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> Why do I need to compensate them? [snip] Compensate implies they loose in some way

Compensate only implies that if that is the only way you choose to see it. If you have a job, the money you earn is compensation.... paying (someone) for work performed. Compensate means so much more. Also, consume means more than to destroy. But since those other definitions do not serve your purpose, it is convenient to turn a blind eye to them.

> A leech is only a leech if he doesn't try to give back, but in this case the author of the post tries, but his offer was not accepted.

But the author does not have the authority to dictate what offers must be accepted. If a creator is offering you a product and gives you Option A or Option B. It is not reasonable to assert that if you counter-offer him with Option C and he refuses that it gives you a right to still accept the product and neither of his chosen options.

Also, I didn't bring up anything about copyright. So I'm not sure how you know I have it all reversed.
We're talking about a situation where the guy making higher profits can't grow, so comparative advantage doesn't apply. In this situation, all new supply is the same - there's no comparative advantage.
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<p>To: Microsoft Windows 8/RT Development Team</p> <p>Please have a read of the thread I have started on Microsoft Answers:</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-n...; <p>Can you please explain to me why Windows 8 &nbsp;RT will be lacking key features in comparison to Windows 8 and Windows 8 Professional?</p> <p>Refer to this link: </p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/297262,three-editions-of-...; <p>I have looked at press releases of the new features and I &nbsp;am not impressed as there is no corporate/advanced edition of the future Windows RT bieng planned by the look of it.</p> <p>For example from what I can see:</p> <p>- &nbsp;There is no Windows Media Player in sight.</p> <p>- &nbsp;There are no abilities to connect to corporate network domains</p> <p>- &nbsp;The Remote Desktop Feature (hosting) is not available.</p> <p>- &nbsp;From the feature list it looks like these devices advanced settings are locked down (security policies, advanced file sharing etc) homegroups</p> <p> &nbsp; and simple file sharing in the corporate environment is a security risk.</p> <p>- &nbsp;Will there be a integrated firewall on this future RT edition?</p> <p>Why aren&#39;t these important features bieng included on the ARM edition? Why isn&#39;t there going to be a Windows RT Pro Edition to connect to a corporate network?</p> <p>Please explain</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>J876_1</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=581910 width="1" height="1">
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Thanks for this timeline. This matches my impression.

As further evidence that the driverless car concept was getting attention well before street view matured, remember that Sebastian Thrun led the Stanford team in the 2005 grand challenge. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2005)
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One question comes to mind after reading this, as did with the Valve handbook, how do you tackle when it is time to "shovel shit"? Meaning that doing things that are, quite frankly, boring.
Then again, you could try something completely left field and creative.

People who know anything about machine learning will follow conventional wisdom and potentially miss out on a step change in quality of results.
It's a bit of a bummer because it's trivial and boring. It almost looks like it's just a touchscreen with pockets on the front that you blow compressed air into. The fact that this is getting so much attention - and the fact that it's wasting some of our time in the process - is kind of annoying.
This will be huge for automotive touchscreen applications: I have no doubt it will save lives.

With current touchscreen interfaces, you rely almost solely on visual cues and feedback to make correct inputs. Not a good situation while driving, when you need as much visual attention as possible focused on the road.

The best interfaces for operating complex or dangerous machines have fixed, haptically identifiable reference points; this allows you to reach out (in the dark or without shifting visual focus) and make some sort of adjustment without fumbling or disturbing your flow. If the touchscreen can be elegantly brought into that realm, so much the better.

Tesla Model S 2.0 perhaps?

BTW, anyone have an idea of how this technology works?

Update: From the article linked below in a comment by kpozin, it's based on hydraulics. Ingenious.
I just read that. Interesting. One quote stood out at me though:

>Our content, exclusive. It's the only place you can get it. And we believe there is value in exclusivity.

You say value, others say needless and overpriced hurdles. And there's nothing exclusive about the average torrent site :)
This parasite would be happy to give HBO money. HBO doesn't want it. Not my problem.
Avoiding processed food might be what's keeping you healthier in general. Not because processed food has bad nutrition but because the additives are tricking our bodies. I feel that if you stick to basic ingredients (at least nothing with taste additives) you can pretty much go on cruise control and let your body decide.
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I work at Facebook. I think that social networking unfairly gets a bad rap from many engineers. Maybe this is because many of us view, or viewed, socializing and maintaining friendships as a waste of time. I think that is a mistake. Socializing is something that's a core part of what it is to be human, and Facebook is a tool to help people to do that.

My entire family and many of my friends live in another country. Apart from infrequent Skype calls the only way I can interact with them is via Facebook. I am closer to them now than when I lived an hour's drive away and we communicated by email. The first pictures my parents will see of their grandchildren will be on Facebook. It's awesome to think that I've helped build something that is helping millions of other people in the same way.

Social networking isn't a fad, about sharing cat pictures, or something bored teenagers do. Engineers look at Facebook and see a web site built in PHP with "a nice tech stack". Everyone else sees a way to fulfill their need to connect with people.
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It was actually the server room. We had a couple of desktops serving the website and the development staff (two of us) crowded in there to work as well:)
>> their largest carriers also serve a lot of cable internet, for most it wouldn't be adding a competition so much as adding another way to get at subscribers money.

The status quo is that the typical HBO sub has a cable bill over $150/mo, because he already has broadband. Helping that subscriber cut the cord and go Internet-only (while unbundling HBO) will therefore result in a lower cable bill for the subscriber. A portion of the money the subscriber saves comes out of the carrier's pocket. This is the classic trading of analog dollars for digital pennies, and carriers will resist it as long as they are able (in the absence of a new big revenue source).

Regarding positioning: HBO is very good at producing content, but so are a lot of the organizations that provide content to Netflix (e.g. CBS, NBC, TNT, Showtime, Disney, etc.) $8 gets you access to all of those vs. a hypothetical $5 to get the output of a single studio. It's going to be very hard for HBO to hold the line on pricing in that environment.
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I'm not offended or really looking to debate. Since you posted this on Hacker News, I wanted readers to know about the article's inaccuracies about YC's stance on valuations and the hyperbole of your statements regarding why investors choose YC companies. Your comments here are much more reasonable than the actual post, which unfortunately still contains the issues I wrote about initially.
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The fear isn't cable channels cutting HBO. The issue is consumers cutting their cable subscription. The single biggest danger to HBO is consumers getting rid of cable.

The AMC network owns AMC and a few artsy channels I've never heard of. Time Warner owns HBO, TBS, CW, TheWB, WarnerBrothers, Kids WB, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, CNN, and a little more. I've heard that HBO gets $7 per each of it's 29 million subscribers. The parent company, TimeWarner, gets an even larger number per cable television subscriber.

If TimerWarner could sell it's content ala cart and make more money than they currently do off subscriptions I'm sure they'd do it! They have wisely invested in the creation of HBO Go such that if the day comes where that's a more profitable venture, and there are no contractual roadblocks, they'll flip the switch in an instant.
Dish Network dropped AMC just a few days ago. Dish says it's because of ratings.
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Mm, I see where you're coming from but that's not really the point here. It's more a matter of here's a great show that I want to support. But, I don't want to support the cable companies charging an arm and a leg for junk. I solely want to support the content creator (HBO) and its distribution service (HBOGO). Both are excellent quality and I want to pay for it and it alone. But, I can't.
Just because you can compete in some rocket building competition or can program your Arduino to light an a 3x3x3 LED cube does not mean you have achieved a knowledge level to be successful in STEM. It's the details; I would think that our community would recognize that the most.

Programming a pong game would probably seem like genius level intelligence to many outsiders. Sure, most here don't think that, right? That doesn't mean you understand serious computer concepts and the sort of things that are Knuth's "Art," right?

It's fun to say "Who cares about solving these dumb, boring algebra problems, I can build a rocket by researching most of the things on the Internet." Sure someone who builds these kinds of things is probably more intelligent or perhaps had the chance to be more technical than your average everyday American but when you get into the details, I think we're talking about people that will successful in STEM and I just don't take seriously this romanticism of "project based learning."

I mean, just because you can follow directions and build a rocket, doesn't mean you're going to be fit to work as a Quant or something like that. This just seems obvious to me.

Of course, it goes without saying that you probably should have these kinds of projects. Definitely. These are great experiences. I doubt computer science would have even existed if people just had the attitude that "book learning" was for the birds or whatever and just "built stuff."
Good Calories, Bad Calories has over a hundred pages of citations in the back so it's at least well referenced. I have yet to read it though so I can't comment on the quality.
Absolutely. And then reveal the innovation through some iPhone 6s or something in between?

At least that's what they did with Siri.
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> The threshold for comfortably managing hierarchical file systems is around 100 IQ. For doing it well is several points higher.

Do you have any citations for that?
It still amazes me that no-one in the mobile space is addressing the market for editing large, structured documents of the sort you might create in LaTeX. QuickOffice's word processor lacks support for styles, numbered headings, cross-references, bibliographic citations, equations, automatic table/figure numbering, and a table of contents, among other things. These features are a necessity for scientific/technical writing, and it's basically not possible to write something like a PhD thesis or textbook on a tablet today.

I wanted these features enough that I ended up starting my own project to build a word processor for the iPad based on HTML/WebKit designed for producing these kinds of documents. There's still some way to go before it's got all the capabilities I mentioned above, and it doesn't currently support any formats other than HTML, but I already have a lot lot of the structural features plus support for styles working. I have a beta available and there's some info up at http://www.uxproductivity.com/ if anyone's interested in giving it a try.

I'll be very interested to see what Google does with QuickOffice. Google docs is considerably more powerful but still falls short on some of the document structure features of LaTeX and Word. With the rumoured release of MS Office for the iPad later this year, competition could start to heat up a lot.
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Is this a trend? First Valve is investing in Linux (by developing their platform for it) and now Samsung.

Whilst there has obviously been commercial investment in the past , I'm assuming the majority of it was for enterprise server stuff or embedded things. This is to build user facing stuff.

Perhaps companies are realizing that the only way to escape the nets of MS/Apple and their walled gardens is to invest in open technology.
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I totally agree. ORMs are not a bad thing and save you from writing the same code over and over again. The key is to understand what it's doing behind the scenes and not be afraid to go in and change it if it's generating stupid queries.

Is there some extra overhead? Of course. Probably a lot less than cleaning up the damage from some cowboy coding.
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For people who don't really know anyone who's poor, it's hard to see that it's not all about iPads or even good cheese and air conditioning and square footage.

Broken teeth you can't afford to get treated. Family members with psychiatric disorders no one can afford to help (or, the available medicines cause side effects that make life completely miserable). Busted plumbing and busted roof you can't fix properly. Aging parent without necessary full time care, but you still have to have a job. Both you and your spouse having to work to support your kids, who you have to put in cheap daycare which they hate just so you can go to work. Living in a trashy, high-crime neighborhood. Having to drive four hours to get to a place which will give you birth control at an affordable price. Getting treated like dirt by a scumbag boss at a job you can't leave, for years. Getting turned down for interview after interview because of the heuristic that you must be bad at what you do if nobody else hired you. Fighting and stressing over money to the point of divorce, when just a little money could have smoothed it over. Actually worrying about how you are going to live when you cannot afford the place you are living. Having the scorn and disregard of most of society until the day you die.

Yes, there are alternate solutions and little consolations and some possible ways out, if you are in a developed country, if you are smart, if you are hard to discourage, if you are lucky.

But when a normal middle class income so easily makes these problems into implausible memories, it can be pretty insulting to hear smug sayings like "money doesn't buy happiness" from people who have decent secure income.

So to be a nice empathic middle-class person, don't say those things in public unless you are prepared to go full Buddhist (and put your money where your mouth is).
nice work, clean ui, i am curious too about the data source. I also set up a news web app too, with a facebook timeline: http://www.popbuzz.me
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We're in Mountain View, CA. All the standard terms apply (VC funded, competitive salary and equity, mission to change the world, etc., etc.) There are three key differences:

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* Even our administrative hires understand NHST in depth and kick the CEO's butt in chess.
That's because of a wholly unrelated dispute.
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Does it make sense to you that if there is a breaking change between 1.9.1 and 1.9.2, then there is a breaking change between 1.9.1 and 1.9.3?

I'm just stating my (local) experience; I don't have a global god's-eye view of ruby.
I'm not an expert in ruby; I'm just trying to get started. You seem to expect a beginner to know exactly which versions introduce a breaking change, and to read the release notes in detail - and understand them, which is difficult for someone who has not yet learnt ruby or its terminology.

When you start to have categories of breakage, as "major" or not, and defend porting code between versions as "not much work", it means you accept some breakage as normal. To me, a breaking change is one that causes code to stop working, and require extra labour. Python and Java don't do this (nor Windows, x86 or ARM).

Note that from 1.9.1 to 1.9.2 is not a major release. It's not even a point release. It's a point-point release with "major" breaking changes (according to you).

As I carefully said, this is a consequence of constant improvement (contrast with Java, c#, x86). (guessing: do you think it's partly due to the power of ruby making security harder?). The trade-off doesn't suit beginners. Note that back-compatibility is a "successful programming language problem" - no one complains if a toy language breaks. I'm just drawing attention to the downsides, because if uncorrected, in the long-term, it may lose the next generation of coders.

Look, I'm not out to attack Ruby; I like ruby. But this is a real problem. Disregarding it is a disservice to ruby.
Having stuff you don't want cluttering up your life is a perk?
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gedit is unquestionably simpler than emacs for anyone with even cursory exposure to the computer (notepad, Word, etc.)

Even just the simplification of the visible interface and the docs is an underestimated source of comfort and ease of learning.

The odds of trying to become a programmer without cursory exposure are not great.

Knowing how to use a decent text editor is a more advanced skill, but after years of using one it's hard to remember how it was before.
I think it whines that it's deprecated though.
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We are in agreement that HBO's business choices aren't your problem. That's a non sequitur. I'm talking about your actions, not HBO's.
PHP is one of those "developer productivity languages?" I mean, this way be just a huge sin I'm about to commit, but really? I think most of the world see this whole HipHop deal as you guys had all this PHP and you need to optimize it. The idea that the syntax and style of the PHP language is one of the most well suited languages to solving general computing problems ... I just find that hard to take seriously.
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I am 35 and have a wife and family. And it is not my first time at the tech company rodeo either.
So is this accepted practice in Ruby circles? It seems pretty bogus to me.
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Is this good or bad in ruby circles?
Knowing a real editor is a massive improvement in efficiency and ease-of-USE. But for most people it is just way too discouraging and hard to start there; their issue is ease of learning.

Once you get interested and get some basic abilities, then you can worry about optimizing your efficiency with power tools.
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That may be enough to fund the FreeBSD or even Linux Foundation's budget, but is it enough to make a difference in competing with iOS?
Well, self driving cars will make the safety application moot.
True - not everyone bought from them though. In your case, it sounds like you are talking about PVP more than PVE progression.
D2 may have had hacks/issues/farmers - but it was more fun.

The AH here though assumes that having to buy from chinese gold farmers was an issue which everyone faced, and now makes the AH an issue for everyone to face.

People may complain about Craiglist or a Bloomberg terminal, but at the end of the day, they still use and love them. Similarly people may complain about D2, but they still loved it.
If you look at the numbers in the Wiki link you provided, the reduction in BP in DASH dieters was small in non-hypertensives and not exactly huge in hypertensives.

"Respectively, the DASH or “combination” diet lowered blood pressures by an average of 5.5 and 3.0 mm Hg for systolic and diastolic, compared with the control diet. The minority portion of the study sample and the hypertensive portion both showed the largest reductions in blood pressure from the combination diet against the control diet. The hypertensive subjects experienced a drop of 11.4 mm Hg in their systolic and 5.5 mm Hg in their diastolic phases."

I question whether the 5.5/3 mmHg is really worth eating bland low sodium food. Statistical significance does not necessarily imply clinical significance, and you're asking people to give up something pretty big. Willpower is a limited resource. We should have good reasons to ask people to use it up.

Here's an abstract of a metaanalysis which reaches roughly the same conclusion: http://www.nature.com/ajh/journal/v24/n8/full/ajh2011115a.ht...