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Err, nope, coffee is pretty popular.

The differences between coffee and modafinil are: coffee tastes better, modafinil does the same job for longer with less side effects.
It's that time again - anyone got good suggestions on how to represent photo quality with a single number?
Sensor size?
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I hear you, same feelings here >.>
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Hooray, in the end they can go to no pesky lens at all since image quality can be improved infinitely by adding more pixels. Using a pinhole does away with that focusing too. ;)

To be serious, I'm more of a physics guy. Photon "shot" (think shotgun with fewer and fewer pellets) noise determines already the lower limit of noise and (having a certain fixed shutter speed which is defined by avoiding movement) the only way you get more photons from the same subject is more lens area.

Maybe you can filter a little better if you have more pixels. I'd imagine the dynamic range sucks though if each pixel is so small that it saturates quickly.

So, if you're shopping for a camera, what determines how your photos come out in anything but the brightest sunlight is actually the lens. You should be shopping primarily for a good (read large aperture) lens, with a decent camera attached / bundled. Or if you want to go further, a system that is offering good lenses.
"- Humane meat
- Painless meat
- Slaughterless meat
- Guiltless meat"

The problem with these names is that, subconsciously, they conjure up the very things you're trying to avoid. The term "slaughterless" calls to mind visions of slaughter. The word "painless," especially in an unfamiliar context -- like that of food -- gives a queezy feeling in the pit of the stomach. (One thinks: "Is this food going to hurt me?") And the word "humane" is close enough to "human" to cause discomfort, even in people who are well aware of the difference between those words.

Far better, IMO, to go with phrasing that draws no attention to negatives. "Sustainably raised," "sustainably grown," or even just "sustainable" would be interesting choices. (Though even the word "grown" might evoke the wrong idea for a lot of consumers). This phrasing says "green" without implying "Soylent Green." Alternatively, you borrow a page from the tuna industry, who wisely chose "dolphin-safe" over the more psychologically onerous "dolphin-free," and go with "animal-safe" or some variant thereof.

Of your suggestions, "guiltless" also seems pretty effective. I'm on the fence about "pure," inasmuch as it forces the mind to wander to the meat's origins. Furthermore, it could backfire in a big way -- especially with the Christian crowd, who would see cultured meat as "unnatural" in comparison to traditional meat.
We managed to gather data for about a month when building this app. Some of them were as recent as a few hours and some a few days.

We implemented a weighted average algorithm to calculate the risk levels and how confident we were of the data. For the risk levels I took into account
1) How recent the data was
2) What time of the day it occurred relative to the time of query (for eg: the crime occurred at 4pm on another day and its 5pm now, it will be given a higher weightage compared to something that happened at say, 11am.)
3) The severity of the crime itself (murders >> theft)
4) Number of occurrences of crimes in the area

The assignment of weights wasn't thoroughly scientific though. It needs some tweaking.

And thanks for the suggestion on push notifications :)
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•	Setting HELO/EHLO string for Smtp
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•	Provide EML files validation abilities
•	Drag drop feature for WPF and Visual Studio 2010
•	Full Path within a PST File
•	MapiMessage with digital certificate support
•	Date parsing problem is resolved.
•	Conversion from EML to MHT: Result has "From" field at left top corner

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.
But isn't technically following the multiple step method proposed by the OP not procrastinating in itself? :P
I mean if I am procrastinating I would definitely not be in a state to get into a mentality to follow the method since I would be wasting my time in some other non-constructive manner ^^
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Depends on the reasons they have for being vegetarian I suspect.
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Here's a video with some highlights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtDf2AXCPP0&feature=playe...
Then how do you test it if it's in another project? If you want to start stubbing out server logic in client tests and vice versa on the other side that seems very cumbersome and brittle.
What I found with more experimentation of days both with
and without Modafinil was that actually, I was just as
productive if I was well rested, healthy, well fed with
healthy foods and working on something I cared about.

This, I think, is the most interesting part of the entire piece. He talks at length about the benefits of Modafinil:

On the good side, those tasks which I did line up got
done, and with great energy, velocity, etc. A good day
on Modafinil could easily concentrate several days'
worth of work into one, by getting rid of all the empty
distracted bits of the day."

(which sound fantastic) but then mentions that you can get the same benefits just by being healthy. Makes me think that it's kind of incredible what our body can do on its own.
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Not sure why, but it amuses me that the "For more info, read our FAQ." link points to an element with the ID myModal
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Popularity is a poor way to judge whether or not something is good for you. If you went back in time 60 years and asked someone whether inhaling large quantities of carcinogenic gases was a bad idea, they'd say "Err, nope, cigarettes are pretty popular" too.
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I've been waiting to try out Neo4j and Gephi: http://gephi.org/tag/neo4j/
It's probably worth noting that in this context stemming is probably most appropriate. Lemmatizing is unlikely to give better results and in most implementations you suffer a significant performance hit.
I asked this from Brendan Eich on Twitter. Response:

Still no core webOS src on http://github.com. We haven't had time or cause for Enyo. Having fun building non-O-O JS/HTML/CSS apps

https://twitter.com/#!/BrendanEich/status/174117089047621632
That's exactly my point. Between any two groups, you can cherry pick lots of things that they have in common. So yeah, the Crips and the LAPD both wear "uniforms" and money is a big driving force yada yada. But at the end of the day, one group has a mission that is sanctioned by the overwhelming majority of the community and the other group absolutely doesn't. And I'm sure there's lots to be said about how the gangs and the LAPD are co-dependent but that doesn't make them the same.
Minimum wage laws destroy low-paying jobs by making them illegal, preventing the least competitive members of our society from having the hours and days of their lives "mined" by an employer for negligible compensation.

Except this is simply not true. Germany, where workers enjoy generous terms and privileges even for Western Europe, has no minimum wage, and its labour unions vocally oppose introducing one. Countries such as the US and UK with minimum wages have higher unemployment, and things are more precarious even for those in employment.
With all due respect, payday shops do not charge "reasonable" fees, unless your definition of reasonable includes amounts higher than 100% APR.

It should be noted that ordinarily vendors and governments do have reasonable late fees(certainly much less than one from payday shop). I do not remember paying more than 24% when I run late on some Accounts Payable when I run my shop at the turn of the millennium. Maybe it is now normal for vendors to ask for 100+% when a 30day net invoice runs late, who knows?

It is when a vendor is about to deny service completely(ie pay $50 to reconnect electric utility), then a payday loan becomes a relatively reasonable option.

There are a multitude of factors which go behind the rates(I am bundling in all of the fees into catch all rate) that payday shops charge:

* Likelihood of borrower to repay
* Ability of borrower to do simple math
* Human psychology (goes with the simple math to calculate rate from fees)
* Demand from borrowers

Overall, payday shops charge more than regular lending institutions because they should(higher risk and some expenses). They also raise their effective rate beyond their "should rate" because they can.

Their customers are not comparison shopping between 240% APR and 300% APR. I would argue that it should be made easier for their customers to do so, but that is another discussion.
The best thing in this post was a link to http://idlewords.com/ . Very interesting blog.
I kind of stopped reading

Seldom is a comment beginning with this insightful. Why stop or "kinda stop", and then criticize? Only criticize if you have read FULLY.

Hint: "in place".
Nice showcase. The color picker demo seems to be broken.
I suppose that if one were a Bash God, as being any other sort of God, "one day is as a thousand years, and one thousand years is as a day." This implies that you routinely underestimate time by a factor of 365 250. That number of seconds would be about 4.2 days, so to a Bash God, 10 seconds is as 42 days.

42 days is I guess a reasonable estimate for learning Bash if you're really new and coming from Windows -- but perhaps it's a little too much; you could probably get fluent in two weeks if you really focused and already knew the basics of programming.

So the Bash Gods should clearly revise the number down to three seconds.
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I find the whole point of the article to be weak, to say the least. OK, I'm doing monads, or something equivalent to monads, all the time along my imperative code without even noticing because it's so intuitive concept. So when this common abstraction of "conditional function calls" is made explicit through monad syntax instead of intuitive-implicit, it is supposed to be easier to deal with?

Perhaps it's cleaner, and you can get accustomed to it, but it surely comes with an overhead over imperative thinking, at least for a beginner.
I'm talking difference, you go talking about good and evil.

Individual actions taken by people who may or may not be journalists could be good or evil, depending on the individual action.

Journalism paid for by advertisers cannot report on anything that is contrary to the interests of their advertisers.

Direct subscription journalism, like Wikileaks, Counterpunch, or to some extent Le Monde diplomatique is now essential to getting information on what global organisations are really doing (as opposed to what they advertise they are doing).
Trying to hack the body like this is the equivalent of fiddling around with some extremely complex code that you have no idea what does (in production, on an infinitely complex system with zero unit test coverage).
Thanks for the comment.

Yes, the WeViews are just UIView and play nicely with IB.

Also, the demo _does_ generate code for the layouts you build in it. Unlike IB, its just pseudo code; it lacks specifics and just contains the layout logic. It also doesn't (yet) let you re-open and edit past layouts. But it certainly lets you build UIs visually/interactively.
Whether this drug does damage your health in the long run is no where near determined.

I think, more interestingly, I'd ask if it were to become known that modafinil (or adderall) were harmful long term, would people still use it to gain competitive advantage. If we gain a nootropic with significant effects, at what point does it become disadvantageous not to jump on the mystery train? The 'line' that can be crossed is different for everyone.
And how well they deal with security. I look forward to the day when a malware-distributing webpage can pwn millions of phones without being detected...

EDIT: uh, downvotes?
Your comment is nothing but a metaphor for fearing the unknown.
"The future of newspapers is more local."

Well, here in Europe you're empirically being shown wrong. Local newspapers disappear the first; first step is that they're bought by a larger entity, second step is the removal of local news from them (because too expensive to write up), third step is killing them. Then, after a large brand has killed several smaller ones, they get bought by a bigger entity or go bankrupt.

I'm not sure how you can say that producing a local news story is cheap. It's very expensive on a per-reader count (which is all that matter) because there are relatively few readers. If you write a national story, you can sell it to everybody in the country. If you write a local story, you can only sell it to a subset of those people. Writing about a bake off costs the same as writing about a political debate on a national topic. It's quite obvious that writing for a small audience is a lot harder to have a positive ROI than for a large audience.
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This is a great idea when dealing with small clients. The big challenge, however, is that the majority of the organizations that rely on RFP (e.g. public sector or enterprise buyers) do so because they HAVE TO for policy / political reasons. It's not only about selecting the best vendor.

The RFP process optimizes for "not making a bad choice" vs "making the best choice", and is usually also done for transparency / accountability reasons as well.

We're building a new type of eSourcing tool to help make the RFx process faster and more streamlined for vendors / buyers / evaluators, so we've been digging deep into 'structured buying'. It's a lot more complicated than "this process sucks, let's change it".

In our opinion, the problem isn't the process itself (which is necessary for public sector and enterprise) but in how the process is conducted - i.e. the lack of communication, slow decisions, ill-defined evaluation criteria, etc.
The thing I find most interesting about Modafinil is how consistent the stories are about how people feel (and work) when they take it.

Everyone talks of extreme focus, but perhaps a loss of judgement about what tasks are actually important.

I don't have any particular conclusions about that - I just find it really interesting.
Well, they've written a bunch of the code and they have hardware partners. What more are you looking for, aside from holding one in your hand?

Check out more of the project's details: https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G#Contributing
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I don't get it. I see this;

def pymon(f, v = None):
if v:
return f(v)

and I just can't keep reading. Why would you do that? What reason would you have for not just calling f directly?
Gwern has a summary article[1] on Modafinil which (among other things) goes through the literature on the effects and side-effects.

[1]: http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil
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Perhaps the author is just glossing over the bigger picture for the sake of explanation, but it's a bit of a narrow view of monads to say that they are just "conditional function calls". That's true if the monad in question is Maybe, Either e, or (if you're squinting at it just right) []. But >>= in the State s and IO monads, for instance, has little to do with conditionally calling functions; there, it's more about sequencing.

Beyond obeying some simple laws, there are strikingly few restrictions on the semantics of >>=. It can mean completely different things to different Monad instances. To me, that's at the heart of why newbies struggle to understand monads: >>= operates at a higher level of abstraction than many programmers are accustomed to. Outside of specific Monad instances, >>='s meaning is less significant than the structure that it imposes via the type system.

But that flexibility is also what makes Monad such a useful class in Haskell. Once your brain begins to recognize the `m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b` pattern in code, you see it everywhere. Monads are just a way of acknowledging that that particular structure exists in your code and abstracting it away to be replaced by a single operator. A chain of function calls with possible failure, like the author points out, is one case in which such a pattern emerges, but it's far from the only one. I think the article sort of misses that larger point.
That is my own main takeaway... Which is why I don't take Modafinil anymore.
If they have Mozilla, Telefonica, and Qualcomm onboard, I don't think it's just talk. or a vague list of goals.
I read the article and I still don't understand what monads are about. This happens every time. There must be something about the Haskell syntax (which has been ages since I used it in college--and I utterly failed to grasp monads then, too) it's very frustrating, I get the rest of functional programming. Apparently I forgot how to read Haskell.
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I bet they do. I bet what they lack is a PR department. ;-)
I think bacon comes pretty darn near the perfect fat-salt-sugar trifecta. It may not be possible to be more than 10% more delicious than bacon, if that.
Getting a full nights sleep every night does wonders for concentration as well. Don't think of your body as the jar your brain walks around in. They are very tightly linked. If I wanted the effects he describes I'd spend 30mins on the elliptical.
You wouldn't want to call f directly if it doesn't accept None. pymon is a function meaning f(v) if v else None.
Do you eat sugary foods? Fatty foods? Ingesting sugar and fat causes your brain to release dopamine. Without this mind-altering biochemistry, people wouldn't be nearly as compelled to eat a piece of a chocolate cake or a piece of bacon.

(Note: dopamine reabsorption is also slowed by caffeine, which is why it improves your mood.)

My point is not to be pedantic, it's to say that no matter what you're ingesting, you're altering your mood. While I'd obviously agree that becoming addicted to mood-altering substances isn't a good thing, I think that (like sugar and fat) they can be used responsibly.
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I've taken it a few times when I really had to push hard to meet a deadline (coding). One time while working my sister texted me to say she just boarded her flight to Canada (from Europe). What seemed like a short while after she texted me saying she'd arrived. During her entire flight (6+ hrs) my concentration never flinched. I find it very effective indeed.
In Python, every object is an example of a monad. It has two possible values: None and anything_else.

Is no more true then, "It has two possible values: 'Hello, I am a sexy bear' and anything_else."
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Is the sum of logs method mathematically equivalent to the multiplication of probabilities (i.e. will it always produce a monotonic ordering of class predictions)?
even there, the monopoly on both these things is mighty narrow. For example, how many political scientists would say that the state should have such a monopoly on violence that there should be no recognition of a right to defend oneself and others?

However international informent asset management? Does it impinge on the government's necessary monopoly on national security and violence? Two for two, I'd wager.....
Megapixel race has already mostly ended. Most extreme example is Canon G11 which had 4 megapixels less than its direct predecessor G10. Point'n'shoots have hovered in the 10MP range for some time now.
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m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b

Okay, so what does this mean? I thought it was `f x -> x * x` is a function definition, right? Or am I completely mistaken here? Because in the above code, what is the function name, the parameter and the return value? I know "everything is a function" in Haskell but I really can't see through the multiple arrows here. Any help?
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Those choices are bit odd imho, 5 and 8 are relatively close each other, and then there is huge gap to 30+ megapixels. Wouldn't it make more sense to have eg. 8, 16, 30+ megapixels?
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> I used a (legal) drug called Modafinil

As far as I'm aware, in both the UK and the US, it's legal only as a prescription drug, i.e. if you buy it online without a prescription it is no longer legal.
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The quality is remarkable. The bokeh is quite good in macro shots.

They should indeed start making super smart cameras (cameras with Apps) that also happen to be able to make calls.
> Motivation = (Expectancy x Value) / (Impulsiveness x Delay)

Interesting approach to procrastination analysis. I'm happy to see that what I am building goes in the right direction to increase motivation: asaclock (http://www.asaclock.com) is an anti-procrastination web community for startup single founders and people working on side projects.
If it's scientific/cluster computing/number crunching then - I'm speculating - but I doesn't sound like you want to be running Windows anyway and Microsoft doesn't ship their C++ tools for other platforms so that doesn't sound reasonable.

It is reasonable when you consider that Microsoft has been trying to break Windows into the HPC segment over the past two years or so. The perceived lack of a suitable toolchain and focus on the development of enterprise languages and technologies helped keep Microsoft out of that arena. This re-emphasis on C++ is a necessary, though not sufficient, step if they want to continue pushing for that market.