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> No national sales tax currently exists, to my knowledge. So this is a new precedent.

No, because, despite the media calling the Marketplace Fairness Act an "Internet Sales Tax", the bill is not a national (or any other) tax. It is a bill which conditionally lifts existing barriers to states extending their sales taxes to cover online retailers selling goods to people in the state.

If the bill passes, then states with sales taxes would have to choose whether or not to meet the conditions set in order to extend those taxes to internet retailers selling into the state. No tax is created directly by the bill, and any tax enabled by the bill would be a state tax, not a national tax.

> People are already struggling, burdening them with a tax that will generate revenue that is peanuts compared to what we're spending on our wars.

Most states aren't using any of the taxes they collect to fund wars, and the central purpose of this isn't so much to raise new revenues (though it will enable states to do some of that) as to eliminate the tax incentives that currently exist which favor out-of-state internet-based retailers over in-state retailers (internet-based or brick-and-mortar) due to the inability of states to levy the same taxes on the former as the latter.
Google execs' 'New Digital Age' resists cyber-siren song
Is There Room For Another Electronic Health Record? ElationEMR Thinks So
The Beginner's Guide to Sales
"HBO’s figure dates to the end of 2012, but it’s unlikely to have grown much in the first three months of 2013, owing as much to the cable TV industry’s stagnation as its own trouble signing up new subscribers."

How the hell do they know this? Girls and Game of Thrones have been huge hits and an equally strong argument could be made that thanks to these two shows alone HBO is well over 30 million subscribers, hence having a larger viewership than Netflix. Pretty irresponsible imo to base an entire article and make a factual statement in the headline based on a hunch.
It might have something to do with my PC (i7 x220) but I cannot stand the Firefox viewer for anything but plain text. I find it very lacking in terms of performance compared to a native pdf viewer. Everytime a somewhat complex pdf opens up (mostly formulas, few images), the fan begins to rev up significantly..
I made a kind of todo/list pet project with html5 local storage earlier. All the front end was based on that storage, then it was only a matter of syncing. To do that I kept a queue in local storage, that I only emptied after a successful sync. Then you need to define conflict rules based on what you synced, and that is case-by-case.

For instance for me, deleting a task meant anything else regarding that task later was disregarded, it's deleted. Updates to tasks were treated by timestamp. For creating tasks, I had to have a temporary id that I updated after syncing, to a permanent id.

tldr; queue, precedence rules and timestamps.
Keep in mind that your return is based on the current net hash rate of all mining computers, everywhere. Combined with the 6+ month wait time, you can buy a $20,000 rig that would mine you $500/day today but by the time you get it the hash rate will have risen so high that you'll be lucky to out-mine the cost of your power consumption.

I wouldn't be surprised if these companies were using each rig for a couple months in their prime before shipping them out.
Hybrid Genetic Algorithm
In addition, the MathWorks have so far managed not too screw up too badly and are keeping Matlab up to date. (They are definitely quite nice as an employer.)
What are the differences with AeroFS ?
A lot of people will tell you, "Think of the upfront costs" and that sort of thing. My opinion however is that it's nothing we haven't seen before. Maybe the customer makes money in the long run. Maybe it takes 6 months for the unit to pay for itself. The manufacturer on the other hand gets their profit up front. They don't have to wait 6 months, and they don't have to worry about whether the value of bitcoins will crash.

Certain profit today, vs. less certain profit of greater magnitude tomorrow. Seems familiar.
Some years back, I had a guy try to tell me that an ordered list of common website links on his site was copyrighted (and that he would be suing me in court because I had those same links on my site).

He even wanted a public apology. I, of course, ignored all of this and he went away.

It's ridiculous what people will try to sue you about these days...
Would love it if source was released (or if somebody could point it out to me).
NVidia funds a lot of academics in my space, and I've found academia to be very anti-open source for those reasons, which amuses me greatly.

Wait, are you saying academia is anti-opensource because of nVidia funding?
In a recent interview (the one that photo is drawn from), that CEO guy acknowledges that from a purely selfish standpoint, shipping the ASICs at all has a high opportunity cost, but http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/engineering-the-bitcoin-gol... it was more honest to ship:

> This is an obvious question, but why aren’t you mining your own chips?

> Like I said, the current reality is vastly different from what we originally had planned. We always figured we would be late to the party. Butterfly Labs and bASIC (another ASIC developer that ultimately failed to launch) were supposed to launch in succession. But due to various complications and delays, it didn’t work out that way.
>
. If they had delivered on their promises, they would have shipped months before our first batch. We wanted to start selling chips so people could make their own units, providing a hedge from a single entity becoming too powerful, and then move onto a new project. That was our main goal. We wanted to prevent this potential monopoly. As it turned out, we became the monopoly we tried to prevent.

> You aren’t doing any mining at all?

> Nope. Fun fact: none of the Avalon team have their own mining units (outside of test units)... We’ve had plenty of opportunities, such as keeping the technology to ourselves and simply mining, but that was never our intention. So how much is that trust worth? We think it’s worth $5000 by itself. Beyond that, the calculation is based on the current difficulty rate so that break-even point occurs in a month. Which, by the way, as an investment vehicle is a fairly unique proposition. It should be mentioned also that the cost of the batch two was also 75 bitcoins. That the exchange rate has moved is out of our control. And in the end, this was never what we wanted. If we wanted to maximize our profit, we could charge much more. For us, this has always been an ideal-oriented problem, not a business-oriented one. This is one of the primary reasons we aren’t clearly in the black. We’re lucky that we held onto the second batch of bitcoins because if it weren’t for the appreciation, we would be very, very deep in the red, which ultimately still isn’t that big of a deal.

(And presumably, they're airmailing the components. Why risk a boat?)
In the little example they give on the side, why not sort all items by value density, high to low, then fit items until the knapsack is full? Not so simple for multiple dimensions, but when does this not work in a single dimension case?
It seems to me that sync is the last mile for a great write once deploy everywhere (Mobile + Web apps) framework.

What I really want is a meta framework that runs rails/django for backend + angular/ember for frontend + cordova/phonegap for mobile + responsive display with HTML/JS/CSS + something for syncing to allow offline mobile. Ideally this would be loosely coupled so you could choose your components (i.e. write a native mobile app if you want, or do the backend with Go, etc.)

The two pieces still missing are the sync component and the glue that keeps you from having to define the same thing multiple times. Unless there's something open source I'm unaware of.
"Make something people want" poster
I think it's a side-effect of things like the huge US startup scene. People are less inclined to pursue "academic" things like 64k demos, and more likely to try and launch a less technically impressive but more money-oriented startup.
The best is to use GET with an If-Modified-Since header: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14...

This acts like HEAD if the resource has not been modified and like GET if it has.

In practice this seems to be the go-to technique for browsers as well.
Where? I don't know, but according to the speed test I just ran on my Verizon iPhone 5 I have 30 mbps down and 12 mbs upstream plus 70ms response time. With that speed/latency combo, poor network connection quality and offline syncing just isn't a problem that needs to be solved.
Submitter here. The original article was on four or five pages, loaded with ads and links, and may have also had the same readability problem that you experienced. Sorry it's hard to read on your device, but there's not much I can do.
Since there is no central server, doesn't that mean that one device will have to be always on? That would add a degree of overhead and complication that services like Dropbox don't have.
But as far as browsers are concerned http://x.com?y and http://x.com?z are two different URLs, right?
Inside 3D Printing Conference: Day 1 Top Stories from the industry show
Intel’s Long Awaited Return to the Memory Business
So why would you go with OpenCL? Is it portability? For a while I thought that was worth it but I am having a hard time remaining convinced of that.
And then publishers wonder why we've stopped buying newspapers years ago.
We're looking at AeroFS and BitTorrent Sync for sharing sensitive files with our team members. We're leaning towards BS mainly because this feels completely P2P, whereas AeroFS may become useless if the company shuts down. Is that right? I'd love to hear from someone who has used both of these about stability, sync conflicts, CPU load etc. Also would love to hear about plans to open source BS.
'm the grandparents co-founder. Stella can do basic coding, but that's not her forte. She has a business mind, while I have a more logical, technical mind. We're like Captain Planet in that sense. We feed off each other's unique skillsets, but we have a solid understanding of each others complimentary skillsets so that we're not divided and disrespectful of our unique contributions.

I hear ya. My co-founder and I have a similar relationship, although the divide isn't "techie" and "non-techie". We're both techies, but different kinds. I'm more of a server-side, backend, database, low-level coding guy, while my cofounder is a UI/UX guru who wrangles HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, etc. And more importantly, she has the designer aesthetic sensibilities that I lack. I "know" CSS in a mechanical sense, but I still can't design a good looking UI. And likewise, she can write code, but it isn't her main strength or her passion. So we complement each other well.

Is one of us better than the other when it comes to our company? Of course not. The company needs both of us, or it would die.

Yep, same here.
This seems superior as it provides more advanced configuration and no limits with the number of parties you can invite. It appears to be free. And no central server. Transfers were painfully slow with Aero, I assume this would be faster.
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An outcome of mining is that it also powers the distributed transaction engine of bitcoin as a whole
Can somebody tell me if the following problem is solvable using knapsack (so far I've been only able to come up with bruteforce solution with some optimizations):
We have different product types and for each product know it's amount. Let's say we have 20 different product types. For each type we know how much we've got (i.e. 10k of product type 1, 15k of product type 2, etc.)
Now we want to put those products into different bags. Each bag must have 5 products.
A particular combination of products inside of the bag is considered a "bag type". If we choose a particular "bag type" we must to have at least 7,500 units of such bag type.
For each bag type we have a certain cost function.

Now the problem is to find bags types and corresponding amounts such that total cost is maximized.
TLDR:

>BitTorrent Sync’s functionality is comparable to services such as Dropbox and Skydrive, except for the fact that there’s no cloud involved. Users sync the files between their own computers and no third-party has access to it.

> It is an ideal tool for people who want to share large amounts of data between computers without going through third-party services.

>The Sync application is available for Windows, OSX, Linux and has the ability run on NAS devices through a web-interface. Readers who are interested in giving it a spin can head over to BitTorrent labs [1], where the Sync app can be downloaded.

[1]: http://labs.bittorrent.com/
Do you happen to have a link to an example for those of us just getting started in Angular?
> You only pay tax in jurisdictions in which you're physically based (for an internet startup, this would be wherever you're incorporated). This axiom has held in US tax policy for about as long as there has been US tax policy.

No, it hasn't. You have to have a business nexus to be subject to taxation, but both physical operations and incorporation (which are often different states) form a nexus, as do certain other activities.

Before, even with mail order, remote operations choosing to actively solicit business in a state without physical presence were never a large volume of retail; with the internet, that's changed, and it makes sales taxes create a perverse incentive to avoid locating in the states where most of the business originates.
A de facto standard, potential opensource clients, free, server-less, not tied to a specific company, and more.
Not really on topic, but in that article, why would the paragraph "title" texts made up of images? (that appear to be in-page data).
Really nice, but the thing is... Dropbox has gone beyond just file sharing.

One example: I used to use Flickr for photo sharing, but cameras got better, images got bigger, and I have a lot of photos. I moved from Flickr to Picasa as it could cope with the directories full of photos and I didn't have to manually upload them and Google's storage space was cheaper. Then I ran out of space... over 100GB of photos, where next?

Hello Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sc/um5zf95urdk3zmg/2SaSCUIQd8

And I've told a few photographers about this, and a few weeks later a friend of a friend of a friend excitedly told me on a forum how you can photo share in Dropbox.

And what I'm basically seeing is that the problem of "file sync" is being considered as solved by lay consumers, who really aren't prioritising encryption, and the problems that they now have is "share this directory of photos", and "share that directory of videos", and "sync this music privately, but let me play it back".

Dropbox isn't just file sync anymore.

What it is, is a serious threat to Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, Amazon MP3 Locker, Google Play Music, iTunes, etc.

And consumers are not thinking in terms of encrypted sync, they're just thinking in terms of "I just want to do X, why is it so hard", and so I can't see this (very nice) solution really solving the problems that consumers have, that will make them prioritise security.
That's a good one, although a 747 gets its oxygen for free.
FWIW, I love VWO and have used it for a few years as my primary A/B testing tool. I've emailed Paras a few times about small questions and feature requests, and he's always responded quickly - that speaks volumes about their focus on customer happiness (the support team is great too).

Thanks for the fantastic tool, Paras! Keep on doing great things!
Except that miners aren't actually breaking any laws. But more importantly will be to see what how quickly the market floods with new coins and the impact that has on collectors.
Microsoft Announces Expanded Availability of Surface Pro and Surface RT
I wholeheartedly disagree.

Even if they wanted to regulate it at the time, they would have no idea where to start. The legislative body is, even to this day, not exactly comprised of technologically savvy individuals. Rather, these are people who are very good at acquiring and wielding power, crushing any opposition, and pandering to their core demographics.

So if you told them that, oh, a 'series of electronic tubes' sprang into existence, they would just look at you, scratch their heads, and ask 'but can we tax it?' Oh wait...

In all seriousness, though, the Internet would not be the same if there were meddlesome regulations imposed on it from the very beginning. Openness, freedom and sharing of information, innovation, and experimentation are intricately woven into the DNA of the web; this would simply not be the case with any sort of stifling draconian policies. Entrepreneurs would have little incentive to take the leaps of faith that have since turned the Internet into, at least in Congress' eyes, the economic powerhouse that it is today.

It truly is a wonder that, just now, they are coming around to restricting its freedom (CISPA) and taxing it (the perhaps unintentionally Randian-sounding 'Marketplace Fairness Act'). Not to get all Negative Nancy, but I predict that we are nearing the end of 'The Golden Age of Internet Openness.' Never again will we have this much unfettered and almost-free-as-in-beer access to content and information. Of course I hope this is not the case, but whenever governments get involved and try to 'fix' an industry, it does not bode well for its future.
why should I learn js. Give me incentives that defeats the flaws JS has. eg.

[1,2,3] + [4,5,6] is 1,2,34,5,6
what the hell is this. Am I supposed to go around to find every fucking bugs it has and change my understanding of basic operations?
As much as I approve of your sentiment, the way you phrased it forces me to respond: "tell that to a kidnapping victim." Anyone can, in principle, pose a threat to your freedom.
Put the Cloud to Work, pt 1: Create a Background Worker Using Quartz.NET
How to apply texture to this, make it looks like a real cloth ?
I really feel that BS is a different use case.
Who Should Own .Patagonia?
Isn't this a part of some sort of PR strategy for the Sunlight Foundation? It's sort of hard to take this article seriously when the article literally contains fragments from the application's about page. Isn't this what they're trying to 'protect us' from?
From my experience porting CUDA code to OpenCL code, CUDA is much cleaner and more succinct since it is able to assume a lot about the underlying hardware.
If I understood correctly, this module allows you to export data to, and then access (read-only), foreign tables architected specifically for faster copying of data to/from GPU, allowing you to speed up queries that benefit from GPU computation by 10-20x. Nice.

On the surface, this seems very similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5592886 except it's nicely integrated with Postgres. Or am I missing something?

tmostak?
So, company A writes something accurate about company B. Company A's site is relatively new and the anchor text is something like 'click here'. Under your 'theory' company B would be entitled to go to court to force company A to remove the link.

Two questions:

- does that keep with the spirit of the web?
- what happened to the concept of electronic freedom??

Needless to say, I think you're dead wrong.
Instead of me trying to understand Perl, tell me what problem you are trying to solve that having an hypothetical iterator<foo> would help solve.
This is implemented over Ku-band by Row44...

http://new.row44.com/faq/
Manual Scaling
MS Azure uses random SSH port for "defense in depth."
But rarely, applications do this. The only notable exceptions is Winrar temp-extractions and some installers. Most other products simply let their stuff rot in TEMP hell.
Good question. Can't find it anywhere on their site or github account.
Worse, in my experience, is that the only people who become managers are the people who want it the most.

I almost think we have the wrong idea in paying managers so well, because I like the public-servant model seen in democratic-republican governments better than this antiquated overseer-nobility nonsense. Granted, we still have narcissistic politicians out there, but they aren't nearly as bad as the corporate executives.
It's not so much unfair as...perplexing. The article seems to imply that women will be happier placing more emphasis on family, but at the moment the mean-time-working-women-spend-with-their-families is greater than mean-time-working-men-spend-with-their-families; stay-at-home moms outnumber stay-at-home dads by approximately a bajillion to one.

In other words, if there is a bunch of free happiness to be gained by emphasizing family more, addressing that advice to women _in particular_ seems...inefficient.
You're probably right... the bittorrent speciality.

I guess the marketing is to provide them with a nice level of deniability. It's not a Dropbox competitor, it's just encrypted folder sharing.
I think a few Dutch cartoonists would disagree with you.
This greedy approach is in fact the basis for an approximation algorithm with a guaranteed ratio aproximation. Failure to reach optimum: 110 dollars 55 volume gets chosen over 2*(60 dollars 50 volume), assuming knapsack volume 100.
Fun with ActiveRecord::Observer
I'm not sure I follow, Bitcoins are mined at a rate of one block every 10 mins (on average). The difficulty setting adjusts based on how much processing power is thrown at the problem. Supply is constant.
I agree, this suffers from the same problems of efforts that have preceded it.
Only cowards will sacrifice freedom for security.
Disclaimer: Canadian, so I don't know all the rules.

I think that a law like this is inevitable and in part fair. States like California have tons of tech companies which are contributing a huge amount of tax dollars to the states coffers.
But they are selling goods and services to citizens in other states. Why shouldn't these other states get a grab at the revenue made from the citizens purchasing goods and services while in their state?
While the internet is location-independent the purchaser of any item is not.
I don't really care for Sheryl Sandberg or Marisa Mayer, but I like Anne-Marie Slaughter. Heard her speak a few times, when I was at Princeton.

I really think this discussion is about "What [White] [American] Women Want". It's a shame that women's lib is constrained to only this fraction of the population. They want it all, even as some women still don't have anything.

How about what Black and Asian men want? Or what Arab and Hispanic women want?

On paper, we are willing to accept equality between men and women, white people and people of color. In the professional realm, it becomes very risky - financially and socially - to enforce these ideals.

It is still deeply engrained in us to trust only those people who are similar to us.