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I did this on one site of mine. I sent the signup confirmation from my real email account at the company and made it a personal letter from me welcoming them, while at the same time being an automated form letter (and not trying to disguise that fact). I mentioned that if they had any questions they could just reply to this email and then I signed the email with "Regards, <myname>". The site wasn't very big and it's now getting no attention from me, but of the hundred or 2 who signed up, a few responded.

The email was basically:

Hi <username>,

Welcome to the site! To confirm your email click this link: <link>

We've just launched this site and are working on developing new features now. If you have any feedback or comments, just reply to this email. It would be a delight to hear from you.

Regards,

<name>

<startup>

Founder & CEO
Hi. I study CS with an inclination towards ML but I don't know anything about the topic of automated summarizing. I'm curious, since you've taken a ML approach, did you still need to rely on NLP and if so, was this very problematic?
Also, do you perhaps know an article or a paper that could serve as a good starting point/overview of what approaches there are to summarizing and what are the current difficulties. Thanks
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This is a bit different to the Reader scenario. They're not shutting down Google Groups, they've shut down one particular group, without explanation. I think the symfony community would be happy if we could just get to the data to move.
> How about addressing his point?

OK. Monsanto seems to have a unique interpretation of IP for themselves. They invented a genetic modification of existing crops. Now they claim the modified crops themselves as their IP, which is like HP claiming copyright on material printed with their printers. Not only that, they also claim rights on the following generations of these crops, which is just absurd.

If you want to patent your genetic modifications, so noone else can apply it, go ahead - sue people who apply the same modifications. But claiming IP rights on modified (with it) seeds is not reasonable.
There are no minimum karma requirements for posting.

Accounts start with 1 karma, the submission got 2 upvotes so that makes 3 karma total.

I thought the submission was spam and flagged it, I won't speculate as to how it got 2 upvotes.
It's probably God forbid any scripting language in this situation. However if forced I would much prefer Perl over Python or Ruby because Perl catches far more errors at compile time.
You can't downvote submissions. Afaik flagging does not affect karma.
> unless companies get to protect real IP that they develop themselves, what's the point in developing anything.

To make money.

Companies (and people) have been developing new technology long before patents were introduced, and something tells me that they will continue to do so just fine even in the unlikely event of the patent system is abolished.

The millions spent give them the advantage of being the first to introduce this type of product in market. Nothing more.

on a personal note: I'd hate to think what would have happened if everyone throughout history thought of "IP" the same way people nowadays seem to think. We'd probably just started producing cars that need to be cranked to start.
My bash-fu isn't great, can you point me at an example of a script which does this (yours or someone else's)? I was literally thinking about moving my ST2 config into my dotfiles repo the other day
Did you look into Librelist[0]? They also offer rsync access to your archives, so making backups is trivial.

[0] http://librelist.com/
Name one case in which Monsanto sued a farmer for unintentionally planting cross-pollinated seeds.
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Actually, the first Google result with "National Academy of Sciences and Monsanto" is your link, so I'm not sure if you did your research thoroughly. Point me specifically to the source with the text you're referring to. The burden of proof is on you since you made the claim.
But both this Bw-tree and the implementation the parent linked to claim to be "B-trees" (variants thereof), so I'm not sure why that's relevant. (Apart from the fact that B+ trees are just another B-tree variant themselves.)
What support? There is no support at Google and this is by design. If they had support it would not be possible to offer what Google offers. You are shut down by robot and that decision is final. There is no support. And robots do not tell what you did wrong because this would be knowledge on how to play robots.

I seriously wonder how long such a begging - please Google, good Google - will finally end.
If the water is so polluted you burnt your toe, I think it's a very good thing to warn others about it!
"Power corrupts, profit corrupts"

Prove that the National Academy of Sciences were paid for their conclusions.

"deliberately trying to convince me that Monsanto is good for me? Am I nine or something?"

No one is trying to convince you of anything. The National Academy of Sciences, the FDA, the World Health Organization, and the American Medical Association are on my side. Are you saying they're all paid and corrupted? If so, prove it.
You should try Microsoft support. Straight through to a human who knows what they are talking about without waiting EVERY TIME.

Not only that, Office even works ENTIRELY offline.

And it opens all our documents absolutely perfectly EVERY TINE.

Yes this is facetious: Google have forced peoples standards down.
This is a really good point. Google actually has a really good tool for testing this: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Here is an example: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http...
Google Support - isn't it an oxymoron?
> Hot fusion has been around for a long time.

Only in the stars and in thermonuclear weapons. It has not been achieved in a break-even sense anywhere else, in spite of decades of research. Many very large projects are dedicated to achieving it, including the National Ignotion Facility:

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

The linked article shows that, in spite of vast amounts of money being spent, the project has yet to achieve break-even (i.e. produce more power than required to start the reaction).

> In fact I remember a couple of high school kids made a hot fusion device once.

No, that did not happen. It's an urban myth.
If your business model is dependant on one other entity for existence, you've got a risky model.
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Getting specs is not the problem, but changing the specs over and over again, and not communicating or remembering all the changes is a problem.
This could be an idea for a startup. A middleman support service for contacting Google.
No, they are not. GM seeds are not "naturally abundant".
People are still doing that. Thousands of people around the world in fact, just in the very specific domain of improving crop traits to improve nutrition and food security in developing countries.

I see that as a separate endeavour to what companies generally do.
It does speak for itself, in that Victor and many other Mendeley staff stand by their opposition to the Research Works Act. We believe that the SOPA blackout protests (which we participated in), and the Cost of Knowledge boycott have led Elsevier to start addressing the issues people have had with them. Some things will be quick to change, others more slowly.

The morals of our staff haven't changed overnight, and we'll continue to try and push Elsevier towards a future with a greater emphasis on open science. There's no contradiction here, just a huge challenge on our part.

(Full disclosure, I'm a designer at Mendeley)
If Starbucks invaded your city and used their cash pile to give away free coffee for years until there were no more independent coffee bars left, and then suddenly decided to close up shop leaving you with no decent coffee bars, would that make them evil? At least it would make them careless and insensitive.

A better option would be to a) charge a price and compete fairly in the first place, or b) open source or sell off the product so it could live on.
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It's not: Google doesn't care about its users in both cases.
Wasn't there an entire town in the USA where they connected the refrigerators up to a automatic restocking system. Or have I imagined that?
He’s willing to pay for the support. Just as most people in similar positions. Doesn’t that change the feasibility?
Can I claim that you're an organic food marketing troll?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeis...

Edit to add: You can argue that this is a he said, she said. Since Mr. Schmeiser did not use Roundup I find his reasoning that he has no interest in the Monsanto seeds rather convincing.
I guess that just as with the native email client, there's not much development happening on the native SIP dialer.

Instead of improving the core Android apps, which would benefit other phone manufacturers as well, Google is mostly working on their web service frontends (Gmail, Google Plus, probably Google Voice as well) nowadays. The result is a platform packed with features that only work half the time.

Did you know that the native Email client doesn't even set the In-Reply-To header, i.e. breaks threads?
Recently I was driving down the motorway with my window open and a woman in a passing car threw a Samsung phone straight in the window, for some reason! I was going to track her down and give it back but it kept locking up so I couldn't.
A couple of days back that was just a page with a story, now there's two, so I guess an RSS is now a must. Coming soon...
Please don't perpetuate the Indian Farmer Suicides fallacy. It's a real and tragic phenomenon but it is not about GM seeds or Monsanto, starting long before they entered India. There's a very good review by IFPRI here: http://www.ifpri.org/publication/bt-cotton-and-farmer-suicid....
So how much is Monsanto paying you penny500?
That's a good cause but will take ages before all nations adopt it, if they ever get everyone to agree. I was hoping for something I can start using right away.
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I would have understood the title if it had just said written in Python. Most of the time I don't really care what libraries are used.
I'm a bit amused that this is on the front page at the same time as Peter Norvigs "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" [http://norvig.com/21-days.html], with which I agree a whole lot more than the whole "Learn to code" movement.
I'm probably the least fan of Microsoft in the world, but I have to agree with you on that. More generally, cloud products are extremely convenient on the surface, but beneath the water there is an iceberg of trouble.

Especially when you don't have your own backups of the data, as usual with these kind of services. Outages, unexplained data loss, services being shut down, users being locked out for unrelated reasons (oh you didn't put your real name in G+?), unexpected changes to the interface and software, the list goes on.

The vendor lock-in is even worse than when using closed-source software with DRM. At least you can keep running those (if necessary in an emulator) when discontinued, or reverse engineer them...
If this idea had been reduced to practice, it would mean the end of the National Ignition Facility, which after decades of effort, has yet to produce more power than is required to start the reaction:

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

If the described method actually worked, it would force a complete reevaluation of the other approaches to fusion, none of which have actually worked (in a practical sense) after decades of effort.

That's why I doubt that the described method has moved beyond the theoretical phase. If this isn't true, then people would try to create a continuous-power version of the technology, in which prior energy releases and high temperatures would be used to sustain new fusion energy releases.

I've been reading about fusion power research for decades, I know the problems, and I remain skeptical.
Except it's not true because the founder of the company just addressed your point head-on when he said:

> I have no interest in "setting up for an acquisition".

Conjecture is fine, if you are able to change it in the light of new evidence. Otherwise you just look like an ostrich :)
"Encouraging people to spend money for the sake of it sounds like a good idea when people have created the concept of 'hoarding' - which is just saving with a scary name."

But to be clear: there's a fundamental difference between "saving" and "investment".

1. Saving/Hoarding: Keeping money/cash under the mattress - nobody else has the ability to "spend" the money in the mean time. Also called "sinking funds" by Keynes. This is money kept in a bank deposit. The important point is that you can, at any time, choose to "stop saving" the money and spend it. i.e. you keep the right to spend the money at any time. Nobody else can make use of it. It effectively is out of circulation until you choose to spend it.

2. Investment: Lending the money to someone else for a fixed term - you can't ask for the money back before the end of the fixed term. They can spend it on goods/services for that period of time after which they have to pay it back. The money stays "in circulation".

Absent fractional reserve banking, #2 is the only thing that can actually generate a real return. i.e. real, profitable, economic activity that makes people better off. Without FRB, a checking account cannot pay interest, because #1 cannot be used in any risk-free way to generate value.

For economic productivity, #2 is a good thing, #1 is a bad thing. The fact that everyone is trying to do #1 right now with US dollars and the like is what is considered to be the source of our current economic malaise (according to the economists that I agree with anyway). Fractional reserve banking, QE and the like to some extent lets money that is in category #1 be used for "economic good" in category #2 - effectively fooling the hoarders into "investing" their money.

Of course, bitcoin doesn't have fractional reserve banking - and pretty much by design seems to make it impossible for things in category 1 to be used as category 2. This is why the "hoarding" of bitcoins is considered to be deflationary.
I don't need to. You just did.
"Solve a wide range of humanitarian problems..." which also has the side effect of them monopolizing developing countries. Don't kid yourself. Their unethical corporate behavior is well documented. It's companies like them that if they start losing money to organics, then they worm their way in to change the meaning of organic on food labels. It's pathetic and they deserve all the criticism they get.
http://www.ncsu.edu/park_scholarships/news/article.php?id=24...

Nowhere near break even though.
Three days of hammering impulse is not going to be fun!
He just said that: "Taking anything that is naturally abundant and making it artificially scarce"
You don't have to worry about scaling it to hundreds of millions revenue a year if you are not running a startup.

In this case, it seems like the OP isn't running Sendy as a startup. He is working on Sendy as a lifestyle business which is making more than enough money for the OP and maybe more than some of us who are working on our own startups.
Goes to show that physical security is still a weak point for many companies. Once they have access to the physical layer...
If this method actually worked, I think we would all know by now. Achieving break-even in a controlled laboratory fusion reaction is the "holy grail" of fusion research and would produce instant worldwide headlines, not unlike the (ultimately false) claims made by Pons & Fleischmann, who thought they had achieved room-temperature fusion some time ago:

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

So I don't think so. It's a matter of how much a positive result would completely change the fusion research landscape. It's something that people would know about right away.
Yeah in this case, Monsanto beans were mixed in with regular seeds he planted that he bought from a grain elevator. It's ridiculous. RTA
I wonder if the recent xkcds represent Randall starting to explore the possibilities of his medium. He now has a huge community of followers, and he is creating comic-based experiences which are themselves creative platforms. It's like he's saying "here's a new toy, let's see what you can do with it". Next stop - Randall starts controlling the hive mind via comics.
I think these apps should be called "Status Bored", because they are most useful when you 're bored.
The physical location of a server is increasingly less and less of an issue (see: CDNs).

As you mention, though, ccTLD choice is another story entirely.
Since you're too lazy and/or too biased to find such a peer-reviewed scientific paper I guess I have to...

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ncmh/BGER/pdf/Volume%2021/BGER21...

It's a 2004 report but it puts to rest the myth that GM crops are tested well enough by the FDA.

The fact is it's not in Monsanto's best interest to waste money on thorough testing.

All publicly held corporations in America (Monsanto is no exception) are legally charged with creating profit for the shareholders, even if it means screwing over consumers and the environment.

Monsanto has had this down to an art since the 1950s.
Thanks for the explanations. After reading my comment again I realise that I sounded like a typical Git elitist - sorry about that.

I'll turn it around and ask why, for simple tasks, is the CLI any better than a GUI ignoring personal preferences?

For me, the main thing is speed: I can type much faster than I can navigate a cursor (tab completion helps). I recognise that some GUIs have keyboard shortcuts to speed things up, but then at some point you're using the keyboard enough to justify using a CLI. The other thing is that I don't find graphical representations of my changes helpful at all. I commit early, commit often, so the output of `git diff` generally doesn't need to be paginated. My feature branches are small so I can merge them without the need to see a commit/branch graph.

To be honest it's hard to answer that without ignoring personal preferences because really, that's all it boils down to.

I can definitely understand the want to use a GUI when you're doing complex adds or merges. spacemanaki is right in saying that doing this a lot probably indicates a problem with workflow, though.
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This is completely misinformed.

a) False. "However, a 2008 report by the International Food Policy Research Institute showed that there was no evidence for an increased suicide rate following the 2002 introduction of Bt cotton, but instead that the rate had been consistent since 1997."

b) If a farmer buys seeds with the condition that they not replant those seeds, what happens if they do replant? Aren't they violating the terms of their purchase? It's like me buying a software license for 1-year, and not renewing but continuing to use the software beyond the expiration.

c) If someone knowingly uses a patented product without paying the patent holder, you're saying that they're not liable?

"Fuck Monsanto and everything that they stand for."

Edgy.
As a counterpoint based purely in practical terms, there are nonetheless almost a dozen companies competing to actually take my money in exchange for a service, many of which are far faster and far cheaper (and without any data limit) than typical offerings in the US.

True, I have no need for fast speeds; 20 Mbs is more than enough for me.
> but unless companies get to protect real IP that they develop themselves, what's the point in developing anything.

So there was no progress in the world at all prior to the creation of patent law?

You could argue about whether or not patents cause more progress, but it is quite obviously not the case that companies not have any reason to develop anything without patents, given that companies did develop things without patent protection for a simple reason: If not, they'd get crushed by their competition.

Sure, they could copy things, but then they'd be stuck in perpetual catch-up mode figuring out all things they can't quickly glean from the copy, such as the optimal way of manufacturing the product. They'd also face substantial risk: What if a competitor comes up with something they're unable to figure out how to copy quickly?

And it is clear that there's plenty of profit to be had without being the "low cost generic" copycat even once the copycats enter the market.

E.g. Boots patent on Ibuprofen ran out a long time ago, yet Boots successfully created (and sold off) the Nurofen brand that still sells Ibuprofen (and other) products at 10-20 times retail price of generic products (including, amusingly, Boots own "generic" store brand).
Late last year you mentioned RSS-to-email was on your roadmap. [1] Do you know when it will be implemented?

I've been looking for a dead-simple RSS-to-email subscription service for one of the sites I work for. The only offering I've found (and dislike) is from MailChimp.

[1] http://forum.sendy.co/discussion/40/rss-to-campaign-segments...
...or you could get an Android for much cheaper and install some home screen widgets.

Apple fanboys insist that Android features, such as widgets, are unnecessary. Then they go crazy over iPad dashboard apps that weakly simulate Android functionality.
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You can use it right away. Download the iPhone app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/buycott/id585933440?ls=1&..., join that campaign I linked to, and then use it to scan a barcode to find out if an item is owned by Monsanto.

By the way, I believe that US and Canada are the only developed nations that don't already require GMO labeling.
no kidding. So glad my food is cheaper. Too bad this cancer isn't.
Interesting. I was looking for a demo but bugs.bugseverywhere.org is currently down.
Open source coffee. We could be on to something...
...but the other rule Apple told them they'd broken, regarding push notifications, has been around pretty much forever. Well, since push went into the platform.

And yes, push notification advertising is the most broken rule on the store, but I always used to make clients who I built apps for understand that at least contractually it wasn't allowed.
I never said GM seeds are naturally abundant.

I said "plant life" was.
Assuming Starbucks coffee wasn't the crap it is, I'd be glad if they did so. New coffee bars can and would be opened once they left anyway, and until then, we'd get free coffee. Seems like an excellent deal to me.

In any case, "Starbucks" didn't prevent me from having some good homemade coffee for a few months now.
I guess you won't feel the pulsing that much...
What kind of residues leaves that kind of engine? is it gas or solid? because small solids at that speed will surely make the earth orbit in a quite dangerous shooting range in no time. What is the expected coherence of a gas cloud flying that fast? Is it going to be dangerous? or will simply dissolve in to space.
Would the material expelled fly away from earth orbit?.
Sorry, too many questions..
I work at Campus in London, which is owned by Google so there are quite a few Google folks around. I'll see what I can do.
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Monsanto won't own the next generation of tech - it's being produced by governments, especially in Asia, and by academic and charitable organisations. Most that I know of are working towards free licensing arrangements, whereby they patent the tech and allow free use for individuals and small companies.

I'm not defending Monsanto - I'm saying GM is not Monsanto.