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Ask HN: Credit Card Processing - US users paying UK Company
I hope someone maybe able to offer up some advice. We're a UK based startup and accept payments worldwide in US($), we've had a number of emails from our paying users that their credit cards were being declined on our systems because they set off a warning flag with their credit card suppliers as they were trying to pay an overseas company (US trying to pay our UK company in most instances). Has anyone else experienced these issues and what are the potential solutions - we could setup a US presence, however this seems a little extreme ?
Dear god, I honestly can't tell if this is sarcastic.
Payday Loan 777 Now Get Upto $1500 Overnight
Payday Loan 777 Now is online loans that take care of a financial need for a short time and for a small amount of money.

http://suddencashloans.com/payday-loan-777-now
Would be nice to be able to see the reference for the API. To know what types of queries are possible.

get/set by key is probably there. But what sort of queries are possible is important consideration.
>The app doesn’t allow users to share anything from Everyme to Facebook, Twitter, or other social networks — Cameron says that’s so you know that what’s shared in a Circle stays in the Circle.

These guys have it right. It's about time a social network started focusing on the quality of communication rather than the quantity of connections.
> But letting users write code that appears to work (yet it does not) is not a good property of a language.

I still don't see the point that's trying to be made here. Whether it returns -1, FALSE, or you need a try/catch, the programmer still needs to check. To successfully program in any language with an 'index of' function, a check needs to exist regardless...
Well, compare

http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html

with

http://www.siemens.com/annual/11/_pdf/siemens_ar2011_cfs.pdf

and you'll see that Siemens had an EBITDA of eur 9,242 million, while Google had an EBITDA of 2.79 billion

Facebook has a projected EBITDA of 2 billion or so, based on 250 million in 4th quarter earnings.

So, if you applied traditional valuation methods, Siemens should be worth more than Google or Facebook. However, Siemens is more stable, while both Facebook and Google haven't tapped into more potential sources of income, and that's what investors are recognizing by valuing it that way.
Show HN: Peggy.js - a simpler PEG generator in JavaScript
Personal Watercraft Lifts: R & J Machine
Our lightweight aluminum watercraft lifts are like no other on the market today. We also offer davit lifts and aluminum roller ramp systems.
Traction Role Models
Crisis for US Science Is Looming, Physicists Warn
Do we really need another social network site? Yes, we do! I am still waiting for a winner that allows me to share private details such as kid photos and contact information with select family members close friends. I want this data to be unavailable to anyone outside of my circle, including advertisers. Are there options available now that do this? Yes again, but I need a solution that I can get Grandma on board just as easily as my technically inclined brothers.
Identifying the protein targets could be a lifetime's work. Identifying drug interactors is another big project, verifying efficacy takes time, synthesis takes time, verifying purity, determining best method of delivery to the patient, half life, dosage, interactions with other drugs, on and on and on. It all takes time.

Look, I'm not an idiot. I know it takes 10-20 years to develop a drug. But I also know that many of the drugs we use now were developed before any of these processes existed. Aspirin anyone? Penicillin?

All of the processes and techniques used by the present-day pharmaceutical industry are predicated on the cultural assumption that, as I said earlier, it's better to let a thousand patients die of neglect than kill one with a drug. In fact, three orders of magnitude may be understanding the asymmetry - it might as well be six.

Once you learn how to do things incredibly slowly, incredibly expensively and incredibly carefully, you're going to be completely ignorant of any way in which they might be done "fast, cheap and out of control."

Very much a parallel situation is the nuclear industry. Does it really take 20 years to design and build a nuclear reactor? Done the modern American way it does. And indeed, there's a much better argument for nuclear overregulation than cancer drug overregulation - still not a good one IMHO.

There's plenty of experience from military programs, even from the other side of the Iron Curtain, that tells us it's not that difficult, slow or expensive to build a nuclear reactor. But if you ask any nuclear professional, you'll be asking someone who knows in great detail how to build reactors the ultra-paranoid way. As far as he's concerned, that's the only way to do it.

Nobody in the pharmaceutical industry knows how to execute effectively with a short OODA loop. The knowledge and experience would have to be created, certainly at the cost of errors and lives. That's a far cry from saying that it cannot possibly exist.

Think about the way weapons are tested and deployed, not in the play wars we fight now but in a real war like WWII. Many, many soldiers in WWII died from unanticipated weapons failure. But if weapons hadn't been developed with the tightest possible OODA loop, we'd have been fighting Tiger tanks with cavalry lances.

We're not fighting a "war on cancer." The military psychology is entirely absent. We're playing a game. As an earlier poster said, "it's an exciting time to be a cancer biologist." Is it an exciting time to be a cancer patient?
How many people in your immediate vicinity do you know who still have a Sony product aside from a Playstation?

I could think of only one and he's got IEMs they do not make anymore...

Are there any popular Sony electronics left out there?
Wow indeed. I hope this doesn't affect the development of the Playstation 4.
Maybe it's just me, but I think a lot of the things that drew people to Best Buy at one point - powerful computers, big TVs, customized theater setups, rows of DVDs - have gradually gone from sexy to culturally irrelevant (still a profitable niche, quite possibly) in the last 15 years. They've become the workmanlike, unsexy appliance showfloors they put out of business by the early 00's.
Useless Mug
How does societal importance relate to monetary value?
American centric? You realize Kaspersky is Russian as well?
correct. Instagram is "worth" $1 Billion to Facebook, but it's worth $100 to a funeral home. But if you think about it, Instagram is worth way more than $1 billion to Google.
I already use git pages to host my homepage. Would have been nice to be able to just edit that repo.
Asset allocation is about relative performance and capital preservation in real terms.
Show HN: My afternoon project, Clustergram
I built this in an afternoon. It simply lets user quickly create pages of instagram photos that correspond to tags (selected by the user).

The font I use renders great on Safari and Chrome. Some have told me that it renders a bit differently on Firefox but is otherwise ok. Let me know if you run into any issues like this or if you have any general suggestions!

Thanks!

http://clustergram.torehan.me
LucidDB has left Eigenbase moved to Apache License
Patriot,'The Raptor,' claims credit for taking down Al Qaeda websites
How to launch a new SaaS product?
What are the best ways to promote the availability of a new B2B SaaS product that is applicable to many types of businesses and free for the first 5 users?
>if Facebook shut down tomorrow it would matter less than if the NYT did.

maybe to you, but there's literally millions of people who think the other way around. Facebook is much more widely known around the world (especially to uneducated people) than the NYT is.
I've been in the security industry for about 10 years, and never heard of them. Most of my peers had the same reaction - "Who?"
> I'd be curious to see what Notch can do to still encourage people to learn how the CPU works themselves.

Have some ship customisation stuff tied to assembly programming. People love changing the colour of carpets or wearing hats or collecting and displaying fossils.

Then allow the community to create simple how to guides - "This program will do $THIS_THING; here's how it works; now try to change it to do something slightly different."

I guess Codecademy should have a DCPU section too.
I find the story misleading .... it is one thing to build a prototype and another thing to create an app to support millions of people and their pictures.. on top of that he has great connection and a great environment .... you must check the big picture and not just take one element to create that cinderella story.... by the way his co founder is a real CS genius .... let's face it ...it is easy to raise money right now in this crazy environment...I don't take away his hard work and talent but just check the picture too....
Women, already the worst sufferers of dry eye, make it worse with makeup
most grandmas don't use smartphones...
Several comments here suggest your landing page sucks, but the real way to boost conversions from blog readers would be to move your call to action up the page. You have the try a demo button at the bottom of your sidebar. Test making that the first thing in the sidebar. You may want to test having it both first and last.

You GA blog post (as well as this one) is a classic example of content marketing, where you lead with something highly useful to the reader so that they become aware your product even exists.

BTW, I love the personal kanban structure of your todo listing.
Why not cover both fan wells entirely with the mesh coverings? Does that reduce lift significantly? It looks really scary to have the fan exposed. I'm sure it would be grisly if anyone got a hand in that thing.
It wasn't so much the machine, just the fact that I had to confront the arrogance. I knew what I wanted. I also knew that if the sale was lost (me walking out), it would not have shown up in said managers performance metrics. I purposely bought it without the warranty, knowing that they would have to account for why I wasn't an "upsell".
Computer Scientist Leads Way to next Revolution in Artificial Intelligence
The point is this – everyone can look at the current site and come away with a different understanding of the position/approach of Exec.

And that - in the right circumstances - can be a very, very good thing. I've seen designers sweat blood to get that kind of feel :-)
- There is concern that long term use may increase the risk of intestinal or stomach cancers (based on mouse studies)
- So far the longest term test has been 6 years (somewhat longer than your 28 days theory).

In fact, 28 days is a standard recommended limit for drugs available over the counter. It is fairly hard to do damage to yourself, with those sorts of drugs, in that time - but after that you really need the advice of a doctor who understands all of the risks involved.

I can't believe you just said "understands all the risks involved." On the basis of mouse studies and some completely uncontrolled, non-blind 6-year longitudinal study. Or meta-analysis. Or whatever.

Is this the best information we have or can get? Sure. Are the words understands all appropriate? No, they are not.

Aiming for this kind of certainty, and constantly, unconsciously boasting of it, is how postmodern medicine works itself into a box where it's completely unable to think. The information available in this case is shite. But the decision still needs to be made.
That's the problem. If you're doing something in an app/context and someone hands you a beer, what are you supposed to say?
Don't start with rails, start with ruby.

Doing otherwise is like trying to learn PHP by looking at the Drupal codebase.
Hi barrybhunter. If you've signed up you can check out the resource API documentation here:

https://manage.getsignalbox.com/docs/reference/resource-api

There's also the SBQL documentation available at:

https://manage.getsignalbox.com/docs/reference/query-languag...

Is that what you meant?
Dental X-Rays linked to Brain Tumors
I had a chance to play around with it and these are my thoughts:

It's definitely pretty. The animations are fairly smooth on the Series 5, which is surprising because the Atom processor chokes on a lot of big websites.

Unfortunately I don't think this greatly helps your productivity while using Chrome OS. It's more convenient for having multiple windows. Perhaps if you were doing some writing in Google Docs you could have 1 window for your writing and research, then another for when you want to take a break. That makes sense. However it seems, and I could be wrong on this, that when you open a new app it opens in a tab within whatever window you were last using.

It feels like something that was designed purely as a "how do we abstract away windows management" and not about usability. They need to do something to make apps be real apps, meaning no tab chrome at all. And they need to intelligently find a way to do that. So perhaps apps launched from the home screen will default to launching in a new window without any chrome, and they would need a good way for multitasking from there (the auto-hide bar is a fair start).
Ask HN: Is there an alternative to PayPal for 'Donate' buttons?
I want to stick a 'donate' button on some of my open source projects. For reasons I imagine are obvious to most HN readers, I don't want to use PayPal. Keeping them running is enough work without having people's donations frozen and having to go through the "verification" process!

Are there any simple alternatives to PayPal's donate button for open source projects?

Thanks in advance!
Check out their "investor", too!

http://mudmtn.com/
another big dollar sign, another over'night' myth.
How long is the flight time on this? It burns through about 30liters of gas an hour so even if it had a car sized gas tank it could only fly for an hour before refueling. Still, it seems really exciting!
Just yesterday I was discussing with a friend what would be involved in making a bike exactly like this, except the fans would be powered by induction motors. Our idea involved a three-phase power supply but we lack any real world experience. Does anyone have proper engineering knowledge that could help here?
good idea, lets see what next weekend brings;)
If you're talking about single process cgi/wsgi/node-style-eventloops, the composition of sequential software is still effectively sequential if the data is disjoint. If you have non-disjoint data and a single process environment, then you do have to consider shared mutable information at some point in your architecture. This is mitigated by the fact that shared mutable information in the web domain is typically handled by a database or information store of some kind designed for concurrent use. I am going to make the somewhat bold claim that if you store shared, mutable data in the web application process you are doing it wrong (and for other reasons besides just this one).
A year from now, when Toshiba, Dell, and everyone else have pivoted and are talking up even better screen resolution

Your point isn't even coherent. Apple made the increased resolution the primary selling point of the iPad 3rd gen: Everyone knew they would, and it was the worst kept secret in technology (indeed it was expected almost a year earlier!). Just as with the iPhone 4(s), no one is chasing them: Sure, there are products coming out somewhere in between (the 3rd gen iPad -- love mine, btw -- has a resolution far past the point of diminished returns owing to a naive scaling system), but no one is going to even bother trying to match them because...why.

I can't follow your core narrative because it makes no sense. Somehow Toshiba making different screen sizes is bizarrely behind Apple? What?
perfect example of use value vs. exchange value. Instagram has an exchange value of $1B (in FB stock and cash) simply because Facebook chooses to make that exachange . . .poof . . just like that. Instagram also has a use value, which is yet to be determined (and is impossible until there's a price they charge for their service to folks that USE their product). Of course they could put ads on their service in which case the use value then is determined by the advertisers that PAY to use Instagrams 'network'.
How about doing the same without Apache?
For those old grey-hairs around and reading that remember RSX-11M/M+, there was a tool known as TKB.

The task builder.

TKB allowed (much) larger applications to run in the address space of a 16-bit DEC PDP-11, using what were called overlays, and overlay trees.

With overlays, the application call tree within an application was analyzed and implemented to allow various sections of code within a tree of subroutine calls to be paged out to backing storage.

If the underlying "processor" is fast enough and if you have enough swap space available, then you can stuff a whole lot of code into a 16-bit address space. Just not all loaded in physical memory at once.

And debugging it... Shudder...
I generally don't read these kind of stories so I did not know the history, thank you for the link. I still think what he did here outweighs a unsavory twitter post about an individual. There could be a lot of dynamics to a single relationship, while not cool, the post very well could have been accurate, for all I know. What I do know though is bringing a bunch of developers back on so that they can get a deserved payout is a pretty honorable move in my book. It very well could be a PR stunt but it is a pretty costly one if that is the case, though not out of the realm of possibility, I cant see someone worrying that much about a bad twitter comment.
I'm sure that in future iterations of project glass, the controls and icons will move off to the side and be relatively inconspicuous... to make room for the ads that will be displayed front and center.
Probably 50-60 hours a week. When I moved to NYC 5 years ago it was to work on my own projects, but it took until last December for me to get up the gumption to go full time on them.

Check it out!
I am so tired of hoaxes and other variations of it ( we have been seeing a quite large amount of them this days) that I simply can't trust those marvelous new inventions I see in posts like this anymore.
Yes, the founders benefit a lot from keeping their identity small. Their identity should not be as a CEO, CTO, programmer, marketer, non-technical, etc. A founder need to have a flexible identity and learn as needed.

However, the flip side of the coin is that it's a great weakness if you don't know what you don't know. It's only when you know you don't know that you can find someone to fill in for that or expand your skills. Because in the end it's what you do that counts.
It happens all the time today. Companies like Sears and Burger King have been taken private (through leveraged buyouts) to unlock the value of their real estate (i.e., sell them).
Ok, I'm taken aback by that - people actually think that people who are dull and dishonest become scientists? I mean I can understand that they become - frauds -. But scientists? Well maybe not in my country, but perhaps where you live.

I'm afraid the problem is that my standards of both intelligence and honesty are much higher than yours.

Our society has far too many scientists churning out what Kuhn called "normal science." Look at all the scientists in the '70s and '80s who performed fantastic feats of normal science to sequence some gene or other. Science and society in 2012 are precisely as advanced as they'd be if all these researchers had been driving cabs.

Well, aren't the rules of science the scientific method? Which anyone can use?

Anyone can use a paintbrush, too. Not everyone can paint a Picasso.
It always felt to me like Teslas's entire existence is based on this:)
I think it's also safe to say that Facebook, and Instagram are worth more because they're more personal. In terms of the greater good, The New York Times probably serves a greater purpose, and it also costs more to run. In terms of the individual, Facebook is worth more to them. It seems like these social products deliver more value to individuals, and so going forward are going to be worth more then newspapers.
Take politics for example. The NYT, far more than any other press organization, functions to expose or amplify information about scandals, secret agendas, government mistakes and abuse. It interviews, analyzes and reports on candidates for office in ways that routinely, as in maybe twice a month, significantly impact the trajectory of a campaign and subsequently an election.

Another example is Wikileaks, where the NYT played a very important role on several sides of the story. The NYT is very much responsible, especially within the US, of amplifying, editing, and creating much of the narrative around the major Wikileaks dumps it was involved with. And they aren't always a force for "good", and have done a lot to damage Assange's reputation and helped marginalize Wikileaks.

I don't think everything the NYT does is great, but they are a hugely important part of many many world-scale developments.

You could write similar things about its role as an arbiter and editor of culture, about its influence on the public discourse and the ideas that permeate contemporary life, on its role in business and consumer culture (Foxconn, as a recent example). It touches so many things, and reaches so many, as those in tech might call them, "influencers," that it permeates American life, directly and indirectly.
"Everyme uses your phone’s address book for sharing, and if people don’t have Everyme accounts, they can still see and post content through email and text messages."

This is a brilliant way to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem, which is probably the biggest problem a new social network is facing.

I don't want to share my kids' pictures with everyone on Facebook. And no, my mom is not going to join Google+ (nor should she), so having her receive the posts by emails for now is just brilliant.

I think the Everyme guys may be on to something.
The Singularity is near.
Just out of curiosity and without creating yet another HN Poll; Who prefers Tmux over Screen and why?
The phone market is significantly warped by carriers. When people's contract are up, they walk into their carrier store and ask the salesperson what phone to buy.

The phone market is indeed significantly warped by subsidies from the carriers. If carrier subsidies didn't exist (if people didn't fall for it being subsumed into the cost of plans) the iPhone market would never have taken off (Ballmer in his original dismissal of the iPhone was actually right -- people won't pay $600 for a phone. They will, however, pay $149 and pay the rest over the contract period while acting blind to it). Those value options would decimate it.

Aside from that whole "carriers against Apple" bit (completely opposite of reality), the tablet market already is playing out like the smartphone industry. With each successive quarter Apple's share drops (while their volume increases just as in smartphones). They once had it in the bag, and now account for about 1/2 of tablets, heading ever downwards.
I agree with you, but the criticism and general opinion was very similar. People didn't get it, and google was 'being silly'
It's a game. if you can make your code run faster, you'll probably get more magic pixels.
Don't be too sure. I'm sure there's some innovative funeral home that would be able to utilize Instagram to offer a way for mourners to document the mourning process and find closure, a way that would be worth much more than $100. Maybe not $1 billion, but more than $100 for sure. ;)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3004918
Make python turn XML into PDF.
Not to nitpick, but SGI is not actually dead - they're Rackable with the SGI name. And FWIW, if you're looking for hardware, their pricing and configurability is really great.
If I had an interesting/insightful story to tell I would probably avoid sounding like an infomercial. It's a turn-off for me.

sorry.