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> PayPal doesn't care about sellers.

Credit card companies. And it's not that they don't care about sellers. It's that they care more about the card holders. Consider the protection they afford card holders for card-not-present purchases. 100% protection.

PayPal doesn't have some immunity to that protection. Open your own merchant account, and you'll have the same issues.

> I see it as simple piracy

When it's the card holder claiming a chargeback for an otherwise legitimate purchase, it's known as friendly fraud. Not so friendly. And generally, it's worse than piracy. Normally you are charged for a chargeback (not sure if PayPal charges you a chargeback fee). So in those cases, you actually lose real money, as opposed to piracy.
I run an online business and the level of fraud we have seen out of China is insane. We are constantly changing tactics and the fraudsters follow suit. They are dogged, determined, and will persist until they put you out of business if you let them.

Of course, we don't purposely do business with anyone from China, but they go to great lengths to cover their origin, even employing Mechanical Turk workers to do some of their dirty work. The guy who purposely sold BTC to someone out of China was literally begging for what he got.

And these guys are virtually untouchable. We are a small business and we see a ton of this stuff, so I can imagine what larger businesses must experience. eBay alone must be the conduit for tens or hundreds of millions in fraud from China.

Amidst all of the talk about stolen IP, military secrets, etc. emanating from China, the likely billions of dollars in fraud targeted at American consumers and businesses is the great untold story.
Your point? In a single day, hundreds of millions of people use one operating system and it is Windows.
At the bottom of the page, the link[1] says "powered by Strikingly." I'm not sure that this is good advertising for SaaS that promises "gorgeous, mobile-optimized sites in minutes."

The founders of the school include mathematics teachers I know, and I think they are the real deal. I have had long conversations with one of those mathematicians at MathPath[2], which was a very good program for my oldest son, now a hacker.

[1] https://www.strikingly.com/?ref=logo&permalink=proofschool

[2] http://www.mathpath.org/
> No. Tablets killed them.

I'd argue that Microsoft and Intel killed them with their arbitrary restrictions on what could be a netbook.[1] I imagine they realized netbooks would put a huge dent in their sales of more expensive systems, so they effectively put a stop to them. I'm sure tablets didn't help at all, but the limits kept netbooks just below the edge of usefulness in many cases. So they developed the reputation of being slow and people stopped buying them.

[1] http://www.itexaminer.com/microsoft-adds-to-atoms-restrictio...
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I know counterexamples. Indeed, I know counterexamples for even younger children.

http://www.epsiloncamp.org/
That is generally the purpose of the exception, but the other purpose is preventing the destruction of evidence. Maybe the rule should be that the police can secure but not search the cell phone during an arrest, and have to get a separate warrant after the fact.
Previously submitted and discussed extensively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6256384
Can you explain your reasoning behind this?
With respect to contract enforceability, writing is helpful for evidentiary purposes, but outside of a few specific areas governed by the statute of frauds, not required at all - an oral agreement is every bit as much a contract.
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The problem is that searching a wallet upon arrest is not comparable to also searching a cell phone. For many people large parts of their lives are on their cell phones. For these people searching their cell phones during a traffic stop arrest would be closer to searching their house instead of their wallet.
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And among actual mathematicians the Halmos tombstone is more popular nowadays, anyway. It feels less haughty.
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It loaded pretty quickly for me, but it is probably not under heavy load any more.

The page is smoothly scrolling now.
For me CS was part of math. But I see what you mean.

You might enjoy Tom Korner's book, The Pleasure of Counting, which weaves mathematics and history.
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I am pretty sure I have seen a 10-inch netbook recently (less than one/two months ago), maybe on Engadget.

Otherwise there is still the tablet/keyboard combo.

I liked the netbook form factor; I am still using my Samsung n220 everyday.
The problem with a smartphone is not so much that it contains a ton of info, but that it serves as an access point to a lot of personal info

The current situation may very well change. It is entirely possible that much of that information stored "in the cloud" will migrate to being stored directly on people's phones.

Facebook owes the majority of its popularity to being a place that easily hosts and shares photos. The continuing increases in wireless bandwidth and physical storage available on phones coupled with the growing understanding of the security risks of giving personal data to 3rd parties means that paradigm could shift quite easily.
Having a proper contract is the responsibility of the contractor. If he didn't bother to present one, he doesn't get to make up for it by holding the website hostage.
Haha, yeah it can be aggravating. In general though, I think it's good that there are people who care about the content so much.
Seven YEARS! Finally.
The only feedback the seller mentioned was in the buyers leaving it for him.

If the seller required a good account history, and stuck to the US, he may have not had these problems. Arguably those buyers could have screwed him on anything (remember the story about the rare violin destroyed at Paypal's request.)

There are things worth a lot more than $90 bought and sold on eBay every day. I would argue that buyer to seller reputation and thus integrity is more important than the reputation of the marketplace or medium of exchange.
What's this "for kids" tripe? I thought this was going to be a dev bootcamp-style math school for adults, now that would be nice!
I think you're pretty spot on. A PR agency might pay 10x times this, but for a one off use by a startup or SMB a monthly charge doesn't make sense. Maybe offer pre-paid credits as well?
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Don't write the Celeron 847 off - it is actually quite efficient! Sandy Bridge has quite good (not Haswell good) idle power consumption, and it's performance is much better than Atom.

And if you're running Linux, you need to avoid the Atom N2xxx at all costs, the graphics are useless. The C847 graphics are good for desktop use (but not for anything more than light gaming)

If you're worried about battery life and heat, trade out the HD for an SSD right away. I did that with an Acer Chromebook and it's quite nice - and the trade will probably make up for any increased CPU power draw at idle.
What does that have to do with a browser and poor analogies? Neither protect important documents on disk, a shell open with root, an ssh open to your production, etc. I'm not condoning Chrome's actions, but I'd also demand not storing passwords in a browser at all, and do all sensitive browsing in incognito, so your sessions can't be lifted.
There's an easy solution. STOP USING PAYPAL! When will people learn that PayPal is shit?
Why bother hacking in? The majority of it is transmitted around the world on open lines for all and sundry to see - if you know what you're doing, which the NSA does.
There are still a few netbooks available on amazon. For example this Acer 10".
http://www.amazon.com/Acer-AOD270-1375-Netbook-Processor-Esp...
"Tablets killed netbooks" is a meme that gets often repeated, but is really misleading.

You're definitely right that vendors have moved on from netbooks and are putting their energy now into tablets. But that doesn't mean tablets have replaced netbooks. Netbooks have a bunch of use cases that don't apply to tablets and vice versa.

I bought my good old eeePC netbook mainly for:

- Typing on the go. It's much lighter than a regular laptop (was back then), and the model I have has a very good, almost-full-size keyboard.

- Its unprecedented battery life (again, back then). I could even forget the cable at home, and it would last the whole day.

- Meetings. For some reason, we have lots of meetings in my field, and almost everybody brings their laptop (to make notes, follow the slides, etc.). I found the eeePC ideal because it needs no cable (no crawling on the floor) and is small and unconspicuous. If I'm using my notebook in a meeting, at least I don't want to hide behind it.

Compare with a tablet: I can hardly type anything else than text messages on touchscreens. And while laptops are for some reason socially accepted in meetings, I couldn't show up with a tablet. Everybody would think I was just playing. (That's changing slowly, however).

Finally, the biggest difference is that a netbook is a general purpose PC. I can run all programs I need for work on it. That doesn't work on locked-down tablets.

When Windows 8 came out, I was really hoping for cheap 10-inch Atom or ARM tablets with the nice keyboard covers (and an unlocked OS so I could actually do work on them). Such a tablet would really be a worthy netbook replacement.
The French version[0] mentions Linux. It still says it's not available on my system though, so I wonder how they determined my OS.

I thought the "X11; Linux x86_64" string in my user-agent was obvious enough.

[0] http://downloads.yahoo.com/fr/firefox/blocked
> "Content with lower resolution" screens, when almost all of them dramatically led Apple at the time of their retina unveiling

I call bullshit, that's not how I remember it at all.

The iPhone 4 was released in June 2010 at 960x640. The Samsung Galaxy S2 wasn't available until 11 months later - May 2011, at 800x480. The Motorola Droid X was also available May 2011, at 960x540, along with the HTC Sensation, with the same resolution.

This is the mythology of anti-Apple postings that is so bizarre. They just know that Apple is always technologically inferior.

By 2012, the Android competition has gotten better than Apple in resolution... but only because Apple made resolution important.
> So, two questions
3 in fact :) But I share 3 questions.

While trying to access it with _Firefox_ on Linux, I also get redirected to a "blocked" page in French which does mention Linux.

But the "system requirement" page does not mention Linux, only Mac and Windows. This page does say the minimal requirements where provided by Mozilla, but Mozilla does provide a Linux version, so that's strange.

Maybe Linux was "just" a translation error or they decided not to support it in the end and forgot to edit the translations ...
btw ironically August 25th is the birthday of the first newsgroup post about Linux. Happy Birthday Linux !

So what's this "Optimized for Yahoo" version ?
I highly doubt that had much, if anything, do with the netbook's decline. From the beginning it was just a cheap, small laptop. Tablets are as cheap, smaller, and run operating systems that are designed for low-power systems, so they feel faster. The few people (e.g. me) who actually wanted a keyboard moved on to low-end ultrabooks.
>probably an illegal act from the designer. (Sorry but that's probably the law, like it or not)

The client may well be gaming the law here as well. (exploiting the fact that it is often not economical to sue over small amounts of money)

>the reality is it's not professional,

Professionalism is such a crappy word. Nobody really knows what it means, and too many people think it means something they want _you_ to think it means, when it is convenient for them.

>and probably not good for society.

I don't know. It may be good that this isn't the norm, but I think it is okay for this to happen to someone every now and then pour encourager les autres.

>Where is the proof the designer got stiffed?

A designer would have to really be off their rocker to do that without cause.
Having owned an eee 701, I'd argue that the Samsung ARM Chromebook in particular carries on the original Netbook concept, and Chromebooks as a whole are increasingly successful.

By that token, Netbooks ain't dead, they just broke free of Microsoft and Intel ;)
In the past it hasn't been the case that we carry around all of our personal documents, correspondence, address books, photography, digital currency/payment, and so on.

Setting a precedent that this private information -- and that is what I believe most people would consider the contents of their phones to be -- can be searched whenever you are stopped by police will only cause real criminals to use disposable/non-smart-phones, and further set a trend towards law enforcement being able (and people considering it normal) to access this information routinely.

Litigation overhead is one consideration, but I think the whole legal system is so horribly behind technology advances in general that I'm not sure it's a valid argument just to streamline the arrest/search process.
The parent comment wasn't an assertion these things happen, it was a "what if these things did happen?" (and, in particular, without going to court first).
Instead of being "stiffed", it is far more likely there is some degree of nuance. I'm sure if you called the market they would give their side of the story, and it would be something different than "we just took his services and didn't pay".

The problem here is the dispute that's occurring is being settled through taking the client's website hostage. That's ridiculously unprofessional.
So it' only games that have to use Google's billing? Not the Amazon Kindle app? Or music distribution apps?
A nice touch is that the list of supported systems includes "Linux" (which I'm on), but I still get this message. My navigator.platform is "Linux x86_64", not sure how they are misinterpreting that.
> she had this amazing hypothesis about how LSD works, and I understand why she wanted to do in cats

Care to elaborate for us non neuroscientists?
Partnering with Yahoo (or increasing their partnership) is a potential long-term revenue stream for Mozilla if Google decides to back out of their deal (which, afaik, they show no sign of doing), but I'm not sure bundling the Yahoo toolbar with what would be a good browser is the way to go about that.
I think most new "netbooks" have been converted into 11.6 form factor to include a proper full sized keyboard. The only real reason netbooks had 10" displays was because intel required it when purchasing an atom (along with their 2gb memory limit). Atoms haven't gotten any real architectural (IPC) changes since their release and Intel has been repositioning the brand/hardware towards tablet/phone devices. Since manufacturers have been freed from the 10" constraint, such most manufacturers have been building larger screened low end laptops which is really what the market wants. As such you might want to reconsider your options. Depending on the architecture of the Celeron, it may actually be faster and more battery efficient than an Atom. The options seem to be:

1/ Deal with an extra inch of real estate

2/ Buy a 7/10" tablet & add a keyboard. Some like the Asus transformer pad includes a keyboard dock. You can also try rooting/chrooting a linux distro onto the tablet all the bells and whistles.

3/ Buy used from e-bay
The enterprise is desperately, rapidly re-building all of those internal applications (at least the client-side) on mobile platforms, and iOS is in the lead.

This is why these "mobility" servers like IBM WorkLight or SAP/Sybase Unwired are hot products.
I have an HP Mini that I absolutely adore. I've upgraded it to Windows 8 (thus losing the limitations of the Starter Edition 7). I also upgraded the ram to 2 GB which was cheap.

I started using it to do wearable computing experiments and found that the self-protection system of the hard drive would go into action whenever I went faster than a slow walk, so I replaced the HDD with a SSD.

The new Windows 8 store and all of those apps don't work on it because the screen size is too small, but the desktop is fine for web browsing, Cygwin, etc.

If I fold the machine up and use it to play music, do GPS navigation and some other data collection in the car, it runs 6-7 hours. I get 4-5 hours of tablet-like service if I use it to watch video. Even though the screen is not HD resolution it plays HD files just fine.
No, the NSA can intercept communication between "non-U.S. persons" at either end.
How exactly do they plan to tell us that this is legal to protect us from "terrorists"? It's in direct violation of international law.
> Yet I vehemently disagree with your comparison of a cell phone to a wallet.

Well yeah, that's why I said it wasn't a one to one comparison, literally right after. So, not sure what you are disagreeing with. Seriously, either you didn't read the rest of my comment, or you chose to ignore it.

> The amount of information carried on a phone dwarfs the information carried in your wallet. The information in your wallet can't give a detail view of where you go, what you say, to whom, and when

Yes, hence my reason for suggesting that they clearly aren't the same thing.

That being said, this case is also not about a smart phone.

> I believe warrants should be very fine grained

They generally are. They are usually very specific about what they are looking for.
That certainly may be a reasonable argument to make. But they already lost. A court found that this was, after all, not reasonable.

And at this point all arguing over what seems sane under the law[1] becomes pointless. It's a political decision to continue to appeal the supreme court, not a legal one.

And this administration has decided that police should be able to do a complete search of your phone after having arrested you. A search without a warrant, since all the discretion to arrest is with the police.

[1]: a law from 18xx, where people were lucky to carry some coins with them, not their life on digital storage media.
This has been driving in the ~1000 hits per month range to http://eloquentjavascript.net for ages. Since that's just one link in the huge list, I guess lots of people are landing on it.
That's only because people started looking at pictures on screens instead of prints and screen technology has been stagnated for 10+ years.

Screens are finally catching up. A 4k screen has ~8MP of resolution. Modern bayer pattern sensors (1 color per pixel) in SLRs are at 24MP which is actually not a lot more resolution than 8MP at 3 colors per pixel and about the same data (8M*RGB=24M).
"At it's most basic level, it's a question of whether the contents of items found can be apart of the search."

Define "contents of a cell phone".

I'm not trying to trap you. I believe there's multiple valid answers, and my point is that's a very slippery concept, and particularly slippery when it comes to how relatively non-tech savvy users try to manage their usage. What's the difference between an email client that entirely stores email in the cloud, entirely stores it locally, and, say, caches things locally but mostly stores things in the cloud (i.e., effectively randomly has some emails locally and users have no effectively ability to choose which is which)? Should the cops perhaps be mandated to put the phone in Airplane mode before rifling around?

Again, all just questions for discussion. I don't have an easy answer; I could argue in favor or against anything I mentioned here.
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> Doubtless the first difference that jumps out at you is that one of these programs is written using a beautiful, familiar surface syntax that makes you feel right at home, while the other uses an ugly, foreign notation that makes your eyes glaze over

But I'm not sure all of us would agree which program is beautiful/familiar and which is ugly/foreign...

Edit: I love LISP, but I love math more.
And what about users from countries where Google's billing is not available (for example Serbia) ?

People reported it long time ago, but Google hasn't updated that issue since February 2013, and it was reported on February 2012 !

http://d.pr/i/VIPN

https://support.google.com/googleplay/known-issues/1319135?h...
A lot of people would love a cheap, small laptop. That's what they wish an ultrabook was. Unfortunately, they're only getting the small, not the cheap.

If the specs could have been a bit higher and increased in a timely manner, netbooks would have been perfect for a lot of the market. They were limited in speed just below the edge of what most people would consider to be capable.
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Let's extrapolate in the opposite direction: what if you could keep living in a place without paying for it, never pay medical bills, never pay your lawyer, never pay for your TV, never pay your taxes, etc.?

I'm pretty sure that society as we know it would collapse.
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For me, the key point of the article is that the board asked,

How can you be that far off what consumers want? Was it that you're not listening to your team? Was it because the team was afraid to give him advice? Was it because the team saw a different reality? Or was it that the team lacked the skill set to anticipate the failure?

I believe they are realizing that there is a culture at Microsoft that is holding back the company.
To me Windows 8 is a nice OS that was ruined by Marketing - rip metro/modern ui out and everyone would have loved it as Windows 7.1, and a $299 Samsung ARM Netbook with it would probably have sold quite well ;)
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That's because after all the headlines about the Chinese doing this, nobody cares about that any more. But the U.S. made such a brouhaha about the Chinese doing it that when it turns out they were doing the same - but to a far greater scale, it turns out that there's one rule for the U.S. (which is "the rules don't apply to us"), and one rule for everyone else (which is "the rules still apply to all you lot, because it's our playground, and we make the rules").

Besides, this will blow over just as quickly as it blew up just like everything else did/does in the U.S. - the president will do something dumb that everyone can get up in arms about, like cheating on his wife with a pretty white intern who strips on the side to "pay her way through college" and all will be forgotten while the bible belt attempts to sacrifice him on the alter of Republicanism. Why? Because the U.S. loves their witch hunt... as long as they're huntin' witches, they're happy. The problem is, when they run out of witches to hunt, what are they going to do with themselves?

Meanwhile, I'll sit back and roll my eyes because history has shown us that the U.S. is just that predictable.
MSFT certainly didn't help. For example, a lot of netbooks were packaged with Windows 7 Starter, a seriously limited version of Windows.

I'm skeptical that the hardware couldn't handle full Windows (because Starter also provided an Anytime Upgrade option), so it seems likely this was an intentional decision to reduce the features of netbooks at the software level, in order to avoid cannibalizing larger PC's and laptops.

EDIT: link to feature limitations for W7 Starter: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-w...