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I really like that comment feature on Django Book. Are there any drop-in widgets that can accomplish that, or would it require some custom coding?

Edit: Found a few (for wordpress anyway):

http://digress.it/

https://fascinator.usq.edu.au/trac/wiki/Annotate

http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/

Edit 2: I take that back...these plugins attempt to restructure your blog into a book. So they really aren't the same =(
Hi, We did post already few weeks ago, and while maybe it was inspirational (who knows) it differs from the other project as the other project was about making github gists as article, while our allow to write directly online, no need to write gist on github, people can share them, you have some reading stats of what you post, and you can keep saving drafts and just publish article. we are more focusing on the writing experience, think of it as an Iawriter for the web :) that's why is not static and we are testing during some private before opening up for everybody.
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Is this going to be your first undergraduate degree or do you already hold a bachelors? Just in case you have something to built on - there are a bunch of top notch Universities offering Masters in Applied Mathematics via Distance:

Columbia University:
http://www.cvn.columbia.edu/app_math_MS.php

Penn State:
http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/degrees-and-certificates/appl...

University of Washington:
http://www.amathonline.uw.edu/
They are not insuring it. The museum is insuring it.
The date we remember ought to be December 14, the last day people walked on the Moon (and possibly last in the far future too).
I wasn't reading into someone's mindset so much as trying to show that there exists a concept of evil on which most people can agree on. I like your support for standards and rational discussion, however, so peace be with you.
Yeah, but I think it's pretty interesting-- not because of the complexity of what's created, but because of the materials.
The law makes it illegal for them to sell or possess the eagle art piece. You clearly missed the part of the article where it said that a special dispensation from FWS was required for them to continue possessing the eagle art piece so long as it was kept in a museum and was not sold.
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Well, until the Credit Card Act of 2009. Now you have to be 21 to get a credit card unless you can demonstrate significant means to pay it off or have a cosigner. I managed to sneak through the last year before this went into effect, but considering all the issues my friends have just with their student loans, I'm sure it's saved people a lot of misery, even if the nanny-state aspect of it still rankles me a little...
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I agree! I can really imagine dalton's internal struggle now as he tries to validate the idea in the real world. But I'm more impressed at the way this experiment is set up.

@dalton: Maybe you should add the infamous "Kudos" button to the join.app.net site ;) !
These bad actors are so rare that pointing to lack of an event in 16 years in Australia (population less than 1/10 that of the U.S.) does not mean very much. There was a lesser event in 2002 in Australia: the Monash University shooting. [1]

The freedom to use firearms for sport or self defense is lost. Some people value that freedom more than you do. Aren't there still exceptions in Australia for members of gun clubs and for people who can demonstrate need for weapons (specifically, let's say in the outback)? What will your response be if one of them loses touch with reality and shoots people?

Gun ownership and availability may or may not actually lead to more deaths in mass killing events. China has strict gun control. What happens when people go crazy in China? Mass killing via tractor (17 dead, 20 injured). [2] Crazy people intent on mass murder find ways to kill people. I don't know how to prevent that without taking away their sentience.

There are plenty of other incidents [3] with higher death and injury tolls than this latest one. Arson, bombings, poison plots...

People are under increased social stress due to economics, perceived lack of bona fide political representation, among other things. Most people just complain to their friends or on reddit when they're frustrated. Very few people suffer a break from reality and go on a rampage, but unfortunately some do. It is not obvious that banning guns, if such a thing could even be done in the U.S. (it cannot be, without many more of these events) will substantially reduce death tolls, serious injuries, or numbers of mass-killing events.

Taking a page from Schneier's terrorist plot survey years ago, how many people would die do you think if some lunatic set about methodically trying to disrupt the power grid, in the middle of summer?

There are ways to kill lots of people without using guns, some more direct and gruesome than others, but all quite lethal. Most of the people moaning about how these things wouldn't happen if not for guns seem to forget that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University_shooting

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebei_tractor_rampage

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers#Other_n...
Yes, this is why I prefer Udacity, too.

By all means Codeacademy should continue with the scheduled courses and deadlines, there are benefits to that. Just leave the content and discussions available for those who want to self-study at their own pace and convenience. Perhaps only make the certificates available to those who take the class on schedule.
Thanks, nick. Good luck to you :)
Your arguments have no basis in the law *as it exists in this reality. The law makes it a felony to sell or possess bald eagle remains. The only reason that family still "has" this art piece is because actual possession of the art piece lies with the museum; the family retains "legal" ownership but cannot ever actually exercise possession without violating the law.

The family does not have a reason to believe that a sale to a museum would be approved since that would be a clear exception to the explicit text of the law. The prior "exception" does not change this because it does not actually conflict with the terms of the law.

You need to either (1) learn the law or (2) stop pretending like you know what you are talking about. Armchair lawyers like you ruin the discussion of legal articles on HN.
Well, it's like they say: if you're not paying, you're not the customer, you're the product.
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Or, conversely:

Then they call you to the big auditorium one day for a big reveal, and you find out it's called iOS. We all know how that turned out.

You can't pick on secrecy just because a company made a bad product under it, just like you can't laud it just because a company made a good product under it. You have to accept it as a tool of the trade, and hope the people in charge know what they are doing.
Because presumably the author is liberal. More importantly, if it was more evenly split then it would be more of a wash.
The key issue here is that the artwork was created prior to the law illegalizing private possession of bald eagle remains. It was on those grounds that the family received special dispensation from FWS to maintain legal ownership (but not physical possession) of the artwork. (And b/c they do not possess the eagle artwork, they do not violate the law.)
>valued them at easily over $100 million if used to sue a number of major companies, including Facebook. I'd like to believe that I've created a lot of economic good in my life, but not that much //

That's not how market based capitalism works though. The valuation is based on the valuation of FB which is based on the ability to drive a market to exchange shares at a particular value. In effect the company behind the shares is irrelevant as possessing the shares, or borrowing them, can turn a profit for traders whether the company is successful or not.

In this sort of economy you're riding on FB's coat tails. If FB crashes or booms that doesn't make your contribution and different in real value to mankind but it makes the value in currency of your contribution fluctuate.

>if you succeed in being bought out, they will pass out of your power //

Only if you choose to give them up in that way. Also they'd only pass like that if they're owned by the company anyway, in which case they're not your patents. If you sold them to the company then you could have made conditions on the sale or simply licensed the patent instead.

>Then OpenID came along, solved it in the same way that I did //

I struggled to understand the link because both of US7774612 and US8209541 appear in their main claims (1) to use a shared secret and I wasn't aware this was an optional component of OpenID (eg http://openid.net/pres/protocolflow-1.1.png). In the first of the patents '12 does the existing storage on the first server of "usernames" for authentication with both servers match with OpenID? It seems to require that the OpenID trust provider would have to hold information on the site to be accessed (consumer) prior to initiation of the request by the user? That is for example, to post a comment on blogger.com my OpenID provider would need to have a blogger.com username already stored before my request for authentication.

As an aside do you believe the claimed invention was both novel and non-obvious at the time at which you received the patent? Do you think the company was spurred on by the idea of receiving a patent, if they haven't used the patent to license out the process then why didn't they make a defensive publication instead do you suppose?
The suggestion strikes me as motivated by a curious mixture of scientific and pagan themes.
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It's worth noting that this list has notable omissions like Columbine. I'm not sure about the accuracy of the rest of it, but omitting such recent notables makes me question the utility of the list.
Nonsense. Don't be fooled. Evil is the intentional causation of calamity and this incident is exactly that. No serious person is claiming "evil" has extension in and of itself. I don't see why under your view "evil" is any less a phenomenon than "cold" or "detached." I suspect it is just more in vogue to have that view.
Perhaps someone with a projector that could show entertaining films against the brick walls on either side of us.
“the highest rate in a western first-world country (= similar culture base) that isn't the US is Israel at 2.1, less than half the US.”

And since Israel is in the middle of a civil war, those numbers can be easily explained. More curious is Finland, a western first-world country, which has the same homicide rate as Israel (per your link.)
The last line - "We know that quotas make cops do shitty things, or academic admissions offices do shitty things, and they make bloggers do shitty things too"

Indeed
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>Beyond that, I can't really think of any big Canadian tech company

Cognos (Ottawa). Acquired by IBM in 2008 for almost $5bln.
Folks who are intrigued (whether as hypothetical users/customers, or as future colleagues / collaborators, shoot me an email!)
You need to drop your corporate thinking first. I suggest you get into some projects to figure out if you are able to work in and with a startup. Note that I am saying that with a background of 15 years in corporate. ;)

Most of the startups are actually very busy doing stuff (as in they don't are yet at the point understanding what proper Communcation means sigh), but http://hascore.com/ has a good list of links.

I will be posting an overview posting asap with additional links.
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It's almost ridiculous how some people get so indignant about CIA; I can almost feel their spittle as they shout at their computer screens. At the same time, people get equally outraged when terrorists kill people and then want to blame CIA for their failings.

It's a bad world. I am not sympathetic to the plight of those who associate with terrorists (even if they themselves haven't committed a terrorist act) and find themselves it Gitmo or dead. Are mistakes made? Of course, CIA has a long history of public f'ups, however their degree of success is noteworthy, though often unheralded. Bin Laden was found because of CIA, the Iranian and North K nuke programs have been slowed and countless people AREN'T dead because of CIA. The Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Bloc was hastened due to CIA and Reagan forcing the issue by spending the Soviets into insolvency because of the arms race. Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton were avid weilders of covert action -- it's not a political party issue.

On the British side, MI6 is right there with CIA. The old Deuxiéme Bureau as well as German Intelligence is highly active in the black operations side of geopolitical affairs. This isn't peculiar to America, though in America, we have a (mostly) free press and a scandal-hungry populace that tends to sensationalize missteps or failures.

Let's not through the baby out with the bathwater. I'm far more worried about getting blown up on the PATH train than ending up in CIA (or their proxy's) crosshairs.
> There will come a point where wifi will defeat cellular in terms of technology.

This will only happen when people stop locking WiFi access points. It's rare for me to be in an area with no WiFi at all (except for parks, and freeways), but they are almost always locked.

Is it true that if the WiFi is not locked then all the data is transmitted in the clear?
I pay them $194.24/mo for five lines with data and texting add-ons. Isn't that sufficient to be the customer instead of the product?
Google should thank Facebook and Amazon from the bottom of their hearts
That's not enough. If WiFi had a higher power there would be more interference and things would be slower.

Cell data server works mainly because they put up a HUGE number of towers. But on the flip side, because they put up a limited number of towers, and make sure to not interfere with themself by carefully adjusting the transmit power.
There's many good malts outside Speyside. Many of the distilleries round the Western Isles are awesome.
> To be fair, those were considered reasonable expectations until the last few decades.

Meh, until the last few decades, people just invested in a bunch of kids they hoped would take care of them in their old age.
> There is something useful in the pragmatist view.

More specifically, there's just some things one should pragmatically avoid. Running out of toilet paper: don't let it happen. Doing the same during a part: even more so. Angry mobs of the destitute: If one can see this one coming for decades, one simply has no excuse. It just shouldn't happen.
This is a really awesome idea, but it's missing an option to give a comment with my confusion. It would be much clearer for the author if I could specify what exactly confuses me.
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I really like this idea, though I wonder what the Omni Group thinks of the logo...
A2 is probably a great place to start a software company. The city is very livable, cheaper than most major metros, and has a steady source of talent. More importantly, the market in A2 is small enough to reduce turnover; you can list the well-known companies on two hands, so absent an offer from one of them, team members can either (a) relocate out of the whole region or (b) accept a terrible IT job closer to DTW.

(I worked for 4 years in A2, right next to Dug, and apart from everything I have to say about A2 I wouldn't hesitate to go work for him at Duo if I had an offer).
You can also do it in one, if you imagine the line to lie on the surface of the earth and to wrap around the entire earth three times.
Which patent?

Also:

>"Patents should protect r&d cost, things that would not happen otherwise" //

Can you conceive of a method by which patents can fairly allow for R&D costs to be recouped but would not allow money to be recouped that hadn't been paid out? Does this removal of incentive trouble you at all - the premise on which patents are founded is reward for sharing an idea with the public, without that reward will inventors share the details of their inventions?

Personally I would just make the patent term significantly shorter. I think the pace of technological change has advanced enough that this won't cause a significant problem in recouping R&D costs. A term of 8 years, say, would allow enough time to recoup expense and gain a reward whilst allowing the public domain to benefit from the invention much sooner - it would be nice to put a revenue cap in place instead of a short term (to protect a small inventor who produces something beneficial for a small sector at great cost, or similar) but in practice I think that would be too difficult to legislate for fairly and without leaving too many holes for major corps to exploit.
.02 from someone who does data analysis / ML and has an undergrad in math:

A math undergrad is a nearly total waste of time. If you want to do data analysis, learn to do data analysis. Real analysis and proofs and abstract algebra and diffeq are fascinating yet utter wastes of time.

If you want to learn useful stuff, take:
applied calc, applied linear algebra, applied probability, applied stats, applied ML. And nothing else. All the skills you build proving stuff are, at best, tangential. And you don't need a bit of it to do things like derive gibbs samplers or EM samplers.

If you can take an activity such as someone interacting with ads, model that as a graphical model, derive a gibbs sampler and implement it, you'll be worlds ahead of even most grad students. Focus on getting there and it should be great for your career. But a math degree is just a shiny distraction.

Oh, and one more thing: if you want to work in a particular area, then a degree in that area may be useful. Eg bio, genetics, chemistry, fluids, optics, etc.

edit2: Please don't think I'm arguing against you getting a math degree. If you want one, get one. Just understand it's probably at least 80% intellectual masturbation instead of job skills. For example, as far as I can see in production machine learning, there is virtually no integration. Oh there are integrals all over the place but none of them are feasible and they'll all have to be numerically evaluated or worked around. So all those integration skills people spend endless hours learning are basically useless because the real world has virtually zero nice integrals. So understanding how to manipulate integrals and how to numerically evaluate them is very valuable, but not well covered in virtually all calc classes.

edit3: consider looking at the community colleges in your state. They often are stupid cheap and offer online courses.
I agree with your overall sentiment. However, you're not portrating the enemy nuke programs in a way that I think is appropriate. In actuality, US leaders allowing adamantly anti-western nations to make so much progress towards acquiring nukes is probably the biggest national security failure in US history, and an act of utter and complete cowardice of the highest degree.
>Is it true that if the WiFi is not locked then all the data is transmitted in the clear?

Yes.
>"For those who were paying attention at the time, however, the writing has been on the wall for too long and Microsoft ignored it arrogantly until recently."

Microsoft wrote down their aQuantive acquisition in full. There is no writing on any wall. They aren't in bad shape. They actually beat analyst expectations; stock was up on earnings report.
Personally I find it over-designed.

Why is there a graph plotting MPG and Regen (what is regen btw)? Why is there only one gear state (I use the dash to see where to shift gears)? Why do I need a wifi icon to tell me whether I have wifi or not?
Stable releases branch from Linus's tree. 3.4 branched on May 20th.

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The attackers names are apparently Will Frey III and Austin Zehnder, Sophmore lacrosse players attending the Trinity High School in Lexington, KY.

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Someone should change their name to "Olympic Games 2012 Two Thousand And Twelve Twenty Twelve Gold Silver Bronze London Medals Sponsor Sponsors Mister Smith", or "Olympic Games Sponsors Mister Smith" for short. Then set up a burger van in collaboration with the Clan MacDonald, somewhere in central London.
"There are no absolute statements."

This is exactly the kind of trap that will send a mathematician off on a few minute or years long tangent.

I know it contributes little; given the context i couldn't resist.
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Interesting project, but can you please use a better title in future? When the title is the same as the domain name, there's no indication of what is behind the link.

Perhaps something like "BeatBearing: arrange ball bearings on a grid to create rhythms"?
They're not moonlighting for the Zetas or the Russian mob because if they were, they'd lose billions of dollars of CIA money.
>> I am not sympathetic to the plight of those who associate with terrorists (even if they themselves haven't committed a terrorist act) and find themselves it Gitmo or dead.

There is a view that the US actions are unfair and unjust. The delivery method is not terrorism but the end result is indistinguishable in terms of justness or fairness. For example, torturing a man not found guilty of any crimes.

With that in mind, you yourself would be a co-conspirator of the nature you mention your lack of care for above.

If A.N. Other opposing, aggrieved party was to become as effective as the CIA at culling people, such as yourself or your loved ones (in no way are you or your loved ones doing anything "wrong" although you do sympathise with the American unaccountable "bully" philosophy) i'm certain your view would change overnight.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not here.
I've thought about that, but the problem is, such an encumbrance would zero out the value of the patent. Your employer wants you to file patents not because they make their products more valuable, but because they make the company more valuable.

A possible compromise might be joint ownership of patents. Maybe that's what you had in mind? Under an arrangement like that, the engineer wouldn't have the right to stop his employer or a future owner of the patent from suing people, but he would have the ability to license the patent rights himself.

I like this idea because it leaves the value judgment to me. If I don't agree that the cause is just, I can stop any offensive legal action simply by offering to license the IP to the defendant for $1. If I work for Google and they want to get into some kind of galactic pissing contest with Apple, they can knock themselves out for all I care. But if my patent ends up the hands of Uniloc, Acacia, or that Myhrvold asshole, I can shut them down.

Co-ownership of patents would still devalue the IP substantially, but that might be ameliorated if I agree in advance not to license the rights to anyone who has initiated any other legal action against the patent holder. That would help maintain the patent's defensive value. It could still be used in a FRAND licensing pool, for instance.