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Re:NIH
There may be good reasons to fork Gnome3
http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/nautilus-next
http://afaikblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/new-folder2.pngMaybe, but what does that have to do with a fork of the Gnome 3.6 control center?
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Re:Moon
Crazy as that sounds, there is actually some talk of doing that sort of thing.
With the SpaceX Falcon Heavy (F9H) I can place about 6,000 kg of payload on the Moon. This is enough for a 125 kilowatt powerlander, along with a laser communications system, a petabyte of computer server, and at least 10 small (30 kg each) advanced rovers. The F9H cost is $83m, and the cost of the lander with the desired payload is about $500m. I can immediately generate revenue from the use of the laser communications system. Utterly secure, 25 gigabits/sec communications with an unhackable data server would easily be worth $150-250m/year in revenue to the U.S. government, based on the cost of the Advanced EHF and other wideband military satellites. The yearly cost to support this is $1-2m dollars, thus my first infrastructure payload for mining is already generating strongly positive cash flow.
I'm a tad skeptical myself, but who knows?
[taiwanjohn: posting as AC to preserve mod points]
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Re:Market share
I should provide a citation for Tomi's imaginative counting practices. here you go
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Re:So what's HK got to do with Chinese Attitude?It's not subtle at all. HK is not exactly an autonomous state but it is very unique. It is part of China and top officials are "elect/appointed" from central. BUT the law in HK is based on English common law. And see the judges names: I don't think any Chinese has last names like Mortimer, Riebiero, Hartmann, Walker...etc. Learn something new everyday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Hong_Kong
http://www.judiciary.gov.hk/en/organization/judges.htm
http://rbbadger.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/p201001110174_photo_1012560.jpg
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Re:He is the idiot we need to be saved from
They HAVE been found out and disgraced. Look up Phil Jones. Look up comments from climate scientists who left the IPCC because it has become a joke.
Citation of MIT scientists that used to work on IPCC panel now thinks they have become a joke.
Citation 2 Phil Jones deleted data about 5 years after being legally required to share it for peer review. Deleting data to prevent an "arch-nemisis" from seeing it is NOT scientific, it is a desperate act to stop your corruption from being found out.
Its only idiots like you that REFUSE to acknowledge the truth that keeps it going.
Here are claims - And then reality:
More hurricanes every year - Reality is quiter hurricane season each year.
No record lows recorded anymore - Reality is over 1000 record lows have been recorded recently (Including a world record low recorded in 2010)
Average temps will increase - Reality is warming stopped 17 years agoWhat you say HAS happened. You are aparently too stupid to actuallty READ anything on the subject because you "know it all already". I would rather debate a "bible thumper" because they can actually POINT to where their ideas come from, you just repeat crap that has been debunked for over 5 years and pretend it is still relevent. You are not scientific, you are worse than the most ignorant bible thumper out there.
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Re:This is evil...
Here you go: "I am a platinum ligand". One man's experience in becoming a GMO.
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Re:That is fucking cold.
CO2 freezes at 78 C at a partial pressure of 1 atmosphere. That means that if the atmosphere were 100% CO2, and we were at sea level, but still at -93 C, then there would be CO2 snowing out of the atmosphere. However, the partial pressure of CO2 is much lower than 1 atmosphere simply because so little of the atmosphere is CO2. Since only 0.0397% of the air is CO2, and the local pressure (due to the high altitude) is about 0.65 atm, the partial pressure will be 2.6e-5 atmospheres. At that partial pressure the CO2 freezing temperature is less than -140 C (I couldn't find a diagram that went quite far enough down in pressure).
The physical reason for this is that there are two competing processes involved. CO2 molecules bumping into a solid speck of CO2 and getting stuck (freezing), and CO2 molecules shaking loose from a solid (sublimation). But the former process proceeds faster the more CO2 gas there is, i.e. the more often these collisions happen. Hence the dependence on the partial pressure.
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Not real research
Since then, Wilson has [...] conducted research on medical isotopes for cancer treatment...
As impressive as his site is, that's not real research.
Real research is only done by professionals who have (or are pursuing) an advanced degree, with the backing of a university or government-funded research facility. There are no "gentleman" scientists any more, and there are no contemporary examples of real science done by 'regular folks.
This issue was addressed in an article from a couple of days ago. Haven't you been listening?
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Re:Views?
No, the article is just terrible at explaining what FRP is. The idea of FRP is that you stop simply having the idea of having values, and start having the idea of "time varying values". So instead of having an int, which I change the state of at a bunch of times, I can have a Reactive which represents the value of the int at all possible times. You can then treat these as first class citizens, which you can manipulate, so if you have a Reactive representing the time, you can do things like time + 1, and get a new reactive int representing one second later than the current time.
These can be combined in much more complex ways to produce much more interesting behaviours than "hey, what will the time be in one second".
You can see a simple example of this, describing the n-bodies problem here http://noordering.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/simulating-n-bodies-and-functional-programmingre/
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Man wants to draw
cartoon of ELSEVIER SHOOTING ITSELF IN THE FACE wearing King Caunute clothing.
http://kmccready.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-shoots-itself-in-the-face-again/ -
Re:What a great man
In this week’s issue of Radish, the Carlyle Club tries to fathom the motives of an ethno-nationalist terrorist and political mass-murderer. And when we’re done talking about Nelson Mandela, we’ll discuss Anders Breivik.
http://radishmag.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/volume-3-issue-2-breiviks-norway/
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And now that he's dead...
... get ready for uhuru.
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Re:Weather intolerance risk?
Here are some Bellevue twentysomthings for you to fap to....
http://jplovescotton.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/20345_251575601614_687146614_3838056_3033589_n.jpg/url -
Happened at the USA's fucked-up School District
Chamblee Middle School (http://www.chambleems.dekalb.k12.ga.us/) is part of the Dekalb County (Georgia) School System. DCSS is the most fucked-up school district in the USA. The former Superintendent was arrested for theft by taking, the replacement Superintendent abandoned her job and the current Superintendent is a political hack who lacks the qualifications required to hold a teacher's license. The former COO was just found guilty of racketeering. The DCSS school board was removed by the state Governor and the school system is currently on "Accredited Probation", the only school system in the country with that status.
Some recent news coverage of Dekalb County School System:
Court upholds law used to suspend DeKalb school board members: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/court-upholds-law-used-to-suspend-dekalb-school-bo/nb4Cx/
Ex-DeKalb school official found guilty of racketeering: http://www.11alive.com/news/article/313666/40/Verdict-reached-in-DeKalb-corruption-trial
DeKalb teacher accused of beating special needs elementary student with stick: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/dekalb-teacher-accused-beating-special-needs-eleme/nb26M/
School superintendent negotiates settlement in expensive legal battle: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/school-superintendent-negotiates-settlement-in-exp/nb89X/
DeKalb Schools placed on probation: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/dekalb-schools-placed-probation/nTYSp/
DeKalb’s graduation rate under the new state formula: 58.65% (Meaning that 42% of Dekalb Students DO NOT GRADUATE!) http://dekalbschoolwatch.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/dekalbs-graduation-rate-under-the-new-state-formula-58-65/
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Can they prove it?
Originating article here, since
/. mods, and submitters, have issues..."Reverse textual analysis" was used to identify the Econ prof. Ok. While I've heard of this before, namely to out J.K. Rowlings pen name, it's highly dubious that this could be used as a legal tool to 'get' to him. Unless there's some solid physical proof here, not 'generated results', this is conjecture.
Someone smart enough to 'create' bitcoin, just might be smart enough to know the value of anonymity, and that reverse analysis might be used to later identify them. Depends on your level of risk and paranoia I presume...
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Re:Yay
Agreeing with much of what you're saying, with one niggle: http://boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/mobile-os-share-nov13.png
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Re:Police Training....
Yep. This guy's blog is fascinating. It's an extraordinarily complex area with a lot of legislation and rules intersecting.
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Re:High-school computer classes already in the 198
More importantly, why are we wasting time and resources asking children to propagandize implementations of technology in education for the sake of it rather than worrying about the quality of education, itself? If technology itself somehow inherently improved education, you wouldn't need to promote it. Steve Jobs understood this ages ago.
I used to think that technology could help education. I’ve probably spearheaded giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet. But I’ve had to come to the inevitable conclusion that the problem is not one that technology can hope to solve. What’s wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent.
It’s a political problem. The problems are sociopolitical. The problems are unions. You plot the growth of the NEA [National Education Association] and the dropping of SAT scores, and they’re inversely proportional. The problems are unions in the schools. The problem is bureaucracy. I’m one of these people who believes the best thing we could ever do is go to the full voucher system.
I have a 17-year-old daughter who went to a private school for a few years before high school. This private school is the best school I’ve seen in my life. It was judged one of the 100 best schools in America. It was phenomenal. The tuition was $5,500 a year, which is a lot of money for most parents. But the teachers were paid less than public school teachers – so it’s not about money at the teacher level. I asked the state treasurer that year what California pays on average to send kids to school, and I believe it was $4,400. While there are not many parents who could come up with $5,500 a year, there are many who could come up with $1,000 a year.
If we gave vouchers to parents for $4,400 a year, schools would be starting right and left. People would get out of college and say, “Let’s start a school.” You could have a track at Stanford within the MBA program on how to be the businessperson of a school. And that MBA would get together with somebody else, and they’d start schools. And you’d have these young, idealistic people starting schools, working for pennies.
They’d do it because they’d be able to set the curriculum. When you have kids you think, What exactly do I want them to learn? Most of the stuff they study in school is completely useless. But some incredibly valuable things you don’t learn until you’re older – yet you could learn them when you’re younger. And you start to think, What would I do if I set a curriculum for a school?
God, how exciting that could be! But you can’t do it today. You’d be crazy to work in a school today. You don’t get to do what you want. You don’t get to pick your books, your curriculum. You get to teach one narrow specialization. Who would ever want to do that?
These are the solutions to our problems in education. Unfortunately, technology isn’t it. You’re not going to solve the problems by putting all knowledge onto CD-ROMs. We can put a Web site in every school – none of this is bad. It’s bad only if it lulls us into thinking we’re doing something to solve the problem with education.
Lincoln did not have a Web site at the log cabin where his parents home-schooled him, and he turned out pretty interesting. Historical precedent shows that we can turn out amazing human beings without technology. Precedent also shows that we can turn out very uninteresting human beings with technology.
It’s not as simple as you think when you’re in your 20s – that technology’s going to change the world. In some ways it will, in some ways it won’t
-- Steve Jobs
source: http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/steve-jobs-on-technology-and-school-reform/
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Re:Backup power
I don't know about you, but I have extra batteries, genrators, and hell, a *car* I can charge my cell phone with.
Cars were so useful in New Orleans...
http://pendletonpanther.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/new-orl.jpg
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Re:Not gonna happen
On the plus side, Dayan and Abbott is actually a graduate-level text, but you're utterly right. To keep up with just the unsupervised learning methods that it covers requires at least a stats course, a linear algebra course, and a couple of calculus courses. To make things worse the newest edition is 8 years old, which is a significant portion of the lifetime of the modern cogsci field.
You might appreciate this blog, which is at least about availability and help might get you more well-read, but even disregarding the educational gap, the field is the intersection of ML and medicine, two areas that are both extremely high-pressure and high-prestige. It will probably be the last discipline that breaks out of the cathedral and finds the bazaar.
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Re:Employers want day 1 results
Yup. Though there can be big differences in the benefit for effort depending on if the candidate is modestly experienced, more experienced, a near-master, or what, and if the nature of the work is "concave" or "convex" as described by Michael O Church http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/gervais-macleod-21-why-does-work-suck/ In certain cases it may really be better for the company to wait it out for superb talent - but surely this accounts for only a few % of all open positions. What kinds of jobs are "concave"? As far I understand, professional athletes, pop celebrities (their agents and marketers not the singers/dancers/actors themselves being the actual "talent"). Symphony bassoonists too, I imagine. Video game designers, language and framework designers.
For almost all other cases, in real life, I look around and see people with skills of any kind at any level above zero, would be happy to learn new things. And there's a lot of "convex" work in IT and software development (and many entirely different fields) where being not in the top 1% or 10% is okay - being 40% or 50% down means work that is just about as good. Convex work would include stuff like maintaining servers or grinding out more GUI frontends to ever-shifting enterprise databases.
A lot of talented and near-talented and half-talented people could be contributing, earning money, and reviving the economy of (fill in blank with whatever country has a slow economy and companies holding out for superstars), if companies understood that they'd be just fine in any of those "convex" jobs.
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Who's a target?
The same tactics that are taught to intelligence workers for targeting political thought that threatens what are euphemistically called 'US interests' can be brought to bear on anyone spreading ideas that threaten the internal power structure as well. We've already seen the lengths that the security state will go to in order to protect itself, and that it even considers get-out-the-vote activists to be dangerous. What you espouse may seem innocuous, but any kind of change threatens someone's power, and now that unlimited funds can be spent to control what government does in the name of corporate personhood, you can easily be a target as well.
I dramatized this situation back in 2007 as part of a series of short stories about a group exploring ways to improve the workings of government. Here's a link:
http://klurgsheld.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/short-story-double-agent/
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Myth....busted
"Plastic bags usually take several hundred years until they decay"
Hmmm really? http://mybiotechblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/bacteria-that-breaks-down-plastic-bags/
Rather uninterestingly normal bacteria seem to degrade them in favorable conditions. They may last hundreds of years on your counter top, but I doubt they last so long in a landfill with a little moisture and modest temperature.
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Re:Prosecuted? Maybe not.
1) Straus-Khan was not prosecuted, but nor was his accuser
2) In what world is does one case falling apart in the US invalidate every rape case everywhere in the world?
3) The Straus-Khan case was in a very preliminary stage - he was only arrested because he was considered an immediate flight risk. In the Assange case, there have been *five different courts of law in two different countries* which have considered the case, including two supreme courts. There is a standing court finding of probable cause against Assange after a review of all of the evidence collected on a months long investigation (including testimony from Assange's attorneys).
4) The simple reality is, famous people do rape. And their fans invariably smear the victims and portray it as a giant conspiracy against them. Every bloody time.
It should also be added that *lots* of people rape, period. Roughly 10% of young men have raped at least once, and about 3% of young men are serial rapists. What, you thought that a quarter of women getting raped at least once in their lifespan was the work of just a couple bad apples?
And it should be added that Julian "Women's Brains Can't Do Math" Assange has a *long* history of this sort of stuff.
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Re:Good advertising?
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Re:Calling home
>> its annoying habit of occasionally "calling home" to check licensing information
Calling home for the latest NSA exploits to inject in to your application?
/tinfoil-hat-no-so-paranoid-these-days-deptThey are also trying to ram down the users' throats a sign-in feature with VS2013 too.
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Re:Prosecuted? Maybe not.
I find it hard to believe that a Social Democracy throws people in solitary before formal charges have been brought.... Are you seriously claiming that the Social Nirvana that is Sweden treats defendants worse than the United States?
Well prepare to be shocked by Swedens draconian system then, as it has already happened. We have well documented examples of people being held in solitary FOR MONTHS without any charge. One of the more high profile examples was Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm, just another who pissed off the powers that be.:
"concern surrounds the Swedish detention facility, where Mr Assange would be held incommunicado upon arrival. Similar treatment can be seen in the case of Gottfrid Svartholm, founder of The Pirate Bay, who was held in solitary confinement for months without being officially charged."Lost in all of this are his alleged victims, whom are supposed to actually receive some measure of justice. Their allegations may be completely bogus, totally legitimate, or lie somewhere in between, we'll never know as long as he keeps ducking the judicial system.
Interesting you should mention them - because if Sweden actually cared about justice for the girls they would hold an interview as they have done for murderers, see "Assange is willing to return to Sweden but prosecutors can also question him in the UK.". Then Sweden could let the girls have some closure by pressing charges, or dropping them as looks increasingly likely. The plot thickens by the month.
For someone who proposes to have spoken a lot about this case you seem to be missing a lot of high level well known and confirmable facts. Things that make one go Hmmm?
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Re:understandable
So yeah, denialists, record tornado seasons
2013 was the quietest tornado season on record. Don't make shit up to try to win an argument. Try instead explaining how the heat in the climate shifts around from one region of the plant to another from year to year. You do have an accurate model for that, right?
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Re:Six months from now
Your post might be on point if A) uninsured emergency care constituted a large portion of hospital expenses, and B) Obamacare was solely about rectifying that and requiring emergency-care insurance. Who knows, a lot of conservatives might have been behind that.
But thats not what Obamacare is, and theres about a million reasons to object to it. And regarding "A", a quick google turned up a Kaiser Foundation link indicating that,
Uncompensated care will make up just 2% of total health care spending in the U.S. in 2008
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Vacation Pictures
Hey, we just the prints of your vacation pictures. You can come pick them up any time.
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Re:The best system is Benevolent Dictatorship
> I still think that benevolent dictatorships are better than democracy.
I think this is true, however how do you get one? Most dictators are not benevolent. Lots of times they start out benevolent and end up not.
Some economists argue that there is no evidence of effective benevolent dictators so you might as well not bother trying.
http://williameasterly.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/benevolent-autocrats-easterly-2nd-draft.pdf
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Re:Blow to NoSQL movement
On the 'eventually consistent' point, just wanted to point out that MarkLogic does NOT use the 'eventually consistent' model. Instead MarkLogic uses MVCC and is fully serializable when it comes to transactions. In addition, MarkLogic's indexes are updated within the transaction boundary, so as soon as the transaction commits, you know the journal has been updated and the indexes are updated too.
Combine this with MarkLogic's ability to save any arbitrarily complex search as an alert, and you can power many interesting mission critical information sharing applications.
I have a blog entry that describes this: http://adamfowlerml.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/marklogic-huh-what-is-it-good-for/
Also around Serializability: http://adamfowlerml.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/true-acid-compliance/
[Yes, I work for MarkLogic! I work here because it's an awesome piece of tech. ]
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Re:Blow to NoSQL movement
On the 'eventually consistent' point, just wanted to point out that MarkLogic does NOT use the 'eventually consistent' model. Instead MarkLogic uses MVCC and is fully serializable when it comes to transactions. In addition, MarkLogic's indexes are updated within the transaction boundary, so as soon as the transaction commits, you know the journal has been updated and the indexes are updated too.
Combine this with MarkLogic's ability to save any arbitrarily complex search as an alert, and you can power many interesting mission critical information sharing applications.
I have a blog entry that describes this: http://adamfowlerml.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/marklogic-huh-what-is-it-good-for/
Also around Serializability: http://adamfowlerml.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/true-acid-compliance/
[Yes, I work for MarkLogic! I work here because it's an awesome piece of tech. ]
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Re: MarkLogic = NoSQL
FoundationDB actually did a pretty good job of separating out the truth from the hype recently in their post about NoSQL and ACID Compliance: https://foundationdb.com/acid-claims#!
Doesn't mention neo4j specifically - don't think the article authors considered graph/triple stores in their article - but it's a good read nonetheless. The article mentions MarkLogic too. Added my comments on it here: http://adamfowlerml.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/foundationdb-joins-acid-transaction-crusade/
FWIW MarkLogic 7 also is a triple store (not graph store), including support for the W3C Graph Store protocol and SPARQL. http://www.marklogic.com/what-is-marklogic/marklogic-semantics/
[Yes, I do work for MarkLogic - and proudly so!]
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Re: follow the money
As many have said, XML is here there any everywhere and so we need strategies to manage it. Some people use it purely as a data interchange format, which is fine. Others want to manage documents using an XML representation, which is fine too.
MarkLogic takes an XML document and stores a highly compressed binary tree representation of it. It doesn't store 'raw text', or even strings. This makes it storage efficient. MarkLogic also indexes the entire document's structure, values, words and phrases (and stems thereof) for search. The database and the search engine use the same indexes, rather than a set of indexes each.
Special range indexes can be created too. E.g. a geospatial co-ordinate pair appearing anywhere in the document. As the point's XML element could conceivably be anywhere in the document, creating a traditional schema for this is nigh on impossible. Storing the document itself, with indexes along side it, is actually quite an elegant solution.
I would agree with your statement if it were 'XML soo sucks for traditional relational db applications', because those RDBMS systems require shredding/rebuilding of the documents, or store the XML as 'dumb' column types. Thus you lose the flexibility of the XML. MarkLogic takes advantage of the fact the data is XML anyway.
Why not use a document database with built in support for XML to store data that is XML? Seems pretty straight forward to me.
More details here: http://adamfowlerml.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/marklogic-huh-what-is-it-good-for/
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Re:Shh, You Guys!
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Re:landline?
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GlusterFS could be on this list
It's pretty awesome, and pretty cheap on $/Gb/Performance.
I'm biased because I'm the Puppet-Gluster dev.
http://ttboj.wordpress.com/puppet-gluster/You can run GlusterFS in "cloud" or on your own iron. Because it's not proprietary, the possibilities are endless, and it has a lot of very elegant features.
HTH
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Re:An example to follow
Lierre Kieth wasn't actually vegan (although she claimed to be) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJVGOvpvkXc
Good critique of her book: http://vegetarianmythmyth.wordpress.com/category/the-vegetarian-myth-chapter-1/
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Advanced Puppet
I prefer Puppet, but I don't think it's perfect. As a result, I've written some complicated hacks do to complicated things that aren't directly possible in core. I still think Puppet is the closest thing to being right.
Feel free to look through my articles and hacks: https://ttboj.wordpress.com/
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Re:Node.js?! How 'bout C89 support?
Yeah, but the callback model is incredibly ugly. In Lua I can do precisely what Node.js does--juggle thousands of simultaneous connections--but at least be able use a normal flow of control via the use of coroutines.
In C#, this was solved with async/await, which, like Lua coroutines and Python yield, let you basically write the code as sequential, sprinkling "await" in points where you want asynchrony. Since then, a similar thing has been proposed for the inclusion in C++17, and there is another proposal for EcmaScript 6 - support for which has already been added to Node.js.
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Re:Brought to you by
The article is grabbing headlines because they packaged it into a eye-glass format.
Although perhaps tellingly I can't find any real demo images...
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Re:Normalization?
For anyone that is looking for it, the table was added in this blog post, not on the Washington Post site.
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Here's a link
Here's a link with more technical detail. I had to tone down the technical aspects for the Washington Post.
That link does not have full code, but if you want, I can e-mail it to you (I already have for two other people). I didn't post the code online because I wanted to keep track of who was asking for it. But I'm happy to share it.
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Perl? Why?
Here is the original article with a little more technical detail. To those interested (like me) what was Perl doing there, it was just a single line script with regex. The rest is R.
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Renewable energy preferred for smelting
Aluminum smelting prefers the cheapest power source. This has been renewable energy for a very long time. Here is what they do in Iceland where smelting is their largest consumer of electricity http://arcticecon.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/aluminium-smelting-in-iceland-alcoa-rio-tinto-alcan-century-aluminum-corp/
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Re:Double down
First, I am quite good at providing citations and references.
And you go on to provide these two links:
http://principia-scientific.org/latest-news/330-ipcc-climate-reports-then-versus-now.html
http://principia-scientific.org/latest-news/369-ipcc-sea-level-exaggeration.htmlPrincipia-scientific is a vanity site run by Joseph E Postma, who is not a climate scientist and has never published a peer-reviewed paper on climate science. If that's the best you can do then you don't have a case.
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Re:Or you know..
The problem with frequentist statistics as used in the article is that its "recipe" character often results in people using statistics that do not understand its limitations (a good example is assuming a normal distribution when there is none). The bayesian approach does not suffer from this problem, also because it forces you to think a little bit more about the problem you are trying to solve compared to the frequentist approach. But that's also the problem with the cited article. Just remaining in the framework and going towards more discriminating thresholds is not really a solution of the problem that people do not understand their data analysis (a p-value based on the wrong distribution remains meaningless, even if you change your threshold...). Because it is more logical in its setup, the danger of making such mistakes is smaller in bayesian statistics. The telescoper over at http://telescoper.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/the-curse-of-p-values/ has a good discussion of these issues.
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Re:EconomicsSome cherry picking going in that BBC article. Here is a better link. Here is the data.
Conclusions
The problems of extreme poverty and population growth (may well) have been solved.
Climate change is still a massive problem (which we must therefore try to solve).
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It will workAs long as the muslim population remains low:
- http://majorityrights.com/weblog/comments/muslim_rape_wave_in_sweden/
- http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/swedish-city-overrun-by-muslim-crime-turns-to-superhero/
- http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/muslims-burn-down-church-in-storholmsjo-in-karlskrona-sweden
- http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/sweden-muslims-admit-deliberate-hate-crimes-against-swedes-government-is-proposed-to-reward-them-with-jobs/
- http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/09/08/open-letter-from-a-swedish-woman-about-the-scourge-of-muslim-immigration-and-multiculturalism/
- http://islamversuseurope.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/hate-crimes-against-jews-in-muslim.html