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Retailers pushed to impose the sales tax on Amazon. Now it looks like they are going to get what they asked for.
Thanks tadruj. This great feedback. Is that Monthly? Yearly? Would you consider paying based on how many users watched your tutorial?
How an "entrepreneurial reporter" gets his editors to print his article - be sure to bash an "Apple" product and be plenty insulting to "Apple" fans.

Of course, there are plenty of Kickstarter products that produced crap, plenty that folded for no reason. But only the "Apple" ones get you a certain article.

Garbage.
No, local retail stores can be (depending on what you're shopping for) a lot more fun to shop at. You get to talk to salespeople and other customers, and you get to browse around the store.

Now most shopping isn't fun. Toilet paper? click But if I decide I want to take up drawing? I'm going to drive to a store, look around, and have fun.

But I certainly agree with your last point. As I see it, the advantage of Amazon Prime is that I never have to go to Target.
Hopefully these days you couldn't be because nobody should care.

But if you were running say a local paper and you went out of your way to consistently describe a local politician or school teacher/principal as "the homosexual Mr Smith" and your intentions were malicious they could have a reasonable chance of damages from you.
Ah I see. I really like the personal style. I'll try to rally others to my cause! Its nice to see where your food comes from and who makes it. I feel privileged that we get food in the first place, but always prefer the lunch that comes served by chefs over the stuff that comes dumped out of plastic containers.
emacs darkroom mode is also nice for distraction free writing.

Here is a screenshot:
http://www.martyn.se/code/emacs/darkroom-mode/darkroommode-s...
I agree with most of these suggestions: the one thing that can land you all the toughest customers in this market is a user experience that is unquestionably better than Vim ;)
Absolutely, any product that you need to physically inspect before you buy seems like it'd survive.
> But after Anonymous hacked our site, we also got U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the Department of Homeland Security, involved.

I'm not an American and by the names of these agencies I wouldn't have guessed they engage in chasing crackers (and supposedly kids with LOIC). Who else works on this stuff - the marines?
Because doing an app well is hard. It's much much easier to wait until someone like Kicksend establish themselves, then give them some money and have them integrate.

And then there's the marketing: Walgreens would peddle the app to people who are in the store and thinking about printing digital photos. A Kicksend user might never set foot in Walgreens, but if he knows about the feature in the app (it's pretty discoverable), he might decide to print a few photos to stick on the empty wall next to his desk.
In the chicago area, you can order from McMaster Carr (mechanical hardware), and get same day delivery. Any company that builds anything mechanical is probably ordering something from McMaster Carr. This isn't an impossible problem.
Yeah, but most of the time your local retailers will not have the right product in stock (unless you are very vague about your requirements).

On top of that, local stores are annoying: it takes time to go there, you need to deal with traffic, weather condition, sometimes shop employees being too intrusive and wanting to see you additional services (or recommending you bad products), waiting in line just to pay. etc... It's just not worth anymore.

Amazon delivers at my door usually 2 days after I order something. In case of defect they even come at my door to pick the malfunctioning product.

They are clearly doing what's BEST for customers. I don't even understand why local shops who have stores a few kms away from me don't even offer delivery services. They don't even think about improving anything, and they well deserve to disappear. No regrets.
They can be linked to royalty-free forever, because the "publisher" is the server hosting the data.

Even if they did copy and host the image themselves, they would be liable but still be okay because the burden is on the user who owns the data to file a DMCA takedown notice for that content. The worst Craigslist could do here is inform the users (who own the content) that their listing is being shown on Site X and provide a link to the page where the user can file a takedown notice. I don't know about you, but I probably would be happy that the listing is getting more exposure on more sites. I think most users would.

Markets are natural monopolies. Liquidity begets liquidity. The breaking down of these silos is a great thing for price discovery and a better functioning market. The creation of decentralized markets where all listings are available and discoverable is really only a matter of time. When that happens buy and sell offers will be fully free and the idea of a centralized site with free listings like Craigslist will be a quaint notion and we'll all be better off because of it.
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Thanks for the Ad hominem.

I often post on HN from somewhat of a devils advocate position (and assume others do the same), since that's more interesting than the sort of "+1 I love this!" type posts I see on other forums.

In reality of course I would love this console to succeed and in principle would prefer something like this to a closed console such as the XboX.

Regards the point about controls: The fact remains that the most popular games for android currently are designed around touch screen controls since the overwhelming majority of android devices out there are phones or tablets.

Sure , there are a few Android games that seemed to be designed for gamepads and were somehow shoehorned onto a touchscreen (the series of COD clone games who's name escaped me springs to mind). Sure, some of these could be salvaged into something playable on this console but I would think the difficulty would still need adjustment since people now have a proper gamepad rather than a touchscreen pad. Also I would doubt many of these games are particularly competitive with equivalent games for the XboX etc even with the controls fixed.

Historically having some impressive launch titles has been an important precursor to success for consoles. The combination of the release timescale combined with the lack of concrete information for developers means that it seems unlikely that such titles will appear in time.

In other words, whilst I personally love this idea, I have no idea how I would encourage less geeky friends to get one, saying "you can play the games that you can already play on your mobile phone" doesn't seem like it would cut it.
That wasn't a victory - they withdrew their suit after he had spent 250,000 defending himself.

And since it never went to trial, there is nothing to stop them suing him again tomorrow, or picking on a less well defended or less public figure.
They don't? Orkut showed you who has seen your profile (but not in real time).
You can also tell Facebook if you specifically want more or less updates from specific friends, without completely unsubscribing from them. When hovering over a story, a "down arrow bookmark thing" appears in the top-right of the story, and gives you many options for controlling your experience with that user/page/app.
All I can tell you is that's not how the world works. My taxes pay for a ton of things I can't use; I don't have a car, so I can't drive through the Lincoln Tunnel. That doesn't mean it's not in society's best interest to pay for it anyway.
Sounds like an EXCELLENT outlet for her energy and fortune. It's the main component of breaking the cycle of poverty - giving women control over their reproduction.

Of course, this is exactly why even here in our wonderful US it's being fought tooth and nail by right wing, Republicans and religious organizations. By denying control of reproduction, men keep women subservient and unable to go out on their own. Contraception and abortion rights.

I like it.
For that matter, http://thedailyshow.com

Very strange.
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No it isn't, because it's markedly less efficient. Amazon is, literally, taking the concept of the "store" and putting it online - yes they've done that already, but the instant gratification of receiving your item same-day; that's a true shopping experience that you, previously, could only really have with Brick and Mortar shops.

Instead of physically shopping inside of a store where you will have fewer selection, you shop online with a lot more selection, a powerful search based interface, recommendations, reviews, etc...; then have the items efficiently sent to you same-day.

Amazon is very successfully grounding the "internet" in the real world - and they are eating quite a few lunches.
According to wikipedia, Amazon has been operating Amazon Fresh since 2007 (the article draws a direct comparison: "It is reviving the business model of ordering groceries online for home delivery first popularized by such companies as HomeGrocer.com and Webvan in the late '90s.") and seems to now own Webvan.

I'll leave analysis up to somebody else, but I find this interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmazonFresh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan
Uncertainty in pricing is terrible so in my view avoid the how many users watch your tutorial pricing. It can also inhibit usage which you don't want.

I'd charge based on number of tutorials. For upto 3, it's free but your branding is there. For upto 20 tutorials on your site, it's $30/month or something. You get the idea. This ensures if some massive site is using you for hundreds of tutorials, you get paid for the value you're delivering.

Of course, pricing is a dark art so take these thoughts with a grain of salt.
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I'm male and you don't see me flagging and trolling stories like these. I get your point, but it's a pretty sad thing to read about HN. I thought people here were more evolved than this.

This story is now on page 4. Incredible.
This is captaintacos. As Ekianjo said, we will be hosting the first HN meetup here in Kyoto on Saturday.

HN people, Kyoto, the Gion Festival... it doesn't get any better than this!

We will be hanging out around Shijo and Karasuma streets on Saturday evening so just contact me (contact info in my profile) if you are around.

If you are in Kobe, Nara or Osaka you know getting to Kyoto should take you less than an hour so now you have lots of good reasons to join us! ;)
> Amazon has long enjoyed an unbeatable price advantage over its physical rivals. When I buy a $1,000 laptop from Wal-Mart, the company is required to collect local sales tax from me, so I pay almost $1,100 at checkout.

This is such an over blown argument. Sure, Amazon is ~7% (where I live) cheaper than traditional stores due to sales tax. But that $1000 Wal-Mart laptop has a $900 sticker price on Amazon, and most non electronic items are 20-40% cheaper than in stores.

If laws change and I have to start paying sales tax on Amazon, it won't change a thing about my buying habits.

Edit: They also have an inventory many times larger than any brick and mortar store. Whenever I go shopping, I have to choose between the least crappy option Wal-Mart decides to stock. On Amazon, I get exactly the one I want.
This is awesome and I would totally use it if the price was right. When are you guys thinking of launching?
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I think this will come into it's own with driverless car technology. Once we combine the current automated warehouses with automated delivery the timescale and costs will drop dramatically.
The incredible machine redux. Awesome. (TIM was angry birds for the early 90's)
> is not having an actual store that is accessible by customers (and coincidentally, the neccessary staff), that much of a operational advantage?

Absolutely it is. Real estate, depreciation, maintenance, utilities, not even to mention salaries, insurance... there's a lot to go into that.
I think it also depends on the type of operations you're looking to hire. I've found that people with stronger skill sets (for example, engineers), are very difficult to hire for swing or overnight shifts, even if salaries are double or triple the daytime shift.

(I run 24/7 operations in Vietnam, I'd love to talk shop.)
Also, amazon is kind of skeevy; I'm very leery of buying food, cosmetics, or toiletries from them because they make it really hard to tell from whom you're buying stuff. I'm happy to buy eg usb cables from the cheapest vendor, but I don't trust any of the chinese knockoff shit if it's going to regularly touch my skin or be eaten. Particularly since china appears to have no real food safety laws and poisoned 300k of their children [1] with the same well known techniques used to fake out protein readings on milk they used to kill thousands of american pets [2] the year before. China even went so far as to hurt more children by delaying a recall to avoid embarrassment during the summer olympics! If I'm going to buy food or cosmetics on amazon, they need to be much better about communicating from whom I'm purchasing and what was done to make sure it isn't a knockoff.

And knockoffs are everywhere on amazon's site. I've wanted one of these cool suck.uk bottle opener keychains that looks like an old school key for a while [3] but their shipping charges to the US are too expensive. So I found it on amazon [4]. If you read the reviews, it's full of complaints about knockoffs or the steel snapping. And I've seen it sold for as little as $2.99 with shipping while amazon sells it for $9. Adding to the skeeviness, the cheapest vendor of that item changes all the time, and for quite a while amazon didn't sell it directly. I finally bought it from amazon proper and I'm hoping they got the actual item and not some knockoff themselves, but who knows. Shit like this makes it hard to be willing to buy food on amazon.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_pet_food_recalls

[3] http://www.suck.uk.com/products/keybottleopener/

[4] http://www.amazon.com/Suck-UK-Key-Bottle-Opener/dp/B0000B0DK...
We do the same, except we've started phasing out Capistano because it's model doesn't fit well with Tomcat. Once you have your keys distributed everywhere via Puppet, it trival to use your favorite scripting language to just SSH around and run commands.

This just doesn't seem like its so hard a problem that I need a cloud based solution.
There are a few fundamental, hard problems : energy and transportation. Amazon is trying to solve a subset of the latter here. However, I like to see/feel some things in person before buying. I often go through lot of items before finding "the one". Examples: food, pens, shoes. It would revolutionize the industry if Amazon could solve that. Until then, it's just a really large online store.
Also - USA isn't the world. Non-US Amazon is heavily sub-par to other online stores: worse prices, small selection. So there's that, too.
Really appreciate the advice. I agree we don't to introduce unnecessary uncertainty. Thanks especially for the hypothetical tiers that is great to have from an outsider.
They're already hosed, a borrowed SSID isn't going to do much more harm.
The other day I ordered something from Amazon, and it showed up in a small cargo van, delivered by a guy without a uniform, and in a package with no UPS or FEDEX label (or any other delivery label I could discern apart from the amazon labels).

Was this some kind of test for Amazon ran delivery from a local warehouse?
They are offering same day delivery in some markets today, including Las Vegas. I've used it twice, with the $10 same day delivery being less expensive than other expedited shipping options. It was very cool having a courier drop a package at my door with my purchase the same day I bought it. Even with $10 delivery the final price was cheaper than buying from a retail store at retail prices.

I think with these test markets, Amazon has proven to themselves already that the idea works. I know that I'm very happy with the results so far!
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They've had same day delivery (local delivery) for quite a few product categories in the Seattle area for some time with Amazon Fresh trucks. I've bought a book recently with same day shipping for an additional 3.99 (Prime) that was on my door step when I arrived at home.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
I remember in 2000 or 2001 a company in Chicago negotiated with Ameritech to put hotspots on the top of telephone poles around the city for something like $3/mo. The deal ended up falling through... I think too many parties had to get involved that it just became a nightmare to deal with.
I watch it on the `official` site as well, but have noticed the last 5-10 minutes of each shows guest interview is always cut short. Very irritating.
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I disagree here. Amazon has clearly proven the market with their Amazon Prime membership; Amazon has massive mind share (I don't even know what Webvan is/was); Amazon will also only improve operating efficiency by building these warehouses with the automated inventory fulfillment system (which has the nice side-effect of making customers really happy) which over a long period of time will pay for itself (not discounting the happy customers buying more and more products through Amazon).
Amazon does a bunch of drop ship orders. If a vendor gets a local order, I can imagine they may decide to save on shipping by sending an employee to hand deliver the product. Or it could have been a local courier service (same day delivery uses couriers).
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I think people would be far more interested in being able to get a print of their photos in an hour (although there's no reason for it to take remotely that long), than in being able to get them after several days.
Could say most of these things about any first-world country's people, IMO. Australian's probably inflate our country's world value, can be fairly unhealthy, strive for status, etc.
No, I get it's for Android.

But I'm interested to see if they can reach a level where games are targeted at the platform, not its OS. The fact that Android sold 50 times as many devices as they did yesterday kinda hurts them in some ways.

If all they do is run generic Android games, their store becomes completely pointless. As this seems to be how they're aiming to make money, it's not a moot point at all.
As an Amazon Prime subscriber who bought mustache wax from their affiliates on two occasions, I have to report very disappointing shipping times. Living in NYC and ordering in the morning, I expect delivery the next day. Alas, my mustache wax came three days later. Part of blame has to be placed on Amazon's affiliates. If the merchandise is not in an Amazon warehouse, then what can Amazon do to speed up delivery? I foresee a future where Amazon has deals with local specialty retailers to ship items that are rarely sold that wouldn't make sense to warehouse for Amazon directly.
Google turned off Shopping functions for vitamins, supplements 
Google turned off Shopping functions for vitamins, supplements and other healthcare products on 28 June, without advance warning or explanation.

For example, if you Google "vitamin C" the Web search returns 94.7 million results; if you then click on "Shopping" to find sellers, the shopping search returns zero results.<p>It's as though no one's allowed to sell vitamin C via Google Shopping. Even "Bayer aspirin" is blocked.

Google publishes a list of products in this category that are blocked as a matter of corporate policy in the public interest. So shopping results for steroids are always blocked. We're talking about something completely different here: Google is blocking whole categories of respected, brand-name products like One a Day vitamins from online shoppers for no stated reason.

We're sellers of vitamins and supplements and trying to determine whether Google's lack of results is a policy change or a goof, temporary or permanent. Of course, our business is severely hurt by this situation. We rely on Google -- and pay them -- for including our name among all other sellers, and all sellers are in the same boat.

Google, please don't be evil. Be responsive to vendors whose businesses you're kicking over. Tell us what's going on by your blocking shopping results for vitamins and supplements

http://www.healthychronicle.com
I'm not sure if you've used Amazon's return system before, but it's absolutely immaculate. In my opinion, this is more an issue of perception than reality - in many ways it's easier to return things to Amazon than to your local store.
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It's an interesting way to organise a Reddit catch-up. Generates plenty of buzz, and you could setup an ARG around this whole thing just for Reddit.

Alternatively, it's just someone winding the guy up.
I already don't shop locally except on a whim and when there are items I'm not price sensitive about at all. Well, groceries are an exception but I like to pick my own produce.
Amazon often uses smaller regional delivery companies. I assume they're cheaper for the areas they serve. In the DC area, a lot of Amazon orders are delivered with Lasership, which pretty much fits your description. They drive shoddy white cargo vans with PACKAGE DELIVERY slapped haphazardly on the side. Their deliveries often don't make it. Once they delivered my package 30 miles away for no apparent reason (completely unrelated family name, no similarities in address, etc.). Amazon's use of them seems to have declined recently, but they're still using them and it really doesn't seem like a good idea.
All valid points. Israel is definitely becoming a force of it's own in the tech. sector, and I'm extremely glad to hear of it's flourishing VC ecosystem as well.

re: vacation days & prosperous countries -- no, I don't believe the two go hand in hand (poor folk get all kinds of vacation days in the form of funemployment), nor would I consider the U.S. on average a 'prosperous' nation, I'm merely stating that had the U.S. suddenly had outside funding for it's military for the past ~$x years there'd be far more liquidity to spend on other things like one month vacations for everyone.
I wonder how that'll change with 3D printers. What if Amazon gives you a "preview" file of the object you want for your 3D printer?