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Craigslist continues to succeed in part because they define their own vision of success (one which would probably not receive Series A funding) and because that vision aligns closely with the interests of those who use it (rather than Series A funders).

However, its success is in no small part because it has mapped itself onto natural markets (i.e. MSA's) with a simple format that scales up to Denver and down to Dothan. It's reached critical mass.

Sure there are probably enough iPhone users in Boston to create a marketplace from an app. But that's probably not the case in North Platte Nebraska.

Craigslist works because it is community based, and somewhat akin to a public service. People can access Craigslist on the computers at their public library, and no app can compete with that. No app can reach the sort of critical mass to compete with classified ads 1.0, let alone with version 2.
This article is discussing a class that Fred will be holding, which stemmed from another article of his, which he wrote last year - http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/11/sustainability.html .

At first I considered that planning for sustainability was almost over-indulgence, but I noticed that Fred countered this in his previous article -- "It is about avoiding the temptation to overreach."
Wow, huge deal for Square. I'm very curious what the terms of the deal are: presumably Starbucks isn't willing to pay much more than what their current processing fees are (maybe a tiny bit more for the premium of being able to use Pay with Square?), so Square must be losing a decent chunk of change in exchange for the huge marketing and growth this gets them.
This is among the most brilliant digital preservation strategies I've encountered. You want to make sure your material lasts as long as possible? Get it out on bittorrent. End of story.

We wonder what books scholars will write about 500 years from now. It won't be what's popular, it'll be whats pirated.
Link to an article that explains it as well: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/...
No, but there are some troubling patterns. Read Brandenburg v. Ohio and then read Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. While it is protected to advocate terrorism and even genocide against African Americans to fellow KKK members under the First Amendment, it is not protected suggest to Hamas that they would be better off abandoning terrorism.

Of course a different way to read this is that the law takes a harsher look at terrorism against whites than against blacks. Or one might see the court as eroding first amendment guarantees. It is all in how you look at it.
OMG, they think it might be a good idea to do a minor frontend redesign of wikipedia!

More about this story as it breaks!
Name, Address and last 4 digits of your credit card... Seems like one would be screwed if you lost your wallet with you DL in it.
Even if the percentage overlap approaches 90%, I don't think it's a smart move. It's very anti-customer and will cause a decent percentage of people a great deal of angst and a much larger percentage of people will be quite disappointed. And don't forget that high-spending corporate travelers use Amex almost exclusively.

The problem with a payment provider striking an exclusive deal like this is that it creates very real problems for people unlike, say, and exclusive beer deal. And it creates a great deal of negative feelings towards both Visa and the Olympics. I'm sure Visa is able to show that it is a good deal for them. But I suspect it is just as easy to show the opposite. Not smart at all.
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From the couple of talks I heard, I think Apple said something about auto-converting 'at runtime' in iOS 6 existing guide-based layouts into the new auto-layout thing based on constraints.
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I really do think these things should be separate, with separate enabled/disabled settings.

Especially on the iPhone/iPad where a lost device (i.e. behind the couch or something) is far more common than a stolen one.
My target market is any guy who wants some advice when it comes to fashion. There will be some guys on HN who do want advice, and apparently some that don't. I understand that and I'm okay with it. I would agree that OKTrends is an amazing site. However, it's not what I'm going for. I'll let them handle the data. I'll stick with what I know.
Can someone explain me what it means for customers? As far as NYC goes, each Starbucks accepts Visa, Master Card, Discovery and American Express (the card that plenty businesses hate). So what is the benefit for the customers?
I'm not sure I even understand what is being reported. I have little doubt that the opposite could be demonstrated with equally valid numbers. And did they also survey for spectator displeasure?
Any compiler/interpreter worth its salt will notice when an expression being tested in a conditional is constant and generate code that doesn't actually test it at run time. for (;;) is arguably more "idiomatic" C, though.
I've noticed that the attacks are quite vague and consist of demanding some sort of proof that PJ is not engaged this or that (e.g. eating babies.) Also, there's some ridiculous notion that she hides behind a pseudonym because she uses her initials as her nom de plume. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4014768 , you might want to select the page text so you can decipher the downvoted comments.
Few things. Personally, I'd much prefer a PDF version of your resume (loading LibreOffice takes a lot more time than evince does on my netbook). Create a GitHub account, or some other way of allowing me to see your coding skills. Talk more directly about programming, if that's what kind of work you're interested in. Also, what are your other interests? Do you work on any OSS projects?
They mentioned the investment as part of a series D financing. I'm assuming any tradeoff in per/transaction costs is going to be more than made up in the scale and regular usage that Square is going to get from this partnership.
Another way to look at this is that the exploit was solely an emergent property of two different systems having different views on what constituted secret information. The issue was not necessarily that either one did something wrong, but rather that when you put them together, one could play off both their weaknesses to create a bigger one.
Thanks for the link. I read the following from that earlier discussion and immediately thought, isn't this what the Darcs version control system was designed to do?

"What you have to do is to just record the conflict and create two parallel universes, one in which the conflict has been resolved using branch A and another one in which the conflict is resolved using branch B. You then keep these two universes alive and apply all the later changes twice. You have to do this until a judge or a legal body declares one of the "branches" the correct one; this may take years and the decision reverted (even partially) many times."
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There are several examples in the article I quoted. I can google up tons of others.

Various Christian terrorists are let go without any qualms while several Muslims have been rotting in jails without any trial or charges, or even worse, after the courts determined that there is nothing against them.

Hutaree Milita's (Christian terrorists) were all released even though they had plans to kill government / law enforcement officials.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutaree#Michigan_Militia_and_th...

The United States Attorney's Office stated that the Hutaree allegedly planned "to kill an unidentified member of local law enforcement and then attack the law enforcement officers who gather in Michigan for the funeral".[14][15] The press release further stated that nine had been indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit on charges of seditious conspiracy, attempted use of weapons of mass destruction, teaching the use of explosive materials, and possessing a firearm during a crime of violence. The indictment said that the Hutaree planned to attack law enforcement vehicles during the funeral procession for the officer or officers they planned to kill, using explosively formed penetrator improvised explosive devices (which under federal law are considered "weapons of mass destruction").[15]

Compare that to the various cases in which Muslim Americans were convicted and sentenced for tens of years because of their thoughts or their writings or for uploading a video on youtube. None of that is exaggerated, really a kid was arrested for uploading a video and was facing decades in prison.

Tarek Mehanna - no violence, no crime committed except thought crimes. Sentenced for 17 years.

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/13/the_real_criminals_in_the_ta...

A pre-teen (or teen?) Canadian kid was abducted from Afghanistan and he was put in Guantanamo. If he had pleaded not guilty he would have had got a much longer sentence so he pleaded guilty. He was not on US soil when he allegedly committed that crime (if it was a crime).

http://www.google.com/search?q=omar+khadr

His chief interrogator was Joshua Claus, who later pleaded guilty to abusing detainees to extract confessions following the in-custody death of wrongly accused Dilawar that same year.[81]

Jubair Ahmad, sentenced for uploading a youtube video and exchanging Youtube messages with a relative of a terrorist organization. The uploading of video is "material support" in the eyes of the system when the guy is a Muslim.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/364387/us-court-hands-12-year-se...

When Hutaree militia was being given material support (military gear, cameras, guns) which appears to be more than youtube video and involved actual weapons of mass destruction, they were all released.
Yes, it seems unlikely that the same car could be re-used for multiple trips. However, you could move the parking lots far away from the places people want to go because the car could drop you off at the door and then valet itself to a remote lot. That would at least free some of the very valuable space currently used by downtown parking lots.
If spectator displeasure was a problem on the scale Visa could care about, then brand equity among those surveyed would have gone down instead of up. Why would they care to survey that directly? What matters is whether the sponsorship is a net gain for the Visa brand or not. The research says it is, big time.
I think more than any other benefit, Square has been validated by a premier American chain. It will be a much easier sell to other large chains. The big money for Square is in having these large customers with multiple POS deployments, where overhead will be small compared to revenues, at least relative to single shop customers.

It will also put their product in front of end customers, many for the first time. I for one have heard/read about Square since they first started shipping readers, but had not actually seen the product in action till last weekend (live in Silicon Valley).
I would be willing to work w/ a non-technical founder if the product is in a niche that few people have access to. Like medical, financial, business operations, etc. The reason technical people focus on consumer apps is because we don't have insight or access to niches with paying customers.
The law is fairly settled, however the Supremes have not said anything on the matter yet. The Veeck decision is the best answer as of now and Veeck seems to be pretty clear:

"The issue in this en banc case is the extent to which a private organization may assert copyright protection for its model codes, after the models have been adopted by a legislative body and become "the law". Specifically, may a code-writing organization prevent a website operator from posting the text of a model code where the code is identified simply as the building code of a city that enacted the model code as law? Our short answer is that as law, the model codes enter the public domain and are not subject to the copyright holder's exclusive prerogatives." (Veeck v. SOUTHERN BLDG. CODE CONGRESS INTERN., 293 F. 3d 791 - Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit 2002)[1]

You do not need to pony up the money if Carl Malamud already has a copy of the code. If you have purchased one of these codes and are done with the hardcopy get in touch with Malamud and see if he wants it.

Cory Doctorow explains Carl Malamud's efforts after the Veeck decision: http://boingboing.net/2012/03/19/liberating-americas-secret....

May god continue to bless Mr. Malamud and all of the great work he has done...

[1] http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6755260615473645...
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Those tags aren't as obvious in interpretation as they first appear. A full write-up is a http://noarchive.net/meta/ for completeness, but in short:

NOARCHIVE: ok to index this page, but don't cache the result permanently

NOFOLLOW: don't follow any links on this page

Note that these two things don't prevent a search engine from visiting a page, indexing it, and providing search results for it.
https://squareup.com/pay-with-square

Smart phone based wallet, a la Google Wallet.
If you enjoyed "Snow Crash" and "Diamond Age", I'd recommend "Islands in the Net" (if you can get hold of a copy) and "Holy Fire" by Bruce Sterling. Or for something newer, "the Zenith Angle" by same.

I've also enjoyed all of Willam Gibsons books, including the latest trilogy "Pattern Recognition", "Spook Country" and "Zero History".

If you bothered to read through "Cryptonomicon" you'll either love "the Code Book" by Simon Singh more than I did, or hate it :-)

Assuming you've picket through the classics shelf, you might have missed out on Samuel Delany - "The Einstein Intersection" might be a good one to try on for size -- although I actually found "Neveryóna" to be maybe his most interesting book (of the ones I've been able to get hold of) [edit: After "Dhalgren", that is. But I think "Dhalgren" is a bit like Joyce's "Ulysses" -- a classic I haven't gotten around to yet. I spent the better part of ten (10!) years reading through "Dhalgren", picking it up on odd holidays - never loosing touch with the intricate unreality within, readily satisfied after reading a few pages or a chapter -- like nibbling on a choice ham that didn't spoil. It's rather more complex than any of the other books I've listed here].

Also worth mentioning in the "might be overlooked" section is Jerry Pournelle's "Falkenberg's Legion" (republished as "the Prince").

I'm afraid I've been mostly digging through second hand books lately, so the only other semi-recent book I could recommend would be "Broken Angels" by Richard Morgan (technically it's number two in a trilogy -- but I find it stands better on its own).
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>HFT systems _are_ massive distributed systems

The complexity is also in having to deal with limited resources, and factors outside of your control. Have you seen many bootstrapped HFT implementations? The budgets are just... different.

When you spend 10x or 100x hardware, get massively redundant backbone connectivity (connecting to a tier 1 core router directly, and not through an oversubscribed shared switch port that a typical bootstrapped startup would get), you end up with a much better controlled and somewhat predictable environment.

With a typical "web" (non-HFT) distributed system, you've got millions of "subscribers" aka users - and I don't think people outside of IT fully realize just how bad a typical user's [Windows] machine is messed up - and that was before they installed a couple of toolbars, adware, firewall, and AV products... And all of these subs are tying up your publishers in their own unique screwed up way, keeping sessions open, dropping packets, blocking ports...

I've designed global CDNs, and operated one for a decade - and the kind of randomness our distributed systems have to deal with are not always technical, even though we don't typically count microseconds.
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Ok, but you can't do dtmf with querty, so its use in a call center is somewhat less important.

With standard numbers, you could use any touch tone phone.
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I keep forgetting that I am bound by an NDA. Can't say nothing more.
Interesting: "As part of the joint venture, Starbucks will invest $25 million in Square and hold an equity stake. Howard Schultz, Starbucks chairman and CEO, will join Square's board of directors."

Strange: "After ordering an item, they waive the phone on a scanner."
One cool feature about the Square mobile app is you can set up geofenced "tabs" that automatically get opened if you get close enough to an establishment.

So you keep your phone in your pocket, walk into Starbucks and order a drink as you do every morning. You tell them "put it on John's tab." You get a receipt in your email immediately thereafter, and never have to pull out your phone or wallet.
What backs up the claim that C++ can be faster than a JVM or CLR with JIT?
I remember on Myspace I had a lot of friends who were "99 years old". These sites are really about establishing a presence to sell artistic goods. The rest is kinda silly. Who has time to fill out Facebook like some sort of questionnaire? Its not the census, so their is no penalty for inaccurate information.
It would be more interesting if the author generally stated his method of weighting the word frequencies, and the results to WIN/LOSE. I wonder if his method takes into account the year of the election, I would think that a speech from the 1960s would be less relevant now, than it was then.
A couple of more examples, Jewish and Christian and other European white American students have protested at speeches of Israeli murderers (or speeches of folks that they don't agree with) and they have never been convicted for that, a group of 11 Muslim students was convicted for interrupting Israeli Ambassador Oren at UC Irvine last year, i.e. for doing what countless protesters have done before without conviction.

This article is written by those who interrupted the big terrorist (Prime Minister) Netanyahu's speech and didn't get
any punishment for that:

http://mondoweiss.net/2011/10/irvine-11-conviction-reveals-d...

Jewish Voice for Peace statement on the Irvine 11 conviction:

http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/blog/jvp-statement-on-irvine-...

"This is a shameful day for the legal system and the Jewish communal leaders who actively supported this unfair railroading of young Muslim students and unprecedented attack on everyone's right to free speech. How can it be that the Israeli ambassador enjoys more rights in the United States than do young Muslim citizens?"

More about the anti-Muslim racism coming home to roost:

http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/from-occupation-to-occupy-the-...

(edit: added JVP link)

PS:
Did we all forget that the US military mass-murderers and Black Water / Xe / Academy mercenaries who went on killing sprees in Iraq and Afghanistan are all roaming free except maybe one guy who got a slap on the wrist (6 months?) for killing innocent men and children? Compare that to 12 years for uploading a video. Is there any doubt that there are separate laws (or separate application of laws) for Muslims?
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I don't see how this benefits Starbucks.
this is a huge deal
The people involved create the content on Wikipedia. If it's a big deal for them, it's a big deal for Wikipedia as a whole.

(to put it in web 2.0 speak: properly incentivizing users to submit quality user-generated content is essential to any crowdsourced website, and few incentives work as well as the recognition of your peers).
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The question is what info you can change by calling. Can you change the destination account for payments?

The thing is that Amazon's previous risk assessment was probably about what sort of harm could be done directly with the info provided. Now they are worried about what can be done through other providers that will bring them bad press.
This enabled and was core to many demos from the demo scene of the 80s (c64, Amiga).
Yep, looks like it. Be pragmatic about it, send them an email -- gregg@envylabs.com , or tweet them @codeschool .
Doesn't this now or won't it eventually dismiss with the credit card portion all together thus making the margin available to Square?
Just a lazy journalist; spell-check won't fix heterographs.[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym#Related_terms
What do you guys think? I know the UI is a little pintrest-like but we're going way beyond just clipping images from the web. In fact, you can't do that.
It's more about the places than the photos you clip on to it. We gather the lat long of places so they're all mappable and we can do some amazing things with that sort of data.
It's kind of pinterest meets foursquare for travel planning.
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I think part of the benefit comes from discovery in the Square directory. Also, Pay with Square is a revolutionary idea which is now accepted at Starbucks
None of these are targeting what I'm trying to do however
I've heard of killer apps but I wonder if there's such a thing as a killer vendor/customer.

I hate being too dumb to work at places like this. :(
I read about that but I haven't read the details yet. I hope some pretense of justice prevails.
As part of the joint venture, Starbucks will invest $25 million in Square and hold an equity stake. Howard Schultz, Starbucks chairman and CEO, will join Square's board of directors.

With ~7000 stores, Starbucks can be a Walmart of sorts in terms of location based services.
I do. Have you ever just bought something on Amazon because it's just easier? Wouldn't you buy at Startbucks instead of seattle best coffee if it were "easier"?
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Interesting. Starbucks is obviously not going to use the error-prone dongles. I suspect Square will provide some sort of custom "Pay With Square" solution, perhaps tied into Starbucks' existing point-of-sale system. Any way you look at it, it's a huge deal for Square, Starbucks is absolutely the best venue for Square and likely the key building block to really push out a new checkout experience such as "Pay With Square".
Starbucks will be saving money at Square's 2.75% rate - it is cheaper than interchange at below $15 transaction size.
See: http://www.quora.com/Square-Inc-1/Can-Square-make-money-with...
Why would anyone wreck legibility to save a character?
Worked slightly differently, IIRC -- in the movie, the computer screen was already full of gibberish characters, which then randomly shifted to the correct color/character when the MacGuffin was applied.
My family has owned small businesses before and one of the more annoying parts is dealing with the credit card machine and merchant vendors. The rates were always high, the machines were kind of confusing to use and were expensive. The deposits might take a little while. A minor point for the younger people in the family running a business was that they weren't very trendy or hip looking, either.

Small business owners have little of either time or money. Anything you can do to improve that is appreciated. Although SBUX is much larger than the family owned businesses I'm familiar with, I'm sure they appreciate it, too.

We've only owned 1 restaurant and if we were high volume enough, being able to carry the register over to the table and have customers pay right away would have been useful.

If I'm reading Square's website correctly, there's a minimum $1 transaction? Our shoe store in 1990 probably wouldn't have cared. Our coffee shop today would care, though.
btw, not that it matters, but Seattle Best Coffee is owned by Starbucks.
Absolutely, there are deals that 'make' the company. Look at Google's initial deal with AOL, that was pretty huge for Google at the time.