skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With default settings. I agree that keeping them as default is fairly bad, but in a growing scenario you need people who know the defaults very well anyway. After all, quiet database silliness is only one of the many ways you can quietly corrupt huge swaths of data.

It's similar to Rails – the defaults save your time, and in their case are arguably reasonable, but if you don't know how and why they work, they are going to bite you. There is no escaping from knowing about the complexity, but you may escape from typing it out every single time.
Ah, thanks, found it. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html
I would contact the ICO in the first instance. It would be the Department for Culture, Media and Sport that would deal with internet-related issues generally, then there is of course your local MP.

I must admit to being a little surprised that they are using Google Analytics plus the site doesn't have a privacy policy either. It seems a little bizarre to have a cookie policy but not one detailing usage of user information generally.
You're stating it as if it were a shortcoming of PulseAudio. PA is inadequate for most audio work, because the latency is too high -- which is a feature.

Latency vs. CPU usage is always a compromise. To achieve low latency, you need very small buffers for "rendered" audio, and lots of well-timed copy operations to the audio hardware. To just play some audio files efficiently, you want large buffers, because then fewer copy operations are necessary.

Here's a better explanation by Lennart Poettering:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/when-pa-and-when-not.html
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Vacation needs to be negotiated in advance with your manager, and you need to make sure all your projects are taken care of. In theory, your manager can't deny you a sick day, and they don't need to be negotiated.
It's using the most recent (never more than 5 minutes old) Vine videos. A bit tricky to get this TV effect without any load time between videos, hope you like it, it's pretty addictive once you start watching.

Feedback more than welcome :)
Very interesting. The linked UK Police (FIT) spotter cards, contain a well known British personality, namely Mark Thomas. http://quietbabylon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Police-sp...

He can be seen on here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASPL8hlKJCk&list=PL06987B...

Legend...
Also most of that code can be written automatically with Resharper...
Sure, anecdotes do prove the point that it's possible to have success without education. But there have always been examples here and there; even outside of tech, you could become the next Keith Richards. It's just not very likely.

I think it's possible things are shifting (at least in tech, probably not as much in other areas) so that college degrees aren't as big a benefit, but a handful of extreme successes aren't where you'd find evidence of that.
Do you know a good non-USA based web analytics?

We're using Google Analytics and GetClicky.com right now, both from the USA.
There are specifically EU based companies offering cloud services only at EU based server parks. These companies make sure the US cannot have access to their data because a) the company isn't a US one b) the company does not have a part of its business located on US grounds and c) all servers are located in data centres on EU grounds.

Such services are offered with explicit notion of data protection against US laws, giving "us" EU people a safe harbour of data protection where we are (at this moment) sure "our" laws applies to "our" data.
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It's not a matter of being deliberate. He's just being lazy, using the standard excel scatterplot. To fix that graph, he needs to carefully choose an opacity, which he didn't do.

See the discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4027337

I stand by the claim made in my blog post. Don't use scatterplots, use a density plot instead.

Incidentally, according to a comment the author made, the correlation is actually 0.3. That's far better than his graph suggests.
We went from "Unlimited Sick Days" to a set amount, and the general reaction was, "How on earth could anybody require so many sick days." (Answer, the number is the dividing line between, "Sick Days" and "Short term disability")

On the flip side, when you have a set amount of vacation, there is a nice "target" for you to take, with a hard number appearing on your paycheck every two weeks reminding you.
She is on the board of advisors for RUMi OM™ YOUR SOUL VACATION™ HOME:

http://www.rumiom.com/index.php/board-of-advoisors.html

The other members are:

A mystery man who's biography is a copy and paste of the next mans bio.

The head of the International Schizophrenia Foundation, the ISF plays a vital role in improving health by 'Orthomolecular medicine'

Jerry Garcia's third wife Deborah Koons Garcia (A Filmmaker)

A Former Soviet Special Forces physical training instructor.

A medical anthropologist and ethnobotanist who has researched shamanism.

A family physician practicing 'Integral Theory'.

I don't know any scientist who would be associated with this much nonsense and be expected to be taken seriously.
I don't know whose side to take. Someone educate me?

Bandaid is trademarked and people use it all the time, xerox too.

Was the reddit group formed before 2007 ?

I noticed the other day my pillow has a trademark on the word "Jumbo". Where are the people getting upset about that?

Oh I see now from the EFF release:

As today's petition notes, the term "gaymer" had been in widespread use for years before Vizzini applied for a trademark. In fact, there's even a GaymerCon conference.
I want to make an important point on 3)

If you have 600K concurrent connections they are concurrent. You could have them on a single core, limited severely on bandwidth and disk I/O.

What you don't have is parallelism, since they are not executing at the same time. I feel that this distinction is important to make. That most of them are waiting on a given event to happen does not make it any less concurrent, but it does limit the amount of parallelism which is possible.

On a single core machine, the operating system is concurrently executing processes, perhaps a hundred of those. But only one process can be on the CPU at a time, so the parallelism count is always either 0 or 1.
Nice! I'd like to see it on a big TV screen. It's quite mesmerising.
I am afraid such out of context benchmarks will do more harm than good.
We actually did have on employee take a full month. He was one of our rock start developer/architects who had basically built the foundation for our current generation of product. There was a natural, "division" line for him to take some time off.

In general, though, your managers have a target that they manage to - and they negotiate you to that number. In our company, "Unlimited Vacation" means two weeks a years.
You'd really prefer it is, say, 1/3 of your salary was determined by the number of lines of code you wrote?

I was a quant trader for a while. A considerable chunk of my salary was determined by profit, hardly unreasonable.

Measuring developers in other areas is difficult because of heterogeneous goals - last year I built a search engine, this year I'm statistically tracking user behavior. Hard to compare one to the other.

Education does not suffer this problem - last year a teacher taught 30 kids to read. This year she taught 28 kids to read. The goal is always maximizing the fraction of kids who can read.
The answers to the big questions you described seem like an excellent example of the limitations of the scientific method to answer big questions. The reduction of the universe to cause and effect and smaller and smaller particles simply leads to nihilism.

I am not going to get into your 'answers', because I think they are also leaps of faith.

There are two kinds of knowledge, inductive and deductive, ascending and descending. The vedic literatures explain that knowledge from someone who knows is superior to speculative endeavour. A simple example is death. We can see that billions of bodies are born and die. Yet can we prove by experiment someone born will die? No, in fact there are people trying to make their material bodies eternal through various means. The vedic literatures explain the material body is by nature temporary (in contrast to the eternal living force). So is this knowledge equal to doing a scientific experiment?
Some companies, (I think Cisco is one) - gives you a "bucket" of days to use how you wish, Sick Day, Vacation Day, whatever. So, using up a sick day just means one less vacation day.
Psychiatrists can have more kinds of opinions than 'institutionalise this person'.
And everyone uses it for a reason: color is one of the primary discriminators of human vision, it carries information efficiently and does it instantly, as clearly laid out in the Wikipedia article about visual search (pop-out effect) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_search

It seems strange that Rob Pike would call it "infantile". I don't think it's very modern (nor mature) to say that either, since it completely ignores years of research done on the subject by scientists. But then again, to each his/her own.
The authors are not just Automattic though, everyone who has contributed code has done so under the assumption that the code is GPL.

Automattic have just as much responsibility to respect the wishes of everyone who contributed to the source code, and by changing the effective terms of the license they are not.
Another dogma in the name of 'science'.
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> A large percentage of stalkers believe they are being stalked by their target.

A large percentage of stalkers believe they themselves are being stalked because they are, but by someone other than their target. They don't know who's stalking them, and are reciprocating, but towards a different target they themselves have chosen.

There's a difference in personality between stalkers who keep themselves well hidden, and those who are unafraid to reveal themselves.

> stalking tends to come from the extremes of the popularity spectrum, not the middle of the curve, and those two extremes tend to produce different patterns of stalking.

In your other comment on this submission, you described both types of stalker in the context of female-on-male stalking, but it applies more generally in society. You called the form that comes from those high on the social spectrum as "less common", but it's simply _more hidden_. Stalking is a many-layered social structure, with the sociopathic types at the top pulling the strings of the schizophrenic types at the bottom, often with one or two layers of other people in between. The sociopathic types who keep themselves hidden watch others in order to change win-win relationships into win-lose relationships. The more recognizable schizophrenic types react to these win-lose relationships by changing them into lose-lose relationships.

If we talk about how to handle the schizophrenic type of stalker without talking about the sociopathic type, we're simply targeting a symptom without looking at the cause. Behind every wacko hellbent on ruining their prey is a scheming business manager
protecting their business interests at all costs, or a listening functionary doing what it takes to get their kids an education in a Western country.
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on iOS, yes, that's correct. Try it on OSX however and all you get is a line of Os :)
Yes, your influence on the UK democracy is at least 2.17391304 × 10 * * (-6) percent (1 out of the 46 million voters) whereas your influence on the American government is 0 percent.
> Unlike USA, most european countries put boundaries to free speech.

The US also put limits on free speech, FWIW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_excep...
refer to https://github.com/moai/moai-dev
It's possible to buy non-contract locked-to-carrier phones, too. Often those come with prepaid or pay-what-you-use plans. That's when they want to keep you on the carrier, because they want to keep you spending on it.

Some carriers indeed sell non-locked phones when there's a multi-year contract already.
Title seems pretty misleading since this is just a patent application and not an actual product.
It's not too bad :D

I'd take content over form than the opposite any time of the day.
Oh yeah, didn't you must have missed Dawkins book. He 'proved' our existence is nothing more than chemicals and molecules trying to survive. This is the pinnacle of science and the search for truth apparently. And people wonder why tragedies like Newtown happen in such a nihilistic worldview preached by scientists, the modern priests.
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taking a nap and resuming the work has postive effects.
> Was the reddit group formed before 2007 ?

In early 2011, /r/gaymers had a mere 600 subscribers [1] so it was likely formed some time in 2010.

Custom subreddits were added in 2008 [2] which is thus the earliest possible point that /r/gaymers could have been founded.

However, there is certainly what I as a lay-person would call prior art.

There's a Yahoo! group for "gaymers" founded in 2000 [3].

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20110226103548/http://www.reddit.com/r/gaymers
[2] http://blog.reddit.com/2008/01/new-features.html
[3] http://games.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/gaymers/
For an encore, verified real and a lot more impressive imo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anousheh_Ansari
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The only thing that's not automated is the part that spits out frivolous patents.
It is surprisingly easy to end up like that, no matter what your qualifications. Go to a homeless person and ask them to tell you their story for some food and coffee, prepare to have your worldview shattered.
Ah well then no trademark should be allowed then.

That's obviously where he got the domain name idea then and did a trademark the following year.

Remember the days when you could find a word that wasn't registered as a domain?

Even the fact he went for the .org leads me to believe the .com had to be in use already. Yup, registered and paid parking since 2002. Interesting he didn't bother to try to use the trademark to grab the .com
Not sure if serious, sarcastic or just plain sad...

Point basically stands though.
No, but you might try to influence people not to use US data companies.

The best thing that could happen to the US (citizen here) is for the rest of the world to shun our data infrastructure and services. We would then have a chance to see the error of our ways.
First reported at [0]. You can find the patent application at [1].

The basic claim is for a tool head and two 'manipulators' that, together, can add and remove 'components' and material from components. In particular, the two manipulators would provide for 6 dimensions of freedom for the tool head, and this seems to be the core of the application.

[0] http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130123-irobot-filed-a-patent...

[1] http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
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Framing them in an appropriate way is significant. Framing them as a mentally ill person can help you cope with what's going on, because it helps you understand what's happening. And while it's not nice, humans deal much better with things that they think they understand (cf: origins of religions)

Framing them as a cunning predator that can strike mysteriously and who knows where the next attack vector is, well, that's just feeding the paranoia - and playing into their hands.

Besides, if your goal is to react as encouraged above and remain as dispassionate as possible, framing them as mentally ill helps put you in a mood of pity (or even compassion), whereas framing them as an animal suggests that they must have battle done to them.

EDIT: Not to mention just the basic humanity of seeing humans as people who can have problems, instead of simply writing off people wholesale if they take a wrong turn.
The 0.3 correlation described in the article is the correlation between a teacher's VAM score in a single class last year and this year.

The author is arguing that because the measurement is noisy, we should ignore it. This is silly - it just means a single class-year's point estimate is noisy, and multiple class-years must be combined to form an accurate estimate.

If you had 1/3 of your salary determined by the LOC you wrote or the number of bugs you closed, you would game the system and maximize your salary...

Indeed - if 1/3 of my salary was determined by the number of kids in my class who can read better than when they are predicted to read at this age, I'd definitely try to make sure that reading skills improved.

Conversely, if a stupid metric such as student/principal opinion were used, I'd focus on jokes and friendliness over education.

(Well, actually I didn't back when I taught. But that sure didn't help my student evaluations...)
It says in the sidebar "a community for 2 years".
What the hell is a federated cloud?
I like what agentzh has done with lua + nginx. But his benchmarks are also showcasing how it works compared to other popular solutions. Check it out at http://agentzh.org/misc/slides/libdrizzle-lua-nginx.pdf
Well that's not true. Hard work alone is usually never enough and certainly not in the 21st century US. If I was dirt poor and looking to emmigrate I would probably try to get somewhere where they take better care of less fortunate and where they offer equal opportunity regarding education, health care and so on to everyone. If I was looking for the American dream I wouldn't go to America.
Off topic but I've heard that Zuck has a cupboard full of same hoodie (or t-shirt) so he doesn't have to worry about what he is going to wear in the morning.
I too find it very cool. I first viewed it via mobile on my iPhone and found the "get started" page wouldn't load. I then noticed that it hasn't been set up for mobile yet. However, after viewing it in a browser I am very impressed. Look forward to it being optimized for mobile browsing!
is the ff3.6 engine still usable for more than half the web?
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His editor (Acme) doesn't support syntax highlighting, so his only choice (without abandoning Acme) is to call this an unimportant juvenile ;)

You should really take it with a grain of salt.
Do you have any evidence that getting your app reviewed on one of these review sites make any difference ?
If you were a "smaller developer" starting with an app today, how would you ensure that its successful?
Sure if you define the difference away anything can be the same.

But you cannot expect them to always behave the same way. That is, { f_d(t) | t ∈ T} <> {f_s(t) : t ∈ T} where f : T -> T set takes a type and returns the set of types in T equal to it and f_s , f_d check for equivalence via structural and ducks respectively. You can expect f_s to also define a partition over T but not necessarily the same for f_d. f_d is vaguely defined there but if you pretend it acts like it simulates how a runtime check would occur, |f_d| will tend to be >= than |f_s|

An example of how structural typing is not just compile time duck typing is because such a thing exists (in F#) and is not the same as structural typing.
It's ironic that people in Silicon Valley talk about how the enterprise is changing and yet almost all of them still practice one of the oldest customs of keeping the workforce in the same physical location.
Problem is the data would be supplied even if it was stored on servers situated in the EU.
DirectX 10 and 11 are part of the OS and there are no standalone installers anymore. What Steam does is noticing that the game has a dependency on DirectX and it launches a stub installer but apparently cannot actually check whether it runs on a recent Windows version where that thing does essentially nothing. There is a DirectX-9-compatible layer in current DirectX.
Well, with the way it's been going, you'll soon have no choice but to rely on cloud services.

Everything is a goddamn service now - even my fingerprint reader wants an Internet connection - yeah, screw you Authentec!

Even managing multiple WP sites now has to be done via a third party service: https://managewp.com/ (I've got nothing against them, they're very good - in fact, there is no better local alternative, which is what makes me sad/angry).
MOAI is open source under the CPAL license, and contributions from the community are folded back into mainline regularly.

Check out the license here: http://opensource.org/licenses/cpal_1.0

The cloud is an additional service, which you are not required to use - but is there if you do need it. Its one small point of confusion in the MOAI world, that people think that MOAI Cloud is MOAI itself, but thats not the case. Its just an additional service that can be utilized by users of the MOAI SDK, if they want it ..
Why is East Texas a troll haven? Are companies donating money to schools or paying bribes?
I have a personal view on conferences

The higher level the issue debated, the less value there is in a conference (higher level - not necessarily 'closer to the metal')

As such

Python conference - sign me up!
Django or Pylons conference - ok
Pinax conference - don't waste my money

Because it gets more specific, less flexible every time.

A conference on CSS/HTML5? Looks cool. A conference on LESS? C'mon

Especially for $300 dollars
You ignore everything that is not tested.

Ignore non-goals and focus on goals?

But it ignores all the other work that schools should be doing...

Such as?

But this should be easy to discover, right?

No. Choosing your goals is about subjective value choices. If nonsense words are intrinsically valuable, they should be included, otherwise they should be excluded.

You are conflating the setting of goals with the method used to achieve them. If phonics is superior (I agree with you that it is), it will achieve higher scores. If teaching children nonsense words helps them understand real words, then teachers wishing to maximize their score will teach them.
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I have the same problem with Opera 12.12 on Windows XP. Firefox works
Online, perhaps. But get involved in meatspace and bikeshedding is flourishing like always.
That little ball of fluff you own is a natural born killer
Petitions are even giving a false sense of accomplishment as those people signing it think they have made a contribution to the political process - while in the end achieving absolutely nothing.

Even worse, they allow government to show how engaged and open they are by listening to the voice of the people. All for the cost of having some intern draft sugar coated "everything is gonna be alright" responses.

Media coverage of petitions such as the death start or the Piers Morgan controversy even enforce the perception, that petitions are not more than a bad joke to give "some weirdos" a place to voice their "problems".