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I am a physics student, and I have old code laying around from some projects I have done. I would love to create a website where I can talk about the project, demo the code being used and explain my findings, but I have no experience with web applications/development. I would love any suggestions on: Tools/tutorials/the right direction<p>The code I used is mostly MATLAB and FORTRAN, but I am pretty sure I can port the MATLAB code over to octave.<p>Wouldn't it be nice if science (physics) people did this? If every theoretical paper you read had a linked online document that demoed the code, allowed you to play around with the parameters and see the results?<p>Yes, the answer is yes.
I'm not a PowerPC Mac user, but I understood PowerPC Firefox is now entirely handled by the community in the form of TenFourFox.
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Firstly, you've got it backwards. Paypal takes a cut of the merchant's revenues for virtually passing the money from the consumer to the merchant; therefore, the merchant is PayPal's customer, and the consumers the necessary evil.

Secondly, PayPal didn't simply say "stop that". They gave him the runaround, froze unrelated accounts, and stonewalled him when he tried to make whatever accommodations would please them. That they were rude and condescending during all of this only adds insult to injury.

"Don't ever use PayPal" is really a reasonable reaction to these sorts of stories. When a seemingly legitimate transaction can unexpectedly invite the fury of paypal's overzealous fraud protection drones, how could the reaction be anything but?
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Got root? MarketEnabler [1] solves most totally batshit crazy braindead regional and/or carrier restrictions.

Discovered it in a time at which I cared about G+, but couldn't install/update it anymore after moving to IL (by now it's available here as well as far as I'm told, but meh..).

1: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.notenking.mf&f...
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> Why trust a business to such a stagnant concern?

Because there is no alternative and they fucking know it.

Oh if you're in the US for the US you might be able (and want) to gamble on an other younger service, but in the wider world? It's a fucking wasteland, it's either Paypal or Big Bank Merchant Account, and those are no fun at all either.

My card expired (and was renewed) recently, I decided to stop using paypal (so I did not update the account to the new card), by the third christmas gift I tried to get I had to re-activate it, because either the gift in question wasn't available from anybody not using Paypal (etsy merchants, for instance) or because the CC gateway alternatives to paypal were unusable to plain broken.
There is a very simple explanation for this: If you are out of the school system long enough then you will forget 'basic' stuff unless you exercise it regularly.

It doesn't mean that you're dumb, it just means that you haven't flexed that particular muscle for long enough now that you may simply have to re-learn those things or you will have to invent them on the spot from first principles.

The brain is great at throwing out unused (unreferenced) memories.

Given proper preparation (like the ones students go through), say a couple of years of relevant re-education I'm sure the author could pass the test.
I did /not/ downvote you (and still haven't), but honestly you may as well be suggesting he look into accepting contributions of ferrel camels on his website: 99.99% of people in the position to give you money at all are going to have bank accounts and cards, and are likely to have no clue how to even obtain bitcoin, much less actually own any; it simply isn't a realistic "option".
If you're going to go that amount of cost/effort then it's probably just as easy to create an Australian Merchant account and then find a gateway that supports it. I don't know how the two compare cost-wise, though.

The thing about PayPal that appeals to me for collecting funds is that it doesn't have that barrier to entry.
I hate regional and/or carrier limitations and branding. With a passion.

That said: Was anyone actually excited about Google Wallet? I have to admit that I haven't found a use case for NFC that doesn't directly turn me off yet. Where would that work? How would that replace any current purchase (I mean - realistically) and gain adoption?

It immediately reminded me of the chips on our direct debit cards we have in a number of EU countries. You can load money "on your card" on most ATM and for a while everyone tried to use that as the next way to pay, the big innovation. Hell, McDonald's let you pay like that.

Before the trend died, quickly. At least in DE that sort of stuff is dead for all I know. Why NFC? Why combining your wallet and phone?

(Edit: The question above was genuine: I fail to understand why anyone would be excited about NFC in general but more so about Google Wallet. Downvote all you want, but please consider educating me with a comment as well, explaining why and how I'm wrong)
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Yet the video that shows off the product on their web site has sound. Oh the irony...
No FM synthesizer. What were they thinking?
A friend and I just left our jobs to do a startup in education. We both have about 4 years experience working with LMS and ELARs and are interested in the possibility of integrating your business into ours. If you'd like, we could talk over email about the details of my business, monetization plans, etc. to see if we'd be a good fit (perhaps, if the value added is significant enough we could keep a free model for classparrot, etc).

I am going to PM you my email.
I guess I can't do that, I'll send you an email at shereef@classparrot.com.
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I believe most people understand the difference between donating money to a "good cause" and making a tax-deductible donation to a registered charity. Making it difficult for an honest person to collect donations and forward the proceeds to the needy (where the donors have no expectation of any tangible good in return), or forcing Boy Scouts to obtain a peddler's license to collect canned foods for a food bank, is socially harmful.

As far as I know, Paypal has no legal or even formally self-elected responsibility to enforce that "donate" buttons are used only in the context of a registered charitable organization, or to play cop for the calculation, collection, and remittance of federal, state, local, or international taxes and tariffs, etc., etc. Paypal does not even have any way of determining what is taxable and at what rate--it is so thoroughly beyond their purview that I don't know why we're discussing it.
I think the difference is sales tax was paid when the toys were purchased. I don't think Regretsy was claimin to add value. They were just organizing a donation of toys. It's just like a bunch of friends getting together, all giving two dollars to one person who goes to target, buys a bunch of toys and then gives them to needy kids. I don't see how the law is broken in that situation. All taxes were paid.

The most damning evidence against PP in my opinion is that they specifically stated (accordion to the author) that the same scheme was acceptable when raising money for a sick cat but not for needy kids. Unless the Regretsy folks were purchasing toys with a business account and skipping sales tax I don't understand the logic. The PP reps subsequent attitude seals the deal: eff PayPal. If he isn't authorized I dole out financial or legal advice regarding the use of the donation button or wrt raising money for needy kids he should just say that instead of being an obstinate jerk.

tldr: tax presumably was paid, PayPal rep is a scumbag, screw PayPal.
From a personal perspective, besides the many aspects already mentioned by others, there's also the simple lack of challenge.

I've already mastered an x-number of technologies in my 25 years as a developer, I'm 100% certain I can deal with the umpteenth new one (albeit a bit slower than I used to). I already know I can program, and what my strengths and weaknesses are in that area. I'm more motivated to take on challenges I might actually fail at, or learn something new about myself.
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WhitePages prioritizes Android over Apple’s long approval process
A lot of dev complaints toward Apple was that there was no strict guidelines. Applications seemed to be rejected for stuff outside the boundaries of the actual terms.

I'm pretty sure the process is much more straightforward now, which checklists and cheatsheets
I'm sure Tufte would approve.
"very young startups set the bar in terms of providing realistic shots at big windfalls, no other type of business has any chance of really competing for top talent, with any mix of cash and stock it can conjure up"

i wonder if he's taking the financial sector into account - people working in electronic trading make a good deal more than most start-up employees.
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simply recently been benched weekly for a lot of instead subject to judgment social networking photographs, and today Paulina Gretzky originates time for Facebook.
In the US you cannot run that company: if you accept money in exchange for goods (or even sometimes services), and are not a registered non-profit, you need to pay sales taxes on the sales, must declare any residual as income, and the people giving you the money cannot claim it as a write off.

The sales tax issue is a red herring. Regretsy was (presumably) buying the toys at a rate that included sales tax, and if the operation was not-for-profit then there was no financial value added, and no need to charge the "donors" any additional sales tax.
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> How is the state linking health care to employment?

During the second world war US wages were frozen. But there was an exception where you could provide employees with differing levels of health care. So that became a mechanism for competing for staff: it became common for companies to offer corporate health care at the same time that individual private health was dropping off because nobody had any money to afford it. This pushed the market towards group-based programs. After the war, public policy further cemented the patterns that had developed.

I understand that if you live in the US it's impractical to get private health insurance on an individual basis because there's low business in the space, meaning low competition, as well as the tax structures described by other commenters.

> My understanding is that health care is linked to
> employment because of the adverse selection problem that
> occurs in a free market of individual health insurance

I'm not familiar with this effect, which isn't to say that it doesn't exist - don't know. Certainly there were healthy private health markets in countries I'm familiar with before the age of government intervention.
You make a fair enough point, the market size of bitcoin users is still very small. However, the technology it provides is real, and IMO, a valid solution to this problem. (even if it's not the only solution; it's not uncommon to accept multiple payment methods.)

Those that want to donate with bitcoin can easily google how to buy it, and will discover it's easier than ever to acquire. (in some cases, using paypal!)
I have two accounts with security tokens. In one case they charged me $20 for the token, in the other case they gave it to me for free with the account.

It's mildly annoying in that you need to take the token with you if you want to have banking at your fingertips, but then it does mean you're extremely unlikely to be hacked.
majorgeeks.com has been my go to download site for awhile now because of this kind of nonsense. I hope they don't go down the same road as download.com
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"Update: Holy shit! I am told that this bug was fixed FIVE HOURS after I posted this -- Webkit bug 73888 [1] and the patch [2]. Thanks, Alexey!"

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2. https://bug-73888-attachments.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=117988
Yes this is the major point of the exchange to me. It is not really for scam prevention and it has nothing to do with what is a donation or legal context. I just don't get the reason why people is not ok.
How are fifty thousand people agreeing to pay $19.95 for it, if they've downloaded it for free instead? Note: I'm counting people that downloaded the album instead of buying it as lost revenue, because they value it enough to listen to it, so they should be rewarding the creator for the value they've derived from it.
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Cellular voice isn't VoIP for CDMA, GSM or W-CDMA. Depending on the carrier it may be VoIP in the backbone part of the network, but the critical part over the air is circuit switched voice traffic. This changes with LTE, which is the first all IP wireless standard.

So what do you get with cellular voice that you don't get with VoIP over cellular data? For one thing, when a voice call is set up it will get guaranteed resources with a delay guarantee, so your call will not be dropped so easily and the number of lost and late packages is minimized. Also, when doing handover to a new cell tower you'll be prioritized to minimize dropped calls.

For LTE, the carriers will likely offer voice plans that have similar characteristics. So your VoIP traffic will be prioritized compared to normal data. If you run a normal VoIP client, you'll have the same prio as data traffic, which will give you more dropped calls, lower call quality due to dropped or late packets etc.

That's how the carriers can compete. Is it worth to pay extra for? That depends. In some areas where the networks are congested, you may not get a call through on normal VoIP while it would work perfectly on the carriers voice plans.
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Have you ever had to make a website for someone residing in China?

My client wants a simple blogging service like blogger or wordpress, but blogger.com and wordpress.com are both currently blocked I believe. I could install wordpress on my own server, but would that get blocked as well? Am I putting my client at risk of persecution by offering them blogging services or even talking about blogging services? The content is certainly nothing illegal as far as I know, its just tourism services and travel guides.
Trixter, you and the production team need medals for the MindCandy series. To preserve any historial software is a vast undertaking, let alone productions as ethereal and finicky as demos. These are as important in their own right as archive.org and the BBS preservation projects.

I don't have any medals on hand but I'll be buying #3 to help a little.
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If the presentation is by a technical* person to other technical* people, and you are just sitting in, then its fine. You just don't understand. The techies do. Its just domain knowledge speeding communication.

If the presentation is to non-technical people, then its probably jargon intended to bullshit you into thinking the speaker knows what they're talking about, and also a game brinksmanship to dare you to call their bluff. Call them on it. If they do know what they are talking about, you'll learn something (and probably so will everyone who was keeping quiet). If they don't, well, you learned something too.

* substitute lawyer, doctor, {domain_professional}
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This is a place where I think Wolfram is making big moves http://www.wolfram.com/cdf-player/

Not only is Mathematica becoming a super rich programming environment, but Mathematica 8 now allows Wolfram Alpha web functions. Along with the CDF player it's my humble opinion that Wolfram is poised to become the next gen computing tech.
May be he is smarter than the other utter idiots around him but he is still an idiot nevertheless. https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23IdiotKapilSibal
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Maybe in a world where you have disposable software products. But if you are developing something more complex, you can have a substantial period where you are developing science, technology and you cant bootstrap that on ramen when the people you might need to pay for it all can get real bucks elsewhere doing the same thing.

Then again, HN is very noddy-apps-oriented.
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Just so I understand the difference between Europe and USA+UK...

The USA has tons of debt too. Per person it's unmanageable. The only reason this is okay (and we keep talking about Europe) is that the USA can print more money and Europe can't. Is this right?

UK: The pound isn't doing so well at all. The UK can also print money. Same argument as the USA?
What's the problem, it appears the company was dead anyway, and had no real assets so the investors get 30 cents on the dollar instead of nothing.
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I am SO sick to death of "I used Paypal, Paypal screwed me over" posts. The first few times when it happened and no one was aware of how they operated, sure, I felt bad for the person/people.

Now I just think "The definition of insanity..."

I guess I'm just an elitist prick though?
Well.. You probably won't like my answer, but here it goes:

Don't throw that stuff in the trash in the first place. Really.

I understand that this is common in lots of places (here in Tel Aviv recycling seems to be a joke as well), but I think that stinks. I'm not a nutjob or a treehugger, but really, some things should be handled differently (and with care) if you want to dispose it. It's relatively easy to do it on your end (if the relevant education is in place. Talking about dos and don'ts - no offense or derogatory meaning implied) and a hard and messy job on the other side of the trash processing.

What would I do in Germany? Well, trash is already separated in special plastic things (the yoghurt you just ate? The container is not trash) and 'normal stuff' (think everything non-toxic that remains).

If you want to throw away big things (furniture, TV): Call the municipality, they'll come to your home and get it. For free, a couple of times per year (free is a lie: That service is already paid for by you anyway).

Want to throw away smaller things? Batteries? Shops that sell batteries have to take back old ones. Every now and then you'll have the opportunity to drop off small gadgets and related things, usually at a van/truck that goes around (and helps educating about recycling as well).

Last option: You can drive up to the (no idea how you'd name this correctly) garbage place and bring your stuff. They'll let you (free of course, with the same caveat from above) dispose everything and show you where to place wood, where you'd drop electrical devices, where metal should end up.

It works. Germany's not that small and I don't think it's too much effort for the individual (again: I'm lazy. And not a tree hugger in any way). I know that a lot more countries do comparable things.

This law that started the thread? It sounds weird if you have the background described above. It looks like a crappy half-baked idea - neither particularly helpful nor enforceable. And obviously, as you just proved with that question, going against the general public's idea of how to handle your garbage.
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First, the merchants are the customers - they're the ones paying the fees to provide the service to their customers.

Second, you don't have to be a merchant to hate PayPal. Most of the time I will simply choose not to buy something rather than use PayPal. --The last time I couldn't avoid them was about 2 years ago.
As the "malware" is only downloaded after you installed a download manager, I doubt the Cnet website will get marked as the distributor.

I believe it goes like this:
- User clicks on link to download software
- User is being asked to install Cnet download manager
- Download manager downloads more software, including the crapware

Because the actual download does not happen on the Cnet site, it does not gets marked as a distributor.

I can be wrong though, this is just my hypothesis of what is happening.
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Either it's your app or not.

(What would Microsoft's reaction be if BestBuy modified Office to install iTunes?)
Actually I was implying that by eliminating 100% refined sugars from your diet, that also immediately rules out a lot of other food that is not very good for you.
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You said it exactly: refined sugar (white sugar, corn syrup, etc) is more pure and absorbed much more quickly. This has a significant (and terrible) effect on how the body handles it.

Also note that refining sugar from fruit can lead to the same kind of bad sugar. But if you're eating it in a whole piece of fruit, you're also getting all the other good things that come with fruit so it's a lot better.
I use Wolfram Alpha to check if I solved my math assignments correctly. Can you solve e.g. limes with Google? I tried a couple of syntaxes but nothing.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=limes+%28x%5E3%2Bx%29%2...
I hope Square buys Stripe, figures out the international bits, adds some features, and then starts eating away at PayPal's market share.