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You meant "lose," not "loose." ;)

Good grammar never gets old. In fact, it boosts your income: http://www.forbes.com/sites/cherylsnappconner/2013/03/11/rep...

> Now, producing something worth reading is another story?

I've become less of a grammar nazi over the years (falling in love with a dyslexic woman will just... force you to do that lol), but I see it as kind of like colorblindness... If everyone is telling you your colors don't match, and you don't see it, it doesn't mean it doesn't bother them (or that you shouldn't care). Or if you're deaf and make random noises that you don't hear, but they bother others... perhaps you should figure out how to stop. That sort of thing. It's a discord thing.
Overall I like it because they closely follow Slack's UI. However I question the choice of fully supporting Markdown. A comment isn't supposed to be documentation. Supporting things like bold, italic makes sense for emphasis or making code easier to read. But headings? When would one ever want really large text in a comment?
I'd love to hear what precise production problems that you're seeing. I know people are successfully deploying R in production, but I'd like to hear more about the challenges.
Isn't the compelling reason always write once, run everywhere? Pick your favorite language and wouldn't you want to use that on Android and iOS? Swift is fast becoming the standard for iOS development. So, if you want to support Android too, any effort you can reuse is a win.
Lol. Women and all their unfair advantages over men, right? It's tough for a guy out here...

Women are consistently and institutionally disadvantaged across the board. Why do so many men fail to understand this? For the record I'm a man, and I see women face issues on a daily basis that I have never had to deal with, so by all means, give them a prize.
It seems that though with in Julia, vectorized code is typically slower than non-vectorized, it is still faster than in R [1] / Python [2].

[1] http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/12/22/the-relati...

[2] http://blog.rawrjustin.com/blog/2014/03/18/julia-vs-python-m...
> I suspect that behavior itself is intrinsic to humans.

Sounds like Anchoring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
I happily commute by bike year round in Chicago, as do many other thousands of people that live in the city. It gets into the 90's in the summer, and well below freezing in the winter.

If it's hot I pack my work clothes and change (and shower if needed) at work.

If it's cold I dress warmly. It's amazing how quickly you warm up when pedaling more than a few miles.

If it's raining I wear a rain jacket, and the fenders on my bike keeps water from splashing up on me.

So no, weather is not an automatic fail. It's just a mindset change if you're used to be in the enclosed bubble that car provides.
It looks like the DPC of Ireland has been "considering" this question since 2011, and still not got anywhere: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Complaints/complaints.html
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This isn't some new and radical concept these sorts of "nudge" laws to encourage/discourage particular individual behaviors are pretty common. tobacco, alcohol, seatbelts, helmets, vaccines, mandatory education, liability insurance...
I actually see these boards in airports as lot as well.
And it's not just intelligent life, either, when you think about it; it requires intelligible life. It doesn't matter how clever the individual is; without a relatively efficient means of bundling up abstractions and hypotheticals and so on and transferring them from one individual to another, progress is slow, limited and contextually bound. There is something special about language - a serialization scheme for thought - that sets it apart from mere communication, and there is no reason to assume that it's an inevitable natural consequence of individual intelligence. Call it another term in the Drake equation.
Thanks!

Initially all I "need" is a relatively
high end of a consumer grade
mid-tower case, e.g., an AMD
8 core processor, 32 GB of ECC
main memory, several hard disks,
on a current motherboard
for less than $150 or so running
Windows Server or maybe,
initially, just Windows 7 Pro.

Keep that on average half busy
24 x 7 for a month, and I will
be able to afford more.

If I get, say, two wire rack shelf units
18 x 48 x 72", fill them with
a good router and mid tower
cases, and keep all that
on average half busy 24 x 7,
then I will consider
a colocation facility or the
cloud.

A few miles from me is
a nicely big, fully serious
colocation facility
that offers dual 10 GbE
Internet connections, etc.

No joke: One of those shelf
units has room for about 12
mid tower cases. Keep two
such shelf units busy, and that
will max out what I'm willing
to pursue without a lot more
server farm expertise than
I have (or want to get)
and also make cash not
a problem.

So, one hope is that I will be
able to pay some experts, two
or three days at a time, to
hold my hand into more --
reliable electrical power,
HVAC, floor space, cabling, racks,
servers for the racks,
internals of the servers for
the racks, e.g., maybe Xeon,
automation for software
installation, system management,
system monitoring,
farm performance analysis,
fail-over, virtual machine
exploitation, security,
test systems, development
systems, organized
code repository and testing,
all relevant documentation,
training, recruiting,
HR, legal, real estate leasing,
janitorial, physical security,
etc. Or, right, just use
a cloud!

But for the high end Xeon
processors, I'm looking
ahead. E.g., a motherboard
with two Xeons with 18 cores each,
all in just one full tower case,
or two for failover, or
three considering testing,
might provide enough
computing for my startup
all the way to exit so that
I could avoid taking seriously
what I'd have to do
with 100 people
and 50,000 square feet of
server farm, dual optical
fiber connections to an
Internet backbone point of
presence, etc. So, that's
why looking into high end
Xeons now is not totally
wasted time.

Thanks for the help!
How does these compare with the single-wheel versions?

http://www.theairwheel.com/buy/airwheel-carbon-limited-editi...
Is it smart to invest $500 in an early-stage startup?
I remember when they launched, their 'special sauce' was supposed to be how they made pants fit men correctly, but the photos made their pants look awkward and ill-fitting.

To wit: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-06-01/features/08052...

Odd how that first impression has stuck with me and prevented me from paying any further attention to the brand.
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I am currently working on a project which must include content from third party CDN's. Unfortunately, lots of them do not support HTTPS at all. So while my site safely serves everything over HTTPS from origins I control, random images I'm including from elsewhere make it look like something is very wrong. Shouldn't at least CDN's at this point switch to HTTPS-only? There is no downside in including HTTPS resources in pages served over HTTP.
Why do I have to go to slack.com to learn what this is?

I clicked on this link, no explanation. I checked mattermost.org, no explanation. I went to slack.com, no explanation. Then I clicked on a "Product" link on top of the webpage. Finally some information what this actually is.

Even open source projects could benefit from a little bit of marketing.
This is great. Also see: https://zulip.org

And the blog on why Dropbox decided to OSS it:

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2015/09/open-sourcing-zulip-a...
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And those copyrights get enforced.
Well compared the most of the current chic apple commercial music videos that most start up choose produce where everything is magical this was quite entertaining and refreshing.

And surprisingly informative when it comes to what they actually do and how does their service works which is more than I can say about half of those start up videos since besides dazzling you with all the music and the stop motion drawings they rarely actually end up explaining what they do.
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using EU infastructure

...which in many cases doesn't exist yet. In particular, Europe lags significantly in "on-line" services.

Obviously it would solve some problems if this were not the case. However, given that for now it is the case, the price of enforcing a total ban on exporting personal data outside Europe would be closing down vast numbers of on-line European small businesses that aren't intentionally doing anything unreasonable or customer-hostile. Clearly this isn't going to be accepted readily by anyone involved.

A more realistic result when the dust has settled might be yet another disclosure that businesses are required to make prominently when someone buys or signs up for something, in order to be deemed to have explicit consent from the data subject to export the data. This appears at first sight to be a reasonable way to handle the ruling, and in principle I think it's hard to argue with requiring a business to disclose fairly what they're really doing with personal data. Indeed, I've noticed that in recent years organisations like my insurers have started adding terms that explicitly say they're going to export personal data and foreign governments might get access to it, and that if you want to deal with them at all then you have to accept that. (I'm not sure how I feel about such conditions when having the insurance is mandatory by law, as for example with motor insurance for drivers, and based on my experience so far it looks like literally everyone offering such insurance is now imposing similar conditions.)

Then again, for on-line businesses at least, isn't that what privacy policies have evolved to deal with? Separate to this case, under the new consumer protection rules, it seems likely that such policies would now be considered to fall under the same general rules about fairness and transparency as the main terms of a consumer contract. Assuming that is true, I'm not sure there is a huge advantage in cluttering up on-line order/sign-up forms with explicit wording about routine things, while there is certainly a disadvantage in making such forms any more complicated than they need to be. The question then becomes one of reasonable expectations about what a normal customer would consider routine.

I suppose that brings us back to approximately where we came in, other than the fact that it's now a matter of public record that the US government itself was violating those reasonable expectations and opened Pandora's box. Somehow I suspect that if some sort of basic disclosure/consent on sign-up doesn't deal with this issue, it will be addressed by adjusting the relevant European-level legislation so that disclosure to allied governments in the interests of national security is a blanket exemption, and enough people won't know or care about the implications that this will pass even though privacy advocates would surely oppose it.
Recently started using rvest for web scraping. Sweet bejeezus that's a pleasure. I would've never considered R for scraping before. It was always Python with BeautifulSoup.
Just curious, what in particular did you find obtuse?

It's not like R does not have obtuse and baroque parts, it certainly does, and their obtus-ity is rather high, but IMO they are not parts of the language a casual user would likely encounter...

On the other hand, Python has quite a few pitfalls itself -- but I suspect a casual user would, for example, run into Python default arguments a bit sooner than she would run into R environments :)
> Namely, instead of generating machine code targetting a specific architecture, LLVM generates assembly code for an imaginary machine, and then converts that intermediate representation to actual code for whichever architecture we're interested in.

Why is that not possible for real-world languages? e.g. have one language which would include the specifics and complications of each language of the world and use it as intermediary for going back and forth to any language in the world.
Citation please.
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Actually its fine if you make the user explicitly give you permission to store it for them. If they 'opt in' then its all good, and if they don't well they will have to re-enter it every time they order but they will be ok with that.

It would be interesting to put some teeth in the "no sharing" rules about collected private information.
Without invoking the maximization of utility we could use game theory and ask if the players were simply minimizing their maximum regret. It was during the qualification rounds, not the finals. It looks like they each preferred taking an advantage or a draw (chosen by their opponent) over playing against a world-class player at a slight disadvantage.

Nakamura's shown that he'll play interesting and sometimes dubious moves because he wants chess to be more entertaining for spectators. He spends a lot of time playing online against weaker players so they can have the memory of that one time they played against one of the best. He's done so much for chess and its popularity that if he takes an early draw once in a while he gets the benefit of the doubt.
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But they're only 'bad' habits because previous fad diets told us that.
Not sure of the state of Scala on Android, but having a language that actually has real closures is appealing. To say nothing of ADTs, nullability, etc...
I wonder if that expert has been to the Netherlands or Copenhagen. In fact I wonder whether he has really experienced a bike for day to day use, because some of the ideas are very strange. It's telling that most bikes in the pictures are racing bikes. What's the advantage of bikes in apartment buildings? Why not park the bike at the ground floor? It would waste a lot of space in the corridors. Think about what you'd rather have: 2 meters extra apartment, or 2 meters extra wide corridor.

Bikes in shops will not work either. Walking through a shop with a bike seems extremely unwieldy; you would need much larger space between the shelves. A bike in your hand makes it hard to pick up things from the shelves. A bike does not stay upright by itself when you go to pick up something from the shelves, so you have to park it with that thing that I don't know the English name of. Even then, if you load the bike with a bag of groceries it usually falls over. When you are walking on one side of your bike it's hard to reach over your bike while not falling over. Bike parking space is a non-problem compared to car parking space. No cars whatsoever is unrealistic even in bike utopia. How do you move big and heavy things? No ambulance, no fire trucks?
Definitely with you there. Even perl has more consistency. And thanks for the guide link! :)
tl;dr tobacco plants absorb high amount of polonium and other radiocative materials and these particles end up inside your lungs were they can cause the most damage. (Alpha radiation externally is of little harm).
I had the same quesiton. It looks like it's only 1500 Light Years [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852
I'd throw away my chromecasts immediately. It's hard enough to maintain filter rules to not let this little guy phone home too much.
May I suggest you use a hoverboard?
Perhaps you can submit a pull request disabling the markdown features you don't like
No problem with people saying "it's useless" as long as they make their point with some arguments (which was the case with some of the other comments).
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It's tough to say for sure, it depends heavily on the project and the company and people building it.

My estimate though is that proper use of BIM (not just design & engineering, but also accounting and time management... 5D) would save anywhere between 40-70% on their projects.

So, why isn't it happening? Because the construction industry is always the last industry to adopt new technologies. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is the mentality. Also, if you're 40-65 years old and been building forever, it's not so fun to listen to 25-30 year olds tell you what's what. But that's what needs to happen.

The older guys in firms don't listen (the ones that do save a bunch of money...), and so the young talented people leave for better industries like software engineering, where they are actually respected and valued.

We are started to see SOME private companies, like Suffolk, really adopting new stuff. The big guys like Turner and AECOM are trying to adopt, but like I said earlier, their technology infrastructure is a JOKE! Try writing BIM automation scripts when your network admin won't even let you have root access. What a sad, sad joke it is.
>read the label about the usage range: close enough that you're about to be mauled

There are various bear spray formats. Some have a rather long range (on the order of 10 meters). Still a bit close for comfort; guns are much more effective if you can legally carry them wherever you're camping. Many people doing outdoor activities in grizzly-heavy areas will bring long guns or large handguns.
And also:

-> I better buy two or three pairs if I like them, because in 4 months they're going to stop selling these and they are a comfy fit.
Also, ML academics tend towards R for reference implementations of novel algorithms. They are often available in R first. This cuts both ways; sometimes the Python implementation that comes later misses some subtleties of the R implementation that the original authors nailed, and other times the R implementation is a proof of concept, while a later implementation is more real-world ready. But the latest and greatest tends to be available in R long before it has made its way into e.g. SciPy.
>>but if I were to recommend one or the other to people at work with no programming skills, I would have to choose R for the breadth of existing packages.

My 2 cents: If someone has no programming background, then building a foundation from python will allow them to do much much more than building a foundation on R--unless of course they only care about statistical analysis and have no inclination to code more generally. I learned both at the same time even though I had no use for Python at the time (was and still am a professor) but I use it almost everyday now and very much enjoy it!
> It then goes on to describe what products the patent covers, when the patent was filed, what it does, what other companies have been sued infringing, what the outcomes was, what the likely outcomes is going to be in this case and the factors that are likely to have an effect.

Oddly enough, they got lots of these things wrong. Here's the patent in question: http://www.google.com/patents/US5781752

1. It was filed in 1996, not 1998.

2. The patent itself doesn't say anything about power efficiency (although perhaps that was argued at trial), so I'm not sure where they got that.

3. The article says it "relates to use of the technology in the iPhone 5s, 6 and 6 Plus - but an additional lawsuit making the same claim against Apple's newest models, the 6S and 6S Plus, has also been filed." That may be true, but it's so vague as to be pretty information-free.

The whole article reads like it was written by someone who doesn't know anything about patents, doesn't care to learn, and just uncritically copied information he read elsewhere. That isn't journalism.
The question is can disrupted comets or oorts block over 20% of the light from the star. A comet nucleus is a lot smaller than a star.
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Having to deal with mangled symbols is pretty annoying. Is it not possible to give a directive to the Swift compiler to disable mangling? Like rust has:

#[no_mangle]
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Not yet: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/09/11/nbbj_proposes_...
"hey, there's a store that sells pants -> I could use some pants -> let's get this over with"

Interesting because mine is "I could use some pants -> where is a store that sells pants? -> let's get this over with"

I wonder how different your or my experiences are compared to the population.
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I'm guessing, the larger single wheel gives you a smoother ride? They're easier to pick up and carry like a briefcase, too. But I imagine, harder to ride.
In London they're called swegways.

https://twitter.com/search?q=swegway
Thanks :)

The caveat on the ggplot2 book is that building it seems to be really hard because of the nightmare of cross-platform latex. But there will be a physical book out early next year.
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Hi maxwellito, we're working on something along these lines. Sent you a tumblr message but figured I'd post here as well. Just applied to YC. Would be nice to talk. Overall pretty underwhelmed by the "digital signage" industry and think we could push things forward using affordable commodity hardware.

Over the next few years, think this is a viable / utilitarian medium for delivering on some of the promises of ubiquitous augmented reality.
Yes, this is how my staging server works. We use self-signed certs because it's just us and the hackers. This gets us the red X through the grey padlock (on linux chrome anyway)
Yep exactly.

I saw one pile into the side of a bus stop going flat out. Smashed the glass. That's a nuisance.
But comet nuclei also outgas quite a bit as they approach the star.
matlab was originally released as a fortran library (pre 1.0), so it keeps a lot of that heritage even though it's probably c/c++ now: http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/articles/the-or...
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I've been wondering about the value of these warnings to the 99% of end users who have no idea what HTTPS is, and who have even less understanding of why a site whose URL begins "https://" would be insecure. Firefox uses icons to indicate different situations but even I don't know what they mean.

I think the browsers need to indicate simply that the website is "secure" or "not secure", with some transparency for advanced users to obtain more details. Don't give end users information they don't understand about a topic they also don't know about and expect them to draw the right conclusion (in the miliseconds they spend thinking about each website); it will fail in its goal almost every time. (In a way, it's the same approach as click-wrap legaleze.)

That doesn't solve another problem: Properly implemented HTTPS doesn't really mean "secure"; it just means one component likely is secure. The site could be scam, user data could be exposed many other ways, HTTPS has vulnerabilities, etc. I don't know how to effectively inform end-users about those complexities.
I think the concept is interesting but needs some tweaking. The main issue with any core downtown is space. There simply isn't any available, for anyone. The space that is available is extremely costly so we need to think outside the box. Bike paths on the ground aren't the only option.

Go up.
Elevated bike paths, much like the Vancouver Skyrail, are an option. http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/vancouver/vancouv...

- The elevated structure would only be for cyclists
- You could literally ride above all the downtown traffic
- Dedicated lanes so you don't get road rage
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