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You need a 226262 short code. Text a photo of your banana to BANANA and we'll send you back a text when it's ready to eat!
So based off of the article, they bombed a building based off of a selfie accompanied by some text... am I the only one that sees this as a horrendously awful idea?
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I don't think this can be solved by punishing the cheaters, or "educating" them about the consequences. The problem is that expectations and pressure on individuals have gone out of hand. If you feel that your very existence depends on getting outstanding results, of course you will consider cheating.
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Wow! Impressive tool. We already can see the use cases for our workflow. One great one is when we need to quickly get the teams input on an idea or UI element. Dare I say Slack for UI?
Psychological case study.

In many instances, the crowd will do nothing because collectively, nobody knows what needs done. Cases like this start from a core few somehow figuring out how to pierce the crowd-mind was able to get a bus lifted and someone saved.

It would be a great way to figure out how to collectively amass people like this when the need arises, and use them for constructive good.
Anyone on a project should be able to "pull the cord" [1] and call out project risks.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_%28manufacturing%29
before that it was the threat of nuclear war, ecological collapse, and economic stagnation. before that it was the draft, violent racial injustice, and a nearly complete collapse of legitimacy of national leadership. Idealistic youts have always had reasons to be cynical. (and sadly typing up this list, I see how many of the reasons to be cynical remain powerful generation after generation)
That's awesome. Thanks! An interpretation I didn't consider.
But I do have a way to test for it. I can break into their house and (properly) steal their computer, then analyze its contents. I'm just not supposed to. That hardly makes their copy "not real, for all practical purposes."
I've used a lot of math in my work. But the point is, I have a lot of math to use. So many people say "I've never used math" or "Oh look, another day without using algebra," but really what's happening is that they don't realise that there are times when they can use mathematical thinking and techniques.

It's blub all over again.

So to be specific, I've used calculus in a bunch of places, Linear Algebra, Markov Chains, Quaternions, Topology, and Graph Theory is just everywhere. It's impossible to make recommendations - there's far too much, and what you need to do is get started on something, and keep track of things that look like they'll be interesting, useful, or the basis of something needed.

In part this is why I've started the "Topics In Maths" project I'm working on.

So good luck - keep pursuing stuff, and I hope you get more and more intrigued by what you find.
Sure, and the book is exactly four words long so nothing else contradicts anything anyone has ever observed.

A less snarky response is context is important.

PS: Sorry if this came off as harsh, but ambiguity is not really a win. It's like a defense attorney saying look my client is wearing a top hat today he must be innocent; it's just not relevant information.
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It's a management problem, but managers are eventually recruited from engineers. Or should be. In this case, it apparently were not so (the drastic wrong decisions in project management were taken by politicians who ignored engineers).
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Genuinely interested to know why, isn't the US and the rest of the civilized world at war with these pieces of shit?

So why not end it asap? The US managed to take out bin-laden when they got the chance. So why not the isis? These shits are even worse.
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> You have to see ISIS for what it is. They are teenagers in tin shacks and caves with yesterdays cell phones.

Similar things were said about the Viet Cong, except for the cellphones. The Mijahideen defeated the Soviet Union and arguably lead to it's demise. The US got kicked out of Lebanon and Somalia. I happen to think that won't happen with ISIS, mainly due to the oil but also because the West has allies nearby in the region, or at least people we can work with such as the Kurds, Shia Iraqis and Turkey. Still, being high tech and spending big doesn't guarantee victory.

ISIS may not be an existential threat to the USA, sure, but they're doing a lot of damage to a lot of people and it looks like they will continue to do so for quite some time to come.
Slack is crucial for all businesses.

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by Tom DeMarco is a great read.

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I'd love this to be true, but sadly it isn't.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/program/stroustrup.asp

Surprised this got to the front page :0
Generalizations like these piss me off to no extent. Because students have been expelled, therefore, it must be true that Baidu tried to cheat and there can be no other possible explanation? The first conclusion you jump to is "because Chinese culture"? Really?
You know that this is fake right? It is circulated every week to fool off people.
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yeah but it is an unfortunate game of wackamole. I really wish I could turn off JS but when I did, I would always just end up with no other option.
Engineers are often taught some degree of project management in school. Beyond the cynical reasons for offering/requiring this stuff, there are a few possible benefits:

a) Engineering school normally requires some degree of (relatively) long-term project work (like a final year project) where some aspects of project management is useful
b) Even in a work environment, it's often useful to understand whats going on (note, not expert) on at least a level above and below you.
c) Understanding signs of project mismanagement is useful in itself so you can run away
d) A lot of traditional engineers will walk a career path that will transition them to something akin to project management. Having some background is useful (but not sufficient obviously).
e) In a sufficiently small environment (think startup) your engineers are often dual hatted into project management to some degree.
Washington, DC has been working on relaunching trolley car service since 2004. I think it was originally scheduled to be completely in 2008. It's still not open for service and there's a small but vocal number of people who think we should just pull the plug on even bothering. Infrastructure is hard, I guess.
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So they built the terminals with a novel smoke extraction system where the smoke extraction vents were placed on the floor rather than the ceiling, upon the final fire safety inspection the buildings didn't pass and given the complete integration of the system with the structure the only realistic option was to pretty much rip them down and start again.
This appears to be running on port 4567, just FYI many firewalls won't allow nonstandard ports. Perhaps port forwarding or a DNAT rule could help you reach a larger audience?
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Yes, what could possibly go wrong with a policy of bombing every building that an ISIS member posts a selfie in front of?

Of course in real life this is probably some sort of misinformation campaign to try to misdirect from the fact that they have some sort of informant or other means of figuring things out that they want to cover for.
Amazing app! The design is very elegant and clean. I love The minimal use of colors and UI interactions are delightful.
I guess ethics and virtues are valued rather negatively in the business world (where money and power rule), and Google's back and forth in China proves the point.
So let's ask the question: why did they announce this to the press? That sounds like a whole series of classified things.

It sounds more likely to me that the US wants to weaken ISIS' influence on social media, and by planting the idea that posting pictures results in buildings exploding, they'll be less willing to show off images of anything interesting.
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That module looks pretty useful. I've been resorting to node-natural [0] and then using a quick part of speech tagger so far, but this looks a lot better and doesn't have a heap of baggage.

[0] https://github.com/NaturalNode/natural
Really could use a checkbox for the 'Bag and Apple' users out there. Faster ripening times but still could use a reminder.
Hilarious. I wish I had tried C++ just so I could get this joke.
They want Berlin to be a hub. There are no direct flights from Berlin to SF or LA at the moment for instance.
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Love this tool. Clean and easy to use.
This is not true. Check http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#IEEE
I work remotely as a Product Designer. I could see this being useful for exactly what you said. However, I've never had the need for a tool like this. It seems like it is solving a problem that doesn't exist (at least not yet).
The X-15 was a rocket plane that went into space in the sixties. It was operated by the air force and NASA. I don't know if there's a big difference in the novelty compared to more traditional rockets.
Good idea! except i feel like there might be some bananas that get sent in that weren't grown on a tree, jah feel?
Add photo interpretation (heck, do it manually at first as MVP) and you might get quite a few "colorblind" users. Fruit ripeness is a huge problem for many and bananas are usually the example.
If you truly believe that the UK is worse than ISIS then you should join ISIS and meet your fate.
It's probably more accurate to say that the DoD has a reasonable level of confidence for the location of most of the ISIS command posts. The "situations beyond their control" would also include those confidence intervals. These things are dynamic and complex, like you pointed out. As such, it's unwise to declare absolutes about things like this in warfare.
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The United States and Canada allowed free music (for personal use) if you wanted to tape it off the radio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act.

I believe a portion of the cost of blank tapes was allocated to recording artists to cover this costs, so perhaps it wasn't entirely free...
Start upranking what? Is this for a game?
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This actually happens a lot in high profile architectural projects. Probably more so than most people think:

http://architizer.com/blog/architectures-over-budget-hall-of...

You can also add the very high profile WTC Transportation Hub and the City of Arts and Sciences as well; both Calatrava projects that went way over budget.
Although the Gulag system was intended to be an engine of productivity in the USSR, that goal was never achieved. Throughout its history, the work camps were never profitable, they never carried their own weight. So it's hard to say that in the USSR, the work camps were benefiting the population at large.
And if you're supposed to come to an emotionally satisfying view of life by rejecting rationality, doesn't that screw-over those of us who gain emotional satisfaction from obtaining rational answers to things?

Oh, wait, everyone with a scientific turn-of-mind has already been labelled a "robot". Beep boop, then /s.
I imagine that the building was remote and likely marked as a suspected terrorist site. The person who posted the photo was likely flagged as a terrorist based on previous data and was identified by facial recognition in the photo. Having a known terrorist at a suspected terrorist facility was likely enough justification to label the site as malicious and bomb it.

The implications of something like this are interesting - it's just a graph theory problem, and hypothetically the computer could be programmed to automate a drone strike when a location reaches a certain score threshold.
Here's some info about ISIS and its origins

http://wartard.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/the-idea-of-isis-histo...

Hint: they don't do it because they read it in a book, any more than the US kills and maims people because of the bible.
Yes. Sorry, fate is the correct word. I will correct my post now.
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"but no particular issues"

You mean besides the lack of sitting space at the gates like in every other decent airport?

The need to go through an x-ray with all you luggage because of lack of space?

Sure, the train link is good, but you can get to TXL by bus (though slightly trickier)

So, no, a lot of 3rd world country airports are better than SXF
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While I'm totally sympathetic to the viewpoint that punctuality is efficient?

Europe gets almost an order of magnitude more vacation days, sick days, and holidays than the US does, and Mediterranean Europe gets a midday break on top of that.
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Exactly my point! Cynicism is often well-warranted, especially if you actually have high moral ideas. What people ought to be scared of are the people who aren't cynical because they simply don't care.
Having a domain name would help too.
Even if more went into it, it looks awefully gameable, a more extreme version of swatting.
ThinkGeek is ranked higher than AirBnb. Sounds legit!
I wonder if they used something like Hunter to find it. Seems unlikely that someone just recognized what the building looked like.

http://www.sri.com/work/projects/hunter
That makes sense, thanks for elaborating!
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It seems a bit insulting to film it, why would they not help instead?

Given the situation it kind of puts people standing out if people try to film it while everyone else is trying to help.
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I have the same problem. What I've found really useful is this simple exercise: hang from the pull up bar (like you do when preparing for pull-ups), lift both of your legs until they make 90 degree angle with your back, then slowly lower them down; repeat as many times as you can, but 10-20 repetitions daily after work are usually enough for me. Another simple exercise is a little less effective, but doesn't require any equipment: stand upright your back, shoulders and heels touching the wall, extend your hands forward then do normal squats.
That would stop any drop-down menu navigation bars from working though.
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I used to use this site, long ago and I did lose weight in my 20’s. Now in my 40’s I find it emphasizes a way of thinking that I think is missing the point.

I don’t necessarily disagree with calorie counting, but forcing yourself to not eat when you are hungry is the key to failure. I think this is at the root of the low-carb approach in which the foods that you eat don’t stimulate your body’s fat-making hormones.

If your body is being asked to make fat (through raised insulin levels), it doesn’t matter how many calories you eat, they are mostly being stored and you will continue to be hungry.

Low-carb helps you eat fewer calories because more of the calories you eat are available for energy and your body will signal that you are satiated.

If you want to go really low-carb, you can go into ketosis, where your body realizes it can also start eating its own fat for energy and promptly does so. Then you are satiated on even fewer calories because your body can get what it needs from itself.

I’ve found ketosis to be very reliable and even better, I find I concentrate much better because I’m not so distracted by how I’m going to get my next snack to much while I code. That concept is no longer a part of my consciousness. You don’t realize how noisy your brain is around food until it’s quiet.
And what makes you think that this couldn't change at literally any time?
Hahah, only after reading your comment I've realised my mistake too.
It would be horrendously awful if it was the only signal they had. And yes, to be clear, the military has hit the wrong target in the past.

In this specific circumstance, it appears they got the right target.
Suppose you saw they had Swedish coming soon. Lots of mutual intelligibility there. Or is Norwegian a hard requirement?

I say this as an English speaker who learned Swedish and now does OK with Norwegian after a little tuning.
I think it has more to do with the guilt vs. shame culture metric anthropologists and psychologists talk about and have documented at length. Guilt gnaws at you even when nobody else knows you've done wrong. Westerners score relatively highly for it. People in East Asian societies tend to have a less developed sense of guilt. Instead, they feel bad for having done wrong to the extent they are shamed and shunned by the surrounding society (loss of face). For things like cheating on tests it's easy to see how it's more difficult to maintain standards by shaming mechanisms.
Worse, it's probably the fatties and/or the chronically late :)

Maybe my joke rubbed them the wrong way[0].

[0] " a ton (but not many) " => implying that they individually weigh a lot so doesn't take many to get to a ton.
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If your current machine is sufficient for the non-iOS/OSX dev work you do, I don't see the value in putting money into it instead of a MBP. I would go for option B, however i'd get a 15" with as large an SSD as you can afford with 16GB of memory. Unfortunately what you get with these newer models is what you're stuck with, and I can tell you that anything less than 8GB on those machines can be a PITA, especially if you start running VMs.
I think the problem here is that these systems are frequently set up to look authoritative. "Hurry up! Only 1 left!" is a common sight on Amazon.

The user doesn't care about the challenges of a globally consistent distributed database, all they know is you said there was one left so they bought from you and now you're telling them you were wrong. You set expectations and then failed to meet them and that upsets people

If your system is not quite perfect, especially around something that can drive a purchasing decision, then make it clear to the user. "Hey, we're low on stock, we think we have 1 left but we might be out". Maybe you can even give a confidence interval, like "This item sells very quickly so we're probably out by now and don't realize it" vs. "we sell two of these a year and know that as of 5 minutes ago there was one left so we probably still have it". Now the user can make an informed decision.
Get a good level of experience and knowledge of what you do (not necessarily guru level, but solid) and become a contractor in an investment bank.

For a decent C#/Python/Java developer, £600/day is not exceptional. If you know a niche business, trading system or quant-level maths you can get more.
I would find an avocado alert more useful but sub-second accuracy for short time before they are over ripe might prove difficult to implement.
> He did admit on stage Wednesday that he thought we'd have self-driving cars by 2009.

> "Now that's not completely wrong," he said. "If I had said 2015, I think it would've been correct, but they're still not in mainstream use. So even the [predictions] that were wrong were directionally correct."

So if we're going to ignore the year, he might as well make all of his predictions just be "eventually, we'll accomplish X". The cognitive dissonance of Ray Kurzweil is impressive.
It's a tough problem to solve but Virgin Galactic have claimed they will be ready for passengers "in less than 2 years) every year since they launched. In 2004.
It's complicated. For starters, the sovereign nations surrounding / occupied by this rebel government don't want to be seen as needing help to maintain their sovereignty (that kind of weakness encourages the next ISIS to try their hand at regime change).
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> A Normal distribution occurs when everyone is expected to be at the same average level but could move up and down equally due to many random factors. When learning skills, people generally start at a 0 level and generally move up. That won't be Normal.

Aha, yes that's an excellent point.
It's not because you're saying it like it's a fact that it will become one :/
Yeah I don't get these corporate firewalls, as a cyber security student I've yet to see a single occasion where blocking a port has helped block an attack rather than annoy powerusers (or normal users also, occasionally).

So that's why I use https://torproject.org/download the whole day and never have any trouble with blocked sites (e.g. Pastebin; Slideshare) or blocked ports (e.g. :8080 was used today by some random site in XHR).
RealtimeConf was an amazing conference organized by &yet that ran for a few year before they had to stop. However, they are bringing it back this year and it should be amazing!
The apt equivalent seems to be `apt-cache rdepends libpcre3`
Probably something along the lines of "I'll drive away from the building in my new Bugatti..."
> You've never had free music ... Radio and YouTube are free ...

So which one is it: was music free or not?
We collectively like to say that what's really important is not work or "the game", but relationships, friends, family, etc. It's repeated so often that it's cliche, and if a person were to say that work was more important than family, we'd nearly unanimously frown upon it.

And, we collectively vote and make other choices about our society. Broken as our democracy is, there is a significant portion of the electorate that expresses a will that seems incompatible with our supposed human priorities.

BTW, we also decide, individually, what we will allow. The cost of our choices may be "high" (e.g. Snowden), but we choose nonetheless.
The VC were defending their homes, as were the Mujahideen for the most part. They work because they have some popular support. Women of the village make them dinner and clean their clothes. You have to put them in a untenable position. Make them attack solders around the UN truck handing out bottled water and medical care to children, then the power plant supplying the village, then the school. Be the good guy. Eventually the villagers supporting them will want a better life for their daughters and sons and will no longer do so. You will win their hearts and minds. A military or diplomatic victory isn't required, a cultural one is.

Data like this puts the real threat of ISIS in perspective: http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terroris...
They released many schedules over the years, the first announced opening date was 1997 [1]. They even postponed dates for the announcement of (new) dates.

[1] http://www.bertrug.de/Geplante_Inbetriebnahmen_Flughafen_BER
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Do you mean analytics or do you mean Analytics®?

Edit: You mean Analytics ... so here's yet another site where $SomeBigCorp tracks what I do :/
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Definitely the Spain you know is not the Spain I was brought up in. Except for the shops opening times.
Someone who's actually Chinese, and went to school in China, would know best, but my feeling is that it's more simple - Chinese culture just places a really high value on results, as opposed to broader goals like learning, advancing a field, etc. If the grade/win is all that matters, then cheating is just a way to get there.