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Hm...it's only March 27. Is Stripe about to jump the shark?

Edit: the reason I think it could be a JTS moment is that I associate "the addition of bitcoin" with "tired marketing stunt performed by irrelevant companies like Overstock". I could be wrong.
This is very cool. As a merchant the idea of accepting a bunch of bitcoin and then seeing it's price plummet is a pretty scary. Not to mention the idea of managing all my bitcoin securely is also scary.

If I can accept Bitcoin and it's automatically exchanged back to dollars for me, that's a pretty significant.
I guess now it's his problem... ripping someone off and then complaining about being called on it is pretty silly in my opinion, regardless of what your motivations are for working, particularly in a competitive environment such as the one you describe.
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Every time someone posts about this I always see some post complaining about it. I therefore wouldn't suggest it even if I personally haven't tried it.
Credit Card payments in person can be great - swipe and go, why not?

Online, it's 23 digits that you don't know, and then 3-23 more fields (shipping address, billing address, name, email, etc. etc.) That sucks. Even at it's best in the Stripe Checkout model, it's less than ideal and extremely unsafe - it's so unsafe that American Express is RUNNING COMMERCIALS ADVERTISING HOW UNSAFE THEIR PROCESS IS! For your convenience, let's 2.9% and $0.30 of every transaction. That's a huge drain on the margin for a business of any size, but especially someone with checkout size about 10-50 bucks and margins of 10-40%.

So to summarize - online it's bad for consumers, bad for businesses, but it's the only way right now because hell if I know my account and routing number, and if I do the business still needs 3 days to make sure I own that account. That's the problem we've solved (I believe) but it's in its nascent stages. Bitcoin could potentially lend a lot of relief there too, which is why this is so exciting.
That's one of the main concerns I have with it. They're really hanging their hat on the fact that they implemented a physics engine so they don't have to rely on OS-native things like inertia, so it works the same everywhere. Problem is, even if it's consistent in famo.us, nobody likes random things to feel "off" in the manner you bring up. Seems like a lot of effort to do something that most people won't like anyway.
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It takes a lot of effort to change/unlearn muscle memory. Hell, just ctrl-f vs. ctrl-h, and F5 vs F8 etc is pretty thought consuming, let alone years of using a given application and switching to another.
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This is how stupid the government is.
It does seem pretty stupid to put it behind a paywall though - this is just a blog post, it's not even part of the newspaper
You're right; this isn't even close to news. Essentially, the plaintiffs are complaining that Karpeles isn't volunteering to massively inconvenience himself to make the lives of the people suing him easier.

Their offer to "pay all travel expenses" was hilarious. As if $5,000 or even 10x that amount is even a rounding error to the case they're pursuing against him.
I also liked the fact that this is hosted using Mediagoblin.
Does anybody have screenshots of the Bitcoin integration, the iframes are down.
All my machines have US keyboards.
"For someone making $100k a year, that's not much. For someone making $20,000 a year (rounded up) it's a big bite and it definitely changes the affordability calculation."

Taxes don't work like that of course. The $100k a year person is paying a higher percentage than the low income person. That $20k earner you mention will probably have a very low nominal tax rate after calculating down to their AGI.
Exactly - the fork we used is here - https://github.com/luminlabs/monocle

Thanks to maccman for a great platform to build on
Pow! Add me to the list of people foaming at the mouth for this. I'm refreshing my email every minute in anticipation of seeing their API.

Now, under one provider, we can easily accept CC and BTC. This is great news for consumers because it means coinbase and stripe are now in head-to-head competition. These are both well funded startups with great usability. Bring on the feature war and lower transaction fees!

This is most exciting because this will enable great micropayment support on stripe, enabling a whole new breed of marketplace. Also, it is now easy to offer paid anonymous consumption of an API. This is a whole new world of opportunity!
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There are times when gadgets as tiny as your iPod, cell phone or camera become disturbingly large to hold in your hands. At least I have experienced that a number of times. These situations now have a solution in the name of FIN. Thanks to some of some genius Indian young innovators that conceptualized and materialized it. This pretty little gizmo looks like a fancy ring and does wonder to make your life ridiculously easy
Isn't the saying something along the lines of "a person is smart but people are dumb"? It was proven there were NGO's stirring up things in Kiev. It was also proven they totally lost control and now we have armed militants (neonazi's?) even demonstrating their 'power' by showing up in parliament. (This made Putins say, now he can claim to protect the Russian minority).
But is it web scale?!
Most important part:
"But obviously, mice are not people, so whether exercise can prevent or ameliorate macular degeneration in human eyes is “impossible to know, based on the data we have now,” said Machelle Pardue, a research career scientist at the Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center, who is the senior author of the study. She and her colleagues are trying to find ways to determine the impact of exercise on human eyes. But such experiments will take years to return results."
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It's often hard to tell the difference between bad UI and unfamiliar UI. Seems like most people agree on which side Gimp lands on. No idea which side Octave's GUI is on.
Actual article by cperciva about accepting bitcoin via stripe, not sure why that wasn't linked directly:
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-03-27-tarsnap-bitcoin.h...
Do tech books even have book tours? I could see it for mass-market fiction books or such, but publishers do roughly diddly squat for getting tech books in the public eye.
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You may not "become" but there is definitely tremendous influence on you based on who you hang out with. Even if you are the leader/aggressor type, you will start getting "influenced" by the other party. I am saying this strictly based on my own personal experience of course.

This topic has resonated with me a lot lately. My professional life has not really been moving where I want it to be in last 3-4 years. Yes, ultimately I am to blame and no questions about it. But all my friends/co-workers/family I hang out with are very similar to me in many ways. I realized that I think a lot like them now. Nothing wrong with that but it is just not where I see myself.

In contrast, many years ago, I really wanted to do something drastic in my life which would mean going against all odds. I pulled it off. The only reason I can think of now is that I hung out with people who were already doing that drastic thing. I followed them and hung out with them. We became really good friends. Not to take away my hard work that I put in, but if I had to give the main reason I succeeded then was the company I had. I should mention that those people were all much better than me at what I wanted to be.

You want to be an entrepreneur ? Go hang out with other entrepreneurs who are already doing it. Of course, you cannot be a sycophant. You still have to do the hard work, you still have to sweat it out but the right company and influence on you can really speed your drive towards where you want to be.

Ok, I wrote all this stuff but time to really go and find the "company" I want to be in. I know what/where they are but it is just my laziness that is keeping me from getting to it. This post probably gave me the kick in the butt I needed. Really hope so.
"which are awful, but necessary for now".

I am not sure what is exactly that awful in having free credit for X days, rewards for making purchases (which effectively cancels fees) and, the most important thing, chargebacks.

I can understand Credit Card issues from seller point of view, but for clients (that is most of us), they are not that bad.

Bitcoin will have to provide the same level of consumer comfort and safety to have wider adoption.

This also touches banking system as a whole. If I make an error in my bank transfer, I will get my money back and this is up to bank to return them, I don't have to worry about this. Who will give me back my bitcoin payment done by mistake?
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All of the demos on this page have been available on codepen for months: http://codepen.io/befamous/

There's nothing new here.
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If you had the option to tap a Bitcoin card and have the same experience, but save 3% on the transaction, would you?
This sounds crazy,
But i started doing a chinese yoga called 'Qi Gong' and my eye sight has improved from -1.75, -1.50, to -0.5ish, -0.5ish

exercise works! especially martial art based ones
Is "ACH" basically the same as what we call "Direct Debit" in the UK?

If so I'd also love stripe support for Direct Debit ... like GoCardless[1]

[1] https://gocardless.com/
TBH it's mostly about the fact that the "route around damage" really applies only to a very small stack. What does the browser do, to "route around damage"? What does a DNS client do? Very little, if anything. They were not built to "route around damage", they were built to do client/server.
Yeah, somehow, I'm not seeing any reason to believe that the people suing Mt.Gox for fraud are in league with a government plot against Karpeles.

Mt.Gox sought bankruptcy protection in Japan, and then in the US (tied to the Japanese process). People with claims in the US against Mt.Gox, as is fairly routine in bankruptcy cases where there are active claims, sought to have Karpeles testimony as a representative of the bankrupt firm with relevant knowledge compelled by the bankruptcy court.

> The offer to pay 100% of all travel expenses up front is particularly suspicious.

Payment of a witnesses travel costs, lodging, plus attendance fees in US federal court is generally mandatory (28 USC Sec. 1821.) Offering to pay up front as a means of removing a potential convenience barrier for a witness is, AFAIK, fairly routine, rather than "particularly suspicious".
Don't forget that facebook has an app platform. Even if personally I find all the apps loathsome the experience is relevant.
PostGIS uses an R Tree implemented on a GiST index by default, with a pure R tree partially implemented.

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Can you treat Z as just another color channel and use the same algorithms?
It could also be that people that are more driven to work together and co-exist in their new country are more likely to change their names.

It could be that they have better wages because they're better at group cooperation.
I am working on a startup, Understudy, that tries to address this problem. Our approach is one-on-one conversations. We find you someone to meet with each week as you go through a book. The first one we are doing is SICP. You meet up with video chat and a whiteboard on the iPad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrdjKvka558

It should be on the App Store soon (awaiting Apple's approval!). If you are interested in trying it, send me an email. bridger@understudyapp.com
It worked for you, but at this time there's nothing saying it will work for everybody.
The thing you're missing is that the differences between GIMP and Photoshop are not just user interface idioms. I wish it were that simple (I'd love to switch to GIMP if I could). It's not a matter of "learning something new"; it's the fact that without real non-destructive editing features, GIMP is basically just an enhanced version of MS Paint in the hands of serious photographers and retouchers. Non-destructive editing is not a "nice to have" feature. It's quite literally a fundamental shift in methodology - and one that apparently the GIMP devs seem to be ignoring.

I know several professional photographers/retouchers, and for them, a typical Photoshop document has a single source layer (the original photo) on the bottom, and hundreds of adjustment layers (organized into folders) on top to create the final image. There's just no way to approach that power with GIMP.
If he didn't have a big reputation prior to this question, the comments would have been much harsher. There are people who ask and answer on their own for the sake of "reputation whoring".
Your argument seems to be that the happenings in your locale are attributable to avaricious, power-mad sociopaths operating governments in other places. I should point out that, while this may be true, it does not rule out the hypothesis that avaricious, power-mad sociopaths are also operating the government that claims you as its subject.

While it is also true that the Internet is filled to the brim with lies, propaganda, jokes, sarcasm, pornography, and cute cat videos, it also contains some genuine facts. As I am well aware that certain employees of my own government are unable to locate their own buttocks with two full-time assistants and a 350-page illustrated instruction manual, I very much prefer that the determination of whether something I find on the network is worth seeing be left to me, and me alone.

Arguing for censorship is arguing that you are an idiot that needs to be protected from your own poor judgement. If you truly find yourself unable to use the Internet responsibly, please just disconnect yourself from it rather than advocating for its destruction.
The Instruction Encoding talk http://millcomputing.com/topic/instruction-encoding/ was the first talk, so explained these numbers in the first few slides.

DSPs are massively faster than your Out-of-order Superscalar Monster, just ... not on general purpose code.

The Mill is a DSP-like architecture with secret sauce so it can overcome the gotchas and go DSP-fast on general purpose code.
Not proven. Overhyped. http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/05/...
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It's not an easy task to do it. I am asking this same question 6 months now :)
I wonder whether this something to do with Wells Fargo's stance, which is positive: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/14/us-wellsfargo-bitc...
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For OSX, Pixelmator[0] is a great tool for the price ($30). I've used Paint.NET a lot, but since being on OSX a lot more for my job, Pixelmator is definitely a step-above Paint.NET. But as always, Photoshop is the best out there.

[0] http://www.pixelmator.com/
People really underestimate the power of the sneaker net. The fastest way to transmit data is by carrier pigeon.
Sorry about that, I realized too late that a t1.micro instance really wasn't cut out for this. It should be working again now.
If there were a robust peer reviewed research report that detailed cancer cures in the manner this post suggests to be true it would be world headline news.

Claiming that is is somehow suppressed because it is not possible to patent the idea is just like the huckster trying to sell you a car that runs on water - but the oil companies are trying to suppress it.
It's free software all the way down.
Not if the value of Bitcoin continues to fluctuate. How am I supposed to know if I can afford the cup of coffee without checking an exchange value?
hah, true! Buyer beware i guess :)
I let my password manager handle the multiple fields required, although it's still not the best solution ever.

What are these commercials that AmEx is running? I assume they're presenting it as "convenient" rather than "unsafe" but it's obvious enough if you know what's going on?
Will it have an option to retain some % in BTC rather than selling them all for fiat?

Any plans for an option to accept fiat and convert to BTC?
Probably satire.
Yes, for earlier rounds. But I think it would already be a huge improvement if you could narrow down to a handful of final candidates blind.

I'm also skeptical how much value is added face-to-face. I think the long term strategy would be to apply big data techniques to hiring. If you do long-term tracking of hiring outcomes, you could start to develop a suite of accurate hiring predictors. It is clear at least some current selectors are not very good (e.g. gender, first name). I'm aware of an elite academic dept. that doesn't do face-to-face meetings for hiring assistant professors. Someone in the dept. claimed the application packet was the best predictor of the kinds of success the dept. hires for and face-to-face wasn't useful, if not misleading.
"These growth factors, especially one called brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or B.D.N.F., are known to contribute to the health and well-being of neurons and consequently, it is thought, to improvements in brain health and cognition after regular exercise."

That's interesting, and it sounds great, but like nearly any study of the brain there is conflicting information from other studies:

"Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) overexpression in the forebrain results in learning and memory impairments."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19095063*
It would be interesting if YC ever rejected someone with 10% growth over 8 weeks or what the rejection rate at that growth is, because I think it's quite a strong criterion? (given that it's not a totally unscalable business)
Our user tests suggest that people will pay with their online banking when offered even a 1% discount, which is awesome. More than 40%.
You can make tcp/ip fail as well, just like Pakistan did back in 2008: http://www.renesys.com/2008/02/pakistan-hijacks-youtube-1/
Last I heard btrfs was still not considered a stable main production filesystem. Has this changed recently? Even just late last year I had not heard of production 'success' stories on it.

Unless something has majorly changed, the idea of using btrfs for the main FS is a bit scary.
What about consumer protections? Extended warranties, painless returns, fraud protection, etc. I am at no risk when using a credit card. Why would I even want to switch?
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It's much, much better than it used to be but it is still not as good as the Java support. I write both in my day job and while I much prefer scala, anyone who feels that IntelliJ's scala support is equal to java is deluding themselves. At least a few times a day I come across something where I start shaking my fist at the IDE over something which would Just Work for java.

That said, it is improving and closing the gap rapidly.
Hackneyed does not make sense here. I'm not sure it means what you think it does. What is your critism of the algorithm?
I totally agree - there are major signs of progress. The fact that the Female Founders Conference was held at all could even be taken as a sign of that progress.

That said, I think Jami was lamenting the fact that signs of progress are, at times, being taken as signs of completion - that the conference needed less focus on the progress to-date, and more focus on the major inequalities that still exist.
Definitely enjoyed the email signup placeholder: satoshi@example.com
This is great news. One quick suggestion: I recommend dropping the material on Bitcoin's unsuitability as a store of value or unit of account, or at least softening the language to sound less certain. It's possible that these views, which are shared by most mainstream economists, will prove to be true, but Bitcoin's design is a test of the contrary position. It seems reasonable to concede that there's some uncertainty in the matter.
Doesn't the us have the Monroe doctrine? It allows for the invasion of foreign country's when the us feels threatened right?
The exact same reason I stopped asking/answering questions on SO years ago - too many condescending trolls trying to act smart.
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Can't respond to individual comments - chargeback protection is NOT a credit-card thing - it's a consumer protection called Regulation E that all payment processors must have. We have it for ACH for example.
Probably not. I'd prefer the mileage, peace of mind that I have recourse, consolidated statementing, free 30 day loan, etc. And you would not save 3%. In fact, with Bitcoin's volatility, you might be charged 3% as you are now when you purchase in a different currency. Bitcoin enthusiasts have a difficult time understanding the cost of currency volatility.
Interestingly enough, the historical amity between Japan and Ethiopia has existed since the early 20th century, as two lone countries that managed to remain independent during the time of European colonialism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia–Japan_relations
Maybe fiverr.com?
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http://www.fiverr.com/ ?
> So i guess there are no practical consumer devices that transmit the heartbeat in realtime

A $50 BLE Polar HR strap and an iPhone app that one could whip up in a weekend. Using Apple's BLE sample app as a start, probably wouldn't even take an afternoon for an MVP.
"Yes. And by the way, I understand your comment. I really should have shared a more thoughtful response about this project before mentioning EN"

I don't think I'm that insightful, but thanks. I get the feeling we need "related" tags or something.
On the contrary: he's asking for bankruptcy protection from US Courts.

US Courts can use bankruptcy law to protect you from your creditors. But if he refuses to comply with the Courts, then why should get get any bankruptcy protection?
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I personally deal with it by closing the tabs I don't really need.
In an ideal world, nobody would steal chip designs and boot ROMs to create counterfeit products.
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Can't respond to individual comments anymore, but consumer protection is something all payment processors must have, it's the law - it's called Regulation E and it's mandated by the government. We do it for ACH same as credit cards - CC's have convinced people it's something they created, but it is not - it's the law.
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