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My bare minimum recurring expense with Braintree is $130/mo. That's our largest recurring expense. What's wonderful about Stripe is that there is no "minimum" service charge. If you don't do a lot of transactions, you don't pay a lot of fees. That makes it very low risk to spin up a service and give it a little time to see if it works. When I've talked to people with day jobs about their SaaS side-projects, it's common to hear people aiming for "an extra $500 a month." That's a respectable goal for a side-project, considering that sort of money could trim most people's mortgages by a decade or more, but it makes Braintree (developer friendly as they are) a huge expense. Thankfully for me Braintree was one of the first payment gateways to promote the idea of data portability, so getting my subscribers into Stripe from Braintree should not be a huge hassle.
Well, anecdotes are anecdotes. I know plenty of women the same age as me (I'm 29) who also don't want kids any time soon, though more and more of us are getting married. I really don't know of any of the women I went to college with at undergrad or postgrad level having kids as young as 26, and only one that I can think of that has kids at 30.

Maybe I'm too much of an outlier, but to me, achieving my dreams is more important than having a kid, which has never been something I particularly prioritised in life. I have at least 5 more years before I really have to worry anyway. Plus, we're having babies long after 40 now.
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Effective design, no splash page, no ads, no bullshit, just fill it out and go. Very cool.
Why wouldn't someone else fix the bug?
funny thing about this. I actually give props to netflix. It is a big and established company looking to change something. They are willing to take a risk (ok it didnt work out) rather than becoming the next ms -- stagnant.
There's a difference between bravery and stupidity. South Africa can't stand up to China. There is enough hardship in the country without getting on China's bad side.
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Yea, here ISO is just outdated.
Thanks so much for this! I have almost wiped out innumerable times here in the winter. Ordering two pairs of these today.
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Living in Dallas, I'd love to see the start-up community flourish. I do not think it's a lack of density, though. I feel like it's a cat-mouse problem.

As harsh as this is, I do not think the community will flourish here until a start-up comes along and makes it cool to be a web entrepreneur here. Many of my friends, and myself, consider themselves developers and entrepreneurial minded and would love to attend a cool meet-up, and build a start-up community ... we think, anyways, based on our reading of tweets, and HN, about how cool those Github open-bars are. Driving out to Dallas, having a few drinks and then driving back is a big commitment, though (long drive, major highways). I guess my point here is that we're not only fighting a lack of the startup community, but we're fighting the notion that it's not cool to be a startup here, it's cool to be a startup in San Francisco or New York. Again, the cat-mouse problem.
"They must also retain the original source as well as the parsed AST representations due to other semantics (toString()), which wastes gobs of memory on memory constrained devices."

Wrong. SpiderMonkey doesn't. It retains the bytecode only, throws away the original source, and uses a decompiler when toString() is used. V8 saves the original source, but that's its problem :)
The sociopath described in that series is not a sociopath in the clinical sense. Venkat said as much in the second or third installment.

This entire thread here shows a deep misunderstanding by you of what sociopathy is and what its consequences are for an individual. You seem to be under the impression it turns a person into a sort of overman. You are very mistaken.

Sociopaths may be overrepresented in some niche you find desirable, but that says little about their success as a whole. If 1.3% of sociopaths are highly successful corporate officers - and the evidence for this is not conclusive - where the figure for the entire population is 0.9% (totally made-up numbers by the way), we still know little about a sociopath's fitness in society. Most evidence suggests they are worse off.
Would love to send over a single page write-up of what I imagine this should look/play like, if you don't mind ie.

Please do send it over. Email address is in profile. And we can continue this conversation privately.

I'm really curious about the 'complex set of choices' you make throughout the day. Have you considered parallels that could be applied to curing other diseases. More often than not, there tends to be subtle links between certain diseases.

I'm pretty sure a good bit of it would generalize. I mostly learned how to heal my gut from an autism list (I have two ASD sons and gut issues are really common in ASD kids). The CF community knows rather little about how to do that. People with CF are still human and our bodies still mostly work like that of other humans. One channel in the cell is defective and this makes a few things go very, very wrong. Some of the issues found in the CF community seem fairly common to citizens of 1st world countries generally, but are just taken to real extremes. For example, acidosis is a major issue with CF, one largely overlooked by doctors. Addressing that issue did quite a lot for me. From what I gather, the modern American diet is generally too acid and many of the health issues we have are likely made worse by widespread acidosis, though probably generally milder than what people with CF go through. One issue that seems likely impacted by acidosis is diabetes. People with CF are at high risk for "CF related diabetes" and diabetes is rather common in the US.

I've had quite a long day. My apologies for not replying more thoroughly at this time. I look forward to getting an email from you.
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Hooray! Anonymous Functions in C++!

I know VS2011 already supports some of the C++11 specification, and it looks like GCC has got a number of those features implemented for some time now. Anyone know how long it might take for people to sync up to the spec completely?

How long did it take with c++03? I remember I started seriously messing around with C++ around 01/02 and I noticed with every new version of VS then that things would just randomly change every few years and took a while before it became uniform.
So you're suggesting that it's off-topic to question whether ISO should be charging for standards docs on the publication day of one of the most widely anticipated standards ever? Just because all other standards cost money?
Testament to how easy and well-done Stripe's API is, that Ryan can make a 16 minute Railscast about it's integration.
Well, uh, I guess if you put it that way, I sure better....

Whether you want to debate whether the term "name calling" is accurate or not, I would suggest that the following fall astray of Hacker New's guidelines of "the principle here is not to say anything you wouldn't say face to face". Then again, I don't know.....maybe you are that way in person too.

"Grow up!"

"Such ignorance. Willful? You seem new around here, and you are not using your real name"

"How old are you, to never learn or else to forget this?"

"So your trollish commentary notwithstanding"

"I despair of your reading comprehension"

"Am I promising you a pony? No, but then you are not a three-year old."

"(or go back to school and learn how to argue)"

"Dart is jejune, knee-jerk, "

and of course:

"You had better put up or shut up"

Really? It seems you're quite a prominent figure to need to resort to that sort of schoolyard talk, but do as you wish. I'm not going to be baited anymore.

Thanks for javascript, though.
Wasn't there a recent Sutter talk that mentioned that almost all of the spec is already supported in VC? I may be mistaken but that was the impression I got...
Sorry about that -- momentary bug during a deploy of the dashboard.
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Roboticist here. Thankfully, if the robots learn how to do my job, I have much, much bigger things to worry about.
Also, Cmd+Up. Or right click the folder name at the top of the window to see/select in the tree.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I need something that will work with a card swiper and do card-present transactions.
The big question - how did the judge know that what was divulged was actually consequential?

It can't be something that could just have sensitive parts redacted, or even something that could be described (i.e. the blueprints for a new weapon, a list of secret agent identities, or an analysis of likely targets).

It must be information thats mere existence is damaging, like "a video of our troops gunning down innocent civillians".

OK, in this case it was more benign - probably something about the US tapping into Israeli communications. But still, if they've done nothing wrong, what do they have to hide?
You 'buried the lead' in the html head title tag -- "Create friendships in 5 steps" isn't on any of the pages.

You might consider a condensed version that has the 5 steps on one page, with just the headings (not all the explanation text), and the call to action.

This seems more like a guided tour for someone that wants more information, when you've perhaps got their interest, it will be great for that on your launched website. Even then, you might want to change "step 1" to "step 1 of 5", etc, to let them know it isn't open-ended, and maybe emphasize your 5 step value proposition.
Certainly.

First, the actor model need not imply a separate thread/process for each actor. It's quite possible and in fact common (in Scala's built-in actor library and various Java actor libraries) to run a very large 100k pool of actors in a pool of well under 100 threads. [1] So, the typical notion of having a single UI thread can mesh quite well with actors (just have the UI event loop pump each actor's event loop during idle).

Second, since actors process messages - which are conceptually the same as events - an actor has messages pushed to it by widget(s) upon user interaction. (If this sounds identical to the observer pattern, it's because it is). There's nothing interesting about this step other than the "an event is a message" concept.

Third, and this is the really neat part, actors often involve some concept of blocking on a receive() call - which is an inversion of control from the observer pattern. That is to say an observer/listener is invoked by the UI framework when an event occurs, but an actor, which conceptually has its own message/event loop, can consume events at will. Thus the inversion of control.

So your classic listener looks like this:

// Added via $("#foo").click() or some such...
function onClick(e) {
// do something ... any state must be stored external to this callback
}

But an actor looks like this:

// The event loop is started up and pumps indefinitely...
function loop() {
// any state is local
while (running) {
switch (receive()) {
case ....
}
}
}

The event loop in an actor can easily turn into a very tight and explicit state machine. [2] My event loop here is pretty boring, but consider, if after receiving event A, you explicitly block on receive for event B.

I posted [2] a while back and there was a decent discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2972581. The section 5 of [2] really describe the idea neatly.

Hope that helps. Please let me know where I left things fuzzy.

1. Actors That Unify Threads and Events - http://lamp.epfl.ch/~phaller/doc/haller07coord.pdf

2. Deprecating The Observer Pattern - http://lamp.epfl.ch/~imaier/pub/DeprecatingObserversTR2010.p...
It reads well in instapaper! Laughed when I realized why I didn't understand tour comment.
I've just browsed the pdf and problem 2 is my favorite.
In addition, it seems certain US states think its okay to execute it citizens even when it looks like they are probably innocent...
Well... that's a really bad way to characterize the case.

First off, this is not a "law" in the sense most people think of; it wasn't passed by Congress and signed by the President. Rather, it's a directive issued by a federal agency, which has powers granted by Congress to issue directives and -- when deemed necessary for security purposes -- to keep the exact details of those directives from being disclosed.

There's nothing particularly new in that, by the way; governments, even governments of countries which would by any standard be considered "free", have long exercised the power to enforce security-related policies without disclosing the details of those policies to the public at large.

Second, Gilmore's case specifically ran into trouble because A) he was informed multiple times, as all air passengers are, of policies regarding ID and B) he was also informed that a process exists for flying without presenting ID, and voluntarily chose not to use that process (this is what really sunk his case).

Third, even if there were no government-issued policies specifically requiring passengers to present ID, there are multiple agencies who would have the power to deny licenses to any airline which did not have -- as a condition of the contract between passenger and airline, represented by the ticket -- a requirement of presenting ID to check in. And, frankly, I don't think anyone would try to argue that down if it happened; such policies already exist and are widely accepted with respect to age-restricted products like alcohol.
HAHA man.. was that you guys or me? Either way it all seems to be working now. BTW: Great job on Stripe.
Ironically, the examples provided for illustrating your 'deep C' knowledge, are in fact superficial.

I don't really care if <stdio.h> has a printf definition, or whether C99 behaves differently. You might care more if you are an app programmer.

What I care about is the universal properties of the language that applies everywhere. Also that's where the strength of C comes out. For example, what is a function? What does it compile into? Why are there arguments, return values? How do they get represented? These are far more important questions than how C99 dictates entering the program from int main(). That's least of my worries. Programs I write usually enter a C program from _start
So 5 out of 10 most followed users are mainstream celebrities three and a half months after launch? Seems pretty good to me.
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And in many cases the workers won't have to worry about pesky working visas, since they're likely to be working remotely for a company in another country.
This might be comparing apples to oranges but I believe Nelson Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008.
> "And how can they ask every person in your contacts if they approve"

By prompting the user the next time they sign into Facebook. This really isn't that hard. You can even make this a blanket permission: "I allow all of my contacts to store my contact info with Facebook". It's still miles better than what's there right now.

> "And that's invading the privacy of the user's address book: they are now sharing that someone is in their address book, even if they didn't want that person to know."

That's not the only choice. Facebook can just as easily say "Hey, we have [X] information about you that [Bob Smith] uploaded. You may [opt out] and we will delete this data."

There are many, many, many ways to mitigate the privacy concerns of this. Facebook right now is doing none of it.
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Thank god. I was starting to think I'm getting old if 4 years goes by that quick.
Who's to say the entire letter isn't manipulation? After all it's written by a psychopath. "First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature?"
Just tried it. Consider my mind blown.

If you get an error relating to gensub ("function gensub never defined"), you need to install gawk.
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I don't understand how these problems would be harder for Jews than anyone else. It's controversial in my opinion to claim that educated Jews are worse at these based on their ethnicity.

edit: wow people responded too quickly, sorry if it was to something I edited out
Cheers. Would love to hear if you notice anything we should improve; I'm patrick@stripe.com.
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Worked fine for me in Opera under Windows XP, although I got bored with the presentation by the time I got into the 120's pages and quit.
According to this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/09/12/10209291.a...

They still don't support initializer lists and variadic templates.

non-static data member initializers as well, but they're more of a nicety. Definitely was one of the nice bonuses whenever I did any c# stuff. Especially when you have to overload constructors so you can avoid massive initialization lists.
This was a set of problems only given to Jewish candidates.
They're not supposed to be; the goal was to give Jews harder questions which had supposedly simple answers:

> One of the methods they used for doing this was to give the unwanted students a different set of problems on their oral exam. I was told that these problems were carefully designed to have elementary solutions (so that the Department could avoid scandals) that were nearly impossible to find.
Huh? I'm not talking about the college fund in the post. It's not called "One More Thing..." I'm talking about donating to a cancer research institute in Steve's name.
Does this fact cause you any concern over stripe's decision to serve small companies for whom 130 dollars is a significant amount over large customers who will be turned off by their percentage fees? My main resistance to switching to stripe is that I can't figure out how they are going to make any money. I'd like the extra 130 dollars each month, too, but will it last?
Interesting. Everything I've heard, and my own experience, indicates the fitter you are, the more readily you sweat. One example, from the guy who coaches Lance Armstrong: http://www.trainrightblog.com/2011/03/28/chris-carmichael-bl...
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at 1:02, he says "formally it's called point dis... function" (sounded like "point discrete")
I love Requests, but it would be really nice to have some Python libraries with cert-verified SSL support. I've hacked SSL support on top of urllib2 for my projects at work (https://github.com/josephturnerjr/urllib2.VerifiedHTTPS), but it'd be really nice if libraries started prioritizing secure communications as a first-order requirement.
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The Mathematics Department of Moscow State University, the most prestigious mathematics school in Russia, was at that time actively trying to keep Jewish students (and other \undesirables") from enrolling in the department.One of the methods they used for doing this was to give the unwanted students a different set of problems on their oral exam. I was told that these problems were carefully designed to have elementary solutions (so that the Department could
avoid scandals) that were nearly impossible to find. Any student who failed to answer could easily be rejected, so this system was an eective method of controlling admissions.

It was arbitrary.
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Your formula sort of contradicts itself. When you talk about increasing the number of people who are aware of your passion, you are really talking about increasing your statistical probability that you will find someone that helps you. Therefore, what you are talking about is not luck at all but rather just math.

Luck would be something like Passion * number of times you spin in a circle before falling over dizzy.

Regardless, I like the premise of your article as I think you are right that good things do come to the passionate people that manage to get a lot of people on their side. That is sort of the Keith Ferrazzi mindset of how important relationships are to success.
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They are a bit less than allrecipes.com

http://www.google.com/trends?q=plus.google.com%2Callrecipes....

7M uniques: http://www.quantcast.com/allrecipes.com

I would estimate G+ getting 5M uniques. However, what would be interesting is to know the pageviews.

Facebook recently said they had recieved 500M visitors in a single day.
Count mine among the ones they received in the last minute. Great excercise -- glad I did it no matter what.
We don't quite see it that way. Large companies, processing millions a year, use Stripe too.
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They don't support a bunch of other stuff too, those are just the features that I was looking forward to.
I like this idea. I'm curious though...are you storing my user's info for me? If so, how do I access it?
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A company for whom $130 is significant today is not necessarily a company for whom $130 is significant tomorrow. One thing we want to do is lower the barrier to people trying out their ideas, and for those ideas that turn out well we've gained a large customer. For those that don't go well we (and our user) basically break even.

And as well as being a home for the casual weekend project, we have a number of users processing millions of dollars a year.
This is us (LiveLoop). If any HNers are using PowerPoint 2007 and need to collaborate in Wave-like realtime with colleagues, email me at amal@getliveloop.com and I will set you up with a free account.
Although the scene here is 'scenie', navel-gazing and takes fame within its own micro-cosm seriously, I wouldn't underestimate the amount of technical knowledge you can pick up on through the meet-ups and random conversations. It pushes you to think at a more advanced level that you have before and the quantity of startups is a powerful factor in getting you to step up your game and be more confident. Its like a river that takes you.
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Another view could be that the psychopathic behavior may get you fired in a corporate setting and gunned down in a criminal one, so it may be simply that psychopaths last longer in non-violent areas of society.
According to Wikipedia, BART is currently 104 miles of rail. That's probably less than half of the NYC subway. While the expansion is great, I think I'm talking about being even more ambitious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit_expansio...

The HSR is CA was funded in 2008. It looks like the first leg through Fresno might happen in a year or two. China went from no subway to the biggest subway system in the world in 15 years. They have 5000 miles of HSR. We have zero.

If you really want to get people off the highways, mass transit needs to be made more convenient, not the lesser of two undesirable choices.
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