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> the logical thing to do would be to make sure these threats are not credible, but it seems you are advocating exactly the opposite.

The threats are already not credible. A trafficked sex worker going to police is not going to be arrested; the person controlling a trafficked sex worker is in far more legal trouble.

> Why take exception with sex work?

Because it's not a free choice. An addict cannot freely chose sex work.

> Fundamentally, this is nothing but covert moralizing, implicitly arguing that if other people make choices that you personally consider repugnant, they are somehow objectively wrong and need to be re-educated to see the error of their ways.

You need to speak to sex workers and ex-sex workers and hear the very strong trauma they experience. I've said (although not in this thread) that I have no problem with people selling or buying sex. Someone paying for sex, and someone providing that service is in theory a normal transaction. In practice, very few people want to be paid to provide sex services, and the number of people forced to work in the sex trade is worrying.

Perhaps I've been a bit confusing with terminology. By sex work I tend to mean prostitution, rather than camming etc. (Although the lighter end has some distressing problems too.) And I'm in the UK, where it's legal to pay for sex and to receive money for sex, but we have lots of trafficked people working in the industry.
Yeah, people with low self-esteem deserve to be victims right? If you're a sucker or a victim, it's because you deserve it. Very compelling argument… (I'm being sarcastic obviously)
Yeah but now you have to deal with change... I'd take more relevant ads.
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Venture Capital didn't actually exist when Fairchild was founded. The company was named Fairchild Semiconductor because the main funder was Sherman Fairchild of Fairchild Camera and Instrument. They were connected by a twentysomething named Arthur Rock who'd recently ditched corporate finance in NY. Rock also later invested in Intel.

Much of VC actually grew out of Fairchild. Eugene Kleiner of KPCB was one of the Fairchild founders, and Don Valentine was a Fairchild sales+marketing exec before starting Sequoia. Those two firms essentially invented modern day VC investing, and you could say Fairchild was the first experiment that worked.

It's also worth noting how much VC has grown since then. Intel only raised 2.5MM before going public. Technology is now much more broad, and there's more money to fund diverse companies. Back then, tech was a niche industry.

Hard science is certainly still getting funded out here -- see Counsyl, LightSail Energy, etc. -- but I think lots of investors are now looking at existing industries that can be flipped via software (cue pmarca's "software is eating the world" neo-adage). The "Stanford startup" that Amir describes is moreso a tech-enabled company, rather than a hard tech company. They're both valuable, but should be seen as apples and oranges.

Maybe it's because I went to MIT and am perhaps foolishly ambitious, but I personally get frustrated when I see super talented people go after easy industries. The one that comes to mind is house cleaning services. It's possible I just don't get the potential, but it's disheartening to see ultra-educated young people trying to figure out how to disrupt a low-margin industry dominated by mostly illegal immigrant workers. Not something I'd want in my epitaph I guess.

The sweet spot is probably somewhere in the middle. Work with wicked smart people, have audacious goals, and focus on shipping and being relevant today.

As an aside, I don't know why everyone is hating on Snapchat. They are riding a massive wave -- the social behavioral shift in how people share online -- which is really not to be underestimated. It's strategic for them to fly under the radar and be disregarded as a stupid toy right now. But if you look at the team they've gathered, see their metrics, or actually talk to Evan, you immediately know that it's something special on the order of YouTube or Twitter.
From a mathematical/theoretical point of view, this is an interesting article, but I think it misses the larger point of programming language paradigms. Yes, the PL researchers have their reasons for creating languages that are object oriented, functional, procedural, imperative, declarative, logical, etc. but those are rarely, if ever, the reason that programmers choose these languages.

Ultimately, the main purpose of a programming language is to convey intent to other programmers. If calling an object a function just because it has a `__call__` method makes it easier to convey intent, then it doesn't really matter that the object is not really a function. Personally, I'd be interested in any research into the ability to convey intent using these different paradigms.
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background-clip? Sometimes I think CSS has gone a bit too far. Sure, at first it was wholly insufficient, but now it seems to have gone overboard the other way, sprouting too many obscure features, with greatly varying support between implementations to boot.
I've never played Star Command but I can say that FTL is superb. There's something about it that is incredibly satisfying, it's very challenging but always in a good way (getting your ass kicked just makes you want to hit back harder next time). It also has great atmosphere - it feels very measured and serious. I find it almost meditative to play. It's absorbing and requires real focus.
More like the kicked-out startup.
I started out using mailchimp when I had less than 2000 subscribers. It worked great! But now that my mail list is growing, I find it increasingly expensive. Any recommendations on alternative providers?
Could you explain, what your argument does to the discussion? I mean, if on my desktop/laptop I am feed up with Google Maps in SERPs, I can use Bing or DDG or whatever.

On iOS (and maybe on Android) not that much.

Your argument should have been: Imagine a world, where on your desktop on Windows you can only use Bing Maps. Then your argument might have been valid.
I think the Apple Insider piece is a problematic summary of Paczowski's piece, and leads to a mistaken idea of what went wrong with the Google-Apple negotiations The original article is at http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/26/disagreements-over...

Paczowski's article says that Google's request to include Latitude was one of four items that were "major points of contention between the two companies" (besides the general deterioration in the relationship between the two companies), while claiming that voice navigation was the most important. Nowhere is it suggested that inclusion of Latitude was non-negotiable or the point on which negotiations crumbled.
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Causing computers to mine bitcoins using CPUs is highly inefficient, not nice, and it is also not a "green" act on large scale. A million clients online 100% of the day have the power of just ONE miner.
didnt RTFM thus missed an important detail.

Put another way, hes so smart but losing money in the market thus the market is "wrong" and someone is cheating.
Please explain how that's technically going to work. You're talking about federating the huge Google search query volume out to third party sites, which have to respond typically in just a few dozen milliseconds, and have to work with Google Instant and Google Suggest without significantly adding to user interface delay.

At best, you could stick an <IFRAME> in the page and point it at a user configured maps site, only you don't know if it is going to return a maps result. What if the query isn't for a location? Or what if the user's third party map supplier doesn't have the location? Then you get a big empty <IFRAME> with nothing in it, and a bad user experience. You'd also increase the perception that the Google search results are slow because it would take longer for the page to finish loading.

Allowing pluggable providers on the client for launching URL intents makes sense, I don't think it makes as much sense for search engines to federate queries in this way, there are much more difficult performance and privacy issues with such a model.

The Portal/Portlet model of "search" has been tried before and users didn't really like the experience.
We use Gitolite (http://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html). It can be configured to block (force) pushes for repositories, branches or persons, among other things.
This looks like an attack to functional programming mainly. And if you follow Haskell closely I think that the guys building it are well aware that the world is actually full of side effects. But the thing is that if they push the "pure" ideology to its limits they will uncover a number of useful things along the way. And that is the whole reason to stick to it. Maybe you don't find the usefulness of monads, but that doesn't mean that there is no value of composing part of you programs in this way. Otherwise you are stuck to the same old ways of doing things.

So going with pure has its benefits for all of us, but this does not mean that we should stick with something just because. Unfortunately the answer to most of the questions in programming/software development is: it depends.
> Some clients of mine left mailchimp for this very reason

left in favor of? Mind sharing them?
I think the real thing here is:

0 - 500	$10	unlimited

501 - 1,000	$15

1,001 - 1,050	$20	// $5 = 50 emails

1,051 - 1,150	$25	//$5 = 100 emails

1,151 - 2,500	$30 //$5 = 1350 emails

2,501 - 2,600	$35 // $5 = 100 emails
Golden at 13:00. The dude brings up iPad like device he invented in 1980 (Touch screen none the less).
Says he doesn't believe in patenting as it will stop other people from inventing.
What does "coalgebra" mean in the context of programming?
Apple is not being accused of being criminal by anyone who understands antitrust law. The proof is the comparison to Microsoft, an entity that held a clear monopoly where Apple does not.
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That is the mother of all pricing tables. It almost looks like a parody.
Apple had almost no market share in e-books when the DOJ pursued them over price fixing. Amazon was dominant to a dramatic degree.

Being the market leader is not the prime qualifier. Consumer harm is.

I would however argue that Apple is in fact the market leader in the US. Individual companies are what matter, not open source platforms; that is, the DOJ is going to look at the behavior of companies. It's the companies who make the money, and charge consumers, and that's where the DOJ looks. If Apple does something with its 40% share (with Samsung at 24%, and companies like Motorola all the way down at 6%), that is viewed as meaningfully harming consumers, the DOJ will pursue them.
A friend of mine had money with MF Global, which is a regulated broker. There's some chance it will be coming back within a couple of years. Or not; it's been gone for a while, and so far it seems no one is responsible.

People who banked with Refco, another broker, are even less lucky. The fact Refco's CEO and chairman went to jail isn't helping them.
That's the number of subscribers, number of emails you can send is unlimited. But regardless, this is a pretty stupid way to list out your pricing scheme.
I always enjoyed it, but I never found I could deliver on the promise of my insights. They always seemed to lead to the need for some massive project, and I just don't have the time for a new grand project every week. The comedown would always leave me feeling deflated so in the end I decided it was just an unhealthy way to live. I ended up quitting, but I haven't quit thinking big, I just want to do it the hard way, without shortcuts.
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For those thinking this is a spoiler: I repeatedly beat the game without following these rules. There's certainly more than one way.

I do agree with the observation that killing the crew of an enemy ship gives much greater reward. I love the anti-bio weapon :)
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It's a long video (with an agenda), but despite the somewhat conspiratorial tone, there's some really interesting stuff in there.

For example, Thomas Peterffy (founder of Interactive Brokers) talking about how they built a robot typist during the 80's to get around NASDAQ rules that required all orders to be entered via the keyboard (14:25).

From another interview [1]:

"Q: What did that thing sound like when it was running?"

"A: Like a machine gun. Brrrrr. Because it was typing so fast."

[1] http://m.npr.org/story/159992076?url=/blogs/money/2012/08/27...
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I have a question as I am not from the US and this whole Healthcare.org debacle passed me by. What was the issue exactly leading to this upscream?
http://showyou.com/v/y-ItfAKguEdAE/haim-bodek-hft-is-an-arti... - this possibly?

Take it with a grain of salt. He claims one can just use these order types and be fast to basically print money, but glosses over the important parts like deciding how to price a market, when to add or remove liquidity, etc. When he says things like "HFTs use resting orders as insurance to exit at zero-risk", ask yourself how they make those decisions without having some kind of predictive abilities.
There's a lot more depth to it than star command and higher replay value
The price jumps are all over the place.
How would this work though? You have 4m worth of blacklisted bitcoins. What happens if you go to a legitimate store, like NameCheap, and buy a domain using those bitcoins. You're going to add NameCheap to the blacklist now, because these coins went through them?

Well, you could say NameCheap wouldn't accept those coins in the first place, but can you really expect every store and person to be using this list?

What happens if you take those 4m worth of bitcoins, send 3m to your own wallets, and distribute 1m to random wallets of strangers? How do you know which wallets to blacklist? All of them? You're just going to put tens of thousands of people in the dark, and say their bitcoins are now worthless and blacklisted, because they received a random payment?
Interesting read. I really think that the SEO problems faced by SPAs will eventually become a non problem......web crawlers will adapt to the technology that is rendering web pages because indexing is their "product".
Does this offer absolutely anything new ? No.

Is this person objective and well respected ? No.

Does this person understand why MongoDB/MySQL is popular ? No.

Is anyone going to gain anything from this ? No.
It's about what you've "bought into".

I can't imagine switching away from Google Search. I've tried Bing, I've tried DuckDuckGo. I can't get used to them; the presentation of the results, the stuff I expect to be ranked highly. It's not that they're worse, it's just that I can't rewire a habit of years of searching in Google every day. I wish I could.

But I'm not particularly attached to either the iOS or Android ecosystem. I have an Android phone and an iPad. I could replace them with an iPhone and an Android tablet if I really wanted and I doubt I'd notice much difference.

So when you say "if I am fed up with Google Maps I can use Bing", that's a switch you can make, good for you. I find it harder than you to make the search engine switch, and easier than you to make the smartphone switch. Is that so hard to understand?
If you're capable of banging out basic RoR/Golang prototypes which can be used by non-technical email marketers, this skill alone can get you $20k+ engagements to build them with a bit of company-specific secret sauce in them. The sauce doesn't have to be that complicated at all -- for example, "I wish there was a way to send people an email on day N of their trial if their account had less than X objects in it... and I want N, X, and the object type to be editable without having to talk to Engineering" justifies $X0k at a lot of places.

(That's sort of software-firm specific because that's who I typically sold that to. Let's see, what's a more prosaic option. Oh, OK: consider a small insurance company in Kansas which collects a meagre $20 million in premium income per year. There exists a non-technical marketing manager within that company who wishes that there was a way to email business customers a solicitation in December to pre-pay their premiums for the following year to book a current-year expense for tax purposes. She calculates that getting an extra 6 months of float on 20% of their $12 million in business policies is worth approximately $100,000. Can you imagine what you could sell her for $40,000?)

In related news: businesses pay serious money for things which make them money. Consider adapting one's behavior to optimize for this. You can use the resulting money to buy lots of fun things, including stupefyingly large amounts of MailChimp credits if that floats your boat.
Interesting (slight?) counterexample is the foreign exchange market 10-20 years ago, just as it was going electronic. Lots of levered investment but lots and lots of fraud as there was almost no regulation. Like this example, you would have brokerages just take customer funds and then just disappear. The move towards foreign exchange trading was, also like bitcoin, driven by the lack of regulation, speculative possibilities, etc. Since then it's become regulated heavily globally and the game-theoretic defection has not held. Probably something similar will happen to bitcoin.
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> distribute 1m to random wallets of strangers

Hmm, I didn't realize you could send money to people without their consent. That would make blacklisting more difficult. But if receiving the bitcoins was indeed unintentional on their behalf, you could just temporarily blacklist them until they returned the stolen bitcoins to the original owner.

In theory this could lead to attacks where small amounts of stolen bitcoins are continually deposited in victims' accounts, but that could be avoided if the exchanges themselves enforced the blacklist and refused to process transactions from blacklisted accounts (except back to the theft victim).

> Well, you could say NameCheap wouldn't accept those coins in the first place, but can you really expect every store and person to be using this list?

It would certainly require a cultural shift in bitcoin use, yes. I just find it funny that the entire transaction history is public record, yet bitcoins can still be stolen!
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you have to go up to the 5th plan to actually get over 2000 users again.

Sure, but it's only $30/month.
I've heard that some people use the MongoDB syntax with postgresql using redis as caching, could someone comment on this idea ?
What about simply DRY? isn't that what you're aiming for - having code sharable between client and server such that you don't have two pieces of code that do the same thing in two different places?
It's even worse than this. They actively pay compliance companies to make their criminal activity look legitimate enough to pass audits or find out where they can ship it to that has a more favourable legal environment.

I'm disgusted to say that I work in the financial services sector in the UK. Every time the FCA introduces regulations, many people bail out of the financial services market because the loopholes and illegality they built their businesses on are no longer usable. God forbid any legitimacy.
The difference is that many people are trying to insert a screw with this particular hammer today.
To offer a counterpoint I on the other hand was pretty disappointed with the game.

I found there was not enough variety with the encounters (you keep seeing the same "abandoned space station"/"rogue drone" events very regularly). It's hard to forgive because all events are text-based, so it's not really difficult to add variety. That being said, maybe this extension solves this issue by adding a lot more events.

Others point out the extreme randomness of the game but I think it's only an issue because the game forces you to push forward (backtracking is almost never possible or very costly) which reduces your margin of error and makes you very dependent on the clemency of the "Random Number God". It's of course a very explicit design choice and the game wouldn't be the same without it but it does make for some very frustrating moments.

But I think the main problem I've had with the game is that it's sold as a roguelike (or rather, a roguelike-like) and in my opinion in doesn't come close to DCSS, nethack, angband and others in terms of depth of gameplay and "replayability". For me a roguelike is a game where you can end up in a seemingly desperate situation and still succeed by thinking out of the box and use an unexpected strategy. I've never had one of those moments in FTL. You can't take over other people's ships for instance, which would open a lot of new strategies. Of course the definition of "roguelike" is a bit loose so maybe I'm just too narrow minded.

All that being said for it's price it's definitely worth trying and see for yourself, I know some people have sunk hundreds of hours in this game so I guess they found something in it that eluded me...
This link just opens a google groups page with no content on my iPhone :(
Redcappi.com, though I do have connections with them. Worth a try, free to start.
Is the comment above going to get downvoted? Yes.
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Modern anti-trust law is not about monopolies.

You can nearly count the number of substantial monopoly cases in US history on one hand.

However, take a look over the anti-trust cases just since 1994 (almost none of which have to do with monopolies):

http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/index.html#page=page-1
It should not. The question might be why going into a store on sundays?
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All the Bitcoin-doom prophets in this thread should just consider that larger amounts of money disappeared when Refco and when MF Global went down; and that did not spell the end of brokerage, USD or anything else
It's not that hard. If Google still does the geocoding, then an iframe with a call to bing.com/maps/google?lat=1.2&lon=3.4 works fine.
No one deserves to be a victim but it certainly doesn't stop people finding a large source of victims.

Agree with you and the OP.
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