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Ask HN: Can I trust this NZ company?
So I have just discovered this company called SwipeHQ. They offer a service where you don't need a merchant back account to accept credit card payments. They only charge 2.75% per transaction and nothing else[1]. This sounds really good.

I'm looking at using them for a company where almost all of the revenue will be small ($5 - $50) online credit card transactions but as SwipeHQ seem to be new I'n not sure if this may be risky. What sorts of questions should I ask to check out how safe they are? Has anyone here used their service yet?

[1] http://www.swipehq.com/checkout/credit-card-payment-gateway.php
> My point is that some property rights can arguably be seen as natural rights, while others definitely cannot be interpreted that way. Copyright is unquestionably not a natural right.

This "natural rights" talk sounds like theology to me. From an anthropological perspective, humans invented intellectual property around the time it became useful, just as humans invented land ownership around the time that became useful. You can say the same about owning shares of a business or owning currency. These are exactly the artificial property rights you need for capitalism, and you need government for those rights, and hence capitalism, to actually work.
What you're missing here is that the free google apps was a way for admins to get their hands into the GA ecosystem. Google already offers the product for free, just so long as you use an @gmail.com address.
You're off by an order of magnitude. There's also a shorter way to compute percentages since (5x100)/(3000x100) = 5/3000

5/3000 = 0.16%.
> Incidentally, most of my notoriety at Google (if people
> still know of me, and I honestly have no clue) comes
> from the fact that I raised the game quality issue and
> drew negative attention from powerful people (contrary
> to Google's professed "we welcome disagreement" ethos).

It is unlikely that the Google engineers present during your employment will ever forget you. Indeed, the story of Michael Church continues to echo throughout mailing lists across all of engineering.

However, I doubt this is only because you irritated senior executives by sending them rambling manifestos about the inherent superiority of your self-designed card game. Although that may have been the origin of your legend, it was not truly cemented until you cross-posted them to a company-wide mailing list and then engaged in a flamewar against all comers.

After your resignation, some of us compared notes on who had received the most disproportionate response to criticism. I was sure that being called a child molester in reply to pointing out your lack of credible accomplishment would win me first, but sadly I did not even place in the top three.
I'm glad I already have my Google Apps accounts setup. I rarely even use the web interface except from work. At home it's all IMAP and Android.

At $50 / year for Google it's cheaper to buy a domain from GoDaddy and pay for email services (webmail + IMAP) that are automatically tied to your domain.
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This is what you would call a voting ring.
I find people who expected- no, wanted- something to suck, will be predisposed to think it sucks until rigorously proven otherwise.
Think about how that conversation would go:

"Dear Onity, I found a security problem in your product that will cost you millions of dollars to fix. Fix it now or I'll go tell the world about it."

I'd be afraid my car would blow up the next time I turn the key.
Free? That's being being pretty disingenuous considering Google is an Advertising/Tracking company with the number one search engine in the world. No one uses any Google service or app for free so technically it was not a "free service". They should be upfront with people in the beginning if they don't want people bitching.
Be aware that you will burn some customers and lose them. Customer feedback is a scarce resource that you can burn up before converting it to an asset.
Same here, tried entering +, no plus, just the mobile number etc. Also on iPhone 4 and I'm in Australia
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I don't understand what point you're trying to get across here. Aren't you just as likely to forget to check a google apps mail as a regular gmail? Or are you describing a bug? Isn't that still equally likely with either option?

Aren't both options crushed in effectiveness by redirecting to your main account, whatever that is?
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Completely off topic, but rather than watch the video on autoblog.com I followed the link direct to youtube, but I got distracted by the "mom's reaction to 1250whp twin turbo" on the right hand side "Related Videos" section, Just a quick peek right, can't hurt!

But then I got curious about this video poster, RobertHimler, and looked at some of his other his videos, and them stumbled across his Australian girlfriend Amy Sangster, and her success in foreign exchange trading, and his 17 lamborghinis, and they're both 22 years old and retired from the rat race and HOLY SHIT BALLS THESE PEOPLE HAVE AMAZING LIFESTYLEZ YO

And he is an amazing web developer who has created 8 different sites and a photo app that rivals flickr and instagram, and he's been programming since he was 8 years old, and a self-made multi-bazillionaire

And now he's selling an e-book on the internet how you too can have the amazing lifestyle and own crazy expensive sports cars and attractive partners, and it just stinks of some sort of super scam, but wow, what a story, and it kept me entertained to do back ground hunting on the two of them for 15 minutes, and it was an unexpected trip, so thanks.

It's an engaging white collar 411 scam (without the murder). How do people actually fall for this stuff?
I like this and i think this is very interesting.
Sounds like that gearbox is a little slow, throw a little long, on the upshift. Might need to get that checked.
Is launching a mens apparel line for tall men a good thing?
Well, yes and no.

You may know that the market wants your product, but the exact feature set and usability requirements are probably still a mystery, and will almost certainly need to be refined anyway after launch no matter how long you preemptively perfect it.

In the rare instance you describe, I would still look to launch quickly, just maybe not recklessly quick.
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Tried using this source. Can't seem to get the number and MAC combination right.

Using my own phone and account BTW.
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I don't see how hours viewed is material at all. It doesn't even reflect the number of users, just usage. If 1,000 users watch 24 hours per day non stop, it doesn't mean more money for Netflix.

There is a lot of serious stuff going on out there that SEC should be pursuing, not nonsense like this.
Your product will probably still suck. But launching early and getting feedback from stakeholders will help you craft the product into something that doesn't.
Quoting a comment from the article:

What an idiot! Insider information is only for the very rich and people in the government!
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Get on with the times SEC.
You get it right, from the parts of the debate I followed this is their main argument - "they display extracts of our texts, and people then don't visit our page but stay on Google News", which is of course unprovable.

(you could get the amount of people clicking through by stopping to list these snippets - the visitors you loose are the visitors that used to click through)

Another thing to add is: Google runs no ads on Google News, so _directly_ they don't make any money using other people's news (indirectly by binding customers etc.)
Its a result of a/b testing done 5 months earlier:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/03/free-google-apps-sign-up-pa...
G+ is very pedestrian. There's no draw outside of Hangouts.
People in need of more than a few accounts would blow through the free version quickly.
> Hangouts are the killer app of Google+.

Very much so. My brother and I live in different countries in Europe and the other day, we were able to have a video conversation (through a Google Hangout) with both our phones over cellular network (I was taking a walk in a park).

I'm a tech person but even I was floored this was even possible.
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Content may be a 100 billion a year industry, but copyright violation does not put that full $100 B at risk.

Why settle on the pre-Bono copyright term? Why do you pick that instead of the original 14 years + 14 year renewal?

I think you've already decided you want copyright more or less the way it is, so you throw copyright doves a bone (breadcrumb?) by offering a single undo, and hope someone bites.

If you try to examine copyright law from basic principles, rather than from the perspective of the status quo, it becomes very tough to support even the pre-Bono copyright terms of life+50 years (personal) or 75 years (corporate), automatic, with registration only required to collect punitive damages, but not required to sue (harass) arguably legitimate fair users of content.

How does compulsory licensing work without capping license fees? Content creators have a monopoly. Forcing them to charge something for licensing does no good; they can set the price arbitrarily high.

If you cap the fees, you have to have a very complex formula so that you can arrive at a maximum license fee, given an arbitrary piece of intellectual property, and some arbitrary proposed licensed use of that IP.

Complex regulation like that invites abuse by anyone with the resources to lobby, so it becomes a lobbying contest rather than an attempted equitable settlement (how do you judge what's fair pricing for license of IP that's held by a monopoly?). If that wasn't bad enough, by capping fees you've effectively partially socialized the IP content industry: The free market and private industry would no longer be the primary drivers of the economics of IP.

I think everyone, even copyright doves like myself, fantasize about creating some incredibly desirable piece of IP that we can live off of for life. We just differ in the judgment of effectiveness, actual financial benefit, and collateral damage related to taking legal action against non-for-profit filesharers.

I am only addressing the political and legal problems here; not the practical, ethical, and technological enforcement problems, of which I think there are many.
"I would serve this as a challenge for the Lean Startup community. Especially the ones with the really audacious goals. Sometimes they start audacious because otherwise the product will never get to market. The Macintosh, that product had to exist in its entirety for people to wrap their heads around it,” he said, pointing to modern entrepreneurs like Elon Musk’s ventures as ones that can’t be done on a small scale at first. "You got to get the rocket into space."

http://gigaom.com/2012/12/03/marc-andreessen-not-every-start...
I think it's easily worth $50 a year even for a single user with a personal domain, but then again, I'm kind of particular with my email. Whenever I need to use an email address, I use sitename.com@mydomain.com. Since only my family and friends use my real email address, everything else is easier to filter/label, and if some site gives my address out it's easy to track down who it was.

To do this without having to manually create each address before I used it, I had to enable a catch-all address for my domain. Originally, I had my hosting provider (who are great) as the MX and they would simply forward it all on to Gmail. Well, sooner or later they determined that the massive amount of was killing their server, and politely asked if I could either disable the catch-all or find another MX (though they weren't firing me as a customer, yet). Even though my host has always been reasonable, $100ish/yr with them wasn't enough for me to use email the way that I intended.

This is where Google Apps comes in -- they are now my MX, and so my host is happy and my email arrives faster than it did before. In that light, $50/yr is a steal!

Being grandfathered in as free is a nice loyalty-builder, hopefully it stays free.
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"If you can distill your idea to its kernel of truth and launch that, and don't get customers, that's either a big marketing problem, or the market saying it doesn't need your solution." Right.
Most people I see on G+ when I approach them and ask in person did not even know they had a G+ account... but guess what, they did have a Google Account for Youtube and Gmail.

You can see more and more G+ integration into Youtube, why not just turn Youtube into G+ altogether?
Well... fair enough.

If you use google apps already, nothing changes (if I'm reading this correctly?)

If you're thinking about using google apps, you've got to pay for it now.

Yes, this benefits no one but google. Then again, google has been providing benefit to millions of people with google apps. Running your own e-mail server is not trivial. There's a reason there are no good gmail alternatives--it's harder than it looks.

If I were them, I would have charged for it from the beginning--it's a really useful service. And they could have been real dicks by forcing all current free users to start coughing up dough.
Words have meaning. Being in a minority doesn't mean abnormal. You may not intend it to be a value judgement, but it clearly is when you're referring to a group of people. Perhaps in a clinical setting normal/abnormal doesn't have any perjorative qualities, but in normal day to day use it does.

Your question is also a non sequiter. Computer usage patterns aren't always correlated to either proficiency in programming or computer experience. For example, I know many commercial programmers who have the most simplistic understanding of their OS, be it Linux, OSX or Windows. They don't understand the difference between CISC/RISC, nor do they exhibit a greater facility with various application than non-programmers. As I've said before, computer knowledge is a continuum, and trying to pigeonhole users into neat categories is foolish. There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't. Neither are better than the other, and calling some normal with the subtext that they're inferior to computer geeks is elitist.
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> Not to mention that if you're on my network a "Whatapp" account is the least of my concerns.

How about if you're on someone else's network (work, a friend's, an airport, etc...)
Good question. I am in thinking this problem. After some thoughts, IMHO, for the individual or small team, the only that we want is a email fowarding server. We do not need a full-fledged email server at all. We can just forward the incoming emails into the destination by a tiny work. We can choose the backend email server like Gmail or others. In this kind of mode, we minimize the cost of a home-made email server. However, excepted that several over-killed servers, I have not found a simple/concise implementation of my idea. It is not hard, and may be a little trivial in fact. I am planning to write a Java or Dart powered. But I have not started on this apsect now:) If other NHers know such kind of a simple email forwarding server app, please share it here for us:)
>Do I get a pony now?

No, but you get an award for snarky 4-chan like behavior.
The shame is that the "social" features of the old Google Reader were better than current G+.
Most pertinent observation: there isn't much money in startups. The odds truly are horrendous.

Even from YC, the average exit is only $2M. From other accelerators, the total of all exists is well below what most founders want for their own exit.

This might explain why companies are so quick to jump on $10M aquihire deals.

Conclusion? If you want financial gain from a startup, go for sustainable revenue and building a real profitable business. Or get into YC and be one of their more successful bets.

Granted, there may be a lot more exits in the future from some of these accelerators, but it's doubtful that will change the averages by any order of magnitude.

Perhaps we should ask ourselves, why do these investors stick around?
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> Which would be great if checking a feed meant more than logging into your gmail.

If you read the actual announcement it would be clear that when they say "stream-actives", they are not including people logging into Gmail.

"Today Google+ is the fastest-growing network thingy ever. More than 500 million people have upgraded, 235 million are active across Google (+1'ing apps in Google Play, hanging out in Gmail, connecting with friends in Search...), and 135 million are active in just the stream."

Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-communities-an... (which is linked from the Wired article)
>Whoa..that's a pretty serious claim..seriously? If yes, then I think it really is the start of a new revolution...

Or the peak of a fad that will get them running to their old dbs...
Suppose we were to send in people to help everyone in the US to access all the educational opportunities that are available to them. This would still be a USA in which public schools are funded by regional property taxes — and thus a USA in which the schools in the poorest neighborhoods get a small fraction of the funding of the schools in the richest neighborhoods. Surely, then, average outcomes would still differ radically by region.

I think you've got a very good point at its core — people are heavily influenced by what they see around them; and, even keeping education expenditure distributed as-is, people can make a huge difference in others' lives by showing a good example and by passing on information on how to achieve in spite of circumstances. A limiting factor is lack of understanding on how to get ahead, yes — but, statistically, that seems likely to be only a small part of the story.
If you are interested in the root of this methodology, consider reading Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno. Page 17 starts the discussion on how asking Why Five times is a method of determining root cause. This book isn't popular, but is worth your time.

http://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Production-System-Beyond-Large-...
I think this is a better approach to 20% time. Allowing 90 days of uninterrupted work is more likely to produce meaningful results.
I wonder if you tried to email Larry or Sergey.
Exactly. The value plans start to look really nice as you add more users, especially with the $0 add a line promotion they had a few months back (and still might have).
The same thing applied to the removal of the search term with the https connections. 'We're doing it for the privacy of our users'. The same users who will have the keyword information handed over, gladly, if you just pay Google.

The wording was awful, and this and that go to show how long the 'don't be evil' mantra is dead.

I'm all for Google yanking their free Apps account. It's their product, and people can't rightly bitch about something free being removed from the market.

However, it's using politician-grade spin to try and convince smart people that 1=2 which is the insulting bit.
I've bought mario 64 and ocarina of time 3 times each. (N64, ds systems, and on the wii.) My wii disc drive broke 6 months ago. I tried to repair it, and I failed, as i broke the connection of the data ribbon to the disc drive. This faulty repair to the disc drive then made virtual console games unplayable, even though they make no use of the disc drive.

Nintendo won't transfer my purchases to new hardware, whereas my physical copies of the game all still work the same as the day I bought them. I could pay Nintendo 80 dollars to repair my drive to recover ~150 dollars worth of downloaded games.

I'm not buying these games for a fourth time, and I do not recommend buying any downloadable products from Nintendo.
This is a big win for SpaceX, as USAF was considering signing a deal keeping ULA as their exclusive launch partner through 2018. Musk lobbied against it, and won.
The only way to win is for everyone else not to play. Hmmmm.
Google decides to charge money for providing a valuable service. Crazy!
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I think it is different when you are selling to enterprises, they will only be so forgiving. What do you think?
It's an interesting question. Interestingly enough if you can get past the chicken and egg stage, it would appear as though it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy - ie, selling the information on how you got rich might eventually get you rich.

I remember sitting through a seminar which was touted as a sober investment discussion but turned out to be a get-rich-quick scheme. The guy had all the same things - photos of him in Ferraris, awesome looking girlfriend despite him being a very plain, overweight dude, and pictures of his amazing houses.

I was thinking at the time how easy it would be to make a slideshow like that, throw in some very generic advice and sell a couple of hundred 'kits' a night at a few thousand a pop. You could easily end up with said Ferrari and house if you could keep it rolling for a year or so.

That is, if you could live with your conciensce.
We have a paid for google apps for business account. Every time I've called for support (email from a particular domain never getting to us, emails to a particular domain never getting to them, queries about outages) I've gotten a very pleasant voice who tells me in no uncertain terms that nothing is wrong, everything is okay, and could I please just f*ck on off and be a happy cog now. So, the service is weak to nonexistent, but at least the people on the phone are apologetic and nice.
What's bad about it? It has a fairly low "information density" (because it's a boring time series) but there's no other real sins I can think of. It's the authors of pretty (but useless) infographics who generally need to be beaten to death with the collected works of Edward Tufte.
Nice to see that this independent report confirms what I've posited earlier in "You Can Go It Alone" thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4799752
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I hope they don't do this with Google Analytics next. Not just because it is a great product to get for free (I'm a massive fan vs other systems). To me it would seem wrong to come into the market @ free, wipe out or reduce much of the competitors and then expect everyone to pay up now they have a market dominance.
Ask HN: In Subversion, how best to set up a new major version of my application.
I'm about to start work on a new version (version 4) of my commercial application. I use Subversion.

Based on your experiences, mistakes, and successes, how would you recommend I set up the new version in Subversion?

Here's some info: I intend to keep releasing critical updates in version 3 for some time after version 4 is released. However all development of new features will be solely in version 4.

In case it is relevant: I'm a solo developer on this product, and that is likely to remain the case.