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It is worse. "in particular you agree ... to delete tweets that are marked deleted in the future"

Because of that, I do not see how anybody can even think about using this dataset for research.

If you keep all data, you are in breach of the license. If you do not, you are guaranteeing that you cannot reproduce your results in the future.

Als, there is the practical side. I would guess it takes a week to check for deleted tweets, too, so how are you going to comply with that clause?
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I was going to call you out for recommending HipChat and then posting a referral link, but then I saw that the referral merely gets you a custom icon that they draw for you. Pretty interesting incentive.
> Because there are MAJORITY of people that give money to well advertised products

FTFY :p
Well when there's a website with a pool predicting your departure the crowdsourced consensus was Arrington wouldn't be at AOL long:

http://www.whenwillmichaelquit.com/
Sadly, because of what a degree means. This goes doubly so for a degree from a "big name".

I strongly disagree with this sentiment, but I can't deny that a majority of people I meet will be impressed with someone who went to MIT, Yale or Harvard. Likewise, I think a majority of people (albeit a lesser-majority) will have reservations about someone with "only" a high school education.

In most industries, you won't find people saying "show me what you can do" before you show them you have a degree. The tech industry is far more egalitarian in this sense, which is awesome.
Maybe he had a one year period starting from when the acquisition deal was inked rather than when it was announced? Maybe he has a few weeks of vacation time to keep him officially at techcrunch for the rest of the year even though he's not actually there?

It's close enough that there's probably some details which make up the difference.
I assure you that was not my intention.
There's a decent chance that'll happen if you use the app :) http://i.imgur.com/yFPbP.png (Keep in mind that's just the people who decided to share, and to share to Twitter instead of e.g. Facebook.)
Here is another market. Pakistan, India's neighbor did similar thing three months back. Good to see that as internet penetrates this region it is with a good capable browser.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-PK-monthly-201106-201108-...
I doubt you'll have to worry about that specific problem with a team of average programmers. They won't be naming new functions with pure symbols, which is what that code represents. Just don't tell them Scala allows that and you should be fine. If they figure it out, outlaw it and require the use traditional descriptive English camelcase.
Basic conditional probability understanding is sufficient.
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WBC doesn't have a reasonable understanding of the scripture? By merit of what? For every part of the book they are ignoring aren't there parts that everyone else ignores or comes up with flimsy rationalizations for?

So faith in its current form is unreasonable? Faith instead should be scrutable? Thou shall test the Lord?
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I always hear a strange sound when I read "doooooomed".
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I find this very believable and would like to add that some people learn best by reading about a subject, some by performing exercises, some by listening and conversing and for some it's a mix of all of those. I wouldn't expect the typical 18 year old college freshman to be self-aware enough to know this about himself. That's not to say it's impossible, but I think for the majority, it's something they still need to discover. Graded attendance gives them an incentive to explore this.
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>Mr. Arrington has often said that transparency and full disclosure keep things above-board when his blog writes about companies he has some financial stake in.

Isn't this sort of thinking half-bullshit? It's certainly more ethical than writing a glowing review of some startup without revealing you have a stake in it (which borders on criminal), but the truly ethical course of action is to not write about it at all.

A statement admitting you are biased doesn't negate your bias, and leaving it to your readers to decide if you're sincere or full of shit doesn't make for good writing.
The bailouts demonstrate that climactic politico-economical collapse will never occur.People literally will make shit up in order to prevent the unimaginable. This is also the fundamental lesson of Hobbesian theory of state of nature. None of that to say we aren't undergoing a process of collapse. It's just that it's trajectory of decline is going to be very slow and incremental. The environment will probably collapse before we legitimately experience politico-economic collapse. Some people can see the winds of decline and are taking the self-sustainable route since relying on government guaranteed quality of life will kill you first (for a long time now the governmental allowed corporations to do us physical harm). The real question is: are you one of those people?
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Tranches are parts of a CDO. The problem with subprime CDOs is that none of the tranches were of any quality. They all sucked. There was no "A tranche", it was all a bunch of garbage tranches. As for the "AAA" rating, that's a rating assigned to the whole CDO by a rating agency such as Moody's or Standard & Poor's.

Toxic assets weren't always considered toxic. Some thought the bubble would last forever, some knew it would end but didn't know when & didn't want to miss out. Firms would get commissions for making or selling securities. Buyers of these securities made calculations that woefully underestimated mortage default rates & to make matters worse, borrowed money to buy these crap investments. Firms weren't required to keep the bad tranche of the CDOs either, they could rebundle all portions of CDOs into other CDOs(http://www.propublica.org/article/banks-self-dealing-super-c...). It's kind of like a factory where you're producing a large volume of inventory which you think is good(or know is crap but hope no one finds out), until word finally comes out that all your merchandise has a fatal defect. You're still stuck with your crappy merchandise & have to payback your debts. It's more complicated than that though when you get down to leveraging & the default swap daisy chains, essentially they all built a house of cards. You really have to wonder how they thought it would all pan out in the end.

As for who is to blame, the banks & Wall Street hold the vast majority of the blame. These are the people paid millions to do their job & they failed miserably. There are many reasons home owners can't pay. I am sure there are some who gave fraudulent information, but I am also sure you'll find many who weren't over their heads when they got into the loan but have been affected by the downturn in the economy. Additionally you will find stories of people who know they can no longer pay & are trying to do the right thing by working with the bank to adjust their payment plan or arrange a short sale, but often banks have been very hard to work with or it's even difficult to find out who owns your mortgage due to the mess (mortgage inside an MBS inside of a CDO is parts of which are inside another CDO, that is owned by a firm that was bought out by a firm within another firm).

As for banks falsifying documents, here you go:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/20/wells-fargo-subprim...

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/10/02/robo-signing-scandal-...
Of course the user could just videotape the screen and page-down through all of the sensitive data to record it, rendering the exercise pointless.

The first guy was right, it's impossible. Certain very narrow bits of it could be accomplished, but not any real-world goals anyone could have.
Same reason we don't zombie-proof our houses. There are plenty of things to worry about that actually have the potential to happen. Why waste time worrying about things that won't?
Baloney. It is a mechanism to keep the lower half of the bell curve in class and absorbing some level of information.
After a certain point, working in a job you enjoy (team you like, product and market you enjoy, and especially for a boss you respect) is worth a lot more than marginal money.
The one they should really worry about is Khan Academy:

1. Free

2. Gamification of learning (aka certification)

3. Social web integrated into learning (a network to see your certifications)

4. Inverting the traditional model - do your homework in class watch vids/read at night at home.

KA is on the way toward replacing traditional degrees the same way Stackoverflow and Github are replacing traditional resumes.
Hypothetical question. Let's say this fruitions and is widely popular. Wouldn't that mean we would simply stop rearing cattle and poultry? Would that mean the species will go extinct? Now isn't that cruelty.
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Sorry, talking about the history of standardized testing will get me downvoted. Guess how I know.
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I did talk with my thesis advisors a lot, and thought I was on the right track. In hindsight, I wasn't. I blamed them for it, but eventually realized it was my fault in the end.
Remember that Hunch piece about the demographics of Android vs iOS users?

http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/wp-content/uploads/2011/...

Maybe that's a factor over and above adoption numbers.
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rare? almost every one of my classes had random quizzes.
Did you have fun before? Has it always been like this?

Something isn't right, that's for sure.
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If lab-grown meat qualifies as vegetarian, will that mean that lab-grown human meat won't count as cannibalism? Wacky.
RE: Nursing homes. Confucius did not see this shit comin'
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I really disliked Scala at first as well. It is a very complex language, partly due to the fancy type system, implicits, and syntactic sugar. Still, after a year of writing Scala code I've really come to like it. The complexity certainly comes with benefits, and I wouldn't call it "obfuscated" in the least.

That fancy type system goes a long way towards helping to verify, at compile time, that your program is correct. Plus, with dynamically-typed languages you often have to build your own halfassed adhoc type system to check function parameters, map objects to db tables, (de)serialize JSON data, etc. Much better to use a well-thought out one built into the language, that also finds errors before the code is running!

Here's a little real-world example of using Scala types to define the response from a Foursquare JSON API call:

case class Response[T](meta: Meta, response: T)
case class Meta(code: Int)

case class MayorshipsResponse(mayorships: Mayorships)
case class Mayorships(count: Int, items: List[Mayorship])
case class Mayorship(venue: Venue)

Isn't the verification and documentation value of that so much better than using the typical dynamic language's map-of-maps and hoping you didn't mistype a string key name somewhere?

Implicits provide a really nice way to extend the functionality of existing types. Instead of monkey patching, which pollutes your entire program, you can simply write a wrapper class that provides new functionality and an implicit conversion. This is how Scala can give raw Java Arrays the same rich set of methods that any native Scala collection has, and how the standard "map" method can be defined generically but still build & return the expected result collection type.

Syntactic sugar is arguably a problem, there are definitely a lot of special cases to learn and remember: when can parenthesis be omitted, when can curly braces replace parenthesis, special methods with symbol names like "::", ":+", "@", etc. But in the long run I think the sugar does make code easier to read.

Compare a single "map" function in Erlang (a language that really eschews syntactic sugar):

lists:map(fun(N) -> N + 1 end, [1, 2, 3]).

vs Scala:

List(1, 2, 3).map(_ + 1)

which is really just syntactic sugar for:

List(1, 2, 3).map({(n: Int) => n + 1})

I think that in the long run I'd rather memorize some rules (as long as they're reasonable and logical) rather than have to read/write through a ton of boilerplate every time I declare a closure.
I was amazed by the comments here and on reddit about the initial story, with discussions on everything from how easy is it to lose something, to 'it's a marketing conspiracy by Apple' with no one questioning the veracity of the story.
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Earlier results of this process at Eindhoven University of Technology included that "due to safety restrictions, the scientists were not allowed to eat the meat, which tasted bland". (sorry, lost the reference)
I just made this webapp to explore some ideas and i would love to hear your impressions.
Once KA starts offering courses that are at university level, perhaps. But as it stands the level of the topics covered on KA is far to superficial to threaten universities. That's not to say it won't happen, but so far I've seen no indication of it.

PS. With all that being said, I'm huge fan of KA, and rooting for their continued success. I just think they're better suited to take on high schools rather than universities.
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Well, it's all relative. A $310 for a phone is quite expensive but can be considered a decent price if you insist on those specs. But it's still something like a luxury toy. There are cheaper smartphones already on the market priced well below $100-$130 and there are genuinely cheap Android phones, too.
1. I think that awful reputation is with a tiny fraction of the population.

2. I do not have data to back it up, but I would think over half of all IE users do not know it is called Internet Explorer. So, changing the name would not make a difference. Significantly changing the icon, on the other hand, would be a help desk's worst nightmare.
By your standards food stamps are a reward for not being able to feed yourself.
Not very surprising. I remember seeing full page ads for Chrome in major newspapers. I have also seen lot of word of mouth for Chrome and FF. (People asking friends, family members to try out Chrome or FF). I still remember the days when me and my friends used to install FF in all the browsing centers (not every one had broadband at that time) we visit when FF came out.
I'd say the stock holders lost, and that's supposedly who owns and runs the company so they're the ones who should lose.
This is highly dependent on the professor of the class in question. Professor's will sometimes offer a student the option of testing out of a class. It of course depends on the institution exactly what goes on the transcript in these cases, but usually it will not count towards the GPA an will be treated in a manner similar to AP credit.
Yes, but in the words of HP: "The tablet effect is real." Windows devices are no longer going to have a lion's share of devices used for web browsing.
Fundamental? Yes. Superficial? No.
Or follow a news channel on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday

(as an example)
Also it's easier to create browser technology to change the appearance of sites to match an individual's needs rather than all websites to change to meet a generalized set of accessibility guidelines which may not affect all disabled people and which may harm abled users.
single page: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2...
I don't think you can be cruel to a species because a species doesn't feel anxiety and pain.
As for the "AAA" rating, that's a rating assigned to the whole CDO by a rating agency such as Moody's or Standard & Poor's.

This is simply incorrect. Each tranch gets a separate rating since senior tranches have a different risk profile than junior or equity tranches.

Please go learn the mechanics of CDO's, it's far more useful than just discussing them with vague metaphors ("it's like a sausage factory, full of stinky socks, run by villains...").

As for banks falsifying documents...

I didn't ask about any instance of banks falsifying documents, I asked about banks falsifying loan applications. This has nothing whatsoever to do with robo signing.

Incidentally, you did a nice job editing the text I quoted out of your original post.
It's interesting that the Reverend Bayes was resisted for so long, and not on objective grounds. We seem to have this tendency, even amongst the academic elite, to not always have the most honest of mental apparatus, especially where the matter at hand would require us to reverse position, or acknowledge more our ignorance, than our ability.
This conflict of interest is precisely why he resigned. I'm not convinced a personal stake necessarily makes for uninteresting writing, though.
ghshephard - yes I live and work in SF and Silicon Valley and have done so for 6+ years.

I always dictate my own terms on contracts. I advise others to do so too.

Have you tried to hire engineers in Silicon Valley? I've heard of employees who've negotiated $50k cash signing bonus, 8 weeks holiday a year, a personal assistant to do their grocery shopping, agreement that the founder will personally invest $300k in the employee's future startup (these are separately, not the same contract).

Good engineers can get whatever they want.
Going by the name, those are based on Fuzzy Logic, I assume - which makes sense. Some people say that the first nation to develop a true AI will be Japan, because they've been studying Fuzzy Logic theory as a field of science since decades.
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Good explanation! I found lots of complaints about the signature, but searching around it seemed difficult to find a proper explanation.
How? Outgoing data still costs money...
You used to be able to do so through Amazon but the publishers caught on fairly quickly. I managed to get a bio book that way, my ex-gf bought her organic chemistry books ($$$) this way as well. The next semester they were no longer visible even when searching by ISBN.
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It's definitely not US only, as I'm in the UK and see the paywall.
I imagine that, no matter how popular this gets, there will always be a market for real cows, pigs and chickens. It's just going to end up being a high end luxury market. A whole animal for roasting is something that will never be able to made in a lab. Also from what I understand this process produces fairly homogeneous meat, meaning you're probably going to need a real animal to make more interesting cuts, or 'bi-products' like heart, marrow and liver. Combine that with the fact that there will probably also always be a market for real leather (which will also become a high end luxury product) and I can see cows being reared for a long time after this process becomes wildly popular .
"web programming is boring"

I got no more to say than: "prove it scientifically" (you can't). How can you say web programming is boring as a fact? It's your view.