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I work for Mozilla. I support Brendan as our CEO. I strongly, vehemently oppose his views on gay marriage. I personally won't tolerate any CEO-level chicanery on our internal and external policies of tolerance, though I do not expect any. I am not alone in this feeling amongst the staff. I think his leadership is good for the organization and its goals. This cognitive dissonance will likely make me even more diligent in ensuring Mozilla is an equitable place to work.
I recently signed up for a really cool (and cheap) weekly organic produce delivery.

What really struck me was that suddenly I was eating fruit that weren't all perfect. For example: the apples often have a blemish or even a worm.

Perhaps "normal" food is just becoming a supernormal stimulus hack with very little relation to being good for you...
Fair enough if that's what she was going for, I didn't see the talk so I'm just going from the slides. Interestingly shopping is probably where the new players have made the biggest impact on the 90s players (where they existed) in that list though.
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The only problem i see, the personal paper notebook I have, has 'confidential - do not open' written on its front cover. And on a second thought, is scanning a notebook a technological maneuver in our times? I am sorry for a little harsh review, but I was expecting something modern and exciting when I thought these notebooks can be stored in the cloud, at least not manual scanning of pages.
What I want is a waterproof dumbphone with good wifi tethering LTE wifi tethering. Maybe even in a wearable form factor.
Now if only they can design a smart bike that automatically stops at red lights and stop signs :p
Turn it around: it's well established that bringing a drug to market costs 100s of millions of USD (R&D, Phase 1-3 trials, the long time and limited patent protection from that, all the failures along the way, etc.). Drug companies do not make large profits compared to other companies. Where does the money come from? Where can it come from?
Uhh... it's also for Linux. Comments in the forums look like the Linux version is just as mature as the Windows one. Also the FAQ says nothing about "windows only."

Gotta make sure Windows doesn't get all the gaming glory, eh? Eh?! Eh?!?!?!
> the argument could be made that by establishing government licensed marriage as "something worth fighting for" it further entrenches the notion that government licensed marriage is a positive social construct.

But that's a completely useless and unproductive argument to make in the context of the fight being underway, let alone making it while fighting on the other side.
needs an animation for when you complete a graph.

reward my success!
Can't they do this without identifying information about the user?
More on why the display server does matter
You're right. When a design wins, we have no idea why. We've decided that, for now, we'd rather leave our curiosity unsatisfied rather than slow down the pace of experimentation by 4-6x, which is what would happen if we isolated each experiment variable.
I was just trying to be helpful, no need to be rude about it.
It's a lot more expensive to make custom-shaped cells than to pop a couple of standard cylindrical cells into a square box.
Good point - I came away with the inference that they are seeking to embed the tech. But as you've highlighted, they don't explicitly say that.
That's what people always say but it's false. You do hill climbing until you reach a local maximum, then you restart to a random state and repeat. The difference between hill climbing an GAs is that in GAs you do crossover. So in order to argue that GAs do better you have to show that crossover is beneficial. In all the cases that I have tested, GAs actually do worse because unlike with randomized hill climbing, GAs waste a lot of resources because the population usually isn't 100% diverse.

There is also a paper by the co authored by the inventor of genetic algorithms, where they try to come up with a toy problem where GAs beat hill climbing. They start off with a toy problem that is designed to be an example where GAs shine, but they show that hill climbing actually works (far) better. Then they modify the toy problem in several steps, yet they only succeed barely in coming up with a toy problem where GAs beat hill climbing. Keep in mind that this is an extremely contrived toy problem. Suffice it to say that if coming up with a toy problem is that hard, it's unlikely that you will see a real world problem where GAs do better.

Every field has its dark areas, like chemistry has had alchemists and their quest to create gold. GAs are one of the dark areas of computer science, where a lot of papers have been published but it ultimately turned out to be all bullshit.
That makes no sense.

Gay marriage petitioners are asking the government to remove a restriction - just not as many restrictions as you'd like.
Jimmy Carter: NSA has gone too far.
I was pretty disappointed to find out you have such high karma and know that most moderating efforts won't do away with useless comments like this in future threads.
He says Google isn't doing it right, then says to limit the product to things like clear lane markings and daylight. But auto manufacturers are already doing this. There are already products for auto-parallel parking and auto-following someone on a freeway and auto-applying breaks when someone is in front of you. I don't think it is a good idea to start your own company when you'd be better off trying to join examples of the two approaches that have much more resources behind them first.
As much as I like this as a way to get kids interested, and I know that NASA couldn't offer massive fundamental design differences to an uneducated public (just not knowing what is safe), I was hoping for a little more than what pattern the LED lights appear on the suit. Designs 1 and 3 look like glow bracelets stitched into the suit, and the [as of this post] current winner is just modeled after Tron.

That said, I'd donate a month's paycheck if they remodeled it to use Buzz Lightyear's color scheme and design.
Rick Levin as CEO of Coursera
I really liked the idea, so I just tried it out on my android tablet. Of course critical social networking mass isn't there yet, so I wanted to invite some friends.

Here are a couple of things I noticed
* It took me a while to figure out that the app wanted to send invitations via SMS, which of course want working on my tablet.
* you can't uninvite the people you've invited (tapping should toggle the invite state)
* there isn't any OK button to send the invites.
This limitation is only true if you can't utilize multiple small cores. Erlang would absolutely rock on a 1024 core machine, where you almost need no scheduler.
The ThinkPad x240 is thinner and lighter than a MacBook Pro and still manages to find space for an external battery, an RJ45 jack, and a VGA connector.
An interesting idea, although I can't help but think if you're that worried about Google parsing your email you should just set up your own email server.
If you are using Chrome, we've come across Sidewise ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewise-tree-styl... ) and TabOutliner ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk... ).

Have you found Tree Style Tabs has addressed most of your tab problem?
This new iOS 7 feature could change how we connect to the Internet
Don't write a check you can't cash.

A guy in my lab did something similar (not 360 degrees) - basically trying to do as much autonomy as possible via a single camera. His work is really great, however he must have spent at least 2 years on building a system to detect and remove rain drops and other distortions from the front window to get results that 'aren't terrible' for night and rainy conditions. All car manufacturers spend weeks out in the desert and up in the cold of alaska to get results against extreme conditions. CV will be no exception. There's a great paper (can't find it at the moment) that gives the problem of crash detection at a stop light. During the day..no problem, but at night, or rainy, or sunset (heavy glare), etc. CV just can't do the job, but what they used instead was a pairing microphone. The sound of a crash was distinct and easy enough to detect that it was a better solution to the problem in most conditions (not all, but more than CV could solve).

I'm a cv researcher, and I love to build and design algorithms with cameras. But saying your system will "eventually scale into a X" should never be uttered lightly, even if you have proof of concept on Y.
As an Israeli who lived through the Gulf War and served in the army, I can attest that the patriot missile was a success and massive failure at the same time. It was better than nothing, let me just say that.

The problem was that we knew it had issues, complained many times, but it was tied up in politics. We wanted to develop and deploy our own missile defence systems for a long time, but in many ways we were more or less blackmailed into spending the defence loans we receive to pay back the American defence establishment. The message was take what you are given and enrich private American companies, or else (btw for the haters, we must spend our "aid" with companies like Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing, etc., it does not go to anything else at all, so really it's your tax dollars shilling your military industry).

Anyway, I saw first hand Patriot misses and the fear after that, especially regarding chemical weapons. A huge part of the country spent time with gas masks and plastic in safe rooms during the gulf war. At the end of the war, we felt like our leaders failed protecting us sufficiently, especially when they knew there were issues.

The interesting outcome is this directly lead to various missile programs including kipat barzel, arrow, spider, and others. Before, missile defence was a much harder sell, but the aftermath of patriot failures raise the case that again as a country we had to be more self-sufficient regardless of the cost. The other reason of course is that the Americans never really had an offering that assessed needs such as short-range, low flying projectiles, rockets, shells, multiple-target tracking, etc. Today, we have arguably the most advanced short-range and tactical missile defence systems.

All of these systems are built heavily on targeting/guidance and to run on cheap hardware that can fail massively. The interceptors and computers are not necessarily cost effective and super expensive, but much more practical. Additionally, redundancy in terms of overlap of targeting errors and misses is a heavy part of deployment. Resource-wise, it's not always possible, but I know first-hand it is a combination of various operational failures of the Patriot combined with years of relentless attacks by our enemies using anything from glorified flying garbage to old Soviet tech.
> It is completely irrelevant that their one tenth of a second was not exactly one tenth of a second.

Its very relevant when the module that is off is trying to make telemetry calculations based on target Doppler velocity, which is given with real, ISO standard seconds. There is no clock involved in that. Diverging module clocks amplifies the problem.

Also, the ultimate reference is the true definition of a second. All modules are expected to be using it, as it is used to synchronize modules. It is the clock and at some level a clock that has a faulty definition will be drifting off another clock. Your distinction is irrelevant as far as real-time systems are concerned.
There are some parts of rabbitmq which is highly CPU-bound. This will probably help RabbitMQ in those areas.
It's worth adding that when we got hit, we were relying on "security through obscurity". I slept well at night because I thought nobody would be interested in DDoS'ing little ol' us when there are plenty of big fish out there to go after.

I'm sure a few of you out there are readying this thinking "too bad for Basecamp, but this will never happen to us because we aren't an interesting target." That's what we thought too...
Mozilla's leadership is far more complex than the person holding the CEO chalice. Assuming he wanted to impose his personal views on marriage down to the company there would be a revolt and it will result in his termination.

The board that elected him ultimately holds more power. On a different note if you knew Brandan you'd know that he would never steer the company in such a direction. My only regret is that he will likely resign after his turn at the throne is over. Hopefully he will choose to stick around as a board member.
If a back-to-basics backlash takes off, will it worry Google, Apple and other social miners?
I also don't like the constant connection

That's why there's the "Mobile Data" button that disables syncing, etc (At least on Android Phones)

I also don't need to read every email or see every notification (I leave them to not make a sound)

Unfortunately even like this battery life is 2 days tops for a new battery
You would be correct, sir :)
> For example public opinion on abortion has been roughly flat for fifty years.

Maybe in the US, but internationally is another matter entirely.

Also: I'm not agreeing with your wording of "blacklisting people for political views". I do, however, think that the higher your potential impact on society, the higher the scrutiny towards the outlier nature of some of your opinions should be.

In other words: The further up an employee in a company or a politician in the respective political field moves on their ladder, the more is it justified to hold them closer to the standard set by median public opinion on certain matters.
You have no idea whether he's funded those causes.

Pretty solid reason not to discuss his involvement in those causes, I'd say.
Many in the EU don't want a member state that utterly denies the scary reality of that state's not-too-distant history.

Irrationality is a scary thing, especially at the level of a national entity like Turkey in complete denial of the slaughter of over a million people.
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After owning an iPhone and an Android I've recently downgraded to a dumbphone and I can't recommend more.

I think at some point we'll look at smartphones the way we look at tobacco: a hard to quit, annoying habit…
Project Siena Beta 2: Excel-like app authoring for Windows 8 business users
My intuition on this was similar - Pick the highest degree node and connect it to a node of the same degree if available or to one with the next-highest degree, preferring nodes with less connections over those with more. Repeat.

Worked for me so far, and I'm about 6 levels in with the largest node being 8.
I'm one of those people. I don't have a smartphone and don't want one. My phone is the cheapest piece of shit Nokia I could find. The online shop I buy computer stuff from had it on sale. I paid something like 15 EUR for it; completely unlocked, no carrier contract and the like, and got a couple of spare batteries for it.

For the lack of a better word, it's perfect. It can use it to talk to people and send SMS messages, which is precisely what I need a phone for. E-mail and Facebook happens on my workstation (or on my laptop if I'm away); I am a programmer though, which means that at least one computer is bound to be on in my home at any given moment. Work e-mail happens only on my work computer, and anything work related happens during work hours. I'm paid to worry about work for exactly eight hours of day, after those eight hours are gone they can stick it.

I also get a good week of battery life (to the point that I actually end up frantically searching for the damned charger because I misplace it). No updates break my phone, because there aren't any. I can also write an SMS without developing arthritis. The only thing I'd upgrade it to is a dumbphone with QWERTY keyboard. I've had it for about two years. Prior to that I was using a Nokia 1100 whose charger broke at a time when they weren't so easily available outside E-Bay and the like and I decided it's really not worth it. The small SMS limit was also bugging me (I had room for 50 messages or so and I'd regularly forget to clear them up).

As for the "always connected" part, I really think part of it self-inflicted. I've had e-mail and IM clients with sound alerts, on broadband (or at least permanent) Internet connections for far longer than smartphones have been around. If I hear the e-mail chime and don't feel like checking my e-mail, I don't check it. I know the poor guy at the other end of the line can't see I'm reading and therefore can't answer his e-mail, but hey, it's the risk of remote communication. Facebook chat alert while I'm in the shower? I finish showering, then check it. This isn't really that a big deal. My friends know that if something is urgent, they can reach me on the phone at any hour of day or night.

I know "society is offended" nowadays if you don't answer their IMs immediately, but I'm really not friends with all society, only with a handful of people (which is why my Facebook friend list also has, well, a handful of people!)
A market that keeps coming back to me, don't laugh, is self driving RVs. A family of four could go to sleep in Chicago and wake up in Memphis. Spend the day tooling around Memphis, then hit the hay and wake up the next day in Miami.

No hotel costs, food costs could be the same as eating at home, no air fare or air travel hassle.

I suppose you'd have to wake up in the middle of the night to re-fuel, but hey, grab a midnight snack while you're at it.

It'd be the cheapest and safest way to tour a large area.
FYI your text is cut off: http://imgur.com/hyhwJLr

(Mobile users get it even worse.)
Congratulations? I'm not exactly sure if that's something you're proud of, but good luck with it I suppose.
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> And we can only be disappointed... once?

I'd think the "plural" on times would cover the answer to that question, on the level you're asking, anyway.

More to the point, yes, there are limits to what a financial contribution to prop 8 implies that thoughtful people will recognize. One of them might be bound to what an action taken 5 years ago would imply about positions today.

> For whatever it's worth, I'd somehow missed this news about Brandon Eich the first time around.

Clearly, you have been long and deeply engaged in the relevant topics.
Blocking 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, Google's public DNS servers, is exactly what this article is about.
Big Data Uncovers Some Weird Correlations
Some people care about privacy even for visiting websites that most people wouldn't care that much about.
The fastest way to age is by working 80 hour weeks, living off of pizza, beer and Red Bull, and burning out.

At what point will early obsolescence distort the supply of willing workers and compensation demands?
Microsoft releases fix for vulnerability in all Word versions, warns of attacks
Websites that hackers enjoy looking at often use bright colors overall + blue + stricter hierarchy than most (e.g. lots of boxes and a firm plan for nesting information). You might also enjoy: http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/

Blue has been discussed to death, and bright colors are never ideal to everybody, but the sense of hierarchy is the standout requirement to me. Hackers can't get enough of it. I'd guess this is because of the typical ST personality type (Meyers-Briggs).
What they mean is that they are willing to give up $N you are currently playing to AT&T in exchange for $2N in new charges to the companies you are interacting with over the internet, who will pass that cost back to you, increasing your charge from Netflix, etc., from its current $X to 2N+X. So, you'll be paying more to AT&T in total, but less directly.

Of course, they'll use the additional money to offer you similar services to the ones that they are charging other people to provide you, and they'll offer you a lower price than their competitors can in the face of AT&T tolls -- say $X+1.5N.
The way I see it is that there is a clear overlap of functionality between phones and tablets. I'm of the opinion that owning a tablet, such as a Nexus 7, makes many of your smartphone's functions redundant. So why have both smart devices? Why not have one device that does the bulk of the work while the other does the few functions that are unique to it as a device?

To clarify, I haven't yet completely made the switch to a "dumbphone", but I'm getting there I think. I currently own the absolutely phenomenal, yet to-the-point, Nokia Lumia 520. Next step is something much more rudimentary.
Rather than purging and re-installing, have you considered just updating?

`sudo update-flashplugin-nonfree --install`

This command works on debian based systems (as far as I know) and I typically prefer it in place of using apt, since your distribution's repos may not have the most current version (Debian Wheezy, for example).
Here is a nice list on what is already available: http://blog.a9t9.com/2014/02/self-driving-car-that-you-can-b... - yours is the collision avoidance system.

Having said that, I do think CV will create tons of novel products (if I only knew which ones)
If you weren't aware, you can scroll left-right on the <pre> tags.
PayPal has a lower rate for small transactions too.
Why is this an issue or a big deal? Really.
I converted it to an animated GIF. Hopefully this gives better performance for you.
Looked at from another angle, it's actually quite democratic for a candidate for public office to shift his or her platform away from their personal beliefs and towards the beliefs of those they're attempting to represent.
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Interestingly: that EFF link seems to have ignored the biggest LGBT/electronic freedom overlap IMHO - censorware.

The people who make censorware often automatically include anything LGBT-related as porn.

Here in the UK, O2 filters the Wikipedia articles on 'gay', 'lesbian' and 'transgender' under the "Lifestyles" category—the very term that homophobes use!

LGBT campaigning sites and safe sex sites have been filtered on corporate and state-owned wifi connections as pornography. And the UK government's plan to try and introduce on-by-default internet filtering will lead to LGBT teenagers not able to look up safe sex information online when said information gets miscategorised by the censorware manufacturers as 'porn'.

Not to mention, the censorware that automatically alerts the 'concerned' parents running it as to what little Jimmy is doing on the Internet - that's going to potentially out kids to their parents and put them at risk of being made homeless by their fundamentalist nutjob parents.

As a closeted gay teenager, I'm really fucking glad to have grown up in an era where the internet for me was uncensored precisely because having access to a resource that had information - and, yes, porn - that showed being gay as normal, healthy and okay was a refreshing, sanity-inducing change from the rest of society that didn't.
And if it should happen that a human operator would have likely been able to avoid that fatality? Is it a mistake in all cases to doubt the validity of the premise that humans shouldn't be allowed to drive their own cars?

It is this loss of control which creates skepticism, not magical thinking about the nature of technology. Most people are surrounded by examples of technology not working, they know it's fallible, they would be afraid of autonomous cars for the right reasons - because the intent of autonomous cars is to deny them the ability not to trust technology blindly.
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Well, it's not like a double margin would prevent them from seeing your text at all. They only lose out on pixel perfection.

Leaving a few million users out of pixel perfection doesn't sound so bad. (And out of those millions, how many will actually stumble upon your web site anyway?)
Is this available in Australia?