skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Residents of the states with sales tax will cross those borders to buy things at said stores, thus avoiding the tax.

NY/NJ

Should those stores be obligated to collect tax for the sales tax states? If not, why doesn't the same rule apply to mail order and the internet?

In the case of NY, if you buy goods out of state you are expected to pay NY state sales tax on them.

Growing up in Washington Heights, a few blocks from the George Washington Bridge, people would regularly grab the bus over to one of the Jersey malls for various items on which there was either no state sales tax or a much lower tax. Clothing was a big item. Also gas was always cheaper, for the few I knew who had cars.

Many years later I learned that New York State expected its residents to duly report these purchase and pay NY State use tax on these out-of-state purchases.

I'm sure that happened a lot.

But it's an interesting point. If Amazon is not collecting sales tax based on the customers state of residence (a la NJ and NY) then the state should be going after the customer for the use tax (something Washington state has done for purchases made from Oregon-based stores).
Wish I could say, but I never asked.
Just want to nitpick that it's the iPhone 4, not 4G. It may be the fourth generation, but it's not a 4G phone.
Not if you have a secure means of input in your OS. OSX does, for instance, you can turn it on in the Terminal application and no loggers will see what you type.

Unless they install as a kernel extension, then you're screwed. But that requires a password.
That's just completely obvious. If you're not having fun at a startup, you'll be miserable and you won't be doing your startup any favors.

I'm at my fifth startup now. All four previous ones have been both fun and profitable. My rule of thumb for joining and staying at a startup has been: have fun, believe that the company will produce something of value, be reasonably compensated. I have decided not to join (and have also resigned) when any of these failed to apply.
I agree with a lot of what the article says but I do think the newbie coming to rails at the moment has to do a hell of a lot more to start swimming compared to the "good old days" of Rails 2.

Ruby 1.8 or 1.9? Use RVM? How does this Bundler thing work? What the hell are all these deprecation warning? Rake's broken? etc. etc. 3.1 brings asset pipelines where it seems you need to install a Javascript runtime on the server to deploy?!?

Even when you get your app up and running the load times in 1.9.x at the minute mean you'll be hanging around waiting for rails to generate files and your going to have to get Spork running to make any kind of rapid TDD/BDD.

Rails used to be the easy way into all this modern development goodness, now that "blog in 20 minutes" simplicity has gone along with the famous screencast.
The same thing that's up with using single quotes outside of double quotes. They don't write well.
Business tips: spend wisely
Allegedly they have faced enough mutually-inflicted pain to realize that monkey-patching was a bad idea, and so it's no longer cool.
Syncing worked well for several of my non-technical friends until they plugged it into another computer and it nuked their music. Most people don't realize that's an issue until it happens.
It is pretty difficult to figure out the problem without knowing in what way the pitches were bad.

What in particular was missing? Did the teams make unrealistic assumptions? Did focus on pie-in-the-sky financials? Etc...
The thing about design is it's so much easier to design a simple minimalist thing vs a feature rich mammoth site that has hundreds of function. FB succeeds at the latter fairly well. Sure it's not perfect, but they have done and continue to do a great job with it. Remember, Facebook has a huge, actively-engaged userbase, so the design is tailored largely for the experienced user, not the beginner.

Technology-wise the nature of the problem is the impressive thing. They have hundreds of millions of users visiting the site daily, each one seeing a completely customized page view on every load. There's no low-hanging fruit caching wise. What Google does for search or Amazon does for product pages is of negligible benefit. They were essentially the first company to tackle this type of problem successfully. Remember, Friendster failed because of this. MySpace pages loaded at half the speed despite doing only 10% as much. Facebook innovated at every level of the service. Just look at BigPipe (http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/bigpipe-p...) as an example of how they optimize the page loading experience itself for minimal perceived latency (then load Facebook and observe how fast it feels).
Have a bit of...
I do NOT want a link sitting in my email box that logs someone into any account anywhere. I might as well put my password on a post-it and stick it to my monitor.
You could only insure bitcoin that is stored in a wallet that you control (i.e. act as a bank).
Back in april, The Awl published a list of don'ts[1] and then last week, some dos[2], many of which conveniently appeared in this nyt piece.

[1]: http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/some-awesome-things-to-say-to-...
[2]: http://www.theawl.com/2011/06/actually-awesome-things-to-say...
Tech Hipster Smackdown: MG Siegler takes on Joshua Topolsky
Compiling big Flash/AIR projects with lot of SWFs for iOS
The thing that made me delete last month was when they reverted the email notification settings to default.It struck me that they were going to change things whenever they wanted and I had no power over my information whatsoever.

I can't say this sort of thing caused 6 million others to delete as well, but as someone who has had a Facebook account since 2004 this was the thing to finally push me over the edge.

I should add that I don't miss it at all.
Do we Need Dependent Types? [pdf]
Stream parser with Ruby and Ragel
Will the Incubator Model Work in Cleantech? Greenstart Is About to Find Out
Hackers Break into Senate.gov Web Site
I strongly advise you to try foobar2000 or pretty much any other music player but iTunes if you're on Windows. Once I switched, a good deal of my computer frustration was gone. iTunes on Windows is a freezing, memory hogging, constantly updating, useless feature adding piece of crap. Virtually all its major competitors are much, much better. I hear it's not so bad on a Mac, but avoid it like the plague if you're on Windows.
Except you can put a wallet on a thumb drive, and literally put it in a bank (safe deposit box).
Actually it is the opposite it prevents states from monkeying with interstate trade and reserves that right for the federal government.
Isn't that why Mt Gox has a dark pool?
Presumably, told him in a friendly way that they wouldn't sue for trademark infringement.
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All of Sony's Formats
Considering Gearbox and 2K's recent track record, it's not too surprising -- they've been relatively mediocre at best lately

I thought Borderlands was fantastic. It can be a grind at times, but it's a really well done FPS-as-RPG. The four-player co-op was icing on the cake.
Firegpg used to support disabled drafts
Their data-dump attacks have been by SQLi, I think; they generally publish the URL of the vulnerable input in their release.

They're using other means to root machines, though. My guess is that anybody that took the right classes in college could be doing exactly what they're doing now.
Well then I'm buggered. But the plan is to not plug into a compromised computer...
While definitely not cancer, I had severe acne back in high school (way, way more than most people). There was a never-ending series of half-baked miracle cures chucked my way by strangers.

In this age of the internet, anyone who has an illness is probably more of an expert on it than most doctors are (save their specialists).
Is this the beginning of world war 3?

If it is, it would be the stupidest reason for going to war, ever.

Not that an assassination or bogus claims of WMD or the slicing of a captain's ear are any less stupider, but wouldn't it be funny if WW3 would start because of an April 1st joke done for the lulz?
Teaching eship in the classroom is like teaching love by explaining where babies come from.

Glib, yes, but it gets to my view on the heart of the matter: emotions.

Running a business plan project- in Grade School or an MBA- can never be comparable to running your own business because the emotional connection and the involuntary feelings are not present. This is why the lemonade stand example is correct- a ten year old with a lemonade stand has more emotional connection to their 'business' than an MBA student running models. If you sell 0 cups of lemonade you feel it, and you do something different tomorrow.

Jason- I will send through lonher thoughts by email when not on a train. Disclosure: I coach business owners about business in the real world, so I've seen many MBAs suffer when the theory hits their monthly cashflow. Great discussion to kick off.
1M/1M: Video Message Based On Recent Talks
Honey, I Screwed Up at Web Design
"But the iPhone (a) included new technology (touch-screen) that revolutionized user interaction with phones (does that make it a new category?); (b) it wasn't really a phone, nor really a smart-phone, but a platform for apps - like a PC; (c) the innovation of the appstore, to facilitate that platform."

a) Touchscreens had been available on smart phones for QUITE some time. They just were designed for styluses. They WERE pretty awesome, though.

b) The original iPhone was most certainly not a platform for apps. Yet, it was still very popular.

But really, why bring up Apple at all? For a company, Apple is weird and opaque. Trying to use their actions or success to justify your start-up is foolish, since you don't really understand how and why Apple got to where they are. No, really. You don't. (Not nearly well enough to duplicate or otherwise replicate it) Bringing them up is an unnecessary and unhelpful complication.

EDIT: Yeesh, I guess I skimmed right over the part of the article where this is brought up, for my last paragraph.
Many Americans think any laws that tell a manufacturer how to sell a phone are bad.
>As a general rule, one should expect no-one to care about anything new you happen to be working on. Consider: if people cared, it would be done already

I think that's a bit of a jump! There's plenty of things that people care about but don't personally think they could achieve. If you do a startup to end world hunger, people would be interested as soon as you proved your credibility in actually achieving it.

Also - Interesting side-project! What's your background (are you a software dev? biotech scientist?)
If you can assume that your users will most likely use the same computer, you can make this technique slightly more secure. Have the random link only log you in if the device is recognized as one that has logged in with a password before. Combine this with two levels of "logged in-ness" and you have a pretty robust, easy to use system.
It's official: developers spend more time on stack overflow with age.
You're unfortunately correct. This worked initially fine for us, as all resources were served through CDN. However, when images were changed and deployed the results weren't expected.

ERB helpers seem to be the only way currently.
Better yet: does iOS have a SIP client yet? Using a data plan without voice would be a lot more useful. (Been doing this for years on Android.)
What Are The Most Common Startup Mistakes?
Good read and really love that assets are first-class citizens in Rails. A little off topic, but can anyone point me in the direction of some resources on the biggest changes from 3.0.x to 3.1? Working on an upgrade now and have only played with 3.0.x and would like to know what to expect moving on up to 3.1. Thanks.
There's some good stuff in the comments there. Your argument "I'm arguing against the value of any attempts to predict it beyond the upper limits established by mathematics." is ignoring the physics, which limits the problem greatly.
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It would have been nice to see a plot of all data, not just the selected region of the 26 most dangerous.
That's a question of style. Specifically, it's common in England.
Google Scaling Solar, Commits $280 Million To Finance SolarCity Installations
Yeah, I pretty much thought that the Ruby for people who want One Right Way to Do Things is Python.
What sort of 'thing' were you trying to do?
> Facebook makes some change or introduces a service that appears to make the site less private or secure, everybody makes a big deal about it, and Facebook (typically) goes ahead and does it anyway. Then everyone starts to theorize when users will begin leaving en masse in defiance.

The big deal is from the users who are upset and want to make their opinions known. I don't think anyone seriously expects a mass defection. What might happen is a slow erosion of the site's usefulness due to subtle changes in behavior. Eg people start sanitizing their status updates, making them less interesting and removing incentive for people to log in. Another example might be if they are annoyed clunky and restrictive photo sharing tools they start sharing their pictures somewhere else.
Saying ‘No’ To The iOS 5 Beta
That's a great idea, and I'm curious as well. I may have to get back to you on that. You can find the report at: http://www.iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr4605.pdf
This kind of URL is called a "capabilities URL" in security circles. It's a common pattern, and often considered more secure than username/password pairs, though its security depends on how the user protects it.

You can find more details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security
How about instead paying for a better VPS or someone to turn caching on.
I'm sorry yes, the preceding post represents my opinion, and my opinion only. It does not represent the opinions of my employer, bank, or family, nor is it an official verdict of the United States Supreme Court.

Furthermore, any likenesses to people real, living, or yet-born are purely coincidental, or have been properly sublicensed through those who own their copyright.

You may not make copies of my post without the express, written consent, of the National Football, Baseball and Basketball leagues.

Happy?
Yes. I got this from a few people when my brother died recently.

If you say this to anyone having any kind of personal difficulty, you're a complete and total asshole.
Isn't that what they are trying to do with iCloud?
These are some surprising results.

1) A lot of Nissans. A real lot.

2) A lot of trucks.

3) A lot of the same makes (Nissan, Chevy), while some notable absences (only one Toyota, no Hondas)

4) Kia Spectra is listed twice, with no differentiation. Looks like a mistake, as it is the only one like that. (I'm assuming different years) Edit: It's actually station wagon vs. sedan, with the wagon higher.
I drove a 350z for a couple of years and never felt more invisible on the road than when I was driving it.

It was a weekly occurrence to have a big truck merge right into my lane without seeing me, causing me to have to swerve to avoid getting creamed. I'm not sure if it was because it was so low to the ground or what, but I always had to pay extra attention every time I got behind the wheel.
Meh. The author implies that farmers are likelier to have no clue about computers than people who "would buy their fruit online". That's just nonsense, and it illustrates that the author has a very 1950's idea about farming.

Farming in western coutries these days is about running lean and highly automated businesses on tiny margins. Virtually all professional farmers are comfortable using computers and specialized software.
Ok, search by image is epic.
Was it only Quake that had such extensive modding capabilities, or was it Duke also?

In short, if they stick to the spirit of games from that time, then user content will show up and you'll both get your wish.
Search by image? Sounds like TinEye
I'd be curious to see whether it takes crash speeds into account. Isn't it wrong to name a car dangerous purely based on the number of people died in it? I'd argue the driving habits of the particular demographic that drives a particular car should be a huge factor.
What's with the PHP bashing? MVC and ActiveRecord were in PHP frameworks and code before rails was born.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639647

Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong
Talking about the joy of exploring the levels, I remember when I first discovered the hidden room in the first level in DN3D with the jetpack. A JETPACK! How awesome and novel was that in 1995??

And to think the game was not even true 3D! (You could aim straight ahead, shoot and hit your friend that was flying in the air). Despite that technical shortcoming, the game was FUN. I wasted many hours during summer in 1995 playing this game with a friend, and we even made our own levels to play in deathmatch, figured out novel ways to place laser tripmines, and used teleporters for nefarious purposes. Sounds like a classic case of "we made it 'cause we can" not because it was fun.
Rails 3.1 RC release blog point has good pointers on what has changed.

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/5/22/rails-3-1-release-ca...
He also said:

I know C# and ASP.NET (MVP or WebForms) much, much better than I know Ruby and Rails.
Technology Changes Fast, People, Not So Much
Internet could be 10 times faster than it is
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In Texas there is a state wide sales tax of 6.25%. Local taxing jurisdictions(cities, counties, what have you) may charge up to 2% more. So you could have 50 different tax rates in Texas before you consider any other state. Who wants to follow politics in every town in Texas just to see if they adjusted the tax rate. Even if it is feasible for Amazon it isn't for every web retailer.
Twitter Prohibits Research on Osama Bin Laden Tweets...
Is it the car that's deadly, or does the car attract deadly drivers?

For example, are there other, stronger predictors of deadly accidents such as age, geography, or occupation? And are those people more likely to buy certain cars? I notice Buick has fewer deaths per million, but could that be because Buick attracts more cautious or less frequent drivers?

I assume the IIHS has competent statisticians. But I'd still be interested to see how strongly the differences between drivers factor into this.
Well said. Matt Stone and Trey Parker have mastered this offensive-yet-witty thing (this last season of South Park, notwithstanding). They should've taken a cue from those two on how to put together the humor.
Would love to see some data from a popular site about how often the "forgot my password" link is used and whether it is evenly distributed or only used repeatedly by a subset of the user base.

Another attribute that I would assume of "less adept computer users" is that they usually use the same computer for all their tasks. Again, I'd be interested to learn if the "forgot password" link is used less as more browsers are seamlessly integrating password remembering features.
This would be more akin to sticking it inside your (locked, but not necessarily 100% secure) mailbox.

I agree, though.
mysql2 is far easier than the original mysql gem. If you want to waste half a day, go try to install the old one. ;)

Are you on a Mac, by chance? With XCode/GCC + MacPorts, I've not had many issues with gems. Add to Gemfile, run bundle. Done.
Sounds like a plan... Why bother with the IronKey?
For such an early project, RStudio is extremely impressive. I really like the interactive plotting:
http://www.rstudio.org/docs/advanced/manipulate
Ah, good point, I forgot that Rails defaults to SQLite.
I think it's the students.

People who go to MBA school are making a big investment because they want to get a good, safe, high-paying job for a big company. If they were on fire to start their own company they'd spend that money on starting their own company and shave two years off their time-to-market.
Two best programming languages for serious programmers
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I was diagnosed with an inflammatory bowel disease and everyone would constantly tell me all these foods and supplements that would cure my illness.

I had to constantly tell them there were numerous studies showing that diet had no effect on the illness. But they ignored that because "it cured they're friend".
I hope your cousin got slapped! My goodness!
Tolkien's achievement: to reintroduce a heroic world view to a world gone ironic
I think the data is misleading. It implies there's something safer about the physical car, its structure etc while the trends may be due to the age ranges, emotional maturity, sense of responsibility etc of the average driver for the particular model. Just look at the "safest" car (Chrysler Sebring). IMO that's a car for relatively conservative drivers. While the most dangerous car (Nissan 350z) is IMO driven more often by younger, less responsible people.
Include a Single Call-to-Action in Emails
Google Search By Image
Crashes on Firefox 4 and my iPad.
> Furthermore, when offering direct login links you are training your users to not remember their passwords.

Come to think of it, that sounds very convenient. How about a security model that links an account only to an email address? This implies that anyone who can read that email account can log in. For many purposes, this might be fine.

You could do without those nasty passwords entirely then. Logging in from a new computer without cookies stored means having yourself a new "log me in" email sent. Sucks if you have to open your email just for that, but then again, for some services, this might seldomly be a problem because of their email-oriented nature.
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They are smaller trucks, though.
What is Gmail doing on that list? The only news I've seen mentioning them has been a spear-headed phishing attack directed at a small subset of their users. People falling for scams is no fault of the software provider.
Where are you located? Would you be able to meet with clients face to face once in a while?
For every Facebook, I wonder how many startups failed at the same time.

Oh, I guess the only people allowed to participate in high-ROI investments are the rich. We can't have little people competing! It might hurt their margins.
I'm a software tech, with a few years of experience in writing about the life science field - this would be a lot easier to bootstrap if I had actual biotechnology skills and deep knowledge there as well.

There are people working credibly on ending world hunger, and all sorts of other even more important projects (such as ending aging, which kills far more people and causes far more harm in the developing world) and they have the same uphill struggle and lack of interest. I submit that we're using different reflexive definitions of the word "care", which might be expanded out as (a) "care in the abstract sense" and (b) "care enough to actually do something".
There have been SIP clients for the iOS for a while now. Been using one for a year. I recommend Siphon, which is available on Cydia, but there are several in the Apple Store too.
Why, do they taste better? I'm pretty sure I could only eat one or two iPads for lunch.