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Ah, good question. Establishing causality is tricky. I think it's a widely held view that the non-hierarchical approach gained popularity on the left, especially among younger people in the West, partly as a reaction to Leninism. But I don't know if anyone's explicitly written on that; I would be interested in someone tracing that myself. Someone recommended to me David Graeber's The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement (2013), an account of the origins/ideology of Occupy Wall Street, but I haven't read it and don't know if it covers that. (Graeber is an anarchist politically and an anthropologist by training, so read accordingly.)

The origins of the hierarchy/nonhierarchy dispute on the left are a bit clearer, if that's what you're looking for. The polemics between Marx and Bakunin would be one place to start to see that side of it. To over-simplify, Bakunin thought that Marx's views had a dangerous authoritarian tinge that risked just replacing one kind of authoritarian government with a different one; while Marx thought Bakunin was an idealistic hippie out of touch with real-world situations, whose views would at best go nowhere, and at worst result in the workers' movement getting crushed as they spent all day holding disorganized meetings. For a later historical episode, something about the May '68 protests in France would probably have something informative. They were led by young leftists with non-hierarchical views, and opposed by the more orthodox French Communist Party. But I don't know as much as I'd like about that period, either, apart from the Situationists producing a lot of clever slogans.
Hierarchy introduces a bunch of serious problems, for instance:

1. information is often collected at the leaf nodes, so it must flow up the chain-of-command to be used effectively

2. power creates perverse incentives to distort information as it travels up the hierarchy, even when it doesn't information is distorted as it is compressed for fewer and fewer people (see executive summary)

3. hierarchies have to wait for signals to go up the tree and back down to act (which is why the US military has non-hierarchical decision making in places), this makes "tall" hierarchies slow to react

4. corruption of single node in a hierarchy can disrupt all nodes below or above it in non-obvious ways

5. hierarchies tend to have extremely critical nodes and cascading failure modes

Use of such structures should always be considered within the framework of a trade-off.
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Chain book stores were a middle ground between libraries and coffee shops. Most of them served coffee!

But now they seem to be going out of business.
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First, who reads msn.com ?
Second, in 2010 starbucks in NY required you to have a starbucks card to access wifi. That didn't work well and they gave wifi free again, so stay cool-- they know what is good for their business.
That sounds great! Please get in touch with me if you hit any problems, would be happy to help!
The idea of getting 80%+ in college would be absurd in the UK. While we don't have a precise GPA (and there are many issues with the British secondary, tertiary and quaternary education systems, so this is definitely not a UK>US post), typically in undergrad people get in the 50-80% range, which, in my opinion, allows for

1) Much more challenging exams

2) The realization that "getting everything right" is not really how any part of the real world works.
Then the car serves as the immediately threat to the other car, no the cyclist. This why you are supposed to drive defensively when operating a motor vehicle, so sudden changes in a situation doesn't cause you to crash into someone or something.
Might be nice way to get a competitor ranked lower - whereby hiring people to create bad reviews of your top competitors ...
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Isn't it already a browser option?
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I grew up in the American public school system (and a decent one at that). One thing I could never understand was the purpose of summer break. I understand that to many kids, summer break was a sacred multi-month period but to me, the opportunity cost seems significant. In those summers, I learned geometry, physics, biology, multivariable calculus, and read tons of books while other kids had "traditional" vacations that did nothing to reinforce what they had learned the year before.

I know that rest and relaxation are also important to fostering a child's creativity and independence, but there is certainly a tradeoff, and I am wondering if we are nowhere near the correct balance.
There are a handful of coffee shops here in Seattle (Zoka immediately comes to mind) that I generally avoid because they're so full of people who use them as de-facto offices. That's not a huge loss for me, as there are plenty of other perfectly good coffee shops around.

Maybe this is a real problem in inferior cities.
python has a ton of in browser plotting mechanisms (including matplotlib inside iPython notebook files), and you can always use vincent which is a wrapper around vega to create d3 plots (svg html elements, which can be styled with CSS).

Here is the repo/tutorial for plotting with vincent https://github.com/wrobstory/vincent

[Note that vincent works great if you are using pandas for your data analysis.]
And in theory less data, right? a session ID doesn't need to store the kilobytes that cookies do.
This app has automatic re-evaluation when a something changes, like a spreadsheet; ipython notebooks do not.
This I don't believe to be true. For many years, I have kept a file with all the filenames in it, and did a grep on the files in the list, and it is slower than git-grep.
Do you have specific complaints? We're definitely eager to hear about them at the Audio working group.
I see - but the typical dropbox deduplication methods wouldn't work here (at least not in terms of bandwidth usage), would they?
slightly unnecessary use of an insect's face to support the "printed" structure.
Awesome, thanks for clarifying. For now i'll simply stick to porting the python library 1:1, to ensure the fastest turnaround. :)
In case you're wondering, they're using the Raptorize jQuery plugin
http://zurb.com/playground/jquery-raptorize
Off-topic nitpick: I believe this sentence is untrue: "And Intel had to invent a whole new kind of transistor since the ordinary kind doesn’t work at 22nm scale." First, regular transistors do work at the 22nm scale (but tri-gate/finfet transistors work better, if you can pattern them reliably). Also, Intel didn't invent the tri-gate/finfet transistor. They just got it to production first.
Close but no:

- Can't take phone calls.

- Can't meet co-workers.

- Can't get food.

- Terrible security.
For what it's worth, the curve at Cambridge, for Natural Sciences, was set such that 67% or thereabouts is a First.
We currently support MP3 playback for Windows Vista+ and Android if I'm not mistaken, and support for other platforms is being worked on. Web Audio will support all of the codecs supported by <audio> depending on the platform.
> Why not? The roads were built for cars.

It is amazing how the marketing of car culture change people's perception of this. No, roads were not developed for cars. Roads and streets where predominantly pedestrian avenues prior to motorized vehicles. Pedestrians, cyclists (when the bike was invented), horses, and trollies (again, when invented) all occupied streets and the space was considered public.
I'd be more understanding of this sort of thing at Starbucks if the Starbucks locations near me weren't friendly to ACTUAL hobos. I've walked into SB and been hit with a wall of piss reek on more than one occasion.
In one of WWDC sessions they've told that they rewrote Xcode 5 to use ARC and saw 1.5-2x speed improvements in key tasks like indexing source files.
Sex discrimination is serious issue, but there are also other forms of discrimination nobody cares about.

European Space Agency does not take job applications from people over 55. Not even for desk based jobs such as administrator or software developer. And this is public agency which supports equal oportunities :-)

http://www.esa.int/hr/PDF/ESA-VN-ESTEC-2012-091,REV.1.pdf
Doesn't git already have a compressed and optimized index of your files?
I suppose I was fortunate that the time that I started my Mechanical Engineering degree had coincided with a transition to a general "idgaf" attitude about my grades.
Um, McCain ran on a platform that would encourage price transparency and insurance portability in 2008.

Also last I checked Obama's health care plan passed and it is all about access to and quality of health insurance. There is no evidence that it will improve price transparency from the providers.
At best that's a symptom.

Cookies are for session management; the central problem with cookies is that people feel that servers will treat certain sessions as ephemeral, but instead those servers track these people for a long-term creepy analysis. One connected problem is that many sites require cookies in order to show public content. Public-content sessions should be entirely ephemeral, meaning that you shouldn't need a cookie in the first place. (The New York Times offends in this regard egregiously and persistently.)

You can easily comply with the EU law by either placing the notice on the login page or else not storing cookies. This means that anybody who abuses cookies in the above way needs to be loud about it; "we're not giving you an ephemeral presence like you think!" -- which actually not only fixes this problem but also creates an incentive to not abuse cookies in this way.

I am not saying that we should abandon sessions entirely, but that it would be nice if the 'default' session treatment followed the rules that online banking uses: when the browser is closed, all sessions are done. If we did this then we'd want to include a 'persistent login' mechanism, which would take the form of an in-browser 'would you like to sign in?' dialogue accompanying a web site. This means that unlike current HTTP authentication, it would have to be somewhat asynchronous; you are shown the ephemeral version of the page while the browser itself requests you to confirm that you want to join your long-term session there. (I was originally going to recommend that the browser just handle a digital signature scheme, but of course that does not solve the 'logging on to Facebook from your sister's computer' problem easily. Hm.)
I recognize when I go work from a coffee shop that I am using their resources.

You should also recognize that you're using the resource (rivalrous) of other patrons.

they'd not only lose my business, but that of friends when I tell them about the experience.

Nothing personal, but if what you're telling them is that it's a good shop because they let you hang out all the time while buying little (less than their normal sit-down turnover proportion), then it's probably better that all of you stay away. I mean, your friends probably aren't idiots and they know you're not recommending the shop because you can't stop drinking their coffee and eating their food.

What would benefit the shop the most is if you were going broke from spending so much money there, and I'm gonna guess that's not the message you're sending. Your tone is really more of the (prospective) freelance client who says the gig is going to be "good for your portfolio," so can you work for cheap this time?

Again, I don't know you so this can't be personal, and you very well may only be there for an hour a day. It would be interesting to see proponents of coffee-camping and their $/hr spend at the places they set up shop.
No, you're not alone. (One issue at play may be selection bias. The blog posts with attitudes cause a bigger reaction in readers, causing higher sharing, causing them to be read more, causing them to be overrepresented in what we see.)
By around the world I think they mean Canada :)
I actually wasn't trying to be overly pedantic. Bringing a loaded weapon into an airport, a school, a courthouse, etc is going above and beyond "whoops". I could overlook running through a four-way yield intersection. I could overlook tossing my lit cigarette out the window when I'm finished with it. I could overlook parking too close to a stop sign. 999,999 times out of a million, nothing will go wrong. But that one time it does go wrong, people die.

Yeah, there's a thousand laws on the books that everyone breaks and there's no real repercussions even in the worst case scenario. Bringing a loaded weapon into a weapon-free zone is not one of them. I say this as a holder of a concealed carry permit. You might as well be yelling "fire" in a theater if you drop your purse and that gun falls out.
"Houston, We've got a problem" is form 1972 :
http://archive.org/details/HoustonWeveGotAProblem

I don't claim Mr. Lloyed initiated the policy, but by the matter-of-fact tone of the letter itself, I can infer he agreed that NASA certainly had no use for women astronauts at the time, despite their presence in the sciences and engineering (I believe Playtex/ILC Dover were hired to do the Apollo spacesuits and there were a fair number of women involved).
That's great, but it means it'll always be a userland library rather than a OS supported networking protocol... which means the API will never be a defacto standard akin to the BSD sockets API. The reference implementation is also in obtuse looking C++... which will hinder bindings to other languages.

In short, don't expect to see this outside of Android or Chrome.

On the plus side, this is exactly what UDP was for in the first place.
I defer to you on this and apologize if I've mischaracterized VLC.
This is the Raptorize plugin from Zurb: http://zurb.com/playground/jquery-raptorize

I assume they wanted to make this fully responsive but there's much work to be done.
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Isn't this just the results of this philosophy?
http://yfsentrepreneur.com/2013/05/06/toxic-employees-3-type...

I'm not even passing judgement. If some group is sowing discontent in what is otherwise known as a happy, fluid environment, you get rid of them. I pass no judgement on whether that environment is "right" or "wrong", but my sense was that you deal with it quickly before it spreads.
This makes for a observation for us all, that life is precious indeed, but at times we must trade that for the many other precious lives.

From a Administrative point of view, I would love to get a record of what methods, were used by him, to keep his men in line. Though I do have a Idea, what it would be, but actual facts would be more revealing.

From a Human point of view, I would call him a hero, and all his co-workers as well. And take an oath that if time would come for me to take a similar decision, i.e, to "STAY SO OTHERS CAN LIVE" I would in all probability take that.

From a Citizen point of view, I feel that, yes nuclear plants are very dangerous, it is to remember that the call of the hour is that I'm a entrepreneur, and the only way I can help make this all better is to do, what we do best: Innovate. And Search for more safer, better, alternate ways of mass electricity production.
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>She relates stories about how employees would come by to play with the prototypes, so there appeared to be some interest from a gaming perspective. She elaborates that there are disincentives to work on risky or less-visible projects because of the way that the bonuses work. Assuming what she says is accurate, that sounds like a legitimate problem.

She may well have a point, but that doesn't change the fact that she herself admitted her prototype was way to cumbersome to clamour interest and she hoped that newer, smaller versions would help this. It also doesn't change the gameplay sounded like an AR version of D&D, which makes it sound like a bunch of geeks playing with toy swords dressed in cloaks. Fun for some, but not exactly a direct parallel to PC gaming.

>The problem was specifically that they found machinists who were qualified and willing, but were rejected at the eleventh hour for not being a culture fit. That is a problem. I know the conventional wisdom around here is that office culture is king, but there should be some amount of flexibility in order to staff necessary positions.

Watching the video, it sounded a lot more like it was Engineers being rejected at the 11th hour while machinists were never on the agenda.
Different era is different. Plenty written today, perfectly in tune with current right-thinking cutting-edge mores, will appear comically quaint and unjust 50 years from now.
I'd add that trust is a critical component of flat structures. If you lose it, or feel threatened and react accordingly, it shifts power around in a way that will ultimately unbalance the ship.
A pocket knife tends not to have the chance that it could plunge itself into someone's heart from a distance. Hurting someone with a knife is a pretty active offense, especially a pocket knife. Guns can and do go off without a human intentionally pulling the trigger.
Yes, a major appeal of pipelining to me is efficiency with respect to open connections. It's easier to monitor the progress of one connection sending multiple HTTP verbs than multiple connections each sending one verb.

Whether multiple verbs over one connection are processed by the given httpd more efficiently than single verbs over single connections is another issue. IME, a purely client-side perspective, pipelining does speed things up. But then I'm not using Firefox to do the pipelining.

I'm sure the team reponsible for Googlebot would have some insight on this question. (And I wonder how much SPDY makes the bot's job easier?)

In any event, multiplexing would appear to solve the open connections issue. And I don't doubt it will consistently beat HTTP/1.1 pipelining alone. I'm a big fan of multiplexing (for peer-to-peer "connections"), but I am perplexed by why it's being applied at the high level of HTTP (and hence restricted to TCP, and all of its own inefficiencies and limitations).

I'm curious about something you said earlier. You said something about the "overhead" of using netcat. It's relatively a very small, simple program with modest resource requirements. What did you mean by overhead?
The nuttiness (and what disqualifies the Pauls and other big-L Libertarians from serious consideration, IMAO) comes in where they refuse to recognize any possible benefit from having a federal government at all.

For instance, Ron is famously on record as saying he opposed the civil rights laws because they were enacted at the federal level.

In his ideal world, there would be no unifying authority between the states, making things as simple as driver's licenses a pain in the ass, let alone the recent rights fights we're having now.

Imagine what you'd be losing - all constitutional rights gone. Full faith and credit clause, gone.

We go from being the United States of America to the States of America. Without a federal government, it's just a collection of countries who happen to share the same landmass.
I've been to a few places like this (not US). You pay per hour and do whatever you want. Some snacks are usually free. At one place coffee was free as well, though you operate the coffee machine yourself.

I found those “open spaces” enjoyable but not optimal for work. People mostly come there to spend their leisure time, and they tend to gather in larger groups and behave noisier compared to coffee shops. This can be distracting, although perhaps not if you yourself are with a group of coworkers. Sometimes such places host small-scale art events (I imagine they aren't very profitable otherwise), so you have to adapt to their schedule.

A library is a better place, when it has good Wi-Fi and is generally well-maintained.
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Can I ask why? Marvel used to have easter eggs displaying Deadpool and other Marvel characters when typing in a key combination. I'd imagine the average user would never consider trying it and if they did they might be pleasantly surprised.
Wish author has explained why Flipboard which is built in html5/javascript is not awfully slow like linkedin.
> "Math, Science Popular Until Students Realize They’re Hard"

Well, if that's not "begging the question" then I don't know what is.

If math & science is so hard, the real question should be: why the hell is everything else so 'easy'?
For people who don't know, Jeri Ellsworth does interesting hardware stuff.

The C64 in a joystick case (in 2004); the homemade transistors, etc.

(http://www.youtube.com/user/jeriellsworth/videos)
Sorry, but every additional middleman involved is another potential bottleneck or point of failure–even if it's as trivial as an embedded form or redirect.

This is exacerbated on mobile, which is the majority of Yelp's traffic, where connections are slow/spotty.
The landing page looks fantastic man, I wish the best of luck with this veture :)
Why the hell are you posting on an internet forum if you're not interested in what "some guy on the internet" has to say?
I use ag, but it's good to know this exists, I hadn't seen it before; good to have if I ever needed grep-as-library-code.
Thought I'd share my experience initially majoring in Physics (I ended up going with the "easier" (for me) computer science).

I wanted to be a physicist really bad. However, I did not have any advanced placement credit in math. I started college taking Calculus I along with the basic intro physics courses. The first year was fine. The second year was largely devoted to quantum mechanics, which is where the trouble started. Semester 1 of my sophomore year, I was taking Calculus III and Differential Equations. Unfortunately, a few weeks into the curriculum, we started using partial differential equations everywhere -- I barely even knew how to solve basic differential equations! Even more unfortunate was the fact that every other student in the dwindling Physics class had advanced placement credit and already had the prerequisite math.

It totally killed the joy I initially found in Physics. I found that I just couldn't make up the lost ground myself, and ended up dropping out of Physics.
> That means people with more reasonable needs, such as a place to sit for a few minutes waiting for a friend to arrive or complete an errand nearby, are out of luck.

I'm not sure that Starbuck's or other coffee shops view their mission as providing for the needs of people with a place to sit for a few minutes while waiting for a friend.

> Those few are degrading the experience for many more, quite likely costing the store more than their own paltry consumption could justify (especially in a market with many alternatives).

I somehow doubt this. Most of the complaints I see is that people who want to do things other than purchase goods (i.e., use the coffee shop as a place to hold meetings or wait for people) feel that they are unable to do those things as effectbecause other people are doing things other than purchasing goods (e.g., camping out with their laptops.)

I don't see much reason to believe that there is a whole lot of impact one way or another on the stores' ability to actually sell coffee, snacks, or other goods.
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Read David Graeber's "The Democracy Project." The parent mentions it, but it does specifically talk about this kind of organizing and why OWS used it.
He sounds like a hero for his actions after the failure at the plant (and I commend him and his team for this), but what about his leadership before which allowed the plant to get into such a situation?

I'm not saying it was his fault, I'm merely curious as to how such an important enterprise could be so ill equipped on so many levels.