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How about this? and I focused a lot in it
I'm a common girl was born in a cloud winter day, my mom said that is a snow day and until now I have had 22 years life experience. In my growing up, I always try to discovering myself and hear from my deep heart.
This is something that might change soon, given recommendations made last month by the Book Industry Strategy Group:
http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/australian-book...
This should stay on the front page!
In addition (I've done many orders from Amazon) I find that even though Amazon estimates 4-6 weeks for delivery, the package(s) are here in 2 weeks.
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> subtracting the cost of the driver isn't going to reduce the overall cost of such a trip significantly

I'll calculate the costs 10 passenger van, if you could work it out so that it gets an average of 40 mph for say 20 hours out of the day. That's about 300,000 miles per year divided by 20 miles per gallon that's 15,000 gallons of fuel. At $4 dollars per gallon thats $60,000 per year in fuel costs.

I'll assume another $60,000 per year in maintenance and depreciation (this is probably high b/c you can buy a new large passenger van for under $30,000)

We're at $110,000 in variable costs so far.

Now at $30,000 per year per driver in total costs (could be less, could be more depending on area)

Driver works 40 hours per week with sick time and vacation time. You'll need around 5 drivers in order to keep the van operational 24 hours per day.

That's $150,000--more than half of the total costs.

There are also other factors to consider. Drivers, don't want to operate that far from home, so you have to pay more.

You have to set up a logistical solution so that you can refresh the driver every 6-8 hours. That means depots where you can exchange them.

I'd say there would be significant cost savings.
Not to mention, once you have some monthly transaction volume going, both PayPal and a good merchant account are cheaper than Stripe. It's easy to get a bad merchant account where the fees are opaque and creep up on you monthly, but good ones (especially interchange-plus pricing where you always know you're paying a fixed amount over cost) are attainable for even the smallest business.

Stripe's API sure is spiffy (they're on my short list of backup payment services), but not that different than, say, Authorize.net which would be a cheap gateway option for most merchant accounts. Making a charge, refund or storing a credit card number in their secure vault offering are all a matter of a simple HTTP POST of a couple XML fields. That's not anything new, their API and others have been around for years and years.
Most of the gateway-style services operate very similarly. We wrote some abstractions to allow us to eventually add Braintree or Authorize.net, since the payment cycles are much alike (from the API perspective). It only gets difficult when you try to mix-and-match something that uses redirects/iframes with services that deal directly with credit cards from your server to theirs.

We just don't want to get into PCI audits and scans just yet, but once we do, we'll probably use Stripe's direct server->server APIs like Braintree/Authorize.net do instead of stripe.js.
> To find the common appeal in a large heterogeneous group you have to interact with a lot of people and measure them repeatedly because people's tastes for complex products is not something that can be well-modeled

Or you could just go out and hire a good designer. Your comment just illustrates the problem why a lot of computer geeks don't get taste: they assume it's something you go out and measure.

Any good designer will tell you: you do not measure taste and design for two simple reasons: (1) public taste is constantly changing, and (2) as soon as you can measure something, it's outdated. I call it the Heisenberg uncertainty of taste. If you go to the trouble of polling 10 million people, you will be 3 years behind; measuring the opinion of 100 million individuals will set you back 6 years behind the curve or maybe more.

The kind of minimalistic web design that is commonly seen right now and which Facebook, Apple, Google, and others use was hot among the designer circles about seven years ago. If you tried measuring public taste at that time, you would get a result sheet listing PHP.net as "the" design to copy. You don't measure good design, you define it by producing something that's good and usable in some basic aspects yet not seen before and interesting in others.
It's large, and powered by a jet engine(s) - I'm not sure how feasible 'just trap it in a net' would be.

It's also, from what I understand, VERY slow - so much so that other aircraft have trouble going slow enough to keep pace with it.
I get it, it's cool, maybe it's jealousy I'm experiencing.
I've always wondered why designers don't point to open source as a portfolio like some developers do.

As a developer, I would imagine that there aren't many better ways to land a job at a tech company than designing a logo or brand identity for a cool open source project. There is no shortage of projects on github that don't even have something as simple as a logo or an About page. To me, seeing a portfolio of tech-related material sure beats 25 brochure-style sites for a local winery or wedding photographer.
"Powered by Stripe" doesn't help; I mean, in the end, you are "powered by Visa", and if you are using a Visa card, you hopefully trust Visa. Instead, the question is whether we trust your website to handle the credit card data in a sane and safe manner before it is ever sent to these backend providers.

Specifically, we do not know whether the credit card ends up on your server (possibly stored poorly), and just knowing you use Stripe (which allows for that not to happen) doesn't guarantee that your server has the requisite security required to not have been modified to send the things we enter to a third party.

(That said, I will say that I am not actually the kind of person who fears using my credit card online, so I may be simulating this argument train incorrectly; these thoughts go through my head, but my reasons for often using PayPal when provided the option have more to do with liking the kinds of reporting I can easily do using their APIs.)
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people like me that have been in telecom for 30+ year are amazed that this garnered 146 comments. Erlang-C, no not the language Erlang, before that...
Is this true? I was under the impression that if we used Stripe's javascript function to tokenize credit cards, we get to skip a lot of PCI compliance stuff we would otherwise be responsible for.
Google already gives the money made on app purchases to carriers.
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I'm 23 and perhaps have not created much until recently, but now I am in the early stages of authoring an HTML5 book (on top of my day job) at a publisher's request.

I feel I can already relate to this.

But there's something that to me may be worse than what the author mentions. It's with misfortune that I admit while I think I can deal with the stress of day-to-day programming while creating this book, I fear my girlfriend might go crazy (figuratively) in the meantime.

My own emotional stress I think I can handle. But how do I deal with the emotional stress of those around me? The people close to me are very dear but I'm afraid it may well end up being a third job.
Are there children involved? If so, you're doing something quite admirable!
Is there a traditional merchant account provider that has an API for chargebacks? I've actually never come across that anywhere but PayPal; maybe it's more common with 3rd party providers since they already need to connect chargebacks with their online service just to attribute the fees to the right user.
I'm interested on reading the draft of the act. Can you share on the link that you got of the draft, if any?
The 30% they give to the carriers?
AWS in Aussie in 2012 apparently : http://www.zdnet.com.au/amazon-planning-aussie-datacentre-re...
I really appreciate that recording because it helps empathize with exactly how disturbing it would be to be in that situation.
What percentage of working programmers even get to choose their language?
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probably shouldn't look at porn on the drone control computer either...
Oh, I agree completely that it's possible. I was just disagreeing with the assertion that getting an unencrypted video feed implies that it might be easy.

I can imagine a number of potential scenarios for bringing down an aircraft like this, ranging from full control takeover to interruption of communication until fuel exhaustion and partial crash.

Or perhaps we've bugged it and let them have it. Think we might want to know where they'd take something like this?
Designers live in a different world. Unlike many developers, they depend on proprietary tools (Adobe) and don't interface directly with open source software in a contributive or decision making capacity.
So that initial message about upgrading was a half-truth?
I couldn't help but notice that most (all?) of the projects he listed as good examples are open-source projects funded by companies.

Magento, Firefox, Wordpress, PhoneGap; even jQTouch is maintained by an individual who does mobile consulting for a living. In this case, it's not a group of volunteers who are pitching in for a project, then someone putting together a website. The websites (and projects) in all of those cases are marketing a product that the creator of the website is making money off of (whether directly, though search revenue, consulting, etc).
For those who are curious, Wikipedia has a fascinating explanation, and the C code in question:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
Unfortunately we don't have anything in Hawaii yet. Thanks for checking it out though.
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In this thread I provided a few specific areas where Stripe's API seems downright primitive: no way to do chargeback reconciliation ("chargeback" isn't even in their documentation anywhere, which should be an immediate red flag), and a "webhooks" model that does not retry on server failure (meaning you cannot trust you will actually receive the notifications, and will have to rely on polling them for updates). Is there something in specific you did not like about PayPal's API?

I will be the first to say there are warts, but the warts are really far down in the trenches (I only noticed them after using them for years; I did my initial PayPal integration in less than a day): Stripe seems to be missing important things upfront.

Also, I am confused what you mean by "electronic forums"; do you mean like an online ticket site? I have filed numerous tickets against PayPal, and they have always been answered within a few hours during the day; they even have people available to respond to integration issues in the middle of the night.
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The drone could be listening and reacting to radio transmissions without transmitting (idk).
Thanks Rishi -- I really appreciate the feedback. That's interesting and not something we had thought about.
Aah - I need to add the line that we do not store your credit card info to the order form - thanks for that! It's on the thank you page but you are right - I could add it to the form.

One thing I absolutely wanted in our new system was that we were never going to store the cc# - that's one of the reasons I liked Paypal/GC because we never stored the cc number. I read something about a wine store being hacked and the hackers getting all of the credit card numbers recently.
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I have called PayPal once before. The experience wasn't horrible, but it didn't leave me enthusiastic like Stripe's does.

Well, talking of facts small companies with a small customer base will always deliver better customer service than the larger ones. True test of these companies will come when their subscriber and customers run into millions(In paypal's case hundreds of millions).

Imagine a situation where where 283 million registered customers and probably more unregistered buyers. Ensuring operations related to that magnitude of people work fine for 99.99% of the people, 99.99% of the times. And then ensuring the remaining get appropriate customer support is not just difficult but requires a lot of work to maintain and run.

At that scale the founders will have a lot more different work to do. And addressing one user out of those hundreds of millions by communicating them on twitter might not scale properly. And the customer support employees are working in call center shifts. They are not going to be any more enthusiastic any more than other general call center employees.

Coming to arcane policies, Now for all those millions of users. There are definitely going to some x% of crooks out there gaming the system. Frankly speaking if you don't have such policies you may actually end up putting a lot of your other buyers and other customers in trouble and expose them to fraud. The problem is in programmatically handling hundreds of millions of users and their problems is not easy. You can build a system to do payments et al, but that's only beginning. So any good payment gateway etc will ultimately end up looking like PayPal.

PayPal works at a scale, Whether a new competitor will work at scale is question of time.

But don't write PayPal off, It actually works well for those hundreds of millions of registered and more unregistered users.
Tried it, despite not being an Emacs guy - it's better, but not great.

Honestly, when I wasted time (and it really was a waste) using Cygwin or similar stuff, I just ran sshd and SSH'd to myself from Penguinet.
Don't think it's a CloudContacts problem, but rather just any service that doesn't send you off to Google, PayPal or Amazon to fill out your credit card.
Require? No.

Unless you do more than 20k CC transactions/year, OR store CC numbers directly on your server, no one is going to require much of anything from you except one of those fake website scans.
Not recently - it was very unstable when I tried before. These days I have no call for it because all my projects are in hg.
Based on the other replies in this thread, I think a few helpful blog posts would make a lot of people happy.
Totally agree, UI's do not need to be overseen by an overlord of design. I can right now start up a KDE app or a Gnome app and they happily co-exist. Try to pull of something like that on oh Windows, Mac or Android. At least I don't think I've ever seen anything like that on those OS's.
> It solves all the major issues Twitter is having - people will stop shortening their tweets so much that they lose their intended meaning/readablity

I disagree that this is a problem. The content of a tweet should be a short communication, not a diatribe. I think that's the non-SMS-based reason for the 140 character limit. It forces people to think about what is important for such a small space.

I like your idea of embedding text extension into a tweet, but I think this would be abused to the point where Twitter would turn into something more akin to Tumblr. This meshes well with your point about having more to say than fits in 140 characters, but less than an actual blog. Tumblr is more of an elastic-use platform, whereby one can post Twitter-length messages, a few paragraphs, or an essay. I don't think Twitter intends to compete in that market. Length isn't their goal, but succinct is.
We've massively underestimated China on a consistent basis -- and, while it's true that they are probably running similar Potemkin-village-style games as the Russians played in the Cold War, some of their technological leaps are well established. Especially in the domains of cyber warfare, ballistics, and supercomputing.

We've underestimated Iran, Hezbollah, insurgent forces, etc., pretty routinely -- in terms of their technological capabilities, adaptability, and organizational sophistication.

I do agree with you, though, that we tend to overestimate what technology is capable of. I'd expand that point, however, and say that we overestimate what big, expensive hardware is capable of. And we underestimate low-tech, low-cost, jury-rigged, creative uses of technology.

Additionally, we tend to underestimate the diffusion -- be it through theft, connectivity, sale, espionage, or what have you -- of cutting edge technological know-how in today's world.
One needs an actual MX to forward to a gmail address, no? You can't just point your MX record at Google's servers. That's an additional cost that doesn't exist for Google Apps for Domains.

PS: If Google wanted to gear it towards businesses, they should have named it Google Apps for Businesses. In general though, I'm sure that the free vs. paid accounts is probably a pretty good divider between business and personal use.
They need to change channel from Today Tonight to SBS World News :)
This frustrated me so much I took the time to setup proper drm cracking.

So the answer is:
1) set up US proxy so you appear as US browser (ie openproxy or similar)
2) open up US-sepcific account using US address (any will do, you're not getting anything shipped, I used a postal service).
3) purchase gift voucher for amount covering the books you wish to purchase with 'regular' amazon account
4) use US account via proxy to make purchase, and use gift voucher to pay for them.
5) use Kindle cloud reader to download purchased ebooks to your local machine (you have no Kindle registered to this account, so you can't download to your kindle).
6) install calibre open source e-book management (this is a good tool for managing your ebook collection anyway)
7) google for amazon DRM book plug in for calibre
8) load purchased ebooks up, run drm cracking plugin
9) connect kindle and upload cracked books
10) open beer and laugh openly at futile attempts to use DRM to control industry

It sounds complicated but it's not really that hard. Amazing how you have to act like a criminal to do something that would seem logical to everyone but a publishing lawyer.

You can also use this tool to share ebooks between kindles, ie, yours and your partner - as you would with a book purchased from a store.
My wife has used GnuCash for years. Switching from Monday was easy. I think Money isn't even produced any more right? Forget complex stuff like Intuit, not for home finances. The best thing about GnuCash is that nice checkbook like look.
The drone may be guided by AI, and limit emissions to prevent detection, but surely it listens for instructions.

I think its unlikely that the drone was hacked, but without insider knowledge, how can you definitively rule out electronic hijacking?
Another thing to keep in mind is that PCI scope and PCI requirements expand with every iteration, so today's backdoor may be gone tomorrow.

PCI compliance is ridiculous enough that it's still worth avoiding though, even if only for the short term.
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Some discussion:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4219636/pci-compliance-an...
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Intel is just upset because they wanted Android to work only on Atom, and by that I mean they didn't want it to work on AMD chips nor on their high-end x86 chips (probably because they are still trying to preserve the "Wintel" leadership in that market).
As sedq, who is dead for some reason, said:

> When I read comments like this I'm left with two questions: 1. What are "serious applications"? 2. How does this person define "failed"?

> This task of counting word frequencies looks like an ideal job for awk. But there are many ways to do it, and with different UNIX's utilities. UNIX is remarkably flexible.

> When awk was introduced it was not imagined that people would try to write 10 page programs with it. But of course, they did. Are these the so-called "serious applications" that some people want to write?

> If UNIX utilities and pipes (including the pipe function in C) are a "failure", why are they still with us after so many years? If that's failure, then what is "success"?

> I think it comes down to what you're trying to do. For processing text, such as the task discussed in the article, I find UNIX utilities to be enough.

> I still have no idea what "serious applications" are. Is text processing "serious"?

> Much of UNIX's userland was intended for text processing. And for that it works very well.
Did you sell it already? if not I'm interested in the details
Yes, that's correct as far as I understand. But there's nothing to stop them selling all the other stuff they sell and wait for the inevitable change on books. A pile of it comes from China, anyway. They will end up being asked to come - because as it is, the local book industry is collapsing and there won't be anywhere to actually purchase books.

The same thing happened with music - there was a push to stop parallel import of CDs which cost about $25 for an album. But iTunes rendered that argument completely meaningless anyway.

I have one local bookstore left in my area but it appears to be existing on lots of big tables full of discounted merchandise sitting outside. The range is woeful and the prices are criminal. I doubt they'll be there in another 12 months.
You might want to talk to your PCI QSA to get a professional opinion. My views are explained here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3332001

Said that, you might want to think beyond PCI. Security is as strong as your weakest link and you might want to "play" in your mind a few scenarios: what if there is an XSS attack? what if your employee goes "rogue"? what if your server is hacked? Then you will need to decide what is important for you and how much risk you are willing to tolerate. Different solutions (Stripe + javascript, WePay + iFrame or redirect, PayPal, traditional payment gateway, etc.) will give you different upsides and downsides in usability, security, international support, price, customer support experience, ... There is no silver bullet :)
This seems like baseless speculation to me. Surely it listens for instructions and I'd be very surprised if it didn't return communications in some manner, perhaps using some spread spectrum technique to drop the transmit signal below the noise floor to avoid detection without the CDMA codes.
It would risk diverting attention from the Unix port to the Win32 one. Even if the Redis developers don't pay attention to this distraction, its mere existence fragments the codebase and creates two semi-compatible versions.

And if the Windows version sucks badly, any Windows user who tries to install it on Windows will end up blaming Redis and try something else. On Windows.

Microsoft wins and we lose on all scenarios.
What censorship?
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erm, perhaps instead of pulling the meritorious down we propel the others up?
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The other service I have been looking a lot at recently is Litle & Co, which has even better chargeback support than PayPal: they offer the ability to not just reconcile but fully automatically respond to chargebacks, complete with APIs for uploading documentation such as shipping invoices.

I do not know if you (or anyone) would count them as a "traditional merchant account provider", however (or if they are really a "merchant account provider" at all; I will be honest and say I'm still behind on some of these terms).

(Also, for completeness: Amazon Flexible Payments, in a similar boat to PayPal and thereby falling under the same "already need" reason you list, also has good mechanisms for automatic chargeback reconciliation and reporting.)