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So it would depend on the state that your SaaS company is located in, or where your customer is accessing it from?

This may be a silly question, but does this sales tax also apply to SaaS products that you might sell? Or is this only for physical products a la Amazon?

I really had wayyyy too much fun playing this, for how "simple" it is. I'm very impressed with what was possible in just two nights. Thanks a lot for sharing!

Wow, yeah. Document fragments seem to be even faster than my original createElement. I'm really going to have to re-evaluate how I'm creating new DOM elements.

That sounds way more realistic - I'm not sure what's going on when I'm testing, but I may try later to repeat.

I find myself constantly trying to fight the urge to be lazy with JQuery, since I tend to forget the performance hit it entails.

For some concrete numbers, I updated a JSPerf that I found to include a raw JS implemention.

http://jsperf.com/creating-dom-elements/8

I was caught off-guard by the results - it appears that (even after multiple runs) the raw JS implementation is ~100 times (times, not %) faster. Definitely surprised at the drastic difference, although someone please correct me if I missed something in these simple test cases.

This was with Chrome on Windows, by the way.

I second this - I've had great success using just Cloud9 for development and pushing to GitHub/Heroku

Soooort of off-topic, but I've actually had a lot of success using Cloud9 IDE (https://c9.io/) as an in-browser editor. It really closely mirrors Sublime Text 2 as far as default functionality and appearance goes. Of course, I'm coming from a Visual Studio IDE background rather than a Vim/Emacs background, so I can't vouch for its usefulness for users more accustomed to that type of work environment.

Note: not affiliated with Cloud 9

Another mystery of how a story can stay on the front page for hours with one comment while others drop off more quickly with active discussion happening. I know it's been discussed before, but sometimes I'm very confused about the ranking of stories.

This is actually a little more in-depth than some of these types of lists get into. I really liked some of the metrics tracking that they suggest adding in. It's unfortunate that this is getting posted to HN, though, before their actual site is live so that could check it out.

The term "Heroku" doesn't even appear in the post at all, so I think this is definitely one example where it does make sense to match the HN title to the blog article title.

It sounds like a pretty sweet deal, but I kept looking up and down the page trying to find the catch. Is it purely a promotional thing for the companies to which you get credit? If so, I think it could use some emphasis that you are getting this in exchange for nothing at all.

I know it says "free", but that doesn't necessarily mean they don't expect something non-monetary in return.

This. I really hope they're able to get that integrated soon. That would be awesome.

I may be interpreting the post wrong, but I took some of the lack of detail as a kind of challenge for someone to figure out how to make it happen. To me, it sounded like someone saying "a cell phone should be weightless and have infinite battery life" - obviously not achievable goals, but worth working towards.

I think the simplicity he's proposing has its usefulness - it's all dependent on where on the "[paper napkin] <----> [realistic photoshop]" continuum you need to be for your mockups. Depending on your intended use, you can get by without drop shadows and rounded corners for a lot of cases.

I think in this and many other industries, people that are otherwise talented and intelligent individuals write these types of "trumped up" resumes only because they know that everyone else is doing it. If they don't also exaggerate the truth and try to talk up their strengths, then they fear being overlooked. It's not necessarily that anyone is being "fooled" by the exaggerated resumes, it just means that everyone sounds the same and it's just a game that both parties are forced to play. It's hard to distinguish on a cover letter whether "led a team of..." means one other person or twenty other people, for instance.

A joke, I believe: melt vs. blend

Awesome, I just picked it up on Amazon. I'll give it a shot

This kind of reminds me that, although I'll read a lot about programming and startups, I haven't learned anything about writing (formally) in many many years.

Does anyone have any good recommendations for books about writing non-fiction? The OP refers to a few book about writing fiction, which sound interesting (and that may be helpful), but I was wondering if there was something similar that targeted maybe copy-writing and just general business writing.

A comment about suggestion 1: The creators may have prior computer vision experience, but as someone who tried to learn this from scratch and perform handwritten shape detection I can say that it's a messy place to work. If it's not their core competency, it can get tricky with all the different shapes and problems that may arise with said shapes. Then again, I didn't have machine-learning experience which may be the way to go.

That would definitely be cool, though. You could basically edit what you literally just drew if you could properly detect the shapes and how they were nested within each other.

I see what you did there...

Just kidding. But to contribute something to the discussion: I was just recently wondering when the best time to publish a "Show HN" would be. In that case, your content is what it is. The time factor would definitely be important then to help you get the "early exposure" that you'd need to even arrive on the front page in the first place.

Yeah, I actually have the immediate response of bouncing back from that type of landing page. I have no idea what it does, so I have no incentive to sign up. I suspect that some may sign up just to find out what it is. I wonder what the effect would be of having that as well as some button or link to "Find out more"?

I think the results here speak more than any guesses we might make, but I'm just astounded with the results.

Side note: I was able to click "Sign In", and then from that page access the "About" page from the footer. That told me at least a little bit more about what the service is actually for.

That's a pretty interesting scenario, though it sounds difficult. Is there any possibility of hearing more about what specifically you are offering? I would ask because it sounds like there would potentially be an opportunity to get those who can afford to pay more to do so and then in a way use that to subsidize lower-paying customers. This all depends upon the nature of the business, of course.

Well that's good and well for an individual or a small group, but the classic case for patents is in things like pharmaceuticals. A patent protects someone from reverse-engineering something that a company may have spent years perfecting for hundred of millions of dollars.

Totally agree, but from my understanding it's often the editor that decides the title, rather than the author. I'm sure that depends on the publication, though.

https://www.filepicker.io/faq/

Where are the files stored? We automatically save all uploaded files directly into your Amazon S3 bucket. To make it easier to get started, if you haven't put in your S3 credentials we will store them on our servers, but as your usage increases we will ask you to move to your own storage.

Sort of meta, but I thought the blog post was really effective at bringing the new pricing to my attention. I had looked at filepicker before, but with the new Free plan not tied to bandwidth I'm really excited to give it a try.

Not to mention, the added benefit of the pricing plan as it stands is that I'm literally thinking in my head "I hope I have to pay for this someday soon!"

Ah, so in that case it would literally come down to not wanting to have to innovate. If they truly thought that people preferred to have it the way it is, you'd think that they wouldn't be afraid of this.

I'm sure this has been answered before, but why does it matter to Craigslist if it's data is being used elsewhere and is clearly marked as Craigslist data?

Say Craigslist is paid for real estate listings: they already have the money, and they don't make any additional money off of advertising, so why does it matter where someone accesses that information?

I'm genuinely curious why this isn't similar to Twitter, for instance, allowing developers to show tweets in their own applications. Except in this case, people are paying to "tweet" (post real estate listings). Also, for this question, I'm ignoring Twitter's recent policy changes.

I suspect I'm being naive here, and the issue may be that they just really don't want other people profiting from their data, but I guess I just don't get it.

Yeah - the most recent that I've heard is 400 karma (so it's not always true that 'karma doesn't count for anything')

Maybe it's just chance that two meta-HN posts (Top HN ...) show up on the front page today, but it seems like a lot all of a sudden...