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>There is not a civil war in Mexico, is it?

Depends on who you ask.

>120,000 (actually 658,000 if proportioned it to Mexican population) people have not died in Mexico in the last 3 years

No, more like 100,000 in eight. What's your threshold?

>3 million (12 million) people have not displaced as refugee in bordering countries either.

http://usopenborders.com/2012/04/160000-mexicans-displaced-i...

edit: I'm not using Mexican figures to say that fabricating evidence in order to invade is wrong - it just is. I'm saying that using the US as a justification is illegitimate. The US has a record of invading countries in order to enrich itself. To say that Turkey is invading for the same reasons that the US invades is to say that Turkey is going to lie to its own people and the world in order to make a resource grab. That's awful, and a lot of people think that Blair and Bush should be in prison for it.
You have no legal right to choose your neighbors in any case.
So it's OK if they can get away with it?
Your comment doesn't apply here. Android was released in 2008 and these emails were written in 2006.

This is not correspondence between companies at war. On the contrary, Apple was leveraging their strategic partnership with Google to block the hires.
I think it's helpful to accurately represent Steve's character. Many of those who love Apple products automatically love Steve. If he wasn't what they thought, it's truthful to reveal it.
I think you're wrong, reddit was tracking those coins and said Gox still controlled them over a week before he announced he'd found them. However I think you're right about accounting being non-existent.
There is an interesting read about lutein and macular degeneration [1] .. might be quackery, but I've started to include kale in my ration. If it does nothing, well it's not unhealthy. But if it helps though it wouldn't be wise to ignore it.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutein#Macular_degeneration
>Adding a bit more context to these emails, a 2008 article from TechCrunch details that Hullot and other members from Apple's Paris engineering team were actually given pink slips.

So he was not okay with Google hiring former engineers Apple let go. Unbelieveable.
Growth > everything is something that just came up in a conversation I had with a VC-backed startup. My employer is bootstrapped, and I have both EBITDA and YoY growth goals. The startup told me that they essentially ignore acquisition cost. It made me incredibly jealous, since I've been driving growth with positive EBITDA for two years, and I am salivating over what I could do with a good product and no EBITDA constraints.
Would it be OK if I didn't hire someone because they supported gay marriage?
Not necessarily (because the conflict is not black and white), just that "the west" (if you include Qatar, Saudi Arabia[0], Israel, etc…) and "the east" all have interests in the region and have manipulated the conflict on multiple levels regardless of environment before Syria went "hot". Just like everywhere else in the world where someone is trying to make a buck…

Some of those interests have been well stated by the CFR[1] and RAND years…

Besides, "the west" didn't step into Iraq until the beginning of the 90's (and even then didn't dispose him until the 00's) while Saddam who was being bankrolled by the west was doing their bidding as well as torturing and murdering tens of thousands of people in the 80's… and even now, thousands more continue to die in northern Iraq and I don't hear people parroting that around, so lets not try to evoke the knee jerk emotions and remember all "sides" have blood on their hands in pursuit of their self interests…

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/31/us-syria-crisis-sa...
[1] http://www.cfr.org/qatar/tiny-qatars-big-plans-may-change-mi...
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> you can still feel pretty safe with 0 confirmations if you're monitoring the
> bitcoin network for double-spend attempts over the average network propagation time

The above is much easier said than done. First, you're assuming you can have a good enough coverage of the network which is hard to assess. You need to do a constant topology analysis to see how well-connected you are. Second, you need to ask a chosen set of peers for all the transactions they have in their pool. And wait until they all reply. Third, you need to be pretty good at normalizing against malleability on all those transactions.

After doing all of this, the scheme is still not bulletproof. The blockchain exists for a reason.
You are assuming that the lines of sight of each of the arrays are parallel with one another, so that their separation on the ground is the same as the separation of the arrays on the satellite. If they are at an angle to one another, the separation of these lines at the surface will be different from (and possibly in a different order than) the separation of the arrays. It is the surface separation, divided by the speed of the satellite, that determines the time between images of the same point on the surface by different arrays.

If the arrays all share the same lens, that would cause this effect.
The high 6 figure salaries for entry level positions should be reserved for the finance industry, where real value is generated.
so case and point, metro is a pretty cool in function but lacks the apps to make it truly useful... So maybe the company trying to push it should make some. also you cited a link to a 404 page.... and additionally only someone not on windows 8 would believe a statistic like that its not possible to use many of the features of the OS without going into the metro interface... I am hoping that maybe your quote is that "60% of windows 8 machines launch metro apps less than once a day" but that seems like a statistic without a method of measure...
As suggested, I'd change "Delete it" to just "Delete", might seem minor, but it's less to read and the word "it" doesn't add any information the user didn't already have...
The problem is not just wages in the valley, for example the people on this article were in france.

And not only people that work in companies of the valley, for example, Google Brazil can pay here less than they pay in the valley, and other companies here end paying less than google pay, the result for example, is me. (I get 16k USD year, and I earn more than the average programmer here).
I think you're gravely underestimating the effects of propaganda and herd thinking. Significant parts of the US populace appear the seriously believe - despite undisrupted internet access - that evolution is a lie, the world has been created 4000 years ago etc. And that's without a state-sponsored actor trying to influence people.

Unfettered access to information does not mean people will access, accept, understand, and use that information. If you have a massive state-run media monopoly, you're able to manipulate people in remarkable ways.
If my boss paid money to a political cause against mix-marriages, but inside of work took no action to discriminate against people who were in mixed marriages, I'd think he was an asshat, and express such opinion, but not tie it to work any more than he was.

Of course, I don't need to feel threatened by people disagreeing with life choices I've made just because they don't like them, nor do I need to retaliate against people having different views. I can act like a professional at work while expressing my dissent in the marketplace of ideas.

I don't think Mozilla employees are wrong to say he's wrong on Twitter - I think they're wrong to link it to workplace politics sans any demonstration of him doing so.
Maybe. I'm know very little about Japanese culture but based on what I heard recently from that podcast, the statics they mentioned regarding home maintenance contradict your statement. Or maybe there are hundreds of companies but the reforms only touch a small fraction of total structures and those structures are non-residential...
The reaction is disproportionate to his contribution, though. His donation was quite small, and at no point did he use his status as a public figure to speak out in favor of Prop 8.

What he did was wrong, but it was not enough for us to prop him up as a sacrificial lamb in the name of equality. It would serve no common good, bringing us no closer to repealing the law, but could lead to consequences for Brendan far worse than any well-meaning blogger could conceivably intend.

Let us instead work to change his moral stance, whether by argument or by example. If tomorrow Brendan Eich were to say - and genuinely believe - that marriage is just as much a right for gays as it is for heterosexuals, then that would be a victory far sweeter than punishing him for having once believed wrongly.
No evidence of this, fraudsters routinely go quite after being caught; this isn't unusual behavior. There's simply no cause for speculating a gag order.
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Hello,
Thanks for commenting.
The C++ to Ruby on Rails was just a joke. Something to make an example.
Maybe I didn't explained myself well. What I wanted to say was that what you should do must align to your company, product or team goal.
Thanks again for the comment.
Just to add to this point: There are regional elections in Turkey on Sunday and the ruling party is expected to receive a serious blow. One of the rumours has always been that this government could even risk going to war rather than losing power. Well... now we have proof that it is the case.
Let this be a tale of warning.

In February of 2011 I was a 28 year old, healthy (perfect vision, etc) software developer working for a small software company. I was working on some cool stuff, was getting the extra responsibilities I wanted and putting in at least 10 hour days every day. I was learning, and hacking and building at an awesome pace.

Until, like a switch, my eyes dried up and I could barely keep them open. Literally in the span of an hour or so I was happily hacking away to driving myself home opening one eye at a time. Since then it's been more of the same. Avoiding bad lighting, no more TV, limited computer use.

I've seen 3 Opthamologists, some name brand ones, some research clinics. They all tell me I have Blepharitis, which I disagree with (which I know sounds crazy). I wake up with tired, dry eyes and it's a battle all day long. I've tried lots of things, low light, low contrast, fish oil pills, antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, cold compresses, hot compresses, drops of all kinds, special computer glasses, restasis, books, meditation, etc.

To be honest, it's been hell. I worry about my future career and it's negatively affected relationships. It's gotten somewhat better, but it is still a constant discomfort. I just try to keep my eyes relaxed, eye drops nearby, and massage them frequently.

So, give your eyes a break once in a while and be more mindful of them. I bet if I listened to my body at the time it would have told me my eyes were strained and I should give it a break.

If anyone else suffers similarly, please reach out would really appreciate chatting with people in similar situations.
Isn't it obvious that this is related to the culture of silency around future products at Apple?

He wouldn't want Google to know "hey, we're making a new thing called the iPad/whatever and it's like so and so".
We used to kick chronic chargebackers out of PayPal and I would assume that still the case to some extent.
What did you do when you found out?
I kind of think the high cost of living thing is not that relevant here. The cost of living is high because the people who live there make a lot of money. If they made more money the Valley wouldn't be more affordable for them. It would just be more expensive.
Will a $10,000 Bitcoin Help or Hurt Transactions?
The way I do it is try to envision the dumbest, most impatient, penny-pinching DICK HEAD out there possible, and make him happy.

Any of the following statements destroy customer experience:
- "The customer should understand that at this point..."
- "The customer already did X, so its clear that Y..."
- "Waiting 20 seconds isn't that unreasonable."
- "Its in the terms and conditions so we are covered."
- "What do they expect? We can't message that perfectly every time."

Don't. Fucking. Compromise. Make the ass holes happy. You will have surpassed everyone else's expectations by miles.
I only use Photoshop to slice the web site designs my coworkers send me.
I would have switched to GIMP a long time ago if they all used it, too. GIMP doesn't read their PSD files very well.
I know it's not a huge deal, but I was always impressed they offered Linux for Azure.
What do you guys think of the changes to Humble Bundle in the last year? They have a lot of additions, with not only occasional bundles, but now weekly sales, and their store. Do you think it's for the best, offering more sales and deals, or for the worst, making it too confusing to follow?
Does anyone know what the following software is:

Just use "triscull/triskill." @00:31:49

He mentions it a couple of times, I finally decided to look it up after the reference at 31:49.
For those who don't have journal access, here's the part that you're probably most interested in: http://imgur.com/xzNwUTL

The left column is the original image. Next to it is a non-neural PCA/Eigenface reconstruction. Next to that are the reconstructions from a variety of brain regions.
Microsoft won’t allow Xbox One and PC Cross-platform play
> It's not made out of thin air. It's not made from a diploma. It's not made from an acceptance letter. It's made by You.

You couldn't have said it better. Nothing motivates me more than realizing that if I don't do something I care about myself, it won't happen.
Is there a breakdown on YC accepted companies by product stage? How many companies were accepted that were already deployed, making money, and growing vs brand new ideas not yet developed? How many companies with significant month-over-month growth are ever rejected?

From the articles I see lately, it seems like there has been a pretty big shift at YC to help companies go from $1MM to $500MM rather than $0 to $1MM. Everything appears to be about pre-existing growth now.
I doubt it. IANAL, but it must depend on how much money you lost.
A couple of things irk me about this article, but that could simply be due to the incredible vagueness.

>"He paused another moment and then said, “I know that’s not your plan because it can’t be done. What is your real plan?”

He told us he wanted to see a new version the very next day. The request didn’t seem to make much sense. In fact, to this day I’m not sure what the product will be used for—but we dropped everything else we were working on and scrambled to get the demo done in time."

So the author worked (presumably quite hard) on something, received dismissive feedback that didn't make any sense, didn't question any of it, scrambled to re-implement on an uninformed guess for the next day then (surprise) got slapped around again.

That honestly sounds more like a loyalty/submissiveness test of some sort than anything else.

Ideally, that meeting was a great opportunity to challenge the man and earn some respect from him or possibly lose some for him depending on how it plays out.

>"He wasn’t thinking about the feature; he was thinking about the customer experience."

What is wrong in the culture / education of engineering that people have to be taught this after they start working?
How easy/difficult would it be to assemble and analyze the full set of transactions going back to mt gox's start, assuming we know what we're looking for and can just sift through looking for those, as the researchers did?
meh sorry - I mean: working ASP.NET mono ecommerce (no, not aspDotNetStorefront - ASP.NET MVC app on green field). I started when Mono was in Novell's hands and hoped they will push harder for C#/Web/Linux but it didn't happen and now Xamarin is interested solely in mobile so it's even less reasonable to use Mono for web on Linux these days. Don't get me wrong I admire Mono guys but Monodevelop (even recent versions) is just not IntelliJ level IDE and Java with it is not so bad (especially Java8). Maybe I would go with ROR or Python but it's SPA (Dart on client side) so Java is just webservice (Dropwizard makes it frictionless)
Unlike Islamist terror groups' views on secular Turkey, the mass murdering cartels have no particular interest in US regime change. That said US military units can and frequently do carpet bomb parts of Latin America with herbicides as part of the War on Drugs, so it's a stone cold certainty that the US military has discussed strategies for targeting Mexican cartels and what level of provocation/support would be needed to prompt direct military involvement.

If US politicians were publicly stating willingness to intervene militarily in Mexico to protect a purely symbolic target, as appears to be the case here (link [5] above) I'd expect that behind closed doors leaders would be discussing what would be necessary to win international support, and sceptics would be expressing similar cynicism about whether the talking tough was really more about domestic politics.
This is slightly off-topic, but I think many of the comments on this thread would be enlightened by a little reminder: proper names were always translated whenever you crossed a language border well into the 20th century. Eleanor of Aquitaine was "Aliénor" in Bordeaux and "Eléonore" in Paris. Only with the gradual bureaucratisation of daily life in Europe did this start to change. In some conservative cultural settings, it still holds true: even today Prince Charles is called "Carlos" in Spain or Portugal. Living in France, I much rather have people pronounce the French variant of my name, purely because it flows better and even sounds closer to the native version than their attempts at reading a foreign ortograph. I am always surprised with how punctilious people from the Americas are with the about spellings and variants of their names, although I understand where they're coming from. In my head, John and Giovanni are still the same name, and any made up variants are just misspellings.
Does anyone know what kind of IRRs a16z is seeing in previous funds?

The amount of cash available to startups right now is breathtaking.
The returns for top notch VC firms like a16z and the returns for VC as a whole are like a difference in kind.
Lower prices due to decreased risk on the merchants. If it's better for merchants, it's better for consumers too.
In that case I am glad it is not covered in literature. Patenting algorithms is bad.
Google acquired Android Inc. in 2005: http://www.webcitation.org/5wk7sIvVb

So it was before the shape of Google's mobile ambitions became clear, but the acquisition made it pretty obvious that Google had some kind of mobile ambitions.
This isn't about being intimidated by Jobs, it's about colluding to defeat an iterated prisoner's dilemma that lies at the heart of the value proposition of free market economics. They are capable of thinking more than one move ahead.

Jobs's wrath was a tiny concern next to the prospect of losing tens or hundreds of millions a year to engineers that could suddenly start playing big companies off one another.
Commission proposes new organic farming rules
Thanks for posting that. I count myself as enormously skeptical of TFA research, but that paper appears to be quite good. I may need to re-evaluate my biases.

On the other hand, this is presented as in the press release as mind reading, but the reality is more like trying design something similar to a cochlear implant.
At the same time, we're talking about a class of even more affluent people screwing engineers out of money. If that's what it looks like near the top, how does that play out down the pyramid? Not to mention, that this is an affront to free mobility of labor. Even if this is a "top 1% of the first world" problem, I do think it's worth taking a principled stand.
Days like today are why you keep fighting
Exactly like regular exercise. :)

We're presuming here actual corneal deformation which muscles can modify (that's why some squint to see better), and not any of other potential vision-related issues.
>Yes, that was his right, and no one has ever said differently. But freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences in the realm of public opinion.

Those consequences shouldn't include "losing your job" or "being treated differently at work", else there's no freedom of speech.

How would LGBT community liked it they could lose their jobs for being LGBT?
it speaks to the amazing power of marketing. People are always blown away when they find out that apple has less than a 10% market share and that their market share has actually gone down over the last 10 years.
I see what you're trying to say, but money is often not the issue - it's the connections and expertise that are so valuable. In my humble, and admittedly limited, opinion the network and community and shared experience/expertise that YC brought far outweighed any million dollar investment we could have taken (and no investor would have even considered giving us millions).

We ended up raising millions (about $22M in the last year), and I don't know if it would have been possible without YC. All our investors and intros came through the network we built while in the program.

Hope that makes sense, of course this is all my opinion and you can evaluate and come to your own conclusion - I just wanted to share my experience and perspective!
He did not release the Analytics code as part of the plugin, it was only placed on his demo site. MLB.com copied code from the demo site instead of downloading the plugin itself.
Whatever goes up, that’s what we do
Wutang Clan will produce and sell single copy of new album
Really? Hmm, do you have any links I could look at? I thought they'd found some other large quantity of coins, but not the ones that have remained inactive since 2011 (the ones Mt. Gox said they recently found).

Thanks for the info!
He did not. It was only placed on his demo site and the guys at MLB just copied that site's code instead of using the released plugin.
It devalues games to an extent (you can get it for cheap so why pay >$10 at launch?) but on the ther hand I am sure there are a lot of devs on it that would have otherwise never gotten the same amount of exposure/money.
> Church-Turing Thesis all over again

I've heard it referred to as the Church–Turing–Deutsch principle [1], since Deutsch talked about the physical version of it.

I think it's interesting that the assumption that nature is computable comes so naturally, even though as far as I can tell it's entirely unclear whether it is or not. In particular, Deutsch points out that if the universe needs reals that includes a whole bunch of noncomputable numbers, and in fact our favorite model of physics for a significant chunk of history ('classical physics') did require reals and so was noncomputable.

I also tend to assume that nature is computable, but I don't think these assertions have really "held up for a damn long time".

As well as the fact that we managed with not much of a model followed by a noncomputable one for most of history, it seems to me that there might be a bias towards finding computable models over noncomputable models, which makes any reasoning based on observing that we've found a bunch of computable models suspect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church-Turing-Deutsch_principl...
>The first amendment does not guarantee freedom from consequences

It should. Freedom of speech without freedom from consequences is meaningless. If you have to self-censor yourelf because you might lose your job or whatever, then there's no freedom of speech.
Announcing the Connectivity Lab at Facebook
I can't comment on the changes to the bundle itself but I have seen and used a number of games that use it as a storefront and it seems to work well. The only thing missing would be some kind of integration with some kind of management system like steam or desura.