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Spending more time with kids is good, still . .

I want a beautiful and open network all across the planet. I want to see North Korea become free, and sit drinking coffee in a café in Pyongyang. I want Africa to become a garden stretching from Cape Town to Khartoum. I want to visit the Silicon Valley of the Congo, and take the suborbital to Tokyo if I'm in the mood for sushi that night. I want cold sleep and ramships and I want to see sunrise on Alpha Centaur Bb (after moving its orbit out a bit:)

No matter how good leisure is in the short term, if it slows those goals down I'm against it.

There PG, call that middlebrow criticism!
How video game porting companies stay in business I do not know. Every story about video game programming seems to involve cutting corners to meet deadlines. With that in mind, porting companies must be handed the most vile and platform specific code, along with the expectation to get it working as fast as the original company did.

I feel kinda bad for Eidos, who I feel did a pretty good job with the port/ (I have played the PC version extensively.)
I agree that house of cards is a great show and casting Spacey was an excellent choice. The American Beauty Kate Mana really works well too. If you're thinking of the bbc's Yes Minister, then this is nothing like that show. Maybe you had something else in mind.
Part of the reason why is that for many classes of start ups those things are completely unnessecary and will be distractions from actually shipping your product.
Tech, telecom giants take sides as FCC proposes large public WiFi networks
I had no intention of inferring that, as I often make that point myself. The sentence you first referred to stated:

"But, all that aside, we’re still in the middle of a long, long discussion in our industry about attracting people who aren’t white males (which I am)."

...which is an observation of a discussion, not a statement about demographics, and that discussion is happening whether it's actually relevant or not.
The original material went on to three novels and three series in the UK.

Though it might be hard to translate To Play the King into an American context.
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Another great thing that The Verge has going for it is the layout and design of their articles. In an AMA on reddit [1], a member of the Vox Media Product Team said they actually have the writers do a basic layout of their article (with full text and everything), then another dedicated designer to further refine it. I've never read of any other sites doing this, so I found it quite interesting.

We built a snippet system for our long-form features. Imagine a regular WYSIWYG editor where the author can insert "snippets" like "picture on left" or "full width overlay", and then they add whatever text and images they like. From there, the feature writer will work with a dedicated designer to further hone the look and feel of the piece with custom SCSS inclusion.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/12gm3c/vox_media...
>>>Yes, looks like he chose to not have a kid

In the US this is not legally a man's choice.

Wikipedia>>>In some cases, men and boys that have been raped (statutorily or otherwise) by women have been forced to pay child support to their rapists.[1]

[1]http://www.ageofconsent.com/comments/numberthirtysix.htm
> FX chief John Landgraf [...] "How will you determine if something's a hit?"

The real question is why does anybody outside of Netflix need to know whether it's a hit or not?

> Remember, with a subscription costing about $100 a year, adding 10 million subscribers over the next few years would bring in an addition $1 billion to Netflix's coffers.

Am I missing something, or is this the most irrelevant sentence ever written in journalistic context? Genuine question. (Not to mention the fact that it seems to mix annual subscriptions to a one-off bank-balance boost?)
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” -- Edward Bernays, 'Propaganda', 1928
My two cents, nothing major...

- I don't 'get' your logo. What is the round thing - a balloon or a speech bubble? The colour is a poor choice. Why the two CCs.

- Have you tried having the logo outlined in black or something, to make it stand out a bit.

- Other than the logo, I like the layout - simple and easy to use.
The thing is, 40 hours less my hour lunch a day ends up at 35 hours, which over 7 days is only 5 hours. To me personally I would prefer to work 5 hours a day every day than be getting up at 6am to get home for 6pm, and forget it if I want to do groceries on a night, I'll be getting home in time to have a shower, read a chapter of a book and fall asleep.

My weekend work usually averages around 4-5 hours a day, I get to relax, I get to run out and do groceries and don't even notice having worked.
With a VM you will be able to run more software more reliably but suffer a significant performance hit and require a Windows license for the VM and it will take a chunk of your RAM.

WINE is more likely to be glitchy & unreliable with many programs, will require special configuration in some cases and may not work at al in others. However since it doesn't have to emulate a computer (it basically re-implements parts of the Windows API) the performance is usually on a par or only slightly worse than native windows. You don't need a Windows license to run WINE however.
My life has exhibited at various points a preponderance of the issues that your grandparents faced. Most people I know still cope with issues mentioned above. I'm not sure why you believe that poverty has vanished even among people on minimum wage: it has absolutely not.
"...they risk turning into a dumb pipe".

That's their problem, they don't own the pipes either. They don't own the pipes and they don't own the content (before House of Cards). Up to now they provided...well...a useful cute little UI, but it's hard to make a lot of profit for a prolonged period of time on that. So they either go into pipe building or content building. Content building has the better leverage to the large customer base they've got, and in that context producing House of Cards makes perfect sense. I hopes it works out for them.
In any modern economy, you can redefine a business plan that requires capital into one that does not. The problem is rather what will you live off while the business is still taking off? That is where you may need savings. But then again, it is possible for approximately anybody to cut their expenses to less than 25% of what they are today. (1) Move to a cheaper area (2) get rid of everything you can do without. And then you will see what the real problem is: They hang out to things they could get rid off. This is what it truly means: "they do not have enough money to do so".
30 people is a completely arbitrary number, arrived at not because it was the optimal class size, but because of resource constraints.
Oh ! Thanks for pointing out.
It is for exactly this reason that the people of http://www.neuroml.org/ are doing their work. Good catch!
To combine and place everything in one overarching language that can be used in any of the many Brain Simulators. There are many each with their own advantages, which is why there are so many different languages.
Its been ten years. Let it go. Seriously.
syndicates would tend to drive EV toward 0, but, not eliminate it ... if one or more syndicates bought tickets to the point EV was negative, after costs etc., it would be self-defeating.

The main point remains that just because something is EV-positive does not mean that betting on it is a good strategy, if you are forced to size your bets inappropriately.

Maybe the title should have been, 'why only millionaires and syndicates should buy lottery tickets.'
The real question is why does anybody outside of Netflix need to know whether it's a hit or not?

If they can prove it was a hit, that's good marketing material.
Dear Jesus, another House of Cards post?
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Sure, but when there's an economic incentive to having things tracked most people put up with it. I'm not saying drugs are the only thing anyone would use bitcoin for, just the most likely thing for the average person to.
The reason the online education movement is getting so much attention is because it is targeting a huge need of society that's been neglected for decades, if not centuries -- the needs of the adult learner.

Some say the college "experience" can't be replicated online and they're probably right, but of what use is that to the person who can't afford the luxury of going to office hours or throwing around the football in the quad between classes because he has a full time job and a family to feed.

I think both systems can co-exist quite well.
I'm so affended by this article's lack of facts and evidence, the speculation, and the lack of understanding about the scientific community and its process.
The author also seems to forget that special relativity was published years after he read this, and then it would still be years more before he would publish general relativity which was a completely new work of science.

Science is first published first served. If your theory is flawed it is almost certainly null and void; a perfect opportunity for another scientist to take the work and run with it.

Furthermore, this is not Apple, which you can bad mouth and expect everyone to be interested and want to pile on. This is almost unequivocal he was the brittiest man to live who also wrote the most eloquent succinct equation which would completely change our understanding of energy, space, time and the universe forever more.
Netflix accomplished two things:

1. They muscled into the "prestige television" club for $100MM. It may be overpriced, or it may be underpriced, either way it's very good for consumers.

2. They validated television is the new book. You gorge on 13 hours of good television the same way you gorge on 13 chapters of a good book. This is very good for show creators.

A triple win aligning interests while getting to say f-you to existing preconceptions. This is what "disruption" looks like. Now I'm just sad I didn't buy NFLX after people freaked out over Qwikster.
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He had in mind the BBC's House of Cards.
I use Lynx almost daily, mostly for reading HTML-Only email (I am shaking my fist at you, HTML only senders) and downloading things. Requiring J-Script makes me nuts.
The headline is bogus; UW was never "BlackBerry Focused." If anything, the Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering programs sent a disproportionate number of graduates to Microsoft, IBM, and (eventually) Google through the '90's and early 2000s. BlackBerry looms large because of proximity, but its very misleading. I can't help but think that the New York Times would've noticed this if they'd looked at the recruiting numbers.
Anyway, check out HoC if you have Netflix. Hopefully we'll see more shows from them.

If you don't have Netflix, you can watch the Premiere without signing up for the usual first free month.

And the other originals launching this year (in addition to the new Arrested Development season) are listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_distr...
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Sweden was at 70% and went to 30% (now, 38% was in 2010 as you pointed out) because they cut governement spendings from 67% of the GDP to 49%.

Then you conveniently left Greece out of your list. You know that it did partially default and that it's going to default again right?

And Spain, why did you left Spain out? You know what's going in Spain right now? 50% unemployment amongst young people. Crazy high state budget deficit.

France is in deep shit right now and that 86% from 2010 was heaven compared to today. New car sales dropped year-to-year by 33% or so, companies of all sizes are closing left and right and they're heading for a default is they keep on that nanny state "here are more gifts for you so your sense of entitlement gets higher and you keep voting for us socialists". Because you know what? When a liberal president (Sarkozy) was cutting 180 000 public servant jobs at the very same time collectivities (run by the socialists) did create 500 000 jobs. 500 000 public servants jobs created by the socialists which now, of course, are explaining that Sarkozy did a bad job (he was president right in the middle of the financial crisis and it's all Sarkozy's fault).

The banking sector ain't the issue: we're first and foremost living, after the sub-prime crisis, a state debt crisis.

Why do we need to bail out banks? Because they have bad credits. Do you know the kind of bad credits they have now? State credits which states are never going to pay back.

And why do we have states that are going to be unable, just like Greece, to pay back their debt? Because they've been running budget deficits for years and years and years.

Honestly we're witnessing the failure of governments spending more than they rake in and socialo-communists are able to turn this around and to try to make us believe that it's the evil capitalists from finance who are responsible for all the world's problems.

I'm not buying it.

I confidently say that a nanny state with public spendings at 67% of the GDP like Sweden was before is too much. At 56% like France is right now (but it's going to skyrocket seen that they're not reducing public spending while their GDP is going to take a hit this year and lots of people from the private sector are now unemployed) it's too much too.

There has to be a certain % which is "right" and there may be some room but it's certain that socialists in France asking for more socialism are out of their minds.

The problem when you're "on the edge" with a % of public spendings so high that it's basically ruining the private sector and hence killing any innovation and with state debt around 100% is that you have not much room for maneuver anymore. All it takes is a little match and your beloved nanny state takes fire. Just like Greece. Just like Spain right now. Just like France tomorrow if they do nothing.

It's ugly and it's the fault of government running budgets on deficits.
Would be classier if they don't, great speaks for itself. But I don't doubt they would share the numbers when they re-pitch every top tier Hollywood talent.
well, I'm still a cynical bastard and I don't care. Just letting some frustration out and trying to make it a political issue.
I always wonder how long something like this takes from the start to the end.
They already bought 2 seasons.
Not quite true; papers in many fields are available as working papers that get updated and I've frequently seen papers that cite each other.
Hmm, television as a book. I get the analogy. It's kind of like applying book serialization to video. You quickly read a book and as many sequels exist when you first pick it up. Then you have to wait for the next season, i.e. book, to come out.
Saying that poverty is significantly and astoundingly reduced is not the same thing as saying it has vanished.
I don't know, but an unmanned, no radio, pre-programmed electric ultralight in the middle of nowhere can be very stealthy. Almost no sound signature, difficult to detect radar signature and pretty much invisible at night time. Some small model that could carry 100L and 50kg would be very profitable item.
Are you so sure about that? I'm 53, and I believe I'm a far more effective programmer than I was in my 20's.
It isn't true of Ireland, Britain, Australia or New Zealand. I don't think it's true of Canada. Among WEIRD [0] nations I think the US is the only one where being openly atheistic would abort any serious political career.

[0]Western Educated Industrialised Rich Democracies
Learn how to do metal fab and turn your I4 into an I3 with an eccentric supercharger :)
Koine (vulgar or Hellenist) Greek, actually, but the point still stands.
You might consider my opinion biased because I'm a part of the network, but everyone I've met in the 500 family has always been extremely nice.
He's talking about the BBC's 1990 House of Cards (http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0098825/), starring Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart, the Conservative Party whip in the House of Commons.

You should check it out - it's available on Netflix :-P
Dear God, don't read the Book of Mormon or the Quran. I thought the Bible was soporific but those two...
New normal are streams of everything.
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My gosh. I wonder how many hours of coding he has under his belt to be able to come up with something like that. Mind blowing.

Also somewhat terrifying, glad he "works for the good guys".
Expanding on neuroguy's comment, there's many different people working on making models and pretty much (<simplification>) the only things that matter here are the collections of transfer functions; given inputs, how do outputs propagate. You can see that in the C++ (well, C from the looks of it) example you gave, there's a time value, a timestep, a bunch of physical attributes, and a series of functions - no matter what the language or system used all the other models there have similar features.

When people look at the work of others they are less interested in the modelling system used and more interested in the model, which most are happy to translate to whatever system they are using as the very act of crawling through and translating from one form to another forces a certain kind of deeper look at the details.

It's on par with Watson & Crick using plasticine and paddlepop sticks for their model while others use ping pong balls and wire coat hangers ... further down the track everything gets unified but at the early stages one form of modelling is more or less as good as another.
"Wouldn't it make more sense to just fund education to the levels we had back when it was working?"

In good times investing in innovation is a luxury. In bad times it is a necessity. The returns on the present education model are not covering the costs in many cases.
* Sue students that are plagiarizing (copying answers)

* Sue students are assisting plagiarism (allowing others to copy answers)

* Regulate libraries as intermediaries for transmitting and publishing unlicensed content (eg: counterfeit books, unlicensed books), inadequately securing the photocopying machines, borrowed material, and other potentially infringing assets

* Sue libraries for encouraging, enabling, or facilitating infringement (ie: studying)

I foresee a future where libraries are regulated and managed in the same manner that ISPs are, perhaps even more-so due to the physical limitations and monetization of the unlicensed content available.
> With Netflix spending a reported $100 million to produce two 13-episode seasons of House of Cards, they need 520,834 people to sign up for a $7.99 subscription for two years to break even.

Isn't that ignoring profit vs income?
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It also encourages other streaming companies to follow suit with more original content.
>Very typical number for the great battles of the era. This was Alexander's great rampaging army after all

The 50k number was in reference to Porus' army. Allegedly, Alexander was outnumbered between 3 and 5 to 1.

As another basis of comparison, both sides at the battle of Waterloo also fielded about 50k infantry a piece.
I am reminded of the discussion we had with colleagues about Markdown versus RestructuredText.

On Markdown side, you have sexy but ill-defined grammar, and on RST you have a slightly less nice-looking guy with a much better defined grammar, which allow building a saner tooling upon it.
The inside story of Israel's bombing of the Syrian nuclear reactor
The point is that at high DPI, the "serious fuzzing" is much less noticeable for a variety of images. A retina screen has 4x the amount of pixels. Which means the 2x2 undersampled color errors are probably below our perception threshold. Especially if you pre-blur your high res image to a small degree, acting like an anti-aliasing filter when you scale it down by a factor of e.g. 1.5. For mobile, where users will be zooming a lot anyway, this is a very useful strategy to consider, which can absolutely beat PNG in image quality. Doesn't mean you have to do it everywhere, but I'd prefer it to having to download megabytes of images on retina devices.

It is very rare that a website has only perfect vector line art in its images. PNG sucks at compressing non-trivial gradients for example.
Ask HN: How much $$$ do guns cost the public?
Medics, police, hospitals, etc. Anyone done the math on how much padding the gun manufacturers pockets costs all of us?
Y Combinator doesn't charge you anything, but gives less cash for roughly the same equity. I don't know about Tech Stars. I think Founder Institute charges and doesn't invest, but I don't know their terms, and they're not really an accelerator.

It's normal for VCs in Series A to bill you for their legal expenses. Maybe that's a similar kind of thing to giving money and then charging back for expenses. It's obvious that accelerators have per-participant expenses; it's up to them and their LPs whether they should cover it by recouping from portfolio vs. overhead.

I don't think this term would influence my decision to participate or not. If an accelerator isn't a clear yes (massively increasingly your odds of success, raising your investment valuation, etc., far beyond what it costs), it's a no.

For Y Combinator, I'd say it's a clear yes. For a lot of the other accelerators, it's a no. I've heard good things about 500 Startups from other people I know who have participated.
"Wouldn't it make more sense to just fund education to the levels we had back when it was working?"
Short answer: NO.
I get the analogy and see the value in it, but I'll point out where the TV isn't like a book:

1. Books are obviously composed of text, and, when you read, you're also imbibing the rhythms of the language you're reading (see http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/12/24/071... for more on this).

2. Related to number one, many more of us need to write than need to shoot and edit videos. Reading skill is related to writing skill.

3. You'll read far more words in a given block of time than you'll hear in video. Reading is much more information dense in this sense (whether a minute of video is worth a thousand words can be debated elsewhere).

4. It's easier to quote and store text than it is video. Notice the word "easier:" I'm aware that it's possible to quote and store video. Related to this, I use the scheme Steven Berlin Johnson describes here: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/0002... .
Letter grades from A - F would be a good idea. Their meaning and use has been ingrained since childhood.