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clueless··on Ask HN: Why do all payment processors charge 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction?
Interestingly, Plastiq charges the consumer instead of the merchant and they only charge 1.99% (to as high as 2.49%)
clueless··on Ask HN: What's still missing in Netflix, Hulu, Amazon video?
How about the DVD extras... I don't think outside of DVDs there is anywhere one can watch the DVD extras: be it the commentary or the making of.
clueless··on Ask HN: Best Movies you saw in 2012?
life of pi
clueless··on Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar
Would this be close to what you are looking for: http://datatables.net/blog/Introducing_Scroller_-_Virtual_Sc...
clueless··on Poll: Do you select text while reading?
Coincidentally, I know of a new web service (http://amazd.com) that lets you record your highlights as you're reading an article (in the most natural way I could imagine) so you can save the parts that were insightful. That's the only reason I usually highlight text when reading these days.
clueless··on Google Books team open sources a book scanner
That's why I only pay the $1 per 100 page and OCR myself. May take a bit longer, but then I have much more freedom/flexibility.
clueless··on NASDAQ:FB
It's based on the $38 pricing, not the opening.
clueless··on Ask HN: If SOPA isn't the answer, how do you eliminate online piracy?
How do you stop drug trade? How do you stop illegal activities in general. I'm not sure you can ever eliminate these. Most you can do is to curb them.

In the case of online piracy, as some have already said, part of the issue is convenience. But that is only a part of the issue (and this where netflixes, spotifies, and steams of the world come in). But you will never be able to stop people who rather pirate (either for financial reasons, symbolic reasons, etc.).

Now the question is, are you willing to give power to people who may abuse it to stop something that may be unstoppable or would you rather work on other means of curbing the issue.

clueless··on A message from Comodo Hacker
I think I kind of know, but for the uninitiated, can someone tell us what the potential practical consequences of this hack could have been?
clueless··on Ask HN: Overcoming engineer/developer bias against SEO
Google Website Optimizer: A free website testing and optimization tool, which can be used to find out what site content and designs which best resonates with the visitors, by letting Website Optimizer to show different versions of website to visitors while tracking the performance of each version.
clueless··on Ask HN: What do you use to organize your bookmarks?
text files
clueless··on Beware the church of climate alarm
There has been. See here (Intelligence Squared U.S. - 'Global Warming Is Not a Crisis'):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9082151

But whether even that helps is another question.

clueless··on Ask HN: Greatest Living Thinkers Today
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/who-is-the-...
clueless··on Wacky, But Serious: What would it take to set up a stock market?
would this be useful?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fse/

clueless··on Death
could someone enlighten us as to what this means?
clueless··on Ask YC: what's the best way to model a threaded comment system like YC?
Also here is MY ineffecient way of doing it:

function article($link){

print_story($link->id);

print_comment(0,$link->id);

}

function print_comment($parent_id, $link_id){

$comments = $db->get_col("SELECT comment_id FROM table_comments WHERE comment_link_id=$link_id and comment_parent = $parent_id ORDER BY comment_votes DESC");

if ($comments) {

		$comment = new Comment;
		foreach($comments as $comment) {		
				$comment->print();
			}
				print_comment($comment_id,$link_id);
		}
								
	}
}

TABLE `table_comments` (

  `comment_id`, `comment_parent`, `comment_link_id`, `comment_votes`
)

If you store and manipulate all the data in memory, I don't see why this would be that bad?

clueless··on Ask YC: what's the best way to model a threaded comment system like YC?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33888
clueless··on Ask YC: What podcasts do you subscribe to?
Freedomain Radio - http://www.freedomainradio.com/podcasts.html

If you you really want to get challenged intellectually, this podcast is for you...

clueless··on Do you have a favorite tv show?
House MD seconded...
clueless··on Facebook Homepage Code
Where is the rest of the site's code?
clueless··on What if Facebook loses my data?
well why not... Also I guess the one way to stay safe is to somehow make it operate slow so for example it wouldn't aggregate 2000 pages in 5 seconds.
clueless··on PG: What's your current take on reddit's comment system?
i'm not sure why nobody has said this already... but why would you need an extra filed for keeping indentattion nuber when you can use <pre> in html for that.
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