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> So, yeah. What exactly is it that's so amazing about stripe?

You have to remember, they are a Y Combinator funded start-up and this is a Y Combinator site, so there is a fair amount of hype on here about Stripe.

That said, I think they are doing something interesting and useful (in a real-world commerce sense), and wish them well with it.
Really puts in context the arab spring.
You should read the article you so hastily posted. It supports the claim 2007 with a number of 35%. Granted, there are many ranges being thrown out, but the general trend (stated in the article you quote) is that it's well south of 50%, and continuing to move in that direction.
For this to be truly safe, we need DANE and to stop using .com/.net/.org as the US government will (demonstrably) hijack those as required without due process.

DANE + DNSSEC + soverign TLDd might solve this problem - emphasis on might.
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When I was reading this article, I thought "that's why startups need mentors".

I should have guessed you are one :)

I'll definitely get a mentor when I get started (fortunately there are several mentoring program over here in Uruguay), some are global programs like Endeavor and other are sponsored by the local chambers.
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> Our site is temporarily unavailable due to routine maintenance.

Isn't it weird to do a maintenance during a sale?
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>We like to project an unsurprised, unperturbed, and confident attitude. But thinking "I knew it all along" can...

For anyone who's interested in these topic and how people behave when facts are presented in one way or another, take a look at this book. In my opinion, it's completely worth reading this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Is-Obvious-Common-Sense/dp/...
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I don't know who bob44 is, but you should chill out. Whoever he is, he's pretty much on the ball.

> What does it say about your mental sanity ?

Really? This is really what you think HN is about? Because comments like this bring down HN, more so than anything bob44 said. If anything, you just gave what he said credence.

So either start acting mature, or leave.

Seriously, "What does it say about your mental sanity?" Really?
I suspect they don't mean that. I'll wager that's a default message and that, in fact, their site is overloaded.
This is off topic, but I'm just curious. If you've been together for 17 years now, why are you not married?

This is not a criticism/flame/whatever, just curious.
Oh, likewise - I think they've real promise, but they're in a crowded marketplace with a lot of really entrenched players.

I guess their principle differentiator is the market they target - but pitching to developers is a big bet. If you've worked around enough enterprises you know by now that developers have little say in business decisions - meaning that their main opportunity is to be chosen by startups, and to hope to high hell that one of them makes it big, and piggyback - and hope to high hell that a big player doesn't use their clout and cash to undercut them and shoulder them out.

Either way, kudos to them for building what's undeniably a good product, but I just don't see it as a gamer-changer in the same way as others seem to.
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Similar article : http://rahulbijlani.com/essays/you-are-not-running-out-of-ti...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2778342
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This is a nice way on how to make conferences interesting. Get instant feedback on the Wall and shape the conference by ongoing feedback!
The TLDR here is that the OP is a nihilist and all that really matters is your own happiness.

He ignores the fact that some of us aren't happy unless we are doing something that stands to make a double-digit percentage of humans on Earth happier, cleaner, safer, healthier, or more efficient.

We, the readership of HN, are privileged beyond imagination. For the most part, we are rich white educated American males. This affords us leverage in almost everything we do - some of us have actually achieved what I've described and it is not unreasonable for just about any of us to believe we can do the same...

...PROVIDED WE STOP WASTING TIME AND GET TO WORK.
> It's nicely written - but a nicely written API doesn't make a product.

I believe you should revisit that assumption. Stripe is successful because of its API and UI. Likewise, Facebook and the iPhone largely succeeded because of their UI and API.
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Indeed, the advantage of online political tools is that they reduce significantly the effort required to contribute.
If there's one thing I've seen in common among entrepreneurs who've been successful and started young, it's an absence of parenting, or at least very hands-off parenting.

Having mom or dad to go running to trains you to spend your entire life hiding under the wing of "mom" or "dad". Having parents who go "So?" when you go "Timmy hit me at school" teaches you to sort out your own problems and find your own solutions.

The vast majority of people I know who've made it/are making it (the one's who're actually profitable, or have product(s) attracting investment) have either no, or highly dysfunctional, relationships with their parents.
adopt me please :D
This actually sounds pretty interesting to me as a programmer. I'm surprised there aren't small shops of highly skilled and well-paid workers eating everyone else's lunch (or are there?).
Ireland's cost of living has been in decline in recent years due to the recession triggered by the global credit crunch and a substantial local property market collapse. For example, this is from 2009:

"Biggest drop in cost of living since 1933" http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/biggest-drop-in-cost-of...

And between 2009 and now, our economy has been flat at best. I think it's important to look at all of these factors when examining a country's economy. The real problem Ireland has is unemployment: we went from ~4% to ~14% unemployment in just a few years. This has added to the decline in the cost of living however (less demand for goods and services).
Does this mean that Google datacenters are vulnerable to GPS jamming and/or spoofing now?
And how many cheat on their wife ? come it doesnt mean anything.

CORRELATION never means CAUSALITY , are we on a serious site or on the daily mail ?
Corn is in short supply and is currently being sold at record high prices. Subsidies have lead to cheap corn in the past, but corn hasn't been cheap for several years now.
I guess that those websites should serve the interests of the voters, not of the current politicians.

Why should a voter use such a website? Because his/her humble click on a Support/Oppose button could aggregate with many others' clicks and make a difference when the number of people expressing an opinion is high enough to get the attention of the politicians and of the media. The random expression of an opinion on the street influences just the few listeners that happen to be arround.
I'm happy to see relevant promos here as well because I would miss out on them otherwise, but it's a slippery slope.

Perhaps we could have a convention for post titles or a separate section for them?

Apologies if this idea has been floated and rejected before.
Space heating, water heating, refrigeration and air conditioning add up to 75% of the energy used by households in USA:
http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=us_energy_...

Although I was slightly surprised that "lighting and other appliances" is as much as 25% of the home energy use.
How is it related ? do you have sex with all the people you work with or what ? there is a difference between professional relationships and personnal ones , if you cant tell , i'm sorry for your family.
Facebook succeeded because they got the network effect right, and Zuck chose the initial rounds of members at Harvard carefully (mostly girls, mostly rabid networkers/socialisers), and the ensuing rollout to other colleges/countries were staged carefully to maximise demand.

iPhone - marketing, marketing, marketing, marketing, and the US had never really seen a smartphone before. Then, ecosystem and snowball.

That said, I agree that UI is a fundamental part of any product - API, however, not so much - Joe Public doesn't care and neither does your CFO - and as posited, developers, no matter how much we'd like to think we are, are not influencers in the markets where PSPs are entrenched.
I remember in Brasil companies throwing out their shredded docs from the office building, as confetti.
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Yeah, that is why I said "average". The average reader here is a white straight male engineer who is not interested in putting things on his rectum.
In my opinion, it looks exactly like the academic environment.

I don't see many pictures on the Raspberry Pi Foundations pages - which Tumblr seems to be 99% made out of.
I don't know if PassBook apps can even be paid, but I am working on something that's basically a PassBook app - just better. :)
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Maybe it's a good idea to explain in short why your service is better than lets say Vimeo. Now only the very curious will leave there email address.
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Possibly the biggest misstep in climate change's acceptance was calling it "global warming". People don't feel the warmer temperatures but rather feel its non-intuitive effects and crack jokes along the lines of "it's so cold right now ... whatever happened to global warming?"

Marketing's everything, and the crowd climate change has to be marketed to is scientifically illiterate and commonly anti-intellectual in nature. Perhaps it should have been called something more dire, alarming, and readily perceivable by the general population so as to be a more tangible phenomenon. I'm terrible at coming up with names though so I'll have to defer to others for ideas!
I have kind of cut down on reading fiction for that reason. The problem is that I seem to engage with factual material in shorter and more ad-hoc forms (e.g. while researching something) than reading entire books. A good balance for me would be fiction with a strong factual background. I'm looking out for recommendations of books of authors that does exactly this. In other words, recreational reading that accidentally expose me to useful facts and concepts.
Sadly very few browsers support them.
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I missed the PragProg one, slightly disappointed now I've found out about it.

The free ebook from Packt was a slight disaster, hopefully they're getting on top of it now.
I suspect there's no causation relationship between the two.

I remember reading some time ago (no link, sorry) that older, more experienced, wealthier and better connected entrepreneurs will on average outperform the stereotypical 19 year old college dropout that we on HN love to talk about. It just so happens that as you move towards the 40s and 50s you are very likely to get married and have children, but they themselves are not the cause of your success.
It's hard to believe that there are so many unregulated medical apps in the various app stores. The internet opens up such a wealth of information (and misinformation) for free, HOWEVER one thing I'll always pay a premium for is advice from health professionals.
I always thought my goal should be to become a millionaire by the time I am 30. Failing that, put money away in a pension plan in a serious way.

Then 30 happened and I was a millionaire, in the currency I grew up with and that wasn't worth much (average annual senior tech salary in a 1st world city). Expectations change, as well as the understanding of money, inflation, etc. Most importantly, that it's cheaper to hedge your bets earlier rather than later.
the actual wikipedia article pretty much says it cant.
That looks about roughly 50cm per century - which is actually about the same leven as post-glacial rebound here in Scotland:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PGR_Paulson2007_Rate_of_Li...

So the land is rising at the same level as sea levels!
Ask HN: Are we need a new distributed file system
i was have a project and this projects needs a reliable, fast, distributed file system for storing/accessing big files. (not posix compliant)

So i start to search for already invented wheels, and i found some solutions (HDFS, GlusterFS, ExtremeFS, etc.) but they have a problems like hard to configuration or hard to adding new node or getting slowing when you reach some node number even SPF and/or data loss.

And all file systems needs a effort for customisation using for web (they don't have tunable replication count for file properties and hitting traffic)

finally i convinced my self, we need a new distributed file system which covered all these needs (specially using for web projects, no SPF, minumum configuration, tunable replication, etc.)

but right now i have doubt about it, are we really need a new DFS?
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Of course, the melange of changes they come up with is self-contradictory: eliminate the mortgage deduction (deducted from income on which you pay income tax), oh, and then eliminate income tax. ditto employer health care plan deductibility, and corporate income tax. i.e.: it's linkbait blogspam of the radio variety.
I don't understand people's issue with this statistic. It's not implying causality of any form.

It's simply saying: "the common idea that the only successful entrepreneurs are workaholic young singles working days and nights is actually a misconception. Proof: 60% of successful entrepreneurs are married with children."

That's not bad statistics, it's completely helpful, if nothing else for confirming a suspicion you may have had anyways.

Bad statistics would be saying "so in order to be more successful as an entrepreneur, get married and have a kid."
He said that for him it was about winning the 'game' and getting a higher(lower) score, not about saving energy or money per se.
That first link is exactly what I hoped existed. Thanks.
If you don't like the taxes, go somewhere else, or into the black market.
This reminds of a chapter or section of an old management textbook I came across once. The section dealt with office politics and the various strategies and tactics one could use to come out on top. The whole thing was written without a trace of embarrassment. I wish I could remember the name of the book.
I remember when I was 14 and cried myself to sleep since I was in a panic about what to do in life, I realised I had so many options from going into mathematics, medicine, engineering or music but probably never being able to be great in more than one at a time. I felt I had to choose.

I'm 35 now and I still get that feeling sometime, but I have changed focus in my career often enough to know that you can have small successes and appreciate them.
Changed the title because imho this can be used for more types of Web Applications.
then they might actually get something done
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The Next Big Language, again?
FYI, every day at O'Reilly is 50 percent off ebooks. If you're a logged in member, one of the perpetual in house ads will be for a code for "Buy 1 ebook, get 1 free"

Also FYI, the most recent purchase I made was a book that made HN's front page last week: interactive Data Vizualization for the Web. And I highly recommend it

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026938.do
Wish is weird, because they copy pasted from the list of Jash Kenas where it is included: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
The points system on Consumating encouraged me to become social to a degree I had never been before or since. It wasn't all bad. I met my wife on the site and now we have two kids.
They have atomic clocks as a backup
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No, because they have the atomic clocks as a backup/double check.
If you read the Spanner paper, there is a hierarchy of timers involved. GPS is one level, but every datacenter also has machines equipped with atomic clocks. I suspect even with GPS failure they could run entirely on atomic clocks, it would just increase their uncertainty, which would increase the commit times (Spanner is based on the idea that a transaction is committed when the time at which it was committed is guaranteed to have passed). As far as I know, it could actually run really slowly without special timing equipment.
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You are under an illusion if you believe that you could improve life of humans on earth by a double-digit percentage.

I cannot think of a single product/thing/whatever that accomplished the goal you mentioned.

The "dent in the universe" bullshit is such hypocritical thinking that it makes me sick.
I'm not surprised Jeff's energy use is through the roof. Doesn't he have a massive workstation and home server running all the time? Not to mention charging all of the tablets and phones he must have around.
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Yes, but you capture credit card information. Google has restricted their runway of guaranteed sales to the end of the month. Once they charge everyone on backorder's credit card, then they need to go through another cataclysmic round of sales. Rather than keeping the system open, giving realistic estimates and letting people hand over credit card details ahead of time.
I was referring to (5) When possible, refer all matters to ' committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible - never less than five.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/committees/
You don't, of course. What you do is build an app which is using REST to store data somewhere online, and the app itself may be in the user's browser, on a mobile phone or anywhere else for that matter.
The unemployment rate is sorta higher, but is hidden by a lot of unskilled labour emigrating abroad for work. Irish culture has a history of accepting emmigration to find work when things are bad.

Rent and property have also fallen in value, making it cheaper to rent.
I'm getting 60% off today, not sure why. Also, one could wish to buy just one book and would still get a good discount today on that one instead of paying the full price for one and having another as an offer.
Great deal on a great book. 35% off 'C# Smorgasbord'
Dijkstra did a kind of programming distant from most of it today. If to him programming is a difficult branch of applied mathematics, then HN is a forum talking about how best to calculate your tip after dinner.
> but are they so efficient they're worth spending 3-5x the price of a standard energy efficient bulb

Don't they last like a billion years longer than even compact florescent blubs?
There are definite holes in what can be done right now. Some projects give you all of the raw tools but none of the
automatic management you need to keep something running. Others scale poorly in terms of human costs when it comes time to add new machines.

If you agree, then throw money at me and I'll build one for you. No, I'm not joking. Contact info is in my profile.
You left out one other thing. The battle lines being drawn have a lot to do with the screen proportions. iPads are notoriously not widescreen devices and here Apple is showing exactly why.
In addition to the "50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice" article that Zed links, Language Log[1] is a great source if you want to learn more about the problems with prescriptivism and Strunk and White in particular. Geoffrey Pullum is one of the founders, and he writes there often.

[1] http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/
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There are two types of developers: those who make money writing code, and those who are tinkering around (think: college students toying around with Bash scripting)

The former, like most other professionals, will gladly pay for services and products that make their business lives better. And yes, while there will always be a small (and vocal) subset of professional developers who absolutely must write their own time tracking software, the overwhelming majority will just pay for something like Freckle. It just doesn't make any economic sense to write their own.

As someone who sells three products (a SaaS, a book, and a workshop) for consultants - mainly web developers - I can tell you first hand that the biggest win for targeting this audience is that they're easier to find and sell to. Getting, say, general contractors to find your product seems complicated and pricey. Developers, on the other hand, can be an inexpensive traffic source if you're doing the right things (like writing targeted content that gets indexed and shared.)
Of course, if there were a US draft (again), there might be fewer American troops overseas, and more protest against the wars we do have. [Disclosure: about 48 years ago, I tore up my draft card and mailed it back to the draft board]
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I find the quotation marks rather snarky, but your rebuke is incorrect too. Female is defined as:

"[the] sex which produces eggs and which has XX chromosomes"

She doesn't produce eggs and she doesn't have XX chromosomes, so if you follow the strict definition she isn't female either.
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git-big-picture is a visualization tool for Git repositories. You can think of it as a filter that removes uninteresting commits from a DAG modelling a Git repository and thereby exposes the big picture: for example the hierarchy of tags and branches. git-big-picture supports convenience output options and can filter different classes of commits. It uses the Graphviz utility to render images that are pleasing to the eye.

https://github.com/esc/git-big-picture
This is cool but it's a real crack in the "walled garden"; if anybody can hack the files that "belong" to any app it could be easy to circumvent security, cheat at games, etc.
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Why exactly do Enterprisons tend to following this guidelines so precisely? Is this some kind of self-destruction mechanism built into their "dna"?
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The Curry-Howard isomorphism doesn't explain away mathematics. There are next to zero large and important theories of mathematics which have been formalized in a computer language. It's partly due to the difficulty of proof automation---the solvers are very young---but mostly because proofs are just the pickaxes for mathematics. Right now human-driven proofs are far more powerful tools.

Programming benefits greatly from a tiny section of mathematics and the more deeply the connection between the fields grows the more we'll see strong justification for universal patterns in programming and strong realization of abstract mathematics.

It's also a bit of a strawman to pick just number theory as the only field of mathematics to examine for practicality. Our world as we know it today would not exist without diffeq and your own example of machine learning really is just applications of optimization, statistics, probability, and abstract geometry.

"We need them both" is an unrefined statement. They are apples and oranges, though a mathematical programmer might be uniquely powerful as might a programming mathematician (Djikstra?).