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Good idea, I am surprised Google Plus is not working that way. As far as I know Youtube is doing similar thing to Tsu: those who upload movies get part of the ads revenue.
Different foods have very different levels of water use. Growing rice in dry California while imposing increasing restrictions on residential water use is not sustainable.
They launched the invitation system less than 24 hours ago.

I agree with the two issues you mentioned but I think the main issue here is the invitation system : you have to share your profile URL to invite people. They should let people invite strangers with a specific invitation URL.

I suppose they made Tsu profiles accessible to Tsu users only to drive adoption. Once they have enough users, it will make no sense to keep it this way.

EDIT:
> But then you wouldn't use your tsu account to post personal stuff for fear of your tsu URL leaking somewhere and giving anybody access to your vacation pictures?

You can share private content to your friends & family (requires you to add users as friends) and public stuff to your followers / Tsu community
Even though this is also the way I think of it, this underscored to me the fact that you can make up plausible explanations for anything; even for words that are opposites and are trying to explain the same thing.
It seems that this is an attack on the CBC-mode ciphers but doesn't change anything about the RC4 ciphers.

RC4 is mentioned in passing as having weaknesses, but is it actually broken? If we can't disable SSL3 completely would using only RC4 ciphers be an option?
So are you implying that no woman has a surplus of time (and that they never do)?

Do you disagree with my assertion that if you want to start a company, you have to have lots of time, and if you don't have that, then you'll have to trade something else for that (like money: for hiring people, paying for flights, etc)?

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. If you have no time, and no money, don't expect to be able to start a successful startup.
This is very vague about what Curry-Howard means. Curry-Howard means that any type can be interpreted as a theorem in some logical system, and any term can be interpreted as a proof of its type.

This does not mean that those theorems have anything to do with your program. Take the following function:

swap : forall a,b. (a,b) -> (b,a)
swap pair = (snd pair, fst pair)

The type here is forall a,b. (a,b) -> (b,a). The logical meaning of this type is (a and b) => (b and a). Note that this is a theorem in logic, not a theorem about your program.

This is entirely different than what the types say about your program. Those properties you get from progress/preservation proofs of the type system. Now it is certainly the case that in dependently typed languages you can get the logic from Curry-Howard to express theorems about values in your program. That's the whole point of dependent typing. But it's important to to keep in mind that statements such as this:

> Look again at the OCaml Set module example above. You already get a universally-quantified property just from using the type system to guarantee an invariant expressed in an ADT. That’s the import of the Curry-Howard Isomorphism, minus any appeals to more expressively powerful type systems.

are nonsense. The fact that the module enforces the property

P(n) === S1.mem n (S1.singleton n) = true
Q(n) === forall m \in int. m /= n -> S1.mem m (S1.singleton n) = false

has nothing to do with Curry-Howard. Which proves Kell's point about the equivocation around type theory.
Not having your contributors sign a CLA is a huge mistake. Without a CLA, one contributors work can taint the entire project. All open source projects should be aware of this.
Consider that Amazon lets external merchants buy ad space on their pages, as well as pit their own sales against Amazon marketplace sellers.
not going to work, checkout Marc Andreessen's take on his own version of the same concept: Ning.

Edit: typo Xing <-> Ning
Zoho also hired and trained people who were usually out of normal companies radars' (like college dropouts).
I agree, and the blurry image weight approximately 678KB (~88% of the size in bytes of the whole page). I'm sure there are less costly ways to create a fake page or to show that you are not allowed to view the page.
Ah let me try to be more specific.

A good QA process is complex. Most manufacturers will offer/do a basic QA (usually with a test/simplified firmware)

However, a lot of times, this is not sufficient.

On second thought, their problem (in the article) is not necessarily a production/QA issue (as in, a defect in producing), but in assembling the image to be saved. The (incorrect) image was saved correctly.
You are massively undervaluing YC. It's not just "advice dispensed over diner", there is lot goes on [1]. In startup world, there are just too many bad decisions you can make at any point in time and even just 5 minute advice from an experienced person who has literally seen it all 100s of times is worth all of the 7% cut that you give to YC. In the book[1] you will see several cases described by author where founders are at critical juncture such as what features to work on, what to pivot, which investors to reject and so on. YC also preps you for demos, protects you against signing bad terms and exposes to pretty much all investors that matter in business in one fell swoop. This is all in addition to $120K seed money that they are pretty much guaranteed to lose. If your friend was lending you $120K, wouldn't you offer 10% of your company? IMO, YC's 7% cut is far more reasonable.

Next, you are also massively undervaluing Susan's work. Did you read that she kept failing for 2 years and still kept at it? If you were already rich, would you go through that kind of hustle as opposed to enjoying your margarita on a private island? Did you also read that she was pregnant while making her attempt and with 3-year baby in hand? Do you have any idea how is it like to be pregnant and working on something as taxing as startup while also taking care of 3-year old? If you don't I humbly suggest to ask this to your mom.

Next, Loopt was innovative in its time but unfortunately way too easily and quickly copiable. Being still able to sell that is actually a business success and tells you something about Sam's ability to win over investors and break a way against odds.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Launch-Pad-Inside-Combinator-ebook...
>>Flight recorders aren't designed to float and broadcast their position, or at least release a small beacon that would give rescue teams a general idea about where to search.

They are not designed to float, because there is no guarantee that the flight recorder will separate from the rest of the wreckage, but most importantly because accidents at cruise altitude are incredibly rare, it's the safest time of the flight - and you are very unlikely to be over the ocean in any other mode of flight. Even with airports close to the sea, a crash few km from the shore would not be difficult to locate.

And flight recorders have auxiliary batteries and actually broadcast their location for a month after the crash - the problem here was that no one had an idea where the plane crashed, something that's very,very improbable in its own right.
I think the article and all the comments about how "medical science has proven that the gall bladder is nearly useless" are dangerous nonsense. I'm not claiming you should not remove a gallbladder when necessary, just that it is not useless.

I also had my gallbladder out, which left me unable to eat a meal without suffering extreme diarrhea about 20 minutes later. I found a good gastroenterologist and described my symptoms, and he recognized them immediately. Surprisingly common, he said. He said that the gallbladder served as a reservoir of bile acids produced by the liver, holding them in reserve until needed to help digest fats. A "bladder" for "gall". Unfortunately, bile acids can be irritating to the intestines, so if the gall bladder isn't available to catch it, it will drip into the intestines when there is no fat for it to work on, causing a chronic bowel irritation in many people that can result in diarrhea.

After many gallbladder surgeries, the tubes carrying the bile from the liver to the GI tract will stretch a bit and recreate a bit of the reservoir function of the "nearly useless" gallbladder, but this doesn't happen in everyone. I was not so lucky.

Without hesitation, he prescribed Cholestyramine powder (I get a generic version), which is a "bile acid sequestrant", which is a resin that encapsulates bile in the intestines. It changed my life in one dose. Problem instantly vanished. I was once again able to both leave the house AND eat on the same day. Just one problem: it was not a cure. It just sequestered some of the bile acid that my missing gallbladder used to sequester. If I missed even a single day, the diarrhea would return with a vengeance the following day unless I fasted all day.

Like many other people, I'm lucky to have this $150/month medicine, which gave me my life back, but I'll have to take it every day for the rest of my life, never missing a day, because I need it to compensate for the lost gallbladder--you know, the one that medical science has proven to be nearly useless.
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> in case you forgot how to handle gallons => acre-feet in your head

Or in case those have no intuitive meaning to you :) Thanks.
> real numbers. In an open interval like (0, 1), there is no single real number which is less than one but is greater than all other real numbers less than one.

The rational numbers are like this too.

All the rational numbers between 0 and 1 also increase arbitrarily close to 1 with no largest element. You can prove this by simple contradiction: For every rational number x < 1, there is another rational number y = (x+1)/2 with x < y < 1. So the set of rational numbers less than 1 also has no largest element.

Actually real numbers can be defined (axiomatized) in terms of the least upper bound property -- every set of real numbers that's bounded above has a least upper bound. So you could actually have a set S of rational numbers that gets arbitrarily close to something like sqrt(2) from below. S then has no rational least upper bound -- for every rational number x greater than or equal to every element of S, there is another rational number y greater than or equal to every element of S but smaller than x.

Note that a set of real numbers need not contain its upper bound -- as you noted, a bounded open interval doesn't contain its upper bound.
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I don't plan anything since I'm not affiliated with Tsu =)

I don't know if they thought about it but since their goal is to give back advertising money to users, doing so won't harm anyone other than the user who referred you.
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Why would having a clojure wrapper even matter...
You are arguing that the fallout is manageable. I'd like to simply do it right from the start.
I don't know if it's very intuitive given that a and be are still inside the ][. Maybe a]..[b would make it clearer?
It makes more sense for consoles / controllers. Although I am sure /someone/ uses inverted mouse controls. It could be disabled in the PC version also.
In this particular case, there really isn't anything that dropping this makes more usable. It's pretty much solely an internal thing.
You basically just described what everybody does with Google Ads: Click bots to click their own ads. So if Tsu displays Google ads, it will be Google's problem (or better: the advertisers' problem). (I don't work at Tsu.)
I'm guessing whichever direction your move the mouse, the game looks in the correct direction for you to obey the instructions, and that mapping is then persisted.
This. Lesson learned: the "over 150 developers" who literally threw away their time(i.e. money) working on this had the option to work on minetest instead. They didn't. Grow up, learn your lesson (I have in much more painful ways) and only use GPL.
Yes, this is the biggest issue the are facing right now. However, since they launched 24 hours ago, there is no ad revenue to kill yet.

I guess the current invitation system is temporary and will be updated to let public content available to anyone.
One issue could be that the $ argument won't work with 99% of users b/c they don't generate enough traffic (i.e. who really cares about, say, $5/month of revenue).

One way to solve it could be to pool the revenue and to position Tsu like this: "90% of revenue goes to a good cause of your choice (climate, humanitarian, etc.), not to 1 huge corporation"

Edit: Every profile would then get a "I Donated $x today" badge (visible publicly) as a feel-good engine. You could then convert the amount to real things like "I paid 2 meals in a 3rd World country today" or "planted 3 trees", depending on your choice of the cause.
Sorry if it's not very constructive but If you want Apple you should buy Apple.

I have an Android phone because I like to be able to build small programs when I want without cost and when they removed SD Card write access it broke some usages I had. If it continues on this way I might as well buy an iPhone the next time.

I know it's a very specific case but in this case, some more common usages were broke as well (put the sd card from your camera in your tablet to organize/clean the pics, not possible anymore)
Make that 2 domestically transmitted cases of Ebola.

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From a real analysis standpoint... the definition of a 'closed set' in an N-dimensional metric space (of which Euclidean space, i.e. normal space, is an example) is as follows: a set C is 'closed' if and only if, given any sequence of elements (x_n) converging on x, such that (x_n) is a subset of C, it follows that x is also in C.

Under this definition, 'closed' makes sense in the larger context, since in mathematics, if an operation is 'closed' on a set, that means that applying the operation to elements of the set always yields another element of the same set.

Open is a bit more awkward. A set O is 'open' if and only if the complement of O (i.e. the set of all points not in O) is closed. So open is kind of the opposite of closed, hence the convention. Of course, it isn't really the opposite of closed, since there are sets which are neither closed nor open.

tt;dr (too technical; didn't read) in maths, 'closed' usually means 'I can do stuff inside this set without falling out of it'. In the case of intervals, the 'stuff' in question is taking a limit of a convergent sequence.
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> The Latin1 optimization looks interesting.

CPython did something similar (though more expansive, it switches between 4 different internal encodings depending on string content: ASCII, latin1, UCS2 and UCS4) in 3.3 with the PEP 393 "Flexible String Representation". I wonder if this Moz change was independently reinvented or inspired by the FSR.
I found it infuriating and clumsy.

I've heard about programs that tried to do that before that had massive usability problems. Your comment seems to confirm that diagnostic.

I figure if this would work for any language it would be Lisp

I guess it would be more of a novelty for other languages.

I found shifting my hand off the keyboard...

That's a big no-no!

EDIT: By the way, I've been experiencing something similar recently, teaching Scratch and AppInventor to my son and a group of children at Coder-Dojo:

http://medialab-prado.es/article/coderdojo

Kids like the mouse interface, but I do find it very limiting and slightly infuriating.
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I'm not much of a salesman, but i strongly recommend Robert Cialdini's Influence. The author created the scientific field that studies how to influence human behavior - he is a sociologist and embedded himself within multiple sales teams. The book itself contains lots of references to scientific trials, and has plenty of actionable, practical advise.
Anyone else unable to rename crew members in FTL? I can press backspace to delete characters in names, but not letters to add characters! (Firefox, OS X)
if farmings only viable in an area which requires piping water into it, is means it is only viable because someone else is paying much of the underlying costs.

that is what happens in California, the water is so heavily subsidized that only a fool wouldn't take advantage of it. We essentially pay people to waste it.
Actually no.

You can take a program from the "MSDOS Encyclopaedia" which contains a windows 2.0 programming section, type it out in notepad on a windows 8.1 box, compile it and it will run now like it did in 1988. I tried it. It works.

That's what I'm talking about.

The kernel and CLR are irrelevant. Proof: the same program works on Wine on Linux after it is compiled.
That's pretty much what is happening now in Ireland. Irish Water is asking for PPS numbers for all the children in a household and for the main householder. PPS numbers are similar to Social Security numbers in the US.

At the moment Irish Water is a semi state body, but there are large fears that it will be sold off to a private company in a few years, along with the PPS numbers and details of everyone in Ireland.

There was a large demonstration against it last weekend [1]

[1] http://www.thejournal.ie/water-charge-protest-in-dublin-1718...
This text seems to contain interesting information. Could somebody (who is familiar with this jargon) translate it to plain english? thanks.
Um - what's so hard setting up an 8,000 person email list?
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> The website is invite-only. You can register here: http://www.tsu.co/xavier.

My issue is I don't really know what it is that you are sharing with me. For me this only work if it is an actual friend referring.

All I get in return is tuppence, which isn't really worth leaving my well established network of family and friends.
That sounds quite implausible. Sure, one person can go and upgrade the library.

But I find it hard to believe that one person can go and fix up all the projects he's hardly ever heard of that depends on that library.
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> One issue could be that the $ argument won't work with 99% of users b/c they don't generate enough traffic (i.e. who really cares about, say, $5/month of revenue).

Thats $60 a year? A nice discount on most gadgets. Am I wrong?
Read their own terms. They don't provide you with office space, living space, or other necessities that even other, less vaunted incubators do. And the seed money used to much lower: $17,000 (a few months salary).

Again, 7% is an enormous chunk of a company, and for a firm like Dropbox, such a stake runs easily into the millions. YC on its face has always been a terrible deal, except it isn't, because YC is the first step in a sequence that ends with you getting bought by Facebook or Google regardless of whether you actually deserve it, and that's why people sign up--not to hear advice from Sam Altman.

And I wasn't devaluing Susan's work at all. My point was that for other women with similar ambition and talent but without similar financial independence, YC would be a non-starter.
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Turn it around (like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8457792) and this "problem" becomes a potential USP.
What quantifies as cheap? In the UK (central Manchester) we pay about ~£300 (~$500) per person per year.
I think you're confused. Most offices shut off the lights at night.
you keep references in the trees so it's not a tree anymore, but graph possibly with cycles

Cycles, why? Tree+links can be treated as a tree visually.

Edit: Oh, I see what you meant with indexer. That information would be in memory. In the database it's stored in just one direction. When loaded it expands bidirectionally.
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Yes, using the 1998 API will still work. But that API will never be worked on again.

Whats this then?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn30...

That's a Win32 API call added for Windows 8.1 to their 1988 API!!!

As for bugs, you've never read "The Old New Thing" blog or played with the compatibility options for running executables in windows? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/

They actually go as far as fixing all the bugs and backporting the actual bugs to older compatibility layers so software that relies on the bugs still functions properly when you set the compatibility OS version.

Regarding impossibility, there is literally nothing that I can't do with their APIs. Find something and I will show you.
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Zoho is often an inspiration for Indian startups. They might have grown out of the early days of startup grind and culture but it has continuously given inspiring environments for future founders like girish from Freshdesk.

this article is a reflection of its growth strategy and how longevity trumps over 'growth hacks'