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It hurts so much to hear the truth being spoken. Crap articles generally drive more traffic than thoughtful ones.
I don't think there's enough stuff popping up on my screen for me to fully enjoy this article.
Beware Premature Certainty – Embracing Ambiguous Requirements
David -- this is terrific! Thanks!

Agree with you on giving more guidance and structure to the relationship. It is certainly the next phase for Mentii.

Our view was that a mentoring relationship starts with the discovery, and a query -- as you mentioned, it takes a lot more for it to develop into something serious. But, we got to start somewhere.

The training session notes are really useful -- emailing you for more detailed thoughts. Thanks again!
My point stands: just write 1.0±1.0. If 1 Bq/Kg is small then giving a precision of 0.1 nBq/Kg is just plain insane.
What is Banished?
> This article is not describing a treatment, just progress in understanding a mental illness.

If the article's thesis is correct, if depression can be modulated by way of brain chemistry, the it's not a mental illness, it's a physical illness with mental symptoms.

I say this because over time, more and more "mental" illnesses have been recategorized as physical or genetic conditions that happen to have mental symptoms, including schizophrenia and bipolar syndrome, both of which respond dramatically to neurological treatments, and not at all to psychological treatments.

This change in the status of "mental" illnesses was recently recognized by the director of the NIMH, who in Scientific American said, "In most areas of medicine, doctors have historically tried to glean something about the underlying cause of a patient's illness before figuring out a treatment that addresses the source of the problem. When it came to mental or behavioral disorders in the past, however, no physical cause was detectable so the problem was long assumed by doctors to be solely "mental," and psychological therapies followed suit. Today scientific approaches based on modern biology, neuroscience and genomics are replacing nearly a century of purely psychological theories, yielding new approaches to the treatment of mental illnesses."

Reference: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=faulty-circ...
Enumerate the keys, please. Oh, no primitives? Well, you can just use maphash. But wait: maphash doesn't return values. So you need your k/v function to modify some state somewhere.

WAT

Fuck it, I'll just use an alist.
Sure, I'll take a look at it. Might be able to send you guys some rpm instructions as well. We are a RH/CentOS shop.

Edit: Looking over your build files. I think I'm going to go ahead and create (or modify existing) spec files and throw together a github for an nginx RH tree. If anyone is interested in it when done, shoot me an e-mail through profile.
Mathematical Proof That Growing Old Means Getting Boring
The Wikipedia article doesn't mention anything about drowning, just "an immobile posture".

/hopes that we're not torturing mice for our own benefit.
Bitcoin: world's fastest growing currency migrates off the internet
If cars could talk, accidents might be avoidable (video)
To provide some further context to ovis' (correct) statements, none of our 'heat', or other energy from the sun comes in the form of conduction. It comes in the form of radiation (light, et al) which the sun has in huge, massive, ginormous quantities. In pop culture, we often talk about the heat of the sun as if it's a direct indicator for the amount of power therein, and the amount of power output. But while it's quite hot, its also quite busy showering us with other forms of energy.
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Are you guys interested in teaching kids how to code/make games? Your visual method for scripting looks very similar to scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/). Although I haven't used your program, it seems like it would make a natural stepping stone once kids have done everything they can in scratch.

<CSB> I taught an extracurricular class on game making in scratch to elementary school kids for four years. Every year, there were one or two kids that seemed to have mastered scratch and were being held back by the program's limitations. I wish I had had your program so that I could have given them something more challenging.</CSB>
Hah, I like that concept. If the author is interested in renaming, there are a lot of ones here that would make good names for this project: http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/common-misspellings

Though its probably a bit too late for that now ;-)
You're right, I should have said the reason they are giving bad advice.
How Automotive Innovation is Changing Detroit (Again)
I actually like this ad. The link in the article's gone 451, here's a mirror:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=948_1366967562 (trigger warning?)

What does offend me is the attempt to stifle public discussion of the ad by censoring it from YouTube using trademark law. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpopOOLLLFE)

The car in the ad is the ix35 FCEV, hydrogen fuel-cell powered, which predictably means it's (i) not for sale and (ii) costs six figures.

With prices per vehicle in the "upper $100,000s per car," the ix35—which emits only water vapor as its exhaust—is too expensive for general consumers right now, he says. The company hopes to bring the price of hydrogen cell cars down to about $50,000 by the time they're ready to sell to consumers.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/02/26/hyundai-becom...
Well, the fact that it's working means that it's working. Your questions may be valid, but either they've been answered by the scientists or they're non-issues.
The quality of discussion on slashdot has never approached "very poor". It was always much worse than that, going all the way back to 1998.
What a odd pricing model. 50 SEK + 175 SEK/10 km at moderate speeds, with a jump discontinuity to 50 SEK + 600 SEK/10 km and above at low speeds - such as traffic lights.

Taxi Stockholm charges 45 SEK + 246-280 SEK/10 km, which looks like more, but it's hard to compare without knowing how much of the time is spent at low speeds. Taking the pessimal estimate of 15 minutes in a standstill to charge the hyperdrive, followed by a 10 kilometer spurt at lightspeed, we get an upper bound of 50 SEK + 445 SEK/10 km, or 165% of the article's index fare. I honestly can't tell if that's competitive.

I imagine that's why they don't want to make a sticker.

Oh, and then there's the much higher fixed price for city center travel. I trust that doesn't get added on to a trip that crosses the boundary.
Was anyone else led by the title of this post to contemplate the difference in heat between thought and the Earth's core?
Bush: Terrible President, Also Not a Smart Man
A cheaper price for goods and services is not a necessary precondition to existence. People are free to pay more than absolute rock-bottom if they feel the more expensive goods/service are superior. Unless you intended your list to be disjunctive and I read it as conjunctive, if so, apologies.
iKnode doesn't lock you in at all. ;)
Its rotation produces the magnetic field which keeps the solar wind from stripping away our atmosphere and leaving the Earth a dead planet like Mars. We're getting our money's worth.
Cool! See you guys in the trenches.
That's probably true, but a lot of companies put their "creatives" in the marketing department, especially software companies who don't place enough importance on UI/UX.
We do this in the US. However, not being standardized on the metric system, it can end up being pretty useless. It's usually good, but every so often you come across something like:

Item A: $3, $6/pound
Item B: $4, $0.30/oz

Which defeats the whole purpose of the per-unit price. Occasionally drives me bonkers.
A Coffee Date With Apple's Tim Cook Will Cost You $180,000
Tesla Is Getting Ready To Announce More Big News Today
I'm confused by one of your scenarios:

Imagine, if the people behind the Millenium or Aquarius simulations were forced to publish their code as soon as they had run the simulations (this is true for any theorist)-- now these people have spent the past years of their lives, tweaking and perfecting code _for which they get no publications or citations_ and before they can even begin to analyze the easiest results ("low hanging fruit", the simplistic papers that usually go to collaboration members), the simulations are being run and analyzed all over the world. They have gained nothing by their efforts in actually developing the code (our world does not work like industry, we don't get a pat on the back and a raise for being team players).

My confusion: who said they had to release their code when it was finished? My understanding is that they would only release their code when they first publish. So I don't see a problem here: when they finish their code, but before they can analyze their first results, they have no external pressures.

However, once they publish those preliminary results? Yes, there will be external pressures, because others can start using their code to also look for interesting results. But that's the way things should progress. The original authors will still have an enormous benefit from having a deep understanding of the code, and the techniques they used in it.

I'm a computer scientist. I work on systems software research. I work in industry, so I can't release most of my code. When I was a PhD student, I always released my code. I wanted people to try to build on what I did. In fact, releasing my code is what has actually gotten me citations - people have either used my code directly in a larger project, or they have extended and improved upon it.

In systems software, academics always release their code. They want people to use it and build on it. The frequency with which other groups are able to beat out the original authors is almost zero - understanding a non-trivial code base takes time, and if the original authors are still working on the same problem, they have an enormous advantage.

Your attitude protects you, but prevents other from learning from you.
Cool paper, but the fact that a silly keyword like 'color' is so significant without an author explanation makes me question their results. I really wish they dug deeper and explained unintuitive results like that. There may be a bug in their experiment.

Also, why would they use the Dow Jones Industrial Average? It is a ridiculously bad average of stock market performance for many reasons. This planet money podcast goes into why:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/03/12/174139347/episode-...
The fact that when the earliest recordings were made they had no intention or technology to play them back but now we can (at least to get a rough idea) leads to a fascinating idea: capture of a signal may be decoupled from its playback, which may be impossible with current technology. This, of course, brings to mind the 2011 experiment from UC Berkeley (http://gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clip...). We shouldn't worry about the horrible quality of the playback for these but focus on recording and preserving the brain activity.
Normally I would agree. But when your product corrupts an arbitrary chunk of data for a single customer, then your backups need to have the ability to restore that chunk of data your product corrupted.

EDIT: I would also clarify that this wasn't a case of "oops, I messed up my data, can you please help me get it back?" This was a case of, I logged in one morning and all my data was gone. It's apparently a known issue as their support system is flooded with users who have the same problem (except for most of them logging out and back in fixes it, for me it didn't).
I find myself in two conditions.

One is that I really need the product RIGHT NOW in which case I am going to pull out the credit card.

The other is that it's one of the many things I'd like to evaluate someday and sure let's start that 30 day trial but there are so many other things I need to do RIGHT NOW that I never get around to finishing it.
Prospect's World Thinkers 2013
I'm waiting to see what the used market is going to look like for EVs.

I could easily squeak by w/ current electric car tech. I only need 40 miles a day to cover my routine.

The problem is that I can afford $500-$5000 used cars -- I can't justify spending $20,000+ on a new car.

That being said: I'd like an EV as soon as I can fit it in my budget -- I'm a petrolhead, and I need to do my part to ensure there's fuel left for my hobbyist vehicles and all the supercars I know and love.
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Yeah, Chicago is good too. The winters there are worse than Boston, and as someone living in Boston, I'm not sure I can deal with much worse.

Also, DC is pretty good too.

Arguably, NY and SF are far better than Boston, and you could probably safely lump Boston in with Chicago and DC as far as desirability.

I agree with you that talent doesn't have as much leverage as they think they do. Good jobs are nearly impossible to find. That is why living in a great city is so important. Talent will never have the type of leverage HN believes it does except for in rare individuals who have built social credit along with their skills.
I thought most of the content at WWDC and Google I/O is recorded and made available for free. I understand the frenzy for free devices at Google I/O. But why does this happen for WWDC?

I should note .. I managed to get Google I/O tickets once and the party was so much fun (good vibes, robots, gadgets, etc.), I felt that was almost worth the price of admission!
Highly demanded products do sell out during natural disasters, and it does cause shortages. In reality, not theory.
I'm assuming the ad is for their production hydrogen fuel cell version, which I don't see listed on their site: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/150202-first-production-h...
Hadoop Landscape Review 2013
Well, not every language culture is as tweaker as the Ruby world.
That would be great if they at least offerred. On the other hand, it would lend itself to a business model that discourages them from fixing bugs in their product which randomly corrupt data, since they would make money any time that happens.
9.4 Million “Smart Glasses” to Ship by 2016
I had no idea. Any particular cities/areas in particular? (I live in LA.)
How do you get access to google search terms for something like this? Also, anyone have any other hypothesis about search terms that would predict movement?
I don't use facebook either. So G+ is far inferior because at least I can get facebook out of my life.
“One thing that really makes the flat design trend work is that it is new and fun.”

Not ‘a good idea’ or ‘usable’ or ‘accessible’, just different.

EDIT: Just to take the snarky edge off, I want to mention that whilst this might have been quite a good blog post if you've already decided to use Flat Design™, I'd have appreciated a discussion of the merits. But of course not all blog posts about anything are required to go into such a discussion.
This is an interesting problem - I have a YouTube focused event called Playlist Live and we have a similar problem.

We have three primary tiers of attendees:

- Popular creators who perform, speak and collaborate
- Fans of the top tier who want to take it in and get autographs
- Up-and-coming creators who want to grow

The event isn't selling out in a day and our sell-out this year was only 4200 tickets, but it's increasingly difficult to offer a meaningful experience to all three groups, especially with fans outnumbering the other groups.

This year we expanded our "Insight" track which gives up-and-comers a chance to work with the most popular creators one-on-one and it was great! The problem is that fans are willing to pay more than up-and-comers just to get access to creators, so charging more for Insight doesn't seem to separate things.
"He even mentioned that Uber reported the supply of drivers went up 50%. Isn't that a major, important factor. The author just blows it off and calls the Uber evil."

I think people either don't realize, or at least haven't properly internalized, the fact that Uber doesn't employ drivers directly, but just connects drivers and riders and manages payment.

If Uber employed drivers directly, then complaining about high fares during a hurricane would make sense. It would be reasonable to say that they should just keep fares the same, put a lot of drivers out there, and maybe take a loss for the good of the community. I don't know if I'd be comfortable saying that they should, but I can understand the point of view, at least.

But with Uber simply acting as an intermediary, they have no direct control over drivers. If they want more drivers out there, they need to offer an incentive.
Not really the same thing. Marco sold the product to Betaworks Inc. Loren went to facebook as a private individual.
One on one access to Apple engineers is the real benefit of going. All the videos are free online for Apple Developer Program members.
Not to be that guy, but the fact that it plots 2013 and 2014 really messes up the impact of this chart. When I first saw it, I was thinking "whoa, we must have severely cut funding for such a huge dropoff!"
A test drive with Automatic (YC S11)
https://code.google.com/p/logstalgia/
As I like to put it, having the ability to optimize isn't considered premature optimization (IMO). Picking a technology because its fast might be a poor decision early on; picking a technology because it has the flexibility to allow you to make it fast might be a great decision.
The thing about waste is that most of it is really unspent fuel, which can be burned in fast reactors or molten salt reactors. So really we don't need to store it for thousands of years, but just until those reactors become available.

Russia has had a fast reactor in commercial use for several years now, and several of the small modular designs are fast reactors. There are molten salt efforts ongoing in several countries, including a billion-dollar effort in China, at least two startups in the U.S., and another in Canada.

Once we're using all our fuel, the only remaining waste is the fission products, which become less radioactive than the original ore after a couple centuries.
The WWDC purchase process was _much_ less painful than the Google I/O process. I didn't get tickets for either, but at least the Apple process was done within minutes. Google took me nearly an hour of watching a progress spinner and retrying before it finally denied me. Kudos to Apple for how well their servers responded and not wasting my time.
Which companies can pay someone fresh out of school 150-200k base? Maybe DE Shaw, RenTech, a handful of other large funds. Banks just don't do it.
You're right, I'll correct it.
It just takes an extra bit of thought, that's all; look at the 2013 value and then remember it's only April. Then think about what 2014 might look like.

Edit: Here's the graph just up to 2012: http://exoplanet.eu/diagrams/?t=h&f=&x=discovered...
Fresh out of school.
How about dyslexia? :)
It seems Bush's supporters are once again arguing that he was misunderestimated.
Yup, teaching kids (and adults alike :)) is one of my motivation for CraftStudio. Scratch was a great advance back in the day (and their visual scripting system was definitely an inspiration for CraftStudio's own) but the Scratch platform is severly limited and I definitely believe CraftStudio would be a good upgrade for a lot of children (as an upgrade path from Minecraft too, since it shares some similarities). I know kids aged 10 to 15 are building actual little games with CraftStudio, so I'm definitely hoping to see that aspect of it grow more :)
"... such a qualitative, safe and modern mode of transportation should be available for everyone"

This is such a BS. Stockholm is one of the best capital city to live in, and one of the reasons is that the car traffic has the lowest priority there. You actually need to pay to enter the city centre by car, which I would consider much more modern approach than giving everyone an easy way to drive a limo.
I absolutely despise the term "developer". It insinuates that we, hackers, write code because we want to "develop," not because it's a fun hobby or because we want to find practical solutions to everyday problems.

As pg put it, "'Engineer' is a kind of bureaucratic term that companies use to refer to a programmer. 'Developer' is a slightly less bureaucratic term that companies use to refer to a programmer."
But we have at least one example of doing that right - CPAN.
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I don't think either of those books is very good, so try to borrow before you buy. The best of a bad bunch is still bad.

I never look at Fabozzi's book these days, but I still break out the Guide to MBS for its appendix on mortgage amortization formulas. That's a pretty weak recommendation.
> It is either Higher Prices, or ZERO availability. I'll opt for the former.

Where did you get that stark either-or proposition from?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
Yes, of course, but it does not follow that those products are being optimally allocated by price like a normal economy. Normal economies adjust to produce more, natural disaster is a temporary state with different rules.

It becomes a public policy issue (we have too few and how to apportion in the short term) rather than an economic issue.
On the 'buy' side, I've also used elance.com and freelance.com and found them all similarly useful. Of the 3, freelance.com seems to have more people with experience installing and configuring 'big' projects like Canvas/Instructure.
Northern California, as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geysers
"isnt this small enough to look like space debris, and maybe dangerous?"

The fact that they said this burns up when it runs out of "juice" implies that it is in very low Earth orbit, where the atmosphere still exists and imparts drag. These will reenter the atmosphere on a moderately predictable time scale and burn up. Space junk is only a problem at higher orbits which can be stable for very long periods of time without propellant.

As for 2... they put on up and it worked. What's the point of theorizing about how it might not work, when they've already done it? It might stand up to a good solar blast, but that's hardly a surprise, and if it's disposably cheap, who cares?
It's easy! You just take your nuclear waste and dump it somewhere a thousand miles from where anybody lives.

What's that, you say? There are no places in Europe a thousand miles from where anyone lives? Oh. That could prove to be a problem. Maybe Uzbekistan could help.
I would mostly agree with you that flat design is a new style if we limit the context to only web/application GUI's. No one can really disagree that flat design is an already historically established visual aesthetic in the real world.

So this is digital flat design. With digital there are different metaphors to consider, like user interaction, boundaries, display capabilities etc. This is the web adopting some of the best things about established design aesthetics in the real world (minimalism) and integrating them in an entirely new way to incorporate those considerations.

I agree that it is inevitable there will be some new design trend in a few years time (please hopefully not one that involves monstrous glossy buttons and gradients), however this current flat design feels like it is laying the groundwork, especially in how a design should be technically achieved. The flat design is naturally more vector, which makes it inherently more native to web technology (CSS, HTML). This is very different from previous web design trends I can remember which were essentially hacks, initially involving tables, and later divs compiled from static bitmapped assets exported from Photoshop. This I believe is a new chapter in the evolution of design on the web.

-- Edited for clarity.
The library supports some very useful algorithms. Both supervised and unsupervised ones. But I can't use it for our commercial non GPL projects.