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Really quickly, this guy has clearly not researched the field. We (I do contract work for a large e-commerce business that does 8 figures USD a month and have a side recurring saas company that will do 5 figures a month in Jan). We looked at Litle, Braintree, Stripe, and Samurai. We quickly eliminated Stripe because it's expensive and then had an RFP for the other guys. For my contract job, Samurai ended up winning out over Litle and Braintree (Ended up being between Litle and Samurai in the end). I can't recommend the FeeFighters guys highly enough... I worked with them on my contract gig and ended up using them for my side project too. They have a fantastic API - http://samurai.feefighters.com/developers and were just great to work with. For my contract job (big bureaucratic company) we just tokenized ~a million credit cards with them and have shifted about half of our transactions that way.

Stripe is way better than paypal. It is also really expensive. Unless you are a hobby website, I wouldn't give it much thought, except for something to grow up out of. For real businesses, I think the flexibility afforded by a real merchant account plus gateway (Braintree, Litle, or Samurai) is worth a lot.
My reading was "they lied. They never planned to do anything."

I dunno, if it was my site, I would ask that my lawyer sue to the government to get the site back, and make the government prove that another judge was already handling it.
It's a paid game (with a free demo)

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The EFF has a nice FAQ on this that you might find useful:

https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/vulnerability-reporting-fa...
It appears to not quite be ready for prime time. It has crashed several times on both my PC and Mac laptop.
What makes you think this isn't entirely intentional? I mean if an industry writes processes and remedies, isn't it reasonable to assume that to any reasonable outside, they will abuse them?
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Some more advice for HN users of WP:

1) chmod /var/www/whatever and all subdirectories such that the web server user can read but not write to them. If you need to do uploads or add a plugin, you can do it over SSH. Allowing someone to execute arbitrary code from your website is just asking for pain.

2) Many (but not all!) exploits start in wp-admin. I make mine inaccessible over the public Internet, enforced ny Nginx before any PHP gets the chance to execute. (Options: only accessible over VPN, only accessible through proxy you control, only accessible with a client certificate, etc.)

3) Routine DB/code backups. I'd keep wp-content in a git repo. Add a plugin? Have to add it through repo. Code changes other than through git? Smack yourself for setting permissions wrong, then roll back to a known good version from the repo. Weird links on blog pages? Roll back DB to known good version.

4) Should go without saying, but every blog gets it's own user and own DB, and that user only gets sufficient privileges to manipulate the blog DB.

5) Write a shell script to do an automatic "upgrade all blogs to latest version of WP" since you'll be doing this a lot. If this were totally risk-free I'd put it on an hourly cron job.
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There's also Photoshop Express for the iPhone.
It's worth looking at to see what kind of design decisions they've made.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331...
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I doubt the government can be sued, but maybe the attorney involved?
> Having a good designer doesn't eliminate the potentially expensive middle part where you need to find out how a large heterogeneous audience reacts to your current best guess.

I absolutely agree. When trying to appeal to a large audience I would definitely do both -- if I had the money that is. Which part is more important (mass appeal or trendiness) depends on the kind of business you are doing.
First, what poor design choices did they make? The entire post was attempting to debunk the perception that there was some simple decision that leads to the issues people describe. Second, I don't believe Dianne has a fundamental misunderstanding of anything regarding a mobile OS as she is one of the most preeminent people in the field.

Its frustrating and annoying to read posts like this where you try to walk a "I'm impartial" line and then pepper it with biased remarks that are misleading. You are unlikely to get more factual discussion about the situation then the post she offered, as she's a creditable expert who has written a not insignificant portion of the OS under discussion.

Its clear that iOS has some really technical achievement they should be proud of, but your desire for facts about the situation is subverted by your very own use of statements like "drawing/compositing in iOS on a 3GS is faster and smoother than on a shiny new Android Inspiration XL HD 4G" without anything to support your position. Its not a fact because you make a statement.
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This is perhaps the best news I've heard today. I don't suppose you could liberate a datasheet from Broadcom and post it to your web site somewhere could you? I'm totally down for 10 of those $35 boards but I want to be able to talk to the graphics side of the chip and have had no luck at all getting any information at all from Broadcom. OMAP docs I've got coming out of my ears though.
No, I do/did not.
A lot of people think Splunk must be a terrible place to work at because they think it is an "enterprise" company. But the truth is, we have great jobs for a lot of people. Want to work on awesome visualizations for gigabytes and terabytes of data daily? We got it. Want to work on building a development platform for an extremely powerful data analysis tool? We got it. Want to help make the core server that powers our extremely fast indexing and performance better? We got it.

Whether it's UI, core systems engineering, dev platform or anything in between, we likely have something for you.
I personally work on the development platform in the Seattle office, but I'm happy to answer questions about anything. Feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile), or comment here.

Some specific areas where we're looking to hire:

Frontend engineer - Splunk is doing some awesome frontend development, so if you're interested in the intersection of presenting big data in a human-usable manner, this is a great position.
http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=okO3VfwQ

Sys Admin: we recently launched Storm, our Splunk in the Cloud offering. We're looking for a sysadmin to help us manage that undertaking. This is a product that just launched, so you could have a big impact here.
http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=ou6XVfwc

Sr Developer for Hadoop: Splunk is doing more and more work with Hadoop, and it's a completely new offering for the company and product. We're looking to add more people to the team who are excited about the space and want to improve the Hadoop landscape.
http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=o792VfwX

Also, check out our new dev portal which we launched recently: http://dev.splunk.com
I agree, its far to early to make any decisions about which platform "made the right decisions". We're in the first inning still for mobile.
If it's bugs and not just errors, then you've pretty much got a self-programming computer. Any such tool is necessarily only going to give you a rough approximation.
NaCl uses the NPAPI which is pretty standard, it's used for flash for example and is supported by Firefox, Opera and webkit. This means NaCl could be plugged in those browsers without being reimplemented.
No, you need a US IP address and a US credit card, and a US postal address on your account. See my comment further up.
Create a really hardcore javascript site.
try chrome://gpu-internals/ to get a report
I feel like I am becoming a ridiculous Samurai supporter in a world of Stripe supporters on HN (odd because we know they have many large customers), but my large (seasonal business, 8-figures a month for 5 months a year) contract employer chose Samurai last month and we've been very pleased. We still are splitting our transactions between them and another provider but we've been very satisfied w/ Samurai thus far and will probably migrate all of our transactions to them over the next couple of months. They have an amazing API - can do the stuff referenced in the above article... See: https://samurai.feefighters.com/developers/samurai-js and were fantastic to work with. They also have a campfire room that is usually staffed and helpful

I ended up choosing them for my non-day-job gig as well (saas business) and am very happy. Happy that both of these services exist, really.
Some investment in good UI is certainly nice. But it may not be clear to non-programmers just how much work good UIs can be (so it should be no surprise if volunteer projects don't spend the time).

There are some fairly obvious tasks, like artwork and putting some thought into what the behaviors should be. There are less obvious things like the fact that huge side effects often pop up.

How much time will you spend on artwork? Every version of Mac OS X looks different, so your custom widget may have 4 different looks and you just know you'll need a 5th next year. Maybe it's a cross-platform program. Maybe the entire thing needs to change depending on where in the world it will be used. And this doesn't even begin to look into issues with programming images (e.g. tracking the mouse inside odd shapes or figuring out how to render things at different window sizes).

Setting UI behavior is also deceptively simple. It can take a very long time to be sure that you've thought of everything even if you're reproducing a variation of UI that's pretty standard already. You often interact with existing things, e.g. a window manager or mouse event system, and you can be seriously screwed if you find a deficiency in a dependency.

What about when your entire framework breaks because you need a customization? (This seems to happen in Cocoa all the time.) For example, guess what: customizable toolbars and resize-from-any-edge come "for free" in standard windows but they are completely unavailable for custom windows. Some changes can look simple on paper and explode when you actually try to implement them. Nothing ruins a weekend like discovering that a simple change would break all kinds of tangentially-related UI elements that were already working. So what do you do...recreate half the OS yourself just so one piece of UI can be a little more interesting or appropriate to a task?
While agree that this must be filtered for his audience of students, I have to take issue with his tone that seems to boil down to what most of academia does: very unambitious incremental research. Sure - this schlep is needed, but I think his cadre our too biased in this direction. The system dislikes risky research, and that's a shame.

Also, a glance at his books looks exactly like the grade-grubbing BS that leads to kids becoming valedictorian and then failing to do anything of significance after. These zombie achievers miss the point of education, and I feel like this guy is only encouraging them.
It indeed depends on how the car slips. What is different is the amount you do throttle, braking and steering but the response is so counter-intuitive that you need proper training to do it correctly.
That sounds accurate to me. I'm not sure if its simply that iOS forgoes isolation or they've implemented isolation in a mechanism that allows for the context to be shared without security consequence.
I just did an interesting side-by-side test of scrolling within a browser displaying Google on an new iPhone 4 and an older Android phone (HTC Incredible. I didn't actually see much difference as to how "smooth" or "choppy" the scrolling was, but there were distinct differences to fast motions.

The iPhone seemed better at keeping up with a fast moving finger. If you put your finger on a line at the top of the screen, and scrolled quickly until your finger was at the bottom, the same line would still be under your finger. On the Incredible, the line you started on would only end up 2/3 of the way down the screen.

More surprisingly, this seemed to happen to a lesser extent even on very slow scrolls. Put you finger down on a line, drag it to the bottom, and the amount scrolled is always significantly less than the distance your finger moves. Rather than being a rendering problem, this seems more like an event loop that throwing away some of the events!
I haven't integrated Stripe, but I have integrated WePay, PayPal, Google Checkout, and Amazon Payments into various applications.

WePay's API is very well designed and easy to understand. The documentation is blissfully short and effective. When I had technical questions, a post to their email list got me a detailed response within hours (and usually within minutes). Honestly it's the best developer support experience I have ever had with any product in my 16 years of professional software development. I hope it lasts.

All three of PayPal, Google, and Amazon suck, but I will honestly say that PayPal is probably the worst developer experience I've had in that same time period. And this was for a very simple implementation of a single product one-time purchase.

1) It took hours to figure out what product I wanted. PayPal's product assortment is a trainwreck. What the hell is the difference between Web Payments and Web Payments Pro and Adaptive Payments and about a dozen other things with idiotic names that all sound the same. The chart that tries to help you pick a product is useless.

2) The layout of paypal's website is labyrinthine. Even after I figured out what product I needed, assembling all the relevant documentation was hard.

3) The documentation is flat-out wrong in several (rather important) places. For example, the IPN guide (naturally, a PDF https://cms.paypal.com/cms_content/US/en_US/files/developer/...) on page 9 clearly states that you must explicitly post back messages to paypal to get them to stop sending (which is retarded and screws up transactions), but HN says that this is not the case. You can see my venting about this almost a year ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2341119

4) Posting a technical question to PayPal's forum gave me an unhelpful response from a clearly first-level "read the flowchart" technical support rep. Pointless exercise.

5) PayPal's APIs all feel like they were designed in the 1990s. Seriously, I would be horribly embarrassed to publish an API like that. I put more thought into (and produce better documentation for) my opensource projects. Useless crap websites like Foursquare can come up with solid APIs, there's no excuse for a company that handles actual money to be this janky.

It's vogue to hate PayPal because they really horribly suck. And now there are good alternatives. So I say, let them rot. WePay costs a little bit more but it is worth it not to have bit scary parts of my codebase that I dread going into.
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"Could be".

Will not be unless they have no choice to survive. Google knows that, everyone knows that.

Not a web standard.
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For now, that is true. However, NaCl is moving to the Pepper API, which is a proprietary Chrome API for plugins.
TinyURL allows one to create http://tinyurl.com/7q3en34 -- but, alas, Chrome refuses to follow the redirect. Safari and Firefox don't seem to mind, though.
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> > How, exactly, should LAPD have gotten those folks unlinked and removed them?

> By waiting for them to do something they should actually be arrested for

That's not a mechanism for unlinking.

> Government efficiency is an anti-feature. If police save 50% doing something a certain way, that just means they'll do twice as much of it.

In other words, you want to abolish govt spending. Great!
Photoshop is modular, not monolithic.

Designing a large monolithic anything is insanely hard. It's often best to design around it.
Ah, yes. What I'm talking about above applies to level 4 merchants, (less than 20k ecommerce transactions), who can get away with lower level compliance. The ABCD levels refer to the self assessment questionnaires (SAQ) these level 4 merchants are required to completed.

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/docu...
No they don't. They just say they do so they can get elected and expand government. Those of us who actually believe in small government* across the board are as likely to be in the Occupy Wall St. movement as the Tea Party, and we realize that neither party is anywhere near our views.

* I mean this in a literal way, that government should be no larger than necessary and no more intrusive than required. The goal is to get to a point where we can engineer intrusive, large government structures out of the picture. For example, if we were to have state and local governments running the last mile telephone network but allowing services to be provided by a host of competing businesses, we'd have a freer market with less regulation. But it would require some use of eminent domain to achieve in a way that neither party would support.
But the reason why developers are shackled to Objective C is to make sure processes finish in human time, and this is fundamentally a performance bottleneck in mobile hardware.

I use monotouch. Compiles to ARM assembly. Not seeing any problems.

For a generation of coders accustomed to limitless managed memory, high-level programming abstractions, and thousands of deeply functional opensource libraries, mobile is a step back to the Byzantine world of Commodore 64s.

Really? An 8bit 1Mhz processor with 64Kb? Or is it a 600Mhz 32bit processor with 262,144kb. Sure it doesn't match up to my i7, but when java first came out we had Pentium 90s. The lack of ObjC library support is changing as more developers pile on, and if you go with C# then that's pretty much solved.

(As a kid in the UK, you had a ZX Spectrum, a C64 or a BBC Micro. The next gen Commodore was the Amiga. The next gen BBC was the Archimedes. The Archimedes had the ARM2. Same instruction set as an iPhone... in 1988. I shipped a game on it. 100% Assembly. Much prefer C# to hand-rolled assembly, so its not just the new kids.)
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Well, it's a demo, you'll be only allowed to advance to a few levels. That's the difference.
Can't sell names outbound? Not sure if I believe that one bit. It's just a lot more work, like selling anything really. Sure it's infinitely easier when they want to buy something from you, but you can definitely convince people they need to buy something, be it domains or otherwise.
Google is very similar.

They do open up a lot of stuff, and provide a lot of free stuff too. They have a lot of talented people as well.

But their base strategy is to control our most powerful tool. For that you need to kill standards. And hey, talented people sure know how to put things on the right balance, at the right time.

I'm not sure who you think can compete with Google. For most people "the internet" is Google.com.

Google.com tells you to get Chrome.

Most top 10 downloaded software bundle Chrome, often with default optin and even default launch.

Companies which aren't big enough to fight are bought out.

See a trend?

What's funny is that my comment gets back to 0 or 1 then back to minus and so on.

What it shows is that this is controversial and many actually agree with my "wharrgarble". Maybe you should give it a deeper though. We'd be better in 5 years from now, if everyone though about such things with a little more criticism.
Almost all give you the option to post it for sale. You must have bought names nobody wants to buy.
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> I am interested to hear how you reconcile those two points of views, society needs fewer "fools", but yet the financial collapse is a case study in foolish exuberance.

Actually, it wasn't. However, even if it was, there are benefits to a functioning financial system. There's no benefit to more fools.

> In my view, the repercussions of the foolish actions on the part of the financial industry where not allowed to happen, even if it would have been painful for us

That's a reasonable view, one that I happen to share. (However, you're ignoring the role of govt in this whole thing. I think that folks who want a foolish govt should take a hit.) However, as I've pointed out, there's a reasonable counter argument.

What is the benefit to protecting fools?

> Which is what many in the financial industry used to justify their behavior.

I think that you're making that up. How about a checkable cite to someone in the financial industry actually making that argument? (Someone else saying it about them is not evidence.)
My atty says the race condition isn't real:

Who cares if the other party has their patent erroneously issued? That patent should not be capable of use as prior art against your patent if you actually filed first. And, their patent would become invalid (if asserted) because of your prior art.

USPTO doesn't do anything to the other patent after issuance unless someone requests re-examination. So they would "think" they have a patent, which shouldn't bother you, unless they asserted their rights against you.

In which case, you could invalidate their patent with your earlier filing as prior art.

So it's not so much a race condition as it is lazy, eventual consistency in syncing data. If two values are compared on two nodes, yours is the master and will overwrite the other value. Who cares that the replica is slightly out of date?
Haven't you heard? Mac OS X is intuitive.
Clearly you didn't research the owners well. They are owned by some of the savviest guys in the domain business. They are also sitting on some of the best portfolios of names and have very little incentive to sell for anything but a really high price.
If you have leverage, you'll get paid what you're worth. If you do not have leverage, you'll find that you've become a factory worker.

Current factory workers, call center reps, and cashiers, among others, have their performance constantly monitored and graded in a way very similar to what you describe.

Take a look at the checker's screen next time you're at Target and you'll see a little grading application at the bottom. At Dominoes, the mobile app lets you plug in and see exactly how quickly the workers put your pizza into the oven. It's not just them; this same trend is going on everywhere. Those feeds are then aggregated to give management the illusion that they know how things are going.
> Presumably she chose the best school she could get into.

There is no "best school". There's a "best school for what you're trying to do". If you change what you're trying to do, the "best" school may change as well.
Just build it and get feed back.

If I were you, I wouldn't waste my time asking here. First, your target audience probably won't be HN (since HN is a small community compared to the rest of the world). Second, nobody actually knows what they want.