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However, I feel the need to point out that no one can get a 1% rate on eCommerce transactions from their bank or anyone else.

I didn't mention 1% as idle guesswork, I have direct knowledge of several businesses paying close to 1% on online (card not present, no signature) transactions. I'm not saying its easy to negotiate good rates, but its possible, even for fairly early stage startups. I got 1.6% for a startup turning over only about $20k per month, no track record and 'non standard' business model.

So feel free to push your bank, get quotes from their competitors, they can almost certainly do better for you.

EDIT: I just notice that stripe is planning to introduce volume discounts - that would make a very nice product!
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K*(1/1 - uptime) = K/(1-uptime)
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Unless he tried to copy the same file to the same USB stick on a machine with a different OS, the question should be "Can anyone explain why copying files to a USB stick takes so long?"

The most likely answer is that the USB stick itself is pretty slow at writing incoming data into its internal flash modules. He also ought to test writing to a USB hard drive (with the physical spinning spindle inside) and I'd be surprised if his throughput would be less than 100Mbps even with a crappy drive.
Well, instead of adblocking everything, you can use something like ghostery http://www.ghostery.com/ to block all tracking.
I've always been told it enhances the experience...

Anyway, it doesn't follow that faster breakdown makes the trip end... could be that the very process of breaking down the active substance produces the effects desired, and the vitamin-C acts as a catalyst to "even out" the experience.
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That's why. Not the most technical of people.
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No, three 9 reliability for a single server.

1-.001^3 = .999999999, which is under a second expected per year, which the client will never notice even with good monitoring tools, and therefore will never invoke the contract.
Everything happens on client-side the server is just for saving sessions and file serving. So technically its not written in node.js. Node is only a dependency for the development tools we use (coffee-script, mini-server for development). However the server running repl.it is written in Node, its nothing fancy but it makes us run cheap and it will be open-sourced soon.
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/sigh/

This is completely inaccurate based off incorrect assumptions and statistics. Though not a youtube partner myself, I work with quite a few. This article has been dismissed by nearly all of the people it mentions
Looks like client is asking for off-site failover, not really 100% uptime and the OP doesn't know how to achieve it over a WAN. Esp if this is a real enterprise customer, they want Disaster Recovery (DR).

This is a solved problem, albeit not a commonly known solution. Any of F5, Radware, and other expensive boxes can do this. This can also be done through DNS or with HA-Proxy etc.
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Also ACL security processing isn't helping either.
Would it be much extra effort to bring to Canada? I'd use this today if I could.
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They seem quite expensive at %5.9 + $0.95
PayPal isn't just a payments processor, so they have many more fraud scenarios to worry about than Stripe.

You can't use Stripe unless you have a bank account set up to receive funds, and you can't use Stripe to pay for things -- i.e., you can't launder fraudulent money by buying a ton of stuff online and having it shipped to an abandoned house.

In Stripe there's a very simple money trail, plus there's a week's delay before your charges are transferred into your account... which makes it tricky if you're hoping to run up lots of fraudulent charges then disappear with the cash before anyone notices. With PayPal the money trail could be very complicated indeed.
It's the platform experience that makes a good user experience.

I largely agree with you (and there will be situations where you need native apps), but to play devil's advocate, the differences between an iOS device and an Android device are less noticeable than the differences between a Mac and a PC. If a cross-platform toolkit is ever going to work, it will be where the platforms are (relatively) similar.
A slightly unconventional, but doable, approach for businesses aiming at the US market (or otherwise working primarily in US $) is to incorporate a subsidiary in the US and handle billing there.
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It's notable that the hardware reqs for Vista, 7 and 8 are the same, because under the hood they're all basically the same beast - the kernel version numbers are 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 respectively.

I actually used Vista the other day for the first time, and I was surprised at how similar to Win7 it was. Microsoft's marketing department really deserves kudos for convincing the world that Win7 is anything other than a Vista service pack.
Hmm, would you have any pointers on where to start with CoffeeScript to do something like this?
Could this have anything to do with the licensing fees that are becoming a reality with the Android ecosystem? It might be an incentive to bring things in house in the future (both hardware and software).
Sorry I realize my comment sounded a bit negative, which wasn't at all my intention. You've done a fantastic job already and it's great to know tutorials are on your todo list.
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70%+ taxes, no thanks. I thought this was HN, not reddit...
> That's because you have simply no idea what he's talking about.

I suspect I do. Funny you bring up a Kay quote I've heard that he regrets, but anyways...

The same day this came onto hacker news, Jamis Buck also posted an unintentional counterpoint to Ryan's rant: http://www.jamisbuck.org/presentations/rubyconf2011/index.ht...
I was speaking in terms of charging the $5/month fee. Pre-Durbin amendment there was a much wider gap between PIN and Signature debit revenue which is why the bank encouraged you to use Signature debit by surcharging you for using PIN debit.
Is it actually possible to start a subsidiary as an European citizen?
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I haven't seen a USB stick that was slower than 2-6 megabytes per second on large-file transfers. Dropping an order of magnitude of speed on smaller files is entirely windows' fault.
Nice stuff... What about some SCALA ? mixed paradigm functional + object oriented with a lot of mojo !
I'm saying that

1. In most professional settings, such a comment would be inappropriate.

2. There's no need to be so caustic.
err 20 min? It's about a 60 second problem.

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Any links to back up what your saying?
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Look at it from a business, rather than engineering perspective. Forget the achievability of the 100% target for a moment -- what target can you realistically achieve? Then, what does the contract say the remedy is for breach? As long as the remedy is not huge and -- this is very important -- is clearly quantifiable, it may be just fine to enter into such an agreement.

You need the remedy to be clearly quantifiable (X dollars per Y minutes, for example) because otherwise you create an opportunity for dispute when the inevitable occurs and you breach. Resolving such a dispute could very well cost more than the remedy itself, even in the worst case.

From an ethical standpoint, I would only enter into such an agreement with an understanding that "while we agree that it makes sense for you to request that target, we think realistically that we'll be closer to 99.9% (or whatever you truly believe)". Entering into an agreement with a 100% uptime clause is different from setting an expectation that uptime will actually be 100%.
99.5% uptime is 100% uptime to 0 decimal places.
Wait... what? Dude, the invention of the arch was a big deal, and it came later. Forgive the Egyptians for their inability to do calculus; they were still thinking of shapes in terms of knotted rope.

The great irony of this conversation and its genesis is that it comes from the author of a server-side programming platform who's good points include, "No new techniques required, you already know javascript" and that touts a decades-old cooperative-multitasking approach as "simple" when the end result for the programmer is anything but.
I'm working on https://subsify.com/ to try and fill the gap in recurring payments for UK and EU businesses. At the moment we're only partnered with SagePay as a Payment Gateway so if that sounds good to you get in touch.
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Who has experience with Ogone (in combination with Atos, EMS or Paysquare) or Chronopay?
Great site. A trivial gripe: you should get rid of the text shadow on the "Select a Language" title. Grey CSS text shadows on grey backgrounds tend to look blurry, and this is no exception. Or, better yet, make it a white 1px shadow with no blur: http://goo.gl/BU0Hu
You're absolutely right, the structure is different for Signature and PIN debit. Pre-Durbin there was a large gap between Signature and PIN debit interchange income and banks wanted you to use Signature debit for that reason.

With Durbin rules implemented that gap has narrowed and now the bank wants you to use an actual Credit Card vs. a Signature Debit transaction because they will make more interchange income off of it.
Would it be possible for you to open a US account with an online bank and have all online payments go there? Or would this be a big no no?
I'm getting a 330 ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED when I try to load up the site. If no one else is getting this then chances are it's my company's firewall interfering. If its rule set detects either "fun" and/or "potentially useful" the site is immediately banned.
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We use Chargify with Payment Express hooked up to Barclaycard and American Express merchant services. It works great.

We lost $750 of sales (50%) in our first month because we didn't think Amex was important. It turns out that Amex is the card of choice for US businesses.
So instead of a website being fixed every user should learn how to switch user agents to work around it?
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I'm not an US citizen. I guess that you need a social security number and be an American citizen to open a bank account in the US.
> well, i would guess that the monitoring s/w etc. that was mentioned in the article, was part of the various gateway nodes that make up the entire 2g/3g/4g network. 3gpp has standardized on well defined interfaces for "lawful interception".

Did you even read the article? This Nokia-Siemens joint venture built was not specifically targeted at wireless.

You make it sound as if Iran and Egypt just bought a certain model of wireless routers or switches that Nokia-Siemens happened to offer on the international market.

No, the Nokia-Siemens joint venture was specifically created as a bid for the custom monitoring technology Iran needed. They probably re-used some of that knowledge when Egypt needed a similar system, later.

This is not just a question of Iran ordering some pieces of hardware equipment that the way they installed it just happened to help them find more "dissidents" to torture.

Nokia-Siemens designed, developed and built the infrastructure, it entails a littlebit more. They knew from the start exactly what this system they were building in Iran was going to be used for, they designed it and sent over their expertise to lay the f#ing cables and configure the routers and switches so that it did what Iran ordered it to do.

No, I wouldn't blame some corporation for selling hardware/equipment that happens to be used for tracking down people to torture.

Yes, I do blame a corporation when they bid to a specific order that really doesn't leave any doubt as to what the system is going to be directly used for, proceed to design it (again with the "requirements" crystal clear), develop, build and deploy it on the spot.
That sounds great! Can't wait to get started. I've been dreading building out the recurring payments portion of our website, but reading about Stripe is easing the stress. The docs and are excellent and the approach is very sensible.
£750 for a compatible motherboard at AROS?

Don’t get me wrong, Amiga OS was great, but its greatness was in part due to the bang for the buck Commodore delivered, e.g. you could almost purchase an entire Amiga 500 for the price of a 16 color ISA card…and have more than four times the pixels with overscan and ten more bits of color depth in HAM mode.
That's some good advice right there.
We use Adyen's recurring payments: http://www.adyen.com/

Works OK for us, but could be better if you see Stripe for example.
If I were to make a guess, you might be able to shave off some of the time it takes by enabling write-caching for the usb-device.

I believe that by default, windows disables write-caching for USB devices. Somewhere in the device manager, there should be a choice between "optimize for performance" (enable write caching) or "optimize for safe removal" (disable write caching).
If the frankly hilarious looking jumping add at the bottom of your post is anything to go by - there may be problems with your on line presentation.

Having said that - my experience is similar in that there is nothing better than going to the places (events/conferences etc) that your potential customers are going to and talking to them.
No doubt that's part of the motivation behind the excellent http://mac.github.com/

I love their philosophy of automating tasks to make them as simple as possible, so that anyone in the company can do them. It's really frustrating and time consuming to play sys admin every time you need to work on or deploy something, especially when you aren't at all a sys admin.
Yup, they are missing a zero at the end of most of these.
I wonder how they keep the product focused with a do whatever you want product development schedule. Rather sounds like a good way to end up with an elephant with a long neck and a short nose.
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Why? The issue is the source, not the destination.

If he is getting radically different times for Network->USB vs. Harddrive->USB, then it's probably not a USB issue.

As for the different OS... I mean, he isn't posting this to HN, so he may never have even used a different OS in person (most "normal" people I know haven't. Yes, including OSX).
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It's near impossible to open an bank account in many countries (specifically developed countries) without residency. I would also expect that if a US bank account was being used the IRS might question about taxes, as payment is occurring in the US, as far as they are concerned?
Huh. If you don't care about bad APIs or high fees, what do you care about? You don't give any clues.

I sell software and subscriptions online; I'm working on the switch over the Stripe because I really appreciated their cleaner API and low fees.

I've been using PayPal because it's cheap and easy, but they screw up many foreign payments (that have worked fine when run through Stripe), the whole "eCheck" thing confuses the hell out of people, and that whole "no, you don't have to create a PayPal account" thing. It's just unprofessional.

I can set up Stripe to handle processing for me completely transparently, and still without passing credit card data through my servers.
Yeah. I have an old TRS 80 I fire up now and then. Just for nostalgia sake.

I've tried to throw it out. Just can't do it.
If you want a nice "OMG!?" moment drag the contents of a zipped file to a folder on a network share. Hell freezes over.

There is something seriously wonky in the file access, network and (!) audio stack within Windows.

A good example is the automated wireless network search that runs every 30 seconds or so. If you have somewhat flaky (like, standard Atheros) wi-fi drivers, there's no way you will be able to listen to a song without interruptions and distortions. There are tools that can disable the wi-fi search, but good luck finding this solution if you are a newbie.

The same goes with copying files over the network while playing an mp3 file at the same time.
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Scala is great and we would love to have it. But the core philosophy behind repl.it is that everything has to be client-side. We're not very experienced with the JVM languages, but we are planning to experiment in loading them inside a Java Applet. Not sure how doable is this, would appreciate some feedback.
tl/dr: we didn't bother testing it or anything, and even the graph on the story shows a pretty flat hardware bump since Vista, GOSH, Windows 8 might be a pig!
From what I know, yes. But the total reimbursement is capped at $40k USD which includes salaries and rental expenses.
Hey there michaelochurch. I read through your post and noticed one verse that mentioned that many people do not distinguish between types of drug users. Perhaps you may have already come across the article, but if not, I would recommend Shedler and Block's (1990) article to you.

They also have discussions on personality antecedents to different types of relationships to drugs (abstaining, experimenting, abusing), esp. social anxieties.
Getting the same error here.

Error 330 (net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED): Unknown error.
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Best tool for Testing Automation?
Can anybody tell which is best open source tool for Testing Automation? and Why?

I'm thinking selenium is the best option for that..

How about your opinion?
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Ugh, yes. It almost brought my iPhone 3G to a halt.
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Hey guys, my name is Carl and I started programming a little over a month ago (I come from a Financial/ Marketing background, therefore, have never take a real CS class).

Over the past weekend/ week, I create this extremely simple site. The site helps you find someone who is willing to teach you something new, in exchange, you teach them something as well: http://www.smallbarter.com/

I'd be very interested in learning what you guys think of this concept, and which cities you recommend I add.

Thanks a lot for your time and feedback.
Here's an example: I use Snort, and wanted to set up Snorby because BASE is ancient and creaky and doesn't work well. It's written in Ruby, so it should be easy, right? Just get a package with the correct version of Ruby, then gem install until I have the prerequisites.

Nope. I gave up trying to install it months ago, but it required many external programs at versions too recent to be included in distro repositories, and which as far as I could tell were mutually incompatible. Obviously, people have gotten it to work, because it's a pretty popular front-end, but I never did.
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Wasn't enough to just upvote this post. This is a very thoughtful and concise (yes, really) introduction to those considering embarking on a psychedelic journey.

In my experience, contemplative and analytical people (such as the typical hacker) can truly reach the extremes of the psychedelic experience. If too anxious or unwilling to cede control, you're likely to find yourself on a slippery slope. If however, you have a rich spiritual life based on honesty (mostly with yourself), you can explore the edges of human consciousness and open doors that most will never see beyond.

Walk softly and leave the stick at home.

+1 for the idea that psychedelics accelerate and condense mental experience. Based on my 'travels' that seems correct.
There's a local tech college that uses it for email as well. But that does very little to shake IE's hold in the enterprise. Providing customer or student email is one thing, migrating your staffs away from an MS Office workflow (especially for academics, who's job is publishing), is something wholly different.

I'm not saying that businesses don't use web apps, but counting on web apps to shake IE's dominance in enterprise, at least in the short term, is wishful thinking.
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Everybody seems to be failing at reading comprehension today...

His two tests look like this:

1. Network -> USB

> I'm copying files from a my networked hard drive to a USB stick.

> It tells me it's going to take about 7 hours. For 3 Gig of data.

2. Network -> Local HDD -> USB

> I copy it from the networked drive to my C drive. This takes about 4 minutes.

> I then start copying it to the USB stick. This is varying between 8 minutes and 45 minutes, depending on whether it's copying a big file (fast) or lots of little files (slow).

Test #1, network directly to USB, is showing a 7-hour time estimate.

Test #2, network to HDD to USB, is showing an 8-45 minute time estimate (truth will be somewhere in between).

This is not a generic complaint that "Windows I/O is slow", it's a complaint that the obvious method (straight from network to desired USB device) is many times slower than the less-obvious method of hopping through the local HDD for no good reason.