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I didn't say it was "stupid" - don't put words in my mouth. And I completely understand the bureaucratic purpose behind it.

The reality is that the truly rich (like Mitt Romney) have plenty of legal ways to shield their income, offshore or otherwise. So these regulations screw (the vast majority of) Americans aboard with relatively modest incomes, while they are ineffectual against the rich few with tax accountants on their permanent staff.

tl;dr - these rules create more harm than benefit.
Does Canonical have any coherent explanation for why they are still pressing on with their own incompatible rewrite of a display server when a perfectly good one was already in development?
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Ballmer may be the face of problems and there is no denying that he is clueless, but we all know that Gates has been making all the major decisions for him.

Microsoft's recent failures as are much Gates' failures as they are Ballmer's. It is only fair that they get the same treatment.
But then, if children were born smart, because they have smart parents, it would follow that more, and more complex, conversations would ensue. Just pointing out the obvious.

Establishing causation would require some pretty grievous, and expensive, social intervention. "Stolen generations" or similar would be the accusation decades after the inevitable failure of such policies.

But keep dreaming, Slate.
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Exactly: the magnetic pole effect. Similar with nightlife. People wbo love the night go to san francisco in droves, leaving the south bay quite tame.
Both links to Amazon go to the same book. What was the other book that you were suggesting?
This is of course only three of the top 20 investors making that argument. It's almost meaningless at this point.

They seem to make a big deal out of him selling and it was quoted in another article that one of the complaining investors would like to see the chairman retain a larger stake. It's an absurd statement. It's exceptionally rare for companies a fraction of Microsoft's size to have a chairman sitting on 4.5% of the company (even more so with a company nearly 40 years old).

Gates is sitting on $12 billion in stock. The number of people that have that much stock in any one company, is a very short list. That position all by itself would rank roughly in the top 90 in the world on the rich list. If you further narrowed it down to how many people hold that much stock in one company, I'd bet it's down to a few dozen.

I can see arguments over Ballmer having been allowed to poorly steer the company for so long (and the chairman not replacing him sooner), but complaints about Gates' holdings are just stupid. Gates has about $61 billion outside of Microsoft, he can throw around $5 billion without much concern, and it certainly wouldn't be a big deal for him to hold onto shares in MSFT worth that much just for influence sake. I'd argue it's very unlikely he'll divest all of his shares in his baby.
That's only one intent of open source, this whole GPL vs MIT/Apache etc license has been raging for as long as the Open Source era has been upon us.
Yes, I noticed this shortly after I posted when I saw the related stories.
I do my sleeping at work, you insensitive clod!
Three Top Microsoft Investors Allegedly Want Bill Gates To Step Down As Chairman
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Very interesting! For anyone else that's curious, I found a Wikipedia article [0] with more information. It turns out that an "easement" can also be a right to use land that you don't own for things like roads and structural support [1], so it took a minute or two before I found it.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_transition_curve

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easement
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Even compiling the source code with the same compiler, same build options, and same computer will generally generate a different binary with a different hash! Special effort is required to generate "deterministic builds", sometimes seen for e.g. verifying the integrity of gambling software. Here's what one fellow has been going through in an effort to accomplish that:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1180852/deterministic-bui...
> Ballmer may be the face of problems and there is no denying that he is clueless, but we all know that Gates has been making all the major decisions for him.

Can you back this assertion up?
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This is in fact completely wrong.

According to both of them, Ballmer has been fully in charge of Microsoft in all respects for more than a decade. Further, Gates has been completely retired from any decision making role in operations at Microsoft for five years. For years before that he was a glorified software opinion giver ("chief software architect"), and by his own statements he was heavily ignored in the role.

If you have something that proves otherwise, given we have their public statements (over and over again) on the matter, I'd love to see it.
Oh, you meant "lose control" more as in "have an unmaintainable mess". For some reason I'd only read it as "get 'sploited".
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How is that not a blank check to the medical industry ? I mean if this is true, it seems like it'd be trivial for the medical industry to exploit this loophole.
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I'd say the most common pre-existing condition is being a heavy (ex-)smoker.
Which part of a properly designed system involves storing lists of social security numbers in an Excel spreadsheet in the first place?

Yes, the government employee screwed up by sending this file (in plain text no-less), but why does this file even exist?
What you call "denial", I call reasonable doubt. And by that, I mean we don't have any concrete way to measure intelligence potential/capacity in the same way we can measure 12 inches. We know what 12 inches mean, but can anyone tell me what it means to be smart? What subjects do I need to learn to qualify? And to what level of detail? Why do we conclude Stephen Hawkins is smart? Who is an example of someone that isn't smart and could never become smart no matter how hard that person tried?
Barring any serious mental illness, I am of the belief anyone can learn whatever they want. The speed may vary, but I don't believe there is more information in the human-society than the human brain can contain.
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I am disappointed when I hear the term "socio-economic factors" in discussions of education. First, as if "economic" wasn't enough you add in "socio" to create a term that means "factors coming from every part of a person's life". Of course there are socio-economic factors.

But I dislike it particularly because often it feels like a statement: we don't know what the causes are (which is why we make the weakest possible claim by using this incredibly expansive category), and we aren't going to try to find out.

So I particularly appreciate this program, and the research it is based upon. We have a pretty well identified phenomena: talking a lot to kids, at a young age, helps them. A lot. And some people talk to their kids a lot more than other people. We should delight in this finding! We have a pretty clear way to identify a lot of kids whose lives could be greatly improved through changes in their parents' behavior, and that change is widely accessible.

It's this kind of finding that penetrates "socio-economic factors" and in the process identifies something actionable.
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"1500+ SAT scores required."

Hope your product has something to do with SAT tests, because otherwise I'd say you "don't have enough work experience" when it comes to understanding talent.
My guess is that this is because Python is the language of choice for most academic institutions when teaching dynamically typed languages (which is something that is likely part of most Computer Science curriculums)
Interesting, I was thinking the semantic search was actually somehow searching your content and interrelating it and finding patterns. This is pretty cool too, but imagine a notebook that found the common themes among your own notes.
That would be pretty cool!
> If you're raised by a pack of wolves in the woods, you'll probably be rock dumb by all measures, regardless of your DNA.

Depends on how you define "dumb". I bet you'd be insanely good at hunting and eating enough prey to survive the winter.
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I just came across this brand and this some of the most innovative design/engineering work on garments ever done
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Yes! But even with a free schedule, I have no idea how I could split it to work.

Working all early morning and all late noon? Meh.
I got something like a 30% speed up switching go 1.0 to go 1.1 with some code that used a closure.

It is number crunching code (random forests) but go 1.1 is faster then gccgo as well (though i haven't tried the latest version of that).
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Good, they aren't going to have a release that is a massive regression (again). I was planning on skipping 13.10 because everything so far said it would have worse performance and more bugs. OTOH it's a bit scary that their release engineering is making big dramatic structural changes in X servers 3-4 weeks before launch. It should be in frozen locked down beta now... The real solution was that XMir never should have been jammed into their release so forceful while obviously so unready in the first place... Still this is better than launching with it anyways, so half marks Canonical. But this is nothing like the rock solid stability you provided in Beta and Alpha last decade.
> Yet another story on parent-child correlations that dares not mention the g-word

Except for that the Hart & Risley study measured the impact of genetics, and found it to be insignificant. Maybe Pinker should try actually reading the studies he's criticizing instead of just reading about them in the paper.
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The only thing new TLD's are going to be used for are things like googlec.om and other phishing attempts. I find the whole thing silly, but I guess some people like the idea.
I think those suckers in congress should not be paid when they shut down the government.
> the audience of HN has a heavy dose of cynicism

Do you realize that your entire post was cynical?
Saying "Children aren't born smart" is equivalent to saying "Intelligence is determined entirely by one's environment", if I understand the claim correctly. While I'm sure talking to ones children contributes in a massively positive way to their IQ, I think it's extremely inaccurate and ignorant to the existence of real-world outliers to claim that it's the only factor.

To provide just one example (out of many, I'm sure): I was born into a very poor (far below poverty level) working class family that was extremely techno-phobic. Despite being actively discouraged almost throughout my childhood of pursuing an intellectual career, I always had an intrinsic motivation and desire to learn and create tech-related things. This ultimately lead to where I am now, as a software engineer (and I'm definitely the only one like this from my family, a clear outlier).

To this day I can't come up with a single environmental influence that explains this -- and believe me, I've tried. I don't mean for this example to detract from the positive message of the article -- that talking to children is very beneficial to their cognitive development (obviously) -- but hopefully to demonstrate that it's a lot more complex than just environmental factors.
Most of the comments seem to assume TouchID as implemented today will remain the same in future. Here are a few scenarios that I imagine it may evolve to:

1) Unlock using multiple fingers;
2) Unlock using the same finger repeatedly, but with different pauses between taps, e.g. two short taps, followed by one long tap;
3) Unlock using finger gesture, for example press your thumb, then move clockwise 45 degree;
4) Unlock using a single finger, the iPhone sends a passcode to your iWatch with which you can use to enter.

Such uses of fingerprint would be much more secured, yet still relatively convenient. Losing your fingerprints wouldn't really be a big problem. You only need to change the sequence.

To further the idea, iOS may offer multiple accounts. Family members may have access to a "guest" section, whereas the phone owner has full access. Fingerprints can be used to unlock the appropriate accounts.
Way to absolve of having any real credibility and/or value in your statement by appending "I did not bother to read the article".
In Columbia the only big tech employers I know of are Veterans United, Carfax, IBM, and the University of Missouri (I work for the University). Outside of that opportunities are limited. There are some smaller shops, and of course people working remotely (for the likes of Zapier, Heroku, and Mozilla). If you're curious about the scene check out http://devcomo.com/
That checkbox is a legacy of the pre-2008 laws, which had different tax treatments depending on your motivation for renouncing citizenship.

Under the current laws, intent is irrelevant. If you meet certain criteria (net worth above $2 million, for most people) you pay tax. Our friends in Congress want to define people as meeting these criteria as having evil tax-avoidance motives. It ain't so, at the moment.

And of course NO ONE ever tells the Embassy official that the primary motive for renouncing citizenship is tax-driven. :-)

Seriously, though. I would say that at least half of the people I work with end up living in high income tax countries (Canada, various countries in Europe, Australia, New Zealand). They aren't leaving to cut their income tax bills. The tax-drive motivations are primarily (1) the craptastic paperwork and horrific penalties that Americans abroad face, and (2) the estate tax.
We all have potential to be and do whatever it is we want to. Sometimes we just stop believing. Let this be a reminder that we can!
Spot on- we stock fabrics for customers to choose from, which cuts out another middleman (cloth cut length houses). Since they're raw materials, it's fine if some risky, fashionable fabrics take a couple of years to sell out. Fine fabrics last forever, and we bring out selections from years past sometimes. We even have some yardage on 60s stuff, which we mostly use for costume projects (we do a lot of film and theater).

Also agreed brands could do their own manufacturing and reap tremendous advantages- but that's a whole 'nother disruption!
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By its very nature that question constrains the possibilities of Glass by attempting to label it. Falling into that trap leads to less insight, not more.

By way of analogy, one could say a car was a faster horse-and-buggy, but an airplane was something new & different. A telegram was a faster form of mail, but a telephone was new & different.

A good example of the lack of insight that kind of question leads to is the apocryphal quote[1] by IBM's CEO Thomas J. Watson: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. Even if he didn't say it, the point was that those who shared that view had labelled computers as "massive calculating machines". That was true, but missed the bigger picture.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_misquot...
FWIW language gives children a tool with which they can discuss and more importantly reason about abstract concepts. The sooner you acquire a rich and varied vocabulary the sooner you can form a rich understanding about the phenomena in the world around you. Since kids learn fastest when they are young and that slows with age, a strong grasp of language means that they can absorb and understand more abstractions sooner. Measures of betweenness, distance, centrality and distance for nodes in a child's mental graph of abstractions are all likely to be better when you have a richer vocabulary at a young age. Even edges between abstractions can be linguistic abstractions like similes and metaphors, giving a child a quickness in recall of well understood abstractions to aid in the processing and understanding of novel concepts.
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>Outside the HN bubble, this is an acceptable tradeoff.

I'm glad you have been deemed worthy enough to make that decision for the rest of the population that doesn't understand the implications of what they are getting into.
That's interesting, but I think there are also studies that show childhood IQ tests don't correlate very well to adolescent or adult IQ tests - which, as others studies have shown, are tests that do correlate well to success/happiness/etc. over lifetimes.

This study would be a lot more interesting if it followed its sample into adulthood and compared IQ scores over time - it very well may do that, it's just not clear from the article that there is very much meaning here when put into context with other studies on childhood IQ.
Side-note: obfuscating variable and method names doesn't offer that much of a size advantage, since gzip will already compress those. Most of the gains in minifying come from removing whitespace & comments, and smart code transformations.
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Here is the short documentary being referred to in the article.

http://vimeo.com/74061236
Hmm. Interesting. I have always contemplated this problem. First, I want to simplify the problem a bit and hope it'll apply to traffic jams. I think the problem is human reaction time. I must be missing something but hardly people talk about this. (although my solution might not be feasible). Let me explain.

So, lets say you are stopped behind 30 cars and the first car is waiting for the red to turn green. Now, as soon as it turns green, it takes a second (or two) for the first car to start moving. After that second, second car adds another second before starting to move. Based on this, you won't move your car until 30 seconds have passed. Isn't this one of the big issue? If all of 50 cars instantly start driving once it hits green, wouldn't it reduce traffic jam greatly. Now, I do realize this is not feasible but if computers were controlling the car, 50th car can move instantly after green.

On a side note, I realize the bottleneck situation can't be solved easily BUT again, I think human reaction (response) time is a huge part of it in most of these scenarios. If computers were driving, I wonder if we can have 10 times the car we have today without traffic jams.
Yep, and I'd even argue that transportation is still not a solved problem (cars are expensive, we waste a lot of time driving them, etc).
For me the missing link would be a clean way of getting Excel data into a format that could be read by my D3 scripts without needing custom macros, exporting to Excel's flaky CSV format and a manual reload at the end.

Writing the graph code is the FUN bit.
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I think the key point is the effienctly compute in the defintion. It seems that the black box property means C() and an oracle version of A() must be completely indistinguishable, including things like runtime and memory usage.

The weaker obfuscator has no guarantee about that.
Don't you think that the division between rich and poor has historically been worse than it is today? I can't imagine that the early[edit] 1900's, characterized by horrendous labor practices that ultimately brought on the labor movement, were of a society with a more narrow division of rich and poor than of today. I have unsuccessfully looked for a reference to compare today's middle class to those of the early 1900s. Please share if you know of any.
The strategy of using your local ID (and hiding your U.S. status) will work for a little while longer. Google for the acronym "FATCA". Sooner or later your bank will ask you to certify that you have no U.S. connections.

No, the real key to keeping your paperwork simple is to keep the balance in all of your non-U.S. bank accounts below USD 10,000 at all times. The form is TD F 90-22.1.

Your U.S. tax return should be vastly more complicated than a resident's return if you want to avoid double taxation of your income. You will either be attaching Form 2555 (to exclude income from U.S. taxation) or Form 1116 (to claim credit for the taxes you pay in Poland) or both.

If you have a little investment account with some savings in it and you buy mutual funds, you will be filing Form 8621 for each mutual fund you buy.

If you are a startup entrepreneur and you own stock in your company, you will be filing Form 5471.

Seriously, it's a pain factory. I'm glad you have found a simple way of doing things, but for most people the annual cost of doing this paperwork is staggering.
And then there is Joe's (Joe Armstrong) Law of Debugging :)
"All errors will be plus/minus three statements of the place you last changed the program".
Going a step further, you have to wonder if the genetic correlates of IQ (or g) affect survival and health in feral children.
It's not totally clear to me from the website what the service does, how it works, and what benefits it provides. Can you post a more detailed explanation?
I plan on doing so when I get closer to raising money, which will be in a few weeks. I was just doing some preliminary research today and got scared when I thought I'd have to dump all my savings into this, but it's reassuring to know that you guys are around!
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