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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
See The Softer Side Of Mark Wahlberg In Exclusive 'Broken City' Deleted Scene
There's something you need to know about Mark Wahlberg. He'll play a tough guy in movies like "Broken City," which hits Blu-ray and DVD today, but he can also have his more tender moments. For example, in this exclusive deleted scene from "Broken City," Wahlberg has some quiet time with his girlfriend, played by Natalie [...]
Zenefits, The YC-Backed Employee Benefits Manager, Gets Into Payroll Management And Expands To NY
Man. These guys are going to make so, so, so much money. Zenefits, the free, YC-backed "set-it-and-forget-it" service thats helps small businesses worry less about employee benefits, made a pair of announcements at Disrupt NY 2013 this morning: They'll now be able to handle payroll duties, and they're expanding the service to New York.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/4RsCM-aFxHk/
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Older is wiser: Study shows software developers' skills improve over time
Apr. 29, 2013 ? There is a perception in some tech circles that older programmers aren't able to keep pace with rapidly changing technology, and that they are discriminated against in the software field. But a new study from North Carolina State University indicates that the knowledge and skills of programmers actually improve over time -- and that older programmers know as much (or more) than their younger peers when it comes to recent software platforms.
"We wanted to explore these perceptions of veteran programmers as being out of step with emerging technologies and see if we could determine whether older programmers are actually keeping up with changes in the field," says Dr. Emerson Murphy-Hill, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-author of a paper on the research. "And we found that, in some cases, veteran programmers even have a slight edge."
The researchers looked at the profiles of more than 80,000 programmers on a site called StackOverflow, which is an online community that allows users to ask and answer programming questions. The site also allows users to rate the usefulness of other users' questions and answers. Users who are rated as asking good questions and providing good answers receive points that are reflected in their "reputation score." The higher an individual's reputation score, the more likely it is that the user has a robust understanding of programming issues.
For the first part of the study, the researchers compared the age of users with their reputation scores. They found that an individual's reputation increases with age, at least into a user's 40s. There wasn't enough data to draw meaningful conclusions for older programmers.
The researchers then looked at the number of different subjects that users asked and answered questions about, which reflects the breadth of their programming interests. The researchers found that there is a sharp decline in the number of subjects users weighed in on between the ages of 15 and 30 -- but that the range of subjects increased steadily through the programmers' 30s and into their early 50s.
Finally, the researchers evaluated the knowledge of older programmers (ages 37 and older) compared to younger programmers (younger than 37) in regard to relatively recent technologies -- meaning technologies that have been around for less than 10 years.
For two smartphone operating systems, iOS and Windows Phone 7, the veteran programmers had a significant edge in knowledge over their younger counterparts. For every other technology, from Django to Silverlight, there was no statistically significant difference between older and younger programmers.
"The data doesn't support the bias against older programmers -- if anything, just the opposite," Murphy-Hill says.
The paper, "Is Programming Knowledge Related To Age?," will be presented May 18 at the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, sponsored by IEEE and ACM in San Francisco, Calif. Lead author of the paper is Patrick Morrison, a Ph.D. student at NC State.
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
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Bangkok, Thailand - Travel Guide and Travel Info ~ Tourist ...
Bangkok, Thailand - Travel Guide and Travel Info
'; div.innerHTML = summary; } //]]> Known worldwide for its reputation for fun, hospitality, adventure and its exciting nightlife Bangkok, the capital of Thailand is located at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River where it enters the Gulf of Thailand. The most populous city in Thailand, with just over eight million inhabitants, Bangkok is a gateway to some of the most beautiful and unspoilt beaches in the world for many of the tourists who arrive in Thailand. But rest assured, the cosmopolitan capital holds its own attractions to rival them. One of the most coveted tourist destinations in the world, Bangkok has an array of cultural sights, thriving scenery and eclectic markets to keep you entertained. With two international airports serving it, Bangkok is one of the main arrival points for many tourists and promises to give them a warm welcome.?Named "World's Best City" by Travel + Leisure magazine for three consecutive years, there is something on offer for everyone. Recommended sites to visit include Wat Arun (The Temple of Dawn), the Grand Palace, made up of buildings, halls and pavilions set in open lawns, gardens and courtyards and numerous Buddhist temples such as Wat Phra Kaew, regarded as the most sacred of all the temples in Thailand.?
With a range of hotels varying from luxurious five star city skyscrapers to standard hotels right down to hostel accommodation costing no more than $10 per night, Bangkok is the city to suit all budgets! If you want to stay in the best hotels, you can expect incredible service while staying in the most desired locations, with access to pools, spas and fitness centers. Alternatively even at the lower end of the scale, you can still expect free wi-fi, clean rooms and city centre locations from hostels. Check out hotels and hostels online and read some reviews to find out accurate information about the best places to stay on your budget.
Looking to get around? Buy a ticket directly from any one of Bangkok's three public bus terminals for a cheaper, safer and faster journey than that offered by the many privately operated minibuses. For something more exotic, why not hire a long-tail river taxi at any major pier or try the famous tuk-tuk? But be warned to always agree on a price before entering to avoid being scammed.?
Bangkok is renowned for its buzzing market places offering everything from fake brands to fresh food, agricultural products and local Thai products. Take a trip to the Floating Market in Damnoen Saduak and prepare to be amazed by the dozens of wooden boats floating past selling fresh fruit, vegetables, flowers and food. Alternatively, Chatuchak Weekend Market with over 8000 stalls is a truly unforgettable experience where you can combine sightseeing and shopping into one. You'll find all sorts of tasty cheap street food on offer here including Thai, Japanese, Western products from from curries to deep fried snacks and tasty treats. If you want to impress, look to take your guests to Vertigo Rooftop Restaurant, a dizzying dining experience from 61 floors above the city with sweeping panoramic views awaiting. Or, if you're in the mood for a more authentic Thai experience, surrounding Bangkok's temples, lie numerous Buddhist vegetarian eateries with delicious food at low prices.?
Once you've filled your belly, head off to see the local Thai boxing sport Muay Thai in action at two possible venues: Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Silom and Ratchadamnoen Stadium in Rattanakosin. Sessions can last for the whole evening with the most exciting fights often at the end!?
Looking to amuse the kids? Take them to Siam Park City a water and amusement park, and you risk spending the entire day on the exhilarating rides and water slides. Or why not try Kidzania, an innovative day out for the whole family offering kids a chance to really have learn and have fun by getting to role play in different jobs varying from being a dentist to flying a plane!?
Missing home? A short walk down Khao San Road will bring back memories. With fashionable night clubs, bohemian market stalls and travelers from all over, this is truly the place where East greets West. One thing's for certain: If you visit Bangkok, you won't be lacking excitement!?
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McManus: Let's talk GOP and fantasy politics - Los Angeles Times
Almost four years ago, long before the 2012 presidential campaign heated up, CNN took a poll to learn who Republicans might choose as their party's next nominee. There were two clear front-runners: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. The former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, limped in third.
By the time the campaign arrived, of course, Palin and Huckabee were pursuing careers as television pundits and after-dinner speakers, not presidential candidates. It's in that spirit that we should contemplate last week's burst of polling on the 2016 presidential campaign. Three years before the New Hampshire primary, these surveys aren't predictions; they're exercises in fantasy baseball.
With the consumer safety warning out of the way, here's what you wanted to know: The front-runner at this point for the 2016 Republican nomination is Marco Rubio.
In two polls of Republican voters released last week, the freshman senator from Florida turned up in first place, with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush fairly close behind.
Rubio won his first place status with the support of about a fifth of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters. Pundits will call him the front-runner because they like to pin that label on somebody, but it's a tenuous perch. Just ask Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain.
So why pay attention to polls that amount to little more than beauty contests?
Because even though they can't predict the winner three years from now, these surveys tell us something about the mood of Republican voters today.
A closer look at the results tells us that it's a wide-open race. Republican voters are looking for a new face, not a familiar figure. But they're also looking, it seems, for a reliably conservative face; no moderates need apply.
Here are the numbers from last week's Quinnipiac University poll: Rubio was first with 19%, followed by Ryan (17%), Paul (15%), Christie (14%) and Bush (10%). In a survey from Public Policy Polling, a respected Democratic firm, the results were similar: Rubio (21%), Paul (17%), Christie (15%), Ryan (12%) and Bush (12%).
So Rubio's in first place, but he doesn't have anything like the commanding lead that Hillary Rodham Clinton has in similar polls of Democratic voters. At 64% in the Public Policy Polling survey, Clinton really does merit the title of front-runner; no non-incumbent in memory has ever held so wide a lead. Of course, she hasn't said for sure that she wants the job; nor have any of these Republicans we're handicapping with such zest.
GOP voters, meanwhile, are still shopping around. Two months ago, for example, Paul drew only 10% in a PPP poll; his filibuster on domestic drones last month appears to have made him what one GOP campaign manager wryly called "the shiny new object" in the race. But there's still plenty of time for others, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, to move up.
In earlier elections, Republican voters often turned to the most experienced candidate in their camp, a phenomenon known as "next in line." Not this time: Of the five names on the list, none has run for president before, and only one, Bush, was a nationally-known figure five years ago. The average age of the top four ? Rubio, Paul, Ryan and Christie ? is 46. And Ryan doesn't seem to get many extra points for serving as his party's vice presidential nominee in 2012.
"It looks as if Republicans are looking for a generational change," noted Scott Reed, who managed Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign. If the Democrats nominate Clinton (who will turn 69 in 2016) or Vice President Joe Biden (who will turn 74), the GOP will have youth on its side ? at least on the ticket.
But the apparent front-runners are all solidly conservative. Taken together, Rubio, Ryan and Paul win support from about half of the Republican electorate; Christie and Bush, the relative moderates, only about one-quarter.
"There's no such thing as a moderate base in the Republican primary," notes John Brabender, who managed Rick Santorum's second-place finish in the 2012 GOP primary campaign. "And the voters who show up for the primary are often more conservative than the ones these polls are sampling."
That doesn't just mean Christie or Bush would have a hard time winning. It also means that GOP voters aren't pressing their party to move toward the center on issues such as taxes, gun control or gay marriage.
After Romney's 2012 defeat, polls found that most Republican voters took the loss as proof that their party should move further to the right. In a survey by the Pew Research Center, 60% of Republicans said they wanted the GOP to become more conservative, not less; only 31% said they wanted "more moderation." (Strikingly, Democrats felt the opposite way about their party: 55% said they thought Democratic leaders should move toward the center, 35% in a more liberal direction.)
Does a party more conservative than Mitt Romney's stand a chance of winning a presidential election? It won't be easy ? but it's not impossible. The GOP won in 1980 when it nominated Ronald Reagan, a conservative who was said to be outside the mainstream of opinion at the time.
And in 2016, Republicans will have another factor in their favor: a Democrat will have held the White House for eight years in a row. Only once in the last 70 years has a party succeeded in holding the presidency for three terms in a row; by 2016, voters are likely to feel it's time for a change.
That's not what the polls say, though. In the PPP survey, Clinton beats Rubio in a presidential matchup, 49% to 42%. She beats every other potential Republican candidate, too.
If that turns out to be the story of the 2016 presidential election, just remember: You read it here first. And if it's wrong ? well, you know how unreliable those crazy polls can be.
doyle.mcmanus@latimes.com
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Connecticut lawmakers vote for post-Newtown gun law
By Ebong Udoma
HARTFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - The Connecticut Senate voted on Wednesday to approve a new gun-control bill that supporters described as one of the toughest in the United States and a response to last December's shooting at a school in Newtown that left 20 children and six adults dead.
The House started debating the bill on Wednesday evening, following the 26-10 vote in the Senate. If the House approves the bill, Governor Dannel Malloy, a Democrat who pushed for passage of the law, was expected to sign it on Thursday.
Opponents said the bill infringed the rights to gun ownership protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The new law would require background checks for private gun sales, ban the sale of high-capacity ammunition clips of the kind used at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and require current owners of those large clips to register them with the state.
The legislation was proposed after the December 14 attack, in which a gunman used clips that held 30 bullets to fire off 154 rounds in less than five minutes.
Under the legislation, owners of existing clips capable of holding 10 or more bullets would be required to register them with the state. Owning an unregistered high-capacity clip would become a felony offense as of January 1, 2014.
Both chambers in Connecticut's legislature are controlled by Democrats, with 99 Democrats and 52 Republicans in the House, and 22 Democrats and 14 Republicans in the Senate.
The measure would also expand the number of weapons covered by Connecticut's assault weapons ban and establishes a $15 million fund to help schools improve security infrastructure.
(Writing by Scott Malone; Editing by Leslie Adler and Grant McCool)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/connecticut-lawmakers-set-vote-tough-gun-law-165455732.html
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
North Carolina Lawmakers Declare Right to Establish State Religion ...
Raleigh, North Carolina ? Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have proposed legislation to defend what they believe is the right of states and municipalities to establish a particular religion.
The Rowan County Defense of Religion Act of 2013 was filed on Tuesday by Representatives Carl Ford and Harry Warren, and is supported by nine additional sponsors. Reports state that one of the goals of the bill is to ban activist judges and humanist organizations from attempting to bar Christian prayers during government and public meetings.
Local station WRAL notes that the bill is a result of arguments between the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Rowan County Board of Commissioners. The ACLU had filed a lawsuit against the county last month, complaining that the prayers that have opened meetings since 2007 have been overwhelmingly Christian.
?Overtly Christian prayers at government meetings are not rare in North Carolina,? it notes. ?Since the Republican takeover in 2011, the state Senate chaplain has offered an explicitly Christian invocation virtually every day of session, despite the fact that some senators are not Christian.?
However, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland ruled in 2011 that prayers cannot favor one religion over another.
The legislation proposed to lawmakers this week contends that each state is sovereign and the courts cannot prohibit them from ?making laws respecting an establishment of religion.?
?The North Carolina General Assembly asserts that the Constitution of the United States of America does not prohibit states or their subsidiaries from making laws respecting an establishment of religion,? the bill reads. ?The North Carolina General Assembly does not recognize federal court rulings which prohibit and otherwise regulate the State of North Carolina, its public schools, or any political subdivisions of the State from making laws respecting an establishment of religion.?
Representative Warren had told a local conservative organization in 2010 that the states needed to start standing up for the rights to create their own laws.
?I wholeheartedly believe that we have to do what we need to do to protect our sovereignty,? he explained. ?And I would fight very hard to make sure we maintain our sovereignty and our state?s rights.?
While some contend that the bill would violate the Constitution?s Establishment Clause, the bill?s authors disagree, stating that the ban only applies to the federal government as it states that ?Congress shall?shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.?
?[T]his prohibition does not apply to states, municipalities and schools,? the legislation outlines. ?Each state in the union is sovereign and may independently determine how that state may make laws respecting an establishment of religion.?
It points to the Tenth Amendment as granting states the right to determine the intent of the Founding Fathers.
?[B]y virtue of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the power to determine constitutionality and the proper interpretation and proper application of the Constitution is reserved to the states and to the people,? the bill asserts.
Other legislators behind the proposed bill include House Majority Leader Edgar Starnes, Justin Burr and Larry Pittman.
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Sit In the Front Row and Get More Out of Your Meetings and Conferences
The next time you're in a class, lecture, meeting, or similar event, sit in the front row. As Spindows founder Clay Hebert points out, it can dramatically improve your experience.
Concertgoers and some lucky sports fans probably already know there are a lot of benefits to sitting in the front, and many students may have already experienced this as well. But it really applies to anything, particularly for quieter events like meetings and conferences:
If you hide in the back, every row between you and the speakers is a potential distraction. Staring at the backs of everyone's head makes it easy for your mind to wander. It's too easy to check your phone and tune out.
By sitting in the front row, you'll avoid these distractions, focus on the speakers and learn more.
Of course, there are some places where you don't want to sit in the front?like a movie theater. But if there's a Q&A session afterwards, you just may want to rough it.
Check out the link to read more.
The Best Conference Hack | Medium
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Leaked image reveals ?HTC First? smartphone, rumored to showcase deep Facebook integration
Are you part of the 4%? The 4% of Americans, that is, who believe that shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate our societies? If you're not, you may be a touch aghast by the (still low) number. But according to a new poll from Public Policy Polling, the conspiracy theorists are strong among us.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/leaked-image-reveals-htc-first-smartphone-rumored-showcase-210517189.html
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