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I had a friend who was in a somewhat similar situation about a year ago. He had founded a start-up with 3 other partners. Two of the partners weren't getting along to the point where they either weren't speaking at all, or would just scream at each other.

They had had some success in the business, but if they had to buy out the troublesome founder, or come to some other agreement, they would have essentially be forced into bankruptcy. What to do?

They went to 'founders therapy'. That's not a joke. They went to a combination therapist/mediator to work out there issues and figure out how to work together.

My friend said that along with improving the relationship with the troublesome founder, it improved how they all work together and the business as a whole has been very successful since.

The great thing about going to therapy (if you can convince your co-founder to go) is that you both may gain knowledge that would help you in future business situations aside from just dealing with your current co-founder. He may learn to recognize when he's being too controlling, and that could improve business all in, or maybe he isn't actually being controlling, but you're reading something else into it.

Worked for my friend, your mileage may vary. Best of luck .
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According to Wikipedia they've always had them. Doesn't having someone like this on the train mean it's not really "driverless"?
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"Competition is for losers": may be when it's competition based on price i.e. being the cheapest but definitely not competition based on being unique and creating value - and I don't mean only financial value as Peter Thiel seems always to refer to. That reminds me the Blue Ocean Strategy book by Kim and Mauborgne. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
Because they're modernizing a system that started operating 151 years ago? The Hong Kong MTR, by contrast, dates to the misty antiquity of 1979.
I'm curious : do you feel the same way when vis-a-vis airlines?
Wow, it's about time the Bakerloo line got some new rolling stock. It's still using stock from 1972. Even the Picadilly line's '73 stock is miles better.
Where is your counterexample, especially a counterexample from a time before when photography was invented, which is what I would expect to see a link to after a statement like that?

For you and for anyone else who would like to read a really deep, interesting book about how visual art has developed over the history of humankind (and about many other issues), I recommend The Nature of Paleolithic Art[1] by R. Dale Guthrie, a book I enjoyed reading several years ago. Guthrie is a field biologist and very competent visual artist who specializes in Pleistocene megafauna like mammoths. He went to most of the oldest sites of surviving cave art and personally looked at ancient drawings on site as he studied examples of early art for his book. He devotes pages of thoughtful discussion to what early human drawings show and what drawing problems early artists encountered. He specifically mentions the problem of drawing running human beings and running four-legged animals.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Nature-Paleolithic-Dale-Guthrie/dp...
I had to call the Disney Store yesterday and they referred to me a "Guest" and their customer service staff as ... "Cast Members". That's branding going to the extreme.

The problem with the term customer in the article is that it felt like they would count the same customer multiple times (when they mean passenger). If I ride daily, I'm not 5 customers, I'm one repeat customer. But I'm a passenger 5 times.

All in all though, I think this will be a welcome change as every time I travel to London and go on the tube at rush hour, I'm thankful that I work in a nice quiet cemetery.
Talk about food and leave out Indian food? zomg! Here's some food for thought http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/quickstir/lifestyle/24-Li...
I just wish there was some way to have this sort of functionality, without handing over all that data to various companies who in turn use it in unpredictable ways so that they can monetize the service.
Isn't what you've described capitalism's analog to physics' perpetual motion machine? It just seems that there should be frictions and inefficiencies and equilibriums such that it would require severely anti-capitalist intervention to make it happen.

Now, that's not to say we aren't seeing severely anti-capitalist intervention on a daily basis. A major consulting firm in my state got passed a bill to require consulting software developers to be licensed as engineers, then promptly got themselves exempted from it, claiming their "economic interest" compelled them to secure well-trained engineers, even if they weren't licensed.

But if a single actor has all of the money, then wouldn't the money becomes useless? People need things--shelter, food, clothing--not money. Money is only useful if it is a convenient medium for trading labor for things. And if people can't get the things they need, then wouldn't we all just walk away from the old system.

And if a single actor has all the property, then what's the point if there's nobody to charge rent?

Again, barring severely anti-capitalist intervention, like a government ban on travel.
Here's an infographic for temperatures: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/24/article-1208723-06...

The original article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208723/Cooking-Cent...
Japanese food is the most disgusting I know of. Pick any random dish and there's a 50% chance it will be disgusting to me and untrained people in general. That said, it's supposed to be healthy - I would love to like it.
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Can you see any good argument against such monopolies being forced to be non-profit making entities?

The only argument that comes to mind is that it would create a disincentive against the drive towards monopoly that Theil apparently claims is beneficial. However, that seems to be something like the kind of the world we are in now.

I'm not sure there are any clear solutions to this problem - balancing incentive and the avoidance of corruption is just hard.
SideburnsOfDoom mentioned that:

> Driverless trains work well enough on the DLR in East London, and are probably an inevitable step in 21st century London.
I remember being blown away by the platform side doors for the shinkansen bullet train in Japan: the incredible precision with which the train doors align with the platform doors.
It will feature live updates, which was impossible before the API.
Some of them were Saturday breakfasts as well - that certainly inflates the quantity and quality of food on offer.
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Hello all, my stupid Acer (AMD Chip) laptop burnt out few weeks ago and I am looking for a decent laptop.

I am developer working with scripting in Ruby, Python and R; Rails, RStudio, VIM / Sublime Text, Angular JS, Apache/Nginx, MySQL/ PostGreSQL/ MongoDB and odd other tools, technologies and languages. E.g., I recently started learning Prolog just for fun. Besides, Youtubing, watching movies and reading PDFs; some documentation using MS Word (yeah I know lame, but gotta to feed myself).

This time I do not want to shell out loads of money, and was just curious if I will be okay with i3 (4th gen) with 8GB or do I need atleast i5?

I used to dual-boot but this time I was thinking of using Vagrant + Chef with Arch on Windows for my development work. Will this be any slow because I mostly just watch movies, read stuff and do dev work when required. I guess the only thing I will miss on Windows will be VIM with all the plugins I use.

Any help/input is appreciated.

P.S.: I am from India
That's extremely important, yes, and we do that too. We'll write an article about that later on.

In general, you should localize both keywords and screenshots (and maybe even title, but that depends) for the following languages:

- Spanish
- Portuguese
- French
- Italian
- Russian

We also do it for Chinise and Japanese.

The key here is to find translators who understand the game, which can be difficult if you are talking to traditional translation agencies. I find that some people on Odesk and Elance with marketing and translation experience do a great do at this. And they are quite affordable :)
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That's why you need a Cleaning App where you will pay 10% to the App owner, but save yourself from seeing the lady and don't have to feel bad about her life. Although you just taken off 10% off her.
"If BI increases demand for consumption (as most of it's proponents claim it will), then the price of consumption will increase - hence, inflation."

Increased consumption does not necessarily lead to a long term price increase. Often it results in lower prices due to ability to invest in projects with larger upfront/fixed costs.

The only goods that would necessarily increase in price are ones where the supply is currently at, or close to, capacity, and it is difficult/expensive to increase the supply. This isn't the case for most goods.
That was good of you to look for examples. But I wonder how many paintings that we can find with Google searches are based on photographs. I've encountered visual artists who can usually tell the difference between a drawing done from life and a drawing done from a photograph (my eye is not that subtle), so I think there are quite a few people who draw by looking at photographs. A study of the issue described in the article would probably want to look at visual art from a time before photography, and there is plenty of that in the world.
Are you sure you know what DI is? It just means you pass an object's dependencies to it, instead of it constructing them itself. You don't need a framework to do DI.
Because it's public infrastructure. TFL is a government body. We also pay to to use the road in the form of taxes, it would not be nice for the government to call us a 'customer'.

If thats not a good enough example, there are plenty of government departments that require payment for their services and I think the same would apply. Like renewing a passport, I would hate to be called a customer.
Because people voted it up high enough to reach the top. HN 'customers' voted this up, therefore its HN worthy...
They have to be rolling out Product Hunt for X. There are a lot of verticals where it will be way bigger than this one. They'll need a lot of capital to roll these verticals out before everyone else does. Look at Stack Overflow and their large network of somewhat independent niche sites.
Unfortunately as a tourist it's very hard to avoid this horridly repetitive and limited menu. Give me a thali any day.

It is often observed that there are three kinds of food on offer in South India: VEG, NON-VEG, and CHINESE. Perhaps idli, vada and dosa are the corresponding trinity of staple breakfasts?
For a peak into the future: go on the Metropolitan / Hammersmith & City line. They already have them there.
Actually I think power is more a force than a proclivity... Given the infamous Stanford prison experiment and now this, I wouldn't classify it as 'definitive' but the correlation is well demonstrated.

[source] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984314...
Canary Wharf station has platform-side doors but it still closes the entry at ticket hall level every now and then. One advantage for me is the line formed in front of the platform doors which allows me to wait in front of it for the next train and find a free seat every day.
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We want to be a part of YC and thinking of applying for W15 batch. Would it be a good idea? Is there a policy that prevents YC to accept companies in the same domain?
They definitely had them before that incident (which was at Shadwell IIRC).
@alkonaut

Because that's what terrorists would do.
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He / she edited after I replied.
Note that the deep-level lines (specifically those with smaller tunnels) are not included in this development. The central line has very small tunnels and will continue to be hot and cramped.
I'd make that statement the other way around- open source firmware supports hundreds of routers. It doesn't look like the openwrt folks and others get much help from the router manufacturers.
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Sounds like only so the computers don't break down.
What about the crappy Northern Line?
If anything, they'd be the first to invest in working fusion technology. They already invest billions in alternative energy research - to secure their own domination in the future, but still...
I agree with everything except the "pointless".

It's a long term and well-thought-out attempt by marketers to change the public's expectations of their relationship with public transport. This started twenty years ago with privatisation of the railways: probably the new private train operators felt a change in terminology was required to make people accept they were no longer dealing with a state-owned network and that the balance of power had shifted towards private enterprise.

Basically an attempt at using linguistics to reprogram a large population. But it hasn't worked: people are very conscious of new words being forced upon them and the result is that it makes the industry look sleazy.
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Varnish is extremely flexible. Its primary design goal is to be a programmable reverse proxy cache -- so it's almost certainly a better choice for a challenging session-dependent use case such as e-commerce than repurposed web servers (such as Apache, nginx, etc).

If every single dynamic page of your site requires knowledge of the session, and must hit the backend, then you're kind of stuck. But there are lots of ways to design around that.

For example... Edge Side Includes, supported by Varnish, let you do front-end caching of page fragments, stitched together by the proxy rather than the web application. This can give you a huge boost (to performance and scale), even if you have to hit the web application for some part of the page.

Keep in mind, once you start adding front-end caching to your application, you need to think of your cache as part of your app. :-)

You might want to take a look at the Turpentine module for Magento, which tightly integrates Varnish with Magento. It's a good example of retrofitting front-end caching, cookie generation, and ESI fragment caching into an existing e-commerce application.
Venezuela is socialist democracy, as there are democratic elections and multiple political parties. Policies of nationalisation under Chavez, though, probably did contribute to the current problems, as they caused a flight of capital.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/01/venezuela-national...
Part of the problem is that much of the London tube is quite deep underground. New trains on the sub-surface lines have air conditioning, but on the deeper lines it's difficult to extract the waste heat.

It can be a problem in summer. I've seen a couple of passengers faint from the heat on hot days.
> it was to enable CNET-network-wide cookies without that era's browsers pitching a fit

I think ABC/ESPN did something in a similar timeframe maybe for the same reasons. Strangely that choice seems to have persisted to the present.
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> This isn't the greatest part of white supremacy or homophobia but it does exist and to claim it doesn't is either ignorance or (now that you don't have that excuse) willful complicity.

Wait, back up. Who said they don't exist? Your claim was that letting people be bigoted makes it worse, not that it creates the problem in the first place.
Their business is not selling transportation but moving the population of London around to where they need to be. The government is the customer and the people are passengers.
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> you borrow money with the explicit notion that you might not repay it; that's what sets the interest rate, both sides know that going in.

The interest rate is set by the fact that money-NOW is worth more than money-in-a-few-months-or-years. This is also the case if it's certain you will get the money.

I never considered that risk would also be a factor in interest rates. It makes sense, but I really doubt it's a very big factor. Since in most cases debt means you will eventually get the money back, the risk is very little (depending on economic health, I guess). But the "money now vs money then" factor is always present.

Can anyone with a little more insight into these matters inform us whether risk of not being paid back actually represents a substantial amount of the interest rate? Cause I doubt it.

> There's nothing at all immoral about choosing to suffer the hit on your credit rather than repay as both options are expected possible outcomes in the original deal.

Is that how it works in America? Because as an outsider, this sounds very weird to me.

Say you have a debt with me, you fail to repay me but instead you opt to "take a hit on your credit score", which is, I presume, some sort of abstract "score" number kept by agreements between cc-corporations, banks and such? (or is it a government thing? probably not)

So this credit score determines whether you can get certain loans at banks, interest rates for your credit cards, stuff like that yes?

In the mean time there's me. What do I care about your credit score? Do I get to think, "hey I didn't get my money, but at least that guy is going to have a shitty time securing loans from now on and having a stable financial future". How does that help me? You still screwed me over by not paying me back, and the simple fact that, in the process, you also screwed yourself over doesn't help me at all. I'm not the vindictive kind, and some abstract revenge credit score "punishment" you suffer in your standing with other institutions won't get me my money back.

See, this doesn't make it moral, at all.

The fact that we both know, if you don't pay me back, you'll be screwing yourself over by means of credit score, just means that I might be more likely to believe you that you'd rather pay back your debt than suffer that hit. Meaning less risk for me. But if it turns out that not paying and suffering the hit is in fact a serious alternative option for you (instead of a deterrent), you may as well say "I'll pay you back or I stab myself in the eye"--what do I care? (well in fact I would prefer if you didn't, because in my personal ethical framework, such deals themselves are immoral)
I'll just copy this: Their business is not selling transportation but moving the population of London around to where they need to be. The government is the customer and the people are passengers.
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AYLIEN's Text API does a better job :-) http://aylien.com/text-api-demo?text=vache%20cochon%20metal%...

(disclaimer: I'm the founder of AYLIEN)
Some of your questions are wrong:

irb(main):001:0> data = [1,2]
=> [1, 2]
irb(main):002:0> total = 10
=> 10
irb(main):003:0> data.each { |x| total += x }
=> [1, 2]
irb(main):004:0> puts total
13
=> nil

===

What is proper syntax for a block?

A. { |x| puts x }
B. do |x| puts x end
C. ->(x) { puts x}
D. A & B
E. B & C
F. A & C

I answered A & B which your quiz says is wrong.

You might want to read this and rewrite your quiz...

http://awaxman11.github.io/blog/2013/08/05/what-is-the-diffe...
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I'm guessing Natto has a similar smell/taste to Korean Cheonggukjang (청국장), which smells like an a pair of wet moldy socks or old shoes, but the moment you get it in your mouth and the flavor your tastebuds detect combines with the smell your nose is gettings, it suddenly makes "sense" and is absolutely delicious -- an incredible hearty flavor with all these wonderful subtle under and overtones (sometimes with a hint of of a kind of smokiness). It's the weirdest taste hack I've ever encountered in food and one of my favorite Korean dishes.

It's made out of a kind of fermented soybean as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonggukjang
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2G/3G/XG is kinda becoming irrelevant and is provider-dependant.

They should have WiFi hotspots in each train so you wouldn't be reconnecting every 5 seconds as the train moves. Also it's probably easier to connect train to whatever central network pipe.
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And here are direct links to the video/audio for those who don't like reading text :)

Overview Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wx1tDcC_zM

Sample Audio: https://soundcloud.com/adam-kumpf/sets/fwpro

30-sec Spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW1Jq6X64fM

7-min Walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMASFk1ksOM
You are severely misinformed, both about the constitution and the technological implications of the position you are blindly touting.

(1) The Mass. Supreme Court ruling/precedent can compel a suspect, with proper legal protocol, to decrypt a device and is NOT an infringement on one's constitutional rights. This makes the entire argument of "responsible disclosure" null and void.

(2) You seeing security holes as "forgot password functionality" shows how uninformed and inexperienced you are. When you start seeing everything from CPU fans (measuring audible signals to detect an encryption key) to the latest un-patchable USB bug (arbitrary code execution via invisible controller-chip firmware alterations) as attack vectors you will begin to realize just how wide the potential 'surface' is. Care to venture what could happen if someone were to, say, reverse engineer the baseband and had access to all firmware functions of a device within an environment where the decryption key was being used? A "golden key" is simply creating the largest historical hacking bounty, and a fool would think such keys could be kept secure indefinitely.

When you are admittedly an amateur and experts are telling you this is a bad idea, you should listen. Whether human or machine history has PROVEN that there is no "perfect system." Introducing unnecessary holes to accommodate bureaucratic pedantry is wholly unnecessary, and I would venture to say, idiocy.
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The roads are free at the point of use, the tube isn't. There's also the idea that words make a difference to how the staff will "see" the passengers and thus how they will perform their jobs. Are they a nuisance to be herded around or are they the people to whom you owe your job security? It's the same in IT ,it sometimes says things about a person's attitude depending on whether they say "user" or "customer".
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A secured debt is a contractual issue. An unsecured debt is a moral issue.
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