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It really shows. A friend of mine asked me about it, and my abbreviated review was just "it makes programming fun again."

I hesitated to use that in my earlier comment because some might use it to paint a bad picture of me, contrasting it with the idea that all good programmers love their craft and are always writing code because it's always fun for them. I just think that as you get into meatier works and start architecting larger applications, there's always going to be some hair pulling and you're going to fight wars with your compiler/interpreter/whatever. LPTHW isn't like that. You just sort of cut through the bullshit and get on with the fun stuff, and it makes the learning process easier.

So thanks. I look forward to reading your other works as they finish.
I don't think your opinion is shit, I just think your perspective has changed because you actually can code. The hardest thing for a beginner is just the syntax. If you've never written code before then the symbols in programming are alien as hell. By focusing on seemingly repetitive syntax drills I get them skilled progressively until syntax isn't a problem.

Another thing you might be missing is under each exercise is a real piece of programming they're learning. For example, with string formatting I'm actually teaching the concept of named variables. Later on I use the fact they've actually been using named variables to then teach the concept explicitly and then they get it quicker.
Given that carriers are only limited to 5 apps and can't make any changes to the Windows Phone OS, I would doubt that there are any Windows Phone devices with Carrier IQ.
Google has been trying to take over the web since Zuck was in high school. Look at when OpenID/OAuth came out.
It's just like teaching anything: nothing is really fun until you can do something.

I teach guitar, so let me use that as an example: it's my job as a teacher to get students to love the guitar so they (1) continue with it, and (2) come to the next lesson. the only way I can make sure students get excited is if they can do some thing. So I could bog them down with a bunch of theory and stuff, or explain the mechanics of hand movements in very technical detail.

But those things really don't matter. What does matter is reducing the essence of a few things into a simple exercise that the student can do and that sounds good. If you took a guitar lesson from me, you'd probably leave the first lesson able to strum a few chords in time. Of course, you just learned a ton of stuff: how to use your fingers on the fretboard, how to keep the beat, how to strum, posture, hand positions -- the list goes on.

All you care about, as the student, is that you can do something. You feel successful. You have something to practice. As you progress, you become more interested in the finer details (or you quit) and we go deeper -- explaining music theory, patterns, technique and mechanics, etc.

Zed teaches programming the same way. Give the student something to do where they can see immediate results. The ones that stick with it are going to be naturally curious about how things work and will keep going further.

I used "Learn Python the Hard Way" as my introduction to programming. It was awesome.
Sent gmail to someone and get a Facebook suggestion - why?
A couple of days ago I sent an email to someone using my gmail account. I have zero connection to this person. Today they are being suggested to me as a potential friend by Facebook. How is this happening? How is that data getting across?
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Do you have a dog in this particular fight?
Maybe the kid brought home an all "A" report card and the parent wanted to do something nice. Or not. Probably not. But I've been known to reward my kids with something they want if they have done something deserving a reward.
I'm happy to assume that iOS's Carrier IQ, er, integration is much less comprehensive than what has been put into Android handsets, and may never have been activated at all. Nonetheless I can't resist pointing at http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/30/imagine-if-it-we... and muttering something about seafood stew.

UPDATE: And if Apple's Carrier IQ code is only ever activated in an opt-in diagnostics mode, then it may be in the clear completely here.
Metrics and A/B testing were replaced by HiPPO and Facebook freakout/brain-drain at Google a year or two ago.
SCI is 'Sensitive' compartmentalized information, not 'secret'. SCI information can be SECRET or TOP SECRET (or, in theory, FOUO, although that would be weird).

Not all SCI compartments are codeworded, some just have names or acronyms (e.g. HCS - HUMINT CONTROL SYSTEM [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Informa...)

As a Govt leader, rather than a working-class flub DOD employee, Ellsberg was probably referring to various SAP access that Kissinger was about to be read into. SCI is just one SAP (well, most people consider it as such, but the IC seems to disagree for legal basis reasons). This article is actually pretty good for once:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_access_program
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We're shortly going to switch to using Scribd's HTML5 embeds, which will eliminate the double scroll bar that you see when viewing a paper (the iframe scroll bar and the browser scroll bar). We should be switching to that in the next few weeks after we've ironed out a few kinks. Our goal is to make a really beautiful reading experience.

We have a few fields for each paper (title, abstract, other info etc), but I agree that we could have more. As we build out the platform, this is definitely an area that we'll be developing.
I thought carriers were limited to 0 apps and couldn't make changes to iOS. However, that appears to be completely incorrect. Windows Phone may be safe or it may not be. But the argument that carriers couldn't touch WP7 doesn't hold any water given what seems to be happening with iOS.
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When debating issues like this in my mind, I frequently flip-flop. I can argue both sides. On one side, I don't want a corporation taking advantage of the consumer by using immense resources to exploit a flaw in human behavior. On the other hand, I don't want the government deciding what is right and wrong for me. In doing so, the government draws an arbitrary line and uses it to promote and also defend its actions, ultimately limiting my rights.

This whole Happy Meal debate would be a non-issue if consumers didn't want Happy Meals. It turns out they do, so work-arounds work just like prohibition did not eliminate alcohol from our culture.

The government is elected to serve and represent the people. The people want Happy Meals (and alcohol) (and drugs sourced from Mexico).
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The question is too open ended. What are the problems facing the city? Is it growing or shrinking? Does it have budget issues or is it well managed? How is it weathering the recession? I suppose this partly answers your question about what to ask on the first day - it should be clear to most people in government in that town what the pressing concerns are - then you can move to solutions.
Google Scholar last week (soft?)-launched personal pages that seem have much more comprehensive coverage of the literature and accurate automatic attribution of authorship.

I'm not sure what to think yet, but this general space (including the citation/paper archiving tools) is getting incredibly crowded. There's not really a problem finding anyone's homepage (which I have much greater faith will be kept free and available). And despite the evil publishers, if you're affiliated with a university, there's no problem accessing papers. The only hard part is deciding what to spend time reading.
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I'm guessing people wanted to talk about it or use the audience here to verify the quality of it.
Moore's Law relates to transistor density on an IC. As far as I know there is no suggestion within Moore's Law that attempts in any way to predict consumer buying patterns or demand.
Google puts G+ in your searh results, with no opt out. G+ is fine on its own, but the creepy invasion across other products is annoying. Google used to be the classy alternative on the web. Now they are trying to out-mySpace Facebook.
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I did it. I logged out of Gmail/G+ in my primary browser, to unbreak Search, and I use a private window for Gmail.
Several issues with this story:

1. The reference is found in a 2 year old version of iOS.

2. "IQAgent" sounds like things Apple could name, e.g.: I've seen no evidence that this has anything to do with CarrierIQ. There's been no disassembly (unless I missed it) so it quite possibly could simply be the fact that at one point Apple used the two letters "IQ" in an obscure file.

3. People watch the data iPhones transmit pretty closely, I know I have on occasion watched iOS devices talking to the cloud. If "every keystroke, every SMS" were being logged, I'd think people would have more than just a filename to go on.

4. As mentioned it seems this file is not used outside of diagnostic mode, which makes this much ado about nothing at this point.

I think its fine to be suspicious, but these things really should be approached with some objective detachment until actual transmission of user data that shouldn't happen is uncovered.

I don't know how many of the points above apply to the "indications" in android as well, but I think we should have more neutral, unemotional, and detached coverage of it as well.

I think spying on people is bad, and I think that americans are spied on more today than ever before. I think that's also why we have to be really careful about reporting it.

Edit: Deleted a digression that pointed out that the government is including language in recent legislation that allows them to collect data about us that previously would have been illegal. This was a distraction from my main point.
Not being the President, this is purely speculation, but I would guess:

There are many things the President probably does not have unfettered access to.

There are many, many, many trainings and shit you go through that reinforce that seniority and superiority do not in themselves constitute the 'need to know' for classified information.

There should NOT be someone who has access to everything, as the entire point of the compartmentalization is that no one breach can be used against everybody/everything. I have a suspicion that there are actually compartments which are mutually exclusive - if you're in Compartment X, you are, by definition, not allowed in Compartment Y, specifically for that segmentation reason.
Medical costs are almost 20% of US GDP. even if you are in private medical care, you're still subsidizing obese insurance customers in the same risk pool to some extent. Plus you have to factor in the wider economic effects of lost productivity, non-food consumption and so on. For example, most hospitals beds are now expected to accommodate patients weighing 400 lbs., the cost of which is distributed across all patients even though relatively few patients actually weigh that much. Don't have the numbers to hand right now, but when I did a rough estimate of causes vs. costs of mortality it came out something like a 1% drag on GDP from obesity.

Diabetes, which is a good proxy for obesity-related mortality, costs >$100 bn a year already: http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/13/kramer-obesity-nutrition-in...
The -XX:+UnlockCommercialVMOptions flag has been removed from OpenJDK (http://j.mp/u9gAJ9). It was pushed to an open repository by mistake.
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Every compartment is entirely unique. For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Informa...
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Well, if that STD happens to cause cervical cancer (which HPV does), then some states may consider requiring girls get a vaccine against such a virus. And indeed that debate is going on right now.

Regardless, STDs aren't a byproduct of some Fortune 500 company's quest to grow shareholder value. Obesity is.
When they want to draw attention to something, they just open a giant popular div. I don't know whether Google or Facebook started it, but now I have to wade through a thicket of popups whenever I return to a product after a few weeks away.
This. This is the real rigging: your company doesn't care what fees your 401(k) charges you. They'll give you an S&P500 index fund with a 1.2% expense ratio. Given that you can get that for 0.06% elsewhere, you can bet that a good chunk of the rest is yacht money.

Fortunately, you can roll over your 401(k) to an IRA when you change jobs. Vanguards' ain't too shabby. Or pick a brokerage and get your own stocks. You don't need to care about a high-frequency traders' 30-second impact on the market if you're not selling your portfolio for 30 years.
You're lining up the statement that opened the block with the statement that comes after the block. Should be easy.

And in the most common code style, delimiters don't line up anyway, because the opening delimiter is at the end of the line.
That's what s/he said.
Hmm, well the book is being written so there's potential for some errors, but I believe you are wrong here. You're confusing match with search semantics. Your above works because by default Regetron searches. If you turn on match it doesn't match your proposed test below. Try this:

http://codepad.org/uPpwKPJS

Notice when you turn on !match it doesn't find your test.

Also, keep in mind that this is just introducing the concept of alternating. Captures are covered later.
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OK, OK, it's not Reddit, I know … but, amidst all the serious discussion of this serious story, are we really not going to make even a single comment on the linguistic incongruity of a gag order from a dentist? No "I'm usually just told to 'spit'"? Then this is a sadder discussion.
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> I sometimes feel a bit more explanation from him on how or why certain things work would be nice, or maybe a few hints for where to start looking for answers in the extra credit would be good, but for the most part I think he's effectively covered enough of the basics needed to land me on the ground running.

There's the Python documentation[1], but coming from working mostly with PHP, I've had a hard time adjusting to them. PHPs documentation seems a lot more straightforward, so I've had to lean on StackOverflow[2] a lot more when I run into roadblocks (again, almost entirely as part of the "long list of things to research" exercise).

[1] http://docs.python.org

[2] http://stackoverflow.com
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Sample sizes are too small, and later studies usually negate the originally observed effect. It also means most headline news about health is useless.
My Fidelity 401(k) had an S&P 500 index fund. Expense ratio was something like 1.2%.

Yes, you can get those for 0.06% as an ETF.
Yes, the extra 1% is probably substantially yacht money.
BI is a pretty crowded space. Even with the connections of the CEO, he's going to be competing against established companies with significant teams of developers ranging from smallish, but quickly growing (e.g. Tableau) to monstrous (e.g. Microsoft).

I'd be very reluctant to take almost nothing but equity in a BI company unless the CEO can make a very clear and convincing case for the product over the legions of competitors you'll face.
If I were in the closet then, on discovering the MSM issue with donating blood, I would (assuming I had peaked far another out of the closet to have a MSM encounter) not donate blood, I wouldn't think "well I was going to, and I don't want people to think I'm gay so I'd better go through with it".
Why doesn't this work on https://encrypted.google.com?
This is the United States Federal Government we're talking about here, remember.

Holy crap is there every redundancy and overlap!
Spoken like a hacker. But some folks don't actually have the skills to fix a codec or debug a protocol. Almost everybody in fact.
"… by pushing down (!) false or misleading search results with truthful, positive material, putting you in control (!) of your image online."

Wow, that's amazing … but I'd move the second exclamation point 4 or 6 words to the left. I'm less shocked by the idea of someone wanting to be in control of his or her online image than by the thought that it's a good thing to trust a company's idea of "truthful (!), positive material".
Yes. Instead of responsive design, Google is throwing PC users under the bus to push for and invest in Android and tablets.
Also, potential customers flat out telling you that they are ready to pay. That kind of helps.
Hm. I'd think cell-phones themselves came to life post-ATT monopoly. That whole industry was part of the windfall.
the other person may have used the contact lookup feature or may have otherwise searched for you on facebook as well. I always find it a bit creepy when I see former job candidates in my suggestions.
I'd prefer the header to be fixed and not the footer, or at least both.
Uh, no, the intent is not to match all-alpha or all-numeric strings. It's to search for all alpha or all numeric. As I mentioned above, you're confusing search with match semantics.
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Which one? That might be an error.
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Distribution time is still very long in many fields - pretty much all fields except a few sub fields of math and physics that use the arxiv. Most fields see publication cycles of 6-24 months. I think in the future it will be the norm for the distribution time for a paper within a given community to be measured in hours and days, rather than months and years. We are trying to make that happen with Academia.edu.

I definitely agree with you that it's hard to decide what to read. Each month 60,000 papers are published in the biomedical field alone. We think that seeing what your friends are reading, as well as seeing which papers in your field are trending right now, could really help with this.

The Google Scholar profile product is very different from what we are trying to do with Academia.edu. There is no sharing on the Google Scholar profile product, or News Feed where you can see papers from academics you follow.

I see the Google Scholar profile product as a way of Google Scholar enhancing the accuracy of its search index, rather than as a way of building a research sharing platform, with first class research sharing features. Google is getting serious with social, as Google+ shows, but I don't think think the Google Scholar team sees itself as building a social product, a la Google+, for the research community. I could be wrong, but it just doesn't look like that right now.
My opinion of Scala is fairly neutral, and I was still annoyed by the smug told-ya-so attitude of Colebourne's posts.
A lot of what you said makes sense.. I don't understand why it's been down voted.
Some of these services, especially pension funds, will invest into hedge funds, who take an additional 2 and 20 (meaning 2% of assets plus 20% of capital gains). What this means is that if you go any of the traditional retail routes, you are utterly screwed facing off against the hedge funds.

Two of the most completely unreasonable sentences joined together. Hedge funds' ruinous fee structures give hedge fund investors an advantage...?

Uh, no.
Also, the search bar on the "why us" page does nothing. Also, I'm not really sure what you do still.
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I think Coda did a good job in posting Yammer's official position clarifying the situation and it's a captivating blog post.

Many people (including some people on HN) started criticizing Yammer because they decided to go back to Java. This blog post was in some sense necessary for Yammer.
It isn't a 3% chance of a false negative, the 97% figure is conditioned on actually having HIV. The actual chance of a false negative is far lower, since most people don't have HIV at all.
I did not let my employer know. I understand that sometimes there can be risks from a legal perspective but given the context I felt the risk was extremely low. Plus, it was none of their business. I'm still blown away that in this country (US) people that work for others have to sometimes worry about their jobs going after them for what they do outside of that job. It honestly sickens me.
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While I think a few of his points are going too far, (especially the one about the environment), I think overall he makes a good point. Particularly the difference between our identity online and our real identity.

Often people over-invest in their online identity, since it's a path of least resistance to credibly maintain a certain image of yourself. Working on performing in person is hard.
Not just a paper, but an entire book. It's easy reading, and if you've been negatively affected by assholes at work, worth a read.
The regex shell is a neat idea.

In many situations I'd like to generate strings accepted by the regex, to check that my regex is tight enough.

I know this is hard in general (for lots of reasons, basically all reducing to "there are a lot of strings and no easy way to iterate through them in a satisfying way").

But, has anyone made any progress on this for the "easy" cases?
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Anyone seen any specifics about CIQ on blackberry? I hear reference to it in the original Eckhart video but can not seem to find real data
To hell with screening, if I was on death's door courtesy of leukemia I'd rather accept a transplant from someone I know is HIV positive. My logic: given the state of anti-retrovirals, being HIV positive sounds downright cushy compared to dying of leukemia.
I suspect legal reasons and the US's sue-happy culture are important factors. A scientific screening test puts the onus on the collection agency, so even 99.9% accuracy still risks a recipient getting infected and suing. Asking someone to sign a legal document about their sex life puts the onus on the donor, if they happen to be lying.
Here are the result of the current investigations made by @chpwn http://blog.chpwn.com/post/13572216737

I'm an iOS user and I'm concerned by this, I know that maybe these data are not sent to any remote server or maybe it depends on the carrier, but still I'm concerned that Apple would integrate a third party binary on its system. That's plain wrong for me. I want them to tell us what their phone collect, what their phone send to remote servers and for what uses. It is a matter of trust, trust is hard to gain and easy to lose and I think that Apple should handle this asset with great care.
The article was updated to include iOS 5 long before you made this comment, by at least 1.5 hours.

It's Carrier IQ stuff. See chpwn's frequently updating blog post at: http://blog.chpwn.com/post/13572216737
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