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Highly trained monkeys work at Google
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A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.

I never knew Google also employees monkeys too.
I think I saw Hummingbird happen to one of my sites, but my traffic shift happened over the course of 5 weeks, with a steady ramp up in traffic. Very different from the near step-function you saw.
This. One prime example I can think of is Gmail. I've used it pleasantly, while all the under-the-surface updates happened. I was pleasantly surprised when one day, Gmali client to remind me that I'd forgotten to attach the file I've said I've attached. It's one of the subtle updates which simply enhances the experiences, like performance changes.

Unfortunately the opposite example can be found in the same product, Gmail; when they visibly and ostensibly changed the UI, it was immediately noticed, and widely hated.
That's only true until you have to stray away from the happy path.
While we are on this topic, does anyone know the current state of art for text duplication detection algos? I understand that Google used LSH but they must have made a lot of progress since.

LSH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing
No, Braintree is using Wells Fargo in US as a Merchant Service Provider. This has nothing to do with the ownership.
i've been following kyle's jepsen project for a few months (check out his other posts) - and it seems (thankfully) to be nudging the focus of discussion away from only "performance metrics" (transactions/sec, etc.) of distributed systems and toward data consistency and behavior in the face of partitions and other faults. ...what's the use of being able to make 20k updates per second if half your data is lost during a common failure?

kudos!
Well, after two years it was just time to upgrade and I decided not to renew with OS X. I've gone back to a Windows/Linux workflow and I really enjoy it.
Apple loses "click wheel" patent lawsuit
Declara Co-Founder Ramona Pierson's Comeback Odyssey
Function as another endpoint for the stream. Instead of a TV, you have a tablet or a phone. Onlive already does this.
Deduping the process would be nice, but a lot of requests are for information regarding personal data (for lawsuits, tax purposes, personal reasons), and therefore it would add an extra step and inevitably another approval process (so glad I quit government). This would increase latency. It might be worth it overall, but never underestimate the negative impact of an approval fetish.
So, is anybody here actually active on academia.edu? Asking, since as a computer vision researcher (3D reconstruction, obstacle recognition/identification, augmented reality, ...) I am constantly looking for scientific resources, and to be frank, it is quite annoying because it can become really time consuming.

So a genuine question, is the site worth signing up for? I remember when mendeley just started, there was lots of excitement about it, mainly because it was sort of marketed as the last.fm of research (giving you good recommendations for your scientific interests), but then it turned out to be just meeh (getting bought by Elsevier didn't help much ;-).

Also, on a side note, are there any other good sites doing something similar out there (like a reddit/HN for insert your research interests here type of site) that are actually any good? I'm sure there must be a lot of other researchers active on HN...
Hmmm, the Vulcan nerve pinch, the three finger salute, the Hail Mary keyboard combo, the three panic buttons.

Ctrl-Alt-Del was a mistake because of buggy and sloppy code that caused the OS to crash. The person writing DOS had added it, I was told, because there was no reset button on the IBM PC 5150 system. IBM refused to install one, (later on PC Cloners added a Reset button along with a Turbo button to change the CPU clock speed) and so the programmer found three keys that most likely would not be accidentally pressed together by mistake and had to be pressed on purpose for the reset code to use. Control and Alt were next to each other, but Delete was way over on the other side of the keyboard.

IIRC the Apple II had this issue and had used the Open Apple and Closed Apple with a "Reset" button, and because people would accidentally press the "Reset" button they had a change so that you had to hold down the Apple keys with the Reset key to reset the Apple II series.

Later on Commodore made the Amiga and had the Amiga logo keys for resetting the Amiga series in AmigaDOS/AmigaOS.
This of it another way. If you put in the least amount possible to max the matching (often 50% of first 6%) and put it into a money market or stable value fund then the "return" (the matching) will exceed the market returns you'd get on any index fund.
Subscribe to /r/programmingcirclejerk, they have lots of stuff like this
You guys might be one of the few countries with effectively unlimited land. But remember the power has to get from where it's generated to where it's needed.
Well, I know _that_ copies are cheap in svn, but I have no idea _why_. Yet I hope that I grok branches and tags.
Same here, if they were ever to charge monthly, I'd stop using them immediately. It's a great service, but not that compelling that I wouldn't switch to other cheaper alternatives.
It's important to distinguish architecture and design from implementation. The former may be correct, even if the latter is found to have a bug.
Since people have been hopeful about finding water there for a while, are there any good estimates for how much exploration mission costs would be reduced by if water were found?
As explained above: not a NKVDist plot. This is just the result of some poor analysts (I hear they mistreat their analysts at FBI) getting stuck with FOIA duty trying to get through their day. There is plenty that I myself am wary of about how the government conducts itself, but this is seeing corruption for the sake of seeing corruption. Save the panic rant for real problems.
Scaling MongoDB to 100GB and Beyond
I believe that, assuming the study includes wind and biomass. But 5x capacity is going to be expensive to maintain.
What if the loser was a lawyer or had a very cheap one / a friend litigate?
Very good point. The terminology is exactly the thing that's (in my opinion) is weird with Angular.

When I had a first glance on it, I didn't really get it. Only after several hours reading the docs and experimenting with code I got what they were talking about things became somehow clear (lots of aha-moments "ahh, the service is just a fancy name for an angular-managed singleton, now I see...").
Getting Started with RequireJS and AMD
There are a number of loaders that implement AMD but James Burke’s RequireJS is the original and many people are now so familiar with RequireJS that they are unaware of the distinction between the AMD format and the RequireJS loader.
Can you delete iOS ;P

I own an S4 and if this policy stays it'll be the last Samsung phone I bought.
We can also electrolyze the water into oxygen and hydrogen for oxygen to breathe, and mix the hydrogen with carbon dioxide from the air to make methane, and use the methane and oxygen (or hydrogen and oxygen) for rocket fuel.
I swear that was the approach Microsoft took to not having an open plan office.
IOS 7: How to Use FaceTime for Audio Calls Only
One possibility might be DevOps Engineering (System and/or Network). Another possibility might be Enterprise App Development (very similar to Web Dev). Another possibility could relate to Virtualization (OpenStack was built with Python for example). I'm not sure about freelancing in an Enterprise Environment, but a consulting style of approach should work great. I come from a System and Network Engineering Background but I also do Django/Python Web Development. I've been fortunate in that many of my Engineering related side-projects relate to Python in one way or another. So I've been able to re-use what I've learned in many different verticals (currently focused on Security and Virtualization)
I'm not going to dispute what you're saying (that's another conversation), but I really don't see where you're getting that from the quote under discussion.
‘We Have Met the Enemy’ by Daniel Akst - Review (2010)
>Anyhow I'm the kind of guy who buys XIV

Daily inverse VIX?!? Have you heard the expression "picking up nickles in front of a steamroller"? Not to mention the cost and tracking error.
Well, sunlight has a big impact on people.

The the extreme example of this is seasonal depression, which is the reasons Scandinavian countries have very high rates of suicide.

But good scientific studies show most people are effected by lack of sunlight, and it impacts mood and alertness.

Windows in offices is an expensive problem to solve, but as sunlight frequency strip lighting is the same price as the yellow stuff normally seen in offices, I'm surprised we don't use it.
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Regarding greenhouses, any example you cite I can say is way out of economical norms ;-) But the only way to make organic work (without throwing away half the produce or drowning the field in the few allowable chemicals) is to either do it indoors or in a part of the world where the pests don't exist yet. But that is neither here nor there.

How do you get the extra robots installed on the radial systems? With gantry and wheel based systems, you plop them down at one end of the field and then they re-arrange themselves.

I was specifically thinking the advances in time-of-flight LIDAR that seem to be for short range (several feet) gesture recognition. Not for object avoidance (Deere's use case) but on the wrist of a manipulator, where you don't always have the space for a stereo-optical setup.

One day hermetic greenhouses might make sense. Until then it will be cheaper and (arguably) less impactful to grow the veg someplace with reasonable weather and pests and ship it instead.
From your link:

"That is, the price that investors pay to purchase mutual fund and most UIT shares is the approximate per share NAV, plus any fees that the fund imposes at purchase (such as sales loads or purchase fees). The price that investors receive on redemptions is the approximate per share NAV at redemption, minus any fees that the fund deducts at that time (such as deferred sales loads or redemption fees)."

In 401(k) the loads or purchase/redemption fees are usually waived (with the exception of short term redemption fees which are sometimes imposed for not holding funds at least 30-90 days to discourage people trying to "day trade" mutual funds).

Also, I did forget to mention that, in addition to waiving CDSC charges, large plans can usually qualify for cheaper share classes of the funds. For example Admiral or Signal shares at Vanguard rather than the retail Investor shares.
No on the footer of Braintree's site it states:
> Braintree is a registered ISO/MSP of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A

This means Braintree is using WF as a banking service provider, but is not owned by them.
Why would you want to talk to a stranger in the first place? How do you know they want to talk to you? This is my major issue with such comments.
Google is increasingly becoming an "Ask Jeeves" clone. I have very little control of my searches and Google just returns what it thinks I meant, rather than what I actually typed.

I would love an advanced search mode with some simple boolean logic, even if it took several seconds to return the result, for those times when you really need to sift through a lot of garbage to find the results you really want.

What is the point of Google returning results in 0.000000001 seconds if they aren't the results I wanted and I have very little means of refining the search. The moment a new search engine comes with this functionality and a decent indexed base, it's bye-bye Google for me.
I believe jawed fishes are just the ancestors of vertebrates (with jaws). Everybody else is on their own, chewing-wise.
The point is, sometimes you just don't care about authority, you just care about the encryption.

HTTPS with self-signed certificates is better than moving plaintext over the wire, in the same way PGP is better than moving plaintext over the wire. It doesn't matter that you don't have a "trusted" peer to tell you this PGP signer is who it says it is. As long as you can trust you acquired his key in a secure way (e.g., out-of-band), it's better than the alternative.

Plus, MITM concerns over self-signed certs are moot. This vulnerability exists at the DNS level anyway.
VCs Should Give Honest Feedback & Why They Often Don’t
Also, if the products are too similar, you can't just poach the entire team, because that would probably run afoul of NDAs.
I didn't think I'd find it but it googled right up: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111931728319164845,00.htm...
Cool thanks for clarifying
I haven't looked much at the color ones, but if it's networkable get it on a network and poke around in its web-based management interface. On the mono lasers there's a setting for "Toner out" behavior - the default is "stop" but you can change it to "continue".
It's not voodoo.
This page explains the digest cycle well:
http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/concepts
Well a flame of a candle burns at around ~1500°C so it's not that much if you think about it.
I work as a javascript programmer, so I'm trying to do my small part to stem the tide of crapware before it makes my job less pleasant (too late in the case of angular).
In situ return journey propellant production has been a key element of Robert Zubrin's "Mars Direct" proposal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
Right, there can be fees imposed on top of the fund's price itself but that doesn't mean the fund isn't trading at NAV.
It's better because you get nice stuff like two way binding which your js won't give you. Also, building templates in html is definitely nicer and more expressive than doing it in js. That specific example doesn't look great - but it's probably not the best way of doing it either.

On the performance - it's going to be slower than doing everything in specifically optimised code, but it's almost certainly not going to be a problem. My project has a million+ objects in js once the interface loads and I have watches on a big chunk of that data and the interface is still snappy. Granted, there are bits where I have to be careful to make it snappy, but that's life. Development time is so much faster I wouldn't make the tradeoff for the world now.
Fine. Where am I wrong? What claim needs to be supported?

Obviously you don't expect a secret email or memo, we deduce from their actions and results.
Flagged - The headline is VERY misleading. Read the comments from the co-author. 20% of reviews are voluntarily filtered by Yelp. Though the issue is certainly real.
Quotes can help but they are often ignored.
Opportunistic douchebaggery.
no idea, but the info is still here - http://www.mydogear.com/articles/52399361a97dca7f9bb1698a https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ageckoboard.com+-inurl...
Raspberri Pi gains support for Oracle’s Java
This is the impression I had as well. With all the factories and services and dependency injection.
You need to read my post again.

I was not commenting on the science, I was commenting on how it is being reported.
Sure, I was referring to the two particular offices in the original article's plan. I don't see those as an upgrade.
Time for a new generation to take over Microsoft.

http://greatdox.com/wordpress1/2013/09/26/its-time-for-gates...
This, this so much. I just turned 21 years old, and at my age I already have pretty significant tinnitus. Two underlying reasons:

1. Concerts without earplugs

2. Over-ear headphones

I think people get really into the headphones and want to 'feel' the bass of the music, much in the same way concerts are amazing because you can 'feel the sound.' This usually results in music playing too loud for 4-8 hours per day. Add that up over time and you'll find yourself like me, having to use sound machines every night and during working hours just so I can tune out the ever-persistent ringing in my ears.
20% seems surprisingly low.
Delete your google cookies then resign in.
> two way binding

Other frameworks also provide two way binding.

> better than in JS

Handlebars is much more like 'programming _with_ HTML' than 'programming in JS'
People have used increasingly longer, more specific search queries over the years, either through Google's efforts or through people learning to make use of search engines. This is the logical next step since people were always asking questions of Google, even if people didn't always realize it.
Where do you get the energy to heat the soil?
The only reason to ng-switch/ng-switch-when is because you have to bind to DOM nodes (Angular decided they do the views this way) and you can't have DOM subtrees (those `{ ... }` branches in your `if ... else ...`) without elements.
ALICE is Aluminum+Water Ice in case anybody is wondering. You basically make a slurry of very fine Aluminum powder and water, then freeze it. Very cool stuff.
MIT Whizzes Create an Amazing New 3-D Printing Technique
I tried one. The screen isn't there yet for long term productivity, or even long term gaming. They'll get it there though, the motion tracking and field of view are wonderful, it mostly would just need to be much higher res for non gaming activities.
A Relational Model of Data for  Large Shared Data Banks
Well, I said "purchase" rather than "trading". And you can't purchase at the NAV price if they're adding fees on top of it.
How can you judge it with so little understanding of the subject matter?
Personal finance can be complex. But there are a few rules of thumb to live by. Avoid credit card debt if at all possible, this is important. You may have to take on long term debt in the form of a mortgage, vehicle loan or student loan and these are unavoidable life expenses. Even though you may have these long term outstanding debts and other recurrent expenditures it is still vital to save. The amount you should shoot for is ten percent of your gross pay and put that into a savings account first. You can save for your first car from that or your next car. These are probably the two most important basics.
Replying to myself since I can't edit my reply now.

This is the link to the TaoBao Tengine doc describing the feature: http://tengine.taobao.org/document/http_ssl.html

My memory was faulty: they have a way to get the passphrase, not the key itself. But wrt security, both are equivalent.
I disagree. I think his comments are well-researched, insightful, and logically driven. That his conclusion does not jibe with your particular worldview does not make him a bigot.
I feel that as a js programmer you probably owe it to yourself to understand this space better. These frameworks are coming in fast because they're very powerful - and they're here to stay. Looking at your example definitely feels like you don't really understand how to use angular. Obviously it's your choice to make, but calling it crapware without really getting it, when it's going to directly effect your job is doing an injustice to nobody but yourself.
Solar, or potentially nuclear.
For the record: if you go and flag a review, in addition to the usual "abusive/TOS violation" type of stuff, you can also report that it "doesn't describe a personal consumer experience." It's not super obvious, but that's the easiest way to dispute someone who's not actually reviewing your restaurant.

I tend to use that to flag those jerkface reviews that are basically "I would never go there" rants.
Comparing 21 Habits Between ''Rich'' and ''Poor'' People
Yes sorry about that, brainfart. :)

We used SWOTT, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, and Trends. Trends was added to SWOT because if a startup is not paying attention to trends their products and services will get very old fast and lose their customer base in an instant.
The older I get the more I can relate to this. Drink in the moment because it won't be here again. Pay attention. Listen. Look around. Enjoy.

I used to walk in Brooklyn a lot and my friends would always make fun of my slow pace. But I'd always tell them "stopping to smell the roses" isn't just a cliche. It's a life philosophy.
You own shares but the total number of shares is not fixed.

Say you own 20,000 shares out of 100,000 shares and you own 20% of the company, they issue another 9,900,000 shares 10 min befores selling the company and you now own 0.2%.
Can you brief about the project you are talking about?
Hey Its now possible to edit your Post on Facebook
>>"That was my job", he says. "But they were lucky it was me on shift that night."

Might qualify as the understatement of the century.

...

Seriously.
I've got partial stereoblindness so reading this has me more interested in owning an Oculus Rift than I've ever been. I'm not super interested in augmented reality or VR, but it was pretty surprising to discover that using a 3DS (once you get past the awful low resolution and need to hold it in juuuust the right spot) partially circumvented my problems perceiving depth.

It's neat to hear that the Oculus crew are thinking about how this technology could be used to help people with stereo vision problems, instead of just purely the entertainment uses. Even partial impairment of your stereo vision can have kind of unfortunate consequences - virtually all sports are incredibly frustrating, driving is very stressful, etc.
Like "technically owning" DVDs for example.