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I never said I found Islam in particular evil. I find all religions evil, and haven't stated that I find any to be more or less so than the others.

Are you attempting to imply however that I am evil because I find religion to be so? If that is the case, that sentiment is a perfect example of why I think what I do.

I do not expect you to understand, nor do I intend on expending the astronomical amount of effort that would be required to allow you to understand.
An interesting hypothesis, but I would guess not an accurate one on average, due to difficulties in the information-transmission process.
Here are some download links: http://www.reddit.com/r/mlclass/comments/kgbsq/headsupagainn...
An argument can be made that the product, and the underlying code that comprises it, is what actually brings advertisers in. Not salespeople.
The committee was unaware that Google mixes two distinct services: key word search and question answering.

Key word search approximates your question and returns approximate answer. The amount of interpolation of approximations forces to display a long list of links. Here, the job can be done by simple ranking algorithm.

On the other hand, if we want to answer a concrete question we need to provide a concrete information. Watson would not win Jeopardy if "he" provided just a ranking. Here, the job is done by understanding the question. After that we just need a look up table. Google is not secret about their data model. If your web site is fully annotated with OWL and RDF, surly Google can use it for question answering look up resource.
This insistence that if you want to learn W you must first spend N years learning X, Y, and Z is the kind of elitist bullshit that puts laymen off learning abstract math. If you can't explain a subject to someone outside the field, can't explain it without telling them to go spend a few years of study before they talk to you, then you simply do not understand your subject.

It's a very romantic, but totally untrue point of view. Sure, you can say that topology is a study of shape, algebra is a study of structure, algebraic topology is a study of shape using algebraic or combinatoric means, and homological algebra is, well, abstract nonsense without any connection to real life problems, notions and intuitions, but yeah.

Unfortunately, this does not give you any more insight into these subjects than say, describing solid-state physics as "theory of rigid matter" or neurobiology as "theory of brain". What's more, when you do s/abstract math/modern physics/ in the first sentence of the quotation, it sounds really silly: how can you, for instance, study solid-state physics, if you have no idea about electromagnetism, crystalography, or quantum mechanics? Sure, you can pick up a textbook on solid state physics and read it, but you won't understand anything without the background the author assumed you have. Seriously, if you think that you don't need to learn algebra or topology before algebraic topology, pick up a Hatcher's book[1], read first chapter as many times as you like, and, if you make it that far, which I seriously doubt, try to do any of the exercises at the end of it -- after reading first chapter, you're supposed to be able to do at least some, if not all of them. Mind you, Hatcher's book is considered to be a gentle one, and if you don't believe me, try May's lecture notes[2].

To sum up, most of the time you can explain laymen in vague terms what the field is about, more or less (but not always, as is the case with, for instance, homological algebra). However, you cannot explain what you actually do in these fields, because, well, your layman will just not speak language you'd need to use -- I have yet to hear how does one explain what is a derived functor to a layman, you seem to be interested in category theory, why don't you try?

I'm happy with the fact that world and science is not simple as you describe -- if it was, all the smart minds from ages past would have already discovered everything, maybe leaving only fruits at the very top of the tree. Now, they only picked the low hanging fruits, and I have a chance to continue their work by standing on their shoulders. Actually, most of them were already standing on the shoulders of other scientists, and because of that, you have to spend more years climbing.

[1] - http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/AT.pdf
[2] - http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~may/CONCISE/ConciseRevised.pdf
"not a racist pic at all."

I honestly believe that you sincerely believe that. That is why I am not going to continue this conversation.
Stanford is a corporate trust charged with educating the public. These classes are in service to that. Isn't that enough?
So... a button down? I wore slacks a polo to an interview recently and I felt it was okay. But this is sounding more formal. Now I'm not sure...and it's tomorrow!
Your conclusion is flawed. We got an order of magnitude improvement by making a naively-constructed program efficient, and it was easy. That's hardly an indictment of Go's garbage collector.

Also, the Go GC is a parallel GC which will use all cores during collection.
s/types/predeclaration/ and I 100% agree. I'm not a huge fan of Perl, but strict mode is something I really miss when working in Python/PHP/Ruby/Lua.
I can't imagine it will matter too much for the yc people there. Above the minimum (clean clothes?), just be interesting, inquisitive, and personable.
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Netflix will begin streaming DreamWorks films starting in 2013.

Lovely. See you in two years.
The course has some introductory Linear Algebra videos posted.

I don't think you'd be able to understand multiple regression without some basic knowledge of linear algebra.
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2013 is about 15 months away. Not exactly around the corner, but not two years.
Same here. I'm thinking ML since it will have programming exercises. I'd likely forget all of the theory otherwise.
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But it could potentially open doors to the bigger catalog if things go well.
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Isn't it the case that small code bases contain fewer features? So, really, isn't this result merely that the bug rate per feature is a constant?
Love this comment, thanks for this. On the 90ft wave front, you find them down in the Southern Ocean. There's no landmass to break them up so they just roll around getting larger and larger. In Southern Ocean storms we regularly had waves above the mast (95ft).

Having said that, it is a sailors prerogative to increase the height of waves by 10 ft for every year since their journey. :)
Hiring Strategy # 4 is horrible advice.

Let the people working on the project who know what's needed do the hiring. Keep HR as far away from it as possible.
Thank you! I'm really glad it connected. I love this from Goethe:

Then indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting over lost days.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Yes, I was referring to anonymous chat rooms.
Size by itself is very elusive metric and varies hugely depending on the language used. At least for a single method/procedure I found Cyclomatic Complexity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity) to be best predictor of maintainability if not quality
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Well, judging by the fact that this particular group switched to a more ethical factory, I don't know what you are talking about.
Excellent.

It'll be interesting to see how this and the ai-class will affect my performance in my other classes.
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What's the motivation for building this?

Interface looks pretty clean . . .
Ask HN: I'm going to CouchConf NYC. Where should I stay?
I'll be attending Couchbase's CouchConf in New York City on October 24th.

I've never been to NYC and am wondering if anyone who lives there or has travelled extensively in NYC can recommend a good place to stay that's within walking distance of the conference.

I've read reviews, etc. but nothing beats a first-hand recommendation! Thanks!

The conference is happening at Sentry Center, 730 Third Avenue (Midtown East), 17th Floor.
Thanks. I'll take a look at it again. The last time I looked at it (along with Puppet and others), it seemed to be rather complicated with setting up Chef Server, CouchDB, RabbitMQ, and Solr. Ideally Chef just runs at the boot time of a EC2 instance, reads the recipes off from S3 and continues from there.
Clickable link to conference website: http://www.couchbase.com/couchconf-nyc
I just cut my Visual Studio font size down to 6, but my code runs the same.
Thank you, thank you! I love the step through in the bullets. I can follow what's going on much more clearly now. The AdBlock comment was hilarious.
There's a lot of things that could happen before there are any meaningful results from that. Even if it's initially a smash hit (however that might be defined), they'd want to see how it does over a longer time span. A year would be the minimum time before anyone else would be making decisions based on that.

I also don't think it adds a lot of additional information that isn't already there. They already have all the Starz content, which they'll likely be losing. But content owners have a model they can see currently. Adding a few additional animated films won't likely change much, and it will be at least 2 years before any meaningful results are out.

There's a much better chance that between now and 2 or 3 years down the road, that something else more significant takes place. Netflix, upon losing the Starz streaming rights, could be out of business. Individual studios could be doing streaming on their own, and finding success with that.
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Anything longer goes on the next line, within brances.
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In my experience, it's the size of individual methods/functions that determine the number of bugs. >50 or 75 lines of code per routine greatly reduces its maintainability and increases the number of bugs (often difficult bugs to track down).
Ask HN: What are Geeks to do in Seattle?
So tell me wise HNers, what are the must see places and things to do in Seattle. I will be visiting there soon with some friends. We will be staying in the heart of the city. Any recommendations regarding places to eat and drink in copious amounts would be appreciated.
Maybe that is why he is wearing an unpaid blogger t-shirt...
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I can answer that.

I recently wanted to replace the brakes on my commuting bike. I narrowed it down to two possible makes; Paul or Avid. Paul is a tiny company based in California, Avid is a brand of SRAM (one of the "big three" bicycle components manufacturers). Paul's brakes cost $110 per wheel (for the polished aluminum). Avid's cost $88 per wheel (on Amazon, but list for $110) and aren't polished.

(I am not 100% sure that SRAM outsources to China, but I'm sure they move many many more units than Paul.)

Another example is Shimano freewheels vs. White Industries freewheels. Shimano makes fine equipment, but the White Industries freewheels are much better built and have proven to be much more durable. The price difference is something like $20 for the made-in-southeast-asia Shimano part, and $80 for the made-in-the-USA White Industries part. So, people will pay for quality, and there's only going to be a big price difference if you make billions of widgets per year.

If nobody even competes with you and you aren't making enough units to justify buying your own CNC milling setup, I can't imagine why you would deal with the hassle of China.

(Once I get tired of programming I think I am going to make bike parts, so I always read these manufacturing articles with interest.)
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Well, it sounds like it starts sometime in 2013, not necessarily Jan 01. Also, it sounds from the article like Dreamworks will be slowly rolling out past titles, so it could be even longer.
I think in general thats what engineers try to do, make it simple so its fun to make and easy to maintain but I have found that complexity is almost always added by the business need where its by business necessity or some idiot sales guy adding what he thinks is cool and not really forward thinking it.
I think my life would be considerably worse if I had been treating all e-communication with my girlfriend as though it was public.

It has yet to hurt me.
It is easy to miss the fact that the row for Linux in the first table includes Android and that (according to the second table) excluding Android more than halves Linux's share.
That is not necessarily the case, no. For example, implementing the functionality of printf yourself is rather involved, but calling printf from the standard library is literally a one-liner. In both cases you get the functionality of printf.

Similarly, there are brief ways to write things and verbose ways. Sometimes what is commonly written as large factory classes and interfaces in one language works out to a simple higher-order function or macro in another language. See the old "evolution of a programmer" joke for some extreme examples.
( I HATE that you are downmodded. )

I would argue that it isn't just bugs per feature, but bugs per interaction-point. the more features there are, the more interaction points between those features.
Nick Cannesse, the designer of HaXe, Neko VM, mtasc and various other pieces of systems software is a competent ML hacker and has the requisite theoretical background to hold his own in PL design. He's also contributed a bunch of Ocaml libraries.

Definitely not a gamer-dude with the Dragon Book.
Is this really what concerns you, or are you just being pedantic?

A casual inspection of the quote you pasted here shows 100s of sites using similar language: http://logg.ly/VLO

It's boilerplate dude.
No code has no bugs.

(A koan.)
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If third party cookies were eliminated entirely, the companies currently using them could get the same effects by using technology that is more than 10 years old and proven to work. When Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, IE, and Chrome change their cookie implementations to block 3rd party cookies, they are wasting millions of development dollars and hours and they have no effect on the end result -- ubiquitous tracking will continue.

Regulating the technology is, and always will be, a waste of time. If people don't want the tracking done, they need to outlaw it, regardless of technology implementation.
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Conversly: No code has no features.
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Excellent response, but I would like to add that sailing to meet a schedule is evil. Schedules cause lots of the problems mentioned by krschultz and races are schedules on crack.

Sailing the open ocean has substantial dangers, but watching the weather and sailing in "good weather windows" helps a lot to reduce risks.
Did anyone here go to the event? Curious what your thoughts were. (Author of the linked article.)

I also am recalling, after writing this, that I left out a few great quotes - I especially liked Charlie Cheever from Quora's "Saying you love startups is like saying you love puppies. All puppies grow up. Love dogs."
Just type "M-x erc" without closing any of your channel buffers. It will create a new erc process, which all the buffers will reconnect to.
I don't get how to read the answer choices for this question:

<!DOCTYPE A [
<!ELEMENT A (B+, C)>
<!ELEMENT B (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT C (B?, D)>
<!ELEMENT D (#PCDATA)>
]>
Which of the following sequences of opening and closing tags matches this DTD? Note: In actual XML, opening and closing tags would be enclosed in angle brackets, and some elements might have text subelements. This quiz focuses on the element sequencing and interleaving specified by the DTD.

What does this mean for example? A B /B B /B C B /B D /D D /D /C /A
Not the ideal solution, but you could try running VMWare and see how the playback is.
Because you get what you pay for, and because there are too much demand that they don't care if they screw you and lose their reputation (to you)--They can simply find another buyer. At least those are the reasons my friend told me about his experience with manufacturing in China.
> However, I still haven’t found any studies which show what this relationship is like. Does the number of bugs grow linearly with code size? Sub-linearly? Super-linearly? My gut feeling still says “sub-linear”.

interesting, my gut says exponential, which is why cost and likelihood of project cancellation shoot up in the largest projects.

edit: i have been corrected below, i concur with quadratic.
The metrics involved here are specifically OO metrics - inheritance depth, number of children and so on, but there's at least one, Weighted Method Count, which uses cyclomatic complexity as a weighting factor. It's described on page 7 of the paper.

It seems counter-intuitive to me too (that the complexity of a method doesn't matter), but perhaps if you have to have that complexity in your application, it's best to have it in one method rather than trying to spread it around with inheritance or some sort of pattern?
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You can use the netflix extension for chrome. Look in the chrome app store.

Edit: According to rglullis, this is wrong. I have left it for context. Sorry - I had read something about it, but it appears to not be true.
There is probably a proof out there for why fewer lines of code is better; but everyone who believes it is too busy pumping out features to bother articulating it.
While I'm rooting for Netflix to succeed in the short term, I have doubts about its long-term viability. Currently, in the media-delivery industry, Netflix is elbowing out the un-innovative rent-extracting cable TV industry, which is unequivocally a good thing. Delivering better choices for lower prices, while consigning cable companies to delivering commodity broadband access can only help consumers.

In the longer term, however, I fail to see how Netflix can avoid having its product turn into a commodity. Delivery of digital video to consumers will only continue to get cheaper and easier. Obviously Netflix has gotten amazing deals on bandwidth (see their recent spat with Comcast) but other the prices it pays will only continue to converge with the prices for commodity CDNs.

The only major part of Netflix's business that's resistant to commoditization is having a huge base of subscribers that allows them to cut deals directly with studios like Dreamworks. Obviously Netflix is trying to position itself as a cheaper, better middleman between consumers and content producers than the combination of cable channels and cable companies. This could be very attractive to studios in the medium-term, but ultimately why not cut out the middleman? When (not if) quick, flexible, and easy online payment comes to the internet, what's stopping Dreamworks from simply charging and delivering the movie to consumers directly?
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When outsourcing to China, anyway. Your new quad-core Intel processor was not outsourced to China, because it's cheaper to get quality in the US.
If you read the abstract of the paper that the post refers to, it actually says that the size of a _class_ affects the number of bugs _in that class_. That's something very different to the size/bugs correlation for a whole application.
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It will become a commodity. That's a problem for Netflix but less of a problem for us. Netflix could still survive by offering better service or lower margins or what-have-you (isn't internet search a commodity? how does google survive?)
I'm no expert, but I have explored his problem in the past as I understand that protein folding simulations are considered by some to be the constraint of biological life extension. Protein folding is an intractable N-body simulation problem that relies on number of different methods to approximate the 3D state of the protein throughout its folding sequence.

In reviewing the patent, it looks like this is an incremental improvement to simulation based off some findings in recent years, but does not seem to be any kind of breakthrough in understanding of proteins. Something called 'Vibration Mode' seems to be an empirical observation that explains how the internal dynamic of the protein can limit the number of future 3D states based on a previously observed folding cycle, and a model of the local energy minima and maxima.
Being a pessimist, I foresee many owners bending the casing just enough to make it useless ...

If not that, a grain of sand down the shaft will probably jam it good.

And, to be a complete spoilsport, "how it will look in fifty years" must be minus the nicks and dents on the sharp edges.
Stanford rocks! The timing of this is so convenient. I started watching the 2009 lectures from Professor Ng's Machine Learning class just last week.
The exception to this was their movie suggestion algorithm. But lately it seems to be pointing me to their cheapest-to-consume content, not the best content given my rating history. (I say this primarily because of the prevalence of old, old movies, of which I am pretty much never a fan.)
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But if you did that, then you would lose contextual information about that sort of bug, especially if you weren't looking at it when compiling. So instead of seeing two lines of code indented after an if (i.e. the mistake), you'd just see the one line if printing a debugging statement and the next line would be indented at the same level as the if.

To my mind that's worse because you lose meaning when doing the auto formatting. Better to just give a warning instead, this also goes for while and for statements.
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So, does this mean that adding tests actually adds bugs to your overall program (main code + tests)? One might hope that well-designed tests at least push the bugs from the main code to the test... wonder if any research has been done on this particular question.
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The fact that this is apparently not painfully obvious is almost as pathetic as the fact that people actually try to use it to justify programming languages that reduce the lines of code instead of learning how to write code that isn't terrible. A giant, bloated codebase written in erlang is still a giant, bloated codebase.

That isn't to say erlang or any other language isn't worth learning (they are), its just that no language can save you from bad programming.
I would say fewer AND human readable lines are better. The more both can be achieved, the better.
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Apart from a sentence at the end, there's no mention at all of culture and people which is really the key to doing DevOps. You can use all of the tools mentioned but still encounter the same problems as a traditional ops setup if you don't get the teams working together.
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