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> A major use-case for Excel integration is in finance, where a vast number of analysts - not newbies in any meaningful sense - work in Excel.

R and Excel integration already exists: http://www.r-bloggers.com/a-million-ways-to-connect-r-and-ex...

Not that I think it's a good idea. Also, R is already a thing in Finance, quite a few job postings list it as a useful skill, and Linkedin has R/Finance groups.

Anyhow, it's much easier to manipulate data with scripts than spreadsheets, especially with R packages like quantmod. Looking at giant spreadsheets makes my eyes bleed and my head hurt, plus I think R Studio makes more sense for newbies to R anyway (and R Studio Server is fantastic for businesses).
Artsits used to put together similar listening schemes on MP3.com. The money was much better back then, from what I remember.
-gate has run its course I agree.

"Screenbleed"? STREAK? Have to have a catchy name like all these security vulnerabilities :)
> e: Ah, I see why I'm not understanding you now - you're talking about the differences between Racket and SICP/Scheme whereas I made the assumption that we were talking about the difference between Common Lisp and Racket (from OP's comment).

Apologies for the confusion.

In that case, I don't think it's possible to define an exact equivalent of CL's nil in Scheme, as nil means both false and the empty list in CL -- the latter being falsy in CL and, as you point out, truthy in Scheme.
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For free users the money divided would be the ad money.
I heavily dislike the whole "how dare someone have expectations of the companies they do business with" thing. It's not like the transaction ends after purchase and the only noble thing to do is take what comes and keep my mouth shut.

When I buy a premium product, I expect premium support and service. Apple's money situation is relevant because they are choosing to not cover this issue despite having the resources to address it. If they were a struggling company, I could understand the reluctance to address the issue. But this seems short-sighted.

Besides, Apple should be grateful that people are making a stink online, giving them a chance to address the problem honorably before it goes to the courts via a lemon law.
I found the same thing. In the bit of rural Canada where I grew up, it was pretty standard for french elementary students to go on to english high school (with 1-2 classes/year in french, usually french & history or geography). We can all still speak french (with weaker vocab if we don't practice) but we didn't have issues with math/science jargon or having enough practice in english. A handful of students went to french high school but generally because they intended to go to a french university.
Spotify premium eliminates all ads, both visual and audio.
> 2) I want my output to be plots and reports not another spreadsheet

Knitr for the win! Seriously great package (and integrated nicely into R Studio), I use it for all my reports, presentations, etc...
I know a German couple where both parents speak English and German. (Though the wife is much more comfortable with English than her husband.) The way they interact with their daughter is that the father always speaks German to her, and the mother always speaks English. At one point, the mom had to tell her daughter that "you have to have daddy read you that book, because it's in German." :)

It's working pretty well so far for their daughter; she's certainly comfortable and fluent (for her age) in both languages.
Curiosity can be a driver of user action (clickbait, anyone?) in the same way that a direct "i want this" can be.

"Your stuff, anywhere" is both accurate and vague enough to be interesting.
I was not aware of his story... ouch:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wayne

"He sold his share of the new company for US$800, and later accepted US$1,500 to forfeit any claims against Apple."...

"Had Wayne kept his 10% stock until then, it would have been worth approximately $60 billion."
Trying to think of what 55 person company sold for $4B. Was thinking Whatsapp but you would have had more like $19M pretax at 1%.

edit: If vested. But after so short, only 25% vested. Congrats! Sounds like there's more upside for you!
That's madness. What's the payroll for 30 people? $500/month isn't going to put a dent in that.
I'm assuming I would already be in a Facebook conversation with the person, so the number of steps would be relatively low. Without that assumption, Facebook is (mildly) more difficult than a physical wallet.
Spotify should create app store-like programs, where artists can choose to "self-publish" and get 70 percent of the revenue. If they are already doing that, then maybe they should promote it more, because I'm not hearing about too many artists joining such a program. Most still use Spotify through labels.
Certainly words like
ListenableFuture<List<SomeResult>> fut = pool.submit(new Callable<List<SomeResult>>....are big that's for sure
The iPhone alone is making more in a quarter than Microsoft makes in an entire year. I'm pretty sure Apple couldn't care less about Microsoft right now.
I had always thought it was the record labels who would essentially prevent this from happening as they're essentially getting cut. Unless I'm misunderstanding something. It would certainly be interesting to see a new streaming service with a different type of payment structure for artists.
I don't agree with the verb tagging personally. It's irrelevant, isn't? Someone need to "do" something. The particular word choice doesn't impact the necessity.

@who is the assignment

#what is the task name

@when is the due-date

!do is pointless to specify.
Not always, or people would create accounts just to do it. The flag threshold is low, though (30).
Atari has made legally dubious accusations based on the knowledge that Minter has no chance of defending them from a financial basis, despite them being all based pretty much on "looks a bit like tempest" which in the game world doesn't hold up. no trademarks are infringed (tempest 2000 was allowed to lapse) and he's accused of stealing code that he wrote - despite the game being a total ground up re-write based notionally on a game he himself wrote nearly 20 years ago in ASM on a platform (Jaguar) totally different to the one TxK runs on (PSVita and probably C++)
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I remember being a kid, and thinking that CNN must have some really intelligent, mature writing, that I was simply too young to understand. Now, they post these sensationalist headlines (I was expecting it to be a play on words, e.g. it was an article about funeral planning or life insurance), and fan the flames of idiocy with writing like this:

"And if you think your own job is safe, think again. New research predicts that nearly half of all jobs are susceptible to automation over the next two decades."

So silicon valley is bad _because_ they find more efficient ways to do things? Should we also be upset with anyone who sells a refrigerator, for making all those poor iceblock-expeditions and milkmen obsolete? Does the "\"sharing economy\"" (my quotes around their quotes, for how much they quote that term) mean that by using our cars, homes, tools, etc. more efficiently, and buying less new stuff, we're actually saying "drop dead" to the people who would have manufactured new things?

If there's a large number of people who hold degrees, who don't need the degree for the job they have, isn't that a fault with our education system? What about that bizarre arrogance that so many had in the 80s, where they thought their kids must have a degree so they don't end up in a "blue collar" job? So many would be earning good money now if they'd just gone to a trade school, and learned welding, plumbing, carpentry, HVAC, etc. instead of training for one of the office jobs which software has now made largely obsolete.
I think it's mostly the trushworthiness of the founders (plus if they have a track record) coupled with the kind of industry/product they are working on.

Some categories inherently need more capital (hardware, network-based) so chances are maybe higher that you will have more dilution but hopefully the pie gets bigger each time so that may not be the worst thing.

Even though "making money" seems so passe these days, the startups I've experience with that were not viciously focused on revenue and at least break-even are dead and the other two still exist so not a big-enough "N" for a sample but ....
Vulfpeck is also also the band behind four really terrific EPs in as many years, and you should absolutely give them a listen[1], although ideally not on Spotify.

[1] http://vulf.bandcamp.com/
> Terry is below average. In 2014 he averaged 350 streams per month. If his subscription money only went to artists he listened to, it would’ve been $0.02 per stream.

> Instead it was $0.00786.

This sounds like a much better way to do it. The artists should ask Spotify to change it. However I guess the big players don't really want it changed.
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You’re right, they can’t. But the question is not so much, what is the actual rate of tax we pay? It’s more along the lines of, how much actual money is being paid? If one considers Amazon, I don't think anyone dares say they do not significantly contribute to the UK economy by their presence (directly & indirectly).

As long as the rates are not unified globally, there will always be a reason to avoid tax. And for multinationals, there will always be an incentive to do it, because they have massive scale. A 0.1% tax difference might mean millions to them, and it might mean only £100 to you. If the difference is millions, why not set up a small office somewhere?

Let’s say you are a ‘tiny’ multinational. You own two shops, one in the UK (20% CT) and one in the France (33% CT). Both shops operate under the same brand. You own the IP rights to the brand. The sane thing to do here is to have the UK entity own the brand rights, because then you can charge a royalty (say, ~1% of turnover) to your french company.

Some people call this avoidance, and not paying your fair share. Sure. But, one company actually owns the rights and the other doesn’t. Should that be a “free” transaction? If you were to license your brand to a third party company in Dubai (not related to yours) to set up another shop, would you also give this for free? That’s part of where the problem lies. Also, if the brand rights would be owned by the french entity, the UK might (will?) now charge a sort of diverted profit tax. For diverting 'profits' to a higher tax country.

Disallowing a deduction because some other connected entity owns the brand is not right, because that means you'd be getting the brand for free. You'd actually be paying tax on a profit that did not exist in the first place. Overcharging for brands has never been allowed. Before this DPT tax, it was not allowed either.

Now image a large multinational. Luxembourg, for example, charges a net tax rate of ~5% on IP income. I charge the same royalty as tiny multinational. That 1% just became a whole lot bigger. And yet, that’s probably the correct value of the brand. Think about it this way: if you take off the brand, how many units would you sell? That one percent might be tens of millions for a large multinational company.

As companies grow in scale, so do their synergies and advantages. Lower tax is one of them, paying less to suppliers is another as is the ability to increase prices.
Agreed that having fans play your music on mute would be just as - if not more - effective, and would work without creating a prime target for banning. But I think in this case it made for a very effective "statement", even if it could've been a more efficient hack.
It does now, in RStudio's public preview release: http://blog.rstudio.org/2015/02/23/rstudio-0-99-preview-vim-...
To answer your first question, mobile usability is limited with the free version (e.g. can only shuffle play, can't play straight through an album). Should they stick to the free version? That's a value proposition that can only be answered by the user.

>Following this suggested model, free users listening wouldn't help the artists at all - is that really desirable?
I doubt it. Paid users are usually free users first. No free users means fewer paid users down the line.
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There's a (paid, third-party) add-on for Stash that implements Snippets: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.simplenia.stas...

I haven't tried it myself though.
Here is the phone that they will be using.
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Microsoft should have done this much earlier. Releasing the ROM will allow who ever wants to have an operating system different than Android. They can make profit from their own "marketplace"
This is unfortunately why Bitcoin will never succeed in the long run.
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I'm sure there is a mod. It actually might come with the game. I'm pretty sure my old AMD phenom and video card wouldn't handle it.
I joined a company in the summer of 2011 that IPOed in the spring of 2012. Company was under 400 employees at the time (I was around #~380). The company is not Facebook or Twitter.

My pre-IPO grants alone were worth over 1.5M, and my subsequent RSU grants probably added another 1M on top of that.

I'm using a throwaway account for obvious reasons, but happy to answer any questions. I definitely was not an outlier in terms of the payout.
I'll repeat - SpaceX literally has a goal of colonising Mars. The technology to get there requires small steps, and I have to think of that goal as pretty visionary.

You seem to be defining 'visionary' in a way I don't quite understand. What's 'visionary' about better public transport solutions? There are comprehensive public transport networks across the world, for example. We could definitely improve them, but it would hardly be visionary to do so.
Compile times are still terrible, there's still a terribly high number of causes for undefined behavior that will burn through your time in debugging sessions, and there's terribly far to go still before it's feature list catches up to "just about anything" (albeit a slightly smaller set this time around.)

Things are improving in C++-land, but I'd still place it near last.
Yes. 99.9% of people will never have heard of the company I worked at that IPO'd...
> For the most popular the artists wouldn't be complaining about being paid too little.

Taylor Swift did just that recently and pulled her music from Spotify because she didn't feel she was fairly compensated.
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success doesn't come on its own, one needs to put some aimed effort into it, or rely on luck.

I can say exactly the same about me, sometimes feeling like the biggest idiot around, with serious brain damage (really, not joking). But then I realize that I managed when working 100% to increase my paycheck 20x compared to my first Java 100% job right after school, doing roughly same job (it's a long story). Many kids being brighter than me, they now have "meh" jobs at best. For success, initial talent is just one of many properties.

Anyway, what we should strive for is happiness, with oneself, with job, people and world around us. Rest are just details.
Thx for your response. I totally understand the value of meeting people in person and building relationships. But when running a SAAS with small overheads, is this scalable enough to do it regularly ? Just wondering. Being small, it won't matter for now but is it a wise investment of your limited time being a small company ?

Also is this a fair expectation from clients to meet SAAS owners in person ? I would not even think about signing up for a service where i would necessarily want to meet. Of course, I would like to know who the team is etc.
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> How would you feel about a move to regulate non-autonomous vehicle ownership more closely? Driver licensing could become much more rigorous, for example.

I'm very much in favor of a far more thorough practical driver training programs before being licensed. The issue is less with people not knowing their theory as apposed to not being capable drivers. I think we should model our own driving training programs closer to Finland's for example.

In California, at least, the training, the theory, the test itself is a complete joke. It's the definitive example of bureaucratic incompetence.

However, I'm not in favor of a rigorous licensing program which simply aims to dissuade one from obtaining a license because of various background checks, fingerprinting, paper work, and encyclopedic knowledge of vague and obscure laws.

> Combined with the essential outlawing of non-autonomous vehicles in urban centres (almost inevitable in the long run), that would ideally assuage most safety concerns while still allowing people the freedom to drive.

I'm extremely skeptical and, on the whole, against this. This is exactly where lawmakers would find gray enough lines to outlaw humans drivers from the majority of road networks from laws that give the impression that only a handful of metropolitan cities would initially be effected.
Definitely a concern, but I'm not sure what can be done about that – except for "let's develop the technology so that can't happen", even though that seems unlikely.
Vulfpeck is also the hottest funk band that currently rocks this planet. But as it seems, I should rather purchase their albums from Bandcamp than streaming them via Spotify.
One of R's great current evangelists, Hadley Wickham, is taking it back to its functional roots[1](http://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/dplyr/vignettes/introdu...) as well.
>Arguments that attempt to write off tech full cloth as evil are useless, as are the pollyanas who think tech will solve everything.

As is techno-determinism, in which we pretend that technology determines the structure of society rather than society choosing what sorts of technologies it builds.
Radio never paid much for users either. The problem is nobody buys albums any more.

I think that's because buying a digital album has so far been really unrewarding.

Artists need to come up with a package for their music that people actually want to buy.
Just started reading Harari's brief history of humankind and this gem perfectly fits in the rather unsettling story of our genetic pool. It is no longer the natural environment setting the conditions for who's fit to survive/chosen for reproduction but the present human culture which in turn is just the result of the previous.

If I had to choose an algorithm as an analogy, I'd say it is a recursion waiting for stack overflow. :)
Oh that would be too funny if you could do it. Given how MS fired all their Windows org QA folks it wouldn't surprise me if something like that slipped through too.
I don't think you agree with Swartz at all. You used an article that explains why someone does not read the news to promote your news site. According to the article, Swartz wasn't looking for an alternative way to consume news: he decries the news industry as a whole. I'm all for self-promotion on HN when it's relevant, but Grasswire appears to be exactly the kind of thing Swartz would not be interested in.

If you were selling books or long-form journalism I could understand your post, but as it stands it's blatant self-promotion. And I say that as the founder of a news company.
But is that cash in the hand or "paper" money ?
> Deaths due to drunk driving are absolutely among those that self-driving car advocates aim to prevent.

Instead of proposing legislation that everyone must own a self-driving vehicle (the path self-driving vehicle advocates seem to be heading towards), wouldn't a more reasonable, less expensive, and less obtrusive solution be to mandate breathalyzers in every vehicle? (I don't support this either, but it's less expensive and less of a burden).

Self-driving cars won't last as long due to the sheer amount of technology required to be in the vehicle. So instead of getting 5-20 years of out of your "dumb car" you'll get closer to 2-5 years before the electronics inside degrade to an unsafe state.

Can the electronics be upgraded/replaced when they become unsafe? Sure, but this is a significant cost burden on the consumer... The precision and reliability the electronics must provide has to be absolute. To achieve this level, they'll have to be better than military-grade sensors -- heck, military helicopters with some of the best sensors, ai, and electronics crash routinely... and they get regular maintenance before and after every flight. How long do we really expect the average consumer's self-driving vehicle to last when most drivers don't even change their oil once every year?

> Automobile-related deaths are the number one killer of healthy adults in the US, and the number one killer, period,

That's a disingenuous statement. People were healthy until they contracted the flu. They were healthy until they suffered a sudden heart attack. Those are the true leading killers of all Americans... healthy and not.
Agreed, I finally admitted last year that I was tired of maintaining my own MP3 library and that $9/mo was a fair enough price to listen to whomever I want.

But ya, that sure seems like that should be fair enough and profitable enough for the artists I listen to, so if Spotify isn't doing a good job of making sure that is the case then I hope someone else arrives on the scene who does. After all, switching costs are now incredibly low for us as consumers and that is where I want my money going.
I'm pretty sure there is a feedback loop here - not one way causation in either direction.
Excellent response!
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As a matter of fact, I think that its simplicity is what makes KSP so fun to play. If it was real n-body orbital mechanics with real drag the game would quickly become much too complicated and tedious for casual play (and too slow).
Doubly so for ports. Although they accept code at all levels the core OpenBSD team is much more concerned with the base system than ports and rely more on "everyone else" to keep them up to date.
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Graduated from an Ivy League engineering program in the late nineties. Worked in four different start ups. Never made any money. Of those four startups I only count two as being valid data points as they were funded by "good" VCs. The others were funded by rich people who in retrospect did not know what they were doing.

Now on my fifth startup as employee number 15-20 (not sure which since we are growing so fast). We are funding growth out of VC money. Good name brand VCs that everyone here would be happy to take money from.

Still, I have learned my lesson. I make my life plans as though I can only depend on my salary and my wife's salary. Luckily for me, my wife is a lawyer from an Ivy and makes enough money that I don't worry about failing too much.

Even though most of my peers who graduated with me are independently wealthy (Yahoo, Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), over the years I've learned to moderate my life expectations. My wife and I don't expect to ever afford a big house in Silicon Valley. Our long term plan is to move somewhere cheaper.

That is unless startup #5 succeeds in a big way ... HAHAHAHA lets not kid ourselves. But its fun to imagine :)
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> I like the idea, but the pricing seems unreasonable. $15/mo/user (over 35 users) for what?

Yeah it seems like a good idea but the value proposition confuses me. Granted I understand most enterprise software works like this but when you have to buy all of the resources to handle the files it sounds really expensive for just some light software.
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