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You're right. I guess I just don't like the fact that it's titled as "The Flaw Lurking In Every Deep Neural Net", when in fact neural nets will continue to classify new data as well as ever.

I agree that what you point out is very interesting.
So does the experience of repeatedly failing at tasks you are expected to master.
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I don't speak Chinese at all, but my understanding is that the writing is common, only the sounds vary from Mandarin to Cantonese. So how does a piece of writing like this help to preserve Cantonese? I would think that would take a song or spoken prose or something audible to maintain the Cantonese dialect. In five hundred years, if Cantonese speaking people have disappeared, will Mandarin speakers be able to read this graphic?
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In the US it's considered low status because it's considered to have questionable long-term value, due to potential future outsourcing.

He's absolutely right. In the US, software development has always, until perhaps very recently, been considered a very low status career and with low long-term potential. That is, versus one of the classic engineering or medical jobs. By the way, in the US, IT generally means support desk job, which is seen as the lowest of the low. Only very recently has the median software development job approached anywhere near a medical specialist or the classic engineering job, and it's still far below the wage of many US doctors.

I'd say that the US general public is still expecting the imminent outsourcing of all software development, to foreigners making $2/hour somewhere far away, to occur soon. People in the field don't expect this, but that's how outsiders perceive it.

This low-status is a huge contributor to what keeps most US women from pursuing software development as a career, according to women I've talked to. It really is that simple and obvious.

This is also why there's a trend of US software developers prominently adding "scientist" or "engineer" to their job titles. Pure software development still has a low status stigma.
You've just said that everything produced must be consumed. Now you have a more realistic model, with stocks. You are still missing waste. Keep improving it, and you may come into something useful.

You seem to have misunderstood you Econ 101 classes because "supply" isn't the same thing as "production", "demand" isn't equivalent to "consumption", and "intrinsic value" is a completely artificial construct.

Also, people save mostly because they want to spend later, invest mostly because they want to have more money, and consume mostly because they want the wealth. Inflation and deflation have very complex and often non-intuitive relations with those three. You can't just extrapolate from Econ 101, not even after you understand it right.
It's missing my favorite one:
http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/45161/
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Agreed, having to tinker around on a fresh, new device to get it working partially isn't acceptable : take it back.

It blows my mind such devices are sold, excepting the consumer to finish the installation and polishing that should have been the manufacturer's job in the first place.

Most people won't be able to because it's not their hobby. It's a huge problem, and Windows reputation is really bad because of this, people get awful experiences because of buggy drivers and manufacturers not finishing their jobs.
Full ASLR on Linux requires compiling with non-standard options (-pie -fPIE). Linux distributions seem to do this only on a case by case basis. They should've enabled these flags for most at-risk software by now, but I'm not convinced they got to all of them.
This doesn't really answer your question, but a lot of new drugs are "biologic" drugs which are much more complicated and expensive to manufacture than small chemicals.
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Not quite. A simple example: "冇" (meaning "don't have") is not present in Mandarin. You can find a list here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Cantonese
Here's another argument against your idea, completely unrelated to the snake oil rebuttal:

If patients could just buy unapproved drugs directly, why would they sign up for a clinical trial where there is a good chance they get the placebo? Keep in mind that even if there are a lot of people taking a drug, it is incredibly difficult to see if it actually works without a randomized controlled trial.

And a big problem with clinical trials today is recruiting enough patients for the trial. It's difficult and expensive. If the pool of patients wanting to enter the trial was smaller, less trials would get run and we would learn less about which drugs actually work and which don't.
For remote jobs, these practices are quite common. They aren't making you work for long hours. Working during odd hours is not uncommon for even local jobs for jobs which need it (establishments which remain open during odd hours of the day for example), so I doubt there is any legal issue here.

There is nothing unethical or even shameful about this practice. It is perfectly legit. Personally, I start work in the afternoon and work till late night, because those are the hours my employer works.
I have one, and it also has stock Android not unlike what's installed on the Nexus devices. I think this is mainly because these OEMs, who are trying to save expense wherever possible, are not going to do anything beyond making what Google provides run on their hardware, and this often involves just copying the reference platform provided by the SoC maker.

(The stories of them arriving with malware are likely from someone further down the chain of distribution installing it, and not the OEM itself.)
Cantonese speaker here. These are Cantonese (the region) proverbs much like "Bob's Your Uncle" is a quintessentially British saying that Americans wouldn't understand.

On another note, mainland China (including Canton) actually uses simplified Chinese writing (which came out from the Deng Xiao Ping era) whereas Hong Kong specifically maintians the traditional writing. The difference is literally less strokes and simplification of the characters. The infographic here uses the traditional writing. Personally I feel the two writings are mostly close enough that people should be able to guess what the other means. And AFAIK, it's a 1-to-1 mapping anyway.
If you hit TAB it brings up a menu in which there is a list of all the keyboard possibilities.
Yes! Glad I'm not the only one who uses ;.

The only thing I never understood was why ; doesn't go beyond the current line (n does). Is there a way to make it?
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Googling some, it seems to mean a backslash in the vimrc... but I don't really understand what you mean.
We're Alive (http://www.zombiepodcast.com/) is the only decent podcast audio drama I've heard. Other than that you'll have to stick with BBC adaptations.
As your comment would suggest, we then _shouldn't_ sympathise with a country because of their history.
After all, we can safely assume that everyone in that the country in question is an evil person looking to go start wars.
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> The only advantage I can see in Vim over a modern solution is that it runs in the terminal (which I guess is useful if you like to remotely modify files in your production environment?).

ssh -X host

Then remotely run whatever tool you want, including Sublime or Geany or Kate or even Wireshark if you wish.

> I must say I've only spent ~2 months of my life using vim before giving up, which I think is already pretty long for an evaluation.

Hmm yeah that is pretty long, you should see the advantage of it by then. Have you used it a lot in those two months? Because I've alternated between Geany and vim for like 6 months before being fluent enough in vim that I could get work done at the speed I could in Geany (or Notepad++ for that matter). But if I had seriously used vim for everything that I used Geany for, I think I would have easily gotten there in 2 months.

> I would be very happy if someone could point out to me the elephant that I am not seeing here.

Beyond that it's simply faster in text editing (code, plain text, or something like Markdown for that matter), I guess it's also a way of using a computer. I've never liked the mouse for anything besides games or GIMP and even navigate many websites by keyboard in Firefox. Ideally I'd spend all my time in a terminal, typing away with my hands almost never leaving the home row. But that's just me, I know noone else who is so fond of their keyboard vs. a mouse or touchpad.
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I've found that this webcomic does a reasonable job at illustrating that to people who don't understand mental illness: http://www.robot-hugs.com/helpful-advice/

In the example you list, it'd be like telling the first person, "Everyone feels bloated after eating a big meal - that doesn't mean you need to stay in bed all day when you think you have 'food poisoning'".

I agree that it's frustrating to read articles like this that trivialize mental disorders and downplay the struggles that they can actually cause for people.

EDIT: Changed comic link to original source
My (partial) understanding is that the FDA merely limits the ability for someone to market a drug prior to approval. A prescribing doctor could, should they choose, decide to prescribe a non-FDA-approved drug... but it would be difficult for anyone to find it if it wasn't a natural remedy.

Without marketing and mass adoption is hard to fund the manufacturing process for a drug.
The voice software on the iPhone is from Nuance, the company that makes Dragon Naturally Speaking. It's actually pretty good. I often use it to write emails, for example. It does go wonky at times. The one thing that is missing is the advanced editing abilities found in the commercial products, which quickly allows you to make corrections. e.g. 'scratch that'

With the commercial packages, voice probably wins over typing, or at least it's very close. See David Pogue's Dragon Dictate Review:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/hello-computer-speak-your-text-wi...

Additionally, I believe John Siracusa uses Dragon Dictate to write his lengthy (20,000+ words) Mac OS X reviews.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/23/

Anyway, I don't know if Microsoft rolls their own voice recognition software but providing a more advanced version in the Surface would definitely be a huge plus. Next generation voice software would attract an entirely new audience to the Surface.

In fact, the people who prefer voice to keyboards is probably 100 times larger. Microsoft should optimize for the larger audience.
Also Blumberg's input on Planet Money quickly descended into the worst kind of sycophancy. naked capitalism did a very good job of calling him out on it. It's a shame because some of the early shows (eg giant pool of money) were very good.
That's somewhat of a heartbreaking story. I wonder if your mind was calmed during those two years because you had found your calling and were happy with your situation, for the first and only time in your life?

I'm not suggesting you change your life now, btw. Maybe you are, for whatever reason, unable to engage in things which you are not fully committed to.
Do you think that this would make sense for a typical Linux tiling window manager / text mode user?

The form factor is great. I'd like something that i can place in my desk, a bit far away from me, and attach a usb keyboard to. Much better ergonomics than a laptop.

For occasional use, I can use a soft keyboard when it's converted to tablet mode.
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I have a link to share (Why the “Low MOOC Completion Rate” Statistic is a Bogus Argument) : http://augmentedtrader.com/2013/07/24/why-the-low-mooc-compl...

This blog is written by one of the Coursera Course(Computational Investing) instructor. I will quote him "Much of the criticism of MOOCs centers on supposedly low completion rates. And these rates do seem low when compared to completion rates of regular university courses. But the comparison isn’t apples to apples. Let’s dive in by considering what does it mean to start a course. "
That's untrue. I program computers for a living; I am well aware of how unreliable everyday software is. But to generalise from that to "no-one will ever write an existentially dangerous AI" is wishful thinking.
Sure, what's your email? You can email it to me if you prefer. Email is in my profile.
That's what I meant to say with the part about the flimsy/flexible typecover. It's quite tough to type using it on a lap, and the touchpad isn't very easy to use either. I tried the combo of typecover and pen - that was closest to most usable, but still just fell short. The other problem is that you're trying to balance a small (in width) stand between two legs, which practically meant squeezing my thighs together to not have it fall between them.

It's decent enough on a table top though, if used like a traditional laptop and you have a mouse or are patient enough with the pen.
Here is an example of a plausible conversation in Mandarin and a plausible conversation in Cantonese to show how different the two languages are, with different words (not cognate, and thus not written with the same Chinese character) in places even where you would expect English and German, or Spanish and French, to be cognate. I checked the example dialogues against dialogues posted online by native speakers of each of the languages, both for accuracy in transcribing the Chinese characters and for natural idiomatic expression in each language.

How you might write the conversation

"Does he know how to speak Mandarin?

"No, he doesn't."

他會說普通話嗎？

他不會。

in Modern Standard Chinese characters contrasts with how you would write

"Does he know how to speak Cantonese?

"No, he doesn't."

佢識唔識講廣東話？

佢唔識。

in the Chinese characters used to write Cantonese. As will readily appear even to readers who don't know Chinese characters, many more words than "Mandarin" and "Cantonese" differ between those sentences in Chinese characters.

Chinese characters still represent SPEECH (not ideas or abstract concepts) and do so in a way that is specific to the particular Chinese (Sinitic) language that one speaks. The long story about this can be found in the books The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy[1] or Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems[2] by the late John DeFrancis or the book Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning[3] by J. Marshall Unger. The book Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention[4] by Stanislas Dehaene is a very good book about reading in general, and has a good cross-cultural perspective.

Many other examples of words, phrases, and whole sentences that are essentially unreadable to persons who have learned only Modern Standard Chinese can be found in texts produced in Chinese characters by speakers of other Sinitic languages ("Chinese dialects"). Similar considerations apply to Japanese, which is not even a language cognate with Chinese, and also links Chinese characters to particular speech morphemes (whether etymologically Japanese or Sino-Japanese) rather than with abstract concepts.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Language-Fantasy-John-DeFranci...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Speech-Asian-Interactions-Comp...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Ideogram-Chinese-Characters-Disembodie...

[4] http://readinginthebrain.pagesperso-orange.fr/intro.htm
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PowerPoint is a NASA (and bureaucratic) symptom. MS delivered what the customer wanted. They want hamburgers not Steak Tartare.

Bad powerpoint didn't stop people from failing to communicate the risks to the Challenger.

> The format reflects a common conceptual error in analytic design: information architectures mimic the hierarchical structure of large bureaucracies pitching the information.

I'd quote more Tufte here but I am too lazy to type it in, the essay is a jpeg.
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the [client] company is charged a full rate for this headcount.

the [contracting] company pays a cheap price.
It's a pain that it supports SMS. I wish they would make a TextSecure that completely dropped all SMS sending support. As it is, having legacy SMS makes it trickier to use than Whatsapp, since Textsecure "randomly" sends SMSs (e.g. when your data drops out). If SMS cost you money then this is a deal breaker for using it with less tech-savvy family members.
I've listened to podcasts since before the term existed. In fact I seem to remember "Gillmor Gang" episode in which they are discussing that there is a new term going around for this thing they've been doing for a while.

Same with IT Conversations, it started as MP3s in directories and then rode it all the way to a dedicated company (Conversations Network) and SpokenWord.org super aggregator. All gone now.
"Use a little knife to saw down a tree" is wonderful and relevant to the audience here.
> After I let that sink in I suddenly didn't give a crap about the anti-pharma crowd. I have what I need and it helps me, so fuck 'em.

Unfortunately the anti-pharma crowd is actively making it more difficult for you to access your medication, by placing increasingly strict controls on access to Adderall and other Schedule II drugs, placing quotas on production (which cause medication shortages[0]), and other measures to 'combat overuse'.

Of course, the only people this actually hurts are people who need the medication on a daily basis and only use legal means to access it, whereas people who abuse/'overuse' it simply stock up ahead of time, or turn to the black market.

[0] http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/anatomy-of-the-great-addera...
All 4 of the dropouts you mentioned started their own companies.

I think the more mature the company (the more of a typical corporation it is), the less likely they are to consider someone w/o a college degree.
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I think I'm having the exact reverse problem. My focus at work is very good, but I feel anxiety levels going up during the day. Drinking coffee sends my anxiety through the roof. Also I'm often so concentrated on things happening inside my head, that I forget to pay attention to the outside world. This is especially problematic when talking to other people (that talk slowly), or in traffic.

Probably these symptoms are not so bad when compared to ADHD, but at times I just wish there was a (preferably natural) medicine to deal with this.
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From the Amazon description:

> He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong.

Did he just rewrite Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morals"?
so you talk about supply and demand, yet think cost is set purely by suppliers? What do you think would happen to the cost of potatoes if only 10% of last years harvest was harvested this year. It would go up, but only to the point where the supply vs. demand equalized, i.e. 90% of people wouldn't be buying potatoes cause they cost way too much, but there would be 10% of the people(like my wife) who would still be willing to buy them at $50 for 5 pounds, cause she values potatoes that much(she's got a serious fixation on potato soup). I.e. the value of a good depends on the person doing the valuing, i.e. subjective value.
I've heard the same. However I see many companies making employees signing bonds openly, including big ones such as Infosys, Accenture. Is there some loophole in law?
This is a more useful visualisation of programming languages:

http://exploringdata.github.io/vis/programming-languages-inf...
> Disney believes that current search engines are using the wrong approach as they rely on a website’s “popularity.”

Translation: Disney doesn't like that web site popularity is determined by people and not corporations.

> For example, a manipulated page for unauthorized sales of drugs, movies, etc. might be able to obtain a high popularity rating, but what the typical user will want to see is a more authentic page,” they explain.

Translation: Disney wants to determine what your moral values should be.

> such as results referencing piracy websites, child pornography websites, and/or the like,

Translation: searching for illegal Disney movies is commensurate with child porn. Don't every forget that when you think about illegal movies.
This is really more of an Ausu issue than a Windows one. Asus makes great motherboards and video cards but the rest of their hardware is rubbish as far as quality control goes.
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Looking at that list, I think you might like Arcade and Retro, a podcast from Ireland which is still a going concern. I know the makers but have no stake in it, pretty good show. - http://arcadeandretro.com/

Edit:
Scratch that - they're already on the list, missed it the first time