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It's pretty sad, but not because I knew him in any capacity, or actually have heard of him until now.

It's sad because he clearly had a psychiatric issue and only if people were more educated on this matter, they could've reached out to him and offered him help to get his problem under control, instead of just laughing at him.

To an uninformed, uneducated person, it's likely that this is all he was: a pathetic, over the top compulsive liar.

I presume he died because he killed himself, which is something someone would do after at least temporarily snapping out of the psychosis that made them do all of those things and realizing it wasn't something they would ever be able to take back or sweep under the rug, thanks to the 'wonders' of the internet.
It's funny, in another thread he got voted down as close to #f6f6ef as I've ever seen and scolded to boot
Are you sure? When I use the Google search widget to find something, the browser it gives me doesn't seem to be Chrome.
I'd still pick AAPL.
As a Finn I don't hold my breath over that the the vote, if it gets to a point parliament can vote on it (which I hope it does), will make a difference. Most likely it will be shot down by the Government parties as the copyright holders lobby-machine has quite strong influence. To make matters worst, most of the parties MPs vote what the party says them to vote regardless what the individual MP seems to be thinking.

Don't get me wrong, of course I want that the vote will pass, but I'll rather see the vote being 'shot down' than not have it at all. At least it will generate (more) discussion. We can always start the process over until we can get a positive outcome.

Now that I think this more, the timing might actually be just right for this to make a real impact as the the 9-year old girls confiscated Winnie The Pooh laptop case should still be fresh in peoples memories..
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I've seen the exact opposite iOS vs Android numbers for Japan though I have no theory on why there is the discrepancy. And it's worth noting that the fancy phones a lot of people have in Japan don't count as "smartphones" so only 25% of people have "smartphones" vs 40-50-60% of the market in other nations, in other words there's more scope for these numbers to change (in either direction), assuming the Japanese move to "smartphones" en masse.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57497144-94/android-apple-t...
Yeah but I don't get it. How would ignoring the issue be a better apology? These people write code anyway, there is no way the victim could realize "ah, they are silently writing code, so they must be sorry". And the people following their example also wouldn't have that thought.
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I don't understand how you assess the validity of your statement. Since you are talking about London as a world-class system, surely you should include Paris, Hong Kong, and Moscow. These were not "originally built by private companies."

A few days ago, CNN listed Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, London, Paris, Madrid, NYC, Tokyo, and Guangzhou as being in the top list of subway systems. At least some of those were started either by the government or by a government owned/funded company.

The US has a long history of preferring business solutions over government ones. Compare to 1800s France where large-scale engineering projects were seen as part of the government's domain. I therefore suspect that your observation reflects a US-centric view, where the default view seems to be that the government is incapable.

Also, there's a possible selection error. If all of the worst systems were "originally built by private companies" and only 40% of the world-class systems were done that way, then wouldn't that suggest that early government involvement leads to better systems?

Without that information, it's very hard to use your observation to make any sort of informed decision.
Did you seriously just redirect me to someone elses website because you didn't like what browser I'm (forced to be) on?
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On a side note, why would you buy a one-way ticket? Every time I've ever checked it's cheaper to buy a two-way ticket and then just not use the return flight.
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I was curious about that too. Having moved from Santa Barbara to Tuscaloosa to Arlington, Northern VA seems OK to me.
Discussed before:
(meta: how's that for reverse bloom filtering? ;-)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4251536
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4251759

tl;dr:

> Specifically, it functions the same as a cache with a random removal policy, (...)

> you might as well have an LRU valueless cache if locality is going to play a role.
Out of interest, is there any difference between this, and a cache?

It is still nice to see a bloom filter as the opposite of a cache of course. In effect a cache contains a subset of the things it has seen, and a bloom filter keeps a superset.

I have used something like this to great effect when doing calculations which do many complex trigonometric calculations, which often end up using a small set of input values. Something similar can be used before any expensive pure function call, where you expect to see the same values called repeatedly, but don't want to use unbounded space, or have to write a complicated cache management system.
This is much more than just a petition, though, even compared to a White House petition, which still has almost no chance of solving anything, other than receiving a patronizing and vague response, if that. The proposals in this "petition" get on the floor in Parliament it seems (if it passes the 50,000 mark), and they have to vote on it.

I really like the idea, and I wish more countries adopted this. If you're not a big fan of direct democracy and citizen-referendums like in Germany, this one still allows the representatives to have the final say on it. So nothing changes from the republic point of view, but it does offer regular citizens much better access to the Parliament and getting it to vote on laws they care about.

Of course they can still vote no, and they might, but that's why you need to build enough awareness and also try to change the politicians' mind on the issue.
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"You'll always have plenty of time to spend it." My Dad, to me, when I was a teenager and contemplating whether to do overtime, get an extra Summer job.
But you don't need to identify yourself as either male or female on Stackoverflow so that shouldn't be much of an issue?
You wanted to say "do not abuse macros" (like "do not go extreme with anything" actually).

And BTW, you should know that death is unavoidable! :)
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my money is firmly on Microsoft as being the one more likely to simply make things up...

Yes, but you've just given away the perfect counter argument to anyone who wants to make whatever you say seem like a lie/falsehood: you are clearly biased against MSFT thus whatever you say can be dismissed as "anti-MSFT". If someone can make that allegation against you - not your arguments or facts or information from the reports, mind you, but you personally - then they've won and you've lost. They've called into question your credibility.

At the end of the day, a person or a small group of people have to make a decision on the believability of said studies and decide for themselves/their organization, "Should we go the way of Munich or is it safer to go w/ MSFT?" The Art of CYA is all about going the safe route - a.k.a. "No one ever got fired by choosing MSFT over open source in the enterprise."
Well, I know every time I answer a question on Stack I make sure to check the gender of the OP first. On the off chance they are female I just respond: "Software is like sex; it's better when it's free - Linus Torvalds". /s

In all seriousness there is no partiality to StackExchange - as one can remain completely anonymous. The only questions that consistently aren't answered the the ones that have been asked hundreds of times. Code is ignorant of whether it's programmer has a Y chromosome. This is simply oversensitivity for oversensitivity's sake... and I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds it a bit annoying.
You purposefully chose a link from Dec. 5th, way before earnings and when everyone was speculating on AAPL numbers. Choose any of the articles about AAPL and China after 1/23, like say this one, and things aren't as bad as you keep trying to make them:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732353980457826...

Your posts were erroneous, so people corrected you. That doesn't make them apologists.
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how do you know if that's Mike Myers in Austin Powers? It's the author in Halloween costume.
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Pretty sure Valve will support Half-Life 3 on Linux. Especially since their Steam box will run on Linux.
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Somewhere between '98 and '02 I had a course on material resistance, and a similar result as what is shown here was demonstrated to us, only applied to a chair. I wish I could find the resulting rendering again, but it was looking like something like that [0].

The exercise was to think about how this solution is optimal only according to a small number of parameters, and that as we added more, the possible solution space was gradually reduced to a solution strikingly similar to what someone would design by hand.

The conclusion was that although tools can be very powerful, naive use of tools result only in naive solutions.

[0]: http://www.liftarchitects.com/journal/2012/5/28/printing-mat...
i blog on web programming (from jvm to ruby and python) and my failures at http://www.mengu.net and http://tglogs.wordpress.com is specifically on TurboGears framework.
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This has about as good chances of succeeding as the US Death Star project.
Ugh, should've put a [pdf] warning in the title. Other than that, R can indeed be hot, but maybe just in the special 'flavor' Revolution Analytics developed, otherwise it's one of those languages you dread using but are forced to because so much scientific code/packages etc has been written on it, some with no equivalent in other languages.
"How Did a Statistical Programming Language Invented in New Zealand Become a Global Sensation?". Hmm, slightly condescending title—though I had no idea that it was invented by two academics at the University of Auckland (not "Aukland"!)
The article title claims "comprehensive high-skill immigration reform".

As a highly-skilled South African (which, interestingly enough, appears to be where parent ultimately decided to emigrate), the effort, duration and uncertainty involved in acquiring US citizenship makes it a non-starter option for me.

I'm better off remaining in South Africa where I don't have to work non-stop for years and years unless I want to risk being deported, don't have to play a different game in the job market, can stop working at any time to go full speed on my startup, etc.

Eventually I hope to be successful enough that emigration through business and wealth is a simpler and more direct option. Of course by then I may very well have a family and other commitments that again make emigration a non-option.

Assuming I'm the sort of person this reform is meant to entice into the USA (a country I very much admire), it certainly isn't comprehensive, which appears to be parent's point.
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What could be done is having the optimizer only use standart (or easily constructed) parts, only optimizing the design.

So you could say "oh, this structure supports these forces and it is assembled with 50cm and 25cm beams, optimize away".

Of course, an engineer can solve simple cases easily, but as you join compression and stretching forces in weird shapes it can get complicated fast.

Examples out of my head: stadium ceilings, small tools that are required to be strong in a specific way, bridges with limited foundation places, etc
As soon as you click a link it goes into Chrome on mine.
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R has some spectacular libraries and a huge userbase among statisticians, so it is definitely a big actor. On the downside, the core team who manage it appear to be somewhat averse to making the language progress in meaningful ways. R is very slow, has difficulty handling large data, and is a source of many "wtf" moments (e.g. see "the R inferno"), even for advanced users.
I think the best thing that could happen would be a mass migration of R users towards Clojure, Julia or (more realistically) Python, and an attempt to reproduce in that language the key packages that are R's main appeal at the moment (ggplot2 mostly).
While everybody is complaining about Apple's AirPort being too epensive, of my ~15 devices that I have deployed for myself and for others in the last 8 years, none have broken down.

Also in all this time, none have crashed and needed to be restarted.

I realize that a web interface for management would be nice. I realize that I pay a premium for the brand. But I also think that there's a value in not having to replace devices continuously or just having to explain people how to restart them when they crash. For me, this value is worth the premium.
Sorry, my sense of humor doesn't work well before I have coffee. If ever.
Do you not have government ID or is it because of not wanting to be attached to purchases you make / services you order or render? Not meaning any accusatory tone, just to note. I understand privacy.
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It's pretty bloated and slow, no point using it! i dont need a 40+megs app running all the time with full permissions on the background, makes no sense! the facebook messenger is the same thing! and thats besides the need to "access all my contacts", NO i want facebook contacts on facebook and phone contacts on the phone for all the obvious reasons!
This is extremely cool. Thank you!

Sidenote: The name conflicts a bit with http://kennknowles.github.com/behave.js/ - Not sure if that matters to you.
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You're not their target market then, the masses. You're the evangelists, their first users to prove the need.
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> The idea is for NASA’s commercial partners to demonstrate the safety and operability of the new craft on their own employees before the agency risks its astronauts.

The keywords here seem to be 'risks ITS astronauts'. With all the money they (rightly) have spend on human safety in an outer space environment they now assume somebody else will do it for them? This confuses me to no end.

So it's like getting test drivers for space vehicles now. Oh my, times sure have changed...
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No. Have you heard the expression, "Standing on the shoulders of giants?" It means that we build on what has come before. That only works if you don't lose what you've already done. Every time a company forgets its past achievements we take two steps backwards.

In this specific example there is a tremendous amount of large-engine experience wrapped up in the F1. These engineers are trying to learn from that to help design the next generation of big engines. Ignoring the work done on the F1 - failing to resurrect it - would force them to make the same expensive mistakes as their predecessors. And that, more than anything, will put a nail in progress's coffin.
I don't think ROOT is very common in the atomic community. For experimental control, LabView is quite common, and it seems to have pitfalls too. But from what I know, the experiment itself is very straight forward, there are not so many places error can hide. Especially since they can calibrate/cross check everything with known H20 lines.

On the electron scattering side, ROOT is more common, but the experiments which are most relevant for the radius either predate ROOT or are known to not work with ROOT. Doesn't mean the software used has no errors, quite the contrary, however since all the results from different measurements with different software agree, I think a programming error is not the culprit.
Awesome work man, saw this last night and definitely want to get it hooked up with LayoutManager https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone.layoutmanager
absolutely! I just visit fb with the browser! no problems there and works pretty good! And if you realllly need a icon, you can always add one to your homescreen, nothing like a web shortcult (already availbale with the built in browser and i think firefox will add it soon)! Done!
Worth it just for the email in the middle by a Citi underwriter.

http://cybercemetery.unt.edu/archive/fcic/20110310201200/htt...

I don't agree with every stylistic choice, but that's some of the best professional writing in the fling-a-firecracker-outside-of-your-silo circumstance that I've ever seen. ("I do not believe our company has recognized the material financial losses inevitably associated with the above Citi liability." is accountant-speak for "THE WORLD IS ON FIRE!")
Are you using a Nexus device? I don't think they replaced the browser on Nexus devices older than Nexus 7. Only new devices that have been launched after June last year with Android 4.1 on board should have it by default, and as I said most manufacturers have probably left the other browser in there even on new devices. But the new Nexus/Motorola devices should have it.
It has it uses. Interior of molded plastic structures e.g. cases for appliances etc. Where the variables used are important - material used,strength - and painting and transporting are not an issue.
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I assume the thinking is they have bad experiences with non-anonymous Q&A and that puts them off Q&A as a whole.

Humans generalise their experiences all the time; how to determine whether a generalisation is valid is can be confusing [1].

[1] http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=407
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How do you get from liking Guilliani and Bloomberg to thinking that "benevolent dictators are the way to go"?

You say you didn't like NYC as much pre-1993, which is when Koch left office after 12 years. But didn't the mayor then have much of the same powers as the mayor now? Doesn't that suggest that the 'benevolent dictatorship' then was the source of the problems?

In any case, and quoting Wikipedia: "Most major and large American cities use the strong-mayor form of the mayor–council system, whereas middle-sized and small American cities tend to use the council-manager system." And yes, San Francisco uses a 'strong mayor' system.

Which seems to imply that a benevolent dictatorship system can also lead to disaster.

(You suggest that the alternative is to leave things up to the market. That is not the case. There are other forms of municipal government.)

Therefore, I don't understand how your observations of recent NYC history can be applied to other large cities in the US.
A really cool set of WebGL shader demos that also work.

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That has not been my experience at all. I just checked a flight from Gothenburg to Amsterdam leaving in three weeks time(a random example), and a one-way ticket was almost exactly half the price of a return flight. In fact it's been a long time since I've seen too significant a discount for a return flight vs two single flights.
It's a matter of what it's worth to you. What risks are you willing to take?

There are developers who may charge $700/hr, but you've chosen to go with a developer who charges $100/hr because that's what you need at this stage. If he made a mistake, it's not likely to cost you EVERYTHING to fix up. Somebody points out the bug / issue and you can hire him to sort it out and push out an update. Speak to a developer who works at a law firm ;)

Conversely, people device to go with a $700/hr lawyer because of their experience and reputation. You're paying for them to not make a mistake because it may just cost you EVERYTHING. It's not a mistake you can fix after it's found. Something wrong with your patent? Contract? Not something you can say 'oops, it's fixed now' to.
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No, those high skilled (and therefore high earning) immigrants use their salary to buy stuff so aggregate demand increases so unemployment decreases. I'm not playing compositional games here.
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All these years we've been reading on HN how Dwolla was supposed to be different than PayPal. As a passive observer I've taken their marketing message/value proposal to be specifically that they were not the type of company who would ever execute these PayPal style seemingly thoughtless account suspensions.

At this point unless the facts turn out to be different than presented here, I will never be a Dwolla customer.
I've pretty much always used the offline installer with Windows (I'd stick it on a flash drive and keep it in my bag with other useful installs like editors, SSH, etc.). But it's worth pointing out that this is a Java-on-Windows problem exclusively. It doesn't happen on OS X or Linux. I can't imagine the day when "apt-get install default-jdk" prompts me to install a toolbar...
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I think it is a step in the right direction that the "tech transients", long deplored by the high priests of SF, are starting to talk about this unwarranted animosity toward them.

For too long, tech players - in denial - have swept this under the rug.
This documentary didn't reveal anything that wasn't already known. There aren't any criminal prosecutions because it's hard to prove that there was fraud. It then goes on to speculate why Breuer hasn't been able to charge anyone.
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https://github.com/ContinuumIO/Bokeh is an attempt to provide a ggplot equivalent in python.