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> In five years when blu-ray players cost as much as a nice meal, you'll be set :)

I've seen $35 blu ray players and (based on DVD), don't expect blu ray to stay below $25 for long.

http://www.frys.com/product/6902547?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT... is a $50 blu ray player.

http://www.frys.com/product/5892973?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT... is a $28 dvd player.
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You forgot Why's poignant guide to ruby :)

I tend to agree with you that the Ruby community does offer more learning resources, but then maybe I've just not been looking in the right places for Python guides.
This is an ingenious move by Bezos & co. Not only do they train consumers to price-shop using Amazon (which usually beats brick & mortars), but they gain a treasure trove of information on their competitor's holiday pricing.

I'd hate to be a competitor Amazon takes seriously.
There is supposedly wireless-blocking paint. Only active blocking is illegal.
Gowalla lost. This is what happens to investments when companies lose.

Not necessarily. Sometimes they pivot from a failed product to a successful one, in which case the investors are rewarded for sticking with the team (which often requires follow-on investment in such cases). VCs often say that they invest primarily in teams, not ideas. It's not clear that the team really lost here, but the investors obviously did.
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That hypothesis can make an interesting read, but if you think about it critically -- it is very unlikely. Suppose humans have already managed to somehow "uplift" dogs (such an assumption would probably go quite well with the many dog owners who are amazed by their pets...). The "uplift" must have happened at least 1000-2000 years ago given that modern dogs are unlikely to be that much smarter than their ancestors from the recorded history. Then, a question arises: if dogs indeed became orders of magnitude smarter than other animals because of their interaction with humans a few thousand years ago, why didn't packs of wild dogs completely dominate wolves, the way Homo sapiens (nearly) completely outcompeted Homo neanderthalensis?

I think the point is that whatever we're doing to domestic animals that makes them appear smart to our eyes is not necessarily what is required of them to appear smart to natural selection if humans were to disappear. In other words, we're not so much "uplifting" domestic animals as molding them to our needs.

Crows are the smartest birds out there, but they are also arguably the most annoying birds out there, and their high intelligence is actually a part of what makes them appear so annoying and pest-like to us (yes, we keep parrots as pets, and parrots are smart also, but in the tropics were parrots are common they cause as much trouble as crows cause here). I think it would be reasonable to conclude that if we ever domesticated crows, the direction that our crow breeds would take would be primarily towards agreeableness to humans even if that came at the expense of intelligence.
I think ESOLID is an OK candidate for conversion to "BREP.js" at this point:

http://research.cs.tamu.edu/keyser/geom/esolid/index.htm

http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/ESOLID/

http://research.cs.tamu.edu/keyser/geom/esolid/releases/vers...

http://diyhpl.us/cgit/lolcad/plain/esolid/esolid.py

Except for the licensing issues- nobody has been able to get John Keyser to respond about what the license is. It was written under an NSF grant, so it's probably public domain? I wrote a partial cython wrapper around esolid in lolcad.git if anyone wants to look at that.

OpenCASCADE would be another option, except the code base is awful and sprawling and huge. It's hard to separate out the important libraries, like BRepAlgoTool versus BRepAlgoAPI versus BRepApplePie, it's endless.
This is a super-valid point--I don't want to spend 4 hours fiddling with drivers to get my Mac's webcam working. After reading your and Derek's advice, I'm going to pop Mint and Lubuntu into separate VMs, and transition to whichever I enjoy more.
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The central concept in this which was not mentioned was gamification. Education needs to be gamified, ie. every small step about it needs to be quantified, the student needs to receive instant feedback, the "game designer/educator" needs to see the data and improve the game.

Somewhere along the line the education system came to be about competition, who scores the highest gets to brag he's the cleverest and somehow superior. Instead, it should be about gaining competency in a fun way. Doesn't matter whether students reach it at 15 or 25 or older. (separate issue, but the core competency everyone in society should have nowadays is the ability to program in python).
> > Hiring people to "write good reviews for you and trash the
> > competition" is a quick way to establish a very short-lived
> > repuation boost.
>
> However, it's inevitable (or at least hugely likely) that you will
> be found out and your repution ruined.

Short of your reviewers deliberately snitching on you, how exactly is
anyone ever going to find out?

I'd really, sincerely like to know -- as I can't tell which strongly
positive or negative reviews on various sites like Amazon, IMDB, etc,
are written by hired reviewers and which are real.

Of course, I have my suspicions.. but no real proof. And I don't see
any way to ever get real proof -- unless the reviewer confesses.

So.. what's the secret?
Equivalently, a few months ago someone online pointed out that you get about 1000 months to live. For some reason that gives me a huge sense of urgency.
Agreed completely. Thanks for the suggestion--I'm going to try Lubuntu and Mint in VMs and stick with whichever I like more.
How about Stroud's? It's even still sort of up: http://cws.internet.com/
I was shopping for toys for my 4 year old this black friday, and I scanned a few of them ( if not all ) and the discounted toys where at the same price as Amazon.

eg: Lego Train Set

Store: $21.99

Amazon: $19.99

while the store price is marked as 20% off, and the Amazon price is marked as Prime, i went with Amazon Prime for the most part, the free shipping always wins for me, I wish this promotion was already active back then.
This is a really amazingly tone-deaf response. We may only hope that somebody like the Daily Show takes them properly to task for this.
This is why stores should start offering free wifi - so they can see how much this is affecting their bottom line.
10 billion Android Market downloads and counting
"We've been meaning to get that cash register fixed."

Although the FCC wouldn't take that excuse more than once. (And maybe not once.)
The problem here is this isn't a sustainable strategy long term. While Amazon has succeeded in killing the bookstore, this works because consumers are willing to accept "browsing" for books online.

The same is not true for many other types of goods, such as clothes. Shops are performing a useful function in letting consumers see, touch and try what they buy. So what Amazon is doing here basically parasitical, but a smart parasite doesn't kill it's host.

There's a reason why Jeff Bezos invested in SecondLife ( http://goo.gl/PluAT )...
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I'll just leave this here. http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uuad4vm7n
Only if they use electronic methods such as jammers. As far as I can tell there is no law against making a building a large faraday cage isn't prohibited.
At the very least, regretsy gets a donation to help their cause. Which, despite all the problems paypal caused, is one good thing to come out of all this.
Wonder what percentage of users are facing such an issues with PayPal. As somebody who's just in the middle of setting up payment solution (UK) with PayPal, such a stories are not making it easy to justify the decision to go this way.

In my eyes, PayPal is just another corporation, with all of its bureaucracy, both processes-wise and the way how they handle their customer care.

My bank is not making it easier to get started (otherwise I would have merchant account), so why would I expect PayPal would handle edge cases otherwise?

EDIT: jdietrich already made this point http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3319045
I feel sorry for anyone who's ever had to use download.com.
It's interesting to note that the first automated simulator of real-world processes was the water-powered MONIAC, built only 62 years ago. (MIT Whirlwind, the first digital simulator, was finished two years later.)

Articles like this make me wonder if Eliezer Yudkowsky isn't so far off after all. If I ever meet him or Aubrey de Grey, I'll apologize for not taking them more seriously.

Edit: I messed up the links. Sorry.
OMgod that's cool!

It made the list... http://dlfrancisco.posterous.com/pages/learn-code
It sounds gimmicky when you add on top of the 3 item, 2 day, and 5% off restrictions that it's only on select products and valid in select stores. Nice headline news, but shouldn't Amazon be looking to find people who'll become long-term users?
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PS: If anyone has tips on mobile marketing, I have open ears. I've done everything from design to development myself, and now I'm trying to figure out how to get it sold.
Why not make every employee a board member, with one vote each, and equal ownership of the company?

Decisions would be made based on what is in the best interest of the employees of that company. A real democratic way to run a business.
I've heard the fines as a couple billion spread across the industry. They pulled in way more than that during the fraud-ridden crisis, then got bailed out and stuck counterparties (AIG) with a lot of the losses. It's probably less if you need me to prosecute and convict each individual fraud case to add up a total.
Many single page interface sites do put the parameters in the URL in the fragment. It's kind of a hack, but the link should still work if done correctly. It is still best to use history.js or something that will only resort to fragments when the History API isn't supported.

The real problem is the developer not respecting the href in the anchor and only handling onclick. This prevents you from saving the shortcut easily, opening in a new tab, etc. I like the approach Google+ and others have taken which says "use the href unless left clicked and no modifiers (i.e. ctrl, alt, shift) are pressed.
As someone who has been doing PR for a startup for over 2 years, this article was spot on. The only point I'd bring up is that the author is speaking from the perspective of a local tech beat. Getting the attention of national reporters is much more difficult and takes a lot of effort before you have any news at all. PR is a lot of work...which most startups don't realize.
You can also take a picture of most things- it's a little less accurate, but it still works.

Also, when a store puts their own barcode over one, I generally don't feel any guilt about peeling it back a little and scanning the original.
Me either...anyone else experiencing this?
> I've seen it worth $30 one day and $3 the next.

No. The downslide took considerably longer than that.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if WalMart start displaying higher online prices right beside their merchandise in the store.

WalMart will compete if they are threatened. A new bargain supermarket moved into the area that puts price comparisons between them, WalMart, and the other local chains in its weekly flyers. In response, the local WalMart started putting signs up in the store showing their price and the competitor's price (and name) for items where WalMart is cheaper.
Have you ever tried calling them? They have giant call centers of people who actually answer phones, they have seriously short hold times, and are capable of escalating tickets up the chain pretty rapidly by just forwarding your call around their internal departments.

However, that's not the only option. Do you have an account on their merchant services support site? Have you talked to them about getting a dedicated account manager? Did you ever spend the time to calmly and happily explain to them your situation, and then get that information stored with your account details so others later will see it when they go to help you?

This experience of saying that PayPal doesn't respond is simply so far and away unlike my experience (where I am, if anything, I often feel inundated with communication from PayPal, having been dragged into hour-long conference calls with underwriting, or having to carefully explain my business model multiple times to different people) that I'd really like to understand what causes the differences.
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Maybe not WalMart, but this is exactly what Best Buy has become for me. I love going into Best Buy, just to be surrounded by all the high tech goodness, but I never buy anything there. I go to check stuff out, then go home and jump online and order the same thing for 20% or more less from Amazon or Newegg.
TIL. Thanks for disabusing me of the notion that this is a good idea. I have seen it used in numerous places which is what led me to assume it was the "right" way.

I assume, then, that the developers of this site could have used pushState() instead of the hash? I mean, I assume that Backbone encourages this style if the developer makes use of it.
When will Paypal and other companies that take this "under no circumstances say anything with substance" tack to PR learn that it's utterly counter-productive? Anyone who would be motivated to read the blog post had first read regretsy's side of the story, wherein Paypal comes across looking petty, immature, and unprofessional. None of that is addressed by this blog post, so the only takeaway for readers is that your only recourse if Paypal seizes your money is to raise a giant stink about it and cause them another PR headache?

All they had to say was,

"Our representative was enforcing our policy, but unfortunately did so in a way that we didn't intend, and without the respect and courtesy we expect. It can be easy for someone who spends their day dealing with scammers to see wrongdoing where there is none, and we're sorry that happened here. Regardless, scammer or not, we expect all of our representatives to deal with customers courteously and professionally, and will redouble our efforts to ensure that happens in the future. We sincerely apologize to regretsy and offer our commitment to improve. We would like to assure both regretsy and the community at large that customers remain our priority, and we will do everything in our power to earn your patronage."

That's it. An honest, humble, apology, and you wouldn't have people running around the Internet saying Paypal are a bunch of childish crooks.
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As long as you also include labor unions. Many people want laws that only effect corporations, when labor unions are pretty much the same thing, have just as much power, and can be just as corrupt.
On the one hand the author is right about how SAP is a behemoth and shouldn't be written off. On the other hand, this is TechCrunch we're talking about. Do we really expect them to cover SAP? TC has its niche and I'm not surprised at all. I think however the mistake on the part of TC wasn't not covering SAP but covering it in the way they did. If you're going to write an article about how the company is boring and dedicate the majority of the content to why you don't want to cover it then just don't cover it at all. It would look better for them had they just said nothing at all.

That said, the author of this post has an opinion. Cool. We all have opinions. But he was off the mark in implying that there's something wrong with techcrunch. There isn't. They're all about the cool factor and dare I say shallow startup porn.

The post was almost a great point but the implication that something is wrong with TechCrunch killed it. I'm not a fan of techcrunch. I think it's shallow garbage and reads like a thinly veiled commercial a lot of times. But I won't be writing any blog posts complaining about that any time soon. That's what we've come to expect from them and their audience loves it.
Two responses.

First, when you "pivot" after losing a fight for a market and take an A round of funding, you failed. Not all failures are fatal, but the word "pivot" isn't a magic startup 1-up mushroom.

Second, whatever you want to call it, nobody is better off not selling if Gowalla 2012 was destined to fail anyways. It is among other things (very) hard to retain talent at a company facing (at best) a heavily dilutive future round just to keep the lights on for a (very) uncertain new product.

Ultimately though, I'm just repelled by the idea that people think operators owe it to financiers to go down with the ship. I think the real issue cuts in rather the other direction: founder-operators who kowtow to VC partners to preserve their reputations and future fundability, come what may to the employees they recruited to their doomed company.
Android Market Surpasses 10 Billion Downloads
Exactly, and they give credit for it at http://dochub.io/#about and this usage is fine with the CC-by-sa license of the MDN.

I also guess you are fine with this, as it is a useful tool for web devs, who will make a better web with it.

It can also be a source of inspiration for the MDN itself as it proves that searching the MDN is slow.
What shipping? Amazon ships for free on any decent-sized ($25+) order.

I'm skeptical that Walmart can really beat Amazon via logistics. They're both top-notch operators in that realm, but Amazon's product pipeline is a huge advantage - they don't have to manage nearly as many locations, nor do they have to hold as much inventory relative to sales volumes because they have fewer fulfillment centers.

And their Subscribe and Save program (which offers a 15% discount on common household products) is aimed directly at Walmart and the price clubs. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/subscribe-and-save/details/index.ht...)
If it's RF-absorbing paint (and not RF-reflecting), and it becomes more commercially available, will people start using it to paint other things they don't want seen by radio waves?
This is to celebrate 10 billion downloads, so clearly Google hit billions without giving away 10 cent apps too.
They introduced the word "maybe": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWZAL64E0DI#t=30m
Moral of the story is: when wronged, make noise, and make it well.
When I read gergles's comment, it was clear to me that he was describing a class of sentiment, and not directly quoting who he replied to. The manner in which he did it is, to me, idiomatic English.
Hmmm...already sold out. The owner of this website is registered using the email of the domain of this company: http://ainol.com/plugin.php?identifier=ainol&module=page...

So it's probably not vaporware, but the lack of English certainly doesn't help me figure out anything.
> It was written under an NSF grant, so it's probably public domain?

Unfortunately, you can't assume that in general. There are a few specific NSF programs that require open-source licensing of any software produced (e.g. http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5174), but it's not a usual requirement. In fact lots of NSF-funded stuff eventually ends up in spinoff companies selling proprietary software, and the NSF even dedicates a smallish portion of its budget specifically to funding those kinds of spinoff efforts (via http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/sbir/).
No, I agree - re-read my comment, I don't think they admitted to any wrong-doing at all.
I have been using iTerm 2 full time for many months. Super stable. The full screen mode with panes is wonderful. George Nachman has done a wonderful job and is very responsive with any problems.
Until there is a hostage situation in such a store and some of the survivors complain that they tried to call the cops before the hostage-taker confiscated their phone, but couldn't because of the wireless-blocking paint...
Last weekend, I was at a used books shop. I saw a guy with some iphone app, checking the price of each and every book in the shop (there were lots of books for $1). The store people noticed, but didn't say anything, at least I didn't see them say anything. I bet they weren't happy about it.

How long before we just place an order, online, in a centralized place, and pick one of these:

cheapest

fastest delivery

highest quality

or some combination of these, and the app finds the best place to order (amazon, walmart etc) and automatically places the order?
I wonder who's gonna develop this system and how will they manage it? Sometimes even domains that appear simple end up reaching unexpected complexity, and this Simulator is already set to handle enormous complexity and massive data.

I can see the value in being an open source of cross-referenced data that would then be digested by proper research. Though as a simulator, I'm not so sure.

Not to mention the bugs. I doubt this complex undertaking will be bug free, and being not so, can the outcome be reliable? Who will debug the predications?

I think, as a rule, that we should not leave to computation what we ourselves cannot fathom. If we had a grand understanding on human behavior, individual and collective, then maybe this could be done, but how can we determine the correctness of a program that does something we can't, right now, fully comprehend?

I think there's much more value in trying to procure all this data in order to enhance understanding of social behavior in face of historical data.
I don't understand how this is related.
Shops also enjoy _insane_ margins on clothing relative to any other retail line (except maybe cosmetics.) On average, 50% of the retail price is markup by the retailer. Clothing has a lot of issues that make in harder to sell (in particular, the need to carry a range of colors and sizes for each product makes inventory less efficient) but that's not enough to justify those kinds of margins. It's an industry ripe to be picked off by more efficient operators.
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>Why hasn't it been made mandatory that all aircrafts should have a standardized transponder ?

In some parts of the world, it may be. For example, I don't know if Europe allows for aircraft without transponders. Even in the U.S. you must have a transponder to enter certain types of airspace (e.g. the airspace around major airports). As far as I know, no matter where you are in the world, you must have a transponder to fly IFR.

Installing a transponder is a non-trivial expense, especially in older aircraft (which are the aircraft most likely to not have transponders). For a lot of small aircraft in the U.S. this would represent an unnecessary burden on the owners. For example, crop dusters: they typically fly around low and slow in areas with very little traffic, under day VFR conditions, so they have no need to interact with ATC and therefore no real use for a transponder.

>It scares me a bit that, at the end of the day, we rely on pilots avoiding collisions by sight.

We don't rely solely on this: we have transponders (with TCAS in some cases), ATC radar, and (in some cases) airborne radar. All of these tools help us to avoid collisions. Unfortunately, none of them are 100% effective, and in most of the situations where they all fail, the good old Mark I Eyeball usually saves the day. See-and-avoid isn't perfect, either (if it was, we'd never have midairs), but it is still the most effective tool available for avoiding an impending collision.
> An honest, humble, apology...

Agree with your sentiment but if they had said what you suggested, it probably wouldn't have been honest.
Android Marketplace Tops 10 Billion App Downloads
I've gotta disagree on "what america's concerned about". When's the last time you heard someone who wasn't employed by fox news actually say anything about GM pensions?