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> This change was poorly thought out

What's your evidence for that? I could entirely believe they thought it through very carefully, knew that this was a likely outcome, and did it anyhow because it was the best chance they saw for success.

Remember, this is the third checkin app in this series. It started life as a student project. The first commercial version was Dodgeball [1], which was created, grown, and purchased by Google before the iPhone even existed. Google wasted the opportunity, so Crowley started Foursquare and did it again.

Personally, I suspect they discovered that the whole check-in dynamic was fading. E.g., it's something people did for a while out of novelty and they expected its true long-term audience to be small.

Once you take VC money, it's "go big or go home". A small, modestly profitable company is not something your investors are interested in; they would rather you gamble and lose. And Foursquare took $162 million [2] so they had to go very big indeed. The "success" period of the article's graph looks like VC-failure to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgeball_%28service%29

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/foursquare
Hi there - just a quick update to say you can now click 'Windows | Unix and Linux' underneath the command to flip between powershell & certreq / bash & openssl
Developer here. If you have any suggestion/criticism on the project, I'd be happy to know.

What this brings on the table compared to other frameworks is a very simple way to write tests, while giving the programmer enough liberty to do what he wants.

Criterion achieves that by implementing a xUnit structure with automatic test registration using a declarative syntax -- which means you can be very expressive with the way you declare your tests and suite in a few lines of code. The rest is handled by criterion itself and the default main it provides.

Samples: https://github.com/Snaipe/Criterion/blob/bleeding/samples

Documentation: http://criterion.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
> Details are withheld for now

At least for us. DHS/NSA already has them thanks to Microsoft's renewed commitment to share "cyber-threat" data with them (a.k.a zero-days).
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I agree that the taxation systems in Europe can be simplified and changed to benefit startups a little more.

I would suspect that things are better in the Nordic countries, and maybe the Netherlands too.

Definitely. I have my gripes about social security in The Netherlands and I think basic income would be better, but social security is pretty good: 75% of the last income for the first two months, 70% for the remainder of the year. After that, a single gets Euro 960.83 per month, a married couple Euro 1,372.62 per month, plus an extra amount quarterly per child (which IIRC everyone, including working people, gets).

With regards to retirements, everyone gets so-called 'AOW' (850,97 per month or 2 * 586,56). Normally when you work, you also collect money in a private pension, which gets added to the AOW. AOW is directly paid by taxes, the private pension is a fund.

Normally, when you work all your life, AOW + pension + home ownership gives you a royal retirement.
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But wait, I thought Micro$oft were lauded as having "got" security these days? Surely it is isn't so!
Companies will get .io domains to appeal to developers as it looks like I/O (in/out).
"Sure I am that the signification of words in all languages, depending very much on the thoughts, notions, and ideas of him that uses them, must unavoidably be of great uncertainty to men of the same language and country. This is so evident in the Greek authors, that he that shall peruse their writings will find in almost every one of them, a distinct language, though the same words."

John Locke, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Book II (On Words), Ch. IX, section 22
Do no evil (which you may eventually get charged for)!
My take on this: I am against surveillance, but also equally against corporations strong-arming government policy changes/non-changes. So I want the changes to not pass, but I don't want them to not pass because of OVH threatening to take their business elsewhere. Tomorrow it could be tobacco manufacturers doing the same thing.
Thanks for the detailed answer. Even if the law doesn't require it, I'm pretty wary of donating to a cause that doesn't voluntarily open its books.

And I say that as a .IO owner who was ready to get out my credit card.
Kinda like (rap)genius, except with more overlapping "clever" people and a worse interface.

EDIT: People beat me to the genius analogy. By hours.
I don't know about classes with instructors or discussion groups or the such, but I've personally learned a lot through All About Circuits (http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/).
Swarm recently included a messenger functionality. Never used it. Also, I'm seeing swarm gaining traction on my region for some time now.

On the comments , there are a comparison between the two:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=foursquare%2C%20swar...
SquareSpace, Etsy, BigCartel, BigCommerce, Magento, Volusion, Goodsie, and many others. Heck, you can even run an online store from GoDaddy.
Why this national data breach notification bill has privacy advocates worried
I read the post to suggest that the existing team was obviously not very emotionally sensitive since they are explicitly working to "manipulate behavior" which sounds sinister. Perhaps hiring more folks who are both rational AND emotionally sensitive to their users is the diversity they need.
When I first read it, years ago, I noticed Haynes's dictum that "Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of minds that have lost their balance.", and thought that perhaps it was Joyce's ambition to supplant Shakespeare in that role.
Being American, I've always quietly wondered literally what makes the US so startup and big tech company friendly.

Would you mind elaborating on what makes the EU not as good as the US for startups? From spending some time in Berlin, it reminded me of a smaller, cheaper, and overall much nicer San Francisco.
So you're admitting that this isn't a solution and you need to change the rules of the game to make it work.

Well, I'm convinced.
Am I right in thinking you're being deliberately kind with your use of the word "inelegant"? I usually get a downvote when the subject comes up because I can't hold back. ;-)
"Pieces of crap"? While they might have at least some features lacking, calling N5 and N6 a "piece of crap" is just wrong.

But I do agree, that OEM skins do improve some lacking features of the stock Android, they also bring in tons of dark patterns and just terrible UX design with them - TouchWiz (Lollipop) for example removes all timed audio profile functionality, brings confusing duplicated apps for pretty much all standard applications (Play Store, Google Fit, Calendar, Mail, Keep, etc.) with their own separate accounts, hides camera functionality in public API and several other problems. Not to mention a completely different design of the OS from the whole Material ecosystem.

And thats a tip of the iceberg considering the times of Android 2.3/4.0 when Google CTS tests weren't so strict and developing anything worthwhile was practically impossible since OEMs kept overwriting even default integrated themes - stuff like setting black text to be white, removing fonts and other fun stuff we had to deal with.
But, legal wise they can't do nothing about it (right?).
In fact, OpenBSD delegates logins to a login_<foo> binary, e.g. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/.... That works. OpenBSD's system is not as flexible as PAM, with the attendant upsides and downsides.
By that logic one could take any dish in the world, slap a slice of bread in there somewhere, and declare you have a sandwich. Which many may consider an insult to both sandwiches and all dishes that are not sandwiches.
Ok cool, I knew that part...phew. I thought they were referring to something fundamental to the way the TLD worked etc. that they were fiddling with.
I wonder what this means for Alcatel-Lucent here in Ottawa. I briefly worked there in 2001 right after Alcatel bought out Newbridge. There is a strong networking division there designing some of those large backbone "routers".
If you settle for barely breaking even, your investors will replace you with somebody who believes they can take your company and have a chance of making ridiculous money. They will do that even if it is a 20% of wild success and an 80% chance that you will drive away the millions of users.

Why? Because merely covering core operational costs doesn't do anything to pay back the investors who put in $160 million.
I initially thought the "infinite" in the title referred to Infinite Jest.

That would have been really wild...
What is this:

According to widely accepted ideas, the visible matter in galaxies exists inside clumps of dark matter. Without dark matter's gravity to stabilise them, galaxies like the Milky Way would tear themselves apart as they spin.

Is this the tired old "galactic rotation curves don't fit kepler's law" still kicking around?
Since the iPhone introduced widgets, I've found it a lot easier to check-in using Swarm. I swipe down and click check-in. It already knows where I am. Before this, I rarely used Swarm.
> What if you have binaries compiled from proprietary code bases from umpteen vendors using different compilers and compiler options and what-not, and they all use the Internet for self-updating and stuff and they all need to be patched? How are you going to do that?

The proprietary code isn't going to chance using system libs beyond libc, because of portability. So they likely still need to be patched separately.
Yes, but the user/server would have to be running a web server for it to be hit. Usually, that's IIS. But not every windows machine runs a web server.
As somebody who flirted around with Tinder for a little while (ha ha), I think this is a pretty good idea. But at the same time, I think I'd prefer to be able to select which Instagram photos I would like to remain hidden, in case they're of a more personal nature. But beyond this, I can't help but feel the entire Tinder experience is slowly deteriorating. The beautiful simplicity of what it used to be is slowly starting to be replaced, which I suppose is to be expected, but disappointing nonetheless. I can't help but feel they'll quickly monetize the amount of swipes you get, so they can quickly squeeze users down to a couple a day.

As sort of a mini experiment, I downloaded some of the other apps out there that are in the same sphere and I've found Hinge to be particularly interesting (assuming you're in a large city). I'm kind of fascinated by all of these relationship apps and I'd love to see data on which are most effective (not for personal gain, mind you).
Well, the keybindings on emacs predate most other keybindings. I don't use it very often, but Cmd-F is forward-word, to move forward a word (heh.) For keyboards without arrow keys it is very handy (my oldest laptop didn't have them.) Cmd-R I have never used its binding (so I could rebind it, but what binding would you like to have in it? "Reload"?
Mercurial is a large, complicated project, so it makes sense that they'd delay a backend upgrade like Py2->Py3 as long as they can get away with it. It's not representative of the overall ecosystem. That's like arguing that as long as "canaries" like Facebook don't see any reason to move to Ruby or Python for web dev, the rest of us might as well stay on PHP too. There's a large investment in the existing infrastructure that often can't be ignored no matter how compelling the features of the new platform are.

The differences between Py2 and Py3 are not substantial enough that it "divides the community in half" in any tangible fashion. Yes, it's possible new software may not take Py2 compatibility into account and you'll need to switch to Py3 to get new stuff, but that's been the plan all along, right?

183 of the 200 most-used libraries are Py3 compatible now, including major systems like SciPy and Django. It's not 2009 anymore, and we should stop talking like it is. Py3 is the way forward and the Python Foundation needs to quickly and firmly deconstruct any sign of flapping on that front if they hope to convert the remaining Py2 holdouts.

I believe it would be very damaging for the community if Python backpedaled and said "OK, we know you just spent 7 years investing in the Py3 platform and converting your apps and libs to work on it, but visible projects like Mercurial still don't like it so we decided it wasn't worth it anymore." People don't take time out of their day to make their voices heard unless they're already discontented about something. We shouldn't assume that everyone hates Py3 just because Py3 users are going about their business quietly.
Divide-by-zero has always been interrupt 0, and the page fault is at #14, and that hasn't been problematic...

BOUND does raise an exception if it fails but I think that's a good thing - if code is doing array bounds-checking, OOB accesses are very likely to be a bug (and possible security vulnerability) so aborting execution by default is the right thing to do.
The extensions would need to be maintainable. And interoperable. And integrated, at which point they'd possibly cease to be extensions.

My problem with extensible editors is that you have a combinatorial explosion of possible configurations, which therefore aren't fully tested. So you always end up with something slightly buggy.
SVG with lots of elements can often be larger than a even a pretty high resolution PNG. Happens to me often when exporting graphs with thousands of data points.
These are not even remotely the same thing. There is no .io sponsored hitsquad that is going to murder you in an alley for dissent, literally nothing will happen from this.
Or for using it with words ended with "io" (like scenar.io, portfol.io and such)
Are you sure that curl is sending the request properly? (Check with tcpdump)
This is the moment I wish Gowalla didn't sell to facebook :)
Parameters don't have names, the message has a format, and th only rule of that format(referred to as a "selector") is that parameters are preceded by a :
LaTeX is ubiquitous in my research field. I'm skeptical anything that cannot parsed .tex will have a chance of competing, at least in the short term.
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Goddamn engineers, always counting from 0...
Interesting patent: http://www.google.com/patents/WO1996015941A1?cl=en
Logic of a rich pirate: my stomach is full so now onwards piracy is banned.
I think you misunderstand me. I am advocating the status quo, not for more granular pages.

Anyway from what I have seen some high level languages are actually using the MMU for some things. For example, a null check at every access would be kind of lame, from what I have seen high level language runtimes just let it fault on the zero page and handle it by raising exceptions. (I am 100% sure CLR does this, I believe JVM does too.)
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The 2008 presidential election certainly showed the impact that pulling in the right electorate can have on the result of an election (in some literal sense, the Obama campaign got more people on their side to care enough to vote). I think that is the most powerful effect money can have on an election.

I don't think campaign dollars have such a big impact on the elections of Senators and Representatives. Maybe Senators, but for representatives, the primary force right now is the shape of the districts.

What I'd like to see is the removal of the special seats that the parties have at the table. Make it staged signature collection for everybody, for everything.

(staged in the sense that 5 signatures would be enough to be the only name on the ballot but not enough to show up next to 3 other people that collected 1000+ signatures)
>It's interesting that our best "AI" is essentially a hacking tool. It's like we're trying to build skynet here :)

It's interesting? It should be no surprise that technology often gets its highest and most inspirational motivation from the dreams of the totality of human literature. For, it is a fact, Artists dream, Engineers build. And all roles are equally capable of authoring things.

It should be less of a surprise, and more of a cause for call to arms, that we are in fact building skynet, and have been for decades now.

Just wait and see. This is how things roll.
I wonder how prevalent distinctly regional sandwiches are in different parts of the US.

I've grown up on the North Shore of Boston and around here we have "Roast Beef" shops. From what I understand, the roast beef you get is distinctly different than anywhere else I've visited. The meat is served warm and very thinly sliced on a burger bun or onion roll. Many people order it topped with barbecue sauce and possibly some cheese, horseradish or mayonnaise. The "beef" sandwiches usually come in two or three different sizes, such as junior, large or super. A common combination of barbecue sauce, cheese and mayo can be ordered by the phrase "three-way."

There tends to be distinct loyalty to your favorite roast beef place. Some roast beef shops also serve pizza, "subs" or possibly fried seafood, but the best tend to focus on roast beef.

There is one chain of roast beef places called Kelly's, but most of the roast beef places seem to be independent.

Here is a slideshow of what to expect: http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/10/where-to-eat-the-best-roa...

What are some other distinctly regional sandwiches?
I'm curious if anyone has seen how equations come out looking with this? I always cringe when I see non-TeX equations in presentations, at this point.
Interesting. How did you draw this conclusion? I thought the article was one of the better ones from digg.
Not sure if I am not clear enough but yes, it 'hits the kernel and the context is low level'. As low as it can get on Windows.
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It is most of deployed storage atm, but the bulk of that wasn't deployed recently. I'm staring at a very informative figure I just made last week that I can't share since it's a draft for a report, but if you glance at EIA 860 data you'll see the breakdown for storage by nameplate capacity is:

Battery - 0.7%

Compressed Air - 0.5%

Concentrated Solar Power Storage - 1.3% (which doesn't always exactly count)

Flywheels - 0.2%

Pumped Storage - 97.4%

You can also see that the average operational year for pumped storage is 1974, not anytime recent. You could weight the years by capacity, but most plants are pretty big, and it shouldn't change it too much. Also, pumped storage capacity only totals 21.6GW.

As for where I've been, I've just been stupidly busy. I keep meaning to jump back in, but I never seem to have the time.
I think you missed the actual mechanics of the proposal. The idea is that the IRS sends you something that says, "This is the information we have. This is what we think you [owe use | we owe you]. Sign and return if you agree." If you agree, then it takes you a few minutes and you're done. For many people, who have "boring" taxes, this would work great.

But if you don't have "boring" taxes, then you could still do them yourself. The idea, though, is that relatively few people have to do this.
Curious, was the word "sandwich" used in that context before the invention of the sandwich by the Earl of Sandwich?

If not, I don't think you can use a secondary definition of a word as an example for the primary definition when the secondary definition exists solely because of the primary definition.
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But none of that makes it "human nature." It's still cultural.
I'm talking about life insurance on loans (Mortgage Protection Insurance), not fire or house insurance on mortgages which is much more flexible.

Also, it depends on the bank. I'm pretty sure it must be much easier in the U.S., the cases I know of are in South America (they basically won't give you the mortgage unless you use their approved overpriced life insurance, which is very low compared to the principal anyways).

It seems that it's a little less dodgy in the U.S., but not too much:

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/052014...

Edit: a related case in Canada:

http://thetyee.ca/News/2015/04/15/Insurance-Giant-Defraud/

Edit: exactly what I'm talking about, an English example

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?39...

Edit: another example of how banks use other products to drive profits, but this one misfired:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-3035922/B...

Wikipedia article:

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

" the insurance would commonly make the bank/provider more money than the interest on the original loan, such that many mainstream personal loan providers made little or no profit on the loans themselves; all or almost all profit was derived from PPI commission and profit share "
> I'm not sure why "hey! that was a joke" is horrible when applied to a person, but acceptable when applied to policies.

Let me quote Bret Stephens' take on the matter, writing in the (Republican-leaning) Wall Street Journal --

"Sometime in the 1990s I began to understand the Clinton way of lying, and why it was so successful. To you and me, the Clinton lies were statements demonstrably at variance with the truth, and therefore wrong and shameful. But to the initiated they were an invitation to an intoxicating secret knowledge.

What was this knowledge? That the lying was for the greater good, usually to fend off some form of Republican malevolence. What was so intoxicating? That the initiated were smart enough to see through it all. Why be scandalized when they could be amused? Why moralize when they could collude?"

-- http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-and-the-liberal-way-of-l...

Disclaimer. No representation is made in this comment as to the exclusivity or generality of this manner of lying to any particular political parties, politicians, or nations -- that is left as an exercise to the reader.
Anti-trust issues with iOS at the moment are less likely in the EU, due to lack of market share. Most antitrust offenses are about misusing a dominant market position, but iOS is only about 20% of the EU smartphone market (vs. ~50% of the American one), which isn't really a dominant market position.

If they did have a dominant market position, there is all sorts of tying going on between OSX and iOS lately.
Oh, so that's why they're called podcasts... Always wondered, but never bothered to check it.
They pretty much have. Sometimes people make mistakes that lead to vulnerabilities like this. It will be patched soon, then forgotten, and life will return to normal for everyone using IIS. We'll still run http in the kernel for performance purposes and everyone will conclude that no damage was really done. People will still use the same tech.. this vulnerability is not game changing and it'll be business as normal.
br.io, mercur.io etc.
Get them onto Shopify, the untold story of Shopify is the ease a layperson can work with the back-end. He can adjust all sorts of things, upload pictures, and edit text without having to contact you.

I like Shopify, they are going to have customer service growing pains as they ramp up to handle customer loads, but going public means it is sink or swim time.
No! you can't compare these two scenarios. When urban population is resettled, first, it's also really unfair and shouldn't happen. Second, they're not nearly as dependent on the land as the Chaigos islanders. Third the resettlement is most often to a similar environment.

Also, the argument about the late first population is silly. You wouldn't do this to any person. These are people, who's lifes have been ruined, and you can't do that to anybody. No matter if they are indigenous, 2nd generation immigrants, descendants of slave trade, or what ever. You don't do this to any people.
[3] is misleading as vim is preinstalled on Ubuntu while emacs isn't.
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