This post should have been banned as hate speech. Advocating censorship, even by private entities, is literally violence. Today it's the alt-right, tomorrow it's the jews. The poster is literally Hitler, and it would be OK to punch them in preemptive self defense. Shame on Slashdot for giving this hate monger a platform.
Not just trees, but any form of plant and photosynthetic plankton. CO2 actually fertilizes plant growth, meaning if global levels raise, more plants grow -- up to a point, which the earth hasn't reached yet. In fact, the Al Gore era projections for global warming were all wrong precisely because those models didn't account for planetary greening due to CO2 fertilization. This creates a carbon sink, but it isn't enough to equalize temperatures, so it's warming in spite of this effect, just less than without it. Every molecule of carbon in fossil fuels was originally in the atmosphere (since fossils were once alive), and the earth has a tendency to bury its carbon. The planet will survive global warming, and even thrive, but specific species will suffer serious disruption during the transition.
First a scientific study found a surge in the number of non-reproducible scientific studies. Then a second study tried to reproduce the results of the first and failed, thereby simultaneously proving and disproving the original study's point.
Twitter is bound by the DMCA takedown rules as a 3rd party hoster of content. If someone uses their service to post copyright infringing content, then the copyright holder can send them a DMCA takedown notice. If twitter complies, they are immune from infringement. Twitter generally complies. A 4th party who wishes to link to content hosted at the 3rd party should have even more immunity. Either no DMCA takedown was sent, in which case no liability exists at all for anyone, or one was sent. The 4th parties should be able to rely on the 3rd party complying and all the liability should land on the 3rd party. If Twitter got a valid DMCA takedown and ignored it, then the 4th parties linking to their site should still be immune from the liability. Twitter and only twitter can control twitter's content and other should be able to assume this is the case.
It might be different if the 3rd party is out of reach of the DMCA, such as on foreign servers and from a site whose primary function is evading copyright laws. But that is certainly not the case here for Twitter.
Academia is the biggest fake news of all, so no I don't trust an Oxford leftist's conclusions about who produces more fake news between the left and the right. Seriously, go to hell.
No government has any just authority to stop people from speaking the truth. Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber are murderers, and as big of scumbags as that makes them, I have a lot more loathing for a German Government that suppresses it citizens from suppressing the truth.
Germany's attempts to suppress people from communicating facts are disgusting and should not be disobeyed. It's unbelievable to me that anyone seriously debates this. Is it also illegal in Germany to mention that Hitler killed 6 million people?!?!
Disobedience of this law is the only morally acceptable course of action.
Canada and England do not have our malpractice litigation mentality, which raises costs as doctors practice "defensive medicine". Neither has the high costs of introducing new medications associated with our FDA, which results in the same pills being substantially cheaper in Canada than in the US. Both offer lower quality service, with rationing, and less access to innovative procedures. The problem with a state run insurance plan is that that the state has never made anything more efficient. Ever. It's really astounding to me that people continually propose government takeovers of things.
The way to reduce health care costs is to find waste in the system and eliminate them through process improvement. Everything else is a shell game.
How are we supposed to evaluate your statements if you don't say HOW running distro A is a pain in the ass, and how distro B fixed it. From the fact that you don't even try to explain this I think we're left with the obvious conclusion: distro A doesn't meet your requirement of being distro B.
This is completely bogus. A) you assume without explanation that that all events can be placed in a series, which is highly suspect since many sets exists for which this is false. For example, what if events occur at every real number time value t for t>0. B) Even if events have 0 or 1 predecessor events that caused them, there is no guarantee that any "first" event exists. Perhaps every event has a predecessor. Consider a chain of events, each causing the next that occur at times 1/2^n.
1500 employees -- so what. As long as they reasonably believe they are speaking the truth I think this is protected by the First Amendment. If the evidence they have indicates he did lie on his expense reports, then they did not humiliate him, he humiliated himself and they just shined the light in. If there was any malice here, it was this employee STEALING money. I'm always amazed by the complete crap that liberal judges come up with.
What really happened here is that Mr Big Vice President was accused of calling a loser a loser. These idiot judges simply can't tolerate the fact that inequality exists in life and so they punish the successful guy and attempt to subsidize the loser. Never mind that he has an absolute right that no legislature or court can take away to speak the truth - to the whole world if he so desires. Liberals must punish success to elevate losers in order to achieve "fairness". This kind of fairness will lead us to shared misery.
Why is that? Do you have an objective reason to damn server side code written in Java, other than the fact that you don't like it? What are you proposing is better? Please tell me you're not stuck in 2006 advocated ruby on rails or its ilk. These are optimized for consultants to get in and quickly deliver code that doubles the amount of long term maintenance you'll have to buy from them.
Huh? You should use GWT if you DON'T want to deal with javascript. We've had an internal app in production for 6 months and have had to troubleshoot issues at the javascript level twice. One turned out to actually be a malformed CSS problem and the other was an interaction between Selenium and GWT that only affected our automate UI tests.
The optimal strategy in Rock/Paper/Scissors for head to head play is a guaranteed losing strategy in most multiplayer tournament. Randomly, uniformly distributed choices has an expected win percentage of 50% - no one expects to beat it and no one expects to lose to it in the long term. However, since humans can and do have patterns in their answers, some human players will detect and exploit these patterns to gain an advantage over their human opponents. As an extreme case, suppose that a player entered the tournament that only used rock and paper. The "optimal" computer expects to break even, and every human expects to win against this player. Based on this information alone, the computer should expect to come in last place.
Poker has similar features. A framework for attempting to play poker well MUST attempt to engage in opponent modeling. It is not clear that there even is a "best" strategy, as this is equivalent to finding a "best" pattern detector. Since there is no "set of all patterns" I don't think the concept can be defined. This is in contrast to chess or go, where although we cannot in practice enumerate the entire tree of possible game sequences, it does exist and it is finite, and there is an optimal strategy that we can approximate. Not so in poker. It's not clear that you can even truly compare two players in an absolute sense. It's easy to find situations where player 1 beats player 2 if players 3-N play tight and loses if they play loose. Again, since there is no "set of all poker strategies", there's not even a good way to define how to do a monte-carlo simulation.
It's funny to read all the anti-outsourcing comments here that end up blaming management for not knowing what to do. Guess what: most companies HAVE NO BUSINESS MANAGING information technology of any kind. If you work for a company that makes widgets or provides non-IT services and are surprised that your IT management is bad, then you are destined to be a victim. Companies that assess and focus on what they really, truly are good at are the ones that do best. If you need insulation from your own management, then you SHOULD be outsourced. This doesn't mean you are incompetent, it means you work for a company that has no particular skill relevent to properly harnessing your ability. SO DO LIKE THE ARTICLE SAYS AND LEAVE!!! You and the economy will be better off.
I went to graduate school at Cal in Math, and I couldn't agree more with the previous poster. I was the head TA for Calculus and a regular TA for discrete math. I think discrete math should be taught in high school along with probability and statistics. It's more fun and more useful to most people.
The materials mentioned are quite good, but never forget that math is learned by working problems. My advice: go to your nearest college bookstore and buy the text book for whatever course is appropriate for your level. Read it, in order and work the problems. I also recommend creating your own "lecture notes", with the book closed, for what you just learned. Do not ever skip move to the next section until you you absolutely understand it cold. Memorize nothing (other than defintions and terminology). Math is very natural to do self paced like this, and there's a good chance you'll enjoy it more this way. Just don't get impatient.
Dealing with large data sets isn't really technologically challenging. You can grow to an arbitrarily large data set size simply by partitioning: it works for google. It may be expensive to stand up a bunch of servers, but I don't think it's really that hard.
What is more complicated is to deal with large numbers of concurrent requests. Then you need clustering. There are big sites that do both partitioning and clustering simultaneously with Lucene. I seem to recall reading that Technorati uses Lucene on a cluster of 40 servers. With 8TB of data you are going to have a big one time computational problem to build the index. Lucene can recombine indexes, so you could distribute index creation to a lot of servers.
nobody is backing it with an alternative implementation
Nobody is backing it with ANY implementation. Stéphane Rodriguez documented several non-trivial ways that MS Office fails to conform to OOXML. The purpose for MS is to waive their ISO standard around when government organizations try to insist on open standard file formats in procurement policy. The whole thing is disgusting. This may be the lowest I've ever seen MS stoop.
nobody is backing it with an alternative implementation The sad thing here is that MS is succeeding at showing that the credibility of the standards creation process is defective. Simply put, there aren't any standards for standards.
What implementation is that? They don't have an implementation. OOXML is a sham. MS Office does not, nor will it ever, implement OOXML. The existence of OOXML, which offers rivals to many existing standards (like ISO 8601, 639, 8632, 26300, 10118-3 and W3C SVG, MathML, XML-ENC, and SMIL) is justified by the backwards compatability argument under the pretense of helping Microsoft to document its existing document format, which it doesn't. There are two valid paths here: create a standard for what Office "should be" (and that would comply with existing standards) or what it "is now". They do neither.
I agree. If you read the Aug 17 decision the relevent part is:
The condition that the user insert a prominent notice of attribution does not limit the scope of the license. Rather, Defendants' alleged violation of the conditions of the license may have constituted a breach of the nonexclusive license, but does not create liability for copyright infringement where it would not otherwise exist.
This is astoundingly bad legal reasoning. The license states "You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers." What's crazy is that you can't remove copyright notices anyway under federal law.
The court doesn't seem to understand that a license is the expression of permission that copyright reserves to the author. It's not a separate thing. There can't be a separate contract here because there's no consideration. A contract is a trade, a quid-pro-quo. The recipient of open source software explicity doesn't have to give up anything. They either make authorized (licensed) copies or they make unauthorized (unlicensed) copies. How can a judge not understand this!?!?
I think he posted the article because he's questioning whether he wants to talk to these people. He's essentially questioning whether some kind of political correctness requires it. The answer is no. If these people because live in a nation that supports terrorism, and the project itself might be used by them to support terrorism, then there's no moral, legal, or any other reason why he needs to support their efforts when he suspects (quite reasonably) they might support hostile interests. How would he feel if these folks are supporting insurgents who kill Americans in Iraq and use his technology for that purpose?
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This post should have been banned as hate speech. Advocating censorship, even by private entities, is literally violence. Today it's the alt-right, tomorrow it's the jews. The poster is literally Hitler, and it would be OK to punch them in preemptive self defense. Shame on Slashdot for giving this hate monger a platform.
Not just trees, but any form of plant and photosynthetic plankton. CO2 actually fertilizes plant growth, meaning if global levels raise, more plants grow -- up to a point, which the earth hasn't reached yet. In fact, the Al Gore era projections for global warming were all wrong precisely because those models didn't account for planetary greening due to CO2 fertilization. This creates a carbon sink, but it isn't enough to equalize temperatures, so it's warming in spite of this effect, just less than without it. Every molecule of carbon in fossil fuels was originally in the atmosphere (since fossils were once alive), and the earth has a tendency to bury its carbon. The planet will survive global warming, and even thrive, but specific species will suffer serious disruption during the transition.
First a scientific study found a surge in the number of non-reproducible scientific studies. Then a second study tried to reproduce the results of the first and failed, thereby simultaneously proving and disproving the original study's point.
Twitter is bound by the DMCA takedown rules as a 3rd party hoster of content. If someone uses their service to post copyright infringing content, then the copyright holder can send them a DMCA takedown notice. If twitter complies, they are immune from infringement. Twitter generally complies. A 4th party who wishes to link to content hosted at the 3rd party should have even more immunity. Either no DMCA takedown was sent, in which case no liability exists at all for anyone, or one was sent. The 4th parties should be able to rely on the 3rd party complying and all the liability should land on the 3rd party. If Twitter got a valid DMCA takedown and ignored it, then the 4th parties linking to their site should still be immune from the liability. Twitter and only twitter can control twitter's content and other should be able to assume this is the case.
It might be different if the 3rd party is out of reach of the DMCA, such as on foreign servers and from a site whose primary function is evading copyright laws. But that is certainly not the case here for Twitter.
Academia is the biggest fake news of all, so no I don't trust an Oxford leftist's conclusions about who produces more fake news between the left and the right. Seriously, go to hell.
I wonder how much money has been wasted on this snake oil crap over the last 7 decades. Seriously, astrology is more credible.
No government has any just authority to stop people from speaking the truth. Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber are murderers, and as big of scumbags as that makes them, I have a lot more loathing for a German Government that suppresses it citizens from suppressing the truth.
Germany's attempts to suppress people from communicating facts are disgusting and should not be disobeyed. It's unbelievable to me that anyone seriously debates this. Is it also illegal in Germany to mention that Hitler killed 6 million people?!?!
Disobedience of this law is the only morally acceptable course of action.
Funny, I get the same feeling when READING to chapter 11. Maybe we'd all be better off if the book just ended right there!
Canada and England do not have our malpractice litigation mentality, which raises costs as doctors practice "defensive medicine". Neither has the high costs of introducing new medications associated with our FDA, which results in the same pills being substantially cheaper in Canada than in the US. Both offer lower quality service, with rationing, and less access to innovative procedures. The problem with a state run insurance plan is that that the state has never made anything more efficient. Ever. It's really astounding to me that people continually propose government takeovers of things.
The way to reduce health care costs is to find waste in the system and eliminate them through process improvement. Everything else is a shell game.
How are we supposed to evaluate your statements if you don't say HOW running distro A is a pain in the ass, and how distro B fixed it. From the fact that you don't even try to explain this I think we're left with the obvious conclusion: distro A doesn't meet your requirement of being distro B.
This is completely bogus. A) you assume without explanation that that all events can be placed in a series, which is highly suspect since many sets exists for which this is false. For example, what if events occur at every real number time value t for t>0. B) Even if events have 0 or 1 predecessor events that caused them, there is no guarantee that any "first" event exists. Perhaps every event has a predecessor. Consider a chain of events, each causing the next that occur at times 1/2^n.
1500 employees -- so what. As long as they reasonably believe they are speaking the truth I think this is protected by the First Amendment. If the evidence they have indicates he did lie on his expense reports, then they did not humiliate him, he humiliated himself and they just shined the light in. If there was any malice here, it was this employee STEALING money. I'm always amazed by the complete crap that liberal judges come up with.
What really happened here is that Mr Big Vice President was accused of calling a loser a loser. These idiot judges simply can't tolerate the fact that inequality exists in life and so they punish the successful guy and attempt to subsidize the loser. Never mind that he has an absolute right that no legislature or court can take away to speak the truth - to the whole world if he so desires. Liberals must punish success to elevate losers in order to achieve "fairness". This kind of fairness will lead us to shared misery.
Why is that? Do you have an objective reason to damn server side code written in Java, other than the fact that you don't like it? What are you proposing is better? Please tell me you're not stuck in 2006 advocated ruby on rails or its ilk. These are optimized for consultants to get in and quickly deliver code that doubles the amount of long term maintenance you'll have to buy from them.
Um. Contrary to the article and your assertion, GWT has taken off pretty well. People would do well to look at the google trends of ROR vs GWT.
Huh? You should use GWT if you DON'T want to deal with javascript. We've had an internal app in production for 6 months and have had to troubleshoot issues at the javascript level twice. One turned out to actually be a malformed CSS problem and the other was an interaction between Selenium and GWT that only affected our automate UI tests.
The optimal strategy in Rock/Paper/Scissors for head to head play is a guaranteed losing strategy in most multiplayer tournament. Randomly, uniformly distributed choices has an expected win percentage of 50% - no one expects to beat it and no one expects to lose to it in the long term. However, since humans can and do have patterns in their answers, some human players will detect and exploit these patterns to gain an advantage over their human opponents. As an extreme case, suppose that a player entered the tournament that only used rock and paper. The "optimal" computer expects to break even, and every human expects to win against this player. Based on this information alone, the computer should expect to come in last place.
Poker has similar features. A framework for attempting to play poker well MUST attempt to engage in opponent modeling. It is not clear that there even is a "best" strategy, as this is equivalent to finding a "best" pattern detector. Since there is no "set of all patterns" I don't think the concept can be defined. This is in contrast to chess or go, where although we cannot in practice enumerate the entire tree of possible game sequences, it does exist and it is finite, and there is an optimal strategy that we can approximate. Not so in poker. It's not clear that you can even truly compare two players in an absolute sense. It's easy to find situations where player 1 beats player 2 if players 3-N play tight and loses if they play loose. Again, since there is no "set of all poker strategies", there's not even a good way to define how to do a monte-carlo simulation.
It's funny to read all the anti-outsourcing comments here that end up blaming management for not knowing what to do. Guess what: most companies HAVE NO BUSINESS MANAGING information technology of any kind. If you work for a company that makes widgets or provides non-IT services and are surprised that your IT management is bad, then you are destined to be a victim. Companies that assess and focus on what they really, truly are good at are the ones that do best. If you need insulation from your own management, then you SHOULD be outsourced. This doesn't mean you are incompetent, it means you work for a company that has no particular skill relevent to properly harnessing your ability. SO DO LIKE THE ARTICLE SAYS AND LEAVE!!! You and the economy will be better off.
I spent five minutes trying to come up with a joke related to "black lung" but for datacenters. I failed. Can people mod me as funny anyway? Thanks.
Wikipedia's page on Napoleon also contains this quotation: under the "Misattribution" section. I note that brainyquote.com offers no citation.
I went to graduate school at Cal in Math, and I couldn't agree more with the previous poster. I was the head TA for Calculus and a regular TA for discrete math. I think discrete math should be taught in high school along with probability and statistics. It's more fun and more useful to most people.
The materials mentioned are quite good, but never forget that math is learned by working problems. My advice: go to your nearest college bookstore and buy the text book for whatever course is appropriate for your level. Read it, in order and work the problems. I also recommend creating your own "lecture notes", with the book closed, for what you just learned. Do not ever skip move to the next section until you you absolutely understand it cold. Memorize nothing (other than defintions and terminology). Math is very natural to do self paced like this, and there's a good chance you'll enjoy it more this way. Just don't get impatient.
Dealing with large data sets isn't really technologically challenging. You can grow to an arbitrarily large data set size simply by partitioning: it works for google. It may be expensive to stand up a bunch of servers, but I don't think it's really that hard.
What is more complicated is to deal with large numbers of concurrent requests. Then you need clustering. There are big sites that do both partitioning and clustering simultaneously with Lucene. I seem to recall reading that Technorati uses Lucene on a cluster of 40 servers. With 8TB of data you are going to have a big one time computational problem to build the index. Lucene can recombine indexes, so you could distribute index creation to a lot of servers.
nobody is backing it with an alternative implementation
Nobody is backing it with ANY implementation. Stéphane Rodriguez documented several non-trivial ways that MS Office fails to conform to OOXML. The purpose for MS is to waive their ISO standard around when government organizations try to insist on open standard file formats in procurement policy. The whole thing is disgusting. This may be the lowest I've ever seen MS stoop.
nobody is backing it with an alternative implementation
The sad thing here is that MS is succeeding at showing that the credibility of the standards creation process is defective. Simply put, there aren't any standards for standards.
Microsoft's implementation sucks
What implementation is that? They don't have an implementation. OOXML is a sham. MS Office does not, nor will it ever, implement OOXML. The existence of OOXML, which offers rivals to many existing standards (like ISO 8601, 639, 8632, 26300, 10118-3 and W3C SVG, MathML, XML-ENC, and SMIL) is justified by the backwards compatability argument under the pretense of helping Microsoft to document its existing document format, which it doesn't. There are two valid paths here: create a standard for what Office "should be" (and that would comply with existing standards) or what it "is now". They do neither.
I think he posted the article because he's questioning whether he wants to talk to these people. He's essentially questioning whether some kind of political correctness requires it. The answer is no. If these people because live in a nation that supports terrorism, and the project itself might be used by them to support terrorism, then there's no moral, legal, or any other reason why he needs to support their efforts when he suspects (quite reasonably) they might support hostile interests. How would he feel if these folks are supporting insurgents who kill Americans in Iraq and use his technology for that purpose?
This political correctness crap has to end.