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Do you have any information on their current status and their biggest issues/blockers?

What I'm wondering about the different approaches is if they could receive bigger breakthroughs by sharing / crowdsourcing their issues and getting a wider attraction / reach. E.g. sometimes the answers to a problem lie in another industry

Like e.g. the fold.it game helped decyphering the crystal structure of an AIDS causing virus in 10 days, while scientists were battling it for 15 years
I didn't realize the cost of fuel is only $200-$300k for a space launch. That's ridiculously low considering it costs more than that in fuel to cross the Atlantic ocean in a 100-foot yacht.
Are there any published references on this technique, or a law firm that is well-versed in it?
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And strike 2. The "Gamergate harassment patrol" operates like the "firemen" from Farenheit 451. They actively seek out new twitter users to harass, particularly those who call them out for doing so.

By all means keep trying to hold up terrible people as examples of "the good ones" though. It's entertaining.
Yeah, these work great out of consensus systems. Please consider that you're working on a consensus system though.

"Simultaneous" has no meaning. There are no means of instant communication, there is latency. There also is no proof of time without a consensus system.

So what is the proof that I committed my 0 or 1 value before they revealed? Well you could trust a central authority to maintain that timestamping, or you could even use Bitcoin for your timestamping. In fact, your PoS system could probably work if it piggy backed on Bitcoin completely.

If that's too abstract for you, consider that I say I'm ready to commit, everyone sends me their commits, I construct a block with all their commits and a ton of other possible commits and then once I have created a seed that allows me to win and control the network permenantly.
I hope that your health improves quickly. I sympathize as I'm highly sensitive to many products that outgas VOCs. Avoiding these chemicals requires discipline and can be expensive, but the improvement to immediate quality of life is worth it (not to mention possible long term health benefits).

For home items, my strategy is to try to purchase products containing as much natural content as possible. Solid woods as opposed to particle board or MDF, natural fiber rugs if possible, avoid scented products and harsh cleaners. However, even this isn't fool proof. During a recent carpentry project I discovered that some softwoods outgas these compounds as well.

In my case, VOC sensitivity seems to be the result of cumulative exposure: On a large architectural project I spent many weeks inside a buttoned up building that was being painted. Came down with severe respiratory symptoms that resembled a bad flu. Eventually I recovered but ten years on I'm sensitive as a canary to the stuff.

I recommend that folks work in a well ventilated area or use a charcoal filter respirator when using anything having significant fumes. Even small doses of these chemicals are probably worth avoiding.
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Awesome I see you changed the copy :)

Can I suggest you change the headline to "Discover our alerts - subscribe and get notified on your Apple Watch!"?
Grid lock is annoying, but it's not going to kill you violently. And good luck trying to drive 100 mph in Manhattan.
Apparently there's some work happening now with mice, to activate a gene that selectively eliminates senescent cells ( from Google ) - but gene manipulation after birth is unfeasible, isn't it? What other ways could there be?

RE: Baculovirus, have you seen any attempts at this?
Only outdoors though, right? When it doesn't work reliably it's a frustrating product.
Great job Jimmy and Thomas! The app really looks great.
One of my senior friends will be working at Amazon full time after he graduates this spring. He's one of our best & brightest. Amazon seems like a great fit for him.
Fixies are great. Don't knock it until you try it.
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What makes me fast is I press Control-S and my code is live--working--in production. Clients love it.

One day they won't. I guarantee it.
> You don't get to cherry-pick a "safe area of Brooklyn" and compare it with the whole of Elyria.

Do you understand at all how big Brooklyn is? A safe area of Brooklyn is at least 250,000 people; actually perhaps 400,000 or so.

> There are "safe areas" in Elyria that have a crime rate of 6 (national average: 286, according to this site's measurment methodology)

Where? Cannot see anything like that on the map you linked.

> 2) Elyria has over 50,000 people. That's hardly a representative suburb.

Please, educate me how to (cherry)pick a representative suburb.
One solution would be to have a hierarchy of contexts displayed in the note app. (Like breadcrumbs in file explorer). User could switch between context levels manually.
In Seattle, overnight parking does not cost. They actually have stickers on the parking meters reminding drivers of this in the case that they're planning to drink.
Imagine it was really hard to get two twins with such different exercise patterns, unless one developed a brain tumor. A study showing the twin with less exercise was less healthy wouldn't mean much.
I'm in Montana, but looking at jobs in Seattle right now. There really isn't much in this state for software dev jobs, and I'm tired of doing network engineering work.

I'll take a look at that, I totally missed the jobs tab
I am disappointed by the v2 website frontpage (beta). It's too overloaded. Hopefully web.archive.org will stay unchanged. I want a Google-like style page, not a Yahoo style overcrowded page that is very dynamic and dog slow.

I like the mission and the current site of archive.org a lot!
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How about exiting the highway and calling the police? Seems like the most prudent course for everyone.
> This can be weird (if you delete a file in use, it won't be effectively deleted from disk until every application accessing it stop doing so)

That explains why I can easily remove a running process on Linux, but it doesn't work on Windows.
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Fascinating story. Thanks for sharing, though I hope you understand my general doubt. But you'd expect that since I'm so far away from these strange occurrences.

Getting back to the point of this thread: when you pray, are you praying to something external, or are you praying to an internal divided, yet more divine, disconnected self?
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>> It's when things break that you can find out what's going on.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, early part of Medical academics is all about studying how a healthy body body works. So that when they start studying the diseases they can learn to distinguish between a disease and a expected behaviour.

So to know if something is an abnormal psychology, you need to first know what is normal.
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The fact that I read the title and immediately thought of a silly and mistyped headline for a piece about a wearable device means I should be reading less about technology.
Such as visiting a Bigelow Aerospace inflatable space station? They have a demo in orbit, an ISS module in the pipeline, and a manifested launch of a bigger unit on the SpaceX manifest. I thought this was pretty well known, guess I was wrong!
There is an official mirror of the Wayback Archive.org located in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Alexandrina

I dreamed last night that an internet dotCom giant donates money / host a mirror of Archive.org. It would be definitely a novel step.
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How about: free users can track budgets for 1 person (themselves), and the data is stored locally. If they want to share it with several people for free, they can install it on the family tablet.

In the free version you could show ads, and then do an IAP to remove them forever (one time cost). You could skip ads if you wanted, but I would probably go ahead and put them in the free version.

You could then offer a companion service which syncs to "the cloud", allows sharing the budget between several people, and which requires a monthly subscription (sold through your website).

This segments nicely: young people with no cash get it free, and families who have more money are your paid users. Even better, you have a time-honored and very popular plan to eventually convert your free users to paid. :)
"The population density in thousands of places in the US is more than high enough to support more sustainable transportation solutions, but yet even those places don't."

Places where the population density is high enough to have it (New York, other parts of BosWash, Chicagoland) by and large do have it.

The OP was complaining about Los Angeles. Five minutes with Wikipedia and a calculator will demonstrate why mass transit sucks there, and always will. And LA is dense compared to most of the country.
It's worth remembering in these cases that the date of the earliest fossil find is only weakly related to the date of the earliest instance of the fossilized species: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1610

Sparsely sampled distributions will necessarily have tails that are not represented in the sampled data, and for early humans those tails could plausibly go back much, much further than the current record shows.

As such, we can expect that there will be a slow, steady stream of "surprising" early finds that push back hominid evolution to much longer ago than previously appreciated. The same is true of dinosaurs or any other species: the rarity of fossilization events is such that the probability of the earliest surviving fossil being particularly close to the emergence of the species is just not that high.

It would be interesting to do a serious analysis of the fossil discovery distribution to see if we can make a better estimate of the earliest emergence of hominids based on empirical estimates of fossilization and discovery probabilities.
>Except when a company dies, no people actually die.

except that isn't always true. [0]

Suicide Rates Rising for Older U.S. Adults - Rates for 40-64 year-olds may be increasing due to financial circumstances, according to American Journal of Preventive Medicine

[0] : http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-jo...
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How is it a scam for a guy to do research on a company and then sell the stock when he decides said company isn't worth the current price. He isn't the person that made the company a scam, he just uncovered it. The poor sap on the other end didn't do as much research. Not they sellers fault. He can't be held responsible for the due diligence of every other investor in the world. That's basically what you are stating.

Every single stock transaction involves 2 people who think the opposite thing is going to happen. The vast majority of the time 1 of those participants knows more than the other.
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Another fucking application that doesn't specify that it's only for osx. Fucking apple users man. What about Windows & Linux? Can I get this for those? I don't know... because it doesn't fucking say. What... what are those? you ask? They're operating systems you don't need a fucking $1000 piece of hardware to run. Fucking apple users man.

Ok... I know, I know - swearing bad. But I'm a little sick of having to infer the most important piece of information about software by looking at the fucking screenshots.
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Don't worry, SF is terrible for drivers too. I'll just keep my truck in the south bay, where they appreciate it (kind of; why does caltrans forget how to design north of the grapevine?)
When the two choices given you are to exist in a hugbox or get abused and insulted every day for a few years, I think I know what sane people are going to do. Including you, despite your bluster. There are other ways to counteract being in an echo chamber that don't involve constantly turning the other cheek to a mob of wild assholes.
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You don't join a startup. You join a company, a vision, a group of awesome people. Joining a startup for the sake of joining a startup is a fool's errand.

Another of putting this: why do you want to join a startup?
It's hard to come up with a universal indicator, because different situations require different cultures.

Examples:

- Some companies have incubation models - small teams trying new things. If they work, they grow. If not, everyone leaves as things wind down.

- Services heavy firms have higher turnover than pure product companies. (It's hard being a service employee)

- Same with sales heavy cultures.

- If you're a great employer in Des Moines (Iowa) you'll have less turnover than Silicon Valley.

I love metrics, and struggle with this a lot. A couple signs:

- Why do people leave? (Money? To become a teacher?)

- Do you have to pay more than the competition?

- How many of your A players recruit their best friends?

- Do customers want to be employees?

- Do ex-employees want to become customers?

Very hard to benchmark!
I don't understand why you say WordPress is difficult to secure. Just disconnect the ethernet cable, turn off the wifi and lock the machine in a steel box. Or you can go with absolute security and just disconnect the power cable from the machine; problem solved.
"A safe area of Brooklyn is at least 250,000 people; actually perhaps 400,000 or so."

Fine. Show me a "safe area" of Brooklyn that has a crime rate of 6

"Where? Cannot see anything like that on the map you linked."

I should have said other suburbs in the same area. For example, Westlake.

"Please, educate me how to (cherry)pick a representative suburb."

Well, for a start you don't pick out the one with the highest crime rate.

That map demonstrates that Elyria is an extreme outlier, even for the area, much less for the country as a whole.

You got busted, dude.
I don't know of any public resources on the topic, or of any law firms that are particularly adept at this. However, I have seen it done in practice.

I'd recommend talking to a law firm that's well versed in startup corporate law. The big firms Cooley and Orrick come to mind.
"But eventually the researchers homed in on 10 pairs of male identical twins, one of whom regularly exercised, while the other did not, usually because of work or family pressures, the researchers determined."

Oh boy... How can 10 possibly be enough?
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Security by obscurity. Yeah, that's a valid strategy.
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Speaking of diet, I'm wondering what your thoughts are on macronutrient composition (e.g., low-carbohydrate) diets? I didn't find anything in your essays, just this series of tweets.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/gwern/status/456548028745129984
This answer is too flip. In corporate america, you might be able to use a personal e-mail as a stop-gap measure but not as a primary communication. Not in any fortune 50 or whatevr company with compliance and security infrastructure. This is something that has changed drastically in the past 10 years.

Most corporate hardware should be presumed "insecure" from the perspective of personal communication, and similarly so shoud any account that is used to co-mingle work and personal communication.

In other words, it is with great risk[1] that you don't use company hardware. Unless you have duplicate systems, of course. And if you have a duplicate system that you pay for in lieu of the company, only to for the purpose of subverting company policy, you have an ethics problem.

If that makes sense.

In any event, the technical issues here about how this was setup are legitimately interesting. It might very well be that the NSA/secret service or whomever set up this system to very secure indeed. I think the jury is out on that, frankly, and I'm not sure I would jump to the conclusion that SOS would be so wreckless as to not have her system vetted. (Or that the secret service or NSA or whomever would be so wreckless to not do it for them). Obviously it was a very carefully considered and pre-meditated decision to set up this system.

But then again people do stupid stuff all the time.

[1] To your personal life and privacy, not to the corporations per-se.
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Usually they are real estate deals and private equity firms like Blackstone (BX), Apollo (APO), KKR, Fortress (FIG), Carlyle (CG) etc. These are giants of private equity firms and the advantage that they have is massive ownership of publicly listed companies that enables them to sit them on their board, control their direction and have lot of inside information as opposed to regular investors who just have few stocks.

For most people above $200K income, biggest expense is usually taxes. So it makes a lot of sense for wealthy people to dominantly invest in instruments which has lowest taxes. They take advantage of 15% tax rule for capital gains and also they take massive advantage of real estate sales which are taxed at zero or rates as low as 20%. In addition they can invest in real estate in countries with lax tx policies or where things are very cheap right now such as Italy, Greece and Iceland. Many wealthy also invest in new business projects happening in their social circle. For example, investing another friend's new beach hotel chain or in infrastructure project contract for some government. In these they have advantage that their friends have lot of inside information on how things will go and what are their key strengths, weaknesses and risks. If regular people are allowed to invest in these, they have lot less leverage and no opportunity for timely cash out when things are going to go south. Finally, regular Joe with $100K have far limited avenues for diversification (essentially just stocks and bonds) and even more limited resources for research and re-allocation of assets. Wealthy can literally exercise 100s of options including currency trading, commodities, foreign equities, futures and so on combined with sophisticated call/put options. While a regular Joe probably meets an accountant twice a year, super rich usually have staff of dozen or more in a dedicated office space to continuously analyze and re-allocate assets in realtime. It is not an accident that Bill Gates total networth has more than doubled despite of his massive giving drive and almost a decade long retirement.
>What I don't understand about that strategy is what prevents the acquired employees from re-forming as a new company?

Nothing prevents this, there had been many studios by former employees of a shut down studio (e.g. Ensemble -> Robot, Pandemic -> Killzone, Incognito -> Lightbox, Big Huge Games -> Impossible etc. etc). However, usually the reason a studio had been shut down was its poor performance and not some evil marketing plan so the respawned studios inherit the problems of the original studio complicated with the talent drain that happens during such a transition.
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> WP is bad for big businesses because it's an serious attack vector.

That's FUD. WordPress is not hard to secure if you follow some best practices and do not use crap plugins.

That said, one would hope with the projects budgets that big businesses offer to agencies that agencies would hire competent people to build their sites.

Full disclosure: that's what we do; build WP sites for agencies on behalf their big business clients.
Borders of nations can be changed by mutual agreement. Unfortunately the national leaders of African nations have been willing to keep these arbitrary borders, and much of the time only the other way is applied, i.e. war.

War is also how the European national borders have been decided. In the U.S., the state borders are remarkably similar to African borders: straight lines along a particular meridian or circle of latitude. So is the Canadian border.
It's a good thing in this case they also don't have to worry too much about bad actors, since it's a fundamentally altruistic endeavor. Worst case scenarios:

1) Someone keeps downloading the full archive and throwing away;

2) Someone wants a file erased, keeping it with the intention of denying access in some future.

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1) Bandwidth has costs on both sides; just balancing upload among receivers would probably suffice for this not to be a problem.

2) Assigning large random chunks to downloaders should prevent this "chosen-block attack"; add in some global redundancy for good measure and that's probably enough (although I still wouldn't trust this 100% as a primary storage, only as an insurance storage).
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Maybe change 100% invisibility to about 20%. That should make it barely visible, but less confusing. It would show underneath content so it would still be useful.
Hi,

It says available on mac store at the very top. The buy link redirects to the mac store. If those aren't clue enough, I doubt anything but 72point font size might get through to you.

Who is this rant aimed at anyway? The developer? S/he's perfectly within rights to make it for whatever platform they want.

Mac users in general? I think you could take some of your own advice from 23 days ago, "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story."
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Whereas declaiming someone a "racist sexist homophobe" at the first indication of heterodoxy is nothing like using "dismissive slurs" to hand-wave away another's statements, especially if the culprit is one of those young white dudes whose thoughts no one should ever pay any attention to anyway.
Wait, first the problem is that it's poorly-made,
then the problem is that it's really good at what it does (but it's supposedly bad at it),
then the problem is that it was way too easy to make something that effective?

These all seem like mutually exclusive criticisms (still lacking in substantiation). Which one is it?

Also, even if you granted all of the above concerns, what business is it of anyone's if they choose not to have to listen to people? Right of association, and all. If it's really as damaging as you claim, either people will see that (and stop), or they won't.

p.s. 'hugbox' is a pretty amazingly offensive term, especially on a community site which has generally shown broad support for neuro-diversity, and I don't think it honors the community guideline to "Be civil".
What do we expect from Wired? Is there a general consensus that Wired is a respectable news source? I'm subscribed to it (the subscription was a gift) and it occasionally has informative and interesting content (the Christopher Nolan issue was cool) but I've been depressed by it as much as I've gotten benefit out of it.
The harsher treatment isn't really what I was talking about. People were often said to be "off" or "crazy", but no one talk about it much. Likely mental disorders were underreported because there was less interest in understanding them and more ostracization of those who were open about it. Classifying mental disorders does not mean we're letting people off the hook.

Like I posted previously, physiological factors with the brain can cause poor emotion and impulse control. Abuse during the developmental stages of the brain could also wire the brain in strange ways that, again, someone may not be able to actually control.

Saying society is "soft" and these people are "weak" doesn't solve anyone's problems.
In that case the entire contract is invalid and neither party is bound by it.