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Yeah, unfortunately we were using an early open-source project to handle the real-time aspect of Prompt and when we needed to upgrade socket.io (one of the project's dependencies) to support the newer Web Socket protocol, it broke the app.

We'll hopefully get some time to fix Prompt soon!
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Circumcision has well known downsides, and its effectiveness is limited (~50%) so people would still need to wear condoms to be reasonably safe.
This is not true or misunderstood. Even now, as I look at on of my dashboards, the last reported hour was 13:00 -- it is 17:30. As well, there is no data for three of the morning hours, where this asset has not been down and sees millions of impressions a day. No to mention, the feature page for this new product states, "Processing: data freshness within a maximum of 4 hours 98% of the time," [1] which is not too far off a typical day with a non-premium plan.

[1] http://www.google.com/analytics/premium/features.html#tab0=3
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"in order to make developers' lives better"...

Get over yourself, dude. You're not championing anyone's cause but your own.
In a recent interview, Elon Musk was saying how we wouldn't have airplane travel the way we have today if the airplanes wouldn't be reusable.

He was saying that to point out that this is how reusable rockets should revolutionize space travel, in a way just as big.
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They may lose a small but noticeable number of customers, but they'll gain those numbers back over time. Consumers are mostly frogs in gradually warming water, the difference being that many of us "frogs" don't have easy options for switching pots.
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There's no simple thing I can say here. There are situations where withholding funds might be required, but they should be exceedingly rare. In other words, we're hoping to eliminate false positives.

In general, we're a tech company and we're looking for technical solutions to problems. We're also just culturally familiar with startups that explode in popularity, so we aren't worried about that kind of behavior.
People like a degree of anthropomorphism in, well, anything. But when designing things with personality, keep in mind that there's, what I call, a valley of creepiness which happens when you add too much realism. E.g. it's probably okay to have a coffee-machine that kind of looks like an animal, but it's not okay to have that coffee-machine defecate perfectly realistic pieces of shit on your carpet.

Universal Principles of Design calls it the uncanny valley: http://books.google.com/books?id=zXAx9_Y8GiEC&lpg=PA243&...
Here it is my phone which is overriding your design, i can't see the icons
Just shoot an email to support@stripe.com
Bold action might help us.

This "bold action" depends on politicians. -> Forget about it!

Strap in, change is opportunity, get ready for an exciting ride.
If you have two people in front of you with equally good talent and good attitude ...

Outside of people that are equally mediocre, this literally never happens.
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I think the difference is customer service, not fraud per se. Customer service will always be our highest priority -- and that means when we do end up in situations where fraud is a concern, we'll work with our users to resolve things quickly.
Looking at it from the other person's point of view, you can discover a surprising amount. The blog post was entirely bashing Ted, but it's pretty clear to me what happened -- Ted told his company he was going to leave (or at least hinted), and then was offered a ton of shiny things such as new projects to stay. The safer route is to stay, so he did. Why? Risk aversion; if he weren't risk averse, he'd already be doing his own startup.

The other angle is dedication/excitement. It's easy to sell an idea remotely but when the crunch comes and you have to work on it, to realise just how much work there is, and how little you actually care. A great hacker has so much vying for her attention that she really won't work on just any random project because you talk the talk, it has to be something interesting that she actually cares about. The number of non-technical people who try to sell me ideas that I can code up for them is growing longer by the day.
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Would you rent a DVR from Comcast? Thousands of people do.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-01/comcast-takeover-of...
The niche worked out because it's what I'm most excited about :)

I use Quixly for payment processing, it's the service that Pictos icon set uses because Drew, the creator of Pictos, wrote it himself. It's outstanding and very cheap. I highly recommend it for selling digital goods online.
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Do you find it reasonable that people can "own" domain names? I think so, because unlike a software patent, a domain name is really hard to share with everyone simultaneously.

Do you think people should be allowed to buy and sell things they own?

All arbitrage is a "pure wealth transfer", but it's also how we increase the liquidity of markets.

If someone else is using a domain name you'd like to use, and they're willing to sell it to you for a price you find reasonable, that's OK, right? Why should the sale be forbidden if they're not currently using the name?
Are you kidding? The last think I want to do after I do my day job is more of my day job. I think lots of people feel this way and that's why they find the article valuable, the realization that their extra time can be parlayed into future earning. But yeah, it will take time and work, sometime time and work some of us just can't bring ourselves to do, no matter the future value.
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> I'm impressed with all your math and algorithm knowledge.

You shouldn't be! I'm disappointed to discover that radix trees are usually relegated to a graduate-level data-structures class along with such curiosities as AVL trees, interval trees, and double-ended priority queues.
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Q: Do I need to be in the United States to use Stripe?
A: Yes.

--> FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Would you finally be the one to tell us what the hell is the problem with non-US customers?
To apply, solve the following... are you kidding?
This is about the 4th job I've looked at that requires some kind of boring but time sucking piece of code to be written just to apply...

http://www.codeeval.com/public_sc/12/

What the heck? Do these companies only want people to apply who are not busy or are desperate for jobs?
Neither--We heavily plan to do what we did yesterday: keep our heads down and continue to work.
I don't think all the new homeless people, or whoever is going to get very poor are going to find the ride all that exciting.

The guys who make money, the rich, however, certainly will. These recessions and all are always a pretty good opportunity to make more money.
Unfortunately, there are just a lot of regulations when dealing with payments across international borders.
I think it's fixed in iOS 5, but yeah not an ideal answer.
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Isn't a monopoly when you sell a product no one else is able to (natural monopoly) or allowed to (legislated monopoly) sell?

What's preventing people from using other search engines?

Microsoft's monopoly was based on exclusive contracts with PC makers, which made it extremely difficult to buy a PC without paying the "Microsoft tax".
I feel I should point out that a lot of people would consider this bad advice.

"It is critical to remember that play is not exercise."

Focusing on what are you're good at (like algorithms for creating mazes), is in fact exercise. You're getting better at what you already consider yourself good at (assuming you don't stagnate - which I think the article is really getting at.)

Should you focus on weaknesses or strengths is a big debate, but strength finder (http://strengths.gallup.com/110440/About-StrengthsFinder-2.a...) seems like a popular camp.
Curious to see what this demographic thinks. Will they have an impact in the market?
Seriously, I really need to know something about this. It's driving me mad to keep seeing promising payment services only to find out they won't deal with me.

Yours is the most compelling one I've seen.
Another warning, for photosensitive epileptics: there are rapidly flashing lights in that demo. I have a mild form of it and I started to feel weird, so if you're highly sensitive, you'll want to skip running the maze on the slide labeled "aldous-broder-demo".

Here's a tip for UX people: don't make anything flash more than 2 times per second. Also, "in the United States, websites provided by federal agencies are governed by section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. The Act says that pages shall be designed to avoid causing the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and less than 55 Hz." So that's the official recommendation.
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You could use some kind of pagerank, in which a vote for a journal is a vote for the academics behind it, increasing their vote power.

This would give more sway to old, established academics, but that's already the status quo (and roughly what you are trying to achieve anyway).
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Will strip offer hosted page in the near future? We are currently using Spreedly's hosted page for customer to input their credit card info so that we don't have to worry about SSL and other security issues?
had the same problem when my FF was 30% browser and 70% extensions
Mozilla got the deal when Firefox was that big, that it was a juicy deal for Google. Google won't make that sort of deal if there's nothing to gain. They're capitalists, not a non-profit organization.

Don't get the deal wrong. Mozilla as a small non-profit gets a lot of money for their size, but the deal still is the hell of a good deal for Google.

It actually played a major part into making Google the de-facto search engine among the community that matters most, us, the techs, the geeks, etc.
No, it doesn't bother me that Chrome is made by a company that makes money by serving ads. In fact, Google is using some of the ad money to fund the development of the webrequest API [1], which allows me to fully block the ads that they (and others) are serving.

The simple fact is that Chrome serves my web browsing needs wonderfully, so I use it as my primary browser. If the day comes that this is no longer true, I will just switch back to Firefox, or whatever awesome browser emerges between now and then.

[1] http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/trunk/experimental....
That's a good point that I honestly didn't think to bring up in the article directly--thought I did mention that for businesses operating globally, the notion of "overnight" becomes meaningless.

I think the first commenter took the notion a bit far; I didn't mean to imply that we should be deploying during your absolute busiest hours. However, I think deploying overnight is a bad idea--and, moreover, I think it's dangerous to assume that simply "avoiding your customers" is a scalable, long-term solution for deployment.
No third party could completely protect you from an untrustworthy employee, but that doesn't automatically subject you to every theoretical PCI requirement. If you have a malicious employee, you'll be liable for the damage that employee causes, yes. But using something like Stripe.js reduces even that risk, because it reduces the potential surface area of an internal attack as much as it reduces the possibility of external attacks.
You may want to seriously consider working on fleshing out this plan now. Paypal supposedly has thousands of people working in fraud control.

When word gets out that Stripe makes it "dead simple" to process credit cards without a merchant account, the vampires will come out to play. And I'm truly excited for a service like yours. We need this. But be prepared.
We may at some point in the future, but it's unlikely to be one of our short term priorities. Stripe.js does make things easier for you, but you'll still need SSL.
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We're working hard on preventing fraud.
There is quite a bit of screening/evaluation behind the scenes, but one of our goals is to not have legitimate businesses worry about any of it.
One major barrier is that in many countries it's difficult to set up a service like this in a way that doesn't require it to be a bona-fide "bank", and setting up a bona-fide bank is often not low-overhead.
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They basically outsourced everything right? Apple's iPhone was the result of scaling down what was supposed to be the original iPad (not to mention the Newton). Amazon's commitment to books and server technology carried over nicely into the Kindle. I think a large part of the first mover advantage myth comes from the unquantifiable drive and passion that goes into thinking hard about a product before a first prototype launches. These companies have a complete vision that they whittle down and polish to get that first product out. They have a clear path for the future and the flexibility to adjust because they've got a head start overcoming obstacles.

I just wonder what their main "vision" was. Seems like they suffered the same paralysis as Motorola and Nokia. "We make mobile phones" mentality. Did they just assume that the future was ever thinner profit margins compensated by sales volume? That people would gladly sacrifice added functionality for added battery life and the convenience of hardware buttons?
It might also be worth noting that adherence with HIV medication is also motivated by simple fear: if you don't take it, you will die. Painfully, from secondary infection.

Diabetes (type 2) and cardiac disease are scenarios where people can still kid themselves to a certain extent.
Silverlight doesn't even work on Chrome for me, I have to switch to Safari to watch Netflix.
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the thing is, imagine a world where Chrome has 70% userbase, IE 20% and Firefox 10%.
When Chrome decides of a new features, others must follow or die.

Now, it's easy to think of features that sounds "technically useful" but also "going to bring a lot more ad traffic / much less privacy".

Heck, why not make 3rd party cookies mandatory for example? :>

And if Google can't win through the browser war, they will try other fronts, like they do with NativeClient, which is a good lock-in, because others will not want to implement it.
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Many Socialists would disagree with you about that, although of course they'd like people to exchange more than just ideas.
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I attended the Analytics Partner Summit a few weeks ago and this issue was brought up. It was speculated that they don't have enough support personel to handle customer problems across the globe.

You have to remember they are going after enterprise clients so expectations of service are very high.
> WalMart spends about 3 million every year moving pennies around -- that actual coin type

I tried googling the data but I didn't find it. Is there a reference for that?
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> My view only shows very few posts - a handful of questions per day.

You should follow more topics and/or people. That would get you a better variety of content in your feed.

Without knowing much about your interests, it's hard to know what to recommend specifically. But if you check out http://www.quora.com/browse and look around, you may find more answers you like; then follow the topics, or the people who wrote those answers.

If you're interested specifically in answers with vigorous comment threads, try following http://quora.com/Politics or maybe specifically http://quora.com/Gary-Teal . Or anything to do with startups.
How does this apply to Google search, Yahoo, Facebook, Dell, Asus, Intel, StackOverflow, Hacker News, Google News, YouTube, Kingston Memoriy, Seagate, Cisco, Verizon Superpages, C|Net, Twitter, FourSquare?
They almost made it the entire article without throwing in a bit of Both Sides Do It nonsense.

"In America the Republicans are guilty of outrageous obstructionism and misleading simplification, while Mr Obama has favoured class warfare over fiscal leadership."
What did I just watch?
Oracle has been doing NoSQL since before NoSQL was cool.

They've had BerkeleyDB since 2006. The real issue is not technology so much as economics. The heart of the matter is that no startup is going to shell out what Oracle wants for licensing/support contracts.
Do they even need a presence in other countries to be able to work with companies in them?
There are in fact a lot of large organizations in the for-profit, government and education space that have moved over to using web apps at this point. Microsoft Office isn't about to disappear, but it's fairly established now that an organization can exist without buying Office licenses for their employees, especially if they don't have heavy dependencies on Excel.

For examples: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/customers/index.html
Google likely benefits hugely from providing the service for free. The massive amount of data it provides about user behaviour across the public Internet must be hugely valuable to them.
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Yes, the big question is whether it will be open source. I have no insight into that, waiting to see along with everyone else.
Didn't it happen already yesterday or today?
We scale up pretty well. Everything that you get with a merchant account (correct statement text, money held in your name), you get with Stripe.

Key scaling issue is pricing. 2.9% is fine for low volumes and no risk validation, but once you're turning over large volumes and have a track record of no chargebacks etc the comparison looks much worse. If you can offer businesses a pricing that 'scales' with substantial reductions in transaction fee by volume then there is a growth path, otherwise any business would be crazy to stick with you no matter how good your service and APIs, etc because 2.9% could be half their gross margin and they can get 1% by dealing with the bank direct.
fun fact: In Germany it's exactly the other way round at least for 99% of the banks. You will get a free debit card at every bank but you have to put down a considerable amount of money as prepayment for a credit card additionally to the yearly fees. If you want a Deutsche Bank credit card they will lock 1000 EUR before they issue it to you and you will pay around 60-100 EUR yearly.
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I believe Dan is blacklisting just the IEEE because no other publisher has yet refused to publish a paper of his on the grounds that it was in the public domain. I don't know how many publishers he has submitted public-domain papers to, but I imagine it's more than two.
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My favourite moments aren't the 'wows' so much as the times I wipe and setup someone's laptop after they've messed it up, put chrome on it and hear literally no complaints.
It's Oracle ... whatcha want exactly? It'll be big, and technically splendiforous and hideously expensive.
Right, so with a deeper recession looming, those of us with the wherewithal to foresee it should be asking ourselves how best we can benefit from it.

Look, it's shitty that it's going to hurt a lot of people. I wish it didn't. But, the fact that it will doesn't mean that it should hurt me.
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Although the Economist tends to oscillate between sanguinity and (mild) hyperbole, this is as close to panicked as I have seen it in a decade. Situation downgraded from 'worrying' to 'grave.'
"Play" is boring if it isn't challenging. I completely disagree with the dichotomy presented at the start of this presentation. It seems to imply that improving is painful, and is something you need to force yourself to do.

(Furthermore, I've never found learning about new algorithms to be taxing, and certainly never regarded it as a four-letter word.)
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We had a simple dashboard for tracking key metrics, but soon needed reports like retention breakdown by user.

It literally took is 1.5 days to get this whole thing up and running, and saved countless amount of time in the future trying to analyze the usage.
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How did they manage to flip the second craft from it's reentry position (nosecone down) back around for landing?

Wouldn't carrying the extra fuel to slow the craft on reentry make this cost prohibitive, thus why most craft use parachutes or similar passive slowing devices?
You make some very good points here. Although we started from scratch with Scala, we decided to use Spring for several reasons. I mention one in the talk - we initially adopted Scala for the language and syntax itself, and it made sense at the time to mitigate some technical risks by sticking to a well-known and familiar architecture / wiring / configuration model.

As we have become more familiar with the language, FP and the Scala idioms, we have definitely become less comfortable with our Spring "legacy". Initially, we felt that @BeanProperty annotations and setter injection saved us some boiler plate, but now most will shudder with having uninitialized vars. Constructor injection is somewhat better, but the XML DSL of Spring is still ridiculously verbose. Luckily, this doesn't bother us much in the day-to-day work, we spend most of our writing idiomatic Scala.

As our platform and the entire Scala ecosystem and libraries have evolved, the Spring and JEE "legacy" has become much less prevalent in our system than it was originally. We use a pimped version of Spring JDBC, Spring contexts for wiring, a Servlet container, but that's about it. In fact, we could probably easily rewrite the whole Spring config in Scala and drop most of the Spring deps.

I couldn't agree more with you in that the us in the Scala community really should come up with an accepted way of handling configuration and wiring. Having worked with more than a few Scala libraries, I can definitely attest that the plethora of configuration styles used can be a pain to manage (and dependencies -> configgy-nologgy, anyone?).

We regularly talk about this topic in the NYC Scala community, but we haven't come up anything good yet. Personally, I strongly believe that dependency injection is the way to go and that singletons and factories (which are fairly common in Scala libs) are evil. Most long-time Java devs will agree that we've been down that road before (gotta love JNDI)... That being said, we did not adopt Scala to fight for status quo, so we'll keep an open mind.

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Thanks for the typo catch.

All the hubs are fixed, which means that outgoing flights will not exist/be shown to airports which are not part of the search/parser. Clearly this is a limitation, but I'm not considering all airports in US either. Might you know all the main Brazilian airports with high traffic to/from US?

Only the cheapest flights are shown, so when you click SSA, for example, you will see the cheapest outgoing flights by date for all the US hubs.

Thanks