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Your comment omits one thing without which the reader cannot understand modern federal politics. At the same time automation was eliminating jobs at the highest rate in history, the federal government ran the money supply into the ground. This was the Great Depression.

When FDR became president, he took economic desperation as a blank check to do anything to fix the Great Depression. The federal government explicitly had no power over local manufacturing and employment, so they created the power by reinterpreting anything that hypothetically might affect later interstate commerce as if it were interstate commerce. So birthing too many piglets was the same thing as selling too much smoked pork across a state line, and the federal cops would come to your farm and correct it by killing the unlawful piglets.

This should probably have resulted in the rape of Washington, D.C., but at the time Americans were starving in Bangladesh-style tent cities and were willing to put up with a lot. Also local governments were flying the Communist flag and high federal officials were openly espousing Stalinism, so an unconventional jobs program that worked raised few eyebrows.
With the amount of inane FUD you're spreading I can't work out if you're genuine or a troll. Your text only/image minimal feed reader is using less RAM than a browser designed to load hundreds of images and get the most out of the RAM available to it? Shock and horror! And this "train wreck" you're referring to... I don't see it. I see happy clients that can pay once and get an application that is useable on any platform, from anywhere in the world, is as fast as a native application, and can be seamlessly scaled up to meet demand. Where is the downside in that? Game over, purely native apps, you lost the war (except for specific things that need to operate locally). Sure there are native phone applications, but they are essentially thin clients for web applications anyway.
I hate the paywall. WHo are you helping?
Some more points:

- You should be dressing like the people who are buying your software. Ditch the collared shirts.

- Tomasz: "We're hear to talk about the ... project" should be "let me share with you some magical computer vision software we've been building". Then product, product, product... Whilst telling me what the product is doing.

- Answer the question "why should I buy this". I.e. Geoff: "Any Maker can add a video camera to a project, but getting your project to understand a video feed is much harder. VMX makes it trivially easy to add xyz to your next project."

- More hyperbole (it works for Apple). Eg. VMX is Amazing/Magical/the Smartest/easiest etc etc...
Honest question. Where would you go if you regularly wanted to buy say $5000-10000 worth of bitcoins using cash?

(or for that matter wanted to quickly convert $5000 worth of bitcoins into cash)
Agreed on all points really. :)

I personally believe the 2 party system in general is broken and without major reform it will continue to be garbage in, garbage out
I guess it depends on the laptop. The last time I used a lock was with a pre-Retina MBP; short of cutting the cable (doable but you'd better come prepared) or what it's attached to (ditto but probably harder) you're not getting that off without a fight.
So you admit you were lying.
This is an interesting study, but I'd like to see it with four control groups: Exercise + mental stimulation, Exercise with no mental stimulation, no exercise + no stimulation, and no exercise + stimulation.
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Ooops! I mean't to say, is there anything like this exactly at the moment?
You should run the compiler inside Emacs (M-x compile). That way you can easily jump to error locations. (You can also use M-x goto-line to quickly jump to a specific line)
In the short term, stocks on Wall Street are essentially a random walk.
Agreed on Google Scholar. I actually prefer the interface of Microsoft Academic Search, but the coverage is just not good enough. Google Scholar indexes nearly everything, often within a day or two of it appearing on the internet. Whereas Microsoft has only managed to find about half my papers, and has somehow not managed to find any of them more recent than 2010. That's part of the difficulty in beating Google here, that before you can compete on user experience, you have to at least come close to matching their indexing.
From the article:

> Google, like the others, used a “salary algorithm” to ensure salaries remained within a tight band across like jobs. Although tech companies like to claim that talent and hard work are rewarded, in private, Google’s “People Ops” department kept overall compensation essentially equitable by making sure that lower-paid employees who performed well got higher salary increases than higher-paid employees who also performed well.
Or when the internet is out... Or your only internet connection is via 3G!
The problem is with the media and the way things were spun. Correcting that should not involve stifling the workflows scientists use. The GitHub analogy is a good one as what you're suggesting is the equivalent of only pushing perfect code.
As a Princeton student, it's been pretty frustrating to watch this devolve into (drawing from comments on this page) a "sham study by Princeton", with this response being a criticism of "Princeton's methodology", and that "Princeton was deserving of a response like this".

It's been pointed out by a few other HNers, but this type of logic does a massive injustice and disservice to all the institution's undergraduate and graduate students, as well as its professors, who work hard to produce some of the highest-quality research in the world.

To say that this is a "Princeton study" is to present this as if it were endorsed or produced by the administration or some department or even a tenured professor. Instead, let's remind ourselves that this was a pre-peer reviewed paper posted on _arXiv_ by two PhD students (who have likely been at the university for a few years, tops). To paint this as the Princeton community getting together as a collective and putting forth their best attempt to "debunk" Facebook is just hilariously unfair.

Look, there's a thick anti-higher education slant on HN. People love referencing the higher education bubble and the 'demise' of the current university system or whatnot. But it'd be nice if we could keep things in perspective here and at least do better than the media, who can't wait to pounce on a Princeton vs. Facebook feud.
I feel exactly the same way.

I was hoping I could get a "minimal" setup to edit Python code, and even that was too much to ask for. "Code folding? What's code folding precious? What's code folding?" --Smeagol

Apparently "minimal" doesn't apply to Emacs. Being complex is in its nature. It wants to become everything.

The worst was how every time you open a different file, your `CWD` always changes to that file's location.
It's just an idea. Bitcoin could possibly be the next biggest thing from the Internet. Not just a new currency, but a new form of monetary means. I'm sure your mom and Grandmother didn't know about the Internet in the 1990's, right? What about now? It's just been 20 years, since.
I believe that decreased child mortality and increased education/self-sufficiency for women are two of the big triggers for reduced birth rates in developing countries; in other words, increase the chances that the kids they have will survive to support their parents, and decrease the need for mothers to be supported by their children/possibly increase the opportunity cost to them of having children (although I don't think I've heard it described in that last way, it's just how it looks to me).
God forbid the people doing the actual work would get the credit.
You are wrong. It only needs to be filed. See the underlined word "filing": http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/FactSheet62/whdfs62W....
When Google started to require users to use G+ and real names to post a review on the Play store, a number of reviews dropped significantly. The poor design decision described in the article may be a result of an effort to fix this dropped user engagement rate.
I really respect Steve Wozniak. But why does he not rebel and leave him. Why does any body surrender when they have a choice unlike most others. And this is the reason i wish there are more people like RMS who are both talented and have deep philosophy.
Also, if the dip affects everyone equally, then its more like a rescaling (presumably on average these reviews are lower than before, I'd guess because no-one bothers to review a 2-3 star item, only if they love it or really hate it)
I don't think the concern is that the cop might in turn tell him to fuck off.
Knockout.js is slow. React seems fast thanks to their virtual DOM. It matters when you want to develop a web app that caters for mobile clients too.
Amazed that no one has linked this yet, as it's almost the same concept, at least in terms of the inference part.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_(software)

"Dasher is an input method and computer accessibility tool which enables users to write without using a keyboard, by entering text on a screen using a pointing device such as a mouse, a touchpad, a touch screen, a roller ball, a joystick, a Push-button, a Wii Remote, or even mice operated by the foot or head."

Hard to tell how much success it ever had in terms of adoption, although I could imagine there may be users out there who find it invaluable. Certainly worth a look though as it gives a very nice visualisation of the text prediction algorithm as it goes.
Thanks, dredmorbius! I'll definitely keep these in mind going forward.
Of course the odds of a woman writing such a book are
significantly smaller, simply because there are much fewer
female programmers than male programmers.

If you are talking about P(book written by female|book written by programmer). I was talking about P(such a book written by female|such a book written by programmer).

Which implies I assume P(female programmer writing such a book) / P(male programmer writing such a book) > P(male programmer writing book) / P(female programmer writing book). Also P(female programmer writing such a book|female programmer writing book) > P(male programmer writing such a book|male programmer writing book)

So what aspects of it are female specific?

None. There are aspects more likely to originate from a female. As you say: female heroine. As you say: caring about education of children. You only need to look at the gender ratio in primary school teachers to affirm the latter.
Lastpass on the mobile app can be set up to require a password at all times. Mine locks as soon the Screen goes out of focus.

With a password manager he can use it to trigger an audit. It might not cut down the time taken to change passwords everywhere, but it will make it a lot easier.
Internal Affairs is largely hollywood fantasy. If you have trouble with a local police department and need independant help dealing with it, the best you can really do is going to the FBI.

That "best" is pretty damn shit.
Isn't this common knowledge now? Our brains developed when we moved not sat on a couch. We know we feel better, look better and are more focused when we Exercise. Neuroplasticity is no longer a myth.
Darn, I was hoping that he was talking about the domestic poor.
Most of Opa is now licensed under the MIT license and all of it is open source.

We changed the license two years ago.
Actually I covered all that. "All of these events gave the federal government reasons to expand its powers," where "all of these events" includes "the crises of the Great Depression and the world wars."

I was going to gently explain to you something along the lines of "tone down the rhetoric if you want the people here to take your political views seriously," but then I saw you have more karma than me, so I guess you know what you're doing.
Unfortunately, salary information is generally kept confidential. Nature is much more forthright with its facts.

There is some information on, say, glassdoor.com, but it's anecdotal. Is there a reliable and high-res salary datasource?
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I have nothing against it, although it wasn't my personal taste. I just want to point out that being exaggerated and semi-crazy is not the only way to get kids excited. It is maybe the "TV show for kids" way. I often cringe inside when I witness that way of dealing with kids, because to me it seems not very genuine.

Again, if people like it, and kids like it, fine. I just wanted to comment because I think it would be sad if everything for kids would be converted into that kind of format.

Actually the whole premise of "getting kids interested" already points to a problem. Kids are naturally interested. You don't have to go into manic mode to get them interested.
"You won! You clicked 104 times during the game"

Fun game :)
Haha are you aware of the amount of Gold china is buying? http://www.ingoldwetrust.ch/unprecedented-total-chinese-gold...

If/when USD looses its position as a reserve currency, the price of gold will skyrocket and China will be looking smug.
I wouldn't say so. With Chrome they practically redesigned web browsers. "Clutter" is what they were before.
Thanks, josho! I appreciate the concrete, actionable advice.
First, I believe I read something that with newer memory, even cold freezing the RAM is not enough to reliably pull off an attack. Second, it's so incredibly unlikely that just a thief is going to not try to reboot the machine.

It's probably not exceedingly difficult to slap an acoustic keylogger near you, then steal all your passwords.

If you're really worried about that level of adversary, then keep your laptop physically secured and powered off. And don't use it after breaking chain of custody.
They day I can give up my driving commute and order a ride uber style and for a reasonable subscription. I'll be all over it.
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Since it was over a year later, my wife thought she'd "lost" it, we'd already mentally written it off, and it couldn't be easily traced to a specific property, I decided to let it go because I doubt the police would have been interested or useful.
This sounds like how I use Twitter, by following people that links to stuff I'm interested in.
Static prevents type errors from propagating, which is particularly important when using generic functions. In ruby you can have a type error four functions back pass silently until you do something ungeneric with it, which makes debugging harder than it should be.
It is very variable depending on your subject and research focus.

Teaching opportunities are not good; there are far too many PhDs awarded compared to job openings for university positions.

It may be a benefit for private industry work, but remember that a PhD is primarily about showing you can perform rigorous scientific research, and compared to a Masters, matters less (or not at all) in jobs where research is not the focus.
Presumptively the 'most important' things that Marx believed is the idea that the workers should "control the means of production"[1] via a centrally organized apparatus, preferably the state, plus theoretically orthogonal (except to the keepers of the faith) stuff like labor theory of value, distinction between productive and unproductive labor, and dialectic model for social progression, plus a little bit of pining for the simplicity of the feudalistic era.

But, you're right, I don't know what "Marxism" is. But, I suspect many self-proclaimed marxists haven't even read Das Kapital or the Manifesto, so at least I'm a little bit ahead.

[1] I will cop to not fully understanding what it generally means to 'control the means of production' but I blame Marx. It's kind of not a really well-defined idea, and he had a penchant for florid language, in places where he was compensating for not being precise.
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Not be flippant or anything; but one of the most visceral reactions I get is when someone tells me something is massively complex only because it's something nobody has cared enough about to really look into it.

I have a near 50/50 split between two languages in my day to day usage and I would already derive massive benefit from some very small tweaks, ranging from autocorrect accepting words for two languages at the same time to, like I mentioned, just offering prediction with a Markov model trained on two languages simultaneously.

These are fixes that are very easy to implement and would offer a significant benefit, yet they aren't being implemented because the developers just don't care enough.
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It sounds like he likes it that way.
Why would they implement the feature that way? Why not have a boot passphrase? Wouldn't you need some custom hardware to extract the keys out of RAM? And Google is in the right position to mandate some extra security hardware, if needed to provide a secure design.
I started looking at Salt and really liked what I saw, but the first task I had to do was to provision some Windows Servers on Rackspace or AWS and configure them. Like the other commenter, I wish I didn't have to deal with Windows but I'm stuck with it. I found Saltcloud a bit bleeding edge for a newcomer to configuration management (although improving all the time) with Windows being its biggest weakness.
When it comes to configuration, it also seemed to me (admittedly with limited experience) the Windows support in Salt is a poor cousin rather than an equal citizen. Don't get me wrong, it's good they have it at all, but you'll need to do a lot more work yourself.
I plan to look at Chef next as a possible alternative since the Windows support seems more mature. No comments on Chef yet so I'd be interested to hear anyone else's experience with it, especially for a newcomer to config management tools.
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I understand the frustration of the developers affected by this UI change, but I think that actively asking users to rate an app they have downloaded may lead to better ratings in a statistical sense.

User ratings greatly suffer from self selection bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-selection_bias). Asking users who didn't initially rate an app do so as part of some other workflow might reduce that bias a little bit.

That said, I'm very distrustful of user ratings in general, both as a developer and as a consumer, because people often rate stuff based on criteria that don't concern me at all.
Despite the name Pydio seems to be developed in PHP too.
It is also an example of how the technically superior product doesn't always win.
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China dumping US currency and/or bonds would be an awesome opportunity for everyone else. We could buy the wonderfully underpriced securities from China and make bank once the price pops back up a few months later.

It'd basically be suicide for the seller - in this case the central bank of China.
Journalism.
The article isn't clear on it, but there have been studies (http://baymard.com/blog/making-a-slow-site-appear-fast) that show the perception of fast loading is actually more important than the real thing. Showing the user a "Loading..." graphic is the most common manifestation of this, but there are others. (Unfortunately, the original Forrester-Akamai study seems to be unavailable.)
You'd like chef then, nothing is immutable, everything can be changed on a case by case basis using #override
This to me is a bug and should be reported as such. If I can write a query in three different ways and get three different durations with the same data returned then the query engine isn't optimizing the steps correctly.

As SQL developers we should be abstracted away from performance considerations as the database engine (and its developers) should know better than us how to optimize data retrieval. I find selecting indexes to be a 90s hang up that we haven't yet let go of.
A lot of Woz' generosity comes from him not caring about money and power but that doesn't make him any less likable of course.
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> the real benefit is being able to go from the first prototype all the way to balls-to-the-wall multi-core SIMD performance optimizations without ever leaving the Julia environment.

That sounds like someone who has not had to maintain any kind of software for more than 2 days.
LocalBitcoins and non-US-based bitcoin exchanges (funding via e.g. Western Union) for the cash-in.

The problem remains the cash-out, but for smaller quantities one can use Localbitcoins again.
I read Command and Control in the span of a week (fast for me) over the Christmas holiday the other month, and it was enlightening (read: scary as hell that we for the most part lucked out not having a nuclear dead zone in the middle of the USA at this point in time).

One thing I did take away: the military kept using more extreme and dangerous measures (mainly in my mind the fully loaded bombers circling 24x7 over Europe) with the military trying to install fail-deadly mission objectives (ie: circle Europe for your daily bombing run, and if you don't hear an all clear message, assume the USA is being attacked and bomb the Soviet Union). One point seemed to be made though was: for all of the idiocy and lack of control during the arms race there were no actual nuclear detonations, so were the weapons at the time actually safe (even though many improved safety mechanisms were ignored by the military), or was it just luck due to small-enough sample size and a luckily short enough time span?

I actually ordered off of Amazon these two books cited by Schossler and just received them in the last two weeks and am really looking forward to reading them:

The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes:

~900 page book that is supposed to be the seminal book about the history of the bomb; also is apparently very detailed in the physics of the endeavor which should be very interesting.

http://amzn.com/1451677618

American Prometheus - Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin (this just arrived at my house yesterday actually):

~700 pages and the definitive biography of Robert J. Oppenheimer:

http://amzn.com/0375412026
Maybe it's related to this new awful app review trend? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7044833
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