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It is really funny how communities don't talk.

For instance, A/B testing with a 50-50 split has been baked into "business rules" framework from about as along ago as the Multi-armed bandit has been around, but nobody in that community has ever heard of the multi-armed bandit, and in the meantime, machine learning people are celebrating about the performance of NLP systems they build that are far worse than rule-based systems people were using in industry and government 15 years ago.
They were notoriously highly secretive about their far-flung fishing grounds as it gave them pretty significant monetary advantages.
No, I just use a lower end VPS to start. My own personal blog I have been hosting with the same company for 14 years. I recently had to renew the hosting. That was quite a sticker shock for shared hosting.
I was introduced to them in Opera, but you can do it through extensions today. I use TreeStyleTab for example, and it's excellent.
I don't think he says that people start paying for it but more people will help cover news that aren't covered now.
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What about "power traffic lights"? slightly more plausible...
true/fair enough
For my HP Officejet printer you have to find the "enterprise software" package on their support website; this installs only the necessary drivers without any crapware.
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random rand = new random();

int tsaNumber = rand.nextInt();
Specifically, I get p=0.15 for those numbers. And that's assuming that they're based on running the test for a fixed amount of time instead of stopping once they look good.

So: probably better, but should have run it longer.
I was talking only on my behalf :)
I'd posit that a large part of the issue with media reporting is that the media has a disincentive to be honest. The way they stay afloat as business entities is through commercial means - either subscribers or advertising or both. That means eyeballs, which means that the business case for sensationalist reporting will always trump that for honest, factual reporting.

The only way to reliably get around this is to have a separate, non-partisan funding mechanism for news. For all it's flaws, it's why the BBC tends to do well. Just being independent isn't enough (see The Independent as an example for that).

Side note, this is partly why the BBC gets a lot of flack for both sides - when they say things that support one position, the other side invariably accuses them of bias. Even they don't get it right all the time though, and never will (being run by humans who, you know, get things wrong).

The best thing America could do for it's political system is outlaw media outlets from reporting news and being for-profit. Instead, set up a slush fund of a few billion to pay for all news, and then ban themselves from interfering except to punish those who are partisan one way or the other.

Reporting should be about educating people as to the state of the world, and local, relevant information. Not entertainment.

Fun fact: in the UK, this trend really started with the publishing of the memoirs of Christine Keeler in the News of the World, which also kicked off the rise of Rupert Murdoch's empire. The scandal that ensued became known as the Profumo affair and by location centred around Cliveden House, which has 400 acres of woodland which include the cottage where I live.
Same here with a Dell 1760nw (colour laser) - it connects to wifi and prints from Windows, Linux and OS X without issue, cost less than £100 new, no paper jams, and I haven't had to open the spare toner that was included with it yet.

Ink jets have all been an unreliable waste of money and time but I'd say this one doesn't suck...
> They do this because U.S. corporate taxes are absurdly high.

Oh really? So places with a sane corporate tax rate, like Ireland's 12%, see less tax avoidance by large multinationals headquartered there, do they?
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Your assertion that the language is not effective appears false.

ALL the major players and financial forces in our industry have put time and effort into quite solid solutions built with JavaScript, rather than solving those problems other ways (and in some cases AFTER trying to solve those same problems other ways). Two of those companies build browsers and sit on the W3C and WHATWG. They could have presented both suggestions for alternatives and lobbied as hard as anyone can for their adoption. Neither did that.
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I have been working on https://bestfoodnearme.com a little at a time. I used it to learn how to program in Go. The site works, but I am revamping the look.

I am happy with it, I learned quite a bit about Go and I was really able to focus on some interesting aspects of web app development that I would normally not get to work on at my day job.

One other big plus was that I have started using Go at my day job, and it has been a huge help with certain classes of problems.
> The reason why that is relevant is that the Viking discovery of America is of no significance if it didn't help European discovery in any way.

In my opinion, this is an incredibly narrow-minded view.

Native Americans and pretty much the rest of humans were two branches of the human race that had almost been cut off from each other, and re-united after more than 10000 years. Showing the time and extent of this first contact is more or at least as significant as whether or not it helped "European discovery". For example, it could have been Polynesians being in extensive contact with South America – which would have zilch to do with Europe, but would still be very significant.
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I'm the editor of the series that this book is published in. You can actually buy the ebook for $30 at http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00629ED1V01Y2...

It's a pretty fair price for a 200 page book that's (well in my opinion) interesting.
That's probably true for any creative work. It's difficult to imagine that, say, working on a large graphical design concept would not feel similar.

But the point I want to make is that while I agree that many software engineering jobs are like this, they don't have to be: A well-structured agile project where tasks are properly broken down into sufficiently small units, you can generally achieve a kind of closure at the end of the day (tests are green, code is pushed, task is marked complete) that would allow you to reduce the memory load significantly.

It's no small feat to successfully structure a process like this, and it definitely requires the support of the wider org, but know it can be done, because I worked on one. It was super-pleasant and rewarding.
Stability control is there for a reason. People over estimate their driving abilities. No need to put unnecessary risk for everyone.
Same here, but I did figure out that the technology is a development of the existing 'Plugless' [0] by Evatran Group, Inc., and found an Idaho N.L. report dated 2014 [1] "Test Results of the PLUGLESS™ Inductive Charging System from Evatran Group, Inc." which says:

"... Note that the maximum efficiency for this operation condition of a 100-mm gap at 3.3 kW is 88.8% at X = −90 mm and Y = −30 mm ..."

Which seems to indicate they've improved the efficiency for the heavy-duty system that Evatran, Oak Ridge, Clemson and partners are reporting on now.

Then I found [2] "Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles" which is a July 2015 Oak Ridge N.L. project update that talks about Milestones and the Technical Accomplishments.

That search of energy.gov led me to another related project [3] "Technology Requirements and Evaluations for High Power Applications of Wireless Power Transfer" (on-going research into 100kW+).

And this [4] "High Efficiency, Low EMI and Positioning Tolerant Wireless Charging of EVs".

[0] https://www.pluglesspower.com/about/

[1] https://avt.inel.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/evse/WirelessCh... (warning, TLS X509 certificate is for different sub-domains!)

[2] http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/07/f24/vss103_onar_2...

[3] http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/07/f24/vss152_onar_2...

[4] http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/07/f24/vss102_lewis_...
$60 inkjets are still expensive if you consider you have to pay $50 for both cartridges quite fast.

I got a B/W Samsung laser for 80€, which printed for 3 years despite default toner that comes with the printer isn't even full capacity. After that I got a renewed toner for 28€, still prints.

Cousin bought a Xerox B/W laser for about 55€ last month and it comes with Wi-fi built-in. Renewed toner is also in the 30€ area. That's how cheap they are now.

But I don't agree with the article completely though, nowadays if you need colour printing (for documents, I wouldn't print photographs on a laser, it's still cheaper to print them in a shop) as well regularly, get a colour laser. It's 50-80$€ more then B/W (from 150 up) and you're also set for years.
If you commonly need a printer but rarely print photos, you're much better off getting a laser printer and going to a print center for the odd photograph. Same deal if you rarely print at all, except you may just want to skip the laser and go to the print shop for documents as well.

Lasers are relatively cheap (you can get a decent B&W laser for $100) and don't mind either significant usage or staying in storage for a long time.

Inkjet are only suitable if you're frequently printing color (and regularly print pictures, if you're printing color but not photographs, get a color laser instead), and then you're probably better off getting a genuine photo printer.
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Well, I'd have to say that a good job is one which pays you a lot to do comparatively little. But you know, that's because unlike most people giving career advice, I actually expect workers to have a sense of self-interest and economic rationality rather than investing their entire emotional well-being and identity in their job.

> I certainly don't expect that we will ever reach a future in which jobs will be all about deep internal fulfillment, with a few giggles and some comradeship tossed in. As my wife and I remind each other when one of us has an especially tough day at the office, there's a reason they call it "work," which is closely related to the reason that you get paid for doing it.

Good. So let's just get rid of work to the greatest degree we can. What is even the point of increasing productivity if it won't buy us more stuff for less work?
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No, but it works great for documents. And if you're printing infrequently enough that maintenance of an inkjet printer becomes an issue, using either a photo printing service or a shared printer (the drugstore option described above) will likely be cheaper in the long run and produce better results.
The goal is to normalize people to yet another type of surveillance and data mining.
> It should not be surprising that the criteria on which they are judged do not include technical decision making.

Absolutely. Even individual technical contributors are judged on vague criteria. I'd argue that 'being liked by your manager' is more important than being technically excellent.

> So mistakes reported by customers counted against managers, but ones caught by developers did not, regardless of how much effort was required to fix them.

Exactly. Also, I've never seen technical debt (myopic technical decision-making) affect evaluation of management.
I would like to hear more about data as it relates to customer development.

How was data used to select the potential market?

How was data used to craft the customer interview questions?

How was results data from customer interviews used to make a decision to pivot or move forward?
They'll monetize Facebook with the phone numbers they get from WhatsApp users.
The big mistake is getting SOHO hardware.

An used enterprise oriented printer is 100x better than any SOHO oriented printer.

Same when it comes to WiFi hardware. An $80 WiFi access point from Ubiquiti beats the pants off a fancy $200 router, as that kind of thing always seems to overheat and kick off all the WiFi connections or have some quirky opinions about ARP that will cause it to kick all the wireless and wired devices off because it doesn't like how some other device rolls -- and they don't get called to account because people assume that the softphone doesn't work because the softphone sucks, or that windows SMB sharing doesn't work because windows sucks, or their ISP sucks, or the FBI is parked across the road and messing with their WiFi with a massive directional antenna, etc.
My feeling is that it's ok to make judgements on the population and act on that, it's not ok to use judgments on the population to negatively affect your treatment of the individual.

This is easier to explain with gender differences:
It's ok for a company to decide to make financial considerations based on the number of women they employ and chances of maternity leave. It's not ok to not hire an individual based on the fact that they're female and therefore have a chance of needing maternity leave.

It's a valid conclusion that on average men run faster than women, but you should assume that in any given male/female pair the man will run faster.

It's difficult to know where to set the threshold for 'negatively affect' though.

For instance, black men have a higher incidence of heart problems, and different medical decisions need to be taken in that case due a different risk balance. This (to me) is clearly just good evidence based medicine.

In this case I'd argue the problem is that 'black' is a signal used in a lot of models, so discriminating on that becomes a large cumulative negative effect so it shouldn't be used. If 'red hair' was a signal in some situation, then that would be fine because people don't normally get affected by that. The rare situation of being stopped incorrectly is outweighed by the benefit.
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Basic. The original version of Basic. In college, for the first 2 years I used punched cards. Then after college I programmed a jet fighter. Then realtime embedded avioinics stuff. I got tired of working with custom hardware which was challenging distinguishing between hardware and software bugs. After 20 years of Windows programming, I re-invented myself as a HTML, CSS, CoffeeScript, Javascript, LUA, PHP, Angular, Ember and iOS developer.
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What's the point of posting this? Pointing out how small and elegant a real world language implementation can be?
Set your site up to be able to handle option A and option B at the same time, randomly assigning visitors to each. Now you don't need to control for anything, because you can just compare the A-visitors to the B-visitors.

In your case, option A started doing a lot better when you started running the test, which is moderately surprising, so maybe you messed something up in user assignment, tracking, or something. But if your framework is good, then it sounds like an external change. You still want to look at how A's rate and B's rate compare for the time period when you were randomizing, so 6.5% vs 5.9%, with the earlier 5.7% being more or less irrelevant.

You do need to do significance testing to see how likely you would be to get this wide a difference by chance. The easiest way to do that is to enter your #samples and #conversions into a significance calculator [1], and the p-value tells you how likely this is (assuming you didn't have any prior reason to expect one side of the experiment to be any better).

[1] Like this one https://vwo.com/ab-split-test-significance-calculator/ , but multiply the p-values it gives you by 2 to account for them incorrectly using a one-tailed test.
I also wouldn't be surprised if [cars] only need mechanical repairs over the duration of their lifespans.

But you'd be wrong. Take a look at the top comment here[1]:

A recent BMW, in which all I did was replace a dead battery, required a trip to the dealer to "accept" this new battery.

So yes, the ECU software can really do prevent you from repairing any mechanical part of the machine, as long as the ECU has a monitoring sensor for that part.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11423833
I have a Brother laser printer, and the wifi is indeed hot garbage. However, since the printer sits near the wifi router, I was able to run a wire to it, and it's been 100% reliable ever since. As an added bonus, as long as it has a network connection, it still makes itself available for wireless print (via AirPrint) and zero configuration print services on OS X, Linux, and Windows.
Can you have a model of ZF with natural numbers that aren't just 0,1,2,...? Or only PA?

It seemed obvious that defining the natural numbers in the way above results in only such numbers. You can give an intuitive argument that any natural number can be recursively generated from 0 by the successor operator. Is this wrong?

Edit: looks like http://www1.cuni.cz/~svejdar/papers/sv_ybk10_p.pdf says you can get such a model.

>A model M of (some) set theory is non-standard if it contains an ordinal α such that M |= “α is finite”, i.e. M |= “α is less than the first limit ordinal”, but looking from outside, the set of all ordinals β < α is infinite. The proof of the existence of non-standard models of set theory is basically the same as for PA.
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Most of these steps should be defaults. This is the reason PGP is not popular, the UX is just terrible.
I appreciate all the negative points :) but I am also owner of the same phone, and list of terrible things goes like this:

- charging is unpredictable, I would like to attache some of the screen shots ...
- You can not charge it while it is on ?! yes I know. If you do it will show it is full charged and then it will discharge in 30 minutes ..
- Main apps do not exist (Skype, WhatsUp, Viber, etc... list is long ...), - although it is showing it has 4g most of the it does not work ... and it is not network issue, I have another phone ...
- Camera will sometime save images that cannot be read after ... especially if battery is near to the end.

To say anything nice about phone or platform you must be high or someone has to pay you to post that...
I hate it alway trying to use my "confidential information stored in Chrome Safe Storage" in my keychain.
haha! oh I wish there was footage of this.
This was by far the biggest disappointment when I went to Korea a few years ago. The shops looked amazing and the coffee tasted like mud. And it was expensive!
The lady who owned the site ended up changing ecommerce platforms before the test could complete, due to issues with the software. Sadly, her "add to cart" buttons on her new site are again styled to her brand...

I wanted Optimizely to say it was 100% significant for a full week of it running before I ended the test, but the chart was interesting to me, because the conversion rate difference between the two remained the same for the entire test, rather than there being a specific period where "yellow" excelled.
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I have been down the VP route, started my own successful company (at someone made a lot of money from it, not me).
But I choose to program, I sleep well at night, I feel great about what I do (usually, every once in awhile I hit some problem that is incredibly frustrating). And I love to create things! I worked as an electrical engineer for a few years, but the turn-around time on my creations was weeks if not months. With software ware its hours or days.
What is it about flo? That your life goes by so quickly, but you feel so good about it?
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> Putting aside ... whether the statistical model was correct

You can't put that aside. If the model is simply flawed then following it can't be a good idea. If the model is perfectly true and accurate then not following it is a bad idea. Of course nothing is perfect, so it would never be as black/white as that, but I don't see how any discussion that ignores the model is at all pointful.

> the questions of racial profiling

As with any statistical modelling this can get pretty hairy and potentially has recursive effects that are self-fulfilling. If you search just black people because the model says more of them get caught carrying drugs, you risk perpetuating the statistic whether it is correct or not because if you are hardly ever searching white people few are going to get cause so it will remain that more black people are found to be carrying. Unfortunately good statistical modelling is damn hard and criminal profiling is far from the only place you'll find these problems (many a scientific study has been discredited or otherwise written off some time later because flaws in the modelling and measuring are noticed in subsequent analysis).
Seventeen years ago a programmer much senior to me told me: "Don't let the best be the enemy of the good." It's probably the best programming advice I ever got, and I should look him up and thank him.

More formally:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
Its set by supply and demand. You need competitive markets to reach your value.

If you have no other opportunities and no one is offering anything better than you have to accept that. Than they capture the rest of the value.
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>Page that are actually broken without Javascript only indicate that the author was lazy and unprofessional.

Or that they have kept with the times and understand the notion of opportunity cost.

>Progressive enhancement is not hard.

No, just redundant and for marginal benefit. The train has long left that station.

Search Engines (well, those that matter) and screen readers for a11y both work with JS.
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Oh man. Thank you so much for posting this - it looks really well developed and surprisingly mature. (Or maybe I shouldn't be surprised?)

Anyways, I'm sure my wife will ha^H^H love you for giving me another "fun" home project. :)
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We did that with the 3040CN. After 30,000 pages, it wanted us to replace "some" mechanical parts (drums, I think?) which were as expensive as the printer itself… as was each pack of toners.

Now we're running a Ricoh gel printer. Higher print quality, more features (duplex for free), cheap ink that doesn't dry out, comparable price for the printer itself, and less/no parts to replace regularly. And no half-assed "you need this undocumented 32 bit binary" wannabe CUPS driver like with Brother. Single PPD file, done.
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