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On the other hand, the problem of collecting those taxes when the customer ordered in the show-room is vastly easier than the burden they would face trying to collect taxes from online shoppers. Online, they would have to figure out where the order is from (not hard with browser location these days), and then have a way to figure all the taxes due from various types of transactions at any point on the map. With a show-room, they can pre-figure the rates for just the show-room locations like every other store does. It isn't a "have a solution for any arbitrary point on the map" problem anymore, thus is much more tractable and less expensive to solve.

Of course, the smart shopper then puts together a wishlist in the store, and clicks buy on their phone out in the parking lot.
Are these posted anywhere or could I send an email asking for these? :)
So glad I'm not the only one. Been wracking my brain trying to think why it'd have a rename, even for a day.
I think that if you had to select just one book, none of the obvious, literal programming or technical books would seem enough... so I would suggest "Fictions" by Borges as a real mind opener.
I love how every post on Stack Overflow that gets popular on Hacker News always gets closed by SO admins as "not constructive". It's like they really are annoyed when their stuff gets noticed by the world outside their walled garden. What are they - hipsters? "I was a fan of internet startups before they got popular, dude." It's bad enough on Wikipedia, which appears to operate on the principle that a megabyte of hard disk still costs $100, but on Stack Overflow it's just plain foolish.
It would be unfortunate if proving a negative were necessary to win such a case. IANAL so it indeed may be that the complainant must prove the statement is untrue. I would expect that a complaint such as this one would necessitate the writer proving that the statement is factual, accurate, or some other variation of truth.
Wrong.

Hana came from a company founded in 2000 by Sang Cha, a Stanford University professor, that spent 5 years developing this and was acquired by SAP in November 2005. This acquisition then formed the basis of SAP R&D Korea.
While this is a good way to test drive the service, the 3 free apps are only going to work for extremely lightweight apps (20mb database for example) and does not include a custom domain (this costs $5p/m). Without a custom domain it is obviously limited to non real world app deployment. It's a good marketing attempt but don't think you're going to be hosting real world apps unless you pay.
Well done TechCrunch for finally jumping on the bandwagon.

The first line about people no longer trusting Paypal. People haven't trusted Paypal for many years, but used them anyway.
As you have mentioned 1984, I have to add Brave New World to the list. It provides a view of the future which in many aspects is a lot closer to our current culture than 1984. In terms of "ethics for technologists", this should definitely be required reading.
I'm currently enjoying the 30x500 class. It certainly isn't free, but it is excellent.
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Seems to me like UPS (or whoever delivers for Amazon) also has predetermined set routes. Also, just because marginal cost is zero doesn't mean cost to shipping customer is zero.
You are using Adwords for traffic? Seems like there is enough organic traffic for you to go after.
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I'm guessing that since The Lord Of The Rings movie, Viggo Mortensen is the most famous Dane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viggo_Mortensen
The story is currently front page on The Age (major newspaper) website in Australia.
I've been checking HN off and on all day, and I only saw it once.
Ok, maybe I should have worded it:
Another alternative in between paysite and freesite would be to give the user the opportunity to pay whatever they want. With Flattr or Kachingle.
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So a PO Box that only charges when you get something? FedEx has a "Hold at Location" service.
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"...you absolutely cannot commit libel in public writing..."

Does that mean that it's absolutely impossible to commit libel in public writing?

Or does it mean that one "cannot" because there are dire consequences?

A la "you can never put too much water in a nuclear reactor."
Sounds like Pinboard isn't the solution for you. However, it evidently appeals to many, myself included.

I don't think I ever have my browser not open. I use something like four different computers, not including mobile devices, and appreciate the central copy without having to think about syncing it. I don't worry about setting up scripts on my local machine or updating my local plain text copy so that it can be searched. For the archiving users, they don't have to manually save the files of each website they'd like to search later.

If you believe you can do bookmarking better and free, then do it. If it matches what I'm using Pinboard for, and is better (and doesn't use Dropbox), I'll switch.
Personal preference I guess.

I reread Pragmatic Programmer every year.

The other two you mention I find pretty poor, to be honest. I may reference them once in a while, but to really understand the topics they cover I'll rely on a well written, colorful article over those books.

In general I've found books written by more than 2 authors to be quite boring, impersonal, and oftentimes misleading.

Code Complete and Pragmatic Programmer are two of my favorites alongside C, and the Practice of Programming.
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sorry, I mean't why it would be renamed, not that it had been. Like when pg puts the blackbar at the top for a death, maybe this was related to something.
Unfortunately we don't have Craigslist in Europe.
AFAIK there is no viable alternative to Ebay right now.
Amazon is already working with 7-11 to provide this service.
Yeah, that court case must have been unbearable for all involved...
I completely agree on the overpriced gadgets front.

For example, here in New Zealand an IPad will set you back about NZD$800-$1300 depending on your model (16GB Wifi->64GB Wifi+3G). Our currency is currently trading at around 87 US cents, so someone is making a huge amount of money off gadgets in this country.

If tablets reached our shores at something like a reasonable price, people might buy them. Plus this tablet would make a nice testing/development tablet if it can deliver decent performance for the price.
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Why not just "Like" every user of the opposite (or target) sex, then just decide if you are actually interested when you see a positive response from one? It seems like that would be the best strategy with this app, and it means you get to see who likes you without actually disclosing any useful information yourself.
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Depends on generation too. Some might have said Victor Borge. And also, does "outside of Denmark" mean "in the US"?
The problem is that for a while there, XML was hot hot hot and so DB vendors added "XML support!" as a tickbox feature.

There's a case to be made that, by storing XML documents in a field, you've managed to violate first normal form. And it's generally downhill from there.
Interesting. I got the contrary impression: that from top to bottom this looks like a serious company that's going for a sustainable freemium business model, with no intention of flipping. I mean, this isn't a consumer-facing mobile-social-photo-check-in app. It's a platform for developers that has a pretty clear selection of tiered products that includes an introduction tier that's free, for development and testing on shared domain and servers. And they seem to have a pretty clear focus on their customer: developers.
SSH is an authenticated protocol. The trust anchor scheme SSH uses is "key continuity". The same model has been proposed as a replacement for TLS CA certs.

DNSCurve doesn't specify a key management scheme, but to the extent you want to call a bunch of web pages on Bernstein's site a "spec", it specifies "static keys". Static keys are a perfectly viable trust anchor scheme; like they say about routing, "if you can get away with it, the best protocol is static".
this looks really awesome ^^
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True!

Also, on overview page. There is just shit loads of text. You might want to break it into a list or a series of headlines that will help me understand better.

I know you are passionate about it and won't mind writing a book on it. But overview means... well... an overview.
Why is this being downvoted?

I'm an atheist, but even I can see the bible's profound impact on the course of western and near-eastern civilisation.
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Also friend of friends with similiar interests or letting the user match two of his/hers friends that he/she think might get along, etc. I quite surprised that they didn't get into that yet.
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Rice has been supporting democratized higher education for a long time, for instance with the Connexions project (http://cnx.org). They also have a history of getting interesting speakers, such as John Doerr (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zi-ThMfM4I). Not so surprising that they picked up Salman Khan this year.
One reason is because scholars will look up to the list of biochemists to know significant discoveries in that area; but the people looking lists of pornstars... they are just wasting time.

The little relevance of the subject makes easy for a pornstar to create his/her own webpage on Wikipedia.
pg was playing drinking games with @ev and he lost a bet? :)
That's an easy one. The best known Dane is obviously Peter Schmeichel :) The bubble of football/soccer fans is a quite populous place.
I use delicious for 5 years and keep a local, sync copy to make it possible to program, so that I can develop my own desktop tools.

I mean, a free Pinboard was a solution for me when I was looking for a good alternative of delicious, 2 years ago.

But it's not free. The owner claims that he'll keep maintaining forever but he will not when he lose a considerable percent of his customers.

And he'll. As I said, pinboard solves the wrong problem. An online bookmarking service can be structured in a way that will cost nothing. Couple of scripts that manipulate a text file on DropBox was the solution came to my mind in 3 seconds.
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Let's not exaggerate. Charging $300 for the same performance as a $200 or even $150 product is in the same principle as the fashion industry.
> Off the top items in that list, only two have them have been published in the last TWELVE years, which in our industry is at least two full generations.

> I don't know about you guys but that makes me a little sad.

It doesn't make me sad at all. It says that computer programming is not just about the latest whiz-bang tool. Rather, the field has a core of worthwhile, enduring knowledge that does not become obsolete just because you switch to a new language/framework/platform/whatever. And this core is worth spending time and effort to learn, because it is not going to go out of date.
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Was this a test, or vandalization? (If this wasn't intended, I'd review my security settings about now...)
Or until PHPFog goes bust/gets bought.
It depends.

If you plan to build a profitable startup, meanings, you are willing to sell the service (for $$) as early as possible, then perhaps, "18 months" is a period of time which within you get to the break-even point.

If you are planning to build a cool-and-free-iPhone/android-app and all you care is to get as many users as possible, then perhaps, this is a great advice for you.

In the first case, however, it means, you only need raise enough for about 12-18 months.
Yeah the blog post was very confusing to me. Now that I see this, it makes sense:

https://phpfog.com/pricing

Why didn't they link to it? It definitely sounded too good to be true.

Now that I found the pricing, my impression is: "OK they are trying to get more people on their platform so that once their sites get popular they will upgrade to paid plans." That seems more reasonable, but is not mentioned in the somewhat sleazy-sounding blog post.
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"The first is that dating sites typically don't care about people actually finding a good partner, because there's a negative economic incentive for it. If you find your perfect man/woman, you won't come back to the site and keep paying."

Dating sites that think like this are in no actual danger of having their users fall in love. It's hard enough even for well intentioned sites to set up enjoyable dates, let alone ones that lead to marriage.

If anyone actually had a dating service that worked so well they were losing users due to excessive happy relationships, that would just mean they weren't charging enough to get in: Imagine what people would pay for a service where 30% of all users end up with the love of their life within a year. Hell, imagine the marketing value of having large numbers of satisfied couples going around telling people they met on a particular site.
The other problem with your quest is that the sign-up fee is one-time, so competition won't cause him to lose that, and archiving users won't switch to a service without archiving and full-text search no matter how free and open source it is, so he won't be losing the ongoing revenue from them either.

I don't expect Pinboard to be around forever, but it's useful enough while it's alive to be worth the money for me. When it's no longer useful, I'll still have a copy of my data to grep to my heart's content.
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This is a brilliant idea. Screw diaspora, this is a trend toward the first viable open source Facebook killer. Disruptive innovation in a product with not enough features redefining the game.
People don't trust banks, and they still put their money in them. Don't think TechCrunch is going to get anywhere appealing to pity.
Obviously it's Bjarne Riis, everyone knows him.
Because pornstars are more notable among the masses than scientists.

I'm not saying this is right or wrong, but it is true. Ask most people to name a scientist, the only one they can name is Einstein. Ask most men to name pornstars, they can rattle of Jenna Jameson, Asia Careera, Ron Jeremy etc. For women, it will be the authors of romance novels.
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Ask a random stranger on the street how many pornstars he can name, and then how many scientists he can name and you'll see that the author lives in a bubble.

s/random stranger/random male stranger/
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Is this true about January? As someone that is actively looking for work, this is kind of a big deal to me
If you're not fussy you can do that. You could widen your range to anywhere in the world and ages 18-99. But you may not be within the person you like's age range or geography criteria, so that strategy would only take you so far.
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Did you get Biz news Ryan or its that 'shopped?

Very odd, Biz and Ev.
Wow, looks like the race to be the PHP PaaS king just got a little hotter. It sounds like PHPFog may be responding to some competitive pressure. Orchestra.io has been offering 2 free apps per account for a while now, and as far as I know, Pagoda Box has offered free-forever apps since they've been around. The free apps are only limited only by resources. Customers can have as many free apps as they like as long as they don't scale beyond the free resources.

This is an interesting move, but not totally unexpected. It'll be interesting to see how the next couple of months play out.
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Oh FFS Doug. Just realised what you did there Ryan. face palm
I've seen this happen time and time again. And working with their security department is difficult. They need a strong competitor.
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this is just a reflection of the fact that now we can use the internet to spread ideas and this audience are/were the earliest adopters.

in 5-10 years (or even now, maybe?) people will be talking about what single blog post is the single most influential post every programmer should read.
> SICP is dated and doesn't really match what modern languages can do.

I disagree. There's over 200 pages before they even introduce mutation and impure functions. Later they touch on the thorny problems that mutation creates when they touch on concurrent programming. There's sections on building lazy streams which are core parts of Clojure and Haskell. And I don't think there's a more accessible intro compilers and programming languages text than chapters 3 and 4.

While there might be other places to learn about functional programming to apply to working in Python and JavaScript, SICP is a fine place to learn the fundamentals. In some ways, I would say modern programming languages are just starting to catch up to SICP. (yes I know Haskell is pretty old, and disclaimer: I'm a huge fan of SICP)
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While you are correct that the article takes some liberties with its use of "free software", having the source code won't help you much with applications that need beefier hosting to truly be useful.
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Something like this is badly needed to unify front-end web design and development.
Hacker News isn't exactly ran off VC money and in need of an exit.
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Yeah, "absolutely cannot" is a strange substitute for "shouldn't" in this case. I'd further restrict it to "...in public writing that has a decent chance of gaining a large audience", and possibly adding "...and which is against a party likely to notice and sue". Libel laws don't seem to deter most of the online-based libel happening all the time.
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I was just demoing the convenience of the repl to Ev Kontsevoy of Mailgun.
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9 months ago I caught a screenshot of it titled "Katelyn News" as well:

http://i.imgur.com/eDzEc.jpg

The green title bar is just my personal setting, that didn't change.
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How will they make money? Also, I'm not sure if I want to host my product on the same server where free loaders are.
I don't know of a list, but I knew a girl in university who took a class titled "Sexuality in Film". She described it as basically the history of porn.
If that's all that happened, there wouldn't be any investigation. You know the allegations, you know how much money is at stake. Apply your own fudge factor, mine says they're doing just fine, and if they weren't, they'd call up Geithner and Rubin and it would become fine.
nice. gender specific. i'd be able to get rid of my gf. :)
Hey, isn't that address the Coloft space in Santa Monica? Cool to see something come out of there!
The source link is the little square icon with "dl.dropbox.com" text label, it links to http://dl.dropbox.com/u/560599/scrnshts/evnews.png which is the full-size image.
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i linked the screenshot as the source on my tumblr post.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/560599/scrnshts/evnews.png
Kind of agree. It seems that Gowalla case is team acquisition rather than product.
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One of the things a free-market education system would offer is competition on reputation - allowing customers to choose schools before ever going there based on short feedback loops of many individual customers attending and reporting. This is already done with the public-private college system we have now - and yet you argue it's not possible to determine the quality of a school without going there, finding out it's bad and then being damaged?

If you don't understand how markets better allocate resources than top down rationing systems I suggest you go take economics at the nearest community college.

One of the concepts in the micro-economics principles class you will learn is that education has positive external benefits (beyond the market). In other words there is a marginal social benefit to education that exceeds the market demand. The best way to address this is not to have public school system monopolies of supply and take the cost to near zero - a much more efficient mechanism is to harness (superior) market resource allocation through demand subsidies.
My take on what he wrote was that people (in sales) will do for themselves first, their friends second (if anything is left over or what they can't personally grab), and everyone else last.

Thinking this way helps me keep my confidence when another party tries to sell me on a plan to "help" me when I can't understand how they will personally profit by their plan. So I can refuse their "help" with confidence knowing I can't possibly be missing out on anything.
Hey, I'm the other cofounder of LookIO. Yeah, that's a pretty good summary of how the visual assist part works. We have some plans on extending it with more than just a "tap here" indicator, but don't plan on turning it into a full remote desktop experience.
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Good catch. Wonder if pg was doing something similar
It depends on what you want to do with it.

Python is great if you just want to "learn programming." It's very noob friendly and there are tons of libraries.

Rails is great if what you really want is to learn web programming (and Ruby if you're learning Rails).

JavaScript is great if you want to learn UI programming for web and light mobile.

etc. etc.

Languages are just tools.
Also potentially massively increasing the world of mouth marketing channel though.
Or even any front-end development, web or no. I'd love to write GUIs this way.
Probably attached a repl to a running web server instance and interacted with it "live"?
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