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> I see coding as the new literacy...it will be a skill required by almost every professional who is an expert in his or her domain.

That is an extremely unusual definition of "literacy."

"Coding is the new literacy" implies that coding will be necessary for anyone who wants to interact with modern life, not just for experts. Imagine trying to use the freeway system if you could not actually read streetsigns, for example. i.e. if you were illiterate.
A bit off-topic, but not much: I always wondered why paragliders don't have inflatable compartments like kitesurfing kites do... My theory is that it would help with wing stability.

I have no experience with hang gliders, but as long as you have rigid skeleton you have problems with trasport and storage. Could this skeleton be replaced with an inflatable one?
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Would you mind posting links to the unhelpful behaviour you have seen on mailing lists or IRC (http://ircbrowse.net/)?

The reason that I ask is that I'm concerned to hear more and more reports of such behaviour, but I've never seen it on the only Haskell mailing list I read (haskell-cafe) and I can't remember seeing that kind of thing on Haskell Reddit either, at least not without a number of helpful replies alongside unhelpful or dismissive ones. I'd like to see where this sort of behaviour is arising and see what I can do to improve things.
Here's something my mother badly needs: an alternative to meditech that is easy to program and use, but cheap enough for small hospitals to afford.

Just to put this in perspective, Meditech allows users (ie: non-technical medical personnel) to write their own "programs" for retrieving and organizing information in something called "Meditech Magic." Here's a clip:

BEERv1.1,
100^b,T("")^#,DO{b'<1 NN(b,"bottle"_IF{b=1 " ";"s "}_"of beer on the wall")^#,
N(b,"bottle"_IF{b=1 " ";"s "}_"of beer!")^#,
N("You take one down, pass it around,")^#,b-1^b,
N(b,"bottle"_IF{b=1 " ";"s "}_"of beer on the wall!")^#},
END;
As a UIX designer/hobbyist finance geek:

Building a common visual language to convey the health of securities is a fantastic, ambitious goal. I love it.

With that said, this information is basically unparseable, especially at a glance.

---- The home page is dense. This is a psychological double-whammy, because it's both technically difficult to take in, while also being daunting in the more abstract sense.

---- ~30-50% of the vertical space for each graph entry is an oddly cropped photo that contributes no knowledge and that makes navigation no easier.

---- Things have tightly clipped, sometimes translucent black background for seemingly no reason.

---- You've contained the filter system, one of the first actionable sections on the page, in a thing and wide internally scrolling box, completely arbitrarily.

---- Cute illustrations of bulls and bears are unprofessional. Stock photos of cityscapes are robotic. You've struck a strange balance that seems like you're trying to please everyone, without really committing to any one demographic. This isn't idea. If you're too cute for the business guys and too technical for the luddites, who's supposed to pay you?

---- Berkshire hathaway is the worst-looking entry on the homepage. This is a giant red flag for your system. It's widely known, especially among amateur investors, as one of the greatest of all time. It plants the thought in my head "Either these guys have some secret, amazing knowledge of BH that hasn't yet been reflected by the market, or their system doesn't work very well..." BH came out on top of that contest.

---- You force modal windows on me. Don't do that. The escape key doesn't close them. Now I hate you. Wait, there's no X button... You failed to explain that it's required(?) to view some pages.

---- And yet, modal lockout is trivially bypassed by developer tools, only to read "Sorry, no analysis for Berkshire Hathaway's competitors could be found in our database."

---- Most of these graphs are pretty for the sake of pretty. They don't add significant value over raw data. They do add significant size and time-to-parse.

---- Much of the picking process is about juxtaposition. If there are comparison tools available, they're not obvious.

---- I can't get back to the homepage from this subpage (/berkshire-hathaway)

---- Back to the drawing board on that side menu. Why is it even hidden? It could coexist with the existing content in a way that adds value. Why can't I scroll why the menu is open? Tell me that visually before I try and get frustrated.

---- Nothing about this system shows changes over time. I may be biased, as a technical trader rather than a fundamental value investor, but change over time matters a lot to me.

--------

This list could be much longer, that's just off the top of my head in the time I felt like talking about it.

Very cool idea. Could do really well. Design will make or break your execution here, and right now it's broken.

Feel free to email if you'd like to chat more about it.
And we don't know what he was accused of and how serious it was, how strong the evidence was, and how fair the process was that condemned him.

Certainly there are plenty of cases of universities making terrible decisions in this space eg men being expelled for sexual assault, followed by conviction of the complainant for making a false report.

Levin seemed to be very popular with his female students; on one of the courses some of them actually came in at the end and sang him a song of appreciation.
You don't always need good random numbers but "random looking" numbers. Examples:

- Map generation for games

- AI for games

- Random looking texture generation (like Perlin noise)

- Shuffle a playlist in your music player

- Clicking "random" on a webcomic's page

I'm sure there are other examples. I think that rand() is much faster than any good pseudorandom algorithm too.
Not exactly. Horizontal acceleration takes the same amount of energy. The mass of the body must also be supported upon landing, which obviously takes more energy with more gravity.
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"This is ... nation-state malware"

I was wondering why Symantec thought it was from a culturally-homogenous country, and why that would be relevant...
Not quite true. The command "" (much like bash's !!) runs the previous command you entered. It can also be given a prefix of a command and search the history for this command.

See wintext(1).
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And why this should be subject of this portal? Suddenly beliefs of someone become part of hacker world? Is this some sort of programming language or tech news? I don't think so. Please do not spam this portal with "news" like this.
My impression is that Microsoft is fairly reliable when it comes to supporting old formats and standards. E.g. I can still send Word and Excel DDE commands and this is a tech from 90s, Windows 3.1 and stuff. OOXML is certainly more powerful, but it's also more complex.
Ohhhh! (Light bulb). So you're saying, make your rate very high, which will weed out all but the best projects. Then, be willing to only work half the year (if necessary), but your rate will be high enough to cover it. Is that right?
@tome to be honest, I don't really want to dig and search for these things. I've had these ones saved in my Evernote, since they were a part of discussion I've been involved into and considered interesting enough to save.

I'll report if I find something. Also, it'd be good not to do it in public (even though links are public, I don't want to be associated with a report).
I tend to agree with most of your post.

> It also seems absurd to regulate the price charged for a fare. I have never understood the objection to surge pricing.

Taxis are a form of punlic transport. They need to have predictable pricing. The public also needs protection from unscrupulous operators who would overcharge.

There are better ways to achieve this.
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The target is those of us who are for diversity, but who have not realised how hard it is to achieve and maintain diversity in the face of even tiny biases.
Yes I'm on windows and already had the case of a npm package I would have liked to contribute but the build process was using make, couldn't make it work...

It's a bit disapointing when you have a very good multiplatform ecosystem to see stuff like that, sometimes it's people "forgetting" there's also windows (and I can get that), but some other times it's just a big "fuck you windows user".
This sounds very interesting.
Just curious, could I, for example culture large amounts of well plates with specific cell lines, add certain substances to said well plates and run RNA arrays or RNA-seq for each well?
Any plans on adding ways to culture cells in 3D? Or culture Organoids?

Could I visually inspect the growth of all those things growing in my plates (using fluorescence)? Can you quantify the growth for me in an objective manner?
You know, we biologists like to see our cells, we generate hypothesis from the weird growth patterns or strange behaviors.

You are addressing a very specific subset of biologists, not the classic ones. I guess it highlights the importance of interdisciplinary education :)

Some high level publications using your service would help, but you know that. Anything planned?
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They have their own plugin/watching systems, I'm trying webpack on a project and I'm just starting it with a "npm run" command.
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He's being punished for sexual harassment. What's so mysterious about that?
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You should get a PhD if you want, and you should see it for what it is: a job, with an end date and a certification. Many of you here act as if the PhD was a life-forming experience that defines your life. It's just one of the many things that can define your life.

In my experience the academic world is a closed society of people with similar, often pointless anxieties, an interesting, but quite uniform culture, and often a vague connection with the rest of the universe. I mean, things like publishing, impact factors, tenures and ego-bashing, are things that do not matter in the end, only the science matters, yet many academics' life incessantly revolves around it.

Another place where i have seen a similar "closed world" is the army. People there obsess over mindless pointless things all the time.

I think you should get a PhD because the world is getting richer and you can afford to do this, but make it about learning rather than anything else. If you dont build huge bridges in academia, who cares, you can always join a day job or start your own business. These are exciting times.
I think a lot of people who are upset about them removing his lectures probably misunderstand how OCW is being viewed by universities. From the perspective of MIT, these OCW materials are not videos and materials to be preserved for future generations, they're a product of the university.

We're not talking about stripping his materials off the shelves of a library. We're talking about taking them off the shelves of a store.

And MIT, as a brand, has no intent to sell products (for charge or not) which are associated with sexual harassment. This is even more important in the higher education space than in other industries because of the fact that the instructor is very much part of the product - it is an expectation of academic materials that the author can be contacted with inquiries about them.

The choice here for MIT, I think, is not about burning books. It's about continuing to present Lewin as one of their products. And when he's been found to have harassed women, it's obvious that they cannot do so.
They can even assign you a person who does all this for you and more. Usually she is called "wife" (or "husband", if it's a "he"). It is rumored that the costs are usually way higher in that case though (especially if you decide on a "wife" instead of "husband").

Sorry, couldn't resist. ;)

More seriously though: do you have a link? I find this concept seriously intriguing / weird / ... on many levels.
'Firefox is recommended for the best viewing experience'
weird
Sack the guy, prevent him from teaching. Leave the courses online.

Having and excellent resource and not using it is stupid.
> 53 year old african american man

How is his "race" (as you guys call it) relevant?
None of those things are integrated, they don't fit into my daily routine and they're overkill for my versions of the problems that they solve. I want a toothbrush solution, something I check 3 or 4 times a day and benefit from using. I don't need four toothbrushes, and I don't want to have to learn to use four different products.

I just threw those examples together in order to illustrate the idea that I have too much information for my puny brain to keep track of. I'm sure that there are apps to solve every information management problem that a person could have, but using all of them would create the new problem of learning to use and maintain N different apps.
Office hours with experts sounds like Helpouts[1], AirPair[2], and I think there are 2-3 others out there that I am forgetting. Some are targeting specific markets (eg programmers) but the end goal would seem similar for them all.

[1] https://helpouts.google.com/
[2] https://www.airpair.com/
The point of the model is to demonstrate that all else being equal, very tiny biases can explain continued segregation.

It's mainly a counter to the idea that enough people not caring about the racial makeup of where you live will lead to diversity in the face of even tiny amounts of bias in other parts of the population. If people want diversity, the only way it will happen is to actively promote it.

Of course other effects come into play too.
Agree too - so the reservoir data goes up and down but I don't know what that's supposed to be illustrating, same with the other stuff like snow packs.

I hoped to see something that would make me think 'wow that's serious' but it doesn't seem clear to me.
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A tripwire monitor with "immutable" data (btrfs/zfs snapshots or nix pure packages) to rollback in case of suspicious modification. ChromeOS does this at the OS update level. There's also the genode way http://genode.org/ for strong isolation (AFAIK it's different from VM and Containers)
This is highly oversimplified. The previous example of antagonistic samples being found works even if the training data was perturbed as you described. The reasons for saccades are also a lot more complex, involving photoreceptor adaptation etc.
If only then it were a solution which scaled and didn't have harmful effects..
Yes, his lectures were not likely to be found offensive. According to the statement, "...She provided information about Lewin's interactions with her, which began when she was a learner in one of his MITx courses". Interactions being the key word there.

Still, a statement as vague as this allows imaginations to run wild. If they are going to publicly humiliate a respected professor like this, you would think they would be at least a little more specific as to the allegations. They couldn't do any more damage to him than they did here anyway, and the term "sexual harassment" covers a vast spectrum of conduct. This statement paints him as the worst kind of sexual predator, who was so dangerous that he could only be stopped through public humiliation and immediate disassociation from MIT. Since no crime has been alleged, the impression they have created is probably not aligned with the facts.
please explain why PHP sucks

I am a php developer for years and truthfully, I don't find it sucky
Autolayout is horrible in the sense that when something isn't working, it's really hard to figure out what went wrong. My personal favourite is when you forget to set translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints to NO on a container view. A whole bunch of implicit constraints pop into existence that conflict with your actual programmed constraints, and the error message that tells you that you have constraint conflicts really doesn't help you in figuring out where the constraints are coming from. Eventually you figure this out, and you don't get caught out by it any more, but in the learning phase, it's quite painful.

Something else I really dislike when it comes to constraints - they don't play well with animations, at least in my experience. I recently created a view that had a variable number of square buttons in it that were laid out in a grid two rows high. Making a nice animation when you add a new button, fading in the new button, and sliding the others out of the way was nigh on impossible (ie 'not possible without writing more code than if I had just done the layout manually). And yet, this seems to be the perfect use case for auto layouts...
My favourite is when the company rejects you with no feedback then asks that you do not post your code for the challenge in your portfolio
There is Clive from lsub, a plan9 like OS in go.

http://lsub.org/ls/research.html
Indian PM wants people to choose androids instead of AK 47s
He said this on the context of Kashmeer issue. That part has been suffered by insurgency and Pakistan uses to play a proxy war against India and diverts the mind of Kashmeeri youth. They supply armaments and brainwash them to join jihaad and fight against their own military and country.

This time people of Kashmeer took part in elections in a whooping numbers. That signifies that the faith of youth and common people has been restored on democracy and Indian govt in general.

This is the main reason why he said so. I don't think he has any particular interest in Android OS or he is an Android fanatic.
Yes, it is misleading, it used to use rc4. Posix are proposing to standardise it under a new generic name, so it is unlikely to get changed until this happens.
http://waltherpragerandphilosophy1.blogspot.ro/2013/01/impro...
http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-24.pdf

See pages 16-19
Seriously, this. I couldn't read further after tripping up on that bit.
My first HN LOL thanks!
You still have to get all tools to all build environments (developer computers, build servers). For javascript you can write the build script in javascript without Gulp, Broccoli or Grunt, it works great. But you still want some tools to be installed and then you probably start to use NPM anyway.
Yes. Every time I look at a default Visual Studio setup, I get mental fatigue just from trying to figure out all the buttons, toolbars, and options that I'll never ever need to use. It's completely gross and bloated — the Microsoft Word of IDEs.

Xcode, on the other hand, is so nice and Appley and clean. It's a shame it runs so slow and crashes at the slightest breeze. Still, I'd rather use an Xcode that I have to force quit every 30 minutes than a stable Visual Studio any day.
I think Broccoli looks great for simple watch things.
You cannot compare something like Maven/Gradle/SBT/Leiningen to Make.

Make doesn't do incremental building and testing, it doesn't do test coverage reports, it doesn't download the dependencies for you, it doesn't build the Javadoc documentation for you, it does not package and publish your signed artifacts on Maven Central, it does not wrap your stuff in an OS specific installer, etc, etc...

And you know, these things are standard stuff that one would like to do for every project. It's unfathomable why anybody would want to do this manual plumbing for each project with Make. You call Make "simple", I call it "dumb" and it's the reason for why people end up with aberrations of nature, such as Autotools.

> Gradle requires you to read the first 12 chapters of the manual before you can even begin doing something more advanced than running compile

You're exaggerating. Compiling a project is a hello world of a couple of lines. What "advanced" usage are you talking about anyway?
Ok, but it is not relevant in this context. This guy is president of the United States, speaking of unlikely events..
Totally agree. There's absolutely nothing sexist about it at all. I am male and there loads of sports I have no idea about the rules.

Now, let's say I stumble across this bit before I interview her. Red flag: tends to treat things as sexist when they clearly are not. Meaning a potential law suit or what not for nothing. Sorry, too big of a liability.
I understand this, but I am trying to answer the OP's question. The UK system puts a lot more emphasis in getting the student in and out in three years, but of course this means the students coming out the other end have less experience. There is really no right or wrong here, just differences.
I kiteboard, so I can relate to (1), but the problem I see is that there isn't much of a marketplace effect.

eg - If I am in OBX, NC, I don't need a site that has weather data in CA or FL. There may be slight benefits to this, but I can't think of anything big enough that would make it easy to take over a site that is already popular with the locals of a region.

Am I missing some benefits that come from being larger?