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Why, on the blog, does the Director of Communications at paypal use a headshot that looks like he's trying to stare you down before killing you? Oh wait.
It reminded me another Apple ad, though surely it is not a copy

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I'll bet that guy was looking for steals as far as the $1 discount goes. He was checking the Amazon price to see what he could flip them for.

There were a couple of stories like this about flea markets and such on HN a while back.
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What is this zip code of which you speak?

googling reveals this is some sort of basic Postal code.

bit USA centric?
>the flight environment is trivial in comparison with urban traffic.

Having experienced plenty of both, I can tell you that this is utterly false.
It's hard to look at stuff like this and think that western companies have much of a future in China.
Nice try, Ministry of Privacy
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This guy seems kinda full of himself. Although I suppose that comes with the territory when hundreds of people are constantly begging him to give them a bit of attention.

But I also think that the importance of the "tech press" is often overemphasized by startups. I was involved in a company a bit ago that spent a great deal of energy chasing after the TechCrunch coverage, when in fact its target customers were middle-aged middle-america types, who don't read TechCrunch.

Granted, the tech media may help just about any company get funding. But then, I imagine having plenty of customers is going to look better to investors than TechCrunch coverage.
This is finding long term users. It's getting people into the habit of checking Amazon's prices using their phones. Generally, Amazon is competitive enough that they can beat brick and mortar prices, especially when you take sales tax into account (in some states, at least).

It's also trying to get people who don't normally shop online to try it out, under the assumption that once they do it a few times, they'll feel more comfortable doing it in the future.
Almost all VCs I know care primarily about the success of their companies and not about extracting every last point of equity.

You would be surprised, I have seen some things in my career that are insane and done for the simplest reasons, like ego, megalomania and most of all money.

I once was with a start up in which the CFO and the COO got into a fist fight in front of the entire company, over equity.

Another time I saw a VP who was running one division give everyone the day off, called in three of his trusted developers, and they all said that the development team was on strike and would not return unless the board appointed him the CEO. He then proceeded to run the company in the ground, while paying himself and his three developers handsomely.

And I have seen investors use all manners of leverage against the operations team to dilute their ownership. The stories about being diluted out of ownership are common because it happens all the time. I personally, was diluted out of my ownership in a start up. A 90 million dollar exit and I walked out with less than $100k as the CTO, a tough lesson in finance for me, but it happens all the time.

I have come to believe that for people that act like this, it is a game, and the game is not won if they cannot get every penny. It probably bothered them that I walked away from the table with less than 100k, because some how they did not play the game hard enough to get that from me. Somehow they are less of a person, if they don't win and they judge their self-worth based on it.

I am not saying that this is all, or even most, VC's, but they are out there, and you only need to cross one of them for it to make an indelible mark.
Longer than closing the tab. It would be nice if the qualifier didn't require registration.
lucasjung has done such a fantastic job of debunking this idea that they's very little to add; however one aspect that hasn't been expanded upon is the glacially slow pace at which the FAA approves systems for use.

Approved aviation systems are far from bleeding edge; at best the technology in use is five years old, and the 5-year old technology that's in use is only so because some company(ies) invested the considerable resources to jump through all of the hoops required by the FAA to get approval for commercial use.

Furthermore, military aviation is an incredibly poor analogue to commercial (and general) aviation because it lacks the onerous regulatory oversight brought to bear by the FAA. Military aviation is the bleeding edge and the advancements made there trickle backwards to CA/GA at a very slow pace due to the incredible cost of getting certificated by the FAA as well as the fact that the FAA (correctly) places safety and reliability at the top of their priority list.
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This looks seriously promising - I love that it doesn't require user sign-up. Their site is brilliantly designed, too.
Clearly, there's one thing critically wrong with his hypothesis. A developer is never actually tied down to any one technology. We're human beings, not cogs, and our fundamental programming technologies are all derived from the same basic, mathematical algorithms.

I started programming when I was six years old. BASIC on the TRS-80 Model 1. I aggressively studied programming because I thought computer games were cool, not because job prospects were hot.

If a recruiter today tried to tell me that I had to stick to BASIC on TRS-80 because I started out there, I'd think he was nuts. Many recruiters actually believe this ludicrous idea and ARE nuts. It's not "re-inventing yourself" to learn a new programming language mid-career or at any time. Good hackers know it's simply learning another way to apply your skills to a new set of challenges.
https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolut...

looks like they solved it, just a very low excuse.
Although the millions spent renovating the stores will make them even less competitive and drive more customers to shop with Amazon.
For $100? Do you really need to?
You'd be writing cheques to the Canadian govt. Checks are something on clothing or you put in boxes. :-D
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What Commercial Aircraft do you fly, and for how long have you been a Commercial Airline Pilot?
I tried to follow this url format by using Chrome Developer toolbar after clicking on "report this photo" of a non-private photo to extract my account hash id, rid and cid of the interested person. It's a GET according to Developer tool.

I get this however,

for (;;);{"__ar":1,"error":1357006,"errorSummary":"Don't have Permission","errorDescription":"You don't have sufficient permissions to do that.","payload":null}

Anyone know if it's already patched?
I wonder how people discover this
You nailed it with the "writing for Forbes" comment, and it is indeed a little hyperbolic, but consider: even the small corner coffee roaster now needs to compete with a small coffee-plus-software operation like http://tonx.org

(which does have excellent coffee, by the way...)
Very interesting move by amazon. No doubt the retaliation will be political in nature and focus on the unfairness of no sales tax, well the retaliation is already underway and lobbyists have been hired and working on this issue for some years now.

I have always had a paper notebook I carry around with me. Sometimes I will be shopping for something and the local store will have many models but none on display and almost no information about features. Let's take BluRay players for example. The local store has about 30 models of these. A couple are on display but not plugged in. What is really important to me is the player not take 5 minutes to cue the movie because the processor is underpowered and the DRM on BluRay uses a complex scheme involving Java code and decrypting. I also want to know how the menus are arranged, because most remotes are infuriating to use and user interface is important. You would think this would be an ideal situation for brick and mortar because knowledgable sales clerks would be able to answer my questions and allow me to test the merchandise using the large screen TVs they have set up for the purpose. Alas, no. The era of sales clerks knowing accurate information about products ended many years ago. Such places can not be found. The era of being allowed to test things in store has likewise ended.

So what I do is write down the model names of a half dozen of the most likely candidates and then go read online reviews to find if there are complaints about cuing speed. Finding out about the menu design is nearly impossible though unless I can find a pdf manual to download that comprehensively documents the menu structure (seldom the case). Having found the best product, I return to the brick and mortar store and purchase the item.

What happens sometimes in these endeavors is a manager comes up to me and accuses me of being a "price checker" for the competition. He will tell me that the license that governs my entry to the store prohibits this and that I am now banned from the store and police will be called in the future.

I assure him I am not a competitor's price checker, I am trying to get information about the product since his own people don't know anything. He is not interested. I am now banned from the store.

So then I buy from amazon. If the product sucks I return it. This is an inefficient process, I would much rather buy locally but local merchants aren't hearing of it.
Congrats. Its nice to know that companies are still threatened by single individuals. I'm sure this happens all the time though. A threat by a large organization is usually enough to get you to stop what you are doing. If you fight it you go broke. What choice do you have at that point.
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I snagged your app; I'm curious on how it'll work. I've been using another iPhone app for this very reason: simple, straight to the point, quick entry. It just doesn't have the auto-fill stuff you mentioned, plus some UI mishaps. But, so far, it hasn't had me wishing for my good ol' notebook, like others have. I'll see if your app meets the grade!
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Good point. I learned to dance tango in similar situation.
And I never danced anything in my life before that. I'm approaching the magic 42 number of my age.
And there are a couple of disasters where the pilots didn't listen to their mechanical friends.
Zappos has just about solved this problem for me though. They realize that people want to try on shoes and clothes, and so they offer free shipping and free returns, and if you're a VIP member (just ask and they'll give it to you), everything ships with next day delivery. So, if I see a few pairs of shoes I like, I'll order them all, receive them the next day, and ship back the ones I don't like. It's great.
Backbone encourages pushState() if you can swing it -- you'll need to implement every client-side route as a server-side page as well ... so it's not possible if you're hosted in an inflexible environment. Backbone falls back to hashes for browsers that don't support the API, and transparently converts URLs between the two.

But regular hashes ("#") are fine for internal single-page-apps that don't need google indexing -- of which the majority of Backbone projects probably are.

It's just the hashbang "#!" that's a particular pet peeve of mine ;)
Why PayPal is wrong regarding Regretsy, according to their own policies.
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Probably. I wouldn't have noticed at all, except for the beep sound, every single time his phone read the barcode. He looked experienced in this, as he was going through 15-20 books a minute (never reading the title or anything, pick the book, read the barcode, check price, move on).
But you see how this is a one-way relationship between them and Amazon, right? Even if they match the price of Amazon, they are on the losing end-of-the-stick because:

1) They have to pay the expenses for physically hosting that product
2) They may also have to collect state tax

So what they get out this relationship is that the customer uses store resources to investigate a product, and then either a) goes home and orders the product or b) buys the product at the store out of instant gratification.

Amazon either wins big in case a), or in b) incurs the slight cost of hosting the online resources that allowed you to do that research. The store obviously loses big in case a) and it still might lose in case b, if the product was priced so low as to be a loss-leader but you ended up not buying anything else.

Not saying what you're doing is wrong or bad. Just pointing out that the store is kind of against the brick wall, so to speak.

Perhaps the future for retailers is to adopt a gas station model: depend on Amazon to do the supplying, and make money off of something totally unrelated, just as gas stations make more profit off of a cup of coffee than they do for a full tank of gas.
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I didn't get a chance to ask that, sorry. I did ask how he addresses critics who say IV stifles small inventors by making it impossible to defend themselves against the large resources IV has at its disposal. His response? Utterly useless
But wouldn't the store have to be sniffing the actual content of the traffic? Not a great move if it got out, and I might just assume that's happening anyway and not use it.
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I'm not trying to locate or map specific HN users, just trying to create an anonymous index via the HN userbase. If that offends your sense of privacy, my apologies.
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Great post on an important topic. I also like Fred Wilson's advice:

"Above all else, look for great judgment and ethics."

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/02/thoughts-on-cho.html
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"Ever seen a top athlete when they hit 35?"

As someone who's turning 34 this week, this comparison kinda saddens me. I would object, but why? It's not like late adolescents could be convinced out of their own sense of superiority. (Never mind this being a bit American-centric, as not all kind of sports are as depleting as American Football)

Yeah, I know, young scientists do their best work young etc. etc.
Because doing an iOS application or RoR is as mentally challenging as doing Nobel prize winning research…
If anything apple sucks for not doing a promo like this when hitting 10 billion...
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I misread your comment, apologies heh.
I think Amazon will eventually open a big box store. They won't carry any inventory-- just one copy of each item. You scan the items you want and choose shipping to your home or next-day pickup at the store. With so many big box stores shutting down the real estate will be cheap. And with no inventory turnover there would be relatively no employee overhead. If walmart has 100k SKUs an Amazon storefront could offer 250k SKUs. It would be massively disruptive for items that are more difficult to browse/evaluate online (read: clothing).
Thanks for your reply. Not sure why HN decided to downvote my question.
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I never claimed that human pilots are superior to automated flight control systems in every aspect. In fact, I have stated explicitly that computers perform some tasks better and more safely than humans.

I was simply making the point that when you encounter a situation that isn't covered in the instructions, you need juman judgement to figure out the best way to proceed. I also explicitly stated that human judgement is far from flawless, and that if you can develop a sufficiently comprehensive automation program, you can get safer results than you would on average with human judgement.
If that offends your sense of privacy, my apologies.

well you don't have to be a jerk about it.
A few years ago, I had an interesting job where I was on a team (of 2) that wrote a simulation of the UK criminal justice system. Police, criminals, courts, prisons, etc.

The idea was that the client could tweak various features (numbers of judges, sentences for specific crimes, number of police on the beat) and look at unexpected secondary effects this would have, like increased time in probation or more prison overcrowding.

It was written in OCaml no less :-)

I wasn't involved in using the simulation that much, so I often wonder how accurate and effective it was in the end.
Seriously? I could see this with a sock, but this is strange
I think PayPal does understand what Regretsy claims to do, and the problem is that what they claim to do goes against their policies. PayPal does not allow that kind of transaction because it's too difficult to prove that it's not fraud. There are detailed explanations of this elsewhere in the thread.
Water retention is definitely a cause of extra weight. We are used to/trained to not drink as much water as our bodies actually need. Fixing that by drinking a lot of water is a quick way to lose some pounds. Of course it doesn't work if you're already properly hydrated and it only works until the problem is remedied; you will hit a plateau early in your diet. And it doesn't work if your consuming more calories than your burning. But if you're already dieting (which the grandparent was), it's absolutely a good way to kick start your diet.
I had my gallbladder removed in February of 2007 after several attacks, so thankfully it's not something for me to worry about. The pain I experienced lasted only one day and I haven't felt even a hint of it since.
Thank you for the update/clarification.

I deleted a couple of pictures this morning (nothing 'nekkid' ;-) and will have a look to confirm that they are indeed "gone" (inaccessible via direct URL -- albeit the URL of a CDN).

Would you happen to have the identity or URL of a specific guideline that you could point to?

EDIT: I just checked the URL of an image I deleted about an hour and a half ago, and that image is still accessible. It is under akamaihd.net; nonetheless, it is still accessible.
Given Amazon's history of displaying different prices to different users, I wonder if they'll use this technology to optimize their prices to beat a specific competitor but perhaps not go as low as they could.
PayPal has unlocked the account and made a donation to Regretsy

https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolut...
Yeah, that guy was definitely a reseller. Shop didn't mind because he likely ends up buying some books at the price they have set. Logical result is that shopowners buy iphone ISBN scanner and start repricing according to online prices, or open their own online store.
It isn't an official part of Emacs, but no Emacs user should go without installing el-get, the meta-package-manager for Emacs.

https://github.com/dimitri/el-get

El-get can install and update elisp from git, svn, http, and EmacsWiki. (It also wraps ELPA and apt-get where packages exist.)

If el-get doesn't have a recipe for your favorite Emacs extension, please consider adding the recipe and pushing to GitHub. (It doesn't take long - most recipes are only a few lines long.) Don't forget to issue a pull request for the rest of us.
* only thing about Basecamp is that it's so easy to use.*

Goddamn, if I could say that about the apps I write, I could retire happy. Being “easy to use” is an amazing accomplishment for anything, especially project management.
This is pretty much what wall street does, except with a lot more than a billion dollars of investment. That fact that it's not clear whether the data will be made publicly available means it's just another scam on european taxpayers.
They still put on a good show, no doubt. You don't walk out disappointed in their ability to entertain.

What I'm saying is that from a musicianship perspective they're a disaster in a live setting. Lars can't maintain a steady tempo and is constantly pushing and pulling the beat...I'm sure he refuses to use a click track, but he should as he's just not talented enough to stay on tempo. I don't know how Rob stays with him other than the fact that he's just really a great bassist.

They blast right through the breaks in their songs without taking a breath. For example, watch Harvester of Sorrow in Seattle from Live Sh!t, recorded in the 1992. They take a break after one of the mesaures and walk around for a few seconds and then come in hard with "All have said their prayers...". It was an amazing effect and man, we'd go nuts in the pits, freezing during the break and then just smashing sh!t up when they came back in. It was, to use a word that has sadly lost its meaning, epic.

These days they don't even pause between songs, much less breaking at the end of a measure for effect. They just bleed one song right into the other. For a guy who's been going to shows for over 20 years it's been tough to watch them stop caring about how they play.
I ended up making something very similar to this for my current project, glad to know it wasn't just me. Mine's a bit more specialized to fit into my app as a module and is made to manage all modals (handy to have to manually manage making sure only one modal is shown at a time). Hopefully there are some spots I can contribute to here.
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For more than a couple seconds, I was confused as to why they had a picture of an angry Mr. Bean attached to the post.
"In this instance, we recognized our error and moved as swiftly as possible to fix it."

It's not clear what "error" they're admitting to, but it seems as if they're admitting some error, however ill-defined.
I work for CBSi just got this response from the dowload.com team:

"We remove the installer from pretty much all publishers who request it removed, and the wrapping of nmap was an error. Fyodor has been contacted and had the issue explained. The Download.com Installer has been removed from the product, and we shouldn't be wrapping open-source software. It was a mistake and when Fyodor contacted us, we fixed it."
Aye, there have been numerous investigations into it. Among linguists, it seems to be basically taken as a given that homophones, particularly when compared to less skilled native readers, are going to be easier for the non-native, because of acquisition methods. I should've prefaced that with the disclaimer that I am not a linguist, but I have worked in the past with linguists on language-related work, both in L1 (native) and L2 (non-native) contexts. Here are a couple of references I was given on this specific subject:

1. Van Orden, Guy C. (1987). A ROWS is a ROSE: Spelling, sound and reading.

2. Binder, K. & Borecki, C. (2007). The use of phonological, orthographic, and contextual information during reading.

3. Ota, M., Hartsuiker, R. J., & Haywood, S. L. (2010). Is a FAN always FUN?

Full texts for all of those are available online.
Exactly, you don't start with the details.
It's not an auction site, but Craigslist is a pretty good place to buy and sell used stuff. I've had pretty good luck both buying and selling things through it. Last I checked, the listings were free too (except for real estate).
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