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Using RIAA/MPAA content is a sure-fire to get traction, as the whole Internet craves/dies for their content. Ironcially, content they dont want to pay for.

Overall the majority of businesses who utilize & market to users come get RIAA/MPAA content never seem to have long lasting businesses.
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Judging from how HP apparently tries to create products that rip off customers (like minuscule ink refills that cost $14 a pop and run out almost immediately), my cynical belief is that "lack of character" is necessary, if not sufficient, for promotion at HP. But in this case, they had nowhere to promote him to.
Samuel, As an art school guy I think Arts education is going to go online even before the traditional Liberal Arts training. Primarily because art, design, film making are areas where credentials are nearly useless and the portfolio of work is paramount.

In terms of formal skills sites like Vectips, Smashing Magazine, et al. Do a good job conveying how to work with tools.

I do agree that the sense of fraternity that grows up in a creative environment is important, but the web is flattening that out. Look at a site like Threadless.com where there is a dedicated critique community. I think film makers coming up sharing videos via YouTube, collaborating remotely, and will replace a lot of the community that is typically found on campus.

More broadly, we may be looking at the end of a historical blip. For hundreds of years, skills were transferred via apprenticeship, on the job training, etc. A number of demographic and political trends changed this from the 1950's til now, but maybe we are seeing a reversion to the mean?
It reverts to silverlight if you are using IE (of course, :) )
You might want to also have a look at ClozureCL for Windows[1]. It's very small and has some other nice features (OS level thread support, unicode, ...).

[1] http://www.clozure.com/clozurecl.html
Anyone care to list any reputable sites they have used in the past?
when will this "gates was a dropout so he don't know nothin' about skool" meme die? the man went to prestigious private schools and Harvard and was well on his way to graduating when he chose to drop out. it wasn't like he was a poor kid who had no opportunity to ever know what it was like to be in a proper skool
My office building is finally going to install showers. :-) But someone stole my bike. :-(
All depends how much it cost. A decently priced mural like this could be a net win in employees feeling better in their work environment which in turn can improve concentration and productivity.

Of course it's hard to measure the impact something like this could have, it just doesn't scream wasteful to me.
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my bet on next step is opscode.
Considering Freud's theories have never been proven to have a basis in reality, and considering this woman is an entrepreneur and has no apparent expertise in the field she's commenting on, I'd advise you not to give her conjecture much weight.
I think you're confusing lazy evaluation with operator short-circuiting. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-circuit_evaluation)
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Gates is years behind the curve as always.

As a concrete example, the Apple-provided WWDC 2010 sessions on iOS 4.0 and OS X are some of the best educational materials I've ever seen.

Well recorded, tested material, and, this is key, absolutely knowledgable presenters. The people that built those systems. I doubt any university, at any price, could provide lecture materials as broad as these. Add in the fact that I can watch these at my own pace on an iPad, literally anywhere, and scrub back and forwards, and there's no excuse for missing anything.

I think back to my sausage-factory university classes, and pretty-much it was mostly second-rate stuff, with a few notable exceptions (Guest lecture from SPJ on graph-reduction, in 87 was probably the high-point). It's sad to think I spent four years of my life doing a bachelors, when I could probably cover the material about 50% faster now, and retain it significantly better.

In short, Gates is late. It'll be way faster than 5 years. Hell, the new SICP lectures are already available I believe, and I'm sure geology, physics, maths, stats will all follow.
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The flaw in the argument for switching comes in its second line:

"1. I denote by A the amount in my selected envelope.

2. The probability that A is the smaller amount is 1/2, and that it is the larger amount is also 1/2."

If we're gonna be taking expected values we need to assume that the monetary amounts in the two envelopes are generated from a probability distribution on the nonnegative reals. Then the probability distribution for the amount of money in the smaller envelope is going to be some kind of curve (call it S), and obviously the probability distribution for the amount of money in the bigger envelope is going to be the same curve only "stretched out" and "squashed" by a factor of two (we'll call it B).

Now if you say "my envelope contains exactly A dollars," you can tell what the probability is that your envelope is the smaller envelope by comparing the relative heights of the two curves at the value A; let's denote these heights by S(A) and B(A). It is certainly possible that the two heights are the same, in which case it's fifty-fifty that you have the bigger or smaller envelope, the rest of the logic holds, and you should indeed switch, getting an expected return of 5/4 * A.

But it is obviously impossible that in general the two heights are the same for any given A, because then the two probability distributions are the same -- and that can't be true, because B is a squashed, stretched-out version of S, and for a variety of fairly obvious reasons you can't squash and stretch out a finite curve on the positive reals and get the same curve (unless that curve is 0 everywhere). And so we can't conclude that in general you should switch, which is good because if you're not allowed to look at the money before you switch it obviously doesn't matter whether you do or not (unless the people running the game are messing with you).
The anecdotal evidence about none of my friends using last.fm was really meant to state the nicheness of last.fm. That is, I wanted to create something transparent that a wider less dedicated audience can use.
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There are a couple of things I can get from attending uni that I can't get from learning online.

- Focus - Sitting at the computer it is very easily to be distracted trying to pick up a challenging new concept. I find this even more true about things I don't derive any immediate benefit from, as in it is easier to concentrate on learning a library I'm going to use in a freelance project than say an obscure statistical model for a class. Sitting in the lecture give me that chance to clear my head from most distractions and focus on the content.

- Mindset - I head into uni, it usually gets me in the right mindset for learning and completing tasks. I don't get that sitting at home.

I would also add the guidance of some lecturers/ supervisors but this point really depends where you are. I can't say in my own experience this couldn't have been replaced online although their are moments when having such experienced teachers can help.

Edit- I would also add that these issues could be solved by getting together at a co-working space with some like minded others. I guess a hybrid model like that could have some merit, the educational institute acts as a network to connect like minded people for online study. Maybe they could also have a staff member that has a hands off role and just answers questions over email for a much reduced fee over the traditional system.
Dr. Seuss? Well, everyone has their own taste, but I'd feel like I was going to work at a daycare.
Those are excellent, I love how approaches everything in terms of the normal person who might find some concepts tricky and need a closer explanation. I've gone to lectures then watched one of these on the same content and he really explains it so much better.

The thing lecturers tend to do is assume everyone in the class has been through the same set of classes before the current one and assume many things should be completely obvious and not need explanation, when often they do.
Twenty rules for good graphics should be beaten over the head with twenty rules for good typography.
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I can read Arabic.

How is this show at all relevant on HN?
I listen to a BBC medical podcast (Medical Matters - it's really good) and recently they were at a critical injuries unit in London. The reporter asked the head of the unit why 90% of the patients there were men. The blunt answer given was that men take more extreme risks and are, therefore, more likely to need emergency medical attention. I could hear the PC brigade warming up their pens to correct that observation as sexist and not based in reality, though.
I get Goedel's theorem, I'd like to think. I get strange loops, and how Hofstadter would have a field day with our criticism of xkcd and of xkcd's critics. I just know there's still more.
You're not overreacting -- this could turn into something more serious. Some people you find aren't really your friends until it's too late. Though I agree you probably don't want to get the police involved, and I'm not sure there would be anything they could do since it's probably a civil matter.

random ideas:

-- get a new card account, then use up available credit on the old card with a cash advance or some other reversable transaction.
-- report the card as lost.
-- send him a letter/email explaining (nicely) that he has until X date to repay the money or you will go to small claims court. There you wouldn't need a lawyer -- you'd only have to pay a filing fee, and a judgement in your favor could affect his credit rating, and give you a tool to force repayment.
The crux of the matter:

The cost of services comes to about ten thousand dollars per homeless client per year. An efficiency apartment in Denver averages $376 a month, or just over forty-five hundred a year, which means that you can house and care for a chronically homeless person for at most fifteen thousand dollars, or about a third of what he or she would cost on the street.

I believe similar observations have been made in subsidizing the price of fruit and vegetables (or even bikes and gym memberships) vs the medical costs of bad diets and lack of exercise, too.
I never thought I'd see Dave Winer and Jason Fried singing from the same hymn-sheet. Dave has a lot of experience through running his businesses over the years and it's a shame he doesn't share his evergreen wisdom on these matters in this way more often.
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Point well taken. Thanks.
And your kids can get addicted to herion some day.
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It is highly unlikely they would have gone to the effort had they been forced to write an entire game from the ground up. Both those games evolved from simplistic (sometimes very simplistic) origins to where they are today.
"when bad things happened, we just calmly laid out all the options, and failure was not one of them."

-- Apollo 13 FDO Flight Controller Jerry Bostick regarding the source of the movie quote "Failure is not an option".
If you ever need a job in Portland Ezra, let me know :)
You missed 0b000f meetings.
A bit off topic, but is adding Windows Azure as a provider on your radar at all? We'd buy this in a heartbeat.
Personally, I think that grey is a bad color: too dreary and dull. Also, tell people how they can use your social network in a way that Facebook cannot do, i.e. provide use cases and have strong calls-to-action to try those features out. I would focus a lot on the multiple profiles feature.
Idea from far left: this sets up Jon Rubinstein as a potential incoming CEO. He's got the technical chops, and was acquired recently with Palm for a significant amount of money. While I don't have information to confirm otherwise, Rubinstein seems to have the work ethics espoused by Hewlett and Packard. Who knows, maybe HP at the hands of Rubinstein would really rise to become a true competitor to Apple.
You mention this doesn't eliminate probability but don't explain why you think that might be the case. I just meant that the argument Smullyan presents does not involve probabilities, random variables, distributions, expected values, etc. (This can be verified by reading it again and checking those concepts do not appear. ;)).

I don't find your argument convincing either, maybe it helps to remove the "undefined variable" you complain about:

The first envelope chosen has some definite amount of money, let's say $10 (but the same argument can be adapted to any amount). Then the other envelope must have either $5 or $20. If it is $5, switching loses you $5. If it is $10, switching gains you $10.

Imagine actually doing this experiment with the two envelopes, opening the first and seeing $10. Wouldn't you say the other contains either $5 or $20?
Got to call the cops on a thief; don't bother putting your livelihood at stake.
I suspect there's more of the early HP spirit at Agilent than at HP. Somehow when Compaq got the HP computer division, they got the name too, and the very cool test equipment part of HP got the new name Agilent. (This is my recollection, I'm sure the wikipedia has a much more detailed history)

I chuckle when I see the old tube-type HP gear as movie props. The HP 330 series distortion analyzer has had many appearances including on the wall in the presidents office in Battlestar Galactica. HP and Tektronix certainly have had many years as favorites for much of their test gear. Much older equipment is still in use. It's an eye opener to see the circuit boards with all the traces covered in gold. Not just an edge connector... the entire boards.
Time to dust off my favorite early piece, the HP 300 Harmonic Wave Analyzer...

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Indeed. Diet and lifestyle are where the great revelations lie.
Curious that xkcd commented on this sort of thinking just Wednesday: http://www.xkcd.com/775/

Though most of the article remains very relevant when you take it out of the "this is the way it has been for thousands of years" mold which doesn't really have incredibly ironclad evidence and recognize that our present society does present these barriers for women.

But I do think that overcoming our perceptions is not a matter of overcoming hardwired notions, but societally reinforced norms which can seem awfully hardwired.
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> evt && (evt.target || evt.srcElement)

It's certainly true that this isn't well typed (not to mention not valid Haskell, since the . is used for namespacing, not access to member variables), but there's no reason that one couldn't do something conceptually similar:

class Boolable a where
toBool :: a -> Bool
(&&) :: a -> a -> a
(||) :: a -> a -> a

a && b = if (toBool a) then b else a
a || b = if (toBool a) then a else b

instance Boolable Int where
toBool 0 = False
toBool _ = True

I don't know how idiomatic this is, but it works. One can see that it really is short-circuiting:

> :l Boolable
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Boolable.hs, interpreted )
Ok, modules loaded: Main.
> 1 Main.|| undefined :: Int
1
> 1 Main.&& undefined :: Int
*** Exception: Prelude.undefined

I don't know Haskell well enough to know why the `:: Int` on the end is needed, but I'm sure that that, too, can be worked around.
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How about the unconscious mind? Psychiatric therapy?

Freud wasn't just "sexsexsexsexsex".
So Hurd is finally finished?

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Just FYI, I got it and found it funny. Highlight of the thread, IMO.
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Yes, I'm aware of it ... but it's not the solution I'm seeking.
whole numbers, ie cents

100 cents instead of 1.00 dollars
It's over. You no longer have a friend or a co-founder. You may or may not have this business anymore.

What you have now is the situational equivalent of the Kubler-Ross stages of death. Your brain needs to cope with this. Your brain isn't coping yet.

What you do next will affect your future. Not because of this thief. Because your action will demonstrate to yourself that you can be jerked around and you will let people steal from you. OR NOT.

I had an employee embezzle from me. Not exactly the same but similar. I was ashamed and embarrassed. I'm a tax lawyer FFS. I should be smarter than that.

I had her arrested. It was time to stand up for myself. I suspect it is time for you to stand up for yourself.

Your company may be dead as a result of this. You don't have total control over that result. Your next business will do well if you insist that you be treated honorably and not be stolen from. As soon as you're willing to let _this_ company die for reasons beyond your control, you'll take action. Because you already, in your heart, know what to do.

There may or may not be ways to evict him and keep the company going. Don't hold onto this company at all costs. But do stand up for yourself here. If you don't the wheel will come around again and someone else will steal from you. And again until you insist that it stop. Then it will.
Just introduce two things

1)A genius mathematicians.

2)A theorem to extract contextual information from Pi bits. It would give not only the info, but also work out the context.
Interesting take on things, especially from a woman. Typically, this stance:

"How can we make more women successful? Without fundamental changes in how men and women perceive attractiveness, it will be difficult to change the status quo. ... what about making the next "Carrie Bradshaw" a hardworking tech entrepreneur?"

is taken by men.

I think that the "reason" that there are fewer female entrepreneurs and hackers than men is because of this psuedo-sexist ideology.

Why must it be attractive for a female to be powerful in order for her to succeed? Screw how good you look. Do what you love and you'll be surrounded by people who appreciate you and what you do.

Personally, I believe the disparity lies not in social overtones of popularity, attractiveness and potential as a mate; I believe that the disparity is primarily due to lack of mentorship, education and people telling women, specifically in this case, that they can excel as an entrepreneur if they choose.

My guess, though, is that this disparity is not going to last very long. Gender differences continue to grow smaller in other fields and instances; why not starting companies? Or, at least, it is my very sincere hope that this is the case. Partially because it makes me sad every time 100 guys on HN try and figure out what's wrong with women.
For some reason I don't see discussion of federal spending in the Salon article or the cited NYTimes article, except for a few offhand comments in the former which seem suggestive, not substantive (e.g. rumors about what the Deficit Commission may propose 4 months from now). Why am I missing them?

I agree about California; there seems to be plenty of evidence of exceedingly high salaries and pensions. Administrators might reasonably claim that they raised comp in order to hire top talent (for example at the UCs) and that they were successful in doing so. But they ratcheted up way past levels that could be sustained in a downturn, and at this point it seems short-sighted to the point of crazy.
Then WebGL comes along and the community splits between bare-bones vs OpenGL...again!
On point 4) you can merge peoples top tracks. You get (in my opinion) better at a glance top tracks than last.fm. The like.fm client is easier to use than scribbling and the client uses almost 10 megs less ram on osx than iscrobbler.

I have better facebook integration (as far as I can tell) which means all in all the value proposition is better for the large population of non last.fm users. I guess adding in last.fm scrobbling may change that? As a last.fm what would you say could win you over besides better artist recommendations. Sorry i don't use last.fm so it's hard for me to determine the main differences. I probably should do some research. :)
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The problem with this is that not everyone will be able to handle Machine level things in the beginning. Even in the best universities students will be intimidated if there first programming class would be in assembly. They barely get by on lisp
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How is Blizzard monetizing on a modder's work? I can't find information on cost for the service.
It doesn't eliminate probability because it's the exact same envelope experiment. ;) In other words, there is still a 50% probability of gaining or losing. My post above isn't an argument, it's an explanation. The "undefined variable" is established by your own proposal, i.e., in #2 you first choose an envelope which has an amount we call "y". At that point "y" is undefined, because you specifically explain it could be either the higher or lower amount.

I think your confusion lies in not considering carefully enough the meaning of your wording. In other words, you're performing a play on words to get a specific result, akin to the "heads I win, tails you lose" word play. Let me try to explain further below:

Imagine actually doing this experiment with the two envelopes, opening the first and seeing $10. Wouldn't you say the other contains either $5 or $20?

No. The other envelope contains the amount the person who prepared the envelopes placed in it.

Try defining both values explicitly and this issue may become clearer. Imagine one envelope contains $10 and the other contains $5. Go through your above proposed equations using strictly those values. Remember, in a real experiment that would be completely valid.
While not exactly the same problem this is what cleared it up for me:

First pick a positive integer at random. Now pick a second integer at random. What is the probability that the second number is larger? The answer seems to be 1 because after the first number is chosen there are finitely many numbers smaller but infinitely many larger. But what if two people (A and B) choose two positive integers at random but don't tell anyone just yet. What is the probability that A>B? By symmetry we can see it should be 0.5 . So A tells his number. Now the probability that A>B seems to jump to 0 because there are finitely many numbers smaller than A but infinitely many larger. But why should the probability change when we don't even know what A is, just that it known?

The problem lies with the phrase "choose a positive integer at random". However you choose the number you will be hopelessly biased toward 0 because every number you choose will be finite. Now think about the envelope problem but add the condition that the largest amount that any envelope will have is X. Then if your envelope has N in it there is a chance that 2N is larger than X. That cut's down on the chance that switching gets you more. Magically (because I'm too lazy to actually write it all out) it turns out it cuts it down just so the probability of getting more money by switching works out to .5
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Also worthwhile is Hofstadter’s essay/lecture, “Analogy as the Core of Cognition”, http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy.h...
Really? Then that really does put quite a damper on things.

(I'm not much for MP myself; I don't think I've ever owned a game that didn't have a single-player mode.)