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Absolutely. Pitch is a place holder for your understanding about the business you are building - the market, your team, product and your growth strategy. Just like a resume is a placeholder for your skills and experience.
> Do all cases simply become civil cases? Murder is now OK again?

Section 11 of the Canadian Criminal Code says exactly that [1], and I have personally exploited that loophole multiple times. Even more frightening, I have personally seen lawyers (and pro se litigants) in the United States settle criminal cases (including 25 years in the state pen) using a set-off [2]. Vince Neil of Motley Crue avoided a prison sentence for vehicular manslaughter by doing exactly that [3].

TL;DR - In Canada and the United States (if not NZ, AU, UK as well), it is possible to settle murder charges by paying a fine.

[1] http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/page-5.html#doc...

[2] http://openjurist.org/636/f2d/714/magno-v-united-states

[3] http://www.opposingviews.com/i/vince-neil-served-20-days-for...
It's speculative fiction in a Ballard / Pynchonian vein, focusing on a patch has been developed that replaces the biological need for sleep. So I'm exploring what it would be like to live in a world without sleep and dreaming, including economic, aesthetic, and political effects. I've structured the work in two parts: the lead up to the development of the patch and then 50 years after its introduction and subsidization by the government.
Well it's kind of silly to speculate, but I think if he could see all the abuses that have resulted from the drug war he might have some regrets. He certainly changed his mind/policy on other issues, so I'd like to think a woken from the grave (pre-dementia) Reagan would be shocked into such an admission.

Given that in 1978 he wrote an editorial opposing the anti-gay Briggs Initiative (California) and arguably hosted the first gay couple to sleep in the White House, I think modern social conservatives would be in for a few surprises from a mellowed out/dead Reagan.
Writing this dredged up some memories. I found the posts where Greenwald commented at Ioz's. They were shortly before the election.

Five years on, they're an interesting read. Obama's current policies were very predictable, even then.

http://whoisioz.blogspot.ca/2008/06/bottom-line.html
http://whoisioz.blogspot.ca/2008/07/from-i-would-use-ring-fr...
Which is why you might get back a new pointer---because the original block couldn't be grown, so a new block has to be allocated and the contents copied.
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My school requires the College Board CSS PROFILE, and for one thing, my parents would have never filled it out. I also needed twice that if we assume last academic year's costs; perhaps when the financial aid people I spoke to said I was SOL they meant they couldn't come close to what was required, although by policy the school's financial aid is 100% means tested. I don't remember there even being any pure merit scholarships.
I'm wondering what the parent meant when they said that their parents were unwilling to help. Does that mean that they would not cosign for a private loan?
Please don't post this kind of garbage here. Take that back to reddit where it belongs.
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I had a similar experience. After an 8 month internship making ~$30/hr full time I ended up roughly about where I would have been financially had I not done the internship and just stayed in school. I was really upset when I went back to school, but now that I've graduated I look back on it and am just thankful that I was able to spend those 8 months living somewhere new doing something fun. (I would probably feel differently had I been unable to go back to school after the 8 months).

That being said, I think it really is horrifying that our education system rewards those students who stay behind and attend summer school more than those who secure good internships. I've never met a talented developer or engineer who didn't have at least 2 summer internships in undergrad. I have, however, met a ton of shitty engineers who took plenty of summer classes.
> My larger argument is more fundamental. If power is asserted over rights often enough, there will be few, if any, actual rights left.

Perhaps. But in this case you're not speaking of any actual 'right' that people had in the first place, so there's no right that would be eroded by SEC action here.
This is basically false as regards HIPAA, and I suspec the others as well. HIPAA from the outset has accommodated covered entities using third-party data service vendors under Business Associate Agreements, and there are cloud vendors prepared to operate under those, including Amazon.
On one hand I'm inclined to come out and say, "No, in some industries you simply cannot get traction before going to investors (repeatedly)", given my experience in the biotech industry. Most biotech companies don't get "traction" until even after IPO, because the capital needs associated with making scientific and medical progress are large.

Yet, the reality is that even in these companies there's a notion of traction, and it's absolutely critical. It's not measured in terms of users, but instead manifest in scientific milestones. Every time you demonstrate the scientific validity of a piece of your tech, you are de-risked in the eyes of investors. That mirrors traction, even if it's less direct.

Another way that biotech companies can achieve notions of traction comparable to tech companies is through intermediate business models, such as operating as a contract research organization or reference laboratory.

Despite those parallels, I'd say that biotech traction is still difficult to achieve because most science lacks determinism in the rate of progress.
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I am not sure if there is any advantage at all of using a debit card over a credit card. Bottom line is that debit card fraud comes straight from your bank account and can cause problems with other payments etc. These days it is not possible to escape fraud even if you are very vigilant. You cannot assure that merchants are handling this data properly. For this reason I specifically requested that Chase stop sending me debit cards as my ATM card, and now I have a plain blue card that just says "ATM card" If you have a credit card use that and pay it off every month, far easier and safer.
These uprint se machines from stratasys run about $20k a piece. I bet this experiment costs ups less than $2m to do. From building out workflow to software to manage to training employees. For ups it's a drop in bucket.

I think we will see more of these trials soon.
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That's basically what it is. The streaming is pretty much second to none and designed to work exclusively with Steam.

People are welcome to second guess and deride this all they want. I can play Fallout: New Vegas from my bed on a portable console and that's all I've ever wanted.
You're right to say that the gay couple would be credible experts on their own relationship.

The problem is that people tend to confuse their own personal experience with broader expertise about a subject. For example, the gay couple would not necessarily be credible experts on all, or even most, gay relationships.

Membership in a group doesn't qualify us to speak on behalf of all the group's members; the same is true for issues concerning race, gender, etc.

In other words, everyone is entitled to strong opinions based on personal experience — the "ought" part, as you put it — but they should be careful not to presume that others share their views and experiences.
Exactly which non android devices would you recommend? Not iOS, that's so closed down you can't even run unapproved apps. Not Windows Phone, that's the same problem as iOS. What would you recommend?
Why not let someone else take it over for free? I don't understand killing it instead of looking at other ways to hand it off.
The reason the "DAC" is being built in Oakland is because Diane Feinstein is the biggest war monger out there. How can she even run on a Democrat ticket surprises me.
I think you're making a number of false or at least weakly proven assumptions here.

- That a majority of people connected with government commit crimes (unless your belief is that government is by definition a criminal enterprise, I don't think this assertion makes sense.)

- That a majority of criminals with government connections never face a penalty (the number of perp walks I've seen for mayors, senators, congressmen, etc would seem to suggest that while, yes, money and politics do go a long way in terms of abrogating justice, that sort of phenomenon isn't exclusive to politics nor is it universal.)

- That some malice of forethought exists within the legal system in regards to disproportionately punishing civilians, presumably because the judiciary is also part of the same conspiracy of corruption. I believe the unjustness of the court system has more to do with economics and race than it does whether someone is connected to politics, although certainly the politics of appearing tough on crime have an effect.

The argument that the government be 'monolithic' requires it to be both efficient and non-adversarial, neither is true. It also requires almost everyone to be amoral sociopaths, perfectly willing to go along with even the darkest and most depraved violations of civil liberties. To me, it's a step below invoking the Illuminati, it's wanting order in a system which is fundamentally chaotic for the sake of some grand narrative of good versus evil.
Are mobile web apps slow?
He meant two kopeks.
I wish they would sell the streaming part without the screen. The price is prohibitive and the standalone games seem lame, but I have a nice HDTV in the living room and an ATI GPU that could be replaced.
We take credit card/bank card forms for granted in that nothing is returned to you except another copy of the same (hopefully) agreement

Really? I'm surprised by that. In recent years I've only signed new bank paperwork as a company director, but in all cases where that happened in real time in a branch, I've asked that they make a photocopy of exactly what I signed for me to keep for my company's records. They have always done so immediately, without objection, and without the signed version leaving my sight.
You may not like the reference, but: Nixon (a Republican) started the "drug war". Nancy Reagan with her "just say no" campaign was totally anti-drug. But in general: most of the Republicans are opposed to MJ legalization; but you will find a non-trivial number of Democrats who support it. So the sentiment is correct, to a certain degree.
Hmm perhaps it's not part of the spec, but I believe all languages that compile down to it do this. And the spec mentions "absence of garbage collection" so I believe you're at the very least strongly encouraged to avoid it (if not forbidden -- does OdinMonkey even have a GC?)
If you're referring to me, yes, they totally rejected cosigning a private loan. My school had its own independent program for this, and their credit was not exactly a problem (that year their main band issued them an unsecured note for more than 4 years of the total costs; ironically to set up a computer system, the brand of which I researched and specified as about the last thing I did before going to the university).

A bit more: they were quite determined to make sure none of us graduated from college, with one exception that proved the rule and another than paid her way through a community college level 4 year school, the sort that rents textbooks and was literally on the other side of a creek sharing a border with us. The other 2 of us were more ambitious and ruthlessly crushed.

The system assumes good will on the part of parents, and pretty much has to, to avoid free riders.
It may be more that Verizon and Sprint require CDMA and Qualcomm has a monopoly on that, so if you want to support Verizon you need Qualcomm and once you've designed that version it's easier to also use Qualcomm for the AT&T version as well.
Had I known how much bullshit graduate school involved, I might have stuck it out in finance. Might.
...and if all else failed, maybe George Shultz would talk some sense in to him: http://www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/bios/george-shultz/
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Why is that a problem? No one ever learns just one Lisp. Must collect them all :-)
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Its a shame the benchmarks chosen did not allow useful comparison between Asm.js and plain Javascript to be included. Plain JS is an important baseline.
I did read that, I agree with him on those points, I think HN is a great success in tech news, and I don't think these views are contradictory.
Ive only used DO for staging. Via Cloud66 deploying production to AWS and Staging to DO. Works really well.
From the comments on the blog:

"How do you plan to avoid [turning over encryption keys to authorities]?" - Majik

Response:

"I give the informations because I do not want help criminals." - Pierre Barre

http://www.perseosblog.com/en/posts/openmailbox-an-alternati...
I've had the same problem trying to come up with a business plan to outsource some of our tasks away from our stupid internal government IT... I can't think up a way to ensure that the sensitive PII that would be held on such a system stays securely accessible to our organization and to no one else.
In certain cases this is easier said than done. If he hands it off he'll need to teach someone else how to run the site, how to deal with each customer, how to...

Shutting it down will let him breathe again without having to worry. It's like ripping off the bandaid.
I work in a startup that chose .NET for our product and admittedly we only did it because one of our developers had a lot of experience with .NET. I definitely wouldn't use .NET a second time, mostly because as a startup I value open tools and freedom. I started working in startups to get away from corporate bureaucracy. And now with hindsight I now know that "just because your dev has experience" is never a good idea to do anything.

On that note - I'm working with PHP's Laravel framework for my next project, and despite the performance tradeoff it's an absolute dream to work with.
I don't buy it. You can give someone the keys and say 'good luck, don't call me', and have a nonzero probability of it succeeding without any further intervention than you'd have to use for shutting it down.
I would guess that it is this one: http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Home.do.
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I still do feel that way about books--I often take trips to B&N just to look around, even though I rarely purchase books from them.

I purchased my last pair of shoes from Zappos, and I don't think they would be nearly as attractive if they didn't have such a good return policy (the internet-equivalent of see it in person).
Except that anything large enough or detailed enough to be worth printing takes many hours to run. Not a great "stop by and get something printed" use case. I think the best type of business here is a "upload your file and receive the part in the mail in 2 days".
Thomas Paine's objective was not what you think it was.

"The first step, therefore, of practical relief, would be to abolish the poor-rates entirely, and in lieu thereof, to make a remission of taxes to the poor of double the amount of the present poor-rates, viz., four millions annually out of the surplus taxes."

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What about it? It's 20 years old this year, and the language it was meant to clone, S, is almost 40 years old. What's new to keep an eye on?
I did interviews with 3 entrepreneurs who explain everything they did.

A exporter

and a factory owner

I got you covered buddy :-)
Do they still send cards in the mail? It would be interesting to see if something they sent as an unrelated advertisement would be covered by your contract if you can prove they received the contract and the card was mailed after.

This could be a whole new era of spam prevention, by being personally as full of it as every EULA. Just send out contracts, "by contacting me in any way you agree to the following...". Companies would be terrified to send anything at all to anyone.
Q: "Are mobile web apps slow?"

A: "A web app's CPU budget is spent in three different buckets"

Q: "That... doesn't answer my question."

A: "Javascript is the puppet master of the browser engine."

Q: "That doesn't either."

A: "I'm the director of engineering for the Web Platform team at Adobe. I sort of have to write blog posts like this."

Q: "Ah, ok. No hard feelings then. You're in a tough spot."

A: "Yes. Yes, I am."
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How do they share long and deep writing with Twitter? Do they smear it out over a dozen tweets that you then have to navigate with the terribly conversation view interface?
"When you have children, you can have exactly one hobby. Anything else is an exercise in futility, self-deception, and ineffectiveness. Cooking healthy food is a hobby. Exercising is a hobby. Maintaining a website is a hobby. Writing a blog is a hobby. Bringing work home is a hobby. You have time to do exactly one thing after your kids go to sleep, if you want to do it well."

Yes. Ugh. And I cannot pick one.
What sort of project, and how bad is the performance?

I've got a couple of things cooking with Laravel 4 myself but haven't finished anything yet. I'm curious about your impressions.
Well, it's good to see that the browser developers have finally conceded total defeat on Javascript as the basis for their platform, and are now simply constructing a nice little low-level virtual machine for general compilation. Granted, they're still hypocritically trying to keep up appearances by sharing as much machinery as possible with their Javascript VM, but nobody's perfect, I guess.
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I am actually in a similar situation... except I'm in math. I can program though :/.

And by "similar" I mean that I may have to drop out because I cannot afford it. Loans from the government are not enough. Can't get private loans. Can't get money from the parents.
Retina Display is actually a trademark. Never seen anyone hint at it so explicitly - not that that's necessarily a bad thing.
Other countries have buildings with roofs.
To be clear, the hack is still possible without view-source. It just makes it easier and more generic of a solution.
Come on, man. You can't even justify this as remotely technology adjacent. If we all treat HN like reddit, it will become reddit. The story is interesting, but it's posted to the wrong link-sharing site.
> Tesla is building the infrastructure for a supercharger network. If Tesla has any common sense at all, eventually all electric cars, not just Tesla's, will depend on this network. . . . It will control the national, and likely global, infrastructure for all electric cars in the future.

I really disagree with this conclusion, especially that it would be simply a matter of "any common sense at all." Tesla currently has an incentive to develop this infrastructure — to encourage people to buy their cars — and so they are currently the only major player. But this head start is not as valuable as you might think. As soon as the electric car market is big enough for widespread demand for charging stations, other companies will build them as well. You don't think BP or Exxon could install charging stations at hundreds or thousands of their gas stations in a matter of months? It's not like there is anything prohibitive to creating a charging station, barring Tesla's ability to secure some truly essential patents on charging or (more likely) battery swapping technology. But even if they play their hand perfectly I don't give them good odds of controlling a significant portion of electric vehicle infrastructure; a head start that could be wiped out in a month by companies with much deeper pockets just won't get them there.
This practice of creating a lot of traffic on rural lines is known as traffic pumping. AFAIK the FCC has closed this loophole, stating that termination fees may not be collected for VOIP calls. IIRC this new rule will take effect in 2014.

BTW, FreeConferenceCalls know their model is doomed and are expanding as fast as they can into countries with phone systems modeled after the US one, where the loophole still persists. It's pretty clear, though, that their business isn't sustainable. My guess is that somebody will soon gobble up FreeConferenceCall for their customer database.
I'm in a similar situation, I just bit the bullet and took the loans.
Nixon was the first to whom which the phrase "War on Drugs" was used, but it had been going on for many decades previously and had ... heated up quite a bit, certainly in terms of consumption and press about that, in the period of the cultural '60s prior to his assuming office in 1969. You might say "LSD Madness" was a major meme back then, and heroin was the big evil hard drug that caused the most fear.

This is largely from direct observation back then, e.g. in 3rd grade a bit before "War on Drugs" was coined I had to write a thorough workbook detailing all the major drugs being abused then, why they were bad for you, etc.

And, errr, here you posit "total - non-trivial number < most" (if I'm not too tired to express that); on its face it's just an impression you have. Very possibly a correct one, but then again you admit there are anti-War on Drugs Republicans. And in theory one of them could do a Nixon in China ... but we all know how a lot of Democrats would reply, no matter what their personal preferences were.
Slipping in an extra paper is not the same at all; you are adding terms to the contract that the signer could not possibly have seen. By changing the small print you are being sneaky, but they had a chance to fully examine what they were agreeing to and were lax in that.
The secret sauce is that HN is the news aggregator of a successful start up combinator. The secret sauce is popularity.
Bruce Schneier may be the wrong blogger for you to follow, then. He talks about trust all the time. To quote his recent book:

> [T]oday, I passed several strangers on the street without any of them attacking me. I bought food from a grocery store, not at all concerned that it might be unfit for human consumption. I locked my front door, but didn't spare a moment's worry at how easy it would be for someone to smash my window in. Even people driving cars, large murderous instruments that could crush me like a bug, didn't scare me.

>Most amazingly, this worked without much overt security. I don't carry a gun for self-defense, nor do I wear body armor. I don't use a home burglar alarm. I don't test my food for poison. I don't even engage in conspicuous displays of physical prowess to intimidate other people I encounter.

>It's what we call “trust.” Actually, it's what we call “civilization.”

His point is that we need trust. You can't actually watch for every possible betrayal. Trust in fear of retribution will suffice, but there needs to be some trust, or there can be no complex civilization.
If only they had a way to package it up and get it to you...