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incarnateon Ikea has bought TaskRabbit

The phenomenon has actually been the subject of a couple of studies, it has been dubbed "The Ikea effect"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect

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Actual press release is here: http://correctrecord.org/barrier-breakers-2016-a-project-of-...

incarnateon Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card

Check the "Other" section of their FAQ: https://privacy.com/faq

"We're only available in the United States at the moment."

incarnateon The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence

They may not even have to target their message. If a platform's users already have a bias (and this seems to be the case[0]), then they can display the "go vote" message globally and have the desired affect. All while waving the public good PR flag.

This assumes the platform's wishes aligns with their users, but this may be self-fulfilling.

[0] http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/politics-fact-sheet/

incarnateon How Snapchat Built a Business by Confusing Olds

Not to mention Coke's portfolio is far broader than fizzy drinks - bottled water, juice, and energy drinks [0].

Coca-Cola Amatil in Australia has even started making beer and cider [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coca-Cola_brands [1] http://ausfoodnews.com.au/2014/01/13/coca-cola-amatil-launch...

incarnateon Why do Chinese political leaders have engineering degrees?

And here I thought the primary job of a politician was to get re-elected.

incarnateon What Does It Take to Be a ‘Best-Selling Author’? $3 and 5 Minutes

Looks like it was yanked, the book is linked at the bottom of the article: http://www.amazon.com/Putting-My-Foot-Down-Featuring-ebook/d...

incarnateon VISA Api: The Power of Visa Network Delivered as an API

I've found the binlist.net to be fairly reliable for retrieving BINs, plus their data is on GitHub if you want to grab it all. A quick Google show a bunch of similar services, although I'm not sure of their accuracy.

incarnateon Amazon's customer service backdoor

This is exactly the same thing that let someone delete Mat Honan's (Wired author) accounts back in 2012:

Apple tech support gave the hackers access to my iCloud account. Amazon tech support gave them the ability to see a piece of information — a partial credit card number — that Apple used to release information.

http://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/

incarnateon I worked in a video store for 25 yrs – what I learned as the industry died

Movie Recommendation as a Service (MRaas)? Or curation - if it isn't out there yet it will come.

Something with humans, since it would be easy to imagine algorithms getting stuck in a very narrow genre (like when you give a Pandora channel too many songs and it ends up with the same 20 tracks or covers thereof). Plus giving you that commitment to see the movie through.

Or just head to reddit[1] or equivalent communities.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieSuggestions

incarnateon Let's Encrypt is Trusted

Ah, but to use the Full SSL options you need an SSL on your origin server (which CloudFlare doesn't provide for free)!

incarnateon What we break when we fix ad blocking

The poll is based around discussion of the new iOS 9 ad blocking browsers, the most popular of which aren't free (at the moment).

The Verge is also no doubt trying to make the poll more divisive with this phrasing, given where their revenue comes from.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/18/9351233/poll-ad-blocking-y...

incarnateon The anatomy of a credit card form

You're talking about a Luhn check? I still see it as common practise, particularly on the client side.

Interesting that the article didn't mention it as a validation point (only card number length), but testing their demo it does do the check.

incarnateon Time Warner Cable owes $229K to woman it would not stop calling

Telstra are selling the "Call Guardian 301" as well now which sounds like the same device as cmdkeen mentioned: https://www.telstra.com.au/home-phone/handsets

incarnateon Shopify to raise $100M in Toronto, New York IPO

In the hosted eCommerce space BigCommerce, Volusion, SquareSpace and Miva are some of the biggest competitors. Magento Go is/has been shut down, but other downloadable carts are now moving to a hosted model like PrestaShop and LemonStand. Self-hosted options also abound, many of them free (and open source), like WooCommerce, OpenCart and Magento.

Shopify's POS is more of an add-on for an online store, competing with the likes of Square, Lightspeed and Shopkeep.