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For your Walmart example, wouldn't that violate section 2 of the Sherman Act? In principle, it isn't a strategy the United States government allows.
> policy should not be unduly influenced by populist emotional response to it

Why not? Populism, lobbying – this is standard practice in politics. That's the rules of the game. They will be here for decades if not forever. You either play by the rules and have your voice heard, or refuse to play and get nothing.

The fact that this system needs to change in long term has nothing to do with getting what you need today. It's not mutually exclusive.
>pulled off and remotely deleted from her iPad

When Apple yanks apps from the store, they are not remotely deleted from customer's iDevices or PC's. There are a small handful of cases where remote deletion was used, and IIRC, it was all various forms of malware.
Technology:

The behaviors that fall under "publish and reproduce" have drastically changed since copyright law was drawn up. Professionally reproducing prints and posting a photo to Facebook/Pinterest are very different actions that should be conisdered differently.

Social Norms:

Your daughter posts a video of herself dancing and singing to Justin Bieber to YouTube. You pin a photo from a famous photographer to your "Inspiration" folder on Pinterest. Most people feel copyright should allow this type of sharing.
I predict that in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.
Spammers were doing that 6+ years ago. It worked. It still does.

Content farm = spamming to make money off of adsense and display advertising. What you are referring to would be more accurately termed a gateway page, for which the sole purpose is to direct a user off to an affiliate link or another site.
I've been strictly in management for a few years now, but I like to lead from the front, i.e. know the technology. It would be painful to trade in C# for Java and VS for Eclipse. Today I took a quick look at Scala and Clojure. I think F# for either of those is also not a good trade. There are a lot of things MS does right. The more MS opens up their technology, the better.
Something that Google may think about is the value of being on the front page of a google search: such a position is devalued if there is no literal front page.
No, this is just capitalism at work, and it's normal. Demand exceeds supply for software engineers, because humans need more software than ever before. Unemployment is high. Unemployed workers in other industries want to retrain as software engineers. This is exactly what's "supposed" to happen when workers are displaced from one industry.

You seem to be trying to imply that companies are hiring unqualified workers. I don't see any evidence of that -- do you?
They aren't picking it up as spam because they aren't trying to stop spam. They will soon, and it will become very difficult to make much smaller amounts of money. Or, if they don't, they will end up in a place where pinterest is the Myspace of pinboards.
> They have previously had a webapp store

They still have that store. It just isn't merged with Play yet.

I don't think it matters what platform the apps support. Eventually I see there being a single entry for Plants vs Zombies, (for example) you pay once and can install the Chrome app, the Android app, or the Google TV app.
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Resharper can do the same: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
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The 'E' in the regression is the inferred/predicted value of the E variable for that exercise, using no problem history from that exercise--only what's pulled in through the Bayes net. (Sorry that wasn't clear)

The 'T' variable is likely just a case of multicollinearity with the 'E' variable and should go away on a full-scale data set. If not it can easily be removed from the model. The 'E' variable is dominating because is additionally captures cross-sectional affects across the various exercises in the regression.
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It's possible, but I'd avoid it. I bootstrapped a startup while employed at a large (~500 person) company and let the company go in the wrong direction too long because of it. Later I joined a startup where the CEO was still employed at a company he'd founded previously. I don't think either company failed solely because of the other commitments, but we will never know what opportunities were missed because of them.
And yet, people are getting the impression that this has something to do with Rick Santorum's frothy mix of you-know-what. I hope you find a more serious-sounding name soon, before you take whatever the next major step in your project is. What about foamauth? You could argue that it makes the traditional login form disappear into foam, or something like that :)
Pages can be bookmarked easily, which can be incredibly important.

Pages can be bookmarked easily only sometimes! Everybody seems to have adopted the same database-centric but user-hostile (and cache/crawler-hostile) approach to pagination of posts (see: any blog platform, engadget, tumblr, etc).

Their brain damaged flow goes: You make a new post. The new post appears at the top of the front page. But, the front page has a limited number of story slots. So, the oldest story on the front page gets pushed to page two. But page two has limited slots, so the oldest story on page two goes to page three. Repeat for every page. Some sites have tens to hundreds of thousands of "pages." (Preemptive note to future comment haters: I know the site doesn't "push" articles to every page because it's all just database queries, but the effect is the same.)

Every time you make a new post, you invalidate all thousand (ten thousand? 100k? million?) older pages. It's absolutely moronic. Google has no chance of keeping up. You make one new post and Google has to re-index thousands of pages.

The proper solution is to make pages "fill up" then have your root page point to the highest numbered page. Example: http://omgpagination.tumblr.com/ would logically be page 600, then the "Older Posts" button would link to page 599. Instead, everybody right now makes / always be page 1, "Older Posts" always links to page 2, etc. But those URLs aren't content stable and every update invalidates your cache of the entire site. Your oldest posts on your site should always be on page 1, not a moving target of page {TOTAL_POSTS / POSTS_PER_PAGE}.

In short: be a little more clever and do the right thing for your caches. What's good for your caches is inevitably good for your users too.
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It's more than that though. It seemed really clear that a lot of people thought this was useful, and you blew off all objections without really explaining sufficiently why. It's not that big of a deal, and it sucks that everyone wasted so much time on it, but the thing that bothers me about it is that I (and it sounds like a number of other people) have come away from this still not understanding why the change is rejected. We understand what you wrote about predicates not guaranteeing a boolean, but your attitude kind of implied that predicates should not return a boolean and, clearly, a number of people don't understand why that makes sense.

What you failed to address was why your way was better than returning a boolean true/false. Everyone understood your comments that predicates don't necessarily need to return those, but your comments kind of read like "my way is perfectly valid Ruby" while the other people's perspective seemed to be "our way is perfectly valid Ruby also, and it alleviates some potential annoyances or pitfalls". You never really addressed any of that, it always seemed to just go back to "my way is valid Ruby".

Maybe this wasn't really your intention, but it honestly seemed as though you were deliberately trying to frustrate people. I think that's why there was so much push-back (in the form of about three other PRs being opened). Not because people felt so strongly about xhr?, but because it just seemed like you were just rejecting everyone's opinions without really expressing why returning true/false is worse than returning 0/nil.

I'm basically a total outsider since I haven't contributed to Rails yet, so feel free to completely ignore my perspective.
Infinite scrolling was what killed Digg, for my friends. I admit, I never did use Digg. I do remember my friends telling me about when the "new" Digg launch, though. They cited the infinite scroll as one of the major things that broke usability, for them. He'd check it throughout the day and used the pages as sort of a stopping / reference point that he'd know to skip to when he got a chance to check it again later. The infinite scroll meant he had to sit there and force it to load until he saw the articles that he left off at.
it's how the patent lobby works (american jobs!) and humanises the story to people who would otherwise tune out.

we are fighting with one arm tied behind our backs if we think this is a pure technical debate.
Would be neat to see a time lapse video of a bunch of guests arriving to a party or other big event sort of in the vein of this fedex plane thunderstorm reroute timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrSBzy8NwQ
I think Ben Horowitz said it better:

He has a simple response to those who say Silicon Valley is in the midst of another bubble, including those who have criticised his firm's large investments as having played a role in inflating the bubble. It's LL Cool J's song Going Back to Cali: "I'm going back to Cali ... hmm, I don't think so."
"It's totally about the way he said it — 'Hmm, I don't think so' — which is how I was feeling about the bubble talk," Horowitz said.[1]

His complete argument[2] makes a lot of sense, but I just liked the quote above.

[1] http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/h...

[2] http://bhorowitz.com/2011/03/24/bubble-trouble-i-don%E2%80%9...
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Really? I disagree, though exaggerated, here's another quote, from the end of Little Miss Sunshine, about Proust:

"...French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, Those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing."
The easiest way is, pick a random door in the first room, and then every time you come into a new room go back the way you came (doors aren't symmetric in this game.) This will put you in a cycle that eventually takes you to Rick. You'll visit some rooms more than once.

Alternately, just stumble around until you find a room with one top entry and 3 bottom entries. Take the bottom left door, which will take you to Rick.
I currently run a company (on the IT side) with 100+ servers...a healthy mix of both Windows and Linux. To write-up the benefits I see of Linux over Windows would take a fairly long blog post...perhaps I'll do that soon. However, I will say that the last time I had a Linux hardware problem which wasn't related to a display driver issue (and in other words, not on the server) was in 2006. Our Linux servers are reliable, easily configured (admittedly....we know what we're doing) and have very high up times. Contrast that with our Windows servers which at this point we've had to resort to weekly reboot Windows to keep them performing.

Personally, I also find it much easier to find help online with Linux when things do go wrong...and that Microsoft (wisely) makes the whole experience very painful unless you're willing to pony up for their more expensive "tiers" of software. As an example, even though DFS-R is included in Windows Server, try managing a real, live deployment given what you're provided with just Server. Unless you purchase SCOM, your will fail.
Technically, Apple can remove an app remotely from all iDevies if they are legally required to do so. Whether they will be required to do that in this case is unknown.
This is not naive bayes and does not assume independent observations on the exercises. The point of using a network is to model the joint distribution with dependencies.
Further proof that Cheetos remain a solid part of the American Dream.
People always complain about being asked to pay to upgrade. If they don't get a discount, they complain about that. If they do get a discount, they complain that the upgrade "should have" been a free minor version bump instead.

In my experience, at least, it's more or less just a pathological behaviour that you can't escape.
This case is at it's core, a question of property and rights. As heartless as that may sound, property and rights are principles the United States is built upon. They are laws of the land. The same argument can easily be made to cut profit margins on medical devices. To a further extreme you could argue to take money from the wealthy to pay the medical bills of the needy. I believe that this is what this case boils down to.
I'm sure one could find many concrete cases where a specific child has been harmed by guns/drugs. After a quick Google search: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078377/Three-year-o...
Just to confirm, I still have the original iDOS on my iPad, removed from the store a very long time ago.
Searchtempest has done this for years.
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Well, they don't kidnap them... They just hire them, and when they want to quit or resign the job, they just can't.
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That is not at all the question. The point of patents is supposedly to protect inventors and innovators. There is no question that it will (short term at least) hurt consumers; a limited monopoly means a higher price and fewer competing products (if any).

People don't argue that patents are good for consumers because they aren't. People argue about if they're good for inventors and technical progress; if inventors will only innovate and share the results with the monetary benefit provided by a patent.
That is strange. I'm the other way around: it is painful for me and my team to switch Java/Eclipse/Maven to C#/VS.NET/NuGET since NuGET isn't even close to Maven.

Not to mention we have to deal with licensing, buying software tools, etc while in Java land almost all the high quality tools are free, easy to download, easy to install.

Setting up a new machine is a breeze with SVN/GIT + Maven. A breeze.
The idea of fear in research is not a new one. I'm reminded of the classic quotes by Dirac, "Scientific progress advances in units of courage, not intelligence." and of the classic essay by Ivan Sutherland, "Courage and Technology."

I think fear can be a valuable signal. If your success rate is a discouraging 1%, fear might be trying to tell you that you need to find a smarter way to solve the problem than blind (or even moderately educated) guessing. Often in mathematics, at least, you can discover things about the structure of a solution before you find it, things which in turn can help you find the solution. Often the discouragement of a few failed attempts pushes me to step back and trying to think about the problem in a deeper and smarter way.
I think that infinite scroll should have infinite scroll in the upperside as well, meaning that the posts on the top should deleted as you scroll down.

That would also make viable creating links and bookmarking based on your current position.
A little correction: aima-python is primarily by Norvig, but unfinished and less polished than the essays on his website. I took it up last fall to get it into better shape for the free AI class, and about 2/3 of the code now is his unchanged from before then. He is keeping an eye on things, but, you know, busy guy.

That said, Bayes nets are fully implemented (as presented in the book, i.e. for boolean variables) and I think worth reading and trying out if you're learning the subject. Also worth checking out is aima-java, in a much more complete state, though of course a lot wordier the way it is with Java.

If you'd like to contribute, there's plenty to do. (For example the E-M algorithm used in this post to learn the Bayes net parameters.) I set up a mirror on github the other day to make it easier: https://github.com/darius/aima-python-mirror

(I don't have the spare energy right now to do a lot, myself. Including editing too many patches coming in, though it'd be a surprise to get that problem.)
ReSharper can download source code over the internet or do I have to setup things manually? put them in the right place, etc?
Malicious Nasdaq algorithm brought BATS stock to a price of 0.00
That's a lot of work. Websites can just query firefox to see what addons a user has installed.
If Apple has the ability to do this, what prevents a court from ordering them to do so?
The #1 sign we are in a bubble is that people are writing articles saying we are not in a bubble.

For reference, compare the following two editions of a book regarding the recent housing bubble. These were written by the chief economist for the National Association of Realtors at the time, David Lereah.

Original title (2005):

http://www.amazon.com/Are-Missing-Real-Estate-Boom/dp/038551...

"Updated" title (2006):

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Estate-Boom-Will-Bust/dp/03855143...

I think we all know what happened next.

When people start spewing denial, it's time to think about heading for the exits.
Great read! This really ties up together with the idea of "keep shipping" - while working on a startup recently - I found myself spending a lot of time thinking about what if this or what if that. The kind of logic that paralyzes you. This is specifically a problem for perfectionists and very intelligent people - you're either afraid it wont be perfect or spend so much time thinking of the most efficient or beautiful solution that in the mean time someone else - may have already solved it. That experience really taught me to keep shipping - stuff wont work - even if it isn't one of those massively hard problems - sometimes things just dont work. The trick is to keep shipping and that 1% will go up to much more!
Ah, ok. So is this a sort of Markov model, where you are predicting the probability of getting an exercise right after observing (some subset of) the previous exercises? And E is not 1 or 0, but the expected probability of getting it right? I'm still confused where all the different E_i's fit in.

That would explain the magnitude, and I agree the negative weight on T would just be due to the direct correlation between E and T.

Edit: I just realized that an exercise consists of multiple problems, so you're predicting whether or not the student will get >= 85% of the problems right on an exercise.
Patents aren't property, they aren't "self evident rights", and they aren't in any way entitlements. They are temporary monopolies granted by governments based on the idea that monopolies are bad, but they are slightly (and it looks like usually only a very tiny bit even in the best cases) better than the alternatives.

When its clear that patents aren't doing their job, and especially in the case where demonstrable public harm is resulting from them, the government should have the right to perform a simple predetermined "due process" like procedure to simply terminate them. Concerned citizens should be able to bring cases like this to the attention of a special office of the USPTO to make this happen.
Historically, you're correct. But the people who codified patent law certainly didn't anticipate the development of software, in which every program of substantial size necessarily uses multiple different patented techniques.

Do you think this is the way property rights and software ought to work together?
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As far as I know Apple has yet to use its ability to pull apps from devices. Apple said it only will do it when malware appears and that has not yet happened.
"Fox News Latino", does that actually exist? :/

Do you have a "Black News Channel" too?
Pagination is useful when a user needs to understand time and space for a given context.

Infinite scroll is useful when the time and space is now for the context.

As noted by both parents, implementations for both could be better.
Huh, okay. I might be thinking Google/Android instead.
I think it's important to note that this is from a month ago, and there have been a number of follow-ups:

1. My Date with Ben Silberman [founder] http://ddkportraits.com/2012/02/my-date-with-ben-silbermann-...

2. Responses to Questions http://ddkportraits.com/2012/03/my-top-50-responses-to-your-...

3. Passion for Pinterest and Call for Inputhttp://ddkportraits.com/2012/03/passion-for-pinterest-and-a-...

But as VengefulCynic said, I think it's good that Pinterest is bringing this IP discussion more into the mainstream.
The point of patents is to encourage the spread of information by discouraging guilds and trade secrecy.
Maybe we are not in tech bubble but there a lot of crappy companies raising a lot of capital.
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The GSA itself is a Google Apps customer. NOAA also made news this year by moving over its 25,000 users.
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