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Oh give me a break. Microsoft was doing tablets in 1999. It really isn't that impressive. Hell, that's a better argument because those tablets were actually usable. It's not like Apple had a consumer product at that time that did that.

You do realize I'm talking about taking the panoramas, not just displaying them in Quicktime, right?
It might be one anecdote, but it's a great one. It just seems natural and intuitive to touch the screen.

Thanks for all of the great commentary everyone!
Was it because "we made a godawful stupid slideshow instead of a simple readable blog post"?
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> Joe Public can get a product that's functionally like an iPhone for a similar or cheaper price, so the supply chain management ability isn't unique.

Not really at all. The supply chain management allows them to get it to you for a similar price while achieving margins that other companies would kill to have even half of.
Uhm did you not realise you are responsible for this equipment? basically if your house burns down your insurance will need to cover it.

What do you want Comcast to do....basically pass on your loss to all of their other users across the USA?

If its just a matter of not being able to return the box this month....no big deal just rent to service for another month and then return it in 2 weeks once you can gt to the house again.
I can remember having trouble with Silo, that bloody 7:00 minute time limit. After a while I realised that I was having trouble aiming and had a big blind spot in one eye where the crosshair would normally be.

I went to bed pretty quickly after that - my vision came back, thankfully :)

Edit: This was about 3am, for the record, after I'd been playing for about 12 hours or so.
If cars were really as efficient as you seem to think, then we should be replacing all of our coal burning power plants with massive stacks of car engines.

Of course power plants are much more efficient.
Cool concept.

I went to knowitapp.com/ikawe.
I clicked "claim my profile".
I entered twitter creds.
Then I was bounced back to playpen.knowitapp.com/ikawe.
I saw a bunch of [PHP errors].
When I go to knowitapp.com/ikawe,
It still says it doesn't know me, and offers for me to "claim my profile".

Is your twitter auth callback url wrong?

[PHP errors]
http://www.pastebucket.com/5130
Right, just as I said above - once it is escalated to the level where people are allowed to think it becomes completely possible to be flexible.
Bug report: I got the email Subject: "Your graph has been updated!". But the link inside took me to http://knowitapp.com//graph
AppHarbor is still in the running, we've posted an update here: https://appharbor.com/page/appharbor-status-update
You might be looking in the wrong town. Consider moving to a town with a greater demand/supply factor. 3 years experience, if you can show your work (e.g. a website) should be plenty in many places.
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This is a very difficult space. Ebay has user feedback (which is very important when purchasing anything online).

There have been many competitors to Ebay over the years, but none of them lasted very long.
Way OT but let's do this. Note: climb V5/6 currently.

1. Yes that is bouldering, but bouldering is a subset of rock climbing, as is sport climbing.

2. Bouldering is frequently about balance and power, for some problems flexibility isn't as crucial. I climb in jeans outdoors, sometimes it's the best option as rock can quickly cut through lighter materials. My jeans are skinny and stretchy.

3. Climbing works your core, simply by climbing more and more.

4. Don't play the grades game, don't buy a hangboard. Go into a gym and have fun on the boulder. Don't try too hard and hurt your tendons, they take years to grow accustom to the stress induced by hard bouldering.
Interesting. I see the box as rented equipment, temporarily owned by the homeowner. Anything that happens to the box during the rental period is something the renter is responsible for. I'm actually surprised that your old cable company replaced the lightning-damaged box.

But judging from the response here, clearly lots of other people think of the box as a part of Comcast's infrastructure that happens to be portable. And from that point of view, it makes sense for Comcast to eat the cost--just like they'll eat the cost of their cable lines being torn up in the hurricane.

And I suppose that if the vast majority of people have the latter view when they're signing up for cable, then Comcast should probably change their policies to fit that model, and just charge for loss or damage caused by the user.
Spambot or blogspammer, either way he should be hb'ed
My (new) apartment building has power hookups for EVs. I have seen two or three using them.
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Oops?

Your "successful graph import" email sent me to this link: http://knowitapp.com//graph which tries to render as the User "Graph" (who unfortunately hasn't tweeted yet! https://twitter.com/graph).

Update the email link to http://knowitapp.com/_user_/graph !
At the top level, I think this captures it.

If, like Chomsky, you value having a model of the underlying cognition process rather than a set of black-box predictors for aspects of that problem (e.g., various corpus-driven translators), then you might be really annoyed that the black-box people are so satisfied with their results.
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Yup, I've been writing about how eBay's gone to shit on my blog. Furthermore, between PayPal and eBay's fees, it's like 10% of your sale price now!

… Better just to sell via Amazon and use their fulfillment service.
Actually, if your auction doesn't sell, you can get most of your fees refunded. There are, however, some fees that they don't refund, for whatever reason, and those are what are leftover here.

And honestly, I don't fault them for that part specifically. I used their service which has fees as advertised, okay cool.

But what wasn't advertised was the incredible anti-seller bias, the terrible scammers I'd have to fight, and the absolutely awful customer service I'd have to endure. Normally when a company fails to provide a product that hard, you can ask for your money back and get it.
The suggestion text has been shown to work better than just placing a button. Building up your personal brand can be worth a lot in the long run, so why not?
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Actually, the task of Brand Management would be to compare the potential costs of thousands of people's equipment against the potential cost from a fewer bloggers' online complaints.
At the risk of going off-topic, this is yet another example of regulatory capture at work: as systems evolve they often forget to cater to outsiders.

Codebases exhibit a similar dynamic. Open source projects need to track how long ago their newest regular contributor joined. I think they'll find the results illuminating.
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I've had a number of attempts at adding a "Buy it now" and some scammer from Nigeria (every time) ends up "buying it" and sending phishing emails. Only to have to wait again to put it up for sale after a few days.
Wow that looks much better
Thanks! All great points. You're definitely right that the auction format inspires serious mistrust these days(i.e. "Just buy a bidpack!"). Our main goal is to provide a platform where sellers can get in front of new customers and buyers can get access to quality products, in a fun/engaging format.
Um, they are doing pretty well in terms of brand management or as I like to call it: "no sir, that service is called Xfinity now."
Eh, I don’t know. Maybe I’m just lucky, but selling stuff on eBay (which I have done a grand total of three times during four years or so) always seems to work out for me.

In summer I sold my year old iPad 2 with a broken glass cover (otherwise fully functional, the 32GB/3G model) for €349 (someone bid €350 but told me after the auction that they thought the iPad was not broken – I was already writing off the sale at that point but the next bidder happily paid and left a very positive review). That’s just crazy! I thought I could get €100 or so tops, not half the original retail price!

Selling a camera and an iPod went similarly well. It probably goes wrong sometimes, though probably in a small minority of cases. And really, those $2 for listing the product really aren’t the end of the world. (Also, eBay has since forever been very explicit about those fees and that they have to be paid regardless of what happens. There is no way you can miss that when putting a product on there.)
I mostly hate the choice between 'renting' and 'buying' these boxes when you don't have any control over them and might get dragged into court for doing so.
I posted this because while I was not affected by Sandy, I did lose my apartment to a fire a few years ago and had to deal with the same thing from Direct TV. I got send to collections for the cost of the satellite, the receivers, and the failure to maintain the last part of the contract even though I was homeless.

I am a business person and I understand that profitability is the bottom line, but these companies make billions of dollars and this is unacceptable behavior from community members. Those rules and return policies are put into place to prevent theft, not to handle disasters, personal or national.
Same experience here. Once I found the 'block other countries and people with zero feedback' option I sold a few phones successfully at a good price (don't even try selling without setting that option).
A few weeks ago I attempted to sell an iPhone 4S. The first buyer pulled out with some pathetic excuse about his amplifier breaking. I re-listed and the second buyer didn't pay with some equally unlikely excuse about his daughter accidentally buying it.

eBay doesn't penalise non-paying buyers anywhere near enough, It's a huge waste of everybody's time, especially with time-sensitive sales.
Bug report: On your front page, when opening the drop-down. If you enter a twitter username as it suggests, ie: @username. You are redirected to http://knowitapp.com/@username which gives a 404.

Do you have a formal place to report bugs?
> But sometimes I wish I'd started as a tween.

As someone who is a teen, and "taking their teens seriously."; I sometimes get this feeling.

And then I laugh like crazy and go back to what I was doing.
As a business, Comcast can forsee this sort of risk, much better than any individual customer could, and insure against it.

The costs still get passed on to customers, but are distributed among all customers, are not incurred as an additional fee or cost at a time of hardship, and Comcast's size and negotiating power against an insurance company would almost certainly result in more favorable rates and terms than an individual could secure.

To say nothing of the brand management issues which would be avoided.
Thanks! on it :)
Dude, what? The whole point is that the little comcasts could offer fiber to other areas in order to gain subscribers.
Let's be clear, Comcast is not cheap cable. There are many places in the world that have much faster internet access for less.
Any data to back up that claim? I see the observable behavior that people pay money for private schools suggests private schools are usually providing better value - otherwise why pay the money? Charter schools are voluntary too, so there must be something that attracts consumers there.

However, I agree that people can be stupid and pay money for products that aren't nearly as good as they are advertised. So given some data I'd be inclined to update my opinion on private and charter schools quality. Where could I see the data that your opinion is based on?
Hi Nathan, I think there are quite a few good tutorials for Ruby and Ruby on Rails too, perhaps you already know some of them like

Ruby

http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram

http://rubymonk.com

http://rubykoans.com

http://rubybits2.codeschool.com/levels/1

Ruby on Rails,

http://railscasts.com

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

https://class.coursera.org/saas/lecture/preview/index #coursera saas course with ruby on rails as medium

Challenges or puzzle

https://www.hackerrank.com
Ah, the old accusation of being a troll merely for disagreeing. Thanks for letting me know I can discount anything you say as you are not trying to argue in good faith.
This is so true I used to deal with selling on eBay for my business an every time I got off the phone with them I had to restrain from punching myself in the face.

Their customer support will literally only read from their script an no matter how much you reason and try to explain logic to them they just give a scripted answer back. Never doing business with them someone please invent something better.
Thanks for bringing this up. We have a feedback form for people who are logged in. But not otherwise. This is as good a place as any for bug reports, at the moment ;-)
You don't have access to cheap/easy oil in those disaster situations either.

Furthermore subcontinental Asia is driving the adoption of tiny electric vehicles - China has over 130 million electric scooters (and that's from a few years ago - the numbers are going insane).
I tried selling my car on ebay motors and was a victim of spammers bidding on my car. I would get bids but within 2 days ebay would delete it automatically and email me saying bid was invalid. The whole bidding cycle went in vain so I re-listed again. This time I din't get any bids but I still ended up paying eBay $49 listing fees after numerous emails. eBay has become insane.
Nice application but I think it would be something like library because it doesn't seem a good idea that sharing database credentials to a startup.
I would have killed for this a few months back and actually googled around without much success.

I look forward to experimenting with this, I think it's a great idea.
How breaking up would help?

They would need to be broken up the same way that AT&T was broken up back in the day. The breakups allowed for the sharing of infrastructure by various competitors so that you could call Sprint, MCI, or whomever for (at very least) your long distance service and possibly your local service as well.

You only really competition if you can choose your cable provider wherever you live.
The slideshow was fine.
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I don't get why the default action of most people is to feel compelled by whatever a company's accounting system tells them to do. Both this and that also-popular cable box story. There are two autonomous sides to every relationship. If you don't value your ability to use ebay again in the future at more than $2, give their customer service department a good-faith 15 minutes of your time to fulfill their elective processes. If you can't come to an agreement with that reasonable time expenditure, tell them to go screw.
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Moreover, people don't want to pay Comcast for the modem, but I guarantee you everyone who remembers that they lost a modem will declare it with their insurance company.
Thanks for the update, works really well!
Absolutely agree. Although we incorporate auctions, I think there's many ways to use the auction format that eBay isn't able to take advantage of.

Our main focus with The Shelf is to help quality sellers get in front of new customers and provide an engaging format for buyers. Sellers can see it as a new marketing channel and buyers can have fun getting quality stuff.
With products like XamlSpy http://xamlspy.com/ you can achieve some great live debug scenarios on most of the xaml style platforms.
Brand management is only important when you have a choice of service providers. It's not like you can switch your cable service from Comcast to RCN or Time Warner if you want to. They already bribed the appropriate government officials to ensure that that is not possible. And now they want $500 for their $39 cable box and there's nothing you can do about it.

(You might write to the state's attorney general's office. I'm sure enough complaints will result in a token slap on the wrist, if that makes you feel any better.)
eBay is a great place for scammers to get free stuff!
every few years, my girlfriend gives eBay another chance and tries selling something. Every single time, she gets scammed. Each time, the buyer claims he didn't receive the goods or received the wrong thing. eBay automatically sides with the buyer and immediately refunds their money. In cases where the buyer claims they received the wrong thing, they either fail to return it or return something different.
Furthermore, sellers cannot give negative feedback to buyers so there is no concept of buyer reputation. On top of this, you will still be charged for the listing.

Basically never use ebay.
One word: insurance

Why would comcast let them off? Is the bank going to let you off on the payments of your home or car if it gets destroyed? No, of course not... it will be covered by insurance. Why would comcast be any different?
Exactly. Well said, and clearly articulates the point here.

What I don't get is, what Chomsky is saying is all together the standard, and yet people are insulting him for what is all together a very simple idea you expressed plainly.

Yes, NLP systems are going to have many engineering uses, and Chomsky agrees. Are they going to help in the true scientific understanding of the systems?

It's unlikely. It's likely to be "good engineering solutions without being good scientific models" as you elegantly put it.
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If I understand your point correctly, Chomsky does explain this, even in the article. Like with his discussion of "linear order".
A big problem with casual selling on ebay is you don't know what you don't know until you've already been screwed. I sold some iTunes gift cards and provided the redemption code from the card after I received payment. We both left positive feedback for each other (he already had 18 feedback).

A month or so later, the buyer put a chargeback on their credit card, got their money back from paypal, and I had no recourse. Worse still, Paypal charged ME $50 more because of the chargeback! Despite my sending them the code (which they requested, and through ebays messaging system), I had to have delivery confirmation from a shipper to prove I sent it. Even though they have the messages proving the delivery/receipt, too bad for me. I tried calling paypal, and that got nowhere. They said something like "sorry, it will cost $200 to investigate the chargeback further, so it's probably not worth it". I told them I'd write it off to my not understanding their policy on "seller protection", but at least do something about the scammers account. Of course they said they couldn't, nor could the refund any of the fees.

So now I'm out the $30 for my item, $50 more because paypal incurred a chargeback, plus ebay fees, plus the guy got positive feedback and went on to do this to other people! Totally incredulous.

Instead of blogging about it though, I've decided to build a company to compete with ebay. Wish me luck =)
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Three of us quit our jobs about six months ago to start a new mobile game studio. It was one of the most exciting yet terrifying things I have done. I mostly lurk here on HN, but I got a lot of the inspiration/courage to take the plunge from the community here! Our first game is out today on iOS (https://itunes.apple.com/app/monster-crew/id561545477?ls=1&#...). Other obvious platforms will hopefully follow soon.
I only consider water a (potential) special case because it is one of the few things that, in the event that it really is unavailable, people will start dropping dead pretty quick.

Bread, fuel, generators, etc... these are all things we can afford to be relatively dismissive of and just say that price caps are unneeded/bad. That may also be the case with water, but I don't feel comfortable saying that with my limited knowledge.
>Ah, the old accusation of being a troll merely for disagreeing. Thanks for letting me know I can discount anything you say as you are not trying to argue in good faith.

Yes, ignore the other 4 paragraphs and then do the same thing you accused me of in the same sentence. You're a piece of work, have a good afternoon.
My 2006 M3 had SMG and I didn't like it much. (Fine for highway driving, sucks for city street driving). Maybe the new one is better?
So few people that I would actively wish ill on, but the people running this operation are on that very short list.
Of course, $7 a month is a bargain not to have to call customer service and attempt to provision your own equipment.
I tried selling a Mac on eBay once. First attempt I got a time waster, second attempt I got a con artist, third attempt my account got suspended.

eBay is great for buyers, a horrific minefield for sellers.
I used to use lighttpd on OpenBSD, but it ended up unusable from some critical SSL library mismatch issue a year or two ago. Switched to nginx and have been incredibly happy.
The movie "Idiocracy", in its first five minutes, tackles this exact same question, in hilarious fashion.

Suffice it to say, technology will evolve to accommodate (barely) the lowest-common denominator of intelligence, which has a significantly higher rate of replication than the smart people have (which is so low they will die out).

In other words, many believe the not-so-smart will do better than the "more smarter" people, by many measures.
Tidal power is amazing from a grid-cost perspective. Unlike other forms of renewable energy, you can literally set your clock to the tides, making it much easier to schedule into the grid. I am so happy to see these advances, and look forward to other forms of oceanic renewable energy, like wave, thermal, and offshore wind!
I read The Baby Chase: An Adventure in Fertility last year and I think everyone in their 20s should read it. It's about the author's struggles to have a baby and it made a huge impression on me as a woman in my mid-twenties. I'm not going to rush into anything, but I'm not going to date people who aren't ready to have a family anymore. I do wish I were a man sometimes though so I wouldn't have to worry about this as much.
We have deployed to Azure, but I personally haven't been involved with it. And we aren't using VMs at this stage, but are considering it to complement features that aren't available in Azure. For example, Reporting Services was not available on Azure (it is now), so we hosted that on another provider which connected to a SQL Azure instance.

From what I hear, performance has been pretty good, as has uptime. Though, with targeting non-VM you do run against some limitations. Such as, as you mention, the non-ability to run background tasks.

You can in fact run background services on Azure (non-VM), and we have done so for a few of our deployed web apps. You'll need to look into Worker Roles:
* http://blogs.msdn.com/b/morebits/archive/2011/01/01/building...
* http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee336122.aspx
If you ever launch it, let me know and I will do my utmost to promote it.

If you'd launched already I would have happily sold my iPhone through you. There's really no way you could have provided a worse experience unless you actively tried.
>A big problem with casual selling on ebay is you don't know what you don't know until you've already been screwed.

Most of the big online sites (Paypal is the worst offender, but the others aren't much better) favor buyers over sellers. Amazon certainly works that way, and, as a result, I'm mostly use Craigslist to sell computers and cameras/lenses. I don't sell all that much stuff, though I do it for family members, but I'm familiar enough to have an opinion.

Craigslist has its own dangers, but those can be mitigated through meeting in public or in police station lobbies.