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Braintree has a major advantage over Stripe: their terms of service. Did you actually read through all the prohibited businesses[1] in Stripe's ToS? Most of them are common-sense bad, but some of the descriptions are very general, and there are 56 of them.

Are you sure your business isn't providing "personal computer technical support"? Offering any "extended warranties" with goods your business is selling? Maintaining "quasi-cash or stored value"? Or maybe one your web site's users posted "sexually-oriented or pornographic products or services"? Stripe prohibits accepting payments "in connection" with those things.

[1] https://stripe.com/us/terms#prohibited-businesses
> it came with an adapter to miniUSB in the box

Yeah but that's an adapter, even though it does abide by the rules you still have to carry the adapter around. Most manufacturers just switched to miniUSB entirely, so you don't need an adapter, any combination of charger and phone should work (in practice there may be issues with undervoltage, I've seen combinations of phones and chargers not work)
This is very true, but what most employers want is programmers, not computer scientists. In the same way people used to have to buy the whole album full of songs to get the one song they really wanted, employers are often forced to buy CS grads to get people who could program.

Just as a la carte songs eventually became available, significantly reducing but not eliminating demand for entire albums, reliable programming certification could eventually reduce but not eliminate demand for CS degrees.
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Thanks for the heads up. We'll track that down.
That is £3 they charge you to do something that costs them nothing - to relay your call from their network to... their network.
If you think about LinkedIn as an address book on steroids instead of a social network then you don't have to ask yourself whats the point of LinkedIn.
Maintaining infrastructure doesn't become more expensive just because the competition is using it when roaming.
What they're doing is basically double dipping charging customers for service and competitors for roaming which the network are passing along to the customers.

However you look at it the customer is the one getting screwed here.
They are only bitching because they're being forced to re think their business model and make it more fair.

When you think that Vodaphone is doing it even if you're still using their network just in another country it makes you think what's the difference between this and stealing? They're not competing with themselves so it's basically a scheme to make more money.
Linkedin, to me, is the most honest social network.

Social networks, Facebook or Google Plus, exist to create a base of knowledge about people, and then sell use of it, usually to advertisers.

Users don't use Facebook in order to be advertised to. They use it to talk to friends, store photos, or possibly to create a low effort website for a business. Yet their value to Facebook is as a target for advertising, and maybe one day their information will be used to provide metrics for insurers and employers.

The highest cost keywords on Google are for payday loans and insurance. In both cases, the money in the industry is in making users buy a product that costs more than it should - if you make money selling payday loans, you are making users with a lower risk profile than the interest reflects buy your loans, rather than go to the bank.

Linkedin users know they are creating a public face that employers, employees, and business partners can use to evaluate them. Linkedin sells access to this data, for the purpose that the users put it up there.

No one posts drunk photos on Linkedin, and if they are complaining about 'spam' from recruiters, they are clearly not looking for a job at the moment (which is what linkedin is for).

Google and Facebook are private surveillance systems that bribe users using unrelated functionality, to document themselves for purposes that are against their interests (making them buy things they otherwise wouldn't, etc). Linkedin provides a publishing platform for users to document themselves and broadcast that documentation. Which one is less evil?
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Exactly this. I evaluated both options for a while before settling on individual file encryption -- faster and cheaper sync.
> If customers were being tricked into paying roaming charges in nefarious ways

If your phone rings abroad, and you don't pick it up, and the call goes to voicemail, they charge you for an incoming call and for an outgoing call. Even if the caller doesn't speak on your voicemail, you are billed at least 1 minute active + 1 minute passive.

Assume you're an Austrian, and you miss 3 calls while in Montenegro, that's 20€ in unexpected charges.
I highly doubt you could call yourself a programmer if you don't have the basic knowledge of induction proof, recursion, dynamic programming and greedy algorithms. If you write code for a program with a running time of O(2^n) do you know (after a 12-week course) how to leverage memoization to bring it down to polynomial time? Do you even know what polynomial time means?
This will eventually lead to mobile phone charges balancing all over the European continent. Otherwise people in Denmark will be using Bulgarian or Romanian pre-paid SIM cards buying credit online assuming that mobile providers can't charge the same for the services in richer and poorer countries.
In my experience, shit code tends to start with a competent developer solving a problem in a way that seemed reasonable at the time, and then requirements changing, new features getting added, and everything is in a hurry so it never gets refactored.

Well, sometimes I do see code that's really very bad and I can't imagine how someone was ever able to type something like that, but that's rare. Usually it's competent people with the best of intentions but as lack of ability to predict the future.
I find it interesting that so many folks find the mere mention of the possibility of sexism in some cases to be "stressing" its existence. Makes conversation difficult, which I suppose is the goal.

This argument that knowledge makes you fearful is a terrible argument and a total projection. Why do you assume that my acknowledging the existence of sexism means I feel disempowered? That's just weird. I see the sky; it's blue; I go about my day. I see sexism; it's there; I go about my day. I see poverty on the bus, war in Syria when I read the news, and climate change when I go hiking in the woods. Sucky things are true and suck. Your idea that they must lead to fear and disempowerment is certainly not universal. It's part of the human condition to see sucky and unfair things and then grapple with those truths. It's what life on earth is about. Avoiding knowledge is also what some humans do, but I don't see how that's to be celebrated.
... using the software by Leap Motion.
Amazing technology by what I consider one of the greatest visionaries of our generation. I do wonder however if this is something you could do all day, instead of using a mouse. It seems rather straining, holding your arms in front of you all day.
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Amazing. What do the docker guys think of coreOS?
The roaming fees that operators can charge one another within the EU are also regulated.

Exactly. The current law about customer level pricing also includes wholesale pricing regulation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulati...
Because the circumstances in which a 13 year old may be sexually and emotionally mature enough to consent to sex with an adult and not be a victim of manipulation are extremely unusual. That is considerably less likely to be the case in 16-20 year olds, for reasons which have as much to do with biology as prevailing social opinions

I'm assuming you agree there should be some age cut off point, unless you think sex with infants is fine and dandy so long as infants aren't looking to testify against the paedophile.
Huh?

Then there's something wrong with your operator. Roaming charges are for the "international" segment: from home, to the country you are, and from the country you are to home. That's why you pay extra to make calls, and that's why you get to pay when you receive calls.

But it's also "opt-in": you only pay for what you accept. You won't pay for SMS because you can't elect to receive them or not. And, if you miss, or reject a call, it goes to your voicemail. And the voicemail is in your country operator's. So, of course, you won't pay. Unless you have a weird phone and the voicemail is in your phone. Then turn off your weird mobile phone.
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The municipality is thinking about placing sound proof covers over them. But until they do so, they are going to have a meeting about it. Oh god.. hooray for bureaucratic Dutch government. Let's talk about it instead of taking action.

Fun note; the guy on the bike is in favor of the porn sounds, since art is meant for everyone, by everyone. Haha!
May I suggest stealing some of core.typed's syntax for your docstrings, especially for polymorphic functions?

It scales very well, from simple types like clojure.core/symbol:

https://github.com/clojure/core.typed/blob/57da1175037dfd61c...

to polymorphic types like clojure.core/repeat:

https://github.com/clojure/core.typed/blob/57da1175037dfd61c...

to succinct representations of complicated polymorphic types like clojure.core/fnil

https://github.com/clojure/core.typed/blob/57da1175037dfd61c...

and I'll spare you the really insane annotations.

Of course you can pick and choose what's to your liking.

Here's a brief tutorial on type syntax: https://github.com/clojure/core.typed/wiki/Types
My workaround to cut down compilation time is splitting up the document into parts and always only compiling the part I'm working on.
We don't have to imagine it -- that is how it is in the US.

For example, if you are on T-Mobile USA, living on the east coast, anytime you drive west, after about 100km your "4G" smartphone is reduced to a feature phone (either on T-Mobile's own GRPS/EDGE-only network, or hyper-restricted voice/sms-only roaming on AT&T).

This happens even if the other operators have extensive 3G/4G/LTE networks available in those cities.
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Whoops, added a "don't" that shouldn't have gone there.
But as far as I know there is no rule which forces companies to charge equal prices for their competition and their subsidiaries across borders.

Have a look at the "Wholesale caps (Operator to Operator)" table. That is regulated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulati...
You are right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulati...: "A wholesale price cap on Internet roaming was introduced on 1 July 2009".

Limits at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulati... give EUR 0.10 per minute of across-operator roaming charges.
what % of developers regularly make use of such knowledge? what prevents non-cs graduates from opening a book on algorithms?
Here's an early prototype:
https://github.com/w0land/qmlail
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It's about time somebody put this together. We have the technology necessary to build it.

Nothing revolutionary though he just put the pieces together. It needs more tweaking before it can be very useful.
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I drive a 30 year old Mercedes diesel as my primary car and it still runs like a swiss watch. You do have to adjust the valve clearance every so often, which is not necessary in a modern diesel or even ones slightly newer than mine.
if we have people's attention for 15 seconds, we should show them the full range of sound intrusiveness

Great behind-the-scene thinking. Alarming, sound for issue still made a nice connection in the brain. We have an issue, its software, but its real. 'Houston, we had a problem' feeling. Funny. Should be less alarming 'in production' for sure.

Fantastic project. Themes of sound pollution, ambient sounds, silence, hearing, listening (inside your head included) are much overlooked (!) stuff. And this modality is a very powerful one (as all the others).

Reminded me of http://onesquareinch.org/ and myriads of other projects, people attentive to sounds, recording them, sharing them. Universe in itself.

Apologies for emotional tone, just some quick thoughts.
I think most businesses that aren't TechCrunch headlines follow similar paths and time lines. Today everything seems to be MVP and pivot, which really isn't accurate for long-term Entrepreneurs/business owners.
>> what do you expect? The NSA is in the spying business, and ultimately its performance is measured by results, not methodologies.

The NSA, as a government agency, is in the business of serving the US citizens who pay its salaries and acting in their interests. Ultimately its performance is measured by us.

My boss would fire me if I put a backdoor in his email.
Yeah I was hoping for more creating and modifying than just a CAD viewer. I wasn't that impressed with what he showed, nothing revolutionary.
Alas Montenegro isn't in EU (yet), so wouldn't be covered by this. I recently travelled around that part of Europe and it just shows the absurdity of roaming rates. Cross one border (into the EU) and suddenly roaming is 10% the price!
I am asking them to store it there but not to catalog it and make a note somewhere that this person has AIDS, is divorced, lost his house in foreclosure etc etc etc.

That's the difference. It's almost the difference between whispering something at a bar vs posting it online, where it stays for ever.
I was impressed about a minute into it and then he said "that's what we were able to do a few months ago" I was expecting he would pull the monitor away leaving a 3D holographic projection. I guess I watch too many movies, lol

But the glass projection looked fascinating.
I love this video for explaining how steering works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
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Dammit this man rocks my boat in so many ways.

He feels to me like he's really pushing the boundaries of human innovation.
Because PayPal has enough evidence that they will have resources to pull from IndieGoGo in case things go bad? IGG's risk to PP is much lower than MailPile's.
While it is nice the EU is regulating the mobile phone market like this, it sometimes creates funny situations. In many countries it's cheaper to send an SMS being abroad. Right now the regulated cap for an SMS sent in roaming is at €0.09 and will be €0.06 in 2014, but sending texts from your country often costs €0.15 :)
Sorry guys. While the "concept" is nice, i think this is quite overselling a new "manifacturing" process which obviously (at least for anyone who has any CAD modeling and manifacturing experience) is far from being anyhow usable in industry.

Why overselling? Because the precision provided by that tool (as shown in the video) is surely not enough to achieve anything other than reviewing CAD models.
> ...college is not, in itself, all about the lectures and grades.

The great thing about Khan et al is that they have "disrupted" the lecture part of the equation. I would like to see this result in more emphasis on research for the professor and less on lecturing. This will also make class time more about rapport building with one's professor and fellow students.
It's not that crystal clear. I live in France now, where the last mile cables are detached from operators. As the cable to the place I live in is quite bad, no operator will ever do a thing about it. In Poland, it's still an anarchy... So when I receive bad service, I go to the competition and they put their own cable to my place. They have to compete on that part of quality of service, not just say "it's just bad around here, it's not our problem".
>> breaking crypto is hazardous to the populace independently of how it's broken, right?

Breaking crypto from the outside proves that it's breakable; if the NSA can do it, it's just a matter of time until others do.

Undermining cryto from the inside means deliberately exposing all communicates to increased risk of hacking by anyone, anywhere.

Quite different.
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A bit more background on this project for those curious minds:

Aldo and I each wrote a blog post on why we are building this:

http://beachmonks.com/posts/intro/choir.html

http://beachmonks.com/posts/explained/choir-explained.html

We've been slowly onboarding brave alpha users. We want to learn as much as we can from these early adopters, and plan to share our results in the form of short
interviews published on our blog.

The first of these - with Ryan Baker of Timely - is up now.

http://beachmonks.com/posts/interviews/timely/that-siren-sou...
This looks nice, but I doubt that it's really much more productive than the usual 3D mice (SpaceMouse) setup that almost every CAD shop uses. Just like touchscreens are hardly superior to ordinary mice, when you can afford to lug the latter about. And much more prone to gorilla arm syndrome. So for a desk, this is probably no big win. Maybe for some kind of highly integrated CAVE setup, where you'd be wandering about.
yep the original diesel engine was designed to run on coal dust, unlike the modern light fuel oil diesels (kerosene, jet-A, home heating oil, and diesel fuel are all very close to the same thing, differing mainly in additives).
Although it's possible, it's unlikely. Roaming costs used to be obscene, like €1.70 per minute to make or receive a call (that's what it cost me in non-EU Switzerland a few months ago). Telecos would have to make monthly costs ten times more expensive to compensate.

No matter what, telecos are going to lose out on the roaming cash cow.
You must have outdated information. Incoming calls going to voicemail must be free since 2010. Check this table:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulati...

Edit: I just realized Montenegro is not in the EU yet, so you may be right!
It looks realy akward when he needs to hold his arm still while closing his hands.
I'm skeptic of the current state of "gesture/3D/motion/whatever" controls, but there is a big potential here.

3D design tries to work around the problem of working with 2D screens by showing multiple sides at once (Front/Left/Top/Perspective). You have to adjust objects in at least 2 screens to get it right, which isn't a perfect solution as well.
I've been programming professionally for over 10 years, and when I see some weird code, I still try to figure out who wrote it and ask him before I change it. Often he admits it's shit and needs to be changed, or he just doesn't know anymore, but sometimes there was actually a very good reason for doing it like that.

Those few times make it worth to never judge too early.

Blindly assuming you know better is arrogant and will inevitably lead to problems. Discussing the underlying reasons will almost always teach you something.
Right, but that is the point. If you think that the NSA has some magic machine that might break one of the common encryption schemes, but you don't know which, then pick five different encryption schemes. A layered encryption scheme is only as weak as its strongest layer.
Is it just me or is anybody else thinking that just making lines alternate between colors (think of tables) would do a better job.

Why do we need fancy gradients?
I find it disturbing how much weight some women put into their looks

I can imagine a situation where the roles were reversed and you said "I find it disturbing how much weight some men put on their cars". These are neither good nor bad things (plumage-competing like this is baked into our DNA) but take it for what it is.
Everyone serious enough about his work to care about efficiency. And no one prevents a self-taught programmer to learn algorithms techniques (or anything at all, really) but the chance of one doing so are really low, especially considering that people opting for a 12-week course instead of a 4+ years-long route aren't the kind you would think of as particularly dedicated to something.
There's not even rules, the EU just asked them to sort it out, otherwise it would legislate so they had have a common standard.
The other thing is, things don't work like that in the real world. If you go to court over this, the judge will check the material evidence (for example, that MailPile's page says they will deliver a beta by Jan2014) and will want to know if that was delivered.
Doesn't this potentially steal bandwidth from my users that they might not want to give?

Unlike a traditional P2P play where they opt-in?
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What's up with this trend of doing stuff that only works on Chrome? On Firefox this works for a minute and then stops working.
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Applying logic, it is a wrong analogy
So another hook for always positively identifying Google's always listening data-collection network.

I've started jumping the Google ecosystem. I'm now more often than not, not signed into a Google-account, to the point where I can go a week without signing in at all.

No way I'm joining a program which requires me to reverse on that.
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There were no problems with accessing the site with Chrome or other modern browsers. What you described would have been a problem with all browsers, and anyway GoDaddy supplies all the files you need in a single zip file, including the intermediate certs. We did simply revert the SSL key, once we isolated that to be the problem. There is no pressing business need for a 2048-bit key.
Good or bad this is central planning, or something very close to it. Price controls. Mandated alliances. Minimum coverage requirements.
> The bigger question is whether doing that to show ads is legal or not

What is the difference between "opening them" for full text search or spam filtering and "opening them" to use them for advertising?
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Yes and there is nothing new. Big Car Companies use such things since many years.

Oculus Rift / or a normal Display and MS Kinnect make it obviously usable for a mass of users.

Only the Software has to support the kind of IO.
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It IS a fundamental one. Most of your comments center on "why it's not a problem for IGG" while failing to understand the risks involved (and the risk mitigation actions taken).
We use LaTeX a lot for all kinds of documentation. I've used sharelatex.com on and off for a while now.

I think they'll be onto a winner when they've got their up coming Git access feature sorted out.
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The result is, you can no longer build an HTML5 app and prepare it for the chrome store, you have to specifically change the code to package it. This makes it less ubiquitous and creates extra work for developers.

So a proprietary HTML-based format then? Yay Google for promoting the open web!


With Google going down south, we need Firefox OS to get traction, and we need it now.
> make a note somewhere that this person has AIDS, is divorced, lost his house in foreclosure

And how exactly can do that?
From an economic perspective, what bankers create is correct allocation of economic resources. I doubt that that is how banks create their money these days though.
Other option: if you have friends or relatives in the other country, just bring your SIM card with you when you leave. Frankly it's so tiring to live on the border and pay for the roaming just because cell phone decided to be in roaming.