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Another theme of The Idea Factory is relevant to this discussion. The Bell System was the hardest thing people tried to build in the 20th century, and it couldn't have been done without valve amplifiers, transistors, information theory, satellites, and masers. Perhaps Google's technical staff won't become that good unless Google sets out to cure cancer, end war, or something equally ambitious. And they don't have to do it out of altruism: if Americans had to pay a trillion dollars a year for a war avoidance system, they'd be silly not to.
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Joke is sort of on them. Every single article I've read with engineers at the big sites talking about PHP mainly deals how to get around PHP. All of the things PHP is lauded for making things "easy" are the exact things the big sites go out of their way to avoid.

Those sites are popular in spite of PHP, not because of it. If Mark had been proficient in ASP instead of PHP, FB would probably be running .NET. It's not like anything early FB did was particularly impressive and relied on special language features. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
Wow rated 2.8, I was not aware of this website, but these reviews seem really problematic for startups accepting money from them. By accepting this partnership with them, is Paul Graham kind of vouching that these guys are actually good for startups? I wonder if a startup could refuse their money, but then again there are so many startups, it may be hard to take the moral ground.
I backed the project too and I was also disappointed by the lack of statistics functionality.
But I've recently tried to use it for my blog and my scepticism ceased. A lot of things are done right!

The editor itself is responsive and works on a wide selection of screen sizes (I've used it successfully on android phone).
The markdown preview is actually an interactive UI. When you put an image markup without the link to the actual file there is a placeholder in the preview and you can just drag and drop an image to fill it. The image gets uploaded to your server and everything just works (I've tried it on my phone too).

All these things together make blogging much more fun and frictionless process.
Not a bad start in the end!

I also like the fact there is already some decent themes for the engine. I personally use Ghostium that tries to look like Medium and uses all the web standards suitable for the task. You can see it in action on my blog http://nikdudnik.com
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C is simply the follow-on to B which was developed at Bell Labs.

B was simply the follow-on to BCPL which was developed at the University of Cambridge.

BCPL was simply the follow-on to CPL which was developed at the University of Cambridge.

CPL was simply the follow-on to Algol 60 ...
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The cozy sense of ownership 'cause it's open source and not proprietary.
Whether evidence is easy or hard to gather is a red herring. Patients present a body of evidence. Small or large, that evidence is what doctors and machines both use to generate diagnoses. The places where machines have the potential to excel is situating the evidence within a broader universe of evidence.

The human body is amazingly complex, and it's unfair to hold it against human doctors that they don't have the capabilities to use the enormous amount of information we've collected on it so far. Machines do, though, and they're already on the brink of matching or exceeding human capabilities.

It's true that medicine is more than generating diagnoses. But the years of training and huge personnel costs are caused by the advanced levels of knowledge required to perform with competence. The deprofessionalization of medicine means you can substitute expensive labor with much cheaper labor.

There's also the value that comes from standardization. The best human doctors are probably going to surpass machine doctors in their chosen field of expertise for awhile yet. But very few people have access to the best human doctors, and the best human doctor in one area of specializaton is unlikely to be exceptional in areas outside his or her specialization. The proper comparison isn't against the best doctors, or even the average doctors: it's against the worst doctors who make terrible errors in judgment and doctors working outside their area of expertise, whose work will be most easily replaceable by Watson-like software.
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Papers that have changed the way the world does computing? You must be kidding. A few thousand companies using (largely) poorly constructed products based on some papers is not changing the world of computing.

Bell labs created the first transistor for goodness sakes. The photovoltaic cell. The first gas laser! Wifi! TDMA and CDMA. The CCD. Hell half the concepts of modern operating systems came from Bell Labs.

Mind you, Bell Labs had 90 years to do all this, but to even pretend like Google compares is hubris.
Cool directory. Now if only I could remember all the sites I've set up accounts with in the past. :-/
True... I'm guessing what they're getting at is that the execs want to focus on the boys at the expense of the girls - they'd rather have just 60 boys watching the show than 50 boys and 50 girls, because it's only boys who are going to be getting the toys under their Christmas tree, and 60 > 50.
WhatsApp is the most used messenger application by a huge margin outside of the US. Everyone under 25 I know that doesn't have an iPhone uses WhatsApp.
How about spelling trolls? It's "cue":

"From the letter Q, abbreviation of Latin quando (“when”), marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin." - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cue
I think the implication is that all the time girls spend watching "boys shows" is time they're not focusing on "girls shows", therefore they're losing those marketing minutes.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems as if they don't really mean they don't want girls to watch, so much as they don't want to target girls. I'm guessing that they think there's no way to write stories that will appeal to both sexes (which is completely stupid as many shows have appeal to both). Unfortunately, it seems like it's mostly due to the higher-ups in the networks that make these decisions (probably due to antiquated thinking).
> And medical care is and has always been too expensive to provide proper care for the entire population.

Which countries are you talking about here? (I agree with your general sentiment, though.)
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IE is just trying to look all hip and cool and EventSource hasn't generated much hype so it doesn't get implemented.. shame.
> But what about all of the papers that have changed the way the world does computing?

Is this a joke?
No, I think the principle of law they have violated is the use of State Intelligence against its own citizens. Similarly, we do not use our armed forces against our citizens, because those two bodies are intended to be used against the enemies of the country. To the degree to which it can be said that warfare obeys any moral or legal imperatives, it rarely rises above the level of avoiding killing civilians out of hand. One may reflect on the degree to which the right to private communications is violated in warfare, but summarizing is beyond my abilities. The employment against citizens of these same tools, honed for deadly violence, is calamitous.

More succinctly, what on earth is the use of a polity having military specialists employed against itself?

That they have violated our right to freedom from investigation without cause as guaranteed by the 4th Amendment is secondary to the concern of the military running an operation against its own people. It is rather unfortunate that this Agency happens to be extremely well-funded, terrifyingly effective, and employing geniuses, but clearly in Snowden they are hoist on their own petard. Through his actions it has become plainly evident that the National Security Agency administrators are not merely engaged in un-Constitutional aims, but in conducting military action against the People of the United States themselves, have committed an awful treason. We should not let them plead against a lesser charge.
I'm going to guess they think if girls are watching it, boys aren't. Gaining 20% girls/parents might end up costing them 10% boys, which they presume might end up being a net loss for them.

He mentioned Cartoon Network specifically. On the other hand, Nick has fantastic shows for people of all ages and genders. I am a huge fan of Korra. A friend of mine started watching Avatar with her son a few years ago and told me to check it out. After Avatar ended, we continued to watch Korra and it is such a great show with strong backstories on almost all the primary characters. If I had a daughter, I'd buy her a Korra doll, video game, and craft supplies. I don't know why Cartoon Network thinks girls aren't profitable.
It appears Google has been hiring a lot more people without degrees than they did before:

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-hiring-non-graduates-2...
Most companies running data centers are now copying the way Google runs data centers, Google essentially reinvented large scale data center management. Most of the online services that most people on the planet earth now consume in some part or leverage the knowledge that was published in the papers listed above.

You can look at data centers before and after Google the same way people look at smartphones before and after the iPhone.

And Android didn't change things? Practically every new non-Apple consumer electronics device that has any kind of UI uses the AOSP.
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I hear people saying that medicine can't have doctors be replaced by computers and it's more of an art than a science. I'd like to get more information and see why they think that and if their reasons really hold up. It intuitively seems to me computers can do a better job. Here are a few reasons:

1) When you think about what a doctor does, they use a combination of their memory, experience, knowledge and judgment.

2) Computers can remember a lot more relevant facts and wonmt forget them.

3) A doctor's experience is just with their own patients and what they hear at conferences and the literature they read. A computer network can literally aggregate experiences of many different doctors and cases around the world. A new superbug coming out, for instance, may have a treatment that few doctors know, because it's more prevalent in another country -- but a person using the network will be made aware of this treatment. The network will have much more experience than an individual. It will aggregate the outcomes of many therapies and studies.

4) The knowledge of the network can be extracted from the experiene and be much more extensive. Both beause the experence is extensive and because various methods of statistical analysis can be employed. A doctor isn't going to sit there and cross reference worldwide statistics on the success of using remedy X given factors of race, gender, age, etc. The computers can.

5) Finally, the judgment. Here is why the computers can beat a doctor's "gut" overall. They can cross correlate the knowledge from all around the world and find the most major factors. Then given the symptoms, race, age, location, etc. they can suggest the possible diagnoses given realtime epidemiological statistics and the additional tests that need to be done to establish which diagnosis is most probable. In many cases this establish a path to just one diagnosis with statistical accuracy exceeding what one doctor can produce. It can also list the next several possible diagnoses and the tests to establish them. After the diagnosis is established, it can find the therapies along with risk factors gleaned from all the relevant outcomes from around the world.

And this is just for conventional medicine. When we get into genetic therapies, computers and information science will become a huge part of medicine.
> But I've never quite seen the appeal of such a superficial attribute as "it's already on my cheap server." Are we not programmers?

Most people who start out programming PHP aren't programmers. (I think that's a good thing FWIW.) The ease to non-programmers explains the wide spread which is what the discussion is about.
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It depends on the KIND of GPS metadata - the GPS that is generated when I call happens is attached to the call metadata. The Metadata that is generated just by having your phone on is not. I'm ok with things attached to calls, I'm not OK with blanket tracking of peoples locations.

The standard that I use is what information would you have gotten from a pen register in say 1973 or at least inferred from other sources of data, which is, calling party, called party, duration of conversation, location of parties in call, and really nothing more. Which leave out whole hosts of other kinds of data, like e911 pings, and tower data (showing all the users on the tower) and so on. Because much of this data is compelled to be kept by the government beyond what would be needed for engineering purposes (or in the case of e911 data generated by order of the government) it most certainly shouldn't be available without a warrant.
Since we're on the subject, Korra actually had a hard time to be greenlit for the same reason. Nick was scared that boys wouldn't watch the show even after the success of Avatar, the Last Air Bender. Well they still bet on the series and thankfully their fears were proven wrong.
This is also often given as the reason radio stations are so homogeneous inside of their genre- if you don't fit the mould, you can't sell advertising slots. It leads to weird and perverse outcomes, but it certainly seems like people who refuse to bend go out of business.
I swear - did we work at the same company?

You're echoing my experiences in such complete detail, its almost scary.
The fact that the discipline is incredibly nuanced is precisely why I want computers doing the heavy lifting, at least when it comes to diagnosis. I find it extremely hard to believe that even the best doctors could come close to touching the accuracy of an expert system. Now, obviously there is still the necessity of a trained and skilled doctor. A doctor should always have the last decision (before the patient, that is), but the doctor should be trained to understand how expert systems work. And of course, doctors and nurses will be needed to gather information from the patient, both through medical tests and verbal questioning.

The fact is, every time I have gone to the doctor for anything other than an obvious diagnosis (e.g. I need stitches in the hand because it is cut and bleeding), I have been appalled at the experience. I experienced fairly serious chest pain at the age of 26, with no history of health problems. I quickly read online about all the things it could be, ranging in seriousness from reflux to a heart attack, and I expected a doctor to have some sort of academic methodology, or do something vaguely resembling science, but instead, they x-rayed me, said everything looks fine, and prescribed me extra strength Tylenol. I wish doctors would at least pretend that they're doing something that a walk-in x-Ray booth attached to a computer system couldn't do.
Depends on how many. I would say that a module should contain at most about 35 classes. Of which, about 3 belong to the module interface. So you may have a layer of about ten modules (again this gives about 30 public classes), before you need to abstract away another level of module.

Unformtunately what we observe in the field is rather thousands of classes unstructured, and the least operation requiring using and combining ten if not more classes, with no abstraction.
I have a fresh install of such a distro, where Python is included. What do I need to do to from Python present an input form which takes my name and a second page that greets me using the same name? Including deployment of course, how else should I test it without paying a web host?

I'm not discussing headaches, I do nit particularly like PHP. My point is just that Python is not very easy to get started with for beginners.
You are overestimating the skills of an average doctor. I'm sure your spouse is very skilled, but there have been other success stories facts besides lung cancer when it comes to the diagnosis and treatment http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1301/1301.2158.pdf: "The results shown here demonstrate the feasibility of such an approach relative to human decision-making performance. Even in its early stages of development, such an AI framework easily outperforms the current treatment-as-usual case-rate/fee-for-service models of healthcare."

I'm not sure what the difficulties in gathering additional evidence do to support your argument? The doctors have huge difficulties even with following explicit guidelines and existing studies.
Crack cocaine is a very successful product that has generated billions and billions of dollars for the world economy.

You have to watch out for arguments from popularity, they don't prove or even suggest anything other than popularity.
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I understand it but don't get it. Why use strlen? Even a simple one-line character-xor does better. (I tested using the 354 function names from the PHP2 source code.) Why would you bother bucketing, but then take such a silly approach and actually aim to name things for length?
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I work at Quora. A few things:
1) I agree the statement on this page is not accurate, emailing is certainly not as easy as other products.

2) We are committed to people who use, or have used, Quora. Our turnaround time for deleting accounts has improved greatly in the past year and should be within about 48 hours (excluding weekends, I mean, seriously.)

3) We've considered a one-click solution and may one day provide that. For now, we use the email solution because it avoids accidental deletion (I understand the skepticism here, but believe it or not, many people who have sent explicit delete requests in by email have later asked to have their account restored – we can't restore a deleted account, because, you know, deleted.) Offering a one click deletion from a settings page opens up a lot of confusion for people who assume that delete is some sort of soft "goodbye" with the chance to return later. Our soft delete is called "deactivation" which should de-index your content from Google, hide your name and halt all email and notifications from Quora to you. This is effective for a lot of people, but if you want your content straight up deleted, please email privacy@quora.com, and we will take care of it.
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Reminds me of a linux based edge router/SIP ALG product we used at a former employer if you put it on a 20 meg or faster symmetrical pipe, it would fall over, and eventually hardlock. Bugs in the drivers and a lack of hardware acceleration for the ethernet cards.
Ponies. That is all.

Seriously, didn't Lauren Faust disprove this once and for all?
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Most companies running data centers are now copying the way Google runs data centers

Most companies don't run data centers. Of the ones that does, the vast majority don't look a thing like Google because very, very few companies have computing requirements that look anything like Google's

And Android didn't change things?

Changing the marketplace doesn't mean innovating. You can be very successful (as Google is) without leaving so much as a footnote in history of invention.
That's precisely my point.

Everybody is exerting "force" on everyone else, sometimes indirectly. The contract between Amazon and the laborer was signed under the duress of threatened homelessness / lack of healthcare / starvation. Amazon signed the contract under duress because it needs people to ship its boxes. Amazon is not special and neither is the worker.

Any deal we make must exert force on someone (a restatement of "the world isn't perfect" within our framework). So who should be favored? Put quantitatively, there's a scale between the minimum price at which a person will sell their labor and the maximum price Amazon can pay for the labor and still turn a profit -- where should the actual price lie? Market economics looks to supply/demand balance for unskilled labor and slides the "final price" all the way over to the minimum. A libertarian would claim that this is just (both parties "consented") and reject attempts by the government to meddle on the grounds that the market knows best. A philosophy that rejects the notion that both parties "consented" (both were under duress) opens the door to policy adjustments that push prices away from one extreme end of the spectrum, because it sees these as less just. Since Amazon has all the power under the current system, such policy adjustments would favor the worker.

I would prefer that this be implemented IRL using a basic income or negative income tax scheme (ameliorate (!=eliminate) the source of labor's duress at the source) rather than by implementing a minimum wage, but that's beside the point.
I have the same problem. all i can do is manage my own behaviour. So i initiated ruthless timekeeping. I charge for every minute. I have a punch clock and I punch in and out for every client as i work for them all day long.

You can offer a discount for early payment but I've not found it useful.

And in my spare time I work on a product. When a customer pays late or otherwise abuses the relationship I pour the energy into that. If it flies someday then maybe I can get ahead.
I am not a christian, but IMO this is a pretty cool effort. More such ancient manuscripts should be made available online. These are important artifacts and should be made available to the general public, without requiring them to travel to a specific Museum.

Personally, I am interested in Da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus. Is that available yet?
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Encrypting database tables is easy.

Key management so that you can do anything with the data is significantly harder, depending on your threat model.
Great read, thanks. Crazy indeed but funny as well: 'The only way it seems for me to get out of this is by dying or emigrating to a place where there are none of these problems. Off planet is not an option. I spent some time researching the emigration options. A lot of time actually. And I’ve found out that the place where I live is in spite of all of the above probably one of the best places on earth to be living at the moment. It’s shocking! Half the world or more of it would be more than happy just to trade with me, and they’d be absolutely right.'
Except Google does plenty of [1] biological [1] based [2] studies [3] too [4].

And, of course, quantum [5] computing [6] studies [7] too [8].

[0] http://ai.stanford.edu/~gal/Research/ActivityMotifs/

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

[2] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

[3] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

[4] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

[5] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36657.html

[6] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

[7] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

[8] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
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