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It's a pity that the then Micro-soft did not have copy protection technology - if they had, they might never have established such a strong foothold in the market, and the history of computing would have been quite different.
So a 100 militia men vs 100 government soldiers would make for an even match. Unless that parity is preserved the Amendment is pointless pretty much.

Nope, 100 soldiers entering a town can be decimated by 10-15 people using guerrilla tactics and run of the mill rifles. Short of a genocide (would US soldiers do that?) there is nothing the US Armed Forces can do. Look what happened in Iraq and not that many Iraqis took arms against US /Iraqi government.
We should work exactly the correct amount of hours a week. The correct amount varies between fields and people.
That's some pretty loaded language and interesting choice of quotes there...
Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my question - actually no, I was: why does anyone need to know, not want to know. Like in my two examples about why FX and I might want to know, journalists might also want to know, and again there's plenty of things they want to know without having a right to know.
Interesting, I'm not familiar with that. The fact is SE sites have such a large user base and for the most part I'm not sure the problems it has are significant enough to give much room to new players, unless it is something really remarkable.
Continuing this point you need to exclude any major religion with significant exclusive splits like Christianity, or Islam. Leaving Budism and Hinduism.
Funny how Syria is a "regime", while Israel is not - meanwhile the 2.5 million Arabs living in the West Bank are ruled by Jews and have no vote, and no say in anything whatsoever. The Arabs in East Jerusalem have just been completely cut off. Yet Israel is called a "democracy" and bankrolled by my American tax dollars, while countries the Zionists occupy, like Syria (in the Golan Heights) are "regimes".
Curious what gives you this opinion? I've had nothing but good experiences with 500 Startups members.
This recurring suggestion always offends my friends and family members who are serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.

To say that private gun ownership is the only thing preventing a gov't takeover is to imply that the military lacks discipline, judgement and sophistication.

Fortunately, Americans don't need to rely on guns to restrain and exert pressure on their military or their government. As a nation we have chosen a different course, a democratic system of checks and balances that (while certainly flawed) is among the world's most effective.
People might be more receptive to your argument if you weren't rude to them.
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Ratings for Netflix shows may impact revenue less directly, but they still very much do, else they wouldn't be making them at all. A good show could bring subscribers in, or convince subscribers to keep paying, while a bad show.. well, it probably won't drive people away on its own, but it certainly could bring in / keep less subscribers than it cost to make.
The amazing thing about the AR is that you can get a stripped lower for $60-80 or so, which is technically "the rifle" for the purposes of regulation -- every other piece is just an unregulated accessory.

For about $10k in business start-up costs and recordkeeping, and either outsourced manufacturing or maybe $100k in machine shop, you can turn $10-15 into $60 (normally) or $150 (now) all day long.
Now that this exists, it feels to me like it obviously always should have been there. Hopefully this will improve app discoverability for developers, and help make up for deficiencies in App Store search.
State governments are also subject to the bill of rights, and that's a damned good thing.
It's not the same thing. Thinking critically and speaking in front of a group of people is different than participating in a discussion online.
> Why not kick the whole problem down to where it constitutionally belongs: the states

Would this be accompanied by greater control and enforcement on inter-state gun commerce by the Feds? Kicking the problem down to the states is going to be very leaky unless that happens too.
"I agree with the substance of this. Passing on wisdom is not the first, second, or even 3rd point of "education" anymore."

Emphasis added

At no point, ever, has there been a state education _system_ where passing on wisdom or knowledge was the first, second or third point.

All those kids at failing inner-city schools are just being soul-destroyed for a life of minimum-subsistence-wage menial labour.

Actually most of them don't end up working, and they sure as hell don't end living at a subsistence level. The bottom 5% of US income has a great standard of living by global standards. And any soul destroying that's going on is pretty much universal, not confined to members of the underclasses.
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PG is a relatively large place, and county-wide statistics hide some very real poverty.

It also bears mention that, while not directly correlated, PG county has at times had a murder rate on par with Baltimore.
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Yeah, but really that was kind of the idea in the beginning. It was to be this Wikipedia-like destination but it was all these subtle micro-management decisions that pushed it away from this.

On some level it is silly to put such constraints.
An otherwise almost imperceptible decline in mental function could have have a huge impact on ranking among top chess players simply because at the top levels the margins between players are so small.

If chess Grandmasters dropped in mental acuity as fast as those Luminosity results suggested, a 60 year old Grandmaster could be beaten by any young novice.

Also worth mentioning is that competitive chess is favors very quick thinking and action in a way that most careers don't.
Yup.

I had to only face the true horrors on one occasion, for a Responsys integration. They had the C# examples and the Java examples. The API that they offered for the two had differences because some methods would work with one, some with the other.

I'm a Perl programmer, so tried that. After all you just have to translate the language, right? Wrong. After banging my head against that mess for a week or so, I finally gave up, wrote the communication in Java, and had a Perl launcher for it.
I don't see any discussion about attracting people who aren't white people when > 50% of people in my office aren't white. Citation would be good.
It's absolutely arbitrary, but it's a small enough number that everyone has a chance to contribute to the discussion. With this particular class it had nothing to do with resource constraints... maybe more to do with how many students were interested. I didn't have a single anthropology class after 101 that had more than 35 people in it (and this was at a large state school).
Exactly. I tell my investors lots of things I don't put on our website or pitch a reporter with, especially if it's part of a long-tail strategy.
FastSpring is worth a look. My company (also European) has been using them successfully for subscription billing for over a year. I really like their system.
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Did you mean Roman public education only taught basic literacy? For aristocrats, pupils were taught Greek and Greek literature early on since later republic era. Julia Caesar's mother went so far as to have a Greek slave accompanying Caesar from early childhood so he grew up bilingual. Marcus Aurelius was as comfortable in Greek as he was in Latin. His extensive training rhetorics is obvious from his writing. He wrote "Meditations" in Greek, because that was the language of philosophy.
The problem with that is it's still only 256 colors, which likely doesn't include all the colors in my preferred colorscheme. That's why I'm looking for "true-color", which typically means 16.7 million colors like we are used to (e.g. #rrggbb in CSS), not 256.
Seems to me like the costs are wildly different though.
What specifically is bad about them?
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Right now I am working with zendesk to handle all the incoming emails/voicemails on a daily basis. It's a pretty manual job right now with lots of personalized emails and not a lot of automation. Once a couple of categories/macros have been created I am confident that it will do a pretty good job at getting through the daily inquiries. However, I would also be interested in incorporating/working with customer feedback in our business and was wondering what kind of tool you guys use for that?

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Incorporation doctrine, 14A -- this stuff applies to the states as well.

Some state constitutions are even more clear than the federal constitution on limiting the ability of the government to regulate arms, though.
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What? Your argument is to not live in the bay area? OK - Ill move to [WHERE EXACTLY?] to live on a palatial compound for $10/day.

N has adopted the reality distortion field, apparently only idiots live here now.

Why would I live in the bay area? how stupid of me...

*Danilocampos, you're quire renowned here on HN, I find your post to be the lamest thing you have ever said.

The replies to my comments have been the lamest I have ever heard.

"relative to any other humans" -- seriusly - that is your argument? Sorry - that is not only naive, but also fucking pompous.

I CHALLENGE you to live off $10/day. Show me how removed I am. YOU CANT!

Get the fark off your idiocy! living on $10/day is NOT going to happen to ANYONE on HN.

Jesus!
It's only Swiss males aged 20-34 serving in the militia who are issued with a firearm to keep at home. The kicker is that the gun has no bullets. The bullets are issued if you are mustered [1].

As someone else pointed out in this thread, we don't allow citizens to carry bazookas or nukes. The line must be drawn somewhere. You can ban and buyback assault weapons without banning all firearms.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland

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I more meant they don't have the advertiser problem.
As the FAQ says, they charge for office space, food, resources, guest speakers, etc.

To a certain extent it helps companies understand the value of their cash. Rent and benefits are costs that (almost) all businesses bear. $50,000 is a lot of money and some founders burn through it too quickly. Mentally, it's a lot different than YC's $15,000.
When Netflix owns the content, their marginal costs per subscriber are near zero -- essentially just bandwidth and compute fees.
Not really. Just loosely around the hashtag #hntokyo. It's a pretty relaxed meetup without too much structure - it's mainly based around chatting and meeting people.
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$3000 is quite low in my experience (depends on your processing volume; I've seen high tens to mid hundreds of thousands of dollars) - although reserves typically aren't applied as 100% of your transactions until you meet them. Normally it's filled slowly over time, say 1-5% per transaction until the reserve is met.

Moreover, you generally won't get it back until several months after you stop processing, since that's when the real risk of chargebacks goes away. Depending on your contracts and agreements, the timeframe can change significantly, including having several smaller payouts.
I did the original ai-class, plus a couple from coursera, and a couple from udacity. I also have a bachelor's degree.

The quality of learning from these online courses totally trumped my in-person degree. For me, the ability to rewind certain parts of the lectures over and over was incredibly useful, and I was able to save time running certain parts at 2-5x speed. The use of pop-up quizzes every 5 minutes really forced me to learn the material. The fact that the content was produced for online presentation made a big difference compared to simply recording a traditional lecture.
>If not, then fuck you you smug ass - it costs to live.

Wow, HN has dropped this low?

Here were I live the standard household income is around $600 USD a Month. A family of 4 can (parents and two children) can live with that.
> ... what it actually costs to live a normal life in Silicon Valley with kids ...

By design, the Valley's zoning laws create an artificial shortage of housing units. It costs a lot to live a "normal life" in order to keep out the riff raff.
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

In the terminology of this article, Torvalds is firmly in the Raymond Chen camp as far as "The kernel is not allowed to break user software" is concerned. The difference between Windows and Linux (and especially between Windows 95 era Windows and Linux of the same vintage) is, apparently, that Linux didn't come from MS-DOS, and so never had to allow application software to get hooks into low-level parts of the kernel.

There was never an official version of Linux for hardware without memory protection, and there never will be. Scope is important.
Yeah, they look like they've really been hurting for years now...

(oh come one people, downvotes? You can't tell the OP is attempting humor, and I'm trying to acknowledge that?)
We'll know it is a hit more than any other show newly released show, right?

I mean Netflix could actually sort out the viewing habits and see who gave it a try and then stopped, and who ended up hooked and watched five episodes the same afternoon they watched it for the first time.

That's super powerful in my opinion.
It's really easy to overestimate the efficiency of a mechanical system. Each of those swiveling joints, wheels, etc., is going to lose a few percent even if perfectly maintained. Some of the devices like the friction supports will lose more.

Regarding replacement, I suspect that in an oilfield in the back of beyond in the late-19th/early-20th century, many of the replacement parts for these systems would be made on-site with a saw or a farrier's anvil.
The complexity of this exploit is pretty insane. Just makes me realize how many people so much smarter than me are out there.
Except the record labels would rather hand out huge fines and jail sentences.
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Yes, this is a famous letter which can be considered a foundation of Microsoft's historic hostility to any open technologies.
I don't see how it will change anything. Search is broken at an algorithmic level, and switching from iTunes.com to AppStore.com really won't help. Much as I wish it would. Apple needs to either spend some of their cash reserve on some search engineers or play nice with google, if apple simply used good as the search engine behind the AppStore it would likely be a win for both companies. Apple sells more apps, google collects more data. By thinking small, apple are losing out every time someone tries to find an app, even using its name, and still the AppStore sometimes can't find it. I know there's some latency issues when something new comes out (who remembers trying to search "google maps" when it first launched a few months back only to find it had not yet reached your search instance), it beyond latency search in the AppStore needs a major overhaul
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No more Canadian Pennies, thats it
> 20% of American children live in poverty

The poverty numbers are cooked to drum up support for the socialist welfare apparatus. For example, if a 17 year old's family moves and they stay behind with a friend's family, they are classified as a "homeless child".
FWIW I own queue.do - let me know if you'd be interested in it.
But isn't it interesting that people talk like this, even if they are wrong? Whoever talked about UltraEdit or BareBones in this fasion?
I doubt it. If you don't ban monopoly power, people sometimes get it (like Rockefeller sort of did). You don't get all of the nice properties of free markets unless some conditions are met, like the absence of monopolies.

Edit: That being said, government can get involved in the wrong ways and cause problems with subsidies and bad regulation.
Sorry for not being more clear. I know that's not what you said. I was actually answering your question of what I'd consider adequate.
> is the optimal way to forge an identity, function in society etc. etc.

Well, pretty close. I'm against saying one thing is optimal for everyone, but I think that it is better for many people than going straight into the work force. I'm 100% positive it could be replaced by something else, non-academic, but I'm not sure what it is. The person who does is probably a genius.
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How does this defen the guys claim "Ill show you how to live well off $10/hr."

Every person on HN should realize that they are worth more than $10/hr. Stop defending living in poverty as an exploit of others.
Sort of like PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer?
Now if only they would stop censoring the Internet and using the same citizen monitoring that the Chinese do it might count for something.

The west is obsessed with religion, as has been pointed out, however hypocritical it might be it's a well practiced ritual in DC if you want to get elected for anything.
>Sorry, I must disagree. Two people working 20 hours a week are refreshed, not burned out, have time for educationally side projects, etc.

Take a look at Brooks' The Mythical Man Month for data that demonstrates the opposite, at least in programming; I haven't followed the field closely, but education and industrial organization researchers have done similar work in other professions.
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While being an atheist won't sink you, being christian certainly helps in Australia. For example, John Howard was fond of recording video messages which would get played in christian churches during the service.

My guess is that it would be more helpful at a local than a national level, but church influence could definitely swing a few key seats.
> "Get ... several mortgages and children."
> "live a normal life in Silicon Valley with kids"

It seems to me this is exactly the point being made. You can live on a lot less money than whatever you currently consider "normal", but not necessarily in your current location or at your current level of consumption.

Whatever it costs you to live comfortably in SV with kids, it probably costs me half that to live comfortably in Denver with kids. I know of families living on less than half of what I do in places like Japan, who would consider themselves quite comfortable.

If financing your current lifestyle leaves you with no free time to enjoy life, you're a slave to that lifestyle -- whether it's on $5k or $500k a year. If "living in Silicon Valley" is non-negotiable, it's going to take a lot more earning power to get out of that type of "slavery" than if you're willing to live in Belize.
I don't pretend to fully understand everything that's going on with this exploit, but I give Pinkie Pie full props for being such a genius. Reading these types of write ups always leaves me with a sense of awe for the hacker.
You do realize that the bay area's cost of living is astronomical, right? He's not slagging on the area or anything...

Regardless, if you actually have an interest in low cost living, hit up Joey Hess. He, in this country, pays something around $4-5 a day in rent/utilities. Using the remaining money frugally for food and other needs is fairly trivial.

source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4154371
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But a more open platform like Android would perhaps produce a less consumerist generation. That would truly be a shame. And what if some of them chose to tinker and build things?</sarcasm>
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This is a very cool idea. Is there any intention to tie this to your commits?
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if i recall correctly, blue brain, also ran by Markram, has successfully emulated a rat cortex in some capacity.
Yes, I'd love to hear a response from (2013) Bill Gates to this letter. I wonder if he sees this in a different light now?

Could the piracy of his early programming language been what started the exponential growth/adoption of all Micro-soft software?

If he could, would he go back and release BASIC for free as a springboard to sell other software?
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Can you please go back to Slashdot? you are polluting an otherwise interesting discussion.
Yes, www.qcksrv.com, I'm even getting it for news.ycombinator.com. Came here to see if anyone knew anything.
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Seriously? The Book of Mormon? Why not the same L Ron Hubbard, or maybe some Robert Heinlein?

You can't really put the writings of the Augustine the hippo [sic] alongside the Book of Mormon.
The Nordic Model is horrid in the long term.

A better name would be the cut rose model.

Take a demographic that has little more than one child per woman fertility rates, then, with per capita debt double what you have in the US achieve spectacularly glowing vital statistics (happy, healthy, literate people).

Again you have almost two adults per child, their spending plus the spending of the state which, overall (despite recent belt tightening) is twice per capita what you have in the US. Throw in a culture that's been largely mono-ethnic and with a population level that looks like a single relatively small State in the US and you have something that looks pretty right now but is completely unsustainable and will collapse a la Greece or worse as the present demographic of youth come into the workforce with massive debt obligations yet with none of the options their parents had.
Note: Poverty in my post is intended to mean "low income". I understand that homeless means "without home". How does your post relate to the part of my post that you quoted?

Additionally, do you have any evidence for your assertion?
It's not super helpful to tell someone what they should have done a decade ago, and it doesn't support your argument.
This FCC proposal to deploy nationwide FREE public wifi networks if successful will be a huge boon to all citizens as well as entrepreneurs/startups. As you would expect the cable and telco monopolies are fighting it hard consequently it is critical that as many people as possible contact the White House, the FCC and their reps in Congress to voice strong support for this proposal. Not only will it help break the cellphone and broadband monopolies cable and telcos have that completely eliminates competition and choice in these markets but it will generate significant economic growth, jobs and overall wealth creation across the country.