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Perspective switching and slow indexing killed Eclipse for me too.
I was hoping Kepler would change that, but i was disappointed.
> No, you're wrong and he is right ...

That's for sure. In a single post he asserted both that there are modes, and there aren't modes. That leaves no room for another viewpoint.

There's one sure way to win an argument -- assert all possible viewpoints, declare victory, and depart the field.
Bill Bartmann and CFS2
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Friendly reminder to exercise common sense when you do this. Wear eye protection, long sleeves, possibly gloves. And ffs DON'T FLING THE IRON. Your aim is not as good as you think it is. :-)

Also, lead. Don't use a drinking glass.
> it's not surprising that a lot of comments are resorting to anecdotal reasoning of the form: "Well, I use the internet and I'm ok..."

But this isn't an invalid argument in discussions like this.

We're not looking at questions that pertain to intervene into the population aggregations here; we're talking about how we should approach the use of law to into the particulars of specific individuals' lives. "Data" may not be the plural of "anecdote", but the context in which we're attempting to make judgments here is the context that anecdotes, rather than data, most directly describe.

The fact that people can say "I did X and I'm okay" proves that there isn't a purely deterministic relationship between X, whatever it is, and bad results, and this is a valid argument against top-down, universalized restrictions on X.

> I have vague misgivings and a handful of anecdotes and not a lot of sound science.

Science addresses "is" questions. There are valid "is" questions involved in this discussion, and it's entirely appropriate to rely on science to answer them.

But the fundamental topic at hand here discussion is an "ought" question, not an "is" one, and "ought" questions are outside the scope of science.
I've had several friends intern as investment bankers and management consultants in the past couple years. The going rate in NYC is about $60k-80k prorated, I believe -- more than enough for a room in Manhattan (which is where they all lived). Even if that weren't the case, most in that career track come from relatively well-off families anyway.

I still agree it's an insanely unhealthy and stressful lifestyle, which is why I never even considered it, but these interns are certainly able to make it home rather quickly from the office. And judging from Facebook statuses and casual conversation, they often take pride in all the hours they put in. This is a very ambitious crowd.
Is the factory at all noisy? I'd imagine dropping massive lead spheres could cause a ruckus.
Pretty sure “sans” is just a shortcut for “sans-serif”—can't tell if you're joking, though :-)
This seems unsafe; if I understand what this person has done, he'd essentially be coercing Dropbox's backend services to open arbitrary links on his behalf. That's a very dangerous capability to expose to adversaries.
I'd never push people to drink, but that guy gets boring quickly.
Wow, defensive AND insulting. Thanks for proving my point about toxicity and boring-ness.
Crafting a wide purpose regex to parse whatever HTML comes in is bad.

Building a regex to extract relevant data from simple, fixed-form page data, bypassing tags irrelevant to the problem at hand is not.
"Banker's hours" or "banking hours" is a longstanding U.S. idiom for very short days. It comes from a time when retail bank lobbies were only open from, say, 10:00am to 2:00pm, Monday through Thursday.

I'm exaggerating slightly for effect, but probably not much. Going to the bank used to be a highly inconvenient thing for people who worked jobs that did not let them pop out for an errand whenever they felt like it (manufacturing, retail, service, etc). So the term "banker's hours" also has a connotation of the privileges of the rich--people living lives of leisure and freedom. (including the bankers themselves of course)
Verizon's diabolical plan to turn the Web into pay-per-view
Look, it was a terrible event in our history. But, 1) it happened 12 years ago (yes, I was a working adult back then, I remember exactly what I was doing and mourned with the rest of the country), at some point you stop pouring salt in a wound, and 2) if anything, America's response to 9/11 has completely squandered any rightful outrage we had over it. Look at what happened in response to 9/11 -- everything is "terrorism", blanket spying on Americans, indefinite detention, war against "terrorism"?? -- and all I can say is that the terrorists achieved at least partially what they were going for. David Foster Wallace said it best:

...what if we chose to accept the fact that every few years, despite all reasonable precautions, some hundreds or thousands of us may die in the sort of ghastly terrorist attack that a democratic republic cannot 100-percent protect itself from without subverting the very principles that make it worth protecting?

Is this thought experiment monstrous? Would it be monstrous to refer to the 40,000-plus domestic highway deaths we accept each year because the mobility and autonomy of the car are evidently worth that high price? Is monstrousness why no serious public figure now will speak of the delusory trade-off of liberty for safety that Ben Franklin warned about more than 200 years ago? What exactly has changed between Franklin’s time and ours? Why now can we not have a serious national conversation about sacrifice, the inevitability of sacrifice—either of (a) some portion of safety or (b) some portion of the rights and protections that make the American idea so incalculably precious?

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/just-ask...
(macro!)evolution doesn't work anyway.
It seems like they're converting it to PDF. When you click the .doc file in Dropbox, they open a PDF preview. It fits with the fact that the buzzs I've seen are only for the .doc file, not the HTML or the XLS.
It's probably just a MITM review by the NSA Flying Pig

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130910/10470024468/flying...
> Further digging into the HoneyDocs data reveals a suspicious User Agent, LibreOffice. Now I’m curious if this is still an automated process or one that involves human interaction?

Yes, because humans use LibreOffice over SSH/X11 from an EC2 instance. Probably LibreOffice is being used for the parsing/rendering on a server. Probably for something innocent like generating thumbnails or text-only previews.
Dedup could just use hashing which wouldn't require opening the file with Libreoffice.
Lots of startup ideas there!
You should also check out the NY Innovative Tech Meetup, which is just getting off the ground next Tuesday, Sep. 17 and will have a big Health tech focus, among other things [1]. It's worth going to -- it's a branch of the big TechBreakfasts that go on in other cities [2]:

[1] http://www.meetup.com/innovative-tech
[2] http://www.meetup.com/techbreakfast
I've found this comic very helpful to understand/identify with some of the emotions, swings and frustration with depression (and absolute stagnation).

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-par...
Yea, they eschew the DRM-only TPM part to store the keys in the SMC, which does a whole host of things and doesn't protect the keys. I suppose you were sufficiently vague ;)

There's just an outstanding myth that Macs still use TPM...
Verizon's plan to turn the Web into pay-per-view
Without getting into the IT-sexism-blah-blah, 'your mother wears combat boots' isn't just a folksy turn of phrase: it's a fifties-era impugnment of lesbianism. So unless you want to sound a lot more Republican than you were probably intending, you should probably stop wondering why you don't have more female friends, coworkers, and partners. And by the way, a foot in the mouth is so gay.
The Dubuque shot tower is in my hometown. It's a really great piece of history but a shame that the site isn't more kept like the rest of the riverfront.
It's good to take into account the other comments, especially about changing your behavior. A lot can be done through sheer will and persistence (and training yourself to avoid distractions; yes you can do it and it will be painful so brace yourself), but not everything. I'll add a possibility that hasn't been said so explicitly: you aren't, and never have been, as smart as you think you are or were. Smarter than average? Probably. Von Neumann level smart? No way. You're a genius at best, not a supergenius. There are areas of human thought walled off from you forever unless advances in augmenting the brain arrive, it's that depressingly simple.
Kevin Mitnick gives his thoughts on Snowden
I need to get back on... I'm a big boy (6'2 300lbs) and I was doing great on it but eventually stopped because of an impromptu "Want to be in my wedding in a month?" invitation that required me to stop losing the weight because otherwise I'd be swimming in my tuxedo at the wedding.. Never got back on. I miss it.
Official sources from Spain are particularly well known for bogus counting when it comes to protests, etc. I suggest to take this with a pinch of salt
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Ethanol is the primary source of calories in both rum and vodka. They are, for dieting purposes, equivalent.

Ethanol is actually second only to fat in caloric density, though thankfully you don't really consume massive amounts of it without knowing it. ;)
Slightly off-topic: though I get a bit tired of this style of presentation videos, this one is incredibly well done, especially for an open-source project (even though backed by Google).

That project is pretty cool, though I do feel that having a Raspberry Pi to do that seems unnecessary. Wouldn't the JSBin and Codepen's of the world allow you to do most of this? Granted, as a kid, I'm sure having your own computer to work on makes a big difference.
AWS now lets you move Reserved Instances between availability zones
Exactly, but it's perfect for me. I guess having a WYSIWYG editor and a web UI would make it more user friendly.

I also like that I can have my content under version control.
Dedupe (at least for NetApp systems) only cares about data blocks; it wouldn't "open" a document or parse contents.

https://communities.netapp.com/community/netapp-blogs/drdedu...
People went ahead with it anyway. See, for example, PHORM in the UK.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm)

> The company's proposed advertising system, called Webwise, is a behavioral targeting service (similar to NebuAd) that uses deep packet inspection to examine traffic. Phorm says the data collected will be anonymous and will not be used to identify users, and that their service would even include protection against phishing (fraudulent collection of users' personal information). Nonetheless, World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee and others have spoken out against Phorm for tracking users' browsing habits, and the ISP BT Group has been criticised for running secret trials of the service.
It does not really help when someone goes ballistic over jokes about "dongles." My mother works in a rough profession (a railroad), and one more than one occasion someone has made immature jokes about certain long, slender tools on the job. Guess what? My mother joins in on the fun, or else just ignores it when she considers it to be beneath her humor. This might have something to do with the fact that everyone is too busy worrying about losing a finger (or worse) than with offending some dainty creature.

Women can be just as tough as men. Of course, the idea that maybe this kind of banter should be all-inclusive (as it is where my mom works) is simply not up for discussion in the tech community; we're busy telling people there should be no banter at all.
Yeah, the number one autocomplete for 'nsa' in the nytimes search box is 'nsa israel', which is funny because they still haven't published anything on it.
Are you avoiding these presentation goofs?
>I ended up doing an all-nighter in my first week as an intern, which is when you start work at nine, you stay until five or six the next morning, you go home, have a quick shower and then head back into the office and continue working.

That really doesn't sound any different from doing field operations the military. Except without the shower.
Founders open their kimono
Oh my god, the plugins!.. Yeah, those are even worse, since they are usually even less scrutinized, but run with the same privileges as the core WP code.
I didn't know about this, is a Sad story.
That's because you are doing it wrong. You need to understand the digest cycle and what triggers it.

You're triggering digest unnecessarily + you most likely have full object comparisons.

One of the thing with AngularJS is your team needs to have stronger CS fundamentals compared to other frameworks.
What was that article the other day about "Stealing Traction" from an established player in an adjunct space?

Well played, HoneyDocs... Well played.
tl;dr: there is no shortage, its just that most candidates are crap
That's all well and good. But the point is, your downside risk is still limited, compared to someone who will be on the streets if they fail.

I always knew I could move back home if my work failed. This really helped me take risks in the early stages. I was pretty sure they'd pay off, but I knew I would have the opportunity to recover if things went sour.
That's pretty much exactly what is happening. DropBox converts documents into HTML for easy viewing on the web interface.
Any doctor having trouble finding work in Europe should take a crack at coming to the U.S. We are short on doctors and getting shorter.
Also, don't respond to the job ad for that farm in Ohio..

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/04/justice/craiglist-killer-d...
PGP? It does whole disk encryption, but I don't think it does hidden volumes. (I could be wrong.)

I'm not sure if you consider it reputable or not, but the source has been available, at least for recent versions. I'm not sure about the current version.

http://www.symantec.com/connect/downloads/symantec-pgp-deskt...
I can't find resources at my current level of expertise (they are either too hard or too easy)

that's a big one for me. I am in the process of trying this out, and it seems to be working: Practice, every day, for any amount of time, even if it is just for 30 seconds.

beginning French, advanced Javascript, beginning piano, advanced rails, and Im also working my way through the harvard classics.

I made a schedule of daily reading/doing, I shoot for 30 minutes for every subject (not daily, but pretty close), but I will at LEAST put in 1 minute.

One of the pain points was learning, what to learn first. Ie, a resource that said, here is the "must reads" to learn french, or piano would have saved me a bunch of time.
Just like being in the real world. Make smart decisions to the best of your ability and you'll be alright. There's nothing inherently wrong with the internet. Some people have things inherently wrong with them, and some of those people use the internet. Nothing to see here.
My understanding is that the noise from a rocket launch is so loud, even 10 miles away, that you have to shout over it to be heard. One mile from the launchpad, it's loud enough to damage your ears.

Wallops Island is 6 square miles.
In continental EU legislation (AFAIK unlike USA), no contract can waive rights provided by legislation.

If a job contract includes provisions that explicitly give up some of basic job limits (say, no vacation, unpaid overtime, limits of shift/week length, etc) - then, barring very few exceptions (listed in the same legislation), those parts of agreement are null and void. It's the same as it's everywhere for minimal wage - even if you sign a contract that you'll work for $0.05/hour, then that provision anyway means $[minwage]/hour.
Computers have increased people's productivity through the roof and still we see people working more than 100 hour/week. Are they working on something that can't be automated or they don't want to automate ? Are they doing something that can't be done by two people instead of one ? Something is not right.
Oops, try here:

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=colorado%20and%20cesar%...
I'm sorry but that's bullshit and unsustainable imo. I say that as someone who has worked nearly 100 weeks of 80+ hours over my career and has worked 100 hour weeks for a month or two.

It's not believable that Mayer worked 130 hours per week for 5 years.
Google Ad Click Prediction for Humans
You have to experience working in an IB to appreciate the article. They are very very much swamped down in politics process and paperwork (albeit electronic these days). It takes ages to do small things, forever to do the rest. No one has a long-term view beyond the next quarter, and most believe in doing just enough to grab some bonus and run. You will encounter big swinging dicks who like to lord it over the interns, making them stay late, just because they can. You will see many many unhappy faces everyday, and you will feel a little bit more lost with each day you remain there.
This is why I'm so scared / hesitant to build something that depends entirely or mostly on a third party company for its success or even ability to exist. Businesses that depend on Facebook or Twitter or Apple's App Store or even Meetup are scary. I have businesses that depend on one or more of these. And I'm scared. I'm doing my best to extricate myself from this dependency and build substantial visibility elsewhere where I can.
If you use their website, especially if you build something on it, then you need to live by their rules.
I would be totally into this, just not located in NYC at the moment :/
This guy linked to the IEEE Spectrum article, but I don't think he read it, because they address the issue about defining STEM workers, and despite his anecdotal evidence, they came to the conclusion that, yes, the STEM shortage is a myth.
The word "Siri" doesn't belong in the title or the article, unless a Trabant advertisement has the right to mention Mercedes-Benz in its promotional text. The project does a primitive kind of voice recognition, but it doesn't use Siri.

On this topic, I invite people to try out my non-prototype, non-project toy that uses Google's support for HTML5 speech recognition. It's pretty funny how wrong things go when you try to say something even a bit out of the ordinary:

http://arachnoid.com/speech_to_text

If I say, "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country," an old teletype test sentence, the Google recognizer always nails it. If I say, "I hit an uncharted rock and my boat is being repaired," things go hilariously wrong, and every time differently.
On the first point, sure - I conceded in writing that there is likely to be a subset of women who do enjoy it. But I think we can agree that the physical discomfort of it will be a turnoff to most.

As to your second point - yes, certainly teenagers can distinguish fantasy from reality. But the major difference here is that it's not portrayed as fantasy. In a movie, everybody knows that the actors get up and walk away at the end of the day - nobody is really getting shot.

On the contrary when it comes to porn, there's no doubt that the acts are really being performed, and by real people. So while a young person's ability to distinguish fantasy from reality shouldn't be underestimated in the context of movies, video games, etc -- we have something of a different beast here.

You're right that it is an uncertainty, but certainly a logical case could be constructed for at minimum further study of this idea. Unfortunately, we as a society won't do that, because we have to pretend that our teenage children aren't sexual creatures.

What's left, then, is to make best guesses based on logic.
It's a poor substitute for science but in this area it's as close as we're going to get.
The TOS is not above criticism or complaint, and I for one am tired of people being shouted down because they dared take issue with draconian policies.
These are rare events, so the chance of something happening to someone in your family of N is close to N times the chance of it happening to you.
I hope that the servers running LibraOffice only have that job. LibraOffice has a pretty massive attack surface and its not the kind of thing I'd like to leave running on a server with another purpose while accepting documents from pretty much anyone.

The only thing to see here is that DropBox is potentially opening themselves up to a vulnerability, would be interesting to see if GET file://etc/passwd worked...
Or worse, if as other threads are speculating, libreoffice is being used to generate previews of the docs then an exploit in libreoffice could be used to get access to dropbox's backend
How is "you'll have to work insane hours, but we'll pay you a shit ton of money" a perverse incentive?
AdBlock Plus doesn't block Facebook ads for me. Am I using it wrong?
They do small bits of work that would be hard to automate, accompanied by metric shitloads of reporting and process so that the people at the top can look at an oversimplified graph of what's going on.
You might want to check out SafeMonk that does this exact thing. http://www.safemonk.com
to be fair, it's possible that dropbox understands this and has taken steps to sandbox and isolate the process that does this fetching from the rest of their internal infrastructure. if this is done for the purposes of generating thumbnails/online previews, and the .doc includes external resources, what other choice do they have but to fetch it?
There is, for instance, the problem that some "goods" cannot be produced although people care very much about them, namely partners to start a family with.

Unfortunately, women tend to be attracted to relatively rich men, which can result in a lower "supply" for relatively poor men if a rich man can attract several women (for instance, by using serial monogamy). It's been suggested that this leads to a larger amount of violence in poor neighborhoods (due to increased competition among men).

Which leads to another problem: Being relatively poor may not be a problem, provided the level of wealth is secure. Due to the lack and inefficiency of social safety nets in the US, however, being relatively poor can always turn into being poorer still.

Since being relatively poor often means living in a relatively poor neighborhood with a higher prevalence of violence, there's a good reason for feeling insecure all the time. Your son may get killed in a drive-by shooting, while your daughter may get raped. Meanwhile, you may get robbed.

Even if one's situation is not as critical, it's always possible to become critical. For instance, one may simply loose one's job, and thus the means to provide for a family. Or one becomes ill. The number one reason for declaring personal bankruptcy in the US are medical bills. A large percentage of these people were health insured, by the way.

These are just a few examples on the top of my head.
These are more of the same - vague correlations without any causal analysis.

The ones based on happiness surveys are even worse, since there is no way to know whether a score of 7 happiness points (on a scale of 1 to 10, or whatever the scale of the survey is) for someone in Denmark in 1976 is comparable to a score of 7 happiness points for someone in Japan in 1996.
I hate it whenever an article mentions a service or drops an affiliate link and someone's verdict is that the article looks like advertising. Do you prefer your reading content to be devoid of mentioning any products or brands? Should bloggers never make a dime off affiliate links?

Be concerned with the content and only the content. If the article has it, it's legit.
It would be useful if you had some idea of who your public is. Then you could place some (hopefully unobtrusive) affiliate links for some product/service of their interest.
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