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Offer a DRM free ebook for download if you want to sell it yourself. Then let your readers know, Google Play Books lets you upload e-books to any device you have. Amazon Kindle has many restrictions when uploading books. This is how I always buy my books if I can because it gives me more freedom and I'm not locked into any eco-system.
I definitely agree. Contrary to the negative perceptions, there is a major opportunity to market the BrainTree service to eBay's small to mid-size merchants along with other services as part of a professional ecommerce store-in-a-box approach. eBay can bundle every aspect of the sales funnel from customer acquisition through actual credit card purchase. BrainTree could also be used as a replacement for PayPal Payments Pro.
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Or more likely, move to a cushy, well-paid position as lobbyist or "VP of Regulatory Affairs".
I've always assumed it's pulling the dates from the commits, not from a separate log of git pushes. And of course those can and should have whatever date they were committed in hem.
I think you're missing the point of the "big brothers". The dark translucent outer circle represents debris. China has a huge amount of debris (thanks to deliberately blowing stuff up) compared to countries with far larger numbers of satellites.
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Phone can be switched off. The real problem are open-plane offices.
I always love to see companies supporting "old" tech once it goes out of fashion. There is always a market for this and it's usually pretty invisible.
I think the development has gone on as people have moved to bigger cities, and increased their exposure to other human beings. In the old days, we only interacted with 10-20 people on a daily basis(your butcher, your barber, your few co-workers, etc). Now, living in large cities, we have interact/encounter with hundreds of random strangers everyday.
The nVidia proprietary driver (same codebase both for Windows and Linux) is chock full of optimizations for specific game exes. Today games are the benchmarks, and optimizing for that in the same way I think is very reasonable. This is not "cheating", it is what makes the graphics in todays games possible at a resonable framerate.
Or this https://github.com/gelstudios
The camping version has fold out legs, and the battery/fan pack on the side detaches and stores inside the unit for transporting. The other version has a wider base, and the pack on the side doesn't look removable (overall not as backpack friendly).
I know of exactly one person that I've worked with and would take as a business-side co-founder in a heartbeat. And he won't leave his current job.

I can definitely agree with your comment.
It's no surprise that the AGW crowd is losing the war of public opinion. Take the last line of the article that details a part of the report:

The draft report says the available evidence now suggests that above a certain threshold of warming, the Greenland ice sheet will almost disappear within approximately 1000 years, which will result in 7 metres of global sea-level rise. It estimates that the threshold may lie between 1 °C and 4 °C of warming, but is not confident of this figure.

So what they're saying is they are not confident that some degree of warming may occur within a huge band which may do something that sounds really bad (but they don't actually spell out the bad things) in the next 1,000 years.

I am a scientifically literate person with a strong conservation and environmental bent. But when I read something like this even I roll my eyes. Because I want people to actually conserve, please take the following advice to the AGW crowd:

First, stop using the disaster du jour to say, "See!?! We can expect more of this from now on!" Because when you did this with Katrina and then we had 8 years of relatively quiet hurricane seasons you sound like a "sky is falling" fool. The fact that "An Inconvenient Truth" came out shortly after Katrina with a hurricane on the movie posters and box covers was ridiculous.

Second, stop making inaccurate predictions about what is going to happen. For example - for a while everyone was decrying that snow was a thing of the past because of global warming (example: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-j...) When we then had record snowfalls throughout many areas of the world, the same people changed their tune and said, "Exactly! Global Warming will actually bring more snow!" Enough of this nonsense.

Stop using things like carbon credits to live a ridiculously lavish lifestyle while telling everyone else to live simply.

Finally, stop trying to profit off of AGW. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/business/energy-environmen...

There are many people that you will never convince of the reality of AGW. But there are many more people that you are turning away from believing you because of the things above. Because I think finite resource conservation is the right thing to do, please stop hurting this cause.
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Given that metros and elevators are the kind of public private spaces where the social norm is to ignore the people around you as much as possible (at least, in most mass transit cultures I'm familiar with) this long predates the smart phone and the cell phone.
Oh they do pay some taxes, but rather insignificant amount when compared to the billions they launder thru' here.

And not just Google I believe Apple laundered north of 50 billion and only have a handful of employees here
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strate...

As a small business owner it sickens me with how these large companies can get away with so much here, ok granted they are creating jobs (badly needed) and have other positive effects on a sinking economy but having Revenue put a blind eye on these shenanigans while making life miserable for small companies is unfair.
Right now Braintree is a big winner. They built a great alternative and successfully exited. Longer term it does make things very favorable for Stripe.
I am speaking of the state-of-the-art of 2001 versus today. IBM's 2001-era T220 was pushing 3,840 horizontal pixels for something around $7,000. A massive investment to be sure. But had computer monitor R&D continued unhindered by the taint of "HD", T220-class monitors would have eventually became mainstream and the state-of-the-art would have marched forward still. I would have bought a "T220" in say 2002 or 2003 at $2,000. But the advance of technology seemed to halt and that never became an option for me.

Yes, prices have (mostly) come down. Yes, we have IPS versus TN. Thank goodness. But in terms of the top-tier specification of displays—resolution—we've stagnated and regressed. As others in this thread have pointed out, laptop resolutions in 2001 were higher than they were in ~2011. I don't own Apple products, but I give them credit for ending the tyranny of HD. Thank you, Apple!

Also, prices are not uniformly better, or at least they were not until very recently when some Korean manufacturers decided to shake up the monitor cartel. The consumer high-end in particular had been stuck with 2560x1600 30" monitors at ~$1,100 for about seven years.

Related rant: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/hd-sucks
Sounds nice except for you wont have any water to drink because all of the freshwater aquifers in Florida will have been infiltrated by sea-water. And this estimate of 1 meter of rise is on the low end of the estimates I've seen. Hope you get exactly the amount of seawater rise you need and also can fund your own desalination plant.
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Contrary to the articles suggestion that this is recent (past day or two), this actually happened to me for the first time back on the 20th of the month. It happened between two non-apps (regular Gmail) accounts.

I mean, I watch what I say online anyway, but I sure wasn't expecting Google to force me to open a dialogue with an ex.
thats my favourite ever git article.
It's still hard for most people to understand this.
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My experience is that a simple "it works" test covers most of the potential bugs in the test subject, so I just write {method name}_itWorks and just call the method inside asserting whatever the method was supposed to do.

I only write more tests if there are important business rules (new employees should be created with "Pending" status), or to cover edge cases uncovered by QA.
Not really. People need desalinated drinking water to survive.
Are public clouds the future of enterprise apps? Yes MAM
Wander is an interactive adventure-finding application...
Active Satellites / Non-Active Satellites / Orbiting Space Debris:

US: 453 / 683 / 3258

Russia/USSR: 86 / 1310 / 2690

China: 40 / 29 / 2690
It was showing me '0' until I refreshed a few times. Now it's '6'.
The eternal "open floor plan versus programmer-friendly caves" debate makes it painfully clear: there's no one right answer. Why is this hard to understand?

Different people have different styles and needs. In fact, the same person might have different needs on different days. Sometimes I love working in a beehive when collaboration is key; other times I'd much prefer to be working in a soundproof underground bunker.

Why is this so hard to understand? Why do nearly all offices try to adopt a one-size-fits all approach that is just so obviously going to frustrate at least 50% of the employees?

It just seems so simple - design a workplace with both collaborative and private work areas. Let people take their laptops and sit wherever the %(#*@ they want on a minute-to-minute basis. That's really so difficult?
What's a "just passive" adversary, other than a "potentially active adversary that chooses not to use the information they're collecting to leverage an active attack"?

Nobody likes the CA problem, but you can't handwave the problem away.

TACK (which provides auto-pinning) is hopefully going to be a solution to the lack of trustworthiness in CAs, but TACK's deployment model also presumes a CA infrastructure.
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My favorite pet peeve when it comes to paracetmol (note to Americans: that's acetaminophen to you) is the mixed paracetamol/codeine pills.

Here we have a highly addictive drug (codeine) that is otherwise reasonably safe in quite high doses, and that is regularly prescribed in substantially higher doses. E.g. prescription co-codamol is usually sold with 30mg codeine per 500mg paracetamol vs. 8 or 12.5 mg codein in over the counter, and you can get prescriptions for "neat" codeine at higher doses as well.

And we have a drug that causes liver failure in quite small doses, to the extent that the UK government put in place restrictions on it sale intended to reduce its use in suicides (you can only buy 16 pills at a time outside of pharmacies, and 32 pills at a time in a pharmacy). It's been widely reported to have cut suicide deaths using paracetamol by hundreds (total, not per year) since the restriction was put in place as just that slight little barrier of having to go to multiple places is apparently enough to make some people think twice.

So what do they do? Of course, since we all know addiction is bad (and we're talking religious/morally/tabloid style righteous "bad" here), why, when they decide to allow sales of tablets with codeine over the counter, they decide it should be mixed with paracetamol or ibuprofen, with the codeine content low enough that anyone left addicted after failing to get prescriptions renewed etc. faces the choice of suffering it out, or risking their liver.

Cue a couple of years, and the warnings about the danger of these pills are starting to emerge: Surprise, surprise, people with severe opiate addictions are sufficiently often not in a place where you should expect them to make rational decisions about whether or not taking products containing too much paracetamol is a good idea...

I get migraines sometimes, and the codeine/paracetamol pills are a great help, but I can't help but think that allowing the over-the-counter sale of them without a "safe" alternative for those addicted to codeine is tantamount to murder - the government knew all the risks, and in fact there'd be little reason to require those mixes over allowing plain codeine if it wasn't as a way of making the pills more dangerous to abuse. Yet they did it anyway.
I hope Paypal handles this better than PayflowPro, which is a seriously neglected product acquired from Verisign . No support on the weekends, even if your account is having technical issues that disrupt customer payments.
I buy almost all my books used on Amazon now, supporting local booksellers and getting them for much cheaper than retail price. Sorry, but this plea to not use Amazon is falling on deaf ears. I'm sorry that your business model doesn't work. Amazon's does.
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Yeah right. Presumably the publisher can sell the book to Amazon for whatever it wants. I guess tho that Amazon say - "we wont stock your book unless you let us have it for some price OR some specified (low) commission."
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https://www.braintreepayments.com/

"Interchange +.9% + €.10 per transaction. €100 per month minimum • Everything included • No additional fees". This is probably shown only to EU visitors.

I also confirmed this with braintreepayments support and their reply was: "The €100 is a monthly minimum based on a per transaction fee of €0.10. For example, if your first month of transaction charges are €68, you would need to pay an additional €32 to 'top up' the amount. Interchange + 0.90% is not part of the calculation. Only the per transaction fee of €0.10 is used to calculate the €100 monthly minimum."

When I switch the site to "United States" it reads:
"2.9% + $.30 per transaction. No additional fees • No minimums • Everything included"

Extremely annoyed by seeing this minimum applied only to the EU countries!
"and I notice that the author just happens to own a small independent bookstore"

This should probably be the top comment.
They didn't just switch to webkit, they killed the product and made a chromium fork, and called it "Opera."
That's not going to happen. At least not due to China's space program.

Manned spaceflight in China is a program of national prestige (though that's no different than any other country). But because of China's culture, their government, and the fact that almost all of what they are doing in spaceflight is retreading old ground they have been and will continue to be extremely cautious, moving at a slow pace. China's first manned spaceflight was a decade ago. In that time they've launched a grand total of 5 manned missions. Recently they've accelerated to a rate of about one every year. Meanwhile, they plan to spend the next decade slowly building a larger space station (similar to Mir though with only 3 permanent modules) and developing automated resupply spacecraft.

They aren't trying to trailblaze new eras of space exploration, they're just trying to play the manned spaceflight game to show that they are a country capable of doing so.

Fortunately though there will be considerable competition among private companies in the US, in both launch vehicles and manned spaceflight. Two companies have already developed unmanned cargo resupply vessels (though Orbital has not yet fully demonstrated theirs yet), at least 3 companies are building manned spacecraft for putting crew in orbit, and several companies are working on yet more advanced technologies for sending crews beyond Earth.
Pretty neat, but where is the textarea?
Agreed. I saw the BioLite setup at Maker Faire this weekend. They have some cool products but at 33oz the stove is too heavy for my pack. This one is only 7oz.
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Some pretty good points in here. What pisses me off about posts like this is seeing a freelancer learn some of the important things in one year what may have taken me years to figure out. ;)

We all learn at our own pace, which is why it's good to learn from others. Your pace might just kill you.
A penis, 25 contributions long, in the process of ejaculating its second spermatozoon (!)

You should probably tag this as NSFW.
It's only a bit hypocritical. There are actual degrees of hypocrisy!

The US constitution frequently prevents the US government (and US State governments) from enacting laws or enforcing previously enacted laws. This can be good or bad depending on your point of view, but it's a simple fact that in the US we have constitutional rights that are actually pretty potent. Do the police in China have to read people their rights? Guantanomo is a travesty, but it's a travesty precisely because the US Constitution is difficult for the government to ignore.

A more interesting example is many former British colonies, such as Australia, and Britain itself manage to have quite free societies despite having almost no constitutional protections. In China I'd say you don't even seem to have the basic rights people in the English system and its descendants enjoy thanks to the Magna Carta (Habeas Corpus, for example, or the right to a fair trial. Wasn't there just a very high profile case in China where the accused was very vocal one day and then suddenly had nothing to say the next?)
Ally Bank seems to be doing pretty darn well...
they built an alternative and ended up at where they are supposed to be alternative to.. that doesn't sound like a big winner to me
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I actually think his main point was to save a bookseller, and not the publisher or himself - except, he owns the bookstore in this case, so it comes full circle, supporting his position to buy a physical book from not-Amazon.
The glib answer here is that there's really no such thing as the 2nd law when you're talking about a small number of individual fundamental particles. The statement "entropy never decreases" is actually a purely statistical claim, and it only rises to its usual level of essentially unbreakable validity when you're dealing with macroscopic numbers of particles (the number 10^23 gets thrown around a lot, though it becomes an awfully compelling "law" even with just a few hundred particles in the mix).

But as for your actual example, it's important to distinguish between virtual pair production and longer-lived pair production. A single photon can momentarily "decay" into an e-/e+ pair which then annihilates back into a photon, and in fact quantum field theory tells us that this sort of process is an intrinsic part of how photons travel through space. (Similar things happen for all other particles as well.) But conservation of energy and momentum during this process leads to weird effects like violations of the usual mass/energy/momentum relation of relativity, which is essentially why we call the e-/e+ "virtual" particles (or "off-shell"[1]).

For a "real" annihilation between an electron and a positron, you'll always wind up with two photons in the final state (necessary to conserve momentum and energy). By the same token, to produce an e-/e+ pair you'd need two photons, not just one, and those photons would need to have enough energy to provide the mass of both particles and enough kinetic energy to satisfy momentum conservation. I wouldn't invoke the 2nd law here (as I said above), but the point you're making is still valid: because so much of the e-/e+ energy is "used up" in their mass, there is less "phase space" available (fewer possible momentum states) in that configuration than as two photons, so the probability of winding up in that state is correspondingly lower. (Also, an electron and positron are electrically attracted to each other and will naturally tend to meet up to annihilate, but two photons have no such tendency.)

I'm not sure that any of that was interesting or useful, but there you go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_shell_and_off_shell
Just cashed out all my money on Venmo.
Thanks for the chuckle. :-)
Per-site preferences will be returning to Opera in a future version, so don't lose hope.
You might be looking at it the wrong way. From what I can gander, these blades are going to be for application-specific use. I can see a double-folding math-character keyboard for Mathematica or design-tool for Photoshop being quite useful. Yes, this whole thing is novel, but as we've seen with the iPhone-era, novel gidgets and quirkets make people go bananas. Nothing new, yes, but still a cool thing if executed right. The big difference that people aren't getting here, is that touchscreen UIs take away screen real estate and are limited in size, these covers can be double or triple-folding and can have all kinds of LED-driven knobs, sliders, and whatnot.
"You need to have someone in the team that can fix a crashed server at 3am, or burn the midnight oil to hit a new feature deadline."

Looks like this guy needs to write down the list of qualities his co-founder will need to have and which one he is prepared to discuss; I mean if he is in his late 20s, early 30s, it is likely he would choose someone around his age and that's probably around the time someone is starting to be concerned about settling down.
I think the key thing is that efficiency isn't the same as a free market, but people tend to equate the two things. It's a rectangle/square problem: free markets drive efficiency, but efficiency doesn't drive free markets.

When an efficient competitor "wins" and drives the competition out of business, everyone loses, as that competitor eventually turns into an entrenched toll-taker. As a consumer, you want your vendors fighting each other all of the time. The situation in books, where Amazon tolerates the existence of B&N, and doesn't give a hoot about Jesus books isn't good for anyone.
We use Facebook to find out what our best friend watched on television this week rather than calling up our best friend, going out to dinner with them, and taking about what they watched on TV this week.

Faceboook is very superficial interaction. I liken it to people shouting into a crowded room.
Using nginx reverse proxy would probably solve this.
Mongolians will love this.
You attempted to visit a site that is in violation
of $COMPANY acceptable use guidelines or may pose an
Information Security threat to you and $COMPANY assets.

OK, just what are the hedgehogs up to now?
It's not true that there's "no downside" to using CloudFlare. They've had outages in the past which have taken client sites offline [1], for one thing. Speaking personally, I've experienced subtle errors that have disappeared when I've moved my sites off the service.

CloudFlare may well be great for some people, but it's not perfect.

[1] http://blog.cloudflare.com/todays-outage-post-mortem-82515
I learned a lot of the lessons because sites like HackerNews gave me the courage and fire-under-ass to learn them.
Which browser makes it clear to the user that some unknown organization has "verified" the business hosting the domain they are at? All a user sees is a little lock, no matter what cert you buy.
This post is lacking any supporting data regarding how amazon, other online stores, retail chains, and independent booksellers' agreements are different, and why amazon is particulary bad. As such, it's not really all that compelling as a rhetoric.
A female master plumber would probably do extremely well. She would probably not be a threatening a presence in the home as a male for a lot of customers. I did know a female carpenter who did cabinet / kitchen work that made bank because of the same reason.
"Speaking to RTE News in Dublin, Stripe chief executive Patrick Collison said he and brother John plan to sell as soon as possible at the largest possible price". If you can't imagine the opposite quote ever happening then there's no point putting much weight on the initial one - no matter what the circumstance.