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So far, I've been very happy with the content I've purchased from Amazon.

Apple sells content as an enhancement for its device-selling business, and thus does not do much to make that content available off of its own devices (iTunes for Windows notwithstanding).

By contrast, Amazon sells devices as one of many ways to make it easy for you to buy their content, and thus they make their content available anywhere there's a volume of users that might want to consume it. I've read Kindle books on my Kindle, a PC reader, my phone app, Chrome, and an iPad. So far, I've never had a device where I wished I could read a Kindle book but couldn't.

You may indeed ending up having the last laugh, because who can predict the future? But so far, Amazon has been a really convenient company to do business with.
The video gives the idea, but full details here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/09/29/...
Will be waiting for Mexico support, we need something like this now.
If someone injects javascript into your page, nothing you do will matter -- you are compromised.

This is why your site has to be served over SSL (to prevent MITM attacks), and why you should be careful about what third party content you embed in your site. In particular, you should never embed a non SSL resource on an SSL page (also known as the mixed content warning in most browsers).
Single quotes as much as possible, unless it's a MySQL call or HTML.

I hack in PHP mostly.
Best answer, thank you.
I also understand that maintaining roads is not free, however I'm not paying fees to private companies for the privilege of using them because of how important they are to national infrastructure. I should be paying less overall in taxes to maintain these roads then I would be paying a collection of individual for-profit companies to get the same level of service...in theory.

Is digital currency still too immature to consider the same?
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Wouldn't an image strip of your icons (Google does this, 2D video games have been doing this since the dawn of bitmaps) solve one the complaints rather easily?

Personally not impressed by the random CSS3 based animations from a compatibility perspective.
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I think he was saying that the gov't should make it free, not that it is a free service with artificial costs attached to it.
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have relatives at another evil bank in another western country.

the way they tell it is that the bank really doesn't want the less fortunate out there as customers. if they could figure out a way to drop them without the public backlash they would.
You make a good point. So does the article.

What I was wondering while reading the article: when will it become common that there is no peak or off-peak time? There are some businesses there now, but at some point there will be no such thing for most businesses.
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Having developed for both Android and iOS, I totally agree.

It will definitely be big news when a major Android app is noticeably better than its iOS counterpart.
Why did Yahoo! buy Delicious in the first place? I assumed Yahoo! would use Delicious' links and tags to cleverly augment their search engine ranking. I realize now that I was giving Yahoo! too much credit.
Travel is very prone to this. Car rental, hotels, airfare tickets (sometimes). You also get car rental collision insurance with most credit cards too. Most car rental agencies will also allow you to put a deposit of several hundred dollars instead of a credit card.

It's any industry that is prone to customers doing massive damage easily, like crashing cars, trashing hotel rooms, etc.
Stripe was like love at first sight, it was exactly what I was looking for a loooong time, but I can't use it for now apparently :(

Two questions: My company is an LLC and I have a valid SSN, however my bank account is in Portugal, can I still apply for stripe ?

If not, do you have plan to support EU countries like Portugal ? thanks
One difference between debit and credit is when they do things like authorize payments, but then never actually capture them. When it comes to debit cards, some banks will pull that money out of your account, and not release it until may be 10 days after the authorize expires. On the other hand, these things can happen instantly (or within a day) on a credit card. Some people are rather annoyed when they do something like book a hotel room on a debit card, but then pay on their credit card when they checkout. The authorized amount disappears from their account for ~14 days and they think that they were charged twice (because their bank isn't necessarily transparent about this).
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Nice example, but a major pain point I see is dev time. There is going to be significant amount of time being spent making the analytics platform, and then scaling it. It might be better spent on the product itself until it takes off.
If there's nothing holding you back from obtaining a credit card, why not switch entirely to a credit card?

Used wisely (e.g. paid off every month, never carrying a balance) you can make a rewards credit cards pay you. Credit cards also provide a bit more financial flexibility.
You should email support@stripe.com for specific things like this.
Amen. Every group needs an undisputed leader. Otherwise they flail about and get very little done. CEO is the default name for that leader in a company, and using any other name would just lead to confusion when speaking to investors, press, clients, etc.

A small company (1-10 people) usually doesn't need any other CxO titles besides CEO.
"when we download a book to you..." ugh...
But say you have a untrustworthy employees (it happens), as long as they have the ability to deploy code, they can compromise your site. So my question is, to what extent can a solution like Slice (or Braintree) truly alleviate the PCI burden, surely you'd still need a record of who has the ability to deploy code, audit trail for deploys etc.

Obviously you should be doing all this stuff anyway. I guess the point I'm making is that solutions like this make great claims about their ability to solve all your PCI woes, and I'm wondering about the extent to which this is actually true. PCI compliance is (normally) quite expensive to achieve, so your solution is obviously very attractive. But is it enough?
Maybe the poor should start pooling their own money. For example, I heard about some system where a group of people all pay into a pot once per month, and they rotate through who gets the pot. It basically becomes a forced way of savings because there is peer pressure not to come up short. Though I guess this isn't fully a replacement for a bank, but I guess it could help people save up to a level that they don't have to be a 'bad customer' to a bank.
that was the idea!
I'm glad that China seems to be picking up the USA's slack on this.

It helps to alleviate http://www.xkcd.com/893/
Not really, node.js already has heaps of testing frameworks that work fine in it.
currently, i use the bookmarklet, and it eats the tags. there is a brief "you should use commas, convert?" that doesn't actually let me click before it disappears.
So can we get the incentives so that scientists do review in such a system?
That source is HN. :)
Unfortunately, in many walks of life, admission of one's struggles is seen as a sign of weakness, and there are lots of people who want to prey on the (perceived) weak.
Anyone else get random slowdowns when using Netflix on Chrome? Everytime it happens, I just switch over to Firefox and the problem disappears. Restarting Chrome does not fix the issue either.
I think you're right about the growing number of non-desktop browsers forcing IE getting on board, but I've always felt the "web apps" angle was overplayed. I've never worked for a company that migrated to web apps, nor am I personally familiar with anyone who has. I read about them sometimes, but really, what company that employs 500 people is using web apps over enterprise solutions?

Hanging hopes on web apps seems a like a startup echo chamber. Sure, the potential is there for lots of things, especially in the collaboration space, but Google Apps is a Mount Everest away from usurping MS Office.
I'm not sure what you mean by accountability regarding these examples. Do you mean the ability of the corrupt police to track down and punish the people who outted their crimes?
Some banks and credit unions are adding "online checking depositing": you upload a photo of the check to their website. They OCR the photo and process the check. No signature endorsement necessary.

Also, a good way to avoid ATM fees is to get "cash back" when using a debit card at the grocery store.
Firefox is broken. It hasn't been stable since 3.x. I've literally been forced, unhappily, to migrate to Chrome. I love FF and want to use it, but it hangs about every 15 minutes.
Hey, maybe you can find a technical co-founder from Stuy. You could probably get in touch with Zamansky and see how that works. Lot of good talent there, as you should know.
Doesn't it bother anybody that Chrome is made by ad company?

The way I see it, if everybody started using ad blockers like I do, google would implode almost instantly. So how would they combat that? Control the platform for viewing the web and be positioned to kill ad blockers if it ever became a problem.

Would you buy a DVR controlled by a television network? That would be insane, as soon as DVRs ate too much into their revenues they would just
kill the skipping feature.

But because of the abundance of chrome fanboys, this is just what is happening, and everybody is looking the other way.

A little while ago we had a big company doing everything they could to control the "personal computer" platform, even evil things, and illegal things, and now there's another company trying to control the internet as a platform and a lot of you hackers are eating it up, I'm just baffled.
I've done this myself (hey, look, no self-linking to Amazon!) and the Mac application Scrivener is probably a better starting point. It's free for 30 days (of use, no less), supports much better outline-based editing, and can easily export to amazon's kindlegen.
AFAIK google doesnt really give their cust service reps the full google benefits treatment.
And, in theory, credit unions let you "think global, bank local" to keep your money circulating in the local economy from the credit unions' auto and home loans.
just because you know somebody's name, doesn't make them honest either, if it did politics would be a whole different ballgame.
Reminds me of something I tweeted a while ago:

"Something's wrong when its easier to earn credit card cash back than interest on savings..."

http://twitter.com/#!/suanyeo/status/106413797811568640
For a while international wire transfers required being in a physical bank at BoA, but they've recently (last couple of years) added it to their 'ebanking' site. The frustrating part of this was that their system operated on Central Standard Time... which sucks on the west coast because you have a very short window to do the transfer in (between bank opening in PST timezone and 2pm CST (aka noon PST)... and the BoA closest to me opened at 10am PST...).
Actually that's a good point. I'd like to change my stance to it would be nice to have this language feature, but there are current workarounds that are decent.
Something similar had happened to me. I met a guy on the east coast, skyped him, and ended up flying out there later in the week. Meeting went great, he was excited and ready to roll. I left, communication was good as first, we incorporated and had a conference call from my lawyers office. It got worse quick, he wouldn't answer phone calls text or emails for sometimes days at a time. Tons of excuses. Said he would work on stuff that never got done. I don't think he actually produced any code in the 2-3 months he spent stringing me along.

It was one of the most frustrating times of my life. It felt like someone was holding my actual baby hostage and because he lived so far away, I couldn't go bang on his door until he answered.
I have no Ruby skills at all, so I am probably within the "target group".
One suggestion I would have is: It would be cool if there were some kind of putting-it-all-together-yourself thing at the end of each level. Just before the summary comes a little level-challenge where one would have to apply all the steps from the level combined. This would most likely mean going back to look up certain functions from the challenge, but prep one more for later when actually doing some coding on my own.
Might not be the case anymore, but I remember hearing in the late 90's that some banks would charge you fees for getting "cash back" with your debit card at a merchant. This is probably bank-dependent though.
That's not true. Amazon offers Oracle databases as a service (as well as MS SQL Server, etc etc).

It would be interesting to see how much take up they have seen on it.
Why do banks in the USA charge so much for generic P2P wire transfers between accounts? It's cheaper and quicker to give someone a check in the USA in a face to face situation vs. a simple wire transfer to their bank account. Wire transfers would be cheaper for the bank since they wouldn't have to process paper checks. ACH is kind of there, but that's not open to the general public.
>it drives Americans to use more credit.

Oh it does not. $5/mo is just a way for BoA to disincentive people from using their debit card.

It means more transactions get pushed through VISA network, more fees for visa, and probably a kickback for BoA.

My check card can also be processed as credit, and it usually is. This isn't because I'm buying things on credit, it's just that that's how it is being processed. The money still comes directly out of my checking account.
I have a credit union account (First Tech CU), and I regularly deposit checks at a different CU's ATM (BECU has fancy ATMs that scan checks, so I prefer them).

In fact, any CO-OP Network ATM works just as well as my own CU's ATM (no fees, deposits, etc). They have locations nationwide, as most credit unions are members.

Edit: also included in that list: most ATMs at 7-Eleven.
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Sort of. Except I think if you salvage a property out of demise you've got some lee-way.
Wow - the main site has to be one of the most Opera-hostile pages I've ever seen. Everything flickers as I move the mouse over the text, and the login pops in and out for no apparent reason...

As long as the mouse stays out of the page it displays just fine, though.
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Great idea about the clickable alphabet. I hadn't considered that.
This is awesome. The big question is: how are you going to deal with fraud? Fraud policies false positives is largely what makes people hate PayPal.
If you have high balances, you should consider "bank of internet". The name sounds like a joke, but they are similar to Ally in terms of services, but offer money market rates on the checking account. I use them, and don't need a savings/money market account, so it really simplifies things.

They also don't charge foreign exchange fees, and their method for computing atm fees is the amount mod $5. When I was living in china, I actually made money every time I withdrew from the ATM, because the USD amount would be $83, and I would get $3 refund for non-existant ATM fees.
What are the author's red flags?
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I think BOFA and other major banks are hand feeding people to credit unions in droves. I went today and set up my account at RBFCU and I can't wait to get far away from BOFA. Both my parents and I were with them for 20+ years.
Maybe from the mile-high view, but the reason cash rewards work is because the credit card company is essentially sharing part of the fee they extracted from the vendor with the customer. Fundamentally different than interest on savings.
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They put cash limits on the checks usually, which neuters the functionality. And you still can't deposit cash.
Bad advice (and mathematically impossible). 25% definitely qualifies you as a co-founder, if you joined and worked for no cash and all equity, before the first funding event.
Nice to see an article on this subject. I'm of the thought that basic analytics are an extension of an app's/site's dashboard. You do have a dashboard don't you?
I use Chrome because it is an absolutely excellent browser. It gets a lot of things right that others do not, and it is (mostly) open source.

Since you brought up television companies controlling DVR's, I will make an attempt to extend upon that. Would you use a DVR controlled by a television network if it was significantly better than a DVR of any other nature? I have no problems admitting that I would, and I feel that a lot of others would as well. That is how I relate Chrome to other browsers. Sure, its controlled by an ad company, but it's also an absolutely fantastic product that includes a lot of features that make my day much less stressful than using "other" browsers, especially as a developer.

If Google wants to start killing off the AdBlock extension, then they can do that. It's their product and they can do whatever they want to, but that also means I have the freedom of jumping ship and using Firefox. Chrome has gotten its popularity among this crowd because they have made consistently good decisions when it comes to features, ui changes, etc.

Going back to DVR's, if a television company wants to release a product and then take away features that user's have had from the start, then fine. It's their decision. But remember, Sony did it with the PS3 and look how that turned out. There is almost always another choice, and that is especially true in the browser market.
It really depends on the branch/employee. I've dealt with idiots, and really great retail bankers at BoA. The stanford mall branch is pretty good in Palo Alto.
"It is the result of completely depending on a technical cofounder. Never, ever do that."

So hang on a sec. You guys were both doing tech-driven products, agree that you needed a solid person to deliver, and the lesson you draw is "don't depend on tech guys"?

The lesson I'd draw is, don't cofound with people you don't know and trust. And yes, if you don't know people who are required to deliver the goal, perhaps you should change your goal. Seriously, 2 years trying to find a tech cofounder? 1) What would have happened if you used that time to learn to code and get going yourself? 2) Did it ever occur to you that you may have a problem with the pitch? Did you ever get candid feedback on all those awesome people who passed on your golden opportunity?

Co-founding is like getting married. If you have marriage material, the right way to think is: what do we care about, and how can we play to our strengths? You absolutely must not approach it with "I really want to do X, now I just need to find someone to do it."
If only... A space race might revitalize the economy, and is thus political.
>it doesn't work where users force their browser to use a specific font. All I see are letters instead of icons.

Or where the user configures his browser not to use downloadable fonts, like I do.
Really? Mixpanel[1] is really nice for doing it, doing it realtime, doing it across platforms (not just web), and adding the cohort analysis[2] (which yields the most important non-vanity metrics).

[1] http://mixpanel.com/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2986186
"things will begin turning in a Yeatsian gyre."

Nice!

Thanks, that was a great post--so very (unfortunately) familiar and true.
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Nice presentation, but Chrome 14 was using half a gig of RAM by the end. Seemed to use 4mb per slide.
Wow - that shouldn't be happening, thanks for letting us know. I'll take a look in to it now.

Edit: Fixed, there was a silly HTML error introduced in a recent commit which only Opera didn't like. Sorry about that.
The post is simply to offer a behind-the-scenes look at our app and to see the shiny technologies we're using.
As someone who doesn't work in academia but who's job is dependent on research, I'm curious, can't you build publication fees into your research costs? I could be way off here, but I assume that most research is grant funded or university funded, can't they just make publication fees rather than subscription fees part of their calculus?
How do you handle situations in which you can't tell if someone is legitimately undergoing hyper-growth or committing fraud? In a prior startup, I had my funds held indefinitely by PayPal and 3 separate merchant banks because our rapid growth made them suspect us of fraud or perhaps that our business was just too risky because our numbers were changing so rapidly. Our ultimate solution was to engage a merchant bank that specialized in sight-unseen, no swipe/no sig transactions that we could meet with face-to-face.
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Try disabling Javascript, it fallbacks to a single page version; at least it does here with NoScript.
Wonderful slides! I hope there will be video further on.

I didn't like "It is critical to remember that play is not exercise." and to improve it I would like to add something like
"But it's totally fine if your exercise feels like play. If your exercise is fun it's so much easier to do".
I'm talking about refusing to acknowledge past thinkers on an idea even when the new stuff is parroting old stuff. A prominent example is professor Romer's Ted Talk.
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In this particular case I would prefer a tax that discourages HFT somehow, regardless of revenue.

I can't properly answer your question though, as I don't know what you mean by distortion nor exactly what the underlying problem at issue would be.
True, there is no caching. But that's still a technique worthy to use when they are very small (hundreds of bytes), or when the images should never be cached (eg. low-resolution real time status graphs). In these cases, they reduce the amount of data on the wire (no extra HTTP requests) and reduce page load time.
How good Stripe is at Fraud prevention?

AFAIK PayPal claims to be Credit Card Fraud Protection service that happens to process credit cards.

Does Stripe focus on fraud prevention?
You can go to the purchase page of CWC, a spiritual BCC clone, and see the lengths I've gone to impress just that point.
I do think the "no one ever got fired for picking Microsoft" is part of it, but it's also a very well developed eco-system for a mid-sized shop that don't have the man power or expertise. With MS you have tools like group policy and tons of vendors do tie ins with Active Directory to make offering single sign in services (VPN, email, extranet, etc) very easy.

People are down on MS because they feel that it's just the "easy" decision, but they also have a mature and well developed product that works pretty well for a midsized business with a small IT staff.
Thanks, interesting link. I was surprised to see your comment since I keep wanting to go back to Firefox, mainly for its better extensions, but find myself sticking with Chrome because it feels faster to me.

Two things this Lifehacker article did not cover that are important to me: creating new windows and creating new tabs. I do a lot of this. I haven't timed it but if I had to take a guess I'd say Firefox is at least twice as slow as Chrome at making a new window. I think that explains why Chrome feels faster to me.

(OS X 10.6.8, Firefox 7, whatever latest stable Chrome is, in case anyone's wondering.)