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One simple example of Scala power is the greatness of the Future pattern (scala, akka, finagle/twitter and other implementations).

You can still have the exact same Futures functionality in Java, but they will be so much more verbose and annoying to use that it ends up not being a good idea.
OK, we'll have a look. For now, you can upload tcilatex.tex to writeLaTeX and then \input{tcilatex.tex} after your \documentclass line. (Note: it seems to conflict with the amsmath package, however.)

Thanks!
Maybe Google was on the naughty list this year?
We don't need to abandon the second amendment - it's there for a reason - what we need to do is start being better parents, and better individuals to one another.

Well said. My first gun was purchased for me (by my maternal grandfather) before I was born and I've owned guns and shot guns my entire life. And ya know what? I've never felt any temptation to go on a homicidal shooting binge. BUT... my father took me out and taught me to shoot when I was about 9 or so, and a big part of the "shooting lesson" was drilling into my head a notion of respect for human life, the importance of firearms safety and a mindset that one should never pull a gun on someone unless they are threatening you and you intend to kill them.

I know it's very PC to blame guns right now, but it's very short-sighted to ignore the impact of parenting, a culture that glamorizes violence (and gun violence in particular), the state of mental health care, and other factors.
Pycon is in March, 2013 in Santa Clara, CA, but you might've just missed the early bird registration.
50% is an arbitrary number, not an actual threshold demarcating theft. Why is 49% not theft but 50% is?
No, not at all. There was almost no meat to this article.
Thats true but I'm sure Amazon has some form of blacklist somewhere in their risk management process. Or maybe that is not tied to csr changes and only in order processing.

Having shipping patterns change especially to a ship forwarding sites is highly suspect. There are databases that can help flag these either done commercial or collected internally. I'm sure Amazon has a pretty extensive list.
>> The great thing about programming on Windows is that it is the only commercially viable platform where you can ship software to users without getting approval from a giant bureaucracy <<

I kind of had the feeling I could write code for a Mac and ship it.

Wait, in some sense I have done so before with code for computing fractals I shared with other Mac users in my department. It worked perfectly in my Mac and their Mac.

Wait! I have downloaded and paid for apps straight from some developers websites (top of my mind, or top of my menu bar: Hazel, 1Password, Arq)

So I just stopped my reading there, sadly.
The point is both Unix and Windows faced the exact same problem: needing to support larger characters. MS thought little and unleashed their army of coders to do something foolish. The Unix guys thought hard and did something elegant and sensible.
accidental poisoning includes everything from drug overdoses to industrial accidents. We should certainly seek to reduce that, but >10,000 gun homicides is not 'shockingly low' by any stretch of the imagination. when suicides and deaths due to accidental discharge of a firearm are included, the total is about the same as that for accidental poisoning (~30k/y).

Of course people kill and injure themselves (deliberately and accidentally) in other places too, but the plain fact is that the murder rates in places where gun ownership is heavily restricted are much, much lower. ISTM that this imposes a rather hefty cost on the US economy.
I don't think Instagram/Systrom had any intention to sell user photos or do anything as drastic as the blogosphere made its TOS changes sound.

It did the right thing responding so quickly to user feedback. Hopefully it'll result in a TOS that lets Instagram monetize without infringing on the privacy of its users.
Has Facebook devalued its own features?
if they're firing hundreds of people a year every year it isn't a negligible problem

From what I can see from a Google search, "hundreds" is the total number of TSA people who have ever been fired for theft, not the number per year.
You made the point yourself -- they smart small and grow with revenues over time. Eventually the market runs out of growth, so you see consolidation.

US cable companies started out as small cooperatives that served individual neighborhoods without good over the air signal and grew into behemoths. The old US Bell telephone system was formed after waves of consolidation of small telephone companies serving a city or town. The current US cellular market is the same story -- lots of little companies getting eaten up by bigger companies.

Post-Soviet Russia has only been around for a couple of decades. I'm sure that you will see consolidation as time goes on -- there are absolutely economies of scale to be had when operating networks.
Love Flickr due to this. See this: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2011/05/13/at-flickr-your-photos-a...

Here they have explained how Y! can't use your photos for anything else except for the purpose the content was made available. Additionally, users have the option to make content licensable if they want to using Getty.
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Project: Find awesome people nearby to watch movies/shows/sports with
No offense intended, but this is not a startup -- not unless you have some kind of plan for turning this into a scalable enterprise that would attract the attention of investors and lead to a novel business model over the next two years or less.

What you have is a business (maybe, if it works).

I mention this not to be a pedantic jerk, but because following advice for startups can be bad for traditional businesses, and following traditional business advice can be bad for startups. You want to be clear in your mind about what it is that you're building so that you make fewer mistakes.

I don't know anything about your intended market, so I can't be helpful. Best of luck to you.
The risk probability is small for an individual trip. That doesn't mean we get to avoid looking at the collective risk numbers for scanners. In 2011, there were 640 million domestic air passengers in the US. If as a policy we're going to perform 640 million scans, what level of harm should be considered safe? If we take for example, win-the-lottery type odds of one-in-a-million, that's pretty small individually. Now perform the independent random draw 640 million times per year - that would be 640 cases of premature deaths per year give or take a little variation. If no scans are performed that outcome of additional deaths would be zero. Small numbers are not negligible when you repeat the trials millions of times.
I still don't understand big data.

Is it machine learning + analytics?
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd Amazon terminated my account. Great. (And that of the other woman this happened to.) EDIT: Being told that it was just on hold despite the customer service email and my account being locked out. Oy.
I usually argue that version control history is often as useful as code comments. In this case, though, I suppose comments would have been better than some arcane 15 year old VCS :)
iOS 6 Understating Search Engine Referral Traffic
When you present the Fourier transform as frequency spectrum, what are you actually plotting? Magnitude? Real part?
Yup, looks like it. The regular rate isn't too bad though.

For reference:

https://us.pycon.org/2013/registration/
The End of the University as We Know It
What Constitutes a Hybrid Cloud?
As a non lawyer who likes to pretend he knows what he's talking about, I say: "Lovely, now let's get that in writing."
I agree that if we limit firearms we limit harm from firearms. Tell me why we should stop at firearms? Fewer children would meet pedophiles online if we didn't have an Internet. Fewer people would die in car accidents if we didn't have cars. 35.9 million people died within a year of being in a car accident [0]. Lets revisit this discussion when as many people are dying of gunshot wounds in the US as die of a car accident.

[0] www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1103.pdf
This is a completely different style of incident response than parent company Facebook's. I much prefer this (relatively) straight up approach, although I'll admit it's more likely to come back and bite them in the arse a few years down the line.
I'd be wary of drawing meaningful conclusions from such a limited amount of data.

I could just as easily argue that our increasing dependency on the government for various forms of means-tested handouts is gradually transforming society into a bunch of layabouts who aren't willing to travel in order to seek opportunity.

In both cases (and all over this thread, it's not just us), we're just us shoehorning information into our already preferred narratives without anything solid to back it up.
‘Grunt Funds’ Are Trending in Startup Circles
The way the original article[1] describes them they sound very much like the adverts[2] Youtube uses. They're at the top of the page playing in the background and you're given the option to hover over to activate the sound of the video. They're not wonderful adverts but they're not too inconvenient. All I wish is that Facebook (and any other company that uses adverts) would allow me to pay a fee to hide the adverts. Facebook doesn't mean enough to me to put up with annoying adverts but it means enough that paying $5/m to have a "good" experience when I do use it is something I would do.

[1] http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-preps-bring-video-...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/O0SvF.png
> To carry this analogy a little further, which of your beliefs (rational of course, like all human beliefs) are factually incorrect? I would bet that within 100 years, many of them will be proven to be so. Does that mean that you will be retconned into superstitiousness?

The difference between superstition and science/reason is not that one is true and the other is false. It's that only one claims to know absolute truth - superstition. Reason, in the context of science anyways, demands to be challenged and is open to change (it may take a long time, but it happens).

Thus, whereas reason allows for us to evolve our understanding about the world being flat, superstition in it's most extreme forms, demands that we limit our understanding to what's already written. For example, believing that the earth is 6000 years old.
They want to use your pictures to sell products to your friends. Say you take a picture of your friends at Domino's Pizza. They can show that picture to your friends and say "Look this guy who you know loves our pizza. Come try it out." Now you may not mind making an endorsement. But with this plan they don't have to ask you for permission. They can just do it.

And if you turn out to be a hit they can use it to sell the pizza to everyone not just your friends.

And if you're really a hit, they can use it to sell underwear. Or adult diapers. Or contraceptives. Or whatever you might not like them to use your imagery to sell.
This wasn't an HTML5 game contest.
Couleur aléatoire — A color tool
I had to install flashblock after scrambling to find the source of audio/video on Techcrunch. Ugh.
Basically, we are seeing devices with an increased dynamic range WRT power. They are going to idle at similar power, and they will have better performance-per-watt, but at 100%, they will use more. IMO, this isn't so bad. Take it to it's ultimate end, and you get a device that you can plug in and will perform like your laptop[1], but can still last a day, less fast, in your pocket. Would you prefer not to have this option of 'overpowering'? If you give both devices the exact same task, the more powerful one will use less power. The risk of course is developers-- given all this extra power is available-- may be temptated to write lazily, or include superfluous 'sugar' (OTT animations etc), which could lead to worse battery life than the basic last-gen apps.

If you take the cutting edge gaming, then it would seem that you will get less playing time on the go with the tegra4 than the tegra3; there is no way that at full-tilt they use close to the same power.. but it can't be 6x either[2] But there seems to be a growing rift between the 'mobile' games and the cutting edge 3d ones.. perhaps we will see more 'low power/graphics' options available for OTG playing?

1. and we are really 'there' with chips like (quad core A15) tegra 4; the dual core A15s in the chromebook are already matching DC atoms.

2. you do have to wonder; how many watts can you pack into a smartphone without burning someone's hands off-- so there is a limit, and it can't be too far from today's devices! Having said that, tegra4 may well be tablet targeted anyway? or feature lower clocks in a phone; we don't really know much about it yet.

EDIT: also, i really don't think we will see much from the OEMs on this front, unless it becomes an in thing at some point. It is hard to successfully push anything that doesn't have a well understood metric to it (like screen resolution, cores, clock speed) The issue is really one for the SOC guys (samsung, nvidia, qualcomm etc) and CPU designers (ARM, qualcomm, apple); we may see some movement if apple makes good progress and starts to use the fact heavily in marketing. Just look at the razr max; not efficiency exactly-- but battery life. And that didn't have much of an impact.
But why don't new small players arise as small cooperatives that serve individual neighborhoods (under-served and over-demanding; I assume there are a lot of areas like that in the US)? And they they may slowly eat the behemoth from the inside.

Of course consolidation will happen, but we'll already have good intertubes by then. Also they might follow the cellular carriers path, where there are three to five large carriers covering any (inhabited) area with no further sign of consolidation.
(I assume if large cell companies try to merge antitrust won't let them - not counting under extreme economical or political curcumstances which are known to arise from time to time)
One of the main reasons these documents don’t take effect immediately, but instead 30 days from now, is that we wanted to make sure you had an opportunity to raise any concerns.

I see, they learned quite a bit from politicians. First push for the extremes, and if you get buried by bad press, produce a watered-down compromise.

Still, it is a surprisingly fair statement from a Facebook owned company.
Git-coverage: useful code coverage
I'd argue that Play will circumvent this "hipster phase" issue for (at least) these three reasons:

(1) The ubiquity of the Java/JVM ecosystem paired with the interest in a alternative to Java will keep the functional JVM Langauges like Scala/Clojure in high demand.

(2) The Typesafe machine pushing Play (see http://blog.typesafe.com/typesafe-announces-14m-series-b-fin...).

(3) Scala is your best bet for a Statically Typed Functional JVM language. Also, we use Play 2.0 at the startup I develop for.

I also find that Play is pretty cool to work with. Gone are the days of having to use servlet containers for development.
Kevin Systrom is the man. To be acquired, be part of a public company and still respond quickly, succinctly and effectively their monetization plan is something a lot of companies can learn from.
People prefer what they've already learned.
AWS: the good, the bad and the ugly
Great, now all the bitching can change to be about their plans to advertise. The sense of entitlement that people have is getting ridiculous. Why do you deserve an absolutely free service?
> Hopefully it'll result in a TOS that lets Instagram monetize without infringing on the privacy of its users.

And maybe just maybe they will review further TOS changes before unleashing them. If these terms were really against Instagram's plans, it's almost even more pathetic.
Are you joking? Most of the internet runs on Perl.
That's not necessarily true. There was a study making the rounds ~2 years ago done by two Princeton researchers, indicating that once you hit ~$75,000+ a year in income, your emotional well-being doesn't significantly improve past that amount.

It follows that if you could make $75,000+ working 20 hours a week, you'd be quite happy. I know I certainly would =)
(Yes, I'm sure there have been studies done on the correlation of life satisfaction and keeping busy; that's what hobbies are for! I'm sure there are plenty of happy, busy retired people.)

http://wws.princeton.edu/news/Income_Happiness/ (press release)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1011492107 (actual study)
> Christ died for us

This statement does not compute.
If you're posting here (or even reading this) then I'd guess you have nothing to worry about. Facebook is targeting the 99% of the population who doesn't care about ads and wouldn't know what to do about them anyway. You'll likely be able to block the ads and go about booking faces and whatnot to your heart's content.
Keep in mind that power plants do indeed spin their turbines down and spin them up again. This is due to the greatly increased demand for electricity during the day and reduced demand at night. This is why electricity is cheaper at night. They want people to move energy intensive stuff to run at night so it smooths out the grid energy usage cycle.

The peak energy usage is normally right around dusk, since that is when people are getting home from work, lights are coming on, etc. If people charge their cars at this time that only makes things worse. Hopefully we get smart chargers that slow charging at this time, so while it doesn't cause a huge peak the car is still charging, and then increases charging power during the night. Just a thought.
Hopefully the take-away is an explanation would have been helpful when the ToS was changed. Everyone was given limited information and they interpreted it how they could.

Maybe sites will think about this next time they quietly changed their ToS.
If you make half a million a year, you have options for paying for services yourself instead of relying on someone else (like an insurance company) to pay it for you. You can just, you know, buy healthcare.
It's not hard to say what people want to hear, especially when you're not under oath.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/disruptions-instagr...
They don't decide who you are...you tell them.
Shedding Light on Build Breakages
Agree. It's pretty obvious where they are going with this. And from an advertiser's perspective, it's pretty sweet. Right now, the distinction they are trying to draw seems to be that they'll only use you to advertise things that you choose to follow.

But what's to stop them from your "implicit" endorsements of products/services you use from location data or with machine vision (something Google can already do with many logos in Street View imagery, I've discovered in my reporting)? Oh, that's right. Nothing. Which is why they don't want to have to ask for permission to do these things.
That was really interesting, especially this part:

'Reference counting is a really lousy memory-management technique for free-threading. This was already widely known, but the performance numbers put a more concrete figure on it. This will definitely be the most challenging issue for anyone attempting a GIL removal patch.'

If ref counting is so bad with threads, how does Objective-C do it performantly?
Exactly. There is a big difference between "not our intention" and "we legally can't do that"
What they claim their intentions were is unimportant.

They were granting themselves irrevokable rights to do things people didn't ever want them to be able to do.
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Why O Why do the browsers even allow autoplay of video?
Because risk/reward requires tradeoffs; it isn't a single linear scale. Different tradeoffs can be judged differently based on who is doing the judging and what criteria they are using. There isn't a single "right answer".
Yes, totally. ROS support is definitely on my watch list, especially for getting an OpenGL virtual representation of what the bot is doing. I like the idea of ROS -- a publish/subscribe hub of messages between every thing on a robot -- however, I don't know if I'm going to love the actual implementation. It feels like Too Much Code. But again, I'm speaking from non-experience actually using ROS.
The concept of one single "real" name is severely retarded and flies in the face of reality. We need to get rid of this concept, along with the illusion of a single identity.

Skkkkrrrrriiiiittttcccchhh

No, most of us are pretty happy with it because it works. OK, so you feel restricted by it, but you don't get to make the call on what people 'need' to do. These philosophical excursions are entertaining, but the fact is that your legal name is important because it enables the relationship between you and the complex society you inhabit. Money's an abstraction, but one which justifies itself daily by allowing people to buy and sell conveniently. Your legal name serves a similar function.
They usually don't since they may not have the bank login information or be able to pass the bank's verification checks in order to change the registered info. Even if they do, merchants many times won't check because its very time consuming to call up the bank to verify shipping address.

Thats unfortunate that it causes you the hassle. But from the merchant's perspective, especially if they have been burned before, ship forwarding services are high risk.

Look at it this way. When you place your order, to the merchant, your IP will be from overseas, the credit card will be based in the US, and you are shipping to a ship forwarding facility. This is very typical of what fraud looks like with stolen US cards. The problem is that merchants bear the responsibility and chargebacks are a big problem, so they may not want to take the risk.
> "They can show that picture to your friends and say "Look this guy who you know loves our pizza. Come try it out.""

They actually can't. There's a world of difference between using a photo to depict an event, and using a photo to endorse.

"Domino's is featuring $5 large pizzas, here's your friend Bob at Domino's last week!" is legal.

"Look at Bob who loves our pizza, come try it out!" is not, unless Bob has signed off on it. You've crossed the line into commercial endorsement, which is a civil suit waiting to happen.

Now, there could potentially be an argument that depicting Bob at Domino's next to a paid message by Domino's is implied endorsement - that's something Instagram will have to figure out. IANAL, though I have studied commercial vs. editorial usage of photography reasonably deeply.

Using someone to endorse a product is a legally non-trivial proposition. It's not as simple as "we can use your photo here".
What drove you away from Lift?
Why will it come back to bite them?
I suspect the author means viable for video games, not software. I don't have any proof of this, just the dearth of large-budget games make their way to Mac.
Because it's not up to the browser when the video is embedded using Flash?
So monopolies don't exist and are a lie made up by economists because I can always choose not to consume at all?

Sorry, but this is getting ridiculous.
But doesn't that make it meaningless? If we can't all agree what it means, then it doesn't mean anything at all.