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The writing of the article was not as precise as it needed to be (I assume for the sake of saving space and words). It was a summary given in lay terms to an audience that could dig deeper into the source research results if they needed further clarification.

"After private equity acquisition, Medicare beneficiaries admitted to private equity hospitals experienced a 25.4% increase in hospital-acquired conditions compared with those treated at control hospitals. ... This increase in hospital-acquired conditions was driven by a 27.3% increase in falls and a 37.7% increase in central line–associated bloodstream infections at private equity hospitals, despite placing 16.2% fewer central lines."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2813379

Misen Cookware - https://misen.com/ They replaced a couple pans I ruined ... no charge. Just had to take a picture of them and send it to them.

visitors from another planet

I did not claim it was exactly the same. I asked a question.

How is what Aaron did legally different from what Google does with Google Books and Scholar?

Why are you disappointed? Was it because they launched the site or because they raised the threshold? Since there has never been another site like this the effective threshold for past administrations was infinite. I think 100,000 is better than nothing.

Yes. I wonder what percentage of vulnerabilities 11-20 belong to Microsoft?

Glancing at the list, I see there are only four companies in the world who cannot claim they don't have a single product on Kapersky's top 10 vulnerabilities list.

I think it would be even better for schools if we could get an OLPC (or some device that runs sugar linux) with touchscreen.

You don't need to be a mechanic to change oil, but a small amount of mechanical knowledge helps quite a bit. I am talking about knowledge such as what is a drain plug, what is oil, what is an oil filter. Most people have at least a rudimentary knowledge of how a car works. Computing is still magic to many people, and it should not be.

I appreciated his sharing the email from the attorney/CPA. Now I know there are others out there like me that enjoy computing more than counting money. We should start a recovering CPA support group.

That's probably why YT is being so aggressive then: to keep the FBI off them. It is truly a depressing world when film/recording industry lobbies and law enforcement agencies get away with stifling free market competition in order to maintain the status quo distribution of wealth.

Is there a viable alternative to YouTube that isn't as persuaded by the powers that be? If so, and if this problem were pervasive enough, wouldn't the independent content providers prefer that service over YouTube. Then most independent content would eventually be on the other service which would drastically reduce the value of YouTube.

Funny story: When I first saw this headline, I thought it was something to help people recognize the symptoms of a stroke. It could have have been something that runs on a mobile device and detects "sudden problems with walking or balance." http://www.webmd.com/stroke/guide/stroke-symptoms

"Only a Sith deals in absolutes."

> The Python version seems to be using an interpreter that frankly just doesn't work:

  NameError: name 'reduce' is not defined

How many false positives has this statistician had over their career?

  reduce(lambda x,y:x+y, map(lambda x:x*x, range(1,6)))

"From 1981-2008, average incomes grew by a healthy $12,000. But a shocking 96% of that growth went to the richest 10% of the country. Only 4% of it went to the other 90%."

We are trained to stretch everything - laws, resources, work hours, employee benefits, you name it - to be profitable and make money. We can think of all kinds of schemes and business models to legally extract wealth - whether it is adjustable rate mortgages with balloon payments, absurdly exorbitant executive compensation packages, interest rate swaps, bailouts to subsidize the worthless yet powerful, or government contracts. We think that because something is legal it is right. Being legal is a very low standard when you are the one making the laws. Just because we can doesn't mean we should. This, in my opinion is a major problem with the American economy right now. The most powerful people and businesses appear to be more interested in extracting wealth than in creating wealth.

Where would one start learning to script C with Lua?

throw rocks at them

http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/01/03/from-sun-chips-to-sun-...

But the auto industry is not accusing search engines, and anyone else who opposes the PROTECT IP Act, of aiding and abetting criminal behavior.

> Critics of this pending legislation need to be honest about the company they keep and why they essentially aid and abet these criminal endeavors.

Music is the only business where you can get away with calling potential buyers of your product "criminals".

I would recommend reading a highly regarded book on the programming language you are interested in. To do this, go to Hacker Books (http://www.hackerbooks.com/) and search by what interests you.

Many people recommend Python as a good first language. This is what Eric Raymond suggests in his How to Become a Hacker essay (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html): "It is cleanly designed, well documented, and relatively kind to beginners. Despite being a good first language, it is not just a toy; it is very powerful and flexible and well suited for large projects."

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

~jwz

you must use a lot of very unusual words

No. I just type more accurately than the average Google user, so when I do type an unusual word it is more likely that I intended to type it.

Google could fix this (with logged in users) by using some type of Bayesian classification algorithm. They could track how often a user subsequently clicks "Showing results for _____" compared to "Search instead for ______". That would give them a self-rated user typing accuracy score they could use to adjust which results to display when they detect a potential misspelling.

For all I know they already do this. However, based on anecdotal evidence from my own experience (admittedly non-scientific), it does not appear that they do.

The article does a good job of highlighting certain instances where using Google is a pain in the ass. I personally don't like the spell-correct feature. For me, it is only correct in its conclusion that I mistyped a word about 10% of the time. The other 90% is a nuisance because I have to go back and explicitly tell it that I meant to tell it what I told it.

Michael Fogus has also done some work porting On Lisp to Clojure. Chapters 2-5 are here: http://blog.fogus.me/tag/onlisp/

Halloway picked up where Fogus left off.

I wonder if sales of these devices are slow in part because of the OS it runs on. Everything cool in mobile seems to be either Android or iOS. If developers don't do webOS, there aren't going to be killer apps for it. And apps sell devices.