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The response I got from Meetup.com is below. The key bit is "You'll want to 'Edit email settings' for each Meetup group that you've joined."

I'm in like 20+ groups; it makes unsubscribing a huge pain.

9/12/2010
I have a suggestion. I get many emails from meetup. I don't want to get
them anymore. I also don't want to have to go login, then go to a manage
notifications page and try to figure out how to stop getting email
(which, btw I have tried to do unsuccessfully).

Why don't you guys put one link at the bottom that says "Don't want to
get this type of notification in the future? click here to unsubscribe."

Boom, one click and I'm done. It make is much easier on your users.

-Blake

I'm sorry for the inconvenience! Currently there's no way to completely
eliminate the emails you get from your Meetup groups or your Organizers.
However, I took a look at the email you'd forwarded in, and that was an
Automated Meetup Reminder, which you can opt out of by going to your
Email Setting page for that group, here:

http://www.awdg.org/settings/

In general, if you're only interested in hearing from your Meetup
group's Organizer and about the Meetups on the calendar, turning off the
email discussion with your entire group will help reduce the amount of
messages you're receiving. To change your email settings within each
group, go to:

http://www.meetup.com/account/comm/

You'll want to 'Edit email settings' for each Meetup group that you've
joined.

Having more control over the emails you receive from your Meetup Group
Organizers is a great suggestion. We really appreciate your thoughts on
this, and your patience while we make changes and improvements around
here. :)

If you've got any other questions, please let us know.

Sincerely,

Tamara Garvey
Meetup Community Team Specialist
Meetup HQ
As someone in his 40s who finished college and is located in silicon valley may I say THANK YOU!
I read few weeks back in Y Combinator FAQ page that the average age of Y Combinator funded entrepreneurs is 26. Vivek's survey found the average age of founders to be 40. It would be interesting to know the average age of Y Combinator applicants.
I bought one on that book site with a river name. Don't skimp on it (there are cheapies available but avoid them). Also, I wish I had bought a 6 foot one to improve pairing (right now, the person with the keyboard gets the mat).
Very nice. Excelent idea, and it looks beautiful. If you had a +1 or like button, I would have clicked both.
Gold is a commodity not a currency. Historically most currencies have been either minted in or based on valuable commodities. Virtually without exception they have been produced by governments.

Do you mean to argue that no currency ever has or should have been created by a government?
What realistic recourse does anyone have when a sender violates this requirement?
The Pacific Ocean can be anything but peaceful at times.
This objection is idiotic. The number of transactions required to go over a 2GB limit would be in the millions. A 200mb limit would still be in the thousands if not tens of thousands.
Oh no the fund is still running. After building a ton of python and C programs to automate basic tasks, thanks to the magic of cron, I stopped doing a lot of the day-to-day work. And now I have some time on my hands :)

There was another discussion in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828538 and I got the impression that people were interested in HFT, if not necessarily supporting it. Furthermore, I find that many people in the industry are surprisingly tight-lipped over the most mundane things (god forbid someone finds out about struct.unpack or RDTSC). My motives are fairly straightforward:

1) discuss some of my experiences for those who are interested in seeing how to bootstrap a trading operation;

2) convince people that finance startups exist and have interesting challenges; and

3) excite some people to the extent that they would like to work with me.

I'm honestly not excited by most of the traditional candidates from finance recruiters, mostly because the market is flooded with excel-happy windonauts that couldn't even do basic excel tasks (like calculating a pnl given a CSV -- I would use awk, but that's not a traditional windows thing) and "linux" developers who don't know how to use grep or perl/python.

Also, the last time some tried a retrospective [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2162346], I got the impression that he was looking for a job. And given that the blog was taken down, I'm guessing he found one :P

As far as comments are concerned, at least I get an email when a comment is made at the blog. I dont get an email here, and see an item like this if I happen to stumble upon the post.
I like to try and keep up with physics and am interested in astronomy but this stuff really goes straight over my head. If this is correct what are the implications?
I can't remember the site off the top of my head, but something recently wanted me to go through an entire sequence of 'exit interview' forms in order to unsubscribe.

My response in the 'feedback' field was quite satisfying to write, but I doubt it'll ever actually be looked at.
"live, work, and play in close physical proximity to the fertile grounds of the Bay Area"

Among other problems, how will people on this ship take advantage of the "fertile grounds of the Bay Area" when the CBP agents at the port catch on to the fact that anyone coming from that ship is probably coming into the city for business meetings (as opposed to touristic purposes) and purposefully skirting various bits of immigration law?
What was missing from the discussion was an attempt to tackle one of the issues that plagues string theory: the math may all work out and it could provide a convenient way of looking at the world, but is it actually related to anything in the actual, physical Universe? Nobody even attempted to tackle that question.

I was surprised and happy to read this part. With my multiple attempts (and mostly failing) to understand quantum mechanics or string theory, I got the impression that this topic is never approached, and that omission never explained. If you're going to try to convince someone that our universe has multiple parallel futures, you should be ready to explain how that relates to our lives.

I think that's what lead me to the impression - as an outsider - that fascinating sounding things like the many-worlds interpretation are beautiful ideas that do not exist outside of equations, they're a kind of science fiction, a kind that is backed by mathematics and published in journals.
“09:08 A lot of people are talking about cyberspace, information superhighway and this idea that we are going to create this alternate environment that we are all gonna live on and that everything is going to be done there… that's crazy.”
I have been using a stand-up desk for about 6 years now. One advantage that is not always mentioned, is that when tackling a tough problem, it actually encourages you to pace around the room a bit. In my experience, the increased blood flow from doing this has helped with focus and concentration.
(c) absolutely - compare with Drawing Pad, where you can purchase colouring books in app. It has a config option to hide the IAP store, which avoids all the awkward questions.

I don't mind purchasing additional content in a premium app. If the app is good value by itself then additional sets for $3 a pop is fine. But I don't want my kids to see this option - as far as they are concerned, the app has what it has, and extra books appear magically from time to time.
It lumps the Iraq and Afghanistan costs under Bush, is that all the costs for those wars since Obama took office as well?

Does Obama's cost not include the wars he's continued?
I'm not sure what the point of living off the coast of SF is if you can't go in to land now and then. The whole point of being in SF is the networking possibilities, not some magical sphere of influence that surrounds the area.

If you still can't enter the country you might as well be in your own country working in comfortability.
I've read "Murach's JavaScript and DOM Scripting" and I really liked it. It makes a solid foundation ...
http://www.murach.com/books/mdom/index.htm
How does this relate with Talbot's perspective(s) on the universe as a hologram?

http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html
I love the "sign without printing" feature in preview. I've already used it to sign some legal docs. The one problem is my lawyer then asked for originals... d'oh!
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IANAL. Unfortunately I don't think it's possible to file a civil suit on your own as with, say, junk faxes (though someone please correct me if that's wrong).

So I guess your best bet is to file a complaint with the FTC, which does occasionally sanction companies, or with your state attorney general, who also has the power to force action.
"Our Satellite Internet lane will be really fast! Just with high latency..

And our security system will actually have to repulse not only cyber pirates, but real ones as well!"
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No, it wasn't when the inquisition came, it was in response to the airbnb post. We've gone through this already, llambda. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823714.
Full disclosure: I'm a Mac guy.

I don't understand why I'd want this, though I would desperately love to understand why one would. Can anyone help?

Please & thank you.
Join to Open Source/Free software community.
Side projects and GitHub will become your saviors :)
urgh.. why does displaying a slideshow still require flash
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The difference is the LMQ toy doesn't come with a button to buy another one.
What really helped me grasp git was attending one of Scott Chacon's speeches on the topic. Scott works for github, knows what he's talking about and explains things thoroughly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF_OlomyKQQ
> if you think of the fact that a company like Google depends on ad revenue

Google's ad platform was the result of combining Applied Semantics' ad matching algorithm with DoubleClick's penetration/established partner network. In other words, the engineers in the Bay needed a way to pay for their sweet search engine development and just bought ad companies in LA and NYC respectively :)
The time seems right for the first bitcoin insurance company.
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This is pathetic and not resourceful. I have more respect for the fanboys/fangirls that will stay nights and days in line to get the new iPad 3.
I don't see an attempt from the GP to factionalize the discussion, at least in the comment you replied to. But I do see an attempt from you to factualize it.
I've been an entrepreneur a long time and my take is:

1. Not a myth! Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Foursquare, ... There are counterexamples but certainly plenty of young ones. I'm 40+ now so no bias. :-)
2. Correct, myth. I could teach you to be an entrepreneur if you wanted to be one.
3. Myth
4. Myth. Gilt Groupe a good example.
5. Myth
I think this one is closer to the topics he's asking for.

http://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Probability-Variables-...

Also, courses on this tend to have a bloody lot of calculus and algebra, to the point of dominating the actual prob & stat knowledge required by about an order of magnitude. Solve lots of problems and review manual computation of integrals & etc. if necessary. I routinely use Mathematica for anything that would take a meaningful time to compute by hand, so it was a huge pain to deal with this aspect.
I have my own domain... How would I set up my MX record to configure it like yours? Can I forward it to my gmail somehow?
I'd believe it if every online community hadn't already fantasized, written, prepared wikis, appointed Financial Ministers and plotted to buy the Principality of Sealand at one point or another for this same goal. Thanks for the chuckle though, it was nice to daydream about visa-less US entrepreneurship.
String theory and QM are dissimilar in this aspect. Predictions made by QM have been experimentally verified to an absurd preciseness. In fact, some of the most precise verifications ever done in science have been in QM.
What about all of the good that AirBnB does for the large majority of people who use the site? Is there a deep ethical problem with letting people supplement their income, while also letting travellers have a cheaper option for a night/weeks stay?

The vast majority of people who use AirBnb benefit from it.
I don't know how  to IE6
I was a freshman in college in 1996 and remember PowerPoints being used in my courses then, so that change is pretty old... and we're still using them today. The reality is that we haven't advanced very much in "presentation technology" in the last 15 years.
I think there may be some merit to your idea about the "live aboard" concept. It might work best someplace like Anacortes, where the boat could be moved across the border to Vancouver for a period of time.

Sailor here as well (out of Morro Bay, CA) and sail offshore regularly on my own boat.
We're so violent that the rate of violent crimes has steadily decreased since 1994.
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I think another myth is that the majority of companies are started in the Bay Area. That might be true for tech, but for entrepreneurship overall in the U.S. I bet the Bay accounts for 10-15% tops.... does anyone have numbers? (I'm searching, but if you read regularly and have found some numbers please let me know)
He is looking significantly grayer than he did a month ago. It'll be interesting to see what happens in 2013 when the positions are reversed and the Bush tax cuts will expire without agreement in both houses.
I've seen this idea before; can't recall if it was at the peak of the last bubble, or since, and it's really hard to search for references.

If I recall correctly, one previous variant suggested a ship off Los Angeles.
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"within the industry"

Ah yes. The industry.
(Presumably) Dan Kaminsky and Travis Goodspeed modified a bitcoin miner so that when it found a block, it would embed this tribute inside one of its unused field. (or rather, it embeds it in the transaction that is created as a part of generating a new block, the "coinbase".)
With amazon, it's possible to have multiple accounts registered to the same email (with different passwords). You might have unsubscribed on one account, but not on another.
Would you mind telling your story?
I'm certainly no advocate of Numbers. Pages I use for pretty demanding stuff and I've had no problems. Word has problems editing a simple letter, but it certainly may scale to very large documents better than Pages -- but if you're doing that kind of thing, I'd recommend Framemaker.
It may be surprising to you but a lot of people are not so lawyerly. I myself have never used a lawyer for a personal matter despite many situations where it sounds like you would. It's just not my thing I suppose and I don't believe I'm alone. Not saying it's better or worse.
I've noticed that if I flag something like this in gmail as spam it still gets through, repeatedly.
If those extra packets could suddenly and uncontrollably leak out on the Internet and destroy everything, requiring a trillion dollar government bailout to fix it and ten years to restore confidence in the infrastructure, yes I would be pissed and doubly so that this inadequate analogy was used to defend it.
I know to be wary of DHS/CBP arbitrariness, but they aren't against all visits, just those that run afoul of often-stupid regulations.

If they know...

• the ship itself has no contraband

• the business visits are short in duration

• the presence of the ship (and the ship's economic interests) makes it even more likely you'll stay exactly for your stated duration and no longer

• the employment technically is outside US jurisdiction

...they might actually prefer orderly visits from a ship, over more complicated less-understood visits from faraway. Provide CBP with a non-threatening, transparent, technically-compliant model they can understand, and they may not be your enemy.
I'd fake the dates so it seems less stale.
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I like Chrome too. But which version of Firefox? Supposedly the newest version is a bit better on memory use.
You could say the same about nearly every business enterprise, but the history of nationalized industry provides all the answers you need.
Hawking et. al. are arguing about an idea that has equations and some sort of potential physical meaning, and in accordance with the Correspondence Principle [1] has only the most subtle of impact on the rest of physics as we know it, if true. It's an idea that can be disproved, and may have been disproved: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/hologram-universe/

The essay you linked to is Deepak Chopra-style quanto-babble with little content that can actually be translated into something meaningful in the real world. Indeed, one must ask the question, if "reductionist" scientists are so fundamentally wrong about everything, then how come they can so successfully predict so much? Is there some physical experiment that can be run that this will produce better predictions for?

So, I'd say the relationship is that Hawking et al are doing science, and Talbot is using their work as the seed for his internal random number generator.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_principle
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Draw in the Designers
"Now’s the time. Someone needs to start the ball rolling and just say no."

Lots of us say no to supporting IE6 whenever we can, the problem is the person paying our salaries says we will.

But regardless of that, the sad truth is that developers aren't the ones preventing a full scale cutoff of IE6, it's our users. If the people you are making things for use IE6 then you have to support them.
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What does this provide over the thousands of hits I'll get on Google for searching, I dunno, "swelling on neck" or "adhd medication choices for children"? Usually accompanied by forum posts of people sharing their experiences and what have you.
Why roll your own everytime? Doing the same thing over and over, seems like a problem these type of frameworks solve.
No, because I'm actually saying the reverse of what you think I'm saying. I believe Cocoa tends to operate below the level of typical Windows APIs -- low enough to have complete control over the UX but high enough to make things that ought to be easy, easy.

Windows tends to be friendly for lousy developers (typical systems integrators, of whom I have a great deal of experience). At a very low level it doesn't make much of a difference -- good coders will deal with the hand they are given.

I think you can make a case for selection bias in that Mac development (the old Mac OS toolbox now called "Carbon" and Cocoa today) is too difficult for hacks which filters out a lot of the crap that people who can cobble together junk using Visual Basic or whatever. (There used to be a website devoted to really awful Mac apps, most of which were built using Realbasic, but lousy Realbasic apps are cross-platform :-) )
This new account (of a home trashing occurring 1 month ago, of which Airbnb had knowledge) doesn't seem to reconcile with what Airbnb told EJ:

"I do believe the folks at airbnb.com when they tell me this has never happened before in their short history, that this is a one-off case."
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Thanks for the reply. If it's limited to what JS can do it certainly won't do what I need. Also just noticed I wrote "DirectX" instead of "ActiveX" in my previous post, oops.
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It's depressing that some of America's most important fiscal matters must now be negotiated at the point of a gun. The dearth of start ups focused on the public sector seems somewhat surprising to me. It seems that Silicon Valley should have a role to play in easing Washington's dysfunction that we are not playing.
Why did you have the impression a B.S. in CompSci would teach you about legacy browser support?

I dunno, the first few weeks of my internship I had to do the same thing. If nothing else it was a great way to learn about what the company did by doing low-level grunt work. However I'd really recommend that if this is all you'll be doing for the duration of the internship, maybe look for something else.

Otherwise be thankful that you'll eventually have the flexibility to choose a career path that doesn't require you to maintain compliance with IE6.
Grayer and really sleep-deprived (I know that look; I see it in mirrors).

Positions won't be reversed. Obama really thinks bipartisanship works.
When I was a kid we had to develop websites without firebug/inspector, in IE6, both ways.

Wait, I'm still a kid.
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Thanks for the information. I did a little googling also after posting my question and it seems that it would be foolish to look at using either of them for any sort of production code at the moment. I think the PNaCl approach looks more interesting though. One to watch perhaps, but more out of curiosity right now.
Would it be foolish to try to play with HFT (or perhaps "medium" frequency or something) as a private entity? Or is this something essentially only available to Wall Street?

Not looking for money, it just seems like it'd be interesting to explore.
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Photovoltaic cells need to be cooler than an incandescent light source in order to work at all, and substantially cooler to work with reasonable efficiency.
I think this obviously different from your garden variety burglary. For one, I think the owner is questioning both her ability to make good judgments as well as trust other people and services. This is in addition to the helpless feeling of being burgled.
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A few weeks off on 'shoreleave' every couple months might be both practical and compliant with border controls.

Oil platform 'roughnecks' spend 2-4 weeks working 12-hour days, then get 2-4 weeks off on shore, for work that's much more physically draining and dangerous than tech work.
unconvincing. a hodge podge of different ideas that are not coherently woven together.