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This will surely end up like Facebook's feed, full of sponsored content. I wonder if Twitter would market this to individual users instead of just companies. What to make sure all your friends see your Tweet? Then spend 1 Twitter Stamp. You can buy 50 Twitter Stampfor $5. You can market it as an equivalent to a real stamp. You pay to ensure that your mail gets delivered, right? Well now you can also pay for your Tweet to be delivered. When information and communication is free, its only time an attention that is scarce. So you should be selling that.

Its social media micro transactions. 95% of people would never use it, but that 5% might use it a lot. But you have to make it transparent. You should only push it to people who actively use it. If it gets pushed for every Tweet, it will only highlight the system, which will destroy it.
How does lambda differ from something like google app engine ?
Well that escalated quickly
Interesting, but the ruling happened in January of 2015.
> Any other (more sane) interpretation might be a really, really profoundly stupid statement, as well

Agreed.

The exercise in measuring charitability is merely academic in this instance. The bottom line is a VC has said a really stupid thing which goes against his earlier pronouncements on NN, because he literally has money on the line as an FB investor. Which ever way you look at it, he sounds like an out-of-touch corporatist.
Facebook was not the center of this debate at all. The debate and the regulation are about differential pricing. The movement started in opposition of Airtel (an Indian company) and people en-masse downvoted Flipkart (an Indian company) for participating. People have praised Google (a western company)'s Project Loon for respecting Net Neutrality and installing free wi-fi in railway stations.

The criticism of FreeBasics would have gone to Reliance (an Indian company) if Facebook hadn't started this high-decibel campaign with two full pages of ads with heading "What Net Neutrality activists are not telling you". FB wanted the attention so they got it.
>I mentioned I was on an H1B and that what he said was illegal

The problem is that some companies break the law by playing around with job descriptions and job duties. There are people who aren't against immigration but who are against the H1B visas.
It's a setting for now, but they are almost certainly planning to make it the default for all users after some testing and refinement. And ideally remove the setting altogether and make it standard behaviour.

Should work well for most users if executed right.
>IMO this is a flaw with twitter. Blocks are two-way: I don't see their stuff, and they don't see my stuff. But whenever I'm blocking someone, it's just because I don't want to see their stuff. There's no reason to tie those together.

Twitter tried to fix this and it was a PR disaster for them. http://archive.is/YMJCg
Can you use the systems rules to work around the system?

My guess would be "no". The rules are interpreted by the system to benefit the system. If this means that the rules are arbitrary, capricious, and inconsistent... so be it.
+1 Interesting, we have all got a lot from Great Britain,

-that said lets not sweep the brutality against native Americans under the rug.
Many nation-states impose not only conscription in wartime, but also universal conscription in peacetime for males of certain age. Some citizenships (e.g. Switzerland or Israel) would thus come with some pretty significant strings attached, buyer beware.
How about reinstating the censored Marc Andreessen story?
The difference between the amount and a number is exactly what I'm afraid negative numbers misrepresent.

Real and imaginary number sets are the heart of the point (and I think my high school calc - if I can remember that many years ago - did include some work with imaginary numbers, certainly by early college work).

Since an amount can never be negative, then a negative number only makes sense to denote the movement of an amount from one system to another. If we say that negative numbers are real numbers, and especially if we use them as the same class as positive numbers when building blocks to formulate ideas and theories about physical properties and amounts, I'm wondering if there is a potential downside to our fundamental understanding of what our results actually mean.

One of the other replies points out the necessity of units paired with numbers, and I think this is correct. The problem I'm observing, and the heart of my question, is that we have many, many ideas/proofs/theorems in mathematics with unitless numbers (constants and so on, both positive and negative), and then we use the results of this work to jump back into the physical universe to "prove" something. Could there be a problem with our basic use of numbers when we do this?
Yes, but we had this building block for a long time and to claim it is novel or even worthy of mentioning as a breakthrough is dishonest at a minimum.
Amazing how restricting all communication to 2-sentence soundbites leads to misunderstanding and loss of nuance.
Ha-ha, "important" tweets :)
Ahh yes, an important distinction. I do mean Tweet. His tweets really sit at odds with me. He was someone I looked up to at one point, but the main interface (Twitter) I have with him portrays a very different person than the one I thought he was.
This is simply not correct, TXT is not required for this, the TPM can still and does protect your OS and boot loader from tampering, it's also not required for Windows Secure Boot.

TXT extends the chain of trust to the BIOS/UEFI by having the CPU take charge of some of the verification, secure boot supported UEFI's (if they meet the UEFI standard version 2.3.1c or higher) can also extend the protection envelope beyond the OS/MBR but the main function of TXT is to protect tampering with low level firmware not OS/bootloaders.

"Intel TXT uses a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and cryptographic techniques to provide measurements of software and platform components so that system software as well as local and remote management applications may use those measurements to make trust decisions. This technology is based on an industry initiative by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) to promote safer computing. It defends against software-based attacks aimed at stealing sensitive information by corrupting system and/or BIOS code, or modifying the platform's configuration."
One thing I've really hated about Intel in recent times has been that you can't really tell what you're getting based on the model number.

I got bitten by this when I built up a system and picked a Core 2 Quad Q8200, only to discover after powering it on that it did NOT have virtualization support.

The problem is only worse now; is that i7-xxxx dual-core or quad-core? Should I get i5-yyyy instead?
I think that the biggest effect of prestige in the college market is that it is a barrier to entry for new colleges and universities. Forget MOOCs for a second. Just think about new, regular colleges. If half the faculty of Harvard quit tomorrow and started a new university (say, "New Cambridge University"), accepting half the number of new students that Harvard did, even though the education would be obviously on par with a Harvard education, the new university still would not have the prestige of Harvard.

This effect is what is allowing the rent seeking behavior of administrators and contractors which is driving the increase in college costs [1]. The wages for professors, who provide the primary paid labor for the educational process, has not increased, and the move to reduce the cost of professors by switching to adjuncts has been extensively noted e.g. [2].

If professors felt free to simply start up a new college whenever they felt that the cost of administration was getting out of hand, they would be able to bid up the cost of their labor in step with the increase in tuition. But because the prestige effect is so strong, they have less power in the relationship than the administrators. Note that professors with star power reputations do not have this dynamic, as they have prestige of their own.

I think that MOOCs may be the wrong direction to look for a solution. Prestige is strongly correlated with the age of an institution. The Ivy League was originally called such because the buildings were old enough to have ivy covering their walls, unlike the newer colleges of the time. It is also correlated with the accomplishments associated with an institution. A MOOC is just asking for trouble in the prestige department! Just look at how people with a Georgia Tech online masters have to explain it as being equal in worth to an in-person experience. You don't need to explain to your mom why Yale is close to Harvard in prestige. Maybe someday that will change, but it's not an answer to the problem today.

Instead, a more low-tech but more likely to work answer is to restore control of the prestige to the faculty and take that power away from the administrators. This may take the form of internal changes to the existing universities, or maybe things will get bad enough that there will be a mass exodus of professors starting their own colleges.

[1]http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2...

[2]http://www.thenation.com/article/why-is-college-so-expensive...
Correction (thanks ams6110):

The "weird thing" being: 'The posture of larger cats should be different to smaller cats, but it isn't'.

“It's famously said that a lion is just a scaled-up house cat,” says Anjali Goswami from University College London, who works with Hutchinson. “That's very weird.”
I think it's more that if they replace a vendor, they are replacing them for a reason and don't want the same idiots to bring the same bad habits back with them.
There was a time when Germany used to be the leading country in the world where almost all major thoughts and works were produced. Whether it was Literature, Art, Philosophy, Cinema, political thinking, Germany was the place to go (and because of close interactions, Austria).

Before that, it was Arab World, before that Ancient Rome, before than Ancient Greece.

Today that status belongs to America. If you want to produce anything which would make impact in the world, the most fertile ground for that is America. Even if a talent rises up say in Germany, the network effect of America attracts those individual to come to America. Maybe there is a smarter Elon Musk in South Africa, but the main point is that Elon Musk never came to America, this Elon Musk did.

I am not saying that somehow by being in America you automatically will be more likely to produce great thinking. Rather its more like being among more challenging and talented peers will bring your exposure and contribution to another level, something which isn't possible currently (even with the Internet) to be in Germany or Switzerland.
Could you translate?

(Maybe something linking "to wear" and "weather" could work in English…)
Sure, if you mean attributing Mr. T and Peter's speech to Brian is fine, then, yes, it handles it fine.
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For all practical purposes having Nicaraguan citizenship does nothing for the guy who empties the wastebaskets at work. From what little high school spanish I can remember, he seems fairly happy and unconcerned about all these supposed problems you list. He might be the first stateless person in your area, but I assure you he's unlikely to be the first non-american citizen in your area to have a child or visit the hospital or whatever else.
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That's a challenging question: It's almost exclusively bought by large enterprise customers with a multi step request for quote acquisition flow - so in order to stay economically viable it's either ramping the price up or go for a consultancy model. What do you think?
I wonder how the new Openshot compares to Pitivi:
http://pitivi.org/?go=tour

Having followed the dev of some of these for years (>6 years), I see Pitivi as slow dev-wise, but one of the few consistent ones.
This is a terrible change. Twitter has been trying this feature out for a long time and every time a sample of it has come up in my Timeline I Dismiss it and when they ask "Did you like this?" I said "No."

The strength of Twitter is that the timeline is always current whenever I bring it up, and I can follow back in time clearly as I scroll through.

Messing with that is a huge mistake.
When the most recent war broke out in Yemen, the Indian govt managed to evacuate its citizens from Yemen using their navy and if you take into account the size of the Indian diaspora in the Arabian Peninsula including Yemen, it wasn't an easy feat and I can't imagine that the USG wouldn't be capable of carrying out a similar evacuation plan or doing what it could to get their citizens out of harm's way abroad.
And, did you notice that the other lines comprise other characters' speech?
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Corporations aren't persons, they're legal constructs. And no, a person is not a legal construct.
One possible solution is to have a business partner in the US manage this part of the business. I'd be interested in learning more about what you are doing.
India is pro-modernism. It has nothing to do with cultural trust. We just don't want to take in Western culture into India because we believe our culture, tradition and identity, that has been inherited from our ancestors for over thousands of years, needs to be protected. It is nothing against the Western culture. When we visit foreign countries we don't demand that our customs be followed but instead assimilate with that country's culture. Why do you think there are so many Indians in every part of the World living harmoniously? The same cannot be said about some other countries who are actually "Anti-West" and actively seek to change Laws in Western countries to suit their customs/traditions. We don't do such things and never will.
It's not censored, it's on the second page. I strongly suspect a lot of people flagged it.
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It's a little startling when that much truth is not only posted to HN, but not greyed out.
That's not a valid game state. It's like saying chess is Touring complete when played on an infinite board.
> I don't particularly like the guy, but is there a campaign of deliberate misinterpretation going on?

Yes. We live in a sound bite news era and if you can interpret the sound bite (tweet) in a wholly different way than intended and shout it loud enough, the original truth of the statement doesn't matter. Many of the headlines about political candidates are contradicted by the actual speeches, but SNL, late night, and reporters can make money off their interpretations.
You're implying that people learn this at university. My experience was the opposite; I took an animal behaviour course at university that presented much of this information. Sexual dimorphism is a fairly major topic in animal behaviour.

For instance, I learned that in every society where it was tested, men are more violent than women. But interestingly, the society itself was important as well; for instance, American society is overall more violent than Icelandic culture, and accordingly American women commit more violent crimes than Icelandic men. So there are differences in between the sexes, but the culture is a very important input if we look at how extreme the trait is.
Not the parent.

But I can't count the number of times I've gone to an open-source project and couldn't even figure out what it did.

And I don't consider that to be the lowest bar – any project that wants to get decent adoption should not only tell me what it does, but tell me why I should use it and not it competition. And do both of these things without me having to read the source code.

Just this week - well perhaps last - I was at the homepage of some new language – and I couldn't find any of this nor a code example. This might be a technically fantastic language but if they don't communicate that adoption is going to suffer - and when it comes to communicating pictures have a place.
Very true, but having the loophole there is beneficial for users who want to overclock it-- bug/feature debate aside.

They advertised it as non-overclockable, but some users found out it was -- why bother patching? To force those users to buy the more expensive 'unlocked' chips for something that used to be free.
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So, are these the options we have now to edit video with open source software? Any other tool missing?

* http://www.shotcut.org/

* https://kdenlive.org/

* http://www.pitivi.org/

* http://www.openshotvideo.com/

* http://cinelerra.org/2015/

* https://www.blender.org/

It would be great to have a place comparing the feature of all the open source video editors...
It's amazing how much YC is doing these days. It seems like there's a major announcement nearly once a week.

Sam might turn out to be the most effective VC in the world.
Then simply allow all scripts on the domain to load, only blocking 3rd party scripts.

It is a cat and mouse game.
Right it varies all over the map. We lived on 'Triangle Place' which was a triangle because of the railroad tracks cutting across the neighborhood in a ditch behind the house. First night, 2AM, the train came through with that huge searchlight panning through the trees, then the steam horn "Waaaa, Waaaa, Wa, Waaaaaaa!"

We both sat up in bed like the dead rising, stiff as boards. After a moment I said "Oh, Train." She said "Oh." We lay back down and went instantly back to sleep.

Strange thing is, we never heard that train again. OR rather, it never woke us again. It went by every night for the next year that we lived there, but it never bothered us.
Isn't that exactly what giving up your passport does? And as long as you've acquired a new one from a developed country, you're probably better off anyway for safety and comfort (e.g. other countries may cover your medical care)
In a parallel thread, mike_hearn links to https://goatpath.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/how-much-can-an-ev... .

The 45 minute flight from Port Au Prince, Haiti (after the earthquake) to Santo Domingo, DR cost $841.11.

I think this is because 'full coach commercial fare' is the most expensive coach option. Very few ever purchase it, excepting those who want full flexibility to change the schedule without extra fees, or request a class upgrade if available.
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European, and later American, treatment of Native Americans was not colonization, just straight-up genocide. It's not really relevant to the question of the long-term impact of British institutions in former colonies.
But their salary source may be. Complicated world.
What do you mean by "austerity"? The US government has spent $8T under Obama in new debt (and that beats the previous record set immediately before by George W Bush- it's not a partisan thing, both parties over spend.)

As an american who has lived overseas, I totally agree with you about FBARs, it's beyond unreasonable.

But where is the austerity?
> I wonder if Twitter would market this to individual users instead of just companies.

They won't, they don't want user's pennies. It's hyper growth or bust.
I would have loved to see log characterization for the canadians characters, even if they aren't part of the main cast
On the subject on British attitudes towards the third world, an illuminating example is that of Iran. English prospectors found oil in Iran in the early years of the 20th century, a find that in the words on Winston Churchill was "a prize from fairyland beyond our wildest dreams". Britain established what was then the largest refinery in the world in Abadan, Iran, operated with was effectively slave labour, and spent the decades leading up to fifties with extracting vast fortunes. The Shah goverment was mostly a puppet regime and due to the British refusal to allow independent audit of the books of the Anglo-Persian oil company, only a few percent of the actual profit ended came back to the Iranian people.

The Iranian people finally rose against the imperial influence of the British and ejected all British citizens in the early years of the fifties. Mossadegh, the prime minister, rose to prominence on an anti-english platform, initially demanding a 50% share of profits and reasonable treatment of Iranian labour. The British, under Attlee as well as with Churchill back in control, selfishly rejected all attempts at comproimise, and produced several internal reports that spoke of how inferior the Iranians were as a race.

Finally, having lost their influence, the English turned to the US for assistance in overthrowing the democratically elected government. Truman resisted, but Eisenhower relented, with John Foster Dulles enthusiastically moving forward with a coup. The Shahs absolute power was reestablished, and his oppressive rule paved way for the Islamic revolution two decades later.

One of many illustrative examples of how the English could never be considered benevolent rulers.

(As described in All the Shah's men, by Stephen Kinzer)
Those reports don't tell me whether the water coming out of my taps is contaminated.
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That's fine, but the claim that "The reason why Yahoo! has failed so far with their mobile apps is very simple - they try to force users to login" doesn't hold up when the most popular app in the world forces uses to log in.
Can https hide that you look at a web site? How?
I hope one day people will actually grow to appreciate that viewpoint and care about others too. Personally, I find the concept of a car that would consciously chose to save you at the expense of 5 pedestrians to be morally wrong.
Is it a coincidence that industrial revolution happened in a country which was taking raw material from its colonies at zero cost?

Owning India is what allowed Britain to fund its own development (as well as all its international wars). The british destroyed india's local textile sector (which was world-famous), shipped all the cotton to Britain, and sold clothes BACK to Indians. That's how this industrial revolution happened.

This is what Mahatma Gandhi opposed and encouraged Indians to make their own yarn. That's where his association with the "charkha" and swadeshi movement comes from.
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I have had one break. It was flooded when a pipe burst in the house near the computer. And the whole CPU didn't break, only part of the memory controller. So for a while I ran an A10-5800K in single channel mode with a single stick of RAM until I could buy a new CPU. Interestingly, I had water pour out of my HD-7950 (it was completely submerged), and it is still running fine a couple of years later (I did dry it for days on a fan, then completely dissasemble it, wash with isopropanol, and re-assemble it very carefully).

They are much hardier than we give them credit for.