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by showerst 13y ago
The SEC is in the process of changing the rules to allow this as part of the USA JOBS act [1]. I think the timeline still depends on them but you should start seeing those sites come live around Q4 2014. [1] https://www.sec.gov&#
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by showerst 13y ago
If you're looking for a PHP microframework that's a bit more mature, I've had good experiences with Slim. http://www.slimframework.com/
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by showerst 13y ago
People didn't put lights on their bikes at night until about 15 years ago when low-weight, bright LEDs became cheap and ubiquitous. Any city cyclist will tell you about all the close calls and accidents they've had, so it's j
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by showerst 13y ago
Right now GoPros seem to be mostly in the extreme sports/recreation community. When I mention them to friends & family I often hear "what's a gopro?". I think that there are a ton of use cases in markets they haven&#
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by showerst 13y ago
I'm assuming ND, MT, and maybe TX are due to the shale oil boom?
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by showerst 13y ago
In the US it's actually more insane, we can also have different sales taxes at the county (a smaller administrative unit w/in states, there are a few thousand of them nationwide), and the city level. We also have different tax rat
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by showerst 13y ago
Here's an about.com article that says it's medically unsupported. [1] (about.com isn't a great source but hey it's someone who's looked into it) http://walking.about.com/od/measure/f/1
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by showerst 13y ago
Venezuela is officially the 'Bolivarian republic of Venezuela', so Simon Bolivar actually has _two_ countries named after him (the other being Bolivia).
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by showerst 13y ago
The point is that this is extremely useful public data. Since so many things in daily life besides just shipping require an address, this information should really be in the commons.
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by showerst 13y ago
My email comes up in both (that one returns the correct hint and an encrypted password.) I haven't been sent an email or letter from Adobe yet, but I did have to reset my password upon trying to log in. I've read about many people
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by showerst 13y ago
There were many as the commenters have said, but I always like hotbot.com
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by showerst 13y ago
If you've never read it before, you're in for a fun read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet Back then email was still the primary civilian use of the internet, although by the mid-80s BBS
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by showerst 13y ago
Not that it becomes a reasonable number, but according to the Post[1], it's more like 175 million. So 20% of a billion dollars... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2013/10/...
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by showerst 13y ago
I've seen volunteers walk shelter pets down the street and take them to the park, where dozens of strangers (hopefully!) stop to pet and play with them for a few minutes. Sounds harmless to me as long as the animals have long-term supp
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by showerst 13y ago
I'd argue that long after his business acumen is just a footnote, Bill Gates' charity work will stand him head and shoulders into the top people who've ever lived. He'll be remembered as a business tycoon probably among
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by showerst 13y ago
FWIW packages sent to member offices get scanned by a mail processing center off site, I'm not sure if they'd actually deliver the coal on to the office or not =P.
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by showerst 13y ago
This is a great piece of writing, but before you take too much of a lesson in human nature realize this was also in a commuter station at 8am on a work day. Even if people had wanted to stop, they had somewhere to be. I've seen musicia
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by showerst 13y ago
I've actually worked for someone who had a company-wide email filter for credit card numbers and SSNs. It was frustrating because it would occasionally catch license keys or foreign phone numbers, but probably a good idea for some grou
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by showerst 13y ago
On days when the government isn't shut down, they post his full schedule to http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule =P.
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by showerst 13y ago
I disagree that just because most people who day trade lose money, that wider access to the markets is a bad idea. I'd rather have the option to enter a market when the odds are against me than not have that option at all.
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by showerst 13y ago
I have some bad news for you =P. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/03/sniffing_keyb...
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by showerst 13y ago
Sure, I was referring to the two particular offices in the original article's plan. I don't see those as an upgrade.
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by showerst 13y ago
The biolite weights 33oz. My MSR pocket rocket weighs 3oz, + 2-8 oz for the fuel. (I generally take 4oz for short trips). Even with an external battery pack I could still be almost 1lb lighter than the biolite. Biolite is totally cool, but
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by showerst 13y ago
I'm not a big fan of open plan offices, but now 8 people are moving into two offices with no natural light, and 3 people right right next to them. Unless those hallway walls are glass, that feels like an awfully depressing place to wor
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by showerst 13y ago
I think they're squarely aiming it as a high-end gift, which is smart. I'd never pay $50 for a dozen links of Kreuz sausage, but I'd flip out with joy if someone sent them to me unexpectedly.
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by showerst 13y ago
The point of In-Q-Tel is not to make money, or even traditional ROI. It's to bring technologies to the intelligence market that might not otherwise exist. They're actually not for profit. https://www.iqt.org/about-
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by showerst 13y ago
You got it with the first suggestion. It's a fun distraction for the well-bred, nothing more. Getting a write-up in the times is one affirmation that you're a power couple in a certain northeastern old-school way, or a human inter
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by showerst 13y ago
Ah, I can see how that would be confusing. That's a one time thing (cookie based, so if you clear or use private browsing you'll see it more often). Thanks for the update, HN traffic is valuable to us and often generates interesti
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by showerst 13y ago
We have HN whitelisted from the paywall, so if you click through from the link on this page you shouldn't see the paywall as long as you don't have any extensions that hide your referrer. If that's not the case, would you min
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by showerst 13y ago
Originally it was actually written in LISP. =) http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html

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