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Not to take away from the product, which I think is pretty awesome, but I do foresee a rather sticky issue should the company blow up somewhere down the line; the logo is rather reminiscent of that of my former employer Deutsche Bank's, and I wouldn't put it past the multinational financial behemoth to take notice, with potential financial consequences, especially as Stripe pushes its product internationally. For reference:

http://www.oraclefusionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/d...
Great job, Dan!
This is actually just wrong. Compare them side by side and you'll see that the web view components in the iPhone app have been specially designed and constructed for the app.

See http://www.quora.com/Why-is-most-of-Quora-for-iPhone-a-wrapp...
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Oh, it's not a big deal, you just need everbody to go without money and food for a few years while you get the things off the ground. No sweat.
The failure of Lehman Bros. did not directly cause the financial collapse.

The financial collapse was caused when other banks realized how bad Lehman's balance sheet was. Because their own balance sheets were also bad and they deduced all the other banks out there are probably in just as much trouble.

So banks stopped lending to each other and that's what caused the collapse.

But those circumstances wouldn't have changed if we bailed out Lehman. Because the realization would still have been the same.
Google also benefits directly because telling people how much traffic they have is a powerful enticement for AdWords.
Schwab is awesome. If you're so inclined, it's easy to do (reasonably priced) stock trades. As far as pure checking goes, they've got everything you would expect, but get this: no ATM fees. At all. Any fee charged by any ATM will be refunded to you at the end of the month. Plus, they do it internationally, too! If I recall correctly, they have effectively zero currency conversion fee, as well.

Capital One also has some decent accounts if you need somewhere to keep cash savings with ATM and check access.
I wouldn't mind extending that graph with "with number of robots that have walked on other worlds." It might even have a positive slope.
Lately, I've noticed that political and financial systems seem to behave according to the laws of increasing entropy in closed systems. For that reason, sometimes I fear that there is no fixing it, and that only a new system will be better.
What would you sell if traffic died? It seems like you were truly interested in entrepreneurship so why not help the community and open door number 1.

I can't use it, but maybe someone can revive it.
The problem is that the simple and quick solution has to be hacked around when the problem set changes and that's how we get all these hacks.
I'll tell you why it's fair.

A job application shouldn't be a fishing game. The ideal person I want to hire is the person that also wants to work for my company. Maybe there are a few other companies that he likes, but my company isn't competing for mindshare with the myriad of other companies advertising their positions on Monster.

I want hire someone who is competent enough to complete a "20 minute" code evaluation, or even one who can take the time research half a day and figure out how to do something he might not have known the answer to when he first saw the quiz.

I want to hire someone who isn't turned off by a 20 minute code evaluation for the chance of working with me, for me, or at my company.

I also want to hire people I can get along with, who perhaps share my vision, who want to go in directions I expect the company will go, who will be a good fit with the rest of my team, who won't be a pain to work with, and who is competent, capable, eager and motivated to learn, do better, try to kick ass, and always care about the work they're doing and the team they're doing it for.

I want the things in that last paragraph, but there's not really a code eval I can give online that will judge them, so I give you a 20 minute code evaluation to make sure you're even worth talking to so that I can figure out whether or not you are my ideal candidate.

I want YOU to enjoy the job as much as I enjoy employing you, and I don't personally think that someone who is too uppity to fill out a 20 minute quiz before applying is the kind of person I want to hire.
I don't get it? If he really hates the situation so much, why did he choose a language that makes it notoriously difficult to write quality software in and chose a concurrency style that is notoriously difficult to reason about?
Call it a noob mistake... but I recently wrote my own MVC framework on top of Express... and ended up never writing the app I originally intended to use it to write.

I think a few months ago, this wouldn't have made sense to me, but now I totally get what he's saying.

On my new app, I'm still using express to do most of the connect-ey stuff, but i've definitely decided that most MVC-ey frameworks are a premature optimization (for me). I'd rather just start with node + express, add in whatever DB I need (Redis / Mongo preferably) and build small and progressively.

My lesson learned... would love to hear other opinions.
The are numerous examples of countries having a larger debt to GDP ratio than the United States who recovered nicely from such debt ratio.

In the U.S. taxes are around 24% GDP which is quite low relative to the rest of the industrialized world and quite low relative to our recent past (50 years). Raising taxes will counteract any hyper inflationary forces. Increasing the debt for the U.S., given that the borrowing rate is ridiculously low and tax rates are similarly low, will not lead to hyper inflation. Inflation is a not a problem in the U.S. right now.
Where it gets quantitative, the Wikipedia page seems to be talking about "R&D" in general, which is an accounting category that is much broader than "research". When Intel designs a new CPU or Boeing designs a new plane, for example, that's under the "research and development" rubric in these figures. But they typically don't publish much about it, and a lot of what they're doing doesn't have much to do with the kind of "research" we're talking about here.

Perhaps more relevant, though, very little research indeed is funded by subscription fees to scientific journals or conference proceedings or sales prices of academic books; journal and conference authors don't even get royalties, and neither do their institutions, and very few academic books make a substantial amount of money.

I don't understand why overhead is relevant; we're arguing about who the funding agency is, not how grants are structured. If the NIH has to spend 40% of their dollars on overhead so that their PIs have offices and library access, and so does the HHMI, how does knowing this allow us to more accurately compare the expenditures of the NIH and HHMI?
Which cause is that? I didn't write tryruby.org
It has been said before: bad blood between co-founders spells disaster for a startup.

Patch things over for the sake of your baby, end things amicably, or take your baby and run baby run.
Nice one Dan, is it the company you work for or is this the name of your company?
I did this half a year ago on neovella.com. It seemed brilliant at first, but ultimately failed for two reasons: A) cross-browser compatibility for @font-face can be a real hassle when you're juggling a few different filetypes and trying to be compatible with everyone; B) filesize of the fonts themselves outweighed their aggregate image-counterparts.
Bold action would be allowing toxic institutions like Bank of America to collapse.

Bold action would force the proprietrary trades of institutions like Goldman Sachs to take place in public, on an open, regulated market.

Bold action would halt the free trade policies that are building up Asia at the expense of the west.

Bold action would be ceasing the subsidy of suburban housing, the student loans and failed local/regional governments.
mixpanel's got a long way to go. As the main dev leading mixpanel at my company, it is a pain inserting a line to track every event some person may need at the organization.

This really holds back an organization where product and dev teams are separate.
http://www.red-team-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/aw...

how about using the most common font? (arial) that should take out all your worries on @font-face
Yup. Also pointed out here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3051585), sourced to the official terms and conditions (http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...).
Something something Plan 9 something something.
https://plus.google.com/115587336092124934674/posts/BkM6o2cg... support@ is one guy right now and while I had great experience in the past, right now it's not great. I had sent a question 10 days, repeated 5 days ago. nothing.
It's 20 minutes because it's for an application. I want to look through it before I submit it, not just slap something down. I actually ended up doing this one just because it was so trivial.
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Nowhere in the video do they show any drogue or drag chutes but I would assume they enter into the picture as well, and would be involved in the mid-altitude slowing and flip of the second stage.
No one will hire unless you have something to show them. I assume you like to design so maybe you should do a couple for your friends and family pro bono. You'll get something for the portfolio that you can show to others.

I like Shawn's idea to get new customers - follow that. Try to make some connections with a major industry. James Altucher founded Reset, which made websites for movie releases at extremely high prices. You know why? First of all, he worked at HBO so he had contacts with all of them. Second, they were huge companies with even bigger budgets - he cleaned up on them. Granted he did it in the mid-90's when the internet was new and exciting, but nonetheless - if you have the right contacts you can create a great business (he eventually sold Reset for low 8 figures).

best of luck
Very awesome. Quite an amazing feat if they can vertically land a rocket on such a small target like that. Dig the Muse soundtrack too.
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off-topic: Stripe looks really nice and I wish I could use it but sadly I'm outside USA. Does anyone knows a service like this that doesn't require a bank account? Let's say I want to charge people in USA but I don't have a bank account in USA, then I would transfer the money to Paypal or something. Any thoughts?
"don’t let go of key team members for replacements until the replacement starts"

Not an inspiring message to future key team members.

"We begun parting ways with our developers, started to wind down most of our NYC operations"

So the next smart dev is in Bangalore, guess that means he'll shut it all down again right?

"The highs and lows continued. I realized we shouldn’t support a full production operation until our product was completely done, tested, etc."

Better to think about what you absolutely require compared to the resources you have to 'fully complete' them.

"That Friday, I let Ted know that we need to trim down the team further..."

Then Ted quit the following day with a nice email detailing how things had changed in the last 36 hours and the ways he'd like to help him recruit a few engineers read between the lines.

"the single most unprofessional thing I have ever heard of"

Sending a nice resignation letter is the worst they have ever heard of?

Frankly 90% of this post is detailing poor business and hiring decisions. Then blaming Ted for poor behavior rather than accept responsibility. The author likes to bite off hard technical challenges then complain he can't find someone talented enough to chew it. How is it that he even knows what he can accomplish before he's found his co-founder?
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In my experience, whenever product and dev teams are separate these kind of skirmishes happen. Let it be tracking or any other kind of features.

Unfortunately bridging this gap is the only way to solve it.

Behind every technical problem there is actually a human problem that needs to be fixed[1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/scobleizer#p/search/1/1p3vcRhsYGo
the real goal of free Google Analytics is to get people to place the javascript tracking snippet on their webpages so they can collect data for Ads and now paying customers.
I find the preaching of fear distasteful.

It is better to gravely recognize the scope of the problem, assemble facts regarding the situation, and then to move to positively affect the situation on all levels, from globally to locally.

The bold action that is needed is to not panic, but to take measured steps regardless of ideology and re-election chances.

I wish I was in a position to do more than work hard, invest, and not panic.
That read so much like an ultimatum (and was honestly the first email from them that I actually saw about the transition) that I had little desire to migrate since I had already moved to Pinboard. Kind of like if Facebook sent something similar...meh, just dump me already, my life exists outside your free service.
With all due respect raising taxes that high is a straw man. I'd be all for raising taxes if it worked but it doesn't. Nation states are competitive entities and they compete for the world's resources. If the U.S. dramatically raises taxes on the rich then emerging countries like Hong Kong see an opportunity and lower their tax rates. Then you start to see capital flee the U.S. for overseas.

That's why per capita tax receipts have stayed fairly consistent over time even though the tax rate has fluctuated: http://www.angrybearblog.com/2007/09/comparing-presidents-re...

Don't get me wrong. We could and should raise taxes to the highest levels we can. But there's a threshold where it becomes cheaper for rich people to hide their money than it is for them to pay higher tax rates. When we cross that threshold we see tax revenue start to drop.

So while I'm in favor of raising taxes I don't think we can raise taxes to the point where it would get us out of this mess.
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Agreed, though it might have improved; it just seemed as if they were trying too hard to explicitly imitate Ira's speaking style.
My interpretation of what Ryan is saying: Programming languages, libraries, and linux distributions are more complex than they should be. When you use them in your products, you contribute to the problem. When you're thinking about them, you're wasting your time because your users don't care about your tools. One day we'll decide it's easier to throw them all out and start over.

Overall, I don't agree with this.

Complexity arises because what we want to do is complicated. I don't think there's a way around that. Sometimes too much cruft builds up in an area, but that leads to redesigns of specific components. For example, client-side configuration of LDAP and Kerberos has been unreasonably complex for a long time. That didn't lead to people ditching them, that lead to https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/. It's likely that one day we will decide it's best to replace LDAP, just like was done with NIS. However, it won't mean we have to throw out all of linux.

The "users don't care" argument doesn't appeal to me. I don't care what tools the architects used when they designed my apartment building, but if learning some complex math and geeking out over slide rules enabled them do it, I'm all for it. Being told there's something wrong with me because I've changed the settings in my text editor is insulting.
Previously, I built the app under my own startup. It was recently acquired by Steinway, where I now work.
It's nice to hear someone well-respected say this, as I've been saying this for years and yet I get frowns from senior managers and programmers.

I don't like magic in programming, yet nowadays there seems a move (especially in Ruby with the [over]use of method_missing) that encourages it.
How would you recommend visualizing that algorithm?
The bulk of it was caused by the fact we had an element which was only visible on-hover (a drop-down sign in menu) and within that element was an unclosed <label> tag. Because the label was unclosed, the rest of the page was being trapped in the <label> element which meant the lower half of the page only displayed when the parent element was visible (thus causing the flickering effect as the element was shown/hidden).
Stripe does not currently have a logo, other than the word Stripe.
Most merchant acquirers, as well as the US Government, will interpret sections 312 and 326 of the US Patriot Act to require a Social Security Number to positively identify a merchant application and to check the applicant against various financial crimes and terrorist lists. This essentially prohibits non-US companies. There are some exceptions, but this is generally the rule.

Many of the card acceptance solutions that do not require this information are not actually issuing merchant accounts or are otherwise performing what is known as aggregration or is opening a merchant account on your behalf that they own. Some are also issuing merchant accounts in non-US banks. Others are in violation of US law.
The main problem that I have with PHP the language is the ugliness and weirdness of the syntax. Something like CoffeeScript for PHP, that compiles to PHP (but with nicer syntax), could help alleviate that.
How is the US government debt the problem? I just don't see it. Government debt certainly didn't cause the problem, we can still borrow at a 2% rate, and there's been little evidence of inflation.
Oracle is doing a NoSQL as a strategic move. They'd done this before with the acquisitions of BerkeleyDB's and Coherence's companies. But their cash cow will continue to be their ubiquitous RDBMS for many years to come. You know, just in case the world wakes up one day and falls in love with NoSQL, they will have something to sell under this brand.

I deal with passionate Oracle RDBMS users on a daily basis and (very good) technologies as BerkeleyDB and Coherence are nothing but esoteric toys they will hardly use anytime soon. So will be this NoSQL database that will probably be given away as open source.
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This article has no depth and is not worth discussing.

Here are two quotes taken from the article:

1) "That could change if Congress came to its senses, passed Barack Obama’s jobs plan and agreed on a medium-term deficit-reduction deal by November." - Author favors Obama's plan and says it will fix the problem.

2)"while Mr Obama has favoured class warfare over fiscal leadership." - Author refers to the exact same policy, but now calls it favoured class warfare.

This has a ton of link bate and zero information anyone actually cares about.
Your claim that JavaScript is "notoriously difficult to write quality software in" is unsubstantiated. Which language in your opinion makes it easy to write quality software in?
Debit transactions do cost the merchants, just not nearly as much. I think it's on the order of a transaction fee + .5% for debit vs transaction fee +3-4% for credit.
I would love to see someone drag it kicking and screaming outside of the US.
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I can't relate. I love little programming problems like these, and I want to hire other people that do as well.
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Can you please explain your theory of how massive cuts to government and the ensuing massive layoffs of government workers, and the government buying less stuff from businesses, is going to fix the economy? Please take into account in your explanation that the US is able to borrow at record low rates right now.
This thing looks great.

I love the trend of people making well-documented kits that I have a good chance of fixing if they break. I'll have to scrounge up an old ATX supply-- I think I just threw my last old one away a few months ago.
It's not even a solution to that problem. If you're willing to compile your icons into a single file you can spend half the effort on a sprite sheet, which is also one request.
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I got the same notice. I will be using my regions account to draft checks to pay off my highest rewarding credit card now.
I feel like I've heard that headline before.
Few comments for you and I'll try not to be harsh (because it isn't all that bad)

First, cut off the "As seen on..." bit. To be honest, that doesn't matter unless it is like TechCrunch or something - and even then it isn't a big deal. Press is useful to get customers to your site. If they're on your site, the job is done. Don't send them elsewhere to read about what your site does...

Second, you don't need the pricing and product tour on the homepage. You have tabs for them. I wouldn't have anything on the landing page besides the very first thing you see without scrolling. Explanation, video, done. That's it - nothing else is needed.

good luck
Then for future reference, link to that article. The one posted was a gigantic waste of time and had no information.
It is called a Chit fund: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chit_fund

It is so popular in South India that it is now a regulated financial industry. There are quasi-government bodies that operate chit funds.
The exemption you are talking about is not legitimate, because of the way browser security works.
I would love to hear Maciej's take on all of this (not to mention his server stats for the past few days!)
In some communities open access journals are the most prestigious journals. In machine learning JMLR (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/) is (I think) widely considered the top journal. It was formed when a large group of top machine learning researchers grew fed up with the high cost of paid publication and together resigned from the board of a competing publication (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/statement.html). All of the top machine learning conferences (NIPS, ICML, UAI, AIStats, COLT) publish their proceedings online too. I think it's only a matter of time before all other communities follow suit, but some communities may lag behind longer than others. The machine learning community was lucky in that a large group of leading researchers decided to collectively make a clean break and support a new journal--the new journal became the premier journal almost over night so there was no slow transition phase.
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I'm not sure for all countries but I registered my company recently and the default title the registering process allocates is "Managing Director". Which seems exactly the correct term.

I doubt I'd bother changing my title unless I needed to have a division of responsibility. And for that to occur I would need a number of staff which would get confused exactly whom they should be talking to.

I think for most companies I have dealt with CEOs start to appear over 20 staff members which may be the level where communication issues start, and division of responsibility need to be clarified.

I know a few people who use CEO title in companies with 1-3 people, most of the time its a projection thing, more of a sales tactic than anything. For a few its an ego thing, but usually they don't last long in community groups as everyone gets sick listening to narcissistic comments and they isolate themselves.
No, they don't. The reason this is happening, as mentioned in the article, is that the government recently capped interchange fees to 21 cents per transaction plus 5 basis points on the amount of the transaction. They are charging a fee now to make up for the lost revenue of these lowered interchange fees.
> How did they manage to flip the second craft from it's reentry position [...]?

Apologies, I think I don't understand...

The video is a concept video, not a real-life recording.. it's CG. But you're asking about real-world physics. And everyone else is talking about it too, as if the video actually happened, even though it's just a CG animation.

I'm just really confused; sorry. Heh. I know I'm missing something obvious here -- figured I'd ask what it was, even though I look silly. :)