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Whenever there are humans involved, there will be biases. Making it a government entity instead of a private entity doesn't change that. People are people.
> From what I understand, the quality of life sucks in Korea.

I don't see any point in arguing about secondhand anecdotal data about working conditions at one specific company (I could regale you with a dozen such anecdotes heard from friends about working conditions at American companies), but South Korea's HDI is now 0.891, above countries like Japan, France, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Italy, and Spain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Deve...
We hacked the project in two weeks to make the photo sharing experience fun. Appreciate any feedbacks..
The maximum that a UK mobile company can charge for an international call in the EU is 18p/minute, around 29c. Same-country calls are naturally cheaper.

Another thing to consider is that off-plan call rates are certainly high, but since you could get a better plan for less than the cost of an off-plan call, you won't be making many of them.

Generally all carriers are covered by any plan minutes so you don't have to worry about differing charges. Ironically though, in the UK, calls to freephone numbers are mostly not included in plans so they do cost money...
No wonder I meet so many French programmers in Silicon Valley.

They always seem to pine for France, but they still stay in California. Its also really weird how fond and romantically they look upon such regulations. You'd think that they would be furious at the thought of such regulations in America, but they are actually pretty sympathetic about them. Even though such regulations have tied up the job market in France so much that they have been driven to a new continent, they still have faith in the State to fix things with rules.

That is one of the reasons I think libertarians can never win in the long run. Even very smart engineers have boundless optimism for the capacity of human managers to micromanage complicated systems like entire national economies. They also have boundless faith that bad actors and inside players can be prevented from manipulating regulations for their own benefit.
But the evidence is in! That's what the paper is about! If deliberate practice were the Key to Success, then when you go to measure its effects, you'd expect to see a lot of the variance in outcomes explained by it. Well, lots of studies went to measure, and that's not what they found.

For claims like this, absence of evidence really is evidence of absence. (You could state this more precisely in terms of conditional probabilities, if you're bored and feel like doing some basic math.)
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Here is the relevant statistic:

> If you compare college students with the same standardized-test scores who come from different family backgrounds, you find that their educational outcomes reflect their parents’ income, not their test scores. Take students like Vanessa, who do moderately well on standardized tests — scoring between 1,000 and 1,200 out of 1,600 on the SAT. If those students come from families in the top-income quartile, they have a 2 in 3 chance of graduating with a four-year degree. If they come from families in the bottom quartile, they have just a 1 in 6 chance of making it to graduation.

We're talking about students with similar SAT scores displaying dramatically different graduation outcomes based on parental income. The function of college, especially state colleges, isn't to reward people for being on the ball earlier in life, especially considering how much that has to do with parental education and income. It's to educate the populace, and enable upward mobility within society. It's penny-wise and pound-foolish to not spend money helping lower-income students graduate at the same rate as higher-income students with similar SAT scores. Every low-income student with above-average SAT scores that doesn't graduate college is a huge missed opportunity for the state to put a capable and educated person into the workforce.
Thanks—we changed the url to that first one from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU.
HAHAHAHAH.

I got to Fatwire in your comment, and I laughed my ass off. Maybe I know of people who used it for a CMS, and boy does that continue to be a nightmare.

Let's say this. Someone evaluated all off the shelf CMS options for a large educational org, and somehow the org settled on the only CMS where sales engineers and businessmen have the gall to tell them "well, it is really more of a caching system than a CMS" many months into this project. My oh my did the turd get stinkier and stinker after I heard those tales.

Thanks for clarifying. It all makes sense now.

Oh yeah, and this org, after more than a million wasted, this uses Fatwire. Or whatever they call themselves now.
It sounds like it's not Wayland making it difficult, but other systems making it way too easy. If I was a GUI application developer I would totally expect to have to interface with some WM API to register global key bindings. Being able to just listen to the keyboard even when the app is not in focus really does sound like a security problem waiting to happen.
It is very interesting to (re)discover software like that!
IMO lot of things have been invented in the 70s and we always reinvent the wheel!
MIT study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders
If it's implemented correctly. How many top tech companies implement their API's perfectly the first, second, or even hundredth time around? Walgreens isn't a tech company.

As the patient, the person who's information is being stored, I should have the ONLY say so over what happens to that information EVER, and if they don't get that, I have no problem taking my business elsewhere, which it looks like I'll have to do.
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To not pass judgement is to be unfamiliar with Fatwire. I assure you, his assessment is very fitting.
We push DNS into Route 53 at Runscope, and I trust our approach for the reasons you mentioned. Route 53 has a great track record for DNS uptime. If our sync system breaks, Route 53 will keep serving DNS records while we fix the sync system.

On a side note, we actually have two DNS sync systems at Runscope. One handles DNS for individual hosts (like web01.runscope.com) and the other handles public DNS (like www.runscope.com).

Our public sync daemon is tied into ZooKeeper, which keeps a list of active hosts for each of our public services. The daemon updates entries in Route 53 whenever the hosts change in ZooKeeper. We have 3 different types of public domains, and the tool handles all 3. We have standard domains with load balancing, geo-routed domains for services in multiple regions around the world, and regional domains for routing to a specific region. The sync daemon has been very helpful in keeping our infrastructure nimble.

If this interests you, I'll be giving a talk about our cloud infrastructure in a few weeks in San Francisco, along with our founder/CEO John Sheehan. Full announcement coming soon...
You characterize the people who disagree with you as being both uneducated in economics and closed-minded. Have you considered the possibility that there are those of us who are well versed in economic theory, including those favoured by libertarians, and have come to the conclusion that while they're certainly as plausible as any other competing theory, the proof is in the pudding?

Many different economic systems have been tried all across the world and throughout history. Given all of your reading, surely you could point to an example of these theories being tried out in a real economy and succeeding?
That's not true in general. UK phone companies love to charge astronomical international rates when they can get away with it. Only EU maximum charge limits have capped these.

For example, in an EU country like Greece, I can phone a UK number for a maximum of 18p/minute. If I happen to travel near the border with Turkey and connect via one of their networks, there's no regulatory maximum price and the cost jumps to 69p.
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As someone looking for a job here right now and being quite norm conforming, this terrifies me.

I'll try to find a foreign company.
The ELI5 I could glean from it was that Oracle's development and management of the project was pervasively bad, and more importantly that they continually lied and covered up information over the course of the project, misleading the state over the past three years while taking more control over the project whenever they could.

This summarizing statement says it quite succinctly:

"In effect, Oracle used its purported superior expertise, coupled with lies and pressing deadlines, to trap the State and Cover Oregon in a deadly spiral: at each juncture Oracle charged more and Oregon got less."
Well yes, but 17% less looks pretty significant to me.

That means about 6000 less dead Americans per year.
If your Rails versions is too old (which can often mean only around 12 months old), there will be no security patch released

Rails 3.2 is over two and a half years old.
XREPL: eXtended REPL
It doesn't matter about it being true in general - the fact that any UK networks allow you to have unlimited data in America for no extra cost on a contract that is much much cheaper than US contracts shows that the US carriers are screwing you - I pay £15 a month (no contract - I can stop whenever I want) and that includes unlimited data in America.
plus, if in the middle of the Australian outback, the datacenters can serve as the plot device for a 5th Mad Max film.
Maybe it's also good idea to revisit the reason why these systems are not widely in use. They all operate under so called "closed-world" assumptions. It means that the knowledge about the world is very limited.

Once the limitation is lifted the system has to deal with non-monotonic reasoning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-monotonic_logic) and that leads to multiple inheritance problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_inheritance). Unfortunately, the multiple inheritance problem has, so far, only NP-hard solutions (http://ijcai.org/Past%20Proceedings/IJCAI-89-VOL-2/PDF/047.p...). [EDIT: think of a command "eggs are in a fridge"; to find eggs in a fridge you need to know that they are inside a container; you need to know its shape and how to open it; if your software knows that and inherits this knowledge each time when asked for eggs, then it will brake when the eggs are not in the box.]

We are in need of software that deals with large networks of human knowledge. Then we can take SHRDLU to the next level. Otherwise we are stuck with Will Smith movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/).

[EDIT2: there are many theoretical "suggestions" but very little software or practical internet applications]
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(another french here).
I sadly agree on everything said here...

I would like to add that in my opinion, the main problem in France is that everything related to driving is now turned into a business.

Usually the driving test is less about driving and more about how long they can keep you in the DMV to charge you money. There is not a lot of preparation to the driving test itself in order to fail the test the first time (so they can charge you after that). I've also seen verbal agreements between driving inspectors and DMV's (I guess this is easier to do on the country side).
I'm not sure hiring more adjuncts would hurt the quality of (undergraduate) teaching. In my own experience adjuncts were far more dedicated to teaching than tenured professors who focus on their research without caring how low their teaching ratings sink.
If you need that push to jump into learning something completely new, like programming. A bootcamp can certainly get you started. Although I would consider it to be a very expensive way to get started. My other concern is the false sense of confidence that one now has a thorough understanding of the subject.

What languages, frameworks do you now have experience with? Ruby on Rails? Are you primarily interested in web development? Software development is a huge field with many specialties. Web development is completely different from native application development, server development is completely different from GUI applications. Firmware and device drivers yet again are very, very different from the already mentioned specialties. Then there are specialties like algorithm development, encoding, artificial neural networks, encryption, compression, game logic AI, etc. Pick one thing, because you will quickly lose your focus if you keep bouncing from topic to topic.

I'm currently finishing up my first app for the Apple Itunes store. Things I had to learn to accomplish this: Objective-C, Cocos2D framework, openGL, Adobe Illustrator, Quartz 2D, Cocoa Touch, XCode, Git, FreeBSD (to host my custom game server), TCP/IP, UDP, mono. And that's just the programming stuff. I had to create a very intelligent algorithm to handle the computer player AI.

Prior to taking on such a monumental project, I had over 20 years of experience with x86 assembly, C/C++/C#, desktop application development experience using MFC and .Net, firmware development for ARM processors, device driver development on windows, simulator development for an engineering shop, manufacturing operations and testing software with database backend, reverse engineering of cell phones for forensic analysis, software development management, and the director of software engineering for a medical device company.

What are you most intersted in? The topic you are MOST interested in. Start there. If you tell me more about what you are looking to do, I can certainly point you in the right direction.
The Exploration and Exploitation of an SD Memory Card (2013) [video]
Not so fast. You seem to assume that measurement in this case is simple and non-controversial. In fact measuring the amount of deliberate practice is very hard. How do you account for the difference in the types of activities individuals engaged in as children? How do you account for different levels of dedication and passion? How do you account for different amount of support from friends, family and institutions?
the driving test being just a drive around the block?

This varies. Driving is regulated at the state level, not the federal, and even then, it's pretty subjective.

I grew up poor, so didn't get my first license until I was 22. I was in a small town in Oklahoma, so there was one place to take it. First two times I failed; the officer grading the test was pretty much by the book. Third time, it was a laid back dude, and he didn't even have me parallel park. Gave me a 97 or something crazy like that.
Good thing that this is all coming to Javascript. But I can't help but think we're in bizarro land when the main language of the most ubiquitous medium of the 21st century is only getting all that rather basic stuff (at least by all the other languages' standards) in 2015 or something...
Every time I see articles like this, it reminds me how much the FDA's poor treatment of the genetic testing market infuriates me. What the FDA has done to 23andMe is disgusting (an Illumina customer).

Why can't I spend $99 and find out if I have a prominent heart disease marker, that killed both my father and grandfather by 55? Because the healthcare market is regulated by the government for the benefit of various cartels. They want me to spend thousands of dollars and be forced to go through layers of doctors to get the same results instead.
I still use reiserfs on my drives, ever after knowing Hans Reiser is a murderer. Doesn't make his contributions any less valid.
I didn't mean to sound argumentative. I'm not suggesting that there aren't inefficiencies and problems with management at Korean conglomerates. I'm genuinely interested in this seeming contradiction, and in exactly how certain countries have managed to modernize so successfully, while others are stuck in a rut: http://i.imgur.com/yUoeWW0.png
Please stop putting nytimes.com news as in Frence it is not free at all.
Can you show me where you're getting the data that most silk road drugs are coming from cartels?
The argument seems to be that if the added type system is not perfect, then it will be useless. For a working counterexample, see the Closure Compiler (https://github.com/google/closure-compiler), which adds a bolt-on, underspecified, occasionally-changing type system to Javascript. Similarly to GvR's proposal (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-August/0...), the types are only ever checked at compile time: there's no attempt to use them as runtime assertions and very limited attempts to use them for compile-time improvements. So, yes, because they are imperfect and optional, you don't catch every type error, and you need to add type hints / casts that in a perfect system wouldn't be necessary.

Is this kind of flawed type system worth it? Hell yes. I've maintained large programs in both Python and (closure-compiled) Javascript, and with the former I've wished I had the help of the limited type checking available in the latter.
Less new drivers a year, selection of the best, many hours of practice, no easy passing, hell, this sounds like a dream!

I wonder what this would mean for the HN darling, Uber.
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Why Comcast and other cable ISPs aren’t selling you gigabit Internet (2013)
I didn't know Python users hate static typing so much.
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I think mesh networking is a hugely important tech.
I think the slow browser updates that existed prior to Chrome might have contributed to a lull in developing the language. Some of these features can't be fixed for old browsers with a polyfill, but now that updates are happening quicker and there's a lot of excitement around the language I hope we see more of these.
It's cheaper sure, but you're not in the center of town, you have to get at the airport way sooner so you don't really save that much time in the end.
It's not all that alarming in any case. The article did say that the amounts released are small compared to other sources of methane.
>There is only a limited amount of exam slots

Why?
What you're saying though is still not true:

I can go to US and use unlimited data for no extra charge.

There is a charge; it's part of your contract package. I'm sure it's a fantastic deal and for a traveler who uses mobile data in the US, it makes a lot of sense. But Three aren't doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. The charge for this data is part of your phone plan. Three (or another network) could provide an alternate package that didn't provide 'free' US data for a lower monthly cost.
Well, he wasn't moving, yet. Just he and his wife were flown out for the interview; his wife was included so they could take a day or so to go look for rental properties for the short term, I am guessing.
OK, well that answers the question in my other comment.

So, given that this theory has never been tested, why are you so confident in it? So confident, in fact, that you imagine everyone else in this thread to be completely ignorant of basic economics, or driven by ideological groupthink?
I disagree. This is one of the most important pieces of feedback any opensource project can get. Technical merit means nothing if users find the cost of using the interface more trouble than the benefit of the program.

I think the lack of emphasis on creating polished user interfaces is a real ideological stumbling point for the open source movement.
Have to agree.. the service still works; if you already have the app installed, the app still works; so why would Amazon want to temporarily stop supplying the app to new users. Other than a security issue, there aren't a whole lot of reasons to do that.
It's all just pattern matching, strings being mapped to other strings.

Data is data--it matters not where it comes from, the computers couldn't care less.
This was a shitty way to argue; my comment above was directed at a comment on the thread, but this one feels more like it's directed at a commenter. I think the argument --- that some kinds of ageism might not be a problem, because they involve jobs old people shouldn't want --- is toxic. But I resorted to snark and sabotaged my point.

I apologize.
That's not really controlled by Vocal, that's the GTK+ theme, which in this case is the elementary OS GTK+ theme's dark mode.
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How WWII could have ended
agreed -- i wrote it to sound tin foil hatty, but to come off as funny. mission not accomplished
I did pass my test 14 years ago with 20,00 hours of driving lessons and 2400F (a ridiculous 350€). In the recent years, I know no-one who passed the test with less than 28 hours, and that's an unilateral decision on the school side.
According to this article, the influence of the drought on seismic activity is very small: http://gizmodo.com/californias-drought-is-so-bad-the-mountai...
You don't get it, the cost of my contract is much much cheaper (we are talking 25% of the price) than any unlimited US contract and yet it includes the same stuff.
Random question for the type experts out there: is there any language that lets me track the units of my numeric variables? For instance, something like this:

float<km> drop(float<m> x0, float
 duration) {
float<m> x = x0;
float
 t = 0;
float<m/s> v = 0;
float<m/s^2> g = -10;
float
 dt = 0.01;
while (t < duration) {
v += g*dt;
x += v*dt;
t += dt;
}
return x * (1<km>/1000<m>); // abbrev for a cast: (float<km/m>).001
}

Then I want the compiler to check that I'm not mixing up my units. It seems like this would be really useful, but I've never seen it before.
I have an alternative theory.

My copy of ACD sync pegs my upload meter ~80% of the time even when it has been hours to days since I last touched a file in its folder. If this bug is widespread, it might make sense for them to pull the buggy app until they can get an update ready, even though the issue isn't particularly worrisome or pressing. They would just rather not have angry customers and high bandwidth costs.
Would you mind if car companies switched the gas and break pedals whenever they felt like it. After all, gas pedal on the right is no harder than gas pedal on the left.

Except...the custom is already set.

Most users would rather ignore a program than relearn yet another arbitrary interface when the standard one is good enough.
>learner's permit at 14?

I'm pretty sure there are only 2 states where that's the case. It's definately not a normal thing for the vast majority of Americans. It's 15 in most states 16 in a few.

Edit: It's actually 5 states, plus 3 more that allow teenagers to get learners permits at between 14.5 and 15 with additional drivers education requirements.

Here's the numbers on just how many.

If you include Michigan with full permits at 14.75 at the asbolute earliest (though most teens wouldn't be able to complete a 40 hour drivers education course that fast so the average will be even closer to 15)--then around 7.3% of teenagers can get their learners permit sometime during their 14th year.

If you don't include Michigan only 4.1% can.
Ubiquiti makes it easy.

I set up a point-to-point link a few weeks ago using two of their cheaper antennas - it took minutes to configure the encrypted, secure connection - it "just works".

I'd love to join a mesh network (or a p2p node network) where I live, but there doesn't seem to be one available.

In Melbourne, Australia there's a rather large wireless network that's existed for years - but I can't find similar networks in any other of the country's large (or even smaller) cities.
off-topic but genuine question:

Is it not a bit ironic that this source of information about display technologies (among other things) uses tables for page layout?