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I travel internationally quite a bit, at least twice a year, and 11 times in one particularly grueling year. I absolutely believe I was targeted as an American. Not because of some petty payback or other nonsense, but because I was obviously a foreigner and the border people in those countries were pretty much just doing their jobs (if a bit overzealous). They are supposed to scrutinize foreigners trying to enter their country.

I'm not really mad about it at all, just pointing out that the U.S. doesn't have a monopoly on harassing travelers and there's really nothing much special about it even if it is unbelievably annoying for the majority of people who get harassed and inconvenienced by it. You literally have to accept that when you go to another country, you are a visitor and not really subject to the kinds of protections that country's citizens (may) have or your own country offers you.
It's cute that you can "like" a selected line, it brings a human touch to the process, but I'd add the requirement that one needs to write what they actually like about it, otherwise this option may add noise and clutter.
No one is forcing you to pay for ads on Google Shopping so you're free to do whatever, but why would you invest a ton of money into quality photography and then cover it up with a watermark?

If you're selling exactly what everyone else is selling the competitive point is customer service and price--I'd worry much more about that than someone copying your image. Such stores generally use the manufacturer's images anyways.
>Also, the selection of packages in Guix is way too small.

This is a 0.5 release because there's a lot left to do. There are tons of packages left to write in order to have a good selection of free software. We would love some help.

>Is Firefox even in? (no. Icecat is, whatever that is. Don't ask if Chrome is in.)

GNU Icecat is a fork of Firefox with the nonfree bits removed. Chrome is proprietary so it will absolutely not be part of the GNU distribution. Chromium has licensing issues (and is a nightmare to package, btw: https://twitter.com/spotrh/status/410479218791706624). I don't know of any fully free distro that packages it so I don't think it will be available in Guix.

However, if you do want to use proprietary software, you could always pull packages from other sources that package such things.
"Ergonomic" has become a great buzzword. These keyboards are not ergonomic. While they protect against ulnar deviation, they do not protect against pronation and dorsiflexion. Note that you WILL still get RSI from using these keyboards.
For the Scott Aaronson parody post, see http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1537
Probably it's easier to just ban all watermarks than police the use of watermarks.
I had almost the opposite experience!

The big difference for me was that my old Amiga 600 has a PCMCIA card slot in it. I bought a modern (and very cheap) SD card reader that fit it and copied the necessary device driver over to the Amiga via a floppy. Thankfully it was already set up to read PC disks.

After that copying files (and the entire HD image) to and from my PC was straightforward - the driver even supports VFAT long filenames. I was impressed with the whole thing.

I had a similar issue with the Amiga's floppy drives, and was surprised to discover that some software called "AMI Alignment System" seemed to get the internal drive working fine again. I'm not sure if it worked some magic or just loosened up the drive a bit; either way it let me read my old disks again. It might be worth a try.
This. Search for a product in google shopping and multiple merchants will be clustered around one product image that is chosen from 1 of the merchants. That's the main reason, but it also avoids the ugliness of an ebay search where seemingly every other merchant has bright/bold text claiming free gifts or other such offers.
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Are you suggesting there is some point? That there's real value, to oneself or to anyone else, in repeatedly dismaying oneself over things which one does not have, and cannot obtain, the power to affect?
Marissa Mayer gets more media coverage than any CEO on the planet now that Steve Jobs is gone. I don't understand why.

She's been CEO of Yahoo! for 18 months, and I've been compelled to visit the site exactly zero times in her tenure.
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How so? If you make money through Google Shopping you should follow the rules. If you don't, well then no loss to you.
Not really fair to compare a company of 12 or so people to one with 5000+
I think that the left/right distinction is silly myself. A typical red vs blue flag waving exercise rather than solving anything.

Both labour and conservatives seem to mix the tenets of the two freely based on whim rather than manifesto.

On one hand we have Big Society and smash socialism.

On the other hand we have Big Society and smash socialism.

Same turds, different coloured glitter.

All parties have sold out to their corporate sponsors and are as bent as anything.
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The next time you travel to the U.S., I'd visit the local consular's office or Embassy and talk to them about the situation and see if you can get it resolved.
Google wants to use them according to the agreement that the merchant signed.
Use Trello to seperate stuff if you're working with people who don't understand it... :)

Then notice that most of the stuff for the finishing product is in the current sprint backlog and explain that ain't a MVP.

Then start to filter stuff away for what isn't "required", the more you filter, the more it will become an MVP.
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So now our legal economic activities depend on the say-so of a shadowy, unelected cabal. I guess we're "destroying the village to save it."
Heists and lost fortunes never stopped people from owning, trading, and speculating in gold.
Yes, there is a massive bias against tech companies not in the Valley. My company, based in Canada, recently finished a $50M Series C road trip that included the Valley and New York, and the contrast between the two could not be any larger.

The Valley VCs and investors were dismissive and incredulous that a Canadian company could achieve the success we had, and that we could find people "good enough" to make systems able to handle the kind of traffic we were running. They genuinely couldn't believe we'd done it outside of California.

New York, however, was much more interested and receptive, and ended up being the best source for our future funding.

This whole business is less about numbers and reality and more about feelings and who you know than anyone wants to admit.
You have piqued my curiosity, your app sounds really interesting! Can you share more details about it? What sources do you aggregate from, how do you filter your stories (manually / statistically)? Actually i've been wanting to build something similar too!
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You've entirely missed the point. News is bad because it focuses on the sensational and misses the actionable. Ie bitcoin articles focus on the speculative aspect and not that it's a more useful, less friction method of payment. Business shows focus on day to day movement instead of broad sweeping trends that are game changers.

The medium is partly the problem.
That would be cruising under escape velocity
You assume, I think without justification, that someone sufficiently ill-equipped that he cannot avoid being suckered into a Ponzi scheme, is nonetheless capable of recognizing the deleterious effect of excessive news consumption. (I've known a few such people myself -- they were decent enough, mostly, but generally encumbered with a regrettable excess of credulity.)
To be clear, since I can't see without being a subscriber, the "audio edition" is different from the "Economist radio" linked on Soundcloud?
If this is not clear example why patents in current form are not working, I don't know what it is. This isn't about how dumb this patent is, it is about how broken the whole sistem is designed.
Which is an excellent opportunity to study the practical application of the valuable old saw: "What can't be cured must be endured."
If you do add this feature, please have a toggle at the top to turn it off.
It can be done, very very difficult though.

There are lots of people with good self control and math skills that you are playing against. Tons of training out there that teach new people the math and the ways to play. Even if you play perfectly, you will have big downswings.

Also since its somewhat difficult for people in the USA to play legally, the quality of competition has gone way up since the early days of online poker.

the twoplustwo forums are a good place to learn more
I see a fundamental issue with her presentation: she shouldn't have called the non-normative approach to modelling "feminist". Although it might help her grabbing a gender-studies grant, it's a loaded word, and it's extremely hard to do proper science with loaded words.

If she's going to study modelling paradigms based on some variants of fuzzy logic, great; but she gives me the impression that she plans to do little real science, possibly because of limited mathematical abilities, and cover it with some sociological and militant mumbo-jumbo that Sokal wouldn't have disowned. "Non-normative" would then be an euphemism for "accessible to cognitively challenged people", which, ironically, would make this work violently misogynistic.
It doesn't have to be most people, with the traffic levels that Google probably deal with, even a small percentage doing that could add up to a lot of 'lost' click revenue.
Perhaps a patent Duergar. Lawful evil dwarves. They are doing things with their patent and following the law like a industrious dwarf, but they are still evil in that they abuse the process.
While you're probably right about that, I always hear this about AppEngine - like there's some silver-bullet of coding discipline that will make it work. I remember when AppEngine did their big revision on their pricing structure - I think it was a "coming out of beta" thing and all these apps were getting stomped with cost problems... the recommendation from Google was to use concurrency constructs that didn't exist in Python, one of the App Engine's blessed languages.

This occurred at a time when they had Guido van freaking Rossum on payroll.

I've never worked with App Engine, but the constant discussion of working around its problems reminds me a lot of MongoDB.
Absolute, and another funny anecdote about it. I was coming back from Asia, and is the custom, was given way too many gifts of things to eat on my way out and ended up with a box of grapes in my carry-on. Arrived in L.A. and the CBP officers asked me if I had any food, fruits veggies etc. I brought out the grapes and they started questioning me. I offered to toss 'em if that made it easier. They thought that was acceptable and right as they were handing them back to me to throw away the officer looked down and saw "product of California" on the box. We all had a good laugh and I ate the rest of the grapes while waiting for my connection back home.
Why not Fourier watermarks?
And the irony of that truth just made my head explode.
The reality of what happens is all around me - I observe it directly. What is on mass media is information that other people want to promote to further their own agenda. Whether it is for ratings, to get us to buy their product or to further political aims it does not matter (we all have our own motivations) but it is clearly NOT reality. The fact that you confuse the two is sad and frightening.
There is no actually secure - that's the problem. The best you can do is secure against specific threat models. Up until recently, most people didn't necessarily view government intrusion as a particularly credible threat, so didn't spend the extra time/effort/money mitigating against it.

One of the best things to come out of all these revelations, in my opinion, is a revised view of what threats we should consider which were previously dismissed as paranoid ramblings.
I've got a fiver that says your "twenty different viewpoints" are just twenty differently phrased reiterations of how Godawful bad it is that the NSA should do what the NSA does. Nothing personal -- but I strongly doubt that the ability to obtain, consider, and benefit by perspectives other than one's own, correlates meaningfully with the frequency with which anyone actually does so.
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Getting into Shengen is where you encounter the friendly border people. Once you're in, you can get around as you please.
Agreed. Additionally there seems to a be a bug:

You can average monthly growth over the last 365 days , but you can't see yearly growth over "all time." Additionally the slider was very clunky feeling (hard to use) on my phone and I suspect all mobile (Android 4.4 w/ Chrome (Nexus 4)).
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> I don't really understand Google's motivation for banning such watermarks.

They want to use the images for other purposes. Shopping merchants are just there to create content for Google's various venues.
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> Financial instruments such as derivatives and hedge funds do very little to put money back into the real economy. If they did, then you would

.. see run-away inflation on store shelves before year's end ;)

Sounds flip but think about it.. are you really suggesting there's not enough money circulating in the real economy? Are you sure that's what you want? The vast expansion of dollars over the last decades was never a real problem because the new cash largely didn't enter the real economy and ended up abroad or in ultimately arbitrary asset valuations, from stocks to houses to bitcoins to xyz.

You want all those dollars to circulate in your local real economy? Think hard and long on this one ;D

> Note that the decoupling of productivity and wages coincides with the advent of microcomputers and industrial robotics, and job losses have been greatest in the industries which those innovations affected. So the story of technology-driven wage stagnation and unemployment is not some speculative story about the future: it's the story of the developed world's economic development over the last 40 years.

You're right but that all that automation could instead very well also have led to real wealth gains for the masses of people, middle class and low income -- if the wealth tech created hadn't been fully gobbled up by Fed, Wall St. and US Govt. That's my own crazy theory.. ;)
Is that the argument? "street sweepers, waitresses, barmen, firemen, nurses, teachers" should be very highly paid?

Someone should invent an economic mechanism that raises salaries when it's hard to find workers. This mechanism should work in some automatic fashion that allocates money to fields that are understaffed.
They could learn a thing or two from Karma Yoga[1] and Ashtanga Yoga[2].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Yoga

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aparigraha
Check this out for an awesome reference (maybe ask them for an API?): http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/
The real reason may be that Google wants to use the images itself. It sure would make things easy if they could force their merchants to provide definitive and reusable images for all products ever, particularly to compete with Amazon.
Whilst I don't agree 100%, I don't disagree strongly enough to make an argument of it. :-)
I am not sure to agree with the parent post, but I guess the point he/she tries to make is that the merchant will spend the time/money to have a product image, but this image will be reused for every other merchants selling the same product. It creates a situation where no merchant has an incentive to invest in having original or specific product images, as it won't make any difference relative to the competition, and if a product has a shitty image, tough luck.

The basic stance would be "that's Google's policy, deal with it", and I undestand it. At the same time, there are so many product with really awful images (for a coat, there would be no view of the inner fabric for instance). If a merchant would take the time to take relevant pictures of the right functionnalities of a product, I'd also understand wanting clients to know they're the one who cared about it. With google shopping's system, the product maker has the burden of providing decent images of it's product, or no one will care to make something better.
but... lasers? ;)
This might seem like a strange response, but I think it depends almost entirely on what kind of person the client is. Are they the type to admit their own failings? Or are they the type who thinks everyone else is an idiot? The former will accept the failure of the app for one of the many legitimate reasons. The latter will blame YOU when they don't get rich instantly. Be careful.
I honestly doubt that much of this is going into buying and holding bitcoins. Institutional investors are already trading big numbers of bitcoins via Second Market. They don't use regular exchanges and certainly wouldn't need to go through the 'false investment' route.

I do however think a large part of this would go towards Coinbase improving its bitcoin stash. They've been running out of stock every single week.
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So why doesn't this news produce a spike in the price?
The most important thing you need to consider in my opinion, is first "what am I looking for". Data analysis is two things, working with data and getting insights from that data.
For the first thing, you can find many books online, just youtube "data mining" "data analysis" and stuff like that. It's merely a technical issue, and it can be learned fast. For that, you can begin here http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/ if you want more than just excel.
Second, is how to understand and interprete these results, this is more complex and yet easier. Begin by getting some dataset, clearly setting a goal and test it by running some algorithms or methods on this data. That's the basical workflow. Sometimes you'll happen to discover patterns, but you have to observe and be patient. And remember, without human insight, data is just a bunch of numbers..
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Heh. Posts like that make me want to pull a Four Yorkshiremen.

"Sixteen megabytes? Luxury."
Good point.

We have considered this, but after some UX testing we have decided that we want to make "liking" to be as easy as possible.

That way we encourage using "likes" to make the whole code review experience more positive.

BTW It is still possible to add comment after "liking" piece of code.
Like Heroku failed: https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/4/3/routing_and_web_pe...
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There are two things, one is the definition of a probability and the other is unitarity. Unitarity is observable, that is closely connected to the information content of the system, and if memory serves to the evolution of the normalization factor of the wave function. So if unitarity is 1, then the interpretation of quantum field theories as probability distributions is straight forward. If it is not 1, then the theories look strange.
Rijksmuseum API
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Cool. Didn't know that was universal terminology.
Bracket/brace are fine if you use your little finger properly. Really it's a better position than "standard" keyboards since you only have to reach down vertically instead of having to move laterally as well which reduces accuracy.

Using a Kinesis is possibly the best way to unlearn all your bad typing habits. :)

/Kinesis user for 12 years
You are correct that a 51% attack depends on hashing. Other attacks, Sybil, etc. depend on gaining network access to the (a) real bitcoin node with the latest blocks -- more nodes, I guess, helps prevent people from being unable to find the true network. Hence jgarzik's push to put bitcoin nodes into space to beam the latest blocks to earth, à la GPS.
I had one mission and that was to clone the hard drive so that I could get all the stuff off of it before time had its way with the bits

Pff, hard drive? In my day, everything we ever coded was stored on cassette tapes. We never needed the computer itself to get them back, just a tape player, special software [1], and the good fortune that solar flares hadn't eaten all the bits yet.

[1] http://pokeystuff.com/cs1er/
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Anecdotally, some music helps me to concentrate. Some music helps me to concentrate on programming; other music helps me to concentrate on reading. Some music doesn't help me to concentrate at all (except for on the music itself).

Based purely on my own personal experience, I would not expect any arbitrary music to help someone with any arbitrary cognitive tasks, but I'm not convinced that, at least for some people, there doesn't exist some music that can help them with some cognitive tasks. Admittedly, that's more ambiguous and open-ended than this present study.

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Maybe Dobelli's ghost writer messed up.
Matrices are read-only. The set of matrices is updated once a day to include the latest data.

The data format is a collection of pre-aggregated row and column vectors, encoded with variable length integers and run-length encoding. I should give a separate presentation about this.
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In my previous job, I made the mistake of joining an early stage startup as a full time employee with almost the exact situation (experienced founder with "if I build it, they will come" syndrome).

My advice is to pass on the opportunity from the technical implementation side and pitch some business consulting instead for a reduced or nonexistent fee. Then you can accomplish the following:

1) Help him out and not leave him completely hanging.

2) Remain engaged in case his business does take off and you gain enough confidence to take on some technical work.

3) Pass along the work to some contacts who might enjoy the technical work more than you would.
Thanks for the feedback. I've added a link to the rawgithub as suggested by zpao.
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News is bad because it focuses on the sensational and misses the actionable.

I think you've missed the point of my comment, which is that I actively disregard sources that have that defect, and look for sources that tell me about verified, actionable information. (I have been wondering about the pattern of upvotes and downvotes on my comment, and if this is what people think I am saying, that I like the sensational, they are badly misreading my comment.)
Most major news sources are biased that the only way to get anything close to a healthy dose is (a) to turn the volume down and (b) turn the gain up.

Increase the number of sources, believe fewer of them, and use critical thinking. But only pay attention to things you care about.

I may be outraged with recent conflicts between tech carpetbaggers and SF residents, but I try not to invest any energy in it, because I've got my own local gentrification vs. crime issues and I only have so much bandwidth.
I had a similar thing happen to me back in high school, where my personal blog I was keeping had repercussions with some of the student populace. Pretty quickly after, I set the whole thing to private and stopped updating. I've run several blogs after that, but none of them where public and containing personal information.