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Ask HN: Last Call for 100% Capital Gains Exclusion?
A year ago Congress extended the 100% capital gains tax exclusion for startups from the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 through 2011.

Here's the wikipedia link for the legislation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Business_Jobs_Act_of_2010

Since 2011 is almost over, it would seem that this may be our last chance to take advantage of this.

It would help me and the other HNers who have not yet incorporated to know the simplest way to setup a business entity and purchase shares so that we can meet the deadline for early stage startups or that weekend project that may become a startup.
I don't really see how this represents an introvert's experience. It does kind of match how someone with Aspergers' (or in an unfamiliar culture) might see the situation - navigating a maze they usually can't see, and having to blunder into walls on purpose to get a brief insight.
Windows tries to prevent you naming a file "con". I once renamed a text file con in Win95; using a raw disk editor to change the file entry and it did this too - every time I saved text in the file it would write it console/DOS style to the screen.
I've heard that these drones are designed to land themselves if they lose communications and/or run low on fuel. Bad idea when flying over Iran.
There is an obvious reason for this, most of the well designed projects have financial backing (a company that consults around the product/library) and as such have the resources. They want the platform/app to succeed because they finically benefit.

Good UX is good for business.
wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Business_Jobs_Act_of_2010
The external javascript library is still being loaded on a page served from your domain, so it's totally possible for you to grab the credit card data and ajax it to your server (or for an XSS vulnerability to allow a 3rd party to send it somewhere). Since the CC info is accessible to both the client and Stripe, both are liable for PCI compliance. [edit: just to be clear, with stripe, you aren't liable for all of the PCI spec (just part), which is one of the awesome things about the service]

With the iframe, the checkout form is served from WePay's domain, so javascript on your page can't directly access elements on the checkout form. There are still potential vulnerabilities such as clickjacking (we do some things to protect against this), but since the CC form is served from our domain, only we are liable for PCI compliance.
I think not having clear instructions is part of the design. It fits in well with the rest of the game :)
Folks are recommending Flask these days, because IIUC web.py has stopped. I only had good experiences with Flask, and you're productive in a couple hours.
Frozen Ball? Not With The Pool App For The iPhone
Please come to Australia; I'd love to use Stripe for new projects.
I'm expecting Chrome/Google to patch this vulnerability before Adobe does.
https://twitter.com/#!/hm2k/statuses/119216249774411777

https://twitter.com/#!/stripe/status/119221741259206656
There is no good reason for any of these backdoors around PCI, except for the fact that everyone knows it's not going to be feasible to "test"† every website anywhere that does any commerce.

It's probably best not to ask too many questions. It'll only hurt your brain.

† (If that's what you want to call PCI assessments)
Ahh.. okay. For some reason the claimed vs. registered didn't click here for me. Thanks - that makes sense to me.
Mistakenly implies that it wasn't a direct result of policy and an inherently malicious protocol of operations. This, in my opinion, was not a mistake, but rather the result of systemic incompetence and technical illiteracy on the part of the US government. The ladder climbers that pulled this off are headed straight to a nice private job just as soon as they get done making a name for themselves.
Patents don't last 100 years. Are IBM's 50,000 patents all current?
"Buy Gifts by Describing the Giftee, the Gifter, the Gift, or the Activity" seems more like it. I didn't find anything to buy today, but I added an item I would like myself (a super-expensive cookbook), and had fun adding any tag that came to mind relating to myself(gourmet, cook, etc), the book (luxurious, exhaustive etc), or my desire for it (insane, unreasonable, etc).

Right now the products are all your choice - it's not that you have bad taste or good taste, you just need more, and more tags. How are you going to scale this? What about involving crowd-curation - inviting people shopping for someone else to first choose something THEY want on Amazon, and input that into GiftLizard with a cloud of tags that covers the nexus of object, desire, and person. That might help increase the range of your offerings in a hurry. I don't think that you would have added that particular book - which would make a perfect gift for me if my wife happened to be directed to this site - anytime soon.
Can you link me to one? I'm having a hard time finding a tablet that does not look like an iPad. The HP Touchpad, the Playbook, Motorola Xoom, even the Kindle Fire looks like a 7" iPad. The Nook Tablet is about the only one, and it's just a silver iPad with a notch cut out of the corner for some reason. Eee Transformer? iPad with an optional keyboard.

The Acer Iconia has a silver lining around the bezel. That and the Nook are about as "different" as I'm seeing. They're all 7" or 10" TV screens. No one is screaming that their TVs or monitors all look the same, but they're all black boxes with a screen.
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I have to wonder what the US would do or think if Iran was flying drones over the US?
You fire up this game while anxious at a party. It makes it look like you're doing a lot of intense stuff online. Check your eyes and fingers when you play, looks to me you're surfing an awful lot of important stuff- especially with that look of concentration.
That's somewhat a fair point, but I'll disagree.

In that instance, the co-founder replied, but I've heard from a number of Stripe's other employees since then, and in every case the customer support has been wonderful. Perhaps that's solely because they are still a startup, but given what I know now about the people themselves, I don't believe that to be the case.

I don't mean my original comment to suggest that the co-founder will always be the one to respond to a tweet as Stripe grows, but I do suspect that their standards for customer service will remain high, and someone in the company will give a quick and quality response. That said, with Stripe, I believe that–even if they aren't the ones responding to every tweet, which is admittedly much to ask–the co-founders will continue to have an eye on what people are saying about them and interact appropriately, not wall themselves off.

Edit to reflect your edit:

I remember that HN thread where you brought up chargebacks. For anyone interested, they discuss how they handle chargebacks here: https://stripe.com/help/chargebacks

I can't attest as to why they manage chargebacks that way, and will not speculate beyond the note that they are still new and seem to be developing their service in response to customer feedback and perceived needs.

For you, or anyone else who might be interested in requesting features regarding chargebacks or any other aspect of their service, I highly recommend writing in: support@stripe.com or https://stripe.com/help/contact. As I mentioned, they're very responsive, and seem to love the feedback.
Nook Color first tablet in people's hands that runs ICS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1370873

Installation instructions are in the second post.

Congrats to dalingrin and fattire !

here's what's working:

* bluetooth (only pairing is confirmed)
* wifi (full it seems but it's brand-new to the kernel so who knows how stable anything is)
* backlight
* accelerometer
* improved stability (but not perfect)
* gapps
* setcpu/overclock
* real data usage info (not stubbed out)
* battery levels/charging
* physical menu button
* touchscreen
* 3d games

For sure not working yet:

* sound
* video
* full 2d acceleration (esp on complex web pages)
* usb gadget (ie, mounting your sdcard to your computer)
* screenshots
* build system (to auto-create upgrade.zips)
* rotation is goofy
* bluetooth is pretty much untested (though it's been paired)
* some apps crash or go black
* the "open apps" softbutton doesn't work
* and much much more

It's being improved as you read this though.
We switched to Stripe from Paypal and Google Checkout a month ago and so far I've been very, very pleased. I plan to do a writeup of why we switched soon - wanted a bit more results first. FYI, Stripe launched a new web interface 2 days ago.

The net bottom line was this:
1. our customers (business people who are not super tech savvy) just don't understand that you can pay with a credit card on paypal and google checkout requires a google account
2. the "go off and pay" somewhere else and come back to the main site is messy

I have no real complaints with paypal over the years we used them so I can't bash them but I found that over time, we lost sales because people were confused. Now there is no more confusion - fill in a few fields and instantly you are done.

We also considered Braintree which I was also impressed with but decided on Stripe because of the non-need for a merchant account.

I am happy to answer any questions here or privately if needed.
I would've paid a lot of money for that domain ... But it should be obvious why
I think patch versus pull request is a valid complaint, but there's absolutely no reason to be snarky about it.

Everything else just reeks of MS bashing that reinforces the negative view of the open source crowd that many on the MS side of the divide have.

Github is looking to pull the Windows crowd into their world; on the blog, they stated that as an explicit goal for their hiring of Phil Haack.

So, please, play nice. I would much rather Github stay a fairly harmonious place than be another open source vs. MS battleground.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPP_per_capita

When comparing income by country, you need to take into account cost of living, yes. This index I've linked does that; Australia is at parity with the richer countries in Europe, but behind the US, Switzerland and Norway.
We at Stripe (and more importantly, our PCI auditors) don't agree with this assessment of how the chain of responsibility works.

When you use Stripe.js, you need only serve your page over SSL and verify that you aren't collecting credit cards through other means to be PCI compliant.
It's all about time. You're writing an open-source project - I know SOME lucky folks get paid to do it, but not most - and you have to just get the damned thing working. Once you do, you have to go back to your job, or whatever else feeds your face. The UX has to wait. And wait. And wait.
Yes Australia has a higher cost of living than the United States, and recent high commodity prices have pushed up our exchange rate. However, if you are comparing prices across currency, then a lot of what you are seeing is due to a higher exchange rate. If you had moved to Australia in the early 2000s, you would've felt rich. Inflation is not currently a problem in Australia.

See: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=aud+to+usd

Re: the property bubble. House prices in Australia are high compared to historical levels. However, as this article from Crikey describes, Australian wages have risen too. While median house prices are still at a higher level compared to median wages (see: http://economics.hia.com.au/media/House%20price%20to%20incom...), they have been soft and in some cases reducing this year. They haven't 'burst' in the way the US housing bubble did.

The differences between Australia and the US where you had a massive house bubble are numerous.

* Australian banks are more heavily regulated and haven't lent 'sub-prime' mortgages.

* Australian housing market has good fundamentals - our population growth has been quite high (due to overseas migration, like yourself!), and in most areas there is an undersupply of housing (with exceptions like the gold coast).

I think you are overplaying the negatives in Australia, in general everything is working quite well as this convincing piece from Crikey shows.
USB flash drive with mechanical lock & hardware encryption
I've never seen a java team that actually bothered to write something three times. You do it once, it sucks, you shrug because of your deadline, a ball of mud gets wrapped around it, development pace slows way down, and oh shit, it's too late to change. IMO get it as right as you can, the first time. (i work for a small, competent, enterprise java shop)
I was trying to order myself one of these for Christmas a few days ago, and kept getting strange errors when I tried to check out. I finally gave up... looks like it was the right move!
I don't think it is really a fair comparison to compare a traditional retailer dabbling in online to what else is available online. The traditional retailers play on Australians traditionally expecting to pay more for the same products. As the internet has opened up commerce these kind of companies wouldn't survive for long.
larrys what is best way to reach you?
I'm offended that anybody can look at the situation and argue Apple designed the iPad independently.
If anyone from hacker news is looking to spend some time in Australia & work for a great startup, we're hiring: http://89n.com/content/careers We're all setup to sponsor people and get you through the visa/immigration process :)

Just shoot an email to jobs@89n.com and mention you're from HN!
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Negligible Government support for industries that are not sustainable is a good thing.
We have a name for laws like that.
Do you SQL?
> So, please, play nice.

Working on it. Microsoft is a big company.
Generally, I agree with the article. But I've been seeing a lot of projects that lead me to believe developers are becoming more design-minded. Many new JS libraries, for example, are beautifully presented.

My hunch has always been that GitHub is setting a trend for OSS developers to present content to each other in a clean and pretty way. Hopefully that extends to the apps they create.
Either way, Stripe is the best solution at this moment. If Stripe ever ever becomes big and bloated like PayPal, hopefully a new startup pop up to compete with them.
>Would you agree, though, that customers wouldn't simply enter the shortest available line?

I don't agree with that at all. In reality, some would and some wouldn't do what you suggest. If all of them did exactly what you are suggesting ( some sort of extreme rational agent), the distribution wouldn't be exponential. But then, all human beings don't buy low & sell high, nor do all of us withdraw money from the same ATM at the same time, nor do we make phone calls at the same time, or hit the internet at the same time. Aggregate behavior distributions modelling aggregate behavior of individual humans work well except in very extreme conditions such as 911 when everybody does indeed make the phone call at the same time thus jamming up the airwaves and killing the shape of the nice Erlang distribution at the telephone exchange.
Great job on the domain! and the hall.com service.
I am curious if you've ever actually called PayPal. I have received nothing but high quality support from them. You can call them throughout most of the working day (until 8pm PST, I believe), and they seem to have somewhat knowledgable engineers available at that tech tier. They also have a merchant technical support site that seemingly no one knows about where you can often get answers in the middle of the night (I often get responses back at 12:30). If you are even reasonably sized you can also ask for a dedicated account manager: I have the cell phone number of someone at PayPal whose job it is to find me answers to problems I have.

Though, I cannot say PayPal is perfect. I have run into a bunch of annoying issues correlating settlements (bugs filed recently, will be curious to see if they get fixed), and their pricing is not the best that is out there (although is still better than Stripe). I am curious if you've looked into any alternatives. I've spent the last few days talking to Litle & Co, and I must say that the people there /love/ talking to you about payments... their booth at ad:tech was the most enjoyable conversation I've had about payments in a while, and I got to spend another half hour on the phone with them yesterday learning more about how bank ACH settlement works.

Edit to reflect your edit ;P

That is the page I just had gone and reviewed now. It still seems incredibly manual. I would not feel comfortable running a site at scale where I'm dealing with receiving e-mails in an undocumented (probably designed-for-humans) format as my only source of notifications for chargebacks. :(

It is often these "at scale" issues that are seemingly not handled by them; example: per their API page, Stripe does not resend webhooks if there is an error in the response... doesn't this make them useless to rely on? Am I required to sit around and poll my transactions to feel 100% certain that I didn't miss something because my load balancer accidentally gave them a 503 during some traffic spike? :(
> not wanting to redirect or otherwise interrupt the normal order process of my site with another company's (branded) checkout form just to handle credit card payments.

That's a restriction only for the free accounts.

With the Pro account ($30/month) you use the API and your customers never leave your site.
Only if you the user decide to re-open all of the tabs again (i.e., make no attempt to determine the offending tab).
Which is all the more tragic given how hard they've worked to make the iPad version specifically awful, even when it doesn't crash.
I don't particularly want to get into a point scoring match because clearly we are looking at things from different sides of the political aisle, as it were.

However, to clarify the point : the government debt is low by world standards, but growing fast, and that is while the economy is at a cyclical high. What I am trying to say here is that : current government debt spending is unsustainable and unwise. The comparison with Ireland is to show this : there is never a good time to start growing your government debt, particularly when your economy is being underpinned by excessively high property prices and diversion of resources into the property industry. What, precisely, would the Australian government do if the banks were all caught short because they are overexposed to the overleveraged and overvalued property market? Why, of course they would be considered 'too big to fail' and public funds would be used to bail them out. And Australians would suffer from the same transfer of private debt to public sector debt to shore up the balance sheets of the big four banks who have massive holdings of residential mortgages. If anyone thinks it can't happen here, I'd be very interested in why not.

My overall thesis is that, yes, Australia is doing well, but that is precisely the time to tighten up and do better, rather than give a collective pat on the back and say, 'well the hard work has been done, let's all borrow a heap of money and give ourselves a reward'.

In other words, yes, on a Friday afternoon, crack a coldie and enjoy a quick survey of things. Back on Monday morning continue the hard work of difficult economic reforms and tightening the fiscal belt and getting productivity higher. Those difficult economic reforms are more deregulation of the labor market, removal of red tape surrounding industry, find out how more international investment can be attracted. Work out how productivity and foreign investment can be increased. The hard work never stops and it's never time to get complacent.
For every 0x5f375a86 we learn about, there are thousands we never see. </quote>

I'd say 0x5f375a86/10000 ~ 160000 (known) / 1 (never see) is a highly optimistic ratio.
Yes, actually I think it might even have been 95 or 96.
That's why anti-editorializing rules on HN submission titles are so important. That's why picking a good headline for the article is important. That's (another reason) why I believe that most of the news services are doing a disservice to humanity. We read many more headlines than full articles, and every sensationalistic title that is inaccurate, or a lie if taken out of context, might be another untrue information we learn.
Yeah I don't see an end to it, if you want to be around and work in the inner city there only a reasonable distance away you can buy before it becomes prohibitive. The majority of that land is either already in use or running up $300,000+ just for a regular block of land.
Opening Up the ‘Walled Garden’: Content APIs and the Location Layer
Plotting using matplotlib from PyPy (proof of concept embeds CPython in PyPy)
Assuming that we're talking about basically the same group of target gamers - if an indie studio makes MineCraft and the other Call of Duty 10 - then blame the shareholders... or the shareholder model which directs effort into low-risk / low-"innovation" games. The buyers like new things - the studios put (by having shareholders) profit over making new games.
Clay Shirky also describes 'society's collective bender' in more optimistic terms: http://google.com/search?q=cognitive+surplus
We don't do PCI assessments (I have a generally low opinion of the process), but we do the "real" appsec work for lots of companies that do, and the impression I have is that --- counter to what you'd expect --- 'boucher is right, and you can self-assess using their interface, despite the fact that anyone doing so is in fact an XSS flaw away from giving up cards.

In particular, while I have no idea whether Stripe's implementation is letter-of-the-law PCI compliant, I do know that 'LeBlanc's reasoning is not PCI reasoning (particularly: you can't draw a line from architectural susceptibility to "liable to audit") --- even though it's the reasoning I myself would use.
Can anyone recommend something similar to Stripe or WePay for Canadians.
I'm not convinced that waiting is the best strategy. In my case I'm a 26 year old developer in Perth. I bought my first 2x1 apartment 13 months ago in a nice area 7km from the city and have now paid it off to the point where if I were to rent it out, it would pay for itself.

Now all my savings still go into the loan (offset account), but they are essentially a deposit for my next property which I will be able to buy around 28-29 (2-3 years).
Seeking a tutor for front-end development 
Looking to have one on one lessons with a front end developer based in San Francisco over Skype. You will be paid by the hour. Must have working knowledge of CSS, Javascript and generally be a builder of things.

Books, tutorial videos and Google are okay - but really want to sit down with a seasoned front end developer and learn from them. I was advised by a well known designer to post here. So fingers crossed! :)

If this opportunity interests you email me: william.channer@gmail.com
Here's a startup idea for them: Sell hall.com and walk away with a million dollars.

From my experience this seems like an incredible steal. Congrats :)
Thankfully this takes "audience" out of the equation.
As a Brit living in Perth this may all be true, but beware the cultural void. Nothing can prepare you for the dullness and isolation of living here.

"Australia is like a library with a dozen or so books I've read, and re-read and read again. In London and Europe, it feels like I'm in a library that I'll never get to the bottom of" Justin Knock

Yes they've got money, but the blandness of life here wears you down.
Why would somebody sue Samsung or Samsung sue somebody by a digital photo frame. It's a photo frame!!

Or you are saying that the Ipad copied the samsung photo frame design, and samsung should sue apple for it?