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Except that your example is valid HTML 4.01/5. Closing tags are optional.

Also, "Be conservative in what you emit, and liberal in what you accept" - Postel's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

[edit]: I'm incorrect, some closing tags are optional, </li> being one of them. for HTML5: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#generate-...
"a few people who couldn't manage that"

That's what downvotes are for. That's why we should refrain from downvoting for disagreement and keeping it for shorting out comments that are damaging to the discussion.
>Having that single-minded focus and dedication needed to put in the 10k hours makes you an outlier.

Then doesn't that in a sense make it the talent you're talking about?

I think we're just splitting hairs here, I'm pretty sure I mean the same thing as you :)
but we know from the 70's double-shot of inflation and unemployment that the Keynesian model is wrong (the question is, "just how wrong?").

Whoa: way, way, way oversold. Your making a blanket argument on a very complicated subject from a single data point. What about the sustained growth in the 40's through 60's due to New Deal, WWII, and Great Society spending? Economics is hard, and poorly suited to ideological statements like that.

Anyone sane would look at the evidence and say that Keynesian stimulus works sometimes, and not others, and that the details matter a lot. Only political partisans would make a statement like yours.
The original, ambiguous "most articles" is hard to enforce too. How do we define whether an article is one of the "most"?
Ask HN: Strategies for safely providing codebase access to external developers
Our fledgling startup is planning on experimenting with a basic outsourcing model. We plan on bringing in an external developer to take over a few 1 or 2 tasks that we feel would help free up our some of our time / attention for more of the domain specific things that make our startup unique.

Outsourcing / external development philosophy issues aside for the moment, I'm curious what strategies others use for minimizing risk in terms of access to our codebase. Maybe I'm paranoid but I would feel more comfortable delivering a semi-doctored repository which doesnt include things like api keys, user data etc until we are able to build a trusting relationship.

I dont think spending more than a few hours on such a solution is a good use of our time (we are young and fledling as I mentioned and I dont meant to exaggerate the value of our codebase / data). That said however, Im thinking of writing a script to do something like,

- clone our repository
- strip out sensitive pieces of data (api keys)
- remove the repository files (.git/) (on 2nd thought, I guess this is a double edged sword. Its safe b/c it prevents access to sensitive data but OTOH it makes the vcs merge case much more cumbersome)

So what strategies have you had luck with in this type of scenario?
> The US/UK empire has done all of the same, and only after using those techniques to gain superpower and first-world status, we start criticizing others for doing it.

So at what specific point have they done an 'equal amount of evil' to us so that we can start criticizing them for 'doing more evil than we did?' Without an answer to this question your point is that we can't criticize China for anything ever. This seems a bit extreme to me.

In a similar vein, are you advocating that African Americans should be able to own slaves as long as they are 'white' because 'White Americans' did in the past?

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I agree, the iPhone really has been a remarkable thing in terms of how kids latch onto it. One can probably do a whole human factors study on the affordances of the slide-to-unlock thingy.

If only Apple would give us a way to disable the Home button. I could write all kinds of killer little games for the rugrat to play with.
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So the reason that poor countries are poor is Corruption
Personally I like a definition based on depth -- most politics is not allowed, but deep, more intellectually heavy material from sources like the New Yorker and Harpers is ok, as it's very distinct from the types of reporting seen on TV.
"This guy is just another reductionist sociologist trying to come up with that one...one...one...reason why an extremely complicated situation is perpetually botched."

He didn't strike me that way (I read the whole book, not just this chapter on Cameroon). Granted, the answer to "why are countries poor?" can never be one thing.

I think his point wasn't so much that the government was stealing but that the government created a system that reduced people's incentives to be productive.
Anyone sane would look at the evidence and say that Keynesian stimulus works sometimes, and not others

Sure, and you quoted my qualifier, too. I did say that the question is, "just how wrong?" (Not that there isn't an ideology I favor, but I don't think I was whitewashing to sell it)

You'll note that some of the credit in the early 60s has to be given to anti-Keynesians. Kennedy's tax cuts broke from the Keynesian model, and were successful. And if you'll buy into Hayek a little, I'll assert that the WWII boom (no pun intended) can't be credited to following any particular school, but is simply because the economic question is easy when you can get the whole society on the same page, working toward the same goal.
I remember that I think. It may have been a different pirate NES, but I remember spending a few hours playing through multicarts on a yellow NES clone when I spent some time in Russia.
how's it deal with ~$.99 purchases?

are their fees comparable to paypal's for a couple thousand / month in transactions?

other than competition in the space - which, agreed, is a Good Thing - why would i use this as a 1) merchant or 2) consumer over paypal?
from the faq: (https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/personal/webpay/faq)

5. Is there a fee for using Amazon WebPay?
No, there is no charge to send money using Amazon WebPay.

i'm assuming that's just for purchases. how much are the fees to receive money?
My perpetual problem with Amazon payments is that, unlike Paypal, they don't have ubiquity among my customers and, unlike Google Checkout, they can't bribe me with favorable treatment on the search page to make me put up with non-ubiquity.
Web apps are not apps, they're well-oiled DRM
I'm not sure why this had to turn rude.

1) You don't need to hit enter, it looks up the domain as you type. Pressing enter to be redirected to GoDaddy is a convenience. There's a bunch of other useful shortcuts too, like Ctrl + S.

2) I have no idea why you think looking up a domain on GoDaddy will cause the price to go up, or someone to buy it out from under you, or whatever else you've dreamt up. Must be leftover paranoia from the Moniker fiasco a couple years ago?

Either way, I'm done with this conversation.
I didn't read the Gladwell article, but it sounds like he's a victim of hindsight bias [0]. It's easy to think that there was less risk involved when reflecting back on someone's decisions after they succeeded.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
I really like the different take on how you guys are solving the "what to read" problem. Keep up the good work. Ping me, I'd love to chat.
Nowadays you can have the data store in 5 more minutes.
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Very interesting! This may explain the un-Googley-ness of the Android interface. I was racking my brain to figure out why the interface didn't have a blue, Gmail mobile /web app look and feel.
Is there favorable treatment from an SEO perspective if you use Google Checkout?
You could have an ad on every card! And undos would cost you the filling out of one survey!
From what I can tell there is no fee to send or receive payments with a limit capped at $500/month. Once a CC and bank account is verified, the limit could be either raised or removed at Amazon's discretion. A business account carries charges. Details are here: https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/about?nodeId=6022#fees

The user agreement says that the difference between a personal account and a business account is that personal accounts may not receive credit card payments.
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That depends on how active they are. Day traders owe self-employment tax, passive investors don't. Plenty of people are somewhere between those extremes.
Interesting, I've always assumed the reverse, which is my main interest in Amazon payments. I assume mainstream people are more likely to have an Amazon account than a Paypal account.

Anecdotally, my sister, father, and grandfather all have Amazon accounts, and none have Paypal accounts. Also, everyone I encounter who's not technical knows what Amazon is, but few know Paypal.
That would be highly unlikely in organic search results.
" couldn't see a link to the reddit clone working - is there one?"

I think this was when lispers (at least the ones hanging out c.l.l ) got all offended and huffy that reddit shifted from lisp to python and someone wanted to "prove" that it was a wrong decision and so built this thing. Some folks on c.l.l have always been a bit ... extreme.

I don't think it was ever a working system in the sense you mean it, just someone trying to show how obviously stupid the reddit folks were for selecting an inferior language like python (As compared to CL, the bestest language evah.

c.l.l has its share of aging crusty fanatics. If anything they dominate there.
But why not tell the user that it was flagged as spam and/or delete it from their profile page? Why let the user believe that their review is still there when it isn't? Maybe this is a way to fool the spammers into believing that their spamming is working, but it really is a poor experience for legitimate users, no?
This not the place to go through all of economics. I am not the person to do it either. I just wanted to point out a fallacy in your 'nobody loses' statement: You are only considering the business side of the equation.

To an economist, the consumer is where the numbers get added. When a consumer chooses option A over option B, there is value in that choice. It might be savings (and the ability to use the amount saved on something else). It might be additional value (Avatar is better then Chinatar). That value is the scorecard for an economy.
No, but they show an icon in AdWords and Google Products One Box results next to stores that take Checkout. Any trust indicator like that usually helps.

It may increase your chances of appearing in the One Box as well (as opposed to simply determining whether you get an icon next to your name), but I haven't heard that definitively.
I guess I find these down votes a little surprising. People were giving their 2 cents on whether or not it was working, and the title said it was a CSS trick. So my first impression was that it was compatible with popular browsers, mobile Safari falling in that category in my mind.

I apologize if my comment came across as snark - it was not my intent and I'll go to Reddit if I want to try to be witty.
That's actually not true. All a business has to do is register. They'll get sales calls, but they don't actually have to buy anything.
You have a point, it's all a matter of degrees.
"how europe underdeveloped africa" by walter rodney goes into a decent discussion about this topic.

http://www.amazon.com/Europe-Underdeveloped-Africa-Walter-Ro...
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No offense, but that does tread into dicey territory. It comes rather close to businesses offering customers discounts for positive Yelp reviews. How do you draw the distinction? If there is no distinction how can you be sure that Yelp reviews are true?
Just to make things more complicated, those grocery stores carry many Chinese goods.
The same thing happened to me. I created a yelp account for the express purpose of reviewing a local business that has food that's beyond shitty. I wrote a scathing one star review, and it was put in purgatory. Only when I logged into yelp was it visible.

Now, I can understand why they'd be wary of an account that only posted a single negative review, but if you ban someone, you should let them know.
One time I made a page for my personal website instead of doing a Spanish paper. Later, I was forced to finish that Spanish paper on a Friday night instead of partying. I was disappointed, but upon reflection it was a good thing.
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It would make sense for CSS to have constants, thought not variables in the javascript sense.
I consumed this article with much enthusiasm. It was filled with information and still very easy to read.

My immediate thought though: I wonder how much battery-time you would gain by making the device monochrome (black/green) when you just intend to use it to, say, call or perhaps even read something.

Maybe a mode like this already exists in Android? I don't have a Nexus one, so... :) Heck, if it doesn't exist, then I guess this might be an app for the Android app-store. Send me a cookie if you write one!
Git helped us out a lot in that it tracks content, not files. So where one person might do some cleanup that included renaming some files, and another might make some changes to the same files our previous source control system either choked or just ignored the changes.

Also, we were spending a very large amount of time waiting for merges to complete. Minutes. Lots of them. Git is lightning fast, and we spend a lot less cycles waiting (or context switching).
800 horizontal pixels, but half of them can contain no red and the other half can contain no blue. Someone should cue the lawyers from the dithered LCD lawsuits. They will have a field day with this.
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Well, she may feel dirty about what she does and be concealing it from everyone. It's not like people have never lied about things to family before, let alone friends.
Maybe somebody should just forward this thread to her mailbox so she knows that people have problems with her.
Not exactly - what is being described here are two exploits.

The first exploits the difficulty the market has in determining the "NBBO" - the National Best Bid/Best Offer. This is the best price for buying and selling the stock on all markets. This price is important because the market must route an order to the market with the NBBO if it does not have the best price (due to RegNMS). To find this price, the market's themselves must process the quotes from all the markets. This same process can be done by private companies, and sometimes they can calculate the NBBO faster, and leverage the fact that the market has not yet updated it's value.

The second exploit they describe is much simpler. It leverages the fact that if an algorithm can determine that an institution wants to buy a large quantity of a given stock, the price movement of that stock becomes more predictable. Therefore, VWAP and associated algorithms are falling out of favor by institutions since they are most easily predated. Now, many institutions buy access to custom boutique algorithms tailored to hide the large purchases and avoid predation.
Apparently it is a refined version of this:

http://www.engineershandbook.com/MfgMethods/emforming.htm
I don't think it's that complicated. And I think that various reasons might explain portions of the problem. For example, maybe this reason explains 70% of the problem. We can use science, mathematics, and statistics to test hypothesis about this, and journalism to publicize the results of our tests, as this guy and the people he cites have done. But I don't think calling someone a reductionist sociologist without providing significant refutation is among the useful possible responses to the article.
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My father taught me that as the "boy scout's shoelace knot".
You've probably seen Yelp stickers in business windows before but overlooked them. I've seen them around, but I can only recall instances of businesses in Portland or Toronto. I can remember specifically if I've seen them in other places, but probably so.
Thanks for the correction. I picked that up from the other article on Yelp today, but reading it again I think I misinterpreted.

Quote in question:

Business owners contend that they just want the same opportunity to respond to negative, false, or damaging information about their businesses. Instead, the only way for them to salvage their businesses' reputation is by paying Yelp - regardless of whether the reviews are true or false.
You can already use Amazon FPS with micropayments. I believe under the micropayments fee structure a $0.99 purchase would result in $0.10 transaction fee.
You can't patent something that has been publicly disclosed, including disclosure by yourself. Commercial use counts as disclosure.

This was filed June 18, 2004, so given the one year grace allowed under US law, if Google made commercial use of this system before June 18, 2003, then they cannot patent it.

I'm pretty sure Google used distributed map-reduce from the beginning... so I'm thinking that this patent must cover a refined method that differs in some way from their initial approach.

It's a lot of work to read and understand a patent (I spent a couple of days on one this week), so if anyone else wants to do so and let us know what the patented algorithm actually is...
There are also incentives to disgruntled employees (for example) to publish bad reviews to 'get back' at the business. In general, services like this are only useful once they reach a critical mass so that the signal drowns the noise. But as you grow you also become the target of spammers (i.e. Google's problems with SEO, real estate scammers, link farms, etc).
Dude. It was a light-hearted, good-natured joke, and nothing at all personal.

Unless a sense of humour isn't iPhone compatible either?
Unfortunately, all users have to have an Amazon account to make a payment through WebPay.

With PayPal's API, a site can keep the user on the site for the entire payment process, performing the purchase via a Web service call.

What alternative services are there to PayPal that offer the ability to act only as payment processors that get called via an API?
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Next-gen sequencing company Illumina encouraging Amazon AWS use
"...calling someone a reductionist sociologist..."

Good point. So who is this guy? His name is Tim Harford, and according to the book jacket of The Undercover Economist:

"Tim Harford writes the Financial Times Magazine "Dear Economist" column, in which he draws upon the latest economic theories to provide tongue-in-cheek answers to readers' personal dilemmas. He also works at the World Bank, where he is the lead writer for the Chief Economist of the International Finance Corporation. Formerly an economics editorial writer at the Financial Times, Harford has served as both an economist for a major oil company and an economics tutor at Oxford University. He lives in Washington DC."

So I think it's fair to call him an economist and a writer.
I read that there is a stock exchange (Taiwan? I don't remember) that executes batches of trades on a fixed schedule, like once per minute. Getting a trade in a few milliseconds earlier makes no difference if it falls in the same batch.
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Good point. I suppose this is more competing with Paypal's standard payments (free), as opposed to Paypal's Payments Pro ($30/month). Although even with the free Paypal account the user can still pay with a CC, on paypal.com.

What alternative services are there to PayPal that offer the ability to act only as payment processors that get called via an API?

Authorize.net is the 800 lb. gorilla, and I believe 2checkout offers a similar service.
It's disturbing to think that these people are responsible for the safety of our flights.
The article content was interesting, but the title is highly link-bait. I don't cwan though, because it is the exact title of the actual article.

[EDIT] I'll make the additional comment that claiming that "there are no children on the No-Fly List" is dodging the issue. Just because terrorist "John Smith" is on the No-Fly List and isn't a child doesn't mean that a child named "John Smith" won't be hassled because the name "John Smith" is on the No-Fly List.
I highly doubt that the blogger in question has responsibilities that large.
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This trend of reducing every HN story to a glib one-liner is really starting to be obnoxious.

The article is actually quite interesting in that it examines the motives a dictator has to foster stability and financial growth (so that there is more to plunder). But to achieve this growth the dictator needs help from the army or the police (any group of men with guns will do) and that comes in the form of letting them indulge in their own corruption. This leads to a national death spiral as the only way to get support for your corruptive endeavors is to let your subordinates pillage their subordinates. It is a toxic trifecta of mistrust/corruption/lack of institutions which leaves the country entirely dysfunctional.

It's a fascinating article. You should read it.
They aren't. Not in any useful way. You are always responsible for yourself, and flying is risky. Not as risky as driving a car, or showering, but there is a risk at putting yourself in a tin can 30k feet up etc...

But yes, the TSA is a mockery of actual security, and the general american public is the one being laughed at.
Admittedly, the reference to the Illumina-AWS link is not a major part of this story, but I have yet to find another source detailing this particular fact.

Illumina is one of the major next-gen (aka sequencing-by-synthesis or shotgun) sequencing players. The fact that they are encouraging AWS usage is remarkable for a few reasons. First, it's a testament to cloud computing's growing importance. Second, we're talking about a lot of human genetic data that may soon be traversing the network between various institutes and Amazon's servers, with all of the security and privacy consequences thereof. So, as a hacker, a medical person, and someone who uses next-gen sequencing, this is of interest to me.

(As an aside, the name "next-gen sequencing" is unfortunate; what shall we call the generation after this?)
This amuses me.
Cameroon only had independence for 50 years, which is as much experience as they have in running two nation-states (later became one). When people look at the developing world, they see what is going on but rarely its history. Prosperity happens gradually through an osmosis of many factors, and you have to start somewhere. The level of social stability Cameroon is able to achieve within only 50 years is fairly impressive for a western African country, or any country for that matter.
It's US only for now. One of PayPal's strengths is its international nature.
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