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If they get into selling other people's stuff in person, they then have to compete with other people in the area on those prices, deal with support for those devices when they break. They also have to deal with all the attendant supply chain issues, etc.

Supply chain for a warehouse is different than supply chain for the store. If too many people in alabama want something tomorrow that isn't in alabama warehouse, they overnight it from vegas and pay the price. If too many people show up to buy something in the store in alabama, they are simply out of stock. In one case, they make a sale and pay a little more overhead. In the other case, they probably don't make the sale.

Additionally, right now their support is limited to "we click buttons, you repack stuff, and we ask UPS to take stuff back to us". The average brick and mortar store provides a lot more support than that.

They already deal with a lot of this for kindle products, but not other peoples.

For other people's products, I can't see them wanting to get into this business, it's a rathole, and only serves to help others more than them :)

I don't think they will get into the business of selling tvs in a big box, for example, right up until best buy dies.
I think they are perfectly happy with "people try stuff, then buy it on amazon", and i don't see why they wouldn't be.

In short, i have trouble seeing why they would want to be a big box in the future. Their entire business model is based around the idea that being a big box is inefficient.
Cool project, but the title initially lead me to believe this was a tutorial on building a JavaScript interpreter. :(
Unsure, it's been a long time since I've actually owned a Mac. It doesn't look like it, though.
my "awesome" referenced more of the product they were selling than the website they were/are running. But yes, they lost to Unix / AI winter and all the money dried up.
For anyone interested in deep learning, I'd highly recommend checking out the rest of the articles on his blog. Very interesting and very well explained.
Not in the UK of course, where Netflix's selection is like what you'd find in a box of VHS cassettes in a car boot sale.
The FTC rules are clear, and pro-consumer. The software being shown isn't. Notice the example image in the article, with "Your card will be charged immediately" in small type in light grey on a dark grey background. That probably violates the FTC's "clear and conspicuous" rule on shipment representations.

Here's the FTC's Mail Order Rule:

http://www.business.ftc.gov/documents/bus02-business-guide-m...

This spells out what has to happen when a seller can't deliver on time. There are time limits. Extensions on delivery times require the buyer's explicit consent. If the buyer doesn't do that, a full refund is required. Without the buyer asking for it.

Responsibility to comply with the rule falls on the "seller", the "person soliciting the order". If another party actually ships the product, and they screw up, that's the seller's problem, not the buyer's. So you don't want to set up a platform where you take orders for a third party and give them the money up front. If the stuff isn't delivered, you, the platform operator as seller, have to pay out refunds.
I actually haven't had to since elision was implemented, so I can't give you a good rule of thumb from experience. Here's an overview of how the rules applied to the standard library at the time they were implemented, which is where the percentage came from: https://gist.github.com/aturon/da49a6d00099fdb0e861
I make use of in-store pickup options from time to time - sometimes it's nice to get your hands on your order the same day - order it at 7pm, have it by 8pm.

What it comes down to for me is, I don't hate going to the store, I hate shopping at the store. Typing "16GB USB Drive" into the search box is much easier than wandering down multiple aisles trying to figure out whether that particular store put the USB sticks with the laptop accessories, the camera storage, the office supplies, on some unrelated endcap, or behind the guy standing inconveniently in front of the display I'm trying to look at.
Beware of Vodafone New Message Phishing Scam – MauriHackers
News reader for Android Wear watch
We developed the first effective news/blog reader on Android Wear smart watches.

We can plug HN articles into our system and let people read Hacker News on smart watches !

Just wondering how many ppl would be interested in it? Thanks

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Did Apple just try to patent updating a variable and re-trying a request?
Not sure if this was updated recently, but:

With surge pricing, they always show the multiplier at the time of booking.

And it's easy to tap "quote fare" button to see the price. I agree that it should be there all the time, as soon as you select the destination, but that's the thing, lots of my rides do not have destination before I get into the car.
NSA Mind-Bender: We Won't Tell You What Info We Already Leaked to the Media
They now require you to type in a specified number (the surcharge factor) before you can even book during surge pricing, so there's no excuse for not knowing.
Me? Nah.

BOFH says to luser "Can you hold this for a minute, here? We're looking into an intermittent connection problem. Yeah, right there, just a minute. Bzzzzzzt!"
Uber gets an F, for 90 out of a million customer complaints, for providing a clear service but Comcast has a B-?
The BBB gives Uber an "F" rating based on a handful of complaints? Uber serves over a million users a month! And I'd guess most of their customers are repeat - one sign that customers are happy with the service.
Aargh, surely they meant to write "set to open" not "said to open"?
Satya Nadella is male
It's not just IE that plays loose like this. Chrome will ignore even the Content-Type header if it can see the content is an audio or video file. For example, upload a .wav to puush and open it in FF and Chrome. FF will show a dump of the bytes interpreted as text because the server sent it with Content-Type: text/plain. Chrome will show an <audio> element.

You can't call either browser broken here. One is doing what the spec says is correct. The other is doing what the user says is correct.
Hello Guys,
I hate when people sends me one sentence in 4-5-6 messages with 5-10 min time difference, therefore I created Shorty. It shows only the last message of the conversation so you must compose meaningful messages with much content as you can. Please tell me if you don't like something, I appreciate any criticism.

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Very interesting, do you mind explaining roughly how it works? And what the output voltage is.
I think itd be cool to see the tokenization happen as you step through it. The highlighting is a great step in helping understand the process.
XSS Challenge – Older Challenges and Write-Ups
Wait a minute, how does this interpreter allow multi-threaded execution without web workers?
The underlying compiler backend would use the same alias optimization pass for both Rust and C. Rust's advantages here are that all Rust code is automatically eligible for such optimization without the programmer having to do any work at all, and whereas a programmer can get `restrict` usage wrong (or alternately fail to have the confidence that a given pointer is truly unaliasable), the Rust compiler has perfect information.

To be fair, there are also optimizations that C can do that Rust can't, often resulting from C's undefined behavior.
We'll put it here first, check back often!

(Like you needed someone to tell you to check HN often)
There's on in the project on github that looks like it's originally from Google. You can probably find docs specifically on it (and it looks like the source is well documented).
Any long-distance-capable wired networking will have electrical isolation requirements, so that connecting systems that have different ground voltages won't melt anything (this can apparently be a serious concern if you're networking outside a single building).

So, the worst it should do is fry the network-facing side of the isolation part, and b0rk your network card.

...it looks like ethernet in particular mandates magnetic (rather than optical) isolation. So there's at least a possible mechanism for feeding too much AC power across the isolator, even if I'd expect the losses from trying to stuff such a low frequency (60 Hz) thru a component designed for MHz to make it rather harmless.

I'd guess that feeding in much higher frequency power (say, around 1 MHz) would be much more likely to do interesting things than would the near-DC coming out of the wall.
Google Primer App: Mini-Marketing Lessons for Startups
I thought we were just talking about whether it's immoral for a bank to foreclose on a home owner... Not sure where all this opposition-to-capitalism stuff came from.
The empathy problem is a symptom, not the disease. Or possibly the excuse.

It has become fashionable to dismiss the humanities and arts not because of an inability to see outside of one's own bubble, but because it isn't directly linked to profit. The result is that any university context that probably won't result in research grants, business endorsements, or endowments later down the road is relegated to TAs or worse, online-only classes.

And, yes, as a result of this, many people can't see outside the context of problem space that will result in steady, short-term revenue.

It's perfectly sensible economics 101 (a subject which is very popular these days) in a country like the US with such great inbred enthusiasm for capitalism. If there is money to be made, people will find reasons to be excited about making it.
There are lots of places online that will give free UNIX shell accounts: http://shells.red-pill.eu/

I used to have one on rootshell.be many years ago.
How to start a presentation: crafting the perfect first slide
> Nobody visited our sites, that's why we stopped updating them.

Try joining a web ring?
Ah yes, those fucking selfish SV people. The fact that these people invent services to edit annoyance out of one's life is horrible. (insert eyes rolling here)

Seriously, I could practically taste the bile dripping off of those words as the author decried services which handle groceries and parking. What's the goal of that paragraph? Are we supposed to feel bad some people trade money for time? Guilty? Angry? My read is that they're trying to direct moral outrage at something, but didn't quite get around to telling me what or why I'm supposed to be outraged.

I'm starting to think "SV/startups suck because.." is the new rehash of "I quit $social_network and you should too" from a year or two ago. It's tired, it's preachy, it's shrill, and it doesn't contribute to any kind of productive discourse.
Interesting. I've always pronounced it im-gir (im as in nim, gir as in girl)
Gig 'Em! Awesome looking site!
As far as I understand it, although there are many patents in the video space, they are not evenly distributed across all possible approaches and algorithms. Instead, when the next MPEG/ITC standard begins to crystalize, a bazillion companies rush to file patents on some specific, small part of the format so they can join MPEG-LA and get a passive revenue stream.

In particular, if you design a video compression format that deliberately avoids doing what MPEG4 or H.264 does, your odds of patent infringement go down drastically.
On the Android app, surge pricing is VERY clearly labeled. You have to agree to the rate before service is dispatched and you have the option to wait until the surge ends if you so choose.

The problem with the BBB is that nobody goes there to report positive experiences. Only jaded customers use it to slam businesses with which they have a vendetta. Everybody other than an aging legacy group uses Yelp or other analogs.

Uber may fight dirty, but their product is outstanding. I'm firmly convinced that when regulators discover how amazing it is they will attempt to either legislate it out of existence or shake them down until their rates are no better than taxis.
Q&A: Ashton Kutcher, Lenovo ‘Product Engineer,’ Doesn’t Fear the iPad
Have you considered marking it as deprecated on the repo's readme? I'd be interested in reading your thought processes between writing react-async and decided it was an anti-pattern.
Scala Plugin EAP 1.0.182.5 for IntelliJ IDEA 14 EAP Is Out
hey, Gig 'em back! See you in College Station this weekend?
I actually built one of these. I've never had the guts to actually use it though; it just hangs on my wall and looms.
Ask HN: Which web-based code-review tool has the least painful UI?
looking for feedback from anyone who's compared the web UX of tools like Gerrit, Phabricator, ReviewBoard, etc.
We tried to solve the open-source revenue equation. We failed
Lenovo YOGA Tablets
"Text me a download link", to me, to see that displayed prominently instead of a link to the App Store (on mobile) strikes me as a creepy way to collect phone numbers.

That probably isn't how you want to come across (and you probably don't even care about the phone numbers), so I would suggest having a different version of that page for user agent: iPhone. Please don't interpret this critique as me calling you a creep!
None, they're pretty much a scam.
Thanks for the info, and awesome work on Onyx!
Really? I don't think consumers have shown at all that they care about (or are even aware of) feature lists. Even facebook is shifting toward a strategy of cobbling together single-feature apps instead of building one big feature-heavy platform.
I have a wedding that I am in the wedding party for (and they're an Aggie couple - terrible planning) :(

Are you?

Random: We actually graduated in the same class! I think we bumped into each other a few times in college...and now on HN! haha
It's exasperating that instead of acknowledging that the tech industry culture is broken, their advice is lean in. Basically, it's on women alone to step-up and address this rather then the male leaders saying there needs to be a fundamental change.
I used to have this issue with mushrooms. I mostly got over it by introducing a small amount of mushrooms (buried in other veggies) with my meal. First uncooked (because the texture is not as revolting uncooked) then cooked. Then I emphasized the mushrooms more and more in my meals. Very slowly. Now I mostly like them!
In general, government agencies are not the only agents of consumer or producer discretion. In fact, I'd argue that they are in many cases the least effective of such agents.

That said, I get the impression that the BBB has very little relevance, at least with my peers. I don't think I've ever heard someone recommend patronizing or avoiding any company because of its BBB rating. But this certainly isn't the case for other non-government review agencies or individuals.
Link taken from the article: http://business.time.com/2013/03/19/why-the-better-business-...
Me, a feminist? No way
I do remember spending a long time making my .plan file just right, in about 1995. Nice recall.
Yeah, I wouldn't bother trying it for this reason.
> takes advantage of an opportunity no one else did

Sounds like a reasonable definition of progress.
You know what, that's a good point. I might just hide the text-to-download if on iPhone and put the big App Store badge up there. That seems to make more sense anyway!

Thanks for the feedback, ya creep.
"The liberal arts get short shrift in Silicon Valley"

Steve Jobs had something to say about that: "..it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing..."
What if you're looking up the input in a temporary cache of some kind, and returning a reference to the cached value? The lifetime of the input and output would not be related in that scenario, but the output would not necessarily be 'static (maybe you build a cache, run some functions, tear it all down, then build a new cache with different values and do it all again).
I find the author's contention that we can solve this by paying more attention to the liberal arts franky self-serving. He presents no evidence for his assertion that a) there's a lack of people with a liberal arts background in large tech companies or b) that people with such a background design better social software than those without.

I see this as a structural problem rather than a problem of empathy. As long as you have one or two companies writing social software meant for universal use, you'll find areas where they lack imagination and fail to serve the interests of human beings different from them.

The fact that we're trying to shoehorn everyone into One True Social Network is a bizarre artifact of the way we currently fund the Internet. The same criticisms that apply to central planned economies also hold for this kind of universal social software. Even given the smartest engineers in the world all reading Proust on weekends, it's just arrogant to imagine you can think one step ahead of billions of users, and anticipate their every need.
Is this article really trying to say that one should not pursue a particular business model if that business model happens to hurt others?
Bring it on!

Class of 2010, fyi. (PPA 2011)
Get ready for 'Drone Nation'
MongoDB tools rewritten in Golang
One thought on version number is that the version number could be the product of prime powers.

If function 1 is on version 5, function 2 on version 3, function 3 on version 7, and function 4 on version 1, we can encode this as 2^5 * 3^3 * 5^7 * 7^1 = 472500000. This lets us unambiguously increment orthogonal values while still keeping them represented as a single number. We could even easily add a function 5 by multiplying the number by 11.

One problem is that it's not super dense (storing those 4 values takes ~29 bits), but a 128bit or 256bit number would store a larger value than is likely needed by most applications.

One benefit is that software can check for the functions that it's interested in (as long as we can agree on what prime corresponds to what function - a relatively mild standard, if we just use order of introduction) while ignoring any portion of the result it doesn't understand.
Last year you could crash lync by dragging a link from the conversation box into the text input box. Instead of fixing the problem they disallowed that behavior.
> or shake them down until their rates are no better than taxis.

Despite their advertising to the contrary, Uber's rates are not always lower than yellow medallion cabs in NYC. For certain trips it may be cheaper, but oftentimes it is just as expensive, if not more[0].

Uber's pricing structure is different from the ones that the medallion cabs use[1], so it's not a one-to-one comparison. This makes it very easy to pick and choose certain trips which would make Uber look cheaper (which they do), and it's also easy to pick and choose trips which make them look more expensive.

In addition, Uber is venture-funded and can easily operate below-cost right now (I would be shocked if they did otherwise).

So it's worth keeping in mind that Uber's rates are arguably already be no better than taxis', depending on the city, depending on the trip, and especially if we assume they had to operate in the black.

[0] This is hard to verify as Uber explicitly prohibits using their API for price comparison, specifically to discourage this. Though there was a project on HN a few weeks back which did do this, and the results were mixed (Uber won sometimes, but not always).

[1] Which are set by the government, not by individual cabbies: http://www.dailydot.com/technology/uber-nyc-taxi-cheaper-pri...
It's pretty well known that Amazon intentionally reinvests all of its profits (and then some) back into new business ventures.

So perhaps it would have been more accurate to say "getting so bored expanding into new markets."
One could argue that "profit" is a proxy for "making value for society". And hence, the dismissal to the humanities comes from the fact that they are not providing solution, and keeps posing challenges isn't productive. There are lots of goods to be gained in learning certain fields of humanities (history comes to mind), but there are just as many less than ideal part that isn't necessary for any universities students.

And exactly what should FB do? Changes their policy that "everyone can only have one identity, except if you're a drag queen, then you got 2" ?
> " Yet it’s hard not to notice its passion for issues that look like problems only to people who look like Silicon Valley itself: overwhelmingly white, male, young, educated, and affluent."

That stood out to me. The author is rather bitter as that they feel like they have to make a race point. SV responds to one thing: Money. They respond to people who will give them money. If they don't they won't exist; money doesn't care what race you are. California, and SV in particular, is not a cheap place to live.
You're missing the point.

The problem is, we're focused on trivial bullshit. Parking, car services, groceries, housekeeping.

We're blessed with the most powerful software, hardware, all infinitely scalable and at the lowest cost ever (open source, AWS, cloud, whatever) and we're building bullshit lifestyle apps.

We're a long way off from the 70's and 80's. Steve and Woz's "bicycle for the mind" - Google's "information instantly for everyone" - we're building toys for the rich.

Make no mistake, Uber is for the rich. Taskrabbit is for the rich.

Average household income in the US. Remember, HOUSEHOLD. Is something like ~52K.

Do you think what you're working on will help that $52K household? Because Uber won't. Taskrabbit won't. Your new social network won't.

I know there are outliers. Theranos. 23andMe. Tesla (once it trickles down).

But most of us on here? We want a gadget, some sort of highly-viral network effect app that nets us a liquidity/exit event.

We don't care about income inequality, sexism, or the (middle) class. We want our stupid fucking house in Palo Alto, our Tesla S, and fuck all for anyone outside the bubble.

Maybe step back and decide if you're just selling digital sugar water or if you're actually going to change the world.
You do realize that white, male, educated -- are usually the ones with the money, right?
My bed time was 8:00pm for the longest time (until I was in 6th grade - then it moved to 9:00). It isn't out of the question she is going to bed at the proper time.

But yes, the National Sleep Foundation says 11-13 hours of sleep a night for a 3 year old and at that age sleep is extremely important for proper brain development.
collaboration in radiology requires at least a viewer, up to this point they partnered with companies like DICOM Grid to provide that functionality. The other thing you'd need is to reach into the infrastructure, behind the firewall and get the images off the legacy PACS (Picture Archive and Communication Systems). This is done via the DICOM protocol. Box didn't have this part, instead, they asked doctors to UPLOAD images to Box to view them. In the above press release, Levie specifically talks up legacy integration. This is what he's talking about. Being able to reach in and get the images, most of the time automatically, view them in the web, add to that already existing collab features Box has been building (documents, notes, etc), and you've got what could become the next-gen radiology platform - at least a more effective medical image exchange.

Disclosure, I was chief architect at DICOM Grid and built similar functionality there.
I know many on here will discount that as marketing bullshit, but it really is woven throughout their products.