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Since 1997. Prior to that Bill donated zip, zero, nada to charitable causes. I suspect that Melinda is the driving force behind this.
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Most of the traffic that signs up comes from google. I had some dumb luck with ranking on the first page of some good related keywords... Other unrelated traffic just bounces off this page... The mouse is really the only idea I can think of to show it's editable right there. I tried a video but most people didnt watch it. It's pretty funn too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBo4nxoWTes
What, did he blow-up his competition? Murder them? Kill their families? Did he bomb villages? Nuke cities? Did he use slavery? Did he poison people's water? Did he kick families out of the company town with pinkertons? Did he spill oil on beaches? Did he use eminent domain to steal property? Did he pay his employees horribly?

Oh you mean he vanquished other companies without using any kind of force what-so-ever? Oh he bundled! (which every company does) Oh he used market leverage! (which every company does)

Did they use the government + legislation to become successful? (unlike most large companies) No, they made fools out of the largest tech company on earth, IBM.

Netscape lost why? Because of their own incompetence, as proven by the rise of Firefox. Did Microsoft stop the rise of Java, nope, turns out it's slightly common these days. Did they kill Apple? Nope, Jobs would tell you himself that Apple was its own worst enemy. And on, and on, and on. Did they stop the rise of Android or iOS? Nope, couldn't even begin to. Music, movies? Nope, nada. How about search? Har har. Do they dominate tablets (despite practically inventing the field)? Nope. Do they dominate gaming? Nope. Intuit? You know that story. How about Linux? They would have loved to have killed it, they couldn't even touch it. How about Apache? Turns out it's doing pretty well these days. Social anything? Nope. Shopping anything? Nope. Payments anything? Nope. Databases? Nope, at best they're a modest player. It's a really long list.

So... the problem was what exactly? They had market power for a few years (maybe ten years tops), and then it faded.

There was nothing particularly terrible about how Gates produced that money.
> I see the "free information" people as the antithesis of that. They don't just want to share what they create. They want to share what you create. And I see that as an impingement on freedom.

I think the way the "free information" people see things is that a free and easy, attractive accessibility of knowledge (or more generally, information) is needed for anyone to truly prosper in their life, and for humanity to progress further as a whole. A physical good (like food) is not reproducible at an effective zero marginal cost -- digital data is. So, when you in fact can provide everyone this resource, and work to achieve a world with true equal opportunity at least in this one aspect (of knowledge) at a practically zero or near-zero cost, you are indeed morally obliged to distribute this good to everyone who will prosper from it. As it stands, culture is no longer free -- to be able to participate you must pay. The more you are able to pay, the more cultured you can be. Books, movies, music -- you can have only as much culture, knowledge as you can pay. Why... when it's finally gotten so much easier to afford everyone culture and information for free, or near-free costs.
Very nice app. I just downloaded/signed up today after seeing your app on a makeuseof.com article today 2/8/2013. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-get-data-from-your-de...

A suggestion: add a simple share button since most any Android app now has that option.

Future feature: push to friends
The reporter was testing the car. Therefore, it makes sense to drive it to its limits. And it is totally fine. However, you should then be prepared to suffer the consequences. In this case, towing.

Frankly, I dont get all this discussion about mileage. It seems like a perfectly good car for driving in the city already, which is where most of fuel is wasted.
A major label isn't a guarantee of money. In fact, quite the opposite. Royalties don't earn much of a living until you reach the very high echelons of musical popularity. The most money is really earned from touring and live performances.
Iterator stability means iterators that point into a container are not invalidated by operations (such as insertions or deletions) on that container.

Address stability means that addresses of elements are not changed by container operations. If you think about it, you can see that maintaining this property rules out contiguous storage of any subset of a container's elements, hence my comment about "compact representations".
Which happens sometimes.
Want to hear a secret from an emacs user?

It's almost just as bad over here. I've got maybe 20 lines to try and get this working in my .emacsrc. It's like layers of fossils; first I have a few commented lines fighting through the hippie-expand era, then a few more from the CEDET age, and gobs and gobs of elisp to try and cobble together auto-complete into completion, but even now it doesn't always work right for most of my languages. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

One thing that does work excellently is ido for opening files. If you're a vim developer, you should really rip off ido.
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What part is mind-numbingly awful? It's pretty standard for countries to give out student visas with the proviso that the student cannot accept employment, or can only work up to (say) 15~20 hours a week after getting a special permit.
As far as visa regulations in developed countries go, this one sounds fairly reasonable to me.

> I suspect that a good lawyer will be able to recover most of it for him, especially since his presence in the US was not material to the earning of that income.

I'd be very surprised if this argument were accepted, given that presumably a lot of OP's income came from US sources (if OP was temporarily in the US, AND was being paid from non-US sources, AND the total sum was not as high as 200 grand, then arguably the case would be in a gray area [1]). Otherwise, it would be too easy to enter the US on a tourist visa and work from home, coding or teaching $foo via Skype, but good luck explaining that to the immigration authorities on entry.

However, it's not clear whether OP was actually in the US when they were selling the licenses.

[1] http://www.nationofimmigrators.com/employment-based-immigrat...
Same here. Doing the same thing three times is always my rule of thumb for when to take a look at refactoring, automating, etc.
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That's hilarious because Tesla doesn't exist outside the US where as today electric cars can be purchased via GMs Volt program e.g GM Volt, Holden Volt, Opel Ampera. Likewise when BMW releases their electric car it will overnight be available in countless countries through their vast dealerships and partnerships.

You are being naive if you think that technology alone is all you need in business.
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Assuming I'm not too tired or drunk it gives half-way decent estimates...
Pronunciation? Ghandi is a potential spelling for gon-dee. Gandhi looks like it would be pronounced gand-hee. Perhaps it depends on your accent.
If their primary goal is to support members and the betterment of their field, then why are they impeding the sharing of information amongst said members and the public at large, not only with recent research but legacy papers from the 80s? My guess is that the organizations have evolved into self-serving fat bureaucratic fiefdoms.
I have some mixpanel tracking on the join page and if a visitor types in a username they will usually click sumbit (even if they dont enter their credit card or have any intention of paying). Since this is the case, my thinking is I need to get more people interested in it before they get to that page. Just thinking of how I buy online, I made my decision to buy well before I pull out my CC
First of all, I quite like it. There's a few things that came across to me as a little awkward though.

• On a small screen [1], the edges of the page get a little smushed up. I'm also not sure if the "learn more" button is supposed to be transparent (it looks like it shouldn't be).

• This window [2] felt like I could move it, but I found that I could not. It's by no means a problem usability wise, but it felt strange that it wasn't possible.

• I sort of expected there to be a "preview" button in the title bar. I realise that it is a WYSIWYG editor, though I'm not sure how the page will look when it's fully published.

• The two sign up buttons look out of place, typically a page like this has one big and loud call to action. The one in the top bar isn't centred vertically either, which looks a little strange.

• The spelling of the buttons "Sign Up" and "Signup" should probably be made consistent too.

It's all nit-picky stuff, but I hope some of it is useful to you.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/UhyOrdT.png

[2]: http://i.imgur.com/EpG8Jkx.png
The other night there was something on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) about a Canadian guy visiting his wife/girlfriend in the US.

US Customs took his aside and was't going to let him pass (no surprise) but let him through but told him he could pass but he couldn't work in the US not even housework, not a joke.
How does one "produce" or "make" money? I was always under the impression it basically just gets shifted around.. yeah, you first have to attract a lot of mass before you can repel it again, but that ain't making mass.
That's a graph of the death rate from polio, not the number of deaths from polio. Polio drugs existed before the polio vaccine (and still exist today). Similarly, one could graph U.S. mortality rates over the 20th century, observe its generally smooth downward slope, and conclude that nothing done after 1980 had any effect on anything. Or graph world mortality rates over the second millenium and similarly write off the 20th century. Maybe this is just a case for logarithms?
Look good, but it needs to assess sentiment rather than just buzz (and it needs to grade buzz a lot better).

Gangster Squad for example has a 80 buzz score, but it got between terrible and mediocre reviews. Django has an 85 buzz score, but got almost universally great reviews. Django will make roughly 4 to 5 times as much money as Gangster Squad, and was just about blanket everywhere in the media 24/7, so it's very unlikely Ganster has anywhere close to as much actual buzz as Django.
> What they're really trying to defend is that government has no right dictating what one must or cannot put in their own body

Talking about rights like this is useless. You have to assume some basic moral principles to proscribe who has a right to what. If I disagree with yours, then we'll just be shouting up a tree for hours.

For one, I completely disagree with the idea that the government has no right to tell people what they can or cannot put in their own body. Depending on the moral principles that a government is founded on, it very well may have that right.

> individuals' utility functions

Invoking "utlity functions" is such an appeal to naturalism. All that means is that they don't give a shit about anyone else.
Well rather, if you want to muck about in the installation folder, typing "C:\choc<TAB>" is easier than "C:\Progr<TAB>\choc<TAB>"
To me that implies that it can be used as a baseline metric if all companies are coming into the process with the same (application) effort.
The proxy statement says they collectively own more than half of the voting power.
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Hey Emmanuel - Saumil Mehta here from LocBox, we spoke a few months ago on the phone.

I would urge you to simply hire an excellent immigration lawyer to figure out your options w.r.t. the F-1 before you move forward. I have a San Francisco-based firm that I can refer you to if you like. They are (somewhat) expensive but they do deliver good results and they are not a big faceless firm - fast, efficient, get on the phone quickly.

Email me if you want to talk more. FWIW, I dealt with our dysfunctional immigration system for a decade - once having to forfeit a well-paying internship after forgetting to file a dumb piece of paperwork - so I do understand the pain of getting the shaft after busting ass, primarily because of immigration reasons.

Anyhow, hope this helps.
I think that's an unfounded assumption.
I'd be keen to participate in the "Cultural" side of Y Combinator if you would be keen to participate in the "Work" side of it :D
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Okay, so digital data is reproducible at near-zero marginal cost, and so there is a moral obligation to distribute it for zero cost to anyone who will benefit from it. Let's generalize this principle. There are physical goods that are reproducible for very low marginal costs. Clothes, food, etc, medicine, etc, are all very cheap to produce in large quantities. Is there a moral obligation to provide those goods--not for free but for their low marginal cost, to anyone who will prosper from it? If the answer is no, how do you justify the distinction? The producer is in no different a position if he is obligated to provide something with $0 marginal cost for $0 than if he is obligated to provide something with $3 marginal cost for $3. There is no mathematical discontinuity as the marginal cost approaches $0, as long as the producer is compensated for whatever the marginal cost happens to be.
Sounds sensible. We do the same with resumes and it works well to filter the noise.
It sounds as though the problem is simply that the car loses range unexpectedly depending on the weather, so you can't necessarily count on the range you thought you had the next morning, and the degree of mile loss can be extreme. I imagine this is a problem for road trips, the occasional camping trip or overnight at a friend's house, or even when using an outdoor parking lot for eight hours (e.g. when at work or at an offsite). However, for daily commuting, it's not an issue, because presumably there is sufficient buffer if you charge every night.

What's a bit disturbing about this article isn't the laws of physics, but that he was being coached directly from Tesla. If Tesla HQ can't coach a reporter 1:1 out of a devastating result, what hope does the average early adopter have? Either the reporter twisted the facts, or the car has horrible temperature problems, or the Tesla coaches seriously screwed up.

I hope it's not a real issue. A hotel manager might be able to let one Tesla plug in overnight, but there isn't infrastructure to let ten or twenty Tesla owners do the same--yet. However, just as wifi became a competitive advantage to offer at hotels, so will EV charging stations. Perhaps even pay parking lots will begin to offer them.
When I was playing Doom as a kid, I typically played in the evening. Next morning after the night of sleep I felt like I was playing all night, at the moment I woke up I could swear I was just shooting at monsters a moment ago.
What has Silicon Valley become?
I don't know if I would call Swartz a lunatic. I would definitely agree that he sounds highly unstable and that his actions smack of desperation and recklessness. He doesn't sound like a hero to me. He sounds like a very unhappy person who failed to find a good path in life. Just look at photos of him. He looks soft, weak, faltering, unfinished.

And I've said many times that there are red herrings all over the show with this affair. Those who focus on Aaron's explicit ideology are falling for a major one, I believe. Similarly with the focus on the DOJ. The only relevant issue here is Aaron's psyche, and the trend of reckless, idealistic data-vigilantes trying to place themselves above the law.
Ha ha. Not PayPal Fault! Your fault for using them.
I am not a cryptographer but:

"We’re talking even 6 characters or longer, some upper and lower case, and maybe toss in a digit and special character."

6 characters? for 256-bit AES? That seems woefully inadequate. Imagine, say, 72 possible characters (52 a-Z, 10 digits, 10 special characters). This gives a password length for "full" 256-bit security as at least 128*log(2)/log(72) = 42 characters. If I'm wrong about this, please someone correct me! Either way, "6 or longer" seems far too short. Have I missed something here?

As for this particular person's predicament:

I, too, have been in this situation. I couldn't recite my password to someone; I can only touch-type it. It's a bizarre situation to be in and I've very nearly forgotten it myself in the past. I find it's easier to stop trying in case you accidentally "overwrite" your muscle memory and just go back to it later. Most recently, it happened due to my keyboard being detected incorrectly on boot and it almost drove me mad until I realised it wasn't my own error but the keyboard. I suspect if I hadn't have realised I might've been in the same situation as the OP.

In any case, Apple's implementation of FileVault is closed-source (to my knowledge) so it should always be assumed that someone who wants access to your data badly enough can get at it. I don't think it's worth being this paranoid about (e.g. the OP storing passwords as flat-files in a 256-bit AES encrypted disk image instead of just using the system keychain which manages all that for you).

Edit: I did find this interesting:

"The reason it’s so slow is because your AES256-encrypted DMG uses 250,000 rounds of PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA-1 to generate the encryption key. The ludicrous round count makes it extremely computationally expensive, slowing down the HMAC-SHA1 process by a factor of 250,000."

It doesn't seem so ludicrous if it works. Does anyone know if this is standard behaviour for encrypted DMGs?
I assume the former.
I suspect Bill is the type of person to focus intensely on one thing at a time. Prior to 1997 his focus was Microsoft. After that, he rode its success into his next endeavor, which is charity.
Maybe she's right, maybe she's wrong but either way go sign this petition to have someone fired.

Ummmm no.
The A20 gate is more like switching from 20 bit mode to 32 bit mode. It predates 64 bits by a long time.
Inevitable drop in QE?

The Fed is going to increase QE substantially soon, not decrease it. They can't hold down the 10 and 30 year rates with the tens of billions they're throwing at it now, and the US Government can't afford to pay higher rates on (soon to be) $20 trillion in debt. The Fed also doesn't want to allow mortgage rates to rise much, because that would nuke the housing market inflation they've worked so hard to get moving.

The Fed has trapped itself in a death spiral that requires ever larger amounts of QE, and they have no intention of stopping (much less reducing their balance sheet). They speak to that in order to buy time, but they're lying and they know it.

The $85 billion per month they're monetizing now, will move to $125+ billion in the coming quarters.

With the currency wars going on now, the Fed will have to significantly increase the destruction of the dollar in order to stay with the other devaluing currencies (in order to prop up exports through artificial means that is).

That will push asset and commodity inflation up until something explodes, essentially repeating the last two bubble cycles the Fed created (late 1990s and mid 2000s). They're running the same playbook over and over again, refusing to learn from their mistakes.

The alternative is to stop propping up the economy with cheap money, which would lead to an immediate intense recession that no politician is willing to accept. So the outcome is obvious.
I don't see any "racism" here. Since it's "obvious", would you please pin-point it?
I work with mathematics applied to various applied computer science problems with a couple startups.

If anyone is interested in learning a bit of mathematics to structure programs (for real-world usage, even!) feel free to let me know what you'd be looking for. I'd love to help!
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Since you edit the actual page, what you see there is the preview/actual page, I should probably do a better job of explaining that. Maybe have a preview button that says that when you click it... The other UI stuff is just laziness in my part. I'll fix it. Thanks!
State of autonomous cars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car

And I might forward you to Formula 1 racing which is one of the most technologically sophisticated activities on the planet. The car companies involved e.g. Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren are constantly dealing with big data, machine learning and real time simulations.

http://storagemojo.com/2012/11/02/big-data-in-formula-1-raci...

The idea that nobody can handle IT apart from web companies is a bit silly.
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You don't need a visa as a Canadian to visit the US for 3 months for business purposes, such as meeting with "prominent investors and advisors" ;)
Here's a radical idea: instead of passive-aggressively determing this does "not add to the discussion" you might simply try to answer the question. After all, people (surely on here) say making money this and making money that all day long; and while needed, pointing out how dumb that is will not ever be "on-topic", so I attached the (trick) question to a comment that is sure to remain at the bottom of the discussion. If it rubs you the wrong way it's probably for a reason; good luck with that. I didn't imply Bill Gates never produced any value, any such crap is solely in your head as well.
I'm a Canadian and in the current batch. There are lots of alum from Waterloo and some from Toronto.
> I, too, have been in this situation. I couldn't recite my password to someone; I can only touch-type it.

Reminded me of this; making password type authentication using a game. The person can authenticate, but don't have explicit memory of the password that they can vocalise or write down.

http://bojinov.org/professional/usenixsec2012-rubberhose.pdf
Kind of my point, you still need to enable it, even though it doesn't actually exists.
Is there a chance this is a case of correlation studies reported as causation by the media?

I find it unconvincing that it might protect against HIV. Personal incredulity and the endorsing of the WHO aside, how does that work?