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Chromebox/book is at the opposite end of the spectrum from Raspberry PI though in terms of who it's targeting and the problem it's solving.
This whole idea of being productive every single day is why burnout happens. Using that extra day to not be productive (say, get the shopping done while the shops are quite and everything is open) means you can spend the weekend relaxing, so you're way more productive come Monday.
You speak like someone who probably hasn't spent a good chunk of their life as a patient. You are correct; the best doctors know the limit of their own knowledge and will respect a knowledgeable patient. I respect my top notch specialists more than anyone on the planet. But those are the best doctors. There are many more average and outright bad doctors, just like any other skilled profession. Some that can't keep their ego in check, some that just aren't very good at deconstructing a complex problem.
You should consider the possibility that you are wrong.

As I understand it, Henry Ford chose a 40-hour work week because he found that it maximized the total output of his employees. Computer programming is (minute-for-minute) considerably more demanding than working an assembly line. Maybe an average programmer maximizes her total output when she works substantially less than 40 hours a week. In fact I'd be surprised if that weren't the case.

And of course you could still run the service if you guys worked four-day weeks. Just make sure somebody's working on any given day.
Sorry I wasn't clear. I am currently looking at info on NGLY1 and trying to parse out its exact function in order to try to understand the commonalities this seems to have with my condition. "Lacks x enzyme" doesn't give me a picture of what functions are missing. I am not a medical professional. I need laymen's explanations of specific functionality, which are quite hard to come by.

Thanks for replying.
So people are threatening to leave a free service because they're looking for ways to make it sustainable?
Seems like you are working hard.
Getting new ideas are very easy.
Here is how I do it.

1. Meet a lot of people. People of different background, age, language etc.
2. Take time off from work everyday and go to totally unrelated places like zoo.

Usually ideas are nothing but solutions to problems you face or someone you know faces. The idea is to get closer to the problem. The more activities you do, you the more problems you will place. The more variety of people you meet, you will realize each one has their own problems.

btw, what kind of problems are you looking for? technical, enterprise, social?
This looks great! Can you tell me more about how you created it? I'd be interested in checking out your code.

It seems like there are plenty of uses for 'middle-man' integrators like this, that would receive an HTTP POST and then relay that information on by sending sending a POST.

Are their any generic tools/frameworks that do this, besides ifttt?
Let's look at this in simple terms. Let's look for evidence of a "business model".

Website becomes popular.

Website gets personal details from users: email, maybe photos, address, etc., plus it gets a list of "friends" for each user.

Website shows display ads.

(Website gives birth to games company. Games company goes public then loses half its value in two months.)

Does website have a "business model"?

Wait, we're not done.

Website monitors everything users do on the website as well as, to the extent they can, the other websites users visit, using web beacons scattered across the web (Like buttons, aka "Facebook Connect").

Website shows display ads.

Do we have a business model yet?

But wait, there's more.

Website goes public and raises a heap of easy cash.

Website acquires a web browser, produces a mobile phone and begins monitoring everything users do on the web and every conversation they have with their friends.

Website shows display ads.

Do we have a business model yet?

Or is this just lots and lots of spying, information collection and dreaming that this is somehow useful for business?

Display ads are not a business model that will grow a business, unless the business is itself a display ad company.

(And Google already acquired those guys years ago.)
It looks like the stats on all my older links (everything before April) have disappeared?

If so, disappointing.
I remember when I thought I was a badass programmer. Now, after almost two decades of it, I realize how little I know. IMHO, humility is the best sign of experience. That said, asking for a hard number (like 5 years of experience) is no guaranteed filter, but it probably will get you way better application results than putting the threshold at 2 years.
Does anyone know of any split test products on the market that do this?
Every job I've had in the last 7 years has been from an employer or recruiter coming to me. Shooting off a resume through the typical HR stack is almost always a crap shoot.
OK, in AB testing that same 0% design, you're showing it 50% of the time.

You seem to be saying "I'll AB test it just for a little, then weed out the 0% one. but in the case of this new algorithm, I'll let it run for a long time." That's not exactly fair. Not to mention, both algorithms would allow you to clearly see the 0% option sucks.
Try sending some emails to multiple recipients using ACTION_SENDTO and a properly crafted URI.

Watch the SMS app show on some phones when using Intent.createChooser and totally misinterpret the intent to the astonishment of the user.

You wouldn't see this problem if you didn't test on a LOT of phones.

It's not immediately obvious. I've been developing for Android for a while now.
> Based on the examples, I presume xrange(x) is every integer up to but not including x

Yes. That makes my Python example incorrect(should be xrange(2, num + 1))

> 1..^$x in Perl 6, don't recall if that's the Perl 5 syntax or not.

Perl 5 doesn have 1..^$x. I have always used 1..($n - 1) where I needed it - don't know if there is a better alternative.
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This epsilon-greedy [1] thing looks just like what my old boss use to tell me, 'trust but verify'. ohh.. I got so sick of those words, but at least now I have an algorithm for it.

Just change the epsilon = 0.1 (10%) higher or lower depending on your initial (personal) confidence, and if your guess was right, and your epsilon low, then the overall impact to 'optimal' solution is negligible, but you have built in a fail safe in case you were human after all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
Facebook already has face recognition. At least, last time I uploaded an album it did. It doesn't work too well, though.
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This is an interesting technique, but it too has flaws. If there is a period of buzz and excitement surrounding your app, whatever design was most popular at that time will be rewarded accordingly, and accrue a high click through rate with tens of thousands of case. If you introduce a new superior design after the period of buzz has gone away, the new design may take a very long time to catch up. Even though it is currently outperforming the old, the few hundred cases that are being added won't be enough to offset the tens of thousands that came before.

With all metrics, it's important to understand what's actually going into the measure and where it might get tripped up.

A potential solution might be to add a decay factor, so that the older data carries less weight.
I recall vividly how two years after Java first came out, many would-be-employers in the banking sector started advertising heavily for 'Java programmers with minimum of five years experience'.
We're contacting Genzyme via friends of friends.

Your question is valid. I wouldn't expect Genzyme to do much unless there's profit (or at least little cost) involved.

Fortunately, Genzyme might not need to do much, since the enzyme is already in production, but for laboratory rather than human use.

I'll admit I don't know much more will be required to take what they injected into mice to the point where we can inject it into Bertrand.

We're learning on the fly.

Since Genzyme holds the patent, I think we'll at least need their permission to use it in a clinical setting.

We're also actively searching for other NGLY1 patients. There may yet be a market.

We're also investigating other possible clinical applications of N-Glycanase 1. My own early research indicates that it may help in cases of severe jaundice--a much larger market.

I'm optimistic that we can get Genzyme's attention.
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Wonder how the box would work as a set-top (goodbye Google TV?)
I think his (somewhat mangled) point is that pretty much everyone in their early 20's doesn't want to have kids, yet most people in their 30's are at least open to the idea.

He's basically playing the odds, but like I said, mangled his comment.
Yes, I think aiming for RPi equivalence would be extreme!

That said, it would be curious to see what kind of processor ends up being optimal for HTML5 content. It's not completely inconceivable that architectures will end up being tuned for JS execution.
I thought they are already making money.
Yes, exactly - and where did this idea that they should have kids come from? What I'm saying is that people need a balanced perspective when deciding and all too often it is the "everyone should have kids" voice that is only heard and anyone that states anything to the contrary is summarily dismissed or berated. That is changing, albeit slowly but I will also be the first to say that at the end of the day if decide you want kids then go for it.
Do you use Moose, or MooseX::Declare? Moose has a startup penalty, but when I am willing to accept that, I would rather use declare extensions as well.
Lol, no I didn't stay long enough at Intel to qualify. They had hired me as a hardware guy, but between board bring up from a hardware perspective and a software perspective I found I generally liked the software work better and so moved on to Sun Microsystems.

I did however come to appreciate that even though things are "obviously easy" on the surface there could be mitigating factors which made that not true. My favorite example was 'give all the source code rights and IP to RPC/XDR to a standards body so that they can standardize it' (which I tried to do with the IETF in Amsterdam in 1993. Easy right? No so much. Not when other people don't want that to happen. So not a technical issue.
Just to make sure that I understand what you mean here - are you saying that games have no value?
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I was going to say "why, were they paid in Bitcoin?" but then I thought this story was a bit too meme-heavy already.
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why? Should we all just accept your pronouncement as truth?
If the tools you're using are as basic as a hammer, that's obviously feasible. Some work is best done with backhoes.
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Simple but pretty powerful, thanks!

Definitely not that easy for people with full-time jobs, when you factor in the commute, the lunch break, etc, plus a bit of time for socializing and such.

For those working for themselves, this is a great To Do list. Just 3 items per day :)
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I would guess that a lot of Python sites are not getting counted for some reason, maybe because Python doesn't broadcast its presence the way PHP does. I'm pretty sure Dropbox and MixPanel at least make heavy use of Python, but neither is listed as a Python user.

This list looks extremely noisy to me in general.
No. It can't. And that's why it has been an utter failure in the marketplace.

Google toyed with subsidizing the costs more to try to use it to push more enterprise services to business and education customers but it never gained traction (and from I understand, they were practically willing to give them away).

The large-scale use case for Chrome OS is minuscule.
There's no point in continuing to run A/B testing indefinitely once a winner has been chosen, and like-wise there is no point in running this indefinitely either.

Sure the OP advocates "set and forget", but it seems simply silly to do this indefinitely. Obviously, after a while, you're going to want to check in on the results and prune out low performers.

Is that not the entire point of all these different testing methodologies to begin with?

Also, if you were to follow the same "set and forget" strategy with A/B, you'd have a 50% chance of showing the 0% CR design, where-as it's only 10% with this method.

Seems like it wins out in both cases to me.
Good to know there are newer takes on JVM based languages! I like its minimalist design as opposed to being a kitchen sink language. Good luck!
The thing that is really awesome about the testing environment is that is makes it immediately obvious when a module on cpan has been abandoned.

That makes it easy to use a cpan module with confidence, which imo is not valued highly enough in other language communities cpan-like structures.
The proof is straightforward application of the pigeonhole principle. Input strings are your pigeons, hashes are your holes.
There are better approaches for tackling this problem (with 0-regret asymptotically). You can take a look at the UCB (Upper Confidence Bound) algorithm, and you can do even more if you assume some continuity, e.g. what is commonly done is to assume that the whole distribution is from a Gaussian Processes. Many interesting ideas in the literature indeed :)
In the US the party (I assume the majority) is not against all government. They just want to limit government.
Not the parent, but for Chrome, probably the horribly limited extension API.
I could not even begin to imagine how I would use a browser without Pentadactyl.
Or Tree Style Tabs. Both of which are flat out impossible in Chrome. As are
tons of other extensions.
> Not true. Copyright includes the right to control how a work
> may be performed publicly. I presume this allows the AGPL to
> enter a "You may only make this work available publically if
> you do X, Y and Z."

The thing is that if the work isn't being made available, then copyright just doesn't apply. Public performance applies to things like art and music, for which the work must be duplicated to be performed. But software does not have to be duplicated (excepting from disk->ram, etc, which is considered fair use).

For example, if there was an AGPL'd binary which would render a PDF to a PNG, I could host it on my server and let people interact with it but not release the source. The reason I do not have to release the source is that I am not distributing the binary.

The AGPL is designed for cases where interaction requires that part of the work itself be sent to the user -- examples are web pages, Java applets, and so on.
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They make it sound like we're all idealistic or something - well, maybe we are. But mostly, no one wants to work for a shady company, because they will screw heir employees just as readily as their customers, and go down in flames when their dishonesty catches up with them, taking lots of people with them.
One thing I noticed is that they didn't have any soft-body on soft-body collisions. They had second cars floating around the track, but I didn't see them collide the two.

It's probably just because the person doing the demo just didn't think of it, but it would have been interesting to see how it handled soft-on-soft collisions.
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I have a script that generates a list of potential leads from CL posts - that I go through and manually parse daily.

Is this something that might be of interest to you?

If so, how much would you pay per month? What industry would you be interested in?

Thanks.
Ugh. That makes an unfortunate amount of sense, I hadn't even thought through the embedded device drivers problem. Extremely frustrating across devices and OSes. :[
But talking about salt in our hash sounds delicious.

Talking about stretching our hash, though, sounds like some strange tasting taffy...
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At this point you could flush out the inferior options and start anew with just the winning design and the new one.
Yeah, I'm not really familiar with bitly, but I tried it to see what it was all about and I just had to paste the link and hit enter...
I do have a personal issue with people saying kids are absolutely the best thing one can do with one's life or the best experience one can have in one's life and therefore also implying that everyone should have them. So if I mistook your statement as one of unqualified pro-natalism then I apologize. Ovaries in a knot? Lol. I'm a man so society readily accepts, even applauds in some cases, my desire to not have kids though your statement is telling of the vitriol women in our society face who have decided not to have kids.
If anyone wants to search the literature, the terminology for this is the non-stationary bandit problem. The classical bandit problem is stationary but there has been plenty of research done into non-stationary variants as well.
Something I don't think everyone considers when they don't get a job is that probably somebody else did get the job.

Maybe you are very skilled but only have 2 years experience and someone else that applied is just as skilled and has 5+ years experience. Maybe they interviewed that guy first and liked him and didn't feel the need to interview anyone else.

Maybe you are very skilled AND have 5+ years experience, but the hiring manager/HR had a stack of 10 (20? 100?) resume's of equally qualified applicants and you randomly ended up on the bottom of that stack (You have a 50% change of ending up in the bottom half) And they gave interviews to the first 5 (or 10 or 50) and ended up really liking one of those guys.
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Obviously epsilon-greedy is not optimal. But I think the point is it's surprisingly effective and probably better than A/B testing in most applications. Most alternatives get very complicated very quickly.

Even your thought experiment is not conclusive. First, it will take some time to be convinced which variation is better. The lost revenue during the 50/50 experimentation phase may outweigh the long-run benefit if your discount rate is high. This can happen in markets where customer acquisition is slow and expensive (i.e. a niche targeted via AdWords). Second, except in the unrealistic 0% vs 100% case, you could get stuck on wrong choice forever if you pass a statistical significance test by chance. Epsilon-greedy will correct itself over time and is asymptotically guaranteed to make the correct choice most of the time. A/B testing only has this asymptotic guarantee if you spend asymptotically long experimenting, which defeats the whole exercise.
I think the OP missed the bigger point, which is that knowledge comes at various speeds based on an individuals ability to absorb learning, but experience comes from hours invested and the variety of situations experienced.

The OP seems to have conflated the concept that someone asking for a certain number of years of experience are looking for a particular subject matter knowledge level, when they are really looking for someone who has experienced more variations.

When people talk about "What is the value of a college degree? I can already write code with the best of them!" they conflate what they know as equivalent with experiencing different things. Good college programs go through a lot of different scenarios quickly and that is how they substitute for some experience. But any trades person will tell you that learning the trade is both knowledge and experience. The former tells you how the latter tells why and with luck gives you the wisdom to choose the best "how" out of a number of choices.
> A marketized law and order system would not solve any of the current problems with corruption. Perhaps you have heard the term "hired gun" or "mercenary". As always, the flow of money would still allow corruption, and those with money and no scruples would influence the law to protect themselves.

So, it is therefore superior to have an accepted monopoly on the ability to arbitrate property disputes (or in other words, "be corrupt")?

Governments basically insulate themselves from being able to be sued. Look at how often the WTO finds against the US and the US just thumbs their nose at the ruling because the US is the big dog.

Also see #8 here. I wonder how long it will take on people to hit all 10:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/long/long11.html

> For the mots part, that article was tldr, but I skipped down to find his discussion of this free market law, it's...mediation! The only enforcing mechanism for mediation I know is the backing of law.

I don't get into arguments about things like cricket because I know jack shit about it. You really need to learn about what our position is first. Some libertarians even will say things like "Well, you can just boycott them!" in situations where it would be acceptable to go further and use force.

All law rests upon the ability to punish primarily. We might prefer to avoid fueding (it's certainly cheaper) but libertarian law is not toothless.

I can't make sense of the rest of what you talked about. It seems like you are mistaking the present day situation where governments have certain laws in place for a free market situation.
Better than a forgetting factor, add a Kalman filter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter). This way you can trust your "new" data more than really "old" data, etc. The beauty of it is that it only adds three attributes to each data sample.
You can do exactly the same thing using DNode.
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That's a feature, not a bug. Write-protecting memory areas using mprotect() and the like, and handling the resulting SIGSEGV, is a popular technique for implementing a write barrier needed for generational garbage collection.
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There's a lot out there beyond A/B testing, most of what people are looking for tends to be multivariate.
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Yep, and DNode is running under the covers. We wanted to get rid of all the extraneous stuff you have to do to set DNode up, get an HTTP server going, serve static files, etc. when you're making a single page web app.
In my experience those rules can be bent a little bit, i.e. for an app that displays 3D graphics like an augmented reality application, it's generally fine to use Lua or JS to script those, even if the code is downloaded from the web. Of course you still can't jit this, but luckily I've found that JavaScriptCore and LuaJIT with the jit turned off are very fast on iDevices anyway.

The function of the rule is to prevent people from creating an alternative app platform. For example, one based on the Flash runtime where you could download new applications from within this app, thereby bypassing the app store.