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"$60 billion is incomprehensible to most people. It's money so big that it is not money anymore, it's the power to make society-level decisions. In a sense it is so big that it becomes an obligation--see Bill Gates and Warren Buffett."

Add to that that not everyone wants to live in a fishbowl. Some do of course, but there is something to be said to having enough money to have a nice life, and some toys, and homes, and be able to do what you want when you want, but not be on everyone's radar and a potential target because of notoriety and wealth.
There's TabMan. I think it has a much nicer interface https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabman-tabs-manage...
One of the developer's previous games was Cities in Motion, which was all about transport, so I guess a transport focus is to be expected in Skylines. It has sure made me think what a headache it must be to design roads in the real world!
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> Nobody is seriously going to fork this and create their own port of MSBuild

No, but at least I can try and fix any bugs I come across instead of hoping MS takes my complaint seriously.
I loved the idea! Some questions:

1. Is the a way to search by number of hours required to work?
2. The "days off" are weekly? Depending on the minimum time?
3. The idea is that all skills are worth the same amount of hours, right?
4. Do you guys charge a fee to the travelers?

Best!
If they really wanted to dodge the NSA they wouldn't have released a press release about this let alone tell everyone about it. Sounds like a stupid PR stunt to me.
I think this is well worth the cost. Watching someone you love dealing with hair loss on top of chemo is just heart breaking.
According to their angel.co page, they are not offering equity: https://angel.co/uber/jobs/
Designer portfolios aren't typically closed source and represent paid work.
It wasn't my fault that your statement was easy to refute.

After that, I just chalked the poorly-worded obscure sport reference up to poor communication skills.
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I do contract Drupal development, and I charge strictly hourly. Don't do fixed bid. You will always get screwed over, and the risk simply isn't worth it. For reference, I charge $150/hour for Drupal development. Sure, you might lose the customers that compare you to the $10-15 guy in India, but that's exactly the kind of customer you don't want to work with anyway. Good customers expect to pay good money for good work.
I'm a paying light listener. I coudn't stand the ads and the audio quality on the freebie, plus I need the offline music feature when I'm travelling or commuting.
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Here in Melbourne it's very common for venues to use Spotify - almost ubiquitous, in fact. The bar that I moonlight at used CDs for the longest time but eventually made the switch last year.

Most venues don't want to spend time carefully selecting music when they could instead be focusing on customer service.
You are assuming that nothing that has happened or is related to the president's second term has or will be uncovered by the investigation, which I believe is a very strong assumption. For example, there's the use of illegal money disguised as campaign donations for the reelection.

The current popularity numbers are another indicator that the protests are representative, much like the protests in favor of direct elections in the 80s. We're those not representative either?

By the way, her approval rates are as low as they have ever been for any president since Collor, who was impeached, and the numbers are low in all segments of society. And that's by Datafolha's numbers, an institute known to publish numbers biased towards the government.

I can only speak for the protests in Rio, of which I took part. I've seen people from all social and cultural spheres. I saw bus and truck drivers honking in support, and people waving Brazilian flags from their windows. I also saw the pan and pot protests that happened while her ministers were on TV giving the same old disconnected from reality speech.

I think it's this government that is living in a bubble, and hopefully it's about to burst.
Sorry dudes, you cannot say you have a "code of conduct" unless you copy and paste from one of the two/three Big Names in the field and make a decent "voluntary" donation.
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I'm curious what your motivation was to comment, then. Was it not obvious from the title what would be contained therein?
I love you you put dance/eletronic, elevator music and toddler songs in one bucket. I never thought of it that way and I think you're spot on. I guess we could add most of the music played on commercial radio stations (from top 40 to soft rock) as well?
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> I could just build in exactly the same way, using the same solution/project files, on my dev box and my build server

Do you run VS on your production servers? Because that's where it will shit a brick because you forgot to install ASP.Net MVC KB123123213 but the IDE installed it as part of update 4. Etc etc...

This problem gets VERY deep.
And don't forget the death of women during childbirth. That would leave a father/child pair - I'm sure the fathers in that instance would not be voluntarily celibate afterwards.
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Wrong title... Should say "giving formula reduces IQ"
No, like a marketplace for colo / dedicated hosting.
1. Not yet (better search is on the backlog)

2. Yes, days off are weekly, not depending on the minimum time.

3. Yes, but after application there is conversation between traveler and hosts where you can try to negotiate that.

4. Yes, there is a fee per trip confirmed (but there lots of ways of getting discounts from the original $50 fee - if you want one, my email is at my info)

Thanks!
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This has been explored in sci-fi by Jack McDevitt in his Priscilla Hutchins series. He had large Omega Clouds of alien devices attacking anything with straight lines and right-angles, as those were indicative of intelligence.
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Only one god damn hill, but that was another trip all the way across another god damn town when I needed to go buy groceries ;P
this theory doesn't make sense, because sexually liberated women are fucking/procreating with losers and deadbeats at just as high a rate or even higher than with wealthy guys. they are also divorcing their wealthy husbands and taking a boatload of cash for themselves.

in fact, a lot of seriously rich guys are sexually frustrated. modern society is not ancient incan feudalism, and it doesn't follow the same rules as 1950s western society either. it's unique.
setting up with iranian hosting might be a plausible way to go about it
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Okay, so that image looks to be on this page[1] as Mastcam: Right 2013-02-11 00:30:54 UTC. The full res link here is named slightly differently[2], but that appears to be the same landscape. It looks less whitewashed in these images, but around the same quality. There's another image with the same rock just before that time.

If you really want to go deep into this, try some of the other cameras around that time, maybe you'll see it from a different perspective.

1: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=184&camera=MA...

2: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00184/mcam/0184...
The problem stems from the car AI being crazy aggressive in it's lane switching. They will switch to the lane for their exit the instant they can, even if they still have to travel around the entire city to get to it. Leading to middle lanes not getting as much use (At least without careful planning to ensure there is something they can exit the road from the middle lanes with) and potentially large backups of a single line of cars waiting to turn right (Even when the lane right next to it is also a right turn lane). They also cannot merge properly so I end up placing exits on both side of my highways (For both incoming and outgoing traffic) with one side coming up and over the road to join into the other sides exit to limit congestion.

Not that any of these things are completely unrealistic but it is occasionally annoying when your traffic is backed up solely because they're ignoring the adjacent lane.
It's way too quick and makes me uneasy. Even a X years, Y months, Z days would be a bit more comforing
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the solution here is to release the schematics, and the resaulting gate-level netlists. People who want to verify designs can use scan/jtag to verify that designs do waht they claim
I've never understood the point of the loudness war. Aren't the best-selling albums of all time all reasonably uncompressed? If everybody's so afraid of failure, why do they ignore success?
Keep them coming!
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> Also, it's a Linux mailing list and he maintains a BSD distro, not much in common.

No, you're thinking of linux-distros@. linux-distros@ is where issues that affect Linux only go. distros@ covers issues that are relevant to both BSD and Linux - distros@ membership is FreeBSD+NetBSD+linux-distros@.
This recently became available on Amazon for much cheaper than anywhere else. Anyone care to be a guinea pig?

Disclaimer: I am not in any way affiliated with the company. I am also not responsible for your actions, that's on you.
I had long graduated by the time Occupy started. But yes, it just wasn't worth it.
I still don't understand how this helps though - couldn't the person still get their shipment and claim they never received it in order to trick the middleman to return their funds?

How does the middleman have any ability to investigate or know who to believe?
It all started with light bulbs...
http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-great-lightbu...
Or they don't care if you do it. The number of people willing to do that is small, the amount of money they would pay for Windows if they couldn't do that is probably even smaller. They are literally willing to replace every pirated copy of Windows 7 in the world with Windows 10 just for the marketshare. They don't want another zombie OS like XP, they want people in the Windows Store and Xbox Music and Xbox Video, they want people using Project Spartan and Cortana. They are doing everything they possibly can to get Windows 10 into as many consumer hands as possible without totally gutting their OEM licensing fees (which they are willing to take a hit on to compete with Android and Chromebooks) or cutting into their enterprise fees. They are putting up JUST enough barriers to getting free Windows 10 to keep their actual Windows profit centers (OEM and enterprise) paying happily, while passing it out like candy at a parade to consumers, who have as a rule never paid for Windows directly anyway.
Well this looks cool but I don't have a foursquare or any of those other small accounts it asks you for.
Yeah not sure where the down votes are coming from, but I appreciate your response and I think it's great advice for the folks in this thread.

When I was in my early twenties I scraped together about $5K which I was planning to invest in the Google IPO and instead used it to buy my wife her engagement ring. Today that stock might have been worth $50K or more.

So while some may see it as lost opportunity, I've enjoyed a wonderful marriage for 10 years as a result of that decision, and I don't regret it one bit.
It's easier to understand if you remember the major labels got 18% of spotify for their licensing deal. A payment scheme that preferentially paid major labels would then be stunning...
Lorca, however, remains undiscovered.
It'd be nice if we could isolate how much of the failure is linked to the "uninterrupted connection required" approach to DRM for single player games.
There will be always a few at the top, hierarchies among humans will always exist due to natural differences.
Yeah, i was kind of gripping the table almost unable to contain shouts of "attach yourself already" :/ The worst is the final 20 seconds when he dawdles and fumbles the clip with two hands, simply standing at the top looking down :/ But i guess from his point of view that's easiest, he's not climbing any more...
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At least two of those currently have branches checked out with the word "fix" in the branch name. I'd wager that the owners of those forks are using them to fix something, hence "seriously".
Here is the thing: why not bootstrap that using a real Lisp though that does have GC? That is to say, you can have a notation which denotes some "systems" language that doesn't have GC and is static and whatnot. But the meta-programming over that notation (like macros) can be processed by a Lisp that does have GC. For instance, why make the compile-time code like macro-expanders suffer along with no GC?

Of course that's been done. E.g. assemblers boostrapped using Lisp, and projects like ThinLisp.

"While all of Common Lisp is available at system build time. the Lisp dialect available in production is a carefully crafted subset of Common Lisp. [http://www.thinlisp.org]

(Maybe Dale is actually structured similarly; so that perhaps "GC-less" refers to run-time only, not build time.)
As a start, correct ID3 tags and an album cover bigger than the size of a thumbnail would be great. Bonus points for configurable folder and file naming scheme and playlists generation upon download.

I always felt kinda stupid paying 10 Euros for an album, then spending 10 minutes fixing metadata and downloading a halfway decent cover image from discogs.

You'd get better data quality from filesharing sources, since fans obviously care more about releases than labels. Same goes for movie releases btw.
In terms of small bars, hairdressers, co-working spaces, yoga studios, mik bars, etc... probably, but no one's going to tackle the small fries. Large chains tend to have their own corporate-mandated "radio" playlists for this reason, though (supermarkets and gyms)
The racism / gentrification thing might actually be extremely interesting for its effect on land-value. Like, each sim-citizen would be assigned arbitrary a race; to not conflict with real world race, we can call it race alpha, beta, eta, and omega. On a regional (or global) level, each race would have an affinity value for the other races that is periodically calculated based upon the aggregate contribution to city land value from that race...

For example,

Affinity-omega-to-beta = affinity-beta-to-omega * k1 + (landvalue-total - landvalue-beta) * k2

and,

landvalue(tile) = super.landvalue(tile) + sum-over(all-tiles, (another-tile) -> affinity(race-living-at(another-tile) ) * distance-between(tile, another-tile) )

Or, in colloquial terms, I like you if you like me or if you bring up the land value of my house. And the land value of my house is equal to however they used to calculate land value, and how much I like the race of my neighbors.

It would be amazing (and probably instructive) to see how much gentrification, segregation, and whatnot evolves out of this. Would we see all the races converge to harmony as race becomes a non-factor in calculating land value (because the affinities converge to 1 number)? Or will we see cycles of alpha race at times increasing land value, and at times decreasing it? Or will we see high rates of crime due to increasing population in sectors of eta race? Or will we see long-term oppression where omega race always increases land-value and beta race always decreases land value?
Yes, but at worst bars and venues like this end up paying the flat fee to the recording cartels to basically have unlimited plays of whatever they want and none of that really goes to the artists in any significant way.

And in most cases, it doesn't really come up until they're audited at least once, which might be never.
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> All systems that require adoption are, initially, impractical.

I agree with that. It seems we agree that bitcoin is currently impractical, which is the crux of my argument. Bitcoin is not a practical way to send money unless the recipient already has a bank account and a bitcoin exchange account.
I was an mid-seniority employee and netted in the low eight figures when I sold my equity stake after our IPO.

A couple important points I didn't see others mention:
1. When I got an offer, I asked if I could take a lower salary to get more equity. They said yes.

2. I pre-exercised all my options. So as far as the IRS was concerned, there was no tax liability when I exercised the shares. This meant by the time I sold, it was a long term gain instead of a short term gain on a same-day exercise+sell. Highest federal + CA income tax rate is 53%, so I would have kept less than half if I didn't get to pre-exercise.

3. I was able to sell when the Bush-era tax cuts were in place. So LTCG federal + CA rate was 25% for me. If I sold those shares today, it would be 37%.

So it worked out for me, but I'm still an engineer and 99% of my coworkers aren't rich - which means I don't talk about it, I don't flaunt it so no Lambo in the parking lot, and I still try to nod in sympathy when they tell me about how expensive private school or summer camp is for their kids. In other words, my life hasn't changed much aside from my bank accounts.
If I were to speculate, I would expect the number of times a song is played most likely to adhere to a power law and therefor this average number of streams is not an ideal measure.

And yes, I'd would expect the tail to be fragmented. Lots of people listening to but a small and mutual exclusive set of bands. Next to the odd main stream one.

So perhaps it is not really a question of light users sponsoring heavy ones, but more the banality of average taste.

Would love to see some stats.
Extremely interesting.

[Disclosure: I'm a chess player by the age of 6y.o.]

I would recommend also this: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.it/2007/12/turk-chess-automaton...
I manage them by throwing them away as quickly as possible.

If I need copies of a bank statement for some reason, I go to the bank and ask them to print one for me.
Educational articles. The motto is "No more gambling when the house has an abusive edge."
Also, General Relativity is 4 dimensional.
It's crazy: they do some things like MagSafe is fantastic, it's so simple but very effective. It solves a problem which has killed two of my previous laptops. Then you have the fantastic battery life and a suspend function which works consistently well (so long as you don't use Parallels).

But then they screw up on the simple things: a screen coating which is extremely easily damaged, and no stress relief on their power supplies which dooms them to cable failure within 1-2 years.

BTW I resolved the screen issues by installing a matt screen protector. It has the added advantage of making the screen readable in sunlight. The downside is you lose a little clarity (or gain it if the streaks are really bad).

Apple could fix these problems easily, and - especially in the case the stress relief - it would cost them a fraction of a cent per unit.
Nowadays, I find the only interaction I have with the scroll bar is to look at it to determine how far down a page I am. I always use the scroll wheel on Windows or the two finger scroll on the Mac trackpad to scroll a page.
Have any of the dozens upon dozens of mass-bitcoin thieves been caught?

I've never heard of it. Sounds like it's actually really easy to get away with it.
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Yes[1].

It still happens though. I can't find any instances any stories being written about this condition being enforced.

[1] https://support.spotify.com/au/learn-more/faq/#!/article/pub...
Interesting that every advertisement on the page has a button to click to report issues with the ad, but Amazon does not have a button to report the product. Sure, you can report a lower price elsewhere, but if you want to report that the product is unethical, dangerous, and illegal, you're out of luck.
Licensed under MIT, impressive.
I have not heard the term (to) "steel man" (rather than (to) "straw man") before, interesting.

Admittedly, I was writing emotionally, as the sarcastic "Now I know" might suggest. However, I would argue that reading "a short guide" seems vastly different from what you suggest.

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My emotional reaction was in response to how "a short guide" seems to suggest a very biased source; for instance a pamphlet that might be given out by a political party/group. Perhaps this was a flaw in phrasing, but that does not seem likely to me from the text.
Visual Studio uses MSBuild. csproj/vbproj files are MSBuild files. MSBuild will take an SLN file as an argument and do the same as Visual Studio would do with it when you load it and click build.
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Right, i totally didn't parse that sentence correctly on account of not being familiar with the (arguably distasteful) idiom. Thanks for the clarification, though.
Not one that you need to trust.
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True, but I think there has been research into the immunity benefits of breast feeding at least for the first few months...
Surprised not to see comments in here about the use of international standards to fix markets in the favor of one country's exports (versus another's) and for the associated backdooring of technology and standards.

"The agencies, the documents reveal, have adopted a battery of methods in their systematic and ongoing assault on what they see as one of the biggest threats to their ability to access huge swathes of internet traffic – "the use of ubiquitous encryption across the internet".

Those methods include covert measures to ensure NSA control over setting of international encryption standards..." - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryp...

"Simultaneously, the N.S.A. has been deliberately weakening the international encryption standards adopted by developers. One goal in the agency’s 2013 budget request was to “influence policies, standards and specifications for commercial public key technologies,” the most common encryption method." - http://www.propublica.org/article/the-nsas-secret-campaign-t...

The Snowden leaks themselves have the GCHQ congratulating the NSA in frank terms for controlling and exporting international standards, noting how it has driven great gains for the US.

Given that Germany was one of the victims (including the companies mentioned in the article) of standards-based cryptographic subvertion - the only suprise in this article was that it took Germany this long to announce their own initiative.

One can also surmise this as an indicator that the NSA is back to the usual and that IoT standards are being actively influenced for sabotage.
I cleaned up the code a bit and created a PR. It isn't my project, however I thought it was interesting and warranted a discussion on HN. Thanks for the input.
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Have you ever taken a taxi ride in Germany? Because that's what this story is about, and I assume what DasIch is talking about.

If no, then you have not made a fair determination of what service is superior.
I’m not finished yet, but I’m writing a trading bot for Steam so I don’t need to manually confirm trades if the offers are exactly what I’m looking for.
Guinea pigging a hormone only expressed during development runs a very serious risk of giving yourself cancer. Fortunately, these scammers are probably shipping something harmless instead of the actual product, so no one is likely to die.
Good ide
In the 90s I bought hundreds of CDs that cost $20-$25 each, inflation adjusted. Now albums are delivered at better than CD quality, and cost only $10. Supporting the music you love is cheaper than it's ever been. Why opt out of it?
Oh, cool! Down voting with no explanation because I didn't express agreement!
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