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Ask HN: How does a good pipeline for selling digital goods look like?
I have been working on a startup that will sell digital goods/services in the EU but also world-wide.

How does a good pipeline look like that handles payment, billing/invoicing, accounting?

Currently, we have thought of:

- Stripe for payment, and

- Xero for invoicing/accounting.

However, we have learnt that VAT calculations are a big issue in the EU - and provided VAT numbers have to be verified.

And we were totally shocked that Xero can only handle very few API calls per minute or month and is not even able to send invoices to customers per API call. So now we also consider of using Mandrill for transactional emails.

It seems like we have to use a dozen services just to be able to sell digital services/goods?

How does your pipeline look like for (frequently) selling digital services/goods?
Do we need all these other micro services for VAT calculations, sending transactional emails, etc?
I checked Woz's twitter feed to see if he mentioned this at all (which he didn't) and noticed that he gives accurate location updates constantly. Even which hotel room he's in.

https://twitter.com/stevewoz
Ask HN: Where do you find software consultants?
What do you look for when you're in search for a consultant?
>Ensure use of Anti-CSRF tokens, CORS, and crossdomain.xml policies to prevent an attacker from forcing a user to submit authenticated requests.

isn't crossdomain.xml an adobe flash thing?
Weird list.

I usually ask, in no particular order: What do you do, how do you do it, how can I help you, can I remote.
uh, out of curiosoty, how do they handle conflicts with already stablished domains on that tld?
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Exactly. My point was more that the OO patterns refer to general concepts, that are useful to be able to recognize without objects cluttering your view.

I believe we're on the same page :)
And from it grew tccboot (https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html), a boot loader which compiles the Linux kernel on the fly from source then runs it, the entire process taking only a few seconds ("15 seconds on a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4.")
Excellent! Thanks for clarifying and sharing your research.

> A safe question you can ask if you’re concerned is something like “our core working hours are N to M, will that pose a problem for you?”

That is going in my toolbox.
You include several clones built on Unity. These are not open source.
No, it's because our civil service did no planning for this (in fact were explicitly not allowed to), have no infrastructure or skilled employees to negotiate it, and are fighting a constant battle of trying to inject the economic reality of Brexit into the heads of our MPs who refuse to hear it for political reasons. You can be for or against Brexit but if the rulers are pretending that it's not going to hurt if we lose trade access then we are in big trouble. Source - I know a civil servant who worked on EU stuff.
I think that maybe if you read it really (like, really) literally, then it sounds okay: "one can be right, the rest can be wrong" could be a really literal (though somewhat wrongheaded) way of saying that the merit of scientific ideas rests on the process (experiments, logic, etc.) by which you get them, so if you (and only you) got the process right, and you can see an error in what everybody else did, then it's okay to say that. But that's only half the quote, and the populism half would throw that interpretation out. I think it would have been nice if the reporter asked him a little bit more about the scientific method and how he understands it.
Guys, i just started reading through source code of 8cc and now this new project :). https://github.com/rui314/8cc
Just push Trump to do what he promised to do during his campaign: allow the importation of drugs. The rest of the world is mostly paying more reasonable prices, it’s only us, USians who are getting reamed by the pharma cartel.
Deep deep trouble
There's an allowance for these things, where you can spend half a second fixing something, but some people are astonishingly bad drivers and get fixated on things for tens of seconds, still driving.
I've crossed paths with the man, and attended a "Doctors for Disaster Preparedness" conference that he ran. He's undeniably brilliant, but that whole scene is filled with people whose primary emotional motivation is a sense of grievance that the scientific community does not share their personal theories.

Every talk at that conference was framed as a brilliant insight that was being suppressed by the scientific community. Highlights, by my recollection, include that climate change is false, radiation is good for you, and most alarmingly in my opinion that HIV does not cause AIDS.

Not surprised at all that Dr. Robinson has since got tied up in vaccine denial, and been extensively funded by the Mercers et al. Nor that he has since become a perennially losing congressional candidate in Oregon.

There's a great quote at the end of this article, in which he says that science is fundamentally a populist endeavor, and that one man can be right and all others wrong. I'd point out that science is also fundamentally a human endeavor, and that those who practice it cannot escape their own motivations or cognitive traps.

Perhaps Dr. Robinson and his crowd really are onto something the scientific consensus is blind to. But they're also creationists, climate deniers, and anti-vaxers. We know what cognitive biases drive people to those opinions, and we judge their research output accordingly.
I'm really excited to see where this goes given I'm in the industry too! That said, I am skeptical of the background of this company and the quality of instruction/curriculum.

For anyone interested in K-12 coding education, I have been working on a project called BlockSchool. We connect students ages 6-13 with teachers from top colleges and companies via video chat. We have developed a fun 3D block-based world where everything is programmable.

We already have students in 4 countries! If you're interested in a free trial, email me at tony@block.school with Hacker News in the subject line :)
> He spent 1,000 DASH / (4,000.00 [USD/BTC] / 300.00 [USD/DASH]) = 13.(3) BTC

Maybe I'm calculating this incorrectly, but using the above, I come up with a cost of 75 BTC for 1000 DASH. And given the current BTC price of DASH at coinmarketcap.com[0], I see 1000 DASH would run about 55 BTC.

Either way, it's certainly possible that the purchase was for diversification, if one speculates the initial BTC "basket" was quite a bit larger.

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dash/
This is an article written by the biggest fan of a guy with an inflated ego, a child-like view of the world, and nothing to show.
"Be prepared to investigate breaches." << This
Manslaughter if not negligent homicide. License suspended for a minimum of ten years.
The picture of his machine shows it on tile.

Maybe they were referring to his office adjacent to the lab?
Related: If you want to understand how and why the American Healthcare system is broken, read the excellent book An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal.
Astronomers Are Finally Mapping the “Dark Side” of the Milky Way
populism - support for the concerns of ordinary people

No and I don't think science is elitist either. Neil deGrasse Tyson said "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."

Robinson gets it pretty much exactly wrong or maybe he just doesn't understand what populism means.
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Yeah, but that is entirely legitimate revenue.
The problem is that only the first of those definitions of populism is technically correct..
> Find stuff that's off-patent and build generics

Indian pharma industry is mostly doing these. We export a lot of generics to other continents as well.
HPAT looks pretty promising. I wonder how they managed to signficantly increase performance of shuffling and sorting which are known to be quite difficult operations in map-reduce.
I'll see what I can do. But--would an online course do? Because I have written one, I just haven't recorded the voiceovers yet...

The fun part is, I think most of the sexy tools are lousy. Ansible demos well but works poorly; Terraform has bitten me so many times I don't trust it; Kubernetes doesn't make sense to me in a universe where I am buying already-provisioned-and-segmented resource bunches (we can call them "virtual machines", maybe) where I have to incur extra deadweight loss because fault-tolerance implies requiring extra space in case any existing node goes away.

I have spent enough time thinking about this that I am reasonably confident in my approach, and I would like to share it. It's a little more than a blog, though.
brew will install SDL2 in a "unix" fashion, which should work if the makefile is written this way. The Framework version is the "Mac" way that is recognized by Xcode. The makefile for this project was created using the framework version.
May as well call them "oopsies" or "uh ohs". It's utterly offensive to the victims and those that are impacted by these careless incidents.
In olden times, other people expected you to use these other ways to communicate. Now they don't.

The fact that you can still mail a letter doesn't help at all when the other party expects something else.
Are these outcomes you describe actually bad? While I believe in the rule of law, the fact is that law has been bent to serve the wealthy and powerful.

Perhaps such lawbreaking is simply the symptom of the disease as Dr. Prasad says, which is (patent laws that allow current) drug pricing.
Ironically if you veered onto the sidewalk and mowed down ten people you'd probably face the same amount of jail time, if you even got that.
The reason this is an implicit principle of the Unix philosophy is because the Unix philosophy is to be as lazy as possible as the tool-creator and push all complexity onto the tool-user. Thus we get things like Go, regular expressions, and null pointers.

People outside this school of thought don't finish their projects because their projects actually try to solve the underlying problems in computing, which are inevitably hard.
Thank you for sharing your experience. So many of these drugs that people take recreationally actually have medical purpose. MDMA is another drug that is really benefitting people suffering from PTS (no D, it's stress caused by something, not a disorder).
I find the UI of your website to be intuitive and attractive, although I'm probably not the customer you have in mind.

Can these WikiPages be made public to non team users? I.e., made public?

This is likely a non-issue for your product, seeing as it is team-oriented rather than community-oriented.
There are multiple reasons for me to get up daily for work.Related to my field is love for development and problem solving and learning new stuff.Currently the project on which i am working is really shit in a sense that the legacy code is full of nonsense shit and i have to handle that.this make my day,a really bad day.but in the end
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The issue isn't money, it's his idealism that leads to gullibility. For example, check out his involvement with a multi-level marketing scheme called "People Helping People". I'm sure Woz loves the idea of a low cost universal education source, but he often skips the diligence required to figure out if these things are scams or not.
The great thing about science, and the whole process of looking for truth in natural phenomena as opposed to the Bible and mysticism, is that it's about more than "using the individual human mind." This quote makes it sound like science is some kind of personal relationship with God, where nobody can be righter than anyone else. Science is only science if it can be reproduced and shared. Everything else is BS, including a lot of the causes that Robinson is involved in.
Is it not possible to order a generic from India or another country? The drug should be out of patent a long while already?

If no competitor is available, why doesn't anyone set it up? It looks like a great startup opportunity.
on-site?

off shore?

large project?

small/medium project?
Good on you! 60 FPS and looks terrific.

From 10 years ago, how they did the (mostly automated) managed port of Quake II :)

https://gregs-blog.com/category/quake-2-c-net-port/
But isn't that a bit like sitting on someone else's chair? You can't control things you don't own.
More than the US political parties it is foreign adversarial nations like Russia that benefit from dividing the US electorate.

When two guys fight they both get a black eye. It is the third guy who got them to fight that gains the advantage over them.
You're implying that identities created using persona management software [1] are bots? I guess you could though they'd likely pass a turing test.

[1] https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/2/16/945768/-
Peer reviewing is considered duty to the academy but isn't tracked, publicized, or taken into account in e.g. lateral transfers, summer grants, or other things professors might want, right?

Is it harder to get a paper published in a given journal if you've blown off requests from them to peer review or done a crap job?
It's not a real TLD.
Are you the sort of person that looks at a car and goes "Oh, a BABY ON BOARD, I guess I'll not cut you off"?
I'm an Oregonian. Art Robinson is well-known locally as either a wingnut or a genius scientist, depending mostly on whether you've actually scrutinized his words. His research might well be scientifically meaningful, but a lot of things he's advocated for are pseudoscience, and he doesn't come across well in discussions when he's cross-examined on his prior publications.

As far as politics goes, he did not pick a great district to try to run for. The incumbent, Peter DeFazio (D), is beloved in the area for his populist attitude and progressive voting record; the Eugene/Springfield/Corvallis/Albany metro population consists largely of aging hippies and college students, and he's been consistently elected since the 1980s.
Is it such a bad thing to value reduce emissions from some of the worst forms of easily avoidable pollution, i.e. spilled gas and two stoke engines?

If you were around when the air quality in LA was almost as bad as what we are seeing now in places like Beijing, you might agree with some of the provisions that were enacted (and were hugely successful at reducing pollution not only in CA, but elsewhere due to said "features".)
Meanwhile, at the shallow end of the meme pool, this gem from back in the day - a LISP interpreter in a single Python expression:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~pcorbett/yvfc.html
A bit of a stretch to call this a "Lisp OS" yet. If you look at the project's history, you can see that it was written in nasm, and at some point the author "slapped some parens around" and took steps to make it into an actual Lisp dialect, but it's not there yet, as it lacks many of the features you'd expect from a Lisp. Also see README_LISP.md.
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Import laws exist to prevent this specific scenario.
I used postgres before and after all of these changes, and I used mysql at that time too...

And before you accuse me of anti postgres bias: I work on postgres all day :)
> I don't think the question should be "Why would you buy from Wal-Mart/Target/etc?" It should be "Why would you buy from Amazon unless you absolutely can't avoid it?"

This is exactly where I'm at. Amazon just isn't competitive on many axes anymore:

1. Price: Amazon just doesn't seem to be price competitive with local stores anymore, and like you observed, sometimes the prices are jacked up unreasonably.

2. Selection: It's way easier to find specific items at specialist stores/websites. Amazon's search for long-tail items sucks.

3. Delivery: Amazon delivery is vastly inferior to USPS, etc. where I live. Why do I want to pay more to get an item delivered in to days, when I could pay less and get it now with a 30 min trip to the right shop?
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What is a “serif” in Hebrew?
Late reply, but no, I didn't really have the younger generations in mind when I said this. I was thinking of my generation compared to my parents' and grandparents' generations. Heck, even comparing presidents from the last 40 years to those we had a century ago reveals a decline -- not that I'm a fan of Woodrow Wilson or Warren Harding.
Also, the business was not necessarily conducted in US jurisdiction. Facebook is a network-connected business, and the network doesn't stop at a border, as a broadcast television signal might fall off with increasing distance from the geographically fixed antenna, or as a newspaper or magazine that is delivered to a mailing address might never again migrate further than the distance from the coffee table to the trash can.

If a Russian wants to tell someone in Germany that Hillary Clinton is just the worst, I don't think the US has any reason to expect it can stand between them and say they can't do that, just because she happens to be running a political campaign--especially since political campaigns in the US are interminably long and tedious, such that a public figure might be expected to be continuously connected to one political campaign or another for decades.

I think probably the best that could happen there is a disclosure rule, such that anyone that transmits such messages to a US recipient has to be able to identify the person or organization that created it, or to warn the recipient that the sender could not be identified.
Patronage [1] is the idea behind Patreon.

Viewed as a pyramid it's one that goes only one level deep and markets only yourself as a worthy cause to support ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage
I'm not a big fan of the JS ecosystem or bloated browsers, but honestly, this is a perfect fit for JS. Distribute a static app which is a JS payload. The page knows how to join the distributed network and send/receive messages, which makes it trivial to allow you to build things like a social network on top.

Just make sure the protocol doesn't depend on weirdness from JS land to allow other clients in and you're good to go.
> I don’t think I understand the reference. Reflex is a library, used to create applications.

Yes, but typical uses would be mobile apps and web apps, pretty "high level" stuff.

> The actual application code doesn’t seem to adhere to any type of functor-oriented programming, as far as I can see: http://docs.reflex-frp.org/en/latest/architecture.html

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/reflex-0.4.0/docs/Reflex...

The entire library abstracts over its implementation via the "Reflex" class. This is not _exactly_ the style advocated in the original post, but it's basically the same spirit.
The half-life on this story is pretty long.
Side note: I'm to point now if I get pointless algorithm pop quiz questions in an interview I'll politely ask to move on.
Anytime you've had to find consultants. Did you use friends, LinkedIn, Hackernews, Mailing Lists, Meetups, etc and what was key in your search.

:) I haz a lot of questions so I can learn about the experience of others.
>Why should a person's mere nonexistence prevent you from serving an ad to her? You have built a scalable technology platform; it hardly seems fair that your growth should be limited by the human species's comparative lack of scalability.

(Via Matt Levine, tongue firmly in cheek)

http://www.thevab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Facebooks-R...
Since friendship is a mutual relationship and you also need to consider them friends, how are you going to go above your Dunbar's number? (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number)

Also, I think given how little quality time you can give to each friend, you need to have very convincing qualities that may not be achieved by technology alone (if you're thinking about automation of relationship management).
i think the most similar lib to ProseMirror is http://bustle.github.io/mobiledoc-kit/demo/
There's this best game ever, Master of Magic, which countless people tried to rewrite over but nobody ever got anywhere. Even in this list.

Of these, Star Control (Ur-Quan Masters) is also one of the best games with tear-dropping story which I also recommend highly. The open-source port is of excellent quality.
> Google should be called out on their pathetic support culture. Are they afraid of hiring support folks, if this is not ideology driving business decisions what is? There is no way they can compete even 1% with Amazon's customer service.

"Google...is institutionally so used to its ‘customers’ actually being its products that when it gets into businesses where it actually has customers it really has little sense of how to deal with them."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-serf-on-googles-farm
We 100% hold doctors accountable for killing patients if it was through negligence.
There aren't a lot but some really stand out.

For example, what's known as the "habitual be".

In SAE, one would say something like "Sam is walking that route to the store and does so regularly."
In AAVE, an equivalent statement would be "Sam be walking to the store that way."

The habitual quality of the action is what would allow for the use of the habitual be. One would not say it for an activity that is only expected to happen once.

To further illustrate, in SAE you'd say "He's dying."
In AAVE, you would not say "He be dying." because it's not habitual.

There are many others but I think this is one of the easiest to explain.
UK Citizens won't be egar to move due to language barrier. UK Startups look at their market as English speaking countries. UK, USA, etc..

So we are not going to move to a none English speaking country for what? easier access to trade?... Just set up a EU based subsidiary company at a later date after launch and translation.

I dont think it's viable. Of course panicked EU citizens will return to homeland due to lack of certainty. Which is odd, that they think UK are not going to be as welcoming after brexit.
You're right. I've watched many hours from the very beginning and this is about learning from the basics. It starts even before episode 1 with intro to C stuff. And he constantly reinforces the fact that this is for teaching "from scratch" and therefore isn't using libraries, but if you were to build a real game for sale there are places where you wouldn't be doing things the same way. Overall a very educational project.
The next Mickey Monday won't be flying cocaine he'll be flying in life saving basic meds from India.
But that only works if Unity open sources the engine. A ubiquitous engine is not the same as an open engine. The fact that we now have jDoom, Doomsday, and other enhancements to the engine that let us play Doom, Doom2, Hexen, Heretic, etc. only work because id software released the source code. Otherwise, it would be like any other proprietary engine, and we'd have to reverse-engineer it if we want to be able to play those games again.

I'm sure you could argue that Unity is currently more cross-platform than engines were 10-20 years ago and already works on Mac/Win/Linux/Android/whatever, but we can't guarantee it will be around in 20 years.
That's not only a ridiculous way at looking at things but also not how the law works. Murder and attempted murder are different charges dude.
I'm implying that if you have hundreds of accounts, you must be using software to manage it and aren't actively engaged with all of them yourself. Therefore, they are no better than bot accounts.