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Mark Cuban said in a Howard Stern interview that about half of the deals made on the show fall apart during due diligence. So it's not particularly surprising that he never got his $200k. The only "fraud" I see here was perpetrated on viewers, if indeed they later aired a show (that this inventor voluntarily participated in) with an entirely fictional narrative about making a deal with Sharper Image.

Shark Tank probably has an innocent explanation, and the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. But my BS detector went through the roof when he suggested that as a settlement for his lawsuit, he would accept being allowed to go back on a show that he claims is a fraud. This makes him sound like nothing more than a desperate, failed business owner that is attempting extort his way back onto the show for the free advertising it offers.
Many are not part of the system, so they really do have a choice. Granted, location is a big part of this, and it's much simpler to operate this way when population density is high and there are other hospitals in the area.
Never knew that. That's a trip. Great accident to have in one's career given all that came of it.
Has anyone here programmed minecraft? Can you report to the rest of us how the following compare as learning experiences:

1. Minecraft

2. Swift Playground

3. Commodore 64 or other old basic

4. Game Salad, or Game Maker,

5. Just learning Javascript in the browser

I know #2 is my favorite experience, but I think #5 is the most useful now. Just wondering if anyone has played around with minecraft to compare.

If I had to teach a kid:
#2 > #5 > #3 > can't speak for the others
I mean, they're not signing anything up there. The founders can also pull out of the deal after the presentation.
I learned that many of the entrepreneurs on the show aren't even true applicants. A friend of mine works for a small company that's experienced rapid growth and a lot of publicity - there is a team at Shark Tank's production co that are aggressively trying to get them on the show.

The sad reality is that it's not even about applying and catching a break anymore... I'm not surprised.. it's TV.

That said, I think this guy's story sounds fishy.
It's not rude. You're absolutely right. Somehow, despite my best efforts, I never went to prison.

But I was obsessed about the possibility for a while, and read a lot of books. The one that made the biggest impression on me was _The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison_. In that book, a lifer named Carl Bowles describes why he doesn't have to worry very much, despite being small (like me). Paraphrasing, it was because he never let there be any doubt in anyone's mind that if they tried to hurt him, he'd respond very violently.

That book described in many different ways the importance of willingness to fight in prison. People due for release in a few months would fight and get time added to their sentences for fear of what would happen if they didn't fight.
Trivial, self-serving question: is there a library for generating the diagram of table relationships here (13.2 nycflights13) http://r4ds.had.co.nz/relational-data.html

And of course, thanks for another great book, it's helpful for learning R but I'm always enlightened by how thoroughly you explain the general concepts (e.g. Relational data and joins). Have heard a few people on faculty speak enthusiastically about the book even as I hold out for more adoption of Python :)
Yeah, I spent last week clarifying stuff with business analyst and QA person. Cleaning up delivery with small changes. When my team mate wrote quite a lot of code that need bunch of fixes. How to measure productivity.
Ok, points for the Economist's title 'Twitter in retweet.' That's some fine pun-crafting right there.

No comment on the service itself. I love it. It's one of the only methods of public one-to-many distributed communication that actually works well and stays relatively balanced (mainly due to the limitation on message length and size). I hope another service with a similar dynamic pops up in its place should it collapse.
i always thought that the deal was that you should pay for more featureful tweets, on a per tweet basis

you know when people do like 20 tweets in a row? they could pay 50c and post an essay. pictures and such could be capped at some freebies monthly and then cost if you're doing pics all the time.

I like Twitter too. I don't use it too much, but I've used it to correspond with famous people and people like the pinboard guy make it fun.
Very cool mission. Education is truly the light for young minds, so it's fantastic that Soular has a literal way to help fuel their learning. Inspiring - kudos!
> how exactly do you vertically center stuff with CSS? :P

I know this was just a throwaway comment, but seriously, I love this site:

http://howtocenterincss.com/
I really like that phrasing, "vaporizing your time", which captures the adversarial nature of external interruptions in a suitably light-hearted way.

I would add that to produce anything it is important to clear a space both in time and physical or abstract space (e.g. a folder, if you are a programmer) into which you put tools and supplies and labor. You must then a) know each space, and b) develop a way to visit each space (and leave it) as required by circumstance and your own needs. For a program, you need (at a bare minimum): a folder, a toolset, a set of time, and a list of predicates that are currently false that you commit to making evaluate to true (but no cheating). This process is actively harmed by overwork, because overwork attacks the same cognition that is necessary to successfully execute the process.
Static typing is one technique for designing safe, easy to use interfaces. Depending on the language, there may be other tools that are just as effective.
The problem with Twitter is that the demolished their developer ecosystem. The attacked the very developers and companies that taught people how to use Twitter and developed solutions that made it a viable use case. Without those myriad of solutions built upon it, Twitter is a very basic SMS broadcast medium. It has a sloppy unsegmented home feed full of noise and its mechanics are horrible so it does a poor job of burying hate.

With that in mind, the numbers show. The people that get it are on it. Most of the rest of us just see glimmers of it embedded in news articles. Sadly, it is too late to reverse this. Trust has been lost.
Give it time. Once systemd runs out of Unix utilities to consume, it will inevitably turn on WinInit.exe and the Service Control Manager.
I have always felt Twitter could do a better job doing recommendations. Sort of help me find things I like better. Not just content. I have really started to like Four Square automatically giving me tips when I walk into places. It seems like Twitter should know more about what I like/dislike perhaps even more than Facebook, Amazon, and Google considering I have actively told it so.

Going back to Four Square... Twitter also really doesn't leverage geo. Why the hell doesn't it show me tweets near me in real time? That would be pretty damn useful. It could be the event engine. I can't tell you how many times some body says to me "I have this great idea for startup that shows you cool things happening right near you" ... and yet twitter could have this now.
And the US is the only developed country where pharmaceutical companies are allowed to advertise specific drugs.
The "paths to a saner week" seem pretty simplistic and unrealistic. Want fewer hours? Work fewer hours! Wow, you don't say?! That simple, huh? The quote from the article is "you always have the option of unilaterally normalizing your hours." Oh reeeeally?

Don't like your commute? Don't commute so much. Just snap your fingers and afford to live closer to work! Got it.

Want a shorter work week? Just "negotiate" (word mentioned 9 times in the story). Oh, silly me, I was forgetting all of that extra power most people have in the employee/employer relationship!

Any advice for those of us living in the real world?
It does matter - we can fix self inflicted wounds a little easier than fix the culture of an organisation.
Seems sensible. They wouldn't need the gazillions of staff they have at the moment working on building and selling an advertising platform. If they were bought by a Google, there would be economies of scale on the hosting side.

But it's become an almost toxic brand because as well as realtime news, it is a troll's paradise. I guess this is one reason why the big guys are hesitant to take it on.

It seems like Facebook is eating up more and more of this market because they are better at keeping the trolls out.
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The thing is that either side can pull out of the deal after the show. I've heard that some of these pitches and discussions can go on for an hour or more and television edits it down to 15 minutes.
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>you seem to be paying the price as of right before May 2015, and you haven't bought a pen since then. You might be in for a big surprise next time you have to buy one.

Express scripts co-pay has only gone up $0.45 in that time.^1

>Express Scripts says it has been able to hold costs steady for its members: its commercially insured population has seen their co-payments for EpiPen go from $73.05 in January 2015 to $73.50 in July 2016, even though the price of EpiPen rose by 51% over that period of time.

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/08/30/the-con...
But if the lender sues in a US court and gets a judgement, isn't the person subject to an extradition? The lender doesn't have to sue in respective country's court.
I wish this was a native jekyll plugin (by which I mean directly supported on github-pages). This would be amazing to use on Jekyll blogs.
Any period of history can involve outrageous headgear. Even things we consider classy can change in a heartbeat. Fedoras used to be cool. Now they're weird and neckbeard-y.
Whatever your opinion on Snowden, his actions pre- and post-exposure, let's at least agree on the following:

1) Snowden would probably not have gotten a trial, he would probably have gone to Gitmo, forever. That's how post-9/11 USA rolls.

2) Intelligence services everywhere operate outside the law wherever and whenever possible. That's why they exist. And they do not respect the legislature or the courts, except where it serves theie purposes.

3) Internal mechanisms such as IG don't work as efficiently as people would have us believe. Whistleblowers are considered, by and large, as "rats." And those whose job it is to maintain accountability are frequently shunned -- think of a police department's internal affairs.

4) Lawful does not mean moral, righteous, or even in the best interest of one's country. Before launching into a Joe Friday "if you don't like the law, change it" speech, ask yourself this -- when was the last time a cop or any other government minion ever took a public stand against a law they thought was wrong? Ever wonder why?
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I really like how you, tomca32, and nous all are suggesting multiple language/framework options. I think a lot of the way these technology choices go wrong because people want to pick the best option, rather than a good-enough option that matches local conditions. The former strikes me as a local, narrowly focused tech optimization; the latter, looking at the bigger economic picture of the project.
If you're a developer looking to fight this, I'd suggest taking a look at Minetest, which started out as a fully libre open-source clone of Minecraft but has really grown into its own project in its own right.

The core engine is C++ and mods are programmed using Lua.

http://www.minetest.net/#about
I think it made sense in just a settlement- 'you want to keep rerunning that episode over a decade after it was recorded and aired, let me at least show "now."' I can see how such a product with such limited circulation could be completely overwhelmed by Shark Tank reruns/promos in marketing even though it's wildly out of date.
The mindset still stuck in the cold war era. As another comment in this thread, there has been "a huge spike of anti-China news sourced from USA" in the last several years. These news are quoted in China, and in many cases, without giving the full context, as also happen in USA news when reporting China. This has led to a huge spike of anti-America news from China.

Peace, please! National conflicts hurt the common people the most, especially so in such a globalized world.
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Thanks, I stand corrected. So I guess I have to try to stream a video :-)

Though sadly, I understand that this will not allow seeking.
Yeah, and that LinkedIn was warning everyone that they'd find out, so just spare yourself the hassle.
Thank you, I kept looking for his name in the history of the Apple Newton.
It all depends where you live and what is considered front end or web developer. In NYC if frontends get paid less it's only $10k less at most. They're still making up to six figures with less than ten years of experience.
The solution to the cost problem is for competition to enter the market. It is my understanding FDA has in some way restricted market entry as competing firms (eg, generic giant Teva) come up with a device acceptable to the FDA.
This is when you know you're about to experience a steep, learning curve:

"language designed to be as difficult to program in as possible. The first "Hello, world!" program written in it was produced by a Lisp program using a local beam search of the space of all possible programs."
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It's not arbitrary. It's a grandfather clause. It prevents new religious groups from claiming this privilege even if they establish a track record of providing these benefits to members.
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I think the easiest and most overlooked piece of advice revolves around cell phones.

When you start a new job, under no circumstance should you give them your personal cell phone number.

Tell them it's inappropriate, tell them it could turn into a conflict of interest, tell them you don't have a cell (true for me), tell them you can't afford a cell, tell them you can't afford roaming, tell them you only have data, not a number, tell them anything you have to so you don't give them your personal cell number. Don't ever, ever let them install anything on your phone either, "BYOD" style.

Same applies for your home number, if you have one, and your personal email address. Setup a different email and google voice number for the purposes of interviewing, etc. Once you have a job, don't respond to it "real time".

Now, if they want you to have a work cell, they can provide and pay for it, and before you put a hand on it, you make them very, very clearly document under what circumstances and times you are expected to answer that phone, and what compensation you get for doing so. If they won't provide extra compensation, you make it very clear your home commitments (kids, sick family, make something up) are your priority, and you won't be taking that cell home with you. Leave it in your desk drawer at work, turn it on at 8:30am and turn it off at 5pm and leave it there.

If your employer won't accept that, find another one. Life is too short.
Again Ill have to disagree, there were many efforts on delivering laptops for people in third world countries that ran linux and used browser apps primarily. Even chromebooks work fine in most educational spaces in the US.

http://one.laptop.org/
I've used a lot of languages, both statically and dynamically typed, and found unit testing to be very useful in both.

The idea that unit tests are not very useful in complex systems is very controversial and goes against established best practice in software engineering, the advice of pretty much every authority in the field and empirical studies.

Only testing hard stuff is only half the battle. Unit tests also test basic assumptions and have other benefits like documenting intent. See /Code Complete/ for evidence for the need for multiple angles of testing.
Well, growth has some advantages: more people means more minds, more ideas, and improved technologies. There's 20 times as many people on Earth now as a thousand years ago, but our lives are more comfortable. Sustainability is the key word that we want to focus on; if we expand into the Solar System before figuring out how to not consume net resources, we could use up the whole system and then really be stuck.
It's interesting to see that, starting in roughly 1990, the temperature seems to break away from its previous range. It looks so dire. Temperature increases seem to be accelerating.
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Even though I agree it can be true in some cases, I think the extent with which this happens is incomparable to dictatorships (and especially the ones with state-owned enterprises). In capitalism, while the interests of large corporations are sometimes aligned with the interests of the government, they are still somewhat competing with each other and they form different hierarchies.
You're right. It's way less than $10B (which was already nothing, in the grand scheme of things).

I'm trying to figure out how low it actually goes...
Considering Chromebooks barely entered the market only about 4 years back.

"In 2015, Chromebooks topped 50 percent of personal computer sales in the U.S. K-12 education market for the first time, with Windows PCs trailing at 22 percent, according to a Futuresource Consulting report."

And looking at the chart in the report [1] is even stranger - Chromebooks have basically gone from 16% of yearly device sales to 50% of yearly device sales [2] in exactly two years. Does anyone else finds the numbers a little hard to believe? Don't the schools have any costs in migrating their systems to support Chromebooks?

[1] http://www.futuresource-consulting.com/2016-03-K-12-Educatio...

Edit:

Based on csharp's comment, changed wording from market to yearly device sales. [2] (For K-12)
Faking your death is entirely legal, provided that is not being done with criminal intent.

But having even a $1 life insurance policy, or $1 in debt, or accessing $1 worth of a reputation-based benefit, might be enough to demonstrate that intent. Most people in the US could not fake their own death without criminal or civil consequences.

We no longer have the "move to the New World" or "move out to the frontier" reset buttons that previous generations had (nor even the "get sentenced to transportation" and "claim sanctuary" buttons).
Never heard of extradition for civil judgements. The thought sent a chill up my spine. I do know -- from a friend -- that the US and some other countries have signed a treaty for reciprocal enforcement of child support.
the primary knock-on effect is probably that it accelerates the process of offshoring back- and middle-office teams to less expensive jurisdictions.
I think it also depends on the industry and way you are paid. If you are getting paid $100k doing simple web work, CRUD database stuff, JEE plumbing type where, wiring together libraries with Spring, etc. then you are probably going to complain about working more hours.

If you are getting paid $250k or $300k doing something highly interesting that comes with tight deadlines like finance or trading, then you are going to push yourself a lot harder.

And especially if much of your pay is bonus-based, you will definitely push harder. For example, working in the front-office of a trading company where even developers are getting paid mostly in bonus it is very common to put in more than 60 hours a week. And people love it because the work it very exciting.

One of the most important questions is do you love what you do. I love working in front-office in finance, and i'll gladly put in plenty of hours, especially since getting the promotion to director or principal carries a huge pay increase.

I don't work for my current salary, I work for the next one. I don't do any side projects because getting that next strategy or gateway up and running is worth more than any project I could work on. My job is my side project. And I really like it that way.

Instead of figuring out to only work so many hours, why not try to figure out how to find jobs that excite you more. Find that field you really love and that pays you well or find that startup where you can really see yourself making a huge contribution.
Haha, this reminds me of Taleb's The Black Swan.
There's something so sad to me about the general tech press attitude (let alone the Wall Street attitude) towards Twitter.

Twitter is forever judged by Facebook's bar, using Facebook's KPIs. Nevermind that the average high profile tweet is much more culturally significant than the averge high profile Facebook post. Heck most of Facebook isn't even original content, it's just really slick distribution for content from elsewhere.

Obviously Facebook has cracked engagement in a way that Twitter never has and never will. But, Twitter has cracked public discourse in a way that no other company has period. Think about it, all previous internet fora have imploded as they've grown large, or collapsed into micro-communities like sub-reddits. Twitter has definitely faced challenges with trolling and witch-hunts, etc, but by and large they've put together a super interesting product. The only problem is that it's not going to displace Facebook because it's a different thing that's not quite as big. This demand for growth is also why Twitter's management took their eye off the ball and failed to recognize and improve the core problems that hurt the product and community. It's just a really sad statement on modern business culture that Twitter isn't allowed to be considered a success as a medium-sized company that punches way above its weight among influencers.
Rooftop solar is on average a $25,000 - $35,000 investment, and that's not even counting energy storage required to actually be off-grid. I don't think that only the rich should have reliable energy, and the poor should suffer brownouts to theoretically save some infrastructure costs.

For countries who don't yet have a reliable electric grid, I think investing in providing quality / reliable electricity to their population is about the best ROI (after providing reliable drinking water) investment they can make.

The economic cost of blackouts and brownouts are extremely high [1] -- for example, the rolling backouts in California back in 2000 - 2001 were estimated to cause GDP loss of 0.7 - 1.5%! (GDP was ~1.2T, so we're talking economic losses on the order of $10 billion).

[1] - http://www.raeng.org.uk/publications/reports/counting-the-co...
Maybe Twilio could buy Twitter, if the price was rational.
Wonder how many of the links on this page are still active.
When Apple makes an iPad app to teach kids a programming language useful only in the Apple ecosystem, they're promoting STEM education.

When Microsoft leverages a massively popular game to promote STEM education, they're weaponizing.
Carriers may be the battleships of WWII.

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> The influential U.S. Adm. Hyman Rickover shared this view. In a 1982 congressional hearing, legislators asked him how long American carriers would survive in an actual war. Rickover’s response? “Forty-eight hours,” he said.
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That was a garbled paste, above. The relevant context of Klintsevich's words (what one can get out of the recorded interview, anyway) was:

Ну, давайте будем откровенны, я думаю что поделился...