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Only if Mr. Obama would stay out of education market half the problems would get solved automatically.

Few NBA players make million dollars a year. But that does not mean if government provides cheaper loans for basketball training it would produce more millionaires or even increase overall quality living.

If government meddles in education, forces banks to give cheaper loans it only means one thing. A big "Student Loan Bubble".
The author is suffering from unreciprocated empathy.

After a while of noticing the shades of grey, you come to realise that those at the extremes see things as purely bivalent. i.e by their definition if they're 'white' and your white has the merest hint of black in it, you're against them Q.E.D.

Getting involved leads to a lose-lose self-reinforcing situation. Even opining whilst on one's own turn will get you dragged in if you're noticed by one of the extremists.
Could this just be a database querying problem, and maybe no items were actually shipped as a result?
>I'd imagine it would capture an audience instead of marathoners.

You may be right about capturing an audience, I just wouldn't be one of them.

I like Netflix original content because most of what I want to watch isn't released on an irritating once-a-week model.

Take shows that rely on cliffhangers for example, for shows that use cliffhangers I find myself always waiting until the end of the season before I begin watching any of the episodes.

I'm also a little bit off-put by the idea of a 'captive' audience. Can't I just enjoy the show on my own terms? People like me always will anyway.
Without the paranoid schizophrenia.
Holographic movies require a high bandwidth and a lot of storage space (recorded/pre-rendered).

Current holographic displays require a movie-source for every few-point. And to make it convincing for a small POV (e.g. 19" 4:3 holographic monitor) you need at least 8 few-points, for a 360° next-gen holographic display you would many terrabytes of data for one movie (and a high bandwidth to stream the data to the display). Depending on the holographic technology you need additonally a very high resolution in contrast to the visual output. If you use a common HD resolution the current visible pixel range is about 640x480 - at least some expensive research displays I used in 2011.
memristors, like core memory, are destructively read but are they really, with HP implementation - which is not a "real" memristor? In the video presentation [1] they show that they change the state of the memristor using very short "high" voltage impulses, and then measure its resistance using lower voltages that do not make the oxygen vacancies migrate - and thus do not change the state, if I understood that correctly.

If they can use these low voltages (and low currents) to effectively read the state without altering it, they get incredibly simplified management of the memory, and incredibly low power read operations, which would justify their assertion that their memristors can be packed in 3d without thermal problems.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY
Anyway, anyone going down this line really needs to speak to an accountant, yada yada yada.

For consultants/freelancers/contractors - dividends can be fine, if you can mitigate your exposure to IR35 (typically a bigger issue for contractors). Groups such as the PCG can really help here, but really the key thing is ensuring that any contract can't be thought of as disguised employment (control, substitutability and mutuality of obligation being the keywords) - speak to a Lawyer or a specialist accountant for advice or other clued up contractors for advice.

The tax position on dividends is also a bit more subtle than above; if your total personal income is less than the £32k (minus allowances), then you're going to get the dividend tax credit back so the div is tax free. Granted the company is paying corp tax at 20% on all profits; but also it gives you options to defer company income becoming personal income, building up the company's reserves. As I understand it, you can wind up the company and get entrepreneurs relief which is also a worthwhile target for consultancies.
AWS is a ecosystem.

While I agree you point that on the lower end Amazon will lose some of its hold to the more cost-effective solution providers, IMHO, it is not facing that much pressure from GAE/GCE, for the reason that the latter is yet to provide a list of service that is as comprehensive AWS's.

https://cloud.google.com/products/
http://aws.amazon.com/

My previous project is about a data warehouse solution using Amazon Redshift. The whole stack is host on AWS: S3 for logs, EMR for ETL then Redshift for ingestion, job flow orchestrated using DataPipeline. One stand solution, work seamlessly. It really makes me appreciate the vastness and integration of AWS as a whole.
And yet in much of Europe (or at least where I'm from), colleges where you pay tuition are considered substandard whereas colleges without tuition are considered high quality.

Mostly to do with the expectation that if you pay tuition they will make bloody certain you get that degree, whereas colleges without tuition fail some 50% of their students.

Hell, Universities don't even want to accept tuition-based colleges under their umbrella because the quality just isn't there.
VB6 won't die because it fills a large gap for people who just want to get something functional done without all the fuss of presentation layers, class hierarchies, and view abstractions that we're all somehow stuck with. If you want a button that does something, you literally click the button tool, draw it, then double click the button and write the code. No connecting outlets to action methods, no binding anything.

> If it takes more than 10 minutes it can't be done

is a little harsh, but sometimes you just want to get something done in 10 minutes.
And in Australia to a far lesser degree, Coinjar. I think VC-backed business in the Bitcoin space will be what eventually drives it forward, short of an amazing new concept that people can't resist such as social network, gambling, whatever.

We started with the speculation, then these companies will keep pressing business to support Bitcoin and then potentially it reaches a tipping point and has its own momentum.
Yes, and as jmpe said they have quite a few SoCs without NEON (I think basically everything apart from ARMADA 1500 plus). They seem to be targeting devices like smart TVs and STBs nowadays, so I guess it's not a big deal.
This sounds like a split-brain disaster waiting to happen, when a network partition between the two load balancers makes both think that the other one is down.
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It means something like this has never done before, and so HP would be the first to develop the software to do this!
Threads... Native Client has threads. Javascript does not. I'm writing a scheduler for Emscripten that supports pthreads but it's crazy because it's still single threaded and doesn't look like readable javascript like it used to output. Bending over backwards. ...and don't get me started on web workers.
I'm in Tokyo and it was definitely down for me and now it's down again.
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Tried it on Chrome/Linux. Audio appears to be played through a flash plugin (noted since I have "click to enable plugins" set). Checking the debugger, the service seems to use HTTP Live Streaming/m3u8 with 10-second, 400k mp2ts chunks.

Digging a touch further, chunks are apparently encoded to 256-kbps AAC, and their URLs can be captured and replayed for up to an hour. Reconstituting tracks, then, is as simple as catting all the chunks together and running them through libav.

I'm sure there are much easier ways to make unauthorized copies of music, but this actually seems fairly unprotected, though obviously not 'open', since it's using a flash-based player.
Anybody knows if this is going to be available in the UK?
Because you're running a webserver which can crash or otherwise fall over to serve static content when you could be running a literally zero-maintenance alternative.
Just a note that Amazon have been known to ban accounts if you action too many returns. The bans are very rare, but they are for life and across all Amazon properties. Hit up Google for more.
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Reminds me about the end of Aza Raskin's Keynote for the John Seely Brown Symposium at University of Michigan (@40:13 is the relevant bit about Disneyland and "Remember the Magic", [edit along with the section of peak-end-memory]):

https://vimeo.com/15886853#t=765

http://vimeo.com/15886853#t=2413
I work other hours too. On average 36-40 hours a week. Other hours are less lucrative.
Interesting.

I'd always assumed Netflix required that user behavior on their end to avoid serving content that wasn't actively being consumed so I'm surprised to find that it's a licensor requirement.
This just seems bizarre to me. How can state funded schools compete for good professors with rich private schools?
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I would love to know when this "why"-titles fashion finaly ends.
I'm completely new to both Postgres-XC and Postgres-XL, and just started looking at the documentation. It seems that the main structures of the two are similar, except some features implemented in Postgres-XL like allowing node-to-node data transfer.

It is natural, because they've just forked the project. But I think if there are some gotchas in the original project, Postgres-XL would also expose similar problems. What have been your main concerns using Postgres-XC? Any design issues?
I was running a similar system. What solution would you propose?
Professors in state funded schools get enough free time to run businesses on the side. They also get access to grant money. Also there's the prestige involved with being part of a University with 100+ years of tradition versus a college with 20 years of tradition at best.
How is it different from D3's force layout + DOM manipulation? Looks very, very similar to me.
I worked on a runtime assembler based on C++ that worked like this. The nice thing is you could dynamically generate code from C++. Which made hardware shader languages run at an acceptable speed on CPUs. Because rather than have branches in your code to support thousands of possible combinations of inputs, you would generate the exact code needed for that data and function.

Strangely I still sometimes use some of these assembler techniques in JavaScript to great effect. Want to loop faster? Use something like duffs device. Have lots of ifs/elses in a loop? Parse it out, and make specific code for the inputs at runtime. Not often, but sometimes it's been helpful to improve things.
One fun idea for you is to theme it as an IDE and code rather than a classic terminal text adventure?

I tried it for an LD a while back but http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Th... didn't really get the text itself to look like code from a squint test, nor get syntax completion finished in time.
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When I wrote email tracking software about 7 years ago, I dropped the 1x1 pixel, because of spam filters tripping over them. I just used any image in the email to track you and assigned it an unique URL. How do you propose catching that one?
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Perhaps facing a crisis is what low-quality colleges need. The current system is a failure. It doesn't make sense that in an age where so many top-end study materials are available so ubiquitously, easily, and much cheaper than ever (even freely!), getting a diploma has become such an onerous undertaking, and that the accompanying tuition is proving to be increasingly inadequate to prepare its graduates for a cutthroat job market.

Throwing more money at the problem isn't going to solve anything when we don't even know what the hell the system is doing with all the cash funnelled into it in the first place.
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Yes - I'm aware about what this is about. From the point of view of a developer, all demos show something that is missing in today's tools.

To compare it to Apple ][ is a bit too stretched. Lisp machines were developer machines. Machines for professionals in computing technology. We don't have that today. For example, what is the equivalent package or distro that transforms your PC in a "developer machine". You don't have anything like that. All you can do is stitch together some emacs/vi/gdb whatever and search some blogs when you're stuck. And beyond that you are not able to go and fix some IDE bugs _live_.

Today we're missing a machine for professional programmer.
I'm also Dyslexic and I've also found Python is great. I think the large amount of intuitively named built-in functions really helps. Funnily I've also found syntactical whitespace to be very helpful, having curly brackets everywhere makes everything harder for me to read.
Limited selection like Prime Instant Video, but at least it's available on Android (although the app doesn't seem to support the new service yet and is butt-ugly). On a side note, I don't really get why Amazon is twisting our arms and doesn't offer Instant Video on Android outside of Google TV and Kindle Fire. I care less about their free videos, but I've purchased digital content and I'm not able to watch it on my Android tablet. Do they really think they can make me buy Kindle Fire just for that?
The aesthetics does not make for easy reading. Never was interested in text adventures in the first place but the blurriness made me quit the game faster than I would have.
during my free time I've been playing around with julia, entered (and failed) at a bioinformatics contest (I have zero bioinformatics background), doing a bit of toddling around with ML, algorithmic trading, and I'm doing a lot of behind the scenes stuff on my nonprofit.

Shortly, I'm going to be filming a web series called "sciencerides", where I take rides with and interview science and math folk. Although I fully intend to interview grad students, postdocs and undergrads in addition to "more well know scientists", I've already got a commitment from Frank Tangherlini, who is a noted physicist and inventor of the "Tangherlini transforms" which are a take on the Lorentz transformations but presuming the speed of light might be anisotropic. I think it is likely, I will be able to interview Hamilton Smith, the discoverer of restriction enzymes, and Clyde Hutchison, inventor of site-directed mutagenesis. I'm also going to try to interview Kristen Baldwin, who is the first scientist to clone mice from adult neurons, Floyd Romesburg, who made the first organism that replicated with nonstandard DNA bases, and Douglas Prasher, who is the unsung hero of flourescent proteins.

Actually to me the most important interview that I'm going to do, however, is one that I have for sure lined up, which is by a mathematics teacher who has had impressive success teaching underprivileged, at-risk middle school students and completely turned around their performance in mathematics.
> I frequently upvote people who are unfairly being beaten up

Me to, and I hope it's true of most users here.
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Isn't the classical also cheaper to license?
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Hmm that occurred to me to but I also do the same thing with whole sentences. If I'm reading aloud and read 'As he ran he noticed a storm brewing', I'd often say 'A storm brewed as he ran'. Even if someone pointed my mistake out and read it aloud to me in my head I'd hear my version.
Same with Japan. The national universities are much cheaper than private universities, and are held in much higher regard.

#1~6 are all national universities, and 8 out of the top 10 are national.

http://www.uscollegeranking.org/japan/top-japanese-universit...
I'd put a call to action right below this text to potentially get more sign ups. To be honest though I would like to see what it is before signing up. I can't really tell what I can do on the site from the landing page.
Have you ever used the Dreamplug? I'm still hanging onto mine but it sounds like the Mirabox might be a suitable upgrade. How's the kernel support? How's uBoot? (On the Dreamplug, you have to upgrade uBoot via JTAG once you get past a certain kernel version)
History and talk pages can be very important.

When I saw that the film Defiance was based on a interesting-sounding real set of events, I looked at them on Wikipedia. The history and talk pages had an ongoing edit war with a sizable number of commentators who appeared to feel that the Bielskis should be treated as criminals and murderers rather than fêted as heroes, due to their killing of local Nazi sympathisers.

If you just stuck to the hashed-out Wikipedia page that was current, you'd be completely oblivious to the whole controversy.
Maybe they will introduce Amazon Second, which for $5.99/mo will offer larger streaming catalog. :)
Slightly sad to see that "ask man about emacs" didn't work. I was pretty amused by the "Don't know anything about that" when queried about "open source", though.

"look at tunnel" should work after opening the tunnel.

I love the background changes.

Why does "get container" not work? The response didn't give a reason.

"Welcome to the developer console; you were kind of expected." made me laugh.

...why can I deploy the beard?

The music at the end was unexpected.
in what year? Multiply 1990's money by 3x...for $ today.
Thanks for your feedback. We are working on the pitch on our website. Clealry if this is the message then we are surely not on track.

Just to clarify, tool is meant for sharing awesome articles with your team. It is a sidebar which lets you share or read the links your team is sharing or participate in any discussions without switching tabs.
I'm no expert, but I think the main idea is to have an odd number of nodes plus a consensus protocol like Paxos or Raft to figure out who's actually alive.
If a node finds itself in a split minority, it won't become a master.
This doesn't work when you have only two nodes, as there's no minority after the split, both sides are equal.
Building this from scratch is extremely difficult and error-prone, so people usually use systems like ZooKeeper.
Epic! When can we play? You collecting emails yet?
So someone stole all my Bitcoins from Coinbase, what to do?
Someone has emptied my Coinbase account. Have had the same password for some different online services like Ebay, Coinbase, Paypal, Kickstarter. Maybe one of their breaches has given someone access to my account.

It wasn't a fortune but would have given me a couple of nights in Paris (now that Expedia takes bitcoin, http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/06/11/expedia-starts-accepting-bitcoin-for-hotel-bookings/)

Has anyone any idea how to get the coins back?

Yes I was dumb and now changed my passwords to unique passwords for each service and enabled 2 factor login for Coinbase.
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> It has a retro pixel graphics aesthetic

Something like Pixel Dungeon[1] ? I love this game btw. So it isn't as free and open as a traditional rogue like, but it's perfect for a touch interface

[1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.watabou.pi...
I love CloudFormation, but, unfortunately, it's much neglected, doesn't support latest features, and is completely missing major services. The language is so primitive, I had to write custom extensions that compiles to their format. Another rarely used, but very power service is SWF - I bet CF is built entirely on top of it.
This looks great. I've been looking for an offline alternative to Evernote for a while now. Are there any other decent Mac apps I should consider?
One of the co-founders here. I must say, you are the first one to say that the tests are too easy. A significant number of our customers said just the opposite, that tests were on the hard side. That's not to say that you are wrong but since we're aiming for the mass market, I'll add your vote to the too-easy side and see what the stats will say at the end.

Thanks for the feedback.
Where did you get the 20 million figure from? It seems very low. I mean, there are millions of apps on the Apple AppStore. Surely, after decades of creation, there must be tens of millions of albums, and an order of magnitude more songs?
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In Germany the "rich" private schools are almost exclusively business schools. So it's only an option for you, if you're a professor of economics or finance, not if you're a physicist or a philosopher.

Well, I think there is one highly esteemed journalism school (not a university, but run by large media companies) and a pretty good law school.

(Interestingly enough all those "rich" private business schools here fail after a few years because they run out of money -- not without taking quite a bit of taxpayer's money trying to save them.)
"This is a very open space" - then why is it locked to one legacy scripting language of some sort of crappy transpilation they themselves don't use? It is effectively closed for new languages.
The private schools don't care about having good academics, just about making money. Good professors want to be associated with the trusted and traditional publicly funded universities.
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Isn't anyone interested in owning their music anymore? Have we all become such casual consumers of music that the concept of building a permanent library of music they like is unnecessary?

I will never understand the appeal of subscription music services.
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It was created as very simple and easy to follow investment strategy by Harry Browne who had many years experience in the financial industry. It is meant to protect your wealth first and grow it with the market. No more, no less.

Also, Harry Browne's #1 rule of investing is:

Your career provides your wealth

Stick all (or at least most of it) in the Permanent Portfolio, forget about it and focus on your work.
It's the normal "China is evil" FUD.

http://www.paragon-re.com/Home_Buyer_Seller_Dynamics_in_San_...

Articles that claim that Chinese are buying a significant portion of homes tend to conflate immigrants / people of Asian descent with foreign investors, and then complain about new wealth in China.
You're not alone. My blood congeals at the idea that access to the music I love is somehow restricted by a third party with a different agenda to mine. I have zero interest in a third party streaming service. Now, if I could install my very own self-hosted Spotify-alike, stick all my music on there, and stream it to my devices with a smooth wireless connection that works even when I'm in tunnels, then you've got me as a streaming music customer.
The disk is the physical object (noun) though. While 'save' isn't tangible, what you are saving to (a disk somewhere) is, which makes it real and easy to understand. When floppy disks truly disappear the icon will have to change. 'Share' might be about people but there's 1000 ways to interact with people, so you need to actually describe better what you are sending to people (a link, permanent access, everything you own, or what?).
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