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It's as with any negotiation: whoever needs the deal the worst is in the weaker position. There is such a thing as shopping a company around looking for an acquirer, but you're unlikely to get as good a deal as if they come to you.
i tried gittip and i like the general idea, but i think recurring tips is pretty bad. But yes, it could be, should they decide to implement one-offs
I was trying to play devil's advocate but I honestly couldn't think of a good reason to teach Calculus using epsilon-delta vs. Nonstandard Analysis. The way Calculus is taught today is already unrigorous until you get to Analysis, so there's no strong reason to teach students using epsilon-delta first.
As a big Android/Google fan, I can't say they are exactly innocent when it comes to the sort of thing Microsoft was called out for with Skydrive.

When Google+ first came out quite a lot of people lost their "Google lives" (including their gmail accounts they had been using for years) when Google banned them for being under 13 or using a pseudonym.
You may want to read Stephen Batchelor's secular book "Buddhism Without Beliefs".

In there, meditation is a structured way to develop awareness (mindfulness) of your subconscious thought processes and beliefs (which determine your day-to-day activities and your overall path in life, but which few people consciously monitor).

If you are a particularly introspective person, or have worked with CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), the concepts will seem quite familiar albeit presented from a different angle.
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Probably, they will do what they are currently doing but in a different way. For example, offering tiers based on data usage: under 100MB plan (aka non-tethering) for $n; over 100MB plan (aka tethering) for $5n.
I wish I had been paying more attention while I was doing it. I know that I did these three steps

1) Added my personal domain to the domain list.
2) Inputted my me@mydomain.com email address into some form.
3) Went to Outlook.com and saw someone else's name, and some else's contacts.

I'm pretty sure #2 is where the problem occurred. Hopefully someone at Microsoft familiar with the process will be able to figure this out. I'll provide the feedback.
An interesting collection of essays and short stories that investigate concepts related to your observation is http://www.amazon.com/The-Minds-Fantasies-Reflections-Self/d..., which I'm almost finished with. It has a lot of thought-provoking arguments. Edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennet.
Very true. Though there is still some value in the journey through history, aside from learning the main idea. It can serve as inspiration for your own quest, and also challenge you to question modern theory as those who came before did.

Being equipped with some fundamentals first, makes exploring the history less confusing. I think Charles Petzold's book "Code", is a great example of blending historical narrative with core concepts - I highly recommend it.
It wouldn't make them worse, but I doubt it would make them drastically better. It would honestly benefit the people who have been helped the most, since they are currently frustrated by not being able to do more than say "thanks"
2000% - 3000% profit. if you inventory costs are zero.
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I understand your point, but mindshare can be difficult to evaluate. Do you actually know how popular Mojito is? I certainly have noticed the popularity of Meteor - and unpopularity of Mojito - on HN, but how does that translate to the general population of developers?
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This is rather an accurate way to put it. Even more unsettlingly, the conscious "self" can be seen as a manager of sorts that has a delusion of being the entity that pulls the strings, even though its "subordinates" usually keep the wheels turning quite adeptly all by themselves. The manager usually just receives executive reports after the underlings have done the actual decisions.
I'm on the fence on this one because it doesn't prevent going up on all data plans. Which will just increase Verizon's revenue and probably not cost them much. However, I'm not advocating price controls.

But I know how to solve this. Someone needs to become the defacto wireless network that focuses on the network (reliability, bandwidth) and doesn't deal with consumers. Instead they resell to companies who deal with consumers.

Wonder if I could do a KS campaign...
Remember, average CTR's don't really indicate much - it depends entirely on what you are running.

For the direct response ads I've been running, each campaign has a totally different average. One product has a 0.02% CTR average over 3 years and ~200k spent, another has a 0.155% CTR over 1 year and ~45k spent.

Different messages garner different responses, so take the typical FB CTR with a grain of salt :)
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How does it matter if I use data for my phone or my computer? To some extent I agree that this would end up costing higher when the carrier has unlimited data. But even there, if more people start "misusing" the connection (download songs, movies?) the price is going to go up and you don't need tethering to do that.

To give you a perspective: Tethering is available in India with every single connection. You just need a supporting phone (USB or WiFi). The plans are all capped there but so are most plans here. You guys seriously have to wake up and realise that you are severely restricted on everything from which phones you can buy to how you use your phone and what apps are installed. I mean, seriously!
Most groups that would be on such networks (other then child porn producers/consumers) would be mostly political in nature. As such their use of said network would mostly be to distribute textual material (forums/blogs/manifestos/howtos/newsfeeds/ebooks/etc). It would be material that takes up less space, but is actually more time-consuming to produce. For example, writing an ebook takes longer than rolling the video camera for a couple of hours, and produces a much smaller (space-wise) amount of content.
While I don't disagree that carriers will find new ways to bleed consumers dry I don't think that is a reason to not be ecstatic about this decision. If we held on to your logic it would enable companies to disregard laws or contracts they entered into for their sole benefit.
Agreed. Bigger brands aren't as focused on clicks as they have agencies that push "branding" Branding is sexy because the metrics you are held to are (often) fairly loosely defined and illusory.
PulseAudio is used by almost all distributions and GNOME settled on it. ESD was not used by all distributions, furthermore it had bugs and wasn't maintained.

Also, Gstreamer is not the same as PulseAudio.
> Moral of the story: Money is not the goal. It's the result of achieving a goal.

There is a theory that luck (openness to opportunity) has a bigger hand in who makes a fortune than anything else.

There are those (Pincus) who feel that you make your own luck, and are willing to cut corners... after all, history books are written by the winners, and all.

About robots - what do you think HFT algorithms are?
This analysis holds up to "unlimited" plans where "tethering" is really a (poor) proxy for "using a lot of data."

But if you have usage-based pricing (which Verizon does), it doesn't matter whether that 4GB originates from an iPhone or a MBP. A packet is a packet and it costs the same to route.

I suppose you could argue that Verizon incurs some additional support burden for tethering. I question whether or not this support burden outweighs the costs of supporting people who call in expecting to be able to tether now.
It just feels odd - to me - to use the word "we". And psychologically, I'm sure it has an impact. I've noticed people will say "we won!" (when they mean the team they supported won), yet it is "they lost!" (when they mean the team they supported lost). Such psychological trickery with identity can't be healthy.

Even the whole supporting a team thing seems strange to me. When watching a sporting even I applaud individual players regardless of the team, and make comments about the team strategy and overall game, but it's not that important to me who won other than how it will affect the interestingness of future games. Supporting countries is even stranger because it just all feels so tribalistic.
A Raspberry Pi also requires a PSU, an SD card, and a case. By the time you add those in, you've probably doubled your cost, at least.
In retrospect this is probably a much better explanation than my comment, which focuses on what you experience while being present. But yeah, the goal in most types of meditation is to be present, rather than experiencing the different 'states' that come up. In fact, you are basically supposed to ignore them. The reason my comment was focusing on them I guess is because that's how I got onto the topic, in relation to sightedness being separate from consciousness.
Do you have any examples of your work - github, stackoverflow, personal website, etc?
"Regardless of how you get there, not having the app is not having the app."

This sentiment is a great example of how you're missing the point. It isn't about having an app. It isn't about getting things.

It's about freedom of expression. Intellectual control laws - Patents and Copyright - both work by preventing individuals from creating or sharing their own intellectual work, or sharing a work they have observed. That is quite literally their only function. Without Copyright I am free to create and share anything I can imagine. With Copyright, I am forbidden from creating certain kinds of works, and I am forbidden from sharing certain kinds of communications regarding works I have observed.

If, in the absence of Copyright, you simply neglect to create a work then my freedom of expression remains unencumbered. This is the nature of the freedom Stallman seeks to defend.

Your mention of contracts again indicates you do not understand the essence of this issue. Contracts are entered into willingly, between consenting participants. Copyright however, does not come in the form of a contract. It is an intellectual shackle which restricts the freedom of every person to create works based on what they observe, whether they like it or not. The licensing you refer to is a merely a mechanism to loosen the already-existing shackle of Copyright -- for a price.
It wouldn't surprise me.
Yes, but I'm not so sure that's really two-factor authentication.
The UEFI "secure boot" thing tells me they haven't changed one bit. They are still the same company. Trust them at your own risk. You have been warned.
I have been doing short sessions of vipassana and can confirm you will begin to feel energy.

It is intense and feels like it is going to explode.
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The site could display the "down-correlation" number, which will be high if someone consistently hits both down arrows at once.
Perhaps this is a good approach to Quantum Mechanics for a course about Quantum Computers. (Maybe is has too much emphasis is the probability part.) Quantum Mechanics has a little set of clear rules that are easy to follow and get the correct result. So if your plan is to have some little black quantum boxes and combine them to get quantum computations perhaps it is a good idea to jump directly to the rules and forget about the history part.

The problem arises when you really want to understand how the little black quantum boxes work, or how this scales to bigger systems and to the real work. The correspondence principle says that if the system is big enough the quantum effects should almost disappear, and the system should be correctly approximated by Newtonian Physic. (There are some macroscopic effects that depend on the quantum nature of the world, the most clear is superfluity.)

The biggest problem is the correspondence, how to make the connection between the real world that you see and the quantum physics. The pseudo-historic path gives in each step a more complex model, but the jumps are smaller. (For example, usually the Schrödinger's model is explained before the Heisenberg's model because it is more intuitive, but Heisenberg's work was a few years before Schrödinger's work.) In this approach, there is no reference to the method that you should use to transform a classical model to a quantum model. The main examples are the harmonic oscillator and the hydrogen-like atom that are used as the base to explain the properties of the matter.
And a terribly overrated one that won't go away...

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Newsblur is going thru some interesting times. It started off as a one-man side project and gave users an excellent alternative to Google Reader when GOOG stripped it of many good features several months back. NB even has a couple truly novel features around viewing the original (non-RSS) content without managing multiple windows/tabs and around filtering feeds.

It's one worrying issue, though, is that the dev is constantly adding new features and inexplicably removing old ones, all at a breakneck pace and perhaps at the cost of good bug-hunting. It can be really frustrating to use it one day and the next day come back to find a great feature axed and a bunch of new clutter in the UI.

All that said, it is far and away the best RSS reader out there, and it's fully open-source, so if I truly get fed up with the dev, hey, I can always branch it and host it myself. :)
There doesn't seem to be a sharp line between sleep and wakefulness. I once fell asleep while driving and was awakened by something I saw. It's an odd sensation to be woken up by something you see instead of by something you hear or feel. I had fallen asleep with my eyes open but was staying upright in the driver's seat, maintaining my speed and staying on the road. It was an extremely frightening experience, because I was very keenly aware of not being conscious a few seconds earlier, and having no sense of how much time had passed. I couldn't even remember what I saw, because duh, I was unconscious when I saw it. It freaked me out so much that even fifteen years later I think about it every time I get the slightest bit sleepy behind the wheel.

A few times in extreme states of sleep-deprivation, I've been lying down or slouched on the couch and realized, after being startled into getting up suddenly, that my memory of what I had been thinking about was fading away just like a dream. My eyes were open the whole time, and unlike when I was driving, I was conscious of seeing and having a consciously driven train of thought. Yet in some way I was asleep, so my mind let my memories slip away as if they were dreams.
>Some engineers may have been raised in an environment of distrust of doctors, or of scorn upon those who call the doctor for anything less than a confirmed broken bone or heart attack.

Are you me?
I don't get what you mean.

GNOME 3? A new project was started; mutter and gnome-shell.

You say that starting a new project is better than dumping other projects. So I guess you want people not only to start something new, but also keep maintaining their old things? It seems a bit strange to me.

In case of GNOME 3, gnome-panel and metacity are still available.
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Charging for tethering is stupid anyway, as people are just using the bandwidth they are paying for. The only thing I detest more is that AT&T forces me to pay for text messages that I didn't even want.
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If you want to compile your own kernels and boot them without disabling Secure Boot, make your own self-signed certificate, add that to the certificate list the firmware maintains, and self-sign your kernel with your certificate.
I think George Orwell's Politics and the English Language has some good advice on writing clearly and precisely, albeit later in the essay.
Has a Kickstarter campaign ever raised $4 billion? Because I suspect that's what it would take to begin building a network from scratch.

There are resellers that focus on data, however...Clear is one. They aren't great (they share the Sprint Network, which is very bad in some places, and fair to middling in most), and they reportedly throttle some high usage customers (I've not run into this, though the times when I've needed a lot of data, Clear couldn't provide it anyway, even without throttling), but they don't regulate what you run on the network. All my devices, including phone, connect through it when I'm on the road.
I assume this is hyperbole (I'm not sure what magic you're expecting...maybe something like intents where it asks you every time which account to use?), but the logic isn't complicated. It just uses the first account you logged in with. I'm usually signed in to two accounts (and have a gmail tab for each open right now), so I just sign in to the one I do my primary calendaring, etc in first.

If you really want to keep them separated, you should just use Chrome's multi user accounts or their equivalent in other browsers.
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Dbus, PolicyKit and NetworkManager were already used in GNOME 2.x days.

I don't really see how you're quoting this as a good example of why GNOME doesn't "get it", while the situation is exactly the same as 2.x.
My ability to solve difficult problems in coding and in Computer Science is much like the blindsight described in the article. I look at a problem for awhile then go away and do something in the shower. I might be relaxing or in the shower, and the answer will pop into my head, as if from nowhere.

The older I get the more I think we should think of our talents as "superpowers." They are somewhat like bolt-ons. We shouldn't let them define us. We should have some depth of character beyond that.

EDIT: And we should use them "only for good."
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hackNYer here. 4 days after hackNY is over, and I went back home to hang out with old folks, you realize how important and why living with other fellows is definitely the key, always doing something cool, learning, or teaching other people. That's why it's unbeatable.
The fact that it's in NYC where the startup scene is still far ahead from what its like in SF also adds to it, because you are sort of bound to hang out with other fellows as you are (likely) coming from other city, and since it is NOT SV/SF you don't know many (if any) people working in tech there.
Agreed. So is Apple's charging for media feeds on an iPhone that I read over my own bandwidth, on my own device, from a 3rd party I have a private relationship with. Yet that stands somehow.
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Yeah, I tried to avoid saying that you were wrong, because you're not-- in practice, meditation does result in a quieter state of mind, and does enable altered forms of consciousness. It's just that's not the core, and for someone who's never meditated before a lot of the advice about what meditation feels like (clear your mind, ignore conscious thought, etc.) is likely to be quite counterproductive. The first and (in my opinion) most important step is to just be.
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Also wasn't there some controversy a few months ago (perhaps march? random guess) where someone lost their google life because of some adwords dispute?

I think the issue got resolved because he was lucky enough to be a nerd which a blog that got picked up by HN/Techmeme etc. and then someone from Google personally fixed the problem.

Most users would have been hosed. It also doesn't help that Google has no "real" customer support other than forums. As a user it would be extremely uncomfortable to lose your Google life and have no phone number to call.

At least you can call Microsoft. Whether they can do anything about it is a different story but it at least will escalate easier, or at least I would imagine
This is an excellent description of mindfulness/vipassana/shikantaza-style meditation, which Jon Kabat-Zinn based MBCT/MBSR on. If I could, I would only like to add that mindfulness is not the only style of meditation.

In a concentration practice (such as samatha in theravadan buddhism, not sure about zen/tibetan), you eventually cultivate one-pointedness to the point that you become aware of nothing else but the object of concentration, whether it's the breath, a flame, or an imaginary colored disc.

Concentration practices feel very different, produce different effects, and have different uses. They can frequently be way more pleasurable than mindfulness practices, help improve concentration (naturally), but are generally assumed not to be able to lead to enlightenment.
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Actually, you explained the problem without noticing it: "It just uses the first account you logged in with." Maybe it should be default account? Because "first account" will always change in round robin fashion because cookies will expire first for the newer account (which is second) and then after you login it will become first.
I live in an environment where I find it appalling that I need to pay $150 to wait an hour to see the doctor who studies me for thirty seconds and gives me a high-price prescription for a double dose of what I can get over the counter. It's not so much "trust" as it is "should it seriously cost this much?"

I personally had a strange episode a few years ago where I just ... felt really awful. But I was lucid the entire time. Wife checked my blood sugar (not a diabetic, but she having been diagnosed with gestational diabetes years ago we have the equipment around) and it was scarily low. Kept hydrated, got some smal bits of food in me, felt better, slept the night with no problems. Called the doctor the next day, they had no interest in seeing me immediately - so they gave me an appointment a few days later. Did some blood work and ... he had no idea what was up. It's never happened again. If I'd gone to the hospital, I'd probably gotten a glucose drip and sent home with a $1,000 bill.

So I tend to keep my cool, self-diagnose, watch my kids closely when they're complaining of problems, get medical help when it's necessary. At $150 a visit, I can fix my own sniffles - I'll call the doc when it's doesn't clear up after a few weeks.
Well, this would explain the internet's fondness for cat photos...
On a related note, the NY Times had an article this week about the rising number of pianos being dumped: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/arts/music/for-more-pianos...
Data prices are already set where Verizon anticipates them maximizing profit so raising them isn't going to "make up" for the money they are now out because they can't rip off a tiny minority of their customers anymore.
The neurons in the retina don't go straight to the occipital (primary visual) cortex; they all synapse onto the thalamus first. From there, the vast majority of exiting neurons go on to occipital cortex, but a few percent go off to other regions, such as the superior colliculus, amygdala, MT and FEF.

I wonder if there's a similar explanation for some people (like myself) who sometimes have difficulty reading facial expressions by instinct, and have to rely on conscious interpretation and training to determine others' emotional state.