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Interesting. I just came back from an event here at Lone Star Ruby Conference they sponsored (movie - they used Twilio powered service to pick the movie we watched at a local brew theater). Would have made for some interesting questions had more known about this problem :-)
When writing prose (as opposed to code), I could actually see signing being very speed-competitive

How so? Signing isn't as "complete" as written or spoken language. You would say/write "The dog ran in the park yesterday" but the signing would be more like "YESTERDAY, DOG RUN [THROUGH] PARK."

You're not going to get David Mitchell out of ASL, but then again you can't get motive music videos in Dejima either. They each have their place and meaning, but they aren't quite interchangeable.
I am pretty sure you do understand. Your appeal to compassion for "those for whom commitments are made" is a powerful one, but ultimately fails as fiscal policy. The city dies, the remaining 706 thousand people of Detroit get to watch their city turned into a cesspool of crime, uncollected garbage, and unreliable services. And those old folks lose their pensions too. Governments have made commitments that they are mathematically unable to keep. You need look no further than the unfunded CalPers (California's Pension) fund to see what is coming on the horizon.

At this point there are no "good" answers, but the path to the "right" answer is pretty clear, it is unsustainable to balance the retirement of a few on the labors of others.

I've made a number of suggestions to folks in Sacremento, pretty much anyone who asks and some that don't. On various ways the system might work. One outcome though is you don't get "lifetime income" unless you do what Mr. Money Mustache suggests and convert your lifestyle into something that can survive on a 3-4% annual withdrawal rate of your accumulated benefit.
I would hope they have a business liability insurance policy, in which cases it should cover the costs associated with this unfortunate mess, including any reimbursed fees.
He is basically arguing that information cannot be free in the future because of the need for an information economy to replace the economy of goods and services that will soon be produced by AI/ML and automatons.

He argues that AI/ML create successful business (e.g. insurance providers which can use algorithms to ensure they only provide their service to those least likely to need it) that essentially radiate the risk out to society and, ultimately, society cannot absorb the risk.

I found this part about democracy and spying interesting:

And so you can’t have democracy in a highly evolved
information society if information is free. You just
can’t. I mean, because you’ll be giving the government
an infinite spying license. And it might sound like an
odd idea, but I hope once you roll it over in your
brain, you’ll start to see that it’s just a very simple
and sensible idea.

While the ideas he presents are interesting, that may be all they are. It is difficult to imagine them being played out in real life.
Wow. That is utterly tragic and horrifying.
I've never seen:

$CONDITION && $TRUE_CASE || $FALSE_CASE

used as a Perl idiom in lieu of:

$CONDITION ? $TRUE_CASE : $FALSE_CASE

I can't claim to have worked with Perl much prior to Perl 5.6/5.8 though, so it may have been an older idiom (though I doubt it as one of Perl's influences was Awk, which also has a C ternary operator, IIRC).

That said, using truthy/falsey values in Python doesn't seem super common. I surprised a couple of interviewers by doing that while implementing some tree manipulation functions.
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That's not much worse than the STEM failure rates of live attendance students.

Source: I attend SJSU.
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I read about it earlier here via this wikipedia entry ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples
It is extremely easy to cheat on a lot of online courses. One major flaw is many instructors use a test-bank for all of their exam questions, which makes verbatim Googling for the answer a piece of cake.
It's worth noting that in Perl the 'or' and 'and' operators are not equivalent to || and &&. For instance, they have super low operator precedence:

my $variable = 0 or 1;

Would result in $variable == 0 because it really looks like this:

(my $variable = 0) or 1;

I allowed myself to get burned by this once because I didn't read the fine print. ^^;;
A few that I've really enjoyed so far, if you don't mind the suggestions:

* Antichromatic (hit and subsequently blasted out of the sandbox earlier this week, effectively Ikaruga mechanic applied to a platformer)

* Inferno & Ballistic SE (same author, same general gameplay, different world mechanics)

* Saturday Morning RPG

I'd love to see an actual vs fighter, but currently lack the free time to even care about hacking one up :/
"The new theory predicts that as cancer progresses through more and more malignant stages, it will express genes that are more deeply conserved among multicellular organisms, and so are in some sense more ancient."

The good news is that we already have that data! From 2005.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15920528

And the story, is, of course that it's waaay more complicated than that.

For that matter, we know a lot of cancers (e.g. CML) come about in no small part due to fusion proteins - which would be if anything, the creation of a novel protein, not a gene that is 'deeply conserved'.
"Imagine the US military firing tear gas and water cannons on protesters in Turkey and saying "It's OK, your government gave us permission". "

I think you're having reading comprehension issues. It's not just that the gov't are requesting help. The reason we are involved in Yemen is because the Yemini gov't is incapable of exerting it's own will b/c they are weak and poor. Their interests are also strongly tied to our interests - so that's why we intervene.

Your example has is not at all analogous. The Turkish gov't is not incapable of tear gassing and water cannoning protesters, so they fail the first criteria of being incapable of carrying out their will. The example also fails the second criteria for intervention - that it's strongly in the US's interest.

"Yemeni government != Yemeni people"

Who else can you appeal to in Yemen to get permission to operate drones?

And are you seriously suggesting that the Yemeni people are supporting Al Qaeda? If they are, then they become the "enemy".

The way it works for other nations is we tell them:
1 - You will fight Al Qaeda in our country
2 - If you are incapable, we will help you do it by providing military aid.
3 - If you are still incapable we will us our own armed forces to make sure you are able to.
4 - If you are not willing to fight Al Qaeda or are actively defending them they we will intervene anyways.

The last point either leads to the case of the Taliban where we destroy them because they are defending Al Qaeda, or to Pakistan where they are forced to accept our help.
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I'm surprised there's no mention of the San Jose State professors who came out against MOOCs a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5644421

http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_23320596/online-educ...

I'm sure this is entirely unrelated...
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> A photographic memory simply mean its easier for you to remember images than, say, sounds, text, etc.

I think you're mistaken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory
Even this current article says the edX courses did better and aren't being canceled like the Udacity ones...
I guess the "very successful" part was really the 8 people trying to understand the reason the book got banned, and the (few ?) other constructive responses to the announcement.

Especially if the other years' banned book weeks got no measurable reaction at all.
People on facebook reacting shallowly to some announcement should not be news.
I have the opposite - the smell of burnt diesel and brewing (beer I assume) reminds me instantly of Edinburgh. I have lots of things that I can instantly remember the exact spot I first smelled them, but no smell memory or whatever you would call it.
You should maximize the "wow" moment your product delivers. Since you say it is heavy on "server integration", I guess you would need to focus on monitoring & server capacity and of course, features that directly address your users' problems instead of fringe, nice-to-have add-ons. Everything else (analytics, payments, non-core features) can be left out or done in a way that minimizes effort (Stripe + Google Analytics should take up very little of your time)

Your users are not all the people who visit your site because of the "launch" but those for whom you can solve "the problem" well. I will definitely go back to a product that solves my problem, even if it has a lot of bugs. As proof, I've used buggy UML tools, code editors, video/audio editing software for years because they're very good in at least one aspect I value.

A lower-risk approach: Suppose you list out the benefits of a "launch" (example: growth from 0 to 10K users, investor interest, attract/keep talent) and then separate out the components of a launch (example: Techcrunch release, beta mailing list, investor reach-out). You may be able to de-risk by going after individual components and only building whatever is necessary for each individual component. For example you can attack the mailing list first without worrying about scale to handle traffic that a press release would bring.
For introductory undergraduate courses?
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As a former producer: This is a sure way to never get called back again.

Just be yourself. Act natural. TV needs you, not you doing an impression of someone who you've seen on TV.
I used to use a dirty hack for that (https://github.com/agravier/chromarch), but it was developed for the first generation of Samsung chromebooks, I don't know if it would work on the latest ones.
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I wish I read this before I read the whole article.
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no, the predilection for hypoxia is due to the warburg effect (which used to be thought of as a cause for cancer but now is accepted as the result of carcinogens, but a 'hallmark' of cancer). Fermentation of glucose in the cytosol is more efficient than using the oxygen-requiring mitochondria - However, it can only occur in less aerobic conditions. So the rapid division of cancer cells is assisted by this shift in metabolism, but that requires anaerobiosis.
World needs people like you who take it slowly. Slow and deep thinking can produce great breakthroughs. Working hard and stressing your body to "change the world" is groupthink in many cases. Einstein was sleeping more than 10 hours and spent hours in his boat. There is definitely a place for people who take it slow.
Selling apps (to other developers/publishers)
I am moving on to focus on other projects and I listed to of my apps on Apptopia.com:

http://artymiak.com/for-sale/

What other places would you recommend for selling apps? I don't want to deal with the eBay crowd, would rather sell to someone who might use an existing audience to launch their own product.
This is similar to what researchers in memory also say - that claims of photographic-style memory don't hold up under examination.

(minor point of spelling - 'utmost', not 'upmost')
Wasn't PAE available for pretty much all versions starting from XP? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...
finally some honesty - i knew it would be exactly the same as when I got my Nintendo Power Glove in the mail in 1989.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Glove
I bet there will be many similar cases before the behavior of students taking MOOCs changes. I just hope it doesn't dissuade the effort. I'm sure the long-term benefit of the effort is worth it.
You mean, like, in the compiler? If x is actually a macro that expands to zero, that will (or at least should, for a sufficiently smart compiler) happen. Otherwise, I can’t imagine a runtime check of this being appreciably faster than hardware multiply. Right?
Anyone who says 'real world' needs to be shot. Seriously.
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Emoting to guilt co-workers into feeling sorry about criticism is unprofessional. There's a reason why sociopaths can thrive in power positions, they get stuff down without the drivel.
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It also was much less ambitious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi_(software):

"Wabi required a Windows 3.x installation in order to work, meaning that it would also require a Windows license, unlike similar software that endeavored to implement the entire Windows API, such as Wine. The basic premise of the product was to provide an emulation of the lowest layers of the Windows environment in the form of the user.dll, kernel.dll and gdi.dll libraries. As all other Windows dlls depended on these three modules, cloning this functionality allowed Windows applications and their associated support dlls to execute correctly. This approach, as opposed to a full replacement, was thought by the engineering team to be the only rational methodology for success given both the size of Microsoft's ever-expanding efforts and the difficulties of the emulation being precise enough to run commercial grades of software."
This is a very thoughtful answer. I don't think I ever thought of a college as made up of so many different groups, though it seems more obvious now.

It's interesting that you see one of the primary motivations as competition. Is this competitiveness mostly from the administration and researchers? Who benefits from a college being better than others? Do the administrators get paid more or do the researchers get published more easily? I'm interested in how all the motives and structures break down.

With regard to your last paragraph - adult life certainly does mean very different things to different people. However, I think almost everyone agrees that financial independence and stability is important. I'm going to quote another paragraph from patio11:

"No college will actually do this (quantify the value of a degree by major) because transparency goes directly against their interests: if all degrees from a particular institution are valued at “An uncertain, but certainly large and roughly constant number”, then the standard practice of pricing them all identically makes sense."

That lack of transparency seems careless on the part of the colleges. To me, it actually seems malicious, though that might be going too far. It seems obvious that undergraduate students should be more aware of their financial prospects after graduation, but it seems like no one in the system cares.
coherent, but not sensible. seemed like not much more than far-fetched idealism.

i simply cannot envision a kind of society where information would not be free and in a "protected" or isolated sort of state as he wishes. i have not dug into his philosophy deeply, however, i cannot comprehend how you would prevent information "looting".

maybe in a society of free of hackers...
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I don't see how this is different than normal schools. Many people I know who went to traditional school don't know anything coming out and yes, they mostly did it for the degree and little more.

I think that it really depends on the class. I know that the finals for certain MOOC courses I took were very difficult indeed, and it was absolutely impossible "google" the answers. Even with the open book and notes, the tests were challenging enough that these cheating mechanisms were pretty worthless.

Also note that there is a wide diversity in the course quality. Many of them are super easy and watered down to the point that it is meaningless, while others are quite challenging. While I wouldn't expect an interviewer to know which class falls into which category, just realize that many of these certs are virtually meaningless regardless of the results.

I've pondered creating a site for ranking the MOOCs that are available now, to serve both the students who take these courses and the employers who are facing these students.

Either way, the complaint of "diploma first" feels a bit off-hand. If people are finishing college without knowing how to program fizzbuzz, what is the difference between the good and the bad? Clearly it isn't the quality of the class: it is the quality of the person regardless his or her background.
Many of my university's teachers took pride in their low pass rates. Not because they failed so many students, but because they passed a minority that had truly mastered the material.
Fascinating read, my memory wasn't as vivid as this person's but I didn't need much effort to recall anything. Like you, it all changed with age.

It was really wonderful sometimes because I didn't need to read textbooks, take extensive notes or do homework. The down side was, as a kid, it got me into a lot of trouble when people lied and I would re-tell them something they had said before that contradicted what they're saying now.

One day in my last year of high school, toward the end of the first semester, the math teachers was shocked when he opened my exercise book to find that I stopped taking notes on the 3rd week of school and the rest of the book was filled with doodles. I was one of his best students though :)
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With what laptop is this currently true?

I've never personally had this experience, and I haven't heard a sincere account of something as basic as multihead graphics being broken for years.
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And if that didn't tip you off, "Top Gear" should have driven it home.
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Congrats to Twilio on a textbook example on how to handle a billing outage. While I hope to never to through this I do admire a team that can execute like this.

Cheers, from one telco nerd to your team of hackers.
"Yet GitHub is not a place for socializing and sharing photos. It’s a site where software developers store, share, and update their personal coding projects, in computer languages like Java and Cobol."

I wonder how much Cobol code there actually is on GitHub?
Truck drivers don't get commercial licenses so they can drive a truck across the country on a highway. They get them to prove that they can back a truck up, turn around tight corners, not run over pedestrians, and most importantly, to be able to navigate an unpredictable, and sometimes rapidly changing world...one where a loading dock might be underground, or it might be around back in that tight alley that doesn't look an inch over 9ft wide...and where your route may go as planned, but it may also require a detour at moments notice because the Highway Patrol is hurredly moving cars off the road so they can set a spike strip to catch a vehicle in a high speed chase.

That isn't to glamorize nor humanize the profession...merely to show the obstacles that truck drivers deal with that are still too fringe to be modeled correctly or trusted in a non-supervised environment. There may be a not-so-distant future where driverless trucks take over long haul drives, with actual drivers handling the last mile. But don't expect the trucker to die quite so quickly.
But: If you can get your hands on a banned (physical) book, you can still read it in relative safety.
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The Udacity ones seemed to be targeted to a less motivated demographic. I don't think this a conceptual failure, but a practical one.
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Jaron Lanier needs to take an Econ class.
Interesting thing... Medium's branding is stronger than I thought.

I didn't register that Minimalytic or Hookfeed were new projects and independent startups until the end, and still had to double check and then saw the very small text that mentioned "Small HQ".

I interpreted the project names as being cute names for projects within Medium, not the product of an external company.

It's a strange thing when the content screams "Medium" more than it screams the content. I suspect it has a lot more to do with the design consistency and experience rather than the words.
I already have it installed from the first time it was available.

Then it got pulled... why/how is it back?
Figlet sighting. :-)
False dichotomy. China is a de facto dictatorship (and a de juris Republic), however their citizens can still surf the internet and type out things (censored, for sure, but a far cry from 'shut off').

Do you really want society to collapse to the point of Syria or Lybia before you want the citizenry to stand up for themselves? Or is everyone just a tin-foil hatter until secret police starts wisking people away?
But then Jobs had Apple and Pixar/Disney. You can have more than one company as long as you have the right people running it for you.
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For years I was convinced Photographic Memory was Impossible.
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Cool. So how do I accelerate into this "bubble"
I think the point is that Jobs himself only ran one company at a time, though he had many successes. Elon is doing at least three things at once (Chairman of the board of Solar City. CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX), and the Hyperloops looks to be a fourth.
> It is interesting that they have never heard of third party's intervening in FOIA cases because it actually is a common occurrence in academia.

They didn't say thy never heard of a third party intervening. They were more specific: he says "I have never, in fifteen years of reporting, seen a non-governmental party argue for the right to interfere in a Freedom of Information Act release of government documents." The key here is GOVERNMENT documents.

The example you give:

> Many times, a professor at another university will file a FOIA request for your grant application. If you feel your research plans are threatened by having the details of your grant passed along to this other professor, your university will intervene on your behalf in the FOIA request

is a third party intervening to try to stop a FOIA request involving their own documents. By "their own documents" I mean they wrote the documents. The documents were then submitted to the government, which is why they can be reached by FOIA, but they are not "government documents" in the sense that the writer intends, I believe. The documents MIT is trying to get involved with were written by the government. They are partially about MIT, but they are not MIT's documents in the way a grant application from MIT would be.