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So you concede the validity of his/her point? Take your anti-intellectualism elsewhere.
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"I have nothing to hide" is just plain wrong. The less Google and others know about me, the better.
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I did have a look, unfortunately it was one of the many different 'Starting a Start-up' posts.
One problem with doing it in the runtime linker is that the implementation needs to get it right to allow programs to run with a runtime linker that doesn't support it. And that would not work on e.g. Windows.
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Or you can use C++ and not worry that your abstractions will cost you measurably in execution time. Of course, there's other disadvantages, but ...
All someone needs to do is hack the AMO servers and change out the XPI -- and no one would no the difference, because the packages aren't signed.

Not to also mention, MITM attacks on the actual SSL connection.

Serving over HTTPS isn't a valid package signing strategy.
Well, everyone eventually ends up dead.

And help him what? He is happy, doing the thing he likes. He doesn't look or sound like he would need help. Forcing him to make others' dreams come true (assuming by "help" you mean get him job) wont make him happier. His activity maybe is keeping him in check. Who knows what could happen if he's denied his single thing he enjoys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment#21st_cent... provides some good starting points.
these sorts of efforts seem to simply stem from a thinking paradigm, that.. hyperbole ahead.. may be most easily accessible through programming, of organising your process in order to reuse as much functionality as possible for highest efficiency

musk talks about how interesting process manufacturing is:
~"
very often people think of manufacturing as some rote process of making copies, which it isn't, which it actually isn't, it's building a machine that makes the machine, and if you think the machine is important, well then building the machine that makes the machine is also extremely important, and more often than not, what i've found is, um, it is the manufacturing that is harder than the actual product
".. Elon Musk, One on One with Elon Musk MIT AeroAstro Centennial Symposium .. ,45:13~47:39 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOpmaLY9XdI#t=45m13s
One of the features of schizophrenia is creating new words for concepts without realizing how little they match up with other people's definition of those words.

For all we know Terry means nigger as referring to the religious concept of darkness and would insist it has nothing to do with skin colour.

I'm not saying that is the case here, but it very likely could be and I am saying that we're for more clueless when it comes to empathizing with people like Terry than we think we are.
"Napster agreed to pay music creators and copyright owners a $26 million settlement for past, unauthorized uses of music, as well as an advance against future licensing royalties of $10 million"

Have you ever seen Kim engage in talks for a settlement? Would it even make sense for the industry to settle at this point? You think Sean Parker would still be a free man if he would just continued running Napster as it was?

(The Dread Pirate Roberts was also running an innovative business where users could exchange government restricted goods through a P2P system with a centralized registry, look where that got him)
Gil & Azul have always been very focused on their particular market segment, but it's not a solution that suits every workload or can be deployed generally (C4 requires OS enhancements to operate).
Indeed I do, therefore "Though iDevices are huge for gaming...".

I would argue however, that Apple, in stark contrast to Microsoft for instance, is in no way a gaming company. Game Center (which seems unpopular with dedicated gamers) is one of their few forays into the market. Text, photography, industrial design, general UI seems much more of a passion.

It is a muddy area though; Apple has frequently invited game designers on stage at keynotes.
And how could you stop them from allying in an open world game?
> Gras and Golestanti have patented the software, and now need a device that can constantly monitor a patient’s EEG.

As far as I know there are no portable devices that can produce a clean EEG. Motiv/Neurosky devices don't count.

Addendum: in the USA you can't drive a car during the 365 days following the last seizure
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The use of "not necessarily" implies that gaming is essential to VR, though.
> What they most definitely don't do is teach students how to think outside the box, think for themselves, approach problems they haven't encountered before and approach problems nobody has encountered before.

OK, but how can this be achieved by examination? This is really not what exams are about and it's a mistake to try and fit those goals into an exam space. Exams are considered unfair if they have an unlimited scope.

When I said the SAT gives more flexibility to teach off-syllabus topics compared to other international equivalents, this offers you a space where you can target those blue sky goals.

I don't criticise your goals, but exams are never where those goals are reached. So, I suggest we should minimise the concentration on exams. This is something the SAT system does (relatively) successfully - also because it is completed long before the end of high school.
I never held Thanksgiving in particularly high esteem, and used to think of it as just the more minor holiday before Christmas, but over the years it has grown a lot in significance for me. I've been doing "Friendsgiving" for many years now, but I didn't start doing it because of any kind of convenience or difficulty with family. In my case, it was born out of necessity.

I live in Los Angeles, which attracts a lot of young people with a lot of different dreams. The reality is that with the combination of only a small amount of vacation time we receive in the US, living a long distance from family, and not having enough money, it often means that you can't go back for all of the holidays and need to prioritize. For me, since my hometown high school friends all went back around Christmas, I chose that time to spend with family.
Since we were stuck here in the new city, we decided to have a Thanksgiving and jokingly referred to it as something like "Thanksgiving for the displaced youth of Los Angeles." It turned out that a lot of people we knew here were in the same situation, because turnout was good. I'm also fortunate to have friends from all over the world, and since it isn't an international holiday they didn't have much reason to return home.

We continue to grow closer as a group every year, and as people have brought their friends we have made new friends too. It has gone from something we did because we were all stuck in the same place together to something that we actually seek out and look forward to. Now we even have friends come in from thousands of miles away who have since moved to other cities or even out of the country.

Now I can afford to go back for Thanksgiving, but I don't see myself doing it. It's not that I don't cherish the time I spend with family, but now I also have a holiday which, previously an afterthought, is a very important day when I get to spend time with people I deeply care about.
Failing is pretty hard in any case way.

I would speculate that this meta-startup makes sense for career entrepreneurs in the same way that a media startup makes sense for media people or medical people starting medical startups. It's kind of like YC being started by experienced startups guys. They knew about startups and they started a startup that leveraged that.

I like the general idea.
than buying something expensive using a bank account

Because a robber can't demand you transfer money from your bank account and expect not to be traced, that's why.
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I like the idea of cleaning up legacy cruft. I'm not crazy about the way this project is going about it. My main issues:

* ignoring C best practices:

/* prefix macros, please */
#define MIN(a, b) ((a) < (b) ? (a) : (b))

* barely any comments

/* ME: ...so it parses a string? Doesn't pretty
* much every parser? Also, no prefix again. */
void
strparse(void) {

* Lack of overall project structure. Maybe some comments here would clear things up, but even some groupings like this would be nice:

/*************************
* X11 CALLBACKS GO HERE
*************************/

* No tests. I think reasonable people can disagree about how testing should happen, but I'm a hard sell if you tell me your code needs absolutely no automated testing. If a new dev wants to commit a patch, how does she know her code works?

* Here's a scenario broached by the README:

One goal of st is to only support what is really
needed. When you encounter a sequence which you
really need, implement it.

...my problem is that there are no instructions here nor comments in the code about how start doing that ('see commit X in the repo' would even work). Again, I would hope that a dev-oriented tool like this (editing config.mk is in the installation instructions) would be a bit more friendly to developers who are stepping into the project for the first time.

My concern is that the code might suck less than xterm (I'm not familiar with that code-base), but I'm not sure "less cruft" is a good enough reason for me to want to get involved with (or even use) a project. Of course, I'm willing for the people of suckless.org to prove me wrong in my assessment.
The author has a history of creating programming languages, so It's really no surprise he's made another. As for why, it seems likely based on the introduction text he was aiming to make a portable language specifically designed with game developers in mind.
It was even more fundamental than that. A foreign manufactured product could have the 'right to re-sale' by the owner effectively revoked. If the ruling had gone the other way, a lot of manufacturing would have moved out of the USA as the manufacturers would have had a lot more control over resale.

In summary, as long as it was manufactured legally anywhere in the world then you can damn well do with it what you like after you have bought it :)

What is more interesting is his comment on the “You Own Devices Act” (YODA). In the Internet of Things age, you may own the physical device but the licence to the software running on the device could be argued, is not transferrable. YODA enforces first sale rights to such devices making the software 'licence' transferable as part of the sale.
They keep putting laptop-grade video cards into all desktops but pricey Mac Pros though.
People get confused. He is a known scam artist who sold out his friends to avoid jail time. But hey free movies.
I think you are not aware of the business model of MegaUpload.

1. John uploads a file and distributes the link.
2. Jane wants to download the file. She can do it freely (low speed, daily limits) or for a little fee (fast download, no limits).
3. Jane wants to download many files, so she signs up for a premium account.
4. John gets a comission from MegaUpload.

What happens if John uploads copyrighted material and drives sales for MegaUpload using pirated software and movies? Well...the file gets removed, but nothing else. He can continue doing it again and again, even uploading the same file again.

And this was going on on a massive scale, hundreds of people were earning several thousand dollars per month from this and -- according to court documents -- Kim was very much aware of this and even actively encouraged uploaders to supply copyrighted material to the system.
I found the most interesting part the gaming of the system by the aid agencies to hide their overheads to hit the required 10% level.
for code reviews you can use http://codereview.stackexchange.com

and for python code review and feedback, try http://reddit.com/r/learnpython/ , it's a great subreddit with lots of helpful senior members.
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It's natural to have this problem at one point or another. Solution: call launching an experiment.

It's incredibly hard to tell if something will work or not. So hard in fact, that you are better off assuming it won't. Because that removes the expectation it has to do well, which is what's really holding you back, not fear. You believe launching will be a success only if it yields a specific type of outcome.

If you call it an experiment, it will allow you to not take yourself seriously, or to turn the project into something else, and even to ditch it if you realize you find something else more interesting. Don't let premature commitment limit your options. Just play.

Brian Eno might have said it best:

Artists who don't censor their own work: Picasso, Miles
Davis, Prince. They're all people who just put it out,
and have almost no critical self-censorship. They say,
"Let the market decide; let the world decide." You might
not be the best person to judge it.

That's a kind of humility, actually: it's a mixture of
arrogance, which says, "I know I'm fucking good." But a
humility, which says, "I'm not the person to decide."
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For me this one's simple.

Are people aware of it and buying it - then it's ready.

If they're aware of it but not buying it - it's not ready.

If they're not aware of it - you'll never know.
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In the early 2000s, it was possible to have an XML-based (SMIL) playlist which could seamlessly stream video clips (specified as URL, start, stop) as one dynamically assembled video with no user-visible buffering between clips.

Would this be feasible with the Clappr plugin architecture?
That is basically asking for a raise. You increased your flight risk, your boss brought it back down.

You also sent a signal that you aren't making enough money for your desired living standard and a good boss will make sure their employees have enough money so they don't have to worry about financial issues and can focus on the work.
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The original video where he talks about it might be more interesting than the translated article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68-PYA7uuGI
> If you're confused by Rothko I hope you never come across Duchamp.

As Seth Godin says, the first guy to install a toilet in a museum was an artist, the second was a plumber.
The difference is that Dropbox takes reasonable steps[0] to try to ferret out and block copyrighted material. Mega did not.

[0]http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/30/how-dropbox-knows-when-your...
Wow, the "History" section of this really brought back some memories for me - three or four years ago, I spent a while working for a company who had a generalised video solution based on Adobe's OSMF, to which we also added many features, including a quite complete implementation of TTML (W3C's XML subtitling standard, which I'm not sure anyone actually uses).

It seemed to us at the time that betting on an emerging framework and (what we thought would become) an emerging standard would result in something quite useful. What we ended up with was a very complex and fairly miserable project which was eventually replaced with something much, much simpler.
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Tweet from 9hrs ago.

>I guess I'm going back to court soon to get some of my assets unfrozen for legal fees and living expenses. To be continued...

He still have a bunch of assets that are outside his control.

He also tweeted that his rent is paid until halfway to next year.

His wife is suing him for 20+ million.

Dude still has money, he just can't get access to large amounts of it to stir stuff up.

Also, I imagine there is quite a bit this guy can do once he is able to move his focus away from fighting huge organizations (including the U.S. gov) to stay out of jail.
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Similar to this from a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPMHjDzpOVg (the paper of which the authors cited).
> Terminal emulators accept drawing commands (literal and control characters) and render them to some kind of device (eg. a framebuffer, an X window, a Wayland surface, etc.).

Multiplexers accept drawing commands from multiple applications and combine them into one "root window".

If we accept for the sake of discussion that rendering to a "device" is the distinguishing characteristic of terminal emulators here, rather than, say, emulating terminals (which tmux certainly does), can't you think of another terminal emulator as such a device?

I can't really tell how the Linux init analogy is valid and what your point of making it is. Is the init system a "kernel emulator" or a "kernel multiplexer"?
Thank you. Now convinced. I think I just found 'black' a bit jarring as a generic 'not-white' descriptor but now I see the use.
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well the border agents are not programmers and they would see it as WORK without pay.
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Plenty of the named SV startups - AirBnB or Uber - have their whole business model fundamentally based on encouraging people to violate laws (by renting out rooms in violation of local regulations, or by acting as a taxi driver in a car that isn't insured for it). Just as with MegaUpload, you don't have to break the law to use the service, but most people do, and they turn a very blind eye to it.
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I have not suggested that they put C4 or the orginal passless as a standard. While they did focuse on a perticular market segment the performance and paustime numbers they showed could easly have been usful for tons and tons of other markets.

While C4 does currently require OS enhancements, they could make it without it, it would just be slower. However the problem that Azul has tried to overcome with the OS could have been much more powerful attacked with the full force of oracle/sun behind it. They once put some linux patches but it was never there focus and it never went upstream.

At a big company this technogoly could have had a bigger impact, they could have talked to microsoft, apple and the linux team. I know that Azul also tried to strike up a conversation with Intel but in there words "it was like moving a mountain".

And im not suggesting Sun/Oracle should have done this for the greater good of all humans. They would would have created a gigantig benefit for java products over the competition C# and C++ in the server space.

I rember talks by Cliff Click that mentioned that they were really suprised that Sun did not have more intresst in them, considering some simple things that Sun could have to get huge increses in some of the high end server systems they were selling (am searching for the refernce ...).

Edit: See Cliff Click talk about intel and sun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uljtqyBLxI&
t=54m33s

He mentions that the sun shareholders should put there exutive staff into prison.
For me I took an interest because he's flamboyant and a character, what with the videos with the yachts, girls, mansions, helicopters and Modern Warfare 3 stuff. He'd make a good movie villain. Apart from that not so much - he was an ok stock swindler and a major copyright infringer which I guess is mildly interesting.
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I saw Cryptolocker in action, and what surprised me about it was how professional it was. For those not familiar, it would come as an attachment in an email, and once run, would encrypt files locally and on any shared drives. Particularly useful against companies, with many unsuspecting users and lots of sensitive stuff to encrypt.

It left behind lots of text files giving you instructions and an address you can access via Tor. When you went to that address, there was a web app to allow you to upload an encrypted file to confirm if it was Cryptolocker. If you pay the ransom, they would send their "decrypter tool" that had the encryption key embedded in it.

The real criminal breakthrough, in my opinion, is that all of these utilities worked. When people are able to do some research and find out that if they pay up, they really will get their stuff back, often times they will pay up. It's certainly very disturbing.
How is the block on one of these engines fabricated? I would imagine it is not a one piece casting, so are a few smaller castings bolted together? Are they made of stacks of plate? Do they have to build a gantry mill over it for machining?
Hi all,

Founder of TheGoodData here. TGD is the first data coop ever (I hope it will not be the last one!). It is a coop because users own 100% of the company. We consider that it is not fair that some companies are being built and sold at great valuations without users getting a cut of of them. If WhatsApp was sold at $22bn it was not only because each of it's 32 engineers built an incredible product, but also because the company had +450 million users.

And what does a data co-op mean? Well, data is a source of wealth in the same way than earth, labour or capital. It requires harvesting, securing, processing and eventually trading. This is nowadays done by big companies with or mostly without our permission. But that data is ours. It emanates from us. If we collaborate, we can build an entity that takes care of all that process. That is what TGD aims to do.

The very first step that we are taking tomorrow November 27th is focused on desktop browsing data, and for that we have built a Chrome extension that blocks third parties tracking you online and -if you give an additional permission- trade a small part of that data anonymously. All money earned is reinvested in TheGoodData and in charities

Code is open and we will open data as well in the future, so anyone can collaborate and build new features. By the way, we will reward those collaborations with a share of one sixth of revenues for the next six years after the feature has been deployed.

I hope it clarifies a bit what we want to do. If you want to help us, drop me an email at marcos at thegooddata dot org

Best
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This is great advice.

I recently learnt to say enough is enough when my program won't work and leave it until the morning.

Fresh eyes give me a huge boost some times - and often take the work in a whole new and improved direction.
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After you launched a few products, you will realise something: people don't really care. It took a healthy amount of money, time and effort to promote my products (all of which have failed), before realizing that there is no valuable/actionable market for them (a number of the products I launched had tens of thousands of users, but no money could be generated from them).

Don't worry about not being good enough. Just launch it. I'm free to chat - email's in my profile.
It is interesting because even building a site like MegaUpload is difficult, so Kim has some interesting skills.
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I laughed too. He makes a good point about the amount of indentation in code.

As someone who spends most of their time in JavaScript, I see how hard it would be to fit our code to this, and at the same time how much we'd all benefit if we tried to.

I just looked at the random JS file on top of my editor... have some refactoring to do.
How does copy and paste work with tmux in st? I guess it can't be marking with the mouse, for I can't imagine that tmux scrolls when I move the mouse downwards out of the window.