15:[[3406698,{"by":"_ud4a","descendants":10,"id":3406698,"kids":[3406964,3407771,3407832,3408174,3406896,3406951,3407881,3420577,3407660],"score":12,"text":"i'm working on a project which is almost done except the payment aspect of it. I'm wondering what does the HN community use for their SaaS website to accept payments and also do monthly billings?

i was looking at chargify.com and really like what they offer. any other ideas?

cheers","time":1325222386,"title":"Ask HN: Monthly billing software for SaaS site","type":"story"}],[3334557,{"by":"llambda","descendants":13,"id":3334557,"kids":[3335317,3334767,3335877,3334856,3335162,3335462,3335882,3335881,3334909],"score":22,"time":1323451606,"title":"Chrome sandboxing makes it the most secure browser, vendor study claims","type":"story","url":"http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/12/chrome-sandboxing-makes-it-the-most-secure-browser-vendor-study-claims.ars"}],[3260738,{"by":"itmag","descendants":25,"id":3260738,"kids":[3262041,3261110,3281382,3261064,3261003,3261297,3268911,3260742,3261263,3262510,3261226],"score":19,"text":"Thought it would be good karma to post these.

Check it out: http://ideashower.posterous.com

Help me pick out 1 of these for me to work on, and feel free to pilfer any of them for your own needs as well :)

Oh, and I am always interested in meeting a co-founder here. Am located in Sweden.","time":1321874331,"title":"100+ of my business ideas","type":"story"}],[3059531,{"by":"abbasmehdi","descendants":6,"id":3059531,"kids":[3059842,3060040,3065926,3059735,3060832,3066004],"score":6,"text":"Does Rails have good IDEs?

Do they help with management and debugging?

Are they cheap?

Do they have a learning curve?

Thanks for your insights.","time":1317452299,"title":"Ask HN: Does anyone use an IDE for Rails? Which one is best?","type":"story","url":""}],[2927378,{"by":"ashraful","descendants":6,"id":2927378,"kids":[2927583,2928795,2927617,2927596],"score":6,"text":"$16","time":1314332718,"title":"Ask HN: Anyone want to help me build a browser?","type":"story","url":""}],[2663293,{"by":"espeed","descendants":10,"id":2663293,"kids":[2664263,2663395,2663382,2683283,2664726,2664092,2663477],"score":7,"text":"$17","time":1308258638,"title":"Ask HN: Best Approaches to Prevent Session Hijacking?","type":"story","url":""}],[2640685,{"by":"kanebennett","descendants":57,"id":2640685,"kids":[2640870,2640898,2640840,2641235,2640835,2640797,2641077,2640998,2641937,2640831,2640942,2640850,2642524,2641128,2642156,2640851,2640794,2640925,2640802,2641356,2640834,2641458,2643620],"score":113,"text":"","time":1307711209,"title":"How I doubled the price of my software product and sold ten times as many copies","type":"story","url":"http://www.startupproject.org/2011/06/price/"}],[2588470,{"by":"brianl","descendants":8,"id":2588470,"kids":[2588675,2588578,2588762,2588680,2588548],"score":10,"text":"I've been getting a bit crossed eyed reading a bunch of crap legal documents. I now recognize patters and see that words, phrases, and structure have specific meanings. A lot of that are definition statements and conditional constructs.

Now I see lawyers as programmers who write really crappy code with an ancient language and grammer.

It would make a lot of sense to modernize their tool set and structure their documents like well written code.

\"Your honor, the defendant violated the contract on line 325 by failing to perform the 3rd AND condition.\"","time":1306429278,"title":"Legal docs should be written like code.","type":"story","url":""}],[2571109,{"by":"techdemic","descendants":32,"id":2571109,"kids":[2571233,2571299,2571308,2571409,2571135,2571279,2571438,2571512,2571382,2571268,2571182,2571328,2571432,2571475,2571476,2571381,2571401,2571346,2571731,2573027,2614527],"score":23,"text":"Well, school's out for summer, but the learning doesn't stop. Jobs and internships aside, what personal projects/goals do you hope to accomplish during Summer 11'?

---

I just had my wisdom teeth (all four) removed, and to help pass the time I've been working through Zed Shaw's 'Learn Python the Hard Way'. My end-goal is to have a few Python/Django projects in my portfolio come September.","time":1305995820,"title":"Ask HN: What personal projects/goals are people working on for this summer?","type":"story","url":""}],[2568313,{"by":"ericn","descendants":11,"id":2568313,"kids":[2589155,2569516,2568762,2569501,2569170,2569162,2569259],"score":6,"text":"It has its flaws, but I find myself again and again returning to GMail's web client after trying out desktop clients.

I have tried:\n * Thunderbird\n * Claws\n * Mutt\n * Pine\n * Others that I can't remember.

The question I have is: why, given the limitations of the browser, is GMail still better?","time":1305908922,"title":"Ask HN: Why is GMail the best email client?","type":"story","url":""}],[2553694,{"by":"bengl3rt","descendants":6,"id":2553694,"kids":[2553979,2554943,2553809],"score":2,"text":"In practice EC2 instances take a few minutes to come up all the way, and bill per hour - partial hours included.

I have a very parallel workload that needs a large amount of capacity to come up in seconds, and then go away after a few minutes - paying for partial EC2 hours when I'm using the instance for ten minutes or less just doesn't make sense.

Can anyone recommend a PaaS or IaaS provider that might better suit my needs?","time":1305571930,"title":"Any PaaS or IaaS providers come up in seconds, bill per minute?","type":"story","url":""}],[2519384,{"by":"criddar","descendants":9,"id":2519384,"kids":[2519401,2519955,2519486,2521873,2522037],"score":2,"text":"I'd appreciate any constructive feedback from the community. I set out to solve a real problem with noisy social news feeds. Essentially by ensuring that every post would include at least one hashtag, it would create both a new way to follow (by hashtag) and a new way to silence social connections (also by hashtag) within the same feed.

And even though I know I'm caught in the usual chicken and egg conundrum (need users to get users), the deeper issue is that new visitors don't even sign up to take it for a test spin.

So, in order to showcase the platform, I built a self-teaching/self-tagging aggregating service that pulls articles from top blogs to kind of seed the site. Still no takers.

So I ask, am I solving a problem that many blog about, but that doesn't really exist? Should I turn off the aggregator, and see what kind of community (if any) arises? Is there a better approach? Or is the only solution to the problem one that lives as an add-on to Twitter's established community?","time":1304639130,"title":"Ask HN: Evaluate my startup, PoundWire","type":"story","url":""}],[2450572,{"by":"krauses","descendants":4,"id":2450572,"kids":[2450627,2450868,2454091,2452724],"score":5,"text":"I'm working for a startup in the travel industry and I've been thrown into a project management role. I've been using Google Docs to manage the development backlog but it's getting pretty messy. Wondering if anyone has any insight on whether or not moving to something like Rally Software or a different SaaS project management tool would be overkill or a good move for a small dev team (3 coders and 1 designer)?","time":1302876383,"title":"Ask HN: Project Management Software or Google Docs?","type":"story","url":""}],[2429004,{"by":"yr","descendants":11,"id":2429004,"kids":[2429093,2430099,2429078,2429299,2432092,2429028,2429116,2429123,2429687,2429191],"score":8,"text":"How did you master C++ language ?","time":1302416699,"title":"Ask HN: What did you do to become an expert in C++?","type":"story","url":""}],[2365841,{"by":"RiderOfGiraffes","descendants":6,"id":2365841,"kids":[2366982,2366101],"score":3,"text":"$18","time":1300999273,"title":"For me, Firefox 4 stumbles at the first hurdle","type":"story","url":""}],[2306915,{"by":"rblion","descendants":34,"id":2306915,"kids":[2307025,2307013,2308212,2309958,2307408,2307909,2308455,2309352,2307192,2307312,2307248,2308211,2307935,2308045,2309338,2312700,2307522,2307087],"score":21,"text":"Just curious. Feeling kind of disillusioned with all these headlines about things that don't really matter for the sake of human progress. Anyone can answer this question, even if you are just at the idea stage.

BTW: I'm not saying startups don't do anything for progress, just seeing so many startups doing something just to make a buck before the 'bubble' that everyone is concerned about.","time":1299710034,"title":"Ask HN: How are you changing the world with your startup?","type":"story","url":""}],[2296165,{"by":"mariettagirls","descendants":13,"id":2296165,"kids":[2296546,2296215,2297671,2296548,2296302,2297089,2298609,2297420,2296789,2296251],"score":9,"text":"We are a group of girls in SF that are extremely excited about a start-up idea. We have bounced it off of a few YC alum, and they think it is a great idea too, but we cannot contribute technically.

This is our current plan, what should we do to make it better?

1) Learn Django (we have no python experience, but we can read).

2) Use that knowledge to post a marketing site describing the idea and start collecting email addresses.

3) Since we cannot program, jump straight to getting the marketing site on Techcrunch and seeing what happens.

4) Find a technical co-founder that realizes we are serious and will join us.

Do you think this will work? What else can we do to help see this company come to light?","time":1299476230,"title":"Ask HN: How to start-up when you are not technical?","type":"story","url":""}],[2292737,{"by":"thatusertwo","descendants":8,"id":2292737,"kids":[2292904,2292972,2295882,2293212],"score":10,"text":"Same as above.","time":1299365936,"title":"Ask HN: Facebook alternative, are users willing to try something different?","type":"story","url":""}]]

user:	badkins
created:	January 17, 2011
karma:	31
about:	I am the cofounder of Light Point Security and spend my time building the world's most secure web browser. http://lightpointsecurity.com

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