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Well, I had the opposite experience: as the developer wasn't curious, I had to maintain a codebase with custom (incredibly inefficient) SQL queries instead of a search engine, custom code for which gems exist, pages were never optimised so they became slower and slower etc. in the end a complete rewrite was needed.

As @trustfundbaby says, you can apply new techs sensibly and that's what you should do, without the extremes.

And guess what? You could actually learn something from someone else!
> if proper procedures are followed.

I have seen the proper procedure violated. I don't think hotels need to comply with PCI, so that safety net isn't there. I am a bit paranoid and I can't just count on people being good and competent.

> In this case, the hotel needs the guest's card info to authorize the card after the cancellation period has expired, so that the hotel has a guarantee of being able to collect the money.

Won't work with me. I do all online payments with a virtual credit card. The virtual credit card is linked with my actual credit card and I can reset the limit of the card as often as I like. If I am buying a hotel room which lists itself as X per night and I am buying it for 2 nights, I reset my limit to 2*X and make the booking. If you try to slap extra charges on me, the transaction will be denied.

In a similar vein, if I don't turn up, I will simply reset my limit to 0. The hotel won't be able to charge me.
Yes I'm using a similar method in the first section of the article (information theoretic solution), but I think that reddit is using the entropy of an image instead of the self-information. The self-information yields to better results in our case (empirically). In the latter sections I use different methods.
I usually book hotels between 24 and 12 hours before checkin, usually before leaving the previous hotel. This is because most of my hotel bookings are on motorbike tours and are dependent on weather, roads and whimsy. A single interface is much easier to deal with, and I seldom stay at chain hotels. OTAs have made my style of trip way way easier.
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I think optimally, with a set of typeclasses, one could define instances for IO and just use things with no interpretation or build a datastructure with free monads to perform whatever other inspections or manipulations you want. There could be some incompatability between the two notions that I'm missing, though...
What do you drive? Typically the only cars that get really poor fuel economy with "Regular" are cars that specifically call for "Premium". When you fill them with "Regular", the computer essentially puts the engine in emergency limp-home-mode to prevent catastrophic damage, which reduces power and efficiency.
Sounds like something to reconsider. Sorry about the botched travel plans, but I'd feel uncomfortable with it, too.
Cool gadget for a tidy office
> I'm also curious about the tech under it.

Me too - I did not realize the highlights or much of anything else was available through some sort of API.
Very interesting approach thanks, unfortunately we don't have the social features ...
It's a scientific fact based upon the free energy content of the same amount of gasoline versus the same amount of ethanol. Ethanol just doesn't have as much energy as regular gasoline.

This by itself is meaningless. Diesel also has less energy than regular gasoline, yet diesel vehicles can generally beat equivalent gasoline vehicles in terms of mpg. There are more factors than simply energy content!
I downvoted you.

All the OP really said was

> I wanted to point out that there are more enjoyable ways to learn to type now :)

But you went off on a rant about using it offline and customization and certification and "facts" about web services.

Chill!
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Nice introduction to SVM but, on my past experience with SVM and especially for large data-set, SVM algorithms are often quite intensive on memory consumption. Not sure if all implementations of SVM behave regarding memory consumption. I don't know if someone did some works on comparing the implementation and especially the appropriate kernel functions to match minimal memory requirements.
That's not far at all. If they can manage to get their shit together and provide a reasonable user experience, the day when a Mac (not necessarily all Macs) run the same OS and the same apps as iPads and iPhones is not far off.

Also, it is not a far off prospect at all, since the Surface Pro tablet will run Windows 8 Pro (on a Core-i5). It'll be able to run almost any windows app, even photoshop or visual studio (or MS SQL for that matter).
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You might also want to cull backwards polygons or use a depth buffer.
What do you mean by 'design'? Aesthetics? You can't. It's too subjective and too nuanced to be 'validated'. If you want to find out if people like your stuff, try and join dribbble.

If you mean design in the true sense of the word, are your solutions merely adequately solving the problem or are they elegant? Have a look at the 10 principles for good design from Dieter Rams (https://www.vitsoe.com/gb/about/good-design) and see if they apply to your solutions.
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I've always heard that monospace characters were the reason for two spaces after a period , but I don't understand that reasoning. To me, a monospaced font would especially require only one space, because the period is already using a lot of space on its own. Wouldn't having a period followed by two spaces–in a fixed-width font–be even more whitespace than in a proportional font?
Does anybody else get a certificate error (it claims that it has been signed by an unknown key).
Its easier to just not use sed and use perl -pie instead. Ironically its much more portable to non gnu systems.
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You need not worry about your safety. I stay in India and feel pretty secure.
It's just that the government is a bit blunt at times.
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Not to mention, how much is not having top-secret surveillance satellite land in your neighboor's backyard worth?
This article may give a false impression that more complex models are better than less complex, and the only issue with complex models is that they require more computations. This is misleading and there should really be emphasis on bias-variance tradeoff and underfitting/overfitting.
get a court order hard; $5 per month.
If you are in the US, then Host Gator just stole from a US citizen on racial grounds, not only is that morally reprehensible - it is illegal.

Get a lawyer involved, I have no doubt at all that if this goes to court and you can prove you were in the US for the entire time this was going on (and living there legally with a proper visa) that you will win (and most likely be awarded some kind of compensation too, it might only seem like something small but they just violated federal law.)

The Federal Civil Rights Act guarantees all people the right to full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

Bare in mind that in this act, a place of public accommodation means anywhere which serves the public at large
I am stuck with a CRUD (testing) job. Been trying really hard to get out. Learned python. Created many side projects at work to improve current process and personally to expand horizon and geow. But whenever I go for an interview for a development position, they are always like, "We currently need someone who has hands on experience with <relevant technology> development. So we cannot take your candidature further." Really demotivating. Feels like I am gonna be stuck as a tester for life despite having so many ideas and knowledge!
I'd be living on a beach in Italy right now were it not for the visa situation. Anybody know a way around the 90-day rule for Americans?
I love how that quote has generally been re-interpreted as proof that being ignored means you're winning.
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If nothing else, there's always the 'ol, "Vote with your wallet", e.g. in this case visit somewhere more progressive and spend your time/money there.
If you have enough money take up residence in Switzerland. Tax rates in certain parts are negotiable as long as you do not earn money in Switzerland and we are part of the Schengen Area which allows you to travel freely within most of Europe.
Laziness seems a far simpler and more believable reason why people don't double-check, not the emotional cost of finding a friend was wrong... or did I miss something?
The redundancy across AZ's is limited to the removal of the zone from the ELB config if all the instances from that AZ are marked as failed. If the API is down, tough cookies. All you get is 503 errors for each request hitting the failed AZ. Asked the support to implement proper failover. They said they're working on it, but no ETA. Didn't see an announcement about it in the mean time. Their resolution for closing the ticket was: "script it yourself" with the core assumption that the API works.

I say these because I don't want people to get a sense of false security when deploying to multi-AZ behind ELB.
Hint: Click the font-name above the pictures to get to the source.

They should make that easier to discover.
Wow, this isn't just advice for those moving to Europe but also how European countries can step up their game and integrate the good ideas from American culture while avoiding the bad.
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The Ming Dynasty would like to have a few words with you about "meaningless"
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I read Hyperion a few months ago, and I only read to the end so that I wouldn't be left with that nagging feeling of leaving a book unfinished. Much like the Grammy's and the Emmy's, I've found that book awards may be a good indicator of what other people like, but often not a good indicator of what I like.
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Really! That's not my experience or my understanding of what should happen... SVM's can be optimized to choose a minimal number of support vectors to define the decision surface in the training set, and this means that they suffer much less from structural risk than something like random decision forests or Adaboost - so I think that they are less prone to overfit.

Boosters and random decision forests are easy to learn in parallel, so suited to classifier discovery on data sets generated by a theory with a long tail.

Have I gone crazy?
Definitely. Make sure it's not [Egypt](http://www.juancole.com/2012/12/fundamentalist-constitution-...).

Europe is fine, I guess, but you go there for a different reason than you would to a place like India. There's probably little quite like it - for better or worse.
Sharepoint is a steaming pile of crap and yet somehow it manages to pull in an ungodly amount of revenue. The big problem in that space isn't featureset, it's sales. People buy and use sharepoint because it's backed by MS. In order to beat out MS in that market you don't just need to be incrementally better you either need a product which is so vastly better it leaves sharepoint in the dust or you need something that has killer features which drive adoption and maybe obsoletes sharepoint as a side effect.
most breaks work by rubbing...

At this point, forget, how the pads operate, I'd be happy if people just knew how to spell "brakes"...

I'm not picking on you in particular- I swear it is one of the most frequently misspelled words I read online.
> Do you have a reference for that?

No, but I'm sure I read that right and the machine existed.

> I thought the SRB segments are quite structurally strong and the parachutes quite large and effective.

They are, but the stresses are large, the diameter is large, and the requirements quite stringent. If a casing is out of round by a small fraction, this might still cause the o-rings to not be pressed against the casings tightly enough.
"1. Unlocking the device should be an option for all phones - it's a basic right of ownership." If you bought the phone subsidised as part of a contract, then no. You should be able to unlock the phone when the contract is finished, but not before as you don't actually own the phone until such a time.
There's this surface layer of generalities and half-truths that work so often that it's just not worth diving down into the details on everything else [...] This is one reason why it's so critical to spend a lot of time challenging the things you think you know

I don't understand how you got from point A to point B. Where did you actually show that it's critical to be unsatisfied with the system that is worth 99% of the time?
It's more that the greater number of channels the more difficult it is to harmonize corporate policies across all those channels. For example, communicating via email entails data retention for a period of time as a matter of law these days (SOX, etc.) What happens when people start using a shared dropbox instance to send, say, todo lists, short messages, power point slides, tech specs, etc. to each other? What's the intersection with the types of communication which are sufficiently "email like" to trigger a concern in terms of data retention? And then that brings up a whole host of technical issues and so forth.
I am not a fan of how he uses 'Europe' when he often means Spain and France. He clearly lacks an experience with Nordic countries (i.e. Scandinavia + Finland and Iceland), because a lot of what he says does not apply here.

Working overtime is perfectly legal in Denmark for instance, if the employees prefer it (forcing them can be illegal). The reason is that in Denmark (and other Nordic countries), labour regulations are not enforced by law, but by negotiations between the employees (unions) and employers.

Denmark doesn't even have a minimum wage law, for instance!

Also here; it is not incredibly difficult to fire people. But as an employer, you need a good reason, or the courts will side with the employee and it'll cost you dearly. The advantage of this system is that it makes employers more keen on hiring people, because in the trial period (usually first 3 months), firing people is more easy than usual.

European countries are very different, and Americans seem to forget that. He does mention that they are, but it seems that even to him he doesn't realise the actual difference.
Switzerland is very special for multiple reasons. They have a direct democracy, federal system with very small cantons (equivalent of states) and until very recently every mail had an assault rifle at home. They're also very law-abiding citizens in general with >80% of crimes being commited by immigrants. I like swiss model a lot, but it's not 100% clear it can be scaled to a bigger country or if you need centuries of public awarness (they never had a king for example). The differences are so big, it's really really hard to compare with any other country.
4.0.5 was more than 11 years ago. 5.0 was released 8.5 years ago. Why, let's discuss something that happened 11 years ago as if it is relevant to anything now.
Article is ridden with errors, mostly based on a faulty premise. Europe is not a country. Europe isn't even the EU.

Laws, regulations, attitudes and tax rates vary widely. If you want to do a startup in Europe, choose a country first and then read up.
I reread all of China Mieville this year and enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
I also enjoyed reading Nick Harkaway. A brilliant writer if ever there was one.
Chinaman is a must read if you are a fan of cricket.
What are the requirements for this? Do you have to have a job or be a student or setup a company or ...?
Lots of related discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2052362

Your company probably isn't interested in switching to cool language x or doing that big rewrite that you'd hoped to lead. You'll have to identify the skills you need for your ideal job and work on them yourself.

A great first step is a to automate repetitive parts of your job using languages and tools that you want to learn. Don't ask if you can do this, just do it discreetly at first. It's a good stepping stone between the familiarity of your job and side projects at home.
The protesters were trying to enter the Rashtrapati Bhawan, that's when tear gas and water cannons were used, not just because there were protesting.

Just to be fair.
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Since GNU is an executable program, it is not even comparable to web services, which one can run on any computer with a web browser.

Is GNU typist accessible when on a computer where I cannot install or compile software? Does it work on every computer with a web browser?

On all of those, GNU typist cannot say Yes. This is a fact when dealing with GNU software. On other hand, a web service can be run even when one only has a browser. It can be run on a friend's computer or in an internet café etc.
I am Italian. I set up a company in Italy and hire you. You set up a company in California and hire me. We pay each other the same minimum amount of money, and we are able to live where we want. If this fails, we can always get married!
I've also been getting my hands dirty with a bit of Data Visualization lately, and have been going through the following resources:

* https://graphics.stanford.edu/wikis/cs448b-12-fall/

* http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-6-009-how-to-process-analyz...
You are incorrect. The ability to control for structural risk in random forests and boosting is comparable to that of SVMs.

(For the audience, "structural risk" = "model complexity". Structural risk can cause overfitting. Hence, Occam's razor.)

You control for structural risk in random forests through hyperparameters like the maximum depth.

You control for structural risk in Adaboost through early stopping. In extensions of Adaboost, there might also be a learning rate.

In practice, I find it of comparable difficulty to control for overfitting in SVMs and random forests.

You are also incorrect that boosting can be easily parallelized. Each model update causes the weight of each example to be updated, and this weight vector must be shared. Hence, it is not trivial to parallelize boosting.
Also the thing about lawyers being cheap is accurate, but this is because in Europe (except the UK and Ireland), we use a Civil Law system, whereas the US (whom borrowed it from the UK) uses a Common Law system.

The basic difference is that in a Civil Law system 'the law is the law'; court rules cannot change law practice. In addition, you cannot use previous court decisions to argue in a court of law. You can use them as guidelines, but nothing more.

This means that it is quite easy for most people to understand how the law works; just look at the law text and the text's comments (which are also important when interpreting the law, i.e. understanding what the intent with the law is).
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There are no CRUD jobs and it's not a trap. Actually - it's quite a shame that so many programmers dream about hacking through hyper-hard algorithms instead of understanding people around.
I would tend to agree: one of the biggest mistakes he makes is assuming EU wide directives are applied equally. The UK, for example, negotiated a clause meaning employers can have employees opt-out of the working time directive (which governs the number of hours in a week employees can work).
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Unfortunately I don't. It's pretty incredible how in a world of supposed free trade and globalisation we are prevented from freely trading our most valuable goods - our skills and knowledge and creativity.
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I tested it from both my gmail and outlook.com account. I instantly received the e-mail from gmail but from hotmail I never received the test e-mails I sent.
Indeed, this article really ought to refer to Western Europe rather than Europe as a whole, and even then there are far too many generalizations.
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, How could anyone miss that?
I would love to see quantum computing and the programming model it brings.
A few words of advice:

Go with a very specific plan - Book all your hotels, taxis, trains/flights even before you reach there (check makemytrip.com). Avoid pilgrimage centers. Don't trust anyone who offers help; politely say no, even (esp) if they insist. Don't roam around in the night.
Maybe I'm missing it but wacom tablets are not only pressure sensitive, they also measure the angle of the pen (tilt sensitive) so for example when simulating a pencil you can draw as though the pencil is straight down or tilted (although they only go to 60 degrees)

It's not clear if these cheaper tablets support this. (although looking at the artist's results maybe that's not important)

Another is wacom tablets support multiple pens. The pens are dual pointed (the tablet can tell if you are using the tip side or the eraser side) and which pen you're using (so you can for example of 10 pens, each with different settings and then just use a different pen rather futs with software settings.

I don't think I know any artists that use multiple pens with a wacom tablet. I'm guessing many of them use the eraser tip though (which is effectively just another pen tip)

I'm not saying that makes wacom worth the difference in price. I'm just curious which features the tablets being reviewed have relatively to the wacom ones.
I don't live in a country with the kind of employee protection rules as in Germany, but the article still comes off as a rant against employee protections.

Can't afford to treat your employees like humans? Want to give them big bonuses and then fire them the following year so they can't pay the mortgage on that house they put a deposit down on with that bonus? Don't want to shell out a bit of money on decent offices, and rather shove them in some little basement somewhere?

None of this is required for a startup. You can actually treat your employees as human regardless of the stage of your business - especially considering that this guy can easily afford this stuff.
What a great reading list. It's a really nice mix. If you're up for a reading group, let me know (email is in my profile).
I also don't buy the notion that Europeans are generally resentful towards entrepreneurs.
yeah, rumors, urban legends, folklore, oversimplifications, generalizations, even memes, instead of understanding or even knowing.

This is due to cheap, low quality media, which broadcast and publish any crap imaginable. Pseudo-psychology, pseudo-medicine, pseudo-economics, pseudo-sociology, pseudo-everything.

Just memes made out of other memes. "Sugar is bad, eat fiber". "Paper money is bad, buy gold". "Apple will expand infinitely, buy stocks". "Java is the platform of choice", you name it. And everyone is ready to approve or argue, to express an opinion, based on his own internalized memes.

Uncontrolled consumption of lowest quality media leads to losing ability to see the world as it is, not as some talking heads around describe it.

And all those few standard responses, ready to be displayed whether appropriate or not - not this, then it must be that. lol wut?
It's a great app to view and copy files...Why don't you guys spread the word about this. It's surely of great use on Android platform.
I should know this, but how do you minimize model complexity with neural nets? Fewer layers?
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This differs enormously across countries.

Which is really the problem with targeting anything at "Europe" (be it a blog post or a business): there's always something new that differs enormously across countries.