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where there is a base on the Mars. Where people can believe in whatever god they want, or none at all, and generally don't kill each other over it.

Science fiction, we can make happen. I'm afraid not killing over religion will turn out to be fantasy.
Maybe. After all, there are studies that show that girls do better in gender-segregated schools.
Well, you didn't ask me, but I think it's gotten progressively better, and better, and better. Different, sure, and if your definition of worse is "different than before", well, you aren't going to like it.

So, just to give a counter point.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Pleasures-Reading-Age-Distraction/...
Started reading this, was confused, thought "WTH this is for programmers(not computer scientists)?". Then realized it is part 14. Oh well, guess I need to start at part 1...
What does "white dude" even mean? I hate this label and always mark "other" in forms (to the extent that I can, some only have "white/black/asian/hispanic").

What does it mean to bring it up in the context of this article, other than merge all people with skin spectral signature falling in a cluster. But then there's this idea: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/06/16/how-fluid-is.... You can't have it both ways.

I'm not "white", I'm not a "dude" and I hate to be labeled as such, probably as much as these people hate to be treated as clueless just because they are women. Unfortunately, it's a sad fact that people who are on the receiving end of abuse usually practice it themselves when they get a chance.
Is that your gut instinct or is there research to suggest that that's the case?

My personal process for using Google (not saying everyone is the same, but...) goes something like this:

1. Type "g" into the address bar

2. Press enter, because www.google.com auto-populates at that point

3. Start typing my query while the animation of the day is loading

4. Press enter

5. Review the results
The Limits of Language
> This is a false comparison. Logos for clothes sit on the clothes which are themselves judged entirely on their appearance.

Some do. The vast majority of designer clothes don't.

People buy the brand, not the product.

> Google's search engine has a separate function that stands on it's own two feet irrespective of a change to an 'e'.

People bought into the Google brand identity. They were the first to eliminate all the crap around their web search engine, so it would just be a single text box. This made sure people know what Google was - the simple search interface. All of this is part of the brand's visual identity.

Do you think they do an empirical study on this when they first made it?

It is your brand that sells your product.

The shape of the letter 'e' is part of that marketing that sells your product.

In fact, EVERYTHING you do is fundamentally related to sales. You are always closing.
Hurry up then
I looked at several articles before I posted and I saw several mentions of "computers and radars", which matches my recollection from the time. The computers were a special purpose design, not commercially available systems, so they could have been controllers as opposed to large data processors, but the controversy was definitely about computers and not about the high-power tubes used by the radars themselves.
When I last saw it, it was one site per tower box. So one rack held about 8-10 individual sites.
I agree, I was hesitant to even use that link, I believe the Wall Street Journal is generally considered more reputable:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/robotic-surgery-brings-higher-co...

And another from a relatively reputable healthcare company/journal:

http://www.healthline.com/health-news/is-da-vinci-robotic-su...
This is pretty awesome though. I got a list of games I want to make for our Python bot.

Number guess, blackjack, this, now maybe battleship...
I should hope that's precisely not the point unless you just want to frustrate people more. The approach you describe is, in my considered opinion, possibly indirect to the point that could be by some considered to be influenced by Dadaism. Let's model a hypothetical person focused on a problem they're struggling with:

"Hey, do you have a second to chat?" --> "I want to waste your time with spurious bullshit when you're clearly eyeball-deep in something."

Might I suggest a different formulation that presumes less about the subject? Or perhaps giving up entirely? Personally, I've accepted that there is not and cannot be any uniformly acceptable way to approach a stranger and offer assistance that does not risk backlash or misinterpretation.
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I hate the dynamic dialog underneath the map search box that automatically shrinks and expands in and out with various location information on it. It seems to always close when I want to look at it, and expand to cover the area of interest when I don't care about the info. A user has to spend some time trying to figure out the rules when the dialog expands or contracts or fight the logic... I would much rather prefer maps take a dedicated portion of screen for that info, and let me show or hide it explicitly.
Was about to make the same point.
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Orb is building a consumer-priced 3D-360 video camera designed from the ground up for recording virtual reality experiences.

We've built our third generation prototype and have made lots of progress on the camera hardware. Our current technical challenge is implementing a parallax-tolerant depth-aware stitching algorithm in C/C+. Ultimately, we need to achieve real-time stereoscopic 3D video stitching onboard the camera itself implemented in an FPGA/ASIC. You'll be leading the hardware, firmware, and software teams to achieve this.

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Let's take VR to the next level.
I think we agree that their null hypothesis is "there is a background, with events coming from all the known particles". I think we agree that their conclusion is "these results provide conclusive evidence for the discovery of a new particle". I don't see how can they say that there is a new particle without rejecting the hypothesis that there is no such new particle. Of course you can say that the null hypothesis can never be rejected (relevant Dilbert strip: http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25) but then they can never discover a new particle either.

Regarding p-values in general, your definition is the same I've been using all along. But I don't think it is meaningless when the null hypothesis does not hold. The meaning is clear: "the probability of getting a value for the statistic as high as the observed one if the null hypothesis was true". For example, there would be one chance in several millions of observing the kind of data they found at the LHC if the Higgs boson didn't exist.

You might want to look into the theory yourself, because the notion of p-values trending towards 1 if the null hypothesis is true is nonsense. By definition, if the null hypothesis is true the p-value is uniformly distributed between 0 and 1. If you have at some point a p-value close to one (or to any other number for that matter) and keep adding data, in the long run it will still be uniformly distributed between 0 and 1.
There are lots of areas in which the data is reproducible but local continuity (and checksumming!) are still extremely valuable. Think things like large iso files, dvd rips or even intermediate stages of data analysis. Since I can reproduce them having a backup might not make sense but I still don't really /want/ to have to go to all that effort.

Especially things like scratch space for analysis you really don't want bit flips since you've maybe silently invalidated later stages.
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We're hiring three web/tech jobs right now at MPR/APM: Senior Software Engineer, Senior Web Developer, and Web Developer. Check the full job listings here: http://americanpublicmedia.applicantpro.com/jobs/

Our digital products team is divided into two groups: Software Engineers and Web Development. Software Engineers work on the backend CMS products and bigger infrastructure things that the internal users work with, and solve some gnarlier performance problems that come from having thousands of connected users streaming audio. Work is undergoing updating our decade old CMS to several newer rails-based CMS systems that are loosely coupled, provide coherent REST APIs and are indexed with modern search tools.

Web developers work on consuming internal and External APIs and building web products, often having a lot of influence on the end product's design. (Note: There is a UX position in the works, yet to be posted.) Future work for the Web Development team is going to focus on moving more of our stack from server-side to client side. We believe radio's core competency is the companionship and presence it offers, and we want our web products to augment that, which means more logged in and customized experiences that client-side tools like angular/ember/react excel at.

I'm leaving the company at the end of this week, but if you have any questions before then, email me at jheideman@mpr.org. Otherwise, apply through the listings online.
Control Group, NYC - http://www.controlgroup.com

Hi, I'm a software engineer and a technical manager at Control Group. We build hybrid physical/digital experiences for clients, with an emphasis on shared spaces, such as transit, museums, retail, office space, airports, and more.

We are merging with Titan to form a new company called Intersection (http://www.intersection.com/), and are being acquired by a group of investors led by Sidewalk Labs (http://www.sidewalkinc.com/), the recently launched venture by Dan Doctoroff and Google.

One of our most exciting upcoming projects is LinkNYC:

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We're turning the city's pay phones into free gigabit wifi hotspots. And we're looking for people who are excited about the opportunity to work with us to help change the landscape of New York City.
Job descriptions can be found here: http://www.controlgroup.com/careers.html Drop me a line at benjamin.haas@controlgroup.com if you're interested in learning more, and I'll also try to do my best to answer questions here.
You don't like exceptions so your solution is creating an instance of a specialized class that holds my variable that has a method that acts like an "if" statement that I need to pass an anonymous function to that receives the value I already have?
My thought exactly. But first, I'm containerizing it.
In your example, the grocery store will do inventory and discovery they are short 1 ice cream sandwich and 1 mountain dew. They write the cost of those goods off as shrinkage/stolen goods.

What exactly is warner bros missing at the end of the month when they do inventory? What item comes up 1 short when they go to grab it, because 1 person downloaded a copy? What do they write off on the balance sheet as shrinkage?

The answer is nothing, because copyright infringement is not theft. They may have commonalities, but they are separate and distinct. If they were the same there would be no legal definition for copyright infringement, because it would be already covered under existing theft laws.

I wish people would retire this ridiculous argument. There are legitimate arguments to be made against piracy without having to misrepresent the issue.
> at several degrees of removal it's impossible for us to know the difference.

Then maybe we should defer to the people directly involved. I mean, look. If these women say they feel uncomfortable at male-dominated hackerspaces, is it really such a stretch to believe that it's becuase they actually feel uncomfortable at male-dominated hackerspaces?

There's no harm here. Let them hack where they want to. Our job as the dominant members of the subculture is just to shut up about it and not be thin-skinned nutjobs.
Self-driving cars will always have limitations. It's just not possible to make it ready for all kinds of road or even off-road surfaces. Fast-forward into future, if human-driven cars get banned, there will be no reason for self-driving cars to have manual controls and the only option for car will be to refuse to go into a situation it can't handle.

I very much believe in gradual improvements and that is what many large car manufacturers are doing. I can easily imagine not needing to control my car on a highway, in a city, or when parking it, but I expect the manual controls will stay there for a very very long time.
Not a reasonable comparison. You might as well have said "you have to BUY a car, so it's not FREE". Yes, you have to buy, register the car, and learn how to use it, and obey the laws of the road. But they allow a kind of mobility that is impossible for Europeans and other jelly-kneed metrosexual weenies to enjoy. Owners of cars don't have to organize our lives around where train stations are located or anyone else's schedule.

Driverless cars, on the other hand, aim to "tame" the automobile and make it a kind of mini-train, with someone else deciding where you may go and how you may get there. Google is already creepy enough without handing over your freedom (and privacy) of movement to their computer.
I'm me. I'm more talented at some things than other, even the same domain: I'm far, far better at piano than classical guitar despite having worked far more on the latter.

So, is the theory that I work hard than me? Or, maybe I work less hard than me?

Doesn't make sense. There are talent differences independent of levels of work. This is trivially true.
Can you offer any perspective on the whole sometimes-named "mystery meat" UI that's been rolled particularly but not only into mobile design over the past half decade?

Further, more and more of this seems to have been "backported" into traditional desktop presentation design.

While I will experiment around until I more or less "get it" (although I may miss finding some useful features for months), it particularly frustrates people like my parents. Mom is somewhat spatially challenged (although plenty bright in other ways), and I've had numerous calls with her where the controls for what she wants to accomplish have changed and simply bewilder her. AND, given her spatial orientation problems, sometimes we will have to have the same conversation several times -- because the rather arbitrary-appearing icons and patterns don't immediately "sink in".

P.S. I mean this as a legitimate question, if it fits the parent's -- or others' -- field of experience. It seems that a lot of this design is expected to simply permeate and be picked up by osmosis. Is that really the case?
Did you ever have to take the FizzBuzz test in an interview?
For more context, the vacuum tube computers were only around in 1995 because a massive decade-long upgrade project failed in 1994.

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/1993-04-25/flying-in-pla...
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Here's a good article on the evolution of hacklabs and hackerspaces and how they got imported into the USA: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/peer-reviewed-paper...
This is a ridiculous scenario. If you have some files on your laptop that are super important, you probably shouldn't `rm -rf` them 1.5 seconds after uploading to your NAS. If you were working on that file, you shouldn't wait to save it until you are finished, or should be prepared to redo that work. Save it as you go.

Anyway, if a drive fails 1.5 seconds after a write, any of the btrfs supported Raid levels (-0) will save you. If corruption happens just before a backup, no Raid level will save you, because Raid does not protect against undetected silent corruption. Btrfs may save you there, because it does computes checksums -- allowing you to detect the corruption and recover.

If you really are going to immediately purge some critical data from its source location 1.5 seconds after fsyncing to your drive, you should be sending it to multiple locations and waiting for confirmation containing a valid checksum before considering the write a success.
I first read the term as "necrocomputing" instead of "retrocomputing". I think I have a preference for "necrocomputing", but then I may have been reading too much fantasy lately.
From the blog you linked: "Dpkg keeps a checksum of the last installed version of configuration file. When it must install a new version, it calculates the checksum of the currently installed file and if it doesn’t match anymore, it knows that the user has edited the file. In that case, instead of overwriting the configuration file, it asks the user what to do."

If you didn't modify the system config you don't get prompted about what to do.
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YouTube Suffers “500 Internal Server Error”
Thanks, fixed in edit. I was mistaken, it was dataguard and better snapshots using archive log mode.
Wouldn't the sheer pointlessness of it all bother you after a while? If someone wanted to pay you to dig a ditch and fill it up again, for the right price, would you do it? I mean, I'm not trying to claim that working for that hot new startup which is going to revolutionize ___ or endlessly tweaking some megacorp's ERP system is necessarily such a boon to humanity, but still.
If it is an app, then I'd contact Google/Apple/Microsoft/etc.

If it is desktop software then I'd target the host and try to get it taken down. This might require a lawyer to write up a letter, or you can likely use the DMCA if the host is physically located in the US. If they're located abroad and hosted abroad, this all becomes tricky (since you'll be subject to their local laws, not yours).

I would immediately look at technical solutions to make it more expensive to steal future versions. You cannot make it impossible to steal, all you can do is make it hard enough to not be worth the small profits they'll make off of illegally selling it (these businesses operate on-mass, they don't make a ton each piece of software).

You can also target their payment processor. Just click "buy" until you go to a third party's website and then report the fraud.
> large percentage of programmers knew

Unfortunately, no.
Is the subculture supposed to change to fit the needs of the newbie or should the newbies be expected to learn to fit in to the subculture?

What do other subcultures do? What is a culture of it has no strong identity? Why would anyone want to join it?
What Project Astoria can't do in Windows 10 Mobile (for now)
Everybody knew were mobile telecom was heading ever since data became possible: downhill race to a commodity. You only had to look at Northen Europe or Japan to see how usage had changed. Everybody was scared.

The idea that the telco controls what software you run was unknown there. Data is data. You could almost see operators taking the first steps from inflexible contracts where they gave phones away, to leasing-like models (for business customers, consumer markets went though the same change a few years later).

The only surprising thing is that Apple didn't change telco business models more, but I guess they didn't have to. US telcos continued to sell phones through their own channels and didn't have to yield to bigger data plans until years later.

But change is coming, because data by nature wants to be dumb. Soon all customers will find the idea of operator controlled phones just as foreign as some did ten years ago.
> The evolutionary, data-driven approach will never yield a Nest thermostat, iPhone, Helvetica, or flag of New Mexico

...for now, given today's technology, but I wouldn't bet on it long term. History is full of examples of things we once thought only humans could do.

But once many candidate designs are available to choose from, what better a way is there to unambiguously decide on the best besides testing and measuring?
this is so true.
I’m a white guy in Silicon Valley and I’m done buying the meritocracy myth