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In the article, she never directly states that hackers need to study the humanities. What she was basically saying - in the part about Vacca - is that there needs to be human oversight to algorithms that affect public policies (school districting, police paroles, ...). So the implication, in that example, is that programmers should work with people in the social sciences to deliver solutions that may not be algorithmically optimal, but better meet the needs of the community.

FWIW, I think you all mean disclosure, not disclaimer.

I assume the higher than (I) expected dislike for C# is because of the Microsoft ecosystem, not the language itself. It will be interesting to see whether that remains so over the next few years as .NET Core and VS Code mature.

throwanem and jordanb: The growth rate numbers are from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

It's been used state-side for a few hundred years as well. I learned about it in my high school American history class. Colonial era tobacco farmers experienced deleted soil conditions, so they turned to 4 crop rotations. My dad had a farm back in the 70's, and he rotated crops for this reason. It's not a lost art among farmers.

> Web is very very far from solving the browsing problem.

I may be a rarity, but I still miss Blockbuster for this reason.

We do have civilian control of the armed forces. The question of past experience in the service, though, is the same as experience in any other leadership position.

Also, in England's case, the big red flag was his close ties to the defense contracting industry.

Out of curiosity, I looked up who was Secretary of the Navy in 2003. It was tumultuous year, with 3 different people holding the office. Only one of them had any military experience (in the Air Force).

Gordon R. England held the office at the beginning of the year and was re-instated at the end of the year. He held the office for about 4 years total. He had no Navy experience. His background was in the defense industry. What a crock.

    "Men"   - 29% likely to be perceived as toxic
    "Women" - 34% likely to be perceived as toxic

Google gender bias confirmed.

Seriously, though, I think this tool itself is toxic. I think it's more likely to fuel disagreement than quell it.

Below are links to the two other images from this poll (only images are provided, no raw data or polling questions).

All 64 countries polled: http://gallup-international.bg/images/Fight_0515/2.jpg

Variations by regions and religions: http://gallup-international.bg/images/Fight_0515/3.jpg

Google was still a fairly young company at that point. Reddit is 12 years old and had a $1.6B valuation prior to this $200M infusion. They've already achieved growth.

I think the investors' motivations are non-financial, akin to how YC invested in Quora.

In my neighborhood, most of the houses were built from a fixed number of designs sourced from an architecture firm. Wouldn't the floor plans be the IP of the architect?

Really? I use Firefox with UBlock Origin and never see pop-unders. The only time I see them is when I use Chrome.

> Many 40+ year olds have families or other life obligations outside of work

Why is this a (seemingly) common belief? It seems backwards to me. I had a lot more obligations outside of work in my 20's and 30's when my kids were young than after 40. I'm in my early 50's, and I have more free time now than ever.

This article from 2013 puts it at D+7.1 overall for the House:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/who-gerrymande...

What surprises me, though, is how little attention is given to caucuses in the US presidential primaries. The turnout is very low and they're subject to strong arming and party insider corruption in both major parties.

Plus, other researchers are skeptical of the results due to the low sample size (n = 20).

> if you want to legalize government propaganda

Some argue that the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 already did that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization...

Yeah, that's what the rest of us were thinking as well.

The only relevant quote in the article is:

> DHS said in a statement to The Daily Beast: "No final decisions have been made on expanding the restriction on large electronic devices in aircraft cabins; however, it is under consideration. DHS continues to evaluate the threat environment and will make changes when necessary to keep air travelers safe."

The ban may happen, but at this point we don't know.

> [...] officials briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.

In context:

> is reviewing how to ensure lithium batteries stored in luggage holds do not explode in midair, officials briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.

"reviewing" is the key word.

> [...] make an announcement

But we won't know what the policy will be until they make the announcement. There is nothing in those two excerpts to indicate that this isn't speculation by the writer.

> This is why journalists think so many of their readers lack the skills to read the ingredient list for bottled water.

That was petty.

> DHS spokesman Dave Lapan said Kelly "hasn't made a decision but we continue to evaluate the threat environment and have engaged in discussions with airline representatives and other stakeholders about the threat."

So, our homeland security department has acknowledged that there is a threat and will discuss it with the airlines. This has been transformed into "likely" by the writer, and the "some EU" countries part has been expanded to "Europe" in the headline. This is why I'm skeptical about so many things I read in the news.

I graduated from Oregon State in '92. The less-tech predecessor to this process was that they would sell homework packets at Kinko's for $20-30.

I've often wondered whether a legal case could be made against universities for price gouging.

Depends - where do you live? You might be a crawdad or crawfish: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/06/r-and-language.h...

Well, there is the L in URL. You can carve out your own location on the web.

Look around at all the businesses in your area. Are they all unique? Of course not. Software isn't any different. Don't get fixated on the idea that a new software product has to be one of a kind.

I was surprised by that. Since Microsoft has been pushing Azure hard the last few years, you'd think Amazon would battle back and come out swinging with a C# template.

Google search got a lot worse for me after that. I relied on the + operator quite a bit.

CBO reports are done within the confines of the request, opening them up to a garbage in, garbage out scenario. The reports are supposed to be non-partisan, but a report request can be crafted in such a way that it's essentially weaponized non-partisanship.

He was featured on the A&E show Biography, and one of his high school math teachers said that Ballmer never once got a math problem wrong, which I found incredible in the true sense of the word.

From the article:

> The IG took a random sample of 278 IRS forfeiture actions in cases where structuring was the primary basis for seizure. The report found that in 91 percent of those cases, the individuals and business had obtained their money legally.

That's not a very good signal. Even if the numbers were reversed and 91% had obtained their money illegally, I'd say that a 9% false seizure rate would still be way too high.