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The concept of science is a bit complex, and therefore not easily understood in a sound bite.

It is one of those things that requires a level of education beyond a certain level (and by this I don't mean grade level, but a level of ability and understanding and especially respect).

Two curves are meeting: one, indicating the level of scientific understanding necessary to function highly in the new world we live in, increasing rapidly over time—and the other, showing true scientific literacy, the comfort with doubt and the flexibility of the mind to new information, rapidly declining.

We are at a crossroads, and the solution is a renewal of a holistic liberal arts and science education—to instill not only a complete understanding of and respect for science, but also the humanity necessary to wield the complexity of the world.
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Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052727 (What up with these startup salaries?) I tried to do a rough calculation of whether it makes more economic sense to work for a large tech. company (apple, google, etc...) or startups. Modulo other factors, it seems that working for a large tech. company pays more on average. Here are the calculations: https://gist.github.com/MichaelGLarson/d916a6984271ea136e3f

Am I missing something here?
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I was aware of Stog but wasn't ready to try it out as it didn't seem to be quite what I was after. Seems there have been new releases since back then (and a video) so I'll give it another look.
This is how it's perceived, but it's an extremely narrow view of science. It is the layman's understanding, however. You're right.

This requires a new level of education to understand. I'm glad we're having the discussion, but science is not to blame—we are.
Great to hear you turned him down.

$50,000 for big a share? TBH $50,000 doesn't sound like that much money. I guess that doesn't even pay for one engineer year in NY?
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Agreed that it's unfeasible for now, of course, but I'm a little amazed people aren't seeing the uses of this.

We can edit, directly observe, and record/playback simulated brains. We can test ten million different models on top of a recorded simulation and see which one fits best. Eero doesn't think we could learn about how the brain works by simulating a trillion slightly different permutations on a brain, or (maybe more ethically) small subsystems of a brain, and observing how each behaves?

Sweet god, the economic implications! http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/uploads.html

Horrifying, maybe, but I don't see how people can get away with suggesting this will never be valuable to anyone.
In each, it took me between few weeks to few months to fully understand their code-base, and I have about 6 years of experience with JavaScript. This does not seem reasonable to me at all.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but for entire large codebases, isn't this normal?

The problem is that we still don't have enough developed tools to truly analyze internal/white-box code relationships (or perhaps we do, but they're buried in research circles). Expressive programming languages seem to only go so far. Most IDEs have symbol tables, tree visualization, but those are hardly enough. UML was a failure.

In contrast, our black-box analysis tools, like the various system tracers (DTrace, SystemTap, s/l/ftrace, etc.), debuggers, disassemblers, decompilers and fuzzers, are relatively well advanced.

I don't know if moving to image-based environments would help with this, though that'd be too profound a leap.
I didn't say science was to blame, I believe journalism is.
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It seems odd to me to even claim that science is just a "body of facts" as the usual definition of a "fact" is a piece of empirical evidence rather than the hypothesis or theories that science builds to explain these facts.
I look forward to seeing your data compiled and peer reviewed. Until then it really is just plural anecdote.

And yes, I too am around a lot of smokers, and not a one of them shows any sign of hightened "paranoia", whatever that means. See the problem with anecdotes?
Extensive gerrymandering, equating money with free speech, and the two party system has made voting a waste of time in the US.
The reaction was very reasonable (generous, in fact): A bit of denial followed by a very discreet "no thanks."

The unfortunate thing is that the conclusion was "we probably just shouldn't take the money." For someone who clearly considers herself proactive and professional on matters of sexuality, this a rather profound failure in terms of sexual equality.

Don't get me wrong: This is exactly what I'd do. But it's not what I'd expect from someone selling a brand called "gutsy broads" and boasting credentials including "sexuality specialist."

Standing up to sexism isn't easy. But this isn't even an attempt, from someone who should at very least be making an attempt, not selling anecdotes that do little more than pat the author on the back for... what, exactly? This is very tepid commentary on what would otherwise be a fairly significant incident to someone in such a position.
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> exhaustively iterates on seemingly trivial details like optimising the exact minimum necessary number of buttons in a UI screen, the precision and fluidity...

This is a myth. The iOS maps debacle is just one example.
kudos to you for sharing this and standing your ground. This behaviour is simply unacceptable on all counts and we should collectively check this here. I wonder if the OP is open to naming this investor.
That was the right decision. Not only because of the grotesque incident itself, but because it reflects very poorly on that guy's personality. One can only imagine how badly future interactions might have turned out, or what he would have done in retaliation if he encountered resistance.
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And then you're polling instead of pushing.
The thing is, the FAA Modernization and Reform Act defines model aircraft as being flown line of sight.

The question still up in the air is regulation of common hobbyist use cases like FPV and automation.
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I am a mechanical engineer, so the rules might be slightly different, but I have been told:

If you want a job in industry you are wasting your time getting a PhD, and if you want a government or academic job then you are wasting your time doing anything else.

You just need to find someone that values your degree, and startups might not be the right place.
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http://photosounder.com/ is another "Photoshop of Sound". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVuX1POU6Dw
There should be a place for you to click. It seems you have to be on a desktop of iPad for it to work well.
AFAICT, Facebook engineered their client side code around Flux in order to eliminate two-way data binding in their user interface code, which leads to all sorts of issues. I don't imagine they push the pattern into the server. Their relay stuff still relies upon a smart data tier which understands a query language called GraphQL.

I definitely don't think they considered implementing a dumb dispatcher and store layer on the database server using stored procedures. (This seems terrifying to me, I don't see the upside.)

It's an interesting experiment but I think this might be an example of being too aggressive in trying to generally apply a design pattern that was motivated by a specific problem.
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I'm guessing that by "freelancer" he didn't mean "entrepreneur", meaning he did work as an "independent contractor" for 4 years for other people but this is his first startup project.
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I understand and appreciate your feedback. Unfortunately, given that most of the series is done and half of them are already in print, it's too late to change.

I did have lengthy discussions with my book editor about the title and its potential to be off-putting to some. We wrangled with the decision awhile, but ultimately came to the conclusion that most would find it a mix/balance of playful, attention grabbing (in a sea of "JS: The Handy Guide" type titles), and challenging.

The title itself is supposed to be equal parts a joke and a serious commentary on what I consider to be a disturbing trend in JS specifically, which is either a false sense of confidence or (worse) an apathy to not care about what is not known.

Again, thank you for your thoughtful response and your feedback. I do regret that it's hit you the way it has. Perhaps at some point you may give it another shot.
> VCs are doing the same, and it seems to be working (for the VCs).

Well, you don't want that in science. The point of startups (from VC's point of view) is to make money for VC - startups themselves and their survival is irrelevant. The point of research is to gain knowledge and not to make money. That's two completely different kinds of thinking.
All your arguments would carry more weight if Apple had released more failures and its competitors more successes in the recent past. Which seems (at least to me) not the case.
What happens when an autonomous taxi hits a pedestrian? Is it fined? Does it go to jail? Death penalty?
I am looking for developers like you ;)

You should be able to see my email in my profile, why you don't drop me a line so we can talk.
Another problem is no storytelling. Podcasts like Radiolab do well communicating science to the public because they have mastered telling a slow & engaging story and discussing the implications while not jumping to them.
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The issue is more that these "real name" policies tend to indirectly target groups rarely encountered by the sort of people who work at social network companies. If you don't have any trans, Native American, or [insert group that often changes names/has uncommon names] friends, you might not see a need to use caution in applying these policies.
The classic systems were worlds ahead of most modern ones in one very important respect: documentation.

The Tandy/Radio Shack books for the Color Computer series (and it's astoundingly good LOGO implementation) were amazingly clear and concisely written with lots of examples, and because in those days even a disk drive wasn't a guarantee, all the examples were written to be hand-typed and experimented with.

There were even books in those days that aimed to teach kids machine language! [1]

That said, I think Djikstra and Felleisen may be slightly right about the long-term usefulness of old-fashioned BASIC and LOGO for learning, but there are a few books in modern languages that come close.

Hello World![2] was explicitly written to hearken back to those old manuals, by a father aiming to teach his 12-yo son programming with Python.

Land of Lisp[3] and Realm of Racket[4] also call to mind those old books as well, though they're targeting a bit older audience and have their quirks (LoL is a bit in-love with huge nested trees and a-lists in the examples, and Realm of Racket tends to gloss over a lot of the examples and expects you to just read the sample code rather than walking you through the process completely).

The Little Schemer[5] is also a fantastic little book that takes on the form almost of a set of brain-teasers, and teaches recursive thinking entirely by example and in methodical detail. The later chapters can be a bit stumpy, but if you go through the book step by step in regular sessions it builds on itself pretty well.

All of these are aiming at around the 12+ age range though, I don't think there's much out there anymore for anything younger.

[1] http://boingboing.net/2013/05/16/1983s-wonderful-introducti....

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Hello-World-Computer-Programming-Begin...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Land-Lisp-Learn-Program-Game/dp/159327...

[4] http://www.amazon.com/Realm-Racket-Learn-Program-Game/dp/159...

[5] http://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/02...
You call her out for not "making a stand"[1] but don't say much about the actual problem: some sleazy guy sexually assaulting her.

That kind of attitude is sub-optimal.

[1] A move that could be considerably negative for her.
Medium is pretty awful for code so I still use svbtle. Most of my page views doesn't come from the Svbtle site, but from direct links, Twitter, etc.
For someone identifying as a 'gutsy broad', I'm not sure why there wasn't a mention in the email about the specifics as to why the money was being turned down. I know there's loads of potential reasons, but the ones I can think of tend to center on timidity/boatrocking, not being gutsy.
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So the question then is why not name names? Or better yet why not confront the person (in writing) to see what there reaction is to what they did?
This seems like a dramatic illustration of cumulative advantage, as studied in the famous MusicLab experiment [1, 2]. The argument is that in cultural and social markets, random effects govern which products or artifacts get the initial few "upvotes" (or their analogs), at which point the rich-get-richer dynamic takes over. Very, very awesome.

[1] Salganik, Dodds, Watts, "Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market", 2006: https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full....

[2] A popular article by one of the authors, the inestimable Duncan Watts: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15wwlnidealab.t.h...
Because in Europe the belief that important and wide research should be carried out by "public" research is much stronger than, say, USA. Also while we have seen a somewhat invading process of privatisations ( :( ), European universities are still largely owned publicly and financed via public funding, therefore most [public] moeny for research should and will be directed to them for the time being.

You could then argue that it's not as efficient as the VC model, but:

- I haven't seen any study confirming such thing

- It doesn't seem easy to achieve a reasonable compromise between open research and R&D protectionism unless you are a big company

- Academia, even with all its politics and problems, is still a fast and active environment for scientific research

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Not everyone agrees that the HGP was a success. Here's Freeman Dyson's take on it:

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I think you might be misunderstanding the intent of my argument a bit.

> I'm a little amazed people aren't seeing the uses of this.

That's not the issue - I imagine everyone here would like to see these goals reached. Nobody has to sell anyone on the rewards of neuro research. The question is merely whether this specific project can deliver them.

> We can edit, directly observe, and record/playback simulated brains.

The idea itself is a good one. However, the key issue becomes choosing an appropriate level of detail for the simulation. I believe a blanket choice of "let's just do the entire brain" is computationally infeasible right now, plus we don't have good enough models to actually program the thing - but most importantly even in a future where these problems are solved the device seems like a blunt and unwieldy instrument that won't give up its data easily.

> or (maybe more ethically) small subsystems of a brain

That's what's already happening all over the world right now, in thousands of independently scoped simulations and experiments.
I got 3mins 28s before drowning and then it said "you tire faster than you think at sea. Always wear a life jacket." I'm gonna go with it being an interesting PSA.
One hopes that even if it's not public, she was able to share the name with YC.
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It's quite simple: people don't understand science, and science doesn't understand people.

Several generations of highly specialized education tend to do that.

We need more poets who are scientists, more scientists who are poets. We need a level of breadth that has not yet been seen except in a few diamonds in the rough. These ties between our humanity and our world are more important than we realize.

In practice, this means a better and more widespread liberal arts education—a program that you may not realize is valuable until ten years after graduation, and therefore must be a wisdom passed down to our children and embraced as a society. It needs to be a program that teaches the incredible depth of science, and the humanity to deal with the complex consequences, which are necessarily bigger than our perspective.

Until this shift occurs, we will continue to encounter this divergence of understanding. It's a long bet, but we need it more than ever.
Now they think about adding concurrency anyway (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9026344) And one day they will implement that, because it is quite difficult to keep talking that single-threaded database solution is OK in today's server CPU landscape, better non-blocking system IO, etc. Why you think A + B (features + concurrency) is better than B + A (concurrency + features)?
Is anyone unaware of a single advantage aside from the fact that fluoride does indeed swap with calcium in the tooth enamel apatite and thereby increase the latter's resistance to acid attack? Given the prevalence of fluoride in toothpaste, why mass 'medicate'? The experts consulted are one with those folk who think that stuffing mercury amalgam into a permanent location a few centimeters from the brain is a good idea. Given the biochemistry of Hg, it's not and an increasing number of dental professionals are understanding that.
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There are surveys showing that atheists often know more about the beliefs of various religions than the actual adherents of these religions. No doubt this is true for science as well... It's hard for me to believe that anyone who doesn't doubt science actually knows all that much about science, its history, its epistemology, its current issues, etc.

I think it's funny that science evangelists complain about all the anti-science folks in society, and they're completely unable to produce intellectually honest defenses of actual praxis. All these sorts of articles ever do is point to the same set of success stories or examples of irrationality among 'non-believers', as if that's some sort of intellectually coherent argument. It's ridiculous that these folks won't do an actual cost-benefit analysis of science in practice, presumably because they know the results won't be favorable them, but then browbeat people for not 'converting' based on their theory of science as it would be practiced in some sort of utopia. It's like creationism, but even more stupid.

Don't get me wrong, I spend an enormous amount of time reading scientific research and my knowledge of that is probably my greatest secret weapon as a founder, but at the same time the sort of pro-science evangelism I see on the Internet makes me weep for the future of society.
Wait, do you seriously think that Sun, Bell, Ericsson (java, c, erlang) set out to maximize social good? Of course everybody knows that the internet is powered by well wishes and puppy dreams, not costly telecommunication hardware.
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In one browser.

If your server side stack (https terminator, load balancer, caching proxy, app/web server) can't support websockets, you'll be falling back to long polling in every browser.
"while most one-armed hugs result in a hand resting politely on your ribcage"

I'm sorry? I would expect that any unsolicited hugs like thT could only result in a polite end to the conversation, rather than making a difference between ribcage and boob. In which world is it OK to hug someone you're supposed to have a business relationship with?
got Forstall fired. pretty significant. other companies move those people to some X labs futuristic research dead ends.
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Exactly, it looks pretty authentic, so much different than the politically correct fabricated PR/Marketing/Geekiness that's everywhere now.
I find Apple's keyboards to be mostly inoffensive, but I can't say I really like using them. The one on my MBP is a bit shallow and the key shape doesn't feel right since they're just flat square pieces. I like the oft-vaunted Thinkpad keyboard - even since the advent of their pseudo-chiclets - a lot better.

When it comes to desktop keyboards, they're better than the typical cheapo rubber-domes but it's still not terribly ergonomic.
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Unless I'm reading this wrong, wouldn't it require someone generating a new password, then never changing it to something else?
The real problem with "hear about studies" is that by the time things filter down to the average person the stories are completely watered down and spun to make some sensational headline.

Even without the simple headline grabbing, all nuance is lost, which is the cause of a lot of the "XYZ is good!" ... "No, XYZ is bad!" confusion - the reality is that "XYZ is good under these experimental conditions, for some definition of good" and vice versa.
This also works on Twitter (try j, k, r, t, u, etc.).
Please - include an "autoplay" notice in headlines.
Interesting clause at that link you provided. Do I understand correctly that there are no weight limits currently if a drone is certified by "a community-based organization?"

3) the aircraft is limited to not more than 55 pounds unless otherwise certified through a design, construction, inspection, flight test, and operational safety program administered by a community-based organization;
Agreed. And as an another commentor noted above, hopefully she was able to privately name this investor to YC. They're well positioned to take effective action in a way that doesn't put the author at risk.

We've unfortunately seen far too many cases where "being a woman on the internet" has led to harassment. Posting about this publicly and putting her name on it is already plenty gutsy.
If I'm not mistaken the "debacle" had to do much more with the underlying data rather than the actual UI or design of the application.

And it might be just one example, but for some reason when speaking of "Apple f..k ups" it's often the only one that comes up in discussions (at least in recent times)... I would say that it's a pretty impressive record.
"Market segmentation by introducing lower-cost models is nothing new."

That's not how Apple became the most profitable company in the world. The first thing Jobs did when he returned to Apple was cut out all of the excess product lines.
Facebook should have just stuck with the original policy or not have one at all.
I love my magic mouse as well. I wish they made a corded one though, or made bluetooth stuff more reliable.
They were probably spamming someone else and choking some network uplink at their provider, which is why the provider itself told them about the possible compromise.
Either that or killing other resources and raising very simple alerts (disk, CPU, RAM, Ethernet ports, etc).