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jlhonora··on Ask HN: How do you manage subscriptions do usage based billing?
Stripe now supports usage-based billing: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/usage-based/pr...
jlhonora··on Copy of U.S. Constitution Sells for $43.2M as Crypto Group DAO Is Outbid
https://rewilder.xyz does this, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's other similar projects out there.
jlhonora··on Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
Congrats folks! With that much data you'll be able to build a great financial health profile of your customers. Are you planning to offer loans?

Viva Chipax!

jlhonora··on Alcohol-free beer is fizzing
Thanks for sharing! Is it this one: [0]? I'm a weekend warrior climber, and Blood Orange beers are my favorite! And even better if it's for a noble cause.

[0] https://athleticbrewing.com/products/rainbow-wall-non-alcoho...

jlhonora··on Alcohol-free beer is fizzing
I quit alcohol a year ago, but still enjoy non-alcoholic beer like Athletic Brewing's [0]. It's got great selection and taste, although lacks the alcohol kick of course (which I don't miss).

I now sleep and feel a lot better, my resting heart rate decreased substantially, among other benefits.

It's not easy to quit alcohol, especially from a social aspect. But good non-alcoholic beer makes it possible for me at least.

[0] https://athleticbrewing.ca/

jlhonora··on Ask HN: Where to learn about payments infrastructure?
Although brief and US-specific, this books gives a good overview: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36055478-payments-system...

As a spoiler, most of these institutions communicate by exchanging text files over SFTP or similar.

As for Blockchain, I'd start with Satoshi's Bitcoin paper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Disclaimer: I work at Stripe.

jlhonora··on Stripe Identity
Not sure what makes you evoke such a strong reply. If it's something I said, then I apologize.
jlhonora··on Stripe Identity
Probably not the answer you expect, but the I18N team is hiring :) https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/internationalization-enginee...

Otherwise, if you're a trained linguist and have demonstrable consulting experience QA'ing technical documentation then we'll be happy to arrange something.

In either case, we appreciate your feedback, and my emails are open!

jlhonora··on Stripe Identity
I work at Stripe, though not on the L10N/I18N or identity teams. It would be tremendously helpful if you could send me some feedback so that we can improve, jlh at stripe dot com.

I'm a native Spanish speaker too, and nothing in this announcement strikes me as unintelligible, but that might be my own biases at play given the familiarity with Stripe's lingo.

jlhonora··on Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto
I hate to break it to you, but you're probably out of luck. This is why the common "not your keys, not your coins" phrase exists.
jlhonora··on What Working At Stripe Has Been Like
Drop me an email if you'd like to know more about Stripe @ LATAM! jlh at stripe dot com . Spanish / Portuguese friendly, too.
jlhonora··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)
Stripe | Backend / API Engineer | Mexico City | Full-Time | ONSITE (remote for now)

The Global LATAM team is a key component to Stripe's global strategy in the Latin American market. Our mission is to reduce the barriers faced by large and emerging businesses around the world by abstracting away the complexities of payments. The Global LATAM team is responsible for building the payments products & infrastructure needed to launch new markets and process payments successfully throughout Latin America.

Apply directly: https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/backend-api-engineer-latam/1... Want to chat about Stripe or the payments landscape in LATAM? Drop me an email jlh at stripe dot com

jlhonora··on What is the best way to accept payments in Latin America countries?
Which country are you (or your company) based on? Which countries are you selling to?
jlhonora··on Introducing Google Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API and New Data Center
But not even the proposed example does a great job regarding entity salience.

> Google, headquartered in Mountain View, unveiled the new Android phone at the Consumer Electronic Show. Sundar Pichai said in his keynote that users love their new Android phones.

Results in:

Google - Organization, salience: 0.27

Mountain View - Location, salience: 0.10

Sundar Pichai - Person, salience: 0.07

CES - Event, salience: 0.07

Android - Consumer Good: 0.07

So "Android" which is a central piece in the announcement ranks lower than "Mountain View", which is mostly irrelevant.

jlhonora··on Rails 5.0.0.rc1
Anyone around using it in production? Thoughts?
jlhonora··on Geolocation API removed from unsecured origins in Chrome 50
And also from our experience, it seems that they're only allowing TLS 1.0 and up. https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder/issues/1034
jlhonora··on Google I/O 2016
I hope they won't do that. I believe those approaches do a disservice to Android in general.

For instance, it really annoys me when Android Studio pushes you to add app indexing stuff, which in turn needs Play Services to work. Play Services unnecessarily bloats my APKs, so I go great lengths to avoid it.

I prefer a more agnostic Android Studio (and Android in general) rather than gravitating towards Google sponsored add-ons.

jlhonora··on Ask HN: What books do you wish your manager would read?
Although the testimonies sound great, the landing page gives me mixed feelings about the book. Perhaps too much salesmanship. Could you tell us a bit more?
jlhonora··on Ask HN: What books do you wish your manager would read?
Peopleware has great insights for both managers and programmers. Recommended read for both.
jlhonora··on [dead]
Any idea on why does this happen so often? DDoS? Crucial changes that go south? Scalability issues?
jlhonora··on Using imagemagick, awk and kmeans to find dominant colors in images
Couldn't this be achieved with imagemagick's builtin blur + histogram?
jlhonora··on Ask HN: What books are you reading?
Why the downvotes? I'm curious on how I could improve.
jlhonora··on Ask HN: What books are you reading?
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. Really enjoying it. Interesting how certain times can shape the perspective of the roles of society, companies and government.

Before that I read the entire Game of Thrones series. Not really worth the time invested if you ask me, but it was fun nonetheless. Might be one of those few books where watching their TV version is more enjoyable (disclosure: haven't watched the series).

On the technical side, I'm trying to read Google's papers once in a while. Good mixture of theoretical background with practical approaches.

jlhonora··on Google Optimization Tools
Are there plans for Go bindings anytime soon?
jlhonora··on Apple Maps Vehicles
Next step: JavaScript API?
jlhonora··on Show HN: Interview Challenges to Hire Better
Looks good! No results on the third SQL challenge?

    SELECT employees.*, departments.dept_name FROM employees
    JOIN dept_manager ON dept_manager.emp_no = employees.emp_no
    JOIN departments ON departments.dept_no = dept_manager.dept_no
(excluding to_date restriction, but still...)
jlhonora··on Replacing Ruby on Rails: Let's Go
Exactly
jlhonora··on Replacing Ruby on Rails: Let's Go
Why use Rails as a frontend? One of the reasons I'm using Go for service decoupling is to get rid of Rails long startup times. I just route the requests using Nginx and skip Rails altogether.
jlhonora··on Replacing Ruby on Rails: Let's Go
Ghost (https://ghost.org) is built with Node
jlhonora··on Taking the Raspberry Pi 2 for a Test Drive with GNU Radio
Cool project! I guess that with the Pi2 you could do some basic image processing to detect changes and then decide which footage is interesting.
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