
Just because it's written in js on node doesn't mean it's just for that tool stack. As someone who would like to hack on his own IDE and spends most of his time working with web languages, i think it's a cool project.
We've still got MDR-TB. But now we have XDR-TB (extensively drug-resistant TB) and TDR-TB (totally drug-resistant TB). Each less desirable to encounter than the last. TDR-TB seems to be the real deal: http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/11/24/cid.c...

It's behind a paywall, but the gist is that some of these patients had TB resistant to ALL of the following:

isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol, pyrazinamide, and streptomycin (1st-line agents); as well as oﬂoxacin, moxiﬂoxacin, kanamycin, amikacin, capreomycin, para-aminosalicylic acid, and ethionamide (apparently 2nd-line agents).

Interestingly, the report doesn't discuss whether experimental/3rd-line treatments were tried (including my favorite from M2 year, linezolid). So it's possible that there's still something in our armamentarium that hasn't yet been tried (due, perhaps, to prohibitive cost). (And note that TB, and ID in general, is not my area of focus.)
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No one is saying Google should not take responsibility - they should, and appear to be. Continue being angry at Google as a whole about this incident if they try to sweep it under the rug and do not get rid of those responsible.
The negative impact of not finishing antibiotics was news to me, and now I know. I think it's ridiculous to call him a terrible person. Uninformed maybe. Although that's no longer the case.
I tend to think of Haskell as a language designed by mathematicians but not for mathematicians. Not even to say that it's not useful for doing math but simply that it's not structured to explore ideas via proofs. Consider Coq or Mathematica which are definitely designed with that goal in mind.

I think programmers aren't doing math at all, but I think what programmers do is better, more adroitly, done when its guided strongly by math. For that reason I think programmers should learn lots of math, even if they don't spend much time proving things for their own purposes.
Is it Erlang day already?
Take this anecdote as informative, not judgmental: it is most likely (according to the journal article) that these patients developed TDR-TB because they received incomplete treatment with 2nd-line agents.
Google Search Is Dead (As We Know It)
In many ways -

1. The survey can have multiple questions. So, here's the "full length" version of the survey you'd have taken online via the widget - http://webengage.com/s/~7nhdif4

2. The survey can be targeted based on several parameters other than KissInsights -

a. based on user's geography.

b. based on site referrer (only if a visitor comes from search, for example)

c. based on cookies, browser, platform etc.

d. based on URL patterns on your website.

3. The analytics we offer on each of our surveys compare with the best of survey tools out there.

Give us go, you won't be disappointed :)
Damned if you do, damned you don't - had they not mentioned it people would be pissed that they're so brazen as to think they can do something like this and just get away with it. As it is I like Google's personable way of taking early responsibility, even without all the details, just to let the concerned public know that they are aware of the issue and taking it seriously.
It's going to be funny when S&P raises all of these countries back to AAA in 2-3 years.

…

Alternatively, it's going to be funny when S&P has no more AAA rated bonds and AA becomes the new norm (since the A-C scale apparently wasn't enough to begin with.)
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Independent creation only applies to copyright. If I independently write the same code as you, we both have copyright on it.

Patents exclude independent invention. If we both invent the same thing and I have the patent, you cannot use your invention.

Trademarks allow independent creation in separate geographic areas, but a pre-existing use can exclude an independent creation.

This is one of the many reasons that "Intellectual Property" is a misnomer - the differences between copyrights and patents and trademarks are probably larger than the similarities.
I second that, this service looks good.. but atleast for now I'wont be using it.

Reason being:
- Lot of believe in GMail that they will be there for years to come, and service will be available when we need it.
- It not only contains notes / passwords which I send, it also have passwords / login info sent by various services. So anyways, I'll have to use it.
- Gmail is a default tab always opened, why would I need another tab for a subset of task.

Anyways I think there will be many takers once seamless integration into email is done.
Patriots, how much proof do you need that Israel was behind 9/11?
Ask HN: Any way to view Y Combinator Applications?
I've seen Dropbox's application, but I'm wondering if any other YC applications have been made public?
Indeed, since they are on US SE (NYSE?), they are required to implement internal controls under Sarbanes-Oxley Act and they should be indeed audited by a third-party auditor (E&Y, if i recall correctly), including attestation of the controls. And, to best of my knowledge, the actions described in this article do have to be authorized by the top management of Google or by Head of the respective Department (the Control procedure), since this involves a material amount of expenses and also represents a revenue component. Now, E&Y should do they work and investigate the reason for this 'failure' of controls, as Google states and it wouldn't be bad if the PCAOB will be involved with a review of E&Y.
So presumably, Kenyans have neither normal standards of ethics nor acceptable backgrounds? Like most other posters speaking in favour of Google, Willful displays an arrogance I can't quite understand. I'd be really curious about what you'd have to say if this was some American (or other "acceptable background") startup.
The interesting thing about using court rulings to interpret the law is that legal precedent is only created when some lawyer is on the wrong side of a case...

[Yes, that's a slight oversimplification.]
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> It doesn't have to be well explained. Instructions for antibiotic prescriptions from a licensed doctor/pharmacy tells you to take the full course of antibiotics and not quit part way through.

Why shouldn't it be well explained? It's not like it's rare for doctors to prescribe things people don't really need, especially in this day and age, in the USA.
Is it possible to run a survey on my website and distribute it via email too?
If all you do is get the basics completely correct every time, you are already ahead of 99% of the world.
One. There is no rule saying that if you get a better offer a few days later you can't take it. That's business, just don't sign anything until you are sure. Less experienced people will tell you about how you should ask for time to consider all offers, but the reality is that if you don't accept an offer within a day or two it will look bad for you and the person extending the offer. It is in fact better for everyone to accept the sure deal that you want and then back out later if a dream job materializes. Also if you have an offer you need to communicate this to places you've finished interviewing for so they can speed up their offers.

The exception is if you just graduated from college as the market for new grads is different. In that case it is expected that you are at a crossroads.
Poor communication is a cultural problem. No magic tool or seating arrangement will fix a company with poor communication skills. The only thing I've seen help in that situation is daily standups led by somebody who knew how to draw out more than "I fixed two bugs yesterday."
I'd never heard of that meaning either, but it's there.

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We're not done yet. Continue to speak loudly as a voter (http://www.sopatrack.com/) and consumer (http://gizmodo.com/5870241) and let's kill this bill once and for all.
Yes. For every survey you create in WebEngage, there are three response channels you can choose from -

a. Display the survey on your website, via the widget

b. Get a dedicated link for the survey, which you can pass around in email etc.

c. Embed the survey in your FB fan pages.

Data and analytics are collated across channels and presented to you in the dashboard. You can view them per channel too. Hope this answers your query.
How much higher education do you need?
If this is true, then what about the honey they produce? Wouldn't the honey have high levels of these toxic substances? Then in turn consumers would be getting a heavy dose of these chemicals. Scary stuff.
You need to watch both hands and don't let your guard down.

They will pass this bill with some very bad things in it once they think no one is watching, just wait.
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We do, but that's just to keep it one step away from us. We don't go out and vaccinate bats or rodents.
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Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
How significant is this Google-Mocality fiasco? Evil or Meh?
Code reviews are a great way to get feedback on your work. Like open-source, knowing your code will be seen by co-workers is a strong personal incentive to produce better work.

If your work does not do reviews now, you can still ask a co-worker to look over you code changes. Many people would be flattered that you would ask for their programming wisdom. ;)
I have a Master Degree in CS but programming mostly is self taught by reading other people's code, good code and ugly code. I know about design patterns only enough to avoid them like shit. It is just easier to hide shit under a shinning cover. There is a saying for writers : "every word tells". My principle is "every line counts". However, this is almost impossible in a team environment, so I still think that best code is one man job.
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Interesting to see Shimano among the suppliers.

Shimano's big on cold-forged aluminum. I assume either Shimano is manufacturing aluminum bits for Apple, or that Apple bought some of Shimano's cold-forge presses.
I've never regretted missing out on a formal CS education but I bump up against the limits of my math knowledge all the time. This wasn't the case when I was writing CRUD web apps, of course, but over the last year I've been working in DSP and machine learning and getting my head around the math has been much harder than the coding.
Let's Just Calm Down: Google Didn't Just Break Its Search Engine
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Some of those would be easier to exterminate than others. Many animals carry influenza or plague, but isn't leprosy limited to humans and armadillos?
"Do no evil"

There is a saying in spanish that roughly translates "beware of unrequested affirmations"

I think it applies here..
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"The notion that Google needs to scam some African directory service for profit just seems ridiculous."

If the Google people involved were tasked with developing Google's business in Africa, it's not ridiculous at all.
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I don't think that's really true. I knew someone in college who had never touched a compiler before her sophomore-year intro CS course. She ended up graduating with high honors, went to work at MIT Lincoln Lab for a few years, and is now doing a Ph.D in CS.

I know several other people here at Google that went into college studying things completely different from CS, took a couple courses in it, and discovered they loved it.

I think the real determiner is what happens after college, after the academic support net is taken away. The people who go on to become really great programmers use it as a springboard to start seeking out information on their own. You can always tell whose these are once you hire them, because they'll ask you several questions about the system to orient themselves, get some code & documentation pointers from you, and then go about their merry business learning everything they can, including tons of stuff you didn't tell them (and often, didn't know yourself). The mediocre ones learn just enough to accomplish the task at hand and then ask you again as soon as they have to do something new.
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A lot of hackers won't develop a product unless it is a brand new concept that has never been marketed before. These guys actually do their research and compete with companies that are trying to do a land grab. I can see the draw of innovating and creating something new but I can also see the draw of finding a business model and making money. It's not wrong in the least.
Yep, I definitely see this from time to time, especially over mobile networks. Interestingly, most of my problems went away when I started using OpenVPN. It connects with UDP to my Amazon EC2 VM, which is close enough to the internet's core that everything after that is low-latency. I'm not sure why this works, but it does suggest a practical testing ground for bufferbloat-workaround strategies: you can't make the rest of the internet adopt your weird new protocol, but you can install it on a VM, and route all your traffic that way.

As an added bonus, this gets you security on untrusted networks and a static IP. And you could potentially use this sort of trick to get a cool multi-homed connection, although there's no software for that currently. It'd be interesting to see what possibilities there are when combining a fast but bufferbloated or high-latency connection, with a slow but low-latency connection.
I still don't feel like I know the relationship between the perpetrators and google. Subcontractors, employees, or what? But I would be surprised for that apology to happen if there was no relationship other than impersonation.
Here is another Russian clone Pinme.ru, and it's already funded by $1,3m :)
>The abstraction is just barely enough to get the job done, and the algorithms are decidedly homebrew.

Wow.. actually your comment is EXTREMELY critical and very dishonest in the end claiming that its not a criticism.

I'm just curious, what software have you written, and how many millions of users does it have?
Can you learn to code in a year? Maybe, but should You?
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Technological advancements have literally changed our lifestyle. Cargo Tracking is evidence of such a technology. Cargo can be easily tracked by your apple iphone. There are innumerable applications in it.
Sadly, you're probably right. It won't be long, 10 years tops, before the US is doing deep packet inspection and hijacking sessions as a matter of course.
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On everyday reality job, you often work to change a system, this is some kind of science besides the other common cs math fields.
what's wrong with adding tags at the end of the user editable areas that are unmatched so the rest of the page does not break when they add unbalanced html? I think they should parse it and make sure it's legit html before blindly saving it(xss possibilities if anything is public facing et. al.).
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> What forbids Congress to use those monopoly grants for other purposes is the doctrine of enumerated powers.

Except that said doctrine is mostly dead, thanks to the commerce clause, an expansive definition of "interstate", and "promote the general welfare".
In my experience, it's the capacity for holding abstraction in mind that determines how far up the hill a person can go. I don't think there is ever a time where you can't move uphill, but the effort required to move increases more the closer you get to saturating that capacity.
HN is a good place to go if you begin to believe that you are truly awesome at coding and know it all. Brings you back to earth with a thud
That's exactly why begin transaction is awesome.
It must be horrible to see someone else ripping off your work like that. I mean Pinspire is almost identical to Pinterest. The question is what do you do? do you ignore them and try to focus on your product without letting anger affect your creativity and the initial flow of ideas or do you try to compete with them?
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Could a start-up avoid this by making an international presence a higher priority?
Except they're clearly trying to profit off of customer confusion. It's one thing to copy a business model, it's another thing to copy a company.
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I think you miss the point a bit. It was a redesign. The had internal and external datasources that were used in the recreation. The thing I can tell you from being in house at a company whose core competency is not web development or design that regular over spend occurs less because of the details and more because of operational ignorance and agency selection. It is rarely because the site is so complex or special.

I would expect some expense for the legacy integration, but I believe that 18 million is way to much and given the fact that the site launched with so many issues it seems even if it were a steal it was too much.
> Shit like this should be illegal

No. No it shouldn't.
1. Just because I didn't believe they could do differential equations doesn't mean that I didn't believe they could learn college-leve. algebra with some coaching. I had more faith in them than they did of themselves, in many cases.

2. There have been many studies that have tried what you say. The problem is that the class must go slower to accommodate the slower students. Engineering degrees already have so much packed into them that they often can't take classes of interest -- are we going to make it even longer?
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Probably, but should avoiding this be a higher priority? Is this more catastrophic than, say, nobody ever hearing about you?
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I am dying to know. I think the poor execution on launch is what shocks me the most I can think of several scenarios where millions would be spent on a site redesign and launch one would include a larger marketing budget for ad placement, etc.

But I think given the old site was already integrated into their booking systems we are giving them too much benefit of the doubt. This was clearly an over payment in my opinion.
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