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I personally agree with that, as I do not believe that the notability requirement is leading to increased article trustworthiness.

I struggle to follow this because Wikipedia doesn't consider "notability" to relate to article trustworthiness. It's instead intended to act as a soft margin for the topics that deserve a standalone article (remember, noteworthiness is only related to whether an article should exist or not).

I would rather see the idea of "notability" replaced with an "article score" based upon the history

Interesting idea, and I'd like to hear more of this idea! However, from this I suspect you are mixing up the reliability of an article and the specific phrase "notability" (about how deserving a topic is to have an article). When deciding if an article is notable it will usually have little or no history!

I imagine this is determined heavily by the field?

Yes, a point Wikipedia admits.

I can't imagine in either mathematics or algorithmic computer science there being any need to wait until a review paper is published "drawing conclusions" (whatever that would mean) from the information in the primary research.

Then you would, I am afraid, be wrong :) In such a field many papers are published contending a theory, and then other experts review the contention and submit responses/reviews/criticism.

the kind of material that we are explicitly discussing here, Diggnation, is not going to be covered in anything remotely approaching a scholarly source.

Yes, which is the key to the problem.

Can you provide me a reference to where Wikipedia is claiming that you can only depend on sources that "have their own review process"?

Yes, the core sourcing policy requires a "reliable source" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS). "Articles should be based on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOURCES#Reliable_sour... goes into more detail.

Instead, what we are comparing are situations like 1) referencing a New York Times article stating that "person Y said X" and 2) directly linking to the blog or Twitter feed of person Y and demonstrating first-hand that they said "X": in these situations, removing a layer of required trust.

Is it? Now I agree that if the NYT has simply asked Diggnation for those figures then Wikipedia should note that is where it comes from. However citing it to NYT is intended to demonstrate that someone other than the editor inserting the material trusts its veracity. Its difficult because we simply do not know where NYT got that info: if Diggnation showed them some real figures (say, a screenshot) then the NYT article is better than a tweet!

Which is why this is not a simple problem.
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This whole area of law annoys me.

Globalisation has meant that some companies can shop around the entire globe for raw materials and manpower, looking for the best price for both. They then throw up every barrier they can to stop individuals doing the same, region locking and other DRM, bought laws to prevent workarounds etc.

They also try to prevent other businesses taking advantage of market disparities to undercut 'official' prices. The same market disparities that allow them to get their labour and materials for next to nothing. The whole thing stinks.
>First, you have to grow up wealthy enough to have a decent education, some exposure to technology, and the ability to choose between options in your life, which immediately rules out most of the planet.

No, all you need is access to a computer and someone to start you going in the right direction. And the latter is really just a nicety. You can get there without it.

I'm largely self-taught, with a little push back in Elementary School. They introduced the ideas and taught us to write Apple II BASIC programs. I took it from there.

I eventually got a 2-year degree, but I practically slept through the classes. I learned a bit about database normalization, and nothing else. 4.0 GPA.

My first job didn't care about the degree at all. They only cared about my actual skill. I stayed there long enough that any other job would know I had skills. And my career was on its way.

There's no need for an expensive education.

However, you do need to have a head for logic. Passion for logic helps tremendously. And a computer.

But who doesn't have a computer these days? I don't know anyone who doesn't have one. And there are charities that help people get computers if they can't afford them.

So no, I don't think rich-poor artificial scarcity is what drives the price at all.
C is only ever concerned with side-effects regarding the C abstract machine. Which is not at all the real machine it's running on. The thing is that optimisations only need to verify that they don't change what is observable from within the abstract machine. Which sometimes makes things strange.
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"You haven't caused any harm or done anything wrong, but we think you might have information that will lead us to someone who has, so we're going to invade your privacy, drag you through the courts, lock you up, and ultimately ruin your life."

I can't be the only one who sees something wrong there? The sexual abuse of children is horrible, but I don't it justifies the ritualistic destruction of countless adults' lives.
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Epilepsy Foundation was widely speculated to be a Church of Scientology false-flag operation. Don't know if anything was ever proven either way.

I'd say the idea of Anonymous being a force for good goes all the way back to the Hal Turner raid. Before then it was all about spoiling other people's fun (Habbo Hotel etc.), but after targeting this white supremacist (basically by accident) suddenly people realised that maybe this power could be directed against those who really deserve it. Chanology and all the rest of it came out of that.
Did the Canonical guys really criticise Lennart? That wouldn't be very nice of them.
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Common sense says that the copyright holder shouldn't stop you and me from transfering goods from another country (where we are on vacation) to our home countries. It would be absurd that I would have to leave behind my iPod that I bought in Dubai or the magazine I bought in Vietnam.

However, it's quite reasonable to prevent business import of goods from abroad. Then, you're basically preventing the producer from assigning different $-value in different regions. Sometimes, that is desirable (market arbitrage), but sometimes, it's not (phisical goods should more closely follow PPP (purchasing power parity), especially if their marginal costs are low).
What kind of solution do you propose?
I know people who use Windows and prefer the way OS X does font rendering, they just hate everything else about the platform.
I got it for a laugh and am searching people in the office. Nothing seems to be happening. It's been loading one person for around 30 minutes now.
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The limiting factor in both Carbon -> Cocoa and 64-bit Photoshop was porting to a completely different API layer, which turns out to be vastly more invasive than changing architectures. Even for very complex userland programs, changing architectures typically doesn't require changes to more than a tiny fraction of the codebase (unless one is porting to something truly exotic, but ARM and x86 are really quite similar from that perspective). You end up spending a few months chasing down bizarre bugs, but the actual scope of the changes is always fairly small.
Hey, I had this problem! Exactly the same symptoms, although I never got as far as dumping actual packet contents. But I did verify that packet loss (of various sizes) was not the culprit. It was SSH (and some monitoring TCP connections) that failed (hung), always precisely at the same moment.

I suspected the VM code at the time, but it is very likely that my packets had to go through the same router (geography would support this).

I'm so glad somebody debugged this problem. Also, I'm quite glad that at least this time I'm not the only person with a weird issue (I have a knack for breaking things).
> I appreciate that people have lives too but you just can't do two jobs and have a personal life.

Sure you can. You just have to work at it, and get organized. For the last 2 and a half years, I've worked a 9-5 contracting gig, been CTO at a startup with major blue-chip clients, gotten married, learned to drive, released some open-source software, prototyped some software for another startup, and completed the first third of an MSc at a well-known university. Also I finally got my shit together, and lost a lot of weight.

And I often feel like I waste a lot of my time.

Is it easy? It's not that hard (or I wouldn't be doing it). You just need to be organized... I gave up drinking alcohol, which meant I don't lose precious hours to hangovers. My wife is also pretty busy, but we carve out two evenings a week and a whole day of weekend to just spend with each other (and often with friends), and that works well. I think the trick is to be _really strict_ about when you're working and when you're not working. Email by default only flashes up on my phone when it has the word 'urgent' added to the subject.

The amount people big-talk here about burning their bridges, full commitment, etc etc, I get the idea that everyone else is working their fingers to the bone, and I just don't feel that busy. I'm pretty tired by Friday night, but a lie-in until 8am on Saturday sorts me out. I don't think it'll work when I have kids, and I wouldn't want to do it forever, but it's certainly doable.
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I'd be interested to see these numbers compared to other mobile devices to see how the other manufacturers are doing.
Interesting article. I'd love to hear from anyone who does this with kids (I would guess at a slightly lower moving frequency)? I grew up in several places as a kid (my Dad's an engineer) and I'd love to find a way to give my children some of the same experiences.

Also I'd really appreciate if those of you who work remotely at a good level of income could share how you go about finding gigs. Repeat customers? Retainers? Short term project to short term project?

TIA
The point of the email is to network, not to land work at the first instance.
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Well, back in the day I did a lot of network management on ATM and frame-relay networks and MTU-related problems were quite common there. It left me with a habit of always checking packets of different sizes and looking closely for fragmentation-related issues (also ICMP filtering).

But this one is different -- it's not just the packet size that is the problem, it's that certain packets above a certain size get corrupted. Much more difficult to trace, so kudos to the authors. In fact, it seems I was bitten by the exact same problem, but could not trace it down, as I checked and ICMP packets of various sizes passed OK.
Do you think Microsoft would ever support Gamepad API on Xbox, opening the market for free online games instead of going through their own store? It seems unlikely to me.
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They are all codepoints from the private use area (U+E000-U+F8FF), so they don't conflict with any standardised characters.

I'd speculate that someone's released a font of ligatures that uses the PUA, so this person thinks that's what the PUA is called.
> That's your opinion and you're entitled to it, but it is wrong.

Surely an opinion, a wholly subjective point of view, cannot by it's very definition be wrong. Being insulted (or not) is also a fundamentally subjective experience. Anything can be insulting or non-insulting to a given person. In my opinion, it is hurtful to tell someone that their being offended is in some way wrong since it disregards how a person legitimately feels. I'm not making any statement on how a situation like that should be handled, merely that an offended person is indeed offended and that acknowledging the fact is the best way to move forward.
It looks like a more practical, interactive version of Gary Flake's wonderful "Computational Beauty of Nature." That's not a bad thing at all.
I believe that what Gizmodo says is actually true and something that Apple "forgot" to mention when comparing(highlight the "good" things while omitting all the other things) the Nexus 7 with their new iPad so I do not blame Amazon for pointing it out to a wider public. If Apple wants to play this game, they must be ready to get fought back.

EDIT: also, I still have no idea why isn't that thing Retina. I mean, they have putted it on everything, iPhone, iPad and Air, why not this? the Retina might be still the only great feature of iDevices and they have removed it? Why ? to put it in the next model to double the sales? To make it cheaper? It is not. This things make me really dislike Apple.
I sat for about an hour playing with it. Went as far as finding the original Apple manual (on scribd) online and reading it through for the commands. Thi sis just an amazing project. Great work.
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Up until recently, most of Indian farming depended on (and still does to a good extent) on Bulls ploughing the fields for seeding. That and bullock carts as transport.
The newspaper problem I agree is a problem. I would generally not consider newspapers to be "secondary sources" (or "reliable sources"), though, but actually something closer to primary sources. Historians typically treat them as primary sources, one source of contemporary information that needs to be carefully interpreted in order to determine what happened. But for recent events they might be the best that's available.

For example, Wikipedia's articles on World War II should be mainly based on existing WW2 scholarship, not on Wikipedians individually doing research into newspaper or military archives (many of which are now online so this is easy to do), because assessing contemporary newspaper accounts of WW2 for reliability is a difficult job, and Wikipedia isn't the place to peer-review attempts to do so when there is already so much good historical work on the subject, and better-suited venues to vet proposed revisions to the historical consensus. So Wikipedia's job should be to summarize the current historical literature on the subject, not to attempt a novel historical synthesis from primary sources.

With scientific articles it's a bit trickier. Individual articles are citeable, but I typically prefer meta-analyses or review papers. Since the goal of Wikipedia is to summarize existing consensus in a field (while also documenting any significant divergent views), those are the strongest indicators. An individual article sometimes indicates the existing state of scientific knowledge, but has to be used carefully, because it might already have been refuted by another article, or it might be a proposal that, while considered good enough to pass peer-review and be worth publishing, is so far only accepted as conclusive by a small minority of the relevant scientific community. (Some journals publish commentary/responses along with controversial articles, which can be useful to help determine if that's the case.) I guess that's also true in history: just because Speculum published an article where someone proposes a large-scale revision to our understanding of 13th-century France doesn't mean that medievalists generally agree with the new proposal. So if it's a recent article and there isn't indication of it having been taken up into the new consensus, I'd cite it in support of a "but some historians argue..." statement rather than in support of an unqualified statement.

This rule also, pragmatically, avoids re-litigating whole areas, like fringe physics and holocaust denial. Maybe someone has great original arguments for their physics theory, or for why the holocaust never happened, but because of "NoR", Wikipedia isn't the place to make those arguments.
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Not a bad idea. The low dpi screen of the iPad mini really is a glaring flaw when you consider the price.

And because of that price, there's going to be a long future for Android tablets in the sub-$250 range, now that Google and Amazon have proven you can make and sell a worthy device for that kind of money.
How exactly do you make local prices decrease by making imported goods more expensive? It does not make any sense. If the global market price of a product get artificial higher, one do not lower the local prices. The local prices get increased to match what ever the effective global market price (price + tariff) is.

Of course. The purpose of tariffs is neither to increase nor lower the prices of goods. The purpose of tariffs from the government point of view is to increase self-production, value generating, and self-sustainability. But the practical effect of an tariff is a higher priced product for the consumer. In the word of wikipedia: Typical analyses find that tariffs tend to benefit domestic producers and government at the expense of consumers.
I was thinking about it in two stages; among the people that are using dairy, the ones that can easily consume fresh milk have better access to calories during a cold winter (which might be a difficult time to make yoghurt or such).
Sure, if you also have an X display-connection to the same machine where the terminal itself is running available and advertised. Unfortunately in many running-inna-terminal scenarios, you don't have such a thing...
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Couldn't you create multiple user accounts on Mac OSX and then leave one dropbox account logged in in each account, and use local permissions to access files in one account from the other? You could probably do the same with Windows, although I'm not sure how permissions would work.
It's worth pointing out that our methods and tastes also evolved because the raw materials and industry trends are changing.

Get a bottle of fat milk straight from a cow, leave it on the kitchen table for a couple of days to turn sour (depends on room temperature) and you'll get yogurt, maybe not as thick as the one you can buy at a store, but it's good nonetheless. Then if the batch was good, you can save some of this batch for later batches, for an addition of bacteria cultures, thus with each successive batch you'll get better and better results. There are absolutely no additives needed (unless you make a business out of it, in which case you want predictable results), with the end-result being 100% chemicals free.

Now try doing that with the bottled milk you can find in the stores.

EDIT (reformulated):

So, consumer tastes are changing based on industry trends ... like these fuckers put extra sugar in everything, being a vicious cycle, because extra sugars in foods give dependency on foods with extra sugars in them. And let's not forget of additives like gels for extra-thickness, or dyes, or powder milk, or other chemicals (because degreased milk or yogurt does not resemble real milk or yogurt, so they have to make up for it somehow) and also preservatives for longer shelf life, etc, etc...

Many consumers would turn their nose on real, fat, non-pasteurized milk or on fat barbecued pork neck, because it's somehow unhealthier than McDonalds' burgers or diary products enriched with chemicals.

And tastes are grown, so if people get used to Danone yogurts that never rot, then that's what they start expecting.

Funny story, the punch line for a Danone milk cream in my country on a TV commercial has been "look how well it dissolves". And I was like "oh wow, can cream really do that?". Go figure.
It does look like more like a building than a yacht
I had a similar emotional reaction to the boat. I don't know the first thing about yacht design so I'm really out on a limb here, and I don't think I would go so far as to say "ostentatious" or "gaudy" although there were a few things that seemed a bit out of place to me. The shiny bow, the boxiness of the rear decks, the symmetry of the roof lines - none seemed really consistent with what I would have expected. Of course I don't know what I was expecting, just that this didn't feel right. Even the name feels a bit off. I imagine that this is someone's boat, and I'm not totally convinced that this one belongs to the Jobs'.
While much of the content is very reasonable it should be taken with a grain of salt considering it was originally created as marketing for banking and insurance companies. Obviously it is better for their business models if everyone invests in their businesses through savings accounts, insurance, and banking investment programs. Savings accounts (and often investments) can pay less than the cost of inflation, especially counting in the banking costs. Savings and investing are naturally good ideas, but stable goods such as land are often the best investment.
I've used Emacs for the last 10+ years first with my own custom keybindings and recently with keybindings with 'default' CUA bindings like you find them in almost any other modern application. Before I switched to Emacs I used vi/Vim for almost 10 years. Also, even when I had switched to Emacs I still used Vim on the commandline and on remote servers but not in any advanced way.

I tried out evil-mode a couple of weeks ago just on a lark and I am staying with it. You really get the best of both world[1] this way. It might be a little strange at times but I wouldn't describe the usage as a second-class interface. Just different. I'd rather describe the default Emacs keybindings as a second-class interface :-)

[1] this will not mean much if you've never used Emacs
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They've proven that you can sell at that price, but not that you can make money at that price. Time will tell.
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What about a time-back policy?
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Their profit isn't from the hardware sale, but from the media/apps thereafter.
The upper section, is that an iPad mini stacked on an iPad?
I suspect Mini "2" will have Retina.
It's a shame that they have resorted to direct attacks, but given Apple's comments about "all 7" tablets" I can't really blame them.

I do wish they would all just shut up and concentrate on the value of their own products though.
And that is exactly the reason why vendors like to control the distribution / means of access to their products.
e.g. Apple retail stores selling Apple products, Chrome as a browser to access Google products from desktop or Android from mobile, etc.

The goal is not having other companies in a position in which they can significantly affect your business if they choose to do so (e.g. indie developers and the Apple app store).
The Fire HD seems to have an easier to sell homescreen too. While the iPad has these small icons with flowers and such (even in their official marketing) the Kindle's homescreen presents a plethora of stuff to appeal to the mass market: feature films, popular books, popular magazines, angry birds (I'm not sure about the US, but Angry Birds seems to have quite a long lasting appeal especially among young teenagers), Facebook, Skype, TV.

While the iPad can do all of this, the Kindle immediately demonstrates this to the consumer. I can see it doing really well against the iPad mini with that sort of imagery being shown to customers.
Sounds like he'd like to see the barriers removed.