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I really don't like Amazon. Why?

They treat marketplace sellers like garbage and they make up 30%+ of their yearly profits.

Customer is king, which means that if they file an A-Z claim (Amazon's dispute system), they win in 99.9% of the time. The customer gets a refund and gets to keep your product.

You are required to have a 30-day return policy (which is perfectly fine), but if a customer wants to return something 6 months after they purchased it, they will win an A-Z claim if they file it.

I know a seller that lost a claim a year after the fact. I can't imagine Best buy accepting a return on a book a year after it was purchased. Amazon doesn't even do this themselves.

They've taken the Google approach and run their entire seller help center using automated responses with nobody actually on the other end.

It's sickening that they can keep this position. They treat their workers and sellers worse than anyone, yet people just don't seem to care.

Ebay, with all of their problems, is actually much better. They are much more fair to their sellers.
Could client-side code could read what is placed in the DOM after decrypted by the browser extension? It seems many things (e.g. ad sense) reads the DOM on the client side to determine the context of the ads it will place. Correct me if I'm wrong.
> I know that, but "over 99% ASCII" = "not ASCII"

No, that's not what I meant. I meant that all of the essential bits are ASCII, all of the software that generates those important pieces as to know ASCII, and it's entirely possible for software that speaks only ASCII to handle it as long as the filenames (the main source of non-ASCII characters) being served are also ASCII.

Read the HTTP specification sometime.
And indeed it was said, in many threads!

A lot of those articles, at least, seemed to directly address the conversation of gender politics in the industry, and as far as I saw the ones that stuck around tended to be labelled fairly obviously as such.

In all honestly, I was expecting a language war or something similar--instead, I get some random set of bullet points about Prop 8 and a dumb spat between two JS devs. The author didn't even have the courtesy to provide a transcript or fabricated/biased retelling of the events.

So, no, that's not a fair comparison.
They do, but this isn't really downloading 'code'. "Apps that download code in any way will be rejected", but you're not downloading it: you're executing JavaScript, which is totally permissible.

To put it another way: this idea isn't unique, although the packaging might be - there are several frameworks that do similar things (some proprietary internal tools, similar to how this seems to have started) with live apps on the store.
Usually GPG is used to secure email transmission, and not storage. There are examples out there of storing your email GPG-encrypted, but you would have to leak at least some information to have useful things such as indexing for search on your emails.
Actually, there are studies[1] showing the opposite: it's difficult for men to think straight when around attractive women.

[1] for example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103109...
This is f-ing awesome, nice work. How long have you been working on it?
We are planning an Android release. You will be able to re-use most or all of your web portions, which we're really excited about. Our bet is that today this will help some iOS developers enough to use, and when we release Android it will bring that many more developers into the fold.
It's actually not that difficult to find programs where a JIT is better.
Things that benefit significantly from profile directed feedback often run faster in JIT than static compilers, because JIT's tend to do this dynamically, whereas static compilers require training runs.

For example performance critical code that has a lot of conditional branches, but only a few are taken at runtime, will often work faster in a JIT.

(Of course, the typical solution is not to write performance critical code with a large number of branches, i'm just giving you examples)
One possibility is that static analysis for supersonic waveforms is a whole lot easier if you have planar shock fronts (i.e. the shock waves coming off the airframe make simple polygonal shapes). Back when this was done with pencil and paper it was really the only option short of building and testing real objects, so if you wanted to do any sort of optimization you had to do it with airframes that produced big planar shocks.

But those big, single shock waves are, of course, perceived by the listener as a "boom".
There's a complication with this study, which is that it seems really weird in the first place to attach a photo to a resume. (Maybe this is different in Israel -- anyone?) A photo is out of the ordinary and prompts people to think up an explanation for it. One possible explanation HR staff and potential interviewers might come up with is that the person relies on their looks as a career asset. That assumption is easier made about women than about men because it better fits gender stereotypes, which could account for the discrepancy without bringing the gender of the HR workers into the explanation.

(A picture of an unattractive person would not provoke suspicion that the person expects to get by on their sex appeal instead of their performance, so "plain" women and men would not be stigmatized for attaching a picture.)

Because attaching a picture prompts the recipient to wonder why, and possibly to make different assumptions about the applicant based on the explanation they come up with, I think the situation is too complicated for it to be possible to draw conclusions from the results. I don't disagree with the researchers' explanation, though. Even when we try to be fair, the idea of an attractive person getting by on their looks is more viscerally offensive, and threatening, when the person is of the same sex. Men might think it's lame and shitty if a woman relies on her looks, but if a man is rising in the office by charming and chatting up female managers, it goes beyond "lame" and becomes a personal threat. Ditto for women. Both sexes "appreciate" sex appeal as part of a charming personality when it appeals to us and stigmatize it as dangerous when it competes with us.
Sorry you have to go through this, but you shouldn't have any trouble landing a job.

Along with the other great companies listed above, Facebook is hiring as well. I work with infra systems - if large hadoop clusters, compilers, or kernel work tickle your fancy, feel free to send me an email: cael2 [at] fb.com.
What a great post. You just confused the issue more and added nothing.

Oh good, a friendly one.

Why complicate the issue with jails?

Jails are very easy to understand. Once you understand jails, it should be an easy logical step to understand users/groups on a conceptual/purpose level, as they can be viewed as very sophisticated jails.
6) Avoid expensive hobbies/activities that consume a lot of time and don't contribute much to your marketable skills. If a hobby requires spending a considerable chunk of your monthly income, reconsider whether it's really worth it.

I only have an issue with this remark. But perhaps it's because when I "reconsider whether it's really worth it", I consistently find that yes, yes it is worth it. I rather enjoy extreme sports, and spending $100 on a trip to the mountains + gas is quite a lot of money. (It'll be dropping to around $50 + gas when I buy a snowboard).

I suppose it could also be added that, while certain hobbies may start expensive (snowboarding at $600 for a good board + bindings + other snow gear if it's your first time; or, photography for $1100 for camera + $2000 for a few lenses specialized to your primary interests), they become much, much less expensive as time goes on. (I pay virtually no maintenance on my camera and haven't needed a new lens in a while; so, my camera hasn't cost me any more money in a while. I haven't bought new snowboarding clothes either; and after I buy my board I probably won't buy another for a couple-few years)

That has to be considered as well.

TL;DR: I do have a bit of a problem with #6, but it's probably my own personal issue; and, rare/one-time costs are just that. rare/one-time costs.
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Yup. My introduction to YCHNews was hate points. Then I got slammed by some karma bullies. Now I'm at -18 karma. Pretty amusing actually.

I think some people have too many points and like to spend them to stroke their own egos, and I think the lack of accountability breeds some sort of YCombinator feeding frenzy (aka bullying). It seems to be unique (in my experience) to YCHN, so I suspect it's something about their "karma" system. Too bad, because the news is often good, and it would be nice if the site/members were nice too.
What did you do for the Darién Gap? :)
There isn't any difference between plane fuel sources vs cars or power plants.

In other words there is no change you can make to the plane. The only change is to the fuel source and that applies to everything, not just planes.

And don't try to predict peak oil - every single prediction ever made of it has been wrong. And not just a little bit wrong, wildly incorrect.

Every time we seem to run out of oil or natural gas we find more - known oil reserves have never been higher.
This makes sense. Employment agencies are much more open to liability for discrimination from sheer volume alone, thus they train their PMs to follow the law and ignore things like gender, but they may be more likely to ignore applications with photos out of concern for said liability.
Soundcloud is it, by a mile.
Here's a webcache link, hopefully it works for others too:

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I think they got DDOSed by HN. Website down.
> Before G+, people made fun of Google for not doing social

g+ didn't stop that. reddit people still post about how g+ looks like a ghost town.
This is a heat engine. Your options for renewable heat are mostly geothermal or solar.
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Thanks! It's hard to say how long we've been working on it because it evolved out of our last project. We split it out towards the end of last year and we've been in private beta for a few months working out the kinks.
They allow data to be downloaded, and they allow web content (HTML + JavaScript) to be downloaded. Hence, it's possible to use a combination of native-interfaced templating and sandboxed JavaScript (i.e. "put native button with title n here and attach it to this JS action") to make native-feeling downloaded apps.

Presumably these restrictions are designed so that the only code which hasn't been through their static analysis tool is sandboxed, and they trust their JS sandbox to keep the JS where it belongs. Just like most of the Apple restrictions, it's pretty arbitrary in practice, because their "prevent private API usage" static analyzer is not very good (Camera+ was able to use restricted APIs simply by invoking a selector constructed via interpolation).
It was on topic, you shoved it off topic with your BS characterization. .me accounts have always had IMAP and POP access. They're also free. Try trolling again.
If I was breathing 900C+ zinc gasses, I don't think its toxicity would be anywhere on my radar of concerns at the moment.
Is that an iPhone and a MacBook Pro I see in a Google advertisement?
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You bought a $35,000 depreciating asset on finance, and one that is substitutable by something for $5000. If you had to sell the car in a year's time then it's very likely that you may not even make back the value of the loan.

Meanwhile you could have taken the $30,000 difference, and automatically paid those earnings that would have otherwise paid off the loan into savings, a 10K or a start-up.

Yu could also have purchased a motorcycle (for the fun) and a cheap box car (for the practicality). And let's not get into the running costs, the decision to drive every day, insurance and so forth.

Buying depreciating assets with anything but spare cash is really sad.

(When I lived in the US I purchased 2 cars - for a total sum of $2000.)
"Bradley Ruffle at Ben-Gurion University and Ze’ev Shtudiner at Ariel University Centre looked at what happens when job hunters include photos with their curricula vitae, as is the norm in much of Europe and Asia."
Interesting point. Obviously makes a big difference depending on whether you're the advertiser (selling products) or the publisher (getting paid for clicks)
That is not the whole post. Just the front page of the blog.
I'm not sure Apple is fighting very hard(or at all) about this. That would make them loose a lot of the control they need for the Appstore etc...
True, but your CPU is limited too so having to lex & parse sourcefiles and walk syntax trees to run programs could be a bottleneck there, if you remember old computers there was a significant performance gap between native and interpreted code.

In practice that might not matter for many applications if they do not have to use intensive algorithms etc.

I would still imagine that compilers would be used more than interpreters though which would mean that some security would need to be present at the "hardware" or "firmware" level.

Another interesting thing to think about regards backing stores:

I assume that the programs will be able to take input from the world around them, i.e other ships , objects in space etc.

So what's to stop you from using (perhaps) a tractor beam to re-organise the position of asteroids in space and then "read" that data back using ship instrumentation?

Potentially the entire universe becomes one big DB!
One sentence paragraphs still happen but it still works :)
Privacy is a feature, not a product. And I mean that in the literal sense, not the dismissive condescending way that people use it to describe startups they don't take seriously.

Privly is not disruptive because it doesn't remove people's desire to use Facebook. If it did manage to kill Facebook's business model, people would not be happy because it doesn't replace Facebook.

Of course this is a moot point because in general people don't care about privacy, so Privly can remain safely parasitic for the indefinite future. Eventually some major event or series of events may get people to take privacy more seriously, and in that case Privly would be well positioned for growth, but were such a sea change to occur Facebook would be the first casualty with or without Privly.
Notch's original intention was to implement a real CPU like the 6502, but he decided to create a CPU optimized for software emulation instead.

The PDP-8 was designed to be inexpensive to implement with the hardware available at the time. It would not be an ideal choice for this purpose.
Nitpick, the modern Civics weigh about 2600-2800lbs, so it's about 70% of a Civic. Certainly the right order of magnitude though.
Then why would you compare dynamo and memcached? Or suggest that Amazon could use an in-memory cache as the primary store for shopping cart data? It makes no sense.

If you want to be particular about ordering, then you can always use paxos to elect a master that handles everything serially and failsover.
nice mnemonic!-)
Also allows you to look up the definition of a highlighted word.
Not to mention that the e-ink display would use an irresponsible amount of power should the user choose to, say, watch a video.
Thanks! I wish there were a better word. We actually struggle with this because when we initially explain the concept, people tend to gravitate towards thinking of it like PhoneGap. So, I wish a more descriptive word existed for what we've built, but I think "hybrid" is what we're stuck with--at least for a while.
The business model seems a little odd; I assume by "monthly users", you mean end users? And the only plan that supports unlimited users is custom-priced? I'm loving the platform as a concept, but to have a cap on the total number of users feels strange and scary.

What happens if I go over this cap? Do users who stop using the app still count against the total? What about a single user with 2+ devices?
Selling your encrypted data seems like a somewhat more difficult proposition for them than the one social networking services usually have.
At first I thought the cube-like stairs were the part which dropped down into the floor when the knob is turned, like something out of a futuristic movie.

Was just a little disappointed when I saw that that wasn't the case :)
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When I was looking at jobs teaching English in Japan and Korea, many of the postings asked for photos. It was the same when my sister was applying for jobs in France (they also asked for a handwriting sample, but that's another issue.) Submitting photos along with a resume is a pretty common thing outside the U.S. and Canada in my experience.
The cited Economist article (which this article all but photocopies) says the study took place where it's supposedly the norm.

http://www.economist.com/node/21551535
"...when job hunters include photos with their curricula vitae, as is the norm in much of Europe and Asia."

That it's still the norm in Europe is news to me! Certainly not in the UK.

Of course, limiting geography means you're just as likely to be studying culture differences as the underlying topic.
No offense to Mr. Winer but if I thought for one moment people would call it this then I would never have been motivated to launch this code.
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It's never done in the United States.

It's rather common apparently in Europe though, even expected in some countries, like Germany.

On the subject of "crazy things about job-hunting in Europe," I recently learned that in France, it's expected that you hand-write your cover letter, and HR departments employ people who supposedly can figure out a person's personality and work ethic based on their handwriting.
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Most studies I've read found that most of the middle-class rich got there by getting slowly, steadily wealthier, not with runaway successes.
Someone should implement C in the DCPU-16 before launch, so the assembly language isn't necessary. Mid- to high-level languages FTW!
You're right, that equating Eich's personal decisions to the js community as a whole is wrong.

This does not change my opinion of him though.

I am not gay. But my best friend and my cousin are. Another good friend of mine is transgendered. I can't count, without serious thought, the number of other friends and acquaintances I have that are gay.

I'm lucky to live in San Francisco. But it pains me that people I consider family don't have the same rights that I do, simply because my genes are expressed one way and theirs another.

When I heard yesterday that a respected member of our community and CTO of Mozilla actively spent a significant amount of money in favor Prop 8, something that I marched against, to say it made my blood boil is an understatement.

The problem with most open-minded people is that we're to open-minded. Since we generally are apt to let people do as they will as long as it doesn't affect us, we even take a soft stance when we are being actively attacked. This has got to stop.

There are sides in the fight against intolerance. Brendan Eich clearly chose which line to stand behind when he opened his wallet.

Intolerance isn't something that can be done away with by waiving flowers and placards in the air and dismissing the deliberate actions of individuals as "those are just their beliefs". No.

People are more than welcome to live in whatever fantasy world they want inside their own head, but when you try to enforce that fantasy on other people, you have to be stopped.

Brendan Eich made his choice. He needs to be shunned. He should be fired from Mozilla. He should not be invited to speak or give talks. If he purchases tickets to any events based around our community, his money should be refunded and his entrance refused.

My hope is that he will come around and renounce his position. Show that he isn't an intolerant person and sees the errors of his ways.

Being open-minded means that we accept others who are open-minded, and we do not tolerate those who want to deny human rights and liberties to others.

Intolerance must be burned out with the metaphorical fire.
Most likely it won't need anything other than some very basic firmware which would be part of the emulator.

It is unlikely to need any mechanism for managing drivers for example (unless you can build custom hardware).
You might need some form of scheduler if you are running different programs to do different stuff (weapons , engines , navigation) but this could be something very simple and again baked into the emulator.

Some form of shell might be nice, but again not necessarily required.
Yes, "monthly users" means end users. However, like you pointed out, we can't differentiate between a user and a device. Maybe our marketing should say "monthly active devices." In any case, this is good feedback for us to hear, because it could indicate that our pricing still needs work. Thanks!

EDIT: Realized I forgot to answer your second question. If you go over your cap, users will still be able to use the app 100% uninterrupted--you just won't be able to push out any updates to those users.
I think you view is very good, in any case my question was more about businesses not investments. I respect your point of view and understand that way of thinking.

I was curious to see what kind of advices a *llionaire could give.
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When you say "it was rewritten...," which are you referring to?
I'm really hoping Apple eventually migrates to automatic binary diff patch application much like how Google Chrome operates. Chrome has proved that you can get all the rapid iteration and development you could dream of without sacrificing performance.
I very much hope there will be some kind of memory protection mechanism. Virtual memory would enable wonderful things.
Thats a separate script and not related to Emphasis
Awesome idea, I've wanted something like this for iOS/Android for a long time. It would be nice to have a self hosted version, with a one off fee.
I want this to replace at least most of the cases in which I'd otherwise be seen walking around looking at my phone. Compared to that, this can't help but be an unqualified improvement :)
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In Germany, it's still common to provide photographs to your application. Many persons are quite successful to grasp a person's character by just looking at a photo. So depending on your character, it could be either a benefit or a disadvantage to provide a photo.

I've taken a bunch of photos for friends for use in their applications. And it's always the same: if they are shy and introverted, they do look like this in pictures. Same applies to extroverted characters.
I'm making a compiler/executor for it: https://github.com/mappum/DCPU-16.
It's likely we're seeing some vestiges of evolutionary psychology (an attractive female as a threat to other females) that are subconsciously affecting judgment in an area that, though no threat actually exists, is recent enough in our evolutionary history that we're as yet maladapted to it. In this case, it's not so much jealousy as protecting one's turf.

In fact, I'd expect that the exact opposite occurs when the HR person is male: Prefer attractive females, and discriminate against good/successful looking males. It would be interesting to see a study that recorded in each case the gender of the HR person.

We like to think of ourselves as completely objective, but we never are.
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It will, for sure.