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You can always buy traffic, but it cuts into your profit margins and/or reach.

Remember that SEO is optimization. It can't replace ads, but the more traffic you can get organically, the more profit you can make, and then you'll have more to spend on ads. It's a virtuous cycle.

And success is relative. If you're not doing any SEO, and your competitor does it half-assed, well, then their average visitor cost is going to be less than yours--and that's a competitive advantage.
The phrase existed long before, but as far as I know with a somewhat different meaning, due to the Usenet connotation of "article". I was referring specifically to the usage in the comments of a news post, applied to people who have only read the other comments but not the actual article.
You don't need to take the meeting. If they're serious, you will get another phone call with "How does $1 billion sound?"

If a company really wants to buy you, saying no will not make them go away. It will make them up their price.
I can't imagine that Mike Pall won't find a way to make LuaJit fast with the current Lua features, together with full 64-bit integers.

Can you please elaborate (or give some link)?
From that perspective I agree with the protesters, though I'm coming from the right of the mainstream instead of the left. Economics, particularly that of the academic variety, seems like an exercise in starting with a view of the world and fitting the data to it instead of the other way 'round.

But I agree with DanielBMarkham in that economists are generally working in good faith (though I have my doubts about Krugman). It's just not very easy to see your own biases.
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That's even more reason to go directly to the boss (or someone even higher up). Lowballing is one thing, but outright lying should be unacceptable for any kind of business deal.

I did catch one of my customers lying to me - he claimed he couldn't afford the normal fee (which was only a few hundred bucks, or $1000 at most), and I later discovered he had millions of dollars in funding for this project. We had a big blow up about it, and the project died. Later, he came begging to me, as his clients really, really wanted my product. He paid the full price (and I would have charged him more if I could have gotten away with it).

Overall, lying to get business is a very bad idea. It will backfire and you'll end up spending more, and perhaps losing your job (at least, it will if you deal with someone who has morals and ethics, like me :)
The article is missing an important piece of information: can you buy a drink at the bar with it?
Yes, it would be nice to have universal "uppercase" and "lowercase" rules, but in the real world, collation rules are crazy, arbitrary, and damn near impossible to get right. Now try to get it right in EVERY locale around the world, because if you don't, you open a big gaping security hole or data corruption bug.
And time-stretched.
Even if you don't believe economists generally act in good faith I'm not convinced that arbitrarily selected snarky quotes from other mainstream economists are necessarily a convincing substitute for argument.

The ironic thing is that looking at the conference programme there were almost certainly more radical arguments made by the invited speakers...
https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2015conference/program/preliminar...
No, I meant the preventive measures. Would encryption be such a big battery-hog that they preferred security through "obscurity" or did they just overlook the fact that those devices were broadcasting users' keystrokes to the open air? It's unjustifiable in either case but just wondering. (BTW I also don't get the down-vote. Did I say something unrelated?)
Thanks for this. Whenever I see people running around high fiving over the Raspberry Pi, I start to formulate an argument how the BBB would almost always be vastly superior for slightly more cost.
Upboating to save you from the humorless neo-Victorian nationalists that have dominated HackerNews.
Maybe it's more like wandering onto the used car lot in the hopes that they'll surprise you with a deal you can't pass up. Maybe they will, but the process of getting there is not one you will enjoy.
the 500 billions is the compounded amount over 50 or 60 years, as I understand
Thanks for the tip this is exactly what I had to do to get the latest firmware upgrade with the patch.
> There are some OO systems with effect types I suppose. Those would be interesting.

Nim has something IIRC, but I didn't look into it yet.
Those weak front-end muscles need a workout. Try:

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Uhh, it's nowhere near that simple. Despite Gbagbo the incumbent doing everything he could to handicap Ouattara, Ouattara was announced as the winner with 54.1% of the vote. The next day, Gbagbo then "cancelled" the results from seven regions, which gave him 51.45% of the vote and allowed him to claim victory. Unsurprisingly Ouattara (and the international community in general) did not buy this, and civil war ensued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_Ivorian_crisis

And while Ouattara's troops weren't angels, neither were Gbagbo's, which is why he's at the International Criminal Court now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Gbagbo#Arrest_and_tran...
> To me it's just astrology for people who know calculus.

> [...]

> While I may disagree with methodology, and I may even argue politically about policy implications based on conclusions various sciences reach

Economics is a science like theology is a science. Some of our skepticism just goes beyond yours. Actually, the word "economics" was created to replace "political economy" by some of the most political of the economists like Jevons and Marshall. I can accept the impartiality of astronomers coming to a consensus of how close the star Proxima Centauri is to earth. Insofar as deciding how the pie should be divided up, to call that a science with people working in good faith is absurd.
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Takes some balls to put forward the DRC as an example of an untouched country. Let's see: Tshombe's plane was hijacked and he was jailed in Algeria just as the French-backed "mercenaries" (including, allegedly, Bob Denard) were about to take the place over from the American-backed Mobutu. Che Guevara and a few hundred Cubans on one side, people like "Mad Mike" Hoare on the other (not American, but...). Talking of Belgian military intervention, ever head of Jean Schramme?
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Hi people,

I have a project I want to develop. It's a fresh idea and so I'm currently looking for technical needs and one is TTS (Text To Speech) API, all platforms mingled for the moment.

And I'm looking for the opposite, Speech to text.

I have no knowledge in this at the moment so I'm asking for advice.

Thanks!
Intel gathering happens all the time. Corp dev people go on lots of fishing expeditions under the ostensible guise of acquisition talks. Sometimes they don't even need to mention an acquisition; they know that most startups will hear "BigCo wants to talk to you," and will leap at the chance to take the meeting. Bingo bango, they get free market intelligence, and all it cost them was a few hours of their time.

Things get messier when you talk about intentionally "derailing" companies. I'm sure this has happened before, but this is legally murky water. BigCo doesn't want to be perceived as anticompetitive, or as acting in bad faith. (Of course, it's very hard to show that they are acting in bad faith. Keep that in mind if you smell anything fishy.)
Ah, Freddy's. Let's raise a glass to Bruce Ratner and the glories of eminent domain.
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YC should have someone in staff to handle these requests. For others there should be a company that exists for the sole purpose of handling these types of conversations, letting you focus on your product while they do the do.

If a buying founder has their biz dev, corp dev, contact a founder then it is safe for the receiving founder to forward that request to his corp dev, inside or outside their company.
Modern economic theory assumes all human beings are rational.

Citation needed.
YC was founded in the Boston area.
Because people are absolutely terrible at rationally evaluating risk. Consider people who are terrified of flying, but think nothing of texting while driving. That's (if slightly exaggerated) a pretty representative example of the general human calculus of risk.

The big, scary, but terrifically unlikely event factors more significantly into our fears than the prosaic, equally deadly, but vastly more likely one.
Yeah but what use is a model where you assume irrational actors?

I'm not a huge fan of it but I understand the concessions that have to be made.
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Your statement ironically exemplifies the value judgment that the protestor is talking about. Neo-classical economics says that the price of a good or service is a function of supply and demand. It says nothing about "value." Some people have the tendency of conflating the two, but it's nothing that falls out of the mathematics.

Simple example. You have a company. What's the "value" of your receptionist? Well how do you measure that? Simple: get rid of her, and have your developers answer the phones. The decrease in productivity from that is the value of her position, and it's independent of how many or few people could do the job. The price of her services is a lot lower, and based on the cost of hiring someone else to do the same thing. There's a strong drive in our society to conflate the two, but they're mathematically distinct. Is it Marxist to point out the fact that a capitalist society rewards people based on their fungability rather than the value of their service? Yes, but that doesn't make it wrong.

Rant: the older I get, the more I think that "value" (our social evaluation of worth) should be based on nothing more than hours of labor. An hour of labor from someone with a 130-IQ might carry a higher price on the market than an hour of labor from someone with a 90-IQ, but that doesn't mean our society should perceive the former as being more "valuable." Because at the end of the day, each person is giving up the same hour of life on this earth God gave him.
>NTFS is a perfect example of this, it claims to be case insensitive

Where does it claim this? In any case this is not true because...

>but in fact stores everything in a case sensitive way

This does not have to be true. NTFS can be case-sensitive or case-insensitive depending on which subsystem is accessing it. For example, while the POSIX subsystem for Windows was a thing, installing it had the side-effect of turning NTFS case-sensitive.
LAN-side only according to the Asuswrt-Merlin people: http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=21774
True, France killed 10x times more ppl in Libya than those terrorists in Paris.
That's a really good and comprehensive answer, thanks.
Ethiopia fought off Italy, had some really bad times, but is doing well now. They actually had something like a state with which to fight off European aggression.

The French really were terrible at colonial administration. They had a way of letting emotions guide their decision-making and no compunctions whatsoever about asserting how morally superior they were to the locals. This led to truly horrific massacres on both sides, that continued until very recently, where most of the rest of the post-colonial world had largely moved on.

You see the remnants of that colonial legacy in the French attitude towards African and Islamic immigrants. As bad as classism gets in the US, it only rarely provokes violence. French civil unrest is often terrifying, as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has shown. That was actually tame compared to a lot of what happened in Algeria.

There are deep, raw, and gaping wounds that will probably never be healed. The old generation will just die off and the younger generation are, due to French apathy, falling under the spell of Islamism.
His argument is wrong. The issue is not with the filesystem being case-insensitive; the issue is that some strings which are not identical map to the same filename.

Two strings differing in case is only one such example. Another example is the presence of codepoints which are ignored by the filesystem. The fix for git and Mercurial included the fix for this as well. Does Linus think all filesystems should allow all 256 byte sequences in every permutation as well? (He might, since that is the behavior of common Linux filesystems.)

The proper mindset is to realize the actual issue (multiple strings map to the same filename) and use a "filename_according_to_program -> filename_according_to_filesystem" function everywhere when dealing with filenames, not to blame the filesystem.
But that's not really a labor theory of value, it's just acknowledgement that subjective value varies from person to person, and we can both agree that's irrational.

This student protester thinks your mother's sauce should actually be valued more than Ragu on the store shelf. And while you might value your mother's sauce more highly, few other people would share that same valuation. Her labor has no impact on its objective value -- the averaging together of all the subjective valuations of people who want to buy sauce.
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I'll never understand that logic, how does coming to the aide and support of a group that was brutally attacked mean that they are in turn attacking the group that did the attacking? The attack on Charlie was not defensive, defacing the Notepad++ site is not defensive. Defending yourself doesn't mean attacking, and certainly not harming, other people. You only draw more hostility and attacks.

Edit: I am also curious, the language indicates that the hackers feel it is countries versus religion. The actions of someone who believes in a religion do not define the religion. If I do a terrorist act and say it was for my religion, that does not make my religion a terrorist, but it does make me a terrorist. Do the perpetrators of these attacks feel it is countries against religion, or is that just the shield they want to use.
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>In 2006, Potti et al. had published a revolutionary paper in Nature Medicine, proposing using genomic signatures to guide the use of chemotherapeutics.

>Another Potti paper, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, proposed using genomics to assign early-stage lung cancer patients to treatment regimens.

>In both cases, the reported scales of improvements were dramatic.

Academic papers about medical treatment affect life/death of millions. This is frightening.
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I'm rather amused (and, as always, a bit saddened) by the comment of Terry A. Davis, of TempleOS fame/notoriety.

"linux doesn't have to search parent directories for file-not-found, but I do."

wat

Edit: further parsing reveals he implemented a (read-only) overlay system in his FS. Interesting, I wonder what the side-effects (vulns) could be?
Similary to the case of Lybia, the UN resolution didn't ask France to bombard the presidential palace, and also shoot people on the street.

We need to care more about facts and deeds not UN wind bags.
Because shocking attacks get the public's attention. With all eyes on the TV screen, it's the perfect time to introduce public policy changes that strip people of their rights.

All the better if I can defend my statements by inciting a sense of nationalism or publicly shared responsibility for preventing future heinous crimes.

This is the raw video of the shooting of the French policeman: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc6_1420632668

Here it is in slow motion, zoomed in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_c4IUO6h7w

We are told this is footage of a 7.62mm round fired into a target at point blank range.

With no recoil exhibited by the rifle, no blood present anywhere on the scene, and no violent head or body movement on part of the person "shot" at point blank range, it's very possible that blanks were fired and that this is yet another deep event meant to mislead the public into accepting a hidden agenda.
Even when you rephrase it charitably, it still sounds like the acquirer's CEO is talking trash about someone these employees have followed for years.

At best, it's a "you guys are great, but your ex-boss is a terrible negotiator and didn't know what you were worth." There's no reason to say that aloud.
If these people are concerned about "growth and limits to growth" then why are they heckling economists and not lobbying for putting birth control drugs in our water supply? Is an economist is really needed to tell anyone that growth is bad when it causes an overwhelmingly destructive externality? The thing is that people don't want to be convinced of the link between economic activity and climate change. And yes, perhaps the high priests of money are indeed the right group to give mainstream credence to the (economic) downside of climate change.
Little children, watching their heroes murder people and then playing at being big men by writing on the internet. Defacing something so amateurishly that if I stuck it on my fridge people would ask if my five year old child did it. To be taken about as seriously.
That seems to be some random guy just reposting. Didn't know youtube had "blogspam" before

Original mashup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o
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More information about the card: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/idnyc/index.page

One interesting fact is that the discounts and memberships will apparently only be good for one year, something the article seems to gloss over. Still a pretty good deal, but not as great as I'd hoped.
Ignoring content and ideology. If mainstream economics is so demonstrably flawed, the best way to make the point is not to childishly disrupt conventions and speeches, nor to make personally-directed attacks at individuals. The best way to "protest" the flaws would be to consistently and professionally refute the flaws and falsehoods.

By making their vehicle a protest rather than a rigorous intellectual deconstruction, at best the message is that they can't come up with more than catchy slogans and loaded (unbacked) statements. I have not done significant research beyond the article linked, which includes no reference to supporting and more rigorous arguments produced by this group.

Factually, there is huge variation in the economics profession and the claim "Neoclassicism is essentially the standard for 95 percent of the graduate departments in the country." is simply not true. There are many academic foci in economics and a healthy dialogue among proponents of different viewpoints. There is also a vast network of blogs published by both academic economists and amateurs (connotation = non-professional, but well educated on the topic) treating the topic in a more casual tone.

Lastly, the representation of neoclassical economics presented is a straw man, and an uninspired one at that:

>the fantasy world of neoclassical economics — a faith-based religion of perfect markets, enlightened consumers and infinite growth that shapes the fates of billions.

This is the model (excepting infinite growth) typically taught in introductory economics courses of all types. It is not taught as an actual representation of the world (though even as simplified as the models in Intro Micro/Macro carry a great amount of explanatory value over a naive interpretation of matters economic), but as a framework within which the basic principles of economics can be taught. A rough equivalent would be protesting a physics conference because the solar system model of an atom is not representative of reality.
I was wondering about that as well. According to the manufacturer, the DJI Phantom[1] (a common consumer drone) has a max vertical speed of 6 m/s. So in 10 minutes (battery lasts about 20, 10 up, 10 down), you could reach 3600m. Higher than these pics were taken!
(you remote probably won't reach that...)

Not sure if the max speed is up or down...
[1]: http://www.dji.com/product/phantom/feature
Apparently not, according to question #26: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/idnyc/frequently-asked-questions/fr...

> The card also does not authorize cardholders to purchase alcohol or tobacco products

I found this to be kind of surprising.
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I'm surprised to find that this story has hit me pretty hard emotionally. The stuff Cameron and Theresa May are saying these days is really quite extreme. I feel totally abandoned by politics and genuinely, deeply frightened about the direction our legislature is headed. Is this a part of growing up? The mainstream is so far away from my own views that I don't have any voice. I'm really starting to see why a lot of libertarians in the US are so hyperbolic and full of panic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1vyB-O5i6E Not sure if the video is trustworthy, but here's a 97 paper saying 16T can lift a frog http://iopscience.iop.org/0143-0807/18/4/012

http://www.critic.co.nz/columns/article/3703/science-bitches...
I think that a state-issued ID requires an address, whereas the IDNYC card makes specific provisions for those without a registered address.
Evaporation would cause quite a lot of heat loss though from moist areas, such as eyes and mouth.
That turns out to not be a very good writeup. The published work is http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=801348 and Dick Vile did a lot of work on it years after that, using it to describe an in-house production language.
I have a guilty pleasure: I enjoy watching economists. I read the financial opinion columns, and I enjoy the policy debates. But that's just because I like watching smart people argue. Economics is a great place to watch this.

Krugman looks to me like a political shill, not an economist (Somebody said once that most of his columns should start with "Fools!") He'll say something outrageous, and then over the next several days other economists will try to sort it all out. Many times it's just political bickering, but there have been times where it looks like he's crossed the line: I see folks who don't do politics try to come out publicly and reason with him. It's most always a mistake. The more they pile on the more he revels in it.

Having said that, I'm fine with him continuing to opine. The dangerous thing I'm seeing is politicians who don't seem to be responsible for anything: everything they do is based on experts somewhere who are more than willing to back them up on whatever decision they make. The real discussion we should be having here is the role of academia and the role of elected leaders in a democracy. That's where the lines are blurring, and that's the reason you see well-meaning (but perhaps not-so-well-educated) folks protesting who can work the job of basically "a guy that tells me things I didn't know". It's because they view professors as some sort of priesthood that decides what the policy should be. That's not true -- and it should never be true.
I've done this in Java for almost ten years now

articles.findAll{ it.tags.contains("Java") }

All I've done is adding groovy.jar
T-Mobile is the US subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom.
Are you for reals calling false-flag on the Charlie Hebdo attack?
Wow perfect reference.

Btw just in case you didn't know, you can link to specific times in youtube videos, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c4KG_8iTZM&t=55s