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it's already a worse experience (noisy, annoying kids, ringing cell phones, too loud for some, not ideal placement of most seats etc.), but it's a social experience. 3D might be an exception, for now, and it's still a rather niche market.

same as people buying shots at bars vs drinking same alcohol at home for 20% of the price.
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In my opinion, this preference should be additionally reinforced by noticing that "older" means of communication actually do also "suffer" from the same issue: reading books, papers, leaflets pre-Internet, you too should have been aware they can be/are full of lies and misinformation. In other words, propaganda did sure exist pre-Internet (like, from the dawn of mankind, I presume). And even ignoring conscious and systematic propaganda, people were always subjective.
> It does not mean they didn't have a reason to get up in the morning, just that those reasons were unrelated to the business line they "worked" in.

I agree - but it seems implied in the text (maybe I am misreading it).

I would say people who actually want meaningful work are an exception not the rule - most see it as a way to get money. Which I am not criticizing btw. - everyone has their own values - I am just saying you shouldn't assume that people care about the work they do on their jobs (and I've seen many people idealistically assume it, even I believed it before I started working).
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That had everything to do with Canonical entanglement. Canonical would only accept patches to upstart with a contributor agreement allowing Canonical relicensing rights.
This made it very difficult for outside contributors to work on upstart (especially redhat funded ones) and that led to resources being made available for investigating what would become systemd and friends.
yeah sorry, only saw that after posting
Develop some app to have fun with your daughter, you are the right person in the right place with right job to do it.
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You can't reach that level of engagement without starting through other avenues.
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This is what Quora and Reddit recommends you use to learn Android development
I hate fees as much as everyone else does, but excessive fees are not the reason so many individual retirement accounts fail.
The GPL says that the software is "as is", no warranty of any kind. Similarly, I could scream to have the developers to perform some testing and provide a bit of warranty.

With Ubuntu and any other software, you get the source and it is up to you to deal with the replacement of any trademark strings. What packages are included in Ubuntu, changes all the time and the code changes as well. How can a policy document be explicit when there is no infrastructure yet in place to deal with those code changes?
CentOS was in this same position and they did the work without bitching to Redhat.
I wrote this somewhat tedious text about my relation to museums as I was embarking on a quest to visit and write about all of Amsterdam's museums (I stopped after 5).

http://blog.goula.sh/post/76719719068/the-museumkaart
> Then came the new GNOME 3 and the particular way that GNOME development works. It was not workable to offer to the users a stable and distinct user experience. So, Unity was created and all hell broke loose.

I decided to take Ubuntu 15.04 out for a ride a few months ago. I haven't really used Ubuntu since 7.something (but I liked 4.10 a lot), but I did occasionally work with it (e.g. helping out colleagues who used it).

I desperately tried to like Unity, but nope: its development seems to be done pretty much the same way that Gnome development is done. A lot of effort goes into creating a distinct experience. Very little seems to go towards listening to users, and options are basically non-existant.

Changing the GTK theme, for instance, is no longer easy (you need unity-tweak-tool). Changing the buttons on the titlebar is outright impossible because now they're hardcoded.

This is... very much against the spirit of people who were involved in the open source movement a while ago. A lot of us switched to Linux because we wanted more control over our systems.

Free software that locks down your options is... missing the point a little.
California and Illinois pension plans were disasters before the financial crisis, so your argument doesn't have much explanatory power.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10600226 for background (the founders' perspective).
Switches were mechanical long before they were electrical. And I don't mean 'electro-mechanical', no just mechanical. Think of where the name 'railroad switch' comes from. That lever by the side of the road is the switch (the thing itself is called a 'point').
There are many food deserts in the USA, and I suspect infrastructure is a large part of the problem

https://apps.ams.usda.gov/fooddeserts/fooddeserts.aspx
well I could only find another listing of these postcards from 3 years ago - don't think that counts as "every couple of months"
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The idea that induced demand entirely compensates for new road capacity is ridiculous on its face. This would only be nearly the case if the road infrastructure is vastly behind what's needed. Even then, much of the newly accommodated traffic will be of economic benefit.

Consider that the theory states that traffic is unchanged because people will be incentivized to drive more because of less traffic. This is self contradictory - there can't be both less traffic and the same traffic.
The US television show "60 Minutes" aired a story on M-Pesa last night; that could be what is spurring the interest today.
Funny to see the difference between Quora and Reddit. Quora has long been the target of marketing, so the referral for sources might be a bit biased because of that. I started learning droid with Thenewboston, but the tuts now seemed to be outdated because of the frequent updates.
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You can on paper have a centrally planned economy where people are paid according to the value they create, but not in practice. The trouble is that bureaucratic proxies are used to determine value, and people inevitably game those proxies.
Federal, state, and local governments have ignored "induced demand" for 50 years and the result has been endless highway building. This is an effective subsidy for "sprawl" and is a huge driver of why the US built environment looks the way it does. Most of the US is "car dependent" - ie you must have a car to reasonably participate in the city - yes there are buses but they are not as convenient as having a car, yes there are bike lanes but they are dangerous and sparse.

I think the thing that we have to get through our heads is that sprawl is the result of many subsidies - NOT just peoples' preference to live that way. Take a look at any place where zoning hasn't required such high parking or low maximum densities; any place where government housing loan guarantees were equally available to dense developments as new single family home developments; or any place where governments have made reasonable attempt to add the cost of negative externalities of driving to fuel taxes. You'll see a lot less driving and a lot more walking, transit, and biking. For example - Canada or Spain.

Every time one of these articles comes up on here there are lots of Bay Area folks saying "but I like to drive my own car". That is fine, but don't make everyone else subsidize it.

We've dug ourselves into a major hole with car dependence. Lots of cities are digging out and building density especially in their abandoned downtowns - this is doubly amazing considering how stacked the deck is against them.
>My college classmates are doing fine in their job search

So they're fresh out of college with nil professional experience and very little life-experience? Pretty presumptuous for them to be passing on advice to "senior devs".
They want programming help.

They want free programming help. It's not unreasonable to expect someone you're doing a favour for to be respectful of your time and goodwill.
Infrastructure investments are long, time-consuming, and done by municipal or state governments, not by residents & non-profits. Evidently the government didn't care enough to make that possible.

Additionally, they're not always a great option. Here are the bus route suggestions from the affected area to the nearest grocery stores:

- https://www.google.com/maps/dir/2200+Phillips+Ave,+Greensbor...

- https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kim+Food+Mart/Food+Lion,+231...

20min one-way bus rides are pretty time consuming.
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This relies on fudging the distinction between "reserves" and "resources". The actual existing quantity of oil and gas in the earth is fixed, unknown but estimated. As it's surveyed and deemed economically recoverable it's moved into the "reserves" category.

This doesn't take into account "unburnable" fossil fuels which can be extracted at the cost of pushing us over the "catastrophic" IPCC predictions.

http://www.oilandgasinvestor.com/stephen/2010/02/19/energy-t...
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Hehe, it would be very interesting to read a quick analysis about why you think that "Twisted is a clusterfuck".
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Yes, that one, and in the process turned large portions of the population into serfs to the point where they cried for help. No one will deny the great progress the US made in the gilded age, but no one would say it is an age one we'd like to repeat (as its name suggests, it is not generally regarded as a good period in American history; important? certainly; interesting? absolutely; but good? not really). The USSR made tremendous progress during Stalin's various five-year plans, but that, too, is something no one wishes to repeat.

Both cases prove that it is possible to make great leaps by enslaving your populace. Of course, we've known that since the Romans. The trick is not to make progress. The trick is to preserve your values while still making progress.

Communism and Libertarianism are two ideas that had their chance. They both yielded quick leaps forward but also ruined the lives of millions. Their proponents would claim that neither was really tried in its true form -- and both camps would be absolutely right -- but I think most people have the good sense to trust that any further experiment (of either) would turn out similar enough to previous ones.
I also do not understand why I should be expected to tolerate Islam when it stands against many things I'm for

You're expected to tolerate it for the same reason they are expected to tolerate your beliefs. (Or those of Christian dominionists, for that matter.) Separation of Church and State is one of the best ideas to have come out of the US constitution, bar none, and if you don't see how it benefits you, you haven't lived in a nation that doesn't have it.

(Trust me on this: I'm British and I can't go out of my front door without witnessing the long-term effects of a State religion around me -- a toothless, decrepit thing that is rapidly fading away, but a state religion nonetheless, with all the legacy of privilege that implies.)
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They do, but a lot of developers who learned from these tutorials a long while ago still recommend Buck heavily on Quora. The reason partially being that it was one of the most easy tuts available. And plus, you gotta love Bucky! :D
Chicago is not a country. It's a city. It can't simply "tax the rich". If it does so, the rich will leave the city. When rich people claim they'll leave the country over small increases in taxes, we rightly mock them for making idle threats. But rich people don't even have to threaten to leave a city with unreasonable taxes. We know they can easily leave.

Someone upthread suggested that Detroit was an example of how unfunded pension liabilities were the product of looting and corruption. I submit that Detroit is a better example of how artificially provoked demographic shifts can kill a city. However corrupt Detroit is, nobody can argue that it was better off after "white flight".
I never understood the stigma behind a completely natural and necessary process that half of all people have.
Since this appears to be the 'related works' thread, I'll add my links here.

A reasonable amount of work has already been done in disambiguation of the meanings of words with word embeddings, some of it trained, some untrained.

These particular papers that have recently caught my attention, and have the potential to bring significant gains wrt existing technologies are these:

1. Infinite-Length Word embeddings
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.05392v2.pdf
I am particularly excited about this paper, as the authors suggest a method to create variable-length word vectors, depending on the multiplicity of meanings a word can have (so theoretically, if a word had a _lot_ of meanings, the word vectors would me very large. Reminds one of the word 'Aladeen'). IF the authors happen to me hanging out here, the community is eagerly waiting for the reference implementation. : )

2. Joint Learning of Words and Meaning Representations
for Open-Text Semantic Parsing
http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings/papers/v22/bordes12/bo...

3. Breaking Sticks And Ambiguities With Adaptive Skip-Gram
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.07257v2.pdf

Edit: added paper 3.
I have more things I could do, than time to do them; prioritising is the issue. There's no such thing as 'spare' time in that context, all free time has things-to-do competing for it.
But a problem with DASH is that the MPEG LA is attempting to form a patent pool, presumably with the goal of charging a patent license fee. The MPEG LA's Larry Horn says, "Market adoption of DASH technology standards has increased to the point where the market would benefit from the availability of a convenient nondiscriminatory, nonexclusive worldwide one-stop patent pool license".

I think this means the future of DASH is not user friendly: http://www.mpegla.com/main/pid/MPEG-DASH/default.aspx
My dad retired from the Air Force. He didn't go the airline pilot route, because he said it would be "driving a bus" and "boring holes in the air". He went back to school to get a PhD instead and had a second career as a professor.
I don't believe she has real numbers on whether security people, in particular, are neurotypical. I'm guessing she's invoking studies of technologists in general (which would make sense in the context of a talk).
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Most manufactured drugs were once patented. How many potential drugs that are not patentable have been brought to market in the last 50 years?
> Obviously DRM would still be an issue unless the browser natively supports EME.

Actually, with HLS, DRM is an issue on browsers since HLS is not designed to work with EME spec.

By the way, some open source players like https://github.com/canalplus/rx-player implements EME spec to work with DRM, Smooth Streaming Format or MPEG DASH format, that are compatible with the common encryption model.
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That's true. Church bells are not interesting or even musical. Islamic prayers are more sophisticated, the scales haunting.

But it's still religious bullshit behind those call to prayers, and that is worth remembering before allowing it to rock your neighbourhood every morning.

Muslims should download an app that streams the morning prayer privately into their homes rather than blasting the streets. If that app doesn't exist, then quick, someone make it and sell it for a dollar.

Personally I'd prefer to hear local musicians, or kids choirs, or just something that isn't religious bullshit. It's 2015, we're about to head to Mars, we don't need this religious bullshit.
> all that's changed is that it's now clear that the IMF isn't blocking the yuan from becoming a true global reserve currency: China is.

> Goldman Sachs has estimated that $1 trillion in international reserves would flow into Chinese debt markets if the government truly opened them up.
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I don't feel like I even need to engage with the second part of your argument, because the first still doesn't make sense. They're not patented now, and yet they're still manufactured. Why?
Background: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/25/imf-china-sdr-idUS...
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+1 I really don't understand the fights about GNOME3 and Unity UI. They both suck for me. KDE is okay-ish, but needs a lot of polish compared to Gnome 2.
This is really excellent for researchers approaching the field from the more NLP angle than the ML/CompLing angle. It was only a few weeks(days?) ago that Chris Manning came up with the whitepaper arguing that linguists have just as much/even more relevance now and shouldn't worry that neural networks will eat their lunch, and then we get to see this. This is awesome! : )
In American culture is pretty taboo to have a conversation about defecation - that's a process that all people have! It might not make sense, but it isn't unusual.
When I read this it actually screamed OpenSUSE is a great alternative.

I seriously can't see any other Distro going out of its way to be easily distributed OS with the https://susestudio.com/ and https://build.opensuse.org for packages for SUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc...
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And the concern is that Google has a backdoor into your phone

Easy solution: don't buy android
I'll add to understand and manipulate.
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A bit click-baity title since the product's USP is not even mentioned:

When to have unprotected intercourse with a 'lower' probability of getting pregnant

EDIT: Thanks for the downvote, please elaborate
I agree completely. Personally, I don't recall ever witnessing this stigma, apart from the general disinterest in this topic.

Having said that, I don't understand the current movement of glorifying and promoting menstruation (e.g. [1], [2]). Sure, it's natural, but it's also rather yucky - just like shitting and pissing. But I'd still appreciate if I don't see photos of shit, menstruation, or sperm on my Facebook.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/menstrua...

[2] http://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/a-woman-ran-a-maratho...
My father has a extreemly high IQ and his favorite hobby is learning something new. He is 77 years old and he still attends college classes at our state college (Free for anyone over 65).

He took all 5 of his kids to a museum at least once a month. We would drive 3 or 4 hours and then get there when it opened and more than likely be there when it closed. The number one person my dad would talk with was the security people. His thought was they had no real knowledge of the subject and had to work through all the steps so they can explain it better. He was right.
As the app mentioned is free, I would deduce that they try to turn the data about their users cycle into a monetary value.

Is there research how certain periods of the cycle would affect women shopping behaviour (or behaviour in general)? I am asking this to understand how much value is in such information.

Perhaps there are other aspects I am overlooking?
oS is really good, I think it gets too little attention and upvotes than it should. Their YaST system is really good and completely replaces Windows control panel, they provide support for old-packages, openSUSE search panel is something what most distributions need, so far I saw it deployed only for ArchLinux successfully.
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Reading this article made me realize I have no idea what "gender" is. It used to be synonymous with what parts and chromosomes you have, where there are no questions of "I identify as XYZ," but now what the hell is it really?
All the fluidity and tension created by gender makes me think why don't we just get rid of it? Stop making children conform to social norms/behavior/dressing/everything based on their sex.

You may be interested in a book titled The medical invention of Sex. One wonders just how much this is a social notion.
Inertia makes things react late to forces. Same here. The article clearly states that the new capacity is essentially filled in the long (10 year range) term, not the short one.
I don't get why this is so great. Stopped at 14 minutes in. What am I missing?
As one of the inventors of HLS, I find this pretty damn impressive.
the last bit ain't true - from my experience last month. had a off-gaming period for last 5 years and didn't play Skyrim when it was launched. sat to it 2 months ago, with all datadiscs, patches, put all interesting (not only) graphic mods, which had years to gain maturity and compatibility. So I thought I will have the best possible version of the game, better than creators ever aimed for.

The game looked meh on all maxed, but that isn't a dealbreaker for me (after all, I still sometimes run old Deux Ex 1, probably the best game ever in its genre). it was boring like hell, and the whole game screamed quantity-over quality. FYI - I played all previous TES games vigorously, starting properly with Daggerfall (didn't have good enough rig for Arena back in those days, but I played it too a bit). This was just nothing-special experience, and I uninstalled it after few hours of gaming.

2 weeks ago installed Witcher 3, and those games are uncomparable. 21st century meets 80's arcade gaming (heck, not even). Visual side is one aspect, but this game is simply better in every possible way.
Could Canonical do that, realistically? Canonical's primary goal is to produce Ubuntu distributions. Given that, even if Canonical were to try and collect their trademarks into one, three or nine packages, _their_ distribution will not break when there's a bug. And bugs do happen.

IMO, the best that Canonical can _realistically_ do is to provide a list of trademarks and to not obfuscate trademarks. No funny escaping just to evade grep. Doing more would be nice, but anyone who forks has to search-and-replace anyway.
People were choosing to drink heavily radioactive water in the early 20th century.

People are choosing to take drugs that destroy their lives.

When people chose something it doesn't mean they understand all the consequences. Especially since all the bad sides are conveniently hidden away in some tech, nerd stuff.

People use Facebook because other people use Facebook. Simple as that. People haven't assessed all the facts about Facebook and decided they are ok with them. They just use Facebook because their friends use Facebook.

Pretending people are rational and have perfect information considered harmful, etc.
It's not unlike the stigma behind a completely natural and necessary process that almost all of people have, which is defecation. Operationally speaking, the two are very similar. So, why is there a stigma behind defecation?
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