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In case it helps:

I've been a subscriber for several years, and this is the first I've seen the Education Guide. It might just be because I'm oblivious, but perhaps you might want to make it more prominent on the "New to ExpertFlyer" page?

I've learned everything in there by osmosis at this point, but the strategies would have been a cool thing to know when I was getting started.
I appreciate the spirit of the message but opportunity cost is something that demands attention. Most of my why's allude to the fact that life is short, I only have so much time, and I better ensure I'm making decisions that don't pull me down bad paths or from paths I'd rather be on.

Dive into things head first, just make sure you're diving into the right things.
> [...] this makes me wonder if flight search services are just rising the entire market prices, [...]

Not in general. The airlines account for that. (Otherwise, if the market could bear a higher price and still get reasonable demand, the airlines would have raised prices to that level in the first place.)
I found the word "slightly" here to be misleading:

"The risk of death or serious complications for babies was the same in all three settings, with one exception: In the case of first-time mothers, home birth slightly increased that risk. Nine in 1,000 cases would experience serious complications, compared with five in 1,000 for babies born in a hospital."

0.5% versus 0.9% is nearly a doubling of risk. That looks significant to me, not slight at all.

And the base rate (~1%) is large enough to make the impact worth considering. (Where on the other hand, a doubling of risk in airplane travel, a very low-risk activity, would not be worth worrying much about.)

The guidance given takes this into account, differentiating between first-time and repeat mothers, but the article sidesteps it.
Yawn.

The most important line for me is: "With no obvious rivals, the triumph of the Californian Ideology appears to be complete."

This line is more true than the author realizes. There are no better ideas.

I have this deep and all-encompassing sense that all political ideologies have failed, and that nobody in the realm of political or social ideology has had anything relevant to say about the human condition for a very long time.

Almost everything I read -- liberal, conservative, libertarian, socialist, green, doesn't matter -- sounds starkly "retro" to my ears... the endless rehashing of the same tired old arguments over and over again. It's as if nothing new has been thought about politics or society in 30+ years.

I also have this sense that everyone sounds reactionary. Everyone is arguing over what we should go "back" to -- back to the 50s, the 60s, pre-industrial hunter-gatherer societies, etc. Almost everyone, liberal or conservative, builds their arguments around the idea that there's some mythical golden age that we need to go back to. I think this is an admission of intellectual bankruptcy by the whole lot of them. Nobody talks about working toward anything because nobody's got the faintest clue about any systematic, coherent program that might make the world better.

That's why people aren't struggling for anything. They have no idea where to go.

Didn't Nietzsche predict this a hundred years ago -- that eventually we'd hit this time period when nothing seemed true and all ideas seemed spent?
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I don't see your submitted mission in the system, and the link in your post seems broken. Do let me know if you're having any problems.
For many geeks, Anonymous is the gateway drug to political and social activism
It's actually pretty easy to open an airline, all things considered. You don't need that much capital, since you can lease the planes. And you get your fare revenue before you render the service---ie an inherently cash flow positive business.
Shoutout to the journal that rejected the research team's findings, once for being impossible, then once for being mundane.
That seems like a pretty poor example when no one would argue that it's morally wrong to require that some professions require licenses to operate (would you support an Uber for medical care as well?).
On some level we don't really forget - when you reread a book it comes back to you like a stream, all the insights and connections appearing stronger and clearer than before.
Iraqi Odyssey
No, these are fair 32bit GFLOPs. No, VC4 do not throttle, power figures are given for the real max load.

And I never managed to get close to 8 ins per cycle on A15, but, for example, an FFT implementation on VC4 is pretty close to a theoretical performance limit. And a fully loaded 4-core A15 will draw far above 500mW anyway.
Skype Can Now Do Spanish/English Translation in (Almost) Real Time
Couldn't that be addressed (if a large enough effect to be a problem) by just having the body of the vehicle spin at a low rate, like less that 1Hz. With appropriate sensors this wouldn't be a problem[1]. More to the point, there shouldn't be any need for sustained constant "cyclic" input anyway, in normal maneuvering.

[1] an axially-symmetric imaging system could compensate easily, e.g. a panoramic system.
I do a lot of reading / annotating on my iPad. My other use case mostly involves emacs. I'd love to have a Linux matchstick dongle that I could simply plug in to my iPad to run emacs (and associated goodies like R, Python, etc).
You can safely microwave food in certain types of plastic - sous-vide cooking is far lower temperature.

But the initial premise is unfounded. Some of the most toxic chemicals occur naturally.
Draws too much current. Older strands used to be parallel and were a frequent cause of fires.

LEDs use less power but don't work well in parallel.
I think its a bit harsh to call the papers "filler", but the reality is that most papers (in CS, anyway) are incremental work on important but well-studied problems or work on problems that are fairly narrow or not universally considered to be important. Reviewers tend to have wildly divergent opinions on how important or interesting that kind of work is.
I am more curious of the inverse: what if more that 22.5% of papers were at acceptable quality levels? Wouldn't that leave each committee to pick and choose, thus artificially inflating their disagreements?
Anywhere, really. I think with the exception of Yahoo, most tech companies today will at least entertain the conversation. Of course it depends on what you're doing. It's an easier sell for a dev than a pm, for example. And much easier sell for a software person than a hardware person.

I'd say line up a job and then drop the telecommuting bomb during your salary negotiation. Always worth a shot.
I want to add Django as a great alternative to rails, and Ember as a great alternative to Angular. Just for OP to consider.

Python is a very universal language, and the main benefit is that you can apply it in almost any area of programming.
>why there is a need to involve a micro-controller? //

Easiest way to implement bluetooth?
Russia raises key interest rate to 17% amid rouble decline
Biznik shutting down
In the Big Data era, I can no longer feel excited about most projects, because my project ideas don't operate at that scale - at least initially. So I can't imagine anything cool to build with it - unlike Redis or Postgres, say.
> The financial crisis cost society 4 trillion dollars

is there any source for this?
GS folks board normally, though sometimes will get called by name to board first. GS is invited essentially on revenue only (though perhaps special people have special handling). If your spend is above $50k, you probably have a fair chance of getting invited to GS.
Quantum Deep Learning
Not for nothing, the laying of new memories in the brain is exactly context sensitive. The hippocampus is actively weighting new information based on what we already know. And emotion hacks the hippocampal patterns that much more.
This.

Banks are inherently opaque -- in many cases their own management doesn't understand their own balance sheet.

One of the great changes over the past few decades has been the migration of investment banks from partnerships to public equity structures. When an investment bank was a partnership, its "shareholders" were bankers and former bankers, with a deep understanding of the assets and liabilities _and_ of the ways in which management could manipulate their accounting. Those owners were highly incentivized to make sure the bank was properly run, as much of their wealth was tied up in that equity, which was in an illiquid form that couldn't easily be sold or hedged.

The commercial banks were always public equity, but until a few decades ago generally took considerably less risk.

Investment bank managements have since discovered that the public markets were willing to provide plenty of capital, with much less rigorous and careful oversight. So they've migrated those partnership structures to public equity, which enables much larger and riskier balance sheets.

If we were seriously interested in regulating these institutions, we'd require them to be partnerships in the old form. Nothing unconstitutional about it, the Fed could make such structure a requirement for access to its desk. Yes, we'd have much smaller banks, and less liquid markets, but their self-regulation would be far better.
What's to stop somebody putting it in a $5 pre-made plastic box that you can find at any electronics store?
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Now if we could just start printing these parts at home...
This is, of course, the obvious counter-argument, but even in cases of complication it's usually not a problem getting EMS there in time. In parts of the US, midwifery is illegal, but there are places like this (http://www.ncbirthcenter.com/) that provide midwife services in a natural, homelike setting, but which also have hospital privileges and an OB/GYN on staff in case anything goes wrong. There's another important bit, too. Doulas (http://www.dona.org/mothers/) are becoming much more popular, in an effort to provide a similar kind of support through labor & delivery as a midwife might, but within a hospital setting. We used one with our two children and it was really calming to have someone around who wasn't hospital staff AND had experienced hundreds of births AND was there to do whatever my wife needed throughout.

My mother-in-law is a retired nurse midwife who delivered >600 babies in England & Scotland during her career before moving to the US. I don't know if it's still true, but she tells us that in the UK, midwives have special privileges for things like transportation -- free bus/train/subway, and the ability to hail a cab and get a free ride if it's necessary. This may not be true any longer. She relocated in 1969.
> I think you've inverted this. When things weren't digital, it was perfectly ok to e.g. buy a nice table, make a copy, and give that copy to a friend.

I think you've just changed what we're talking about. But I'll run with it. Technically, copying furniture is not ok, it's infringing on the copyright of the design. But since it requires so much effort to copy the table manually, it's not done much, so no one really cares if a guy takes the nice table he bought and hand crafts a copy for his mate for Christmas. If he started a company cranking out copies of this design though, then it's another matter entirely and he would be shut down and sued.

In the case of digital files, copying literally takes half a second and no effort. And this ease makes it something that a lot of people do, which is why people really care about it.

> It's very difficult to argue that this adds up in cases where the creator isn't selling something in a particular region.

You say that like it's a choice for the creator of the work. For a lot of people it isn't, and it's just the way the system works. They have to wait until a publisher in that region of the world wants to publish their work, or wait until legal issues clear up before things can progress etc. I'm not saying it's a great system, but it's what is in place, and freely copying people's works because it isn't available in your region is probably harming the creator of the work since their potential market is taken away from them.
Or a train.
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Forgive me for derailing a technical thread, but I want to comment on the author's description of the building I work in:

A vast arc of glass with an upswept front awning, it is a kind of monument to the difficulty of predicting the future. Saarinen imagined that transformative ideas would emerge from groups of scientists working in meeting areas, where recliners and coffee tables still sit beside soaring windows. Instead, the scientists spend much of the day hunched over computer screens in their offices: small, windowless dens, which seem to have been created as an afterthought.

I don't think he gives it enough credit. Saarinen actually had an egalitarian notion: no one gets a window office, because the shared hallway is one giant window. You can see what I mean in this shot: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/a/alpert/watson_night.jpg

The building is long, not high. The two main hallways that go the length of the building (the inner and outer parts of a semicircle; aerial shot here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/IBM...) are floor-to-ceiling window. The spokes that actually have offices are short hallways between these two long, main hallways.

I like this building. I get to see the outside world as I walk around the building - not in glimpses, but in full. During the day, there is a lot of natural light coming from the large hallway windows. More than other office buildings I've been in, I have a constant sense of where I am, physically, with respect to the outside world. I like the notion that everyone - even the executives - get the same kind of office. (Some are a little larger, but not more than twice the size of a normal office.) And unlike cube-farms, we have private offices with doors we can close.
Angellist is a good place to start. Meetups are great (depending on your area), coworking spaces (Like WeWork, etc), and even conferences for your niche.

It's very unlikely that you'll personally meet the right person, but actually fairly likely that someone you meet will know the right person. So just talk about your idea with everybody who will listen, get those business cards into people's pockets and see what the universe brings your way.

You'll wanna get facetime with "connectors" (if you've read the Tipping Point, you'll know what I mean). An email intro from one of them to the right person is all you need.
"I am not so much a fan of ASP.net", yet he's using VB?
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United Clubs simply aren't first class lounges. Just because a true fact is on Wikipedia doesn't make it less true. Also the complimentary booze has been pretty cut back and they now charge bar-like prices for many items. In general their service level for first class passengers in their main region seems to be declining (particularly the in flight meals-I've had stuff I'd send back at a burger king).
That's interesting, I've almost given up on typing descriptions and instead have a very large number of tags that I pull up quickly with the autocomplete. It's funny how our use has gone in opposite direction. Pinboard is great for me, and I like the spartan, but functional, UI.
That's what I was thinking. That would require electrical motor control of the blades. Maybe turbine generator for power source. I would imagine this kind of pulsing would cause severe fatigue on the parts if they scale up too large.
- Good audiobook player

- Good ebook reader

- Good text editor

- Video player

- Torrents downloader

- Mindmapping app

- IRC app

- Wikipedia app

- Game of Go.

- Pomodoro(productivity)

If you're considering tablet apps - then also something for painting, like procreate.
I thought those christmas lights had bee replaced by led strips.
Unless you've checked the number enough to have realized a pattern (in this case a growth rate).
There is a lot of potential in solving mechanical problems with information systems, rather than using complicated mechanical solutions. For instance, hydraulic automatic transmissions and differential.
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>We follow due process when dealing with law enforcement, providing individual data in response to the appropriate Australian warrant, so there is no justification to attempt wholesale surveillance of all our users.

Except if Fastmail can decrypt user's data, then they can be compelled to backdoor their system, and also compelled to keep it quiet. Australia is part of the "5 eyes", after all, and from an outsider perspective their government seems particularly hostile/authoritarian.

Failing that legal avenue, would Australia's intelligence services refuse to simply hack their way into Fastmail's servers if the NSA asked them to? Would the NSA refuse to just do it themselves, if it came to that? Surely not.

The president (or whomever) of NYI would certainly not refuse entry to federal agents wanting to install an implant. NYI just has to report an outage, meanwhile Fastmail's servers have grown a new rootkit. And failing that, then it's time to bribe a security guard in the middle of the night.

To me this reads as nothing more than Fastmail trying to provide a false sense of security.
Can you expand a bit on what you mean by "midwifery is illegal"? To me, that sounds as odd as "dentistry is illegal" ...
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I'm currently taking an introductory course in computer graphics and we've been taught most of the things covered in this article, including the theory of the Phong lighting model and the graphics pipeline with different types of shaders. This is more or less a 25,000-foot overview of how computer graphics works and how the images on your screen came to be. It's highly interesting stuff and knowing a small amount of the math behind how it works really gives me an appreciation for the things I see in video games and 3D animations. I wish this article had gone further to explain how the GPU actually produces results in the highly-parallel way that this articles seems to skim over.
Uncrackable quantum authentication uses photons to secure your data
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Coming out to California for the second time (last time was in 1997), I'm once again amazed at how economically and socially different the tech side of California believes itself to be, and yet, how regressive it all feels despite this.
Worse yet... the knowledge of this goes back many months.

http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/09/slider-revolution-plugin-crit...
Yes, it is a transactional stream processing solution implemented on top of Hadoop YARN and HBase (using Tephra as the transaction engine).

Why not Kafka+Storm : Tigon is primarily targeted at simplifying stream processing application development -- and in that regard provides exactly-once processing guarantee, dynamic scaling of processing nodes, transactionally access to user datastore etc.
He did mention Stephen Fry discovering a "bug" in his mind related to childhood trauma.
To add some more background for grammar-based bioinformatics parsers, take a look at SRS (Sequence Retrieval System) from the early 1990s, by Etzold and Argos. It was the last generation of purpose-built database systems, before off-the-shelf object-relational systems took over, and used a set of grammars in a declarative language to parse and index flat files.
So nimble? Looks barely flyable. Compare the video to a quadrotor for instance.
Isn't this why Mendeley and EndNote exist? Just change up the citation formatting and resubmit to a different journal until one accepts your work.
There's also "taxes" inside malls, counties, and cities. And various vendors take different approaches to how they collect. In SF, I've seen surcharges for some "restaurant employement" thing, and have noted different rates at different restaurants.
Although it's possible (no idea whether it's the case) they didn't have a mechanism to shut it down, on the time frame they would have needed to.
May I ask what in your perspective on the book changed? What made you think it was so great the first time and so bad the second?
It's interesting the attention that passive wifi tracking is receiving. Another person and I actually wrote software a client to install on raspberry pi's and a server to store all the results. We deployed this on our college campus and were shocked by how well we could track devices [1]. This is a serious problem given a large scale of sensors.

[1] We only stored a bcrypt hash of the mac address given the privacy concerns.
Bluetooth controller
Electric motors remove a lot of the complexity in powered-lift flying machines. As soon as your power/endurance requirements demand a combustion engine, you also have to manage the complexity of a piston engine or turbine (jet) engine.

This means either including a crankshaft and optionally a system of gears to route the rotational power along the axes you want the rotation in, or ducting the output of a jet turbine in some way that drives the rotors. In addition, there are different limitations with regards to the time required for a given change in RPM as compared to an electrical motor.

My impression is that a lot of the complexity in conventional helicopters (and flying machines in general) stems from the limitations of combustion engines. There's a reason that you very rarely see vectored thrust in conventional airplanes, for example.

Of course, if batteries and electric motors become sufficiently powerful, this changes the dynamic and it will become possible to design electric aircraft that re-evaluate the traditional design restrictions. This is one of the reasons that the rapid progress of electric cars is so exciting.
> I would be tempted to disregard publications in this conference.

That was not something I suggested. NIPS is very good conference, and a paper there is suggestive of quality work. Lots of past NIPS authors have been aqui-hired or regular-hired by Google and Facebook recently in their machine learning spending sprees, for example.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I'd agree that the economy is not doing great for many people, but I don't agree that we should change the meaning of words like that, otherwise they don't mean anything.
Worse still many of these are formed in childhood from large misunderstandings. I'm constantly finding myself "closing out" old bogus lines of thought decades old.
Probably not, for the same reason that a quadcopter doesn't really scale to full size. The inertia effects of larger rotors make changing the speed of the rotors within a rotation much harder.

With full sized helis, it takes a long time to spin up the rotors to speed before the pitch is changed to take off.
I'd sum it up like this: GPGPU can be made to run any computational code - this doesn't mean that it's necessarily faster though (otherwise we could just forget about CPUs couldn't we?). A few things need to be true in order for GPUs to execute something with a speedup compared to CPU:

1) Code needs to have at least 1k, better 10k+ parallel 'threads'.

2) These threads should be largely data parallel (branching is possible but hurts performance more significantly than on CPU).

3) Registers and memory per thread are limited, around 30-60 registers and 400-800k memory are the limits to achieve a reasonable saturation. If you disregard this, spilling of memory will occur (or the memory will just run out, there's no swapping so it will just crash).

4) Because of (1) and (3), GPUs like so called 'tight loops', i.e. many parallel but smallish kernels.