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Ask HN: How do you process credit card payments?
How do you process credit card payments over the web?
Hardly anyone leaves comments. The idea to put comments in came from me sitting at the computer wondering if it was actually raining. I thought it would be nice if I could see if someone locally had said if it was or not(or if it had). Since no-one leaves comments it seems like a pointless feature. Not sure what to do with it now, maybe go look out the window.

Regarding the forecasts.. Yeah, it is pretty weak. I had planned on using Wunderground's API which gives you a lot more data (as I'm sure you know), but the latency is was so long that I just stuck with google. I may switch to NOAA to get more data for the current day's forecast, and current conditions. But I had spent enough time on the site and, was tired of delaying. It is just for fun, afterall.

Thanks for your feedback.
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It doesn't support japanese. 日本語. But still very good! It does support spanish though
Those reasons are exactly why I wanted to inquire about him being connected with 37s as opposed to "calling him out" for being a "copy-cat". I've seen his work on Sweetcron (which is really cool) and Peashoot looks like it would be very useful as well.
you can do as i do:

for password hint: "none"

first elementary school: "root mean square"

favorite food: "spiraling out of control"

if it's important, like a bank site, there's a way to unlock your account if you did ever lose your password. i see this as using features they didn't know that they had; specifically: "disable password hints" and "disable password alternatives"
That biases the question. Impressions without a description are more valuable. If you need a description, put it on your site.
What about this: http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/whatsnew/3.1.html#other-lang... (the fifth bullet)

It seems to make things more reasonable. After all, Python has showed that saying "that just how it works" can be avoided, as in the case of / defaulting to floating-point division.
Yeah let me know when they get a global perspective. Downvote if you will, but if I'm going to be continually subjected to this same article every 3 months, I'm going to make the same comment until they start to broaden their perspective a little.

There is a whole world out there people, start thinking that way, because your customers already are.
It sounds like the Hacker Diet is pushing for the magic here. Do extra calories you eat magically become fat? If not, then how do they become fat? If you exercise to burn fat, what's to stop you from becoming cripplingly exhausted rather than burn even a gram a fat?

If we can establish the body's mechanism for building fat or burning it, that is the thread that will unravel most fad diets, exercise regimens, and theories. If you take the time to understand the hormone feedback and homeostasis system involved in fat building/burning, then simplistic "eat less burn more" approach begins to break down. You can see that eating certain foods certain ways actually stimulates your metabolism and triggers fat burning. Also, certain approaches to exercise actually trigger fat building.

> More accurate would be food = energy, exercise = energy expenditure, obesity = prolonged energy surplus stored as fat, and weight loss = prolonged calorie deficit leading to fat reduction.

This view turns the human body into a very simple black box. That's an awfully medieval approach.
I tried:

volume of all planets / volume of a grain of sand

and I got a graph going back to 1994 of:

(the trading volume of Allstate stock)
* (volume of all planets in the solar system)
/ (volume of a grain of sand)
The site has problems with character encoding.. It is a super annoying bug that I haven't yet found the right answer to. I don't expect it'll ever fully support Japanese, but it should fail more gracefully than it does.
Where are you getting your weather data? I developed a (non-competing) iPhone weather app, and discovered that the data can be a very tricky matter.

Anyway, looks pretty good. Simple is good. I've also noticed that forecast.weather.gov is a lot nicer than, say, weather.com (no ads and all that clutter).
I was pretty sure I tried every permutation of the words "average," "height," and "human," but I guess I didn't. Bravo.
I like it.

I would only appreciate to be able to choose another city based on its geographic distance (something like "show a small list of five other cities nearest to the current one"). They might be more relevant for me at the moment.
Authorize.net - http://authorize.net/
Here's a far more comprehensive article on it: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090516/windows-7-native-v...
how do you get my ip? gets my lan ip 192.168.99.4 instead of the internet address.
And I would like to see wind speed in kilometers per hour, not mph.
Well, it's one more thing to worry about. Consider someone dropping their day job to work full time on their newly created startup. Every bit helps to save costs, which means less stress and a more enjoyable adventure.

However, are these affordable cities "at the end of the world"? I mean, incomunicated and such. I'm not American, so I can't really tell from checking the list. In that case it might end up being a burden if you don't like travelling.

But looking positively again, it could be a good opportunity to start small groups of hackers in places where there aren't any and help each other out :)
I think that you're jumping to conclusions about why it was pulled, in the midst of your post asking why it was pulled.
Now it's undead, apparently.

Zombie stories! Type as fast as you can!
It's kind of a shame that the smartphone universe is becoming so fragmented; iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Pre, whatever Nokia uses and Android. The result is a bunch of OK apps for each platform, rather than really good apps.

For me, owning a smartphone has been a big waste, since it doesn't actually do anything smart. When my contract runs out, I think I am going to get the simplest phone possible, and a 3G USB dongle so I can use a real computer for real computing. But it disappoints me, and I hope the market fixes itself.
That is me :)

1. Who makes the crawling method?
We give you the ability to write your own crawling logic. You don't have to though.. we have a default crawler that runs as well.

2. Crawling specific pages?
You can specify pages to crawl using regular expressions or your own custom code.

3. How often and what gets crawled?
Up to you :)

4. How does the data get transferred over?
It's better if you don't transfer all the data over. You can push in your own compute functions to process the data you crawl, and just return much smaller result data sets.

5. What's provided as crawl data?
You can specify the results you return in your code. It's up to you.
Cost of living affects startups in a number of ways, including the price of office space (or home rental, in the "working in the basement" stage) and the minimum salary expected by your staff (once you start hiring).

However, the areas with higher cost of living also tend to be desirable places to live, with an existing concentration of business and tech-savvy people.
It looks like it's back.
Excellent Collection of Palm Pre Images & Videos
I'm #14 for pictures of "Arnold". It's where most of my search traffic comes from despite having only one article and one picture of Arnold on one site. I wonder how I got so high for someone already famous?
I'm looking forward to someone doing some more dev on the PDA side of smartphones again.

The iPhone calendar is a toy compared to my old Treo DateBk5.
Does your LAN use a proxy? I am doing this:

@remote_ip = request.env["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]

I'm guessing that your 192.168.99.4 is being sent. The reason I grab this is because lighttpd is acting as a load balancer and I need the IP to find your location. Bummer about that.
The books go well together. "Making of" is way more hagiographic, and less detailed.

What would be really great would be a wikified list of his transactions, linked to the financial statements and news stories that were current at the time.
These points are all true, though I'd like to point out that the post is not intended to be an accurate description of history or implementation. It is meant as a teaching tool, hence the label "parable."
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/12/linux-on-a-potato.html
Don't fall into the trap of labeling people "fanboys".

I do agree though. It follows that once you realize how fantastic most Apple products are, it's likely Microsoft will look like utter garbage in comparison. Just like once you've driven a Ferrari, driving a Ford Focus will probably be a pretty rubbish experience.
So something new comes up, and people just want to beat it to the ground, over and over. I guess that's the only thing that sells, lately ¬_¬
Its pretty much the situation in Google and no one doubts they are for the long run

Your arguments are ok, except for the advertising which I think its pretty effective online, its just that its a mystery for me how Google gets such incredible PR.
Maybe pg needs to start thinking about adding a meta-discussion section on YC.
but there were way more prospectors than there were Rockefellers.

But the fact remains that Rockefeller was a prospector. Point being that 37S uses cheerleading as advertising. Their products rely on many "prospectors" taking the plunge; leaping into the world of running a business. The more successful their customers are, they more successful they are.

Hence, many "you can do it too" messages. What's even better about the whole thing is although you can chalk this up to slick marketing, 37S - because of what I said earlier - actually do want their customers to do well.

It's a brilliant piece of positioning that creates a lot of win-wins.
Windows, and MS-DOS before it, were vastly more open to development than competing platforms. Microsoft and Borland's development tools weren't free, but they were cheap. MSDN subscriptions didn't start becoming a significant revenue source for Microsoft until well after its monopoly status was assured.
Query challenge:

When you ask for the time in an arbitrary location, like Irkutsk, Russia: http://www31.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+in+irkutsk Alpha returns a "Clocks" view of your location and the location you typed in.

The challenge: Find a query to show the clock view for two arbitrary locations.

...And then post it here, because I'm stumped.
I'm working on a commercial website using Clojure and Compojure. Should be out of stealth mode in a few weeks.
I used to live in El Paso; it's the cheapest part of the US I've ever been to. Perhaps the problem is that it's non-comparable cheapness; you eat for less, because so many hole-in-the-wall diners serve awesome food, for example. The chains are still there, and still expensive.
It's my understanding the Sun Microsystems was toying with the idea some time back - I'm not sure if they ever followed through. It probably wouldn't have been a free service, though.
How new Google features will change future of SEO
I feel bad for the girl.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05...
Sounds like the whole 3 doors game show problem: Does an additional data point decrease your odds, or does it do nothing to alter the situation?

IMO my answer to your question would be, it doesn't.
other species get depressed too, though. got a link about this? i tried searching around but didn't find anything useful.
Ask HN: Review our startup's relaunch, Browseology.com
We had a preview launch of Browseology last week and got great feedback from the community.

Browseology is a real-time collaboration browsing tool with zero barrier of entry.

We've put together a shopping destination that has a strong focus on collaboration. The site allows shoppers to connect with friends and experts without any setup or installation, instantly giving them access to real life recommendations in the form of action (browsing), rather than just discussion or chat.

What's new in this release?

- New powerful and focused tools for getting connected

- Homepage as a launchpad to make connecting easy

- How this works page, which lays out some high level information on how the site works and how to use it

- Real-time browsing experience improved with a Browseology feed, which shows the products you have visited and the chat context around them, giving you a reference you can go back to.

- More focus on collaboration actions, to give better feel of what's happening.

Try it yourself, it's fun:

http://www.browseology.com

We'd love to hear your feedback!
Interesting! It's because ALL is the ticker symbol of Allstate.

volume of planets / volume of a grain of sand gets the desired result
People not understanding things is the reason for 99% of all business. You wouldn't call a plumber if you knew how to fix that leak yourself.
The QS20 looks interesting, sad to hear it didn't work for you.

Do you have any good links for developing for it? The little bit of Googling I did for QS20/21s just found glossy type info and few concrete examples of things that you can do with it.
"... while Wal-Mart's products are invariably designed to be cheap and fall apart in a few months so you can go back to Wal-Mart and buy another."

Maybe I don't shop enough at Wal-mart's, but I've not experienced that. They do sell some low-cost/low-quality items, but they also have name-brand items, but typically cheaper than, say, Safeway or Walgreen's.
I'm kind of surprised Boston isn't on this list. I've always felt like it is a fairly expensive city for what it is, especially with regards to real estate.
A Tour of the Arduino Internals: How does Hello World Actually Work?
Ask HN: Fake it till you make it - Do you use it? What did you do?
What did you do with your startup to "fake it till you make it"?
Well, it's been a while, but I'll see what I can recall. I fought with them a lot during one project, though it may have been due to a lack of understanding. You can view a bit of that struggle here: http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_thread/...

The main issue is that they're poorly documented and don't seem that pythonic to me. They are not standard python objects, and as such they are difficult to debug. Hopefully the situation has improved in the past year or so.
I'd prefer not. Meta-discussion isn't topical, and I'd rather not it be encouraged by giving it its own section.
Winston Churchill said it best:
"All great things are decided not by machines or gadgets, but by willpower. Whoever has it, will finally prevail"
"Now, I bet they'd crash and burn in Western Europe and I'm virtually certain they'd crash in Japan, ..."

Based on what?
counter argument?
The query "total volume planets" yields a reasonable answer for that part of the problem, but I can't convince Wolfram|Alpha to divide it by "volume of a small grain of sand"... :-/
apropos 4. - those processed data sets could get huge too, that is why I was asking.

If crawling logic can be at clients control, but there is a provided crawler that runs well too, and those prices, it sounds like an excellent product you've got there :) Let's just go over this tineye example we have here - they need to crawl web and retrieve images - so we have "Only pay $2 per million pages crawled" where they would pay $2 per million pages crawled, but what would they pay for retrieving images then?

I see so much potential in this service, now that is one hell of a product there at one hell of a price - congratulations on it, I hope you do well with it!
http://www.browseology.com
Looks like one editor killed it and another revived it. I'm going to kill this, though; this sort of thing makes boring reading.
Can you explain what you are trying to get an answer to a little deeper?
Proving a mathematical theorem is the kind of absolute proof no amount of cogent and convincing arguing will ever touch.

Ethics is a set of rules, critically occupied with filtering out simple egoistic urges from greater human goals.

I think you're confusing critical thinking with empathy and emotional insight.

To understand humans, you have to understand our emotions and that requires empathy. Combine empathy with critical thinking and you can have insights about our emotional lives.

Engineers are not poorly trained in critical thinking skills, quite the opposite.

Some engineers are very empathic people. A few seem to posses a distinct lack of empathy and little intuition as to how other feel. But those individuals are rare and not confined to engineering.

Convincing arguments depend on who you're trying to convince, know your audience. The same argument won't convince engineers and astrologists.

Any good engineer has excellent communication skills, they wouldn't be a good engineer otherwise. And cogent convincing arguments are an intimate part of every engineer's life.

The study of math, physics, logic, will greatly improve your ability to come up with convincing arguments.
Thank you both (pg and ivan) for the suggestions! I will definitely lean towards distinguishing between the product and media pushes.

And when you were coordinating the conference push, was it actually integrated or announced at the conference? Or just alongside the buzz with some other form of PR on the same day?
Expensive cities encourage less skilled people to leave. You can get by in Ohio if you're unable to make more than $20K a year; it's much harder to survive on that in New York, so the low earners leave. So the people you spend time around are all there because they have a good reason to be there. SF and New York are Meatspace Metafilters.
I also don't know of any evidence that it can be taught, but it strikes me as teachable. Patience, kindness, politeness, etc are all teachable modifications of our natural instincts.

The original kids in the study were 4 years old.
That was 2 years ago. I felt the same way back then. Matter of fact, her story was one of the inspirations for the original article.

Since then she has participated in things like Spike TV's sexiest athlete contest. She's also an adult, and she's not exactly hiding from the cameras.

If this were two years ago, I'd feel the same way. In fact, I did. But people and situations change.
Why would C/C++ get you excited about the platform? The iPhone offers a native development platform already, wouldn't that just be more of the same?
I flagged it because it was obviously written as an SEO trap, and boring to boot.
ah thank you for putting in a clickable link.
It's got to be better than having people create new posts every time they want to vent about something. That way, those of us that don't care about the meta-discussion can just ignore it. I don't care why someone's comment was downvoted, or why their post was killed. I'm sure they do, and I'm sure some other people might; but it's just more noise as far as I'm concerned.
Good news, we've re-launched Browseology.com based on the feedback we've received from the community. Check out our new Hackernews Post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=617236
Basically fake it till you make it, means that you try to appear more successful than what you really are. Basically what did people do to make their startup appear bigger and more successful than what it really was.
Query: Oregon Tax

Result: 0% = 0/2
Teaching Computing with... Computers?
Not perfectly in sync with your question, but somewhat relevant:

I graduated this past weekend, and I plan to work on my startup full-time now. When faced with the barrage of questions asking "So, do you have a job?", I force myself to explain my startup and its business model such that it sounds like success will inevitably come.* (Which, we all know, isn't certain.) But now I've built up the pressure for myself; everyone knows that I plan to dive in.

* I generally approach that question as follows:

Them: "So, what do you plan on doing now?"
Me: "Make millions." (Cheeky grin.)
Them: "Ah." (generally laughter)
Me: "Yeah. I'm working on XXX...." (explain startup)
Them: "Oh, cool, that sounds like it might actually work."
I think the prevailing opinion you will receive here is to explicitly not do this.

Embracing your smallness will keep you out of trouble.
Yeah, I didn't think you were calling him out or being confrontational. It was fair question to ask.
Tangent: does voting just not work?
JavaScript is still fighting the stigma of browser incompatibilities, but it's gotten much much better. It is still a little show though, but that'll change over time.
You have a point, but you're dangerously close to an argument that people who live in more expensive areas are intrinsically "better" than those who don't, whatever the reason.

Some of us may choose to live in more affordable cities because the quality of living is higher, or because we value being able to safely and comfortably walk or bike between home, office, and other destinations.

I personally make enough to live reasonably well in most any city in the US, and after a couple of years in the Bay Area, moved back to my native Portland because the quality of life was simply better, at least on the axes I care about.
When it says "anecdotal" right in the article... There are no facts here. It's all just link bait and trolling.
If you're sure it's the same item, that's fine. Then again, they also sell cheaper versions of the same brand (Levi's for instance) that are pretty crap.

I actually went to Wal-Mart yesterday. There are things they do right (logistics) but in general, I don't buy a product at Wal-Mart unless I'm absolutely certain it's completely identical to a product I can get somewhere else, and that I know is durable.
The Evolution of Lua
I'm sure it does for some. Isn't that what the karma system is for?

It seems a bit capricious to me.

Since people put work into these things, it would be reasonable to expect some sort of guidelines here. "Don't bore pg" might be fine, if that's what you want. But I didn't see that in the guidelines either.
Isn't that rather narrowly focused - campaign management for social media spammers just seems like a limited market. Or is that bigger than I realized?
That's why I said "I personally". :)
37s use specific examples to get across a general point: quickly implement a decent idea and let the market tell you if it's good or not. You don't need millions of dollars or years of effort, you just need a good idea executed quickly and well.
What I meant is I'm killing the post asking why the first got killed, since it's no longer dead.
How the Semantic Web Will Redefine Digital Music
The QS20 uses the same Cell SDK as the PS3. It probably also runs the same Yellow Dog distro. It's kind of pointless though since it's so expensive and difficult to program.
That query calculates "median planet volume / volume of a small grain of sand", as mentioned by the grandparent poster. I believe it is still an open question how to get Wolfram|Alpha to calculate "total planet volume / volume of a small grain of sand".
The proteins are chopped into smaller fragments using an enzyme called trypsin...

That's known as bottom up analysis. It is currently the most popular way to do it, and IMHO it's crap.

You can do intact whole protein analysis and that's much better. More higher end instruments will do both, starting with the intact protein, measuring its mass, and then breaking it down and measuring the mass of the peptides.

The breaking down part is not deterministic but with the mass of the whole protein and the genetic sequence and a few runs you can figure out exactly what's what.

None of that will tell you what the 3D shape of the protein is. That's a whole other ball of wax.

--EDIT--

the initially deposited data had several problems, including incomplete files, proprietary software formats, and screenshots of data displays in software rather than actual data files

Yep, there's companies that can help you with that: http://www.bioanalyte.com/