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There's no guarantee the CA won't revoke it if they find out you're using it for internal purposes.
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That seems like a reasonable assumption.

A lot of posters are forgetting that significant portion of Starbucks revenue isn't from beverages at the till. Starbucks sells a lot of coffee related goods and processes a lot of revenue for gift cards and their mobile payment app which they've had for quite a while (Apple recognized in iOS6 Cards).

I'm very curious if Square is going to handle all transactions that aren't at the physical point of sale. My gut feeling is that a big chunk of credit and debit revenue is for gift cards and gift card refills and that could impact your estimate.
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Did anyone think that sending a little DNT header was going to keep them safer or better off in the first place? It is an idea that I would call "cute".
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Nahh, there just ignoring non smartphone sales they still make up 1/3 of the ~419.1 million global quarterly cellphone sales.

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2017015
I have a bachelor of software engineering and could pursue PEng if I wanted (which I won't). Right after graduating it annoyed me that everyone in software called themselves engineers, but I got over it.

Engineering is defined by the various international agencies and schools that accredit engineers, not Wikipedia. "Software Engineering" is a real engineering discipline in Canada and other places. The premise "An engineer's model must be tightly bound to the laws of physics and chemistry" just seems to be a construct of the author.

Engineering is about the practical application of rules, balancing factors like cost, maintainability and scope. Chemical, mechanical and software engineers do similar jobs, working with different sets of rules.
Which is why a higher percentage of Android phones are not used as smartphones as compared to iOS.
Side question: does anyone think Gamestop will challenge Valve's "Steam" as a relevant digital distribution platform?
Anything you say regarding firing an employee may end up being used against you in court, so it's likely not worth the time and effort trying to plan something like this unless there are mitigating circumstances that I can not possibly imagine.
" - Starbucks will invest $25 million in Square as part of the company’s Series D financing round;"

Wait, what? Is this Starbucks buying a slice of the decision making process to ensure things are generally in their favor?
Oops. Fixed. :)
Doesn't ContentID look at video in some fashion and compare it to new video uploaded? So, if the NASA video was IDed first, all the DMCA requests would have been rejected and saved Google -- and others -- all this trouble.
Why introduce a header which almost everybody in the world would probably want to use by default in every one of their HTTP requests and then say that you can't do that?

Ask everyone in the world if they "don't want to be tracked" and 100% will say yes.

Ask everyone in the world if they "don't want to be tracked, understanding that is the economic foundation for almost all of the content they enjoy and thus they will either need to directly pay or go without" and somewhere approaching 0% will say yes.

DNT is like commercial skippers on PVRs -- it's beneficial to most user's experience if a small enough group of users partake, but very detrimental if a large enough group uses it.
Ok, sorry, I have to admit I knew it was still up. Claiming it was taken down is a classic tactic for getting people to click through. You've been RickRoll'd. (I'm not proud of it.)

Speaking of influential, check out the extensive Wikipedia page on the meme. The RickRoll has showed up in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade (with Rick Astley in person), a video from Nancy Pelosi, and a tweet from the White House Twitter feed. It is fully part of the pop culture.
Link to the spec? Seems strange that the default would be "track me".
The more I experience it, the more I think the "pinterest-style" layout is absolutely the best way to consume visuals. Great idea and great execution! I would definitely use this.

From the perspective of a dev who occasionally buys from Themeforest, I find a few of the pieces of default TF metadata really important: price, browser support and # of sales (in decreasing order of importance). Don't know how accessible that info is via the API, but it'd be great to access that info without many (or any) clicks.
I agree that respect is earned. I disagree that courtesy should only fall out the other side.
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> 9.1.2 Idempotent Methods

> The methods GET, HEAD,

> PUT and DELETE share this property. Also, the methods OPTIONS and

> TRACE SHOULD NOT have side effects, and so are inherently idempotent.

RFC 2119

> 4. SHOULD NOT

> This phrase, or the phrase "NOT RECOMMENDED" mean that

> there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances when the

> particular behavior is acceptable or even useful, but the full

> implications should be understood and the case carefully weighed

> before implementing any behavior described with this label.

What could possibly go wrong?

Obviously we aren't going to be able to blindly enable this optimisation without making sure our apps meet the assumptions first.
>It is not classy to drag someone else's brand through the dirt

Wikipedia is fairly democratic, they're open to redesign decisions if they work for the site and are free. See this response to the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:2012_main_page_redes...

Of all brands the designers could have chosen, Wikipedia may be one of the most appropriate.
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Point one and the latter part of three make sense to me. Point two should be, "it's an ad hominem attack and intellectually bankrupt." This applies if and only if the target of the term is not actually prejudiced.

I don't think males as a whole are being attacked when one gets called sexist, but I also don't know what you mean by "position in society". For the majority of men in the US that position is that they're more likely to be murdered, arrested, serve relatively longer sentences, receive less money for health care, pay more for insurance, get called to selective service, and die younger. You seem to be presenting it as if they should be embarrassed at how high above everyone else they are.
"We'll lose money on every transaction, but make it up on volume!"

I'm going to optimistically assume that Square have run the numbers and this deal is worth the price though. As a marketing exercise alone it could be worth a fortune if it ends up putting Square's branding in every Starbucks.
Sounds to me like MS is trying to call the advertisers' bluff. Perhaps they think government intervention is more likely than some others suspect (or are banking on advertisers believing that).
Source? At least in the States, you can't (easily) buy a smartphone of any kind without signing up for a data contract.
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Like many others here, "Let's Play" videos can, and personally should, discourage the sell of bad games. They also can encourage more unknown games to be brought to light. I frequent Twitch.tv a few times a week and never click the top games, they are over-saturated and honestly over-hyped, though to be fair I was never into the competitive gaming realm. I prefer the caster to casually stream whatever retro/flavor-of-the-month/casual games and just enjoying it.

A great example is Trauma Center for the Wii. I was busy working on my thesis late at night and would pop on a stream to pass time while my processes ran. Trauma Center was the type of game I would have never picked up, but during the stream, the caster was covering the forensics section of the game. For a mostly point and click game with cheesy graphics, the unraveling story behind a wife killing her family was completely unexpected. Literally, the story drew me in and I picked up the game to playthrough the entire thing.

"Let's Play" videos are still a delicate thing, mostly because you can't just set up a stream and expect money. It requires community building and generally speaking, you're personality has to be engaging enough that someone is willing to stare at a little box of you while you game.
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why did kim go to the red room alone, presumably leaving his wife and kids to be handled by the intruders?
I work in a digital marketing company and there is a lot of people that gets fired and I'm just trying to know if theres a better way they should do it. They usually send a generic email to everyone (we're around 120 people and I think it affect the morale of a lot of people
I understand it's an automated system and so on, but given how often these stories bubble up (and to make it even more egregious http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/6/nasa-s-mars-rover-crash... it hit NASA themselves), you'd think that Google/Youtube would invest some developer hours into either acknowledging the issue and dealing with it, or saying "It's not working and we're disabling until we can get it done properly".

It's costing them a lot of face, I know people who perform who've had YouTube videos disabled due to background music being licensed off by one of the big studios and now refuse to use. It just isn't working. There's no understanding of context, no ability to detect what the usage is or whether the rights holder is the rights holder aside from 'they uploaded it as well'.
Maybe this one? http://matt.might.net/articles/sql-in-the-shell/
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Since when did the consumers' sentiment become "track me please"?

If you ask 100 random people whether they want to be tracked on line by advertisers, are you really going to tell us that 90% will say yes?

The default of "do not track me please" is 100% correct because it represents the consumers' natural setting.

From the article... "the company said that Windows 8 will inform users of the Do Not Track preference during the first run experience."

They even offer the consumer to make the choice for him/herself.
Etymology is one area where I know not to trust Wikipedia. I'm pretty sure an "engine-er" maintains an "engine", in the act of "engineer-ing".
SWOT analysis exists to cover all areas, even Samsung must have heard of it and copied that as a methodology. Perhaps no Apple weaknesses were highlighted because there were none that Samsung could find.
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> It could be a great companion to a proper review.

Maybe it's just my ignorance, but I've yet to see anyone doing really good video reviews.

I'd love a 5-10 minute video that demonstrates gameplay (not just random B-roll stuff, but specific clips intended to showcase what you actually do in the game) and also provides the reviewer's impressions of the game as a whole.
The contention that Computer Science is not a science because on opening a CS textbook you get confronted with a number of mathematical concepts seems a fairly ridiculous one. The same argument could be made to say that Physics is not a science, after all.

The problem is that there's a conflation in most people's minds of the terms 'computer science' and 'programming'. Computer Science courses teach you how to program, so this is understandable. But the research that goes on in Computer Science departments is not all about 'how to program'. Hypotheses are generated and tested for specific end-goals.

Sure, CS is highly mathematical in its execution, and the introspective areas of research are thus mathematical. Some of the research in the Algorithms areas is probably best published in mathematical journals. But that's not the whole science. What about measurements of routing efficiency in Networking? What about HCI? What about Ubicomp? What about NLP, or even AI in general? Even if they are using mathematical principles in forming their systems for experimentation, they're still doing science. Hell, all sciences rely on maths somewhere.
I'm not certain of the exact context since the comment has been deleted, but the impression I gained was that my parent comment suggested tenuously that a person could justify a sexist position taken against an individual due to a statistical bias in the sexes. I was trying to emphasise that this position couldn't be taken logically, not suggesting that "may or may not" was being applied in a non-aggregate fashion.
Never used X or emacs (I know, shocking, right?), so did not know they also did that.
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All they would need to do is to annotate the "I accept the defaults" option with something that says, "This enables default options, such as Do Not Track, javascript, sending anonymous usage reports to Microsoft, etc."

Then, by shoving it in their face like that, your point is invalid and they comply with the spec because the user has chosen not to be tracked, among other things. Now, they would need to force a user to go through that setup as a requirement to use IE10, but that shouldn't be a big issue for MS.
ContentID a disaster? The number of misidentified takedown rants is extremely small vs. the number of videos processed on YouTube each minute, but this complaint will get blown into a fullscale meltdown of Googles ID system because it plays into the 'Hollywood is bad and ruining everything' mantra all over HN anymore.

According to the stats on Youtube ContentID is processing over 100 years of video every day.

I'd hold off on calling the system a disaster just yet.
This shouldn't be necessary. The default behavior of web services should be no tracking, whatsoever, unless specifically agreed to in writing by the user. This should be enforced by laws, not a toothless organization like W3C, and there should be real punishments for disobeying.

However, this is a good PR move by Microsoft. They don't make too many of them, so congrats.
> It's still missing a lot of features that, if you're trying to turn it into a commercial cloud platform, are necessary.

Could you elaborate on this a bit?
I stand corrected. they use Javascript in a headless browser to generate the site previews. Detailed information on how Javascript is interpreted to index sites is hard to find. I would not count on Javascript to instruct Google Bot what to index.
A lot of the heat in the critiques comes from the fact that it is not a real redesign project. If that firm had actually been hired by the Wikimedia Foundation, or even better, actually engaged with the volunteer leadership to work on implementable design improvements, you would not see such anger.

But the firm did not do that, which gives the "project" the hallmarks of a pure PR exercise for the firm (which is what it obviously is).

The reason this matters is that design is very hard to do because of the real constraints that must be met, in terms of existing technology, limited budget, limited time, internal politics, etc. Pretending constraints don't exist can offend people who spend a lot of their (frustrating, hard working) time actually dealing with them.
Under the DMCA, is there any provision to say "no, you're wrong, that content isn't actually yours, so it can stay up.", is there?

Google doesn't seem to be using it. If this keeps up, we'll all gravitate away from Youtube and over to Vimeo and other competitors.
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Does not actually say it there. I just thought others who may have signed up from Canada may like a heads up. Here is the [slightly redacted] email from stripe:

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We'd be very grateful for your feedback, either on your experience with Stripe as a whole or on Canada-specific details, however minor (like wording that seems off or anything else). We'd obviously especially like to hear about any glitches so we can fix them as soon as possible.

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From my understanding, Apple is using this document against Samsung rather than Samsung using it as a defence.
This document basically completely exonerates Samsung. It proves that the Galaxy was an original design, and similarities to the iPhone were gained only after standard usability comparisons.
Perhaps fundamentalists are proving the validity of evolutionary theory. Maybe they are a side branch of homo sapiens in which intelligence is curiously underdeveloped, that brain capacity being occupied by blind dogma and superstition. Due to interbreeding perhaps?
This may well be the worst piece of reasoning I've ever seen. It's a religious position.
Well, as opposed to things like Prolog or the more esoteric functional languages, those three language aren't too different regarding their basic mindset and ties to machine architecture. Never mind that I don't believe that we're in for a massive change, anyhow (and all three can cope with multi-core in about the same way).

Sure, you don't have the legacy libraries and architectural styles of C++ in Rust/Go, but that's a pretty moot point if we're talking about new projects. Go wild with generics, lambdas, concurrency, type inference etc..
If this isn't engineering, I'd love to know what it is: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/07/google-cars-300000-miles-wi...
I would take a bet that the FBI just handed New Zealand some warrants, told them what they wanted and paid them a bunch of money for expenditures.

The local PD probably got giddy over the idea that the US was footing the bill to use all their fancy hardware and tactical training so they went all out.

Police love having an excuse to put on the swat team gear and bang on doors, regardless of what country they live.
You could try and do something that could help your classwork. For example we do a lot of weight transfer calculations in suspension class, as part of my Motorsport Design Engineering degree course. So I built a 'Weight Transfer Calculator' Android app.
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The last time I checked the local Verizon retail store, they didn't even have any dumbphones in stock - the only way to get one was to order online.
The software "engineering" argument is debatable, but computer science certainly implies some classical scientific principles. Areas such as quantum mechanics, relativity theory and thermodynamics are relevant in computer studies. The subject of "Computer Science" is vast, at least equalling the scope of more accepted scientific disciplines and probably stretching beyond.
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Seems like a variant of tab stacking in Opera:

http://www.opera.com/browser/tips/stacking/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hqSGGk1YTI
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Using Square is easy and has low fixed costs. iPad for under $400, iPad stand for $100, and you don't have to fuck with complicated 1990s credit card processors.
Geofencing is a good hack, but it's still a hack:

- constant location polling is a battery drain

- GPS reliability/speed degrades quite a bit indoors (are you at Starbucks or the shop next door? What happens when another Mr. Gojomo next door orders coffee and the cashier is rushed and doesn't notice the different face?). WiFi isn't much help here either if you're in a large urban area.

You can still do all you listed starting with a NFC handshake instead of playing with GPS. Geofencing is helpful for getting payments onto existing phones (not to downplay Sq's achievement here), but NFC or another more localized technology will be necessary to make payments more reliable.
But is their loss of Safe Harbor only limited to that video, or does it lose it for the entire site?
>When you're a near monopoly, as MSFT was a decade ago, there might be some muster to your argument.

I never made an argument that depends on their market position. Either way, I don't think your comparison is apt.
Competition isn't always good on its own; it has to increase global value/efficiency to be a valid, "good" strategy. Android increased global value, Microsoft's decision to go rogue on DNT will probably destroy value. Perhaps even their own.
I think the response would have been different if the design firm had openly approached the Wikipedia community at the beginning of their project to offer their pro bono services. Instead it seems like the designers did the work in isolation for 2 months and then sprung it on the world--not a very collaborative working style.
One element in a large set, evaluated out of context, is not necessarily representative of all elements in the set.
But everyone knows that Time Warner, Disney, 20th Century Fox, are all going bankrupt because of his terrible crime of running a file uploading site!

Wait...
Wow. The irony of discussing prejudice and in the same breath calling skinheads racists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinhead

Please, please, please, read that page. Not only to save yourself and others the ignorance of believing skinheads are racists, but also because there's a culture and a people that will be forever denigrated because the media and parroting readers will continue to perpetuate this stereotype.
The author is missing something: Some people might just not _want_ to play themselves. Could be a question or just interest in actually playing the game, as some people (myself included) want to play a certain game but just can't bring themselves up to it.

Those don't represent lost sales, these people wouldn't have bought the game anyway.
One part of the problem is (US) customs. I travel to the US frequently and must use a title including words like, "Engineer", "Architect" or "Analyst". When a title like programmer can be obtained by reading the introduction to "Learning VB" it carries little to no weight and I cannot say I disagree. I don't really care all that much what I am called, 90% of society still has no idea what I do.
To be fair, his actual name is Kim Dotcom, as ridiculous as that is.
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In tones that are significantly milder than I feel ...

I did try the link, it did demand that I login. I did not login, and it did not show me the content.

I resent such accusations, and suggest you make sure you are in full possession of facts before you do so.
It doesn't sound like they were in the same room as him at the time (it seemed like they were on the other side of the house or something), and given the intruders, I'm not sure what else he could have done.
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What's great about game tutorials (imho) is that they are really motivating for young people to follow when they learn to program. You get some very interactive and sensory feedback, get to have fun with something you made and learn a ton in the process.

We can never have enough of those.