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Hey jackass. I am an actual entrepreneur that told PayPal to f'off AFTER they held several weeks of income hostage because I logged in from Shanghai. It's not the "entrepreneurs" that are the problem, it's the fact that a company like PayPal gets away with harming our businesses while catering to grandma's trading beanie babies. Developers and entrepreneurs alike STILL use PayPal -- at least until they themselves get burned. Stories like these are important because it should remind us to tell companies like PayPal where to go.

As far as "entitled" -- hell yes we're entitled. The developers here on HN make the apps that use the services like PayPal -- they/we have a right to demand that PayPal not suck. PayPal has a right to not listen, but we certainly have the right to complain and take our business elsewhere and as a community of spoiled, entitled, not-actual entrepreneurs we should ALL tell PayPal to pound sand.
I've heard a great deal of praise for Papers App (Windows, OS X, iOS) [1]. It'll cost you quite a bit though--$79.

[1]: http://www.papersapp.com/papers/
What're you referring to? The US is the most technologically productive country in the history of the world.

Your article overstates the case: even early on the US innovated in many areas (though textiles was not one of those areas): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_and_industrial_hi...
Great article. Unlike most blog posts on this topic, it offers practical approaches to computing the score in real time without resorting to cron jobs and the like.
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The Drip Stream is kinda cool, since it effectively prevents "everything" from becoming popular, but also makes it easy to bootstrap if there aren't a lot of users playing. I am very interested in how these approaches affect user return rates, since it would be very easy to try a bunch of algorithms on different users and see which gets more people to come back.
This reminds me of an obviously perfectly logical request a coworker came to me with once.

Even though our CRM automatically emailed our customers a copy of their invoice once their order was taken, she wanted to print out the invoice, scan it back to her PC as a PDF, then email that PDF to the client "just to make sure." Nevermind the fact that the CRM had a mechanism specifically designed for manually emailing an invoice to the customer already built in in the event that they didn't get the invoice the first time.
The problem is that companies are good at deflating the prevailing wage. Especially those companies that apply for massive amounts of H-1Bs.

I'm personally partial to the bidding process (i.e. we will pay this employee $150k if they get this H-1B). This would mean employers that couldn't pay above the H-1B strike price wouldn't qualify. Which I think is probably better than the status quo.
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First, by reading the TOS. All VPNs are not prohibited, only anonymizing proxies. Second, by having logged into PayPal through a work VPN without having the account flagged.
Great. Now some bonehead in D.C. will probably propose installing body scanners on academic campuses.
>my lab had a huge internal debate about whether to continue using Mendeley or choose a FLOSS alternative that wouldn't bite us later.

What alternatives did you consider?
Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2KNHPc5QY
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Exactly. PayPal would rather just ban the "thing" rather than try to actually do their jobs and solve the security issues. The IP address shouldn't matter -- it's the data that comes from the IP. They want to ban "guns" as a shorthand for actually trying to catch criminals.
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8.21/15 clawed out of a deep hole careerwise.
What post about Git Koans? I did a google search, but nothing came up.
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Braintree can handle it.
This cluster-fsck in Iraq doesn't boil down to one statement. A great book, recommended by Colin Powell as the most accurate, is Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies."

There's probably no-one truly objective on the subject, as politics are entwined in every aspect... but Clarke worked under four administrations. Tenet's book sheds light on the subject as well.
It's not really about citation styles, it's more about metadata.

That being said, it looks a bit better after testing for 2 minutes. Journal names seem more consistent when importing from Pubmed (although they are all in sentence case still..). Still seeing publisher cities stuck in the Journal field in some cases. Still seeing some hilariously botched names like "Smith, J Q John Q" instead of "Smith, John Q", though. All these issues make it infeasible for me to use for citations in my papers.

And can I ask one question... whose idea was it to put journal names in sentence case rather than title case? I have never seen it done anywhere else, and it just seems bizarre.

And I am sure you do have good software engineers, but at the same time, I and others have been using it for years and the consistency in references has just been so laughable for so long that it almost boggles the mind. Best of luck towards figuring it out. I still do use Mendeley for PDF reading and note taking.
The difficulty of attacking policy problems with coffee script are two-fold:

First, when you create a TOR like system to disguise senders and receivers through blind intermediaries the system is 1/n efficient where n is the number of intermediaries. This kinda sucks when we're talking large media flies.

Second, it really just takes a bit of legal argument to label any participants as 'making available' infringing files.

Really the best solution is mega upload's nonsense where you can theoretically argue you're a common carrier just storing encrypted blobs. However, a Hearsay like tool could be useful for storing references to said megauploaded files - though a TOR site might work better.
Gold won't be dead.
What's the reasoning behind the hack "!f(){}; f" getting shell arguments to work properly?
I can see not being aware of the controversy around Elsevier, but they are in fact an immensely influential publisher.

You'd be hard pressed to not come across books/journals from them in the course of earning a STEM degree.
Just FYI, tapin in French is a slang word for prostitute.
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"Two years ago"?
Everyone's complete inability to remember anything is why Stallman hasn't gotten his point across in the past 30 years.
That's stoicism.
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"The Next Generation of Neural Networks" -- a Google TechTalk by Geoffrey Hinton in 2007. I have never been able to sit through 60 minutes of lectures without fidgeting constantly, however this one managed to keep my attention until the end.

Truly an amazingly great talk and worth watching through (even if you only only peripherally care about ANNs).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M
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One wonders what Go was doing with that extra 36% time in the previous version. Was it all due to map memory allocation and associated cache misses?
Here's hoping they take that $100 million and build a better product to replace Mendelay.

That's how you stick it to The Man. With his own money.
Err... innovations in Bieber face swaps? Sorry, you lost me

EDIT: OK different link now... sure there is a Wikipedia article titled "Technological and industrial history of the United States". But that doesn't change the fact that, yes, the country's early technological growth was based heavily on the same sort of "piracy" that people love to hate modern Asia for.

Obviously a ton of great stuff has been created in the U.S. since then. All I'm saying is that if we're going to list countries for whom intellectual property theft has proven profitable, the U.S. belongs on that list just as sure as anyone else.
I honestly would never recommend Access as a user frontend. It's amazing how quickly Access userforms become convoluted and confusing. The only "FE" development I've done with Access is simple database maintenance tools usually only used by the developer(me) or a trained maintainer.

Also, most people are comfortable with Excel. Access userforms can scare the crap out of some users, but they're able to manipulate Excel just fine.

I was able to whip up a tool for my boss where his direct reports could log the time they spend on a particular project each day (ridiculous, I know). It's a simple Excel spreadsheet with Excels built in calendar selector, and two columns: Project and hours. Clicking a button writes to an Access database, which my boss can now pull the data straight into Excel with a couple canned reports. No one ever sees anything but Excel. I get that this may not be ideal but:
1. Took a morning to get to production
2. Quick user uptake because they're already comfortable with the system
3. Gets the job done, and my boss can still mess around with the numbers in excel all he likes

So there are use cases.

Another one that I've used successfully is utilizing Access as a middle-man to join two discrete systems within a corporation by using the Import Linked Table feature and building a join query. This way, Access does the heavy lifting of mashing two separate datasets together, allowing users to understand relationships instead of spending time trying to jam lines of data side-by-side.

This comment got long...sorry.
This particular set of documents was apparently declassified 6 years ago, it's just that Wikileaks has made them easily searchable.
" By offering a full refund"

They only singled out the 71 people and offered to refund them if customers reached out to instacart. If they were really committed to making customers whole, they would proactively refund the charges and refund the fee (and then ask the customers if they would like to continue with the service).
> External GPU? Nice idea, but between the cost of the GPU card, the housing, and dealing with all the quirks that go with it, it makes sense to just buy another laptop/desktop.

It would be pretty neat to have an external monitor with a gpu inside it. Then the laptop only needs a gpu powerful enough to drive its own display, instead of also driving external displays.
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I think only devs think negatively about the sites, as users are routinely impressed by bells and whistles (as pointless as they are). This is not flashes fault -- think of all the useless motion we are seeing in html5 pages. Its just a matter of non-techs seeing a fancy moving thing and wanting to have it.

Oftentimes usability can be terrible, but it is up to us as service/product providers to inform the client, and not force our bias on their business processes.
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I'll sit here and patiently wait for the, "But PHP isn't a real programming language" debate to begin like it always does. This could be a great opportunity for Codeacademy to teach people how to use PHP correctly instead of repeating the cycle and contributing to the real PHP problem of bad developers which isn't necessarily the fault of the language itself.
I know everyone hates that question.. (I hate it too), but what about non-js users or, maybe more importantly, SEO or crawlers? Honestly, this is what is holding me back to go pure client-side for most of my projects.. I know there's the phantomJS server-side hack but how does that work in practice?

Also, something else that really trouble me with javascript client-side is that, often, when something bugs, everything just stop working. I.e. links don't work anymore, button obviously don't.. Is there a better solution than a hard-refresh? Would a first-level try/catch solve this problem?

Thanks!
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That's a good point. It's actually hard for me to recognise when it is bad code and when I am just feeling NIH syndrome.
We are going to make the largest distributed library in the world
I'll post a link to the website in the comments.

What is a distributed library?

It's basically being able to see what other people have in their personal library via an online database. So for example, I could go on your profile and see all the songs you have in your music library.

What's the point?

The point would be to follow your friends and other people you care about and browse their profiles to see what they have in their media library. And if you want something they have, you can just contact them. They can send you the file via Dropbox or any way they want. They can even give it to you on a USB flash drive.

Two ways you can help:

1. If you're a Ruby on Rails programmer, you can help with the source code, which is available on Github (see the link in the comments).

2. Look at the albums you have in your music library and suggest them by creating an "issue" on Kopibibli. I will add them to the database. You will then be able to mark them as owned.

Any feedback is welcomed.
If only we had some sort of machine into which one could type a variety of questions and said machine would then display answers to said questions. But you are right, until we have those machines, we are left with leaving confused comments like yours in hopes that someone would answer.
I could be wrong, but I strongly suspect the artist here would be thrilled to be getting a reasonable licensing fee from Disney for use of her work. Meanwhile, in Andy Baio's case, Jay Maisel was reportedly unwilling to license the photo for pixel art, period.

Presuming I'm correct, that's an important difference.
It's hard to point the finger at any one thing. There have been improvements to the map implementation, the compiler's code generator, the runtime's scheduler and garbage collector, and many parts of the standard library.
http://www.kopibibli.org/

https://github.com/kopibibli/kopibibli
Let me rephrase then:
Not all traction is revenue growth, but all revenue growth is traction(again, by definition).
> non-js users

the web is no longer just text. if you need to consume text then you need a text-api client, which is what web browsers used to be.
But, but, I really don't want my friends to know about my secret stash of Milli Vanilli...
Interesting iWatch concept from a Munich designer
Depends on how much your energy costs. I generate 2.7Gh/s with 4x7970 GPUs, which costs about $2.40 per 24 hours, and yields ~$35-40 in BTC at the time of writing.
Winners have names, losers are anonymous. Hackers arrested in Jordan
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Why not s/Canada/New York/ ?-)
My objection is to the use of the word "heavily." Your article uses the example of stealing mill technology. The Wikipedia article gives an accounting of other areas of technology that were home built, even in the early days of the republic. The US was technologically self-sufficient along many dimensions, from agriculture to transportation. It had certain gaps in manufacturing technology because of the nature of British mercantilism (raw materials were exported to Britain and reimported as finished goods into America, which suppressed the development of native manufacturing).

In any case, stealing technology has been a much more fundamental part of the recent prosperity of China and India. Their societies are almost wholly dependent on Western technology. In comparison, the U.S. was always a prosperous country, even during colonial times.
As a vegetarian fed by ZeroCater, it feels like a lot of the time the thinking goes something like 'we have 20 meat-eaters and 3 vegetarians - let's get 20 lamb/chicken shish kebaps and 3 vegetables ones!' It sucks to have to make a meal out of sides, and it seems like the meals are structured most of the time such that quinoa salad or mac & cheese are perceived as being sides. And I don't think the solution is to tell meat-eaters not to eat vegetables - everyone deserves them. Anyway, I have to be very aggressive about getting to the front of the line for food. Also, sometimes the vegetarian option is just lo mein or a green salad - it rarely meets what I would consider a minimal nutritional standard of ~10-20 grams of protein. I pack protein powder to supplement my lunch. To be fair though, it is tasty!
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Go 1.1 has a much better map implementation, with fast-paths for common key types such as strings.
The finalists were I, Librarian, Zotero, or roll-our-own.
This.

Given that Apple can control their hardware and software, they should absolutely be doing taking advantage of their opportunity to do so more easily than others.
Well if you don't want to tell people that you have that, you just have to not mark it as owned.
Andy Baio didn't make that image [0], and it's not a copy-and-paste - look at the tie for example [1].

[0] http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/

[1] http://waxy.org/random/images/weblog/kind_of_bloop_compariso...
Indian researchers claim to have developed "world's smallest antenna"
Comics not allowed to have words as the primary focus? Try reading Subnormality at some point. http://www.viruscomix.com/subnormality.html
I see Thunderbolt not as a USB 3 competitor, but as something in a different category. It can drive external monitors. It can pass data along with that, so you can have external display + audio + USB 3.0 ports all accessible via one cable.

USB 3 can't do that.
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I don't think that it overstates the case. The key technologies behind the industrial revolution (from the steam engine onwards) were invented in England, then imported to the USA, which improved them further.

If you trace backwards, part of the reason why England had the economic foundation for that was a major importation of artisans from the Netherlands after William of Orange became king of England.

And the Netherlands gained the foundations for its wealth from skills that the Sephardic Jews took to the Netherlands as they fled the growing religious intolerance in Spain as the Inquisition got under its way.

And so for hundreds of years each top world power has seen the major foundations of its prosperity be based on knowledge and skills gained from the previous one. Is it any surprise that the cycle would repeat again now that the USA is the top world power? It may feel like history inevitably leads to now, but there is no reason to believe that the economic dominance of the USA will last longer than previous world empires.
Or to put it another way, how could it have been worse?

Easy. The coal mining industry could have continued existing for another thirty years, bringing huge losses each year, subsidized by the taxpayer. Like, say, in Poland, which is where you get your cheap labor from, and not the other way around, and the two facts are not entirely unrelated.
It seems to vary which part of the country you're in, oddly. Some use BTU, some use therms, some use cubic feet.

http://www.aga.org/KC/ABOUTNATURALGAS/ADDITIONAL/Pages/Howto... - looks like it depends on whether they choose to measure volume or energy content.
One litmus test that hasn't failed wrt angels is: how complicated are they trying to make this? Angel investing is not a time in your company's history for anything more than dead simple, fair terms, and quick turnaround. Avoid cute and fancy.

Yes, make connections and pitch to people all over. You'll find different perspectives in SF, NYC, and NC, etc. In my experience angels in SF have the largest appetite for higher valuations but also a larger appetite for larger outcomes which means larger plays/markets. YMMV.

Terms: keep it simple. There are a few people that I've heard say 'priced' but the more popular choice in my circles is convertible.
Well, 36% is not a large improvement at all, considering Go is still slower than Java.

Go has a some way to go still and it can be improved in all areas: GC, algorithms, heuristics, code generation, ...
The US system requires the exact same thing.
How do I cancel my Mendeley account?

Edit: If you log in to your account and go to account details there's a "delete your account" link at the bottom. When you click the link you get a dialogue box that says this:

We're sorry you want to go, but if you must...
Deleting your account will remove all of your personal data from Mendeley Web, and limit the functionality of Mendeley Desktop. Your data is still present in Mendeley Desktop so it can be archived or exported.

If your profile is visible to search engines then Mendeley may show up in relevant search results until the search engines re-index the site (this is an ongoing process but should occur within a couple of weeks.) Until this occurs, clicking on the search result link will load a Mendeley page stating that the profile cannot be found.
found a bug which crashes the app everytime, submitted a ticket https://github.com/timahoney/decaf/issues/5
If I were doing something legally challenging in any way related to copyright or privacy/security of consumers (particularly w.r.t. finance), I'd seriously consider (in no particular order) CA CH NZ HK SG various-EU.

Curious where Chile and Brazil fall for privacy/security stuff, including AML and general financial regulations. Costa Rica and Panama are the traditional Central American options, and there are the Caribbean or other island/tax haven options, but a lot of those are too small to have developers (and expensive), and will bend over for the US officially or unofficially, particularly if a small business is involved (without political connections); I made the mistake of doing stuff in Anguilla before.
i believe safari does this.
Is there a TechCrunch linky that actually works for poor souls stuck in the Android Ghetto? I would love to read this.
a line of copy I added to a client's website last night

Please do not simply rename the file extension of your file to match the formats we require. They will not open.

Apparently there are plenty of people who thing changing the file extension from .docx to .psd changes to format. Windows (and OSX too, I guess) are partially to blame here as they'll happily change the icon
Alexa rank is not accurate when it's higher than 20,000. If higher than 100,000 it is not accurate at all and can be gamed easily. Just get a few friends with the alexa toolbar to visit your site and your alexa rank will magically get a whole lot lower.
I use CLI everything whenever I can simply b/c I can script anything moderately complex or more, back my scripts up to github or whatever, and never forget (or have to exactly remember) them.

I find that more valuable and useful than most CLI tools, although in their defense I haven't used one in years so maybe they're equal or better by now.

git-sh is clutch too - you can still run normal shell commands or full git cli commands, or you can drop the 'git' from git commands.
Then it's a good thing they're Framebase now.
It is almost as if you have a weird ulterior motive of trying to keep unproductive yet meddlesome California voters out of Washington, while at the same time reinforcing that Washington is one of the best states in the US, particularly for tech entrepreneurs. I wonder why? :)