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> searching, inspecting, paying (cash), storing inventory, selling, shipping, etc.

So Amazon was never a scalable business? Or netflix? You don't have to be sitting around a kitchen table selling nothing but bits for it to be scalable business.
when i moved to SF i walked around the TL and rang building managers of nicer buildings and asked to see what was available. in Boston the most up-to-date info was not online but in a steno book of a guy in a subbasement in the Fenway that connects to various buildings via utility tunnels, even getting to him required 2 elevator-trips and some stairs, but it really illuminated how things work. in between padmapper, hotpads, trulia, zillow and the exclusive broker-listings and MLS-shared rentals therein, as well as alumni-mailinglists/forums containing for-owner listings and carefully-crafted CL search-bookmarks and working with a couple human brokers it was possible to get a good sense of roughly everything in the market
Tell HN:Godaddy's New Move to boost its profits.
I just saw a Godaddy ad on tv . I'm from India and I never saw Godaddy promoting itself on tv here. And they are now advertising on Star Cricket, for the ongoing India-Australia test match. I had to say this is a really good movie by them . Half of the country will be watching that match and hardly anyone knows about SOPA and even if they did , few care about it . By advertising at a place where there is no bad blood , they is a lot of chance to grow. I had to say this is a good move by them.
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Just out of curiosity what language is priceonomics written in?
The new Facebook mobile site is gorgeous and is faster than the native app on my Galaxy Nexus (for whatever reason the FB app takes ages to load, and ages longer to load data after it gets off a white screen). It's so nice in the browser and it's every bit as functional as the proper "app".

Sadly, they're doing some weird user agent sniffing and are giving me the WAP site currently and are also telling me I have a Droid Bionic, so I'm not 100% sure what's up with that.

After reading the comments here, maybe my experience is so pleasant due to the power of the Nexus and the tuning in the 4.0 browser.
While I agree with you, adding special restrictions on passwords is a way to lose some customers (who can't be bothered or never remember their passwords). So while I know about basic security practices and will always store passwords with bcrypt, sanitize user input and not store any purely private data in plaintext, I'm not going to make a decision about password security that might mean losing customers.

EDIT: To answer the questions below. Of course, I would not allow people with administrative access to use weak passwords. But if a user uses a weak password and someone gets access to his account, he can't do all that much (save for changing the plan the user pays, which can be easily reversed)...

I'm not responsible for users choosing weak password, however I'm responsible for making sure that no user data/passwords and so on is leaked due to security breach. And that's why I use bcrypt to encrypt password, that's also why I outsource the storing of credit card numbers to authorize.net or other companies that are more competent than me, why I secure as much as possible the website.

All of this is a matter of trade offs. Currently, the only websites that I manage that have credit card numbers on files for some users sell virtual/digital goods. So, it would be very easy for me to refund a transaction if it was fraudulent (and in my interest to do so to avoid chargebacks anyway). I might have a different view point in different circumstances.
Oh. That makes sense. My bullshit filter kicked in before I finished interpreting the post as a whole.
Note that Firefox did show the line (and column, which is impossible to get in Chrome) number if you actually clicked on any point in the view-source window. It just didn't have a gutter on the left with the line numbers.

As far as the ruby tag, if you really are interested I'd be very glad to get you up to speed. There's a partial patch, but it has some issues that should really get dealt with before it lands. Of course every single ruby implementation out there is broken as hell in the relevant ways, so maybe it should just land issues and all... In any case, let me know if you do want to get it into shape. I do have to warn that this is not a small-and-simple project unless you really want to learn about the layout engine internals anyway.
There are a lot of issues with putting advertising on a site dedicated to providing unbiased information to the public. Advertising is, I think you'll agree, very unbiased information.

You can argue that users will be able to distinguish between the ads and the content, but Wikipedia serves a very diverse community -- children, the elderly, people who can't read very well, people who are more-or-less computer illiterate. If even a small percentage of them are confused by the ads, Wikipedia will have failed in a small way.

(FWIW, I've seen technically-literate peers get confused by the current banner too, thinking the person pictured was the person the article was about.)
Boston DA subpoenas OccupyBoston Hashtags
Although the SOPA submissions may be a little excessive, they directly relate to the hacker community. SOPA is an important issue that deserves attention. Plus, the popularity on HN is having a real effect on the issue. For example, Go Daddy has lost thousands of domains, and has since retracted their support of SOPA.
How about no? It's not my job, it's not a project I care about, it's not even something I use.
Unless we can effectively teleport, there won't be any interstellar commerce. Everything is too far away.

Interplanetary, maybe, but within our solar system.
> steal from their customers with fraudulent nickle and dime charges

whoa now, that's quite the claim. I'm no GoDaddy fan, but come on.
There are plenty of non-profits that have some commercial-ish operations. E.g. hospital gift shop profits often go to the hospital, and plenty of museums sell related stuff. But generally it's a terrible idea.

Business is hard, and it's a different kind of hard than charities normally deal with. Being good at 2 things is more than twice as hard at being good at one thing, so I think charities are wise to generally stick with being non-commercial.
A scalable business is one where you find things get cheaper as you do more of the process. Software happens to be moreso than many other things (you still have to look at support costs, among others), but that doesn't mean it's the only industry.

Selling burrito franchises, car dealerships, and grocery stores all work very very well at scale, and are very scalable.
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"The buyer" isn't necessarily constant. Suppose Alice values a widget at $100 and Bob values it at $200, and also that Alice spends much more time on Craigslist than Bob. If you sell a widget for $75 then Alice will probably buy it, which results in less consumer surplus than if you sold it for $150.
> Does this mean they don't give a shit about experience? No. It means they want to have a large reach without much maintenance. After that is accomplished, then they can worry about experience on a per device basis.

Facebook maybe able to get away with this, but almost every other developer and plenty of device makers will not get that second chance and will be dismissed by customers.

This is the same thing that happened to cross platform Smalltalk programmers (e.g. VW, VisualAge). They sure could target a lot of machines, but their programs always acted crappy and slow with poor UIs. This is ok when your "customers" are forced to use your program like a custom app for a business, but it sure doesn't work for others. Even Adobe runs into user hate for their non-native widgets and ignoring platform conventions.

Most non-technical consumers are good about getting a feel for how things work on a platform (e.g. ctrl-c for copy on windows, smooth scrolling, metro on WP7). This leads to a disconnect when an app behaves differently. They may not be able to express the problem, but they will certainly notice it.
The problem is to convince a lot of apartment owners to post and update their apartments on your site, especially if you're just starting and have just a few visitors.

It's a catch 22 problem, you need a lot of money to gain traffic at the start.

Most large building owners just let real estate agents do all this work, which have their own databases that are great quality, but it will cost you a fortune to tap into any of them.
Given that it requires a complete rewrite of how XSLT works in Firefox, that the rewrite would make the XSLT much slower, and that the use cases for XSLT on the web that actually want this feature are few and far between, the chances of this happening are low.
Assuming that Bocoup simply chose Backbone.js for familiarity's sake

The tone of this post seems a bit dishonest.

There are plenty obvious reasons for not choosing Ember today: It's young, it's not production-ready, it's undocumented.

In that light I don't think you can reasonably expect anyone who's not a former SproutCore-user to choose Ember over Backbone today.

Case in point: The docs don't even mention the Em.ArrayController that your example builds on. How is anyone without prior SproutCore-knowledge supposed to discover it?
I was actually trying my hardest to present it as a technique worth being aware of rather than specific to one framework or another.

Totally agree. I use both frameworks for work and posted my article because Rick Waldron asked me too as penance for a bit too much snark on my behalf.
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Costs aren't a fixed thing. Organizations can always use more resources, and people can always thing up more great things to do.

I think their fixed fundraising period is a better way to do things. Although I'd really like to see them build up an endowment and live off that.
Passwords of users with power should be secure, but I don't see how that has anything to do wtih the password creation rules of a website.

My HN password being "post" for my own convenience doesn't affect anyone else on HN, and it certainly doesn't allow anyone to root HN's server. How do password restrictions save the say except dictate the amount of risk of my own personal data that I'm willing to take?
A little off topic, but this stood out:

> One user, Dave Newton, wrote: “In any case, I’m done–nyc.rb is pretty much ruined for me, before my first in-person meetup, before I had a chance to contribute back.”

Overreaction and hyperbole like this reeks of childishness and it's pretty sad that something like this even made the article.
Is there any correlation between G+ new users and new Android activations? One is 625K and the other is 700K per day. Just curious.
Well, let's say I want to gather minerals from an asteroid.

My primary defense would probably be to paste a big honking weapon on the asteroid and shoot anyone who wants to take over my valuable mining facility.

If I put my defenses on something next to my planet, I'm an idiot. If he destroys my defenses, I want him to also have a high chance of destroying whatever he's attacking me for.

So I build a big weapon as well as commensurate defenses. It isn't unimaginable that the destruction created by future weapons in order to penetrate future defenses would be immense. High velocity and mass will be the only way to do this... mostly in order to prevent deflection/destruction. You have accelerated a projectile to significant fraction of the speed of light in order to get it through the target's point defenses (think missile defense shield). Anything that can penetrate the missile defense system will have extreme destructive force, without needing a warhead.

Generally the point of a blockade/siege is to starve out the opponent so that you can eventually take whatever they are squatting on. Your opponent has a big weapon that you don't want to shoot at (you aren't looking to destroy what you are fighting over). Your blockade would be a sitting duck unless you destroy the weapon, and you significantly reduce the value of the planet/asteroid if you destroy the weapon.

In addition he also has perfect visibility due to the empty nature of space... he can see and shoot at you whenever he wants. If you intercept his transports, he shoots at you. If you stop to refuel, he shoots at you. If you start taking out his less valuable assets, he shoots at you. He can shoot your other assets too. Your space armada has to refuel at a fixed point in space... likely visible to his weapon.

If there were a fight, it would likely be very short and involve both sides having their logistical assets completely annihilated... Which ultimately would defeat the purpose of attacking in the first place.
You may not like the company, and you are entitled to have that view (I might even share it!), but to state that everyone that works there in some form of engineering capacity is lacking of praise for their engineering feats is quite disingenuous.

Take a look at all the different repos they have on their github page, along with projects like HipHop-PHP, Cassandra, Tornado and the thousands of commits they have contributed to MySQL, PHP, memcached, Varnish. Let alone the number of sites they integrate with and their active user base, Facebook's engineers are quite intelligent and have solved some amazing problems. I'd like to think that most of HN thinks like engineers and marketers, positions that generally do best when their time isn't wasted by flinging mud for political "gain". Please keep it that way.
A bigger problem is making broad generalizations based on the bickering of a subset of members on a small, unimportant mailing list or, worse, taking what single ex-members of a community say at face value.
Also, the upvote and downvote images are too close together. Sometimes I accidentally hit the wrong one - especially when browsing on my phone.
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however the brokers still had stuff that was moving too fast to ever make it to a website

Considering one can easily get up-to-the-second stock quotes, this seems like a solvable problem.

I moved to NYC recently, and the apartment hunting process is ridiculous. There's no reason for floor plans and availability to not be online and easily searchable; I'm assuming there's some sort of regulatory capture by the brokers.
Thanks!

Regarding the open source frontend, what's that have to do with profitability? We think that, if anything, having an open source frontend will lower costs because our users can help us build the features they want.

Regarding assurance, I believe the expression goes: "The only two things certain in life are death and taxes" (Benjamin Franklin?). That said, we're a real company with employees located in San Francisco and we're planning on being around for a long time.

And to answer your question, no, we're not profitable at $8/credit, so you should definitely stock up because this special won't last for long.
I've been teaching programming classes (mostly Ruby, Python, and PostgreSQL -- and for a long time, Perl) for more than 10 years. People ask me to come to their companies and teach these technologies to them, and they're willing to pay me for it.

How many such courses have I ever taken? None. And I can't imagine ever taking one.

Like many others on HN, I've got a CS degree, and an ability (and interest) in teaching myself new languages, techniques, and tools. I also have the advantage of being self-employed, which means that I can (and do) take the time to learn new things, even if they're not directly related to the work that I do for clients.

So if I want to learn a new language, I'll get some books on the subject, read a bunch of blog postings, try out a lot of things... and then make mistakes, and learn from those.

Is this a great way to learn? I certainly think so. But it's not the only way, and I recognize that:

- Some people prefer the structure of a course, laying out the concepts in an organized way

- Some people don't have the time to experiment, and need the compressed time of a course, even if it means that they learn things less deeply

- Companies sometimes need to get a lot of people up to speed on a technology quickly, and a course can reduce that time somewhat, by having everyone at the same level

- Some people cannot learn without a teacher or guide.

I'll add that one of the advantages that my students get is lots of advice based on experience. It's not unusual for me to introduce a concept, or show them that something is possible, or answer a question -- and then say, "Please don't do this in your code, for your own sake and for the sake of anyone who will have to maintain it after you." Sure, people might learn this on their own, but I can give them a jump-start, based on my own trials and errors.

Now, is $2800 a lot to pay to learn Ruby? I don't think so, but it depends on all sorts of factors. I can assure you that for every day of a course that I teach, I've put in at least one day of preparation, and often much more than that. There are many courses out there, in many different shapes, forms, and price levels, that I don't think it's fair to bad-mouth someone who tries to charge that much. Believe me, if they're charging too much, the market will make it clear to them very quickly.

But if they're giving a good course, then it'll quickly be oversubscribed at that price (or beyond) -- and furthermore, participants will feel like they've gotten a good deal for their money.
Wow, so Wikipedia is being greedy by not putting ads on their pages?
but is the general electorate even aware of the issue?

I would argue that the tech media is pretty hip these days and not as far removed from the general electorate as you might think, but only time will tell.
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URI.js is a facility for working with URLs
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The need to present complex information in an easy to understand yet effective manner is always felt because only then readers feel interested to go through the content. It is quite obvious that nobody likes to read dull and ill structured information.
There is a Reddit AMA from a few hours ago at http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/nsocy/i_am_the_founder...

Also, they previously posted a request for beta testers on Hacker News a couple of weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3348974
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One measure of the relative popularity of Google+ and Facebook is to compare the number of 'likes' with '+1s' on a popular page. For example, on the following page there are currently 64 '+1s' and 260 'likes':
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/lego-is-for-girls-12142...

By this measure, Google+ is at 25% of Facebook. I remember when Google+ went into 'anybody-can-use-it' mode a few months ago it was only around 5%. This suggests Google+ is doing quite nicely, thank you. But perhaps it is just showing how Google+ is becoming more popular with spammers...?
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The 'War on Drugs' in the USA is simply a way for the government to heavily arm the police in order to enforce the Police State that it is itself becoming.

The government know that the war can never be won, but that isn't actually the point of the war.
if there was fraud involved, of course. why not?
NO company that puts sales/profits before security of my billing information is a company I'd ever do business with.
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I deleted my "radically honest" reply to this post because it would've got me banned. Even though it was completely honest.
Is there something like this available for software patents?
Do we really need an explanation about why a public reference resource should be free from potential conflict of interest?

Capitalism isn't even involved. It's not about making money, it's about keeping the resource available and valuable. There are all kinds of "just do this and you'll make tons of money and no one will get hurt" ideas. But they truly don't matter. They all devalue the service. And frankly, it's kind of embarrassing for humanity that we can't modestly fund our most valuable information resource and that there are many complaints of wikipedia nagging its users.

Servers ain't free, developers ain't free, freedom ain't free. You use wikipedia? Buck up and spend $10. Think about how the free market isn't about companies finding money faucets. It's about voting with your dollars. So go out and fucking vote.
Different prices for easily resold products is alive & well. The biggest example is coupon discounts, where stores enable people to buy things they wouldn't otherwise at the cost of some inconvenience for them.

People who are less price sensitive don't clip generally coupons.

The same argument applies to socks - if you aren't price sensitive then you'll pay for new socks. Others may well be happy buying socks on a secondary market, so stores can provide different pricing for them (using coupons or whatever).
This claim was made in the article, in case you didn't read it.
People are not perfectly rational beings.

It's irrational to ignore the realities of human emotion, perception and cognition.
HN is very different from an e-commerce site. If you are giving your credit card information over to a site, and especially if that site saves cc info, then you should be pretty sure that the site is securely storing your data, because now it's more than just an HN user account you're potentially losing-- it's real money, identity theft, etc.

Not having a password creation rule is just one heuristic that I have started to use to indicate poor security.