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I understand that industry collusion in necessity goods (food/gas/medicine) is bad for the consumer but why can't book publishers and wholesalers act together to raise the price of books 100x if they so wish? Let the market decide if that is a good decision or not. In fact, if they raise prices on certain category of books (e.g. educational books), it will only hurt them because it will encourage students to buy used older versions from secondary market, regardless of what version is supposed to be used in class.

Also, why are e-books any different from paper books? Let them price them however they want. If Hollywood and theaters want to sell movie tickets at $50/person, why shouldn't they be allowed to?
And there in lies the problem with TOS (or is the problem with the law?) if one needs to be an attorney to understand them, what hope is there for the ordinary folk - just saying. No wonder people just click through.
It's a shame that its so hard to convince people they have a psychogenic illness. My understanding is that the treatment is fairly straight forward and effective, as far those things go, if you can actually get someone to accept that they don't have some hot new plague.
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>I wouldn't be surprised if this naming convention spreads the iPhone.

This naming convention would be especially convenient for the iPhone. The next one would be the sixth generation but it could confuse people if they call it 'iPhone 6' since there was never an iPhone with a '5' in its name.

For reference, here are the previous iPhone names:

1. iPhone

2. iPhone 3G

3. iPhone 3GS

4. iPhone 4

5. iPhone 4S
I guess the idea is that these are utilities right?

You have msging and mention identity, assets storage...

So really this seems like it is heading toward the basic functionality of a CMS...

So... you might end up building some cloud-backed framework to demonstrate the bundle of APIs... that might not be your focus but people could build upon it...

Which is fine if that is what you want to do... another possibility is to branch into APIs covering novel functions.

Given your pricing model, seems you are going for widespread use that leans toward the more generic APIs...

I guess the question is... what do you want spire.io to be in the near future? That would dictate which APIs come next.

Have fun with that ;)
"around the interwebs" "baggies of drugs" "things that go BOOM"

Seems legit.
Exactly, the onus should be upon Pinterest not Flickr.
Given the wide availability of pirate books, publishers may be shooting themselves in the foot by making their titles overly expensive.
so I opened these two images in two tabs, and now looking at them I honestly don't know which is the "improved" one. The black/red one looks a lot less messy, but still kinda like a first draft from a high school student. the other one's just plain horrible though, so I'll guess the black/red one
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Filtering legitimate reviews is a big problem. Once I discovered that Yelp filtered most of my reviews, I stopped writing them. It's not even like I'm some anonymous coward (not that there's anything wrong with that, of course): I have had a photo of myself on Yelp for a long time, my account is linked to a few friends of mine on Yelp, and I even went to a Yelp event. I wonder how many other people like me stopped writing reviews for the same reason?
First paragraph: "... according to people familiar with the matter"

Good thing they didn't report what people unfamiliar with the matter said.
"Apple warns US on poor financial management"

How exactly does the US government have the moral authority to warn anyone of anything, considering it is bankrupt?
Yes, exactly.

What this means functionally is that small startups who do the exact same thing as the industry giants will be the ones targeted and shut down. The logical conclusion is that, if you want to start a web application, it might be worth it to found and host your company outside the US.
Right. The fundamental problem here is that the old school buttons and dials have a hidden logic to them: namely that you can distinguish and grasp them without taking your eyes from the road.

This seems like a general UI consideration for physical objects. If the object is being aimed at something or demands the use of vision, the affordances should be designed for sight-free operation. Examples: a gun's trigger, a camera's button, a car's gear shift, a microscope's stage adjustment.
Nope, SOPA was another (succesful) attempt by user-generated content sites to deflect liability away from themselves. That's my point, these onerous terms are pretty much in the same spirit, from an Internet company's point of view, as the SOPA protest.
Where do you plan to take this?
CodeKit is "ok". But I prefer 100 times to use the command line for this kind of things.

Also LiveReload allows you to run it on another sevrer.
There's a lot of FUD in there (maybe a conflict of interest?). The media industry operates fine on an ad-based model. Yes, reports of disappearing reviews have only been anecdotal and never close to proven (and obviously unnecessary). People love to review things and there are tons of ways to incent such. It should be possible to manage fraudulent reviews as many other companies do (Google included)(Max and Jeremy also have a lot of experience there). The extortion thing is simply ridiculous. Yelp was originally much more "social grafty" and has stepped back significantly from that. I have little doubt it will continue to find ways to maximize review relevance aside from social graph.
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Agreed. The TSA Out of Our Pants guy goes to the trouble of giving specific examples in a well-articulated video and they respond with some catchy, hip-sounding interwebs keywordz... I feel safer already.
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I was contacted by a recruiter from Riviera Partners recently. Stupidly, I thought that it might be beneficial to respond to them.

After not receiving a call from him at our scheduled time, I emailed him. He responded three days later telling me that he had called in sick the day he was supposed to call me and asked for my availability in the next few days. I gave him my availability, and never heard back until he just called me out of the blue. It was fine that time, but would have been very annoying if my availability had changed.

We talked for a bit and he said that he wanted to get me in touch with a startup company that he thought had a position that would be a good fit for me - same deal, I gave him my times and received no confirmation until the company called me one afternoon.

A little bit into the phone call it became apparent that he had told them I was open to permanent positions despite me making it very clear to him I was only looking for internships.

Great.
This is the problem with importing PUBLIC CONTENT YOU FIND ON THE INTERNET into a website. Not uploading from your computer, or importing from your own account somewhere on another site. If the website actually makes a copy of the media (picture, etc.) and stores it on their servers, they should hope that the DMCA still considers them a safe harbor.

I think their best bet is to store the images only as a cache, and not as a permanent import. If the site owner decides to take down the original, then the cache should disappear soon thereafter.
Necessity vs. non-essential is quite a slippery slope as there is a gradient of need. How would one draw the line?

As Enron and countless other examples show, a purely free market does not always result in an optimum outcome, even for something as perfectly fungible.
Wow. This blog post makes me WAY more afraid of the TSA than the original video did. I can't wrap my head around the language used. "Things that go BOOM" ???!?!?! Are you fucking kidding me? These are the people that are supposedly acting in the interests of our safety? Disgusted.

Whoever wrote or approved this post ought to be fired. Fast.
My ultimate goal is https://docs.google.com/document/d/16uNiMs8a_HaZJtZxHD7jDppI...

Basically one site for all types content with revenue sharing for content creators.

(one handed typing sucks)
Good point. The reason Pinterest is worth a look from this perspective is because it's a case study in the copyright dilemma. "Everyone loves Pinterest", but it's basically built around systematic copyright violations. (The TOS debate is just a corollary.)
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I posted my experience with them elsewhere here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3678767) but it was basically the exact opposite of your's - extremely unprofessional the whole way.
We could do this at least as far back as 96, I can confirm. Even without Bootstrap you can just write a super simple HTML page, with bare minimum markup and layout, and just focus on getting the functionality right. No CSS or Bootstrap needed. There's always time to iterate on the prettiness. Plus if a customer/user likes your site when it's "ugly" but functional, and especially will pay for it like that, then they might like it even more when it's "pretty".
Enron wasn't operating in a perfectly free market. The electric power business in California is heavily regulated, in particular, the utilities were forced by law to pay whatever Enron demanded, and also by law were unable to pass those costs along to the ratepayers.
Would love to hear more about the tools of the trade. What did you use back then for debugging/packet sniffing, and what would you use now?
Author here. I do have a time picker in the works but I was planning to have it be a separate project. I suppose it could be a good idea to bundle it with this to avoid duplicating moment.js.
I've never felt more like I was living in a prequel to Idiocracy than I did while reading that.
Casual pseudo-scientific misogyny is the new scientific racism.
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The problem is that that's not actually how it works. For things like textbooks, people don't really have a choice on whether or not to buy it - when everyone colludes to price it very high, the people who need them have no recourse other than to buy them.

You nonchalantly say that students can just buy older versions, but that is often impossible. Homework problems are regularly taken from the textbook, and those problems are regularly changed from version to version. Additionally, when publishing companies are coming out with a new version every couple years, there's not a lot of availability for used books either.
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If their security is as good as their blogging it's time to consider travelling by bus.

Also their "20 layers of security" chart[1] is an unintentionally hilarious masterpiece. Note the arrow they've drawn circumventing every layer of security apart from passengers. So really, we can't say they didn't warn us.

[1] http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/index.shtm
Beyond disturbing. Equivalent of, "u mad?" Rebuttal with no refutation. Embarrassing and useless, but just enough to placate the placid and ignorant.
I built my first LFS inside Virtualbox, it was slow. Fun starts at Beyond LFS (BLFS). Never finished it, installed Ubuntu instead and be productive.
It does boil down "if you don't like it, don't use it" and that wasn't an attack on you at all. What you said reminded me very much of what I've seen others say on similar topics and those people really were acting entitled. No, there wasn't a tone of entitlement in what you said to answer your question. I wasnt singling you out, I was speaking generally and if I sound condescending it's because I'm really tired of seeing people pick on TOS agreements. It's just too easy. I might also just be in a mood tonight but I would never go after one person in particular (usually I should say) so I'm sorry if that came off like I was going after you personally.
>Part of what is baffling about the Le Roy case is that it seems to combine two equally poorly understood phenomena: conversion disorder and mass psychogenic illness

Note the word "seems" and "poorly understood". They don't know what this is. They are acting on a theory.
I just checked this out. Near where I live in the suburbs I got mostly recommendations for chains which I expected since that's really all there is around here. When I get closer to the city where there are fewer chains the restaurants I consider legit that I would recommend show up.

Just for kicks I tried San Francisco since Yelp did such a terrible job with recommendations when I was there last time. Sure enough I got a host recommendations that I would consider trying next time I'm out there.

I think for this to be better you could tweak the relevancy based on different psychographic profiles. For example maybe show different results for a foodie, family, and maybe a "safe mode" for out-of-towners which would display a mix of results from the prior two.
Generally Enron is described as an example of deregulation gone wrong as Enron was able to control supply. That has nothing to do with passing off costs to ratepayers.

Even if that's not a perfect example, do we really disagree that a pure free market doesn't always lead to the optimum outcome?

Also, I don't think its civil to downvote simply b/c you disagree.
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There is something chillingly unconvincing about their attempts at informality.

Big Brother jokey is a lot more frightening than Big Brother bureaucratic or Big Brother bombastic. Too bad this insight wasn't available to Orwell or he could have made 1984 even scarier.
That language is intended to resonate with people who look at cat pictures on the internet and who are (obviously) the people whose clicks made the video in question go viral.
You can do some of this.

If you see someone whose reviews you like, you can follow them. This will cause their reviews to be at the top of any other businesses you look at. Also, you can click on the name of a person whose review you trust to see a list of other places they reviewed.

I think the only things they are missing from what you suggested (just from what I saw in the FAQ) is personalizing the average rating and aggregating information about the people you trust for you.

If you want to try to implement something like this (perhaps as a browser extension), their APIs look pretty thorough. (http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/business)
>It is completely safe and the vast majority use a generic image that completely addresses privacy concerns.

Well that makes me feel great. Guess they decided they been caught blatantly lying on that point before so they decided to reiterate it, just with sufficiently vague qualifiers.
One imagines the Idiocracy intro showing how TSA evoled into TGB (Things Go Boom).
The authorites are working on that angle, too. ;)

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/20/nation/la-na-terror-...
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Honestly, I did that. Just went right to the page and clicked "Approve" to all of them. I couldn't remember the command to get my fingerprint, I was lazy, and that was really stupid of me but it does go to show you should never trust a user. Even one who is a programmer and understands the risks.
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looks like this is moot
If this weren't on a .gov site I'd think this was satire. As it is, it's just scary and sad.
mmm, a fix for that (not perfect) could be to activate the screen when the passenger airbag is on (since most cars now have a sensor in the seat). Sure the driver can still play with the screen but if you have a passenger it shouldn't be off. Alternatively the screen could be setup so the viewing angle changes when there is a passenger (I believe that's possible but I might be wrong.)
What's the problem? I enjoyed "like a hitchhiker's thumb that lost its way". And that opening paragraph was badass.
"Body scanners don't work, but we do other stuff too." Jesus.
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Wouldn't most programmers link to that in their resume?
Ignore(for now ;p) the looks this was a usability upgrade.
You don't have to be that lazy. You know as well as any other chemically well-balanced individual that two wrongs don't make a right. I can't tell who is doing a better job of feeding the trolls, you or I.
"Imaging technology has been extremely effective in the field"

Isn't it 30% effective in auditor tests.... oh wait you have a post that claims 30% is inaccurate but doesn't actually disprove the figure or provide accurate figures: http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/12/70-detection-failure-rate-being....
it is nice for a phone/tablet though.
The touchscreen in my 7 year old Prius does fine. Of course most of the touch-screen functionality (volume, AC on/off, phone call/end) also exists on the steering wheel to reduce the time you're on the screen.
oh that's a good idea for load time. You could always use an async loader like $script.js https://github.com/ded/script.js/
Tax payers money...billions...not sure what testing they did before buying or they knew it and still bought them because they got their cut.
When I saw the 20 layers chart, I thought it was a troll blog because the graphic looks like it has planes crashing into towers.
"We're actually safe, I'm not going to give any evidence of this, just trust me".

Seems fair.
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For popular times like lunch and dinner you can hardly go wrong with just looking for places with full tables. Watch how people vote with their feet, and then order what they order.
So, this is where our tax payers' money is going? Sigh.
That last paragraph is a doozy.

Completely addresses privacy concerns; is completely safe; oh and hey, it's completely optional, assuming you don't prefer molestation and possibly randomly missing your flight.
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... and nowhere do they deny that the method presented actually works.
Not exactly correct. It uses QSA only under certain conditions. Unfortunately, the fallback code is not compatible with QSA (and not consistent across their "supported" browsers).
That's because Huxley was right. (http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourse...)
Except you have no reliable to way to know when you can and when you can't (and no good way to swap between libraries). Best you can do is conditional comments to target old IE versions and you sure don't want jQuery on that team.
I cannot believe the coincidence! My father owns a small pizza business (small as in 1 store, 22 years) and yesterday a yelp power user got upset because I didn't give her free jalepenos. She knew we charge extra for things like ranch but still expected jalepenos for free. She got so mad she changed her review and said there was a "hair" in her pizza "months ago." She is obviously saying this to damage us because she was treated the same as all customers and expects special treatment. Extortion? That's how it felt but I don't care because our true customers know better and are great people. See the whole thing here: http://www.yelp.com/biz/rays-pizza-irvine. Sort by date, most recent review.

This was yelps response when I reported this user: Hi there,

Thank you for inquiring about the reviews of Ray's Pizza on Yelp.

We've looked at Jayne L's review, and since it appears to reflect the personal experience and opinions of the reviewer, we are leaving it intact. Unfortunately, we don't take sides on factual disputes, and suggest instead that you contact the reviewer again to clarify any misunderstandings.

We think it's important for businesses to be part of the conversation, and have created a suite of free tools to help business owners get the most out of Yelp. It looks like you've already unlocked your business page. As a reminder, you can:
- Communicate with your customers via private message or public comment
- Track how many people view your business page
- Add photos and a detailed description of your business
- Convert Yelp users into customers by posting a Yelp Deal to your listing
You can login to your account here: https://biz.yelp.com/

Regards,
Summer
Yelp User Support
San Francisco, California

I am a yelp user and it was great but for businesses its getting out of hand when there is no transparency. What if people are paid to yelp a lot and then use their influence to sell reviews? It could happen.
The Blender3D game engine, as well as hacking on my own 3D engine (mainly a curio, nothing great) .. but Unity is just so much more productive. After an afternoon spent on the Unity tutorials and hacking on AngryBots, I'm sold.
This was the reason bootstrap was invented. You can choose to use parts of it to make your quick and dirty work look usable and not just thrown together.
The fascinating thing about their claimed 20 layers of security, is also that a failure by any single layer can result in a terrorist attack succeeding.

They surprisingly don't point that out. (har har)
The TSA isn't Reddit, we're talking about people's real security at stake here. Them joking about "things that go BOOM" is just downright distasteful, especially when people are expecting them to confront the security concerns more seriously. Them joking about this makes them look like a joke.
what developing nation is that? (I ask because I also live in a "developing" nation which has some of the highest per capita broadband charges in the world)
What about .to ?
it's amazing how all governments, and monopolies are alike, whether it's US or not

they will get away with it, until smacked really hard - which is almost impossible to do
yeah, get all your info about the government FROM the government. No conflict of interest there.

So, why did they defer those safety studies anyway? Just a scheduling conflict? Too busy with an election?

The things that we have to be subjected to just to satisfy campaign contributors.
I'm having a hard time understanding exactly what actions are under suspicion. The actual price of the books isn't being established by either the agency or the wholesale model.

A little googling at the DOJ indicates that the Sherman act prohibits adoption of "a standard formula for computing prices". In the case of the agency model it would seem like a standard formula is being established for the distribution services (but not the actual book prices). Is this the problem?

Any anti-trust lawyers out there?
And as another example: http://support.apple.com/manuals/#ipodnano