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Walmart does $100B+ in revenue every year internationally, roughly accounting for 25% of its business. (For sake of comparison, Amazon earned ~$60B in toto in the year 2012). Walmart crashed and burned in Germany...and meanwhile, they basically own Mexico, large swaths of Latin America, have huge market share in the UK, do extremely well in China, etc.

So yes, I'd say that's significantly stronger than Amazon's international footing. Walmart has serious competitors internationally (Carrefour, etc.), and Amazon is barely one of them.

I'm as bullish on Amazon in the long run as anyone you'll find here. But even I have to admit that Amazon's international presence is one of its most glaring weaknesses, especially in specific juxtaposition to Walmart.
Citi Bike: A Nazi, Muslim Plot to Create a Dresden-on-the-Hudson, Says Frontpage Mag Writer

http://observer.com/2013/06/citi-bike-a-nazi-muslim-plot-to-...

Editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz on New York City’s new bike-share program.

http://live.wsj.com/video/opinion-death-by-bicycle/C6D8BBCE-...

"Do not ask me to enter the mind of the totalitarians running this government."
Alternative course of action: Give directly to something like the Schistosomiasis [0] Control Initiative [1].

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosomiasis

1: http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/schistos...
And Toms shoes stop these things? I think not.

Guinea worms enter the body by drinking bad water.
You wear Tom's shoes on your feet not on your fucking mouth!

Please take the time to do some research before you tell everyone here you have Tom's Shoes.
Apple patents tech to let cops censor every iPhone
I think you may be overestimating the pace of change. C++ is quite entrenched for industrial-strength game projects. The network effect is strong, the tooling is mature, and the projects are largely driven by C++ experts. Even if we see Rust 1.0 by the end of the year, it will take a lot of time for that kind of change to occur in the industry, if it ever does.

I think you're much more likely to see 51% of new game code written in C# for Unity. I think the median game budget is shrinking. More and more games are being made as small projects by small teams. Steam greenlight, kickstarter, humble bundle, and other avenues are enabling curation and funding of smaller games. Unity is far more suited for this kind of development than C++. If you look at smaller studios' job listings, a lot of them prefer experience with Unity. The trend is in full swing at this point.

I have no sources to site for the above information. Take it with a grain of salt.
If he got caught before he could leak any data, that would've been a win for the forces that want to keep this stuff under wraps (I hesitate to say a win for the NSA, because I actually believe there might be a few people there still that want to try to fulfil the original mission, as opposed to commit as many criminal acts as possible).

It's a little like pairing up soldiers when you order them to commit a war crime: refusal to obey orders will get you shot -- it raises the bar of refusal by having to convince someone else to risk their life by not taking yours.
How do shoes protect against guinea worm transmission? You get guinea worm from drinking contaminated water.
Why on earth would you tell a group of people (which is biased towards rebellious proclivities) not to do something. I wager more people searched for "Guinea worm" after the PSA rather than if it has gone un-said.
But they're phasing in driving on the right in the UK -- first all the lorries, then once everyone gets used to that, the rest of the cars.
I'm in complete agreement. Excellent way to kill two birds: Sunset an underperforming product and turn Lavabit's courageous decision into marketing opportunity.
OS X Terminal.app SIMBL Plugin: Switch tabs using CMD + 1, 2, 3...
Toms Shoes are terrible quality. I do not suggest buying them. It took some time for me to admit to myself that I was tricked by a sly marketing campaign.

The founder Blake Mycoskie also got caught partnering up with the American group Focus On the Family which sponsors all sorts of anti-gay legislation in Africa. He said that he didn't know all of the awful things they do, which I find really hard to believe.

People like a story that let's them shop and make them feel like they are making a difference in the world.

I read his book, Start Something That Matters, and found it to be full of bullshit marketing speak.

http://jezebel.com/5819435/why-is-toms-partnering-with-an-an...

Edit: Just to expand a bit. They have a term called "One-for-One" which I absolutely hate. It basically says that if you buy a pair of shoes, a pair of shoes will be given to a kid in need. The problem with it is that these shoes are made for a couple of dollars. They make it so you perceive that they are spending $50 on the pair of shoes that they give to the child. When in fact these shoes are being made for a few dollars. Seriously. Just check them out on Alibaba. They are the exact same things, just minus the Toms logo. If they really wanted to make a difference they could give 9 or 10 pairs of shoes away for each pair of shoes you buy. This is a for-profit business, and I don't have a problem with that, what I do have a problem is their sleezy marketing. They are shameless.

http://alibaba.com/countrysearch/AR/espadrilles.html
Sure, but the typical green-on-black terminal from days of yore is very, very, different than jwz's blog page on a modern monitor... I don't know whether it's strictly the color of those old phosphors or other physical attributes of the displays, but it's like night and day.

[I was a particular fan of the H29, a soft yellowish grassy green, it was cheerful without being grating, just great to use. Also a good feeling detachable keyboard, lots of nice stuff.]
This is a common model, and in my experience there's a couple of common reasons:

- Taxation laws haven't quite caught up to social enterprise. Social enterprises are set up this way to enable the charitable entity to be tax-exempt (the rest of the business is not). I'm not sure of the ins-and-outs, but I believe it allows tax breaks on the donations from the enterprise entity to the charitable one. In short, it makes the whole thing more efficient.

- Most of a social enterprise runs like a traditional company, and you generally want a managing director at the helm. However I don't think it's a good idea to have the same person creating the funding and distributing the funding. In my SE, the charitable trust is managed by an entirely unpaid board, which encourages unbiased distribution.
I'm not interested in googling "guinea worm" after this post, but I have no idea how this relates to the topic.
> When the FUCK did we become a nation that starts shutting things down that don't comply with the government?

This is not new. When a company doesn't comply with fire code, the business is shut down. When a company doesn't comply with law enforcement, it's shut down. This is the case when the law is just or not (until the courts rule it unjust, best case.)

But to your actual point: we've been a nation that enslaved an entire race, locked up another one because of war, genocided yet another, banned speech against the government, ruined careers of famous scientists and actors because of political affiliations, passed laws against sex acts, shot water cannons and unleashed dogs at protesters, shot others, tore up the shanty towns of veterans, trained our soldiers to be racist so they'd be more effective, classified encryption as munitions, and on and on and on and on.

This NSA crap is infuriating, but pretending that we've suddenly turned into Nazi Germany (and conveniently ignoring our history, such as J. Edgar Hoover,) turns a complete blind eye to the fact that we've dealt with this before. We need to tell our representatives that this is not okay -- not hyperbolize it.

Also, and most importantly, quoting things from the Holocaust is absolutely disrespectful to the survivors of the Holocaust and the millions who died. Not only is that poem diluted by it being towed out whenever a government does something that someone doesn't like, but your argument is better served by coming up with something original.
Isn't the top reason people do run TOR exit nodes to help people behind gov firewalls?

So the "chinese" using it would be one of the purposes, wouldn't it?

Why instead the FBI don't do their work and say which sites that exit node should deny access to and be done with?
Too bad the company got bureaucratic. But it seems to be the nature of things. Startups are born, they grow, they get big, and inevitably they get boring because 1) maintaining legacy code & doing incremental changes is never as fun as green-field development 2)having customers mean proving you can be reliable, and that comes with doing hard work - providing customer support, fixing bugs. Snazzy new features give way to doing what the market wants.
I'm glad you made the leap to quit though, because it does sound like you were genuinely bored. While I agree a life guided by curiosity and experiments is the right pursuit, I personally don't think that luxury will always be available to us ALL the time. Sometimes, we just have to put up with doing boring tasks...
I wholeheartedly support your sentiment - we should not avoid trying to solve really bad problems because the solution causes some smaller problems.

However, looking through the wikipedia page on guinea worm [1] it seems that people are infected by drinking contaminated water and most of the prevention revolves around filtering water. Its true that part of the worms lifecycle involves infected people stepping in drinking water, but owning shoes is unlikely to prevent that.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_worm
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Is this what they are shutting down over? It seems like its a fairly standard warrant and quite limited in scope for both the seizure and the gag period. I'm not quite sure what 4th amendment fight there would be over this.
Do you have more information about the relationship between shoes and Guinea worm?

I don't more about it than what I just googled (of course) but it seems to me that the primary cause of contamination is drinking contaminated water, so I'm not sure why it's relevant here. I understand your point though, but is it the best example of disease?
Apple to set up development center in Taiwan
> mandiant thing

sounds like the kind of think the chinese would release to get the other governments to waste their resources making their firewall more efficient.
Walmart is quickly catching up on technology. It acquired bunch of startups recently and opened walmart labs in the valley. Their website also improved quite a bit in terms of recommendations and other services. I think they are improving quite a bit in this regard.
Sorry, seems I fail my years-ago parasitology bio lesson. I mentally confused Guinea worm and hookworm. You don't want either, shoes prevent against #2 only.
> the vuln was not that the JS was bad or untrustworthy, but that the passphrase was sent to the server.

Which is one of the most commonly cited vulnerabilities with web-based crypto. The fact that no JS was involved doesn't really change anything.

> If the entire connection to the server is secure, and the JS is loaded from the secure server and is auditable/checksummed, then the risk is minimal. You either trust the code or you get out.

I assume you're referring to client-side, JS-based encryption. The problem is that the server can always slip a backdoor into the webpage, and your browser will dutifully execute it. It doesn't matter if the JS is sent via SSL. A compromised server can deliver compromised JS, and SSL provides no protection against that.

You can't practically audit for this. You could theoretically read the JavaScript. But performing a thorough audit on a cryptosystem is a big undertaking. And then how do you know it hasn't changed the next time you visit the page? You mentioned checksums, but how are you going to do that? Are you going to manually MD5 the JS file on every visit?

Even if you did, the JS file is just one of many ways a compromised server can backdoor your browser. For example, we recently learned about HTML5 timing attacks (http://www.contextis.com/files/Browser_Timing_Attacks.pdf). And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Checksums aren't going to tell you if these sorts of things are happening.

A compromised server can compromise any data entered into webpages it serves. There is no known way around this.
Flight From The Reich, Dwork, D. 2009

Personal histories of Jews successfully escaping Nazis and not. Remember December, 1939, the border closes, and in that foul month, crossing the Georgia Straight can be hazardous.
"How is the local, artisanal shoe maker going to compete with the chinese shoes that are now in the market?"

In ten years, yes. It might be hard for the local shoe maker to compete. But I am talking about today. If today the local shoe store owner woke up and his entire neighborhood was wearing free shoes, what type of effect does it have on his business?

Also by dropping 10,000 shoes into a country they bypassing the local market vendors who would normally supply these families shoes.

I can only speak to Cambodia, but looking at their giving report, they do send shoes here. The other issue is culture, Cambodians don't typically wear western shoes and the TOMS shoes are all fabric. Most Cambodians wear sandals or flip-flops, something that can handle the water. The shoes they are dropping here don't seem very practical.

I guess the biggest issue I see here is that the families end up selling them or trading them to the market, which doesn't help the issue the TOMS is trying to prevent.
agreed on the positive economic effects, at the risk of getting political, it seems to me like there is this 'meta-paternalism', selectively applied depending on the political stance of the speaker: When the person is against government subsidies or government welfare, the argument is the recipient will be dependent on the state. When the person is against private charity or private welfare, the argument is that the recipient will not be able to be economically self-sufficient. Both arguments which are very similar and both somewhat disingenuous.
Much in the same way that communicating insecurely with 90% of your contacts is not going to help PGP keep your emails encrypted, requesting sites from outside of the tor network is not going to help keep your internet usage anonymous. It's a problem of behavior and adoption rate
Usually sentences of less than one year are served in city or county jails. Beyond one year, you go to prison.
I wish this article had any actual data to back up it's claims. Rather what I see is a bunch of moral anecdotes (not even anecdotes about economic/social effects of these actions).

The author claims that it is morally wrong to spend more flying to give charity then you spend on the charity itself.

Then claims it is morally wrong to give handouts (which somewhat complicates the pervious moral belief, since you shouldn't give handouts what does it matter if potential handouts are wasted flying?)

Then claims it is morally wrong to make a profit attempting to do good.

And finally that it is morally wrong to have consumerism masking as charity (despite the fact that the author claims that may forms of charity are morally bankrupt anyway).

I am absolutely aware that there are many cases of 'charity' that have very negative consequences. But I don't actually care about 'morality' at all, what I care about is measuring positive or negative consequences. I'll even take a qualitative anecdote (ie "here's a story of how this person's life became worse because of Tom's shoes"). After all not all experiences fit nicely into a spreadsheet.

Reasoning through moral appeal only makes any sense at all if everyone shares your same moral system as a basis. For example it is legitimate to make moral arguments to members of a religious group you belong to that all share the same moral beliefs and assumptions, that's in part what theology is.

There is absolutely no substance to this piece other than the author espousing their moral system, which, at least from the information presented, don't sound any more founded on reality that moral beliefs of purchases of Tom's shoes.
After a little more research, it seems that Guinea worms are on the verge of eradication too, so it's really not the best example. (http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/guineaworm/)
Yep, we have been doing this since way back in SC1. Player analytics, APM charting, heatmap, etc.
I couldn't find how shoes prevent guinea worm. Could you elaborate?

Wikipedia said that guinea worm is in water. People drink the water, and the parasite makes its way to the leg or foot, and bursts through the skin, causing a burning sensation.

People put their foot or leg in water to cool the burning, and eggs enter the water. Cycle repeats.
try using f.lux, a program that changes your monitor's white temp. depending on the time of day.

http://justgetflux.com/
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try using f.lux, a program that changes your monitor's white temp. depending on the time of day.
http://justgetflux.com/
So a valid warrant with a judge's oversight on the public record? Isn't this what we're arguing should be happening for internet searches?
You know guinea worm is more frequently contracted from drinking water than through the skin, right?
Having hung around HN and Reddit for a while, I know that if someone tells you NOT to look up something - you really should not. As in, you're better off not looking it up, NSFL tag exists for a reason.

Plus, patio11 is well-known here.
Aufs works fine on Debian as well?
Summary: larvae enters your body, grows into a worm 2 to 3 feet long that lives inside you wriggling around. Removal involves getting hold of one end, tying it around a stick and slowly winding it out while it tries to crawl back in.

I'm pretty sure it's contracted from water, not being barefoot.

Having shoes helps stop parasites like hookworm from entering your body by being stepped on, since they can't just burrow through the skin of your foot.

You probably don't want to look up hookworm pics either; parasites are scary disgusting things.
you're kind of truther'ing on statistics.
BlackBerry open to going private, sources say
I'm actually not advocating a revolution or secession.

A revolution would be a disaster, because the new government would likely be much worse.

Can you tell me where to look for info on this, though? Or do you have a link?
They reinvest heavily. It's sad that my interview didn't result in an offer. I really love Amazon.
At least when recruiting offshore, github has been a great filter. People who have github usually end up sharing a bunch of characteristics: they enjoy coding, they know more api integrations, they are continuously improving.

I'll add the general caveat that it obviously doesn't apply to every GitHub member but to many. And that is just fine when you have a huge pool of candidates and you need a decent filter for the upstream.
I don't think they're shutting down over this warrant. This warrant doesn't seem to be related to Snowden as it was executed on March 28 - http://ia800908.us.archive.org/9/items/gov.uscourts.mdd.2362... Snowden's expose didn't happen until April/May

It seems a case about Child Pornography - http://ia800908.us.archive.org/9/items/gov.uscourts.mdd.2362...

A Gag order would have come with a National Security related incident
It feels great to feel what you are feeling. I recently graduated out of a college that I didn't like too much and now I've moved cities and working on stuff that I really want to. I guess breaks like this are necessary to keep the mind fresh.
Yale is not for profit. It spends more money on each student from its endowment than said student pays in tuition, even if he is not getting any financial aid.
The model for mental health care shifted from institutions to community based care. The problem is that folks who won't say on medication disrupt and deny everyone from accessing public resources.

A crazy naked homeless man taking a shit in the middle of a public library is a problem. Yet in our society, it is often difficult to remove these sorts of folks.

These are difficult problems without easy solutions. We moved away from institutionalizing people because it was cruel and ineffective. But we're left with hard cases who are difficult to deal with.
We see those guys all the time. I'm not sure how accurate those documentaries are; the mass closing of psychiatric hospitals was primarily a product of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963 (as mentioned in the article). The intent was good (get people out of poorly run institutions), but had some serious unintended consequences. Although some people could be managed in the community, most communities have not funded clinics adequately and as a consequence many mentally ill people are on the street or incarcerated.
I think you have a somewhat inaccurate mental model of how things are done.

For one, it doesn't really make sense to talk about the CLR when you talk about bootstrapping C#. My project (the Roslyn C# compiler) is a 100% C# implementation of the C# compiler. One thing to keep in mind is that we don't target the CLR.

The C# compiler is not a compiler from C# to the CLR, it's a compiler from C# to the CIL (Common Intermediate Language). It's completely reasonable to imagine a machine which runs CIL in hardware instead of in a VM. In this case the answer to the question of whether or not the C# compiler is bootstrapped is, "Yes. Completely."

Moreover, it wouldn't make sense to ask whether or not the CLR is self-hosted -- it's called the "Common Language Runtime" for a reason. It's a language-independent virtual machine. In this sense, implementing it in C++ makes just as much sense as implementing it in machine code.

Now, my argument here was meant to be without loss of generality. To ask whether or not a language is bootstrapped shouldn't really depend on a runtime, since any language which requires a runtime cannot, by definition, have the runtime written in said language. In this sense, we should only ask whether or not the compiler is bootstrapped, not the entire environment.
Is there anything analogous for personal income? That is, can I invest my income in such a way that my gross income is $0 for the year? I know mortgages are deductible, as well certain retirement savings accounts, but what about daily living expenses? It seems a tad unfair that corporations can effectively evade taxation while individuals cannot. Or is that by design because corporate spending trickles down to individuals' salaries?
Is this a joke? Do you realize many dot-coms went under because of the bubble bursting and not being able to raise money in the capital markets? Venture capital money dried up and they weren't profitable so they had no cash.
Actually, the more I think about this, you're right. The reality is that the displacement probably isn't that large.

Still, I would like to understand the effectiveness of these drops. How do you get the kids/families keep the shoes on their feet?
Do not email.

Or, to put it more bluntly - fuck email.

You want the sale? Pick up the damn phone. It is sooo easy to be an asshole over email. Brush it off, never reply.

You want a follow up? Get the person on the phone. Lots of nerds hate the phone - the great sales people work it like nothing else. Always smile during the call, it shapes your voice.
Well, Manning was not charged either.

You can say all you want it was security detention, it's a warning send to other wannabe whistleblower, and it's torture to me.

(and if it's not a political decision, I wonder how it is called)
Two Providers of Secure E-Mail Shut Down