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Noun
founder (plural founders)
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something originates; one who endows.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/founder

Whatever his title officially was, before him, there was no code. He built the foundation of amazon.com. Doesn't that make him a "founder".
So far, nobody tried. I think that Creative Commons can teach a lesson :)
This is the list of countries where the UK Gambling Commission lists its license as being compliant. For the record, if you check any other major British-based gambling site, such as Betfair.com or King.com, you will find that players from ALL of the above countries are allowed to sign up and gamble on those sites. We hold the exact same UK licenses as they do.

And no, we are not preying on anyone, developer or otherwise. We assume all legal responsibility and risk for the gambling aspect of any game, meaning any developer that works with us has no risk of legal action. We handle all aspects related to gambling. A developer from anywhere in the world, including the US, has no risk of getting arrested anywhere.
Bartz "got screwed" (like the Yahoos fired right before Xmas?)
My (not so) Excellent Adventure on Lab Day
Well despite being a high school drop out, albeit with an associates degree in management, I've done alright for myself. My income is in the low six figures, I enjoy my job at Microsoft and have enjoyed most of my previous positions as well. At the same time I could have been where I am at now a lot sooner if I'd gone the traditional route. I suspect my income would be padded with a few extra 10k, etc.

So, no college isn't necessarily necessary, but I would recommend it. You'll still have time to work on your startup and have the benefit of pulling in others from your classes to help.

Being forced to sit through those classes forces you to cover some things you may not seek out on your own and these skills in language, mathematics and technology can help you out quite a bit during your early career before you're forced to hunker down and pick them up on your own.
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I wouldn't put it past him to have several things that would generate good PR ready to go at a moment's notice.
I implemented DNT a couple days ago on Playtomic. I think it's a great idea and I hope it reaches near-100% adoption with harsh penalties for companies not respecting it.
That doesn't mean this wasn't Cook's baby. Jobs was on medical leave for almost all of 2011, leaving Cook in charge since January. He had plenty of time to prepare.
There is a very important aspect of this whole mess that is left out:

The legislation, which affects affiliates, would be repealed under the deal as it stood this morning. At this time I don't know if that stuck.
California punches well above its weight when it comes to consumption expenditures. I wouldn't be surprised if a quarter of Amazon's purchases originated here. We Californians are a spendy bunch.
Good points. Still, it would be terrible if they ended up not surviving because of pricing it too low. Even a charity has to somehow make ends meet and if they end up going out of business everybody loses. I really hope they can make it work at the price points indicated but I'd rather have them a bit more expensive than not at all.
I would say it is simpler in startup terms. Most founders are pre-money. If you get a full salary on your start date, you are not a founder, you are an employee (perhaps the first).
Because he escaped when the MBAs took over ?
Technical debt pays our rent
I suspect Liz Upton is female.
perhaps he felt that he earned his money honorably and never cheated or stole it from anyone, and thus had no guilt that needed assuaging.
If it's good and the spec is open, I don't see anything wrong with that. If it's really that great and becomes popular, other browsers will be able to add support easily.
Computer science != programming language. Computer science is at a far lower level of abstraction than meta-languages and compilers.
Show HN: We turned foursquare tips into food recommendations
At $25 they will be helping a lot more people than just well-off geeks - this whole project a charitable after all.

I will be buying them for kids who would never have even touched a computer in their lives if not for these (and doing a bit of teaching).
Since I am hardly Bill Gates, this would be completely impossible for me at $95 each (only giving them to 2-3 of these kids and leaving out the rest is just a bad idea in a slum).
Amazon has 33k employees [1], estimated; they can figure it out. Also, I'm positive there's at least one company selling such information -- thousands of other retailers, most much smaller and much less technically sophisticated than Amazon, still manage to make it happen. This is an idiotic excuse.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com
The penetration rate between HDTVs and PCs are close. But just because there is a PC in the home, doesn't mean the kid can use it to learn (i.e. it may be a single PC for the whole family to use).

2010 HDTV US home penetration: 65% [1]

2006 PC US home penetration: 73% [2]

[1] http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2010/05/03/dai...

[2]
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/itfacts/us-pc-penetration-is-at-73...
Just wish I could figure out how to disable the damn Spaces/Mission Control 'swoosh' switch animation like you could in Leopard :(
Personally I don't think Python is good enough. It is OK, but better things can be imagined. For example I don't like the crippled lambda.
This has the potential to go viral. $20 with free drinks is not bad. Initially it might be awkward but I feel that if the matching is good enough connections can start easily. I would add that they send each participant a summary of each other's profile if they haven't already thought about it. This will give all parties some insight and tool to start a productive conversation.
It appears that their nonfat version has 18g of protein:
http://www.chobani.com/products/c/nonfat

And their 2% version has 17g of protein:
http://www.chobani.com/products/c/lowfat

I imagine the difference is only because the fat displaces some of the protein in the low fat version, not because there is some special "high protein" quality to the nonfat.

I continue to be baffled by Americans' obsession with nonfat products, when nearly all current nutritional research says there is nothing wrong with fat, and that in many cases it's good for you.
I studied VHDL extensively at university as well as semiconductor physics (I did microelectronics). I'd like to go back to that level - it's great fun but too many problems are utterly abstract now for anyone to care about it any more.

However, always make time for stuff that's interesting :)
The geek in me completely agrees with you.

But I also think that would miss the point of this being a charitable enterprise entirely.
Really? What corrupted disk images are you opening? I've never had it report an error, and I download software in .dmg files all the time (and wait for verification all the time).
So let me get this straight:

You feel that the entire article asked all sorts of people in these professions their opinions but when it came time to ask a soldier they couldn't find one and so the opinion was supplied by the US Army Public Relations Office?

Or maybe the whole study is a propaganda stunt? The US Army itself went and interviewed all these people so that it could plant a two line sentence about how its soldiers could think for themselves! (Gasp!)

Frankly, I think what's most likely is that your absolute hatred for the military and its members is clouding your cognitive ability, causing you to see conspiracies where none exist. Sadly, I have no doubt that my comment will alter your thinking in any way.
First I thought if they base it on just your Facebook profile alone it's going to be pretty weak match.

But then thinking back to the dating sites I've tried where the match was poor anyway I thought maybe I'll give it a chance.

Most dating sites don't live up to the promise of a perfect match so you might as well opt for a quick one ;<).
The Mac Kung Fu book from Pragmatic Bookshelf describes lots of hidden defaults settings.
http://pragprog.com/book/ktmack/mac-kung-fu
Chumby NeTV turns any HDTV into a Smart TV
Notifo (YC W10) Will be Shutting Down
`set -o vi` is a POSIX shell feature.
Thankfully, curl can't be tricked in such a manner.

fetch http://jcs.org/tmp/nothing.html through curl:

jcs@air:~> curl -s http://jcs.org/tmp/nothing.html
there is really nothing here, i can promise you that.

but you just aren't seeing the content.

jcs@air:~> curl -s http://jcs.org/tmp/nothing.html | vis
View source in Firefox. \^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H[...]
I did get an invite from them a while back, but the problem is that even if they have the best features, and the best open source platform (I do not know for sure if they do but that is what they claim to be building), I only have one of my friends on it with me. Now I can go ahead and really try to get all my friends to join it, but that seems like a bit too much work.
TokuDB v5.0 for MySQL and MariaDB
No offense, but what makes you think that Google and Facebook 'imitated' Diaspora? It's a naturally occuring idea that is visible in real-life interactions. Circles seems to be a lot more intuitive and user-friendly than what you guys 'invented'.
In California there are different tax rates for every county in the state. see http://www.boe.ca.gov/cgi-bin/rates.cgi
Even Canada, with 1/10 the number of jurisdictions, is attempting to unify: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonized_Sales_Tax.
idkfa
iddqd
it's frightening that that's still saved deep in my brain and rapidly available.
Only for a year, then you have to pay to renew it. Still decent, though. But if you want a free cert, try startcom instead.
Are you serious? With a DVCS you can commit to a personal repository offline, this in itself is a killer feature. Git also tracks content rather than files which makes renaming so much less problematic when it comes to subsequent merges (and who likes merges?). Git has the concept of stashing changes enabling rapid context switches without losing work in progress. It is significantly faster. It uses less disk space for branches. Creating branches is much quicker due to a fundamentally different way of branching. Finally, it has a killer app in GitHub. What more do you want?
Yes, Amazon does. But if it applies to Amazon then it will apply to all the other smaller internet retailers as well. The historical precedent was that it creates an undue burden on said retailers who have to collect such a tax. It's not an excuse, it's a Supreme Court ruling.
Will you think about open sourcing the backend? Or selling it?
Actually, I'm pretty sure you're wrong about companies selling this information. Smaller retailers manage to avoid this hassle by... not having to pay sales tax for out-of-state purchases.

That might be whats behind Amazon's change of heart. This will be difficult for them, but its probably impossible for smaller retailers. It might be expensive in the short term, but it protects them from competition in the long run.
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sorry to hear, chad. i relied on the android app to send notifications from various things to my phone without sms.

anyone know of a free android alternative that uses c2dm?
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Fouling Out and Moving On (re: Notifo Shutdown)
It took a bit of digging, but here's a document on how the UN estimates mortality: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/adultmort/Comp...

You're sort of taking the quote from the US ambassador to the UN out of context. The US ambassador to the UN said that the UN Security Council can't even issue so much as a press release without US agreement. Never mind that this may just have been hyperbole, but it would make sense that the UN Security Council may have trouble doing things without the backing of the world's most powerful military. It says nothing, really, about what the UN as a whole, or the body who forms the mortality statistics specifically, is capable of doing or not doing without US backing.
> Parents will be upset if it somehow the installation screws up the home computer.

You've understated this point. Kids should be encouraged to (educationally) do things that will screw up their computers, like attempting to build their own kernel. They shouldn't have to worry about getting beaten because mom can't play Farmville after they've been experimenting.
This platform could potentially take social networking to the next level, getting strangers with similar interest to actually meet. And not just on a dating/adult level, but on a wholesome and casual scenario. People don't do this because of our social and cognitive limitations. I guess having an algorithm to do the picks takes out that awkward task. They say that a stranger is a friend you just haven't met yet, well, we will find out.
I can see how you read it that way. Apologies if I was overly harsh and thanks for addressing my criticism.
Yeah, Busted! I was about to make a comment on the same topic! Thanks.
> I would add that they send each participant a summary of each other's profile

I would be okay if they don't. Privacy matters aside, it lets everyone present themselves at the meet-up as they want to, and not be judged by some small sampling of pictures or posts on their profile.
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Next stop: coffee in USA.
There is a similar type thing at www.notify.io which existed before notifio was around anyway.
Does VAT vary per county? Or also by smaller areas? If it's just per country it's not that hard to do.
While most like the trumpet the enumerated protections of the Constitution that the US enjoys, this is (IMHO) an example of where the wording and the intent of the Constitution is outdated.

Most developed nations have some for of consumption/sales tax. In the EU it's typically 17.5-25%, in Australia it's 10%, in Switzerland it's ~7% and so on. America has this on a state by state basis.

Nowadays the split jurisdiction with interstate commerce is now awkward and unwieldy. I believe that in the coming years the Federal government will act to enforce an interstate sales tax and maybe even a tax on imports. The path of least resistance here is for the sales tax due to be the sales tax that applies in the state of the recipient.

I'm not sure how much revenue that would raise but my guess is a lot.

As for Amazon, I'm not sure what they're thinking. In a year they'll have the same problem. One would think they're confident of Federal action in the next year on online sales taxes or they think the climate will have changed in a year. I'm not convinced of either. Are they that desperate that a year's delay is a win for them?

While we're at it, what's up with New York? Amazon collects sales tax for the state of New York while it (thus far unsuccessfully) has tried to challenge the "Amazon tax" in the courts. Is New York a test case? Are the affiliates in New York that much more valuable?
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(I wrote the original post)

There are tons of great third-party tools for data collection, and in some cases, you'll be hard pressed to come up with a better home-grown alternative (you probably won't write your own Google Analytics/Clicky/etc alternative). In some cases, even when there is a third-party tool available, it makes sense to write your own - the costs for some of the per-datapoint tools can get quite high, and you don't always want to be sending a high volume of data to a remote server (I'm a huge fan of things like statsd, which are very lightweight).

Where there aren't good third party tools is in pulling together all of your data sources in a way that you can easily compare them against each other. This is hard to do, since everything has a different API, but I find to be really valuable when you can get it done.
The keyword here is "learn". Don't underestimate the amount of time it takes to become truly proficient in any language. Not to mention the huge cultural differences between the communities, and therefor companies, around those languages. Even with someone with a proven track record, it is still a considerable risk and investment on the part of the employer.
I'm sad that this is now necessary. Mac OS X 10.5 was the first version of OS X which I could start using for work immediately without installing any hacks (with the one exception of the Terminal Colors SIMBL plugin).

My dad says, "I don't want to upgrade! Things work fine! They always dick around with everything!" He's talking about QuarkXPress and MS Office and whatnot, which is understandable. But, for the first time ever, I'm not excited about the new version of the Mac operating system.
1) California's GDP is $1.9 trillion, 13% of the $15 trillion US GDP (this is more accurate in comparing consumption than population). Factoring in California's likely higher rates of online retail purchases, 14% is quite plausible.

2) There is massive fraud with use tax reporting.
http://lakeconews.com/content/view/21075/928/
$10.4 million in use tax payments were made in 2009, which would work out to be about $100 million in revenues taxed. With Amazon alone is selling $2.7 billion in CA, of which the vast majority is for out-of-state purchases that don't have sales tax. It's entirely plausible that over 95% of out of state sales are not being taxed. I'd even hypothesize that most of the use tax payments actually made are for trackable items (cars).
2a) The whole reason politicians want out of state companies to collect tax is because of the massive fraud.
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What a bummer. I integrated notifo into my (as yet unreleased side-) project, and it was really easy to get going. The main purpose of my app is to send alerts, and I'd planned to highlight notifo integration as one of the features.

Good luck on your next adventure, Chad!
Well done dude, seriously. This is great for a first rails app. Puts mine to shame.
Don't forget idspispopd for noclip (Doom 1). I must have typed those cheats a thousand times. If you tried using Doom cheats in Heretic you'd get the opposite effect. idkfa would strip you of all weapons and iddqd would kill you. Great addition to the game!
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Definitely sucks to have to shut something down. Best of luck in the future, and I'm sure having to do this will help then too.
You might be interested in his resume:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/vita.pdf
Which do you use? I've had a quick google and only found Guilt as a serious contender, and that doesn't seem to quite do what hg patch queues do (especially wrt publishing queues). I'm interested as it seems like quite a common workflow (for me at least) that doesn't really fit into the Git model.
The article kind of confuses hacker as in "Linus Torvalds is a hacker", and hacker as in "Kevin Mitnick is hacker". While I don't think the word cracker will ever be popular, at least we should not mix the concepts.
That plain yogurt is still sweetened in most American brands, just without the extra flavors like strawberry or key lime added.
I second selling it. I've been surprised what a random website might get on Flippa, and Notifo has some recognition and cache. Might as well see if it can hit a reserve price - passing the service on at whatever price is probably good for the founders and users.
Bunnie mentioned it on his blog today: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=1847

Might be a nice FPGA dev toy, since the design will be open.

Any info on pricing yet?
Anyone else feel that these guys have missed their moment?

Their whole raison d'etre is privacy and openness, and it seems to me the once-regular privacy scares around Facebook don't seem to be happening any more, or at least they're not registering with mainstream users, many of which are probably now becoming more savvy.
A group of people sure beats "... was last seen alive leaving the bar with ... who she met on blahblah.com".
I'm really disappointed in Lion -- lots of gratuitous changes without much benefit. The Finder in particular is horrific.

I do like the new Terminal.app.
Sad news Chad, but Twilio seems like it will be a great fit for you - at least until that itch comes back again :).
Not an experienced Lisper, but yes, you're right. If you made heatmaps of the original keystrokes, for a Lisper using Paredit, there would likely be a decent highlight on the open paren but almost nothing on the close, as Paredit inserts parens in pairs. Hitting ( inserts ().

I don't think Paredit isn't included in Emacs, but here's the relavent page on the Emacs Wiki: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit
and here's a cheatsheet: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PareditCheatsheet

There's also something similar for Vim, or at least something bundled with slimv, which is more than just Paredit (supporting something like SLIME) http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2531
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I believe the matching gifts was entirely Tim Cook's show.

However I think Jobs is planning on doing some significant philanthropy. I don't believe he will leave it all to his family or simply write a check to a charity.

I've thought about this a lot and I believe he's got something planned that will be both innovative and backed by a significant chunk of his net worth.

He's certainly had a few years to reflect on how he wants to be remembered, a gift not everyone receives. He's going to opt to enhance his considerable legacy.
They have different rates even down to the city level take a look here http://www.boe.ca.gov/cgi-bin/rates.cgi?LETTER=A&LIST=CI...
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Surprised nobody's mentioned Ur yet: http://www.impredicative.com/ur/
Nothing too detailed of course. The participant can have it as an option and decide what information can be included. Things like "I'm into rock climbing" or "I like Physics".... maybe nothing more than a few sentences. The key is giving participants the option. This could help "break the ice" because we are letting complete strangers meet. I would not include adding pictures as an option though.
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I think you said exactly what I tried to say. I would think that cross-functional employees are the future, except I never hear anyone about these types of skills when hiring or developing management talent. Despite knowing know a little about finance, accounting, and management, MBAs always seem to be one dimensional (BTW, I am a couple months from completing mine.)
If you do proceed with this, would you mind giving us updates? I'm curious how this would work and what the reactions would be.

Also, a question: How would you explain/handle the security implications (to the children and/or parents)? Is it something that can simply be handled with, "Here is the list software they'll be running -- This will stop them from using Facebook in class, etc.." or am I just making this too complicated?
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They want to deal on an even playing field with other online retailers. They don't want to have to collect tax in a state that their competitors do not. A nationwide solution would make them happy.
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Actually, I think these are both valid approaches and it's a decision the company has to make.

In this case, I can see how not sharing that info would make for a more exciting experience. e.g some magical algorithm paired me and my friends up with random other folks. I'd go along just to see how well it worked.
Sorry to hear this. I am a technologist at Cisco and I enjoyed showing the capabilities of Notifo in tech demos (for example, having a virtual assistant send links to my phone).