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Help me out with this... So what would, exactly, he say if he were not in the conspiracy?
This is a non-issue most of the time. Outside of a few subreddits, reddit moderators are just random people, not reddit employees. It's all on them to moderate their subreddits however they want and up to the users to sit there and take it or do something about it.

That doesn't make it excusable, but it's not at all reddit's fault that it happens.
> You're going to be running cutting edge games on a Surface? I don't think so.

You can run some pretty decent games on the hardware that ships on the Surface Pro. Sure, you aren't going to want to play BF4 or whatever Bethesda comes up with next, but as hardware cycles continue the playable-game-gap between desktop/laptop/tablet is only going to shrink.

I game today on a 1.5 yr old HP laptop with an ATI 6750M card inside, and it's more than adequate for stuff I've thrown at it. Sure, I'm not gaming on ultra, but my FPS is just fine at low/medium. These days games look just fine at those detail levels, although maybe it's just that I used to play Doom on a 33Mhz 386 and had to shrink the screen size to about a 2x2" square to get decent frame rates.
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> Sweetwater well on a saltwater island this size is a rare thing.

Not at all. It's not uncommon to have a fresh water table beneath the surface of an area dotted with islands. If you doubt this, ask yourself where the tree's roots go, and how those salt-intolerant trees survive.

I live 100 feet from salt water in Washington State and I have a perfectly reliable fresh-water well.
I think more comments should be this obvious with their trolling & stupidity, makes it easier to flag :-)
I completely agree; the combo of Kickstarter, Unity and Humble Bundle has been a powerful force to demonstrate Linux gaming. Then add Steam in to help tie it all together in a convenient one stop shop and advertising platform and it really is looking great.

Thanks for pointing out Sunless Sea btw. I'm a big fan of FTL and this looks like a very interesting game in a similar vein.
He means that tax in Detroit is steep relative to Texas.
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Never thought of doing huge website translations like this before, excellent post!
You're assuming that /r/findnavyyardshooters/ has a greater chance of "catching the bad guy" than "wrongly accusing" someone. The Boston-bombing sub-reddit demonstrated precisely the opposite--several people were wrongly accused (or at least, wrong identified as serious suspects) and the actual bad guys weren't even mentioned.

Photos of some of those wrongly accused were even printed on the front page of the NY Post, IIRC.

As well intentioned as the contributors might be, there's every reason to believe that this subreddit will cause more harm than good. Reddit made the right call.

(It's also probably the right call from a damage control standpoint, but there's reason enough to ban this sub-reddit anyway.)
For whatever it's worth, as someone who just finished, you're doing a PhD for all of the right reasons.

That's true. I think it's telling, however, that the writer doesn't mention getting an academic job, or tenure. I hope his PhD works out for him and his family, who are implicitly along for the ride.

I also hope that, in three to four years, the OP writes an essay about what he thinks after he's gone through the academic grinder.

For an alternate perspective on academia, see Philip Greenspun's "Women in Science" (http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science).
Father built a machine to transport his kids' teeth straight to the tooth fairy
That was them putting forward their best effort, right? I mean, they wouldn't intentionally start out with "Plan B"... All of their market research said that plan was the most likely to succeed, so at the very least they demonstrated their inability to accurately judge what people want.

I think the failure of that campaign says a lot more about the viability of Canonical's dreams than many are willing to admit.
Here's the actual commit that was reverted, for anyone curious like me:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/com...

Doesn't exactly seem like a lot of work to support this.
Can we finally start calling Quora the spiritual successor to Experts Exchange?

Because it is.
Post the Boston Bombing they apologized for mis-identification of people from the threads: http://blog.reddit.com/2013/04/reflections-on-recent-boston-...
I wasn't referring to the the market that Android and IOS are competing in, as this post was about traditional non-touch games I was talking more about the desktop/laptop space and the associated products.

In that regard I do think Windows will dominate, and in the future Surface devices will probably replace laptops in their market.
This reminds me of a similar incident where a customer accidentally got a similar message from the owners/management forwarded by customer support: according to the message, he was a "freak and a very weird dude."

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54/poker-beats-brags-varia...
This is really scary. The fact that the collected data must be sent either through the wire or through the air at some point would make the trojan detectable - perhaps when it's a too late, but still detectable - wouldn't it?

A related history was posted on reddit a few days ago, about a user identifying his HP notebook sending away his built-in microphone data [0].

[0]: http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1le3if/so_i_discover...
Well defined borders. You're either on the island, or not. Neither you nor your neighbors are likely to wander across the border without noticing.
Last year in December, I spent a week wrote an API that processes up to 5 mobile inputs and cross references them to see if they are the same. The idea was to use multiple input factors to determine if two devices were close to each other (Color R.I.P - has some pending pattents surround this). They most challenging parts were matching audio and photo. I had the demo up and running on my iPhone in a week though.

Here is a view of the web interface that I would use to demo/test the API: http://i.imgur.com/tQA35U8.png

I still can't figure out a product for the thing, but if you have an idea, hit me up :)
I try to follow the main page programming. I have a policy that I can't move up in weight until I improve the previous version of the WOD. I use CrossFit Brand X scalings and if I set a PR, I move up to something closer to RX.

BrandX typically will tell you the goal of a particular MetCon. For example, they'll say that you should be able to do Fran in 5-7 minutes. If you're below that time, increase the weight up to RX. If you're above that time, decrease the weight. Your goal should always be to complete the WOD in approximately the same amount of time as top athletes, you're just doing it with less weight.

Lots of good information in the BrandX forums around scaling and measurement.
I remember saying something similar when the GameBoy launched.

Yes, the touch interface sucks for hardcore gaming. But it's not implausible that somebody would figure out the least-obtrusive way to add good gamer-friendly controls to a tablet and a big vendor throws their weight behind this. Then what happens? Then suddenly the big difference between a tablet and a PC gamer is hardware, and tablet gaming suddenly eats up the indie market and starts moving north.

Sure, a PC can push a lot more polies, and so will always have a certain market of core gamers... but look at how Blizzard has always done well targeting aging hardware. The lion's share of the market doesn't have a bleeding-edge video card.
There are. Believe me there are.

Great bands are built over time, they are not inherently great.
Modern SMT solvers are astonishingly fast for most real-world inputs. Not bad, considering that the problem they solve is NP-complete!
Living on the mainland near the sea is not the same as living on a very small island more than a few hundred meters off-shore.

See, the mainland has sweetwater running under it all the way to the sea shore and even a little bit beyond, depth and density will vary but it is always there. But a small island surrounded by ocean need not be like that, more than likely it is of a rocky composition (otherwise it would simply disappear or move around) and the water runs right off before it can pool in quantity enough that you could stick a well-head into it to reliably pump it to the surface for consumption.

In such a situation catching it as it falls is your best bet (also better because a small island likely does not have a good filtering capacity and the water you pump up, assuming you can get at it in a useful quantities, will need a lot of processing before you can use it).

It all depends on the actual situation but the chances are rather against it.
When it first arrived on the scene it was much like quora is now and I loved that. But then they started trying to trick people into signing up, etc. It just went from awesome to dagnabbit quickly. So when there was one place to find a bunch of other programmers that popped up, I jumped on it.
I'm not an economist, but my understanding is that the quantitative easing that Bernanke has been using over the last few years is more or less equivalent to raining money from his helicopter, only into financial markets. Runaway inflation has not resulted because there are sufficient downward pressures on prices to counterbalance the easing.
Actually, America doesn't have free speech. Home owners are famous for enforcing their personal views by ejecting people from their homes who express dissenting views. The level of censorship is so high that one wonders whether those doing the censoring even understand what free speech refers to.

Your argument is lousy, because you're pretending something that isn't true - that subreddits lack owners. Subreddits go to the first person who creates them. It's a land-grab. If you don't like the rules in someone's subreddit, you're free to create your own. Yes, the global site admins have their own rules, but they're nowhere near as restrictive, as what you're talking about.
"It's mathematically impossible for Chicago and Baltimore and a couple others not to join Detroit in the near future in bankruptcy court."

I don't know about Baltimore, but Chicago's fiscal problems are fixable without bankruptcy court. It will be messy and politically difficult, but I don't think anyone currently sees it as a foregone conclusion.
Even if one doesn't mind people passing through (and if it's somewhere out in the wilderness I think that's the right attitude), if private improvements are ever seen as open to public use when their owner is not around, it's a matter of time before problems arise.
That's the point. It's somewhat like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_22
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Have you tried this?

sudo amdconfig --set-pcs-val=MCIL,DigitalHDTVDefaultUnderscan,0
>Photos of some of those wrongly accused were even printed on the front page of the NY Post, IIRC.

Redditors didn't hack and deface the NY Post. What you're citing is an example that the NY Post is no better than any random person in an internet forum.
I shall have to add "Having a good reputation is really a handicap" to the list of such eternal verities as "Poor people are happier than the rich because their lives are simpler" and "It isn't easy being beautiful."
"Did you try nVidia graphics + UEFI bios + encrypted disk?"

Not with proprietary drivers. AMD/NVidia's failure to produce usable drivers of their own isn't particularly relevant as far as I am concerned. In fact, it serves to highlight just how good the the FOSS drivers are at "just working".

"Meanwhile, the non-proprietary drivers crash the X server if you so much as jiggle a window about."

That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Frankly, I do not believe it.
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I think you're confusing an "is" statement for an "ought" statement. Google probably will be shutting Bump down. Is that a bad thing? The GP comment didn't say anything about that one way or another; just that it's probably going to happen, whether its defensible or not.
Yes, I still have my book "Object Oriented Programming in the BETA Programming Language" by Madsen/Møller-Pedersen/Nygaard with a price tag of 80 DM in 1997 (> 40 EUR now) (I now live in Berlin)
It sounds like you guys really thought this through (with the LLC, etc), however I can't shake the feeling that you're going to find this a bit like owning a boat: it sounds like much more fun before you actually do it.

Five acres is slightly more land than I have (in the exurbs of Toronto), and is almost certainly much more awkward, with less usable space. I mention that because I can't imagine trying to facilitate the desires of 10 different owners on such a plot, and the practical limitations of such a space will become quickly apparent. Notions of being sovereign and all of that seem really strange -- you fall under just as many regulations (if not, in some ways, more) than a plot on the mainland. Assuming that you will fly under the radar is a dangerous gambit.

To visit this place you rely upon the graces of what is to you a foreign country. A simple DUI or possession charge in the US == barred from Canada. And so on.

Totally get the thought (I have bid on various large parcels of land throughout Ontario), though, just think 5 acres is just much too small.
> Reddit doesn't have free speech.

The corporation known as 'Reddit' has free speech, which means they have the right to ban people from using their forum in ways they disapprove of. I'm pretty sure that's what the poster you replied to meant.
As erohead mentioned, the Octopus card is extremely successful, though it's limited to Hong Kong only.

Train stations in mainland China use something similar, though I'm basing this only my experience with one city, but a big one at that (Guangzhou).

Part of the reason why you aren't finding more accounts of successful NFC rollouts in Asia might be because you aren't searching in the local languages.
I suspect Berkeley is on the high end of the spectrum as far as attrition goes. I went there for undergrad, and the pressure and difficulty was extreme in areas like EECS. For perspective, after graduating I moved to the East Coast and worked in a research lab at MIT and took courses at Harvard, both of which felt quite laid back after Berkeley. It was the only school experience I had where I saw smart people work crazy hard and still receive C's and D's in some classes. The PhD candidate I lived with decided to take a year long internship with Intel (as a vacation) for mental health reasons.
I hate to be the Debbie Downer but this seems like something that feels really cool and fun at first but then loses it's novelty after a while and then gets forgotten about.
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We're 10 people or so and it's incredibly quiet here a lot of the time, just traffic sounds from outside, keyboard tapping and mouse clicking.
"I bought an Island" ... on a blog about minimalism...
They've already done that with Windows RT and WP8. No, I'm not talking about not being able to run legacy apps on it. I mean not being able to install apps from other sources other than the Windows Store.

Do you really think Microsoft wouldn't prefer that in the future they make it so most people choose the Windows store over anything else, by pushing it even more into their faces, like they did with Metro?

Many people asked for the Start Menu to be back in the desktop mode, and they didn't bring it back? Why would they do that, when it doesn't interfere at all with Metro mode to just have that in the desktop mode? Why else would they do that, if they didn't want to force Metro even more on you by turning it into a shortcut to Metro mode instead?
> America doesn't have free speech.

Yes, it does. It has severe restrictions on what kinds of speech the government is capable of punishing you for expressing. That's what free speech is.

Free speech does not mean that you have the right to come into my house and scream obscenities at me. Nobody, nowhere has that right, regardless of where they're from.
If the place is a completely unsafe wasteland occupied primarily by the indigent, I don't really understand why a one-bedroom studio would be particularly expensive. In fact, I would expect substantial vacancies and many affordable options for people willing to risk living there.

Why isn't this the case?
Randomness tests mean extremely little for cryptographic PRNGs [1]. Passing a statistical test basically just means that your RNG isn't horribly, awfully broken. Such tests mean almost nothing in terms of cryptographic security.

A statistical test just determines if the output of a PRNG "looks random" from a very, very narrow point of view, typically not algorithm-specific and often predefined ahead of time. Cryptographic security, on the other hand, requires defending against an intelligent adversary who actively seeks to subjugate and compromise the unpredictability of the specific PRNG in question.

As an example, the Mersenne Twister passes many of the popular statistical tests with flying colors, but learning 624 consecutive values from it allows an attacker to reconstruct its internal state and predict all future values. (That is, it's totally worthless when it comes to cryptographic security.)

[1] http://security.stackexchange.com/a/32416/1373
JACK is not apart of the standard Linux sound experience for anybody but sound technicians or musicians. I'll fully concede that this particular situation may be shit, but it does not represent the typical Linux user, or even the typical Linux power user, experience.

Can't say I've ever noticed Pulse latency, even while playing Quake, except when using Pulse's networking features. Maybe I have crude ears.
I recently switched some of our eccomerce caching from a 3 Node ElastiCache Memcache cluster to a m1.large Redis ElastiCache instance for caching and a m1.small for session storage in Redis. So far the performance with Magento I've seen a 30-40% increase.
Fragmentation: It's the Linux way. I always love looking at this picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Dis...
Reddit can ban whatever speech on their website they please, as can McDonalds, ACE Hardware, the local YMCA, and the local Green Party.
Depends on the variety of English. What you said is true for the prestige dialect, certainly.
what about libuv?
It is interesting, because I am a long time hardcore unix guy, and I have the exact opposite feeling. I don't think linux offers any advantage over windows for a desktop/gaming environment any more. Back when we had to deal with the instability of windows 98, having games work on linux was a fantasy. But now, between the increased stability that came with moving to NT for windows, and the decreased stability that came with all the crap that comes with gaming on linux, I don't see the benefit. That combined with linux moving so far away from unix, and so much closer to the bloated complexity of windows, just makes it seem pointless.
maybe because printf is blocking and will block the event loop.
The Ruby developer in me wants to have his lunch and eat it.

I'm sure there's a way to have the crazy whole that is Ruby AND the speed. Dammit, Javascript is fast now and it's not like it was more optim-ready than Ruby is to begin with.
Do you have more precise details on the costs involved with that Philippine island idea? What kind of numbers?
12 person startup, here. It's deadly quiet. Most people are in offices, they close their door for phone calls. Headphones for music is the norm. It makes me crazy, sometimes. I get a little break because I sit near the kitchen and there's a lot of chatter when people are preparing their lunches.
What would you know about it, jack?
I've spent a fair bit of time kicking around Maine islands over the years, which are a lot more likely to have random visitors. One really weird phenomenon is that locked cabins tend to have more vandalism problems than unlocked cabins with a guestbook for visitors. I've never quite figured out what this says about human nature.

Maine's liability laws are excellent. They basically say, "So you hurt yourself? And you were wandering around the woods? What part of 'woods' didn't you understand?" So the social conventions in rural Maine provide a certain freedom to wander around unoccupied woodland as long as you don't make a nuisance of yourself. Posting your woodland against trespassing was historically considered a bit anti-social in a lot of places.

Nova Scotia appears to have relatively sane rules for liability in wilderness areas: http://nslegislature.ca/legc/statutes/occupier.htm I'd guess that your island probably falls under some combination of 6.1(c) or (d), but it's probably worth asking an actual lawyer.

Have fun with your island! And pay attention to the SAR folks—living on an island is only slightly more dangerous than living anywhere else, but when bad stuff happens, your options may be worse. My childhood best friend once had to make an hour lobster-boat ride with a stick jammed into his throat just below the jaw bone. This experience put an end to his family's island living. Your biggest risk is probably making that 5-minute boat ride in a bad storm.
But I am still left wondering why Pittsburghers not only made different choices than did Detroiters, but made ones that were so vastly superior as to lead to their city's becoming the best town in America even as Detroit transformed itself a post-apocalyptic wasteland whose denizens hunt raccoons for their flesh.
The landing was shown live in the USSR.
On USSR TV owned by the USSR government.

In the middle of the cold war.
30-40% increase in what? Latency? Throughput?

I'd be curious to see how using ElastiCache Redis as a session store compares to DynamoDB (on latency, throughput, and price).
Quite entertaining, indeed. Good on the father.

On the other hand, if he can do this, I wonder why he's encouraging these age-old childhood myths. I personally grew up with the knowledge that they weren't real from the beginning, and can't say I missed some sort of enchantment or anything. It speeds up your rational thinking.

Still, pretty cool idea.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Be it altruistic or capitalist, Linux stands to benefit from the exposure and backing.
No, what I'm citing is evidence of real world harm done to innocent people as a result of a (well-intentioned) witch hunt on a very popular website.

It's crappy journalism on the Post's part, sure. But it wasn't NY Post reporters that fingered these suspects or that made them newsworthy.
Absent any evidence whatsoever, I see no reason to doubt the official story: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/07/16/156839...

I wish the government would do more to help fund research and innovation.
If you're willing to share, I (and I'm sure others here as well) would be curious to get some kind of sense of how you wrote out the agreements.
The 23rd marks the "...first day of instruction in the first academic year of my PhD in Computer Science..." at Newcastle University. Good luck :)
I just absolutely adore how this comment currently sits right next to one saying that this sort of thing is purely a government problem.
Both Microsoft and Apple recently implemented similar 'Gatekeeper' software to scare people away from using or installing binaries that aren't from their blessed App Stores.