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Please read saurik's posts in this thread. He provides excellent, reasoned explanations for what is going on.

Personally, I think the conclusion should be: if you have an unusual business model or transactions that are not seller-to-buyer, don't use PayPal. It goes against their rules, and you will lose money and go through a lot of grief.

edit: wdewind as well.
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I completely agree with this. On days when I have class, work and personal projects are days when I feel like I get the least quality of work done, further I am much more likely to procrastinate on all of them.

If I'm just working on a single project I feel better, I procrastinate less and my work is considerably higher quality. I believe this is partially because of the Makers Schedule[1] and getting into a state of flow.

Nice article its in stark contrast of some articles we've seen about startups and programming lately.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
You can never do this 100% reliably, but depending on how important it is to you, there are measures that can be taken.

To go to the complete extreme, you could employ someone to shadow every one of your current employees, and report to you if they break any of these rules.

At the other extreme, you could issue a memo saying "Don't let me catch you doing any of this stuff, which will make you more profitable and earn you a bigger bonus, hint hint."

In between turning a blind eye and adding ridiculous amounts of oversight, the CEO can make very clear what is and what isn't acceptable, what the penalties are for employees who break these rules. S/he can also instigate appropriate oversight to make it more likely to catch offenders.

Like I said at the start, this can never be 100% reliable, but it can cut down the rate of offence a lot.

[edit] tl;dr : If it is important enough to you, you'll find a way to ensure it doesn't happen.
All of the examples cited are industries highly regulated by the government: equities markets and banking. Since the government is already highly regulating these markets, any further tinkering by the government is going to have unintended consequences.

Actions have consequences, so when the government regulates a market, the market players react, often in unintended ways. Likewise, when the government then re-regulates (often called "deregulation") the market, the market players react again in unintended ways.

The financial crash was caused by the government coming in and taking over another industry, residential real estate mortgages, by purchasing all the secondary mortgages and setting standards. When the government lowered lending standards to help lower class people purchase houses (they couldn't afford), it unintentionally caused the mortgage-based securities market to crash. Mortgages used to be a safe investment, but after the government lowered lending standards, this assumption that the markets had previously used was no longer true.

Further government distortions of the market are cited in the report, namely ethanol subsidies. So, I would conclude that government distortion is what is breaking the markets, and that less government control is needed to return to freer markets.
Interesting. Will the LES take into account its own existence (e.g. the change in people's behavior when they are presented with LES predictions)? Of course, doing so would either (a) make the problem undecidable (impossible to solve), or (b) require calculation of fixpoints (very difficult to solve), or both.

The other alternatives are for LES results to be kept secret and used only for policymaking, or for the results to be public and incorrect. I suspect the former is most likely.
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>it could have an inert atmosphere

This would be very costly to implement, and probably very heavy. That being said, inert gases are used in places where arcing is likely (e.g. radar waveguides).

>or it could be unpressurized so fires would be much less frequent

I really don't think this would have a significant impact on the frequency of fires. Plus, a lot of avionics need particular environmental conditions, in some cases including pressurization.

>Also fires happen mostly on freight planes

High-power electronics, such as military radars, also pose an increased risk of fire.

>freight planes would be probably easier to certify for unmanned flying than passenger planes.

If you only cared about the contents of the plane, this would be true. But what happens when a flaming ball of wreckage that used to be an unmanned freight plane plows into a suburban neighborhood, a school, or a downtown skyscraper?

>Isn't this what Traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) is for? The pilots already have to do as they are told by TCAS (after the collision over Switzerland).

TCAS isn't all it's cracked up to be. First of all, it only works if the other plane has a transponder (there are still plenty of light civil aircraft out there with no transponders). Second, there are different versions out there with different levels of accuracy. The older kind are not very accurate at all, and basically serve only to give the pilot a general idea of where to look in order to spot the traffic and avoid the collision the old-fashioned way. The more accurate kind only works if both aircraft involved have the necessary equipment.

As for the collision over Switzerland, the reason for that rule is that the collision happened in part because TCAS and ATC gave conflicting instructions: one told plane A to go up and plane B to go down, the other told plane A to go down and plane B to go up. One crew did what TCAS said, the other did what ATC said, and they both ended up descending. So the reason for this rule isn't that TCAS is a magical panacea for midairs, but rather a way to consistently resolve any future such conflicts between TCAS and ATC.

>Surely managing traffic of obedient agents with known limits of performance isn't that hard - if all the planes were unmanned there wouldn't be problems

If all the planes were unmanned, then managing traffic would be much easier, but that still leaves other issues, like where a plane ends up when it malfunctions and crashes. It would also require a wholesale changeover that simply isn't plausible.
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This is why Gowalla's investors are diversified across multiple startups. For them this is just one setback in a much larger game.

The people getting screwed here are Gowalla's employees, who put years of effort into a single project and whose options are now worth zero.
"it almost always does, for a variety of reasons"

No, it doesn't. I understand that's a meme because it does happen, but "almost always" isn't just something you add to the conversation to try to make your point stronger.

SAP ERP systems fill a purpose, and they do so quite well.

There are definitely instances where a change to your ERP system is so large that it's under budgeted, or the consultants hired aren't any good, but ERP is a value proposition provided you don't f it up.
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While I agree that time on task usually means learning all of these tests and results are in a school setting. If I am learning a new tech I agree that its positive to continually practice but when you've moved past the learning stage and are in a stage where you can reach flow is it worth it?

I can only provide anecdotal evidence but in my experience living a more balanced life, as opposed to focusing on several things at once taking no breaks leads to better results.
zah? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3314910
Link! It's just too funny to ignore it. http://www.videohippy.com/video/113264/Yes-Minister-Sir-Hump...
The diet you describe appears to be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet

(figured a label and link would be good for people who wish to research further)
Radical, one-time, short-term actions like this aren't lifestyle changes. They're not sustainable, so they don't work in the long term.

If the author said he made sustainable lifestyle changes I'd have some reason to believe he's won his weight battle. If he said he's been getting up an hour early each morning for the past 3 months to walk, or has been learning how to prepare tasty low-calorie meals and has kept that up for the past 3 months, or has taken up cycling and has commuted to the office by bike every day it would be a different story. I know plenty of people who've done these things and successfully kept their weight down indefinitely.

On the other hand, I know plenty of people who've lost weight with short term, unsustainable diets, and who gained every pound of that back.
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Nice to hear. I have a couple of questions:
1. Is the community open to all or do you need to be working for a SAP customer?
2. What's the simplest way to get set up to start tinkering with some SAP stuff?
3. Can you mention some interesting projects that you've done or was done by others?
Paypal may have a point, they may not. Regardless, freezing thousands of dollars on a whim because "they're worried" and then freezing the individual's personal account is just boneheaded. You can't run a bank like that.
Your confusing the size of the bailouts with the size of their losses.
This is an amazing, in-depth blog post that explores all the relevant policies and web pages regarding the use of the donate button. https://thegreengeeks.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/why-paypal-is... Still nothing! No explanation anywhere on the site that might explain this behavior.
>Isis sounds more and more looks to copy Microsoft in its heydays.(back in the days of Netscape - NO alternate browser on my Operating System!)

Huh what? Microsoft never blocked Netscape from being installed on the user's computer. It's Apple which prohibits installing browsers on iOS devices.
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"Neither Facebook nor SAP are solving particularly interesting problems."

Then you have no perspective of the problems SAP is solving.

SAP is solving tons of big data problems with a variety of interesting data modeling and analysis.

These are wildly interesting problems. They are as interesting in a small startup environment as they are in a large company.

There seems to be this real us versus them attitude with people who identify with startups.

People that work in SAP are no different than startups. Many people that work at SAP come from startups.
I feel that work habits are a very personal thing.

I find that I'm more productive if I work on multiple projects throughout the day instead of dedicating to just one. I don't know if it's because I'm putting artificial deadlines for myself (i.e., I have 3 hours to get this done before I move on to task / project B) or because I stay more engaged and motivated if I'm working on very different things.

On the other hand I know people like Swizec who will feel overwhelmed if they know they have a number of tasks to get done in one day and will procrastinate on all of them.

Always interesting to read about other people's productivity tricks though.

Edit: Also completely disagree about the comparison with professional athletes. Burnout is very real and it will sneak up on you if you don't take some time off to relax here and there, but just working hard will not damage your brain like being a pro-athlete would damage your body.
Asking me to register before I test your website? Really? Yay! I just love doing that!

And by registering, you mean username + password + confirm password + email + captcha ... I hope I'm going to get a confirmation email, I don't get nearly enough of those.

And hopefully you're going to send me a monthly newsletter. And commercial offers from your 'partners'! If so, please make sure you send it as HTML. Plain text is boring and ugly, and quite frankly would work too easily on my mutt client. Who would want that?
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> Installing an app more or less bricks the UI throughout. I'm sure that these problems do not exist on modern iOS hardware -- but on that basis, the only fair comparison is with modern top-of-the-line Android hardware.

That's not the "only" fair comparison. The 3G is a three and a half year old device. It's also severely memory constrained and probably shouldn't have gotten iOS 4 to begin with. You're certainly running into paging issues: iOS doesn't have a backing store for virtual memory, but it will drop and reload read only pages out of flash storage when it's memory constrained.

The iPhone 4 is almost 18 months old and compares quite favorably with year-newer Android devices on the UI responsiveness front.
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Don't you think that as a lawyer you are more likely to be involved in cases where ERP project don't go well? ERP projects are difficult so it's hardly surprising that some go off the rails.

There are many, probably thousands, of companies out there who are using large ERP systems pretty effectively - of course, you generally don't hear much about those.
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Productivity isn't about working 80 hours a week. The problem is that there is an infinite amount of things to do, cool things to experience and countries to visit. Time? Limited. Extremely so. The solution? Spend your time in a way that aligns well with your goals/ambitions/preferences.

When you look at a typical office life it involves 9 hours of commuting a week, water cooler talk and meetings that don't go anywhere (but aren't much fun either), very few holidays and an email-based culture. This is for most people clearly sub-optimal, and yet it's often the lifestyle people kind of gravitate toward.

If you want to go about your week in a relaxed manner, that's great. Do that. If you want to work hard for 3 years and chase an exit? That's cool too.

I'm not sure what the real point is of the article, because most of the statements about "productivity" are straw men. The title of the post is "Stop being so fucking productive" and the only actionable advice in it is "become more productive by switching projects less often (because it reduces context switching overhead)". So this post contains yet another another strategy to improve productivity while pretending to be tired of exactly those kind of posts. Yawn. Except the productivity claim here is based on anecdotal evidence (even though there are a lot of research papers out there that need summarizing!).
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> If you're an end-use it quickly disappears and is a non-issue. It just isn't a real problem for end users.

Yes, it is. When people ask me how I like my new smartphone, I always say to them: "I like the idea behind Android, but it sucks in use; this smartphone is too weak to handle the basic OS, which makes using it terribly annoying for most of the time".

Yes, it sucks. There are constant lags in everything from button presses to scrolling. Main screen gets killed by the OS every few minutes, and it takes it 30 seconds to load up and become usable. Activating Wi-Fi and letting Facebook and GMail sync at the same time equals to several-minute long hang followed by me plugging the battery out. The phone occasionally hangs when receiving calls, and often when trying to dial.

Yes, for me, Android phones are piece of crap. I use mine, I put up with it, but it's not pleasant. It's damn annoying every single day.
So great to see this. I'm a fan of their products, but they have really started to feel a bit outdated (mobile support, real-time, Dropbox integration). I hope they keep the core of building great communication tools without too much shenanigans, and reinterpret them for today's online environment.
You very well lose customers if price is their pain point, but my point was to win them over with service and marketing and keep that competitor in obscurity. Or offer to buy him out so you can shut his site down.
"SAP passes an image of a predictable company where innovation doesn't really happen (whether that's true or not is irrelevant - perception is what counts)."

Whose perception? That's not my perception. SAP has innovation in a number of areas, including in memory databases.
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You can skip the whole thing and simply jump to the last part "Questions you should be prepared to answer".

Journalists think a little bit too much of themselves and startups think a bit too much of their product. My advise is have a simple two three line pitch and below your signature copy and answer the question he has given. If the journalist is interested in your pitch they can read the additional info below. Second advise is keep at it. If you email a journalist and they do not respond, email again when you have made changes to your product, acquired more customers etc... In the end they will give in and give you a chance.
> If the software had a kind of stroke and wouldn't work anymore, starting tomorrow, I'd agree with you

Well that's interesting, because if the SuccessFactors acquisition is indicative of SAP's intent to become more "cloud based", and those critical infrastructure systems which run on SAP move to the cloud, then if the company went out of business their software would just 'have a stroke'...
PayPal is not a bank, which perhaps is the problem. People expect them to behave like a bank, despite the fact they clearly state they do not behave like one.
It's an artifact of how native learners acquire language, compared to adult learners. Our native tongues are acquired rather ad hoc, and most people 'think' in speech. (As evidence, watch a slow reader. Often times they will sub-vocalize the text as they read. This is a side effect of their brain turning the text back into sound.)

So, to somebody who learned English as a child -- and is therefore aurally dominant -- the words "they're", "there", and "their" will all basically occupy an overlapping space in their mind. Somebody who learned English later will use textbooks to support the process; Things like contractions will be give special emphasis, etc.
It's like realising that most people get around 4000 weekends for their lifetime, and then realising how many weekends you've already had.
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This comment seems to argue that this was intentional.
Asimov hashed through all this quite thoroughly in the Foundation series.

But it is always interesting when we catch up to classic sci-if and work towards actual implementations of what was pure imagination only a short time ago.
To my knowledge, Paypal is not a bank!
Is Arrington essentially saying when he invests in a business he wants a cut of all future salaries and compensation of the founders should the company get liquidated?

Wake up buddy. A VC invests in the business, not the people. A shareholder is insulated from liability and for that privilege they are not entitled to anything outside the scope of the corporation.
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Javascript is enabled; no problem there.

I'm pretty sure the problem is actually related to my deletion of all root CAs. Why? Because there's a red exclamation mark over the lock icon at bottom right of window, and when I hover it says "Warning: Contains unauthenticated content."

I already force-accepted the dswi.net certificate as a specific exception when I first played with DSWI yesterday. I would think that acceptance should apply to the JS content as well. But apparently not. So I'm poking around in my FF settings to see how I can trust your certificate even more than I already have -- yet without installing Comodo's root CA certificate.

It's all my fault, because of my bold yet insane experiment in distrusting all root CAs.
I didn't find Trello very useful or easy to use. It's a new way to do things but probably not the ideal way to do them.
Business Objects is very modern!

Every patch they release is not more unstable! They have so many software products, you can't say "Every" about any of their software.
Is there such a thing as "the best bread in the world"?

There are "bad breads", or even "mediocre breads", but beyond that, all breads are interesting, each in its own way. I'm not sure I would want to eat the same bread everyday just because it's the "best" one (according to a bunch of Yelp users).

I don't think this "winner takes all" analysis really works for food.

Let's think about something else outside of food. There is probably such a thing as "the world's best laundry service", but do I care? I won't drive ten miles (or even 1 mile) to find a better laundry service, be it marginally better or even incredibly better, if the one that's nearest me is affordable and good enough. I will never know they exist because I won't look for them.

So I'm not sure "winner takes all" works for proximity services in general.

That's not to say that technology cannot disrupt those markets; someone could build a machine that lets people cook incredible bread in the house (it's been tried, and failed miserably up to now, but that doesn't mean it can't happen).

But the whole "bakers need to become experts at managing their online social reputation" line of reasoning strikes me as misguided and, frankly, the root of a lot of evil in modern society.

I'd rather patronize bakers who are experts at baking. There are many of them.
It's about $10 cheaper than that from Amazon or in stores, but sure. It adds weight. Neither are a large enough weight to impact your carrying of an iPad (the smart cover is nearly 5 oz! :), and if you lift the iPad up to look at something, you aren't also lifting the case.

I'd say a better dimensional concern to have is that when you're using it as a case, it more than doubles the device thickness.

One of these products is a case, stand, and keyboard, the other is a keyboard accessory. I tried to explain why one is better than the other... this makes my iPad feel like an awesome laptop when I bring it along. Apples and oranges.
Everything I've heard about fines suggests that it's been a great business deal for the banks, they get to put a whole lot of alleged fraud behind them for a pittance compared to the money they pulled in before the crash.

As far as PR and lobbying, I think it's pretty clear that the SEC's outgunned. I'm not approving of the job they're doing by a longshot, but as far as sucking money out of the system they're nothing compared to the banks themselves.
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This 2001 article basically says exactly what you're looking for. Where the magnetic field on Mars is stronger, there's a local ionosphere. Without a planetary magnetic field, solar winds blow away the atmosphere. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/as...
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