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> The question becomes though who does the integrations? Not everyone is a developer. The world needs plumbers for toilets and electricians for lights. I think the future of web development looks a lot like these industries. If a website is a house you'll hire a general contractor who will outsource to various experts in various APIs. At least that's our take on it.

I certainly believe that in some cases, companies will take advantage of APIs directly. In many others, however, I think you're more likely to see new businesses built on top of APIs. These businesses will develop the applications that companies use.

A key thing to consider is that a lot of functions that the new breed of API providers seek to provide are currently bundled with other products/services that customers don't necessarily need.

Example: Company A might be spending $xxx/month for a service that provides X, Y and Z when it only really values Z. If an API provider can aggregate enough demand around function Z so that third parties can cost-effectively build offerings around function Z only, Company A may now have the ability to find a service that meets its needs at a lower cost.

So while I'm sure there's going to be a healthy market for developers focused on API integration, I think the bigger opportunities are around taking advantage of these APIs to create more focused, cost-effective solutions. Think of it as the software industry's equivalent of "unbundling."
That must be why they don't allow eyewitness identification based on police lineups as evidence.
This is the first time I've seen a HN article pass the 1000-point mark. Who doesn't love someone telling the govt to eff off?
I gave up editing Wikipedia years ago after someone kept subtly vandalizing a page for one of my big websites and removing mentions of it on other pages which had been placed organically by multiple editors in favor of a competitor's site in another country operating illegally. To the point that demonstrably wrong information was in wikipedia and demonstrably correct information was removed. This went on for months and there wasn't a thing I could do about it, so I just stopped bothering. Essentially, most pages wind up self-selecting among people with similar viewpoints or people who feel like sticking it out the longest in edit wars.

As far as the wikipedia stats links, jeswin correctly points out why the other measures are inferior (and useless when talking about overall web usage) above. You're free to update the page to reflect this, but I think I've had enough of wikipedia egos and edit wars to last a lifetime.
I think it is reasonably clear that anyone advocating privatizing mail is going to have to address the issue of the cost of delivery, either by some kind of subsidization by the government (not necessarily federal.. for example it could be done at the county level to promote people living there) or allowing companies to charge appropriately.
Is this actually a problem people have? I get that it's novel and cool, but can't fathom why I'd want it.
Posted about it under a different handle. This is my "venting" handle. I didn't want to talk about the product under my real handle for competitive reasons. The amount of money that we're making is not immediately obvious to outsiders.
Stay well informed without spending a lot of time on news.
⒈⭔ Which GraphDB do you use at Facebook?

⒉⬠ In which DB do you store the text and media?
Now I know why I don't work for the government. Who would ever create or watch that crap?
didn't they sign a patent deal in 1997? Not sure if it's still valid or not...
I'm having a pretty good time here so far. Hope you keep having a good time!
Isn't that sort of the point of git, though? To keep immutable records of progress being made on projects?
Apple and MS have had a cross licensing agreement since the 90s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso...
I'm with you dude. This shit is hard.
People always think that "conspiracy theory" is about conclusions, when it's actually about methodology.

It doesn't matter that certain conspiracy nutjobs happened to be correct about something. That's inevitable. The breadth and scope of conspiracy theories is such that some of them are bound to be correct purely by random chance.

What makes something a "conspiracy theory" isn't claim being made, but how that claim is backed up. "9/11 was an inside job" is not automatically a conspiracy theory, but 9/11 truthers fit the mold because they use decidedly irrational techniques to support their claims. "The moon landing was faked" is not automatically a conspiracy theory, but the people who believe it universally use bad reasoning to do so. Likewise, "the government is spying on everyone" is not automatically a conspiracy theory, but if people use conspiracy-style reasoning to support the claim, it's a conspiracy theory even if it ends up being correct.

Conspiracy theories involve massive application of various logical fallacies, such as ignoring the fact that unlikely events still occur due to chance, focusing on successes and ignoring failures (i.e. Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy), ignoring any explanation of facts that does not fit the desired conclusion, and just plain non sequiturs.

A lot of people who were talking about government surveillance back in the day fit this pattern. The fact that they were right does not change the fact that their reasoning was bad.

Many people were talking about it without fitting this pattern, by using sanity and reason. Those are the ones to pay attention to.

When you see somebody labeling something as a "conspiracy theory", look at the mechanics of the argument being made, rather than the conclusion. For example, in this case we have a comment that states, "Dangerous political prisoners/personalities dying in mysterious circumstances at opportune times is not coincidence." Well, that's classic conspiracy thinking. Coincidences can and do happen, all the time. Do people get assassinated sometimes? Yes. Do important people die at extremely convenient times purely due to natural causes? Also yes. Thus, while the fact that somebody died at a convenient time can be suggestive, it is not conclusive.

Even if Arafat was assassinated, it can still be a conspiracy theory to say it if the argument is done in a certain way. Saying that Arafat must have been assassinated because he died at a certain time is nonsense. Saying that Arafat must have been assassinated because his bones were filled with Polonium is reasonable.

To shut down complaints about the first kind of argument because the second kind of argument also exists in parallel is awful.
Well, if you're a Twitter employee with 25,000 vested shares, you probably care more about the share price than the market cap.
Can't speak for others but I generally don't keep a todo list most of the time. I might keep a brief list of stuff so I don't forget but I don't waste time making a list or anything of that sort. Those things just pile on, at least for me. Instead I spend time on the things I want/need to do. If you want to be more productive, make the conscious decision to work on something that is productive or learning something that helps you being productive. Not sure if this answer is helpful.
Extremely great advice here. Most people might think this is second nature, but there really is a list of boxes to check and these are all necessary.
All that, and you're not going to even say what the device is? Don't make me guess....
Google is on board.

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I live in Montana and don't think I've ever seen a package from FedEx or UPS. Both companies use USPS to do the final legs of the delivery that would be unprofitable for them to do.
Ok, maybe if you buy only leased vehicles you could CYA enough. But this thread was about "used vehicles", no?
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For those of you seeking an intuitive understanding of the Fourier transform, checkout http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-...

For more details, check out Steven Smith's Digital Signal Processing. The entire book is available to read online, and has an excellent treatment of DSP algorithms.
So next time Google will drop Windows or Mac OSX to introduce their brand new OS system? I hope it will not be the Chrome OS or Android.
The links you posted literally have Chrome as #1.
I thought this had been known for a while, how the baby interacts with others?
if you're too excited you might test the durability of your screen!!
That intro video says it all. Beautifully done.
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I am your guy hitting his head after a cycling accident and being fine afterwards. Would it surprise you that, in spite of being fine, it is right AFTER this accident that I decided to start wearing a helmet? Judging by your argument, you would call me illogical.
Both true, but I'd be remiss if I didn't point out what (I think) is the bigger point -- UPS and FedEx couldn't deliver a package to every doorstep for flat price of a stamp.

This wouldn't necessarily mean that they'd raise prices across the board, but for some residences, it would almost certainly require more than $0.42 (or whatever it is now) to deliver to.

My uncle owns over 2,000 mountainy acres in an extremely rural area. Mail to his house takes his postman literally a half an hour out of his way, through treacherous (but paved, sort of) roads, and which is impossible to deliver to in a snow storm. Still, it only takes the cost of a single stamp for me to send him a letter.

Him being a nice guy though, has an arrangement with the local post office (or maybe just the postman, I don't know how official or allowed it is) where they suspend junk mail until something legit comes in so that they don't have to make erroneous trips except for when he actually has a package. If he happens to be in town and hasn't received mail, he'll swing by the post office and pick his mail up there.
Valid point, and the answer is because:

a) It matches the initial theme and purpose of the app perfectly.

b) 99% of fitness apps have "fit" on the name and a weight (usually a dumbbell) on the icon. We are contrarians.
> The only solution is to not be vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.

If this is your reason for fixing SQL injection vulnerabilities, you're doing something wrong.
It's not so obvious when you realize how much of CSS3 is unsupported by IE9 but supported by IE10. Or the fact that Google's policy for Google apps is to support the current major version and one back for all supported browsers. They've stated this policy for over 2 years. Now that IE11 is out, IE11 (current) and IE10 (legacy) are supported while IE9 (2 back) is dropped.
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Why would I call you illogical? Did you conclude that wearing a helmet was a good idea based solely on your anecdotal experience, completely ignoring wider realities? Or did you actually think it through and not base your conclusion on a single event?
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Someone literally requested this as an import option for Appointment Reminder, because it was easier for their office staff to understand than uploading.
Very cool. Looks like a really good web interface that would be a pleasure to use.

On a personal note, am I the only one that generally prefers a mail client? The ability to combine all my emails (work, gmail, @mydomain, etc) into one unified inbox is why I prefer it.
Again congrats on your successes, I don't think hackernews should be a marketing tactic for most businesses but it could probably work for a small select few. (Github, Sublime Text, Twilio, SendGrid etc.)
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re: my previous post -
I realize that 1/5 is for "potentially habitable" ... but I was thinking too far ahead. What I was trying to get at is what factor would we then need to multiply it (ie., this 1/5th) with to make intelligent life a mathematical/chemical/biological certainty - as we know it here on earth, for example.

Was what happened on earth - us - a unique fluke - would intelligent life still come about if reran the whole thing 1000 times, even here on earth, where it was almost an after-thought?

Are there other pathways - sliding doors - that would still have brought about intelligent life here on earth?

What if we didn't have a magnetic field or if there was no Ozone? - that was another thing I left out before.

We may be a fluke - the end result of a set of rare and unrepeatable circumstances?
I try not to visualize complex functions of complex variables. Four dimensions is just too much.
Thanks Dan, GrooveHQ.com is sweet!
The tools get better every update. Came in here to complain that it wasn't obvious / possible to copy URLs from inside the network inspector, but thought I'd check the latest version first... and what do you know, there it is.

I don't even use Chrome at all anymore.
We started the project with 4 full-time engineers and added a fifth person recently. We began working on Presto in August last year and deployed our first working version in January, and we've been iterating on it ever since.

One big advantage we have that speeds up development is the Facebook culture of moving fast and shipping often. Facebook employees are used to working with software as it's being built and refined. This kept us focused on the key subset of features that matter to users and getting close to realtime feedback from them. Our development cycle is typically one release and push to production per week.

Also, from the beginning Presto had to work with current Facebook infrastructure (100s of machines, 100s of petabytes), so we faced and solved all the associated scaling challenges up-front.
Can you really attribute all of your success to an HN post, or maybe you just had a slam dunk of a product? Not everyone can nail product market fit out the gate, for most people this is hard work
Just out of curiosity, how old is your child? Where does he fall on the autism spectrum?

I've been an educator for groups of autistic children (as well as other various handicaps)- and it was some of the hardest work I ever did. It must be fucking intense as a parent- respect to you.
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Sorry, didn't answer the core question. We are working on a Scuba connector specifically to bring joins and other powerful SQL features to Scuba. These features are handled by the Presto query engine, so data in existing non-relation systems can be easily analyzed. Even better, Presto can join data across connectors to formerly isolated systems.
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I used this little breakout board from SparkFun. Room-filling sound when powering a 4 Ohm 5" car speaker, and the SMD doesn't even get warm.

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Arafat may have reduced funding to Al-Aqusa, but that's because they were on the ropes militarily by 2004. He certainly didn't stop funding because he thought terrorism was an unacceptable option. The simple fact was, that he was funding terrorists after the failure of Camp David, which again, makes him a very bad candidate for negotiating a grand bargain.

I suspect (given your other comments) that you are familiar with the realpolitik of the middle east - there are no lily white good guys. Of course Arafat funded terrorists!

My view is that the Israelis viewed him as "the devil they knew", and that he was infinitely preferable (and more controllable) than Hamas.

It's true that Arafat didn't want a complete peace deal (he turned down the alleged Barak offer to split Jerusalem or whatever it was), but it's not at all clear to me that there was any Palestinian leader with anything like real power who did want a deal. I mean.. Abbas? Seriously?

Sharon endorsed the Road Map for Peace put forth by the United States, European Union, and Russia, which opened a dialogue with Mahmud Abbas, and announced his commitment to the creation of a Palestinian state in the future.

Has any Israeli PM not endorsed whatever the latest peace plan is? Even Netanyahu sometimes says things that could be read as an endorsement if you didn't know better. The endorsement is meant for US consumption.

OTOH Sharon's plan (essentially isolation from the Palestinian territories) wasn't the worse plan ever, and even sort of worked.

Oh hell.. I'm persuading myself that you might be right. Persuade me of this: killing Arafat would / did not prevent Fateh from acting as a counterweight to Hamas. In fact, it's likely that Fateh was ultimately a far better counter-weight to Hamas with Abbas at the helm.

That clearly failed, and to me it was obvious even at the time that Fatah would lose Gaza. Why do you think otherwise?
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and I'd counter that point with there are a ton of businesses being built on top of API's to deliver the types of products those "Other 90%" won't build themselves.

Innovation drives more innovation, the future is business being built on top of the framework these API's are laying
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This is 100% remote, but I'm only looking for people based in the US.

* Rails

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* CSS/HTML chops

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Experience with SaaS, building web apps, monitoring and scaling a plus

If interested please email me marco@masswerks.com with some info about you & what you've done.
I hated when I have to choose between label and placeholder, and this has the best of both worlds!
I agree with the premise. However, what happens to Lob when paper and mail get replaced by digital transactions? Netflix was able to pivot from sending physical DVDs to streaming digital movies. Will Lob be able to pivot from printing and mailing physical checks to sending digital money, or will they be cut out of the market?

In general, it seems risky to build an API around something that's going to disappear.
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More like a novelty item to have or showing off to your friends but other than that typing my password makes me feel more secure. Nice video though!
This doesn't make much sense. Year over year, transaction volume is increasing.

Moreover, price is a function of demand. While there may be fewer transactions over the short term, those transactions may be larger in and of themselves. For instance, in April, there may have been more people purchasing single coins, but in November, there may be fewer people purchasing hundreds of coins.

Two charts do not tell the complete story.
I don't think USPS has to share that info with anyone. I faced the same problem in past with Indian Zip Codes.

Talk about England and you have much bigger problem. The ownership of Pincodes in England is with the Queen and hence no one can really use it without her permission. :P
The industry moved to advertising because it works. When something more compelling comes along, people will move to that. So far it doesn't exist, but many people are trying.

PayPal are not a monopoly, by the way. I would not be surprised to see them unseated from their current position in the next few years.

I do have Ghostery installed. I'm glad it exists, and wish more people would use it so that they could see the extent of the tracking that's going on.

> If you think I am specifically talking about Google, you are mistaken.

I was responding specifically to your paragraph about Google.
For government, "Sorry, you're not authorized to access dot com resources, so we'll spend 2 million and several years developing a poor replacement."

I'm not bitter about Army Regulations regarding *.mil TLDs at all.
Take for instance, common Javascript libraries hosted on
CDNs. Every time you visit a jQuery based page where the
js file is on a CDN you reveal to the host of that CDN
(e.g. Google) what website you're on

Generally that only happens the first time you load the library:

$ curl -I ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.3/jquery.min.js
...
Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000
...

After that it should be in cache, and because lots of sites use jquery from ajax.googleapis.com it should stay there.

(I work at Google on ngx_pagespeed, and sit next to the people who maintain the hosted libraries.)
I am amazed at the OP! Just search google for zip code database. The first result is the link from parent post that gives you a free list of all zip codes, and primary cities they are associated with, plus a ton of other data. How on earth did this even get to a freedom of information request? And how did this end up on the front page of HN?
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Fairly trivial software sells too, my friend.
Modern IE is still supported. This doesn't make sense.
I,oddly enough, had the opposite. Gave my software out to a few friends (wrote it for myself, as the others in its class sucked), Next thing I know I'm getting 100k d/l a month (paying for overages, fun) - and soon after have a few million users. Never have spent any money on advertising (even though the software DID make it on to a TV show in Denmark a few years later - and magazines, newspapers, etc.) Still getting downloads and new users.

Have also written tons of other stuff that this did NOT happen to :)
IIRC, the biggest drug on the Silk Road was marijuana, which was probably not cartel grown. There are plenty of places in the US where it's effectively legal to grow marijuana, and the growers who have a legal enterprise almost certainly produce plenty on the side for the black market.

Cocaine and heroin are different stories, but are probably the exception compared to marijuana, various drugs that need to be lab-synthesized, and prescription pills being resold.
Zip codes make my life hell on a daily basis. The problem is essentially that the USPS does not design topological zipcode polygons. All they do is maintain a set of centroids, plus an assignment to a set of lines representing street segments (which they charge for).

This would be fine, if it was not for the fact that pretty much everyone who wants to use zip codes needs them in a topologically valid polygon format. This is a problem because roads change all the time, and this makes zip codes terribly unstable. Also, there are many zip codes that are really just points (a bit of an oversimplification, but military bases, prisons, schools, etc. often cause huge problems).

Census tracts are much more stable (topologically valid and only change every 10 years). Unfortunately, most people don't know which census tract they live in, so zips prevail. I have built several geocoding algorithms, and it always comes down to the data being the big PITA. What ends up happening, unfortunately, is that private companies pick up the slack and create topological zip codes (with high price tags).

Double unfortunately, every company has a different methodology in creating these polygons, costing everyone who uses them big money, on top of the licensing fees. The USPS could easily produce a standard set of polygons for an extra couple grand a year in labor and save the industry millions. I cannot get into much detail, but I know this issue quite intimately.
At the web design / development I work at, none of the websites look like that. Sure, we are not making single pages, but still. There is more to the web than single pages fronts for startups.

This is only a trend. Humans love trends.

Wait until the next guy come up with a great idea and everyone will copy it once again. See the flat design trend.
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