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Yes, I can apparently set up a website with instructions for doing so and get a nastygram from Canonical, too.

I run Fedora, anyway.

edit: I wish people wouldn't try to make a 1 size fits all desktop for mobile/tablet/desktop, but Unity is pretty much a wash with GNOME 3 for me.
Be careful about making your generalisations too broad. I live in New Zealand, and would have said that everyone in New Zealand thinks that MSG is ZOMG BAD FOR YOU. I suspect that each of us can only speak for our own social group.

That said, that you for your information about MSG. I wasn't aware that FSANZ had declared it to be effectively harmless.
Could you expand on what you mean by assert-driven testing? I'm not finding any good explanations from a Google search. Sounds interesting.
A simplified explanation: Salty food causes you to retain fluid due to osmotic pressure (see one of my other comments in this link). Alcohol is a diuretic, which causes you to expel fluid. There are more reasons, but this is the easiest to understand.
Feinstein.

How is she still in office? She's the spitting image of Dolores Umbridge; an authoritarian freak who has nothing better to do than make the lives of honest individuals completely arduous.
The entire world is a cemetery. Only when the ice cryopreserves our remains do we remember that.
Ubuntu, meet Streissand Effect.
I think they're definitely "beware of" if it's the answer to "what's the coolest thing you've produced?" Unless, like you said, it's an interview for a position in a large company that's dedicated to building internal tools.
I agree with Mark that it's not worth beating up Canonical over a bureaucratic slip up. Latching on to simple mistakes that are the result of internal miscommunication and misinterpretations of policy is foolish. And ideologues (especially in the software world) love to do that blindly, but it's not intelligent discourse.

That being said, I don't think that absolves Canonical of the underlying criticism: your company is active pushing a product, despite its open-source-ness, that betrays the trust and privacy of your users unless they're informed enough about the situation to opt-out.

I know Canonical is a corporation and has to generate revenue. I won't sit and pretend like I know how to solve that problem for your company. It doesn't change the dilemma, however. I'd like to recommend a user-friendly Linux to my friends and family. I won't recommend Ubuntu until the privacy issue is opt-in instead of opt-out. In fact, if they're less-technical, I recommend iPads and Macs. At least Apple doesn't ship off desktop search results to a third party that we're aware of. I hold enough trust with Apple to believe that they are not. It's unfortunate that I can't say the same for Canonical.
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burden of proof is in your court. Why should I trust the EFF with my money? Also moving the goal posts, the discussion here is about the effectiveness of the EFF.

I guess I could throw in Ad Hominem for calling me a troll. Are you into politics or sales? Sorry, that was a loaded question.
What if I forward you a newsletter that I thought was interesting and you click the unsubscribe link?
Have you considered publishing this list somewhere? It's incredibly useful, and though I'm saving the HN permalink, it could probably become something more.
How did you correct for it? Did you just nonlinearly scale the final picture or did you scale the axis on the spiral itself and then sampled the result?
I was going to comment on the same thing -- I'd tried the same positions holding a 17 & 15 inch MBPs to get an idea of how heavy that would be. It was tolerable for a minute or so, and I'm a rock climber blessed with gigantic forearm muscles.
Yes. First, whenever a person is called a racist for saying "X is a safe area because it has fewer Black people". Or much more likely, (I've seen this so many times) it is implied that people who fear areas that have high crime and also large number of Black people, or who associate Black people and crime, are racist. While these people don't use the world "regression" or "coefficient" the reasoning and evidence is the same.

Finally, in "Bowling for Columbine" Michael Moore accuses Charlton Heston of racism when Heston suggests that US crime rates are higher not because of guns, but because of "demographics". (I'm not sure that Heston is 100% right here because race only accounts for some of the differences between crime in the US and other countries, and using race as a right hand side variable in cross-country comparisons doesn't have as much validity)
legitimate question: how many of these 'anti-ubuntu/amazon' sites are there, and how many of them have actually been threatened to be taken down in the past?

Because right now this is looking like an isolated incident (albeit an inconvenient one for Canonical's PR), so it could be meaningless to try and read into it too much...
I subscribe to patio11's newsletter. Then I send a particularly good article from the newsletter to you via forwarding email. You say "Screw this" and hit the unsubscribe link.

Happens all the time, and now you've unsubscribed someone who is a high value member of the list.
The coolest thing I've ever built was a direct result of a finance guy who saw the potential, and then managed to put together the financing package to actually let me build it.
Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Regina, Halifax, Edmonton, Kelowna would all be places that are cheaper than the normal ones. Also, remember that the smaller towns you go to are usually more cheaper. It just depends how much snow you want!
You (subscriber who wants the mail) forwards it to a friend who wants to /dev/null it; friend clicks unsub link and original subscriber stops getting the messages.
So you are fine with approx an inch clearance with passing vehicles? I don't think so.
"granddaddy" doesn't mean first. Given a lot of sites are the 2nd or 3rd generation derivatives of FB, I think it's a reasonable use of the term.
I've found, "what was yesterday like, then?" to be a fine response when interviewers have claimed there's no typical day.
I don't understand why anyone used it after Unity, honestly.
Wow, those are pretty cool. Page 8 with the factor curves look really interesting.

http://www.numberspiral.com/art/19.gif
Cool how Shuttleworth also apologized for the tea party remark. Seemed kind of wrong for him to make it. Too bad he didn't address the gist of the fixubuntu site though, he didn't even link to it I think. Avoiding making the Streisand effect worse? Maybe he's already addressed the privacy issues?
> However, we have a lot of personal conflict.

A long time ago, my first 'IT' job, and it came time for my first rating. I got marked down, because, per our supervisor, 'Sergeant P. had problems with you a few months ago'.

He never said anything about it. It was just 'do this' or 'do that' and I did those things to the best of my ability. He .. never .. said .. anything. How could I correct whatever it was that bugged him about me if he didn't _say_ anything.

I _still_ remember how damned irritating that was, twenty-three year later.

You spent some money, and time, hiring this person. Talk to her about whatever it is that is causing the conflict. See if you can resolve it.
Thus everyone should avoid helmets! They can kill.
Seriously: Outliers do not describe a population.
I was producing grey scale images where each pixel represented a block of numbers. The count in each block was divided by the density of primes (1/log(n)) at the center of the block.

However, this actually made the middle turn grey, because even though the mean value of each pixel was the same, the variance wasn't. So then I corrected for this by calculating a "z-score" instead.

But like I mentioned before, it didn't turn up any interesting patterns.
Google "order a tshirt with your text", first hit that came up was for example this - http://www.spreadshirt.com/design-your-own-t-shirt-C59

Type in what ever #tag you want, $13.90

I bet with little more googlefu there's some cheaper places out there.
Placester is hiring:

UI/UX Designer

Customer Support Engineer

Customer Success Coach

Senior PHP Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

https://placester.com/careers/

Our Mission: Make the web work for real estate. Bridging the gap between real estate professionals and their clients. Real estate is the largest industry in the world. It’s also one of the most important—after all, everyone needs a place to live. Millions of consumers are looking for their next home online, and they expect the same kind of browsing and buying experience they get on sites like Amazon and Facebook. Unfortunately, real estate agents are struggling to provide that experience. That’s where Placester comes in. We’re creating an industry where it's quick and simple for real estate professionals to get their information on the web. Don’t let that simple description fool you. We’re addressing the hardest problem in the largest industry in the world. As you might have guessed, not everything is written on the home page yet.

Our Culture: Team. Join the team that makes a difference in a big, complex industry. Our culture is all about teamwork. That being said, we're composed of folks who are their own brand of brilliant, focused, fun, intense, and friendly. If you've ever worked on a high performing team you've experienced this mix before. You’ll be expected to get things done and be responsible for making it happen, without any bureaucratical mess. You’ll be expected to identify problems and solve them on your own. But more importantly, you may need to rally a friend or team to overcome them. Both are key tools on your belt. You’ll be expected to have an opinion because it will matter when shaping the outcome of your company.

Opinions are about courage: to speak your mind and to change it. Everyone laughs a lot over lunch. Topics range from the standard technical, tactical and whos-doing-what in the start up world; but they also weave through topics like the proper structure for the US debt, that great restaurant down the street or how to Sous-vide the perfect piece of meat. Brilliance isn’t one-dimensional.
Dreaming to work atGoogle then this is what you need to have
Only one way and that's comically:

http://mashable.com/2013/10/07/fox-news-deck/
I thought this would be about Shana Fisher. I met her at an event and she asked me to give her a list of YC cos that were good but that VCs didn't get. I realized this was the first time anyone had asked me that, in 8 years of doing YC.
> If you think MSG is fine, try eating a tablespoon of it with nothing else.

If you think salt is fine, try eating 10 tablespoons of it with nothing else.
From here[1]:

"I had a distinguished colleague - Stuart Nagel - whose tale is worth telling. He taught public policy and one day explained that black businesses in Kenya were uncompetitive against Indian-run enterprises since blacks where too generous in granting credit to friends and family. He had been invited by the government of Kenya to study the situation and suggested better business training for black Kenyans. The topic was indisputably part of the course and thus totally protected by AAUP academic speech guidelines. Stuart was also extremely liberal on all racial issues.

Nevertheless, to condense a long story, an anonymous letter from irritated black students complained of Nagel's "racism" and included the preposterous change of "workplace violence." After a protracted and bungled internal university investigation, two federal trials (I testified at one), he was stripped of his teaching responsibilities and coerced into retirement. Interestingly, having been charged as "racist," his departmental colleagues, save two conservatives, abandoned him. A few years later, partially as a result of this emotionally and financially draining incident ($100,000 out-of-pocket for legal fees), he committed suicide. I can only speculate that he believed that years spent being a "good liberal" (including service in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division) would insulate him from being denounced as a "racist." Nor would he have anticipated that the university would spend the hundreds of thousands in legal fees to punish a famous tenured faculty member who "offended" two students. Nagel's sad saga undoubtedly provided useful lessons to many others. Stupidity can really be dangerous, even in a university. Better keep quiet."

[1] http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/09/since-s...
Exactly.

"Students are asking, "Where's the place that I can drive innovation? Where's the place that I can have the most impact?"

Sounds like those students are just rationalizing. They're going into tech mainly because the tech field has been on fire lately, and the risk of trying out the tech field is low. After all, they're still getting paid pretty well.

Once the tech bubble bursts, they'll be hovering around fields that pay the most.

You are not going to be driving innovation by working for Linkedin, Facebook, and Microsoft.
If you read the original New England Journal of Medicine article on which this is based (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM196804042781419), you will find that is it in fact an anecdote where quite literally a physician ate Chinese food and wrote a letter about it. There is no research, no evidence, no null hypothesis.
Well, since this answer in this thread might interest people other than OP, feel free to make a suggestion where you explain the pros and the cons!
Lists can't hold two of the same object

Yes, they can. Try it! The index method has extra arguments to let you specify a range of indexes in the list to search, so you can find multiple indexes that point to the same object (by picking a range that excludes indexes you've previously found).

Dicts return the key by default

Dicts don't have an index method; dict keys are not ordered.
Off topic, but I'm jealous that you got to live in Sapporo :)
"At least Apple doesn't ship off desktop search results to a third party that we're aware of"

Care to wager what Apple resells your desktop/iphone/iPad search results for? I'm guessing it's on the order of 100 million dollars/year. Certainly more than 10 million dollars.
You only need a tiny dash of MSG. If you got a pound of that stuff, it will last you ages.
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Fantastic show Joshua. Very useful post and I passed it along to some friends, who wanted to get into coding. To state an obvious and pervasive point, on why I would want to hire someone like Josh, is his persistence and hard work, which will be as important an asset as his coding skills (even more so, at current point where his coding skills are accretive).

A point to note - The one-month rails course is now 99$, as opposed to $49 you had paid.
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Yeah, because finger painting is so much better than drawing or painting. For precision, I like a stylus, even on my iPhone.
The dumbest shittiest, most fucking god-awful aspect in all of this is the following...

Linux Mint exists as a distro, conceived as a response to the fact that Ubuntu refused to package proprietary binaries because they were not open source. Since Ubuntu wouldn't bundle popular software packages, such as Flash, Sun/Oracle Java and codecs, such as MP3, Mint stepped up to fill the gap.

One might misinterpret the reason Ubuntu refused to bundle said software as per the normal Copyleft reason behind an aversion to proprietary binaries: It erodes the trust of the end user, and forces them into agreements that might not be in their best interests.

But then.

Then, they fucking include spyware that transmits your local desktop searches to remote third-party private interests.

Seriously. Fuck Mark Shuttleworth.
PC is fundamentally Marxist[1]. The rules of discourse are completely different from the logical/rationalist discourse you may be used to. Who is speaking matters more than what is said, and those not in a protected class aren't allowed to disagree with progressive ideas, however gently, if their disagreement is "hurtful".

[1] http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~kwesthue/regiftedxmas12.html
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We do the same and just got our first request to unsubscribe from our receipt emails since we don't provide an unsubscribe link on it. Waiting for our first person to complain about our reset password email, have a feeling its coming soon.
Really? Please observe the differences between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:L-Glutamate_Structural_Fo... and https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Glutamin... . The only difference is the relocation of hydrogen ions, which is a normal and expected occurrence of all molecules in the presence of other molecules. The equilibrium of these different forms of the same molecule is mediated by pH, among other things. They are in fact the same molecule. The word "acid" only means that it likes to give up a hydrogen ion when given the opportunity.
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I'm taking the cynical route here and think that it's more of a ploy to get even more customers into their stores. What does it take them to keep the lots open/secured? Is that more than the money they would get from those people who will have to get water, food and other supplies in the morning? Most definitely. Would it cost them to kick out people and possibly turn this into a negative media campaign? Absolutely.
thanks for sharing that, and you also confirm my claim that, in the eyes of many, (perhaps Nagel himself) only being a proven "non-racist" would give him the right to have this opinion.
I've worked in Ams for few months, about 15 years ago. And I've seen car-bike accidents there too. Not sure what do you mean by "excuse".

Cars and bikes are not equal, that's right, as well as small sedans and large pickup trucks are not equal, motorcycles and cars are not equal, semis and pickups are not equal, etc, etc, etc. So what? There're rules of the road, California Vehicle Code in my case, and everyone using a public road should obey one, period.
Having a car driver more responsible for safety of those around him doesn't mean that bicyclist can cut in front of this driver while running a red light against the traffic and consider himself to have a right of way just because he's a weakest player on the road.
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Bitcoin price explodes once again – another huge crash coming?
I have made a t-shirt generator (http://sonarcore.com) in a similar attempt at a passive income. It took me much longer than a weekend to build but anyway. I'm very anxious to wait to see how your project goes :)
What, specifically, are you offended by?

Just to be clear, I do not accuse everyone who ever failed this of lacking basic empathy. People make mistakes and that’s just normal. I think in many situations pretty much all people do actually listen and apologise when someone else is offended. Pretty much everyone can recognise the value of doing just that.

Just to be clear, my goal was not to accuse others of lacking basic empathy. I apologise for not making that clear. I should have made it clearer. My goal was to explain the thinking behind what detractors call “political correctness”. It’s about respecting other people, their identity and what they want to be called. And that’s about it.

Of course, that respect is not unlimited. Especially the expression of political views that doesn’t grant others that same kind of respect is typically excluded from that respect. I think that’s perfectly sensible, maybe you disagree. (And just to be clear, this is not a call to limit political speech, at least not from me. This is about using free speech to harshly criticise other free speech.)
I concur. I went to both countries, and I'm a damn foodie. I remember my cousin coming back from NZ 10 years ago saying it was awesome but the food sucked. I went there, and I was like, WHAT THE HELL WAS HE EVEN TALKING ABOUT?!?!

New Zealand has some of the BEST food I've ever had. It was way better than Australia. And, yeah, this is anecdotal and definitely subjective, but once you've tried something like Ferg Burger in Queenstown, you may have to rethink NZ on the culinary map.
I'm assuming that the thought process businesses are going through goes something like:

- We have a complex series of integrations (marketing automation -> CRM system -> app -> transactional e-mail provider) (as one example) where propagation isn't real time and could take a few days (if say, each of these were propagated on a nightly batch).

- Something could go wrong with any of these.

- It's better to err on the side of caution and give a super-conservative estimate and always beat it by a huge margin, than give an accurate estimate and occasionally break it (particularly with something as sensitive as unsubscribes).
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Louisville, KY

Thriving startup and entrepreneurial communities. Variety of neighborhoods to match your personality for a decent price. Enough music, theater, food, etc. offerings to keep things interesting.
I'm waiting for the day that fully autonomous vehicles are legal and affordable. In the meantime, semi-automous vehicles that "... message the highway patrol and other automated or semi-automated vehicles of the location of the debris as warning ..." is an awesome use of a sub-set of the autonomous technology, and a great way to demonstrate such vehicles' capabilities!
This reminds me of an accident in Illinois a decade ago, in which a couple lost all six of their children after running over a mud flap bracket that had fallen off of a semi.

The circumstances sound very much like the case described in the link -- the large piece of debris pierced the gas tank and generated sparks, igniting the vehicle in a matter of seconds.

(link at http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-11-10/news/941110023...)

Who knows exactly how an ICE vehicle would have performed in the current circumstance, or how a Tesla would have performed in the Illinois accident, but it's fair to say that a collision at speed with a large piece of road debris can easily destroy a car and prove fatal to the occupants.
The real question is why they allow the new guy to send a cease-and-desist without any revision whatsoever, and why does (s)he think this is correct.

Just goes to diminish my (already very low) opinion of lawyers
The "let's not argue, so let me argue just a little" is bullshit.

As to your non-argument argument, I have plenty of empathy for the desperate. But I can still condemn them using what power they have to manipulate other desperate people.

Further: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...
You can't. All movement is relative. First, you pick a point of reference and call that not moving, then everything else is moving in reference to that. There is no point in the universe that is not moving independent of choosing a point of reference.

This is actually related to Galileo. What he said is irrelevant. What he did was pick a point of reference without a reason, the sun, and that was of course immediately denied by both the church and all science to this day.

Speaking practically, when calculating satellite orbits one uses a two body universe, Earth and Moon. To include the Sun, other planets, the Milky Way or distant galaxies would be inefficient and not yield a result different enough to bother. So many people legitimately treat the Earth as the center of the universe every day and to do otherwise would be inappropriate.

Science of course, pretty much since G went out on a limb, says that planets don't orbit. All heavenly bodies are affected by all others based on formulas that we've got figured out pretty accurately. But we teach orbits because the additional forces are tiny enough that orbits work very well.