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Reading, writing, and mathematics have long been considered fundamental skills.

Obama is suggesting 'computer science' as now being a new fundamental skill. I would change that to 'programming'.

Most people do not question whether math is a fundamental skill. Programming is actually very similar to some types of math work in school, but with a heavy focus on practical problem solving skills using technology.

So the question you ask is similar to the question that many people ask about their algebra or calculus classes. But in the case of computer programming, I think it is even easier to see how it can be directly applied in many fields.

Basically the observation is that people need strong technology skills to contribute, since technology is core to nearly every aspect of life now, and programming develops core skills that can help with many types of technologies.
It's probably mostly a matter of it not providing enough advantage to justify the huge expense of replacing everything.
Nor did I say that you did.
Both are trying to make employees work as long hours as possible, both are "optimizing" taxes, both don't care about social responsibility, so hopefully can kiss and be friends.
One weird kernel trick
Just like the "prescribed foreign language course in middle school", a bit of programming practice may widen your horizon, and help demystify these seemingly opaque machines and networks.

It's about practice, not "knowledge" per se. Basic tasks, like: I have a folder full of files, how do I get the filenames into a text file or e-mail? Five-liners in high-level languages, the equivalent of asking for directions in a foreign tongue.

Of course, that idea comes from a time when one would own a universal computer, and own one's own data. You can argue that for many people, the filenames and text files I'm talking about are already a thing of the past, that it's all pinch and swipe, plus cloud storage.
I think it would be more accurate to say they're getting a promise to pay back their investment with interest (the "bond-like" comment in the article), and also 10% of the company stock. It could turn out that the "bond" is more valuable, or the stock is more valuable, or they're both totally worthless.

A major difference between big early investors and retail investors is that retail investors don't get that "bond-like" guarantee. Hence there's greater risk of loss, and retail investors should value the stock much lower, but frequently don't.
What's an hour away from BMF with night life? The trip from SJ to SF may suck, especially with the Bay Area's appalling lack of a unified transportation system, but it'll still do in a pinch for SJ denizens to visit.
A more proper analogy is: do you think it would be helpful to everyone to know the process for making laws?
Had similar reflex. The SF way seemed very strange to me as an outsider and it would almost appear like the primary 'benefactor' of these confrontations are the city governance who are paid by tax payers to make sure the housing supplies are sufficient and public transportation are efficient.

If Gmail can't keep up with demand and the SF city council just opened 1000 new account, one for each city employee, and Gmail speed slowed to a crawl, would Google and the public say "aha! they're using all the resources, let's protest"?
"Figure 1 currently offers its app free and has not yet generated revenue. However, Mr. Chabra believes, “If they continue to grow at the [current] pace, they will have lots of monetization options in the near future,” thanks to their reach and engagement with the world’s 30 million medical professionals, and medical students and dentists too.

In the U.S., health-care and pharmaceutical companies will spend $1.18 billion on digital advertising this year, according to eMarketer research."

I'm not sure why they're even thinking of advertising as a revenue model. Unlike Instagram, the number of people who will look at any given image is very small. Also, it wouldn't inspire patients' confidence to see ads plastered all over a screen in their doctors' offices; it just doesn't look professional. (Nor would an ad-supported service seem professional to the doctors who use it.) It makes much more sense to charge for subscriptions to this service. Hospitals or large practices could get volume discounts.
As it is, South Bay is already a miniature LA in terms of sprawl and commuting, as well as concrete (lack of) architecture and strip malls.
There's been some movement on this front since a lot of gas stations are already charging a different cash vs. credit price. http://business.time.com/2013/01/25/a-4-surcharge-for-using-...
But you're just saying "be the best you can be rah rah." That's nice but not very interesting or actionable. Why even bother saying it?
Very nice! I just wanted to visit the other snowflakes, but I could only rotate, not advance or move back. Are all the snowflakes equal? Is it possible to generate them randomly?
20 extra individual cars on the roads

Those double decker buses hold about 80 people. Assuming a handful of people would carpool, we're still looking at 60+ more cars on the road, per bus.
Bundler doesn't work with Vagrant because Vagrant ships with its own Ruby and RubyGems and all that. So... your Bundler you're executing has a really screwed up state of the world.

Its something that certainly needs to be solved, but I think solutions needs more time to mature in my head as well as others.
Isn't it a quote from a character in a storey? It may have been intended to be gruff or insulting, depending.
That's the paradox of places like Africa. You have massive amounts of intense poverty, but technology still trickles down.

I'm still skeptical a currency created by crytoanarchists and supported by people with money to burn on ASIC hardware will have a meaningful impact on those with virtually nothing. If I'm wrong, so much the better.
I think you underestimate just how fast and furious the edits can fly on MDN.
This is linked in the 2nd sentence in the getting started section that is linked from one of the two biggest call-to-actions on the homepage: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/why-vagrant/

I'm sorry you couldn't find that!
I think you missed the part of the post you're replying to where he said his calculations amount to 86 stops per day per stop. That's at least 2580 stops per day total. 2580 stops for 4500 employees? They're clearly off by more than an order of magnitude.
That's an impressive list, but far from complete. Here's a famous false flag operation in post-Nazi Germany for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celle_Hole
Sh... don't disagree with or poke holes in the echo chamber ...
"Alright everyone, we got a cake! Please make sure you only take a quarter slice. You there! Can you please share that with someone? Thank you."
Income maybe, but not wealth.
A quick peek at the app development process
Not the parent post, but from my limited use of Vagrant so far, the main difference is that there's a "base" image that you can quickly reset to in order to test the repeat-ability of your deploys. The images also automatically handle VirtualBox's shared folders feature and require little for configuration.

Other than that, I agree it's almost like just using VBox directly.
I stand corrected. Very cool project.
One caveat to the launch date methodology is the failure of the Long March launch for the Brazilians last night.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/12/chinese-long-march-4b...
I'm not familiar at all with RabbitMQ, so can't really comment, but I'm pretty sure they give guarantees like a producer can wait until a given message is consumed. This means there's no fire-and-forget, even though the message is logged to disk at one point, you need to do all that per message book keeping.
Why did I immediately know that this is Rossi's e-cat all over again, even before I clicked on the link?

Does anyone have credible sources for the DARPA preorder?
The main thing holding back software development is source code. And the reason for that is culture rather than technology. Because you aren't a 'real' programmer unless you are typing colorful complex text. That's just what the definition of a programmer is.

However, in most domains, interactive graphical tools have been invented and reinvented numerous times that are more efficient than text-only programming. Those tools remain unpopular because of a cultural failure to recognize that programming does not require colorful text that is difficult to decipher.
And it's even worse. I saw this post and went to LinkedIn to accept the friendship. I think the only way to do it is to click on the link from the email which I had deleted. I didn't see ANY page on LinkedIn with outstanding friend requests. -Ethan Anderson
The biggest thing it adds on top of VirtualBox is a consistent workflow. If it helps, think of what Vagrant does technically as useless, and think of Vagrant only as a process discipline: to get a dev environment for any project you "vagrant up", to close it out "vagrant destroy", to access it "vagrant ssh", etc.

As soon as you get this consistent workflow, then you can teach it to your entire organization and the whole company knows that ANY project in the company can be worked on using this workflow without any dependencies on their own machine.

And if ops decides to suddenly change the dev environment from VirtualBox to say... AWS... nothing changes! I've had large companies (200+ developers) switch from VirtualBox to VMware to AWS for their dev environments without their developers ever really noticing.

That is pretty cool.

Of course, on top of this, you get a lot of nice things: you get provisioners, you get automatic network configuration, you get the entire plugin community, you don't have to worry about stability on your own because you tap the collective stability of thousands of users, etc.

But the real power is workflow.
"plan an invasion" - sounds inhuman
They're using Coinbase: https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/examples
While this is technically true, I disagree with the undertone. I think the industry is fundamentally different and in its most extreme realizations has been shown to cause severe emotional harm to exploited workers.
I think in the context of machine learning the brain's ability to model the real world has evolved and a better model for the world represents a survival advantage. I don't know too much about how the brain actually models reality (and I don't know if anyone does) but the theory of machine learning still applies in the sense that each individual brain of each animal is a model and if you have a model that is too complex it will generalize poorly and therefore the owner of that brain is likely to do poorly in the real world.

It's very interesting in the sense that the totality of brains over time is essentially a sort of supervised learning with huge amounts of input data.
It's similar to watching only downloaded/purchased content versus watching the TV. Once you're used to having no advertisement, turning the TV on is very awkward with all the publicity.

When using Bitcoin, not having to deal with all the road blocks and fees from banks is quite refreshing. Not having to ask permission to do what you want with your money is great!
"Your poverty makes us sick"
The developer of CoinJoin? Gregory Maxwell is doing HTML5 wallet apps now?
Few Bitcoin-Related License Requests Reported by State Agencies
Facebook Moves Forward With Big Plans for Artificial Intelligence
I provide some images-with-commentary service through weekly unknowns on reddit's pathology subforum(1). I like this in theory, I'm going to give it a whirl, but not sure how I will use it.

I think clinical-rads-path correlations would be great. If I could browse to a differential or a final diagnosis and work through the case, starting from either end, that would be helpful. Sort of like the New England Journal's case of the week series (2) but more accessible on the go.

(1) http://reddit.com/r/pathology

(2) http://www.nejm.org/medical-articles/case-records-of-the-mas...
Why do you feel the need to diminish a counter viewpoint (however misguided it may be) in such a confrontational way? By reducing it to a buzzwordy opponent identity, you've pretty much nullified any chance of constructive discussion there was.

Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe the MensRights folks are the way they are because they felt discriminated against at some point in their life? And now they've found support by being there for each other? Who are you to mock them?

tptacek, you've been in the IT industry long enough, you should know by now that there actually are a considerable amount of men in this field who were made fun of when they younger, who were rejected by their peers and made to feel that no women would ever want them. They've lived their childhood, their adolescence thinking they're nerdy and unattractive, and there was no hope. Try and understand where they might be coming from.

I'm reasonably certain your intentions are good, but please understand that your insensitive demeanor on gender issues threads is more polarizing and inflammatory than anything that's likely to bring people together in any sort of conciliatory way. I implore you to really take a moment and reflect on this. Think about what you can do to really bring people together, rather than pushing them away and antagonizing them.
Rob Fergus is joining Facebook too:

https://plus.google.com/103199870243230279182/posts/JaqgU1sX...
I strongly disagree with the idea that validation sets are central to machine learning. The whole point of machine learning (usually) is to predict things well. Validation sets are merely one technique among many to gauge how well your predictions are doing. Because they are so easy, they are very common. But just because they are common doesn't mean they are central to the field. There are many other techniques out there, like Bayesian model selection (as the author mentions at the end).
Yeah, if only those rednecks in places like Huntsville, Alabama (most engineers and PhD per capita) or Houston would stop focusing on banalities like jet propulsion[1] and subsea robots[2] and spend more time "checking in" to bars on their cell phones, then they could perhaps catch up with the futurists living on the coasts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Space_Flight_Center

[2] http://subseacompanies.com/
I responded to your earlier rant that was full of speculation, conjecture and straight up lies here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867514

Oddly enough, there was no response…
So... What Does an EIR Actually Do?
I've also dreamed of linking Smalltalk images against Plan 9 namespaces. Do you know if anyone has seriously worked on it?
It's a pretty generic 'taking the law in your own hand' argument though. If you illegally double park and as consequence, I illegally shoot you and your whole family, debating what I did is besides the point since the real debate should be about why you double parked.
KDevelop 4.6.0 released
by papering over the problem with a short-term fix for their employees only, they remove public demand for a long-term, public solution
I take it as reading Sun Tzu's Art Of War at least once; strategy.
Most people won't acquire great problem solving skills with programming either. You need only look at a few new questions on StackOverflow to see that. I think your parent is onto something though, that the unique skill available by basic programming in symbolic logic, and perhaps logic in general. It won't come to everyone, but without programming it may be even less likely. The problem of course is that it takes patience and attention to detail--two other skills not everyone has in abundance. Programming is not a freestanding skill, it requires much foundation.
Google's Vim plugin library
Please resubmit with the actual story, not your G+ profile link:

http://www.webofstories.com/play/marvin.minsky/44
OK, Milt Olin, I'll start writing again
I really like that explanation. I've never heard it in those terms before, but it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing.
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There has been a move towards credit rather than saving, but a big part of what you are talking about is actually just the economy tanking. People can't save. I don't have money for my healthcare, or for my taxes for this year, or for taxes for last year. The reason is that I have health problems I haven't been able to deal with. I am not uneducated and I have excellent technology skills. I don't spend a lot of money. I am not an unusual case.
Used to more or less be the case, until Netflix. =)
Fascinatingly fleeting..."for one year or more"

Huge difference between annuity and perpetuity cash flows.
Yes I actually feel the same, they look like they are plotting something (for lack of a better description). Locking down the OS would be a strong indicator for a future walled garden scheme and if it comes to that I am definitely done with them just like I am with Apple.
It's shallow but that's the first thing I noticed, he looks sick / has allergies, or possibly he is getting over something quite emotional?

In other news, I wonder how much coding he does?
Well, then, don't just pass a healthcare law, make a website for it :)
ActiveMusicbrainz - How to use the Musicbrainz database from Ruby
Many people would pay for non-sexual fully clothed friendship services.

Get the price right, get the training right, make sure there is strong blocking to protect against creeps (and set expectations from the start) and I think you'd get considerable business.
More info:

"Hitler on Terrorism

"Hitler has often been quoted as saying: "Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death." This quote is based on two invented remarks in Hermann Rauschning's mendacious book, The Voice of Destruction."

http://www.ihr.org/other/weber2011fakequotations.html
Samsung bullies victim of exploding Galaxy S4
Nobody implied that, he was simply saying that it's good we have high income residents in the area, since they contribute significantly to the local tax revenue.
What like cyberbullying? Genuinely curious.
The buses likely aren't loaded to maximum capacity are they? They also have to drive slightly extra. A car driver would go in a straight line to work, whereas the bus has to travel to all the different bus stops first.
I recognize it's a real thing I just can't stand the mindset that such a word creates. If income/money is an issue for you, go out and do something to change that, don't sit around and be toxic against people that aren't having income issues.
The person you're replying to never said they had no reason to be protesting, only that the google buses benefit the city, employees, and environment.

This leaves an enormous number of reasons. For example, "Buses are, in reality, evil ghosts" is a reason to protest google buses, even if they are good for the environment, city, and employees.
Or a day over 30. The Blit demo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emh22gT5e9k is a bit over 30 years now
"Sharing" (of applications, data, peripherals, and capabilities like network storage) to be a first-level primitive provided by the system and all applications ought to be designed to work with it.

The opencolbalt/croquet stuff sort of takes this approach, though development seems to have stalled there. http://www.opencobalt.org/
Delaunay triangulation of pork-wrapped Lady Gaga (tested on Chrome and Firefox)
I'd like to see how many households are earning over $250K total where that household has less than $100K in net wealth.

I guess it's a majority (over 50%) but even with that, I fear that I'm underestimating. Real affluence is wealth-based (and living within means), not just income based.
Here is some evidence of that - http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/11/profess...
if the training was correct, this could be a really strong psychological aid in many cases... but could be toxic or emotionally draining in others
Yes, it would need to be carefully applied.
Presumably he was picking the low hanging fruit. By today all the obvious or easy ideas have already been done a hundred times over. It's always harder to make progress in an older field than a newer one.
Right, and that simply does not work in a free country. These people moved to SF a while back, but they still displaced the local culture that was before them, and now they are settled in and they think they rightfully own the place. The draconian zoning laws and anti-development sentiment is only gonna hurt these people more, since the cost of living is being driven up artificially and the people they are trying to ward off are gonna move in no matter what.
Before, I built pitch books and excel models and funneled money from one place to another, taking a cut.

Today, I build websites that democratize content (okay that's a bit hyperbole). I just feel better about my life choices now that I'm building something substantive.

Being an entrepreneur is a great experience for anyone who can cut it. I also think it should be a necessary pre-req for investors to be a founder at least once. I do miss the money and lifestyle though...
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Live video streaming sucks generally, because it's flashy and expensive to offer but almost no one really needs it. Static videos beat it 99.9% of the time. Until someone cracks the nut on live video and it becomes important...which may never happen.
I think the value of learning to code is learning how to break down complex problems into simpler steps, determining the order in which those steps need to happen, and thinking carefully about your upfront needs to get some the desired, distant result. Coding isn't the only place to learn these skills. For example, working in a commercial kitchen, you might learn these skills quickly: what do I need to do make this dish? What ingredients are each dish's element? What ingredients do I have on hand vs what I need to order? Is everything going to come together in the end, and at the same time?

However, coding is increasingly accessible (~$0) to everyone (all ages/geos) at a massive scale (smartphones/netbooks) and may have practical benefits for some people who choose to go beyond the basic steps. Some might even call it fun.
A mysterious law that predicts the size of the world's biggest cities
The problem right now is that plugins create a screwed up state of the world and their usefulness is rapidly climbing.

Installing the vagrant-chef-zero plugin, for example, is a real PITA because the dependency resolution doesn't deal with a json dependency correctly leading to it or chef zero failing to load unless you install them in a very specific order.

On the other end of the spectrum, when you're writing a Vagrantfile it's technically almost impossible to know what's going to happen when a user starts it up because of all the hooks plugins can throw in, and you can't tell Vagrant not to load a plugin (which would be an incomplete solution anyways, since I can't know what plugins or plugin versions will have bad interactions).

I know you wrote vagrant, so you have a more inside perspective on this, but as a user and occasional plugin writer, it feels like with a gemfile I can specify a state of the world that's considerably less screwed up than the completely random world any given user's install of Vagrant might be.
That's because they're not really protesting about the buses using public stops. What they're really protesting is gentrification -- a decreasing amount of affordable housing in the city. Which is another way of saying they are protesting their own collective refusal to add higher density housing in the city.