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> Are you seriously telling me that I have to be open about everything I do, and that when I don't want to, then I'm doing something illegal or morally objectionable?

No on both accounts. I did not suggest or say that you had to share everything you do. Not even close. I also didn't come anywhere close to suggesting that if you don't want people finding out what you are doing it's wrong. I'd avoid the straw man if I where you. =)

What I am saying is that if you do something, chances are someone can find out. It's as simple as that.

Let's go with your herpes medication that you buy that you don't want any to find out about. If you don't want anyone to find out about you buying herpes medicine, don't buy any. Otherwise, someone is going to find out. In this case, it will be the company that sells you the herpes medicine at the very least.

Hopefully this clears things up.
Everybody draws their own creepy line. Expedia & Travelocity draw theirs up at the edge of their shitty, consumer-hostile business models.
Yes, but the press headline will read "WePay sued for trespassing on PayPal conference" or something to that effect.
also, while editing, if I double clicked to edit and clicked out for some reason, the changes are not committed yet.

I think the more intuitive way of doing it is adding some sort of a commit-on-click-out feature ..
This reminds me of the online poker scandal on UltimateBet:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19/high-stakes-pl-nl/ultim...
That's very true, but "taste of your own medicine" and frozen/cold didn't have a funny punch line. However, it could be considered revenge by proxy -- WePay assisting with consumers' revenge against PayPal for freezing accounts.
Actually, "Idiocy" is more akin to finding a flaw in the New York Times, and then using that flaw to change the headline of their front page.

I'm pretty sure that would land you in jail if caught.
This is really cool. I wish I was there to see it.
Standing on your feet is an effective solution. Exercise is not necessary to effect health change.

Even so, I find treadmill extremely annoying. I wouldn't use it for work.

I run in the real world, and do it seriously.
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What WePay went ahead and did just proved to me that they aren't a bunch of stuck-up suits, which is unfortunately what PayPal seems to have become. Rather than seeing this as naive, I admire their creativity and their guts in pulling this off. They just earned my respect.
Maybe. It all depends on how you're phrasing it. The server response is just a machine giving you permission; it's not the actual person. How is this different than saying "I asked for permission to the vegetable stand cash box by pressing the open button. The cash box gave me permission when it responded to my button press by opening." (Assume, if you want, that this was a button that could only be used to access paid cash, not for making payments.)
When I read about PayPal shutting down peoples' paypals asking for their IRS charity status, I couldn't believe it.

Fraud should not have to be Paypal's business. If someone says they're a charity and they're not, and you give them money, it's your fault. PayPal should not be involved in that kind of trickery; PayPal should only assist the law in settling those issues.

Just like Craigslist only advises people on wire fraud, but doesn't get too involved, so should Paypal. They're simply a middleman.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=alertpay+fraud

Nothing wrong with alertpay per-se that I'm aware of but fraud is rampant there.

This is to be taken with a grain of salt, but a search for 'paypal fraud' turns up 2 million results, about twice as much as alertpay, and given the relative size of the companies that's worrisome.
That's what the good PR firms do. They exist.
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Amazon.Com wins North Carolina case (Data Request in Tax Dispute)
Personally, I wouldn't do business with an organization that doesn't respect its competitors.

I think their attitude vis-a-vis their competition is right -- they certainly do want to ridicule PayPal and flaunt their problems, etc.

The idea that they won't have to freeze their own accounts periodically (b/c of exposure to the same kinds of fraud PayPal sees), though, is reckless, naive, or just plain false advertising.
Install Python, go to terminal, and type `python idiocy.py`
Moving illusions: impossible objects made real
Does anyone know if that picture is just an iPad with the screen photoshopped to Android or is that what it actually looks like?
Not so stupid. The error message is important.
If someone says they're a charity and they're not, and you give them money, it's your fault.

But you still go to your credit card company, dispute the charge, and get a chargeback. This chargeback hits PayPal with a $20+ fee, so of course they're going to be involved.
I've already used it for my admin app as well, and in the process submitted some patches to backbone as well. It's quite nice how unobtrusive it is. I wrote a small jquery plugin that converts a form & table into fully functional crud with client & server side validation.
All of these cheap Android tablets look like the iPad.
I figured as much, that's not going to be in time for dinner. Unless you like your dinner cold. (pun somewhat intended).

When will you guys do international payments ?
It's worth noting that this is an either-or pricing: you either get the micropayments rate or the larger rate. Why they don't give you the cheaper option is beyond me...you're paying an arm and a leg to collect on anything larger than $12.

Also, their labs website doesn't work in Chrome: https://micropayments.paypal-labs.com/
A couple of months ago, I was doing some nasty shell hacking, and I came across 'tsort'. It is of limited utility in my day to day existence, but when I needed it, I really needed it. Thanks, whichever hacker decided it should be a standalone utility!
Time passes.

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"As for debit cards, those are easy to get. Incredibly easy, and easy to integrate with as well. Again, it's nothing special. I've been there, I've done it. A complete system where you could transfer money into your account tied to a debit card, send money, receive money, automated API, etc."

So...what's left, then, to lock people into PayPal? Are you saying that if you can just get people to use debit instead of credit, it's easy to provide all the same services as PayPal?

Certainly sounds like the necessary infrastructure is in place for whoever wants to take a shot at being a PayPal disruptor at least.
1996 McDonalds hamburger - hasn't decomposed at all
We use X11 forwarding to get this interface on our local machines with little fuss. Of course, you still have to log into the box via ssh to run the client, but that doesn't seem too onerous.
So a bunch of project leads are not important? You do realize it is more common for software projects to be defined by the quality of their leads?
When designing something from scratch, my process goes from a bit of sketch on graph paper to a Photoshop mockup. I'll let that stew for a day or so and tweak it here and there, maybe share with some friends for feedback, and then start coding it. I generally put all of the main elements into a structure and use FireBug to push things around to where I like them!

For redesigns of existing sites, it's more an exercise of rearranging elements that are already there so I -may- go into Photoshop and see what I come up with or I might just go straight into FireBug and move things around to get a general sense of where I want to go with it. This is especially helpful for proposing (quick) design changes to a client.
I wonder if this will force apple to drop the price of the base iPad now. Probably not seeing as they didn't do it for the iPod which had a lot more competition, but the spread between $99 and $499 is a bit too much...
buy a stool that lets you sit at the same height as standing, then just raise your desk.
This is incredibly necessary for HTTP authentication to be useful, and bizarrely, has been given little to no attention over the years. There's a proposal for HTTP authentication in HTML dating all the way back to 1999:

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-authentform

With only some complex Javascript hacks making it a possible solution:

http://www.peej.co.uk/articles/http-auth-with-html-forms.htm...

Also, HTTP authentication is a benefit to RESTful service design. Cookies have always been the wrong solution to this problem, having all web services to move to HTTPS feels like missing the point.
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This is just a last-ditch effort by these sites to retain their only competitive advantage: privileged access to ITA data. I don't see anything "creepy" about this merger though...classic fear-mongering.
Thanks, looking into now!
We have to some extent... we're relying largely on the legal owner of the book/manuscript copyright to upload a page. We (the co-founders) have uploaded several page 99s from classic books, but only for those that are actually out of copyright.

Thanks for your feedback!
Maybe some people registered to hold the username and then neglected it?
Can this access the app store? Are there only certain apps it can run?

How would this be for reading?
I know you're not the HN police. I don't even care if you downvoted me. It's just karma. I'm just really surprised that a simple joke has become my most downvoted comment. I imagine in the nearly 4 years I've been here I've said some things that were far more deserving. Ultimately, I'll just have to adapt, because I'm not going to change HN. I still don't get it, and I've been here since the beginning, but I'm smart enough to see the writing on the wall. I'll save my jokes for somewhere else.
Not Neutrality? U.S. Weighs Options for Turbo-Boosting Nation's Broadband
Fantastic suggestions, and I am very excited to share your feedback with our outsourced designer -- Worry Free Labs (http://worryfreelabs.com/).

Best regards,
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Thanks for down voting me...

Sorry, but I'm not satisfied by a random php/ajax webinterface.
I'm not so sure about the Aggressive Pacifism. From the Wikipedia article about the book -->
The book is also interesting historically as Butler points out in 1935 that the US is engaging in military war games in the Pacific that are bound to provoke the Japanese.
"The Japanese, a proud people, of course will be pleased beyond expression to see the United States fleet so close to Nippon's shores. Even as pleased as would be the residents of California were they to dimly discern through the morning mist, the Japanese fleet playing at war games off Los Angeles."
It'd be a bit more meaningful to discuss the fraction of startups they've invested in in each town. Of course, that is difficult to count, but an estimate can be made.

I suspect that doing that would make them seem like an NY-centric investor.
I suppose getting the GPS co-ordinates would help the local search. Most modern smart-phones have GPS nowadays, and I believe that they GPS co-ordinates are embedded into the images.
Please do. My guess would be similar to Zaak's: the n-dimensional volume of an n-dimensional hypersphere approaches 0 as n approaches infinity. (http://www.mathreference.com/ca-int,hsp.html). A hypersphere with radius 1 centered at the origin has to get out to 1 along each axis (e.g. x=1, y=z=0 for a 3 dimensional sphere), and in order for that not to contribute much volume, it has to be a narrow spike rather than a gradual curve.
regarding #2, diet fads come and go every decade or so. imho the jury is still out.
Assuming average sleep quality, I feel that I need 6 hours if I'm going to be productive for a full day. I can do that for a 5 day period (e.g. Mon-Fri) but I'm going to need to get at least 8 hours the next day (e.g. Sat) to pay back some of the sleep debt.

Oddly, my sense of alertness during the day has less to do with the sleep I've gotten and more to do with whether I was able to shower, brush my teeth/hair and get properly dressed. Sleep has more to do with how long I can keep going before I crash, but if I can put myself together I feel I can operate at 100% efficiency until that point.
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25 year old Crazy Girl (pics)
PayPal Announces Micropayment System and Facebook Partnership
In case anyone is unaware, you can configure HN to send Notifo notifications when someone replies to a comment of yours.
I highly disagree.
The only challenge is to become the dropbox of tunneling in simplicity and to brand it similar to Antivirus software.

Be plain simple easy to use for anyone. Maybe even affiliate to Public Wifi Providers

(and be baught by McAfee or alike)
Its got a resistive touchscreen and probably no Market access, but it would be a really good Ubuntu tablet, if you don't mind using a stylus. The price is so low, I imagine a lot of hackers might start buying it. It shouldn't take long in that case to get a functioning port.
More info here: http://notifo.com/hackernews
I can't speak for Jacques, but as a fellow european, the single one thing stopping me from using WePay is: (lack of) international payments. I've just integrated PayPal in my startup against my own better judgement, but as soon as we pull in a fixed amount of money (1000$ for now), I'm switching to a decent merchant-based solution.
No government's law takes an absolutist view of any right not belonging to the government.

The rhetorical purpose of pointing out that American law doesn't take an absolutist view of the right in question is to imply that someone disagreeing with the speaker is some sort of "absolutist" lunatic who's out of step with the law the speaker supports, which is of course sensible.
The last time I tried to buy a ticket, I failed to find anyone among them who recognized + as a valid character to have in an email address. I'm not sure whether their engineers are incompetent, or just looking to spam me.

Well, I know the latter is true, but the former is up for debate. In any case, I'm looking forward to people selling tickets that won't require me to give them my root email address, and probably won't even want to spam me.
If Expedia was worth using then people would go back to it vs. praying that Google will come up with something better.

I want a travel site that gives Google style search results based on my preferred time of day, start and end locations, and price. If it's 200 dollars cheaper to use a less convenient airport or an evening flight then show it to me but I would rather use the local airport etc. Yet, the only option for most people is to use all these crappy search systems to build such a list by hand.

PS: Expedia does not even provide suggestions when someone has a typo EX: 'Washinton DC'. It then asks which one of several local airports to use (you can't pick more than one). No wonder they are afraid of Google.
To offer a counterpoint, I signed up, posted about 3 entries, then got distracted and added these emails to the masses of automated mails that my eye automatically glosses over while looking at my overtaxed inbox.

Then I unsubscribed the next time I had an automated-mail-culling exercise.

So, "one more email demanding my attention" didn't work for me.
I think sleep and mindfulness / productivity are influenced by long term patterns more than just day to day. If I get a good 7-8 hours of sleep for a while, but only 4-5 one night, I'm usually ok, but a week of 5-6 hours takes its toll.

There's also a lot of individual variation, though.

Also, It's not unusual for posts on the new page to fly by without many comments, particularly depending on time of day. (I'm a bit disappointed that nobody has noticed this one (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834864).)
Wow, google streetview has reached Antartica.

Truly amazing site, lots of beautiful countryside from learning Taiwain isn't one giant city to seeing houses built on steep slopes in rural Italy.
james looks like a legit account. It has a real email address.

Accounts aren't only created to post; they're also created to apply to YC.
I don't think so. It's like the spread between a 299$ netbook and a 999$ macbook.
I think you mean PayPal pulled a similar guerilla marketing stunt, unless the people wearing the t-shirts were trained monkeys. ;)
There are a few options if you want to change the height of the entire desk, but I don't know of any for just the monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
Apple isn't one to compete on price.

Also for people that want an iPad, this isn't competition, in the same way that people who want a BMW a Kia isn't competition.
8 usually.

I hate the whole idea of sleeping, seems very wasteful to spend 1/3 of life sleeping.
Firefox zero-day under attack at Nobel Prize site
Security until an exitpoint provided by an security company is still better than Public Wifi.

And (imho) if this is your corebusiness you should be better good in making sure there are no sniffers at your exit points.

Regarding "own server" - to me this is similar to "own email server". The amount of people who don't have servers that are more secure than professionally hosted ones is big enough as a market.
Good call -- I've updated the example to close and save the todo when you blur the input field. Thanks.
I agree. Most of these (clearly out of context) quotations I found merely boneheadedly naive rather than creepy.
Ask HN: Why does YouTube still use 2 different players?
They released the new sleeker-looking player months ago, yet about half of the time I still see the old player when videos are embedded.

Why the inconsistency? Are they still a/b testing them? I figure they have enough data by now to make the switch.
I started watching Anki videos and I downloaded the program and installed it before the first video was done. This looks really amazing, thank you!
Why would that limitation exist? There are all sorts of reasons federal agencies would get court orders to look at international information held by a US company.
It probably has a positive correlation, but isn't an end in itself.

"Short" languages typically have a programming model which makes common coding tasks implicit: ML (and other languages with type inference) make most type annotations implicit, pattern-matching languages (Erlang, Prolog, ML, Haskell, awk) make a lot of de-structuring and switching code implicit, APL dialects (APL, J, K/Q, etc.) make looping implicit, concatenative languages (i.e. Forth, Joy, Factor) and tacit / "points-free" languages (Haskell and J, again) make variables and dataflow implicit, constraint and/or logic languages (Prolog, Mercury, Oz) make search implicit, etc.

It's often a net win, but some problems inevitably clash with their model - it seems important to have some kind of escape built into the language.
Ask HN: any real apps using couchdb for android?
http://www.couchone.com/page/android I'd love to see a real app that uses it, to study it. Anyone using this or know of apps using it?
Random? This is a one-of-a-kind (AFAIK) tool for managing VirtualBox over the web. The fact that it is PHP is less important than that it exists at all and will be useful to many people who manage VirtualBox running on a server without a GUI.
Shameless plug: http://www.onepageperday.com (similar concept but for authors, launched last winter, starting to go viral lately with NaNoWriMo around the corner)
Maybe I gave the wrong impression - I thought the UI for choosing feeds was well implemented, but having to choose is itself laborious, however pleasant the UI for doing it. (And as I mentioned above, "most popular" was not in my case a helpful heuristic.)

Put another way - if I had built this, the main reason I would have included Google Reader import in the free version would be so people could experience the value of my app without having to think - about what blogs to subscribe to, or what existing subscriptions to keep. Putting the paywall at this point in the first user experience removes that benefit in cases like mine. I might think about the benefits of your app and come back and upgrade - or I might forget - but you could have had me as an impulse buy.
Confidentiality protections are not really intended to protect individual privacy rights. Several professions (legal, medical, etc.) rely on confidentiality in order to effectively provide critical services that benefit the greater good.
Global Startup Battle
Only if you decide not to increase the surface area through the judicious use of a hammer...
With or without all those weapons, an ethnic cleansing operation becomes markedly more difficult when the local population all have assault weapons and training in how to use them...
Post a feature request: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
It's been around for a while now and is, by all reports, completely terrible.

I don't think Apple is really going to feel the effects of this thing in the least.
What's the major difference between wepay and someone else like Square? I've recently received my square reader and I'm liking their service well enough.
The article raises a pretty good point regardless of what fixable usability issue some site has:

"Companies like Expedia worry that the acquisition could lead Google to present a matrix of actual fares on its search results page, above all of the other sites that sell tickets. At that point, the key question becomes: which sites will Google's results link to, and what (if anything) will be the cost of those links?"

This affects more than just entrenched guys, it means newcomers will also have to buy their way to the top as well.
Same story, again and again:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/happy+meal?sort=by_date

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1307783

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647759

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1656044

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1798846

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1799236

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1256516 <- This one, although dead, has the most comments.
Gravity is superb - better than most desktop Twitter clients I've used. And it does a decent Twitpic upload. Not to mention also supporting Facebook, Google Reader and Foursquare (if that's your thing).
How to Make Methodology Segment Paper
The methodology section of a paper is not as difficult as most students tend to think it is. This might be an easy task if students understood the main elements of the methodology section. With understanding of these elements, writing the methodology will be easy.
I can't help but notice that blog is #2 on the list after product. This echoes and rhymes well with some of the things that patio11 has written/said about SEO. I find that a bit counter-intuitive, but it looks like it is very important.

Coincidentally, with 0 SEO/promotion yourxiv.com gets a bunch of daily hits from google just because we have a lot of abstracts on the site and those are indexed.
It always leaves a foul taste in my mouth when people are promoting themselves by attacking their competitors instead of playing to their own strength. That being said, it made me laugh, even if PayPal is an easy target. So I suppose that makes me neutral about the stunt, instead of as annoyed as I normally am about negative advertising.
very creative. A great way to declare war and get free press.
I have long wondered why airlines don't put considerably more pressure on online brokers than they do, and I think this debate is missing their perspective. They would probably agree that airfares on the first page of search results would benefit consumers. Look at the about page on FairSearch.org. No airlines!
And you place the date at the top, so we don't have to scroll down an indefinite amount and maybe find one, maybe not. :-)
Put a macbook on top of it for 10 minutes.
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