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I'll try to interpret this as charitably as possible =) I think there are two separate issues you're bringing up here.

The first is the implication that climatologists are all involved in a conspiracy with power hungry politicians to institute a kind of global eco-Stalinism, in exchange for research grants. It's the only imaginable scheme where you can treat all government-funded ecology, meteorology, clean-energy tech, and climatology research as part of a coherent but corrupt bargain (As you must to get your billions of dollars figure. I would also add that your mere seven figure fossil fuel budget is grossly underestimated.). Frankly, I don't think you actually believe it, as it's implausible rhetoric that could come straight from the fevered fantasies of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.

The other is that there's group think among scientists. The idea seems to be that academics and scientists are all too often willing to get caught up in petty vendettas, battles for turf and recognition, and back scratching, instead of focusing on the angelically pure pursuit of knowledge. The issue with that is... well, there isn't an issue. It's totally true, as anyone who's spent much time in research knows. Hence the CRU emails.

It's a fair criticism. But science has soldiered on despite it through the centuries, and scientific institutions, even being plagued with those flaws, have consistently produced better explanations of the world than hacks-for-hire employed by Big Tobacco, Lysenkoist Communists, or the fossil fuel industry.
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Agreed about nobody saying they prefer local art over thousands of lives, but I don't think that means their revealed preferences are more representative of what they really want, I think it just shows how irrational they are. Most people don't sit down and think about what they want most and construct a plan to achieve that, so it shouldn't be surprising that they end up doing such drastically sub-optimal things as donating a lot of money to a museum when someone asks them to. It seems like a good thing to do, so they do it. They don't consider whether it's what they actually most prefer.
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No - the research is about people's attitude and actions around donations. It doesn't matter who or what you donate to - the act of donating right now is the indicator of whether you will donate in your lifetime.

If you have committed to donating your estate to charity by putting it into your will, good for you! But if you haven't already committed to this by putting it into your will, then you (at this point in time) reinforce the research - which is people always promise/intend to donate, but they have excuses to delay donating till some point in the distant future which result in them never donating in the end (so in this case, I'll donate my estate when I die).
I would love to know if this was ever disclosed to Siemens, especially prior to the purchase.

In any case, someone is RuggedCom should be fired for doing nothing about this. My impression after reading the Seclist notice is that they were playing a waiting game.
It's not actually linear correlation, since we effectively normalise the pairwise scores to [-1,0,1],[-1,0,1] (nine possible combos). We're exploring blending in a few other signals along the way, but we wanted to see how far we could get by discretising the pairwise comparisons in this way.

Once we've collapsed all pairs down to a Vector Victor, we treat matching Vector Victors as a thumbs up and non-matching as a thumbs down, take the square root of both then take the lower bound of the Wilson interval as our ranking function.

More questions? Shoot!
Amusing thing about that page - it's full of '\$100', and uses Javascript to strip the \'s out, replacing them with empty <span> elements. Not sure I really want to know why...
Hm, I was able to close the tab after telling Firefox to stop the script. However, my browser certainly was frozen for several seconds before I was able. FF12 on OSX.
I'd be interested in reading a more general blog article about their theory behind using "quality" and "rewatchability" as their key user rating. It sounds reasonable at first, but when I think more deeply about it, I wonder what "quality" is supposed to be interpreted as. Is it "how much I enjoyed the first viewing of the film," something more specific like "how skillful was the camera work" or "how good was the acting," or something more meta like "how good I think critics or movie buffs would think the film is?"

I've gone through stages of armchair film criticism, so I've thought about personal ratings a lot. I even drafted a web app to track my viewings and watchlist, and the rating idea I've liked the most is a stupidly simple boolean rating. You could call it almost anything: "Like/Dislike," "Good/Bad," "Enjoyed/Didn't Enjoy," or even something a bit different like "I'm glad I watched it/I wish I hadn't watched it."
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What an awful way to phrase a simple concept.

Rather than compete in someone else's market, create your own market. Manufacture, or identify a need that has not been met, and, having been first mover, use that to build an insurmountable lead over any possible competitors.

Whether it's mint toothpaste, or portable digital music players, this has been done for generations.

"Creative Monopoly" is a bizarre term for it.
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Partitions are based on a hash of the primary key. The number of buckets in the system has to be a power of 2. But we can split buckets to increase the number, or even have some buckets that have split and some that haven't yet. Each bucket is stored on 3 separate servers (and the assignment makes sure the three servers are on separate racks).
How does that even matter? The technique being used is real color cycling. Whether the palette is abstracted in hardware or software hardly makes a difference...
What he was getting at with that is the conflation of moving and renaming files.

He would want "mv" to take 2 params: (1) old file path (e.g., "/users/dev/foo.clj", and (2) new directory (e.g., "/users/lib").
http://blog.goodfil.ms/blog/2011/10/07/a-better-way-to-rate-...
Could certainly be factor. Though the other thing is that all those vehicles in Vietnam are motorbikes, so any accidents at speed are likely to be more fatal. Though for the original topic then pedestrian fatality stats would be useful as well.

In any case I'd personally rather live in a city that is well served by public transport rather than lots of people riding around on motorbikes or driving cars.
Yeah, it's a difficult subject. People are passionate about money. But kudos for owning up to your post... I made a ad hominem awhile back and someone was kind enough to point it out, thought I'd pass around the favor :)
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I also thought a lot of the art donations (at the high end) were weird tax dodges, or done for the ancillary benefits of donating (getting your name on a building or bench, access to high end parties, cute art girls, etc.)
argument for the sake of argument is fun. Even better if it is about something we don't care about.

but yes, provoking someone who does not want to have an argument usually only leads to mutual frustration, so it is indeed a pretty stupid thing to do.
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Part of why I like git is the lack of abstraction. Lack of abstraction means the abstraction that isn't there can't leak. I've done some bizarre things in git, mostly induced by the fact the company I'm working for is still on SVN in the core. For instance, on two fundamentally different machines based on the same source tree, I developed a shared feature on one, bundled it all up into one commit, put some work into integrating it on the other, put some more work on the original and bundled it up into one new unified commit, pulled from the second machine and did an interactive rebase to slide the new megacommit under the integration commits. And it all worked perfectly and exactly as I expected, complete with dead-on accurate merge conflicts that truly were conflicts. If you had problems following that description, well, git didn't.

Yes, to the extent that may seem like a bizarre workflow, it is. I know. There are additional constraints I did not describe. The point is, it's a workflow that git doesn't close off with leaky or over-limiting abstractions.

That said, I totally agree that this is irreducibly a strength and a weakness at the same time, and YMWV. But I'm glad it's around so I can use it. It's saved my bacon more times than I can count.
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I think the point you bring up about comparing the ops/sec between Riak and Redis is very interesting in multiple ways:

1. Riak has an in memory database mode (its one of the backends you might choose and you can run multiple backends simultaneously) but most people don't know about it- and I bet you were thinking of a comparison of disk based (though I think of Redis as an in memory database)

2. Its a typical expected question, but it also belies a profound ignorance about the nature of scalability (sorry, not calling you ignorant, just saying the culture of technologists is kinda ignorant.).... redis exists only on one node, while Riak is distributed.

Redis on one node vs Riak on 100 nodes is going to be one hell of a comparison in favor of Riak!

But everywhere you look people are doing benchmarks on single nodes. MongoDB doesn't scale in a homogenous distributed way, but people think its faster than Riak because its single node performance is higher (I presume.)

3. The people who are making these decisions do not understand what they are doing, I think. People who are afraid of Erlang because they have trouble managing their existing stack is like being afraid of a Volvo because their current car is unsafe. Stability and manageability is erlang's hallmark, but most people are kinda ignorant of this. (though of course it does work a different way than typical software.)

Not to say your points are not good, they are, but that I think there's a lot of education that is needed, and thus there is a gap that riak has to bridge.

How do you show your superiority to people whose prejudices or misunderstandings make them unable to recognize it?
Its more a cause of the radiation ionizing the underlying semiconductor material. For instance when an electron tunnels into a transistor it can cause strange effects. Look up single event upset and single event latch-up for more information. The SEL is interesting as it causes a transistor to act as a double transistor and start drawing tons of power. At least that's how I understand it.
Hi HN,

This is my new startup and I'd love to get your feedback. It reached 150K+ members with only viral.

Basically you can think of it as Formspring with chat. You set up an account for people to chat with you anonymously. As their identities are anonymous your friends can ask everything to you that they normally cannot ask. They can tell their thoughts and criticisms about you.

Moreover, you have an opportunity to chat anonymously with celebrities you admire through Connected2.me. You can tell your problems to specialists such as psychologists by keeping your identity secret and get an instant answer. Companies also use Connected2.me in order to get anonymous feedback about their products and give support to their customers real-time.

Please try and tell me what do you think.
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I think another important point is that the iPad didn't replace an existing tablet in the users home.

It was an entirely new genre of device. No doubt when people bought macs they probably had some kind of computer before it. Most iphone users were just replacing their previous phone, just as the first ipod users were unhappy with their 15 song capacity generic mp3 player.

To gain such adoption for a tablet device that people didn't previously knew they needed - is huge!

They first convinced the market they needed a tablet and second that the iPad was the right product to meet that need. Incredible!
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Is this users as in facebook installs, or users as in ios/android app installs. Big difference, as socialcam makes you authorize their facebook app to watch videos posted by other socialcam users via FB. Having those users add the socialcam app does not equal a app download, nor a active user in my opinion. Their only interaction was watching a video. Its the same thing as authorizing yahoo to read a story a friend posted. You can call that a "user" but you are just lieing to yourself. Its a glorified visit.

Still, its crazy impressive either way- But it does not compare to instagram style numbers if they are counting that. Instagram did their reported numbers in app downloads, not facebook auths.
Check out this post on the topic: http://blog.goodfil.ms/blog/2011/10/07/a-better-way-to-rate-...

'Quality' is intended to be a more objective score of the craft of the film. Quality of writing, directing, acting; originality of the idea; how influential it is.

'Rewatchability' is where your enjoyment gets factored in. We think it's important to consider 'watching it again' rather than enjoyment first time because it separates out films better. For example, the film Avatar is quite enjoyable the first time round, but IMO not particularly worth rewatching.

Btw, I'm the author of both posts :)
Hey mangodrunk. Thanks for taking the time to put together citations. I was aware of the first item on your list and I was impressed with how Dropbox handled the situation. Everyone have bugs, but it's how you deal with these things that speak volumes to me.

I haven't heard of the other 2 things on your list, but I'll take the time to read them thoroughly. Thanks for bringing them to my attention. Obviosuly privacy is something important to me, so knowing all the facts is important.

That being said, when it comes to TOS, Dropbox is far more attractive.
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Well, shipping codecs means they have to pay royalties, os'es like Windows and OSX bake that cost into their asking price, Ubuntu is free. Also the codes are likely only an apt-get away.

Don't know about the fonts as I don't run Ubuntu.

As for NVidia/ATI drivers, back when I was on Windows (many years ago) you pretty much had to install the drivers directly from the vendors in order to get decent performance as the ones shipped were awful and generally old, is that no the case anymore? Still, getting these driver are also just one apt-get away unless I'm mistaken?
I think the implementation leakage is the fact that mv is used for renaming files. Windows has "move" and "ren", where the latter works the way the author would like.

> REN [drive:][path]filename1 filename2.

> Note that you cannot specify a new drive or path for your destination file.
tptacek, do you have a good link that describes what the bill actually does? I've read a few different sources and I guess I'm misunderstanding it.

Thanks
He's saying that your intention is to use this tool to rename a file, in-place, but the implementation of this tool is `mv` which is supposed to be for "moving" files around in the filesystem, so the implementation is leaking into and clashing with the user interaction.
Yes. Rand does not just think that forced redistribution by the state is immoral, but also that private charity is at best morally neutral, and often wrong depending on the nature of the charity (particularly if it is "sacrificial", or is given in response to the needs or shortcomings of the recipient, which in my opinion describes most of the charity in the world today). Her fictional works perhaps lend themselves to a bit of interpretation on this point, but her non-fiction work is quite unambiguous.

I know many libertarians are in favor of private charity and consider it a virtue, and many of these same people are also fans of Rand, but they should realize that she disagrees with them on this point.
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Typically the fact that someone has more money would not be relevant, except in this case it's a discussion of capital allocation and a person (Andreessen) who is making a lot of money by being very good at capital allocation. It's like claiming that Michael Phelps's 14 gold medals should carry no weight in a discussion of whether or not he's a good swimmer.
No, just sort of boggle-eyed it. I was counting "fas" as well, as the plural of "fa".
I've seen this image a bunch as well, and was almost sure it was from a game/demo I remembered on the Commodore64. I saw the comments in this thread saying it was from "Sieze the Day", so I spent a few minutes trying to find the Commodore64 demo I remembered from my childhood (because I thought it had the most amazing graphics at the time).

Anyways, after 5 minutes of searching, I found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ7UDnJF3kk (Jim Sachs Time Crystal demo)

Funny how warped my memory of this is. Still an awesome demo for it's time. I always wanted that to be a real game...
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It's not yet clear which venture will have a greater impact on the world. People here consistently underestimate the significance of democratizing the media.
I assume each vector has its own weight? So better in "Better in both respects" is a stronger sign of similarity than just "Higher quality but same rewatchability."

So say..
"Same in both dimensions" = 0
"Same quality but more rewatchable." = +1
"Same quality but less rewatchable." = -1
"Higher quality but less rewatchable." = +2
"Higher quality but same rewatchability." = +3
"Better in both respects." = +4
etc..

Then you could pass those to a coefficient like Pearson's R.

x = [0, 1, 2, -1, -3, 4, -4]
y = [0, 1, 1, 2, -1, -2, 0]

It'd be an interesting experiment to see what results that gives vs. your current algorithm.
Interesting. Yeah, I was afraid that was the case. I'm starting my own wrapper for better or worse. Maybe I'm just being blindly naive. https://github.com/dogweather/g

I'm attempting to first spec it out in an appropriate way: writing the docs first, and so that the new abstraction is maintained. However, the new commands should re-use git command knowledge and not change it arbitrarily. It should fail well.
http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/f...

Before you comment on CISPA, though, be sure to read the entirety of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986.
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence; and, as I pointed out some time ago in an article on the function of criticism, it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. Accordingly, with admirable, though misdirected intentions, they very seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease.

They try to solve the problem of poverty, for instance, by keeping the poor alive; or, in the case of a very advanced school, by amusing the poor.

But this is not a solution: it is an aggravation of the difficulty. The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. And the altruistic virtues have really prevented the carrying out of this aim. Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good; and at last we have had the spectacle of men who have really studied the problem and know the life – educated men who live in the East End – coming forward and imploring the community to restrain its altruistic impulses of charity, benevolence, and the like. They do so on the ground that such charity degrades and demoralises. They are perfectly right. Charity creates a multitude of sins.

There is also this to be said. It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property. It is both immoral and unfair.

~ Oscar Wilde

You would think smart men as these would want to cure the disease instead of curing the symptoms.
redis.io has simple pages describing every command in the system and, critically, the associated algorithmic complexity and discussion of likely issues and problems.

This. A thousand times.

Every database should be required by law to have that kind of reference. With most of the NoSQL databases it's ridiculously difficult to figure out basic things like "does this support range queries at all?" or (god forbid!) "how would I implement range queries efficiently?". You can be lucky when they casually mention which concepts their DB was originally based on (bigtable somethingsomething dynamo something) to get at least a rough idea of what to expect.

Writing documentation is hard. But many of the contenders (including riak) are so overtly hostile that it seems almost deliberate.
This is fantastic! Many investors donate heavily to charity already, but making this the policy of the firm sends a very strong message.
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because he was thinking of doing a rename he expected:
mv /path/to/{old_name,new_name}
to happen.

For people with a mental model of files and directories built from using a GUI with windows and folders this does seem to be implementation leakage since you have to know that renaming is moving because of "how the filesystem works". They think of the file name as file metadata and the file contents as the file.

If you have a mental model built around unix-y file management then you probably think of the file path as the file and the fact that renaming and moving are the same thing seems obvious.
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I'm using git because Github exists. Otherwise, I'd be checking out Mercurial.
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Git is a Hole Hawg, just like UNIX. That's intentional. Stop trying to change the software to be easier. Instead change yourself. Make yourself stronger and better by learning this complicated stuff, and become a master.

You can't drive a car with a manual, the solution isn't to get an automatic. The solution is to learn to drive stick.

For those unfamiliar with the Hole Hawg:

http://steve-parker.org/articles/others/stephenson/holehawg....
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In general, your experience with Tor/Onion routing, will be wholly dependent upon the path setup for your requests. I've been using Tor on and off for years, sometimes experiences are good, sometimes they aren't.

If you are looking for a general approach to obscure your browsing from an employer's network, but don't need the whole feature set of Tor, you are better off setting up a proxy to a remote machine. If you truly need the greater anonymizing of Tor and are willing to take possible latency / speed impacts, do so. Just don't expect it to be optimal for the first case when doing general browsing.

It is great to see the Onion Browser available so readily/easily.