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Wait, so what kinds of savings are actually available on Amazon in the first place?

I mean, I order tons of stuff. How exactly is Zinc saving me money? The books I order don't seem to vary in price, ever, and I've never seen promo codes for them either. I don't want them picking a third-party seller instead of Amazon, due to quality issues I've had in the past. They say they're not applying the affiliates discount to their own orders.

So what exactly are all these mysterious discounts?

(Also, if the orders are actually being placed through their own account, how is tracking handled? Returns? Customer service in general?)
Ya, I was born in Portland myself, though my dad is from walla walla and my mom is from Ketchikan. Seattle is the capital of basically the entire northwest, from Prudhoe Bay to Grants Pass, all the way east into Idaho and Montana.
Might not help you this season, but we use inDinero for all our accounting, and as a perk of a full-year subscription, they also do our taxes. It's quite convenient not to have to think about any paperwork.
Actually, it is doing something illegal. It's injecting a button on Amazon.com's webpage (without their consent) trying to swoop your business from them by offering a slightly lower price.

The more equivalent analogy is, you're shopping at a store and right as you're in the checkout line, a guy runs in the store from outside and steps in front of the cashier with an ipad and a Square credit card scanner and says he'll go get the exact same items from somewhere else and bring them right to your car for less than what you're about to pay for all the things in your cart. Don't you think the store would get a little pissed about that?
If I'm still getting excellent support, I'm not sure I care.
Anatomy of a Subtle JSON Vulnerability (2008)
Are you just trolling? My comment made multiple references to the private sector that currently exists in China.

You're aware that there's a healthy private sector in China currently, right? The name "Deng Xiaopeng" ringing any bells? They've had grains futures markets for 25 years now. Not state-allocated capital for food. Seems kinda implausible that you just missed that one.

I'd suggest reading a newspaper sometime. Maybe a history book or two.
SurveyMonkey’s new app lets you create surveys and monitor results on the move
Let us assume job security = Z

For any positive value of Z, there will always be another employer willing to hire me where Job Security = Z1. Z1<Z. Thus in a good market the value will tend to zero.

You are mistaken to think that Company's profits is a the sum of value added by each of the employees. I would say company's real profit should be the additional value generated because of synergy between the teams. For example few ordinary individuals can deliver extra ordinary results as a team.
Sometimes I just need to confirm a particular attribute. I don't think W3S is very good, but I have been on the site enough times that I know I'll be in and out with what I need in about 10 seconds.
In 2001 - 2008 there was no ASP.NET "WEBFORMS". We had VS, CodeBehind, and Server Components - that was the world I lived in.

Yes, Alt.NET came along in 2009 or so and managed to do some good things, not soon enough really and all the silly flame wars actually did more harm than anything.
You are not being studied by algorithms.

When you go to the doctor, you are not inspected by a stethoscope, you are not inspected by an X-ray CT, you are not inspected by a scale. You are inspected by a doctor who is using those things.

When I make decisions about consent, I am not primarily considering if I trust the tool. I am considering if I trust the person using the tool. My doctor wants to stick me in an X-ray CT? Okay, I'll consent to that. My employer or my insurance company wants to stick me in an X-ray CT? They can fuck right off.

You are being studied with algorithms.
Bingo. I think the reason most people hate finance is because they don't understand it.
A browser user agent is not a promise to view a page in a certain way. The user is consenting to the button when they install the add on.
Yes, he's a really nice personal guy who listens well and is great at writing and talking. He loves to wave his hands around and gesture as he talks, so it's really fun to watch his talks on fast forward, and guess what he's talking about! ;)

I'll bet he remembers, and tells people about your look and feel that he saw and felt!
I'm a Simple user and occasionally the lack of checks has been a problem.

One specific incident that I had was that I needed a cashier's check to close on my house, but I didn't know the exactly amount until a few days before closing. I paid $50 to have them overnight the check. The check didn't not arrive overnight and I ended up having to chase it down at a FedEx hub so I could have the check at closing.

During this whole time, I had a chat with the SAME rep. I had a whole long conversation that lasted over two weeks regarding how to get the check, asking for the check, talking about problems with the shipping, and even getting a refund for the overnight shipping.

This is what was amazing to me. The same rep was tied to my conversation. When I had problems with Comcast, every time I called I talked to a completely different person and I had to explain my issue over and over again (even worse I often got dropped during a transfer and had to call back and do it all over again).
Which studies do you refer to? And how do you explain top VC firms consistently getting much higher returns on funds than, say, the DJI?
Rise of the Compliant Machines
> $current_job is of the opinion that packages "aren't Cloudy/DevOps/new enough" to be worth investing in

I don't know about clouds, but packages are fully DevOps.

You can tell them i said that.
Well if you are in UK you can use Quidco and their extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quidco-cashback-re...

Which tells you if the site you are visiting offers a cashback through them (supposedly, the reviews are not very positive).
Warren Buffet likes to argue that he does not make risky investments. With that in mind and under the light of how profits are made by the financial sector, it is pretty clear that when they make risky investments it is mostly with the client's money. The rest is just friction, like a toll booth.
I don't think the OP was arguing for a system "without a private finance sector". He was just arguing for a "middle ground" where effective regulation could cut the excessive of the private finance sector.
Also what I am wondering. Can't seem to find anything on the splash page...
This is a little creepy actually when you think about it. Here is this amazing new technology and the government says that only corporations are allowed to possess it. I'm sure that there are reasons but on the face of it I feel like it is right out of a cyberpunk book.
It's non-obvious how injecting a button through a browser plugin would be illegal. I've never heard of a plugin author being sued for doing something like that, and there are thousands of plugins that inject content into or change the content of commercial sites you're viewing.
The last bubble was lots of IPOs, was that really any better?
Your browser is a piece of software that is not obligated to display an HTML page exactly as the server delivers it. If you want to enhance your browser to add extra features and functionality to pages there is nothing wrong with that.

What makes your example illegal is that the person is advertising their service to customers without the customer's permission, just going up to them in the store and spamming them. Additionally store management can rightfully ask the theoretical interceptor to leave the premises and stay out.

With Zinc Save the customer chooses to install the browser extension and ask for Zinc's help to find the best deals. Additionally no web store can justly make demands that customer's browsers display the store without modifications. If the customer chooses to install an extension that adds extra functionality to the store pages then that is the customer's choice. Zinc Save doesn't need Amazon's consent to inject a button, they just need the consent of the customer with the browser, and that consent is granted when the customer installs the add on.
Oh. yeah.

They deserve thanks times a million in my book. They and the rest of the open source community, but OSS didn't feel as great before as it does after I made the switch.

[fanboyism intensifies]
After thrift became an Apache project, internal Facebook employees found it harder to iterate using external tools than our internal github repos. Many of the changes depended on things that weren’t open source, or only recently became open source in folly. We do hope to merge as many changes as possible back upstream, but felt it was more important to get the code open source as quickly as possible. In addition, fbthrift is a dependency for several other projects Facebook wants to open source in the near future.
He's definitely trying to make the argument for fundamental analysis. He's been making that argument for the past thirty years.
I'm surprised I never came across this before. Thanks for this. I'll be giving it a try on my next project.
For a company so invested in disrupting banks, it's sad to see them going to a massive global conglomerate.
If you're affected, you can switch your domains to their DNSv1. Seems pretty quick for most people.

Via https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edwhitesell
With $19B in pocket they can totally ruin his life with a lawsuit.
I'm a big fan of Herman Miller tables (I use an Everywhere table [0] at home). They have a very modern, sleek aesthetic, come in all kinds of sizes and heights, and are EXTREMELY stable. I hate tables that jostle around when you touch them.

Herman Miller is known for really expensive chairs, but a lot of his stuff is competitively priced with Sears et. al. and much higher quality in my opinion.

Warning: you need an electric drill for assembly since the screw holes are not pre-drilled.

[0]: http://www.smartfurniture.com/products/Rectangular-Everywher...
> 3) Better backup options.

Already exist as "Continuous Archiving". Was done by third party tools in version 8, part of the core in 9. Details: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/continuous-arc...

> 4) Replication

Master - slave is in core of version 9. Allows fast switchover, but is somewhat harder to swith back.

> RAC

Logical replication is already in 9.4 . And with logica replication we might soon see full master - master replication in core postgres.
Thx for the info on startpage.com. Never heard of it till this thread on HN. Just made it my homepage and added it to my tool bar.

I switched to DDG a couple years ago after becoming concerned about privacy. Unfortunately, DDG has never quite cut it for me in terms of search results. I do a TON of technology related searches, particularly wrt very obscure programming related technologies, especially related to embedded target dev. DDG always comes up short, and I typically end up doing "!g" searches. So startpage.com appears to the best blend of privacy + good search results. For me anyway...
Have you released your Cordova app? Can we take a look?
Actually, Seattle's asian community is increasingly Chinese, while San Francisco took in more SE refuges than Seattle did (and are more asian for it, but increasingly Chinese also). Both Seattle and the Bay Area have strong Vietnamese and Korean communities also (seattle area has the largest outside of CA).

All those demographics are on wiki: Vancouver is 40 % asian (and like 25% Chinese) which we all know, San Francisco is 33% asian but only 6% black (not counting Oakland I guess, but we aren't counting Tacoma for Seattle either). New York is New York.

I have no idea where you get saying they are segregated, at least when it comes to asian. Black is more urban, but that's hardly surprising (unless we want to start talking about seatac and Tacoma, which are different cities).
Isn't spouse gender-neutral?
I know my Discover card sometimes gives me 5% off from online purchases during a certain quarter or bigger discounts on particular things from Amazon if I go through their "Discover store". Maybe they have a bunch of these types of credit cards?

I'm not sure how returns would work in that situation though, I guess you have to return it through Zinc.
This is a pretty interesting concept, why not launch with a broader city-based selection?
How to get a busy person to respond to your email
Not a single woman in this entire video.

edit: actually there's one I saw in the background as a camera pans over a table, but 99.9999% of the people represented here are men.
With future versions of Google Glass perhaps. The current version does not have a display that can provide a HUD in the way that it seems you are thinking.
Goodbye Bitcoin.
I deposit money in two ways: 1. Direct deposit from my employer, 2. I use the mobile app to scan a check I write to myself from my other bank account (limit of $3000) (another option I haven't used, is just to mail a check to them) 3. Use external account transfers to pull money in from other checking accounts.

I've used all three of those methods and they've all worked just fine for me.

The biggest issue I've had is the inability to write a check, which doesn't come up often but often enough I have to have a separate bank account for that.
> It’s actually quite simple; if you have a good company, you will probably be able to raise money.

IMO, investors tend to be very formulaic. Traction + social proof + impressive team etc. The formula might be a good heuristic, but I think that it misses out on some genuinely good companies.

See https://medium.com/p/2ef77c6acb
Thank you for the explanation. That's a lot to think about.
Agent Attrition Kills Profits	
It is obvious that the benefits of constant and immediate monitoring of agent stats are, increased performance and quality, and decreased attrition rates.
Production counts - "80% of success is showing up."

I particularly liked the opener: "Without thinking much I said ________, but having thought about that a bit more, I think it’s probably right."
What about this product is requiring you to surrender personal information?
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I've spent a fair amount of time thinking about this thought experiment, and I think the reason it leads to a paradox is because it's impossible to run a simulation of your own universe (in real time, anyway) in the first place. So it's a sort of proof by contradiction.
I second this. I'll add that Route 53 would need to respond to notifies for this to be useful.
I know its one of the reasons the USA didn't end up with a German style insurance based health system in the late 40's early 50's.

Taxing the benefits is the fairest way to do it.

You could handle this by moving to a system similar to the UK PAYE - any benefits in kind are identified to the Tax man by your employer (via the P60 form) woudl simplify the federal tax system.
Lots of people complain about W3Schools. Some of those people say the Mozilla pages are a bit clunky.

Seems like a nice passive income project - man pages for HTML / CSS aimed at beginners but with advanced information too.

I'm surprised it hasn't already been done. Perhaps it has and I just don't know the URL.
I wonder why they didn't publish the changes as one big monolithic commit on top of the Apache Git repo instead of obliterating all the history.
Wow, you worked on Napster? You mention the server was written in C++. Out of curiosity, do you know what the client was written in? I found a random forum post by an anonymous user that said it was written in Delphi.
Also, a government suitably subject to democratic controls has a greater incentive to keep the fields level. That's true of both the presently level parts and the parts in serious need of leveling.
Account-to-account internal transfers is relatively new and they did not have that feature when I was approved from the beta.

But, account to account transfers does not solve the problem at all. I don't want to have to transfer money from my account to my wife's account manually. It's so much easier when she can just access a shared account and move money as needed.
Really proud of the entire team on getting us here! Happy to answer any questions you guys have.
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> People pay for things because they want them, because it makes their lives better.

More often than not, people pay for things because they must. Food is not optional, nor is clothing, shelter, or health care. For the majority of American population gasoline, auto insurance, and related transportation expenses are similarly non-optional. Similarly electricity and water. For much of the population you can add in child support or day care.

There is not much money, if any, left over for discretionary spending.

The point is that you seem to believe that all spending is voluntary. This is flatly not true, and smacks of willful ideological naïveté.
You're thinking about it the wrong way.

The financial sector did not want to make bad investments that caused a recession. In fact, the financial sector (mainly investments) was undoubtedly, like all recessions, hurt most. Who wants to invest when companies are failing left and right? This is the reason the fed makes interest rates so low, to encourage investing since no one wants to invest.

But bad investments do happen, and so did the rescission. Unfortunately the problem here was that we had put too much faith in one market, the housing market. There was not enough diversification when things started to fail.

The financial sector did not steal their bailouts, we gave it to them. Just like we gave them our investment money in the first place.
Don't really see anything distinguishing it from PayPal. You can generate a PayPal button and slap it on your site for products and have it track inventory quite easily, and far more people have PayPal accounts so they won't have to register for a new service.
I wanted to start with SF to gauge interest and get some critical mass for it to be useful.

I'll definitely remove the geographic restriction once I get some solid feedback.
This saved me 10% on a few books I just bought, so it clearly seems to work. I'd definitely like to know how though.
Close, but it's a potential people problem being caused by tools.
They're also spot on about how we perceive Japanese women laughing - when they turn away and cove their mouths, it does look sneaky.
Ah sweet, thanks guys. Just picked it up today and the 1080p screen along with the WP8 UI is incredibly clean. Very impressed so far.
How is the progress for BarSense for iOS?
Watching the demo in the 2nd half of the I thought, cool I can watch video in 3D without wearing goggles. And than I heard the head tracking really works only when 1 user is using it.
Well dang it, I will sacrifice spending time with wife if I can watch a movie in 3D without wearing goggles...

I see that his focus moved from living room TV/game console to a mobile device...
I understand the analogy here. But how will it gurantee shipping at a speed equal to a prime member. Do they have a pool of free prime accounts that they will use to order your items or they have tie-ups with FedEx/UPS ?
I've heard many Californian transplants complain about Seattle drivers being so timid, and it really is true we can't drive when it is raining, snowy, or sunny (too much glare).
My company is using it in production. Love it.
WhatsApp is different to most messaging apps in that it runs on dumb phones (featurephones), not just smartphones. It's different to built-in text messaging in that it uses data rather than SMS. Dumb phones are a lot cheaper than smartphones, and for most people, data is cheaper than SMS.

There are an awful lot of people in the world who can't afford a smartphone or a serious SMS habit. Those people use WhatsApp.

There is a parallel here to BlackBerry Messenger. In the UK at least, the two groups that use (or used, a couple of years ago) BlackBerries are businesspeople, who use it because it integrates with their corporate IT whatnot, and schoolchildren, who use it because BBM is free, unlike SMS. However, BBM is tied to a shonky and still not that cheap hardware platform that uses special snowflake network services that are not available everywhere, whereas WhatsApp is portable.
It's bad for innovation at Whatsapp but great for innovation in Silicon Valley as capital flows back into the cycle.
A good start on solving this would be to reinstitute Glass-Steagall with the strong provisions (20 & 32), the famous loopholes of the late-70's/80's removed, no grandfather clauses, and aggressive maintenance to fight new loopholes. Course, what politician would support that? You need money to win elections.

That big spike that starts in 80 was right after the 1977 decision to allow commercial paper from private banks, and the 1982 decision to allow subsidiaries that could deal in securities. Banks and their lobbyists fought this from nearly the day of inception (Glass himself fought it) right up until the repeal in 1999 when it was pretty much dead. Why? It stops them from doing exactly what they're doing right now. Unfortunately, now all we get is Dodd-Frank, which is all the bureaucracy with none of the bite.
Ah, right you are. Everyone I know that did games are programmers, but they are a minority on the teams. :-)
Does your wife have her own income? My wife is currently a student and I would have to manually transfer money to her account quite often because there would be no other deposits into her account. Can you auto draft between accounts?
SQL is a query language and an RDBMS is an implementation.

It's like calculus, you can compute efficiently or inefficiently it has nothing to do with calculus.

The same developers that make retarded SQL queries make god awfully slow programs with their pointer chasing mess because they don't understand that their programs run on actual real hardware and that a cache miss is pretty much the single most expensive operation a modern CPU can make by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude.

They just go on and on about interfaces, inline methods, virtual methods, etc, and never check whether their fancy smancy object fits on a cache line. Its the same with databases they just talk about 'webscale' and 'big data' abandon SQL and then wonder why their DB explodes once it reaches 100 GB.
That is not how a binomial probability is calculated. Consider the case where you flip a coin twice - do you have a 2 * 1/2, or 100% chance of getting a 'head'? Obviously not – you have a 75% chance.

The actual way you calculate the probability of an event with a binomial distribution is by taking the inverse probability and raising it to the power of the attempts, then subtracting from 1. So in the case of two coin flips, that is 1 - (1/2 ^ 2), or a 75% of getting a 'head'. That would mean, with a huge host of assumptions, that a motorcyclist's chance of dying over 30 years would be 1 - (99928/100000)^30, or (funnily enough), 2.13%.

edit: I said bimodal when I meant binomial.
I wonder at what point ITAR kicks in for that sort of firefighter equipment. I know traditional night-vision is covered, and I can certainly see "smoke-vision" having straightforward military applications.
I still have some very shitty things on my credit report, from as recent as three years ago, and I was accepted no problem. Frankly, I was surprised.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to contribute the changes first, rather than creating a fork of your own project?

This is just wasteful behavior. Why would anyone try to work with you to build community around this code? Why should anyone trust that you won't just abandon this fork's community and then come out with another full rewrite in a few years time from your silo?
Well for sure. But it does support vast majority of it.
Regulations which, I believe, have largely been repealed.
The distinction between want and need and likewise between discretionary spending and mandatory spending is completely irrelevant to the point I was making. I'm not even sure how to respond.