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>> Food companies don't price me out of the market. Car companies don't either.

Do you think that you get good nutritious food by paying bottom dollar? You think those nitrates and high fructose sugar and other junk are really good for your health? You think that a low cost diet that lacks "expensive" fruits and vegetables has no impact on your health?

The problem with a cheaper second tier education is that it perpetuates the affordability problem from generation to generation. The poor parents who could not afford to send their kid to the rich school will have a son or daughter with a second tier education who will only be qualified for low paying second tier jobs. This system creates a stratified society with low mobility and represents a waste of human potential -- the brilliant kid whose parents couldn't give him a first rate education cannot reach his full potential, while the lazy dumb kid with rich parents takes up a spot in a class in which he simply does not deserve to be (from an academic perspective).

Thinking that the market is a solution to everything is a popular fallacy nowadays. There are places where the market does not produce good outcomes -- education is one of them. You cannot trade human intelligence and aptitude. You cannot have different high standards for different prices -- there are no low tier high standards and top tier high standards. People who are motivated by greed do not make good educators.
Subject changed, thanks for the input. I know it's not going to be easy to find work experience like this, but my hopes are up.
This article will directly cause many more deaths and psychotic breakdowns.

I am ashamed of Forbes for having such a crackpot article on their site.

Treat manic depressive psychosis by avoiding coffee, alcohol and sugar. Right....

Makes as much sense as treating leukaemia by eating yoghurt and avoiding chewing gum.
I was growing increasingly dissatisfied with other aspects of Ubuntu as well. Unity was just the last straw.
Hi, try to keep your replies meaningful to the conversation. k?
I suspect that you'll not get many upvotes for that comment but you can have one from me. I'm well aware that my abuse of sugar, coffee and alcohol are bad for my health but it really does seem that these things are tied into my lifestyle quite strongly...
Therein lies the problem. How? In general, bad schools suffer from a lack of funding and the political will to do something about it.
ARGH MY EARS! What the hell?! I wear headphones!
Why should people care about this, they don't actually care that 1000s of people a day die of starvation. But you consider this is worth caring about?

It is the way of the world, too many important things to care about.
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The unwritten implications of this are that open-source code must be subject to more scrutiny before use, and that the regulations regarding software development are too dated to be strictly followed.

The first implication is probably the more disturbing, since proprietary code is just as likely to have security flaws, and the only advantage it has is a clear way to shift the blame off the government. While the audit only complained about the use of unapproved open-source libraries, the IRS promises to be better about getting all libraries reviewed and approved in the future.

The second implication, regarding OMB Circular A-130, last revised in 2000, is probably quite true. The IRS's responses repeatedly express a desire to adhere to the intent of that document, but they seem to feel that following it strictly would interfere with the use of modern technologies and development methods (here, agile).
Given the crazy complicated XML schemas people come up with, I'd say you are lucky it's just plain text, and you can parse it without needing a library.
Do you mean the PSD files? You paid for them, so you should get them.

A really good icon designer will optimize the details for each different size, but I think it depends how important that is to you, and how much you are willing to spend.
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How powerful 2012 Aston Martin Virage V12 Specification Update? 
The 2012 Aston Martin Virage and the two DB cars share the same architecture and versions of the same V-12 engine, but its price between DB9 and DBS
re: Cutting out refined sugar: Anyone have any good links for a balanced and nutritional daily food intake that is reasonably cost effective and doesn't take long to prepare?
Just reposting this to see it from their perspective: Color Founder Bill Nguyen Explains Why You're All Wrong -- It Really IS A $41 Million Idea: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-03-25/tech/30098095...
Vested interest in education? That's not how I'd describe my relationship with it. My feelings towards education has more to do with "vendetta" than "vested interest". The one-size-fits-all style of education I was exposed to was more akin to torture than learning. It's not until now that I'm actually learning anything from my teachers. My teachers never understood me, they thought I was trouble when I was really the only kid who actually wanted to learn something, the one kid who did not want to sit down and go through the same drill as everyone else. I never did any homework, or school work for that matter, until the age of about 16. Even though I never learned anything in school up until that age, I can still say that I was way more educated at 16 than most other kids my age, simply from learning things that interested me in my spare time. Thinking back on all the time I was forced to waste makes me so angry, all the things I could have learned if it wasn't for the mandatory education which taught me nothing. I'm 19, and I am already bitter, things needn't be this way.
"I somehow really doubt that Silk will translate in a faster user experience. Of course, marketing does wonders."

As I understand it (that is what you call a disclaimer), Silk will operate in a fashion similar to Opera Mobile. Requests are routed to a proxy farm which transcodes and optimizes content for a known target browser. In Amazon's case, they have exceptional knowledge and control over that platform.

It's probably the one thing other than massive superior content that Apple might envy. :-)
Merit-based access to education is an extremely debatabe proposition. Should a quality education be limited only to the already brilliant? Is it a better outcome to make a high-potential kid very well educated or a medium-potential kid basically educated? Remember that both become voters in a democracy.

West Wing had a nice conversation about this with regard to Affirmative Action beteen the black intern and the conservativx supreme court justice.
What problem does this solve? If they (color.com) think they've got a (new) USP then they really need to shout about it in a way that immediately tells you why it is useful.
Innovative at taking your money.

I kid, I kid
That's only a counter argument if it takes 100% (or heck...even the majority) of taxes to pay for those things.

If 96% of our taxes are being spent on things you hate, and have no practical purpose for you.... isn't it right to dislike taxes in general, and question the government as bloated and inefficient?
You can find more details here: www.infoq.com/news/2011/10/dynjs
There is only so high in quality a product can get. How much better is a $1,000,000 car vs a $1,000 car? They both get you from A to B. Sure one might be a little faster but in terms of function they both perform at roughly the same base. One is for smart consumers and one is for rich people to show off.

Keeping the government monopoly in place only serves the interests of the employees and unions of the public schools and no one else. Certainly not the students.

"Thinking that the market is a solution to everything is a popular fallacy nowadays."

Yeah because it works.
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Not yet, but it'll come soon.
Between, so far I cannot see any use in benchmarks.
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> Post-funding, if you offer a market salary, standard benefits, and a startup working environment (which seems to be the norm for YC startups), why wouldn't top talent choose that over, say, working for Google?

If someone was making this statement to me, as a prospective employee at Startup X, a giant red flag would go up. This is a signal that (a) this company isn't aware of what's being offered elsewhere, and (b) this company is projecting what's valuable to me as an employee (no financial gain, but "better working conditions".)

I wish it was that trivial, but this is a quaint notion that simply doesn't work if your goal is to pull in premium talent. It may work once in a while, but long-term -- no way. Maybe that simplicity has worked for you in hiring situations, but in my geography -- you'll end up with mediocre talent.

The bigco environment you mention -- the Amazons, the Googles, the Microsofts -- top flight candidates are using the pool of bigco and startups against each other to gain greater financial rewards. It's leverage, and the top candidates have it and are using it to their advantage.

Play the reindeer games or not, the market is what it is.
"Bad: Firefox 4 instead of the up-to-date Firefox 7!"

Official releases:

- Ubuntu 11.04: 28 April 2011

- Firefox 5: 21 June 2011

- Firefox 7: 27 September 2011 (5 days ago)

Yes, that's a valid criticism: I used a 6-month-old official installer and didn't get last month's software without doing any form of update whatsoever! Clearly a failing of ubuntu!
Given that Google releases while most of its products are still in "beta". That seems very likely.
One major problem with vouchers is that they are susceptible to fraud. Current voucher and charter schools are not posting greater successes than public schools. Government services are at risk for innefficiency due to non-incentives, but government-funded private services are at similar risk due to perverse incentives.

For example, higher education IS currently on a loan-integrated voucher system, and it is common knowledge that private colleges are a money pit these days.
I think
t * ((t>>0|t>>1)&tan(3221)&t>>46)
Works a little better, or it's more like a phone ringer.
Oh I see. Sorry, I missed the "not".
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It helps if you have

a) the right business connections in the space you want (as opposed to a wild hair "I'm going to reinvent this industry because it looks broken from outside")

b) Funding enough to see it through

c) some track record of delivery

d) The ability to articulate not just what you want built but how it'll work and WHY
Hmmm just like the "bug" in the data collection software in Google's streetview cars.
it depends, on the java side if we are using log.Config correctly and proguard right all logging is defanged and left out of any obfuscated application.

However, on the OS side it depends on what changes HTC made for carriers and how adequate their codeqa testing and security audits were
US corporations have wholly owned subsidiaries outside of the US.

Its as if you moved to Ireland, and had Irish children. These children wouldn't have to pay taxes to the US even though they're all supporting the same family.
You forget there are a lot of people who don't have the things you mention.
Obviously not. The whole point of the article is that poor, intelligent children do not have any way to enroll in schools that would allow them to excel. Presumably if you lied on the income level on a scholarship application, you would have the funds to send your kid to a nice school but you wouldn't want to pay for it. Note that if you were very poor lying about your income on your scholarship application would not be necessary.

If you're still not convinced, let me ask you: Would you not lie about where you lived if it meant you could get a better life for your child? I am not sure you could be called a good parent if the answer to that question is no.
Yeah so it turns out that the education consumer doesn't tend to spend the education dollar on quality education. Consider the current mess in privately-paid higher education.

Education is the vegetables on the dinner plate of life. I is a complicated long term investment to make good choices, but those choices have huge externalities. Parents make choices that affect their children (that is an externality) and those children grow up to affect society (another externality)
Your unit test beliefs are giving you a heavy bias.

Unit tests cannot be proven to be correct (not without some other actual formal proof). Running a suite of unit tests proves nothing except that the tests pass. The unit tests can be buggy. The code they test can also still be buggy. Indeed the code is buggy if it's nontrivial, unless you are asserting that unit tests end the very existence of bugs. Unit tests add more confidence about the state of the code, especially with respect to regressions, but they do not prove anything.

As for unit tests telling you how to use the code, I suppose they do to some extent. Your code should probably be clear enough without this, though. If I have to read your unit tests to know how to use your class, then you have failed at writing self-documenting code, and you've also failed at writing API documentation.

I would also say that the how and why are often extremely important. Anyone maintaining your code (i.e. Anyone who cares about your unit tests) needs to understand the how. Anyone using your code probably needs to understand the why. If your calendar unit tests indicate that certain days have 25 hours, but fail to explain that these are due to daylight savings time, that's a pretty important missing why.
Yes, the corner market thing you said is true. But, they were limiting. Us Americans are used to our bigger stores, specialty stores, and more choices. It'd be hard for most Americans to adapt to that.

But, it's still not easy handling small children with groceries, whether walking nearby or taking the bus. I know because I've done it. Driving is much, much easier.

Fair point about roads not being break-even, but elsewhere in the thread I did argue for higher taxes on gas and automobiles, to internalize the costs more. I don't know what break-even would look like in America, but the idealist in me says both roads and public transportation should be break-even, if not profitable.
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark!
I am not sure this is the whole story. The Wall Steet Journal lately seems to be on a mission to discredit any form of government. Of course it's different when they wear a uniform, do things in secret and tell us they are there to protect us...
Exactly. And if you talk to an American, or an Australian, or a Nigerian, they'll tell you they speak English and know it came from England. But no one, even in Europe, is learning English just to speak to the English.
Welcome to the wonderfull life of socialist Denmark. Were you're sure the Government will control what is good for you and what is not good for you.

The newly elected government in Denmark campaigned on the promise of NOT making some much needed reforms to the Danish social care welfare system (about half of the Danish population recieves benefits from the stated one way or the other), so now they are trying to gather money anywhere they can, to keep this promise.

This tax is not a well thought out tax, intended to increase the general well-being of the Danish population, it's the first of a long run of weird taxes we'll see from the newly elected Danish Government.
Still need a debugger :) Too bad MacGDBp is pretty much unusable.
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I think the author has a point: it would be nice if Firefox advised the user that a newer version is available (or, alternately, simply upgraded silently a la Chrome).

I've been a Ubuntu user for a few years now, and it generally ranges from cumbersome to downright difficult to upgrade to the newest Firefox version. There's a reason hacks like Ubuntuzilla exist.
Bravo.. If you read between the lines they basically ignored outdated/inappropriate processes/bueracracy to provide a service to the end user. And by not adhering to those rules they indeed saved taxpayer dollars. Glad they pushed through and delivered... All they gotta do now is circle back and get the waivers. The epitome of a broken/meaningless process. Quite typical, unfortunately, in our gov....
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> Even when Ubuntu moved the window controls to the left side...

One of the first things I did when I upgraded to 10.04 was to move the window controls back to the right side.

http://quandyfactory.com/blog/59/ubuntu_1004_first_thoughts#...
Ubuntu will never be as coherent and polished as Mac, and being #2 in this area is pointless.

Ubuntu should be supporting its users before they all leave, not trying to woo people who prefer something else.
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We recently got told by our accounting/legal people that founder salaries had to be at least 35k/yr once they started (which we did so we could get payroll/benefits in place for new hires; has to run for 6-8 weeks first, unless you go though a PEO like TriNet, which we didn't want to do) -- otherwise we were going for $2k/mo.

So now I make $3k/mo. It's interesting trying to live within that amount (I have savings, but consciously would like to not dip into them more than I have to) in the Bay Area.

It is a great opportunity to do IRA to Roth conversions and such this year. The crazy thing is I would technically qualify for rent controlled apartments in SF, although my income might be too low to rent them.

I think $50-60k is a much more reasonable founder salary, once we finish Series A. I suspect most Bay Area startups get to that point, or even up to $70-100k, for founders, once they raise >$3mm or so.
While we're providing critique: clean up the writing on your resume and change the "skills" section to something relevant. Rating half your skills at 4 and half at 3 tells me zero.

Finally, lose the Apple love. It's very unbecoming.
That kind of thing happens a lot, but you shouldn't count on anything not in writing (and probably not even then, unless it's on a cashier's check).

Google's founders famously helped an early employee (Scott Hassan) who had done a lot of work and didn't have much on-paper equity. He's now running an awesome robotics startup, Willow Garage.
As a Canadian, I'm not entirely familiar with your education system. That being said, wouldn't schools receive funding based (at least in part) on the number of children enrolled at them?

I would have thought that would have made more sense than taking a percentage out of the incomes of the residents in a community and funneling that to the school.

The point I'm getting at is Ms. Williams-Bolar pays taxes. If schools receive funding based on enrollment, then her money essentially went to that school regardless.
Curious: is this performance

I wrote a classifier that's 99.96% accurate on comment spam, and 99.99% if configured to present a captcha when it's close.

on a test dataset? Or new, out-of-sample data? I see those percentages and immediately think "overfitting."

Anyway, best of luck! I'm from Florida, so I'll keep you in mind if I hear from anyone needing ML work.
"just independent enough to ensure that property taxes aren't shared."

This is actually a good thing for everyone, in terms of improving the quality of schools for both rich and poor kids. What normally happens is that rich towns have higher millage, which poor town can't afford. Whereas poor towns tax the big box stores and businesses that tend to be more prevalent. When you combine the rich and poor districts you can't sufficiently tax either the houses of the rich people or the businesses, so the school quality for both declines. This is partly why Florida schools are so underfunded, because they only have 60ish districts for the entire state so they can't properly tax anyone.
My father passed last summer.

He had a busy life online, post-retirement - built and ran a website for a yacht club, used the computer to book stand-by travel with his former employer (American Airlines), online banking, etc.

Nothing where the lack of access would have been a killer. But not having them would have been inconvenient for a lot of people.

Happily, he kept his accounts and passwords in a tablet, on his desk. Single-space, filled the page. So I was able to hand the 'keys' of the website over to his backup, get my mother logged in to the website so she can book tickets, and so on.

Every single online account would have been excessive. But the ones he documented, I'm glade he did: saved a lot of people some inconvenience.
Interesting outcome.

I think this is the first time I have seen someone 'take a stand', take some huge heat for it in the court of public opinion, and then have the intended effect.
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This is a really important step to remember. The 'decreasing discount' method is only really effective when you not only decrease the discount but increase the concreteness. The steps should be from oral agreement -> non-binding LOI -> binding LOI -> payment. And you want to get to a confirmed payment; without that step you don't have any idea what someone's actually willing to pay.
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That's fine for personal use many companies strictly prohibit employees from using unauthorized software. You're pretty much stuck with whatever they give you.
Don't forget that the for-profit colleges get 99% of their income from government financial aid. They don't have to serve their customers well; they just have to do the minimum amount of work to get the financial aid money.
Hmmm... I never made any such claims about consumer protection organizations. This is something you've conjured up on your own.

The bottom line is, if this is something we (the users) do not want, we have the power to make Facebook change it. We've seen examples of this in the past with Facebook (ex: their friend recommended ad's).

I don't believe we can rely on our government run organizations to wholly protect us, nor have I made any such claim. But we sure as hell can vote what we want and don't want, from a private company, through our buying and/or usage patterns.
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The answer is to stop funding schools locally. Until that's done, nothing we do education-wise matters.
as a chromebook user, i find this article disappointing. what it really summed up to was flash is not working well -> chrome os is doomed, instead of maybe chromebooks need a hardware boost. By that theory iphones/ipads are worse because flash doesn't work at all.
I will also say that i have found flash to be working better on the device as the upgrades have progressed.

The biggest flaw with chrome os has been google not educating users on new features as they come out. for instance the average user has no idea that they can open apps in panels.
Others have mentioned Compojure, Moustache, and Noir. There's also Conjure (https://github.com/macourtney/Conjure), which tries to operate at a higher level, and has been around for quite some time.
This simple formula produces an interesting sound in your a1k0n.net player:
(t % 1000) & t

Multiplying the whole thing by t adds to it.

Edit: t >> (t % 8) also produces an interesting sound; changing the number 8 changes the pitch.

Edit 2: On the theory that primes might create an interesting beat frequency, I tried this which almost sounds like a 3 part harmony: (t >> (t % 7)) & (t >> (t % 5)) & (t >> (t % 3))