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PayPal is so terrible. The sooner Stripe (or anyone) kills them, the better.
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they have examples on their website: https://www.meteor.com/gallery
This move was directly motivated by our users telling us that they want us to help fix payments on mobile devices. If you want to use Checkout (it's completely optional, and will always be), we think it can help you a lot here. Checkout contains the smallest amount of Stripe branding possible.

> Is this a back-end play to eventually cut out developers

That's crazy! We built a new feature in response to feedback from developers. Nothing is going away.

Can you imagine ways of doing this better? (I'd genuinely love to hear suggestions.)
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That sounds awesome, but I'm a little skeptical. The app would have run a huge optimization problem over your schedule and preferences (how would it know that you had a friend that could drive you?) and the airline reservation systems (which don't exactly have a well documented API, even internally).

For now, at least, this sounds like a problem where human involvement is really useful.

Cranky Concierge, as someone mentioned below, is one great option.

Another is paying the ~$50 for lounge access for the day, to talk to the reservations agent at the desk inside the lounge. They're usually much more experienced, much more likely to spend the time to do creative routings, and haven't just had to deal with possibly several hundred angry passengers. In one case with United, I stepped out of line to speak to the gate agent after my flight was delayed several hours and paid to go in the lounge. I wound up getting the last confirmed seat on the next flight, whereas the person just in front of me in line had to go on the standby list (which she didn't clear). That $50 was _well_ worth it.
I suspect few merchants would experience meaningful drop-off by this inclusion and that over time the feature will benefit all Stripe-using merchants (by increasing the universe of "express checkout enabled" buyers).

As a developer (or really any type of employee or contractor) you should balance your desire for control with actual business results.
Which is exactly why I've said it should be regulated like gambling; You hear the exact same dysfunctional, illogical reasoning from compulsive gamblers.

We have regulation to protect children from this with old-fashioned gambling, but none for F2P/IAP.

I've absolutely no problem with adults letting themselves in for it, but there needs to be more effort to reduce the harm to children - and ultimately their parents wallets!
Downvotes for Arduino -- didn't you know the maker community has moved on to Raspberry Pi? Nothing in the Arduino community has been updated in the last 2 years.

Edit: Jeez, sarcasm folks...
The canvas element is only used on Chrome as it has a hard time rendering animations above a big CSS radial-gradient. The whole animation is just using DOM elements, CSS transitions/animations and requestAnimationFrame. And yes, entirely handmade :)
Really curious to hear what their success rate is with Ryanair, as they seem to be as consumer unfriendly as possible. (Though I think they have started to change their priorities recently)
If it's not AP or CP, then what is the value? Cassandra is eventually consistent. Consistency is pretty important. It seems like Redis Cluster doesn't have consistency, nor availability, nor partition tolerance. Maybe I misunderstand it though.
Red Hat Linux now available on Amazon's secure federal cloud
Any interest in coming by Stripe for lunch/dinner? I'd love to chat about this more and figure out a good way to accomplish this. (I.e., a product you'd be happy integrating that we iterate on over time.) I'm patrick@stripe.com.
More like 500-2000ms - there are a few commercial codecs (Kakadu - as licensed in OS X, Aware) which are well-polished but the open-source situation was wretched for many years, relying on a few libraries which were indifferently maintained and seriously unoptimized. This meant that there were many valid files which could not be opened, key features like tiled decoding weren't supported and everything is so much slower that users will comment on how much longer it takes simply to open or convert a file.

There is some good news in that OpenJPEG (http://www.openjpeg.org/) has been making significant progress in recent years and is now on track to become an official reference implementation:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/openjpeg/OMc40gUsBIw/UM1ggXk...

Hopefully this will also translate into continued performance work and robustness testing, which would mean potential hope for a browser other than Safari to add native support:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36351#c120
Valve has just started the PC games race to zero
Love it. A company I used to work with had something like this and hooked it up to a dashboard widget - knowing "occupancy status" was just an F12 away! The bathroom was on the far end of the floor and it was such a waste of time to walk all the way over there to find it occupied. Such a great fix.
This makes me realise the potential that a supposed "Math API" has. Mathematical functions described visually, with unambiguous terms, and even properly named variables so they can be implemented even if you don't understand how they function entirely.

I would love to see a wiki style website that aims to produce such a wealth of information.
This kind of stuff reminds me of these as a child: http://www.amazon.com/1-5-inch-Rubber-Poppers-Pack/dp/B002R2...

The memories.
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> 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?

> Still, it should be important to differentiate between possession, distribution, and production in all of these cases.

Luckily the relevant law does what you want and answers your questions. You'll want to read it with the sentencing guidelines too.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/contents
I am getting ready to launch a product. I was using Wepay until they eliminated their checkout form. Switched to Stripe, read up on the API, and implemented the form. Now you tell me their is a simple checkout widget available. Sigh.
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I have a lot of experience with outsourced development, my last couple projects have been like that and it has worked out really well (as in, profitable apps with a lot of users). So I know it's possible.

For concern about rights / stolen ideas, I don't think it should be a major problem. By and large they are interested in getting paid, if you are a good partner then things should be OK. There are things you can do to mitigate the risk, e.g. if it is an iOS app then you submit the app yourself and get the payments directly, make sure to get the source code, etc.

If you want to know more then let me know.
Yes, except there are ways to launder bitcoins. Put them through a tumbler, use them to buy something, gamble with them and withdraw later, put them in a wallet service and transfer them around (wallets may move bitcoins around, they're probably not wherever they were originally sent), etc.

You can definitely see the first step, but after that it's tricky.
I'm not a security expert, but using a random 3rd party's IFRAME on your website to process payments through Stripe sounds INCREDIBLY dangerous. I would advise simply using Stripe Checkout https://stripe.com/docs/checkout

Simply paste their code into your HTML and you are about done. There's no other backend code, etc. required to make it work.
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> "and Legos are selling because they're priced appropriately"

Nope never said that, show me where I said this.
They make all their money from Google ads. Millions.
Come on, dogg, re-read the article and see what he's actually arguing.
You can at first, but Bitcoin mixers make it unlikely. If you take stolen coins, throw them into a pool with other coins, make a lot of transactions within that pool and with other addresses, and generate a bunch of new addresses with new balances its hard to say what belongs to who.

See http://www.bitcoinfog.com/ for an example of one such service.
If the code is modular enough, would you mind open sourcing it (or blogging about how you developed it)?
Hmm, remind me to write a handwriting-recognition program to search through that.
The Flora platform is 2 years old but the wearables community around it is still quite active. In fact they just started another podcast just to showcase wearables projects.
You only think you knew javascript that well. Your anecdotal evidence is unsupported by reality. You likely never really liked or used javascript as much as a real javascript developer. Let me guess, you're "full stack".
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They are labeled, but they scroll off screen pretty quickly on a laptop. Its still cool.
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Actually that explains absolutely none of the per user, per download and per device numbers.
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In English the male pronoun is the generic and has been for centuries. Every time somebody misuses she/her as the generic I'm knocked into a moment of confusion wondering who this sudden specific chick is.

Let's cut the crap; when people write she/her/womankind for the generic it's about PC. It's not standard English.
This may have been how you were taught, and that's unfortunate.

It is not, however, "how mathematics is taught".
We use Stripe checkout at http://leaddyno.com for subscription signups using the custom integration features of the checkout widget. We also use it in our app for customers to update their billing information. Its great they made such an awesome widget and ALSO made it very easy to customize and integrate programmatically! We love it!
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The part that is amazing is called fast Fourier transform (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform), it enabled the way we do stills, audio and video nowadays.

But there is more: (https://www.google.nl/search?q=fast+fourier+transform+use+ca...)
Nice marketing but not much behind?

This library seems to be great for fast exploration of new concepts. So I installed it and tested. I went through a small tutorial and tried to load an image from internet and display, unfortunately it didn't work. Connection failed, and image window showed up but no content... This is rather disappointing, and I was really expecting from this library that it will work out of box.

Anybody else with the same experience?
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Hmm, start a profitable bootstrapped business with 7 figures of revenue right out of college? And it's much lower risk. Why didn't I think of that?
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How is that any different from calling a method on a known interface supported by an unknown object in a language such as eg. C# or Java?
It is amusing to read an article proclaiming PayPal's advances into the mobile space. Stripe seems to dominate in this area. Card readers hooked up to iPhones and iPads are everywhere. Around the world a multitude of other mobile payment solutions have taken hold.

PayPal? Well they have managed to ruin their reputation. Heck their entire customer experience is spammy and creepy, with constant requests to have direct access to my bank account.

IMHO PayPal also lost the opportunity to become the micropayment processor on the web. It is funny that it is possible to do with technologies like dogecoin what PayPal disallows purely through its high fees.
I've seen a lot of "growth hacking" focused on numbers, and I think it's important to remember the human side of marketing. No business can sustain growth without happy customers.
It's telling you left off google.
Interesting, especially in context of the FG Press announcement. Good luck!
That's PhD-grade dedication, right there.
I don't even know what bejeezus is supposed to refer to in this context.
The Internet: Enabling people to have the most minor of spats publicly since 1990.
Yep: https://github.com/id-Software
hahah, well done sir
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this_might_end_badly Oy I_didn't_see_that basket_case
the food oh_oh small_talk you're_fired adultery middle_class
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middle_class sports I_pitty_the_fool bad smurfs hilarious
arent_you_clever not_in_kansas_anymore hi harder_than_it_looks
wife adjusted_for_inflation fabulous you_talkin'_to_me
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take_your_pick grumble reverse_engineer
Small question about Humble Bundle's usage of Stripe: what prompted the move from requiring only the CC, expiration date and CVV, to full name and address? I was disappointed to see that.
Arduino and Pi really serve different purposes to an extent. They are different platforms and each does some things better than other. There are certain things you can't achieve with a Pi that you can with an Arduino. Just look around at the projects joining the two devices together for proof of this.

Edit - just found this Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/john-cole/arduberry-uni...
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Out of curiosity, does anyone know what "{{{1}}}" under Layout refers to? I found it a bit ungoogleable.
This was just posted yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341441
No, I mean nothing in the Arduino area has been updated in 2 years. Software, hardware, anything. It really feels like the entire community just up and left and moved to Raspberry Pi.
I just tried to use the service to get some money from a cancelled flight from Houston to Los Angeles that I had in January.

Here's some feedback/questions about the service:

- When I filled in the flight, I selected "cancelled". When I got to the final claim filing step, it asked how many hours my arrival was delayed, with the highest tier being 4+ hours. This was confusing to me and made me double check that I selected cancelled and not delayed. If the text said here "how much did your flight cancellation delay your arrival?" or something similar, the process would have been much clearer.

- After completing the claim filing, I got a message that I wasn't eligible for compensation. The first two sentences talked about why I wasn't eligible due to not being on a flight between EU countries. The end of the paragraph said that reimbursements aren't given for flights cancelled due to weather, safety, strikes, etc. I would be far less confused by the service if a simple answer was given here instead (don't mention the EU stuff if you're trying to reimburse Americans, and hopefully just put a single statement like "Sorry, you are not eligible for reimbursement because your flight was cancelled due to weather".

Another question related not so much to the website but just the reimbursement service. For the particular IAH->LAX trip I was hoping to get reimbursed for, I had a Saturday flight delayed then cancelled, then got reschedule to Sunday morning, which got cancelled, and then got rescheduled to Monday (which actually went through). Could I attempt to get reimbursed for both cancellations or just one?
I'm guessing you could renegotiate the rate based upon taking on some of the liabilities. e.g. if Stripe says, hey if we take on all the cost of fraudulent transactions, can we get a discount for the transactions we send through your network?
Similar: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shufflepuck-cantina/id553470...

Available on Android/OSX/Windows/Linux also.
I have heard similar things about GIF (that there are optimisations that most encoding software does not properly take advantage of). But I haven't seen any efforts, or cutting edge software that actually follows through on that promise. The closest I've seen is gifscicle, which is a bit disappointing.

What would be great if there was some way for an animated gif's frame delays to opt-in to being interpreted correctly by browser- That is, a 0-delay really would display with no delay, and so optimisation strategies involving the splitting of image data across multiple frames could be done- and when read in by a browser, all frames would be overlaid instantly, module loading time.

What other things can be done to further optimise animated gif encoding?
Perhaps a disclaimer on F2P games might help:

"Knowledge of the presence of persuasive mechanisms in a technology may sensitize users to them and decrease their efficacy. Therefore, in some cases, such knowledge might diminish the effectiveness of a generally positive persuasion. This reasoning led us to our design principle: The creators of a persuasive technology should disclose their motivations, methods, and intended outcomes, except when such disclosure would significantly undermine an otherwise ethical goal." [1]

I like the idea of transparency into a company's motivations beyond corporate doublespeak, although not sure how one can enforce transparency.

[1] Toward an Ethics of Persuasive Technology. Berdichevsky, D. and Neuenschwander, E., 1999.
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We are very sensitive to fraud, and a few bad apples found the checkout a little too low friction. ;)
16 year old iOS developer makes Look
Look is a social networking app that lets you share anything from vines to CNN articles (as URLs) with friends and then group message (no notifications) about it.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id814866062

Story: I always find cool things on the internet, from a cool new app to a funny vine, and want to share it with my friends. Okay simple, just text the link to them right? But its not that simple. This method of sharing things is so unorthodox because when the user clicks the link, it open safari, you have to go back to iMessage to continue the discussion, group messaging notifications get annoying, etc.

So that's when I came up with Look. I wanted to make sharing cool things... cool. And after 2 long months of development (and 1 month of waiting for Apple to approve it), I've finally done it.

So what exactly is Look? Well, you add/invite friends, then you can share 'looks' with them. These 'looks' can be links or images and they have a post title. Recipients can then group message about the "cool thing" and favorite it to hold on to it.

I really believe this app makes a break through in social networking, at least for someone like me (teen nerd/tech obsessed.) And that's why I believe in Look, because I know it's something I use, it's something my friends use.

I applied for Y Combinator, so my fingers are crossed, I really hope they see what I see in Look.

What do you think?
It's not Paypal that's generating the high fees. That's the credit card processors. Paypal is happy to perform totally free payments for transactions that are funded by low-cost sources (bank accounts/ETFs and Paypal balances) and which need no fraud protection.

The problem is that the credit card processors take 2+% of every transaction, and no company can succeed if they eat that cost. This is particularly so because saavy cardholders will engage in airline mileage and points arbitrage if you don't pass on that cost.

Are any of the Paypal competitors offering services that don't include credit card fees, either on the merchants or the customers? Paypal is making those fees visible, but they're not imposing them.
I dunno, the Pi has a GPIO bus that replaces 99% of what people do with Arduinos.
Sorry for nitpicking, but COM is in no way out - it forms the basis for WinRT. Also COM in itself doesn't have much to do with dynamic typing - sure there is IDispatch which allows your code to be called from dynamic languages, but that's about it.
I saw this go to the second page. I don't think it's enough to link to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest rather than the story from twitter to avoid being penalized. I think saying that it's on Hacker News might be the way to promote it without getting penalized. I think this is right up HN's alley though so I expect it to stay on HN for half a day. :)
Most of the speed reading extensions listed in the comments use one word at a time. Maybe its just me but I find it very disconcerting since word lengths change causing a flashing experience. When I read I like the continuity of the sentence or phrase. Maybe in addition to selecting wpm there should also be an option of phrase length. I did an informal test and found that I could read faster than 400 wpm when reading the original text but found it tough to maintain context when using 300wpm using the bookmarklet
You're great at reading usernames.
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Email alerts & SSL support added to Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud services
Does anyone know if there is a similar API that would allow people to send money to other people?
Microsofts Attempt To Convert Users From XP Backfires
> you realise a couple of block diagrams and a few short paragraphs could have made the process a lot less frustrating.

"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." -- attributed to Pascal.