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You're probably right about how the sentence should be read. Of course, under that logic, the incident at hand was not "outward," anyway. It was subtle. So, yeah... poor writing.
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> what are they providing more than paypal or stripe

For one, they're providing the opportunity for you to open this business. That they have a bank willing to underwrite that type of account is significant.

PayPal, Stripe, and just about everyone else in the payment processing industry, will not work with you at all. Aggregating/factoring payments on behalf of others is prohibited in their terms/merchant agreements... because it's extremely financially risky to run such a company.

If it's not obvious to you why that is, you should consider picking up a cofounder with experience in online fraud/risk management. Managing fraud/risk is a core competency of every third party aggregator that survives its first few years. It's the reason PayPal is here today while their many earlier competitors went bankrupt.
Can you point to an example of this happening before?

(edit to answer my own question:) I found this & yes that seems scary as hell:

"Neglect to pay the Org dues for greater than 14 days, in which case the group becomes available and anyone can take it over"

http://www.meetup.com/boards/thread/27771222
it seems that the recurring theme is "You can loose so much time worrying about things that don’t even matter" - Gautam

"start saying NO to things that would take me away from what really needed my attention" - Renee

"is the question I am agonizing over right now likely to be the thing I will agonize over four years from now? The answer is usually no." - Bo

The main idea I got from this is to re-evaluate the things you are doing every day and prioritize the tasks that are absolutely essential to the startup.
Whoa buddy, sounds like you're on your high horse in your ivory tower. Must be lonely up there!
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First thing that popped in to my mind: decepti.co.nz

My mind wasn't the first it popped in to though.
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There's a brief description on wikipedia; it's called "Gonk".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS#Gonk
Thanks for answer.
But I'm looking for some explanation of raise of "official" antisemitism in 70s and 80s. Soviet Union started implemented officially sanctioned discrimination against Jews during Brezhnev regime. I was told that the number of Jews in Soviet universities declined 3x from late 1960s to 1970s - three times.

The question is why?
At first I just found the coincidence of these maps amusing, but as I think about them a bit more, they raise a lot of interesting questions. Why are most of the top-ranked universities located in the states Obama won? Why are ALL of them located in or right next to a county Obama won? How is this related to education, income, and other factors? What are the main underlying reasons for this?
Considering the ONLY UNBROKEN line in the patent, I don't see much difference in the two images you've shared, except that one [1] is shown in perspective 3D (and some color differences).
How about this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608731
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There's this:
http://cubiq.org/add-to-home-screen

It just points out where to click to put a bookmark icon on the homescreen (and I believe this is specific to iPhone/Safari given position of the icon relative to the screen).

It doesn't create an icon automatically for a user, but it's certainly helpful for those who don't know how to do it.
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Interesting and insightful blog posts are usually written by someone with intimate knowledge of some part of the business, be it an outsourced developer, a founder or even a marketing intern. The proximity matters. That knowledge is not going to be transferred over a five input form.
Sorry, nothing personal.

But this 'new' approach feels like last decade online banking - and it wasn't a good idea at that point.

In addition: Limiting user input and forcing password resets is, in my world, directly acting against your idea of 'improving user experience'.

If I am allowed to use a password of my choosing, I'll probably come up with something that is memorable and reasonably secure (depending on the context, I admit). If you force me to follow random, voodoo rules (just digits, at least one digit and one upper-case letter, more than x but LESS THAN y chars) I'm going to sigh, come up with something like 'YeahRight123' and I'm going to add a mental note to never trust this service fully. If I'm not leaving right away, that is. Resetting a password regularly (oh.. I hate everything noticeable SOX forces upon us)? Cool, you just motivate me to make my passwort 'cool123' - 'cool234' etc. (with variations for 'clever' password checks. If I cannot keep a prefix, I'll juggle different parts and keep the same, crappy, useless, insecure password, because .. I cannot be bothered to follow arbitrary idiot rules)

Your idea follows the worst practices in terms of restricting the keyspace and auto-resetting the password at arbitrary times, starting out weak already (4 digits..).

I wouldn't sign up with some 'security' in place that follows your suggestion.
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I will note that I personally have grave concerns about many of the proposals being considered for the WCIT event. A good site to learn more is:

http://www.internetsociety.org/wcit/
This is refreshing. The value of print gets lost too often, but here it finds a very nice home. I'm impressed with the process to create the actual print book with so many vendors in it. I expect there is a market for auto-generating magazine-like publications from a database of some sort. Very cool.
You still have to input energy to get hydrogen from urea, so why not just use that energy directly?

The only good reason to extract hydrogen is for storage. For example, solar energy could be used to extract the hydrogen from urea, which could then be burned at night to continue to generate power.

On it's own, any technology that requires extraction of hydrogen will result in a net loss. Sometimes a HUGE net loss.
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It is really important. You are right. In my haste to get this product out the door this morning, I forgot to send the post to our copy-editors. I screwed up. Sorry :( I certainly won't be making that mistake again.
> neither Marinol or Cesamet are made from marijuana.

Marinol's active ingredient is the main cannabinoid in marijuana. You could try arguing (as opponents have) that marijuana has no medical benefit while Marinol does, but it always struck me as bending over backwards to ignore the facts.

> (While this may seem pedantic, it makes a big difference if you're trying to argue for rescheduling in a federal lawsuit.)

Keep in mind that there's already enough to contradict a Schedule I treatment of marijuana (aside from the 25,000+ studies regarding marijuana's medical treatment, there's the government patent on medical uses of marijuana).

It's hard to construct a rational argument in favor of the current laws already, and yet they've still managed to persist.
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Until it gets out, and every website then posts links to his website, and to the frothy mix websites, thus boosting those and reinforcing the santorum frothy mix meme.
Apple revived them with the original Macintosh:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_E...
Agreed that a lack of autocomplete is annoying. A savvy user can also circumvent this by using a browser plugin such as GreaseMonkey to force-fill whatever fields they want. I guess the assumption is that such a user will also be savvy enough to safe-guard their password.
(Not that I'm saying I like 'em.)
If I were YC, I'd probably turn down most applicants the first time anyway and then wait and see who re-applies and see how much they've done since the first application. It's like interviewing someone and waiting to see if they follow-up.

This would weed out a lot of the wantrepreneurs who expect some external source to make them successful vs. building something.

It would probably be better at this point to think about what you're going to do over the next 6 months to build your product, which in turn will only help your odds for YC.
Because big piles of public money goes to those universities. Some universities do turn up their nose at this money and do discriminate.
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> Unless I'm out of date, Redis and High Availability don't go together in the same sentence; awesome as it is, it's still a single point of failure.

Clustering is a work in progress (http://redis.io/topics/cluster-spec , http://redis.io/presentation/Redis_Cluster.pdf), replication is available (http://redis.io/topics/replication).
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> Still, if the entire village contributed, it might be enough to charge cell phones and run LED reading lights, which would still be a huge boon.

If you think people in undeveloped countries need to generate power from their urine to charge their cell phones, you really need to get out and see the world.
> Regardless of that, if the DEA starts arresting people who are not violating state law after the electorate in CO has spoken in such clear terms,

Which they had no problem doing with the medical marijuana dispensaries in California, despite Obama's own promises that he would end the crackdowns.

> libertarians are going to go apeshit. That's the last thing that the Obama administration needs,

Sadly, I don't think either Democrats or Republicans care about libertarians. Look at how the Republicans unabashedly broke their own rules to disenfranchise Ron Paul voters, even though Ron Paul had next to no hopes of winning the nomination.
It's too bad EasyCatalog costs so much, but I expect that's they're targeting big name, high-budget publishers. I was very pleased to see the trial, and would love to buy if I could — it does what it says it does very well. That said, I'm still on the lookout for better, cheaper solutions for next time.
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Agreed, I'm just toying with the idea of finding the simplest way for a user to access a website securely. Haha, that's why I posted here before implementing it ;)

We'll be focusing on mobile, and the login process could be something like PayPal's mobile app where they let you login with your phone number and PIN (min 4 digits). I'm just looking for a secure way to translate that to a web app.

Something that could help - sessions could persist for an infinite amount of time, so upon first login we send them 4 random digits via SMS and if they enter it correctly they're authenticated. Basically two factor auth without the initial password.
Except that hydrogen (in gas form) is not that easy to store to begin with and likes to leak from containers.

The most efficient hydrogen storage we know is... fossil fuels.
Now they should use saturation to indicate which percentage of the voting population actually turned out to the polls.
Ah interesting, I wasn't aware of that. Doing some googling it seems to be a thing specific to bio and related areas, related to how NIH funding is differently structured from NSF funding. The NSF doesn't really have the equivalent of these training grants, but is more structured around 3-year projects, so students are hired onto specific projects as research assistants, or TA in years when no project money is available. Project budgets always include requests for money to support grad students, so the NSF indirectly funds a lot of training, but it's routed through the PIs proposing projects, rather than allocated at the school or department level. There's also quite a bit of DARPA funding, which is even more project-driven.
Unfortunately these aren't options for him if he's a third party aggregator as the mail says.

> you shall not: ... (ii) submit any card transaction for processing that does not arise from your sale of goods or service to a buyer customer, (iii) act as a payment intermediary or aggregator
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On a separate note, the federal government prevents states from exercising their constitutional right to lower the drinking age to 18, by blackmailing them with the threat of losing highway funding. There's nothing stopping them from doing that with marijuana.
I think part of the problem is that especially with decisions of the heart, people make short sighted choices. For example, people who marry young (sub 20) should realize they probably don't have enough information to make that choice. They may not regret their decision later (cognitive dissonance) but they probably could have better optimized.

If this doesn't convince you, at least consider the fact that doing this exercise will allow you to be more sure of your "gut" decision should they align and be a tad more wary of it should they disagree.
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Yeah that's true, thinking about it further a way to solve this could be allowing infinite sessions with the initial passcode being sent to you via SMS.

This way you wouldn't need to remember a different passcode each month and the login attempt issue wouldn't exist because passcodes are generated when you need to login.
It is worth noting that Atwood is the one saying that, and I would trust a random 3rd grade student's opinion on the subject over his. Notice how he is unable to provide any actual criticism of the answer, just "I don't like it"? That is his way of saying "I don't know what I am talking about, so someone else criticize it and then I'll jump in and say I was going to say that".
This is awesome. I love how you addressed a problem that seemed "already solved" (ie. there's tonnes of foreign language phrase books in the app store) and designed a better solution for it. I can't wait to try it out on a trip.

btw, does the app also provide an option to read the phrase, so that you can learn it over time?
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This was an amendment to the Colorado Constitution by the voters of the state. The Colorado state legislators can't override this like they could a statutory ballot measure.
But this design patent would still make sense (I mean I'd still fight myself to do, but eventually I'll settle with that) if all the lines were unbroken in that. But as you can see, the only solid line there is the rounded rectangle. That means, they've got exclusive design right to make tablets with rounded rectangles. What am I missing (a genuine question).
Interesting, thanks. Could you post an example of one of the vendor-promotional posts that you mentioned? And how did you get the blog itself going? - did you have to do plenty of SEO work there to get it off the ground?

Also, how many vendors sign up for free vs. paid accounts in your experience?

(We're thinking of doing something like this involving local merchants (not wedding-related) - hence all the questions).
that is not true...I have setup paypal for my site...
And I certainly agree to your point about managing fraud...
all I was trying to bring out forward was this promotion that they say is for startup is not true. Its for a company with P&L..So a YC company like UBER, or AIRBNB would not even qualify
Looking forward to seeing the additional measurements.

Can anyone explain why "I can’t leave it partially open or the radiator will fill with water and start spitting it out of the auto-bleed valve."? Why is partially open different from completely closed?
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Wow, this graph is crazy http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/page-pos... The standard deviation is more than twice the average!

This is a bit disingenuous: "The launch of Promoted Posts had no impact on the news feed reach of the average Page." And I think this is just wrong: "Sadly, news outlets like Ars Technica that are typically level-headed covered the Dangerous Minds rant as true despite its lack of hard data to back up its anecdotal claim." The linked article says: "Ars' own Facebook page has experienced similar fluctuations: even as likes continue to climb, traffic generated by the page has remained unusually low." So they do, in fact, have data.
Maybe you could post your video and a link to your site? You Getting it out into the aether can help.

Also, I can't imagine that your wife is laughing at you.
I'm still not following. There's no (sane) reason I can see you can't ship your own 64 bit binaries. Obviously some of your games aren't going to qualify, but you'll need your own library manager for that stuff anyway. Why must the client install be such a mess?

And again, I'm not part of the beta so I really can't comment on your forums. If I'm going to deliver tough love it has to be here, sorry.
I agree that's generally true, though my sense is that in CS it might be shifting somewhat: an alternate route to level-up once you get tenure is to go all-in on the big-money grants and hiring personnel. Start pulling in some multi-million-dollar DARPA projects and hire not only post-docs but more senior staff researchers, and an army of programmers, and become a manager of a bustling research enterprise. Then you can start working media appearances (maybe through the help of PR staff you've hired, even), that kind of thing. Those kinds of profs often don't bother with supervising grad students anymore, or pawn off the job on someone else in their empire. It's sort of like running a little consulting firm within academia.

In areas with fewer DARPA-sized projects, students are definitely the best way to get major influence, though, since producing research progeny is a good way to spread ideas, general approaches to research, etc. It seems to be particularly the case in mathematics that certain mathematicians are influential in part because they mentored a substantial portion of a generation of researchers.
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But the patent explicitly says those things (dashed lines) are not covered in this patent.
This is not exactly what I'm trying to understand. Is the oath enough (when we're talking about $368 million)? Will there be no investigation of what I said under oath anyway? What do you mean by 'am I willing to lie under oath'? If I'm infringing, but there is no certain (more or less) way of proving I knew about the damn patents, I am willing to lie. I am going to lie, and I'm not announcing it to the court, of course.

The whole concept of oath seems to be very weak.
Why? It's one thing if it can be framed as something you intentionally did, but as long as it's deniable, there's lots of folks for whom there's no such thing as bad publicity. As a politician trying to stay in the limelight Santorum qualifies.
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There's at least some evidence that, in fact, the Romney campaign fooled itself into believing the "unskewed" polling models which simply (and incorrectly) disbelieved the demographic makeup of the polls. So yeah, it's hard to believe the republican campaign could have run a heavily data-driven campaign.

Sorry, what is that evidence? The fact that they were saying they thought they would win? The fact that they didn't give up? Did you really expect them to? It's important not to confuse the public behavior of a campaign with their internal beliefs. And Romney really could have won this, had things gone a little differently.
That you were able to set up PayPal does not mean you're allowed to do what you're doing. Acting as a payment processor collecting payments on behalf of others is prohibited in the Acceptable Usage Policy. If that is what you're doing, there will come a day when you are moving enough money that it triggers an account review, they'll see that your business type is prohibited, and your account will be closed without notice. Be prepared for it.

This promotion of Braintree's is for startups... the 99% of them that can take payments with a standard merchant account with a normal risk profile. Startups that are selling their own products or services, not providing payment aggregation.

As they said, you are not that kind of startup, so you're ineligible for the promotion. Now that you know this, you have the option of going through underwriting for a high risk merchant account, which requires additional documentation. They don't ask this documentation of startups taking advantage of the promotion you're ineligible for.
It's correct as a synonym for fucking, but it's not a correct way of saying you etched traces on a circuit board, which is what this article is trying to do.
That would be horrible to try to build a business on if you weren't the rightsholder, though.
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