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Semantics. Definitions or not you can't get around the issue by specifying a new term "Subjective reality" You have made no distinction between the two anyways and here's why:
* ...subjective experience is not a thing (i.e. physical) that can exist or not, it's simply your limited interpretation of reality."*

So how's that different than my "subjective reality" -- that isn't really a thing either.

And to hammer the confusion further you say:

* Your subjective experience, in the real world, is just patterns of electrical signals in your brain, that's what actually exist*

So my subjective experience IS an objective phenomenon and nothing more? If its something more than what we can measure "in the real world" then what is the part that is "more"? It doesn't exist right?

I can only logically conclude that pure Subjective Experience doesn't exist! As scientific materialism has always claimed.
They've been a revenue producer and not a growth producer for a long time now, so it's good that they're finally paying out some dividends.
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Now the US can influence better all the "Facebook and tweeter revolutions". NSA can analyse the social network graph and try to seed their news or manifestations. Or even better: they can turn off the influencing nodes that are against american policies.
Obviously I was oversimplifying. However, my claim still holds: if companies were not paying dividends at all, then there'd be no stockmarket and no investing.
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They're not going away without doing liberal prison reform either.

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I honestly don't see how much good can come of the current setup. Maybe that say more about me than it does about the setup - but what good can come from brutalising these people?

When you try to use pain to make someone comply, the underlying message is that when they start complying the pain will stop. But ex-cons are effectively black-listed from most respectable jobs, they generally have very little by way of life skills, their social network is generally tied to criminals, there's no real welfare system to speak of to support them.

The pain doesn't sound like it really stops, changes intensity maybe. Meanwhile there's lots of relatively easy money to be made from drugs, slavery and the like.... I suspect you need a very strong character to work your way up decently from that sort of starting position - I just don't see how effectively torturing people would give them that.
Why is 'revenue' the proper denominator, and not 'earnings' ?

Sure, if revenue hypothetically vanished, cash could cover it, but a lot of revenue is tied to expenses ("cost of goods sold" in the retail world), so if revenue dropped, expenses would as well.
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People are going to say that there's nothing about this that's specific to video games, which I guess is the point, right? You can work yourself to death if you want, but every piece of research I've read says that recreation -- up to a certain point, of course -- is going to be a long-term investment in your productivity.

My new post-work ritual is going for a nice run or lift and then ruining all of that physical activity with a beer/cocktail. On the upside, I'm getting more fit than I've ever been; on the downside, there are significantly less explosions along the Puget Sound than there are in Pandaria or Ivalice.
You seem to be assuming that optimizations are only of value if they can be depended on happening consistently as a defined property of the language on every single platform for which there exists a compiler: in practice, compilers perform numerous optimizations (such as static branch prediction) that only work probabilistically even for the case of a specific version of a specific compiler on a specific operating system; I know of very few people (maybe you are one of them, however) who consider this to be a detriment. For a more obvious comparison: yes, I could sit around constructing object pools in my Java program to avoid heap allocations and their associated garbage collection penalty, but if rudimentary escape analysis manages to pick up a lot of the value, even if "fragile" or nondeterministic, I might not need to spend the time anymore to worry about that kind of detail in my software as the cost benefit analysis shows that the toolchain is now a more efficient usage of resources towards that issue (I could be spending my energy working on algorithm design, for example, instead of object pools). As long as the semantics of the language support the optimization, and as it doesn't seem to be difficult to implement, it would be useful to have the compiler perform this optimization for the developer, and one would expect such an optimization to either already be there or be "in the works".
> I've never written a linked list. Guilty as charged. Java has a LinkedList class and I've never bothered to look at the implementation nor have I ever been curious enough to (re)write one from scratch.

Good! You're right: the JDK's implementation is perfectly acceptable, and you'd be crazy to write your own. I certainly haven't, either.

But if you have any CS education, I'll bet you know what a linked list is at a high level. And I can probably verbally walk you through turning that into a "spec" that's good enough for a basic whiteboard implementation of one that supports a couple of basic operations. It's (hopefully) just another fizzbuzz: a simple problem to demonstrate that you can code something/anything. The overwhelming majority of applicants can't.
Hey White House, can I have my privacy back? I'll settle for a locked cell phone if I can call friends without it being reported back to you.
with the proviso that the "additional input" is something more substantial that an opinion poll...
An interesting point here is arrogance towards investors. The art of "arrogance" is to be arrogant in what you are saying while being very kind and nice in the way you say it.

It's very hard as a first time founder to mimic the arrogance that is natural for experienced founders. If you can do it, it's great, if you can't, it will burn your bridges and blacklist you.^^

If you can pull it off though, you're the master. It's the pinnacle of hustling, having nothing to offer but being as confident as the next Mark Zuckerberg.

So you'd need to be as confident as Mark Zuckerberg when he had $1M users when you only have 1000 users. However, that also only works if you intrinsically think of yourself as a very high-value individual and if you have worked for several on you to think that way. Otherwise, investors will quickly spot your fake.
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I suspect that it was a paid product placement and it seems to have worked on you although it wasn't HALO or an Xbox itself that you bought.
You didn't say "foreign born", you said "enormous diversity."

Those are very different concepts.

"Unlike so many other countries, we integrate and assimilate our immigrants"

What does 'diverse' mean to you? Since I don't think it means what you think it means. Assimilation is a process which reduces diversity.

Also, in that list the US is indeed #1 ... in the total number of immigrants. If you re-sort by "Immigrants as percentage of national population" then it's:

UAE - 83.7% (but I don't include guest workers)
Saudi Arabia - 31.4%
Australia - 27.7%
Canada - 20.7 %
United States - 14.3%

By all metrics, it seems that Canada has both a more diverse culture than the US and a higher percentage of immigrants than the US. That's the country you should be praising, not the US.

The main factor in all of these numbers is that the US has a high population. Once you switch to per-capita, it drops in the ranks.

Congratulations, there's a lot of people living in the US.
Verizon pleads incompetence, refuses to activate Nexus 7 on its LTE network
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Thanks Paul for taking the time to share this wisdom outside the YC Collective. These words will have long lasting, positive effects on the ecosystem. Much appreciated.
If you're a programmer, the best route to investors is probably through other programmers you know. If you know any who are founders or early employees at a startup, they can introduce you to their investors. They can also introduce you to other founders, who can introduce you to their investors.
very nice.

might as well list out all the statistics though,
not make people hover to get them one-at-a-time.

-bowerbird
> However, my claim still holds: if companies were not paying dividends at all, then there'd be no stockmarket and no investing.

Sure there would. The main theoretical support of the value of stock as a marketable asset is the claim on the corporations assets at dissolution and the hope that when the corporation is dissolved, your share will be worth more than when you bought it; dividends are just a means of effecting a partial dissolution.

If corporations never paid dividends, were never acquired for cash, and never otherwise dissolved except through insolvency which returned nothing to shareholders, then your argument with regard to the stock market might hold some weight (there'd still be a potential for a stock market if stock existed, but without an effective claim on assets, its hard to see how it would never suffice for raising capital in the first place.)

But there'd still be investing, even in businesses; it'd just all take the form of bonds.
>you kill the boss 84 times, and he finally drops the thing you've been looking for. The reward is tangible and exciting.

It feels exciting. Grinding the same boss 84 times. Where do I sign up?
Apple has included arrow that point up to indicate the control panel.
Very true!

There are many resources [1][2][3] for geographic data. Learning how to use tools like PostGIS [4], gdal [5], and d3 [6] are well worth the effort.

Hacks like this are great when there is no other way around it, but I can't help but imagine that it would have been a much easier problem to solve using some of these existing data sets and tools.

When given the option to attempt a novel hack like the original poster's keep in mind that the skills learned while solving the problem with existing tools and workflows will be very valuable the next time you need to do any GIS related work!

[1] http://nationalatlas.gov/mld/hydrogm.html
[2] http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2012/main
[3] http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresu...
[4] http://postgis.net
[5] http://www.gdal.org
[6] http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/
Perhaps more to the point, how often do you "need" to take pictures at all? Smartphone cameras have proliferated even though most people don't "need" to be able to take pictures of their food or whatever.
you mean besides all of the APIs they expose?
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You're right about end-to-end control. But, my point is I don't see the future of web development consisting of 3rd party PaaS services.

Are you saying you'd pay for Apiary to debug HTTP requests? How did you solve this issue before? There are many open source libraries to do exactly this.

I just can't imagine a future where development tooling consists of subscription to a bunch of disparate services.
I think they will follow the updated card style Google designs we've seen in Google Now, Google Keep, etc.
Those are hardly the only reasons. I want a vehicle that has my stuff in it: My kids' car seats, my cell phone charger, my wife's umbrella, our radio presets, etc. If a random car pulls up at my house and I have to put 3 armloads of stuff in it every time I get in, that's a big deal. I frequently put stuff in my car for a second destination; sports equipment, a change of clothes, re-usable shopping bags, library books, etc. That's impossible if I'm in someone else's car. I want a vehicle that's comfortable and that I'm familiar with; I sit in it for 2 hours a day, and I don't want to worry if I'm going to end up with gum on my pants from the previous occupants.

My car isn't just a train or a bus that goes directly to where I want it to; that's called a taxi. My car is a small extension of my house.
See, I don't think they'd have to release the source for gcc, since they're not releasing the gcc binary.

My understanding is, under the GPL, if you distribute the binary, you need to distribute the source.
I haven't played since 1.02 (?), in which I was mopping the floor with standard mobs in Inferno Act 1, but couldn't kill any special mobs at all (in my memory they all seemed to have molten, arcane, fire-chains and vortex modifiers)
I was thinking about Tesla Driving Data today:

I was wondering what data they were gathering, and what they would do with it, and how it could be useful to other drivers:

What if you have a Tesla driver profile and you could see your driving habits ranked amongst all other tesla drivers (anonymously) to determine your rank as the most safe, efficient, slow, fast, whatever driver.

To see where you stack among others would have an effect on your driving. To see how your particular car performs against all others - its mileage vs age against others etc...

I think that there is a whole other layer that could be added onto the Tesla experience that other car manufacturers are far too old and less nimble to do appropriately.
> According to FTB's complaint, Wasserbaur stated that "calling someone a 'patent troll' constituted a 'hate crime' under 'Ninth Circuit precedent.'"

I tried to come up with a snarky comment, but this quote is sufficiently funny on it's own.
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I agree but for a platform where all apps Run as full screen you can get away with less consistent design as long as the ux is good. The apps will never be run side by side.
Turtl: encrypted note storage in Lisp
My story is somewhat similar to yours, and I also regret not giving FreeBSD a try sooner.
I guess hardware has a lot to do with many people's reluctance in using FreeBSD, and in that regard I was lucky that my netbook was compatible right out of the box so I didn't experience any of the issues others had.
This definitely looks useful. I have a bunch of templates generated with the mailchimp tools that I've not touched in ages. Doesn't help that I've since forgotten how their tools work. Something like this would be a great way to prototype and quickly update them. I can cope with remembering how to copy and paste into a window even if it is once every six months.

But the 'Generate HTML with Inline Styles' button isn't appearing as a button (and doesn't do anything when clicked on) when running the latest Chrome on Win 8.1
Thanks Joel. That's right. It would be hard to do an AMC television show about crunching numbers, though a few times you do see Don and Peggy looking at "marketing research" and Harry Crane talking about the results in Television.
Yes, that really is a useless metric since the US has four times the population of the next most populous western country (Germany). And btw:

Sweden - 15.9%

http://esa.un.org/unmigration/migrantstocks2013.htm?mtotals
it is not about repairing damages. it is about the feeling that his/her actions had tangible, long lasting consequences.

i feel the big differentiator is if you yourself have ever been victim of a crime. once you have experienced the feeling of utter helplesness your perspective changes. same is true if you get children - practically all young parents i know turned around their stance on punishment once they thought about someone maiming/hurting their kids.

it's all easy as long as you are the casual, non-involved observer. the moral high horse is a great viewpoint.

and to be clear, i am talking about violent crime, not shoplifting. right now you can get higher sentences for hacking a computer than raping your neighbor. which is perverse.
You should be using profit not revenue (also, not all quarters are the same, using merely the most recent one is a bad practice). Measured in terms of years of profit being hoarded google is at 5 years, Apple is at 1 year, and Microsoft is at 3.5 years. No matter how you slice it that's a crap ton of money.
Almost all phase 2 startups will be worth zero, or nearly zero. Some will be worth $BIGNUM. If you invest in the latter, you will be rich irrespective of whether you invested at a valuation of $BIGNUM/100 or $BIGNUM/200. If you invest in the former, you will not be rich.

Moreover, whatever money you make on any startups that do not make $BIGNUM is rounding error by comparison.
For PBKDF2, we use SHA-512 XOR SHA3 as the inner PRF. But you're right, it would be interesting to stack bcrypt and scrypt too. That's a good idea in the name of maximum paranoia. My slight reservation here is that I haven't seen any published results on combinations of key stretchers (there are several for the other primitives).

As for public key stacking, it depends on the application. The fear with putting encrypted data on a server is that it might sit there for all time and therefore needs to be present- and future-proof. If using public key for signatures, you can plan ahead for your key's expiration. For public key encryption, maybe stacking is the right idea.
It won't be about an abstracted concept of "safer". It will be about whether the car is perceived to be a better driver than "me". Most people estimate their own abilities as above-average.
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Verizon won't activate Google's Nexus 7 on its network
They've been paying out an ok dividend for a while but not really enough to make up for the flat stock price.
Ugh, I hate it when I get new data and change my opinion and people look at me as if I'm easily swayed or something. I have new data that invalidates the old one, do you expect me to keep the same opinion even though I now think it's wrong?

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, etc.
That's loot grinders. If you don't like grinding for loot, then the genre probably isn't for you.
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> If I can be spending that time instead on an activity that reduces the waste of duplication, I'd rather do that.

Estimates can prevent waste by giving us a better of idea where to redirect effort. Time is, as you say, doled out at a constant rate.

The highest ROI possible for an estimate is to prevent wasteful effort from proceeding.

Timeboxed systems still perform estimation, you just hold different variables constant. In flow-based systems you can perform estimates by taking an integral of the current output.

My point is that estimation is always present, even when we go out of our way to say that it isn't. They lie on a continuum from gut feel to supercomputers and conference papers. Estimates are always present because humans must always reason under conditions of uncertainty; the future is strictly unknowable.

Part of the confusion here is that I think there are two or three definitions of estimate in this thread. I am talking both about the universal case and the methodical estimate-with-an-E case. The universal case is that all decisions leading to action or inaction involve estimation. The methodical case is that estimation for software development is possible and tractable outside of genuine research.
I don't see how quoting or a shell-level backslash would change tar's behavior to something safe. Tar would still see a colon in its argv either way. Right?
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A large number of us just felt incredibly old.

(My first machine with a proper multitasking, GUI based, OS was an Amiga where the OS with in a 256KB - later 512KB - ROM and two 880KB floppies)
Link to the article so you can actually see test variables:
http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/ProgressBars...
> Yes, that really is a useless metric since the US has four times the population of the next most populous western country (Germany).

After the US, the next most popular country of those generally considered "Western" is Brazil; the US has a little over 1.5× the population of Brazil. Number 3 is Mexico. Germany's number four.
If he felt that he was charged incorrectly by AirBnB, he should dispute the charge with his credit card company and have them take care of it with AirBnB. AirBnB would then have to make a case that indeed the guest broke the bed and was liable for the damages and that burden might be high enough that they just rather eat the cost. Of course, I'm not sure who is really at fault here since so far it's a he said/she said affair.
I'm wondering why they ended up using BSP as a data structure for boolean mesh operations. Is there an advantage over Octrees I'm not aware of in this case?
If the slide's author is really trying to demonstrate the effectiveness of network graphs, then he needs to find a different presentation platform. The conclusions come after the graphics, and there's no way for the reader to go back and analyze them for himself. No one likes being led around by the nose. Pass.
How is this attitude rational?

I can't understand how people react like this. Is it left over anger from when the situation was in the undesirable configuration? Can they not see how their opinions have had an influence in something they're passionate about?

I can't see how someone who wanted this to happen would consider Blizzard to be still in the wrong.
This might be interesting for video game designers and animators - instead of painstakingly creating a model in a modeling program, they use clay and scan it.
Get 1,000 users in a month and you don't need any introductions. You can cold email them and they will jump you. Maybe not jump you, but that should give you an idea.

Don't waste any idea on fundraising until you have product fit, market fit and first initial traction. Trying to fund raise before that is the sign of an amateur and if you actually get an investor interested before product fit, you will get a very shitty deal and the whole process will kill you.

Been there done that.
As much as people give Solidworks flak, it actually is really, really good software for what it does, and it does a lot of different things. There are other pieces of software that can match or exceed it in single matters, but very few can do all the things it does. While it's not cheap by an means, it fills a role at which little else comes close.

In other words, it may be $4000, but it does what would take four or five $1000 (plus training) pieces of software to do.
Apple A7 Could Be From An Intel Fab
There is a performance hit for this. Rendering the 40 markers in the provided demo takes roughly 7ms on my machine vs 25ms for the fake lake method.
ah... I see you're the founder of Runscope now. I would be more inclined to use something like Runscope where - unlike Apiary - the value proposition is very clear and you're focused on doing one thing and doing it well.