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Specifically regarding wage fraud, try the state labor board.
I really like the concept!
However I think your landing page could use some work. The call to action (Registering) isn't as clear as it could be. What I would do is add a big button 'register' and ask the user to pick a way to register after that. At first glance the facebook logo could just be a link to your facebook page or something.

Also you need some way to lure people in, some screenshots, a short video. I want to know in what state of development a service is before I sign up!

Hope this helps in any way :)
You ignore the fact that this is meant to be controlled by Siri

Nothing to improve road safety like elaborate arguments with a speech recognition engine...
Pretty much what I came to say. The "smart" and "predictive" stuff is good for a handful of people with very predictable routines, who live like... machines. Most of the time, it would actually fail quite miserably. And the power waste would be the least of your problems then...
Don't miss that they're also short 2.8 billion Yen in their bank accounts in addition to the 800,000+ Bitcoins they lost.
Paul Lockhart's "Measurement" does this (the fuzzy blanket) and covers all of geometry, trigonometry, and calculus!
We're going to need something longer than a tweet to explain what he's actually talking about.
I think the lack of compelling tablet-only apps has contributed to the popularity of the 7" tablet form factor. Since we mostly use our tablets like oversized phones without voice capacity, they might as well be comfortable to use in portrait and have a phone-like experience.
While I agree with your overall point that Google security is pretty big, I have no reason to think they did anything else than copy the data to Google, and that the original data is not still hosted in their infrastructure.
I'm seeing LCD TVs, a smartphone, and an ultra-mobile PC...
It's a half-sibling, since they share a parent (JVM).
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As my comment above ;).
Google maps also lets you download specific regions for offline use, though the way to do it is impossible to guess: type "okay maps" while zoomed to the desired region to download. (http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/10/save-maps-offline-new-googl...)

This is good enough to use as a paper map (a zoomable paper map, with GPS and starred locations). HOWEVER, there are some huge shortcomings: No offline search, no offline navigation, and in certain regions, it's not available. I'm not sure exactly what countries are off-limits, but since I'm also backpacking through SE asia, I can tell you now that all of Singapore and Vietnam are downloadable, but at least some parts of Thailand and Indonesia are blocked. While this feature is incredibly useful, it's limitations are making the switch to OSM tempting.
The OP, in the comments section, writes: "I'm a consultant and, therefore, expected to track my billable hours throughout the week".

I'm not sure how I would feel about a consultant that is billing me by-the-hour at, presumably a not insignificant rate, claiming that they work with the same focus and productivity while they are eating lunch as they would during the other 7 hours of the day.

I would say the OP should count himself lucky that he has a fairly lenient employer, as I would estimate that the vast majority of employers would not give credit for this "hour worked". Also, at least where I'm located (Canada), lunch "hour" is actually 0.5 hours and the work-day is 7.5 hours.
It all depends on the value we assign to privacy. My personal opinion is that the handling of patient data should legally be protected somewhere on a scale between banking data and state secrets.

If those kinds of data are mishandled, there _is_ punishment, no matter where you work.

But then I'm culturally biased (we here in Germany seem to be collectively more paranoid about privacy than most other populations).
Oh, good thing SF doesn't have any upcoming natural disasters it is ill-prepared to deal with.
Why would I want to allow Google to track my movements even more than they do already?

Maybe the author was trying to take a cheap-shot dig at Apple because of the rollout hiccups that Apple maps had. We all know maps have flaws, especially on first rollout. Things improve over time, and they have.
> I understand that we don't want companies using our medical history to make decisions, but is HIPAA just a hangover of HIV/AIDS?

If by "HIPAA" you mean the privacy/security positions, no. First of all, HIV/AIDS (or even STDs more generally) is hardly the only medical concern people want kept private. The privacy and security provisions were designed to negate foreseen resistance to the administrative simplification provisions (incentives to adopt electronic transactions, national standards for form and content of electronic transactions, etc.) and thereby improve information sharing. (And just about every subsequent enhancement of the privacy and security provisions in the law has been tied to a new set of administrative simplification provision that extends new incentives to electronic transactions and records, extends the scope of mandatory standards for electronic transactions, etc.)

> My instinct is that HIPAA has cost many lives by locking up data that could be used to help doctors be better doctors. If my kids were allergic to bee stings, I wish this information would show up as the first result of a Google search.

One of the big motivations for HIPAA and its subsequent enhancements in terms of standardized health records and transactions is, to the extent this is relevant to doctors being doctors, making this the case.

Except not with "Google" or other systems publicly accessible for non-medical purposes that lack detailed accountability to you for who has used it and for what purpose.
> Performing the initial callback manually, avoiding the KVO initiated one, was shown to be a performance improvement under certain KVO configurations.

Please elaborate. I've been re-implementing KVO, and have not seen this. What configurations?

Also, adding a controller ivar/property is rather invasive, don't you think?
> At the start of February 2014, illegal access through the abuse of a bug in the bitcoin system resulted in an increase in incomplete bitcoin transfer transactions and we discovered that there was a possibility that bitcoins had been illicitly moved through the abuse of this bug.

...

> We believe that there is a high probability that these bitcoins were stolen as a result of an abuse of this bug

I find the insistence that this catastrophe was brought on by a protocol bug very suspicious. A recent post on HN by an expert elaborated on why transaction malleability wasn't likely to have been the source of this exploit [1]. Meanwhile Mt. Gox is insisting that they were robbed by a bug in the protocol.

This could be the position advised by Mt. Gox's legal representation, in a sort of "that's my story and I'm sticking to it" sort of way. If this line is actually true, then either the transaction malleability issue is much much bigger than we anticipated, or the bitcoin protocol has some vulnerability that we don't know about.

That's scarier than a paltry exchange collapse.

[1] http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/03/01/what-did-not-happen...
It seems that every week I seen a new "Facebook is using XYZ" article. Is there a language Facebook isn't using at this point?
They and heir employees pay property tax, and considering the insane land-values in the valley, they pay lots of it. And property taxes are what pays municipalities run on. You can blame their tax evasion for the state-level troubles in Cali, but not the city-level ones.
What is the benefit of creating a web app that only works in 1 particular browser? Or is this not a web app?
One of the places I contracted at had the best dynamic in the team of developers. They had this lunchtime ritual where everyone went for a 45 min lunch walk. Cleared the head, gave you exercise and you were able to to chew the cud with people.

Really did help with the way the team worked together.
A common joke among mathematicians.

Two mathematicians are working on a problem and one makes a claim to which the other replies, "That's trivial!" The pair stare at the claim for ten minutes. The other says, "Is it trivial?" They go home, think about it all night, publish three papers about it over the next two years, and then they agree, "Yes, it's trivial."
Discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1zfizg/5yearolds_can_l...
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Nowhere in the article did I see "big data", or "big" for that matter.
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Thanks for the reply. If you look at each method that can return failure, and then look at the code that calls these methods, do the callers check for failure or just keep going with the transaction? (This would both indicate the quality of the code and show a path that could generate bad transactions.)
I fail to see the advantage that this would give over node-cluster for scaling, as that can scale across multiple processes as well, while still using the regular NodeJS.
That's predicated on the assumption that, from the point of view of the bankruptcy proceedings, the bitcoins are actually an asset considered in the bankruptcy - and more importantly that "being owed bitcoins" ranks you somewhere on the list of creditors. It's perfectly possible that the bankruptcy process would prioritize making people with real currency claims whole; if that means 'liquidating' bitcoin assets to turn them into dollars to pay back banks, liquidators, and other hard currency creditors, then that's what would happen.
This feature still exists, it's just needlessly hidden as an easter egg in the new version. (http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/10/save-maps-offline-new-googl...)

EDIT: There is also no longer a way to know what areas you have cached.
I'd like to know how many "good" Android tablets are selling, and how much of this is the fact that Android has total dominance on the low end (< $99) market. Specifically, I'd like to see market share for Android devices with Android 4.0+, 1GB RAM, and a decent multicore processor. I'm a happy Nexus 7 owner myself, but there are a lot of people with Android tablets that are total garbage.
Given that the scale of the data, it is likely that they need to contact Google to get rid of the default quotas: https://developers.google.com/bigquery/quota-policy
> Except that once you hit even basic algebra, you quickly run out of applications a young student can relate to.

Algebra is problem solving. You have a formula describing the problem, and want to re-arrange it to find one of the variables. It has a lot of useful and logical applications.

Trigonometry though ... screw that. "Bob the builder has made a truss, and wants to figure out the angle A. He doesn't own a protractor, and can only measure a few of the lengths." Seriously?
Thanks for the comments.
>JXCore allows you to run x number of tasks in parallel where x is the number of CPUs?

You may have a 8 cores but configure JXcore to use 64 threads.

> The problem is solved by running multiple node processes, which is standard deployment for node

You can still run multiple node process but 2 threads per each. This will improve the responsiveness of each process by balancing the load exactly on the native side. That means, if anything happens on one of the V8 threads (GC etc). the other one will be handling the load.

> That said, how well is each thread isolated from everything else.

Totally isolated. We already started to update native c,c++ modules for isolated multithreading.

>Does an uncaught exception kill just the thread and its state, or does it kill the process?

On this very beta release, it throws into main thread (when it's uncaught by thread) but coming beta (internal monitoring is implemented) will be optionally resetting the sub thread itself.

You may simply consider each thread as a separate node.js host.
No, he defines the determinant as the product of the eigenvalues, and this is almost the entire point for his writing the book!
I've never heard the word before this thread but I'm inclined to think it's a bit like "lads" in British English.
Because he likes javascript?
The extension is currently only available for Chrome, but all the functionality is available at http://web.notabledocs.com/web/viewer.html - If you share your document, that's what the other people get. We actually work offline (including making comments) if you install the extension.
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It's a browser extension, but the benefit of web apps in general is portability. This one has the advantage (from the looks of it) of solving a very hard problem, that of being able to view and manipulate pdf files. AFAIK there is no other easy and free way to do this in Linux, for one.

edit: It doesn't appear to let you edit a pdf, just annotate. Which is still incredibly useful to be able to do alone or collaboratively.
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Bluetooth doesn't support enough application throughput to enable streaming things like maps (the map solution you're referring to uses on-board maps, not Apple's native iOS maps). Everyone would love to not require a physically connected phone, but it's not possible right now.
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Thank you -- that's very helpful. The FB and LI login links are fully functional but you're right it's not clear. We've also thought about animation or a video. Maybe screenshots will help -- I like the idea, and we can do that ourselves; we're completely bootstrapped have to be careful about cost. Many thanks for the feedback! Stephen
Shadowing may get you the same experience, but it will not make you The Person Who Solves Problems in the eyes of others and thus won't help your promotion. Which was the author's point.
Oh dear, this might conflict with a SQL variant we cooked up at my old company called Q-Lang. Where you could write a SQL statement, leave bits of the WHERE clause "blank" and it would generate a GUI interface with drop downs and calendars and everything to let people fill in those bits without too much effort. Nothing terribly fancy, but it let you go from a working example SQL statement to an integrated query interface in the app in about 10 minutes.

It had lots of limitations, but most of the time it absolutely annihilated some of our competition's multi-month integration engagements.
This is just crazy. According to the article, this "big data" fits in 27 DVDs, which is roughly 1-2 TB of data. Do you really need Big Query or whatever for this?
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I always recommend Effective C++ by Scott Meyers. It does not cover C++11 but is still relevant to anyone wanting to learn the good c++.
I'd also assume the worst, even if there are no patient names out. There are too many examples of de-anonymization of purposefully anonymized data out there to warrant any belief that missing real world names alone should constitute much of a privacy blanket.
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I love it. This really appeals to me because of the all the bad ideas I had to unlearn in my 20s:

- math is about numbers and arithmetic operations on them
- being good at math meant you were good at arithmetic
- some people (meaning me) just didn't have what it took to be "good" at math. Reinforced by my high school math and physics teachers.

I hated math because I didn't understand that mathematics is a system for representing abstract concepts and manipulating them.

Eventually on my 4th try to get calculus, I took a class from nick fiori(http://www.yale.edu/education/about/faculty/fiori.elw062111).

His teaching methods opened my mind, and I've gone on since then to become an ardent amateur mathematician with minor publications and career tangents in machine learning and data science.

I can only imagine what would have happened if I had been taught math well from an early age.
Yeah, no kidding. Also, keep your hands out of your pockets and make sure you are not holding anything lest they "mistake" it for a weapon, which would justify your death to both them Anything else and they go into a rage and you'll end up in jail.

It's especially tough because their only training is to escalate further at any provocation.
The iPod didn't add much, when you're a techie looking at technical specs.

What the iPod added was fewer features (yes, that's a good thing when you do it right) and usability. It did what people wanted, and in a way that regular people could actually use. For reasons I can't comprehend, a large number of technical people continue to be unable to see the value in that, but it does provide immense value, and that's why the iPod was so popular for so long.
It doesn't change anything for javascript modules. On the other hand, we already embedded most popular c,c++ modules internally (with multithreading in mind) (coming with next beta)
Besides, making a native c,c++ module multithread compatible will be mostly changing couple of lines of code. We were working on a wrapper and it will be part of beta 2 also.
No, you don't offer anything. You keep your mouth shut until they tell you to hand it over.

If they seize and search your property without warrant or reasonable suspicion that you used it to commit a crime, and commit spoliation of evidence by deleting video or images from it, they can be held accountable later. If you give it up voluntarily without them even asking, you are not helping anybody.
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I'm a die-hard manual fan, so you have my sympathy here. That said, I think current automatic technology is at the point where it can handle your go-to example with no problem. Yes the responsiveness of your base-level Toyota/Honda/Ford automatic transmission is going to be lacking versus a manual, but step up to a Mercedes or BMW double clutch automatic gearbox, or just go straight to the top of the automatic heap with Porsche's PDK transmission, and I think you will find all of them quite performant, even without paddle input.

To preempt the "but you have to own a porsche for that!" responses, I'm not saying this is cheap, I'm just saying it is not limited by the available technology, just cost.
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They're also a member of the OCaml Consortium, too

http://ocaml.org/community/support.html#TheCamlConsortiumatI...
Just like a cat to save itself after years with the crew. I like that touch. It adds credibility.
This is extremely good advice.
I don't know that I'd call Groovy a dialect of Ruby. Sure, it's features are _inspired_ by Ruby but there are many very significant differences. No magic undeclared variables as a simple example. Another example is the categories feature, which Ruby doesn't really have. Not to mention that the syntax is completely different.
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You can disagree, but you are wrong.

A first amendment case, by definition, is a case involving whether the government has a right to restrict your speech.

By contrast this case is about a person's private lawsuit to have unauthorized video of herself taken down. No government, no first amendment.
Surely you would just load the app of your choice from the App Store.
Do you still work in that field?

If so, you're probably one of the few people that IMO actually should have some access to that data.

Maybe you'll get lucky and the data will become a researcher free-for-all, like the Enron emails did. (Not likely, though.)
Funny how conservative EVERYONE is when it comes to their data.
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I like it, even though I may be in the minority. I think this could be great for wizards/tutorials where you want to let the user explore but give them a little hint after some time. I really like UIs that explain themselves.

Of course, there is potential for abuse. But the same could be said for most of jQuery's animations or any other such library.
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> Algebra is problem solving. You have a formula describing the problem, and want to re-arrange it to find one of the variables. It has a lot of useful and logical applications.

It does, but for average Joe and Carla, who's day job involves making sure the box of sprockets sitting on the loading dock matches the P.O., and who's most pressing math problem is balancing their check book every few days and using turbo tax once a year, they'll never encounter anything more complicated than very basic arithmetic.

I think the hardest math problem most people encounter is figuring out percentages so they can fill out the "tip" on the credit card receipt when they eat out. Yeah it's "algebra" but it's a very limited class of problem and people just use a calculator or a tip calculator to do it these days.

>Trig

Yeah, trig really requires good motivation. The answer to most trig questions really is "buy the appropriate measuring tool" not "do a bunch of calculations and look up the result of the trig functions in a table". I don't ever remember having the calculations for cos(), sin() explained to me, they're just magic functions, number goes in, number comes out.
Down-shifting puts extra stress on transmission and engine components which are far harder to replace than brake pads.

If you're heading down a long slope, sure, use the lower gears to add control.

If you're just trying to come down from your amazing commute freeway race into the clover leaf... use the brakes for braking. Most people downshift incorrectly and add unneeded wear to their clutch.

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Isn't there a PPA for this? I'm pretty sure I had one.