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It looks like it's really the alternate VM that's being "shot down". After all, the piece goes to the trouble of pointing out that "...transforming compiler libraries like Traceur and CoffeeScript show how syntax additions to JavaScript and even completely alternative syntaxes can be supported in today’s browsers, without changes to the runtime."

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft.
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Ask HN: How fast can you go from idea to first line of code?
Hey fellow hackers,

I'd like to know how fast you can go from a startup/side-project idea to its first line of code?

And what language, IDE, framework, tools, software, OS etc. you are using to do so?

Would be great if some of you could describe their workflow.

Thanks!
To be 100% honest, I've bene nothing but very very happy with my Kindle.

Purchased a book by accident? Refund instantly or done within 5 minutes.
Switching devices? No problemo, pages are synced up to the last page you read.
Wiping your device? All your books are online and available for download.

This seems like a fringe case that I'm not too worried about. I have a full purchase history on Amazon.com and if anything fails, I am pretty sure their customer service wouldn't become huge pricks to me for no reason at all.
So we've definitely arrived in Stallman's Right to Read future: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Why was this posted to hackernews? Most of us aren't commodity traders so can offer nothing more than superficial feedback ( likely on the things traders won't care about - like font choice or css comments...) and we certainly won't be paying customers.
True. It's a game and it's tricky.
Would love to hear about selection criteria - it does seem that you have generated quite a bit of interest.
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This reminds me of the recent Dinosoar Comic. It seems like everyone thinks they can make a better dating site these days: "BaguettesAll4Me.co.uk is complete! ... I realized my perfect woman won't say 'ew that's weird' as she watches me eat a whole baguette"
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I think the difference is that it's a lot easier to opt out of online tracking. You can turn on private browsing mode. You can decide not to shop online.

With this kind of tracking, there's much less that you can do, especially if more essential shops like grocery stores start to implement it. Sure, you can turn your phone off, but I at least feel like merchants should be polite enough not to track my every movement without my explicit permission.
One more idea. You could add a "system error button" or something similar that a user can click and tell you how your NLP/ML algorithms work. Then, use it for improving your models or maybe even implement active learning.
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If you keep the denominator low, you can get a high view/message ratio. Mine is like 20%, but I only get like 5 views a month. ;-)

Side note: your view count seems to depend a lot on how active you are. I check back perhaps once every couple weeks, which means most of the time I never show up in the all-important "Online now" or "Online in the last day" search results. Hence girls who find my profile tend to be really looking, and more likely to message. If I'm online regularly for a couple days in a row, my view count goes up, my message count stays constant, and the view/message ratio goes way down.
Agreed. At the same time, it's a good warning that wisdom might be to backup your books in preparation for bugs.
This is how you "get things done" - complain online to get the most PR you can, the company finally listens, and will fix it within 24 hours.

It's too bad it has to come to that.
I do not believe that any other e-book seller has the selection that Amazon does. It would be terribly embarrassing if some seller tried to use this for PR and then realized that they do not have some of the titles.
Website analytics for malls is a good analogy. Five years from now, people will clap technology on the back for giving them more efficient store placements because of "mall analytics", but in the present, people are constantly fighting the future.

The negative reactions even remind me of The Oatmeal's comic on every time Facebook changes its layout: http://theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter/facebook_layout
Would be great to learn more about it without having to log in.

More screenshots too plz
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Actually I wasn't really focusing on their software but their hardware (my wife wants the iPhone in gray to match her coach pocketbook). You can actually customize Mac OSX far more than you can customize gnome shell.

I was merely making fun of Apple's crazy licensing for the App Store, their lack of respecting privacy, the fervent fanatic love for them, and that a majority of the users that use Apple products are of a particular demographic all of which to me is very very 1984ish.

Just ask Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/#!/Apple

Hey I will say that the MacBook Air kicks ass!
Anyone know if the Kobo has similar issues?

I've totally written off the Kindle because of similar 3rd party content issues - anyone have first hand experience with the Nook or Kobo when used with ePub (mainly) and PDF (rarely) files?
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"Angie’s List began trading this week with a market cap of $800 million. Personally, I find this hard to believe and unsustainable... My opinion is driven by a conviction that Angie’s List is built on an antiquated business model."

Indeed. Requiring me to pay $35 or whatever just to have a bunch of contractors call me and haggle over the phone isn't useful.

I much prefer Redbeacon's approach: Download the iPhone app, take a few pictures, and let the providers send you concrete prices.
What? You always call websites whenever you can't log into them? You don't allow for downtime at all?

They are disputing the charges because amazon stole their content!
Lists are dead, Angie's is a dinosaur, Redbeacon is giving the power to the people.
But those languages aren't a significant deviation and still require pre-compilation as opposed to runtime cross-compilation to be useful. Dart is a significant deviation and expected to support debugging directly in the language. Similar to developing in GWT, I doubt the JS will really be looked by the developers at once Dart's compiler is optimized more.

Also, the VM wouldn't be required, it would just provide performance improvements.
it's probably not a big deal from their perspective, since 99% of people wouldn't realize to do that.

It's essentially good enough for them, since the mainstream audience wouldn't realize that, and if a few geeks figure out a way to cheat the system, then that's fine too, since they need all the help that they can get
You're still making a distinction between online and the physical world, which is that for websites, you do something extra to opt out, whereas in the physical world you want to give explicit permission before they track you.

Note that it's very easy to opt out of this: turn the phone off. You click one button. And arguably it's more effective than private browsing mode, which still leaks a lot of information about you.
"It's nt a privacy concern" What?! Depends who you ask! Since when are the people collecting data the ones who decide what a privacy concern is? I don't mind right now but others might and I may change my mind!

"Hardly anyone opts out". This one is disgusting! Of course they won't opt out! Do I lose touch with the people I need or want to co,mini ate with and lose the ability to comparison shop as I go or do I opt in to being tracked by default?

They've done this totally backwards. People should have the option to opt in not out. There really isn't much choice here. It all seems innocent enough right now but we all know it'll start going further as the years go by.
Now you're just arguing for the sake of argument and throwing in semantics.

I could also say that I am bigger than the Sun because whenever I see the Sun it is only around 3 inches in diameter while I am 5 feet 11 inches. But that is a completely dumb statement, and so is yours.
Amazon is a sufficiently large organization such that I'm sure this sort of thing actually happens more often than you think.

By the tone of your comment, I'm assuming the "part of the story we're not hearing" involves the customer doing something wrong, rather than Amazon? If that's the case, I can't really think of what that thing might be that would give Amazon the right to lock this guy out? Also, why would he bring this issue to light and risk exposure if he really had done something so wrong?

I find it much easier to believe that a large corporation allowed an individual customer to fall through the cracks than some fraudster launching an elaborate plan to scam Amazon out of $1000 in e-books.
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That assumes 1 view = 1 date, when I'd bet the conversion rate of views -> messages -> dates is probably way, way lower.

100 views = 10 messages = 1 date seems like a ballpark, but there are so many variables that it must be different for everyone.
You'd think that in a soft retail economy they'd be less brazen. Well, time to teach them a lesson, I suppose.
I think I would liken that more to having your sys admin do analytics by watching the logs, but yes, the general idea is the same.
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I find this sort of article extremely interesting. (I'm in the commodity trading space, mostly natural gas and electricity)

Beware the fallacy where you believe everyone around you has similar interests; likes; dislikes; pop-culture background; etc as yourself.
I'm not really arguing. Seems like someone is looking to start a fight. I saw a comment that seemed to belittle the depressed and minimize the seriousness of the problem as well as a veiled mockery of CBT.
Guilty. Any recommendations for learning?

edit: I have the rhino book. I meant, learning alternatives to organizing my code as a series of jQuery event bindings.
That's interesting, I have tried using OKCupid for dating, but it seems like all of my matches are women I might be interested in platonically, but not for dating.

It could be that OKC has developed a very good system for meeting new friends, but not necessarily for dating.
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I had a very similar idea about 15 years ago. I was working for a market research firm that measured the effectiveness of marketing and public relations campaigns. To quantify results we read, categorized and graded articles pertinent to the campaign.

Since we were analyzing thousands of articles a week (this is pre-www BTW) I thought we could leverage that dataset to identify patterns that could be used to predict the market. Unfortunately it turned out to be a lagging indicator and 20/20 hindsight isn't valuable.

I'll be interested to see if you can succeed with essentially the same strategy. Of course the publishing industry is a much different animal now, so maybe it'll work this time around. I'll be watching you closely.

If you are interested in chatting feel free to email me. My address is in my profile.
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There's a question about finding the next number in a sequence of numbers, and somehow people who are damn near illiterate know what the next integer in sequence of centered polygonal numbers would be.

I think it's just idiotic and I use it as a way to measure how divorced from reality and full of it people are. Especially the ones who mark it off as "mandatory."

Basically-- idiots think smart people memorize oeis.org, and that's probably enough knowledge for me to decide they're going to base the relationship on total nonsense and lies. The system sucks; hack the system.
No, I call websites whenever my content that I paid for is broken or inaccessible. Not to mention they already did it once, and were told to wait 24 hours, but instead they waited a month?

I understand why they're disputing charges, but that seems silly if they haven't made some concerted effort to figure out what's going on.

At least that's my take on it.
Is this even legal?

My question is if they are just monitoring cell phone signals they must have some way of intercepting them. Is this not akin to wire tapping?
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No, you can't opt out of online tracking any easier. Private browsing mode doesn't hide your IP address. Plus you've got companies like Facebook that can (or try) to track your activity outside of their website. Ever use public internet? Someone may be sniffing your traffic to watch exactly where you're going.

Also you're "you can decide not to shop online" applies to the mall too. Richmond has several high quality malls in the area.
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Dart is a significant deviation and expected to support debugging directly in the language.

This can be done for CoffeeScript et al too - efforts are already underway.

Also, the VM wouldn't be required, it would just provide performance improvements.

There's just too much embrace-extend-extinguish risk for anyone but Google in that. That's why Mozilla and Microsoft are burning it at the stake.
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The headline definite drives controversy and thus views, but wouldn't a much better headline have brought up the very real fact that this has nothing to do with smoking for performance gains and everything to do with exposing 'reviews' as unreliable.
> While the new, class-aware permissions system is more complex than what Facebook started with, it's simple enough that users seem to be adopting it just fine.

Do you have a reference for this? In my personal experience, very few people are using the new list feature.
It's in my opinion a much more interesting and dynamic course than Norvig/Thrun's AI course.
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I would have thought that OKC would use some dynamic weighting scheme where the weights are not constant, but depend on how commonly people answer that question. For example, questions that just about everyone lists as mandatory wouldn't be weighted with 250, but with some number proportionately reduced to reflect the banality of the question.

Hmmm, I'm a bit disappointed or maybe I'm just missing something.
An easier comparison for anyone who reacts negatively to this story: for years the mall closed circuit video system has recorded you walking around malls, going into stores, emerging with shopping bags. Mall management has always been able to compile the same statistics based on video analysis.
Then again, using a misleading headline to direct traffic towards a journal article that is inherently misleading on purpose has a sort of meta-awesomeness to it. It's like inception, except with obfuscation.
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Providing a reference for your joke doesn't really change much. I don't think you were downvoted because anyone thought your comment need citations, or because they weren't sure if it was actually supposed to be a joke.

Perhaps it was just a bit trite, and/or irrelevant.
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I'd have some doubts about it's utility to a professional trader - they've already got a Bloomberg in front of them, which is telling them everything you can, except faster and from a wider variety of primary sources.

In my experience (which is primarily with options trading, though I've done a stint working on commodity pricing), traders aren't going to rely on a website they know next to nothing about as source of quantifiable information about the markets. Your professional commodities trader is either following their own news sources and following more specialist sources already, and their job (assuming they're not just trading flow or taking client orders) is to turn those sources (along with their own analytics) into sentiment about the NDFs and Future's their trading.

Still, I think it's an interesting idea and definitely one which I'm going to poke around in and see what ideas it can inspire.
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If it requires my users on a public site to install an extension, I'm not going to use it. case. closed.
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I'm only 5 miles away from Short Pump mall... this is really interesting. I'm pretty confident that they don't even care about attaching this kind of information to an actual person's identity or purchases. Still, even if I was concerned the likelihood of me turning my cellphone off just to avoid being tracked is close to nil. It's something that needs to be watched closely...
You can backup the files from your kindle easily. I also hear it is pretty simple to strip the DRM.

I don't see why this belongs on the front page. There are no real details here.
This has been my dream for years. Netflix is satisfying part of my content needs with its streaming option. I can only hope that more company's will follow suite.

What I'd really like to see is a "real" news website that supplies non-biased news written by real investigative journalists with no advertisements. I'd pay handsomely for that.
I think the suits in question are actually patent suits -- unless there are some copyright suits of which I'm unaware. Apple is definitely trying to crush competition with patent suits.
#1 question to the creators: Do you trade off this information, and if so, what techniques do you use?

I personally can't see how I would be able to trade off this information given the lack of timeliness, so if the creators could talk about how they personally use it, that would make me more interested.
I agree with those statements but the incidence of mental health problems isn't necessarily higher among founders because it. Being a founder (a real founder, not just an idea man with no execution) takes a special kind of person. These people seem to be able to handle the lifestyle and the stresses involved better than the general population. I wouldn't say they're immune but I'd say their ability to execute on a great idea and even be marginally successful at it puts them a cut above the rest.

So maybe we can safely say that founders are more likely to be at risk while at the same time saying that they don't succumb to depression in as high of numbers as other groups would despite that risk. I'd add to that lime of thought by saying depression is still far more common than we realize as it just isn't talked about so it doesn't show up on our radar.
I think the question is not how fast you can go from idea to first line of code but how long until you find out that your ideas is worth a line of code.

That is an interesting question in itself and would start a whole discussion how easily you could test the feasibility of an idea without writing a single line of code.
Not to take anyone's side, since I don't know the details, but maybe they suspected the account was using an stolen CC? I know companies tend to aggressively protect credit card holders (specially since rollbacks are so expensive). I'm sure amazon must be the target of stolen credit cards consistently.

That said, regardless of their size, they should expedite this type of check, specially for accounts that are not new!