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It's close to a feature I've been waiting for, which is "Buy When Price Drops To...". I want to enter a price and go ahead and let them ship the item to me when it hits that price.

There's a lot of items whose value tends to go down over time, or are virtually guaranteed to go on sale, and they can price-segment me to their hearts content on them if they'd just let me enter the price I'm willing to buy at. You'd think that this signal would have significant value to them. I mean, I get the counter arguments too, but it still seems like they could work some selling magic on this and win back the profit in the end.

Pieces of this are there; Subscribe and Save lets you save money if you pre-commit (sorta, it's easy to drop out of) to buying certain items, and now this "Make an Offer" option... they seem to be working their way up to this, why not go all the way...?
You're overconfident. Replacing massive institutions overnight is a recipe for chaos. What we have now is not perfect, but it works. Within days of instituting your system, there could be a catastrophic oversight that causes mass unrest. Gradual change is far less risky.

Programmers love rewriting things from scratch. But experienced programmers know it's often better to see what can be salvaged.
That's a problem in France, everything is centralized in Paris.

There are aternatives though: I worked for a few years in Grenoble (I'm now in Lyon) and there are interesting meetups in Geneva and Lyon which are both about 1 hour from Grenoble by car or train.
There's some truth to what you're saying, but a 3/8" or 1/2" bolt would be more than sufficient and would have the added benefit of not weakening the structure.

If you're using desk screws you can purchase a few impact drivers which have adjustable torque settings and enjoy screwing to a specification. With lag bolts you could actually inspect everything with a torque wrench and the correct size of socket and that would work just fine.

I think the biggest advantage to bolts is that they're reusable so you could take the whole thing down and build it again next year if you wanted. Or at least the start tower, say.

But oversizing fasteners is only good up to point; beyond that and you're trading off fastener strength which could never ever be used (due to the lack of ability of the wood to sustain those kinds of loads without breaking) against reducing the ability of the wood to sustain ever smaller loads as the holes get bigger.
Small Unmanned Aircraft (SUA) flown under FPV are defined under a separate exemption from Small Unmanned Surveillance Aircraft (SUSA), although the rules broadly overlap. Additionally for FPV the CAA mandate you must have a competent observer who can maintain unaided visual line of sight with the aircraft at all times.

I suspect their 150m surveillance rule is part privacy, and part a belief that if you're trying to film something/somebody with a camera you pose a higher risk than if you're just flying past them.
He drew a square on a screen? "I'd like to introduce you to a fast-paced global-initiative multipowered startup looking for a full-stack Rails on Ruby rockstar."

(I actually had a guy yesterday try to recruit me for this company, working on "dot JS node".)
You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind
I'm certainly in the (b) category. I don't have to have most things right away. I have a list of things that check pricing on frequently, and when the price is right, I buy. Sometimes I never buy because the price never meets the threshold. Of course, that's only for things I desire, and don't necessarily need.

Of course, as morley pointed out in a separate reply, this seems like it may only be limited to art and memorabilia, which tend not to have a set value. If limited to these types of items, then Amazon's approach may make sense.
I imagine the supplier would probably care (and maybe the police too) but as long as I'm paying 25% less it's not really my problem.
Yep. Pretty big market if you think of it. Good to have another player. Helps in building awareness, I would think.
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does it work with ifttt like the wemo?
"EHS said No Upside-Down People. Period."

Well, they didn't say anything about cows, did they?

Hey guys, you're MIT hackers. Involve a cow, will you? Upside-down, if at all possible...
100% is an extraordinarily misleading claim for you to make (and isn't in the title, so the title here should be edited, probably.)

From the FAQ:
> Q. How much does it cost?
A. It's FREE! The service has no cost to join or monthly fees. We don't get paid unless you do! The percentage we take is agreed upon at the time of registration and will never exceed 50%.

"We take 50% of your refund" =/= "It's FREE!" either. Sorry, the current messaging leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. There's nothing wrong with saying "We just take some of the found money".
Defensive driving is really just a specific application of situational awareness [0]. With practice and experience you'll go from just maintaining visibility and space for reaction time to actually remembering where drivers are that have been blocked from your view by other vehicles. You never really track every vehicle and pedestrian, but you do make note of particular ones and the rest get lumped into groups based on their behavior. You'll learn to anticipate the car that's going to make a left turn in front of you by taking your foot off the throttle earlier instead of braking at the last second.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_awareness
Does the obfuscation serve any real purpose in improving the security?
That seems risky in terms of liability, especially since the rules are probably not very clear yet.
Have any good setup tips?
It's true that there are more factors than race, but people's Meyers-Briggs classification is generally not as visible as people's race, and in neighbourhoods, racial segregation has a disproportionately large impact.

What this experiment basically shows, is that some degree of affirmative action is necessary. White people need some encouragement to live in black neighbourhoods, and black people need some encouragement to live in white neighbourhoods.

But wealth is absolutely also a big factor. Even if they're mixed, it's not good to have a poor ghetto and a rich ghetto. In Amsterdam, people actively complain when a new neighbourhood doesn't have a mix of cheap rentals and more expensive homes for purchase. The city actively tries to get diverse neighbourhoods, and with good reason.
That's a future that sounds horrible to me. It's injecting yet another layer of uncertainty into the process of acquiring goods. I already feel like I'm being ripped off all the time. With this model unless I do the hard work of bargaining I _know_ I'm being ripped off.

Great.

No thanks.
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Quality stopmotion work here - who did it?

All a bit Microserfs-y isn't it?
Well since you mention Basecamp, that is the original Ruby on Rails app. Rails was factored out from the Basecamp codebase for reuse on other projects. So if you want to make an app "like Basecamp" then you probably want to use Rails.
> auto v = {1,2,3,5,8,13};

> Kaboom. Oops. You can use auto, or you can use {} to make a vector, but you can't do both at the same time!

IMO it would be more confusing if that created a vector<int>. Unless the compiler is reading your mind, how is it supposed to know you meant a vector<int>, a set<int>, deque<int>, a struct { int a,b,c,d,e,f}, or some other object who's constructor can take 6 ints?
For most entrepreneurs "regular" startup hubs, despite their burdens, are worth it for everything else they offer.
Wow, that's a great deal of french bashing in such a short comment. I agree that the immigration laws must be a real pain for some people. But for the rest, you must have been out of luck :

- tax reduction schemes are a no brainer, you just have to justify once a year that you are doing something in relation with R&D, and there are too lots of ways to get some government grant to help start your business

- french entrepreneurs are from a lot of different origins. Of course you will find and some rich people creating companies, but most of the people creating companies here are taking real risks and don't have large amount of cash to back them if they fail

- seed investment is not difficult at all, and government grants are here too to help save your shares, even better that seed .

I am telling this as a cofounder of Stupeflix, the company behind Replay, app of the year on the Apple App Store, and proudly based in Paris for 6 years now.

EDIT: sorry for my English, it's not my native language, but I am trying hard to learn it...
I think you are correct that english grammar simplified because of the intermix with different languages. For example during the viking conquest, many viking words were very similar to english except or their grammatical endings, so people dropped them.

On the other hand, I think the irregular spelling has more to do with English never undergoing a mayor spelling reform: many times, the spelling reflects an old pronunciation. From what I know, England always had a relatively lax and pluralistic approach compared to other European countries when it came to managing its language. For example in France you have the Académie française, which essentially has authority over the French language. There is no comparable thing for English, which is probably why such reforms never took place.

Also, correct me if I am wrong, but you seem to incorrectly assume that English (or at least English grammar) stems from Latin.
I've done price matching with different vendors before (physical stores). Now if my preferred vendor is having it a higher price than another vendor, amazon makes it easier for me to ask for a price match.
Selling large contiguous blocks of IPv4 addresses can be quite lucrative.
I doubt they would do this as it would reduce their already razor thin margins. And there is little incentive for them. I don't think many people would be willing to shop like that either, since the mindset of a purchase like that is sort of the anti-Prime - "just let it arrive whenever", as opposed guaranteed 2 day air. Long story short I just don't see that as a very Amazon-like move. That said, I would probably use it once or twice a year if such a feature existed.
A few ideas:

Evolve nontrivial software with genetic programming.

Voxel worlds at retina resolution.

Fold proteins and simulate entire cell bio chemistries in silico.

Find bugs in complex apps by exploring large chunks of their combinatorial space. (Think fuzzing at scale.)

Lots and lots of other very scientifically interesting huge combinatorial searches: superconducting materials, novel theories of physics (mathematical combinatorial space), etc.
I found it funny that people are arguing something I've never heard about.
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Thanks! We're running our pilot program now in the Denver/Boulder area, renting a Makerbot Replicator 5 for $150/week. This is all subject to change as we figure out the market.

Your comment is already super helpful, but feel free to sign up and help us gauge where people want to rent, and for how much. It's definitely not wasting our time.
Well, I'm skeptical of Kurzweil's prediction too, but I see where he's coming from. His prediction is solely based on computing power because he also sees general AI as a pure brute force problem. It's the same approach he took to predict that a computer would beat a human in chess before 2000 - and he got that one right.
Yea it does. our backend exposes RESTful APIs for the outlet, so you can control it with apps or webservices.
> Haggling for stuff you want can be really fun

This is a personality... um... "quirk" on your part.
Yeah, instead of having only "nothing" - NIL - they prefer to have "nothing-in-a-box", and "nothing-in-a-bag", and "nothing-in-a-suitcase". Nothing-in-a-container-of-this-kind.

Due to such over-abstraction madness for sake of abstraction they end up with Java or Javaesque Haskell code.
the use of archetypes in systems thinking is very powerful. they let you quickly recognize the source of a problem. glad to see this field of expertise is migrating to software acquisition.

btw, a visual representation of the diagrams can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_archetype
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He is a progressive politician, is he not?
"The results are not specific to neural networks (similar techniques could be used to fool logistic regression)."

Do you have any references or examples where such behavior has been demonstrated on non-NN algorithms (like logistic regression)?
Yes, and that's precisely why he's wrong.
And AT&T with their huge 6rd deployment for DSL.
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>(It also gives you German for free)

That's like saying that learning English gives you French for free. It really helps, but it hardly gives you the entire language for free, just a significant chunk of it.
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Ultimately it doesn't matter, but.

"Node" is not a web framework. There are web frameworks for it, with varying degrees of completeness. There are lots of moving parts.

Rails is a (more or less) complete ecosystem. There are lots of moving parts.

Django I don't know enough about to speak in any meaningful way. Python-the-language is fine.

Ruby and Python OO will be more familiar to you than JavaScript's version.

You may want to do a client-based app; this means JavaScript. Go ahead and learn that now--it will serve you well, regardless of what you use on the client side. On the server side you have essentially unlimited choices, including Java. Serving JSON is fairly easy in any language.

There are a bunch of other issues to consider as well, like data storage, deployment, etc.
Is there a place where I can try the new ReCaptcha? The linked Google post only has screenshots.
The way most other languages handle it is that the list literal construct just creates a list, and if you want something else then you need to explicitly convert. For example, in Python:

x = [1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13] # this is a list of integers
y = set([1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13]) # this is a set of integers

There's nothing inherently wrong with C++'s initializer list approach. Nor is there anything inherently wrong with auto. But they collide in unfortunate ways because they haven't been designed such that they go well together. C++ is full of things like this. Responding with "well, that makes the most sense" for any given feature is missing the point entirely.
why not add it yourself in Map Maker?
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JavaScript is most future-proof. Given that it runs in browsers, servers (Node.js) and mobiles (PhoneGap) I strongly suggest learning the Node ways, as you may find yourself using Backbone/Angular/etc on the client and in-depth knowledge of JS will help. In this day and age you're probably building a single page web app, in which case 99% of your code will run in the browser.
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> I cannot imagine a circumstance in which I would find it appropriate to send out a press release

The man had some of the most popular lectures ever put online. Wikipedia claims over 12 million views. You don't just take down those videos without giving a reason. With celebrity comes a loss of privacy.

Also, they did not just ruin his career. He is 78 and spent over 40 years in the classroom at MIT. He already had a more than successful career. They ruined his ability to continue to have one-on-one interactions with students, and rightly so if he was sexually harassing them.
It's a free software problem. Software would be funded if it was paid for.
Noted and corrected (also not my site but I did sign up).
Yep I agree, I love the Swedish language too. It is so much simpler than German actually, and I experience the Swedes being capable of a "simple" way of thinking (in a good sense) that I never witness with Germans.
> a = b can do completely different things depending on where you see it and what declarations are visible and on and on.

I don’t see your problem with this. "a + b" certainly can and should do "completely different things depending on where you see it" and "+" is commonly used in completely different contexts in real-world usage, too, e.g. integer addition, integer addition modulo x, real number addition, complex number addition, vector addition, matrix addition, vector space addition, set addition/union etc. etc.

To restrict "+" to only act on integers (or reals?) and require a +_real, +_complex, +_vector, +_matrix etc. seems unreasonable.

Now, given that "+" may well do whatever it seems fit with its two operands, why should "=" not be allowed to do the same?
The author also has thoughts on Datomic: http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/12/28/immutability-mvcc-and-g...

tl;dr; append-only is great as long as you don't use your database much.
For many computationally hard problems six extra orders of magnitude isn't really going to buy you much.
this is a billion dollar industry
By not using them like in C.

Of course this isn't an argument, but this shows that even though C++ doesn't prevent you from falling into the same trap that are present in C, it does give you the tool to at least allow you to do better than C to avoid these traps, notably thanks to RAII.

Oh and let's not forget nullptr, which is a blessing compared to NULL.

Pointers are still a feature of both languages.

Pointers in C++ are basically the same than in C, just with mechanisms that solve the ownership and some safety problems.

So yes, it allows the same holes, but at least you have tools to avoid falling in them.
Cursive seems to be treating Coca-Cola just fine.
That fonttype is a pain to read, esp. with those background colours.
It was activated a few hours ago everywhere on 4chan.

The Google post also gives the examples of Snapchat (https://support.snapchat.com/login2?next=/), WordPress (https://wordpress.org/support/register.php) and Humble Bundle (https://www.humblebundle.com/).
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Although Paris is the most visited city in the world. It also has a reputation amongst the global cities as being unfriendly. Enough that the Paris Tourist Board and Chamber of Commerce have launched a campaign to educate service workers on treating tourists better. Tourists also do not spend as much money in Paris. It is number 3 in that regard. This is likely due to Paris' centralized position. It may more likely be a stop-through on the way to a visitors' final destination.

You can be perfectly fine on English in almost any large city in the world, but there is more of a friction in Paris when interacting in English than in many other European capitals.
Most definitely, EDN is obviously a nice format to work with if you already use Clojure.

Also, I think what all the DDD and Hibernate advocates failed to articulate when they hyped their paradigms 10 years ago was that their model of programming simply doesn't work that well. As soon as you introduce an ORM your class design will have some inane arbitrary limitations that actually fight the "principles of DDD" on every level. You end up with convoluted domain models and services and a huge monstrous cathedral of abstraction.
EMF blocking underwear is getting traction
It's similar to when malware authors pack and encode their stuff.

At the end of the day, it does not stop a determined individual from reverse engineering the code (and then publishing the technique).

BUT it does make it more difficult to understand, work with, etc. It simply reduces the number of individuals who have the skills necessary to follow everything though.

It will deter the less skilled people from attempting to "hack" the system....
Non of the major UK ISPs seem to be passed the planning stage and my mobile network seems to be using carrier grade NAT.
The wording still implies that I'm "trying" and "joining". I'm still just signed up for a Mailchimp list.
Hi, you should also look into checking to see if there is a MapTime http://maptime.io/ near you. MapTimes have sprung up all over the world and are a great way to learn about mapping and OSM.
About 10 years ago, I dated a woman who worked at a distillery, and they were looking for some software to automate the labeling and shipping process for their bottle and label samples. FedEx just released their API, so, I wrote them a little web based program that generated the label, and then automatically identified which packages were delivered outside of the delivery window so that they could be submitted for refund.

While FedEx had no problem refunding the shipping for the packages that were delivered outside of the window, they raised the distillery's rates dramatically (over 100%) over the next few months. At the time, UPS nor USPS would accept packages from a distillery (regardless of if they were shipping spirits or not), so, I turned off the functionality that sent the 'out of window' reports, and a few months later, the distillery's rates went back down to normal.

Would I use this today? Not at all -- FedEx is really on top of areas where they're going to be delivering late and if you have a package or packages going to that area, they're preemptively sending you "Service Alerts" letting you know that they're using the weather or other clauses from their terms of service to not honor the guarantee. I haven't shipped UPS in years due to them not wanting to pay on a warranty claim, but my guess is that UPS is probably also doing the similar type of things to their customers as well.
You can't use make to install grunt on Windows?
Can you please describe what failed during compilation?
OK, I found where Hinton claimed that[1], but it would be nice to have a better reference than a Reddit comment if anyone knows of one.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2lmo0l/ama_...
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UK is still abysmal :(
I've heard Defensive Driving described as driving with the assumption that someone else is going to do something wrong, and to be in a position to defend yourself from that eventuality.

The opposite is to drive Offensively (ha ha) which I guess is to assume that every other car will do the right thing and it's okay if I take a few risks.
Many people are asking why it's a problem, why don't advertisers just pay less, etc.

The adbots are making money off of this, otherwise they wouldn't do it, and that money has to come from somewhere. Meanwhile, they don't contribute anything of value, so someone's losing money to the adbots.

The burden of the loss will actually be distributed between the ad buyers and ad space sellers depending on their elasticity. The economics is very similar to that of a sales tax, with the proceed going to the botnets.