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Reading some of the "no" comments. Red Hat and IBM both have a list of reasons why they think Jigsaw is not ready.

As for the rest of the companies voting "no" it looks like it's mostly because "there is not a consensus amongst the EC". Which might be a fancy way of saying "If Red Hat and IBM don't approve then nor shall I".
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One logical continuation of adding more attention steps is to make decision of how many attention steps to take determined by the network ala "Adaptive Computation Time for Recurrent Neural Networks", are you planning to go in that direction?
The beauty of kickstarter is in boardgames imo. New, fun games come out regularly from funder backing on KS.
Try having all of the above and getting crap pay! Unless the job is actually causing you mental anguish I recommend you stay and find your hapiness elsewhere or until you find a better equal paying job.
Be genuine and sincere. My three Kickstarters have been successfully funded and my video was made with Windows Movie Maker, me talking, and a quick pan of my prototype.

I'm not asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'm reasonable in my rewards, my pricing, and my funding amount.

My last 3 campaigns were for $2500 (raised 10,000), $3000 (raised ~$5700), and my current one is for $5000 and I'm currently at ~$6300.

The best thing I have found is to just keep people in the loop. Even if nothing has changed, I make an update every week to let the backers know I'm still around.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1985705009/piplay-porta...
Maybe. I don't know where the money goes to say what we can cut. Are wages our biggest cost? If so, I'd imagine salaries have to come down across the board but especially at the top. Sadly I don't know how.
Many non classical musicians use other notations. For example, many guitarists and bassists use tab notation. It's simply a visual representation of the strings and a number for which fret to play.

It's not as expressive but is far easier to get started with.
It usually tells you they are trying to frame the data in a way to support a specific view instead, instead of basing their view off the actual conclusions the data provides.
Mostly they don't understand well all the possibilities outside of typical meter and tuning systems. They can do some but tend to push you to writing 4-beat meters in 12-note-equal-temperament. Rhythm and pitch both have far far far more possibilities which DAWs either ignore or at least make second-class options you have to kind of fight for or try a few limited tastes.
I feel like rewriting this on top of SQL Server Express would still be valuable. Setting up and managing linked servers manually, especially with non-SQL Server databases can be a pita especially considering managing their drivers etc.

Also, SQL Server is awful at importing/exporting data directly. Almost all forms are broken in various ways and are a source of endless grief. The only reliable built-in way is to use SSIS which is like using a 200-ton tank for a paperweight.
Walmart already provides a handful of services of the kind you're mentioning. They have low cost clinic services (at some locations) for flu-shots, eye exams, and prescription drugs. Expanding those services would require having MDs on staff and on location.

There are plenty of businesses trying to offer more accessible medical services also. Urgent Care clinics are becoming popular in New York City, where I live.

None of this is doing much about cost though. The Walmart style sells things cheaply that are allowed to be sold cheaply. They don't sell what they are prevented from selling due to regulations or due to non-viability of offering the service due to staffing limitations. The Urgent Care style is going through the private health insurance system like just about every other medical care provider.

So I suggested an insurance "startup" because the space that seems to lack innovation is the payment side of the health care industry.
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FWIW, business rent is tax deductible, whereas personal rent is not. Another way to look at it is, personal rent is taxed, so it acts as an indirect consumption tax.
The short answer: not really.

About a decade ago, Mozilla decided that Thunderbird should be making a bigger effort to pay for its own funding. The two business opportunities that were implemented were paid email accounts (driven by a survey that found that a substantial portion of new users expected they were getting an email address when they downloaded Thunderbird), and paid support for the large-attachment uploads. Some of the companies involved have since withdrawn the contracts.

In any case, the money being involved (I'm told) isn't stellar--on the order of $10s of K per annum in total.
> This works OK in the Apple world, but only because they hack it by routing SMS through your phone.

Actually, not necessarily. At least with my provider (AT&T), I can set up my Mac as a validated device for WiFi calling, so I can do SMS and actual phone calls without using the iPhone as a relay.
In the real world, you can't wait five minutes for the server to return a response. If the server returns the correct response after ten minutes, it's still wrong, unless the programmer has explicitly acknowledged that the procedure in question is a long-running procedure and has lengthened (but not eliminated) the time-out accordingly.

The halting problem is an irrelevant, Ivory-tower distraction in production code.
Now if only you could put willpower in a bottle.

Calorie restriction diets feel like holding your breath for 6 months straight. Then as soon as you can't take it anymore, you exhale and instantly gain it all back. It's horrible. Nobody's will can hold out for that long.

Some people are happy eating whatever diet keeps them at an ideal weight. Some people never will be, and it's a form of torture.
It's not human psychology so much as having, you know, a place to live...

(In overheated markets, 'rent+invest' can be better than 'own', but a full accounting needs to consider the cost of a living arrangement.)
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Having tried both a ton before settling on the Push 2, the screen is great, but that's not why I bought it. In every way it feels better to make music on than the first Push. The pads especially are a thousand times more responsive — the Push 1's got this weird wooden feeling that never seemed to register the velocity I was going for.

I think the Push 2 is ~3x as much, and it is worth every penny.
Something worth keeping in mind is employer matching as well as the ability to take loans from your 401(K). My employer matches up to 6% of my salary at 150% (man is this awesome), the past year I've been putting my 6% in and just last month I took half of everything (including the employer match) out as a loan to pay off debts at 4.25% APR. The money would perform better in the market than the interest I'm paying back to myself, but I'm not throwing money away on interest to the banks and instead paying it back to myself while continuing to make my regular contributions.
What I'm trying to say is that Walmart isn't actually providing much value over the local bank, as the consumer costs are astronomical in comparison to the average account balance. The whole notion that they're helping the person "save" while charging these fees is ludicrous; and this is what the article is purporting.

You are correct though, local banks aren't necessarily helping people save either, especially those who are living paycheck to paycheck.
Hey, sometimes it is "sell your soul:"

https://www.geek.com/games/gamestation-eula-collects-7500-so...
No. If you pay $X in mortgage interest, you get $X * Y% back, where Y% is your incremental tax bracket. That is not a net win. It's just less of a loss.
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There comes a time where good sense means you have to kiss these old projects goodbye. It makes sense for Thunderbird to try to move to a platform that users actually want to use. Thunderbird is in the state it's in because very few people still value a "fat" mail client.
Does this actually make real telephone calls? I got the impression that this only connected the Echo products and app.
In addition to single token revocation, you can use the account epoch approach (at least that's what I call it):

Store an "epoch" date in the database for each account. Tokens issued for that subject are considered invalid if they were issued before the epoch. This allows you to do mass token revocation (e.g. sign out all active sessions) without knowing the IDs of the tokens that have been issued.
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Aurora is it's own database type. The interface is MySQL-compatible, but it's not a perfect match.
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I was only 8 in 1995, can you link me to a such a device? I'd like to compare.
Agreed, but reading sheet music is a very small part of playing piano proficiently (say, at the 97th percentile). Once you get past knowing the notes in a piece, there's the much more difficult task of being able to manipulate the force that you exert from your fingers to create the right volume balance. For example, your untrained thumb will naturally play notes much louder than it should, and it takes a lot of practice to be able to play notes with it at the right volume; the opposite is true with your pinky and ring fingers.

...Not to mention the even more difficult task of knowing what you want the piece to sound like in the first place. A novice playing a piece at 100% accuracy sounds nothing like a concert pianist playing the piece. There's a world of depth to music beyond just learning the right notes.

Here's an example: listen to this performance of Debussy's "Reflets dans l'eau" by Arturo Michelangeli, one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLbpQl1cCl8

And then listen to this student play it (she is still a high-skill player, just not world-class talent):

https://youtu.be/l2gJSVOdaG8
According to the article, it's not real telephone calls, yet.
I would think so. Assuming it was politically feasible at all, it seems like it would need to be phased in. Or at least announced quite publicly that loans originated after a particular date could not have their interest deducted. It's not particularly fair to existing homeowners to eliminate the deduction after they've already purchased a house.
"write once, debug everywhere".
> Why are you using gut feeling to make decisions

I'm not using gut feeling to make decisions; I am sharing information with an appropriate "grain of salt" disclaimer attached.

>> I don't have time right now to look into this in detail

Repeated in case you missed it.

But since you took the time to call me out (thanks?), I will Google it for you:

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin... (September 29, 2015)

FaceTime communications are end-to-end encrypted and Apple has no way to decrypt FaceTime data
when it is in transit between devices. Apple cannot intercept FaceTime communications. Apple has
FaceTime call invitation logs when a FaceTime call invitation is initiated. These logs do not indicate
that any communication between users actually took place. Apple has no information as to whether
the FaceTime call was successfully established or duration of a FaceTime call. FaceTime call invitation
logs are retained up to 30 days. FaceTime call invitation logs can be obtained with an order under 18
U.S.C. §2703(d) or court order meeting the equivalent legal standard or search warrant.
Yes, it's "free" (not open source). It's included with the purchase of a Mac.
I think part of the game is to not think too much about that.
Crisis happened in 2008, but it bounced back pretty fast.

Check this:
http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby

To me this long term trend is teling me that the drops are only temporary and contained for about 3-5 years. Sure if you buy at the peak, there is a chance that you might owe money to a bank for something you do not own (negative equity that is), but it will bounce back.

unless, you know, detroit thing happens, or that california defaults (because of pension crisis, etc), or it raises taxes too much.

i am not a fortune teller, obviously, but bay area has been its own bubble for quite a while now.
I agree in sentiment but lately keep finding Python fraudulent in that regard: folks write complex messes in it because of its deficiencies, or to just be dramatic.
Agreed. I can't possibly see the value in these integrated devices for anyone but Amazon. Beyond that, these things can and will be hacked immediately.
Good morning, stranger. I am curious about what you all are up to; the idea of a non-profit that has access to computing resources and bandwidth, is kind of interesting. Do you have something like a blog, a twitter feed, or a github org page?
>1.) If you truly are "rich," then you pay for your home in cash. You do not take out a mortgage on your house. Look at a distribution of loan amounts, the vast majority are around $600k. Very few are are >$1M [0]. Home loans are a product for middle-class Americans.

Looking at the distribution of loan amounts would only be meaningful in the context of the distribution of home sale prices.

Obviously fewer loans are made for houses that fewer people are buying.
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Productivity is not the sole measure of competency, nor necessarily even a very good one. Productivity suffers when time is spent making software robust, secure, and performant, and the reverse is obviously also true. Likewise, short term productivity sometimes suffers when effort is spent to ensure long term productivity. Again the reverse also holds true. The problem is that short term productivity is often the only measure of competency that is immediately visible. Nobody gets recognized for the problems they don't cause.
Its annoying that a "smart" TV is defined as supporting an API Yahoo removed three years ago, but there are no "smart" TVs that understand their inputs and could go into some kind of sleep mode.

The "smart" booting up does take 20 seconds, but as you can see in a laptop going to sleep to wide awake should take less than a second.

Just because smart TVs are poorly designed doesn't imply there's a technical limitation to display technology. Its technically possible to make a useful smart TV, even if there are none today.
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#1 solution that I've been using, is setup an ifttt skill, then "alexa, trigger call my phone"
5.) As principal is paid down and the interest portion of the payment decreases, the credit approaches zero.
It's exactly why I bought instead of rented. In fact I bought another house and rent the original. It's a tax loss and yet every month equity builds.
Awesome, I'm stocked to get my hands on this!
Think of it as data compression that shows you the notes you're most likely to play, without taking up space for notes you probably won't.

If there's a piece in C, for example, in most traditional Western music you're unlikely to play off-key notes. So why take up valuable space for those when you can denote that unlikely event with a sharp/flat symbol?

Traditional music notation made no sense at all to me until I realized this.

Edit: For those that don't know, in most western music you're only going to use 8 out of the 12 possible notes most of the time. This is not universally true especially of modern non-pop music, but traditionally if you played off-key notes people thought you might summon evil spirits so it's easy to understand why things would be written down this way. Not only is it space efficient, but you wouldn't accidentally summon the devil. To summon the devil you have to really want to and write a flat or sharp in there.
Sometimes you can change it, other times you can not. You are not the only person trying to influence culture and oftentimes the culture became that way because someone is actively trying to keep it so. In that case, you start from disadvantage and not everyone is equipped to do so - it takes great social skills.

You also become threat to established people as you are trying to change the culture. You need to be ready for ugly politics and bacstabbing tactic when it happens. Really bad cultures are result of upper management values and incentives they put in place. If upper management rewards (whether on purpose or as side result of other goal) the behavior you consider bad, then your attempts to make situation better man end up punished.
the article says that the MID causes upward pressure on prices, which you acknowledge in the edit but not in your first sentence
> who generally fail to acknowledge themselves to be beneficiaries of federal largess. “Today, as in the past,” ... “most of the recipients of federal aid are not the suspect ‘welfare queens’ of the popular imagination but rather middle-class homeowners, salaried professionals and retirees.”

This quote is extremely misleading! There are not given aid, they are just not charged as much tax.

When people think "welfare queens" and "federal aid" they are talking about people who pay negative tax - they get more aid then their tax.

Simply not taxing people at 100% of their income should not be considered "aid".
If the tax were dropped, the short term effect is people would spend the saved money on something else. And in the long term they'd find rental that ends up in the same ballpark price per month - so they'd end up not saving anything and the various governments wouldn't collect taxes. So the tax would have to come somewhere else.
More like send them a text message to the device they're currently on.
I'm an amateur musician and one of the things I hate about electronic music is how "distant" it all feels.

I'm used to picking up the guitar, playing a few chords and writing a melody.

Ableton (or any other DAW) feels like a chore. I have to boot up the computer, connect the MIDI keyboard, the audio interface and the headphones, then wait for Ableton to load, then create a new track and add a MIDI instrument before I can play a single note.

I know the sessions view in Ableton was an attempt to make the music feel more like jamming, but it doesn't really work for me. A lot of musicians who play instruments I've talked to feel the same way.

I would love an "Ableton in a box" that feels more intuitive and immediate.
Announcing an unreleased major feature the week before Google I/O? What a surprise.
Question about this from your blog:

> Does your web framework protect against CSRF? If no, or if you don’t know what CSRF is – prefer token based authentication.

Can you elaborate on this? If I implement CORS and also make sure my API is well-designed (for example, GET requests are truly idempotent and do not mutate anything), am I not protected from CSRF?

Thanks!
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Wow, that's an amazing doctor.

When I discussed the subject with two psychiatrists, they seemed unaware of how it connects to psychiatric issues.
If you want to live somewhere for 15 to 20 years and guarantee you won't be kicked out, you should buy the place. Not everyone renting wants to live somewhere long-term.
I don't know for sure, (https://jcp.org/en/participation/committee shows they were in 2013) but I suspect Oracle v Google might be the reason?
This falls apart pretty quickly when you think about the fact that the government would be forcing someone to sell something they own
I wish we could just get some standardization and federation across VoIP providers. I would love to be able to use whatever device I want to call someone else, who can use whatever device they want to answer. Mac, PC, iOS, Android, Alexa - it should all just work together.
Which already exists in Rust in the form of... wait for it... the Drop trait. It's the same thing.
The subsidy is enormous compared to the cost of other housing programs, and it almost all goes to well-off or rich people. So, no, your TLDR is not accurate, as it points to homeownership as an important wealth-building mechasism for those who can afford it. Furthermore, since the FHA was straight-up refusing to insure mortgages in black communities until 19-freaking-68, there is a strong historical effect of perpetuating racial inequalities by making only whites eligible for housing subsidies. We spend more than four times as much on mortgage interest than Section 8 housing subsidies.

TL;DR: The mortgage interest deduction is a welfare payment that you have to be rich (and until 1968, white) to get. Maybe we shouldn't spend $71 billion a year on it.
Typically, if you're patient, you can get the same product 1-2 years later for (sometimes) fractions of the KS price(s). Granted, you might miss out on some add-on swag, but the core product remains the same.

I find KS to be more about what kind of potential collector's item might one get by investing in an idea - at least in the things I'm interested in. For some, the collector's item (e.g. a custom art print that comes with a game) is worth the expense. For many others, patience is key. So many times successful products that make it to the marketplace are sold after the fact for very reasonable prices.

KS is brilliant at playing at our emotions and opening our wallets. I've gone down this path a few times with retro games.
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Title is probably misleading many people. This new feature does not do standard calls to phones. From what I can tell, it's more of an "in-amazon-network" voice chat, between amazon apps/devices.
No, there's no magic wand. More and more I feel there's no wand at all. I feel policy makers are so far removed from not having running water that this just isn't on their radar.
If Cruise is our first most notable investment, Zapier may be our second most notable investment. I say that because over the years, we saw Zapier is so rare in many aspects that we can hardly find any other startup like that, except Zeplin.

Wade and the team, Keep on doing something different but better and I can safely assume you will be a great role model in the silicon valley some day!
You can enable "Alexa, find my phone" by installing the skill and android/ios app called "Trackr"

Once it is set up, you can say, "Alexa, tell Trackr to find my phone", which will tell you the address your phone was last seen. You can also say, "Alexa, tell Trackr to ring my phone", which will make your phone ding even if it is on silent.

The "Help! I've fallen and can't get up!" functionality can be had by installing the "Ask My Buddy" skill, which will let you designate emergency contacts which you can notify by voice.

It's not chinese food, but both Dominos and Pizza Hut now have Alexa skills available which will let you order by voice, as well.
This is a really great answer! This is also a big part of why different instruments read different clefs.
I have no doubt that some folks get out a calculator and plan out their budget based on the deduction, but I think many do not. Anecdotally, myself and the people in my group of friends who also own houses, we budgeted for the mortgage payment irrespective of tax benefits and just smiled on tax day. I really try to avoid as much as possible relying on outside variables like tax deductions when planning my budget. I go in conservatively and then appreciate the benefits while they last.
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I don't contest the 300M+ pre-money valuation given the enormous potential market and the likelihood of locking in paying users for life, but can someone explain to me why they need 110M?

If they're going to be as profitable as their valuation implies, why give away so much of the company? There's no way they need that many engineers. Is it just for a massive marketing campaign?