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Not just PHP. Here's an advert for a django junior developer in London for £25k.

http://www.indeed.co.uk/cmp/Titan-Merchandise/jobs/Junior-We...
I'm sure that would be found to be a derivative work.

The entire thing is derived from this doctrine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure,_sequence_and_organiz...
I'd be curious to hear RMS's stance on the issue, but I'm guessing he would agree with Oracle. http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-...
I think you've got a good understanding of it the difference between qualified an non-qualified.

The disclosure requirements will, I believe, kill any chance HLT has for doing an IPO. I would worry if they were able to get past that hurdle.

My response was more for people who complain they can't invest in pre-ipo companies when they don't meet the qualified investor criteria.
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What about maybe solving the global warming problem? The where does all this energy come from to feed & provide for all the people on the planet, eensy teensy weensy little problem that it may be.
I remember rediscovering fractional derivatives in college after learning about the Laplace transform derivative formula. I even called them fractional derivatives; and have a maple notebook somewhere in which I identified some fractional derivatives for various smooth functions. An interesting fact is that:

sin^(a)(x) = sin(x+a*pi/2)

(perhaps with some normalizing factor in front).

thus d/dx sin(x) = cos(x), etc.

I found the symmetry of this to be really beautiful.

I was very proud of my accomplishment until I googled the term and realized someone had beat me to it by ~50-100 years :)
They terminate the chromosome, and it seems that at each division they get shorter (I'm not sure at present how much is understood as to the 'how' or 'why' of that effect). When they get too short, cellular division fails.
> Is the term "White House" often used to refer to anything within the executive branch?

Only when people are being sloppy, either through ignorance, or, e.g, because its convenient for spin they'd look to put on something.

Less sloppily, referring to an entity rather than a building, it refers to either the White House Office within the Executive Office of the President, or the whole Executive Office of the President (both of which are headed by the White House Chief of Staff.)
Is there a quality benchmark for hashes?

In general, how does one test the overall good uniqueness of a hash-function - e.g. less hash collisions on overall?

Is it done with some corpuses, like words in a dictionary, sentences from books, randomly generated strings, etc?

I'm just interrested how one goes to show that X has better quality than Y and it's still faster.

For example how a language runtime would choose it's hash function for built-in types?
The current posture of this case is a petition for certiorari (Google asking the Supreme Court to hear its appeal). These are not merits briefs (about who should win) because the Supreme Court hasn't agreed to hear it yet. They might decline to hear it and then it would go back to a lower court for further proceedings in the underlying case, but with arguably an adverse precedent out of the Federal Circuit on the books.

While I think it's now too late to file amicus briefs on the cert petition, if certiorari is granted (as Google hopes and the Solicitor General just argued against), anyone can file amicus briefs on the merits. Companies, trade associations, nonprofits, individual experts.

I don't know exactly whom people should write to in the government expressing their displeasure with the Solicitor General's position. (It's supposedly a completely nonpolitical decision, so it's unusual for people to openly lobby about it or express opinions about it to elected officials.) You can certainly write to Congress saying that you want to see legislative clarification that APIs are noncopyrightable.
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Why are teen-agers joining ISIS?
Out of curiosity, Did you write that post from future? Its dated 2016? http://imgur.com/hx40nc5
So... with a screen sized to about 1280x580 (a comfortable size on my 13-inch BMA), the "Start Search" button starts completely off the screen. Any smaller than that, and the "Select Algorithm" box is partially clipped off the screen. In any case, there's no scroll bar, which really confused me.

That aside, this is really neat, and it's interesting to see a visual representation of the different algorithms.
Could anyone recommend a Javascript pathfinding library that doesn't assume a grid-based graph?
From my experience, engineering is intelectually challenging in a very narrow sense - you tend to use a few core skills over and over. Even when you learn a new paradigm, like functional programming, it's still within your comfort zone. It takes serious psychological effort to peek out of your hole and be willing to learn about a truly foreign subject, such as sales.

Besides that, I'd bet that a lot of programmers suffer from social anxiety (I used to be one of them), which severely limits your ability to express any personality that you might have.
> if induced pluripotency as it currently stands somehow happened to many of your cells, you would certainly die

Hm, there's some meat on the bones of that concept from a science fiction direction. People living very long lives, but only if they go away for three months every five years for agonizing stem cell therapy.

Like the Odinsleep, but with screaming.
Programming is in this odd position somewhere between the structure of math and the creativity of writing. Some things feel as obvious as basic addition, which clearly should not be copyrightable, while other things feel as clever as complex poems, which clearly should be copyrightable.

I am not a copyright expert, but in my opinion APIs usually fall closer to the structured math half of programming.

ex. GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE to the following:

/users

/messages

/comments

/login

/logout

/signup

/payments

etc.

Who gets those copyrights?
That's 30 years away with the accepted guesses. Can we do it in 15 years? Too bad Elon is afraid of AI. He's the type of person who would take on a crazy project like that.
Now on the other hand in last few years everything in Russia under Tsar Putin went full retard mode with people actually believing the unashamed propaganda that the state controlled media puts out.

Nationalism > Communism

Solidarity with the working man is nothing compared to the integrity of the Russian nation and her borders.

Nationalism and borderline fascism is the order of the day 70 years after the war. My grandfather must be spinning in his grave.

The core of the "Great Patriotic War" was nationalism. No one really fights for an idea. Everyone starts fighting to protect their home, and keeps fighting for the sake of their brothers in arms.
Silly question. Is there any potential for Google to move off of Java (perhaps to Go) for Android development as a result of this?
I don't know if I'm failing to read regexes or failing to see the humor. Can someone explain/kill the joke for me?
DOJ people don't just wake up and submit opinions to the Supreme Court at the approval of some random middle manager.
Doesn't seem that way to me. I see it as a way of taking some elaborate service integration work and wrapping it up as a platform one might deploy in house.
Basho has experienced some MAJOR brain drain in the last year. I wonder if this re-positioning is related to that.
I didn't see a specific answer for the current setup referenced in the article that would have netted zero downtime.

It's true the table wasn't available for 15 seconds, but current connections weren't dropped/lost, so a robust interface with the API should survive a 15 second delay.

Shouldn't a system like this be built to handle long delays?
> 72% of 18- to 25-year-olds find it easier to express their feelings in emoji pictures than through the written word, according to a survey for Talk Talk mobile.

This says it all. Emojis are good for communicating feelings/emotions succinctly and narrowly, and in pretty run-of-the-mill conversation. I.e. they're used to quickly get something across like 'that makes me happy' or 'I'm angry about that' without having to write the words each time, which frankly would be awkward and cumbersome. I suppose the in-person analog is supplementing speech with body language and facial expression.

I'm fairly sure UX studies have shown for example that ratings systems are better used when people can rate their feelings toward something via facial expressions (frown -> smile) than numbers. It's more intuitive and can serve as a supplement for extra, more detailed, written review information. From this perspective things like emojis actually augment and advance the power of a language, rather than being a 'step back'.

In any case, they are absolutely not useful for, or intended for, general language/communication and I'm pretty surprised that the author seems to be implying this, or that anyone could think this.
> military industrial complex

This phrase shows a simplified few events and organizations as they actually are. The rest of your post shows a fanatical viewpoint lacking in critical thought.

I will agree with you insofar as not everything is ideal with our military spending, the amount of spending and there is some corruption in military spending.

But the government and military must buy goods, this cannot always be fascism. There exists procedures and regulations that attempt limit corruption and to level the playing field for smaller companies. These rules are exactly what SpaceX used to get its foot the door. These rules require certain levels of "quality" and meeting certain requirements, this in effect rules out many of the smallest startups which contributes to why it is so easy for us to feel like outsiders. The smallest company I have seen provide military goods was 12 people, but most require at least 100.

The military also has other functions than "killing of women and children for profit", and claiming that this is one of their goals without evidence strikes me as fanatical. A military that wastes resources on things other than valid enemy targets is wasteful, we have defeated too many foreign powers to be that kind of wasteful.

I think our current military is built more along the lines of "kill the enemy and break his things". It is sad but sometimes innocent people are near the enemy or his things. It is also sad that we try to use our very effective "breaking" organization to occupy or police despite it not being well equipped for such.
BTW, I believe the "generalization" of the taylor expansion mentioned here is the Laurent series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_series).
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Thanks for taking the time to respond in a detailed way.

Imho there's way too much uninformed "meta" debate going on in the comments, without anyone reading the article.
> so after a while it will only remember a part of what you have been, so is it really you?

I think you've just described everybody as they currently exist. there's a lot of memory from childhood that my brain has stripped of detail and archived; probably more that I don't even know I've forgotten.

This does not fill me with existential quandary. I look at my hands, and I'm still here. shrug ;)
Rust conferences? I've seemed to have missed this. Any links/info?
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Same problem here. It takes some ingenuity to get paid well and use the stack you love. I am working on it. One way is to convince your current company to try something new on a small project to get its feet wet.

Any MS shop could consider F# and Java shop could consider Scala/Clojure as in each case it compiles down to compatible ones and zeros.

Or it could be a case of get a .NET/Java job at an open-minded enough company.

One of my arguments to introduce F# (when I am ready to) is that F# is now (a probably better version of) what C# is going to be in 5-10 years time, so lets get ahead of the curve.
thanks for that.

I just googled 'Improbable London'. On their website not much substantive , just a standard 'hello world' post: http://improbable.io/blog/

I'm personally interested in such an approach for an academic tasks ( complex electrical simulations), but I have no idea where to find some substantive discussion of what they're doing here.

kind of sad
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If you have a bit of signal processing background, fractional derivatives actually make perfect sense in the frequency domain.

A derivative is equivalent to a highpass filtering with a slope of +20 dB/decade (or about +6 dB/octave), and an integral a lowpass filter of -20 dB/dec. So if you filter something by +10 dB/dec, you get half a derivative.
Imagine politicians being accountable for their decisions, or relaxing the pressure that women are under to reproduce before they are 30. Mastering aging would allow the human race to significantly rise about our natural apeish behaviour that has to be unlearned through education during adolescents.
You could take the continuous differential equations that describe the elements of a CPU, consider what's going on as the program feeds through, and take the derivative of that.

For quantum computers all programs correspond to unitary matrices. You could take the logarithm of the matrix M, define f(x) = e^{ln(M) x}, then compute the derivative of f at 1. You might need a factor of i to make it work. (It works extremely nicely for single-qubit operations.)

(Alternatively, you could apply that process separately to all of the individual gates making up the circuit, vary them all at once, and get a different continuous transformation with a derivative.)
That's not true! He has pair programmed a line of Javascript, and even went as far as watching 3rd graders play with Scratch!

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http://www.google.com/patents/US5715314
> A lesson in not double-crossing your core vote

The thing is, even if they did that, they actually were an effective moderate voice. They did actually prevent exactly this sort of thing previously. They should be judged on their achievements, not on an unachievable election promise. An election they didn't win.
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Had an outage for about 30 minutes yesterday afternoon (ET). Nothing today.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche

'Sloppy' seems the wrong word to use to me.
Yeah, that's not how mental illness works.
However, your statement is pretty indicative of the confusion and lack of knowledge surrounding the phenomenon (and illustrates one of the prerequisites for stigma).
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Given the latest global birth and death rates of 19.5 and 7.89 persons per 1000 respectively, we'd have to launch people into space at the rate of over 200,000 individuals per day just to keep the current population constant.

There's lots of good reasons for humanity to go into space; population control is not one of them.
That something is synecdoche doesn't mean its not sloppy, and vice versa.
is this still active? just now getting errors.
Very interesting link, thanks for sharing.

From reading that, you can be near certain that RMS would agree.
Shame really: for a while SourceForge was THE place to go for open source software.

They claim (at the bottom of http://sourceforge.net/mirror/) that "If you have an Open Source project outside of SourceForge, we'd like to hear from you. If you want your project mirrored on our site, or if you don't want your project mirrored on our site, please let us know. Or there's any other service that we can extend to your project community, we'd like to hear that, too. Contact us at communityteam@sourceforge.net and we'll be sure the message gets to the right people."

People should email them at communityteam@sourceforge.net and ask to be un-mirrored. Maybe that will work.
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Just to add to that (for GP, obviously): if "drawing" seems too abstract or calculating the area on the fly seems too hard, you can get similar intuition by generating a wiggly/crinkly sequence (technical term) of numbers on your computer, then repeatedly take cumulative sums. This can even be done in excel (mash the number keys along a column for the initial function), and then you can graph the resulting sequences as functions. The cumulative sum is analogous to the integral, and the sequence will visibly get smoother.

For the derivatives, take the difference repeatedly.
I was hoping their source code made use of 'text-transform: uppercase;' but what I found instead was better.
Late reply. I am fine with pseudo-code in the coding question. I just want to know that the candidate can visualize an algorithm and get it into something concrete. Then be able to step through the code and tell me how the state of the machine will change.

I could do this by just giving out a sample code and asking people to step through it, but I've seen difficulties with taking a spoken algorithm and turning it to code and I want to test that. I have seen some correlation between those struggles in interviews (its not a hard fail to fail the coding question) and in real life. I've discussed an approach with a coworker, then have them fail to write that into code that does what we discussed, just like they did in the interview.

I have thought about bringing in a computer but I feel there's an added stress to typing correctly with someone in the room. Our phone screen coding question (really really simple) is done on a collaborative web environment, but that's a really simple 5 minute question.
Maybe that's why they showed a flying pirate scenario.

Imagine every object sitting on the same planet (object). Suddenly, everything interacts with everything.
You can't know if the object is a bee gently landing on a flower, or a 20 mile radius asteroid crashing into earth. The effect of the latter would be felt everywhere.

So, if every object was sitting on the same planet (object), even their system would probably crash and burn with n objects passing n^2 messages all the time.

The kd-tree idea sounds neat. They would need to adapt it however, to allow objects to move (to pass in and out of other objects' interaction radii).
> Running in the opposite direction as police shouldn't be a cause for suspicion or arrest.

Most people would think just the opposite. If you run then you are guilty of something, or trying to hide something. If you are actually innocent, then that can be sorted out when the cops question you, but either way running away isn't some kind of get out of jail free card to avoid the police.
I'm more pessimistic. I'd say homophobes just accept that the political wind changed and learned to shut up about it. There are still prolific undercurrents of sexism, racism and homophobia in the US, and here in the UK.
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http://www.omarwasow.com/Protests_on_Voting.pdf

Long story short, violence does not make other people want to help you or give you what you ask for. It makes those other people do the opposite.

When people believe something the opposite of both basic sense and history for romantic reasons, I call them deluded. This is the case with those who argue that riots bring support to their viewpoints.
I've built a number of more complex applications via Flask, and I'd love for you to elaborate more on some of the deficiencies of Flask, or provide links.

I ask not because I want to be snarky, but because I don't have the breadth of experience to identify any of the deficiencies in the Flask design. I'm curious to learn more.
I've thought about a similar issue myself.

The goal of technology is to make our lives better and easier. What's the endpoint of that? What's the goal? I'd imagine it's something like sitting on our asses all day doing whatever we actually want to do while robots tend to our needs.

The issue is, though, that so much of who we are and how we're seen in society is tied to our job - especially in the US. Those who don't have a job (often because they can't find one) are dismissed as 'lazy' or 'moochers'.

But what happens when there are actually significantly fewer jobs that need to be done than people to do them? What if we only need the engineers, scientists and mechanics to keep our robot slaves up and running, while everyone else can just reap the benefits?
Why do people care what the supreme court rules?

The US is no longer a country ruled by law. If anything the more ridiculous and barbaric the government becomes the better as it will only swell the ranks of those who realize the government is illegitimate.
It's all fun and games until IBM sues Oracle for SQL royalties.
I actually don't understand your point.

Are you saying that picking a coating with low absorption in the part of the spectrum that the laser is in doesn't matter?

I'm not sure I agree with you, since it makes other strategies (such as rolling the projectile in flight or using ablative materials) more effective if the projectile is slower to absorb energy from the laser.

The whole name of the game is to collect as little energy as possible, disperse it as evenly as possible (in non-important areas), and avoid deep penetration.

It doesn't magically stop the laser to paint it the right color, but choosing the right paint is an important part to penetrating laser based defenses.
I certainly wouldn't call illegal immigrants slaves. They generally speaking work under stolen identities and pay taxes for non-cash payment just like the rest of us. For those that do work strictly for cash, yes what you said does happen, but they are breaking the law to begin with by being illegal immigrants. The current US administration has made it a lot easier for said illegals to get less scetchy jobs via the DREAM act and the associated legal things.

The points you bring up about prisoners is interesting. I've always found the moral idea of a for-profit prison as reprehensible.