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> it's just positive coverage of this agreement

As the article mentions, it's very likely that New York Times hasn't seen the agreement. Otherwise they could just leak it to the public. So what do they endorse?
When is positive coverage in the NY Times not a form of public approval?
It's been a while since I've studied Prolog, but it's good to see it getting some press. I learned Prolog before ever dabbling in Scheme or ML, and it was just as much of a paradigm shift from imperative style. It's kind of like FP-style pattern matching, but taken to a whole new level, such that the pattern matching itself is pretty much the entire computational engine.

Rather than using functions, which take a number of arguments and return a result, you use predicates on a number arguments. You build your program out of clauses, which are conjunctions of predicates. A process called unification [1] finds the argument values (if any) that satisfy an entire clause. By sharing constants and variables between predicates, the valid results that unification can produce are restricted to what the logic of your program allows.

So your algorithms end up being, in many ways, description of what a valid results look like, and the Prolog engine goes out and finds them. This paradigm clearly maps nicely to domains with lots of rules, like decision engines, parsers, and such. Sounds awesome, right? One caveat is that, in practice, you as a programmer have to have a pretty good understanding of how unification works in order to write performant algorithms.

This is all from several years-old recollections and a little bit of Wikipedia to refresh my memory, so someone please chime in if I'm incorrect someplace or leaving out key concepts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_%28computer_science...
I’d be interested in hearing what other devs are using for iOS builds. All the options I’ve tried have been pretty terrible.
Well said. Anyone interested on our battle tested architecture for large scale AngularJS apps, we open sourced it here: brandid.github.io
I wish ISO 8601 would have been the first one. Then, perhaps, we would not have this: http://xkcd.com/1179/
And in the seo space as my seo director said they dont really value deep technical skills that can analyse a 10 year old 10 million page site with major problems - and come up with an action plan to fix it.
this is awesome - we'll soon be to a point where a person can prototype 100 units of a thing-of-the-internet in a weekend > circuit, mechanical and software.
I'm not sure but I think that after a certain number of days links can be submitted again.
The nice thing about the NY Times is that its reporting offers a general indication of what powerful interests in the US want.
Perhaps, and no.

E.g. the front end registration problem is due to a late requirements change in August that had the effect of preventing window shopping, plus we know there were changes ordered though the week before launch, and no integration testing until 1-2 weeks before launch, and that discovered it locked up if 200 simultaneous login attempts were made or if it had ~1,100 users on it.

So, yeah, those are scaling problems, but not ones we can necessairly blame the techies for, given that they didn't have enough time, and couldn't do integration testing (the government's CMS was the integrator and integration tester, now replaced by QSSI, the ones who did the "data hub"? I think it's called, which is supposed to be not so bad).

But also no, in that the fix-it czar's #1 declared priority is to fix the garbage 834 EDI transactions that are being sent to insurers. That includes incorrect data and incorrect transactions (e.g. multiple enrollments and cancellations for the same person). Based on that, the front end's problems have been a blessing in disguise, because the insurers are only getting a few hundred enrollees a week and that low volume allows the insurers to call each up and straighten out problems.

An estimated 16 million policies in the individual market, and an unknown number in Obamacare's interim high risk pool must sign up for new policies by December 15th or so or they'll suffer a lapse in coverage, which for many of the latter will be fatal. The only way to get subsidies is through the Federal system, i.e. the state exchanges use it for that (maybe with inaccuracies, but it's evidently working for the state exchanges that are working, but don't judge that for any given state exchange until you find out which are getting Obamacare and the much larger numbers reported to be signing up for Medicaid), and that makes sense to avoid fraud, since it results in direct payments from the Federal fisc.
Boosting commerce and spending is a fine goal, but a larger value of mild inflation is that it boosts investment. Deflation of course has an opposite effect, you get risk free gains by making your capital idle rather than investing in productive assets.
I don't believe this is "the most practical explanation of closures out there" as the author claims, but it does present a use-case. The most important thing to grasp if you're fussed about naming concepts in JavaScript is the difference between a function, a scope [1], a closure [2], and an IIFE [3].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...

[2] http://unscriptable.com/2011/10/02/closures-for-dummies-or-w...

[3] http://benalman.com/news/2010/11/immediately-invoked-functio...
European Parliament Members Explore Decriminalizing File-Sharing
Add scrolling direction observing for UIScrollView
"Failed" is a strong word and it's still too early to tell. Sure, I don't think it will ever be used predominantly as an exchange medium but that could be a nice "bonus" functionality. A lot of it depends on how bitcoin-friendly governments are. For example, if a global network of bitcoin ATMs can be built, this could practically put Western Union out of business.
Nicely written. A couple of things, somewhat independent of the economic issue: the "big data - dumb analysis" trend is bound to change, it's a matter of time till volume is not an advantage anymore. And the fact that "academia" is by no means a uniform discipline, some fields can only move ahead with the gathering of more data, while other fields need new testable hypotheses more.
Dolphins' Story Is About Race And Bullying, But Not The Way You Think
Bitcoins are better not spent these days as they seem to increase in value almost 10%-20% daily.
The problem with waiting until the text is final is that the final text, which might be thousands of pages, is presented on Monday morning and voted on Monday afternoon. It may have taken them 4 years to negotiate the details, because of extreme complexity, but you can bet they won't allow the public to mull it over and give feedback for an equal amount of time.

The new "democratic" process in the US is for corporations to write law and Congress to rubber stamp it. They don't even read the shit they pass.
Logical replication will be a big deal over the next couple releases. I'm not sure exactly what will be available when, but I know that god foundations are being built now.
Is anyone else reminded of "Network", near the end (spoilers, for a 40 year old film), in which the Howard Beale character goes off on a rant about a secretive global merger, causing the public to flood the government with protest, which then earns Beale a meeting with the company CEO and a lecture on free trade and the insignificance of humanity?

If you haven't seen "Network", it's the movie from which, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" comes from. However, the movie is not really about standing up for your rights, it's more about modern American media, and of all the satirical movies I've ever seen, it's the one that comes closest to predicting what has come to pass. It's a brilliant, brilliant movie...the only one, I believe, to have nominees in all four Oscar acting categories (it won 3 of them).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(film)
Then again, it only takes one, relatively small attack, like 9/11 to break the fragile minds of the market and instill fear in the people. Now there's a great loss in capital. Having said that, to build a credible military threat would essentially require a joint strike force against the U.S. Before that gets written off, stranger things have happened in the last 100 years.

Having said that, I do believe a lot of money could be better allocated outside and within the military. That is to say, I think we should aim to get more from less. I'd like to point my finger at government contracting overhead, I think the financial belt could be cinched quite a bit.
Isn't this the case with big players in any industry that have greater purchasing power?
These are reasons I left Facebook. Well, all but "parents" anyway. I was a parent before Facebook happened.
I just tried it, and it's great. Nice job, on many fronts: Recognizing a problem, coming up with a simple, uncluttered solution, and making it work.

In my view, a site like this is useful for a lot of purposes beyond actually signing up for health care. For instance, I've got employer sponsored care, but I was simply curious about what my costs would be through the exchanges. I also want to be an informed citizen, and "how much does it really cost" is an obvious question that anybody might be inclined to ask. In my view, knowing the magnitude of the numbers should help provide a reference point for political debate.
It has nothing to do with being "edgy". It has everything to do with not wanting to be flooded with Bible verses, prayer requests, and mindless proselytizing. It's obnoxious.
Everyone is all concerned about how teenagers are fleeing Facebook, but they all fail to realize why teenagers will head back to Facebook. It was originally designed as the online version of College, a way to interact with new and old friends. When all these kids leave their high schools and head off to college where are they going to keep in touch with their old friends, Facebook. When they meet someone new in College where will they add this new friend, Facebook. Facebook is the initial meeting point for new friends and then once you become better friends it is then that you follow and add them on other social media sites. If Facebook sees a huge decline in College age students in the next few years then I will be worried about their future, but until then it doesn't matter what the teenagers do because when they begin to grow up, they will join the rest of society and use their Facebook. Teenagers are not the demographic to follow when understanding Facebook's fate.

Also, they are all leaving Facebook to use intagram, a Facebook owned company, or use snapshat which will die off in popularity in the coming years.
Hey,thanks i get that.
But still,i'm just searching for an idea,for pain that businesses have,guess there is no problem if people can share problems they have...
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I honestly consider any project that is complex enough to require more than a single trivial makefile (eg. lua, say) to be unsuitable for using make at all.

Everything else I've seen that tries is exactly as bad as this paper suggests.

This 'modern makefiles' stuff from the android NDK is one of the worst offenders; those makefiles are almost without fail difficult to debug and problematic (just search SO for 'ndk', 'makefile' if you don't believe me), but because it's android, I've actually had people advocate we use that approach for other projects too.

Craziness.
Technical work, including indispensable scientific software development, tends to be considered of low academic value in academia. This is an ingrained attitude. I very recently left after having heard "oh, you're the technical guy" once too often from other academics.

Here's an example. The Globus Online grid ftp service web page intended for users adopts an overtly apologetic tone [1]. Users of this service are promised freedom from "low-value IT considerations and processes"--considerations and processes that the Globus Online team has humbly sought to undertake on their behalf. I have to laugh at the claim that there is "No need to involve your IT admin—all you need is Globus Online." The message is that information technology is of low academic value--unless you happen to have been one of the authors of publications that came out of the Globus Online project. If not, your career is sidelined.

Software development, system administration, network administration and desktop support have become somewhat specialized in the past 30 years, but in the minds of some principal investigators and academic administrators, these very different activities are conflated. An expert in numerical methods, computational fluid dynamics and dynamic downscaling methods for climate assessment models is a seasoned web developer with a portfolio, fluent in jQuery, underscore, backbone, responsive websites with bootstrap, CSS3, HTML5, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, the Google maps API, Cartodb visualizations, as well as an Android developer conversant with the SPen library for the Galaxy Note 10.1. It's as much effort to stay current technically as it is to keep up in the scientific literature.

There are faint signs of improvement. On January 14th, the NSF revised the biosketch format by changing the Publications section to Products [2]. "This change makes clear that products may include, but are not limited to, publications, data sets, software, patents, and copyrights." The previous biosketch format was awkward for software developers, inventors and producers of data sets.

Recently, a number of prominent computer scientists, and scientific software developers affiliated with the Climate Code Foundation [3], published a Science Code Manifesto [4]. The manifesto includes the recommendation that "software contributions must be included in systems of scientific assessment, credit, and recognition." Software developers in the digital humanities may wish to add their names to the list of signatories.

Whether these developments reflect a broader understanding that software developers ought to enjoy greater recognition and opportunity for advancement in academia that they do currently remains to be seen. Greater career advancement opportunity for software developers, inventors and data set producers working in academia might do something to address the Ph.D. overproduction problem.

But these developments were too little and too late for me. I left.

[1] https://www.globusonline.org/forusers/

[2] http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13004/nsf13004.jsp

[3] http://climatecode.org/

[4] http://sciencecodemanifesto.org
thank you, I'm really confused about naming concepts in JavaScript because one time you read something, and a minute after on a stackoverflow thread you find it explained and named differently.
but I will read through the links you posted, appreciate that
There are social consequences of unfriending someone, regardless of how annoying their posts are. De-friending someone is the digital equivalent of saying "I don't want to be your friend anymore". If you don't want to come off as abrasive, simply block the user from your feed.
Is this why kitchens feel like minecraft?
I never cared for the various made up features on FB such as likes, pokes, wall posts etc. but yes, like you said, the keeping in touch really is its killer app. It's basically a self-updating rolodex with discovery.
Nobel Ideas
"Every year in June, the world's Nobel prize winners come together for a conference with young scientists and researchers in the German town of Lindau. There, the Nobel laureates don't just speak about their pathbreaking discoveries but also comment on new ideas and air their views on current pressing issues such as climate change and energy. Global Ideas regularly attends the conferences and speaks to a few Nobel winners. Check out the videos."
Well to be cynical - if most people are blithering idiots and most people don't amount to much, it could be true that most smart people don't amount to much and most people in charge are idiots while still true that being smart makes you much more likely to be in charge :o)
The contractors were ordered in August to change the system to require up front registration and submission of "correct" information on penalty of perjury, no window shopping allowed, nor checking out "what if" scenarios (e.g. using the Kaiser Foundation's calculator, someone was unable to find any scenario where being married wasn't more expensive, and of course subsidies are based on income, and that can be very flexible for a lot of people).

Since then window shopping has been allowed, but I don't know if the "under penalty of perjury" bit was dropped.

As to "what happened", I'll just point you at this Washington Post article and let you come to your own conclusions: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/challenges-have-dogge...

Note also the front end traffic jam has avoided sending the insurers more garbage 834 EDI enrollment and cancellation transactions than they can manually clean up by contacting enrollees. That's the #1 thing to correct according to the fix-it czar.

And I do agree with you, an Amazon system, which I'm sure is based on the BASE eventual consistency back ends, e.g. you don't get your confirmation email until it decides who "won" the last copy of an item, would have been a lot better. But then again the contractors were doing a lot less of that sort of top level design that you'd think (see the Post article).
What alternatives do you use?

I've tried a few but I find most of them to be annoyingly opaque.
Most empires don't start out that way. In many cases those nations were abused prior, or invaded. Usually while maintaining a shell of a military. What they learned by experience is...If you don't want someone to take a shot at you, kill you, pillage the village, and rape your women, more or less hell on earth, you have to crush everyone. This is axiomatic because of human nature. Someone somewhere will not play ball and be civil. Someone somewhere will cause massive damage to you and your livelihood if you give them the chance. You may not have met them, but they certainly exist.

There is wisdom in this laconic phrase: Si vis pacem, para bellum
Look back at the question you asked me. Look for the word "responsible".

Sorry to have misunderstood your profession; I'm not going to edit previous post(s) because my false belief significantly informed my arguments and rhetoric. Obviously, not being a biologist, this doesn't make you protectionist, but I still deeply disagree with what you've said, and though some of what I said doesn't apply to you particularly, I feel it has some general validity.
I think what he's suggesting is that a topic-based filtering system would be more ideal than a key work based one. I don't want to have to spell out "block yankee's, tigers, indians, pirates, and giants". I just want to say "block all baseball", or "block all sports", and have the system know that posts about the yankee's, tigeers, indians, pirates, or giants are inclusive in these categories.
Have you tried this: http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/ ?
Python-like syntax with pattern matching and recursive ADTs!? What a great idea!
Doesn't ALL free services have he same sort of clause?

I'm missing what's new compared to using... put here any the non-paid service online?

EDIT:

Here are Gmail Terms of Service[1]:
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Modifying and Terminating our Services

We are constantly changing and improving our Services. We may add or remove functionalities or features, and we may suspend or stop a Service altogether.
---

What happens if they suddenly suspend their service? NOTHING! :-) we all hope and have many reasons to believe that they wont do that, anytime soon.

[1]: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/update/
"""Pyret makes testing a natural part of the programming process. Functions can end in a where: clause that holds unit tests for the function. These assertions are checked dynamically."""

Fantastic idea! I'll keep that in mind, should be fairly easy to extend Lisps or other AST-Macro enabled languages (Elixir, Julia, Python) with such a functionality. I really like that. It makes it easy to work on a function and code tests down without switching contexts (files, workspaces, etc)
Ah, so I see that anything associated to the scope is reavaluated whenever anything else in the scope changes. Here's a further modification based on yours that keeps the criteria on the controller.

[1] http://plnkr.co/edit/JYyUvyh30e5L9KwVjDW2?p=preview

[2] http://plnkr.co/edit/ffYb14JjgSip5BTITILS?p=preview

edit: much happier with this version than the one I started with, thanks

edit: added example [2] which doesn't require a watch but still uses the service to do the filtering (because in my app it's actually an ajax call)
What's wrong with Buzzfeed?
Are you Sir Humphrey Appleby by any chance?
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To me that means that it's time to start selling. There is no fundamental reason why Bitcoin is rising so fast, it seems like speculation to me. I'm not one of the Bitcoin haters either, I've been heavily involved the last 6 months, I just don't see any major reason for this spike other than the usual speculative arguments.

If Bitcoin shouldn't be spent then what use are they?
What about bitbucket with the downloads feature?
What people claim and what the vast majority use it for are two different things.

True, but your implication has it backwards. Tynan is not part of the vast majority. He is an outlier, one degree of separation from Mystery(Erik von Markovik) and Neil Strauss.

The vast majority of people are unable or unwilling to be so ruthlessly selfish and sacrifice healthy, stable relationships on the altar of hedonistic sex-- even if they think that's all they want (and most will admit otherwise).

The dilemma is that guys who write about attraction and having sex with women tend to benefit a great deal by having a lot of experience with women. That's not very compatible with traditional monogamous relationships, so it will always be easy to attack them from this angle however irrelevant that angle may be.
They're going to use it to build city-destroying lasers, and hold world capitals for ransom. Wielding such destructive power from its new "spaceship" campus, Apple will make the entire Earth into a walled garden.

They're going to build consumer electronics with it, of course. What is possibly worrying about that?
What kind of metadata would facilitate reuse?

Have you seen the latest verbose mode in CFEngine (as of 3.5, June 2013)? It's more compact to facilitate debugging.

How else could debugging workflow be improved?
D has something like this[1]. It might have come from a still-earlier language.

[1] http://dlang.org/unittest.html
What's considered a good resume in the US definitely isn't in the Netherlands.

In the Netherlands two to three pages is the sweet spot and a one pager would be considered odd. If you're just out of University two pages should be possible though.

You can check out my resume at http://michiel.trimpe.nl for a fairly polished three page CV that works well for the Dutch market.
Right, because teens were never the original market anyway. A lot of us original Facebookers hated it when FB opened up to high schoolers.
You can end up with all the build logic in a central place but with the module level makefiles basically just being a list of files and targets.

The only real difference between the proposed solution and a 'normal' recursive make is really that these are written as 'include' rather than full makefiles, and dependencies better tracked. You don't end up with a single file until make parses everything.

>> obviously this isn't the case when multiple teams are involved who don't understand the work or requirements of other teams.

Massive projects with multiple teams probably won't want to work like this. He's mostly looking at a single product level, most likely worked on by a single team, he's concerned about speeding up their build times. AFAICT.
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