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Reputation systems are nice for providing a carnal motivation, but moderation is likely going to be necessary to maintain a high quality density. Crowd-sourced moderation a la slashdot is a reasonable place to start. I think there's a lot of room for improvement in this space, though. An academic publishing

I hope that in the future, something like ArXiv with a discussion system will be built on a fully distributed network a la IPFS. That's been one of my most ambitious dream projects since my third year of grad school. I haven't made any progress towards it. I think such a system could stave off some of the decline in academia. I'm glad that ArXiv is headed in that direction. They're the experts.
Would you mind posting a link to your article? I'd like to read it.
I'm guessing it's lawyer-specified boilerplate that spreads in the same manner as the ALL CAPS type of language you see in software licenses.
Joshua Brown, Technology Enthusiast, Tested the Limits of His Tesla
Yes. It's quite similar to what stops people from simply moving to a new city to escape a local monopoly.
I've certainly wondered why they weren't interested in being more transparent.
No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down
Because they are revealing that they are actually fake and one-sided.

It's like the last time I bought a car at a dealership I got the line "I'll be honest, I haven't sold a car all week and I'll really work with you if you buy one today." Immediate tip-off that he's lying through his teeth.
My personal observation is that tech has money, and money is power. I would bet my salary that if programmers didn't make a lot of money, there wouldn't be the spotlight on diversity in tech that there is now. Teachers unfortunately do not get paid hardly anything. In the States at least, it is a low-paying job (except in California). Which is awful. But anyway, my perspective is that tech has a combative equality/diversity climate because there is money in tech. This is also why you can meet students in CS programs who do not like to write code. Their parents have put pressure on them to go into CS because of the legendary salary potential, or they themselves think they can pull off being a programmer without writing code, or something. I believe the reason we don't see a raucous discussion about gender equality in psychology or teaching is because those industries are not seen as having high salaries or as being powerful (even though psychologists have very high salaries, and teachers are probably the most powerful people in any society). People attach a kind of mythology to tech, but not to teaching. And so if your identity is built around fighting for diversity, tech seems like a ripe target for diversification, even if -- who knows -- it ends up being much like psychology, where it simply does not capture the interest of one gender as much as the other. But nothing is black and white, of course. For example, enough men find psychology sufficiently interesting that 5% of psychologists are men. And so the question of "Why don't women pursue careers in tech?" may be just that easy: "Because a much higher percentage of men find it interesting than do women" instead of "Because there is a conspiracy (or subconscious desire) to keep women from pursuing high-earning career paths". And just a side note: I married a Swede and spend time in Sweden, and both Sweden and the US seem to have approximately similar efforts to diversify industries based on gender.
Feeling Stifled?
I think for those of us in the snow belt this could potentially be great news. I first became aware of ground penetrating radar when I worked with remote sensing in Michigan where clouds often obscured satellite photos of farm fields. The military had the capability to look through the clouds but unfortunately the technology never became inexpensive enough for agricultural use.

People may not realize that when it snows the landscape dramatically changes for the sensors on the Google cars and they can't follow the map and suddenly they're quite literally lost.

What do you do when you can't see the lines on the road? Or when cars are suddenly four abreast on a three lane highway? Or things like the especially treacherous black ice. So I am encouraged that it may be possible for us in the great white North to use our self driving cars year round.
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The unofficial extended guidelines say that you can use the subtitle or the first sentence of the article.

In this case, the first sentence is:

> This is Louis Rossmann. He has just issued a (albeit cryptic most likely for legal reasons) cry for help

I'd reduce it to "Louis Rossmann issued a cryptic cry for help".

Most of the times you can make small changes to the titles, if the new title is better and the change don't editorialize (don't add "amazing" or "moron").

Anyway, the mods can revert or change it later.
>8. SELF - Software engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of the profession.

Software engineers shall eat learning comrades.
"possess authority and value customs like placing particular styles of cloth on your feet"

My guess is that everyone has standards for politeness and they'd be annoyed when those standards are violated.

But for some reason, polite and respectful dress is considered somehow more arbitrary than, say, polite and respectful speech.
If you're uploading information to a third party, you no longer have privacy rights under the third party doctrine. That's very well established precedent.

As I said in another comment here, the issue is when it goes beyond such information like IP addresses and goes to actually hacking, which involves running code on the victim's computer.
Ubuntu security notices
OK. You're right. My editor told me it's actually positive. I fixate on the negative to much. There it is...
I don't see that working for the same reason having a mechanism to short stocks can't prevent stock crashes. Adding a positive feedback mechanism can't stabilize a system (at least not in the real world, where you can't perfectly balance feedbacks against each other). If anything, they magnify instability.

If we want to prevent the next crises, we need to address the underlying cause. I find Minsky's financial instability hypothesis quite poignant in this regard. I also highly recommend Steve Keen's work, which is heavily influenced by Minsky.
The population of Westeros should be zero, as the books assert there have been winters that lasted a lifetime. Unless maybe the living dead count?

The books are "realistic" only in comparison to other fantasy. It'd be more valid to call it "less fantastic".
I have a 11 year old WRTGL that got hit by lightning, fried two ports including the WAN port, but the other ports still work and it is still going strong.
I was highly under-qualified for my current job when I was hired. I took it anyway and it was the best decision I ever made. You can't learn anything new by doing something easy. It'll be a challenge, but you will learn more quickly than you probably ever have before. Good luck!
> "The tense relationship between authors and publishers is as old as books."

This logic masks any real problem within a "well, the larger problem has always existed".

Police brutality? "Well, conflicts between citizens and the police have always existed."

Etc. etc.
They did a pretty good job on Slashdot so far, and I think the community response has been rather positive. Hopefully they can turn SF around, as well. GitHub is great, but it's good to have competition to avoid monocultures.
I read this comment and the other ones, and it is interesting how you guys collectively think that being a monopoly is a prerequisite for an antitrust violation, and decided to debate the existence of a monopoly or not, instead of an actual antitrust issue lol

I wonder if this is also a reflection on broader society too

because it is very very inaccurate.
https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S11/80/78Q19/ind...

Espenshade and Chung found that African-American and Hispanic applicants would see their acceptance rates go down noticeably if affirmative action were ended:

> According to the study, without affirmative action the acceptance rate for African-American candidates likely would fall nearly two-thirds, from 33.7 percent to 12.2 percent, while the acceptance rate for Hispanic applicants likely would be cut in half, from 26.8 percent to 12.9 percent.

White students' numbers wouldn't be affected much, but 4/5s of the "missing" African-American and Hispanic students would be "replaced" by Asian students:

> Removing consideration of race would have little effect on white students, the report concludes, as their acceptance rate would rise by merely 0.5 percentage points. Espenshade noted that when one group loses ground, another has to gain -- in this case it would be Asian applicants. Asian students would fill nearly four out of every five places in the admitted class not taken by African-American and Hispanic students, with an acceptance rate rising from nearly 18 percent to more than 23 percent. Typically, many more Asian students apply to elite schools than other underrepresented minorities. The study also found that although athletes and legacy applicants are predominantly white, their numbers are so small that their admissions do little to displace minority applicants.
That description of what Sophie Germain did is slightly glib and inaccurate, I believe. I will give an abbreviated, but accurate, to the best of my knowledge, explanation of what happened:

Note that, if you have proven Fermat's Little Theorem for some exponent, then you have also proven it for every multiple of that exponent. Thus, to prove it for all exponents (> 2) up to some limit, it suffices to prove it for all odd prime exponents up to that limit, as well as for exponent 4. Fermat himself gave an argument which worked for exponent 4, so afterwards, one could consider only odd prime exponents.

Note also that, if p is prime, and we have a solution to x^p + y^p = z^p, then out of {x, y, z}, precisely 0, 1, or all 3 are divisible by p (i.e., if any two were divisible by p, then so would be the third). If indeed all 3 are divisible by p, we may accordingly divide all through by p to obtain a smaller solution; thus, if there is any solution, there is a minimal solution where precisely 0 or 1 of {x, y, z} are divisible by p.

So to prove Fermat's Little Theorem for prime exponent p, it suffices to prove both of the following claims for all solutions to x^p + y^p = z^p:

(A) It cannot be the case that precisely 0 of {x, y, z} are divisible by p

(B) It cannot be the case that precisely 1 of {x, y, z} is divisible by p

If this can be done for every odd prime p up to some limit, FLT is established for all exponents up to that limit.

Germain did not do this. She did not have a strategy for proving (B). This prevented her from establishing FLT in full for any exponent.

Germain did manage, however, to discover a strategy for establishing (A) for various p. Specifically, she discovered a sufficient condition for (A) was the existence of another prime t in a certain decidable relation to p. Germain then manually searched for and discovered such t for each prime p < 100.

Why'd she stop there? Because it seemed like a nice place to stop. Nothing special about 100 except the human factor. One could keep going, and indeed, Legendre extended Germain's results to each prime < 197. Germain and Legendre were both aided by certain techniques they had developed in order to quickly identify certain candidate t that could work as the auxiliary primes for particular exponents p; however, these techniques broke down at 197, and while it is possible to find by brute force an auxiliary prime t in the appropriate relation to p = 197, the smallest such t is very large and the scale of the calculation was beyond feasible at the time.

I may still not have gotten the story exactly correct, or noted all the pertinent details, but for more, see https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/germain-FLT/SGandFL..., on which I based the above description.
To me (US), 'route' might rhyme with 'hoot' or 'stout' according to whim. (Compare the American "Route 66".) A router would always use the MOUTH vowel, though.
Sorry, I can see that was unclear.

'to get into a row with someone'
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> Americans rhyme "route" (path) with "doubt"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCYApJtsyd0
This article is a paid undisclosed promotion of widescreens.
> no sane people would choose Oracle for a new project

So what exactly would they choose instead for the role of high-quality relational DBMS (if DB2 for z/OS is not an option)?
"value trust over level"

Isn't this the definition of politics? Trust is a personal feeling based on other opinion and your own experience while level should be based on documented achievements in the company.

Same with influence over authority. Influence is just another word for politics.
It's just a reference to their stock ticker symbol.
Security Researcher Publishes How-To Guide to Crack Android Full Disk Encryption
That's possible too. I guess you'd have to weigh the loss of the 30% to Apple (now 15% if they keep the scription over a year) to the lost 100% from the people who don't sign up at all.

I remember hearing somewhere that some apps have fantastic subscription conversion inside the app because payment to so convenient compared to doing it outside. I don't know if that was a dating app, or Netflix, or what. But Apple's payment system is so simple and frictionless that user seem to be very willing to spend money.
May I ask why you think basic income would worsen stability? Based on the sentence before, I would have thought you a supporter.
Why is my comment downvoted without any reason ?
This reminds me of a researcher I met, they were proposing to add a vast array of sensors to each wheel of a military vehicle that had at minimum 8 wheels. Every wheel would have rotation sensors, torque sensors, vibration sensors, a camera looking ahead, a camera looking behind, lidar looking ahead, lidar looking behind, and ground penetrating radar.

The idea being that you could know exactly what sort of terrain you were on and what terrain you were going to hit so an active suspension could compensate. The case of the sensors looking behind was interesting, the idea there is that you'd measure how much you deformed the terrain to better understand what you were moving.

Oh and said military vehicle was going to be omnidirectional with each wheel capable of independent rotation, steering, and height change.(for the active suspension)
Depends on how it's done. If they had made a casual inquiry and asked sincere questions in an attempt to learn why attire is important, they would have gotten sincere answers.

But a petition is a way to force an answer to a specific request on your terms, without leaving much room to listen and learn.

And dress is not trivial. It may take more than a one-sentence explanation to describe why. Consider, for a moment, that people are not robots and changing attire may have real impact on how people behave and interact in a social environment like business.
Problem is when MobileIron/Corporate IT sees root activity has been done on a device, it refuses to load up anything else. So I am now stuck with checking for emails on the laptop.

It's 2016, device manufacturers should have gotten this right already instead of focusing on wallpaper.
I don't think it's that developers are underpaid in Europe. They are just objectively less productive there. After all it's a very specialized job that requires modern, developed economy open to disruptions to be really productive. On the extreme opposite end of a spectrum - a pre-industrial economy - a developer's productivity would be zero.

American nominal GDP per capita is 2.13 times that of Spain's and 1.38x that of Germany's, and the distance keeps increasing. There are many possible causes, but I think lower salaries are a symptom.
"Was the stench at Llandudno House really so ungodly awful? Personally, it is hard for me to imagine a smell so strong that it would overtake all the neighboring houses and cause visitors to break out in a feverish sweat."

This author has never been to a cat hoarder's house. Yes, the smell is that bad. The ammonia can be bad enough to literally burn while breathing and requires respirators to trap

Add it Victorian era hygiene standards and construction along with the boiling cabbage and fish offal, and you've got the recipe for a horrible smell.

Like many modern cat hoarders, they start as semi-rescues, then gradually snowball to more cats than can be provided for. It's fascinating that this tale seem remarkably similar, including the somewhat standoffish approach of law enforcement (who often will not or cannot get involved until it becomes a health hazard).
Are you referring to CelestialTerrestrial's comment? His argument seems to boil down to, manufacturers don't do component level repairs so why should an independent shop do that.

I have to strongly disagree with that stance. Louis proudly states he runs an unauthorized repair shop because he refuses to simply swap logic boards. It's hardly a detriment to the world to have an option of going to an unauthorized repair shop, such as his, to have a computer fixed.

I remember getting strong armed by Samsung to have my phone repaired (just the screen which was unfortunately attached to a digitizer) for nearly the price I paid for the phone (~$300 + ~$50 to get a quote after waiting two weeks). There is nothing wrong with me having the choice to take a risk with a independent shop, that should be my choice.

He doesn't rip-off customers either. If he can't repair it, there is absolutely no charges. If he can repair it though, he is taking perfectly fine components off of a donor board. He is very loud and proud of this, as he is of everything. This is an environmentally conscious option.

It sounds like the guy is more pissed that someone is bypassing unnecessary certifications and providing free education. You don't need a clean room to do a quick component swap, and you can see in Louis' videos that he has the necessary equipment to do the job. Soldering isn't a skill you learn by getting a certification, it's a skill you learn by doing over and over again.

Even further, Louis constantly complains that he can't buy components straight from Apple and therefore refuses to do sketchy replacements such as GPUs, where he claims you can only purchase GPUs which failed Apple's quality control.
This is pretty standard in old industrial companies.
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Trump headlines vs. Hillary headlines
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What is a wordfence? Anyone else blocked from reading this "article?"
I'm vetting FIOA-like request emails right now and yes each email is vetted for sensitive information. And not just secret info, there are a bunch of exemptions you have to watch out for. If anything the list of exemptions is too short. A lot of stuff that seems like it's private isn't exempted.

It's incredibly time consuming and very very expensive. I'm working one person's emails from a 4 month span and we have ~dozen people working on it for a week.

The more specific request the easier it is. The ones asking for "everything" are just hard as hell.
I did not quite get why is he starting emacs with "git re-edit" with re-edit being some Perl script. What is the role of git in this setup?
They could, and occasionally they do, but not for a small peanuts law like FOIA--and FOIA is peanuts in the overall scheme of federal programs.
This reminds me of a demo page from the late 90s that made me appreciate graphic formats on the web, where it highlighted what true alpha transparency could really accomplish and what you miss out on when you don't have it http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngs-img.html

Beyond just the topic at hand, this is a wonderful example of showing people how much more the web can do and why it is important that we keep pushing for progress.
It wouldn't count unless maybe that person were your spouse or attorney. Your legal protections sometimes extend to those(though I don't know know this to be true in this example).

At least in Oregon, you're required to have your current address on your state id card or driver's license. You need those to get a bank account or for many other services. You also need it to be updated for voter registration. And if you own a business, often your address will be on the record. So your current address would likely not be protected even if you took all those steps.
A 15 year old bug in a basic package used by fMRI software was, according to the researchers, causing numerous false positives in previously published studies. Which means some of the accepted fMRI based brain studies results are dubious.
> The ForwardCom project includes both a new instruction set architecture and the corresponding ecosystem of software standards, application binary interface (ABI), memory management, development tools, library formats and system functions

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=634
should he be fired today or Monday?
Terry Pratchett's quote?