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>I'd like to know how many of those are paid vs un-paid accounts.

As I understand it, accounts are 'free', you pay to send messages. That's how the bot-scam works...they generate fake messages to the users and the users spend money to reply.

Noel Biderman and his gang of fraudsters should be arrested and spend the next few decades in prison.
From what I recall, the consensus is that the smarter attack is less efficient than brute force overall.
That's stupid, how can this kind of thing not be "available" in a country? It's totally isolated from the service
Congrats! Good luck, the product is interesting indeed. I am not a marketing expert though. Maybe you can try to work a deal with some automated website builder? So they can add the bug-reporting tool to their offering, 1 deal would mean lots of users (but their websites are probably fairly simple?).
> https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox

That looks pretty cool, at least at first. I'll have to take a deeper dive into it.

I like that it looks to be all shell scripts. Wish it were sh rather than bash, but c'est la vie.
Just to test, send me money: https://paypal.me/martino

Edit: Thank you for your €0,10 kind stranger!
While it is true that you have profitable businesses from day 1 or almost, it still reduces your chances to be able to be an entrepreneur coming from the bottom. This article doesn't say it's impossible. Just that it's less likely/harder. That's a hard truth. You can build around all you want, there is no denying it.
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Huh? if anything it's the distributors and considering that were discussing this in a thread about how Netflix decided to dump a huge movie library how is this even relevant?

I understand why Netflix is doing this as a company, they are no longer the biggest baddest player around and with more competition they have harder times scoring good deals with license holders and they see original content as a central part of their growth strategy because that content is and always will be exclusive to them for as long as they want to hold it.

That doesn't mean that I as a consumer want this or will benefit from this in any way, I can understand the financial reasoning behind it just like I can understand why game publishers run exclusive pre-order bonus deals and day one DLC but it also doesn't mean I don't loath it or will support it in the long run.
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> Which is the most "advanced" country in your opinion in terms of e-government?

1) One consideration is scale: Estonia's population is around the size of a city, 1.3 million, about equivalent to SF and Oakland combined. It's land area is around 17,500 sq miles; a U.S. state of that size would be the 42nd largest, between West Virginia and Maryland.

That doesn't diminish the services for thier citizens; to the extent that they enhance government through tech, that's great. But if you are comparing countries, it's much different to organize and service 1.3 than 300 million. In fact, if I were running a small nation (something I know nothing about), I might use that relative nimbleness as a competitive advantage.

2) As a guess, Singapore?

3) Does e-government include the governmental service of spying on citizens?
JIRA is excellent; however, I hate Java. It's definitely a bit heavy in terms of what you may be looking for in this case. However, it's a phenomenal and supremely powerful product.
Always in motion, the future is.
Normally it's because their account is suddenly closed, without any reason given, and no correspondence is entered into.

Also they're happy to support hate groups, but blacklisted wikileaks.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that the 225,000 angel investors the author counts are all going bust. Their investments are illiquid and effectively worthless. How is this scenario worse than that of the late '90s, when the bubble affected the public market, and millions of people's investments evaporated overnight?
An alternative in Germany (or any country adhering to the IBAN/BIC numbering system) is cringle [1]. It uses direct withdrawals (Lastschrift) or wire transfers and does not require the other party to have a cringle account in order to receive money, according to their website.

[1]: https://www.cringle.net
I can understand the argument of money means you're more likely to start a company. But the article is titled at addressing risk. Perhaps I'm just being pedantic with semantics, but if you have the money then doesn't that actually reduce the risk? "when you know you have a safety net, you are more willing to take risks." If you have a safety net, it's arguably not a risk then. Perhaps a better way to look at it would be, if you have money, what is a risk to someone else is less of a risk to you.

I still feel like risk aversion as a whole can hold us back from things we would enjoy in life. What is this? "a 31-year-old woman who runs in social entrepreneurship circles in New York, and asked not to be named, told Quartz" This could be any random person with an opinion on startups. We have no idea what influenced this view point or where she is coming from. Blindly listening to it sounds dangerous.
That is not at all how compilers & cpu engineers work together.

Compilers are not reverse-engineering the CPU, and different CPUs do not behave that radically different to make this non-portable.

The biggest issue by far are the languages themselves. Java, for example, is inherently anti-CPU-friendly by design. You can't get flattened objects, almost everything is done via reference instead of value, etc... This was done for other tradeoffs, but the majority of languages in use were not built for raw CPU throughput.
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That's got to be the worst one. b^)

I wouldn't be shocked if they were to take this one back from you.
I ended up in this when trying to signup. :/

{"statusCode":400,"error":"Bad Request","message":"\"uid\" is not allowed","validation":{"source":"query","keys":["uid"]}}
Me not being very inventive, grabbed "myself".
Normally I'd cry foul but 20 alphanumeric characters (roughly 64^20, or 1e36 combinations) is more than sufficient.
Oh, please. CE means precisely AD but with a gloss of PC lipstick. Next we're going to hear that uttering AD instead of CE triggers those of weak constitution.
I did some playing-around with WAP for my Moto RAZR. Turned out the phone could only store a page stack of about .. five. This varied with page complexity, so you might only get 3 deep before it locked-up the phone.
Enjoy the penny! I was curious what the payer experience was like... (impressively slick)
This reminds me of MapD (http://www.mapd.com), though I am not sure which database MapD builds their stuffs on.
Focusing on single app performance may be missing the mark.

For a mobile device, having multiple smaller cores going at lower voltage may be more beneficial than one big core screaming ahead at higher voltage. This because most devices these days have all sorts of stuff running in the background.

Yeah i know Intel is talking big about race to idle. But my main concern there is that given the number of background tasks etc, idle will never be reached in a meaningful sense.
What happened to the story of PayPal handing over users' phone numbers to robocallers? https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/06/03/paypal-robocall...

Did it turn out to be true? I haven't deleted my account yet, but I haven't made new purchases nor signed any new agreements since then. Especially since there may not even be a guarantee that they won't do it to people with "disabeld" accounts.

Edit: I just registered the .me account for my regular name, so I won't have someone posing as me or getting payments from people who've confused the owner with me, as a precaution.
This is highly unlikely as the parchment contains diacritical marks which were not introduced until 4 caliphs/leaders after the Prophet who had all already died/been killed. This has been mentioned by many critics as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_diacritics#history

This seems more like a means to incite Muslims rather than science.
The paper referenced in the article is available here: http://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Macn...
Poor scholarship has never stopped anyone. As a theological masters degree student and PhD candidate I have always been just blown away at how poorly people do their work.

In terms of years AD isn't really disrespectful the CE (Common Era) never really caught on and it was the same years. Muslim year numbers are in AH (1 AH is when the prophet moved to Medina) so 1 AH Day 1 is 16 July 622. So the years would be 54 BAH to 23 AH. This range means that it goes with our history from the time. As far as history goes int he last 100 years we have gotten very good at dates in our history and especially around the 6th Century. Bogus reporting on bogus scholarship.
Looks useful. Best of luck!

Do you mind if I ask, why the move now?
Looks like they forgot to test for negative values. I put in -200.00 and it seems to have withdrawn the money from your account without problems ;)
I think the other side of that argument is why the capital gets locked up in the first place?

It's because there's excess surplus from productivity gains. If you work 1 hour a day you can be far more productive than just a few years ago. Either wages should increase to match that gain or hours should decrease to match that gain. In both cases, wealth would be unlocked.

If you work fewer hours you get more time for hobbies and side projects and other wealth-creation ideas.

If you work the same amount of hours but for a higher salary, you get money to shift into investments or to be able to take time off to invest in yourself and your family.

The current surplus wealth goes to the top and to the company itself.
>Hulu only has commercials on their second-run (day-after-air) content from broadcast sources. They have a substantial back catalogue of stuff that doesn't include said commercials.

Did they change to this recently? I had a Hulu Plus subscription a couple of years ago and they had ads interrupting everything, regardless of date.

If they've removed ads from their back catalog I may consider re-subscribing...
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I think the reality is that there are a lot of angels that will lose a lot of money on their investments. However, most of those angels are wealthy individuals, and as a percentage of the total amount of investment capital across all of the various investment opportunities in the market, it's still a relatively small amount. Think of it like any other high-risk investment vehicle.

For the crowdfunding equity part, I think that things like kickstarter are vastly more pernicious - there's even less due diligence than there potentially will be for crowdfunded equity. But also, if the amounts invested really are $5k, $5k investments are not going to bankrupt people.

If we compare this versus the tech bubble in 2000, in that situation thousands of people lost their jobs, and many people who were playing the stock market lost a lot of money, regardless of whether they had liquidity or not.

So I guess it depends on your definition of "worse". I suspect that it's "worse" for angel investors in that there are many more startups for them to lose money in, but definitely not nearly as bad for the overall pool of people who invest in companies.
Why poor taste? As is common knowledge A.D. is an abbreviation for Anno Domini. You might as well say that calling Muhammamad 'The prophet' is in poor taste. For most people in the Western world the year zero is an arbitrary number and not understood as year of 'Our Lord' nor is Muhammad regarded as a prophet. Both are aids to communication not exegesis.

Not living in the US, the reference to Fox News is a bit lost on me. Perhaps it's equivalent to the seemingly obligatory sideswipe at the British Daily Mail on the part of some folk. Establishes their credentials, I guess.
No. A well trafficked website or ads are distribution channels. Getting a mention in a newspaper likewise.

Just putting something up on the Internet and hoping will get you nowhere.
> You say to Oracle, Yeah T3 SPARC64 RISC chips look nice. But coding against non-symetric asychronous cores is hard.

But… the T3 is symmetric? And not from the 90s, it was launched in 2010?

> Intel, Nvidia, AMD (formerly ATI) solved this problem a long time ago just by putting the binary logic between the scalar processors and only exposing 1 scheduler to pipeline these smaller weaker cores but make them pretend to be a single processor to the OS/User.

That's the original use case for big.LITTLE actually, either cluster-switching between the low-power (A7/A53) cluster and the high-power (A15/A57) cluster, or presenting groups of low power and high-power cores (1/1, 2/1) as a single virtual core.
Venmo has a team in SF now, and eBay doesn't own PayPal anymore.

Personally, I think it makes a lot of sense. This seems like a lower-friction flow, especially when requesting money from people who have never heard of Venmo – not everyone trust a payment processor they've never heard of, and PayPal has much broader awareness than Venmo.
The article is arguing as if Social Darwinism is an accepted theory of business success. Is it really? I don't think so. I followed several of the links the article was using to support the Social Darwinism claim. One only was actually making that claim (inc.com) and it was obvious pseudo-science, it has the wonderful line: "Self-employment income is heritable".

To the people taking offense to this because they didn't start out with a lot of money: the article is talking about probability, not possibility. Just because most entrepreneurs start with some money doesn't mean there is no-one who starts without family financial support. And it's talking about genetics vs financial support, and not about the people who challenge the odds with hard work.
FTA:

> Article originally appeared on FoxNews.com.

yup :)
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> Interestingly, for all his insight, Steve Yegge doesn't understand why Java is popular and lisp is not.

What do you think are the reasons? Some folks might claim that Java enables mediocre teams of mediocre programs to turn out mediocre code, while they would turn out utter dreck in Lisp (we know that excellent programmers will turn out excellent code in Lisp, but there are business and operational risks associated with a small team of excellent programmers), but I don't actually know if that's true. Has research been conducted with large teams of mediocre programmers with mediocre management, using Lisp?
Thanks! I don't mind at all, it's something I've always wanted to do, but always wanted to be bootstrapped, so I've had to save up enough runway money to make a good go at it.
Want to give PayPal.me a try? Have a look at the demo: http://paypal.me/demo :)
i think it's very similar to pagerank, except the 'soundness' concept is new.

you could do it anonymously if you trusted the party storign the data. i 'm going to add that to the FB version, so you can message the page privately. this would also work on reddit, hacker news, twitter or other sites.
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Stripe and Square are both my goto service. But why limit yourself to one avenue of getting paid. Best to be flexible.
The word linear is never used in that part of the standard, nor is any relationship to calculus expressed explicitly (and there is not really any relationship to anything else, just saying that a matrix can be used to express incidences in a network is useless if they never study networks). Probably because calculus is not part of the CC standard, which is my point exactly. Besides, Common Core is not what most living people in the US experienced in school.

I have seen the standards for high school math teachers and trust me, they are low. Most of my classmates in undergrad (which was supposed to be an excellent program for math teachers) are now high school teachers. Their complaints about how much they hate basic linear algebra and "just want to be done with it so they can go teach high school" are still ringing in my ears.
The parallels between "tons of platinum" and "millions of users" are very real.
Excellent idea! I hadn't thought of this approach, I'll definitely try to get some partnerships in this area.
Isn't it kind of ironic that he says that people don't know what they're getting into when they invest in small apps and tech startups, and then plugs his own app startup at the end of the article?
No. Yegge bet on XML specifically with all its XPath, XQuery, DTD stuff. I don't believe he was thinking about anything like NoSQL or JSON.
How do they solve the problem of "sharing dropbox links after purchase" ?
Should we take 100k new users to mean 100 new Ashley Madison employees generating 1,000 fake accounts each?

http://abovethelaw.com/2013/11/ashley-madison-should-take-be...
I fondly remember being on Rentacoder, later vWorker as a freelancer.

While it had the same issues regarding freelancer quality and price-wise being a race to the bottom, you could find some great clients when you ignored job postings containing the usual red flags.

Also, the site was ugly (and by ugly i mean mid-nineties ugly) but it was functional, their team was top-notch and never had any issues payment wise or other.

Of course everything went to sh*t when it was sold off to freelancer.com and that was the point i stopped being on sites like this.

Seems it was the right decision.
No, it's not ironic, it's hypocritical at worst, and a coincidence at best.
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Since there are 90+% female accounts are fake, and their "delete-all-your-info" premium service is also phony, should I really trust the statement "100k new users" over last week?

After all the site is sort of about cheating in relationship, so fake/phony might be the norm, to some extent.
With everything synced to the cloud, apparently automatically and without user intervention (I agree that's overdue), how is privacy handled?
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.... what planet do you live on? That certainly isn't the case for the vast majority of developers, even if their lifestyle involves a studio apartment and ramen noodles.
Agreed. Some of these tasks are things where it's reasonable to expect people to learn concepts or specific tools but in many cases it's still overhead even if people have learned coping strategies.
It isn't. In fact, it's almost certainly better.

All else being equal, the total loss to the economy when a doomed company goes under is the same. If $50m was invested, that $50m has been lost, almost always with nothing at all to show for it. Of course, if no debt was involved, that money didn't go away, it just went somewhere else. Most likely, since it was paid out as wages, that somewhere else was China.

The ability to sell a worthless security at a loss as opposed to holding it until it is eventually canceled when the corporation is wound down does not change this. All it does is spread the loss out: the first investor loses whatever he put in less what he gets for the stock later, and whoever buys it at that point eats the rest of the loss (or at least until she sells it at a loss too, and so on). The total loss doesn't change; all that changes is the distribution of losses across the economy.

However, it's not that simple. An IPO invariably entails the issuance of shares that did not exist previously. That is, some portion of the raise is new investment. When the company fails, all investment made in it is lost, so any additional investment increases the total loss to the economy. So the world actually becomes poorer when a company is able to go public before failing (or, more broadly, each additional round of funding whether public or private increases the total loss). The longer a bubble is allowed to inflate, the greater the total loss to malinvestment.

So, is it better for 225k "qualified" investors to eat the entire loss, or for several million retail investors to share in a somewhat larger loss? Your answer probably depends on which you are. Overall, though, all that matters is how much total investment was made in companies that fail without ever paying a dividend.
Nothing new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steadicam

Of course, now they'll file for a patent and old technology will become gated.
You're misreading him. Those are examples of "an existing success story" that other startups are comparing themselves to.

Yes, nobody except Mark Cuban would consider broadcast.com a success story, but if I got rich off selling a company, I'd consider it a success too.
It wold appear you must use the Login link at the top-right of https://thimble.mozilla.org/. That sends you to a login page with a bunch of extra parameters after the https://id.webmaker.org/login?.

e.g. https://id.webmaker.org/login?client_id=wm_id_wMvw9BSwq2A480...

If you try to login just from https://id.webmaker.org/login you will get the error you saw.
For a server having multiple smaller cores going a lower voltage maybe more beneficial then several big cores screaming ahead at higher voltage. This because most servers have all sorts of processing running in the background while idle.

Notice how it sounds identical? We've had this debate before.

You can argue phone's have stricter power requirements then server farms. But power is the primary expense of server farms. Much like battery life is a big selling point of phones.

Its the same debate. Power is king, always has been.
> Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010

Let me lay the raw truth out for any lisp fans. It will never be popular or widely adopted. Ever.

It has been around for half a century. At no time was it ever widely adopted. It was always just pushed by a small group of fanboys.

That said, I love it and have learned a ton from as have many others.
Why the hell it is on front page of all IT news sites?
I agree. The post explores how one must be confrontational when it requires.
99.99% is perhaps your estimate, but not necessarily others. This is also not likely what people would consider "layout control" if they're coming from a language that allows field-level layout control. Being able to place frequently used together fields manually is quite useful in quite a few circumstances.
I can see this being useful if I want to work on some little projects from various locations. My current list of "active" computers are the following:

- Work laptop (Dell workstation)

- Home Windows laptop (Primarily for gaming)

- Chromebook Pixel (Chrome OS / Ubuntu)

And of course, each one has its own editor that I use while I'm on them due to the varying OS's--Notepad++ on the Windows laptops, Caret when I'm in ChromeOS, SublimeText when I'm on the Ubuntu partition.

Assuming I just want to work on some small educational projects that don't involve committing to my Github, being able to simply pull up an IDE in the browser and just start coding away could be useful, particularly while I'm at work. Work usually seems to be where I get most of my sudden cravings to start learning new things anyway (probably because my day job is so repetitive).
P.S. Haskell is the new lisp. See you in 50 years when people are still predicting it'll get big anytime now.
The average person doesn't have the time needed to learn how to build a house, either. As a society, we solve this problem by delegating the construction industry to a group of people who specialize in it, and whom we can trust to do things properly.

There's no way around the fact that security is complex. If it's too time consuming for the average developer, then they shouldn't be doing it at all.