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> If the law says you can't collect, you should not be able to ask either.

The law doesn't say you can't collect, it says you can't enforce the debt in court. Its not theoretically impossible that a person who had undertaken a debt that had become unenforceable might be inclined to pay it off for social reasons that don't rely on the legal enforceability of the debt, so it probably shouldn't be illegal to notify and ask.

> You're relying on someone's ignorance to collect a debt, and I will work to apply a boot to the neck of collection companies who practice that.

To the extent that an attempt to collect an unenforceable debt relies on false implications of legal consequences like wage garnishments, seizure of property, etc., it is already barred by the FDCPA, which prohibits a variety of types of false representations and implications in the context of debt collection, and punishes debt collectors who use them.

There may be a good case that this should be tightened and require explicit notice of debts that are beyond the statute of limitations and not legally enforceable in collections (which would also give the collector a positive obligation to make this determination.) But I think that prohibiting asking for payment beyond the statute of limitations is probably going to far, for the reasons above.
How do you prepare for the isolation of space?
Yes. Yes I do want to work for SpaceX.
I don't disagree with GitLab's network view being more useful. People also shouldn't assume GitHub isn't fallible with their decisions. The fact that it took, I don't know how many years for them to implement side by side diffs is living proof of this.

GitLab just needs to work on the little things and they can really be disruptive to GitHub's business.

Another little change that I think would go a long way, is changing the folder icon. I don't know why, but the round corners in the folder icon really irks me. There is also something off about the font that they are using. I think it's just too thick, but I can't really put my finger on it.
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author's point is weak. users of netflix is not concerned with knowing what bitrate the video is. It just needs to have an acceptable quality.
I've tried truckloads of Python serialisation libs over the last few years and marshmallow is the one that finally makes me feel like I don't need to look for another one.
I remember seeing a blog post[1] about getting JRE running on Alpine containers.

[1]: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/08/minimal-java-do...
Many states have statutes that provide financial compensation per diem for incarceration that exceeds the term.
For my project, I found sticking to LALR(1) quite beneficial. Not that there's anything special about LALR(1): you could use LL(k) instead if you prefer. However, by sticking to a small, deterministic syntax (and making the parser generator complain loudly in case of ambiguity), I can easily find edge cases I've never thought about before it comes around to bite me. And, in most cases, it's trivial to slightly modify the syntax so that the undesirable ambiguity does not arise.

It's the equivalent of static typing for syntax: it takes effort to make bison run successfully, but when it does, I know that my grammar is free of ambiguity.
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How Saddam gave us ISIS
This is what really happens, and generally what should be happening. But it's against the zeitgeist - it's undemocratic, it's not inclusive, etc. - that's why you mostly shut up about it and rely on leaders self-selecting themselves when a challenge arises. Humans understand this implicitly, therefore only complain when either a) the matter is insignificant to anything (e.g. things labeled as "just politics"), or b) they have a personal stake in breaking the existing hierarchy (e.g. they want to be leaders themselves).
Thanks! Glad you like it :) This is actually what we wanted to build - one single app where you can make new smarter business (and why not personal) connections before travel and simultaneously improve your experience by getting to know the place the "real way".
If you've already read them, you could save me some time, a simple yes (they cover more than just Rossi's experiment) or no would be useful.
Given the financial acumen and street smarts involved, it almost sounds as if there's a possible role for someone acting as an agent for potential startup employees: not an employment agency which gets a lump sum when an employer fills a vacancy, but a talent agent getting something like the traditional ten percent, or two-and-twenty, or whatever, of the employee's ongoing earnings. Not that dealing with talent agents is always a wonderful experience either, of course...
I love it on Windows but I wonder why you use it on Linux. What does it do better than the alternative (native packages and pip)?
At least 100 kb/s upload, assuming you don't edit torrc.
quantity-of-people-involved is a terrible, irrelevant metric for code quality.
"Remote" and "international" do not mean the same thing. Hiring someone to work out of an office in their home in the U.S. has entirely different tax and legal implications than hiring someone to work out of an office in their home in another country.

Repeat your experiment but say you're located in Canada.
> The law doesn't say you can't collect, it says you can't enforce the debt in court. Its not theoretically impossible that a person who had undertaken a debt that had become unenforceable might be inclined to pay it off for social reasons that don't rely on the legal enforceability of the debt, so it probably shouldn't be illegal to notify and ask.

Perhaps then, instead of it being illegal, the collection agency (either via phone or through paper correspondence) should be required to (up front) disclose that the debt is no longer enforceable and that the debtor is not required to pay the debt back by law.

> There may be a good case that this should be tightened and require explicit notice of debts that are beyond the statute of limitations and not legally enforceable in collections (which would also give the collector a positive obligation to make this determination.) But I think that prohibiting asking for payment beyond the statute of limitations is probably going to far, for the reasons above.

I agree that a middle ground can be found between making it illegal and what we have now. My problem is with the information asymmetry.
+1 for snowboarding

I like to go distraction-free and put my phone in a locker. For a few hours it's nothing but you and the mountain. And energy drinks.
these "classics":

http://blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2014/06/09/an-incomplete...
There is one school of thought that goes that SpaceX's mission to "Get people to Mars" requires so much more than simply putting things in orbit that people set their expectations that this is only the beginning. If you set your expectations that you just wanted to get to space and straight back down again, you don't invest in things which would be helpful to a Mars mission.

So while building a resuable booster for rockets might be the entire goal of some company, for SpaceX it was only the first step in a lot of bigger goals in order to make it feasible to go to Mars. And in so doing, and creating a capability that they can sell today to fund future development.
The main problem in my experience is on the bean counter side. Depending on the company, when you buy equipment it is an expense for the company (i.e., you don't have to pay taxes on the money used for buying the equipment). However, you usually can't (depending on the country/state/province/whatever) declare the entire expense in the first year. You often get it as the value of the item depreciates. Some countries have bizarre rules for depreciation. For example, in Japan, you might get stuck on a 20 year straight line depreciation for a telephone (even if it is a mobile one). So you get 5% of the value as an expense in the first year (tax law is complicated, so I'm just giving you the worst case example -- there are cases where you can get 100% depreciation in the first year as well).

Anyway, each thing you buy, you have to track the depreciation of. You can sell the used item for a loss which means more paper work. Or you can pile the items up until they have fully depreciated. But, basically, it is a huge pain in the back end. If you have an accountant on staff who is already up to their eyeballs, it is not unusual for them to grumble very loudly about having to deal with the developers' obsession for new shiny toys.

If you have a company who is willing to throw money at problems to make them go away (don't try to track the equipment as an expense if you don't have the capacity to do so), then it won't be a problem. But as always, the people problem is far more difficult to solve than the technical problem. Personally, I cut startups some slack if they haven't got all their ducks in a row on small issues like this. YMMV.
Have you ever seen a container's system time deviate from a host? This makes sense with boot2docker since it runs in a VM but I can't think of a reason this would happen in a container.
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Doing the transcodes is pretty much a drop in the bucket for NetFlix. Even transcoding the same movie 1000x at full length is pretty meaningless to them since it is a fixed cost against their library size.

What they really care about is things that are multiplied by the number of users they have. Saving 5% of bandwidth on 100k users is very meaningful to them. So doing extra transcodes to figure out what to send is very valuable.

They've come and given talks at Cloud dev meetups and just an unexpected bump in bandwidth or delay in server response time causing traffic to back up is enough to knock over their servers and they do things no one else would even think of, like having their clients upload code to their servers to batch requests together in the optimal format for the clients, just to reduce bandwidth and load on their network.
So, are these shares massively overvalued or massively undervalued?

It seems like the anti-equity crowd here will never be happy. They want cash when the company offers equity, and equity when the company arranges for an offer of cash.
This is like right out of a movie script and you are probably right.

How did Google engineers put it? Oh yeah:

https://plus.google.com/108799184931623330498/posts/SfYy8xbD...
I've been trying to read a paper a day since midsummer. These are a few of the interesting, for me personally, since then:

Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks - http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0850
Older one, but important to understand deeply since other recent ideas have come from this!

Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks - http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06434

Unitary Evolution Recurrent Neural Networks - http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06464

State of the Art Control of Atari Games Using Shallow Reinforcement Learning - http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01563
Interesting discussion in section 6.1 on the shortcomings/issues of DQN done by Deepmind

Spectral Representations for Convolutional Neural Networks - http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03767

Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition - http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03385

Fast and Accurate Deep Network Learning by Exponential Linear Units (ELUs) - http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07289
I wish they did more comparisons between similar network architecture with only the units swapped out. Eg. Alexnet, Relu vs Alexnet, Elu.

On Learning to Think: Algorithmic Information Theory for Novel Combinations of Reinforcement Learning Controllers and Recurrent Neural World Models - http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.09249

Just a few from my list :)
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"This is great! We can burn down Ook's village! He'll never know what hit him!"

"We can what down Ook's village?"
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I'd commend you for doing that but it's very easy to say early in the process when you're not faced with the situation.

Once three years of your life have been invested in the product and you have tens or hundreds of thousands of users, will your answer be the same?
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> One screenshot hurts their entire argument, because I cannot take the rest of what they say at face value. Notice that the $18.49 package gives five razors while the $14.99 package gives four razors. The $3.50~ markup is due to an additional razor being provided.

No, you've misread the packaging. Both packages contain 4 razor cartridges. The number 5 you highlighted on the women's product advertises 5 blades per cartridge (same as the men's product) but the package contains only 4 cartridges as you'll see if you look a little further to the right. You can see a higher resolution photo of the product and some more details here: https://shop.riteaid.com/schick-hydro-silk-razor-cartridges-...
Anaconda has been a lifesaver, because it can be installed and managed quite easily without root privileges (it even installs pip). Some of the sysadmins where I work are slower than molasses when it comes to installing python packages (as in, it takes months of repeated emails from multiple people to get anything done), and what is installed is often years out of date.
I was running small project that encoded videos with SaaS in multiple formats/sizes (~10) and then distributed it over CDN (no major traffic). CDN price was about 99% of project costs. Transcoding and storage on S3 was fraction of a cost. I was also trying every trick in the book to make files smaller, just to cut on traffic.
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The autoworkers are not really a good analog for what a programmers' union would be.

If a programmer's union formed it would probably be a trade union more similar to the NFL Players Association, or the Writers Guild of America, than a labor union for relatively unskilled workers. The NFL, Hollywood, and TV have obviously not been harmed by doing deals with these unions.
Fine the companies and they don't have to do anything to the users. Any individuals who use encryption by their own means can be branded as terrorists for using a non-sanctified encryption system/service and imprisoned. All the ignorant people who have been taught encryption is only used by terrorists will buy it, no questions asked.

Make supporting encryption without a government backdoor illegal. That same government backdoor could be abused by third parties. But the ones pushing for that either don't care about that or don't understand that. The government has many stupid people in it, but I don't think the NSA director is one of them. [0] He knows that third parties could use the backdoor, he simply doesn't care.

Notice how this occurring in the USA and not some totalitarian country you refer to? People aren't afraid for absolutely no reason. They're afraid because a country founded on freedom is increasingly taking the game plans out of a totalitarian state play book. People are afraid if they don't fight back now they might not be able to fight back.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/23/nsa-director-...
I appreciate the vote of confidence on our eventual success.

I can't predict the future. I'd like to say our answer won't change. If it does, we deserve to fail.
Indeed - Spotify premium goes up to 320k (Ogg Vorbis). I don't claim to be an expert, but it certainly sounds great to me on my Yamaha DAC and Sony 7506 monitor headphones.
Love the closing sentence from this article:

I don’t know. It’s hard to predict because consumers… well… we’re fucking stupid.
> Also, while it is nice to think of your particular startup succeeding, it probably won't. And even if it "does" it will likely not be worth >$1b.

And even if it does succeed, and even if it does achieve a high valuation, you might not necessarily have a life-changing event.

I know it's buzzword-y to talk about liquidation preferences right now, but there are plenty of way investors and founders can benefit from an acquisition that don't trickle down to even early employees.
The interest is real, though the learning curve is probably too steep. That's why I need a friendly way to show her how it's done. Maybe the interest will grow and develop into reading books etc, but I don't count on it.

It's more about showing her how programming works and let her see how it's done, not about converting her to the nerd-side.
You are completely correct. There isn't any correlation indicating that a security agency was behind the backdoors setup in their OS. Granted this could still be the case but there isn't any evidence, known to the public at least, that any security agency had a hand in creating the backdoors.

The timing of this article is obviously done in order to capitalize on the recent Juniper news. I would suspect all security agencies to be looking at the security of al networking products that they can get a hand on.
There is also JSON-Schema protocol: http://json-schema.org/implementations.html curious how schema may be superior :).
Why would apple et al follow?

Unless there is any noticeable affect on quality/streaming ease then consumers won't care.

You have to remember that most people can't/won't tell the difference between blueray and DVD, let alone bitrate change. More importantly they have lots of silly TV effects that actively fuck with the picture (Sharpening, Aspect ratio stretching, over saturation, active motion, and other horrid "enhancements")

The only reason netflix et al is a thing is because of the content, not the platform. (just look at how shit iTunes is to use) You can make the most wonderful interface in the world, but if there is no content, there is no point.

Streaming does cost money, but that's not the main cost of business. Most cost comes from licensing the content in the first place. (Then paying all your staff to do fancy things)

Seriously bandwidth is pretty cheap, compared the the cost of buy the license to broadcast a top rated movie. (a high ranking movie is easily a few $million. custom TV series is anywhere between 1 and 30+ million for a season.)
I submitted the original study the other day, with commentary on the methodology:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10768591
I'd agree with you, but vixen99's post does not actually articulate an awareness of criticizing a particular part of the government. There's talk about "dependence on the government" by 70% of the public (probably the incorrect number according to what they really mean, but let's go with it). My point is really that this statement is meaningless because it's really 100% of the public who depends on the government when you think of it.

For example: people who work for recording companies undeniably depend on government handouts for their financial survival (think copyright law). Do you think vixen99 intended to include this group of people or not?

So my criticism, which you unfortunately missed (because I admittedly could have been clearer about it) is that the language used to attempt to discuss an argument is already wrong.

The intended argument itself may have merit, but as long as you talk about it in a misleading way you're not helping the debate.
The parts of the image you're highlighting are incorrect.

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People pretty much fly toy quadcopters the same way people open their car door into your car door, bang it up and don't give a damn.

It's somewhere between apathy and "try to catch/stop me".

The required registration now is almost hilarious, it's just going to be a way to give a huge fine after an incident for unregistered drones, no-one is going to register unless all the stores get together and do it for you when you buy it automatically (and then people will just buy direct from China).
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> understand that freedom of speech

We don't give freedom of life to foreign fighters (ie: we blow them up and kill them), why should we give them freedom of speech?

Enemies are enemies. And people need to realize what "war" really means. Its not nice, and its messy. We will trample on the rights we hold dear against our enemies. Guantanamo Bay remains open: a location where we secretly take prisoners of war, without a trial, without representation, and detain them for decades.

And its best for us to be informed of war so that we know not to do it unless necessary. But in any case, we remain at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite Obama's attempts to get us out of the region. The France Paris attacks are proof of that. They are our enemy. They want to kill us as much as we want to kill them, and neither we (nor them) seem interested in brokering peace.

Until we can enter serious peace talks with the Taliban (in Afghanistan), and with ISIS (in Iraq / Syria), this war will continue. But such talk is heresy in all aspects of politics.

In any case, giving freedom of speech and freedom of expression to ISIS fighters while we shoot missiles at them with remote controlled aircraft, and send special forces units to kill them in their sleep is ignorant bliss. There's a war to fight, and our fighters need every advantage they can get.
I've been thinking about this for a while too. Cool!
Hard to beat this as a succinct example of just that:
https://twitter.com/jonyiveparody/status/674749292494491648
I believe it's net worth of a million dollars (http://www.investor.gov/news-alerts/investor-bulletins/inves...). I've been following the crowdfunding legislation and it seems like there may be additional requirements to accept such investments if you are an early startup with just friends & family investments.

But the bottom line, I think, is that to do the strategy you suggest, you currently need to be an accredited investor if the startup is not already setup for crowdfunding.
"lack of a standard USB port"

USB C is a standard USB port. Within 12 months the big one that you have to figure out which way is up will be legacy. Thunderbolt 3 and USB C merge into one standard RSN.

https://thunderbolttechnology.net/blog/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-d...
Native.js is interesting. I would wonder how it plans to handle things like callbacks for various events though. As an example, a keypress in a textbox (e.g. pterosaur). I haven't looked at the WebExtensions API in detail yet, so it may already be a solved problem.

More specifically, editing text seems oddly neglected, which is disappointing considering webmail, blogs, social media, stack overflow, etc... I'm glad noscript is being given special consideration.