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if you accept money in exchange for goods (or even sometimes services), and are not a registered non-profit, you need to pay sales taxes on the sales

Only if you have a point of presence in the same state as the person you're transacting with. The US does not have a national sales tax; all sales taxes are collected by the states. Currently, transacting with a person in another state is considered interstate commerce and is therefore exempt from state sales taxes. There are efforts in Congress to change this, but, for now, you don't have to pay sales tax on a sale you make across state lines.
Who cares?

US is financially fledgling and we're pumping over $20B/year into this behemoth money pit called NASA to tell us there is another Earth we'll never get to. We can barely get to Mars!

Let's focus on problems here!
I feel that the biggest problem with automation and AI based systems is the ability to handle 'Black Swan' events - for the lack of a better term.
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As an Aside: I would hope that you're sending back info on the user-agent as well (I only say this because you've not mentioned it).

When an error is encountered it makes all the diffence that it was on a machine running ie7 (as an example).
Start simply with water boiled potatoes, then carrots, then slowly things like bread. My parents are doing a one week fast every year and this is what they do. It takes time to go back to normal food as the bacteria in your intestine need to grow again.

The first time you do a one week fast, do it with people who are used to do it. In Europe you can find a lot of associations/clubs/whatever offering a one week seminar to do it.
I am a huge fan of the baked-in approach. I think that's very clever. I'm no designer, but I think that is great UX.
Omega-3's? That's the whole benefit?
That's a rather rude signup form. Put in your email address -- if you're lucky or you're important, you get a "chance" at a beta invite.
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I believe antibiotics are a real human health issue.

But otherwise, no, I don't believe there's a real human health difference between Purdue chicken and the Gunthorp Farms chicken I get from my butcher.

I certainly don't believe you're going to lose weight faster eating the better chicken. You might even lose weight slower, since authenticatically humane chicken is extraordinarily expensive, and chicken (that you cook at home) is probably going to tend to be a better dietary option than the alternative.

Sorry.
Ah ok, good to know ;)
They're up to... building a new Basecamp. Less interesting than building a new Segway or whatnot - that could be useful information for the title.
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Cool! The first thing I thought of when I looked at the Google one was that it'd be sweet if I could play that as a wave form. Anyway to make it play longer?
Automated systems as they currently exist have fixed responses to fixed inputs. If an automatic system encounters a set of inputs it wasn't programmed for, it has no capacity to determine a best course of action for those inputs. Depending on how it was programmed, it will either keep doing what it was doing previously, or switch to a pre-programmed "contingency plan" that hopefully will result in a tolerable outcome (but which might result in catastrophe), or possibly execute a random set of instructions (which can happen to poorly-designed state machines, for example).

A human being, on the other hand, has the capacity, when faced with unexpected or unfamiliar conditions, to exercise something we call "judgement" in an attempt to develop an appropriate response. I'm not saying that it's impossible for an automated system to have this capacity, I'm saying that no current automated systems have it, and that we're nowhere near to developing such a system any time soon.
I'm with iambot. In almost all cases knowing the browser and versions makes the difference.
See also: taxes. The government subsidizes school (in some form) from kindergarten to your PhD, and in return, you pay them back in the form of taxes as soon as you use that knowledge to make money.
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Actually, the merchants ARE the customers. The people who buy using pay pal aren't the ones paying the fees. Without merchants accepting PayPal, then no one would use PayPal. I am transitioning my own company away from PayPal -- we're going to use chargify for recurring and braintree for everything else. PayPal can go to hell. They've been treating us like criminals because we are located in China, are incorporated in Nevada, have a DC phone number and a California bank account. They don't seem to understand global businesses. They're a step below retarded. We've had our accounts frozen multiple times and don't respond to emails. I hate PayPal and as soon as I can get their crap disintangled from our web application code, we're done with them. We get better customer device from China's Union Pay and that is a state owned black hole of a company. At least they respond to emails and don't lock our account everytime I log in from a hotel room on the road.
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Thank you for this well-written and educated response.
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With Trello[1] and ASANA[2] out there for free, they have no chance but announce upcoming facelift / upgrade -- so existing customers will stay around, and perhaps, when releasing, attracting new users as well.

1. http://trello.com

2. http://asana.com
It's not just the pilots, cockpits for something like a 747 is not all that cheap to build and adds a fair amount of weight on every trip. If you really need manual supervision of takeoffs and landings you could have a set of pilots at major airports supervising these functions with vary low latency.
I do not have much experience in planning weddings : I have got married only once and I am still married. My primary contribution my wedding was to (a) show up sober (b) let the pros do their job (c) say yes.

Having said that, your primary competition is going to be wedding planners. Most of them have a solid experience and reputation; instead of trying to compete with them , you could try talking to them and see what you can do to help them.
Boy, I wonder what the FTC will say about this...
if this guy believes what he writes, why isn't he a developer? certainly these are skills that would be worth investing his time in. is it because he fancies himself a 'capitalist'? The cat fell out on this one when I reached his parenthetical, half-joking-but-not-really-wink-wink plea for a 'star' iOS developer to come out of the woodwork and build whatever ipad app is on his mind...nice of the forbes people to give him an audience for his recruitment pitch... content on the web has become so self-serving... i miss reading, and awkwardly trying to fold, the printed nytimes. yea, i said it.
It's a humorous article. TC knows their crowd, and they are poking fun at everyone - themselves for not caring about a huge deal, their audience for also not caring, enterprise software for being boring.
And what exactly is wrong with that? It's just a game of enticing.

Seems like different people will get a different read, for me it's a chance to participate on an exciting new product from well known developers and innovators. If I don't get in the first invites what's the problem?

I'll eventually make it in just a bit later.
I was just thinking about this, will give the Warrior diet a try (never did a diet, at 211 lbs 5'9") but mostly because I've been eating really little (fish+rice+lettuce salad) in the past 3 months without much effect.

The idea of only eating a nice meal at night is great to me since I hate the food around work (from fast to fancy), and dislike bringing it everyday from home even tho I absolutely love the wife's cooking skills, anyway thanks for the ideas!
One thing it's lacking is actual demand/supply values. Here in the UK the demand for Linux skills is quite high. The banks, stock exchanges, hedge fund and the range of online business and startups out there are increasingly Linux based and all competing for skills. At the same time, tighter immigration laws in the UK make it harder to get skills from abroad. The result is that it's good to be an EU citizen looking for a Linux job in the UK at the moment.

I think a similar problem would be skewing the Java skills demand level on Linux. A lot of applications out there are Java based, and a lot of it's done on Linux. But like for Java, the requirement is often not for a very high level of skill on Linux systems running Java applications.
In just a couple of years the DARPA challenge yielded cars that can drive themselves in complex urban environments.

I imagine with sufficient smart people working on it, flying airplanes in relatively uncluttered sky would yield results faster.

As for see-and-avoid, perhaps it works for obstacles on the ground, but other aircraft are moving so fast, is it really feasible to eyeball them before they are on you? Perhaps in pursuit, but at any significant angle they flash past at hundreds of miles an hour. Only radar etc has a chance of identifying/avoiding at those speeds.
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They're going to add secondary mailing addresses!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am an airline pilot and a programmer who loves automation. While the psychological aspect I think is easy to get over with the public by producing ultra low fares the technological one is quite different.

The author states that even in easy adaptations such as traffic watch we still do not see UAVs and what the author is missing is the cost! Those military UAVs cost almost as much as a private jet in what today using 1950s technology can be achieved for the cost of a used cluncker.

Also, the same inheritable problems that we face fully automating cars, exist in fully automating airplanes. Each is an individual unit and very autonomous with no single 'track' to follow. In addition to this largely autonomous environment you have integration problems, where you would integrate the old with the new automated environment and still be able to offer the same capacity of airspace usage.

As frustrating (and yes it is for pilots too - more than passengers realize) as air travel seems now days. The achievements of airspace utilization in places like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Fran etc is almost mind boggling considering it's used with a mosaic of 1930s radar equipment which honestly can't pin point you to an exact location within a circle of 1 mile around yourself.
a todo-app, a revolutionary mobile chat, a breakthrough internet collaboration device. a todo-app, a mobile chat, a internet collaboration device. are you getting it?
Oh yes, of course. I'm not explicitly sending the UA string. Since I'm just doing a client-side post, the UA string is sent as a part of the HTTP request itself. I record this, and errors are segregated by browsers by default automatically.
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That's definitely the case with deployed civilian aircraft systems, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't some unmanned system somewhere doing more complex reasoning. There was a talk years ago at IJCAI from some people from NASA Ames on a prototype aircraft-control system they'd built that used a reasoning system to assist with performing emergency landings in situations with no preprogrammed contingency, by taking into account some telemetry information (e.g. aircraft damage), map information, an aerodynamic model, and risk models.

I do believe they were planning to deploy it as a suggestion system though, which would suggest a course of action, and then leave it to the pilot to implement it or not. Then the judgment gets more murky; now the system is doing some of the judgment (evaluation of alternatives, etc.) that a human pilot would normally do, but leaving some of the judgment (accept the suggestion, modify it) still to the human.

edit: Here's a more recent paper than the one I'm thinking of, but must be the same project: http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/profile/de2smith/publications/IAAI0...
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That's why their philosophy is 'Move fast and break stuff'. The alternative might be a slow moving bureaucracy that never iterates new features.
Commercial airliners, last I checked, suffered one mishap per 1.5 million flights. Human automobile drivers set a much lower standard to beat.
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The article is poorly written, and SAP is indefensible as a company.

That said, welcome to my world. It's been an interesting experience working in an industry (ecommerce) that is regarded as a huge yawnfest by most of the startup community. The reality is that there really are very interesting problems to solve. Algorithms to predict demand curves, optimize warehouse pullbox location, and identify product flow constraints are all arguably more interesting problems to solve than sharing photos.

Nonetheless, nobody cares. And that's fine, mostly.
Congrats, I have worked with errorception, found it really useful.

Thanks.
I'm guessing the devil is in the detail (and I don't know much so I'll shut up shortly) - could companies set up shell legal entities to offend for them / shop around for a better jurisdiction to do dodgy deals in / is current law clear enough that serious penalties wouldn't end up having a chilling effect on all business (OP was implying that the current status is that if the SEC wants to, they can probably find some law you're breaking). Serious penalties would probably demand a lot of legal boilerplate to make absolutely sure 'good business' wasn't effected and the government doesn't have power to destroy politically inconvenient companies without due process; the more boilerplate, the more likely the more expensive lawyers at the banks will outwit the lawyers writing the laws. Add some (possibly sponsored) political rhetoric about regulations killing jobs in a recession and I think it gets very hard to actually nail it down.
Don't do it, kids. You'll find photos of that girl you pined for 2 years after you never made your move and she's way more fun and in way better shape than you ever guessed. It's rough to ruin the fantasy, but torture to augment it.
Agreed, I can think of nothing more personal than having to make that kind of decision. I do think some safeguards are probably necessary to prevent reactionary decisions such as cases where pain or disease are temporary. At the end of the day it comes down to education.
As a disclaimer to all of this, I was the type that had fun proving stuff in seventh grade and had already read through Spivak's Calculus by Grade 10.

This makes your earlier claim of never having seen most of the concepts rather dubious.
Exactly. I chose to update my video driver, so I knew what broke.

Imagine that update had happened automatically. Perhaps the day before a big deadline -- a stellar choice for disaster to strike! Now I'd have no clue what just broke and now I'd have to spend hours fixing it.

Intrusive updates shouldn't be automatic.
> there aren't even any hacks involved

I doubt law enforcement would see it that way. Downloading photos with this method is not much different than guessing somebody's email or voicemail password; you're accessing something you're not supposed to.

See 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2)(C) and § 2701.
Does anyone known if when PayPal returns the held money they also pay the legal interest? Or if they have some specific clause in their contracts that allows them not to?
Can't argue - it was a reactionary response, such is the way of social media, right?

I think that the underlying discussion is an interesting one. HN readers perhaps might get some benefit from understanding SAP technologies and how they integrate into the stuff they want to hack with. I've employed some real hackers into the SAP market and it is a deeply interesting and open technology stack.
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"The user complaints are with regards to delays in event processing ("sloppy" or "laggy" touch events), not general animation that does not involve user input;"

Obviously you never went through tunnels. When I am playing a 100% offline game (without internet access) and my bus goes in the tunnel, everything stops. Who cares about this "game" when I have tons of networking to do. Networking takes precedence over animation so what happens is any touch events or animation or anything is heavily delayed.

What about the phone? When the call is ending, it can't render a UI update that the button was touched, thus just a delay. It even delays processing the next input event until after the screen switches states. End result? I make a call when I try to hang up or vice versa. Point being that these problems are not exclusive, but the iOS solution is significantly better for these edge cases which are the ones that cause the biggest headaches, they still happen in iOS but very infrequently vs consistently bad every other time.
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That's a huge benefit however, there are few other sources of Omega-3s in our daily diet.
Great idea but the design is very similar to http://www.codecademy.com/ you guys should make some UI changes to avoid being tagged copy-cat.
Yes, it does seem weird. A lot of people claim to "know Linux" when their job is to develop server applications on Eclipse running on Windows and they eventually copy some WAR (via Samba, of course) to a Linux production box. They don't know anything about Linux userspace or the UNIX API; they write once and run somewhere else.

Once, I was tasked with providing a native library to a team writing a Java application. They told me they developed on Windows and deployed to Linux. A few weeks before their app was set to go live, they deployed to production and my library didn't work. Why? Their production platform was actually Solaris. "Same thing, right?"

Wrong.
That's not really true. It's often the case that automation is designed reach a specific goal and it then try's to achieve / maintain that state. AKA Segways try to balance and an F-15 Control Augmentation System (CAS) aka stability assistance system try's to keep flying even without a wing. (Yes, this worked and was not programmed for.)

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/print.main...

Plenty of other planes of lost a section of wing a wing and still landed. http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re... Granted, all of these cases had a pilot, but in the F-15 the avionics actually discovered how to maintain level flight after the loss of the wing.
Sure sounds like an interesting project, though. There's tons of room for bands to grow beyond just iTunes et al.
You also don't want to stay in it too long because your body will start eating muscle, not just fat.
Is Facebook not hiring some of the most talented developers in the industry? This is a ridiculous mistake that should have been tested for prior to production.
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It looks like HN removed the apostrophe so here is a bit.ly version that works.

http://bit.ly/kyYCxk
Come on. Standard practice for beta invites these days.
You are correct that sustained aerobic exercise burns more calories than an anaerobic activity such as weightlifting. The benefit of weightlifting in particular is that, by building more muscle, you are increasing your body's BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) because more muscles == more energy necessary to run them. This translates to your body burning more calories while at rest.
We've tried 2 or 3 existing Javascript error tracking systems in the past. None of them helped much.

Performance is not the feature I care about.

On the other hand, I would be delighted to pay to get more actionable information about our errors. It's so so hard to determine exactly where in the code, and under what circumstances, errors in the browser happen.
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Strikingly similar logo concept to Uber...

http://blog.uber.com/2011/12/05/take-ubers-new-logo-for-a-sp...

Maybe 37signals are back to client-design work... ;)
It's 37signals. If you haven't heard of them before, you're incredibly lucky to be even allowed to view the webpage of the hipster gods. Let alone get a beta invite.
Sorry if this comes across snarky, but please avoid using "Painless X". People are over exposed to it, and it doesn't really convey any meaning.
Future "free" services depend on users willing to rely on free services. One of those may be born every minute, but it's still bad for the typical startup if too many people get burned too badly and begin demanding control over their data. Some "group pressure" to take care of the users makes sense.

(This seems to be the most cynical HN comment I've ever written.)
As a user, I find knowing that "install X from MacPorts" should always work, no matter what underlying version of Mac OS X I have, can always be up to date with the latest features, without having to update Mac OS X, and won't fail when I /do/ want to upgrade Mac OS X, the definition of "simplicity".

(Honestly: what does Homebrew make simpler than MacPorts anyway? Near as I can tell, the only reason people seem to like it is that it doesn't take as long to compile software, which argues more strongly to me that we need binary distributions that can download pre-compiled copies than that we should attempt to use the libraries to save installation time.)
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Your product is for people who write code, but your sales pitch is some vaporous hand-wavy thing. I'm writing my own guide on quality JavaScript, and I have absolutely no idea of what your product does beyond "Group errors and email people, also, unobtrusive!"

I imagine (based only on your comments here) this is a JavaScript file that basically sends ajax data with `window.onerror` events from the browser.

You need a user story for customers. "Bob's website, twitter.com, sucks because it throws thousands of errors only to suppress them by hacking in window.onerror = function(){} so nobody gets to see them in the console and make fun of them, why not do better and get reports of what your errors actually look like!" Your user story needs to explain value (which I myself as a potential customer of yours do not see, I will explain in a moment).

Also, pricing on the volume of errors doesn't feel right. Especially if I'm using this for development. Some websites will pass even your $60 limit in a few days, never-mind errors that happen in loops. Why not just set one price? 20-25$/month or $200/year feels right to me.

You also need to compete on something that shows value. Who are you targeting? What errors do your customers care about? Why might I not want to use your tool? Why does twitter suppress errors rather than fix them? Why might twitter buy your service?

As for why you don't have my business, I see no advantage or benefit to your product. I've implemented similar features in the past only to move onto other things. Sending an web request (ajax or any other request type) with window.onerror is trivial. I even optimized it to not lag out pages when we have errors in loops through some other techniques. You haven't convinced me why a competent JS developer needs this, when the implementation for very basic functionality is trivial. Give me a reason to buy this; a spreadsheet of hand-wavy features doesn't answer the problems that keep me up at night.

tldr: Marketers, marketers, marketers.
Here's another take on the origins of the demoscene and why it's still exciting: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1096
This is how many days after the FTC settlement?
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