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I am rather disappointed with Google Now. I recently took a flight, and it wasn't picked up at all, despite all the related emails in Gmail. I couldn't find a way to manually add a flight either.

The top card is always my employers stock quotes. I don't actually care how it moved during the day.

It shows the weather where I am, but I already had a home screen widget for that.

It shows directions to places I have been before, but I can never rely on a card to be there, so I rather open Maps directly.
You caught me, you red beyond the headline.

And BTW this also happens to break Betteridge's law of headlines:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
No iframes in email. I bet it's rendered as an image.

Either way, you're trusting them with the contents of a message that, by definition, you kinda wanted to keep private.
I've used Anki for years to learn Japanese. It made learning to read relatively painless. You do need discipline to get far with it though. I managed to get my vocab deck up over 10,000 words, but leaving it for even a week is difficult.

As far as language learning goes, you also need to realise that no amount of SRS'd words is going to make you a natural, fluent speaker, so don't fall into the trap of spending all your study time reviewing.
To increase the odds of groundbreaking ideas succeeding, you'll want a system that allows certain fraction of junk idea to get funding.

I don't know anything about this particular device, but as Ed Catmull says, if you try to eliminate errors you decrease an creative output.
You use the one which you are the most confortable with.
> A very remarkable hack! Especially since Gmail caches images on their own proxy servers. I wonder how long until Google finds a way to prevent this?

I don't think they cache. It's more an issue of privacy, HTTPS assets, malware checking, etc.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.htm...
I did say "almost".

To me this is very much like security breaches. If security breaches didn't exist, we wouldn't need security and we then wouldn't have security. The blame should be on the insecure software, not the ones abusing it (those get a different kind of blame; legal repercussions).
That's interesting. I've never heard anyone claim above 30%. Though I've read the enrolment rate is in the 60% range, which could make your loan part true (within some margin of error).

Canada, considered the most educated nation, has, if I recall correctly, 64% of the population with some post-secondary achievement. But note that includes university, community college, trades, etc.
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Interesting approach, but the image approach means if they go down, your email all disappears.
@yiedyie Well, I'm not from America ;P
> As we have seen, such a view fails to account for how NDErs can experience—while their hearts are stopped—vivid and complex thoughts and acquire veridical information about objects or events remote from their bodies.

Having experimented with Lucid Dreaming... I'll call bullshit.

> NDE studies also suggest that after physical death, mind and consciousness may continue in a transcendent level of reality that normally is not accessible to our senses and awareness.

By definition, if the instrument that is failing is the one that is measuring (itself!), you're not going to get results that tell you anything at all.

I encourage everybody to try lucid dreaming, it's very instructive. After my experiences, I'm 100% certain that it is responsible for everything from alien abductions to NDEs.

It's a lot of fun, too! Not to mention a lot cheaper and safer than experimenting with street drugs, although usually, you have to pay for the difference with patience.
I disagree.
First, the human mind is not that good at dealing with decimal and numbers between 0 and 1. My car is rated 4.5l / 100 km, which is easier to deal with than 0.045l / km.

For a simple calculation, say 5km, what the easiest 0.045 * 5 or (4.5/10)/2 ?

Secondly, a car is designed to be driven over distance, so making measurement on only one kilometer wouldn't be representative of real world usage.
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I've bee studying Lua very thoroughly recently because I'm working on a toy language based on its runtime, so I gained a certain appreciation for some of the concepts Lua uses.

Given this background and my general coding experience up to now, I'm very skeptical about OO frameworks for Lua, because they mostly provide mechanisms that are neither true to the language's design nor are they really necessary. Specifically, mix-in patterns are extremely easy to implement just using core features already present.

Most languages work best if you don't try to forcefully adapt them to emulate another language. In my opinion, some of the worst features in both PHP and JavaScript come from a more or less hidden desire to mimic Java instead of being confident in the paradigms those languages already provide.

Lua already allows you to share code between "objects", and it allows you to do that with excellent granularity, simplicity, and a lot of control. There is no question that Lua is well-suited for modification and can be adapted for many things, but in this case I'm having trouble seeing the benefit (other than perhaps a programmer's familiarity with "standard" OO design which can be a considerable boon in the short term).
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for women with dense breast tissue is a sub population so it's not 3x as effective for everyone.

A much better example IMO is checklists. There cheap if somewhat demeaning and drastically reduce hospital infections among other things, but for various reasons there not in widesperad use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pronovost
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Just because something doesn't have the recurring razor blade model of revnue (as glucose meters currently do), doesn't mean a company won't make money off of them. Now they give you the meter, but I get charged about $0.25/test strip, so about $180 of revenue/year.

I would easily part with $1000 for a watch or anklet like accessory that would measure my glucose without it being possible for me to forget about it. And I'm not even the best target market for it, because my sugar has never gone low. I had a coworker with a child with type I diabetes and they had to test her sugar somewhere around 10x a day. I'm sure a lot of parents would part with even more money than I would to avoid having to prick their child 10x a day.

Edited to add: Actually, there are likely to be sophisticated electronics anyway, enough to have a timer. The only reason I can think of not to have a subscription based model (i.e. it will work for 1 year for $250) is that it might turn off more potential customers and overall revenue could be reduced.
i thought they made the abstract nature of a construct like mixins into something far more concrete.
Spaced repetition is great, but be warned - it's no substitute for really learning the content.

It won't let you draw connections between concepts, because the information is presented in bite sized chunks in a way that each concept is considered independently, not parts of a whole. I've found that I learn things much better when I see how they are interconnected and AFAIK this is supported by research.

For this reason, if you're considering using spaced rep for university courses I recommend that you write your own flashcards, not use somebody else's. The process of converting the knowledge in the course into appropriate flashcard sized pieces is a pretty handy way of learning the information itself.
after the acquisition I started having problem on Mac that would freeze everything when failing on skype. I thought it was probably a coincidence but it's seems to continue to get worse. I belive they fixed whatever bug was causing my freezing issues after over a year. by that time a basically gave up on skype.
MIGHT be bullshit? M I G H T B E ?
The Apple II and Commodore 64 were mass market successes that preceded the Mac. I expect there were others that would qualify. I think the 8086 clones came out at about the same time.
Everytime this question comes up, I like to point out that contrary to common belief, decimal prefixes (as in 1kB = 1000 bytes) are MUCH more commonly used than binary prefixes in the computer industry: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=35
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Unfortunately, it's pretty clear that we get dumber, not just slower. If you look at the first paper or the graph I linked to, you'll see that the researchers measured many aspects of cognition. Processing speed, working memory, and long-term memory all decline at similar rates. Only vocabulary stays constant or improves. Imaging also shows that our brains shrink as we age.

Another good bit of evidence is the third citation: On Age and Achievement. It shows a peak in our 40's, followed by slow decline. In that paper, they find the best model of this curve uses two factors: cognitive ability and knowledge, with the former decreasing and the latter increasing. Different professions have peaks earlier or later depending on how much they favor knowledge vs. fluid intelligence.

This is exactly the sort of evidence you'd expect to see if our brains slowly degraded like the rest of our bodies. I wish it were otherwise, but wishing doesn't make it so.
To fix,this, they should

- make the link protected by login

- accept only post requests

- generate more complicated, hard to guess tokens
there's no mainstream RoR analog in node.js, unless you consider Meteor, which has a very specific niche that doesn't apply to most sites.

It really comes down to what you know best, what you can get other developers for the easiest, and what is most easily maintained over the long term.
Compatibly with CPython's C API will always be a problem for any other implementation. The only practical solution is to switch to a better FFI, like cffi.
You're right, the Macintosh was the first featuring a graphical user interface and mouse. The point I was making still stands though, hacking was a niche at this time :)
The Wired article that someone else linked to says that the resolution was 32 x 32 (1024), if that's the same person.

The amazing part is that the brain quickly learns to interpret the signals and can create an image.

I wonder if the brains image is a higher resolution than the camera considering it's basically processing the raw data and can apply very complex "algorithms" to the data to present an image.

I wasn't saying the price was too high, just that it's interesting to think about how lucky we are to have sight for free and that people with not very much money would spend everything just for the chance to regain a small amount of vision.
In England we have a lot of self-serve counters with scanners built in. Is that not something Americans have yet?

Anyway, it doesn't 'just work'. Often you stand there like a lemon trying to scan again and again. You can pick out the people who've barely used them as they always take an age to scan everything.

And each major supermarket has their own version of these things and they're all equally as cumbersome to use, so I think barcode scanning gets easy with practice but it definitely doesn't 'just work'.
Mixins are a useful mental model for some kinds of code reuse though.

(I don't like his class style either, the constructor should return self, and I just like prototypal inheritance anyway).
I just wanted to point out that Emacs supports spaced repetition (through org-mode's plug-in org-drill) for those fond of keeping things in plain text.
What about spoofing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing
You know Google Now is opt in? Because your comment comes across as "Stop liking things I don't like"
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> Mixins are a useful mental model for some kinds of code reuse though.

They are, but I can think of at least one core feature-based solution to do the same thing with less overhead. Each mix-in or trait could easily be in its own table, to be joined with the object as it's being constructed in whatever fashion desirable.
> people who simply have hangups about the word "marriage" vs "civil unions."

oh well, that's okay then.

?!

you do realize these people only have "hangups" about "marriage" vs "civil unions" when it concerns gay couples, right?

see on the one end of the spectrum you got bigots who hate minority X, and other other end you got these people who simply have hangups about treating them equal.

> As far as I know Brendan has never articulated his opinions on the matter, they have just been extrapolated from a $1,000 donation.

The most charitable opinion on the matter I can extrapolate from donation $1000 would be if he believed that this money would somehow be used to abolish "marriage" in favour of "civil union" in general, for same-sex, gay or corporate couples all alike.

Which would be such a dumb assumption that stepping down as CEO seems again very reasonable.

> In many parts of the country, support of prop 8 is a mainstream viewpoint.

In many parts of the world, hunting down and lynching gays is a mainstream viewpoint.

Also in those very same parts of your country, there's many other rather questionable mainstream viewpoints being held.

> People who have different upbringings in different geographic areas are of course going to be biased towards certain views, and it's a bit unfair to chastise them for not completely realigning their viewpoints overnight for something that has probably been the fastest and most productive civil rights movement, maybe ever.

It's not been "overnight", it's been years (maybe decades even). Now you can argue it's not fair to chastise large groups of people over geographic areas for realigning their viewpoints over many years. I could also argue that it is fair, but that's not even the issue here.

An individual can be expected to realign their viewpoint much quicker and can therefore be held to a much higher standard. And when this person is the CEO of Mozilla, I don't think it's unfair at all to hold them to that standard either. Whoever gets to make that call.

> This could have been an opportunity to attempt bring someone, a powerful CEO, to the side of being informed and support gay rights but instead it was a witch hunt and an embarrassment.

It's not a real witch hunt until we test the hypothesis that bigoted CEOs do not actually catch fire if you burn them at the stake, because they will be saved by The LORD for their unquestioning dedication to the sanctity of marriage. This is a widely held belief in many parts of the world and I guess the only real solution is that everybody just have at it and we'll see who gets out alive in the end (a traditional method of conflict-resolution that is also practised pretty much everywhere in the world).
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Heard him on NPR last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Z7iUHlLSY (5:49)
As deluded as it is, even honestly wishing for that betrays a smallness of character I find astonishing.

You know how in ancient times people who figured out how to predict an eclipse went on to play big boy with their oh so advanced, magic knowledge, and had that go to their head? We still live in those times.
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Unit prefixes should be unambiguous: 1 GB = 1000 MB; 1 GiB = 2^10 MiB. People who say 1 GB = 1024 MB are wrong. Let's not perpetuate this slip in judgment (while acknowledging that many programs still do use this misbegotten system)
I highly recommend all of tympanus/codedrops articles and examples. http://tympanus.net/codrops/category/playground/
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If you know Scala it's a good refresher & run-through of the motivations. If you don't, it's a nice summary if you need to know something about it (to make an educated decision, fake your way through an interview, whatever).
Oh, I hate that thing.

Resizing the window takes just over two seconds to redraw, rather than being instantaneous. And when that affects the width of the text, it doesn't recolour them, so you get a bad mess. And using it on an article this long causes Firefox to have on its account explicit allocations of 214 MB, rather than the 20MB that I would consider to be slightly excessive but permissible.

Oh, I hate that thing.
There's supposed to be a little menu you can bring up on any card where you can tweak the settings. You didn't get one?

(Note: I'm not trying to blame the user here -- if the menu isn't discoverable, that's Google's problem to fix.)
Some of the consumer delivery firms that Amazon use in the UK have started texting the night before (or early on the day) with the option to either delay delivery or to deliver to alternative -- but the alternate delivery address must be in the same postcode (between 1 and ~20 houses) so no re-routing is required.
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No, there isn't any need for that. There will of course be some spread but it isn't intentional or planned. They don't need a solid distribution of verticals and locations for what they offer to clients since they don't need to see their clients ads just click like on their pages.
It would be better if this article had been using real Lua code, and not starting with a "class" function. Lua does !NOT! have classes. Lua is a prototyping language, and anybody can handwave an own class system, or go without classes at all. The idea of mixins makes only sense in languages that have classes. Lua does not. References have a metatable, and this metatable contains functions. The functions are independent of the reference, and there are no classes. So basically all functions in a metatable are mixins by default.
If you drag a miscategorized email over to its proper tab, GMail learns from the experience.

Perhaps this fact needs to be made more discoverable.
The only thing worse than April Fools Day is the submission of April Fools jokes five days after the fact. This was a rather lame one too.
> From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to prove that this is no lie.

--Hokusai
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Because at the same time new markets where liberalized. In fact it was a major part of the US doctrine since second world war. To open up new markets for American companies which they have done very successfully.

You could have jobs for everyone if you just gave them 50 cent an hour so no that is not question as it's missing the point.

I find the continued apologetic nature of your and some others argument amazing. Technology does not create more jobs than it destroys it help create new markets.

But at the same time it removes jobs from the middle class and leaves only either high tech jobs or Wallmart like jobs in the US (and europe)

If you think that is a sustainable model and proves that the market works just fine I think you are mistaken.
There's more under http://reactjs.net

I'm surprised to see facebook interested in ASP.NET MVC development.
Correct

I once worked in a company that had a manual for communications/dealing with the media, etc. And this was given to engineers.

(it was a company that did a product that was bought by governments and had an impact on people, so the chance of being interviewed by the press was higher than average)
I would image the complexity being really high because the game is about racing against other AIs. What do you think?

And I'm afraid local versions are out because:

1. players would reverse engineer the server's simulation code

2. we don't want to give access to other team's bots
For me the "wand" displays 10 questions, which have a great deal of redundancy (5 out of the 10 are about the weather, for example.)

I wish it would pop up more cards by default that I could like/unlike, so it would learn more about my preferences over time.
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Given that the tech world needs less and less people to run a successful company it also needs less and less people to serve it. Of course there are lowskilled jobs that is not the discussion. The discussion is whether there is enough.
This. If it’s a significant app just use what you’re already comfortable with. Don’t go crazy trying to pick a tech stack, it really doesn’t matter much anyway.

Also, I can’t speak for PHP but there aren’t any frameworks for Node that does nearly as much as Rails does (Sails[1] being the closest, but yet still far)

[1] http://sailsjs.org/
It is part of the Tarsnap bug bounty (http://www.tarsnap.com/bugbounty.html). When I first heard of the bounty I gave it a shot but could never find anything. I ended up learning from the code, which is priceless.
It does but it's unrelated, I think @sieisteinmodel meant it was far too distracting.
What's going to happen when things like this become common and they're attached to storage devices? Like when we have BMIs and neuro prosthetics, how will copyright law be enforced? will there be a special "data control agency" that has access to my BMI to make sure I don't copy any information I don't own? Hopefully we'll have some sane laws regarding copyright and software patents by that time. IMO we're on our way to a point where the government needs to step in and keep this kind of hardware/software open source and imho they also need to make laws that make not reporting a bug a semi-serious crime, and very serious crime for agencies that exploit bugs in secret.
I don't think schofield's response was great, but he certainly didn't pretend the submitter was making something up, he just didn't think the information exposed is sensitive. Realistically this isn't a bug in the software, it's an issue with the design of the invitation feature from a legal/UX standpoint. Either the user sending the information should be aware the information is not private and/or the invitations should expire at some point.
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... his take on Impostor syndrome is a bit backwards, too (:

> Constantly seeking to produce better work, he apparently exclaimed on his deathbed, "If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter."
"non-invasive glucose testing is a 'holy grail' of diabetes research efforts and would be hailed as a major breakthrough--something covered by major media outlets and aggresively pursued by all of big pharma and biotech."

How is this any different than Occulus VR?
I am bookmarking this thread for times when I am down/ worried about my future. So inspiring to hear from people who have been hacking for this long.

I don't think that ed wiessman(edw519) is 60 yet but his advice seems like coming from someone who has been in the business of programming for centuries.
People located in non-US jurisdictions (particularly those countries which have a high level of corruption or can otherwise subvert international judicial processes) have less to fear in the way of legal consequences and therefore the likelihood of fraud is much higher.
Don't sell virtual currency on eBay I guess?
Because it's a book, and thus at the whim of the author?