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I helped rewrite Narrator, the Windows built in screen reader, for Vista. After we had a basic version working I tried turning off my monitor and using it to write code. I gave up quickly.
I believe they are already throwing a lot more money to bring more apps. The investment in Cyanogen would be very small compared to how much they throw into app developers and companies to bring more WP apps.
Maybe it's because we've both lived in Chile? :P
Glad to see they put up a fight as much as possible (or say they do atleast).
I'm curious, given that I've heard lots of of amatur groups and even monkeys do better than the pros is all that like fake propaganda to throw us off that the pros really are better because of their inside knowledge or is it that only some of the pros have this knowledge so in aggregate it appears the pros don't benefit from it or something else? Or am I conflating something I shouldn't?
If they could solve the "race to 99 cents" problem, they'd get developers.
Yeah it's more of the constantly having to remind people that is annoying. You constantly have to be the person that forces a meeting to be rescheduled.

The first remote job I had I worked at a startup in SF and typically everyone started work at 1 or 2pm. They'd schedule standups for 4:30 or 5:00. Of course I worked on the east coast and am a morning person. But what was I supposed to do (having just started)? Of course I'd attend the 8:00pm meetings (my time) even though I started work 12 hours earlier.

It's been much easier in my experience where most people overlap at least 4 hours.
Isn't that exactly what Famo.us did, http://vimeo.com/86664858 .

Things are still being figured out. There are lots of experiments to make layouts render faster and motions more fluid; Virtual DOMs, JavasScript layout managers, canvas, WebGL, GPU accelerated CSS transforms.
I learned a lot about front-end web dev. by making Mondrian art using HTML, CSS and/or JS.

I consider it worked very well.
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I'm confused about this comment. Isn't profiting off community work to grow and then using that growth to contribute back exactly how the process is meant to function? Is starting as a company and then investing and profiting from community projects better than starting with a community project and developing into a startup?
Yes, thank you, that was very interesting and insightful -- I've read it before, in fact it sparked my initial interest in TLA+. Unfortunately this is not necessarily applicable for a "working programmer" aka "poor man without huge resources at his disposal". Maybe I should work on the latter problem and then start to apply TLA+. Or maybe it should be the other way 'round. :)
we at crate switched to https://github.com/koenbok/cactus and are really happy with it. we had a really bad experience with wordpress and are so glad we switched.
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"As of January 29, 2015, reddit has never received a National Security Letter, an order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or any other classified request for user information. If we ever receive such a request, we would seek to let the public know it existed."

Is this the warrant canary? Has this been around before?
Which side of this do you intend to argue? Insider trading laws actually slow down the transfer of information from the insiders to the rest of the market. The situation is a prisoners' dilemma, in which the first insider to sell (or take whatever action) will be rewarded most, but all insiders benefit from delaying that (and arguably the rest of us suffer from that delay). So these laws actually help the insiders punish defectors, which keeps secret information secret.
There's a few examples here:
http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-convmatrix.html

Try the "edge detection" example with -3 instead of -4, and it looks very similar to yours.
Maybe somewhat ironically, this assumed association with quality without an associated real correlation with quality leads to crap trying to pass itself off as amazing stuff by using such techniques. This then leads to an association with crap rather than the quality they intended....

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tawdry
Ah yes the ANTON :) We would love for this to become readily available to the public. However it is expensive at this point. But I love this source and will be calling this company very soon, thank you.

Here is how we invision the ANTON could become readily available for purchase:

There is no direct translation from one to another, but a common consensus is 1 hash equals 12,700 FLOPS when comparing the 2 side by side http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFLOPS#Bitcoin_.22FLOPS.2... . The FAH grid computing network has 46 PetaFLOPS and is known as the world's most powerful computing network outside of the Bitcoin mining network.

Now at the time before ASICs and FPGAs started hitting the market in December 2012, the Hash rate of the BTC network was at 26 TeraHASH’s in mostly GPU and CPU power. Based on a rough comparison 12.7 PetaFLOP = 1 TeraHASH the potential computational power that could be added to FAH is

26 TeraHASH 12.7 PetaFLOPS = 330 PetaFLOPS.

Imagine if that power was harnessed for molecular protein folding. Most of this power was redirected to altcoin mining after the SHA ASICs came out, since there was no profit motive for folding. FoldingCoin looks to bring a profit motive for people to fold proteins by distributing FLDC along with other Counterparty tokens.

Venture capitalists could see this as an opportunity to invest in the creation of economic sized Anton Supercomputer, which is an ASIC molecular protein simulating machine that can fold more efficiently than standard computing hardware. This very thing happened to Bitcoin mining when it became exponentially profitable: venture capitalists invested in the creation of ASIC miners to compute SHA256 at a more efficient rate than standard computing hardware.
For a brief shining moment, Microsoft sold an Android with a Nokia/Microsoft ecosystem behind it. It wasn't a bad idea. It could have sold better than Windows Phone handsets because it would have apps.

As Amazon knows, it's owning the ecosystem that matters.
Right. I would say that the basic reason for insider trading laws is the idea that insider trades create an incentive in the market to keep secrets secret, because you're making money off of that secret. Aside from the possibility that this has to ruin companies and the difficulty with prosecuting it as negligence, it still might make sense to support insider trading laws in the name of corporate transparency.
Has support for embedded drawings in Word improved? I remember it didn't work or there were bugs..

Anyway inkscape is otherwise good- it passes my figure drawing test: draw a ruler with tick marks and numbers. Corel can do it. Vizio can do it. Xfig can do it. Not too many others can (try this with the draw tool built into open office and you'll see).
"Nope. No gun to my head." ha ha ha!

Given US attorney's rules around client/attorney privilege, perhaps he was giving the "least untruthful answer".

I kill myself!
I also started thinking things along the lines of that when I first looked into how Guix does things, but after annoying the developers a little (many thanks to Ludovic's patience) I've come to understand that things like that beat the whole purpose of having pure packages not only in binary content but also in run-time behavior.

Basically, reproducible builds are a red herring here. A package's identity is not only the hash of its byte-by-byte contents, it also includes ("closes over") the identities of all packages it "references" (depends on), meaning it will always have the exact same run-time behavior everywhere because even all its dependencies count as part of its identity.
we just moved our very own https://crate.io site from wordpress to cactus (python-based, https://github.com/koenbok/cactus).
just opened our github repo: https://github.com/crate/crate-web
it also includes a script to pull in existing wordpress blog posts.
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> Best thing to do to prevent this unfair advantage is releasing publicly available CC spend data.

Who releases it? Every credit card company? At what frequency?

What if one of the nightly bulk loads into the transaction data warehouse fails with an integrity error, alerts the DWH team, is picked up by a junior person because of a staffing anomaly, who forces it through, and then the next day's data release is off by a couple of million, but the automated trading bots and manual trading desks don't know this, so they trade on this new signal...

....I'm sure you see where I'm going with that.
awesome, would love to know what sub-reddits received the illegitimate takedown requests. Can anyone take a stab at which ones?
The British show Utopia also used various colors to great effect in different scene to represent different themes/interests.
I think the suggestion was to give a clean version of the thing away
Cofounders rarely have experience managing anyone or anything. They're learning at the same time as running a startup. There are a lot of good ways to manage, but they take time to learn and practice.

Boy is that scary.
For the custom, it would be great if there was an option to keep the matrix normalized.
Yeah it's a really hard problem (content editing in the browser). I am working on something like this now (for HTML content, not markdown specifically) and all I can say is it's prickly. The browser's content editing APIs are terrible so you have to do most everything yourself. But then there are some things that are very difficult to emulate, like selections. Still I think it's worth doing because I am tired of hand-coding my HTML pages all the time, and I think someone who can figure this might make a few dollars.
If only they could get Nokia to make phones with cyanogenmod pre-installed...
I painted the Bay Bridge Gold, here's what it might look like:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5rs6cgoh271w6s5/gold-bay-bridge.jp...
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The article starts with a false equivalence between archaic verbose language and mathematical notation.

For my part, I usually prefer the prose. Formulas are easier to read for people who are used to and have practice with mathematical notation, but even then they are easier to read for those people when they are sufficiently complete, and formulas seem to often come with huge leaps and unstated assumptions.

Especially in computer science papers I tend to see extensive use of formulas over prose or - preferably - code or pseudo-code as big warning signs: Often it turns out to mean the author is glossing over a massive amount of hugely important details. E.g. a common problem I saw when studying was papers that would describe processes, but omit any indications of sensible ranges for parameters that were essential to getting good results (I was working on techniques for image processing to improve OCR results), or greatly obscure details of algorithms that would have taken no more lines to write out in working code.
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What does make you think Common Lisp doesn't have data type literals?

A literal vector in Common Lisp:

#(1 2 3 4 5)

A literal 3d 2x2x2 array in Common Lisp:

#3A(((0 1) (2 3)) ((4 5) (6 7)))

Using it:

CL-USER 4 > (map 'vector #'sqrt #(1 2 3))
#(1.0 1.4142135 1.7320508)
I've never even learned ASP.Net MVC. I'm sticking with ASP.NET Web Forms. But I've done a lot of interesting things with web services and web requests using ASP.NET. Recently I've gotten a big project which requires getting into .NET Components, an enterprise architecture domain space which is extremely challenging.
And why do people think they are unsafe if they are safe? Where is the disconnect? If I have immunity from all crimes, would you trust me to never commit a crime? Certainly you can see the argument that is proposed is one of trust. Maybe they are safe as claimed, and if so it is then asked why then is immunity necessary for the producers?

Perception of safety without safety is fraud, in a free market the government does enforce laws against fraud.

How is it that a non free market has more incentive for safety? Who is accountable today? As I stated, currently law protects the producers against injury claims, so what is the mechanism and incentive for enforcement?
> Surely you can admit that Americans are less caste-loving. We treat talented individuals of all races+genders+GLBTQBBQ pretty damn well compared to the majority of the world

I'm not really sure about that. If you are talking about overt treatment, sure we tend to be nice and well-mannered compared to the majority of the world. But underneath that facade we really aren't any different from the rest. Why do you think an HN user had to create a throwaway account (throwaway6761) to denigrate an entire race of people? I'm sure he tends to be nice and well-mannered to the minorities outside the Internet. Finally note that the comment you are responding to points to the class/status system between Americans (not just between races): http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/03/class-di...
I'll say this: a start-up experience is excellent preparation for marriage.

Your marriage is more important to your long-term success than your start-up is, too.
Your right, the currency directly does not do anything, but in the crypto currency space people love the altcions. There are arguments for both sides on the value and the need for altcoins but the fact remains that people mine them.

The way our coin helps is by convincing the mass amount of computational power that is dumped into altcoins that will eventually fade away, or become scam coins, to be better used towards something that will benefit the world.

The BTC miners i do not believe waste energy as they are providing a fantastic transaction ledger.
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Just out of curiosity, the fine is paid to the government, right -- not the people mariott interfered with?
Interesting. So perhaps we need some sort of "CTLAN" (Comprehensive TLA+ Tautology Archive Network?) kind of thing to be able to import/match obligations to already-established proofs from some common repository? Maybe future versions of TLAPS would benefit from such a thing?

(Sorry if this already exists; I'm just an interested layman.)
> Has this been around before?

I would imagine not, considering this is their first transparency report.
One caveat to your point: in that comment, the Picturelife CEO was apparently criticizing Loom for shutting down their service after being acquired by Dropbox. In this case, it sounds like Streamnation really intends to keep running (and improve) the existing Picturelife service. [1]

[1] "We love Picturelife": https://www.streamnation.com/blog/index.php/we-love-picturel...
Well that's a bit disappointing, although probably pretty important to their business model.

Will make the news of a jailbreak for PS4 that much more exciting at least :)
I look forward to seeing Android devices powered by Microsoft apps/services in the future just so Google has a wee bit of competition!

We (at SweetLabs) have been proponents of this "Windroid" concept for some time, and I think Cyanogen is a very smart way for Microsoft to move forward. Our "Windroid" thoughts were written up last year if anyone is interested: http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/01/windroid-what-if-microsoft...
All of this is trivial with the Node.js build ecosystem of 2015 -- all of it!
It's called the bond market :)
Just about the only complaint I hear from from WP users is that it doesn't have the apps they would like to use. If MS could prove that their phones had similar app support that Android and iPhones have many more people would be open to using them.
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Can you tell more about DecisionOS?
Is this something you've built inhouse or is it based on MLLib etc?
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If this takes off Lamport's paper is going to get more citations than any other paper.
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Any Austinites out there? Looks like there haven't been any recent ones in ATX.
No, not solved. Twilio can now send long SMS messages, but still cannot receive them properly.
Now that everybody has smartphones, which do SMS split and reassembly invisibly to the user, the 160 character limitation is more of a historic thing and users are not aware of it. In practice, most long SMS messages are outbound, because they're marketing messages or spam, so this isn't a problem for most Twilio users.

Technical details, for anyone interested:

Multipart SMS messages have a binary header which carries the sequence number info necessary for reassembly. The Twilio API for incoming SMS (https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/twiml/sms/twilio_request) does not pass that through. The user's application gets multiple message parts from Twilio ("For incoming messages that are greater than 160 characters, the sending carrier will break up the message behind the scenes before delivering them to us, so Twilio will treat them as separate incoming messages and deliver them to your application in the order we receive them.") but without the info needed to put them back together properly. So the customer's program processes the first part right, and is then confused by the disconnected chunks of text in the later parts.

The Nexmo API (https://docs.nexmo.com/index.php/sms-api/handle-inbound-mess...) does: see the fields under "Specific Parameters for long 'concatenated' Inbound". The parts may come in any order, but they have ID numbers and "part N of M" info, so the user can reassemble them. Twilio support once talked about doing reassembly on their end, but that was never implemented.

Here's Twilio support and a Salesforce user talking about this on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21025795/combining-a-mult...
Surely that would fall under "interfere" of the law and still earn them the fine?
I assume your questions about why produces are immune from injury claims are rhetorical. If they're real, I can try to actually answer them.

The mechanism and incentive for enforcement is with the FDA. If a vaccine is genuinely unsafe then the FDA is supposed to (and as far as I know, actually will) take appropriate action, up to and including fining the company and banning the product if it's warranted.
> Have a dedicated home office (or at least a workspace) that is for work only. When you're in this space, treat family and/or roommates as you would if they showed up unannounced at your office. Be polite, but let them know you're working.

It's crazy how hard it is for people to realize that just because you work from home doesn't mean you are always available. I don't know how many time I've had a family member knock on the door 2 minutes before I have a meeting or get a call from my wife just to chat about her day... there's got to be some major misunderstanding in the general public about what working from home means. It feels like people think it means there's no structure at all.
And his full statement in response to allegations:

http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/254035158
I believe this is why you are getting downvoted:

> It's not going to be displacing low-level programming any time soon, unless radical changes are in store for 2.x and beyond, hypothetically

What radical changes are you referring to, and why are they needed in order for Go to be a de-facto language for system programmers?
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This is limited to data Reddit HQ legal has dealt with. The subs in question may not even be aware. The admins often play their cards close.
People are being pushed off buildings or beheaded precisely because of their beliefs. Today. Oh, sure, it's some war-torn region and done by extremists...but they weren't doing it more than a few months ago, and now the for-that-reason dead are numbering well into 5-6 digits and rising fast. It's real, it's growing, and there's many people who would "hunt you because of your beliefs" if not for the normalcy of rule & law.
Well said. A lot of my time in forums is spent explaining the benefits of Counterparty. It is a fantastic platform that allows anyone with any skill set to create an altcoin, known as an asset or token in the CP world.

This is great because it allows our development team to work on features, rather than a blockchain and wallet system that can be very hard for a small team of 5 to maintain. Please read this page if you havent already about the pros and cons of Counterparty http://foldingcoin.net/fldc-vs-alts/
I remember when blackberry had a promotion to get a PlayBook for free if you submitted an app. I'm sure they got loads of apps, if only to get the free PlayBook to sell.

I know that's what I did.
Spacedicks had all of them
Amateurs tend to be much worse at limiting risk, so while they can win bigger, their drawdown/losses tend to be much higher than the professionals, too.

If you want to see how good a trader someone is, look at how much they lose in a bad market rather than how much they make in a good market.
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> you must supercomputer to get descent performance

I find an SSD helps a lot. Visual Studio runs fine until I install ReSharper then it absolutely needs an SSD and 8 GB minimum of RAM.

> How about using text files for configuration rather than overly complex APIs (WMI Providers)?

The Windows Registry is more akin to /etc than WMI is. The Windows Registry is clunky, however at least you only have a single interface to program against rather than one per configuration file which is nice. Even XML doesn't resolve things quite as nicely as the Windows Registry.

Do I wish the Registry was better? Sure. Organisationally it is horrifying and there are some strange bugs and workarounds. However I think /etc style text files are a step backwards.

> How about a proper bash shell (powershell is no replacement)

I agree Powershell is not a replacement for bash. It is in fact one of the best command line interfaces ever designed and leaves bash well in the dust (although bash is a bad example of the best the unix world has to offer anyway).

> how about a proper SSH client?

Putty?

If you wish to use Linux, BSD, or OSX the more power to you. There is a lot of great tech' around on those platforms. That being said, your post reads a bit like a troll, you don't seem to know a lot about Windows and seem to be spouting very bland generic "benefits" of UNIX-style operating systems out of context.

Almost like you read someone else say these things then just decided to repost them to get a rise out of people? Some of your complaints (e.g. Powershell sucks) are pretty laughable. As someone who is quite familiar with both Linux in particular and Windows, it is a hard complaint to take seriously...
The original looks more green-orange and flat. The blu-ray looks more green-blue and contrasted. The original feels 'warm' and the blu-ray feels 'cool.'
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Same situation here, using Ionic, but this seems extremely cool. I'll definitely build something with ReactNative as soon as I can. We're only making a news app, but Ionic feels completely native once we optimized it correctly and use the latest beta features.

As for Android being slow does that include 4.4 devices, or just older version of Android? If it's older devices, you should try the new Ionic beta with Crosswalk integration (you'll need to install/enable Crosswalk, but it's very easy to do). Sadly, it'll add about 25mb to your .apk, but on phones earlier than 4.4 the performance boost is at least 10x if not more.
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Haven't tried it out yet, but looks nice.

Surprised to see that this wasn't authored by Mario Klingemann, creator of the very clever LowpolyBot:

http://lowpolybot.tumblr.com/
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