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The problem I have with this is that I end up using the gross take on projects to float my receivables. In theory your idea has merit, but in practice we all have cash flow challenges and the money I owe uncle sam can bridge those challenges for me.
Cofounder of Kumu here. A little about this map - we normally work with social networks and systems maps but thought it could be fun to map the ALS challenge since the format naturally built its own network based on the nominations. It's also fun to watch some of the celebs in their own element, often with their families. Hope you enjoy and this saves a bit of time searching for videos!
Reminds me a bit of the problems RBS had after large cutbacks and outsourcing
had removed a lot of the in house expertise from their batch processing team.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/28/rbs_job_cuts_and_off...
The ODFI usually places a daily limit based on the anticipated types of transactions, how risky your business is, how well they "know" you, and a variety of other things.

All of that depends on the bank, and is somewhat negotiable. We had much better luck talking to a local bank where we were able to get a meeting with the head of the business banking division.
I think in part they achieved what they want to which was to accelerate what was available at the $200 price point.

The other manufacturers while not a cartel where in no hurry to reduces pricess and the stuff available at point was horrible shit like the Orange San Francisco.
Dont the hyperboiloid chimneys have something with maximizing its surface? I think i remember sth like that from a course, but it is too far.... can someone confirm/reject?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo

Work is progressing. That's a $300K robot.

(edit: no affiliation. Video shows PR2 robot at Berkeley folding towels competently but very slowly in 2010)
The new Moto G is larger than the old version (129.9 mm (5.11 in) H; 65.9 mm (2.59 in) W; 11.6 mm (0.46 in) D).
Ah; you're right. I was recalling a statistic that Walmart's margin on specific items can be as low as 1% and must have gotten them confused. :)
I was thinking more of adult education, the same principle applies to children. Socrates had the example that if schoolboys could choose their teachers, they would elect the pastry chef.

Just focusing on the adult education market, it is extremely clear that the most well-known educational products are those associated with non-educational marketing factors: institutional prestige (MOOCs), television advertising (Rosetta Stone), famous people (Bill Gates & Khan Academy).

You rarely, rarely, rarely hear about educational startups that are excellent, financially independent and successful. It CAN happen, but if you are planning to build a startup with that in mind, you will have a much harder time than if you raise cash and put education behind marketing, marketing, marketing....
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Toss education into the private sector, problem solved. The market will sort out what education formats perform best - what else you guys want to talk about?
I thought it was going to be about homophones in historical linguistics.
> > companies need to replace their switches.

> Actually, most Switches are just fine and don't need replacing. IPv6 is a Layer 3 Protocol, most "Normal" Switches operate on Layer 2 (The Ethernet Level, which stays the same and (in the best case) does neither know nor care what goes on in Layers above).

But these can't do routing, I assume. I think I may have misspoke, and said "switches" when I should have said "routers".

If routers from the last 10 years all support IPv6, that's probably a part of the reason that IPv6 access to Google in the US is 10% IPv6.
I have 54 feeds in NewsBlur and only 3 of them are Atom.
Very true. From 1870 to 1890 SO was 90% of the oil market. By 1907 they were 68%.

Their main competition was from Russia oddly enough.
That's a really great example of reusing capable hardware.

The clipper card system used in the Bay Area by BART etc is technically capable of this as well, but it hasn't been implemented and probably never will :(
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Yes, the question not talked about in the article is how to disseminate the information to US companies. You'd have to be part of the club. And then it raises the question if the big guys spy on our own smaller companies that are not part of the club.
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Example project partly motivated by that idea:

http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/owen/machine/cronos.html

(no affiliation)
Is it possible for mods to make title less linkbaity? Even if the target's title is.
At 5 seconds an image using a tool like ImageMagick (which might be optimistic)

Are you sure ImageMagick would take that long? I haven't timed it, but I don't recall thumbnail creation with ImageMagick taking that long.

Also, if you can parallelize it, it won't take 115 days.
Don't all people have an equal right to education?
Good point: note that they get the customer's money before they pay the supplier (their accounts payable are a multiple of receivables), and they sell the merchandise before they pay for it (their payables are a multiple of their inventory).
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I don't think you're very familiar with any of thisthis technology.

24p looks great on plasmas.

We're talking about the drawbacks of a 30hz refresh rate here. There are no 30hz plasma displays. They run at more like 600hz.

I'm pretty sure modern LCDs refresh at a multiple of 24, and can natively refresh at 24 FPS when they detect 24p content

Again, that's pretty far removed from anything we're talking about.

Yes, consumer LCDs often run at 120hz these days and yes, one reason for this is so that they can display 24p content (120 is a multiple of 24) without judder.

If Dell had managed to make the world's first 5120x2880 LCD monitor that runs at 120mhz or higher you can be sure they'd be trumpeting that fact.
When I last travelled to London, with kids, I was researching how to get an Oyster card. I'd used one before but borrowed from relatives in London, that wasn't going to work this time.

So I assumed I'd need a "tourist" Oyster as I wasn't a resident. But when I looked in to it as a tourist you had to book well in advance so they can post a card to you - whilst if you ignore the "tourist" offering you can just pick up the card at your arrival station (Victoria for me, very easy, was from a machine IIRC). Also the charges seemed higher for tourists somehow and there seemed to be difficulties giving the card back and getting a refund - I could see no reason to have a tourist Oyster.

One of the kids travelled free, with me, as it happened which was great. The only problem is that the automated turnstiles wouldn't let us through separately without us paying twice (for which we'd need a different Oyster) and I got "munched" on a couple of occasions one of which gave me a very sore back, it was quite vicious.

Traveller beware!
> Many even created specific dev centers around the world (i.e. London, Moscow, India, RTP, Dallas) specifically to do just dev.

Being in Dallas, I have poked around at openings for some of them. They seem to be the epitome of enterprise HR buzzword bingo.
Education isn't a right. It is a choice.
Yeah, I'm surprised nobody ever does the math. Walking out of work to go to a restaurant takes at minimum 1.5 hours by the time you gather a lunch group, wait for at least one person who has "just two minutes" to finish some task, figure out where we're going to eat (in any decent sized group there's a vegetarian, or someone who doesn't like Korean, or someone who just ate a burrito last night and doesn't want mexican, etc), walk to the garage, figure out who's driving, move child seats, drive to the restaurant, park, order, eat, figure out who owes what and split the bill, pay, drive back. Whereas eating in the office takes ~40 minutes and is probably a bargain for employers: it not only makes me grateful, but they get 45-60 more minutes of work out of me.
tel/env-parser-talk has the most updated code. I'd love some discussion on feature engineering before I push it. Want to email me or leave an issue on that repo? I'll probably get some time this weekend to knock it out.
I'm surprised more articles don't mention the time all the main Anon networks got breached by ZF0.

http://www.gonullyourself.org/ezines/ZF0/zf0%204.txt

:D
I was recently offered a DevOps job at Citidel making well over $150K/year in Chicago. I don't consider that as "janitorial".
They're turning a profit continuously: it's just that they're turning that profit into warehouses rather than into cash.
These write ups on ACH by the zenpayroll team are fantastic. I've had to implement similar files, like settlement files, EFT files (for Canada), etc, and they are not fun, and the various rules you have to deal with when interacting with financial institutions can really boggle the mind.

One institution I was dealing with had a spec for a fixed-record-length file, but when I received the file in production, they truncated it to the last non-whitespace character, which was something not in the spec.
>Fascinating.

If you have low self-esteem maybe. Rockefeller was a piece of shit.
Might work well in cafes.
If you majored in physics, you'd probably come to find out this isn't specific to CalTech, but it's typically specific to hard sciences and engineering disciplines.

Probably 80% of the physics courses I've taken (and people that I know have taken) are almost all like this. Open Note and/or Open Note+Homework and/or Open Book (and occasionally open laptop), typically with a class averages of around 40-70% on the exam
It's worth comparing to Apple who's stock price went backward when growth slowed (even though cash was piling up literally by the billions) AMZN could create profits but, unlike Apple, it wants to take every penny and reinvest it directly into new markets.
Sci-Fi author L. Sprague de Camp's 1963 book, "The Ancient Engineers", is also worth a look, from early Egyptian engineering up to Galileo. From an Amazon review: “History, technology, culture, finance, and sociology intersect here. It’s not history from the top (kings and such, which some say is dry), nor history from the bottom (average people, which is necessarily endless and perhaps not very revealing). It’s history from the nuts-and-bolts middle–how structures were built, how materials were transported, how wars were fought. When you know this sort of foundational information, everything else becomes more real.”

Review: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/l-sprague-de-camp...

Preview: http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Engineers-L-Sprague-Camp/dp/03...

Excerpt: "Everybody has heard of Julius Caesar - but who knows about his contemporary Sergius Orata, the Roman building contractor who invented central indirect house heating? Yet
Orata has affected our daily lives far more than Caesar ever did." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergius_Orata)
Yes, I agree with both of you about the desired direction of change. Where I disagreed was with the assertion that the problem with edutech companies is one of putting technology ahead of "interface". I also hope that innovative school structures help solve some of these problems.
This only works for certain classes. You can't study history without memorizing things.
Much of this feedback misses the point -- the presentation is meant to supplement other forms of study. Read the paper a couple of times, and then come back to this. You'll appreciate its dynamic nature then.
Huh, why does the original Wired article say "19th century math genius" instead of "Gauss"? Is Gauss really that unknown to Wired's audience?
What's with the asterisk next to "With a guaranteed upgrade* "

The footnotes on the page say:

* Officially licensed College Cases by UnCommon.

which makes no sense.

It's annoyingly common when sites put asterisks on things but never actually include the footnotes it's supposed to refer to.
I can't use my debit card without a PIN, so I would hope that other people cant debit my account without it. Otherwise I'd like to have the same privilege.
Are they working towards building a formal grammar? I thought so from yesterday's discussion, but I don't know how hard would be to get a sane BNF for markdown
Vivisection is immoral and evil, be it done on a human or an animal.
You can say the same thing about public sanitation.
>Education isn't a right. It is a choice.

That's a poorly thought out platitude. Plenty of rights are also choices such as the right to vote, to remain silent, to bear arms, to a trial by jury.
Yes, but at least now it works with all pure-python packages. Previously, namespace packages requires some pretty serious contortions.
There isn't one.

The exchange rate between capital and labor (i.e. the most important economic variable in the global human society) is far out of whack. It's a 9/11-scale moral catastrophe [0] and has been for quite a while. It's at a low point, because the concentration of capital has made those with connections to it into a set of corrupt gatekeepers with more power than any government, and more than any individual and most businesses.

Anyway, possibly 90 percent of top-talent people are doing work far below their capability. Travel overseas to some poorer ("third world") countries and it's 95 or 99+ percent. I know math majors in the Philippines and even in Hong Kong (which is not poor at all) working call-center jobs.

[0] Yes, depriving billions and impoverishing a significant subset of them (obviously, the direct victims of Silicon Valley chicanery-- see the Schmidt/Jobs collusions-- are rarely impoverished themselves; but people in other countries suffer more severely from the devaluation of labor) constitutes "9/11-scale moral catastrophe". I invoke 9/11 because it started a war. Maybe this will, too.

Google's "free massages" have become a lightning rod for this sort of supposed spoiling of top technical talent. When I was there, you got one per year (on your birthday) plus one for starting out. It's not like you get free massages whenever you need to relax. It's not devoid of value, but it comes out to about $75 per year-- a tiny marketing expense for getting "free massages" out there. In other words, while top talent's approach value (and, one can derive, market value and leverage) isn't high, it isn't zero.

Right now, talent and capital exist, both, in abundance. We have shitloads of both in this world. The problem is a small parasitic set of well-connected influence peddlers and bureaucrats who've managed to become gatekeepers in access to that capital (often, passive investment capital that isn't theirs). The enemy isn't "the rich" (there are plenty of good rich people) or governments (indeed, many national governments and militaries will be our allies when we finally go to war on the global elite). It's the fact that despite an abundance of resources, a small number of players have developed, through upper-crust favor-trading rather than merit, an egregious and malignant control over their distribution. There's a term for this: corruption.

But with the number of smart people out there (especially in the poorer countries) who are working in dead-end jobs, there is definitely not a "global talent crunch". It's a corruption problem.
Couldn't you use a coloured "light pipe" instead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_tube)?
The files are scanned TIFFs in the 25-30 MB range so we're thinking 5 seconds might be on the optimistic side.

Yes, definitely planning to parallelize but we're likely limited to four simultaneous instances so that will still take ~20-30 days.
I just said its not a right. So to equate it to other rights doesn't make sense.
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I love the format of this thread:

How bout this idea..

>> already exists, here is URL
This is the truth. From what I have seen, organizations are bad at acquiring the technology and support they need because most managers lack the relevant experience to have any real oversight over their employees or contractors.
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Banks frustrate me, and I don't think there is any technological excuse. I suspect the systems are antiquated and they are not motivated to change. They use security as a cover for their slowness.
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I only partially agree. Just recently, pretty decent stepper motors have become very cheap (~$6 for NEMA-17), thx to all this 3d printer boom, and lots of things are now finally possible to implement on a budget.

But I agree that good servos with high torque are still super-expensive.
> it will be easier in the future

Complexity expands so as to fill our current mental capacity.

Each level of abstraction divides the cost per feature and so multiplies the sum of total complexity.
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There is no such thing as "American football", that's gridiron ;)

Back to the subject, what I meant is that the fact that the ref has power of life and death over a game is a side effect of his role as the enforcer of rules; but we don't define the game of football as "the game where you have a referee", do we? The essence of football is in its rules, not in how they are enforced; otherwise people couldn't play it in parks without refs.

If tomorrow we could have a perfect "refbot" software that can automatically call fouls from TV with better accuracy than human referees, using it wouldn't mean that we are not playing "football" anymore -- the game would be exactly the same, only rules would be enforced without a human ref. (as a sidenote, such a refbot would wipe out a lot of corruption overnight, and I for one would welcome it with open arms -- never again should we see shambolic farces like the 2002 World Cup, Henry's and Maradona's "Hands of God", etc etc).
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FWIW, some benchmarks say GraphicsMagick is faster than ImageMagick. http://www.compsci.wm.edu/SciClone/documentation/software/gr...

I suggest actually timing some of this stuff before writing off the idea. If an image can be processed in 1 second, and you can parallelize it to 4 cores, some quick and dirty (and probably useless) math says 2 million images could be done in just under 6 days. I don't think that's too shabby for 2 million images.
Judging from the questions these are probably first year college students.

What the question is trying to elucidate here is if the student has a working conception of how scientific explanations work. I'm not sure how you are getting from there to "a mountain of oversimplifications and generalizations". I know from personal experience tutoring first year students that they can have a very (and I mean very) shaky grasp of what it even means for something to be scientific rather than unscientific. This groundwork has to be in place before students can proceed to digest any science, in this case psychology no doubt. If anything knowing about the ways in which our beliefs can be (rightly or wrongly) formed will only aid critical thinking.

I think the question is an OK question and that the question you would replace it with obscures what the student needs to learn about. In fact, if you don't mind me saying, I think your replacement question quite odd.
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Wages are a kind of respect. One that is very important.
A moot point. The scientific studies ruled out treadmills as an effective alternative. Your first post make it appear as if you hadn't even read the article. I'd argue that increased heart rate was demonstrated not to be a likely cause.
> 99% of these jobs are city based and require you to relocate. Why? If my work is all done on the internet, why can't my commute be aswell? Why should I have to constantly migrate when I have a perfectly good and happy place to live out in the country? Why isn't remote working catching on more?

This has been my experience as well. I moved from the Bay Area back to a place in the US with more a reasonable cost of living (in the same time zone as family). Local jobs have no clue what market rates are, or even how to hire competently (no work samples, or technical problem solving). When I try to look for remote work online, companies in both NY and the Bay Area stop the conversation when they find out I'm not willing to move. Even Hired.com, which has a location checkbox marked "Remote", asked me to delist my profile until I am willing to relocate.

How do you all go about finding remote work?
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Could you suggest an alternate from the body of the article? How about this:

Article text: "$10 million that he has personally invested in the Big History Project" -> "Bill Gates personally invests $10 million in Big History Project"

Article text: "Barr allowed the Big History Project to replace World History, which is known as Global Studies in New York, as a required course." -> "Big History replaces World History in Brooklyn high school"
In the US, banks are all owners of the Automated Clearing House, and every time a vote comes up to modernize it, they don't get a majority vote because they sell products to "move" money faster at a much higher premium:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episode-...
Education is a human right. http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a26

Of all of the countries that are top performing (as rated by NCEE), which have privatized school systems?

http://www.ncee.org/programs-affiliates/center-on-internatio...