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Edit in response to your edit: I did not say "charity is not helpful". I said that other models typically provide superior solutions if you can work it out right.

Original reply:

Yes, I have a lot of criticisms of it. I was talking to my son the other day about something and he gave me the supporting example that a charity in Africa found that if it gave away mosquito netting to poor moms to protect their babies from diseases carried by mosquitoes, they typically sold it. But if they sold the netting for 50 cents, which was half a day's wages for these women, then proper use of the netting shot up from something like 10% to something like 80%.

Giving away things for free tends to undermine self esteem and self determination, tends to come with a lot of controlling conditions, and tends to be very poor quality. I left the soup kitchens as soon as I could in part because the food is terrible and it exposed me to concentrations of people who were often ill and actively smoking cigarettes next to me. Staying away from sick people and cigarette smoke and eating good quality food is part of how I stay out of the ER.

I could go on but I don't really see much reason to. I have a lot of very practical reasons. It is not merely some kind of negative psychological reaction. It is a very well reasoned position, based in part on having done a lot of volunteer work when I was younger and a lot of reading about such topics.

I don't think we should eliminate all charities but I do think that the more we can find other ways to solve problems, the better those solutions are likely to be. Charity tends to produce pretty bad solutions which keep people limping along and generally does not have a good track record of lifting people out of poverty.
The intrinsic value of USD is near zero. Useful in a post-apocalyptic as fire kindling, and not much else. Its perceived value is powered through the USA's massive military, political, economic, and financial power. Perhaps Bitcoin has a perceived value as a mechanism of subversion of such a hegemony.

Or maybe it's just a vehicle of speculation. Either way, no modern currency has intrinsic value.
In my experience, mediocre workers are not solid and reliable. It seems strange to string those three terms together.
In hindsight, we should have all jumped on this and pretended we understood the rules of Numberwang, in the style of Mornington Crescent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_%28game%29
What if the company is based in northern Alaska? What if work hours are 2000-0400?

It's hard to make out a disparate impact claim to begin with. Doing so on the basis that you don't like the living arrangements would seem impossible. What limiting principle would the courts apply that wouldn't result in legal liability for every company that doesn't allow employees to telecommute?
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Could this be useful to make a better gifsound.com ?
The great thing about comments like this one are that they help me identify whose opinion not to take seriously in the future.

Not being able to distinguish the difference between copying multiple distinctive elements of trade dress (yellow back AND yellow front border AND uniform grey front) and inadvertently using a particular color anywhere on the product is really quite an amazing feat.
Non-facetious question: In what sense do you consider your solution simpler than the one suggested by the article? The only additional complexity I see in their solution is creating one more class, but that seems like a surface complexity.

I respect your opinion but it seems that you aren't really addressing the advantages the article is claiming their design has.

The likelihood of change is much different for the policies than for the basic domain model attributes of a ticket, and this to me is the key reason to prefer the policy design that I'd like to hear you address objectively.

Based on your comment about swappable policies, I'd guess that your position is to wait until you need to pull it out before you do. But if you can see a likely change coming and there is no cost to designing for it, why not do it? Is your bone of contention with the idea that we can assign reasonable probabilities to what is likely to change; with the idea that there is no cost to pulling the policy object out now; with both of those things; or with something else entirely?
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Will you give Billions to Hank Rearden to make "Rearden Steel" or to Center for Iron & Steelmaking Research at Carnegie Mellon University?
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Sure, it could be an option, but for those of us who have no moral objection to proprietary code, its not a compelling universe to live in.

People who write proprietary software generally take on harder problems before the free software community (from AT&T to Google), and are quite generous with their fortunes once they make them.

I'm not concerned when producers of good things make money, I'm happy when I see that happening, as opposed to non-producers like financial vultures making all the money while being destructive to society.
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Coincidentally I created http://2048.directory that is a repo that accepts PRs
On OS X you can install with:

brew install gource
Not 'the essence of intelligence' but 'one indicator of self-discipline'.
Why only 60 days, assuming they are making a watch? The moto 360 isn't being released for a while, and nobody is impressed with the samsung smartwatch.
This has been true for this post, but there have been many "view this on facebook" posts that do block you with a signup.

Twitter seems to do this too (frequently I'm prompted to log in.)

Bah, I want my ye olde internet back.
He who lives on hope dies farting.
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So far this comment got downvoted twice. I bet those who downvote are Turkish. They are not explaining why did they downvote. They are as good as those that blocked Twitter in Turkey.
I wrote some code in PostgreSQL to deal with children's deriving properties from parents, etc.

Finally I can have this in :)
They are all inspired by the hardware and the experiences implementing high-content game workloads. The main goal is to reduce CPU occupation and improve parallelism of CPU cores. This is achieved in several ways:

- reduce raw CPU work by increasing precompilation of state and data to native formats

- reduce communication from the CPU to the GPU, by increasing the flexibility of API calls

- reduce CPU <-> GPU dependencies by moving some forms of logic and flow into the GPU

All of them conspire to increase parallelism as well since there are in general fewer points where synchronization is needed.

Playstation developers have a long tradition of doing these things since the first model; Xbox developers not so much, but still a lot more than on PCs. Since the general goal is to reduce API surface, remove abstractions and match the metal more closely, it's natural for APIs to converge.
Hotmail is a service offered to the public by a private entity, subject to certain terms and conditions - one of which is that the private entity (Microsoft) is allowed to put its own interests ahead of those of the user when those interests are threatened.

Should webmail and similar services be regulated so as to put the interests of consumers ahead of service providers? Perhaps, and in many ways this is the approach taken by European regulators in many industries. On the other hand, it has been argued that the rather onerous data protection regulations in the EU are partly to blame for the lesser competitiveness of European firms in that marketplace, by imposing overly burdensome regulatory regimes on entrepreneurs and thus making the barriers to marketplace entry far higher than in the US.
Red Rock if you're in Mountain View.
The CIA is answerable to your Congress, too. How's that accountability working out for you?
As a developer not familiar with Polymer (until now), I don't know what I was expecting, probably something like polystyrene that would play GIFs.
It actually plays identically to 2048 (except you can only rely on colours, not face values), but I still love it. Ich bin gewangernumbt!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJs3Tsx-3Ak
Now for a 2048 clone of TLDs!
Google encrypts Gmail between data centers to keep the NSA out of your inbox
You're not weightlifting when you tear an ACL skiing or snowboarding. It just seems like a poor idea.
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These cloud-y benchmarks are a joke.

1. What is the point of benchmarking so many writes? Instead, give us the cost of write-read and a few use cases: analysis, data mining, etc. And what of the bandwidth costs?

2. Say you are running a moderately intensive application that needs to be up 10 hours a day. $330/hour x 10 = $3300.
Multiply that by a few days and where does that leave you?

Suddenly having your own infrastructure with kit like this:
http://www.fusionio.com/products in it is not such a bad idea! This also means you don't have to use any funny NoSQL products, can use standard programming, non cloudy infrastructure and a decent RDBMs setup that non Silicon-valley, non-hipster humans have a chance of understanding and reliably maintaining.
Unfortunately Erdogan is out of control, they use DNS based blocking.
I'm using a VPN service so I can access Twitter, Youtube and other services easily but in our country probably 0.01% has VPN so this is serious.
I don't care if "not everyone agrees". Their boundary is incredibly low. It is literally a Dark UI Pattern. I bet your own boundary is higher than that.

No-true-Scotsman? I don't care, this one is valid: we're talking about someone who has some distant relatives in Scotland, but never set a foot there, hardly speaks English, and lives in China.

I do get that the proper threshold is not allays the same. The threshold of consent for having sex for instance, is very high (or ought to be). Still, some things I say over email are just as private as my dick.
Yea, neither am I: Grandpa had a Ford dealership until about 5 years ago, his son ran the service department. My uncle on the other side currently sells cars for Honda. I'm well-versed in the car business.

I'm not sure how your comment contradicts mine. If you get a $100,000 bonus for selling a vehicle, the marginal profit on that vehicle is damn near $100,000. Dealerships don't sell cars for a loss. Of course, that doesn't help the consumer unless the consumer wants that particular model, with the particular options that need to be sold to get the bonus.
>How semantic is ng-show="form.length.$error.float?

I could not care less. I find that talk about web programming has been polluted by non-terms like "semantic" that doesn't mean anything specific (in the context).

Especially the whole hoopla with regard to "semantic HTML", with designers (who don't know much if anything about programming, and just heard this "semantic" term from a few industry fad gurus) using it to insist developers should treat HTML as a format for reuse (as if the reason we write HTML is to enable better screen scrapping).

Endless discussions about whether it's ok to a DIV if it's purely for display purposes of not, as if HTML/CSS dont already make a clusterfuck of separating markup from presentation.

Fuck "semantic HTML" -- it's a presentation format, that also happens to have a not-that-functional styling component. If you wan't reuse and semantics, get those from the data level (the db, the REST endpoint, etc), not from code meant for browsers.
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Thank you so much for your feedback!! We haven't completely finished the site, but you're completely right. We'll have some updates soon with concise copy, more product photos, and a shorter "trailer" style video.
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I always thought technological singularity meant the point where AI > human intelligence. I never realized it was also the first big tech advancement that was omni-benevolent. Does "reaching a technological singularity" mean "the end of scarcity and the eradication of evil in the minds of man"?
Sorry but I completely disagree, by not criticising Google for doing something they do themselves they are literally not being hypocritical, by definition. You can still criticise them for the situation, just not with that word. You can still call them hypocritical for the overall situation too, just not by picking out a specific narrow case where they have avoided being hypocritical.
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Looks like we have solved the origin of the universe. Everything is just one massive 2048 game.
I just want to add few things:

Most of the leaking tapes are from the corruption investigation that was effectively blocked by the PM. His son was to be detained too but he shuffled or dismissed any prosecutor or police force that would dare to. Later he restructured the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors and did everything to stop the investigation and arrests.

The son of the Interior minister was arrested too but the Interior minister himself remained in power till he helped out Erdogan to restructure judiciary and law enforcement forces.

The legal files were leaked too. Turns out the Interior Minister knew about the ongoing investigation,so he created a team in the police to surveillance the other policemen who were after his son.

It's surreal.
It's funny you bring that up: employers need to be careful about asking where employees live, out of concern of giving the impression that a candidate's selection depends on where they live or are willing to live. You can ask "can you arrive at the job site reliably every day at 8:45AM", but you cannot safely ask "do you live in the Chicago metro area".

In practice, people do casually ask where candidates live (usually to find out if they require relocation), but companies also don't tend to select only employees willing to live in a dormitory.

Requiring employees to work at a particular job site is uncontroversial; in fact, it's overwhelmingly the norm for all employment. The same thing is absolutely not true of requiring employees to live at a particular location.
The argument I saw was that GCM is really hard to implement securely.
Thanks for the response, your points make a lot of sense. I will say, however, that after searching for info on the mosquito net situation you described, I came across this article which seems to contradict your point:

http://www.trust.org/item/?map=fighting-malaria-selling-v-gi...

Regardless, I agree there's room for improvement in terms of increasing the effectiveness of charitable operations.
Dang, I got pretty close. I got to "Flappy 2048" before I lost.
This is amazing! I cannot stop laughing! The first reversed number hit me like a ton of bricks and I couldn't stop.

BEST.2048.CLONE.EVER
I agree! I'd be fascinated by GP's point of view. :-)

Hopefully our posts encourage him to weigh in.
The only companies that pull this shit are already circling the drain.

No.

Goldman Sachs is doing quite well, thanks. [0]

[0] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/aleynikov-sentencin...
Agree. The "starts at $399" had me sold but I only learned that from the video. It's a huge differentiator and should be the headline of the site.
> And I expect that not to get better soon if nobody is using it...

If Compute Engine is Google exposing internal infrastructure as an additional product, its quite likely that lots of people are using it (and that it is strategically important for it to be more usable) even if few people are paying for it.
But the syntax you've got now is effectively a superset of PHP, and comes with all the problems of PHP. You've effectively wrapped your Big Ball of Mud... in slightly different-colored mud. The whole point of a clean-break-targeting-interoperability like this is that you can stop using mud at all, and it'll still work with what you've got now. In fact, what other reason would you have?

If you mean that future versions of Hack will evolve to have a different syntax, while still targeting the runtime... then you'll still have code around from the intermediate era, and you'll have to interoperate with that too, won't you? You'll have PHP, PHP-looking-Hack, and actually-nice-to-code-in-Hack.
In the current situation, sure. Because we don't have real alternatives. (I maintain my own web server, but that's impossible for most users.) But if people were informed, that would create a market for privacy.
When Larry Page announced on Google+ that he had donated money for flu shots for children in San Francisco,[1] he was decried by many people who commented below his post, for example,

"The flu shot is bad for you. It is poison. +Larry Page kids don't need that.﻿"

"That's right give them a flu shot to get rid of what the government poisons us"

"Awesomely bad. I think I'd research what's in those year old vaccines before injecting them."

"Injecting viruses - to attack the immune system - and hope that it activates antibodies which attack these and (hopefully) future viruses, ... makes no sense to me. Do not harm your kids please."

and so on. (Some really stupid comments that I remember from that time seem to have been deleted later, judging by the gaps in the comment thread.) If Page is getting this kind of grief from donating to charitable causes, maybe he really would rather give money to for-profit businesses.

[1] https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/posts/32xY3Z1zckL
Man, if only algorithms were that easy.

>Rule #1: O(1). Rule #2: You don't need anything else

Or maybe Buffet just meant don't misplace your money, as in losing a $20 out of your wallet and finding it in your dryer after the laundry.
>That seems like a poor reimplementation of XML namespaces

Or you know, an adoption of only the needed part, instead of all the BS junk that comes with XML namespaces.

>Why not use XHTML at that point?

Because of all the other junk that comes with it. And because it comes from W3C.
I am not excited, as MS's track record shows, any of their "improvements" are not backwards compatible with old OSes. For example IE11 is so awesome! SO AMAZING! Not compatible with Windows XP, yet Chrome and Firefox is still.

MS's desire to ship their latest OS has hurt developers over the years. I hope people still chose Open GL over DX-whatever.
That's why Australia has polymer banknotes, in a post apocalyptic situation you can combine them in a waterproof patchwork sheet.
As long as your choices don't negatively impact yourself, or your family and friends, I'd say "keep it up!"
It's kind of silly that you can trademark a color like that. Maybe Sparkfun should have Fluke's red meters stopped at the border because they are red, the color associated with the Sparkfun brand. It probably doesn't make business sense for them to do that though.

http://www.fluke.com/fluke/tten/Digital-Multimeters/Specialt...

Fluke's entry level meter is $130 on Amazon maybe they should make a less expensive model for Sparkfun to sell to the makers.
I've been using NB from Java to C++, PHP to Javascript for about 6 years. I tried others but nothing is like NB believe or not.
Despite best efforts, this is still playable because the color codes haven't changed from the original.
They seem to be computing the correlation of price levels (which are completely meaningless) rather than the correlation of price difference or returns.

Any two time series which broadly moved up over the same time period will look correlated if you compute the correlation of levels. But they could in fact be completely uncorrelated (and therefore have zero predictive power) when you compute the correlation on returns, which is what you should be doing.
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I have heard that in China, they put a doctor on retainer and only pay him when they are well.

Since you indicated that you weren't sure if that is true, I can assure that it is not. Most doctors in China are paid formally by salary, and under the table by patients who can afford bribes on a fee-for-service basis.
It made it clear which next feature should be built. I can literally predict now what each new user will ask for ;)

Those tools also taught me that I need to redo the landing-page ;)

Stay tuned as I'll write another post soon :)
1. Collect all the downvotes.

2. ???

3. Declare victory.
I love this, only thing is it doesn't have my favorite number: H

Is there going to be a Wangernumb mode too?
It’s easy enough to write a directive to plug Scribe in to Angular with bidirectional binding. I’ll post an example soon, but it’s simply a case of listening to content changes in Sribe and updating the Angular model using ng.NgModel.NgModelController.
It still is, so long as this is a momentary blip. Corruption happens everywhere. By and large, commerce hasn't been affected.

What I wouldn't do is touch anything with media around there.

Note: I lived there for 8 months in 2012, and am partnered to a Turk.
Any two time series which move broadly in the same direction will be 'correlated' if you compute the correlation on price levels, whether they have any predictive power or not.

Correlation on price levels is meaningless, only correlation on price differences or returns is meaningful.
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Well Fluke sells meters with a red color scheme too so...

http://www.fluke.com/fluke/tten/Digital-Multimeters/Specialt...
Here you go - http://serversforhackers.com/articles/2014/03/20/getting-sta...
Unsure if you are talking about "The Definitive Guide" from the original link, or "Exploring Elasticsearch" from the OP.

If you are talking about "The Definitive Guide", it is targeted to Elasticsearch 1.0. Most of the APIs and concepts are backwards compatible, but we wanted to target 1.0 because it brings a lot of great new features.
>* is there something these frameworks can do that JQuery can't? Can they make fancy single page apps and JQuery can't? I need to be enlightened.*

jQuery has nothing to do with whether the app is single page or not.

Those frameworks make writing single page apps very easy.
I think I just peed my pants.
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When you lose money for two weeks straight, it's nice to be able to figure out if it's a statistical blip, or if there's a fundamental reason that the trade stopped working. If all you have is a statistical correlation, you can't do that, and you have to guess. If you have a causal relationship in mind, you can examine the market to see if there are reasons to believe that the causal relationship might have broken down.
I was totally into netbeans until an update broke it in my environment (java issues)> I grudgingly switched to phpstorm about six months ago. Wouldn't even consider going back to netbeans now.
The basic point is, perhaps that money would be better spent addressing the potential causes of such an event.

Rather than treating it as an inevitability. And fantasizing about what we can do to help the 0.001% who will be rich enough to buy themselves a way out.