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This is very clever, but I don't understand why people choose to write natural language tests, rather than code.

Yes, I've heard of those mythical teams that are rumoured to let their project managers/customers/users write acceptance tests, but I've never actually seen one.

I just find it a bit odd that developers would choose to abstract their tests behind a prose based lookup table. Maybe someone can enlighten me?
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This was my 3rd year as a one man team. All the historic results and my source code can be found online. I'm not sure what else I could do to prove anything.

Efficiency is just so under-appreciated these days and many people (even experienced programmers) don't realize just how easy it is to crack some password hashes (nt, md4, etc). It's so easy, that with a smart approach, even a Celeron can do it adequately.
> of all of the millions of registered domains, only those which are profiting their creators are truly taken without much chance of being reclaimed (probably 1% or fewer).

I don't think this is true. Domains are so cheap to keep around, squatters only need to profit on a small percentage of them to keep a large number of them on hand. If a squatter lets go of one, another squatter will simply pick it up.

I'll give you an example: When I was in high school in the late 90's, I registered my last name as a domain name (uresk.com). At some point (1999, I think) I couldn't afford the registration fee (~$35 per year back then, I think) and had to drop it, thinking I'd pick it back up later. Ever since then, the domain has bounced around various squatters and is to this day unavailable to me. There is no way they are making any money off this domain name:

- I have an incredibly uncommon last name that is shared by maybe only a thousand or fewer people in the world.

- The .net version of the domain name (which I own) gets only a few thousand visitors per year.

- The sites run on the .com version have never had anything but parking pages up.

The only reason the domain name keeps getting registered is because of the criteria that someone owned it before. I'd be shocked if the domain name became available in my lifetime. I see this same situation played out whenever I go to find a new domain for a business idea I have - all of the decent domains are just be squatted on, and the only way to get them is to pay insane fees to squatters.

So, no - the problem isn't going to resolve itself.
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My .txt's open with Sublime, which is not Sandboxed (or maybe is, I don't know). They can't de-quarantine .txt's because the default is to open with TextEdit!
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The idea here is you only need to log in on a device once (or as often as you delete all your cookies). After that the site would remember you, so there really wouldn't be that much waiting on emails to arrive.

Definitely not something I would want for my bank account, but who cares for logging on to a support forum or some other trivial account.
Of course messages go to all your devices, how would the notification system know if you had seen it already on a companion device? This is exactly how Calendar reminders worked before messages appeared. I'm not sure how the author would propose using your telephone number on your computer either, considering it's paired exclusively with the mobile phone operator.
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Yeah, what this study doesn't acknowledge (or at least via TechCrunch's perspective) is that the culture (and more broadly, the country) in which the website visitors live (in the offline world) would probably contribute to how they present themselves to an online community. I would imagine that people might go as far as to speak in a way that they think will reflect on themselves positively in the physical "real" world, if they care about their reputation in their physical community. However, if you live in a rural community, you might not care as much, because your reputation online does not necessarily transfer to the real world and affect relationships with people you see on a daily basis.
The pause in nuclear power plant caused a steep rise in oil import, some alternative energy (And probably cause a huge commercial deficit for japanese international trade).
Even if right now the japanese are trying to reduce their consumption, by approx 15%, it won't be sufficient on the long term for the japanese industry to remain competitive. I am already seeing big japanese company de-localizing.
In the building where I work (in japan), they installed solar panels on the roof, but these panel only provide like less than 10% of the power need in the best case ( and even less for the rest of the day, and it is not like we use high powered laser, nor particle collider).

So if japanese wants to live without nuclear power, that would be with a growing national debt, a faltering industry, and huge sacrifice in lifestyle. I am not sure that japanese are willing to live with these.

I think the biggest issue is mostly trust in the japanese governement and the company running the nuclear plant, especially Tepco that lied to the public and probably the government until the situation was to obvious to lie (the powerplant was near the epicenter of the earthquake, it was impossible that with this magnitude it wasn't even slightly damage).
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I actually very rarely upvote stories at all. Both here and on reddit.
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Define "use".
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It would promote transparency, which is an initiative/movement we are all concerned to make compulsory.
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Read this article from a few years ago http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/

It is titled "The $300 million button" and details actual user experience at an ecommerce site. Note how many users even know what email address they used, how many got the password right, daily password resets etc.
I may not entirely understand your question. My wife has taught statistics college statistics many times (including Gaussian distributions), and her classes have never had a calculus prerequisite.

Are some topics easier to understand if you already know calculus? Sure. (I assume she has to do the same sort of brief "area under a curve" explanations there that I have to do when I teach algebra-based physics.) Can you understand the topic in greater depth using calculus? Of course. But for a first exposure to basic statistics I think you can mostly dodge the issue.

(And really, apart from already knowing the concept of an integral, does knowing calculus really buy you much when studying Gaussian distributions? You can't even do those integrals! That frustration might be even more annoying to a calculus student than to others.)
Why doesn’t he just ask "Is High School Necessary?"
In math, a good teacher goes further than in any other subject. For example, in Eastern Europe, the teaching facilities has been very poor in the past century, but it is ridiculous how many influential 20th century mathematicians were Hungarian. I couldn't understand this phenomenon for a long time until I realized that it nearly entirely has to do with the fact that most of those mathematicians studied under eminent Austro-Hungarian mathematicians who studied under eminent German mathematicians who studied under eminent French or Italian mathematicians all the way back to the Renaissance. Look up Paul Erdos (http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=19470) for example, and keep clicking on "advisor" until you reach 15th century Italy.

This is why I love online learning and have good hopes for the Khan academy. Projects like that can set us/our children free from the plague of bad teaching.
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You need to change the way math classes think of proofs. Every times I have seen a proof in math class, they managed to take a beautiful and elegant argument, and distill it down to the least number of characters that formally proves the statement.
Presently, I am doing research work in (applied) chryptography, which as you might imagine involves reading a fair amount of modern math papers. All but one of the papers I read were easier to understand than the textbook proof for Pythagorean's thuerom.
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from Wikipedia... "The landing sequence alone requires six vehicle configurations, 76 pyrotechnic devices, the largest supersonic parachute ever built, and more than 500,000 lines of code."
Yes, I would love to be able to pay the BBC some amount to watch their iPlayer broadcasts of the Olympics but I'm sure NBC would never let that happen.
Or you could just paste this:
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With Frank you're free to use lower-level testing frameworks such as RSpec or JUnit too. Most people seem to prefer cucumber, but the client-server architecture of the tool allows you to drive it with whatever testing framework fits your needs.
You're right! I forgot that it was p2p.
Well, my opinion is that the IOC and broadcasters like NBC are being held back by ideas from the last century. They are using the Internet as another broadcasting method and ignoring the potential it offers.

At a very basic level, they could offer live streaming of all events --advertising free-- for a fee. I would gladly pay, say, US $100 for this service. Some might only be interested in a subset of events, which means that there's a possibility to create tiers and capture revenue at various levels.

Here in the US, as has been discussed in this and other threads, NBC has royally fucked up things beyond all recognition. I finally broke down and downloaded their app. It's shit. The ads are intrusive TV-style ads. What's worst, they have some sort of a bug somewhere that is causing videos to end prematurely.

As and example, I tried watching Archery, Judo and Taekwondo pre-recorded events (not live). One of them was supposed to be a five hour event. We watched about fifteen minutes and the stream stopped with a message that read something akin to "This video has ended". There was no way to watch it beyond that point. It literally stopped in the middle of the action.

The other moronic thing is the way the video ads are inserted. They seem to be using a simple timer to determine when to run a video ad. This means that they'll interrupt your viewing in the middle of a match --just as someone is throwing a kick-- to run a stupid ad. Unbelievable.

I am hoping that there's widespread dissatisfaction with this and that the next Olympics, World Cup, etc. see a massive change. I'd really like to see a true Internet company get the rights and do it right. The IOC could make far more than what NBC and others are paying for these events by having a single-point internationally-friendly Internet strategy rather than old-school per country/region licensing.

Finally, a note to NBC advertisers: I am NOT watching your ads. Stop paying NBC! We DVR the coverage and are masterfully skilled at fast-forwarding through your commercials. When I am watching gymnastics I could not care less about your movie or your insurance offering. So, stop supporting broadcasters, you are wasting your money in a monumental way.
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As a followup, a nice blog essay on the theme of intellectual contempt for math and science:

http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/07/26/the-innumeracy...

I often wanted to call bullshit on those people too, and reply with something like "I always hated reading" or "What use is Shakespeare, anyway?" Of course, I never did, out of both social politeness and an actual respect for the humanities and what they bring to civilization.
26^n is big (for n > 7) but also irrelevant. "Useful and readable" is a tiny fraction of that space.

Edited to add:

While there's obviously some correlation between small n and the usefulness and reasonableness of the name, my point was not primarily related to length - the parenthetical was added as an afterthought. I was simply pointing out that the overwhelming majority of sequences of letters are not going to be easy to use or remember.
Note that you can buy drafting chairs which can be the right height for standing desks. Then you can alternate between standing and sitting. http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=1069142
For sure it increases the computational power required to decompress, but that does not preclude its usefulness. Sometimes computation is cheap and bandwidth is expensive, as perhaps when sending messages to distant stars.
They check for a few more error cases than the average project I guess, hehe.

am looking forward to seeing it land successfully!

Regardless of how it lands though, it should be exciting to watch.
I'm not sure about now, but back in the day a Celeron was just a Pentium with 2nd level cache disabled. So if your algorithm wasn't memory access intensive (like, say password cracking) it was just as fast as a Pentium at a fraction of the price.

I'm sure now a Celeron/Atom/Pentium/Core-whatever are all differentiated by more than just cache and core counts.
I don't like any solution that means the user personally has to deal with IPs. The abstraction away from IP's to names is a brilliant feature with all kinds of benefits, and one other areas should be looking at.

I even recently proposed a quick hack for the phone system: http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2012/07/phone-numbers-in-dns/ :-)

Also just wanted to point out that your solution 1 needs to incorporate the use case that people want to look at local services away from their local areas at times: to take just one example, thousands of theatre people are about to descend on Edinburgh, UK, for the Festival from all over the world, and I'm sure they have checked out the local area online first.

Don't know what the solution is, but then I'm not really convinced there is a problem with this ...
More charitably, she wasn't lying, she was just ignorant (and therefore wrong). An innumerate person might simply not recognize all those extra marks as having any meaning at all, or at least not as having anything to do with those dreaded "fractions" from school.
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>Trolling here is child's play.

If that is the case, you will have no trouble citing 2 successful trolls in HN comments.
What is the underlying theory? I've taken a lot of math courses significantly past the point where I learned FOIL and I don't remember it being explained.
Google already solved this problem. Domain names are just an implementation detail now.
As someone who doesn't use Facebook, Twitter, G+ or other crazy social networks, I must say that for the first time I can see myself using a social network if it was like what you described (i.e. multiple streams).

Though, in practice I don't think it would be as successful as you (and maybe I) hope. People who use twitter want to say something and they want to say it fast; they don't want to stop and think "is what I'm sharing (for example, iOS 6 download links when it comes out) code related, or related to Apple, or work?"...
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Jefferson was quite well educated in science and mathematics for the day:

http://www.math.virginia.edu/Jefferson/jefferson.htm

Geometry was prominent in those days, but as a student he also learned physics with Newton's Principia and Optiks as textbooks.

Lincoln was mostly self-educated, but I have no idea what his background in math was.
Why isn't fox news out of business?
(c) stands out to me as the most problematic to me.

It is true that requiring real names reduces the amount of unwanted noise and can thus result in a higher quality discussion, but some people are just a lot more worried than others about their reputation with their peers. Lack of anonymity will cause you to second guess yourself a lot more before clicking the reply button.
Most basic statistics classes that I've seen don't require calculus. My wife (who's taught stats in college many times) claims that they don't really use algebra all that much, either (you aren't generally solving quadratics or anything), but they certainly require the comfort with complicated symbols and formulas that algebra classes teach.

Have a look at the TED talk linked in my top-level comment for an argument along the lines of what you're making here.
The English language is unsustainable. We'll never find word for all these new things we are inventing. All the simple ones are taken.

And really, how many of these businesses will be around in 50 years? I think there might be some churn.
Well, that's a problem with the Olympics in general, not with a given country's broadcaster's implementation of the coverage they have purchased the rights to.

Different problems completely... But I agree with your sentiment either way.
And that bug would not be triggered by the execute bit, so an exploit would have a non-exe attack vector
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Even if people don't learn to "properly" understand the Gaussian distribution, basic understanding of the nature of variation and the difference between random events and something that indicates an actual change in an underlying system would be immensely useful to people.

You don't have to know all of the fundamental underlying ideas of any concept before it has practical utility.
I think the OP meant access to regular BBC programming; not the Olympic coverage.
I agree that the UX isn't perfect, but neither is our current login/password system for every site. For me personally, if I don't use a site regularly my login process turns into: click forgot password link, check my email, reset the password, then login. Then again the next time I visit the site 3 months later. So if that's what we're going up against, the email to login session flow isn't too bad.
Really dislike any suggestion like this.

It won't help much, it'll just price the low end out of the market. Given that a good domain can sell for thousands, you'd have to raise the fees a lot to deter people chasing that one hit.

Meanwhile, you damage lots of small people who have domains for personal things that never were intended to make money. The Internet was meant to be an open place with low barriers of participation.
What will they show in the live feed? It makes me sad we can't have a (near) live feed from the delivery case or even the sky crane. Except for the understandable 19 (or so?) minutes or lag due to speed of light, the bandwidth is not nearly enough. It would have been cool of another level to be able to see the rover landing live, 19 light minutes away.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures_archive.cfm?year=200...
In my experience Calculus was a tough nut to crack. This was mainly because it is usually taught in a way that forces you to chew lots of preliminary materials which seem completely unmotivated.

But obviously, Calculus was not developed the way it is taught. I found historial approaches more motivating. That means either using infinitesimals (17th century approach), or starting from construction of the real number, say Dedekind cuts or Cauchy sequences (19th century approach).
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It applies to the period in algebra instruction devoted specifically to quadratic equations. It's a first step towards the concept of "multiply all combinations and combine like terms", taught at a time when solving and factoring quadratic equations are brand new subjects.

I don't think FOIL should be given much weight as some sort of eternal mathematical truth, but it's a useful stop on the journey.
People have been making claims of this type ("the Web/Internet is unsustainable") for at least the past twenty years, and I've been reading articles to this effect for the past sixteen years. Every single one of them was wrong.

With such a bold claim, and such an awful track record, why should I believe that this time will be different? You can only cry "wolf!" so many times before the only rational thing I can do is ignore you.

Also, why is it a requirement that I be able to get a short domain for cheap? The fact that some names are cheap and others are not is no more surprising than the fact that some real estate locations are worth more than others, or that some people have higher incomes than others. All of those are the inevitable consequence of free choices made to make every individual chooser's life better (to the best of their knowledge and ability), which is a great thing!
I really like the suggestion to do A/A tests. A lot of Seth Roberts-style n=1 studies I've done on my nutrition, athletic performance, memory, etc... lead me to completely erroneous conclusions due to not setting the significance threshold high enough before acting on an experiment.
I think the problem is that our domain name hierarchy is way too shallow and way too contentless. Domains like .info are worth less than .com because I have to remember that it's a .info, and there's no good pattern that tells me I should be looking for foo.info instead of the foo.com for the foo I want.
Thanks for sharing these. A few questions:

Do you track these on a rolling monthly basis or calendar months?

Why do you have social metrics like FB fans and Goolge +1s under Product?

To trace changes in these KPIs back to causes, you'll surely need to look at a finer timescale than a month. How do you do that?
Why did no one notice the supposed wrong behavior in 10.6?
No one is fingering their OS X displays.
So going from a "bad" login form with 6 controls to a "simpler" login where I now have to interact with the site's form, my browser, and my email client is somehow better?

This is just silly and a login form like this would drive me crazy
For how long? Does the old IP just route to the new one forever?
In the help document there are references to being able to change they syntax to Markdown. I haven't investigated them but give it a look.
Of course not. But if You were running a company selling a product, and there were large groups of people that wanted to pay you for this product, but you refused to offer them a manner to do so, would you be surprised that they go and "steal" it from somewhere easily accessible? I don't claim piracy is "right", but it certainly isn't unreasonable.