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I've gotten into a bar fight to protect a woman I did not know. I almost got into a fight in the subway for the same reason, twice. However I can't stand these kinds of stories. All I hear is one socially awkward guy trying really hard in the worst possible way.

I'm conflicted because on the other hand the guy seemed like an asshole but I have only one side of the story and feel like it would be jumping to conclusions to judge this guy just from this.
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>You can structure your corporation in many ways. If the old co-founders were cool enough to give up their shares, they would be cool enough to, say, give the current founders proxy rights.

A possibility, but certainly this is much simpler?
"...you'll accidentally delete one of your photos that way.."

Now you know, that's what I am hating about Apple right now. From hiding the Library folder, forcing reopening of apps and docs after I restart (talking Lion here - and yes I know they FINALLY fixed that. But it only took the 6 updates), to wifi dropping on the MBAir, STILL not being able to easily change the system font, low-end accessibly features (especially when compared to Windows), control the keyboard to prevent me from "accidents" - most of what I've learned about OS' came from fixing my mistakes! And you know, maybe I WANT TO delete photo's that way.

Look it boils down too: after 20 years on mac I am getting damn tired of this recent trend to of holding my hand and telling me how to use the machine.

Every new update of OSX = less control of my desktop. Now I spend most of my time in terminal. So what's the point of having a mac? I can buy a high end pc that will also last me 5 years and do what I want.

Controlling me on the phone is one thing. On my machine is another. Now I'm running Windows on my mac. That's how pissed I am about this.

Apple needs to add a dummy switch. They can call it what they want, "Enhanced desktop experience" - whatever. But something I can check (OFF). Cause not every one who uses a mac needs his hands held.
Touche. For/at home I might have a post-it with numerous crazy passwords but no identification as to what sites/systems they are for.
Your comparison doesn't make any sense. There are other factors, notably cultural, involved. For example, the praise of individualism in the US (which may encourage reckless behavior), and the limited social security net (poverty increases the risk of substance abuse).

When you control for other factors, the pattern I described emerge. See:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1994....

http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?volume=160&...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005....

http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1081/JA-120025123

There are more if you care to look for them.

Of course children have to be protected. That's the whole point of education, gradually removing barriers while you teach them (or let them learn) how to get along by themselves. Whether or not the society should have a word on the topic is open for debate. I'm for, to some extent, as you probably guessed.
Why do you recommend pgbouncer? Did you face any issues with pgpool?
Spelling that out would be like spelling out that you'd prefer people not to defecate in the hallways.

This is a little different because: (1) it's probably a common occurrence (based on the general incidence of sexual harassment & assault -- I don't know about coding conferences in particular); (2) it's something that is often tolerated -- it doesn't actually go without saying that the conference will think it's their problem or do anything about it; and (3) it's an assault by one of your guests on another of your guests, so it reflects on the experience you provide.

So to go with your analogy, suppose it was common in the industry that a few people at any given conference would try to poop on other people, and the conference organizers wouldn't know what to do about it. Then yeah, unless you were trying to cater only to a small subset of programmers with unusual tastes, it would be pretty important to come up with some sort of explicit policy and plan to deal with conference-poopers. Or coming back to reality, if you run a conference, you do have to make it clear to your guests that you will actively try to stop sexual harassment/assault. Then second of all, you have to follow through.

"Having a policy" just means (1) letting people know that sexual harassment won't be tolerated at your conference; and (2) having a plan you can execute when it happens anyway. It's pretty much steps one and two of "finding solutions."
What's your largest project that uses these?
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The difference is that defecating in the hallways isn't a routine practice in our industry, but sexual harassment of the sort she describes is. There's a need for more awareness and action within the community -- and a hands-off "let the law take care of it" attitude ignores that a lot of this happens out of the public eye, and can only be stopped when people close to it take a more public stand against it.
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This isn't the stock market. Past behavior is an indicator of present/future behavior. It's not the only indicator, certainly, but when a large number of people are telling you the same thing, then you have a responsibility to discover why that is.

The organizer's reaction made it sound like he had reservations about inviting this person, due to older reports similar to the author's.
> and as far as I am concerned, having a sexual harassment policy for conferences is an easy win for everybody involved.

frankly i don't entirely trust women with the ability to cry sexual harassment and have men ejected from situations

having personally witnessed this twice in bars, and once by way of a female relative coming clean about abusing her privilege

note that i am not saying actual sexual harassment should not be called out.

just in response to your unconditionally endorsing such policies; there have to be damn good mechanism in place to prevent abuse.
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I can confirm that the coffee which comes in those cans is absolutely excellent. Now I have a good use for an empty one.
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All the more reason to have a well thought-out policy in place for how to deal with a potentially explosive situation.
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Take a stand against what? Unproven claims?
Often it's the opposite - they have enough imagination to not need someone else to imagine for them.

I rarely read fiction simply because I don't have the time to. I've got too many hobbies that I enjoy, and there's always something about them that I can learn about them, so my reading is almost always hobby related.
This is exactly why yard service is included with my rental home. I want to know my yard is being taken care of. However, in the 13 years I've been a home owner... I've never planted a tree. I actually had one removed during a backyard makeover.
For me it's been a disaster instead, having an N550 (if memory serves me well).

Ubuntu used to take a very long time to boot (minutes); I couldn't even reliably watch videos.

I was very surprised (and disappointed) though, to see than in Windows everything was perfectly usable.
How debatable? On Intel you get the desktop and backward-compatibility with old windows applications. What is your definition of general-purpose?
What if there's a symmetric relationship - I.e. our "parent" looks to us like just another black hole that we, not knowing better, would consider a "child" of our universe.

Hawking radiation in one is from stuff falling into the black hole from the other.

Then everyone is on everyone's balance sheet, and e+mc^2 = constant.

Topologically it would look pretty crazy.
This "main benefit" is how so superficial. You can watch TV series for the same result. The main benefit of reading good books is to open your mind, understand more things and be more curious about the world.
It's not true in the same way about apple's ARM devices either. Microsoft's actions control the hardware's boot code, which (I am assuming) cannot be flashed easily as it's not generic between devices. Apple's control over iPhones is bypass-able via jailbreaking (I've seen iPhones that dual boot android, which wouldn't be possible with a similar restriction.)

Apple make this stuff hard and fiddly (and, on iOS devices, mildly dangerous). Microsoft are making it impossible, if I've understood correctly.
i was just researching that yesterday: performance.

see for example http://www.last.fm/user/Russ/journal/2008/02/21/zd_postgres_...

in short: pgpool is an old-fashioned unix architecture (process based), pgbouncer is fancy event based. so it usually is a bit more performant. reliable are both so that should not make any difference.
Unless it involves a trial by jury, I don't think it's fair to ban people based on it.
This guy should have kept this quiet instead of going for the PR anyone in the future who is looking to invest into this company is going to come across this article.

As much as everyone is stating how gracious this is this would actually be a warning sign for me to invest any amount of money into this company.

Two previous co-founders willing to throw away a combined 1% of the company for less than an hour of effort. Puts the real valuation of this startup into view when you have two previous co-founders literally throw their equity away.

Consider this startup marked to avoid in the future of any round...
I'd like to point you to a similar example built with the YUI App framework: http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/app/app-contributors.html
It's funny that he dismisses the more indirect cognitive gains associated with reading as lacking "rigorous experimental evidence" when the value of rote memorization is often just as uncertain. He should just as soon dismiss the value of mothers if you can't vividly remember most of what they say. He needs to read "Moonwalking With Einstein".

The real bottleneck is that no matter how rigorously you cram stuff into long term memory, you can keep precious few things - some experts think 2 - 4 is a realistic range - in short terms memory. Most of what's on your mind in any given moment is determined by your environment and activity, and we have extremely limited ability to randomly access bits of information at will (both our own memory and whatever we've gleaned from books and teachers).

So I'm sorry, but those connections that we form while learning and experiencing are about all we've got. The upshot is that reading and structured learning seem to be extremely efficient ways of building these connections/schema.
Yeah, so would I. It also got put in one ago, which is before putting back doors into commodity OSes was such a useful thing for national security (probably compromising crypto systems and specific RF hardware used in air defense, etc was the primary goal back then).

I probably wouldnt rush to fix a convenient exploit once discovered, though, if existing USG policies could protect against it (removing most CAs, using DOD CAs) for government operations.
Sounds exactly like the basics I'm teaching my students. It isn't all that difficult to get started with linux once you know how to approach things. Thanks for the feedback, I'll think I might get started on an ebook that clearly builds things up.
I've actually been working on this a couple days since first seeing the PerSquareMile post...

I guess the cat's out of the bag now, here's my proof of concept:

http://sunspeck.com/urban-forest-computer-vision/

There is a bit of extant literature on this, also, you'll see the link in there. Pretty interesting.
Yes,

I've logged into my account and there was this 'Unusual activity detected' pop-up. At first I thought that someone stolen my password via a Trojan but I don't download anything and my software is up to date.

I've clicked at "more" (or something like that, I can't access the same menu right now) and it showed me the hostname and IP address of the unusual logon. The hostname was 1e100.net, I've checked it and it turns out its owned by Google.

Screen:

http://i.imgur.com/55kUM.png

The IP points to Mountain View and is also owned by Google.

Right now I only have access the list of previous logons and there are my logons and one with the Google IP:

http://i.imgur.com/nTlWg.png

When I check who owns the IP:

http://i.imgur.com/V8a8b.png

I can't access the previous menu which I could access via that security pop-up. Anyone knows how to go there?

I've blurred IPs and dates so they can't track which account it is.

Tell me how I can mirror the original data as proof.
Please take a moment to reflect on the current situation before launching the "corporate overlord" and related snark.

Many existing customers effectively do not own what they already have; their systems have been infested with malware and crapplications.

Locked-down bootstraps are the least-bad of a very bad lot of approaches available for dealing with the changes in the user base, and with the increasingly less-experienced and less-DIY users for modern systems.

Security attacks are only getting more subtle, complex and sophisticated. The Microsoft Terminal Server-derived Microsoft code-signing digital certificates is a recent example of the complexity of the environment.

How do you deal with these changes in attacks and with the changes in the user base otherwise, given the numbers of systems out there, and the changes in the knowledge and experience of the user base?

Do any of us like these locked-down bootstraps? Emphatically, no. So figure out another way to ensure this security, get yourself patent or three (and yes, software patents are issued for far too many years) and get yourself rich by solving this problem.
>I think the real issue with this is that it stops manufacturers from bundling Windows RT with Android. Take Asus for example. They've just made their "big" announcement which everyone thought it would be a dual-booting Windows RT/Android machine, and it turns out it's just Windows with the Bluestacks program that can make it run Android apps inside Windows.

Everyone thought something that everyone else knew wouldn't happen from about 6 months? That article you submitted is from January.

Also, do you have any references to everyone thinking Asus's big announcement will be an Windows RT/Android hybrid?
It is hardly “some random bar encounter”. This is the latest in a string of publicly described issues with sexual harassment in the tech community, both at conferences and elsewhere. The same rule applies here as with bugs reported by users: if one person is talking about this out loud, it means dozens are probably running into it and staying silent.

That is unacceptable. And to consider conference organizers responsible for expelling people who are tarnishing the experience of their conference is hardly out of line. Conferences are not something that stops when you leave the conference area, because people travel to them. They are social experiences both on the conference grounds and outside of them.

Nobody is saying it should be illegal for a conference organizer to allow people like this. But it's perfectly fair as a developer going to a conference or as a company sending developers to a conference to require that they have a policy of banning such members.

Oh, and “he was drunk” is not an excuse. It is never an excuse. It is never an excuse for anything. I cannot stress this enough. Drunkenness is an excuse only because we allow it to be, not because there is any legitimacy to it.

If you know you're an ass when you're drunk, well, it turns out, you can work on not being an ass when you're drunk, or, alternatively, you can simply not drink. If you do neither of these things, then you are responsible for every stupid thing you say and do while drunk.

To be clear, I am aware you did not explicitly mention drunkenness as a valid excuse; however, your phrasing strongly implied it by correlating the saying of stupid things with being drunk at a bar. As such, I picked at that point because it's an attitude I've seen before, and I think it's a problem. My apologies if you didn't explicitly mean it that way.
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Shame the link only talks about the JS part. So much other great stuff in this video.
Because I see tablets as a device that really needs software that's been design for it. It a package that I buy to have it work out of the box. Tablets aren't laptops without a keyboard, they are their own thing.

Laptops have a long tradition of multiple OSes giving a pretty good experience and being open to multiple OSes.
My bad - Åkesson, not Akesson! I have one in my iTunes that sounds like regular piano music at first, then these chiptune sounds sneak in and strangely enough it all sounds harmonic and rather pleasant to listen to.
The only newspapers I read anymore are local newspapers that are free to read. I still feel like online resources are a terrible way of finding out whats happening around you. I read news online, but I read about shows and events in local papers.
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ECC - very nice. Last I looked at Hetzner, ECC wasn't an option.

Question: (since your the OP), how do you deal with the huge latency to Germany from the USA?

This is more of a physics issue ("speed of light") than anything else.
And this journal functionality is completely separated from anything you can do in desktop iPhoto. I guess it works ok if you have every photo on your iPhone.
Won't run OSX

No, but it will run most of the apps that I run on OS X, or apps of equivalent functionality, so who cares. I bought my MBA because it offered the best hardware for my needs at the given price point, not because I'm a slave to OS X.

iPads can use Apple's wireless keyboards

Sure I can get a keyboard for the iPad, but I still can't (easily) run most of the apps I need to get work done.

And as an aside, I'd be fascinated to hear your argument as to how Windows is less general purpose than OS X
Adding if statements won't make the language Turing complete; there would need to be some sort of iteration or recursion construct for this to be the case.

If the proposed extension was the only change, and the language remained otherwise declarative, then any mutually-dependent if statements could be easily detected by the implementation (e.g. by constructing an expression graph) and either ignored or interpreted as always true or always false. Excel and other spreadsheet apps already include support for if expressions, and they remain purely declarative.

Having said all this, I think that great care should be taken when considering additions like this to CSS, since it could complicate implementations significantly and may lead to poor performance. All of this can be achieved using javascript, so I don't see why you couldn't just write a javascript library instead. jQuery is an example of this approach, which has proved very popular and hasn't required any changes in standards or browsers.
I've considered that connection, and given that A: it is blindingly obvious to me, a layman and B: I've never heard it from a cosmologist, I'm running on the theory there must be something very very wrong with the idea, because I'm just about 100% confident it would not have escaped their notice if it had even a faint trace of plausibility. (Second most-likely theory is they have talked about it and I've somehow not noticed, as a layman.)
The problem is that the world changes - constantly. What changes could mess you up? When we apply math to the real world we should assume as little as possible.

A/B testing is robust in the face of absolute changes in conversion rates so long as preferences remain consistent. Of course preferences do not always remain consistent, but that is substantially more likely to happen than that conversion rates do not budge.

Traditional MAB approaches are not robust in the face of absolute changes in conversion rates, even if preferences remain consistent. The problematic change is what happens if conversion rates improve while the worse version is ahead. Then you can come to very solidly to the conclusion that the worse version is better, and be stuck on that for a depressingly long time. The smarter the MAB algorithm, the more solidly you can make that mistake.

Is this likely? Well most businesses have regular fluctuations in conversion rates. Furthermore websites under continuous improvements are constantly introducing changes. It is therefore not uncommon to, while testing one thing, make independent changes that are likely to improve conversion rates.

But as I said, the simple change to throw away data collected during exploitation makes a MAB approach also robust in the face of absolute changes in conversion rates, as long as preferences remain consistent. Doing so increases average regret by a constant factor in the case where conversion rates never change.

(There are complications in the more than 2 arm case. In particular the fact that you're uncertain about A vs C doesn't mean that you should continue exploring version B. So some observations should count as exploration between a strict subset of the versions. But that's a technical detail.)
Probably, we are after all is said and done really high-end pattern matching machines and we keep thinking about things. I just wish more schools would teach what amazing pieces of work humanity is and save engineers a lot of startup time on new projects. It would be better if people started new projects with a respect for what humans can really do.
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>Apple's control over iPhones is bypass-able via jailbreaking (I've seen iPhones that dual boot android, which wouldn't be possible with a similar restriction.)

Is there really a way to install Android on iPhone 4/4S or the iPad?

Then why aren't a whole bunch of people doing it? Because no one really cares about dual booting a personal device and the associated headaches with keeping things in sync?
So, if the response from the conference director was that they should never have allowed the guy to come then it sounds like he was a known quantity in this regard.

When I've run conventions there has always been a note that the committee reserved the right to reject anybody's membership and did not have to give a reason. We've never had to use this but we've always had it as the nuclear option and had one person who we were ready to use it on.

If the person is already at the conference then you may need an acceptable behaviour policy that allows you to act, and you need it to be worded such that it applies to all conference attendees for the duration of the conference regardless of whether they are in conference facilities at the time. It's also best if it is short and broad, it's very easy to spot acceptable behaviour policies that have grown in response to specific events, and they are deeply discouraging when viewed by newcomers and outsiders.
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There is certainly higher latency but you can mitigate the effect by

1. Making lesser HTTP requests by using best known practices (for example YSlow recommendations)
2. When you start growing, moving static assets to CDN etc
3. When you grow even more move servers to US :)
I agree on everything you say.

But that doesn't mean that the manufacturer have to play ball and make it easy for you.

Also, when we as consumers chose the iPhone we at the same said that we don't care the slightest about being able to do what we want with our devices, from a hacker perspective the future isn't looking bright and that is our fault since we buy crap.