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I don't know how similar the situation was, but Blip.tv did this to Rich Hickey's Clojure videos a year ago.

https://twitter.com/richhickey/status/279210140425674754

> @blip tv cancels the #Clojure video series without
> warning, after 4 years of my being a paid customer!
> If you were a viewer, let them know.

(Vids were since moved to Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ClojureTV)
Or they are just looking for lyrics, and don't care about the interpretation. Then the usage is:

-search Google for something like 'track X lyrics'

-click the first link that looks correct

-close the page
I guess the moral to take here is "people have different working styles, and should seek out the conditions they need to do the best work they can in their environment."

I do some of my better work with symphonic metal[1] blasting in my ears, but I wouldn't impose that on anyone else. For one thing, it's an acquired taste.

[1] - See e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYjIlHWBAVo
I think they can co-exist: the market and the use cases are really broad and there's a lot of space for a wide variety of tooling.

I wrote a blog post about Docker and Configuration Management that elaborates on this:

http://kartar.net/2013/11/docker-and-configuration-managemen...

And I wrote a blog post talking about using Puppet and Docker that talks about how they might interact:

http://kartar.net/2013/12/building-puppet-apps-inside-docker...
how about that, a contributor to Google Buzz
Some people do abuse this to rip companies off, to varying degrees; I know some people who treat returns as free rentals, buying something, using it without ever intending to keep it, and then returning it. Some people go even further and steal things and then return them for cash.

But I guess that on the whole, the good customer experience for the honest customers outweighs the cost of fraud.
Because it's good for people to know that Toshiba sucks, so that they can avoid buying their products.
My last three laptops, going back to 2004 or so, have all been Toshiba. By and large I've been pleased with the quality and support on all of them. I'm typing this now on super-cheap, low-end Toshiba that I bought as an emergency replacement a year ago (I dropped my other one and busted the screen) and it has been fine. Well, as "fine" as you get when you're running Linux anyway. Almost everything "just worked" out of the box with the only big exception being suspend. If you try to suspend this machine, it bricks it (but you can unbrick it by taking the battery our for a couple of minutes). But hibernate works OK, so I get by with that. Still, for < $400.00 for a 17" widescreen, I'm not complaining.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
You do know that you're doing this backwards, don't you?

<sheesh>
You're right in that I don't have first-hand experience with the culture at MIT, but I'm highly skeptical of the claim that it's normal that outsiders break into the closets there used for the networking equipment while wearing bicycle helmets so as to not be recognized. Likewise, I'm skeptical of the claim that it's considered 'normal' for people to be repeatedly and explicitly told not do something on the network and not face repercussions eventually. E.g., how many torrent sites are hosted on MIT machines? Or on machines hidden in closets and connected to their network? Maybe there are, I don't know - but the extent of your claim (not the fundamentals of it - what I mean is, the extent of the Wild West-ness on the MIT network you claim) doesn't pass the sniff test for me.
Not to take Toshiba or the service center in Guatemala's side, but I think you highlight what I would guess is the problem here, which is that when you felt like you were ripping someone off to be able to make such a return, there are many people who would in fact actually rip the store off if they could get away with it. I believe stores in the US have done a good job of putting mechanisms in place to help counter such scammers, but this is likely not true in many other countries. Thus, it's hard for the manufacturer to offer warranties in these other countries.

But that's just a guess, why else would they stop supporting a warranty in Guatemala (at least if their line is true that they actually removed the warranty for this country) other than they'd gotten ripped off there more than their bottom line could handle?
None. Resolutions are silly because for the most part you're not going to change anything, and you're making it based on an arbitrary date and time.
What is a receding keyboard? Your comment is like

/**
* Recedes keyboard.
*/
void recedeKeyboard() {
They have over a billion users.

How many of those are active? What's the ratio of active:inactive over time? That's far more important than absolute number of users.
You must have some pretty radical libertarian free will convictions if you don't even grant that mental illness can impair free will--a concept that even in the absence of illness is philosophically highly debatable.

The concept of selfishness is not applicable here, since the individual does not gain anything by suicide, nor does it have anything to do with excessive self love. Suicide is simply an act deemed pathological by society, any other value judgment is bound to be derived from philosophically arbitrary and subjective ethical convictions.
Daleks look cute as well, yet I would kill them without a blink of an eye.
Well honestly the US is too far in the opposite direction. 90 days no questions asked return is nice so you can buy something you -may- need for a project and then return it at your leisure (unopened, in new condition). But OTOH the idea that you can buy something, use it for a few months, and then return it because you're done with it is ridiculous. I know of people who've bought plants at Home Depot to decorate for guests, and then returned them after a month of not watering them! And when you return something that breaks in the middle of using it due to design flaw (so you don't want another), it's annoying to feel that there's no differentiation between you and someone who is scamming.
I agree with that, but I am correct in pointing out that the scope of this project covers things that WSDL does not, and in that sense it isn't like WSDL. When someone asks a question that can easily be answered in terms of differences I think it's completely reasonable to point those out.

Perhaps my parent intended for the question to be rhetorical, with the implied answer being "Yes, I'm silly for reinventing the wheel" in which case the differences between this project and WSDL are an also an obvious defense of it.
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Equating "journalists" with "pundits" is completely wrong. Sarah Palin, James Carville, et cetera are pundits (among other things), not journalists.
Well they asked first so "no smoke with out fire eh" putting it in writing gives the impression that they have something to hide.

Over zealous/incompetent HR is probably the correct answer.

Seriously if you where a cop questioning some one and they blurt out I want to do a deal at the start of the interview what woudl you think

Normally in NCIS when the person getting interviewed by Jethro asks for a deal - they are the perp.
No, not any more, and strictly speaking there hasn't been one for quite some time. Your registrar needs to have accurate contact details for you, but you can use their WHOIS privacy service (if they provide one) to ensure the rest of the world doesn't have your contact details. Before the 2013 RAA, you were still required to provide accurate contact information, it's just that the onus was on the registrant, not the registrar, to ensure the contact details were accurate unless the registrar or ICANN received a complaint about the accuracy of the contact details associated with a domain.
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I'm still unimpressed by all three of those things (technically speaking). Perhaps they've got some cool stuff going on underneath somewhere, but as technologies, as whole, they just seem sort of lackluster to me for much the reasoning that you've mocked above. Perhaps I'm simply an outlier.

Assuming that a startup's early state is little indication of what it eventually turns into, why would somebody invest in any one over another? I cannot imagine a whole lot of people saying "well, this Snapchat thing looks really stupid now, but hey, who knows, it may be big one day!"
Oh -- don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with choosing not to have kids. I was referencing people who have kids at a very young age due to lack of sex education, no access to birth control, or some other circumstance that those who are more fortunate have access to.
As noted in another comment, paid customers who put up developer-education material have also been shut down, since they're no longer the type of content Blip wants to have.
EDIT: My apologies. It looks like I'll need to have a discussion with my friend about this.
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Everything is custom. I designed the Duet and Solo themes, but I used a bit of bootstrap for some of the elements. Both landing pages are custom as well. The Duet landing page uses Foundation and the Solo landing page uses Bootstrap.
Interesting thought: Since those bitcoins were part of the first transaction, and since the transaction history for those coins would be saved and hence documentable, is it possible that those particular coins might become "collector's items"? And perhaps "worth" more than the "face value" of 10 BTC, to the right collector?
As an active runner/triathlete, I can't stress enough how f*cked-up online registration processes for races are, and this app almost seems solve this. All I can wish you is the best of luck and I hope to signup to races via your app soon.

my 2 cents: I suggest you contact your local running clubs/athlete associations, and race organisers to help them out with this + remove the need to signup (give the user the option to do so during registration, but not before). This sector needs an Eventbrite for sport events. Best of luck.
I've adopted a similar attitude as you here when it comes to past machine learning jobs, and discussion of detail. What ends up being your bright shiny line that you don't cross? I tend to just not talk about the specific feature engineering, being relatively upfront about such basic things as "I used a random forest".
Ram Das has such great lectures. I have yet to read his books. I am reading The Power of Now and I wonder how different it is to Be Here Now.
Personally I think that we should be talking about giving the NSA clemency, not Snowden (although I'm against it, it still merits debate). For Snowden we should be talking about whether to give him the Medal of Freedom, appoint him to the Supreme Court, or simply put him on our currency.
The article is good but it doesn't dismantle the argument either, it clarifies it. That's nice and all, but ProPublica makes as many guesses about what possibly could be done using only non-phone metadata sources as NSA makes guesses about the absolute need for it.

Remember that the U.S. Intelligence Community "could have" been tipped off to 9/11 beforehand, but it didn't happen. ProPublica saying that FBI "could have" caught an email or that a magical court order to divulge U.S. phone numbers calling al-Shabab in Somalia "could have" found Basaaly Moalin in San Diego is pure speculation too, and doesn't exactly jive well with the historical evidence that the Intelligence Community finds it difficult to identify plots beforehand.

As far as your opportunity to dissent, you've had it and continue to have it. Unless you think every governmental action should be put to mass referendum then you go through your elected representative. After all the phone metadata program was specifically baked into public law several times over in the past decade, and it was done so by our representatives. It didn't simply appear out of nowhere.
As @samiur1204 mentioned, that's a great place to find events. For info on what's happening in Portland, I suggest hitting up @adron on Twitter.
You missed what I think is baklava's main point: "The only things that have changed are access to such ideas and the volume of our records." Your argument that "The essay reflected that something has gone wrong in our culture" is a pretty bold statement that doesn't take into consideration the volume of and access to information we have today.

To me it seems you're contradicting yourself. What does this bold statement of yours tells you about trying to contribute to a problem one does not understand?
They probably aren't trying to use TextSecure with their landlines though.
There are lots of "App Stores" now that accept web apps. Google, Firefox and Opera all have them. I think Amazon does too.
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No, it's not. Any registrar on the 2013 RAA has to proactively validate and verify WHOIS data accuracy. Those still on the 2009 RAA only have to reactively validate and verify WHOIS data accuracy in response to complaints.
Yes, the author does believe that surveillance of foreign nations is okay, as do many other people. The NSA is a foreign intelligence service - their purpose, by design, is to gather information on the capabilities and intentions of foreign nations. It's not just an American thing, either. As it turns out, just about every other nation on Earth thinks it's okay to spy on other nations[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies
I think the OP's point is that it's a pseudo-democracy. We might vote in a president or political party, but we have no real power over the decisions made.

Just to run in the elections you need heavy corporate sponsorship, which means any major candidate is already tainted with the potential of a conflict of interest. Then you have corporate lobbyists who have the ability to push their agendas in ways that the Joe Public and everyday voter never could.

And even if you could say without a doubt that no corruptions, secret deals with mates nor any conflict of interests existed in any of those in congress (etc), you still have the issue with regards to how much power some some government agencies have and how their not run by elected officials.

Sometimes it feels like all we're voting on is our favourite puppet and whoever gets voted in will just continue on the same regime that his predecessor left. Sometimes it feels like our votes are completely meaningless as if the government suspects something to be unpopular, then they'll just go ahead and do it anyway; but more covertly.
I don't know whether this would qualify for your class, but the Racket documentation includes an implementation of Algol-60 "http://docs.racket-lang.org/algol60/". You might be able to use this as the starting point of an implementation of another language, maybe a subset of Algol-68, or Simula.

Algol-60 was the first programming I learned, and I've always been fascinated by Algol and the languages derived from it.
Adding it to GIMP would be useless, because it would be trivial to produce a patch to disable the functionality.
And how is the author instituting this knowledge culturally at work?

The implied equation of sleep and vacation is far too crude. Mixed in the post is the golden nugget that it's necessary not to burn out. Vacation is simply one very specific way to account for that, and probably not even the best. I'd say a much more effective way is to make realistic expectations of team members and yourself, such that no one is being over-worked for indefinite periods. That is much more culturally advantageous. But I do acknowledge the difficulty of instituting that in a startup, what with its bursty nature of stress and periods of slack, so vacation might be more appropriate there then elsewhere.

That's not to say vacation isn't important. It definitely is. Just not as the primary defense against burnout.
These are what they tell you about.
Is snapchat security breach still valid?
Just wondering, because it doesnt sound THAT hard to scrape that db and snapchatdb for some reason stays the only one who did that so far.
Hey I'm building a user-generated content site and I'm trying to slowly crawl my way up organic search but I'm really struggling. I don't really expect you to take time out of your life to look at my stuff, but if you do have time / want to I'd love to hear what you think!

This is the site: http://www.istorical.com

I accidentally Panda'd myself I'm pretty sure. When I put my site up I had thousands of stub pages that got indexed with the thinnest possible content.

I removed (they now 404) a bunch of pages and added 'noindex' meta tags to most others so eventually Google will hopefully only be indexing hundreds of my pages instead of 70,000. So hopefully I won't have Panda penalty / thin content.

Beyond that though, do you have any advice for SEO on user-generated content like this:
http://www.istorical.com/cities/berlin/experiences/141

Do you think having keywords actually influences SEO these days? I thought that Google and others just extracted keywords themselves and ignores ones you define yourself?
Looks like you left your reference out by accident. Mind sharing?
By the way, if anyone is interested in a nice, but small and very focused (NO POLITICS) forum for those of us working on bootstrapped companies, I've been enjoying this one, so far: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/

For LiberWriter, I've found that the right forums can drive a lot of traffic. Any old traffic is useless - I've got the site up on the front page of HN before, with 0 conversions. HN readers are not our target market at all. Forums also put you in contact with people to just chat about what you offer, which might give you some ideas... Don't let naysayers get you down, either. There's bound to be someone who says they would never pay for that, could build it in a weekend, or whatever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
"This seems impossible. Returns require a receipt. I don't know what you're talking about."

Depends on the store. When I used to be behind a returns desk we'd give store credit (on a gift card) if they didn't have a receipt.
Thanks for the feedback. That's exactly my goal. I currently have it so you can create a race w/o signing up. Shoot me an email (link on the bottom of the website) if you don't mind chatting a bit more? Thanks!
"After a while I got used to the idea that that is how customer service should work."

You can build any system of service and policies you want as long as you account for it in the price of the product or service. Even if customers take advantage of you.

There is an exercise machine (some kind of wonder machine) that costs (from an ad I saw some time ago) about $17,000. [1] [2]

IIRC they give an iron clad mbg. Might even pay the shipping both ways (and actually so do many high end mattress companies). (Sorry don't have time to fully re-read the links that I am giving.

Bottom line is they are tying those consumer friendly policies into the price of the product. So since the cost of the equipment almost certainly pales in comparison to what they sell it for, even taking into account returns, in theory, they still will earn a profit.

[1] I think this is it but I'm not seeing any price info on the page.
http://www.fastexercise.com/

[2] http://blog.cleveland.com/health/2009/03/rom_machine_worth_i...
I think you're expecting a lot out of someone who is 23.
If anything, it's the registries who will need to lower their cut. They have the largest margin out of ICANN, the registries, and the registrars. The registrars, however, are the ones who are going to end up hurting because the onus to check all this stuff is on us, and margins for registrars are thin as it stands.
The Snapchat founder is incompetent because of his race, gender, and socio-economic status. Got it.
Doesn't work well in my 9.4 T MRI environment :)
>I live by the rule what goes up must come down.

In the long term, the stock market trends upwards. In other words, what goes down, almost definitely will go back up again. The ups-and-downs of the short and medium term are can be mostly ignored by those who aren't day trading.

> The trick is knowing when to buy and when to sell.

A bit understated, don't you think? Finding a peak is hard enough, when you're in it -- many were crying 'bubble' and moving out of their positions at the beginning of 2013... what suckers they are! And having the courage to pour your money into a fear-driven market when you've determined it's in a valley is even more difficult - if it wasn't, everyone would be doing it.

Smart investors don't try to time the market. They put their savings in carefully, consistently, and sometimes buy what's on sale.
If the companies didn't want you to do this, then they wouldn't let you do this.

Why would a company want you to do that?! The only reason some allow it is that it's very difficult to have a policy that allows honest customers to return items they don't like (for whatever reasons) while at the same time preventing this behavior.

You'll find that there are many companies who have stopped the practice of accepting returns for any reason, for the very reason you stated. If you were running a product company, would you enjoy and encourage the "free rental" behavior?
I haven't since this event:

> In 1987, Tocibai Machine, a subsidiary of Toshiba, was accused of illegally selling CNC milling machines used to produce very quiet submarine propellers to the Soviet Union in violation of the CoCom agreement, an international embargo on certain countries to COMECON countries. The Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal involved a subsidiary of Toshiba and the Norwegian company Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk. The incident strained relations between the United States and Japan, and resulted in the arrest and prosecution of two senior executives, as well as the imposition of sanctions on the company by both countries.[6] Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania said "What Toshiba and Kongsberg did was ransom the security of the United States for $517 million."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba#1939_to_2000
I was thinking that it would be easy to add this functionality to my pebble watch.
And a CEO's merit is judged by their company's market value. Has this hurt their market cap?
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When border patrol agents are looking for narcotics, do you honestly think they pass over the guy carrying rolling papers in favor of the one carrying nothing remotely suspicious due to lack of evidence of vice looking "staged" in the latter case? What's different about a porn- and photo-free hard drive full of boring business reports and uninteresting browser histories?
I guess if toshiba lies in the warranty and does not assume its errors, it should also lie in other things. Not a good company to do business with.
Guess Google was incompetent for not selling to Yahoo and aiming big. Glad we got this cleared up.
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> This isn't morally wrong. My friend, a graphics programmer, did this with videocards in order to test his graphics engine on various types of hardware configurations. If the companies didn't want you to do this, then they wouldn't let you do this.

No, that's immoral.
take all of your direct reports to lunch periodically, individually. maybe once a quarter, once a month, etc. just talk. not about work, just about life. get to know them. when they have a kid, get them something - a bear with the baby's name on it is a good example, but something personal, too. birthday cards go a long way.

get to know them, like them, and respect them.
"On the micro side, seeing 20-something kids get 150k budgets to screw around for a year is maddening"

Nonsense. This is but an externality.

What is maddening is the current state of the financial system as a whole. Though its intellectual underpinnings should have been completely shaken by the events around 2008 and the subsequent rescue of its champions, vested interests would prefer to pretend the emperor still has clothing -- and thus the externalities of QA, of which startup money is actually among the most palatable.