skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really affected the advertising business. On the other hand, it actually spurred the Indoor media business (such as Elemedia[1, which installs on business buildings monitors that display ads, beside the occasional news/weather info).

[1] http://www.elemidia.com.br/
I guarantee that you are not the only person on this site agonizing over this.

Humans are hard-wired to be obsessed with other humans. What we think and do is determined by what others think and do to a vastly higher extent than we like to admit. It's probably the dominant factor. But most people who have the belief that we are (or ought to be) autonomous individuals tend to project a picture of independence, giving you the misleading impression that you're the abnormal one.

Here's what I have found to help:

1. Realize you're probably not that different from everybody else.

2. Be nice to the part of you that's worried about what other people think and let it have its place. When you notice it doing its thing, just chuckle and say, "There you go again."

3. Focus on what truly interests you.

4. Get older.

And remember what Hugh Macleod brilliantly said: Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.
The Imus map does look nicer, but as a computer geek I am more interested in how one could capture the heuristics he uses and better automate the process. Surely all (or most) of the label placement, typography etc. ideas he uses could be captured in a set of criteria that could improve the state of the art in computer-mapmaking. This is similar to what Knuth did to maths typesetting.
Looking at both maps, I see only one thing: they are both so much worse than new interactive maps... There's too much information and not enough "whitespace". They're so generic, it's hard to find some specific thing on them. If I'm looking for highways, I'm not interested in areas of Chicago. If I'm looking for known places in Chicago, not only is 5 items too short, it's forcing even more information on the map where it's not really needed. Regarding the careful placement... let's see for example: According to Imus's map Plymouth is north of the river, while according to National Geographic it's south of the river. In reality the river goes through the city. If the place is not right, what's the meaning of a "better" placement of it's label?

Regarding typography, I don't like the italic text on Imus's map - once you have many lines in random directions around your labels, it's not trivial to say if some 3-4-letter name containing many round letters is italic or not (is ORD in Chicago italic?) Here it's trivial to figure out from context - when you're trying to determine a size of some city, it's not.

Yes, I'm being negative about this map (maybe a bit too much), but apart from art, is there really a good reason to produce maps like this anymore? I don't agree with the angle this article takes:

> For one thing, that zooming capability means the makers of a single digital map are forced to design dozens of differently scaled versions. This severely limits how much time they can devote to perfecting the layout at each zoom level.

It's actually better because it can show the same information after zooming in, but you can still read the "important" information while zoomed out. Reading any text on this map while standing back from it must be a much harder exercise.

> Imus argues that you can’t truly understand a place if you only use zoomed-in maps on teensy screens. [...] Looking at Imus’ big, richly detailed map offers a holistic sense of what America looks like—how cities spread out along rivers, forests give way to plains, and mountains zigzag next to valleys.

Give me an option to turn each category on and off and I'll see the relations much better. Being able to filter out noise would give many more possibilities of exploration than a "generic map with absolutely everything on it". If cities and rivers are what you're interested in, many maps will provide you exactly that information. Trying to figure it out from a map with 10 other layers is harder.

In short, I disagree with this article trying to prove that "old-style" paper maps can be more useful or readable than interactive, zoomable maps with customisable layers. In my opinion those are always more useful than paper maps. </rant> Not to discredit the work that went into this map of course. I do appreciate this map as art and see what the author was trying to achieve. I just disagree strongly that it's useful nowadays.
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I ran some benchmarks and 4K read speed really takes a hit with FDE:

2xWestern Digital blue label RAID 0 : 0,65Mb/s (for refrence)

Crucial M4 without FDE : 19,07 Mb/s

Crucial M4 with FDE : 5,59 Mb/s

however the benchmark shows that a SSD is still substantially faster than a classical RAID 0 array
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15 studies showing caloric intake is the primary factor for weight loss: http://examine.com/faq/what-should-i-eat-for-weight-loss.htm...
'Freemium' is an inherently dishonest business model. That's why it doesn't work. Most people see through it.
"Free customers are higher maintenance than paying customers. I think it’s because they aren’t paying, they show little or no attention to directions."

This is true in my experience. We've experimented with limited support for people contacting support with pirated licenses. They take up more time, don't read manuals or use help, and ask dumber questions that would be answered by just a few minutes poking around. They are also more belligerent and much more likely to post negative reviews on discussion boards than paying customers.

Not complaining, just observing. It is what it is.
With the caveat that I realize Namecheap has been getting a lot of positive publicity here, lately, I'll mention that they continue to offer low prices on RapidSSL certificates. I haven't used them, but comments I've read over the last several years have left me with the impression that RapidSSL certificates are fairly well regarded and are generally considered a good, economical choice.

As you can see from the page, Namecheap also has a significant variety of other certificate choices.

HTH

(And I've nothing to do with Namecheap, other than being a small customer of theirs.)

https://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/geotrust-ssl-cert...

And if you want organization validation, for example:

https://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/geotrust-ssl-cert...
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I could see how that line would tempt people to check-out of the article (and I can't blame you). But I think there's a reality to it we should pay attention to.

In a previous HN thread regarding this topic I asked why countries like Finland haven't overtaken the U.S. as far as success. Given their education system has been touted as dramatically better than ours for at least 20 years.

One of the replies I got was that these countries generate more well-rounded individuals and that's why these countries tend to do better on happiness surveys and such. And maybe that's true.

Maybe it's time to accept the reality that not all people want the same thing. That Americans have been taught to strive for excellence and that inevitably leaves others behind. While Finland values equality over all and is willing to sacrifice a certain amount of societal wealth so as to not have kids who think they need to work day and night to succeed.
I actually enjoy advertising in the city, especially '90s-style neons, bus stop billboards, and those illegally plastered on construction site fences. I feel like I'm the only person who does.

It makes the city look vibrant, and often covers up some of the... less successful architectural experiments.
I'd much rather be offered products and services that are relevant to whatever I happened to be looking for at the time, than someone begging me for change indiscriminately. As to your point about clicking the X, you'd be amazed at the number of computer novices that don't understand that.
My advice is to start contributing to open source and participate in knowledge forums such as Stackoverflow.com. (Even if you hit on a better idea/advice, the above is a win for you so it is not wasted time by any means.)

If you demonstrate your ability to produce working code, you will find that you have market value.

If in addition to this you establish a record of effective thinking (c.f. stackoverflow) then you can further address any possible concern that may be raised by the lack of formal education in the field.
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How about "because it's full of Finns"?
I did this over a year ago and am very happy. I use TrueCrypt. I have not noticed any slow downs (even for gaming)... That said, you should probably not do this if your drives are failing (or you tend to suffer a lot of disk failures).
That's definitely a related key point, and also my main issue with essentially all of my own education. Although we have the perception of being in control of our own education (ie. we can choose some courses in high school, can choose our university and degree), the fact that nearly every time we enter a classroom, the "passive" hat comes on -- from that moment the teacher is in absolute control and the student simply has to sit back and follow directions.

Just recently I attended a weekend Launch48 event. In terms of "teaching styles", the Launch48 teaching style is nearly the complete opposite of the traditional classroom -- intensely engaging (ie. active) instead of passive.
This really is super-simple, and I like that. However, it doesn't handle configuration files that don't go directly in your home directory, such as $HOME/.ssh/config. I wrote something a few weeks ago which does that while remaining conceptually very simple. You can get it at
https://github.com/sciurus/dotfile_management
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This is nearly a 90 minute video of Gary Taubes, do you have any other sources? A pubmed study for example or similar?
My sister works at a movie theater, and she gets so annoyed because everybody under 30 wants to take advantage of the student discount..

It works if it's crowded, but if not, she'll ask for your ID :)
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This is great! It would be also cool to see a response time report.
If a college just showed videos, students would see through the scam and no longer believe that college was worth tens of thousands of dollars a year, or decades of debt (in the U.S.).
As such, it's critically important that the program is concise and well-defined; both properties that are quite hard to get in C code.

This is baseless FUD.
> There is a small park at the very end of the runway where you can watch planes landing that fly just 100 ft above you. It's pretty awesome.

Yup, that's Gravelly Point [1]. It's right on the Mount Vernon bike trail that runs from DC to Mount Vernon through Alexandria, so it's a nice place to stop and hydrate if you're riding that trail (and are doing a leisurely fun ride rather than a time-is-the-enemy bike commute).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravelly_Point
Android ICS and Honeycomb allows for your data to be encrypted.

Don't use gmail and don't use dropbox for unencrypted files ;)

But seriously, the risk of your laptop being stolen or lost is a huge incentive for encrypting it. I feel much better knowing that the worst that could happen with my laptop is that i loose it (stolen/lost/dropped). I wouldn't wan't to be uncertain whether anyone had access to my personal files if it got lost and the data I have on it is more valuable than the hardware (and I'm still a student...).

For anyone that is tech savvy I see no reason not to do FDE.

Okay, two exceptions. Loosing TRIM support on SSD-drives and travelling to/from countries that feel they have the right to inspect the content of my laptop and that might frown upon the fact that it is encrypted.
Once you boot up and log in couldn't they see your whole system.
I' never heard of it, but it doesn't seem like a mainstream movie:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-fall-2008/

The niche audience liked it just fine, but I don't know how they could turn it into recouping those millions.
Fellow embedded dev. here, what's a good job board for us guys?
Interesting, I hadn't realized that they even turn down offers for additional resources in place of paying for their own. Wondering if you could point me to an article or something?
I've had the same problem in areas where business signage is strictly regulated. It's harder to find the place you're looking for when the only sign is very low to the ground and unobtrusive, and you can't see it until you're right on top of it.
By the review, this sounds like it could be a great book. I've read, err skimmed, plenty of R books including the official documentation. Everything I've read so far about R was quite obviously written for a different audience. This seems to be aimed at telling visual stories with data, which is the only part of R I've ever wanted to learn.
That's why you should have up-to-date backups.
Finland's entire population is 5.36 million, close to the population of Minnesota and a bit more than half of Los Angeles county's population of 9.86 million.

Finland does have a lot of inventions and technology they export.

For example, the majority of web servers in existence in the world, underlying the entire world economy run an operating system originally created by a Finn.

Nokia was also a major player and innovator in cell phone and one of the first truly widespread portable information managers.

Minnesota has 3M corporation of course.

Comparing Finland to the US is not a reasonable comparison. Comparing Finland to Minnesota might be justifiable though.
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The article claims Finland focuses on equality, and that immigration hasn't had much effect on aggregate education outcomes yet.

Immigrants tended to concentrate in certain areas, causing some schools to become much more mixed than others, yet there has not been much change in the remarkable lack of variation between Finnish schools in the PISA surveys across the same period.

This is only because there are still very few immigrants in Finland. In actuality, immigrants to Finland score about 50 points lower on Pisa than Finnish natives (about double the gap in the US).

(For comparison, the gap between Americans of European descent and non-immigrant Finns in Pisa scores is 22 pts, and the gap between European Americans and Greeks (the lowest performing European nation) is 46 pts. )

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...
Well, I use /home with luks on some machines and user directory (encfs) on others, but have all of them with swap encrypted or no swap partition at all.

Since the keys/other private info might leak there, you are not doing it right, unless you have sysctl swappness level set to 0.

Not only that, /tmp and other temporary directories might also be another leaky place...
Thank you for the response. These are both "spinning plates" machines. Part of what would keep their loss a minor financial hit.

I wonder whether the dual cores help significantly. (As I'm more inclined to make the P4 the sacrifice.) However, if your observation is that the perceived impact is "negligible", this encourages me that it will be acceptable, if more significant, on the P4.

I hadn't noticed the benchmark utility you describe. I'll have a look for/at it. Thanks!
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Those are typically considered to be guard clauses, and I agree that they're one of the more acceptable forms of early returns, but only if they're in the first few lines of the function. Returns in the middle of a 20-line function usually give me the twitches.
Hi Geek_silk,

You have the rare gift of having deep empathetic sensibilities. Having the capacity to think about what someone else is thinking and to get a read on what he/she is feeling is an invaluable skillset. You usually read about this "issue" in a negative light. Countless number of "self-improvement" advocates try to push you towards ignoring what other people think and do what you want to do.

Your issue isn't the fact that you are seeing these effects in other people. It's more what you decide to do with this additional information. It's tough when dealing with constant feedback as you go through your presentation, but it's a gold mine like no other. Push yourself to take advantage of this by performing a number of micro calibrations by reading body language / facial expressions.

Embrace your empathy. It's what makes you an incredible startup founder who has an uncanny understanding of his users.

.

It's a hard skillset to master, but boy, when you do, you feel like you have a superpower.
Technically there's not a Metro rail line to Dulles, but there is a Metro express bus that runs there -- the 5A bus picks up passengers at L'Enfant Plaza in DC and Rosslyn in Virginia, and then goes straight out to Dulles without any further stops. [1]

Rail would be better, since the rail cars are more comfortable than buses and don't get stuck in traffic. Unfortunately given the dysfunctional nature of Metro governance the long-hoped-for rail line to Dulles is one of those things that never actually seems to get any closer to completion.

[1] http://wmata.com/bus/timetables/dc/05a.pdf
Only the gov't would create a non-24 hr a day web application
Vermont has similar rules restricting signage on state roadways, and it adds to the state's charm.
I'm glad someone posted this already. It saves a lot of time from having to post individually why Taubes and Lustig are wrong.
This also should happen for banner ads.
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"Now when I visit however, I find it difficult to locate some of the new businesses."

I'd be shocked if many people, on this site in paritcular, used street ads as their primary means of locating new businesses they'd been wanting to find.
That's like a woman in a burka.
With * in .gitignore, you'd have to use '-x' with 'git clean' to delete everything. That's idiot-proof enough for me.
No connection will look "ordinary" in this context if one of its endpoints is outside Belarus, while the other one is inside.
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Are you sure that the policy wasn't designed to transfer control of the outdoor advertising industry to a subset of advertisers? You know... ban advertising, and kill off the existing outdoor-ad only companies. Then reintroduce outdoor advertising, granting permits only to some group of "respectable" advertisers.

I'm not saying that this is the case here, but it's a fair question, I think.

[Edit: Here is an older but more-balanced article from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5355692.stm]
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I find it very distasteful whenever anyone suggests that certain people have or don't have certain types of minds. Down this slippery slope lies the path to elitism and snobbery, and gender and ethnic stereotyping.

Minds are plastic, and people choose to fill them however they like. If you practice musical performance, you become more musical no matter how much "natural talent" you start out with. Though there are people with physical limitations and true tone deafness, they are few and far between.

Becoming better with practice holds for the development of problem solving strategies and heuristics as well; all anecdotal evidence aside, improving visualization ability and learning from experience is the formula for making "those who code well". What we lack in our education process today is teaching the ability to think critically and logically and the process of breaking larger problems into smaller, manageable ones - and this is why we have people who think they can't code, or simply won't code even if they have the honed mental tools to do the job well. The fact is, it is very hard to think in the abstract for extended periods and most people just don't want to do it.
How much did it pay? If I may ask.
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An implicit environmental factor that they don't stress: being in an environment where people are actively trying to kill you might well make people take refuge in drugs or alcohol.
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Amateurs have had satellites in space since the days of sputnik, the launching part is something new.
FooIsBar doesn't need to be a subclass of X, does it? The polymorphism comes from the interface (implements `quux`), so inheritance doesn't seem relevant.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Still trying to learn the difference between inheritance and "evil" inheritance :)
Applying for jobs isn't going to hurt you in any way. Go to a few interviews at companies looking for jr devs or devs and see how you do. If you don't get the jobs, ask for feedback. If nothing else you'll get some practice interviewing.
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I think this is pretty common in surburbia. My little corner of the world has banned billboards and tall signs for the past 40 years (and I happen to think it's for the best, but that may be just because I'm used to it).
These laws also forbid huge facades / signage containing brand advertising, so logos are smaller and store fronts less attention-grabbing. I think that's what he was talking about.

This store, for instance, was fined R$300.000,00 for it's signage a couple months ago: http://img.vejasp.abril.com.br/t/2/t420x280/ponto-frio-megas... (the penguin is their trademark)
So how do you encrypt a home server? Any device that has to be bootable without human intervention will have to store the encryption keys on the device somewhere making the encryption merely obfuscation.

It is possible for "swap" RAM to be encrypted on Linux and it could generate a random per boot key, also being a form of obfuscation. https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/28/69
Excellent observation. The Pisa study data shows one conclusion about education in America: Different racial groups perform at different levels. We are succeeding with some minority groups and failing with others. Whites in America test higher than Finns in Finland. Where we are failing is in educating our African American kids. The entire article relies on people not reading the data from the Pisa study, and for those who have read the data to ignore what it shows, from some misplaced desire not to seem racist.
Well, I think to be a PI on a grant of any decent size what you need is a tenure or tenure track faculty position, which requires a "PhD or equivalent."

As far as I can tell, "or equivalent" means that you've made so many contributions to your field that institutions are fighting with each other to give you a tenured position anyway. Freeman Dyson, for example, never got a PhD.

Like everything in science, it's just about publications. If you somehow manage to publish a lot of significant papers, nobody is going to blink over the "PhD" qualification. That being said, the easiest way to build up a publication record is via the PhD-postdoc pathway (at least given the current system).
It's the same thing with online unemployment. The app shuts down after 7pm during the week and on weekends.
It's (well) known that learning by teaching beats learning by doing which in turn beats learning by listening (Something Confucius might have said. Modern citations welcome.) The fact that lectures still exist must somehow be due to economic necessities.
Another twist: Belarus has implemented a huge economic and customs union with Russia and Kazakhstan starting 1st january.

I wonder if they are bound to let Russian internet firms operate on Belarussian market unconstrained by any local laws; therefore giving them even more advantage.

Of course this is pure speculation; we do not know if they are going to enforce this law at all.