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Makeblock is an awesome option. They are Arduino powered (and you can stack a Raspberry Pi on top of that if you want). Most importantly, it's all Creative Commons open source licensed, hardware and all. No buying into someone's patented system. Most of the other kits out there seem like a disassembled toy you're to screw together. The Makeblock kits are actually extensible and you can make anything... they even have a plans for a 3D printer from the same parts. The beams are designed to connect to Technic parts, as well. If you go to your Radio Shack (yes, many Radio Shacks are still open and continuing on) you can find these kits deeply discounted (like 25% of their original price). http://www.makeblock.cc/
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I mean you don't have to take over a street of a suburb, but regional new sources are all 20+ years old.

In Seattle for example its all the same players in print as its always been.
I'm not sure what you mean by smash hits, but the Sierra adventure games were massively popular (for PC games) from the mid 80s-90s. Prince of Persia was a platformer, and the PC version was released in 1990.

The Keen games were successful enough, and within a year (late 1991) had graphics and gameplay that were what I would consider SNES-like.

Being able to play Mario on a PC would've been a killer app for sure. The popularity of emulators since the mid-late 90s should be enough proof for that.

Obviously RTS and FPS turned out to be the defining genres of PC gaming because of the tight controls, netplay, and being able to take advantage of Moore's law, but I think Nintendo missed out on a good chance to expand their business.
I'd take those OECD numbers with a grain of salt.
People don't do "work" while "at work" for extravagantly long hours, but in many salaried industries they are "at work" for longer then 8-hours per day. Sometimes it's just schmoozing, waiting for the big boss or the little boss to leave, giving the rest implicit permission to leave --even if the boss is just waiting for the time they have to meet their date. Or, you may be obliged to go out with coworkers for drinks afterhours, even if you don't drink.

So, it's not uncommon to see people who you could imagine in the day were the quintessential salaryman passed out on the train home, possibly next to another one who puked and sprawled on the floor of the train. Also, stupidity during these episodes is forgotten, for the most part.

Pissing and vomiting in public is kind of accepted after certain times of the night. However, most the hanging out and drinking is for business reasons rather than hanging out with buds.
You are neither 'jmhain nor their doctor — nor, as far as I can tell from a quick perusal of your comment history, a medical professional of any kind — and as such it is egregiously irresponsible of you to be offering medical advice, however well-intentioned or well-researched you may think it is.

I have some pretty strongly negative feelings about the way (most) mental illness is treated in modern Western society — not least the radical over-use of SSRIs — but the way to address that does not begin with, or even involve, telling someone who reports unambiguous benefit from the use of antidepressants how wrong they were, how they were a pawn of the Pharma-Industrial Complex, or anything else other than, "I'm glad that's helping."
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Recently, Facebook started showing a white overlay banner that says "Get updates from ____ on Facebook. Log in or sign up for Facebook today." which forces people to sign up or log in to facebook in order to access pages. As you scroll down the page, the banner covers the entire window, preventing you from seeing the contents of the page altogether.

Many organizations and groups use Facebook pages to share information with the general public. Some only have Facebook pages.

Well I don't have Facebook, because it was habit forming and otherwise excruciating. Quitting has been one of the best things that has happened to me. But I still visit band pages and organization pages from time to time in order to get basic information about events, etc.

So I find this coercive tactic of forcing me to sign up for Facebook in order to access content meant for me to see to be divisive, insidious and overall obnoxious.
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We're so adverse to raising taxes in the US, we're raiding the Federal Reserve to pay for road repairs instead of raising the insanely low gas tax (which hasn't been raised in almost two decades).

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a8aee1d4-991c-11e5-95c7-d47aa298f7...

EDIT:

Anyways, back on topic:

* Shifting demographics

* Oil/energy glut

* Slowing China economy

There's too much supply and not enough demand in the world (speaking macro economically). You can't "push the string" and force demand, even with zero interest rate policies (you'll just get an asset bubble; witness housing and equity prices). The developed world's future is Japan, and frankly, that's not such a bad thing.

This doesn't mean those giant pools of money aren't hungry for returns though. Notice how quickly those funds in developing countries floods back to the US at the slightest hint interest rates are headed back up.

If you haven't read up on the high yield/junk bond slow motion train wreck occurring, you should.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-14/investors-...

> Debt of struggling companies has slumped, with one market gauge falling to a six-year low, as declining energy and commodity prices hit producers just as the Federal Reserve prepares to raise borrowing costs for the first time in almost a decade. Scott Minerd, global chief investment officer at Guggenheim Partners, predicts 10 percent to 15 percent of junk bond funds may face high withdrawals as more investors worry about getting their money back. He joins money managers Jeffrey Gundlach, Carl Icahn, Bill Gross and Wilbur Ross in warning of more high-yield trouble ahead.

TL;DR Janet Yellen either a) waited too long to raise short term interest rates or b) raising them at anytime was going to break the bank.
The comments on here are funny. People lose their mind when it comes to autonomous anything. ZOMG everyone's going to shoot down autonomous delivery drones! People will walk out into traffic! People will hack their cars and do crimes!

Come on. All this is illegal now. It will still be illegal, and easily enforceable. Which is what keeps crimes from happening. That and human decency which most people have.
Certainly building more housing will bring down the price, and that will make life easier for tech workers who will still be well-paid. But that won't do anything for the homeless who are unemployed or making minimum wage, who are still going to be vastly outbid compared to tech salaries.

Given the geographical constraints and the velocity of tech growth, it's really unlikely that a free market would build so many units that all the high-paid tech workers who could possibly come to the Bay Area were situated, and landlords were forced to start catering to the working poor. We have to force them to, because market incentives won't.
First concentrate on stopping the fascist coup d'etat, i.e. winning the Spanish Civil War and preventing 40 years of fascist dictatorship, then discuss about the kind of new society you want.
IBM did this through the 50s or 60s. The songs definitely feel totalitarian.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/tripping-through-ibm...
Great stuff. Had fun reading a few of them. This is a fun project. The scarams is strong, pretty much align with me signing up with a few of these services at the beginning "wtf" moment.

One quick note: I noticed you are blurring sensitive info (for example in Hulu's case) and I recommend you don't do that. Just capture the screenshot before you enter the info. There are techniques to recover blurred text and your blurred text are not fully covered up so you may end up leaking the info.
The movie version of this: "The Big Short", now playing in selected theaters. General release on December 23.
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I actually wonder how this really will end up. I've subscribed to many people on Youtube and see them try to blog but ultimately start stalling on content and don't make money in the end
We already have plenty of those computers. For example, Google computers are able to process the amount of information no human can possibly process during their lifetime. Other computers can help with design or optimization problems that are so complex that no human can perform them in any reasonable time.
Does it mean that those computers are more intelligent than humans?
Indeed, Usenet doesn't require IP to work. See UUCP[0].

Some gray beard can probably speak more intelligently than me about this, but I think people would basically specify a series of hops. Each hop would store-and-forward the message to the next hop. Nowadays people talk about delay and disruption tolerant networks, which use similar techniques.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP
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As someone who lives in Japan, I thought I'd give some background information about the pictures included in the article. They're (edit: the pictures AND the captions) clearly chosen to give credence to the "Japanese salaryman"[1] who's always busy and "works to death."[2]

I'll go over the pictures in order displayed in the article, using their captions as a guide.

> Salarymen resting midmeal.

A common theme in the selected pictures is that the people in them are relaxing and I think the implication is supposed to be that they're working 105-hour weeks and they're trying to grab rest where they can.

This is not an unusual sight in Japan or America. You go out to eat with coworkers you like, then you sit back and chat. The Japanese image of someone who's really busy is someone who eats a lunch box or rice ball at his desk while working.

Edit: They're sitting on the floor because they're in a Japanese-style restaurant, so it's easier to lean back on your elbows because there's no chair.

> Staring into nothingness in Hakodate.

This guy isn't staring off into nothingness because he's depressed or so tired he can't think; he's smoking. People tend to stare off into the distance if they're smoking alone and not using their phones or something.

> Standing salarymen eating.

Crowded cities mean strangely-shaped shops with little room for seating. Sushi and noodle bars lend themselves especially well to this kind of standing restaurant since both can be prepared quickly and eaten while standing. All kinds of people eat at these places, not just salarymen. One of the best udon restaurants in my neighborhood is like this.

> Passed out on the train

Looks like a special express, almost definitely not a bullet train given the decor. If you're riding one of those, you're probably traveling for at least an hour. You don't have to be working 105-hour weeks to want to take a nap on a trip where you have nothing to do for an hour.

[1] The idea that there's a generic "Japanese salaryman" is ridiculous. The word itself just means someone who works in an office. Imagine if you gave a single label to every full-time employee in an office in America -- that's how it comes across when Western media uses it.

[2] Another popular "exotic, overworked Japan" meme that comes up is the fact that there's a compound word (過労死, karoushi) for "death by overwork." This is no more exciting than the fact that you can say "death by overwork" in English.
Owncloud wrote this blog some time back:

> https://owncloud.org/blog/owncloud-and-php/

The discussions there around a "low barrier for entry" being a major goal of the project is, in my view, opposed to high levels of security.

Edit: This quote showcases my point:

“nobody will dig into a complex build system for a week

before they send their first patch,”
Probably not. I doubt Nintendo would have impressed by the level of piracy on the PC back in the day. Besides, Nintendo made and still makes money on hardware, so that would have been a terrible business plan.
SpiderMonkey was around way before v8, and once it begat TraceMonkey, it had JIT. Bloomberg used this pervasively on their billion-dollar product for years before v8 was a thing--you can read that from one horse's mouth here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3984617
The article doesn't say how a researcher would interface with the cluster from a laptop. Does anyone know how this is typically done?
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Scroll up a little to 'Fish'. Guess who features? xD
It's realistic in that the RT to an Internet service isn't where it seems to break down. It breaks down at the hub that spazzes out and goes into limp mode (which as far as I can tell is simply a flashing status indicator of different colors) and won't respond to commands. Sure, it can cause lag and sometimes there is a full second or two difference from command to action, but it's usually snappy enough that the light on z-wave control turns off barely slower than the light directly toggled by the switch. That being said, if there was a hub that required the Internet service just to perform the away from home/mobile functions but let all the scheduled timers, scenes, robots, etc. perform without Internet, I would happily jump ship. OpenHAB is a PITA and the shortcuts in iOS that you get with Wink/IFTTT and the Amazon Echo integration would all have to be hand rolled. While I've already written some of my own Alexa Apps, I don't want to go back to OpenHAB for all the rest.
Cities (and countries) are democratic communities that can choose to deploy markets if and to the extent that they are useful for some resource allocation problems. And they are quite useful. But communities come first; when the market does something that opposes its values, the community can and should override it. The difference between regulation and a cartel is that regulations pervert the market for public gain at private expense and cartels are the other way 'round.
>and to de-emphasize the kind of things that don't service the markets (i.e., HFT & front-running) by introducing a small financial transaction tax.

You will not make a dent in the debt by taxing HFT. If you introduce a tax, people will stop doing it. (Maybe that's what you're after, but that's an entirely different problem than repaying the national debt).
25 years is astounding, that's impressive utilization of assets.

In the UK, Royal Mail disposes of its delivery vehicles every three years when they become due for annual roadworthiness testing.

And quite often the replacement vehicle is a different type entirely ( lowest-bid contracts ) so they have no commonality of maintenance.

Seems like an expensive way to operate a fleet but they show no sign of changing.
The conflict of interest is more complicated:

For the recruiter, getting you in at 160k is twice as good as getting you in at 80k, and infinitely better than you walking away.

As a candidate that currently earns 100k, an 80k offer is worthless.

(Threatening to) walking away from a deal is one of the strongest strategies in negotiation. But that's the one thing a recruiter will never want you to do.

Candidate: High salary > no deal > low salary.
Recruiter: High salary > low salary > no deal.

You are right, that the recruiter has an even bigger conflict of interest with their employer. But that conflict does not mean the recruiter's interests are aligned with the candidate.

(One way to align any interests is generally to repeat games. That's why internal recruiters are usually less sleazy than the external kind: they are at least clearly on the site of the employer. And honourable employers have a reputation to defend---another repeated game.)
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BBC/NYT/Radio in different languages (Spanish/French). I prefer internet radio stations since I'm usually on my computer
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NPR is great. I love their programming. Such a variety of different programs.
A big problem these people face is their inability to actually sell ad inventory. They have the viewership to get them rich. A million views at $10/CPM for video views is a good $10,000 at a 100% fill rate. If they produce just one of these videos per month, that can get them a nice salary. And they probably do several of these videos per week.

These people really need ad salesmen to turn their channels into real businesses. They're not going to have the time to sell ads themselves.

There are a lot of issues behind selling ads (just because you have a billion views, doesn't mean you're useful to advertisers), but going to a site like sellercrowd.com should get them some leads on salespeople and techniques.
Last.fm worked well with me in terms of music discovery. They kept shooting themselves in the foot, removing features where I found value and terminated my subscription (living outside US/UK).
Now I finally get it. C++11's seed sequences are not compatible with std::random_device. I'd been using the pre-C++11 boost::random and hadn't realized there was this subtle difference.

That is super annoying.
thats certainly a valid opinion, however, with those regulations come housing shortages and conditions like in the Bay area. You've chosen an optimization, and like all optimizations, there are trade offs, and some of those trade offs are hard to accept.

Not to fully respond to your trollbait, but the market isn't god. Its just smarter (i.e. crowdsourced) than a few government officials about establishing what society wants.
Threaten to walk away.
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> Never be the first to give a number.

Always be the first to give a number and conditions.

Setting the stage is too important to let the other party do it.
I paid $100/mo for my corporate dorm in Japan. It was pretty dingy, but there were better, well designed studio and 1BR arrangements for $150 that would open up after a year or so that you could move into. I'd roughly estimate that this was 1/5 the cost of market housing.

I had to move out because the particular one I was in was too close to industrial smog, but I have friends who still live in a $150/mo corporate dorm after 6 years working there. Not a bad arrangement at all since many of us went home exclusively to sleep anyways.
Are you equating HFT with front-running? Because it's not true. That aside, HFT is such a tiny fraction of the economy that taxing it wouldn't make one sliver of a dent in the national debt.

Your ignorance on this topic which you confidently expound on is deplorable.
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You're gonna love this (from Samsung): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DFtWPn3aBA

(Safe for work, though pretty depressing)
That's normal. In 2009, there were five million bands on Myspace. Some of which didn't suck. Maybe five hundred of them broke even.

If you've spent any time in LA, you've met actress/model/waitress types. Walk-on parts in a few movies, some commercial work, no real money.

Authors have the same problem. A decade ago, there were people who thought blogging was a career. That's so dead. The Huffington Post is now an Aol content farm, with content-farm type rates.

Fame leading to riches was an artifact of expensive distribution. That's so over.
random(3) is clearly bad; but contrast this proposal with the simplicity (and security) of OpenBSD's arc4random(), arc4random_uniform(), arc4random_buf().
> There ain't no such thing. Salary negotiations are pretty close to zero-sum.

If you do strike a deal, that's along a fixed sum border.

But do keep in mind, that either party can always blow up the whole process at almost any time. This is important.
So an open source product with active and transparent security patching with a bug bounty isn't good enough?

Yet you want to offer two closed-source alternatives. I am not defending Owncloud's record, I'm attacking your logic. A low-effort all-in-one groupware and private doc cloud (Google Apps replacement) is an awesome thing - if Owncloud could make deploying an email server as simple as the rest of its toolset, they will have hit the home run.

And sandstorm.io - still waiting on internal user stores.
It'd be a huge mistake for Apple to kill the headphone jack
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You're a little off on the franchisee thing. Franchisees are not required to accept price suggestions from corporate. That's why the $5 promos are always accompanied by the "valid only at participating stores" fine print.
> Under such circumstances, anything preventing a successful conclusion to the negotiations is harmful to both parties, since there exists a price at which both sides would be satisfied that they're getting more value than they're giving.

I am afraid, reality is more complicated than that. There are opportunity costs, and there are threats. (Read up about the latter in "The Strategy of Conflict".)

Threatening to do both parties damage, can give you a better deal.
I would like to work for a company that seeks to treat or cure mental illnesses. In 2003 I ended up on disability due to a mental illness I developed due to too much stress. We also have disabled veterans who are also mentally ill.

When you reach a level of mental illness, you are no longer able to work anymore and nobody trusts you to do any work.

I'd like to work for a company that develops a neurochip to treat or cure mental ilnesses so mentally ill people can go back to work. A neurochip that can filter out negative thoughts and improve memory. A neurochip that can download information off the Internet and store it in your memory so that you learn faster. I figure just implant it in the frontal lobe using the lobotomy method to access the frontal lobe to avoid a surgery. But once installed it can't be removed or upgraded without causing damage. So it has to be perfected first, and any upgrades will have to be software based.

It should have Internet access to send emails and social networking using your thoughts into words. It should interface with your optic nerve system to display text and images in your vision. Even correct your vision if you have eyesight problems.

Yeah you'll basically be a cyborg, but psyche medicine doesn't work too well and turns most people into drowsy zombies, a neurochip would be the next step in treating or curing mental illnesses.
Everyone deserves to be able to afford to live in silicon valley just like everyone deserves to be able to afford a Mercedes S class with every option.

I don't live there and you don't have to either. I think it's a big waste of money, time and a circle-jerk.
Even at Google you should negotiate: their base is pretty standard, but the stock grants differ. A lot.
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Either lie or refuse to answer.
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I wonder if I'll ever see a picture of myself napping on the subway in an article about overworked NYC residents?
I think you are reading what you want into my statement, not what I am saying. You are taking "crazy" to mean what you want it to mean.

You are an intelligent person. You HAVE to know that I do not mean someone with autism or a developmental disorder. That would be sick and repugnant. But that's not what I mean. And you know it.

What I mean is someone with such a mental illness or sickness or reality distortion that they can justify picking up a gun and killing twenty children. A person has to be sick in the head to do something like that. Sick in the heart too. Use whatever terms you care to pull out of the dictionary but we all know what we are talking about.

Someone has to be "crazy" (define it as you wish) to behave in such ways.
Very, very dangerous things happen when you allow the state to determine what fair means to whom.
How do you handle a slump?
Companies could build offices in other towns. That's an option too.