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It's probably a measure of conscientiousness. I'd guess that if you actually intend to do what you say, you'll be a lot more communicative. You might be assertive ("No, I think that's a waste of time, because ...") or agreeable ("OK, but how will I ..."), but you won't just sit there wondering if you passed the interview.
> I run a startup and, no matter how good I think our code is, we fuck stuff up. Plenty.

What makes you think that's unique to a startup?
Most (all?) of these companies support that.
You know, they should totally go after youtube next:

List of Full Albums:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=full+album&o...
I think the terms we're talking about really are liabilities. They're being used against us. The US is a completely different animal than other nations. Maybe we can get the public to think differently about piracy one day but considering the short amount of time we have to stop SOPA I think we need to prioritize and leave that fight for another day.

Discussions and movements surrounding copyright and piracy are definitely something we need to have but I think it's more important in the short term to stop SOPA and then leave these other movements for later. We can't change American's attitudes within a month or two. So let's prioritize and make it about the things I said earlier rather than focusing too much on the piracy and copyright. And yeah, the law does grant new powers too but you can't throw too much information at people all at once or they shut down on you. We have to break this up into small, manageable, relatable terms to get others on our side.

As it stands it just seems like we're preaching to the choir amongst ourselves. We all have slightly different opinions when it comes to some of the details but for the most part we all get it and we're against this. It's the everyday non-techies we need to reach.

I actually am in the minority here. I support copyright, I think it's valuable, and I'm also against piracy because of how I'd feel if someone pirated software I developed. But I'm still on your side when it comes to SOPA. I even feel that copyright goes way too far and wouldn't mind seeing the term shortened by a lot. But I do get this issue. There are a ton of people who share my opinion on copyright and piracy who think SOPA is actually a good thing. Their logic is that if piracy is bad then this law to stop it is good. We don't get the finer points, we don't know that there are laws in place that stop piracy already and that they're more than sufficient, and we generally think of pirates as the traditional back-alley, trench coat wearing bootlegger types. Those are the people you need to relate to. There's not enough time to change their mind on piracy so you have to frame it in a way they relate to. Make it personal. When I say we, I mean people who share my (minority here) opinion on copyright and piracy. I get the SOPA issue but others like me don't.

Hopefully I wasn't too confusing with all the pronouns I just abused.
One of the reasons slavery in America was so brutal was because English common law had no legal history or precedent of slavery, and hence had to apply the laws of personal property, or chattels, to slaves (hence the term "chattel slavery"). Other legal traditions actually had separate provisions for slaves. It wasn't a "cultural norm" for our culture until the trans-Atlantic slave trade, centuries away from your mark.

The casus belli of the Civil War was the secession of the southern states in order to prevent federal interference in the institution of slavery. The result of the war was the federal abolition of slavery. The exact same conflict was reenacted a century later, albeit more peacefully, over segregation and the disenfranchisement of blacks. In both cases, the underlying conflict was between states rights and human rights, and in both cases the better side won.
Most of the services mentioned in the article can add "charges" to each months accounting for things like usage based systems. Of course if you're payments are completely variable, you'll have a hard time calculating with any service that charges a percentage for each transaction.
That's the canonical answer to this conundrum, but I have lots of tags, so this solution is not acceptable to me.
If you added PayPal to these charts it'd be well below all of the lines at all of the price points. It'd start at around 3% and drop to 2.2% very early in the graph. Plus, for most startups, not accepting PayPal is going to cost you customers. Especially non-US customers.

In addition to the simple "Pay with PayPal" button scenario where you get all the simple subscriptions-as-a-service features built in (automatically handling failed payments and retries and notifying you of subscriptions, payments, cancellations, expiration of services, etc)... they'll also power your normal credit card payment forms on-site, and do token-based recurring billing (authorize payment once, charge the customer a variable amount whenever you need).

That startups discount PayPal entirely because it's "not cool" and you can't chat with the founder at 4AM about your implementation is astounding to me. All of these other services are very expensive, less fully featured, and none of them come with 240 million pre-registered users and brand trust. Any reasonable decision maker should be at least considering them an option.
Please, post something more substantial! If I didn't know better, it would make it look like the actions of Anonymous are directly related to the anti-SOPA protests yesterday and it will only harm us in the end. Yes, there are issues with the megaupload.com take down - but let's not give MSM or the pro-SOPA senators a reason to forget about what was accomplished - and to me a posting on a domain like proteststopa.com with just those screenshots is detrimental to the cause.

(Also - don't take this as me being for or against any of these actions - I just can't help feel yesterday becoming a waste of everyone's efforts.)
I don't follow your argument... Kindles don't support ePub. Even if iBooks Author exported standard ePub files, it couldn't be used to make content viewable on a Kindle.

Hell, iBooks Author exports PDFs. PDFs are viewable by Kindle Fires. (And possibly other Kindles.) So iBooks Author already creates content viewable on competitors' platforms.

I'm also not certain the Fire is threatening to Apple. They make far more money off of the hardware than they do off content sold through their various digital media stores.
Agreed. Despite my misunderstanding, my original statement stands: this guy obviously did nothing wrong and someone should be working to get him out of Iran and back to Canada.
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What's the difference if you create a blog with ads, and your users started to upload ocr of books?

Would you like to go to jail even though 70% of your users are honest and giving you a profit?

If you think this is different, pls specify where the line is drawn
Here's the reason it needs to be friendly and cute: Non-tech savvy people. When my mom or dad see any error message (notably windows os ones that don't have any oops!), they completely freak out and call me about it.

Do you want all of your non-tech savvy friends calling you about a non-cute error message fearing the apocalypse happened to their computer?
It's not very likely that those sites are using Apache on the front lines.
I think the idea is to communicate to the user that there were real live humans writing the software and they made a mistake rather than hal.dll or some other inhuman code/machine thing.

This way, rather than personifying the buggy product and getting angry at it, the blame is shifted to a more forgivable entity. "Everybody makes mistakes", etc.

I suspect that's the line of reasoning anyways since a lot of these products, like gmail and iCloud are pretty much all business, only giving the most utilitarian feedback until they crash, at which point the cute blasters get set to kill.
I'm right there with you. The whole legitimate use thing is a thinly veiled attempt to seem like they're legit. The vast majority of its users are there for the piracy and anyone who tries to say that the main purpose of the site was for anything other than that is either just lying to themselves or just lying. The fact that it can be used legitimately doesn't mean it is nor does it mean it was ever intended to. This is just a really weak case of plausible deniability
fixed - sorry about that.
That's a very large figure. Source?
Nothing. I never made that claim.

I said "If they made it a few years, ironed out the kinks and then just they leave it alone, it's less likely to break". I have the same concerns about all new software from any provider. The same concerns applied to Google Checkout and Amazon Payments when they were new.

I just happen to run a startup & have, as expected, observed this fact about software engineering.

However, given the smaller teams and conflicting demands on attention for a startup, the problems may be more pronounced. Furthermore, billing is an industry filled with high degrees of both incidental AND inherent complexity. Navigating that complexity requires institutional knowledge that must be built over time.
Yeah?

:e /etc/passwd

It's read only, but still, omgwtf.
I keep wanting to see some one fight extradition to the US on the grounds that water boarding is torture and that the country can't legally extradite to countries that use torture.
why not just use vi, nano, writemonkey or even word for writing your book and leave apple behind?
Possibly a dumb question but: who wrote this? I looked at the code and couldn't find any info on the author... Would love to get in touch with them and hear more about how they went about it, why they made certain choices...
Same for me. I whined about crapware that came with PCs just as everyone else, but with Vista and Win7, I noticed can just uninstall these programs as soon as I fire up the machine for the first time and no harm done.
I'd love some idea of how large the index was for code search, how many machines it required, and how much total code it was searching.
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Missing from this analysis is which options are available outside the US. I've tried to quicky figure this out for each provider, please correct me if I'm wrong:

- Braintree: only if doing 3 million+/year.
- Chargify: in theory yes, if you can find a merchant provider that accepts you with reasonable terms, which isn't easy.
- Recurly: "Recurly supports SagePay and PayPal in the U.K. and Ireland, as well as Wirecard throughout the broader European Union."
- Saasy: Yes.
- Strip: Not yet.

Although it makes sense to start in the US market, it's getting to the point where all most alternatives are US-centric, and there's a big world of us out here that would also love better payment gateways!
Sorry, but where does Apple claim partial ownership? Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen that.

You own a car, but you're licensed and registered by the state. You can paint it whatever color you want, but can you make an exact duplicate of that car and sell it as your own? Nope. Can you sell it without transferring registration? Nope (at least, not without alternate state paperwork). You might "own" it, but you still can't do whatever you want.

You're licensed iBooks Author and you enter into an agreement. You create, retain copyright, and own the product, but you can't copy it and do as you please. You follow the licensing and only have certain rights when it comes to the .ibook file.

A comparison in my mind would be saying GarageBand creations can only be sold through the iTunes store. The difference I see is that iBooks Author is not outputting a simple media file, but a more complex experience filled with medias. As often the case with Apple, they want to lock that experience (& resulting profits) into the best device for it, the iPad.
I think the independent thinking and open-mindedness with which HNers approach ideas is the main difference I've seen.
MegaUpload complaint has Dropbox Implications
AlexMuir has missed the most important point: Megaupload served infringing content from machines based in Virginia, overseen by the hosting provider Carpathia. The fact that the persons involved were not US citizens or that the company was based in Hong Kong are irrelevant. The servers (some of them) were in the US, not far from a court where a warrant could be obtained for anyone with cause (e.g. the FBI, DOJ) to look at all ingress and egress from those servers.

Game over.
I rather do like this. nothings beat a full-vim experience
It's hard to say. I'm getting closer and closer to my breaking point with every passing day. The problem is, not enough people care (yet) about what's going on. So if if a few of us drop the non-violent approach, we probably only get to be martyrs for the cause. But maybe that's OK.

The other problem is, even if we had enough people who were totally fed up with our corrupt, evil government, and if we pulled an Egypt and took down the existing state, the question remains "what would replace it?" And, more to the point, "how do you know it would be better?"

What we really need in this country is an intellectual / cultural revolution, a fundamental change in the way people thing about things...a renewed emphasis on the idea that individuals have rights and a deep-rooted commitment to the idea of inalienable rights. Until that happens, I'm afraid that if we did replace the current State, it would be - at best - a wash. And things might even get worse.

That said, one situation that I know would get me arrested, would be if I were present at an event like the infamous UC Davis "pepper spray ordeal." Or, really, any situation where cops are beating somebody down or abusing their power and hurting somebody unnecessarily. I don't think I could stand back and watch... I'm pretty sure I'd grab the first pipe or tree branch I could find, or go in empty handed if I had to, and just start wailing on one of them.

I tend to be a bit of a hot-head at times, and those situations piss me off to a degree that I can't even put into words.
I agree, from a customer's point of view Stripe is a godsend. However, I wonder if that level of simplicity is sustainable for them going forward. The reason other payment providers have paperwork and approval processes is because of liability and the reality that there are unscrupulous merchants out there. Is Stripe assuming an increased liability because of the ease at which anybody can just sign up?
You have to own the copyright to issue a takedown request under the DMCA, no? What did you issue the takedown request for and who uploaded it?
"Just because someone agrees with you on one thing, it doesn't mean you're on the same side"

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2077
> I think you don't realize that my comment was a response to noonespecial: First they come for the sites that are 90/10 pirate to legit. ... When will it be too much? When does it become unreasonable?

If you'd read the indictment you'd know that the problem wasn't the percentages. We aren't standing on a slippery slope. Well, we are... but this case is not part of it at all. This case is a distraction from that problem.

This is, at it's heart, a completely traditional bust of a large-scale for-profit copyright infringement regime. Nothing particularly new about it at all, except that instead of finding a warehouse filled with tapes or discs, it's all on spinning metal disks.
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I've got no idea why you're being downvoted - perhaps your last paragraph is a little harsh. But you're right, it's odd not to see mention of PayPal. It works, it's inexpensive, and for non-US businesses it's one of the few available options.
Ask HN: What substantial real-time apps are out there aside from turntable.fm?
I'm really interested in the possibilities behind real-time web apps but it seems hard to get right. Any compelling apps out there with a real-time aspect?
Yes, my statement said the program gave you the ability to do so, but not the right to.

The reason to say this was to make the point that unlike apps where you don't have the ability to distribute them outside of the store, the EULA is in this case necessary to lock down the user experience to iPad and resulting profits of providing this to Apple.
Iran can ask the US to extradite you, the US government may comply if they feel it is in their self-interest.
Possible, but if this were true, one would expect denials from anonymous mouthpieces as well.
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I wonder: when did Anonymous prepare this attack?

They are very efficient at pointing LOIC and all other weapons to the targets they want in a couple of hours. Were they waiting for the next event to happen?
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But the moment you need any kind of advanced functionality, such as say, something unimaginable like rebasing a Mercurial Queue against an upstream change that conflicts, you are suddenly dealing with tools that are no more advanced than diff and patch

This is incorrect. "hg rebase" is more advanced and smarter than diff and patch. Also, people arguing against Mercurial seem unaware of "hg collapse" which allows rewriting history in a way similar to git.

(However I would probably not use hg rebase on Mercurial queues, which are meant to be managed by mq extension commands.)

I think most of the git vs. mercurial debates are non-productive because proponents of one tool don't know the other tool well enough to argue against it.
This is addressed in the article: "What we need to do is dial it down from 11 on the friendly meter…11 is just too creepy. There is a happy middle ground where developers can apologize and software can provide the user polite guidance about what to do next."

(The bomb icon on the original Mac was meant to be a joke (computers don't explode, obviously), but there's an apocryphal story that someone ran in a panic when they first saw it.)
Yes, absolutely. The fact that PC sales are normally very low (around a tenth) of console sales for the same title and games without multiplayer are pirated at a much higher rate than multiplayer games is common knowledge and entirely uncontroversial within the game development industry, and always factors into decisions about how much money to invest in PC titles. Pretty much all the major shifts in PC gaming since the late '90s - cheap console ports, the emphasis on multiplayer, MMOs, Steam, etc - have been responses to piracy.
why not use dogpile to search the internet?
Good point! Edit: "Anonymous takes down FBI.gov. This movement by Anonymous is interesting, however it may overshadow the point of the January 18th blackout against SOPA. Some Congressmen may see their actions as positive renforcement for censorship on the web."
Where in Canada are you? Good Law firms for non-huge companies tend to be mid-size or smaller, and thus regional.
How does this compare to Heroku?

Neither seem to support WebSockets (though the Heroku article I found was a bit dated[1]) for the time being.

From the article, it seems like AppHarbor doesn't automagically pull in the dependencies from the package.json, which Heroku does.

Add-ons wise, there is a lot of overlap, but Heroku definitely has more at the moment.

Heroku lets you run one-off processes, which is nice for debugging. I couldn't find this functionality on AppHarbor.

[1]: http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/6/22/the_new_heroku_2_n...
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Thank you. It's nice that at least ONE person recognized that maybe their uninformed reaction to a short article might not be 100% correct, and was willing to go read the indictment and learn a bit more.
... or if the body starts to rot and smell
Yes I do: http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/totals.php?ind=C2400
Personally, I think the Windows 8 BSOD shown is a great improvement.
Thank you! I would hate to see someone use this as a reason to convert peoples opinions on SOPA.
You can also poke around the file system with a combination of :cd and :Explore

:dir doesn't seem to work.
Which Chrome is he referring to? The browser or the OS? I hope he's doubling down on both.
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I've created two folders in Instapaper, one called Listen Later and the other Watch Later. It has worked out for the most part.
Taking down www.FBI.gov is not that big of a deal. It is almost certainly an externally hosted CMS that is completely independent of any day to day FBI operations.

This is analagous to claiming victory by DDOSing a blog.
I was somewhat surprised that when signing up I was not asked to agree to any terms, and there wasn't even a link to any on the signup form. When I did find them after signing up I see they require you to comply with PCIDSS, but by neither asking me to agree to this nor pushing it in their documentation at all, it's unlikely their users are going to actually do so. How many Stripe users are paying SecurityMetrics or ControlScan for their quarterly compliance scans? How many have even filled out the self-assessment questionnaire?

So then comes the problem -- Stripe is encouraging developers, regardless of experience with security or payment systems, to set up direct credit card payment forms on their website (to be processed by Stripe's javascript). Lots of these servers probably have outdated services, CMS's and other packages with gaping security holes -- any of which would allow someone to hijack the form to silently send customers' credit card data somewhere else.

In the end, who is Visa going to be able to get its half million dollar fine for a data breach by a site not in compliance with PCIDSS from? The merchant it has signed contracts with (Stripe via their underwriting banks) or the lone developers that have no funds to meet the security requirements, let alone pay fines on the resulting losses?

I think Stripe's pitch deck would be an interesting thing to see.
The answer to the author is two fold:

1) laws are made to be challeneged, especially if society does not approve. See alextingle's response.

2) If I make a widget in a widget factory. You can get widgets from me or from Frank down the block. Getting it from Frank is illegal. However to use the widget (that you love) you must stick a pipe in your ass. Frank gives it to you at a bargain price and no pipe in ass requirements. The only way to tell me "its not ok to overcharge me and force me to stick pipes in my ass, even if I love the product" is to buy it from Frank. Otherwise you buy it from me, live with the ass-pipe and pray for change.
No problem! Thanks for your input.
It's even worse than that, unfortunately, as it's already being reported (by people that should know better) as a "hack":

http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/19/anonymous-hacks-doj-univer...
Oddly enough, there are a lot of search results pages now that are more ads than content above the fold. Danny Sullivan does a nice job of illustrating the point here: http://searchengineland.com/too-many-ads-above-the-fold-now-...
We (NodeSocket) support WebSockets since we provide full VPS servers with root access. Obviously though we are linux only, where AppHarbor is Windows.
Ironically, in the Daily Show video the author embeds down the bottom, I get an "Unavailable Video" error message.
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Federal Reserve contractor charged with source code theft