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The way I understood this was to be that the courses are free and contain all the free 'open source' content needed for it; as they always have.

However, the addition being, they will offer parts of selected published textbooks for free which would help with the understanding of the course - but were not produced as part of it.
I don't know...this sounds apocryphal. I've seen the occasional AOL email address but I've haven't seen anyone claim they use AOL for internet in years.
Any non-startup or non-online clients?
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Hmm, not really. The current best-of-breed are taught by professors at big establishments, some of them basically mirror the university class they're currently teaching. They're usually videos too, so they're not exactly modifiable nope. They do tend to keep the content up after the classes though in my experience, so you could consider them open source.
That's partially true. A CSS pixel isn't necessarily the same as a screen pixel. A Mac with a retina display set to "native" resolution, for example, should actually make that 1200 pixels wide (max). In general, though, I think most browsers will treat a css pixel as a screen pixel.

Of course you could also use points or ems if you prefer.
I actually bought it back in 2006-7. I was working on a local reviews site for a few months before working on Carbonmade, which was my last startup before Uncover.
In Europe many of the laws tend to try to follow good moral principles. In the USA it would likely be the same if Big Business didn't have such a massive influence on law making.
Very nice work!

Could you maybe test switching the left and right part of the above the fold part?

When I visited I started reading something about Sushi making and assumed you were teaching sushi classes.
Definitely. Now that we're seeing some traffic. Time to start some 'ol A/B tests.
"from having a sustainable business that will generate fewer abusive relationships"

As in relationships with women|men I have found that you can usually spot the pains in the asses as tips of the iceberg way before anything is signed or any job is started or on the first dates. The question is of course do certain people have the skills to spot the warning signs (in context of course and not over react) and some don't? And just like the desire for sex causes people to act irrationally and ignore warning signs does the need for money do the same?

FWIW, I had a developer who did a 60k project for us about 7 years ago that wanted no money down at all. After he and his team did a fair amount of work we insisted on sending him $15k. I felt bad for him. I guess he didn't have enough experience to know what could happen. Project was successful, he did more work and was paid more and is currently given about $500/m for just being on hand to answer his cell phone in case of any issues. Which he does.
Compelled by a warrant? I think that would be acceptable to most people.
Where is the blasphemy? The terrible restoration of the fresco?
Real facts aren't political, and all facts taken together aren't political. But statistics are often biased or flat out incorrect because of political ends, and the selective dissemination of statistics is political.
If you want a recurring revenue, why not just get a job?

A product has its own quirks, or so was my experience. You'll need to supports users, update the software/product, fix bugs, keep up with analytics, do marketing and SEO stuff, answer pre-sale questions...

I'm talking here about a product that makes around $2,500/month in sales. It's not enough to hire people and delegate stuff, so you'll have to handle it yourself.

A nice spot is when you can hire a software developer, an assistant (for answering emails), and a marketing package (from a SEO company or similar).

Costs:

- Running the business: $500/month (for the server, legal and other costs)

- Software developer: $5,000/month (outsourced, not the brightest but does the job)

- Assistant: $2,000/month (also outsourced)

- Marketing package: $1,000/month (I'd say it covers many things)

Total: $8,500/month -> $102,000/year

If you are aiming at making $100,000/year from this product (nice lifestyle), and considering an average of 20% in taxes, you'll need to make $240,000/year in sales.

If chargebacks represents 5% of total sales, then it's around $240,000/year before chargebacks.

It means on average, you make $650/day from sales. Now, this is possible, but probably something that will take many years of hard work to achieve.
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Use can easily do something like this for one-off edits "vim scp://remoteuser@server.tld//path/to/document" or use netrw for a more robust solution to using your local vim to edit remotly. http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#NETRW
You are certainly serving as my inspiration. I am a IT-Business Strategy guy learning Scala and Play. I realized I don't enjoy functional programming - but like you, I have a product in mind and want to see it shipped :)
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Not to mention that using camera roll makes it very difficult to backup to iCloud, unless you pay for the extra storage.
What the Obama administration has done is make extra-judicial killing of citizens legal (and therefore less of a risk to decision makers) and scalable (for the purposes of domestic counter insurgence, which seems to be a big concern of post-9/11 security policy). That's not "tinfoil hat" (what a banal, overused term), simply acknowledging documented reality. The disposition matrix is being coordinated by John Brennan, one of the Bush administration's torture proponents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix#Purpose
The last I've heard of this was 2 years ago, an article in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_...

At that point, it was ~40% of revenue and ~80% of profits from subscribers. Apparently they've gone nowhere, fast.
I'm interested to see someone else take this stance. A large part of my PhD is based on ideas relating to this, but it's not a (currently) widely held train of thought. Are you involved in this area at all?
> The mega corps have their accounting down to an art, they'll figure out a way past it given how many gray areas are inevitable in a completely new form of tax like this.

Its not a new form of tax. Its permission for states to opt-in to a more efficient collection method for existing sales and use taxes if they also agree to certain streamlining requirements for those taxes and certain support mechanisms for the retailers that would be required to collect and remit the taxes.
Not sure what country and/or skillset you have but I would think you could get a job or contract to hire for $30-$50/hr in most of the US.
That has never been accurate. Wayland has planned X support for a long time, it just won't be in the core
That sounds awesome too. One thing you might want to experiment with is the opposite of Rewards - randomly timing perks so that they're unassociated with performance. This approach is shown to work on everything from mice to casino gamblers, otherwise a predictable pattern of wins just become the new normal.
You're absolutely right. I created an issue here, https://github.com/photo/mobile-ios/issues/288

Automatic uploading is already being tracked here, https://github.com/photo/mobile-ios/issues/234

Thanks for the feedback. We're super easy to reach at support@trovebox.com as well.
Marvel Heroes is made by David Brevik - He had the original idea for diablo 1 and played a bigger role in diablo 2 than the guys that made torch light 2. Lets no mention his failed project with bill roper on hellgate london though.
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You'd be right, if farmers were free actors.

For poultry farms, farmers are essentially sharecroppers. They are paid a fixed fee to grow chickens owned by Tyson/Perdue/etc.

For beef farms, ranchers birth and keep cattle for a specific period of time, at which point they are sold to feedlot operators. The feedlots have thousands of cattle are where many of the nasty issues with disease/etc come from.

Farmers are not very politically powerful anymore. The next layer up in the agribusiness chain can control pricing and have all of the power.
We'd love to work with non-startups and non-online clients. I think that'll be a big part of our market as we continue to grow. During our beta it was only online startups. We only launched publicly within the past hour.
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Fantastic point. Considering the rifle's primary purpose, and the number of them out there, it certainly suggests the typical rifle owner must be pretty responsible.

Compare to the 200 kiddie pool deaths every summer, which have the unfortunate side effect of almost exclusively killing kids despite mostly non lethal purposes, and rifle owners start to seem extraordinarily more responsible than kiddie pool owners.

At some point, I think we might as well cut through the hyperventilation, acknowledge potentially dangerous things are potentially dangerous, and let people choose their own risk profiles.
Google charges $10/mo for 200gb of Picasa storage. Dropbox is ~$16/mo (when paid yearly). Amazon Glacier is $0.01/GB/mo, plus data transfer costs (which are still minimal) - a $100 2TB hard drive plus Glacier backup gives you tons of local storage and protection against data loss in the event of hardware failure. You could even have a RAID-1 array of hard drives to protect against hardware failure (but not necessarily against disaster/theft, so Glacier or similar offsite backup would still be needed.)

In any case, there are plenty of good existing pieces in play.
> In this day and age, having that limit there is simply premature optimization.

You say this with certainty. Do you know of studies of real-world programs where machine-sized integers were replaced whole-sale with bignums?
As everyone's said, site and idea look great!

suggestion - I'm not sure if you have this as a feature (I'd suspect you do) -- but allowing employees to vote on their perks would be great. Like if when company HR managers (or who ever sets team budgets) set the budget, they could go to your site, input that data, and know how many "points" (essentially dollars) worth of perks they can afford. Then employees could log on, and vote for which perks they like the most, and that's how the company could decide their perks plans
It's still unknown whether or not these orbits are stable. It seems probable that they're unstable, in which case you would never expect to find them in the universe.
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Site is down, so here's the iTunes link that works even if you don't have iTunes on the computer you are using.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thinglist/id603334069?mt=8
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Depends on the situation.

I assume this was probably a server side bug, since all the accounting would never be trusted to the client side.

If you are writing highly-performant server code, the actually memory size is extremely important. You cannot (should not) abstract away the machine specifics of the datatype if you want to write optimized code.

In some cases where the underlying datatype isn't a concern (e.g. Javascript), I agree with you. But ultimately, this isn't a failure of technology, it is a failure of the software development process.
Well, when you're messing with a real-money economy, I think that's a pretty big tip-off that you'll be punished for experimenting or finding a loophole. The same thing happens with other games that deal in real money, such as the stock market.

Also, AFAIK the only parties who exploited this bug were gold-farming bots. The computers won't mind, especially since their owners probably made bank off this.
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Have you considered adding VML support, the way that Raphael has, for IE 6 through 8 support?
Below certain numbers, it might be relatively harder to reduce some crimes than others. For instance, there might always be people who are determined to kill their spouse; but it might be easier to reduce the number of people who see stealing things as useful.

I don't really know, but it would be interesting to see some numbers. Is there some kind of minimum murder rate that can't be lowered further just with laws (i.e. some more fundamental cultural change is required)?

If so, then we might be approaching that minimum (for the current US culture/society) and that could explain why they aren't decreasing much any more.
Technically it stands for high DPI, not necessary high Resolution, but one implies the other I guess. Anyway "Retina" is used, because it's established and everyone knows what it means. Don't see the point in fighting terminology.
> So as a hypothetical business owner in Washington who sells things online, I have to keep track of the tax laws of the other 49 states, and remit 50 checks quarterly (or maybe annually)?

Well, you have to either keep track of those laws for the states you choose to sell into, or use the free software provided by each state that has opted into the arrangement (the MFA provides an opt-in regime for states, with conditions including the provision of free software, with retailers not liable for any failure to collect and/or remit tax that is due to errors in the software.) But, yeah, you have to pay each taxing "state" (which will probably be less than 50 initially, but more than 50 in the limit case, since "states" under the MFA include the the 50 states, DC, plus other US territories and possessions.)

Or, instead of using the State-provided software and doing it yourself, you can pay a "certified software provider" to do it, and be immunized against liability for any errors that are the fault of that provider.
My mom. She was still paying for AOL until about a year ago, despite them having broadband since 2000. She thought it was her internet. I finally convinced her to start using gmail, but I think she still pays for AOL. Also, now she thinks google is her internet.
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On the dashboard, there are four measures: Temperature, Light, Pressure, and Magnetic Flux. I know that my phone (Galaxy Nexus) has the last three, but I wonder where the temperature data is coming from. The only temperature data I can find with AndroSensor is the battery temperature. Are all these values live readings of my sensors?

[edit] I should note that the temperature on the dashboard is ~85 degrees Farenheit, when the current temperature is about 20F lower.
Thank you. We have a Rewards feature where you can send a gift and a personal message to one or more employees for going the extra mile.
I'm still against using passwords at all. In today's society it's completely unavoidable but instead of expecting people to go through the trouble of maintaining a different password for every site we should be trying to move websites in the direction of using tools like public key authentication and two-factor authentication. The future of internet security will be better if we make life easier for the end user.

And while public key authentication may seem difficult to implement server-side by doing such a thing you will never risk a database password leak again.
hehe, i also thought that about the sushi...
This is the problem any time an industry gets big enough to control legislature in Congress. It's happened in finance and it's happening in agriculture. Practices that are most likely detrimental to the long term health of the population continue apace because it makes someone a lot of money. Changing that at the governmental level is almost impossible, not to be all cynical and jaded. The American consumer has long decided they were only going to choose on price and it's a lot cheaper to have agriculture in the state it is than to fix it.

What you can do is shop locally, start a garden, support local farmers, start hunting and fishing, etc. Is it harder and more expensive? Yup but that seems to be the state of affairs we find ourselves in. On the upside, growing food in a garden is extremely fulfilling.
Challenge to PG/YC
"Founders have never had more power relative to investors than they do now." - PG

I think there is a very easy method to prove this and I hope PG/YC will consider this challenge to prove himself right, obviously not for the sake of proving me wrong, but proving himself and the state of the investment market right for all Founders.

Challenge:

I propose including a "mole" in the next batch of YC, someone who 1. YC did not select for an interview; 2. already has a product; 3. will not take YC funding but go through YC and will otherwise be anonymous and identified as a YC Company (I assure you endless numbers of people would go to YC without any funding, just to be identified as a YC company); and 4. will present at demo day.

The results can be measured through investors’ interest in the "mole". I will propose a hypothesis, that investor interest or actual investment will at least fall within the average of the rest of the batch. What does that mean? Well in my opinion this would prove, Founders do not have anymore power relative to investors, there is just a different gate-keeper. In fact, I would take this a step further and even suggest that YC has taken power away from Founders, where at least before investment was dictated by the market, i.e., if you create a product that the market adopts, then you can get funding to grow. Contrast that with the current power struggle where if you have a product that the market has adopted, there is less investment opportunities because investment dollars are already set aside for that next YC company that doesn't even have an idea.
I noticed and deliberately kept the "Not now" default choice. That implied I could change it later. Which the pre-sign-up text I quoted, also seemed to say.

So I was confused I couldn't find or do this, later.

(I'm not trying to give you a hard time. Just offering n%b user feedback.)
I'll follow up with a more detailed post, but here's one from a few months ago:

http://spencerfry.com/why-and-when-to-learn-to-program

I started learning to code in February, 2012 and have been going at it ever since. I've had great mentors and it's taken what feels like a long time to get to where I am.
They're probably all unstable except for the figure-8. Numerical experiments suggest that there should be somewhere from one to 100 figure-8 systems in the observable universe: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/N-body_choreographies
It says "© 2013 BitTorrent, Inc." Is it "Sync" (http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html) based?
Protip for young drivers in the US: on the electronic driving test, you can skip questions you don't know. The system will keep asking you questions until you've answered a certain number of questions (I think it's around 20). If you don't know the answer, skip the question and it won't count against you.

This is how I got 100% correct after studying for an hour.
All kinds of organized crime I expect...
> HN kicks up an almighty fuss about any attempts to regulate our industry (see online payments, sales taxes, etc.) but we are happy to pass judgement on others.

In every industry, the people within the industry think that "they're different" and because they're morally upstanding they don't need to be regulated, but all those other fuckers, well they need to be kept in line. On HN you see this very clearly with attitudes towards the tech sector versus the financial sector (meanwhile my non-tech friends wonder why Facebook and Google are allowed to basically stalk you through the internet).
Which is exactly why grandma needs a gun, and not a baseball bat.

Unless you believe that defending yourself is not a legitimate use case.
Shown in the context of this article.
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Their advice for diversifying your passwords is not very good. If you are using the same password stem with a suffix determined by the site name, as

"m1p.5AsGs9LXo_HN" for HackerNews
"m1p.5AsGs9LXo_RandomForum" for some random forum
"m1p.5AsGs9LXo_WF" for Wells Fargo

and the random forum's database gets popped, how secure do you think your Wells Fargo password "m1p.5AsGs9LXo_WF" is? Less than 12486848 years. That goes from the realm of password cracking to some guy typing out all the abbreviations he can think of for Reddit or Twitter.

In case you're wondering, Wells Fargo will not accept "m1p.5AsGs9LXo_WF" as a password - too long!
I'm confused as to why the DOJ is arguing over whether it needs a warrant or not for emails and Facebook chats and that sort of thing. This is the DOJ that we're talking about, and surely, even if a warrant is required for email, they would be able to get that warrant regardless.

A warrant is simply a permission by a judge to obtain or enter certain private property, right? Wouldn't the DOJ be able to find a judge that will grant a warrant? I don't know anything about judicial law, so I'm interested in learning about how this all works.
I think that's just it, the prices haven't remained stable, the economy just undergoes constant inflation as the amount of overall money keeps piling up. Meanwhile new characters still begin with nothing and earn gold at the same rate as players did when the game first launched.

Compare this with World of Warcraft where they deliberately built in mechanisms to keep destroying money through consumables and bind-on-equip items.
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If any of these positions are of interest then please send across your CV to

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I bet johngalt's spell czech is on. ;-)
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