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I think your post is mostly on point but I think a lot of people underestimate the importance of picking the right problem. Is the pain point big enough that someone will pay for a better alternative? Is the addressable market size large enough? How you can reach these people? I think these three questions are very important.
We do not have many returning customers, and our customers are not as tech savvy as Humble Bundle customers, by a long shot.

We are using Stripe.js with our own form instead. It's not as nice as Checkout, and I really wish I could use Checkout instead, but as a developer I need to be in control of my user experience, and "Remember me" is not appropriate for my application.
This helps so much:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols
For my use it is just arbitrary. SimpleCV does have the ability to calibrate cameras, which should give you what you want.
They shouldn't need to demand it.
The trouble with that -- besides the obvious downside of letting abusive users dictate the terms of service for everyone else -- is that we'd lose the ability to hear from people involved with new products or emergent events that are being discussed for the first time. Those stories are supposed to be the key drivers of HN. Some of the more interesting comments are from brand-new accounts.
It is -- Stripe stores the details across all sites that use Checkout.
Well, even if they're not returning for you, they might have entered their payment details on a different site.

Out of curiosity, would you be open to running a test to see if "Remember me" has any impact in either direction?
The author lost me when the article demoted astronomy away from being a science.
This is actually pretty amazing. When I speed read, I usually use my finger to set the pace ahead of my eyes which is REALLY hard to do on the computer. Since I'm used to using a finger as a guide, I often find myself skipping over lines/words @ 400-600 WPM on the computer. This appears to solve that problem. Thanks for the link!
I still don't completely understand how Stripe can be so cheap. How do they pass charges onto payment processors without incurring some sort of fee that is not equal to the market rate for all other transactions? Is there some sort of fee scale on the processor side that decreases as the transaction amount increases?
> We've been testing this for the past couple of months—our hypothesis was that it would increase conversion rates—and we're delighted that it has been confirmed.

pc, do you know if the conversion rates increased for the majority of the subscription-based sites that you monitored?

Our company has a subscription-based service that uses Stripe Checkout, and some of our customers have expressed confusion regarding the "Remember me" feature. Even the CEO of our company expressed confusion initially, and he requested that I ask Stripe for the option of hiding the "Remember me" field.

From their perspective, there's no reason why their payment information should be remembered because they have no reason to enter their payment information again in the future since our service is subscription-based.

I think the "Remember me" feature would be less confusing at an e-commerce site where customers may make additional purchases in the future.

Also, we'd like to be able to hide the customer's email address in Stripe Checkout, not just disable the email address field.

So essentially, we want the old Stripe Checkout that only requested payment information.
There aren't many details on the page. It seems like a very long slogan/mantra/core-values more than an actual plan.
Bought a Nokia N900 last week and running Debian on it. Once you do a few tweaks to fix the battery life and performance, it's brilliant. How sad is it though, that despite being almost five years old, it's still one of the most open, hackable phones around. Switching from Android to the N900 felt like what switching from Windows to Linux felt like - like I have maximum control over the device, with the freedom to modify anything (relatively) easily.
It's a great question. I am in the exact same situation. The really difficult part of the equation is that every minute with your startup is time spent away from family. And as soon as you hit a snag developing (day 2) you begin to question if your time is best spent developing when you know someone else can do it in one tenth of the time. Feel free to drop me a line on gmail(danvoell). I am happy to commiserate with you or offer suggestions or help out.
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So it seems that you can spoof Twitter cards for malware and hacking... who thinks that's interesting?
I wondered what had happened to it, thanks for the link. Now it's over a decade old...
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Hi mrmondo, I respect your opinion, but I think this is really a matter of individual design taste.

I think that persisting the mutable state in the configuration file is a good thing, since actually in the Sentinel case, the initial configuration is the statement of a given state. As the state evolves it is reflected in the configuration.

The version of Sentinel provided with 2.8.7 also provides a full API that allows to change the configuration while the system is running, so you can automate everything without even having to touch the configuration file at all if you don't like it.
Does this replace gumroad (and services alike)?
You might also find a good single project you would be able to contract on with one of those companies, to see if they are a fit, before settling on a final job.
We've been using Stripe Checkout at Humble Bundle for quite a while and it has been awesome. It is really easy to set up and once a customer has used it, it's incredibly easy to checkout in the future. Every couple weeks I hear about a new A/B test that is running to try to make it even better.
1. I totally agree and am always ready to leave the day job. I guess what I'm looking at here is the optimal way to get to the quit-job state. I'm not the best developer, so quitting to take on that responsibility seems counter productive ... Leave a job that pays well, allows me some freedom to invest in others working towards my goal - just so that I can devote all my time to work that I'll never be the best at / other would do a better job of ... Part of the problem here is likely the fact that I should probably be in a "non-technical" cofounder role, but I just happen to have enough technical founder skills that prevent me from embracing that approach whole-heartedly.

I'm really trying to find the best balance of risk/reward here -- while accelerating the timeline as much as possible.

2. I'm at the dayjob - so, technicall my time on HN is helping finance the upcoming project... (note to those who work with/for me / are quite possibly reading this: -- this was a lunch break post & you all know I run a number of side projects -- don't get too scared that I'm leaving tomorrow...)
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> pc, do you know if the conversion rates increased for the majority of the subscription sites that you monitored?

We did look at the effect on individual sites (rather than across all charges as a whole). But I generally agree with you that it'd be nice to have something better-tailored to subscription website flows. (I suspect that this product might look quite different to Checkout.)
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Loved this post.

FYI, the Andrew Wiles quote is from the opening of an awesome BBC documentary about how he solved Fermat's Last Theorem - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FnXgprKgSE
That, and competitive admissions mean that you can get outsized returns by investing in a bit of high-grade test prep. A 90th percentile student who takes test prep might wind up getting the same score (and the same Ivy League appeal!) as a 98th percentile student who didn't.
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Is this different than "regular Stripe"? I watched the quick demo and I thought that was what Stripe has been doing for a while now?
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This seems like an effect that would scale with the number of rotors. Makes me wonder about the prospects of a craft with enough small rotors to approximate a sphere.
The example they used basically paints taking more risk as 'cooler, more rational option' which seems a bit odd to me. Humans are well known not to have a linear utility function for a lot of things (loss aversion) because doing so can be useful and can be argued as rational - especially when applied to money for instance, people will trade off higher average returns for lower risk which probably makes sense for survival. It's like saying a greater amount of change, or a greater amount of risk, is strictly better, whereas in any given situation it may be better or may be worse.
> As soon as the use of these type of apps become the norm the flight prices will probably go up a bit to compensate. Or maybe the airlines will be less cavalier about cancelling flights.

Presumably both these things will happen, the former as a consequence of the latter.
This chain smoking, gun loving guy built a nuclear reactor in his home
I don't think just doing everything from first principles is reasonable. Building up the natural numbers from set theory etc. would just be frustrating for kids.

Like trying to teach them their native language by grammar diagrams etc. instead of immersion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_immersion

Math is not exactly the same as natural language, but there are tradeoffs to doing it one way or the other and there needs to be balance.
We've been using http://www.jpegmini.com/ to compress JPGs for our apps. Worked OK, although we didn't get the enormous reductions they advertise. However 5% - 10% does still make a difference.

We've been using the desktop version. Would love to use something similar on a server, but jpegmini is overpriced for our scenario (I'll not have a dedicated AWS instance running for compressing images every second day or so). Will definitely check out this project :)
You can calibrate the camera, estimating the intrinsic params such as focal length. But for size you would need two images and to know the location each were taken relative to each other (extrinsic params). This is not impossible, just more difficult than a simple calibration and photo snap.

On top of that, you will have to be able to identify the object you are trying to measure (unless it is a manually driven process).
Can you link to the 30 years of best practice document, I must have missed it.
I have been working on CV with an emphasis on mobile phones/robotics. The big issue is the lack of consistent documentation. It is either scattered all over the web, or outdated. Been writing a document to address this, but it is still not done.

If you want to play with CV, just get a Raspberry pi, the camera module, and have fun. The Rpi makes it easy to move it around without much trouble. You can even add CV to many different appliances with the Rpi.
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Not even. If air crew is unavailable because a previous flight ran long due to headwinds and they are out of allowable flying hours for the day, week, or month? That's "weather-related" and you get nothing.
It's weird to me how many free (just as in beer) tools and games I have installed on my PC over the last couple decades when everything in app stores seems monetized.

What happened?
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I have to say that this book:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596516130.do

did a pretty good job of explaining everything for opencv proper.
Assuming vampires and zombies are not involved, life and death are binary states. No one who is living has died, and no one who has died remains living. If 400k people die [from the hypothetical disease], then 200k people will survive [to eventually die from some other cause].

I'm sure this form of problem analysis gives psychological experimenters fits.
I'll start respecting the SAT just as soon as the results can be accepted as a measure of general intelligence. It shouldn't be that difficult to simultaneously test for both content mastery and aptitude.
Is there/what is the best FOSS alternative to this? Something built on D3, perhaps?
Vim.sexy (forget about Atom)
When I optimize JPG or PNG I usually use ScriptJPG and ScriptPNG from http://css-ig.net/tools/

They are shell scripts running many different optimizers
Comments like yours is why we posted the site here.
You're thinking of Teller. His partner's name is Penn Jillette.
It's been 4 years already, and there's little adoption. It might take a decade before (if) WebP is as widely deployed and easily usable as JPEG.

According to Google it's about 30% smaller than JPEG: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webp_study

It's a massive effort to switch entire industry to a new format for a 30% gain. With a drop-in replacement of libjpeg you can get 10% gain right now.

Also WebP is based on 2006 VP8, which is obsolete now. Chrome ships with VP9 that's further 26% smaller on keyframes.
To keep the ideas coming, how about OpenSpreeder?
I just checked put my sites using elinks and fortunately they came out pretty well.

One is based on bootstrap and one on skeleton. I just made some links that are icons (github, twitter, etc) visible in elinks by adding img tags with src="" alt="some text" style="display:none". Seems like an OK hack.
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> The best recruiters I've spoken to admit that they know very little about the subject.

From my own experiences, this is very true. Some didn't know the difference between JavaScript and Eclipse which made me very skeptical about their ability to assess my skillset.
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I voted against Polis in the past, and now regret it.
Someone shares something they made - with quite a bit of programming details - and your reaction is "how original"? I've got news for you: most things aren't fundamentally new. That doesn't mean they're uncool or people hacking hardware for the fun of it deserve your ridicule.

Now go, make something, and come back.
Found it on TechCrunch. Reads like a markov-chain-generated series of buzzwords
Is there a method of inserting the address if it's already known? (Such as saved customer data or another form element?)
Sucks really badly for dyslexics though.
Is there any way to avoid that even if you don't remember the credit card?
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You could also automatically run split tests on a per-merchant basis, thereby automatically auto-tune the checkout for each merchant.
Start by working for a startup. Preferrably a doomed and mismanaged Web 2.0 startup on series F. That way you'll be embittered and cynical, and ready to negotiate correctly with your next employer, startup or not. Finally, finish up by writing fluff articles for TechCrunch about Elon Musk's new hairstyle. Congratulations, you are now "into startups."
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For the writing section, you have to follow an exact structure and use the right amount of words. You can also make stuff up to support your arguments.

It's basically "Write a generic 5 paragraph essay using memorized argument flow."
This was the text in my Computer Vision course. I agree it did a good job and OpenCV was a lot of fun to work with. I would definitely pick it up again if I had interest in this field.
this is pretty badass
He should plead not guilty for the other two, too. People who are obviously persecuted by the government like this (and like Aaron Swartz, etc), should call the prosecutor's bluff, and not take the "generous" plea deals they offer after they try to imprison them for decades or a century for trivial things or nonsense charges.
I used them for an award flight that got severely messed up.

I was pretty impressed with the service.
200 GB is a "handful"?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/03/googles-wi-fi...
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In arcades, the money was still not inside of the game design. In IAP centric games, dollars are inside of the game mechanics.
This sounds like a bad idea.

If it's big in North America and Europe one of those competitors will be entering Korea soon. If they don't enter Korea there's a reason for it that involves the specifics of that market. But you wouldn't know those specifics anyway because you know nothing of Korea.

Unless you trust your cofounder like a brother, I wouldn't go for it.
From getairhelp.com:

> The Power Of Attorney - POA for short - authorises AirHelp to undertake all appropriate legal (judicial and extrajudicial) measures to collect the compensation from the airline on your behalf.

It's a bit weird the article mentions it in the general case if AirHelp is only asking for it in regards to that specific area.
Is it just me or does the TIOBE Index get more ridiculous every month? Transact-SQL and F# above Ruby?
Not yet, though this is definitely on the near-term roadmap.
Is it? I don't see any canvas. Would be interested as well...
I completely agree. I can imagine there are those conducting research into politically sensitive subjects that could be caught up in more aggressive laws. For instance, is it illegal for police to hold images of child pornography as part of an investigation? Is it illegal for a child to have pornographic images of themselves?

Abuse of any kind, adult, child, or animal, should be investigated and prosecuted as allowed by law. The products of these acts, which could be in the hands of innumerable people for various reasons, legitimate (investigators, vigilantes, etc.) or otherwise, is something that can't be un-done, not with how the internet works.

Still, it should be important to differentiate between possession, distribution, and production in all of these cases. Any law that fails to tackle even this most fundamental concern is just plain broken, yet they get passed all the time on the emotional basis of "Think of the children!"
Looks like this is to OpenCV as jQuery was to JavaScript.
I would just resign, as long as you aren't in a depressed economy, you should be able to get another job. The damage is done to your psych, you can't really be happy there anymore. Only lawyer up if you think you can make some money out of that, otherwise you'll just pile on anguish.
Maybe, but I'm not sure that a test could change my mind, unless it resulted in a massive boost in revenue.

Let's say that the vast majority of my customers do not want to use "Remember me", and that most of them examine the option and leave it unchecked, as is their desire. I've still introduced friction into my payment process, and possibly left a bad taste in the mouths of many of my customers. Maybe not enough that they stop doing business with me, but it could still taint my reputation in their eyes, as a company that is trying to push them down a path that they almost certainly don't want to take.

Testing may indicate an increase in revenue, but it can't account for reputational damage, unless we're going to ask every customer how they felt about the checkout process after they're done.

So, testing based on revenue alone isn't enough. There is probably plenty of testing that shows that adding an array of annoying up-sells during checkout increases revenue, but that doesn't mean it's something I want to do.
A brief note from experience: Viola Jones is only well suited to images that are oriented in a specific direction (e.g. faces), rather than rotation-invariant (e.g. cars as seen from satellites).

This is kind of a pattern with CV: it's still far more "art" than "science" at this point.
As someone who has been living as an immigrant for past two and a half years, I can only agree to this. Getting emotional distance from a problem comes easy for me, if I'm thinking about it in English (its not my native language).
On the other hand, getting into relationships can be quite difficult. Its not so easy to get emotionally involved with someone that doesn't speak your language. Not sure if the language is the problem though, or maybe just cultural differences.
It looks like the canvas is only there to render the background gradient. Pretty sure all the animation is done via CSS3.
Being able to eliminate wrong answers is pretty much the same skill as being able to notice that you made a mistake when you look over your work. It's valuable for more than test taking.
Why wouldn't they, and how could we verify that they don't?

(I suspect they don't, but again, who knows?)
Australis will be a large step backwards in many aspects, so I would not count it as a "should have".
Read this preliminary FAQ, especially the answers: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=13350353#p1335...
Isn't the London market notorious for low pay and high living expenses?
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Interesting move by Stripe, and I guess it explains why WePay and Balanced choose to focus on the API and not their d2c offerings.

With the 'remember me' feature, Stripe has chosen to impede upon the territory of their developers, which greatly concerns me.

I love their product, but one of the reasons I choose to use them is because of the options that their API provides. Is this a back-end play to eventually cut out developers, or is it designed to help them sell more product? I'm sure Stripe staffers will say that it's the latter, but if that's the case, who is the primary customer for this offering?
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Are you working on something that's half baked? Or have you been meaning to release your project for ages but worried it's incomplete?

Show us!
Don't do it! SCAM. They steal all of your data. After giving them my FB info, and Credit card I got the same error. I was unable to get a hold of anyone (3 e-mails, 3 phone calls) I finally got "Trevor" on the live chat. He said "Their processor can't process my card" and "it's outside of their control" ... so thanks for stealing all of my data. My card works 100% just fine, don't fall for this!
How is this helpful?
As a non-native English speaking person who uses English daily basis, losing emotional burden seems one (possibly) positive side effect of a second language, whereas there probably are many negative ones for the decision making. In my experience, reduced working memory seems one important negative outcome of second language, which significantly affects problem solving. More chance of misunderstanding sometimes precludes good decision making. These negative aspects would be able to offset the benefit discussed here.
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