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He seems like a very interesting person, but it always confuses me when someone so steeped in science chooses the unknown.

When you say things like “That’s not the kind of god I’m happy with", I wonder why you would choose an organized religion with all the strings attached in terms of dogma?
Its a very single purpose system, so probably not amenable to general purpose crawling (though we do have a separate system that is based of the design of our core system that is a general purpose web crawler/indexer)
That's a little unfair to later generals as the nature of warfare has changed. No longer is the general the king, emperor, consul, tribal leader, etc.

One of Hitler's mistakes* was to believe he was a good general. Stalin at least had the good sense to let his generals get on with it.

* Thankfully.
Does this mean I should switch from wicd? Wicd seemed to install better in xfce/debian environments, but dislikes certain networks when connecting for some reason.
Probably a distinction that is not conversationally useful.
I have never tried this but had my fair share of Umbraco. How does this CMS compare to Umbraco?
Sigh... They'll still buy it if it looks perfect but tastes like unripened cardboard. :/ (Homegrown, imperfect tomatoes rock.). "Imperfect" but edible food goes on to canning, pies and other manufactured items.
Its an oft repeated point that Hitler made the same mistake as Napoleon, but the situations were actually very different. In particular, there was the actual threat of Stalinist Russia getting completely industrialized and then attacking Germany first. And so its often debated among historians whether the German invasion was inevitable.
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IIRC, Apple also does something similar (skipping a few sections of the standard) to acquire a lease faster. That's why Macs connect faster to the network.

I'm not an expert on the implementation of mac/windows/linux so maybe someone who knows can chip in.
sometimes both pitches are horrible.
Yes, and injecting JS into the page for easy analysis/collection. The delay is dynamic, based on captcha rates, proxy load and historic captcha costs. It constantly checks the current running costs and throttles the number of requests over the hour.
The technical capability can't be inferred from the used capacity. The comparison is unjust.
So basically you just make a couple memory reads a few hundred thousands times and this will alter some near cell? why manufacturers didn't test this? it looks like a pretty obvious thing to test while working at these scales.
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A very large array of mysql databases. Basically, each month we fire up a new fresh database and start streaming data into it. Were currently pulling around 700Gb a month. Our reporting tools/systems run queries across this array. Its actually not that bad speed wise (reports of over 9000 keywords over a 1 week period for top 100 positions on a per hour basis)
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OP here. I would welcome and feedback or suggestions for the post.
We are passive consumers of the pornography of violence
"I have spent a good while" is actually ok here.
Not sure this question was worth a full blown article in the NY times. It's fairly obvious religion makes only sense in a human context, and on Earth. Unless we find humans elsewhere (which is pretty unlikely, there is no specific reason why an intelligent being would have to be a primate on another planet), the question does not make much sense.
"I have spent a good while" is fine, might sound odd to a non-native speaker however. "while" implies "time" in this context.
There's no need for an OS call. Just userspace access to the same mapped memory is going to stay in the same physical page for far, far, longer than a few hundred thousand DRAM cycles. Obviously the hard part to an exploit would be locating those corrupt bits elsewhere in the system. That's going to depend entirely on the hardware layout of the DRAM chip.
Agreed. When you open the editor page, it's not obvious that there are more tools you can use. Also, there's very low contrast between the theme being edited and the tools bar on the right, it's quite confusing.
Nice and clean editor.
Maybe. Dimenhydrinate (Dramamine) has been around forever and is still one of the more effective things you can take. I sometimes use it in boats and it works pretty well though it makes me really drowsy. (I've never tried the patches.)

You definitely don't see the bags as much as you used to. I've noticed their absence myself. I suspect it has to do with generally bigger and more stable jets and better routing around turbulence. I do wonder though how much also had to do with the bags being one of the things airlines just stuck in the seatbacks out of long habit going back to the days when there were more props and small jets. Many airlines have cut back on a lot of stuff they used to routinely pass out like blankets and pillows.
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> CAPTCHAs and IP blacklistings are things you encounter routinely in perfectly legitimate and legal web scraping projects

It's only legal if the site TOS says it is.You dont get to decide wether you can scrap websites legally or not.People got sued for scraping,trust me. And it's not even about fraud or spam.
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Typical Muslim taking offence to everything.
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Espion is similar to PhantomJS in that they're both headless browsers that you can inject JavaScript into.

Espion comes with a lot more. First there is the infrastructure: processing power, storage, connectivity and IP addresses that you don't have to provision, set up or manage. Second, Espion includes the features that surround extracting data from a site such as job scheduling, data quality monitoring, online debugging and problem resolution and data delivery.

PhantomJS is perfectly viable, but if you need the features I highlighted and use it, you'll have to build a lot yourself to get the job done.
I'm always surprised by how scientifically minded and educated the Jesuits are.
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Why does religion make sense only to humans, and not other intelligent life forms?
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Greenspun's tenth rule rears its ugly head. Go reinvents Lisp macros, poorly.
E-book readers with a backlight 'damage sleep and health'.
Giving puppies a legal right to have silly hats and birthday parties obviously diminishes the real rights that we all care about. Rights-proliferation leads to governments taking a pick-and-choose approach to enforcement, and many people would argue that having selectively enforced rights is tantamount to not having any rights at all.

See also: http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/dec/04/-sp-case-against...
The no-voting zone was created around two already existing cities (Georgetown and Alexandria).
Misleading title, it's reading ebooks on a tablet that's a problem, just like doing anything else at night on a tablet or laptop. Reading ebooks on an ebook reader with an eink screen is fine.
Headline is definitely a bit click-baity. "Hmm, how can we write a story about how bright lights mess up your body clock, but not make it as boring or mundane? I know, we'll say e-books are the culprit!"
Nobody contested your argument, specific knowledge of niches s still fairly scarce on the net, at least if looking for gratis information. OTOh a well sorted library supplies books that cost a fortune, so google couldn't be replace that, at least not yet.
I prefer the non backlit ones anyway - much more like reading a paper book. I suppose the drawbacks are also the same as paper books in that you need a light to read by
> Our bodies are kept in tune with the rhythm of day and night by an internal body clock, which uses light to tell the time.

That body clock has been completely destroyed the day we started to use lamps and night and even more since we use Electricity. It's fine to say it's bad for your health, but seriously, being exposed to bright light until late at night is nothing new at all. And so far the Human race still endures.
I don't understand. Until you know something you must assume one way or another. Also, it's been proven that we already assume a lot when it comes to gender or racial biases.
I like to think it's matter of readability. "if (pureNumber)" vs. "if (i % 3 != 0 && i % 5 != 0)". Also, one extra variable vs. reversal of already mentioned condition. Yes, we're splitting hair here :)
I asked a friend of mine and Kindle engineer for an amber-hued backlit kindle about six months ago. He thought it was a good idea, so maybe we'll get one in another year or so.
I usually look at each language/framework and see what problem they were designed to solve, and then implement something directly that they were designed for as my first foray. Then I will try something slightly more specific to my own needs. But normally I already have something in mind where I feel that language X will solve it better or framework Y is more suited to this problem. And even when I am just playing almost all the authors have a few examples or use cases they feel their language/framework solves really well so I will take a simple one and implement it.

At least for me, I found this keeps me honest and using the tool the way it was intended versus bending/breaking it for my needs just to say I used it. Then after I mostly understand it I can see how far I can bend it to my needs, when required.
What I read is "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

> In PHP I make lots of tiny uses of it in many places. I really missed it when I switched to Python (sure, there's OrderedDict, but it's a second-class citizen: there's no syntax for literals and standard APIs don't explicitly take advantage of it).

Missing syntax sugar makes it a second-class citizien? How? Also what advantages could standard API (<- what does that even mean?) take?

> It's neat for sorting objects without having to mutate them to add a key or wrap them in a key/value object.

It's called set()

> It's great for configuration with JSON-like structures, but key order gives extra flexibility in the design, e.g. instead of [{id:"foo"},{id:"bar"}] you can use ["foo"=>[],"bar"=>[]].

...and the reason you cant use OrderedDict here is you dont like it.

About ordering stuff: after years I can still remember the problems I had with ordering in PHP. There's more than a dozen of sorting methods, which is mess. No one can remember if they all behave the same way and what's the order of its parameters. In Python you've sorted() and that's it.
You cant do any advanced stuff with these array, because sometime they act as lists and sometime they act as hashmaps. I'll take this example from "Fractal...":
$first = array("foo" => 123, "bar" => 456);
$second = array("foo" => 456, "bar" => 123);
array_diff($first, $second);
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There is a vital need for you to own a potato though. Humans need to eat plant food for sustenance, so we have moral reason to accept that at least some plants are allowed to be owned. Given that, there is nothing significant to recommend an alternative plant over a potato, so there should be no moral objection to owning a potato.

The point of framing the argument in the terms that konstruktor has, is to change the debate from, "Are apes sufficiently like humans to justify giving them rights?" to "Are apes sufficiently different from non-sentient entities to justify treating them differently." And I think this is a much more persuasive argument -- I think humanity is less willing accept freely that apes are equivalent to humans on some level, than they are to say that the act of viewing an ape for enjoyment does not justify locking up something that is clearly more intelligent and self-aware than your average apricot.
"They found it took longer to nod off with a back-lit e-reader, which led to poorer quality sleep and being more tired the next morning."

So going to sleep later means you get less sleep and are more tired the next day. This is not a shocking revelation. I'd also be curious what they think about frontlit eReaders as opposed to backlit.
I would love to use this, but nowhere in the website tells me how, and I can't find any CTA anywhere :(

EDIT: oh my window was too small so all download buttons disappear on the media query - That's pretty bad guys, you should find a way to fit those buttons!
Because religion is a human creation, and all our holy texts are very human centric (and barely regard animals as anything else than food, while we now know that tons of animals have a great deal of consciousness and emotions similar to humans).

EDIT: Just to make things clear, I'm not saying that God does not exist, but what I'm saying is that the system derived from that belief (i.e. religion) is very much created by humans and for humans.
The new Kindles (Paperwhite, Voyage) are backlit. If that trend spreads to other e-readers it won't just be a tablet problem. I guess this is a good argument to keep the old style Kindles around.
I think this is a great idea, and it would be a no-brainer for me to pay if you only charged when you save me money.

I think customers (thinking of myself) have a huge aversion to paying money for nothing, in the event there isn't a better deal. If there's any chance I am going to pay for a service that returns no value, I am going to be hesitant.

Part of the problem is I didn't see any "success rate" metric, so I don't know what my chances are of saving money. If you knew it was almost 100% given enough days before the trip - then you could even give someone a money-back guarantee, which would kill the "pay money for nothing" objection as well.
Agreed. This is terrible journalism - no differentiation between e-reader and what is essentially a reading application on a standard backlit tablet. It even goes on to say that non-backlit screens (i.e. Kindle e-readers) are fine and the same as a book.
I think he was referring to our human religions that we came up with.
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> Maybe some of the negativity comes from the idea that people should have to be included in an endeavor regardless of ability?

Who says that? All "we" are saying is that what some perceive as "ability" is, in fact, a combination of talent with a lot of privilege, luck and encouragement by society (of course, some people beat the odds but those are the exception, not the rule). There is no shortage of talent in any group, and ability should therefore be nurtured by removing some very powerful discouraging factors.
And your point exactly? He already knows it could be much better, obviously. It is his business after all.

And yet despite your finely tuned ability to detect amateurish abandonware he managed to bring in ~$75,000 revenue in on public plans, and if I had to take a guess anywhere between 1x - 1.5x in non-public plans.

As a general rule, we shouldn't use the obvious to tear someone down.
Homo sapiens - ~250,000 - 400,000 years old

Electricity for lighting - ~120 years old

It's pretty new.
The key here is "Light Emitting" rather than eBooks. So the title is more than a bit misleading since it's mostly tablets that emit direct light. The experiment specifically used an iPad in comparison with a paper book. Seems odd to generalize it to all eBooks.

This article[0] seems to have a more accurate title.

[0] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141222131348.ht...
> The negativity probably stems from a misogyny and bigotry, without being aware of the misogyny or bigotry.

There's a name for that unconscious discrimination: sexism.
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Paperwhites are not backlit.

"Paperwhite guides light toward the surface of the display with its built-in front light—unlike back-lit tablets that shine in your eyes—so you can read comfortably without eyestrain."

Source: http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Paperwhite-Ereader/dp/B00AWH595...

Illustration: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/26/technology/lig...
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I'm not changing my habits from a study based on 12 people.
I believe that ALL of the women on any sort of government body should be women! (sorry.)
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It's a shame https://justgetflux.com/ isn't available in the App store. As far as I know you have to jailbreak to install it (so it's not a technical limitation per se).

Can anyone think of a good reason why Apple doesn't ship with f.lux like software by default? It's pretty much a necessity for using a computer device at night.
Except that you can vary the amount of backlight on a paperwhite. Surely that makes a difference?
From the paper itself (highlight mine):

> During LE-eBook reading sessions, the light-emitting device was set to maximum brightness and placed in a stand that held it at a fixed angle. This stand was placed on a table directly in front of the individual at a 30- to 45-cm distance from their eyes. Participants were allowed to turn pages on the LE-eBook, but were asked not to hold it while reading or make any adjustments to the settings. During the printed book reading sessions, participants were allowed to hold the book at any desired distance from their eyes.

Is this anything new anyways? Shining bright blueish light into people's eyes before bedtime has got to be a well researched topic already. This feels like media-tailored hype while a simple "yes, back-lit ebook readers use this kind of light so those existing findings apply" would have sufficed.
No. But I'd love to hear ideas.

I sometimes struggle trying to get focused and get my productivity moving, once I do I am good, but on the days I struggle it would be awesome if I could find a way to get my focus faster. Right now, I will sometimes just walk away, go do something else and come back, other times I blow time reading hackernews etc. My wife keeps telling me to go for a bike ride or run and that will help, I should probably try those too.
Campfires, candles, torches...?
I've experienced this before. I was contracting at a senior level for a decent sized company. They tried to hire me a few times and the offer was actually at a lower level of seniority. I asked them about this and their reasoning was that their HR department only lets non-degreed individuals go so high. I wasn't interested in joining full-time anyway, but it was interesting to see nonetheless.
> I have heard of no school that has a program to increase risk taking in boys

Those biases are subtextual, but very powerful. There's a nice recent article demonstrating some of them: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/12/wom...
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Yes, and if it doesnt just wait for better CPU, right? You work for microsoft?
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The French Navy after the Revolution was a shadow of its former self; most of its aristocratic officers had deserted. Since the country was in a state of almost-constant land war after 1792, a real rebuilding of the navy could never be a priority. Ships are nice, but, as you rightly remark, trained crews and experienced officer are needed for them to make a difference.

Britain was the only country that could afford to keep fighting with an XVIIth century style professional army, of a necessarily limited size (and kept doing so until WWI). The other belligerents went to French-style conscript armies, which made Napoleon's advantage much smaller over time.
Its extremely common in public opinion polling in the US, and I've never seen an explanation for it. If the subsamples of, e.g., various non-White Catholic, evangelical, etc., groups were too small to report, you'd expect that they'd just not do a race breakdown at all, and report the overall Catholic, evangelical, etc.

I suspect that the explanation might be that not only are the non-White subsamples too small, but the racial composition of the various religious groups in the polls is (because of sample size issues) often not representative of the racial composition of the groups in the population and the sample size of the non-White subgroups in the religious groups is too small, so that its quite likely that the overall numbers for the religious groups are distorted as a result of the racial demographics being non-representative, and they don't have meaningful numbers for most of the racial subgroups, but they do have meaningful numbers for the White subgroup.

OTOH, this often results in even more misleading presentation, where the White subgroup of each religious group is all that is reported, but news articles based on the poll still treat that as if it was a result for the religious group as a whole. And it doesn't explain why the non-religious group doesn't get the same treatment, because it almost certainly would have at least as much of the same problem.

It'd probably be better -- for media polls, and media coverage of polls at least -- to either do polls with a big enough sample that your sub-samples in various non-White race/religious subgroups are big enough to report on or just not report religious breakdowns at all where the only way you feel the numbers can be meaningful is just to report the White subgroup for religious groups.
An interesting article, perhaps, but Mr. Overbye clearly presents just a surface look at Catholic theology and thought processes about extra terrestrial life, mixed with his apparent skepticism [shown in the form of Clarke's story] about the morality or rationality of such a worldview. No real depth, no apparent ability to see the theological equivalence, in this case, between someone in a remote uncontacted tribe in the Amazon and an extra terrestrial, and a host of further issues that I frequently see in someone who seems to subscribe to Stephen J Gould's 'non-overlapping magesteria' ideals. Kind of feels like a short Vanity Fair or Rolling Stone article on a complex technological topic.

If Clarke's story ideas are tantalizing to the reader, I would suggest reading Perelandra by C.S. Lewis for a [admittedly dated] view from the other side of the equation. (I know of no similarly posited and argued Catholic story, so my apologies for suggesting a strongly Protestant one after the Catholic points in the article).
The way I think about it is, if God created the earth, and placed us all together - then why shouldn't we try to meet the measure of our creation together as a team?
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you think we waited for Electricity to use Light? Ever heard of Prometheus?
The only way I would pay a fixed price without guarantee of savings is if it were pitched as a monthly or yearly subscription, and then I just run all my reservations through it.
...are all much dimmer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0ES9TKAf_4
I, too, will gladly pay $20 success fee, but not if you cannot find me a better deal.

On a separate question, where do you get the hotel inventory and pricing data from? I only ask because you had mentioned that this was a small side project. Which makes me think there are structured data sources for hotel data.

Thanks.