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I really hate to burn Karma, but I'm going to disagree.None of the polling data bares out your assessment. The majority of his voters were not poor ex-coal miners. The average income was somewhere around $70K/year.
The textbook prices are ridiculous. I buy a lot of textbooks for personal library/study, and I have found for 'classic' texts that have many editions, going back 2-3 revisions can be super cheap. I have purchased many used from Amazon in great condition for $5-10 that cost $100-200+ new in the latest edition. This might not work for a class, but it's been indispensable for my personal use.
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My guess is the ADs will drive sign-ups and the analytics will attempt to gain extra data points on the startups to attempt to better source and channel deal flow intelligence.
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4chan still has a very active community.
Have fun with the shipping costs on those...
There are at least two banks missing from the JP Morgan Chase ancestor chart in this article: Manny Hanny [1] and Fleming [2]. Disclosure: I was a permie at Chase 97-2000, JP contractor 2002-3, and JP permie 2010-12.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturers_Hanover_Corporat...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fleming_%26_Co.#Sale_to...
No, it is not unfair. It is valid, concise, actionable feedback, without personal attacks based on empirical evidence.

If you are not comfortable with constructive feedback then don't post an open invitation for feedback.

Then, it can be implemented in a way that scales. Since this is python + gpkit, maybe it could be executed on the client-side using emscripten. Then if the traffic is too high you can serve it from a CDN.
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I have Playstation Vue, which contrary to the name does not require you to have a Playstation (although I do). It also works on Apple TV, mobile, and PC.

It has local stations and a cloud DVR as well as Showtime (for Homeland and Billions) and HBO (for Game of Thrones, Westworld, and Last Week tonight).

The price is a little high but overall I've been extremely happy with it. When I saw YouTube's new service my first thought was that it was awful in comparison.
You can get a CS degree without understanding induction, and you can understand induction without a CS degree.
This is really cool, and something I've been keeping an eye out for, as current text to speech engines are for the most part sub par. I didn't read the paper, just the extract, but I hope its open sourced.
Most ideological debates aren't about that. There is no side arguing that government for the sake of government is good.

A gross over simplification of the current party lines would look like this.

Libertarians argue that government is always the problem, and never the solution.

Conservatives argue that markets rarely fail, and the government is so terrible of a solution that most of the time the cure is worst than the disease. But is useful in some limited cases of market failure.

Liberals argue that markets fail pretty often and so we need government a little more often than what conservatives suggest.

Of course this ignores the building of the evangelical and populist branches of the Republican party which don't fall as neatly into the abstraction as the old guard business Republicans.
Looks more than an interception of the signal to find the animal. You could attract people to your honeypot place with a fake signal but to visit a place is not a proof of any crime. You can locate the emisor but not the receptor of the radio signal.
Once you run WebAssembly as a virtual machine providing a core API without a windowing system, it barely counts as a browser anymore.

There's nothing in its essence that makes it different from the virtual machines in Java or C# or Python, other than having several alternate working implementations, available in every device that runs a modern browser (true, the latest wouldn't count as "native", but nothing stops you from running a headless WebAssembly instance directly on the metal without the intermediate application layer).

The solutions you proposed (iOS, Android and UWP) may count as native, but they definitely don't count as "universal" in the same way that WebAssembly would.
Every time they don't have the data, they are superimposed with another state where they do.
Counterpoint: They are analyzing call logs to determine how in the future to better mislead customers and avoid dealing with callers like yourself, so every time you call in you're hastening the advent of an even more oppressive system.
"Recruiters in the Bay Area and executives at rival companies say they have seen an uptick in job applications from Uber employees, as its workers lose faith in the company’s leadership and start to doubt the value of their stock options."

Self fulfilling prophecy?
WRT to the light guns, I never quite really understood why you couldn't somehow simulate this with LCDs. Isn't the refresh rate on LCDs higher? So couldn't you work around that somehow? Obviously the answer is prob. not since no one (that I know of) has done it, but I was genuinely curious of what precisely the technical limitation is.
Besides the fact that in India corruption and scam is a common and widespread problem, accepting a bribe is certainly worse than giving one. Sometimes you just don't have any other option than giving a bribe, while the one accepting the bribe most often has.
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> If land trades on ability to pay rather than willingness,

Banks create fiat on request for a loan. It's infinite. You have to bid all your surplus value or someone else will, either a dweller or a speculator.
If Google gives you a top search result, it means Google trusts that result to be a good one.

Google doesn't "trust". That kind of thinking is the problem. Google has computed a ranking of the search results based on a bunch of factors, none of which involve any kind of cognitive analysis or judgement.

The rest of your statement is absolutely right; people trust Google's ranking to imply an authority that it simply can't provide, because it's magic to them.
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> Solidworks, AutoCAD, etc. don't run on phones

"AutoCAD" is a brand that applies to a large number of different CAD-related programs, some of which are mobile apps.

> Photoshop/Lightroom/Illustrator don't run on phones

Both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom are in the Google Play Store for Android phones.

> SPICE, VHDL, Verilog don't run on phones

Well, I can find circuit design apps that support a subset of verilog, but this is basically right.

> Emacs/Vi don't run on phones

There are ports of both on the Android App Store, supporting phones.

> There are a host of actually-useful programs that are completely unsuitable for run on phone-computers, that do run well on laptop-computers and desktop-computers.

There may be applications that phones don't have the processing capacity for or that work best with certain I/O peripherals that phones aren't often used with, sure. But the array of classes apps that are completely unavailable for phones is smaller than you seem to think.
>> "most of the things the YC partners told us we're things that we "knew." Most of the advice was available in one essay or another, but it still felt very, very different to have one of the partners tell us directly what we should be doing."

This is really what will make a difference, that is building a network of mentors that are doing one-on-one mentoring under the same process guided by the same culture. YC should really have a 3rd option, that being to sign-up to become a "certified" mentor.
Many prevailing theories of intelligence suggest that people with lower IQs are the ones most likely to break the law, since impulsivity, struggles at school, lack of social bonding, and lack of foresight are all linked to criminality.

...

the overall amount of crime in this range is still “much, much lower” than among people with very low IQ scores.

In fact what I would expect you find is that these groups of people break different laws, not fewer.

The "low IQ" group likely have less capability of breaking say, regulatory laws, by virtue of standing or access. They are more likely to break laws like B&E, drug dealing, petty larceny, etc... that are more harshly and more frequently prosecuted.

The laws that high performing, and High IQ people would be breaking, securities, privacy, regulatory etc... might not be prosecuted at all, or at most would lead to civil fines.

I think the bottom line is that "high IQ" people will tend to have more capability to break white collar crimes, and will do so with better cover (lawyers, special accounting etc...).
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Author here: A typo exist in equation (2). The index in the denominator should be "j". Thanks to ChuckSeven for pointing this out. The document was originally written in word and then transcribed into latex
Each to their own of course and I have no scientific evidence to back this up but my guess is that only a fraction who ever become successful entrepreneurs take courses in entrepreneurism.

The rest see an opportunity and hire the financial, legal and technical and other advice they need.
There's a two-day in-person version of this on the East Coast on July 25-26, 2017 at Georgetown University called Startup Spectacular. Worth checking out if you want an in-person version: http://www.startupspectacular.com. Edit: yes, just noticed this is not the same idea / concept. I was posting based on the feedback that a MOOC doesn't seem to work for everyone for this sort of thing.
"This article challenges my beliefs, so I guess I'll flag it."

Pathetic.
Google should report a probability distribution for each truth claim.
Does that make it meaningfully better?
For employees at Uber, quitting the company often means walking away from restricted stock units or stock options worth hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in Silicon Valley’s most highly valued private company. With Uber currently worth about $70bn [...]

FT makes it sound like this is hard cash that employees are walking away from. The options are paper money, and $70bn is not was Uber is "worth", but merely a valuation projected from the most recent investment round.
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Well I think that crime incidence is strongly negatively correlated with wealth, and IQ isn't very strongly correlated with wealth either, so that's not a great explanation
Non-linear complex system . . . ?
Why do we measure the First Paint?
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U.K. is single phase per house.
I could accept Vox (the site) being a leftist rag and just avoid but they really stepped over the line with the Verge. Increasingly weaker and weaker reviews, far more subjective reporting, and now even political articles bleeding over from Vox. I don't want a tech blog telling me how to feel about politics.
That needs to be a service... if a phone call is received not listed in your contacts send them to Lenny.
LCDs cannot simulate this because their latency is too high. By the time the pattern is on the screen the lightgun has already recorded a miss.
To be clear, the above appears to have no affiliation with YC, but is just another startup course; one that does not appear to be a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), unlike the one referenced in the the post that's the subject of this thread.
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> This is extortionate. What is the justification for a book being priced at nearly $300? This is one book of how many a student will need that semester? Are school's getting a piece of this as well? Is this why such a racket is permitted?

That is a bit high for textbooks, most textbooks are usually "only" in the realm of $80-160. That said, math textbooks are usually far more expensive than others.

The excuse given for high prices is that there is a strong used book market for college textbooks, as most students sell off their textbooks at the end of the semester, so from the point of view of the publisher, they see only one sale in 5-20. Of course, publishers discovered that the "cure" for this is to release new editions of textbooks with minor updates (most importantly, reorder the questions in the question banks!) every few years to kill off the used textbook market and haven't lowered their exorbitant prices to compensate.

As an undergrad, I did have one semester where my total book costs were about $1000. Most of the semesters, they were more like $500.

Oh, and the prices usually go to lining the publishers' pockets. Not the authors', not the schools'.
This article seems to have a single recruiter, who used to work for Uber, as their source. It says an uptick of 10% but doesn't give any idea on what kind of volume that is or was before the 10% uptick. Did he get 10 people? did he get 5? did he get 50?

This is similar 'reporting' that the actual recruiters themselves give me when they call-- that they have great jobs with great pay if I'll give them all my information and some of the information on peers of mine. When there are no jobs, just talk.
Few months back, I posted this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri8TN2sHcM4&t=0s here and it got flagged. Your approach is similar to this guy :)
They don't go about it the same way, but I think they explore a lot of the same themes -- loyalty, morality vs. the law, etc. I think people kind of undersell the Hong Kong triad movies as anything other than mindless action.
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If you are seriously considering going into this business, consider also the possibility that somebody will figure out a way to make an LCD screen that is acceptable for this use case once the CRTs are no longer available. Light-guns are likely gone no matter what, or at least going to be inconsistent and hard to use, but an LCD screen explicitly designed to emulate a CRT may be able to fill in. LCD screens not explicitly designed for this use case are getting down to ~25ms latencies, which is getting to within spitting distance of one frame.

It seems to me there's no fundamental reason that an LCD can't be designed nowadays to paint the screen almost identically to the way a CRT did it, complete with an emulation of their "flaws" (with at least a line or two of buffering to pull that off). The fact that older LCDs use an internal framebuffer and are locked to a certain refresh rate seems like an artifact of the older technology rather than a fundamental limitation. Just as G-Sync and friends can start playing with the refresh rate it seems like nothing would prevent you from designing an LCD controller that doesn't wait for an entire frame but just starts painting the NTSC or similar signal.

If I'm wrong, I eagerly await informative corrections. But bear in mind I'm aware that I'm calling for fairly significantly different supporting electronics behind the panel, that work on a fundamentally different architecture than current LCD panels. I do realize this is a non-trivial modification.

You'd have to run numbers but it's possible this is more cost-effective than trying to source all the CRT parts and/or run your own manufacturing line; this approach would involve creating custom electronics (feasible even for a startup) and then sticking them on commodity screens, which is almost certainly much cheaper than trying to make CRTs.

Edit: Apparently I have gored some sort of sacred ox or something? I'm getting downmodded for this? Really? I'm talking about deeply redesigning how LCD screens work, so your current issues with LCD screens don't apply any longer. There are some things about how LCDs work now that are historical accident, not fundamental to the technology.
The article implied greater incidence of violent crimes as well

These included minor offenses such as trespassing and copyright violations, but also serious crimes such as arson, fraud, and kidnapping.

Only one crime mentioned qualifies as "white collar".
Both are under UK and US laws as RollsRoyce is finding out
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Later than that; PS2 and Dreamcast.
Especially when it goes down under - the paper money value essentially becomes zero.
The only semi-positive outcome would be acquisition, but with Lyft doing "okay" I'm not even sure there are other options...
That's awesome. It does make me wonder though, do the people working in the call centers realize that they're scamming people or do they think it's a legitimate business?
nice find, you should add this to that bug report
There are a number of freely available online resources for proofs & mathematical reasoning. Besides the already mentioned "Book of Proof", try:

https://sites.google.com/site/mathematicalreasoning3ed/

http://www.math.vt.edu/people/day/ProofsBook/

http://giam.southernct.edu/GIAM/

For anybody looking for freely available maths related texts online, three great resources are:

http://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/

http://web.archive.org/web/20170126161813/http://people.math...

http://www.openculture.com/free-math-textbooks
2 reasons:
(1) Boredom - 'work' is boring and involves tedium. Smart people try to avoid that. (dad joke: That's why it's called work and not play!)

(2) False idols - We have been told since we are children, "work hard, and get ahead" or "you need an education to get ahead". We know this is only works to a certain degree. The wealthy stay wealthy because the game is rigged. The laws are tailored so that they can maintain wealth. They don't have to pay the same amount of tax and there are multiple tax-loopholes that allow them to keep their money. They get the public to pay for their expenses and are not forced to share the wealth that they generate.

Smart people recognize this and do not want to play that game. Why should I bust my ass to make some millionaire more money? It is obvious that the 'easy' way to make money is to break the law. It's only the poor people who end up getting caught/punished.
That still means that you were willing to bid that much, right?

I've bought two homes in my life. In neither case did I bid all my available funds and in both cases, I got a house that served very well as my home. (There were several other houses I bid on over the years where I didn't get the property. Two cases were bank REOs where the bank was unreasonable, IMO. Two other cases I was simply outbid. Life goes on.)
Way to go cherry picking - "paid bribe or influence peddling" even if we take reliability of such a data at its face value. Did you read your own source?

But who am I kidding right. Certainly US & UK is bastion of corruption free conduct by public officials/politicians. A majority of our public leaders gets enough money from companies that - climate change has been debunked as a problem.

Corruption in a developed world and developing country is very different. In India - a street cop makes $200-$300/month, his corruption involves taking 20 Rupees($0.3) from an Autorickshaw that should have been carrying 3 passengers and carries 5. You don't see this kind of corruption in US for obvious reasons. This is the kind of corruption most Indians deal with in daily life - yeah it is not great but this is something country has to live with until country figures out a way to deal with it.

What worries me more is - corruption in upper echelons of power. People who can do real damage. Someone paid someone to plant a hoax about WMDs in Iraq and a country is on brink of destruction. Enough politicians are on NRA payroll that - guns will be sold to anyone.

But I digress - I don't see how corruption of public officials in India led to this scam call center. It sounds like - bunch of people got greedy and decided to make some quick money. It can happen anywhere - look at Wall Street, Uber, Well Fargo..
What makes it "superior in look" though?
I've removed it: https://fman.io/blog/an-apology-to-linux-users/
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Does not work for me (anymore?). But it's in Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CHWJa8...
Hmmm... You made me break out the calculator. I'm thinking 150 w is probably about right for the effort for a 10 minute mile. 150 wH is roughtly 130 kcal. So divided by 6 that gives just over 20 kcal. So you are right!

It shows you how easy it is to fall into the trap of repeating things you've heard :-P
Because those people saw him as lesser evil compared to Clinton? If there was another not-Clinton candidate, they'd have voted for him/her.

It'd be interesting to see Sanders vs Trump in parallel universe.
Wow, did buzzfeed makes something of substance....?!!
Way lower than 25% actually.
Is a TLD alone technically a valid host name?
non-gif version: https://speakerdeck.com/cherdarchuk/clear-off-the-table

And the rest of these: https://speakerdeck.com/cherdarchuk (Pie Chart is my personal favorite :))
/Insert grumblings about insecurity of the omnibox (leaking internal corporate data) and my personal preference for firefox-style URL box and search box.
The majority of anyones base cant be just coal miners.
President Trump campaigned heavily in swing states he correctly thought he could flip, while Hillary didnt.
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Marketshare is similar to the US at around 20%

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/new-zealan...
The way light guns work, they rely on the fact that a white frame is not displayed all at once but "drawn" by the CRT ray - if you flash a single white frame, one location will flash white slightly later than other, and you can infer the location from the timing.

LCDs, well, change all the frame at once. The issue isn't with the frame rate but at what happens when the device is drawing a single frame change.
Im not sure wether I like your way of parsing arguments, it isn't compatible with the usual way arguments works, eg. normally you can supply two single letter arguments like this: `-rf` but looking at the code that would result in one argument named 'rf' and not two.

Also you cannot have a string argument that starts with a dash, because $argv is stripped of quotes, so `-f "-dashval"` will not result in arg(f) === '-dashval'

All in all it is probably a nice personal tool, but I just don't see what value it has over using the PHP 'getopt' function.
> Especially considering a nice new OLED could be fashioned to look like a CRT.

Except for all the old cabinets that just won't work with it I guess.
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Textbook prices and college costs in general are amongst the most notable products outpacing inflation.