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This just is not true to the degree that people are typically led to believe. As I mentioned elsewhere on this page, Thomas Kuhn completely demolished this idealized version of how science works when he published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962.

The particular field that I know best where Kuhn's critique applies is that of psychology. For many decades, Skinnerian behavioral psychology was the orthodoxy for the scientific approach to psychology. Back in the day, if a scientist wanted to pursue a more cognitive approach, he would be squeezed out of the field. The rationale for this from the behaviorists was that cognitivism was anti-scientific because it posited complex internal mental states that could not be directly observed, which was considered to be counter to Empiricism, and hence anti-scientific. Behavioral psychology was based on the premise that mental states are very simple, and therefore that nearly everything important can be easily measured by directly observing behavior.

In their enthusiasm to be "scientific" and promote objective measurement, the behaviorists missed something very important: That their model was completely wrong. Wanting something to be easy to measure doesn't make it so. And the cognitivist claim that people have complex internal states is not anti-scientific, despite the protests of the behaviorists.

The "paradigm shift" did eventually come, when no other than Noam Chomsky published a devastating criticism of behaviorism that opened the door for the cognitive approach to be taken seriously. But this didn't happen without a fight that had lasted decades, where many careers were needlessly ruined, and the entire field was held back by decades.

The fact that Kuhn was so right on is seen by the fact that Kuhn's book was actually written before the Behavoirsim -> Cognitive Psychology shakeup was complete. The most prominent example in Kuhn's book, I believe, is for the rise of quantum mechanics.
> code that isn't there runs really fast and never has any bugs...

love this quote! :D
I think this would just complicate things greatly. I also don't really see much benefit for the end-user to making such distinctions.
I think the interviewee made a very solid case that there is a hiring gap in the area of experienced specialists. He seemed to think that was the major chunk of the "skill gap" employers complain of.

I have seen that.

On the other hand, he described an army of job-hungry young people striving to get the right education for entry level work... but missing the boat on just the right tech -- again for overly-constrained hiring processes. That does not match my experience: I see students coming out of the educational system -- reputable universities -- with a huge gap in fundamental knowledge.

I fear that universities, colleges, and vocational schools, in their effort to deliver workers with fashionable resumes, are failing to deliver the fundamentals.

Yes, you can teach yourself the fundamentals if you know you need them. But if you've gone through 4-6 years of university under the theory that they are teaching you what you need to know, it may be harder to realize that, in fact, you have learned how to look good, but not how to be good.
This is my test: If the designer doesn't enjoy playing the game himself, it isn't a real game. It is a con.
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A back of the envelope calculation shows that solar and wind power can both be useful components of an overall energy solution (http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/12/wind-fights-sola... also see David MacKay's excellent book free online http://www.withouthotair.com/). Ultimately, solar is more abundant than wind and is sufficiently abundant that it can be useful in dealing with the energy crisis. But, I don't care, I want any plan that adds up. Solar and wind could be a piece of such a plan so I don't rule them out. Fission is very attractive as well, especially for baseload power. None of these things solve the liquid fuels crisis and there is no sign that we are building ANY of them on a sufficient scale anyway, so we are probably doomed to play dangerous games with the earth's climate.
Damn, does that mean the ML and NLP classes will probably start at the same time? I want to take both, but not at the same time.
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he wrote a correction, saying the 100k was for gun related incidents, not just deaths..

13k deaths/year is still a lot
Ehhh. He's kinda stretching it with that Gulfstream.
And here is more from Darek Mihocka: http://www.emulators.com/docs/nx25_nostradamus.htm
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Here you see Ingvar Kamprad driving an old Volvo, Ballmer driving a Fusion, and Ellison with a McLaren, Zuck with an Acura, Eric Schmidt in a Prius.

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> " Unless someone without emotions is somehow incapable of picking random numbers."

My wife once suffered from a mental illness that nerfed her emotions. I noticed her once, standing immobile in the kitchen. She'd been there for about 5 minutes. She wanted to make a peanut butter sandwich, but couldn't decide whether to get the knife or the bread first.

Someone without emotions is incapable of caring enough to make the decision. They might get stuck on the decision as to which color pen to use, and random numbers wouldn't help -- they wouldn't care enough to decide "I should just use an RNG because this decision is arbitrary". Someone with normal emotions would recognize that pen color doesn't matter while signing the contract matters; it is the emotion of caring that makes you capable of deciding that one decision isn't worth the effort while another is.

As NY Times columnist David Brooks once wrote, "People without emotions cannot make sensible decisions because they don’t know how much anything is worth."
Article aside, the name of the blog seems humorously redundant.
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Have I really been the only one who uses jsbin instead of jsfiddle? It's always been cleaner and, for me, much more responsive. I hope it gets more attention as a result of this.
Don't you mean `chsh -s /bin/zsh` ?
I don't understand your point. Is there a rule against discussing the discussion? Its not appealing to any authority or claiming anything of the sort you describe - you are putting words in my mouth...
All mineral reserves are basically 20-60 years into the future.

Not true, proven bauxite reserves are in the hundreds of years range.

But when it comes to the acceleration of technology argument, I just think that when compared to solar/storage, fossil hydrocarbons will become uneconomic as a fuel source long before they run out.
Less CO2 than coal or oil is still too much CO2. Natural gas will release about half the CO2 per joule than coal. This is still way too much to have a modern lifestyle and avoid rolling the dice with the earth's climate.
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"Never get into private health insurance in germany. The problem is that once you are there, you cannot get back. Also, switching insurances gets almost impossible once you actually have a chronic condition. Public insurances have to accept you."

There are ways - one example: just make sure you are employed and do not earn more than (roughly) 4500€ / m and tada: back.

"The other problem is that the prices are on a steady rise"

The same is true for the public insurance, beside they do not pay for the same services, medicaments,... as the private insurances. There are also better ways to prevent paying >600€/m when you are over 60. Just a matter of the right company / contract.

"The way to go is public insurance with additional private extensions - it ensures that you can cancel your (sub)-contract without fearing about your general healcare plan."

100% agree on this. If you are an employee.

//edit: not sure if this discussion fits here or if we, if there would be any interest, should use IRC or something else.
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I'm not sure that it would be correct to interpret Kuhn as stating that paradigm shifts only occur upon death. His point was rather than science often doesn't proceed in the orderly way that we've typically been led to believe. Often does not preclude sometimes, or even frequently.

I don't know much about molecular biology (other than currently working on RNA Interference now for a living), but sometimes, I imagine, that there is just too much solid data for a shift, that the orthodoxists don't need to die to see the light. Or maybe these putative shifts don't really involve shifting your entire mindset, which was required for things like the shift from classical mechanics to quantum mechanics, or the shift from behavioral psychology to cognitive psychology. Kuhn's model of paradigm shift only applies if the paradigm has to change--not if there's just a lot of churning of the facts.

The shift from behaviorism to cognitivism was one that occurred relatively recently in the history of science, and it certainly involved dramatic wailing and the gnashing of teeth. In fact, there are still behaviorist holdouts.

Re relativity and quantum mechanics, these would be two of Kuhn's prime examples, so I'm not sure what you are saying with respect to them. Einstein didn't win a Nobel Prize for Relativity, because it still wasn't accepted well enough even all those decades later, when he did win his Nobel prize.
Do developers need to start being even more selective about working for these kinds of companies? Venture capitalists love software because the risk is astronomically low compared to other industries; is it more troubling that there are programmers that are willing to be underpaid, overworked, and screwed out of equity in the long run? Also, anytime someone has made an attempt to over-work me, I shut down and ignore them until I feel productive again (I'm a university student, so I think sometimes employers assume I am "really grateful to be getting paid anything," while ignoring my time preference and investment in education and work experience. I fear that trying to manage my employers expectations will simply be an excuse for them to hire someone else (assuming ability and credentials are the same).
Jesus Christ, think about it! a Blackwater employee killed your six year old son, but he turned out to be a wrong person. You have all the evidence in the world for justice to be served, and yet you get this: "oh, sorry, but this company and their employees have unofficially issued government license to kill. Neither your local sherrif office, nor police, nor your congressmen, people in congress, DOJ or Supreme Court alone can do shit about it".

And this happens on the soil of the United States of America!
Holy cow. My face being drawn in the sand from a website
WRT formatting, a lot of JS coders think you should always begin your curly braces on the same line as the statement, not on the next, or you risk the wrath of automatic semicolon insertion. The formatter seems fine if you do it this way, and it's also a generally good idea to avoid bizarre, hard to track down bugs.

But I'd understand if that's not an acceptable answer for you.
also from the article:

"At the time, the CIA declared him unavailable for questioning; the investigation was shut down before he was arrested or tried."

If this is not rotten corruption and MOB in its pures form, then what is?
The only thing slightly more horrifying than geoengineering is letting global warming just happen, so I guess you are right. To make what I said more precise, I am looking for a choice that doesn't do dangerous experiments with the earth's climate. Geoengineering does such experiments, but it may be the default choice of inaction we are taking right now.
I don't use timeline, and with adblock, I never get a single ad in Facebook.

I just got a new laptop and surfed for 10 minutes on the default browser.. I couldn't believe how different the web looks with all the ads.
How does anyone tolerate youtube ads? gmail? facebook? awful.
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I looked at it just now and it doesn't look like there is much there, certainly very little CS, and not much intro programming stuff.
I switched to zsh a couple of years ago, and I wish I'd never even started with bash! It's one of the few app changes I've made where I unequivocally regret not having made it sooner (the other notable one is sawfish -> xmonad -- make of that what you will!)
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Completion in Zsh alone made it worthwhile for me. The completion scripts for Zsh are worlds more powerful and complete than anything I've found for Bash.

And, there's even a script that offers Fish-like syntax coloring for Zsh: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/

But not having used Fish yet myself, I can't really offer any reasons to use Zsh over Fish.
We are using http://insight.ly - It gets the job done and integrates well with Google Apps. There are a few things lacking like an API and the reporting is pretty weak.

We are transitioning away to Zoho CRM. So far, Zoho CRM has been great but, can get costly if you have too many users.
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Not sure I understand the criticism of the NYtimes article. It's not entirely surprising that parties like that are happening in some instances, but Nick fairly goes on to point out that all of the Valley is not like that, that there are many people trying to accomplish truly great things.
Fourth flaw is that he immediately starts on subsidies while ignoring that coal, oil and gas are heavily subsidised too:

http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/01/nsws-great-big-coal-subs...

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3901892.html

That's not even including the subsidies for cars/road use, which are similarly huge.
I liked zsh a lot until I found that it would take a long time to cd into certain directories, I think they were ones with large git repositories. Maybe there's some way to shut that off but I went back to bash where I could be sure things would be responsive.
Very much back of the napkin here:

30 year US Treasurys are currently ~2.7%. Assuming someone saves 10% of their pre-tax income each month between the ages of 25 and 55, at that interest rate, they can look forward to 5 times their average annual income to sustain them through their last 20+ years of life. That's a 75% cut in income. Stocks are theoretically higher yield, but as others have argued, normal people shouldn't have to worry about stocks, and more importantly, there's a justified fear of market crash, which could be... appreciably lower return than Treasurys.
And then people ask: Why do they hate us?
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In the city, I don't really check my speed at all (or any instruments, really). The only time in an urban area I check is when I'm in a school zone or when I see a cop; otherwise no one cares if you're going 30 or 35 in a 25. It's intuitively obvious if you're going much faster or slower than that.

My car tells me "next left" or "second left" (and "onto streetname") in addition to distance. That seems ideal for most situations.
I assure you, theft predates states. Hell, it predates our species.
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> The future of energy is natural gas. End of story.

Watching Gasland[1] may just change your mind.

[1]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1558250/
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>It's almost ridiculous how some people get so indignant about CIA; I can almost feel their spittle as they shout at their computer screens. At the same time, people get equally outraged when terrorists kill people and then want to blame CIA for their failings. It's a bad world.

For one, not all here are Americans. Some of us are Europeans, and lots of those are from countries that the CIA has royally fu*d over in the past. Like establishing a military dictatorship in my country in the 70s.

Second, it's "a bad world" mostly in part because of certain superpowers abusing their power and money-resource-influence grabbing. From the colonial overlords of the not-so-distance past, to the post-colonial overlords of today, and from the cold war superpowers, to the "global cop".

Things like arab fanatics are a sick byproduct of those forces (not to mention being directly _armed_ by the CIA in the past, like the OBL ally or that Hussein ally).
The problem he described with colleges has been going on for a very long time. I was interested in both engineering and Journalism when I started college.

I vividly remember attending a lecture by a noted career counselor my first week in school. They had just laid off tens of thousands of engineers nationally when the space program wound down. He told us if we got the engineering degree and weren't in the top twenty percent of our class we wouldn't find work.

But if we went the journalism route there would be four jobs for every graduate. I was more passionate about Journalism so that's what I majored in.

So what happened? Four years later I literally couldn't find work in my chosen field. But my buddy with his engineering degree and 2.1 gpa had employers fighting over him. All of this happened in four years time.
those points may be true but mclarens are not cheap and ellison has a lot of cars and has bought a lot of cars for a lot of women
0.5MB of buffer contributes a lot to latency when your link is slow.

Assuming a 1Mbit link, it takes 4 seconds of latency to send the default SO_SENDBUF.
I don't doubt the .270 is very capable.

Here in the Yukon, it illegal to use anything less than 300 caliber for Bison.
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To be fair, the producer of the Hang Over movies does hang out at some tech parties.
You do understand how PR works right? Facts are interpreted in ways to make the person look better. I very much doubt that any of these people have just 1 car.
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Why not just hire someone you like and expect them to learn on the job? You probably do this anyway, but wrap it up in complex requirements.
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Depends on which countries we're talking about.
I just switched back to vimperator for the time being. It's not so terrible.
Borehole geothermal is possible too. Basically, find a large, hot mass of rock close to the surface, drill down a couple of kilometres, pump water down and get steam out (typical temp is ~200-300C).

That's in Australia, known for its geological stability, lack of active volcanoes, etc.
Check out his twitter feed, and especially his retweets of critics... I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
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Especially since the one "innovation" I'm aware of from him is his habit of throwing very exclusive parties and using access as a mechanism to profit.
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Same problem here. I think this is based on git plugin, since it displays current branch when you cd into directory. You can try disable that plugin.
GitHub still doesn't have a +1 button and you must still clutter the issue tracker with +1 comments? Wow.
I should have put in a smiley.
No, substring searches.

Ctrl+R in bash (by default, at least) will not search from the middle of a command. For instance, if the previous command was "hello", searching for "ello" will not bring it up. Whereas with zsh, it will.
Some of the plugins included in contrib, as well as really feature heavy pre-made configs like oh-my-zsh can slow things down. They're good to use as a starting point, but you can make the features you actually want really fast with some research.
The article conflates "science" and "scientists". Science can test hypotheses, even if individual scientists fall in love with their own theories.

The article itself gives a concrete example-- the work showing Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is a "fluke" was done by a different research team.

A more interesting question than "Do scientists suffer from confirmation bias?" might be "Are scientists more prone to confirmation bias than other professionals?" Or "In the long run of history, do the conclusions of science get overturned more often than the conclusions of other fields?"
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