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I guess that depends on how loosely you want to define your terms. I'm a former homemaker whose writings on some emails lists were seemingly popular for a time. This led to a couple of websites. I eventually learned a little (x)html and css to manage my sites. I suppose you could define me as "part of the general public" and "someone who can code". But I certainly don't think of myself as a hacker or programmer and couldn't qualify for a job writing code, just like I know a little conversational German, can count to 10 in Russian, know a smattering of Spanish words and can read and write a smidgeon of French but I don't think I'm a linguist or even bilingual. I'm simply not that fluent. I just dabble.
The product is a project management tool, primarily for people who juggle between lot of different kind of tasks. Its very basic now, will post the link in hacker news in a few weeks.
I previously had a someone antagonistic comment, but I decided to remove it.

I think that finding ways to notate asynchronous code cleanly is a pretty awesome goal, and I hope you find success in your project.
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Hi, zircon here. I'm one of the musicians involved with the Game Music Bundle (Return All Robots! OST, Antigravity). Let me see if I can answer your questions.

1. We will probably release more detailed stats once the sale is over, but as of earlier today we've sold over 9,000 bundles.

2. It's a holiday sale because Black Friday through Cyber Monday is a popular time for there to be sales on things, especially digital items.

3. We have not offered this sale before. To our knowledge, there hasn't been a sale on a collection of game music like this before at all.

4. We are marketing the sale - not just by encouraging sharing on sites like Reddit, Facebook and Twitter, but also news stories on gaming websites like Kotaku, Joystiq, 1up, RockPaperShotgun, Destructoid, etc.

5. The deal is indeed 'pay what you want', a very successful model used by the Humble Indie Bundle (all video games), for example, as well as other musicians like Radiohead. It has just never been applied to a group of albums like this, much less game albums.

6. $1 is the minimum due to bandwidth costs and PayPal fees.

7. Most of the albums here are soundtracks to independent video games. They were produced by independent musicians not affiliated with any label. That's what we mean by game albums or game soundtracks. Some of the games are quite popular (Minecraft, Super Meat Boy) while others are a bit more obscure (Return All Robots!) As for whether you would want them and how to get a sample, you can listen to all the music streaming in full by clicking on the album of your choice and then previewing some tracks. Thus, you can decide for yourself if you're interested in at least some of the music.

8. There is no particular license on these. You can listen to them, copy them, send tracks to your friends (though ideally, we would prefer if they got copies too) etc. If you want to use a track from any given album for some kind of commercial project you would of course want to talk to the artist involved with that particular album. Most of us would be cool with any kind of non-commercial usage.

9. As I mentioned, most of the albums consist of music used in various games. So for example, "Minecraft: Volume Alpha" is music from the game Minecraft. A few of them, like "Imposter Nostalgia" and "Antigravity" are simply original albums that are stylistically similar to electronic video game music. In terms of the technology used to create them, it varies greatly depending on the artist. Most of us have personal websites which you can find on the individual album pages, where we describe who we are and what tools we use.

10. Every artist involved has some form of social media presence such as Twitter or Facebook, and has posted about this bundle to their friends, fans and followers. Thus you can verify by viewing these official accounts and their posts endorsing the sale. So, the sale is completely legitimate.
>The ability of a virus to kill is not a positive for fitness, and over the long run is in fact a negative evolutionary influence.

I think the Keynes quote is, for once, appropriate here: "In the long run, we are all dead."

Your argument seems to be that as a virus with a longer incubation is fitter, that if someone released the virus in the article, it would quickly mutate into this 'fitter', less lethal version.

I think you misunderstand the evolutionary process. I suspect that if the virus was released, because it is already so contagious, it could infect most of us within 10s of human-to-human transmission generations (especially if any of the early spreaders had a large number of contacts, or was well connected).

In that scenario, there's not going to be sufficient generations for the evolutionary adaptation to manifest. (10s of human-to-human generations is vastly more virus copying generations; this doesn't matter, as the evolutionary effect in favor of less lethality occurs at a human level).

So, your argument would make sense to me, if we were considering the chances of a virus like this one naturally occurring; but that's not what the article is about.

>I suspect the world would go full "madagascar" ("shut...down...everything!") if deaths reached more than 10 million.

Epidemics tend to either burn out, or grow exponentially. Exponential growth has strange consequences.

For something like an airborne and highly contagious flu, by the time 10 million people have died, it is way too late for any containment; at that stage maybe 1B are already infected. Even by the time even 10,000 people have died, I would guess its too late for containment.

We live in a very 'small world' these days, and that really changes this sort of discussion.
This is primarily an issue with how Amazon S3 works, unfortunately.
In my line of work I see RAM limitation rather than CPU clock speed limitation. Will this technology also solve the big data problem?
A fine Reddit post.

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Great read. One thing that would have been useful would be to know what sort of size dataset they were working with? If you're not working with millions of documents, is the search and link walking still viable?
Thanks, you are correct about concentrating on the creative side of photography and videography. My friend who is a pro videographer gives me many ideas to work with (different camera angles, composition, using curves in roads in otherwise nature shots, etc.), so I am being scripted, but his advice seems good. I am an amature musician and I am starting to also use my own music for videos and slide shows.
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Senators also tend to be high-status men who can marry into wealthy families, like Kerry, who married into the Heinz family.
fuck everything about this article
SSD was by far the best upgrade I made on my machine. I would recommend it in a heartbeat, if it where down to the choice of more RAM, faster processor or SSD I would choose the SSD, it is night and day. I ended up getting a NAS server for my home office to solve the smaller storage space of SSD. If I do not use files for a while I just move them over to the NAS which has plenty of storage space. It ended up being a better solution anyways, as not I have a backup system that does not require attaching storage.
The phrase that struck me is "The risk that the currency disintegrates within weeks is alarmingly high"

Weeks ?! Wow... that's a very short time frame.
That may be more Compiz rather than Mint.
The tree controls just get in the way. There is not so much content here that it justifies needing to click 5 or 10 times just to see it all. When I first visited the page with NoScript, the tree was actually easier to see because it defaulted to fully open.

I'd also consider just inlining the "details" too with a simple "dirname - details" scheme; maybe color them a little differently (I wouldn't even go nuts, just a dark grey vs. black will be fine, not bright red or anything). Unfortunately, you've gone through a lot of work to make the content on this page quite difficult to use :(
The hard part is aerosolising the anthrax.

As to using the wrong anthrax - Identifying anthrax is hard.

PDF: (http://jcm.asm.org/content/39/12/4566.full.pdf)

>Strain identiﬁcation in Bacillus anthracis has been problematic due to a lack of distinguishing features, both phenotypic and molecular (1). With the identiﬁcation of variable-number tandem repeats (VNTRs), identiﬁcation of strains (unique genotypes) by multiple-locus VNTR analysis (MLVA) is now possible, and worldwide clone-based diversity patterns have been demonstrated (2). The VNTR loci are hypervariable and have multiple allelic states that provide high discrimination capacity for differentiating among strains and for identifying evolutionary relationships.

That's from 2001. Aum Shinrikyo incident was in 1993.
I also don't consume much, but encourage others to not buy, and if giving a bunch of 1080p rips or FLACs is what it takes to convince them, ...
eric janszen at itulip.com has been speculating on a euro fracture, due to the lack of a cohesive

I find it surprising how just 3 years ago the euro was becoming a safe-haven, with Jay-Z flaunting them in his videos.
You're still doing it wrong! You don't switch browsers, you upgrade the current one. For years I tried to explain the merits of using anything over IE. over the years my explanations got dumbed down to the point where I tell my parents "It works better" or "You won't get a virus" instead of the other simple-but-complicated-to-them explanations involving standards, accessibility, etc.

In the end, my dad actually got on board with Firefox which was awesome! But then Chrome came out and he won't try it and I'm not about to try to push it more than the passing comment I made about it a few weeks back. My mother on the other hand won't switch to anything. She won't even let you upgrade from IE7. She's now dating a guy who does IT work for the IL State Gov and she listened to him and at least upgraded. Thank god for her new boyfriend. Now I go to him whenever she needs computer help. I call and say "hey, you're the new computer guy in the family. Mom needs X done. Can you go over there?" and I no longer do computer support for my mother.
What exactly does a currency disintegration mean, anyway? Even of the economy goes into recession, the euro would still be on the market, used by all these countries.
I think that science and art are compatible.

A few years ago one of my customers sent me the complete works of Leonardo da Vinci for a Christmas gift and this huge book includes all known sketches for paintings (as well as for inventions). da Vinci seems to have had a scientific and methodical approach to his art.

That said, I totally agree that without creativity then "art" is meaningless.
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I thought the email notifications weren't turned on by default was because Wave was being marketed as the new alternative to email - a system to use to get rid of emails.
Live typing makes for way faster and more interactive conversation, I like it.
Aren't there states in the US who would like to file bankcrutpcy? Isn't that the same situation? Some do ok, the others don't and somehow to richer states pay for the poorer states ... leading to a transfer-union. Problem solved.
I am not alone thinking Gnome 3 is not as comfortable to work with as Unity. Unity was born because Canonical wasn't happy with the directions Gnome was taking with 3, and, after using 3 for some time, I have to agree - lots of polish, true, but it's not as clean and direct as Unity.

Unity has its bugs. In the end, they'll be dealt with. It's a 1.0 release, after all.
Could please someone give a layman's explanation for this bombshell?

> Assume I hide a ball in a cabinet with a million drawers. How many drawers do you have to open to find the ball? Sometimes you may get lucky and find the ball in the first few drawers but at other times you have to inspect almost all of them. So on average it will take you 500,000 peeks to find the ball. Now a quantum computer can perform such a search looking only into 1000 drawers. This mind boggling feat is known as Grover’s algorithm.

If 999,000 drawers are left unopened, how can the algorithm guarantee that the ball will be found?
the euro would still be on the market, used by all these countries.

A country doesn't have to continue using the Euro. It would be... painful were they to switch, but it's by no means impossible.
It means Greece, followed by Portugal, Spain, Italy, possibly Ireland, all leave the Euro and re-issue their own currencies. Suddenly the Euro is not the currency of a 400 million person economy anymore, but something smaller.
Maybe the difference in attitude comes from the fact that I probably wouldn't be willing to sign anything 6 months in advance anyway.

Obviously when you sign something that means certain obligations, but in my opinion signing something also means a paycheck at most a month from the time of signing and actual tasks to work on at most a week from the time of signing.

Without any of that there's no point in signing anything and binding yourself down with noncompetes if you have several months of opportunity to work on other projects without worrying about legal issues.
Euro disintegration implies an abolishment of its treaty ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht_Treaty ) or a ratification which would severely limit its scope (and significantly affect the list of participating countries).
I read a lot of financial commentary. In the last year the discussion about the Euro breakup has gone from "if it breaks up..." to "when it breaks up..."

There is a lesson here about taking systems of people and trying to mash them together without acknowledging the necessary pain. I'm concerned that now we're in the end game, and more and more complex strategies are just going to make things worse. I would never advocate any kind of violence, but there's a good reason why Napoleon was the one person who did the most to modernize Europe.

The general consensus seems to be that a recession is already under way, and the contraction will continue until this all gets straightened out.
Picture a bootstrapped company that earns 2000 USD each month when it starts and doubles revenues annually. While this is a successful startup by almost any definition, note that it takes over 5 years for this business to cross the half-million mark in sales.

So why don't the founders take money and use it to accelerate growth? Realistically, in most places that aren't Silicon Valley, this sort of business will have trouble raising any meaningful amount on halfway decent terms until years 3-4, at which point any sane founder will be loath to give up equity in exchange for cash.
"I can no longer remember Ubuntu’s release names and numbers. I had to look it up for this article, apparently its at 11.10."

YY.MM of release date.
Can someone explain why the UK is not shown in any of those graphs? I thought it was part of the Euro?
Whatever the reasons for not following standards, no matter what company is doing it, I think they should be weighed against the advantages _to the computing community as a whole_ of following standards. Each user might ask themselves, "Is it more worth it for me to learn some nonstandard stuff that will only apply to one company's products, or to learn some standard stuff that applies to many companies' products."

I see clear advantages to everyone who has ever learned UNIX (and everyone who learns it going forward) of UNIX-like systems having a standard set of UNIX utilities and keeping things in their expected locations. Namely, there's less to learn and potentially wider applicability across a range of products.
Slightly off topic, but I'm a huge fan of your music!
No U.K is not part of the Euro, the currency in U.K is Pounds (GBP)
I picked up two tech management books by Johanna Rothman. They had her on a podcast episode [1] a while back and she was extremely impressive. Halfway through one of the books and it's excellent. I've admired her blog [2] for years as well.

[1] http://pragprog.com/podcasts/show/34

[2] http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/
UK = £ Sterling
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My personal reason is that it felt like beta-quality software at best. The UI would hang almost every time I tried to log out, for example, forcing me to go to a tty to kill the lightdm service. As lysol says, it seems like things that used to take a mouse click or two now required a lot more effort (but I'm willing to admit I probably didn't try hard enough to figure out the "new way" to do them).

Beyond the UI, stuff that "just worked" before (like my wireless network adapter) now didn't work at all without manual intervention.

All told, it was just too much hassle on a machine where I just want to get some work done. Yes, I should probably know better than to upgrade a Linux distribution on a machine that I use to actually get some work done, and it will probably be a while before I upgrade again--I'll just choose something usable and leave it alone until I have a week of vacation to spend fussing with updates.
This may just be my ignorance talking, but isn't a functional language that doesn't implement tail call optimization a Bad Idea?
Oh, tell me about it! I love how doing something as simple as checking your email on your parents' computer somehow turns into you giving them a virus or installing some weird thing.

We recently upgraded our Internet service to 20mbps and we got a new all in one modem/wireless router with it. Well, the wireless signal wasn't strong enough to reach my little corner of the house office so I plugged in another spare router to the new modem-router combo.

My dad went off on me about "what the hell is this shit you're plugging in?!" and "my Internet is slower than ever now!". Well, his computer was hard wired to the 20mbps modem-router and the auxiliary router was also by itself plugged into a completely separate port on the modem. So there was no way the router could affect him.

He heard me and the cable guy discussing how it sucks that I couldn't take advantage of the new modem-router because it supports the new high speed while my old spare router will only give me half the bandwidth. He thought my extra router was affecting him because of this conversation. We immediately went to speedtest.net and lo and behold, he was actually getting over 35mbps speeds, over 15 Meg's more bandwidth than we were promised.

Oh, parents...
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There is so much shortsightedness in this whole crisis. What had to be done was clear from the start:

* recognize the dangers of this crisis and act boldly

* have much stricter controls on Eurozone countries, and have mechanisms to automatically cut expenses/raise taxes when some don't respect the rules (as Greece so blatantly did)

* compensate that making the ECB the lender of last resort of the Eurozone Countries

It's getting late, but there is still time to do this. But our leaders need to stop being timid and worrying so much about their reelection.
The thing about computer programming is it is unforgiving - your program works or it doesn't. You cannot talk it, fool it, force it, etc., into working. Learning programming forces a certain reality check into your learning that is absent from many other disciplines.
I have always been interested in how the Euro does in the long run given that it is not directly backed by taxation and given that the central body does not appear to have the broad mandate to enforce a fiscal policy for the entire Eurozone. The next year should be really educational in this regard.
We homeschool our children and it has been an overall good experience. We solved the socialization issue by enrolling them in dance, martial arts, sports, theater and other structured social activities that allow them to socialize in a constructive environment.

The stigma of homeschooling is wearing off as more and more people see the product of homeschooling. To me the socialization was over-plaid where homeschoolers where branded as religious fundamentalist that where trying to segment themselves and their children off from society. The thing to remember when people say that it somehow damaged children is, that school is the unnatural environment.

The history of children being massed into an environment with few adults to supervise has a relatively short history. With further laws restricting those that do not want to be there from leaving, it has become a recipe for disaster. Before legislation mandating attendance, the bad apples naturally fell away from the environment, now that they are mandated to stay they have become a drag and influence on the ones that remained.

Why homeschooling is seen as an eccentric solution is beyond me, when it is becoming one of the few logical choices based on the overwhelming evidence available that public education is failing.
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In my experience, I've had to scramble to fix browser compatibility issues every bit as often with 100% standards-compliant code, as I have had to with some incredibly laughably bad HTML.

I'd much rather pay the exact price later, than an inflated price now.
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Surely the switch can't happen within weeks?! Besides, what would those countries have to gain from such a switch?
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Surely the switch can't happen within weeks?! Besides, what would those countries have to gain from such a switch?

Why can't it happen overnight? A government wouldn't want to announce it in advance, as that would lead to everyone withdrawing their money from the country and keeping it in (relatively safe) Euro, rather than the chosen local currentcy.
Hi Zircon, thanks for those answers! I do think that some of that information could be woven into your main page without raising the complexity of the page substantively. But of course those were all just questions that immediately rushed into my head when I first saw the page. Of course, I may not be typical of average customers.

Probably the most important things of that lot are that I suspect that even if you had no lower limit on what people could pay (so long as you suggested no minimum) that the number of people who paid <$1 would be negligible. So I wonder if it is the best use of space to even mention that. If 100 people only paid $0.50 would that actually be a problem? And secondly it isn't immediately 100% clear when you first see the page that you are a consortium of indie musicians. To be honest, I am not sure what the best way is to communicate that fact on the main page. But if you can communicate it, I think it adds value (because you are selling the real deal, art direct from real artists which is actually quite desirable to have) and it stops potential customers wasting their effort on trying to figure that out.

At the end of the day, because you are the first group to do this, you are probably going to get a good response. But next week, when there's 100 knock offs, how will you communicate that you are the real deal and everyone else is just peddling fakes? It's worth thinking about because you have an opportunity to cement a brand. Ideally, what you'd like by next week is for others to find that they can't sell music bundles unless they are you. And this will lead them to come to you to sell their bundles for them. :-)

Best of luck with the sale! I hope it goes really well for you guys. And congrats on being the first to get a music bundle off the ground!

P.S: I just noticed you've given away quite a bit of info on how you put this together, e.g. your platform, payment processor, lists you advertised this on, etc. I would not give this info away. Oh yeah, I figured out how the other bundle group you mentioned got "cred". It's the "donate to the EFF" angle. Hey, if EFF is involved with this, it must be legit. I'm not suggesting you do exactly the same. You have your own niche. BTW, if you do decide to branch out into other genres, I have a well-connected DNB contact for you.