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The core of these recommendation algorithms is often a flavor of nearest neighbor analysis. In this case, the computer is using attributes to find people who are similar to you, and then suggest to you things that they liked.

All the "robots" do is find people who it thinks you would like to emulate. That sounds like the same thing the fashion industry has been doing for decades.
If you see the language as the 'barrier' that people have to jump over in order to be accepted as smart then maybe go for something exotic. Clojure or Haskell?

I'm not sure if a test like that is meaningful or not, you can narrow down the field of applicants substantially but you may end up with people that have more theoretical than practical knowledge.
I do that, too.

And same complaints as one of this post childs.

Sometimes though, I wonder why I don't use the tools which were made for this. I.e. the browser bookmarks.

Maybe the browser bookmarks really need some improvements to be useable. Because in many cases, I tend not to use them (leave open tabs instead, use 'watch project' on GitHub, and so on).

E.g., there could be some rules, like when I bookmark a page on GitHub, it automatically puts it into a bookmark directory called "GitHub projects" or so.

Maybe also more dynamics. Like there could be scripts running on a bookmark directory which check for updates on the specific site/project and push them up, print a headline or so.
Who has the time to read all that stuff?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2971971
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Fun fact (possibly irrelevant, probably even true) an early example of that pattern is the river Thames that flows through London. It used to be pronounced like it's written, starting with a "Th". Then King George I took the throne in 1714. He was German, but from then onwards, the way that he said it (i.e. "Tems") was the right way. And still is.

http://www.lbc.co.uk/why-is-the-river-thames-so-called-7258

It says something about power that people still want to be treated like kings - whatever they do is automatically the right way for the courtiers and sycophants to copy.

And it says something about Steve Jobs that he would play on that on purpose.
> Simplicity will fall naturally out of the process of refining derivatives markets.

Is there any empirical evidence that this is true?
That Terry Tao article is excellent, as usual (well, at least for math dorks - what's unusual about this one is that you don't need a very high level of dorkery to grok it 100%) and the "executive summary" reason that Benford's law applies so broadly is easy to find:

"More generally, it is not hard to show that if X obeys the continuous Benford’s law, and one multiplies X by some positive multiplier Y which is independent of the first digit of X (and, a fortiori, is independent of the fractional part of log_10(X)), one obtains another quantity X' = XY which also obeys the continuous Benford’s law."

In other words, multiplicative combinations of (independent) quantities will inherit Benford's law as long as any one of the quantities obeys it on its own, so it just takes one sub-factor that grows exponentially in order for an entire distribution to follow the law.
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Exactly. The inability to get Google to recognize punctuation in any form is a killer, and not just for technical queries. There are many proper names that include punctuation but otherwise mundane words, and it's impossible to find what you're looking for in a sea of words with the distinctive punctuation stripped out.
I wonder what the optimal fatigue level is for your potential customer. Is it when they are more worn down and willing to go along with your recommendations or when they are less worn down and they have a more satisfactory experience making choices that are right for them?
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Sorry, I feel like I'm missing something. It's pretty, but is this only Amazon.com's business category sorted by "Bestselling"?
I don't really agree. Maybe it's "dumbed down" experience comparing to a private tailor. But at that price range just getting out of the "standardised sizes" and getting details you want is worth it. Kind of like what http://www.tailorstore.co.uk provides. Barely anyone has actually heard about online stores like that. Amazon is the default. Why offer more customisations when people are not really ready for the basic customised experience?
Dell likes to offer a TON of options on everything. You can get the exact computer you want (within specs), but at the cost of having to accumulate the knowledge to make those decisions.

This isn't hard if you're a hardware geek, but ask say a software geek a nontechnical person to do it and they'll frequently end up in a world of confusion.

Compare to say Apple's site which in many cases has about 2 options per item (as opposed to Dell's 10+), which often causes hardware geeks frustration.

See also the paradox of choice.
The same is true for Taiwan. The website is really nicely designed.
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Sometimes, the RTCs are called rehabs. Although they are highly effective, they are generally used as a last-ditch option, once all other options have failed.
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Oh well, here come the downvotes because I have been harsh. Woop de doo.

Yes, you're just repeating my (and pretty much everyone's) point here. Your stupidity was only to contradict Asa there, that's all.
A couple things leaped out at me reading this.

What about insulin resistance? Do people with high insulin resistance have less of an effect from sugary snacks?

On the flip side, how about exercise? Do people with a lot of sugar stored in muscles and a more optimum processing of sugar do better on these things?

To put this more generally, the author seemed to be reporting from a deterministic viewpoint, i.e., whatever you eat and these random life scheduling events are causing decision fatigue. Is there nothing an individual can do (aside from the briefly-described coping mechanisms) My gut feeling tells me this is not as black-and-white as it is made out to be. Hopefully there will be a lot of future research in this area. It's a fascinating topic.
The question I have after reading this post is: What about his NDA? At a higher level, do they not demand signing of those? I certainly had one.
What is this data? Is it last year's migrations? Averages? More context is needed.
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But is this always bad? I think it can also shows an organic growth and managers/leads will grow with their responsibilities.

The alternative is, that someone is working her ass off only to be replaced as a reward.
Whoa: mov is a rename and doesn't take a uop. In the leadup to Sandy Bridge this seemed hinted at (the SB renamer handles 'zeroing' registers if you use the right cliche) but SB still didn't do movs as renames. The fact that Ivy Bridge does is pretty cool, and more applicable than a shift to 3-operand forms, as it won't need a recompile to run older code more quickly.

This is pretty cool, at least for those of us who care about this sort of nonsense. I think I have a performance-critical 105-operation loop somewhere that might shed about 8-10 pointless execution slots burned on movs...
The acronym was first used in 2007, as far as I can tell, and Ireland was added to it in 2008. The most recent crisis Italy is going through is indeed a recent addition, but it is by far not the first crisis, and the acronym is much older than this. Here is an example of usage in an article from 2008, before the shit Ireland was in was exposed:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/06/28/why-pigs-ca...
When it was Pentium 2,3, or 4 it made perfect sense. Higher number = better. When it's pentium 2318497X vs AMD 328712Y vs AMD 1238NP32 it's just a garble of random digits. Combine that with graphics cards, motherboard types, connections and all the upsell opportunities/marketing gimmicks Dell attempts and it's a confusing mess of choices. I just want a fast PC for upto £1,000.

edit - I should add this is all after I've been in tech for close to 15 years now. I wonder what it is like to be a non-tech buying a computer.
When I click "sign in with Google" it only asks for access to my email address and Google Analytics data.
I added some context through the links at the bottom of the map: you can go to http://migrationsmap.net/about.html or directly to the page where the data is coming from: http://www.migrationdrc.org/research/typesofmigration/global...
Title should be "Tech hiring is tough on people who don't keep updated".
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As of now, Google+ and Facebook remind me of ICQ and AIM.

I used to only use ICQ. I tried to avoid AIM, but then ended up joining to chat with a girl I was interested in. Turned out most of the non-tech/engineer world was also on AIM, and over time AIM won out as my chat client of choice.

So my suggestion to the Google+ team: find a way to get girls to join!
The reason is probably because the map is only showing the top 10 for each list of countries. Vietnam is probably not in the top ten for arrivals in Poland.

You can easily verify this here:
http://www.migrationdrc.org/research/typesofmigration/global...
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I'm not sure that I understand well, the hascode is indeed changed base on the currently viewed country.
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I've used a couple of the django-heroku clones, Djangy, Gondor and Ep.io. Djangy is no more. Gondor is nice but lacking critical features (background jobs, caching... etc.), and generally seems like a sideshow to their consulting business. ep.io is ahead in features and quality so far. I have not tried DjangoZoom, as I was a little bit annoyed that they required me to pay for beeing in their beta test program.
How about women's suffrage? I understand that there were many factors playing into the move toward equality of the sexes, such as wars that required society to use women's labour, but by-and-large it was an incredibly large shift accomplished through moral suasion rather than violence. And although it seemed very gradual - a couple of generations, and some would argue still not done - it was pretty rapid as societal shifts go.
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GPUs have included specialized video decoder hardware for the last several generations[1]. Now that the GPUs are being integrated with the CPUs, that capability is available there too.

[1]e.g http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder
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Great job and I really enjoyed the visualizations. If you have the data, I would love to see migrations over time.
Yes, I know about the decoders on video cards, I'm interested in the ones where it is 'common' (or 'usually' as the OP uses it) to see them integrated with regular CPUs in the same package but 'off die'.
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Take, for example, a traditional retailer such as Opening Ceremony. After shipping, merchant fees, packaging, and COGS, they produce an average gross margin around 40% (the industry standard) – after accounting for photography expenses (which most affiliate sites do not have), let’s say the margin is around 30%. Whereas a fashion site that generates revenue mainly from affiliate fees will collect only 3-8% of the revenue on each sale. That means that the new, lightweight fashion site must sell 4x-10x more inventory than Opening Ceremony in order to produce similar profit margins. On the hierarchy of risk, figuring out a way to sell 10x more than your competitor in order to just stay in the game is a much larger risk than the inventory management issues of a traditional retailer.

We're seriously comparing B+M company with gross margins of 30% to a lean startup receiving affiliate fees of (let's take the worst case, even) 3% on a product and suggesting that the affiliate has to sell 10x as much "in order to stay in the game"?

Plain and simple, you cannot compare these numbers, they have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

That 3% affiliate fee is as close to pure, unadulterated gravy as you can get in business - it's profit practically from day one, regardless of volume. It's probably being chopped up between three dudes working out of a garage somewhere, whose entire set of business expenses comes down to some electricity, a few meals a day, and a $0.34 / hour large EC2 instance. If their volume went up by a factor of 10, then maybe they'd need to add another few servers (each of which is probably making them thousands of dollars per hour, if it's pegged).

With affiliate marketing, if you've got high volume, your margin approaches 100%, since your expenses are pretty much independent of your sales (unless you're reliant on advertising, which to be fair is another matter altogether) - would it then make sense to say that traditional retailers need to sell 3x as much product to stay above water? No, because it's an apples to oranges comparison.

Now, if you wanted to claim that in order to have similar total profits to the traditional retailer the startup would have to move 10x as much product, we can start talking. But the point is, they don't need as much profit to compensate everyone involved at the same level - that traditional retailer probably has at least 10x as many people employed per unit sold as the startup does, and the startup's advantage there scales much better with increasing volume.

It certainly may be the case that pure-online fashion sites are fundamentally doomed to fail for some reason, but if so, the article offers no real evidence. All we've seen is an argument that would also imply that Amazon, Netflix, iTunes, and most other online product sales businesses should fail, because they all have much smaller profit-per-unit figures than traditional brick and mortars.
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No, but it did mention "confidence". My point is that that is the entire basis for money. Deep down, the economy is psychological. You can't "shrug it off" and "remain robust" when the people who make up the economy stop believing in it.
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Indeed. Notable from that video is the fact that the police may lie to you when trying to get you to talk. Is general many of these things sound like reasonable law enforcement rights to me, but not that one.
Never really used Facebook much, but I like and use Google+ regularly. A lot of my geek friends are already there, as well as many photographers. There's a thriving photography community on Google+, and it's very engaging.
"People look out for themselves when there’s nothing to look forward to."

This is what it all comes down to, whether at Bing, or at any other large organization. The other bullet points on Philip's list are fine, but this one is perhaps wholly sufficient. Politics exists in every organization. And every organization has some folks who are more Machiavellian than others. But all of this crap comes to the forefront, amplified and accelerated, when an organization is in turmoil. (And that atmosphere of turmoil usually trickles down from the top; a divisional leader who's always politicking and maneuvering inspires his lieutenants to do the same, and on and on it goes).

I've had the distinct displeasure of working for at least three large divisions of megagiant companies in varying degrees of peril or stagnation, and all three of them -- despite wildly different corporate cultures and people -- became similar hotbeds of political intrigue. Declining quarterlies led to re-orgs, and re-orgs led to chaos, and chaos bred more chaos. And in this crucible people forged schemes, machinations, alliances, and double-crosses that would make A Game of Thrones look like a Dr. Seuss book.

This phenomenon is notable because the same people, operating in the same groups, did not behave so politically in better times. Like I said, I'm sure that a few of them were always plotting and conniving. But only when the division went into steady decline did the sheep cast off their clothing and reveal the wolves beneath.
Seal a spare key in a plastic bag, then put it in the soil of a potted plant, possibly somewhere between its roots (or bury it somewhere shallow in the lawn). Potential burglars are not going to grub through all that dirt while they don't even know there's a key hidden in there. When you lose your key and have to recover the hidden spare, uprooting a potted plant is a small cost to pay ;-)

Leaving a door key under a potted plant is indeed a bad idea.
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Years later he manage 40-50 consultants. Looks like he's expanding his portfolio. What is wrong with that? :)

Are you saying he can't scale?

What is "leadership" experience anyway since most execs these days only care about money and more bonuses...Gone are the days of execs working for the company and mentoring his underlings.

But then again, execs know the game as good as anybody else: board members will cut execs at any time they want in favour of bigger cut of the pie of the company's profit anyway.
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Google+ is great for finding content and in depth discussion. The quality of commentary exceeds that of Slashdot even after moderation which G+ doesn't have.
FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE systems. Incredible. They still exist, churning for years without complaint...
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Sometime that's what leaders do: they test the water to see if people still consider that they are their leaders. If the result is positive, they'll continue to do what they do. Otherwise, either they become paranoid (most leaders are) or they change their game plan a little bit.
I think this is a really cool idea.
Oh please. A Java shop could hire a C++ programmer - especially one with 20 years experience - and he'd be up to speed pretty quickly. In fact it would be a rounding error as he got familiar with the codebase anyway. It's pure ageism.
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It comes down to: survival instinct.

On average people take irrational approaches while a small number of people would stay calm, stick with their integrity, and let time decides.
You're right, I should have said that at the moment, reliability is not directly critical for the success of the service.

However, I do not have any issues with the reliability of Facebook chat. Not to say that there are no issues, they just haven't affected me ...yet.
>I guess what you're saying is, why not?

Yes, I will even try to give an argument for "why yes".

I see no compelling reason, why in the programming of a website, consisting maybe of HTML, JavaScript and CSS, and maybe server side technologies like PHP, generally only words from the English language should be used. For example, it doesn't matter at all, if you use English words to name CSS classes. class="content" looks as nice to the browser as class="inhalt", which is the word for "content" in German. Some people, who are not native speakers of English, will prefer using variable names in their programs, which they can understand easier. Allowing characters that go beyond the collection of ASCII could be a step to make the world easier for these developers. After all, the web was made for people who want to share content and it should be made as easy as possible.

If JavaScript source code is delivered to a browser, the only thing that matters is that the script works correctly. The details of the variable names used in the script are only of interest to people who read and maintain the source code. Of course, in an (international) open-source project it would exclude many users to participate in the project or to use the code in own projects, if the language for the developers, who are reading and modifying existing code, is unknown and exotic. But for other websites or projects a developer might like to pick any language that makes his life easier.

Maybe a variable called "counter" will be understood by more developers around the world than a variable called "zaehler". But those, who understand "zaehler", might even prefer to write it as "zähler", perhaps they even have the character "ä" on the keyboard.

Large parts of programs appear to be written in English, since the programming language itself is using many words from English, not only on the web. For example, we may have "while" and "for" loops, "if" conditions and things like "unless". This could give the impression that there is only one human language used in programming (for the web or elsewhere).

If the support of Unicode characters later turns out to be exploitable for malicious purposes, ... well, this may happen with any technology we use for creating the web. The only way to absolute security seems to me to use and do nothing at all. Then there is no web - boring.
This article is odd. The problem is certainly out there, but not for the reasons stated, nor for the people interviewed. The people in the article are just plain aren't very good at development: some of the most fun about it is the constant learning of better ways to do things.

And a C++ programmer who's afraid of Java? Come on.
From the submitted article: "The NEA and its supporters will eventually lose this fight, says Kate Walsh, the president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, a think-tank that unions love to hate. 'It will be considered fair game to collect the data' and to use them to get better teachers in America’s classrooms, she says."

The National Council on Teacher Quality

http://www.nctq.org/p/

is an interesting organization, with helpful publications on how to help learners learn more by helping teachers teach better. I especially like the council's publications on mathematics teaching,

http://www.nctq.org/p/edschools/standards/viewRationale.jsp?...

http://www.nctq.org/p/publications/docs/nctq_ttmath_fullrepo...

http://www.nctq.org/p/docs/nctq_nmsi_stem_initiative.pdf

which needs much improvement in the United States.

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This is great and all for Mozilla, but the team at MS working on IE didn't have this luxury. If they took a plublic stance against an aspect of the test (even if completely legitimate) they would be ridiculed by the tech press.