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>"A pass should be 100%/A+. You should not be able to progress until you understand the subject matter 100% as future learning depends on you having a complete understanding of previous content."

As much as I can see the value in that, it'll never fly. Because, as I'm sure you know, we live in a society of "equals". Therefore, the system you propose will violently shatter that illusion for the general public and mainstream collective-thought.

And this will happen because you will very quickly see so many fail miserably and a few plowing through the material. Both due to innate general intelligence, affinity for particular skills/topics as well as plain old determination. We don't all have equal amounts of all, no matter how much we get told otherwise by individuals blaming externalities.

And I'll just go ahead and add that I believe I'd be one of the many that would very quickly fail in such a system. At least, until I realized the seriousness of the situation and decided to sit my ass down and study with determination and not rely on any supposed inner ability/gift/talent.
Heat from radioactive decay and primordial heat are each thought to be about half Earth's internal energy budget - tidal forces from the Moon, even though they're strong enough the change the elevation of the surface by up to half a meter, do not factor in at a significant ratio as far as I know. Of course I'm only talking about the Earth-Moon system and the claim that without the Moon we would not have any atmosphere or magnetosphere.

> moons of a large gas planet could also harbor formation of life

Indeed, and the fact that there are at least two ways to convey energy to an ecosystem should increase the prevalence of life in general. Moons are an excellent spot for life, in some ways maybe even better than planets. They are more numerous, they can be cozy even outside of the Goldilocks zone, to some degree they can be protected by the magnetic field of their gas giant, they are never tidally locked to the star, and they might have a better chance for volatile chemicals on the surface than your average rocky planet.

Since the thread was originally about the Fermi paradox though, one has to wonder about the likelihood for bearing technological civilizations. How fruitful are ocean worlds for bringing forth tool users? Intelligence may in fact be common, but how conducive is this environment to science and engineering? We don't know.

> though they'd have to be rather closer to their parent star than the Solar System's giants are

If they're experiencing enough tidal stress, such as Europa is, they don't have to be close to the star at all.
Yup. Mr Hess has a whimsical style which I find amusing.

I won't be able to reproduce this bug until February, and even then it will be Parkin (a form of cake made with oats) rather than Cornbread.

Seriously, if I found myself on dialup right now (or more likely a very slow mobile connection) I'd ssh into the shell account and use links from there at least for initial searching and text based information.

I'm wondering if there is some form of directive in the html of the requested page that forces a page refresh every now and again?
I don't think that's right. They only had about $100m in revenue when Amazon acquired them.

That's what's so striking about Kiva. They basically make one model of robot with minor variations. Kiva was about 500 employees when Amazon bought them. Yet that was enough to handle 20% of online fulfillment. Pets.com, Diapers.com, Abercrombie and Fitch, and many other major brands used Kiva robots.

Most of the other automation companies do vast amounts of custom engineering work. Every customer is different. For Kiva, every customer is the same, and the product line is simple. Kiva is the first company to achieve this in robotics. (Well, there's the Roomba, if you consider that a robot.)
No, their premise is that ideas as well as execution is cheap to replicate once it's already done by someone else in many of the cases. These people are actually copy pasting all the way down to HTML and CSS. All the design work and nitty gritty of how user interaction should look like is already done for them. They already know how it was bootstrapped, why it is successful and what users would expect from it. In other words they bypass most of the risky unknowns that causes large number of startup to fall. Backend is sure not replicable but given that they operate on smaller scales, most applications such as AirBnB would boil down to creating simple database and shuttling data back and forth which becomes college-level project that can be done quickly and thrown in market. I would not expect them to clone startups that is heavy on CS skills such as those requiring machine learning or computer vision or large amount of computing power. They would mostly go for startups where formulation of user experience is key and implementation is basically a relational database with UI doing simple read/writes.
Meh, it's more complex than that since they didn't put in $426B on day one and then get out $450B on the last day, you'd have to weight each investment on its own time frame and run independent returns. Either way, the bailout wasn't set up to make a profit, so it's fairly pointless to judge the returns..
Since they use a coin flip to determine who wins each game, running the simulation on week 1 would give each team an equal chance of making the playoffs.

Actually it would be interesting to know if the NFL rules / schedule give some teams advantages from the start.
Because if you say something _should_ be done, you are making a moral command. There is no point in tolerating things that you think shouldn't happen; that's just conflating your preferences with your ability to enforce them.
I love Charles Proxy, I use it all the time for debugging service issues. Breakpoints and the ability to easily mock responses is really invaluable.
if the net connection dies while page resources (but not the actual html) are still loading, the already-loaded-partial-page is replaced with an error message
Interestingly enough there may be growing discontent even among the oligarchs, Putin's inner circle.[0]

0: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/21/vladimir-putin-...
I saw it yesterday at the Embarcadero Center Cinema and it's going to be there for at least the upcoming week.

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/san-francisco/embarcadero-ce...
Check out the post the OP was referring to[1]. The author was reacting to a teaser trailer with footage of the most expressionistic part, without really any context at all. He is clearly very excited by the movie. I think his description is entirely reasonable and not in the least shallow or philistine. (I myself quite liked the movie myself and loved this particular scene.)

[1] http://www.firstshowing.net/2013/watch-first-unique-teaser-f...
Investors needed (Pingmergency)
Almost certainly elderly scientists in particular; if he meant a general statement then the juxtaposition with the previous sentence is very odd. Also there's this (paraphrased from memory) quote in Rendezvous with Rama: "even after hundreds of years, science never solved the problem of having elderly, conservative scientists at the helm of its governing bodies".
I wonder how did this evolve to be...

I remember (vaguely) the beginnings of Java, but not how it did end up in Enterprise and why it was loved so much there.
Yeah, it is pretty hard to believe.

Personal anecdote. About eight years ago I knew a guy who had a small diner in Michigan and the weekly deposits came out to be just under $10k, so $8700 this week, $9500 the next week. Nothing nefarious, that's just what it happened to be. I guess after three months of this the bank closed his business' account for "suspicious activity".
Can you not design a process that can achieve your objectives with the help of 'OK' developers?
That's what Amazon had before Kiva robots. Here's the job description:

"We go around with a little cart to a conveyor belt and grab 2 plastic tubs. With a scanner in one hand and pushing the cart in the other your job is to go around to wherever the scanner tells you and "pick the items" This involves scanning the tub, then the location bar code, searching for the right item (which most of the time is easy to find but sometimes hard) and scanning it. Then doing the same thing for the next 10hours of your day minus the 2 15minute breaks and the 30min lunch break."

The people are just peripheral devices of the computer systems that run the distribution center.
Replace 'programming' with 'guitar playing' or 'painting' and I would still think the same way. 'Programming' is not a special case. Thanks, though, I will read ahead a bit and try and keep an open mind.
Is it not worthy an economically sustainable income? According to their salary schedule, an assistant professor makes a minimum of $60k, and the median makes $90k. I'm not an American, but isn't that a decent salary? And from what understand, Las Vegas isn't a particularly expensive place to live.
It's still a small industry. Kiva is a few hundred people. iRobot is 528 people. Boston Dynamics was about a hundred before the Google acquisition. Some of the industrial automation employees are bigger, but many of their employees are at field sites, installing and fixing systems.
You should know that the sweet spot for YC founders is a team with at least one person capable of building the product, and that the competition includes folks who once had a very good idea but, as of the time of application or their interview, possess a working prototype of the idea which they have begun to expose to market feedback. In many cases, they will already have revenue, sometimes meaningful revenue.

If you want to get into YC, I would advise taking whatever steps are presently possible to create the business, and then demonstrating that you're making forward progress when you apply. Happily, this is exactly what you'd try to do if you weren't trying to get into YC, so it shouldn't be a major imposition.
But that is the problem – he has no incentive to do anything good for the country because he has absolute power and controls mass media. He is not accountable to anyone.

In fact, he sort of benefits from people struggling. When you're hungry you don't care about democracy that much.

By the way, Russians' lives did improve relative to early 1990s which is what most people remember most vividly. It's just that Putin has little to do with it, it's just a matter of rising oil prices and increased trade.
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>After such a start, why then should I read further?

Because the stated assumptions aren't always reflective of the actual design principles of a product. HTDP is a solid course that in practice does not compromise on quality for the sake of popularity.

That everyone could (and should) learn to program is also a popular thing to say these days. This generally means that you can discount the importance of any one person saying it to that person's beliefs.
To create a prototype for my startup to present to Vc's
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There's a delightful article which I can't find at the moment about a mother who did her middle school daughter's homework alongside her for a week. Her daughter advised her "memorize, don't understand". There's not enough time for understanding.
I wonder if being open minded is enough. The "winds of change" aren't always very strong, and accordingly new opportunities aren't (at least initially) better alternatives to the status quo, they just happen to have incredible future potential. To fully take advantage of this, the expert would have to move backwards, quite possibly endangering himself, while a new entrant to the field has no risk to assume by doing so.
To use the hill-climbing metaphor described by other commenters, a new climber can begin climbing the new potentially tall mountain immediately, while the "expert" will first have to descend his peak.
What's more, iirc Miyazaki explicitly approves of the dubbing, saying that the films "are meant to be watched, not read".
Nice take on the whole "perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to take away" thing!
I love the idea of this project, but as even Mike Pall has mentioned the "proper" way to do this is to target Lua code directly. LuaJIT is designed to speedup Lua, not LJ bytecode.
disagree.

the manufacturer has earned his right to those patents through original research. much unlike any other industry, pharma needs to prove its product are indeed working and safe. this is not sugar water. real science, to the core.

the failure lies in the process afterwards. how healthcare is disbursed, how it is allocated. especially in the US. if a country negotiates a price, as a single payer, everything looks quite different.

and curing Hep C? it is cheaper overall, in the longterm, to have productive tax payers who live a long, healthy life. paying net in, rather than needing constant care.

big hope: alzheimers as the next big target. cancers will take longer, so many things lurking in that bucket term.
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Initially, it aimed at replacing C++ (which it mostly achieved, for LOB apps). The primary market for Sun has always been the enterprise, so it was a natural target.

Then, when the web exploded, people found out that developing against a virtual machine could be safer and more predictable than developing against the operating system, so web-app servers were born. J2EE provided a certain degree of consistency, which other platforms did not have.

As platforms evolved, they tried to generalise their use-cases, which introduced a number of abstractions and forced decoupling; and because Java2 lacked support for a lot of introspection/metaprogramming features, you had to explicitly cover a lot of cases, leading to interfaces multiplying.

It didn't help that at the time, the "Pattern" movement was popularised and their tools (which are all about decoupling and introducing further levels of abstractions) became overused.
Also, https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/notes_for_a_caretaker/
Probably, he's referring to this official GAO (Government Accountability Office) audit report [1] from 2011, which exposed the Fed secretly loaned 16 trillion USD (!!!) to big banks worldwide at 0% rates (afaik, currently fully unreturned).

Here are the top four [2]:

Citigroup - 2.5 T$
Morgan Stanley - 2.0 T$
Merrill Lynch - 1.9 T$
BOA - 1.3 T$

Frankly, I'm surprised this didn't receive more attention from the media.

[1]: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11696.pdf (Table 8, PDF page 144)

[2]: http://www.sott.net/article/250592-Audit-of-the-Federal-Rese...
We in the sharing economy now! All lines of business now have sharing in the name. No change in responsibilities.
This is strictly federal government revenues associated with TARP funds. In a way the middle class has benefited by not having their bank suddenly go down or the local factory shut down due to some giant Detroit automotive contract defaulting on its payment.

But strictly speaking, it's a Troubled Assets Relief Program, not Middle Class Enrichment Program, so not sure where those expectations come from.
>- Grading is harmful. A pass should be 100%/A+. You should not be able to progress until you understand the subject matter 100% as future learning depends on you having a complete understanding of previous content.

Expert practitioners with decades of experience will often still make one or two mistakes, a couple of "derps", if given a child's exam. This is a broadly good idea, but you need to allow some margin of error for the noisiness of real cognition.
I disagree with junto, game theory; the probability of it happening is feasible. What's not to say it hasn't happened before?
To log app requests? Firefox doesn't have a proxy unless I'm mistaken.
I agree but I also see the counterpoint: a further abstraction layer (or VM) between language and iron can make it more difficult to identify abuses / edge cases, which is where security holes naturally hide. C compilers are very well-understood at this point, they are "the devil you know" so to speak.
Ah no, I see what you mean. But that was what I meant (when I read it back it sounded a bit snarly; not intended); it doesn't have to feel like that? It's just great get some of the feel for the games/software back without it having to feel like that magical. Actually it doesn't feel magical to me anymore; quite the opposite but in a very relaxing way. The frustration with the (far more magical if you put it that way) process of modern software writing isn't there. It is frustrating in that if you do one thing wrong, all crashes and you have to wait for a reboot, however that actually gets you to focus better on not getting it wrong... But I don't have that thing which should work but does not work because of some software update Apple did or some input is wrong but no-one knows why (expressed by stackoverflow answers like: try to reboot, quit xcode and start again etc in 6 answers which all do not solve your identical issue). I have the advantage that I actually like the games a lot from the 80s (that must be nostalgia indeed) and people are still actively working on software for these machines, amazing things which cannot be done if you don't know everything about these systems like [1] (on 3.58 mhz (!) computers).

[1] http://symbos.org
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An elderly scientist is often one who did all his work in an old theoretical paradigm, a paradigm whose death is eagerly awaited by all the young PhDs looking for jobs with a new paradigm in their thesis.
> I've never really developed a taste for Japanese animation, and went in with no expectations.

To be fair, the vast majority of it is crap. (In much the same way the majority of American entertainment content is also crap)

But there's also fantastic stuff out there, like Miyazaki films.

Makoto Shinkai has some excellent films.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Shinkai

Garden of Words, 5 Centimeters Per Second, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, The Place Promised in our Early Days, and Voices of a Distant Star are all excellent.

Mamoru Hosoda's recent works have all been quite good as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamoru_Hosoda

I'm not really a fan of his earlier works, but everything he's done since The Girl Who Leapt Through Time has been very high caliber.

I wouldn't say either is quite at the level of Miyazaki and Ghibli, but they're both quite good, and some of the better examples of the medium at it's best.
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The studio just can't survive after Hayao's retirement.

I was especially disappointed when Ursula Le Guin trusted her Earthsea series to him, and he gave it to his idiot son.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0495596/
Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?
The audits are probably pretty bad, but also probably better than the audits that less scrutinized companies do.

What consumer electronics products are manufactured in the US... not counting "final assembly" in the US where the PCBs come in fully populated from China and are screwed into the enclosure in the US?
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>There is no such thing as having two beliefs of equal weight that contradict each other - that's an illusion created by either applying a different definitions to each belief, or a refusal to admit that you believe one more than the other.

Of course there is: P(A) = 0.5 and P(~A) = 0.5. Don't be silly.
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This assumes that the goal is to be Jobs, and I completely agree with the assessment that you need to be schizophrenic. I would like to point out, the expectation is to be detail oriented(execution/expert) while leading a larger org macro goal (learning/strategy). In the right contexts with appropriate resources, this can & does magnify personalities and outputs!
Does any know what software was used to generate the book? I assume, because of the CC license, the source might be in some github repo, but I was unable to find it.

LE: Thanks.
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If you don't bake your cornbread in a cast iron skillet, you're Doing It Wrong™.
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Your post seems to have shifted its goalposts from good to great and back again a couple of times. I would not say that someone becomes great at what they do given only books and practice at home.
Hacker's is mostly like a children's movie. Matrix on the other side is excellent IMHO.

Another good movie on the topic of computers is 'The traveling salesman' and 'Sneakers'.
The reason the AMA gets to limit the number of seats at med school is because the government limits the number of residency spots there are. You can't be a real doc without doing a residency.

The American Bar Association got sued for antitrust violations for trying to restrict the number of law schools.
Huh. Wouldn't it be possible to achieve the same result with a steel mill if its surface was irregular? Sounds cheaper than stone. Won't correct the unripe corn harvest, though.
There are two obvious issues, as I see it. #1 is whether someone's liable for poking around inside the Kayak app in the way the author of the post did. #2 is whether it's legal to "open-source" the API by disclosing this information, once obtained.

My quick take is that #1 likely violates Kayak's terms of use for the app, its web site, or both. The TOU for the website has a host of prohibitions, including don't "bypass or circumvent other measures employed to prevent or limit access to Our Website," no deep-linking (such as a link to the API endpoint), and as a catchall also prohibits all inappropriate-as-defined-by-Kayak activity. I haven't read the app TOU, but it would be standard practice to prohibit reverse engineering of the app itself.

So we don't really need to reach point #2, which raises some 1A issues the first doesn't. (Note I'm excluding DMCA and CFAA issues because Kayak isn't our sue-happy friends at the MPAA or RIAA.)

As a practical matter, though, the author of the linked post, Shubhro Saha, appears to be an undergrad, so is probably judgment-proof and not the most likely target of litigation.
I see your point about hidden services severely limiting the practical accessibility of the content. But isn't it a good idea to use Tor rather than HTTP(S) to compose that blog in such situation?
Miyazaki had desired for many years to make an adaptation of Earthsea, but was turned down by the author as she wasn't aware of the studio's reputation and quality [1].

It wasn't until after the Oscar winning Spirited Away that he received approval, but was unfortunately in the process of animating and directing Howl's Moving Castle and had to regretfully pass responsibility to his son.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Earthsea_%28film%29#...
That's a bug with Ubuntu. That mode of operation is for devices without persistent real time clocks or personal laptops where time isn't that important. If you sync your time at reboots you will screw up ntpd's clock drift calculations.
Dedicated ntp peers are often called servers. It's not strictly true in the client/server protocol architecture sense.
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>Ursula Le Guin trusted her Earthsea series to him, and he gave it to his idiot son.

That's not really fair.

For one, Gorō was basically forced into the industry. He didn't want it, and was pressured into it.

Second, it was not Hayao's choice for his son to direct Earthsea. Suzuki Toshi, president of the studio, was the producer, and Gorō was originally attached just as a consultant. He drew the storyboards, and Suzuki decided upon seeing them to entrust Gorō with the role of director.

Hayao actually was very against it, and outright said his son did not have enough experience yet to be a director, and then refused to speak to him until after the movie had aired.

From Up on Poppy Hill was significantly better than Earthsea, and I think there is still a chance yet of Gorō becoming a worthy successor to his father.