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Suspicious package found near ASU campus was student's school project
Yes FF 28 on OSX as well.
Nexus doesn't have a storage slot because no one has found a solution to the storage dilemma. How do I add storage without bringing back the broken file explorer interface?

Also the market has shown a preference for size and look over replaceable parts, so not surprised Google went that way.
> First, we pick out visual features in the scene and track them over time, across the series of images.

Does this mean it needs to take multiple shots for this to work?
This is really useful and good, esp since the source is on GH. Thanks for putting it together, OP!

That said, lines of code is really the wrong metric to gauge the merits of the frameworks. Fewer lines of code may mean better abstractions, but it also may mean more 'magic'.

A metric that may be more useful would be to have one developer write half the project and have another finish and then compare the time they take to the time they take to do the same project with angular.
>In this paper, we show that this system is able to accurately detect and read difficult numbers in Street View with 90% accuracy.

> Turns out that this new algorithm can also be used to read CAPTCHA puzzles—we found that it can decipher the hardest distorted text puzzles from reCAPTCHA with over 99% accuracy.

Am I missing something or could we improve CAPTCHAs by mimicking street numbers?
It makes it much harder to flood a given site with a large number of actions. For instance, if you require SMS verification for account signup, and you don't allow the same phone number to be used for more than, say, two signups per month, then you make it hard to create a large number of bogus accounts.

Yes, it will annoy some real users, so it's not a no-brainer. But it will put a major brake on many kinds of abuse.
You've already defined the target market for your app/tool-- so don't "sell", rather show & tell them. Engage you target buyers in a conversation, share with them what you're working on, seek their specific feedback. If they like your demo, they will convert to buyers. The mindset is vital, you're not selling, you're there to help solve problems. But you must reach out first.
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I'm guessing either they are using nis (which it often takes 20s for a passwd lookup) or they have done ~foo/<Tab> which needs to list the home directory; large home directorys on networks can easily take 20s for list.

Neither of those is what I was talking about though, as they aren't really part of the smart complete. To answer your question, I don't have an example, I just know that I tried ubuntu a while ago and smart complete would hang all the time. I don't currently have an ubuntu machine, so I can't try to track it down.
I'd add that one of the token mistakes out of towners make when setting up shop in "D.C." is to take the name literally. For example, if your target is in the Fed/Defense space, D.C. is paradoxically probably not the best place to set up an office. Good luck getting people from McLean, Reston or Springfield or even Ft. Meade to want to come to a meeting at your office, no/expensive parking, mass transit doesn't work for most places outside of D.C. (and no bureaucrat worth their departmental budget is going to take it anyway).

The Baltimore/D.C. metro area should be considered as a whole (about 10 million people!) and for the obvious benefits of being near your customers or for the synergy effects of being near like-businesses, you have to get to know the area and should setup shop in those places if you can. Nobody in the Fed/Defense Space is impressed that you set up an office in a trendy D.C. neighborhood.

Want to work high tech? The Dulles Tech corridor is where you should look. That's Virginia and goes 30 miles away from the city. It's the Silicon Valley of the East and it's slowly getting setup on the Metro system. Want to work bio? You want Southern Maryland.

I've lived in the D.C. area for a very long time and I see this mistake repeated again and again. D.C. means the entire region. D.C. (the city) is a very different thing. It also means that you're constantly dealing with the three territories here, VA, MD and D.C. and things are different in each of them, even if nominally they're one big area.

The other one I see is that everybody from out of the area underestimates the intensity and vagueness of D.C. traffic. I've seen a long list of West Coasters, who think they understand traffic from around the Bay Area slowly slip into madness when it comes to facing and dealing with D.C. traffic. It means that you can't setup a long string of meetings all over the area and expect that Google Maps's estimate of 15 minutes will make any kind of sense. On one day it'll be right, and the next it'll turn into an hour and a half slog and you'll blow through your next 3 meetings just trying to get to them.

D.C. is also very much perception based. You're either with the in-crowd or you're an outsider. And these two mistakes mark you as an outsider, a rookie and not a player to very many of the big organizations you might be wanting to do business with.
https://twitter.com/virgilvox/status/456508036350099456/phot...

This was the student.
Yup, until someone can show me a bash editor that understands all the processes that are invoked and gives me at least context aware code completion, parameter documentation, "go to definition" and "find all references" I'd rather keep my code in a language where I can get those features.
This passage talks about what policies are included, not how the respondents are recruited / how their answers are recorded.
I will post this here as well for posterity. I appreciate the time you took to compare and contrast the frameworks and your article is very thorough. We started with backbone on a few large projects and found angular late. We have switched to using angular where ever possible given the reduced code and testability.

I think another good comparison to make that is missing from both demo application stacks is testing. It becomes increasingly difficult to test backbone with the side effects of having jQuery selectors, html elements and general DOM operations directly in your view models. One of the great advantages of angular is it's attempt to make invert your thinking about dom binding compared to other frameworks. Meaning it tries to keep the DOM and the MVVM separated so there aren't unintended side effects if you add or change html node ids or classes. Backbone more tightly couples you to a specific html model and makes testing your javascript code complex and coupled to also looking for changes to the physical DOM during tests.

In the end, the more complex problems see to cause equal headaches in both frameworks, but at least angular give you less lines of headaches.
Set aside time for grieving and time for working; it can help to set small goals. Talk to your friends, when you're ready, about how you're feeling, and ask for their help and support. Take it slowly, don't ask too much of yourself, and realise that not all your passion in life came from your relationship. Good luck.
That's been going on for two years: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha-...
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>Also the exporting a desktop side doesn't support Linux, although you can invite others to view.

This makes me wonder how much more work Linux desktop support would have been?
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The "cocktail-party answer" in this case would be "we help businesses make sure their websites are secure."
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The implication is that if they've written about it once, they may write about it again. However, as you point out, a personal connection goes a long, long way. The personal connection lets you know whether the writer wrote about it once because nobody else was covering or if it's a topic they're looking to dive into and cover more.
Wait, it's not clear to me from the blog post. Did they make a system that obsoletes reCAPTCHA? If so, it's just a matter of time before the spam systems catch up, correct? If so, what's the successor to CAPTCHA? Or is the web just going to be full of spam in the future?
Awesome!

You're right. We want to profile startups in the DC area. You don't have to be in DC proper.
I see. So essentially something like: call and set up appointment saying something like "we've been working on a tool for your industry and we would like to share it with you and get your thoughts and suggestions"?
Do simple checkboxes

We had concerns about:
a) idea b) team c) small market size d) something else
Lately I've been watching various TV shows that are using green screen/composite effects. At times, I felt there was some kind of weird DOF thing going on that just didn't look right.

Now I know what that is. Computational DOF. Interesting.

Along these lines, wasn't there a camera technology that came out last year that allowed total focus/DOF changes post-image-capture? It looked awesome, but IIRC, the tech was going to be several years until released.

ADD: Here it is. Would love to see this in stereo 4K: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytro The nice thing about this tech is that in stereo, you should be able to eliminate the eyeball-focus strain that drives users crazy.
For sure!

Head over to dc.started.in/apply/ and let's talk.
This will probably be how I control my HTPC from now on.
My experience says it's uncommon. Microsoft seems pretty good about it, and has good tools available, though it might vary a lot from team to team. Smaller companies? I've at times been revered as a testing deity when showing someone code coverage results. Other companies know what the word "coverage" means, but seldom know about or utilize the tools available. They just know they probably ought to do it, which is a step ahead, I guess.

Where I'm currently at, my manager wanted code coverage but needed someone to do it. Since I'm just that guy, I setup the infrastructure for iOS. Android, you're such a pain in the ass to setup for (rooted device, or the dog-slow emulator, and it still doesn't give me results) I'm surprised anyone does code coverage for Android. I can't remember the name of the python tool, but holy smokes it's slick and painless.

So tooling quality varies, which might have a lot to do with the lack of coverage testing. I long for the days of the coverage tool Tim Paterson wrote (yeah, that Tim Paterson). No profiling, it would inject the coverage DLL at runtime. Then, as you used the program, it would log coverage on the fly. So program running on one monitor, coverage log on the other, and start clicking. Can't remember the name of it (it's no longer sold by Paterson Technologies), but damn it was slick.
Gaussian blur looks very different from the blur produced by an aperture. You need a round blur kernel, not one with a bell curve fall-off.
It has been like this for a while now. AFAIK you have either

- the actual captcha and a word from a book (Google Books)
- the actual captcha and a house number from Street View (Google Maps)

Only the actual captcha has to be typed in correctly.
Sometimes it really is a few bad apples, though -- it's a delicate balance.

Somewhere between "the pilot got onto the plane, intoxicated, and proceeded to fly it across the country" and "a major, unforeseeable control outage led to a midair collision between two aircraft following normal procedures", there exists a reasonably competent, responsible person, capable of performing their job duties as expected.

The key is being reasonable in what we expect from people. We can't all be superheroes, but people aren't mechanical robots with the wits of children, either.
That would be interesting - but, as the article says, the environment where you're living is also important.
Point taken. Arguably it's a case of David Pye's notion of the workmanship of certainty (in this case heavy-lifting computer vision) replacing the workmanship of risk (making adept movements of camera)
But if it works better under all conditions, fine.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pye_(furniture)
But it's more than that. The truth is, buying a home is the only form of investing on margin for most. Also, it's compulsory investment and savings -- both with the principal payment and in the form of property improvements.

I'd need to see a lot more justification before accepting that leveraged investments are a net positive either for individuals or for society. In general, leverage increases variability while reducing expected value in the form of interest payments. In other words it is analytically opposite of insurance.

I do agree that program or automatic savings are a positive "nudge" both for individuals and for society, but there's nothing but status quo bias that says that this asset class has to be the heavily favored vehicle for that.

While it's true that we incentivize home ownership, possibly too much, I think it's unfair that you paint it as an otherwise neutral activity that we strangely endorse with public policy. Land has real value, you can live on (and off) it. It was long seen as the one enduring source of wealth (See John Adams, George Washington, etc). It's much deeper than our postwar tax policies.

Prior to the industrial revolution land was the primary means of production. Today that's no longer true, and the vast vast majority of real property (by value not acre) is not used as an input factor for goods. The best translation of those classic references to the importance of land ownership today are modern means of production (e.g. ownership shares in productive businesses), not a quarter-acre of lawn in the suburbs.

Governments ought to be encouraging investment in positive sum productive enterprises, not zero sum positional goods. And at least as a default bias for non-wealthy citizens it ought to encourage holding diversified portfolios of assets with transparent liquid markets and low transaction costs.
It says it is scheduled for July 21. Don't know how accurate that is.
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Yes?....er, maybe no? I don't know.
The only thing that reliably gets rid of negative emotions for me is hard exercise. Is there a local gym with classes that interest you?
Pascal is strict, but it still has stuff like “move(var1, var2)”, out parameters, etc., so it's also call-by-reference.

I didn't know at the time that Racket was call-by-value.

Quote was confusing at first, yes.
Isn't this like free mechanichal turk services? Or forced labour or something. Cynically brilliant outsourcing, tho.
>its even more challenging to try to be a remedial computer science program and get stuff done.

I have even felt this pain at a former employer who hired IS majors as devs. The only IS majors that tended hold there own was the ones with CS minors.
Man, if blocking ads is stealing, then walking away from the TV during commercial breaks is stealing too. What if you DVR something and ff through the commercials? Would that make you a thief?

Not by many definitions of the word.
Indeed, especially since I have a habit of selecting and deselecting text while reading it.
Builtinla.com does a good job covering the startup scene in LA. They are more news than spotlight though.

We're hoping to be down there soon. If you know someone who'd like to curate startup profiles in LA, we'd love to talk with them.
You're right. In my research I've talked to dozens of reporters and they all told me they are less likely to right about a competitive product soon after the original piece. Reporters gets dozens of "me too" pitches after every article they publish.
I'm sure that's great advice, but I don't respect anyone. :(
I love Norvig's articles, but by not having a date on them, I wonder if I am reading the news or ancient history.
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Also I think the UK regulator pretty much lets anything go inside the City of London due to historical restrictions on enforcement and such.
I'm curious about their stance on hardware clones such as Hobbyking, RCTimer, etc.

Being an open source company, do they embrace this? I've seen some pretty harsh words spoken on various forums from 3dr employees towards people asking about clones.
Side by side comparison http://onionpants.s3.amazonaws.com/IMG_0455.jpg
Backbone requests return jQuery promises, so you aren't required to use traditional callbacks, but that may be a pedantic distinction. It is also incredibly easy to run all model change events to a global event publisher if that's how you want to bind your logic.
Has anyone used the new Qt to create Android and iOS apps? What has been your experience like?

What does this llvm support mean?
Which is exactly why I was very surprised when it got posted to Reddit and wasn't immediately downvoted.
> rational actor

What does economic theory have to do with it? Rational choice theory is about making assumptions about what economic choices people will make when reasoning about people in general. It is a very limited view of human decision making, and have nothing to do with you deciding weather or not someone is rational for getting frustrated over something you don't experience.

But it's nice that you dismissed the author as being irrational. That's another common silencing tactic.

If you think something is trivial, ignore it.
Full disclosure: I am a former Wealthfront employee, and am now an instructor at Dev Bootcamp. We hired two DBC grads onto my team while I was at WF, and a third after I left. We also interviewed DBC grads who didn't make the cut.

Obviously I came to DBC because I believe in what they do. My experience as an engineer on the Wealthfront team was that:

1. DBC Grads were incredibly driven, hard workers, who had an exceptional ability to "drink from the firehose" and learn what we needed them to learn rapidly. After seeing my first 9 weeks here, it's clear that _no other kind of person_ can make it through DBC.

2. DBC Grads were very effective communicators. I think there's a lot of value in DBC's "engineering empathy" curriculum.

3. DBC Grads had a solid enough basis in CS fundamentals and web development to be effective immediately as new hires.

Both our DBC hires were adding value right off the bat, and rapidly grew into their role. Wealthfront has a strong mentoring culture, and mentoring had an outsized impact on their ability to grow, because they had already "learned how to learn." To be honest, they were more independent than some fresh CS grads I know. There's no textbook once you're in industry.

We rejected some DBC grads too. Like in all things, there is a spectrum of talent and ability across DBC graduates.

In the end I was impressed enough to leave an incredible team to become an instructor here. Like any junior engineer, graduates of these hacker schools are investments. I happen to think the graduates we produce are particularly good ones.

If you're curious, here's an interview my students did with me about DBC. We talk a fair amount about my experience with our two DBC grads at Wealthfront:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viLYR0kAqAc
Or ATS, which compiles to C.
These were all presumably publicly available national polls, conducted by a variety of organizations using a variety of methods. Unfortunately, the origins of this data set are with Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America by Martin Gilens (one of the authors of this paper), and thus it's difficult to learn more about them without having the book on hand.

I'd be interested to know if they only used non-partisan polls from national polling organizations (e.g. Gallup), as opposed to polls conducted under the auspices of an interest group.
If your bar is GT in Atlanta you may as well just toss in MIT.

To be honest, many of the big Defense tech folks just go to local state schools, University of Maryland and GMU have pretty good CS programs and a very high percentage of grads work at the Raytheons and CSC type places.
In all seriousness, have there been any good studies of human success rates?
In civil proceedings, there is the discovery phase where pretty much anything is theoretically up for grabs.
If they wrote about the topic once its probably because either they're interested or their editor thinks readers are interested. It's highly likely they will write on the topic again.

Introduce yourself and tell them briefly what you're doing. Then do quick checkins with them every ninety days or so. When they write the follow up story it's highly likely they will reach out to you. You will probably accomplish more than you could with a limited PR budget.
reCAPTCHA already does this, actually. It's part of the way Google trains their computer vision algorithms to recognize numbers.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha-...
Thanks for the feedback. I've considered disabling it for a while, though some folks have really enjoyed it.
That list is pretty good actually and I normally hate Cosmo. I have definitely been this person: "Hey, do you guys want to get together and play Settlers of Catan?" turns into "This was really fun. We should do this every night." turns into "Please don't leave me. Ever."

Since you can probably work remotely, can you go stay with a good friend or family member, preferably in a different city? You need someone to talk to who will be nearby all day long.

Sometimes when I really don't want to work, I have to psyche myself into it, like I'll start watching a new episode of a favorite TV show, slowly open Sublime in another monitor, look at my issues list, start writing a little bit of code, and keep Hulu on autoplay. I find that there is nothing more emotionally distracting than a really good TV show (which is really bad when you are trying to be productive, but not so bad when you're suffering). I think the key is getting past opening Sublime, once you start working, you'll have short bouts of not thinking about the ex.

Also, could you go work at a coffee shop with a friend? They can make sure you at least go through the motions of starting to work and you have to compose yourself while out.

I really feel for you man, I know it must be really rough. I hope you feel better soon :)

EDIT: I just thought about the Girls plot line where Charlie makes an app where it costs you every time you text or call your ex. Would any of these apps help? http://techland.time.com/2013/08/24/ex-lover-begone/
Content repositories have been around for quite a while. At least Apache Jackrabbit has a RESTful API: https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

(for a binding to that API, see for example https://github.com/jackalope/jackalope-jackrabbit)
I'm fairly certain this is the real goal of the project.
Last I looked it was class definitions and access modifiers that made it look java-esque. I'm not in the know however.
Java and Python are not the same language. AngularJS and Backbone are both Javascript frameworks.

LOC is certainly a useful metric in this case. It doesn't necessarily mean one framework is superior than the other but can and should be used when comparing frameworks.