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Guz! I worked on HN Office Hours with you! How are you doing?

I think the actionable takeaway here is eliminating all friction that prevents an individual pushing the product forward. For GH, this meant automating everything possible, and providing accessible visibility into their data. How Hubot contributes to speeding up the onboarding of new engineers is worth thinking about too.
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Well no, I am a fairly analytical person. If G+ dies I will not hold on just because.
Why was it necessary to put 9/11 in the title of this? I think knowing that the economy was computer-controlled was enough to get me to read it - I don't think the sensational title was really called for.
As regards merchant accounts - what country & typical size/age of business do you tend to work with? Appreciate you've not posted anonymously so might not want to go into things much.
Google products are free--long enough to destroy a poor startup. Shame on Google.
That's actually very curious, because the stories I've heard are exactly the opposite of that -- building $100k servers $1k at a time, etc. Perhaps every school skims off the top in a different way.
"swivel chairs were considered the best for creativity"

This is so awesome in a Dr. Evil kind of way.
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"is not a steal or a good deal"

A steal or good deal is not a reason to buy something in every case. In fact you can end up buying things that you don't need.

This is the philosophy of loss leaders. Things that get you into a store based on a deal only to have you end up buying something you didn't necessarily need on inpulse.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic but Gnome 3 can do everything you mentioned by default.
Not bad, but the sound quality lacks somewhat. Sometimes voices are saturated, sometimes there's a phaser effect (re-encoding problem?)... As a non native english speaker, these little things make the podcast quite harder to follow through, particularly in the noisy environment of a car.
Genetics, cool!! Accounting for genetic drift must be a bitch though.
Their newsfeed lets you keep track of what happening in an smart lists, in parallel...convenient!
Thanks, I did miss that.

There are probably better specifics in the TOS or elsewhere, I guess I was looking for something spelled out better in the docs. (Ex: "Use any standard US Business or Personal checking account")

It's probably just me though :-)
Flawed results can correlate with flawed results. If we measure Monday incorrectly, and we have the same flaw in how we measure Tuesday, is it a surprise that the results for both days might look similar? All we've proven is that people use similar words at similar times of days - not necessarily anything about their sentiment or emotion.

The coin flipping comment is a joke. These are obviously not random results. But that doesn't mean they're accurate or meaningful, either.
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That's much how I feel as well. I accept credit cards and PayPal, and pay 2.2% as well. Stripe gets added to the bookmark collection for "services to use should I ever have a problem with PayPal" (which, knock on wood, won't ever happen -- my account is 11 years old now).
I have never seen this before:

>> help

>> 2 + 6

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>The page you were looking for doesn't exist (404)</title>
<style type="text/css">
body { background-color: #fff; color: #666; text-align: center; font
-family: arial, sans-serif; }
div.dialog {
width: 25em;
padding: 0 4em;
margin: 4em auto 0 auto;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
border-right-color: #999;
border-bottom-color: #999;
}
h1 { font-size: 100%; color: #f00; line-height: 1.5em; }
</style>
</head>

<body>
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<div class="dialog">
<h1>The page you were looking for doesn't exist.</h1>
<p>You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.</p>

</div>

</body>
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I'll start using it as soon as you do...
The more they explain, the more Github's organisation sounds like valve: very flat hierarchy, loose interest-based teams and ease of moving between them, etc...
You don't need religious faith for your life to have a purpose. The only difference is you need to/get to choose a purpose, instead of having one dictated to you (which is often vague anyway).
I'm comparing payment processing options for a very straightforward SaaS app. I was heavily leaning toward Braintree, but Stripe and Samurai seem easier/cheaper. Is there a strong reason to go with Braintree? I'm not sure if having my own merchant account makes a big difference.

The pricing for 1,000 monthly users looks (roughly) like:

(edit: I did the % based on $9/transaction)

Stripe: $329/mo @ $3,948/yr

Samurai: $358/mo @ $4,296/yr

Braintree: $487.90/mo @ $5,854.80/yr
If it wasn't possible to sell a name, a domain that wasn't worth $10/yr to the current owner would have been released back into the market.
It's an unusual coincidence, considering the World Trade Center was also destroyed on 9/11.
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Oh! I had to force-refresh the page to see the new things. Hooray!!
I stopped pirating in exchange for a Zune pass. They have the vast majority of what I've looked, for the missing stuff I'll just eBay the album and then pirate a digital copy.
echoing the excitement for the international expansion.
When I read the title, I thought this was crazy. After reading the article and watching the Amazon Fire presentation, I am very much convinced, that Bezos, could definitely take that spot, if the spot is even free to take.
Their signup process threw me for a loop. You just click into the dashboard, then fill in a name and password later. It looks like just visiting the front page gives you an account, because the sample code is already using some generated API tokens.

I've considered doing something similar for my own side project, but went with the more standard sign up because I was worried it would be confusing (as it was to me, for a few minutes). Do you guys think this is becoming more mainstream, at least amongst developers and the tech-savvy, that other projects could get away with this? I'm curious how many support requests Stripe gets because of this.

Edited to add: How does this work for the non-logged-in state? I already have an account, and the browser cookie expires (or manually delete the cookies). I'll go to the dashboard, and be logged in as "anonymous", and have to sign out and sign in again as the right user. Seems like an extra incongruous step.
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Sure, but other companies, e.g., Spreedly, let you outsource PCI compliance as well. This is the first I've seen that let's you get away without having a merchant account.
This is my feeling as well. You have to sell about 200 of these a year to make any sort of profit off this. That means you have to have a large enough selection to make that many sales. That means each one has less time allocated to it, and is going to be of less quality. I'd rather pay someone to spend the time to get it done my way. That said, this isn't an obvious scam in the way that http://www.brandings.com/ is.
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The examples provided are not relevant, because chartbeat also saw a hole in Google's offering, and filled it. That is exactly the same as all the sites you mentioned. The only difference is Google is now offering real time analytics.

A counter example would be a service that provided a missing feature for a google product, that was later filled by google, but managed to survive after google launched the feature.
so, I agree with your sentiment. However, you just equated not wearing a jacket and tie with looking like a slob... and then asked someone else not to make assumptions. I'd kindly suggest that his "snob" is roughly equivalent to your "slob".
I've actually found that the 'promoted' comments [Edit: which I assume are promoted by voting and algorithm.] on YouTube videos are generally either pretty entertaining or informative. I was surprised by this after consciously completely ignoring YT comments for a long time.
If a Stripe employee is reading this, tiny suggestion: I just shared the URL to stripe on both Facebook and G+. On G+, the nice little blueprint icon showed up as the thumbnail. But on Facebook, no icon at all making the post far less noticable in people's feeds. Just a tiny thing that will help the spreading of the word.
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US/Canada, startups and non-startups. 2/3rds of our businesses are online (mostly startups), 1/3rd brick and mortar. I don't have a better breakdown than that at my fingertips.

Average size of our customer is fairly large, skewed by several large customers. We have a lot of startup customers. The ones that are a challenge to get underwritten are typically marketplace businesses of some kind (you sell something, a third party gets paid for it and you take your cut). We have a bunch of them as customers but some are a challenge to get underwritten (fraud reasons/banks are stupid about it).

We are totally upfront and transparent and never post anonymously btw. Our business name is actually Transparent Financial Services!
This is an incredible product built by a team of amazing developers, solving a serious problem.

I will enjoy watching their success.
Looks like it's back to running quite slow and not taking some of the commands I enter.
Not only that but their docs include sample responses. I'm amazed at how many folks document their APIs but leave out this simple step. It can be a huge help when shopping around between providers, both just to see the quality of their docs, but also to see if their API does what I need. Since I usually have some pseudo code in my head already, being able to see sample responses and see how they fit with my code or schema, etc can make the difference between your API product and a competitor.
Yeah, it does sometimes confuse people. This is something we're considering about changing (the flow worked differently when we were invite only), but we thought it was worth experimenting with a little longer.

Mostly, I think it depends on the type of app you have. For something like 280 Slides (a previous project I worked on), it makes a lot of sense to get started right away without having to sign up. We'll see how things go for Stripe.
No. The real-time reporting is a separate section; this change doesn't mean anything for the data in the regular reporting sections. The data Real Time uses is unfiltered and raw, and only limited dimensions are available: Geographic source, traffic source, pageview name, and maybe one or two more things. I'm sure it'll be built out over time.
One score and twice four years ago (more or less) some guys brought forth a few modems, that they screwed to computers, which then conceived Usenet in liberty, dedicated to the proposition that on the net nobody knows you're an ass (unless you make it painfully clear yourself).

Thus came B1FF@PSUVM to roam the land of newsgroups, whence comp.sources circulated programs, rec.sf-lovers hosted epic flame-wars apropos nothing much, and alt.sex (ably assisted by alt.sex.anal) told tales titillating the prurient interest of the readership.

Since then we have learned nothing much, which is why Google is climbing up its own ass chasing the social butterfly, and there are pundits like Shirky milking this tired teat over and over.

A no-prize to whoever brings back the kill-file that was feature #1 in Usenet readers. Not to mention decent threading with color-coding of postings read, but I suppose that's too much to ask in today's morass of PHP BBs with twitching avatars and stupefying 'emoji'. Ah well.
ACH payout to multiple endpoints would be killer (think App Store type 70% payouts to users).

On another note, your markup is doing some strange things:

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I don't remember what LSB says, but in my experience it's neither uncommon nor unreasonable for packages not provided by your OS vendor to install into into /opt.
Just curious, how does the gambling industry manage payments? I've been thinking about building a poker saloon and would like to know how to get players to put their money on the table, so to speak.
My guess is the real time processing is only done if the real time view is open.
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I also noticed that I stopped posting much on my private blog after joining G+. For me, it is less about the blogging capabilities but more about the comments I receive. It is harder to draw attention to a private blog in contrast to blog on a social network.

To overcome this problem, I wrote a small Wordpress plugin called "Google+ Crossposting", which is now importing my public G+ activities into my blog ;-)
Can you use a browser plugin with it (like I have been doing for many years now)? Because I can't.
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Of their premium users, sure. You still aren't paying them anything.
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Nope. Only a few specific new reports (says the article).
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Only if you're doing C++. If you're in C#/VB, you still use Task.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh46492...

I think that's because the TPL doesn't exist for C++.
Great stuff there, but you didn't ask about the most interesting stuff: how they determine what to bid on an ad! Of course, I'm biased as a machine learning guy :)

Having the transcript is a really nice touch. It's much faster to read than listen. I hope you can keep that up, though I realise transcription takes a lot of time.
If anything it's a minor coincidence that the World Trade Center was destroyed precisely 28 years after a Chilean revolt.

The two events have absolutely nothing in common with one another other than sharing an arbitrary day and month of the year.
Honestly, I think they're probably feeling validated. GA is a 2000 pound gorilla, but this offering is very light compared to what some of the other dedicated Real Time Analytics providers give. It's possible they'll build it out further, but for now, GA Real Time probably wouldn't satisfy people who are already willing to pay for the high quality dedicated real time tools.
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"Prices varies per region and will be as follows: $150,000 USD (US), $150,000 CAN (Canada), or GBP 90,000 (UK) per year (billed in monthly increments)"

According to Stefan Keuchel (Google Germany): https://plus.google.com/101607164549546362845/posts (pricing in the comments.
They were both major centers of economic control.
We are completely transparent to your users - it's a conscious design choice. You can always choose to tell them about Stripe and link to our security page if it makes sense. https://stripe.com/security
They look a bit like the captain's chair from Star Trek.
Show HN: what Google Flight Search instigated me to code up... 
http://viajando.us

A little background: I'm from Brazil. In Brazil we speak Portuguese (PT-BR!). "viajando" could be translated to "traveling" or "travel to".

I was blown away by the new interface google provided for flight search. I mean, Hipmunk in itself proposed a new, unique, and novel way that (at least in my opinion) completely changed the landscape of how flight search should be done. But when google stepped in, it proposed an almost instant manner for me to see flights, repeat searches, put in adjustments and what-not. The simplicity of it was also something that got me itching...

My wife is always looking out for cheap tickets to visit back home, and I thought it would be great if she could use that interface... but alas, flights are still limited to US only. So when I saw a $2 .us domain go up on namecheap, I snatched viajando.us and coded this really simple way to see flights to/from US/Brazil with no typing whatsoever.

Obviously, there are limitations:

1) US/Brazil flights only
2) Limited number of airports
3) Round-trips only

All of these limitations are for now. Although (1) probably won't change so soon, (2) and (3) has more to do with the huge amount of background search and parsing I need to do to get all the updated search results. Each airport has all flights to the other country's hubs, all dates with a 15 day range, and all round-trip flights with a 30/15 trip length.

While the interface only shows the cheapest flights, I have them all. In fact, this will probably be really fun to play with from the statistical and data mining point of view... to see which airports, air line companies, and flights have the greatest variability, etc..

Would love any feedback from everyone here. Thanks.
I'm glad to see this NLP book available online for free. Some great knowledge in there.
Man... I literally just bit the bullet and opened a merchant account and gateway at Auth.net last week, and the second I do, FeeFighters comes out with their own superior gateway, and Stripe launches. Talk about bad timing for me :(
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We work directly with Wells Fargo on our backend to make sure you end up with all the normal benefits of a merchant account (the money will be held in your name, you will be able to put whatever you want on your customers' credit card statements, etc.). We just want to abstract the whole process here -- basically, putting you on the account or accounts that makes the most amount of sense so you can start processing immediately and then continue processing at high volume.
Hey edash,

Shoot to hear you're having trouble sorting it out. Please feel free to reach out to Erin@braintreepayments.com . She'll help you out.
I tried stripe a couple months ago and I was unimpressed. Mostly it was the pricing ( i think at the time it was 3.9% + 30 cents ) because I was looking to do smaller transactions $4.99 a month subscription.

But I got into the beta anyways and started playing with it. Within 10 minutes a rep was emailing me trying to get more information and that I wasn't ready to give out.

I ended up going with Paypal's micro transaction processing.
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Way cool! Any tips for success for folks who might want to set up a similar business model on other topics?
My 12-minute talk on computer crime from Zeitgeist 2011.
Another UK LTD company here wanting to use your service the minute its available, so many headaches to be avoided.
I'm not sure about avoiding PCI compliance so easily. You're embedding their JS library on your page. That page has to be secure, otherwise if someone can inject malicious Javascript they can sniff the CC data as soon as they are entered.

You might not be storing the data on your servers, or transmitting the data directly, but security failures in your setup can cause the data to be leaked.

Compare this to sending the user to an external website via a redirect that lets the user at least verify that they're really talking to PayPal or whoever.
>In the meantime it is still very valuable to have a place where it's possible to be honest.

It's also a place where you can be completely dishonest, make up stories, be someone else with almost no repercussions. I think most people are being honest on reddit or HN, but the small percent that like to make up stories, personas, etc. makes it difficult for me to fully trust many of the comments I come across.
This is also true with Inkscape for those with open-source workflows. Also, since svg is a text format, it is simple to batch replace colors in a set of svg files.
Respect. Stripe is a very smart company solving a big problem.
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You're forgetting that standardization, if it's going to happen at all, happens due to the companies involved, not entities like the IEEE: If a real-world standard is going to happen it will occur due to the companies deciding it is in their financial best interest. Otherwise, all the IEEE can do is write a pointless standard everyone ignores.
We're abstracting away the problem of having a merchant account, because we generally believe there are too many complex moving parts.
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I seem to be getting this message whenever I click a city or city pair: Os vôos cadastrados no sistema saindo deste Aeroporto com essa duração de viagem ainda estão sendo processados!

Am I using it incorrectly?

Have you tried to monetize the flight search directly, i.e., finding someone who will pay you to send the booking their way? Our usual travel booking partner no longer pays us for air customer referrals..
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Been using them for a while now on Forrst and Tinyproj and they're downright awesome. Smart folks, super developer friendly product.
Facebook integration would be great on our site, at least that way we could put a face(no pun intended) to each comment.

I feel you on the whole scumbag thing, I go through our website and check the comments everyday and am blown away by what my neighbors are saying.

I understand that anonymity is important but if you want to make real changes sooner or later someone has to show their face. Just my opinion.
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Heh, indeed it is. This is part of a web framework we're using right now that lets us push code updates to the page, but it just appends content. We're reworking how a lot of this works right now.
is ruby really that slow? The things has been trying to reverse my name for the last 5 min. And it is fake four letter name i gave it. I shudder to think what would happen if it were my real name.
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A lot of the new ticket vendors on Hipmunk only accept US cards. I would love to see an option to filter them out, it makes the slick Hipmunk UI totally pointless if I have to go through by hand and check which vendors are available for each flight.