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Thanks for looking into answering. Work spun out of control so I wasn't super diligent on this.

Basically, I'm looking to get resume fluff from the deal with possible investment in the company (options). In return, I want to provide them with solid marketing strategy and general advice on overall industry trends.
US Immigration is heavy handed, some of my aged relatives have entered with valid multiple entry visitor visas, and still have been questioned for 3-4 hours by rude agents.

This couple made some stupid errors though, mainly they were clueless about how rigid the system is.

9-11 obviously changed the US system for ever. Now there is talk of amnesty for people who never filed a single form (sneaked across the border), while those who followed the rules to a T, or at least applied for some visa get treated like this. As a legal immigrant, I am honestly conflicted about amnesty for illegals.
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> Well, Saddam's was one of the worst regimes since the Nazis.

Saddam was a villain to be sure, but as far as people actually living in Iraq were concerned, his regime was nowhere near as bad as what followed. For some reasons why, check out http://riverbendblog.blogspot.ie/

> We really can't do anything right as far as intervention, at some point we have to accept we can't make things work out in other people's countries and there will always be evil rulers we can't do anything about.

I agree completely.
This sort of reflects hard times for the open web and desktop.
> You would need to be able to start a business using your own resources

Given that investors in the US seem to be literally throwing cash at bay area startups (c.f. this very site), I'm not sure that I buy this point at all. Surely it's much easier to start a successful business as a US resident than it is in Finland, right?
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No. Pretty much. In my experience.
I think his statement is talking about people, factions, and sides. Not abstract concepts like "murder" or "eating babies".

So it's not that he's saying we need to defend the balance with evil; rather, we should defend the balance with the people we see as evil. Because their side sees us as evil, and unless we seek balance, the only solutions are extermination of one side or the other, or eternal war.
I had an Atari ST growing up, and there was the friendly bickering with buddies who had Amigas. Then one of them showed me Deluxe Paint in HAM mode, and I walked away in silent awe.
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We're working on it. A recent comment about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10012910.
> Both Rust and Go add some new and interesting ideas which, like languages before them, will initially attract programmers, but will ultimately earn both languages their share of derision, just as there are plenty of detractors for C++ and Java today.
Greenland is part and parcel of Danish national identity. It has nothing to do with money, almost everything to do with history and something I need a much better term for than cultural consciousness.

No Danish government would have survived a selling off. In the immidiate aftermath of WW2 and German occupation, you can multiply that with some considerable factor.

Footnote fact: Danes/Norwegians first settled in Greenland about a thousand years ago, at roughly the same time as the present inuit population.
agreed, for me it was a few years earlier with BBSes in the early/mid 90's after High School... When you have to not only type for you conversations, but add in commands to send direct and channel messages, you get fast, or you don't chat.
It's in our nature to live in caves, hunt and gather, die very young, lose most of our children before they turn 5, and murder each other over food and sex. But reason and compassion [1] also is in our nature, and using it we've built great things far beyond those other things.

[1] I'm not entirely sure "compassion" encompasses it, but I'll go with it.
> Glad to see innovation in action.

Thank you!

I sent in a registration for proof.com on February 3, 1996, but missed out on it by a few hours to some other dude. Never again!

Just snapped up remar.xyz, networ.xyz, noteboo.xyz, payche.xyz and a few more.

Went on a geometry/graphics kick and snapped up stuff like plotting.xyz and intercepts.xyz as well.

I don't make the rules, I just play by them.
If your RDBMS supports transactional DDL and conditionals then it is pretty simple.

E.g. adding a column: IF NOT EXISTS ... ALTER TABLE ... ADD ...;
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Fair. I'm not familiar with US immigration beyond anecdotes from my network.

From first contact to goes-through-the-door-of-your-office, how long would you say it would typically take to hire a Vietnamese or Chinese citizen into your SF company? Singapore's figure is 7 working days and I've done it in 36 hours.
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I come across many junior, senior, and sophomore students who regret some decisions ( or no decisions) they took in freshman year. Some of them seem to be very common ( know your programming languages, be efficient in programming, signal systems course is going to be tough etc ). I just don't want to build up on existing mistakes :P
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> its shareholders

they did nothing to create the algorithm, what right do they have to whine?
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Orkut was heavily used in Brazil (and India, according to Wikipedia).
And Nokia let the bigger, older Symbian division to keep the smaller Maemo/MeeGo division to ever reach any relevance.
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Yes. I think the anti-trust case is weaker if Twitter is wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet, instead of Google.

On a broader scale I think Google is gearing up to aquire its way out of areas of stunted growth for the company. A number of businesses haven't taken off:

Twitter :: Google Real-Time
Box :: Google Drive At Enterprise Level
8x8 :: Google Voice

(I own none of these stocks)
I disagree; I don't at all intend to force anyone or think they should be forced. I believe they can and will be pursuaded and do the right thing, of their own free will; good leaders facilitate that but showing them how to work together. Humanity's track record for working together is incredible - we're a long way from caves and hunting - and it may be that the more free you make people, the better they respond.

The most prosperous, safest and most peaceful countries in the history of the world, by a long shot, are the freest.
YouTube wasn't considered crazy at all by the time Google bought it. It was clear by then that it was a runaway success, so clear that even traditional media companies like Viacom and News Corp were bidding for it. It certainly wasn't some small company that Google grew from nothing into dominance; it was a billion-dollar company that had already won its space.

Some articles from the time:

http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/09/technology/google_youtube/

http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/09/google-has-acquired-youtube...
One more thing, Google will be named to Gisco.
> The trouble, which the article describes with some case studies on engagement before and after hamburger menu implementations, is that people who are not you are confused by it and don't understand it to be a menu.

I confess I'd seen these for awhile before it dawned on me "you should totally click that!"

And today I learned what they're called.

As I saw the headline a few times at work, waiting to get home before I read it, I tried to imagine what a hamburger menu might be (and I never guessed it was what it is).

I imagined the menu at a hamburger store like McD's. And what most looks like that is the columns of small print links at the bottom of big kids' sites like Amazon. (And do those have a name?)
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You are arguing people should be prevented from prioritising their resources to their kin. You are free to think such an action is contrary to your sense of ethics. My opinion is - if a person can't even love their own children, how can they love others'?

A long time ago all matter originated from the Big Bang, uniform and same in every way. Does that mean that is where we should aim towards? If you care about 'all', why not throw everyone and everything into another giant Big Bang yet again and be done with it? Because that is exactly what globalisation is doing - extinguishing unique cultures, languages and demolishing identity.
>>I couldn't think of anything for U

Also a stretch, but...

universal analytics or maybe url shortener? (goo.gl)
Why not approach a local user group to offer to do tutorials one Saturday a month? I know a lot of guys at Linux user groups in particular would be willing to help... they may not like helping with mac/linux as much, but many would be happy to do so just the same.
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see also: Sarah Silverman's bit on scientology and things that sound weird.
The difference is that Apple still has links at the bottom of the page for when the reader gets there. In fact the first link is "Shop & Learn" which expands out to be the same product listing as the Hamburger menu up the top.
This kind of hate that Americans have for unions is something I will never understand.

Unions have clear purpose: help the workers negotiate with the company with equal opportunities and prevent abuse from the employer. Companies have power, money and lawyers and, usually, a worker has none of those; so, if one day the worker has a conflict with the company, the Union will be there to assist the worker.

I've been working in a couple of companies that had a Union (in Europe, not USA) and it has been always a good experience. The guys in the Union knew quite well how law works in the country and helped the employer to always keep a relationship between the employer and the employee according to the law. Unpaid overtime? Mmmm... it's not going to happen. Firing someone just because the manager doesn't like him? Nahhh.... Abusive boss? Mmm... Lets talk with him about the consequences of a Lawsuit for Bullying.

Of course, if an employee did something really wrong, there was not much the Union could do for him.

But the main thing is that the employee is always in inferiority when dealing with the employer, and the Unions are there to solve that.
Yes. Once you upgrade your account is flagged and you can install Windows 10 using the ISO images/USB Key or simply upgrade again.
That's interesting, and I wasn't aware of most of that, aside from the debris tracking by NASA / USAF. I guess I was just hung up on the cost / benefit ratio of trying to catch a small piece of debris, for reasons other than making our orbits safer for future spacecraft.
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Alpha aside, someone learned the value of unit tests.
Any reason you why you wouldn't store edges in a database? Seems like they don't ever change and your constantly recalculating them?
I always joke with the idea of starting a new town with select people. Whether it is tech people, or just smart folks in general, I think it would be a fun experiment. What types of issues might come up with such a commune? I expect most low level work would have to be contracted out to people outside the town, until they can be automated.

An alternative idea is to buy one of the many abandoned malls in the US and turn that into housing, common space, and shops. Is anyone doing this?
Consider things more abstractly, greed is generally thought of as an evil. Bur trying to distroy it is counter productive, but wuty care it can be useful. The drug war is a great example of taking an ideology past the point of usefulness.
Google you're drunk, go home.

Ok more seriously as a customer: uh, what the hell just happened?

"Hey you know that great brand we had? Yeah lets pivot towards ... letters. That children learn"
It's especially easy to be a programmer without internet these days because you can download the entirety of StackOverflow and Wikipedia to your hard drive! I wrote up a brief post when I went on a repositioning cruise with unfathomably pricy internet: http://www.archagon.net/a-few-pointless-thoughts/2014/6/17/b...

Stackdump is simply amazing.
Listening to podcasts and audio books is an excellent way to pass the time while exercising.

I can't say that running itself is fun for me, but the extra hours of Hardcore History I've listened to while exercising have made the process much more tolerable.
The problem is more about using webtechs for the UI than the size of the binary. There is a reason why people aren't massively moving from text editors such as Sublime Text to Webtech based editors like atom : performances. But everything is cyclical, we are just still in the "you can do everything with html and js" era. Go,Nim,Rust,Crystal and others are on their way in. They are statically typed, multithreaded, easier than C and C++ , compiled and can be linked to Gtk,Qt and other multiplateform UI toolkits. Javascript everywhere even where it doesn't make sense is on its way out.
You can disagree. You have the same mindset as the U.S. Government in the 1800's thinking it is wise to persuade American Indians to 'civilise' for their own good. People who never admit failure no matter the results of their social experiments. And that's just how some of us are going to think some of the time.
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I didn't suggest that it did.

However, in the context of moral outlooks that people form in that sort of environment, Pol Pot's values are quite normal. Many German soldiers formed similar views during the First World War; they were very well informed compared to the Cambodians, and in a position to know better.
You could make almost exactly the same argument for Napoleon's sale to the US of French territories in North America.
Agree. Sedgewick's book is great especially because of the implementation. I'd also highly recommend his lectures on Coursera - Algorithms Part I and II. He explains the working of algorithms with animation, which makes it really easy to understand the algorithms.
The "one" code base is sorta interesting but I really like the one, relatively easy programming model.
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It's a tough hypothetical to consider because a large number of political realities would have to change on the ground, not least of which is the national pride argument you made in your terrific article.

However, let's assume for the time being that they suddenly want to sell to the highest bidder for whatever imaginary reason.

I suspect if sovereignty were up for grabs again, the US would be willing to pay a very significant price to keep it out of the hands of a non-NATO country.

$15bn is a small fraction of annual US federal spending. Seems to me paying a slightly larger or even significantly larger figure would be worth it to the US for sovereignty over such a valuable geostrategic location.

Plus as you noted, it's likely that climate change could increase the value of the land. Sure, maybe not enough to turn a profit for the buyer, but it would offset the costs of buying to some degree.

One particularly interesting implication is that if the US owned both Alaska and Greenland, it could bolster its argument for declaring the northwest passage as international waters in opposition to Canada's territorial waters claim.
I interpret it as keeping the ad machine separate from everything else. If product decision impact ad revenue, they stay in (G)oogle. Everything else moves to different arms.

My guess is this serves 3 benefits:

1 - Less turf wars.

2 - Better visibility to investors on where the money is.

3 - Ability to spin off pieces as needed.

Many companies resist this type of visibility because they don't want a Carl Icahn to come in and demand a spinoff. The share structure of Google/Alphabet precludes this from happening.
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https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/61b/ this course by Prof. Jonathan Shewchuk is by far the best I have come across. Even the course is in Java, I really like the way he lays out all the basic data structure family.

The youtube videos are the icing on the cake as you can get thru them faster than compared to reading a book, if you are starting off I would highly recommend these youtube tutorials.
Those are people who live in countries that will be gone in a few generations.
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Cool! I will make sure my new startup starts with a letter which is not used yet. Will we see companies changing their names for possible acquisitions.
> in practice the alternative to nationalism isn't universal humanism. It's pernicious individualism or strong group identification along other dimensions.

That's the 'tribalism' I'm talking about. People can divide into 'us and them' over nations or states or race or wealth or whatever. I agree with the downsides and your example.

But it's not intractable. We're not living in family units in caves; we've formed societies, nations, companies, bowling leagues, etc. Humans are naturally social, cooperative, even herd-like organisms and they do work together, organize, and build inclusive social structures.

The very divided states of 1776 did form the United States of today, though it took a little work. The Germanic states formed Germany. Europe did make peace and form the EU. Think of the notion of "white" in the U.S.: There used to be violent, hateful divisions between Protestants, Catholics, and Jews; between Italians, Irish and Germans (and more); it was a big deal when JFK was elected in 1960 that he was Catholic. Now that all would be absurd; those people are just "white" (and the division is with black and Hispanic peopl, and with Muslims). We had segregation, and now we elected a black President (though we still have a ways to go.) LGBTQ people are now widely accepted as just people.
Depends what's left when they're gone, right? We don't very well know what's under them now, and we know even less what the melting and runoff process will take with it into the sea.

Buying Greenland today would be very risky even if you knew with certainty that the ice cap would be completely gone in 20 years. An ice-free Greenland might be an arid dust bowl devoid of vegetation, minerals, and usable water. Or, with proper care, it might turn into something more like Quebec. No one knows.
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Understanding grammar and spelling (more generally: communication) is one of some of the most important skills you can possibly learn. Go take an English Comp class, or something similar. It'll pay huge dividends for the next 40 years of your life, far more so than knowing one more programming language possibly could.
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I can more than disagree; I speak with absolute authority for what I believe. I declare the truth of it. You and your speculation have no standing at all.
> Do they excel at producing analytics for computers or humans?

This seems like a false dichotomy. There are certainly some polishing skills that might make a DS especially good at communicating data to humans, but if you can't show me what you're feeding to an algorithm and explain why, then you probably aren't a good DS.
Thanks for the feedback. I will try to improve the example and make it more "experimental".
This might be about RAM-constrained phones; the design doc refers to '--optimize-for-size devices', suggesting it won't (initially?) be on for everyone. Android and Chrome OS already enable Linux zram to get more out of low-memory gadgets. Incidentally, Google announced a (to me very ambitious-sounding) push for $50 Android phones today (http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/10/google-revamps-android-on...) that better low-RAM support could mesh nicely with, though of course it's just a coincidence the dates lined up.
This is a cookbook of how to get things done with webpack
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> expect most low level work would have to be contracted out to people outside the town

If we're honest with ourselves, isn't this roughly what much of the U.S. has going on now? "New towns" are started as suburbs with economical segregation. Complete with gated communities. Or gentrifying urban areas. Low level work is performed by those from poorer, neighboring communities.
I think the closest is Cmd-Shift-/.
It seems unlikely that they would sell it to an unfriendly power if they did decide to sell. If the Danes view the Greenlanders as their fellow countrymen, it's unfathomable that they would toss them to the Han Chinese cultural extermination squads at any price. Yet they might be able to see their way to a deal with the US or Switzerland or some other relatively benign owner. This doesn't strike me as an absolute argument but one of degree, much like if you asked me whether the US should sell Florida: to whom, I would ask. I'd gladly be rid of it, but it wouldn't do to have it in Russia's hands.
Then after English Comp, take Public Speaking. You'll hate it, but you need it.
Do schools really make people take an MS Word class? I've never seen anyone have the courage to put that on a resume or transcript.
Good point. The whois says Wellington, NZ. I don't know if it is related, but Microsoft does have an office in Wellington. :)

http://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/contact.aspx
Here is an article that has a bunch of photos of specific towns for sale,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576711/Buy-ghost-vi...
Nice catch, i am curious now if the silicon valley text written by knowing this?
Ever hear of work for hire? If you want all the rewards for yourself, you don't sell shares in your company.
I like both ideas. I would live in the former and invest in the second.

I am not entirely sure you would want smart people only in the village. I think you should have a great mix of people, who share similar values and ethics.

At any rate if the exercise of setting up a small town interests you, the Republic of Plato as well as The Social Contract give you some good starting point. At least philosophically.
Funny, I would have expected a better hashing algorithm from the likes of Google. ;)
As an investor in Google, I am pleased that they will continue to try to create new things, and not just cash in on search, etc. (Well, as long as they don't pull another Reader.)

On the plus side (so to speak), if G+ had been factored out maybe the forcible integration would have been slowed.
I agree its an interesting idea, but there are few ways to convert high kinetic energy into something usable. On suggestion was a jello like, self healing sphere of ballistic gel or something, that would convert kinetic energy into heat, and then radiate the heat as a form of thrust. We're talking very inefficient though.
Yeah, it's normal business weirdness. It's a reverse triangular merger: http://witnesseth.typepad.com/blog/reverse-triangular-merger...
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If the Danes wanted a hypothetical something (money, favors, something) badly enough, it's not a completely unreasonable notion that they might entertain selling to a nominally unfriendly power. As I mentioned before, a large number of political realities would have to change on the ground for them domestically for something like that to happen, but assuming that premise I can imagine scenarios where Greenland could fetch well above $15bn.