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Stripe ACH service has been in "beta" for at least two years. I contacted them that long ago and was told it would be available by the end of 2014 and it is still in "beta" and not generally available. As the co-founder of an enterprise SaaS app startup where our average per use charge for a customer to use our app (we charge on a per use basis not straight subscription) starts in the hundreds of dollars and can run into the thousands paying the standard 2.9% + credit card fees for every payment vs. $.10 - $.50 max for an ACH charge is a complete non-starter for us and our customers. All of Stripe's competitors have had ACH forever including Balanced who we talked to but Stripe continues to drag its feet and not provide ACH. Clearly it isn't for technical reasons but because they make significantly more revenue and profit by not offering ACH where their transaction fee is much less. So while I respect what Stripe did early on to make integrating payments into an app much easier than the previous generation payment providers requiring a lot of up front fees, merchant accounts, etc. we will never consider them again unless and until they offer ACH and I'm sure there are lots of other enterprise app companies who won't use them either without ACH because customers demand it vs. having to run up huge monthly charges on their company credit cards. Too bad that Stripe management is proven to put their profits (and greed) ahead of providing cost effective solutions for their customers.
The Fed’s imminent interest-rate decision – Is America ready for lift-off?
Well it could be a genuine microcell, not a simulator.
I guess the joke is that there is a Justin Bieber song called "Sorry". At least I think what's going on here. "404s and Heartbreak" with a pic of Kanye West would have been something else along this line.
Can confirm. Friend of mine was cut out of a seven figure bonus weeks before the payout. Apparently he had no recourse legally either.
That doesn't make the institutionalized exploitation of their labor any more ethical or palatable.
Bloomberg's is funny. http://www.bloomberg.com/404
Yeah I don't get it. I guess the only other thing that stood out for me was that the message is "Sorry something went wrong" except that 404 is a user error. "Sorry" is usually used for 500s.
Although I am no authority to properly comment on the American police system; having never lived there. I think we should not boil it down to a black-white issue of police training. I definitely agree that training police should not be in the same fashion as military, I think this needs to be coupled with anti-gun laws, and proper education to ever see a true decline in police brutality.
After all, being confronted with an armed suspect, will lead to escalation, remove that game changer, and a properly trained police should be able to subdue them.
Well, sort of. You can have a backdoor as safe as the backdoor key holder.

The problem here is not a technical one; we don't between a "safe backdoor key holder" can really exist.
1) Point taken. I'll think about swapping the domain name over in the next few days (as yours was the second comment already mentioning this.

2) That's a good question. Right now I don't have any data to examine the trends (hopefully I'll have more after the beta testing period).

3) I did a Google Survey and saw that a subset of the population would be willing to pay $20

http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/view?survey=6...

But this assumes people want on demand answers. If answers aren't on demand (maybe can be answered nightly), then I might be about to drop the cost down to $2 or $3.

4) Chat is currently integrated with twilio.com. I provisioned a Los Angeles based number (213) where anyone can text it (but it would be targeting towards the US market).
Chief of Police encourages businesses to remove all locks from their doors in case police forces need to enter the building in the instance of an emergency such as a break-in.

Furthermore, all business owners are encouraged to stop locking their cash and recipes in a safe, as this prevents police from ensuring none of it has been stolen.
I think you can start with "For and Against Method" which gives you Feyerabend and Lakatos.
I'd also substitute Ludwik Fleck for Kuhn.

But that's personal preference. The list is solid (imo)
Dwolla is completely unscrupulous and cannot be trusted.

They claimed for years their transactions were 'irreversible' and then went ahead and secretly reversed (read: just deleted them from the db and claimed not to know about them) a bunch of transactions that bankrupted Tradehill. Disgusting company.

http://observer.com/2012/03/dwolla-was-just-sued-by-bitcoine...
That's the whole point of Wikipedia. Otherwise it would be like PR Newswire.
If they did that, VW would be sued by customers for not delivering the product they paid for. It has been shown that VW can't eat the charge that would result of even small numbers of customers doing that, and it has been shown that the German state is not willing to destroy VW.

So suddenly the fix is "intensive dialog with the authorities" instead of fixing the problem.
For me I mainly use it at Whole Foods. I know they accept it. The question is, will it work this time (on the first try).
I noted the "by defaut" and was surprised to see such a blatant spelling error in the first sentence of a Wired article.
Not explicitly about paleo, but with lots of anti-paleo evidence:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Die-Discover-Scientifically-eb...
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For anyone who wants to read this. The book was rebranded. It's "Classical Mechanics - TTM" (this used to be called TTM only) now and there's also a "Quantum Mechanics - TTM". I have both of them on my nightstand but only browsed so far. Seems good at first glance. Susskind's Stanford classes for laypeople were great so I expect the books to be good as well :)
> Oh and make my internet faster.

Also, this site would disagree with you on the speed question: http://www.httpvshttps.com/
I noticed a very similar contrast watching the UK and US police responses to these Twitch streamers who were swatted. American SWAT team bursts in and arrests streamer at gunpoint even after they've established there's no threat, while UK police knock on door, ask a few questions and leave ("We got a call saying someone killed their family here." "Oh, no, do you want to speak with my mom?" "No, that's alright").

US:
https://youtu.be/TiW-BVPCbZk?t=114
UK:
https://youtu.be/Kda5rv_kyGs?t=30
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> Don't big alarm bells go off in your head when you hear N parameters for N data points?

Gaussian process models typically also have hyperparameters that control things like the smoothness of the learned surface. My hand-wavey sense of how GPs work is that you have a prior distribution over functions (think curves) and a hyperparameter controlling the smoothness/length-scale of those functions. You observe data, then find the posterior distribution over functions that make your data most likely - i.e. of all these possible functions, which ones have the best chance of actually generating the data you're observing? The shape of that posterior distribution depends on the set of N points you observe, and it will be different if you have different data. In that sense, then, the data are parameters, since the posterior depends exactly on the set of data.

The analogy to traditional regression comes by having the hyperparameters (controlling the covariance function IIRC, i.e. the smoothness of the posterior curves), which allows the resulting posterior distribution to explain the data perfectly (overfitting, sharp curves) or not (generalizability, smooth curves). See for example slides 23-24 of this slide deck:

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/csc2515/notes/gp_slides_f...

Rasmussen has some useful video tutorials of all this. It's been a few years since I've watched them but if you're interested I'd recommend them.
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There are bigger optimizations than 10X with some of the adaptive grid / wavelet compression stuff. I think these are still 2D, but pretty amazing:
https://youtu.be/vYA0f6R5KAI
I didn't say they're failures. I said how far can they grow?

When you go public, you have a legal obligation to your shareholders to make more money next quarter until the end of time. I'm questioning how big they can get with their current products... when they start trying to get into different industries that are already using Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, etc, how will they compete?
A quora post linking to some: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-funniest-HTTP-404-Error-M...

The company I work at (SeatGeek) used to have a 404 bunny, but it's been removed, so here it is in case someone wants to see it: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/252764597806356312/
Slack and Dropbox have pretty different business models from my vantage point. Slack entered the market as an enterprise product vs. consumer. Slack was built for collaboration from day 1, so there is some amount of lock in (change management in an organization is tough).

I look at Slack as being more like a hybrid of the best parts of Box + Dropbox... They have the good parts of Box's business model and the UX quality of Dropbox. And fortunately for them, they aren't in a market where the price is driven largely by the cost of the commodity hardware underneath them.
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I understand the aversion to backdoors and am quite sympathetic to the view that all encrypted communication should be revealed only to the sender's intended recipient(s). However, the choice is not always ours to make.
Give it a rest. This, if true, is an extraordinary situation. Using an online payment service for currency trading is not the best idea.
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Strongly agreed on the company's likely intent to integrate monitoring into US military training and deployment kits... imagine the military benefit in knowing every soldier's blood panel and derived data such as stress level on a near-continuous basis--that's a real force multiplier. Worth $10K/yr/man easily.
At least civilly, if not criminally, yes, illegal - you don't hold a license for broadcasting on that spectrum.
The irony here is, of course, that Walmart does NOT pay [its employees well]. :P
I have a Wired magazine next to my toilet that has a picture of George Lucas and says "40 YEARS OF ILM" right on the cover
> And that's just for the cases the government caught and proved.

"caught and proved" can also be read as "alleged and settled". In virtually every one of those cases, nothing was "proved" in a court of law. Allegations were made, and JP Morgan agreed to a settlement. They are certainly not guiltless, but it is far less cut and dried than you make it out to be.
this is actually spotify's 404 page https://www.spotify.com/us/asdifasdfsdf/

The one linked to was made specifically for the year in music campaign.
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Ahh thanks, this line

> Notice that both the polynomial and kernel methods have less than N terms which are nonzero, but [...]

starts to answer my worry a little bit. It really is not the case that there are N true degrees of freedom, we just nominally started out with that many and then gave up certain ones of them.

What I would love to have is a quantitative analysis of the "number of free parameters" in my model after I have fit it, so that I can compare it to (say) a 50-parameter polynomial model that is equally good at reproducing the training set.
Well now I have to explorer SF in 3D in 1938. This might take a while.
Adding a full login via fTelnet on my site is on my To-Do! Hope to get to it fairly soon.
I have a friend who went through the Seattle academy training then left the SPD after a year. He said this attitude runs very deep. Citizens are seen as the enemy and it is a bunch of insecure, macho dudes who get off on intimidating people.

I think some of the reason people disagree on this subject is that police across the country vary a lot. In SF where I live now police are, to most people anyway, pretty good. Growing up in Seattle and living there until I was about 35, I was harassed and intimidated many many times.
I'm a big fan of the update blog posts they do over at Dolphin.
Please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. We've asked you this before.
Network effect. I'm a freelancer and clients frequently demand Skype conversations. Asking them to join some Skype alternative site/app X does not work, they just complain about the need of too much tools to get job done. I cannot cause too much pain for my clients as I would lose them.
I don't know, I'm not seeing a "sleeping giant" here... Plantir has been around for a long time already at this point- Getting an additional cash infusion, especially one so small for a company of Palantir's size, sounds like the move of a company that is struggling.
I m highly interested in Pixel C, is there any hack to install ubuntu on it til now?
Since this is tax evasion, the 'fool' you are referring to in this scenario is basically any honest American taxpayer.
Those honest tax payers are the ones who are funding transport, education, healthcare, infrastructure, subsidies and welfare in America and are therefore making the world a better place for everyone.

There is a huge difference between being a fool vs being misinformed.
It's sick how some people in this society can equate 'honesty' with 'foolishness'.
Honesty is the fabric which holds our society together.
kudos to the economist-themed http://www.ft.com/intl/404 page
Ask HN: Should I Take CTO/Co-Founder Role?
Hi all.

I'm a little at a loss here. My CEO just offered me to fill our vacant CTO role and become a co founder to the company. I feel up for the challenge and capable of the responsibility, but I'm a little fearful of taking a salary cut (from ~100k to < 50k). I am our only earner between my wife and I, and we are finally reaching "financial equilibrium" (we racked up a ton of debt just after college and are nearly in control of it) and I really wanted a few months of normalcy or at least general liquidity to establish some savings and pay off some debts before plunging into something like this.

The opportunity for reward of we're successful is immense and really enticing but don't know if I can stomach the risk. Short of budget adjustments (which we're planning now) what options do we have with our shitty credit to help float the next few months? I'm not per se looking for a yes/no, I just want opinions of those more experienced than I so that I can make a more informed decision.
It added type checking ala. Hack and Typescript. It's optional, and doesn't give you the same compile-time guarantees that a language with pure static typing does.

Also, dynamic languages like Groovy take a performance hit. Static typed JVM bytecode runs faster than dynamic bytecode.

Whether either of those are relevant to your application really depends, but Kotlin definitely is going to gain some followers due to it's differences from Groovy.
How do you propose to remove that choice from me?
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Wait, hey, that last category of companies sounded really nice. Especially the closed offices. Can you list of some companies like that, so I know where to look?
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Good news because audio is very helpful to make VR feel more immersive.
Show HN: Pelt – Create and share a virtual business card with the world
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For those who have a curiosity but lack the patience or inclination to read these books, "Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction" is a highly approachable introduction to this particular branch of philosophy.

http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Science-Very-Short-Introduc...
holyshit this is fun. Should have a VIM mode. Who edits fastest wins.
I am also very interested in knowing what to do when the dimension of the input space can vary.

For example, suppose that I'm interested in learning 4-body gravitational motion using 3-body training data ie. predict total energy of a system given mutual distances.

Notwithstanding the fact that this is trivial to compute directly, how do I set this up as a GP? Are there general strategies for this? What do I look up on google scholar, or what application field of ML most deals with this?

Thanks a lot for your help.
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> The Bolshevik revolution is an example of a left of center revolution, it certainly was nativist, nationalist, and was not conservative.

Actually, it was a fascist coup pretending to be a "left of center revolution".
Interesting idea, tough it incentivizes publishers to prioritize addictive content over valuable content.
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Does it matter? The position probably could have killed him, and there was no compelling reason to keep him in that position.
I'm not used to the shape of the counters of this typeface on the gs, ps and qs; to my eyes they seem very opinionated.
While all the books he suggests are worth reading, the list as a whole has a major gap: nothing from feminist or post-colonialist perspectives. So I'd add Sandra Harding's "Sciences From Below", and perhaps the collection "Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science".
This is so broken. The author describes front-running and then goes on to conflate that with arbitrage. Those aren't the same thing! The only thing the author gets right is that neither are a consequence of HFT, they can happen at any trading-speed granularity. Further, there is absolutely nothing unfair about arbitrage. Every-time you go to a store and think "I saw this cheaper at a different store, I should buy it there instead", you're also doing a form arbitrage. Arbitrage synchronizes prices. The arbiter earns the price spread as a reward for moving the prices into alignment.
A couple years ago I was considering getting a bike and mentioned the idea to a friend that is pretty experienced to get some advice. I decided against it in the end, but his advice stuck with me. "Always make sure you ride like everyone on the road is actively trying to kill you." I started applying the idea to driving and it's saved me from accidents quite a few times.
Also:

Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology"

Ellul's "The Technological Society"
Those bundled subscriptions for journalism keep failing. There have been a lot of startups that have tried. Consider Kachingle:

http://kachingle.com/

The criticism that was made of Kachingle is actually relevant for this whole category of startup. You should read "The Limits Of Tip Jar Journalism":

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/02/kachin...

There are 3 main problems:

1.) there is an abundance of news sites in English

2.) there are not enough people who want to pay for news

3.) Google takes about 45% of all online global advertising

The situation is different for non-English publications. I know, for instance, there are limited number of fashion/news magazines aimed at women in Poland, and Polish women, all over the world, are willing to pay to support those magazines. So there are 5 or 6 fashion/news magazines in Polish that are doing well.

But in English? There are tens of thousands of such publications and there is not enough money for them all.
There is a tendency - especially among highly-technical crowds like HN - to assume ignorance or stupidity whenever a topic like this comes up. This is dangerous. Hanlon's Razor is a good heuristic when all else is equal, which is absolutely not the case with these attacks against encryption. All else is not equal.

James Comey has been attacking crypto since the first crypto wars 15+ years ago. There is no way he is ignorant of how crypto works or how easily available it is. His rhetoric is an attack on the power that Silicon Valley has been acquiring, and tech companies better start treating as an attack. This latest push is trying to paint tech companies as "being unreasonable" in the public eye, so legislation can be pushed outlawing encryption wherever it is inconvenient (finance can always have an exception carved out). It need not be effective - it's just another tool that can be selectively enforced.

So where are the "full-page ads" and other media blitz form tech companies countering these attacks? Where are the counterattacks accusing Comey of trying to undermine American Businesses Interests? Well, far too many of those businesses use surveillance as a business model, and actual security would undermine their interests as well. I hope they like the future they are creating.

For everybody else, the time to start fighting against these political attacks was "yesterday". Better late than never?
I am a C++ developer and I would recommend Rust. By learning Rust my C++ development practices have improved when it comes to memory management.
"only be used"

That would be the just-world fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Can any focus be given to rural communities? For example the coal miners of Kentucky. https://medium.com/backchannel/canary-in-the-code-mine-90388...

As someone who grew up in the rural South I'm saddened by how overlooked it's communities are. Poverty is wide spread but services and activist groups are lacking. No one cares about rednecks.
He's like the John Gruber of Microsoft
Visa Direct and MasterCard Send sort of do that. I believe, for example, that is how Lyft is offering "instant" payouts (through Stripe).

Curious how important same-day vs next-day is for you?
PLA is easy to recycle, though as I said I mostly print PET. That does seem to be recyclable though I question the cost/benefit of doing so since the recycling itself has cost and it may weaken the plastic.

Personally I have a bucket filled with the scraps till I can figure out what I want to do. But I know I've thrown away far more plastic packaging than I waste printing so I don't stress about it.

Nevertheless your point is valid and needs to be considered as 3d printing becomes mainstream.
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> I don't think you need to learn C and C++ as a prerequisite for learning Rust

While this is true, it's just that only after knowing C++ pain points one can appreciate Rust more :o)
Where the value comes in is when everyone is using it, then you can do analysis on the massive amounts of data produced.

I enjoy seeing projects like this though, because it means people are analyzing data. Without that, we aren't learning much.

Good job, Anand!
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