skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Having money doesn't mean you should buy other companies, especially if you're DropBox and are kicking ass in your niche and not trying to branch out in a million directions.

I've seen SO many acquisitions go wrong for both parties.
Does this happen frequently? I haven't heard about Amazon doing this before.
Those suggestions are just for fun. We expect most developers do not actually "Love IE6"
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I hate it when I read articles like this and they tell me nothing of what the acquired company did.

What was Cove? Why was it in such good alignment with Dropbox's vision?
ShopRunner has basically productized Prime. $79 annually or $8.95 a month--merchant coverage is mainly across (formerly) GSI Commerce affiliated stores.

http://www.shoprunner.com/
I'll have to look for that. My in-laws give me a Best Buy card every year for Christmas and half the time I use it to buy their Christmas gift the next year. Amazon gift cards get spent right away.
> That's great for the developer community. Unfortunately, the developer community is a small minority of people

I think you underestimate the amount of influence developers have on the rest of the population. If you get developers to love you by making their jobs that much easier, they will go out of their way to promote your product and get other people to start using it. It's in their profit-minded interests to see to it that your product succeeds, because if it doesn't, then they have to bear the costs of doing things the old way.

The quality of the product matters, too, and we'll have to see if this will be a high-quality product. But there's something to be said about getting developers on your side.
I see you are the author of POPFile! I ran that for years to take care of my spam problem. It worked brilliantly. Thanks a ton. Too bad Gmail replaced you.
Well.. the detail is in the article linked. I'm the author.

For a TL;DR: you can't book yellow cabs in New York- the only way to get one is by hailing one on the street. I think that is an outdated and inefficient method, and think that there ought to be change.
I've heard a fair number of people report getting no effect, and recall reading somewhere that there's a gene which separates modafinil responders from non-responders. It's just that non-responders tend not to talk about it, since it's much less interesting in that case.
I bought a generator from them and got the free 2 day shipping. That thing was like 200lbs. A guy delivered it in an 18-wheeler and had to drive that thing through a little traffic circle in my neighborhood. I felt a little bad about that one.

I've spent an obscene amount of money in the 3 years I've had prime. I've definitely saved money on the necessities, but it's easy to one-click the impulse stuff. The subscribe and save stuff is great too. In my opinion, Amazon Prime is the best deal in online shopping.

I routinely find items priced lower someplace else online, but the difference is usually less than the cost of shipping. I go out to stores much less than I used to, and when I do I compare everything to Amazon. It's not uncommon for me to purchase several items from my phone and walk out empty handed. It's getting to the point where I mostly only go to stores for food and things that can't wait a day.

Sooner or later brick and mortar retailers are going to experience massive fallout from Prime.
Do check out the source. It's a great example (and starting point) of TDD/BDD in Cocoa, which has yet to fully catch on.

https://github.com/JourneyForMac/Journey/tree/master/Journey...
Offscreen - A new, collectible magazine about the human side of interfaces.
This is one of those beautiful win-win-win situations - everyone in this situation is happy - StackExchange, Balsamiq, and the users. What a great idea, and props to all involved for making it happen.
I believe it's actually called predatory pricing & is covered under antitrust. But it's not that easy to prove. It is also a regulatory practice to keep the market competitive.

Additionally offering two tiers may seem easy but you risk pissing off a potentially large portion of your customer base & the ISP who's name your sullying in the public space. It takes some balls to go out and say "AT&T are being dicks so you have pay more", some companies will not do that & would rather do some backroom deal that negotiates a lower rate than the sticker price AT&T is asking. The result is still that AT&T get's more money in the end.
I'm not disputing that Haskell makes it easier, but from a practical perspective I'd challenge the idea that nullability can't be turned off in Java with @NotNull annotations (and nullability inference tools like JastAdd[0]), or with decorators in Python. Do you see an essential difference in kind, or just a spectrum of ease of reasoning?

[0] http://jastadd.org/web/jastaddj/extensions.php
Cool effect - wish there was more information on how it was done. Wonder if they used the same techniques for the LSD scene in Taking Woodstock.

http://vimeo.com/35800167
I think the biggest problem would be writing a garbage collector. It would be huge, though...
Internet Economics
I agree that the difference may be due to that CRT.

However, there are lots of other options:

- Steve was intentionelly lying.

- Steve was misinformed.

- Steve was misunderstood.

- the innovate part was getting out better quality DC than other solutions that did not use such an IC, and not using the IC was a serious advantage, cost wise.

- the innovative part was getting good enough power out at an insanely low price.

I guess we will never know. Archaeology is hard, even when talking about 35 years ago.
How is compartmentalizing work from home life related to "uncontrollable risks of being screwed by a NYC financier or a DC bureaucrat"? I'm not following.
The article seems to be implying that it's more policy change, such as the case of Thomas A. Drake they use as an example. Additionally, they shouldn't need to use the espionage act for basic leaks. I would imagine other laws should suffice (though I don't know the particulars of which)
If the market really cared enough, they could likely sway the local government. If the product was good enough to justify that, then it would likely happen.

What/who is "the market", though? You can't really get traction behind an idea that is impossible to demonstrate. Users could get passionate about a useful service that is taken away from them, but it's a lot more difficult to get anyone passionate about something they've never had, and can't try.
I was also surprised, there's a few possible explanations/related observations:

1) It doesn't seem like players in this space make very many acquisitions. Has Box?

2) Dropbox appears to do a lot with not very many people. Recently I remember them being just 70 people. Now their about page suggests around 103 (https://www.dropbox.com/about) not including the Cove's team of about 5.

3) Emphasis on keeping the culture a certain way. I don't know much about Drew/Arash's leadership but maybe they're hyper focused on maintaining certain cultural elements that most acquisitions would probably dilute.
I think the "Beard stroking" preamble is one of the more interesting parts. That and this quote:

"The combination of low startup costs and investor aversion means there are all kinds of
opportunities lying around for a developer to run a profitable small business, provided he
or she remembers to charge money."
On the other hand, Amazons free digital content was the last point I needed before I decided to purchase a Google TV. For a while I was only consuming the free content, but now i'm about 70/30, where about 70% of what I consume digitally is paid content.
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It's at http://www.cloudgrasp.com/.

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Why did Google pay for Motorola to be behind a 'firewall'?
Seeing how everything is opensourced, how easy is this to get up and running on an intranet? Is that at all a goal of the project?
•Represent 4% of Amazon's customer base

•Spend 130% more than regular Amazon customers. (source)

•May be responsible for as much as 20% of Amazon's overall sales in the U.S.

Eh... those numbers don't line up.
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It seems that something like GitHub's wikis would be a great compromise: a simple web-based editing interface, but backed by a Git repo that you can also access as a vanilla Git repo with plaintext files.
there are more than a few wikis that use version control for their backends. i'm aware of at least 2 that use git; branching and forking in that case would simply be UI issues, and could be handled the same way that github does.
You can go through your code and change all of your SQL to match the PostgreSQL dialect. Or (with Hibernate) you change one configuration parameter (the hbm2ddl one) to use the MySQL dialect as opposed to the PostgreSQL one.

I hear ease of switching often being given as an advantage of ORMs. What worries me is that this might be code for, "You have to settle for the least common denominator."

For example, in the PostgreSQL/MySQL example: Will Hibernate recognize when it's appropriate to use a common table expression when working with PostgreSQL, and also degrade to something that works with MySQL's feature set when you switch? Or will Hibernate take advantage of MySQL's INSERT IGNORE statement, and happily switch to MERGE if you go over to Oracle?
By your logic, pharmaceutical companies are exploiting cancer patients.

Patients with horrible, painful, fatal diseases are certainly miserable. Pharmaceutical companies are certainly looking to further their own goals through the development and sale of life saving drugs.
> Prime was making money until Amazon did that bizarre video play.

they're pretty smart folks, lets speculate what insight this might give us. maybe they think that by bundling video and shipping, they can funnel content consumers from kindle/fire to their product store?
During the 30+ years I have lived in Washington, DC, about every 10 there has been an article or book about the unsatisfactory nature of Washington men. I don't say that we/they are not boring, unreliable, etc., etc. But I never got that feeling that the writers set a standard that we ought to live up to. They were invariably longer on snark than reflection. And here we have

'Bruno Mars seems to have articulated an entire gender’s worldview in last summer’s hit “The Lazy Song”:'

As no doubt Bachman-Turner Overdrive did with "Taking Care of Business" or Madonna with "Material Girl".
Sometimes the seed of an idea is more important to get right than the finished product.
You're right I should put my code where my mouth is!

As for closure compiler, uglify-js is an obvious replacement, it does all the optimizations, dead code elimination. It only falls short with inlining.
The algorithm needs training data. In this example you have a load of emails where you've explicitly tagged each one as either spam or ham.

So you could perhaps do what you're suggesting, if you have a big database of emails tagged as 'interesting' or 'not interesting'.
Shark Tank: 3 top attributes the sharks look for before investing
Are they going to account for the fact that not all developers will be in their system? It will matter whether they say a developer has the best reputation as compared to other developers in their system as opposed to all developers, which they cannot possibly know.
Absolutely agree. Prime has made Amazon my first choice for any one-off item because its that much easier than fighting traffic, other shoppers, and checkout lines.

Subscribe and Save is slowly eliminating my need to go to Target for the same reason. Every month, I bought the same things from Target. Now, it "magically" shows up via UPS and I can easily adjust if I notice I'm running short on napkins or have plenty of tissues in the closet.

These two models have created a tremendous amount of lock-in. Its a win for Amazon (I buy more) and a win for me (less time/less hassle/almost always less money).
Looks interesting. I will download and have a look.
WeViews - Library for Programmatically Laying Out UIViews
It is kinda sad that their primary revenue stream has become(imo) their biggest negative trait.
Announcing the General Availability of the Python 2.7 Runtime for App Engine
When I shop prime, I usually compare to local price and hassle. Sometimes finding a specific brand or niche product locally will take hours, and sometimes span multiple days to fit my schedule. The items I would have bought on amazon pre-prime, I still compare on price, but these have become the minority of orders for me.

My shopping now is the grocery store, dollar store, clearance clothes from big box stores, and amazon. The exception to this is hobby stuff that occurs at shows.
IMO the best way to stand out is to build your own website

It's difficult to compare a large group of people based on their websites though- you can't exactly tabulate the data. I suspect that's the idea behind Coderwall- that companies will pay to mine data and find prospective employees.

I don't think Coderwall will/is meant to replace individual web sites, though.
I'm personally fine with NOT buying at a cheaper merchant somewhere else because I know:

- Amazon ships fast

- Sending things back to Amazon is free and fully automated

- If something breaks in a year, Amazon will usually replace it without a big hassle

- I don't have to get another account at another merchant that will save my password and credit card data in plaintext

- Amazon packaging is great

- ...

There is more to a purchase than just the product itself
It is one of the eventually goals, but Travis has a lot of moving parts due to its distributed nature. We do plan to make in-house installs easier in the future.
It was OK for a community of that size in 75-83.
Getting a single US city to change it's regulations is easier than changing federal regulations.
Getting 1/3 of all US city's to change a regulation is a lot harder than changing federal regulations.

Operating a national organization that follows hundreds of independent regulations is harder than a cohesive federal regulation.
ZenCash Syncs With Invoicing Apps, Helps You Actually Get Paid
It is pretty heavily integrated with Github. And at least last time I checked it was challenging to get it to use private Github projects. I believe the feature is on their roadmap, though.
Cheaper non-media online advertising, also the first thing to go in a slow economy budget is advertising. Perfect storm as it were to kill the industry.
This appears to be dependent on how you interpret the numbers. See http://uspirg.org/reports/usp/do-roads-pay-themselves for another view.
Most of this article is true. Assuming you don't have anyone in your immediate circle to ask to join you as co-founder, it becomes exponentially more difficult to find someone that fits.

I've been going through that right now with my startup. We've (my co-founder and I) been looking for a 3rd to join our team and have been interviewing a ton of people. It is very difficult to find someone with the right skill set, passion/dedication, and especially someone who agrees on the "key questions."
The problem, as you've touched upon, is adjusting the dials between size-of-reward (S) and time-to-payout (T). S and T are, typically, inversely correlated. So we're forced to make a series of compromises in the scale of our goals in order to make them realistic.

I've found that, while there's no great way to "solve" this problem, there are systems you can use to manage it. Such as breaking down a larger task into increments. Incrementality is about viewing a larger task as the sum of a series of smaller tasks -- thereby allowing you to encounter a payout on a regular basis, rather than going exceedingly long stretches without one.

Procrastination is really a T problem, not an S problem. Hence, why incrementality really works. (Conversely, increasing S doesn't yield linearly adjusting motivation sufficient to overcome procrastination).
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Fraud requires intentional bad faith. You can't accidentally commit fraud. (And there is no proof that this was anything but human error.. you could probably make a good case for gross negligence though.)
IPhone's Crutch of Subsidies Dents Sales in Post-Crisis Europe
How is this any different than a popular app on the Android Market or an exploit in the same webpage affecting Mobile Webkit. This seems like a really random absurd scenario.
4 Approaches to Estimate Cost for Multi-Channel in Google Analytics
Can anyone provide some insight about how successful The Economist has been online?
Now On iOS And Android, 2tor Brings Higher Education To Mobile Students
I think Coderwall is fun, but probably not something I'd ever take seriously. Especially since it's easy to tailor your account to get more achievements.
Making Your Web Design Mobile-​​Friendly in Minutes With Foundation
Astronauts drink from Zero-G cups aboard the International Space Station
This is a poor analogy, because you don't pay a flat monthly fee for your gas usage. The customer is already incentivized not to drive too far to eat at a restaurant because of the fuel expense and the time required to get there.

There are few analogies that work well outside of examples involving utilities, but most utilities are metered rate. The carriers built their current pricing models based on a usage profile that is rapidly disappearing. Basically, they priced their service for a model where the user rarely uses the actual service. Now they're desperately trying to escape their own trap.

Carriers believe that users don't want metered service, and in fact, they don't. Why would I want to expose myself to additional risk when a flat rate service is already available? Carriers captured massive profits when cellular users didn't utilize their plans, but aren't prepared to take the hit when consumers actually use what was sold to them. It's a sham.
From what I read in the article I believe it's a matter of government overreach. Some of the details leaked were trivial and to reporters. It is not espionage to leak information to the media when the government does, or is about to do, something wrong; it is whistle-blowing. But charging them with espionage means the government gets to avoid those pesky whistle-blowing laws we supposedly have to protect such people.
This is simple. The startup community needs a lobby, a real one.

We need a lobby to push for:

liberalized IP policy, including 28-year copyrights, an end to software patents, penalties for introducing frivolous copyright suits, an end to anti-circumvention, etc.

Looser immigration policies. If your IQ's above 130, you get in. If you have a graduate degree, you get in. If you've started a successful company before, you get in.

And mitigation of various kinds of red tape and local regulation like this.

A lobby like this would help to create a more vibrant, more productive startup community, and so ideally, the firms that benefit from same, especially the VC firms, would cooperate to fund it.

We can talk all we want about getting the money out of politics, but until that's done, I think we need to play ball. This is how things get done. This is how we get what we all want.
i believe the word you're looking for is "understatement", not "euphemism". also, link to original rant seems dead.
personal crisis is a huge factor here, and don't assume you can or that you should separate personal life from business. it doesn't work.

what don't you like with the people you're working with?
Java synchronization is _that_ bad? (Not trolling - I just spend most of my days in C/C++). Any good performance studies you could point me to?
It depends how they are calculating the sales numbers. All prime shipments are sold by amazon or through their warehouse holding third party goods. Non-prime sales are likely to have a majority of third party listings not supplied via amazon's warehouse.

Also, the "U.S." qualification can skew things a bit.
GitHub Repo - https://github.com/viatropos/tower

Source for towerjs.org (written with Tower.js) - https://github.com/viatropos/towerjs.org
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Sears Sucks at Social Media (And What You Can Learn)
If you had stuck with that raw data I wouldn't have taken any issue with what you said. It's that "preferred" that stuck in my craw.

All this data says is exactly what the last line of your last post does. There is no "preference" stated here. The reasons why are not explored (and would probably be out of the scope of this paper anyways).

Keep in mind, our unemployment rate right now is absurdly high right now. I somehow doubt that's because people "prefer" to remain poor.
The post seems to be confusing .NET Framework with VS.NET plug-in api/framework.

VS.NET is the IDE you use for .NET programming. Nothing else even compares.

Saying this...

> Visual Studio 11 will be the sixth iteration of Visual Studio with .net support. And it’s still a terrible platform for the .net programmer.

...is at serious odds with my own reality.
Nice and finally a Node.js framework I will be able to understand.
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[citation needed]

I have never heard of this happening ever with amazon, though I would love to know where your experience with this is coming from.
Another Rails-inspired Node framework built on Express: http://railwayjs.com/
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The feat of building that kind of app is impressive. I sure as heck can't do it, yet. I do have a few comments, though.

Refine your data classification. On one of your screenshots, you are listing "Arrests" as a type of crime. That's confusing. Also, consider filtering for violent crime rather than crime in general. That would be more in line with the stated purpose of your app.

Realign the usage from a real-time application to a planning application. You don't want your users to be fiddling with a smartphone in a bad neighborhood. That really increases the odds of getting mugged and defeating the purpose of the app.

I agree with some of the other posters that you should tone down the alarmist tone of the app. If nothing else, it's more professional.

Congratulations on your experiment.