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What sort of adaptive learning do you mean? I'd guess you mean something like ALEKS:

http://www.aleks.com/about_aleks

...but I'm not sure. The Khan Academy exercise framework is also open-source, so presumably you can contribute that way.
Internally, redis stores integers as 64-bit binary values, not strings: http://redis.io/commands/incr.
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Why doesn't Stanford University just buy The Cooper Union?
Solidarity, and community is almost certainly part of it. When doing an independent side project, the fact that nobody knows the difference makes it easier to let it slide. Just having someone know about your commitment, even if it's a computer, can make a difference. It's someone similar to the difference in success on quitting smoking between people who sign up for a committed quitter group commit program vs those that just do it on their own.
I wish he went more to the math/conceptual side. I can sense he giving a great O(n) explanation...
> easier to grasp what you need than who you are, as a company

Maybe I'm just not smart enough, but this is mumbo-jumbo to me. I have no idea what you're talking about.
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Can't answer the second question, but we haven't gotten very frequent updates. I'm hoping that will change with the transition to Enterprise, but GitHub:FI lagged behind "public" GitHub pretty badly.
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The site's been up for months. It seems like anyone who actually cares about the issue would have been able to find it by now, since it's on the USPTO home page, first link under the IP Law & Policy section. http://www.uspto.gov/

Not exactly on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.
"Modeling error is usually several orders of magnitude greater than floating point error."

I think one could argue that this makes floating point error more dangerous. When something is off by several orders of magnitude, it tends to stand out either in the form of program failure (OOM error, etc) or in simply being able to eyeball the results and realize they can't possibly right.

When something is off by just a bit, it is something of a lurking horror. It can still bite you in the ass (especially when the error compounds over time), but it may be initially much harder to detect. Those sorts of issues worry me much more than the grander, more obvious ones.
Related thread from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180321
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Someone brings up RMS on a tech forum... http://i.imgur.com/xblF4.gif ;)
How are things going regarding signing of packages to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks? Looking forward to give arch a closer try, but this is still a big showstopper because I would like to sync while I'm on e.g. an open airport network without the man-in-the-middle security hole.
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While I'm sure it's possible that the plethora of other math videos and exercises on the site do provide the background that CS students would need, it'd be nice if perhaps they were cross-categorized so that people could know which topics go best with each other.
build a finite state machine from the dataset

Could you elaborate on that? Or provide a link for the novice?
If you have to, pick C. Never ever touch C++, especially its standard IO library. Classes are of very little interest anyway (C easily emulates modules), they can learn it later.

There is a crucial point that should not be ignored. The first two languages someone learns should be easy. Monstrosities like C++ give the poor beginner the impression that learning any language is hard to learn, and that would discourage such learning in the future.
That's too basic to be competitive.

Try this link: http://www.carnegielearning.com/higher-ed-solutions/cognitiv...
We know that you use Gmail from a variety of screen sizes and devices, so now the spacing between elements on the screen will automatically change based on the kind of display you’re using.

Looks like it will re-size elements automatically based on screensize.
Check, if the Settings | Accounts and Sync | your gmail account | Sync Gmail setting is turned on. If it is, the Android app has no problem with push email. It has worked for me since G1.
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If two of those devs decided to throw their workstations off the roof once a year, would the $5000 make a difference?

Spending money you don't have to is always a bad idea, so while the unused license space may not make a huge dent on the bottom line, a company that pays attention to those things will likely outperform one that doesn't.
Thanks, pg. Hope to hear (at least something) "soon" : )
Interesting. Same thing is happening with one of my colleagues. He let it be known that he is interviewing with other companies, so our HR department let him know that they are looking to replace him. He may be let go before he wants to go!
This looks a bit similar to this, built by a farmer.

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/awesome-full-size-ar-drone-buil...

All excellent fun geek projects.
If you look at how much energy has been harnessed by farms over time you will see a far more gradual increase. In 2008, total worldwide energy consumption was 474 exajoules (474×1018 J=132,000 TWh). Oil remained the largest energy source (33%) despite the fact that its share has been decreasing over time. Coal posted a growing role in the world's energy consumption: in 2009, it accounted for 27% of the total. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency
Typical crop plants: 1–2%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
Permanent pastures: 26%
Permanent crops 4.71%
The estimated amount of irrigated land in 1993 was 2,481,250 km2

So something like 1% efficiency * 2,481,250 km2 * 1,000,000 m^2/km * 1kwh / m^2 * 1000w / kw * 8 hours a day * 365 days a year * 3600j = 2.60829 × 10 ^ 21J or 724,525TWH granted plants use much of that but farms are still producing something like 70% of the worlds energy and then spending a large fraction of that on farm animals.
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As an entrepreneur, I'd like to see patents abolished. Totally.

The cost of the patent system is obvious. The benefits are not.
There is an option for 'display density' in the top right which is very neat. Compresses everything to fit way more emails per page.
At least with Amazon, all you need is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O6G5TW

Which isn't too bad...
At the company I am at we use Gitorious, the initial setup took some time, but after that it has been smooth running.
They already have emacs templates for dart.
Really? I thought it was only free books. Might be wrong, I use Kindle mostly.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3183497 says they merged FI/Enterprise, & .com so Enterprise shouldn't lag behind.
take them to the Social Network movie and explain that that guy in the hoodie is now worth billions, much more than Jay Z.

A white, upper-middle class student at an Ivy League, versus a black guy with a single mom from the Bed-Stuy housing projects. I don't think it's a very good comparison.

And I say this as a white guy with a working middle class upbringing who works on social networking software, and I still have a real hard time identifying with Zuckerburg.
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Why not? I think you overestimate how common NATO phonetic alphabet is. I, for example, don't know it and I still can use a telephone without problems. (I'm Finnish)
San Francisco, CA. Full time.

Identified (http://www.identified.com/) is hiring engineers. Our web stack is Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL, but we're looking for anyone who can code regardless of what languages they already know. We'd rather have smart engineers who are capable of learning new tools. We aren't married to any favorite language. Instead, we emphasize using the right tool for the job.

Email: david at identified dot com
"but the Courier was leagues beyond anything you can do with an iPad in terms of content creation"

Really? I only saw infographic videos that were made by artists. We did not see the real thing in action.

You must be thinking that someone canceled the Hoverboards that the film series "Back to the future" displayed "working" in the same way MS displayed Courier "working".

To dream (and to fake is way easier than create).
It gets improved continuously internally, not sure why they're slow to push the changes to the public version.
Thanks. That's good advice on app ideas. So far I've been trying games, and I think apps are a fairly different dynamic, from the development side as well as what drives someone to purchase one. I'll probably try my hand at a non-game app some day.
At the Atlanta airport, they have a repeating video with a slide that says that insists these machines are "perfectly safe".
Eh? I run OpenBSD as a "desktop" and I use 3D acceleration to play 3D games and all that stuff. Even playing videos these days requires DRI support in the kernel. With a bit of careful hardware selection, 3D acceleration works out of the box on OpenBSD.
I frankly do not understand such black and white take on software patents. I don't think that all of them are evil. If one invests his time and money in developing a software algorithm - something non-trivial, say, an IFS compressor for binary data - why should such invention not be entitled to the same level of exclusive use protection that a mechanical design receives?
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Well I think you're right...but this "culturism" that you talk about has something to do with the fact that Indians from India are not inherently very good at managing people or software projects.In fact I would say that statistically Indians who have been educated in India are not good managers period.

I am myself an Indian and I have a bachelors degree from an Indian University.

In my experience working for corporate america,one of the things that irritates me most about Indian managers is that they will talk completely from their asses.They wont write a line of code and yet will make very heavy technical decisions and then when I disagree they will resort to micro-managing me instead of making an effort to understand my arguments.

I have repeatedly asked them to actually read the source and understand what I am talking about but they will relegate it back to me and ask me to send an email with a lengthy explanation later(They know I am not going to do that).

I have repeatedly pushed for DVCS adoption but apparently IBM Clearcase is a much better solution than github firewall.None of them (my Indian manager and his Indian manager and his Indian manager) have actually made an effort to understand DVCS till date.

Sometimes my manager has actually tried to argue that just because he has 13 years of experience in software he obviously knows more than me about iOS development and therefore his decision is obviously the right one.(The fact that he has never really written a line of Objective C is completely irrelevant.)

In fact when I apply for new jobs I try to make sure that I am not assigned to an Indian manager.
The OP petition is an answer to this official response.
Congress can override a presidential veto with a 2/3 vote of both houses. That cannot be overridden by executive power.

After 10 unsigned days, excluding Sundays, bills become law, unless Congress adjourns before the 10 days expire, at which point it is automatically vetoed—the so-called “pocket veto”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_veto
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With new activity module you can see what users doing, reading, writings or nothing
it’s pointless for Apple to carry a product forward for the sake of a few, even if those few complain rather loudly.

Not necessarily. Do they make a profit on these boxes? Then there is clearly a point in maintaining them. Obviously, at some point research and development would outweigh any potential profits, but canning a product just because it's used by a minority doesn't always make sense. Many people who choose a Mac Pro over an iMac might go to a tower PC rather than an Apple all-in-one or Mini.
The hash data type is probably the most awesome and underused feature of redis. Here is a small gem I wrote to expose it a little better in ruby: https://github.com/lyconic/redis-native_hash
Or even: http://amazon.com/dp/B003O6G5TW

or: http://amzn.com/B003O6G5TW
How about we start spending more than 5 minutes writing these petitions? Several points are missing and what's there doesn't even convey the key points clearly.
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Google too:

https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/
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I'm pretty sure there's another argument going around, that looks something like this:

All software can be ported to Haskell.

Haskell is isomorphic to a subset of math.

Therefore, software is math, and is unpatentable.

Whether that argument holds, I don't really know. It's just something I've seen floating around out there.
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The OP said "Org X has property P." You responded with "Org Y does not have property P, and Org Y is like Org X." I claim the second half of that - that things that are true about the IDF are likely to be true about the US military - cannot be assumed. Even ignoring the significant cultural differences between the two countries, there are differences in the demographics the militaries themselves are composed of.
Would be humorous if this petition got the necessary signatures to get a response:
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/actually-ta...
Not the same type of radiation
How orchestrated are the images used in Gmail's new look comparison?
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Publishing videos to the world may have issues, but these sorts of videos can have extreme internal value (the OP mentions this). I've worked on quite of a few of these — they've turned out to be useful tools in securing budgets and coordinating teams.

These concept videos can also be useful when an ingredient brand wants to push other players in their industry forward. When company A needs company B to buy into building new types of hardware, far-out concept videos can go a long way. By publishing concept videos, firms can essentially create reference designs for the future.
I think Airbnb only really works when treated like a hotel.

I do believe that most people are good people and wouldn't steal, destroy your place, etc, but the thing is, it only takes one. This is your home, not just a building you own/have access to. You probably have things there that have intrinsic value to you (photos) as well as things which could compromise your identity (mail, passports, computers).

Would you let a random stranger stay in your house while you were gone? Probably not. There's just too much risk.

Now if its run as a hotel room/rented out condo, it would be different, but in this case, the place would be minimally furnished, there would be no important documents on site, and so, everything would be relatively easily replaceable.

I think Airbnb is a great idea, but more for businesses, extra rooms (when you'll be there), rather than renting out your room when you're out of town to make a few extra dollars.

By the way, the worst -has- happened: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/28/airbnb-burglary-sf-...
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> We've also issued new guidance to examiners to help ensure that patents cover only "new" and "non-obvious" inventions.

So "new" and "non-obvious" weren't already requirements?? That explains a lot.
Is Bitbucket something I can install on my own hardware behind my corporate firewall?
I'd be curious to know where the numbers come from.

The Googlers & such like techie folk seem unlikely to be anti-vaccine.
Amazing rendering of 3d objects into old photos
It sync since 1.0; three years ago I used it with G1 and it worked fine. There is no older version, that was made public.

GP has either disabled sync, or is trolling.
I guess it depends on the company. I'm doing a co-op at Ericsson right now and my manager's Arab, my team lead is Indian, and my supervisor's a Chinese woman. The male/female ratio is probably 80:20 and the racial breakdown is something like 50% ethnic Chinese (1st/2nd gen), 30% Indian, and 20% white. All of these numbers are fairly representative of the makeup of the tech industry in Vancouver, so I can't say I've seen any prejudice or favoritism here.
Concept videos are ill-founded in general. Indeed, I'd say it's better to have a vague, handwaving long-term goal than a crisp, sharply focused, highly detailed concept like these videos. The basic fallacy at play is the idea that it's possible to predict the future so far in advance. In reality this is only possible if your products are boring and mundane. When you make products that transform people's lives and the way the world works then it becomes impossible to predict how people will use them and how society, industry, and the economy will change as a consequence. That's true even from generation to generation of a device or piece of software, making it utterly useless to try to predict anything several generations ahead.

Worse yet, concept videos make it all too easy to fall into the trap of working to make a product that looks cool in a demo but in reality is either hugely impractical to make or use or simply not very useful. For example, you could make a demo video of people commuting to and from work via rocket powered skateboard. And it would look awesome, and after watching the video everyone would want to commute to work via rocket powered skateboard. But in reality it's not practical, and possibly not even as fun as it may seem (after the first 100 times the novelty would wear off, and then you're just riding a death trap and getting rained on and stuck in rocket-powered-skateboard traffic ... ok, it still sounds awesome, nevertheless...).

When you skip so many intermediate steps you can generate a false sense of what's possible, or even mislead yourself on what you're working on. Eventually smartphones are going to have no bezel and be super thin, so what? That's cool, but what does it have to do with what you are doing in the mean time to make smartphones better? It's easy to make a demo about voice control but the hard part is making it work in the here and now, how do you do that?
What I mean is, who is hikingfan@gmail.com, is he a real person? Their official demo account? A random quantification of the average Joe?
Seems they think about it somewhat less often than I do. But you said "hostile" which I think is not true, and you said "may break out into sexual violence at any time" which (putting aside the fact that anyone around us could rape us at any time) seems pretty unlikely both to me and to the women I asked.

Are you talking about women in a particular place or subculture? You do know that men are more often victims of violence than women in the US, right?
I wrote that this is _roughly_ the same feature set.

The equivalent for Code review in Github is the fork/pull request/compare mechanic, which can be used in between repositories as well.

Ticket management: Github Tickets. It also has basic support for Milestone planning etc.
I don't think where you live matters. I live in country with a Per Capita 15 times lower than the USA but charge something per hour which is related only to my experience and knowledge.
Anybeat - a Facebook alternative that respects your privacy?
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Is this another line of non-intel machines that the manufacturer will bury in a hidden portion of their website and deny that even exists in public?
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I wonder how individualistic that really is.

I like well documented code, I don't trust that documentation to be accurate so I don't include it in my readability score. I like to have around 10 to 40 lines per function, reasonable levels of reuses, a reasonable overall structure and function depth to stay reasonable aka f1 call f2... calls f10 is fine, f1 calls f2... calls f40 smells bad. f1 calls f2 calls f1 is fine though. And stay away from the more colorful parts of the language.

How about you?
I guess in Linux ifconfig is deprecated in favor of iproute2.
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Well, the more telling issue is that the TSA considers those 6-100 addition deaths to be worth the cost saving. The savings come from the apparent bargaining power of having two competing systems, x-ray and millimeter wave, even though millimeter wave systems are considered better.
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God forbid you use existing mature tools appropriate to your task.
... none of which are the format in question.

> The VM Import process currently supports VMware ESX VMDK images, Citrix Xen VHD images and Microsoft Hyper-V VHD images for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (R2) and 2008 (R1 & R2).
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Python doesn't require a reading list. You're basically writing pseudocode, just make sure to indent it properly.
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Not 25 devs (although that doesn't necessarily change the salary question) - if you want to go "full GitHub" and use the issue tracker for everything, you want all your staff to have access.
I'm not calling it good because I just don't see the graceful transition occurring. If anything, I see massive upheaval because almost everyone will deny the reality around them until it becomes impossible to do so.

In a perfect world, I'd agree with you. However, we don't live in a perfect world.
Best of all, lookups in hashes are still O(1), making them very quick.

Based on the zipmap code (linked below), a zipmap is implemented as an array of adjacent (key, value) pairs. Lookup in a zipmap is actually linear search. There is no hashing. The lookup will run in time proportional to the number of entries in the map.

We found this setting was best around 1000; any higher and the HSET commands would cause noticeable CPU activity

This shouldn't be surprising either, as the redis documentation states that "If a specially encoded value will overflow the configured max size, Redis will automatically convert it into normal encoding." Their higher level hashing strategy of dividing the media id by 1000 guarantees that 1000 is the maximum number of entries in any zipmap. Setting hash-max-zipmap-entries to anything lower than 1000 means some of their zipmaps will be converted to normal redis key/value encodings.

https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/zipmap.c
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In Los Altos School District in the Bay Area, Khan Academy is being used as a homework platform
'Patent 5,893,120 reduced to mathematical formulae':

http://paulspontifications.blogspot.com/2011/04/patent-58931...
Your test is only one very specific scenario. I'm not a GC expert, but on EtherPad, which was a very complex monolithic JVM app, we had to turn to concurrent GC as the default GC just choked with any settings. If you haven't seen much difference between GC settings in the past, have you actually worked on realistic systems that strain the JVM GC, versus your contrived one?

I don't know the semantics of "real-time" (argued in other comments), but if you are coming from that angle, maybe you are looking for guarantees -- it seems like there ought to be a way to write GC so that it just works no matter what you throw at it, and it seems like G1 is not that.