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There is nothing inherently bad with turing complete type systems aka allow powerful logic but aren't total (there are ways to avoid proof inconsistency). Other than the risk of non terminating type checking/compilation, the issue is a matter of difficulty (hard to do right) not principle (bad to do).

The problem with C++ templates is not that they are turing complete. Versus Haskell, it is the difference between one day waking up and finding out that layer upon layer of unspeakable ad-hocery have suddenly yielded a deranged spam bot suffering from a severe case of logorrhea that can pass the turing test, given a patient examiner.. And an AI designed from first principles using an elegant theory - even if messy in implementation from unforeseen expectations requiring a patchwork of (still principled) extensions.

An approachable language with a particularly interesting type system that compiles to prologish: http://www.shenlanguage.org/learn-shen/types/types_sequent_c...
"complicated scripting"

http://i.imgur.com/zdb6E5a.gif
She goes to University of Pittsburgh, which is a public school.
"if you're outside the US you lose all supposed protections you have inside the US"

Your statement seems rife with confusion. The situation is that if you're not an American citizen you lose ostensible legal protections whereever you are. The NSA is using physical location as proxy for citizenship sometimes it seems. But no one else is talking about changing physical location, just changing web hosting and related stuff (plus locating to the US to not get snooped on doesn't a logical approach).

Anyway, as to what other Internet filtering there is "out there", that is a somewhat different issue. Some large non-US companies would probably rather only be snooped by their government rather than their government and the US, since hypothetically, their government would be less inclined to do industrial espionage against them.
I don't think a high enough dollar value is enough to make it worth playing. Over a certain amount, the winnings are simply just "arbitrarily large". If the prize was a trillion dollars, but each ticket cost $100 to play, does that mean it's now worth it for everyone to buy a ticket? You're still not going to win.

I think stuff like this should be weighted towards chance of winning. Given the choice between a 1 in a million chance of winning $2 million, or a 50% chance of winning $4, I'd pick the $4 one every time. They have the same expected value, but one of them gives me a chance of winning anything at all.
I'm tempted right now to scrape the magstripe off my debit card so it's chip-only.
Completely different actions with precisely the same underlyng issue: abuse of standards essential patents. Bizarre how you do not notice this.

And this is not a new issue, and not just restricted to the smartphone patent wars. The same criticisms were made and similar outrage was outpoured in the semiconductor industry when Rambus tried to pull similar shenanigans. [1]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambus#Lawsuits
Any SaaS company that is making $500k/mo was earning 5k/mo at some point.

Just because they've decided to share their story so far, doesn't mean they think they've hit the jackpot already and are finished.
U.S. Denounces Vietnam’s New Limits on Dissent on Internet
I have had at least three Safeway cards issued to me without having filed any paperwork. Each time the card was issued the clerk asked whether I already had a card. I responded in the negative. The clerk pulled a card out from under the till or a drawer, scanned the card to apply a discount, and then handed me the card to keep.

In fact, you can often keep the activated card (at all kinds of stores) even if they do ask you to fill in some papers. Just ask to take the forms home to fill them in and return later and take the card, too.
I don't quite buy it. We may just be seeing selection bias How many thousands do that and fail miserably? We never hear about it. How many luck into things? We hear about them, but don't then discount Arnold's story by some Bayesian amount of doubt. And how many get completely burned by trying to live as if they are something they are not, and get ostracized as a result?

Hollywood is filled with people trying to act like they are a great star. Almost none of them are, nor will they ever be one.
Talks about misconceptions, insinuates smoking weed wont lead to lung cancer. Claims video seen by 8500 people means it went 'viral'.

Was this ad paid for?

Edit dont get me wrong there is a list a mile long why pot should be outright legalised this article just didnt cover any of them.
And how do you respond to something brief that requires more than a brief response? Blog about it? How many people actually do that, or have it set up so they can do it in one click, so that their decision wether they want to be brief or indepth is not influenced at all by the restrictions imposed by Twitter?
If what you're saying is true, then your handful of extensions are conflicting with each other. disable one of the handful, and see if the crashes disappear. if not, disable another one.

currently using a netbook with an Atom N570. I appreciate under-powered computing. Firefox runs fine here with 5 extensions (two of which are for web development). 17 tabs are using 214.52 MB of memory. haven't had a crash or hang in a long time.
My parents repeatedly said they would support me, then didn't, after not letting me get loans (I had a pretty nice scholarship, but it didn't cover housing in a major city or fees or food).

I couldn't see that being possible with today's college costs.
It's not pinless debit versus regular debit, but rather pinless debit versus credit.
The point, I believe, is that the argument that the government has no legitimate power to regulate (non-government-issued-currency X) because in the past it chose not to regulate (non-government-issued-currency Y) in the same manner, despite several express Constitutional grants of power that speak to relevant powers of government is, well, completely bunk.

The government does not lose enumerated powers, or the ability to apply them in a particular manner, because it chose not to apply them in that manner at one time in the past in a similar circumstance.

You can, of course, make the argument that, power aside, the government should not use its enumerated powers in the way in question and should instead act as it did in the past case, but that takes more than waving your hand in the direction of the past case and asserting that it exists and therefore the restraint the government exercised then must be repeated, it takes actually making the case that that decision would be correct in the present circumstances.
The reason that economists like basic income is that each recipient is free to decide how to apply that income to best advance their lot in life. Any other breakdown, and you get more overhead of policy and administration because you are determining for a population some some mix of programs. The risk that you fall into some policy gap, just as in the article, is increased at that point; and the government is then paying both the benefit, and for a higher administration cost to qualify people and distribute the benefit.
The flip side to this is I know someone who went through the legal steps to have their parents money not be counted as theirs and got huge scholarships. Trick: Their parents still supported him and were worth about 100 million. So he got a nice Mercedes(2 actually, he crashed one) and cheap college.

It's a flawed system, but simply not counting your parents money is an even more flawed system.
If I remember correctly, FAFSA also limits how much money the federal government will lend you.
So if you travel to Tokyo for a week, you still want your laptop displaying the time from your hometown? That seems rather unusual.

And for the record, OS X does it by sniffing for wifi access points. The particular access points available at any given location is a pretty reliable means of tracking location, assuming that there are any (if there are no access points, it can't find your location, and therefore won't touch your clock). The only exception are access points that themselves move, e.g. wifi on planes. I would assume that these access points are disregarded.

This is the same system that iOS uses to enhance the GPS (especially on iPod Touches and Wifi iPads, where you have no cell towers).
You say with great conviction that EE is the way to go, but with the world being what is is, who can predict the future these days?

In the early 2000s a degree in chemistry was considered a safe bet, especially with a biochemistry PhD tacked on. Then there was the 2008 recession, the great round of layoffs at the major pharmcos, combined with the offshoring of early discovery. If anyone says they feel cheated I'm not going to disagree. I'm not going to use the word "rube", and neither should you!

At the moment medical school is what the kids at my university are shooting for, that used to be the ticket into a safe career, but one thing is clear: healthcare in this country is in need of reform. I cannot say how it is going to look, but I will not say that taking out five-digit loans for medical school is a good idea.

And who can tell about EE? If they offshored chemistry they will offshore design. It's going to happen, the pharmaceutical industry has provided the blueprint.
> The claim that the government can't regulate atoms won't stand up if the atoms you have are in an arrangement that fires bullets.

Well, it might, given the 2nd Amendment. That's not to challenge the general principal you are arguing for, only the specific choice of analogy.
The same can be said for any higher level language being compiled into any lower level language or machine code. It's similarly true that an optimized C compiler won't always write the best code in a best practice way.

Also true: no matter how good something is, there'll always be someone eager to put it down.
Do you have in UK these scammers that invite bunch of old people to some sort of meeting where they give them cake, some crappy gift and convince them that some other crappy thing, like a wool blanket is worth few thousands dollars and they sign agreements with them so they can pay for the said blanket in installments?

The rule you described is really nice but is it used in practice to fight such scammy business practices?
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OSX doesn't use IP geolocation to determine location... they use wifi triangulation. VPN connection-state shouldn't make a difference one way or another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system
She's not complaining or asking to be handheld. She's warning her fellow students that working to make money will impact the ability to pay for school.

It's counter intuitive. It's not obvious at all. It's barely mentioned or talked about. It can cost (and it did cost her) a college degree.

I don't disagree with the sentiment of your remark, but it's completely out of place here. She's simply warning others not to do the same mistake, since it's an easy one to make.
But _each_ person, of which there aren't any, gets an undefined amount.
That explains not open-sourcing the drivers. But it doesn't explain not distributing the binaries - which is the case here.

Edit: Fixed typo.
The war on drugs is a lie.
I should feel embarrassed that somebody alters contracts on his behalf, but this time I really feel happy for this guy. He exploited a Bank by playing out his own rules on them.

Just today I was thinking about Google and other big companies founded by Russians and then I see this little man hacking himself into success. I feel deep respect for persons who start from nothing, but with big success! Despite the prejudices people may have with Russian, some of them are really damn smart and this man proves it..

Thats quite an achievement, hats off to you sir.
Especially considering that they managed it with the old Nexus 7. This is clearly not impossible, though I can buy that there are difficulties and tradeoffs.
TBH, I just want a political party whose sole platform is fixing corruption, mandating transparency, and putting fixes in place to make sure we don't get back in this place. Think of it as a temporary political party. For every issue that is not core to these changes, the official stance is to defer those votes until the next election when someone from a different party gets into power.

Basically, the platform would be "We don't care about gun rights, we don't care about religion, pro choice, pro-life, etc. For every one of these debates we will shelve or delay every bill so the status quo is maintained. None of these typical party issues will be considered at all. This is the everything political stays the same platform. The only thing we will address is the revolving door, regulatory capture, transparency, etc."

One thing I would love happen with respect to transparency is to have every single penny the government pays paid from a common purse that is searchable by any citizen and everything goes back to one individual who is accountable. Every single project that money is never disbursed to any organization to then manage the finances. Instead they get a set of cryptographic keys that allow them to make payments from the government account to every single supplier. Every single person spending a tax dollar can have their entire spending history reviewed. No secrecy anywhere. For every single entity you pay, you would have to declare whether you know personally (i.e. outside of work socially) any officer, owner or individual with a vested interest in that organization. All that is disclosed by penalty of perjury. If you lie some citizen will find out. That's the kind of government we need.
Possibly. Though I could also argue that I've been in contract negotiations where drafts are edited by both parties and passed back and forth, yet one party's letterhead remains on the top. In other words, I could say the letterhead does not, as a matter of accepted convention, indicate that one party was the sole drafter.
Agreed about the value of differentiating between different kinds of +/-1. Also Slashdot's meta-moderation is a significant advancement on its successors.
Don't underestimate the costs of running any SaaS application. You'll still have decent expenses for:

- Fees to receive payments

- Hosting

- Support services (github, zendesk, etc.)

- Your own salary

I'll bet that not much of that $5k is profit.
Word of advice: australians love and trust paypal. (ecom perception)
Without wishing to seem unnecessarily combative, you are being naive. Nothing about a meeting being open prevents the possibility that its outcome has been fixed.
I only know a small amount about the current Russian regime but I would assume that this man isn't just anyone but someone with connections to the state and the mafya.
It's a crazy system indeed and it's not only for scholarships that marginal tax rates on the poor with benefits are often extremely high. Other examples include people on disability who lose their benefits forever if they try to work full time, even if they fail after a week.

It's going to be hard to change things because every little rule has people making a living a living of it.
This is what I would try to do if I were the bank. They would have to write off the credit card balance, because voiding the contract cuts both ways. But considering that the bank is potentially liable for much greater damages, it might make sense.

Will it work? It's hard to say. Courts are generally skeptical of the excuse that "I didn't read the contract."

Perhaps it comes down to this: Does a party who makes proposed edits have any obligation to point out such edits? Or does the responsibility lie wholly with each party to read the contract in its final form?
When I clicked on the comment thread, I made a bet with myself that some jackass would've shown up within the first hour to bellow "It's your fault your academic advisor/student aid office lied to you."
They are, but it sounds like Qualcomm is trying to introduce some kind of driver DRM so that the driver will only work on "new" chips but not "used" ones.
Google is choosing not to leverage licensing opportunities that could solve this situation for all of the Google Experience Devices.

This is not about the apache or gnu license. This is not about binary blobs. This is about a huge company that is playing games with "open source" for strategic reasons, full stop.

Google could put in licensing conditions that would resolve this driver situation for any company that implements GED services, but they choose not to. It always comes back to the fact that their primary product is you the user, and they only are interested in selling advertising services. Google executives are behaving unethically with this platform.
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If there were defined steps that would always lead to success then we'd know about it and everyone would follow them.

There are so many variables that this will never be the case.

You can only read these types of guides and hope to pick out something that might inspire you or help you realise something that you're doing that you could do better.
You act like you have a bug up your butt about Twitter and want to make a demon out of it. Twitter is just a medium. Use Twitter if it fits your needs. Use something else if not. Nothing is imposed on you.
understand that even the best investors have to pay heed to the Pattern because it tells you when things are different. it is very, very hard to evaluate, from scratch, every opportunity that comes your way. (I myself have been pitched a thousand+ times. Augh.)

the Pattern is helpful because it is the differences that make companies succeed or fail; bad investors automatically think that differences from the Pattern are automatically bad.

that said, traction is one fact that makes all other hesitancies and issues disappear. that is why so many investors have their minds changed by it. "I don't love this idea but the graph goes up and to the right, so I'd better talk to them."
Does anyone actually consider whether they will be happier if they win the lottery? (I don't play the lottery on purpose.)
Give Yourself a Break
Patents are only possible through government regulation. Without the government's interference, there would be no such concept. Pure capitalism has no patents.
I don't disagree with your last point per se, but it seems weird that it would be necessary. For very tightly integrated things, I can believe that vertical integration is the optimal solution. But having to vertically integrate just because doing it any other way requires dealing with shit vendors seems to suggest a rather poorly functioning marketplace. If all Google wants is an off-the-shelf product with non-onerous licensing, but the only way to get that is to actually acquire a vendor because nobody will sell otherwise, that comes across as at least somewhat troubling.
The Nexus 7 is a pretty nice device at a very good price. Apple needs to reevaluate if its really all about high profit margins or if it wants to get great products in lots of people's hands. The iPad mini is too expensive to have one per person which is a shame.

That said, iOS is still remarkably easier to use than android, especially for kids. And the nexus 7 hardware has a few problems, namely battery life and the odd shape.
International students face a worse situation. Students on F1 visa are not even allowed to intern for 2 semesters in most universities. To make the situation worse, the tuition is almost thrice the normal amount.
Shitty deal for students from countries whose currency's value is less than USD.
Whatever. When you consider the whole concept of the "pivot" it's clear that this is a business of betting on people rather than business plans, which makes this essay a bit redundant.
You might have been right at one point in time, but respectfully you're not right today. Today's modern GPU implementations -- especially on mobile because the APIs we support are so (intentionally) vague and encode a system with a wide spectrum of possible implementations -- are so complex and hide a lot of implementation specific secrets that other vendors would love to freely discover in source code.

Discovering the secret sauce is the very embodiment of my job for my employer, and I make a great and exciting living figuring out our competitors' myriad secrets, a lot of which is controlled entirely by the driver.

I could write an entire book about why there's potentially very valuable competitive data enshrined in GPU driver code. Some obvious examples: execution resources and scheduler details (including full software schedulers in many cases), register allocation strategies, optimising shader compilers, hardware bug workarounds, power management limitations, clocking schemes, API compliance workarounds; all highly valuable competitive data that would be plain as day if GPU driver source were available.
> In Soviet Russia ...

Eh?
One way to take a stab at this is to try thinking about how much money you'll make for anyone else; your TAM will probably be some fraction of that number.
Is there still a screw case for "kids from wealthier families" when the families refuse to help?

At least during the '80s, I was told I was ineligible for any financial aid.
That site messes with the vertical scrollbar on Firefox Android, how hard can it be to serve a page of text without doing any useless CSS or JS or who-knows-what trickeries?
It's kind of a shame that financial aid is often given based on need, and not ability.
I paid my way through the latter grades of college thanks to a somewhat devious manager at my first summer internship. That manager transitioned me to a part-time employee at the end of the internship period after the school year started. In the latter two years of college I was a full time employee while going to school. Now, I took five years to graduate a four year degree, but since I was cashflow positive (yay low cost cal-state tuition) and employed in a topical field, the extended time really didn't matter. Now the manager was somewhat devious because I don't think the internships were necessarily supposed to work that way for all interns, but really it worked out well for both me and the company in the long term.

It would be worth probing the internship company in this case to see if some similar arrangement could be made. (if the budget for tuition vs part/full time pay works out, I did this in the 90's, no idea how it would work now).
Dude, you went through like 5 different unrelated issues there o_o. But to your first point, the original commenter was stating that EE is a safe bet now, and therefore will likely be in 2 years when the OP graduates.
It doesn't seem like the Constitution matters as much as it used to. Regardless, that shouldn't be enough reason to write off other countries for hosting your cloud data.
Yes, you're still ineligible for financial aid if your parents make too much money.
If I build it myself, it will cost me a lot more and be a lot worse product.

This is their area of expertise, their passion and their business. They'll make a better status page than I would.