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by aamar 16y ago
The problem is a bad feedback loop. Doctors need to demand an adequate user-experience, and buyers of these systems need to include user-experience "intangibles" into their decisions. I'll play sort of a devil's advocate here as someone wh
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by aamar 16y ago
No, Lori Park holds that distinction.
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by aamar 16y ago
If you are generating a per-password salt, that won't work. In order to find prior occurrences of a given password, you would have to hash the password for every salt value that you've ever used. And since you're using BCrypt[1], that wil
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by aamar 16y ago
I think good practices around encryption/storage of passwords would make it infeasible to check how many times a password is already in your database. How about instead just implementing a blacklist of unacceptable passwords?
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by aamar 16y ago
There might be interesting ways to combine sentiment analysis with other factors. For example, off the top of my head, combine it with the selectivity of the search word. If the sentiment is positive about a store, then it may be a good se
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by aamar 16y ago
I think this was a joke, but I hope no one has ever made any assessment or decision of any sort on the basis of this quip (incidentally, not Einstein's[1]). This, of course, is not the definition of insanity, nor is it a remotely good proxy
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One one level, it's something kind of simple: Buster's character is under-qualified & frequently failing, but he's also determined, unrelenting, and ultimately gets the job done. But he is special because he's a genius at failure: his d
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by aamar 16y ago
Don't overlook the obvious: The Matrix Also: Primer, Amadeus, Ratatouille Older movies: The General and other Buster Keaton movies, Trouble in Paradise and other Lubitsch movies.
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by aamar 16y ago
Have you ever been in the back office of a typical political campaign? Yes. I've had many roles including leadership positions in political campaigns, and including positions where I crafted official campaign language. I have many frien
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by aamar 16y ago
Re: #2. Let's look at voting according to its consequences, as a mechanism for hopefully getting good outcomes. A zero-information voter picking between two candidates is 50% likely to choose the better candidate. Slogans & sound-bite
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by aamar 16y ago
I'm very sympathetic to your overall stance on this and greatly appreciate that you named a specific type of spending to cut: corn subsidies. That said, I'd be grateful for backup/citations that corn subsidies are bad for the U.S. in econom
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by aamar 16y ago
Agreed; maybe the point is that Hollywood seems disproportionately interested in explaining the urge to create (especially when the ambitions are grand) as sublimated need for intimacy. This may be in part because Citizen Kane casts a long
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There are too few taxis in SF today. The city has been adding medallions[1]; unfortunately the years-old plan to add medallions has been slowed by implementation issues and controversy around details. However, my point above was more theor
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by aamar 16y ago
The reason seems to be to make traffic manageable. It's similar to the idea of cap-and-trade pollution regulation. Each individual producer profits with pollution, but people believe the environment can only sustain some level, after which
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by aamar 16y ago
Good plan. I'd add that a mix of (vesting) equity and cash may be a good outcome of the discussion if you can spend a significant amount of time on the project for a while (1+ years). If you don't want to spend that kind of time on this, t
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by aamar 16y ago
Great comment. There are probably many, great, socially beneficial things for technical-entrepreneurial people to do in healthcare (a field I worked in for a long time), education, and poverty. But "industry" is the wrong level of analysi
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A 25% chance to receive $1 is worth something. A 1% chance for $2 is worth something too, as is a 100% chance of $0.01. Everyone here can work out which of these is worth more than others, even though there's a strong chance that any of t
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by aamar 16y ago
Basically, as was learned in the early 2000's, don't take a job for the options. This is not good advice. Options can be -- and often are -- a great investment, amazing compensation for taking a risk with a job at a startup. Of course i
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by aamar 16y ago
Excellent, clear thinking; thank you for this analysis. I wanted to ask more about: we both totally failed at... actually helping people. Changing people's behavior is really hard. Yes, but it seemed to me -- and this post confirms --
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by aamar 16y ago
Okay. I think those sources are descriptive, but to be sure, here is the American Heritage Dictionary ( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony ), an explicitly descriptive dictionary about American usage. It seems to agree with the
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by aamar 16y ago
This is, in part, incorrect. "Irony" is in its original (from Ancient Greek) and primary usage a rhetorical form -- in other words, something intentionally used by a speaker. Experts disagree on whether "verbal irony" and "sarcasm" are th
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by aamar 16y ago
IANAL. This is discussed at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLInProprietarySys... . RA claims to have adopted this "arm's length" approach, releasing their direct extensions to the community. They ask me for identifying informa
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by aamar 16y ago
Note: philjackson is the current maintainer of magit, which is anyway a fine and useful project. I've recently moved to egg, a fork of magit with a very readable UI. http://github.com/byplayer/egg http://wiki.github.com/bogolisk/egg/manu
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by aamar 16y ago
A half-measure would be to brand the versions with something more distinctive and memorable than a number, e.g. 2.3 = "Android Ginger". Maybe Google is shooting for where Apple is -- frequent, free updates compatible with the vast majority
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by aamar 16y ago
Agree that we should be thoughtful of the misses as well as the hits, and he's had some misses. However, I didn't recall Silver getting the special MA Senate election of Scott Brown wrong, and he seems not to have: ( http://www.fivethirtyei
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Scientific theories aren't so different from explanations of any other sort. None of them (whether science or otherwise) are descriptions of "reality"; they are all models. But anyway that seems off to the side of what you were asking for
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by aamar 16y ago
Your distinction between "description" and "explanation" is interesting. It seems like "explanation" is very much what you describe in your second sentence: describing how an observation is a consequence of a broader array of forces from wh
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by aamar 16y ago
Y and Z are Pareto improvements on X, and they are also Pareto optimal. Points on the line between X and Y are also Pareto improvements on X but not Pareto optimal. R and U are not Pareto improvements on X, because as you note some people
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by aamar 16y ago
The UI is reminiscent of the hypothetical Southwest Airlines redesign from "Magic Ink" ( http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#demonstration_trip_planning_... ). This is a good thing. It's sad how few of the great ideas in that essay have been r
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by aamar 16y ago
For some reason I don't see discussion of federal spending in the Salon article or the cited NYTimes article, except for a few offhand comments in the former which seem suggestive, not substantive (e.g. rumors about what the Deficit Commiss

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