skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We’re building business infrastructure that, like electricity, should be available on tap to use however the world sees fit. While we may personally like some businesses on Stripe and disapprove of others, we want to make as few judgements as possible as a company."

And then the last category is "Brand risk" including pornography.

I once worked for a startup that had an opportunity to boost its revenue by %100 by simply accepting the business of an online porn place (all we were was a recommendation engine). The startup turned them down because "ew porn, yucky!". If its legal, you shouldn't be passing arbitrary moral judgements.

That startup later failed.

And I won't be using stripe, even though I have no interest in doing anything related to porn.

There are too many moralizers (particularly the government "regulating" "money laundering" which is so broadly defined that they could prosecute any one of you successfully for this "crime" if they wanted to. EG: you take money from your checking account to pay a credit card, that's "money laundering" as the law is written.)

The government's bad enough, we don't need companies like Stripe preventing perfectly legal businesses for reasons of political correctness.

And this is a totally slippery slope. If my hosting company ends up accidentally hosting someone who takes advertisements from Torrent sites, is stripe going to cut me off? What if one of the sites I host is a blog that reviews porn sites? Am I now in the porn business?

Here they are signaling that they cannot be trusted.
>it's extremely unhealthy to your joints and poses a high risk of injury

Do you have any sources for this?
It always depends on what you do. If you do graphic/GPGPU intensive processing, the Mini just won't cut it, and my own Go projects would need over a minute for every compile pass.
What he's talking about actually seems like a sort of inevitability (which still hasn't happened yet, but will): it's basically the (technocratic, top-down) Dewey Decimal "filing" standard, but where each library has a copy of every book (and other media), instead of having to request inter-library loans.

Soon enough, it won't make much sense to talk about "what's available at your local library branch", instead thinking about "what's available in The Library."

Of course, most things will only be available to be borrowed digitally, but that's not usually a problem if you had a need for the information rather than a desire for the aesthetic experience of reading.

(And hopefully that will include useful [e.g. 3D when necessary] digitizations of all the old documents and artefacts that are currently housed, for their own protection, in nobody-can-look-at-them archives within libraries.)
How does this compare to victory (https://github.com/FormidableLabs/victory)?
"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."

I still love it when I see that quote.
What does this even mean? "...who and I do mean this harshly, sounded like they didn't pass first year business school."
I started a job in the burbs about six years ago, and people all but laughed at me for walking to lunch. But most of the office was about four or five years younger than me.

A couple years in and they all hit the same wall I had, clothes stopped fitting, too much stress eating. No exercise, sleep problems.

By the time I left we occasionally had almost the entire team out walking to lunch together.
REPL vs. Unit Tests Misses the Point
It depends on what framework if any you choose to serve websites with. If you something like Chalice or Serverless then yes you are stuck with Lambda. But you use something like Zappa (https://github.com/miserlou/Zappa) that is basically converts API Gateway's request object to one that is WSGI compatible then you can take your app and skip down the road if you get ticked off with Lambda. The Heroku comparison one isn't a fair one either. The waya you pay for Heroku dynos is very similar how you pay for EC2 or any other VM. You are billed by the microsecond that part is very important and while technically you have a 100 req/s limit to start with it is a soft limit if you ask to have it removed. It is probably more useful to compare it to Google App Engine but even that isn't fair.
Lots of lawyers say not to do this, which to me says they don't have the legal right to tell you to do so.
I am working in an industry that is usually considered more shady than most of the examples given and it's nowhere to be found in that banlist.

That's sweat! Where do I sign up? :D
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Unions are monopolies by their nature - it's not something they become. They only exist due to a statutory exemption of anti-trust law. I personally have not been able find a justification for a monopoly of any kind in a free society.
> Can insurance help solve this problem? As in, police depts. require each cop to get some liability coverage.

For cops to have to carry liability coverage, first you'd have to make cops liable and effectively accountable.

And if you did that, you wouldn't need to worry about the insurance aspect of things.
Nothing else makes my palms as sweaty as when I watch videos of Alex Honnold free soloing.
You make a great point. I think the most egregious aspect of the story is that the UL standard for this kind can apply up to TL safes.

Clearly, that standard is a little ridiculous.
Their may be some APIs involved but they also use the backend directly when convenient for example Google Search may fetch directly from the google cloud to fetch youtube videos as that's faster than doing http requests. Also, I think they have one gigantic repository where all the code is shared, splitting this repo would be more trouble than necessary.
I haven't noticed any reduction in catalog size or variety over the years (US), maybe I've lived around well-funded systems? If anything it's become more varied with time. The only annoying thing is having to filter out eBooks every time searching the catalog.
Of course, they also need separate CO2 scrubbers to keep the air breathable, which consume a lot of power, use caustic and hazardous chemicals, and make the whole ship smell pretty bad.

An artificial leaf that removed CO2 without these downsides might justify a refit.
Patrick is anything being done between Stripe and your underwriting banks to reduce the amount of declined transactions?

I frequently see ~30% of all transactions declined (customers in USA & Australian Stripe/Bank account) and it's a real pain for them having to constantly call their banks asking for transactions to be whitelisted, which often doesn't change anything.

This then leads to customers asking we don't just accept Paypal.
Interesting thought that I've not explored before, any idea how much - what he did with it initially?
It is in Stripe's rational self-interest to choose who they partner with; and thus, they chose the constraints related to those partners.

The real message of this blog post is that Stripe's revealed and stated preferences are not aligned. Their stated preference is that they sell to literally anybody. The revealed preference is that they prioritize relationships that facilitate growth over that stated preference.

It's totally rational on their part. They're actively serving the big market, and writing a blog post about how sorry they are that they're ignoring the tiny market. That's the right division of effort, and it's smart too, because many members of the tiny market will (naively) believe Stripe's stated preferences; even though absolutely all evidence is that Stripe wants, more than anything, to build a big, legal, US-based business. And that's fine.
I don't see what benefits unions provide other than relieving their members from participating in a free market. The inefficiencies of such relief being paid for by consumers that have no choice in the matter.
I'm confused. The text you included and the text nostromo included differ only in that one says "Its revenues" and the other says "These revenues". Is there more to this that I'm missing?
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I think you have a naive understanding of the theme in these paragraphs. Competitive situations do NOT have a strong correlation with innate ability. Outside factors will often have as much or more influence than innate ability (practice beats talent, as the saying goes). I suppose it depends on which 'competitive situation' we are talking about. That is the point of this comparison, though, saying 'competitive situation' leaves things overly vague.

To take a concrete example, 9/10 startups fail (or something like that, I'm sure someone has the correct ratio). Does that mean that 9/10 founders are innately unfit to found a company? It seems much more likely that success is a combination of getting the right people working on the right project at the right time in the right place and being noticed by the right people. Even the well educated, connected, entrepreneurial founder might fail because of any one of those (or other) factors.

The first paragraph explains this concept succinctly and beautifully. The fact that the second does not convey this meaning while technically containing the same information, is the point of this article.
I would highly recommend to not use that setting it solves one problem and could introduce other, harder to debug problems. Especially if a load balancer or NAT is on the way.

With this setting Linux no longer follows RFC and there is a risk that it could confuse packets from different connections. It falls back to tcp timestamp from PAWS, but often people disable timestamp as well.
Cool idea, hope it gets traction.

Somewhat related: I think VR is going to be huge for coworking. If you've used BigScreen (http://store.steampowered.com/app/457550/) you'll know what I'm talking about. While you can't see peoples faces yet, and resolution in VR is still low, it really does feel like you're working right next to somebody, and I could see it be a thing.
Perhaps the comment page ( like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12276437 ) should somehow show users that have favorited it.
They also benefited from starting later which means they could start with newer, better technology. If you were going to start a wireless data network in the US from scratch, you wouldn't design it the way the current US hodgepodge has evolved.
They even have a Gestapo. I said screw that and never even applied.

http://gizmodo.com/5427058/apple-gestapo-how-apple-hunts-dow...
Disclaimer: I'm an iOS user so I'm no Android fan boy.

The largest suit that has been brought against them for Android has just been settled: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/google-wins-trial...

While the product might not even be that good, it has clear dominance of the mobile smartphone market in every country other than the US. In the US it's 43.1% market share (which is very strong).

There's no doubt that Google has managed to win this very important market.
Would love to see a non JVM kafka alternative. But, I wish people would stop building infrastructure with C/C++ when there are safer alternatives like rust and go.
Ardour 5.0 released
Dividend stocks absolutely are a great source of passive income. You don't do anything (passive) and you get a check a few times a year (income).

Companies that pay dividends plan ahead for distributions. So they have the cash reserves to pay dividends even in a recession. Which is great because you get a payout but you don't need to liquidate your holdings at a discount.
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> Of course, it's not a Mac and you get all of the nastiness that comes with Windows (viruses, having to reload every 6 months to keep things snappy, etc), but I'm beginning to see it as a more economical option than a Mac and potentially easier to deal with than Linux

FWIW, I've found modern Linux to be very easy to deal with, with the exception of some one-time install issues. They are annoying, but nowhere near the annoyance of the ongoing issues one has with Windows or macOS.
In Madrid it's not like this. I've never ridden anywhere in the city where the buses couldn't make it between the stops in good time, and that includes places like Gran Via and Puerta del Sol.

In the US, we really do suffer for our vast wealth. We spent 70 years doing huge horizontal growth, putting tons of the population back to work in the process, and getting huge growth as a result. The problem with this, aside from the car dependency, is that it's not financially viable. When towns first build it, they get a burst of growth. Problem is, their infrastructure costs pretty much go up as a function of area, but the horizontal growth pattern doesn't pay its way. This becomes problematic in second and third life cycles, where the road maintenance is cripplingly expensive, but brings no growth.

We should be building places that converge on hubs of activity. If we did that, we'd be able to put transit to those hubs and it would work because there would be better density nearby, and the potential riders wouldn't be too far to get to stations without cars.

In the US we're going to be building this way, sooner or later. Some towns/cities have taken it upon themselves to move in that direction already. Many others are planning to be too big to fail, I guess. But we can't put off reality forever.
From reading the blog post, I got that they personally want to support those businesses, but financial partners like Visa and Mastercard stop them from doing it.
Show HN: benchttp, simplified ApacheBench (ab) in Go
... It pre-dates TCP/IP (not to mention most of the bells and whistles malware can get its hooks into, not to mention not generally having any audio i/o at all, or a bunch of other surplus doodads people expect these days that expand the threat surface of the machine).
Eric shared some of his thoughts shortly after announcing Alphabet at Stanford's Technology-enabled Blitzscaling class if you're interested in some of the motivation and types of problems they're trying to solve with it [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/hcRxFRgNpns?t=1h2m9s
I would argue that 4 weeks is not enough to get rid of significant insulin resistance (most sources tells that in 4 weeks is about average timeframe for body to get adapted to keto regime.) I would love to see study on keto diet and energy expenditure by body for time frames of 1 year or more.
It looks like you have a good routine going on. When you say weightlifting, do you mean dumbbells, bench presses, squats, machines or all of the above? Do you have any book recommendations (I've read the Arnold S body building book to learn about muscles that may exist inside me)? I travel a lot so am frustrated that there are too many different machine combos. Makes me lose any kind of routine.
As far as I'm aware, there are less than five studies -- total -- which have been carried out on a reasonably representative sample of the population (i.e. not military service-members), which studied diet patterns, and which lasted strictly longer than two years. Most people live much longer than two years, so this would seem to be a systemic weakness.

But people lived before peer-reviewed research. They collected information somehow and used it somehow and it worked to varying degrees of success, which has been reflected in the rise and fall of various societies and in the quality of life in those societies. The challenge is not to abandon peer-reviewed research, but to integrate it effectively with other sources of knowledge.
Four points taken out of external resources included in the page. Don't mean to be ironic, but I thought it was way harder to get to the front page of HN.
"These revenues come from..." when the only antecedent for "these" is the market cap figure makes no sense, while "Its revenues come from..." where the antecedent for "its" is clearly "Alphabet" makes sense, though (again) it is redundant with other parts of the article and a non-sequitur in that paragraph.
And, in particular, there are many, many more french fry cooks than philosophers.

So the french fry cook understands the perspective of a larger proportion of people in the world than the philosopher does.

Or so the argument goes. I'd disagree -- a large part of academic education, the humanities, is about learning to understand the perspectives of others. I'd say the philosopher understands the french fry cook's perspective better than vice versa, and that the philosopher is better positioned to misunderstand /less/ across all walks of life (though misunderstanding is inevitable) than most everyone else.

For intellectuals trained exclusively in STEM/social science who sprint from the humanities as quickly as humanly possible, yes the critique is spot on.
I gotta use words: T.S. Eliot’s mind was a vast, labyrinthine echo chamber
That signal is weak. Yet.
The kid's Macbook Air looked like a loaner or library machine (according to the stop sign sticker on the bottom). I doubt anybody that can't afford internet would buy a $899 machine.
That's an abnormally high rate of declines to be seeing. Can you send me an email (john@stripe.com) and I'll look into it?

One change we're making is giving you better insight to which charges Stripe declines on your behalf (because they look fraudulent; you can override this behavior) and which charges are declined by the cardholder bank (you can't override this).
Its a bit of a PITA, it kind of depends on the cost/benefit analysis as to if its worth it to you or not.

You should definitely look at if an upgraded MacPro with bumped up RAM and CPU would cut it for you. If you need an upgraded GPU or you want the latest CPU (i.e. you have workloads that you know are single-threaded on the CPU and just need the fastest single core possible and 3 year old cores won't cut it for you) then a hackintosh may make sense.

My experience is that roughly every three months you can expect to burn most of a day (call it 4 solid hours) yak shaving on something. This happened to me this week where my machine wouldn't boot and just black screened. I had to boot into safe mode with the graphics card disabled + yanked and apply the O/S upgrade. That got me far enough that after a very slow boot up I could start without safe mode, which let me reinstall the bootloader. I also upgraded the graphics driver and did a few other settings tweaks and now its back and happy again and the graphics card is back in it. But there was a lot of rebooting and using my laptop to surf the web to figure out possible solutions and trying multiple different dead ends before I started to make progress in making it more bootable.

I'm pretty comfortable messing around with this stuff having started my career as a PC tech 25 years ago, and first started building my own patched linux kernels sometime in the late 90s.

I've got a friend of mine that uses macs professionally to do video editing and if she had to go through this she'd be even more dead in the water than me and would probably take her longer to recover and my advice to her has been that I don't know how to build a hackintosh that she could rely on day-to-day without suffering interruptions like this.

I'm actually happy enough with it that I'm not going back to windows and not interested in buying a MacPro, but its not for everyone.

One thing that was a showstopper for me with my Linux desktop (and I do miss my il3 tiling window manager) is that when I bought a 4k display so that I had mixed 4k + 2x 2.7k displays xorg just became a total clusterfuck. They pin all the displays to 96dpi and you can't change it and have to set font-sizes per-application -- and then AFAIK nobody has any solution to having different resolution displays that you drag windows between. I found an open issue which just had some xorg dev explaining down to everyone how they didn't really need resolutions that small other than on phone screens. On the other hand Mac + Windows Just Works(tm) and I can setup the scaling and drag windows between monitors and they don't change size. Way easier to deal with Hackintosh occasionally acting up than wading into that nightmare...
This is a fairly boring example of the typical mind fallacy. Or, the typical body fallacy, if you wish. I exercise and it doesn't have any significant effect on "feeling like shit" for me. I sometimes lose mental clarity from exercise, feel more tired, have less energy. The benefits are absolutely not obvious in my case.

Unfortunately, this fallacy seems to be present every single time this topic is brought up. It's very hard to discuss fitness without moralistic arguments showing up, which is why the field is wrought with so much misinformation and cargo-cultism.
Dammit. I had an excellent business plan for a multi level marketing based online dildo shop!
Agreed. Keyword in URL is the kingpin of SEO.
they've been rearranging the titanic deck chairs for quite some time now
i lift 3 times a week (strong lift regimen) - i never had lifting craving in last 3 years. so.... bodies are different :)
A subtlety is that more effective censorship was possible in USENET: by forging corrupted or redacted versions of particular posts, or, to an extent, with cancelbots. (The second is potentially less effective because people could configure systems to ignore cancel messages, but the former could work really well because USENET never had a content-integrity mechanism, so you could certainly convince nodes that they already had an article and hence didn't need to retrieve it again.)
How does this compare to ZeroMQ?
The copyright infringement lawsuit isn't what I'm speaking about. They're under investigation for antitrust by a large number of government entities across the globe. Russia just ruled against them. The EU case is proceeding. I believe there are antitrust investigations in India, South Korea, and Brazil. Rumor has it they're back under investigation by the FTC as well, though the FTC tends not to announce such things.
More importantly, bookstores have to turn a profit.

Libraries don't.
Depends on the database, but Cassandra, for example, has quorum mode for writes, which requires a majority of the cluster members ack the write. This can be enabled on a per-query basis, and also for reads.

The other way of doing it is things like CRDTs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...) which have a join operation for any two data values.

You have to keep it in the back of your mind that it's a thing, but working without consistency can be done.
Guess this reflects that the FAQ is stale and needs some love. The second item there is:

> What is Matrix’s Mission?
Matrix’s initial goal is to fix the problem of fragmented IP communications: letting users message and call each other without having to care what app the other user is on - making it as easy as sending an email.

The whole point is that the defragmentation is done by bridges. The analogy to email is not in terms of having One True Protocol that everyone uses like SMTP, but that it's possible for a user on app A to communicate with another user without caring what app they use.

Thanks for highlighting that we need to fix the FAQ!
I'm not blaming them. Their policy is rational. But if it weren't for the credit card cartel and their rules, my hunch is they wouldn't have this page.
No need to apologize :)

Yes - screens are from old UI. New UI is currently in public beta and, as you'll see, dramatically improved:

https://www.scalyr.com/product/new-ui/opt-in

Re: pricing. A much bigger topic than there's room for here on HN, but in short - for a service that can ingest 1TB/day+ of your logs and gives you search times measured in milliseconds, you'll actually find our pricing is not only in line, but below a lot of other commercial providers (Splunk, Sumo Logic, etc.) And when you compare TCO with open source solutions (ELK, etc.) that require a significant amount of effort to scale, it's similarly competitive.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...

The Memex was more of a personal brain, which still sounds amazing to me.