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His name is probably not really "Michael" ...
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We are talking about people who have read at least one book in the last year.

40% - That's exclusively print books.

58% of them own an e-book reader, that's including the iPad.

The charts are a bit hard to read but..

Now, only about 5% bought only e-books. This of course doesn't include borrowed books, library books, etc. MUCH much more people haven't purchased either print or e-books than have purchased only e-books! I hate to generalize but some people, many in the HN crowd, seem to think libraries are "beneath" them or "outdated" but the data suggest otherwise. Paper books are not DRMed after all.

About 38% of people bought only print books. A mix between print and e-books wins out.

Here's the important stat. About 50% said they like print books and e-books. Only 10% said they like e-books only. A FULL 90% OF READERS STILL LIKE PRINT BOOKS!!!!

It's incredibly naive to say they have been replaced. Its beyond obvious anyway, just take a commercial flight and observe people around you reading print books.
Sennheiser's HD25-1? You can browse reviews at headphonereviews.org .
There are actual undo in Gmail as well, for example when applying a label to a message.

Since send is making the change in an external system it has to be simulated, but that doesn't change the point of the post.
Given that you're a doctor, I think the odds are on the order of around 1/3000 of winning the Nobel for medicine. So maybe that statistic doesn't say much for two-time winners!
On my new notebook I have some more services and drivers from Intel (even firefox add in!) that allow "remote management" and "remote authorization" they are potentially even more worying. The hardware and drivers are supposed to allow Intel to manage my notebook?

The notebook is made by Acer. If any company which has own drivers can have remote access or have their hardware and/or drivers phone home with the data from us, we're really in trouble.

Yesterday we've found that LG TV sets push to some servers all the filenames on the local USB seen by the set. The comming years are going to be hard.
This sort of thing does nothing to undermine the very real criticisms raised by literary theory. I understand that it's confusing and frustrating for people not versed in the theory (much like the code made to process the texts would be to somebody who does not know how to program), but the naive turn to "objectivity" in this case isn't just a step back from today's theory- it's a step back from New Criticism, which peaked in the mid-20th century.

That's not to say that NLP and things like this aren't vitally important. It can be convincingly argued that they're more productive and important in terms of immediate social good. However, I'm pretty sure we already have a field (besides computer science) that does this sort of work: it's called forensic science.
> .cfm

Looks like coldfusion to me, which has had a host of vulnerabilities pop-up in the past couple years. Wouldn't be surprised if that was an easy entry point.
My post was not intended to sidestep the parent's question by suggesting some random permutation of its elements, with the goal of titillating programmer-types the world over.

My post addressed the fact that the parent's question was flawed from the start. I do think it is worthwhile to try to understand how our racial attitudes affect ourselves and others. However, while the parent's post appeared to do just that, it was actually set up to trigger false positives and more superficial discussion of the type society has been holding for too long.

So, I am not altogether certain whether you and I agree or disagree.
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I don't fully understand the use case. What would I review as a group? What specific situations are your alpha users using this for?
Original: http://habrahabr.ru/post/202860/
Or medical imaging devices.
if English majors won't do it -- I will. My guess is that machine learning can approximate and formalize some of their delicate and thoughtful intuitions.

From what I have browsed in bookstores, graduate level English and Sociology can resemble data structures in computer science textbooks
Hey I love your auto-complete !
Yes. It's the difference between

"It's an 8 inch chef's knife in a stain-resistant steel"

and

"It's an 8 inch gyuto-style chef's knife, which is thinner and lighter than the German style knives, but tempered to a higher hardness. This one is hardened to RC-57 (soft for the genre), ground from a hot-forged steel with 1.03%, carbon, 13.06% chromium, 0.37% nickel, and 0.28% nicklel, heated to 1000 degrees to promote austenization, and then oil quenched to form a highly martensitic steel, with moderate levels of pearlite and low levels of cementite. The temperature is then raised to 230 degrees and held until the stress from the quench is relieved. The chromium compounds are relatively coarse, similar to A-1, with a similar effect on the edge. The edge is then wet ground.... etc, etc, etc."

A metallurgist or good blacksmith would be able to write hundreds more pages about a kitchen knife and the processes involved in it's creation.

[Note, I am not a metallurgist. The description, I think, is mostly right, although I may have some of the phase transitions and temperatures wrong. Corrections are welcome.]
It's a typo. The complete list linked to at the end has it as "mockito-all"
What does the number 101 refer to? It doesn't seem to be a version number. The diagram nicely expands ELF to Executable and Linkable Format but no explanation of the number.
Sadly this post isn't really about teaching students (from university) anything on literature. If it were so, they would have to look at very different theories/schools of study of literature.

There are quite a lot of schools/theories that could greatly benefit from a technical supported empirical method.

For example inter-textuality[1], the school that practically says every text has links to other texts, quotes, parts that are plagiarism, different stances on the shared topics or are just in the same genre.

So yeah, Detecting hidden "links" between texts could give you interesting insights, or might tell you, that there could be "hidden" texts, still unknown to us, as they were lost.

Reading (and writing my final thesis on on of his books) a lot from Umberto Eco showed me, what it means, that literary works are nodes in a network. Reading "The Name of the Rose" (and not just watching the movie) really drove home this point.

Especially, if you know a little bit about history or the basic structure of the genre "detective stories" ;-)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsests:_Literature_in_the... (the German version is much more elaborate)
Fair points!

His opinion of it was that the voice navigation is far more useful than the "swipe your hand like an idiot" bits.
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We will be adding stream datasources (which allow pulling from 3rd party jsonp feeds) for bokeh 0.4. We expect to release bokeh 0.4 in early 2014.

It is incredibly easy to use bokeh from python. The burtin example in the gallery reads from CSV http://bokeh.pydata.org/plot_gallery/burtin_example.html . Scroll down a bit, and you can see the code.

I am a bokeh dev at Continuum Analytics.
Got it! We're designing it so your collaborators don't have to sign up, to minimize friction for them, and should be able to address your other needs as well. Will follow up with you separately.
I was going by this, http://www.paulirish.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/gplus-boxsi..., which I believe doesn't include textarea as one of the elements involved.
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Collaboration coding in the browser is SERIOUSLY cool!
2nd the book recommendation.

It's relatively up to date in regards to technique and UML use but doesn't overpower the reader with too much.

Written to a decent level (it's not a Knuth book).

One main critique, it covers a lot of common issues but no complex corner cases, e.g. what to do about network architectures i.e. CORBA.

Should be required reading at the University level.
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Great link. The money quote is probably

>Things to avoid
In general it's best to avoid products made by Skullcandy, Bose, Beats, or Monster unless otherwise specified in this thread. These companies spend a lot of money on advertising and looks rather than quality. That isn't to say these companies haven't put out headphones worth buying, the Monster Turbine Coppers are actually fantastic IEMs, it's just that a lot of the time you're paying a premium for the name.

While surfing the previous amazon link I actually fell in love with the Sennheiser HD800 - though I'm pretty certain my employer won't shell out 1500$ for those...
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chromium 31 here

> The site's security certificate is not trusted!
I could see it being worth using if it was just a q&a app but I don't want another social network to care for.
But you can test what the gas pedal does pretty easily. I think parent's point was that without peer review source code audit, we just have to take it on trust.
IMHO... You can't get a crew of experienced software engineers without starting with hordes of novices. It's just not a field where you can say, "Pass the entrance exam, get some mentoring, and come back in 6 years with experience." It's a field that you need to explore and find if you have the passion. (And I hate the word passion)

So it might take 20 novices coming out of these feeders to find 10 who become decent junior programmers, to get 5 who stick it out to become decent intermediate programmers, to get 1 who becomes a rock star.

But is this so bad? What's the downside? Everyone who falls off along the way becomes someone with tools to make themselves more productive in whatever they do in life.

And what's the alternative?
Unless you are talking about metaphysics/teleology, the only difference is levels of description. What software does is what software does.

The difference between a binary and source code is just level of description. A binary is obviously very hard to understand, but it is just instructions to the computer, and those instructions can be interpreted by following them logically according to the hardware documentation. This is true all the way down to the OS.

Of course, you have to trust that the hardware does what it says it does... I guess you could always break out the oscilloscope...
It doesn't have to be "criminal" on the part of the law makers/enforcers to be a political issue - your bar is too high there. cf "institutionally racist"[1].

On the point of who bans you from voting, I think that's hardly the point - the types of crimes that are common in these communities are felonies.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_(term)
Hi,

pre-Schengen really means prior to 1995 because that's when the border controls between Schengen members were relaxed. The train trip I mentioned above happened in May 1995 but even though country A and country B were Schengen members border controls still existed between them. I don't know why that was still the case.

I believe you 100% that as a Belgian you have never been bothered by border controls. I also know that to travel to most countries you don't even need a visa. I don't know if you know what a visa is, but believe me, if you need one, it is very hard to get.

I didn't even mention how many troubles I had to get the visas for my trips since the subject of the thread is border controls. I was giving my and my friends experience as non-Belgian, non-British, non-Schengen member while traveling through Europe and then US. All I said is true and I could add plenty more. I have traveled many times and almost every time I traveled to Europe or within European countries I had humiliating experiences. Things have improved a lot now, but still there can be issues. I was transiting through Rome 5 years ago and there were so many people in line that I had to wait 1 hour to reach the border controls. Half of that waiting was outside! Yes the line extended outside the building. It was 9AM but it was already very hot. If you were there you probably wouldn't have noticed since there was a separate entrance for EU-member citizens where there was no line at all.

You should follow your childhood dreams and visit US. Do not believe everything you read. The american people are usually very nice and that includes most of the border control agents. Yes, some border control agents can be very cranky but I would be too after a long day talking to a lot of people who already believe I am their adversary and give me wisecrack answers. I am willing to bet that you wouldn't have any problem with any of them though.
JSFiddle has had this for a while.
Well for me actually having studied this, theories like Structualism, Russian Formalism or Semeiotics actually are better suited for literature, then theories not so rooted in "objectivity".

So no, not a step back (imho) - but could provide some good takes on literature with interesting tools.
I also have a pair of QC15. It is amazing, but for some reason, I cannot use it while I am wearing glass. so most of time, I work without wearing glass (Although it is hard for me to see my code clearly).
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It's certainly a fun experiment, and could be a great way to introduce yourself to 91 potential long-term clients.

However, it's still too early to call it "hourly rate hacking" as the original blog post does.

There's no evidence that the method will work after the rate increases above the standard market rates. A few hourly slots per day, plus travel is very inefficient use of his time. He seems to be a competent developer with good business & design skills, and could probably book projects at $100-200/hour for full weeks at a time, instead of a few hours now and then for an average of $45.
This is really great. Infact you gave it edge over jsfiddle by providing collaborate, auto-complete and compile-as-you-type features.

There are times when I quickly want to test some idea with strings, async, linq etc. without firing full fledged VS IDE. You did an excellent job. Cheers!
As a relative "novice" compared to the author, I welcome the suggestion that more formalized mentorship and "sign-off" by someone with experience would improve programming. Sorry I can't do your apprenticeship program. I see what you did there. Up scope! http://www.8thlight.com/apprenticeship

The problem is that this cannot be implemented at scale, and certainly will not respond to demand. One may not have the opportunity to find in person mentors, but instead have the internet and a problem to solve. You have to navigate through on your own to find the people that do it right, and you may latch on to the wrong people!

On the hiring side - for critical systems with a profit incentive and high potential, (or for a company with a unique mission that entices developers) you can afford to find and hire the bard. For other tasks, something is better than nothing so you get mediocre code. (there is still a HUGE market out there for that small something for small to medium businesses).

For outlying scenarios where markets have become imbalanced by regulation or law (such as government contracting) you get incentives to put butts in seats regardless of experience as long as they meet the criteria. (Java cert = signed pilot's card right?)

Certification is hard to get right, as is mastery. I applaud you for creating an environment to provide guidance and make mistakes and would welcome a larger scale effort to do so.
i have these, and they're great (sound good and have reasonable isolation; they're also pretty much indestructible, and reasonably efficient, so perfect for travelling) BUT they're not active noise cancelling. if you care more about peace than music quality you probably want something active (and if you care more about music than peace you may want something open - these are a compromise, which is a good thing when that's what you want, but be aware of that).

tl;dr - if you're willing to give up some isolation (compared to active) for better music, these sound good, last forever, and won't bother coworkers.
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Looks good. no love for python though ?
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I have a bunch of expensive headphones (Bose QC2, multiple inner ear), and the best solution I've found costs $28 and allows me to listen to music comfortably on a Mac at 0.5 tick!

I use a pair of earphones[0] covered by industrial ear muffs[1]. For comfort reasons, it's important that the earphones are not pressured by the surrounding ear muffs. I haven't found any inner ear headphones that meet this constraint. Sometimes I'll swap out the earphones for ear plugs for double ear protection / white noise.

I'm not a fan of open office plans, but this combo lets me tune out everything. Coworkers have gotten used to pinging me or waving to get my attention.

Edit: Drowning out distractions by turning up the volume leads to hearing damage. A better alternative is to eliminate ever hearing external noises. However to prevent incoming noise, ear muffs create a tight seal around your ears. My wife is uncomfortable with the pressure for extended periods of time. I wear them hours daily, and especially love them for sleeping on planes.

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JBuds J2 non-affiliate link:

http://www.amazon.com/Premium-Noise-Isolating-Earbuds-Headph...

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3M Pelter H10A Optime 105 non-affiliate link:

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But for .NET, that's what makes it neater. JSFiddle collab has been helpful, now we have it in .NET too :D
On an other topic, Why do websites insist on breaking links ? Too many have 'false link' : if you click on it, it opens ; but if you want to open it in a new tab, guess what ? It does nothing, or opens in the same window.

Another browsing experience ruined.

Think about that when you cross this problem.
What about web.go? I never tried it but it seemed promising.
I use Sennheiser HD25s - not noise cancelling, but if I have music on I can hear absolutely nothing going on around me.

It's actually a little bit spooky (and often makes me jump) if I'm working and someone comes into the room behind me then comes into my field of vision, or someone taps me on the shoulder...
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I usually use PowerShell for fiddling which is often nice enough for trying out things with the BCL.
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Press the G key while you're on the website and you'll see their layout grid.

EDIT: it's this: https://github.com/dotjay/hashgrid
Even if meta data could be useful for stopping murders and rape, it is really worth providing the police and other law enforcement agencies this kind of power over the populace to make this end? Especially, when the number of cases it could stop would likely be small? I don't know about you, but outside of major destructive threats like terrorism, I don't really want the NSA involved.
One thing I'd like to see in Go is a way to sanitise HTML based on a whitelist.

This is to accompany blackfriday (Markdown) and text/template (templating).

Markdown permits HTML, and this allows some scope for nasty stuff to get in, or for bugs that may exist in blackfriday to be exploited leading to HTML that could be the source of a XSS attack.

We're currently running our user generated content through this: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/cleanse and more specifically this: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/cleanse/blob/master/src/main...

Which is a set of rules for OWASPs HTML sanitizer: https://code.google.com/p/owasp-java-html-sanitizer/

This works extremely well, except for the fact that it means in our Go code we're calling out to a process and asking for a Java process to be kicked up for each request.

If no-one beats us to it we'll be porting that to Go... but for us it remains a "When we need to" from a scaling or performance perspective.

Still... we'd love to see group work on a whitelist based sanitiser that we can contribute to rather than us go and write our own at some indeterminate point in the future.
Often times, the hack is through a web front-end. Back-end systems (such as DBs) are heavily firewalled, logged, monitored, etc. and are generally very well protected. Systems guys (OS and DB) know security pretty well and have been doing it for a long time now.

Much of the web software that powers the front-end is complex (PHP, Java, .Net, JS, CSS, SQL, includes, 3rd-party libraries from everywhere, etc). That complexity has a broad attack surface that is difficult and time consuming to test. And many devs are late to the security party (unless we're talking OpenBSD developers).

Management wants to push out new features by X date. Devs have very little time to test and are behind on security anyway. Hackers have all the time in the world to poke at the web front-end and test every possible combination of things until they finally get in.

In a nut-shell, that's the problem as I've seen it.
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... he was 14.
This article seems to be pushing Martini, which at first glance looks interesting (though it doesn't appear to have been mentioned on the mailing list even once, so there may be some boosting involved).

There is Revel, but it seems to be getting a bad rap ("non-idiomatic" label used as a stick).
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> Is this a lame bug?

Yes, if reliability and security is your goal. But I don't think it is, so no.
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I've heard several non-native English speakers use that phrase. It's off-putting, but my experience is that it is not indicative of the speaker's technical knowledge.
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Gottschall believes that these problems (the humanities’ increasing irrelevance, decreasing popularity, and the subjects' inability to ever answer questions conclusively) are not only connected, but can be solved by implementing the kind of data mining tools and computational textual analysis carried out by the likes of Patrick Juola.

I can't see this saving the humanities. I see it further burying the humanities. The humanities live by asking deep fundamental questions about, well, being human. Being upstaged by a computer hurts them more than helps.

I'm a big believer in the power of algos like the ones discussed. I'm also a big believer that humanities are one of the few fields that can retain value in a post-MOOC world. (You can learn accounting and programming online. Small group discussions are best for Shakespeare.) But I think that algorithms in literature will hurt the field.
What about the web and client-side JS?

From what I understand the list of JavaScript libraries is for node.js as it doesn't even include jQuery.
I'm getting the regular home page now - I assume ?downtime was affixed to the URL by the submitter in order to post it, or is there supposed to be a downtime message?

Edit: Like I wrote, I'm having no problem accessing the site presently, but yesterday it was certainly hard.