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> I find that many people who dismiss Wikipedia entirely didn't ever make that good-faith effort to understand and contribute.

I find many people people who dismiss wikipedia entirely did make that good faith effort to understand and contribute.

They gave up after

- writing articles (with sources) about early 20th C Olympic athletes which were bulk deleted as not notable

- making small changes to articles to fix spelling, grammar, or style. Each change required extensive reading of the MoS to get right. Almost every change was reverted within minutes to the previous version by someone using twinkle, or some auto revert tool, or someone with an image of a police-officer style "vandal patrol". (Some of the fixes were clearly fixes from something incorrect to correct. A few of them were matters of style, bringing things into compliance with the MoS, or making something consistent with the rest of the page.) Worse than having the changes reverted was to sometimes have a warning templated to their talk page.

- the hatred for people who edit without making accounts.

- a bizarre process of user name review after the username was deemed "confusing". (Note the software has hard coded limits on what can become a username; further there are a bunch of filters to prevent certain words being used). The username was not similar to any wikipedian username, nor to any function or process of wikipedia, nor to any kid of role account (real or otherwise.) What could the name be confused with? This, coupled with hatred for IP editing, lead to death.

So, now, we both have our anecdotes about people who've had poor experiences with wikipedia.

Yours is interesting. Creating an article about yourself is clearly a bad idea. But how did his experience end up with him hating wikipedia, and not being pleased that wikipedia has strong process in place to prevent odd biases? Why is it acceptable to chase off expert users just because they've made a mistake? Why do you assume he made no good faith effort to contribute, and not that he made a mistake, and tried to contribute, and got chased off by over vigorous editors.
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I think all dual core phones and up support 720p decoding pretty well.
Theoretically, the copyright date tells you when the copyright will expire: a work Copyright 2000 will become public domain ten years sooner than one Copyright 2010. However, since neither of those seem likely to ever expire in the first place, this mostly only matters with very old works (around the start of last century).
They use it as a proxy for the notability criteria laid out in [0] and the various more concrete notability criteria for various genres. I think that's all right. But it often comes down to people subjectively feeling one way or another about an article's notability and then applying the rules in a way that delivers the desired outcome.
That is an interesting claim about DDG being a wrapper for bing. Could you back it up with citations please?
Yes, lack of traffic is hard. In that situation you should try to find companies that you believe run a lot of tests and copy what they do until you have sufficient volume to run tests for yourself.
> I am honestly asking, is there a simple reason why, lets say python, can't be easily deployed on shared hosting.

The standard execution model for PHP apps is, request comes in, code is executed, code goes away, resources returned. PHP is optimised to suit this model. For nearly anything else, you have one or more long-running processes which take requests, thus skipping the code loading/interpreting/compiling stage, which tends to be expensive.

It's quite easy to do python CGI on shared hosting without concerns, but it's not going to be fast. Once you start looking at things like FastCGI or WSGI, you have a process which, at least some of the time, is persistent.
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No need though as there is a quick high level overview here:
http://www.f-i.com/google/ramayana/
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Thanks stcredzero. Will get it more peer editing next time. Glad you enjoyed the article :)
Compare e^Pi and Pi^e ?

EDIT: OK, that one is more for engineer. How about: find a bijection between R and P(N)?
Please find that some of us find the technical aspects of this conversation very fascinating. It's nice to jump into the mind of another developer and see how they approach problems.
I thought it was common knowledge that DDG uses Bing and a few other sources, except Google. The difference is that they don't track the users in any way and they don't put ads on the page. The fact that it uses Bing is why relevancy is not very good on DDG, though.

https://www.ixquick.com is also another alternative to DDG, doing much of the same thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixquick
This is not true. Did you read the answers? 32-bit OSs with PAE support can use all the RAM. Most processes will only be able to use 4GB, but that's per process, not for the whole system.

So AD1066 doesn't need a 64-bit Windows, just any 32-bit Windows newer than XP.
My point of view is that if you have an A/B testing platform in place (pretty easy to get up these days - for a first pass you can just insert a piece of JavaScript and pass the work off to various companies that do the stats for you), and you have a demo prepared, it is very little additional work to A/B test two landing pages for said demo. One of which requires signup to see the demo, the other of which shows you the demo before asking for signup.

If you have any traffic at all, the habit of A/B testing will quickly pay for itself.
One additional point: the masters almost always had great ideas they took too far.

The "conversation" that spans centuries consists of brilliant minds each getting a little glimpse into something sublime, then spending most of their lives taking these concepts to the extreme -- past where they are useful.

This means that the pattern that many young learners have, where they latch on to a person and then hero-worship, (this is the guy who figured it all out!) makes for a really bad way to follow the conversation. You're always trying to find the best person, and you're always trying to make his/her ideas fit into all of the material. Much better to passively and fluidly accept new information. Think of it more like meeting a bunch of really smart people in a bar, listening to their philosophy of life, then meeting the next bunch. The question becomes absorbing and understanding and being able to apply the way they think, not the ultimate truth. Most things you consume are not physics. Hell, at some level physics isn't even physics. Humans are model-builders, and the models are always incomplete. The kind of certainty we yearn for just doesn't exist in the real world.

Perhaps another way of putting this would be "Deep learning lightly held"
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In my opinion, though, that's precisely a part of the problem: every couple years, there's a new One True Way to develop for Windows. I understand that breaking with old development frameworks is sometimes a good and necessary thing to do, but the sheer frequency of non-incremental changes to Windows development methodologies seems problematic to me.
I think DDG is best considered a search broker, it federates the queries out to other engines, like bing, or others under query syntax control, and I believe they are also crawling some or their own content, although that's mostly beyond any individuals capability at this point because the internet has become quite large. The broker also merges federation sources, however it isn't a search engine in the traditional sense because the indexes (posting lists) are in google, bing, lucene etc.

* edited for autocorrect errors
I can't tell from your comment history if you're a pathological liar or just a really persistent troll.
Well it all comes down to what metrics you use to decide the importance of social networks, doesn't it.

If you're judging by the ability to interact with your real life contacts online then facebook is probably the best social network(gah!)

If you think that meeting like minded people & having awesome interactions with them is more important, then maybe Google+ is the most important social network.

If you agree with Jane McGonigal that games can help make the world a better place, then WoW is probably the most important social network.

But if you think that collaboration on software is more important(and facebook & WoW are softwares), then GitHub is probably the most important social network.
It all depends on what you rate higher.

And putting myself in the shoes of the writer, I think it's the end product that comes out of social networks, is the metric he's pointing to. While other social networks directly affect the lives of more people, much much more than GitHub can ever hope to, the products coming out of GitHub are, or would soon affect more people than any single social network could hope to do.

Someone out there is building the next facebook, the next WoW, the next Linux, or maybe the next Google and it's likely that GitHub will play a part in it.

Keeping that in mind, I'd say that yes, GitHub is maybe the most important social network on the internet.
Of course a calorie is a calorie, but this is more than often used as a simplistic view of how the body processes food. Now it is clear that both the type and amount of food one consumes influences the hormonal system and gene expression. It is naive to keep thinking just in terms of calories.
Set your spin filters to maximum and try this Microsoft article from last year: https://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/...

I think they've sued a few more vendors into joining since then.
Those formulas have the appeal of simplicity, but it's more complicated than that. For starters, caloric burn is highly correlated with caloric intake. They're not independent variables by a long shot. Consume less and your metabolism will actually shift down to burn less. Burn more by exercise and your appetite will increase to partially compensate.

Also, exercise is actually a low load on our body calorically (for most types of exercise). The overwhelming majority of calories burnt are for maintaining homeostasis, and have nothing to do with aerobic exercise.

Here's an example that shows how people are deceived. If you're an average male, and you start using a high-tech treadmill, the calories/hour measure might say something like "120 calories/hour". Sounds great, right? Well, what it doesn't say is that 100 calories of that measurement are just due to your basal metabolic rate, the amount you would burn just sitting in a chair. Running (possibly the most efficient exercise) itself only burnt 20 calories an hour. A carrot is sufficient to cover that.

Plus, exercise is not the only output. Heat production is an even better one. The amount of calories expended in maintaining body temperature is way higher than exercise. There's also excretion, but luckily, nobody's advocating laxatives as a weight-loss regimen yet. :)
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It's been on my mind for a long time, although in a broader context. It seems one of the avenues left to "us" "reasonable" people is, to use the antiquated term, "shunning".

With facial recognition and the like, it could even be taken down to the individual context and innumerable situations. Though I consider this a dangerous path to tread.

Such people may have large bank balances. But if "nobody" -- or at least, nobody they need and of above average competence -- will take their money, perhaps that would send a message. Or, sink them. Either way.

The message being, no matter how "rich" you are, you are part of and embedded in a larger community. No [one] is an island. Or, "don't sh-t where you..."
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They still let you try it out instantly, they just made the font pretty small on the link to actually do that.

https://manage.stripe.com/register

Note: see the skip this step link
It's easier to hold one of the contacts of the battery directly on the bulb and one end of a single wire on the bottom of the battery, all with one hand, then use another hand to touch the wire to the other contact on the light bulb. The problem is they didn't intuitively understand bigger light bulbs when operated on lower voltage (and thus lower current).

The funny physics answer would be to assemble correctly and then point out that it's lit, just exceedingly dimly (producing mainly IR).
ddg doesn't just use bing, it uses a multitude of sources. http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...
Do you think Twitter has the potential to grow into a new kind of search engine (http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/what-twitters-n...)?

Unlikely I know, but their access to true real-time data presents interesting possibilities I think.
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I wonder how far Linux would have gotten without people contributing to "scratch their own itch".

Self-interest is something to be harnessed and channeled to promote a greater good (better kernel code, more article contributions), not something to be chased away.
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This is wonderful news for OUYA preorderers.
>how do I upgrade the RAM in a Galaxy Tab or a Kindle Fire?

You probably cannot, but iFixit gives the Fire a repairability score of 8 and the iPad a score of 2.
The number of people wanting to create pages about everything is lass than the number of people willing to maintain pages about everything.

Thus, assuming no vandals or spammers ever create pages, you have very many pages created, and not so many people available to check and maintain those pages. Over the years spammers and vandals insert some changes. Or the information just becomes out of date.

So, now someone has to pay to store and host this stuff, which is not ever used by anyone, and which is out of date or full of links to handbags and shoes and medication, or with "BOB IS GAY LOLOLOLOL".
It's a defensible point of view, but I'd then ask for another.
You need to ask the OS to remap your address space to different area of physical memory. Windows has the Address Windowing Extensions[1], which allow processes to reserve multiple blocks of memory and switch between them.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Windowing_Extensions
> Linux fully supports PAE whereas Windows only uses it for execution restriction.

That is not correct. Windows also supports full PAE, but adds licensing-based restrictions. The Datacenter and Enterprise editions of Windows Server 2008 will provide access to all 64GB RAM PAE can provide.
Not in arithmetic progression.
Seth is a very interesting fellow with some fascinating ideas (butter improves mental reasoning, standing on one leg can improve sleep, flavorless calories interfere with weight setpoints), but I think he's made a mistake in arguing against man-made climate change.
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That is not correct, Windows is actually fully aware of the physical RAM on the machine and is technically able to use it, but has a license-based restriction scheme only letting a subset of the RAM be used.
Just look up the affects of insulin, or why a low GI diet is good. Here you go: http://health.ninemsn.com.au/dietandnutrition/nutrition/6938...
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I dropped my phone and to get a replacement the other month. I did not re-install my work email or twitter. I think it was definitely a good decision. We have our web app integrated with PagerDuty, so if something really bad happens and our service is down I'll get an SMS. Otherwise, if it's just an email, it can wait until I'm at a computer.
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The most important social network: GitHub ... (as long as you're a developer)

Clearly my mom has no reason to know github even exists.
If it's an NDK app, then no it won't run. The Logitech Revue (aka Google TV standalone box) has an Intel Atom processor, not an ARM, unlike most every other Android device.
Interesting. You realize though, that prior to agriculture, not a single human ate anything like what you describe, right? You list a lot of grains, and those are a relatively recent addition to the human diet.

"Extreme" is a function of time and place. What seems normal for modern America might be very abnormal relative to the historical record.
I am currently reading Plato's works (chronologically). As you mention I keep asking myself "why did he not write anything? he knew he was a teacher of virtues." Now I am looking forward to the answer in Phaedrus.

Socrates, by means of Plato, Plato, by means of Aristotle, and Aristotle himself are all examples of masters, original communicators. Much of the way we think today, not just the philosophy, but even the mechanism, has to do with their writings. For example it appears the concept that something is either right or wrong comes from Aristotle, and that affects even our laws and sciences where as other cultures may have 4 possibilites: right, wrong, both right and wrong, and neither one nor the other. (I have not verified this, I just heard it last week)
> NT kernel certainly supports PAE, but likely MS has disabled

Nope. They can't actually disable it since the NX bit requires that PAE be enabled.

The limitation comes from licensing and tiering, and is handled in the kernel independently from PAE.
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On the latter point, because I chatted with him over dinner, and as far as I could tell the only thing he really cared about was that he "should" have a Wikipedia article and they wouldn't "let" him have one. I've had quite a few experiences with academics (I'm also an academic) who seem to be primarily interested in how they can get Wikipedia to cover them or their work, i.e. their main goal is to use it to get their work more well known or highly cited. Not as much interest in how Wikipedia is as a quality encyclopedia in general.

When I would suggest that it might be better to start editing in some other area not directly theirs, for example start with important classic theorems in theoretical CS, and that kind of thing, the response was a less direct version of: I have more important things to do than write random articles for free, and anyway there are already good textbooks that cover those theorems.

(Not all my experiences with academics are bad in that regard, but I've found that, partly due to academic incentives, most just don't have the time/interest to write something that doesn't contribute to their career advancement. There are definite exceptions, though, especially among profs with the luxury of already being tenured.)
'Read everything on the net with a grain of salt.'. Agreed. A lot of the time the internet is about as representative as graffiti is of the majority of people living in an area you have never been to before.
For reference, I never took "freshman calculus" and never did Taylor Series at University, and I have a PhD in discrete math. I do know about TS, but it was axtra-curricula.
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I still think Reddit looks awful; it's the Craigslist of social news. The blue links filling a white page looks like 1995 to me. The original Digg at least looked somewhat clean and organized, with a sensible use of colors and lines to demarcate content. Hacker News is worlds above both, with stylishly simple design and colors that are easy on the eyes.
Hey, we newbs can contribute SOMETHING--namely useful content for other newbs (that rises above the noise). Newbs have to learn somewhere, and if experts aren't contributing, then to whom do we turn?
My understanding is that it's only Aero Glass that's being canned, that being the smoked glass effect transparency on everything. Presumably it's a battery life thing, since even bargain basement onboard GPUs can handle it performance wise these days.
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Definitely; more specifically, the people pushing for v4 paid more attention to those sites than to reddit.
Censorship is when you try to prevent a class of ideas or knowledge from being communicated in any medium. Dictators try to stop criticism, regardless of whether it's by pamphlet or radio broadcast. That is not the issue we're talking about at all.

We're talking about editing a specific body of work (Wikipedia) to exclude things deemed unfit. In fact, the motto of the NY Times is "all the news that's fit to print". That's editorial control, not censorship, because they don't try to prevent Small Town Weekly from printing a story about a lost dog, they just refuse to print it in the NY Times.
Why, science in general does happen here.
Small ideas are low risk and have a high chance of payout. Can you blame people for taking the path of least resistance to success?

Further, if your small idea makes you rich you can always funnel later time and success-money into altruistic charities and start ups.
i think this plus the fact that nexus q has been hacked to run apps might be a boon for nexus q.

[1]http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/nexus-q-hacked-to-launch-...
> Client editions of Windows do not support PAE while server editions do.

That is not correct, client editions fully support PAE.

> As for why PAE isn't supported on client editions

It is supported (and enabled), the limits are implemented separately and independently.

> this isn't a licensing problem (you can buy x64 editions for the same price that have massively increased RAM limits)

Windows 7 Home Basic x64 will only make 8GB RAM available, Premium will restrict to 16GB, professional and up will allow up to 192GB. Meanwhile Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Datacenter allow 2TB. These are very much licensing restrictions, as is Windows 7 Starter (x86)'s 2GB limit.

> but rather, Microsoft playing it safe with driver compatibility.

That is the excuse they give for it, yes. It just happens to make no sense when applied to the x64 limits I quoted above, to Starter's 2GB limit (and Vista Starter's even lower 1GB) or to e.g. Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation's 8GB limit (2008 R2 only runs on x64 and Itanium so 32b isn't even remotely a factor)

> so it's more a hard limit on addressable physical memory

It's not "hard", since it's merely based on the licensing mode of the kernel. It can even be hacked out.
Syncing up with the repo, it will certainly be interesting to see how this runs on the NexusQ that I received from I/O
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