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Another "middlebrow dismissal", voted to the top of the thread.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4712867

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4692794

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4718083

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4723926

The first point is plainly false. Braintree isn't "suffering." The third point is true, but cynical and obvious. Is it really surprising that you probably won't change payment processors, or that they want to keep your business? Is that really the most interesting point you can make?

The second point is actually a very good one, and it would be interesting to see what actually happens to the 1,000 startups. I suspect we'll see most fail to make anything close to $50,000 and a select few make significantly more.
Essentially, a CSS DSL.
In case anyone was curious what MediaGoblin is here is a video with an overview and update on the project. It was given at a local Python user group meeting.

http://www.pyvideo.org/video/1418/mediagoblin-update
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Yes, thats a catch 22, but one that every community has and it is hard to overcome. I wouldn't have written my reply if I didn't think that the parent wasn't overly positive and brushing away a few problems.

Thanks for the link btw.
I've tried the web version and played with the iphone version. Slick app for keeping memories.
I'm happy to answer any questions here as well. I had a great experience with Gumroad and highly recommend you use them for selling your next product.
Since our customers are developers of web and mobile applications we are obviously focused on ensuring that there are no zero-day exploits.

But yes you are right, we have to ensure that we factor in the human angle when designing the solution.
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Probably not the most civil thing to do, but I don't think it is an ad hominem.

Which is why I prefaced as saying I didn't like to pull that card. I think the OP I was replying to just rubbed me the wrong way with his attitude of "so says the guy using a back-worldly shit 1024x600 laptop with dial-up", like joeyh was some sort of luddite who would be more productive with newer "better" hardware. It stank to me of being someone who didn't even know what joeyh was producing with his setup, and just brushed him off as "not productive", when I really feel that joeyh's example is something to, at a bare minimum, study as an example of what's possible when you slow down and focus on the code and design instead of dual 30in monitors and teh shinee.

Furthermore, GP, yes, worth is a totally artificial human construct; while you may value social interaction more than others, I tend to see developing open source software as being an almost infinite good, as it can improve innumerable peoples' lives, albeit only a little bit at a time. That's the power of software.
Looks nice. I'm curious though: the site mentions that everything is synced through the Cloud. Did you use iCloud or is it a home-grown solution - or something else? Sync is hard - and I've found iCloud sync in practice is still pretty hard.
+1. Voice recognition is mainly about hands-free utility; interacting with the phone's features and functions. Google's implementation is impressive, but it will just be something fun to show off for now.
Are you suggesting that IP owners owe (real estate) property taxes?
At this point I think that Apple actually has so much cash that they really can't put any more of it towards further use in R&D, etc.
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aw, Elon Musk didn't make the cut.
It looks like this is a private version of Path, and if that's the case, this may be just what I'm looking for! I'd love to ditch "social networks" and have my own way to store my moments and memories in the cloud on a timeline. I just don't want the rest of the world to see.
Why? What'd you find useful?
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This is true, but Google is hardly the only company using these loopholes in the EU. It makes little sense to make them an example, unless you were also trying to pressure them on another front (newspapers).
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That would have some interesting consequences. Could I suddenly owe lots of taxes if I get a really great business idea that I think is worth a lot?
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Hey, this is a cool project, keep it up. Finding gametimes on the NBA website is a PITA. My only suggestion would be to allow filtering by team (or geolocate based on IP and filter for me automatically).

I'm assuming most visitors are interested in their hometeam's games rather than the league at large.
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Hi and thank you for the complement.

It's all home-grown solution. Sync was definitely hard but it was one of my top priorities from the very beginning. Though it definitely still needs a bit of an improvement but it's working beautifully at the moment.
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I think this is the same picture: http://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/121r3s/torrent_downlo...
any particular clip / quote you like?
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As Putin and the Chinese have so deftly showed, you control a country's major media, you control the country. There is a lot of political power bottled up in the news monopolies that Google is disrupting so it would be natural for the people who rely on that power in the government to act to protect it.
smoother scrolling, smoother zooming, smoother gameplay, yes even smoother video playback for 24 fps videos.
Could it be possible to pierce the corporate veil in these cases and go after the people actually running them? Seems like the correct response, if these people are using corporations as throw-away legal weapons.
Efficient dosage of inspiration -- thanks.
Apple's are significantly worse, however. Apple does things like use non-standard screws and connectors. They also like to glue in batteries. Basically they make the machine so that it can't be easily repaired or replaced by a qualified technician. They also reduce the ability to recycle certain components by gluing them to the case.

I'm a longtime Apple technician and things started going downhill when the iMac came out. The Apple machine is pretty on the outside. Perfect for the folks that buy them.
On the other hand, imagine losing your house, car and savings because somebody finds a bug in your product and sues you...
it looks impressive. Is there a way to export the notes to another software? Also, how is it better/worse than Evernote? I tend to use Evernote as a journal...
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I felt a weird thrill as I read through your troubleshooting saga. Great job on finding the faulty node and nice work on documenting it.
"ruby_block" is a Chef resource that allows you to execute your favorite ruby code as a separate resource.

You can always drop to regular, plain Ruby, anywhere you like.
Here's one from the Arch mailing list. Also does the ~ expansion for home directories: http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-general@archlinux.org/msg07...
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Great impleentation, but its odd that there a limited number of elements you might want many, like spaces.
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Lol. :)

Didn't you notice the multiple david vs goliath references? Or the challenger vs incumbent dimension? Conflict makes for a good story makes for frontpage news.

Moreover, the 50/50 text/visuals is a refreshing change away from huge blocks of gray.
I got myself an HP ZR2740w (2560x1440) a few weeks back (the old ZR40w relegated to secondary screen). Definitely worth its price.
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The thought of "middlebrow dismissals" came to mind when I saw the ensuing discussion. Now I don't think I fully understand what is meant by the term. Further googling didn't bring up anything else, but if it's meant that I simply dismiss what Braintree is offering here, that is completely false. I welcome it. It's a good move. What I found issue with, and discussed at length was the wording of the post. It's not charity and I don't think anyone can disagree with that point.

>The first point is plainly false. Braintree isn't "suffering."

"suffering" may be a little colorful in choice of words, but I don't think it's strictly false, especially on HN where Stripe.com gets beaten in per-domain popularity only by the almighty domain-overlord himself, paulgraham.com

>The third point is true, but cynical and obvious.

I disagree that it's obvious. I think many people underestimate the potential cost of binding their entire business to a single platform, especially when that platform is payments, something that inherently people _do not_ under any circumstances try to mess with if it already works.
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P/E is below 14 for an innovative technology company whose products are selling out worldwide. Sounds like a buy situation to me.
1. I am feeling rather smug that I read through the entire thing, and despite understanding less than 1% of it, feel that it has in some way, opened my eyes.

2. I marvel at the world Sal and Simp live in. To understand all the details they are going on about must make the world truly an amazing place to exist in.

3. Why can't all things in this world be worked out like these two? You know, politics, war, religion, etc? Ah, I can dream...
I wonder if he is the youngest person with a finite erdos number then.
An interesting idea, but which Maine tax would apply? I'm not a Maine tax lawyer, but it looks like Maine has plenty of taxes, including a "Blueberry Tax" [1][2], but there doesn't appear to be a general assets tax. Any corporate income from licensing the patent would be taxed just the same as any other income.

Maine's property tax appears to apply only to "real property" (land) and "tangible" personal property [3] ("tangible" property includes tractors, factory equipment, and other things you can pick up and hold --- patents and other IP are "intangible personal property.")

If you think it's a capital asset subject to capital gains taxation, there's usually no tax on that until the gain is realized by sale. I don't know how patents are taxed in states with general ad valorem taxes, but Maine doesn't seem to be one of those states.

[1] http://www.maine.gov/revenue/othertaxes/homepage.html
[2] http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/36/title36ch0...
[3] http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/36/title36sec...
No, I'm saying that if Schrödinger's equation describes larger and larger systems that means that Quantum Mechanics is Schrödinger's equation rather than being Schrödinger's equation plus waveform collapse. Maybe you could try reading through the Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics Wikipedia page[1] to get a better sense of the issues being talked about here? Whether or not waveforms collapse at a certain scale is precisely the most important issue of disagreement here, and it actually is subject to experiment in theory. And experiment could probably even distinguish between the various families of waveform collapse too. Not that this will distinguish between all interpretations, but it would at least cut the possible number in half.

Remember, waveform collapse or "some new physics which makes QM break at a certain scale" was actually the assumption of the people who started quantum physics, and the default assumption of popular writing including the article we're discussing. It wasn't until much later that Everett proposed that it might be an unnecessary hypothesis like Maxwell's aether.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mech...
Why does that graph show world-wide downloads? Shouldn't it instead show EU downloads only to give an accurate account of the effects of the glitch?
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I am divided. As a developer, I think open source is great. As an entrepreneur, having more people release stuff for free devalues my work on the long term. I would say a good middle ground would be that open source should only be used to provide tools to developers, not to release production features.

A few years back, people would buy a software $25, now they complain when your app is over $1 (thanks Apple).
This is what caught my eye too as being really ugly and hard to read.

const map<const string, const tuple<int, int, StrToStr>> TagDataMap {
{"title" , make_tuple( 3, 30, stripnulls)},

Why can't the compiler figure out the types involved in this map structure itself? The user-defined functions are declared above, make_tuple will be declared in some library, and the others are string/int literals.
Can you compare/contrast this with another iOS app I've been looking at for journaling - Day One http://dayoneapp.com/?
Yes, we get a lot out of an incubator. We're funded by a Danish VC and our HQ is in Copenhagen, Denmark. By joining 500 Startups, we'll get a chance to build a network in Silicon Valley and meet mentors like Andrew Chen, Hiten Shah and of course Dave McClure. And just like the rest of the batch, it gives us a four month period of intense focus on product development.
Well, yeah duh. But who cares what their true motives are? Why are you complaining about free credit card processing?

Also, everyone is trying to do cost calculations based solely on their transaction costs. You are not counting all the customer support they have to provide to setup all the accounts and maintain them which is significant.
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Nice! Now if anybody came up with a way to setup system-global shortcuts so that I don't have to go back to the browser page to pause or skip a track...
>Actually, I'd really prefer that right there to be on the front page

Yeah, that would certainly be helpful.
There is no economic incentive motivating a group of people to spend large amounts of money to convince the public that Bob Dylan did say those quotes.

Lehrer should have lied about things that have been politicized for economic gain, like climate change, economics or medical science. Then when you get called on it you have well funded groups with media clout ready to support you.

I agree the double standard is ridiculous, but I don't find it surprising.
Just to hop in on the discussion, I have just launched a similar (hosted!) service similar to circular(/tampon)/buffer/hootsuite except it's completely white label and self brandable: http://sashboard.com
Thank you very much!

I don't know who the visitors are but I'd like to fix the actual "game-time" (normalized to UTC, then convert to visitor's local time) and to add TV schedules as well (USA, Canada, Intl) first before doing other things.

For now, people can bookmark the URL to their favourite team, e.g.: http://nbaschedules.appspot.com/heat.html
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Don't the sales reps in the MS stores claim "No other mobile OS has live tiles"?
Politicizing Sandy
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Hey congratulations!!! Zapier.com is a great idea wonderfully executed.
>Regardless of whether you use bootstrap or not you are always going to be specifying CSS classes which describe the presentation of elements, not sure how else it can be done?

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/19/classes-where-...

>Screen reader software will generally ignore anything that it doesn't understand or deem irrelevant.

Yes, that's the problem. Putting useful information in places where software has no way to understand it.

>Whenever I have tried screen readers they will say "ok, there's 3 divs with content here. Let's read them out one at a time or just read the headings and wait for the user to select one".

And if you had the appropriate tag instead of a meaningless div, it would know what to do. That's the point. Google for semantic html.
In case you wonder who will win the argument in the end: Sal is short for Filippo Salviati, the alter ego of Galileo Galilei in his "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems", and Simp is Simplicio, the obviously stupid defender of Ptolemaic and Aristotelian science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Chi...
In general you shouldn't write off any of the startups in incubators after one month - especially not in 500 startups and YC where there are many talented teams applying and good screening processes.
In that they are interested in suing as many platform developers as possible?
You guys should stop poking fun at feminism and check your privilege m'kay?
It isn't a "bad" word. It's about the implications of using a tool in the workplace that is automatically going to garner giggles and stares at the reactions of the female employees. Imagine having to explain your workflow to your executives or train female social media employees on how to use something with a name like that. It's just awkward and unnecessary.
That is great, but is it private? If so you should explicitly state that. That will be your differentiating feature that you should stick with.
Well, one limit you can reach quickly with Buffer's free tier is if you want to use it with multiple accounts on the same platform (say, multiple Twitter accounts).

Thanks for the kind words, I'll think about writing something about the app's dev!
I believe your contract is unjust. While I can't speak for you personally, I believe many people sign such contracts without regard to their justness, because they don't have market power to renegotiate the contract. And I believe that under such circumstances it's not unethical to "renegotiate" the contract by infringing it and seeing what happens.
Just requested an invite. Can I sync with Dropbox?
Critical feedback: This article doesn't seem to be grammar-checked and there's at least one paragraph that is incomplete. The entire thing is difficult to read or understand even for someone with crypto knowledge. I recommend getting future articles peer-reviewed by a layman.
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"being able to encrypt a message is proof that they are who they say they are"

This is not exactly right. Encryption ensures people cannot eavesdrop on a message but it does not ensure you can verify the sender. You need authentication instead, which is what HMAC does in this case.
This experience, as I understand it, is not uncommon. In fact, Andrew seemed surprised that I was unhappy with being cold-called at home. “This is industry standard,” he argued with me.

Someone once tried that line with me when they were ripping off my stuff and selling it as their own. For some reason, it now really really sets me off these days.
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This is not a win at all. I used to do this, until I realized that when I want to change something I have to edit all my template files.
Tangible item vs. intangible idea with no actual working implementation. I can patent the idea of time travel with enough vague descriptions of an implementation that don't require a great knowledge of the subject on my part, that doesn't mean I can make it happen. Should that really qualify for a patent?
You predicted it was just going to rain a lot; you completely ignored everything reported on storm surges.

Even now, you're concerned with the hurricane classification and missed the fact that barometric pressure, tide timing and bathymetry of the New York Harbor/Long Island Sound were the currently predicted causes of flooding, not simply windspeed.
As I responded to your comment, "hurricane" or "tropical storm" classifications were not appropriately descriptive, as Sandy was predicted to (and did) merge with another system to morph from a warm core tropical style system to a cold core nor'easter system. The area of the storm was particularly large, which was another reason for the "super" attribution.
You are legally recognized as a business the moment you earn a dollar doing business. You're called a sole proprietor, which is a business doing business under the name of its owner. Taxes and legal obligations pass through directly to you.

There are other types of business entities you can form -- partnerships, LLCs, S-corps, C-corps, or a simple DBA ("doing business as") -- which can have both benefits and downsides. You can talk to either a CPA or a lawyer that specializes in small business about what makes sense for you.
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Congratulations Cooper and Sean! Wishery was pointed in the right direction and Zenbox is a great home.
Yes it's completely private.

Good idea! I'll definitely get that message across.
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Convert the (x,y) curves to surfaces in the (x,y,time) domain and you should get a representation that is very fast to evaluate. With fast forward differencing, animating the curves would only need 6 adds per control point. If you are fine with "A Scanner Darkly"-style video it would work great!

BTW: Vector videos have been used to squeeze full-screen cinematics into a Super Nintendo: http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/index.php
There are a number of ways to go about this. The SBA has a decent breakdown of the various business structures: http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-ma...

The bottom line is that you really should talk to an expert. There are legal and financial ramifications of each type of business entity, and you don't want to get screwed.
But the question of "does the small guy ever benefit from patents" tells us nothing useful. Only the proportion of cost to benefit matters here.

People sometimes win the lottery. Does that provide reason enough to start buying tickets instead of groceries?
I kind of disagree, and think this is a poor implementation. "Print view" is a feature that JavaScript lightbox-style dialogs should not be used to implement. This one for instance, is totally broken on mobile (on Chrome on a Nexus 7 at least, you cannot scroll to read it)
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He has earned it.
Tell you the company that will get my business out of stripe, braintree and the others. The one that works out how to let us open an account without an SSN. Currently we are with SAASY for that reason, they charge 5.9%.
My syntax checker went crazy with all of those missing periods.
The dream is that we can keep climbing the ladder of abstraction forever and build more complex software (and presumably sell it), by assembling the free and open-source software. Climb a rung, repeat.

The problem is we are bounded by our imagination and hardware. So we just keep making the same stuff in 100 different ways.
Can't comment on C++11 but the Python version is better written as:

type = "foo"
try:
target_widget = (x for x in widgets if x.get_type() == type).next()
print "widget found:",target_widget
except StopIteration:
print "widget not found"
It is not an ad hominem to be disappointed that some still believe that the desire for control over one's own privacy is an entitlement, not a right.

I am not "uncivil, immature, and irrational" simply because your personal opinion differs from mine.
I gave you +1 for middle brow dismissal.
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A little suggestion for the homepage: Take away that circle and move up the feature boxes. That empty space in the middle adds absolutely nothing, and the queue number can be placed elsewhere.
while it's clearly an article intended to persuade, and not trying to present a balanced view, i think the doubts and questions raised against string theory are still commonly held (i cannot for a moment comment on particular problems, but from the occasional things i hear from academia, string theory is not considered that "good" in an "aesthetic" sense... it may be the best we have, but it's kind of embarrassing how complex it is, and how little it gives (or fixes) in return)