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First of all, the author of this piece works in Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology. Research is done differently across different disciplines, so it's dangerous to try to expand this to other disciplines. For example, some fields find alpha < 0.05 acceptable and other fields do not.

But research is very weird indeed. The more conference/journal articles you read, the less you trust them. I mean, say a field accepts results alpha < 0.05. This means that 5% of everything shown is wrong.

Feel free to correct me if you have a better grasp of statistics find what I say to be wrong.
Not knowing what the job was, how do you know it was unimportant? I mean, it's easy to dismiss corporate policies as unnecessary, or even overbearing, but if he were working a job that was time-sensitive, I would certainly expect people to show up on time.

Having worked help desk jobs, usually as the 'overnight' guy, I was personally the person that was screwed over when people showed up late, as I couldn't leave the desk unmanned.

Regardless, showing up late, when you've agreed to show up at a certain time, is rude, at the very best. Not every employer care, or will even tie you to a schedule, but if you're on one, disregarding it as nonsense doesn't sound like the best way to stay employed.
The article I linked has some interesting specifics and discussion of Dyson's two interstellar Orion designs.

In general, 1g for a year gets you fairly close to light speed, and time dilation really starts to have a noticeable effect. If you can accelerate at 1g indefinitely, then longer journeys are proportionately more reduced.
The real question is why any of these people signed up for Foursquare in the first place. Foursquare is great for people who want to share their location, not so great (surprise!) for people who don't. If you don't want the risks and benefits together, don't sign up.
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This paper has gotten way too much press for an oversimplified model of science. Here's the thing: if results hold up to scrutiny, the authors are eager to share code and plasmids/samples. If not, they are a lot more squirrelly. Outside replication is what keeps the machine moving forward, is fairly readily proxied by citation rates, and yet is not captured by Ioannidis' simple model.
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Well, that's why the whole "replication" thing is important. One published result is interesting, but rarely definitive, and possibly wrong. (Or at least unusual for possibly difficult-to-determine reasons.)

This is another good reason to ignore the media hype for every new paper that comes out. (Besides the fact that journalists perform lossy compression on data.)

But it seems like it's how science is supposed to work: publish your results, see if others confirm your findings, because you might be wrong even if you seem to have done everything correctly and honestly to the best of your ability.
Might I ask what your typical monthly expenses are in St. Petersburg? I'm seriously looking into living there for a few months, товарищ.
$1200 for a 2BR seems a little on the low side, but $600/month is very doable with roommates. When I first moved out here, I found a bunch of places in the $650-month range. They were usually on California St in MTV or somewhere in Sunnyvale.

I think the problem is that different people have very different definitions of "decent". I'm paying just over $1400/month now for what I consider a very nice apartment. If you don't mind living with working-class immigrants, there're lots of places that start at around $900/month for a 1BR or $600/month with a roommate along Easy St, Walker Dr, or California St.
The author's research is discussed in an excellent Atlantic article that many may find more accessible: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-dam...
I can second this. I lived in the Tendernob (not as nice as Nob Hill, not as crazy as the Tenderloin) a couple of years back and paid 1290/mo for a studio.

Though a studio, it was still a decent size and I was right up the road from a grocery store, used public transportation/bike and feel that besides rent, it wasn't too pricey.

I had moved from Austin, TX and when I added everything up (accommodations, car-related expenses, etc), SF was only a little more expensive.
Unusual, but not hard.
1 USB port, tree of 12 hubs, pile of 70 1TB drives.
He's looking for accessible capacity, not speed.
Once you get to graphics programming, what are your options on the Mac for IDE and library (directx/OpenGL)?
Is there a video recording for this presentation?
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Having the app send random texts makes it much better imho. If you set it up like yahoo and google calendars it just-another-reminder-app. Btw, liked the Ataturk background.
> breaking down goals into concrete tasks, which only a human can do or push you to do.

If it's a goal a lot of people have, and which follows a general formula, then once someone has written it down, the software can store it in a central database and let everyone else make use of it. Imagine entering "write book" into your to-do list app, hitting TAB, and watching it expand into "write proposal chapter, find writing group, show chapter to group, modify chapter using feedback, write outline for draft, [...], submit to publisher."

Then, if you immediately know how to "write proposal chapter," you can just stick with that and check it off when it's done—but if you're unsure, you can select that sub-task and hit TAB again, and it will expand into "select writing tool, find environment suitable to writing, schedule writing time, create new document"—and then there would be a placeholder step with a question in it, "what are you writing: {prose fiction, technical guide, biography, etc.}" You'd select, say, prose fiction, and it would replace the placeholder with more steps: "think of name and other physical details for main protagonist, think of conflict, write first paragraph introducing both character and conflict, [...]"

And there's already a collection of such lists available online to get your database off the ground: the eHow/Wikihow/etc. type sites. You could also parse the StackExchange-driven sites for answers that look like ordered lists.
I don't want to sandbag your privacy article, but did you know that the ClipperCard requires synchronized clocks amongst all the buses to properly implement the 90 min. transfer? Want to guess how well that's working?
Good summary of what happened at SUS2010!
By boss uses the prior-version Air for some development: Xcode, Matlab.

He's a patient guy.
I apologize for being a wet blanket, but the vast majority of couples divorce without hiring lawyers. The numbers vary by location; in Cleveland in the mid-00's, roughly 85% of divorces did not involve lawyers.

When lawyers were involved, it was always because the romance had become visceral hatred and one or both parties wanted to antagonize the/each other.
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Please, please don’t use this.

1. Besides the obvious UX problem of unfamiliarity, I would also expect some people (myself included) to worry about whether or not their password will be masked.

2. The “Password” placeholder in the mockup is actually impossible to reliably implement (on the web)… consider a 44-character username, for starters.

3. You are now responsible for removing the password from the DOM on page back/forward, something browsers often do automatically with real password fields. Good luck doing this x-browser.

4. The time your JS doesn’t load? That’s when your user sees their password displayed in unmasked plaintext.

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Addendum Amazon implemented a similar concept with their PayPhrase. Even if you’re not logged in, entering your unique phrase on a product page allows you to then enter a 4-digit PIN and BAM, you’ve ordered a product (to your previously entered credit card and location). The PayPhrase is notably neither a username or password, but is nevertheless uniquely tied to your account, and takes the place of your traditional credentials. Not only does this sidestep most of the issues of the combined username+password box, it’s purely optional, meaning it shouldn’t frustrate anyone.
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Do the paper's findings apply to the paper itself?
Of course, realize that mechanical keyboards being made of higher quality components has nothing to do with them being mechanical, and rather everything to do with being a niche market. You can always expect to find high quality materials in niche markets, because the consumers specifically seek out the product and relatedly are willing to pay a little more.
Self reference much? This is published research...

Clearly these findings are false... or maybe not? Dammit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox
Http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/business/24kinect.html?_r=1&src=busln
I realise using arrow keys is heresy to a certain subset of the programming community, but I've been using them for decades and it's hard to give them up.

Then buy a RealForce or the Japanese HHKB Professional instead:

http://www.g-ray.co.uk/pictures/Realforce87U2b.jpg

http://www.pfu.fujitsu.com/hhkeyboard/lineup/pdkb420b.html

FWIW, I use the arrows once in a while (not everything supports Emacs-style keybindings, after all, especially on Windows), and I like the HHKB's approach. Less hand movement than normal arrow keys.

in a strange inversion of the usual hierarchy, includes an extra Fn key on the left and an inverted-T arrow-key cluster

"Lite" refers to the price, not the number of keys. Topre keyswitches are not cheap. A rubber membrane is.
Megazoomer works on the iPhone Simulator in iPad mode: http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html
Definitely. Just about anything Jordan makes is probably worth checking out, actually.
If that's what you mean, no laptop is going to be acceptable. Laptop keyboards are crap. Laptop ergonomics are crap. Laptop expandability is crap.

Well, I tried the 11.6" in the Apple Store today. The keyboard is awesome. It is a full sized keyboard. There is nothing 'laptop' about it. So it is exactly what you are used to if you have been using the recent wireless keyboard.
I have used SimpleDB and wrote some basic Scala bindings for it:

http://github.com/crawshaw/saws

No service outages yet, but response time rarely drops below 50ms (from an EC2 instance) and there is a serious long tail on queries. I have seen 10 minute windows in which the fastest response time was 500ms. That is amazingly slow.
It can still be regulated/blocked by the countries people live in, just like with the Pirate Bay.

The only recourse is wireless transmission, like the old pirate radio ships, but given the state of satellite technology that model would not translate well.
An iPad comes in handy as a portable second display using ScreenRecycler and an iPad VNC client. I use it with my 13" macbook to satisfy real estate envy.

I put the less "active" stuff on it, since there isn't a version of JollysFastVNC (fastest VNC client I've ever used) out for iPad yet, although I hear it's in progress.
You will have to use binomial distribution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution) for finding the probability that 5% of them are wrong (Assuming researches are independent). I guess this probability will come to be very small.
But the point of this article is not alpha(confidence level) ,It is the bias of the researcher.
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If you only publish results p < 0.05 then you can't say what percentage are due to chance. It could be all of them. All it tells you is how many experiments would get that significance level through chance. To know the number of results that are simply due to that effect you'd have to know the prevalence of actual positive results (ie not due to chance). If a actual positives are common then it could be much lower than 5% reported results due to chance, if actual positives are impossible then it could 100% due to chance.
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I'm not a programmer but I feel like it would be straightforward enough to make the tab key yield a space in this instance, so that either the tab or the space key would work.
If you want a RAID array on a Macbook series laptop, you can get a cage to replace the optical drive and pop in a second 2.5" drive of your choice. It's a compromise, but it's doable.

Not sure that CPU replacement is -that- common an upgrade, even for desktops. Every few years, the latest and greatest CPUs seem to use a new socket anyways.
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This is also a published article and the same principles should be applied here, no?
A better way to do this:

* Have a text input and password input HTML entities next to each other with CSS that removed the right/left border and spacing (dynamically resize the input boxes if you like)

* Capture a space keyprees event to shift focus to the password field

* Same effect, but degrades in non-JS browsers to a normal entry field and allows the browser to still provide password remember, masking and form parsing on the backend.

I don't like the idea of splitting/parsing the field on the client side in JS - there is too much that can go wrong. You are telling the browser that this is just a normal text field, so the value will pop up (in the clear) on other sites that share the same input name.
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I was thinking the same thing. We're sure it's not April 1st?
More and more, I find myself renting EC2 instances for small projects instead of using VMWare. The new micro instances are super cheap at .02 and .03 per hour for Linux and Windows, respectively.

Granted, I still use VMWare/Parallels periodically, but my reliance has started to wane in the past 12 months.
The arrow keys are accessible with the function key. It seems awkward at first, but after a day of use it becomes very natural.

If it's what you really want, the HHKB Lite 2 is actually sold in the US and is quite a bit cheaper (though the switches aren't as nice).
Because it's 10/100 running as a USB dongle.
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I'm not from US either - replace college with school, college. And to answer your question, it doesn't differ, personality-wise.
And grant writers and heads of research departments everywhere disagree.
Caja is “box” in Spanish. Makes sense.
> Just use full-disk encryption -- it's free.

People can make bizarre assumptions without realizing it.

This advice assumes that it's safe to have a disk full of noise (even if you deny it's encrypted data) in your control. That is perhaps a safe assumption under all foreseen circumstances, but it needs to be considered.

Another piece of advice I see, to simply destroy all media that has ever held sensitive information, assumes that destroying media is safe, as opposed to being prima facie evidence of wrongdoing. Again, it might be safe in all circumstances under consideration, but the assumption needs to be made explicit and it needs to be considered.

My point is that all these unexamined assumptions are quite unprofessional and reflect poorly on the commentators.
Fascinated with the practicality of this. How do you keep such a balloon at a stable altitude and position? And what about power generation? Or radiation hardening?
Okay, iPhone is hard to use from a IxD perspective? Android isn't really open? BB is the new Pre? Advice sucks, in general, and so does making phone choices for others! :D
You're welcome. I hope you find it useful :).
The lite can be found here http://pfuca-store.stores.yahoo.net/haphackeyser.html

Though they didn't take away their days unavailable from august. I believe this yahoo store is also found from the officials manufacturers website for buying the keyboards.
The farmers markets are good too, and you can often find excellent deals on produce if you know where to look. I always liked the Menlo Park one (near the Trader Joe's) for a good balance of selection and affordability.
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The submitted article is a review article about methodology, for the most part, and isn't announcing brand-new primary experimental research findings. So the submitted article is distinguishable from the kind of articles it analyzes. See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MEDRS

for more on distinctions among differing kinds of publications on research.
Good thing HFS+ is not a modern filesystem. Also, I'm not sure what FDE has to do with recovering unlinked files.
It's not just journaling that is a problem. Some filesystems and/or operating systems will move files or parts of files to improve performance. For example OS X does some automatic defragmentation of files. Some systems move files that are frequently accessed together to be near each other on the disk.

When the system does such an automatic move of a file or part of a file, does it clear out the source block on the disk, or just mark it free? If the latter, then a secure erase that just overwrites the current blocks of the file will leave those other blocks untouched in the free space.

If you have a file that you must truly be able to get rid of without destroying your whole hard disk, that file should be kept encrypted on the disk, and the plaintext version should never be stored on disk. Getting rid of the file is then a simple matter of forgetting the encryption key.
Actually, having an alpha of value x does NOT mean that 100 * x % are false. It only gives you an indication of the coverage of your experiment, which is useful when compared to other, independent studies.

I think most scientists don't understand the meaning of the p-value. There was an interesting discussion last year in the statistical blog community on that question, with leading statisticians involved in it: http://radfordneal.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/does-coverage-ma...
This really need not be the case. With practice I have become quiute proficient typing the common symbols and all of the numbers. Instead of a one-tap character it is a two-tap character, that's all.

(quick iPad tips that are a huge help: swipe from right hand number key upwards to the exclamation/comma key to type " ; swipe from the right hand shift key to the question mark/period key to type a period)
Wow, the pirates are coming full circle to their intellectual ancestors, and launching a fleet of vessels!
Everybody has a different threshold at which sharing information becomes uncomfortable, and I posit that this threshold is partly a function of what their social network is doing. My social network, as I said, largely doesn't use Foursquare, so it sits on the "creepy oversharing" side of the threshold for me.

I don't think it's evil, but I'm not interested in joining up.
I lived for about a year in Palo Alto near El Camino and Page Mill. I had a 2-bedroom apartment (1050 sq ft) for which the rent was $1800. I split it with a roommate to bring the cost down to $900 for each of us. Utilities were another $100 per month or so, total.
Having enough seeking bandwidth across 7200 RPM or 10K RPM or 15K RPM bottlenecks sometimes contributes to not being able to use 1 TB 7200 RPM disks in enterprise file servers with acceptable performance, but needing more expensive (per GB/TB) options.

Then there are the costs associated with backups.

Not that this necessarily explains away your complaint entirely.
Some people make aluminum rivets. These can be used to make weapons. Now that they know, should they show up for work on Monday if they are "good people"? How about bauxite miners who mine the minerals that are used to make aluminum to make rivets?
Where I work we have a super fast SAN for our storage, with a giant cache, fiber everything, and separate channels for backups. The cost works out to something like $1k/GB. Beyond that we're perennially short on rack space, so there's a cost to buying new storage. I used to believe it would be cheaper for the company to add storage than to make me clean up my home directory, but I worked out the numbers one day and it's simply not the case.
"I mean, say a field accepts results alpha < 0.05."

And then there are fields like climate science, where "very high confidence" means 10% probability of being wrong:

http://ipccinfo.com/
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Know what's easier?

Right click the trash bin, and hold Command. You'll see "Secure Empty Trash". You can also do the rm -P from the trash bin, which I wish they allowed you to do under normal circumstances. (dterm makes this easy.)
If you ever run into a copy of it, I'd love to get hands on it.

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Can you share the relevant snippets from your puppet setup? I'm currently looking at using puppet with nagios/monit to manage the 50+ servers that recently became my responsibility.
Nope. I even disabled the one at work that was installed by IT. Slow as fuck.
His entire career he's been riding the success that has been Microsoft. I doubt he has ever needed to actually develop real talent or skills. Gates had enough for the both of them. There has been almost no selective pressure, refining his leadership or strategy instincts.
He's the party dude that graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a B.A. in mathematics and economics.
I use pingdom.com for external monitoring, especially for response time reports.
I have temporarily, though you're right that it's uncommon for it to persist. I've quite often posted an opinion that was against the dominant opinion being expressed in a thread (with the person I was disagreeing with voted up to +10 or whatever), and got instantly voted down to a 0 or -1 score. But usually people will notice and upvote those back up again, at least into positive territory.

Of course some of those early downvotes might have been the notorious slipped-finger-downvoting instead (esp. on mobile devices), so hard to tell if it was really due to disagreement.
I haven't used the Air and I don't plan on using one in the near future. I currently use a 2006 MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM.

Why not use the Air?

I need a ton of RAM. I'm actually currently limited because I need to spin up VM's on my local machine (for various reasons, often to test out, say, PXE booting in a confined environment.) If I wasn't in the business of testing systems vs. software stacks, then I'd be all over the Air.
Air Display is another option and costs under $10 - http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/air-display/id368158927?mt=8
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Speaking having used the 12" Powerbook for a year and a half:

Plenty big. In any case, many sites are stuck assuming your screen is only 800px wide, or the generous ones go up to 1000px - far more narrow than the screen can support. Any wider and text flows so wide you can't easily read from line to line anyway, so all you really use is height, and everyone is used to scrolling. And vertically it's not much different than any other (widescreen) laptop.

I'd buy the 11" Air in a second if I had the money. Having the 15" MBP is handy for movies, but for almost everything else it's noticeably larger than necessary. If you really need the space, you're probably hooking your laptop up to a second monitor anyway, in which case the slightly smaller space is inconsequential.