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I learned it recently, the best tutorial on Django is right in the docs. The docs start you off with a tutorial for building a polling app that is really great for teaching the basics

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/

The docs are amazing, probably because Django was created by journalists so they are really great at communicating things. It's not like most programming docs that leave you feeling lost and need to be supplemented with outside tutorials.

That said I'm new to programming so I supplemented the tutorial and instructions on the docs page with the one on the Django girls site.

http://tutorial.djangogirls.org/

I found that between these two and occasional references to stacks when I felt lost, it was all I needed.
Google censoring Jill Stein
I think this trivializes the scope of what the BBC developed. Even with well automated processes, you'd still want a human doing light QA given the wide diversity of content. The BBC has been at it for over twenty years building ad hoc minisites[1]--sites so far down the long tail, that if forced to choose, they may be more prone to pull the plug than to maintain.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/ukfs_news/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005...
> While what you say is true to some extent for Western Christianity

Its just as true of Eastern Christianity.

> the fact remains that Christianity has taken deep root in a number of places in the world that were free of western biases, e.g., China, Korea, Africa, and South America.

All of those examples are largely a consequence of imperialism (largely, on the part of societies comprising Western Christendom.)

That's not to say that there aren't a few cases of durable Christian communities in regions (IIRC, particularly in the Middle East and East Africa, and some in South Asia) where they aren't a result of the heritage of ties between the common ancestor of modern Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christianity and the Roman empire, including those descendant churches ties to imperialist European states, these isolated communities are notable as exceptions within Christianity.
The same phenomenon happens with wine.

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/does-all-wine-t...
As an aside, when Trump blacklisted WaPo, that same day I ponied up the $99 for a year's subscription, and actually it's a pretty good paper, and it's surprisingly nice to not be nagged to subscribe.
Really, those are two different things entirely.

The soldiers who fought for the south were people's family members, and honoring their memory had evolved into a statement against the cultural erosion that many in the south are upset by. It's possible that plantation owners started the war to protect their slave holdings, but I assure you that no poor unlanded Confederate rifleman died thinking about it.
There is a lot to unpack here.

>One of the primary characteristics of a monopoly is high customer switching costs.

The algorithms are of no value and can be duplicated by anyone. The real value google has is the search click data, which can't be obtained or generated. So yes there is actually an extremely high barrier to entry.

>Meanwhile, if someone builds a better search engine, all of Google's customers could switch to it in ten seconds and never look back.

Well, no, because Google's customers are companies. The users are not the customers. The companies will go where the users go. How do the customers take their advertising data to the new search engine? They cant. Also, building a better product matters only sometimes. "Better" here implies that users are rational and are capable of evaluating competing products. If that were the case most companies would be out of business. Thankfully it isn't. Ironically, I suppose there is _some_ hope. Not by building a better product, but using either trends/fads/viral memes/ or pure marketing or other means of attracting users. But yeah, probably several hundreds of millions of dollars would be my guess.
Where is the "Because I want to limit what can be shown to my kids " option? Seriously, I run an ad blocker at home strictly because I want to control what advertisers are broadcasting to my children.
"a developer playground for quickly building full-stack web apps"

i like the idea, good luck fog creek!
Instead of getting mad, you could just stop using Skype. There are better cross-platform alternatives like Jitsi that actually treat their Linux users with respect.
I think the kind of php you'll be working on us critical here. Will this be modern php, or are you being asked to switch to an old framework entrenched in the company?

If there's a genuine opportunity for growth and learning with modern skills i think you will always be able to spin that positively
All OTP abstractions are based on process creation/supervision/messaging primitives. So while erlang doesn't have this abstraction, they are all based on the same primitives that both erlang and elixir use.
'Happy Birthday' messages drive around 10 percent of email order revenue
> You can argue the ethics of this all day with me but in the end I just don't care. I'm paying for the data pipeline, I'm paying for and maintaining the device that can be infected, and your business model isn't my problem.

Very well said.
McDonalds has an executive chef with a high-end restaurant background.[1] He heads a team of other chefs. Their job is to design and test recipes that can reliably be implemented by following the directions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Coudreaut
Then why do you admire them? Would you also admire them if you were their investor? Dropbox management is obligated by law to act in the best interests of their shareholders, i.e. to make them as much profit as possible.

It's more likely that they have released it because of some profit-seeking interest. They are not charity.
Ads break several basic rules of social interaction, namely "Don't offer unsolicited advice to random strangers." It's simply very rude. If I haven't asked you for advice, then you shouldn't be giving any to me. End of story.
Which is exactly why I think it's a rather unfair comparison. They are two different things that may have the same outcome.
The survey confirms that the number one reason people block adverts is because they are annoying. There's also genuine privacy and security concerns.

Surely advertisers don't need surveys to point this out to them. And if this is common knowledge then why is nobody doing anything about it?

Why are ads still slowing down loading the actual content or taking over control of the web page? How hard is it to get this right?
I think younger developers have zero tolerance for lengthy configuration steps. Whether it's a build system that uses XML and is hard to grok or provisioning cloud services with the terminal, it's seen as a waste of time and ripe for optimization.
As the (programmer) spouse of a commercial-rated pilot I can endorse this premise. I've learned a lot about focus, analysis, and how parts AND process work together from my flights with her. The stakes are high, and that's why process is (should be) always followed. Cause, effect, and clarity are key.
New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of Force but Not in Shootings
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12092941
Enough passengers to fill every Jet Blue flight, apparently. The existence of airlines that are not awful budget ones proves that plenty of consumers are willing to pay more for quality.
> Great, then you agree with me, all math isn't physics, and there's nothing more to talk about.

No I don't. I'm disagreeing that your position is self-evident as you've claimed, and you've still failed to recognize that.
You're trying to claim that a person who is an actual delegate for the Republican nominee for president and a main stage speaker at the RNC isn't a Republican. Clearly our views of what that word means diverge.

Regarding the Stanford incident, Gawker has the most fleshed out backstory: http://gawker.com/the-free-speech-peter-thiel-will-defend-fa...
Have campus conservatives ever found anything new to complain about?

Why do they need to find something new? If it's a stand on principles, then all they need is to point out disregard of principles. "Newness" misses the point and would appear to be a form of shallowness that feels entitled to novelty.
>I just recently tour managed a friend and would set up her mic sound every night, and each time I would need to play some sort of subtle trick with her so that she felt things were just right. No amount of 'rational tweaking' could achieve the same.

Could she have been responding to the acoustics in the new room?
> I can't imagine too many people being minded to rate them unless they had a particularly unpleasant experience

This is true but is it really substantially less true for hotels, or other businesses of any kind?
I don't believe you. Your marginal tax rate might be 48%, but I would be shocked if your average rate was that high even living in a very high tax area of the US.

I live in NYC (also a very high tax location) and have a pretty decent income and my rate for 2015 was just over 40%. That includes Fed, State, City, FICA & tax preparation costs.
Over 3D video files...
Thiel is supporting Trump, but I don't think anyone is suggesting he would be vice president.
I think JoeAltmaier’s dev experience is different because he’s an embedded developer. The embedded ecosystem is a disaster area. Proprietary forks of Eclipse, fragile build systems with closed-source modules, strange interfaces that don’t necessarily follow the USB specification properly, and drivers and documentation only for Windows.

I guess he’s also actively hostile to Linux for some reason. Mounting SD cards and USB drives is one thing that Linux is so much better at than Windows, where every USB drive needs its own permanent entries in the Registry. Except when the drive is hosting a modern Microsoft filesystem with its armada of active patents, but then you get a different bad experience than JoeAltmaier was describing.
Would DRF ever be an official third-party library like Channels is going to be?
Did Elon Musk lie about the safety of Autopilot?
Thanks for testing this! For archival purposes, be sure to check the exit code of the lepton binary after compressing each JPEG: the default parameters only support a subset of JPEGs (you need to pass -allowprogressive and -memory=2048M -threadmemory=256M to support a wider variety of large or progressive JPEG files). Lepton will not write images that it is unable to compress using the settings provided. In those cases be sure to keep the original JPEG.
No problem, I enjoy hypotheticals.

As a parent, spouse or homeowner, I wouldn't. I would like it to stop, in the same way I would like that guy downstairs to be nice to me.

But I will just postpone as long as I can to interact with people that use said AR app as lens for the world.

Because the problem is not the overlays. The problem is when people use the overlays / AR app as a truth finder. And I don't care much for those kinds of people, neither does anyone I care about.
Collaborative code editing, for starters.
> The sad part is that IMO merge people are on that side because they are afraid of rebase or don't understand it.

Not necessarily. I understand rebase, but it is often a much more complex operation than a marge, and for (often) little gain (cleaner log). So it's a tradeoff. When the team is small enough that log pollution isn't too much of an issue, it's not worth rebasing, IMO.
That was my first thought too. They're trying to get the long tail on these games that have essentially made back their cost over the past few decades. If it wasn't for this effort, they'd all be abandonware. I wonder if Nintendo will try to pull off the same crap Disney does when copyright expires on their games and iconic characters.
7.5MW Bitcoin, Ether cryptocurrency data center being built in Washington
Could someone explain to me how compression algorithms work? Shouldn't they not work very consistently, by pigeonhole principle?
I thought this was going to go in a different direction based on HubSpot's ads they run in the "Embedded" podcast: in those, they say they want to get back to the story, too, and that's the extent of the messaging. I appreciate it, and it obviously worked fine for brand recognition, even if I couldn't have told you what they do for a living.
When and How to Use Surrogate Keys in Data Modeling
I see what you're saying and I know a lot of the fear I have is somewhat irrationally based on the idea that my knowledge of JS should give me the ability to fix anything on the web - and you rightly point out that there already are a bunch of languages that compile to down to JS/EmScripten/asm - so what's the big deal? I guess for me, it's just the fact that they at least have to knock on JS's door on the way to the web - so, in a sense, as a JS dev you get the privilege of at least being there between COBOL and the web. I recognize that's a position of privilege and it always hurts when privilege gets taken away - it may be more in keeping with the spirit of the Web that COBOL devs should have just as much access to the platform - and an equal-access compile target - as I do. I know asm/emscripten are a "thing", but they seem like a foot in the door for the buffet of languages that want access to the web, where ASM is blowing it wide open. I'm going to cherish the time I have left with JS as the lingua franca of the web and just accept that the future of the web will be one that I can't read/fix quite as well because it's not possible to know every language and I need to be OK with that... and I think I am for the most part, I'll just miss the Web of One Language.

Also - thanks for taking the time to make a thoughtful reply instead of just suggesting I'm a complete ignoramus and downblasting my response because we have a marginal disagreement about the Open Web Platform - made my day!
the ADA only came about after people started realizing there was a problem.
A police officer once told me his favorite traffic ticket to write was "excessive visible emission".

I've noticed a difference in the approach to enforcement of many minor regulations between the US and Germany, where I've spend a considerable amount of time. In the US, it's common for things like vehicle emissions and safety to be subject to many regulations, but only checked if somebody complains or the police happen to notice. In Germany, cars are regularly subjected to fairly strict inspections.

So people in the US do a lot of things with their cars that aren't technically legal. For the most part, this doesn't seem to be a major safety issue. In an analysis by the Department of Transportation[0], 4.9% of crashes were found to involve a tire/wheel deficiency and 1.9% involved some other vehicle deficiency. Tire pressure monitoring recently became mandatory on new cars sold in the US, which should have a significant impact on the most common maintenance issue. It's likely that a comprehensive vehicle inspection program would not have a particularly good cost/benefit ratio relative to, for example improving traffic flow and signaling at intersections. 36.2% of crashes involved intersections.

[0] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
Why does the Windows 8 sign-in animation slide upward?
weary - as in you are tired that it is always facebook that implements these things? or wary/leery - in that you are cautious about thinking it is a good thing that facebook is the one implementing this?
in my opinion transparency is something of a red herring, or buzzword.

usually you can tell what's going on inside of an organization just by observing what they do.

conversely, if you can't observe it, how would you know they're not being transparent (despite their claims)?
It's mostly useful for production and other corporate networks. It's basically a more powerful firewall, where you can enforce contracts on your network concerning what traffic is allowed to go in or out.

As a quick example, one strategy (although personally I've always questioned it's viability, but it's just one of many examples) is a network admin may install a filter that deep searches packets for common SQL injection or XSS strings. This is done as a secondary measure to possibly prevent malicious requests.

Other examples are if you want to force employees to not be able to send certain documents or information outside of the company for compliance reasons, you can scrub traffic for that information. Obviously more complex.

The general concept is that it's useful for when you know you do not want specific traffic crossing your network. Ironically, it's the same use case scenario with draconian governments preventing encryption, but in the production or corporate scenario the use case is not ethically unsound.
Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 New Monthly Charge
Survey: Relevance of Configuration Systems in Free and Open Source Software
The new Django Migrations from 1.7 are heavily influenced by the south project, but are slightly different.
The only problem I have with these inquiries is that often users want google to skew towards their products. If people search 'email' or 'mail', what is the probability they are an existing customer clicking on gmail in the results? Is that really skewed if thats what people want?
> she does tell whose work she's summarizing. Shouldn't be hard to track down the papers if you really want to.

If they're not behind a paywall; I'm not currently in academia. Also I would have to guess which specific papers are being referenced. But the point is that a reputable science journalist shouldn't make me do that work. She already knows which papers she's summarizing. She should link to them, or at least give specific journal references.
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It's very easy to make a JPEG file that will not compress at all. Luckily it might look like snow from a television set rather than a typical image produced by a camera.

We live in a world where it is common for blue sky to occupy a portion of the frame and green grass to occupy another portion of the frame. Since images captured of our world exhibit repetition and patterns, there are opportunities for lossless compression that focuses on serializing deviations from the patterns.
This neatly debunks the other recent thread which suggested it was possible to reduce harmony to mathematical axioms.

Having said that - the harmonic series is obviously interesting and relevant to some music. But any notion that it's some kind of musical master key that can unlock all of music's mysteries is naive.
> Password Sharing Is Now a Crime

*in the Ninth Circuit, so: Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. So if you're not in those areas, don't panic so much yet.
Informed speculation seems to suggest that this is a 3DS (or at least the bits of a 3DS required to emulate an NES).

All the games listed with it are available to buy for the 3DS, and the 3DS already supports the "save state" feature.

One notable missing game is Castlevania III which apparently gives emulators trouble.
I absolutely love the Cloud9 IDE. I've been using the source download to host it directly on my development VM as well as in the cloud (using Digital Ocean and CloudAtCost).

The editor is really nice and I absolutely love the ease of window snapping and tailing log files using the command line panel.

Before Cloud9 I used PHP Storm. Still a very good editor, but I love editing files on cloud hosted machines as I can move from desktop to desktop and continue right where I left off.

Here's a script reference that I use to set it up:
https://github.com/medatech/ubuntu-setup-scripts/blob/master...
I admire them because they certainly considered the pros and cons of doing so, and decided that they feel secure enough in their market position and prefer to give this back to the open source community

Pretty much every modern company safes tremendous amounts of money from open source (Linux and upwards in the stack), and so the OSS community should rightly be considered a STAKEholder.

The share vs stakeholder obsession in the space of large companies and corporations represents a lot that's wrong with our current markets.

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Also, the only upside to open sourcing this is getting other involved in development. I just tested on 10k images, and the promise both on compression rate and bit parity after decompression holds true.

Seems to be a pretty stable product, so the that motivation is probably only miniscule.
First, have you actually tried it blindfolded? If you know what you're smelling the test is completely invalid.

Second, assuming you can indeed tell the difference, you're assuming smell and taste are one single axis. You might be good at differentiating only certain kinds of molecules.
Heck, it is often really experating for foreigners when foreigners are treated as "foreigners" in their own country.
They should realize that the "core" hook is the ability to walk around as if the world of Pokemon was this world. This is orthogonal to the depth of the game's mechanics and the casual/hardcore dimension. There is tremendous fun in anything that aids in pretending the game you're fantasizing about is the real world you're walking around in.
The fact that they even released Pokemon Go to such rabid fanfare is more than I expected from Nintendo this year.
If you watch TV/look at billboards, you are already being tricked everyday. Why advts online are so malicious?

Edit: This was a genuine question and I don't understand the down votes :|
I'm pretty sure kids today like Splatoon and Super Smash Bros, at least. Mario Maker seems to be popular, and I would bet most of the people who play it weren't even born when the original Mario games were out. Nostalgia alone doesn't seem to be enough to justify the mountain of cash they're sitting on, so they must be doing something right.
No Tecmo Superbowl makes me very sad.
The reason this can be done with JPEGs is the compression hasn't been updated. There are folks that have used h264 for compressing images and webp uses vp8 compression, both with much better results than JPEG.

Lepton is cool because it helps make existing technology a whole lot better, but what we actually need is a better image format.

You wouldn't see the same leap for videos because people have been working hard to make those great for a while while JPEG has been left to rot.
Peter Thiel supports Trump.
Human drivers can already get information about that sort of problem, e.g. by using Waze. This requires that a human who uses the app has reported a hazard (the act of which could sometimes result in distracted driving), however, I would expect autonomous cars to tell each other about such things in the future.
You're responsible for results, but that means recognizing your team is often giving their best.

I agree with your second point. Still, there's a very thin line between "telling them what the problem is" and burning out your best employees.

I guess experience and empathy do help us get such balance.
There was a later version of the NES console that was smaller than the original:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_...
Keep in mind that we're talking about C code here. Error handling etc. blows that up quite significantly.
I doubt it's as fast but the flash is made by Samsung and if it's using triple layer cells I'm worried about the longevity of the drives.

In 3 years of heavy use will the drive still have the same amount of space? The olds ones I could pop a new drive in as advancements are made in the SSD space, which I have done twice.
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Shovel Knight is the only game that actually gets down and does CRT emulation correctly is this one: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KylePittman/20150420/241442/C...
Can I have the right to repair iOS?
So I went and had a look at the quickstart and the first thing it talked about was serializers. Why is that even necessary?
The Quantitative Easing (and Fall) of the Roman Empire by Malchow and Thiel [pdf]