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> The difference between communitarianism and authoritarianism is not one of perception.

I agree. (Sorry for the edit, I misread you there)

But to your point. Just because your religion provides you with a "personal relationship with God" (which I believe pretty much every single religion does by the way), doesn't mean you're not living in a restrictive framework of questionable ethics. And just because Luther rejected the Catholic church doesn't mean (especially American) Protestantism isn't a throwback to the agrarian age.

However, my basic criticism is much simpler: I criticize the validity of a belief in imaginary magical beings, especially ones that spread fear, ignorance, and suffering as their believers impose this nonsense upon themselves and, more importantly, others.
Chrome (Not Chromium, although it still has parts) could be classed as Spyware. It sends pretty much everything you do to Google (URL suggestions, history etc.) and is constantly phoning home. If you don't use the 'Express' settings on Windows 8 you'll notice it asks you if you wish to send your BROWSING HISTORY to Microsoft 'to improve prefetching performance'.

Firefox is one of the only browsers out that still respects your privacy. Same can not be said for many.
No no, your right. I should have know better. My old company, Royalty Free Models, used to sell regular people for commercial photoshoots. I sold them with all rights included like a ShutterStock database with actual people. Even agency's don't understand copyrights...
The USPS does that, but then people don't put the keys back and then the boxes are useless.
Ok, I hope somebody has a really good logical explanation of this, or maybe even some other awesome examples?
Etymologically mathematics is a plural, as another poster notes. There are many smaller topics involved in mathematics: geometry, trig, calculus, etc. Much in the same way as mechanics, optics, politics, acoustics, etc (as a different poster mentions).
> I tried to persevere but a tiny change would mean 2 minutes waiting for a recompile

incremental compilation:
sbt> ~run

in most cases code changes should take one second. Note: SBT sub projects are God's gift to Scala devs (or Mark Harrah's gift at any rate).

You have to get your feet wet in the language, trying something last week for a day or two is not going to result in you flying to the moon on the productivity spaceship of delight.

Programming in Scala 2nd edition is a great intro to the language.
They're from the New York Times. The focus appears to be in order NY, America, Whoever America Is Currently Fighting, Europe, and the rest of the world. Plenty of amusing missed predictions (e.g. VESUVIUS MORE ACTIVE.: Mr Burlingham Says Volcano is Preparing for Another Eruption. - 01/13/14). July is going to be interesting....
Physical security means nothing to you, does it?
Are you sure it happens in that order?

You don't HAVE to trash it, you choose to. :)

Is being first to an idea the important part? It seems that not being first demotivates you because your passion is invested in being new and unique not in what you are actually building. When the uniqueness has gone, you lose interest.

You're in love with the idea of having a great idea.

Next time you get an idea you have two options :-

* Research FIRST, then be glad if it already exists, it's proof your idea is a good one and you're free to move & spend your time on something else.

* If your heart is set on working on something see the others as competition, learn from their examples, what do they charge, where they advertise, who writes about them. Learn what they're bad at and improve up on it. For the customers you serve you'll always be the first!
If you believe a caricature to be literally true how are you not confused? I suspect many know it is not anywhere near true but enjoy anything that paints the powerful US in a bad light.
He was given 3.5 years for time served. He'll really be eligible for parole after a full decade in jail.
I've seen similar to this with our pen-test firm (who apparently do pen-tests for the UK NHS) - we're a C#/ASP.NET shop, running on Windows servers and they know this.

For some reason when I examine our logs after each test I see attempts at access to /usr etc.

It does make me wonder if all so called pen-test companies are just one massive scam.
Is this curated at all? It seems like 10% interesting, 90% very boring articles.
The fact that 10000 - 2 = 9998 probably has something to do with it. Compare and contrast the result for 1 / 99998.
It is definitely a weekend project which we started a year ago with my brother and then some friends joined us over time to from a great team of 6, right! I don't see any marketing strategy possible about this!
But the oversized slots don't actually fit all oversized items.

And depending on how Amazon, Dell, etc. packages the boxes, it can be bigger than it needs to be or multiple items are put in one box requiring you to go pick up at the nearest post office anyway.
If anyone is interested in this you might also want to consider http://pixelkit.com/
Giant boulder destroys building in Italy, misses another one by inches
It’s possible to reach the front page without “friends” or “trigger happy” submission. My last two “successful” submissions are:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7131592 (214 points, 1 day ago, 181 comments): This was 1 day old when I submitted it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6663013 (46 points, 87 days ago, 15 comments): This was a week old when I submitted.

My previous “successful” submissions follow the same pattern. And I have a lot of “unsuccessful” submissions with 1 or 2 points. It’s a pity because I still think that some of them are very interesting.

I think that a very important factor is just to have luck and get a few upvotes in the fist minutes.
To expend it all you have to do is add more nines.
Doesn't this mean your email account is compromised?
But be careful - as we are talking here that the 10H - 10T - 10H ... sequence is equally unlikely. The likelihood that exactly 38 get head and 38 get tail is pretty significant ;)
Apparently you can add 9's to increase the number of digits in the result.
Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

Sometimes Excel when diagram could be made by drawing borders around cells and resizing rows and columns as per need. This helps when unplanned non-linear horizontal and vertical scaling is needed while making the diagram.

The SmartArt concept they introduced was quite promising, though I find the current state of it lagging. I am sad that it never picked up.
But that's my choice. See, that's the problem with advocates of any regulation. Regulating != informing. If all government did was saying "This business is not reliable" I'd be perfectly fine with it. But then they actually prevent businesses from operating without licences. This creates a lot of opportunities for corruption. On what grounds do governments think they have the right to tell every person what to do with their money?
There are a surprising number of us out there. Most graphics programmers I know use it.
It took him 9 hours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=p8A-peQi220#t=407
Sadly, relative to what I've seen, the examples here really aren't that bad. There are plenty of outfits based right here in the US who will happily sell you the output of a default scan from an outdated version of Nessus.

Also, you've not seen cut-n-paste, search-and-replace garbage until you've had to sift through the mountain of responses to a public sector RFP.

My best theory is that there are a large number of companies which simply shotgun shoveled together lowball responses to every posting. The lowball number virtually guarantees consideration and people who either don't really understand what they're procuring or don't actually read the responses let the stuff slip through.

I always made a point of requesting that the companies which submitted crap like that be banned from future solicitations - it never worked.
Thanks – I agree with your worries about misinterpretation, especially in regard to flawed study design. We're not trying to be the be-all end-all, but hopefully a decent starting point for further research into the subtleties of a specific topic. That's in addition to trying to make the science more accessible by having it appeal to a wider audience.

We're still narrowing down our content guidelines, so would love your input! Feel free to ping me.
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Similarily, 1/9999 gives you powers of 1 (which is just 1), 1/9997 powers of 3, and so on.
That's probably not a great idea for anything other than very secure systems where users aren't concerned with privacy, flexibility of identity or anonymity.
Thanks a lot. No we don't
Nope. If it was curated it wouldn't be much of a bot. That's how most bots are, the owners just retweet the really good ones.

One idea would be to focus on certain keywords, but you'd miss a lot of interesting stuff.

I don't know if I agree on your percentages though. In the first 3 days, I read stuff about eugenics, Shackleton, a woman declaring martial law on a town (first time martial law had been declared since Civil War), etc.
Agreed. We run an Akka cluster with 5-6 nodes as our backend, clocking in at 15Kloc. It's been running for months now with no problems. If we need to add capacity, we just provision a new EC2 instance with Vagrant/Chef and it auto-joins the cluster. Once we're done, we can remove it gracefully and the rest of the cluster just deals with it.
intrigued to see what you come up with..as we speak I am building a visual UI builder for our dev product and bootstrap is the basis...your screenshots look pretty so far :)
> Scala tries to be Haskell but does so badly.

No, it doesn't try to be Haskell. It tries to be something very different from Haskell which happens to share some features with Haskell.

You, presumably, don't like what it actually tries to be, and that's fine, but its just incorrect to say that it is trying to be Haskell but doing it poorly.
If your customers are mostly designers who get snooty about that kind of thing, you run some risk. Otherwise, most people probably have no idea at all what it is, as long as it looks and works ok.
As long as clueless fucking judges allow this shit to keep happening, America is going to keep losing its tech edge. These patent trolls make creating anything in the US risky for businesses.
What happens if you do, surely it's caveat emptor?

The rules only say:

"If such permission is not granted, there is no (zero) market value or worth to this account."

If you walk away, cash in hand, are you liable for any punishment other than the banhammer from Twitter?
This is great for MVPs where you can't afford a designer.
A mathematical explanation: http://calculus7.org/2012/02/25/playing-with-numbers-998001-...
The pattern will break down once you get past 8192, which is 2^13. That means that the pattern continues for an impressive 52 significant figures (well, it actually breaks down on the 52nd digit, which will be a 3 instead of a 2).

The reason it works is that 9998 = 10^4 - 2. You can expand as

1 / (10^n - 2) = 1/10^n * 1/(1 - 2/10^n)
= 1/10^n * (1 + 2/10^n + 2^2 /10^2n + 2^3 /10^3n + ...)

which gives the observed pattern. It breaks down when 2^k has more than n digits, which happens approximately when

2^k > 10^n => k > n log(10) / log(2)

which comes out to 4 * log(10)/log(2) = 13.28 when n = 4.

---

Another pattern can be generated from the power series expansion

x / (1 - x)^2 = x + 2x^2 + 3x^3 + 4x^4 + ...

setting x = 1/10^n gives the infinite series

1/10^n + 2/10^2n + 3/10^3n + ...

which leads to the neat fact that

1 / 998001 = 0.000 001 002 003 004 005 006 007...

---

Another example is the fraction

1000 / 997002999 = 0.000 001 003 006 010 015 021 ...

which goes through the triangle numbers[0] in its expansion, or

1 / 998999 = 0.000 001 001 002 003 005 008 013 021 ...

which goes through the Fibonacci numbers[1].

---

Getting the squares is harder, but you can do it with

1001000 / 997002999 = 0.001 004 009 016 025 036 049 ...

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_number

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number
It's about $425m as I write this. Yes, Google should probably try to buy them if they can. The people that control VRNG might consider that they'd rather have a billion in cash from the payouts, that they can then push into more patent gains, than to sell right now for, say, $800m.

I think people in that type of position frequently tend to get over-confident after winning, and rather than take one big payday, they keep rolling the dice.
1/(1 - x) = 1 + x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + ...

so,

1/(1 - .0002) = 1 + .0002 + .0002^2 + ...

and

1/9998 = .0001/(1 - .0002).
Totally agree. Another blog in the lines of Good Math & Bad Math or Betterexplained would be awesome.
I thought about an Ergodox; I don't mind soldering, but I decided against it anyway, because to me it looks like it's a bit short on the "ergo" -- it will help with the need to rotate the wrists outward, but they still have to rotate out of the neutral position in order to address keys on a flat keyboard, which makes the Ergodox look to me rather like a Kinesis Advantage without the Advantage.
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The problem with services like that is that they aren't likely to be updated, if the company improve their measures.

You'd have to check in regularly to confirm this is still the way they do things.
Yes, yes, yes. As someone who used to buy into keyboard fascism, I wholeheartedly agree with this. I consider myself proficient with Vim (and Emacs) in terms of keyboard controls, and know all of the fancy Vim motions and text objects.

However, even when editor keyboard commands become "muscle memory", there's still a little part of your brain that has to make a decision regarding how you're going to navigate/select/change/delete from point A to point B. With the mouse, you don't have to think up an algorithm for editing. You just think about the code at hand. I've found that the fraction-of-a-second decision making regarding _how_ to edit can be enough to interrupt my train of thought. Reading this article ( http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html ), while it may be quite old, helped me realize this fact.

That being said, I still think Vim is a great editor, and I don't mean to make any blanket statements about it's effectiveness. I just also believe that the obsession with "efficiency" is totally blown up with regards to editing text. Shouldn't we strive for efficiency in translating algorithmic thought to programming language? I think the keyboard crowd (myself included) tends to get caught up in the little details.
No, but I have been stood at a roulette table with a friend who called and won red/black 21 times in a row. He was unamused when I pointed out that had he bet his entire stack every time, rather than the same £10 bet, he'd have walked away having won ~£20M, rather than £210! He lost on the 22nd bet and walked away.
Explanation:
0.0001+0.00000002+0.00000000004 etc
= 2^0/10^4 + 2/10^8 + 2^2/10^12 etc

which is a geometric sequence with common ratio 2/10000 and first term 1/10000

So it has an infinite sum of (1/10000)/(9998/10000) = 1/9998

Same for powers of 3: 1/9997

Actually 1/8 = 0.125 is an example of this; it just breaks down very early because 4+0.8+0.16+0.032+0.0064+... = 5
This trope is getting exceedingly tired, on par with the "taxation is theft", "atheism is a religion" and "Linux should be called GNU/Linux" brigades that often crop up in the appropriate discussions. Theft and "steal" have long been used outside of the OED definitions; I can be a "thief of time", "steal an idea", "steal a base" and so forth. "Theft" and "steal" are appropriate words for the behaviour of people who have decided, in defiance of the laws and remunerative structures society has constructed, that they're entitled to the work of people without giving anything back (apart from some advice like "I'm giving you free advertising", "find a new business model" or "this will actually help you in the long run"). Society has created intellectual property, in the same way it created physical property, and if you can steal the later, you can surely steal the former.

One other angle on this, for the "steal absolutely must deprive someone of something" view, well - something is actually lost, that cannot be replaced. The right of the IP creator to be repaid by the person who grabbed it. Many people say "Well, I'd never have bought it anyway". Whilst true for now, would it still be true in 1 year? 5? 10? Would you have bought it for your kids, or because a sequel came out that you do want to buy? By taking it, you rob the person of the ability to sell it to you in the future.

I think it's incumbent upon anyone who thinks "intellectual property is unjust" and who acts on this belief by just denying its existence, to propose and get support for a viable alternative for supporting the millions of people who depend on it for their livelihood. Otherwise, you're just an anarchist, burning the system down and denying any contribution to the people who have committed to a certain lifestyle on the guarantees currently provided by society.
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You can choose to use the DSL (build.sbt) or a full-blown build file written in Scala (Build.scala).

We use the latter but we have a very complex build—multi-JVM testing, half-dozen subprojects.
Differentiation is never a bad thing. A basic bootstrap layout connotes a project in beginning phases typically. For example, Coinbase began with bootstrap to get a product out quickly but moved on once they realized that for people to trust them with large sums of money/bitcoin, they had to appear more established and professional.

http://www.coinbase.com
Σ(2^i / (10^(5i)) = Σ(2/10^5)^i = 1/(1-(2/10^5)) = 10000/9998

(you get the idea)
It doesn't really "break" so much as it shows the sum of partially overlapping entries, natural since they dont fit in 4 digits.
> If you believe a caricature to be literally true how are you not confused?

You're right, now I am confused.

> I suspect many know it is not anywhere near true but enjoy anything that paints the powerful US in a bad light.

It's interesting that you perceived my post to be like that. It's not meant to be. Sadly, the US doesn't need any help to appear in a bad light, and again the same goes for the Muslim world by the way. That doesn't mean I'm happy about it.

I think it's more difficult to hear criticism coming from your friends than from your enemies. That's because your enemies have questionable motives. But your friends just worry about you and your destructive influence on yourself as well as your surroundings. That's exactly how many Europeans feel, I guess. Well, at least that's how I feel.
This is great... I always feel the need of this for Spanish.

The think is that stackoverflow is a great resource and even when it is true that English is the standard language in software, it is also true that a lot of developers living in non-english speaking countries don't domain the language, this is specially true if they are teenagers.
Nah, the Starbucks choice is explained in the article. It's a remnant from the original project to help indie coffee shops accept Starbucks cards.

EDIT - I just read the article you referenced. That scam only applies to registered cards (cards attached to a Starbucks account). I don't accept registered cards, or have anything to do with that.
The whole Cuban blockade is utterly pointless anyway and deserves to die. After all Germany killed 100,000+ Americans - now our friends. Japan also - now our buddies. China (via Korea) also mostly friends. Vietnam killed 52,000 - now favorite trading country. Etc. Etc. Cuba - no one from the US killed (other than stupid Bay Of Pigs) - not a friend. Why, other than a tiny loud minority of people in S. Florida? If we just opened Cuba and sent them Disney and GM, we'd change their government in a heartbeat. Dollars change everyone's government.
Flipping 76 in a row is extremely improbable in the physical world, but fortunately we have computers (Where it's still quite improbable).

[10] pry(main)> choices, tries, current, current_max = [:heads, :tails], 0, 0, 0
[10] pry(main)> loop do
[10] pry(main)* tries += 1
[10] pry(main)* flip = choices.sample
[10] pry(main)* if flip == :heads
[10] pry(main)* current += 1
[10] pry(main)* else
[10] pry(main)* current = 0
[10] pry(main)* end
[10] pry(main)* if current > current_max
[10] pry(main)* current_max = current
[10] pry(main)* puts "New max: #{current_max}, after #{tries} tries"
[10] pry(main)* end
[10] pry(main)* end

Highest so far: "New max: 31, after 77576302 tries"
I doubt it. I have two factor auth set up on my email. Looking at the timestamps, the Welcome email was sent the same minute as the "Please confirm" email, so it's possible the Twitter account is not live and this was just an automatic welcome e-mail. Still, it would be nice if the "Not My Account" link actually worked properly or there was some way to contact support about it.
Maybe your website will help people see the plethora of inconsistent findings, so they can start questioning the state of science and think of "better ways" for themselves ;)
Yeah I'd like to try Amazon but the more liquid cards seem to be more fraudulent.
I had this problem when I started looking for jobs. For things like 'senior' and 'skilled' your best bet is to ignore those, just apply away. If you're resume is interesting you'll get a call. As long as you don't outright lie in the resume you shouldn't be embarrassed.

One thing that I learned later on in life was to not treat interviews as a one sided process. I'm there to make sure the company isn't awful, as much as you're there to make sure I'm not awful. If you go in with a mindset of evaluating the company to see if it's a fit with you I'm sure your fear of getting laughed out of the room will go away. Would you want to work with people like that anyway?

Of course this only applies to people who don't NEED a job.
Not sure if we're already on that list, but we use Scala heavily at Conspire and we're in Boulder.
I am a bioinformatician working on regeneration. Two interesting observations here aside from the primary observation that stem cells can be made from stress:

- This only worked with differentiated cells from newly born animals. It didn't work with adults. They should investigate further to see what kind of epigenetic changes occurred throughout the lifetime of the animal to inhibit this stress response. This reminds me a bit of the aneurogenic limb experiments in salamanders. Is this a difference between development and regeneration?

- The stem cells can make placental tissue. How did they determine this? Are they suggesting these cells are essentially totipotent?
I (probably stupidly and naively but in the end luckily) didn't pay that close attention and just trusted that the FSCS would come through. I was in the fortunate position of not needing the cash in the short term though.

It may have been a £50K limit, the precise number wasn't an issue for me at the time as I wasn't near either figure.
Pretty much.

1/9998 = 1/(10000-2) = 1/(10000)*1/(1-2/(10000)

Since 2/10000 is very small, it is well approximated by the taylor expansion for 1/(1-x), which is simply

Sum(x^n)

Since x is 2/10000, we get powers of two, which keep getting shifted to the right. Like a bit pattern, they don't overlap when added, so we get the sequence above.
I was just about to come in and say that. I just flipped it 100 times heads for fun. I used to do more when I was a kid. I've been killin time with this trick since elementary when someone taught it to me, can't remember who.
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