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Don't bother with journals - in pretty much any subject - unless you have a degree and/or you understand what to look for, or are directed to notable articles in bibliographies or by peers. There is a lot of crap in all journals, it's often needlessly technical for practical purposes or too bleeding edge to actually be useful yet.

I'm not trying to be snarky, but honestly unless you know what you're looking for it's a fool's game. Once you've got the feel for a subject, you tend to find several authors that crop up time and time again, or landmark papers that really shifted the field. But that takes a long time, it takes most PhD students a year to fully understand and simply collate the background of a topic they may think they know a lot about.

That and no one actually reads journals. You do a search on Web of Knowledge or ADS or arXiv or whatever your poison and you see what comes up. Point is, you need to know what you're looking for.

This is akin to saying that if you read Phys Rev enough, you'll become a physicist. Sure, sure, keep up with the trends, but big important results get press which is enough to rely on to start off with.

To become a data scientist? Read the recommended textbooks and take a proper degree in statistics, computer or data science. Look at the courses on EdX and Coursera for a starting point, they'll help you decide whether this is something you seriously want to pursue.

Even if this is just a hobby, e.g. you're a coder that wants to branch out, you should still take the time to invest in education properly. Data science, like statistics in general, is very easy to mess up. When people draw bad conclusions from data (and good data scientists can make up any conclusion from any data set), bad things inevitably happen. Entire threads of science have been destroyed because somewhere, someone messed up their stats and apparently important results are meaningless.
On firefox I ran into the out_of_range error with the clear image used in WebKit browser. So on Gecko browsers I load a smaller image (which is a bit darker).
Thanks for that feedback. We're redesigning the homepage now and will include more screenshots. You can check out the live demo in the meantime to see it in action (the app UI will also get a facelift soon): http://goo.gl/BZ5GNd
Chrome 32. Globe texture shows up in Firefox though it's a little choppy.
After a support session I usually end with "Let me know if you run into any issues."

I do frequently wonder if that's the best way to end the email... as what I want to suggest is "Email me back directly if something happens, but I don't think anything will."

Maybe: "Feel free to ping me directly if you run into any issues."
or in Hollande...

I agree with you that there is a trade-off with social advantages. NHS is not as good as having a carte Vitale but I still prefer to live in London.
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Ad hominem is when you dismiss what someone says because of who they are, not what they say.

There's no fallacy with simply not bothering to listen to them in the first place, if they have a history of spouting bullshit.
"A dull knife is pretty safe for most people."

While your point is true, I want to object to your metaphor. I object for safety purposes. In fact, a dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp knife for most anyone who needs to cut things.

You need to press much harder with a dull knife and sometimes even to saw down into the object. You may even need to get a firmer grip on the object you're cutting to counter all that force. Those are very dangerous behaviors. A sharp knife that cuts easily is much, much safer.
I think it's like:

1. Bad email: Pff, so I need to create a whole strategy by myself, use money to maybe hire a guy I don't even know...

2. Good email: This looks good maybe we can talk further about it. / This looks bad I'll declined or not respond.

First case, guy has to do the work, and nobody likes to do unexpected work. Second case, the guy just need to agree or not at the plan in front of him.
So... did that ever get fixed?
That's so stupit and hypocritical: the most addictive and dangerous substance is easily accessible while weed or something else is criminal.
It is one of the maxims of US media.

"No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."

H. L. Mencken, "Notes on Journalism"

Personally, I think that this rule being taken seriously has done more damage for US culture than just about anything else.
Czechs and Slovaks are two distinct "tribes". The fact that they existed together as one nation in the first place was somewhat arbitrary.

That said, the fact that they were split again into two nations was somewhat arbitrary as well, not everyone was in favor of that, not by a long shot.
It's not exactly the same, assuming you've already proposed a solution in the email, but it is still kind of redundant to say. I think most clients will let you know if they have a question, regardless if you write that.

If you think they might have questions, why not anticipate a question and answer it in the email?
Thanks for the contezt
“/end rand”

You could have left it at that, and it would have been a perfect reply.
Obama's administration has been getting hammered for getting involved in these types of conflicts. Not sure he wants to stretch the US resources any further and is already hesitant to involve US military resources.See Egypt as exhibit A.

Also, it's pretty frustrating when you see countries crying for help, then when we finally send in military and financial aid, they're called "occupiers" and told to leave the country and stay out of their affairs.

I'm of the opinion these places need to figure it out themselves. The US shouldn't be in the position of being a global police force and jumping in every time something breaks out somewhere.
No, Digital Ocean doesn't want you to blame them for poor performance, or less disk space than advertised when you choose a droplet. SSD swap can in no way replace having adequate RAM. If you really need swap it's easy enough to create a swap file. But starting with swap space on a VM is the kind of premature optimization that would make DO look bad.
What about looking at these lists of fallacies as vocabulary building tools? Perhaps fallacies are all variations on a handful of errors, but it certainly expedites conversation to be able to say, "No, that's just begging the question." Otherwise I would have to waste my breath disagreeing in a more clumsy way.
The n in strncpy describes to what size the destination buffer (not string) should be padded with '\0'.

This is useful for copying a string into a fixed size buffer that is sent over the network, to give an example. It's not what the programmer generally means when using strncpy.

Many programmers are surprised when they learn that strncpy() really writes 1M-strlen("abc") zeros in the 1M char array every time it's called...
Right, but there is a pervasive belief that tech (and particularly Silicon Valley) is purely meritocratic - despite all evidence to the contrary.
Actually, jQuery can help with CSS inconsistencies, much the same way vanilla Javascript can, if you have the mind to use it that way.

You seem to be laying much of the "mediocre experience" on jQuery in this case. I would like to know why you feel this way. Seems to me that loading in polyfills for every browser inconsistency can lead you to the same problems you feel exist with jQuery.

I don't just care what my browser is doing, I care what all of them are doing; which often leads to using jQuery. Depends on the project and the number of expected browsers involved.

Polyfills are things you learn once and drop in once? So is jQuery.

What if the best experience to be provided suggests using jQuery? Would you use it?

All in all, to use or not use jQuery often depends on the project. If it fits, use it; if it doesn't, don't use it.
Other feedback: I suspect there aren't really tons of transactions being relayed out of costa rica - is this possibly the origin point on your globe model or something? Are you filtering out transactions with no geocodable IP?

Really cool visualisation anyway. Like it!
There is nothing wrong with that comparison in the context of swap.
From what i can see here - there is a lot of hackers among protesters. They do they day work and go throwing rocks in the police afterwards.
Your last sentence feels unfinished.

At the end of the day, reasoning is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it? [0]

[0] http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/683/pg683.html
Even when working as designed, they are often doing things like lossy recompression of your images. That's probably a helpful bandwidth saver for some people, but I'd prefer you just serve me the site I requested, thanks.
Yes, for the same reasons that Credit Unions are better than Banks. Watching out for the customer, in a principled way, is a great selling point. But it would also need to be stable, for the long term, which means profitable and large enough to survive the bad times.

DNS + simple hosting + support, is an ideal market for a non-profit focused on free speech and democratic participation.
My point had nothing to do with wealth gaps...

My point was that people want power any way they can get it, with a capitalist system it's much more about hard work than who you know, your name, your status essentially. Other systems simply trade one out for the other, as in, e.g. mostly who you know and less about how hard you work.

I am not arguing about wealth, I am arguing about hope, happiness, and fairness. If I work harder and receive more there is a form of symmetry work = money = food, shelter, happiness. On the other hand if work doesn't mean I receive more or I receive very little for my increased work, it changes the equation. The latter system supports not working that hard because that benefits you more than working hard.

Now, discussing directly the wealth gap, wealth is a sign of how hard you work, how intelligent you are, and in corrupt systems how many people you know. Thankfully, in a capitalist system since work translates into wealth you can often MINIMIZE the corruption, or at the very least its better than a system where a committee/laws redistributes wealth. My point there being, a fair distribution of wealth should be based off market pressures because it is more likely to be a fair distribution, sure that means some people lose, but those people are the ones who don't want to work, don't have the intelligence to make money and don't have friends to support them. In that case, they are free to join a church or local community center, which are also supported in capitalist nations.

All that being said, I don't actually feel that my claims are "bullshit," perhaps I misrepresented them, but there is evidence to support my argument... That would be the two schools of economics at the bottom of my original post.
Well, I might be too dense to grasp what you're saying, but I don't really understand it. I'm not sure, for starters, which axioms you're referring to.

It seems worth noting, however, that there is, and there should be, a distinction between formal logical fallacies and informal logical fallacies. The latter are what I have in mind when you use the term "social formal systems".

Mistaking ad hominem, or argument from authority, etc., for a formal fallacy is a huge mistake - the one OP seems to be referring to.

All I'm trying to say here to you is that there is no need to resort to formal systems theory, because the taxonomy of informal fallacies never was meant to be considered illogical in the same way that Affirming the Consequent (a formal fallacy)is.
Serious question: Aren't the C-based problems simply hidden from the programmer there? That is, the problems still exist, but you can no longer address them, qua Python, Ruby, Java programmer. That seems worse, not better.
...defies left and right orthodoxy by arguing that worsening inequality is an inevitable outcome of free market capitalism.

Let's fix that:

...defies left and right orthodoxy by arguing that worsening inequality is an inevitable outcome of UNRESTRAINED free market capitalism.

The greed that is pure free market capitalism needs some bounds, else the inequality gets out of whack like it is right now.
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This feels worse than book burning.

I've generally given GCHQ an easy ride but this is pretty fuckin dodgy.

When someone burns a book or a flag they're just saying "I really hate this book and the ideas in it" - and it's great that people do this so visibly because it means I know how to talk to them.

But government agents watching while journalists destroy journalistic materials to protect other journalists? That's something that must not happen in Britain again.
'(Other scholars, though, believe it means "homeland.")'
krai means "country", not homeland

etymologically speaking, all of these words come from kroiti "to cut" - okraina is literally "the edge resulting from a cut, border"

while kraina is literally "cut out piece, area, country"
Also... connections matter.
> Ukraine doesn't have any money, it needs to borrow it.

Most of the places where something like that's said, it's disingenious. Are people there starving? (From the news, it does not look like so.) If they are not, they have no such need to borrow.

Of course, even if they don't need it, it might actualy be a godd idea to borrow some money. But looks like the people don't think it is.
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Good for laughs. Thanks. Now the serious follow up: Ok, what else should someone do?

Programs (often) handle text. Apparently, that pretty much means you're fucked. So what is a reasonable way to write such programs?
In this case I don't think they are warning about format string vulnerabilities. The poster mentions sprintf (not printf) so presumably they are warning you about overflowing the destination buffer.

I'm also having a super fun time with the microcorruption challenges. Highly recommend.
I absolutely agree that this only applies when you are the deliverer of bad news and should never be used as the receiver of bad news. Not wanting to hear problems is a terrible managerial style.

As for points 2 & 3, I think there is a big difference between solving something you've been told to do vs. solving something you've ran into. The latter will oftentimes highlight an underlying issue in the process/project which needs to be addressed and solving it without letting others know may create unwanted assumptions.

The reason I said "generally try to avoid" instead of always avoid is because sometimes there are real problems worth mentioning or, as you said, times where one simply can't find an acceptable answer. In either case its important to raise the issue even though no solution is at hand. This is exactly why not wanting to hear problems is so catastrophic from a managerial perspective, you end up not hearing about your largest problems.
Oh my god, really! The Digital Ocean company want to sell bigger machines and make more money. Incredible ! ;-)

I dont see the problem, you get what you pay for.

And you can enable Swap space, so where is the problem? We talk about 5 bucks in a month !
> The phrase "only abstinence is 100% effective" is a slogan for teens, not a claim that only abstinence only sex education is 100% effective (which is clearly false).

You're misunderstanding the point -- "only abstinence is 100% effective" is mocked precisely because it is a remarkably bad way to get kids not to have premarital sex.
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I have been using it for a month and really like it.
I don’t know about the fax machines, but some photocopiers are misconfigured and remember all the copies the took: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1282513
Sometimes words just seem to get overused by everyone at the same time. In the UK at the moment, every single cookery and bakery program insists their recipe will give you the PERFECT X, where X is cake, meal, dinner party. We can't just make great food, it has to be perfect.
>> The phrase "only abstinence is 100% effective" is a slogan for teens, not a claim that only abstinence only sex education is 100% effective (which is clearly false).

It's a slogan associated with a moralistic, backwards, prude, stupid and failed sex-ed program. It deserves to be mocked.

>> It depends on how much a person wants to avoid having an abortion or unplanned pregnancy, and how much value they get out of sex.

Hmm, one of the more important drives, if not the primary hard-wired drive in a human animal, gee, I wonder how much value people get out of it?
Ask HN: How do you request/book time off in your company?
Do you send an Email to your boss asking for time off or do you use some sophisticated Excel sheet or online service to enter your absence? How do you do it in your company?
Very common in US, very rare in Eu. I believe is partially cultural, partially to show off, and mostly because there aren't enough public study spaces/libraries. (at least in Northwestern). In Eu, you look like a dork if you work in a bar, because is much more common to go to libraries. And to find suitable spots in an university to study.
Just to confirm, this is indeed a verbatim excerpt: http://i.imgur.com/tLICDgj.png
Ask HN: What is Big Data? And How is it Different from Regular Data?
"Big Data". I hear this word pretty much everywhere, but I have zero clue what it actually means.

Can someone enlighten me on what is big data, and how does it differ from regular data?
Follow the link below, there is like 24hrs of lectures, including materials, code etc. These lectures cover reading data, saving data, cleaning & reshaping, visualization, stats, 8hrs machine learning in scikit learn, version control & unit testing, geospatial analyses. This is all in python using numpy,scipy,ipython,pandas and scikit learn as the base tools. You will love the ipython notebook!
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By default, Microsoft's C compiler will also give you warnings for unsafe functions. At least, it did the last time I used it a few years ago.
That fax machine knew what it did. Don't think for a second it didn't deserve everything that it got.
That is really good of you. Massive amounts of respect. Out of interest, what is it you are now working on?

edit - I just had a look at what you are doing through your username, akvo looks pretty cool.
If it's just a general library to use anywhere, then sure build it with no dependencies.

But if it's a library intended for Angular then the library would be built with Angular as a dependency, much like it would be with jQuery.

I don't see a negative with a library being built that has dependencies if it is intended to be used in conjunction with the thing it is depending upon, since in most likelihood a like-minded developer is already using it.
...which was called such because the painting got dirty and buried under tons of varnish; the actual title is "The Company of captain Frans Banning Cocq and lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out."
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Many of them were pretty well-connected even pre-PayPal, mostly in finance. Peter Thiel, for example, was a already a hedge-fund manager by the time he co-founded PayPal.
Wow, if this is true, ad block plus definitely screwed a lot of people over :( I'm uninstalling it from all browsers today and looking for a good unbiased alternative.
Do you suggest that if people are not starving but the country has no money to maintain the infrastructure (which in turn is what allows businesses to grow, and creates jobs) they should be made to give up their personal money before any money is borrowed from elsewhere? That's a pretty socialistic approach.
"If you make a big show of punishing someone, and when you're done they still don't think they have a behavior problem, you probably picked the wrong punishment. Every parent on earth knows this implicitly – but does the Obama White House finally get it, too, now, after Jamie Dimon's raise?"

Dear Matt Taibbi,

There is a website called opensecrets.org. You should read it sometime: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/07/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-d...
Like your second to last bullet say, it's not the last line, it's the entire email. The article is really about how to frame the entire email so that you add value, take control, and provide guidance, instead of writing an email asking for guidance.
I agree with you, except "countries crying for help" part. Did Afghanistan cry for help? Or Iraq?
>most people who are offered/asked nicely to stop coming in to work earlier will come to a suitable arrangement

What kind of arrangement? Keep all the money but don't come in? I would think three months at a position you are leaving would be kind of awkward.
I came here to say the same thing. NewRelic is actually pretty bad at saying "your server is down". But, it's incredible at saying "Your landing page is loading slowly because the time it takes to load your data from MySQL is slow. Oh, and here's the offending query." Different things.
I think this is brilliant, but is slamming Apple's iOS approval process with *candy titles really the best way? Isn't there are risk that you are flooding it and causing delays for (sorry for the phrasing) legitimate developers in getting their apps approved?

Hate to cast a negative on this, as it DOES nicely illustrate the ridiculousness of the situation!
Yes, but if more developers used these flags the world would be a better place. Whenever I have the time, I build with these flags and report bugs back to the upstream developers. Then I drop the flags and move on with my life :)
I'm similarly suspicious of all job ads that mention "fast-paced"; I read it as "we value your ability to throw things at the wall and see what sticks over careful analysis."

Another thing I notice: the more I mature as a person and a developer, the fewer job ads actually interest me. I suppose that's inevitable, however, as I continue to hone in on what domain I want to work in.
"3Vs (volume, variety and velocity) are three defining properties or dimensions of big data. Volume refers to the amount of data, variety refers to the number of types of data and velocity refers to the speed of data processing. According to the 3Vs model, the challenges of big data management result from the expansion of all three properties, rather than just the volume alone -- the sheer amount of data to be managed."

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/3Vs
One of the conditions for joining the EU are reforms that require Ukraine to borrow $150 billion from the IMF to "re-structure" the country. Conditions on that include austerity and freezing wages. It's no surprise support for joining the EU is only in the 40-45% range.
Yes, Elite was a triple-A player and a very well respected UK games publisher back in the 80s.