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you probably put bad memory in it. That's the usual reason. You need to read the specs carefully when buying cheap RAM

"crime" is low, mainly because you can get months in jail for kissing in public, and as for women, well, that's probably best avoided, since they (the Dubai state) have a really backward view of women and what they should or shouldn't do.

Interesting blog, interesting ideas, but completely bogus results. It's very inaccurate. Just using simple NB you'll get much better than this.

I don't get your point. If you post online do you really expect much privacy? Make your profile private and then the software won't be able to guess your gender. I tried three accounts, one was of a famous female model and apparently she's 0.516 probably male and 0.006 female, so I wouldn't be too worried just yet. Just don't post online if you want privacy, otherwise, learn from this.

I need fewer developers with that attitude, I want people who can get stuff done, but by their nature, put it off. There will always be those that procrastinate in a team and there will, thankfully, always be those that just get it down. The reason why your technique seems to work for you is more likely because are picking up your slack.

I wholeheartedly advocate you getting off my team :)

this is absolutely not true, stackoverflow is an invaluable resource and what you say might happen very occasionally, but the vast majority of upvoted answers actually helped a lot of people.

Despite what you claim as lacking rewards it seems to have thrived and attracted contributions. I don't really care what you consider a good community, or even accept the premise that there needs to be any notion of community. Why attribute labels, the model seems to work just fine.

Of course they don't need email, they can all see each other! Try working in a company where projects routinely span a handful of countries.

Most email isn't personal anyway, it's often machine generated by the various tools we use, reports of bugs changing status, servers coming online, servers going offline, jobs finishing etc etc.

email is actually there for a reason, it's just just there to interrupt you. At work you are expected to maintain contact with those you work with and email is one of the ways we achieve this across time zones and geographic boundaries.

this is called setting up filters, there's no trick to it, it's pretty simple to set up filter and ignore people you don't want to respond to. 7000 is 22 a day, assuming a 6 day work week, that's pretty low volume to handle, I would venture to say that you could probably manage to read more than 9 emails a day (40% of 22)

People feeling like they have to apologize sounds like you've made people feel guilty for emailing you. I can't help but find the whole comment a little self important and pretentious. You have time to fritter on hn, yet manage to only read 9 emails a day and reply to 3 a day, that's pretty lame. If you worked at my company and managed that, I'd have to let you go.

seriously warped command of the english language there. performs similarly to similar sized phones... The iphone5 is much smaller and therefore less likely to get bent in the pocket. It wasn't that hard to understand.

yeah, when people try to stuff a quad-core 2.7 GHz computer in their pocket they complain it might bend, duh!!! Treat these things with some respect or get a case.

No, actually what the parent poster wrote was correct. You say no, but then don't make any point. It does indeed show that the iPhone 6 performs similarly to other similar sized phones.

I have a house not far from this debacle and I can see both sides of it, but what don't understand is that there's a million miles of coastline, well, miles and miles and miles of it, all equally good as Marin's beach. I'm sure it's the principle of thing, but one little stretch really inconveniences nobody and the vast majority of the coast from HMB to SC is completely open, undeveloped and fully accessible. If we really want to protect everyone's writes and access we should be pushing for wheelchair access and braille signage too.

doesn't matter if you post photos of yourself online, very likely it will be others that do so. And your image is being digitally captured constantly, if you travel on public transport or go through an airport, or do anything in a public place your photo has been captured many times. Figuring that it's you is also pretty straightforward. All it takes is a DMV hack or Facebook (where one of your coworkers tagged you in a photo, or instagram where your niece tagged you by the bbq on july 4th etc etc etc...

come on, that's just crazy, Aviary is no competition for Adobe. There are a million photo editing apps, and Aviary is one of them, but Adobe is the giant gorilla in the game, the go-to software for designers and photographers.

I'm glad the author got it right about green, but I was surprised not to find any explanation for those who aren't up on their art history.

words are an incredibly efficient mechanism for communicating with google. Google image search is great for some things, like you find a picture of a sculpture on tumblr and it's not credited, use the photo as the input to find the source. But Taking photos of a ferrari seems like a dreadfully inefficient way to make a search. Maybe identifying flowers would be a better example, but most cars have in very clear letters the make and model written on the back.

or you could just type or say "honda civic" - is that really so hard?

$20 more to avoid ads on the lock screen and another $20 for the power adapter!!! WTF

you don't need an app for this, you need to read more books. Not about expanding your vocabulary, but just quality fiction novels. That's how native english speakers broaden their vocabulary and your ability is clearly far enough along that most books will be within your grasp. From what you wrote your vocabulary is fine, it's the nuaces of grammar where your English would be improved by reading copiously.

look at the word root, deci - like decimal, decimeter, etc.

My daughter was very underwhelmed with Build-A-Bear, it was a one time overpriced trip that we won't be repeating.

I did buy a TRASH-80 and loved it, go Zilog! Now those poor lovely old Z80 chips are stuck controlling traffic lights, which makes an old assembly programmer very unhappy indeed. I was (somewhat OT) very disheartened when I read iWoz to read how he invented the personal computer yet the TRS-80 was miles more advanced of the Apple II (and the Apple-I really didn't count as a lacked some pretty basic features such as a keyboard, monitor, and case etc) Tandy's saled dwarfed the Apple II too for several years. Yet reading iWoz he tried to give the impression that there was nothing else out there at the time.

Anyway, Tandy, Radio-Shack, their time has come and gone. Nobody cares anymore. CVS sell the same cables and hardware has consolidated, the days of lots of different cables has passed. Bluetooth and wifi technologies are eating into cables time. And Radioshack tried to charge me $14 for simple 1/8" m2m. So I bought it, while in the store, on Amazon using my phone for $2

RS need to liberate the real-estate and make way for something people actually need. As soon as they stopped selling radios I lost interest in their stores. The 19 year olds that work there these days most likely have never heard of SSB. Ask to test a transistor and they won't even know what npn or pnp means.

Good riddance RadioShack

A programming language is just a tool, it's architecture and design that matter. A competent developer can write a great product in PHP, many have done so. The negative correlation is trivially explained, the startup world is like a big fashion show.

endemic? I have no idea what you meant by that word. It's not the right word at all.

iPhones are pretty much "worn" these days, either in the hand or pocket. What about the iPods that are worn daily by runners and practically everyone in the gym.

I think you meant "determined", if Musk was deterministic that would surely detract a lot from his future potential.

that would be exhausting, just get a cat.

What about privacy? There's something reassuring about putting an iPhone into one's pocket. Messages showing up for anyone to see doesn't really appeal to me.

I ran this page through NLTK's Sentiment Analysis and the the score is NEGATIVE 0.8, Stanford's never finished!

better ensure it is indeed your music, because Dropbox will likely report infringements of copyright

FACTORIE has some nice features, but it's not as robust as Mallet. Factorie is a ML incubator more than a robust library, it's in Scala, another inculator platform which also doesn't help. Factorie has some interesting features for sure, but the quality of programming is just not there. It's developed and maintained mainly by students which makes absolute sense given that it appears that Factorie is more for tutorials.

The advantage of focusing through the taking lens is that unlike rangefinders this method works with telephoto lenses. It's very hard to use a rangefinder accurately with anything much more than 135mm (and even that's not easy.) Similarly with macro or close up shots. However, rangefinders have many advantages, the viewing image is never blacked out like a SLR does when you click the shutter, also you can see around the periphery of the area covered by the lens, seeing objects moving into the frame, also the two main advantages are that since there's no mirror the camera can be used at slower shutter speeds without getting moved around by the mirror slapping against its stoppers, and again because there's no mirror needed the back element of the lens can be very close to the focal plane (where the film or sensor is), this means smaller lenses can do the same job as much larger ones on an SLR - they are also sharper because of this, and suffer less distortion.

I use a Leica M6 for many of these reasons, it's a beautiful rangefinder camera. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leica_M6

the NEX would have to be in bulb mode, the shutter is in the rangefinder's lens (it's a leaf shutter.) it's a little confusing because the author uses the word "trigger" instead of shutter, or shutter release, but regardless, as the shutter is pressed on the film camera's mechanical linkage the sensor in the NEX is switched to B(ulb) to turn on the sensor, then when the shutter button is released the NEX's sensor is switched off. Keeping it on all the time would cause it to overheat after some time.

The small camera market has gone the way of the Dodo thanks to wonderful smartphone cameras.