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Did you pay this fee online or at an establishment?

Could you pay down this fee or was it all due at one time?

This is a question for experiences paying the fine, not so much for advice.

I've added to the question to make it clear.

Thinkpad X1 Carbon - I love this thing. http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca...

All-in-all, great job and kudos for getting it done! It looks good, functions as it should with the flexibility to fit in any given product.

I like these projects because it helps break the often-overlooked centralization of civil conversation. However, it requires knowledge most of your target audience wouldn't have i.e. Database, Handling Spam, moderating etc.

As much as centralizing conversations get under my skin, the strength in these products is the ease-of-implementation.

You plan on rolling this out into a full product or is this more a project for the OS community to snowball?

Bingo. There has to be some correlation among the products else you run into competition on all fronts. On top of this - the competition you will run into are often solely focused on that product.

In the age of equal access, how does one discern meaningful connections on a free platform?

Imagine if every time someone wrote a comment on Facebook, Instagram they had to answer a simple math question before it's posted. A lot less online bullying will happen and the poster's mind will be sharpened.

With the lack of linked content in HN profiles, you're 100% sure the person who visits any given link you have via the Right Click or Copy/Paste is a meaningful connection that has gone out of their way.

My suggestion - Build a Chrome plugin to scrape the page to discover content that passes a link litmus and programatically link it on the fly.

Thanks Bahamut - Did you bring ideas to the decision makers based on a need you saw at the nonprofit or did they approach you with something to look into?

This has been our general findings as well and we've been doing some research on the best way to market. Clearly banking on the technological advantages will be ineffective.

I'll hit you via email because your response brought to mind other things we're curious about. Thanks for taking the time to answer dsacco

Hi LarryMade2, I'm talking about charities, nonprofits organizations that survive on grants and donations.

I took home first prize at a AT&T hackathon here in Houston and I thought the exact same thing.

A lot of corporate ones are set up with contracts that leave your work at their mercy to continue without you. Unless there's a prize - it isn't worth it with these types of arrangements.

For social good, civil, city government, university etc - I'll do it with no expectations just to make a difference.

I assumed Fax was a dying tool but its very much alive and well.

I had to rely on when doing business overseas and sending documents. Doing corporate identity verification and more all via fax was the norm.

Good luck

Oh - I see, neat. I assumed it was ads aggregated from a series of sponsors. I've used these services before - any API in the works?

Very cool concept! How does the person initiating the fax know what the ad will contain? I haven't signed up, but if it's not done already - I would create feature where the person sending the fax can select the ad on free accounts.

Albeit the price plans alone are so reasonable it could void the concern with Ads.

It's not the same at all. There's a "Pending" balance and an "Available" balance.

If you were to initiate a transfer after a successful charge, you will get an error. You have to wait days for it to make it to your available balance and transfer then.

With the migration, will our data be replicated or ported over to Stripe? I.E. We start the migration and we still have access to Balanced API while we make the needed changes to comply and test with Stripe.

I want to start the migration, but don't want to lose access to Balanced all together until we're ready...

During the migration, is our information ported over to Stripe or is it replicated? I want to start the migration but it doesn't specify whether or not it will cause Balanced users to lose access to the API all together.

The problem is that Stripe requires sub merchants to create an account as well. Whereas Balanced, the account process was part of the API so your customers stayed in your application. That's going to be the biggest blow to the UI.

... Wow, after all that work building a product on Balanced.

He's showing his project, it's best to keep condescending comments about the person to yourself. Just focus on what is needed to make the project better.

@Daybooks - Kudos for actually launching something. Done is better than perfect. Now on with comments that actually help the project.

Writing copy is always a pain - I still have issues with grammar and spelling, however my code is flawless :) It's a pain to proofread when you're heavily invested in the code.

The presentation is neat and clean. Until you get buzz that will do the explaining for you, it's best to put something on the front page for those who don't get what you have already. It feels intimate because you have to be in the know to have a good gist of what it does. However, it's all about your audience.

I like UI but for users with IE or older browsers, your dependence on HTML5 and CSS3 might pose a problem with adoption. Always have graceful fallback.

The images you're loading are sized way too large and take time to load. Kill the image sizes at 1080P and let responsive CSS do the rest. Faster load times and better presentation.

On the landing page or about page - show an actual example of what the daybook entry looks like. Is there a link or a screenshot?

It looks promising - is this public or private posting?

Braintree is a good alternative and it was recently picked up by PayPal. They also offer first $50K in sales transaction fee-free.

That's an important feature. "Display:none" hides the element completely whereas the "Visibility:hidden" hides the element but reserves the space that now hidden element used.

If you have a box with "Display:none" - the box is no longer there. Try it with "Visibility: hidden" - the box is no longer there but the shape of the box remains.

The problem has zero to do with CSS. Robots have no concept of styling when crawling. It's the way the URI's are interpreted. You're jumping from one server to another server. If Google placed a parameter in the URI or designated a cookie/session that you could interpret, you could pull the search term and do what you will with it.

However, Google only suggest the page based on contents of that page. Not the article and section it was found in.

It depends on the features needed. We can all agree that Cordova (http://cordova.apache.org) has placed the power of app building into the hands of every common web designer.

If you have to ask how much without a laundry list to go from, chances are you can use Cordova to get your app going. In Houston, basic apps using it can go from $1K - $5K.

well played.

Good catch, I was just going to suggest that.

You assume the current way of doing things is the best way. "Special Treatment" isn't special. The way many companies currently operate promotes "Special Treatment" more-so.

The past dictates the present, exposures dictate the future. A kid from the slums might have a "natural" interest in what they see day in and day out. However, they could be gifted in other areas and don't find out until they're exposed to it.

Relying on "natural" interest is a way of instantly labeling people via statistics. Job incentives get people to learn about trades, money keeps them loyal to that trade/company. That's why university students change their majors so often - they grow, see better outcomes in other fields and follow the one that's more beneficial for the future they envision.

A natural deposition helps you excel but that's about it.

In total to think about Diversity:

Companies are living organisms and in order to ensure survival you must diversify. If you've lived in a vacuum your entire live and you encounter a common cold virus, you're going to go through hell to survive it. Your body has no experience dealing with it and it's thrown off course. Think natives and small pox from Europeans - Complete Die Off.

As companies diversify, they become immune to cultural shifts and are more prepared to grow and thrive in all situations. They don't make blunders in ignorance, they handle their customers better and they grow stronger because of support and loyalty cultivated in various groups or people - Think Coke. One group of people get mad, they have 50 more who support them.

It happened by accident. After long coding sessions, time would fly by and instead of cooking, I would just go to sleep. Now I could pretty much eat intermittently and still perform flawlessly. I lived off of canned soup (Progresso).

Slowly eat less and less each day for a week and you'll see.

I wouldn't consider Metro game changing. The design and principles behind it was floating around in Houston long before I saw it appear on Windows devices and the Xbox console.

Microsoft made it popular but it's been around for a while in response to design driven web designer vs info and interface driven design.

Hi HN, Philantro's Nonprofit Social Aggregation Project pulls the data from nonprofit's social media accounts in near-real-time (Near for server sake).

It allows the world to get a well rounded view of their favorite nonprofits, find those with similar mission or location, find hashtags that are buzzing in the nonprofit world and provides a treasure trove of data.

It's part of a bigger project I'm building. Thanks, Give Always.

I hate seeing requirements for college degrees - creativity begot know-how, not the other way around.

Nexus 5. What most people failed to mention is this is an unlocked $350 smartphone going head to head with $700 - $900 handsets.

If you want a smartphone that's fast, responsive and powerful, void of all the bloatware and secondary network branding and feels and looks great - go with Nexus 5. The camera isn't as great at the Moto X and HTC One but all else it can hold its own. You own the phone outright, get Android updates first, no monthly fees for the device and you take it wherever you want to only pay for service. How much better can it possibly get :)

The other phones are great as well - but no where can you find a better value than a Nexus device.