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My questions regarding Card Case:

1) How is it going to move away from being based on credit cards?

Most savvy people I know use credit cards wherever possible because of the no-liability fraud protections that are not present in debit transactions. Clearly, Square users are younger and savvier than the general population. No way should anyone use bank account-based payments on a mobile device that could be stolen/hacked/lost because you're not going to get the money back that is fradulently charged.

2) Do you really want to have a shopping experience where store cashiers and other customers standing around know your name?

Most people I know would prefer to remain more anonymous than that.

3) Where is the verification of customer payment (e.g. signature on CC receipt)? What happens when there are customer chargebacks?

4) Is it really that hard to pull out and use a credit card?

I'm all for improving the current payments environment where a few major companies (Visa, MC, AMEX) dominate and as such, are able to extract large fees from merchants (which get passed along to consumers), but I don't see Square (or anyone else) as having found the answer yet. Their attempts seem to be more "cool to have" and technologically impressive than actually solving the underlying inefficiencies in the payments industry.

And frankly, the major credit card companies are going to come out with their own NFC apps at some point and if Square is still relevant, they'll be just another player in the oligopoly (but still dependent on the others' back-end processing component).
Story is everything for the media. I used to trust BBC until their subsidiary did a documentary on migrant workers that featured myself. Not that it was something vicious like the thing CNN did to Arrington - but it was so clearly manipulated to fit what they decided to make the story - that it makes me laugh. Things like:

1. For maybe 6 hours they spent in our flat my daughter cried maybe a minute or two - but they put it as one of the first scenes to set the emotional tone of the story.

2. When I say "There used to be lots of job adverts in this newspaper - now there is so few of them, everything is in the Internet" they cut it to "There used to be lots of job adverts in this newspaper - now there is so few of them."
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> The question I have is - will I be able to give applications like "Backblaze" the ability to read (but not write) from my entire set of user folders?

Sure. This sand boxing only applies to App Store apps (for now at least). I imagine so long as you can install non-Appr Store apps, you can also have non-sandboxed apps.
I program with the Computer Modern Typewriter font. Its free and looks pretty good.
Nope, Ipad: 601 g (613 g for 3G), 11" Macbook Air: 1080 g, I was unable to find the keyboard's weight but it can't be 400 g.
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Doesn't it feel slightly disingenuous and shallow to just quote that statistic outright and not look at the why's behind it? Especially in the context of this discussion?
Nope. The gadget-oriented press misses it completely, but Apple's history of catering to creative professionals and media industries goes just as deep as any of their control freak tendencies. Coming straight from Jobs, the purpose of these computers was to serve the arts. They're deeply attuned to the technical requirements (eg plugins) for creative software as well as to what creative pros of all stripes are using. Another example: part of the reason that iOS has had a lot of cool audio apps from the beginning is that low-latency audio performance is practically a core feature of OSX.

Mark my words: Apple will never make a change to OSX that will keep Illustrator, Pro Tools, or Avid off of the platform for a second.
There are two reasons most people use Oracle. In some cases, they have a product that requires it, and doesn't support anything else. If this product happens to be unique in the industry or core to their business, they will generally happily pay the Oracle tax and be done with it.

The other good reason is that Oracle hires some of the very best sales people in the world, and nobody is selling postgres, mySQL, etc to the same extent. There's a huge difference between being a 'technically better' product and being able to convince a PHB of that. Also, Oracle tends to support damn near everything, and damn near everything (Enterprisey) supports Oracle.

It's the 'safe' choice if you can afford it.
I mildly dislike the parent of your comment, but strongly dislike your comment. The investigation you linked to demonstrates about as much understanding of Russian issues as the incorrect auto-translation you opened with (I guess you wanted to say "Check this" but ended up with "Verify this"). Please do not take this as an invitation to discussion, because it isn't. You started a thread about racism under my comment which explicitly asked to not start such threads. Boo.
It seems that the sandbox may allow for easier iCloud syncing. Since even Apple's apps like Pages, Keynote etc. cannot sync data to iCloud, it seems like an obvious feature to implement. I hope they allow App store curated 3rd party apps iCloud access as well.
> Then there's the convention used to override shell built-ins by calling the full path to the non-built-in version. If the full path is used and the built-in has been relocated, that's going to break, too.

I don't understand this part. If you specify any path then you will not be running a shell built-in. Relocating a built-in makes absolutely no sense since built-ins have no path. That's what makes them built-in.
You missed the shenanigans around Libya and the .LY domain, I guess?

http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3503/bitly-builds-busine...
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I don't think you will receive 40%, the way it is worded; "the lion's share of 40% of net revenues" and "Net revenues means after any application store fees, direct technical costs (e.g. streaming and hosting) and sales tax deductions.".

So you will receive an unspecified (but assumed larger) proportion of the 40% but not 40% .
Has any application ever "jacked" all of your data? Is the app store really going to debug apps for everyone?

How do over a billion PCs run Windows when there's no app store doing this for them??
Was going to give it a whirl until I saw it was a Chrome extension. I use Chrome but thus far resisted any content formatting extensions. Extensions feel a little too ActiveX control-ish for me.
Presumably it's still backed by a card of some form, unless Square are picking up the tab for anyone using card case, so you'll get reward points when the transaction gets processed by Square.
It is just a page with a header, a general one-liner and a "Notify Me" form. What am I supposed to make of it?
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I get the same result. It just opens the text file on my local machine for me to read.
Yeah the idea is that the link is sharable. We'll find a way to articulate this better. Sorry.
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What strikes me most about this announcement today is how transparently it's for the benefit of Amazon, and not readers or users. With just 5,000 titles and no big 6 publishers signed on, and open to _only_ Amazon Prime subscribers, it seems much more like a marketing ploy for Prime, and less a real value being offered to users/readers. Much less.
WSJ is already doing this and will be on YouTube's recently announced "original channels" section:
http://www.youtube.com/creators/original-channels.html

Personally, I see most of the best original content coming out of the "indies" in the next few years. Most of these channels won't be entirely independent (red bull channel, TED channel) but completely bypass traditional cable and broadcast.

It will be like music, sure there are huge hits like Cold Play and Lady Gaga, but most of the quality and innovation come from the 1000's of smaller content creators.

Economically, it leaves more companies fighting for a piece of the Advertising pie, with less domination at the top.

Just my opinion.
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@randallsquared... Thank you for balancing out my post. Read the article you posted. Does it address the never changing backdrop? Also notice how it only addresses the epoch times article. There were 100s of other skeptics. The author has an adgenda agaist epoch times, no doubt.
Quick! How many redhead entrepreneurs do you know?

Tick tick tick DING! Time's up! Don't know any, huh? What about Mr Brown? Oh, so you DO know redhead entrepreneurs. So you're just being dishonest! Obviously, you're biased against redheads then.

It sounds just as ridiculous when you insert "black" in there.
Two words: Hanlon's Razor
Amazon is not selling an Android tablet. They are selling the Kindle Fire. They mention "Android" only once on the Kindle Fire page, in reference to the Amazon Android App store. To the typical consumer, this isn't an Android tablet. It's an Amazon tablet.

I bet Apple is afraid of this tablet. It's likely to be the best-selling non-Apple tablet on the day of its first shipments. It's not going to kill the iPad, but it is going to take a big chunk of the market.
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Yup! 32MB for guest uploads. And if you have an account can go up to 256MB.
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According to data from eDataSource, today’s iPad magazine enthusiast—someone who buys a magazine app twice a month—purchases an average of three apps per transaction and spends more than $10 per purchase. He or she buys magazine apps in the same transaction as sports apps, games, and apps related to other enthusiast interests.
This sounds like exactly the kind of crazy things that incumbent CEOs said when the iPhone was announced, a strange mix of bravado and nonsense.
There are some built-ins which also have a corresponding command. For example "true" is a built-in in bash, but there's also "/bin/true". So some people might prefer to use /bin/true for whatever reason. I believe this is what that quoted fragment referred to.
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Amazingly, AOL still has 3.5 million dialup subscribers
same happens to me in Chrome 15.0.874.106 on OSX 10.6.8.
I'm glad to be of service :)
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You're right, I assume they meant to say "If the full path is used and the program that was meant to be called has been relocated, that's going to break, too."
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So you get a link to share a file that expires in 60 seconds?
That's my query. I thought you could only sue if it infringes on your trademark in your particular field? They're going on like they want us to rename the fruit.
Correct, but his point was that the sentence says built-ins can be relocated, which makes no sense.
But it would be so much easier with this new system, they're told all the information they need and will have to enter legitimately, rather than having to use 3rd-party hardware.
Oh for crying out loud...

I understand the privacy concerns, but this isn't a secret agent movie. I'm reminded of that scene from Jurassic Park..

Nedry: Ooh! Dodgson!
he sits down
Dodgson: You shouldn't use my name.
Nedry: (loudly) Dodgson! Dodgson! We have Dodgson here! Nedry: Nobody cares. Nice hat. Trying to look like a secret agent?
I always get frustrated by apps that have an embedded browser. (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) The upper left will be a back button that returns to the app, but the browsers back button is in the lower left. I know that's how Safari is on the iPhone, but man do I always hit that app's upper left back, when I really want embedded Safari's lower left back.
Could you give some explicit examples where you think PragmataPro is better than, say, Consolas?

(except for the APL glyphs, I'm not sure if Consolas has those)

Also, what possessed you to make a monospaced programming font condensed? Squeezing the proportions that way either allows you more characters on a line (bad programming practice) or less lines on a screen (also not good).

PS in your screenshot, the special ligature things such as the smiley and the (P), are partly cut off.
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Too clever perhaps. Zero UI doesn't mean No UI. I also had to read the About to figure out that I could drop a file onto the castle wall, which btw failed to do anything (I assume I need a login). What's missing is something called "Affordance" in UX nomenclature.
Thanks Pedro. I definitely didn't mean this as a critique of JS library development. I'm actually very happy to see so many useful JavaScript libraries out there.
for the multiple comments like "omg that's outrageous!", this blog post will help understand the economics of consulting[1].

[1] http://blog.asmartbear.com/consulting-company-accounting.html
The merits of this decision seem silly...how hard is it to maintain a domain even if it is nothing but a centralized list of links? To most non-savvy Internet users, that is extremely helpful.

It's possible that whoever in the government was in charge of setting this up bought into an unnecessary contract solution in which there were dedicated servers, infrastructure, and (idle) IT people for what is basically a mirror/aggregation site that could be heavily cached. Or, the maintenance costs are actually very cheap, but to Jerry Brown and his CTO, a "whole website" sounds like it must cost millions to maintain. So, better to shut it down, even if in reality it costs $50 a year.

If it is either of these cases, another object lesson in what happens when those in charge have not even the most basic understanding of how information is structured and transmitted on the Internet. And this is the state that houses Silicon Valley?

On the other hand, props to the web designer who thought of using a blurred screengrab of the dead site as the background. What better way to communicate the state's movement towards opaqueness?
Apple's idea about 2011 back in 1987
Apple's technical ideas in 1987 are reality today with iPad, FaceTime, and Siri. The setting of the video was in 2011. And look at what we have today :) Almost creepy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGYFEI6uLy0
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>This article mostly seems to ignore the fact that you can still distribute apps outside of the App Store.

Sure, but when Apple starts claiming and advertising that all Mac Store apps are secure(indirectly implying that external apps are not or may not be), external apps will have a much harder time appealing to the casual crowd, and for some apps living on thin margins, might be a death knell as more and more Macs get into the hands of casual users. The mid level apps between the big pro apps and the iOS-like apps will get really squeezed with this if they need non-sandboxed functionality and will be forced to conform or stop development in order to eke out a profit.
Perhaps "poo work" or "feces work" would have been more apropos.
The method is similar to the one used by Instagram to port over data. All like/love information is stored in redis hashes (hset). It is incredibly quick, and easy to use. Now you can have similar functionality if you use Ruby and Redis with our new Likeable gem.
Jokes Aside. Who doesn't really like these JS libraries? Are they making your life easier? Umm Yea. Did you have to spend the time re-inventing the wheel. Umm No. Why is he complaining then?
I've looked at Vapor. To be honest, I found it to be without much substance.
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Our aim, as mentioned on the top of every page is to let our users "Upload and share your files, beautifully." Key word being 'beautifully'. I really don't see how Minus fits into that...? Looking at their front page, it's all a bunch of noise.
It could either be a product that is nearly finished and ready to launch or it could be a holding page designed to see how many people are interested in the idea before development commences...
Because in the 90s textmode screens looked like that. Except back in those days it was done to be able to fit 80 characters on a line instead of just 40.

Today it enables programmers to fit WAY more characters on a line.

It's like, the perfect oneliner font.
Dude, you are distrustful... it's not the case:

I'm at the 50% of the work with PragmataPro, anyone can realize it just by looking at the screenshots.
If I wanted to escape with the loot I would not be so stupid to draw about 1600 glyphs spending 3 years of my life.

Revenue from sales of licenses are not sufficient to cover even 10% of the time I used to arrive here.

Then came the piracy that has stopped the sales.

My dream is to finish this project getting the appropriate reward for my hard work. Am I wrong to dream this?
There wasn't a wide variety and large number of native software titles written for iOS before the App Store.
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wait... what wrong with "} else {" ? It provides a simple and easy grouping of blocks.
Ask HN: Compilers and interpreters
Hello,

where can I find a good introduction in implementing compilers and interpreters ?

I'm especially interested in online courses xor tutorials.
I does work on MobileSafari but not on UIWebviews. There's a key called "WebKitOfflineWebApplicationCacheEnabled" that's automatically set to YES but it doesn't seem make any difference. I'm trying to find out why, but for that I need to go down to the dungeons of Apple's private frameworks and there is where I'm struggling at the moment.
I don’t understand. How are you going to pay for all the traffic?
Many online forums today are plagued by pointless repetitions of very weak arguments without any systematized attempt to make them stronger. For example, "underrepresentation implies racism" is a very weak pro-PC argument, easily sniped by any anti-PC debater. I wonder if the pro-PC crowd ever came up with a strengthened version of that argument?

More generally, maybe discussions of controversial topics would benefit from detailed argument maps where each side can state their actual best response instead of the watered-down version. Have you seen the detailed map of William Lane Craig's Kalam argument for theism, which he used to beat Hitchens and other prominent atheists in debate? No one should ever need to restate or re-refute weak arguments when stronger versions are available.

My personal impression is that anti-PC arguments tend to be slightly more robust than pro-PC ones, when strengthened as much as possible. But a systematic mapping attempt could very well change my opinion, because I'm probably not even aware of the strongest arguments for either side.
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I think it's a great question. I have an older generation Kindle 2, so do about half of my kindle shopping via a computer. It's too slow otherwise. (More specifically, browsing via a computer, specific purchases sometimes through the kindle.) I'd love to be able to filter to the lending library through my desktop.

If I have to browse lending title over 3G, I'm less likely to do it. Maybe that's the point.
Yes, we're currently using ShareThis until we have our in-house solution completed. So we have to live with their incompetencies until then.
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Ask HN: Need help on marketing copy
Hey guys,

Firstly, just wanted to say thank you all for the inspiration in the Hacker News community. I'm proud to say that it's the #1 place where I visit on the web apart from email. I've finally decided to try my hand at starting something simple. I would love if you can help me out by providing a comment or two on marketing copy.

My site is http://beta.phonerifique.com/ and essentially, I'm just an online calling card service. I am still trying to figure out my advantages over my competitors and am in the process of developing a SWOT analysis. Nevertheless, I would be happy if this earns me about $200/month.

Thanks, HN community!
"JGC, JGC! Help me!"

The voice comes from behind a nearby Rhododendron, as you are unlocking your front door. The stage whisper belongs to Alan Turing, the scene is: the past.

"The police are after me", he says, "and I think you know why. Please let me hide in your house".

You haven't adjusted to the spontaneous time travel or meeting the living dead very well, and you're staring without answering for too long; he continues: "It's only for a couple of days until I can make a run for the continent. I guarantee you with the power of suspended disbelief that none of your neighbours or the police will ever know".

"But it's just an enquiry", you say, "that's what the police do all the time, at this stage there's nothing to fear. Hire a lawyer and go with it".

"We both know that in this case (unlike your future Julian Assange, whoever he is) I'm certainly guilty under the law, and they have strong evidence to show it. What I'm saying is, it's a bad law, will you help me escape the consequences?".

"No, no I wont", you reply, "I want to live in a society with a rule of law. This is the law and you should be tried by it. It's the correct thing to do according to this system".

He pauses a moment, then "Think of the public humiliation, the jeering and mocking. They'll chemically castrate me, they'll make my life not worth living, the resulting depression leads to my /suicide/. They'll as good as kill me themselves!"

"Ha ha ha. Alan, m'boy, nevermind the jeering, and your resulting /death/. Think of the alternative! Your suffering is surely better than /anarchy/".

"I'm a real human, it's real personal suffering here, and on the other hand, your ideology!"

You reach for your cellphone to call the police. "If it's any consolation, Alan", you say, giving him a hearty slap on the back, "I think it's despicable too". Your cellphone has no signal - the past, again. You look around for a phonebox.

"'s easy for you to say, you're not the one being involuntarily sacrificed to someone elses political ideology under rules they don't even agree with themselves". He jogs across the road. "Why do you think it's useful to call it despicable if you go along with it regardless?"

"I don't know", you answer, "maybe I'll reply to this comment and explain it".
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I bought an Xbox 360 with Kinect like 5 months ago and I haven't really had a chance to play a cool game with it. So I guess its time to sit down and hack something with it
Vote me down, because I'm the one who speaks out what many think and don't dare to say:

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#1 thing stopping me from switching is the lack of stable reliable Android app with syncing and offline support.
I wouldn't expect Apple to care about any single specific professional niche (maybe except application developers), so keeping any sort of professional software in-house might be even a distraction.

But Apple still depends on professionals-as-a-whole — once you add up graphic designers, architects, movie professionals and all others you get quite a lot of people who probably have enough money to buy fancy computers, tablets and phones.

As an added benefit, I would sorta-expect the professional market to have significant impact on consumer market — e.g. people's influence on family purchases, brand perception, recommendations.
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> . To make a trademark claim you need to be operating in the same sort of market, and you really need to prove that this restaurant is profiting from the popularity of Apple's brand by people confusing their logo/brand with that of Apple.

The restaurant will probably go bankrupt from legal fees before this can be thrown out in their favour?
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