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For the person suffering from the allergy, this seems to be a distinction without a difference. The allergy wasn't severe enough to notice, and then later, it was.

This is really quite frustrating. This whole argument is about you clinging to this pedantic distinction between "causing" an allergy and "exacerbating it to the point that you could notice it", as if that were somehow critical, when it has no practical impact at all.

As far as I can see, nothing you've said has had anything to do with the original hypothesis. 'sschueller said "I became allergic to penicillin because of U.S meat." We have no idea whether that's true -- as 'sschueller him/herself subsequently admitted -- but I still don't see that we can dismiss it out of hand. Your argument amounts to saying that the claim can be dismissed because it was improperly phrased. That's pointless pedantry at best.
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Digging through the other pieces of the story to the headline nugget, we find this:
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But then my husband headed to our local corner store to buy enough gift cards to afford a stroller listed on Amazon. There, a warning sign behind the cashier informed him that the store “reserves the right to limit the daily amount of prepaid card purchases and has an obligation to report excessive transactions to the authorities.”
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So, it's an interesting point, And it's worth noting that we are leaning very heavily in the direction of assuming that people who want to be anonymous are doing so for criminal reasons. This could be partially mitigated, perhaps, if there were a way to give cash to Amazon (but it's probably the case that large cash transactions would be looked upon with the same scrutiny).
Sure, but that is a different thing than "not object-oriented inheritance". Designing with Julia's types and multiple-dispatch is different, but there are some nice patterns emerging.

That said, Julia is still developing. The kinds of people who are interested in Julia right now are probably different from the people who we hope to attract and be broadly useful for in 2-5 years. But feedback now is important so the language and ecosystem can get there!
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Now I want to read a dystopian transhumanist novel where mind uploading is commonplace, but corporations force you to checkout a new "branch" of your mind-state while working for them, enforcing a rollback to a pre-employment commit after terminating employment.
If every application provided their own encryption, most of them would get it wrong, and it still wouldn't protect important metadata. I don't think that's much of an ideal.

I don't have an issue with adding application specific encryption, as long as you also keep doing it at a suitable "lowest-common-denominator" layer.

A more achievable ideal would be for every layer to do strong integrity checking.
Coming up with such a device is the plot of Snowcrash, and somewhat similarly expressed in the Ben Affleck vehicle Paycheck.
I agree that without regulation, "approved" commercial drone usage could spiral out of control into the drone-dystopia you suggest.

I'm just amused by the the bizarre nature of the current regulation: amateurs regularly flaunt the supposed current guidelines (as they have been for 20+ years) and the FAA turns a blind eye until a single dollar is passed.

This kind of psuedo-regulation makes little sense and results in all kinds of hilarious (and equally illegal) workarounds. I once met a commercial drone operator who sold footage for TV by posting it anonymously on random video-upload sites, having the show producers "find" it, and then taking a kickback somewhere else for an "unrelated" job.
In Kantian ethics, there is a concept known as universalizability: "Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." If one subscribes to such a principle, and one believes that the world would be a worse place if everyone was willfully ignorant of important political issues, then one would hold that one has an ethical obligation to make an effort to become politically informed.
From what I have seen, not that many people have running stuff at the same time. But still, someone with a running stuff might propose to take a coffee break to someone who is not running stuff, and everybody loses (it's a bit like smoking breaks, where smokers tend to synchronize with the heaviest smoker).

The worst part is that some applications are really hard to make faster, for example, going from "slow now" to "faster tomorrow" might necessitate quite a few changes that will be validated at "slow now" speed, for months. So the whole road to a faster tomorrow will be at pilgrimage pace.
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This book is written by Yves J. Hilpisch a premier figure in the big data python world and great teacher. He has another more advanced book, which I loved, called Derivative Analytics with Python[0] and has given many well known and received talks.

Note, I am Continuum Analytics[1] alumni, of which is Yves J. Hilpisch is the European director and whose CEO was the lead contributer to NumPy for many years.

So my endorsement is not against Packt's Python for Finance but rather for O'Reillys Python for Finance based on previous work and experience of the Author.

[0] http://www.python-for-finance.com/
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I first read "The slow death of purposeless coding".
Just needs someone to grab a Python Makefile parser (e.g. http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/pymake/), a python KConfig lib (e.g. https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib though I guess this isn't really necessary) and write a ninja generator for the kernel build system.
> But the modern Java developer uses Gradle

I'm a little skeptical of this. More like the developer in the future uses Gradle. Usually when I go to a project's home page, I see documentation on how to include the Maven dependency, not the Gradle dependency. It's pretty obvious how to convert one format to the other, but my point is I think most people are using Maven.
People sign work for hire agreements all the time that grant ownership of everything to their employer. I cannot speak to the enforcement of these agreements, but they are common.
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Couldn't agree more. Use public, protected, private fields as they were meant to be used. I only dip into JavaBean anymore if I need a readable but non-writable field.
In terms of magnification, yes, but there are also many other variables that can be relevant, so I guess it's good to have multiple cheap designs to choose from, depending on the goal and circumstances. For example Foldscope seems to be using ball lens, which indeed gives higher magnification, but probably also suffers more from aberration, may be trickier to fix firmly and precisely into the microscope housing compared to the lens that are already created on a flat plate, etc., so for those tasks where lower magnification is sufficient or preferred the droplet lens might sometimes be more suitable.
The code in the second example is wrong. If a write partially succeeds, instead of writing the remaining part it writes again from the beginning of the buffer. The resulting file will be incorrect. That doesn't normally happen on disk writes, but it does when writing to a pipe.
The question remains whether we (or rather you, the Chrome team) should leave such a decision to some "metrics". What has happened to smart decisions, bold moves and instinct?
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You might need to dumb it down a bit more for me :-(

What's a core? Why would the stages burn at the same time? I thought the second stage wouldn't turn on until the first stage is jettisoned?
I agree that one of the costs for doing everything at the highest possible layer is the potential for mistakes. I don't think every application should invent their own cryptosystem; I think most applications would be well-served with Nacl, and I think things like GPGMail show another good path forward.

I agree that it would be good if the lowest common denominator provided integrity checking, but as we can see with XTS, sector-level encryption makes that hard. Hence the article. :)
Exactly. Editing WP for money is a conflict of interest unless you're being paid by Wikipedia. Hellbanning is the most appropriate action.
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Matt can you ask the AdSense team why there is not a clear form of contact with Google regarding AdSense? Why there's tons of sites thar are banned with no given reason, no way to contact Google by phone, no answer on support forums, no nothing?

I've never face a problem with my AdSense account, but I do read about this things all the time on Internet and yes, I see topics on support forums without any answer. I'm concerned on how high can my website grow without me losing my source of revenue, having to start looking for alternatives and etc.

I understand some lack of support on the services you give for free, but website owners are your partners on your main income business. That lack of transparency just make us wonder if that post is nothing but the truth. And we want to know that is not.

So, instead of just calling it "fake", "conspiracy" and stuff, why don't Google start working to make AdSense more transparent, a phone line to answer website owners even if is just in english, why not set a support e-mail?
I really enjoys the mindless strolling the article talks about. Assuming most people work 9-5, you can only take such walks in the morning or at night. Unfortunately, taking a solitary walk in my (US) city at those times is simply not safe and goes against a multitude of general safety tips.

The biggest problem is the dearth of other strollers. In addition to the lack of a pedestrian culture, US does not much of a concept of "communal life". When I travelled abroad (Asia and Africa, not sure about Europe), I noticed that there are much more people of all ages just lingering around the street/public spaces during the day and at night. They are just hanging out. In contrast American social scene centers around private spaces and networks. Lingering in public space seems out of place and such "idleness" is generally associated with unemployment and other undesirable qualities.
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I love Java, especially Java 8. But as the article points out, what frustrates me is threading. You can't do much without quickly running into threading issues. I played audio files in a game I made and it created up to 2,000 threads and crashed. Once I wrapped audio in an explicitly created thread this issue magically went away. Any kind of UI, timers, file I/O and network activity also involves threads.

The really horrible thing about these threads in Java is how hard it is to not share memory across them, because if you do terrible things happen. In other platforms you don't have to involve threads unless you want to, and you definitely aren't boxed into a situation where it becomes easy to accidentally share memory across theads.

I like Go's way of handling this. node.js is single threaded but the event loop makes it possible to do non-blocking IO without crazy Jave thread issues. Using synchronized, atomic properties and locks is not the right way to do these things as your code gets really complicated when trying to do basic things.

That gets me to my other pet peeve with Java. Just how much boiler plate there is to do basic things like opening up encrypted TLS TCP connections. Tons of cruft.

Anyway, having said that, I love Java and use it, but these things need addressing. I like Scala's Akka, I hope Java comes around and improves the horrible thread situation. I will have to check out Quasar. I know I just need to become more familiar with threading in Java in general. I'm actually pretty new to Java.
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The author is pretty well known in the (very narrow I suppose) circle of quants using Python. He has a company working in the field[0] and also works for Continuum Analytics[1] which are the guys doing very interesting things in PyData community.

[0] http://www.derivatives-analytics.com/
[1] http://continuum.io/our-team
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Given that the Laravel tests completed fine in all previous benchmarks, I'm guessing that there is something else amiss here.
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> His father lost his job, and in 2012 their family home was foreclosed on.

> They had to move into a much smaller apartment, and at the age of 16, Sayman found himself in the strange situation of helping his parents make the mortgage payments on the new place.

This part sounds strange to me.
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I would be intrigued just in general to compare against nginx or something serving a static file of the same size. Obviously that's "cheating" but in some sense it's a better benchmark for me to judge against than "what happened to be the fastest framework this time".
Not as many as you'd think. If we restrict the field to merely high power liquid fueled rocket engines that are potentially for sale (to be differentiated from makers of rocket engines that are an integral part of, say, a nationalized launch vehicle, and not for sale as parts) then you have: NPO Energomash, RKK Energiya, Aerojet-Rocketdyne, and maybe SpaceX.

Other than those companies, if you want a liquid fueled rocket engine with more than 100 kN of thrust then you'll have to make one for yourself or go begging to one of the vertically integrated rocket makers (Snecma makes the Ariane 5 first stage engine, China, India, and Japan have their own launchers, as do a few other countries).
Thanks for the advice Paul. Overall it was a great experience interviewing with you guys and meeting amazing founders from all over the world. We'll be seeing you in 6-12 months =)
yes, that what the "leave" meant :)
I am the author of the O'Reilly book.

The book mainly covers chapter by chapter "all you need" to do Finance with Python. From data structures, performance Python, (Bayesian) statistics, stochastics to Excel integration and Web technologies.

It also provides -- in addition to many smaller examples and use cases -- a larger case study about a complete, integrated derivatives pricing library.

Here the table of contents as it stands now (work still in progress! Early Release covers chapters 4-7, 1-3 and 8 will be added soon):

http://hilpisch.com/Yves_Python_4_Finance_Contents.pdf
They derive the "1 in 1 million" chance of your vote altering the outcome by assuming the distribution of votes is given by a uniform distribution on the possible vote outcomes.

I have no idea where this assumption comes from. To me the more natural one is to assume a binomial distribution - everyone else has a certain chance P of voting for Obama. Then do the normal approximation, and you realize the odds of your vote mattering are vastly smaller (i.e., exp(- delta^2) rather than 1/delta).
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Or Carmack pitched an early version of the technology to Zenimax and subsequently worked on parts of what was eventually used by Oculus during work hours. Both pitching it as a work product and working on it during work hours gives Zenimax some standing to talk about it being done by one of their employees.

It's not really impossible to conceive that they might actually have a valid claim.
The way thin provisioning normally works (e.g. on ZFS or LVM) is that only non-zero blocks are stored; an unstored block is read as zero; a block written as zeroes could be "unstored". It doesn't matter whether a block of zeroes is stored or not: it still reads as zero. So a cloud provider only needs to store non-zero blocks, and thus doesn't need to provision the full capacity to back a volume.

As to whether EC2 does this I don't know - based on your observations they may not. I think it's an interesting way to build a storage product like Glacier, even if Amazon may have chosen to do something different.
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ah, Dog Debugging - the lesser known cousin of "rubber duck debugging"

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That's a shame. How hard can it be? Out of the box defaults should suffice and make for a realistic/reasonable test environment.
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