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There's countless batch files that rely on NUL (including with extensions, usually because some other batch file is appending the extension). Most of the other ones could probably be safely removed, but it would still run contrary to Microsoft's policy of not breaking backwards compatibility unless absolutely necessary.
* Australian banks are more heavily regulated and haven't lent 'sub-prime' mortgages.

This is completely untrue. The extent of sub-prime mortgages isn't the same, but it exists nonetheless. As does the existence of RBMS, which the government continues to purchase from the banks.

All of that looks over the fact that the big 4 banks in Australia are massively overexposed to residential mortgages and small business loans underpinned by residential property. In some ways it's worse than the USA because the mortgages are still on the books rather than being sold off into the secondary market.

The differences between the Irish housing bubble and the Australian housing bubble are actually much less. So you're right to say that there the parallells between the USA and Australia are less, but the parallells between Ireland and Australia are few. Ireland has full-recourse mortgages like Australia. Ireland had a massive overinvestment in property, like Australia. Ireland had high immigration, like Australia.

As I've said elsewhere in this thread, I don't think there is ever a time when you take your eyes off the negative.
...Yeah, not sure what I was thinking with that one, thanks for replying. (My excuse! I've been up over 24 hours already...)
The huge thing that this article fails to take into account is the frequency of upgrades. Most people are not buying brand new PCs every two years, but almost everyone upgrades their phones that frequently and I'd be willing to bet that tablet upgrades will follow a similar pattern.

So a user who has a Windows Phone and a Windows Tablet will bring in $30 ($15 licensing fee x 2) every two years. If the average PC is upgraded every 4 years then the $60 of revenue for Microsoft that they realize in a 4-year span in this hypothetical post-PC world would end up perfectly matching their average revenue for Windows right now.

Does the average home user buy a full-blown copy of Office? Probably not, but I'm sure that people will be willing to pay a monthly fee to back up their documents or access some sort of Office subscription. Businesses will, of course, get on board with a subscription model too. Or if they're willing to keep paying full price every few years that's just fine as far as Microsoft is concerned as well.

Furthermore, some users will end up with a Windows Phone, a Windows Tablet, AND a Windows PC. That's even more licensing revenue for Microsoft.

$15 sounds scary compared to $60, but only if you think that people will hang onto their phones as long as their PCs. They won't. If all of this plays out as Microsoft hopes then they are going to be just fine.
How many modern programs comply with Unicode Text Segmentation http://unicode.org/reports/tr29/ for finding word boundaries or Unicode Collation Algorithm http://unicode.org/reports/tr10/ for sorting the words.
Well, it's good, but don't for a minute think that your employer is contributing to your retirement. You're contributing to your retirement by deducting 9% of your wages into a retirement fund.

In most salaried positions, they drop the charade of 'employer contributed super' and talk about your 'total package' which includes your super payments.

I'm not arguing against the merits of forced investment, but you shouldn't believe your employer is paying it for you. You are paying it.
When I was younger I wore an ethernet cable, without the outer sheath, around my wrist :)

Similar: http://www.etsy.com/listing/68508659/recycled-ethernet-cable...
Sorry, I should have made it more clear that with stripe you aren't liable for all of the PCI spec (I edited my comment to reflect that).

Either way, I think Stripe is doing awesome work and I hope you keep kicking ass!
Australia cannot remain at the top of the 'most unaffordable housing' and 'highest debt/income' ratios forever.

Is there a reason for this, or it is just a "something bad must happen" feeling? The Swiss have topped the highest debt/income for years, and it hasn't been a problem[1].

Even a slight fall in house prices and/or income levels will have major ripple effects.

Australian house prices have dropped around 4% over the last 12 months, and have been largely static since 2008/9.

Yet this is not being discussed at all, as it is continually hand-waved away with 'oh that's not a problem, this time it is different'.

That's not true. Most commentators forecast little-to-no increase in property prices over the next few years, and there are plenty of people who think the property market will fall.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/07/world-debt... (and switch to the "household" tab)
Half an hour out from Sydney, you're lucky to get a two-bedroom unit for $400,000. Actually getting land seems like a dream.
Measuring corporate "evilness" by scraping litigation results
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.

Edit: I was looking at it more and, as MichaelGG pointed out, I think it still means that you have to handle the credit card on your server and be PCI compliant.
> Apple is just full of bullshit

What a compelling argument!
High resolution (compared to the tv feed) photos of the drone:

http://theaviationist.com/2011/12/08/stealth-pix/

It appears that one or both wings might have been reconnected with tape. In short, there appears to be substantially more damage to the airframe than was otherwise suggested.
Evernote's Next App Is Going To Scare Lots of Startups To Death
Are you specifically concerned about the site's past history being available, and/or do you want to block the current version from being archived for the future?

To give a chance to the crawls which feed the Wayback Machine (and drop your de facto veto of showing any prior crawls), you could whitelist 'ia_archiver' and 'archive.org_bot'.

To give a chance to up-and-coming search engines where competition is sorely needed, you could also whitelist 'ScoutJet' (for Blekko.com) and 'DuckDuckBot' (for DuckDuckGo.com).
Divisive Devices
So you want to count all 'articles' published? .. since ancient Persia ?
Without God/Prime Intellect to keep these people blissfully alive, though, natural selection will quickly check this kind of progression.

Once you short circuit your pleasure systems - which evolved to keep you alive and reproducing - you'll soon be displaced by a species with better self control.
Disclaimer: I work for WePay and I am directly responsible for WePay's PCI audit process

I am sure everyone would agree that PCI spec is complex and not easy to understand :) Said that, its intention is pretty clear: protect credit card information from leaking to "bad" guys.

A great deal of PCI spec is about protecting the stored credit card data. You are absolutely correct that Stripe's JS solution allows one to avoid dealing with these issues. However, many other sections of PCI spec discuss other potential vectors of attacks. For example, if you don't follow security coding guidelines then an attacker can embed a malicious JS on your website (through XSS or other attacks) and steal credit cards information. Obviously, the suggestion to serve your pages from SSL don't help you to avoid these problems.

I think Stripe's model is great. But I don't believe that it allows one to completely avoid PCI compliance. I believe that you correctly phrased it on the stripe's home page: "Stripe.js lets you build your own payment forms while still avoiding most PCI requirements."
How do you know that the encryption scheme they were using wasn't vulnerable to replay attack?
Good point. Maybe wage war.
But at least you're not doing math (video)
But doesn't that API require you to submit the card number to them from your server and hence makes you have to do a ton of PCI compliance work?
Yes, I actually agree. Even so, "Person With Asperger's at the Party" would be a bad title.
For some reason, I've had no offers for my "first name only" domain... :-/
The result of that would be pilots doing everything in their power to avoid entering stall and thus learning less about behaviour while in stall and exiting stall. I'm not sure that's a desirable outcome. Sometimes you have to fail to learn.
If you are in Seattle, also check out the Startup Conference (http://thestartupconference.com/seattle/) on Feb 16: speakers from Seattle and Silicon Valley should make for a very entertaining day. If you want to volunteer to make the event even better, get in touch.
> I'm not saying that the people who want to limit political contributions are opposed to democracy. I'm saying that it reveals that they have little confidence that democracy can work.

Nicely put!

Just going to point out that a corporation isn't just a "large group" - it is a government-created entity that enjoys vastly reduced liability for individual members of that group.
The Engine Of Innovation Realizing It Can't Ignore DC Any More
I'm not sure if you're joking, but that hex number isn't a count. It's a reference to a specific instance of an elegant solution to a problem (the fast reciprocal square root function from Quake).
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Exactly! One of the less-discussed effects of 'Dutch Disease' is that it creates a political class who are determined to capture the inflow of new money and distribute it for their own needs.

The thing I get frustrated about is that people continuously say 'look we're better than Japan or the USA or the UK'. But what I want to say is 'well, why aren't we the richest country on the planet with the highest standard of living for all?'. Comparing yourself to mediocre performance just leads to reversion to the mean because people -as you say - become second rate and share in the luck, convincing themselves it was their wise stewardship that made the luck happen.
It seems you've skipped the sentence:

If, in the end, Redis' codebase becomes cluttered and performance and maintenance suffer, we all lose. </quote>
Bonobos also has a good one: http://bonobos.cachefly.net/fail.html
I love studies like these. But I have a real problem trying to read it, the screen was so crowded. Does anyone knows a firefox extension that gives me only the text?
What I find surprising though is that the government is putting pressure on the big bangs to decrease interest rates in line with the reserve bank. I would think the last thing you would want it for the banks to start operating unsustainably lending wise. Sure the banks make crazy profits but I think it's preferable than for them to be a disaster waiting to happen if there is any downturn.
It is not a missed opportunity. It is minimalistic art.
Maybe I am missing something, but why would I want to use this? I develop in Rails, where Devise is extremely simple to implement.

Do other frameworks lack a good auth plugin?
Most web apps that I create don't have SEO concerns, the sites that market them have SEO concerns. Lets delineate them as web sites and web apps for the sake of this conversation.

A web app for me, replaces a desktop app, and does not need to be index-able by the search engines. There are exceptions like social type web apps, but for the most part it is not a concern in the apps I build. If I do have SEO concerns for a web app, I use Googles #! fragments, so that Google can parse the web app, in which case I just put a headless web browser on a server and serve the Google crawler through that headless browser. Now that Google can index sites that use JavaScript it is even less of a concern.

Now for web sites that are used to market the application, I use Wordpress, Drupal, Alfresco, or some other content management system. I try to stick to pure web technologies like HTML and CSS and push them out to a standard web server, I am not a big fan of having a CMS that dynamically serves content, sometimes there is no other choice but I try to minimize it.

Delineating web apps from web sites and using the appropriate technologies for each, usually keeps the two very clean, if I cannot delineate the two and I have heavy app requirements I will mix the two but I have only had to do that with one app I ever built and that was before the #! pattern was available.
Possible, yes, but you have to both buy the cars and pay the drivers, one of the reasons taxis are so expensive (the other being licenses running in the hundreds of thousands of dollars). If we project 5 years down the road to a time when gas prices are even higher, electric vehicles are cheaper and more reliable, and the technology is ready for prime time, I could easily see cars as a service working.
Interestingly, PayPal actually offers (or offered?) an iFrame checkout for some customers and it was confirmed to be PCI-compliant. But again, another PCI auditor might have another opinion on it :)
Except they're not a person contributing in his free time, they're Microsoft, working exclusively on their own interest.
Not to mention ICS unifying "phone" and "tablet" apps and the growing impact of hybrid devices like the Samsung Galaxy Note. The sooner people realize that the right way to do an Android UI is to have a flexible framework that scales from from a 2.5 inch screen to a 10.1 inch screen with varying pixel densities, the better.
> Changing the value of inputs doesn't change the state of the object in the world until you press the save button

This is key. If the UI is linked, checkbox by checkbox, field by field, to the model, then we've created the brittle situation where the user is, in effect, directly manipulating the "business objects". Such a scheme ends up imposing (at least) implicit design constraints when modeling the app (steering the developer away from the best or most logical decisions when they would make the rigidly linked view layer unwieldy), and similarly shackling the UX design to the model setup. Which makes for a worse app. These should be related but separate concerns; a smart user experience will require some logic, marshalling, and abstraction.
Right now, GNOME is probably the last example you should cite as "getting it right" if you're trying to convince open source developers of something. GNOME's UI decisions of late are not particularly popular with the crowd you need to convince.
>It's almost as if Australian e-commerce sites depend on their customers not having heard of the internet..

That's exactly what it is. They pretend they don't exist, or that somehow what you get is inferior.

Historically, it's because the Australian dollar was weaker (after the last minerals boom bust) and therefore imported goods were more expensive. The retailers built their business models on higher margins, and now are struggling to compete with the disruptive influence of international e-commerce.

I'm not expert on retail but I suspect the problem is with too many middlemen - importers, wholesalers, and the like.
But instead of trying to work out why/how to compete, they are starting to run to the government looking for intervention.

One of the few retail chains doing well is Supercheap, which has BCF and Goldcross bicycles (and probably some others). They seem to be able to be cost-competitive with international prices on many things and are still profitable.

To me, there is no reason why an Australian e-commerce site couldn't be more successful. ebay is wildly successful in Australia, so it's not like people are averse to purchasing online. It's more to do with woeful range and prices.

If Amazon ever decides to open up an Australian subsidiary with warehouses located in Australia they will wipe out entire retail chains. As it is, they're already knocking them about badly even with inflated international shipping and long lead times.
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Also, essay length is directly correlated to score.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/education/04education.html
Why not just use a Twitter client with in-timeline photos like Twittelator Neue or Tweetings?
While I'm assuming they have strong encryption for remote control, isn't it possible that their system still could be susceptible to replay attacks?
You're new here, another 3-hour-old HN account. Do you by any chance work on Dart for Google?

In any event, why don't you catch up and familiarize yourself with my arguments by reading my comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2998374

and in the whole thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2982256

--- begin quote ---

``Accusing me of hypocrisy shows ignorance of that word's definition in light of the history of my career.

``I'm not practicing one thing and preaching another. I worked on JS standardization less than a year after shipping it in Netscape 2 beta. After that I co-founded mozilla.org. I'm not currently doing A and preaching not-A, nor have I been doing "proprietary" work for a long time. I've paid my dues.''

--- end quote ---

As for "criticize", my comment here asks what open standard someone else (not you) meant. I'd like to know. Let's hear the other person's answer, before criticizing anyone. I did not criticize a soul in my comment.

As for "bash": stop lying. I did not bash a thing and you know it. The lamest form of non-argument is to whine about "bashing" and utterly fail to engage the substance of the other person's argument.

You, however, are making an anonymous ad-hominem attack on me for not doing something Netscape simply would not support 16 years ago. I could have quit and let VBScript win. I'm not bragging about JS but (smart people on TC39 notwithstanding -- you needn't put me down by implying they're doing all the good-parts work :-/) JS has succeeded beyond many expectations. Good luck to Dart getting the same adoption.

And JS won't go away quickly, so my position, independent of my past, is that we ought to improve it rather than starve it by trying to do a new language. Same as for HTML -- I co-founded the WHAT-WG to do HTML5 when the W3C abandoned HTML in 2004.

Make no mistake: (1) Google is pulling people off of JS to do Dart; (2) Dart will not get foreseeable adoption in any browser of significant market share but Chrome.

If Chrome had Netscape's market share, then Dart could probably become de-facto standard, as JS did back in 1996. Perhaps Chrome will get there, but it'll take a while, and in the mean time, Dart both costs JS (because Google has pulled people off of JS) and threatens to fragment the web (and WebKit first, the topic of this thread).
In my opinion, the real problem is not who copied who. Reading through these comments it's clear both companies are standing on the shoulders of giants (and in some cases of each other).

The real problem I'm seeing in most of these comments is that there's a stark denial that somebody, anybody, could possibly design and build a tablet that's as good (or better) than Apple's flagship product because after all, isn't Apple's design by definition the best?
How to Get Over a Break Up
The best way how to get over a break-up is just to focus on oneself. The primary reason why people go into depression and misery after the end of the relationship is the loss they feel over the relationship.
>> "us as a society" did no such thing. Yes, some folks said "real estate is a safe investment". However, other folks were saying the exact opposite. Still others had different messages.

> Real estate agents where free to perpetuate the myth with no repercussions,

So? Folks say lots of things. If I tell someone that they don't look fat, am I responsible if they actually do?

Folks who believe everything are fools. Society needs fewer fools, so making fools take a huge hit for being foolish is a good thing for society.

> The financial industry was bailed out. To me that is pretty indicative of that we as a society are ok with people not critically thinking.

Not at all. We bailed out the financial industry because we like having a functioning financial industry. Moreover, said bailout was profitable. (Then there are the folks who argue that the bailout was unnecessary.)

> Further, many people hold out some of those individuals to be professionals

So if I hold out grocery clerk to be an expert on nutrition, I have a legit beef?

"I want {someone} to be liable for their advice" is no reason to hold said someone liable for their advice. You want liability, contract for it. Note that a contract requires the consent of the other party, so you're going to pay for said assumption of risk.

> In this specific example we should expect, lenders to help children understand the conditions of the loan

They're not children. They're college students. We let them vote. We let many of them buy alcohol.

If they are unable to understand that words have meaning and that it's a good idea to know said meaning, they shouldn't be in college.
Also consider that if they hacked the controls they'd be foolish to use the capability in peace time. That ace would be kept up the sleeve.
To each his own I guess.

I disagree with the premise of "the resume".
A resume is meant to distinguish you from other candidates.
That line of thinking is very simply flawed.
How can you distinguish yourself from other pieces of paper - it doesn't make sense.

Secondly if everybody thinks "writing this resume is my best chance at getting this job" then you are willingly competing on the same level, in the same way, as everybody else. Why would you do that?

It's similar to applying to a University. If everyone thinks they need to get top scores on the SAT as well as 4.x GPA to get in then everyone will do that and the final result will be, granted, a smaller lottery pool but a lottery nonetheless.

It doesn't make sense. You have to agree that there is an upper bound on what you can do when you play by everyone else's rules. You can't score more than 1600 on the SAT so even if you do you are still competing against the 100's (thousands?) that did too. Same with GPA. Upper bounds are not your friend when it comes to saying "hey look at me".

You are right though, some companies just require a resume. No argument there. FWIW those companies are very likely not where I personally want to work anyway.

I got hired on to a YC startup with no college degree and just my github profile to show. Actually this company never physically met me in person, had no idea what I looked liked or how old I was at the time of hiring.

I've moved on to advance my career and can guarantee you I'll get another job without the use of a resume. I'm currently looking for my ideal company match though. I'll email you in the next couple of months when I land one.

To each his own.
I have called PayPal once before. The experience wasn't horrible, but it didn't leave me enthusiastic like Stripe's does. I'm not holding that against them though: it's only one mediocre experience, and I have not used them much because of the whole payment redirection thing (I did not know about their Pro account then).

To be clear: I'm not actually saying that PayPal is bad. I don't have enough experience with them to weigh in one way or the other. I am merely saying that I do like Stripe.

I'm not sure of Stripe's reasoning behind not resending webhooks, but I don't know that I care for them not resending them either. Perhaps this is something they'll be addressing in the future or otherwise have a legitimate reason.
I'd love to use Stripe, however the 2.9% fee is a total deal breaker. I'm currently using Payflow Link (by PayPal and Verisign) and I pay a flat rate of $20 a month plus 500 incl monthly transactions. I can get more at 0.10 per transaction. And after that it's all done with my Merchant account, which I've been able to negotiate down below 2%.

When you're doing hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more for you big guys) in credit card transactions, eating 1% just for a friendly API is a huge turnoff.

Please Stripe, prove me wrong and provide an external merchant account option!