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Regardless of the comments about how negative this is I commend your transparency and creativity.
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See the famous http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.meg/wcc/facility-of-the-mo... for the UK's worst cycle paths
The "guy you're replying to" is Waseem Daher, who was COO and co-founder of KSplice, a startup acquired by Oracle. KSplice provides a mechanism for streaming updates to Linux Kernel and used to support CentOS, Ubuntu and Fedora. After Oracle acquired KSplice, they discontinued support for CentOS while continuing to support the other distros. Oracle also no longer makes available the formerly GPLed code of KSplice.

lxnews.org/2011/07/31/centos-might-re-implement-ksplice/
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I was trying to go for a "for linux nerds, by linux nerds" vibe, so I'm amused that your complaint is "This doesn't sound corporate enough".

At the end of the day, my view here is that Oracle has actually produced something useful, but lots of people are blind to it, in no small part because of what ultimately boils down to zealotry (which doesn't seem like an awesome reason to me). Hence the point of trying to get this out there.
Right, but DDG provides a TON of them so you don't have to add them all manually. For example, I only need to search imdb like once ever 6 months or so, and I don't want to have to think about if I've already set up a browser search for it and go to the trouble of setting it up if not.
I'd prefer to use RH company's oomph, instead of Oracle

Using Oracle is a liability as the Google trial showed us.
well made, but in my opinion, it's just not much fun.
Well that seems like some pretty severe backpedaling, since by bringing up past offensive tactics by Google, it was imminently apparent that you were implying this was another example of an offensive tactic.

But regardless of who is good and who is bad (and trust me, I have plenty of bad feelings toward Google myself), this was fundamentally Opera's mistake, not Google's. There is nothing in the ECMAScript standard that says that there is an upper limit on how long a statement can be, and that's the end of the matter.
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Great, exactly what I want, although it probably doesn't need to go through DDG it works perfectly fine. Google will let me load up the add as search engine dialogue but won't let me press okay to add it.
Remap some of your most used shortcuts to alt. It just requires you to bend your thumb under your palm, and less so than most keyboards. I very much like to use Alt + JKLI to move the cursor.
I am always annoyed with articles promoting safe cycling when illustrating pictures show cyclists without helmets or any other form of protective gears.

In Belgium there is a small movement promoting bikes and there are all kind of hipsters, bobo and 50 years old grey hair vegan on fake vintage bikes riding without helmets and without any sense of road conduct. Good bikers wearing yellow jackets and helmets are really rare ; I am beginning to think the formers are ruining the latters's image.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerographite

Owing to its interconnected tubular network structure, aerographite resists tensile forces much better than other carbon foams as well as silica aerogels. It has a very low Poisson ratio, as demonstrated by a complete shape recovery of a 3-mm-tall sample after it was compressed down to 0.1 mm. Its ultimate tensile strength (UTS) depends on material density...

How soon will we see this used instead of metal frameworks or latex foam? In aircraft wings, car seats, etc?

Even more interesting: Upon external compression, the conductivity increases, along with material density. Pressure-sensitive aircraft wings? Car seats that know what their occupants weigh?
You may find something interesting in the Stanford Entrepreneurs Corner podcast series:

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html
When that's 22,000 days you might have a point, but I expect to be around then, I don't think any of my projects will be useful and unchanged by then.
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You're right, and it's something I thought about, but per-browser extensions are obviously more time intensive than a basic 30 minute web app. Plus, I'm not sure if Chrome's extension API supports messing with search queries or not and some quick Googling didn't turn anything up (does anyone know?)
Apple has a patent on this.[1]

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
Would Jobs & Woz created an "Apple 1" Kickstarter?
Most UK banks do this (RBS, Co-op and Halifax all do, and I've heard reports that others do as well)
Except for that DuckDuckGo has hundreds of them already set up for you and the list is growing all the time: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html. I suppose you could curate the list of queries you use for yourself, but I find it easier to just use theirs.
You may be (roughly) correct about the two kinds of people, another way of saying that people are either "normal" or "sociopathic." But they don't cleave politically right and left on that basis. And there is plenty of empathy and compassion for one's fellow man on the political right, though there is a difference in philosophy about what helps him and what doesn't.
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Tweets can detail events of local, national and global importance which may only have value in hindsight. To risk losing a stream of tweets regarding a milestone event because you don't like Twitter's API policy seems quite small sighted.

99.9999% of what comes through twitter is wasted bits. I still see value in archiving it all to guarantee capturing a real time log of an historic election, the death of a notable person, the announcement of a major discovery, or the day to day thoughts during a protest or revolution.

We have 19th century diaries detailing a rector's daily meals for his entire adult life while we have recovered nearly nothing regarding the poor living in slums in London, except through the distant scornful commentary of the gentry.

The LoC shouldn't be endorsing Twitter as a company, but the users of Twitter have endorsed it by logging the course of human events.
I don't think labeling people who distrust Oracle as religious fanatics will turn the discussion into a constructive direction.
In-Q-Tel was one of the first investors in Google anyways
It's working extremely well on Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo, where it's the recommended way of building apps (still on the Qt4 branch).

There has been work towards making porting to other platforms easier with the Lighthouse project, but I guess the official porting and integration work should be Google's and Apple's responsibility.

There are unofficial ports for Android and iOS, and actually a few Qt apps on App Store and Android market already.
Then use a browser that supports open search, type "imdb <tab>" in your address bar and whatever you want to search for, no need to use "bang-notation". I rarely find websites that does not support this kind of feature. In order for it to work you have to have visited the website one time first, but after that it's pretty straight forward.
I agree with international spying. If the other countries don't allow you that information, you must spy to get that information. A scenario of nations having bad or inaccurate information about other countries, their status and their intentions can make the world a more dangerous place.

However domestic spying seems kind of silly. You should just be able to collect the information you need voluntarily through census and and surveys, without resorting to spying. If they refuse to provide the information, get a warrant.
I like this girror thing, it looks like it will fit my non-node projects much better than Capistrano's awkward git integration. (For some reason you linked to a fork, but it's no longer current)
It’s pretty astonishing to think that Jony Ive was working on the design of that thing for eight years until it finally came to market.

This also seems like a perfect demonstration of Apple’s outstanding patience and timing. Microsoft(’s partners) was (were) making tablets in 2002. (As a niche product, basically.) Apple could probably also have brought one to market (probably with some sort of desktop CPU and running a mostly unchanged OS X) around that time had they really wanted to – but they didn’t.

They waited until the right technology (mobile CPUs, capacitive touch screens, …) at the right price and the right software was available to them.

Am I completely wrong in suspecting that in many other companies a prototype like that would either be pushed to market prematurely or killed outright because it wasn’t possible to turn it into a viable product for five years, how is that supposed to change now.
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or we could stick with the guys who have given us centos.

i am not sure why your compassion is so selective. people who work for fucking oracle are misunderstood saints, while the poor sods that put centos together - who have never done anyone any harm - should be thrown to the wolves.
About half of this is accurate.

We didn't discontinue support for CentOS; our legacy customers can continue to get access to Ksplice for all the distros we used to support. We did stop accepting new customers for anything other than Oracle Linux, though.

The same source code that Ksplice made available at http://ksplice.com/software is also now currently at https://oss.oracle.com/ksplice/software/
Yeah, it is like this where I live too. I will never understand people trying to play a game in order to figure out who pays the whole bill.
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The reason for all the math proofs in the real Stanford class is, I assume, because it is training you to have a deep understanding of Machine Learning, and perhaps even to become a Machine Learning researcher. This is the type of education that I received at MIT, and there's much to value in it. If you can do all these proofs, then you probably really understand things. On the other hand, it can be brutally difficult, and I still have stressmares when I sleep to this day over this brutally difficult style of learning.

If you really want to understand ML, you should do the real class. All the material is online, so you could do it at your own pace.

The online class, however, was a watered-down version of this, and designed to give you a taste of the real class without being brutally difficult. Perhaps it will inspire some people to do the work of the full-blown class.

On the other hand, sometimes you just want to know how to apply some technology to real-world problems without having to understand all the gory details. I think the online AI class is more along these lines. They had a final project, for instance, that was structured as a contest to see whose solution worked the best. I think they used canned ML packages instead of coding them on their own, but then wrote their own code to apply the canned ML software to some sort of open problem. Perhaps you would enjoy that class more.

As to getting only a 2% performance gain from vectorizing your code, I'm skeptical of this claim. I know that highly respected people (e.g., Guy Steele) have claimed that people still use Fortran, despite its drawbacks, in part because of it superior performance over C in being able to vectorize code and getting substantial performance gains. Furthermore, a vectorized algorithm is more easily adaptable to a Hadoop cluster, or a GPU, and both of these can lead to huge performance gains.

In higher-level languages, such as Java, vectorized solutions can also lead to much higher performance, as you can use a native linear algebra library, which will, no doubt, perform better than Java loops.

Furthermore, if you can turn an algorithm into linear algebra, you will have a much more maintainable solution, as you can turn a program that is several pages long into one that is several lines long. That is surely going to be easier to maintain!
Where do you live that this isn't the norm? (sorry if you weren't implying that it isn't)
>Think of the Aerographite as an ivy-web, which winds itself around a tree. And than take away the tree.

I would totally expect this stuff to be transparent based on the description. Shows what I know.
http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/3/base/i38...

It took me some moments to realise that Oracle Linux 6.3 as a clone of RHEL will, of course, include libreoffice as the office package for the desktop installation as opposed to previous RHEL versions that included OpenOffice.org.

There is a degree irony in this, but I imagine the number of customers using Oracle Linux as a desktop OS is small. I gather a number of financial institutions do use CentOS on desktops and RHEL on servers however.
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The thing that bothers me about semantics (do two-factor, or, use OAuth) is that so many people I've discussed security with can't tell me whether they should, and why they should.

Does the value of the asset merit the cost of the second factor (considering the 2factor is a per-user cost)?
Math is fun!

You can buy a 2 TB HD for $99.99 right now.

The population of the United States is 311,591,917.

That's 7057 bytes per citizen, for a penny under a Franklin.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg in EPUB format, in 2.3 MB.

Therefore, if you wanted to have William Shakespeare write as much text about every single citizen in the United States, as he wrote in all of his Complete Works, you would need 341.74 of those HDs.

Therefore, the raw storage would cost you $34,196.58.

The NSA's annual budget is around $3.6 billion.

Every year, the NSA could buy enough hard drive space to store 105,273 times as much text as the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, on every single U.S. citizen.
People also use FTP all the time for deployment.
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I wrote this a while ago (July last year) as http://goosegoosego.com whose source code is available at https://gist.github.com/1113894

You missed a spot in your handling of bang syntax, DuckDuckGo allows you to use either "\", "! " or "!ducky " to find the first result, you don't handle "\".

At the time I also sent Gabriel Weinberg an couple of E-Mails about it saying I'd love to have it be made redundant by DuckDuckGo itself, but it's not a feature he's interested in pursuing:

> > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I implemented a wrapper around DuckDuckGo and Google and stuck it on
> > > goosegoosego.com
> > >
> > > I got tired of always prefixing my normal queries with "!g", and not
> > > having "! " work the way I wanted.
> > >
> > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:47, Gabriel Weinberg <yegg@duckduckgo.com> wrote:
> > > Hah, nice :)
> > > Gabriel, http://ye.gg/
>
> Needless to say I'd be delighted if some option to duckduckgo.com
> would make this redundant.
>
> One flaw in it is that if you e.g. search for "!mysql" it'll redirect
> to duck-duck-go, which'll do a "site:mysql.com" search an DDG.
>
> I'd like it to do a "site:" search on Google instead, but that would
> require me to compile a list of all the bang operators that result in
> site: queries, which would make the code a bit more complex than it
> currently is.
>
> It would be great if you could pass some GET parameter to DDG to make
> it emulate GooseGooseGo's behavior, e.g.:
>
> http://duckduckgo.com/?dse=google&q=foobar
>
> dse = Default Search Engine.
>
> Then you could also make it prefer Bing, Yahoo etc.

Duly noted, but not sure about doing that. Alternatively, you can
use the 0-click api at http://api.duckduckgo.com/, which returns
bang redirects and then you can just do a substitution if you see
that.

Gabriel, http://ye.gg/

So handling stuff like !mysql is certainly something you could expand upon if you want to make this more complete, I was just interested in making mine as minimal as possible, so it's a simple standalone script.

Also, to anyone using DuckDuckGoog or my GooseGooseGo you should be aware that you're trusting some (other) random dudes on the internet with your searches, I don't log anything with GooseGooseGo (no access or error logs), but you only have my word for that.

You can expose some sensitive information via your searches, and that's a reason why many people use DuckDuckGo in the first place even though their results aren't always up to par with Google's.
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But Oracle actually is evil.

Evil is stomping a kitten to death.

Evil is the gulag, the concentration camp, the cultural revolution.

Oracle is just a business.
Bin Laden said he wanted to bankrupt the US by drawing them into quagmires, I think he won on that front as well.
If this is true, the NSA knows which of every cop is dirty in the country because they have full access to financial, voice and email records.

And doesn't do anything about it.
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Sorry, in Denmark there are plenty of good bikers that are not wearing yellow jackets and helmets. Why should they? The cycle superhighways are about safe-for-biking infrastructure, so you can dress as you like when biking. In central Copenhagen quite a lot of people bike in suits which is awesome.
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Strangely I didn't even notice there was a background image until you pointed it out, then I had to go back to the site to see what it was.
I recently learned that Scoble lives in a gated community. I find that the contrast between real-world privacy and virtual world exhibitionism fascinating.
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In all honesty I can understand where you're coming from. However, there is a discrepancy as far as I'm concerned between what you're selling and how you're selling it. In this case you are trying to sell quicker updates, better stability and performance to mostly enterprise customers, with a "we all like to geek around on linux" attitude. If you were trying to sell me on using Oracle Linux for my own development PC the tone would have been quite fine, but for your target audience it seems slightly out of place.

Furthermore, if you are indeed correct and Oracle Linux is something useful that a lot of people will benefit from I seriously doubt that zealotry will stand in the way of its adoption. I guess we will have to wait and see.
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Yeah, it has it's hairy parts but it still doesn't deserve all the bashing it gets. I found the LAPIC and IOAPIC controllers okay to deal with, I guess there are better ones but multi-core interrupt handling is a complex matter so you can't expect the hardware to be very simple either. Some of the legacy parts are quite hairy, but you can work your way around them quite quickly.
FWIW, this is essentially how Oracle ships updates for their enterprise business systems: you get a tar file and a README telling you which files get copied to which spots on which servers.
This was the narrative toed by the Bush administration and Fox News, but many Americans and the international community by and large did not agree.
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The irony is the DARPA research grants of the seventies made much of the technology used to create the internet possible. China's government has recently made large investments in solar and wind energy production. Government investments with no expectation of return help advance private investments. Ignoring that history will be painful for private investors like Mr. Kessler.
Just came home from work on my bicycle in Copenhagen. Didn't know we had superhighway's. I understand the effort of trying to make the long distance routes more pleasant, though.

We have another problem however, which is that the inner city is very crowded in rush hour. I hope the expand the high traffic lanes to become even wider at some point. Currently all lanes are double-lanes, but triple lanes would be really nice in choke-points. This might sound stupid to someone which doesn't even have bike lanes in their city, but this is an actual problem in Copenhagen. It's not so much about being able to go fast, but also about safety.
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Wrong.. legalize everything and help those who have addictions. I drank too much when i was younger, making beer illegal meant that I would have had to distill myself, get caught, go to jail. Ridiculous. LEGALIZE EVERYTHING, but our government is no doubt in bed with cartels, so it won't happen.
This is excellent news. Does anyone know if this has to do with the recent Icelandic court ruling in favor of Wikileaks [1]?

Also, anyone who hasn't already checked out assange.rt.com should! JA has been producing high quality interviews with some of the most interesting world leaders while under house arrest.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jul/12/wikileaks-court-...
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