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I wont be much help but I can confirm that PayPal does this often and it IS reported upon frequently. I, personally, have had thousands of dollars held (just above 20k USD) for 8 months (6 month hold and 2 months of furious phone calls to get a check cut).

I will never use them again as I believe they stifle innovation and are a harm to small businesses that are "making it".

PayPal is very much one basket for all your eggs...don't get duped! Get other baskets!
To play devil's advocate - Linux users may pay more for the Indie Bundles, but there are only a few tens of thousand Linux users paying anything at all. The proportion of Linux users who buy the Humble Bundle is probably much much higher than the proportion who would buy a AAA game (for a number of obvious reasons). Games like CoD need to sell at least hundreds of thousands of copies for it to be worth the support costs.
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I gues it could be because + infront of an empty array returns 0. So, when you do !+[] you get 1. What you pasted it a bit of a labyrinth, but if someone bothered to keep track of it, they could definitely find ten 1s in there. It's not why, it's a how.

I hope someone figures out the rest and gets a cookie! :D
India uses strict exam-based entrance exams. US doesn't. Admission criteria can be lotteries above minimum standards, or designed to choose the students who responded most to the level of investment they got (a bit harder to measure)
Whenever you talk about what someone can "make", salary, earned income, you are automatically excluding the "top". Engineers and surgeons may be at the top of the middle class but their kids are still not getting auto-accepted at Harvard because there's a building named after Dad.
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They funded OMGPOP. Not sure if they applied to YC with though.
Stuxnet was not a virus designed to break random computers for "fun" (or "proof of concept"). It was a targeted weapon designed to break a specific place. Unless someone pays to cause the destruction, it's economically better for the malware authors people to create a inconspicuous botnet.
So I love this topic. This is a big deal now, and looking at trends in demography, incomes, and wealth, it's going to be a yet bigger deal for many years to come. But is there something that can be done? Is there a tech/business solution that helps alleviate the mutual exclusive quality that bingobangobongo mentions? If you could crack that, you could probably be make a big impact for a long time.
I wrote a blog post about credit card numbers and how they're processed for a quick intro to the topic: http://jimkeener.com/posts/everyday-numbers-1
Exactly.

See http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=carbon-nano... for evidence that carbon nanotubes duplicate the dangers of asbestos. And the duplication is by mechanical means - so a large collection of machines around the same size is likely to cause similar effects on our lungs.
Of course it's to prove hypocrisy. Do you really want laws and enforcement of laws to only apply to "regular" people?

If we show them how idiotic it is to have laws that put people in jail for copying songs or charge them millions of dollars, when even the people that are supposed to uphold these laws are doing it, maybe they'll come to their senses.
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> And people who use Linux tend to think you never have to pay money for software so your market is that much smaller.

I'm not sure that is fair. Linux users, when faced with the choice of a free open source tool or a paid proprietary one usually tend to go for the free one. But things like the Humble Bundle show that there are plenty of Linux users who are willing to pay for content. It's just that there aren't that many Linux users compared with Windows.
This is super brilliant, but why do so much of these things use Star Wars for context? Anything else would be just as cute as less creepily cultic worshipful of one movie series.
That becomes expensive. The more you can do on your own, the less in fee's you'll accumulate.
"Using one-generation measures of social mobility—how much a father’s relative income influences that of his adult son—America does half as well as Nordic countries, and about the same as Britain and Italy, Europe’s least-mobile places."

Good, because of course I would want my income to influence that of my children. Yes, yes, I would want them to work hard and be curious and chart their own path, etc., but because I'm their father I'm going to try and stack the deck in their favor as high as I can possibly stack it.

And let's not kid ourselves - everybody who cares about their children, no matter what their political inclination or relative level of wealth, tries to do exactly the same thing. From the hedge-fund billionaire to the immigrant janitor.
I see a lot of comments here of the type "You have to know when to refactor". I don't do it this way. Instead, I rely on a willingness to undo a refactoring when I see that something else might work better -- and even to undo that when I decide that I've got that wrong.

I have no problem extracting as in "WHEN REFACTORING GOES BAD" -- although I might wait for a third copy because removing the duplication -- because I want to see whether a useful abstraction would emerge. On the other hand, as soon as I recognise that one of those copies wants to change in a way that the other does not, I'd simply inline the method and let them diverge. I don't consider this a problem.

It seems as though some programmers believe that, one they extract something, it needs to remain extracted. No. It's only "cargo cult refactoring" if you stop thinking.

Most importantly, refactoring is experimentation. It's a kind of Mechanical Turk-based genetic programming-oriented style of designing, except that you have heuristics you can follow. That means that you'll go down the wrong path. THAT'S OK! as long as you allow yourself to backtrack. Remember: refactorings are small, reversible design changes. That means not just that one can undo them, but that one is willing to undo them.
Just check the humble bundles. Linux average purchase is the highest and their total is way above their OS market share.

So linux gamers don't mind (over)paying for games. The problems come from support and the fragmentation of the platform.
I guess my reasons are the same as those described in the link above, i.e. it is a matter of dialect, my own dialect of English doesn't use "off of" and it sounds ridiculous to my ears; it produces a similar reaction to being confronted with mis-use of there/their/they're.

However, English is a very ill-behaved language, and "off of" just happens to be one of its irritating aspects I'll have to put up with.
Emmanuel,

If you get a job offer, such as a 5-10 hour a week job at your college, you are ALLOWED to apply for a SSN.

This is what I would recommend doing if you are just looking for an SSN. But do understand that working without permission is a huge no-no.

As far as applying for pre-completion OPT, you could do that... it will take 2-3 months to get approved and you will start using up the 12 months of OPT you get per degree level. If you choose to go this route, make sure you actually register your business with your local clerk's office and report it.

One other commmenter mentioned a STEM extension. The one problem with STEM is that you have to work for an e-verified company.

I hope I was helpful, I am an international student advisor, but I am not your advisor at your school who I would recommend speaking with.
How exactly is it morally wrong?
That isn't all he based it on. id games used to be available on Linux, with ports produced by Loki or with unofficial binaries by staff. They never brought in enough money.
I am extremely happy about Watson, but I need to point out some possibilities:

Imagine this scenario. John earns 100K $/year, so he gets access to Watson. Jerry earns only 30K $/year, so he can only use the open source one, which has 10% less accuracy. That would be tragic.

Another scenario: doctor X sees the Watson prediction, and has a doubt about them. He doesn't say anything for fear he could be charged with malpractice if the patient dies under his different treatment. Thus, doctor X is reduced to a yes man, and his boss is not even another man, but an artificial brain. How many doctors would dare oppose Watson ? Do we need doctors any more if all they do is rubber stamp Watson's results? What about medical students - if they know that the difference in diagnosis accuracy between a medium and a top student has been reduced to just 2-3%, why strive to learn more than the other? After all, it's the same whether you are in the top 1% or around the middle of your class.

Ok, now for a positive scenario: we get cell phones with biometric sensors (medical tricorder) and we can input our symptoms. We are trained to do that because we took a 3 month medical class while in high-school. It was compulsory. So, now we can treat 80-90% of our problems without going into a doctor's office. This is amazing especially for remote areas and places where there is no access to doctors for hundreds of miles.

Africa would be revolutionized by it. A single medical nurse with a cell phone / mobile lab could service many people.
I don't use Linux because I don't like it, not because it has so few good games.
> The thing for me is, though, that it would be great if more games came pre wrapped in some sort of emulation with all the relevant settings tweaked.

For example, http://transgaming.com/cider. Notice, though, the high-touch sales process--that's unfortunately necessary, since "relevant settings tweaked" can actually sometimes mean "relevant DLLs reimplemented by us, as part of the 'sales-engineering' process, specifically to make your software work."
This article seems to misunderstand the definition of merit as something related to education or money. In a true meritocracy your standing is based on your value to others. If you do valuable work, the market rewards you. If not, then not. In capitalism, the market decides what is valuable; it seems to be pretty efficient at it.
No, but hardware vendors still tend to want to support older operating systems.
I almost wrote "uniform", but that seemed simplistic since it didn't take into account factors like age, number of children, etc. But if the majority of the wealth goes to the few owners of the machines, then the economy certainly doesn't have the property I'm talking about.
Science is what happens when your fictitious model gives you predictive power over reality. It's the careful method of choosing one model over another based on this criteria.
I suppose if you're going to this level of effort you want geeks of all flavours to appreciate the joke. I imagine Star Wars is probably the best 'rosetta stone' for this purpose.
Paypal has no incentive here. They can just float the cash and earn a small % on it. Do it to enough people and you understand how they make a lot of money.
"My wife does not appreciate the automation of the expression of love."
Merit == Value to others. Most of the time, that will require effort though.
I can see several nice changes to patent law, but intellectual property is just a make-belief nickname for a group of laws, all with different aspects and goals. The only common denominator in each law, is that they are tools of the state and that they are indistinguishable from industry regulations.

Copyright is a state granted monopoly on information, intended to encourage more works but to the cost of an increase unit sale price. It was a barging between the producers of creative works and society. Sadly, this law has not been updated with that goal in hundred of years, but rather taken off in the belief that any cost-benefit for society is simply not necessary.

Patent law is a state granted monopoly on production, in the belief that it would encourage disclosure of secret information regarding how to produce new products. It was a barging between the producers and society. Sadly, this law has also not been updated with that goal in hundred of years, but rather taken off in the belief that any cost-benefit for society is simply not necessary.

Trademark is a consumer protection law, intended to protect a consumer rights to get what he pays for. Trademark scope is sometimes abused with the intent to prevent competition. This is wrong, and should be illegal but is rarely punished. The state gives some privilege to the target producer that a trademark contain, but the purpose of the law is clear.
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Dear DHS,

you are welcome to try and steal my stuff.

I will be sure to laugh at you when you fail. Further, I will be sure to put it on youtube to share the mirth.

Pretty sure this won't damage your credibility any...
Yes, someone kindly edited my original submission title to remove the fact that this is a newly available free version of the book.
After some phone calls it seems the stock was very limited - at least in my area:

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Because I'm lazy, and figure some of you are too ...

Normally, I leave coding to developers. However ...

Playing around in the middle of the night last night when
I couldn’t sleep, as my first app, I was writing the ultimate
Droid Valentines Day App.

The app was to run during Valentines day and with random time
intervals, send texts from an array to my wife such as "I love
you", "Thought I forgot Valentines, day didn’t you?", *etc.*

Lesson in App development

In my attempt to write an app & automate my life, I thought
I would share some things I learned:

1 Test, and then DAMN IT test some more. Especially, if
you are writing code in the middle of the night.
2 You really should put a min wait before looping again –
random to me is different than random to a computer.
3 You should put a max time wait before looping again –
random to me is different than random to a computer.
4 You should learn the difference between seconds and
milliseconds <<– !important
5 In this case, once a variable from an array is used,
you should eliminate it from being used again.

If you don’t get 1-5 right, it is possible for your app
to send 75 texts in less than 5 minutes in the middle of
the night.

My wife does not appreciate the automation of the expression of love.
Isn't this why Valve is only officially supporting Ubuntu? I thought that it was a very sensible choice on their part.
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Succinctly, I like to think of Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs as "The guys who figured out how wire works".

In more detail: http://ethernethistory.typepad.com/papers/EthernetPaper.pdf
I wonder if this is a CYA for TSA employees who steal stuff out of luggage. "It was a legitimate seizure!"

(Fortunately, my equipment can defend itself)
Can you confirm that? You can run an applet inside your ipad? You mean a Java application?
> Name the occurrence in the history of our planet where the much-more advanced/capable species did not displace and diminish the indiginent one.

Name the occurrences where they did. That word, species, I'm not so sure you know what it means.
I think you've gotten your definition of progressive muddled. Property taxes are considered to be progressive because property values are widely considered to correlate strongly with income and wealth. Spending those taxes locally (or apportioning funds for local amenaties based on local tax revenue) is regressive, because increased benefit is then therefore correlated strongly with increased wealth and income. Therefore, your example represents a most regressive distribution of tax distribution.
The dualboot issue is important here. Since most people who go out of their way to install linux on a computer are probably savvy enough to setup a dualboot it removes a lot of the economic incentive to port games to Linux.

This is because they know that most serious Linux using gamers will probably dual boot anyway so a Linux port of a game is a "nice to have" but won't stop somebody buying a game.
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> And people who use Linux tend to think you never have to pay money for software so your market is that much smaller.

As an avid Linux/OSS fan who has spent a fair amount of money for applications that I use in Linux and Windows (ST2/ST3/IDEA-J, others), as well as hundreds (if not more) on games that I'm enjoying Linux native ports of... I'm so damn tired of hearing this stereotype.

At best there can be an argument made for wanting to support OSS software over paid alternatives, and that IS true. There are times that I will use a slightly inferior application because it is OSS. It's almost never a price thing. Even now that I've paid for ST2, I still find myself wishing that I liked Vim/Emacs more because they fit more with my OSS-love and the advantages that come with it (WinRT/ARM port, Linux/ARM port for the Exynos Chromebook, etc)... but please stop acting like that means I expect to get everything for free. It's really insulting.

edit (Ironically, games are probably one of the more obvious places that "you get what you pay for". I'm not the biggest hardcore PC gamer, but I really don't care to play any of the OSS games available for Linux. On the other hand, even though I'm terrible at them, TF2/CS/CS:S/HL/etc are fun even for me, and I'm very happy to pay for that entertainment, especially when Steam makes it so easy to buy/redownload/etc)
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Wine is great, it comes really close, and then it breaks overnight for no reason. I was playing CS:GO and playing it rather frequently and then all of the sudden it has simply stopped working. On the other hand, all of the Steam games with Linux native ports work great on both my Intel and Nvidia graphics setups.

I hope Carmack is wrong and I hope Steam for Linux will drive the point home.

Also, the whole "support" point is lost on me. If the impetus is really post-release support, I can guarantee you going through Wine is going to complicate things greatly... and you still have the same supposed moving target of Linux underneath. It's not as if using Wine normalizes sysv init vs systemd vs upstart or pulseaudio vs oss vs alsa. Those issues are still there and anyone who games on Wine seriously knows that those issues are MORE present with Wine than they are with the native ports.
If D and R are interchangeable what makes you think a third party would be any different?
And there was an error in handling the error!

"Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
in windows, this will get the entire thing tracert -h 100 216.81.59.173
I watched this yesterday, and was surprised that they didn't really focus on the issue of legality at all. Instead it was more about the characters and how their lives changed.

How about thinking about websites like the pirate bay as a sort of easy to access library. It think it is odd that libraries freely distribute copywrite material legally (and are thought of as good for society), but we have a different standard because the material is online...
Tool. The corporate stooge has already framed it, dishonestly so. Using "starving artists" to argue increased control and ownership for corporations.
Excellent point. I certainly favour a) over b), but in the real world we need to appreciate there is a balance here. The aim should be to limit the effectiveness of parental help by giving 80% of the benefit to all children.

In regards to b), not all help is monetary in nature. Some of it can be in the form of social favours, familiarity of cultural norms (national, company and industry culture) and expectations etc.
On one hand it's impressive and huge and through that is somewhat intimidating and scary, because it makes one feel like losing control (to the "machines").

On the other hand it's a straight-forward extension of a basic calculator. There are tasks that humans can do, but not as fast, so why not automate them? It doesn't mean that no one can subtract and divide by hand, it just makes one's work more efficient. Similarly, Watson doesn't mean that next generation doctors will be lazy incompetent asses at mercy of a powerful computer system. It means that they will have yet another instrument to help them do their job better.
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Good academic training/education used to be inaccessible to the poor. This is no longer true. The internet is busy changing all of that. Home schooling at any level has now become feasible. The difference that remains, however, is the difference in outcome for children due to family breakdown. That has, however, nothing to do with income, and everything with the views on marriage with which the person was educated. To the extent that keeping children away from the often rampant depravity prevalent in the government-run education system will preserve their home-instilled views on marriage, NOT expanding the school system will contribute to improving the outcome for the demographic that has less trouble with marriage breakdown and other social ills. In my opinion, it is about time to remove the control of the depravity-encouraging politicians from anything related to education.
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[citation needed], as the Slashdot discussion [1] had conflicting reports.

[1] http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/09/0054212/dhs-can-seize...
10 million is massive install base. And while half life 3 and portal 3 may have the muscle to move 10 million units, you will also need to provide some form of compatibility current steam catalogs. Which Carmack solution allows.
He says "We have made two forays into the Linux commercial market, most recently with the QuakeLive client and that platform just hasn't carried it's weight." Watch the video I linked to.
Such software has been available for decades, been shown to be superior to human diagnosis, and yet has not been accepted by the medical community. Doctors will likely continue to push back. It may require restructuring of the medical education community (perhaps a' la the movie Idiocracy) to bring about utilization.

"50 years of successful predictive modeling should be enough: Lessons for philosophy of science (2002)"

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.217....

Idiocracy, the movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
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Isn't that the same as any coupon? Why not set up a "Groupon Coupon" that applies a $100 discount. It should end up with the sales tax at the end like you need.
Where's your proof those are hurt more or at all by piracy? I've seen just the opposite, sharing increasing sales/revenue.
>Obama was worlds different from Romney, and that comparing Obama to Bush was lunacy

Amazingly there is a middle ground. Yes, Obama is taking after Bush in scary ways. It makes me sick and it's why I voted third party in the re-election. That having been said, it's terribly reductionist to say that "Romney and Obama are the same" and anyone who is a woman or gay will almost surely agree with me.

>I have to wonder what happens when those Obama supporters with left-wing sentiments read an article like this.

We're pissed off and still terrified at how much worse it would be with Romney. Or, we, like you, wish that third party candidates were viable, that people would be educated enough that it would MATTER that people like Gary Johnson exist, etc.
Being a web developer in London who has dealt with many agencies, I call bullshit on this. Not one recruiter who I have dealt with has been a problem for me, quite the opposite, in fact. There is something wrong with your friend's perception of reality; that is to say, she is delusional and paranoid.