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It could well be true, this took effect in Sweden a few years ago anyway. You probably shouldn't be getting PCI certified unless you have a fair amount of time and money to spend on the process.

If your gateway doesn't intend to supply a PCI compatible solution of their own you should probably get another implemented instead. (I have one or two customer that went through PCI certification, it's a pointless hassle and they have to get reassessed once a year)

For smaller sites the conversion rate has tended to increase slightly (in sweden, so ymmv..) when using a reputable vendor.
Twitter Dictionary Definitions
When I use Twitter through the web I see dictionary definitions of Twitter related web apps on many pages - which seems like a good avenue for advertising. Unfortunately I can't find any information on where these terms come from - are they submitted, or just chosen by Twitter staff?

Examples:

Top·sy
n. a search engine powered by tweets.

Cad·mus
n. a tool to find the most relevant tweets in your timeline.
Third party apps can access the network too. So they'd have to distinguish between traffic generated tethered from traffic sent in 3rd-party app store apps.
false inference. pci dss is largely about internal process, not visible to the outside.

passing a security scan doesn't mean you're pci dss compliant. of the 12 requirements of pci dss, only 1 is even partially met by successfully passing an external scan.
Yeah but what is spreedly?
This doesn't look like it's built on news.arc. What language is it written in? How many LOC did it turn out to be?
Iterating on your product, like Canonical are doing with Ubuntu, makes a system that's BETTER than anything that ever came before. I couldn't wait to upgrade to 10.04 because so much new goodness.

It's like they're a lean startup, and this kind of stuff builds buzz that keeps them in the news. I suspect that their newsworthiness can only help in increasing marketshare.
question of curiosity: why did you use noostr (php) and not the HN code (lisp/arc) up on github?
I can understand why they won't, but it seems like it would be a good investment for them if they were going to stick with AT&T long-term to invest a couple bil in AT&T's network. Unfortunately since this would benefit other non-Apple devices as well, it will never happen. One can dream though.
For students, the eye strain might be worth it just to get a decent PDF reader. The eInk readers available are universally horrible at rendering PDFs.
"We are aware that this commitment is set to expire in 2016, but fully expect to commit to supporting the extension of this license and associated terms beyond that date."

They're going to ask a profit-maximizing corporation to not raise prices after they've got the entire globe locked-in? Sounds like another great plan from the boys in redmond.

Why not ask them to commit to no fees for 10 or 15 years today? What extra leverage do they think they'll have after they commit to H.264 alone for 5 years?
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Has Amazon ever talked about how many books they have sold? I wonder how many they sold the first month of the Kindle being on sale? I don't think that is necessarily a number to make Amazon feel safe.

I have an iPad but haven't bought any books, but I don't have a Kindle either. I imagine there are people who are buying iPads instead of Kindles, and they are responsible for a disproportionate number of the 1.5M books.

Also, I've read a lot of comments on how it is hard to read on an iPad (and some in the other direction) but for what it's worth, I'm in the latter camp. I've done a lot of reading (hurray Instapaper!) on my iPad and it has been a very good experience.
Why do I have the creeping suspicion that you haven't ever even used Ubuntu, and are just using this as a platform for your Mac fanboyism?

I LOVE Mac, but let me tell you, with this latest release, I LOVE Ubuntu more!
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Agreed.

I thought it was too flat to be comfortable. I'd love to be able to use gestures, but with my limited demo, I found my hand was cramping up.

Maybe I'm just use to those nicely contoured Logitech mice, though? Now that I think of it, the Magic Mouse is probably less "resting" and more "pushing" when compared to other mice...
(IANAL; but I have worked in the financial sector for 6 years and undergone compliance/financial legislation training)

Most Apple blogger are on safe grounds assuming they don't hold apple shares and aren't spreading the rumours for the purpose of moving the share price.

In general you are allowed to repeat rumours you believe to be true but you have to be very explicit that what you're repeating is a rumour.
I don't see it using the iPhone OS (too specialized for touch input), but providing an App Store for the AppleTV seems like a logical move.
If, by practical, you're referring to people who are willing to carry a Kindle along with their iPad too.

By itself, reading on the Kindle is likely superior, but I've had no problem with eyestrain reading on the iPad.
> Amazon Kindle should be safe.

This presupposes that people will be willing to buy (and carry) multiple devices or that they'll prefer a reader over a more general purpose device with a less pleasant reading experience. It's possible that they'll buy an iPad and stick to paperbacks. Another possibility is that they'll simply forego reading altogether.

Why read when I can just as easily kill the time playing Harbor Master HD on my shiny new toy?

Don't get me wrong, I love my Kindle and still use it for reading around the house or when I go out with that specific purpose in mind, but the iPad is what ends up in my bag on most days.

As a side note to those considering both a Kindle and an iPad, I'd go with just a Kindle 2 rather than a DX. The DX's larger screen is only really useful for reading PDFs, and the iPad is (for me anyway) better at this.
I think you could mean Chatroulette, but without the roulette part, coupled with a voting or survey system.

Also, it would be interesting to have sequenced conversations - where AI could be used to string a sequence of conversations together to yield more informed or more challenged viewpoints, based on the results of surveys performed during the conversation flow. Users can see in advance the viewpoints they are about to confront. Some conversations will be locked to say 2 minutes, others the time is optional.
It's written in PHP. Not sure about LOC; it was written by a friend from #startups. It's open sourced at Noostr.com.
I would have agreed with you, but now I'm back to the mighty mouse. Two reasons...

1. bluetooth latency issues with older MBP

2. the scrolling is too sensitive to the touch. have you tried Google maps? it's unusable.
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And you're missing the part where they're a $250 billion dollar company.

This has nothing to do with being a monopoly. When big companies do shitty things to undermine normal competitive forces they get scrutiny.
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These two metropolises make an interesting point of comparison.

Detroit built up in response to a titanic industry it thought would never go away, and had no plan in place for when it did. Dubai built up in anticipation of becoming an international hub for business, but had no plan in place for when it failed to happen.
I bought books on the iPad, but used the Kindle app for it. I find the iPad surprisingly good for reading. (I don't own a Kindle)
Apple is primarily a hardware company. The present AppStore isn't a big money maker for Apple for the iPhone/iPad (look at their financial reports), I don't see why it would be that different for iPad.
We'd switch to more mundane substitutes long before oil got to $500/bbl.

Just the spike to $130/bbl in 2006 saw people switching away from SUVs to Priuses in droves. If that were sustained for any length of time, everyone would be driving a plug-in hybrid to work. The technology exists today, and the production capacity would ramp up pretty quickly.

If every switched from a 20mpg car to a 50mpg car where the first 100 miles of each trip was free, it'd more than make up for anticipated oil production declines over the next 50 years.
I'm a musician. I'm also a freelance developer. I did the startup thing, and it's not for me. Right now I've been programming for about 6 months of the year and spending the rest of the time on music.

Starting a music project, be it a band or whatever, does have some similarities to a startup. You need a good product, you need to market it, promote it, you've got to start lean, you need to keep at it all the time, etc, etc.

My lady gives me a lot of support. She's fine with practicing 3 nights a week, being in the recording studio, sitting on my laptop working on demos or editing recordings.

I spend a lot of time working on music! A good 50-60 hours a week, for sure.

...but...

I always seem to have time for her, too. Even when I've got a programming contract.

You can always make time for the people and things that you love. If you're not making time for them, you don't love them. It really is that simple.

Honestly, do you really need to be spending 15 hours a day working on some silly little company? Your daily photo company or whatever it is? That's going to be your pride and joy when you're all alone with a pile of cash?

I mean, this is Hacker News. I know what you're motivations are here. They're not art. They don't seem to be love either.

I guess that's why I got out of the game.

I want love to rule my life, and not the other way around.
I have a Kindle and an iPad. The iPad isn't a reader.

iPad doesn't work worth a damn in the sun (the finger smudges show up, and the screen washes out), and even in the dark it's just not as nice as reading from paper or kindle.

I've found a bunch of use cases where the iPad excels, but there's little to no overlap with the Kindle.
some of the immediate buildings to the right (whitish) have a strange bloated imperfection. kinda ruins the picture.

Zooming back is great as you really see that new skyscraper. Zooming in is pretty good too.
http://spreedly.com/

They're an integrateable payment API. Basically they handle all the security junk, connect to your payment gateway of choice, and you don't have to be concerned about storing credit card details for your customers.
Something higher than single digit percentages. Firefox, for instance.
As a person who's worked with C programmers trying to be C++ programmers a couple times, the following gave me a hearty laugh:

> Pointers are broken. C++ introduces "references", a kind of non-nullable pointer which doesn't look like a pointer, makes a syntactic mess of what & means, and is used inconsistently wherever one could simply always use a pointer.

I've heard argued "But but, its a Amp, it shouldn't mean that!"
>All the technical justification you need can be had from Adobe's other half, which only 3 days ago shipped their first Photoshop for Mac which doesn't use Mac OS Classic GUI APIs.

Humorous given that Apple has several very prominent apps (iTunes, Final Cut Pro) that still have made the migration. And they control both sides!

However that is irrelevant. Tell me again how, if Apple revises the API, that suddenly every app available will instantly morph to accommodate it? Of course that is completely and utterly asinine. It's a ridiculous argument that I can't believe knowledgeable people have, desperately trying to reach some sort of rationalization of Apple's actions.
Something funny:

https://seal.403labs.com/seal/verify/www.yahoo.com

They seem to think yahoo.com is "Precision Underground Locators LLC".
Of course, it only remains a hard problem if it is assumed that consciousness is an emergent property. That is a premise, and the hard problem of consciousness demonstrates that, for the time being at least, it is an unprovable premise.

To put it another way, it could very well be that it is a hard problem because emergence is not true. There is no evidence that excludes the possibility that consciousness is transcendent, rather than emergent. However, that may well be trying to prove a negative, which is mostly fruitless. So, the fact that it cannot presently be proven that consciousness is an emergent property, does not necessarily mean that it is not.

A model for consciousness that separates perception from sensory processing itself would be somewhat akin to saying that the soul is wired into the brain, and receives all of its perceptions from the brain, but that the soul is not the brain. I don't think that this can ever be proven or disproven, because it requires introspection, which is at its very nature subjective.

But what do I know? Let's see where the research goes...
Great, great point. The impact on the consumer is the bottom line for these laws. It's not the level of competition, how free the market should be, or how easy things are for developers.
> "Third-party applications that simply make calls to the H.264 code in Windows (and which do not incorporate any H.264 code directly) are covered by Microsoft’s license of H.264."

Seems like to me one could at least write a Windows only extension for Firefox that would allow Firefox to easily view H.264 without having to worry about royalties if they use of the code in Windows.
Bezos invested in http://www.qliance.com/ and they might have simplified much of the required forms customarily requested.
Not quite. The departments which trade and the departments which write reports on companies are completely separate and firms have to maintain information barriers between them (aka Chinese Walls).

If a department was to write a report based upon a position they held, or if a firms trading arm traded based upon a yet unpublished report that another department had written, then in both cases the firms would likely be breaking the law.

Financial firms normally have information registers, so if you have people from either side of the information barrier discuss a company then that has to be recorded and that information is used to restrict the actions of the individuals involved. Passing restricted information over the barrier without registering it can be enough to lose your licence even if the information isn't used improperly.

However if you hold a position in a company you are perfectly free to go and promote your view of that company as long as you declare you're own interest. You're not allowed to pump rumours and there are specific restrictions on projections, but you can perfectly freely talk about why you think a stock is worth buying.
Yes, it is flat but that does not matter. Your entire hand does not rest on the mouse just you fingertips. I really like the action of the accelerated scrolling with the touch interface - it hardly takes any motion at all. Right click works perfectly as you would expect and the battery lasts forever. It is really nice to be able to get multi-touch on my older macs. I think there is a way to get it working with windows but I have not tried. I bring mine everywhere with me since I generally prefer a mouse to the touchpad (even on my 15" MacPro)
I wish I could downvote articles. This is a shoddy regurgitation of the Techcrunch article from last week, with slightly more formal language (and thus misleading with its implied certainty). Let's compare:

Techcrunch: "But our source tells us that HP is not satisfied with Windows 7 as a tablet operating system and has terminated the project (something CrunchGear mentioned months ago). HP may also be abandoning Intel-based hardware for its slate lineup simply because it’s too power hungry. That would also rule out Windows 7 as an operating system."

AfterDawn: "Sources say HP was not happy with the overall performance of Windows 7 on their unreleased tablet, saying the OS was too power-hungry... TechCrunch says also that HP is set to drop the Intel processor used in the tablet, which would completely kill off any chance of Windows 7 being used."

Funny how the echo suddenly changes it to the OS being too power hungry instead of the chipset, huh? It saddens me that this is how "news" often gets reported. People keep repeating mistaken versions of what they heard without doing any investigation of their own, until the facts get completely muddled. It's like a giant game of telephone...
No it wasn't. It was caused by lenders being able to lend money that wasn't theirs, facilitated by complex financial instruments.

If you're a bank and you're lending your own money you've got an incentive to make sure the loans can be repaid.

If you're a bank and you can instead take the loans you've made, parcel the debt up in a complicated financial instrument, sell it off to others and take an essentially risk free commission then you've got an incentive to loan money to anyone who can hold a pen and sign a document. This means you're going to lend a lot more money and this is what caused the bubble.

It's not because women were forcing their husbands to borrow, it's because financial wrangling shifted the risks from the lenders to third parties further down the line.
Reminds me of a Star Wars (non-classic, CGI) set.
My favorite Dubai photo 'Foggy Dubai'.

Real-life castles in the clouds.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/playing-with-light/2399114248/i...
Looks very good! I'm very interested in this as we are developing a Start-up in the Bio/Med category and a community like this can be great. Thanks for doing this.
Spreedly has fulfilled all the requirements of SAQ D. The compliance status is not just the result of vulnerability scanning. https://spreedly.com/info/faq/

Disclosure: I'm a Spreedly co-founder.
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I know this is hacker news... but I was honestly disappointed when the article had nothing to do with Steak.
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"There were a few faltering attempts with Windows Mobile and Symbian, but frankly, they were terrible."

Technology marches forward. My N1 has more power than my desktop did just a few short years ago.

Prior initiatives died primarily because of technology limits that made the real usability of apps incredibly limited.
There is always some one better and some one worse than you at everything, that's life. Should we deceive students making them believe that they will always get good grades? Maybe we should just skip this and lower the standard?

I think it's better that we strive for excellence even if we don't achieve than we strive for a false accomplishments (mediocrity).
Hah, that'll be the day!

Instead, I'd love to see Apple release a bluetooth keyboard that includes a multitouch trackpad for use with Mac Minis, Mac Pros, iPads, and other devices that support multitouch.
Having read more than two thousand screens (pages?) on an iPad in iBooks so far I don't think there is a major issue. It is highly unlikely that I would replace the iPad with a Kindle.

My camera is a lot better than my iPhone as a camera, but the best camera you have is the one you have with you. In the iPad I can carry enough of what I need with me without having to carry multiple devices.

I have not bought any books in the iBook store, as the store is not available in my region yet. But I got books from Baen Books, as well as O'Reilly, in ePUB format.

The attraction to me with the iPad is that I have a choice. An open format reader and a choice of books stores. I did buy a book from Amazon on the iPad Kindle app, but haven't started reading it yet, so time will tell.
> Has Amazon ever talked about how many books they have sold? I wonder how many they sold the first month of the Kindle being on sale? I don't think that is necessarily a number to make Amazon feel safe.

Even if we had that number, I'm not sure it would tell us much because the two devices are very different. On the Kindle, buying books is the primary thing to do. On the iPad, it is just one of many.

So while many iPad might be sold to people who will never read e-books, these people probably aren't reading on Kindle or even on paper anyway.

The Kindly simply isn't bought by these non-readers, so the average number of books sold per device means something different.
Update: Just got my account removed.
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The iPhone’s PDF viewer is pretty crappy, though. It’s pretty much the only thing on the iPhone that feels unbearably slow. I don’t know how much the iPad improves that but at least on the iPhone reading (long, i.e. ten or more pages) PDFs is no joy.
It is a pretty awful article.

But isn't it Windows fault that it requires a power hungry x86 CPU? You can run other OSes on multiple types of hardware and have your engineers pick the best hardware for the device's needs. Or you decide "We're going with Windows!" and now your engineers are trying to figure out how to stretch the battery long enough to run this x86 CPU. If not for Windows being stuck on one platform I don't think we would have ever had the Atom.
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I don't have a Kindle for comparison however I've had no issues reading books on my iPad even in direct sun out on my deck. Sure if you angle it JUST wrong, it's useless, but I haven't had a problem finding a comfortable reading angle.

I've only bought one book on my iPad (just got the 3g on Friday), but the reason I haven't purchased more is that I'm still reading the first one. Once I finish that, I'll be another, etc... so I wouldn't count the iPad book sales just yet, I'd look at them over a longer time frame.
I think that's the biggest image of this kind I've ever seen.

The details are astonishing (I could see the plate number of a bus that was not even visible at first), but I found the visualization software subpar. Zooming in or out would just black the picture sometimes while loading the new tiles and the scroll wheel would zoom in the center of the screen instead of the mouse position.
The legal action that I'm aware of about printer ink alleges that HP colluded with Staples, paying them a huge amount of money, to prevent them from carrying a competing product.

But, as a counterexample, I'm not aware of a successful suit that challenged HP's use of printer cartridge rights management technology.
Here's something the average developer may not realize: Theora just looks starkly bad compared to H.264 at web bitrates. I didn't use to think this, when all I had seen was some comparison articles with objective measures and still images but then I actually tried encoding them myself and playing them simultaneously.

For those genuinely curious for discovery (rather than making rhetoric) try this html in Chrome or a browser that supports both H.264 and Theora. It's an example where someone has encoded a video in both formats at the same bitrate. (I'm not going to link or host it because I don't want to kill the site the video is hosted on.)

<html><head></head><body>
<video controls="" autoplay="" type="video/ogg" src="http://www.doceo.com/SD1_1.ogv"></video>
<video controls="" autoplay="" type="video/mp4" src="http://www.doceo.com/SD.mp4"></video>
</body>

So try that, and then after watching that try to tell me that the difference in visual quality is slight. After doing this myself (those videos are not mine but my results were similar) I can only conclude that supporters of Theora as a pragmatic choice (as opposed to an idealistic or emotional one) for delivering professional video content have never done such a test.
Assuming you're a normal person and don't want to spend more than $100 on headphones, your best bet is the Grado SR60's.
On the iPad, for the first time with an Apple device, I can easily see myself spending more than the HW purchase cost on apps/content over the next 12 months. Obviously Apple only gets a % of that, but still it's not insignificant and it's a relatively high margin revenue stream. I think we'll see some surprising numbers in next years financials or the year after that.