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This is exactly what Bitcasa does.

* Integrate directly into the OS and intercept the filesystem calls
* We encrypt client side using keys that aren't exposed to the server.
* Stream the content in real time like Spotify or Netflix and enable random access
* Cache frequently used items locally
* Works across multiple devices and platforms
* We're building primary storage vs backup or sync

Its a well thought out system.

Full disclosure - I'm the founder and CEO of Bitcasa.
You're one removed from the actual decision makers. The real decision makers are the elite who own the licenses for the taxis. In my city, there are two families who have the bulk of the licenses and if I am not mistaken, 100% of the share of licenses for taxis allowed to operate at the airport. If you think this is about regulation, you are sorely mistaken. Or another way to think about it: regulation is about protecting profits, not consumers.
" If switching to a different editor can increase my efficiency by even 10% it would save a good chunk of my time and let me get back to making cool things."

Instead of taking us on a long biographical journey of how you found the One True Editor (this week), why not familiarize yourself with Amdahl's Law?
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That wasn't really how the Github guys were thinking about their choices, but I'll answer the question as asked...

By raising this round privately instead of going public now, they (a) get a financing partner (us) that completely understands what they're about, wants them to realize their vision, will do anything we can to help them get there, and is in the investment for the long run (10+ years), while (b) avoiding all the pressures and issues that come from being public, which are substantial in the modern era.
This would be acceptable!
Guess what, second VC round we're seeing today that's going to companies that actual provide customers and the high-tech community with a lot of tangible value. This hopefully gives some gunpowder to those claiming that we're not in a bubble.
Sounds like a hardware issue. The only time I've ever seen OSX kernel panic is with bad hardware.

Get that sucker replaced.
Is quicksync also behind Intel Wireless Display? Despite needing to by special recievers, I've found it pretty handy.
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The intersection of these two would be pointless. Even less stuff would get made. The goal of this is more money. Steam has proven sales way before the game is released.
The key benefit Face.com offered and what I'm interested in is linking the face to the facebook demographics. Anyone know of any face.com alternatives for this?
I recently switched to Sublime Text[1] as my editor of choice, and one of the available packages is a macro that runs CSS blocks through prefixr[2]. It's been an absolute godsend (and Sublime Text in general is ... sublime.)

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You hit the nail on the head. That is a real use case for a private Twitter. I was working on a simple browser-based encryption webapp. Not sure if it helps. https://boxuptext.com/tweet

It let you encrypt a tweet on the browser before sending it to Twitter. Only followers with the right password can decrypt the tweet.

Instead of recreating the Twitter infrastructure and the social network, it just adds encryption to create private following.
This only affects residents of the city of Washington D.C.
What startup was it? I couldn't find the URL in the article.
It may have made sense to try and raise more. There appears to be a land grab going on in that local versions of stripe are popping up in other countries. The quicker they get to other countries, the bigger their business might be as with payment providers there are switching costs.
So you've changed your mind about Facebook? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=251205
There are lots of changes for developers, especially in iOS 6. IMO these are releases to enable new apps and new options (for example, one iOS feature just screams "get ready for different screen sizes"). I expect the next one will again focus on end-user features.
As much as I agree with you in loving Uber, your 10% more calculation is insanely low.

I have done comparison drives twice. Once I took a cab from SOMA to Pac heights: $8.35, Uber back to the same spot: $15.95

SOMA to Dolores Park. Cab: 7.90. Uber: 15.25

Clearly not 10%. I guess the big thing for me is that I really don't care about bottles of water or the type of car the person shows up in. I just want an on demand service that gets everything done in a sensible way. If there was a cheaper version of Uber for regular cabs I would be all over it.

The bigger picture though is how much people will fight to keep crappy businesses in business. We will hear the argument about how we cant lose jobs right now when unemployment is so high, but for the love of god, this is progress people. If some cab drivers lose their jobs in the name of progress is this really worth hurting society over?
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The latter. But I think it's hard to argue with "let consenting adults do whatever they want with each other". The gay thing specifically is not important to me for any reason other than I think people who have found love should have no barriers to expressing that love. Even though watching two guys do what they want to each other would probably make me vomit.
The instability of the language is something we've been discussing a lot, but I think it's better to make a good language than to rush something out the door and be living with our mistakes years down the road. That said, we are racing to get the design finalized as quickly as possible.

These design discussions would have happened behind closed doors in most other places; the fact that you can see all of it just shows how open our development process is. We deliberately haven't been making much noise about Rust because we know it's unstable. When we are ready to finalize and commit to aspects of the language design, we'll make that clear.

Mutability is pretty hard. Consider what C++ and D had to go through with const/immutable correctness. The design we came up with is pretty novel and captures all of our use cases in a simple way, but it wasn't easy to arrive at.
I've been in places where taxis are regulated and I've been ripped off too, primarily boston and new york:

1. The taxi driver refused to turn on his meter and then just demanded a fee.

2. Taxis refusing to take you where you want to go, i.e. getting a cab to brooklyn.

3. Taxis not showing up when they've been reserved ahead of time, early morning airport runs.

4. Taxis taking long and wrong routes to drive up the fare.

5. Taxis not knowing the area, and not having a GPS, so they get lost and then just give up leaving you somewhere.

6. Being in a taxi where the license picture does match the driver.

So, I've had lots of bad experiences of "regulated" taxis. I've had lots of good experiences too. As for unregulated, I've been in a few in south and central america, not sure if they were regulated or not.
> I love that you can start things by typing just a little of what you are looking for.

That is great when you know what you are looking for... but when the image editor is called GIMP, or KRITA, the audio player is called rythmbox, the video player is called VLC, then you need to know those names in order to find what you are looking for.

IIRC common users went to Windows running from having to remember MSDOS commands.
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"is it a definite that what the U.S. government viewed as criminal money laundering was not that Americans were taking income from running online casinos but rather that those three casinos were allowing Americans to gamble?"

It is definitely that they were allowing Americans to gamble.

"would a gambling site that didn't take a rake and just ran on ad revenue be allowed to have American customers?"

This definitely would not be allowed.

You mentioned the money laundering charges a couple of times. Those were ancillary charges. The primary charge was that they were operating an illegal online gambling business i.e. letting Americans gamble on the internet.

"I'm an American citizen. Would I definitely be allowed to use Betable?"

It is not illegal for an American company to offer real money online gambling to citizens of other countries where it is legal and regulated. So Zynga could get a UK gambling license and offer online gambling to UK citizens. It is a long, slow, difficult and expensive process - Betable has already done it and is allowing others to leverage their infrastructure (legal and technical).
Regulation is what starts the ball rolling. I won't dispute that the outcome is often sub-optimal in some ways (like the one you cited) But the point is that the result is a whole apparatus which acts to preserve the status quo: the regulators themselves (who like being employed), the operators that are profiting from the system, etc.

I'm trying to stay away from the political hot potato of whether taxi regulation is a net positive thing or not! It's not really relevant to the point I'm making.

Whether it's profit or bureaucracy that are the drivers now, I think we agree: Uber must have known this was coming. I look forward to seeing what Uber has planned; perhaps operating a dispatch service over regular taxis?
Also regulating and managing supply are too very different things, if all one has to do is register and fill out forms then I'd have less of a problem. Unfortunately it seems they'd also like to ensure demand and centrally plan the supply.
Firstly on properly automated hosts you very rarely have to login. And when you do then 'prod' and 'root' work just fine.

Scattering user-accounts across machines is a maintenance headache (trust graph, sudo passwords or passwordless sudo, filesystem permissions) and encourages bad practices ("i'll just run this small script, quickly").

If you're serious about auditing then wtmp and notoriously incomplete shell-history files are not your tools either.
Face recognition - attaching a facebook profile to a face. I was planning on building an entire business on top of that API feature. Luckily I'd procrastinated in this instance.
How do you configure Thunderbird to remove the [Gmail] folder. I can select which subfolders I subscribe to - but still the root [Gmail] folder is always there.
Those of us who live in and around the District have been waiting for that "rude awakening" for a very long time.

It's worth pointing out that Marion Barry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry) is still sitting on the DC Council.
Of course we can come up with UIs that don't mimic the old school ways of doing things, we had them. Skeuomorphism is absolutely purely about design choices.

The bookmark thing is a bookmark, and it works like one. It saves your place on a page in a book and you use it to go back to one. The little familiar groups icon on the tab tells you where it goes.

I'm not going to argue that some of the functionality of Address Book has been reduced or gone, but it has to do with a decision that Apple made about what they wanted, not directly tied to the fact that the interface is skeuomorphic now.
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They said the same for IE7. And IE8. And IE9.

The problem is that other browsers keep defining what a browser should be, and then Microsoft has to play catch-up. Same with Windows Phone and Windows 8: other people defined what a mobile OS should do, and now MS is trying to catch up.

When you're not defining the market, you're an also-ran. Microsoft in the last 10 years failed abysmally at defining new markets, which is what they had done with Win95/Win2000 first and then Office and VisualStudio and IE5 later (yes, IE5 was commercially fantastic -- there's a reason all those shitty "web-apps" from 2001 were not written for Netscape or Mozilla).

In this sense, Windows 8 is more of the same: other people pointed the way, and MS is now scrambling to imitate them as best as they can. Not a recipe for success, if you ask me.
>Discoverability is lower in a system which uses logically arranged tools, with larger buttons for more frequently used options.

Sure, if you use the "more frequently used options" but try using something a bit more obscure and you are out of luck.

At least with the menu system you had those "breadcrumbs" to give you an idea of where it could be.
Isn't this the perfect use case for Windows 8, though? Your wife would have no trouble finding the Internet Explorer (or even Chrome) tile prominently featured on the Metro UI launch screen.
Could you please explain your reasoning? It seems to me that a bubble implies that there is a surplus of available capital, so that good and bad companies alike are funded. I'm not sure how a company would only be able to raise capital in a not-bubble.
Does it? What frustration is that? Copying files takes time, everybody gets that, what's the frustration? The animation isn't cute enough?
My suspicion is they are going to be putting a lot of effort towards continuing to develop the GUI, for the lack of a better term, for git. IMO, that's what has helped them be successful in the first place. Git is complex and a bit unfriendly at times. They have made it more accessible and it sounds as though their hope is to increase overall engagement in git and version/source management tools.

Who knows, they could be working on their own flavor of git.
That is primarily because the cables get stolen or cut in those parts of the world. It's VERY hard to steal an undersea cable...
I wonder if Facebook will release an Open Graph API version of this? Or if they'll be data hogs and hold onto it? The former would help them leech more photos and perfect the recognition algorithms, but I guess with the amount of photos already in their system they've got enough data to play with.
Why would they look like fools? Investors got 2X in a couple of weeks in insagram's case IIRC.
>user switching is pretty minimal overhead //

Even less to just click an alternate icon in the app menu.

You wouldn't need to do user switching per se anyway. You could just "su" with the other users ID. It's the things like fixing a printer adjustment twice. Getting a password so I can fix something or share a file. Fine in a supported env. but for home I'm happy sharing the same user (but not with the kids!).
To toss my hat into the "i haven't had any problems so no one had any problems" ring, I've only seen on kernel panic and that was because I had just put some bad memory in. Lion's gotten way better, make sure you do all the updates and you should be fine.
I'll readily admit that the core of ClearCase leaves much to be desired from a technology, administration and user perspective. Especially in comparison to git. But that's the difference a few decades of progress can make.

But what's built on top of it are definite wins in comparison to git and Github: UCM and lifecycle integration with ClearQuest.

Most developers don't know how/when to branch. UCM at least sets up a structure and process for that. There's also enough out-of-the-box security to control access to everything that most enterprises would care about. This is supported, documented, etc.

Managing an application's lifecycle is probably far more important in a large organization than most people experience in a small project or startup. Integration with ClearQuest allows everything to be tracked.

Since all of this are essentially "add-ons" to a core versioning tool, there's nothing to say something similar can't be done with git/by Github. It's just that they're not available _now_.
I don't understand this. I have an older BMW which developed starting problems with the immobiliser computer. It doesn't have keyless entry but it is based on rfid.

I did extensive research on the system and there were three parts - the key, the immobiliser and the engine management computer. The key physically turned the ignition, but the security was in a rfid chip inside the key, which was physically matched to the immobiliser via an antenna ring that circles the lock. The immobiliser was physically matched to the computer via a VIN-based code. If you lost the key, you had to order a new one from germany after producing the VIN and proof of ownership to a licensed dealer. They keys cost about $500 from memory - don't lose the key. There is an upper limit of 10 keys to be produced per vehicle, with two of those supplied upon purchase.

In order to replace the immobiliser computer, again both the VIN and proof of ownership had to be supplied to the licensed dealer, who then ordered a new one from the factory in Germany. You cannot swap any of the parts between cars - you can't reprogram keys, reprogram the immobiliser or reprogram the computer.

If you do put a new computer or immobiliser in, it had to be taken into a BMW dealership to re-sync and get all the devices to handshake each other and agree that they were all legitimate. Otherwise - no start.

I know all this because I tried to hotwire the car myself to get it working until the new computer arrived (3 week order period). While I could manually activate the fuel supply and manually activate the starter, the computer refused to tell the spark plugs to ignite and refused to tell the injectors to inject.

What I'm curious about is how have they gone backwards from this seemingly impregnable system to one where you can get the car to reprogram a key? Surely it can't all be the fault of the OBD port - I doubt there is anything in the legislation calling for the ability to reprogram keys via the vehicle itself? Or is it just the fact that someone has come up with software that replicates what the factory does?

Somehow it all seems a retrograde step. Given that the older systems worked with rfid, whether or not you put the key in seems a moot point.
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I'll bite. What do text editing and thinking (both serial tasks) have to do with Amdahl's law?
How does limiting supply and artificially raising prices "protect the consumer"?

And it sounds like your pitfalls are already illegal.
Well then, I'm going to go be quiet elsewhere now.

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You cannot just change the definition of a word to suite your argument. Most people consider skeuomorphic design to include both looks and behaviour. Regardless, what I've described is all looks. Address Book still has grouping functionality. It's just been made extremely difficult to use because of the design of the interface.

Further, looks are about much more than just taste. Designs affect how easy it is to understand the information being displayed, or to understand how to use an application. Skeuomorphic design is typically used to try to improve the latter: help people to understand how to use the app. It mimics a physical object because people already know how that object works. This benefit disappears if your skeuomorphic design doesn't actually work like the object it mimics though.
In my profile actually, wanna keep that a bit low key
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Where can I get clones of myself willing to concurrently enter text so that Amdahl's law about parallelization performance somehow becomes even the slightest bit relevant to text editing?
There is a cheaper version of Uber, it's called UberX[1].

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Why are you here commenting on this then? Just avoid the Microsoft articles and we can avoid your valueless commentary.
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It's interesting and I guess this just reflects what one of the founders said in a speech (which was re-published onto the 'tubes), that though they went out trying to make a systems programming language that would attract system language programmers, they've been picking up a lot of us dynamic "script kiddies" (I didn't mean that term seriously, lighten up).

I'm a PHP/Ruby/JS developer, I dabble in iOS/ObjC and it's ok, but the language which has me most excited is Go. I've watched screen casts and read things but still haven't got around to building anything serious in it, but when I get the time/need to build something really performant, I will. It could just be because it's new, but it seems to have an energy about it and the developers have made a real effort to provide great docs and make it accessible to us mere mortal, non-cs educated dynamic folk. I thank them for that.
Heh, my comment was just an attempt at humor.

That said, most naturally occurring growth is exponential. In the case of a webservice, whenever a new user increases the chance of another new user signing up by at least some constant factor, no matter how small, you have exponential growth. Things working against that are churn and later, like in the case of Facebook, the saturation in your market. If you discount for those factors (I don't think they hugely affect Stripe right now anyway), EVERY application that has even the tiniest viral co-efficient, even just traditional word of mouth, will grow exponentially.

The specific case of Stripe transactions is particularly interesting. They grow in both the number of companies using Stripe as well as the size of each of those companies. I have no knowledge of Stripe metrics, but I am fairly certain they've seen exponential growth over the past months. Much like Square btw ;)
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Tensor's point, which I agree with, is that Apple's choice to use skeumorphism has impacted functionality, and is not a good design principal at all.

I would also argue that a lot of their designs look downright ugly to be honest.
(Check out side.cr and lyft.me! I've been calling them Uber for poor people.)
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customization, process definition, support, control.

While I don't like Clearcase/clearquest, large companies like them because it allows them to define their own rigid ideas of control within their company. Large companies have a team of people who's job it is to create, manage, and train to that process. Tools like clearcase allow them to create these custom workflows and processes within the company in such a way that they must be follow.

this allow for some pretty complex controls on who can do what, what signoffs must happen for certain code commits, and such.

Git and Github do not offer that fine-grain control that managers of large organizations like. So until you see that type of functionality, don't expect to see Lockheed Martin deploy Github throughout their company.
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