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Casey Neistat of Youtube fame has a video illustrating the perks and perils of flying Executive Platinum with American Airlines. The perks seem pretty damn nice if you're already going to be flying that much anyways.

https://youtu.be/3AeYIUyZXKE
This is not just limited to linux. I use skype occasionally on blackberry and their app on blackberry is despicable. They made slight bug fixes 6 months back after some 2 years of not updating the app. Now it works but still experience lot of crashes. They never bothered to release a native app and people just the android ported one.
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Given that they would like to keep copyrights on the contributions of third-parties, I doubt many outsiders will contribute.

Shame though...
Where does agile go from here?
Do the really old ones still work with little restrictions?
Thanks! I was hoping it wasn't going to be ccbill, but that's just how it goes.
I haven't used a Matias in some years, but I find the keys wobbly as heck and servicing them very breakage-prone.
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When I used to use Skype on OSX I always hated it, people talk about iTunes being bloatware but the amount of resources Skype used was obscene. The final straw was a bug they never fixed that would log me out of Facebook in Safari every time I opened Skype. It was something to do with the fact that I'd foolishly linked my Skype and Facebook accounts in the past, I'm not sure if even to this day they ever fixed that.
It's incredible how far we've come from the original intent of the Constitution. The reason the Bill of Rights isn't baked in is because the Constitution enumerated a small set of limited powers to the federal government, with the assumption (articulated in the Tenth Amendment) that all other powers were reserved for the states and for the people.

Thankfully the states demanded the Bill of Rights at ratification. Without it, we would have lost all of the rights listed by now, due to the rampant power-grabs of the federal government since the founding.

Although Snowden's lawyer claims the Bill of Rights was supposed to make the government's job "more difficult," he is missing a larger point: almost all of what the federal government does today is not it's job at all! Nothing in the Constitution grants the federal government power to do most of its current functions.
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Some certainly do, but I highly doubt it's "most" people. There's probably a significant self-selection bias for people who frequently end up in these situations.
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Stripe. We love you.

Recurring billing is such a pain in India and we have been thinking about registering in the US for a while. More than the high costs some of the lawyers charge, the issue is with opening a bank account.

Applied for the beta. Hopefully, we'll get accepted soon. Even if I don't make it to the free list, I'll gladly pay the 500$ fee. That probably should tell you enough since it's coming from a bootstrapped startup founder.
I am in Germany now. It is showing relevant events in the area. It really seems to work all around the world, I am impressed.
> Honestly, have you never had a male dog trying to copulate with your leg?

Having trained my four dogs I do not have this issue. I believe they are not copulating but, trying to establish dominance. I'm not sure that particular behavior is proof that they will hump anything. My friend had a female poodle who used to hump furry toys and she wasn't rubbing her parts on it. I think she was small and felt like a boss in doing it.
> I firmly believe that anybody can grow at any job.

You've obviously never worked on a large DOD program.
The unfortunate part here is that the previous API used authentication, and the credentials were the same as your owners credentials for the Nissan portal. They released this version at the beginning of the year. The previous API endpoint appears to still exist and work.

I suspect that they may have dropped the credentials for the new API because they had so many problems with users figuring out what credentials to use for their mobile app. This is obviously a terrible solution, just speculating.

I wondered about hijacking cars by taking their VIN, but the process is not automated. It requires a call or two to Nissan to verify ownership before they will transfer the vehicle over to your account. This isn't to say you couldn't social engineer you way into the car, but you need more than the VIN. Incidentally you can't unlock the car remotely, at least not with the known endpoints :)
There's already a word for "growth for the sake of growth": Cancer
There was a study on rats that found homosexuality arose when there was overpopulation or overcrowding. This would make sense of non-procreative coupling from an evolutionary standpoint. More recently, there was a study that found a biological basis for homosexuality where there was a genetic misfire during fetal development that caused too much of the wrong hormone to be released for that gender: too much testosterone for a woman, too much estrogen for a man, resulting in the person adopting traits of the wrong gender. I see no reason why these causative factors cannot be found in the animal world as well.

When people describe homosexuality as unnatural, I don't believe they are claiming homosexuality is not found in nature. I believe they mean that the homosexual sex act is not how our sexual organs are supposed to work biologically.
> A big part of Obama's original appeal was his entirely unrealised promise to try and reform Washington. Unfortunately he lost interest in that once elected. Not that he could really have fixed anything anyway: the mismatch between emphasis on the US President and how much power they actually have is kind of ridiculous.

I don't think it's fair to say he lost interest in it. It's a combination of 1) having less power than people think; and 2) having to be everyone's President, not just the people who elected him.

If you were President and had a good faith desire to govern by national consensus, what would you do? Deregulate industries? Increase regulation? Flat tax? Eliminate social security? Increase social security? Universal healthcare? No healthcare? End the drug war? How much of that do you think would drum up more than bare majority support?
Funny about kindergarten: You just reminded me that when I was growing up, the voice would get mushy and garbled when I was reading cursive writing.
Would this include cinema tickets to R rated movies?
It's a random Markov chain based on the Calvin and Hobbes wikipedia. I can't really take credit - the source I listed was the generator I used.

My (completely unsupported) suspicion is that individuals who don't subvocalize tend to take advantage of common structures in texts to process everything at the sentence level, instead of the word level. The catch is that sentences which don't match their common expected structure tend to get lost in the shuffle. For example, when reading that "the man who hunts ducks out on weekends", individuals who don't sub-vocalize would be more likely to miss the "out" and believe that the hunter hunts ducks.

As part of my hypothesis, I would suspect that the following example, which isn't a Markov chain, but rather a quote from Finnegan's Wake, will also force people to switch to "hearing" when they read, simply because of the unusual sentence structure.

> In the ignorance that implies the impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality
The most curious part about Stripe Atlas is they are just ε away from doing it all themselves now. Doesn't take giant leaps of the imagination to see where it could be headed next.

The whole "apply" stage is probably just because it's a new service. Don't want to have 10,000 people jumping on your as-yet-unproven process without a gating mechanism.
Most Americans don't remember all the various other break off republics that Americans and American leadership wanted to spawn. The whole concept of a singular law via treaties, or large nations comprising of hundreds of millions of people is flawed. Nation States should be very small, a few million people and sovereign and independent and directly democratic. That way you can actually get some representation in how you want to live. As it is, you get virtually no representation.
> I’m not surprised when I see polls that say that Apple should turn over the information to the FBI

Grr. This poll was completely biased and it's being cited all over the place as if it were a good gauge of public opinion.

The question is framed as if Apple only needs to unlock the phone. It does not mention that Apple would need to write new software and alter its product. [1]

The real question is, should the DOJ be allowed to force Apple to create new software that enables the phone to be unlocked. That is the question that is being put to the courts, and that is the question that needs to be asked of the American people if this is to become an election issue.

The poll question:

"As you may know, the FBI has said that accessing the iPhone is an important part of their ongoing investigation into the San Bernardino attacks while Apple has said that unlocking the iPhone could compromise the security of other users’ information. Do you think Apple"

* Should unlock the iPhone (51)
* Should NOT unlock the iPhone (38)
* Don’t know/Refused (11)

[1] http://www.people-press.org/files/2016/02/2-22-2016-iPhone-r...
There is no danger of this. The endpoints are so slow that the ad network / site would drop it in minutes :)
I'd just like to note that this article has given us a fine new phrase to put on the shelf of useful business culture metaphors, right next to bike-shedding and dog-fooding.

Bear-feeding!
On a Tesla its not a back door, its a front door, and its there by design. If you don't want a car that can accept some commands from the net, don't buy a Tesla. But my point is that given they wanted those features, Tesla at least built them with security in mind.
FWIW, this article has fewer than 1,200 words, just in case you were expecting any kind of in-depth analysis, and not just a tech journalist's opinion of what an "analysis" means (e.g. something not in listicle form). Sorry to sound negative and catty here, it's a problem among journalists and the information they put out for short-attention-span audiences...once something is in scientific research paper PDF format, it's worth writing headlines about; or, if it's longform, then it just must be an exhaustively reported piece that is meaningful.

I wanted to give the author/editor the benefit of the doubt, that the headline was merely just a sly joke about "Ha ha this article is surely the most you've ever read about Burger King selling hot dogs because you probably didn't even know BK sold hot dogs did you?" instead of just the result of their in-house analytics about what makes a headline more viral...but even on that scale, it doesn't hold up, unless you really think a huge multinational company doesn't heavily think through sales impact (and production and logistics implications) of introducing something as major as a hot dog (i.e. another meat product). You don't even have to be the type of person who subscribes to The New Yorker and reads their 5,000 word articles about the chemical flavor industry...you could've just remembered that Breaking Bad episode where the guy is taste-testing chicken nuggets and sauces in front of his scientists and gleaned that food -- even hot dogs -- is a business that necessitates a lot of analysis.
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What kind of monitoring are you talking about, if I may?

That solution, unless you haven't told the whole story, doens't record anything, so unless I'm watching closely just when they're robbing my hose it will be all for naught.
I'm impressed with how fast this loads. Nice work!
> Having trained my four dogs I do not have this issue.

What happens when they aren't trained against? How far would they go? I claim the untreated and unneutered males would actually ejaculate.
Doesn't that mean that the real bad guy would just put that list in his messages?
Wow. In the companies I've worked for, "more money" seems to be the only motivator they couldn't seem to come up with. Mind switching jobs?
You write crappy code to meet unrealistic deadlines, you get promoted, hand off shitty code to someone else who is viewed as a low performer because they were too busy writing good code.

It's not actually that clear cut (it's more like an average performers who write shitty code quickly will be rewarded over an average performer writing solid code less quickly), but code quality isn't legible to management and HR, who control resource allocation. Even a line manager knowledgeable about the code base has incentives to lead a team that produces shitty code now instead of good code later.
I don't think the robots who can do those things are near the physical limits, though.
Sorry for the verbal carelessness, was a bit on the inebriated side last night. Here is a great author to get you started on the deep state.

http://www.amazon.com/American-Deep-State-Democracy-Library/...
So all I need to do to become a millionaire is make a Skype clone and then let MS buy me out? Who wants to join me?
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Apple asks FBI if code is protected as free speech?
Nah these have been in the works since well before Slack's thing.
There are tax obligations you'll need to take into account. We've partnered with PwC to help give you guidance from a US perspective. We've put together a bit more info on the costs here:

https://stripe.com/atlas/faq#Are-there-any-additional-costs-...
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The rule of thumb is you have to recoup capital costs in 2 years to make it worthwhile.
> The "inefficiency" caused by the system of checks and balances is by design... sort of like a delay after the entry of an incorrect password.

I think that shows an important insight: The FBI believes that both the Constitution and the "PIN delay" are "making its job more difficult", because it would rather not have to follow any laws and just do whatever it wants every time, anytime.

Both rise from the same type of thinking that's happening at the FBI and most other intelligence and law enforcement bodies in the US = the laws don't apply to us.
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You can laugh all you want but this is a pretty serious topic that most founders get completely wrong. I am a bit adamant about the correctness of this because I've had to repeat the advice and information to a lot of people.

For some reason you, and a lot of other folks, have gotten ideas in your head like:

- an LLC is somehow a lesser entity than a C Corp

- you can't raise money with an LLC

- you're not as well protected with an LLC

These are all completely false in a lot of very important ways that can make differences that have many commas when it comes time for liquidity events or payouts of any sort.
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It's probably more accurate to say reform was more his marketing hook than his genuine interest in the first place.
>> Why are these all in the UK or US? Better transparency?

Maybe because that particular Wikipedia page's editors are from the UK or US? [edit: just speculating, don't know this for a fact]

If I recall correctly, the Gun Registry [1] in Canada was a huge, expensive debacle, with a lot of the costs coming from the underestimation of the software development.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Firearms_Registry
Damodoran is a legend in the field of valuation and corporate finance. But while methods like this are theoretically perfect, what if LinkedIn's product is getting fundamentally less useful? How do you accurately model the decline of a software company, where shifts in adoption trends can be steep?

Also Damodoran says things like this: "The top management of LinkedIn has struck me as more competent and less publicity-conscious that those at some other high profile social media companies."

But what if part of the CEO's job is to ensure positive public sentiment for his product, which generates higher engagement (which in turn generates more revenue through conversions) ? Most of the commenters here and elsewhere seem to revile LinkedIn's tactics, so I would say Weiner isn't succeeding in his job. Maybe time for a change?
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I mean look I'm not trying to say that these aren't staggering amounts of money. I'm just trying to keep these numbers in perspective. 15billion pounds may be an insane amount of money but if we look around we start to find that it is typical not just of 'inefficient government' but of software in general.
It isn't just the federal government. State governments are just as bad.

http://www.thenation.com/article/charged-crime-filming-slaug...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/05/iowa-judge-rules-...

And that is just the 1st amendment recently.
> I believe they mean that the homosexual sex act is not how our biological sexual equipment is supposed to work.

And that's provably wrong, as we have enough examples in nature of "sexual equipment" working on whatever.
Don't waste your time, they don't know what they're talking about. I've found most people that complain about ABI breakage usually don't.
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Waterproof and breathable are at odds with each other, no matter what the manufacturers claim. You would be better served by multiple jackets. When you need waterproof, wear a rain shell as your outer layer. When you need wind blocking, wear a wind shell as your outer layer. When you need warmth, wear an insulated jacket (under a shell as a midlayer if necessary).
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Years ago I worked on an SML parser that used LR tables, on errors (ie. with no valid transition) it would try to find a symbol to insert/delete/modify that would allow parsing to continue. It dealt reasonably well with simple errors, though ML syntax is a bit flexible - function application is juxtaposition and it has user-defined infix operators (to deal with them, the parser would resolve reduce-reduce and reduce-shift conflicts dynamically by calling a function at runtime).

Code is here, in fact:

https://github.com/Ravenbrook/mlworks/blob/master/src/parser...
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> If you wanted to look up a business on your phone you'd have to call directory enquiries - did that "work better" than your smartphone?

Bad example. I didn't need a smartphone for this task because there was a real live human being, who brought to the task all of the adaptability and intuition that modern systems lack. I didn't need Yelp, or Google Maps, or even the entire name of the business I was looking for. "I need the number to the printing company on the east side" was enough to get me a name, an address, and the call routed, without paying monthly bandwidth fees or spending seven hundred dollars on a pocket supercomputer.

Realplayer sucked but it was about a thousand times more reliable than the current compatibility crapshoot (sans bandwidth issues).

Worth the price? Sure, but to quote Pulp Fictoin, let's not start beating each other off just yet. There is plenty of room for improvement, and we've lost a lot of ground.

I used to be able to take a supersonic flight across the country, without having my body inspected via millimeter-wave radar.

Has anyone set foot on the moon in your lifetime?
Saying N% of species engaged in a behavior would be a meaningless statement. There are probably a few billion (real, not discovered) insect species. We will probably never discover and catalog them all genetically unless we invent nanotech before the big extinction. Insects are not relevant to this discussion; neither are mollusks, or really dumb fish, or worms, etc.. So scoping this to "a plurality of species that have some intelligence" is somewhat appropriate.

That said, this whole thread is nothing but people trying to anthropomorphize nature, so that they can pretend it's more cuddly than it actually is. There is no chemical for morality secreted by all species. There is no evolution for empathy. These are things humans create through their own intelligence, and no amount of anthropomorophized behavior will make that not the case.
People who haven't attained "ultimate satisfaction" aren't ultimately satisfied. Who is someone that isn't ultimately satisfied?: A person that is ultimately unsatisfied. Thus you are referring to people who are unsatisfied, ultimately speaking.

I agree, to be unsatisfied is a goal that is very attainable. Many people stay in certain job roles because they made a compromise: job security over satisfaction.
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No, the argument is "you can find any imaginable sexual behavior in the animal kingdom, and even what you would never imagine, don't project to animals human constructs."
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Have you observed similar usage patterns with Jupyter/IPython notebooks?

I like the playful-discovery process concepts but the difficulty in versioning and sharing seems like a fascinating UX challenge that comes along with it... so I'd be deeply interested in any ideas you might have on that what influences that balance (positively or negatively) :)
Note in there are a lot of prepaid cards (that can be mastercard/visa cards) that focus on children.

E.g. Osper (https://osper.com/) in the UK is a pre-paid Mastercard that targets 8-18 year olds.
So you believe a dysfunctional, albeit democratic, company is the goal?
Likely the standards people in both groups have are higher than what they can obtain for whatever reason.
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I hadn't remembered them, so I checked your source... they were text counters with the labels "LOL", "OMG", "EPIC", "CUTE", "WTF", and "FAIL", apparently. If that was the actual implementation, then I can see several things that are different. The YouTube reaction button effort seems, in retrospect, to have made several horrible mistakes. The one that strikes me as a dead-in-the-water kind of mistake was mediating culturally between the commentator and the comment in what was probably a misguided attempt to be appealing.
Hey, I wrote a little shell script yesterday that I had budgeted 30 minutes for and had it done in 20.

But outside of that one thing.. lol
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