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Does this mean we'll finally get a checkbox for "[x] Don't Play Music Recorded 'Live'" now? (Or "[x] Only Play Music Recorded 'Live'?" for people who are fans of it?)
What happens if someone gets his hands on the private key from braintree and then breaks into your server? What are the views on PCI compliance?
Frankly about time. We evaluated Braintree and just couldn't get over the amount of information requested to get started as compared to Stripe. Secondarily, we reached out to a member of the sales team and got a fairly curt response about their 1,000 startup initiative. Mix it with disjointed API docs (that appears to be better than it was 3 months ago, but not by much), and it wasn't even a decision. (And this is coming from someone who had opened a merchant account in 2003 over the phone with a previous startup)

It's all really a bummer because we'd love to see some serious competition in this space, but at the moment no one appears to be up to the task.
Two of those are California universities, where Asians form 13.6% of the population[1]. Since the average GPA for Asians in 2009 was 1623 and the next highest average (for white students) was 1581 [2] and the average GPA for Asians in 2009 was 3.09 vs. 2.88 for whites [3], I'm sure the percentage of Asians in California who earned the median SAT scores or GPA's at those schools was much higher than 14%, and was probably higher than the percentage of Asians in those schools. Also, I might note that UC Berkeley (Cal) and UCLA are located in metropolitan areas with Asian populations that are larger than the California average.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California
[2] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-08-25-SAT...
[3] http://nationsreportcard.gov/hsts_2009/race_gpa.asp?tab_id=t...
Two of those are California universities, where Asians form 13.6% of the population[1]. Since the average GPA for Asians in 2009 was 1623 and the next highs average (for white students) was 1581
[2] and the average GPA for Asians in 2009 was 3.09 for Asians vs. 2.88 for whites [3], I'm sure the percentage of Asians in California who earned the median SAT scores or GPA's at those schools was much higher than 14%, and was probably higher than the percentage of Asians in those schools. Also, I might note that UC Berkeley (Cal) and UCLA, are located in metropolitan areas with large Asian populations.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California
[2] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-08-25-SAT...
[3] http://nationsreportcard.gov/hsts_2009/race_gpa.asp?tab_id=t...
While I have many complaints about Diablo III, I was never afraid of Blizzard shutting down the servers, and that definitely factored into my purchasing decision. As you note, they have been running the Diablo II and Starcraft servers for well over a decade.
Completely unusable website for me running a relative recent version of Chrome on an older Ubuntu. Scroll functionality completely broken.

The irony isn't lost on me.
FTA:

> Pyramid is based on Zope, Pylons, and Django.

It is? Explain.
This is great! Although I'm confused about the two Because of Thats... can someone provide an example of how to complete this in a way that this part makes sense?
Thanks for the heads up. We use it.
Their real servers are quiet cheap and beefy.

Drooling @ http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/eg_64g_ssd.xml
Interesting approach. On one hand, I like that it avoids the initial round-trip to a third party server. However I bet Stripe takes advantage of data that it's getting that Barintree may or may not be (or at least not reliably) such as IP address, useragent, cookies or really anything Stripe would want to bake into the JavaScript.
Something I've been wondering about myself... Can't answer your question, but can only point out that you are a bit mistaken to treat Europe and ex-Soviet territories (especially their European part) as two completely separate worlds, since before the Iron Curtain came to exist, they shared quite a bit of common history.

More reading about anti-Semitism in that territory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmelnytsky_Uprising#Jews
We all are. It's just to different degrees and how we harness it - ie attributes such as self pride/confidence (positive narcissism) vs arrogance/grandiose (negative).

Narcissism is getting a more bad rep due to today's over sharing platforms (and for valid reasons), but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss/defend from the label.

You may not notice it, but outsiders can see it more easily (ie: headshot taking half the page). I notice you even took the time to shop in an artificial background for your headshot. Just these lil bits that add up.

As for the article content, I'm surprised you went for a UX breakdown without using the product (or do you have beta access?) Visually I like the redesign, but not knowing how the menus work, actually using the product and knowing that the announcment page is full of carefully curated photos, it's hard for me to comment and compare.

Edit: OP said wasn't shopped - I stand corrected.
Apps.beta620.nytimes.com
Thats a pretty trivial bound though. It basically deals with some portion "p" of the program that can be parallelized and tells you how that would affect performance given that the rest (1-p) can't be parallelized. "p" would probably be a huge chunk of the program in most cases, say a DB lookup if that is the biggest bottleneck.
Thanks! When designing the site previously I felt the need to do something fancy to make it stand out. In doing so I purposefully ignored some common rules and even forgot that most people have small screens, this making my picture awkwardly large.
This says it's not available for purchase for customers from the United States. Any other source?
i ended up finding it! it looks like it was one of those backdoor wordpress hacks where they set up commands that are evaled() as base64 strings
Before you type something? That seems odd.
Been using linode for 3 years now for a little instance to do basic stuff on. Its only ever been down once for a move to a new, faster, host. Even that they gave significant notice for and plenty of time for me to move it (I chose when to move it).
I love how anti-government mindset even assumes those, who couldn't give a monkey's, are pro-government.
NO Longer Valid - Amazon smartened up (in terms of running a profit making business) and decided to resell the game, its the number 1 seller now after all
> I don't know how they managed to do it, but Karp and the rest of the Tumblr team have fostered a culture there that just makes Facebook look corporateish and slightly dull in comparison

Or maybe, people simply don't like being figuratively shat on and decided to find something new as soon as it presented it self.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing tumblr here, it certainly played its role well, I'm just saying that people have wanted out of facebook for a long time and a lot of their user base is just waiting for something new that has enough of their friends to move to.

Facebook made it big with the wall feature, the newsfeed scrolling down your page with your mousewheel showing you all the content and happenings of your friends. When facebook starts to mess with the wall by:

- hiding things (and charge to make them more visible, specifically after promising never to do so)

- adding ads

- filling it with game updates,

- businesses "like this 4000 times and win a prize" contests

- X liked on page A, so here maybe you'll like this page B

Is it really no wonder that people get fed up, bored, and start looking for something with the original feature that drove them to facebook in the first place. And don't even get me started on all the other problems re privacy, naming policy, and silent settings resets.

The reasons people are leaving are obvious to me.

All I can really say is: tumblr, I hope you're ready.

that and... where can I buy some tumblr stock?
The programmers will probably be thrown under the bus for this instead of the suits who dictated the game's stupid social direction and always-on DRM, but I'm glad that this game is so far looking like an epic failure. Gaming companies need to be punished in the marketplace for rampant stupidity.

They deserve this game to flop, and it's good for gaming as a whole if this is an epic failure so EA will learn a lesson.

(Though I have doubts that a company as thick-headed as EA will learn anything positive from this)
How are you able to achieve such long durations of uptime ? Don't you need to reboot your machine for updates ?
Amazon has re-decided to sell Sim City V again
Direct Source Link: https://github.com/braintree/braintree.js

Neat, it uses the Stanford Javascript Crypto Library[0] and jsbn[1] to do all the encryption in javascript. I guess this is a good stopgap until the WebCryptoAPI[2] gets adopted.

[0] http://crypto.stanford.edu/sjcl/

[1] http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/jsbn/

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/
Sure they could. But if I get £40 of value from my game before they do, I can live with that. It's not ideal, but it doesn't make it a poor purchase.
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Auhors are snubbing publishers, retaining e-book rights
How is this new? We've had a Braintree client side library ("Braintree End-to-End Encryption Library") to do exactly this for at least a year. File is even called braintree.js.

Or was it in a "beta" and now this is a final release? Or am I missing something big here?
Typo in "your would like to pay".

I had a somewhat related idea: instead of referring friends, job seekers would apply to the job, and 'recruiters' would choose and bet for a candidate, placing a certain deposit down (if that candidate were to be chosen). The corporation would choose a candidate (possibly one with most 'investments'). If the candidate is hired after (for example) 60 days, the corporation would pay significant interest on the deposit. If the company didn't like the candidate and he was fired, a reduced deposit would be paid back.

Anyway, the point is to outsource hiring to a market and let the market find out how to select the best applicant.

If there's a difficult problem to be solved, you can always create a market for it.
A personal anecdote to demonstrate Joe's awesomeness: After hearing him give the keynote speech for Princeton's entrepreneurship conference, I was able to wiggle through the crowd of people surrounding him and blurt "Hey Joe! I loved your talk. I'm also a computer science major about to graduate and start a company that is essentially Pandora for art--there's even an Art Genome Project too [of course none of this existed at the time]. I'm moving out to Silicon Valley when I graduate this spring. Could I meet with you when I'm there and get your help?" He managed to say "Sure, my email is X" before the crowd reformed around him.

I was convinced he would forget about me or be too busy to reply to a random student who approached him after a conference (which I now know is the worst time ever).

To my surprise, he remembered me and invited me to visit him at Pandora's offices for lunch. He even took me on a tour of the whole company and showed me the "genomers" (who I remember being mostly bearded men staring into space thoughtfully while listening to music on gigantic headphones--strikingly different from Artsy's genomers today). The whole time he never made me feel like I was imposing or wasting his time. It was amazing to meet someone so successful yet also so humble and genuinely interested in others.

Joe continued to stay involved and add value even after I moved to New York. A computer scientist himself, he even helped me think through the original (very simple) similarity algorithm for Artsy's own Art Genome Project and despite how busy he must have been, would always take the time to answer my emails or get on the phone. And of course, having his name involved was critical social proof in the early days of the company.

Although I'm a proud NYC'er now, I've often said that Silicon Valley will always have a place in my heart for teaching me the value of paying it forward. And that lesson started with Joe's kind actions, without which I'm not sure Artsy would be what it is today.
Thanks, I'll give it a read through.
Maybe somebody smarter than me might know more, but I think if you break up a bank, you have to sell off its assets or transfer them of some kind and currently:

1. Banks don't have to value their assets at market price (that whole mark to market issue)

and

2. Banks are currently trading below their book value, because, from what I've read, nobody really trusts the value of those assets.

So, it could in theory spark a new global panic by people shorting banks and withdrawing capital.
Cars was quite profitable post-box office, I can't help but think Disney pushed for a sequel before the buzz ran off.
I agree with you in principle but I will suggest that titles which are overly-burdened with bullshit DRM will tend to be less important to the cultural record. I think that's the case here.
a) Thanks for the legwork. Its easy to point fingers.

b) Singling out EA for bad tech is like beating a dinosaur... it's been dead for millions of years damnit! EA has not been know for making quality, reliable, stable games. In fact its exactly the reason I wouldn't buy anything they make. And usually won't even pirate it because its not worth the headaches of crashes and friends.
ditto, I was just about to post the same comment. I have been watching 3d printing long enough. I read GEB a long time ago and it was the book that convinced me to go into computer science.
According to the BLS, inflation was 3 percent in 2011. More to the point, the salary increase from 79,384 to 81,327 cited offers an increase of less than 1.5 percent annually. That is lower than inflation for every year in the last ten except 2008.

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infla...
Good question...

It's interesting to me, because "socialing" DNS and other providers generally isn't in-scope during pentesting.

Would be interested to know if there are any pentesters / firms who have this in their "standard" methodology, for webapp or external network testing.
Mark’s divisive leadership
This, for me, is ultimately the major reason that private banking institutions, as they are currently formed, must be changed.

The implicit and even explicit backing of a government of a private institution, forced as a result of that bank's size and market impact, allows that institution to take larger risks and to privatise profits that are generated as a result of the public's support.

This is a major unintended consequence of saving big banks during the financial crisis.
Depends on your site, and how trivial it is to balance it between two locations, keep it in sync, add in a way to switch over, etc.
EA is also actively working on making things less bad by provisioning more hardware and disabling "non-critical" features.

DRM is DRM. People only get angry when things don't work, with the occasional philosophical argument thrown in to prove a point after the fact.

Steam gets less hate only because their servers have better uptime, but the hate towards EA comes in the form of a philosophical argument about how DRM is fundamentally broken.
I'm confused by all of these MVetc... libraries. We had routing behavior to content/views covered already. How is anything that does more than help isolate/manage data more than cruft in regards to having some sort of MVC-but-not-really-style-app on the client-side-web? IMO, it's all just pointless abstraction of the type that JS devs should have learned to avoid from observing server-side fail over the years. What really blows my mind is the number of these frameworks that embed pointless behavior dependencies directly in the HTML and act like they're doing us a favor. That's awesome, now we're back to changing things in multiple places to make adjustments to our apps that used to happen in one place following basic "duh" best practices that the authors of these frameworks don't appear to have ever understood properly. HTML is the router you saps! Hell, how about we add pointless-in-a-language-with-first-class-function IOC fail, config files and pointless dependency management as well? Wait WHAT!? ARE YOU !@#$ING SERIOUS!?
NO! Not MVP 07 NCAA Baseball for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
Fought and lost.
Not all that hard to figure out who:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2013/02/banker-bonus...
I have worked with a number of banks and credit unions. One of the biggest challenges on the regulatory side is that of unintended consequences. Lawmakers create a policy meaning to spare regional banks/credit unions, but ultimately they get carried along because their 3rd party providers have to comply (core processors, Visa, etc.), which pass along those costs/rules inevitably to the smaller organization.

Pros: Capital would be lent more efficiently as region's know their markets/customers better. Generally better service. Possibly fewer loan losses due to knowing the local market better.

Cons: The largest drawback is that of security, as many regional banks/credit unions are amazingly insecure. Cost to the consumer would probably go up slightly in the form of higher loan rates and lower savings rates, but it could easily be argued large banks aren't distributing these savings anyway.

The most amazing piece I've seen was when TARP money was given to the banking industry with the goal of it being lent to consumers and businesses. Instead the capital was used to fuel M&A within the banking industry which ultimately lead to fewer jobs.
LocalStorage demo
Ubuntu: The Community
Looks like SimCity 2000 is definitely still being sold.

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/simcity_2000_special_edition
I'm curious why people still use their actual mother's maiden name for the answer for security questions: I just make something up and write it down on a piece of paper or store it in an encrypted file. It means I have to look it up to confirm my identity, but all in all I think that's worth it to eliminate the break-in risk (you do have the occasional odd conversation where you have to explain to a service rep "No, my mother's maiden name isn't really 'Winter is coming'").
buyvmstatus isn't run by us.

They are entirely ping based so if someone gets a flood, ICMP will go to the garbage while a nullroute kicks in a second or two later.

We have an internal nodeping that monitors other services on the nodes that we're likely going to make public since more than a few people seem to get that idea about buyvmstatus.

We actually provided the buyvmstatus developer a read-only HTTP page he was able to pull off each node to get the current uptime of the node but he's yet to actually work it into the system.

Stock wise check back never week and we'll be reloaded on every plan in our Vegas location :)

Thanks for the interest and kind words,

Francisco
It benefits the top management of the big banks. (In theory, the stockholders benefit too if they let more of the profits trickle down to the stockholders.) They will take more risks than they otherwise would. They figure that if the risk pays off, they become richer. If the risk does not pay off, they don't have to worry about losing anything (?everything?) financially because the Feds will bail them out.
Later on HN... "zachtratar: A UX Breakdown"
I haven't yet shown this to my mom (native russian, emigrated in early 1980s) But she told me that she basically had to blackmail the head doctors of the Moscow Medical School to get accepted because they officially were not allowed to accept any Jews, though about 10-15% of the school was still some how Jewish.

She also had trouble because she applied for a visa to Israel before she finished Med School and was of course denied, but once you have that on your record no one is allowed to hire you so she had to do some more blackmail to get into residency when she completed residency she was finally given permission to leave. (Which was nice because she had no idea how to get a job once she finished residency after being a refusenik)
Well thought out and I partly agree. The background actually isn't photoshopped. There was a blue curtain at a career fair booth.

My analysis is purely from the shots and common behavior patterns among other web apps.
Ask HN: What are your favorite books about computer hardware?
I'm a software engineer and I'd like to learn more about the hardware I work with. Are there any seminal volumes that really do a good job of walking an advanced computer user through how computers and microprocessors actually work?

How do processors actually do computations? What goes into designing a chip? What's clock speed actually mean? What are the different kinds of RAM and what are the tradeoffs?

Is there an equivalent of The Art of Computer Programming in the hardware world?
Act II of your story is a chain of not just one cause and effect events.
> If I take my laptop to the coffee shop without wireless I can still play Portal and Anno 2070.

Unless you bought Portal on Steam and didn't sign in when you had an internet connection.
But don't you think Facebook is something that is being picked up by the younger kids and will continue to be through the next generation?
I'm a musician so I immediately started typing in a variety of band names and genres. After a few experiments I started to figure out ideal associations. Cool way to discover/rediscover related bands...
Doubtful. There's already a financial penalty: the loss of the confiscated item. Increasing the penalty (by adding a fine) would just make the process more frustrating -- nobody's trying to take a pocket knife through security on purpose. (Nor would adding a fine make the search any easier to carry out.)
You're correct about the book value and asset quality being an issue. I don't think a run on banks would be an issue if government orchestrated (especially if not during a crisis). More than likely it would be similar to how AT&T was done previously.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_AT%26T

You Canadians have it figured out, your banking system seems far more efficient with larger regional institutions.
Slightly higher rates would not be due to competition, but the reduced economies of scale and the perceived increased risk from relying on potentially fewer clients and a smaller loan book. A reduction in the Return on Equity could help to compensate to lower interest rate, but then the bank may not be as favoured or valued as highly by investors.
I think this story sounds like great news. MPEG LA's licensors include the research labs -- Fraunhofer, etc -- not your usual patent trolling companies. This gives the labs a sugar daddy (Google) that has a commercial interest in paying them for it their advances to be licensed to the public. Which is a nice release valve, because government budget squeezes means there's always more and more pressure for research labs to lock up their tech to earn money from commercialising it. Good on Google for doing this.
I trust you'll notice that my unreasonable labeling of Steko as "pro-government" for what he said mirrors the equally unreasonable labeling of Alex3917 as "anti-government" for what he said.
Did you get a better rate from Stripe? At one start-up I was working on, it was totally a no-brainer to go through the motions of learning Braintree (over Stripe) as the savings in transaction costs were significant due to our high volume.