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The situations you pose have little to do with being open source. It's easily possible with non-open source software.

Consider the X-PLOR program for crystallography refinement, where an academic/ research license was a few hundred dollars. That came with source code, plus the right to distribute patches and other modifications to anyone else who had an X-PLOR license, but not to everyone else.

Consider the NAUTY program for graph isomorphism, from http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/nauty/ . The license says "Permission is hereby given for use and/or distribution with the exception of sale for profit or application with nontrivial military significance."

Consider the many programs available for free and unrestricted download from university web sites which are "for academic use only", some of which require users to cite a given paper. (Eg, http://www.maths.lth.se/matematiklth/personal/sminchis/code/... is one I easily found with a web search which is available in source code and is "free of charge for non-commercial research and
education purposes".)

These are neither open source nor free, so are they "closed source research software"? If "closed source" means "not open source" - which is the usual view - then yes, the above programs are all closed source.

Yet all of them are available for peer review, reproducibility studies, etc. that you want.

While on the other hand, to get what you want requires principles different than what the Free Software Foundation considers to be one of the essential freedoms in programming - the freedom to sell software. So at the very least, "peer-verifiable" software, for lack of a better term, is not compatible with "free software."

I personally think it's unwise to even use the terms "open source" and "closed source" in this discussion because of the confusion it adds. However, as most researchers come from academic or government labs with non-commercial funding sources, I can see why self-funded, for-profit scientific software may be overlooked.
The length of your entire message: 285 chars

Length of "You can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting": 56 chars (took "literally" out, because that's incorrect).
You can get a studio apartment in the Greater Seattle Area for as low as $700/mo, though you should probably estimate around $1000/mo to be conservative. Additionally if you have a roommate (and maybe a bigger place, up to you how much you want to save vs. how comfortable you want to live) you cut your rent in half. Look wider than San Francisco -- if you're spending $50k/yr on rent, even in San Francisco, you're insane.
31 cat years is like 3 or 4 human years so it's probably close.

The real question is how old and hot is that popcorn?
Referring to an appearance of Bayes' theorem on Sheldon's whiteboard:

> Bayes’ theorem has become so popular that it even made a guest appearance on the hit CBS show Big Bang Theory

That's not a sign that it has become popular, any more than the appearance of the standard human pedigree notation used by genetic counselors on the same whiteboard indicates that standard human pedigree notation has become popular among the general public. It's simply a sign that BBT takes care to make the whiteboards generally scientifically sensible.

They have a UCLA physicist [1] consultant who works with the producers, writers, prop people, set decorators and others to try to make things scientifically accurate.

In this particular episode, both Bayes' theorem and the genetic information are there because Sheldon was trying to figure out his chances of surviving until technology reaches the point that he can transfer his mind to an AI and what he would have to do to improve those chances. So both those things were on the whiteboard because they are things that would be perfectly reasonable to find on the whiteboard of someone doing that.

They consulting physicist had a blog [2] where he covered most episodes and talked about the whiteboards and other scientific content. Here is the entry for the aforementioned episode [3].

[1] http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/David_Saltzberg

[2] https://thebigblogtheory.wordpress.com

[3] https://thebigblogtheory.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/s04e02-the...
I'd have thought implementing rule that halts trading when the index drops by X% would make a sell off worse, because nervous investors even considering selling will rush to do so before the threshold gets breached.
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Likely - "Klondike" is the technically-correct name for the game popularly known as "Solitaire". Probably it was called Klondike originally but packaged as Solitaire by a PM on the Windows 2.1 team. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_(solitaire)

But this klond.c is not the original source, judging by the inclusion of comments referencing Win 3.1
Great job! I love the feel while playing with the card movement.
Nope, just very close to the fully financially independent group under 30. I work for a living.

Not sure that you understand that financial independence can be just as simple as a function of your total invested assets and expected future annual costs given the reasonable assumption that in the long run your investments will net you at least an average 5% return per year. Is that assumption guaranteed to hold? No, but it's reasonable, and that's what buffer room is for. My rent is $1300/mo, with utilities it's usually around $1500/mo, for a 3-floor house I share with a friend. With miscellaneous other expenses like food and entertainment I end up with living expenses in the neighborhood of $25k/yr, rent is my primary expense since I have no debt. When my investment assets reach $600k, 5% growth nets me $30k/yr (I'm ignoring taxes). So long as my average annual expenses does not exceed $25k/yr, and my average return stays at or above 5%, this is sustainable indefinitely.

And this isn't the only path to financial independence, it's just really straightforward for higher-than-average earners not burning an insane amount of their income on rent. (Mortgages are a different story.)
Sadly I haven't figured out how to do this in the app yet :(
I think this thing is all over the place.

http://pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=97312
Off by almost a decade on age.
I thought this was going to be about cubes vs open plans. Instead it's about office vs remote. I think we all understand that presence is valuable.
Thirty-Five: Choose Your Own Adventure
While I typically don't leave as early as 5 (unless I skip lunch), I don't stay much later, either. I'm always out by 6 unless my coworkers and I went out for a ridiculously long lunch or something.

The good side of working at a defense contractor.
Because that's only two countries out of the whole world AND income inequality in those countries is still terrible despite the situation improving substantially.
I certainly hope that they don't ever assume that experienced candidates don't need a programming test.

There is a particular kind of dysfunctional candidate who once was a programmer, graduated to being a lead programmer, and then became an architect. As an architect they stop programming, and their programming becomes rusty. Once that happens, the feasibility of their proposed "architectures" becomes steadily less practical.

You can detect them by their first getting offended that they would be asked to program during an interview, and then failing to actually write working code.

By contrast people who really do program have no objection to being asked to program in an interview. To the contrary being asked to actually program is seen as a positive sign that they won't have co-workers to deal with who can't actually program. (This is an unfortunate experience that most programmers try not to repeat.)
Since you're a lawyer, can they even use the trademarked Android name like that?
Really cool project.

Which other data fields do you offer besides names if any? zip? gender? age?

And what would be the price difference between name and any other fields?
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Yes, sharing with "partners" is certainly an issue - but I would posit that falls into once again, do you trust those companies.

There are companies I flat out to do not trust - Sony, Lenovo etc. They will need to work hard to re-gain that trust.

There are companies I have my misgivings about - e.g. LinkedIn (they are quite spammy), and I am very careful with what I share with them.

Then there are those companies that I use day-to-day, that I do trust - they provide a useful service, they haven't breached their trust, they have a good security track-record, and for me, the cost/benefits mean it's simply not worth the additional mental bandwidth of scrutinising everything single packet that leaves their app.

Examples - Github - I trust Github. Or say the HN forums etc. =).

I believe another poster here mentioned their IndieGoGo project - https://cloudfleet.io/#/ - basically 450 EUR for an appliance that provides email, calendar and file-sync - or the code is open-source.

With regards to the bank, I don't have a good answer for that - I live in Australia though, so the story may be a bit different there. I have had people (who indicated they were associated with my credit card company) try to sell me things - but I think that was just another division of my bank, as opposed to partners.

Finally - I agree with you, setting up your own Gmail-equivalent is certainly not trivial. The spam issue you mentioned is certainly one thing - for most people, they just want email that is reliably delivered - and also for incoming spam to be correctly marked as spam. Both of those are significant engineering efforts, in two vastly divergent fields (e.g. keeping up with all the standards like DKIM, SPIF etc. among other operational/administrative things, and machine-learning and large-scale data analysis). I would posit most people here are hardly experts in one, let along both (among all the other things they'd need to be experts in). That, and most people wouldn't have a large enough corpus to train the spam filter on anyhow.

Or say Github - yes, you could certainly setup your own Git repository - but say you hosted a project the PRC didn't like, and they wanted to DoS it - do you really think you could stand up to them, like Github has? There is once again, significant engineering effort involved here, infrastructure, backend, operational etc. in order to mitigate these things:

Eg. https://github.com/blog/1981-large-scale-ddos-attack-on-gith...

Most people simply don't have the know-how or time to execute those well (I wouldn't even try) - yes, if there was an open-source project that had the same backing as Github, the same number of engineers constantly working on it, and the same number of SREs/ops people making sure it ran well (or we had our own personal army of SRE/ops people...haha), I'm sure many of us would use it - but there isn't, and I suspect there won't be. Large scale turn-key web-apps aren't really where open-source shines.
My YC rejection story
Sure wish they had sent out an email notification to users instead of a slashdotted blog post. Now the question is how long can Linode stand in the face of these sorts of hacks and network attacks in the face of stiff VPS competition.
What? Who said “math gives nothing”? I spend most of my day building things out of math. I think math and scientific inquiry are basically the most important tools invented/popularized in the past 1000 years.

The lapse here is not math, but rather spending lots of attention on abstract thought disconnected from any kind of reality check. Of course, there’s nothing inherently wrong with speculating sans evidence about the future, it’s generally a harmless hobby. In the best case it makes for fun SF novels. Convincing yourself, still without direct evidence, that your speculation reflects truth implies that something has gone off the rails in the reasoning process, however.

Using statistical analysis to understand real causal relationships in areas we have real data about is damn hard, and even plenty of people who are highly trained as statisticians screw up all the time. Academic fields like comparative politics (to take an example I spent a fair amount of time studying) are rife with poor conclusions drawn from bad analysis. The LessWrong folks are hardly unique in applying logic poorly. But they do tend to tackle more speculative questions and convince themselves more firmly of their conclusions (at least, such is my impression as an outsider).
The purpose of the scam is not to gain access to computers. The purpose of the scam is to fleece unsuspecting Dell customers. The scammers gain the trust of their victim by using misappropriated Dell customer data. They charge exorbitant fees for unnecessary services to the less technically competent.

My assumption is that the scammers are based in India or somewhere else where dollars go quite a bit farther than the US. Even apart from the potential for fraudulent charges, spending a few days to earn a few hundred dollars is definitely worth it in a country where the average income for a year is around $1300.
Is that "you can't", or "you can't"?
Refreshing to see a critique talking alternatives instead of another fanboy post on Bitcoin's blockchain. Monoculture is a good word for it. Almost all the research and attention is going in one direction when there are many valid directions worth exploring with fewer issues than Bitcoin. Some leverage proven approaches in finance, databases, or transaction processing. Just need extensions, more analysis, open implementations, etc.

So, I look forward to more articles like this to draw attention to solutions other than Bitcoin architecture. Another thing I look forward to are links to interesting alternatives like SCP and Interledger in this. I haven't reviewed them yet but brief descriptions seemed more exciting than "Cut-and-Pasted-Coin launched yesterday while promising to change the world."
Why should I spend so much time with all these interviews when I can simply reply to one of the countless job offer I receive every week?
Hmm ... this doesn't look good:

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“Serverless Single Page Apps”  PragProg
"The thing is: who leaves at 5pm?"
People with boundaries?
Those tips seem great to increase the reach of your own posts on facebook, but I believe you'll also see a lot more unwanted content on your timeline if you do that.
Not really what I'm looking for.
The fundamental insight of bayesian reasoning is that prior probabilities can matter a lot in some situations, even when the evidence seems fairly strong.

Look at scientific papers. Usually there is something called a p-value attached to it, which is usually around 0.05. This means there is only a 5% chance that the same result could have been produced by random chance.

How strong is that evidence, really? What if you started with a prior probability of 1 in 1,000 that it's actually true. That is, before you saw the paper, you would estimate there's only a 0.001% chance it's true. Out of 1,000 similar studies, 49 will be false and yet return a <0.05 p value. Only 1 will publish actually true results.
What does it analyze?

Picture or Extracted Face?
Yes, thank you for the char-counting. I'm aware that my comment was not the height of profundity, nor was it particularly long. However, I do occasionally post more interesting things, and some of them need to be longer, because they discuss a complex issue or cite many facts. My comment was not intended to, in itself, justify the need for a longer Tweet length.
Finally, it's good to see we are using that AI research for the advancement of mankind. If anything this will help procreation?
Sadly I trust them as far as I can throw them, and we moved everything important from them to AWS a few years back. We had left a few static sites there but after the shenanigans over the holidays, we're moving our remaining stuff.

Sad. We spent >$10k/month with them for a while, before their shit started falling apart. They didn't appear to care at all when we left, so I suppose they have an awful lot of large customers who just don't mind their stack disintegrating beneath them every sixty days at most.
Well, it was way off on my age, but it correctly gendered me ad female. Which I find quite impressive as I am a transgender woman, I've only been on hormones for 4 months, and most humans aren't even correctly gendering in me yet.

More than anything, I'm curious to know what features it was that registered me as female. Was it as simple as the long hair, or some complicated subtle mix of many small details?
It's "one can't".
>"You can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting"

This is not a complex thought.
You'll pick up a lot of post-WWII differences, but you can still try. There's an interesting paper exploiting the meandering of river-defined national borders to do a discontinuity design for long-run effects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, for example, which is at least not obviously wrong.
Give a large chunk to your employees?
Both, they are not mutually exclusive.
1. inequality does not mean shitty public services. You can have money all in the hands of the 0.1%, but if the economy is big enough, the % of taxes will guarantee enough resources for a good service

2. growth is not affected by inequality (yep, I said it, it's true too)

3. from 1 and 2 follows that we need to agree on the minimum amount of service (some say it should be higher, fair enough, how much? where? why?), not of obtuse taxation... just because they are too rich...

4. quick question: what gives you more growth? 1$ invested by PG, or 1$ given to the State. Memo: PG. Note: growth is the only way out of: 1. poverty (look at historical data; 2. population implosion and aging in the next 40-50 years (just check the numbers)
I put Mona Lisa and she is second lowest rating. I mean, this is next door to random generator.
> The page was slashdotted for me

Likely the server hosting the blog is being DDoSed too. I feel bad for them, but they should know a bit better already...
Furthermore generally, people don't use those platforms to post thoughtful articles.
http://i.imgur.com/Lq648My.png

Well, there goes my last ounce of self esteem.

If anyone needs me I'll be sitting in the corner with one of those criminal hacker ski masks while I work on open source stuff.
As someone with almost 15 years experience developing and managing developers of enterprise applications (internally, within a large IT organization), I can say somewhat authoritatively that no one wants clicky-draggy app builders. No one wants Oracles or SAPs, either, but there is a relatively inexpensive, logical middle ground.

The kinds of Bebopy things that have succeeded (I guess, not knowing any financial details) are usually in the high-6, low-7 figures to license, and then you still need to build out your dev & support teams (thinking of things like PEGA Systems, for example). The other option includes things like the various BPMN platforms & front ends, but that only handles workflow apps. This is why companies like Capriza & similar have been successful: they screen scrape & leverage public APIs to let devs easily build mobile UIs on top of legacy enterprise cruft. The cruft still exists, but it's hidden. Win-win (except for the cost-containing CIO).

This was a long winded way of saying Google could have done a much better job of smartly hiring senior enterprise software folks.
Based on the ads and no little fine print at the bottom citing any real science, I was a skeptic from the outset. Never did any real research to find out if their claims were inflated - or even viable in the first place. Apparently when challenged by the FTC they didn't have anything solid to show in their defense.

Oh, and then there's this bit:

>The complaint also charges the defendants with failing to disclose that some consumer testimonials featured on the website had been solicited through contests that promised significant prizes, including a free iPad, a lifetime Lumosity subscription, and a round-trip to San Francisco.

Classic huckster move, not surprised, glad they got caught, etc.
This response tactic is tedious every time it comes up. "Tweets r 2 short" is never a valid complaint unless the limit is below 16 characters?
They get to work at Google now. /s
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I have declined some programming tests, when the employer wants yet another three hour challenge to build a mini app. That leaves not much time for actually thinking about a problem and rushing out a crappy solution. Not the way I like to write software. I have code online I can show them and talk to them about, and extend if they want to see me actually code.

Bashing out code is usually the simplest part in writing a software solution to a problem.
Traffic didn't improve. It got rerouted elsewhere, sure. Ultimately what happened was that neighborhoods with freeways nearby appreciated in property values, and those without freeways remained sleepy and suburban. Except Van Ness and Lombard, which became traffic death traps.

What happens when San Francisco refuses to build transportation infrastructure (which, yes, includes both subway and freeway tunnels and bridges, just like in dozens of other grown up cities around the world) is more suburban office park and subdivision sprawl around the bay, or an outflow of resources to other metros.
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So far I've only used Match and CoffeeMeetsBagel.

I've noticed that CMB now only matches me up with Asian women despite the fact that I'm open to dating any ethnicitiy.

I'll post my CMB stats in another time but unfortunately I can't read ethnicity/height preferences in the same fashion as I can with Match. It's a shame because it's really important data in helping me determine whether or not I should even pursue someone.

But I've bookmarked your name so that I can contact you when I gain a greater sample size for CMB and Eharmony (which I'll test soon)
We have something like this in the UK called the AIA (Annual Investment Allowance). The amount seems to vary every year but is currently £200,000. It certainly makes life a lot easier to know you can immediately get a deduction for buying office equipment, etc. (You still need to do normal depreciation calculations for accounting and balance sheet purposes, but tax paid reflects a 100% deduction.)