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Making the list of ingredients a 1st class citizen on the box could be good marketing, if the list is simple enough. I'd certainly like to see it.
They were 'blended', yes. Even squareness wasn't the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_aspect_ratio
I was inclined to agree, until I found the gloriously cheesy Centerfold slot arcade and a few others that are pretty fun rides when they choose to take you on one.

My first time trying out the actual "pull down the slot handle" machine was mindnumbingly boring.
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I've heard that part of what made Citizen Kane so amazing at the time was the use of special effects and camera angles. Prior to Citizen Kane movies were treated like a recording of live theater, rather than it's own medium. Orson Welles treated film as it's own medium.

I feel like that's happening with VR right now. There's a new medium available and some people are simply porting what works in other mediums over. The real breakout hits of VR are going to be experiences that are native to VR and simply wouldn't work in any other medium.
I think the comparison to financial debt is leaky in the sense that a developer may ad infinitum cobble things around their ignorance, albeit not too performant or clean code, but there is no explicit accumulating interest. Yes, middle-school you was ostensibly wise to wait with learning about compilers but learning about the CPython interpreter may be wise to stave off even for the older-older you. That "ignorance" will not necessarily overtime have a negative effect on you and if so it's not an accumulation of debt, it's the exact opposite as you can invest the time on another thing with a better return on investment.

So, I appreciate the sentiment but calling it debt is a metaphorical misnomer.
Other owner operated businesses struggle even outside of retail too.

A friend of mine ran a 4th generation, profitable manufacturing business and ended up shutting down not because of costs or competition, but because it was increasingly difficult to get working capital when the regional financial institutions were rolled up.
>This metric is totally useless.

You honestly believe that an opponent won't take a 90%+ trial win rate into consideration when considering a settlement? All you hear from lawyers pretrial is "our chances at trial are X" and then based on whether X is high or low, they'll make a decision to go to trial or settle.
> Heck I'm a "visionary" too, just add one billion dollars and tons of free time and see what I come up with!

Thread winner. There is little difference between a billionaire and anyone else except a billion dollars.
If you've checked out recent papers in machine translation with deep learning, they're about as good as current products with supposedly just a week of unsupervised training. So it's really going places.

Of course, the demos (http://104.131.78.120) fail all the time because they haven't done the work to feed in the whole internet and handle proper names and stuff.
Plus he is a pretty mediocre public speaker...yet puts himself out there & makes an impact
In maths you learn to solve problem by expanding the abstractions by adding new elements. There is a crucial difference between problems easy to solve by repetition and problems that require some insight.
No, I'd say the pixel tax is a real thing. There is an attitude among many gamers and game producers that if a game doesn't have the latest and greatest definition of resolution, 3d graphics, high poly count, or latest-graphics-tech-buzzwords-du-jour, it isn't good, or at least, not as good as it could have been [1]. And I'm not making that up either. I used to hold that attitude myself. I recall back in middle school and high school thinking that as soon as I could afford the latest-and-greatest Pentium IIs and a 3d-accelerated graphics card instead of the old 486 I was suck with, then, and only then, would I finally be able to play modern games and experience True Fun. Until then, I would just have to bide my time and continue to try to be content with the now-irrelevant glories of yesteryear, like Doom 2, and Privateer.

Some years later, I realized that I'd logged as many hours in UT99 as I had in emulated playthoughs of Super Metroid and Chrono Trigger, not because the graphics of UT99 were amazeballs (which they were for their time), but because like Super Metroid and Chrono Trigger, UT99 was actually _fun to play_. But when I attempted convey that idea -- that perhaps graphics were not the sole driver of fun factor -- to a game dev who had moments before been bitching about the hacks his team had to do make 3d performant on the Playstation 2, he responded that nope, a game _has_ to be 3d, or it isn't any good.

Is that a silly attitude? Sure. But it still exists. And to dismiss the possibility of such an attitude I think misses the author's point that it is more important to focus on making the best game art one can in the medium to hand, than to focus on an art style that arose from past limitations over everything else.

1. http://andreaspapathanasis.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-tech-arm...
> turn the people into rechargeable batteries

I remember watching that part & thinking hmmm, that's me at my job, except I'm generating money instead of energy.
Indeed. Although it's not as good as some of his other stuff.
I wasn't thinking so much in the line of financial aid as funding global entrepreneurship. One of the impressive things I've noted about 500 Startups is their international outlook, where the goal isn't to find startups and bring them to Silicon Valley, but instead to fund them in situ while still providing a bridge to capital and expertise.

TBD how this plays out, but it'll be interesting to watch.
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> Brushing teeth and wanting a pick-me-up seem like totally orthogonal needs.

You don't brush your teeth shortly after waking up every morning?
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This agreement was made back in 2015, so it's not really news. http://www.autonews.com/article/20150709/OEM01/150709864/for...

The posted article fails to mention Ford will be producing two brand new vehicles in this plant: the Ranger and a compact SUV, the Bronco.
He is quite correct that societies can go backwards. There are many scenarios in which we would have 'the tech' and then end up abandoning and losing it. One simple example would be if one corporation profited more by wrecking 'the tech' of another and blocking its adoption, than the other could profit by furthering it. When it all comes down to money you get those suboptimal outcomes, and in the end somebody cashed in epically, but things were not made.

I'm pleased Elon gets this, but it's a chilling thought. We don't have to have MORE stuff, internets, communications etc. just because of Moore's Law, just because it's possible. We can also have progressively less because it's in someone's interest for it to be less.
Not sure about jvisualvm, but it will definitely be visible in jconsole
I remember when I jumped into the CGI world, NURBS were the big feature in 3DSMAX 2. And it was a huge pain (I guess non optimal math leads to beefy cpu power otherwise it's useless). One day I discover Maya and I realize NURBS are the main surface kind. Except everything was smooth and fluid... on the same very old very weak GPU-less P2 desktop. it's as if the Alias guys were co-authors of The Nurbs Book. Magic.
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Can you name three unreconcilable contradictions in ZFC?
Yeah, there you go.

That paper is part of a collection of papers, known as The Lambda Papers. If you enjoyed this one, you'll probably want to read the rest:

http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html
To be honest, Allures.net sounds like a knock off of adultfriendfinder and Urls24.com sounds like one of those TV infomercials where they tell you to enter a number at the end of the URL so they can tell how well their commercials are performing in different time slots. Those are just my initial opinions however.
Almost always no.

What you have today is a fairly incremental process that also guarantees the changes being made are well-localized, and thus can be reviewed to ensure that overall business logic is not affected. The other issue is that most likely, you don't have anyone who really knows how these applications work (otherwise, you probably wouldn't have been running them on "old versions of SunOS"). This means that even if you had the luxury of a rewrite, it's an open-ended problem with no set deadline.

So enjoy massaging the code into something modern. When you're done, you should have a good understanding of both design and implementation issues, and you can make the decision for a rewrite then (but most likely, the answer will be a 'no' again...).
Why would someone push for those "5 thruths"? The point of microservices is to ease Ops life, so that deploying is less of a "big bang"-like event and more geared towards incremental and local evolutions.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
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> Also, what's the expected amount of caffeine per typical dispensing? How much of that are you figuring gets absorbed during brushing?

Wondering the same thing.

He said in another comment that an average-sized 'serving' of the toothpaste contains 80mg of caffeine (roughly half the amount of a small coffee from most chains), but there's no info on how much of that is absorbed when brushing.
The fund invests in a subset of syndicated deals. About half of them historically. The investment team consists of experienced investors including Naval (my co-founder). Details here https://angel.co/access-fund
Well, three: C-Max, Focus, and Fiesta.
Why CNN papers use 224x224 images?
Why most of CNN papers use 224x224 or 223x223 size images? Why not use more standard like 640x480?
He didn't "do" those things, but he did put practically all his money where his mouth was to make them happen, with extremely uncertain payoff.

He could have invested his money, maybe funded some low-cost web startups, but instead he did what he thought was needed, financial risk being secondary. I think that's what makes him stand out.
Relevant 3min TED Talk by Sivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHopJHSlVo4
I can't reach Troy's site right now, but I'm curious about the API itself: Does it handle Gmail "+" aliases? E.g., joe@gmail.com and joe+probablySpam@gmail.com route to the same mailbox. If I just search for joe, will breaches for joe+<whatever> be found?
I have all the respect in the world for what Mr. Musk has accomplished, but it has come at an amazing cost to the people around him.

He is worshiped from afar but reviled by many the closer you get to his inner circle. Go read "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future."

The question I always ask myself with the people who move mountains is what cost did that progress come at? What would someone's spouse, kids, friends, etc. say about the person?
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Been working in this company for a couple of years - have had growth in terms of responsibility, but that's not been reflected on paper.

Recently, I moved internally to a new team and I want to open this topic with new manager. Should I directly ask the question ? Any pointers?
that's ok, i get enough fluoride from the chemtrails.
It's not only your SSN that is a national ID number, thanks to the Real ID Act your driver's license/state ID number is your true national ID number. At least, that was the plan, but literally half the states and territories are holding out and stalling it, so the SSN continues to be that default ID number for anything federal.

I don't know which is worse: The cock-up that is the Real ID Act or the stupidity surrounding the SSN being a de facto ID number for anything and everything.
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Wireless charging is also a pointless gimmick. You have to put the device on a mat anyway, so you might as well simply plop it into a dock. And you'll save the space inside the device that would've been needed for inductors.

You don't need a wire or even a socket on the device; flat contacts on the bottom would be fine.

Apple probably will implement this crap, more hypocrisy and another step in their war against usefulness. First they remove the audio output from their best-selling music players. Actually, not first... they've been removing battery capacity for years, in an idiotic and embarrassing campaign to make already-too-thin devices "thinner." But not really thinner, because the camera sticks out.

Think of how good the camera would be if the phone were thick enough to provide reasonable battery power?

The problem is that spineless consumers vote for products that call them stupid.
Be careful to examine what's actually in the fund as your underlying. This isn't like buying the S&P500 where the sector exposure is well defined. One "startup index fund" can perform very disparately from another "startup index fund".

edit: If there's data that shows the performance of a basket of random 100 company samples being equivalent to any number of other random 100 company samples, then I am happy to admit that I am mistaken in this regard.
Agreed; we do this for regulatory reasons. We've got a limit on how many investors we can have per fund, and we can't sidestep that requirement by spinning up duplicate funds.

The high minimum investment is our equivalent of surge pricing.

We're working on it, though!
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I was thinking about writing your exact comment, but then I read the article
EXACTLY.

This exemplifies why wireless charging is a dumb gimmick.
Is not Google proud of their tradition of manipulating presentation to encourage behavior? Outside the already listed examples above which refer directly to search results, I recall a proud blog about how Google figured out they could manipulate their own employees into eating healthier by rearranging the food on the buffet in the cafeteria.

Given the clear relationship of corrupt influence in our government by Google (feel free to try and "debunk" this one, please), can you not accept that it is not just reasonable, but prudent to be skeptical of Google's search ranking motives?

I mean, your employer has literally actively gotten involved in overthrowing governments in collaboration with Hillary: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/google-built-tech-to-sup...

I personally am generally hesitant to factually state "Google is manipulating search results in favor of Hillary Clinton", because, as you said, I don't see conclusive evidence. But acting like people are wrong to be suspicious is not much better. If I were to make an educated guess as to whether or not they are, I'd be inclined to guess that they are. You work for a company that makes Comcast look positively cuddly by comparison.

The fact that some bad articles used bad evidence does not prove Google is not manipulating search results, it's merely the http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fallacy_fallacy at work.
That's a thing more relevant on PC: this video has some more information on the phenomenon (I think) you're talking about:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=niKblgZupOc
I believe it's generally the soapy toothpaste ingredients (sodium lauryl sulfate) that mess with your mouth chemistry and make things taste weird for a while afterwards, not mainly the mint flavour. Other kinds of toothpaste (e.g. I sometimes use an aloe vera based one) don't have this problem.

And my understanding of the before vs after breakfast teeth-brushing debate is that it doesn't that much matter which you do: do it before, and you clear off the bacteria that have accumulated overnight before handing them a load of food to work on; do it after, and your teeth are cleaner for the next few hours instead.
I think it's more than 10%. At least 20%. Maybe even 50%.
It seemed to insist I install an app to go past the third page.
But that's the nature of network effects. Jaron Lanier's spoken eloquently about that, and Elon Musk exemplifies it. Whether he likes it or not, he is the figurehead and the focal point. Because he's willing to be that, it builds on itself. Because he's in a valuation-driven growth-only economy on which his businesses depend, it's in his interest to serve as this focal point, and because 'visionary' is an appealing story, the feedback loop gets set up and whirls into motion.

I think he is so much of a nerd that it doesn't change him all that much. I like him better for that, but it's true he doesn't deserve the amount of credit he's given, simply because that's unrealistic.

But, if he CEASES to be 'that guy' and 'the visionary sole leader and innovator', it's less of an appealing story, and his businesses would suffer. He is surfing on a wave of attention which sustains the valuations of his companies, and using the valuation to invest in gigantic projects that may do a lot of good. Surf on, say I.
That is a bummer. I also have RP but I'm only down to about 10% of night vision (i remember being able to see much better at night). How's your day vision?

Much luck (and peace) to you.
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You'd need to register the securities with the SEC of your going after non-accredited investors. I wonder if Angellist is going to go through that trouble.

One big advantage of only having accredited investors is that it allows you to not have to make such regulatory filings.
Agreed with the comments. I would use this service under the following conditions:
- 100% of the money goes towards a charity (minus minor site maintenance cost).
- There must be complete transparency where the money is going
- People have different time constraints: I wont do it on a git push on a daily basis, but weekly and monthly yes.
Anything other than base 0 would be unacceptable in python; people would go crazy. Personally, this is the biggest reason I can't use R—my brain doesn't work with position-based indexes; I'm just hardwired to offset.
Alternatively, Alexa could ask "I just heard a ding, was that your dishwasher?" and maybe compare against a database of known devices.
The problem with material-ui is that a lot of their components don't follow material design guidelines like their tables for example. It looks good, but it's not material. react-mdl is much closer to material, but incomplete due to missing components. Angular seems to have the best implementation so far, but I'm looking forward to material-design-lite v2
It does, but it's still too weak, e.g. it only works if the function is calling itself.
I assume the equation he's talking about already propagates the value to the "leaves", where if the app is boosting a person's productivity, and that person's productivity increases value for a group of people, then it's that final group of people's increased value that is counted toward the original total. And there could be more than 2 layers before you quantify the value without recursing any deeper, of course.
Or if you're going for that oldschool vibe. Shovel Knight's artwork would be great in any other game, but without the oldschool mechanics to match, it loses something.
Of course. If in the experiment, they had simulated the effect of predators on the population and routinely culled the population to stay within some range, then probably the mice would have lived happily ever after generation after generation without any overcrowding and stressful effects. That entirely misses the point of the experiment.

Human beings in some societies are reaching the point where disease, fatal accidents, and similar stressful or population-reducing effects are minimized. For example, Silicon Valley. I'm not so sure though whether it is a utopia though. Physical living space, aka real estate, in SV is certainly at a premium.

And I've seen similar cases mirroring the study's "beautiful ones", the drinkers, and rowdy youths. There are parallels and insights to be drawn from these studies of mice and men.
I am a broken record lately on here... Nomad is really awesome for avoiding configuration hell and having to manage multiple services for container orchestration. It's a single binary and very very easy to setup and run. I actually prefer it to Swarm but YMMV.

It uses Consul under the hood and has so far been bulletproof. (They all have their drawbacks / idiosyncrasies).

https://www.nomadproject.io/
That's a nice advantage you have going -- normally access to the best deals is hard to come by, but by providing the tools by which stand out individuals can achieve leverage in their own deal making through syndication (you're both a technology provider and a channel marketing partner to them), you get their deal flow in return.
Most people would not mind wireless power that's not dangerous, but that is not a pragmatic reasoning behind why it will happen soon, but didn't happen in the past. Right?
Wasn't Falcon 1 a test bed for Falcon 9? I remember one when Tom Mueller called Elon Musk to say the a full length Merlin burn was completed without melting the engine. That was a big milestone.

I am pretty sure there have multiple of this yahoo moments successively - that made him believe that SpaceX will be able to succeed.
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The return of the Ranger will be very welcome to me, if they don't screw it up...
I doubt the attackers thought of the Polish person as of a different "race" as in the biological meaning of that word.

That's the thing -- "race" doesn't really have a biological meaning. If anything it's just a vague suspicion that certain people are inferior or "alien" because of their DNA, the breeding, or simply their cultural upbringing. Of course it's all invented tripe, and biologically speaking it's equally untenable (from a biological point of view) to think of Poles, Anglo-Saxons and Italians as being of different "races" than it to think of Africans or East Asians in those terms.

But racists aren't the smartest bunch, you know, so in fact that's pretty much exactly what they think.
I don't think you'll get a visual studio build for linux or osx. That would mean making desktop .net cross platform and it's not in microsoft agenda. So i think you'd better wait until java becomes as awesome as c# is for you already :)
It is significantly easier to sell many kinds of products in the US compared to other countries with large consumer bases.

That isn't always true, but could be the reason.

The US has relatively few regulations compared to places like Europe. Few enough that California can introduce new ones that become defacto national regulations.
> If I had an algorithm that produced halfway decent results in an automated fashion, I wouldn't use it to get into the legal technology market. I'd set myself up as a litigation funder and make boatloads of money with accurate valuations of potential investments.

Legalist is a recent YC startup aiming to do exactly that:

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-litigation-f...
That can't be the reason on the national level. People used to buy plenty of Fords.
People that worship another person generally aren't well informed. For example, people look at Elon Musk like he's a pop culture icon -- I see people talking about him on my news feed all the time, yet these people aren't even technical. It's just a way for someone to identify to some type of group. Oh look what Elon's doing, he's so great. My reaction is, why are you sharing press articles about this person? Does it make you feel better about yourself?