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UMKC teaches unorthodox economics through Modern Monetary Theory
I don't know, I also don't know why Google would risk their reputation to reverse a few streets in OSM. I simply don't know. I'm not making any excuses for anyone, but I've seen fellow employees do ALL SORTS of stupid things that they thought were good for the product or company they were working for, and their manager let alone their hiring company certainly didn't know about it.
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Travelling is not science.
Very bad idea. The whole idea behind the anti-SOPA movement is that DNS is NOT to be messed with for anybody's gain. No matter if you stand on the side to gain or to lose.
Looks real nice, but the information is pretty useless.

* When events unfold, twitter users predictably react.

* Some events are bigger than others.
My first thought ties in with your observation -- the people that are really into their fixed gear bikes aren't selling them.
No SVM support either. I could try to add it I guess; libSVM has Python bindings already.
Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo, has resigned from its Board
I just spent the last week porting over our site from IndexTank to Solr.

Do you mind explaining why?
Since IndexTank was opensourced, what are the benefits you found of Solr over IndexTank?
Curious what the roles on your team are, and how big a group you think this would work for?
I'm not sure, and I'm a Google fanboi, so don't just take my word, but this is just a theory: maybe the contractors had some kind of contract where they would get compensation for getting more users or for conversion. Something in that area.
It's nothing to do with favouritism, Ubuntu are not licenced to distribute it any more:

As of August 24th 2011, we no longer have permission to redistribute new Java packages as Oracle has retired the "Operating System Distributor License for Java".
Tangentially, but you might also be interested in evercookie (http://samy.pl/evercookie/) which exploits the fact that browsers have made clearing cookies, localStorage, and a few other things into separate tasks, so the probability of users correctly clearing everything is low.

(caution: dark side points)
Oh, please. If this was Microsoft, you'd all be raising hell

It's disingenuous to fault a group of individuals because of how you think they would react to a hypothetical.
Anti-SOPA/PIPA video 'The Day the Lolcats Died' encourages people to act
Yet another standout example of Google's non-evilness.
Say I bring you in to help promote certain properties versus rivals X, Y and Z. Now pretend you lack a good sense of ethics. Think of a few obvious ways to help my product beat these other products. I'm sure you can come up with something plausible that's similarly lousy.

A company I worked for once hired a guy to help them build up a social media profile and agreed on a pay scheme similar to "$X for every 100 followers/friends". He followed every follow-back spammer he could find and got paid rather well for gaining about 20 actual readers. I guarantee you this was not what the company wanted, but it's easy to create perverse incentives if you're not careful.
"full time nomads" -- that's a great description for people who travel the world in a year.
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Does anyone know where the data came from? How it was collected?
Speaking as a former 911 operator, I can say fairly certainly that a 911 operator won't object to you calling to try and access the poison control center. They'll probably just transfer you, OR (more likely, depending on the policies of the jurisdiction in question) go ahead and dispatch an EMS crew to your location.
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When Google releases the fully automated car how long will it be before there is subscription serves to cars. With 95% of your cars life in sitting in the driveway it is a total waste. Car serves will spring up everywhere using the car 100% of the time bring down costs substantially for users and dropping the demand for cars in the US by 50%. This is just one area automation will change the US and it may only be 5 years away.
To expand on this (now we have our own account - yay!) Verelo is entering the market with a basic set of features. Our one big advantage today is our ability to monitor your website at intervals as low as every 5 seconds.

We're going to bring out a series of other features in the next few months, however our beta launch was aimed at matching the major players and jumping ahead slightly by providing a more regular monitoring interval and the option for voice/phone based notifications.

We appreciate everyone's feedback!
Jerry Yang leaves Yahoo
We're just looking at a sample of the data so the actual per capital figures aren't meaningful.

Yes they are. The per capita value is meaningful, albeit inaccurate, because you're estimating the value based upon a sample.

Whatever number you multiplied every single index to get it into the range [0, 100], divide by that to get the per capita value.
They have done this in the past to many others; look up the Sprint - Cogent fight a few years ago.

Cogent want peering (i.e. free traffic) with as many providers as possible, but it usually doesn't work out for their peering partners because Cogent's traffic is unbalanced (up / down aren't roughly the same).

Usually when you don't have a direct peering arrangement, you route there through other providers, but Cogent specifically blackhole other networks to try and force them to peer.
The "damage" is even more removed than you give it credit for. Assuming the goal of the IP owner is to sell the content, the "damage" occurs when the subset of downloaders who would have bought, don't buy. Clearly not all downloaders are in the category, and some both download illegally and buy legally.

There's also a counteracting benefit to the IP owner, if illegal downloads serve to advertise his IP and induce more people to buy. Overall the connection to "traditional, physical theft" is weak.
I wonder what legal contortions were necessary to argue that "the speech was a performance distributed to the news media and not the public." That's some of the purest baloney I've ever heard. If giving a speech to a fifth of a million people on the steps of one of the most famous public monuments in the world, in one of the most famous public spaces in the world, doesn't count as "public," what possibly could?

Maybe the "not the public" summation is a poor one.

I've often thought it would be beneficial to the cause of history and governmental transparency to get more videos, recordings, and photographs of our important leaders (presidential candidates, et al) into the public domain. I had thought it was something a non-profit, a quasi-governmental corporation like PBS, or a governmental department could organize. But I don't know how copyright law interacts with public performances (obviously).
I don't see much evidence of Agile methodologies addressing that in any way, either. That's rather the point.

After this long, if Agile is as superior to the alternatives as its advocates frequently claim, there should be heaps of empirical data miles high to justify each and every practice these consultants charge so much to explain by now. So where are they?

The best I've seen any big name Agile consultant cite is a handful of small-scale experiments, mostly using CS students rather than experienced industrial practitioners, invariably not controlling for using unit tests alone without the TDD process, that show that projects using TDD have modest but inconsistent and frankly unspectacular gains over projects that don't bother unit testing at all.

I'm a scientist. I believe in the data in front of me, and my conclusions on these matters are falsifiable. I will be happy to revise my opinions if and when new evidence shows any of them to be incorrect, but that evidence had better be more than a few alleged experts telling me what they think I should believe if I'm going to change the development practices of entire teams based on it.
How much energy would the Death Star require to destroy Earth?
Is there any evidence Google is actually taking any action like so some Google-apologists are quick to claim?

Are there any official statements? Basically all a see after these incidents is Google only responding when being pressed by individual reporters, and even then only in very superficial terms.

Sweeping it under the rug seems to be a more appropriate description of Google's response to some extremely serious accusations. This isn't just a random act of drunken mischief by someone that just happens to be a Google employee. We're talking criminal activities undertaken by people being paid by Google, using Google's corporate infrastructure and aimed at Google's competitors.
Why is the tech sector always on the defensive? Tech companies should pitch in to start a lobbying campaign to limit all copyright to 25 years or something like that and pursue it relentlessly, if only to keep the RIAA and MPAA lobbyists busy instead of letting them have all the time in the world to make trouble.
Conversely, people could attest the same thing for Zurb. I have used both and I like Foundation a lot better. Haven't tried tb 2.0 yet which apparently has the responsive grid which is the main feature of foundation
Could just be common vandalism. People do it with lots of things, (graffiti on the street, abusive blog comments, defacing wikipedia). Just because they did it, doesn't mean Google paid for it.
We have to build a mental model of what's happening.

We have two at the moment:
First, that one or more than one of workers in Google in India for some reason had strange sort of hatred towards OSM, not caused by they working for Google, which caused them to vandalize OSM objects in certain cities located in different hemisphere.
Second, that they for reasons unknown were told to do that; Or the measure of their achievements could be influenced by OSM maps being worse; the profit has to be short-term and obvious for lower-level workers to fall for it.

First seems to be highly improbable; second seems just improbable :) Right now second wins.
Any other mental models?
Retarded comments by Google fanboys, saying that these contractors worked out of Google's control and hence, the company cannot be held responsible for their actions.

Please tell me one thing: why the hell would any contractor go out of his way to sabotage your competition?

This can happen only if the management has insinuated in a wink-wink, nod-nod way that vandalizing the competition might yield certain rewards.

And please, if this practice continues and everyone just sweeps it under the carpet as something 'contractors and not the company did', then soon we'll have an army of contractors hired by Samsung, MS, Facebook, et al going around planting bombs in competitors' HQs.

Someone has to own up. If my dog shits on your lawn, I still have to clean it up.
You can get almost anywhere a hipster would want to go in sf without worrying about the hills. It's easy to go around them for the most part, and barring a few exceptions, mostly low-density residential on the hills themselves.
I'm sure we know by now that more features doesn't better. Depends on the use case
Yes, groups are routinely punished for actions of members. In the case of businesses, sometimes that means closing up shop, firing everyone, and sending the owners or bad actors to prison.

Google can gain by saying, look, our maps are more accurate. Of course, it would have taken an idiot to believe that would work, just like someone who believes that they can change history by editing Wikipedia articles. I suspect there is pretty much zero chance that someone higher up at Google would be that dumb. Then again, one of the co-founders of this company thought it was ok to break US law in regard to illegal pharmaceutical sales.

This has nothing to do with nationality. This has to do with vetting the quality and trustworthiness of those with access to Google's network, employee or otherwise. That is a pretty damn big deal in my opinion.
A relevant parable is "Meditation Driven Development":
http://www.ckwop.me.uk/Meditation-driven-development.html
Q. When does Microsoft announce the acquisition?
Making $1000 per month is harder than scaling that to $100,000 per month

Many times over, although it seems like everyday I hear of an affiliate marketer who is killing it online and I wonder how.
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigns from its board
There are lots of mistakes in Google Maps and Open Street Map. There is lots of vandalism in OSM all the time, and there are lots of new users who will make lots of mistakes when starting off.

(Once we had someone tag the whole of Ireland as a glacier because there was a lot of ice (probably for the laugh))
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NumPy dev here.

Note that numpy may not use BLAS (this was done though as to avoid any hard dependencies on 3rd party libraries). I am not sure what you mean by putting the FLOP count below what's required. BLAS will still need O(N^3) operations for a NxN matrix multiplications, whether they are optimized or not. The biggest difference between libraries is usually in clever data organization/passing to use the cpu cache as efficiently as possible (memory throughput is usually the bottleneck until your data don't fit in RAM). You can easily gain one order of magnitude using MKL compared to a naive implementation in C (that you should never, ever do, BTW).
That's exactly what I'm thinking. I mean, I know corporate espionage exists, but really. If this was really your goal why traceable sabotage? Why not break the logical connectivity at big intersections so they render correctly but break navigation algorithms? Why not offset a city 100m to the south to break GPS matching? "Deleting main roads" from a traceable IP is just... dumb.
SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power"
I did not realize email wasn't public. There is now an email address in my 'About'.
If you want to try your hand at Startup Marketing, perhaps you could practice your chops at Avvo.com. That way, if nothing eventuates at least you have built up a good online profile for your lawyering career.
Killing the RIAA/MPAA will do nothing - another organization under a different name will simply spring up to take its place. Plus, it would only address a single issue out of what is really a systemic problem.

The main problem is how much influence industry and lobby groups have on our politicans, and the vast majority of this isn't some conspiracy-laden secret-hand-shaking secret, it's just campaign financing.

Despite some attempts in that direction, we haven't done enough here. I'm convinced that, if we slam the door shut on lobbying groups' ability to fund politicians, their influence will vaporize overnight. If corporations are people, then they need to be on a level playing field - they shouldn't be able to simply outspend regular citizens in contributing to politicians.
I'd be interested to learn about his views and opinions on Yahoo during these past 15+ years. From the various things I've read about him, he seems like he was just a nerd at heart who wasn't interested in the entire business side of Yahoo, and when Yahoo started exploding, he had that "Allen/Woz" mentality of missing the "good old days". I heard about the stories (fair or not) of him spending more time on the golf course than the board room. I also have to think back a few years to when he said "No" to Microsoft's offer for acquisition, a very foolish move looking back.

I guess what I'm really saying is I'd like to read his biography when it comes out.
I think he meant to reply to "What the first web blackout looked like" here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3475813
Who's gonna pass it?
Music Industry Wants $17 Billion From Streaming Site Grooveshark
I don't know terrible many vandals who would enjoy breaking OSM (that not terrible many people use yet) of very distant lands by breaking it in subtle ways.

Vandals usually do bright, bold things. Deface, draw over, swear. What they did here speaks either sabotage or personal hatred. I guess there are particularly devious people, but why a sizable number of those would suddenly contract for google india?
I put up a call-to-action site for sopa the other day. Due to the timely nature of the site, we had to get it up fast. Ended up using bootstrap for the first time. Was highly impressed - we were able to get a decent looking site up in around an hour. Looking forward to 2.0.
It bugs the hell out of me that they apply styling to vanilla tables. I wish they'd namespace it with a class because it messes up things like datepickers on JQuery-UI.
RockPaperShotgun Is Blacking Out To Protest SOPA/PIPA
Er, 2012 - 1996 = 16, not 17?

I feel old already. I don't want to get charged for the extra year.
That is a possibility but requires a short-term reward for all that activity. Hurting OSM that nor terribly many people use yet is unlikely to deliver.

So: what were their achievements tied to?
There are just so many things that don't make sense in this statement, not a single bit of it is unworthy of criticism. Any other time a Rupert-type or Republican would chastize Obama for not supporting the startup "innovators" that are also against this bill. I'm not sure what "paymaster" is meant to imply and "software creators" are by-and-large against SOPA/PIPA. Then of course the entire piracy = theft discussion. Sigh. I don't know about gall, I think it's purely ignorance, maybe just enabled by gall.
Are there any books or something about how this contracting thing works? I'm just about to start my career in programming, and I don't really have a hang of the business side of things -- not hoping for a quick change to contracting, but I'd like to start to understand how it works.

E.g., what kind/level of J2EE expertise do you need to become a solo contractor for Big Corp Inc.?

As a contractor, do you work on a project in a company office for X months and then leave? Or do you work from home? Etc.

Thanks.
Why Are Android Smartphones Bigger Than the iPhone?
Browsing your source: the <center> tag is deprecated, friend.
I couldn't disagree more. Plenty of people act like assholes all on their own without any encouragement.
Or you can get "push notifications" of security updates via SMTP, https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-an... :)
It's possible to travel for a lot less. If you are on a tight budget. I traveled for 6 month in India, Nepal and Thailand 2 years ago for less than 6k.

I think the real cost of travel is time.
This is simply not true. As someone who was very destructive growing up, I can tell you that it's fun to destroy things simply for the sake of destroying things. You may not understand it, but that's because you don't have that destructive tendency.

As I've mentioned in other comments, I've vandalized wikis before. I did it because it was funny to people standing around. It doesn't involve much imagination to see someone opening up OpenStreetMap, clicking "reverse direction of street", and then gathering up some nearby coworkers to show. "Hey guys, watch this! Reverse! Reverse!" "Hahah, 8th Avenue doesn't go that way! Hilarious!"
Gamasutra takes anti-SOPA stance
Yahoo is usually talked about as if it's a joke or a failure. According to a cursory check (ahoy - I'm no finance king so I could be reading this wrong) it's worth $19 billion. If I could fail half as well, I'd be pretty happy.

Honest question: Am I missing something really obvious? Is Yahoo really falling apart (slowly I guess as the same has been said for the past decade)? Or is it a case of not fulfilling potential?
Third model: a third party could be hurting Google by clumsily hurting OSM using double agents. Their goal was to make it to the news and then make Google take a PR hit.

Who could be behind this?
Does it mean Yahoo is on the verge of being brought?
"There are more bikes offered for sale in Brooklyn than Manhattan, but only 8.3% of them are fixies versus 9.5% in Manhattan."

This is key. Fixies as fraction of for-sale bike population <> prevalence of fixies on streets.

From a purely anecdotal angle (supported by BikeSnobNyc's recurring photographs of DIY fenders), there's a lot of cheap mountain bikes in Brooklyn. In contrast, a Manhattanite who commutes by chauffeur or all-Dura-Ace, not-for-sale-on-Craigslist Colnago isn't part of the sample.
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The article makes it pretty clear that he's plenty experienced.

I agree with the thought though. Rural China is one of the most difficult places to get around I've been to. Outside the cities, most people are just not used to encountering others that can't speak or read, so you have to supply the skills to fumble around and communicate. And Mandarin is a fiendishly difficult language for the native English speaker, so it's tough to pick a few phrases to get around.
The thing about that kind of thinking is that if you think it, then it is almost certainly true that institutional investors think it too, and then the stock price is already appropriately high.

Amazons PE ratio is something like 100 which is extremely high, Google and Apple are both in the ~15 range. People are already valuing Amazon much much higher compared to it's earnings than other major tech stocks.
...and an expensive carbon fiber or Ti frame w/o a 10-speed cluster on the back and required shifters/derailleurs is still going to be heavier than the one-speed/fixie version.

I used to race off-road, and when racing in N. California (1994) came upon a bunch of guys racing for (iirc) Ventana/Paul -- lovely bikes, one speed (freewheeling, not fixed). For me, it was love at first sight. I had my own single-speed built up by next year, and raced it in (Canadian) National races, long cross country races (Cheakamus Challenge Squamish->Whistler), World Cup races, NORBAs, blahblahblah, and ultimately the First Annual Single Speed World Championships[1] in LA (1999).

I do it because I love it. After years and years of completive cycling, I knew "bike riding" very well, so the one-speed aspect allowed me to explore a new facet of cycling. Sort of full-circle in a really good way, if you consider that your first bike as a 3,4,5yo is probably a one-speed too. And when you want to get up a hill, you just pedal harder. I'm glad I got into it and was able to enjoy that aspect again while I'm fit. My current rig is a fixie (for last ~3-4 years). I ride it because I like it. If somebody tells you should try a fixie (or even single-speed) because it's simpler, or lighter, they're kidding themselves or lying to you. Ride it because you like it.

[1] Started and ended at a bar. Winners got tattoos; if you didn't accept tattoo, you forfeited your position. IIRC the site of next years race was determined by a rally, and the winner got to pick. The fun and joy of bicycles is (was?) alive in that culture.
In a company there is a boss, and s/he can decide what to do.

In an online community, there's just people talking and chatting and politicking and all sorts of other stuff. We've been discussing this for weeks, and right up to the 24 hour deadline that the Foundation set, people were saying "we need more time!" Wikipedia's consensus process is slow, organic, bumpy and unpredictable. It's not like you can fire them or bribe them or threaten them with guns (which is basically what businesses and governments can do), you have to work with them as equals.

In short: community management and consensus building is hard.
Always glad to share stories of interest. Good luck to you and your wife on your parenting travels!
> via your GP

You do realize tens and tens of millions of people don't have GP's right?
This sounds like something from the Bible: "And lo there came Maemo and Moblin who begat Meego..."
Yes, seriously. If you have used OSM, you know that its data is much better already than that of Google Maps.

Planting an idea that OSM is not trustworthy i.e. diminishing it's perceived value by random sabotage is the best way to keep it from growing.