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I agree with you whole heartedly. A lot of programmers are artists. Like artists, they work not for profit, but expression and self fulfilment through their craft.

Some people are not artists, they are utilitarians. They create not for admiring the work, but for fullfilling menial needs, for addressing life's struggles, and for profiting.

Utilitarians would have created a business even if programming did not exist. A hundred years ago, they'd be running a milling company, or figuring the best way to get rails installed, etc.

Some utilitarians are programmers, and simply leverage it as a tool to a mean.

It sounds like the OP was an artist. The problem today, and almost always has been that artist often don't get socially recognised, paid, etc. So at your retirement, it's easy to feel like all that beauty you poured your soul in went unoticed, and didn't change a thing for you.
I counted two, perhaps 'variety' is being facetious. Still, it should be zero.
There are two fundamental problems:

1) What's good for the consumer isn't necessarily good for the creators. In other words, they have an incentive to fight the future rather than embrace it.

2) The extra efficiency of distribution created by technology is hell on legacy business models. Streaming media is an example of disruption shrinking the whole pie. Craigslist wrecked the classifieds business and became wildly successful but it did so NOT by moving 90% of the industry's revenue to Craigslist; it did so by capturing 10% of the revenue and destroying the rest.
I may have seen him doing covert advertising on reddit.
The thing about pictures of "junk" was a real eye-roller.
I would like to believe that, in the future, we'll use bikes for intracity transit, and few people will own cars, renting them when they need to drive long distances or move large loads. I think this would help with both obesity and global warming.
And flying cars. Jetsons lied.
Especially since loan availability and price would likely factor in the earning potential (aka social demand) of the subject of study.
This is retarded
One big advantage of MathML is the ability to copy-paste from webpages directly into software like Mathematica. I don't think there is currently any alternative to MathML in that respect. The author argues (rightly) about styling and presentation of MathML, but doesn't propose an alternative to this copy-paste problem. May be TeX, when you're using MathJax at least ?
Moral of the story: If someone tells you about vulnerabilities in your web software, don't ignore them.
There are a few legal hurdles both from SEC and IRS. You will need to figure out way around them.

There are limits on maximum number of stockholders in a private company (IIRC 500+). Once exceeded, private company is expected to do SEC filings similar to public companies. Same issue with a private company accepting small investments from lot of investors (even if investor is accredited). JOBS Act might help here.

Any non-monetary compensation for services will be a taxable event from IRS viewpoint and taxes will need to paid by service provider. As stock value will not be much in very early stage, tax liability might not be significant unless IRS want fair compensation for services as the tax basis (not a tax professional).
Ya, I was living in the U district for a long time, and they had a few trolleybuses through but they were mostly local routes through the hills. If you wanted to get to downtown, the 71/72/73 were diesel even though (at the time) they were capable of running on electric in the tunnel.

Frankly, I wish they would just go with a decent tram system (like Portland and many European cities).

I wonder why the don't consider electric buses with big batteries. We have a few of those in Beijing now, and they seem to work OK. I have no idea how long they have to be down for charging, however.
This brings up another point in favor of "why not".

If existing players who are willing to buy new expansions whenever they are available migrate to vanilla servers, they might as well opt out of buying the expansions, since adding new content in the vanilla servers will make them non-vanilla.

Huh.
New gTLDs related to SPORT (new domain names)
Hosting the server itself is not per se illegal (well, maybe it might be; alternative Battle.net servers were given C&Ds back in the day), but you still need a game client to extract stuff like map and vmap data from all of the game files.
It would have appeared under /ask, but not necessarily on the front pages because those have an internal point threshold before they show up.

Once we get the /apply page up, they'll be there instead of on /ask. I'm hoping to get that done tomorrow.
"Use it to tell your family members why their computers act up, or tell people at work why they should pay you more."

Very clever application. You could use this idea to only describe problems using a dictionary of known nouns/verbs to describe technical problems using a known vocabulary.
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TeX is analogous to Presentation MathML but doesn't solve the accessibility concerns because the semantic intent of the TeX source isn't always clear. (How do you read a \phantom{}? Or how can you know that "\left( 7 \atop 3 \right)" should be read as "7 choose 3"?)
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Not sure I understand your question, but it sounds like https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/ might have the answer.
The trouble is, of course, that those domains (persuasion, intimidation, and braggadocio) do not include those necessary to competently be POTUS.
Yes, that's coming. Hopefully tomorrow, but I'm traveling tomorrow so I can't promise.
Is anyone working on self-driving bicycles ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT3vfSQePcs

"Daisy, daisy..." sings HAL while pedalling...
I have switched to an lchf based diet, and I have seen some tremendous health benefits such as lower weight, better mood and higher overall energy.

I saw a movie recently called That Sugar Film that explores this kind of eating. One of the key takeaways is it actually important where the calories come from and not just the amount.

http://thatsugarfilm.com/film/synopsis/
Someone beat you to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11442018.
MathJax is very flexible and its output is certainly high-quality. However, it is difficult to configure and package in my experience, and it's pretty slow.

We used it for a few years at Khan Academy before building KaTeX (https://khan.github.io/KaTeX/) which is around 50x faster to render in our experience, not even counting download size. We ran an A/B test for MathJax vs. KaTeX on the Khan Academy site and people completed measurably more exercises with the latter, even though they look identical. (KaTeX doesn't support everything MathJax does though – we still fall back to MathJax for a small fraction of our content.)
Laws are read in order of specificity. So the most restrictive law takes precedence. For example. In the sentence above, depictions in a catalogue is more specific than any depiction in a public place, so that takes precedence. (And in general, the constitution takes precedence over all other laws)

As you may realise. There is a huge room for interpretation in the specificity, which is why we have courts & judges that settle these matters.
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I don't get why zooming up the subpixel antialiased image and looking at the color fringes makes sense [1]. Why would you want to remove color fringes from here? That's not what you see, you see [2]. I don't see color fringes in [2].

[1] https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1400/1*Uqt60m0luG2S8lm3h...

[2] https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1400/1*VoJ6TfORiCHAHy3SN...
MathJax is great, but you may also want to look at KaTeX, which is currently much faster:

http://www.intmath.com/cg5/katex-mathjax-comparison.php
What special knowledge do they need except basic math?
So what's your excuse for the popularity of Java, C++ etc?
That's very cool. I'm sure he operates with margins that most companies only dream about.
"We need to get together with CSSWG/Houdini TF/etc to work out solutions that help those developers who actually solve the problem of math on the web."

Unfortunately, Houdini seems to have deprioritized font metrics info currently so this might not come soon. See this issue for more details:

https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts/issues/135

(However, for math we often use webfonts anyway so it is practical to send down glyph metrics with the fonts. That's what both MathJax and KaTeX do.)
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@davemel37 I like where you're going with this, and I agree that this is a very good problem to address. I wonder if you could design some sort of system similar to Uber pricing algo where you give an estimate ("[Startupname] believes that this job will cost between $70 and $120"), and then include various multiples (I imagine that getting a window repaired in Menlo Park will cost more than doing so in Topeka, KS) for locality, current demand, etc.
That should finally be close? Just add drones and self driving cars together. Soon we will have drones to deliver larger stuff than a small package from Amazon, so all the basic parts will be there.

Take a drone which can carry two people's weight and put a transparent box with a door on it. Add small wheels and some minimal parking capacity. Add a parachute for emergencies. (Note that there won't be a long educations for pilots. You just choose an address in Google Maps. If the drone can land vertically you might have to select a flat area at the destination, but it should be negotiated (along with parking fee) before going there.)

Instead of flying cars I'd rather have the cheap launch capacity of the Shuttle, which must have set some record when it was ~ two orders of a magnitude more expensive per pound than promised. :-( With so low launch costs we would finally get real giant space telescopes and an industrial infrastructure outside the atmosphere.
The trouble is that, as you've pointed out, the government firmly believes that putting newly minted money into consumers hands is a leading cause inflation. So they're not exactly going to be wildly keen on what you plan to do.

Perhaps. But if the government even notices what I'm trying to do, I feel like that's almost a victory in itself. And if they try to stop me after I've already started, they'll have to justify taking incomes away from a lot of poor people.

And the government has a very strong and very legitimate interest in regulating financial instruments. Particularly financial instruments which promise to pay people dollars at some time in future but are under-collateralized and don't appear to be attached to any [significant] independent revenue stream.

Well, initially, they won't be under-collateralized. For the first few months or so, we'll be backing GD up 100%. My hope is that, as a digital currency, Gresham Dollar would be regulated as a commodity similarly to Bitcoin. You could certainly think of Gresham Dollar as a financial instrument, but in the actual operation of the currency, we're actually never going to promise to pay USD that we don't already have.

So the biggest question anyone considering involving themselves with your startup would have to ask is: why would regulators permit your service to exist?

Yes. I agree. So the answer to that question is that, as far as I can tell, the regulations to stop us don't exist yet and the government is going to have trouble regulating us away once we've planted our roots in the economy. The economy needs Gresham Dollar, and once we get started, that will become increasingly apparent to anyone (including regulators) who's paying attention.

Ultimately, we would become an international operation and Gresham Dollar will become resistant to any one country's regulation.

But yeah. None of what I just said makes this issue any less scary. We'll need to be very careful about the legal and political implications of how we structure what we're doing. It won't be easy.
Flying cars are one of those things that make sense until you think about them carefully and with the benefit of hindsight. I wonder what our "flying car" is now in 2016.
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The same way a sighted person does?
> Streaming may be preferable in some cases, but it’s clearly not the only means of distributing some movies. That
remains the plastic circle.

What's still lacking are digital stores which sell video files. DRM-free. Who needs circles if you can have a file and use it any way you want? But DRM poison prevents the future. So I wouldn't say it's arriving too fast. It's arriving way too slow.
These people need to learn about "request desktop site on mobile". It's buried in Safari, but still doable.

> For a company the size of Netflix to fail in this regard is quite irksome.

As a shareholder, I applaud them for not spending resources to include little-used features on their mobile site. Being a big company doesn't mean you can do all things for all people.
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LCHF promoters have a marketing issue because it feels like a cult or a religion.

If they could just focus their message to "eat as little artificial sugar and starch as possible", I think fewer people would cry out in protest.

It's my takeaway, anyway. I lost 10 pounds in a month when I quit eating soft bread, pasta, potatoes and most sweets. My diet was basically hard bread with cheese for breakfast, salad for lunch, meat and vegetables for dinner.

It can be a very effective start to a lifestyle change. It can be hard to keep up, though (and expensive, depending on where you live).
Creators != content industry
Guidance counselors, teachers, and parents should have to take a course and pass a test on:

http://www.payscale.com/college-roi.

There's also another site (that I can't recall right now) which lists ROI by Major and School. It should be on the mandatory list also.
Everyone knows that obesity is caused by increase in food consumption. Except there's some evidence that suggests the cause is more complicated. Like why do Asians less likely to be obese, or some lab animals increasing in weight despite living in carefully controlled conditions? Why do fat people on diets have the metabolisms of starving people, and prisoners that intentionally overeat quickly return to their original weight? Why do separated identical twins have very similar weights and mortality?

I've been collecting links about this stuff here: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/hpz/open_thread_june_16...

I'm far from certain that any of it is correct, or have any idea what the real cause is. But I find it really interesting, and it makes me kind of angry when people make judgmental comments about fat people or the cause of obesity.

I mean even if it is environmental, it doesn't mean it's easy to control. Most people who try to diet fail. There's no such thing as free will, and even if a highly restricted diet would work in theory, we all have animal brains that can be overwhelmed by powerful desires to fulfill basic needs like eating. Some people can't stop eating any more than you can hold your breath for 3 minutes. Even if there is nothing physically preventing you from doing so.

One of the articles in the link I posted was about obese people in the 1950's held in a hospital on a carefully controlled diet. It worked, but the patients just obsessed about food and acted like starving people, despite being a normal weight. As soon as they were allowed to leave the hospital, they quickly returned to their normal weights.
If the evidence was planted, then the jury most certainly did not return the correct verdict.
cheapest ingredients happen to be carbs and sugar. not a coincidence.
Yes, you could try to build algorithms that turn that markup into semantic meaning but now we're almost talking about computer vision. I don't think a solution like that is likely to ever work reliably, and it's better to encode the semantic meaning so that it doesn't need to be re-derived.
Really old movies are surprisingly hard to find... Outside of Turner Classic Movies (thanks, Comcast, for dumping that from my package and leaving all the other shit), and the Criteria Collection, it can be kind of difficult to find anything that isn't Oscar-winning or older than 30 years. Torrents don't even really help - you might have 4000 seeders for the latest shaky-cam movie theater rip of a super hero movie, but for a somewhat obscure John Ford western from 1947, you might have two, three, maybe.
Traditionally the europeans have consumed much more alcohol, yet remained slimmer
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Such an awesome opportunity for a broader community! YC is making the an even playing field for everyone! Congrats YC and hope to see you soon!
Which is the joke. Absolutely correct. And – as with any language – the way to improve is to use it.

To paraphrase and copy-edit your perceptive comment. (The subject made me do it).
...when its time for a reboot it will warn you 3-4 times before it restarts. by default it sets reboot times at a time when your pc is not being used usually in the middle of the night.

assuming that people don't use Windows 10 as a server but as a workstation the "will lose your unsaved work" argument is a bit exaggerated.
> I wonder why the don't consider electric buses with big batteries.

Ask and ye shall receive: http://www.kingcounty.gov/elected/executive/constantine/News...

http://seattletransitblog.com/2016/02/22/metros-battery-powe...

Metro is running Proterra EV buses (like a Nissan Leaf writ very large) on routes 226 and 241 on the Eastside. So far the only charger is at Eastgate P&R so the routes served by the Proterras have to go through there. They are entirely run on batteries, no overhead wire or diesel engine, but their range is limited to about a ~20 mile route and they don't hold a charge well with steep hills. They take around 20 minutes to go from discharged to full and about 10 minutes to recharge from normal route usage.

The new trolleys, separate from the Proterras, operating in Seattle now have batteries and can run off-wire for a few miles, including going up the 18% grade found at James St & 7th Ave. They're a lot better on hills and come in bendy-bus (articulated) styles that the Proterras currently don't have.

We're trying to build more streetcars but there is astounding pushback against devoting street capacity to exclusive lanes for them. The First Hill Streetcar, that runs from the ID to Capitol Hill Link Station, goes up two-lane-with-bike-path Broadway...and is slower than walking during parts of the day. On the other hand, it will get monumentally more useful if the Central City Connector--a streetcar route from the ID to Westlake along 1st Ave in its own lanes--is built because the CCC will connect both streetcar routes.

Personally, I'd love to see a dedicated-lane streetcar running between Mt Baker Station (Rainier Ave near Franklin HS) to University Link Station (just north of the ship canal along Montlake) on 23rd Ave. Cheaper than tunneling, in its own right-of-way, and running from, say, 5am to 1am every day of the week. That would be incredible and could easily replace route 48 with more capacity and better reliability.

Sadly, I suspect I will be dead and gone before the Central District gets any kind of high-capacity transit.
Oh, look, it's like Google Notebook, except worse. Give it 18 months and they'll kill it and dump all my content into monolithic Docs documents with no tags or other metadata, just like they did with Notebook.

And what's the point of this? Isn't this what Google Keep does? Keep, Save, what's the difference? It's inevitable that they'll realize this and kill one or the other soon. And Keep has more features than this already!

If Google wants me to use any new stuff, they'd better give me a guarantee that they won't kill it for at least 3 years, with at least 1 year's advance notice. Otherwise, why bother? I've been burned too many times. Bad, Google, bad!
Augmented reality is coming along nicely actually, you may get your Rainbows End augmented reality sooner than you think. Between the virtual reality solutions already being sold, the recent advancements made to get there, and the experiments with things like google glass and meta, it may be a reality sooner rather than later (see hololens).
This is relatable on a couple of aspects...

First, that the advances of technology are outpacing the scenarios which they are used. As I have voiced elsewhere here, it is alarming to see billions and trillions of dollars flowing towards people who seem incapable of balancing, let-alone considering, the higher-order consequences of their actions, like, say, shutting-down the home-automation systems your customers bought as a consequence of being absorbed by a competitor. Or, denying random people things and services they used to have access to.

More disturbingly, it seems that many do see these later effects, and they're sacrificing their customers' interests on the altar of the almighty dollar. Is this really what we want?

Secondly, modern media consumption via streaming is simpler, yes, if you're a first-world citizen with money and typical interests. It does a disservice to people who do not fit this mold, and they are legion. The older, peer-to-peer model of file-sharing (and, in some cases, sneakernets) thrives and survives in this adverse environment, in addition to providing personal independence and privacy.

Thirdly, the chain of variables in a streaming economy is so much longer than a world of plastic shiny discs. As an example, to watch a movie via a DVD you bought or rented, you need:

* viewing device with electricity and a screen (one-time cost)

* a DVD player, properly connected (one-time cost)

* software on said device able to execute and play the disc (one-time cost and not even a consideration historically)

* the disc, in a workable condition (edit: and a compatible region), and the funds or means to acquire it (one-time cost)

* knowledge to operate the DVD player

... and thats it. Compare with Netflix, Hulu, et al:

* viewing device with electricity, internet access, and a screen (one-time cost)

* a working, high-bandwidth internet account that can reach your servers with an acceptable latency (recurring cost)

* a current account with your service provider(s) of choice (1x+ recurring cost)

* current software, able to execute, on said device (recurring cost due to updates)

* a provider that is online and accessible

* knowledge to operate the media player, but also possibly the web browser, on a phone, or tablet, or computer (one-time cost)

* knowledge of current account credentials (sometimes difficult for some)

The cost side of streaming media is so much higer, and entails significant recurring obligations. If you can't pay your streaming bill, much of this goes away. There are many more points of failure. This is simply unacceptable in many parts of the world.
So this is a list of largely older movies that have been in their collection for years.

...I've had Netflix for years, and I can knock out two movies a night.

Rapidly running out of quality content here. They don't acquire at the rate people consume. If you've been watching Netflix for a while, most of what's left to you is Asylum/Sci-Fi Original movies.
> Search also feels biased towards streaming, to the point where it will suggest several "not even close" streaming movies before the literal title that you're searching for.

This is not true if you have a DVD plan. There's a big "add" button next to the dvd-only results.

http://i.imgur.com/oSU4Yzh.png

I agree with your main point though.
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Many standards have failed for the web. Anybody remember VRML? Actually I like it that we have not a broad big big standard which includes MathML which only ~0,1% of people care about in the browser. MathML can stand on its own (encapsulated with JS like PDFs in Firefox) or you can abandon it entirely. You are free to choose. It's the best way for everybody.