skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Challenge breeds reward. I often wonder whether I'd have a company with ~2,000 clients if I had stayed at home. The most likely answer is no.

Eating ramen amongst cardboard box furniture pushed me like nothing else could.
Realtime updates are free for everyone now.
Tumblr is doing their new backend services in scala, they are starting to ramp up hiring, they want to do a lot of stuff like twitter so your seeing them do a lot of hbase also. Ideeli told me they were considering using it for backend services. Obviously I was interviewing lately so I got to hear all the recent gossip ;)
Was it something I wrote, I presume? I'd love to know what and how to improve it. I'm working on an e-book about Making Something People Love based on a class I've been teaching that hits a lot of what was in this post.
Marc Andreessen Wants Oracle Dead
Yep here it is: http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-kindle-fire-keynot...
I've been using GoSquared for this and it has been working really well: http://www.gosquared.com/ It will be interesting to see how the new Google Analytics features compare. If they offer a GoSquared style API, that would be pretty fantastic.
No, I didn't, and don't, disbelieve him uncritically. I read the article in the telegraph, and I've come to the conclusion that he is unqualified. That doesn't mean he's wrong, but it does mean that I want more evidence, and I want to listen to others who aren't just hobby traders who want to get attention.

Consider this article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15095191

That, to me, seems a more balanced position, and a more credible source.

In short, I'd like to believe the things he's saying, I'm predisposed to believe the things he's saying, but I've gone out and looked for more evidence. In the end, I think his position is too extreme, and no matter how tempting, I don't believe it without further evidence.

And I've seen no evidence that he's qualified.
Possible clock sync issue as explanation of the neutrino velocity anomaly
Most Spotify users are free users, and would probably instantly switch back to pirating/YouTube if their free plan ever disappears or becomes too limiting.
Mobile development (in my experience) is generally a bit harder to get into that just standard web development. You could try something like PhoneGap or just plain web-friendly mobile development first to see if that works out well enough, but if you go native you'll have to fully learn Java / Objective-C (for the android and iphone, respectively.)

As for web development languages / frameworks that are beginner-friendly and well supported, I don't think there's much competition to Rails. However node.js has definitely been gaining momentum recently (would allow the entire app to be coded in javascript :P) and if you go that route definitely check out coffeescript (or even clojurescript, which is what I'm interested in, but that's more of a leap :P).

Personally I'm going to use my next personal side project to learn http://chicagoboss.org :P
I'm pretty sure this was a joke harkening back to the days of _why, when Ruby actually was fairly slow compared to other interpreted languages of the day.
I believed very strongly in 2006 that teachers would never go for recurring purchases. I also thought that there were only ~1,000 people in the entire world that would ever buy bingo card creation software. Belief #2 is demonstrably catastrophically inaccurate.
i am your customer as soon as you do this :)
Yep, great times for the web! They've all been trying to one up each other with performance too - good times for web developers.
I think that aside from the lack of support for marketplace, like https://www.wepay.com/developer/usecases/marketplace Stripe is awesome.

Any plans to add marketplace support in the near term?

Also are you guys PCI compliant yet?
BTW the button has 7 dots... and buttons on RIM products in general aren't and weren't wonky.
I'm not a developer, but I am considering selling things through my website and maybe also selling things in person outside any shop. Is there any particular reason I would pay a developer to build this into my site rather than just using Paypal (which I've used for years and had no big complaints with) and/or Square?
Diabetes and cancer: A shared biological basis
It's because he's spending a lot.
The part that sucks:

> Real-Time does not support profile filters.

This makes real-time pretty useless for intermediate+ users of GA.
See the sibling post for more info on moving credit cards to another provider, but as for everything else (customer info, subscriptions, charges, etc.) everything is available through our API (https://stripe.com/api/docs).
Replacing Relational DB with Redis: a Case Study
A New Direction to Social Networking?
Intel Drops MeeGo
Yes I think it is because we are spending a lot - sorry I can't say much but it's a lot. We've always had a 'google rep' and they rolled out the help line sometime this year to us. It's a 1800# and when we call it goes right to a person, no waiting. They do verify our account before giving us support. You can tell that the support is 'in house' and that it's googlers doing it, from the quality of the reps.
Full disclosure, I live in Canada-land, not the UK.

My perception has been that contracts with telecoms providers is largely a North American phenomenon, or at least, isn't as prevalent in the UK. IIUC, pay as you go is the big thing over there.. if only it would catch on here as well maybe people wouldn't consider it such a pain to switch carriers.
Anyone recognize the font in the screenshot?
I have experience with these guys, if it comes to that. Highly recommend them: http://www.ihatemypartner.com/
Or it could mean that each browser effectively has veto power over any innovation. If developers know that 25% of their visitors will be using a browser that doesn't support a particular standard or technology, that may prevent them from implementing it... at least "for now". That will prevent widespread adoption, thus justifying the outlier browser to never support it.
One of the most important (if not the most important) thing for the success of a start-up is the relationship between co-founders. Forget about the product. It doesn't matter how amazing it is. If the co-founders can't get along, the product is DEAD.

When you lose a founder, you lose the motivation and confidence to continue, you lose part of your vision, and the other half of the "brain" in your startup. The key to a successful startup is to first have a strong relationship and chemistry between the co-founders. Second, is to have a good product.
You got it. We don't handle the recurring stuff for you, but
we give you back a token that lets you bill your customer cards on a recurring basis. We have other customers who are doing this on their own.
Thanks. I personally also get more mileage out of my Chromebook compared to my tablet.
Can you fetch any meta data on a customer's saved card? For example if a single customer has four saved cards you might want to present it as:
* Visa ending in 1234
* MasterCard ending in 5678

Also, when a customer's card is expiring how are they prompted to enter an non-expiring card?
Pricing Your Product: The D&D Test
How to strengthen your ssh server
we use infin.de for mobile/phone payments but they also offer credit card and direct debit. The site looks dated but their service and experience is really good!
Thank you for expanding on my admittedly rushed comment. I agree that comparing health data in the US to that of developing countries is problematic. But it raises interesting questions.

One question, that I don't think has been answered sufficiently is that the controlled trials and published studies have been criticized for possibly overstating the effectiveness of treatment. (The trials were stopped early on ethical grounds which can overestimate the effects being tested.) Wikipedia has a fairly comprehensive roundup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_and_HIV#Randomised...

I think my bigger point, though, is that it's easy to look at data and say, "Aha! This one thing is the solution" without stepping back and looking at all the different pieces that make up the big picture. It's going to take some combination of education, prevention, vaccination, and health policy to tackle this disease.
Germany is definitely on our list, thanks!
Wow! This feature is what I was looking at. Glad to have something processor that doesn't need me to have a merchant account. Sweet!
Ah, that is quite a plague. Thanks for the info.
Ask HN: Is it ok to start a Delaware Corp solely to accept payments?
Recently, I've seen several posts on HN* about how to start a US Company, get an EIN, an US bank account from abroad.

I have no intention to move to or work in the US. However, a US company and bank account would be very useful to accept creditcards worldwide, especially with new services like Stripe.com.

From my home country, it is very difficult to get a proper merchant account / payment gateway / business bank account etc. Now I could start a Delaware Corporation, signup for a merchant account / Stripe / whatever, and start accepting international payments.

The Delaware corporation's only purpose would be to accept payments. All real work would be done within my company in my home country. The Delaware Corporation would essentially be the sole reseller of my SAAS app.

Now what are the legal / tax implications of doing so?

Can I charge the US company the same amount it makes on (re)selling a monthly subscription? This would mean the US company would never make a loss or a profit. It would just be a front-end to my company in my home country, which is where I pay taxes.

Is this legal? Or should the US company charge something? EG 1% per transaction?

Are there other (legal) implications of doing this?

* http://myeverwrite.com/opening-a-delaware-corporation-an-incorporation-guide-for-foreigners/
http://blog.freshdesk.com/how-to-incorporate-a-us-corporation-from-outs
Official page http://hakshop.com/products/usb-rubber-ducky

Payloads wiki http://www.usbrubberducky.com/wiki/doku.php?id=payloads

Scripting language http://www.usbrubberducky.com/wiki/doku.php?id=duckyscript
These are always fun, looking forward to this.
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Australia. ;)
We have a report abuse button that is attached to each comment, all our users have to do is click it and it sends an email to the appropriate person for moderation. (This is rarely used unfortunately)

To be honest I don't agree with a lot of the decisions corporate makes in regards to our digital efforts. They are on the other side of the country and believe that if it works in their market it has to work in ours.

It constantly feels like we are playing catch-up to everyone else.
Hmmm...seems like an inflexible person. After reading your posting, I get the feeling you've already decided and your waiting for 3rd party responses before signing the divorce papers.

You could
1) accept it and endure it (but your company suffers because of it once it goes public or is more public)
2) confront him about it because this is a 'company issue' and you have to resolve it if you are going to move forward for the good of the company
3) cut your losses and start anew with a new cofounder or a new startup (4-5 months into it shouldn't be too high a price to pay for more headaches later)

From your point of view (and I've haven't seen his side of the story) you have made reasonable concessions, and any more concessions on your part I don't think (from reading your post) will unlikely resolve things.

Good luck.
We've been using Stripe for Picplum.com since the middle of the summer. These guys are insane -- they saw an error before we even did and emailed us saying they were working on fixing it. Top notch team.
Microsoft, Red Cross and UN sucked into global news fixing row
Now combine this with some programmably generated content with a landing page, just change out variables like "social", "local", "recommendations", and "analytics". And then fire off auto-generated submissions to Y-Combinator, TechStars, and a slide deck to Sequoia.

You could condense the entire Silicon Valley startup funding scene into a single transaction.
Perhaps this is not the right place to discuss this, but I have been surprised by the low general quality of answers (and questions) on Quora. At least in the topics I follow - philosophy, writing, clothes - the answers are often factually wrong, parochial or common opinion (rather than knowledge). There is no real criticism: instead of pointing out the obvious flaws, commenters usually just add that yes, they agree completely. My view only shows very few posts - a handful of questions per day. Despite all the hype, I have yet to find an informative and knowledgeable answer on any topic at all. Is the site the failure it seems to me or are there topics where the site actually has helped generate helpful content?
We're certified as PCI Level 1 Compliant (the highest level). You can definitely build a market place on top of Stripe. We don't, at the moment, have an easy way for you to take money and then pay it out to other people, but if you're able to handle that step on your own then Stripe can be a great way to collect payments for your marketplace.
I use quicklytics on my iPhone to view google analytics. I wonder if the new features will translate to this platform?
I can't imagine that happening. It seems to me most people are locked in to IE largely out of indifference or workplace constraints.
If anything, IE has vastly improved as a browser over the last few years. If IE was ever going to be dethroned, my money would have been on the mid 2000s when IE6/IE7 were noticeably inferior to Firefox.

That being said, I'd much rather be proved wrong. :)
I don't know exact numbers where they begin offering this feature, but I've seen a client on the $2k-3k a month AdWords budget receive phone support.
What are we supposed to do with your post?

- Ask a few rhetorical questions that make it obvious we are confused about something on the internet? Then answer those stated questions with ambiguous meandering thoughts that amplify your confused state.

- Realize that some services mean different things to different people. Use it as it suits you best, don't try to fit others' uses to yours.
"Look, this is the world we wanted. And this is the world we made." - Mike Shaver, VP of Technical Strategy at Mozilla

http://john.jubjubs.net/2011/09/15/mike-shaver-thanks/
Is the written word holding back mathematics teaching?
Monaco 10pt.
Why dropping out of school could be a great idea
Having come from the social gaming industry and attended many a conference, this is one of my pet peeves. I can't tell you how many two-man operations I encountered where each person had a CxO title. It is utterly ridiculous.
Pardus 2011.2 review
(sorry, this is totally inappropriate), but "el-oh-el" at people downvoting this. Are you in support of blatant lies and pseudo science or holocaust denying aids denying scientists?)
I've often wondered how Mozilla's status as a non-profit affects its prospects. I've heard that its tough sometimes to recruit and retain because of the lack of lucrative exit possibilities for employees (e.g. IPO).

Don't know if Chrome is going to overtake IE, but it would definitely be good to see it give it a go.
I've shown Chrome to a lot of people, ranging from "fairly technical" to "what's a web browser?" The response is a near unanimous "wow!" I don't think any have gone back to Internet Explorer, although Firefox might have reclaimed a couple.
I want to agree with ajross but thus far the pattern seems to support fl3tch. WebGL, SPDY, and WebM are all technologies being held up by one browser.
Nexmo SMS gateway PHP example library
Software patents – a protection racket?
I've never heard of Graphite. Is this it? http://graphite.wikidot.com/start

If so, can anyone care to explain how it would be used to "graph application exceptions" as per this post? thanks!
In order to have more accountability you need to have less anonymity, and that is not something commenters on newspaper sites are willing to give up.
The Rise of Efficient Data Centers
What To Expect From GNOME 3.4
You can switch the language to english by clicking on the translation button, also many (if not all) of the flights are only updated for monthly travel time, so make sure you aren't choosing 15 days. (I'm still working through putting my parser to run in parallel).

Referrals, last I read, where indeed being removed.. I think the monetization will be in showing things to do in the place, events that are ongoing, friends' travel plans...but this market is so overloaded. Let's talk, maybe we can brainstorm something together.
Mercury not like other planets
I think the point is that a user wouldn't know they're overriding the design. When a user sets a uniform font, they're opting to not see whatever font the site was designed for, but it's not at all obvious to them that they'd be messing with icons.
I carry my iPad around with me and it's very much a personal device. It might be a different story if it somehow supported multiple user logins; there have certainly been times when I would like for it to have at least supported a "Guest" account when I wanted to temporarily let someone else play with it.
Is this desktop-only, or does it also count the Chrome browser on Android? If the latter, this could go a long way towards explaining Chrome's meteoric rise relative to FF and IE, which lack mobile presence.
Actually, WebGL is held up by all browsers except one.
Thank you for the feedback so far, I really appreciate it. Admittedly you are only hearing my side of it, which I will try to keep in mind.
This is, in essence, a new product from Google. What has been free continues to be free.
US only. Well, I kind of knew it before even hitting FAQ.

A bit of a rant here, but it's crazily difficult to do so many interesting things when you don't live in top-20 country (Lithuania here)

Stripe? Nope.

BrainTree? Nope.

Recurly? Nope.

Something else... Likely, Nope.

And so, the only way to get paid is to deal with some of the most expensive and oldest gateways and merchant accounts.

Oh, and:

Hulu? Nope.

iTunes? Nope, but we do have App Store.

Netflix? Nope.

Spotify? Nope.

Pandora, Rdio, ... Nope.

...Amazon? Mostly nope.

And so, the only way to buy or stream media is to buy CDs and DVDs for crazy prices.

Sigh. Rant is over.

Stripe, I know that may take years, but please, don't forget the little guys.
I'm surprised you're being down voted -- you're making a decent argument and no one's refuting any of your points.

Come on, Hacker News. It's not like sshumaker just posted "omg lol fandroids r dum" -- (s)he backed it up with fairly specific reasons.
Very satisfying indeed.

Unfortunately, what I foresee happening is home user market saturation reaching 100%, but Chrome never taking a majority thanks to business types (you know, the people still on IE6.) Too much reliance on ActiveX and AD and being able to lock down the homepage and other things that get corporate IT control freaks all hot and bothered.
Olark (YC S09) seeks JavaScript hacker unafraid of unique challenges
Here are a couple of alternative scenarios:

- village A invades village B for food (the fact that out-of-touch aristocrats occasionally send an army of unwilling soldiers at the gates of A is another possible reason)

- village B consumes more food than village A, simply because aristocrats like to eat, so it starves first

- in village B, servants die of starvation, the ruling class is incompetent to feed itself

- villagers of village B simply walk by foot into village A, leaving their oppressors to care for themselves

- there's a revolution in village B, making it, effectively, a village A2 (possible catalyst: shortage of food)

in other words, i don't think that's why. however, i haven't read the article, so maybe their arguments are more convincing than yours.
Thank you. I will definitely check out PhoneGap, but if it's just a cute substitute for learning Java/Objective-C, I figure I might be better served by learning the latter.

What is the practical difference between Rails and node.js? Is one harder or more transferrable than the other? Is one better for certain kinds of web development than the other?

I'm basically interested, I guess, in compiling the greatest base of practical, current knowledge in the next few months. I figure after that I can pick up more obscure knowledge as I go.
Another Stuy alum here and was a stuycom fan. Hang in there.
Star Wars Imperial March played by a couple of floppy disk drives
The same company also has Symbian as the leading mobile browser OS by a wide margin [1], bases on page views. Not what I would have expected.

1: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201009-20110...
We totally get it. We're working on expanding to other countries right now, it's one of our top priorities.
"reach[ing] over 90% of web surfers" and being able to track 90% of sites are two very different things.
Definitely agree. Braintree is by far the best of a very, very bad lot of merchant account providers. Try getting an account with Authorize.net...I nearly killed myself when I tried that. Braintree was a breath of fresh air after I went the 'traditional' way.

But, even then...as you said, I still had to jump through tons of hoops and even though they were very, very helpful and super attentive - they even bent over backwards for me by going to multiple underwriting banks to increase the likelihood that my business would be underwritten. When one of the banks rejected my application, their decision to go to multiple ones definitely seemed prescient.

But even then, the entire process still took at least a week - with LOTS of paperwork back and forth being printed out, scanned, emailed, etc.

Little did I know...I didn't NEED a merchant account. I just want to accept credit cards securely and not be gauged by the fees.

Stripe does both perfectly...the fees are pretty competitive - no monthly and no merchant account headache.

Avoid it if you can, at all costs, and just go straight to Stripe.
That's possible, but any browser that refuses to implement a sufficiently great technology will also risk losing users to browsers who give them a better experience. It will be turbulent, but the consumers will win in the end.
JQuery Mobile 1.0 RC1 Released
I have to use IE6 at work, and I'm surprised at how much of the Web is simply broken for me. It's kind of bittersweet.
These results are based on iOS/Android data.

I'm curious to know if Mac App Store developers are having similar experiences.
When I set mine up I didn't have any of the problems you describe. I had a business checking account with my local bank, and got set up with usaepay. Now, of course there is verification of who you are and what kind of business you run, but it was hardly a "hassle". I was only 26 and had no previous business "history" or anything like that, heck I'm set up as a sole proprietor. I don't have a monthly statement fee, no minimums. I pay a very low rate... so low that I'm dumb founded by half the rates I see ADVERTISED as low.

Anyway, just thought I'd offer a good experience to the mix.
I'm still using the 3GS that I bought about a week after they went on sale, and it works like a charm (though I too may upgrade next week, depending on what gets announced). Luck of the draw, I guess, though it sucks that Apple wasn't able to give you any more concrete diagnosis of what's wrong.
Aren't non-Android/iPhone phones still wildly popular outside the U.S?
Today I learned that Reddit has a subreddit for marijuana growery
That's why I wish my idealistic notions were practical in the real world. Ideally, web developers would design according to standards, which would force browsers to adhere to the standards or risk losing market share. Unfortunately, pragmatism has to win out, and developers have to utilize every hack and bad practice imaginable to get their content to be accessible on every browser.
Don't forget the sacrifice of the queen (Mariko) as well!