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The Wikipedia article on fractional calculus mentions that fractional derivatives are not local in the same way that integer derivatives are. Is that right? That seems profoundly weird in the context of differential equations.
>what's the difference between slander and allegations?

Slander:

Bob Jones murdered his wife.

Allegation:

Bob Jones is accused of murdering his wife.

Bob Jones allegedly murdered his wife.

Bob Jones has been charged with the murder of his wife.

Bob Jones was arrested following investigation of the suspicious death of his wife.

Bob Jones was arrested pending trial.

Witnesses claim they saw Bob Jones murder his wife.

Suspicion looms over Bob Jones following the murder of his wife.

There are reports that Bob Jones murdered his wife.

Someone told me that Bob Jones is the prime suspect in the murder investigation.

Police find evidence that Bob Jones murdered his wife.

I think that Bob Jones murdered his wife. (You probably wouldn't see that one printed in a newspaper though)

I think that there is enough evidence to prove that Bob Jones murdered his wife.

Family says Bob Jones is capable of murdering his wife.

There have been allegations that Bob Jones murdered his wife.
On the one hand, this would have serious implications for compatible FOSS reimplementations of proprietary APIs, such as Wine, libc, emulators, etc.

On the other hand, this would make it far easier to enforce copyleft licenses like the GPL.

I'm one of the people who provided text and examples filed in the EFF's amicus brief against, and on balance I'm not a fan of stricter copyright like this, but it's interesting to consider how this ruling could be used positively.
You may have a point. But bail bondsmen existed long before the current political climate.
This is probably what gives rise to the bail bonds industry, no? Credit for posting bail.
Yeah, I've got a Moto X and while it's not particularly small, it's basically the non-phablet version of the Nexus 6 with a few minor differences.
We glorify caffeine consumption all the time, and hardly anyone bats an eye. Alcohol and cannabis consumption are also frequently glorified.
Not nearly hard enough, apparently.
I've read that it's the exact same formulation, but you should check with a veterinarian on that.
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Look, the problem here is you are comparing bad with really really bad. People aren't defending the US via Russia here, people are saying don't defend Russia via the US.

Can you really imagine USA invading Mexico to extend its area of influence?

Facebook is filled with anti-US and anti-western arguments. VKontakte is filled with love for Putin. Apples to apples here...
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I make use of Lua and Redis for handling a few million redirects and have been happy with it so far. I never considered MySQL due to performance concerns.

3ms for connection setup + auth + query seems reasonable. Are you using persistent DB connections? Any other mods? What sort of timeouts have you configured for DB connections?
Shady code test or not, I don't agree with the manner in which you handled the situation. You agreed to do the test, submitted it partially completed, and then replied that it should be sufficient (knowing full well you didn't meet the requirements). I doubt the CTO didn't understand that the other cases would be trivial to implement; he simply sees a half-finished submission and a candidate who didn't correct the mistake when given the chance. Had this been a college exam and not a code test, would you expect a professor to award you a passing grade based on the entirety of the test, or the questions you chose to answer?

One thing to keep in mind is that while you may view the code test as bad, it might not having malicious intent; some managers simply lack experience in putting together tests and fall back on old specs. There's two things I do during interviews prior to writing a single line of code:

1. Every code test I have taken has been brought up during a discussion. I use this opportunity to ask questions about the test. If you're interviewing with a recruiter who's not familiar with the test, they'll forward your questions to the manager who's evaluating the test for clarification. The manager's response will come either prior to accepting the assignment, or with the assignment attached to it.

2. Immediately upon receiving the code test, I review the spec in its entirety. If I have concerns with the spec, I raise those right away, as to not give the impression that I'm incapable of completing the spec if I bring up these concerns at a later time.
Nice article. I hope to see a benchmark of it on a less parallel problem with low-latency network hardware. Maybe a comparison of that against a vanilla MPI or parallel framework. We'll get to see what its real overhead is.
Some examiners are easier to hide the ball from than others. But if your claim can never be infringed under the laws of physics, who cares if you have that claim issued in a patent?
Thanks for the link. That might come in handy if I do any more clustering.
Submitted this mostly for this bit of insight:

If technology is constantly creating new jobs, why aren't we seeing more employment and wage growth? Bessen argues that many workers today face the same problem textile workers faced in 1845: until technology is standardized, it's difficult to profit from investments in new skills.

Early textile companies built their looms in slightly different ways, and they were constantly tinkering with them. These differences made job-hopping difficult. Someone who had mastered one company's equipment wouldn't necessarily be more productive at other mills in town.
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I think Android's permission system works great. I saw Facebook's list of required permissions, considered whether these functions were necessary to provide the service I needed and whether I trusted Facebook to manage them for me, then declined to install the app.
And whether they need permission or not, bundling malware into the installer is evil.
There is nothing stopping any nation with ICBMs from launching them at Washington DC, and with enough warheads one would hit, possibly all would hit. But it would be suicide for the country that launched them.

Yes, anti-ship missiles and rail-gun rounds would likely devastate a carrier group. Part of any strategy against a country with that capability would be to take out those targets first (NRO keeping watch on those locations, CIA and NSA helping out). Trillions of dollars are spent specifically to keep track of missiles, foreign troops, to improve defenses, and to improve first-strike capabilities. Even a rail-gun and anti-ship missile can possible be countered, there are a lot of people working on making it happen.

Part of the deterrent is that we have battle-tested long-range radar systems that can detect where missiles are launched from. The US has dozens of nuclear and non-nuclear VERY VERY large bombs in every corner of Earth that would be used to absolutely destroy whatever launched that missile at a super-carrier.

http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/50f5450069bedde1150...

The reason to have war-games is to find weaknesses in strategy and defenses.

If nothing else, I feel safer with a dozen super-carriers on constant patrol.

Having aircraft available in a warzone in a way that carriers provide is invaluable. It's the reason the Marines have invested in their own smaller carriers (and the sole reason the F35 needs a VTOL version).
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That movie is based on a flawed premise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
If the federal government cannot figure out how to protect people's tax returns from hackers (yes the IRS was hacked by "criminals" recently), and if it spends hundreds of millions (billions?) on re-coding the IRS only to fail every time, then it certainly has no business trying to regulate APIs.
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It may work as long as each child has more than one parent. And the last child born is not allowed to have children, because he/she cant find partner without children.
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So suppose you have a function. Don't draw a nice one, draw one that's jaggy, or even discontinuous.

Now start from somewhere and move rightwards, drawing the function of how much area is under the original. You'll find that (except for truly pathological cases) the function you draw changes continuously, never jumping radically, because as you go a little further right you can only get a little more area.

So the integral is, in a very real sense, "smoother" than the original.

You can turn this around and think of it the other way. If you have the function f(x)=abs(x) and you differentiate it, the derivative has a jump discontinuity at x=0. So differentiating can make things less smooth, and hence integrating makes things more smooth. As it says immediately after the sentence you quote:

> When you integrate a function the result is more
> continuous and more smooth. In order to get
> something out that’s discontinuous at a given
> point, the function you put in needs to be
> infinitely nasty at that point (technically,
> it has to be so nasty it’s not even a function).

Does that help?
No, there are plenty of perfectly reasonable physical theories for the nature of consciousness that don't equate identity with memories and don't involve souls. There's no reason to resort to dualism.

For example, there is the identity-is-the-instance-of-computation theory which says that it is not the information being computed (memories) that is relevant, but the computation itself.
But how often are laws used positively?
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"In my experience, all distributed consensus algorithms are either:

"1: Paxos,

"2: Paxos with extra unnecessary cruft, or

"3: broken. "

— Mike Burrows (possibly)

Edit: I think the reason this exists is best explained in this blog post (http://kellabyte.com/2013/05/09/an-alternative-to-paxos-the-...). It's not that this provides more than Paxos, the goal is to write something that's simpler and easier to implement. The article here doesn't actually explain this, and doesn't compare it meaningfully with Paxos, making it difficult to reason about.
"I was lucky enough to work with François Bancilhon, who was CEO of Mandriva for about 6 years https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23410 (I worked with him at Data-Publica)."

Indeed you were lucky. Mandriva really was a great distro. I started using it in 2005/2006 and with gnome bridged the gap in terms of usability and ease of use. You can see it in use here:

- https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/117923430/

The thing that killed my enthusiasm, was cost then the usability started getting in the way. Historicy buffs will geek out on the fact I started using Mandriva at the same time as I found Aarons python framework, web.py [0]. Up till three months ago, the lessons I learned using Mandriva and webpy allowed me to hack 200 lines of python and run it as my blog on Google AppEngine for a measly $USD10/year from 2007 to 2015.

- https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/88347878

Not long after that I switched to a new distro called Ubuntu. They even mailed the disks, at no cost.

- https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/115063638/

Long live Mandriva.

[0] http://webpy.org/ and http://www.aaronsw.com/
Is the term "White House" often used to refer to anything within the executive branch? I have always assumed it meant the office of the President and perhaps his cabinet...
That's really misleading, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised when the next election is rapidly approaching.
Yeah, the imaging software can be really good on Android as well. Still, even as a fairly devoted Android user and not a big iOS fan, I'll point out that only the best Android devices have camera hardware comparable to the newer iPhones. The flipside to being able to install Android on any hardware means that the OS can only do so much if OEMs cheap out on the camera hardware.

Still, for the average user, the cameras on just about any higher end Android phone or iPhone will be perfectly fine for their intended purpose: being the camera you have at hand. For a photography pro or enthusiast, even the newest mobile devices (from any OEM) will only win on convenience versus a dedicated camera with larger optics. There's still only so much you can do with a lens that's a little chip of glass and a tiny sensor.
vapid article but more than that the UI for actually getting through the story is awful. the recommended articles box above the much smaller 'Continue' button, is particularly egregious.
Reading a whole lot into fabricated memories, I imagine the new entities might have an entirely new set of memories of things that never happened.
I see how it may appear vindictive that I have a offer (plea) at the minimums, but if I go to trial and lose the Gov will seek the maximums. However, understand if there is a trial and conviction, they are not necessarily seeking the maximums to be vindictive because maximums is what they may have wanted all along, and only offered minimums in a plea just in case they lost the trial, but they never really wanted to give the minimums. So it is not punishment for exercising your constitutional right as much as securing what they worked to achieve and what they wanted all along whereas they were willing to compromise. The same thing happens in civil with settlements, the suit may seek $10M, they are willing to settle for $5M, but if you go to trial and win you are going after the full amount you original sought even though at one point you would have taken half, that is not vindictive.

>intimidates innocent (or even guilty) defendants into pleading guilty?

Again this is a major misconception, in most instances of misdemeanors and even in some felonies there may not be a guilty plea, there will be a no contest plea ("I am not saying I did it, I am not saying I didn't do it, I am closing the case in my best interest") and in exchange the Gov will recommend a withholding of adjudication (This is not a finding of guilt, but an acknowledgement by the Court the defendant closed their case in their own best interest...almost a middle ground between guilty and not guilty).
Nice vid. That woman's outfit was great, too!
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> A lot of people without much familiarity of the legal system think things like "no innocent person would ever plead guilty!" but the way the US legal/justice system is set up right now, it is often the least-bad alternative to plead guilty to a crime you didn't commit than to fight it.

On the flip side, I think a lot of people with only passing familiarity with the legal system think innocent people regularly plead guilty. I have lots of friends who are public defenders. My impression is that they rarely encounter people who aren't clearly guilty of what they're charged with. When they rage about injustice, it's about how extreme the penalties are, the lack of sympathy for juvenile offenders, etc.
jokes are never funny if you have to explain them. just let the reference sit, and make those who get it feel special :)
Since many of the other angles here have been covered already, I'll just point out that fair pay and benefits aren't the only thing absent when universities move towards a heavily adjuncted workforce. One additional vulnerability of adjuncts is that without the protection from being fired that's part of a tenured position, political (or whatever people have decided to make political these days) speech could be held hostage by threatening someone's job.

This sounds pretty outlandish, but just recently we saw an attempt at this very thing in Oklahoma[0]. While that didn't succeed, if a massive donation was tied to a professor's dismissal, would every university resist that? Florida officials are now banned from using the phrase "climate change"[1]; it's also not inconceivable that state schools could be subject to similar restriction.

[0]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-15/oil-tycoon...

[1]http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article1298372...
I said humanely...like the euthanasia that is becoming legal in some places in the states, with much controversy o course. Ordering people to commit suicide would generally be frowned upon.

But...if we were to live forever, that time would be so different than anybody could think of today, and the ethics, relative to ours, would be pretty incomprehensible today. So...doesn't matter right now I suppose.
"declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organization of
the API packages are entitled to copyright protection."

Would this apply to REST APIs too?

Someone needs to explain to them that that would be like being able to copyright how files are organised in a drawer, how books are organised on shelves in a Library, how a book is indexed, how departments in a company are named, how streets are numbered, how campus room numbers relate to floors and buildings, roads, flights, cashier tickets, ...
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Pros:

Oracle makes a bunch of money from Android.

Cons:

Kills innovation for fear of lawsuits. Feeds the patent trolls.
They look incredibly nice and skilled though. Too bad I don't possess a useful skillset nor an outstanding pedigree.
Anyway, reporting verbatim their CEO "We have created a world where there are no server boundaries", so I assume they managed to scale the instancing method seen in Guild Wars 2 (where overflowing players are divided among different ghost instances) into a single giant concurrent world.
No. I understood and wrote tutorials on pointers when I was 17. I never understood what people don't get about them. They literally exist in real life in the back of any indexed book.

I'm just angry that new programmers still have to pay towards the technical debt of old school programmers.

It's sad to see that we're losing new programmers to old paradigms. Just so you know the state of the art, there are people out there mathematically proving that the operating system cores they wrote have no bugs. So long as you insist on managing everything yourself because "speed, man" you will continue to work overtime chasing bugs that aren't your fault (the fault is squarely on the paradigm called Von Neumann). Good luck wasting your life away making programs the most complicated way possible so you can feel productive. I'll be putting these Haskell Lego pieces together over here and let the compiler do all the work that you do manually. Because apparently your type of person (the type that accepts that status quo and thinks it's the best we've got and doesn't contribute to pushing for better things) will keep coming - these types of people are not going anywhere.
Ablative paint is another option, though it just means that it takes a bigger laser or more time to destroy.
I never said they were wrongfully charged. Just because the Gov has a shitty case does not mean: 1.) the defendant is innocent, or 2.) Gov can not get a conviction at trial.
Security Guy: Hey, bank, it seems like your vault is accessible via some old sewage tunnels. But fret not, I as a security expert that goes around making sure places such as banks and schools can't have specific places accessed by entrances other than designated the ones, have a solution for you. Just put your safe inside this chroot building. What this does is makes sure only sewage goes through sewage pipes (not people). So all you have to do is purchase this solution and we will guarantee that no one will come into your bank through sewage pipes.

Why does that never happen? Why are security experts always consultants and they never have a product to sell?

Naive is a person that thinks just because they are a security expert, programmers will care. No amount of shaming will change that. If you're a security expert your job is to make this so easy that I almost don't think about it. Like I almost don't think about databases, deployment, testing, scaling. Getting on your high horse and begging programmers changes nothing.

Just look at RSpec. All of a sudden everyone wants to write tests because it's fun and easy and looks sort of like English. Now we don't have to care much about tests, we just write them and RSpec runs them, collects and reports errors, formats them nicely, tells me the path and the line number where each error occurred, etc. Now imagine you're a "testing expert" and there's no RSpec and you keep yelling at programmers to change their ways, to write and maintain tests, and so on. No one would do it (like few did before the recent craze). So please, learn from that lesson, round up some peers, and contribute to your damn field by letting me forget about it.
No, but running from police, or driving from them, could get you arrested.

Running in the opposite direction as police shouldn't be a cause for suspicion or arrest.
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I've always wondered if there is not a general conspiracy of lawyers to protect their "industry". They have all interests to keep the current patent system, as well as extending copyright protection to anything: it keeps the demand for lawyers high.

Of course you have the same view of software and/or system engineer, who build broken systems just to justify billing more maintenance :)
Mageia forked successfully than the OpenMandriva happened when all the energy left the camp.
Next question: is there such a thing as a derivative of code?
Why do you think they are deluded in this way?
Well, if we really discover a way to live indefinitely, we will surely have to care about the future way more than we do know, since we will have to live in it.

Countries like Japan have more deaths than births. The more advanced a society is, the closer the ratio of births/deaths is, so I'm not that worried.
Well I don't think people knew anything about Mandriva and OpenMandriva since Mageia split off, including myself.
When you try the obligatory todo's example, at least in safari I get:

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Maybe my negation didn't carry across the comma properly. Let me say it here: If you are having work meetings, then that counts as your job.

There are lots of things associated with a job that people have to do besides the work itself. I shower in the morning. I get dressed. I commute to work. Those aren't compensated.
Given the amount of control both the Obama and Bush administrations have exerted over the DOJ, I'm OK with this title.
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At first look it appears to be yes, but (and maybe the GP can explain more) I don't see how it really gives any insight into the fractional derivative. It's just subbing out the derivative operator for finite differences, and you'd still need to introduce the gamma function, so you aren't gaining much that way either. What am I missing here?