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Corporate coding standards aside, I dont think over commenting is really an issue. I see the opposite trend 10's of thousands of lines of Java with no comments at all. Instead the use of meaningful names. So I see 30 to 50 characters method names, some of which differ only by a couple of characters in the middle. What is this subtle difference? A couple of lines of description is not too much to ask. Another example is convoluted business logic in the middle of a jsp (!!!) where formatting is little help and meaningful variable names just dont cut it.
Obvious choices are big firms with machine learning research groups: Microsoft Research, Yahoo Research, (Google, but I've had a poorer personal experience getting people from there to tell me what they're doing)

You could search for funds and consultancies using machine learning. They are out there.

Check out the sponsors of major machine learning conferences (e.g. ICML, NIPS).
Why do people continue to sack ride twitter?
Gotcha. But what if those "people with a hobby" are capable of doing incredible things with music? They'd benefit from being in a field of music that's not neglected for being thought of as centuries-old.
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I do it for the exact same reason. I was asked to work on a project one time (small OS) and I was going to remake the core. The person had made it a couple months ago and had no idea what was what when I asked him about it. If he had just taken the time to write a comment here or there explaining some of the things, it would have been much easier than debugging the entire OS (which I had to do). The worst part was that he put in all of these extra "checks" and "lists" containing information each time programs would run (ect.) and they turned out to be completely useless and affected nothing.

Anyways. My point is that a comment here or there on projects would help immensely. Especially if you may drop a certain part of a project and not maintain it for a period of more than a few days. Not all code is self explanatory.
No, the demo gives you enough to understand why you need to play more. I think you definitely don't need more levels there.

What problem are you trying to solve?
64bit hasn't really become common place despite being around for years.

It's a trade off between performance and storage, and I think we'll probably settle on 32bit for the next 10 years in consumer devices anyway.

Just my 2c
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Once kids reach a certain age the genders are rigidly separated (with the burka, and adjusted living arrangements).

My parents are first cousins. And indeed they grew up together. But they didn't get married because they didn't have other options beyond cousins. That part doesn't ring true to my larger family's history with cousin marriages(sample size: 3 cousin marriages).

There are so many myths about the harms of cousin marriages, starting with the medical risks. But study after study have shown there is little truth to any of it.
The Itanium instruction set didn't exactly maintain backwards compatibility with the x86 instruction set.
Maven sucks, yes. But, right now, Maven is the best solution for Java projects. This is why:

If you use it right you end up with 1 source of truth for your build. Most Java IDEs support maven as a project model, and therefore you don't have to maintain two separate builds: one for the IDE and one for the build system--something that always leads to integration pain.

Ant as a tool isn't capable of this, since it doesn't really represent an project object model. Certainly IDEs can invoke Ant targets, but their non-standard nature make tight integration with the IDE hard, if not impossible.

There are several things that Maven could do to make the experience better. I suspect many of them will be addressed in 3.0; however, Maven as an experience has always sucked and I suspect will always suck. The broad based acceptance of the tool will give it a certain inertia that is likely going to be hard to overcome.
> Most of us are born with some ability like this.

Exactly why I'm confused as to your initial point

My point is about degrees of development. Also, note that I leave room for some people to be devoid of melodic sense. I've taught music, and I'll tell you there are a few out there.

Heck, we're mostly all born with some degree of hand-eye coordination. That doesn't all make us star outfielders or professional jugglers. Someone won't develop a sophisticated appreciation of baseball just because they were born with the baseline set of neuromuscular resources.
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If a lot more people play the web version on a regular basis, then this may result in more sales via word of mouth.
For those of you wondering where the link to my resume went, I've since removed it. I'm not saying that what wvenable is saying isn't reasonable. It's just that I'd rather be judged by whether my content is very good rather than by my resume.
Flightcaster - http://www.flightcaster.com

Hunch - http://hunch.com
ehe no I'm not sure, I thought PlayStation came with an engine.
I disagree with pretty much everything you said- except anything which is your opinion- I can't disagree with that.

I've worked with different development environments and even if my experience is incomplete, it is still experience and I know the usefulness of a debugger. I also know how useful it is to comment out lines of code which will help the reader understand the code's process (and my thought process). However, I disagree entirely that a debugger is better than a few well placed (or a lot of well placed) comments. Comments allow you not to have to digest and understand the code, and with a debugger you will still need to digest code. No matter how "good" you are at using a debugger. Comments are gold when used appropriately, and we (the person you are responding to and I) are only referring to the good type of comments. Bad comments are as good as giant commented out sections of code that belong to another program.
> a notorious internet racist

I'm wary of judging articles by their publishers, but here's some background on Steve:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sailer

He's warned of "anti-white pogroms" and thinks blacks "need stricter moral guidance from society" because of their lack of "native judgement" compared to better-educated groups.
There are at least two:

1) The Maven Ant tasks: http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks/index.html
2) Ivy (now part of the Ant project): http://ant.apache.org/ivy/

We use Ant+Ivy, and although it has some quirks Ivy works well enough for dependencies.
Bourbaki is a name used by a group of french mathematicians to publish lots of important but dry, abstract and very very rigorous math.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki

Bourbaki's style is not appealing to a lot of people, since it doesn't focus on applications, doesn't use pictures, etc.
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Some people (e.g. me) don't even have iPhones. Right now, you have no way for us to give you money. Perhaps a donate button could appear after playing a few levels, instead of the game ending?
From the outside, SIAI seems torn along a Goertzel-Yudkowsky axis, with BG saying "whee, this is fun, lets build it", and EY too busy saving the world to panic. But the man himself reads Hacker News, so I'll shut up.
Agreed on Google and Microsoft; I don't think we have found this decade's Google yet.
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The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_Effect#Westermarck_... would argue against what you wrote.

I think the causes are more likely that couples meet only through introductions, and their parents know each other.

What they need are some matchmakers who make a point of knowing tons of young people, and can introduce them.
I don't feel this as off topic. Nation is a much newer concept than clans and tribes in human history.

The same problems happened before in early 20th Century China. Both Nationalists and Communist governments in China tried very hard for a long time to remove clan and tribal influence and a lot of bloody consequences happened. So this is part of social science. (though social science is political and not real science).
For some informed data on the topic instead, try
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/us/few-risks-seen-to-the-c...

or, more recently:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/garden/26cousins.html

"Dr. Motulsky said researchers did not know why marriage between cousins was viewed with such distaste in the United States. He said some of the revulsion might have stemmed from the eugenics movement, which intended to improve the human race by deciding who should be allowed to breed. The movement flourished in this country early in the 20th century."

Anti-cousin-marriage is a very recent and very American thing, and stems from the same movement that gave us nazi racism.
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I'm with richardw on this one...what problem are you trying to solve? Are you thinking about marketing it on the web to gain more exposure as amichail said? Will lifting the limit even help you in this regard?
Yes - use the web version to get people hopelessly addicted and as an advertising platform for the mobile version - removing the level cap won't stop people from buying the iPhone version, it just means you potentially get more and longer impressions on those iPhone version ads.

Rather than worrying about crippling your online version, work on improving the mobile version, give it features such as a global/friends high score table (people love to boast), prettier themes, invent some new modes.

You could even go as far as linking the two versions, perhaps if a user gets above a certain score threshold on the web version, pop up an alert with a code letting them unlock X (a new skin, etc.) if they buy the iPhone version in the next week. This should not only create an incentive to purchase, but create a sense of urgency - if someone's been wondering whether they should buy it, that will push them over the edge.
I'm aware of this effect, and the reason I think it doesn't apply is this: the children play with each other, but they are raised in separate households. (Sloppy writing on my part, I wrote "children of the family are young they play and do everything together" which was an exaggeration. My bad.)
That's not his point. His point is that he has connected to the music by listening to what he likes, rather than what he was told to respect. I'd hardly call that result "unexpected", though.

As for your point, it is debatable. I think the percentage of people enjoying classical music is greater today than 100 years ago.

If you actually meant that the quality of music we write today is lower, that is very hard to for us to judge until maybe 100 years later. Maybe you've heard of John Cage, Luciano Berio, or perhaps György Ligeti -- whose music was used as the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are a lot of people out there writing contemporary "classical" music that are respected in the music community, but virtually unknown elsewhere (and they are respected because we are touched by their music, just like the author has written, and not because they are writing avant-garde, esoteric music).

I would admit that the percentage of quality music in the total corpus being performed and listened today is unfortunately lower than it might have been 100 years ago.
I'm certainly not saying people don't have options beyond cousins, but would you agree that it's far more difficult to meet people beyond cousins?
Yes - three simple things to mitigate risk:
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2)Disable root login PermitRootLogin No
3) Only allow specific users ssh acces via AllowUsers directive
Same problem. I blame the male bias in computing for producing lower average room temperatures.
Just a bit of a clarification, a lot of people here seem to be interpreting what I'm saying as meaning "comments == bad", which isn't the truth (see my last point in the blog post)!

Quite the opposite in fact. Comments are almost like bold or italics: used sparingly, they have a big impact. But if you overuse them, they lose their effect. The moral of the story: comment your code. Just remember that there is such thing as overdoing it.
All this effort to track down someone accused of a victim-less crime who had already left the country and posed no future harm to people in the US. Yet, we have Nigerians terrorists flying around with explosive underwear. Somehow it seems like our priorities in the US are a little screwed up.
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Classical music is a bit like a novel: it is complex and it takes a bit of effort to understand. Popular music is rather simpler and can be readily understood (like, say, the movie version of the novel). If you just want to feel, classical music is too much effort.

There is also the barrier that it is hard to write classical music. Anybody can pick up a guitar, learn I, IV, V chords and write a song (these days, the lyrics don't even need to rhyme). Fewer people can add harmony, and very few can write counterpoint. I think a classical music piece can take as long to write as a short novel.

I suspect that classical music was never all that popular: the upper classes enjoyed classical music and the more numerous lower classes enjoyed the pop music of the time from traveling musicians. It's just that the traveling musicians didn't write their stuff down.
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Do either one of those actually pull down the appropriate sources and javadocs, and update my Eclipse classpath to include them with one command? I'm actually asking, not being snarky, as it doesn't look built in with Ivy and the few little projects claiming to do it don't look very active, what has been your experience?

As I said, that is the one big carrot still keeping me in mvn camp.
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Rather difficult to read.
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1) Make the web version dependent on an internet connection. So maybe like you receive the next piece from the server side. This way if someone wants to play inside the stalls of a bathroom deeply fortified within a building, they'll need to purchase your iPhone version. I wouldn't advise using your iPhone on the toilet though, I read a pamphlet that says long periods sitting, especially with your asshole exposed, leads to hemorrhoids.

2) Make the web version dependent on a mouse, or a keyboard. For example, use the mouse dragging to determine where the block above is. As far as I know you can only simulate mouse clicks on the iPhone. The keyboard takes up most of the screen. Use these to your advantage.

3) Redo the web version in flash.

4) Put ads on the web version and give it away for free. See how this does.

5) If all else fails, block the iPhone safari user string.
If you have a free version, then people will measure the cost (money) to the benefit (difference between free and pay versions). Right now we have to pay to 1) get more levels, and 2) have it on the iPhone. If you open up all levels then we lose incentive 1, and only have incentive 2. Same cost, less benefit.

Personally, I'd make the app (or website) more shiny. Get a designer (someone else said in your last thread), etc. Maybe have a 5-level demo iPhone version - I've seen that a few times.
use different colors for .com, .net, etc columns.

if it is free, use the black text "free". if it is taken, grey out that cell, with no text.

that will make it much easier to scan with the eye
Bumping Earth from asteroid costs way more. I applaud the Russians for taking this seriously. It moght be worth the $80B just to practice.
My definition for ipv4 adresses exhaustion is: IANA and RIR's have no more unallocated blocks, so everything is left to the free market. If its consequences will be catastrophic or imperceptible is something I can't imagine. I would love to see Google's and Facebook's risk models for the next years, since they are those who could be more severely hit by this.
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It's a little concerning that Blizzard responded to a politely worded request with billing information, IP addresses and screen names.
Sadly, I think the article might be right about South Indian Hindus (I'm one too). Though very rare in modern urban areas (I think), it is definitely common in large parts of Tamil Nadu atleast. I have atleast one such couple in my extended family (they got married over 2 decades ago though).

You see this reflected in a seemingly infinite number of movie storylines - where the hero is betrothed to his sister's daughter or some such thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_thinner

Foiled again!
the thing that increased terrorism the most was invading Iraq...

9/11, USS Cole, Kenyan/Tanzanian Embassies?

Also, while the war in Iraq has not made the US popular in the region, it has given the people of the Middle East a very good look at the practice of terrorism. Surveys show that groups like Al Qaeda have suffered an even greater loss of esteem than the US has:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/17/saudi.poll/

We give money to many oppressive governments in the Middle East.

This was the theme of GWB's second inaugural address. Thanks to him, Iraq's government is now the most liberal in the region. The idea was to create pressure for change in neighboring countries like Syria and especially Iran. That nobody was ecstatic about the Stalinesque Hussein regime's ouster and subsequent replacement with a constitutional democracy is a bright sign that "oppression" is a lot more complicated than the victim-villain narrative that predominates in the media and public discourse.

Did I mention that Israel is one of the world's most open societies if you ignore all the stuff they do to the Palestinians?

The point is that this issue is full of contradictions. But it's hard to see how the oppression of the Middle East's huddled masses would elicit murderous, self-immolating rage from the son of a Nigerian bank chairman living at a tony London boarding school (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab), or an Egyptian studying architecture at a German university (Mohammed Atta).

We are seen in the Middle East as bullies that only care about oil. This is grist for the mill of terrorism, where we setup ourselves as an easy target.

Superpowers are not nice. But they are even less popular than they are nice. They get blamed for all the good they could do but don't, doubly blamed for their screwups, triply blamed for their vices. And when they do something right, nobody pays attention:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2009/1211/Iraq-oi...

So I absolutely agree that the US has a big PR problem in the Middle East that to some extent is structural and can't be gotten rid of. But that doesn't really tell us much. Any project undertaken by an actor as big as the US is going to be a mixed bag. Because of the PR problem, people will see the bad and not the good, making the US less popular and giving it more of a PR problem.

I think people stop thinking about problems like terrorism too early. They quit in a funny way though. Rather than just declaring the problem impossible, people tend to settle on some really unrealistic solution that will never fly in the real world, and then complain that it isn't happening.

So for example, people go on about how the US should consume less oil (which would add major unemployment to the region's problems), stop backing Israel (which would destroy trust of other allies, threaten a high-tech trading partner, free up Syria and Hezbollah, and piss off a chunk of the Florida electorate), or stop being a superpower (Riiight).

There have to be better solutions, though.
Wow, this is very cool and elegant. I really like how the UI is simplistic and functional. Thank you for making it open source too.

One small idea might be to add slider bars to adjust the weights. That way, one can drag these sliders and see the rankings update on the fly. Maybe these bars (vertical?) can be displayed next to the textbox when user clicks in the textbox. Or maybe you can place the bars (horizontal) in the right column where you currently have feedback.

Additional cool features might be the ability to "watch"/receive notifications for new domain names that satisfy specified weights. Maybe automatically tweet the user or implement it as an RSS feed.
It was a politely worded subpoena at least, which indicates he'd gathered enough evidence to convince a judge in California, even if it had no legal force in Canada. I doubt they'd extend the same cooperation to J Random Stalker asking about his ex-girlfriend, but I agree it's still a bit worrisome.
Hi thingie, thank you for your comment; you are right that the slides were just to aid a lot of talking. The presentation was held at last year's EuroTeX (2009) conference and was quite technical with a lot of discussion and the talk was prepared within a few minutes before the talk. I just wanted to present the way I use LuaTeX and the problems I encountered while hacking. I try to sum up all this (with solutions) on my german blog www.luatex.de. I am sorry that I can't give you a better answer then "you should consider attending a TeX conference".
Yeah, that's a lot of trouble to get your stuff (possibly) noticed. I'm sick of this expectation. Technology should address this as a problem. Am I really expected to do a blog to be part of "the conversation"? Am I only listened to when I do the social media dance? I don't like this world.

Something needs to replace the blogger/commenter dynamic. Something that puts people on equal footing by default. The blog dynamic too easily devolves into a high status/low status game.
It is a matter of going to war with the software you have, not the software you wish you have. SpamAssassin allows you to do plug-n-play logic for tests, but for implementation reasons only accepts regular expressions. Those are Good Enough for most email filtering tasks, very flexible, and have fairly predictable security and resource consequences. This is the architecture that lets spam assassins subject an email to literally hundreds of tests (though in fairness I think they're probably less efficient than just naive Bayesian but don't trust me, my anti-spam researcher days are almost three years in the rear view mirror at the moment) and evolve quickly with the quickly changing, particularized nature of the spam threat at any given installation.

Not to say that its optimal -- it is not -- but there is a reason it is done that way as opposed to having a fully executable plugin architecture which would have access to your date parsing library of choice.
That would be a good enhancement to both a tablet and the iPhone. I've begun to use my iDisk in this fashion after the release of the iDisk app for the iPhone but that's basically limited to viewing (selected) file types. If all third party apps could read/write to iDisk it would be far more useful to me.
He refers to the request as a subpoena. That could mean that the request theoretically carried penalties for non-compliance, but that the Sheriff would have no way of showing that the request was not complied with.
it probably works 99.9% of the time. So all you need to do is throw enough people at that crack to become successful.

That approach doesn't scale. Imaging the organisation needed for sending 1000 suicide bombers. Now imagine keeping it functioning, and avoiding consequences catching up with it as it sends in the first ten or so.