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Wait, you didn't realize it was the same person, but you said "I guess you're going to avoid me" since he didn't bite at your first confrontation? That doesn't add up.

I don't follow you around. Don't flatter yourself. You just contribute to a lot of threads (I'm hesitant to use the word contribute in this case). I didn't even realize I was replying to you until the end, when I added the last two sentences, and I would have said the same thing up until then to anybody.

You have a bit of a victim complex. I wasn't even harassing you.
I'm probably in the minority, but I like to buy CDs because I like having the physical product to add to my collection. The artwork, liner notes, case, etc. It's just the thing I like to collect I guess.

I've recently started buying a lot more digital media, especially since Google Play an Amazon will often do sales of albums for <$5 which is hard to beat. But maybe now I'll start just buying the physical CD from Amazon and get both (which I can then stream easily from my Google Play account).

Does any one know if buying CDs "used" from Amazon will get you the AutoRip? (maybe I missed where it said which are eligible)

EDIT: Only CDs sold by Amazon.com, not other sellers.
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Oh, it's just one of thousands of nonsensical PHP features.

Like the fact that the language's grammar is used to do primitive type checking, meaning some combinations of accessors cause errors.

Or the fact the mail sending function doesn't work if one of the lines in the email begins with a period, but only if you're on Windows.
Warning checklist:
Ask yourself repeatedly, "I'm giving out my valuable idea, which I protected so long."

Let's consider a premise now: Say you gave your idea to him, i.e you sold it off full! (Don't forget you have to convince him hard to win, so you literally sold the whole idea, the strategy and all)

Followup:
Now, say he rejects your idea, are you fine that your once great idea/side-project being sold or ripped off?

If you believe much in yourself and your idea, then don't apply, keep all the equity to yourself and find a better co-founder in your niche.
If you're in some sort of "web developer" ghetto, maybe that's possible. If you have a software engineering job title, you can get over $100k entry level in Seattle, even if your actual job duties involve web development. This is total comp, not base.
I re-read the article as a satire on C and thoroughly enjoyed it
The bulk of corn subsidies are for ethanol, which should result in prices of i.e. HFCS going up, not down, right?
If the investor is a good co-founder and committed to the idea and has the network and chops to make something happen for $3000, might be a good idea for some people.

But... you want a co-founder who is committed, can point you to the right way to build the MVP so that you can actually acquire customers, has a network in and some knowledge of your vertical.

Otherwise, you build an MVP, give up 50% for... not necessarily very much. Now you have a weak co-founder with 50%, might make it hard to take the next step, sort out control issues, have enough equity to get more people interested and still be interesting for the founder.

And if you really believe in your idea, and are the kind of strong hacker and entrepreneur that will be successful, is $5,000 that big a hurdle for friends and family, credit cards etc.?
The big question here is how many of these will you do, and will you be able to be a real co-founder to them. Doing one would be great. I could maybe even see up to 5 or so, since there's going to be an attrition rate on the people getting to MVP -- maybe a deal where if you decide not to go forward, they keep the $5k and 98% of the business?

I have no idea who you are, but if someone who seemed to be a credible cofounder offered to do a startup, front $5-8k, and do sales/dev/etc., that could be an entirely reasonable deal for some people.
Wow, way to be a dick. I like how you also ignored the part where I said I had to wait six years for the aid WHICH I AM CURRENTLY NOW ON that you somehow think I'm still not familiar with due to laziness/stupidity.
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I was born long ago, on 1894. I've been hungry, i've been cold and now i'm growing old. But that was the worst i've ever seen.
I'm guessing that corn subsidies in the US mean a glut of high fructose corn syrup. Too much cheap sugar in the diet is bad. (And then there's some extra stuff about too much fructose over other sugars.)

Oil subsidies mean people drive everywhere rather than cycling or walking.
I thought the .416 Barrett was basically designed to get around laws that explicitly prohibit .50 BMG, rather than to be a superior alternative. (It's possible I'm thinking of .408 Cheytac here though.)
It looks like you tried to censor suck for some reason and triggered the markup between the asterisk used for censoring and the first one highlighting the word ship.
A couple years ago I would have been all over this. I've done several ventures similar to this resulting in modest exits as well as couple resulting in being simply paid for working 4-12 weeks on something I want netting nice contacts.

It's okay if you don't hit a home run. It's even better if you don't starve or get evicted for your troubles.
As s user, I avoid top 10 lists as the multiple pages are too annoying.
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They should just use the standalone version then. I see no reason one would prefer to play inside a browser.
Run redshift in a terminal to see what it is doing.
I supposed it's based on sounds. There were a few videos out demonstrating this kind of technology.
I guess we should be glad they didn't feed it the contents of knowyourmeme.com or we'd have Watson Rick Rolling us on Jeopardy.
Perhaps I'm the stupid one here but I was never expecting higher levels and availability of health care to be less expensive (or even as expensive), at least in the short-term. I supported it anyways because it's the right thing to do.

A cheaper health-care option would be to take the sick out behind a barn and put them out of their misery, which is why we don't turn health care into a linear optimization problem.
Your cloud player tracks are free to download. I do it all the time to have them uploaded to my Google Play account which I use for streaming.
This proposition will work IFF the OP has street cred. Why did you choose to go anonymous? Founders want a backer with street cred more than they want money. Most founders will gladly give 90% equity for a pittance if the investor is in the league of Ron Conway or a16z...
Actually, in the context of the solar system, Mars is pretty water rich.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_on_Mars#Polar_ice_caps

By Earth standards, it's drier than the Gobi desert, but for the purposes of colonization, there's plenty there to work with. The polar ice caps alone could cover the whole planet in an average depth of 16 meters of water. Also, there's the asteroids for when the population grows to a considerable size.
... because guns are evil?
This matches me and my wife. Most other free image editors fall short in some useful way or another, and Photoshop is obscenely expensive for amateur uses. It's worth spending a bit of time learning the pieces you want to use to avoid the endless frustration in other tools - the rest can basically be ignored, unless you really want to learn the 'gestalt' of the whole thing.

It also helps motivate us that the vast majority of free image editors on OSX are infinitely inferior to e.g. Paint.NET.
Look, you can't convince me life is worse in America than other countries. I watch House Hunters International, I see the size of those kitchens.
Please submit that to the author. Segfaults should not happen.
Has the ideas machine broken down?
When Japanese immigrate to America, their health outcomes quickly converge with those of other Americans. 'Ethnicity' isn't the culprit, usually - more likely culture and national policies.
And see what AlphaSymbolic looks like, check the sticky footer.
In the days of 1912 that was how we did it. That ol'good web app world.
An interesting point. If you buy the CD, rip it, and upload the MP3 to Amazon, then it costs Amazon to store that. With matching Amazon has to pay the label for another license for that song, but they can just symlink it into your locker instead of storing another copy. Which is cheaper? Amazon has probably done the math.
I like how someone commented on the main article that the time is getting close to where AI can step up to the plate of creativeness and how widespread and easy this will make our lives. Watson is a giant server farm, not a single PC, this stuff won't make a huge impact until IBM can shrink it or until computers get much much faster and smaller. Not that it won't happen, it's just not "around the corner" in any way.
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> Sounds like it has the equivalent of a few make rules written for you

No. It sounds like the `go` tool is aware of how to compile different pieces of code for different architectures.

> but you could do exactly the same thing in C - and you can also inline assembly in your C source file.

Why does this make C easier? Does C automatically choose the correct target architecture for every piece of Assembly you write?
Look if we want to be super anal about shit all memory is slowly discharging capacitors with basically random access times based on how busy the bus circuity is with our shit this week. It turns out that memory is really complicated stuff if you look at it deeply, but the magic of modern computer architecture is that you get to (hopefully) keep your shelf model for as long as you can. If you were to try to model actual memory latency: here's a shortcut: you can't. That's why everyone bullshits it.
This is hilarious :)
So we won't be seeing Watson talk about the marvels of broscience!
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If you work in a corporate environment for an employer who is proud to be a Java shop. There's more of them than you might realize, and working in the IT security field for these places can drive you up the wall.
To those who responded by email. Please give me a few days. I may need to set-up a mailing-list/blog/twitter to broadcast info before getting to you individually as the response has blown past my expectations.
Is the Android version still on your todo list? I was thinking about making something like f.lux for Android.
I think this is a very important point. In most places outside of the big cities (basically NY, SF, and Chicago), there is very little housing stock available for rent, aside from in low-income neighborhoods and near schools. Furthermore, what you do find is mostly people who are simple looking to sell but can't and are renting in the meantime--you had better bet that they will sell it out from under you at the first opportunity they get, and moving is not cheap.

Even if you are able to find a place to rent that is stable, now you have to deal with a landlord and (possibly) other tenants. You can't do what you want to the place, when you want to. I think this weighs on people.

I completely agree that too many people that shouldn't end up buying a place, and that buying a place is a lot of work. But it's about the only choice in most of the country.
Personally I think it's hilarious. I'm sure having a profane Watson around was a lot of fun.
Probably more appealing than a desperate mercenary in a dystopian cyberpunk universe.
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If you have an hour go through http://tour.golang.org/#1. If you're like me and can't enjoy a new language without connecting it to the network and passing some JSON around, check out http://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/ and take a look at http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#Marshal (if, also like me, you're picky about field name casing, pay attention to the little bit about `json:"myName"`)
Might as well just let Watson loose on 4chan/b, then he'd really start rustling people's jimmies.
As someone who's happy writing C, has written a lot of C at work and at home, I have to say "C fad" sounds a bit weird.

What I see talking to people and looking at forums (this one for example) is the exact opposite of a C fad. Frankly I wish it were the other way. I encounter fewer and fewer people with C knowledge, and especially fewer people who say they are happy writing C. New college grads sure as hell don't graduate in large numbers knowing C, even if a good chunk of them can churn out acceptable Java.
Based on that I will buy you your beverage of choice at any conference you choose :)

P:S: I've probably written commercial stuff you work with and also I don't give a shit if you give a shit, if you see where I am coming from. I have a pretty good idea of what the compiler will do and I will be pissed off if it doesn't do that. It normally does.
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No need to downvote, guys.

The C language specification [0] defines an abstract machine and defines C semantics in terms of this machine. 5.1.2.3 §1:

> The semantic descriptions in this International Standard describe the behavior of an
abstract machine in which issues of optimization are irrelevant.

[0] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf
Forth is the only language I'd place between C and assembly.
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And yet people from around the world fly here every day to have critical surgeries performed by the world's top doctors in state of the art facilities.

News Flash: The U.S. isn't a welfare state. To benefit from everything this country has to offer, you need to pay for it. Yes, it would be better if that didn't apply to healthcare, but there needs to be some method of exclusion when demand is high and supply is low. Would you rather wait 2 months just to see a specialist and another 2 months for treatment like patients in nationalized healthcare systems frequently do? (I'm looking at you, Canada and Europe)
I find the entire "health care" topic interesting because I believe it to be "broken" (as a general term).

But what to fix?
You mean like the TeDRA compiler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TenDRA_Compiler

Or the C compiler for i5/OS (ILE bytecodes) with an OS wide JIT?

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topi...

People keep on mixing languages with their implementations.

It should be compulsory to have compiler design classes in any informatics course.
COBOL...

*Shudders*
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Grain subsidies indirectly subsidize high–calorie, low–nutrition foods like bread, cookies, crackers, soda drinks (corn syrup), and other stuff that is terrible for you. Fuel policy promotes more driving, less walking.

It is an interesting question as to where to draw the line between personal responsibility and governmental responsibility. Of course most people in the US can afford to buy quality food, if they really wanted to, and some Americans are doing well. But Americans clearly aren't doing well at keeping up their health, and gov policy is making obesity worse. I saw some data point recently that suggested we may have passed an inflection point (for the better), hopefully it turns out to be true in the long run.
The legendary "Max Vision" did this in 1998: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/22/whitehat_max_vision_...

Apparently, he modified some worm code to fix a BIND problem, then search out more unpatched systems to infect and fix.

Someone named Markus Kern gave out some interesting IIS code in 2001, during or just after the "Code Red" worm epidemic. When the code got a "Code Red" signature, it would propagate itself to the IIS server from which it had received a "Code Red" signature. See: http://seclists.org/vuln-dev/2001/Sep/1

Looks like one "Herbert Hexxer" did something much the same: http://seclists.org/vuln-dev/2001/Sep/0

It would be interesting to hear if anyone fixed Markus Kern's code and released it into the wild. "Code Red II" worms were an ongoing annoyance for a couple of years, then suddenly and instantly disappeared.
Health insurance covering male maternity care is a complete no-op. It adds no benefit, but it never costs health care companies either. So it shouldn't cause a premium rate rise so is a bit irrelevant.

I get the feeling it was cited as an example to make the reforms look stupid, even though it doesn't actually have any negatives.
if I had a top 10, i'd put it on a single page cause I'm not an asshole.

How do you feel about those?
It is my understanding that one of the most cited justifications for passing healthcare reform was to lower costs. Specifically, the monthly cost for individuals who need to purchase their own health insurance plans.
And they're putting their idea they've spent a lot of time thinking about and are passionate about, and that OP thinks is quality enough that it could work; He's not going to put money into simple hobby projects.
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Further confusing the issue: inflammable means exactly the same thing as flammable.
'"In tests it even used the word bullshit in an answer to a researcher's query."'

I'm not sure which is worse: the singularity with a bullshit detector or without.
Also, TA Heppenheimer's Colonies in Space has a dandy compilation chapter on research on agriculture in enclosed environments. ("Up on the farm")

http://www.nss.org/settlement/ColoniesInSpace/colonies_chap0...

Most of what's talked about in that chapter will also be possible on Mars.
I completely agree about the removal of the therapy.

Five years ago I worked fine dining as a server: I could talk to anyone about anything.

Now I work in a cubicle with minimal interaction. I am a social recluse: if I go to a bar, I bring a book.

About to start hard-selling one-to-one my software. A little nerve-wracking. Just took a trip to Baja with no spanish language skills. That's made me feel a lot better about my capacity to just "get out there".
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If this were a one time game you'd be correct. Assuming, he can quickly filter out a significant portion, it's possible to be very involved and have a significant chance of a large exit. This, of course, assumes that he's good at what he does which is an underlying assumption of this whole proposition.

Rationale:
Let's assume a home-run rate of about 3% which is my rough estimate of what it is for YC startups. That means that funding 75 startups yields a 90% chance of at least one home run.

Now one might ask how long this will take. If we assume that 50% of the companies can be marked as failures quickly, he will only need to invest substantial time in ~37 companies. If he can focus principally on 3 at a time for a period of 6 months, it will take approximately 6 years to achieve a 90% home run probability. Of course, he'll almost certainly have had some modest successes before then.

Again this is all predicated on hmexx being good at selecting and advising startups. For most people, the odds are much worse.
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Wireless communication is widespread enough that I don't think it matters too much where Watson "lives". The inputs and outputs required from "him" (for questioning, anyway, not for training) are tiny, so bandwidth isn't much of a concern. Assuming the architecture for it is parallel enough that it can be responding to lots of people at once how much it is distributed vs hosted on one system isn't particularly relevant to its usefulness, IMO.
Awesome news! As someone from around the area and actively involved within startup and development community in the GTA area. This is great news! :)
That's good advice. But even when importing all of std, at least namespace collisions in C++ will result in some somewhat sane compiler error.

I not so fondly remember a day hunting down a cryptic C compiler error coming from some header that had

#define F1 ...,

replacing F1 in my file by some cryptic mess...
I'm not sure about investing in corn, but these are the credits that i'm speaking of -- and they apply to renewable energy.

http://dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=...

http://dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=...
It's not only immersion, but also sheer duration. That child takes _years_ fulltime to learn a language. Few adults are willing to make such an investment.

Also, there likely is some truth in http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypothesis.
Macports is my tool of choice, but yes it's the only way to get things done! Unfortunately, plenty of scientific libraries are too obscure to be ported, leaving it to us scientists...

Interesting what you say about 10.8 - I might give it a shot then. I will be upgrading soon from snow leopard (2009 MBP) and I was going to wipe and go debian/XFCE, because of all the "new ideas" like "let's not have save as" etc, but if installing stuff is easier (and I know multitouch works) I might give it a go.
I think we strike a great balance of what you're looking for at Tealeaf Academy.

If you're looking for an online option, check out Tealeaf Academy for an online bootcamp: http://www.gotealeaf.com Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder.

Our courses are project driven and you learn with a cohort. We want to maintain the quality and intensity, without forcing you to relocate or quit your job. The trade off is that we mentor you for a longer duration. If that appeals to you, then Tealeaf Academy could make sense for you.

hint: hover over the faces on the world map for student testimonials
The unit Hz is used for frequency, per definition "per second". If "frames" are implied, surely 48Hz is acceptable?
Wondering why Oracle hasn't patched a vulnerability is an exercise in frustration. You pretty much have to expect that if you're running Java, you're running a insecure program that will never be secured. Historically, by the time Oracle has patched the current flaw, there will be a couple more they haven't patched again.
It was cited because health care plans are not sold by gender. Therefore the plan's actuarial risk assessment needs to account for maternity whether or not the person signing up for the plan is a male or female.
I've literally never seen Java in the wild that's not part of an exploit kit. I've disabled Java in every browser / OS since about 2007, and I'm yet to be unconvinced by not having it.

Can you show me any examples of what I might be missing out on?
Interesting strategy! I guess it generalises to StackOverflow (etc) too.

On a different note, all the percentages seem far too precise for their purpose: just 82% would be just fine. And unless the sample size is quite large, one shouldn't be saying that there is significant difference between 59-63% and 65% (and, the 57% bounce rate from TC is certainly not "markedly lower").
There are also considerable ethical issues in assuming that people with estranged parents are somehow undeserving of a college education.

If you have no family support, you need college more, not less. Of course, places like Stanford are far more concerned with turning a profit than enrolling poor people.

You'll note that the median family income of a Stanford student is $125,000, which is more than double the median family income in the US as a whole. Maybe that's not a lot to you, but it's almost inconceivable to someone who was raised, say, in a family making 12-20K/year.

(You complain that people would disown their children to get free tuition, but forget the fact that before it became profit oriented, Stanford used to have free tuition for everyone--no disowning required.)
Ask 3 people what defines "MVP" and you'll get 3 definitions. What's your definition and how will completion be determined?