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Ogone is reliable and non puritan, they operate from Belgium.
Buckaroo is a dutch online payment system.

Further, the rules in Europe for selling stuff is not that diverse, for instance you need to collect VAT and pay that to your countries' tax department because all the countries have a treaty for that.

Stay away from PalPal, they are a US company that plays political games, freeze your account if they can find anything on you that they don't like. They also have corrupt, arrogant and hypocitical puritan issues.
Blog spam. Here is the direct link to the demo on github: http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/
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seriously? make her stop.
Let me see if this reaches you up on your high horse:

Not everyone gives a shit about making money from the software they write.

There are many reasons to write software. There are many reasons to not charge for it. Stop presuming to know whats best for the developer.
Ideal is a debit payment system brought by the dutch banks, most online payment handlers the service dutch clients offer to handle that system too.
MIT students invent laser-operated autonomous airplane without GPS
Hold on... so we're going back to printing things out again, things that are easily accessible on our phones or computers? Really? I don't quite understand why anyone would want this apart from the gimmick factor.
I know you (probably) mean well but you're missing the point and come off as fairly condescending.

Did you consider the possibility that the author already has a job that pays him extremely well and that the ROI he gets in spending time providing customer support/marketing for a commercial iOS app is actually losing money for him?

You should save the "you are allowed to make money" talk for people who are actually trying to sell software and doing it badly (Because they undervalue the work they created) instead of directing it at someone producing what looks like a labor of love and is not interested in marketing everything he has ever created.
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There is nothing in the BSD license that doesn't allow you to add additional restriction with respect to distribution. IANAL, but there are still two manners in which there could be a violation:

- The BSD license requires one to preserve the copyright notices and the BSD license. If that person stripped these from the software, he would be in violation of the BSD license.

- If the seller did not add anything that is copyrightable, I guess it's questionable if his added terms hold up. In this case it is exactly the same as the original BSD-licensed product, and covered by the BSD license.

What usually happens is that some proprietary software vendor takes a chunk of BSD-licensed software (say, a TCP/IP stack) and integrates it into their proprietary software (say, a kernel). In that case, you'd theoretically be allowed to pry out the BSD-licensed parts and redistribute it. In practice, this will be impossible, since the original source files are probably changed to such an extend that it's a mixture of BSD-licensed and proprietary software.

~~~

Of course, this is all the effect of choosing a weak copyleft license. You are practically saying 'you can do whatever you want with this code, as long as you list my name and this license in the source code and/or binary versions, and don't sue my if it doesn't work correctly'. If you want stronger protection, you should use a strong copyleft or a proprietary license.
I was thinking that I have seen that design somewhere and I was right.

https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/its-beta-landing-page-WB00G9...
They used this one: http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/texai/overview

(Competition coming soon https://www.suitabletech.com/ )
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Please don't start me on what it's named..

If I remember correctly when he posted it to usenet it was:

P = Practical
E = Extraction
and
R = Reporting
L = Language

Sorry if you object to the caps.. I was just being nostalgic..

From the Original comp.sources.unix SHAR file:

X.TH PERL 1 LOCAL
X.SH NAME
Xperl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
X.SH SYNOPSIS
X.B perl [options] filename args

https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.unix/tree/brows...;
Check out http://jobs.freelanceswitch.com/ - for around 7$/month you can apply for jobs even if you're not US-based. There are some Graphic design jobs your girlfriend could apply to.

In the beginning use sites like these and your personal contacts to get a few jobs. Adwords seems not really fitting for your budget at least in the beginning! Good luck.
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Why? What's your argument?
Maybe you should too. The BSD license only requires reproduction of the copyright and license terms in (1) the source code; or (2) in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the a binary distribution.

You don't have to state the use of (revised) BSD-licensed code outside the source or binary distribution.
Wasn't it? So far no one on HN has paid for the download to see if the copyright notice was preserved or not.
Sounds similar to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
It depends - surely, studying the weather (how much snow there is on the mountains in winter affects how much water there is in the rivers in the spring) can reduce, if not remove, the risk of crop failure. Perhaps you have the choice of a more expensive drought-resistant crop and a cheaper one that isn't.

Breaking the feedback loop by subsidizing failed crops doesn't create any incentive to invest effort into making good decisions in these areas.
Even when customers think they know what they want, they usually don't. They lack imagination and an analytic mind.

Customer wants A, B and C. You point out that A and B collide, and offer a solution, D. Customer insists on A, B and C. You tell him again. Customer insists on A, B and C. You create A, B and C. Customer realizes that A and B collide and that A, B and C are really not working as imagined. Customer blames you. You present D again. Customer caves in and orders D, as a replacement for A and B. Customer blames the additional cost on you and is unhappy.

Customer wants H, I and J. You tell him that he wants M, N and O. But that M, N and O cost twice as much as H, I and J. Customer is furious. You want the business. So you build H, I and J. Customer realizes it's not working. Customer blames you and is unhappy.

Customer wants X. You ask him why. Because of Q. You realize that the customer would need E instead of X. You offer X but you build E instead, because it's possible within the same budget and time window. You relabel E to X. Customer is happy. His vision worked.
Why does this need its own wifi bridge? This is supposed to be a cool gadget, yet it can't even use standard wifi?
That's a bit bizarre, because one would expect a German clone to support the payment variants that are far more popular than credit cards in Germany.

EDIT: The biggest payment variant I was thinking of is direct debit (German: Lastschrift), which is highly convenient. However, wiring the money before getting the goods is also surprisingly popular here. Many people just don't have credit cards. (I do, but I also use some US services like Github which only allow credit card payments.)
- I wouldn't send a 10 year old on a 30min bus ride alone

That attitude is rather a shame, I think. How are we expected to raise a generation of functioning, independent adults if the default expectation is that kids are constantly chaperoned? The societal dangers are familiar to anyone who's tried to deal with the average intern.

Unaccompanied minors on US airlines are very common. The service works well, most of the time, but when it fails the result is always a lost, scared child and some very angry parents. Headlines inevitably follow. In this case, United's callous treatment is utterly deplorable. Please understand that it's the airline that's at fault here, not the parents for availing themselves of a tried and tested service.

Children are humans, therefore highly adaptable and a lot smarter than anyone thinks. Lone children as young as six are frequently put in charge of an entire family's herd of goats in Kenya; now, granted, there aren't the same dangers from traffic or population density that you'd find in a city, but the herd represents the majority of the family's wealth and it's therefore an awesome responsibility. Imagine herding your parent's entire net worth at that age! Kids that young take the bus - the regular commuter service - to school alone in the UK all the time. I see young kids in NYC taking the subway alone every day. Very, very rarely is there a problem; certainly no more so than a mother doing the school run rolling her SUV.
That's actually great news, why would Europeans have to wait for an undisclosed date Stripe gives (or rather, doesn't give).
Stripe is now in hot pursuit ;)
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My 2009 MacBook pro just died and I'm debating which Mbp to get. I'm leaning on the non-retina display because of the reports of FPS sluggishness. I'm very aware of frame rates.

Also, I keep hearing programs like photoshop and so on aren't optimized for retina yet. As much as I'd like to be bleeding edge, and even help develop for it... I can't help but feel it's at least another year before its more viable to go retina.

I don't want FPS lag. I'm probably going to pick up the 1,700 model and add 3rd party ssd + 16gb ram.
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Perl is also good for creating testing frameworks for other software. Portable supercharged shell scripting.
Unfortuately I'm pretty sure they're all real reported stories. In one case the man asked to move away from his own children was Boris Johnson, the mayor of London[1], when he was an MP in 2006.

Edit: There's more on wikipedia [2].

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3634055/Com...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_sex_discrimination_pol...
No mention of acutance at all, surprising. There's a lot to be said about the way the human visual system responds to spatial frequencies, above all else.

Related:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringing_artifact

The way I see it, serifs may have evolved as a way to emphasise and deemphasise the various spatial frequencies in a given letter. A sharp 90-degree line at the end of a stem may help 'cut off' and locally restrict the frequencies represented by the stem in a way that makes them more easily distinguishable by the visual cortex.

Try flicking between these two images and you might get an idea of what I mean:

Normal: http://i.imgur.com/NPAh3.png

High-passed: http://i.imgur.com/IoHCC.png
Looks like they're a PHP shop and only offer PHP client libs yet. Seems they didn't even understand the message Stripe has in kinds of developer focus.

Also: Why would I use a payment service of the biggest copy cat company in the country? To deliver them my revenue numbers on a silver plate so they can decide if they should "enter my market"?

They don't even openly publish the upcoming fees and just want you to "vendor lock-in" (or dig around to find the transaction fees somewhere hidden on their site). really sad :(
I agree, it's been a long time coming. Might be a pain for Stripe but competition is great for everyone else.
In general Americans tend to take things very literally and don't "get" online sarcasm/irony very well.

I have bumped into this on numerous occasions in MMO's.
Did you consider the possibility that the author already has a job that pays him extremely well and that the ROI he gets in spending time providing customer support/marketing for a commercial iOS app is actually losing money for him?

I think that's more a rationalization that developers use to convince themselves not to charge for their stuff than a reality. I've certainly never experienced any support/marketing overload with any of my products.

He already has the app in the app store. His support/marketing is where it is already. All he need do is tick a box marked "allow people to send me money" in his app store control panel and he's done. In short, there's no "down" for the app to go. It's already maxed out on the "losing money" front, and doesn't seem to be overburdening him.

On the customer support side, he might actually see that go down too by charging. Here's yesterday's discussion on exactly that:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4376126

This really is a case where there's no downside to charging money. And, seemingly, a very real downside of keeping it open source.
I've actually been getting better content from /r/programming than HN for a while now, but that's not great either. Do you know of anywhere else to go?
And I remember that day because it took me a couple days to get it to compile on Xenix and my wife was pissed because all I did during the winter break was play with Perl programming. :-)
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I was initially appalled when I first read about the Samwar clone factory. Now I agree, in cases like this they're filling a gap in the market.
You should check out the Lazarus browser addon for textarea backups :)
>We need dramatic examples of companies' valuations being hit for making such privacy violations on a whim.

They don't exist. Only a small subset of users even care and investors and stakeholders just want their site to succeed any way it can. While not expressly privacy-related, take a look at charts of LinkedIn stock after their massive security breach where it was revealed they weren't salting password hashes. Not only did it not dip, it rose on the news and held those gains until after the story was out of the news.
I don't have the cash to buy a "license" to my own code, but I would imagine he removed the copyright notices like he did for Matt Gemmell: https://twitter.com/mattgemmell/status/235302914258792448

I didn't have a problem with him selling my stuff, I just have a problem with him claiming something I wrote as his own.

By the way, Chupamobile responded and removed his software: https://chatsecure.org/blog#7
The reason why you might consider it:
Payments are still a very annoying topic in Europe. (imho)
This is wonderful, I'm excited we are entering an age where its now becoming normal to use technology to augment or repair the human body. Rather than our old approach of letting medical science bodge a repair or remove faulty body parts, we are turning to Scientists and Engineers to design prosthesis and build replacements. Given a few years, would it be possible to design a better retina?
Don't laugh, I read the shipping fees as the total price. I thought it was adequate.
Yahoo does the same thing ... and i immediately uninstall it upon such discovery!
The first few examples I saw where all JavaScript or Curl.

Are we reading the same thing?
The only gap is, that Recurly and Spreedly were not able to tell the EU founders that their service is available and working perfectly fine with European payment gateways.

They all have JS and REST-APIs and a lot more:

- http://recurly.com/

- http://spreedly.com/
That is fundamentally just misanthropy. Peoples actions are based on free will, and are often logical if you take the time to understand the world from their point of view. A subsistence farmer with no pension scheme has an economic imperative to have lots of children. It is insane to suggest that letting our farmers children die is going to change that. Children are a consequence of sex, not religion or culture. Do you want me to draw you a diagram to explain how it works?
From my site:

"This project is 100% free because it is important that all people around the world have unrestricted access to privacy tools. However, developing and supporting this project is hard work and costs real money. Please help support the development of this project!"

:)
http://www.izettle.com/

Have been around for a while too
I think this is great! I assume Stripe didn't have imminent plans to launch in Germany anyway. Looks like they have a rate of 2.95%, which is pretty good. Especially for outside the US.
Will never be as good as Stripe. Mostly because Stripe is coded by it's founders, get support questions answered by their founders who will even teach you how to use git. :)
That's a square competitor. Still awesome nonetheless.
because nothing works like a credit card. e.g. the popular direct debit payments can be charged back very easily + you just have to search for an valid account number (= fraud).

The only payment method that works with recurring and more or less "final/instant" transactions is credit card.

So there is no alternative for SaaS or in-app-payments to credit cards (or some direct debit risk mitigation business like paypal)
Looks like the discussion is over here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4380185
He really thinks the government push back is going to be via legal channels?

Who does he think is doing the ddos in the first place?

The ddos is happening at over 40GB/sec (2TB every minute). You need massive resources for that.
Actually these guys are like Square not Stripe - getting my payment companies confused.
Yep. Without direct debit, I don't see this working as a single source payment solution, and if you have to add some other API for the missing solutions anyway, this becomes much less enticing.
Fantastic. Maybe this will put some fire under Stripe to launch in Europe...
I am curious what the alternative but far more popular payment variants in Germany to credit cards are.
Agreed. People only feel "screwed" by Ryanair because the are used to flexibility, and Ryanair are not flexible. "Oh I'm 2kg over, but that's not a lot, so they'll let me away with it.... What do you mean I have to pay €40?" "Oh they'd have to let me take my handbag, so I'll bring a massive one... what do you mean only one cabin bag?"
I've gone through Design for Hackers by David Kadavy a few times already, and Part V is fantastic to gather some context and understanding of fonts and typography.

PS: the whole book is IMHO a great read for people who want to know more about the fundamentals of design. At the very least it will make non-designers able to communicate with designers better.
Only seems to support German bank accounts at the moment (not any European) - though they're not terribly difficult to open.
Erm. $300 bucks for a thermal printer, seriously?

Those can be had for $50 on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/High-speed-Receipt-Thermal-Printer-Bla...
This is great news. I'll be adding subscription payment options to my UK-based startup in a few months.

I'd love to be able to use Stripe and I hope that the introduction of Paymill brings Stripe support to the UK more swiftly. If not, I can use Paymill.
List of countries from the blog:

Americas: Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Panama, Dominican Republic, Peru, Puerto Rico

Europe & Middle East: UK, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Finland, France, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland

Asia & Africa: Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa
perl came out early enough before the flood
it was pretty much the CGI language by default
it would crop up in a project and glue everything together
at that point in the project when nobody cares anyway
it was on my iBook in 2001 when PHP and Python were not
it flew out of my keyboard rewriting a lost dot-com era PHP game
the $a and $b global variables are accumulators to paint with
consider alternatives:

- http://recurly.com/

- http://spreedly.com/

+ WireCard.com as gateway/acquirer. Works for all EU countries.
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True, but we are talking about more than just "good attitudes" here. Automatic testing that happens with every commit does constitute as a language feature.
Yeah, but the problem is you still need a gateway, whereas with Stripe/Paymill, everything is included. Luckily, Braintree now supports EU as well.
If he has modified even a single line of your source code, he is free to re-license the entire product as a whole under his own license.

Actually, that's not true. In many legislations a minimum amount of originality is required copyright to apply.
Something about this feels really weird to me, like something out of a Woody Allen movie. Can you picture a company full of these guys? A restaurant with half the tables having robots sitting at them? A sporting even where little iPads sit in seats watching the action? Just feels --- odd.

Usually when I feel this way it's a great idea, because I have terrible instincts, so keep up the good work, guys! I'd love to try this out with various technology teams I help that do distributed work.
Not really, you can have good enough security without
perfect technology.

Cost to acquire or develop and reliably productize (and risk divulging) targeted attacks for OTR would likely exceed the value your adversaries could extract from your chat with your mom.
So sad. He seems like he was a really good guy.
I did not downvote you either, but I think branding is a concept that is pretty important to most of us. How the major companies handle the evolution of their brand is pretty interesting, especially the subtle aspects that we see every day but might not think about.
I occasionally need to print things, for example a train ticket last weekend that needed to be scanned and wouldn't scan on my phone. This might be good for me if it were less expensive.
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I think that's an important point. They are successful because the American-only companies typically take a while to move into foreign markets, if ever.
You've got it wrong dude, it's the testing infrastructure that's the key not the attitude. The infrastructure is built with perl, and has been the inspiration for other languages attempts at part of the infrastructure.
I love posts like this on Hacker News!

They remind us all that what is in our heads and our hearts trumps everything else: money, stuff, conditions, and the opinions and actions (or inactions) of others who really don't matter.

Like just about everyone else here, I can add my own experiences. I'll just say that I have more of some things than I ever thought I would, but the things that I've lost remind me what's really important. Sometimes I wish I had learned this much earlier, but it's never too late...

Let's all make the most of the cards we've been dealt - one day at a time.

Thanks, OP, for the yank back to reality. Now back to work (with a smile).
Well, someone could use your code if it is BSD and charge as much as he wants.

He could use your code with the only requirement to add you to the credits. He also could modify the license, provided that he respects the due credit.

You can't say: "Now my code is GPL!!", the code that this person is using continues being BSD. You gave it away, your DMCA complaint is invalid.

Stop whining and learn about the basics of licensing first. Then focus on your product and not on what other people do. You could also charge for it while giving your code.
There is already a PHP for JVM:

http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.1/doc/quercus.xtp