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Re:Stripe Billing on Thursday April 05, 2018 @02:17PM (#16767480)
I still have not found a single subscription solution that seamlessly handles adding sales tax and properly reporting it. Stripe does not. Recurly does not. TaxJar does not work with subscriptions. Avalara does not work with subscriptions...

What are people doing?

Re:Stripe Billing on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:47PM (#16767136)
How is this any different than the subscriptions they previously offered? And what do services like Recurly do that Stripe subscriptions don't? And when is Stripe going to automatically handle sales tax?
Re:Ask HN: How do you brew your coffee? on Monday December 11, 2017 @01:18PM (#15899008)
Stove-top siphon pot (Yama 5 cup). I've found it to be the best method after trying all (according to my personal tastes and style). Metal filter only.

French Press or Clever comes in second place. Also metal filter only.

For cold brew: two glass 3L jugs, a funnel and metal filter.

Other things:

Baratza Virtuoso Grinder, Lavatools digital thermometer, timer (any will do), gram scale (any will do).

Coffee: Fresh beans from Portorico importing (NYC). Light-roast only.

Re:System76 Galago Pro [video] on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:01PM (#13941633)
Same situation. Had a System 76 Lemur Ultra for 3 years and hated it after 6 months. The battery had to be replaced every 10-12 months. The build quality was appalling. Everything was falling apart. The finish and keys were coming off. HDMI never worked. WIFI problems every day. It was really a piece of garbage. I'd be embarrassed to sell those.

Just got a Dell XPS 13 for about the same price I paid for the System 76 piece of junk. It's an amazing computer.

Happening with BofA too.
Re:Why We Keep Playing the Lottery on Thursday September 25, 2014 @11:40AM (#8367702)
Most lotteries are not 1 in 175 million.. using the hardest-to-win lottery skews this article a bit..

I don't really understand the point of this article. Is he trying to expose the "morons" who play the lottery for being just that? Maybe the $2 or so bucks means nothing to people playing. Maybe the excitement of the lead-up to the drawing and the checking of the numbers is more fun than $2 in my pocket. You can barely even buy a soda with $2 now.

If those jackpots swell over $200M, betting $1 to win against 1:175M odds is a good bet. If I could bet $1 to win $15 and I had a 1 in 10 chance of winning, I'd do it every time.

In the end, the lottery funds go towards the city/state, and usually education. It's a fun form of charity.

Re:I Had to Develop an iPhone App to Understand Swing Trading on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @09:55AM (#8361405)
> But swing traders need to win at least 50% of the time in order to be profitable.

That's not true. It completely depends on your strategy/system. You can be highly-profitable with a 30% win-rate (or any number) granted the amount you win is far higher than the amount you lose. If my average win is $1000 and my average loss is $100, I can be profitable with only 10% wins (excluding commissions).

Re:If Gmail were built with Drupal on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @09:06AM (#6717870)
No. First, I'm not accusing Acquia of anything. I'm simply saying that I don't agree with the article, understand the real point of it, and I think it was poorly written. I'm completely failing to see the connection or proper comparison of GMail's compose form to Drupal's not-so-pretty node forms. I think it does nothing but make Drupal look bad without giving any information at all.
Re:If Gmail were built with Drupal on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @08:54AM (#6717791)
Continuing with my earlier point, I don't have specific examples to give, but I've built so many complex web applications using Drupal with beautiful interfaces/UIs that you wouldn't even be able to recognize what was powering it. The complete allure of Drupal to me is that you can be literally anything (for the most part), and you can do it incredibly fast.

This is a really poor article, in my opinion.

Re:If Gmail were built with Drupal on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @08:45AM (#6717740)
I don't have a guide on-hand but my advice, if you're new to Drupal, would be to take a few weeks and really explore the power of it (via contributed modules and some of your own development; if possible). The same thing scared me away initially (that was 8 years ago), but I've learned to love the power and complete flexibility that this platform offers.

Since we're talking about messaging, try out the Private message module. Right off the bat, you'll get a much cleaner form than the ugly node form. Private messages are also fieldable so you can add additional fields like attachments, labels, etc. Using the API (hook_form_alter()), you can do anything you want to any form at all. Then once you introduce a good theme, the possibilities are as endless as any other solution.

I'd also take a look at some of the Drupal 8 backported modules for Drupal 7 (if you're going to use 7). They introduced a number of great UI changes and made some of them available for Drupal 7 via modules.

Re:If Gmail were built with Drupal on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @08:32AM (#6717665)
I don't really understand this article. You compare the core node add/edit form with GMail's email compose form - and that's it? That's all Drupal can do? No, it's not even close. I understand that the core UI elements in Drupal are pretty bad, but why not mention how easy it is for a developer to clone that compose form? Why even use a node form to do the comparison (you're not creating content here). This just takes an unfair stab at Drupal without going in to any details at all.
Re:Ask HN: Which developer laptop should I buy? on Sunday January 20, 2013 @06:17PM (#5088714)
I just got the System 76 Lemur Ultra a few weeks ago. Intel i5, 128GB SSD, 8GB RAM. It's amazing. Ubuntu works perfectly. All hardware works perfectly. Their support is top-notch and almost instant. With shipping, total was like $860.

Peace of mind going forward with new Ubuntu releases is priceless.

Ask HN: Where to buy + (actually) download TV shows?

I find this situation to be interesting enough to post the question about...For the first time in a while, I actually want to buy a full season of a TV show that I like. Normally, I'd find some other means of getting it that didn't involve money..The problem is, and I may be blind, but I can't find a single place to purchase and download TV shows. And by download, I mean actually downloading...

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Re:Free Computer Science books online. on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @08:26AM (#2275247)
Thanks - this looks great.

Any suggestions? Any sites with free business-related books that you know of too?

Ask HN: Chrome Can't Make Attachments in GMail?

Using latest Chrome browser with Ubuntu 9.10. I've tried 100 times to send an email in GMail with an attachment. The email sends fine every time - but WITHOUT an attachment?How do you make a web browser that doesn't work with your web services?Anyone else experiencing this?

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Re:Ask HN: Review our site Aylay.it on Monday February 08, 2010 @10:06PM (#1111417)
why would anyone want to use this?
Re:Ask HN: Software for Creating an Affiliate Program? on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @06:57PM (#1079291)
looks like they're still in beta...

got any others?

thanks

Ask HN: Software for Creating an Affiliate Program?

Hey,I'm looking for some third-party software/service for offering an affiliate program for my product. The product/service I'm offering is irrelevant. Just to note, I'm not looking for a network to join. I want to offer the affiliate program myself.Thanks for any info

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Re:Ask HN: Understanding the Mystery of Adwords QS on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @02:08AM (#983241)
huh?

Ask HN: Understanding the Mystery of Adwords QS

I'm not asking what goes into Adwords QS or why mine is always low. I just about have never had any success with any thing I've tried to advertise on Adwords.But, I'm posting this question because of one main thing. I've come across a large amount of ads that rank very high (position 1-3 consistently; which means they much have a good QS), that feature landing pages with little to no text at...

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Re:Scalr - Self-Scaling Hosting Environment utilizing Amazon's EC2 on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @01:36PM (#853109)
I'm not sure if I understand the pricing explanation...

1) Cloud computing minus the sky-high prices

2) just $99 plus AWS charges

So it's cloud computing plus the sky-high prices?

Typo?

Ask HN: To "Cloud" or not to "Cloud"? (Webapp Hosting)

Hey,I know this topic has come up a million or so times on this site, but I couldn't think of a better place for advice on a web application that is in need of hosting soon.I've used Liquidweb's dedicated servers for most of my previous applications. They're powerful, come configured ready to go (apache, php, mysql, mail, panel, etc), and the support is by far the best. My main concern now, is...

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Re:Don't Get That College Degree on Monday June 29, 2009 @10:02PM (#680085)
always great to hear your thoughts all over a newspaper article...
Re:Ask HN: Missing needed skills for startup on Sunday June 21, 2009 @05:19PM (#667824)
If you're talking about a database in terms of a web application or something similar, it's very simple. I remember I learned my way around MySQL in a matter of days. Check out w3schools.com and go over the quick MySQL tutorial.
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - Chords! on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @02:04PM (#638278)
just chords or notes? just chords seems pointless in my opinion. plus anyone who really plays the guitar will use something like guitar pro and just download free tablature - which is probably the best solution out there.
Re:Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch? on Monday May 25, 2009 @11:40AM (#625540)
we all read the site so why bother posting it here too?
doesn't seem like something people would spend money on...all of this info seems readily and easily accessible already.

the name seems a bit childish.

Funny, in the same exact situation. Building a deployment app and deciding on a billing system. Was thinking about just writing a custom one or maybe writing something for Ubercart since it's drupal-based.

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