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No it's not. It's one of the "seven dirty words": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words

You can get fined a lot of money if you say it over the air. The FCC doesn't regulate cable, however. But those companies set their own standards, as do advertisers, and do limit or ban cuss words.

Typically cuss words will be bleeped if it is used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleep_censor . However people are so used to bleeps that their mind often fills in the cuss word.
Interesting. Is it easy to "firewall" Cortana so that it does local voice processing and connects only to external services you authorize?
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Oh hey! Funny to see an OSC implementation called "tinyosc" that isn't the one I wrote in Rust a month or so ago [0]. ;)

In all seriousness, you could also look at fundamental's rtosc[1], which is fairly minimal as well but has been around for a while and is being used in the ZynAddSubFX synth.

[0]: https://github.com/wrl/tinyosc

[1]: https://github.com/fundamental/rtosc
Except in this case it's not just a local phenomenon. My company does business in several markets outside the valley (and outside CA) and we are hearing the same thing, often with the same lack of evidence but no direct connection between the sources. That said, I do think there's an industry echo chamber effect.
I really like codecombat personally. For new programmers the instant, visual feedback seems really helpful.
ZenPayroll is opening a Denver, CO office, looking to hire 100 people[1].

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/07/28/zenpayroll-jobs-denver-colorad...
Because many people speak similarly. If a number of people who speak similarly can train it, it can learn how you will say words that you haven't even said to it yet if a number of other people already have.

Machine learning algorithms haven't changed that much since the 90s, what's changed is the amount of data we have access to, and the amount of data we can process.

When you're training it yourself the data is what's limited. The fact that we can process more data doesn't matter if we don't have access to more data because you can't speak any faster.

But if you have millions of people speaking to it, then we can take advantage of the fact that we can process so much more data.
> include computer trespass and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

sigh.
Does that exemption hold true the second or third time they get hit with a legal notice about the same issue and their Tor exit node?
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Speaking as an older Millenial (by some measures), I'm fairly confident that "relatively happy socialites" has never been more than just a self-justifying projection by older generations.

Perhaps our poor situation is just so obvious that, instead of mostly complaining, we're mostly fully resigned or preoccupied with fixing things in our own way. We are more Hero generation than Nomad, after all (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generatio...).
Keep in mind that there are a lot of lawsuits that are done for strategic reasons, even where the factual grounding isn't super strong. I'm not saying that's necessarily happening here, but it could be the case.
The reason there is a maximum on Social Security contributions and no means testing is that it is strongly marketed politically as a universal retirement account. Many of the system's characteristic are designed to ensure this perception. You receive Social Security roughly proportional to your contribution. This positioning is very important to the political support because there is the pretense of having earned it.

If you remove the cap on contribution and/or means test the receipt then that pretense is gone. Politically, it becomes explicitly a welfare system for people that did not save for retirement and penalizes those that do save. Once Social Security is perceived as "unearned" it becomes an acceptable target for reduction or elimination to the population at large.

Social Security is in fact a welfare tax and no one is entitled to receive it (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_v._Nestor) but its political viability is dependent on the popular perception to the contrary.
No. Same people were "no bubble" 6mo ago.

I've been solidly in the "actual value is being created by a lot of companies, mainly because tech (via startups) is destroying existing monopolies", but that's less true of some.

I think SF itself is probably a startup bubble and will correct, but it might just be a "go back to how things were a year ago", not a complete implosion. And the least bad way for this to happen is by sub-sector, like happened with all the shitty social buying apps a few years ago.
"...why the ease of remote work is not offsetting the trend that's moving jobs into place like San Francisco and New York"

Because it's scary. If you're Google or Facebook you don't have to bother with it because people will move to you. If you're startup whatever.io then you want to avoid risk that isn't directly related to your purpose so you probably try to park next to Google or Facebook and work hard on other solutions to the "how do we hire" problem.

That said, it actually is offsetting that trend. It's just doing it too slowly to be noticed, but as someone who's worked remotely for an SF startup for almost 6 years and pays attention to the Who's Hiring remote posts, etc. I can tell you there's been a somewhat dramatic uptick in remote hiring in the past couple of years.
I'd turn that on its head: keeping short rates as low as they are requires extraordinary economic weakness. The only bad time to raise rates away from zero is when a total collapse is ongoing. None of the recent economic data suggests that a collapse is ongoing; quite the opposite.

You're right that it's bad timing in that their rate increase is likely to come shortly before a bust, and therefore will be second-guessed to no end. But that's the case precisely because it's coming far too late. The solution was to normalize rates near 2% during 2013 and then raise them slowly from there as data improved, not to delay further. Normalizing policy sooner would have limited the overheating this article is all about and therefore limited the impacts of the coming bust, perhaps even to a sub-recession level. Further delay will make things much worse.

The election is irrelevant to an independent central bank, and in any case the major elections are (not that you'd know it from reading the MSM) 15 months away.

The best time to raise rates was a long time ago. The next-best time to raise rates is now.
I am writing to you about a very disturbing aspect of Firefox 38.0.5. Specifically, that the update experience appears to have been designed to throw away the choice your customers have made about the Internet experience they want, and replace it with the Internet experience Mozilla wants them to have.

When we first saw the Firefox upgrade experience that strips users of their choice by effectively overriding existing user preferences for the search engine and other apps, and forces the integration of Pocket and Sync, we reached out to your team to discuss this issue. Unfortunately, it didn’t result in any meaningful progress, hence this letter.

We appreciate that it’s still technically possible to preserve people’s previous settings and defaults, but the design of the whole upgrade experience and the default settings APIs have been changed to make this less obvious and more difficult. It now takes more than twice the number of mouse clicks, scrolling through content and some technical sophistication for people to reassert the choices they had previously made in earlier versions of Firefox. It’s confusing, hard to navigate and easy to get lost.

Sometimes we see great progress, where consumer products respect individuals and their choices. However, with the launch of Firefox 38.0.5 we are deeply disappointed to see Mozilla take such a dramatic step backwards.

These changes are unsettling because there are millions of users who love Firefox and who are having their choices ignored, and because of the increased complexity put into everyone’s way if and when they choose to make a choice different than what Mozilla prefers.

We strongly urge you to reconsider your business tactic here and again respect people’s right to choice and control of their online experience by making it easier, more obvious and intuitive for people to maintain the choices they have already made through the upgrade experience. It should be easier for people to assert new choices and preferences, not just for other Mozilla products, through the default settings APIs and user interfaces.

Please give your users the choice and control they deserve in Firefox.
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I think there will be a similar flood of ideas of business to run on ethereum that are ahead of the market.

Back in the dot com boom, there were people who understood the potential of the internet and pushed plans to take advantage. Many failed to hold together because there had not been a large enough migration of users to the new medium.

I agree with you about Ethereum's potential, but I think the first businesses to succeed will be low overhead outfits that can handle waiting out the slow transition.

I am thinking about what would have happened with Amazon if they had started AWS, Amazon Instant Video, and Amazon Prime Now back in '97. They would never have been able to pay developer salaries waiting for 2011 to come. The biggest upside on Ethereum will be a company that understands the medium, starts small, and presses the envelope.
Like you say, in the end, the point is, Safari would be a much better browser if it's UI was much more customizable. Of course, that's completely against Apple's idea that they know how it should look, and if your opinion is different, it's simply because you are an idiot. I really wish they would back away from that attitude, and allow more customization.
"This show was tested on animals. They didn't understand it."
> They aren't defaulting on IE7. Edge is fantastic.

I really don't know where to start. I tried out edge for a few days and although the browser itself is pretty and functional it completely falls flat compared to existing players, including IE.

I don't care what features they've announced for the future that may never happen. As the browser currently stands it's a toy and isn't the "browser for doing." I had hoped that that tagline would mean it would be a browser for power users but what we got was a gimped "mobile" browser.

No add-ons, no real settings, gimmicky features that you'll use twice and then never touch again, no customization, and designed with touch given priority over mouse and keyboard.

Any browser, as long as it has sane defaults, would be fine for causal users but it's like they don't understand what people who care about such things actually do with a browser.
The social security tax is capped because the benefits are also capped. Billionaires don't need $100k/month in SS benefits.
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All fair points, but remote work also has increased massively ( http://fortune.com/2015/02/12/lessons-learned-from-3-compani... ). It is interesting to consider that well-paid remote workers, free to live where they choose, may also be choosing to live in these bigger cities. I'm fully remote and I live in a city, albeit a relative small one (SLC), when I could easily pay a ~$300/mo mortgage for a small rural house in the middle of nowhere if I chose to. I suspect that re-centralization is orthogonal to, rather than antithetical to, remote work.
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Sigh indeed. The CFAA is a scary statute and it's being used in all kinds of ways.
It is keystrokes, app you use, browsing and search history, speech, encryption keys.. That's a concerning amount of information.

This is where I strongly prefer the Apple way of signing in with a normal account and -- if you choose -- linking it to an iCloud account. This is very different from the Windows style where MS accounts take over your local login.
Our prices are cheaper than brick and mortar stores in the country. The supply chain is super fragmented and no one has the scale to bring costs down significantly. Think instacart without Safeway/Wholefoods.

We have our own warehouses. Our workers are full time.
It's not absurd: Social Security's benefits formula has significant "bend points" that make it an increasingly bad "investment" for higher income workers. Eliminating the wage cap would remove any remaining fig leaf covering its essentially redistributive nature: High income workers would have to live to 140 to get back what they "paid in" even without interest.
Doesn't matter. They make all their consumer money off of OEMs.
I use the text reader built into the OS, due to my Dyslexia, so I guess I never noticed :) For me it's just highlight and press the key to have the test read to me, I have "Samantha" cranked all the way to the top speed. That said, Chrome also has very nice pinch to zoom nowadays.
This is just a rumor, not news. The story can be posted if the deal actually occurs.
I wonder if they plan to tackle other educational settings in the future (e.g. schools, self-studying individuals, etc). Am also curious to know if the card design happens automatically or maybe the customer selects from different card types depending on content. The space of tech products that help improve learning seems more sparse than it should be.
90% racism but people will talk in endless circles to avoid admitting it.

Also, sssshhhh. Stop with the hype. Ruining one city is enough.
> what do you show [important people]...?

Profits.
Neither Los Angeles nor San Francisco is in a desert.

The comment you're replying to said "California", and there is not much California population in the desert climate. For example, Palm Springs in the Sonora Desert has a population of about 50K, and Palmdale/Lancaster/Victorville in the Mojave Desert has a combined population of about 400K).
I'm working out of WeWork (Chicago office) and I think the SF WeWork is much different from most of their other locations. While there are a few venture backed startups here, most of the companies tend to be small businesses or single person companies that were previously at places like Regis or working out of Starbucks. For example some companies here: [model agency, recruiting agency, marketing firms, lawyers, accountants, payroll servicing company, a sunglass maker, stock traders] So while a downturn in Tech would hurt them in some of their locations, at the others I don't think the pain would be as bad. We were hoping there would be more tech companies here and were surprised at the number of non-tech firms. FWIW we really enjoy it and have grown now to our third office as we add people. Thats the real value here, month to month leases so we can scale up or down as our team evolves.
Cloud based and private? It's not how this works.
> No it's not.

It may be frequent by some standard (e.g., some threshold of average number of total number uses per unit wall clock time), but only on a very small percentage of TV outlets (particularly, premium cable outlets that don't have to deal with either advertisers or broadcast regulation.)
You just don't understand, because you're privileged. It's a waste of my time to explain something so obvious to a shitlord like you. Apologize for what you did!
I was under the impression that, like copyright, it mainly hinged on your ability to show your willingness to protect it. That, plus a correct EULA, should protect other companies from using it commercially.

The trade secret angle is a LITTLE baffling.
Or even "method for submitting a patent application over the Internet!" If you actually managed to get it, that might actually be stupid enough to get some legislation passed. At minimum it would halt patent applications for a while until it is thrown out.

That's actually not a bad idea. Keep making patents that are as stupid as possible in order to force a change in policy or legislation. Unfortunately the cost would probably make it unfeasible.
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One of my favorite things is when my dog gets near an open pump in the summer. The little maniac makes lunges at the stream(s) with his snout and then backs off, then repeats the whole routine until he's pretty much water-logged himself. Then he lays down in the gutter like a tiny hippo.

But for serious, those open pumps are so much a part of city life. You get families out barbecuing on the sidewalk, the kids playing in the water, people stopping to douse their heads or wash their hands. Cars slowing down as they pass to get a half-assed wash. That sort of stuff.
Also, both password gen configuration and (probably CSV) import/export are coming as soon as I can get them in there.
For a lot of people, Facebook is the board.
It works if what you upload is already encrypted, which is the case here... Apparently it uses https://github.com/spideroak/crypton
I agree. And neither is WebSQL. I was speaking to the "approach to Web Standards", not actual Web Standards. My point being that Moz used (IMO) conjecture and FUD to roadblock those technologies. No attempt on their part to experiment with those technologies and prove their value. In return, we've got instead IndexedDB over WebSQL (which many devs choose to wrap), asm.js over NaCl (which v8 team as shown doesn't require a special compiler mode to optimize for), and ES5/ES5.1/ES6/ES7 language bloat over Your-Choice-Of-JS-Successor language or actually fixing the issues with JS.
Awesome questions, will try to answer here:

>How does Ironclad ensure that you'll "never lose a contract again"? Can you dictate what the folder structure will be and have Ironclad follow that automatically?

-Yes, you can!

>Can you have it follow agreement naming conventions?

-Yes!

>How does it handle successive iterations of a contract that is being negotiated?

-We are working on this, but there's some cool functionality built in to Dropbox already for collaboration. I'd suggest sharing the Dropbox folder that contains the doc and using those for now, they are pretty good.

>Can you also store a record of emails/discussions regarding those negotiations with the contracts?

-We're working on this, but for now you still can use Dropbox comments, etc.
Loved using nvAlt. I need to get back to playing with my cross-platform version of nvAlt in Qt. I got as far as getting a search as you type with minimal file create/load/save going and then trailed off to work on other things.
Do you guys have templates for privacy policies and terms of service? I'm launching a small saas app soon and have been looking for a decent starting point.
My comment is intended to be semi-ironic, a commentary on how the tech industry works by instilling FOMO (fear of missing out) in people who are deathly afraid that somewhere, someone is doing things better or more efficiently than they are.

But to answer your question - you don't show them data. You show them social proof. Show them the tools - GitHub, Slack, Google Docs, videoconferencing - and people using them, and the companies that have made it work, like GitHub, Automattic, Google, Cisco, etc. The whole point is to create an emotional reaction, not a rational one.
I actually think Microsoft's change is better in regards to user choice. Either way, it still seems simple to me to change the default web browser in Windows 10. Here's a gif I made showing another way to change the default web browser to Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/FbdcfL3.gif (In the gif, both Cortana and Bing search is disabled, only standard Windows Search is used)

Also, it's kind of embarrassing that Mozilla's official video for this shows an unactivated version of Windows 10.
As far as I can tell the main thing pushing people to pay to upgrade windows is when support runs out, not a desire for features.

Far more people never consider it and just let their new faster computer have a different OS.
I think your model is really cool and seems like it would work better for the Bangladesh context than the US context (as a comparison to Instacart). Do you think Chaldal will have a net positive impact on society? How do you envision things may change in Bangladesh if/as your model dominates urban grocery retail?
I never understood why investors need to be 'close.' I also don't understand why most startups need an office. Basecamp is entirely remote with an office just for show. They only use it a few times a year. Unless you build hardware, an office is unnecessary. A dumb waste of money, especially early in a startup's life. I do some side work for a major international medical lab and their entire Dev team is remote -- and this is enterprise. I am not sure some flower delivery app that aggregates social sharing metrics using Go really needs to have an office. As far as 'access to talent,' that's a bulkshit metric as well. Remote workers can be anywhere. You can even hire foreign workers without needing visas. Most engineers aren't living in San Fran except for their jobs. Making $140k per year is the San Fran equivalent of minimum wage, especially if you have a family. Compare that cost of living to any other place in the country and San Fran engineers actually don't get paid very well at all. Add California taxes into it and I'm just not getting the attraction.

I live in the South of France in a big house that costs me $800 per month. I am about a 10 min walk from the TGV station that can take me to Paris in just over 2 hours. My kids are in French pre-k, I have top notch medical insurance that costs $139 per month to cover the whole family beyond the government insurance and I don't have to worry about my wife getting harassed by urine soaked homeless people at BART stations.

I can't speak for all engineers but given that there is an entire word outside of San Franscisco, I can see zero advantage to living there. Talent is there because they have to be. I'm sure a huge percentage would rather be working from a beach in Thailand or Tulum.

As far as investors, who cares? If you have a product people want to buy, investors will come to you. It's a myth that proximity matters. There were investors long before Silicon Valley startups were a thing. Plenty of billion dollar companies founded everywhere else. At this point, San Fran and the valley are prestige locations as opposed to offering any competitive advantages.
Maybe I'm not using it right, but Cortana on my Lumia 640 Windows Phone seems to blow Google Now right out of the water in terms of capability and usability except for punctuation in voice recognition.

On the other hand, generally I'm pretty impressed with just the voice recognition/transcription by Google on my Android phones (exception: "ferociously"). Transcriptions in Google Voice on the other hand are, hm, marginally good enough to often get a general gist of a call before I return it, but if I need the actual details of the message there's no choice but to listen to it. This includes calls made by me, from my phone that I also do voice recognition on, into a Google Voice number that I use for some tracking.

It is interesting that the transcriptions in the web interface show how confident they are of the quality for each word by how dark the word is.
It's not. 25gpm versus an open hydrant that can (if connected to a decent water supply) give you 1000gpm+ is far better.

Here (in WA state) on the other hand, no sprinkler caps, and no real need for them. Indeed our biggest issue is special security on them and FDC connectors because people will steal the caps for scrap metal.