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such_a_casualon Go, Marvin Minsky, and the Chasm That AI Hasn’t yet Crossed

You may find this paragraph on wikipedia interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language#Limitations...

such_a_casualon LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

All I will say about this topic is never try new drugs when you're drunk, never.

such_a_casualon Pikazo

I've always found the "what is art?" question to be pretty hilarious. It doesn't matter if the medium is a picture, a book, a movie, or a game. Great media has a thesis and does a great job of convincing the recipient that their thesis is true using Show-Not-Tell.

such_a_casualon The Best Teacher I Never Had

Richard Feynman has by far the best explanations I have ever seen from anyone in my life. His explanations are fascinating and deceptively simple. His explanation of electricity in this video has fundamentally changed the way that I see the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS25vitrZ6g&feature=youtu.be...

such_a_casualon MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures, no classrooms”

I'm not talking about people who "rant against school". I also hope that you realize that my post was not a "rant against school", but a rant against taking away millions of people's right to vote just because they didn't learn how to shut up and do what they're told. The people I'm referring to would likely not rant about school, because they likely wouldn't have graduated or even attended in the first place. When I see people ranting it is usually people who have taken on debt via student loans.

such_a_casualon MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures, no classrooms”

You've addressed none of the points that I made. You claimed that school is the only way to learn how to think critically and should be used to take away the suffrage of millions of people. In response to me calling you out on this very dangerous and ignorant opinion, you've chosen to derail by linking to reddit, talk about "life lessons" you learned as a teenager, and brag about the college you went to. Nice.

such_a_casualon MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures, no classrooms”

Well in most highschools and universities children/people sit for hours at a time behind desks while someone talks.

Did you stand for your lectures? Did you not have lectures? Is 6 hours a day not an extended period of time?

such_a_casualon MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures, no classrooms”

>Either that, or you don't get to vote.

What? Graduating from school (highschool or university) is about learning how to follow directions and play the game. To say that a degree somehow guarantees that a person knows how to think critically is ludicrous.

But you're not even making such a modest claim, you're actually claiming that it is the only way to assure people can think critically (even though it's not even a valid way to begin with). Some of us can think critically as children. Do you honestly believe just because you couldn't think critically until you were an adult, that means that hundreds of millions of people that you've never met should be forced into the same fruitless, and arbitrary indoctrination you had to undergo to become adequate in your own eyes?

Are you aware of how absolutely stupid school seems to people who are really, really smart? http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm

such_a_casualon MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures, no classrooms”

So all of those people with psychology and business degrees are going into jobs that require "degree deserving knowledge"? If you're going to say something special about a particular field, at least compare it to something else otherwise the statement is meaningless.

such_a_casualon The letter the Feds sent to Theranos [pdf]

That article makes me think that it's possible that Theranos is more concerned with their government contract work than this "blood test for the common man" spiel.

such_a_casualon The letter the Feds sent to Theranos [pdf]

While it does sound like she's trying to sound like a man, I'm not sure if it's forced. Even if it's not her real voice, it's natural to have a different voice when speaking as a CEO in an interview (it may only be slightly off from her real voice). Her voice is consistent across interviews, so I don't think it's as fake as you might assume.

such_a_casualon Facebook Climbs to 1.59B Users, Beats Q4 Estimates with $5.8B Revenue

To expand on this, I think you can eliminate a significant amount of this fraud by properly configuring your ad campaigns (or whatever facebook calls them) and using "tricks of the trade". The companies that spend the most on facebook ads, will likely allocate a good amount of resources to hiring people who are experts in facebook marketing. So you have a lot of people not being experts in configuring their ads getting fraudulent clicks/likes/followers/stalkers/customers/etc and losing money on advertising when they go down this route, but the big companies spending more money on facebook as they get better at new_revenue/ad_costs.

such_a_casualon The letter the Feds sent to Theranos [pdf]

There is more than this recent fiasco to back up the person you're replying to:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/new-study-spills-doub...

such_a_casualon The letter the Feds sent to Theranos [pdf]

I disagree with your opinion on the CEO. Intelligent? clearly, but also weird to the point that it's uncomfortable to watch her speak, and she's clearly very bad at handling the press.

such_a_casualon GitHub Outage

I'm not sure how ddos'ing github would help with the outage.

runs script

such_a_casualon GitHub Outage

Completely agree. But whoever makes it, they should make it free and open source and designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Additionally, it should be easy to learn and have a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. It should outclass SCM tools like Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and ClearCase with features like cheap local branching, convenient staging areas, and multiple workflows.

such_a_casualon Emacs vs. WebStorm for Node.js Development

Are you using the mouse when this is happening?

such_a_casualon Emacs vs. WebStorm for Node.js Development

I really don't know what issues the author is referring to. I have used IdeaVim for PyCharm and was very satisfied with it. It has its own vimrc file which allows you to not only copy paste your existing bindings, but also keeps them separate form your default bindings in a clean way.

If you compare this level of support for Vim with MonoDevelop, you'd realize just how good it actually is.

such_a_casualon Ask HN: My friend and I cannot agree on our server side stack for our startup

"Flip a fucking coin." is exactly what I was going to say. Clearly the decision is influenced way too heavily by each of your pasts rather than on the merit of the technology (either will do exactly what you need it to do). So just flip a fucking coin, or come up with a more interesting way to settle these kinds of trivial pursuits.

such_a_casualon The benefits of static typing without static typing in Python

Aren't type annotations in python just documentation that's designed to look like it's not? Seems like it would make more sense to just create a documentation standard than develop a brand new syntax for documentation. Another idea that makes more sense to me is to use @decorators. I really don't understand why this syntactic hack is supposed to be a good idea.

such_a_casualon A Tour of Acme (2012)

I'm fascinated by the expressiveness of the mouse in this demo. I've seen the mouse as a lost cause ever since committing to vim some time ago, but this video proves that I am wrong, very wrong. It's clear that the expressiveness of a UI is limited by it's designers not the hardware.

such_a_casualon Life is more like Tetris than Chess

I would have loved to hear how Tetris is more like the author's life than chess, rather than hear about how my life is more like Tetris than chess.

such_a_casualon Google Paid Apple $1B to Keep Search Bar on iPhone

Title is misleading. Google didn't pay up front to keep the search bar, but rather agreed to share a percentage of the revenue generated, which ended up being $1B.

such_a_casualon Clojure is for Type B personalities

Link?

such_a_casualon Clojure is for Type B personalities

Yep, that's me.

such_a_casualon Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking for lost phones?

You must have missed the article where a judge ruled the police are not responsible for making sure technology is reliable, even drug tests: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10814544

(Police plan and execute a SWAT raid based on a bogus field test of tea leaves. Judge ruled the police are not responsible for knowing that the tests are completely inaccurate.)

such_a_casualon Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking for lost phones?

$1 says it's some null value.

This is a good premise to an "off-by-one" parable where it turns out the neighbors are phone thieves.

such_a_casualon Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation

> After all companies paid their share, the foundation became solvent. This is purely a business accounting issue arising from dealing with rapid growth because the outreach program was so successful.

I am completely ignorant of this situation, but it is clear that the source you provided doesn't dispute the allegations but instead provides further support that the allegations are true.

The outreach program was so successful that the company went out of business!

And it was the accounting department's fault! Not the person in charge! (anyone care for a game of office politics?)

Honestly, the allegation came across as absurd in the original post, but your post makes me think that the story might actually be true.