skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that Turkey is an outlier in this regard, sleeping in the same bed or on a friend's shoulder, kissing, holding hands in the street (though I heard this is changing especially in the cities?). Many peoples are even less affectionate than Americans. I've heard exactly the same complaints from Turks in western europe.
Well Greece's case is a strong social safety net coupled with rampant tax evasion. A better and to pick in my opinion would be Germany. They have a high tax rate and are an export machine as I understand.
Well, sort of. If you don't actually make money for a few years the IRS can declare it a hobby and disallow deductions.
Yes. The build quality of women's shoes is astoundingly bad. Sometimes I look at them and they literally feel like glued on piece of leather, pretty on the outside, and nothing more.

It's interesting how two different markets have developed (men's shoes and women's shoes) that have such different parameters. Men's shoes have outstanding build quality --- to the point where a good pair of quality shoes gets resoled multiple times. Do women ever resole shoes?
Blackberry doesn't steal your email address, follow your browsing history on other devices outside your phone, sell your personal data to advertisers, continually change your privacy settings in hopes you won't notice, etc.
Amazon failed to collect/remit ~270M in sales tax in Texas and has owed millions for years. So what did the state of Texas do about it?

They struck a deal to erase the 270M owed, as long as Amazon starts collecting sales tax starting 7/1, create 2000 jobs and invest 200M in Texas. They were likely already planning more infrastructure in Texas, but threatened to reverse course and pull out of the state entirely.

The way I see it, Amazon bluffed the state of Texas to the tune of 270 million dollars and all I might get out of it is next day delivery?

I'll take what I can get, I guess.
For one, ads aren't the only revenue stream for network television, nor has it been for decades. Second, standard viewing time is 23 minutes and 7 of ads. How in the hell does 10 minutes of a 30 minute time slot equate to 50% of the programming schedule? Can you help me understand your math? Third, how in the hell is your BofA statement analogy relevant to anything? Is it your opinion that anytime you 'feel' something is done to you unjustly, it's all exactly the same?
Well, to repeat - how does this compare to tools in the domain? Why are you opting for a web interface driven approach over a command line interface?

Why are you opting to build the entire thing from scratch instead of using an existing orchestration tool and building an interface to that? Wouldn't that save you time and money?

I've most recently hammered on mcollective, and it can easily support multiple users, parallel requests, full auditing of all requests and responses, authorization, server discovery, etc. There's all your advanced features, already implemented.
This is the trojan horse. Once Amazon has a large presence in each major centre, the next logical step for them is use some of their massive space as a showroom (think Ikea but on a much larger scale).

[Edit: To clarify, the showroom and warehouse would be in the same complex but separated. Shoppers + heavy merchandise + fast moving robots is a recipe for disaster.]

Then they can satisfy both the "I want to see it before I buy it" crowd as well as the "I know what I want - just give me the best price" crowd.

Mark my words. Amazon has the Costco's, Walmart's and Best Buy's of the world squarely in their crosshairs.

*Of course there will of course always be specialty categories that are too niche to fit in this model, thus many specialized retailers will still exist.
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Amazon has an absolutely amazing return policy. I've only returned an item once, but it was a $400 USB video adapter that didn't work with my monitors. I just printed out a UPS label, and returned it to the closest UPS store for free, and I got an instant refund.
On the other hand, these petitions spread awareness to far more people, educate them to start researching, and may instigate further action and discussion.

You say that his is "using up" what little people are willing to do... (and what are you doing?) Being against a small step in favor of an unstated big step does not make you a hero.
On the other hand, I live in St. Louis and I'm pretty tired of people telling out-of-towners that it's the best thing about the city, so feel free to return to your regularly scheduled zingers about flyover country. We're simple folk. We won't mind.
Used to love the 993, but now I've switched to the Pearl Izumi for running, which I discovered through Zappos and their awesome return policy. Watching my wife goes through the Zappos process, and being an overall internet hermit, made me want to try it out.

I bought four pairs of shoes in what seemed like the best size and width for me (there is good information about brand size trends on their site), got them the next day and tried them on, decided on the Izumis and sent the others back with the UPS shipping tag they gave me.

I understand things are different now, but that was an excellent buying experience. I've never bought running shoes from a local store since.
At my work, sick days expire at the end of the year and vacation days are kept for a some amount of time, before they meet a functional cap.
How do you pay for everything else online? Do you mail Amazon checks or something?
Exactly why I fear government managed healthcare.
Yet isn't this precisely DirecTV's point?

One of DirecTV's core claims has been that online streaming of TV content undermines the value proposition of for-pay television [1]. I get that having your most vocal, most internetty users channel their anger toward your opposition is a powerful negotiation tactic, but this seems like it has a strong potential to backfire against Viacom.

[1] http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/directv-via...
Now if we can just get Chrome to agree on the same protocol.
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Thanks Reddit, now go fuck yourself.

Hint: I don't mean I like you.
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So we have this, Open ID, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft Passport/Live ID, and probably like five other major players I'm forgetting. I apologize for being pessimistic, but this just doesn't seem like a solvable problem. I want it to be solvable, but players like Facebook benefit far too much for them to not push their particular version of "universal" login on everyone. Every player seems to think they are the One True Solution... But so far, it's all one big mess. I don't see it getting better any time soon.
Well our media did obsess over Kate Middleton's "fairy tale" wedding, and she still pops up on tabloids, so you can say the feeling is mutual.
In regards to the interface, our thought is this is what is currently missing from other tools in the domain. Imagine if GitHub had build just their API first without their interface. A fully RESTFul API with shell wrappers (node.js, python, perl) will come with time.
Random thoughts:

• The name "Persona" is odd considering something by the same name already exists in Mozilla-land, a fact they seem to be aware of.

• I hope sites use this instead of forcing Facebook login!!
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Interesting idea, but I seriously doubt Amazon would do this with their normal warehouses -- maybe paying sales tax and thus being able to have presence in major cities would let them set up dedicated showrooms for certain kinds of high-lifetime-margin products, like Kindles and maybe a Kindle Phone, though.

Big warehouses are highly automated (especially Amazon's), essentially unsafe for untrained people (forklifts, robots), and potentially at risk for theft. Not the kind of place you'd want customers milling around. Amazon is more likely to promote their existing easy return policy -- buy 3 pairs of shoes and send back the two you don't like -- vs. letting people into their warehouses.

Small, Apple-store style showrooms, or partnerships with someplace like Starbucks, would make a lot more sense. The lifetime value of a Kindle user far exceeds the cost of a Kindle (I probably have 200 x $10 books on mine at least), and it's the kind of product where try before you buy could be important. I'd rather have a bunch of Kindles and Kindle Fires in a cafe setting where you could check one out for a few hours, buy or get free drinks, and comfortably use the devices in an ideal environment, though. This could work for all the Amazon first-party products.

Maybe there are third-party products which would benefit from this, so Apple store sized showrooms with rotating third party stock (and fixed first party stock) could work, but they are really unlikely to be the existing warehouses.
I buy food (dry goods: cereal, granola bars, coffee, etc.) from Amazon all the time. It's always clear who the item comes from, usually a manufacturer you've seen at the grocery store, and I've never gotten a knockoff item. Well, that I know of. Hmmm. You know, the very idea of knockoff food items from Amazon is so deeply disturbing I'm going to entirely ignore the possibility.
No. It has to be sent as text/plain for Chrome to view the file if it is on a remote server. The MIME types that are opened in the browser instead of downloaded are hardcoded within the Chrome source.

Numerous feature requests have been submitted[1] to update this functionality and to provide a preferences pane for users to decide how they want different file types handled, but they have been ignored as this behavior is a design decision.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=118204...
China hasn't been a 3rd world country for some time. It isn't even close. Sure there are massive pockets of poverty (with 1 billion people, there are massive pockets of everything)...but visit India or parts of Africa if you want to see what 3rd world is.
They show the seller, and I agree a lot of the Marketplace sellers are horrible. I pretty much stick to Amazon.com LLC (i.e. real Amazon) and trusted sellers (Adorama, J&R, ...) for most products.

I wish there were a way to set a flag in your account to ONLY show Amazon.com LLC products.
There's a "your provider dropped your favorite shows" scuffle every six months. It's a negotiating tactic. This is no more newsworthy than the "suit is back" story: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
ZeroCater looks pretty sweet. I'm at Etsy though and you know... our Eatsys are pretty awesome too.
Reading this article and this thread taught me that there is actually competition in this space. We've used ZeroCater at Sincerely since the beginning and have honestly never considered switching. They are that good.
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The networks aren't "double-dipping". Your cable bill pays the cable provider and ads pay the content provider; different organizations, different sources of revenue. A much better explanation from a reddit commenter: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/pz8kz/til_cab...
Tell that to the people being bombed.

Defense my ass.
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Wow. I started watching the show on their site about three years ago with ads which started to get targeted to my german origin about a year ago.

Guess what options i'm left with now.
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I bet RCDefaultApp will work:

http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/
The other personas (aka "lightweight themes") are supposedly being re-branded (thought I don't remember what they're calling them). It apparently hasn't happened yet, which will surely lead to some trouble.
And why have you decided to enforce that?
Isn't it annoying when you try to build a valuable service and people destroy your business model by hacking away 3 minutes of ads for instant on demand web streaming of your favorite content? Seriously, you are what's wrong with the Internet. Just watch the ads dude. And you wonder why content providers pay distributors... Sheesh. Definition of ungrateful if I've ever seen it.
well, if the story is true...

The homeless looking man was probably a paid messenger. given that said guy gave op fifty dollars, his pay would have to be significantly larger to ensure proper delivery. so, lets assume the original source of the note paid at least 150.00 with said delivery fee, sans labor costs for the creation of the puzzle... OK

now, the implication here is that someone thinks they will get a return on their investment. for this to be plausible, op would have to have been deliberately targeted these to receive the puzzle. handing these little surprises out to strangers would not result in a good rate of return.

now, if you are still following my train of thought, it would make sense to assume that these people must have been watching op to think he would be a good candidate to solve the puzzle. yet, if they were they seem to have misprofiled him as he was not able to solve the puzzle alone and so he resorted to posting on reddit.

now, there are a lot of smart people on Reddit, but what are the odds that such a random puzzle would be solved so quickly and for nothing more than karma?

as much as I would like to believe the story, it seems that the simpler explanation would be that it is a fabrication and a viral marketing campaign. this would explain how a fairly complicated puzzle was answered quickly and easily by some redditor, as smart as some of them are I think the odds of someone with both the required skills and willingness to work only for karma finding the post are fairly improbable.

in conclusion we can apply occam's razor to the above argument, to illustrate that it was probably not a bonafide event when compared to these alternate explanations: the man was legitimately crazy (what are the odds if encountering a crazy person with such skills?) or the most likely explanation, that this is a marketing campaign perhaps for a new book, movie, game show, or something else entirely

the argument that op fabricated the story to me is the most convincing, precise and logically sound theory
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I'm surprised Amazon just hasn't started their own logistics company. With the spread of their warehouses now, is the next logical step becoming their own USPS/UPS/FedEx? I can only imagine what would happen once Amazon takes over the part of the process that seems to always have the most problems.
I was in this situation from the summer of 2008 until about a month ago. I'm just now starting to feel the relief of having another technical person to bounce ideas off, and eventually, to be able to take time off without worrying that the servers could go down at any minute.

Being the one person responsible 24/7 for a web app that can not go down is incredibly stressful. Doing that year after year is no joke. I think it changes your life as dramatically as having kids does. I'll never look at technical decisions the same way again, even though I know things will be less stressful in the future.

There were many low points and I know if I didn't have cofounders and customers depending on me, I likely would have quit and found a "normal" job several times over the years.

But I can't even describe how satisfying it is to be able to make the lives of customers just a little bit better every time I check something off my todo list. I'm not curing cancer, but I also have a much closer connection to the work I do and the impact it has on the lives of real people than I ever have before. And our customers are amazing and very appreciative of the work we do. We've had many tell us that they'd quit their businesses if they had to go back to the days before they had our product. That makes all the stress and many, but not quite all, of the sacrifices worth it.

If you can, definitely find another technical cofounder from day one. But the reality is that many businesses just can't make that work without supplementing revenue with consulting or from some other source.

Congrats and good luck Garrett! Thanks for sharing your story.
I really prefer the NB 856.

I've never found Zappos to have particularly good selection of the shoes I buy (men's dress shoes, boots of various kinds, etc). They're particularly bad for boots. Their main focus seems low to mid range female shoes.
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This is smart. If there is anything I hate more, it's thinking to myself "get out of my way there is a good chance I can figure it out"
Meh, if you want to be really pedantic a candle in a strong magnetic field is also a particle accelerator. You can even build a Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor for around 2k or less. But IMO a real particle accelerator need some sensors to find-out what happens after the collision.
It is a bit annoying around here lately that people are being downvoted for stating a fact. Sorry other people don't agree, but it doesn't make what you've cited wrong or not a valid comment.
Loved the Gateway Arch - it's stunning. Museum underneath it is worth a look too. Also quite enjoyed some retro ten-pin bowling lanes: http://www.saratogalanes.com/

The Bud tour is a bit weak if you've toured the Budvar facility in the Czech Republic.

Wish we'd known about the City Museum.
Until now it would have meant becoming a business in each delivery state and thus exposing themselves to sales tax. Maybe this will change in the future, and they are their own delivery company for AmazonFresh in Seattle I think.
The disagreement is that DirectTV isn't paying Viacom enough money. ``Viacom wants more money, specifically, "a fee increase of more than 30 percent, amounting to more than $1 billion in additional costs over five years," according to Bloomberg.''

I'm not complaining about DirectTV charging customers, I'm complaining about Viacom charging DirectTV. If anything, DirectTV should be charging Viacom!
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Honest question: As an app builder, why would you use this instead of facebook?

Many more users are going to have Facebook logins already, and it provides social information that may be useful to your app.

(Hoping to hear answers other than the dev-centric 'I don't like facebook')
Outside of US, hulu.com doesn't work at all.
I'm sure Google is watching this very closely, as I'm already thinking of the benefits this could have when used in the context of the Android OS
Sure seems that way :/
well, my first guess is more people have web browsers than have a facebook account. if this can be standardized and propagated throughout all major clients, the user base would be much larger.
we had dozens of search engines when google came out. someone just hasn't got it right yet.
One good reason: If Facebook goes broke, or decides to stop offering their authentication service, or anything like that, your user database is now filled with useless Facebook user IDs. If Mozilla's Persona system goes broke or gets taken offline, your user database is now filled with perfectly good, validated email addresses, so you can still contact your users and/or match up new registrations with existing accounts.
I usually tell a recruiter/interviewer upfront which languages I use at the moment which I used say $n$ months back etc. I really need an elegant way of putting the time information in my resume though. I also mention specifically the languages used at different places when I talk about "experience" in that place.
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Literally, TANSTAAFL.

This falls in the class of benefits that serve to remove worries for employees so they can spend that time thinking about work instead.

I really don't see how that's a bad thing. If you're feeling shortchanged by the deal, let your boss know. Ultimately, quit.

My last job didn't have catered food. I was a daily chore to figure what to get and go out and get it. Not difficult, but annoying and it broke my concentration. Also we didn't have a lunch area, so most people ate alone at their desks. In my current job (free catered lunch), I've experienced to drone down to the cafeteria and get food without really breaking my train of thought, and I've experienced meeting some people in the cafeteria and picking up a great non-work related conversation.
There is no display on the gamepad.
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What's your satellite worth with nothing that people want to watch going through it?
That reddit comment only really clarifies one thing: that the cable provider doesn't pay the network very much. Based on the rest of the comment -- the fact that ads are really what support networks -- it still seems silly for cable/satellite providers to have to pay non-broadcast networks at all.
the argument that op fabricated the story to me is the most convincing, precise and logically sound theory

The UNIX timestamp is what led me to reach to same conclusion. I still might show up at the appointed hour...
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Journalists who respect their craft report verifiable facts like, "According to police, excuse-me is a suspect in an ongoing investigation into [serious crime]." This story may damage you, but if a professional journalistic organization went to press with it, it is almost certainly verifiably true (barring a malicious reporter whose editor/fact-checker was laid off five years ago because Information Wants To Be Free).

Until your trial, "excuse-me committed [serious crime]" is undetermined and possibly libelous, but assuming the police did, in fact, name you as a suspect, "Police say excuse-me committed [serious crime]" true and therefore not libelous.

There is a reason newspapers write that way.
Exactly, and I think it's possible that Mozilla just doesn't understand this. Webapps aren't attracted to identity providers because they want to avoid managing a user table in their database, but because existing identity providers like Facebook provide a set of "social" APIs that can support the webapp. I can't see why a site would be drawn to BrowserID instead.