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AOL should get in on this. They could put all of those old CDs to good use.

Free internet program from the late 90's: "1000 hours free! Sign on today!" :)

Potentially criminal groupls: everybody.

While this may be true, certain crimes are seen as worse than others. And, as un-PC as it may sound, certain demographics are many times more likely to commit certain crimes.

Homicide: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6227a1.htm

Also, some government monitoring can be "for your own good":

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5704a1.htm

But, maybe the CDC is different than the NSA.

So wait... did I miss the part about what happens if they fail to do what I ask? What happens then?

"Finish my dissertation. Thanks."

I never leave at 5pm, but I do normally wake up at 1pm... I hear this sort of schedule changes when you get a real job.

I was thinking the opposite: wouldn't a very flexible display make for something that's very durable?

I'm imagining an ad for LG where Alex Rodriguez hits a big screen with a bat and it just flexes...

I just ran your column means benchmark. It is pretty impressive... maybe my C++ is trash. Never saw that much speedup with Arma. I'll try it out :)

One of the greatest breakthroughs of my life was realizing that you only had to type "cheese steak jimmy's" once, then ctrl-c, then ctrl-v as much as you want. It was a great day.

Am I correct in thinking that this is only reasonable if you're already using D? The switching cost seems too high if you're python everything.

I tried the Armadillo C++ library a while ago (http://arma.sourceforge.net/). The speed up and time spend learning the syntax didn't seem worth it.

My great grandparents had a small farm in Massachusetts between the 30's-50's. They had 8 kids (free labor for ~20 years). They did well enough to send all their kids to college, but not much beyond that.

Something tells me you can do okay with a small farm if you're a poor German immigrant who fought in WWI because you're not expecting much anyway. Happy to not be starving. The woman in the article should've expected less from the beginning. They can chalk it up as a learning experience, I guess.

P-values should be used with strong caution.

FiveThirtyEight (and Scientific American, and others) did some pretty interesting articles about this recently if you haven't seen it:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/

Just from personal experience, the use of p-values is really broken in biology/chemistry. The things I've heard principal investigators say...

Yeah sorry, yesterday I thought "hmm a talented sociopath could make several completely different lives.., it's the same guy!" But no, looking again, they look completely different.

I'm assuming this "Pricetopher" is the same guy? http://pricetopher.com/ That's a bit disturbing.

Ohh, I didn't get it at first either. Thought of the country.

Best image to explain a hanging "chad": http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/1400000/Halloween-ho...

This is something that I wish the article would've focused on more, exercise. Simple things like going for a jog are underrated.

I'd like to know this too... Comparison between PyCharm, Canopy, Spyder, Yhat, etc.

After using it for 10 minutes, it feels identical to RStudio. That's a good thing.