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That's not how laws work. You can't have one set of rules for one stakeholder, and another set of rules for another. Particularly when one of those stakeholders gets to acts as enforcement, judiciary AND beneficiary.

1 inch over the curb... we're going to tow your car with $700 worth of fines.

No visible sign on the street and nothing within 100 ft (which there has to be by law)... it doesn't matter, you should have known we intended that street to have no parking between 4-6pm.

If you tried to come up with a system with more adverse and broken incentives, you'd be hard pushed to come up with a better one than the SFMTA.
1) Let's saddle this organization with $10Ms of losses each year.
2) Let's give them the authority to issue tickets and fine the citizens for breaking an arbitrary set of laws.
3) Let's allow them keep the fines and treat it as 'revenue'.
4) Let's allows them to regulate themselves and decided if the tickets they issued are fair.
>Is health insurance the only thing to worry about?

Stop thinking up a list of things to worry about, and start doing what you want to be doing.

Nothing in life is permanent, so make a leap, try and out and see what you think. Maybe you'll do it for a few years, then go back to doing something else. You'll never know unless you try, so hurry up and go for it.
Did anyone else feel happy wave of nostalgia when reading this title? I haven't seen a "Why I'm leaving X" post for many years!
The E. Ukr rebels were using shoulder-fired missiles and were firing at planes close to the ground. Quite a different kettle of fish than buk missiles which requires a lot more technical coordination
Recruited on LinkedIn - best job ever. It was a really recruitment message though from someone who referenced very specific things on my profile, not a random generic one.
> You should keep in mind that rebels shot down military plane allegedly carrying 40 Ukrainian soldiers (and crew) - month before MH17. This was a serious military transport plane Il-76, not some light planer. They shot other aircraft too. One could imagine that shooting at planes has become norm rather than unexpected at the area.

Yet Malaysian airlines still thought it a good idea to ignore the rebel-declared no-fly-zone and continue flying through airspace known to have active AA activity.

Honestly, I think we're not blaming the airline nearly enough here.
Nanotech "assemblers" are coming in a sense, but they got the scale wrong. They're called 3d printers and they operate at the macro scale, but they are not really any less disruptive.

As far as true nanotech goes, we've had it for about 4.5 billion years. It's called biology. You are basically made of nano-assemblers holding hands. Genetically engineered biology and "wet artificial life" are engineerable nanotech, but if you want to see Turing-complete universal assemblers in action right now go plant a tree.

In other words, I sort of think nanotechnology is a useless neologism for biology and bioengineering and I doubt that anything other than carbon-based systems are going to do much better than biology... and those are basically synthetic biology.
That's the more successful way of thinking, if you ask me.
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Minnesota registers as one of the quietest places on the planet:

what he calls the last great quiet places, areas that clock in at audible human noise-free intervals of 15 minutes or more. He only counts areas of around 3,100 square kilometres (1,200 square miles) or larger – enough to create a sound buffer around a central point of absolute quiet. Over the years, his list has shrunk as he returns to a previously quiet spot, only to find it now polluted by noise. Still, he says 12 such quiet places exist in the US, with more found around the world.

A spot in the Hoh Rainforest in Washington is one, as are places in Grasslands National Park in Canada, Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Minnesota and Haleakala National Park in Hawaii (see gallery). The others, however, he keeps confidential.

source: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140117-earths-last-place-w...

I've been to the BWCA several times and it's incredibly serene and peaceful.
Meh, not a great disservice.
Not to ruin the story, but he placed 4th out of 4.

You'd be better off spending time on getting your tires perfect and figuring out which lane is fastest :)
Well frankly, converting to fission in near term (say 15 years) worldwide is pure speculation on our side. This is just not going to happen. I just hope natural gas, hydro and the increasing green generation component can help us get by and perhaps reduce the coal usage.
There's a lightning bolt icon added to the stream view. It appeared in a recent update, and there was a little bit of a walk through.
Subjective is fine, but good practice is keeping factual news and comments separate / distinguishable. Obviously comments are subjective by nature.
I love that curve and thinking about how it maps to other "futuristic" tech.

Space flight is probably coming out of its trough of disillusionment right now, as is renewable energy (solar/wind).

Genetic engineering is deep in the trough with anti-GMO sentiment, the supposed failure of the human genome project to pay out, and general paralysis in the field. Nuclear power is also probably still deep in the trough with Fukushima and us still being stuck on overgrown submarine reactors.
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Not being cool with hipsters is the new hip.
I don't even like Pitchfork that much (while I have learned about some artists from them, largely their tastes don't align with mine), but this makes me sad. Conde Nast buys everything. I can't really blame Conde Nast for this entirely, the owners who choose to sell out are really to blame. It's unfortunate. But I can't say I'd choose any differently if presented with such a large pay day.

I'm disappointed because since the Conde Nast takeover of Ars Technica, it has gone steeply down hill. I imagine the fans of Pitchfork will go through a similar experience over the next few years.
> C# is awesome. I think it's a spectacular language.

OCaml, Haskell and Lisp are spectacular. Erlang is spectacular. Tcl and Python
are spectacular. C# is an OK-language at best.

> I'm not aware of any non-Java JVM languages prior to the CLR [...]

Except JVM/Java had JPython, JRuby, and Rhino (JavaScript) earlier. Those are
interpreted, sure, but they were running inside JVM and talking to Java code
already when .NET was first published. The compilation to JVM bytecode is
a minor implementation detail.
I think it's just so unlikely that a group that couldn't be held properly responsible would have AA missiles capable of reaching to normal cruising altitude that it's not normally considered a problem and why MH17 was exceptional. Or, at least, that's how it was explained to me by the captain of a 747 while we were flying over Afghanistan.
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I did my PhD work on colloidal semiconductor quantum dots right at the peak of the nano fad. I would say that popular buzz doesn't help or hurt, it's mostly noise. Academically, we're expected to spend some time on outreach, so if your field is in the public eye at the moment it does make outreach easier.

Believe it or not, the hype among scientists was even worse than among the public, to the point of (in my opinion) hurting good science. Everyone was shoehorning "nano" into their proposals, regardless if their work was legitimately nano[1], and that really hurt the SNR for manuscripts and grant proposals.

[1] I define nanotechnology as dealing with something sufficiently small to access properties not seen in bulk materials. For many materials, restricting one or more dimensions below 100nm will lead to side-dependent properties. There was a lot of stuff during the Great Nano Hype that was claimed to be nano, but was say 500nm—that would be "submicron".
> What about ADHD in populations where there are few whites, say Asia, Africa, what has been observed there?

This is a great question. ADHD diagnosis rates vary pretty significantly between the US and Europe (due to diagnostic and cultural differences), and Japan would be a great datapoint. It seems like ADHD prevalence is relatively understudied in Japan, different symptomatic behaviors are viewed as troubling, and there is a much more dim view of stimulant medication.

But we don't need to inject race and gender into everything. It already came that way ;)
What are advantages of Python over C#?
No assumption is necessary.
For a taste of the archetypical pitchfork style, read any of their radiohead reviews:

http://pitchfork.com/artists/3512-radiohead/

The classic is the Kid A one: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6656-kid-a/

Boomkat is a close second, but at least theyre trying to sell the records: https://twitter.com/boomkat_ebooks
What made me skeptical of this is that it looked like too much of a polished system, you'd expect it to look more like a braun shaver than a gillette fusion, with more battery space. The AA battery was also a dead giveaway.
In the section "Array-oriented data processing", Fortran should be included. Fortran 95 (and the earlier Fortran 90) has array operations, and Fortran 2003 supports object-oriented programming. The gfortran compiler, which is part of gcc, implements all of Fortran 95 and almost all of Fortran 2003.

Fortran is also one the primary languages in which statistical algorithms have been coded.
Nanotechnology couldn't come to fruition since nano-fabrication at this point in time just doesn't exist in an effective form. Having to manually assemble a complex nanomachine one molecule at a time isn't viable. Until there's a way found to make the machines assemble themselves from the simplest possible unit then we're going to be stuck with just nanomaterials which is great IMO. Nanodust has many uses and we're discovering many dangers (health hazards) now.
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Great xkcd addressing this issue
http://xkcd.com/1588/
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Perfectly accurate clocks turn out to be impossible
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...and so for those of us who aren't Windows developers, what learnings can we apply to flux to make it better?
That reads of someone who either can't stick something out, or someone that gets discovered as less-than-good over and over

I agree, although "can't stick something out" is not always a negative connotation. The key is what the "something" is.

I've seen this pattern of resume for both high-performers and low-performers. Not everyone has the patience to wait for recognition and promotion that may be long overdue or just plain unavailable. By looking for those who have longer engagements, I think you'll find yourself safely in the middle of the pack.
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Also, most people are looking for a 'quick fix' to everyday troubles. Just look at how many weight loss products there are. Everyone wants an easy solution.
I am a self-taught programmer/hacker and the best thing I ever learned was Racket. http://racket-lang.org/

Here is what got me off the ground. The first unit is learning ML and the second unit was Racket. https://www.youtube.com/user/afigfigueira/playlists?shelf_id...

This is from a Coursera Course that is not being offered right now. It covers a lot of different languages but the Racket and ML parts are a great starting point.

I liked this book - http://www.amazon.com/Realm-Racket-Learn-Program-Game-ebook/...

If that is too simple there always is http://www.amazon.com/How-Design-Programs-Introduction-Progr...

I prefer seeing people code and talk about it so the videos are great.
> The tragedy here was that there was someone with a BUK system there, and probably that someone was drunk and decided to give a lesson to those blasted Ukrainian fascists.

Or, the more likely explanation, they thought it was a military plane like the several they shot down in the weeks prior...
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Everyone should take note of this person's excellent structure: he put the decision first.

If you are writing a decisive message that can greatly impact many people's lives: write the decision first.

Don't "sandwich" the truth. Sandwiching only makes sense when the decision or the mistake is not of huge significance. Beating around the bush in matters of great import will always harm the sincerity of your words.

After you've stated clearly what the decision is, right after that, you can justify it however you wish.
This. Someone should call the Internet Archive people, it should be right up their alley, at least going by this presentation: https://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/camp2015/camp2015-69...
I think this post is interesting, but mostly at this point useful as a frame of reference for all the changes that have happened in the .NET ecosystem in 2 years. For example, the server produced by the ASP.NET team (Kestrel) has now been benchmarked at over 300K req/s, and it's using libuv under the hood as an event-based IO engine. That's also not to mention that Mono has benefited tremendously from the new open-source nature of the entire .NET framework, and is a far more viable portability story for .NET than it ever has been (although it still has its pain points). Soon enough, Microsoft will have its own port of CoreCLR for Linux.

Also, relatedly, I think this post is also mostly about the characteristics of the .NET community and its culture, and less about technology. The aforementioned recent changes are indicative of substantial growth and diversification of that community, and I think likely heralds a lot more good changes to come.
My takeaway from the article was the last sentence:

And that's why I left the .NET Framework because it kept reasserting itself and wanting to be more than it was: an implementation detail.
I'd suggest Racket, a descendant of Scheme.

- It is really easy to download, install, and be coding in 5 minutes.

- There's a nice GUI IDE, if that's your cup of tea. (Also I maintain racket-mode for Emacs.)

- It is "batteries included" (maybe not compared to Python (!), but definitely compared to most Schemes).

- You can write everything from command-line programs that launch quickly, to GUI apps, to web apps.

And particularly why I mention it here:

- You can explore many approaches mentioned in the OP: functional, gradual typing, object-oriented, lazy evaluation, datalog, and more. (Ultimately, Racket is "a programming-language programming language". Although you can ignore that level of abstraction and simply use it as a very nice lisp.)
I say this as a fairly regular Pitchfork reader: The experience and emotions tied to listening to Kid A are like witnessing the stillborn birth of a child while simultaneously having the opportunity to see her play in the afterlife on Imax is one of at least the top five worst sentences I've ever read.

(IMHO, their earlier reviews generally were of lower quality than their more recent ones, and they've benefited from discarding/discouraging the more experimental/informal review formats. The irony of this sentence being a hipster antithesis does not escape me.)
They say any employee you hire is someone you have to imagine being able to work for.
They read Pitchfork only to be up on what Anthony Fantano is talking about.
Couldn't agree more. Their "most remote spot" in Vermont is right next to Stratton, not far from the border with Massachusetts. The Northeast Kingdom -- where New Hampshire, Vermont, and Canada make a tri-border -- is way, way, way more remote. Yes there are dirt roads crisscrossing it, but there are very few people and plenty of wildlife, old growth forest, etc.
Good article.
I think the danger with opaque terms like "nanotech" and "data science" is they are so ill-defined that they become Rorschach tests. This is very good at attracting buy in--people see what they want to see and the get cover by joining a larger movement and get to ride the trend's growth. But then eventually everyone's doing "nanotech" or "data science" and people need to use other terms to clarify.

Data science is already much more than statistics. That's why the term was invented in the first place.

Additionally, your definition of science seems pretty lacking. Merely using data to answer questions isn't what defines science. Some questions are scientific and some are not.
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I believe it does, as the history of school shootings itself gave LaDue material to obsess over. He is participating in the riot model because his interest was piqued by all of the shootings that had already happened and he did not have the mental ability to realize that mass murder is not a socially acceptable hobby. If the first 99 shootings had never happened, then perhaps LaDue would have found a different hobby.
I am a programmer that knows what a MOSFET is. I had to know in order to pass intro to digital logic.

They are 4-connection devices, but usually source is connected to body. They come in n-type and p-type, and usually operate in enhancement mode, where the channel between source and drain opens when the signals to gate and body are different. With those, you can either pass a weak digital 0 or a strong 1, or a weak 1 and a strong 0, so in order to produce a digital output that has strong 0 or strong 1 for every possible input and doesn't "leak" power, you can combine the result of the 0 logic with the result of the 1 logic. Hence the term complimentary MOS (CMOS).

So a CMOS NOT gate has 2 MOSFETs: one n-type, and one p-type. A NAND gate has 4 MOSFETs, 2 of each type: the zero logic connected in series, and the one logic in parallel.

This knowledge--that I never really needed to write software for a living--was all building up to constructing a basic ALU using digital logic gate chips on breadboards with DIP input switches, LED outputs, and a manually-switched clock signal. I'm glad that I know it, but I'm mostly willing to trust the folks at Intel and AMD to do 64-bit ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV, and MOD correctly on integers.

Should I ever really need to, I could probably pick apart a very high-resolution image of a CMOS chip. I wouldn't necessarily be able to design such a chip, but I could eventually tell you what it does. And knowing what I know, I also have some idea that manipulating 32-bit floats on an 8-bit integer ALU is going to require much more complexity in the microcode or software.

That level of detail is not necessary for me to know that shaving with a laser is practically untenable in 2015. It's the sort of thing that I might expect in sci-fi as a hand-wavey sort of marker of a futuristic setting, but it will probably never happen. It's more likely that we'll have an epigenetic treatment that simply instructs follicle cells to either stop growing hair entirely, or to make the hairs they grow be pigmentless and reduced in diameter. Until then, steel blades will continue to work just fine.

Even there, I am still skeptical that five parallel blades are really better than one. So to me, when you propose that I shave with a laser, I will roll my eyes at you just as hard as if you suggested that I pay 40% more per shave to add a sixth blade and a magnet to my razor. Human hair is not evolving defenses against older shaving technology. You can still scrape your face with knapped flint if you needed to.

If people are stupid about laser shaves, it may be because they have been well primed for this nonsense by the advertisements of Schick and Gillette and their flexy, bendy, swivelling, lubricating, blinking, bleeping, 20-bladed shaving heads.
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Revenue per employee is an interesting performance metric although not usually applied to growth companies. Twitter's was growing fast relative to other big public tech firms but still much lower than most.

http://www.businessinsider.com/revenue-per-employee-charts-a...
BUT SQL is so old /sarcasm. It drives me nuts when people who should know better can't just jump on notepad and write a simple query in SQL. They spend half an hour looking how to do what a basic 101 SQL code could solve in 30 seconds.
I think it has more to do with fragmentation.

While it's great, in theory, to have broad skills in many different languages and technologies, it is difficult to be an expert in any of of them without working with them for a significant amount of time.

When I start a new project I'm looking to leverage my expertise in my areas of focus rather than trying to find the perfect technology fit. Without significant knowledge in all options, I may not even be qualified to provide a reasonable evaluation.
That's why they welcome pull-requests.
Here's a visually dated, but still accurate parody: http://www.somethingawful.com/fakesa/richdork/
It has come out now because the Dutch Safety Board gave itself a year to write its report. The release date was already announced six weeks ago in Dutch media: http://nos.nl/artikel/2054305-eindrapport-mh17-13-oktober-ge...

Neither the US nor ISIS had anything to do with this report or its timing.
Yes. Once people start to understand this, we will actually be able to build useful things, instead of dreaming about a world with tiny robots.
Did both sides have the ability to position a BUK launcher so that it was capable of hitting an airliner at 33kft at that precise location, 50 miles towards Russia east of rebel-controlled Donetsk? How seriously are we meant to take this particular controversy?
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Don't also forget Conway's Game of Life.
Well.. Reaggeton music qualifies as a psy-weapon of mass destruction.
Around the areas I know in the UK demand around airports has just gone up and up. Still Ryanair hubs are uncertain as they are known to shut them and move occasionally if they can get a better deal.
hi, thanks for your comment.

well, copying the dependencies is actually everything this script does.
Just got some trouble with deploying on linux a couple of months ago and decided to solve it with a simple script which checks also dependencies within the qt libs. (Can't remeber why i got problems though).

There might be a deployment tool for linux but haven't found one the time i worked on that. But maybe that was my fault.

You have multiple options to let the dynamic linker know where to look for the libraries.
Creating a starter which changes the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, as used in the script, is one approach but you can of course use the rpath option. This might be the a more sophisticated way if you actually want to ship your product to linux users.

But I'm not a qt expert so maybe there is an easier way.

EDIT: Added linux in the title to make it clearer, sorry forgot that.
...You'll hear only the constant drone of mosquitoes and your own screams as they slowly devour you...

Seriously, though, it is a fantastic place. Quetico (the Canadian side) is even more remote and beautiful, i.m.o.
I think a lot of people jump on NoSQL solutions when scale out isn't needed because of the permeating "do everything in the application / client" mentality these days.
Like others mention here, I'm skeptical of these types of comparisons. If I compare myself to my competitors, I won't publish results if they're better than me.

I tried ArangoDB about a year ago, I think I still have the branch that I tried it on. After spending a weekend porting some stuff from MongoDB to Arango, I ended up regretting doing that by Sunday evening. It'd be nice to fire things up, update the branch's code and see how it performs.
I thought it was '98. And: the site was pretty sparse until 2001; like, Ryan and Matt Lemay and Brent DiCrescenzo reviewing their personal record collections sparse.
2 things:

1) 11 years. The code in question was 11 years old. Another example not to rely on "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". 11 freakin years.

2) Security off by default is yet another example indicating how security receives lower priority - in a library whose main aim is to secure data transport no less!

It all adds up to security debt - at some point it will be paid.