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I'm not pretending anything. I'm not saying you shouldn't use "whom". You have a reasonable view of different registers, except for the part where you believe that "whom" has to "die off" before "who" can be fully correct in this usage, or that "who" is any kind of mistake.

The words are just both correct. Some people like to argue from authority that there's some rule against using "who" there, except -- as is the case for many prescriptive bogeymen -- the supposed authority actually doesn't exist at all.

Ask anyone who scientifically studies the actual English language for a living -- fenomas's comment links to a good source at Cambridge, which is very well reputed in linguistics -- and they will not cast a single bit of doubt on using "who" to introduce a relative clause. Everyone uses it, including very good writers.

It's easy to caricature linguists as always saying "as long as you can be understood, anything goes". And that's unfortunate -- nobody here would put up with misunderstanding and making fun of the work biologists do, for example, but for some reason everyone thinks that being literate makes them qualified to disagree with linguists.

There are linguists who make recommendations about not just how to be understood but how to write well, based on lots of study and observation on how people use language in all registers, and if you're looking for an authority you should be looking to them. If you do look -- I'll point at fenomas's comment again, because he's the only one who actually linked a source -- you'll find they don't support your position.

It's too bad you took a lot of English classes that wasted time on correcting this word. (Editing out a harsh and hasty conclusion I came to about your English professors here.) If I assume the best of them, I'll say it was a pedagogical exercise. Sometimes it's important to distinguish different cases. This isn't a situation where you have to distinguish cases in English, but you can.

So maybe your classes told you to use "whom" there kind of like a class in object-oriented programming might tell you to create a "class Rabbit" that inherits from "class Animal" -- as a way of showing that you understand the concept, not as something that you'd actually have to do in the real world.
i saw the movie and thought the alexander supertramp guy came across like a huge asshole.

i also watch pro wrestling.
I'm really starting to love what Microsoft is doing and I feel like they are trying hard to court non-MS developers. Part of me badly wants to jump back to the MS world. The Surface Pro 3 looks like an ideal machine for me and I do miss Visual Studio.

But I just can't do it without real POSIX support.

I'm just invested in a POSIX world. I want native BASH, fork, a git that isn't 5x slower (last I tried), and a real terminal.

So, Microsoft... if you're reading this, can you please, pretty please, add a nice officially supported not-going-anywhere POSIX layer to your OS? It's the reason I switched to OS X, and it would be the reason I'd switch back to MS.

It's almost the only thing you're missing from my side of the developer culture.
This seems pretty vague about what "unlocking" really means. For example, I had a Verizon HTC 8X which was "unlocked" (as are all Verizon LTE phones), but you couldn't edit the MMS gateway. Some older Verizon Android phones were "unlocked" but with no APN editor, so you couldn't get data service.

Does anything about this code prevent carriers from playing the "it's unlocked but good luck configuring it" game?
Thanks, I read the article too.

That different parts of a plant may differ in toxicity is surprising at all given that some of the most common edible food such as tomatoes and potatoes exhibit similar characteristics.
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Happiness can be induced chemically. I imagine future societies will have clean drugs to enable safe perpetual happiness in an existence where humans are to machines as dogs are to humans, humans don't have to labor for resources, and existential depression is the main cause of death.

I don't think people look out far enough when projecting the future. Or maybe I look too far out.
I'm disappointed not to see anything about "Human Heater." Just microwave 'em!
I don't see how this could have ever ended any other way.

RapidShare was clearly only popular in the first place because of piracy. Once they started restricting that they became just another Dropbox/OneDrive/Google Drive competitor.
At some point where recovery is more routine, SpaceX could offer pricing at something like: $60 million we launch your rocket without regards to whether or not we will be able to recover the first stage. $x million, x<<60: we launch your rocket only once the weather/conditions suggests we'll be able to do both. I can see some companies with very specific launch windows (say gravity assisted missions to outer planets) going for the former.
Yeah, it definitely isn't something I'd recommend for people who don't know what they are doing. It's feature set is more comparable to enterprise hardware like Cisco or Juniper. Their terminal configuration utilities are pretty easy to use, but I actually really like their webui. It exposes all the functionality (which is a daunting amount) but is clean and very responsive.

That said, RouterOS pretty well documented and isn't hard as long as you know the basics. Mikrotik actually has a pretty vibrant little community around their wiki.
It's not just booting into a programming environment, but being supplied with documentation that had memory maps in and taught people how to link assembly language routines into their BASIC programmes or how to POKE or PEEK.
The C64 came with a manual including the full memory map, what addresses to PEEK and POKE to control the sound chip, etc. "Proprietary blob" may be technically true in that the ROMs weren't open source, but it was simple, accessible, and documented enough that that doesn't well describe my experience with it.

(Though it's not a machine I ever got deep into, myself.)
Thanks for all the comments everyone. We're currently looking into getting these documents on git. Because Word Docs are not ideal for versioning, we'll probably convert them to markdown and use Pandoc to offer Word and RTF versions.

We'll probably also attach an explicit license as well. We've similarly described the Series AA and Safe as open sourced documents and honestly didn't really think too much about it after that. Mostly, it's to efficiently tell you that the documents are free to use and change as you see fit.

Obviously, we're not trying to trick anyone. Suing founders is not part of our business model.
The meat of Clausen's paper isn't really wrong - he just drew the wrong conclusions by making an unwarranted inference. He showed that Hedysarum mackenziei / alpinum do not contain significant levels of alkaloids, and that they do not inhibit bacterial growth.

He deduced that this "strongly suggested" they were not toxic. He was wrong because the plants contain a non-alkaloid compound that is toxic to mammals (and presumably not bacteria). So there is a lesson here about what kind of conclusions you can draw from scientific data.
no, 1) wouldn't believe they would be effective, 2) don't need to talk to cable co on a monthly basis, 3) don't want to pay more for same crappy cable, that is the problem.
I'm in urgent care right now getting bad road rash cleaned up and wish I was at home instead! Pricing is definitely higher. I'll walk out paying about $200 on a high deductible plan. So I probably wouldn't use this for that reason but I love the idea.
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He did have a concern about the data. His concern that was it was not peer-reviewed.

Had the data come from someone with a proven track record in the field, he may have found it worth his time to peer review it himself.

Appeal to authority is not always a fallacy. It would have been fallacious if he was outright denying or accepting a hypothesis as being the logical conclusion based on one's standing. All that I read from it, however, was that he had a hard time believing it, and would not spend the time to look into the data personally, but that it should be reviewed.

I don't think it's illogical to take more seriously the hypothesis of someone with a proven track record of good research.
"It’s actually more complicated than that, because that calculation doesn’t account for the fact that there could be multiple jackpot winners who must split the pot."

In other articles, it's been said that when the jackpot is high, the expected value actually goes down due to the increased chances of multiple winners.
I think the (b * d) / c formula is not just useful for startups, but for just about any software development.

It's what I try to use for 'in-house' development, although the (b)readth in that case isn't about expanding customers, but about how many of our userbase will be (positively) affected by the change.
One additional clarification: I'd say that I think continued growth is super important, I'm just not sure you need to be the biggest - see the UK, see Singapore, see South Korea, see Canada (all US allies, to be fair haha).
Azure has multiple database-as-a-service offerings including SQL (azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database/), DocumentDB (azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/documentdb/), and Redis Cache (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cache/).
I like the idea of house calls making a come back. The last thing we need is to take contagious people and tell them they have to go out in public to get a doctors note, or they have to come in to work. We need to find ways to keep sick people at home and a service like this helps.
Regexpes exist to avoid cumbersome code like this, to make it less error prone. Makes me sad to see so many upvotes.

I get that some people have a hard time understanding regexpes with all the backtracking and greediness. Yes, syntax is a bit complicated. Maybe simplified predictable default mode could help. But there is no problem with DSL being used as an abstraction. In fact, we need more DSLs, for everything!
I don't think it bears much resemblance to political anarchy. "Developer anarchy" has a very different character. When you gather together a group of random people and call it a 'society', the outcome is very unpredictable. When you gather together a group of people whose pre-declared passion is creating neat software, the outcome is far less unpredictable. This sort of 'anarchy' should better be referred to as 'trust software developers to know how to develop software'. Most organizations are orgies of people with severe control fetishes, and they've convinced themselves that nothing beneficial to the company can be done without their interference. Perhaps they're wrong. Perhaps software engineers like to work on good software, and will therefore produce good software when not forced to jump through ridiculous hoops and fall to every new management fad?

I know that when I am free to do whatever I wish, I try to create software I can be proud of. When involved in an organizations process, I am usually just trying to fix something so it's not broken, and there's not even an opportunity to propose building a better alternative, even if it would have significant business benefits. The software engineering industry seems to be obsessed with the idea that everyone except software engineers knows best how and what should be built.
Funny, for a load of bullshit the article offered a much more detailed explanation of their thesis than you have of yours.

Don't you understand that we all inherently have blind spots based on where we come from? The idea that work has to be alright because everyone does it is exactly what people used to say about slavery and overt subjugation of women. People still say it's bullshit that we should concern ourselves with the environmental impacts of what we do.

It's easy to call something bullshit, but philosophers for centuries have suggested that wage labor is better described as wage slavery. It is a legitimate idea and one worth considering. You're quick to dismiss the idea but slow to provide alternative suggestions for how we might be able to end the forced misery of the working class.
Great Youtube video of the band playing!
This is probably the dumbest thing I've read today. The difference between a worker and a slave is clearly at the end of the day, the worker has more money than at the start, and can exercise buying power over whatever he or she wants to do, including retiring and leaving the company.

This is basically just communism re-wrapped as "changing work."
I wish the Internet Archive had an embargo feature, where you could push data in and while it wouldn't be served, it would be stored until a later date when copyright issues could be worked out.
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Talk about fraud. The site mentions "proficient" in quotes trying to make that sound like a low level of performance when in fact it is the highest rating on the assessment (2 spots higher than "Basic")!

I'm guessing the rest of your bullet points are a stretch as well (at least they seem like stretches and now we know you cite bogus sources).
Do I need machine learning for “this”?
and "this" being a mobile app that users use to interact with one another through an AWS hosted back-end. The back-end learns the user's behavior over time to do something meaningful. They key here is that the learning takes place only based on individual's usage patterns as opposed to usage by the masses.

Is machine learning suitable for this problem? If yes, then what are some basic techniques I need to understand? If not, then what is type of algorithms I need to model user behavior? Any help for this newbie?
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Now do an example where you create a regex to parse the IMDB movies.list data file!
Additionally, my impression is that "trust" vehicles like contracts don't hold the same weight that they do in places like the US. They get broken and tossed aside all the time and the legal recourse you can have is minimal.
> My experience is that you push out the feature and test them. If there us usage, you keep them

There are virtually an infinite number of features you could be developing. But you have finite resources to develop them.

And some features will take a lot more of your finite resources to develop than others.

You need some way to prioritize what to actually develop.

If your product doesn't actually do too much but is essentially just clickbait, then, sure, your features are very cheap to implement, and you just throw everything you can think of out there and A/B test.
Someone who's already been delayed twice. Clearly they are willing to accept some margin of delay. The question I was posing is, how could delaying one more day be worth more (ie cost to SpaceX) than the value of the recovered rocket times the probability of recovery. And the correct answer is in the top response, which is that due to the moon's position, it would be a delay of over a week, not just another day.
I've interviewed an ex rapidshare employee some time ago.
Might have been just one disgruntled ex employee, but they told me the CEO wouldn't hand out access to the servers to anyone and insisted on keep doing that himself and other stuff.

They weren't competent though, so maybe he just didn't want to give that employee access. I asked them what they did at Rapidshare and the only answer I got was "multicore stuff" (sic).

However it seemed inviteable, Rapidshare tried to rebrand to a personal cloud storage provider without providing the features needed to be one while still cracking down on piracy.
Maybe they should have pulled a dotcom, shut rapidshare down and announce rapid. And then stick to the old business model.
Got a used 24 port 2960 on ebay 10/100 ports for ~$65. Maybe doesn't mean the "open" portion, but the rest is definitely satisfied. Also, bought it 5~ years ago and still runs beautifully (Noisy fan though).
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"Reasonable", not "absolutely infallible".
This looks very Eurocentric to me. China and the various Indian empires are getting short-shrift here, at least from an economic and military power perspective. It's a cool diagram, but what was the methodology used to generate this?

EDIT: Makes sense in the context of the times. Would be interesting to see an updated version, based on modern historical estimates.
First someone would have to build a large app with them...
> Better to spend more time focusing on making the experience stellar for a smaller, but strategically important section of users.

OP agrees for the 'early days' of your product:

> There is a bit more to say about the breadth and depth of your product. In a company’s earliest days, it is important to place more priority on d in order to ensure that you have product/market fit. It is useless to try to grow or scale before finding 100 users who really love your product. Only then should you refocus on b and grow your user base...

But at some point, you do need to grow your userbase, right?
>I'm talking about things like small tools that were shared on e.g. xda-developers before Github came, about fan-mods for games etc... The 'big' ones continued living, but if you now e.g. search for a special kernel/ROM for your G1/ADP1 you are mostly out of luck.

This is something that has always sketched me out about the Android rooting and moding scene. "Download this suspect binary from rapid share and run it as root" seemed to be a cornerstone of it.
I agree with you completely, yet what could prevent the gokit team from starting with the definition of very simple , orthogonal, interfaces and maybe add the very few new types required, to immitate the go stdlib.

I'm quite sure the result will be quite different from what those kind of frameworks look like in other languages, but that could be interesting still.
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HN is detecting it as a duplicate from 36 days ago, so here's the URL: http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
We are solving many of the same problems at Contractually [0]. Word import, contract generation, private editing, version control, redlining, commenting, e-signatures, and more.

[0] http://www.contractual.ly/
Actually, I think "don't hire anyone else" only works if you have very limited labor needs in order to achieve profitability; its almost orthogonal to capital requirements.
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The worst regexes I've had to write involved parsing the various IMDB data files, which seem to have been formatted specifically to make them as difficult to parse as possible. I hear mediawiki syntax is similarly arcane and evil, but I've never tried to parse it (though last night I started writing some tools to deal with wikipedia dumps so I might end up in that corner). I'd really like to see different approaches to parsing really ugly formats that feature an exception to almost every single pattern you think you've found. I honestly think the regex is easiest...
256mb - 1024mb of RAM are the specs of free vms, which are given only as a demo. If you want to use online IDE for something more serious you can buy much more powerful vm.
I'm wondering how important it is to be the economical super-power?

This reminds me Steven Colbert interviewing Thomas Piketty. Colbert jokes about the short work weeks and two-months vacations in France. Piketty's reply: "in Europe, many people believe the purpose of civilization is to work less, have more vacation, take care of your friends and family. But you can make a different choice and that's fine". France is still the 6th economic power.
Fair enough, thanks for the response
Hanging was used some of the times, but something that was almost always present was parading the soon to be lynched through the black parts of town (including schools) as an object lesson as well as torture. Torture was almost always involved (for example, in the case of a black woman pregnant lynched, having her child cut out of her stomach beforehand while she was still alive and having the childs head smashed). The torture served the purpose of keeping the black population in a constant state of terror, afraid of even attempting to assert their rights (this also explains the killings during the Civil Rights Era)

The lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco Texas had all the elements (I apologize for the graphic details)

"A chain was placed around his neck and he was dragged toward city hall by a growing mob; on the way downtown, he was stripped, stabbed, and repeatedly beaten with blunt objects. By the time he arrived at city hall, a group had prepared wood for a bonfire next to a tree in front of the building.[24] Washington, semiconscious and covered in blood, was doused with oil, hung from the tree by a chain, and then lowered to the ground.[27] Members of the crowd cut off his fingers, toes, and genitals.[24] The fire was lit and Washington was repeatedly raised and lowered into the flames until he burned to death. German scholar Manfred Berg posits that the executioners attempted to keep him alive to increase his suffering.[28] Washington attempted to climb the chain, but was unable to, owing to his lack of fingers.[29] The fire was extinguished after two hours, allowing bystanders to collect souvenirs from the site of the lynching, including Washington's bones and links of the chain.[24] One attendee kept part of Washington's genitalia;[30] a group of children snapped the teeth out of Washington's head to sell as souvenirs."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jesse_Washington

The sending of Lynching Postcards was so prevalent that the Postmaster General banned the sending of such cards.
man I had the most amazing time with Rapidshare during the 2007~2009 era. I remember being in an all you can eat candy store. Same with megaupload. Stuff you couldn't find anywhere were popping up, old vintage rare tv shows, games, magazines. The monetary incentive provided an explosion of content you couldn't get elsewhere.

I will really miss the golden era of filehosting services.
Well, I don't know.

I think that people from the west tend to see the negative aspect of advertising: people over here think "annoyance" (all the answers to my provocative post were like that — yeah, small sample, not significative), whereas in Asia it seems to me (but I may be wrong) that people see the positive side: the image I have is of people thinking "opportunity of bargain". Maybe I don't understand it. Websites filled with tiny ads, streets covered with neons and shop signs, they might very well pretend. And indeed, they don't have a choice, Like LA people stuck in traffic because there are no other ways, websites are just like that and consumers have to do with it.
Another WP feature that existed before Microsoft Word itself existed (indeed, before the IBM PC existed) was the ability to create a "Table of Authorities". Word Perfect was very responsive to the needs of legal word processing. Some of you might recall that Word Perfect was created by Satellite Software of Orem, UT circa 1980, and ran on Data General minicomputers.
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someone's selling a copy of one on eBay right now. Not cheap though:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rolled-Map-John-Sparks-5-1-2-HISTOMA...
I would say one of the benefits of Scala is that it allows greater abstraction than some other languages which can provide more clarity. Example a service in Finagle is defined as;

Request => Future[Response]

I don't know what the equivalent would be in Go but I can't imagine its any clearer than this.