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Enjoy the BBQ, but this is really what Memorial Day is all about
I remember very well the Internet before Google. It was a cesspool of junk, with banner ads being very common. You must have been living in a different world back then.
Privacy Behaviors After Snowden
From what I heard, there really IS no stack rank or numeric ratings this time. Managers do get discretion wrt pay and equity, but not much of it. The only score you can give to someone consists of a checkbox that basically says "this person sucks and we need to let him/her go". TBH, I have to say I like this system. Google, for instance, has both the curve and the stack rank, as well as promotion by committee who have no first hand knowledge of your work.
I don't get it. Is the book a box which contains a box full of garbage?
This one http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nitish/nips2014demo/results/82676... has a tag "fingering"
I was going to write a negative post about how singularity is still a long while away based on this caption:
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nitish/nips2014demo/results/84542...

but then I realized that I cant come up with a description of what is going there myself.

Ill get you next time CPU!
Ok, there is a real disagreement.

As I understand it, reproducibility means "you can run this same experiment and expect to get the same effect." Reproducibility is an issue because of study designs that are unusually to get accidental results. So you have your p value < .05, but the worry is that it's just an accident. If it's not an accident, then you should be able to run the exact same study again and get a similar effect. The problem of reproducibility is that even _that_ may not possible for some notable studies. Because of bad experimental design, we were just reporting meaningless results (the 5% chance that you get a nice p-value for an effect that isn't real). So in the case of this experiment, reproducibility is "if you survey people about bragging, will coders report their comments in the same way?" not "is bragging perceived negatively?"

I think what you're describing is sometimes called a "conceptual reproduction" where you run a different study that you can argue supports the same conclusion. For instance, you've run an experiment where people seem to show a cognitive bias. Then someone else runs a different experiment, with a different design, and says "my results show the same cognitive bias that dbbolton showed in his study". In this case, the experimental design is different, and the second study doesn't directly demonstrate that you results could be reproduced. But in theory, it does suggest that there's a real phenomenon, because the same explanation seems natural for both experiments.

There has been an overuse of conceptual reproductions in psychology, but what really has people worried is that major studies may literally not be reproducible.

P.S. all of this is based on my understanding of how the terms are used, and I'm not 100% confident I'm right about it. I think I am, but I'm not a psychologist, take my opinion with a grain of salt.
A hoax, sure, but as http://metamodern.com/2014/08/08/recovering-ancient-voices-f... points out it's plausible for there to be some interesting data to recover this way. I haven't heard of any actual attempts, unless you count the Woodbridge letter.
> Lucky may be saved by the fact that a lot of the technology in the original Rift prototypes was developed by USC's ICT which was fine letting him use it.

That doesn't seem to be the case: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/23rh0m/ken_perlin_o... Luckey was certainly aware of the Wide5 HMD from USC http://www.fakespacelabs.com/Wide5.html http://people.ict.usc.edu/~suma/papers/olson-vr2011poster.pd... fairly early in his VR work (see http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=13741 and http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=13158&star... ) but the Wide5 apparently has different lenses, doesn't use PC-side software distortion correction and uses two screens (the consumer Rift will too, but all Rift versions up to and including Dev Kit 2 https://forums.oculus.com/viewtopic.php?t=7544 are single-screen).
That's really neat that you want your son to be familiar with monospaced fonts so source code displayed that way will look normal and comfortable. Screenplays too!

So I hope I won't be out of line with a friendly suggestion... :-)

Don't teach him that there is something special about monospaced fonts that lets you write code - that code can only be written in a monospaced font. I honestly think that the majority of programmers believe this, but it just isn't so.

I haven't written any of my code in a monospaced font in over ten years - and the funny thing is you'd never be able to tell that from reading my code. It reads the same and the formatting looks the same whether you view it in a proportional or monospaced font.

I've run into many programmers who are shocked when they find out that I write code in a proportional font. They ask, "How can you do that? How can it possibly work?"

Rather than go into the details here of how it can possibly work - it's really quite simple and becomes apparent once you try a proportional font - imagine that one day your son asks, "Daddy, why do we have to code in monospaced fonts? I like Trebuchet! [Or Comic Sans, or whatever.] Why can't I code in that?"

Do you answer, "Don't be silly, of course you can't do that. We always program in monospaced fonts. You couldn't possibly code in a proportional font, it just doesn't work."

Or, "Well, that's a good question. I've always used monospaced fonts, but I never really thought about it. Why don't you experiment and see how it works out, maybe you can teach me something new!"

Don't misunderstand, these are just examples, I don't mean to put words in your mouth or say what kind of conversation you and your son might have. But I think most programmers today would give the first answer, and that makes me a bit sad.

Whatever your own thoughts about fonts, it is definitely cool that you want to open the doors for your son to be interested in programming!
Python 3.5 beta 1 released
Cellular data for a tablet (or mobile hotspot) is upwards of $20/mo for many people. I would venture that the majority of tablets in existence are WiFi only devices and not useful on the highway.
Have you tried HERE maps?
More than 20 years ago, at the company where I was working, I needed to order some sort of expensive thing. Printing a purchase order on the dot matrix printer connected to our accounting computer was a hassle, so I duplicated the form in whatever word processing program we were using on the Apple Mac. It even said Purchase Order at the top.

I faxed it to the vendor, and received a reply: "We will ship the item when we receive a copy of the actual purchase order."

I did nothing but re-print the order in Courier font, and faxed it to them. It was just the ticket. The boss said, "Now you know why we keep that old dot matrix printer on the accounting computer."
The Web of Alexandria
The ongoing travesties of justice that poor communities face are a disgraceful monstrosity of abuse, no doubt. The scale of disenfranchisement from mainstream society is hard to even get a sense of for most. Riots are in some senses a product of that disenfranchisement (people with nothing to lose, and a lot of pent up collective rage are likely to act out), and point to serious problems we need to grow up as a society to face and manage. Yet, the riots create conditions that make that progress more difficult. We live in an incredibly screwed up society.
How to name things in programming
Did this too. That eye is doing a disservice to that site - if wasn't a web developer who knows how to remove that, I would not have finished reading the article and left that page. Annoying things chase people away, guarantee that site gets less return visitors because of it.
300 searches of `select *`?
What's sad is you comment sounds EXACTLY like something a conspiracy nut would say, except most of us probably agree with your sentiment 100%.
Are you suggesting if I copied all your bank records I haven't done any harm because you still retain the originals?

Destruction isn't the point. The point is that something paid with public money isn't available for the public's use. You have no rights to any object just because you pay taxes.

A government levies taxes and through appropriation spends that money. If a park is built, then fine use it. If a tank is built, then too bad that's not your tank.
Start with javascript.
Health insurance, Internet, Phone...these are the things people always leave out. They are just as much a necessity as electricity and transportation.
Singing V Bozeman “What Is Love” at the Age of 2
User Experience Waterfall Charts
Primary issue here seems more like a manager who was not trying to help her grow.

I see this end horribly much too often in large companies- focus of the project shifts and manager assigns task which is a bad fit. Employee struggles for 6 months or more (probably within the 1yr 'no transfer' period many companies have). Manager doesn't try to find a better project, reviews slip, employee is warned that perf must improve but by then the manager has it in for them and because of low perf they cannot transfer.
It's not the education. It's the parents. Of course not all parents.
"shut down" is just the new code word for the expanded new program.

That way they can say "we're going start the 'shut down' soon"
Neat to see; I think Rust shines here, since the use of pattern matching is tighly coupled with error handling of value that may be null; since pattern matching in Rust is exhaustive. [0] "But, the C++ compiler let me get away with not handling the case where the pointer was invalid (even if doing nothing in the case of “handling” it). ... Not only did the [Rust] compiler prevent me from generating an executable, it told me that a pattern was not exhaustive, explicitly which one, and what case that was not covered."

[0] http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2013/05/07/rust-patter...
That last paragraph is disgusting and inappropriate.
Intelligence officials warned of a precipitous gap in data collected if Congress does not come up with a plan before May 31...

We cannot allow a Data Gap!
MathML Equations Rendering and Iso29500 Support for MS Word for Mac 2011 Docs
The only way to stop all of this is when independent companies outside of the current music industry starts owning the majority of the music and making better deals with companies like spotify.
Don’t Text While Parenting – It Will Make You Cranky
IIRC, Charles Simonyi invented the PM role and organization.
Great! I really believe them!
We know what happened with the Total Informational Awareness blowup in the early 2000's, the NSA will claim to stop tracking and tagging and collecting everything while continuing to do it behind our backs. They'll outsource the surveillance to overseas partners and exploit every loophole until there are none left in which case they will just do it with impunity.

Until every last man woman and child is tracked and tagged by the NSA like cattle, or until society moves to routing all telecommunications over Tor, with as much of that encrypted as physically possible, nothing is going to change. "Oversight" be damned.
Virginia cop uses pepper-spray, Taser on unresisting black man having stroke
Stack ranking is analogous to amputating the worst performing 10% of your body, every year. Or 'breaking up' with the worst 10% of your friends. Or knocking down the worst 10% of your house. Etc.
There have been very few years when the USA military wasn't engaged in a military conflict: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_milit...
One of the justifications for stack ranking is that the organization needs strong people to spread our and lead the whole company, not cluster together.

The bottom of the stack should be the juniors, not the GE yank bullait
Old Dancing to Marcus Canty – In and Out
Good. That means it came across the way I meant it.
This is new -- a blog where you can't read below the fold by any known method. Arrow keys? Nope. PageDn? Nope. Scroll wheel? Nope. Scroll bar? Disabled.

[Chrome 43, Win7]
Man, I just get angry with people this sloppy. How can you write:

"Now, Morris is the first to admit that this wasn’t exactly a true scientific experiment, but you know what? That’s okay! Because the findings are still fascinating."

without dying of embarrassment? It is equivalent to:

"Hey, this next bit might not be true but that doesn't matter because it's a good story!"

Its just offensive to so blatantly mention the unreliability of the findings and then go on to dismiss the notion of uncertainty entirely in the remaining text. Why did he even put in that mention?!
I'll take a look around.

An instructor of mine in college had attended Princeton, and thus the information came to me from him by word of mouth.
It's horrible but it plays into the myth of the elite rock star.

Marisa Mayer at Google famously had a gaggle of special junior PMs that she shepherded into high ranking roles.
"Newman is said to have lured investors by misrepresenting his own ability to pay back funds, [...] He then used the funds to pad his own finances or pay back earlier investors."

What? Why would you pay investors #1 back if you were planning to screw investors #2? Or was he planning to just take ever bigger gambles?
Depending on which bill passes, if any, they may move to a system where they contact providers and request records on a case-by-case basis... like every law enforcement agency already does. That does require some changes in procedures.
The cure for the American love of war is to have more of these wars fought on the American mainland.
Even if he's innocent, I found his lawyer's statement quirky:

"All of his business ventures have been legitimate and well-intentioned.
While his ventures were not always as successful as he hoped they would
be, he never did anything to justify the over-reaching charges issued against
him today.["]

I can't envision how this statement helps him.
Back in college days, I made my dell laptop a hackintosh, at that time ati was not supported by osx, so it was very troublesome to install - patching dsdt, kexts and all. It broke when I updated to Lion and I stopped and installed Arch Linux. I used to check http://www.insanelymac.com forum, http://wiki.osx86project.org, and, http://www.tonymacx86.com a lot. There you will find most of the resources you need.

You might find these links useful in finding a compatible pc if you don't want to do diy:

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.10.3/Port...

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.10.3/Desk...
"But the rise of ISIS will continue" they say, and they sure did while the program was going on as well.

So using a justification that existed and grew while the programs existed just proves they are for other reasons.

Other parts of the law are also bogus 'terrorism' reasoning including sneak and peek searches:

First, the numbers: Law enforcement made 47 sneak-and-peek searches nationwide from September 2001 to April 2003. The 2010 report reveals 3,970 total requests were processed. Within three years that number jumped to 11,129. That's an increase of over 7,000 requests. Exactly what privacy advocates argued in 2001 is happening: sneak and peak warrants are not just being used in exceptional circumstances—which was their original intent—but as an everyday investigative tool.

Second, the uses: Out of the 3,970 total requests from October 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010, 3,034 were for narcotics cases and only 37 for terrorism cases (about .9%). Since then, the numbers get worse. The 2011 report reveals a total of 6,775 requests. 5,093 were used for drugs, while only 31 (or .5%) were used for terrorism cases. The 2012 report follows a similar pattern: Only .6%, or 58 requests, dealt with terrorism cases. The 2013 report confirms the incredibly low numbers. Out of 11,129 reports only 51, or .5%, of requests were used for terrorism. The majority of requests were overwhelmingly for narcotics cases, which tapped out at 9,401 requests.

So with this one known tool "sneek-and-peek" searches (which in my opinion violate the 4th), over 99% were used for domestic crime rather than terrorism.

Question: What is wrong with normal justice + law system for domestic crime?

Answer: it is easier to use war powers with no checks and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[1]
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/peekaboo-i-see-you-gov...
The video is misleading when it spreads the idea that "polynomial time" equals "practical," or "fast".

It's nice and simple to talk like that, but I don't think it's particularly useful or helpful.

For example, there is a linear time algorithm for deciding whether two planar graphs are isomorphic (Hopcroft,Wong 1974). But the constant of the asymptotic time bound of their algorithm so large that it was not useful or practical (see end of abstract, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=803896)

Only in 2004 did Kukluk, Holder, Cook publish a quadratic time algorithm, "suitable for practical implementation." http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~holder/pubs/KuklukJGAA04.pdf

More such examples are listed at "Polynomial-time algorithms with huge exponent/constant," http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/6660/polynomial-...
This very thing is in the FREEDOM Act text. They move collections to private holders (this is what they originally claimed was the case anyway). The surveillance hasn't stopped. There's simply a different legal process for getting records now (now - if the bill passes).
His initial investors were likely complicit or he wanted the relationship to persist for future deals.
One problem is that it first starts with a Person class, then it says nope, modules are not like this. So it increases the cognitive load for absolutely no reason.

Another problem is that an immutable singleton could have interesting properties, like it could have a type, it could be polymorphic (e.g. think Scala's objects), but this article presents Ocaml modules to be nothing more than namespaces. So first of all, that's not true and furthermore, I don't see the usefulness in that compared to any other language that can do namespaces. When reading about some construct of a language I don't know, I want to see how that construct is different or useful for me.

As I'm writing this, the article has 42 points and I'm left wondering why. I've long suspected that HN votes articles by keywords happening in the titles, without reading the articles.
The 215 business is all red herring, honestly. The FISA 702 program continues unabated. Phone communication is obsolete, and they're not kicking and screaming that much when there is no serious challenge to 702 authority.
1971 by Richard Nixon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs
MILLIONS that we killed, not hundreds of thousands.

The body count in just Iraq is over 200,000.

https://www.iraqbodycount.org/

This is the way the American world looks.
Bleak and littered with corpses.
This may seem like a minor point, but I've noticed that in many of these videos the cops are screaming profanities. If you subscribe to the broken windows theory, as many police departments do, you could argue that allows the situation to escalate more quickly. By not training officers to exercise some restraint over something simple as using professional language, perhaps they are creating a situation where they are prone to overreact.

Thoughts?
Article is Jan 2014.

Lots has changed since then. PHP7 shows significantly performance gains that make it super fast compared to previous versions [1].

[1] https://www.zend.com/en/resources/php7_infographic
What do you call a PHP Developer? Employed.
In classic mode, you can do street view half of the screen, and map/earth view the other half of the screen. This is amazing if you are travelling to a new area and want to learn map quickly (as you see street view and map view at the same time, in as much detail).

The new street view hides the map in bottom corner, it now is a small thumbnail travesty with no way to to make it larger. And the thumbnail map cannot be made into satellite/earth view.
Just because it's not a true scientific experiment, that does not necessarily mean that it's uncertain.

That said, I'd rather people say this, than that they don't mention any uncertainty at all.
So the durations increased monotonically, except for WWII as kind-of-surprisingly defined to last through 1946 making it edge out Korea. I didn't expect such a simple pattern.
Looks like they are dyeing cloth to me.

I would really like to know how this works because the captions are... interesting.
Careful now, there is a BIG difference between conspiracy types and cynics.
Just like sisyphus will always be employed.
The citizenry would be an awful lot less rah-rah over "terrorism" and bad guys if the government was forced to actually ask the public to pay for the costs of war out of pocket. Oh, Saddam is an evildoer with WMDs? Let's get him - that'll be just $5000 per household.

I wonder how many people would put their money where their mouth is.

Wars have costs, and when those costs are subsidized by money printing, the bulk of society doesn't associate the immense costs of war with the war itself. Therefore wars are effectively waged cost free according to the populace since the US government has monopoly rights to print the world reserve currency. If nation-states lost the ability to mint their own money out of thin air, and instead had to continuously pester and beg the populace to pay for wars out of pocket, we would have less wars.

That is the cure for war, a move away from fiat money. Nothing else can be more effective than taking away the military industrial complex's right to print money out of thin air.