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Like, say, sharing hashing functions, templating, encoding or math libraries? Not useful at all.
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That is a false dichotomy - lots of people suggest we rely on science and technology, that is not what many people dislike about Lomborg. Well, it is not what I dislike about him anyway, I can't speak for everyone.

Arguing against him is not arguing against science. Actually, it is my respect for science that makes me wary of him. He always seem to suggest simple populist solutions to complex problems.
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I used to be pretty involved with student government when I was an undergrad. a few of our first year courses had a 70-80% failure rate, which the profs and higher year students supported (of course) and which the administration despised (of course).

the course was introduction to discrete math. it wasn't a very hard class, but most people who enter computer science in first year have no idea what computer science is, so this was a big shock.
There was a market, sure. A "free market" is a particular kind of market, one with greater freedoms than a typical market. The soviet market had considerably fewer freedoms.
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I dislike most of the government actions that are supposed to help, but I think it is confusing the discussion to mix together things that could be done, should be done, have been done, and so on. Ultimately I think Lomborg is just a troll, and lumping people together into fake classes is a tried and proven technique for trolling. It gets people worked up because they don't want to be associated with certain other people, and stirs discussion towards petty battles rather than solving the problem. Just because some government wasted billions, doesn't imply every possible political action would be a waste of billions.
Can someone also create a "don't you dare resize my browser you darn pesky website" - although this deviant behaviour does seem to be a lot less prevalent than it once was.
Well, be proud of what you built. You don't have to shamelessly self-promote constantly, but don't be afraid to let people know about your app. Try to promote it where and when it makes sense, but only in a reasonable context.

Think of it this way, you would expect an Apple employee to talk up their latest iGadget if you asked them about it, and they certainly do advertise a lot, but you don't see them doing a bunch of blog comment spam to push traffic. Read some Yahoo news article comments, usually the first 5-10 are dating website comment spam. Stay away from that kind of thing and you're probably fine.
How does facebook not have way over 500 shareholders already? They have thousands of employees who I assume all have stock... or do options not count? Not sure how they get around this even with their exemption...
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heh I miss this ever since web inspector and firebug pretty much replaced the web developers toolbar

good job, thanks
my mom asked me the other day what the word 'sync' meant. Honestly. To some it may be an alien word in the context of their devices/data.
I think it's funny that in most of America, someone with a permit can carry a brace of automatic pistols and enough extra magazines to mow through a dozen preschool classes; but brass knuckles and spring-opening knives are still off-limits.
For what it's worth, Firefox has a preference to disable that behavior.
You're being downmodded, but it is a fairly documented point[1] and a very valid one in "Middle Eastern studies" academic circles[2].

[1] quick googling turned for example http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/04/01/full-comment-...

[2] due to time constraints I can't find recitations now, so take it at face value. Sorry.

EDIT: eh, life just gave a brilliant new example: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaelweiss/100092061/bre...
British education is tearing apart along class lines.

Oxbridge, the Russell group and a handful of other institutions are setting ever higher entry requirements and looking to break away from the existing system by promoting the IB or new qualifications like the Cambridge Pre-U. They have no qualms about stating that A-Level syllabuses are being dumbed down. Oxford and Cambridge maintain lists of A-level subjects that they do not recognise. Most of their prospective intake comes from independent, grammar and wealthier comprehensive schools with the resources and confidence to guide students towards the right qualifications (increasingly something other than A-levels) and coach them through application and interview.

Most other universities are engaged in a mad rush to the bottom, competing to fill the maximum number of places at the maximum fee at minimum cost. Their main appeal is to working and lower-middle class students who may not be confident in their ability to get a place at university, who are unlikely to have received any useful guidance in their application and who are foolish enough to believe that "a degree is a degree". Standards at secondary level are falling, as are contact hours at most universities. With a strong financial incentive to maximise intake, the results are obvious and inevitable.

The reputation of these universities is plummeting amongst employers, who are seeing increasing numbers of graduates and even postgraduates without basic skills in reading and writing. This is not hyperbole - I regularly deal with correspondence from recent graduates and often have to make follow-up phone calls because their written English incomprehensible.

Crisis is too mild a word for the current state of HE.
Moreover, Amazon is trying to avoid a circumstance where every state and county has different and potentially complex sales tax laws. Say, County X could have 100 different little tax levels depending on the type of product, time of day, phase of the moon etc. As is clear from the Amazon statement, they are not against sales taxes in principle and would agree to pay one if it were uniform (i.e. hassle-free).
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How long would it take to migrate to Windows Azure?

How would performance be affected? For example, I use SQL Server Full Text search -- how would it work with Windows Azure?

How much would it cost?
At this moment I have ~50 GB worth of data.

My configuration worked great for me so far too. We are talking about potential risk of unexpected downtime. Did you go through unexpected downtime in your Windows Azure account?
iPhones are widely available in China now. There is a 20% tax, but it is hardly worth smuggling phones to cheat the luxury items tax.
Even #newtwitter gets this wrong. Space jumps down a page, all right, but one of the unread tweets hides behind the black header.

I haven't looked into this, but if anyone has a fixed position header on their project, they should look into overwriting the space bar action readability-style and calculating how far to jump down.
The socratic method seems to be more effective and intuitive. I was about to paste the same reference.
This whole site is written in arc. period.
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Yeah, because we need more over-the-top game "writing".
I think Lomborg's got a good argument in favor of a conclusion he leaves unstated (and may, in fact, not favor) - that some portion of the money governments would spend on sustainability should instead be spent on finding a proactive solution to climate change, e.g. extracting large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere.

Doing nothing and hoping someone independently solves the problem strikes me as an unacceptable risk; there is little market incentive at the moment to reduce environmental damage. A carbon-trading scheme would create such an incentive, but would no doubt create its own inefficiencies. Markets are great at dealing with resource shortages, for example whale oil, but quite bad at dealing with negative externalities, e.g. air pollution. It took government intervention to clean up London (I think? I don't have any sources on this).

Spending money on proactive solutions encourages economic growth instead of discouraging it, and can lead to future benefits as "green technology" leads to new advances. On the other hand, it's somewhat risky as most avenues of inquiry will lead to dead ends, and any geo-engineering technology that becomes widely adopted could have nasty side-effects.
textfiles.com would have quite a lot of ascii art from back then. Memories :)
you can always pursue press coverage, but that traffic doesn't last so i'd continue to share your progress on places like HN.

i wouldn't exhaust too much money on a google adwords campaign just yet. if you're looking at that though, i often think facebook advertising can be more fruitful because of the ability to segment demographically.
"Staying at 499 shareholders or fewer is something Facebook has worried about since at least 2007, and sidestepped by creating a special kind of restricted stock unit for new employees and making small talent acquisitions that avoided, when possible, awarding start-ups and their investors with Facebook stock."
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Dude you're getting free traffic. I'd be happy. You won't be suing them if unless you'd like to lose, and they can't sue you because you were there before they were.
No, the main article has the same title. The author seems to mean: "don't make me log in after I click on an email!". It is clearly bad advice but HN often seems to vote on confidence of delivery.
Can anyone suggest a discount carrier that this phone will work with? My understanding is Tmobile uses a different frequency, and all of the discount carriers use T-Mobile or Sprint's networks (Boost, Virgin, etc.) Are there any discount carriers leasing the AT&T network?
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I'm dismayed to see that they're calling EGit 1.0 ... there are plenty of bugs that haven't even been looked at that I would call showstoppers. For example, auto-crlf settings are not properly handled (which is a big deal when on a cross-platform team). Actually, the whole config-reading system is just plain broken and has not been improved in several iterations.
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I've had a Canadian phone for awhile. 2G works great for me, with a mobile 4G hotspot when I need faster network.
I may have missed something - My one curiosity would be if his decision to not fold, but just straight mash the bits of steel together was not skipping a crucial step - folding to ensuring uniformity. Would that not make the sword have weak spots here and there?
spring OR gravity-assisted knives.

Yup. That's a silly law.
Really, really silly.
>They buy air travel to nicer places (less polluted) to make holidays, because where they live is not pretty anymore.

The latest in argument tactics is just plain old making shit up, huh?

>Besides, I am not convinced that it is a decision between "enjoying the fruits of technology and destroying our world or living like in the stone age, but sustainable". Waste from producing iPads can be processed properly, rather than dumping it into the nearest river. It is a matter of figuring out the proper ways of conduct and proper prices.

Sounds like you're in agreement with the author!

Scientific progress is not instantaneous. It does not go boink. The capacity to solve many of our current problems exists, but any programmer ought to know that implementation is never the easy part.
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In the US, "extra coursework to help students catch up" typically means these people aren't graduating in four years. (My university just recently released data that the average student was graduating in five to six years). That means more gov't support, more student loans, and yet more time separated from the workforce.

However, many incoming freshmen still seem to either 1) not be making an informed decision about whether or not they will succeed in college, or 2) not have enough character to resist the social forces that say they should go to college no matter what and damn the consequences.

If that's not dumb, I don't know what is.
I've read a lot about Node and watched Ryan Dahl's introduction to Node and maybe the author of this post should have done that too. At no moment does Ryan talks about Erlang and having anything to do with Erlang's way of thinking. Node was built to use javascript's awesome V8 engine and its event loop that many people already know and love to provide evented IO. I love Node and I think it is a great project, which has nothing to envy about Erlang.

This is like saying "This Honda Civic clearly sucks compared to my helicopter. Let me write you an article about everything that my helicopter does betting that your Civic". Clearly the Civic was build for another purpose and so the comparison is void.
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I don't know what they're using, but if you want to play with decision trees I can highly recommend Weka, which is open-source.
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I think this could be done safely (well just about as safe as sending forgotten password reset links):

1. Set a short expiry date on the link (1 day).
2. On first click within 1 day, log user user in and expire link. Ask user if they want to stay logged in (via a subtle overlay at the top of the page perhaps + set "remember me" cookie)
3. On subsequent clicks within 1 day. If user has "remember me" cookie, log them, otherwise redirect to login screen.
4. Clicks to link after 1 day. Redirect to login page.

This should be just about as safe as a forgotten password email; they both have an expiry period + 1 time use, meaning anyone intercepting the email before the expiry and before the user clicks on it can impersonate the user.

The only counter-point that I'll make against my own point is that a forgotten password email is sent on demand, i.e. a user requests it, so they are probably more likely to click it immediately (hence expire it immediately).

I wouldn't do this for an e-commerce or otherwise sensitive app, but for something a bit more casual I think it would ok.
You could also pixel-track the email, and only allow in the first IP address.

However, that falls over with people who have Display Images turned off AND don't click through to the website before they forward it. But if you HAD to do this feature, it would help a little.
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Angry Turds for iOS. Coming soon. It's a steaming-pile of gaming goodness!

Development was tough. We had to push and push, but we made the drop.

EDIT> I'm just glad to be done with development. Now I can spend more time at the pool, with the kids.

EDIT2> So, apparently someone already made Angry Turds for iOS. I'm not affiliated with them in any way.
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Ah, nostalgia.

However, he's also missing the part where the devices have a lot more functionality as well. It isn't just that things are smaller and hard to trace (even if they aren't deliberately obfuscated) but that they do a lot more, too.

And people do still replace single components on a board, if they know how to use a soldering iron and can see what piece is broken. Sometimes it's impossible, but many times there are visual hints as to which piece died.
Decision trees suffer from high variance. A slightly different sample might give you entirely different splits; using decision trees for data interpretation or feature selection is an art at best (and for some data sets uselessly unreliable).

>Decision trees are weak learners.

This is untrue. They're only used as weak learners in boosting because the tree depth is limited to some small constant.

>Decision trees run fast even with lots of observations and variables

I don't know all the decision tree learning algorithms, but at least some of the common ones run in O(features * samples * splits). That's not terrible, but you can handle much larger data sets optimizing w/ stochastic gradient descent or coordinate descent.

>Decision trees can easily handle unbalanced datasets.

This links to a post about bagging, which is not really specific to decision trees (but can be done with any learning algorithm)
I definitely will be using facebook ads, but at the moment facebook isn't really a great fit. I am specifically thinking about product MVP pages where I can see who makes it all the way to the checkout stage.

I could be mistaken about facebook ads at this point, but it seems better suited when users would actually share your page. They will just get the out of stock message at the moment.

Thanks for your feedback.
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Nice, but I can't help but think this would be better as a browser extension instead. That way you could use it on your own URL without going back and forth.
On Chrome, the site said my browser doesn't allow changing the current window, so it popped up a new window of that size instead.
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Although Sizer is more geared towards desktop monitor resolutions than mobile devices. Mobile devices tend to not have much chrome in place. You could use this for mobile but you would have to account for the chrome in settings the sizes.
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That would very much depend on the situation and the people involved of course.

Someone with a deep and practical (practical being the important part here) knowledge of chemistry at the right place and right time? Could be extremely useful - he should have a leg up on the local alchemist.

A doctor, again with a good practical edge. Just being aware of bacteria and it's dangers, and using cleaner techniques would have changed everything.
Discover antibiotics? Pure magic.

Joe average? Computer programmer? Probably fall into the "idiot" category unless you're good at killing people or politics.
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so this guy is retiring because other programmers suck at writing code?

I call it freedom. PHP gives you the freedom to put out crap our put out good code.
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Private companies may be allowed to stay private longer.
Presumably, the delivery trucks are already subsidizing the state road maintenance through gas taxes and vehicle registration fees. Still, if 100% of the sales to Connecticut residents were through affiliates I could see your point, but since that's unlikely, I view it as the states using affiliates as a loop hole to get around the 1992 Supreme Court ruling.
"We will do everything to the NPD or the Nazis to stop them." - so would they e.g. torch their HQ building, assuming no one is inside? I'm not the greatest fan of either Sony or this German party, but I find the idea of vigilantism quite disturbing. Don't anyone dare approach the Internet if their political views don't align with those of Anonymous.
I don't see how it does. Making note of the entrenchment bonus granted by a language already known by much of the target audience isn't necessarily making a value statement about the bonus or secondary effects thereof.
What gives me the impression of "humourlessness" is that he condemns jokes based on what they're about rather than whether they're funny.

For instance, he tells us that Duke blows up some pregnant women and then makes a joke about abortion. And I agree, that's pretty darn offensive. But is it funny? We don't know, the reviewer doesn't tell us the punchline.

I've watched a couple of videos and it looks like there's a few funny bits. Heck, even Duke signing a copy of his book "Why I'm So Great" to get extra health seems like it could be chuckle-worthy.
I have a hard time believing the intrinsic value of anything is zero.

Think of the contrast between “value for use” and “value for exchange”. A gold coin, even if you have no interest in exchanging it, can be pretty to look at, or melted down for jewelry. A share of stock, even if it is not being traded, gives you voting rights and possibly dividends. Fiat currency has damn close to zero use-value, but at least you can use it to pay taxes to the country that issue it.

By contrast, without a market for bitcoins, a bitcoin is just a record of spent CPU power.
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It's not productive and everyone loses with that attitude, because "... don't even bother asking" essentially blames others for not implementing ideas stuck in your head.
T-mobile uses different frequencies for 3G, but some of their phones (e.g. Vibrant) also have 3G in Europe.
Actually iCloud like services solve lot of problems - backups, syncing across many devices..

... err..umm.. wait a sec

why can't it be done without the internet? Why can't I just touch my mac with my iphone and it syncs all my data? what's wrong with having apple time machine for backups? And what's the benefit to apple for providing a service like this for free?