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I have had a great experience listening to these podcasts http://www.audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1762/ . It is pretty simple and I found the first part to be a good introduction for beginners.
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I personally use Foursquare for nothing more than tracking my travels. Initially, I checked into places just so that I could go back and look at my Foursquare history to remember where I was and when I was there.

Then I realized that I should be archiving that data off-site and plotting it on a map for my readers to see. So I wrote a Python script (i.e., hacked together a Python script) that reads my Foursquare history KML feed every 30 minutes and then appends the data to a master KML file on my web server. I then use a plugin called jKMLMap to show my travels on a Google map on my site: http://raamdev.com/travels/#map

I think Foursquare has (had?) huge potential. The digital and the physical world are coming together and apps like Foursquare allow us to connect the two. The trick, as is the trick for any startup, is to figure out how you can monetize such a bridge. I thought the idea of allowing businesses to give away coupons for checking in or becoming the mayor was a great idea, but that's subject to abuse and I'm not sure how that makes Foursquare any money.

If Foursquare improved on features that allowed businesses to incentivize using Foursquare, and made such incentives worthwhile to patrons as well as businesses (product reviews, service reviews, maybe a way for patrons to offer suggestions to business owners for improving business, etc.), then I think Foursquare could save themselves, maybe by charging businesses for offering such features once there's a demand for them by users.
Huh, I'm definitely not going “all conspiracy theory” on you. And by you I guess I mean Microsoft?

The perception from the outside, or let say, my perception, is that both .net and C# along (C# being the flagship language for the platform) don't have the same place in Microsoft's strategy than they had say 4 years ago.

Eric being one more visible .net profile leaving Microsoft, I'm just saying it's interesting to wonder if that's related.
That precedent will also need to be tested. Taking someone's equipment, especially when devices are becoming more and more concentrated, is beyond reasonable search of focused investigations. Think about it; when you take someone's laptop, tablet, and smartphone, you are also taking their camera, filing cabinet, scanner, copier, mailbox, picture frames, flashlight, catalog, telephone, gaming console, accounting records, financial documents, pens, wallet, cash money, watches, personal records and records, random people's belongings, keys, notebooks, drafting table, ... and on and on.

What the government in this case, just like all similar cases is doing is essentially as if the FBI came busing into your house and had goons investigating and randomly milling around your house continuously for months if not years. It, at least in the USA, does not hold up against Constitutional protections of reasonable search and seizure. I just don't think it has been tested thoroughly enough.

There is a reason you are not legally just allowed to seal off and load up someone's house, office, business, and cars and keep them hostage indefinitely because some random person may have committed a crime on your property. The precedent for physical evidence has been set and it equally applies to the digital, if tested properly, whether gov't or their corrupt henchmen can wrap their puny, deranged, atrophied, and primitive minds around it or not. Why don't we just go back to the "BAD.....SMASH!" system of legal jurisprudence if blanket taking of everything plus the kitchen sink is ok.
I have one of these. The hardware is completely supported on Debian but I couldn't handle the shallow keyboard, so I went back to my Thinkpad. Probably would feel the same about any Ultrabook though. I miss the glorious screen but the keyboard is more important.
Losing money on every unit and trying to make it up in volume is not a winning move! But doubling the screen resolution yes. Low-resolution screens don't cut it anymore now Apple has set the new standard.
The validity of Marco's argument rests on the fact that "if you just wait, you can get the media through a legit source".

No, it doesn't. His argument is that if you can't get it through a legit source, don't watch it at all.
"However, the article ends rather weakly; the author basically suggests that the best solution is to have top colleges select a small portion of their students by pure talent (geniuses), and then select the rest by lottery out of a pool of academically qualified applicants. To me, this seems just as unfair as the alternatives, and de-motivational for academic success."

Not only that, but part of the value of the Harvard education is that you end up being at the school where everyone recruits from. They are on shaky legal ground giving you an IQ test, but "Was admitted to Harvard 4 years ago" is a decent proxy for one.
> 2007 maybe? I was 100% linux from 2002-2007, then switched to macs.

> Despite my familiarity with linux, I can't be sure that simple comfort with the Mac OS isn't part of it.

That's probably the reason, honestly - I'm coming at this as a daily Linux user who already knows how everything works, and all I want is that same experience on an Ultrabook.

I can't speak for Dell, but I don't think this laptop could/should really compete for the same audience as the Macbook Air... if you're happy with using OS X on Apple hardware - if it's "good enough" - there's probably not much that could get you to switch.

In my case, Linux is my first choice by far, so the choice between using my Ultrabook and using my work computer always results in me reaching for the ultrabook.
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Great idea, I'm just hoping a location comes up that is near Canary Wharf so I can "nip to the loo".
I regret that there's no good documentation for installing on the 5-2 (2012 13" Air), something I have to take some responsibility for since I run Ubuntu on such a laptop and didn't share my experiences.

In short, most things work fine on Ubuntu 12.10. I first tried using this guide[1] to install Ubuntu 12.04, but had lots of gnarly install issues. I then tried with the regular 'amd64+mac' graphical installer for Ubuntu 12.10 beta, and got it running easily. I was able to ignore most of [1] except for installing and configuring macfanctld, and making the touchpad perform decently using the advice in [2]. (Unlike the author of [2], I hate tap-to-click, so I turned the TapButton[1-3] settings off.)

There are still a few nagging issues I haven't fixed. The Air boots with brightness at the max and won't let me turn it down until logged in, and it loses my touchpad settings on reboot, so I have a little bash script I run to fix them.

[1]: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2039799

[2]: http://uselessuseofcat.com/?p=74
How are such mundane things as setting salaries and raises (dare I use the word) managed in such a free form structure?
The best way to improve quality of life towards the end is to end your life early, hence my support for legalization of physician-assisted suicide.
All the time. My usage is a mixture of cat, tail, less, emacs , depending on the situation. I think cat comes very naturally for any *nix user, as it's a useful building block when constructing shell pipes.
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Most of my video consumption is through legal means, be it recording to my HTPC, or when I cannot, buying from Amazon Instant Videos (it fits my needs: iPad/Roku/Bluray player apps).

When the video isn't available that way, you bet I pirate. If your business model relies on your customers to avoid activities that are convenient, easy, and get them exactly what they want and the only argument against not doing it is that to the consumer, the activity rises to the standard of "morally questionable" at worst, your business model needs to be fixed. Everything I pirate is a lost sale not because the pirated version was available, but because the legal version was not. And the pirated version will always be available.

As the gatekeepers to the content, the movie/TV industries could provide an incredible product with an amazing customer experience and make money hand over fist. Doing that would push piracy off to only the "digital hoarders" who wouldn't be buying it anyway. But they aren't even getting the very basics. Start with giving consumers a way to pay for the product. I'm probably just a simpleton here, but to me the equivalent of their business model would be like walking into a grocery store and seeing a pile of fresh oranges with a sign that says "If you want one today, you'll have to steal it. Come by next Tuesday at 8:00 PM and we'll let you eat one while listening to a guy talk about how good bananas are for 4-6 minutes. We don't sell these". Not a perfect analogy since the act of stealing the orange doesn't make fewer oranges available, it just keeps the store from receiving more money.

There's a TV show called "Ed" that I enjoyed growing up. Because of a licensing mess surrounding the background music in several episodes, it will likely never be released in any format. I'm a rabid fan. I'd pay $200 a season for a legal release in any format that I could playback somewhere. Instead, I've got these horrible SLP VHS to overly compressed MPEG versions that I recorded when it originally aired. I still watch them, but on my larger television the picture is nearly indistinguishable from a Jackson Pollock painting.
No, but a possession of any kind of media should not be a crime by itself. Nobody is harmed by a video/picture sitting on your hard drive. If you say that it might encourage anyone to do anything - then why is it perfectly legal to have videos of murders and gore?
The thing that's most surprising to me is that their design team seems to have lost a lot of key staff recently--and it's not a huge team right now.[1]

Mari Sheibley's work was a huge part of defining the culture/visual tone of 4sq early on. Interesting to see where they go from here.

[1]:http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/27/ex-foursquare-designers-foc...
You can blame the patent situation for this. There's too much risk for a big player (Microsoft, Apple) to bundle support for fringe codecs and container formats. VLC can get away with this because they're not a big enough target to be worth suing; they don't have enough money.

Sadly, it's also the patent situation that's responsible for the proliferation of codecs in the first place. Companies wouldn't feel the need to make their own (or their own custom containers) if they didn't have to worry about patent issues.
Please do not equate the deprivation of rivalrous goods with permission to reconfigure one's own computer.

A better comparison: should the parent have the option to copy the clothing style when making their own clothes? As it happens, the limits of copyright permit that, though that constitutes less of a metaphor and more of just different parts of the same copyright law.
If enough people pirate something and are cheap enough not to buy the real thing, it will hurt the maker, I fully realize that. It's just that I don't feel particularly bad pirating most stuff. Partly because I'm copying, not stealing, and partly because I wouldn't have paid for 90% of it anyway. Mostly though, part of me just doesn't feel that bad about it. Just as I'm not entitled to unlimited free entertainment, creators aren't necessarily entitled to making a living off making said entertainment. Might sound heartless, but throughout most of history it wasn't possible. Just recently there was a period of time where there was a mass market for entertainment and where distribution was controlled and copying difficult. It's not anymore though. Copying a book a billion times is as simple as the press of a button, and no amount of talk about morality is going to change that. The sad fact is that content makers will need to find other ways to generate revenue, even if that means abandoning some formats. Personally, I try to support the content makers I like, but most people won't.
This argument is bad. First of all, piracy is not morally wrong, the morals of it are ambiguous, just like everything else. Second of all, it's not JUST ONE EXACT MOVIE. It's a plethora of films and shows and most people enjoy watching them once in a while... Nowadays, we have this thing called the internet where people can send information to others with minimal cost and effort. If a content provider does not wish to make money by conveniently providing me with entertainment I will oblige them by not giving them my money. I will still watch the movies I want to see though. Some of us are pathetic and don't like to wait when there is no reason to.
You don't know that for certain. There can be a taxi which is exclusively used by mafia ->therefore(following your argument) all taxis should be banned.
I think I don't have the right to take your clothes, but I certainly have the right to copy your clothes and make my own. How do you think this scenario applies to digital goods/content?

N.B.
I don't like the use of "right" here I think it's ambiguous. Are we talking about laws, morals etc.? For simplicities sake I'll use "right" in my reply.

I also don't like the idea of trying to force digital goods to act like physical goods.
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Downloading TV shows is actually not illegal in many countries. Usually, only uploading is illegal.

Morally, is is questionable. You can program your video-recorder (if you still have device like that) and let it record the TV show when it airs and watch it later. Or you can skip recording it yourself (because constantly recording everything is boring and wasting resources) and download it from piratebay. Is there really a difference? And if the show in question is inaccessible in your country, should you wait years for it? I would not.
Technically, that's not a bug: Tolkien gave instructions for converting "Shire Calendar" dates to modern calendar dates in one of the appendices. (All hobbit months had 30 days, with some extra "holiday" dates stuck in between months at midsummer and midwinter. Leap days were added in midsummer, too.)

One source for more information is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth_calendar#Hobbit_Ca...

(Personally, I celebrate on Sept. 22 and Mar. 25 just for simplicity. I'm not sure what I'd do if an important event had fallen on Mid-year's day.)
Well, here's the thing with that tactic. If I wanted to organize anonymously, I'd have my co-conspirators gather on .onions sites, most likely an address run and known only by us. If anti-TOR shit gets real, then I believe we'll see non-trivial growth of the various darknets out there.

If every tor exit node vanished today, tor's darknet half will thrive and the network would still be valuable. It's trivial to set up a hidden service. If you want to whistle-blow to the media, you'd set up a http or ftp share and drop the .onion URL in the mail to your journalists of choice.
What needs to be established, is government's requirement to have forensic experts do onsite justifications for what should be taken and then duplicate only relevant data (i.e., not pictures of your girlfriend's booty if not relevant to the case) and make an even stronger case for seizure of hardware based on deep relevance to the matter at hand, which should already have been thoroughly established beforehand (beyond "take anything that has operates on any kind of form of electricity).
why..... i hate when articles like this are made BUT without the explanation as to whats next or any reason why leaving now?

It suprised me when naveen left as well, Foursquare is only just getting started yet the way some peoples "AU REVOIR" posts read you would think it was fully finished.

Dont get me wrong Foursquare is kicking ass and will be bought out by someone sooner than later as they make a mockery of the competitors BUT ....its nowhere near finished.
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It is an example of a symptom that has presented itself because of an underlying disease rotting away the core of Microsoft.
This is William of Edis.at, the company offering the free Raspberry Pi hosting deal posted here a few weeks ago.
It's a huge big deal in enterprise software security; lots of Fortune 500 firms deploy it (most of them use Fortify, not Coverity).

I'm not a fan either.
Only if you're obsessed with watching something specific. If I wanted to watch a film, it's much easier to pick something off iTunes or Netflix than download a torrent. If they don't have exactly the thing I wanted to watch, I could go and pirate it... or, you know, just watch something else. I think lots of people are too obsessive about their media consumption for their own good. The prevalence of torrents is symptomatic.
In this case, piracy provides an indicator of unfulfilled demand

Only if the content providers actually treat it as an indicator of unfilled demand. They're not; they're treating it as an indicator of criminal behavior.

If piracy is an indicator of unfilled demand, the correct response is to fill the demand by changing your method of distribution. It's not to sue people and try to buy ever more draconian government enforcement.
I actually live in farming country where houses are cheap. I can't even imagine how the people in SF do it.

A top 1% personal income starts at around $190K per year. A $120K job and a decent investment portfolio and you are there.
Maybe time to name and shame? In the following news, the name of the country has been replaced with Syria. Can you guess the country? Bonus points if you know the year.

[1]
"For hundreds of thousands of Syrians, getting to work, school or the market has been virtually impossible since Syria’s latest anti-terror campaign began. Now, they won’t be able to get online, either."
"The Syrian army stormed the office building where six employees were believed to be staying in order to maintain Internet service during this difficult time"
"Explosions were heard and the fate of the six employees is unknown."

[2]
"Syria cuts off internet access. Most of the major internet service providers in Syria are offline following week-long protests. Syria appears to have cut off almost all access to the internet from inside and outside the country from late on Thursday night"
"Every Syrian provider, every business, bank, internet cafe, website, school, embassy and government office that relied on the big four Syrians ISPs for their internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world."

[3]
"What Internet? Syria region cut off 6 months."
"20 million people without links to the outside world since the government blocked virtually online access, text messages and international phone calls after ethnic riots in July. It's the largest and longest such blackout in the world, observers say."
"Residents are without Internet links unless they flee to farflung places... One customer had traveled 750 miles just to get online."
"Region now has no e-mail. No blogs. No instant messaging. The government this month promised Internet access would resume "gradually," but it also said the same thing in July and not much has changed. So far, only four restricted Web sites, half of them state-run media, have returned."

Answers (link shortened so no cheating!)
[1] http://goo.gl/IpcrA
[2] http://goo.gl/WewSI
[3] http://goo.gl/BaFli
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Surface with Windows 8 Pro is powerful - KILLER SPECS
Forgoing this option saves us $600, but what about the SSD?

They don't mention that the iMac now offers some compelling ways to extend space without messing with the internals. An SSD accessed over Thunderbolt should be almost as fast as an internal one, and even USB 3 would yield superb performance. So just get the cheapest and go external nowadays.
The big difference is ISPs keep track of users' ip addresses and they give that information to the police when they get a warrant. tor doesn't keep that information, so basically the exit node is all that the police have. The trail stops at the person running the tor node. Likely the police won't find the actual perv here, but you can't blame them for trying.

Interesting how many downvotes I got here...
>> Could you elaborate on what sort of things would convince you?

What the money would actually be used for, which you just shed some more light on. It was really vague exactly which aspect(s) of the development the funds would be focused on, aside from "bringing the project to release", and you didn't really clarify how that's qualified. It's a highly technical project, I'd expect a little bit more meat.

Overall, I felt like there was some detail lacking with regard to the "how" of you getting to the goal. In theory, every funded development plan has some form of timeline(schedule/plan) and milestones, hopefully with some really vague dates or estimates. I just wasn't persuaded you had planned that far ahead yet. The project, based purely on the Indiegogo page, seemed to still be a hobby project that you enjoyed playing with. I simply can't justify adding to a $20,000 development fund based on the concept that you'll continue to flesh things out as you go along.

I haven't seen a serious track record of highly adopted open source projects from you(if I was looking in the wrong places or mistaken about the popularity of some of your projects, please correct me) and that doesn't persuade me to take you at your word. I'd need some meat in terms of what I'm actually funding and not what you hope to build. I can't in good conscience fund a project based on the end result or deliverable, I have to fund your process, planning ability, architectural consideration and senior experience; I could really only trust the last point, and not as much as I would have liked to.

I still appreciate what you're aiming to do, and that you've put so much energy into the concept already, but I don't appreciate it enough to contribute dollars. If you were looking for donations to continue to evolve the project after release and there was a community behind it saying good things, I'd be inclined to take the "end goal" as enough explanation and review the history of how things have evolved to see if I think you're reliable enough to fund. In this case, you want money to deliver an initial release, and I'm going to need to know how you want to get there.
I'm OK with Prismatic using information from twitter and any activity on getprismatic, and but i would not share the rest of my browser usage. For instance there was this day when i was reading up on XML on the browser and opened a bunch of pages on it. Then i fire up getprismatic and lo and behold! i find XML tagged suggestion. That was spooky;)
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Ask as a shorted version of Ask Price is something I can understand. But the other uses I see appear awkward.