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This is great news.

I've been using parse on a project and was missing this functionality.

As a side note, I'm loving parse, but their iOS SDK is poorly designed. Like really badly designed. I had a few email exchanges with one of their devs, but it didn't really seem to go anywhere. You can't create subclasses of any of their objects because they like using static methods versus singleton instances. It's really stupid and it really ties you to using parse. You also have shit like this everywhere:

NSString *someval=[pfobject objectForKey:@"shit"];

Where this would be preferred:

NSString *someval=mySubclass.shit;

So you can create a wrapper/shim for PFObject, but that doesn't float across queries returning arrays of objects.

And, yes, I considered writing my own wrapper around their REST API but I don't have that kind of time.
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Hey Knwang, I am the creator of EasyBill. The service uses Stripe's Javascript API, it communicates directly with Stripe's servers to create the Credit Card token. The site actually does not intercept any customer credit card info. But thanks for the feedback, can you give me an idea how you could be made more confident with the service?
Sorry, confused my acronyms.

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I love the promo video, it's awesome
Why the price is so expensive, it would help people to understand and eventually invest?
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It does support server side authentication logic, it's just not very well documented yet ;-)
Love the disclaimer, love the realism ++ the idealism. F* the danger, let's board.
This is an interesting way of re-stratisfying our social hierarchy. It reminds me of a statement I read, something like "the top 1% of Americans feel they have more in common with the 1% in other countries than with the rest of the US." Except here, we're speaking of E1, not the entire 1%.

Visual diagram of the system:
E1 Super-elite
E2
E3~=G1 We think of as 1%
E4~=G2 Upper
G3~=L1 Upper Middle
G4~=L2 Middle
L3 Lower Middle
L4 Poverty
U Generational unemployment
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"Would be nice if like Google or Amazon they would release a real post-mortem post."

Possible but highly unlikely. Godaddy is "old school" which means they will release as little info as necessary and move on. They aren't interested in the hacker community. Their primary market is SMB's.
The languages that you just named are in the case where Steve Yegge and I would disagree about categorizations. Steve looked at them, looked at the kinds of guarantees that they provide, and concluded "conservative". I look at them, and notice that people using those languages don't actually go through a lot of ceremony to get those benefits. Thus they can attract people who by my definition might be anywhere in the political spectrum.

My guess would be that you don't like having a lot of excess ceremony. If so, you'd be a liberal by my definition, and would prefer liberal languages over Java.

You're in a better position than I am to say whether that shoe fits, or whether you think that my attempted categorization criteria is entirely bunk. Either way, I'd appreciate feedback because I'm always trying to improve the ways that I understand the world.
I'm not saying life expectancy tells you nothing, just that it doesn't tell you what a lot of people seem to think it tells you. If you got sick and had to pick a country to be treated in solely based on your health outcome, you'd be making a mistake to choose based on life expectancy. In the same vein: if you were picking countries based on quality of public transit nationwide, sure, life expectancy could be a counterintuitive and convoluted way to arrive at the right conclusion. But a look at an Amtrak schedule would tell you pretty much the same thing without the tea leaf reading. Everyone knows that Europe and Japan have denser public transit than the US.
If by "impressive tech" you mean "unmuffled, high-pitched, blue-smoke-spewing, 10cc-ish two-stroke chainsaw engine controlled by a deadman/lever throttle", then you're right. There wasn't much about them that wasn't offensive to everybody except the rider (and the few riders of those contraptions that I knew seemed to take particular delight in the offensiveness of their machines).
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The singleton pattern he presents is pretty common and pretty powerful. It is a self-invoking module. It allows you to use the module pattern (very solid js pattern) and probably has less code than your method.

Also, javascript has closures, use them. this._private is a hacky java-esque way of doing things. return {public_methods...} is a solid way of working towards the strengths of the language and doing proper js encapsulation.

As for the prototype pattern, there are a million ways you can do that. Best to learn the fundamentals so you can use whatever works best based on the situation.

edit: I should add that one of the reasons I like JS patterns is that there are multiple correct ways to implement them based on the situation. There are many wrong ways too, of course :) but it is a very flexible language.
My current family and financial situation is such that it'd be possible to move to SF for the course, but difficult (not quite impossible!) to stay for a job afterwards. Do any of the companies who have signed on to hire graduates allow remote workers and/or offer jobs at locations other than SF?
Then they are screwing around. At that stage they have your resume and know your experience. I tell recruiters my salary to save time but ymmv.
That makes perfect sense. It's the fork+exec that makes it dangerous (e.g. in the CGI context). This is something I've been wondering about and you have just provided a jolt of clarity. Many thanks, again.
Nice interface. I like how the smart prioritization and timeline add context to the end customer. This looks like a useful community management tool.

I don't understand the customer support aspect of the tool beyond offering a customer view and messaging. The video demo glosses over what a customer support issue would look like since the person had already figured out the problem by the time Support could respond. Can you offer a demonstration of what an exchange might look like if support was needed?

Also, your use of the word "proactive" made me think that the tool helps anticipate problems. Every example demonstrated reaction(sending emails after a sign-up or payment event). Even your Crewpedia case study was a reactive example because support had to respond and make changes to the UI based on how people were using the page. Can you offer some examples of how the tool allowed users to expect an event? Otherwise, I suggest using a different word such as "insightful" or "contextual".
Ah, you are talking about a momentary decrease in the rate during a time of enormous change.

In the long run, population grows to the limits of resources. Natural selection always selects for more descendants, and the population always hits the resource limits. The only alternative is for natural selection to cease operating.

Incidentally, population growth has not flatlined uniformly in First World countries. There are identifiable subgroups that have very high fecundity, and whose descendants are capable of eating any possible green revolution within a few centuries at the most.
I use Recurly, which is similar to all these guys and they have a monthly fee. What makes it with paying is: Easier PCI, prebuilt code to process cards against different merchants and more code that handles the whole billing process which I don't have to write.
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Was responding to the silly parent post, claiming similar nonsense.
This seems obvious these days, but I imagine that in the 80's this was considered dangerous and edgy.
The device doesn't need to be internet connected if you use the app. An iPod Touch does the job just as well as SMS, though you need to make sure the times are synchronized.
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"The way it's described now is a weakness in their infrastructure"

Godaddy has plenty to lose by f-ing up. And to my knowledge (as a somewhat small competitor; I'm just pointing that out so my thoughts are taken in context) they have a fairly robust system (anecdotal) for the amount of data they manage. My issues with godaddy (as a competitor) were always on the sell side, the issues of constantly selling you things you don't need etc. Technically I really didn't have any issues with them.
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I added information to the landing page. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Right now its going to be completely free with no charges added to transactions. I was thinking I might charge for themes/customization down the road.
One says it "changed his life."

I would genuinely like to hear more about this.
I personally use small fonts in my editor so that I can see more code at once. So I don't notice how big the font is.

But as my eyes get worse, I may be forced to adjust. :-(
Then that's a nice narrator you have there!
At a 1,000$ pricepoint I'm not so sure it will be good enough for the masses, especially for such a standard powered longboard setup. Longboards can be found for 100$, add two 50$ brushless motors, a belt-drive setup and a controller, I don't think they can justify that profit margin.
I'd expect that with a BMW StreetCarver truck setup, it would be a much easier sell (in fact I would probably buy one).
With regards to the product design, I think you'll find the unsupported belt pulley to cause motor failure in normal use (these type of brushless motors are not designed for sideloading, even with dual ball bearings).
I think that's point of the name.
Gnome 3 gets a ton of hate, but I'm using it now and it's quite nice.
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While not exactly what you're looking for, I believe a few of the Hungry Academy graduates will be relocating to Portland after graduation. So if (a big if perhaps) you can pull the 5 months away from the area for the class, you don't necessarily have to permanently relocate.
Mostly the usual jargon, though "plat-ag" is pretty annoying.

What's up with the wikipedia entry from Collaborative Consumption? There's a npov problem there. "Collaborative Consumption is disrupting outdated modes of business", for example. The whole thing reads like it was written by a Growth Hacker (tm). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_consumption
(Ignore the horrible website) What are your thoughts on this? http://www.metro-board.com/ How does your board compare to the metro board? What makes it special?
I don't think he means you replace your email with this, just have this as a public email. You will still give coworkers or collaborators your regular address and they could send you long code and messages, but strangers wouldn't be able to.

And obviously if you are in a position where strangers should send you random unsolicited code or long messages you should just not use this.
I really like the design. Very clean.
Does it do regenerative braking?
Paleo is different from Atkins in the area of food quality. Paleo stresses the importance of quality foods where Atkins originally ignored it.
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Glad to see progress, but the big gotcha is that even though you can specify quantity of subscriptions, you still can't subscribe them to multiple types of plans. Seems like thats the next step...
Life expectancy is not entirely medical and is not a particularly good way to compare countries. Consider that among the top causes of death in the US are "accidents" (predominantly motor vehicles) and suicide, both of which are anomalously high in the US.

Maybe I am getting it wrong but does it matter how you die? Generally speaking (averaged out,) if you live in US and do what the average person does, you will get in accidents and deal with the pressures that push some to suicides (around 10 to 22 per 100,000 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-14/suicide-rates-rise-... .) Even if you are careful, the recently licensed teenager, to stereotype, can ram his car into yours.
That's cool, I was mainly just commenting on the LinkedIn aspect. Monster.com was probably the biggest mistake I ever made, it took 5+ years for my info to get fully removed there (or at least for the random spambot recruiters to stop spamming me).
I was just about to say that! Very smart to target the developer audience by focusing on how they will interact with the product (also brave).
Correct. Due to Government policies on broadband and telecomm in general, effectively no competition exists in most urban areas for broadband access.

So, these 6 (or so) ISPs can make an abusive "6 Strikes" copyright regime into de facto national law.
It's just the newest way to handle pre-orders, which companies (including YC companies) have been doing for years.
Are they waterproof? Could I ride this in Seattle & SF rain all the time without damaging it? Otherwise it's just a fair weather vehicle and it's not something I can rely on.

If not, why would I choose this over all the other electric skateboards?

Is it safe to use on the steep downgrades you have in SF? Is it useless to use when going uphill on those same hills?
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The "trouble" with such a warning system is that at its base is he presumption of positively identifying the infringer. Sure, and ISP can say "such-and-such activity violates our ToS, and you're responsible for all traffic on your account", but identifying a particular individual's traffic (from a content-owner's perspective) seems to be difficult given the increasing frequency of IP-as-identification being tossed from U.S. courts.

So, the biggest practical question in my mind is how they plan to reconcile penalties for individual infringers against the rights of the account holder.
No aversion at all. I've read that some receiving mail systems do that automatically, and I've seen this in emails I've received. But I'm not sure if the typical email client, or even a web-based one like Gmail, does that for you. For example I care about typography and want to pick a better font. That goes out as HTML. I don't think any of the clients I use send both the plaintext and HTML as multiparts. I'll take a look.
Ah yes, that could be it. I don't think I would advise a startup to do that though. If you have to be that heavy-handed to make it spread, what that really means is that the site isn't good enough.
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We're already almost there.

Try being truly anonymous on the Internet these days. It's near impossible. Most online vendors won't accept pre-paid credit cards. Many email providers require you to provide a phone number or another email address as "verification".

Even posting on forums is difficult, because while Tor is decent for fetching data, some websites blacklist Tor IP addresses (or, even if they don't, there's a chance you may be sharing an IP address with someone who was banned from a forum).
I remember you wrote in an essay, that the Segway 'failed' because it makes people look lazy, like a 'smug', when they ride it and that changing the position to skateboard style might be the only change required. [1]

Well, its not a Segway yet, but seem like we're getting there. But maybe this is the optimum already.

edit: found it
[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html
Ask HN: Experience with co-founder search sites?
Looks like there is no shortage of startups that attempt to match potential co-founders. From a quick search I came across names such as startupwithme, cofounderslab, founderdating and matchfounders but I'm sure there are more. Has anyone used any of these? Do they work (for some definition of "work") in general? Any specific anecdotes, positive or negative, you can share?
"all I could think was that this will change how we interact with our cities."

Anyone else reminded of Dean Kamen's predictions for the segway?
Also, it would be really cool if a few years from now, the board became the battery.
How about an app that donates the 20 bucks it costs to send someone an email to charity? Seems like it would have a built in marketing strategy.
This reminds me about http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/the-morning-mail-is-my-... -- where E.B. White sends back an aggressive letter to a kid's piece of fan mail (The kid questions why he hasn't written another book, he claims that he could write another book if only he didn't receive as much fan mail).

What I'm getting at is that your current idea has more applications other than a simple VC pitch -- but expanding it to celebrity's sounds more like a Mickey Mouse Fan club subscription than email.
You now log in to your accounts with your email address, so account discovery is something of a moot point.
with kickstarter raising capital is now a user acquisition strategy. way cooler than some old dude with money that distracts you for months, takes equity and doesn't bring you users nor added visibility.
How are you cooling the motors?
What I don't understand is why the screenshot would contain your literal realm id, and not a hash that only Blizzard could understand.

As long as Blizzard is the only party that can glean meaningful information from these watermarks I see no problem with it.
The planes and balloon are upside down relative to the earth and the man is skydiving in the wrong direction.
For every 1 passenger killed in the US, almost 3 drivers are killed. Given that the mean occupancy per car in the US is something between 1.3 and 1.7, it seems very unlikely that back seat restraints are a significant contributor to these statistics.
Helping subclassing to work more smoothly is definitely on our minds. A lot of people do subclass PFObject right now, and as you point out that means you need to handle queries in a slightly different way. It could be nicer, though, and we intend to make it nicer.
Web browsers seem to handle malicious web pages just fine. Why is email so special?
Here's the thing with attempting to analyze data like this. You can't work backwards from the group of CEOs to show that these factors are what cause them to be in this group. There are many tall, white, Ivy-League men named Peter, Bob, or Jack, who are not CEOs. This data doesn't tell you what to do (or be born with) in order to be a Fortune 500 CEO, but it does give you a hint at what to look at. To really be interesting, you would have to go back and say "people named Jack are over represented in the Fortune 500 CEO set."
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It would certainly be in GoDaddy's interests to claim a technical fault, rather than admit to a hack, which implies lax security.
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But even by what you write, it's not convincing, though, is it? Behind some major countries on a number of common cancers, but in the lead on others. I mean, it's clear that the US is not lagging. But it's not a convincing lead either. And you need to look at the variances. From looking at the per 100K deaths, many of the US leads are in the region of 10%, but the variances between different European countries is much larger than that.

But the US is definitely in the lead on breast cancer. No doubt about that.
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In other words, you think car quality in the US is lower than that of countries like Tajikistan, Swaziland, Kazakhstan, and Ecuador. When you say "OECD", you might as well say "the entire world". I officially doubt your statistics.
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They are likely doing both. KickStarter allows them to show proof of interest without actually having to build the product, which paves the way for a big VC round.
possibly the subcultures that emerge to complain about the backward-ass mainstream within the company, i.e. having something to gripe about with your coworkers is a bonding force.
Hope the Twine ships eventually, it's such a slick solution. A few years ago I wired up my office basil plant to a moisture sensor so it could post to its Facebook page (Basil Green) when it needed watering. Being tethered to a computer was sort of overkill since the real data rate was three or four bits per day.
This guy seems to be full of crap to me.

Did you see the Pastebin he posted?

"cool wow godaddy is so safe lol i just found 51 vulnerabilities http://pastebin.com/EdCDaqQy "

It's a bunch of form POST values he got 302 redirects back from? No indication of XSS at all. What's this dude going on about?
What happens if someone opts not to go ahead with the transaction? I don't see a cancel button on any of the forms ...
My practical reason against this? I'm young. I have 80k in student loan debt. I can make headway into my indentured servitude (and create space to later accept greater risk) even as an early developer in a startup, throwing money at those loans. I can also learn from that experience, and build up my own projects with friends in my spare time that will likely blossom into a company someday. But I can't yet afford to pay myself on a shoestring.
Every time someone posts one of those "world's most biased" libertarian political quizes, I tend to link to the New and Improved World's Greatest Political Quiz:

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Also the screen sticks out of the front of the phone in a design that looks ready to snag everything: the inside of your pocket, the corner of your ear, the webbing between your fingers. That looks seriously painful, and I can see the screen getting hit from the side and shattering/chipping.
There is virtually no piracy of Hollywood movies, at least in the U.S., thanks to their strenuous enforcement of copyright. If piracy were rampant, you could buy the latest blockbuster for $0.50 at Wal-Mart on opening day. (Hint: the actual price is jacked up one or two orders of magnitude by the MPAA's jack booted thugs.)
You're assuming that anyone in these large organizations has enough control and pays enough attention to dictate how entire systems work. Usually it's more of a patchwork that gets developed over time by many people, none of whom sees the whole picture.
Ask PG: Will YC continue with the no idea experiment for the W13 batch?
That wikipedia link is interesting - almost in every single country, male suicides are much higher than female suicides, in some cases 4 to 5 times more.
Which email?
Strictly speaking Ogre is just a 3d engine. But yes, would be nice to hear how people see this comparing against ogre + pile of open source libs + custom game logic core.