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It was blurry for me at first so I moved closer, and then it was sharp--but I had to cross my eyes at a pretty uncomfortable angle. Worth the pain though. :)
Whatsapp is a "SMS / MMS" killer app, designed and especially marketed from the ground up to be one.

Facebook's Messenger is marketed as an IM, not as an SMS/MMS killer. Chat functionality is still seen as "bolted on" and unreliable for Facebook, so people turned to alternatives, and WhatsApp is by far the most recommended solution (peer pressure: if everyone has it, you want/need it too)
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It didn't render at all for me until I turned off the stumbleupon toolbar.
(Everpix founder here) WRT Picasa orientation, that's certainly unexpected (first time we hear about this). Please use Contact Support from the uploader menu to file a support ticket so we can track this down. Thanks!
Whatsapp doesn't care about a "friends list" or "approve friend request". If you have their number, you can do whatever you want to them. That's ease of use.
True. I have stopped travelling to USA coz of such horror stories! I feel so sorry for that person. May his Grandfather Resi In Peace.
Really great idea, would be super useful, it looks like its still got a ways to go though, it doesn't seem to recognize global variables yet for one

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/235360/what-is-the-scope-...
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Show them something. Build something with your knowledge and show them to prove that you're not spending time. Build some educational website or something like this, then you're parents will be able to see that you're actually doing something when you 'spend' time with computer.

Grades are the way for your parents to see that you're good at school, if you build something with computer that would be the way for them to see that you're not spending time.
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This site is good. It has a list of exercises listed by muscle group and instructions on how to do them with different equipment along with .gifs of proper form and a bunch of other information:

http://www.exrx.net/Exercise.html
...which is why I don't use it. I don't like the idea that anyone having my number can easily see whether I'm awake, have my cellphone on, etc.
Lockheed had been working with D-Wave for a while. If they decided to actually buy one of their computers, this probably means that they liked what they were seeing.
So does this mean Shor's Algorithm is going to kick in for real and ruin all our securityz?

Nope.

First, as I understand it, the D-Wave stuff isn't a system that can run Shor's.

Second, Shor's only ruins security for a certain class of crypto algorithm. There are already algorithms that exist today that a proof against it (e.g the McEliece cryptosystem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McEliece_cryptosystem).

Third, if you're really worried about the man cracking your s3cr3t stuff with quantum computers go pick the right cryptosystem ;-) Plenty of symmetric encryption systems that only get their key lengths reduced (effectively halved) by Grover's algorithm.
OP here again. That's what it is.

There are some good pictures of a cutaway of a magnetron here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavity_magnetron

It's kind of amazing that you can create microwaves with nothing more than a high voltage, a magnet, and a cavity with precisely the right shape.
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If that WSJ book promotion op is not disturbing enough about math, here is what PBS summarized [1]:

"Mathematical skill is not essential, and neither is a genius IQ, he says. Of more importance is creativity, deep thinking, confidence, commitment and allegiance to the small, informal experiments."

And what EO Wilson said himself:
"I found out that advances in science rarely come upstream from the ability to stand at a blackboard and conjure images from unfolding mathematical proposition and equations. They are instead the product of downstream imagination leading to hard work, during which mathematical reasoning may or may not prove to be relevant."

There is nothing about Calculus, ODE/PDE, stochastic modeling, or whatever. He explicitly refers to mathematical reasoning and skills.

I can't wait to see this book promotion op appears on The Colbert Report.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/03/post-27.html
His motivations are clearly stated in the second paragraph:

>During my decades of teaching biology at Harvard, I watched sadly as bright undergraduates turned away from the possibility of a scientific career, fearing that, without strong math skills, they would fail. This mistaken assumption has deprived science of an immeasurable amount of sorely needed talent. It has created a hemorrhage of brain power we need to stanch.

He doesn't have to dig on quantitative biology to recognize that there's lots of science that is largely founded on using reasoning that doesn't require lots of symbol manipulation.
Isn't the reason those fields mostly see usage of basic stats that they were never taught anything more sophiscated. For example in exercise physiology, which studies a lot of phenomena over time, the results get reduced to minimum/maximum/average because those points match the required input of their basic ANOVA's. Instead they could be comparing time series and find more subtle difference in when a rise starts to occur or at which rate. Numbers that often get obscured by the massive data reductions.
Sure you can get by without more advanced data analysis and statistics, but its not exactly something to strive for.
I'm a successful startup founder (we're 100 people plus and making money) and I was lucky enough to have supportive parents as a kid. Although I didn't really start coding seriously until after college.

It sounds like you are smart / articulate, so you'll do fine no matter what, especially if you work on things you are interested in.

I think your instrument analogy is perfect. You might not turn out to be a rock star, but getting good at code is probably the most valuable skill you can get (aside from reading challenging books).

So I'd tell my parents the truth. They are probably somewhat scared because people tend to be scared of what they don't understand.

As long as you are asking for advice, here are 2 unsolicited points:

* You don't have to study computers in college to be a world class programmer. Study art or biology or something and (assuming you keep getting good at coding on the side) you'll be able to create things that matter. Others who went to school may turn out to be better coders, but you'll write code that people care about.

* Open source. Learn to love github. Share everything you can on there, even if it sucks. If you think something is just an experiment / hack, say so in the readme, but don't let that stop you from posting it. And don't be scared to send pull requests to projects you end up using / fixing bugs on. You'll run into some bad apples but a few people will be super happy to help you get your code quality to the point where they can merge your fix. Being good at open source collaboration is in a lot of ways a more important skill than actually writing algorithms or other coding skills.
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Many of the newer units do.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4789281
This first appeared a couple of years ago and shortly afterwards TfL pulled the API, apparently due to excessive demand. Going to check my little app to see if the original API is back up ..
Came here to post something similar but far less eloquent or well structured. It reads like long-form copy designed to get you click through to buy things you don't need.

If HNers want to build strength they need to look at their surroundings, their patterns and see whats achievable in their day. Buying machines won't help you get fitter or stronger, doing the right routine that fits in with your life will. Until I fell ill I was doing bodyweight-based calisthenics, which worked well for me as it was less than 15 minutes a day and could mostly be done anywhere. I'm hoping to go back after a bit of a longer break.
Who downvoted this man? I want this guy to succeed as much as you do, but we can't let him burn out.

What Mr. Throwaway is saying isn't necessarily true, but you need to keep it in mind, because it's true enough. (Of course, if somebody on the 'net telling you it's impossible is enough to stop you, you were doomed from the start.)

Mr. Throwaway is probably giving your parents too much credit. I suspect they're worried about you wasting your time. (Lord knows I do enough of that.)

My recommendations:

1. Tell them about your radical plans to change the world, if you feel like you can. If you don't move on, don't put yourself or your mission in danger over their approval.

2. Try writing some code on paper. It doesn't "look" like wasting your time, and it trains your mental debugging skills. I found it helpful, if it's not working for you then move on.[0]

3. Do you have a phone? Install an SSH client and then program on your box over SSH. (If you use Windows or OSX, set up Linux in a virtual machine. If that doesn't make sense, then try to set up the remote session protocol supported by your OS.) If you don't, oh well.

4. Buy a pre-paid credit card or some such, and order a raspberry pi. Don't tell your parents. Have it shipped to a PO box if you can afford one or a friends house. (Ask your friend for permission first obviously.) Set it up where nobody will find it with thrift shop gear. (Old tv, mouse, keyboard.) A friends house might work if you can ask to come over a lot. If you don't have somewhere to set it up (where they won't find it), don't bother.

You sound like a resourceful person, I'm sure you can figure something out.

[0]: If you haven't yet, learn to touch type. Dvoraks or Qwerty. This will give you the superpower of being able to type a document without looking at the screen. Or more importantly, type a document while looking at something else. Giving you transcription superpowers. I recommend gtypist.

Happy Hacking!
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sorry for being pedantic, but should'nt it be shouldn't?
interesting code. Is there a blog post with it?
Looks like Battlestar Galactica got it right then.
No need to inflict it on random passers-by though :P
the wording of her contract is different to the one he read. http://www.hqew.net
Yeah, perhaps my comment on work email only applies to people in my line of work, engineering and not working directly with customers. For people on the customer side maybe it's unavoidable (although there are apps attempting to address this). But as far as non-customer-facing engineers go, I've found that if you're constantly flooded with email you're probably in an organization with lots of bureaucracy where few people feel empowered to make decisions. For instance, when I want to hire someone (I manage), I do it by sending an email to the HR person saying essentially 'hire them'. My boss has empowered me to make this decision and no other departments get in the way, except if they limit the budget.
But it's not. Getting paid $10k and giving it back is net zero.
I believe D-Wave's device uses quantum annealing to solve certain optimization problems, but someone check me if I'm wrong. http://www.hqew.net
I wonder if Google will buy this version, too. I think they've been working with D-wave for a few years now.

http://phys.org/news180107947.html
Question: how is it better than symlinking the entire Application Support folder into Dropbox? (I never tried it so there might be pitfalls I don't know about). Thanks.
> if they have no idea what that information is?

Reminds me of this case in 2007 in China. A newspaper ad "Paying tribute to the strong(-willed) mothers of June 4 victims" slipped through the censorship, because the young clerk had no idea that June 4 is a reference to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the talking of which is not allowed. Because she had never heard of the Tiananmen Square protests, because censorship had been so effective.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/06/06/us-china-tiananmen...
I was just thinking the same; when all my syntax highlighting in a region looks backwards, I normally assume I've got a mismatched quote just before it. I think I'd be thinking that with this all the time.

Subtle changes in the background colour would be a nice alternative.
It's OpenStreetMap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
Could a home microwave's magnetron be converted into an antenna? what possible use could it have?, are they good for data transmission? the microwave antennas I mean, not the ovens.. It could be cool to have a dyi super high power wifi of some kind!
The amazing thing is that the "big bulge" that Evans referred to in the original graph is clearly the bulge on the left (low-income) side of the graph, while McArdle incorrectly focuses on the artifact on the right (high-income) side -- and then none of the follow-on posts seem to point this mistake out.
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So what exactly is her point?
"Quantum computers operate at speeds unattainable by even today’s most powerful supercomputers, operations that are so fast, they can process millions of calculations in a fraction of the months, even years, traditional computers take"

God damn I hate bullshit lines like this used about QCs. The whole article is gives the usual misleading impression of QCs being generically faster than normal computers.

They're not.

They can answer some problems much, much faster than traditional non-QC computers because they are capable of running classes of algorithm that rely on quantum effects.

Don't get me wrong - that's a pretty darn useful subset of problems... the future of QCs is full of rosy cool stuff... but this isn't just like upping the clock cycles of a CPU.

It doesn't make everything faster. Completely different classes of constraint are being tweaked.

QCs aren't going to make everybody's laptop or smartphone rilly rilly fast.
Great thanks - I think Picasa stores this as meta data rather than in the image file so it might be quite a lot of work.

BTW the onboarding user journey is first rate, as is the creative and design work - great job.
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Sometimes, code is hard to read due to being optimized. In that case, it's often easier to read a short comment than having to parse the code.

// p.xyz += f.xyz * timeStep
__m128 ts = _mm_load1_ps(&timeStep);
__m128 x, y, z;
__m128 fx, fy, fz;
for(int i = 0; i < NUM_PARTICLES; i+=4) {
x = _mm_load_ps(px + i);
y = _mm_load_ps(py + i);
z = _mm_load_ps(pz + i);
fx = _mm_load_ps(pfx + i);
fy = _mm_load_ps(pfy + i);
fz = _mm_load_ps(pfz + i);
x = _mm_add_ps(_mm_mul_ps(fx, ts), x);
y = _mm_add_ps(_mm_mul_ps(fy, ts), y);
z = _mm_add_ps(_mm_mul_ps(fz, ts), z);
_mm_store_ps(px + i, x);
_mm_store_ps(py + i, y);
_mm_store_ps(pz + i, z);
}

Sometimes, it's because you're doing something that looks surprising, but is there for some reason, so that the next time someone looks at that code, they know why something is done in that fashion.

val loginForm = Form(
tuple(
"email" -> text,
"password" -> text,
"rememberMe" -> optional(text) // jfim: HACK For some reason, having this as boolean causes a None.get in Play 2.1.0
)
)

Comments should be there to explain why the code does something or what it does in a more readable fashion(because it's faster to read plain English than code), neither of which can be covered by tests.
Google is safe offering him $100M without offending the other employees, because the other employees at that level at Google already earn that much, if not more.

Giving him $100M was more of a correction because he arrived at the company later than the other equiv execs. Most of the top tiers of employees at Google, which is where he would be, are worth hundreds or millions and more through vested stock, new options, bonuses, etc.
I was doing this before, and the big caveat is that in those folders, a lot of stuff is bound to the local system, or useless on another system, when it works.

This tool solves this by being very selective on the files it syncs.

e.g. if you use a different user on 2 different macs, one of the file might reference /Users/joe/stuff while on your other mac it should be /Users/bill/stuff

For Sublime Text 2 for example, the tool make sure it sync only the config files that can be dropped on another system without requiring any in-file change.

Also it does only sync the useful config, it does not sync cache, temp files, and files specific to the install/hardware.
Can anyone point to which particular crockford talk this was inspired by? I've had the idea for scope highlighting bashing around my head for a while now, would love to know more.
I too would like more details on this. 2.7.3 already had memoryview objects IIRC, though I found them almost as frustrating to work with as the 2.6.x world of not having them. What really changed in 2.7.4?
Also at some point you want to drop what's not in your AppSupport folder (ssh, bash, dotfiles) deal with file rights, and it becomes more complex, hence the tool.
This is utterly disgusting.
Feel very sorry for the victim. The officer and her dept certainly needs to apologise for this.
Reducing the number of lines isn't important. Unless you're code golfing or otherwise competing to fit within a certain code/binary size, you should never care about line count at all.

The only thing it will do is cause you to crush your lines wherever possible and code horizontally instead of vertically, which generally conflicts with readability. In fact, I'd actually impose a limit on line length to prevent just that.

Instead, write code that makes sense when you read it. Avoid cleverness, and DRY. Repeating yourself in the way that violates DRY principles can often make reading code more difficult because you're essentially forced to re-read repetitive code because you can't assume it's all identical.

The only exception to this is code standards for consistency in the code base that make sense, such as use a '{' on the same line as the definition or omit the '{}' block if the body is just 1 statement in cases where you won't violate a width constraint, etc. Anything that isn't completely reasonable as a code standard is optimizing for line count and is probably the wrong thing to do.
Facebook chat is slower and more unreliable. Reloading the chat on mobile after you sent some messages on another device is quite slow, messages also take 5+ seconds to arrive in mobile after they already arrived on PC, and this is on wifi.

The product just isnt as good.
Hm, interesting. The place where I live, one is required to enter a PIN code when you buy something in the physical shop. Shops have terminals for that.
Yes, I rather like it. In fact, with the appropriate lines removed, 90% of the time I wouldn't even need it to navigate for me - and it's definitely good for more fuzzy journey planning.

I can't see such a thing anywhere on their website, but in stations TfL often have the inverse; a map showing the closures with the rest greyed out. I've always felt that's the wrong way around.
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I would guess that this depends on the things you usually integrate and those one differentiates – as the former only has (simple) algorithms for very simple cases, whereas the latter has very general algorithms, differentiation exercises in school tend to use more complex examples than integration exercises.

However, given a ‘random’ expression, integration will be much more difficult than differentiation.
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Good find.

Off topic: how are you finding windows 8?
Yes, the API returned in December 2010 and has been fine (from my PoV anyway) ever since.
Actually the bigger point is: what privacy protection do Disney visitors have?

Is it allowed for Disney to e.g. correlate their fingerprint or ID database with a federal database for wanted people? Is it allowed for the FBI/NSA/CIA to go to Disney and demand a full list of fingerprints of visitors?
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They don't need it if you're entering the US for your vacation. Your fingerprint and face photo are taken at the border.

They don't yet take DNA, but I guess they could. There's a bit of trickiness about invasive procedures.
I have a couple of ideas: first, have your parents buy you a programming tutor. This will validate your time and actually might benefit you a lot (if you find the right one).

Second, read some biographies of famous programmers and entrepreneurs. You'll probably enjoy that and you might be able to show your parents that you're doing something that other successful people do.

Next, find some way to compete or have your skills verified. Enter hackathons, for instance.

And like many commenters have said, make something and show them. Are you a toddler playing with dry pasta all day? That's not good. Are you making macaroni necklaces for mom? She'd like that.

Also, as a software engineer I don't even think about "hours spent on the computer". If you are serious about computers, eliminate that thought from your brain. It's a tool as indispensable to me as a pen would have been to a writer. I work on it as much as I need to. Some weeks that's 0 hours, some weeks that's 100.

Also, remember this struggle and write about it for your college essay. Good stuff.
it seems you as maintainer need to insert every product and that won't fly with myriads of products in existence.

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Let me explain the problem here.

What you are doing is diluting the 'evil brand'. If you call a drunk driver evil, you have nothing left for the likes of Hitler and Pol Pot. What are they then - double evil?
Yes strictly looking at the murders SF has seven, for comparison, my hometown (150k pop.) in the middle of nowhere has six murders. Chicago has five times more people than SF and I know without checking sources there's been more murders in Chicago, probably in January alone, than in San Francisco yet this year.

People who say San Francisco is unsafe are out of touch. It's no Pepperidge Farm, and it's not out of control. When was the last time, in San Francisco, someone saw a gang of sixteen year olds with loaded guns walking the streets a block away from school? That's daily life for some in Chicago.
Just my 2c here as a national level powerlifter -

This article is terrible. If you want to get fit/strong/whatever your goal, just do it properly. Go to a gym, go and run, whatever. This is an awful article. The general theme is good, and there is some good info in there, but I wouldn't expect much result or progress from it.
In the contact sense, the hierarchy is an alphabetical list. What hierarchy does the native iOS contacts list give you that is better than that?
That's a fair question. The title is "Why I (still) Love Perl", but the post doesn't really seem to get around to explaining that.

It's not really a "Why you should use Perl instead of X" either.

It seems more like, "Perl's Not Dead, It's Just Schizophrenic Now". It attacks the idea of "Perl is Dead" with a description of the rather confusing state of "modern Perl". It doesn't exactly make the ecosystem sound all that enticing, not here in 2013 when there are so many other viable options.
It looks Luke you are hiding your work. If you can't show it to your parents how can you show it to the world. If you are passionate about what you do, don't be afraid to share it. They either like it or they don't no other options
Oh yes you are correct.

In this case the merchant only loses the cost to the vendor ($7,000). Good catch.