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Your comment is less useful, and more wrong than the comment you were replying to.

> Depression was not the issue according to someone much closer to the situation than you.

So what? Closeness doesn't mean you automatically understand a situation. In fact, an argument could be made that closeness can blind people to objective reasoning about a subject.

> Are his parents depressed? No, I know them both. Were his grandparents depressed? No. I knew his grandfather.

The person you were replying to wasn't implying that his parents are or ever were depressed. He was saying that there is a strong genetic component to depression. Please research "recessive traits".

Let me rephrase your argument to Tay-Sachs disease: "How could he lack the haxosaminidase A protein? His parents did not lack the haxosaminidase A protein, and neither did his grandparents".
It'd be tactical, not strategic. ;)

> the consensus is that you address behavior and not identity because attacking identity accomplishes nothing positive.

Right! Which is why I care what someone does, not what they say or what they mean. Address the behavior. I'm glad we agree on this.
That last photo...
Participated in 2010, Raised that same summer, exited 2012...awesome program!!!
The only way CAPTCHA's will be considered bigoted is when the AI spammers use become sentient and take umbrage against being discriminated against for not being human.
And such books don't exist, specifically for the reasons I mentioned. That's the reason I said it.

Seems to me the only people getting upset about my comment are people that want the matter closed. That's bad science. This isn't a fox news program where loonies are "valid opinions".

A "Scientific Opinion" is an opinion based on research.

You are suggesting that research that leads to alternate conclusions should be stifled, which is precisely the problem with your line of thinking.
>I don't understand hostility at DRM when it's used to secure a stream of something you don't own.

Simple. See all arguments presented above. In short - it's unethical practice of preemptive policing which severely degrades usability and achieves nothing positive. It's based on implicit insulting treating users as potential criminals. Users naturally should be hostile to such disrespectful treating, and surely this should not become any kind of Web standard.

And just to note - a concept of a "stream that you don't own" is a sheer nonsense in itself when the data reaches the user. User should be able to back up any data - it's within the fair use of that data.
I have a rule about encryption...it's gotta be Open Source, or I can't trust it. I know that can make it difficult to make a business around it (as someone that has started two Open Source based companies, I know it all too well), but it just doesn't even cross my mind to trust a closed source app with something I truly want to be private.
The turning point was probably the time that Ford pardoned Nixon. That was when the American system publicly put the illusion of everything working above bringing people to justice.

That said, I don't see anything criminal here.
I took the Computational Investment class a few weeks ago (Form Georgia Tech too) and it suffered similar problems. Poorly prepared and no comparision to the great Stanford classes.
I guess Coursera does not have a real QA department yet, but this will surely improve over time.
As an automated deployment step, I have a little less of an issue with it, but it's still highly dependent on the client. If they are unaware that you are doing this and do not have the ability to access the clean source files then you are depriving them of the ability to update their site. Sure, sure, nobody wants a client messing up their nicely crafted work, but in the case that you two part ways or you (or your shop, if you're not a freelancer) can't do something for one reason or another, then the product you've sold them is verging on defective unless the crippled source deployment was explicitly agreed upon.

When you do work for someone else, in most cases, the client expects (and usually contractually ensures) that they own the work you do – and it's a reasonable expectation that it'll be revisable.

In general, this just comes off as spending way too much time to prevent something that probably won't happen because rarely is your work as good as you think it is (most of us suffer from this =) and if it is good enough to want to copy, given the nature of HTML/CSS/JS, etc., if you go out of your way to obscure things too much (and if it's a trend), the motivated will find a way to undo your obfuscation in a programatic/easy fashion.

But that's just my take – to each their own...
And I don't think that those are the people that the OP was referring to.
That brings back memories! - we had the same setup at Queen's college (a residential college) at Melbourne Uni. We had about 200-250 players. As someone else said earlier: "One of the most stressful months of my life!". One game (we played once a year) I made it through to the last two players left alive, both of us gunning for each other. By that time everyone knew who we were so it was doubly difficult to perform the deed un-witnessed :-)

Good times!
Yes, except, the feds can join Anonymous if they wish. That's half of the point of Anonymous - it's not a distinct group of people. It's just a banner.
Looks like a pretty good tool. It's always a lot of effort to try out lots of different backgrounds, going through downloading the .zip archives and putting them into the CSS. This will definitely encourage me to actually experiment!
The value in skype comes from:

Directory services
Calling out to external services, e.g. cell phones (The value for yesterday's users)
Skype integration with devices like cell phones (the value for tomorrow's users)

WebRTC doesn't really get you anywhere on these 3 fronts on it's own. What it does is commoditise the voice traffic component of Skype, something they really haven't cared about for years.
A link to the original article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20986796

Author: Peter Kinderman, Professor of Clinical Psychology -- "Prof Peter Kinderman is head of the Institute of Psychology, Health and Society at the University of Liverpool."

A quote: "Psychiatric diagnoses are not only scientifically invalid, they are harmful too."

I'm perpetually amazed at the speed with which any discussion of psychology's current problems is voted down, without any dialogue or reflection.
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Except that it's not purely semantics. The fact that the physical analogy breaks down pretty severely should lend intuition to the fact that our judgments about pirates should differ from those about thieves. Are all of the following equivalent moral wrongs?

1. Copying software, changing attribution, and selling it as your own.

2. Acquiring software you would otherwise have to pay for, and being able to afford it (or using it for economic gain).

3. Acquiring software you would otherwise have to pay for, and being unable to afford it.

4. Using a cracked copy of software that you have paid for, in order to circumvent a restriction that impairs your use of it and which the vendor is unwilling to address.

I think few of us would consider #3 a heinous crime if it was done by someone in order to train himself on industry-standard software (e.g. Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc.), which he would then be able to apply at a job where the software was paid for.

That's not to deny there are plenty of people who pirate just because they want free stuff without paying for it. But that doesn't mean we should all take our lessons from Inspector Javert.
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I'm glad to see Jawbone going for broke on the 'health and wellness via data' front. I've been a fan of their design language and technical chops since back when their headsets had wires.
Obviously that's a consideration, but this script has removed a dependency on checkip.dyndns.org. You could make the case that that's more likely to stay up, which is a valid decision.

Alternatively, you could create a "whereami" that returns the ip, and use that in your scripts. If ifconfig.me goes down for good, you have to change the url in one place. I'm sure you'll cope.
Excelling at a science test for 15 year-olds is meaningless. When women equal or surpass men in terms of the number of papers published in top journals, then we'll have a story.
window.navigator, but this example works with chrome.

http://jsfiddle.net/LQ8Af/1/
So what? What does that fact tell us?
What explains the gap? Andreas Schleicher, who oversees the tests for the O.E.C.D., says different countries offer different incentives for learning science and math. In the United States, he said, boys are more likely than girls to “see science as something that affects their life.” Then there is the “stereotype threat.”

This may be true, but not for the typical given reasons, ie., because of pressure on girls to avoid science.

There is an interesting 2010 Norwegian documentary, Brainwash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask) which explores nature vs. nurture in terms of gender preferences in Norway (and includes some of the research of Simon Baron-Cohen) that can be found on YouTube.

In that series, IIRC, and roughly paraphrasing, it was said that when people are in a culture that is on the higher end of Maslow's Pyramid, it frees up people of all genders to make their careers be reflections of what truly interests them.

In the NY Times article, it is said,

boys are more likely than girls to “see science as something that affects their life.

and

For girls in some Arab countries, education is the only way to move up the social structure,” Mr. Schleicher said. “It is one way to earn social mobility.

In Norway, the documentary tries to examine why when there is so much cultural encouragement for gender neutral behavior and gender neutral training why there is still, regardless, such an imbalance of women that go into nursing compared to men that go into nursing.

Is that because society says, "only women can be nurses?" Apparently in Norway, the answer would be no. And the researchers would claim that Norwegian culture is at such a high level in terms of satisfying people's needs, that this gender preferences reflects real innate biological preferences and not culturally learned preferences.

In the United States, my belief is that kids of all ages are discouraged from entering STEM fields.
Thanks for expanding. But doesn't this boil down to hair-splitting over the definition of "literature"? Does folklore count as literature? Many scholars would say yes, and have given it serious literary study, yet it doesn't even exist as a canonical text.
I certainly don't want to diminish the attack that took place here. The question about porn was just a side subject.
This feels like something that (together with healthcare) should be decoupled from the employer as much as possible.

It may be reasonable to handle childcare and healthcare individually with privatised services. It may be reasonable to have them handled centrally for almost everyone by the government, as in Scandinavia.

But having to rely on your relations with employer for these issues is just begging to be abused, and often is - where the employees are sufficiently vulnerable, they get abused even more by this.
> Wouldn't it be nice if WebRTC pushed video-calling into becoming like e-mail

WebRTC doesn't define a signaling protocol. There are already protocols for that. SIP, XMPP/Jingle, etc. It would be nice if people started using them more. WebRTC only defines an offer/answer API (which is actually a big difference!)

So having two different services use WebRTC doesn't mean they'll be interoperable. (Unless the services intentionally make an effort to federate.) Any third-party attempt at interop between incompatible services is going to involve spoofing a connection to each service. While that's not impossible, WebRTC really isn't the interoperability panacea that people seem to think.
Fun anecdote: Both my home town (Pop. 6,000, central Illinois) as well as my work town (Urbana, IL; Pop. 41,000) have actually had recent success using this line of reasoning. In both cases the cities were looking for improvements in the public access facilities provided by their respective cable providers (Mediacom/Comcast). Urbana had a slightly longer fight, but in the end, both cable companies caved.

It was Urbana's fight in which I came to understand the power of that one bargaining chip and that cable contract negotiations really are weighted in favor of the municipality.
You're veering awfully metaphorical, but it might be relevant to point out that the crypto implementations in wide use today are typically open source, and the algorithms themselves are public, and widely reviewed by independent cryptographers who have no incentive to do anything sinister.
> I am sure everyone has met some of its criteria at some point in their life

It is incredibly frustrating that you say this, even while quoting the DSM which says:

i) at least 2 weeks

ii) and at least five of the following symptoms

iii) clinically significant impairment in social, work, or other important areas of functioning almost every day.

These symptoms are not vague. Unless you take one symptom, and ignore the significant impairment clause.
Why does this get reposted every three months?
Torgo, give it up, he's determined not to get it.
I don't think this is an issue. The popup would only capture whatever keystrokes are typed into the popup (as dbaupp illustrated). DataChannels doesn't change the boundaries within which a webpage/Javascript runs
I figure as long as we have no major criticism with public school, we shouldn't have too much of a problem extending it all the way to the cradle.
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I prefer Alpine.
That's what I meant - most probably some server support will be required. I hope ejabberd and others will address this. Until that WebRTC won't be useful for building web based XMPP/Jingle clients.

Regarding codecs - most XMPP/Jingle clients support VP8 and Opus is catching up too. It's not like there are many of them around anyway. Farstream supports both if corresponding gstreamer components are present.
Yea that, and they were testing on production like a boss.

> We did not sufficiently test the 0.20.2 release of elasticsearch on our infrastructure prior to rolling this upgrade out to our code search cluster, nor had we tested it on any other clusters beforehand.
There was a talk at the 2011 LLVM dev meeting (cached slides here http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... , llvm.org is down today) about Renderscript's design philosophy and LLVM-based compilers.

In short, it's not an accident or incompetence that aspects of current desktop GPU execution models (e.g., thread blocks, scratchpad shared memory) are not exposed in Renderscript. It's a conscious decision to make sure you can get decent performance on not only those GPUs, but ARMv5-v8 CPUs (with and without SIMD instructions), x86, DSPs, etc. Getting good performance on these platforms from a language that does expose these constructs (e.g., CUDA) is still an open research problem (see MCUDA http://impact.crhc.illinois.edu/mcuda.aspx and friends).

Though Renderscript aims to achieve decent performance on a huge variety of platforms, even if they only cared about mobile GPUs, the major contenders (Imagination, ARM, Samsung, Qualcomm, NVIDIA) have wildly different architectures, and a language that is close to the metal on one will present a huge impedance mismatch on the others. Note that things are sufficiently different from desktop GPU design that we're just now seeing SoCs come out that support OpenCL (in hardware, driver support seems to be lagging), and you can't run CUDA on Tegra 4.
I think that Renderscript is not meant as replacement for native C++ code. Rather it's an platform independent and easy way to give a programmer more performance power (beyond Java).
I guess that if you need real performance or more control you'll have go the NDK route anyways. But if you just want to write another Instagram clone then Renderscript is the way to go.
I don't like being compared to some random person (of unknown gender) who attacked a woman in an online forum just because I am a developer, thank you very much!
Yeah shady lanes were good,useful (design) for Napoleon's army (and previously France's Henry the iv's) when they marched to and from battlefields[1] --but those same trees are now responsible for quite a few automobile wrecks in modern times for the reasons you illustrate.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/2429069
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I fricken hate that stupid "kudos" button that auto upvotes. Talk about bad design.
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I interpretted kjackson2012's question to be something like "Houses have burned down throughout history. Why should we give special consideration to this house?" To which I think a reasonable response is, "because this is the house we live in now."

BTW, I interpretted your post to be something like "houses have burned down throughout history. Let's start trying to make all our stuff fireproof just in case." To which I think a reasonable response is "let's figure out how fires are most likely to start, and do what we can to prevent a fire in the first place."

The fundamental question is whether we can do anything to slow or stop the global warming trend that we see today. Scientifically speaking, we know that the answer is yes: if we reduce the rate at which we produce greenhouse gases, we will reduce the expected warming. Whether that is politically feasible is a whole 'nother question.
That may all be true, but the theory isn't itself in any way disparaging to women. You've listed some reasons for the consequences of his remarks, but this shouldn't reflect on the theory itself, or justify the claim that Summers' remarks merit the description "notorious comments about women’s aptitude."
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The user supernodes were mostly retired after microsoft bought Skype. See: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...
Thanks. I'd much rather have a discussion there than on TechCrunch's tasteless cash in.
very nice buying op on mco. i'd sell the 50$ feb 15 puts & load up on the 55$ otm calls.
You might be interested in KadOH:

https://github.com/jinroh/kadoh

It's a JavaScript implementation of the Kademlia DHT. It doesn't support WebRTC as a transport yet, but they're working on it. The code looks pretty reasonable, and they seem to have some momentum going.
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Really insightful comment.

>what makes a bad question on Slant?

The primary criteria is that it's scoped enough that the Viewpoints are useful to compare. The one missing feature that helps this (and your other points) is a "topic description" that will provide some more context to the title, this is in the works (and is desperately needed)

>That's all fine and good if the point is to list pros and cons of the options. Maybe I should view each viewpoint as an analysis in and of itself. The viewpoint on Raspbian will say it's good for general-purpose stuff, etc.

That is the general idea. As you pointed out the topic doesn't provide enough information, so the Viewpoints are self-contained analyses on the use-case & pro/con for the different options.

>But then what are the upvotes actually measuring? It's not fitness for a specific purpose, it's just popularity, right? And how do I choose something as "best", when I myself might argue that three options are "best" given what I'm trying to do?

Bingo. This is something we are experimenting with. When the question is scoped tightly enough, the votes do correspond to the best option. When its not, as in the Raspberry Pi question, its just a rough indicator of popularity.

But as you pointed out just because the question isn't tightly scoped doesn't mean its not a great discussion. If you just bought a rasberry pi, didn't have a specific use-case in mind for it and just wanted to fiddle around, a high-level comparison of the different OS's is handy.

Edit: Missed the last question:

>And how do I choose something as "best", when I myself might argue that three options are "best" given what I'm trying to do?

Might have to get a little theoretical here, bear with me.

So depending on the scope of the question, the tradeoff analysis either takes place in the mind of the reader or in the writing of the Viewpoints. Back to the Raspberry pi question, as the topic isn't tightly scoped, the Viewpoints are a "analysis in and of itself" and you mentally then pick the option that has pros/cons that best match the use-case you have in mind.
Again this backs up your point about the voting not being aligned to the "best" for YOU, as people will just vote for what they personally like. We have a couple ideas for this and will have to learn and experiment over time.
One of the worst things is that a lot of times the ripped off design, while being really nice eye candy, doesn't suit the content at all. See the submarine propeller company linked to in the post for a great example. The information is organized and laid out in a visually pleasing way but at the cost of completely ignoring what the user is looking for and what kind of person the typical submarine propeller shopper is.

I'll admit I've heavily lifted design ideas from other sites but I've never once actually copied and pasted a single line of code from another site without permission. I would always always always recreate the elements I liked from scratch and the majority of times this gives a site a different enough appearance to not be a total ripoff. Just because you can view source doesn't mean the whole web is open source.
I don't think Norway is a good example. More women than men study Chemistry and Biology in Norway -- STEM isn't just mathematics and physics.
Pretty much exactly this. Performance portability is our main concern, and we are willing to trade off some peak performance to get it because of how badly you will hurt yourself on different architectures. We are trying to solve low-hanging problems first before attacking more complex algorithms.
If we're going to trade ancedotes: I worked at Microsoft, with lots of female co-workers in technical and non-technical roles.

I never once hear a DE, SDE, SDET, or any other technical person say anything remotely along the lines of "women suck at programming because they're women." Not once, amongst the hundreds of people I worked with there. That's an anecdote - take it for what it's worth.
I think part of the OP's point is to examine whether or not the data support the hypothesis that boys are naturally more inclined toward science than girls and there is nothing we can do about it. If it seems, though, that girls aren't always trailing boys in science in other countries, then what can be done to level the field in the United States?

I don't think the OP's point was to show that females are just better than men at science, in which case, yes, a count of published papers by gender would be one metric.
Sounds like a worthy project. Pledging my support now.
Not worth it because the parallel jailbroken world instead of being something full of free and interesting things is poor and full of things that you need to pay for, but, 5 times the average app price on iTunes.

I'm not going to get instabilities and hard to upgrade devices just for SBSettings or alike.

Unfortunately too many people only jailbreak so that they can install software for free.
That said it completely sucks that Apple does not allow me to be in control of what I want to install, including apps downloaded from a web site.

Also, a lot of people install SBSettings just because how freaking lame is the iOS algorithm to understand how bright the screen should be a given light level. Lame.