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Totally agreed! With the exception of The Founders there isn't much competition out there besides The Q. But the Federation needs to have LARPers to LARP with the rest of the civs right? :D
Hey folks, Christa from Squarespace here. I'm the VP of Customer Care, and would appreciate a moment to respond to some of the comments and concerns expressed here.

To be clear, it is our stated policy to not ask for security credentials over email. All of our 150+ customer care team members receive proper training, both during on-boarding and on an ongoing basis.

This incident was quite simply an example of human error. The support request was troubleshooting a mobile app interaction with our legacy Squarespace 5 product. This is a rare example of our team not being able to login as the user. One of my team members made a mistake, and for that our entire team apologizes. The proper action would have been to escalate to engineering or ask the customer to create a temporary password.

We will of course use this as a teaching moment and continue to strive each and every day to improve in our efforts to deliver world class support to all of our customers.

Sincerely,

Christa
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Isn't it a bit of a disservice to the hardware side to say that just Software has improved? Think back 10 years, 2004...would the Nest have been possible? How about Google's self driving car? I think these things go hand in hand.
This is very interesting. Do you have any insider experience on the way music promotion happens that you could share?
Words for businesses to live by: put customer success at the center of your story.
I don't have the stats on this one and would think it is going to be a pain to get them because who is keeping track of failures of infrastructure and electronics repairs / replacements? The death / injury stats are pretty easy to get.
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I kind of hate when people cherry-pick stats to be misleading, even if I otherwise support them.

The relevant number for NYC is not the percentage of hosts sharing a primary residence, but the percentage of total listings in NYC, or percentage of room-nights booked. I'm sure those numbers are far worse than 13%. Anyone renting non-primary residences is probably renting a lot of non-primary residences.
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I am a single founder and I was really tempted to apply. But I decided I won't.

I read all the copy, it is interesting. I went all the way filling the form, until the last question before the submit button. And there it was, the one question that made me (i) stop, (ii) wonder if this was for me and (iii) decide it wasn´t.

(i) What made me stop? The field was asking my Google+ account. They say the community will run on it, that is optional for now, but I will have to have one. As I don't have and don't one, I stopped right there to think if it would be worthy.

(ii) What made me wonder? Why impose such a burden to enter? I start wondering why they would to put barriers on who gets in, not only about Google+ by now, but submit an application that will be analyzed? They will have no idea who are the best people to get in through this questions. The whole thing started to look like a random selection disguised as an exclusive elite fancy club.

(iii) Why I decided not to apply? Because I came to the conclusion that such a community should be open to enter, and the mechanisms to decide how one fits the community or not should be actual contributions on it, not a random, snob bouncer. So for now, I hope someone improves the concept (that promises a lot of value to me), but implement it in a more open way.
I haven't even gotten a confirmation e-mail.
Second you on the mixed feelings. I'm from Chile, but since I was a kid I've been learning English mostly thanks to the telly and then, from the Internet. School English is made to understand, not to speak.

In most of Latin America, English lessons are not something important for most people, because the actual chance to go abroad for work and actually speak the language is non existent. And that has to do with the nature of the jobs here.
Having said that, I've notice that at least in Chile, and particularly in the startup/software development sector, this is changing at very quick steps, I'd presume it's the same in the rest of Latin America.

So, it's only natural that we have one language for programming, and don't think is a bad thing, quite the opposite. As a social measure, SO is hitting the jackpot, giving spaces for those who didn't have any.

I, personally, would focus more in teaching real life English, i.e. speaking the damn thing in the first place, focus on real life situations, and what not. SO should think this measure is only a patch, in some form. Is not, and it shouldn't be think of as a solution.
"(today our focus is on the cloud and on mobile, and we are quite clearly leading GNU/Linux on both fronts) "

How is targeting two widely-different platforms focus?

And how exactly is Ubuntu leading Linux in the cloud?
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I was going to say that there was a small typo when trying out 127.0.0.1:

"127.0.0.1 is a bogon or private IP address that should not appear on the Internet."

But then I learned that "bogon' is actually a word:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogon_filtering

And re-reading the sentence, I'm not sure what "bogon" would be a typo for anyway..."Vogon"? Anyway, good handling of an edge/nonsense case!
This was really fun, and fairly simple to put together. Node for the backend, Angular for the frontend, and Sock js connecting the two.
I wonder if it will become illegal to change my user agent someday.
Out of curiosity, what are you doing that requires that many IP lookups?
I can't seem to find a demo anywhere?
Yeah that's also a great service. It doesn't include the network organization or hostname though, which you may or may not need.
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Also hardware is way faster.
This believes that I am in London. I am most decidedly not in London.

FreeGeoIP thinks I'm in Edinburgh, which is only slightly better.
That sounds very similar, though I believe that giving someone whuffie is a voluntary action that you do when you like a service/product/etc that you got from them rather than being automatic and you can also decrease their whuffie if they do something you don't like.
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so do I!! Wow, I would likely argue quite the opposite is true, hackers are generally deficient in many other areas. Complexity comes in many forms, and just having an affinity for highly deterministic systems (computers) is likely a feature vector of diminished complexity. But very likely that's also crap.
Or just leave.
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I agree with the healthcare sentiment. Obamacare is better than bankruptcy though. A $12k max out of pocket vs say $150k+. At least one could attempt to pay that off and maybe get some kind of Federal forgiveness vs straight out bankruptcy.
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I don't know how they can argue with a straight face that using short-term rent to pay mortgages and leases doesn't raise the prices of real estate. That extra income is (obviously) going to get factored into real estate prices when someone makes an offer on a property. And the people who are using it now to supplement mortgages are going to use that income as a selling point when they try to sell their property - "gets $XXX/day on short-term rentals."

EDIT: typos & minor wording
nfs:// will also work in the Connect to Server window.
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They also seem to be able to produce an unlimited supply of red-shirt crewmen.
Don’t be the startup that accidentally runs out of money
When you join the military and are deployed, you give up your individuality, your movements and thoughts are no longer your own.

Why, when killbots are much cheaper?
Tracking visitors/customers comes to mind. Definitely not uncommon to have 1000 uniques a day :)
Just taking stuff from the wikipedia page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand )...

Emphasis where it appears is mine.

> In 1943, during the Second World War, HM Fort Roughs [Sealand] was constructed by the United Kingdom as one of the Maunsell Forts, primarily for defence against German mine-laying aircraft

> On 2 September 1967, the fort was occupied by Major Paddy Roy Bates, a British subject and pirate radio broadcaster, who ejected a competing group of pirate broadcasters.

> In 1968, British workmen entered what Bates claimed to be his territorial waters in order to service a navigational buoy near the platform. Michael Bates (son of Paddy Roy Bates) tried to scare the workmen off by firing warning shots from the former fort.

> In August 1978, while Bates and his wife were in England, Alexander Achenbach, who describes himself as the Prime Minister of Sealand, hired several German and Dutch mercenaries to spearhead an attack of Roughs Tower. They stormed the tower with speedboats, jet skis and helicopters, and took Bates' son hostage. Bates was able to retake the tower and capture Achenbach and the mercenaries.

And of course...

> While it has been described as the world's smallest country, the world's smallest nation, or a micronation, Sealand is not currently officially recognised by any established sovereign state, although Sealand's government claims it has been de facto recognised by the United Kingdom (after an English court ruled it did not have jurisdiction over Sealand as territorial water limitations were defined at the time) and Germany

Both of those claimed recognitions took place after an act of agression toward British / German citizens mentioned in the above excerpts.

So you've got a platform in the ocean that was created as part of a war effort, that has been the subject of a failed and a successful military coup, whose only unofficial recognition by established states came after assaulting their citizens, and that is still not officially recognized by any other state. (And which is currently sitting in British territorial waters, after they unilaterally annexed its surrounding ocean.) And all this is for a "state" with a population estimated at "over 50".
Did you miss the part where Snowden claims Russia is the first to stand against human rights violations? Reread the quote. If you think Snowden is a principled champion of civil rights, how do you square that with the fact that he is on the record praising Russia's civil rights record?
You know show. read is inferred just fine

The "internal, ambiguous type" matters when you try to actually invoke (show . read) on some String. If you want to actually use that function, you're stuck inserting a type annotation, which would lead many people to say that (show . read) is not "inferred just fine."
> but seriously, do we hate our government so much that we are willing to cheer when another government subverts it?

Probably not, but your government hates YOU so much that they are willing to spy on you on every occasion.
What's the underlying GeoIP database?
Living on an all meat diet
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The solution to this problem is to allow property developers and landowners to freely increase the housing supply. And then start charging land taxes instead of property taxes, to encourage such development.
Worse. 2/3rd of listings are or would be violating NY laws:

"Two thirds of the listings that contain user reviews are for the “Entire home/apartment” room type (listings without reviews are slightly less, at 64%). Because of a New York State law regarding short-term housing, it is almost always illegal to rent a full apartment when the host is not present for less than 30 days."
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If SQL injections are illegal (if you use them to gain access to things you're not meant to access), how malicious User-Agent spoofing could be legal?
From a purely user point of view I wonder if they could automate this classification and let me use it as a search filter. AirBnB's compelling use-case for me is as a "paid couchsurfing": people renting out spare rooms in their residence, the whole residence while they're temporarily gone, etc. In many cities those are indeed the main kind of result. But in a few cities there are a lot of listings that are more like a commercial operator, depending on the location ranging from "DIY hostel" to VRBO-style listings. I'd rather just exclude those from the search, because I don't find AirBnB to be a very useful portal to that kind of property (most of the legit vacation-rental type stuff have their own websites where you can rent directly, and the "DIY hostel" stuff I'd rather stay away from). As is I have to spend a good bit of time manually trying to filter them out.
Unity was rolled out too early, and in a hardly stable state. It sacrifices desktop usability for consistency across devices: desktop, tablet and phone. I disagree that desktop computing design should be constrained by the limitations of touch-based devices. So, rather than a breath of fresh air, I see it as a disruptive change in UX, intended to win in the long term, but at the expense of short-term usability. Ditto for the move to Mir.

But I don't resent Canonical for this -- I use Linux because I can choose the experience (KDE 4 at the moment). I just hope the short-term sacrifices in terms of usability and fragmentation don't harm adoption too much.
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Sure. Pandora also thinks I'm Mexican, and has been playing ads to me in Spanish ever since the day I listened to a couple of awesome Flemenco guitar songs.
There never will be with an attitude like that.
We are the technology. Resistance is futile. Your technological and cultural distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. We are the technology, resistance is futile.
Somewhat, but keep in mind that for a hard problem (and AI is a very, very "hard" problem, software is going to be the bottleneck to thinking machines.
Here's a related article, with more opinion:
http://bigthink.com/risk-reason-and-reality/the-more-intelli...

When I was younger I used to actively seek out articles like this to confirm my own biases. Now I'm just very interested in the topic and how it is discussed.
I'm not sure the economics of the gaming industry work the way most of us would intuitively expect. Gabe Newell has published some fascinating information about how Steam evolved to its current model and the effects of their short-term, massive-cut sales. Spoiler: They can be very profitable, because you increase your number of sales by a much higher multiplier than you reduced the price.
It is weird watching two ants fight. Mammals it is pretty easy to understand what they are trying to do, hit eachother or bite eachother or something.

But ants? It just kind of looks like they are crawling on eachother. I have no idea how one ant bests another in ant-on-ant combat. Kind of cool
Yet another reason to stay away from the southeast.
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We looked at lots of different community software. Cost came into it too - so it came down to Google+, Facebook or Linked In Groups. We chose G+.

On iii) we are working on improving this all the time
"By testing crazy ant secretions, the researchers found that the life-saving substance was actually formic acid from the crazy ants’ own venom."

That quote reminded me of "The Ant" by Ogden Nash, which ends:

Would you be calm and placid

If you were full of formic acid?
Security (HTTPS) as a paid feature?
Maybe when Bill quits curing malaria and gets his hacker groove back.
It wouldn't work in the major current cryptocurrencies, as you'd have to have some way of mtgox issuing new coins for gold deposits. That would seem to be against the current sets of rules, which only allow miners to create coins.

I'd assume it would be possible to have a cryptocurrency where a central authority stores gold/dollars/etc, and allows people to exchange it for coins and vice versa - basically, have special transactions that can create coins. Miners would have to mine for transaction fees, or maybe they could be paid out of the interest produced by the giant money pile.

It would require a lot of trust in the central authority - and once you have that trust, it's not clear you need a cryptocurrency at all.
The founder of MtGox was Jed McCaleb and he is the one that started out as a Magic the Gathering exchange. He then switched it to trading bitcoin in 2011. When it began to take off, he sold it to the current CEO Mark Karpeles.

The current owner, Mark Karpeles who oversaw the rise of MtGox, the hacking incident, the seizing of assets by the Feds and the shut down of withdrawals in both dollars and now Bitcoin never had anything to do with Magic the Gathering.
I believe the point of the article is largely to raise questions and discussion about a couple of things:

1. Potential disruptive impact of alternative currencies with respect to transaction fees -- people want easy ways to exchange money, for commercial or personal reasons, that aren't cost-prohibitive. Can alternative currencies present a legitimate challenge to traditional payment providers in this arena? Can traditional providers learn from it by finding (sustainable) ways to better serve consumer/merchant demands?

2. Whether payment providers, of any kind, can profit and compete on consumer behavior data as an offset to higher transaction fees, and how much consumers are willing to tolerate it. We haven't seen this play out yet for Bitcoin and its ilk. jusben1369 pointed out LevelUp here.

The article does not propose a conclusion that Bitcoin is appropriate for your Aunt Judy today. That's probably been beaten to death by coverage all over.
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Joke's on them, I listen to country and electronic... I wonder what they will make of that.
A. Nothing directly, it's just a comment on why progress seems to be increasing dramatically when compared to the 80's - early 90's.

B. Sure.
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This sounds intriguing. I wish there were some more complex examples. Part of the greatness of Promises is taking a big chunk of pyramid code and turning it into a set of simple steps... I'd like to see how this would handle that.
Yeah, up until that point I was going "yeah! Overthrow the european invaders!"
I am really tired of these "oh shit we have to issue a PR spin control response" posts that presume I've already read the original drama and don't link to it.

"You might have seen a story" my ass. Link to something if you're going to respond to it.
What does "would be" mean here? Meaning "the listing" may be legal, but the listed arrangement is illegal?
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Hey, I know, I know — I hate Stealth Job Postings as much as the next guy but we’re working on something we’re just not ready to announce yet. That said, we’re providing a lot of details below so hopefully that will quench your thirst for specifics. You can email me timanglade AT gmail.com if you have any more questions.

We’re a stealth startup that has received funding from Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, DST Ventures, Crunchfund, SVAngel, Ignition, Redpoint and others. Our product is already in use at several companies, including one of the top 5 app makers in the world.

Our technology fundamentally rethinks how data is handled by programming languages, allowing 10x more data to be stored in memory or on disk, speeding up queries by 100x, and making complex data processing as simple as just doing a for/while loop in your language of choice. Our product is aimed at developers, especially mobile developers.

We are getting ready for launch and need a few critical hires to get there. Maybe you can help!

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If you want to be part of next big developer brand, à la Github or Heroku, we need to hear from you. Ping us and let us know if you have any questions.
Well that explains these two videos from my house this week!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vkhkwk0w7wkzug2/MOV_0387.MOV.mov
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6qh83sq8hrpoarx/IMG_0555.MOV-1.mov

These ants are all over my place right now and it is disgusting.

We had an exterminator come out yesterday and he said that he had never seen anything like this before. Hoping what he did will work.

If anyone on here has suggestions, I really want these things out of my place.
That's nothing in the UK yahoo seems to think I come from India and keeps showing me Indian matrimonial arranged marriage sites.
But then we might not have come here without our social hierarchy, exactly because it is harder to manage. It makes people want to outsmart each other. (This is actually a hypothesis in evolution theory.)
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Didn't claim to have evidence. The reasoning for why I wouldn't be surprised [1]. The source talks about a break in at the FBI during the Vietnam war by protesters who felt the FBI had been targeting them. It turned out that the FBI had indeed been spying on them and compiling documents about these individuals.

[1] - http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/06/22205443-...
> If Airbnb is used to help pay for rent, that necessarily pushes rent upwards.

I definitely know people who are contemplating getting a bigger place with a spare room specifically to AirBnB it. Besides general effects on the housing market, this can increase people's financial risk (depending other aspects of their finances, such as savings cushion). It amounts to over-provisioning their housing in the hopes of reselling the spare capacity at a profit (you figure you can get more on AirBnB for the 3rd room than the incremental 2rd->3rd room costs you). That can turn out badly if somehow the reselling doesn't work, isn't as profitable as you thought it would be, you end up unable to manage it for a period of time so the extra capacity sites idle, etc. Sort of like buying extra servers in a colo because you figure you can make the money back by renting VPSs at a markup. It can definitely work, but to really make it work you are now in the VPS business, and you might lose money if you aren't good at that business.
Right. In the very short term, they are helping people, but in the long term it's an economic arms-race. Put in very simple terms, if you make owning a house more affordable, houses will get more expensive to compensate.