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App Engine is far more mature than Parse - it's been around for nearly a decade, the API is stable, and Google's not going anywhere any time soon. App Engine adoption was also very slow to pick up, but it was a more enterprise-targeted computing solution than Parse.

IMO Facebook just decided to cut their losses. Parse was very likely to end up as a low-margin enterprise business with little to no impact on Facebook from a data standpoint. Facebook doesn't really have an enterprise sales division like Google does; and standing up a new sales channel like that is very difficult if you're not sure the margin will be there.
It's not an App Store where someone could get a billion downloads, probably not even a million except maybe dragged out over a year.

But I netted $8k last month on Underground against 38k downloads, that's pretty decent.
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Youtube takedowns and Content ID aren't the DMCA, there's a custom youtube policy with its own rules.

You could send them a DMCA takedown, but why would you? Their system favors the person trying to remove content even more than the DMCA does.
Challenge Proposal for IBM Watson: Coming up with Lorenzo's Oil
I would like to see IBM Watson come up with Lorenzo's oil with the medical literature that was available in 1986.
Since the parents of a sick boy came up with this treatment, all on their own, by relentlessly searching through the medical literature available at the time, I feel that this should be a good task to gauge Watson's abilities given that it is very text-oriented and health-focused nowadays.
> Corporations are given a public charter which declares its purpose.

Which, for virtually (but not quite entirely) all corporations that aren't nonprofits, is basically "do anything legal", or "do anything legal to advance the interests of the shareholders."

E.g., for Yahoo!, its purpose is "to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware". [0]

If corporate law required purposes in charters/certificates of incorporation to be meaningful and specific, and charters/certificates were denied or revoked that failed to be, the purpose in a charter might actually be worth referring to.

[0] http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/YHOO/1450374771x0x285...
STEM is a pretty meaningless term. Most of those who say there should be more people with STEM training don't really want more people trained in general relativity, paleontology, deep-sea biology, etc.

I suspect it mostly means they want the government to pay for the types of problem solvers that businesses want, and enough of them to keep the wages low.

I think that's implicit in how hnamazon123 refers to ROI. Who gets the return - the student, businesses, and/or the country - for investing in someone's education?
Housing is killer. On-campus was over $600/mo, higher than median apartment rent, and they shared with 3 other students. There's no reason student housing should be half or more the expense of attendance over the same period.
Saudi Arabia, despite being not in any way leftist, is in pretty much the same boat. They've just got more money in the bank at the moment.

Similarly, Ecuador is pretty leftist. It just has a substantially better run economy.
I helped make Scatterdot, and would be happy to chat about some of the things we talk about here. We thought this might be a helpful thing for Slack app authors.
Sort of. First, we're not clear that the YouTube claim form is an actual DMCA claim (it's defective in a number of ways, not the least is the lack of a real counter-claim process).

Second, the 'perjury' part of the DMCA only applies if they falsely claim ownership of an infringed work. So if I make a bogus claim that your work infringes on something I actually have copyright over (however tenuous), it doesn't trigger the actual perjury bit. But if I claim to own, say, a Beatles album (which I do not) , or to be their copyright agent (which I am not), then it's a violation.

[EDIT: Just to clarify the above, this is to mean that I claim someone infringe on a Beatles album which I don't own or that I'm their agent when I am not. Thus, it's when my claim of ownership over the allegedly infringed upon work is a lie that this triggers, rather than any dispute over the ownership of the allegedly infringing work.]

I think that (unless barred somehow in YouTube's ToS), that a large enough group might be able to sue the groups making false claims for their ad money.

It's rather murky whether you could go after people who are, e.g., claiming copyright over public domain works, but with sufficient evidence of bad faith, maybe you could get somewhere.

The main problem is that federal lawsuits are really expensive and the amounts of money here are usually not all that large. It's not clear to me whether there are damages in an amount sufficient to make a class action worthwhile or anyone with deep enough pockets to pay a judgement even if one were obtained at great expense.

Or maybe someone could do a class action against YouTube as a whole for upholding bogus claims, but I'm not sure that you don't agree not to hold YouTube liable somewhere in some ToS and even if you do, I'm not sure if it's enforceable.

Disclaimer: IANAL, this isn't legal advice. If you have an actual legal issue, consult a lawyer, not random internet comments.
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This is linkbait. There's only one relevant sentence:

> in the same press release, the chairman of Yahoo's board announced that the board is going to "engage on qualified strategic proposals" — that is, consider offers to sell the company.

Yahoo is not up for sale. With the alarmist linkbait title and the URL "yahoo-marissa-mayer-fail", this is possibly a sting piece with motives other than journalism.

I have no political ties to Yahoo (nor Vox) but this is not good reporting.
I just started getting into proper Android development, and found it extremely difficult to structure my code when using a whole bunch of interfaces to communicate between dynamically generated fragments. Hopefully this will help!
Interesting. I find the main point of concentration meditation to be to disregard non-relevant stimuli (ie not my breath) and continually bring back attention to the predetermined focus point. This could be building the strength of the executive function in the meditator's brain. There is already an obvious benefit to a regular meditation practice, as evidence by the growing amounts of research into its effects.
On that note, Freedesktop was founded by Pennington...
That's me. I now have a Sudoku app launched too, and a new 1200 piece jigsaw to launch this month, and a word search next month.
Interesting thought. In fact when I looked at the market of mBaaS, it is interesting that most major competitors after Parse target the Entreprise market, that echo with your 2nd checkbox.
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"Woe to the VC, for they are like a dog sleeping in the manger of oxen, for neither does he eat nor does he let the oxen eat"
the "message structure" page is 404ing. all the rest hints to a designed-by-committee buzzword thingy.
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That's really just something you tell yourself to feel good about the dire financial situation your students are in.

I mean, yes, spending 4 years with minimal responsibility, partying, and studying great literature and arts is certainly enriching.

However, I'm sure most of your students feel entitled to that experience and would demand a system which would take money from me to pay for it.

Having recently graduated from college, I strongly disagree with the idea that your students offer much to society to the point where I should be paying their way through college. They're free to live in virtual debt slavery. That's their right to decide that the college experience they got was worth it.
> Large mobile app developers such as mobile gaming companies mostly shunned its service, building in house custom solutions instead. Small to medium sized developers embraced its service, but had a much smaller propensity to spend.

As a developer, I want the platform I choose to rely on to be reliable and unlikely to shut down. I also don't want to spend a lot of money on it. Hmm. Hmmmmmm.
The problem with IBR plans is they are generally only for federal loans. In my experience, private loans offer no alternative payment plans up front.
"relatively rare"

It was also relatively cheap. People work for a summer, at minimum wage, and afford college for the rest of the year.
What would you rank higher?
This is a rare opportunity where a regular person can hold a member of the Bush pro-war team accountable, if even in some small way.
I was hoping for an insider leak...
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I don't know if I'm making the world a better place, but it is nice to know that my immediate part of the world continues to function well even though thousands of people are unaware of the job I do behind the scenes to make that happen.
Of all the names for sockpuppet accounts, that's the name you chose?
Oh yes, they are thoroughly fucked. But so are the people in general. The "curse" of oil is that it takes relatively few people to run the industry. Perhaps 100,000. The rest of the population is surplus to requirements. In theory you only need to pay off the oil folks, plus protection, to remain in power. In practice...
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Um, what? Are you saying the members of OPEC are more concerned about regime change in Venezuela than their own economic survival? You'll have to explain how that one works.
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I got a take down notice from a band last year. I had posted videos of my progress on a game I was working on wherein I used an air-raid siren I got from the public domain. The band had a song called Air Raid that used the same public domain sound. It was obviously not a violation of any of their music. It took me three weeks to get that cleared up. It's too easy for people to abuse this. Guilty until proven innocent is a terrible platform strategy.
It is absurd. Some people say you shouldn't pursue what interests you for that amount of money, but I think that's the wrong way of looking at things. Our world is more valuable for the sociologists and other non STEM people. We also really only have this one shot to pursue what we love.
Because the cheapest watt to generate is the one you didn't have to generate in the first place.

On the other hand, Texas has so much wind power locally that they can't ship out of the state yet that some utilities give power away for free at night:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/business/energy-environmen...

As more renewables come online (and they will, I assure you), this will further drive down the per kwh cost.
The frackers have stopped drilling new wells, but the way fracking works actually lends itself to this. They are not long term wells like you typically see, but more of a burst and drill again. When the prices go up, they will put the equipment back in the field.

Now would be a good time to schedule some of those infrastructure projects that need truckers, welders, and such.
Yeah! There's strong evidence to support gray matter increase in the prefrontal cortex, which would also support executive function improvement.
It has IE11 issues also. http://i.imgur.com/flVRw9M.jpg
There was some talk about a similar plane (the same one?) having received a landing permit in Copenhagen. Much of the content of the emails that would confirm this were redacted, but the parties involved (ie metadata, ironically enough) weren't and they were several rungs above the ladder over those who would normally have to approve landing permits.
Parents are not as involved in the decisions as much as they should be and they have bought into the notion that private liberal art universities are much better than public. But that is not uniformly true and outcome data shows earning power is not that much greater for many liberal art majors from private schools. (full disclosure: I work for a private liberal arts university)
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I got that advice all my life and it never made sense to me.

You have to demonstrate value to employers; to anyone with whome you desire to exchange goods or services for money.

Simply having a college degree is a very weak signal for value.
I'm not sure where you're going with that, but after reading a book on the Spanish Civil War, when "respecting private property" means "a few people having a lot of it and most folks having next to nothing" and the former fighting to maintain this advantageous statu quo, it's pretty clear to me that the long-term stability of the country is in large part predicated on some measure of equality and social justice before "the respect for private property".
Issues I've seen with JDK upgrades over the years (that I can think of right now):

* when "enum" keyword was added, if you had a variable named enum you had to rename it.

* If you use any of the sun.* packages you always ask for trouble on major upgrades.

* GC changes over the years can change how your program runs (latency changes, OOM issues). This probably applies to Go as well.
> you probably already have a lot of money already, and should just focus on whatever you were doing to get that much.

You can inherit only once from your rich parents.
> It seems like a sticky problem because even if Freenode purports to be open, and you can read the source code of what software they say they use, you can't actually see the source code powering their service, right?

I'm not sure how hard it would be, but conceivably you could join freenode and host your own ircd? I think the federation part (and ability to migrate/self-host) is the most important part here.

I don't think it makes much sense to bever let other projects/org run part of your infrastructure - the key point is that those organisations are open (so you can join Debian and take over an orphaned package you use, or you can run your own email and federate with others that use email).

IRC vs Slack is a bit one-sided, as IRC has some real problems at the protocol level - jabber/xmpp and Matrix are probably more sensible alternatives. But even then I don't think the main point is that everyone should do all the work of hosting all their infrastructure - just that it's goid to choose an infrastructure with as little lock-in as possible - and infrastructure that one can easily contribute to (eg: submit a patch for ircd or one of the bots etc).
Safer has a connotation of safety whereas ungefährlicher has a connotation of danger.

If something that would have killed you before, is less likely to do so now you would call it ungefährlicher or less dangerous but you wouldn't call it safer unless you're intending to be funny.
Usually are ideas more tied to the Marxism-Leninism way of thinking.

I don't think there are many public figures supporting it, but something is going on in the population when you see a guy like Donald Trump in front of polls for that long. When you compare speeches, you can observe that D. Trump is pretty much Chavez from the other side of the street.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Left
You'll find in most definitions, people go out of their way to not lump Kings in with dictators. Because Kings are the dictators we like for some weird reason. And it usually leads to bizarre contortions.

Even with your very specific definition, it pretty much applies to a whole bunch of kings.

edit: hah, found a blatant example from dictionary.com

Dictator: a person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.

How weird that you escape the title "dictator" just by dictating that your kids will be the dictator after you!
You can say that students should know to read paperwork by the time they're entering college and that's fine, but the problem is that (for most) their only avenue towards high earnings is a degree and the only avenue to a degree are loans. Combine that with someone around age 18 who has never had significant income doesn't realize just how big those numbers are and how they'll impact them in the future. We badly need to reign in public college costs and offer student loans at lower rates.
Listening to Marissa Myer this morning talk about the company she could not identify a core function within the company or a future.

She had a number of buzzwords laid out and did not give any idea of what they were going for. I need her to say things like:

1. We are working to create a cross-platform experience that outdoes Google and Apple within their app system. The best photo sharing program across app and web for me is Flickr and we are going to become the anti-facebook by guaranteeing your content privacy.

2. What is Yahoo? As it stands now, it is an amalgamation of multiple properties that bring in revenue streams. If this is the case, then if I were an investor, I would be trying to find a way to squeeze assets out.
Push notifications, ACL management done in a nice way, ... nothing that cannot be built quickly but you know how it works, one start with a prototype on Parse, because it's RAD, and the product ends up being the prototype because ... RAD .

Granted there were other open source Baas before, but Parse had an nice UI admin, along with nice analytics.

Overall it was a good product feature wise.
On 10th December 2015 the have done almost the same experiment: https://youtu.be/R_kPM1J-F0Q?t=3m49s
If you accrued massive student loan debt just to learn programming for four years I'm sorry.

I hope you learned theory and underlying principles, as well as experienced the life that is pretty unique to college.
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It would have been nice to have been told up front: "Rent will be this much higher (for a building with worse quality due to mass production), which you'll have to pay to get access to the city where the jobs are. Wages will be stagnant by this much, and god save you if you have some kind of health crisis and don't navigate the healthcare system just so."

Anyone saying these kids or their parents should've known better need to get real. Most of the middle and lower class was hustled. Of course, they and those with even fewer protections abroad are still needed to get shit done. That is, only until those jobs can be replaced with automation so profits can be even higher at the top. Humans are so fragile, costly, lazy, biased / inaccurate, and replaceable.

What then? People keep saying that things have never been better, though, so I guess there's that. Meanwhile (anecdote incoming), most of childhood friends are barely scraping by while living with their parents, clinically depressed & flirting with homelessness, or dead. The successful ones are few and far between, and they're typically those that were born with more "intelligence". And by successful, I mean achieving some kind of success that somewhat matches their parent's standard of living.
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That's a great question, and one I won't pretend to have the answer to. On one hand, Basecamp has carved out a very profitable niche for themselves despite venture-backed competition from Jira and others, so it's certainly possible. I also think that there is a big difference between taking money when you are small with typical angel / seed-round terms and taking late-stage money with 2x VC liquidation preferences and a private valuation north of $1 billion. Then again, like you said, it can be very tough to turn a profit when you have to compete with companies undercutting you by subsidizing their prices with an enormous reserve of easy VC cash.
Look at the crime stats in Venezuela and think again.
Pfff 404, that's so HTTP. Why aren't you using IAP?
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> A principled president

This is a bit off-topic, but I saw something today I couldn't help but think of when I saw that phrase. Even though Hillary Clinton is not every president and may be have been too defeatist (or too obedient) when she said this, my "point" is basically, if even going up against hundreds of millions of dollars seems "out of the question", well, what about the really nasty and actually powerful orgs?

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/bernie-sanders-hillary...

> They got their meeting at the White House that month, and the two doctors laid out the case for single-payer to the first lady. “She said, ‘You make a convincing case, but is there any force on the face of the earth that could counter the hundreds of millions of the dollars the insurance industry would spend fighting that?’” recalled Himmelstein. “And I said, “How about the president of the United States actually leading the American people?’ and she said, ‘Tell me something real.’ ”

A principled population, now that would be something :)
They may have officially transferred the plane, but do you really think that means the CIA would have to stop operating it? I mean it is totally possible that they did, but I could see an equally possible scenario where they just "transfered" it for political cover.
IANAL, but it would be logical, or go see a lawyer of decent reputation that does free consultations. That would point you in the right direction. Your case really sounds like you need to talk to an actual lawyer and not try to deal with it yourself.
If its not growing, for from many investors, yes, that is a failure.

I have $1. I can do many things with it. Why would I give my $1 to someone in exchange for a piece of their business if that business is not growing when I could instead give that $1 to someone who is growing? I want my $1 to become worth more.

Yes, yes yes, I know companies that pay dividends or profit sharing, etc. However what's the return on those? It is higher than somewhere else?

Divorce yourself from thinking about what the company does or ever how much money it is making. For many investors, they are looking for opportunities to put in some money, get an asset, and then sell that asset for a profit. Growth is key to forecasting returns and thus comparing different investment opportunities.
I disagree with most of your post, but I think your last paragraph nails it. There was lost of demand and adoption of Parse, but only by thousands of the smallest players who just wouldn't offer FB any real value. I believe FB bought Parse just in case it worked out in one of the possible spaces FB was going to play. But it didn't. Failing at IoT, as you say, was the last straw.
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