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Thank you. I have some of the books listed in there but I had a problem with serializing the process of studying them, I tried sort of doing everything in parallel such as studying probability and Tom Mitchel's book together; needless to say that was not going too well.

That link provides a nice sequence in which I should study the books by bringing them all together in an order.
In the FPV community it's not uncommon to get +1 hour flying times. But the planes are of course bigger than the dragonfly. The battery types used is Lithium polymer battery. Some people add solar cells on their plane to extend their flying times. This guy uses a combination of a glider and solar cells to fly for +5 hours http://fpvlab.com/forums/showthread.php?8311-New-round-trip-...
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This is an amazing milestone in the medical marijuana community. I am currently building a social network at www.WeedWall.com to help build an activism platform and community for Marijuana to help move our laws and opinions forward on the industry as a whole!! Excitement here at the office!!
Colorado the first state to legalize!! So many efforts to make this happen and it's an amazing milestone for the medical marijuana community. I am currently building a social network at www.WeedWall.com to help build an activism platform and community for Marijuana to help move our laws and opinions forward on the industry as a whole!! Excitement here at the office!!
I don't exactly agree. I think good people who have made a name for themselves or done something of note in their field are hot commodities. It's perfectly normal to be good at your trade and not get a look-in.
I remember reading the same headline in the 90s. That the headline reads still the same 15 years later, tells us how little progress we made on this side.
> John Ashcroft ran against a dead man and lost

He lost to the dead man's wife, who the voters knew would take that seat even if the ballots couldn't be reprinted in time.
So when are we starting this?...
I don't buy this, investors will still take as much ownership stake as they can get in the market to maximize profit regardless of how much they are taxed. Since interest rates are so low, the only real way to grow money in through investment and capital gains anyway.
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It would be the perfect situation to promote open TLDs of openNIC.
Good news! Let farmers grow it and people at home. Sell it, tax it, allow people to buy it in a safe environment instead from dealers that try to get people hooked on other crap. This makes weed less of a gateway drug and more a greatway drug.
Thing is, what happens if someone buys a TLD via ICANN that's already a TLD on OpenNic?
The STOP command is mandated. I hope these guys get someone that actually knows how SMS works from the legal side.
There are a few options when it comes to geo unblocking dns services and I agree with harisenbon - although I am using http://playmo.tv (happily for over a year now)
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A very sane analysis of the privacy problem and the government. I would pose that the biggest privacy problems are not with the government, it's with corporations.
I use Route53 for my personal stuff and have started to use Cloudflare for client sites, since it's free.
I found that running the following command helped in running Steam on a 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 install;

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Actually I believe it is position: fixed.
Its standalone, now I call it a real IDE...
I am happy.
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I think XP might really have been the peak in usability, but under the hood, I can only guess that Windows 7 has gotten much more secure. After all, improving security is pretty much the only thing Microsoft has done between XP and Windows 7.
We had a team prepare for a demo on WinRT tablets in the US. They went overseas to do the demo - license expired in route. No connectivity; couldn't VPN in due to no WinRT VPN client, had to drop that part of the demo. Huge pain, no gain.
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I know Amazon says they have 11 9s, but merely given that there have been 5 mass extinction events in the past 500M years, you probably can't do better than 8 9s. (11 9s gives you even odds that your data will last 70 billion years, as long as you pay Amazon's fee.)
Well, I see that the preferred way to access openNIC is to set resolvers ( https://github.com/GoTux/Bash/blob/master/onic.sh ), so those could simply ignore the new tld.

But yes, this would mean that domains provided for this new standard TLD wouldn't be accessible if you use openNIC.

Or maybe the dns servers pointed by /etc/resolvers could be smart enough to tell if the requested domain is on openNIC or on the standard TLD, and prefer the openNIC one if there are two with the same names (this really shouldn't happen and is in no one interest, but, well...).
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That is of course a matter of taste, but early OS X versions were very unappealing to me.

Here's a screenshot of 10.3 (Panther): http://iindigo3d.com/macos/macosx103.jpg
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State, or local level.
Bob is sending bulk email to a list of contacts, some of them are email addresses and some of them are phone numbers. Calling texting each phone number to get an email address is an extra step that Bob doesn't want to take.

I'm guessing.
The amendment will allow those 21 and older to purchase up to one ounce of the drug at specially regulated retail stores.

I'm glad this passed for the several reasons highlighted in other comments, but doesn't that mean every one of these stores will have to track who buys weed and how much in order to not sell more than one ounce to the same person?

And wouldn't that be very tempting for insurance companies or even corporations to get their hands on these records?
I think is that the current government is less than 100 years old and hasn't had time to become evil and comtrolling yet.

If being a police state was enough to educate people why being a police state is bad, America wouldn't have this problem. :)
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I'll refer you to Ken Fisher's Debunkery
http://www.ken-fisher-debunkery.com/

But the gist is that when you plot the capital gains rate and stock market curves on the same graph, there's no dependency, which is counter-intuitive. However,

1) Endowments, pension funds and 401k's don't care about capital gains tax rate as they're shieleded at 0%

2) Foreign buyers are exempt from US rates as long as they pay their home country rates and there's a double-taxation agreement in place

3) People don't choose to buy less, people just choose to sell less. Combined with fairly stable demand generated from (1) and (2) the price of quality assets actually tends to grow faster in high-capital-gains-tax years than in low-capital-gains-tax years.

What's correlated with higher capital gains taxes is brokerage profits - sellers don't sell as frivolously.
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There's no real good answer here. Either you want something really lightweight, you will go with Sinatra. Otherwise, something a little more heavy but with lot more features, you will go with Padrino.
This choice will depends on what you're familiar with, and what you already know and love. If you're new to both, maybe have a good look at Padrino could be the answer.
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Nope. Fairchild Semiconductor anyone?
The question is not on sinatra / padrino, but on padrino / halcyon ;)
Yeah, I managed to kill X by installing 310 after having installed 304. It was managing to put 304 in the kernel while using 310's interface to it. Removing the packages for both and then installing just 310 fixed it.
I can open the command menu, that's it. "Enter" should execute the cmd? Nope, nothing in the main cmd window works.

But the shortcuts do work! Creating a PHP works, does correct coloring, spacing. Executing ... "not connected" -- "Start a local client" -> "Connected!" -> Executing -> "Not connected, connect your project".

I am disapoint ;(
This looks like a very nice database to sell to 3rd parties.
> My problem, is that the reviewer (at least in the article) seemed to make no attempt to go outside of the limits of the iPad with the Surface.

Maybe that's the point of the author then - that there is nothing that Surface can do (for him) that an iPad can't. The only example I can think of is Office, and it doesn't sound like the author needs it:

>> After using them a few times, the Office apps came to seem like a marketing gimmick—a way to insist that the Surface is different, even if the difference isn’t actually useful.

What else is there?
It has one thing to do with it: it sets the price floor. If the market value of that book is not past the price floor then there's no point in making it.

But some people who don't get how markets work think prices are: how_much_work_I_did+how_much_materials_cost+profit_amount_I_want. It's not. The item is priced based on the value it is perceived to provide.
You can't do it only for very specific cases.
And even `File.rm("something")` usually works because if you are removing something, you have code for creating it too, and can quickly test both with command+enter, instead of opening whole application and trying to invoke that through your gui or something.
Props.
What would it take to get Sibelius running on this? Is it possible to get binaries of this still?
> There's this

To clog crash/stats/... reports with unsupported system.
Ok, my bad, was reading too fast.
Halcyon seems nice, really focus on JSON, which can be handy when building a REST/JSON API.
The answer will be more a personal choice, within what you prefer.
Sinatra has a way to describe routes and endpoints using its DSL that, in my opinion, is way nicer for a simple REST API that Halcyon.
Halcyon looks a lot more like Rails (in routing, controllers etc)., which might not always ease readibility.

Still, there's no real good answer here. Padrino/Halcyon can both work on Rack, Thin or Mongrel, so performance would normally be almost the same.
The difference will be in the style of code you want to write: simple and really explicit DSL like Sinatra/Padrino, or something more like Rails with Halcyon.
In Australia as of 2007 only 25% of the cost of a packet of cigarettes goes to the manufacturer, 13% goes to the retailer and the rest goes to state and federal taxes.

http://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-13-taxation/13-...

Since then a further 25% tax has been put into place, increasing the price of tobacco to around $20 per packet.
It's actually summer in Australia from between December to February...
I for one have been stopped from having chemical fun numerous times because it simply wasn't convenient enough for me.
Quit spreading FUD. We know. We have a pretty good idea. We can look at what happened in Portugal since 2001:

http://www.businessinsider.com/portugal-drug-policy-decrimin...
> They state pretty clearly that they actively discriminate students on the basis of race, generally favorably.[0]

Which is little comfort if you're asian and have to live up to an insane standard to get in.
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Please tell them this, maybe on the community hub page!
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While maybe not quite so attractive as later OS X versions, it compares rather favourably to Windows XP.
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So starting with OSX, Apple has introduced 9 versions and Microsoft has introduced 4. Now, granted, you can't actually have upgraded from 10.0 to 10.9 because of the dropped hardware support, but it would be interesting to compare the cost of upgrading through all the versions.
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It's hard to make really significant money on InTrade. I don't think you could make a living at it, for example - there's not enough liquidity.

There were some fun opportunities to arbitrage InTrade against BetFair this election, if you could be bothered with the faff of setting up an account on both of them. InTrade had Obama at 66-66% for a while, whereas BetFair had Obama at 79-80%. You could buy on InTrade and hedge on BetFair, and make a guaranteed profit (even after t-costs).
In 1987 (IIRC) Microsoft even tried to sell PC-compatible under its own brand. I think it was a very short-lived experience (6 months or so).
Not on it's own, no. At most, is shows that fraud wasn't widespread enough (or equally widespread on both sides) to skew the election away from the will of the people.

Also, fraud is much more effective in smaller races - of which there are lot, many of them too small to have as good poll coverage as the presidential one - so if there is fraud, those races are probably where to look for it.
This is one design pattern that I personally find incredibly irritating. I have no idea why either, perhaps because a page no longer behaves like a page. All of a sudden something just sticks to the top of the browser, I just want to shake it off!
Writing a short email is easy. All it takes is actually knowing what you're trying to say.
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They were more than just hard. They were specifically picked for being solvable using relatively easy tools (so as not to give basis for appeal) with solutions being extremely hard to figure out.
I understand your point about honesty being preferable if you're going to discriminate - although I'm not sure if I agree - but why do you think that what Soviet universities did was in any way honest or open?

Soviet laws did not allow any discrimination based on origin - there was no dispute about that. (Strangely enough, there is a dispute about whether the US law allows it). So a group of people to carry out the dirty work needed to be selected, and secret directives needed to be given to many others. A variety of subterfuges had to be used - first, to break the blinding on the written exams (typically, they would assign specific seats to Jewish students as they came into the auditorium and gave their names; the exam papers would then be marked in some way when they handed them in; but there were many other stratagems). Then, they'd send grown men to intimidate, bully, and humiliate school students during the oral exam, to try to "bury" them with questions that they couldn't possibly answer, and finally, if they got some uppity gold medalist from the Math Olympiad who would answer them, or someone as strong as Frenkel (who went on to teach at Harvard at age 21), just start lying to their faces.

The atmosphere that all this created at MSU and several other institutions was absolutely poisonous. Just the fact of having people in charge who would do all this was demoralizing to the faculty; it was also demoralizing to the students, who could plainly see what was done to their Jewish classmates in the application process, and to all the regular examiners. The application process - which was supposed to be objective in the first place, and not "holistic" - was defiled. The greatest irony of the situation is that the mathematics department of the MGU, whose status was mythological, and which these students believed was so indispensable to them, was not even very good during this period. The curriculum had stagnated since the 1950s, and the research was much weaker than it used to be.

Incidentally, the lying goes on to the present day - the MSU has never admitted to anything, let alone apologized. Some words were apparently said to Frenkel and some others in private, but for the most part, everyone involved just plays dumb.
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From the article linked above:

"position: sticky is a new way to position elements and is conceptually similar to position: fixed. The difference is that an element with position: sticky behaves like position: relative within its parent, until a given offset threshold is met in the viewport."
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In the video, the founders suggest that I can "spy on people" and simultaneously show a picture of little girls. I would suggest removing that from the video.

Also in the video, they proudly announce that "the dragonfly has 5 technology patents on its design, ranging from mechanics, aerodynamics and flight controls". The fact that they intend to use the patent system to prevent competition might help them attract investors, but it sure as hell is not going to encourage me to contribute to their funding campaign.
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Err, no, that's not what I was thinking of at all. You're still wedded to the idea of political parties and representatives.

Maybe some people would do what you suggest. Others would not.

If you fundamentally disagree with direct democracy then that's fine, but painting at as no different from representative democracy, in which a person has no direct say, is just wrong.
This is all very interesting from a nostalgia viewpoint (the Open VMS cluster hit that spot for me ;)) but have we seen much in the way of cutting edge OS work on this device?

The Pi gives us a great experimental platform to explore new possibilities does it not?
Is the political will actually there to check the paper trail? Hasn't happened anywhere so far...
Imagine Alice, Bob, and Eve are running for president. My main concern is keeping is keeping Eve out. As for Alice and Bob, they have their pros and cons, but at the end of the day I don't care too much either way and both are much better than Eve. In this scenario a negative vote for Eve would be more in line with my desires than flipping a coin and choosing between voting for Alice or Bob.
Details on Dragon King of Hogwarts from the video:

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It'd be nice if we could leave politics to other sites, please. Pretty please? There are a zillion sub-reddits where you can discuss this stuff as much as you want, but just one Hacker News, which does not need to go political.

(I'm pretty happy with the results too, but that's neither here nor there)
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Ah, coercion, of course. The bug-bear of libertarians everywhere.

I'm fine with it, personally. Even many libertarians are when it comes down to it, an awful lot seem believe in collective enforcement of property rights....
I hope you mean "having more data doesn't lead to better prediction automatically", because, used correctly, it always gives more accurate predictions (e.g. prediction intervals[1] are smaller, one can make better determinations about the distribution of the underlying population, etc).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_interval
I think you mean

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which will fix any broken dependencies.
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I'm not from or in the US but can I ask a slightly off-topic question?

Is Romney really the best the Republican's can offer? It seemed from here (UK) that he was not a compelling candidate from the start but most the others in the nomination process were massively flawed in some way or other and/or their political views were just too far from the mainstream to really fly.

Romney might still have won if Obama had made a mess of something in the last days before the election as a couple of percent swing would have changed everything but it just seems like the Republicans should be able to do better.

Two questions:

1) Do the Republicans have people who would make compelling candidates in the Presidential election? (Who?)

2) If not is there a structural problem in the Republican party that means extreme views (or massive personal cash) is required to reach the position to become a candidate and it somehow weeds out the compelling candidates?
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I refine my position here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752742

I do get the value of trading, investing, and some form of arbitrage. Heck, I don't have to search for the farm to get my milk. That's a service, and it does deserve a reward. What the author did is a bit different:

> Most of the market volume was other bots that would only execute a trade with me if they thought they had some statistical edge.

I understood it meant "they would trade with me only if they think I was the sucker". And of course, he would trade with them only if he thinks they were the suckers. It's not providing a service. It's fighting in a zero-sum economy.

Now he did say "most of the market volume". So there's a fraction that's not bots, and probably also a smaller fraction that does not even play the zero sum game, but instead does some positive-sum trading with the mostly-zero-sum players. But this interface boundary seems incredibly thin, compared to the internal zero-sum behemoth. That looks like a highly inefficient use of time, energy, and brains.

And even then, I'm not sure the zero-sum game provides any service to the rest of the world: zero-sum players base their models on the behaviour of each other, not on the actual performance of companies. That would add no new information to the system. At best, that only amplifies the effect of the few that actually predict company performance. And I doubt it does it well.
Also, if voters find there's too much to vote on, perhaps that would be because there's far too much legislation.

At the moment it's so much that even the pople voting on it can't read all that much.
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With great statistical modelling comes great cash windfalls. You're right though, it's pretty straightforward to model it out so it's been baffling to see how many people have out and out claimed that the models are wrong.