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The obvious question not answered by Amazon's press release is: Why are they doing this? Why introduce a layer of inefficiency where another step is introduced in the purchase process?

Fiat -> Coins -> Goods

Is this to bypass some kind of regulation? Is this Amazon's version of BitCoin (as far as virtual currencies go)?
The "advert-ridden" applications are without exception, storefronts.

You enter an app who's purpose is to allow you to purchase videos or music, and then complain that there are ads there?
Sorry, I deleted when I was editing the grammer. I think the price is too low relative to the fundamentals of the business. High returns on capital, decent 10/5 year average revenue growth. Decent transitioning taking place. I think it is simply cheap on a FCF basis at 13.65. It appears Dell agrees with me.

I understand the market wasn't pricing it that way in the past few months, but I am not one who believes in efficient markets. My intrinsic value estimate is higher than 13.65, and far higher than the surely oversold Nov price. You are probably correct though, the price premium is probably enough to entice a majority vote. I just feel as though it justifies a higher bid.

http://www.gurufocus.com/financials.php?symbol=dell
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I have a hard time believing anything Iran releases to the "media" as anything but propaganda until proven otherwise.

Is this suppose to be functional plane? Prototype? Mockup? Until this thing is seen in the least flying this isn't even cause for a second look.

While i am 100% american and other countries are following this i can bet with almost the same certainty that they are in no way in "fear" of it. In comparison to there nuclear program this is a mere side note.

IMO this thing looks like it will fly about as well as a whale, but then again i am no aerospace engineer.
I understand the need to monetize a site like this, but the key numbers in all the images get blocked by the ads. Extremely frustrating...
If you're planning a big investment and the stock value drops significantly it's probably a sign you shouldn't be making that investment. A company's stock moves based on what investors think the company is going to do. Apple's value has dropped slightly recently because investors aren't aware of any big products in the pipeline.
fascinating story.
Perhaps the VCs are investing in Conrad, not About.me as it exists today. I can't imagine a vanity site like About.me's current incarnation having a whole lot value; but perhaps it will get engineered into some sort of social aggregator or identity management service.
Although this is also a no follow as well http://www.slideshare.net/charlesmiglietti/read-smarter-not-...
Computers were invented to do things like auto-renew. There is absolutely no reason to charge 30% for the "convenience" of auto-renew.
Easy access to debt isn't really a harbinger of a really, really shitty time.

If anything, the fact that the debt 'crisis' is global will end up making student loans easy(er) to repay (because inflation).
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In case of the email address: I think facebook is violating german law by storing my personal information which I'd consider private. (I am not sure if they still do that.)
for x86 Windows 32-bit (offline install), not entirely satisfactory if you need 64-bit but still

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5115058
I wanted to use http://api.ihackernews.com but I found that it was very unreliable. So I built my own.
This is great! A good way for beginners to get their feet wet with OSM.

I'm sure they'll add a lot of improvements eventually, but if you're looking for a more feature complete, more polished OSM editor in the interim, take a look at the ArcGIS OSM editor: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/extensions/openstreetmap
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Absolutely disagree on #2. The application should not have to ask for permission to update, especially given the security climate that Java lives in.

If you have to ask the average user for permission to update, updates won't get done. It's that simple.

Oracle should take a page from Chrome's book, here. Update silently in the background, and then notify if a restart or a relaunch is required to effect the change.
>>>It takes an open minded culture to achieve technological advancement

Were you alive in the 1960s when the Soviet Union and the US were in a space race?

EDIT for a typo
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>>> Today, Reitter says that question has “about 8 different personal-preference answers”. That's not helpful because “... it drives people away from our platform. Having to potentially evaluate several different languages and their stacks gives potential developers a lot of unneeded extra work.”

That makes absolutely no sense. You aren't going to evaluate GNOME as a C developer and thinking about whether or not you're going to use the Python bindings--you're going to use the C bindings. This is just garbage.
Talking is worth something if the other $22bn is listening.
I think people are mistaking a flying bomb for an actual fighter aircraft. The goal would be to overwhelm naval resources in the cramped gulf. If you have enough people willing to do one way missions, a different sort of chariot is in mind. Considering the massed wave tactics of the Iran-Iraq war, I don't think they were thinking of making something to show at the Paris Air Show between the Lockheed and EADS booths.
The concept was already "proven" by Flavors.me. About.me was a better domain name, and better marketed.
Stackoverflow has been turned into a utterly useless site

It has? It's news to me; I'm constantly finding relevant, useful information whenever I search for almost anything in the area of software development.
Microsoft still seems to have a thing for saving struggling computer companies. Will this one bite them later too?
5. We want to give fellow nerds awesome t-shirts for free.
The plane as a whole is clearly non-functional but there are parts that are from a real aircraft. Where do you think that landing gear came from? Certainly not the downed RQ-170...?
I don't think Dell is going to innovate post-LBO. It's going to be saddled with debt, most of it bank debt. The new owners are going to sell off all activities that don't generate cash and milk the remaining parts until the debt is paid off.

An LBO is basically a gamble that there is a cash cow under all the fat, and once the fat is trimmed investors will see the company's true value.
I use mostly iReader, It removes the ads/clutters and displays the article in an easy to read view.
Each of these verifications would have been using different code and algorithms, otherwise it's not really verification. So different speeds are entirely expected.
Checkout GWT (Java... hiss, boo!). It's had automation of all of these best practices and more (inline images, data/urls, class obfuscation, classname compilation, minification/gzipping, browser specific permutations) since before any of these new CSS frameworks (LESS, SASS) existed. If you're already using Java, check it out.

To the refresh speed, with something like GWT these are only done on your final build, not during development. Certainly such a DevMode could be achieved in other frameworks as well. :)
I happened to flip past Fox News on Saturday and caught their coverage of this aircraft. The Iranian claims about the aircraft were presented in a serious and menacing fashion. Their coverage reminds me of the US policy of trumpeting a huge imbalance of power favoring the USSR back in the Reagan years.
In Haskell at least you do not have to explicitly yield. Instead, any call to the garbage collector is treated as a possible yield point (so it's possible to hog a CPU if you write a non-allocating loop).

Not sure what to say about your second point: you do have to store context for the other fibers, but only in the same way you have to pay to store the context of an OS thread or pending callback.
At the moment, scipy-lectures is probably the best comprehensive introduction to the scientific python ecosystem.

If you're looking for a more detailed overview of just numpy, the original numpy book (http://www.tramy.us/numpybook.pdf ) is quite good, as well.
A couple of years ago I was talking to a retired programmer who used to work for AT&T. He told me that many of the telephone options that people paid extra for cost AT&T effectively nothing; it was just a matter of setting some variables in the software.
No they didn't. They used oil money to pay the Russians to build/assemble/train them on their illegally imported centrifuges such as the Siemens ones the Stuxnet worm targeted.
I think those are the big things. ChangeDetection doesn't tell you when it'll poll. I think it's driven by the setup-time, and their queue, but ideally I'd like the ability to setup a specific time to check a given page, with a recurring-check frequency, and a way to show the diff between the two in an intuitive way.

If-this-then-that integration might be cool - but that's probably an edge-case not useful to most of your potential clients.
Awesome feedback! It's noted and will be investigated as soon as I have time ;)
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>> why won't anyone who's not Apple make a decent screen?!

The perception in the non-Apple segment of the market is that the customers will not bear the increased cost.
nice doesn't help with I/O pressure or memory contention, particularly if it used enough memory to contribute to swap activity. Even something like pressure on the system L2/L3 caches can be a big deal, particularly on older systems where those were less generous.
Almost every single piece of popular social software is built on limitations. In fact, their models are almost all exclusively made up of boundaries that box in a certain measurable behavior.

AOL -> Myspace -> Facebook -> Twitter -> Pinterest -> Vine or whatever comes next has always been a dialog of editorializing and limiting communication into models that are smaller and easier for digital communication.

The problem with the internet was different that any other communication technology of the last thousand years. Unlike books, phones or even TV, it provided too much access and too vast an audience with boundless communication (i.e. AOL Mass chatrooms) and people felt lost and faceless in the masses. Social media has been an exercise in limitation to solve that problem since its inception.
Just click "Mark all as read" all the time :D
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I sold my car -- it wasn't worth spending $300+ on parking plus insurance and gas just in order to have to spend hours of my life to bulk shop and crowd my apartment. But, everyone has different priorities.
I find it confirmed today also. One month ago by an Intel engineer: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/15iaet/iama_cpu_archit...
Simple to use as a service and has all the nice little details to make it a great experience.
You assume that they will be advanced enough to come to us. What if we find them in Europa or Titan?
Check out [1]codekit. It watches and automatically compiles your LESS/SASS on save and will even refresh your browser for you.

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I am a Danish software developer.

All our code, all comments, designs, file names, variable names, etc is in English. If I am looking for a solution to an issue on the internet, chances are I am googling in English.

So labeling something in English is peculiar, but not that strange.
Interesting, I'll check this out some more!
I think this ignores the other benefits of things like LESS, SASS, etc. For instance, the variable notion for css. Now a change to a named color requires a single place of change - the definition of that color, not each and every place it is used. Similarly, any place you have to have a half a dozen -browser-specific-properties can be replaced with a single "function". These are nice features.
I thought when you were making a desktop application for linux distros it wasn't supposed to only work on one DM. Why would you have to specifically think about gnome when you're making one?
NAT doesn't protect you from security problems, it just makes it harder to connect directly to you, requiring an intermediate exchange that is on a accessible server, resulting in more points that can be compromised.

It reduces, rather than increases security, since now the communication can be compromised by a security hole at either end (and NAT doesn't stop the machines behind it from being compromised) or at the exchange intermediating between them (which, most likely, neither party has any control over or detailed knowledge of the security practices in place on.)

And major ISPs are deploying IPv6 now: no mandate required.
So you find them significant, but not convincing? I don't understand that.
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This is the best way to do it.

It's pretty much the same workflow. I transitioned to this and found it pretty painless (no pun intended). Instead of changing CSS every time, you're changing your LESS stuff. Then, when you're ready to deploy, compile it and push it out.
My father-in-law was a VP for Northrop Grumman's satellite and aerospace division whose primary customer was the US government. Needless to say, this put him in contact with many people and many defense secrets.

North Korea is the thing that keeps him awake at night. The combination of the capability you mention with egotistical insanity at the reigns is never a good combination.
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What?? If you short it at today's price of $13.39 and then are forced to buy it to cover your short at $13.65, you're going to lose money.
Not mine, but a cool set of website icons created by a colleague.
Generally with that approach you can end up with a lot of duplicate code. It is more error prone.
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Fair enough. The labels on the plane itself didn't seem quite as odd to me.
It started at the college level. For months it was literally only on Stanford's campus (where the founders are students).
Problem: too much choices. Solution: let's introduce one more choice, and a crappy one while at that.
Google acquires them to do so. I read it somewhere.
Not necessarily - proving there are infinite primes is easy. It could be hard or impossible, or it could be easy or moderately hard but either way no one's figured it out yet. (And yes it's sometimes possible to prove that something can't be proved.)
Of course there is no central planning authority, but there is a 'market' of sorts, that seems to have become saturated with many things that do the same thing.
Hey "visualcsharp", for some reason your post is appearing dead.
This is not a real virtual currency, and nothing like Bitcoin. Think of this as store credits, similar to Xbox credits or whatever they use. Its not really a layer of inefficiency because customers will always have a little more Amazon coin than they spend, so this makes Amazon a little more money in the short term and also conditions its customers to use the coins and thus use Amazons services more.

(What I mean about not spending all the coins: you buy $20 worth of coin, and something you buy is worth $18.75, that leftover $1.25 is useless until you top up more. And if your not allowed to combine Amazon coin and USD then it encourages you to purchase more coins)
so, are you saying you want to have another dotcom stock bubble?
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Squeeze-out legislation has eliminated this problem. With control thresholds at 90% to 95%, as of today it is rare that this "last stakeholder" problem arises, as minority shareholders consent for their share sale is not required.

Having said that, if you look close at the consortium's offer, there is for sure a clause that states that the offer is for x%-100% of the outstanding share capital.
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Another way to cut down on overhead is in the php for loops. If the page has many images to load, the size of the array will be large and sizeof() will be called every iteration of the loop. Instead, use for($m = 0, $mm = sizeof(array); $m < $mm; $m++), or set a variable to the size of the array before the loop. This way, the sizeof() method is only called once. http://php.net/manual/en/function.sizeof.php
If I had a Mac, I would buy this in an instant. Would you consider developing a version to put on the Ubuntu Software Centre?
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If you want to run some distributed computing but don't like SETI@Home, give worldcommunitygrid.org a look. They run a number of projects aimed at curing stubborn diseases and working on clean energy and water. As a bonus, if you use it as your screensaver, the graphics for many of the projects are pretty cool.
There is no good software in India and other countries for Linux. If you want to run business accounting software, you have to run Windows. And there the prices are so high for Windows and there is no enforcement, so they pirate. They do crackdown on things like Autocad for architects and animation software pretty hard though.
is the hacker news?
Don't know if I agree re RC4; BEAST is an issue with CBC, not AES.
AES-GCM should be ok, if not superior to the ancient RC4.
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...this joke aside, I really wonder how the first 3d printed / milled aircraft will look like (I mean put together entirely from printed components using a home-brewed or bought from ebay 3d printer and metal mill) ...and then I imagine someone getting their hands on some "printable" cruise missile schemes and printing one his garage - scary shit...
I wanted to input that I as a student am basically the opposite of what this article is talking about. I'm from West-Europe so maybe that's a huge factor.

I spend less than €100 a month. I live with my parents, and currently doing a Masters in the best uni of my country, which costs around €550 for a year. I take the train to class everyday which is about 1 hour, but a train subscription costs me €80 for 3 months. A car is a luxury here and in my opinion, useless if you live in a city.

I don't have any debt whatsoever and have never seen why I should go into debt. I almost never spend on anything not necessary. heck sometimes I wonder WHY I don't buy more things. My computer is 5+ years old and still in good shape, so are most of my clothes, although I do buy new stuff every year.

If I do buy a gadget like my smartphone, I save for it first, I don't even have a credit card. I have never bought things and paid them after. Interest rates are the devil. Own your assets, not the other way around.

Stop spending so much.
Thank you for this link. As someone just getting started in web app security this was eye-opening.
There are a lot of hardworking guys and gals out there bootstrapping their startups working full-time jobs that aren't able to spend all their time applying to accelerators or pitching to VC's to attract the likes of TC.
I've always enjoyed 37 Signals: Bootstrapped and Proud. So personally, I find it neat to read about these startups. I use a few services that got their start on this list. Pareto could be attributed for the difference in tastes.
The "edit styles" bookmarklet is a huge time saver. It's a live CSS editor. I usually tweak the styles in there then move them over to the CSS file when done.
Coursera engineer here. Yes, we've seen that the video player can be quite buggy for some. We haven't tracked down all the issues, but some of them seem to be due to the HTML5 browser player not working as well in some browsers. Some people are more successful using the Flash fallback or downloading the videos.
We are working on moving to a new video player library and specifically looking at iPad improvements (button placement/clickability).
Sorry for your bad experience, and thanks for the feedback.
The biggest issue for me in working in a cafe is confidentiality - its very difficult to keep work-related calls and designs under wraps.

For example, in the UK a doctor was recently struck off for transcribing patient details on a train - not the most sensible thing to do, but highlights that there are some jobs that require privacy.
Yeah, the first point is silly. It's trivial to run minified CSS through a prettifier. As for workflow, pretty much all the CSS meta languages have some sort of auto compiling upon modification and you can skip the alt-tab (assuming you've got enough monitor space to see the browser window and your editor - and if you don't, you should fix that) and refresh by using LiveReload. As for tweaking the styles in the browser, never really understood that, but Chrome has (experimental) support for Sass source maps so you can see where the styles came from in the Sass file directly.
I don't think it's fair to say that .net is very effective in selling windows licences when mono can run CLR programs on more platforms than java can.
Flavors.me ended up being acquired by Moo.com though. I don't think they ever got "huge"
Good point, and I did look them up in other places. One of them believes there has been significantly more solar activity than is the consensus in that field.
Thanks for the info. As I said, I don't work in Domains so I'm not as knowledgeable about this process as you are.

Question, if a domain goes into redemption, can it only be renewed again by the same person using the same registrar?
I'm not familiar with the Amazon Kindle ecosystem. Are credit card fees taken out of the 30% Amazon cut or out of the 70% that the developers receive?
Next, AmazonVille! Play with your friends!

This is basically just another version of gift cards - a way to lock money into the system.
A new form of "money" that you can only spend at, or via, Amazon. It's a great idea... for Amazon!

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PS. In response to comments below, this is not at all like gift cards (which Amazon has offered for many years), but truly a digital currency similar to those used in online multi-player games (e.g., Linden Dollars) -- the key difference being that Amazon Coins will be accepted by the world's largest online merchant from day one.

rm999: Gift cards are not fungible (each gift card has its own unique ID that can be used only once) and cannot be subdivided into smaller units (e.g., one can't split a gift card in two and send half of it to someone else), so they cannot be used as a medium of exchange.
It's less the easy access to debt that's the problem, but the requirement of going into debt for a chance to not be in debt. For a very significant portion of people, they only chance at a decent job is college - there really aren't that many decent jobs available for the "no degree" people. Of course the degree isn't a guarantee of a job, just a prerequisite. And of course most people can't just up and pay for college, so the debt load is a becomes part of that prerequisite.

So the requirement of debt for a chance, is probably a harbinger of a really, really shitty time.

(NOTE: please... no "but I am different in w.r.t. that stuff" posts... the terms "many", "significant portion", and "most" mean some aren't in that category, but that doesn't change the statistics).
If you're not checking their respective boxes in the inspector, you can miss certain states and pseudo selectors. I also try to add .less and .sass/.scss to the end of stylesheets just to see if the working file is on the server too, since it can be easier to read.
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