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This is not a matter of PayPal blocking anyone in Iran from buying specific services in order to help the Iranian government. This is your account being accessed from a new and well known scammer hotpot successfully, and PayPal attempting to stop any damage that might be taking place. (you kind of state this)

I run and have helped run many ecommerce stores, and the middle east and nigeria are the two places where all the attempted scams are from… and they use PayPal to do it. I've accessed PayPal from another country and had similar things happen, and a phone call or two fixed things up quickly.

I completely understand it sucks that your account is blocked; but _call_ customer service, and if you have any real history with PayPal, tell them that. "I've been a great customer for X years and have moved $XXXXX through PayPal over that time. I need your help please." Don't count on emails to help… scammers use emails too.
Actually I'm hearing its awful from people waiting for Thinkpads to ship too.
Rather than trying to tax companies based on some valuation, why doesn't the government just collect a small percentage of stock each year?
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Wait I thought the profit motive driving studios to produce safe sequels the mass market say they want is why movies were are so bad.

Which is it?
Why? The gross sales are all consumer spending going toward people in involved in getting eyeballs on content. What number is any more honest?
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Thank you very much for this comment.

Comments like these are one of the main reasons I keep coming back to HN. Keep it up!
You can require a password to download the book in the first place, which is like a "please don't steal" sign. Many people won't. Those who will can't be stopped by any technological means; DRM doesn't work, and devalues the product for honest customers.

You can hope that the freeloaders end up increasing the book's popularity and attracting more paying customers. But there isn't much you can do to influence that except make good stuff.
I think we may have to agree to disagree here. You do not like the way I expressed my dissatisfaction with the previously available solutions, and I do not like they way you expressed dissatisfaction with my attempt to explain my predicament.

I stand by what I wrote, as it is the best way I can explain the, frankly, hard to describe issue I take with separating the messaging component into its own servers. If I had to rewrite it, I don't know how I could explain it any differently and get closer to accurately expressing myself. I'm sincerely sorry if you feel I've misled you or am misleading people; it is not my intention in the slightest. I can't imagine what I could conceivably stand to gain from such a deception.

I would, however, suggest that if people are taking their tech advice from me without doing any research of their own (which is what you seem to be suggesting, as you've commented several times that the information that you believe contradicts me is easily available), perhaps my inability to properly express my reservations with the previously available solutions is not the biggest issue at play here?
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Please stop this political propaganda on HN. There are valid reason to criticize this law without trying to damage France ("Flee France" as you say ...)

Don't call everything you don't like "socialist". It's as ridiculous as when French left-wing socialists call everything they don't like "libéral".

And don't mix Spain and Greece :

- Greece has a completely corrupt government for years (and not only socialist governments)

- Spain had budget surplus for years before the crises and was reducing its debt more than other EU countries (cf http://imgur.com/s1jVu , you can have more stats on http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/graph.do?tab=graph&...)
When the first thing I read about a language it on it's description page is "compiles to X" or "runs on Y", this is definitely a sign that the language ha NOTHING INTERESTING TO OFFER whatsoever. Adding insult to injury, underneath is a bulletted list of language features that any language worth it's salt has them! And please... "Named constructors"... WTF?!

(If someone wants to be mean, he could simply compare this feature-wise with one of the Scheme dialects that compile to C...)
Tough to flush to spinning disk after your power goes down. So you'd have to do it continuously, which would remove most of the performance gains.
I expected to see some mathematical theorem unexpectedly proved by Mathematica or something.
Even though you do actually buy a sense of hope, it makes you worry more about missing an opportunity to win ("if only I had bought a few more tickets"). So it goes both ways and personally I feel happier by ignoring these (statistically - mostly false) hopes.

(OTOH I still need to worry about key employees winning the lottery, but that's another sad/cynical story.)
I was very excited when I saw NSQ. I thought it would solve my problem splendidly. It seemed, from my reading of the docs, that it did not support multicast however. :(

I was very impressed with it, though. You guys did an awesome job, and I'm extremely flattered you stopped by to comment.
I don't see how that question is relevant. Anecdotes do not make good rules.
I think the idea of using skill bars to describe tech experience is interesting, but it's information overload at the moment.
You get support if you pay for Google Apps for Business.
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Wow, I should not edit comments when I'm that tired. I added ", or accelerating to beat them" to the wrong line that ended with "yellow lights".
I've been working with node since v0.2.x
Mostly JSON API's. I wrote an oauth library awhile back from spec to talk to the tumblr api. Recently I've been moving away from node for API's and towards Clojure, but that's a different issue.

As for Mongo, I've set up sharded, replicated deployments for clients to run node API's off of. Typically on AWS. I've also worked with GridFS for image/metadata storage and retrieval.

I was hesitant to put it so high because I am not intimately familiar with the gritty plumbing of Mongo, which lends strength to your point that skill bars are pretty subjective.

In the end, I made the skill bars as a way of saying "I'm competent to work with these technologies" and as a comparison between the various tech I have listed.

You are correct though. A frame of reference is important. I do plan to place aside information either in popovers or attached sidebars.

edit: That's an interesting comment about the education space. I placed it highly because I actually dropped out of college to start my own consulting business. In that way it would not represent the traditional model of a Harvard education representing the top of the chain and would add more to the story of how I became who I am, and how I can drive a company forward.

edit2: Thank you for making me look at the Education section again. I now understand why you think I'm still in school, awaiting a degree. Changing the wording now.
In addition to what everybody else said, there's also trying to find pirated material for niche markets. That is, it's hard to find. I sell an e-book as well, and have foregone any DRM.

More to your point, could people buy the book and give it to their friends for free? Absolutely. And I'm sure some people have. Again, I'm okay with this. I'd rather people bought the book but like print, I can't stop people from sharing and ultimately, I don't want to.
It's very relevant because you pull stuff out of your ass while I'm actually doing this (successfully).

With "anecdotes" you mean repeatable strategies that work every time for me and for other book authors we know?
Thanks for the feedback.

Perhaps an accordion would serve to condense the information into a more manageable space... or maybe displaying them in a different chart style. I'll have to put some thought into it.
Looks perfectly fine to me, guess it must be some kind of problem specific to your setup.
a) We don't actually know that it worked for GE. There were a lot of changes under Welch, so there were a lot of simultaneously changing variables. I would contend that the "10%" policy had smaller potential than lot of the other changes. Note that one of the changes was changing from a company that was primarily an "old guard" manufacturing business to one whose net income is nearly 50% from its financial subsidiary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Capital) - before the recession, it was substantially more than 50%. That is a huge change.

b) GE under Welch was an old, established, stagnant company. My personal theory (pure speculation) is that GE had built up a lot of inefficient processes: whenever something bad happens, regardless of the probability of it recurring, the natural response of (especially large) corporations is to write another procedure to prevent it from recurring. GE also likely accreated lots of ineffective employees over the years (to write and follow the ineffective processes ;-).

As a result, GE under Welch was able to cut a lot of costs out of their manufacturing processes by re-evaluating the cost vs. effectiveness vs. benefits of them. All those cut costs would flow to their bottom line, at least for a while.

Note that GE's stock has been pretty flat (struggling, even) for the last several years. According to my speculation above, this would be because they squeezed all the excess costs out of their manufacturing and their financial division took it on the chin with the downturn, leaving them sucking wind. So...

c) Jack Welch's changes happened in a different era and were in response to a different situation. A solution that works for a totally different company than Microsoft in a totally different era isn't likely to be effective when applied blindly to e.g. Microsoft.
It's really sad to see the "automotive road entitlement" effect illustrated so clearly. There was a time when roads were for pedestrians and gatherings of people and, well, culture. Then the auto industry used propaganda to convince everyone that the road is only for cars, and I can't help but think that we might be a little worse off for it.
I think the real point he's making is that it shouldn't be free. Stop giving away your work for free. This is what made the iOS market so hard to make money in.

What, you spent 4 months working on that app? Dammit 1.99 is just too much to pay for that. Oh it's free? What the heck are these ads doing here. I hate your ads. Go F* yourself. Seriously. I got a support email today that told me to "Fuck off" because of the ads in one of my free apps. The race to the bottom isn't a good thing for anyone.
If you find a copy of your book posted on another website where people can download it, what can you do? Presumably the webmaster won't be the nicest guy in the universe to deal with.
I don't have a general download link, when you buy it I'll send out an email with a personal download link that will expire in a week or so, and can only be used 5 times.

Of course you can just write to my support email box and I'll send you a new link if you loose the file. I also send out free updates whenever I update the book.
> Talking about what other measures the government put in place, or what tweaks the government made to lower taxes for entrepreneurs is besides the point, as NO FUNDING MEANS THERE WILL NO LONGER BE SUCCESSFUL FUNDED STARTUPS from which to exit.

It doesn't matter because you cannot show a start-up that never came into existence on TV, so there is no way to hold politicians responsible for that. Nothing has changed since Frédéric Bastiat wrote "What is Seen and What is Unseen"[1].

[1] http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html
I will pay you 100$ if you could show me a single case of scamming from Iran. Honest.

I am saying they cannot access internet now you say they are using internet to scam? With money transfers impossible due to financial sanctions, it is impossible to do any scamming from Iran.

The reason mentioned by PayPal was the financial restrictions due to sanctions.
Why? I thought Ventura was one of the most respected governers in the country.
If the goal is to spread it as much as possible, it should be free and uploaded to any and every service. The goal is actually to find the optimal balance between distribution and profit. Like madrobby, I've found non-specialized 3rd-party channels aren't very effective and bring in little profit. (Specialized markets like pragprog are better.)
You switch several time between the first and the third person to talk about yourself:

Christopher Biscardi is a polyglot engineer specializing...

Vim is my primary editor.

I was also a part of the track team in college.

Chris also played the drums and owns 4 bass guitars today

Chris took up Juggling in middle school

You should choose one and stick to it.
It's a bit more explicit in NSQ but we essentially support multicast-like routing through "channels".

A "channel" receives a copy (at the source) of all the messages for a "topic" and has its own set of clients subscribed.
Speech for money is not pure speech, obviously.
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Have you ever tried that?
This person claims he was locked out of his paid google apps for business account. I think one solution is to purchase through a google apps provider. You pay the same costs but they get some cut of the money for providing service. I think this is the model Google wants to implement, have another company handle simple support and they can handle real issues when contacted by the company, not the end users. I think this actually happened for us, but it is invisible. We had an issue with Mac mail and google apps when we started. It wasn't behaving properly. We contacted our provider who I think contacted google and an engineer actually looked at the logs and explained it as a bug in Mac mail which after a timeout was initiating more connections and flooding the server.

Anyway I think google apps providers probably can provide sufficient support, maybe google voice just needs to get there.
Right. But the problem with Google and most other cloud service providers is that they provide services to a large number of "customers," many of whom don't pay a dime. So, their entire corporate structure is set up with that in mind and there are few, if any customer service reps. Developers and designers are expected to create "self service" products and since they work for the majority, it's expected that it'll work even for their paying customers.
Really, why you don't read that as "we will update the statute so that it does not compel us to send a bill to Coursera"?

I don't want mid level bureaucrats ignoring laws because they don't care for them.
"Hours?" In my case it was measured in days with weekends in between.

Overall, I've only worked at a few 'big' companies (more than 20 people) and was continually frustrated when requests of mine were framed as 'coming from a tech' or 'you don't understand business', which these sorts of requests tended to fall under.

In a nutshell, someone else got to choose tech XYZ, but didn't have to work with it. The people charged with using it are not given any authority to actually contact the vendor to fix the problem (or, in some cases, buy proper training or even get reimbursed for books on the subject). And somehow this is "good business"?

Few other departments in a large company would put up with this BS. Imagine the following scenario:

"Hey legal department, you're not allowed to buy a subscription to LexisNexis - just dig around on a forum for 8 weeks piecing together a defense. Oh, and by the way, we already set up the subsidiary in Brazil - forgot to tell you earlier. Just learn Spanish - I found this website where you can download Rosetta Stone for free. Anyway, Spanish is pretty easy - my son's already taken two classes in high school and took at trip to Mexico!"
This isn't a pervasive problem in the peer-reviewed math literature. It is a problem with one publisher that is widely regarded to lack legitimacy.

See https://www.google.com/search?q=%22scirp%22+scam for some examples.
Agreed. Thank you for the feedback.

edit: should be fixed.
Apple's Carbon also isn't a language, but rather an API.
If you can afford it or stomach it, directly providing support is a great way to manage your product design. Get enough calls where you have to explain that same thing over and over again and your developer brain will be in overdrive with ways to make that call stop. In a big company bad design doesn't directly cause pain for the developers, but if you're a small company you can practically let your customers condition you into building the best product.

There is one call you can mostly disregard: the smart guy with too much time on his hands who wants your product to be his custom design for free.
Reminds me of the story about someone submitting a fake or computer generated paper on Derrida and deconstructionist analysis to a number of literary journals and having it accepted. I can't find the link though, unfortunately.
Sure, but that doesn't make it a good intermediate representation for a programming language. I really like CoffeeScript, but compiling to it would be insanity.

That said, there are some good reasons for compiling to C. Not every architecture has a backend for LLVM yet, after all.
Related: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100201/the-way-i-work-paul-eng...
Hey! No worries. ;-)

Remember, we are speaking interactive+web+CV in this thread. So, basically, the entire website is his CV (Research, Visualizations, Fun, Travel -- Top right corner).... You interact with the site and you learn about all his skills (in a very fun, very tangible and informed manner). Also, the teaser animated gif that showcases a few of the "cool" things he's working on, are an excellent teaser/appetiser, don't you think?

Anyway, I suggest you keep a few hours free and sit down with your favourite bevvy and then start clicking..... That's how it's for me with his site every time ;-)

EDIT: If you liked the design and presentation of that CV, please upvote the original comment so the site gets some visibility that it deserves as an interactive and constantly evolving "skills" showcase. (He's no relative of mine, and I have nothing to do with him either personally or professionally)
Hm. Very interesting, I'll have to take another look and get a better understanding of it.
"air, not "ass".

Which of my rebuttals are false and why?
>> "Unfortunately many young artists are literally begging labels to make them famous. They assume that money comes along with that..."

Half of your statement is true, most if not all young musicians want to be famous (and by that I mean have lots of people listen to their music and see them play). I don't think the second part is completely true though. Most musicians do what they do because they love it and as long as they can make enough money to buy them food, a bed, and get them to the next show, they will be satisfied. People are familiar with the bad reputation labels have and are aware it is not always a road to riches. I think there are very few people who get into music for the money, frankly because the chances of you making a lot of money in it are unlikely. If you want to be rich there are much easier paths.
Amazing job man, very creative, really like it !
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Mind if I jump in with an analogy?

In 2012, the Canadian Olympic team sent 281 athletes to compete at the summer Olympics in London. The World Bank reports that Canada's population is approximately 34,000,000.

Using a raw analysis, you could say that, "A Canadian has a 281/34,000,000 probability of reaching the summer Olympics."
That is perfectly valid.

However, you cannot use that same technique to judge individual chances of success. Let's say that I am in a room with Brent Hayden.

Brent Hayden (a swimmer who won a bronze medal) is 6'4 and has a very athletic build. I am 25 pounds overweight, pasty faced from too much time in front of computers and completely void of hand-eye coordination.

Clearly, our individual odds of reaching the Olympics are different. The probability that I will make the summer Olympics is, in actuality, far below 281/34M because I am on the left side of the athletic prowess bell curve. Someone like Brent Hayden's probability of making the summer Olympics in, in actuality, higher than 281/34M because they would fall on the right side of the athletic prowess bell curve.

Those sorts of normal distributions happen in startups as well. Some teams are significantly more suited for the demands of startup lives (just like some couples are significantly better suited for the demands of marriage than others are).
The exposure is all they need to offer. More exposure will lead to more concert ticket sales and merch sales. With the modern '360 deals' in which the label now takes a cut of those things (because of declining record sales) exposure might not be enough anymore.
Exactly. It was a payed account.

Providers may be a good idea, although I'm skeptical about the ability of Google Apps providers of having direct channels to Google support. Your story is certainly interesting and favorable in that aspect.
Google's policy isn't "do no evil". It's "Don't be evil". Subtle, but important.
>Really? You think this doesn't exist?

That's not what the author said, "we couldn't find" is a personal judgement which leaves things wide open.

>I'm glad you had fun inventing your own distributed hash infrastructure, but please do not attempt to convince other people that there are no other options out there for reliable and highly available messaging.

That didn't happen.
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