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>But in terms of actually building a business in the early days where head-down heavy lifting is required, I don't really see what SV offers that Toronto or Montreal do not.

A much larger labor pool. In Silicon Valley, provided you're willing to pay, you can find experts for pretty much anything computer-related. You can find people looking to work at startups, willing to put in the hours, and willing (somewhat) to defer compensation. I'm sure there are a lot of smart people in Toronto and Montreal, but tech people flock to northern California from all over the world.
tldr; Good.
btw 5 out of 6 numbers awards $1M under the "new" rules they have which makes all 6 harder to win

last Saturday 25 people won that $1M prize

curious to see how many this time around tomorrow
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This method helps to improve the expected value from a lotto ticket (though it's still far less than the ticket price), but I'm curious what happens if someone purchases one of every combination. I hear that the odds of winning are something like 1 in 292 million. If it's only $2/ticket, isn't it nearly a sure thing to buy 292 million sequential tickets? Aside from splitting the jackpot with others, your expected outlay is $584 million, and your return is ($1.5 billion)/(number of winners). As long as there are < 3 winners, your expected return is 1.5-3x your investment.

Aside from the feasibility of buying/tracking 292 million tickets and the risk of > 3 winners, am I missing anything?
I play by the rules and I haven't been verified.
Definitely +1 on both of these. They're fantastic.
Having only 2222 images means it is a bit limited for me, but I appreciate the point made that too many file formats have 'internal compression'.
I was referring simply to having children, but apparently, people have taken things a bit farther. (I hope in jest.)
Everyone Is Freaking Out About The $1.5 Billion Powerball, And The Stats Agree [1]

[1] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/billion-dollar-powerball...
Thanks, that is a good point. The demo presentation is actually a bit dated and could use updating. The demo video is actually better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YXthp3vcJs

One less-visible feature of the site is that users can edit the theme, including the CSS, and save as a new theme (either public or private). I'd love to attract some good designers who might make themes. My own design skills are limited and ultimately designers are going to make better looking slides.
(I am European and moved to Australia 4 years ago) - while I agree with you that the story did not have the same cultural resonance outside of the US, I would say that most tech people would know who Aaron Swartz was (although among the generally public hardly anyone would have a clue).
"in desirable areas" basically referred to the fact that housing prices aren't necessarily particularly high in upper Manhattan. But they're pretty high where all the construction is taking place below 110th Street or whatever the appropriate dividing line is.
Power comes at the price of complexity. If you want to write your playbooks in lisp, ansible is not the way to go.
You don't need to actually convert anything: Python 2's str can be identified with Python 3's bytes, and unicode with str. You 'just' need to have their __getattribute__ methods, along with a ton of standard library functions, check the Python version of the caller and change behavior accordingly. Ugly, but I think it would mostly 'just work' for user code.
Not a deal breaker but Xmonad brings a large dependency (1GB+ is the price of Haskell) where most TWMs on Linux are in comparison laughably lightweight and blazing fast.

For me i3 strikes the sweetspot of dead simple config, incredible feature set, and performance. This after coming from Awesome WM where I found myself spending way too much time tweaking Lua script to get things pixel perfect, which you basically get out of the box for free with i3.
Obviously if people are willfully ignorant it's a lost cause. But there are many instances where clandestine technical knowledge becomes "the new normal" for people, and they refuse to have any empathy for users (or fellow developers, perhaps new to the team) that do not deal with the brain-crushing complexity of their niche on a daily basis.
Not necessarily. There could still be room for these bulbs if they turn out to be as energy efficient as LEDs or CFLs, but are less expensive to manufacture (leading to lower off-the-shelf costs).
I had 16M pageviews in 2015 and a hell of a lot less adsense earnings than you :( What's your CPM?
> Amazing! The magical, backwards-incompatible unicode strings backported to Python 2 with one single line.

Except it's not even slightly close to that is it. unicode_literals is something completely different.

How about removing old style classes? Is `class x:` old style or new style in Python 2, in this imaginary interpreter of yours? How about the default object comparison being sane in Python 3. How about the changes to builtins returning iterables over lists? How about the import system being more sane? How about removing backticks? How about actually handling the unicode differences?

I could go on and on, and I hope your answer is not 'well we just need more __future__ imports don't we'.
I wish I had the software skills to fill one of your open positions. I'm in love with the subject, but don't quite have the technical skills.

I'll hear a lot more about beating your system in the future. I'll pass along whatever I hear.
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Yeah, totally normal, I think. I think that's just basic social mammal stuff - you calibrate your actions to your social surroundings. I mean even our dog has totally separate personalities when he's around us at home versus how he acts around other dogs. And it's not even the same personality for each of the other dogs - some dogs have calming effects on him, some make him hyperactive.
One of my friends is the creator of Wooclap : https://www.wooclap.com/
It's quite cool to compare how a similar idea (engage your audience by text/web) lead to different execution. Congratulations on your product :)

What is the use of the QR Code displayed on the demo slides ?
So the problems with upgrading from Python 2 to 3 because of library support are over? Including linked C code?

Or is that just your lucky experience?
$1.5B is only if you take the payments.

It's something like $900 million lump sum.
Has this been downvoted? Why? It's a valid explanation. It's like punishing a nice person for explaining the concept of racism to you.
I'm wondering the same thing. I'd guess it's the risk of having too many winners coupled with the fact that any entity with that much cash to "invest" has regulations preventing them from investing in a lottery. (There's also the hassle of the logistics of printing and storing that many tickets.)
16M ! That's amazing ! Can I ask you what is your page about ?
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense

Have at it.
Are you sure about that? The Verified by Visa site says that the liability shift is to the card issuer, not to the consumer:

https://usa.visa.com/run-your-business/small-business-tools/...
I like the idea of maybe pursuing a extension-first plan for the next attempt at BrowserID. Some thoughts:

- There have been Persona extensions before for at least Firefox. It will probably be important to learn from them, even if I'm sure hardly anyone tried to use them.

- Edge's extension support can't come soon enough.

- The issue I could see with extensions is it is harder to trust the verified email addresses in "fallback" situations. The chicken and egg bootstrap problem here still seems to indicate that you still want some sort of trusted notary. Maybe a simpler fallback provider that is just a state-less "passwordless" (passwordless.net) proxy that would be easy to clone and some way to create an actively maintained whitelist of trustworthy clones?

- While we're looking at "extension-first", maybe find ways to make use of the browser's SSL client certificate infrastructure? Obviously, if you could build a good UX for bootstrapping (email-only) client certificates you could finally help people make good use of such an old, underutilized browser feature.
Life is not mysterious. It is merely carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, ...
This is what I was wondering too. I'm terrible with names, but I literally can't imagine that kind of mixup. Not that I doubt anything Noah wrote; I just don't get it.
The history of Python 2, 3, and 4 is a great lesson in how not to manage changes and versioning in a language.
2222 images?
I think this is what I would like to do in the long run.
I find it very interesting to focus on problems and try to find solutions.

For example, I had to work on a voice detection algorithm while working at Wit.ai, and I find it super interesting. I had to explore some research paper to implement and tweak it.
I have no idea how interesting it would be to do that full time or part time but I think I would love it. More than working on business product, which I also like.

And what do you mean by "afford to take time off from career" ? Financially speaking?
I own the SG-4860 and it's been solid for about eight months. It's the first hardware I've purchased from them and I have no regrets.

https://www.pfsense.org/products/product-family.html
Unfortunately, yes. Present value of a future annuity (taking the lump sum now cuts the jackpot by quite a bit), and taxes. For ballpark calculations, I assume that each is going to cut the advertised jackpot in half. So for a $1.5 billion jackpot, your expected return is going to be a around $375 million (plus every single other prize, but that just adds about $20 million to the total), assuming no other winners.

Yes, your strategy will work, but not until the jackpot reaches even more ludicrous heights.
Taxes, for one.
Good point. A more nuanced calculation would look at the discount rate for that money, but even then it seems like better odds than Vegas.
...aaaand LinuxBBQ wins by a landsliiiide! The crowd goes wiiiild!
Did micropayments suddenly become possible for the first time? Would this be a great service to charge 1000 users $0.10 each? Or for that matter, for selling ebooks?
IMHO many companies save time, money or both using AWS. Others fail miserably trying to do so.

I like very much the Amazon's AWS. I use them extensively. But apparently some folks goes a little crazy to adopt cloud services as final solution for every use case. They have no idea how much traffic a real high-end server fully loaded with memory and SSD disks should handle these days.
#AlphaBetFail - teach people how to do it correctly, teach them not to hack stupid ass inline CSS styles from 1996.
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Request from sites asking me to turn off my adblocker
I've been encountering more and more sites asking me to turn off my adblocker, in order to support the site, or just basically block access to content until I do. Some ask nicely, some explain their livelihood depends on ads. Some are just jerks.

I get it - some sites haven't yet found a better business model than serving ads. But I think this contract should be reciprocal.

I think the popup asking me to whitelist a site, or turn off my adblocker should contain the following lingo:

"We at <insert site name> appreciate you whitelisting us in support of our hard work. We hereby take full responsibility for the content of the ads you'll be served. We will compensate you if you are offended by any of them. Further, we will pay for any damage caused by malware served from our site, including time and effort to restore your machine to workable state. We respect our users, and will take full responsibility by not transferring the blame to the ad publishers, ad network, or specific advertisers. The buck stops with us."

Obviously, some legalese is in order here, but the bottom line is reciprocity: you ask me to expose myself, I ask you to be responsible for the damage.
That only took 50 years to figure out.
Can you drop him an anonymous email? Or just pass a note to HR?
Thanks, wooclap looks really good and possibly more simple. Will check it out in more detail!

The QR code leads to the web-response (e.g. it encodes the URL g.2sli.de) I found some audience members had trouble with the short domain, they would write things like g.2sli.de.com or g.www.2Sli.de - the QR code made it easier for some to respond! Taking a picture of the QR code with the default android camera offers an option to open the link.
The video on the landing page doesn't play properly and surprise surprise it's Vimeo. People need to stop using Vimeo, they have incredibly bad service.

I have had problems with Vimeo for years now across multiple desktops, multiple browsers, multiple mobile devices in multiple locations (across Europe and Australia). It happens on both popular videos and videos in the long tail which aren't being linked to at that moment by popular sites. It happens on free Vimeo accounts and on premium Vimeo accounts. I give Vimeo a pass when YouTube HD videos aren't working either but most of the time YouTube HD videos are working just fine on these connections and it's just Vimeo can't stream video reliably.

In this case the video wasn't even full motion, the background is static and the keyframes and audio should have been a large slice of the bandwidth. But it was stuttering at the start and now even after letting it load in the background on a 70Mbps connection while typing this comment it's still stalling near the end of the video. What are the Vimeo alternatives besides YouTube?
This was posted on hacker news sometime ago,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567408 ->
http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/less-powerful-languages/

I think it is relevant to this discussion. Having used Puppet before ansible, I tend to agree with it.
That's because you've defined area incomes to be incomes for that area, except San Francisco housing is a global market.
What if there was a way to "spin out" Persona from Mozilla? How many devs and how many resources would it take for a bare-bones Persona Foundation to get the job done?
I'm inclining towards this option, too. I didn't think it was likely because both watches (can you call them that?) had the same issues. This reminds me of my experience with Razer: out of 5 mice bought (4 abyssus, 1 orochi), two were faulty.
can we maybe focus on feeding everyone first?
Is “harnessing the power of placebo” worthwhile to treat anything?
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Without having the numbers or doing the maths, I'd guess that if you include the odds of another person or people also winning the EV would drop below 100% return.
The concept isn't new but the usability is. This was very hard for normal people to do until very recently.
I really loved playing this game on Steam and I would happily pay for more levels. I wonder how useful TIS-100 would be for teaching programming. The limited instruction set and number of registers make for a very simple and easy to understand programming environment.
Indeed. This seems like a good use case for a cost/utility function. Very long wait times should be very high cost, while short wait times should be disproportionately low cost, etc.
My family before me experienced sibling death in a similar prime. I only know about it as a child of one of the surviving siblings but it haunted that entire generation. Knowing all I do about how it affected my parent in their younger years I will say that you're very strong to claim your own identity. Do not use your brother as a yardstick to measure the worth of your own life because they cannot measured to each other and don't let anyone else do it to you. Your post made me very happy Noah Swartz and hope it leads you down a better path than the one I've learned of.
First, congrats, you did something that many of us fail at more than once. But in the end, you have a hobby business that is not really growing but only teetering so far, likely because as you said you aren't putting in a lot of time and using it only as a side thing.

I really am not trying to be an ass, but I am trying to be honest based on my own experiences. Your business isn't worth as much as you would like, although it is quite valuable in many ways. Simply put, you don't have a $135k profit on revenue of $140k because you are discounting the real cost to run and grow the business which someone else will have to hire out at least a portion of, pay taxes on, pay state fees etc. So in reality, assuming the person is willing to assume at least 2-3 of the hats (business, finance and customer service) and hire out the technical then they may net $10-80k depending on if they hire contractors or a full time person.

At the same time like others already pointed out, it will boil down to how much is someone willing to pay. But outside of a corporation that finds your project attractive because of market fit, or leads or something along those lines, sophisticated individuals with cash will not pay major multiples for a business that is essentially only mildly profitable after they factor in costs to maintain and grow it. So your best bet is to sell to a corporation that has sunk costs already that is happy to take the extra revenue and leads and run.

Not saying you couldn't get $150k to even at the high end $300k, but it will take a special set of circumstances. Otherwise, I'd say you are looking at more like a $60k-150k type of sale being far more likely.

No matter what, good luck and I hope you can maximize your benefit.
I think it would need to support payments in the opposite direction too -- deposits into someone's account. I'd love to see this!
Writing files in plaintext and SFTPing them is still a r equirement when working in the insurance world :(
How soon will Daala + Thor (with some new name) shape up into something ready for production?

Also, does anyone know what is the situation with DASH? It seems that MPEG-LA cartel tried to create some FUD about it being patent encumbered.
what no elevator recall?
I suppose I was thinking more about the snow storms up near Lake Erie, which is only about 2 hours from Pittsburgh. Living in Erie, there was a few storms that led to I-90 having whiteout conditions and single lane traffic. Winters in Pittsburgh are fairly mild in comparison.

Having never lived near the Rockies, I don't know how it compares. They probably are worse though.
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I've always wanted to see the option to deselect a floor if you press a button twice. Is there a good reason why this doesn't happen?
What we'll encounter on the path to the jobless future
Is it still broken?
pretty cool!
This post seems to exemplify the attitude he's had such difficulties with.

Sad post about how he's had to deal with his brothers death while people he barely knows seemingly use him as a way to pretend they are connected to his brother and the response is "oh cool, more about Aaron".
Snapchat is officially an app for your parents, too
I don't think there's a Scene Standard [1] for HEVC yet. Even the one for x264 is a few years old and might not represent state-of-the-art.

If you're talking about P2P groups - all bets are off. There's even major groups of regional cappers who still use XVid... as a hobbyist archivist this makes me very sad.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_(warez)

OT: personally, TV shows ripped off Blu Rays being 2GB / episode seems ridiculous
So with ACH I can directly bill my customers' account. ACH lets me to bill them for multiple or single payment. So, with these I can do person to person(p2p), business to business (b2b), and business to consumers(b2c)

That is cool.
That only works if there can be only one winner. If you spend $250Mto win $292M, that seems like a sure bet. But someone else wins too, then you only won $146 million, so you actually lost $104M. I'm skeptical that the math works out, even if you're the only winner, though.

The lottery is pretty much designed so that the expected value (EV) of a ticket is much, much lower than what you pay for it. They always make more money than you win.
Do you know, can you use ZFS for the checksumming on top of md for RAID?

This way you get the expandability of RAID with the checksumming and snapshots of ZFS.
This is a very exciting mission.

Does anyone have a sense of how many potential near-Earth objects have a rocky surface with large boulders as required by this mission?
Sooooo as someone who used to live in the UK, should GoCardless tremble ?
I just finished re-reading Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, in which he devotes a chapter to this subject. His conclusion is that, at our current level of civilizational maturity, we're better off crossing our fingers rather than learning how to redirect asteroids, since the technology required to save the planet from a massive impact is exactly the same as that used to conduct asteroid bombardment.
As a on-again/off-again user of Meetup, I've always been interested in a couple things.

One, what % of meetups survive the first year?

Second, what % of users rarely go to the same meetup group more than once or twice but remain subscribed?

I've seen Meetups with hundreds of members shut down because of a lack of participation within the group. And I've seen some really cool Meetups just sadly fail to gain momentum after getting the first batch of participants. I wonder what the science is behind creating a successful, sustainable meetup.

I'm also subscribed to Meetup groups which I haven't attended for a long time and I'm just too lazy to unsubscribe to them. Or maybe I'm wistfully hoping that they'll interest me again. Surely I'm not the only one?

On a side note, one of the rarest pairings in America are Asian Men with Black Women. As an Asian man, it sort of touches my heart that Chicago specifically has a Meetup group that encourages Black women and Asian men to meetup with one another (Asian Men and Black Women Persuasion).
Do they really? At the risk of letting my inner hipster movie snob out in force, I've found modern sci fi movies to be bottom of the barrel as far as any sort of plausibility/immersion goes. (As an example, I was screaming at the screen for the better part of The Martian, if only for the behavior and attitudes of the acting "astronauts" when compared to actual astronauts in critical situations)

Moon stands out to me as one of the few beacons of recent "hard sci fi", whereas many of the movies that got a lot of acclaim for having staff-scientists (gravity, the martian, interstellar to a lesser degree) just made me grumpy.

I've found modern movies play the same tricks as they always did, pick up on buzzwords and massage them enough such that the average joe can't tell the difference. Perhaps that's what the article means by "plausible-ISH", and I felt like they touched on this thrust in the "ten years ago everything was ElectroMagnetic Pulses" (not verbatim), nowadays we just have different tropes; I don't believe things have gotten any more sophisticated aside from that the internet forces the tropes to be "more correct" one or two levels deeper.

A lot of my bitterness is rooted in a combination of two things. One, the final sentence of the article hits the nail on the head. "You can only make so realistic a film where someone jumps over buildings"; Fine, but if you concede that, don't try and paint a thin veneer of half-assed realism over the whole thing. I will forgive just about anything in a more fantasy-directed sci fi, but if you start trying to be "hard", I'll hold a different standard. Second, the correctness seems to often play second fiddle to whatever set pieces or plot is desired. I understand this may be a pragmatic necessity, but it's very obvious when the two start to generate friction against each other (scientific realism and plot) and I long for this to be balanced elegantly, with the science as a more integral component (truly "leading the story" as the article likes to suggest they are attempting) rather than the stucco you paint on after the fact, disguising up a weak skeleton against only the most peripheral examination.
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