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> It's possible to construct the pixels with an infinite series of rationals, but it's also possible to construct them as a single rational in a countable way.

Only if you want overlapping pixels or pixels of varying size. Or pixels that are points, in which case you don't need a convoluted recursive mechanism to define where and what they are.
Am I reading all these comments correctly ? You guys were caught in the act and don't even admit it ?

"Do you know how fast you were driving?"

"Yes sir, I'm sorry I was speeding, it's been a stressful day. I have no excuse for this behavior. I won't do it again."

Should be the reasonable answer. Now swallow your pride and pay the fine, and try not to do that again. My kids will thank you.
Really I think this problem is overblown at this point. That said, a surefire way would be something like Twitters patent agreement - guarantee no offensive patent use. This would mean giving up a bunch of Android revenue though so I don't see it.
Nurturing relationships while struggling to master a subject or anything else for that matter is the main reason for going to any school in the world.

The key here though is the struggling aspect. If a school does not make you struggle to the point where you look for connections, I doubt then there is a point to the school itself.

Further, every major founder of every major startup has always looked back at the single biggest reason to their success are the relationships they acquired, nurtured, and mastered.
This is a very interesting idea and I really hope it takes off. The people involved seem to genuinely care about the mission and I think that's a very good sign.

That said, I do have a few questions that I couldn't answer from looking at your website:

- Is funding only available within the US or are other countries considered too?

- What about existing research projects that are currently closed but intend to become open and have their data shared, would your process support that?

- Do you enforce what should be shared and how, or is it up to the leaders/collaborators? (reason I ask is because, for instance, patient data may be involved but cannot be shared)

Also, under "Phase 3: Research" > "2. Collaborative Wrap-up" you mention packaging the research. I think that's one of the biggest problems in research, it's a jungle out there (e.g. randomly formatted Excel files are still the norm in a lot of places...). Providing directions, templates, access to platforms, etc. i.e. doing a lot of hand-holding might be necessary here. I also think it would drive a lot of people to using your platform and spreading the word about it.

In any case, best of luck!
That's correct. It's possible for a service center to load software over a wire, but that's only necessary when something goes wrong. In the normal course of events, the car pops up a little alert saying there's a software update available, and asking when you want to install it. Updates are free forever (although one expects that updates for older hardware will stop being made eventually). It's basically like an iPhone in this regard.
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This may be true. However, they are FAR more inclined to work with a customer before just flipping a switch like a lot of (for example) American hosting companies will. I have nothing but good things to say about OVH. They were helpful during a DDoS I had about a year ago throughout the incident, but I'm sure they would have nullrouted me had I not been so responsive to their support guys when things started going badly. "I'm sure" here is pure anecdote and based on zero evidence, but it's the feeling I got.
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> "We don’t do anything to thwart the content restrictions in China or other countries," said Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. "We’re a tech company and we comply with the law."

There's a popular idea that businesses (and people) have no responsibilities to anyone but themselves, because what they have is theirs; they built it themselves. But if you think about it a little, it's obviously false. Here's a more accurate statement:

We're a tech company whose success is completely dependent on the freedoms in our nation and many other nations around the world, and on the political and economic systems, infrastructure, and enormous wealth that blossomed from them. Without the sacrifices of blood and treasure by our predecessors of hundreds of years, and of many people today, we would not have these resources or opportunities today. There are many talented people born in many countries who, without these benefits, have no opportunity for success.

They can't sacrifice their company for every principle, every time, but there's a middle ground between that and 'we're just a tech company so we have no responsibilities'.
I've dealt with them in their CDN role on multiple occasions.

They're the most abhorrent combination of incompetence and arrogance that I've ever met in the tech industry.

They're the Oracle of the network world. Just don't waste your time on them. There's plenty better and cheaper CDNs nowadays.

Leave Akamai to the Governments and MegaCorps, they deserve each other.
So you only have the last 20% to go!
Why so complicated with going to Amsterdam and all that? Just go to your nearest Tesla location and take a test drive.

Just be careful, because odds are good that you will want to buy one after doing so, and they are not cheap.

I'm 190cm tall and I own a Model S and it's extremely comfortable for me, both as driver and passenger.
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I think the law is a commentary on a certain kind of headline: a polar question where the implications would be deeply disturbing if the answer were yes.
Thanks for posting this. If anyone has questions, I'll try to answer them here, on twitter or in the comments on the blog post.
Does this maintain query privacy?
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In phonetics, it's a "plosive".
Flash Player, Adobe Reader, JVM, etc etc etc. I don't think it's a localized problem. And we only have so many people with the skills of the LibreSSL team to go around.
This is older than dinosaurs. Well not quite, but pretty close.
This is interesting. Homomorphic encryption has been talked about a lot in the past, but no one had an efficient implementation.

Good overview: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2012/5/alice-and...

Only problem is: the field is littered with patent landmines. It'll be interesting to see how these guys can work around that... http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2012/04/04/38707/
Here is some defense innovation: cease all violent activities and promote peace through passivity, treaty writing and well-to-do local economic development
I can't wait for junkyard micro-satellites equipped with an ion thruster. They are launched in the hundreds at a time, each locates their specific target, attaches and start a slow descend to burn in the atmosphere. This process is done automatically over a time-frame of months, since ion thrusters work slowly, which is great for automation.
Co-founder here. My best friend and I quit our jobs a while back and have been working hard and bootstrapping this. This is an early version - we'll be adding more templates and features soon
Here's the app: http://www.analyzewords.com/

My "Spacy/Valley girl" social style is high. For some reason, I don't mind.
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Thanks for the comment. To answer your questions

- Funding availability by country will depend on who our funding partners are (right now we have none).

- Yes, we could support existing projects that want to become open. Right now the site assumes people start with a "proposal stage", but we could create an option for an existing project.

- ThinkLab does not enforce what should be shared. It's up to the project leaders to declare what they intend to share, and it's up to the collaborators to ultimately decide how much of a performance bonus the research team should receive. (Partly based on how open they are with their data)

Thanks again.
They do, but rarely across the whole grid at once. This event is like it becoming extremely cloudy everywhere for about five minutes, followed by a return to normal conditions. That's a fairly large transient, so it isn't really "solar power is variable" that's the story, but "solar eclipses produce an unusually large transient in solar output".

The same is true of wind power, which in some areas (the province of Alberta, in Canada, for example) wind resources are concentrated in a small geographic area, so when the wind stops blowing all the wind power drops off the grid. Alberta has limited their total wind capacity to 3% of average demand to prevent this from creating instabilities.

Distributed storage is going to be a significant part of our renewable future, which will mitigate these problems, but for the moment the growth of solar and wind capacity has outstripped storage capacity, so we can expect there will be a few unfortunate events along the way (which will stimulate NIMBYs to denounce the entire technological sector, quite likely.)
100% worth it. I have monitoring/notification set up on my infrastructure, and have had two hardware failures since becoming an OVH customer a few years ago. OVH techs in the datacenter were on the scene before I got downtime notifications. Their techs must deal with this kind of thing all night, every night, because they seem to have this process of replacing hardware down to a science. This as opposed to my other dedicated providers, who basically don't give a shit, for the same hardware at the same price. OVH is an excellent budget investment!
y, heading out of town can be a crazy time wrapping up items getting everything ready to go.

So part of it could be vacation prep.

I would try one more reminder, include a copy of the invoice or a link where he can pay you and indicate you won't be proceeding till the payment is made and you'd appreciate it if they could take care of it before they leaves or during his travel (if it's making it online). He might be waiting to respond after he's on his way.

Tell him to enjoy his vacation and you're looking forward to making progress on the project while he's out of town.

If you don't hear back from him I would give it a day or so to see if he takes care of it on vacation. If not I would wait to get started on it next week after he returns and makes payment.

I wouldn't work too far ahead without agreed payments being made and I wouldn't bug him on his vacation.

Good luck getting your payment.
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Really awesome! I guess the reason to do this is basically portability?
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Copyright says 2011.
4 years old.
I can confirm that Akamai is a pain to deal with. Defense.Net as well. Cloudflare is what I would chose but they are siding with the Chinese gov't at this point.
Even if it is true, getting an enterprise account, which is still very reasonably priced, gives you dedicated IP addresses to your site, so this shouldn't be a huge concern. Generally when under fire, Cloudflare is also happy to get you up and running and talk finer details on billing for the long term later.

The bigger problem is their stance on Latern mentioned above.
The problem is such definition would result in a situation where the seller had no incentive at all to engage in the process of making and sell the product.

Most theories of profit assume that an investor gets money approximately proportionate to the risk they take in investing as a well as to the opportunity cost of just sitting on their money.
One area where executives are exceptional is in social skills. You have to know how to get instant trust from just about anybody, and when they are talking with anyone they can make that person feel important. You also need to never decompensate under pressure.

Other than that there aren't any specific job requirements, you could be the CEO of a company like General Motors and not know a lot about cars because you've got plenty of people around you.
Is entrepreneurship struggling. I would have assumed we were in an entrepreneurship bubble.
The points {0, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1}, etc, are the boundaries between pixels, not the pixels themselves.
I was hoping the title was referencing the song :)
They can't use binary because some poorly written legacy software will get stuck on the zeroes (nulls), EOF characters, and 128-255 characters.
Or prison visits for that matter:

https://www.gov.uk/performance/prison-visits/volumetrics
Ordinal and cardinal exponentiation use similar notation, but they don't work the same way. Though it's common to see statements like "ω is the same as \aleph_0," it's misleading, because 2^ω = ω, and thus has lesser cardinality than 2^\aleph_0.

See also the "warning" here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_arithmetic#Exponentiati...
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To create waves twice as height of the ball, make the ball go at the speed of a wave.
Disclaimer: I work in the space industry for one of SpaceX's competitors. None of my work is in competition with SpaceX (totally different systems), but it bears mentioning. I've also never worked for SpaceX, so a lot of what I'm saying here is opinion and hearsay.

SpaceX does excellent work, and has an amazing track record for such a young space company. That being said, it's important to highlight that the 'absurd level of improvement' that we're seeing not just the product of good engineering management practices. Much of it comes as a result of some pretty extreme expectations placed on the employees working there.

I've lost track of the number of people who've told me that they'd love to work at SpaceX, if only the culture wasn't so oppressively work-centric. These comments have come from students looking for full time jobs having previously interned within the aerospace industry as well as NASA civil servants and contractors who have been putting stuff into space for decades.

The aerospace industry is practically built around overworking its engineers, and, for almost everyone in it, working here was a conscious sacrifice to be able to do some Very Cool Shit. SpaceX takes that concept and turns it up to 11, expecting people to eat, breathe, and live their jobs. The last thing I would want is a firm dedicated to propagating these ideals.
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Sure. Will keep in touch!
Also, its in the UK. Land of rain.
The non-monotonic nature of growth has been used to justify the claim that complex societies fail because investment in complexity provides diminishing returns, however: http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Arc...
Maybe a man-assisted process - like skyscraper-sized water gardens full of algae.
I hope to listen these crazy Koreans' interview!!
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There's another option, which is to calculate the "per play" rate differently for each listener. If one user plays 300 tracks per month (one 10-track album per day), and another user plays music 24/7 (the gyms that have been mentioned before), why should the per-play fee be the same in both cases? If this was a pay-per-play model that would be fine, but this is all-you-can-eat streaming. Users that listen to a disproportionately high number of songs should not dictate which artists get money. That awards those users far more than their normal $10/mo purchasing power.

This scheme is similar to the proposal to calculate artist pay independently for each user, but I think it's a little simpler, since you still only calculate the artist pay out of the global pot, you're just weighing each play by the user's total monthly plays. And you can put a minimum on it too, so the per-play weighting doesn't take effect until the user listens to more than a given number of tracks per month (this way the user who has a subscription but just occasionally listens to a song here and there isn't paying the artist $1 per play, which is to say, until you reach a certain point, listening to other songs won't "devalue" your previous tracks).
There are a lot of places that will work you like a dog for something that feels meaningless. I don't think anybody feels that way at SpaceX.
Looks like you missed the contents of the Wikipedia article, which explains that unless hormones count as "memories", the flatworm experiments did not mean what McConnell thought they meant.
For a DDoS, you can spoof your IP to anything, because you don't care about actually receiving response packets. This is standard in a SYN flood.
> it doesn't track that it had money in it or its location within the receivers infrastructure

If the customer mails an empty envelope, the merchant won't ship, so where is the problem?

If postal workers steal the cash but reseal the envelope... well these incidents do happen but are very rare. It can't be the major reason why "people don't mail cash". People mail valuable items all the time.

If a trustworthy merchant genuinely lose the envelope after delivery... well these incidents are also very rare. It can't be the major reason why "people don't mail cash".

If a fraudulent merchant "lose" the cash after delivery... as I said this is why we warn to not mail cash to untrustworthy merchants.

Again, "lack of tracking" is not why people don't mail cash even to trustworthy merchants. People don't do it because faster and more convenient ways of sending money exist.

> your instance to dismiss the possibility that companies can make mistakes

I DON'T DISMISS MISTAKES. I acknowledge they do happen. But they are rare and therefore don't matter as much as you insist they do. You gave me 3 examples of Tiger Direct refund problems, and yet that's only 3 out of thousands(?) of error-free orders. And these 3 all were eventually solved in the customer's favor, so none of them required a chargeback (had it been possible).

> Not all problems that require a chargeback are fraud.

That's not my point. My point is all of these problems (whatever they are: mistakes, frauds, etc) are rare to begin with. How many times to I have to explain it? You even confirmed it with your own life experience: you personnally issued only 2 chargebacks, ever.

Chargebacks are RARELY needed, period.
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Too bad Utah can't get their act together. Even after Tesla built a showroom and stocked it with cars, the state legislators voted to keep the existing stealership cartel laws on the books.
Without the gmail API limiting inbox search access to a particular filter (eg, "any email from uber.com"), there's no way people should be building a business this way...

opening your inbox up to random third parties is a disaster.

and frankly, I expect google to cut this form of access off, or severely limit it in the future.
They sort of buried the part about there being 10 times the normal amount of carbon monoxide in the homes of the affected...
This is definitely an issue and has been for a few years now: http://community.embarcadero.com/index.php/blogs/entry/the-h...

One thing in our favor is that we're not using a lattice or ring-learning with errors approach, which is where the majority of the patents lie.

Our general IP strategy is to only use patents defensively, and make that technology available under open source licenses that allow unrestricted non-commercial use.

We're also making all of our SDKs Apache v2 so that its easy to integrate into other software stacks.
Um, isn't there an "eclipse" for roughly 12 hours every day?
It's the 21st century. I find it amusing that I can order my computer build to order in less than 30 seconds and I know I'm getting the same price as everybody else. Yet to order a car I have to spend days/weeks of research, spreadsheets, emails, phone calls and I still won't get the car I want.

The auto industry is ripe for disruption. The sooner the dealership model is replaced by something more consumer friendly, the better.
Sheets. 10 of them.
One more reason to hate Jeff Bezos! Amazon's doing nothing to stop global warming (I'm kidding of course).
looks good. nice and simple.
One issue though. If I chose a subdomain that already exists I'm taken back to the start of the process. would be great if I could correct it right there
Also like the collection of content blocks and SEO settings
JXcore, for those who are unaware (like I was), is a multithreaded fork of Node.js.

http://jxcore.com/home/
> I would host the product on my own servers

Don't do that. If you're targeting your product for the tinfoil hat crowd, that's simply not going to work. Instead, you create a build script that will generate your application from source, and (for example) generate a docker image. This image could be run on your servers, on a third-party server (AWS, DO, etc.) or on the user's own hardware, depending on the level of inconvenience/security tradeoff they are willing to endure.

I know you're probably looking for the consistent revenue streams of a SaaS, but unless user data can be completely encrypted during storage (e.g. email, backup, etc.), the truly paranoid don't want to trust their information to a 3rd party.
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yeah there are no perfect trade offs:
if you control the application server then you just instruct clients to decrypt/give away their data/encryption key

still its more effort and more opportunistic (client needs to actually connect that day) so it is safer/reduces likelihood.

But a lot of work and issues for the security gain compared to db encryption and proper design (even thus, you know, its not a great trade off either!)

In the end I guess we need a truly client-initiated and controlled data handling. HTTP isnt exactly made for that. It tells the client how to handle and control the data, no choice is really made client-side.
It's not that fast. In London, for example, the eclipse starts at 8:25AM, and doesn't reach its maximum until over an hour later, at 9:31AM. It then takes another hour and change before it finishes at 10:41AM.

It is unusual that this event takes place nearly simultaneously over a whole country-sized area, but it's not a five-minute thing.
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limited IE testing VMs that work in Virtualbox that don't require a license or constant upgrades. I know there are VMs but last time I messed with them they lasted for a while and then stopped working.
I'm an aspiring backpacker and this is something I've been thinking about as well. Good luck, may we meet someday!
Actually the panels on my roof generate about 55% of the power they normally would on a cloudy day. They get some efficiency gain by being cooler, and they lose some light insolation.
Yes, and that one corresponds nicely with reduced demand for electricity. This one doesn't.
The philosophy behind patents is that they encourage the sharing of research so that the total cost of rnd to society is minimized. Whithout ip protection, firms would rely on trade secrets. They would still charge more for their products but a competitor would have to spend the money on research to compete. I don't know if you would still call the premium they could charge rent or if you would amortize rnd over the product lifetime.
Quoted from the above official PHP docs: "If your application does not catch the exception thrown from the PDO constructor, the default action taken by the zend engine is to terminate the script and display a back trace. This back trace will likely reveal the full database connection details, including the username and password. [...]"
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