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Umm.. sorry, but not everyone thinks opposing gay marriage is immoral. That's just you hoping that everyone agrees with your point of view. Which they don't.

Morality has nothing to do with defining the limitations of artificial mad-made things such as "marriage".

It's like denying the gay community their annual mardi gras because the streets are trashed with broken bottles and nothing really good comes out of it except gay people have a big party. Cancelling the party would surely bring much "gay hatred" accusations. So the party continues, every year. And every year the same thing happens - streets trashed and gay party people pop pills all night long.

Imagine if there was an annual heterosexual party, celebrating heterosexuality? Imagine the outcry and hatred directed at such a thing?

I have nothing against gay people, but personally find the whole gay activist vibe on the marriage issue really pathetic and manipulative. Fair enough fight for equal laws regarding health and so on, but marriage is what it is. You need to respect people who want to keep marriage as something for a man+woman.

If I don't agree with gay marriage, I DO NOT deserve your hatred and ridicule,
A "suburban carpet cleaner" that picks up rugs and cleans them can employ over 80 people, run 60 trucks, and does $12MM in revenue? Are there really that many frequently soiled fancy rugs in a single suburban area?
Ehh, first off the 2009 twitter was vary different than the 2014 beast. For some context: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/social-networking...

Back when they where growing from 500,000 users to 7 million total users they where having major issues and that's when I was looking into things.

Anyway, not I was suggesting 1GB would be fine today. Still, I was saturating a 1GB connection so 15M (over twice the total users back then) * ~200bytes * 8 / ~1000^3 = ~24 seconds did you have an extra 60x multiplier in there somewhere?
Jesus, if that's as bad as it seems I feel really really bad for that lady. Obviously there's two sides to every story but that just seems terrible.
> I find it sad therefore that so many smart people are driven to game development and not solve other more pressing problems. Or probably that society currently attributes so much value to entertainment.

Nobody is driven to game development, it's an individual choice. And your perspective that there are more pressing problems is an illusion. The more pressing problems are from your own point of view. From someone else's, making a living may be their top pressing problem before caring about anything else. And there are people who are genuinely good at making games, and they should keep doing it as long as they can bring good games on the market, because it benefits gamers as well. Gamers don't buy games to throw their time and money away, they do it also because they have fun with it, it stimulates them, makes them excited or relaxed, or in other words make them live in more ways than they would usually live. Not talking about flappy bird here, but there's a number of games that have depth and where you learn stuff by playing that develop your intellect as well.

Entertainment is important, because for most people, daily work is NOT entertaining nor fulfilling.
I wholeheartedly agree. Someone shouldn't be fired because of their views on a subject like gay marriage. Some people are for it, some people are against it and everyone needs to accept that. Just like some people believe in God and others do not.

Mozilla crossed over into a whole new territory. The once humble as as the article put it, politically neutral organisation for the first time I am aware of in its history caved in to popular opinion. Should Brendan Eich have known better than to air his views on a touchy subject like same-sex marriage? As a CEO yes, but it is wrong to vilify someone simply because their views do not align with those of others. Eich made a mistake, and the whole situation quickly got blown out of proportion.

The wrong decision was made in this situation and as a result, I too, uninstalled Firefox.
Every complaint about "political correctness gone mad" (that's the Daily Mail catchphrase you're paraphrasing here) really boils down to this:

I enjoy acting like a prick.
Somebody with more power than me is forcing me to stop acting like a prick.
I don't like it.
I just kept scrolling down and was thinking 'okay... maybe they weren't that great of a worker?' and then they claim that they both came up with the company idea and the UI/UX. If that's true that's all kinds of fucked.
The fundamental problem I have with Yelp is that it's full of opinions, not reviews, and people are allowed to post a star rating essentially in a vacuum, which then gets averaged against other star ratings to form a ranking. "The food was great but the waiter didn't fold my napkin properly - 1 star."

There's a reason newspapers hire professional food critics to write about restaurants and film critics to write about movies. It takes training, skill, and insight to write well-written reviews. Most people who write Yelp reviews are perfectly entitled to share their opinion, but not a professional review.

I remember a while ago reading the Yelp reviews of a nightclub in NYC...two different reviews told two very different stories:

"Oh this place is the best. My girlfriends and I showed up, they walked us right in and everyone was buying us drinks all night. So fun! 5 stars"

"This place is terrible. The bouncer made me and my guy friends wait on line for an hour and then charged us $50 each to go in. The drinks were overpriced. 1 star."

So according to Yelp, that place would be ranked 3 stars and I'd essentially know nothing about it.

The other major issue I have is that in almost all non-restaurant business, there is a hugely negative bias. Who goes and posts a positive review after a good experience at the local dry cleaner? Nobody. But if they're rude or lose a shirt, Yelp's going to hear about it.
0.9, I guess.

At some point (shortly after the 0.9 release?) one of the first examples stopped working with a then-current git build, so I stopped reading it and concentrated on the official tutorial more.
Interesting. Could you please clarify if your interviewed when Skype was already acquired by Microsoft?

I wander if Skype does similar thing now, i.e. maybe they preserved some autonomy and did not adopt general MS style puzzle interviews.
The problem is when you get taxed to do so. WhatsApp posed a much smaller tax ($2) than the potential tax you could have to pay to the telcos (roaming charges + SMS fees). This was the killer feature.
Anyone with half a brain knew that Obama did not really oppose gay marriage. When he switched views no one was really surprised... At least of those with half a brain.
Political views are about allocating scarce resources when confronted with unlimited wants and needs. The act of paying to deny a group of people basic rights that all other groups enjoy is an act of discrimination. Now, a company is a corporate entity that has a brand identity, which it continuously communicates to its audience and the message that Mozilla's sends out is in total contradiction to Brendan Eich's actions.

When the message the Ceo sends out grabs more attention and is detrimental to the corporate identity of a company, then it is time to part ways, as this will manifest into a huge consumer base loss. Why? Because consumers align themselves even stronger with corporations that push charity, tolerance and freedom as their main identity like Tom's shoes. The biggest sin a company can do in a highly competitive market is to alienate their most vocal consumer base, where they no longer see their principles reflected in the company's identity. Mozilla is now bigger than Brendan Eich.
Look at it this way. If at the time of the invasion of Iraq, people suddenly noticed Eich had donated to an anti-war cause, or maybe mentioned in private that he thought 9/11 was a consequence of US foreign policy, how many red-blooded, freedom-fries eating Americans would have asked for his head because he held an unpopular opinion?
No, twitter ban lifted because the sunday elections are past. There is no need to bad twitter until next elections.
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It's not about stopping the instinct to fuck, that obviously is not going to happen. It's about breaking down the structures and the constraints that give order to those instincts, and result in domestic and national peace, stability, and strength. The exact problem is that people see it as you've described and have discarded the importance of the structures that are in place to make civilized life possible.

A prominent husband-wife historian team once wrote of the lessons of history: "Sex is a river of fire that must be banked and cooled by a hundred constraints if it is not to consume in chaos both the individual and the group."

Our society has set itself for full-scale consumption. We have donned the gasoline-drenched firecracker suit and are currently descending into the lava. I honestly do not believe we will make it more than 1 or 2 more generations without complete social collapse, and I think acceptance of homosexuality and furthermore government endorsement and reward of homosexuality via grant of marriage are tokens of this extremely broken social consciousness. If you look back through the 20th century you can trace the disintegration step by step, and now we're just a smidgen short of ripe. I fully anticipate that ripening to occur, and modern Western society to drop off the tree and into the flames.
Yep, global vs. local routers are kinda like stay-withing-the-state.

One of my favorite ideas on this is space-filling curves: http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/mow/mow.pdf
I find my time on the toilet quite productive, it's usually when I have Eureka moments.
Could you not identify higher than normal viral scores and run some automatic checks on the links content to look for dodgy behavior (ie executing like / share links?) That would still end up with you being in a cat and mouse game of obscuring dodgyness but its a start.

Have you guys looked into sharing likelihoods of affected users? In other words I rarely share stuff I click on. If a higher than normal number of high view - low sharers like myself are sharing its either extremely popular or its spam. (Worth flagging for a manual check)
That's the wrong way to use it.

"sysdig -w" switch will generate a binary dump (in a pcap format) containing the "raw events" coming from the kernel (plus a snapshot of information gathered from /proc), so it's not supposed to be human-readable, you have to use "sysdig -r" on the dump file to get the output.

If you're used to tcpdump, it's the same thing.
Barack Obama was appointed the President of the United States, which is a bit higher position that CEO of Mozilla, with all due respect to Firefox and all. Still nobody of the people who waged war on Eich did not say anything remotely like that about Obama the whole time while he was publicly opposing it. And if you think that President's position is worth less than $1000 in cash, you don't really understand what President in the US means. The whole point is that Obama was "our guy" and Eich was not. That's why Obama got the pass and was patiently allowed to "evolve", but Eich got the "enemy of the nation" treatment.
Games, like comic strips and a good laugh, are crucial to keeping people happy. There is lots of value to what games bring for education and allowing a person to get lost in fun for a few moments. Games that bring joy should enrich a developer that brings it.

It is amazing how things have changed though, he wouldn't have gotten rich even 10 years ago as there would have been no outlet. That shows the importance of the new industries and how the money is somewhat actually going to creators, where before they create and come away with nothing.
It's disappointing when the rich complain about the poors. If you're rich stop complaining about ObamaCare and build a better a better product/service.

Billionaires, gather a few of your friends in a room & build a solution then:
1. One will build a hospital in your town, that accepts NO insurance, only cash.
2. One will build a bank that finances the patients of that hospital.
3. One will buy the loans from that bank and sell those loans to investors on Wall Street, so the bank can finance more patients at the hospital.
4. One will write a risk management API so loan interest rates can accurately be set for each patient.
5. One will use that API and start a crowd funding company, enabling "savers" to bipass the above bank and earn a return from loaning to "borrowers/patients" directly. That person will then put the bank(s) out of business.
6. ...
A system with comments attached with no poster 'real' identity pretty much warrants the dilemma yelp is facing now. What about a (food critics, etc.) system where all the comments come from your facebook friends? Would that significantly reduce the inaccurate info the user will see? People can still register fake accounts to make unfair comments but the stores do not need to worry because it is likely their potential customer will not make friends with these 'fake people/account'. And the one makes comment will be much more accurate because all of their friends can see his/her comment, so his/her comments have many social implications so most people will not purposely write some unfair comment.
Toto makes travel washlets. Imagining travel without one is like trying to remember how we used to code before Google and Stackoverflow: yes we did it, for sure, but I just can't fathom how. It's also a relatively cheap and easy way to get acquianted with this nice facet of civilization. There are other travel washlets, not made by Toto, skip those. Search eBay for toto travel washlet, less than $100 shipped.

I had a particularly bad day at a London client onsite and out of sheer desperation Googled for travel washlet (I have one normal at home and was missing it badly), not that I had any idea how you would even construct one but lo and behold, there it is.
Something I'm kind of wondering, how could one verify the claim "Yelp somehow makes negative reviews come in after a business declined ads".

I hear it so much in this that I feel like it's something worth investigating (without wanting to actually claim that I think that's what is happening).
This is really great. It may also be useful to have the phone detect when it is held near your face (setting a minimum size for the facial detection).
I don't remember other browsers running less well than IE just because it was built into the OS. If anything, I've always remembered 3rd party browsers running quite a bit better.

Not certain if Ubuntu has a browser built in, but I would say that in this day and age, if GTK+ doesn't have any native components for rendering HTML then that would really stand out. It's considered an essential feature on every other platform's GUI toolkit. Just try removing WebKit from Android or an Apple OS, or pulling Gecko out of a Firefox phone.

The last exhibit would be Microsoft scrapping their plans to ship a version of Windows 7 that didn't include IE. (Though I imagine the rendering engine would still be needed - gotta display help files somehow, after all.) Turns out manufacturers didn't want to carry it, because nobody wants a computer that ships without a web browser anyway.
As I've already mentioned, it's the labor that's expensive in either time or money since there are pipes behind the drywall that you're going to rip apart. Also some people put tile over their drywall, the very people more likely to buy an expensive Japanese toilet. We're talking a few thousand dollars.
Do you care about an exit? You could focus on a sustainable business first, of course – it's your app, that's your call. No one is forcing you to have an exit strategy yet [1].

[1] Assuming you have not taken outside money yet, and it really is 'your' app.
Yeah there aren't very many new homes in places like the Bay Area or Manhattan either
It's really awkward to write large programs in MATLAB IMO. It just sucks as a programming language. The object oriented parts make no sense and it feels like they were bolted on as an afterthought.
Just for clarity, EEE refers to Embrace, extend, and extinguish -- a Microsoft strategy as discovered by the Department of Justice -- "for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors"[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
So, being against gay marriage is so despicable that you can't even use software that is associated with organization that is run by such a vile man. But if this vile act is performed in service of being elected president of the USA, that's completely OK. Not sure I get how that works out. To me it sounds like "Did you murder this guy? - Surely, yes. - You're going to jail! - But I'm a politician, I did it to get elected! - Oh! Why didn't you tell it from the start! It's completely different then, you're free to go."
Don't Drink Water on an Airplane Unless It Came from a Bottle
Scans are photographs. Sad, but true, in this particular case.
First, the outlet for the shaver and blow dryer are far enough from the toilet that you'll need an extension cord that crosses your sink which isn't going to work. Second I've never seen a false ceiling in a residential bathroom. Not that having one would make it a lot safer. The bathroom is not a place for a hack. You really need to do it the right way or not at all.
The best piece of advice I can give you is to do whatever you can to make, and keep, it as a daily habit. It is far better to do 5-10 minutes every morning than half an hour once a week. If you want any good resources, I've got a great list of books to choose from, but whatever method you just make sure you stick to it regularly. Think of it like brushing your teeth, brushing 3 times as long every 3 days doesn't work as well as brushing a shorter amount of time every day.
This "blah blah blah Special Interests" meme so many people people have been posting today is, quite frankly, idiotic and extremely insulting. Marriage equality is a human rights issue, not just a "political issue" or "opinion." Eich was not pressured to resign from Mozilla because he voted against funding a bridge or because he doesn't like spinach. People wanted Eich to step down because he's a bigot and a bigot is unqualified to lead an organization whose mission statement is freedom and openness.
Marriage isn't a bus or restaurant. Marriage is something else entirely, it is not needed for survival.

For the record, if I had to vote for gay marriage, I'd vote yes - but mainly to shut people up about it because I'm sick of hearing about it.

This is because I don't particularly believe in marriage to begin with. So if I hold such a low opinion of marriage to begin with, how do you think I'm going to react when I visit okcupid to find them discouraging my fav web browser because someone donated $1000 back in 2008 to.... you know the rest.

Please don't draw parallel lines between gay marriage and the struggles of minorities to achieve equal rights in basic services such as catching the bus. That's completely different.
>> The whole bundling of IE - how else did you expect someone to browse the web?

Requiring IE to download Windows Update is never acceptable. Everybody likes to hate Windows Vista but here is one thing Microsoft got right in Vista (and beyond).
> Neglecting your domestic agriculture industry kind of sucks if war comes around or some other problem with imports arises,

If war comes around, ANYWAY a country like Japan will be f*ed to sustain its agriculture, with no access to commodities from outside and energy resources like petrol, fertilizers and so on. It is in the best interest of countries like Japan to sustain peace with neighboring countries and have strong trade ties with multiple partners so that a crisis with a single one would not cut off their supplies entirely.

> Food security is worth some subsidies, at least, just as a back up in case there is a problem with trade.

I disagree, because the cost of closing your borders is way, way higher than embracing global trade and benefiting from commodities that can be produced more efficiently and cheaply in other countries, even in the remote case of conflict. And if at all, this should be a choice made by the consumer, not by the government.
You might want to look at Nipy and Nipype, they provide Python wrappers for constructing an image analysis workflow. You can plug in SPM, FSL, Freesurfer, and write your own plugins for scripts.

http://nipy.org/
http://nipy.org/nipype/
Excellent article and thanks for sharing!

The new bunch of travel websites has not attempted to create a human process flow to help travelers plan holidays. The approach so far has been mostly transactional e.g., offer information on individual questions vs. tackle the whole trip (mentioned in the article as well).Those who did not start off doing so have sadly shifted to aforementioned model going to the extreme of posting hotel options on the first city page. Revenue pressure, I understand, but no one is really looking for hotels before they decide where they would like to go.

Want to tell you about WanderShip. Something we've been working on for some time now. We've designed it to be the most human flow for planning a trip. And yes it tackles the whole trip, and not only answer individual questions.

As for personalization, no one, not even a travel agent, will recommend restaurants or hotels as well as a friend who knows you for a long time. So WanderShip is not completely human, but probably does as well as a travel agent.

If you're interested, check www.wandership.com
Between gay opposition and my privacy I choose my privacy so I will continue use Firefox!
>In a letter to the Foster City, Calif., company Thursday, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) and two other Democratic lawmakers asked Gilead Chief Executive John C. Martin to explain the rationale for selling Sovaldi for $1,000 per pill.

>Previous therapies for hepatitis C helped only about half of patients and had numerous side effects. In comparison, clinical trials of Sovaldi have shown cure rates approaching 90% with far fewer complications.

I think that answers the question
Almost 10 years ago, I did an undergrad independent study at NYU contributing to some PhDs' Query by Humming music search engine. We used q to query a kdb full of catchy-melody time series data -- short sequences of "is this pitch higher, lower, or the same as the last?" and "is this note short, long, or medium?" (and, of course, gobs upon tons of variations as we iterated!).

I barely did any q / kdb; only made a functional and usable UI, and did some prototyping of new ideas in other languages (Java, Max/MSP, Csound). I spent some time looking into q and was thoroughly baffled. Still am. It was really, really fast, though!

As I vaguely understand and can explain it, the k/q system made it easy to do fuzzy searches and deal with missing pieces of data. If the user missed a note, or our pitch detection failed, or our source data was bad, we were still able to find matches. (Yes, I wish I'd been able to understand this more at the time. Bygones, now...)
Maybe this now sounds mundane, but I also uninstalled Firefox and not because of gay activism, corporate identities, political influences. I uninstalled it because it's become a bloated, slow as fuck software. Everytime I'm working on Chrome and I have to fire Firefox up to test a site, I insult it for all the time it takes to start up.
If something doesn't work, I open up the console and I'm impressed by how unusable it is. Maybe I've been spoiled by WebKit's one, but I find it a pain to work with Firefox.