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The only time I have stalled out is when I am pulling away in first and let the clutch come up to fast. If you are stalling your engine going from 1st to 2nd you are doing something wrong, since the wheels are moving at that point. Even if you let the clutch come up too fast the engine won't stall because the wheels will keep turning it. It might shudder and definitely not like the low RPM's, but it shouldn't stall.

With a manual all there is between the engine is the clutch and the transmission. When the clutch is engaged your engine to your wheels is a single straight line (with some gears in between, but lets ignore those for now). If your engine has a lot of power it will simply turn the wheels, however in most cases the engine is just simply not strong enough to break the friction of the tires agains the ground, especially in lower RPM's.

When you slowly let the clutch up, what you are doing is having the engine turn faster than the pipe connected to the wheels, by using some friction material you transfer SOME of the power from the engine to the pipe connected to the wheels, as you continue rolling eventually the pipe connected to the wheels catches up and spins at the same speed as the engine (once again, ignore gearing), at that point you can let the clutch up entirely (thereby basically connecting it directly).

When you go from first to second, you use RPM matching to have the engine spin at the same speed as the pipe on the other end. When the RPM's match, you let the clutch up and from there you can start providing more power by pushing the gas pedal.

See more about clutch construction here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch

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In most automatics there is a device called a torque converter that takes care of the friction part of the clutch for you. Interestingly enough it does this using fluid rather than friction material. There are fins on both sides of the torque converter, the two sides can freely spin. One side is connected to the engine, the other side is connected to the gear box. As you press the gas pedal, one side forces fluid through a series of fins, this whips the fluid into motion, this fluid is then forced through another series of fins on the other half. Because of the pressure difference in the fluid it will eventually have enough power to start forcing the other side (attached to the gear box and the wheels) to start moving. At some point the engine side is spinning just as fast as the wheel side, at that point most torque converters will actually lock. Now the torque convertor is directly connecting the engine to the transmission to the wheels.

When it switches gears, it disengages the torque converter lock, lowers the engine RPM's (even if you keep pressing the gas, it will use the computer to inject less gas temporarily), switch gears in the gear box, let the torque converter do it's thing, and once RPM's match closely re-engage the torque convertor lock.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque_converter
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Further question for myself, can it be self taught without a degree in comp sci/math?
I have a finance degree and knowledge of python/R, but I'm not sure if the concepts are attainable for me. I've had a few stats classes but only one calculus class. ML seems like a very interesting field.
You don't need tests to refactor code... unless you are an OCD programmer who needs nice little test containers for everything. And the other thing about testing, forgot to write a critical unit test? App fails, all the other tests are a moot point. It is no different then writing "legacy" code and forgetting something critical. Be careful what you read and are influenced by.
Let's admit that while there is code that could be cleaned up and made more efficient, which isn't "shit," there remains code that is riddled with antipatterns, latent bugs, is undocumented, untested and otherwise ostensibly terrible. This is what should fall under the "shit" category.
Yes it is possible to mathematically solve limit poker (as well as no-limit poker, but no-limit poker is orders of magnitude more difficult - they are effectively different games).

The definition of solvable is "Does there exist a strategy that, regardless of opponents play, is not a losing strategy" though (because the game is symmetrical). It is not possible to solve for "Does there exist a strategy that, regardless of opponents play, guarantees maximum profits". You can solve it for not losing money, but you cant solve it for making the max amount of money.

Trivially it's not possible to write software that beats any opponent (because what would it do playing against itself?) . Less trivially, any game that has a finite amount of decisions (and limit hold-em does) has at least one Nash equilibrium, so there exists a strategy that will at least have you break even.

The way to solve the game is to calculate your odds of winning based on previous actions and ensure that you take actions that make any future decision of the opponent have the same outcome (to reach a Nash equilibrium).

That strategy hasnt been calculated yet, but the best limit players are most likely playing very close to it, at least if you compare to the best no-limit players playing no-limit (the variable amounts possible to bid in no-limit multiplies the possible strategies massively).
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Looks cool, but I have to say that the video on that site did pretty much nothing to explain to me what the bike is all about.
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So include arguments against whatever clause in the ToS in your filing. Even if it takes their lawyer five minutes to write a response to that, five minutes of a corporate lawyer is usually more expensive than a full day of a CSR's time, which achieves the goal.
If code is not clean we should be able to state for at least two reasons why. e.g. It breaks SRP, lacks dependency injection, not enough abstraction. Saying something is "st" usually means we lack the verbiage to describe it. Clean code is a continual process one that needs curation with care. There are times when we are reading code and it's just terrible to understand. No care was put into it. My frustration comes to when I don't see care in code. Code is not inheritedly careful. We have to make it that way.
That gene as the wiki article notes is an example of why generally things in the medical community need to be given serious sounding names. No one wants to hear that the thing killing or making their child unwell has a silly name.
But even a breakthrough gave us 100% efficient solar cells it would only marginally add to the range. We're never going to see a 50x improvement in solar cells, that would violate thermodynamics.

If you want a futuristic range-enhancing technology to dream about, look at in-road inductive charging (in-road discussion starts around 5:00):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b71wC4z8its
Infrastructure costs would probably be massive though.
"This is shit" isn't inherently negative. Consider the question "what is the brown substance in the toilet?" and you can answer a neutral "this is shit".
Ah, PsExec. Yes, I reviewed that. However, the issue with PsExec has to do with credentials. If you don't bother with the user/password, it impersonates your account, which has certain restrictions[1]. That was not feasible due to most interesting things living on network drives. If you do bother with the username/password, you have to store those somewhere (remember, automated system). So now instead of running psexec directly, you have to have a tool that grabs the password file, hopefully decrypts it, then runs psexec.

Also, iirc, using the psexec interface from Linux in a Linux->Windows connection does not work (a wrinkle in the original story is that it was a Linux->Windows connection).

[1] http://windowsitpro.com/systems-management/psexec
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You might be thinking of Derwent Capital - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-04/dcm-capital-puts-it...
This piece is written by a (flat-tax) lobbyist ("Katie McAuliffe is federal affairs manager at Americans for Tax Reform."), which is very clear when you read sentences like:

"They want the MFA passed not for sales tax collection,
which has been on the rise, but to set a precedent for
exporting their taxes and laws across their borders so they
can tax and regulate people who cannot vote against them."
Most people looking for machine learning will be looking for the projects you have worked on.

You can approach learning from several perspectives. Learning machine learning from abstract theory is one thing, there is also learning it as part of an application - Coursera has a Recommender System course that just started and I would venture the guess that it's also about machine learning.
good article. haven't seen it mentioned before, so props to the author for noticing that html5 is a distinct platform.
A professor in college once told me that if you can't explain a technology, you might as well assume it's magic.
Not 100% sure but I think kickstarter uses amazon's deferred payment api. Basically they get authorizations from the donors to be charged a certain amount on their credit card, but the amount isn't charged until the crowdfunding ends successfully. If the goal isn't reached nothing is charged on credit cards, if it is, the money is sent to kickstarter's amazon payments account, and from there kickstarter sends it to the project after taking its cut.
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> There simply aren't good teachers on the market at the prices that school districts are willing to pay.

I don't find that to be true. There are good inexperienced teachers that are searching for jobs, but go to interviews for jobs with 20+ applicants.
I don't exactly know how you go from "Teacher's Unions are stifling to innovation" into "...teachers should be evaluated based on student outcomes..." and straight into "...strange aversion to letting anyone other than state-certified teachers do any teaching." So somehow innovative teaching is connected to teacher evaluations, but you will only accept evaluations that link student results to teachers (apparently ignoring things like the impact a student's home life or economic situation will have, regardless of how good the teacher is) but ignore the idea that the state-certified teachers have been evaluated, at least at a basic level, in order to become state-certified? Because requiring a teacher that teaches at the most needy schools to be evaluated on the same criteria as a teacher that teaches at the richest school seems pretty unfair--why would I want that job? The students are more likely to be difficult, the parents are more likely to be absent or adversarial (as opposed to constructive with their child's education), and I'm less likely to get higher raises because my students are less likely to do as well? Particularly in a profession that often requires working late nights and early mornings for relatively little pay? Wooo, where do I sign!

As a side note, I'm curious to see this brochure. Is it possible that the brochure was saying parents shouldn't correct their child's improper spelling or pronunciation because, in education, one of the parent's prime roles would be as their child's cheerleader, whereas the child's teacher should be the one to correct their child's improper spelling and pronunciation? It's hard to say, of course; context is key.
Intelligent design is creationism and has no business whatsoever being in a science class. There are no scientific counter arguments.

Presenting religious arguments in science lessons qualifies as swapping out science with religion, no matter how much those lessons teach you the opposing position (generally only done so that the student is able to "lie" on standardized testing).

Think of it this way: would it be acceptable to teach kids in chemistry, "...and that kids, is the periodic table of elements. Of course WE know that there are five elements, which are represented by these five Platonic solids. We know this for the [holybook] tells us so."?

Children have a right to receive a science education that has not been purposely sabotaged. If parents want to give their child such a blatantly slanted education, then it needs to be in addition to a proper education.

That you made it out alright says nothing of the acceptability of such abuse.
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Presumably if you throw a realistic corpus of written text you will have much more occurrences of the idiom.
Different cable types. One analog, one DVI.
aBcD was just an example. It would be too risky for me to put the real URL here.
Clearly, then, we're looking at inner-inner circles. Vs outer-inner circles.

And the great thing is that now people know when they're in your inner-inner circle - which also means that they know when they're in your outer-inner circle. Which is better than being a mere facebook friend, I suppose.
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> Manning had very little, if anything, to do with pointing out spying.

The information released by Manning, commonly called "Cablegate" [1] taught us about a lot of spying going on between nations.

[1] http://theweek.com/article/index/209830/wikileaks-cablegate-...
And my point is that BIG policy makes it so that negative actions (not working _hard_, not investing, no personal development beyond what is required) are not a net loss to the family or individual. Thus, it promotes doing the bare minimum to get by, especially when the result is a very comfy, stress free lifestyle.
This is absurd apologism. If Indiegogo projects are fundamentally incompatible with PayPal's risk profile as you imply, the onus is on PayPal not to accept money for those projects. Full stop.

Why on Earth should we sympathize with PayPal about internal aspects of their underwriting at the expense of a small business whose funds they've practically seized?
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That's interesting, because most of the high resolution monitors I've seen explicitly say you need to use DL-DVI to drive them at full resolution (for example the 27" Dell Ultrasharps.)
No. I have this enabled and Github closes my connections after a very short period. I use it primarily for SSHing into my cluster of EC2 instances (which does massively speed things up).
What can I say, I like my loops :-)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3023
Not really? Javascript interpreters, and the DOM tend to be (and Javascript interpreters only are because they're geared towards being embedded in browsers, primarily). The language isn't any better for it than any other language that supports closures, though.
> I hypothesize that people who are against homeschooling pledged to flags many of times

There are other countries besides the US you know... we don't pledge to any flag in Australia, and I'm certainly not "incapable of forming opinions that aren't regurgitated to them from a figure of authority" which funnily enough seems like an opinion regurgitated to you from a figure of authority :P

I'm not against home schooling per say, I'm against idiots teaching kids poorly. This is the dilemma we have.
That's one of the major reasons the GT-R is so quick off the line and down the quarter mile.

It was the first production car with a dual-clutch transmission that was actually realistically priced, and it's still arguably the most cost-effective.
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The underlying math: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_cycle.
Because IndieGoGo is a single actor willing to absorb a good deal of the risk itself.
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...and keep your development copy of the project on ramdisk. Have a script that you launch as you start work that makes the ramsdisk and puts files from persistent location there using rsync, then periodically launches rsync to copy changes you make on our ramdisk back to persistent location.

I used this setup for almost a year. It saved me lot of time and sanity.
Of course once I went up it was obvious that it was where I needed to go, but I needed a tutorial to tell me there even was another way but down. The guy by the bonfire does mention something of the sort, but I thought he was referring to the ruins right next to the bonfire. When you spawn after the tutorial, you spawn facing the slope that goes down.
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Time degrades points more slowly on /best, so it will usually show the top stories from the past 3(ish) days rather than the past 12-24 hours. Perfect for when you've been away for a few days and looking to invest some time in reading.
The thing is: In order to have performance, you need type hinting (a lot of it). I DO need performance, as the algorithm above is already part of something O(n^3). There also clojure.core.type does not help. And that is the problem with a language feature which is not a compiler feature as well.

By the way, gen-nextvalue is a protocol function.
It's funny because you said Downs's syndrome the first time.
Can anybody explain... if using turnkey crowdfunding scripts like Agriya will help here? My previous company used Agriya and didn't face any issues from paypal. So just checking..
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I have to agree. In addition, most of the features of the logo she raves about are not visible in the default (and very pixelated) state on the home page.

In a design world that seems to be shifting to high-resolution, flat design, this seems like an odd step backward.
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Sure, there is some really bad code out there. But even pretty good code looks really bad to a lot of developers, because of the "This is shit" mentality the article describes.
Also, this is not just a property of the language itself, it's a property of the ecosystem built around the language.
> But I'm saying that a mistake-free strategy cannot be found without some kind of mathematical breakthrough.

Is this even possible in a game of imperfect information?
Masterful explanation. Only thing I'd add is that a sole proprietor business account from a venture obviously involving three people also reeks - it might be a lot easier if Mailpile had been configured as a regular or non-profit corporation, even if that meant paying fees to a state entity to register it.
From memory it's the first year. I think I missed the cut off by a couple of weeks. I'm New Coke, but that still has more HN street cred than Coke Zero.
Totally agree. I'm not going to read Penny Arcade anymore, either. I don't support bullies.
Same here. I do a

(ssh -fqN -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" git@bitbucket.org >&/dev/null &)

with bitbucket and github in my zshrc and bitbucket stays open but github is getting closed at some point. It used to stay open however.
If you're that concerned, use a different name/email/address than you normally would (maybe have a friend order it for you and pay him in cash).
It's always nice to see new products in the DevOps space, but be careful not to re-invent the wheel if you do this kind of stuff as the open source world is coming on leaps and bounds.

LogStash, ElasticSearch and Kibana are a great open source stack for log management.

StatsD and Graphite are nice tools for metric tracking and visualization.

There are lots of open source dashboard offerings which combined with a bit of scripting can get you far.

You are also spoiled for choice with SAAS monitoring stuff such as NewRelic and Server Density, even if the OP isn't a fan of cloud based tools.
> This makes using ControlMaster workable.

Best part of reading this article. I had turned off connection sharing because of this.

So what, in more details, are the downsides to ControlPersist?
I think Stack Exchange has a secret weapon which will likely greatly improve their backend systems. Tom Limoncelli, who used to work at Google as a Site reliability engineer (SRE), now works at Stack Exchange [1]. He pretty much wrote the bible for sysadmins entitle "The Practice of System and Network Administration" [2]. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing more posts like this!

[1] http://everythingsysadmin.com/2013/09/the-team-im-on-at-stac...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321492668/tomontime-20
I am curious to how they deploy database schema and stored procedure updates. That is a much harder problem.
Not to self advertise, but to use my own case to show that you can do some significant things if you're stubborn enough:

I'm self taught and under 3 years I'm collaborating with people at Stanford Research on an open source Question Answering System (https://github.com/SolrSherlock/) . I've also implemented my own stack for all of NLP that I'm working on contributing (summarization, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition,...)

You don't have to have a PHD to do it. Here's a bit of my background:

Coursera NLP class (first one from Stanford, not the later one)

AI class in college (Dropped out in year 3 though..so no masters or anything crazy)

Machine Learning class from coursera

Implementing and understanding LOTS of papers in the field

So as you can see not much. Most of my understanding is self taught. There's enough free materials out there for you to gain a practical understanding of it. Just take the time to build up your fundamentals and work from there. I have a practical understanding of the mechanics involved and can implement the different optimization algorithms and the like as well as understand the implications of the data.
It all depends on the startup. Don't go work for a startup just because it's a startup. You're better off at BigCo. But if you really believe in the startup, and they'll give you meaningful equity and compensation that is enough for your lifestyle, and you want the responsibility, I'd lean towards the startup. Again, the key here is that you really believe in the startup. There aren't many that you can honestly say that about early enough to make the compensation difference worth it.

Also, depending on your life phase, presence of employer-paid health insurance should be seriously considered.
I don't know a lot about finance, I also don't believe in conspiracy theories, but how is it that I can open a savings account with my local bank and easily earn 1.5% interest but you're saying PayPal can't do better than 0.15%?
You can still use traditional debugging tools to change values (score, etc) in memory directly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheat_Engine
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Why is it a much better choice for most people? It's tricky to configure and requires you to manage another server. For people who want to go through that and have the flexibility offered Munin is great (I use it), but for "most people" who just want a high level look at their stuff Longview seems ideal. There is almost no setup and no management. I put it on a couple servers yesterday and it seems slick.