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In 2 days, I was in Inferno. That was not the intention of the game designers. I never bought ingame currency, but I know the laws of supply and demand and dealt with the game accordingly. If you're telling me that I should've just pretended the AH didn't exist, I would say that you're telling me not to play D3.

I wish people like you would stop telling me how to feel. I don't think you have some superposition that lets you judge me and I wish you'd separate me from my opinions. I am a person, I have opinions, but when you say "people like me" you lump me into a general audience and I don't think that's ok. I don't speak for anyone other than myself.

I would quite seriously invite you to consider that I invested a lot of time into D3 and played through a number of updates. I know exactly what I wanted out of a D3 experience and I can tell you in excruciating detail how it failed; this isn't the time or place for that.

The fact is, it took almost a decade for the game to come out, why the fuck did it have to ship as an unplayable pile of crap?

Sorry, I'm not trying to be offensive, but you're asking for patience when, as a consumer, I've been basically told that my investment in the game isn't enough for Blizzard: they need to make money off of my invested hours as well. I'm happy that Blizzard is improving the game but I'm not willing to give them any more of my time after what I view as a waste of my time.

It's true Diablo games improve over time, but wow was D3 a steaming pile of garbage when it launched. I mean if they had just implemented D2 with new graphics and content, it would've been glorious.

Anyways, I'm sorry to rant, but the crux of my point is that you can't attack me personally for my opinions and expect to have a good discussion. I concede the point that Blizzard might be getting better, but it also doesn't matter, for me.
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Consider Bernie Madoff. If ever there was a guy in jail solely for punishment, it is he. Prison is doing nothing to rehabilitate him, "so he can function in society" when he gets out. And his lifetime ban from the security industry incapacitates him from further crimes.

Why on earth is he being locked up. Pissing away the life savings of thousands of people? Water under the bridge. Stop being so vengeful -- it's childish and unbecoming!
For startup employees, it often doesn't matter whether or not the acquiring party pays in shares or in cash. The more important consideration is that in low-price acquisitions, the investors will get the lion's share of the proceeds.

If the company in question raised $2mm and was acquired by a company that just raised $11mm, it's probably safe to say that the purchase price was less than $5mm.

If you assume that the $2mm investment represented 50% ownership, the math looks like this:

* $1mm acquisition - Preferred sees $1mm, common stock sees $0.

* $2mm acquisition - Preferred sees $2mm, common stock sees $0.

Depending on the cap on the participating preferred, the rest could vary, but if you assume it's at least a 2x;

* $3mm acquisition - Preferred sees $2.5mm, common stock sees $500k.

* $4mm acquisition - Preferred sees $3mm, common stock sees $1mm.

So in a best case scenario, 1% ownership would be worth $10k, and would probably be worth much less than that. Do you care if you get your $10k in stock vs. cash? You're probably not indifferent, but that amount won't move the radar for most of those with equity in the startup world.
As a Swede who's been in the US for 5 years, what you say is true, but it's more nuanced than that. If you're poor, Sweden is so much better than the US, not even in the same league. As a software developer though, you'll earn roughly twice as much, enough to cover all the benefits of living in Sweden and probably quite a bit more. Engineers and technical people are not paid what they're worth in Sweden, I have no idea why.

But then again, you'll be wealthy in a hugely unequal society. The benefit of the Swedish system is that everybody gets those benefits and safety net, improving the society as a whole.

Here are a few other benefits of living in the US:

- THE place to be if you're in tech, there will never be an Apple or Google coming out of Sweden unfortunately

- More interesting career opportunities, you can do anything you want (if you're prepared to move around)

- Much more, better and affordable food

- Going out, eating, drinking, doing stuff in general doesn't break the bank

- You're not patronized in the same way (systembolaget, overbearing regulations etc, "we know what's best for you")

- Better weather (depending on where you are)

- A society much more friendly to immigrants (maybe counter intuitive). This is a big one. As a native Swede, you don't realize how much discrimination there is in Swedish society, even for highly educated professionals. People have to change their last name to something Swedish-sounding just to get an interview. In the US, nobody gives a shit where you're from, as long as you know what you're doing.

All in all though, I've decided to move back, for many of the reasons you listed, as well as a relatively sane political system, move vacation, parental leave and ease of travel. The biggest factor though is being closer to family and friends.
You're a very naive anarchist if you think a stateless society won't have punishment for criminals. It will, and it will be really quite severe: Banishment. Unlike in a statist society, no-one can be forced to cooperate with a criminal, and without the safety net of the state, that's not a pleasant situation to be in.
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You can already install on ZFS in FreeBSD.
I think the only reason of the three that anybody here opposes is the "punishment" reason. I oppose it so far as we cannot demonstrate that it will decrease the number of offenders.

I suspect that in some cases it does. Fear of the law probably does a decent job of keeping most people from enjoying alcoholic beverages on sidewalks for instance. (but I also suspect that in many cases (if not all cases) the imprisonment could be replaced with other punishments. Punitive damages are one obvious example of non-imprisonment punishment.)

In cases like Charles Manson, I doubt punishment is valuable. Crazy people aren't exactly known for their fear of consequences. If this is the case, then punishment of Charles Manson would be pointless and frankly verging on barbaric (though detainment of Charles Manson would of course be absolutely essential).
Actually, you rarely want a predictable nonce as well. The difference is that a nonce must not repeat (or repetition is statistically irrelevant).

Even per wikipedia, many often refer to an IV as a nonce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce
Diablo 3 wasn't hard at launch. It was so trivially easy that the first run through the game was considered the 'tutorial level' - the entire game was considered tutorial.

I played at a friend's place and was utterly bored by how easy that first run-through was. I don't understand complaints of difficulty, though admittedly I abandoned the entire mindspace of D3 just because it was so mindbogglingly easy. Why would I play the entire game on 'super-easy' just to play it again on 'normal'?
I think showing the product alone works well only if the investor is in the target audience. I just met with an entrepreneur who has what I believe is a great product, but the investors he has talked with so far are just not going to be users of it.

In his case, I think having a couple of slides to help demonstrate the problem is very helpful. Otherwise there isn't a sufficient aha moment when he gets to the solution.
That is an excellent idea and barring a pile of non-disclosure agreements I could see a lot of people contributing to this.

Deal details with investor names attached are not likely to materialize until long after the fact and even then someone is breaking a promise, which professionals with ties to VCs are not going to do. Founders could technically get away with this, especially if a deal fell through but this world operates largely on reputation and such a thing could easily pop up at a moment when you really don't need it later on.

Crunchbase has quite a wealth of info in it, as does duedil.com , those you could use to get an idea of who is on the other side of the table as well as google. The best source of info for a company looking for funding from 'party x' is to go and find out who else 'party x' has invested in and then to see if there are connections that can be sounded out off the record as well as companies that 'party x' was going to invest in but where the deal fell through (this is a lot harder to come by though).
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This post is as a result of a customer request that we get quite frequently.

A small business owner with a static site wants to move hosting and doesn't have their website files and/or login to their old hosting account.

Typically in this case unless you can get the old files off archive.org (which surprisingly you can although pages are often missing) the customer is stuck.

1) I propose a service whereby the sites of major hosting providers are slurped and archived in there entirety (remember these are static) to aid in at least having a starting point to site recovery and moving.

2) Case #2 would be the customer has the files and/or access to the old hosting account and just needs handholding which the new host doesn't provide.

My feeling is that this (in addition to moving sites which are still active) would be something that hosts would welcome if they don't offer it themselves.

Mediatemple offers a similar service:

http://mediatemple.net/sitemover/
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The documentation for raidZ is wonderful, and the commands are logical.

mdam is a pain, and doesn't provide block level checksums, so you can easily get silent corruption.
I thought Google flourished and grew explosively under Schmidt, and engineering in Google was doing great, no?
I would always expect that a society has a higher responsibility towards a person from whom it took away their personal freedom than towards a ‘free’ citizen.

While this argument does not extend to school children and illegal immigrants, I find it absolutely necessary to consider when complaining about free healthcare for prisoners.
I had the same experience. I played the beta like 2000 times before the released gamme. The game until patch 1.03 was totally hard to play and it was rewarding to play bacause you could die. But after this patch they've made all the "so hard difficulty" inferno totally easy. Then, they added a 5th level of difficulty and just because they've broke the initial one and so on. Now ppl farm MP 10 with ease.

This news proves many things. One of them is a different game direction. Yes… no more Jay Wilson scourge.
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I'm not convinced that's the whole story. Even old movies converted to digital fall into the uncanny valley. Try watching bluray Godfather for example. Looks staged.
I don't really know how to effectively comment on this. I raised a son for whom punishment would absolutely not have worked. I know there is a place for it in the world but most of the time it comes from a place of a) spite and b) not knowing how to get good results. Those are usually poor reasons to do a thing.
As a side note, I have wanted to do a project like this for a while. What hardware did you end up using?
I don't think we're talking cherry-picked goalposts here. On many axes the US is a striking outlier compared with other countries at similar levels of economic development, seemingly having more in common with BRIC than western Europe - healthcare, publicly-funded education, inequality, incarceration rate, public transport, labour laws, environmental protection. Did you have some other measures of development in mind where the US scores are more close to the rest of the "first world"?
The way social marketing works in the real world is a marketing team assigns a budget of X to give to celebrity Y to mention product Z in their Twitter feed. The only measures of interest are how many followers does that celebrity have, how much does each mention cost, and how many leads did it generate. Applying this network analysis could help identify hidden celebrities that would charge less, and how soon before someone launches a bidding service based on that?
I think 2 things need to happen for depth sensing to go mainstream (and I do believe they will happen sooner or later):

- Games. Look at the tennis ball example on the original article. Remember Google's IRL photo-based game (Ingress), now just imagine that with fine-grained 3D (Google will use it to crowd-source a centimeter-model of the earth). Games like this remain a bit of a niche, but just imagine if someone makes a massive social game out it on FB (a cross between Farmville, Sims, and Minecraft, projected onto your real world). Of course, someone could also create a shocking IRL FPS game (imagine your kids pointing this out the window in traffic and "shooting" at people and cars to watch them blow up). Finally something to use the processing power in theses little phones and tablets.

- 3D photography. I think this is the future of photography. Take a picture of something, extract the spacial data from the image, modify it/change the p.o.v. Recall the recent image/object maniupulation video (the SIGGRAPH one that used the PatchMatch algorithm to fix the background). Each photo becomes a mini-scene that you can navigate around (kinda like the "frozen" 360 degree pans in the Matrix). Next step is time-dimension, in other words 3D immersive movies where the viewer can move around almost anywhere while the movie unfolds. You can guess the first industry to adopt this...

Both of these can currently be done with flat images, processing power, and some human guidance. With depth sensing it can be faster, automated, and more accurate.
Closed source.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/07/17/1832213/bittorre...
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Nice post...I wish you had talked about market disruption and the failure of cities as agencies of change.

The realtors' lock on transactions and the lack of transparency in the marketplace is one issue.

The antiquated and closed-source zoning standards are another.

And the building industry in general, hindered by trade unions, et al, is yet another.

Just like disrupting Hollywood would (might) get us better movies, disrupting the RE industry will (might) eliminate overbuilding (and under-building, where applicable) and stabilize prices.
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I think the primary advantage is that ZFS collapses all the standard filesystem abstractions. With mdadm or hardware raid you have a raid controller (which could be mdadm), volume manager (i.e. lvm), and filesystem (ext4, xfs, etc). ZFS combines all of that into one. It's really a different philosophy, but means that things like creating a new filesystem is almost instant (and CoW, snapshots, replication are all easy - although perhaps that's possible with the traditional abstractions as well).
Google probably has close to a million miles of self-driving car experience by now, Tesla is several years behind Google in this field.

I'd be willing to bet that they were planning some sort of partnership. This isn't a technology that you want to get wrong, and once other vehicle manufacturers start offering a comparable electric car (soon) then Tesla will need to have something to differentiate themselves.
In a similar vein: http://3drepo.org/
Yes, run the exit policy at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExi... and put up the info page that comes in the tarball on your default vhost.

The only problem I ever had in a year of running an exit relay was when I had a default allow-all policy and someone torrented something, triggering a DMCA notice. My provider, Linode, had no problems with it.
I am pretty sure a tweet is more than 1kb: the message itself is 140 characters, not 140 bytes, and you have lots of metadata around a tweet. I would expect easily one order of magnitude more / weet.
My first purchase was a £16/month Kimsufi (cheap) dedicated server, when that range launched in August. I am pretty happy with the server now it has been delivered, but the launch of that range was a series of the worst mistakes I've seen a company make. I recommend not using OVH for any serious work.

The company cancelled all orders by PayPal, and didn't inform customers they were cancelled for a week.

The company took up to 2 months to deliver servers it expected to deliver in 1-24 hours. Tech support staff refused to give details.

The company refuses to communicate with customers directly, forcing them to negotiate refunds, and discuss billing issues in a public forum, which seems to be check by staff about once a day.

My big problem with OVH was the lack of communication. We don't really know why they cancelled all those orders, why they took so long to deliver the servers, or why they stopped providing billing and incident support via email. We do know that the technical support staff have not been told these things either.

What little they did say, mostly tweets in French by the CEO, turned out to be false reassurances. I think something went really badly wrong at OVH, and not knowing what damages my confidence in them.
Goldbely is fantastic. We (SendHub) are on a plan with them where we are shipped foods for employee birthdays. We've had everything from cheesecakes, 14 flavors of ice cream, and cupcakes to full BBQ spreads. Delicious.
Thank you, pg. I would amend the summary by including an encouraging word to the founders:

"Avoid investors till you decide to raise money, and then when you do, talk to them all in parallel, prioritized by expected value, and accept offers greedily; build rejection into your plans by having a range of realistic, acceptable fundraising targets. Get back to work quickly."
I was able to get through the game relatively quickly with items purchased on the auction house. Afterwards my friends and I were glad we were done with the addiction of 'chasing' the next level/item.

If they could make a larger more satisfying endgame, possibly large PvP areas where guilds can fight for territory, claim land, place houses/structures, I'd be happy to grind.

But endlessly chasing a carot on a stick? I'm glad the auction house 'ruined' the 'game' for me..
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This is hardly a new concept, and it's been expressed in public before. I can't imagine the missing element for approaching these issues like a civilized society is that we neglected to frame it in terms of future costs. I can only speak for America, but a big part of the problem here is that, culturally and politically, we don't trust expert knowledge, so things that are counter-intuitive are political poison.

For example: In the case where housing programs for the homeless actually directly _save_ the gov't money, the only argument against them is "I'm taxed enough already!!! Stop giving my money to people who are homeless because they deserve it!!!!". Telling them that, empirically, it's far more likely that the state is saving money from doing this is useless, because "facts are just another opinion" is a disgustingly prevalent belief around here.

through reduced spending on homeless-related law enforcement and emergency medical care, and this doesn't even include the indirect economic value of lower crime and higher property values
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In practice few to zero investors make money that way. All the money in startup investing is in the big hits. Which means the way to make money as a investor is to try to invest in the companies you think will be big hits, and pay whatever the price happens to be.
One way which would work is if you get your initial X cards free and then you have to pay for booster packs. And if you then have no way of trading cards it would work as a F2P game.
It's all on GitHub. Please let me know of any bugs you find, and thanks. I did test the implementation against whatever test vectors I could find, but obviously carry code is tricky and error-prone. Link here: https://github.com/keybase/triplesec/blob/master/src/ctr.ice...
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No, why would you pay attention to the road?

There might not even be windows in the self-driving car of the future.
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In 1940 the Pratt & Whitney Corp. started development of what would prove to be the largest, most complex, and most powerful aviation piston engine ever ever built. This engine was built during the WWII but when the war was over none of these engines could be used for combat aircraft. It did, however, power the last generation of large piston-engined aircraft before the turbojet and turboprop took over, these includes: the Boeing B-50 Superfortress, Convair B-36 Peacemaker, Martin AM-1 Mauler, Douglas C-124 Globemaster, and Boeing C-97 Stratocruiser. The Wasp Major was also used in a number of experimental aircraft that did not reach production status, such as the Republic XP-72, Goodyear F2G, and Northrup XB-35 Flying Wing.
In the cerebral cortex, I agree. It seems like any handy chunk of cortex with enough connections can learn a task.

Outside the cortex there are dedicated organs within the brain: circadian rhythym generators, the locus ceruleus, the hippocampus, and many others.
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> Do you really account for it?

What? I'm talking about hypothetical situations. This means by definition cases in which the increase in incentives to offend is more than counteracted by other factors.
> But outside of the valley, angels tend to be family or people you're already acquainted with.

Find out who the LPs are of any private equity fund, there are your angels (by the 10's if not the 100's), and none of them will be family or people you are already acquainted with. Additional upside for those locations where this matters: and all of them will already be vetted as qualified investors.
Not to disappoint you, but I could tell you horror stories about my time working on the CMS team at Fermilab. Horrible, horrible stories.

I hope the CMS and ATLAS teams onsite at CERN were much better.
No worries.

I think Bernie Madoff is an interesting example. He doesn't represent a threat to anybody (he is not a violent man. Furthermore we should be able to make sure he doesn't start running another scam again, even if he is free, since we know he is a con-man now), and if we discard vengeance as a legitimate reason to detain somebody, we then need to consider the value of detaining him as a deterrent to others.

If we are worried about psychopathic con-men who are incapable of experiencing fear, then detainment probably doesn't do much to deter similar crimes. I am not convinced that is an accurate representation of psychopaths though, and I certainly don't think all con-men are psychopaths anyway. Detaining Madoff probably does serve to deter similar crimes.

The question I have is if there are other punishments besides imprisonment that could fill that roll.