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I've been giving credit to them over recent years for doing a lot of good work in OS design, programming languages, and verification technology. Unlike Microsoft Engineering, Microsoft Research is pretty kick-ass. Truth be told, much of what they do copies other work in some way and tries to improve on it. Example: VerveOS's Nucleus copied the old IME mainframes with a central component called Nucleus with similar features. They pretend like they were original cuz everyone forgets about the old systems. ;) Yet, their copying that approach to split development and verification was a really smart move. It's how they got results.

I encouraged Microsoft Research to continue investing in tooling and verification tech that represents The Right Thing approach to systems. That pieces of it drift to their commercial products is even better. :)
Seems like this would just help create the exact same situation as in academia: way too many people (i.e. Ph.D.s) are qualified for way too few jobs.

Else, a whole bunch of bullshit jobs would be pulled out of nowhere, and we'd have teens spending their summers making internal websites for banks.

If there's really excess money burning a hole in someone's pocket, I'd rather see it go to a community garden or something than creating artificial demand for even more tech.
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By capturing abstractions over graphic formats it reminds me a bit of Alexander's A Pattern Language and its relationship to buildings. The chapter on Quantitative Cartoons gave me one of those "that thing has a name" moments and afterwhich a previously unremarkable piece of the cultural furniture becomes remarkable because we get a new way of seeing.
classics:

Sivers: "Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software" ( 2013)

https://sivers.org/srs ( HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5015183 )

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Janki Method: Using spaced repetition systems to learn and retain technical knowledge.

http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/12/05/janki-method.html

https://www.oxbridgenotes.com/articles/janki_method_refined

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Gwern: SPACED REPETITION : http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition
Normal accountants don't have 300 pages of federal regulations telling them exactly how they need to lie in their reports.

They have 20 pages of corporate guidelines telling them how they have to lie. Zing!
Anesthesia in particular. I've had some family members who were never quite the same after general anesthesia. Not as mentally sharp, more forgetful, etc.
I _believe_ I had the same anesthesia done when I went in for an endoscopy procedure roughly a year or so back. Supposedly the doctor had told me how often to take the prescription, I had sent iMessages/SMS' to people as well. Later that day I had nearly no recollection of any of it.

It's a very odd feeling for sure. Nothing serious and I doubt it caused any damage, but it was the first time I'd ever just had a blank set of time that I just couldn't answer for. I did have family nearby though.
the height == health requires that you control for the genetics of the population.
Insurance companies offer a somewhat similar discount, if you agree to a gps monitor.

They could certainly offer lower rates to drivers that pass a skills test, but I doubt they care to (just because I sort of doubt it would be a better predictor than the information they already use (age and driving history being the big ones)).
Cool idea, you should grab the domain + logo from http://brandsketcher.com called 'lotsfood.com', fits your interesting startup idea
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If you pay the Danegeld, you will never be rid of the Dane.
I will read the post later, but I can tell you right now that I'm a physicist and when I was first introduced to deep learning my first thought, especially in the context of visual recognition, was "this smells of renormalization group".
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'Sailing' spiders prove escaping from them is futile
What method did you use to initially learn the characters? If you just used Anki, I could see your result as making sense.

I used Heisig's Remembering the Hanzi to learn the characters and then would practice them in a space repetition system. A few years later I can still write most of them. His method has you create a story and make mental image associations for each character. Eventually you forget the stories over time, but the character usually sticks.
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That is a highly politicized/editorialized paper, though, with a clear opinion that really belong separate from a scientific paper.

It counts every death that could have been prevented by perfect care, not only harm caused by treatment in otherwise safe individuals.

For example, if someone with heart disease visits hospital and the hospital does not administer best known treatment protocol and the patient dies, that's a "medical error". But at root it is a heart-disease death. Same for cancer.

Some of the highlighted examples from the abstracts are extreme:

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One example of a lethal error of communication between provider and patient occurred when cardiologists failed to warn their 19-year-old patient not to run. The patient had experienced syncope [fainting] while running, and 5 days of inpatient, diagnostic testing were inconclusive; however, his cardiologists knew he was not ready to return to running but failed to warn him against this risk. Having not been warned against running, he resumed running and died 3 weeks later while running.

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The proper analysis is "what are your odds of survival when you choose to seek vs not seek care?"
I wounder if anyone has given thought to how this will affect the poor girl. She knows she's been the cause of this poor guys life being messed up. Well, the idiots in the prosecutors office and the judge are the actual cause, but she must feel some guilt.

What a shame, her first sexual experience at a young age gets mixed up with feelings of guilt and shame.
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What you describe is a common symptom of celiac disease. Did you get tested?
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I didn't learn it so I could work like the many.
ClojureScript also, I think, has a better front-end story for squishier front ends at the moment (although there are a number of projects working on changing that).
Life Beyond the Pale Blue Dot: Our oasis of life is blue, but will others be?
Interesting story. I had a friend that didn't have celiac disease, but genuinely had some form of gluten intolerance. It mostly just caused her terrible cramps. For about six years, doctors couldn't figure out what was causing it, so she had changed her diet to be nearly carb-free, and went on with her life. Problem? Hint: she liked camping.

Ending up being a parasite she likely caught on a camping trip, which also brought on a combination of a fungal and viral infection. She was getting desperate, so she had went to an osteopath which ended up making the discovery. Her PCP prescribed a 4-week regimen of heavy meds to kill off the parasites and fungal infection, and now she's back to eating normally.
Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
oneloop, your comment looks helpful but you are hell-banned, you may want to email HN to be reinstated.

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Edit - he's been reinstated.
Can anyone explain the different between pivot() and pivot_tables()?
Enforcement of contracts (and fees like this) is one of the core roles of government in the worldview of pure libertarianism.
Not sure if you read my comment. You get the same behavior with a try block. And that's even assuming that you don't just get back gibberish which would be the common case. Note with the example if he didn't pointlessly parse out then reassemble the IP address in his "simplest program", he would have been outputting those #number# values instead of the IP addresses without catching the error.
On the subject of testing, I think it's important that people don't follow testing methodologies blindly.

In the 1960s, Djikstra said "Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs", which is true.

Testing is a good tool to prevent regressions. A form of testing that I find quite interesting - and wish more people would look into - is property based testing. A good example of this can be found here http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/pbt/. Scott Wlaschin is also quite good at teaching across coding paradigms, not just functional.
Kinda. The 'group' refers to a group scale and/or conformal transformations. In the context of Deep Learning, the 'scale' transform is akin to adding layers.
You know, one of the reason why I made IfLoop is the experience of TouchDevelop is not good. There are still too many typing in it.
It might not.
My continued hunch is that is not gluten, but a general collection of foods that cause inflammation.

Commonly, these foods are made up of carbohydrates (such as wheat) but there are fats and proteins as well.

Not to sound too crude, but if you fill your gullet full of inflammation-causing food day in, day out - yes, you will not feel well.

If you are not at all an active person - and you're consuming 2-3 meals of over 1500 calories, well - maybe you should point to that is a potential problem?

Simply removing gluten isn't going to make your day too much better if you are washing down GF products with sodas and eating trans fats.
Anyone that likes Plan 9 should also look at Amoeba [1] and Globe [2]. Amoeba did a lot of interesting work that could be considered when doing a modern, Plan9-like effort. Globe did for WAN's what Amoeba tried to do for LAN's. I had hoped solutions like Globe would get more traction given Globe applications would be way better than upcoming Web applications. Globe team even proved it by doing Web on top of their own stuff: doing Web better than Web lol. Unfortunately, the mainstream led us down a path resulting in trying to accelerate Web applications powered by protocols from time-sharing days on monolithic UNIX and Windows OS's. A little less fun...

[1] http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/amoeba.html

[2] http://www.cs.vu.nl/~philip/globe/
Damaging my mind is my biggest fear. I had a simple surgery a year ago(shoulder arthroscopy), and I specifically said that I don't agree to general anesthesia or any kind of sedatives, because even a small probability of a small brain damage isn't worth it for me.

Doctors tried to push me into accepting the general anesthesia, saying that it's the only option(and that we lose brain cells every day really, so who cares). I went to a different clinic where a doctor agreed to do the surgery under local anesthetics and without sedation without any problems. Said someting along the lines "don't worry, man, your brain is gonna be fine."

He failed to mention that local anesthesia can also lead to neurotoxicity, and I was too ignorant to know about it(for some reason I assumed that local anesthetics are harmless, and didn't do my research).

During the surgery I felt the symptomps(dizziness, difficulty speaking), consistent with neurotoxicity caused by local anesthetics.

I don't notice any permanent damage, though I doubt that I'd be able to tell. 6 months after the surgery I have developed tinnitus, but I can't tell if it's connected to it or not.

Anyway, my point is that no way in hell would I agree to the surgery if I'd have known the risks.

Also, before that, doctors pushed me into unnecessarily taking general anesthesia for a routine procedure. They convinced me that it can't be harmful, and I was too young and socially awkward to ask more questions or argue.

I also fear dental anesthetics. There is research indicating that they can cause neurotoxocity. I can easily sit through filling regular cavities(with a dental laser it really isn't that painful), but I'm not sure what I would do if I have to get root canal. I would take any option over anesthesia, but I don't know of any alternative.

Some doctors say that it's just an irrational fear. But given that there's some research saying that even dental anesthesia can cause neurotixicity, I'm not sure what's so irrational about not wanting my brain cells to die. My brain is what matters to me the most in the world, far more than anything else, it has infinite value, because that's literally "me", so even small chance of small damage is worth avoiding at all cost(in my value system).

It's infuriating how casual doctors are about such risks, especially in cases when they can be avoided. I understand taking necessary risks when it's a life-saving surgery, but when you have alternatives, I think patient should be able to make an informed choice.
Right. That's all we need. More encouragement for code.
I try to lighten things up because the math by be unfamiliar.
My Mom's got only three teeth left. Going by this theory, she should remember barely anything. But she does remember a lot.
All my life, I ate a ton of bread, wheat products, etc. I used to love baking, I'd bake my own bread a couple times a week, etc.

Several years ago, I was cautioned to cut wheat down to 10% of my food intake, at most. The person I got this advice from wasn't a nutritionist, wasn't a doctor, had no specific medical training, and didn't tell me what to expect or what was likely to happen. (The circumstances were weird, let's just put at that.)

I grumbled but said I'd give a try, with no expectation about what would happen. I bought a bunch of gluten-free varieties of foods and spent a week eating gluten-free bread, supplementing meals with rice instead of pasta, etc. My grain intake didn't change, just how much of it was wheat-based.

Within a few days, I realized that 1) I'd been experiencing bloated feelings in my belly for years, now gone. 2) I suddenly had a lot more energy. 3) Various of my minor joint pains (which I'd chalked up to "well, I'm getting old") went away.

So I stuck with it.

Within a month, I realized I'd lost about 10 pounds--again, no less grains, just less wheat.

After a year, I noticed that I wasn't getting sick any longer. I used to get pretty bad colds a couple times a year. That has now stopped.

Several years later, I feel like I did in my 20s, despite being near 40.

Would I go back to eating wheat regularly? Nope. I've tried, I get bloated for a few days after a big ol' slice of pizza, and if I slack off and eat lots of wheat for a few days straight, I'll start to get the scratchy-throat-feeling that I used to get when I'd get one of my regular colds.

Again, no one told me to have any expectations about going gluten-free. I didn't even know "gluten-free" was a diet--this was years before it became a fad diet--except for my celiac friend who couldn't eat wheat (poor thing, I used to think.) I certainly didn't have any idea what it would do for me.

So when these articles come out that say non-celiac gluten intolerance is bunk, I think, well, fine, but something went on with me, and it doesn't add up that it's all in my head.
I think you mean the opposite of "copper-bottom":

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...

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Thoroughly reliable; certain not to fail:
a copper-bottomed guarantee

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If perception of space-time emerges as simplified interface to the dynamics of interacting conscious agents[0], then such ‘time glitches’ can be explained as abnormal states in the combination of conscious agents that comprise one’s mind.

(Can’t help trying to look at this through prism of my limited understanding of that research.)

[0] http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00...
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Yes, it is the same as the "group" in group theory. However, I the name is a misnomer since I believe it is technically a semigroup because the binary operator is not invertable.
And just to add to that, the blood test can be unreliable. A stomach biopsy is the best way to verify the condition.
what does hell-banned mean?
Holy shit, as someone who worked a tiny bit on that campaign, never thought I would hear Fisk and Crawford mentioned on HN.
I believe the HTML templating stuff is pretty optional in all the major Haskell web platforms. I know in Yesod it is trivial to serve JSON rather than HTML from an end-point, and pretty easy to serve multiple representations of the same resource.
Be human
... sarcasm... for the sheldons of us :)
yes, as @fao_ says, the Flash is just for demo. If your browser can't play this demo for any reason, you can view the videos to get how this app works: http://www.tapirgames.com/blog/ifloop-tutorials

If there are really many people like this app, I will port it to HTML5.
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How to transform user experience into UX design
How do you know you don't have celiac disease? Sounds similar to my experience and I do have celiac disease.
First I heard of that phrase, but I think he's using it correctly. Many privacy laws and information laws only apply to the living. Apple "copper-bottoms" these laws and acts as if they apply in perpetuity.
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Yeah, it's a native app, not a web app: http://www.tapirgames.com/App/IfLoop
This is a problem with some of the drugs they use during C-sections, too. When my son was born by surprise Caesarean, I think that was one of the things my wife and I were most worried about - that she would have no memory whatsoever of our son's first few hours of life.
If you give that 503(c) $10, that will cover email storage forever.
As an aside is their any crossover or anticapted convergence between libgit2 and git?
Perhaps the submitter was trying to make the title less baity, in accordance with the HN guidelines. (Submitted title was "Myth of gluten intolerance".)

We've changed it to something that uses neutral language from the article. Suggestions for a better title are welcome.
The "irrationality"[1] is the weight you put on the unknown risk of brain-harm from anaesthesia, while not appearing to assign much risk to how you get there.

How likely is it that you're going to suffer brain injury in your day to day life versus from anaesthetic?

[1] irrational is probably a not useful word here. You have real fear of real things.
Because life is about the journey and not the destination. The destination (barring religious ideas) is the same for all of us.
I enjoy running and walking as an adult since about hs age. As a kid I loved riding my bike too. Going at a slower pace leaves you open to whim. Let's you observe and digest your surroundings. Maybe you would see Cory. Maybe the neighbor kid you don't like that much had a bunch of friends playing frisbee in his yard so it was worth it to join. Or see there was a new kid and a moving truck. Or a turtle in someone's yard.

These days when I go for a walk, there is almost no kids playing or riding bikes or anything and it's kind of eerie.
I am happy to answer questions. You can ask here or directly on the blog.
Exactly useful to whom? The tossing of warm bodies seems a rather suboptimal way to build teams, much less communities; perhaps because being tossed provides so little utility to the warm body. Building sustainable teams and communities around an open source project is always going to be hard work and a low barrier policy on HN that encourages requests for help doesn't change that.
Well Woz is a brilliant guy in many respects, but even highly intelligent people get the occasional wacky idea.
Ah, currently, there is only the one default theme. I will add others in coming versions.

There is no lib for it. This implementation is very simple. Contrary to text programming languages, which convert texts to object file, IfLoop converts object file to texts. A theme is just to define how texts are produced from the object file. Converting from obj file to texts is much easier than converting texts to obj file.
The EPA issues regulations which is different from collecting fees.
No, she reviewed her symptoms (there are some others I didn't mention, they're just not so obviously observable as her knee inflammation) with a doctor and was told they didn't line up with celiac. Just seemed like a mild allergy to gluten, she went off it, problem solved[1].

Even if the doctor was wrong and she has celiac, it's very manageable so there doesn't seem to be much incentive to go to the trouble of a proper test.

[1] Okay, "solved" paints too neat a picture. Eating truly GF can be a pain in the neck, the stuff's absolutely everywhere. But fortunately the GF fad has, like I said, made that a bit easier.
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A while ago, I saw a course offering to improve use of the brain. One trick it claimed to teach was meditation that taught people to control perception of time. The idea was that you could slow time down to have more reaction, training or thinking time. I wrote it off as a snake oil thing with far-fetched possibility of happing to some degree somewhere else.

Seeing these cases makes me wonder, though. Research into neuroscience or neuro-engineering might be able to tap into this effect to do things similar to other claim. My first thought as a former martial artist was combat applications. There's gotta be a DARPA lab working on this exact thing somewhere.

So, applicable questions to this are (a) does their brain just slow down where it takes time to catch up to what happened in reality; or (b) do our brains actually waste effort to preserve a specific, temporal experience. If it's (b), then there's a possibility of re-training or modifying the brain to get more usable time to think or act. I can't be sure from the article if it's (b), though. Anyone have an idea about that?
This was abandoned by Google shortly after launch.

Several previous discussions:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bug-prediction-at-google.html&...
>Chorafa said if the Yes vote won, she would be so disappointed she would think about leaving Greece with her two small children and moving abroad.

That reminds me of the spate of Americanslwho, upon the Supreme Court striking down gay marriage bans, said they were moving to Canada. I feel like some sentiment is wildly out of whack here
Well great, it seems like the No vote has comfortably won. The futures looking bleak for Greece.
Wow! This is truly incredible!
With that attitude we would still live in the stone age.
I think pointing out the deaths caused by improper care are one of the few tools we have to correct the egregious errors that go uncorrected all the time in health care.

For instance a family friend was told she had uterine cancer and was all set to start her doctor's protocol. But at the last minute wanted a second opinion from MD Anderson, the best cancer hospital in the world. After their team looked at her doctor's tests, they ordered their own test, and told her she had bladder cancer instead. They were dumbfounded how her doctor could have missed it, and that protocol would have certainly of led to her death, as bladder cancer treatment must be aggressive and fast.

Yet the only consequence her doctor faced was being told by her that two of MD Anderson's teams thought he was a dumbshit. Other than that, he'll keep on doing what he was doing.