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This reminds me a story of an old composer, John Cage.

He's notorious for some really bizarre performance. For instance, he once sat for four minutes in front of an enormous crowd only to stand up and leave before making any sounds at all. This action, as he intended, took advantage of peoples' expectation to listen while in the concert hall. It built up a sense of anxiety, as he walked in, sat at the organ, and flipped pages atop the music stand. But then, suddenly, there was silence. And those with open ears were forced to hear minute sounds in the room, rather than the presupposed "music".

On another occasion, he composed what ideally would cause expert musicians to sound amateurish - wretched, actually. But after many trials with different orchestral branches, he became overwhelmed with failure. These people, having been trained for excellence, literally could not play nonsense. Any sheet music you'd give them would result in reasonably coherent output.

Like the smart people of this article, these musicians rationalized Cage's music, no matter how nonsensical. They could not play bad music.
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> So your opinion is that Apple should invest finite resources in a company which isn't dedicating all their resources to building the best iOS app they can ?

I think the policy of only catering to shops that are 100% developing on the Apple platforms is a terrible strategic mistake, especially since they are now #2 in this market and fast losing market share.

Also, catering to exclusives doesn't guarantee that you only get great apps in your store. Actually, it guarantees nothing except for acrimony from developers and the feeling that Apple is a fickle partner that can slam the door on them at any time.

The best way to regain market share is not to accelerate insulation but to woo companies developing on Android back by convincing them that iOS is a superior platform to develop for. As it is, all they are doing is convincing more and more developers that in doubt, they should develop for Android first and iOS second.
You're making the assumption that the allegations are 100% truthful in the first place.
The NFL is not a great example as they have a specific exemption that Congress wrote into the law just for them.
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That can be encoded in transactions easily.
Orkut did take off when it was launched in 2004. It just wasn't as good as Facebook. When Facebook opened up to users outside the education market, Orkut users switched.
TIL it's a bad idea to date your direct report or your boss.
> "We unequivocally condemn these messages," the spokesman said, "but believe that Ms. Wolfe’s allegations with respect to Tinder and its management are unfounded.”

Uh-huh.
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that wasn't a comparison but an analogy and the meaning is quite clear: you can have strong opinion about topics without direct experience.
In the other article, there was a link to the actual court filing with exhibits. The cofounder was definitely harassing her, unless the text messages were faked or grossly out of context.

You could say that she egged him on and was not exactly the pinnacle of maturity, but harassment is illegal and egging someone on is not.
Pros:
Because Polyfill is who web should be built. It's the best way to develop a web applications. It's future friendly.

It's better to have one file for a component. Example: https://github.com/PolymerLabs/google-map
Where they have everything. CSS, JS and Template in one page.

Cons:
You shouldn't be using it for everything and of course not for the next project.
Google doesn't use it for production.
It makes tons of requests.

Comments:

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Then that's good, no more hearsay nonsense. Let's hope justice is served. The complaint wasn't linked in the original article.
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What is a good alternative to paypal if you run a business ?
The Ping-Pong Theory of Tech-World Sexism
That'd be your straw man burning, actually.
Sorry to hear about that. Thankfully the specs are done now that everything is shipping in Chrome 36.

I hope you'll find some useful web components in the future that you can just drop in to whatever project you're working on and save some time!
It is not necessary to clear dollars through the US, they can be cleared through other financial centers, such as London or Frankfurt. If they had kept all their transactions outside of the US, they would not have been technically subject to US law.

However, they did use US clearing houses, so they're subject.
Google "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act" and you'll see the chief example.
And Linus Torvalds
Would they have kept those jobs (and would those jobs have been as well-paying) if they hadn't been doing those deals?

Having to stop mugging people isn't usually considered part of the punishment for a mugger.
I think the best route is to create shared libraries using Julia and call them from R.
There is a range of possibilities of what might cause a wavefunction collapse, and the constructed strawman is nowhere near that. It would be like if we claimed the speed of light was 3.2e8 +/- 5e7 m/s and someone decided our whole theory was bunk because the speed of light is obviously faster than 100 m/s. Well yeah, it is, but there's no contradiction here.

"if the particle interacts with something in such a way that its position suddenly becomes deducible, then it collapses" would be a theory in the range of possibilities. It would be much more convincing to argue against something like that.
As far as #2 goes, you don't need another instance. You can do it with time-based autoscaling groups. This does present problems of its own, but ones that are not hard to solve.
You could have a goal to be a failure. Perpetual bliss!
Hahaha, I know right. You think this is common sense...yet here we are.
I agree that you should not be tied to any solution that you choose. From what you're describing, it seems as though you'd like the entire backend to be portable. From a BaaS perspective, as you can imagine, that's a bit challenging. What we have done there is to document our APIs well and will shortly give you the ability to export your data as well. What you might be more interested in is our PaaS solution (https://www.catalyze.io/platform-as-a-service/) - that will allow you to use Heroku buildpacks to deploy you service onto our compliant infrastructure = so essentially if it works on Heroku, it will work on the Catalyze PaaS (or vice versa). We're hard at work on this and have a couple customers using it. We hope to have a public release very very shortly.
Polymer and Web Components change everything you know about Web development
US banks have been prosecuted for anti-money laundering failures too. For example, in 2010, Wachovia (now part of Wells Fargo) paid $160m to settle charges relating to anti-money laundering failures. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870405900...

Last year, the Federal Reserve took enforcement action against Citi for poor anti-money laundering controls. http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2013/03/26/fed-hi...
I agree on RStudio. I used ESS for a while, but couldn't in good conscience justify it for new users. So, RStudio became my mantra for new R users, and I've followed suit.

I've wondered what it would take to instrument support for Julia in RStudio. RStudio is open source, but I don't really know how generically it could interface to whatever repl.
If he's the one who can't handle the breakup then shouldn't he be the one to leave? The knee-jerk assumption that _she_ should leave is an example of the implicit sexism that sucks about our industry.
That's a pretty scary thing really when you think about it. Thanks for outlining it. Good job I stick adblock on every machine I ship so these things don't even get seen.
This was a non-issue that has suddenly morphed into a critical problem that requires a solution. If the majority of women aren't interested in tech stuff, then why try to "solve" it?

It's like asking, how can we get women interested in fixing cars? The answer is, why bother? Those who are interested, will tinker with cars and take courses and learn how. Those who aren't, won't.

The author of this Forbes article is very young and obviously idealistic; that's fine, but her proposals won't make a hill of beans difference. Touchy-feely community building might draw in a few shy types, but the vast majority are culturally inclined to different interests.

I was just at an Android development conference which, again, was 90% men. They had a luncheon for "women entrepreneurs" which naturally took place in a much smaller room than the main dining hall.

It's all well and good to try to encourage girls into science and technology, and I'm all for that; I wish my office wasn't 90% male. But you can't legislate these kinds of things, or force people to be interested in something they're not. Probably the best thing is to provide superb science and technology instruction in the early years of K-12, and never discourage anyone from pursuing their interests, then let the chips fall where they may.
Before we all jump on the "he-said-she-said" bandwagon, keep in mind that IAC (Tinder's parent company) has confirmed that Mr. Mateen did send harassing messages to Ms. Wolfe:

"Through that process, it has become clear that Mr. Mateen sent private messages to Ms. Wolfe containing inappropriate content." <http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/06/30/tinder-sexual-...

The rest of the allegations are unproven, but the allegation that Mr. Mateen harassed Ms. Wolfe is, for all intents and purposes, 100% factual. There's no reason to defend this guy.
So that would imply a first-come first-served basis? Meaning, whatever companies gets the court order first gets to control a competitor's assets? That's pretty scary.

I hope this process is sufficiently controlled so as to no provoke a "race to control other's assets" of sorts.
18 U.S. Code S 2423(c): Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct in Foreign Places.

Any United States citizen or alien admitted for permanent residence who travels in foreign commerce or resides, either temporarily or permanently, in a foreign country, and engages in any illicit sexual conduct with another person shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.
When you say stuff like "Ms. Wolfe should have recognized that risk when she went into business with her boyfriend," it's extremely difficult to come to any conclusion other than that you're blaming the victim.

I think it's possible to make the point you made without sounding like you're blaming the victim, but you didn't do it.
Frequentist inference only seems easy
Sounds like a typical bad breakup to me, these two people just happen to work in high profile positions in the Tech world.

Girl finds new man, guy gets angry and lashes out by calling her a whore.(Unfounded) Nothing to see here folks!

Unless you're into this sort of drama...
> Your position is: "We don't know anything about the real world."

This is absolutely not my "position". The word know requires definition, which is a very hard thing to do, and is the subject of the whole of epistemology. All I'm saying is that "know" in the real world and "know" in logic are not -- and can never be -- the same. We cannot "know" something about the physical universe in the same sense that we "know" something to be true in mathematics (but we can certainly know a lot about the physical universe, if only we would define knowledge differently than in math, which is pretty much what every philosophy does). The point I was making is that you can't blindly overlay mathematical concepts on the real world merely because they use similar terminology. Particularly, the definition of "truth" is inevitably different in math and in science, if only because science does not have the concept of the axiom, which is a core principle in the definition of mathematical truth.

You cannot directly apply your notion of truth from logic to the physical universe and vice versa. Even in your examples you're confusing two different notions of truth. We do not know that the earth orbits the sun in the same sense that we know that 2 + 2 = 4. The latter is simply an algebraic axiom of the field of real numbers, while the former is an application of scientific assumptions to observations. We can be content with both types of knowledge, but we cannot equate them. We can treat both as true, but they are not true in the same sense.
It is mentioned in the article - USA California and England
Plus, I've noticed that with some people, their great knowledge and/or intelligence concerning a particular issue, combined with confidence (and maybe a dash of social 'deafness'), can come across as arrogance. Sometimes it took a while to figure out that they were open to correction, and hella smart.

I would've missed out on their insight had I applied a heuristic as simple as "arrogant people aren't smart".
While not everything can be reduced to incontrovertible math-like proofs, I think we -- data scientists, statisticians, software engineers -- could build a world with a lot fewer legitimate arguments.

Imagine a Wikipedia of science, logic, and reasoning. Instead of summarizing consensus, you instead build a vast database of primary facts, data, and then on top of it formalize your assumptions and arguments so that it is plain to see how conclusions follow -- or don't -- from the bare facts and reasonable assumptions. You could build almost math-like proofs, with all arguments and counterarguments categorized and catalogued.

You could build a verifiable consensus. Given two different schools of thought, for instance, two different schools of economics, you could reduce each to the set of assumptions or faulty logic that distinguishes them. Some economists believe one thing to be true, some another, and they argue with one another and some people are convinced and some people aren't. Where does the difference arise? Is there a faulty chain of reasoning underlying one (or both!) of them, or is there a difference in the assumptions each group makes? If so, is one of these assumptions unfounded, or can it be tested and verified so that the assumptions that go into each school can be reconciled along with the conclusions that follow from them?

I think we have an opportunity, not to be smarter or more informed than the experts in their different fields, but to have each argument once, online, crowd-sourced, rather than having the same arguments crop up again and again and again between individual experts arguing with each other. We can bring organization and permanence.
Actually, I'd say the "illusion" option is the simplest and tidiest. It is more likely that we interpret a complicated reality from incomplete information than that reality truly is complicated.
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> Free Software, or was it just Open Source?

These two are synonyms:

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/5-things-we-have-forgot...
So why did the woman get fired? Why didn't the man get fired? Does this seem fair to you?
I was told (source who used work for Google) that Orkut required massive amounts of resources that made it hard to run at scale. And there was no money in it.

This is why I'm a bit surprised that G+ is so bloated, as there is no money in that either....
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Yes exactly, this is one of the lessons we learned early on. The polymer team have build a bunch of elements that actually represent services or models. Their philosophy is that everything can be a web component.

We experimented with this a bit, but quickly found this to be rather worthless, it effectively means you have changed the location of your services from the Javascript namespace to the DOM.

I'm not saying that's terrible, just that it does not have any clear advantage to me, and a clear disadvantage would be that your services have to be accessed through the dom using for example element.getElementById() instead of just accessing them as they are defined on window or however the angular people do it with their fancy dependency injections.

That said, we do pull of some nice tricks that involve a bit of logic through combining components, and we do use web components as controllers. It is a bit like old school ASP.net code behind, but I like it.

edit: I have to be fair, I just remembered the advantage they aim for. When your services and models are also webcomponents, then you can make your dependency on them explicit using html imports, which would be the HTML5 solution for the problem RequireJS solves.
"Harassment is illegal and egging someone on is not."

Isn't that the root issue ?
I doubt that working on small casual programming puzzles is his only use for programming languages. I read his comment as saying that that's merely all he's used Rust for, so far.

Short-term and long-term stability are needed for just about any serious software application or system. They're useful to have even for short scripts that might be reused later on.

And he said he was "terrified" by C++. I explained why he shouldn't be. I'm not sure why you're getting worked up over that.
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We know that we're supposed to be doing sales ourselves. Get away from the keyboard and hit the phones, blogs and emails. We tried it. It just doesn't work for us. It really (really!) doesn't.

Recruiting or finding another more sales-savvy co-founder would be great. But we haven't met anyone (yet). We're bootstrapped, so can't pay a real salary either at this stage. But we do have some budget. And we do realize that sales are super-important for a startup.

Now to the question: Is there a good (or at least not a total disaster) strategy to using freelancers or virtual sales staff on odesk / elance or similar?

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I agree.

But it's pretty strange that control was not given to the corresponding government authority.

They could then have MS work as "consultants". I don't agree either, but at least that would have made some sort of sense. Maybe even better if it wasn't just one company but a panel of several institutions, including IETF for example, or something like that.
avoiding a criminal prosecution is a very big thing. Banks are typically much more eager to pay a massive civil fine rather than a much smaller criminal fine. Having any kind of conviction as a corporation disqualifies a corporation (particularly a bank) from all kinds of things that it's effectively a death sentence. A major example of this was Arthur Andersen -- the criminal conviction for aiding the Enron fraud was enough to kill the business entirely, even though the conviction was later overturned on appeal.
It seems like MCMC is a potentially killer app for Julia. Any thoughts as to how Julia's MCMC facilities compare to, say, something like Stan?
I should have been more specific. I was referring to the text messages. In what light is anything he texted her acceptable? Are you implying that they may be fabricated?
I was looking for Scott Adams' blog post about this topic but didn't find it so I wrote about it.

I believe you will still have a desired state, expect you don't focus on it. Instead of setting goals and measuring yourself to them all the time, you find a process that can increase your chance of your desired outcome and then stop worrying so much about the desired outcome. Many desired outcomes are out of your hands.
Polymer has if (not else yet), repeats loops, functions, and expressions: http://www.polymer-project.org/docs/polymer/expressions.html
Where did I suggest that she leave?

In fact, I agree with you. He should definitely be gone, not her. She seems to enjoy Tinder the app/product/company, and were it not for him, she would still be there.

The reason that is not the case is because there is a systemic lack of HR or proper channel to report this behavior. But that's another discussion entirely. I'm simply saying it can be a bad idea to start/join a company with your significant other. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. But you should realize this is a risk.
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> If you are unsure to which class you belong, then consider the following two statements. (i) The point of solving problems is to understand computation better. (ii) The point of understanding computation is to become better able to solve problems.

Like the original statement in the article, your paraphrasing strikes me as being egg and chicken. I think most mathematicians and hackers would sit on the fence.