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I don't know about Square's terms, but I've always been told by merchant account providers that charging your own card is one of those things that will get your account terminated immediately if they become aware of it.
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VC firms are becoming more like top-tier universities and less similar to private equity firms.

Hire luminaries in fields to become mentors.
Invest in training, teaching, and mentorship.
Create an alumni network of successful people.
I am interested in hearing what you have to discuss.
A lack of support for changing keybindings is annoying...
(I use dvorak)

other than that, cool!
That would be a pretty awesome thing to do from a customer service perspective.

It would be like the phone companies charging you for the cheapest phone plan based on your usage for the month.
"drawing penises" seems to be the first thing people do for these multi-user apps.

I created a whiteboard built with websockets over a year ago on Hacker News, over 100 people could connect and draw anything they wanted. The screen would clear after 5 minutes. So many penises. I told my girlfriend they were rocket ships, I don't think she bought it.
Hasn't Marxism already failed enough to avoid proposing it as a solution to anything?

Didn't communists in the USSR find that when you give everyone a "right" to have all their basic needs met and when you took away their motivation to work hard to succeed, a lot of people decided not to work or they decided to work at things that the community didn't need?

Then, to make up for the fact that there was no reward incentive model, they had to bring in authoritarian force.

The most insightful criticism of communism that I've ever heard was from a bunch of Romanians I know who grew up in a country under control of the Soviets. When they hear Americans or other Westerners espousing pseudo-communism as a solution to society's problems, they get apoplectic. They can't even begin to grasp why a society that has discovered and nurtured capitalism would turn to empirically failed socioeconomic models.

Seriously, if you're going to want to stand on someone's shoulders to move society forward, why Karl Marx's?
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It is better, no doubt about that but talk about over-analysing it!
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I'd love to know a little more about what's going on here. Does it use accelerometers or just wifi signals? One key question: could I share these floorplans? That is to say, using the sensors on HTC Android device #1, could I sent a floorplan to my friend Samsung device #2 and have them be able to similarly track their location?

Does it only work indoors, or is that just for demonstration?
> I expect 90% of individuals with stock options to sell as they can. If I have a choice between selling at $20 now and getting, say, $200,000 or waiting some unspecified time and possibly getting more (or nothing), I'm going for the sure money every time. Even for someone whose pay is in the low six figures, option money like this can mean paying for your kids' college education or starting your own business. The only ones who might hold on would be those who don't have many shares/options (I'm thinking less than 2,000).

I think there's still a lot of energy/optimism at Facebook inside its own Reality Distortion Field. Even if Facebook doesn't recoup its value for years, there's still a lot of money to be bad. Remember that not everyone makes the same decisions you do.
I have adopted it as my main scripting language when doing Windows projects. :)
Considering the webapp itself doesn't function with JavaScript disabled, that sounds like a feature instead of a bug. It keeps people that will never be their customers out and away from their support queue.
I think the problem is that you focused far too much on the "You must be entrepreneurial" section. I didn't like that section either, and it falls prey to criticisms like your own (I also strongly dislike the "everyone should start their own business" attitude).

The rest of the article was insightful and not too techno-centric... he even points to a non-engineering discipline like nursing as a field with plenty of demand. If anything, the broad takeaway is "try to find something that's enjoyable AND has market demand, and then provide value to that market." He never says the market has to be tech/engineering.
Nominal at-will employment might not provide all the protection you would expect. For example, though the employer may end an at-will contract for "any" reason, certain reasons are legally prohibited.

Further, you might want to read http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-i-sued-goo... for an example of court thinking:

'In fact, clause 6 of the AdSense for Content Terms and Conditions does not allow Google to terminate accounts for "no" reason--only "any" reason. Much to my amusement, the judge interrupted her to make a point that sounded familiar.

"But you couldn't terminate my account because of the color of my eyes, could you? I have brown eyes. You couldn't terminate my account because of that."

Ms. Milani reiterated her previous arguments, but the judge didn't buy them.'

Personally, I would argue that "the guy has brown eyes" is sufficient "any" reason, but I appear to be losing the popular battle.
Their fraud costs are not what you make them seem. The credit card companies do not take on the risk for fraud most of the time. They push that risk onto the merchants.

This is why large e-commerce companies have giant fraud departments trying to prevent fraudulent orders and charges on their site; because when they occur, they generally just eat the loss.
We built this because we felt Indoor Location technology is too inaccessible. There's lots of buzz about indoor location, and many canned demos, but very few people seem to put it out there.

We've built some cool tech, and we want people to try it out first hand.
Urgh! I want to see Jocaml posts around here!
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Massive congrats guys! :)
How does Bark compare to Hiss? http://collect3.com.au/hiss/

Functionally, they seem identical.
The benefit is that people are not as desperate, so you don't have people stabbing each other over $20.
The app is free and ships with 5 professionally-designed "themes" that can be applied to customize the presentation with different fonts and image filter options. We included an additional 10 themes that can be purchased for $1.99 each, or you can buy the "Bento Box" pack that includes all 10 themes for $15.
Very glad to see this. Venmo is possibly the most useful app on my phone, and one of my favorite products.
I tested Sencha, jQuery Mobile and Dojo 1.7 and 1.8 a week ago with my Nexus phone -> Dojo 1.8 wins clearly when it comes to performace of touch events and transitions :)
This is really nice! Any case studies, preferably HTML, where I can see this in work? :)
Actually most (depending on the card, the great majority) of those fees end up going right back to the cardholder. Those fees are what pays for all those airline points, cash-back discounts, guarantees and liability protections, purchase insurance etc.

Another way of thinking about credit cards is a way that a large groups of customers are able to band together to collectively demand discounts, rewards and other valuable protections from merchants in exchange for their business.

The banks compete amongst themselves to win your business as a cardholder by trying to negotiate higher discounts from merchants. (the fees paid by merchants are called MDR or merchant discount rate).
I was one of the original 200 to back TextDrive in with the VC200 accounts. The risk, of course, was that the venture wouldn't be successful and we'd be laying out $200 for less than $200 worth of hosting. If they were successful, $200 would buy a reasonable shared hosting account for life.

Far from being naive and "falling" for the pricing model, my assessment was that

1) 200 shared hosting accounts (one server?) is a completely plausible lifetime offering for a successful hosting company,
2) $200 is a low risk punt, and
3) these are good guys and I think they can realistically make a go of it

TextDrive was a success, now continues to be a success as Joyent, and 200 shared hosting accounts (the state of play when I signed up) should be trivial for them to provide - even if they outsource that obligation to another provider.

I know I wasn't wrong about them being good guys (they are), but that's why I'm bewildered by today's announcement.

It may not be economically viable for them to provide these services now, but it wasn't economically viable for them to start a hosting company until we backed it. That was the deal. Joyent has an obligation to keep these services online, and if that means they need to take a bit of a hit to do that, then that's what they need to do.

Otherwise, I'm unclear how anyone would trust them again.
Good point about the expiration. If I was betting on the $17 figure I would buy options that expire in a few months. The 48 cents was just a conservative number to throw out there (value of puts w/ $17 strike price would probably be higher if the stock is significantly below the strike).
If you don’t have time to try the app, watch this video instead. It’s 90 seconds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_GdXp_Swjs
Congrats! Diffbot offers very compelling technology. Incidentally, the infographic you created was gorgeous. Do you mind sharing who you used to create it?
I'd be surprised to hear they're operating at a loss in terms of the fees alone. Most of us are used to seeing fees quoted by PayPal, Stripe, Amazon and other processors for internet transactions. Card-not-present interchange fees are higher than card-present fees because of the higher risk. Square should be getting much better rates from their processors since they're handling in-person transactions.
Ahh, if we are comparing equivalent implementations, you are definitely correct. GC and goroutines are much more complex than anything in C. In fact, off the top of my head, the only features truly missing in Go from C are unions (unfortunately) and the preprocessor (effectively a part of C).
Are you comparing killing off a whole world's worth of sentient humans with killing off some potential bacteria on Mars?
2-3% is over-estimating things. Online retailers pay that much, anybody charging credit cards at a physical location should be paying more like 1.75% in fees.
You get these perks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_Card
That's the boilerplate that the support desk is sending out to everyone.

I suppose the question to ask is this: "Were you lying back in 2006 when you said the offer was good '[a]s long as we exist', or are you lying now? Or did you decide to renege on your promise somewhere in-between?"

You'll get the same boilerplate response, but it'll be on record.
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You're on your anti-rape high-horse but nobody is saying it's a goodness, that's just a straw man you've dragged out to beat. However if you actually cared about rape you'd be upset at the many documented cases of molestation and rape the US, UK, and Swedish governments are sitting on despite ample evidence, while pursing this nonsense.

No, it's pretty obvious you're just another anti-Wikileaks crusader because you ignore everything relevant such as how he was already questioned and released, how even with allegations of murder questioning takes place in the defendants country of residence UNTIL adequate proof has been collected for extradition, etc.

As for the possibility of Assange being a rapist, there's the same possibility you're a rapist.

But regarding probability, yes, that the CIA has pulled this shit before, and the Swedish police aren't following protocol at all, does make it far less likely that the case is real. They wouldn't need these games if he was actually accused of a real crime.

I only wish you were trolling, and not representative of Fox News viewers.
Thanks for pointing ihackernews out, I missed it on my searchs. Quite handy.
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Most people will want to do something with their lifes instead of sitting around, simply because it's boring not to.

Empirical evidence is not in your favor. Staring at a TV is quite satisfying to a distressingly large fraction of society.
Obligatory confirmation bias link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
LOL this was always a secret dream/inspiration of mine and they've shafted those poor folks too.
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seems like joyent are nothing but snake oil salesmen
It makes Dojo more compelling.

If you don't think that WYSIWYG IDEs are useful, then that's fine, but some do, and I thought I'd share.
This is a canned article, and there is just too many of these lately.

You can tell it was written with no real material behind it, the guy doesn't even stick around to respond to the controversy it will create.

I bet it is possible to automate top HN articles like this one using the methods in http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
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Cool! With all the attention that big lawsuits get, it's easy to forget that small claims is there, and sometimes even effective.
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Once fixed... this will be welcomed by those that desire a little privacy!
I am not a financial consultant, but some general guidelines for retirement investing that anyone can follow with minimal effort. This is only applicable if you believe that the world economic growth rate in publicly traded markets is growing at a rate greater than the safest investments (close to nothing as of late):

- Invest first in employer-matching 401K. Even if the fund choices aren't 100% ideal, they're almost never awful, and you're getting free money. Invest second in IRA/Roth IRA, the choice won't make a huge deal of difference to most people, but do your own research to see what's best for your situation. If your employer doesn't match for 401K, fill that up after your IRA. The reason for all of this: tax benefits. If you still have money left over after these limits for your retirement plan, it probably is time to consult a financial professional.

- If you're using your employers' 401K, and the options are limited, choose the one that reaches the most diversity (type of asset, all types of market caps of companies, and definitely with global reach). I'd stay away from money market funds (with such a small rate of return, I feel it's a waste of your tax-haven dollars), and focus on equity, real estate, and a smaller amount of government bonds. The reason for diversifying is that the more types of asset categories you are in, and the more diverse the assets inside of each of those categories, the less unnecessary risk you take on.

- If you're choosing assets for your IRA, follow the same sort of guidelines. The easiest way to do this is to use ETFs, which track various markets. A very simple example ETF IRA portfolio might look something like this: 30% in a NYSE tracking ETF, 20% in a NASDAQ tracking ETF, 40% in a "non-us market" tracking ETF, 10% in a real-estate ETF. If you want to diversify with precious metal assets or bond assets, feel free to mix in whatever share you like, or make those investments outside of the IRA (if you've filled your IRA quota already).

This is a simple guide that anyone can set up in a couple of hours, and maintain with a half hour or so per month. It's less risky and more financially sound than "picking stocks", and will very likely not be a loser by the time you retire unless the worldwide economy is, overall, a loser between now and the time you retire.

The content of this post is for general information purposes only and does not constitute any investment advice.
I take a ton of pictures on my phone, Right now I have 3,946 pics on my phone and just this morning I had to delete some so I could take more.

I am not so interested in sharing the pics I take, though I do want that ability, but I need a superb way to organize the photos I take.

For example, in the last week I have take nearly 100 photos. Some of them are work, some are my kids, some are interest shots. I like to keep them all - some I want to have in a gallery (Madeline wearing glasses and a wig), others I want to write more about, like blog, others I want to keep in a bucket hierarchy of pics I take about the work I am doing.

I need a way to create these different buckets for my pics and choose for them to be public galleries, blog posts and categories.

Frankly, I think this is an avenue that IMGUR could go down. I have been a premium subscriber to IMGUR since it was available - and I love having them as a dumping point. But managing the galleries is sort of a pain, and I cant blog etc...

So, ultimately the company whom I feel is best suited to solve this problem for me is Dropbox.

I have uploaded all 3,946 photos to dropbox via the camera upload feature - and I have a monthly gallery - but now I want to do more with them - I want to tag them (Show me all pics of Madeline), blog about them etc...

So far - all the photo services provide me about 60% of what I really want.

Ill never put photos in Facebook (I don't have an account and never will) and this is another reason I am not happy with Instagram... but overall its about the fact that I don't feel anyone has made the killer photo management service.
Great tut! love the simplicity, cleanness, and interactivity. Can you look at this link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4377634, and let me know if you'd be interested in contributing to a project like this?
I don't regard rape as a fate worse than death. It should be regarded as a crime worthy of prosecution to the fullest extent of the law, and right now it isn't.

If people in the armed forces were killed by their fellow soldiers at the rate women in the armed forces are assaulted and/or raped (which would mean a Fort Hood massacre every _week_), it would get a lot of attention, and the perpetrators would actually be prosecuted instead of shielded from consequence. But when a victim of assault reports it in the military, the consequences usually fall on the victim and the perp gets to walk. I think any rational human would find that sickening.

I also take umbrage with your sugarcoated characterization of rape as "involuntary sexual intercourse," as if it could happen by accident. There is no such thing as "involuntary" sexual intercourse. Sex requires consent. If consent is not given or is revoked, it immediately becomes assault and/or rape, and the person who disregards that becomes an assailant and/or rapist. Your use of dismissive, diminishing rhetoric to describe (or even excuse) the traumatizing act of sexual assault/rape is a lame and misguided attempt of political correctness of your own preference. Which is a nice way of saying that you're propping up rape culture.

I don't know you, but based on your comments you seem to have very little to no empathy for victims of assault. I would implore you to examine why that is.
Thank you: just the idea of someone sitting down and typing that phrase in amazes me. Some kind of token refund and a slightly longer switch-over period could have turned this into a PR positive.
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I can't go into more detail about our vetting process, but I can tell you that game companies cannot change the odds of their game without our approval.
I'm also a fan .. so much so, that I'm mid-way integrating harfbuzz into MOAI so that I can use Chartwell in games with ease and pleasure ..
Dojo is integrated. JQuery has 1000 different plugins and therefore 1000 different APIs to learn
Hardly a non-issue, but again, judging by comments below, hardly an issue that's been solved here.

So flash or JS, certain mobile users that should be able to see it won't be able to see it.
Anything to do with social media is absolute rubbish until people use it, then its suddenly revolutionary. I personally think Klout is great.
Logic of Collective Action

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action
This hit piece is just reprehensible. Shame on you Quinn Norton. No, obviously not for being a woman. For being a terrible journalist, and playing this card. At no point did he say anything remotely sexist. Is there any possibility that statements were criticised because they were wrong, and not because a woman wrote them? Or are you so arrogant that you consider yourself infallible, and any disagreement must obviously be sexism?
Mr. Patiño said his government had made its decision after the authorities in Britain, Sweden and the United States refused to give guarantees that, if Mr. Assange were extradited to Sweden, he would not then be sent on to the United States to face other charges.

This is key, and pretty much proves what's going on. They didn't want to take extradition to the US off the table, yet supposedly this is only about answering to rape charges.
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They're only processing $10M of transactions/month, so even if they were to start charging fees, that wouldn't translate into much revenue. Agree that this is a great exit for the team.
No they're not. They're only charging companies that sign up for this fee structure. Anyone who signs up for this when they're not making $10k is bad at math.
Thanks, Ivan. For those who are wondering, the Venmo apps aren't going away: http://bit.ly/bt-venmo
This would've been fantastic for my family member who got married recently.
The floorplans are definitely transferable! Once you’ve mapped a location once, it works automatically on all devices.

In fact, if you walk into a location that someone else has already mapped, the “Where Am I” will automatically load that map up on your device and start showing your position.

If you’d like to do more advanced stuff with your floorplans, make a WiFiSLAM SDK account here (access.wifislam.com) and we can get you started.
I'd think that such a warranty would be implied. It's a standard expectation that if you can't deliver what a customer paid for, you refund their money. If it's an ongoing service, then you can prorate the refund... but for a lifetime service, they've always used 0% of it and should thus get a 100% refund.
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> I don't think anyone could have predicted the meteoric rise of Apple, but I think plenty of nerds could have looked at Mac OS 10.1 back in the day and thought, "this is a good bet".

Honestly, this is why I'm skeptical I can beat the market. This was exactly me: I sat down at OS X Jaguar 10.2 and thought, "boy howdy this is great!" and bought Apple stock at less than $40/share.

But you know what? I was wrong. I made money, of course, but for the wrong reasons: the meteoric rise of Apple as a company was due almost entirely to the iPod and then-unannounced iPhone.

Nowadays, of course, after the increase in stature of the company, they're making money from their computers and laptops, but I'm not sure where Apple would be if they didn't make it big with those other products.
God Save Thomas Edison
Tesla was amazing, I get it. I always got it. But a lot of people didn't. For a lot of people, Tesla is the name of some car that you have to pull out your iphone and take a pic when you see it.

The Oatmeal raised Tesla up, and pummeled Edison into the ground. Here's an ever-changing Twitter search that will surely prove my point: https://twitter.com/#!/search/edison%20tesla

Edison was a great inventor, and an incredibly hard worker. He was a persistant and effective business man when it came to spreading the adoption of world-changing things like the lightbulb.
He may not have invented it, but he built and marketed the first one that was actually practical.

The point: Every geek in the world needs a little Thomas Edison in him.