skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Subscription platform suggestion for side project?
I'm making an app package for golf courses. I've written a demo app and have gotten some interest from some local courses that I think could be perfect first customers. I don't want to start things too simple and do something like Stripe payments or Paypal. I'd like to get some sort of system up and running to attempt to let them sign up and subscribe so I can immediately start working on getting new customers.

I've looked into things like Shopify+Chargify [0], SaaSy [1], Zoura [2], Recurly [3], etc. I'm usually a DIYer but I just don't want to invest the time into a potentially unscalable and insecure solution. Plus, all of the account management and analytics included in these packages look great.

I honestly just want Shopify with subscriptions, but from just 30 minutes of research on Chargify, it looks like it causes some hassle for users (not to mention its pricey). Any suggestions, tips, or warnings would be greatly appreciated.

[0] http://chargify.com/

[1] http://saasy.com/

[2] http://www.zuora.com/

[3] http://recurly.com/
Quick thought: Problem with new niche e-commerce stores
They tout curation and design, not superior logistics, pricing or geography. The former is REALLY hard to defend.
Safari also tells me it is saving my passwords. Yet to explicitly unmask my passwords from the settings screen at a later date it requires my Keychain password.

They both use the word "save" to denote this functionality.

I don't think you understand why this difference in behaviour is important.
It will be interesting to see what happens; the federal agencies are between a rock and a hard place. While the initiatives passed at around 55%, the polls for the feds to respect state law are over 70%. If they go after the industry as a whole, they would end up losing a lot of political capital among the "law and order" voters who otherwise support the drug war.

Note that the medical operations have dealt with a handful of nasty busts under Holder/Obama, but don't seem to be closing up shop or going underground. Drive down the right streets in Denver, and you'll pass literally a dozen legal pot shops operating in the open, neon signs and all.
Agreed, incentives are fun problems everywhere.

> Public vs private prisons theoretically doesn't matter, except that introducing private prisons introduces a dynamic where corruption of the oversight function and metrics is used for optimization of profits.

Read up on some of the campaigning done by the prison worker's union in California and you will see public has its own profit motives that are just as bad.
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine
When I open the page on my iPhone the page keeps reloading so I can't actually read any of it.
I'm in Charleston, SC and have a really strong community of friends that will be willing to help. If that's doable, email me jmphry at google's email platform .com.
Emscripten: You've Got C In My JavaScript
I thought there was too, but apparently that was removed as of 01/01/12. Quoth a big PDF [1]:

"As of 1 January 2012, there is no limit to the amount of study you can undertake in a CSP. However, it is important to note that some approved providers may have academic probation procedures in place and if you are not progressing satisfactorily in your course, your enrolment may be cancelled."

[1]: http://studyassist.gov.au/sites/StudyAssist/HelpfulResources... (page 14 of the PDF file, page 7 shown in the booklet corner)
But then you haven't agreed to the original contract and the contract would be entirely void, no?

It seems strange that an otherwise legal contract signed by both parties would be void based on the agreed content when signed.
Students of America do protest. Here are a couple of examples.

UC Student Protests
http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=7608e52397923e7c...

Cooper Union Protests
http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=7608e52397923e7c...

CUNY Protests
http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=7608e52397923e7c...

Rutgers Protests
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&f...
Take a print out of this
Java is not a good example of a statically typed language. Null pointer exceptions just don't happen in idiomatic Scala. For example, let's say I have 3 functions a,b and c, each with signature Int => Option[Int]. Any one of these can return Some[Int] or None.

Options, like all collections, can be chained together as such:

for {
x <- a(1)
y <- b(x)
z <- c(y)
} yield z

this expression is of type Option[Int], and will never throw a null pointer exception. (Futures can be chained together with identical syntax)
Startup: PickToRead, The best news reader ever
I feel terrible for Ingrid, but I think the end of her article requires a caveat. The financial aid system is a game, and learning the rules can save a lot of money.

Lets assume that your taxable income was 27k.(36 weeks x 40 hours a week x $26 an hour)

You will be in the 15% tax bracket, so the total tax liability on your income would be approximately(i'm assuming only federal income tax) 23k (27000*.85). This is the number that is used on the fasfa. You had mentioned that you suffered from some health issues and incurred medical expenses. Those are deductible, and should reduce your tax bill, as well as the amount of money that colleges should expect for you to spend on education.

Furthermore college 529 plans are something to look at when trying to fund college education. Contributions to these plans are tax free, so it will lessen your tax bill, especially if you don't work while you are in school. Also the 529's in your name are expected to go towards your education at the same rate as your parents income[1] this will help soften the blow of losing the financial aid.

Finally, don't shy away from student loans, especially subsidized federal loans. At around 4%, it is hard to find cheaper money, and wih subsidized loans, the interest on these loans are tax deductible.

At the end of the day, the moral of your story shouldn't be "Don't take paid internships they'll screw you in the end" and instead it should be "when you start get paid a significant salary hire a tax professional to make sure I hold on to as much of my moolah as possible."

You can put up to 5k in a Traditional IRA. Your deposits will be tax deductible, and withdraws for education forgo penalties of withdrawing money before your 59 and 1/2. You will also pay for tax on it at the level of income for the year you take the disbursements, so if you don't work your senior year or make less money it could work out to your favor. The downside of this strategy is that any money you put into the IRA that year will be counted as income. So no gaming the system on this one.

[1]http://www.savingforcollege.com/intro_to_529s/does-a-529-pla...
Unfortunately, it's currently maxed on account of me supporting us while I was in in school instead of them supporting us while working (they made very little).
How do you plan to deal with repeat submissions and a hive mind mentality? Places like /r/music just have the same already popular songs get to the top every few months just depending on how many upvotes they get at submission time.
Black Hat hacker claims he can make $15k to $20k an hour
my take is that all those options are fine (except Paypal!!)

i have many biz friends who use Stripe, including some for recurring subscriptions, and I've never heard any bad feedback on it. Only good.

Chargify and Recurly are specifically aimed at recurring subscriptions for developers.

Other solid options are Memberful and Spacebox.io
Total Failure: New AWS Console UI
Thanks for the advice Paul. It's very well timed as I have an investor meeting later today!

My biggest takeaway from your essay: the truth prevails. As cliche as it sounds, its apt advice for those aspiring to be the biggest startups of our generation. Its easy to get carried away with our dreams and visions.
> If I build it myself, it will cost me a lot more and be a lot worse product.

Your status page is not your product (hopefully). If you run an online service, the purpose of a status page is to inform your customers of downtime and other issues that may affect their use of your service.

Like I said, I am not questioning whether statuspage.io has built a better status page than what most companies would be motivated to build themselves. What I am pointing out is that spending $xx or $xxx each month on a SaaS for every little piece of functionality you don't want to build internally adds up.

As for the costs of building internally, I would suggest that a half-decent engineer could build a satisfactory status page with email/SMS notification functionality in 2-3 days. If you want to be generous and say it would take a week, and your engineer is paid $110,000/year (~$2300/week), you're still ahead of statuspage.io's $249/month plan, which costs $3,000/year and limits you to just 2,500 subscribers.

If you operate, say, an API that is critical to your business and keeping consumers of that API informed about status is important, there's no reason not to invest engineering time in owning the status page functionality. On the flip side, if your status page isn't all that important, paying $xx or $xxx/month for a robust status page service instead of, say, rolling a status page of your own using [insert popular open-source CMS of your choice] doesn't make a lot of sense.
Search Engines Have Little To Do With Promoting Pirated Content
This is an awesome answer, thank you.
We have a few mods on-board ATM to minimize that. Although we do plan on adding an automated feature to prevent duplicates very soon.
Getting terminal colors right
This is actually one of the tuition options that the US armed forces offers students: we pay for your schooling, and you serve in the military for an equal number of years. It's also quite common for your company to pay for business school for a promising employee as well.
Here Is What You Missed At VidCon 2013
I recall going to TI's site regularly over a period of months looking at OMAP chips in small quantities and finding them continually backordered. I know some people got dev kits. Ultimately, they were just an another ARM licensee with a GPU of questionable utility (to me).
There are seven million people alive today. If tomorrow there is not enough food in the world to feed seven million people, some of them will starve. How can you keep evading this?

Even if we're talking about staying at 7 billion vs. scaling to 10 billion, your first solution is to forcibly eliminate the reproductive rights of the browner-skinned half of the world population?
Since I mentioned Sallie Mae, I'll set up the situation here (and ignoring the big players who are moving out of private student loans [0]):

-Sallie Mae (SM) completes its corporate split (Fed loans in one company, Private in the other) [1]

-People buy shares of SM, and get paid dividends every quarter (or w/e their terms are).

-As of today, 40% of Federal loans payments are being made, with $118+ billion Fed loans in their portfolio of $1+ Trillion outstanding Fed loans (so SM is probably the most statistically correlated to the total compared to others individual companies) [1][2]

-As interest rates go up on loans [3], and cost of tuition goes up [4], less people will afford to make payments (regardless of if they are in school, dropped out, or un/employed)

-As less people can afford to make payments, the current 40% making payments will go down (as it has untill this point under the current circumstances).

-Less people making payments means less money to go around to pay dividends

-lower dividends on shares means people try to sell shares.

-In attempts to raise capital to pay dividends (and stabilize share value), SM will accept cash/credit in exchange of secured student loans (delaying the issue of not being able to pay dividends due to market forces in response to status quo policies)

-If/When x amount of the secured loans become non performing, SM has to pay in full for the amount disclosed in the CDS deal.

Rinse, wash, repeat…

[0] http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/177_63/us-bank-student-...

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-31/sallie-mae-split-ma...

[2] http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57597232/study-half-of-$...

[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/31/us-usa-studentloan...

[4] http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/24/pf/college/public-college-tu...
You can plug it into a TV with an HDMI cable.
5 Popular CSS Framewroks
No, you need an Nvidia card above a GTX 650 because those cards have the built in H.264 encoder necessary to stream the games.
Post-C++11 you can work with strings at compile-time using constexpr template functions. IIRC you need something along the lines of this:

> template <size_t N> constexpr foo(const char str[N]) { ... }

The fact that constexpr strings can't be template parameters boggles the mind.
Bad timing: New HTML5 trickery lets hackers
no. it's nvidia only.
Remember DARPA's Information Awareness Office?
At least as of a few years ago, that's not quite true. I went back to school at 24, and because I had earned over 50% of my own income in the past year (100% in my case) and had not been claimed as a dependent on my parents' taxes, I was considered independent.
This seems like great advice if your customers are paying you directly. Do you think the same dynamics apply with advertising models or businesses that create a market in something? For example if I can cause someone to spend $50 and a product distributor makes $40 on that, can I justifiably charge say $20, or is the cap set by whatever Google charges for related keywords?
How The Incubator Behind Reddit, Dropbox And AirBnb Is Building The Future
> The major criticism of the system is that students can just incur this debt then flee the country.

Do you have any stats on how much HECS is lost in this manner? I've not heard of this being a big problem. One of my friends is in this category - he got a PHD scholarship at a top institution in the UK and isnt likely to return to Australia anytime soon. But I'd have thought the overall impact of brain drain (Australia is generally not a good place for top end R&D [1][2]) would have a far greater impact on Australia's future than an unpaid $30k HECS debt.

That all said, HECS is an amazing system and we are so lucky to have it here. I remember as a teenager when I first learnt that you had to pay upfront to go to college in the USA. I thought it was bullshit. What happens if you're poor? It seemed so ridiculously unfair that I thought it must be false. Oh the innocence of youth.

edit: urgh, sorry about the paywall. Go via google and you'll bypass it.

[1]: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/universitie...

[2]: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/brain-drain-mu...
'Exorbitant' is a bit too loaded, whereas 'ambitious' is too forgiving. I would say 'unrealistic', given Indiegogo's previous records.
>>> Regarding criminal fraud: That might be tough to prove.

The problem is that fraud charge may be hard to prove, but may be much easier to initiate. And criminal investigation, even not resulting yet in a charge, may be rather annoying matter. For example, they could get (given a friendly judge) an order to seize all your computer equipment to look for signs of fraudulent activity. And keep "looking" for years, while you can't use them. And so on. If they arrange a cooperation of a friendly prosecutor, they can cost you lots of money while never getting to the court. Since they are paid by the taxpayers and you're not, you lose.
I don't know a whole lot about this area, but why would dictionary passwords be more vulnerable when considering a password hash? Couldn't you just salt the hashes with enough characters to defeat rainbow tables?
Couldn't you ask the LEO during cross if they obtained any information from the SOD? Put them in a position to perjure themselves (not that you'd know if they lied or not).
That's fantastic, I whipped something similar up about a year ago. It depends on jQuery though as I was mostly just messing around: https://github.com/RyanNielson/182js
nothing new about this - it's just /r/listentothis repackaged
HTML vs CSS: Semantics
Ask HN: What are you working on right now?
What's your side project right now? I love seeing peoples' projects, so link to it if you can!
Nice to see an established player be forward thinking with repect to a technology that could be disruptive to their core business.
They could, but it would be extremely inefficient for small allocations. Pages are 8 KiB minimum, so it would waste memory, bloat up the page tables, and ruin cache efficiency.
I don't, but I'd love to see some if anyone has any.
The problem is that because the only interest on the loan is CPI, the HECS system is essentially a fixed pool of money that is temporary loaned to students then paid back, real-dollar for real-dollar. By not paying it back, it's essentially 1 student's volume of study that is lost out of that pool.

I don't know how significant that 'leak rate' is though, so I can't put a figure on whether it's stressing the funds or not.
It's very much not my impression that most people can deduct health expenses. Here from the horse's mouth (http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/2013-changes-to-itemized-dedu...):

"Beginning Jan. 1, 2013, you can claim deductions for medical expenses not covered by your health insurance that exceed 10 percent of your adjusted gross income."

Previously it was 7.5%, but it's nothing if you can't file a Schedule A to itemize, and my very rough understanding is that few who aren't paying down a mortgage can do so.
"Apane" has resorted to spamming #lisp on IRC to get upvotes on this submission.
I'm no lawyer but doesn't this line provide the required protection:

> This Contract can only be amended through a written document formally executed by all parties.

To me, that suggests the contract can only be amended if all parties provided a written document approving the amendments.

In this case, only one party provided the required documentation.
When I see a GPLv2 app in the app store that is non-free, how do I know that the proceeds are properly going to the XaoS project?
Hi Peter - React is great! To those of you who haven't already, go check it out. It shares a lot of similarities with reactive.coffee (besides our highly original names), including the "code-first" approach to building up views.
New Zealand has a similar system.

All kiwis can get a student loan, which you can put class fees, some living costs and a few other expenses under. You can also apply for a student allowance which you don't have to pay back, but you have to qualify (e.g. you and your family are poor).

With the student loan, it's a no interest loan as long as you're in the country. If you leave it defaults to a normal loan (not sure the % is).

While you're working and make over a certain minimal amount the govt takes 10% of your income to pay it off.

I'm not sure how much it is now, but I graduated in 2006 with a BSc in CS and my loan was somewhere around 21k.
When you locked your door when you left for work, did you leave the key taped to the door in an unsealed envelope labeled "keys"?
Speed is definitely a huge benefit of git. When you use it heavily every day, you become thankful that cloning, merging, branching etc is very fast. If it were a couple of seconds slower for each of these tasks, I think it would make a big difference.
looks like someone beat you to the punch
https://www.upstart.com/
Botnet-powered distributed file storage system using JavaScript
And what do we have now? Most people use iMessages or similar, which have arbitrary lengths, and allow much more descriptive and sensible messages. But not on twitter, where it's seen as some kind of hipster badge to be able to reword a thought into a 140 character haiku.

It's a bit silly.
How are you finding the Aurora channel to be, stability-wise?
I know what this site is and I can use it for my own purposes. But having to see popups or god knows whatever other eyesores would no longer make it worthwhile even in such minimal regards. I could care less about startups or especially anything relative to marketing or investment. But the factoid linkages are the real gold. I only care about information, not Capitalism. Not in the slightest.
It gets stranger with graduate school.

I'm currently a PhD student. I quit a fairly lucrative trading career in 2010 and went back to school without any intention of doing a GRA (I was fine with self-funding; to be honest, I wanted to not have a boss for a while)... that lasted one semester.

My adviser realized she liked the idea of paying 1/10 my old salary and getting an actual software engineer on her staff. I'm not one to complain or turn down money, so I took the gig and I'm near finished with the degree.

Moral of the story #1: Go back to school for a PhD with a boat load of cash in your pocket, legitimate skills and solid work experience. You won't have to pay tuition.

My wife and also decided to start a family during this time. We paid for her insurance out of pocket. Once the little guy came into the world, we started getting pamphlets in the mail from the state (aka the broke state of Illinois) regarding free programs (health insurance, food and formula vouchers) that we qualified for due to my lowly GRA salary (my wife is a stay-at-home mom). They don't care about or penalize high savings; these program managers just want to get as many qualified participants on the dole as possible to justify their existence. "Need" is not important; quotas are.

Moral of the story #2: Quit producing taxable income, go back to school, breed like a rabbit. The state will provide.

I realize this may sound harsh to those students currently getting by thanks to federal grants, but if you want to fix the problem, we need to get rid of these fucking programs. Prices will drop. All these loans accomplish is artificially inflating demand and putting graduates deep in debt. It'll be messy, sure, but the system is not sustainable in current form.
Was expecting something to do with Leap Motion tech, but cool anyways
This is the beta I am working on: http://booky.quintopiso.com.ar

Two friends and I are the only users. Before I release it publicly, I want to make it better an add a few more bookstores/sellers.
Ubuntu needs to offer an $8K plan: identical to the $80K one but with only 10 devices rather than 100.

They already offered additional plans to meet demand, why stop now?
No. asm.js is simply a subset of javascript. That is all. Here is the actual spec: http://asmjs.org/spec/latest/

The creation of big typed array simulating a memory pool is a construction of Emscripten. asm.js in that context is simply the vehicle / language.
The argument is not that you shouldn't read the small print - the bank lawyers know what the small print means - the argument is that they can't look for tiny changes in known small print if they're reasonably expecting it to be identical to what they sent.

That's like I would initiate a contract with you and after we read it together and you agree it's what you want to sign I covertly slip a page into the pack that completely changes the terms and trick you into signing it without you actually knowing it's there. You can reasonably claim you intended to sign the original one, not the one I secretly modified - and I expect the court be more sympathetic to you than to my claims "you should have watched my hands all the time!" Of course, it'd require you proving that I did this, but if you can, your case sounds pretty strong to me.
You mean a capitalist aggressor agency, according to the Soviets.
How to turn on Java for trustworthy websites
It stands to reason that it'll give a 5-to-10-year head start for businesses who don't have anything to worry about from being monitored by the NSA. (Assuming there are such businesses)
FBI behind Firefox zero-day compromising half of all Tor sites?