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I'll pass this on to the CloudFront team. CloudFront distributions are free, so would it be possible to use a different distribution for each hostname? Or is this more of a wildcard set up?
Well yes it is easily explained by some love for java, why would that be so unlikely?

Computer Science is a diverse field, and not every CS professor considers mutable global variable an evil to be purged. (In fact, the majority of CS professors can't be bothered to think about such matter. They're busy tuning their neural networks, photorealistic simulation of snowflakes, improvements to TCP or whatever their particular research interest is. The answer to "Java or Haskell?" for them is "whatever that suits my need.")
It gets queasy because its brains talking about brains, but analogies not involving the thinker thinking about itself never seem to cause any queasiness when an aggregate property establishes itself.

So where is the strength of an iron I-beam? You can't cut it up and squeeze "strength juice" out of it. There's no little piece you can look at that says, "hey, I'm Euler's column law!". No individual atom decided, hey, I'm an I-beam now. But if you pile up an enormous number of iron (and other) atoms in the shape of an I-beam it inevitably behaves like a beam (or column) and suddenly "knows" its supposed to have angular momentum and collapse at a certain compression force and such. There's no particular magic to it, it just naturally happens to enormous numbers of iron atoms in a small place.

About the same with stellar formation. There's no "essence of star" and no individual hydrogen atom decided to create a star. Just pile up a certain ridiculous number of hydrogen atoms and good luck not having it turn into a star. And not enough atoms, well no way it'll ignite, at least not naturally. It can kinda smolder at most.

There are other analogies with grains of sand and landslides, water crystals and avalanches, etc.

Any time you pile up a certain number of neurons at a certain complexity you get consciousness. We've run a couple billion experiments for quite a few centuries and every time you do it, aside from physical brain damage, it works.

Now stuff like Jaynes "Origin of the bicameral mind" is a little controversial, but, perhaps, a great big pile of neurons can boot up in a peculiar mode, sort of.

The specific hack of where it came from is only our species was able to add substantial amounts of fish to the diet, and fish oils and proteins seem to allow serious spectacular brain development in a positive feedback cycle until you get consciousness, then you overfish your ocean till all the fish die, then ... we're about to find out what comes after that.
Would also love to help out if you're interested in exploring it to sell anything thought. If questions, just hit me up !
That depends what you mean by "practical terms." It's a bit hyperbolic and long-winded, but this piece describes the difference:

http://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler
Awesome! That goes really well with the upcoming course on Controlling Mobile Robots I was gonna take https://www.coursera.org/course/conrob
However, many (nontechnical) users just want software that's free (as in beer) and works well. Therefore, what's best for developers (i.e. what attracts developers) is also seen as good for these users.
Thanks! It's actually Israeli license plates I'm working on right now (because that's the video data set that I got for training so far, though this project is going to be deployed mostly around Europe) - only digits, a standard xx-xxx-xx template, nice standard retro-reflective black-on-yellow - supposed to be the easiest possible case. And it is, for humans. But all the commercial OCRs I managed to find have abysmal performance.

When I get some breathing time, I'm going to try the latest Tesseract again (when I last tried, it was v2, and its performance wasn't good).
>The main reason I am writing this comment is that I believe the way to progress is forward not backwards.

I couldn't disagree more, forward only implies new, which isn't necessarily better.

The old paradigm of teaching, I find, was built on a lack of rules; evolving naturally from the one-on-one home upbringing, to apprenticeships and into the modern classroom. (Feel free to add jumps.)

Obviously it had flaws, as with a despotic ruler the students were at the mercy if his/her whims, but from what we're seeing today that hasn't been mitigated in the least. Despite serious efforts (teacher evaluations, PISA testing, etc.)

Instead, because teachers are being scrutinized down to the atom and the school system is monopolizing education, we have children who aren't taught to respect their teachers, and parents who aren't taking appropriate action to it because teaching is being brought out of their area of responsibility.

How can we hope to best human nature at teaching when human nature is something we've barely scratched the surface of? Is it really right to bet our children's future on a live experiment in human understanding? Yes, of course we have to attempt to improve, and obviously there is and always has been room for improvement, but the teachers weren't the enemy in that regard. They were generally doing what they could every day to make kids learn.

Now, instead of teachers, we have politicians trying to secure the upcoming election by ripping apart the status quo so they are able to use fancy sentences and faulty statistics in the media.
That's one of their selling points.

I started up a droplet last month because I needed the better deal on RAM. I've been charged only ~8$ for December.
In the long run, I don't think so. You could argue change is happening much faster today, and people need to adapt to new jobs and skills faster, but on the other hand, there are also many more opportunities to choose from these days.
Sounds more philosophical rather than being quantum physics.
With lots and lots of big words.

Maybe at one point quantum physics becomes philosophy.

Also,
Apart from explaining the quantum states Schrödinger's cat has always felt to be more of a philosophical thought experiment rather than being mathematical or quantum one.
Dr. Pychyl advises procrastinators to "just get started, and make the threshold for getting started quite low."

That's like telling a depressed person to just feel better. I've tried a lot of things to help with procrastination but very little works, this is just another thing to try that maybe will or won't work.

Also, personally, I've never had the "suffering" from failing when I put things off, so it's hard to believe that this method would work for me :(
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I recommend reading the article before commenting. It is clearly a joke app--the sample text leaves no doubt about that.
Pure theoretical computer science is just a weird offshoot of discrete mathematics, mostly, right?

The central concession of Computer Science as correctly taught is that a purely theoretical approach will not enable you to do anything of use--while you're still finishing your existence proof, some asshole with Ruby and AWS has already gotten it working "good enough" to get funding and make people happy through trial and error.

Software Engineering is too limited a discipline itself, because it is mostly project management, architecture, and planning--mostly vocational skills learned through (hard-earned) experience.

Computer Engineering is too focused on electrical engineering problems: you can guarantee how data is transferred between registers and how fast signals fan out and whatnot, but what the data is or how it is being transformed matters not.

Computer Science as taught combines both of these things in hopes of producing students that can reason about what they're doing (like mathematicians) and plan projects to execute on that (like software engineers) and to appreciate when actual hardware will choke on it (like computer engineers).

It's a blended subject for a bloody good reason.
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This TED talk about quadcopters is also worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ
gottfiend leibniz...

That's an interesting misspelling of "Gottfried". A universal genius, indeed.
Why does it have to be either/or? Is it really that hard for an employer to offer both?

If each team (of 7-10 people) has a scrum room/war room, plus some number of cubes (4-5) available on an as-needed basis, wouldn't that meet the needs of employee happiness, collaboration, etc?

Need to make a call? Go to a cube.
Deadline to meet? Go to a cube.
Mid-project, lots of design/analysis occurring? Stay in the open room.

Seems like a no-brainer?
Thanks for the pandoc link, I'll try that tonight. My ipython does already have notebook, numpy, matplotlib, and more set-up; I didn't realize I was missing anything till I tried nbconvert.

But I've just recently installed all this, and have only kicked it around a little. Mostly, I wanted plotting.
The ultimate of meditation is to stay in here-now, be present in a present. So technically and logically speaking, you don't need a memory in such state.
I've been known to wear headphones even when I don't have music playing. It looks kind of silly, though.
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As a game developer, you're hurting our entire industry by shutting us out of using your software. And in the end, we'll find a way, with or without you. We'd rather stand with you, but we can't go near GPL'd code.

You know CodeCombat recently open sourced their game? They're basically the first gamedev company in the history of gamedev to do that -- a non-indie company who open sourced their current-gen tech. It's a good idea, and I hope more companies follow. So, times are changing, but in the meantime your strict adherence to "GPL license == good guys; MIT license == bad guys" is detrimental to pretty much an entire community of programmers. (Programmers with zero options; they're not going to ragequit the gamedev industry just because engines are closed source.)
Still, a snowflake is not a state of matter. You cannot say "Oh if we increase the pressure it will enter phase X and thus the snowflake state of matter". It is built upon a state of matter (crystaline solid), no?
This is extremely important. Incompetent + strict leads to an angry and defensive teacher who loses the respect of the class.
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I propose they rename it to Bridge Burner ... Much more appropriate given the after effects :p
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Can someone explain why this isn't just a continuous dial ?

That is, why are there discreet "steps" in monitor scaling for these elements that you are talking about ? I would think that if I have 157 PPI or 220 PPI or 400 PPI that I would just adjust the dial to fit the element size I want.

What's up ?
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Just make sure you also put the ios app up too soon.
Yet, as it is five years later, the latter has considerably better hardware.
> How many of you would like to see CS 101 classes be
> dominated by memorization of semicolon placement in C++?

Do they memorize semicolon placement or something more fundamental? Many speaking about rote learning forget that you must learn the fundamentals.
thanks for the suggestion!! yes personalization is very important. before that I wanted to create front page that shows few videos picked from various services on same page (based on some kind of ranking).
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It's effective at picking up an assault charge. A friend of mine still in the industry lost her lens to an aggressive OWS protester and said protester was immediately arrested and charged. People do crazy shit to photogs, and that you see paparazzi being quick to press assault charges is just the TV news situation magnified a lot.

If you touch a photog or their camera, you're in for bad news. Don't forget they have it on tape...
> If you don't like a Supreme Court ruling you can only petition the court to reverse itself or amend the Constitution.

Or just ignore it. While I can't recall an example of this by the executive branch at the Supreme Court level, its certainly happened with lower federal court orders (e.g., the Lincoln administration's first set of suspensions of habeas corpus and the rulings invalidating them), and there is nothing magical about the Supreme Court that makes it any less possible for their decisions.
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On a personal level, the "Trap" in the title immediately spoke to me.

The increased stress and decreased effectiveness can turn into a downward spiral.

You owe it to yourself to get out, before the damage accumulates and accelerates.

Find somewhere better. Make and leave to your competition the "open office". Turn a better workspace into a competitive advantage. "Open space" proponents deserve to suffer the consequences of said promotion.

And if an "open space" proponent seeks to joint your organization, mount a critical opposition. If they are taken on nonetheless or are already present, and they demonstrate significant influence on this topic, it may well be time to start looking to moving on. [1]

This all may sound terribly prescriptive and perhaps an over-reaction. But, again personally, I observed first-hand a large development shop within a corporation moved from offices to a horrible version of open space. Effectiveness and job satisfaction suffered significantly while stress levels rose in similar degree.

Attitudes went from "I'm lucky to work here" to "I'm looking for an exit." (In daydreams, certainly; actual action varied, but several top-flight people were gone within a year or two, and many long-term, heavily invested employees seemed to convey an increasing sense of feeling trapped).

----

[1] I hold this attitude also towards erstwhile proponents. Some people push whatever is the current trend in management. I'm decreasingly willing to forgive them for the damage they cause along the way, especially when it is done without any critical thinking and real care and attention on their part.
They are different even then. Earnings relate to poverty via the prices of goods. I'm don't know much about economy but after searching in wikipedia I think the term is called "purchasing power parity".
Indeed. And as a general rule, I would personally not trust these kinds of intuitions and insights - the overall introspection framework/method is, in my opinion, not a very much reliable tool. (People who have been practicing meditation for a number of years would maybe not like to call that 'intuition' (but rather accumulated experience from a careful and long thinking process, etc.), but the point still stands, I think.)

To borrow Metzinger[1] et al.'s terminology, this internal model of what consciousness is may not be very transparent to us (much in the same way why we don't have good intuitions why/how it is that we have notions about solidity and classical (in one or other sense) mechanics (it is useful to have an image of a solid tree/obstacle when running through a forest while being chased by a tiger, and all that.) We may have some intuitions, but those intuitions may turn out to be wrong.)

[1]: A very interesting book I'm yet to read: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/being-no-one
So it's a tautology? Not useful.
It sounds like this guy tried to program in java using Golang. This sort of thing usually fails.
Glass walls don't provide any feeling of privacy, which is one of the complaints employees typically have about open floor plans.

If shared offices are used, I think they should have opaque walls and everyone should be able to position themselves such that they have a wall at their back. This leads to a feeling of privacy. And it actually encourages discussion among those sharing an office, as opposed to the more typical layout of N people staring at the walls with their backs to each other.
I know that -- that's why I said "selling non-GPLv3 access". The point is that the LT devs can do something with your contributions (sell them under non-GPLv3 for money as part of a non-GPLv3 Light Table) that you can't, and it's reasonable that some would find this distasteful.
Now the question is, do meditators just hallucinate a feeling that gets processed into a memory of having achieved such a state?
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Do you consider advertising to be work? As in, people who work for Pepsi or Coke, convincing consumers to purchase their brand of sugary water over their competitors'. Is that producing wealth? Is society as a whole enjoying a higher level of wealth as a result of their work?

Or would our collective wealth (more broadly defined) be higher if those same people were creating works of art with their skills?
If you generate a lot of goroutines, the overhead for maintaining and scheduling them is fairly significant, particularly when compared to constructs like Python generators.

I've demonstrated this myself by comparing the goroutines example prime number generator to a similar version written using Python generators.

The python generator code was faster, but there was a hard limit to how many primes could be calculated this way; I hit the stack limit.

[Edit] Code & times: http://pastebin.com/CqkMcxdK
i do actually forget that i'm meditating, for short periods. that's sort of my goal, come to think of it. those are the most rewarding moments of the experience.
Does the device work as expected? Does it do useful
things? Does it do the fun things that I actually want
it to do?

Those aren't the only questions that people can ask about a phone or a mobile OS. I particularly would like a mobile OS that isn't tied to an advertising company (Google) and isn't a black box (iPhone). I don't even have full comfort over everything running on my Android device. I have no way of knowing which companies can access the data on that device and the ways with which they can access it.

If those are things you don't care about then yea, you certainly shouldn't care if FirefoxOS "wins". However, them "winning" shouldn't be looked at as them gaining dominant market share in mobile OSes, but rather (a) the open web prevailing and gaining development resources, (b) having a legitimate option for people who DO care about what software is running on their devices.
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I sympathize with your feeling but this is far from the worse I've seen on HN's frontpage lately. At least it's not about politics.
Headphones without music don't do nearly as much to block out external noise, though it does signal "leave me alone".
I see your point, however I don't think the advice is necessarily bad. For example, I put the world's easiest stuff on my todo list first -- something like "start the dev server" or "fix that typo". It's so easy that I can convince myself to do it, yet it gets me into "work mode".
So "you" don't find them.
What's really weird is that lots of the new, VC funded startups that should be really progressive about coddling employee needs are building these kinds of offices.
I work at a 50 person (20+ engineers) startup (http://www.tellapart.com/) that works on real time personalization for retailers. Here are some specific things we're working on that folks might find interesting:

- Rearchitecting our data system to use the lambda architecture (http://www.manning.com/marz/) so we can build better personalization products on top of retailers' customer data.

- Building and improving machine learning models to predict user's behavior and what users want based on a ton of datapoints we collect for hundreds of millions of users.

{my_username[-3:]}@tellapart.com if you'd like to find out more
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Don't tell me what to do. If I want to write a JS compiler, I can write a JS compiler, and it's nobody's business to tell me not to.
Sorry, my question was unclear, I was asking whether they will be using GitHub (or another publicly visible place) for their daily development or is this just where released versions will be pushed?
Can this be accomplished on mobile devices? This could be a clever trick to implement interesting multiplayer games on train rides, airplanes, where wifi is not available.

From a quick research, it seems that iPhones are not able to play ultrasonic sound:
"iPhone 4s is rated for 20Hz - 20,000Hz, which means it cannot generate ultrasonic frequencies." - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10034346/ios-how-to-produ...
Interesting, that is a much higher number than I had supposed. Do you have a source / link for it? I'd love to read more.
What's interesting about this is apparently you can get anything back from Google gmail via a warrant.

Also, without the press, this would have been completely buried. Note how it was done to another mayor and no-one believed him until now.
Another report: As more jobs are getting automated, it opens up "new" job opportunities in new fields that are coming up. So net effect: not much. Point being that for centuries, we have been automating things that were done by humans at some point in time. Not much different even today.

Take one example of cellphones. It probably eliminated many "jobs" for people working in landline industries in the last decade or so BUT it probably added a lot more jobs in the telecom industry in general.

EDIT: based on some replies, I am not dismissing the fact completely that automation can have impacts on jobs. They definitely do but the point is that the number of jobs themselves do not dimish. It is the "type" of job that is changed which could surely be a problem for the displaced workers because they might not have the new skillset/experience ready to be employed.
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Why would I want to give free labor to massively wealthy AAA studios who don't want to give back anything? If they want to use my code in their proprietary products, they can pay me to license it, just like they expect others to pay them. I don't see how it's "standing with me" to use my code to make the next Madden, without giving back either code or cash.
By hallucinate you mean, not knowing what/where you are or doing, in that particular moment? Then yes, one can use that word. The simplest analogy of here-now is when you are watching an exceptional movie (as per your taste) and you get lost in those moments of watching. The same phenomenon is apparent in observing other forms of arts (songs, paintings etc).

So, are such states hallucination? Every person (human being) knows for sure that they are real.
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This no-managers movement strikes me as disingenuous. The manager is still there -- there's just fewer of them. Big conflicts just get escalated all the way to the CEO/founder/owner.

There was a recent HBR article about Google's management structure. They tried eliminating managers in 2002, but too many people just came directly to Larry when they had a problem (1). Holacracy doesn't scale.

1) http://hbr.org/2013/12/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-mana...
Or you learn to claim that you don't actually care about the difference, because you're a theorist. That means that most of the world ignores you as irrelevant, though.