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if your on a short budget, check out Freelancer.com.
their service allows you to post a project idea (you can choose a marketing genre and even be general and have experts suggest what to do to increase traffic)

freelancers and companies will underbid eachother with a price quote on how much it will cost to complete your project.

Pick a cost effective freelancer with a good user feedback rating.

Freelancer.com is also an escrow service to protect yourself from freelancers obtaining your money without completing the job.

However, the cheap price comes at a cost; in my experience, the quality of the job is significantly less. However, I am still recommending this technique as I have first hand experienced the benefits of outsourcing the work using Freelancer.com for costs at under 1/4th of estimated costs of US services.
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If you have the $99 developer account, Xcode 4 is free. Just log in to your account and download it.
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Of course it's not that simple! I did not mean to imply that.
By the same token as it's not as simple as, he/she wasn't able to produce an exploit.
The provision forbidding accepting payments on behalf of others is going to appear in the merchant agreement everywhere you look. It's standard. It's not a PayPal thing.
parent is right.. you might have to use a less agile or easy to integrate solution, but many countries should have standard bank-level methods for allowing you to accept online payments, some way or another
In this case, I don't think talking about definition is inevitably useless.

Defining could be determining characteristics of a bubble and figuring out how to recognize one. It's consequences (bursting) are, I think, not under dispute.
Still continue to be about trade offs.... We could waste all day expanding my shallow example with items to weight in. but then we'd had to send a consulting invoice
I don't see it! Not on my profile, nor on my company (and that's the one I really want, some details are wrong).
For those downvoting, did you want the server-side solution?

<meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off" />
Why is nobody mentioning that Xcode 4 is not a free download? It's only free if you already paid $99 for the developer account. It's $5 for the rest of us.

Though $5 is not a huge amount, it's difficult for me to send that money to Apple. All I have is a debit card. Getting a credit card is impossible for Indian students. I'll have to call an "adult" (I hate that word) and convince them to let me use their credit card for an Xcode purchase.

On the other hand, The Pirate Bay has a free copy I can grab ...
I don't even know if I'd need any notes to be able to deploy to my platform of choice, Ruby Enterprise Edition and Phusion Passenger running on Debian, in less than an hour.

Not because I'm particularly skilled at it, but because the Phusion guys have excellent install scripts and docs.
I just tried editing our investment details for Crocodoc, and I get a "We are working on this feature and will be available soon" message.
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Those threads are mostly full of recommendations that don't make sense. There'll be a couple actual recommendations of merchant account providers, which will have the exact same policies for reviewing accounts, freezing them if there's any red flags, holding funds for the exact same 6 month period, and forbidding factoring as PayPal cited in this case. The other recommendations will be for payment gateways (which do nothing without a merchant account) and some people throwing out names of the hot new subscriptions-as-a-service providers (Recurly, Chargify, etc) which again do nothing without a merchant account and have nothing to do with their policies.
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There is not enough drive in Singapore because of how comfortable life is. Most self made entrepreneurs did it either because of pure passion (an addiction) or because it was their only option (driven against a wall). I am basing my theory on the number of Entrepreneurs coming out of US, India and Israel.
Yes, but the contest really test the ability of a hacker more than the weakness of a browser. It's hardly scientific.
A very measured and sensible response. No set of security measures is 100% perfect. How you deal with and manage the imperfections is the real test.
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They won't open one either. It's standard Visa/MC operating regulations. You can't accept payments on behalf of others.
I find it a bit amusing that articles of this sort only evaluate people's most recent pre-startup employment. Sure, the Beluga folk previously were at Google. Two of the three started at Microsoft after college, however -- I worked with them both bac then. Of those two one went straight from MS to Google; the other had a more complicated path.
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That's an unfair comparison.

That $99 fee isn't for Xcode. It's for access to publish in the App Store and for setting up profiles for ad-hoc development (among other things). So yes, Xcode is now free with that registration.

It was always free before. Now its only free for developers who have registered as iOS/Mac App Store developers.

it costs 5 bucks or a hundred bucks, though the version that costs a hundred bucks includes some other stuff too.

When you buy a vehicle for 20k and the dealer throws in free sunfilm, you aren't buying sunfilm for 20k with some other 'stuff' included.
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PR-wise, very well done on Square's part:

-Didn't mention the competitor by name, and stuck to addressing the arguments, without any messy ad hominem stuff.

-Set up a separate page to address this issue. They could have easily lost by simply shifting the focus of the discussion to questioning Square's security. Posting a message on their home page or their blog, for example, makes it an issue to people who had no previous exposure to the issue.

-Stuck to a basic analogy that everyone has experience with, and everyone can understand.

-Used the opportunity to discuss other aspects of Square without throwing it in the reader's face. I had no idea they had a partner bank.

Good on them. I feel Dorsey has a mind for this, but I also find myself wondering if they had any PR consultation.
When the entrenched established companies start coming after you, that's when you know you're onto something.
Is there a HN Script to collapse comments like Reddit? I found a Chrome extension to do that, and I am thus using Chrome only for HN now.

PS: This is the extension. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1675861
Their defense essentially places the onus on their processor (JPMorgam Chase) to employ "risk mitigation" techniques we all admonish PayPal for.

I guess the question is this: why not use smartcards or RFID? Other countries have for years. Why not in the US?
The original allegation can be found at:
http://www.sq-skim.com/

(if there's a permanent URL for that, I can't find it).
There is a very high risk averse mentality in SG that can be attributed to a few things, one of which is the gov't here. Think about this, you really can't even get a credit card (based on credit) until you begin to earn enough in salary. I think it's about S$3k or so a month before you quality to charge anything. This alone will deter many singaporeans from taking the plunge of starting something on their own.

I've been to a few events around the startup culture here and am disappointed in the quality of companies I see pitching. Both in terms of the team and idea.

There are a few things here trying to upstart a entrepreneurial culture: e27 has weekly/monthly events, SGentrepreneurs has other events to bring together like-minded ppl and discuss ideas/companies etc.

Quality developers here want $. As mentioned in other comments, its high risk averse here and everyone just wants to get paid. Housing can be pretty expensive. Coupled that with the fact that a Honda Civic will cost you about US $100k and you too value cash > risky possibility.
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Big kudos for keeping the rebuttal short and clear.
The $5 discussion has been going on all day.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id422352214
I'll try it later and edit this comment, but have they changed the way it stores passwords? Currently, without a master password, you can view a user's passwords in plain text.

Ideally, a master password should be a requirement, or passwords should go in the keychain on OSX. Many, many Firefox users do not know about the master password, so if you can sit at their computer you can see their passwords. It's terrifying.
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If you are waiting for an RockMelt invitation, this is a good news. The social web browser has just opened up for few hours and anyone can get it without invitation.

Basend on Chromium, an open source that has been used to build Google Chrome, RockMelt quickly becomes an eager application among Facebook addictive community. Despite a free software, for a long time, you need an invitation to download this browser and access Facebook as well.
Man, that letter's awesome. You could replace 'Square reader' with 'Pen' and the letter's truth and value remain intact.
Hackernews is not the place for spam. Someone with authority please delete this user.
Thanks for investing so much time. Sorry - it's a bit hard to keep track of discussions on HN because of a lack of notifications - so my reply has been a bit slow.

I agree completely that we need a more concrete understanding of how/why intimate behaviours are in fact under threat (if that is indeed the case). The analysis of the first scene of the Social Network was there to give at least one example of how it is two people can actually be quite involved with one another and yet completely fail to establish an intimate connection. But we need more. It's impossible for me alone to provide that data. I'm not even an empirical researcher. But even more importantly - how could an empirical study be conducted? That's a very difficult question.

I think what we need to start by people telling their stories of intimacy - or lack of it. This might at least allow us to begin refining out intuitive understanding - which in turn might allow us to conduct more rigorous investigations.

I'm also pleased you enjoyed the "paradox of modern intimacy" section. I have thoughts about an essay on just that topic alone. Your comment has provided me with a nice motivation boost. Cheers! :)
Baltimore is a tech hot bed right now. Between our Universities, culture and under-doggedness we are going to seriously crush it these next couple of years. I missed out on funding to start my mobile company 5 years ago because I didn't want to move out west. Now I'm happy to say its game time without it.
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I've admittedly heard more stories like this than success stories. But even so, it seems to me that it just comes down to the fact that you often don't know people as well as you think they do, you don't predict how they would change as well as you think they would, and you don't know yourself as well as you think you do. If not for that information asymmetry, I'd say that there would be no reason to not go forward with something like that. After all, there are success stories on that front too.
I had no idea they had a partner bank.

Chase is probably their processor.
Superior products launched earlier ignored for lack of effective marketing, while an arguably less innovative and minimalist but attractively packaged product geared towards a grossly underserved niche succeeds in capturing attention because the competition in that niche is ossified and terrible?

One could almost try to extract a lesson out of that...
As the new cover is only protecting the screen, wouldn't that lead to the back of the device to acquire the scratches usually associated with apple devices?

This might lower the resale value of the device which could be another reason for the design that Apple has chosen here.
It's not Square's defence. It's every merchants'/processors' defence.

I have a card with information stored on a magnetic strip, a smart card, RFID and text. It doesn't matter which of these you use to steal the information, the result is the same.
DNS wildcards are server-side, so there's no way for the client to know that the response they got is for *.domain.com but not www.domain.com.
Risk mitigation is probably mostly done by Square and JP Morgan/Chase stands behind it.
Okay - fair enough. I'll leave the discussion about art/philosophy/ideology there as it's too huge for this venue. But I appreciate you taking the time to explicate your view.

I can't resist however pointing out the delicious irony of your last sentence though. It's okay that you took its style to be an indication of poor quality.

I'm interested in attracting readers whose high propensity toward intimate behaviours allows them to look beyond various surface signals and engage with the purely semantic content of the piece. If you did in fact engage the piece in that way - then that makes your final comment so ironic that the thought alone brings me much pleasure in contemplation. Those who did will know exactly what I mean.
UPDATE
Since I raised some serious concerns, I wanted to update from the comments provided. Square does not store the data on the device. The device must have an internet connection and the data is sent, securely, online. In other words, the original allegations are stupid any way you slice it.

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I think I'm missing something.

People seem to think that the problem is that Square can be used as a skimmer - which I agree is stupid. That's like saying a pen & paper is a skimmer.

However, it seems like the real issue is that Square stores the data on the device in the clear. What happens if the device gets stolen?

Imagine if a web app stored CC information in the clear and it got hacked, people would rightfully hold the vendor/processor responsible. If devices get stolen and data is stored in the clear, Square is totally wrong and they are totally deflecting/mis-representing the issue.

Can anyone with actual knowledge about this, rather than two business pointing fingers, clear this up for us?
My startup http://brainracer.com is very early-stage, but we're tackling the difficult problem of keeping young kids interested in math.

The math education system (especially in the US) tends to be soul-crushing, and it focuses more on repetition rather than intuition. Our first app is guilty of being a little bit repetitive also, but it uses social game mechanics and spaced repetition to make learning arithmetic as painless as possible. Hopefully, it will validate the idea of social math games and create some cashflow. I'm already looking forwarding to the next game we'll build on the iPad -- because of the touch UI, I think it's a perfect medium for exploratory learning.
OTOH Duke Nukem Forever is a sure thing now.
In our (deviantART's) case, the 24-60 links to subdomains were set up so if you clicked them, they dynamically load with javascript on the client side, never actually hitting that subdomain. No time wasted on the user's side, since the browser was prefetching domains that were rarely being hit.
All the links I posted are undergrad-grad level which is what I'd expect most HN visitors to be interested in. I assume not many 5th graders frequent HN (perhaps I should account for parents of 5th graders).

While KA is definitely well organized, esp. for kids, "miles better" is hyperbole. There are other resources for young learners such as mathvids, brightstorm.com (and others) with little or no mention on HN.

There are also cheap/paid/freemium resources for kids - eg. mathtv.com and yourteacher.com (I think yourteacher has been around for a while.

My overall point is that - regarding this topic, HN seems to have a rather narrow view or is completely unaware of existing resources.
Assuming we're talking about the base prices for both versions, I believe you could significantly subsidize the iPad 2 by selling your iPad. Sure, there's still extra money involved, but probably less than a quarter of the base price. It's less frivolous, and probably will be more common, than you make it sound.
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Aw, HN folks post from those sources all the time. We are definitely aware of them and think they're great.

But what this video especially pointed out is that Khan Academy is not just great content, but an extremely innovative system.
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Are you married? If yes, DONT. If no, read on

Do you have lots of money stashed somewhere? If no, DONT. If yes, read on..

Are you fuckin' smart? Like 1 in 100 smart? If no, DONT. If yes, read on..

Do you have high levels of motivation. If no, DONT. If yes, read on..

Obviously this shit is easy to figure out when you are at 21; you have sometime to "throw away". Not at 31, AFAIK.

There must be companies out there who are doing the things you are interested in. Find em. If you are smart, you will figure out atleast 70% of what you would as PhD student; with the added bonus that you have a job.

You might want to read this too:
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Chase wouldn't be the one processing skimmed transactions, anyhow - it would be any merchant or processor the thief could find with weak fraud controls. In the US, ultimate liability for fraud is usually with the wronged merchant.

You know why Paypal lost a hundred million in fraud? One way was because they were the weakest link at the time: Paypal got used for cashing. (The hardest, riskiest part of stealing credit cards: transforming a credit card number into hard currency, without getting arrested. There are any number of ways to do this: buy items with a high resale value on eBay, pay with Psypal backed by stolen cards, sell items for cash. Set up affiliate account with merchant of high margin item, put sham transactions through using Paypal account backed by stolen cards, withdrawal clean money from affiliate account to which no accessible link to Paypal accounts exist. etc, etc)

Smart cards/RFID are basically worthless for preventing card not present fraud, which is the lion's share of it.
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I used to develop kiosks that accepted credit cards for a company I started. We purchased some $20-$30 USB card swipers in order to capture credit card numbers and process orders. When you swiped the card, it would return an ASCII text string with the credit card number, name, and some additional codes (CVV1 and CVV2, I believe). If I recall correctly, the magnetic strip has a number of tracks, and you could program the reader to read one or all of these tracks. If you submitted the full string from the swipe to your merchant, you got a much better rate on the transaction.

The device was something like this:
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=usb+card+swipe+read...

Anyway, seems to me there's nothing new here... just the fact that people can now get a device capable of decoding the tracks on a magnetic strip for $0 instead of $30.
It continually shocks me how few people grasp this.
Not true. The reason ipad one hit the $499 price point (estimates were 800-1000 at the time) was because it left out extra expenses in order to preserve profit margin. One year goes by, things get cheaper, Steve throws a few bones, rinse and repeat next year.
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Flag them both and move on.
Doesn't anyone like patina anymore? A scratched up aluminium back looks good as time goes on. Same with your leather briefcase as it wears in, or your cars seats.
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That level of delusion is actually more scary than the sleep deprivation itself.

It's like a guy who's driving home after a 20 hour day that ended with a couple of drinks at the bar, calling home from the car to tell the wife that he's on his way and his driving is perfectly safe. In reality, he is so impaired by the tiredness, the alcohol, and the distraction of the call that he can no longer even understand how far off his game he must be, nor judge the horrific risk he must be taking by driving in that way.
Other things were mentioned already, so not to repeat those:

On Ubuntu in particular (but on other Linux distros, too), Firefox 4 has a more platform-appropriate appearance and feel than the other cross-platform major browsers (Chrome and Opera).

For Web authors, there are more polished HTML5 form features to get excited about. For HTML5 feature involves new elements or attributes in markup, the chances of the features present in Firefox being polished is higher than the chances of the features present in Chrome being polished even though it might casually appear from html5test.com that Chrome support a larger number of these features. html5test.com tests if new APIs appear to be present--not if all the default user interaction works right or if the appearance of a feature is pretty across platforms (not just Mac and Windows but Linux, too).

The location bar history search in Firefox is remarkably more useful than in Chrome, because Firefox matches on more things than just the prefix of the URL (though Chrome has better search coming up and already available in about:flags).

Well, actually, syncing browsing history and passwords across browser instances in such a way that the data in encrypted and decrypted on your devices only is well worth repeating although it was mentioned already. (Syncing history and passwords is immensely more useful than just syncing bookmarks or sending over individual URLs, but history and passwords are the most sensitive browser data, so end-to-end crypto between the user's devices is important.)

(Disclosure: I'm consulting for Mozilla. Disclaimer: Speaking only for myself, though.)
Yes, I am also still a bit naive in that way. In the 80's-90's there was this common meme that automation would result in a more equal world where people could use their creative potential instead of doing repetitive jobs.

However, with where we seem to be heading, I sometimes even feel bad for working in tech.
...Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) are well-known

Note that unless things have changed (something which I can find no evidence for,) snow leopard still lags behind windows and linux in its ASLR, in that it doesnt randomise all the key parts of the kernel. Hopefully this will be fixed in lion.

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https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Address_space...

EDIT: although apparently, as ever, the community comes to the rescue. Stefan Esser presents steps to randomise dyld's address space yourself: http://antid0te.com/antid0te-for-snow-leopard-rebasing-dyld....