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> They're effectively killing it by buying it.

I don't see how you come to that conclusion. This is not the first time PayPal has acquired a popular payment processor. In 2005, they purchased Verisign's payment processing business, Payflow Pro. I don't recall them making any noticeable changes to it after acquisition other than changing the word "Verisign" to "PayPal" everywhere. Is there some reason to believe that a Braintree acquisition will not be treated similarly?
I would not describe the ~40% of acetaminophen overdoses
in the US that are attempted suicides as "accidental".

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hep.20948/pdf
Yes: https://eval.in/49833
There are other people saying the same thing about immigration law's effect on high school students [1]. So don't discount this particular argument just because it comes from someone you don't trust.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/09/the-surp...
Seems like an inevitable downgrade to me - real pity.

Also, as always, less competition means a worse overall offer for devs.
I agree. Compare what happened in New Zealand when John Key and the National party ousted the long-term Labor government.

Despite some major missteps from Key/National, Labor's spent the last term and a half fighting amongst themselves about who will lead it. There just wasn't the talent or the public respect for the interim leaders that could compete with Key.

My money's on a few Liberal terms in government, I'm afraid. The scary thing is, the second time they get voted in, they'll treat it was a strengthened mandate to do what they want.
Reminds me the Macromedia Authorware.
It's not that they have a page about cool free software things. It's the message they transmit to everybody.
Law Opens Financing of Start-Ups to Crowds
The Leap seems optimized to detect hands and pointer things. There is currently no point cloud you can access either.
Changelog just means newer version of Rubygems, but with following new features:

1. Rubygems now has a dependency resolution mechanism similar to Bundler.

2. Rubygems has something called StubSpecification which means that complete gemspec of all the gems need not be loaded when using rubygems now. The idea is, we just need dependency from gemspec. Author name, URL etc are irrelevant details which used to get loaded before. So this should make it bit lightweight.
We don't really know exactly what it stores, but they claim it's a hash of the fingerprint. That is not the same as the actual fingerprint at all, and it should be unusable outside the iPhone 5S ecosystem. I would imagine this hash, is also what they send to the servers to authenticate, but time will tell.
How does this compare with Tiny Circuits(http://tiny-circuits.com/)?
I worry that PayPal might change the “Take your vaulted cards to another processor” policy…

If they do, it’s going to cause a lot of headaches for customers.
Interestingly, the consensus respect for the military is relatively recent (i.e. since WWII). See http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21586311-america...
Cool project - Great work guys
Nice, thanks!

That allows me to work around a 'blocker' [1] for me right now: I can write a normal Dockerfile, use this ready made tool to test/build the image until my 'docker build' issue is resolved one way or another. Cool!

1: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/1916
DNS is for the most part a pass-fail type system. It can in no way make streaming better, unless your ISP is purposely giving wrong addresses for YouTube. Is that common now? It wouldn't surprise me, to be honest..
What's a rouge unit?
3D Printing (a nearly infinite number of knock-on effects).
Legal drugs (prohibition is once again losing its sway).
Care for people who are 80+ years old.
Autonomous vehicles.

Space travel - I'd love to predict fortunes in it, but it's still a wildcard and a dream.
You don't want to move to SF:

1. Expense. You are in a low tax, low cost, business friendly jurisdiction. Thousands of entrepreneurs are leaving California to start companies in Texas. In many respects , your situation seems ideal for entrepreneurship. A passive investment income with low taxes and living expenses is exactly what you need when starting a business.

2. Distraction. I lived 12 of the last 15 years in SF. Suffice it to say, it's not the city it used to be. There are thousands of so-called entrepreneurs in the city these days, most of them male and under the age of 25. There are tons of networking events where you can douche it up with other entrepreneurs, listen to VCs share their "wisdom", and generally waste your time.

If I were you, I would be looking a lot closer to home. Why not get a cheap student rental in Austin? There is a strong startup scene with plenty of time wasting networking, plus a very hip young town with a lot of attractions. Hell, you could buy a small place in town , and churn on startup projects indefinitely without scratching your savings.
Can we agree that Apple should not be marketing this as a "highly secure way to access your phone"?
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Lots of girls in Austin, btw.
> Convenient that he forgets the uncompromising standards of Apple Maps.

In the next paragraph, he writes that Apple sucks at online services, and that TouchID is great precisely because it's a completely offline feature. You haven't even read the article. I wish HN would blacklist any mention of Gruber's name.
Awesome! Thanks for the share
All beta codes are not working.
> It's _not_ the panacea to all our security woes, and they have never claimed it was.

But they've never said it wasn't, either. It's important that everyone is in the clear about how secure TouchID is. I'm going to use it anyway, but the other decision is how much personal data I want to store on my phone.
If you look at who the ads are for, it's pretty clearly a quid pro quo.
It's not just the traveling - it's the cheap living expenses while you build something.
Grooveshark is good 'more so' for playing the music you have already discovered. I personally like 8 Tracks model, Its one of the best platform to discover new music.
It doesnt encourage piracy and at the same time lets us get some good free music. Its spot on solution.

It also takes care of piracy really well. Its a radio, so there are limitation on you going back and front, at the same time you can listen to the playlist as many times as you want.

User upload their own music: Which means no piracy: You have your paid content you are just broadcasting to larger audience. Like having your own radio station.
Where did you get the idea that an extra 1g dose can be fatal? "Maximum safe dose" does not mean "exceeding this dose once is fatal".
One blush ;-)

[Moto7451 obviously meant rogue unit]
George Carlin was IMHO one of the most insightful people America produced. Yes, he was a "comic" because in his time that's how he could follow his calling and make a living.

While he was very funny, and he was riotously funny, he was basically the high priest of pull your head out of your ass and think for yourself.

R.I.P. George Carlin
If they send a hash to servers, that still has privacy implications. Apple could build a searchable database of those hashes, and the government could issue subpoenas to search that database for particular fingerprints. Maybe that's not such a bad thing, because it could help to solve crimes, but it's worth thinking about.
-- a lot of luck, because after 5 failed attempts, you must enter your passcode
Could the browser make small fractional random changes (+/-1 px) to the requested iframe size to avoid this attack?
So the difference between Math and Physics can be described as a single rotation matrix?
Riots after Ohio State/Michigan game get pretty intense, there's usually a fleet of helicopters out already.
Very interesting, but practically speaking it's an answer in a search of a question. This will likely be natively supported by smartphones in a matter of 2-3 generations, so they have very limited time to figure out what the question is and to grab that niche.

But all in all, and I hate to say this, I think they will ultimately fail.
I switched to Vim because, as I was transitioning to Linux from Mac OSX, I needed a cross-platform alternative to TextMate. After 10 months spent trying every cross-platform (Mac OS X/Linux) editor/IDE from joe, ne, or even diakonos to NetBeans and fiends, I found Vim and Emacs to be the closest to what I wanted/needed. Ultimately, the intuitiveness (yes) of Vim's language won me over and now, 3+ years after I took the plunge, I don't regret anything.

I agree, switching to Vim just because it is fashionable is a dumb move.

For the record, if ST had been available for Linux and Mac OSX at the time I was looking around, I'm 100% sure that it would have been my choice.
Fun idea, but poor execution. Why would you sample an area 4x or more unrelated to the data at hand? You should calculate the tightest bounding-box for your object and then apply the code, or just hit-test the non-transparant part of the current element, because you can still overlay items white on white, as long as the parts around it are dark enough.
Out of curiosity -- are there any better open-source or commercial alternatives to this type of software?
I'd be interested to know more about the actual uses and capabilities of the vehicle. For example, the article states that the military has had problems with using the vehicles off-road and that the vehicle is prone to flip.

Elsewhere it is described as resistant to mines and ambush (how exactly?). I'm wondering what situation a university campus is likely to encounter where this vehicle would be superior to, say, a four-wheel drive.
I remember a discussion on HN where this came up. IIRC someone suggested that it was more about the price - for some reason there was / is a surplus of this kind of vehicle. Unfortunately I can't find the thread again.

I wouldn't call this a tank, though.
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Colleges of OSU's size have had problems with riots after games and at the end of frat parties ( in fact, I believe OSU has had both, I know they have had football riots [0]). Vehicles, including police cars, get flipped and set on fire.

Since this is likely surplus military equipment from the US draw down in Iraq bought for cheap, perhaps it was a cheap way to get a vehicle for riot control?

Certainly, they aren't expected to drive across IEDs on campus.

Keep in mind, the police forces at large state schools are actual sworn law enforcement officers who carry guns, arrest people, and are responsible for crowd control. OSU is more than 56k people, well past the point where a town would have it's own police force.

Of course, this says nothing about whether any police forces should have this type of equipment.

[0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIHxDZwxloY
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Might have been this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6186569

Radley Balko discusses this at some length in "Rise of the Warrior Cop", cited in the article. Fascinating, scary read.
I've seen a human scale version of this done with the Kinect. An artist in NYC was doing it quite a while ago and had a showing in 3Dward. I saw the digitizer at Maker Faire this weekend and was impressed at the quality.

I'm guessing the res on this thing is better than that offered by rotating a Kinect around an object. It certainly requires a lot less space!
at reddit when this showed up weeks ago, ppl in the military were commenting how driving those are the worst thing they did on service. that its dangerously jumpy to the point they would question driving over speed bumps or crosing over sidewalks.

seems that some company developed something for military no-price-limits market that turned out so bad that they started a bargain sale to civilians.

ohio was just the first sucker that had to spend last minute budget to not lose it next year. and knowing how prevalent is this, expect a lot more to pop up.
You seem to think I'm attacking all academics, I'm not. I've repeatedly said that people on both sides write bad code.

> Have you ever actually produced any academic research code?

Yes. I've also maintained other peoples academic research code.

> I've seen plenty of "academic projects" that had far wider distribution, bigger teams and more complexity than your average "production code" (most of which is never used by anyone).

And there are plenty of industrial projects with wider distribution and with bigger teams than a lot of academic projects.

> I know a great many people in industry who micro-optimize for beauty and who go off on architecture astronautic expeditions with no provocation, so what's your point?

There are bad people on both sides, and that being good at one side does not necessarily mean you're good at the other. I thought that was clear in my previous replies, but maybe not clear enough.

> You pretty clearly have a bias that "academia" is this ivory tower place where nobody gets anything done, and that's a stereotype, not reality.

Please quote me where I've said anything like that.

Your first reply to me was taking something I said and repeating my point back at me, to be honest it's just getting a bit tiring. So here's a change, I'm going to ask you this: Do you think that there are some people who are good researchers but bad coders?
For me, part of getting that understanding is navigating the code and I do not always have room for another window on my screens.

It seems we have different approaches to working on code, or perhaps we just use different language. The main languages I currently work in are: Common Lisp, Python, JavaScript and C++.
Why are there so many successful Swedish gaming companies?
Where did you get those sticker on your laptop?
when 5+ people are going to pacifically hold signs in some park they have to inform the authorities so they can provide public "protection".

why a game of that proportions is different? i take it that more than 5 people are guaranteed to show up.
List of new features:
http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/issues?set_fil...
Why does campus security have to deal with that? If it's really as bad as you claim, shouldn't it be up to the state or city police departments to deal with.
"11 million people are a lot of people who are being treated unfairly" (Speaking of illegal aliens)

Unfairly? Most of these people or their parents snuck into this country, breaking the law. They knew full well the down side. How is this unfair? Isn't it more unfair that taxpayers have to pay their medical and education bills? and no they don't save the average person enough money on produce and services to make up the difference - this is a lie propagated by the handful of wealthy persons who actually benefit from their presence.

How can people be so blind?

"If you poll the majority of Americans, they want to get something done" (speaking on the illegal immigration situation)

Yeah Mark, you know darn well that most Americans want the borders secure, illegals deported. In other words - The public largely wants the laws of the country actually enforced (wow what a notion).
Polar Pen
Just a caution; for me that was always the intro to a depressive bout. The interest seemed to drain out of things. Stay aware and if it becomes prolonged or deepens you may be a candidate for anti-depressant therapy.

If this includes a negative re-assessment of what you have accomplished or the importance of it be especially cautious. Retrospective ennui is a red flag.

Here's hoping it's just a minor glitch or short term burnout.
>ohio was just the first sucker that had to spend last minute budget to not lose it next year.

Spend it† or lose it was my first thought, too.

†And then decide what, if anything, to use it for.
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Absolutely. Companies approach Braintree because they want a no-bullshit payments processor. Based on PayPal's past antics it hardly it hardly has the reputation for which people seek Braintree.

I think this is the perfect opportunity for Stripe, and other payments processors that cater to younger more progressive companies, to get some clients to jump ship.
Well you see these guys (Media and research agencies) Play with Statistics you convince you. You can give me any data and tell me in what favor I need to give my inferences and I will get it out of the same data.

So I wont suggest to go with this conclusive analysis, rather look at the raw data and make your own sense.

Something about Marketing: You see one really cant compare A company with B company if their market and their strategies are different. Yes, they do intersect at some point and we need to see who wins at the intersection.

Example:
Apple is into: Computer + phone + mobile OS + Computer OS etc.

Apple V/s Android:
When you compare Android with Apple: Compare iOS: And you will see that iOS is targeted to only a specific segment of society. Wherein Android is like a mass product. The reason Android is having higher market share is because in the third world country it is available as cheap as: 70$ V/s Apple (Iphone C) at 550$ (Both not on contract).

(Note: Android wont disrupt apple. These industry maturing will. With players having expertise in different domain come together to create final product. (Reference: Product interface) )

Apple V/s Samsung:
Same story as above: Samsung is spurred across the segment (mass product) and hence claims to be having higher market share. Which is right. It might be more profitable.

Its like: Class / Higher Profits V/s Mass / Scale = Apple V/s Samsung
(Note: Look at it from a business perspective not user, and we see Samsung is a better model given current stage of market)

But here is an important learning: "Elephants Cant Dance" You see Apple is now a BIG established Brand. They have Brand equity (Reason they can charge higher prices). Their Market segment is fix and they cant afford t dance / change now, to say Mass / Scale. It will hurt current market (Existing customer) sentiment. Though iPhone 5C was an attempt to try and gravitate towards Lower end market.

Back to Clayton theory:

1. He talks about theory as Lenses. Which doesn't necessarily indicate that what you see through that lenses is right or wrong. You are free to choose some other lenses as you deem fit.

Looking through the lens of disruptive innovation: I will side him. Even though Customers dont really see these trends they do affect businesses and eventually customers are convinced to align with the change in market.
I assume the intended use is an invasion of Michigan.
Three Kings is critical of the decision to encourage and promise to support an uprising by anti-Saddam Iraqis, then failing to deliver that support/not invading.

Whether you respond to this criticism by saying "we shouldn't have encouraged it" or "we should have invaded" or just "ain't war hell" depends on your politics, of course :)
This has sat in my bookmarks far too long. Visual programming techniques are very different and vastly under developed compared to the plethora of other 'toy languages' that get more development.
Far more people in the US die of dehydration every year. I am not saying that we shouldn't try to save people dying from different causes, but please - people have to use at least basic common sense when ingesting drugs.
Gotta love software docs that show getting drunk on various amounts of vodka as an explanation of their select statement!

This actually looks useful -- the simple set of rules they suggest make a lot of sense for general flowchart readability, and these could be easily shared with business partners of only a half-technical mindset.

I was curious how you would handle event driven architectures with it, however -- or is that outside the intended scope?
Numbers are useful for repeating actions in a deterministic way: I'd take 6p over Cmd+v-Cmd+v-Cmd+v-Cmd+v-Cmd+v-Cmd+v any time.

Numbers are also a good way to limit haphazard movements that have nothing to do with what you are trying to do. Do you want to "move the current line to after line 13" or do you want to "move to the first column of the current line, select to the EOL, cut, move down, down, down, down, down, down, open a new line and paste"?

:t13<CR>

Anyway, you don't need to use {count} for everything.

Do you want to "group together all the variable declarations scattered around the current function at the top" or do you want to "move your cursor to the line of the next variable declaration, move the cursor to the first column, select to the EOL, cut, move up, up, up to the top of the function, open a new line, paste and repeat that nonsense for every variable declaration in that code block"?

vi{ " visually select the function
:g/var/m?funct<CR> " move every var declaration right under the function declaration

You'd be blind to not see any value in all that. Being able to do (almost) exactly what you have in mind rather than a long and awkward combination of unrelated actions is an incredible boost.

You have many "more powerful functionalities" at your fingertips. Being lazy or incredulous doesn't make Vim an overrated tool, it makes you an inefficient user.

Using Vim efficiently is a very valuable goal but it's not a goal that can be reached without a little bit of work. You won't get any benefit if you refuse to do any investment.

"Normal" editors/IDEs don't require that much learning because they don't offer much in the first place. You can become a TextMate/Sublime Text power-user in a week because there's not much to them. Becoming a Vim power-user is a life-long experience: it's your choice if you want to take that path or not.

That said, nobody (I hope) is forcing you to like it or learn it. Keep using what works for you, there's absolutely no problem with that.
My understanding from some of my Iraq war veteran friends is that Humvees lack adequate undercarriage armor and they aren't designed for/can't be properly modified to carry the proper armor. There are newer ones with beefed up engines and suspensions but it's kinda like deciding you want to jump ramps/obstacles in a vehicle and trying to supe up your pickup truck rather than building a race truck[1].

MRAP is not a single vehicle but a class of vehicle[2]. The name kind of says it all: Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected.

My friends were stationed in bases inside Iraq and never really had to do any "off road-ing". They had to convoy between different installations within the country. Typically on poor roads but roads none the less. They worked with the Iraqi Defense Force to transport prisoners, supplies, etc.

This[2] is the kind of stuff that they were scared to death over and why they wanted MRAPs. Apparently Humvees don't take kindly to those sort of explosions or rockets, mines, IEDs, etc.

[1]My buddy and his friends do this with their Tacomas and regularly blow out suspension and drivetrain parts. CVs especially. This is no fault of the Tacoma, they are NOT designed to jump large gaps at speed like a Trophy truck.

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAP

(GRAPHIC)[3] http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=02b_1189545597 (GRAPHIC)

Edit:

That said, I have NO idea why they'd want these in a city other than the bling/super Ninja Robocop ego factor. Using the same SWAT vehicles as the local PD seems like a better choice since the support network would already exist.
Happened once before (sorta) in a dispute over state boundaries.

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

Ohio ended up getting the area around the Ohio/Michigan state line and Michigan got the upper peninsula.