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AFAIK - The founders are from Europe and originally tried to set up Stripe in Ireland. They couldn't find a European bank willing to work with them.
Seriously? HN has to dig back 15 years to link to an article that every *nix/Perl user read the first year they ever got into computer programming? And HN votes it up as if it were new? Seriously?
Groupon makes more revenue outside North America than it does within it (in Q2: $308MM for international; $260MM for N.A. on a total customer base of 38MM users)

Groupon already has a presence in the UK, its international expansion particularly in europe was helped via an acquistion of another Samwer Brothers company MyCityDeal.de which became Groupon.co.uk, Groupon.de etc.

The reason Groupon is only growing 31% in Europe compared to in North America's growth of 66% is for several reasons including the fact that their deals are more expensive compared to their North American offers (this is confirmed by both Apple & Groupon in both of their earnings calls), the merchants aren't getting the same value from Groupon in Europe as North America which is because of the underlying fact they want higher prices AND finally because half the stuff that Groupon does in North America doesn't even exist/is in its early stages here; Deal personalization = early stages, Groupon's mobile offerings = not as advanced/early stages, its deal bank (searchable, unused Groupon deals) is at the same stage as well.
Also https://www.adafruit.com/products/597 if you want to have a more generic case to build around.
Although I've heard many people say that sans-serif fonts are only for low DPI environments I can't stand serif fonts anywhere no matter the size or display, not even on paper or my Kindle.

I don't know what is the cause, I don't have any vision problems apart from myopia. When I need to read more than a few sentences in serif fonts (like in OS X's Dictionary app) I usually give up and copy-paste the text to somewhere I can view it in a sans-serif font. I've also configured Firefox to show everything in Ubuntu Regular[1].

It started as a preference but maybe by doing that I'm getting increasingly lazier and losing the ability to comprehend different symbols.

[1] http://font.ubuntu.com/
Money transfers within the EU have to cost the same as transfers within the countries themselves, by law (for transactions smaller than 50k Euro). And we're talking mostly direct bank transfers here, not something like Western Union.

In Germany, your ATM card is basically always a direct debit card that gets accepted anywhere (causes the shops lower fees than credit cards), so that takes care of one part of the Visa/MasterCard angle, and for online transactions direct debit rules the game, taking care of the other half. Services like paypal use direct debit a lot in the background.

(So the only "missing" part is credit card debt, usually you can't accrue that much debt on your direct debit account)
But that kind of usage, which sounds pretty much exactly how you'd use a desktop printer, is not at all what they seem to be selling. Their idea is that you should use their cloudy goodness to define a bunch of subscriptions to pre-curated "publications"

Yeah, it was more the small form factor that was working for me, rather than the publications aspect. Basically, I guess that I'm 100% not their target market :)
Awesome work. Starting to test it right now :)
I did some work here.

There's a lot of problems with legibility research. It's very, very hard to test for "legibility" or "readability" -- as, not surprisingly, the typeface is only a small part of what's going on when the human brain turns symbols into thoughts then plays them back later.

To the extent that we could get valid data, people did best when they were familiar with the typeface in question. And back in the age of newspapers, the closer to the local newspaper layout and typography, the better they scored with news-like information.

melloclello's comment hints at this part: serifs are high-frequency data. So there's more "information" in a serif face than a sans-serif face. In fact, simple filtering of a serif face makes something that looks very much like a sans-serif face. But whether this extra information is helpful or distracting to readability or legibility depends on what the reader is used to. (But even that didn't matter much in our tests!)
I think the therapy took around 1 month, would have been a pretty sick coincidence:)

I went from not being able to eat anything with wheat or soy lecithin to having no problem with it:)
Citation and link to abstract for those interested in such things (also in source).
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Should we call them anti-social networks if they are to be used for political witch hunts?
Though it is a small thing, I offer my deepest thanks for such a reply.
Oh I guess cnet only mentioned the 40gb upper end, I didn't see the tweet.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wikileaks+40gb+%22per+second...
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> Apple's FaceTime is end-to-end encrypted

And one should trust Apple's or your word because...?
Service or no service, nobody takes care of your kids like you take care of your kids. I wouldn't trust such a service with my three kids.
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Ryanair makes it possible for a work colleague of my sister to commute from Cork to Liverpool (4 day work week, digs while in Liverpool). You get what it says on the packet.
And if you want something that "just works" then you can't go wrong with:

http://www.amazon.com/Brother-QL-570-Professional-Label-Prin...

$90 bucks (3x cheaper than the BERG), automatically cuts the labels, very fast, linux-support...
Paypal's biggest problem on it's entire history was related to expanding internationally too fast. You open a door to larger profits, but also open a huge window for frauds of all sorts. Not to mention the regulations, that differ A LOT in different countries (just as a quick example, crediting dollars in an account in Brazil is forbidden - there's no "support" for this kind of transaction, so you have to go through a conversion process that is not only bureaucratic, but also VERY error prone and time consuming...)
the popular direct debit payments can be charged back very easily + you just have to search for an valid account number (= fraud).

This sounds highly doubtful. Care to explain?
That's really nice, but double-clicking a word is not obvious. Would it be possible to show the translate icon after you hover the cursor over a word for a few seconds?
Care to tell us how old your are? It might just be what you're culturally accustomed to. Just like blackletter or half-uncials look weird to almost anyone nowadays.

For me it's basically the other way around, I find almost any sans-serif (and most slab serifs) to be esthetically unpleasing. It's like reading a book set in highway/emergency signage. Don't even get me started about Helvetica... (And I'm not even that old - 34. Maybe I never should've read that Tschichold book)
While true, there is an annoying edge case: If you have (at some point) linked your credit card to a PayPal, then PayPal forces you to log in to pay. You simply can't use the non-login path if the card has a PayPal account.

Some reasons why this is annoying, that I can think of: (1) It makes the process more complex. Some people just close their window when forced to log into something. (2) It makes writing tutorials/documentation harder. 'Just fill in your credit card details' becomes a long sentence listing the different things that can happen. (3) I have had some customers who complained that they had forgotten about their PayPal account and had to go through the "forgot password" sequence in order to pay. I imagine that the percentage of people who didn't complain but simply closed the tab is higher.
The challenges that finance related startups face on a global market are complicated and costly but to me the underlying problem is how startups are organized in the first place.

You have a small team, often located in the valley or major US city, that expects to spend years working on developing their business model, product and infrastructure. Even if they are fabulously funded all efforts seem to be US centric because there's no way you can split so few people across so many countries when you're still developing the foundations of your business.

Instead of the typical startup organization that all but guarantees that you will expand too slowly to other markets, startups should look into more flexible forms of organization that allows them to set up partnering organizations in other markets. Imagine if your startup from day 0 has co-founders that are solely responsible for offshore markets development, pr and marketing. These co-founders would be an interface between your business and a specific country or region that actively engages with his market so that customers knows what is happening and what your startup's plans are for their market.

What you pay in equity and title you get back in a vibrant presence and a highly skilled and competent person that can guide you through each country's customs, laws and regulations, and bureaucracy.
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On a related note, they also cloned Square in Brazil and Europe (payleven.de/.com.br)
As a minor correction, the EU law on fees only applies to Euro-denominated accounts. I was somewhat unpleasantly surprised that I was charged significantly higher fees when I transferred some money from a EUR account in a Eurozone country to a DKK account in Denmark, since that case doesn't fall within the regulation.

Within the Eurozone, however, it's quite nice.
In the UK it is called PCI compliance :)

(a lot of the relevant standards are now international in nature)
And then employ very small thin people for any work that requires foreign travel?

Seriously the implications of that are boggling although I suppose modern technology makes it possible to do so.
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The unions are the big problem along with a lack if accountability. They can break baggage laws, for example, with impunity leaving the passenger little recourse except to attempt to sue in federal court.
I want European credit card billing _NOW_. Sadly, the only support german companies it seems. :-(
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They've even copied someone's logo!

http://www.launchbit.com/
I couldn't really penetrate the writing style (something about virtuoso violinists), but the problem is apparently that old cards can't get a new BIOS update that makes the card run faster? This is not an appalling new low: this is what hardware manufacturers have done for eons.

I'm pleased to say that I have no idea how fast my CPU or GPU are. They work. I'll buy a new one in a few years. Relax and do something useful with your computer.
I didn't read it that way at all, either. It was sympathy and amazement. Shacking his head in astonishment, and perplexed at how they can handle what they must.

Maybe it's because I've been on the other side, seeing that shaking head and being asked that question, but it doesn't at all come across anything less than support and encouragement.
Yet i'm still tryin to understand why an international bank wire transfer without currency exchange (EUR -> EUR) and within UE (actually from Switzerland to Italy), is taking one week or more to arrive...
... but is still very, very backwards compatible.

(Just to be complete.)
There are _so_ many payment startups, so Paymill is the least of Stripe's worries. Just an ad-hoc list that have been recently funded:

Approve.io
Ogone
Zuora
Recurly
Stripe
gocardless.com (Royal Bank of Scotland)
blinkpay/blinksale (no funding)
Buck (fka Billing Revolution)
Gumroad
Dwolla
Braintree
ZenCash
WePay
Bango
Clover
PayOne (fka PaymentOne)
Isis (verizon, At&t, etc.)
Fee Fighters' Samurai
Bump Pay
BeamIt
LEaf
Dynamics
Corduro
Paydici
Jumio
Paymetric
MiCash
HelloWallet
iZettle
Card.io
PayLeap
BluSynergy
PayTap
Payleven
TraxPay
MineralTree
CurrencyCloud
Square
LevelUp
ZipMark
Paymill
in Germany, direct debit transcation currently need an account number and a bank id (BLZ). Or BIC/IBAN (see Wikipedia).

There is no validation except some nummerical tests. You can enter the number of some charity or your landlord when doing an order at e.g. Amazon.

To deal with that risk, every bank account holder has the right to chargeback transactions without giving a reason. That's why banks typically keep a lot of the money you invoice for a grace period of approx 6-8 weeks. And companies like Otto have their own credit check companies…

tl;dr if you instantly deliver items or services, direct debit is not safe.
Hm, it is nonsense, but I can imagine all sorts of random fun happening. One idea: what if upon press of a button, I could get a printout of the next task on my TODO list? (I know this is probably not what the BERG cloud does, just thinking about little printers in general).
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I get the impression that section was very much from the authors view.

Whilst I know nothing of bringing up a child with such a condition I do know other close to me that have had to care for someone full time. And to be frank most of the time they would have looked "astonished" by such a question but take the opportunity to discus the matter, see what can be done to help the situation (in case close to me, such a conversation lead to them having a outside help every once in while so the carer could have a break).
It takes us about a week to get another account established in the target currency and set up an account with our payment vendor to take orders in that currency.

Translating the site to the target country takes longer than establishing another currency.
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I wrote a blog post asking for this to happen in the UK awhile back. http://peebs.org/free-business-idea-for-a-united-kingdom-sta...

Glad to see it starting to happen in Europe!
Except they can't easily reduce labor costs because of the unions. Southwest is not unionized yet almost every employee there seems happy and friendly. Flying on Southwest is almost fun and they have low ticket costs. Southwest knows how to properly hedge against fuel increases and as such they're one of the few profitable airlines around.
Wire transfers inside the EU cannot – by law – cost more than wire transfers inside an EU country (at least if you are transferring Euros).

In the case of my (free and completely standard) account that’s exactly zero Euro for every wire transfer. (You cannot transfer more than €50,000 and, as I already said, only Euro.)

Wire transfers are a very common way to pay for stuff in Germany and it’s very easy to get accounts that have free wire transfers. I would even speculate that most banks offer free wire transfers (I would at least be surprised if a bank told me that I have to pay for wire transfers) but I can’t be sure about that.

You are not using wire transfer companies in Germany, you just tell your bank the amount, name, account number (IBAN if it’s going outside of Germany), bank name and number (SWIFT-BIC if it’s going outside of Germany) and purpose of the wire transfer and you are all set.
So, a handful of instances out of millions over the last 5 years. Got it.
But if you are Stripe and you get millions in investments ( i.e. http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/09/sexy-payments-startup-strip... ) you can afford to hire specific european nation experts, lawyers etc.. to get into these markets quickly
It is more than that, it is tax rates, money laundering the archaic regulation that differs between countries (even in the EU) a lot of boilerplate stuff needs to be in place.
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It seems even less bad imho, it's probably that all cards with an AMD reference design will get an update. But vendors with vendor-specific hardware might not provide an updated BIOS that works with those cards?
Guess who implemented Groupon outside of the US? The Samwer brothers. They created CityDeals, that merged with Groupon. One of the brothers has been in charge (unofficially, I think) of Groupon's international operations ever since.

Edit: Actually, Marc Samwer was head of international operations until earlier this year:
http://gigaom.com/europe/marc-samwer-out-as-groupons-interna...
I think he is trying to imply that someone having a heart attack at 51 should not be considered normal, unless you smoke.

My father is very old, there are over 20 or so of his friends that died in his 50s. All of them were hight smokers. Not a single "non-smoker" friend died on his 50s, in fact they seem to get by at least to the 70s.

Things like lung cancer were almost unheard of before people started smoking(before WW less than 3% of the population smoked).
An opportunity to clone the clone in other European countries?
I guess a Raspberry Pi could be perfect for connecting such a printer to the cloud.

Wonder if the BERG cloud will be "open" and available to other consumers, too.
i think you missed the part where amd tied the author's first-born to the curiousity's launch vehicle while laughing at their mother and calling his pet dog names. with that, it all makes a lot more sense.
The main difference from older products is price (and probably availability too). At a price of a plane ticket, it becomes more attractive - if it can reasonably simulate an in-person meeting, which is yet to be determined.

I don't think it will replace sales calls just yet, but it's a step forward.

Edit: AnyBots is U$ 15.000, so this is an order of magnitude cheaper.

And I found on Google TILR at U$ 10.000
http://robodynamics.com/products/

Plus, I found a hack of an iRobot that claims to give you a similar device for U$ 500 :)

http://www.fastcompany.com/1726174/500-irobot-hack-lets-you-...
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"Proper" airlines generally aren't very picky about the weight of your luggage, so it probably wouldn't apply to them, only to airlines like Ryanair that are.

I don't think it's a good solution, but I can relate to to bitterness of being charged for a 2 kg overweight and then getting stuck in half a seat because the person next to you is the size of a cow.
Stripe's Canadian beta started within the last week -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4355507
Those difficulties and processes would be the same for Stripe as Samwers.
Same in NL (hyves.nl)
Is this akin to Thailand's lese-majesty or more broader? Seems backwards!
This page highlights a bunch of cool use cases for a gadget like this, quick sudoku puzzles, weather, maps, a few twitter post etc. It would be nice to have a daily sheet containing these printed out every morning for the bus, especially if you don't own a smartphone.
Ouch, that's a big minus from the point of view of an European company - not having to look for another app to generate invoices or futz around with generating your own was nice.

The specific issue with Recurly that we had is that they silently changed their platform to perform VIES validation on all VAT numbers. While this makes sense for transactions with entities from outside of the merchant's country, validating VAT numbers for German-to-German or Spanish-to-Spanish transactions is silly. Not only do such transactions always get charged VAT, but it's possible that a given string is a valid VAT number and yet is not present in VIES. Since you will pay (and therefore charge the customer) VAT for same-country transactions anyway, you don't care if the number that the customer provided is valid according to VIES.

This change has cost us a little wave of support tickets and an ugly workaround, in preparation for moving off Recurly.

I firmly believe that a company that gets online recurring payments right in Europe will become a money-printing machine in no time.
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But you are still getting what you paid for when you bought it, you just aren't necessarily getting more than you paid for.

I'm struggling to see a problem here.
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Your post is endemic of something I see a lot on HN. You know nothing about agriculture, but you see a minor set of stories and you think you're a fucking expert.

What is with the create a throwaway account to insult people thing? Karma isn't worth anything why not burn it under your real username?
Guilty before proven guilty. I'm glad you're vindicated.
Not using it anymore, but a year afterwards they're still issuing firmware/BIOS updates. Drivers are also updated.
Never called their support line.
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Well, in their defense, the Samwers' incubator is called Rocket Internet, so it's more like they're copying themselves.

http://www.rocket-internet.de/
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That's definitely the MMRTG or its nuclear battery. My guess would be the Department of Energy doesn't want too much about it floating around.
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Everyone is responsible for their own actions. It doesn't matter if those are your "orders", you're still completely responsible if you carry them out.
Cool plugin. Would be great if the definition would load in the bubble instead of an entirely new window.
Color might be useful as redundancy: For example, one could read the data into HSV; the bit being stored could be replicated three times, once in Hue, once in Saturation, and once in Value. I'm not sure how practical this actually is, especially on the radical end of those values. Also, this kind of redundancy doesn't help against coffee spills, just printing errors, and not even well against those.
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Far from it. Yikes, I've never bought into the valley startup idea, where you spend all your time working on your thing. I spend maybe a dozen hours a month maintaining my little software empire and supporting customers.

There's a reason I promote the lifestyle. Having a little pile of software products paying you a full developer salary in exchange for answering a few emails a week is a pretty good place to be.
I don't see how giving certain users an upgrade could be extrapolated as bad - It's not like they are retroactively crippling people's existing hardware or anything. The reality of the situation is that certain companies are going to have different board/bios configurations on their GPUs and I don't think it is reasonable to expect AMD to provide a BIOS upgrade for all of these variations on their own.

Somethings tells me that the cards that are getting the BIOS upgrade are going to be the ones using reference designs (maybe it was stated as such in the article but the author's writing style is kind of bleh).
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