skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stripe Checkout. Here's all the code you need to drop a payments form on your website:

<form action="/charge" method="POST">
<script
src="https://checkout.stripe.com/checkout.js"
class="stripe-button"
data-key="pk_test_6pRNASCoBOKtIshFeQd4XMUh"
data-image="/square-image.png"
data-name="Demo Site"
data-description="2 widgets ($20.00)"
data-amount="2000">
</script>
</form>
Awesome site you linked to, thanks.
That was lack of transparency inside privately generated mortgage backed securities. The US crash wasn't caused by blatant lies about economic indicator (GDP numbers, etc). The transparency of the housing sales is actually what allowed people to see the contractions and prevent the issue from getting even worse.
The last project I worked on required integrating with clients' existing payment infrastructure, including merchant accounts, and processing their customers' payments for them in addition to billing them a small monthly fee (we didn't take any piece of customer payments). We used Chargify. It was pricey, I think about $120/mo to support ACH for a few hundred clients, but the API is solid and well-documented. They've got several employees whose job it is to work on the official libraries, as well.

I am no longer a Chargify customer because that project never really panned out. I don't have any official relationship with them.
If I remember right, take into account its from the comments, the president of the company purchased the tickets. I doubt at 6k a ticket though.
Verifiable random choice (contest winner) algorithm
Hi guys, i need to pick a random winner for a contest from a list of phone numbers. Could somebody suggest a verifiable random algorithm. Something on the lines of "Pick the winner based on the daily national lottery numbers". Does anybody know a free api endpoint for lottery numbers?
No we are still not there and will not be for a long time.
But with time we will get closer and closer.
I don't think the fact that two armies fought a war across contrived borders makes them any less contrived.
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GDP is a flow (depends on our arbitrary convention of splitting time into years). Market cap is a stock. Comparing one to the other is like comparing a bathtub that holds 100 litres to a hosepipe that discharges 1 litre per minute (or is that 60 litres / hour?).
It's not obvious they sold for a higher price, they may have used them or never had them. But the real problem is proving an actual loss. There was a contract to exchange X tickets for Y money. Nothing changed hands, the buyer didn't lose anything, there aren't any damages to sue for.

Obviously they could try a cause of action for lost opportunity to profit from the transaction from legal standpoint, but it's much harder to claim losses from hypothetical things that never happened than to unwind an actual transaction.

What if Kobe was injured and the price of the tickets plummeted for example? It's a stretch to argue that the buyer lost something tangible by relying on the sellers performance of the contract.
From the photos I've seen, it looks cheaper on the inside than the outside. The inside looks like the interior of a $12K car, not a $30k (after rebates) car.

But as you say, if you only have $30k and want a EV, this is your best option right now because of the good range.
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Pro tip: the other word can be left out altogether.

I used to type aa before noticing that and this also worked like a charm.
Wow, this man is convinced that North Korea is a far right country.

For me right has a total different meaning from Japan culture. In fact left and right comes from France cultural system.

It looks like this man personally attributes everything bad to right.

Being an authoritarian regime is right(for this man), but the soviet Union was authoritarian, like any other communist regime, fro Castro to Chavez.

Being xenophobic now is right too so with this Sleight of Hand Khmer Rouge were not left, but far right too.

For me "right" means the political group that favors free markets, free men and bourgeois class, nothing to do with Japan before WWII.
Funny. It reminds me of the time I saw a picture of the Kremlin and thought "Mordor meets Candyland."
MazeBase: a sandbox for learning from games
If we break asteroid into smaller pieces wouldn't that be enough? Small pieces won't reach surface of earth and won't cause any damage.

> You shoot a little pulse at the gravel pile and break a piece off and it may simply fly out into space, taking almost all the momentum with it and not affecting the bigger body at all.

this is true for shooting with projectile, but not for vaporizing with laser. With laser you don't apply any external momentum to the asteroid, vapor small debris fly off the asteroid with some momentum because of expanding under heat, and remaining part gets same momentum in the other direction.
You can choose how rigorous you want your proof to be.

I'd highly recommend reading Chapter 1, Section 1.3 from Type-Driven Development. The first chapter is free.

https://www.manning.com/books/type-driven-development-with-i...
I would be better if it said "the law". As I see "the rules", is more like the status quo, that often, need to be broken
How about grocery store loyalty cards? A big study could be done by offering everyone a $x gift card if they fill out a survey about their family, get a baseline medical test and promise to get another one in say 1 year. Changes in diet could be induced by mailing them coupons for specific foods and tracking their use.
Blaming Others: Reflections on “The Big Short”
I've found this one in the comments:

> Jason Durbin · VP of Ticket Operations at Tickets For Less
> Jesse Sandler – I’m the VP of Ticket Operations at
> Tickets For Less. We’ve reached out to
> TheLeadSports.com and are trying to contact you.
> We have four seats for you in section 106 for Kobe’s
> last home game. Please contact me or our President Dan
> Rouen at 913-685-3322.
> Like · Reply · 1228 · 23 hrs

But where is the Budweiser comment?
> If that is the decision they face, that means customers did not want the thing that was sacrificed, and leaving it out is an improvement.

This is only true if you don't take sticky prices into account. It is quite well established that sticky prices screw with efficient market theory quite a bit, and the scenario provided by the gp sounds like a good candidate for a sticky price scenario.

edit: After thinking about this a little bit, let me go further. The parent's statement is veering into efficient market theory dogma territory. Causality is much more difficult to determine in macroeconomics than in sciences that have the benefit of controlled experiments. There are significant competing theories to efficient market theory that have things to say about scenarios like this, so a straight declaration of cause without caveats is misleading, particularly since efficient market theory clearly does not hold in many observed scenarios. Above, I'm not saying that sticky prices necessarily are the cause of the results that the gp is describing (or even corroborating that the scenario is something that necessarily happens), I'm just showing that the problem probably isn't as clear cut as the parent suggests.
+1 We do this too
The internet has made offensive writers of many.
>So if I understand correctly, OpenBazaar will be shifting costs from a central verification and fulfillment agency (Amazon, Visa, etc.) onto the buyers, sellers, and moderators of the market?

Yes. I try to explain this a bit more here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3zv6sc/sneak_peek_...

> Where is this cost made up for the buyers - will they see lower prices? Wouldn't it be more expensive as moderators need to be compensated for their services?

Yes, we expect lower prices would be the main draw for buyers. The price shouldn't be made up with moderation since moderators are only paid for services rendered - if there's no dispute then they aren't even aware of the transaction happening.

>How can there be a consensus on a moderator if one party is always happy and one is always unhappy? Won't the consensus always be 50/50?

What Dr. Sanchez is trying to get at is the fact that text reviews from other parties (and explanations from the mod) will be publicly viewable. That would allow a prospect to review them and see which side they think is more legitimate.

We recognize that decentralized reputation systems are basically the holy grail of p2p systems and we don't even pretend to be solving the problem, only giving users some information to make a more informed decision. I expect that many moderators will choose to publicly identify themselves and use their IRL reputation as well.

>Last question: How will the leadership/dev of OpenBazaar be structured in the future? Will you guys develop something similar to the Linux Foundation under a non-profit charter? Will the foundation enact a transaction fee to fund itself?

No transaction fees. It's open source, so even if we wanted to do this it would likely fail because people could always fork it and remove the fee.

Right now many of the core devs are a part of a company called OB1 (I'm a co-founder). We received $1 million from Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz in order to lead development of the platform, push for network adoption, and then offer services to users on the network.
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Venmo is your new best friend.
The damage is that "getting money back after the transaction wasn't finalized" wasn't a consensual part of the contract.

You buy a car from me. A -month- later I show up and say, "Yeah, sorry, I sold this car by accident, here's your money." and I take off with the car regardless of what you want to do, you have a case against me for theft.

Whether the buyer got his money back is irrelevant - that doesn't give the seller the retroactive ability to void the sale.
What is the fix in the new firefox version? They removed these man-in-the-middle root certs from the store?
Nice blog post, though I disagree with the title -- being right certainly pays my bills. ;)

The theme is more like, "Learn to pick your battles with clients."
Why Apple’s claim of adding 1.9M jobs includes plumbers and baristas
Ray-tracing is pretty different from polygon rasterization, so to perform well and take advantage of the technology, I think games are going to have to be written from the ground up with ray-tracing in mind. That's hard to do when game developers use complex frameworks and tools that are designed around rasterizing polygons.

(It's the same kind of problem as you'd run into if you wanted to do game development in Haskell or Rust. There's no reason why that couldn't work in principle, but things get harder when you step off the well-traveled path.)

As an example, polygon rasterization is sensitive to the number of polygons, but it doesn't matter very much where they or how they move around.

Ray-tracing, on the other hand, is relatively insensitive to the complexity of the scene, but it's more sensitive to what's on screen and visible right now, and how much of the screen it takes up. Also, objects have to be stored in 3-dimensional tree structures for efficient access, and those trees have to be re-built when things move. So, rendering the Statue of Liberty in high resolution is fine, but rending a million snowflakes is problematic.

Getting good performance means being conscious of different tradeoffs, and it takes time to figure out a good balance.
>SH has no mechanism to ensure delivery of the ticket...so how can SH compel them to hand it over

Sure they do, just don't release funds until the tracking number shows the tickets have been delivered or the PDF has been uploaded.
"What if the Lakers ticket seller had until the final week to deliver tickets? If they're expensive today they'll be even more expensive then!"

If it was a season-ticket holder (genuine or 'bought for bulk discount at resale'), they'll only get them from the Lakers 4 days prior to the game anyway.
"what"? Since you have a multiple IPv4+ hosts with the same IPv4 address, how would an IPv4 host communicate with an IPv4+ host?
One way: write a simple python script,
```import random
phone_numbers = []
with open('list_of_phone_numbers.txt', 'r+') as file:
for phone_number in file:
phone_numbers.append(phone_number)

random_pick = random.randint(0, len(phone_numbers)-1)
print phone_numbers[random_pick]```
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>You may have heard the old saw about marriage: “You can be right, or you can be happy.”
--

Happy to see that saying in there. In its sometimes hard to remember that not everyone is as logic oriented as myself.
Do you have a life outside of working though?
That's a good question, but it's hard for me to objectively say how I'd immediately parse that, due to the close examination I've given that sentence.

You definitely have a point, though. How the phrase "legacy X applications" is interpreted likely depends on whether the context is an announcement by a competitor to X.
Apple buys Emotient, a company that uses AI to read emotions
You just got an accidental downvote as I came back after bookmarking your link. Sorry.

Dang/mods: Can we please please get something to avoid accidentally downvoting good stuff on mobile phones?
yes, here: http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/4/10708590/facebook-google-an...

This is original reporting by The Information. They are the source of it, but they're behind a paywall so we get links to blog posts about it. If you want the source, you have to deal with a paywall.
You assertion assumes ignorance as a starting point.

Be enlightened:
http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Price
This seems a lot like cancelling orders when an online system lists a $1999 product for only $19.99. Even if you already bought the product, if I catch it before the product is shipped, can I not cancel the order?
Rubinius 3.0: the third epoch
Most of those are pretty evidently distinguishable from real life...

The issue here - and the point being made - is that we are already at the stage where many CG images can fool even close observers, and we've been here for some time.

We've been passing around these "CGI OR REAL?!!!!" images for a few years at least, and when they are first created people really can't tell the difference, but yet somehow when people get used to the tech and revisit these images a few years down the line they look obviously synthesized.

Ditto older movies like Jurassic Park, whose cutting edge CGI of the time were convincing even when viewing frame-by-frame, but to savvy eyes appears downright obvious today.

So clearly "photoreal" is something we haven't reached yet. IMO the indicator that we've reached "true photoreal" is when an image rendered 5 years ago still holds up to fresh eyes.
> The fact is if you followed the indicators that I mentioned since 1950, your net worth growth rate would've increased at least 50% without even using leverage.

Well that's easy, the hard part is finding the indicators that will do that for the next 60 years, not the previous!
Sure, if you buy into a bunch of NLP pseudoscience.

Or, you could accept the much more straightforward and believable explanation that Trump has unique appeal for racists, xenophobes and those who are extremely frustrated with the conservative establishment. He's the first candidate in a long time to appeal to that bloc; hence his popularity.

Trump isn't even a successful businessman - he'd be wealthier if he'd parked his inheritance in an index fund rather than trying to manage it.
Wait, the median P/E is three times higher than the average? That does not sound right. Because the P/E cannot go below zero, the ability of a small number of stocks to throw the average off is limited.. In fact I can't think of any way for the average to be more than twice the median, even if half the stocks (minus one) had a P/E of zero. How would that work, mathematically?
Missing Hong Kong Booksellers Leave Many Fearing for Freedom
You are being downvoted because this is a really poor comment. "The West" lacks "common sense"? "The rest of the world except China" lacks "work ethic"? What?
We saw the first Hyperloop tubes in the desert
is ketosis something other apes dont perform? naturally i just assumed ketosis preceded humanity and was something we inherited.
> What's the difference between money and "actual money"?

If I buy something from you for $10, and sell it to someone for $10 the GDP goes up by $20.

If on the other hand you sell it to someone for $10 the GDP goes up by $10 instead.

The value of money + value of tangible goods is the same in both cases, but the GDP is not.

They measure different things.
It's more than that.

Even if you choose to fight, fight the right way. Being overly emotional and ego driven ("I'm right, how dare they?!") can be very damaging to a relationship, even if you end up "winning".

The key, as I'm trying to teach myself every day, seems to be to get yourself and your ego out of the picture. The advice I really loved was to picture yourself as some absurd, godlike dictator, demanding the world bend to your whim... With that in mind in mind you realize how silly you're being.

It's something I struggle with every day, but learning this kind of self control is very important to long term success.
Pressure from either sun light or laser is very small, and can be ignored for time intervals smaller than centuries. The method proposed in the article is only about thrust created by vaporization
It's another thing that can go wrong. That's definitely true. The good news is that they sort of complement each other: errors in one help you spot errors in the other. Plus, picking the right one makes spotting problems visually much easier.

Thing is, almost all the problems in systems have happened due to coding and interface problems. Especially hidden assumptions. Formal verification and static analysis are great at dealing with that. They prevent and catch many more problems than they introduce despite problems occurring in specs or proofs. It's like a combo of a numbers game and applying proven principles.

Hope that makes sense.
$410 a month isn't enough for Time Warner Broadband
Excellent summary. Thanks. Hopefully this push towards ray tracing will result in more work done in addressing the points you raise.
Are your customers ready for the IoT transition?
Machine Learning – Comparing Multi Output Estimators for Intraday Close Price
Because, "capitalist" and "communist" are not two fundamentally opposed groups: go far enough in either direction, and you end up in the same place results-wise.
That really is a great idea! I would want that too. Adding gamification would certainly be a fun MMO-like experience.
I think you could safely add that last sentence to the list of things NOT to say to a spouse.
You can incrementally rewrite, just like you can incrementally refactor. Stick an API gateway in front of your COBOL mainframe that responds the same way it does, and then stand up a new well-architected service, microservice by microservice, that has a good API—and have the API gateway query the new service (using its nice API) whenever clients make calls to what they think is the legacy service, passing whatever calls you haven't re-implemented yet through to the legacy service.

Eventually, everything will be on the new services, and you can shut down the legacy COBOL system and just keep the API gateway there to pretend. (If you can get clients switched over to consuming the new APIs directly, you can shut down the API gateway too—but good luck with that; their side probably has mainframes too.)
Good to see it show up on HN. It's a nice language and their rise4fun project brings such stuff to a wider audience. I wonder if any readers with a lot of hands-on experience in these can tell me how it compares to SPARK Ada. About the same? Behind in capabilities? Ahead in some ways?

SPARK would seem to be the definitive baseline to compare all the others, too.
Cool, thanks for the response. You guys clearly know what you're getting into. Also thanks for the transparency on Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz - makes sense as Horowitz is probably the biggest bull out there on blockchain tech, which is pretty smart IMO.

One last question - how big is the potential market? That is, what is your estimate of the amount that Amazon spends on buyer/fraud protection services as a percent of their yearly revenue? Is that increasing or decreasing?

To me it seems like the key will be maintaining neutrality for as long as possible. Which should be reasonable as long as you continue to secure altruistic funding (ala Horowitz) from entities that are not looking for an exit on the short-medium timeframe.
Oil price is a tool and is not so much affected by world events as used to affect world events.
Most oil producing nations (after the 70s opec shocks) have enough money and stockpiles that they can control production to affect smaller producers and consuming countries.

Some of the results of the current low oil prices:

reduced income for isis,

reduced income for russia

competitive pressure on shale oil, gas, solar and electric vehicles (although that one now seems to be driven by tech/luxury appeal rather than by being more economical).

The first two have the smell of foreign policy about them.
Here is some enlightening story:

Tourist walks through some distant mountain village and meets the villager shouting "My dog is for sale". So the tourist asks

"How much for your dog?"
"$1 million", villager replies.

Tourist just sighs and continues his walk. Later the same day tourist is coming back. He meets the same villager, so he asks:

"Did you sell your dog?"
"Yes,to my neighbor, for $1 million"
"Really? And he paid in cash?"
"No, he gave me two cats, but they are $500.000 each"

The market cap valuation works in exactly the same way.
> Why is PayPal not dead?

Because of market saturation.
Stripe just recently started an open beta here in Germany. There is Skrill but besides it being relatively unknown, they implemented fees for accounts unused for > 12 months and have generally more fees than paypal (for the consumer)

And because of their consumer focus.
I have read many stories about paypal and how their actions made many problems… for businesses. I don't see stories about them fucking over consumers, quite the opposite, they try to err on the side of them.

At least that's my opinion. I probably wouldn't use PayPal should I ever start a business needing a payment processor, but as a consumer? It's awesome.
Excuse my ignorance but do Asians "count" as people of color? I thought that usually referred to Latinos and African Americans?

I know that university admissions PoC don't include Asians, in fact most admissions standards are stacked against them.
> I really do not understand how anybody with even a little understanding of the two countries can lump India and China together in the same political/financial group.

Are you asking how the term 'BRIC' came about?? If so, the paper where the term was first used is available online and it is remarkably readable. The pdf is located:

http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/archive/archive-pdf...

There were at least two follow up reports that I'm sure are also available online.
Yeah, for legacy or speed, you might need to drop down to lower libraries. But R makes that pretty easy.
This assumes you're willing to convert someone's cutting edge statistical research package in R to Python just because the code is 'ugly and awkward'
Therapy wars: the revenge of Freud
The House of Saud has been in UK and then US pockets since T.E. Lawrence. That's not a new development.
Please don't post unsubstantive dismissals to HN.