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That's not what I had in mind... though it's pretty scary and downright evil. I read the OP as trying to use robots to teach babies how to walk, not the other way around.

I was thinking more in the lack of practical purpose of the endeavor itself[1]. Something that potentially causes a bunch of collateral damage for no clear purpose. Human babies have been learning to walk on their own for about a million years unaided, just like every walking animal before them.

[1] Lampshaded here (kind of): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnMaroAlfvI
Here are things we know, and that we have known since the "kill switch" was first proposed:

1. Criminals/thieves will be able to circumvent/disable the kill switch, trivially, within weeks (days ?) of the introduction. Stolen phones will still have value, and theft will continue. Bank on it.

2. The kill switch will be used against legitimate users.

3. Phone manufacturers, who were against the kill switch, will find a hidden value in tying the kill switch to rooting, and using kill switch laws to impede rooting activities. If it's illegal to de-kill-switch, but legal to root, all you need to do is make it impossible to root with the kill switch in place. Presto!
Poorly written? 'then him'? 'bolness'? Funny.
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One big difference is that outside of states with lots of referendums (referenda?), the target audience is completely different.

Lobbyists only need to influence the opinions/judgments of a handful of regulators or several dozen legislators. Campaign strategists need to find and target a few million swing voters.

Of course, having public opinion on your side can be extremely helpful when influencing legislators, hence the root comment's caveat re: a grassroots campaign.
I seriously, seriously doubt 'bricked' forever. Unless the hardware actually overheats, it'd be possible to replace the relevant parts with cheap China imports.
How are you implementing the pagination of forums/threads? I dabbled a little bit with datomic last year and from what I remember, pagination of result sets was not built into the api.
It isn't, but the abundance of funding cash everywhere hasn't really translated into more insane (technically) ideas being funded lately, YC or elsewhere. At least that's been my impression, and it feels like YC is changing that with their recent batches.
Campaigning is talking to the public. Lobbying (or "Government Affairs") is talking to policymakers. They have some commutative components and they often work in conjunction with each other at some level, but they are entirely different professions/practices.
I don't think small (only a few million dollars) investors can invest in SpaceX. They are not publicly traded, so any investment must be specifically negotiated.
I don't think you're getting the point of the article. It is talking about dereferencing the STATE and the VALUE portions of a RESTful API. Not what's the most secure way of sending a credit card number over TCP/IP.
Really simple example at http://lovingmaps.herokuapp.com/gent/

Tiles are on (ahem) dropbox at moment - but S3 / local server would be same. Tiles were generated with TileMill.
In Brazil we have a startup with the exactly same model (www.cabenamala.com.br).

First of all, the math used in the example only makes sense if the individual bringing the laptop doesn't pay the taxes forit. At least in Brazil, this is illegal. Even if you are bringing a laptop for personal use, you must pay some high taxes (~50%).
Cabe na mala says in its pitch that all travelers pay the according taxes.

But the difference between USA and Brazil prices are so big that even with the taxes, it makes sense. The cost comes down from mainly two factors: distribution and price strategy from the manufactors. For distribution, a traveler in need of cash might be very cheap to carry a laptop back home. And as price strategy, Sony, Apple and others often position their products as a more "premium" product in Brazil than in USA. So in Brazil you are paying an extra for the brand, for the privilege, for the luxury of having an iPhone or a PS4.

EDIT: For clarifying, i used "we" in the sense of our startup community, as a brazilian or seomthing like that. I am in no way related to this startup, I don't even know the founders. Just listened a pitch from them.
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Mission statements are usually pure BS. Microsoft is too big to have a single focus. Google has discovered that recently. Apple is still having some focus, but just made a joint PR with IBM about enterprise-y stuff.. so where's the focus?

I'm trying to think of a huge company with a specifc focus and I can't. Perhaps others can weight in here.
It is encouraging illegal activity, though, correct?
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A lot of people here are calling most of the letter marketing speak, that may be true, but Satya has been talking about mobile-first cloud-based since he became CEO, like I haven't seen him do a single interview or public appearance where he doesn't mention at least one of the two things.
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I'm creating a user guide for a SaaS application. We've done the plain-old-PDF versions before. I want to do something different and better. Does anyone have any good examples I could use for inspiration?

I know basic HTML/CSS and can figure stuff out, but I'm not a web developer so I'm not looking to build anything crazy. I should probably also mention that the users are tax professionals and are not particularly tech savvy individuals (understatement).
It is really a shame, because the only native e-mail client that I actually used and loved was Sparrow. Then they got acquired and shattered my hopes and dreams. Now it is just Gmail web.
I agree that the article is hardly fair and unbiased. Aside from the women's boiler needing extensive repairs, the article claims that there were "other repairs needed" which could be really anything. Of course that is the only property of his they talked about. Who knows what the other issues where.

In the end... it's just click grabbing. Painting the situation as an overbearing, corrupt city government demolishing folks homes is sure to grab more eyeballs.
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No kidding. If you're planning on using jQuery UI, do it in `componentDidMount` and add this to your Draggable options:

helper: ->
el = jQuery this
.clone()
.removeAttr "id"

el.find "*"
.andSelf()
.removeAttr "data-reactid"

el
I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but your site is pretty bad. The text reads like it was written by a non-native speaker. I had to puzzle just to figure out what some sentences were saying. Then the interaction was a bit wonky (sometimes things scroll up down, sometimes left right, sometimes popouts). The images behind the text made it extremely hard to read.

Putting myself in the mind of a vendor, I can't imagine wanting to try to enter anything significant via a phone. You don't seem to have any web presence besides this landing page. Do you have any customers, any traction? I probably already work from sun up to after sun down; do I really want to take extra time for this for completely unproven benefits? How many more people will I reach by just posting on Facebook? Why aren't you linked to Facebook? Do I have to do something on Facebook, then come to your app and do it again? No thanks. What if I get a bad review? Is it there forever? Can I protest it?

If it was already the one and only app for farmer markets, I could see maybe signing up. But putting all that effort and risk into a start up? Nah. What's in it for me vs going to Facebook?

As a customer - what is in it for me? I want to wander around and look, not be checking my phones for updates ('honey now 20% off. Come see our scones'). There is marginal value in discovering farmer's markets, but they are scheduled well in advance; a 10 second google tells me all the farmer's markets in my area. If there is one near me that I am interested in, I'll just 'like' it on Facebook.

Finally, the website confused me. You start by talking to the farmer. Then you seem to be saying consumers can sell their own extra produce. I'm not sure. Can I sell my garden vegetables? And this brings us back around to the poor English.

I'm not saying all those objections are correct, but I think you need pretty good answers to them if you want people to download your app.
Yes. The entire purpose is to save money by not paying taxes on items by illegally not declaring those items when you enter a country.

It may break US exporting laws and embargos, or international laws too. It's almost certain the founders and everyone near them is going to end up arrested and probably imprisoned like any other smuggling organization.
- Well,I have a partial understanding of this. Its typical for people travelling back to South East Asian countries to buy stuff that are super expensive there ( like mentioned in the original explanation , MacBooks are expensive ; Xbox , Playstations , Premium Watches , Booze (due to local taxes) ; mostly electronics and high end fashion stuff.

- With respect to import taxes : You wont be stopped by the customs unless you are carrying a crazy amount of electronics ; Like if you carry a couple of laptops - and justify it as one for personal and one for work ; they let you go. With respect to this service , I guess its upto you to be cautious & decide how much to carry.

- And there are a lot of Duty free airports; And the purchase made at Duty free airports are mostly overlooked at the destination airport.
True, this is a big part of it. However to calculate return people should also consider the dividends that Microsoft has been paying out as well (for longer than many competitors).

Starting on Jan 23rd 2009 (which is when the chart you linked to starts for me) an investment of just under $10K (with reinvested dividends) would leave you with just over $30k today [1] which is honestly not a bad return.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/investor/Stock/StockSplit/stockcalc...
Thanks! That's exactly the type of problem we're trying to solve. We're not getting into the appliance model just yet, but it's definitely on our radar.
Amazon doesn't get their books by having employees drive to Barnes & Noble stores to purchase books at retail prices. Amazon buys from the same distributors/publishers that B&N uses. If B&N goes out of business because everybody buys from Amazon, the distributors/publishers don't care; they still get the business just from a different customer.

Rewinery is the same with respect to mom & pop shops. They both order from the same distributors by the caseload and pay wholesale prices. Those cases of wine get delivered to each of them by the distributor and they, in turn, each maintain their own inventory, whether on luxury handcarved hardwood shelving in a mom and pop's retail store or scattered on concrete floors in a warehouse for delivery to the consumer by truck. The distributors don't care if the mom & pop goes out of business because their other customer, Rewinery, is ordering just as much.
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Don't airline companies really frown upon this practice? I can't recall if they can actually do something about it though.
"Traveling around the empire was excruciatingly slow"

"The researchers estimate that it took 7 weeks to travel from Constantinople (at the eastern end of the empire) to London (in the far west)."

What a funny little empire with nice roads :). Check this empire:

"And say, the governor went to Yakutsk, not months, for three years. The first year we reach Tobolsk. The second - to Irkutsk. And in the third year of riding on horseback to the upper reaches of the Lena and floated with water to Yakutsk."

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Tobolsk,+Tyumen+Oblast,+Ru...

http://www.e-reading.ws/chapter.php/142600/90/Burovskiii_-_P...
I agree with your sentiment, but I doubt this is true. Seneca was just about the richest man in Rome. He ran the empire from behind the scenes, along with Burrus for several years.

There were certainly many things Seneca didn't have access to from our time. But I think on any sensible measure he was wealthier than almost anyone alive today.

We've made many advances, but we forget that whatever we have often merely replaced an older version that did the job well enough, especially for those with means.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger#Imperial_adv...
you either comply with amateur radio restrictions (probably not what you have in mind; no encryption, licensing, etc), or you comply with FCC rules & regs. or just break a bunch of laws.

from a technical standpoint, the amateur radio folks have tossed up repeater satellites in the past. see AMSAT.
As I said, we don't need to support anything other than Firefox and Chrome. It's an internal app, we know everyone's on modern versions.

And as I mentioned in another comment, jQuery itself isn't dirty, but adding a dependency on a swiss army knife library for just one feature does seem dirty.
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Well, YC often brags about how they learned to select the right people. So there will be the difference.

Also, you are over estimating your ability to detect the quality of a startup from public signals. I don't think it is that easy to identify which company will win on a specific sector based on profile of the founders, their twitter, github pages and the product.

If YC companies were such an obvious choice for an acceleration, there would be a lot more of YCs around.
Sure. I would argue that that "passion" led him to make some poor decisions, though.
you dont know the german BGS ... if you dont have a receipt for anything electronic that doesnt look like its 5 years old you are basically fucked. additional to the tax you have to pay you get a hefty fee because its treated as tax evasion. you can do a lot of stuff ... but not tax evasion.
Just a guess (and a rather cynical one): so they could get some money out of the owner. He's the one with the cash, so he's the one to target.
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And they're supposed to get prior judicial approval. It's only acceptable to file retroactively in cases where there is an imminent risk of death or great bodily harm, such as a hostage or barricade situation or other 'extreme emergency situation.'

You're assuming the worst possible outcome (police overreach, court apathy) and using that as a justification to omit any mention of the copious rules limiting official use of this power. I find it rather ironic that you decided to leave your readers poorly informed about this, not least because it would put them at a disadvantage in any argument with a supporter of the bill.
Tiles are good and responsive, but you may want to add a shadow behind the text "Section N, Row M" because some arena pictures are largely white!
Backpack is basically a network for tax evasion and smuggling stuff. sounds ... fishy.
- If there is a lot of risk involved in carrying stuff through backpack , does it offer a certain insurance policy for the travelers ? What if the product gets seized by customs ? or you are levied a large unexpected fine ? The service doesnt seem to offer any advice on these at all.
I'll agree that often times the law says that. But if he's not making much money on the house (slumlords don't have premium properties and so they can't charge premium prices) then asking a tenant to stay with someone else could (emphasis COULD!) be a small kindness.

Before people go bananas on me let me explain. If the woman is out of the normal lease term and is now living month to month then the landlord could raise the rent. And if he's not making much money on the house then he might have to raise the rent to offset whatever money he spends putting this woman up in a hotel. So that would end up costing her quite a bit.

Of course I'm speculating wildly here that she was out of her lease and that he had the ability to raise her rent; maybe it was rent-controlled. Or perhaps he was making money hand-over-fist renting a poorly maintained property for a lot of money while treating his tenants poorly.

I do know that rarely is there a slam-dunk one way or the other, no matter what the subject is.
Also besides just the pairing the circumstances were pretty different.

It seemed pretty clear that Bill wanted out for a while before he left (as CEO) but I don't think Steve did, regardless of what the official story is.
> On that evidence there's not much reason to invest directly in MS.

That's a sign of a mature company. There are reasons to invest in companies like that (safety and dividends, for example), but they don't include high growth potential.
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Thanks for the support. Eventually I think this is the way we'll go. For the time being I'm putting up with dropping in jQuery UI, but I think my next big project will be a few React mixins for UI interactions like this.
Furthermore, it looks like the traveler takes on all the risk for damage/theft during transport.

Even with the risks and paying all applicable duties, there should be some products where this idea can help to cap the maximum-possible regional differential pricing schemes; the invisible hand made visible.
fwiw, you could convert those wav files to flac without losing any quality and save considerably on file size. you'd also end up with the added benefit of being able to properly tag them
I'm pretty sure bringing new goods with the intention of selling need to pay taxes in many/most countries, I wouldn't put my name/face as a testimonial on this site.
Everyone whose cell phone service was interrupted has a good basis for civil rights lawsuit against the offending police department, for one thing.
Error on the legend on the map of the Rise of Constantine (section 31). The campaign against Maxentius should read 312, not 212.
>I was prohibited from working on broken things that I was capable of fixing but I wasn't assigned to - even if nobody else was addressing them

Coming from the other side, that's frustrating to me too. I was working with a broken tool that the vendor wanted $200,000 to fix. I hacked together a shell script over the course of a few weeks that eased my pain, but required I work in a Linux virtual machine. I would have loved to port it to something that works on Windows like Python, but it was just glue over awk and sed and trim, and I have no idea how to replace those in any other language.

But you know who did have that knowledge? Our resident programmer. But every time I brought it up to the boss that he should work on it and get it running on Windows, the answer was "he has more important things to do, and if he has time to work on your side project, he needs more work to do". Literally. And in the next breath, the boss said "we need that script to follow our programming practices" aka Windows and Java. I'm not a damn programmer! But we do have one on the team!
There are no expectations for middle managers or for sole-contributors, from what I've found. If you're under this assumption then you're living in a bubble or you're unknowingly signaling to people that your hobbies do revolve around stereotypical programmer things that they in turn prompt you about. Even so, I don't think you'd be failing anyone's expectations by not having cliche geek hobbies.
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Yeah.. but he won, so now he's an insider. I'm sure he's adjusted to the status change by now, 6 years later.
Noted. Lower caps now.
So, separating your REST API into indexes and values effectively creates a database over HTTP. This transfers complexity to the client though, which I don't think is the point of having an API in the first place (you could just give clients the login to your database).
Local recs may offer better logistics than an algo, then you could also earn the booking revenue.
Interesting hack, but it means that you can't check any luggage. That's a non-trivial drawback.
Reading this, "No company in the world has the mix of software skills, cloud skills, and hardware skills we have assembled", only got me thinking of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gosFtO6504
Any chance we could get a screenshot of where you are seeing this? Or at least a venue/section? Thanks!
Is it the one narrated by Bernard Mayes? I had a really hard time listening to that one because his voice is so unmodulated and relaxing that my thoughts would frequently wander or I'd fall asleep.
Thank you. I thought I was missing something because I have Kindle (paperwhite) in front of me, and it certainly doesn't have any progress bars.
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The description you suggest is "completely accurate" applies to scores between 11 and 80, on an entire scoring spectrum of 0-99.

I'm not overly impressed.

I scored 27 but I'm a Brit living in the states and a lot of the blue-collar culture stuff doesn't translate (NASCAR).

I'm perfectly fine not being involved with the more pop culture stuff. I've only watched House of the shows they listed.

Is this a worrying new trend though? I'm pretty sure the world has always had its haves and have-nots.
Hmm .. This is expected though! The customs in developed countries are far more stringent . But I m not sure if this is targetted at European customers at all . Is the price difference between USA and Europe big enough for any one to try this service ?

But thats not the case in developing countries. Products priced at an affordable cost in USA , could be insanely expensive in developing countries.
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Hiring the ex-employees of an organization is a roundabout way of bribing the current employees of an organization. It bootstraps a process where people who make the right decisions are "taken care of" later.
Relying on "standard JS style" is as reliable as relying on ASI without knowing how it works.

If what you are saying is with "standard JS style" you will never add a newline after return, then I can also assume with "standard JS style" you will not:

- start a line with ++ or --

- start a line with a regex literal

- split a for statement into separate lines

So, the only issue you need to be aware of when writing semicolon-less javascript is when you start a new line with ( or [. Easy enough to remember, no?

I've personally been writing semicolon-less JS for almost two years now, and this one simple rule has been more than enough.
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Would this be kind of like a functional lens? Like a RESTful lens?
Also, the bill requires that owners of the phone be able to disable the kill-switch functionality at any time if they want. So anyone heading to a protest or other activity there they anticipate police interference can immunize themselves against such service interruption if they are so inclined.
He did have the option to say no.
You should instead say "I am skeptical of your conclusion, because I don't know your effect size."
That's somewhat more common with languages with a reference implementation instead of a specification.
It is possible to build a self sufficient colony on Mars and it is also Elon's stated intention. It is not an easy task and we will have a permanent colony before we have a self sufficient one, if we have a colony at all. 66 years passed between the Wright brothers first powered flight (which lasted only 3 seconds) and landing a man on the moon. That is a huge gulf in technology. Perhaps we will have a self sufficient Mars colony in another 66 years.
Ya, absolutely. Make sure you have carry-on only. I've done it before where I've convinced the agent to let my bag off at the mid-point but I'm pretty sure I got lucky...
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Did you try Tableau?