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Let me quote something that was said about the iPod on its launch:

"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
Then why does the USA have the highest rate of circumcision and also the highest rate of HIV infection of developed countries? I don't think the claim holds up under scrutiny here.

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In Patrick Collison's presentation at Startup Bootcamp last weekend, he really brought home the social impact that a payment processing company can have in the third world. Even though it's US only for now, this team has huge goals and the experience and vision to back it up.

Their goal is to abstract away the complexity of payments, especially internationally. I wish them luck, and can't wait to use it.
Steve Jobs reportedly tried to defuse the Samsung issue in 2010
We use this Redmine plugin – http://www.redmine.org/boards/3/topics/5878

I would recommend it when you already use Redmine. It is very simple, but I don't think any more complex features are really that needed.
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Don't get me wrong, I love GitHub and I love the processes they are using - I wish we did more of it at my current employer. But all of this back-patting feels a bit premature. They've really only scaled a single order of magnitude. Growing from 4 developers to 40 developers is excellent, but hardly "scaling" at all. Would the same flow work at Amazon, Netflix, or Apple?
Hear hear!

It seems like forever that I've wanted either Facebook or curated comments on my local paper's site, SFGate.com

I'm at the point now where I won't click on a link or read a story on SFGate -- I will go an seek out another news source which carries that story if possible. The net effect of having such a cesspool of comments beneath whatever I'm reading is that it makes me I'm participating in a community of scumbags.

I'd rather read the Economist or NY Times, where the comments seem informed.
Tumblr is using scala? Any idea for what? I know ideeli was using jruby. Did they start using scala as well?
Considering that each paying customer could cover two to four customer service reps' salaries, I think this one Google product that won't have that problem.
Why would you move back to NYC from the bay area? Having just made the move from SF to NYC myself (for personal reasons, although it's been working out professionally so far as well), I feel like the bay is really the place to be for the non-technical cofounder looking for their bad-ass CTO. NYC is absolutely flooded with non-technical cofounders like the OP - it's really a buyer's market in that sense. For me, as a technical cofounder, I'm definitely in the minority here and I can feel the desperation in the voices of all these non-technical people with their "great ideas, just need a CTO". I want to tell them all to move to the bay because there aren't enough of me to go around in NYC.
They should add real-time updates to the offer.
Wondering when it will work in Canada? Also, how does it work "without merchant account or gateway" ?
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We're definitely working on expanding to other countries. There's no definite timeline just yet, but it's one of our top priorities.
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Comfortable clothes and dressing up are not mutually exclusive. Just because a nerd might not know how to find comfortable dressier clothes does not make a suit uncomfortable in itself.

And what I was trying to say is that a rock star (insert profession here) is more likely to be able to get away with saying "I'm going to wear whatever the f--- I want to wear" than someone who is just good, especially in a workplace where wearing jeans and t-shirts is not an accepted norm. And that's usually the case outside of the tech startup and creative worlds.
There are some timing comparisons of using PyPy vs CPython with nltk showing improvements

http://groups.google.com/group/nltk-dev/browse_thread/thread...
It's so funny, how APIs are supposed to be written by developers for developers - but you don't realize how crappy most are until you come across a good one.

The first time that happened to me, was when I wanted to run my first test transaction at the command-line, and Stripe had generated the customized console commands for my specific app (with my specific API keys, etc.) and literally allowed me to copy and paste from their secure site to my command-line without having to do any thinking.

That was my first 'aha! OMG...this API is awesome' moment. There were many others, and the truth is I forgot until you mentioned it.

Now that you mentioned it, it reminded me how blindingly simple that is to implement - but SOOO many developers (I am guilty as charged too) overlook those little details that make SUCH a difference.
Well if you ever need a UK based (UK Limited Company) beta tester let me know! :)
Does this mean that all reporting will be real-time? Not having to deal with the data lag in GA would be fantastic.
Really cool! I love how you can visualize your social clusters in 2D space, and how they relate to each other.
That logic doesn't really hold water - every other tablet on the market has Wifi access and can do native calendaring and e-mail. And with the Wifi it can almost always be tethered to a phone as well. So for most users, they don't need two 3G data plans at all.

Additionally tablet only 3G data plans start at 20$ in Canada, and even the largest plans don't come near 80$.
Amazing product. We're building an eCommerce platform (http://www.kout.me) and have been building our payments on top of stripe.

Very amazing concept and something that we've needed for a long time. The best thing is the developer focus behind it; it's clear from the beginning that this came to fruition with fellow developers in mind.
I've been running W3Counter, a competing web stats service, since before Google Analytics. Before Google bought Urchin, that kind of web stats reporting was something businesses paid for. When Google released Analytics for free, I'm sure more than a few businesses were wiped out. Perception of the space changed forever and now I can't count on 1% of my users to pay for web stats, even for things GA doesn't provide.

Real-time dashboards were one of the features people were willing to pay for. Now Google does that for free as well. There's not much I can do about it. I'm sure Chartbeat and such will still find customers, but I'm sure many that may have been convinced to buy will now settle for Google's free option instead.

I don't think MixPanel's worried about it. They're not solving the same problems as Google Analytics and GA will never be a substitute for that kind of service.
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Last year, Steve Jobs tried (and failed) to defuse Samsung patent row
Something that is really needed, looking forward to the availability outside the states.
Braintree also acts as your merchant account though, right?

I'm really excited to learn more about Stripe, but I have Braintree implemented in one application and have had a good experience. For future apps, why choose Stripe over Braintree?
This looks really, really nice. Support for Canada would be wonderful and pretty much essential for me to be able to use it. The other thing I'm wondering about is ACH payments - will Stripe handle those; if not, is it planned? Also, would Stripe be suitable for a card-holder present situation, e.g. if you wanted to use it for web-based point of sale software?
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This is an amazing service. I've been researching all of this for a project I am advising on. Merchant Accounts, gateways, fee here,fee there, PCI - it can make your head explode.

It looks like these guys have done it right, and finally hidden the layers friction, banking (and open palms) for us.

Nice Work!

One Nit if anyone from Stripe is reading - it was a bit hard to find the answer to "How & When do I get paid". There is a small blurp on the pricing page (still doesn't say how), but nothing in the FAQ or Docs. Please spell this out a bit more.
Agreed, I can't dis it because it's what introduced me to OOP. That said, I'm glad I haven't had to do any VB for 8 years now. There are a host of other languages (Javascript, Ruby, C#, Erlang, Coffeescript, even C++) I prefer to program with.
I'd argue that how you go from 4 to 40 developers is much more important than how you go from 100 to 200 developers. What's more, I find this area fascinating to discuss since many users in our Hacker News community tends to be in the 1-10 developer area. How you can grow past that initial team is really important.

I do actually mention at the end of the post that this likely doesn't scale up to hundreds and employees. But we'll see how it does work over time. So far so good. :)
If you browse with Ghostery installed it seems like Google Adsense has massive penetration. Or it might be the sites I browse.
Is the TOS(Terms of Service) a work in progress? Currently "not found."

https://manage.stripe.com/tos
Support is where Oracle makes the real money, so they're very aggressive there, but I think you're referring to the TomorrowNow case. They were bought by SAP to basically snatch Oracle customers, and "it looks like that TomorrowNow was probably cheating like mad. Instead of going to Oracle's support site and downloading only the patches and bug fixes its customers were entitled to, it downloaded all the Oracle software it could get its hands on. Oracle says TomorrowNow had a whole bank of servers skimming its computers automatically for Oracle software." (see http://www.computerworlduk.com/in-depth/it-business/3246680/... )

The "enterprise" world is full of sharks, Oracle is just one of many.
the last paragraph of the article is an adequate response to this:

"Is this workflow going to work for us when we’re 500 employees? Likely not. But core values and ideas last. Figure out what your core values are, and adapt and refine them as you grow."
Lawyers can make mistakes, however, it might have to do with non-U.S. rights or the rights of incorporated material: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Copyright_sta...
Aren't Kindle apps available on most major platforms?

I get that Amazon can subsidize the tablet, but I do there is a story for someone who wants a Kindle app, and the Google/Microsoft app store, and the BN app, and the Netflix app. The cost might be higher, but I think a non-trivial portion of the world would be willing to pay it.

And note, there is nothing to stop Samsung from getting subsidies from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Hulu, Netflix, etc... for pre-installing their apps. It's the great crapware returned, except this time antivirus won't be the dominant crapware, but rather contest distributors.
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You can actually see the interests that definite each social group. My friends from Poker Night all have "poker" listed in their shared common interests.
Newspaper issue is interesting. One of the local newspapers had all sorts of vibrant debate, including a lot of discussion of which cops were corrupt, which businesses were cheating people, and which pastors were lurking at the man garden in the local park. This was intolerable to the highly connected newspaper owner, so they required all commenters be validated by phone before commenting and use their real name. Comments went down to zero. Not 1/4, actually zero. The forums have no comments at all now.
Yeah, I was referred to Braintree when I was building http://limelightapp.com/ and I really liked them. However, using them required getting a merchant account, and getting a merchant account required getting a business license, and getting a business license cost $60 and a few hours going on a trip to City Hall and the Court House. Once I had that, Braintree still had to take a couple days to get the underwriting approved for my merchant account. To their credit, the crazy thing is that this is actually an awesome experience compared to working with other payment gateways.

If I could have, I definitely would have done this instead. This is like Square for web apps.
they've been nothing but headaches (especially if you're young—nobody trusts you.)

Ah, things must have changed from early 2000s. I had no problems getting (pretty high risk) merchant accounts back in high school.

That said, Stripe looks pretty cool. No more authorize.net mess=)
We get dedicated customer service for adwords, (a phone number with real people to call) and it's awesome.
"We know - we know - they are not going to take the time to find the bits that made it sing and hum and make those parts better. We know that on a basic animal level that they don’t get it."

"Delicious is a bitter lesson for everyone. It’s the difference between how people actually use a product versus how rich, out-of-touch knuckleheads think people should be using that product, all to further their own self-interests."

Well said.
Sorry about that. https://stripe.com/tos is the correct link. We'll get it fixed.
I read the whole thing in the Hulk's voice.
I've been watching Stripe for a future project that is looking more and more likely ... but this looks so good, I might do the project just to have a reason to use Stripe! (j/k)

Can't wait to see how the international version works.
Just do it better than Google does. Or target a specific niche. Not easy, I'm sure. But it can be done.

Visual Website Optimizer, Optimizely, and UnBounce all run paid A/B testing sites in spite of Google's presence in the market.
<speculation>Maybe the contract they signed with Yahoo had a clause that bound them to transfer all data from Yahoo datacenters by a given date? Maybe the code became so coupled with the Yahoo infrastructure that it would have been extremely difficult to deploy it somewhere else? Maybe – like most programmers – they underestimated the time needed to do the rewrite?</speculation>
I've done a lot of work on Elance, oDesk, and Guru as an employer. Generally, the quality of talent is very hit-or-miss, but it's nice to see that they are actively encouraging efficient resource management. Unfortunately, I think it's too little too late. Offering video conferencing and integration with codesion and join.me will certainly help reduce communication difficulties, but people have been doing this offsite since the beginning. The problem is still successfully managing a team of people with little to no intellectual investment or interest in your project.
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The front page says "Earnings are transferred to your bank account on a 7 day rolling basis.".
That's not the comparison being made. It's not HIV vs herpes - it's HIV with a highly successful vaccine available vs herpes, which has no vaccine.
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Been playing with the API as a beta tester and the docs truly were written by devs. Clean, concise, and gets straight to the point, and they have example code in multiple languages. Plus some really awesome customer support - overall Stripe really rocks.
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We're working on international support right now -- though we don't have an ETA, launching in the US was definitely the first part of getting there (and we care a lot about going international -- about half our team is from other countries).

You don't need to make your own merchant account or payment gateway because we abstract over those details. We'll make whatever accounts are necessary and
we work directly with the banks to make sure that your money is held in your name, what you want appears on your customers' credit card statements, etc.
To me that sounds like you actually want to work in an ordinary office.

I worked from home for a couple of years, but I'm currently working from an ordinary "open" office I was far more productive when I worked from home, in an asynchronous team, with less interruptions.

However, I do think a lot of people are -more- productive in an ordinary office environment. I think different stuff works for different people, I don't think we're all the same.
these series of posts about how they do stuff is great, i love it.

however, dreaming up the end result is a lot easier than figuring out what seeds to plant when you are a team of 1 or 2. after reading these i'm always left with the question "great, but what should i be doing now to be able to have this kind of process later?"

maybe the answer is in the article: figure out your core values and start applying them at whatever scale you are at. alas, that's not a list of actionable items.
Sounds nice, but the bottom line for me is that a typical $47 credit card sale, which always costs me $1.33 at PayPal, would cost me $1.66 at Stripe. Not much difference, true, but discouraging. I have no need of a fancy API, either--PayPal lets me specify the basics and fire off a simple Post from my PHP code. PayPal takes care of receiving financial information so I remain clean. Just my experience; yours may vary.
There's also a table mode, where you can see your smart lists in a table, as opposed to clumps of photograph in space.
And remember that 'bind' can save your life

this.io.sockets.on('connection', this.onConnection.bind(this));
"There is a lot of other value you're buying here"

Something that has escaped many people who are in the habit of helping people for nothing is that their knowledge has value to others as a time saver among other things.

Back when NSI was essentially the "Internic" a living could be made by simply knowing how to submit a form to them to register a domain on behalf of a customer. If you (as an end user) wanted to take the time to learn how to do the same thing (which didn't require a medical school education of course) you could avoid those charges.
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Wow. Excited. After watching PintPay toy with my emotions, I'm glad someone did it up right. I hope they've got a viable model. The market is positively starving for something like this.
Ya I agree; 4 to 40 is more interesting than 100 to 200.

I was the fifth employee at my current employer, been through two acquisitions, now sitting at 220+ (not all developers). Scaling has been a difficult but rewarding and fun problem to tackle.

And damn, somehow I missed the last paragraph where you covered your ass ;) Thanks for pointing that out.
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TL; DR: "study found that in-app purchases [...] accounted for an astonishing 72 percent of Apple iphone app store revenue in July, up from 28 percent just a year ago. "
Why c# is OK but VB is not? They both have the same feature set with different syntax. VB, as the language, is more powerful at the moment than Java, for example. Got genetics, lambda, linq for years and now async/await. Java OK, VB not? Come on :)
I can't cite anything as I don't remember where I read it, but there were articles back when Google announced its acquisition of DoubleClick that if you combine Analytics, DoubleClick and AdSense, Google's tracking reaches over 90% of web surfers.
EDIT: removed so as to not hijack another announcement. Was not the intention, just wanted to offer something people thought was useful.
If I hadn't had it explicitly pointed out to me that the app is a bunch of web views, I would have thought it was a ton of Core Text drawing going on behind the scenes.
Actually, this is a reasonable observation. But it actually does make sense.

My understanding is that many (all?) of these studies have been conducted in sub-Saharan africa. The environment in which AIDS spreads may be very different in developed countries. The presence of secondary infections, unhygienic conditions, and other social norms may play a big role in the spread of aids and greatly amplify the protection that circumcision provides. The evidence does look compelling.

Now, if the infection rate is already low, secondary STDs are rare, hygiene is at a very high standard, and transmission vectors are different, then the effects might be much less pronounced. I suspect it would be hard to create a controlled study of this in Europe, since you'd have to convince a large number of men who are probably in a very low risk group to be circumcised.
Data URI's are probably a better solution for small images. You cut out the extra requests but don't have to worry about downloading massive font libraries.
I help myself keep going when a project like that is slow to bring in revenue by measuring it in terms of what that can buy. My little $50 a month site is almost a new iPad a year and I don't spend any time on it.
We don't handle direct transfers between two ACH accounts yet, but it's something we're thinking about and planning for down the road.

As for point of sale applications, Stripe isn't really optimized for that. Have you checked out Square?
Interesting. Is there an end-to-end demo from the user's perspective? Do the users know they are storing the CC info on Stripe? Or they think my site handles everything and is responsible for everything (privacy, etc)?
I'm one of the authors of a Python framework called monocle for doing async programming in this style. It works with twisted and tornado. http://github.com/saucelabs/monocle
Ah, interesting.

If headless is not what you want, js-test-driver[1] looks promising. It has adapters for jasmine too.

1. http://code.google.com/p/js-test-driver/
These sorts of posts make me want to work at GitHub, which might very well be the objective. Taking a shot at a position there might even be worth learning Rails. (I have a primarily Python oriented background.)

Are there any other companies that have a culture/process like this?
Another difference: Samurai's front page is far more confusing.
On that note, perhaps a start-up can buy a license and resell analytics on the back-end (probably against TOS however).
They do, but you have to pay extra for all that. Stripe's pricing is simple enough for my small mind to comprehend without needing a spreadsheet.
Will also be waiting for Canada.
I'm guessing that the target audience is solo developers that don't qualify for the volume discounts that every other payments vendor/gateway offers.

As lovely as this API looks, not offering a volume discount is a complete dealbreaker for my business. There's no way I could justify eating an extra ~1% per transaction just so my API integration goes more smoothly and I don't have to deal with the headaches of a merchant account (and while I would call that process anything but smooth, I don't seem to have the awful experiences of some of the commenters here -- just chance, I guess).

The cost/benefit to a business that does any significant volume online just isn't there for this.
I was very excited reading their faq until I realized it's US only service.

Can't wait to see you guys expand internationally. Best of luck.
Being able to move/copy people from smartlist column to another is convenient. Facebook doesn't let you do that.
Ask HN: Do you see tablet as a personal device or a shared family device? 
User behavior between tablet and smartphone is very different and I'm just curious to see how people think about their tablets. Is it a counter top device in your kitchen? Does it sit on your coffee table? do you carry it with you every you go like a smartphone or personal laptop?

Would love to hear your thought.
I asked them on their live chat, and apparently at this time, they have no timeline but they're saying Canada is top on their list for expansion.
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That's a strong sell even after sign-up actually. We're trying to sort through Braintree charges right now and it is pretty painful...
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