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(a) It sounds like Paypal made no attempt to verify the counterfeit claim at all, and would not have been qualified to do so even if they had examined the item themselves. Arguing that they had any sort of reasonable belief that it was a counterfeit would last about five seconds in a small claims court.

(b) Paypal's terms are probably irrelevant here anyway unless they owned either the money or the instrument. If they don't have a valid legal claim on them, then they have no right to tell anyone else what to do with them, regardless of any document their lawyers write.

(c) Even if the terms are relevant, this policy is so obviously unreasonable that you can't assume any court is going to automatically uphold the contractual term.

(d) This is all to protect Paypal, not the buyer. Notwithstanding any of Paypal's legalese, and obviously without knowing all the details, it seems very possible that a court would hold that a contract of sale existed here between the buyer and seller directly, and that as such the buyer who destroyed the instrument but did not pay for it is either in breach of contract (and thus owes the money anyway) or guilty of theft/criminal damage/other similar offences (in which case they are potentially in bigger trouble and might actually have police showing up on their doorstep, though even in the best case for them if the violin was as specified then they have conveniently accepted what a valid level of compensation would be).

(e) The fact that the destruction was done at Paypal's request is probably irrelevant following such a finding, other than to the extent that Paypal may have some sort of indirect liability for the damages in a civil suit, or that whichever idiot working for them sent the request might even be regarded as an accessory to a crime if someone in authority wanted to make a point. Actually, I imagine that would shake their staff down pretty quickly, since no amount of contractual anything from Paypal's legal team is going to protect the staff personally in that sort of situation.

Standard disclaimers apply: I'm not a lawyer, but I have found that if you actually get your day in court then usually the court has some amount of common sense and a much smaller amount of tolerance for lawyers obviously trying to intimidate other citizens with legalese. Internet tough-guy defences pointing at tricky legalese don't always end well, if the Internet tough-guy law suit actually reaches a court room. It's usually the cost/inconvenience/lack of understanding of bringing a small-scale lawsuit that protects the companies from wronged individuals, not the power of their obviously one-sided form contracts.
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Darwin looks kind of relaxed and suburban compared to cities with serious geographic constraints. Sydney, San Francisco, Manhattan, and West Vancouver are all jammed tight because of ocean and rivers. They're also stacked to overflowing with tall towers if not simply wall to wall buildings.

You're certainly right about the isolated part, though. Might as well be half way around the world from your nearest neighbor!
This is very relevant (How great leaders inspire action):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4

Hint: It's all about the beliefs of a company and how consumers associate their beliefs with a company's beliefs. We know what Apple stands for (higher quality and more beautiful products). We know what Google stands for (more openess, more user freedom).

What does Microsoft stand for? Can you answer it quickly? The only answer that comes fast enough is "money". I don't think Microsoft has an inbred culture inside the company for much else, at least not anymore.

I also agree with the ending conclusion of the post, about Microsoft trying to cater to the "people in the middle", like not wanting to be close enough like Apple to deliver a great user experience, but not open enough like Android, too. In fact WP7 is even much stricter than desktop Windows. So they aren't addressing neither the Apple users, nor the Android users with this "mediocrity" strategy.

Seth Godin likes to talk about how mediocrity is a bad place to be in, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqK6M_rTR40
> Before, I used to only open Facebook in a single-site browser
> called Fluid, so it wouldn't be able to tie my browsing history
> to my account (I do the same for Google as well). As it turns
> out this isn't good enough; they log your IP address when you
> request a Like button and use it to build a profile of your
> activity.

I do this as well (isolate my Facebook browsing), but hadn't considered the effects of leaking my IP address. Does anyone have data or anecdotes on how effectively accounts can be linked to IP addresses?
Would it be trivial for someone to dispute the authenticity of the coin, receive PayPal's request for its destruction, photograph something that looked like a mangled coin, and then essentially get the coin for free?
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? My lisp has more lispery than your lisp ?
I don't fully buy what this guy is selling. I tend to agree with Kindel's analysis of why WP is doing so poorly. Is the author aware that the Facebook app was created by Microsoft?

Having used a WP since this summer I love it. I can't say enough about it. If you're into social you'll love this phone with deep Facebook and Twitter integration.

I think the hardest thing about using this phone is missing out on apps that Android and iOS get. I'm resigned to the fact that if I stick with this phone that I'm going to miss out on a lot of cutting-edge apps. I can understand as a developer if you have to develop, maintain, and provide support for an app that two app stores is enough. The programming paradigm for WP is different enough where I could see a case for not poking that bear.

I am sad. I think WP has a lot going for it. It's really an elegant OS and it's a very good actual phone. I don't know if there's really room for a third horse in this race.
Yes, SPDY is a cross-platform protocol. This submission is a Ruby implementation of a SPDY server for Rack applications like Ruby on Rails. The news.ycombinator.com server is written in the arc language. SPDY is awesome.
That's precisely the problem: your wrapper helps you...and only you (ie, it's worthless).
oh, please do that! I agree that it's hard to discover new content on Bandcamp. Apart from that the service is great. Very transparent and straight process of buying and a great full length player that has no issues on mobile devices.

Being a musician and considering moving to Bandcamp since the small labels I worked aren't very good at marketing their releases, I wonder how Bandcamp works for other artists compared to other stores like iTunes, amazon, etc. Are there any stats available?
You'd need to have no non-block-scope way to use the resource for it to work.

You can already do that, just `return unless block_given?`. In principle I don't see why you'd want to non block version anyway but maybe there's some use case where that is valid.
Peer review doesn't work if the person reviewing only puts a -1 at the top of the source code.

// I am sorry for any grammar errors in the above sentence. don't worry, I won't do it again.
I don't have to worry about Facebook selling my browser history.

Well, no, you don't when you have an account either. Facebook might save your browsing history of pages with Facebook widgets, but they aren't going to sell this. (They probably will use it for more targeted advertising, but isn't this exactly what AdWords is? This kind of profiling and advertising, to me, at least, is what enables the internet.)

Facebook isn't going to sell your personal info to advertisers. Just accept it, move on, and complain about other issues that actually do exist.
The BETA language does this with methods (you can't override a method, but you can add pre-and-post operations that wrap it).

I was never convinced this was a great idiom. BETA didn't become very popular, in any event.
Most of the Android (and Google's code) is licensed under Apache License V2 which DOES allow proprietary redistribution.

There are portions GPL'd indeed (Kernel for example), but saying that Google should take action on it is over the top to me. If that happened people would start the "GOOGLE IS EVIL AND IS SUING SMALL INDEPENDENT MANUFACTURERS!" mantra for sure.

Android (name and logo) are trademarked by Google and cannot be used without explicit permission. They can however use "for Android".

Also, the Android robot is under CC-BY license. No harm done here.
I'd use this.
Does it work with node.js?
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This isn't the article I was looking for, but it presents the main problems: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-11-15/facebook-...
This is a terribly misleading response. You might as well point out that we're not forced to use banks and therefore they shouldn't be regulated either. The logic simply does not follow.

In fact, he is not wrong to expect that reasonable regulation be imposed on a company which borrows and handles funds. Paypal's system is highly unusual in comparison to other comparable banking services and is predictably often the target of these types of complaints.

Florian says the law is wrong, that paypal should be regulated as a bank. In response, you reject regulation in general. His position makes a lot more sense than your own.
Deterministic destruction is an excellent language feature. I really wish there were a garbage-collected language that separated destruction from deallocation, because the two are completely orthogonal.

When an object goes out of scope, the destructor should run immediately; then, when the garbage collector wants to actually deallocate destroyed objects, it can go right ahead. No idiocy like in C# with “using” blocks.
Very true. We had noticed that any time we had a poor experience with tech support at our main web host, it was the same person. We've turned to either disconnecting chats until we get someone else or (where possible) requesting others specifically by name. The difference can be huge.
Wouldn't an anarchistic collective imply that they all follow a specific political philosophy? I've never seen a wholly-accepted political agenda centered around anarchism that came from Anonymous. Do you have a source for this?

Anonymous is an autonomous or 'leaderless' collective. Yes, you're right that they have no 'official' positions, similar to the Occupy movement. But who organizes? Who makes press releases? Who builds network infrastructure? Who issues commands to the rest of the group? And who follows those plans, uses that network and executes the commands?

All you need is one strong personality that articulates the general urges of the group into a specific action they can all agree with and poof, you have yourself a leader and goals which can be worked toward. Every single 'operation' is essentially this. You can quibble over different factions or timing or independent values all you want but it's the same as how terrorist cells and abortion-clinic bombers work, though spread out over the internet and bombing websites instead. So don't tell me Anonymous can or can't declare or deny support (which it has many times in the past). This is the very fabric that Anonymous is built on: collective reasoning.
> subprocess.call() accepts an array in the style of ["ls", "-l", "/mnt/My SD card"]. This has obvious advantages over having to deal with escaping shell characters.

Unless you're running on Windows, in which case IME it will corrupt your carefully constructed parameters in completely inappropriate ways that can be debugged only at the cost of (a) changing the call() to execute a script that dumps the actual parameters supplied verbatim, and (b) at least an hour of your life that you're never getting back.

This "feature" is about one step above MS Word's default autoreplace behaviour in irritation level. What happened to "Explicit is better than implicit" and "Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules"?
Agree - looking at 2011 Moscow, Russia, it shows it as way cheaper than most US cities, but Moscow routinely ranks in top 5 most expensive cities on earth. Real estate prices there are comparable to NYC and food prices aren't cheap either (was just there few months ago).
You can assign arbitrary attributes to a plain function:

>>> def f():
... print f.something
...
>>> f.something = 'blah'
>>> f()
blah
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95%+ of phone buyers couldn't care less about the company beliefs, forget about even knowing them. They go to their carrier store, where they see 10 Android phones and 1 Windows Phone in the corner which the salesmen steer them away from.
The download page could still be served via HTTPS, even if the download itself isn't.
What are the differences between this and something like MooTools? What benefits does P.js offer?

(Note: I was only introduced to MooTools today, so I have limited knowledge about it.)
Go handles this type of situation nicely using deferred function calls:

"Go's defer statement schedules a function call (the deferred function) to be run immediately before the function executing the defer returns. It's an unusual but effective way to deal with situations such as resources that must be released regardless of which path a function takes to return. The canonical examples are unlocking a mutex or closing a file." http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#defer
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At their "sole discretion" means they don't really need a reason.
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> But Google would make less money (and incur more costs) if they went after companies not in compliance with the GPL.

Who is "they" here? Google? Or other copyright holders on the GPL'd code?

Regardless, I don't see how this matters. If anyone went after these companies, after some hassle they would comply with the GPL. And that's it.

I am a long-time open source supporter, and it annoys me when people don't comply with the FOSS licenses to the code they ship. But, let's be honest - in most cases in the current context, the companies have no code that would be useful to the community, so we would gain basically nothing if they did comply, and they do not comply out of either a misunderstanding of the GPL or laziness. So it really doesn't matter.

It could be argued though that out of the principle of the thing, they should be forced to comply, so there isn't a culture of ignoring open source licenses. I'd agree to that, but it doesn't matter if I do, someone with copyrights to the relevant code + time + money needs to agree and actually sue them.
What this guy wrote seems very honest and his reasons are aligned with why I would quit Facebook. I would love to know if people who have tried it ended up going back (relapse rate). I feel like if I quit I would want to go back fairly quickly and have withdrawal symptoms. I hope that's not the case.
I'm not quitting Facebook completely, but one of my goals this year is to spend way less time on it and more time on hacker news.
Does this apply to tech entrepreneurship. How big a part does luck play in tech startups?
If WP7 was released at the same time Android was, it might have taken off. No one is talking about the 500lb gorilla in the room... carriers. Verizon launched Android into the mainstream with the Droid commercials as a hedge against iPhones. Many people call even other Android phones the Droid phones. Similar interest in WP7 is lacking from carriers.
I think many facebook users complain that facebook doesn't resemble a real social network enough, and in many ways, I'm glad it doesn't. This author doesn't like that he hears from a lot of people he doesn't talk to much, and to me, that kind of means that yes, I have my friends I interact with often, but I also have facebook to bring me closer to the people who may just not be in that inner circle yet. I wouldn't have the time or energy to pursue those relationships on my own and facebook makes it much easier. That may sound unnatural, but if we were using computers to accomplish only what we would be accomplishing without them, then why compute? Facebook is better at keeping up with my acquaintances and friends than I am, and that's why I use it. That doesn't make my real life social network any less important.

As for the privacy stuff, I don't know much about data mining, but I do know that there seems to be an interesting relationship between total data and what can be done on a person scale when it comes to privacy invasion by giant companies. As the information collected becomes more intricate, more data is required, i.e. every visited page with a like button on it ever, and the data becomes increasingly difficult to mine. I don't like the idea of a single person poking around my internet history, but then I remember that unless I were a felon, I just don't see facebook having the resources for that to happen (not that they absolutely couldn't, but that they couldn't target ME, one in 500 million, without targeting a large group that I am a part of, say, the state of new york, which would be a very difficult task. This is a question of probabilistic capability, not absolute capability.). Maybe I'm wrong, let me know if I am. This could be an important lesson in online privacy for me.
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Thanks. This is what they say:

> each time you visit a third-party webpage that has a Facebook
> Like button... the unique characteristics of your PC and browser,
> such as your IP address, screen resolution, operating system and
> browser version, are also recorded.

> Bejar acknowledged that Facebook could learn where specific
> members go on the Web when they are logged off by matching the
> unique PC and browser characteristics.... He emphasized that
> Facebook makes it a point not to do this. "We've said that we
> don't do it, and we couldn't do it without some form of consent
> and disclosure," Bejar says.
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As far as I understand they usually state that the webspam team works in isolation from the Adwords team so no.
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An interesting approach to this is the one used in Go, where the "defer" keyword schedules code to run on function exit. It's simple and doesn't require adding more nesting to your code.
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Python's library is comprehensive "on paper".

Vast amounts of it are actually incomplete or outright broken when you try to use it in practice.

The reliable parts of Python's standard library are at a level little beyond C and C++ and far behind Perl/CPAN, Java, .Net and so on.

And even then, as the article we're discussing points out, the APIs aren't actually very good a lot of the time.
Disclaimer - I used to work at eBay but my work was not in any way connected with policies on counterfeits or Paypal. So the following is my speculation only.

While this specific case does sound awful, I'd bet that eBay/Paypal's draconian policies towards counterfeits is a result of number of lawsuits that designer labels have filed in the past against eBay. It would likely be impossible for eBay/Paypal to physically examine every item that is claimed to be counterfeit, so the blanket policy which lets them claim in court that they are doing everything reasonable to prevent counterfeit items being traded on eBay. Again, this particular case does suck, but honestly I think the real villains are the Louis Vittons of the world.
It's really inexcusable that in 2012 (or 1992 even) a language that otherwise is well-suited for internet programming does not come with a first class httpclient.
Absolutely. There's no reason to limit yourself to any geographic particularity in this kind of work (especially going up against the "I'm not a sucker" voice in many Israelis' heads).

Rather than viewing your pool of clients based on geography, it's more sensible and realistic to view it based on potential clients' need for your particular skillset or language or system, wherever they are.

US is still likely the main source of work, and some want US-based people only, but I'd say that's a minority. And it sounds like your English is native, which probably helps.
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> if you have children, do not raise them with a vegetarian or even vegan diet. That should be classified and punishable as child abuse.

That's ridiculous. Would you not agree that vegetarian people are likely to be more conscious of their nutritian than the average person?

Here's an anecdote. I know three children brought up in vegetarian* family. All three were high achievers academically and athletically. It's worth noting that their mother was very conscious of nutrition, and did give them supplements.

*Pescatarian, actually. Though many pescatarians call themselves vegetarian, including this family.
Sure, there are complexities like that in the world. However, where programmer A writes an if-else statement or, maybe, a 5-line dynamic dispatch, programmer B installs some "enterprise" framework or a rules engine, instantly making the entire system an order of magnitude more complex.

What programmers like B often doesn't realize is that they push core logic of the application from their source code (Turing complete, expressive, versioned, benefiting from static and dynamic analysis and all the testing/refactoring tools available for the language) into an obscure XML notation or even some proprietary rules database, worked upon by a complicated blob of 3d party code that has nothing to do with the original business problem.
I totally wonder why do they not have it this way. I have posted the same question on various forums but have never heard any real answer.
Ok. It's my fault for not being clear in my original message. I wasn't talking about the linked SPDY implementation but about SPDY in general. Sorry, I should have marked it as OT.
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Normally, the deallocation of the destroyed object has no visible effect, and you're not expected to do anything with object after it's destroyed.

So, in case of C++, object is destroyed when goes out of scope, but the physical act of deallocation may be deferred by the standard library as whatever 'smart memory manager' wishes.