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IOS Users Are 30% More Likely To Buy Stuff Via Device Than Android Users
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User goes to flick on bathroom light switch...

"Sorry Dave, But I cannot complete this command. The Government has
activated the Energy Conservation Program during these hours."

"Dammit" goes to flush toilet...

"Sorry Dave, But I cannot complete this command. The Government has
activated the Water Conservation Program during these hours."

"fine then" goes to leave to go out to eat since refrigerated food spoiled...

"Sorry Dave, But I cannot complete this command. The Government has
activated the Curfew Program during these hours.""
Hussle beats talent. All companies have too many projects in the pipeline and not enough people who can deliver. Remember that people pay for improving revenue or decreasing costs and just follow the money.
Productivity Technique: Schedulmeister
Don't touch it.

VCs are super-connected people, if you're at all connected with the startup world you should be able to get organic introductions through your network. If you're not at all connected then one option might be to go through an accelerator (YC, Techstars, Seedcamp) which can give you a leg up.

Most VCs will also attend a wide range of events which can be a good place to meet them.

(disclaimer: while I work for a VC I'm speaking in a personal capacity, although I believe my views are aligned with both my colleagues at my firm and at all the other major VC firms)
This is something I've wanted for a long time -- Peecho with sane US pricing and distribution would be great. The front page says "Create on demand books and flyers," though, and I don't see any binding options listed elsewhere on the site. Is this in the works?
I thought this was a pretty interesting article. I'm not sure how interested I am in traveling myself, but I do enjoy reading about it.
How email marketing is like dating
None of those three (bless their hearts) were anywhere near as effective in getting their message to the public as Snowden.
Power users can power websites, so long as the website's value isn't (too) dependent on the number of users it has. For example, Dropbox's power users essentially subsidize everyone else's usage.

That model may have worked for Google Reader as well. Social networks have a harder time, because anything that reduces interaction in the network reduces the value for everyone.
> At an Airbnb, you get access to a kitchen, you can stay in a neighborhood with character (hotels tend to congregate around touristy areas), and you can stay at some pretty unique places.

There are hotels in colorful neighborhoods with some pretty unique rooms. And how many people, when traveling, opt to use the kitchen even once rather than eat out?
It's more difficult in slow-moving enterprise environments. In our environment, the time from someone saying "we should do this" until it's in production can easily be 3 years.

Then, add the lifetime of use which can span even decades (depending on the application). Long-term managers and architects have seen many, many technologies and methodologies come and go, and treat claims of "you better change that system quick!" with skepticism (doesn't mean it isn't true).

Four to five years of life for an enterprise code base is a blink of an eye. If I proposed a major framework/foundation change for a four year old application, I'd be getting some unpleasant looks.
Building Know Your Company
Awesome, just have to get my PPL first.
There are quite a few websites trying to be the #1 place for offering "empty legs" and other spare seats on corporate aircraft, not to mention bizjet operators and charter companies that have been doing it for a while. I have a feeling it's a market that's too fragmented and illiquid to easily become winner-takes-all though (it's difficult to attract a critical mass of users to a website that usually won't have the flight they want)

And I suspect the FAA would take a very dim view of people without commercial pilots' licenses taking cash payments for ferrying strangers they met on the internet. As might the IRS...
Just started using it and like it SO MUCH better. Everything feels much cleaner and easier to absorb at a glance. Love it!
For some of the tech companies, yes. But I imagine that even the US government would have some significant day-to-day challenges if Google were not available to it's employees (State or Federal).

That has to provide some leverage when dealing with situations that you should not be comfortable with.
And? There's a huge gulf between "maybe China will find out if he leaks stuff to the public" (duh) and "maybe he's a Chinese spy." (huh?)

Are we supposed to believe that Chinese intelligence has been wringing its hands for the past decade, just wishing a US whistleblower would reveal a bunch of stuff to the media so they can figure out what's going on? They do have real spies, you know.

This is a smokescreen.
I have two apps that use the Amazingmail API to print and mail postcards on demand. (http://babygra.ms http://lulcards.com). Their prices are extremely competitive compared to Infraprint's and their customer support is excellent.

http://www.amazingmail.com/direct-mail-automation

edit: I'm also pretty sure this is the same service that Sincerely uses for their Ship API. If that's true they are basically a middle-man for the excellent work Amazingmail does.
Talk about moving the goal-posts...
It does but commercial offerings that we have are still supported from their implementation in 2001.

Paid support by the vendor?
I just expect that from Wired & Ars.
I suppose that with the wikileaks precedent, he would assume they would have thrown him in solitary confinement, with no access to the press, which would defeat the purpose of his leaking the info.
Very nice of them to have a free community version (security patches 10 days after normal release - this seems fair to me).

I could have used this a year or so ago, but I rewrote an old 2.3 Rails app in Clojure (cookingspace.com if you are curious). Now I am glad it is in Clojure though.

I had previously updated another Rails app from 2.x to 3.x and I was surprised how much trouble it was to do that.
how many people, when traveling, opt to use the kitchen even once rather than eat out?

Most?
"how many people, when traveling, opt to use the kitchen even once rather than eat out?"

All those with small children, to start with.
Thank you for introducing me to:

http://ranprieur.com/readings/illichcars.html
>and advertisers will use ip address and/or browser fingerprinting to track across domains.

and people will come up with ways to set and spoof what kind of headers their browser sends.

but your right, where we are today is where people that care enough to circumvent tracking, do circumvent it.
I immediately thought of how gross these things must be, but I have no idea.

I would hope that police call buttons or something of the sort replaces these things, but I'm guessing not. I guess also a lot of Manhattan has been gentrified such that they can rely on victims to probably have or know someone with a cellphone?
It is, of course, not just some random file -- it's the file that has the most recent commit in that directory.

Or rather, it's the commit message from the most recent commit in that directory (it's not so much about files at all).

I find it quite useful, to see if there have been any recent changes in that directory (and specifically when and what) or if it hasn't been changed in years.
Might want to calm down with the hyperbole.

Governments routinely get involved in matters such as this and by every account it makes a lot of sense. Online advertising is a critical part of many businesses and there needs to be stable, considered policies that factor in everyone's interests.
Having access to a kitchen may be the main reason that I much prefer AirBnB when traveling. I can't stand being forced to eat every single meal out of the house during an entire trip.
Snowden: NSA snoops on U.S. phone calls without warrants
Reminds me of the Powerpoint slide transitions.
Reading some of these articles makes me feel like that line from Thor where you get to a point where magic and science sort of blend together as we use and build enormous alchemist machines with reproducible effects.

I greatly look forward to the day where we can apply what we've been learning through all this experimentation to design and create things that actively and usefully manipulate particles at this level.
Compared to the urgency of high speed rail, they made the right choice!

I do not agree with the exact details of how they chose to tackle health care, but there is no question that it was the right priority at the time. Healthcare costs were at 18% of GDP and rising rapidly.

Even the hospitals and insurance companies recognized that something had to be done very soon. Between increasing poverty and companies dropping health care for their employees, they were losing patients at a record pace.

The risk of launching a startup was becoming almost unbearable. Many young entrepreneurs arbitrage the cost of their health risk by betting they won't get seriously ill and make themselves, their companies, and their investor funds go bankrupt. That is NOT a safe bet.
It's at 0.2% usage in the US, with similar levels around the world (with the exception of the PRC). Even IE7 is below 1% worldwide at this point.

http://www.ie6countdown.com/
22 Crowdfunding Sites (and How To Choose Yours)
That's true, but the Web platform has its perks, and the demos are trending closer to native. It's about the promise, not the readiness.
> what's to stop you booking a cheap hotel or hostel for the night?

Special needs, traveling with others, just plain tired after a long trip, middle of the night, better amenities, better accommodations, hotels are booked full, maybe some of those available hotels/hostels are super shady and I don't want to be among strangers there. As much as I love the idea of being able to travel freely, I also like the assurance that I know where I'm sleeping at the end of any given day.
If this works Google will own us all.
Right, which is exactly their stated intentions.
No, it's like having a car that you don't mind driving for the rest of the decade (barring any serious accident), as opposed to exchanging it for a new one every 3 years to keep up with the Joneses.
The next 50 ideas for billion-dollar software companies
Jonathan and Firefox have yet to explain how embedded modules like Disqus, Stripe, or similar are meant to go about their business and without resorting to the EverCookie-like tactics? Facebook or similar apps requiring stateful sessions? I guess we'll all just setup 2nd party sub-domains for advertisers, or serve our ads off a Google domain (or <insert entrenched advertiser>).
The clone URL was never accessible from deeper pages.
Unless the pilot is commercially rated, the FAA mandates you have to pay a pro-rated share (50% in your scenario above). There's also the liability the pilot is taking on by having a passenger along. If there is an incident during the flight the pilot is most certainly going to be sued by you or your estate to recoup medical costs, compensation for negligence (most aircraft accidents come back on the pilot and not the plane), or compensation for death.
Why spend time re-inventing the wheel? If you're looking to sharpen your skills, then go for it. I believe most people would prefer to get their product out the door as quickly as it's reasonable.
They help, but as a user of Github for Windows, I have too often been told that a "synch" (basically a combination of push and pull) failed and I need to resolve the issue using my command prompt. As an anecdotal measure, I would estimate this happens about 5 to 10% of the time while working alongside my colleagues who are not using Github for Windows, or any similar GUI tool, and using our own private Gitlab origin.

Github for Windows is also disappointingly lacking in functionality that is necessary in my workgroup. For example, it does not support Git submodules or two-origin configurations. When I work in repositories we have configured in that fashion, the command line is my option of choice. And let me be frank: there are scarcely any tools I use that have a worse user interface than the Git command line tool.

I agree with the grandparent that there remains a market under-served: to provide a decent user interface on top of Git. Github for Windows is amazing for a free tool and I give the development team a great deal of respect for what they have provided users like myself (people who want their source control and build tools to just do their job simply and get the heck out of the way). But there is a lot of room for improvement. I for one would pay good money for a Github for Windows "Professional" version.
I'm curious. At what volume of customers/work does this kind of business change from being a guy who reads the requests, opens files, and prints them to being a more automated solution?
The World of Black-Ops Reputation Management
The research lab that Jamie founded is ALS TDI [1], which has a database of ALS clinical trials [2]. Jamie later co-founded PatientsLikeMe, a web site for sharing medical data which has over 6,000 users who are patients with ALS [3], the first of whom was his brother Stephen [4].

(Full disclosure: I work for PatientsLikeMe.)

[1] http://www.als.net/
[2] http://www.als.net/ALS-Research/ALS-Clinical-Trials/
[3] https://www.patientslikeme.com/conditions/9-als-amyotrophic-...
[4] https://www.patientslikeme.com/patients/view/40
In this hypothetical situation, why is democracy a necessary precondition for a free market?
What are you talking about? Maher criticizes Obama all of the time...and he gets lots of flak from liberals because of it.
I'm wondering if there is any significance in that they are almost all just the housing and not the actual phone part. The few shots there have some overlap in number of housings and I can see only three that have the phone parts. I wonder what lands a payphone in this lot.
VP9 Video Codec Lands in Chrome
> When a loved one dies, that breaks you down, melts the ice block of arrogant I-know-what's-up thinking.

If you think the solution to that way of thinking is for someone to die, that's like thinking the only way to learn about the dangers of a hot stove is to burn your hand on it.
Nope, that one is for pull requests. But they did disable SSH cloning for read-only and the cloning URL is not showing at all (only after you click on HTTPS), pointing towards preferring of forking.
I understand what you are saying about the highway system being subsidized, but I'm not sure I understand your reference to gasoline.

Private energy companies explore, extract, refine, and sell gasoline, with all sorts of taxes (as opposed to subisidies) along the way. What subsidies are you refering to for gasoline?
The Dispatch periodic table is probably a discredited meme by now, but it's all too representative of many scala libraries. Akka uses ! and ? for its two most important methods (and a pet moan: the experimental typed channel proposal uses :+: for type-level lists despite their being functionally the same as shapeless' :: HList). Shapeless constraints can't even be typed on a normal keyboard - they're things like ->[A]#λ or <<:[B]#λ (real examples from my day job). Scalaz is only slightly better (pulling up a random example I see "@@" used as an operator). Sometimes these sigil operators have non-sigil aliases but that's the perl trap of "there is more than one way to do it" - one can't just ignore the sigils because one has to read code as well as write it (and given that even quite major libraries like scalaz come with no scaladoc, one is often forced to read someone else's code to figure out what a function does).

I love scala, but I do find myself wishing method names were required to be alphanumeric.
You suggest anarcho-capitalism, but consider this: Currently, we have a state-capitalist society.I say state capitalist because every company that was 'bailed out' is effectively a state institution. There's an important distinction between the free market and capitalism. Free market socialism can exist as well as state capitalism.

The only entity in our current system powerful enough to, say, prevent corporations from overfishing any fishery to destruction is the government. Similarly, government issued and enforced carbon credits are the only thing preventing (or attempting to prevent) even more drastic pollution. The list goes on.

The main reason we need government right now is to put a check on corporate power (although sometimes it doesn't seem that way, I admit). And the main reason we need a check on corporate power is because of the profit motive and the concentration of wealth towards the upper ranks of any corporation.

Instead of anarcho-capitalism, how about anarcho-syndicalism or anarcho-socialism? In a socialist society, the capital (ie the means of production) is owned by the workers rather than the rich boss sitting in his office.

Even more so, in a capitalist society, you need some entity in place to protect your capital (land, factories, slaves, etc) from being used by someone else, even if you're not using them (and even if you 'own' so much that you're limiting others' very ability to survive). There are 2 ways to do this: 1) Look to legislation enforcing capital ownership and a state-run police force. And 2) establish a police force / military of your own, under your own control.

The first is what we have now, and the second would quickly collapse into a military ictatorship or oligarchy.

The way I see it (from the above reasoning), there's plenty of reason to think that "anarcho-capitalism" is an inherently contradictory statement.

tl;dr: I agree with the anarcho- half of your suggestion, but not capitalism.
Or conversely, in images, the data bits are the pixels, in text the data bits are two steps removed from the words (one is a character encoding, the second is a language).
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They've always had a quite prominent "fork on github" button.

Their suggested course of action is to fork on github and then clone to your local filesystem. You then push changes to your fork on github, and open a pull request from within their system.

The default workflow is designed to play nice with their issue tracker/etc.
Thanks, added: https://starthq.com/apps/nuesbyte
B is the option I am precisely hoping for. I find it really creepy to get cross-targeted ads. I am willing to give up 90% of the websites I view (and pay for the remaining 10%) so I don't have to look at ads, and more importantly, so that they don't look at me. After all the news about the government tracking us by gaining access to third-party services, I really don't want to give some company any more information that I absolutely have to. I regret that this hurts your bottom line as an employee of the advertising business, but just as my privacy is your casualty of doing business, your business is my casualty of maintaining my privacy.
Metro will never launch with start8 enabled.

Install adobe reader on the machine and it will open pdfs on the desktop only as well even if they are launched from metro.

Right click something that doesn't work or install on windows 8, go to properties, compatibility and select windows 7. Then run it again. It will work as before, unlike every other vendor out there.

Hell it'll even run 32-bit stuff I compiled for NT4 on Visual C++ 4.2 with dynamic linking in 1997 without a problem! Cant really fault that since the same era Linux binaries or Solaris binaries won't work from back then.
How Turkish Protesters Deal with Teargas
"From 7-11, they dispersed wire fraud and identity theft w/ Slurpees & hot dogs"
The people have a lot of contradictions around what they want. We need leaks, but the people that leak should be prosecuted (Wait, what?), for example.
Have you not heard of "ignorance is bliss"? I don't see the point of knowing the answer here.
"Now onto the bigger questions: Is there life in this billion-year-old water?"

I'm guessing a Hollywood screenwriter is already working on the answer to this question.
This article would be easier to read if it started off with a quick overview of Tunnel (creates a path in your app that proxies to another site), rather than the how-to. A couple of sentences in the first paragraph would do it.
I'm not an academic, but this looks interesting. The design is very similar to http://arxiv.org.
Yes and BI would probably not care or notice.
Netflix is only barely more convenient than pirating for tech-savvy individuals. I'm willing to bet if you were to ask the average person if they know where to get and how to use torrents, you'd find that pirating is not all that convenient for most.
> * "aggressive" is an apt description of their tone, and it's not limited to just this story.*

Of course it is. CNN competes with 250+ other channels to grab your attention, draw you deeper in, and serve you commercial breaks.

You could claim it's a carefully orchestrated propaganda machine designed to scare people into ceding their rights to the government (of course, such arguments might also designed to scare you). Or you could claim that they need to do this to excite their broad audience and thereby preserve their jobs and paychecks.

You could say the media dug up pictures of his girlfriend in provocative outfits to discredit him among conservative Americans. Or you could acknowledge that they didn't have to do much digging at all, that sex sells, and that the public love personality news (see all the Hollywood "news" shows).

There's a conspiracy lurking around every corner, if you go looking for it.
The underlying pattern is captured by the Maybe monad. Its bind rule takes (1) a computation producing a value of type "Maybe a" and (2) a function accepting an "a" and producing a computation producing a value of type "Maybe b". It then returns a new computation that will produce "Nothing" if the first computation produces "Nothing"; otherwise, it will take the value it received from the first computation ("Just x") and pass the value "x" to the function (2) to get a new computation, which it will then perform. Thus if either the first computation or the second produces Nothing, the result will be nothing. Further, if the first produces Nothing, the second will be short-circuited away and never evaluated.

These semantics are basically what you implement by hand when you join together computations that may produce NULL results and check for NULLs in between. But now the computer is doing the checking for you, so the checking is hidden and yet never gets forgotten.

For example, here's some Haskell code the provides a simple lookup database from names (type "a") to phone numbers (type "b"):

-- name phone number
persons = [("Joe", "123-555-7890"),
("Tom", "432-555-0987")]

The lookup service for this database may return a result, thus it returns a value of the Maybe type to indicate that it may not be able to find a "b" for every "a" you give it:

lookup :: Eq a => a -> [(a, b)] -> Maybe b

But since Maybe is a monad and its bind rule takes care of the didn't-get-a-result checking for us, we can safely string together lookup computations without having to do any checks by hand. Nevertheless, we can be assured that all the checks will be done.

For example, let's create a function that takes two persons' names, looks up their phone numbers, and (if both are found) connects them with a (simulated) call.

-- try to connect person a's phone to person b's phone
connect a b = do
phonea <- lookup a persons
phoneb <- lookup b persons
return $ "connected " ++ phonea ++ " to " ++ phoneb

If we try to connect two names that are known to our lookup service, the call goes through as expected:

*Main> connect "Tom" "Joe"
Just "connected 432-555-0987 to 123-555-7890"

But if either or both of the name lookups fail, no call is made:

*Main> connect "Tom" "SomeUnknownDude"
Nothing

*Main> connect "SomeUnknownDude" "Tom"
Nothing

*Main> connect "SomeUnknownDude" "AnotherUnknownDude"
Nothing