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It's pretty obvious that its company v. consumer these days. Its a war throughout the world - businesses can easily corrupt public servants in all walks of life. Is there a way to eradicate corruption?

It seems like from this it would only take a few minutes to put this on an existing site. What sets you apart from the other instant and "easy to set up" checkouts I could use? Is there a lot of customizability that one can easily add to the checkout, like size and quantity and color?

I'd also like to style some of the checkout to be more branded - is it possible to change the colors or logos?

Good job on clean styling of the checkout. Also, will there be support for Amazon Payments in the future?

I wrote a lot of the code for https://www.airbrite.io/, which we are quietly launching on hackernews today.

The dashboard is all backbone, the backend is all node.js.

We wanted to build something that could become a core toolset for all developers. Hopefully it'll help frontend developers with e-commerce sites, but I'm excited to get to use it myself.

It's not just booting a computer though. Hypothetically, if Silicon Valley is wiped from the planet tomorrow at the same time as a massive EMP killing all electronics on earth simultaneously (extreme), its assumed we could get most of that data back. I'm guessing we'd lose a significant amount of information though.

The real loss would be the engineers -- without people manning these systems I'm not sure we're getting that data back very quickly. What if you lose the key players -- the people who have the passwords, the knowledge, and control over these systems? It's losing the combination to the worlds most valuable vault, but the vault is digital and restoring it takes privileged information.

While I do like that everything is moving towards paperless, I hope we keep archives of all our knowledge in some permanent form. Should a world wide power failure or some other catastrophic event occur and we were "sent back to the stone age", the amount of knowledge we would lose from losing the internet is unimaginable.

How did you pick the font? I find myself having problems figuring out is a single letter is a l or an i or a j sometimes. Seems like there's a lot of fonts out there with better readability.

It might be the first thing they do, but if they don't check their email immediately you have until they print/download. That window of 5 minutes to 6-8 hours or even over the weekend is worth using Google Docs alone.

I've been emailing my resume using the Google Docs url (read only) and it works well. There are rarely any issues with someone being able to open it, versus a pdf or doc. Those might cause issues if you don't have Word or Adobe installed, but no installation means a better experience for the person on the other side. Sometimes Macs will format PDFs oddly in Preview and other issues always arise with doc and docx unless you are sure they are on Windows with Word.

Sending a Google Doc also allows you to edit it even after you send it. You can even see when they view it if they are logged in. If they don't like it, you can always just save it to your hard drive as a doc or pdf and send that.

Oh yes. We do live in slavery. Money is the only key to our chains.

The answer is just a flat and obvious, "No".

Firstly, symbols have been around for thousands of years. Our written language is built around them, and our everyday life is surrounded by them. These aren't going anywhere and are a required abstraction for higher thought. These aren't going away.

Second, logos are prettier symbols, but they are pervasive in our world. Every single business has a logo and tries to push that logo and brand at you every chance they get. These aren't going away.

Third, icons are logos and/or symbols. It stands to reason that if the previous two aren't going anywhere, then icons aren't going anywhere.

Until we have telepathy, that is.

I thought they shut down Geocities years ago?

It's been down since 1999.

Aaron Swartz would be proud of you.

When they come out with new algorithms for searching, they are completely replacing their old engine, correct? Are they rewriting the core? Or is this more like v1 was PageRank, v2 was Caffeine, and Hummingbird is v3? Is a lot of the code is just being refactored or is everything getting rewritten?

Microsoft's direction under Ballmer has been underwhelming, especially the lack of innovation in the tablet and mobile spheres. I'm curious to see if his successor is someone future thinking and if he/she will be able to bring Microsoft back into the limelight.

At the time they felt very strongly about it. The employees were adamant about the fact that they had a certain way of doing things and they were concerned that Microsoft would disrupt whatever it was they had.

I don't know if it was the right thing for either party, but that's what happened.

Yahoo -- I think they were concerned about getting infected by M$'s culture.

Except none of those places are Silicon Valley or San Francisco. There are few major hubs of startup activity, the other major one being New York City. The atmosphere and population density of ambitious programmers and like minded designers and business guys play a key role in why those active hubs exist in very few places.

VC money and the active community play huge roles here. There are dozens of meetups you can go to and meet people interested in programming or startups. There are hackathons every other weekend and a lot of tech based conferences are pretty much routine. There are happy hours almost every day of the week at various incubators or shared work spaces or even at clubs hosted by a startup.

The sheer volume of events and startups and tech based companies here blows Boise, Denver, Phoenix, .... all other cities out of the water. That's why SF is so expensive to live in -- all these tech guys get paid $$$ and landlords feel as though they can just keep raising prices to take over that income. It's similar to how NYC got extremely expensive because of all the financial guys making tons of $$$. If there is cash to be had, it'll raise the cost of everything.

It's a play on "seller-y".

Hahah on the Celery part. Its a play on the idea of a "seller-y" though.

Oooh, sorry, I messed this one up. To clarify, I live in a 2br with a friend and it's $4k a month for the both of us. $2k a person.

I live in San Francisco and it is probably 138% more expensive than Miami, FL. A cheapo 1br in the city runs around $1200 a month. Nice places cost $1500-2500 a month. I'm paying $2k a month myself but it's a really nice place w a Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and city view. How much are places in Miami?

Hehehe, and 83% of brains are only used to watch porn...

Does anyone know where I could find out how Facebook does their suggestions? It'd be interesting to compare LinkedIn's method to Facebook's.

Don't forget about Cassandra, which they developed just for scalability issues that they were having, and is now used at Digg and other sites (I think reddit uses it for something as well now) http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=24413138919

Depends on what you are coding. Sometimes when I'm coding for fun I don't want to think.

I think you have to choose to turn it on. Your browser will ask you if you want to supply your location to the website and you can say yes or no. Here's an example: http://html5demos.com/geo

You don't have to share your location and you make it ask you every time if you want.

Local on the Internet is the next big thing and Facebook is wise to step up and take it on before something else gained more ground on it. I don't believe in "checking-in" nonsense, but I do think that being able to get in touch with people near you as opposed to people who aren't near you is going to be important in the future. I'd go more into it, but I have some ideas for startups in the "local app" genre.

The problem is the original headline. The headline makes it sound like Obama is bemoaning iPads and Xboxes. It's sensational, it grabs your attention, and you wonder why he's bemoaning technology. And then you get to the article, which is actually about Obama bemoaning "the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction." Hmmmm.... Text-book irony.

Well, something can only grow exponentially for so long.... It's growth might be dying. It might be reaching its teenage years. Unfortunately it's only a matter of time before its a big company that can't keep its startup mentality.