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What about Amazon Payments? Is that a good Paypal alternative?
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if Apple had acquired Dropbox it would be to funnel Dropbox's talent off to the iCloud team and let Dropbox itself wither away

That would be the most expensive talent acquisition at $800 million.
Thorium was the clear choice for nuclear power from the beginning. That is it was the engineers choice but Gen. Curtis LeMay convinced the politicians it should be rejected because he wanted a large supply of uranium material that could be easily used for weapons. The disadvantage of Thorium is that it cannot be easily weaponized.

I've been a Thorium advocate for a long time and have commented about it on HN.

You know what the single largest impediment to rapid adoption of Thorium to solve some of our energy problems? It's the existing nuclear power industry.

Since 2008, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada., have introduced bills that would direct thorium research begin at the Idaho National Laboratory. We had prototype plants built in the fifties that ran as late as the seventies. There was even a Thorium powered jet fighter in the early fifties. They need $200 million to commercialize the technology and produce a sample pilot plant blueprint and have been met by a wall of lobbying by firms such as General Electric opposing the bill.
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Look at how hard it is to get traction on investigations into the current foreclosure/securitization boondoggle - it's taken 3 years for judges to actually start looking, the federal regulators are completely uninterested, and maybe 4 state AGs out of 50 have even started looking. And these are obvious and clearcut violations of pretty straightforward laws. Their reputations and legal teams have been a buffer against all sorts of suits and investigations.

A Hollywood investigation would be worse politics, since you've have every TV station screaming about the government intrusion in investigating their parent companies. Look at things like the just failed Attorney General settlement with the banks - the worst case here is the company makes a one-time payment of a few pennies on every dollar of profit to some fund nominally targeted towards the victims. Then you throw in all the indemnification offered by corporate structuring and the fact that there probably aren't technical violations of the law here and good luck selling some accounting irregularities as a prosecution.

Maybe in a few years that stuff will change, but right now the environment is such that nobody really buys the idea of government actually smacking someone with TR's Big Stick.
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For those interested, the best source of research in this field is the "Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation": http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/siggen.html
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I'm confused as to why this is really a big problem. Sometimes, people really muck up replying inline, and it is somewhat harder to find their comments, vs. having their comments completely seperated from the previous message. Perhaps it depends on the class of user that you are serving, as well.
I agree. Sometimes people mess it up. However, mostly it's helpful and disabling that option for people who know how to use it is really bad.
The link from the Wikipedia page to a leaked receipt from Harry Potter shows an example of this.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100708/02510310122.shtml

Geez, a $57 million dollar loss in interest. How is that even possible?
For what it's worth I was a proud recipient of a 50+ score reply that started with "Fuck you!". Maciej's "douchebag" is clearly nothing in comparison and it hardly warranted the permaban.
i add another: international merchants?
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Don't write your own framework?
I have read many programming blogs over the years and read many 'how to become a better programmer' entries. Many list 'write your own language' as one of the more advanced lessons. I can how see how that would allow someone to learn about programming from a completely new angle.

I have also read many blogs, forums and threads discouraging people from writing their own framework. 'it's already been done and better then you can do it. don't try to reinvent the wheel.' I have written my own framework and I feel it had allowed me to grow in my understanding of programming. Why is writing a framework discouraged?

Is this a double standard in the program community or am I missing something?
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That's because you're not having a conversation, you're filling in fields in a form. You're lucky they let you use email instead of redirecting you to a web form that more rigidly enforces the method of interaction with them (which needs to die even more).
I hate citing Reddit, but this un-sourced imgur link makes it seem like he's not such a bad guy, no?

http://i.imgur.com/lTvOg.jpg
Seems odd to use 1px png background images for the nav instead of rgba colors. They're already using modernizr-style classes on the html element, so browser compatibility isn't the (only) reason.
Interviewing for your current job sounds insulting.
You're missing the point of the guideline. Even if that particular individual would say it in person, it's still not considered acceptable behavior.
Hi ggchappell. First of all, thanks for your feedback. You're quite right about (2); but there's a new Javascript version coming out soon that proposes generators and 'yield' similar to how Python uses them. When it comes out and is supported by most browsers, we can probably implement that (or just use native syntax and get rid of stream.js altogether).

As for (1), I'd be happy to hear a proposal. If you'd like to work on this, feel free to submit an issue or even a pull request on github — suggestions like this are very welcome. Thanks! :)
Maybe thorium is better, maybe it isn't but its probably too late now... first mover advantage and all that with light water U235 enriched or MOX fueled reactors.

Moreover, I'd discount any claims to thorium, pebble bed, etc being safer because we have actual 50+ years of operational experience with light water reactors which swamps any marginal technical advantages wrt safety. Operational experience is a major unknown for new designs and a real factor in safety for current designs.

The current designs are safe enough, we need to start building reactors now, not 20 years from now.
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The author seems to think they want to have a conversation with him. They don't. They essentially have sent him a form to fill out, and they want the answers together at the top because the answers are all they care about.
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> I'm not a big solar power fan, in general, because I think it's too expensive.

Solar energy has already reached grid parity¹ in Australia².

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_parity
[2] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-07/solar-industry-celebra...
"As for bloat... They moved a lot of often used modules in core. Fields in core - idk. I can imaging projects which do not need CCK, but from my practice - every single commercial project required CCK. So for me personally Fields in core make perfect sense."

Yeah, that's what we all thought at first. Unfortunately (and I've found this out the hard way) this is naive.

Moving CCK's functionality into core means no feature releases for (at least) the next three years. Meanwhile, Fields in core stomped the single largest game-changing feature to hit CCK since it's creation: multi-field support. So now, if you're in a situation where you need to delta-sync multiple fields, you have to bail on the Fields API entirely and implement hook_node() or a custom form.

In other words, the grim reality is we've traded 30 extra seconds of work (drush dl CCK) per install for a frozen feature set that is incomplete when compared to CCK 3.0's functionality in D6.

The DB API is also seriously problematic. From a maintainer's perspective this means 100% of the code in any 6.x modules have to be at minimum tweaked, typically completely rewritten. This also means that developers have to memorize two data manipulation models, one of which has fucked up proprietary syntax requirements entirely unlike the SQL it's meant to replace. Not to mention the new DB API leads to rampant code bloat. What was a simple one-line select now takes anywhere from 5-20 lines of OO fuckery if you want to adhere to D7's nebulous style requirements. You even take a performance hit since all of that crap has to be run through additional layers of parsing before it gets cooked down to SQL. This isn't abstraction, it's added complexity with no win attached.
And yet, HFS+ is still there.
god damnit no. the issue is NOT rates, the issue is NOT security, the issue is NOT how "nice" the company is, the issue IS international support.

Paypal are "winning" and will forever "win" because they support EVERYONE. Finding a person who can't use Paypal (who is over the age of 18 and isn't a previously terminated customer) is very hard because it supports (almost) EVERYONE yet these "new" "paypal killers" don't and they won't gain any traction because of this.

and even then there are still bigger issues, but the biggest issue is international support.
At a 3.49% credit card rate, I'm not sure how much of a real competitor it is.
No fixed fee helps for smaller sized transactions though.
He didn't 'start whole threads' on how much he dislikes a particular person. He merely pointed out that calling someone a douchebag doesn't fit the guidelines for this site.

I like reading idlewords and think he's a good/interesting writer and am glad he wasn't permanently banned. But your reply here defending his words seems a little emotional and knee-jerk don't you think?
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It is never right to proffer a deal that you know to be unfair to another party.
Interesting. If that's truly the case, I'd try and shop this to a bank (Chase?) that could help clear those hurdles and let them run like a startup still.
Yay !! for micro payments.

3.49 is too much for large transactions.
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I know what you mean. I flip-flop on this.

I do like replying inline when it comes to email conversations with one person. It's when things get too "deep" and you end up with layers of comments in comments with different people that things get too iffy. Perhaps this is why Google Wave was created (I really liked that product).

As for support, I am not an expert in that field, but I am guessing that support generally ends up with an in-depth conversation about a few specific topics.

I also guess if X people like replying inline and Y people like replying in comments, then any system that says "reply above this line" is ignoring those Y people. I have caught myself trying to reply inline when I was asked not to.
Never going to happen. Chase just launched its first person-to-person payment platform. It's terrible. Despite being for Chase customers only, it's not even real-time.

How long did it take them to build it post-PayPal you might ask?

Twelve years.
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Not always true. I have had conversations with a lot of companies and they genuinely wanted to talk and help but the top posting kept messing up the flow.

There certainly are companies that don't want to engage in conversations but there are quite a few out there that do care.
I have the feeling that this functionality could be a good match for hacker news.

However, I cannot how they could be added to news feed.

Do you have any idea?
Can't send money to a Russian friend over PayPal.[1]

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Agreed. Loved that he showed the vertical refresh in the algorithm. The colors were nice, too. Would love to see more about algorithms like this.
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> if Apple had acquired Dropbox it would be to funnel
> Dropbox's talent off to the iCloud team and let
> Dropbox itself wither away

What talent? If Apple had attempted to purchase Dropbox, it's because Dropbox has become the de facto filesystem for iOS devices, and virtually every iOS application that requires file system support of some kind already supports Dropbox.

It should be obvious why that's valuable to Apple. They have an iCloud-like service that is very simple to use and is already supported by virtually all iOS developers.

Slam dunk.
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Donating 5% of your net worth to charity is praiseworthy, but it's not really anything special, particularly for people in that range of disposable income. He could probably release another boxed set of the original trilogy and make the entire amount back. Every active Mormon donates twice that much to their church.
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You are right, his philanthropy is very impressive.

I still think he ought to give Darth more money.
Thanks for your feedback. You're quite right. I added some clarifications in the 'Tribute' section :)
ugh, most indie platformers haven't yet reached the level of the original super mario bros.

This is hardly surprising when Super Mario Bros is widely regarded as one of the very best games of all time, some would say the best [1], and sold more than 40 million copies, making it the best-selling game ever until 2009 [2].

You don't rubbish a new play by complaining that it's not as good as Shakespeare, or a new album that's not as good as Thriller. And you don't rubbish a platformer for not being as good as Super Mario Bros.

[1] http://top100.ign.com/2005/001-010.html

[2] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.
It does seem like there could be a breaking point.

Are they really going to stick to treating everyone to the same perks? The ones they use to compete for engineering talent in Palo Alto?

I would keep it up if it up to me, knowing that the cost is a long-term investment in internal corporate identity. Once you cut back on these things (such as Microsoft's formerly-gold-plated health plan) you've permanently become a more ordinary company.

Here's someone who did the math on providing meals to Motorolans:
http://www.businessinsider.com/it-will-cost-google-95-millio...
Hi pkrumins. Thanks for the feedback. I added a link to node-lazy in the 'Tribute' section of the stream.js tutorial. I like its syntax, and I'm sure many people would prefer it :)
Michael — that's very cool. I added a link to your library in the 'Tribute' section. Thanks for taking the time to port it :)
I wonder about the relationship between "total instances" and "active instances". I always have <1 active instances, but somehow end up having 2-3 "total instances".
PayPal does a number of things (stored value system, aggregation, virtual terminal, etc). I'm not sure how Noca is a competitor at all. Also, this page has a number of inaccuracies. For example, chargebacks don't exist for checks, Authorize.net as a standalone doesn't enable payments at all (it is a gateway, you also need a merchant account, which you could get cheaper than at Noca), etc. It does NOT take months to sign up with Authorize.net, you can get setup in an hour.

Noca is relevant if it is somehow 3.49% for all transactions though... It would make it a cheap option for transactions <$10 or so.
buddydvd, linq looks quite nice. Thanks for mentioning it, I had no idea it existed. I added a link to it at the 'Tribute' section of stream.js in case someone wants to check it out or prefers its syntax instead :)
What truth is that? That Apple has fucking patented aluminium now?
The #1 issue to hit "live chat" support on my sites is potential customers in Pakistan hitting a roadblock because they can't use PayPal. There are over 60 countries where PayPal is not available.
Have you looked at the iCloud API docs? It's a very different beast indeed than Dropbox.
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2.9% + $0.30 for transactions above $10

So it's exactly the same costs.
I've never seen the purpose of paypal or the like. What's wrong with direct wire transfer to an IBAN account.

* Within the country it's free.

* Within EU it's basically free.

* You can easily include messages, codes, invoice-nrs etc.

* It's included with almost any normal bank account.

* It's safe, same safety as signing in at your internet bank - because that's exactly what you're doing.
I hear you. Though you have to admit that Paypal's heavy-handed "fraud protection" is a big part of why people want a viable competitor.
There are some problems with this assessment. "Night" doesn't begin at midnight, it begins when the Sun goes down, which can be as early as 4pm during winter in a lot of highly populated locales. That period of time is right in the middle of peak electricity usage, not after it. Moreover, off-peak usage is still a substantial fraction of peak usage, not zero. Additionally, in some parts of the country peak power usage is very much during the night, especially in winter when everyone gets home from work and turns on all the lights and appliances and the heat. These facts are a big problem for a power source that produces absolutely zero power after nightfall.
I think you made the distinction already -- if you're just looking to learn, sure, spin your own thing -- it's fun and you'll gain some perspective on why existing frameworks probably work the way they do...

On the other hand, if you're building something for your job, for a production deployment -- you should probably pick something that's established with ample vetting in other production environments, documentation you can leverage, and a community of users you can turn to if you need help.
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Are you really suggesting that it's rare for employees to get hosed on options because they don't understand the terms in their contract? Because that's about the closest parallel I can think of. Net points sound like the showbiz equivalent of liquidation preferences. "Oh, no, you don't actually get a percentage of the $50 million sale because there are these investors that have a different kind of stock that says that they get at least a 5x return before you get anything..."
Google "c2it" it was a P2P competitor launched by Citibank circa 2000 to take on Paypal. Never went anywhere. So I generally agree that Chase's attempt (combined with Wells and BoA - which I believe are other two banks in the consortium called ClearXexchange ) is unlikely to succeed unless they have some "out of the box approach"
Ignoring your choice of phrasing for the moment, you've still missed half the story there: they also want to remove all the barriers that make it difficult for the poor to become rich, as well as eliminating the existing programs that remove all motivation to want to. (Consider, for instance, the common case where unemployment pays more than getting a job; people have learned how to satisfy the unemployment office without actually trying to get a job. Beware what you incentivize.)

Regarding your choice of phrase: "the rich" versus "poor people" makes the former impersonal and the latter "people". Similarly, "live in luxury" versus "basic needs" misses the entire point.
Yes, an RSS feed please. I liked what I've seen so far, and would like to follow...
Compared to my own experiences with even normal merchant account providers, and what I've read of 3rd party processors like 2Checkout, and looking at the state of payment processing for adult sites... if the same people that use PayPal and had problems with fraud were to go anywhere else, they'd probably find it even worse. You only hear about PayPal because it's so ubiquitous with 232 million accounts, so many of them with no other experience with any other method of accepting payments.
In my opinion, people who wrote frameworks didn't listen to the criticism. If writing your own framework means becoming a better programmer then go at it, but that likely will also mean maintaining it yourself. Whereas other frameworks are constantly being updated and improved.

This is slightly different than writing your own language. Using Python and Django as an example, when python goes from Python 2.7 to Python 2.8, Django will have to update to be able to use 2.8.
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One of the best platformers I have ever played is jumper and its sequel jumper redux, which is available for free by the maker at http://mattmakesgames.com/games/JumperRedux.zip

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"while we realize we might need to do the initial work of packaging HipHop, we don’t want to be the ones responsible for keeping the package up-to-date."

Clearly the sentiment of someone who truly understands the spirit of open source software.
While high-level stories about using tech to solve real problems are interesting, I find this kind of article frustrating.

It attempts to cover so many different aspects of the "big data" world in one breath that it only helps confuse casual onlookers about what different processes, technologies and skills are at work.

The good news is that any time you see tech sector coverage like this, there's a potential opportunity to pitch a follow-on article that can serve as a disambiguation for the first one. Lots of managers and executives that read Business Week would kill for a layman's breakdown of the divisions and cross-overs between Hadoop, BI, "the cloud" and data viz (just to start).
You're assuming companies act rationally and won't sue you if it costs them money. That is a dangerous assumption: one guy that you pissed off is enough to send you down a dark hole.
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2928973 (?)