skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd never buy a non-ThinkPad from them. But I have yet to find something as well built as a ThinkPad from anyone else. (With the exception of Purism, but they can't offer warranties yet, which is a hard requirement for me.)
For sure. While I'm interested in fixing the specific case, I'm more interested in discovering the underlying systematic error and fixing the support experience in the cases I don't see.

And thanks for the nice words about IRC! The folks in #stripe on freenode are always happy to chat.
Comcast charges $20 for its cheapest plan (10 Mbps), which increases to $50 after the first year. It's the only option on my area.
Borrow a Wifi Hotspot from the Seattle Public Library
I think a lot of this is coming down to how you're framing it. Most people, some of the commenters on this thread aside, would think you're being generally reasonable given the current environment of the financial services industry. However you're really just asking to get yelled at when you say things like: "We want to avoid taking editorial or moral stances regarding the businesses built on Stripe."

This statement is absurd, all businesses make these decisions whether they want to or not, and being the errand boy for The Powers That Be does not absolve you of these decisions. The continual framing going down that post is something of "We always do the right thing, except when we can't or we don't want to." Which isn't a great way to win people over.

If you were just explicit from the get go that as a financial services company you have to CYA first, and then try to do the right thing second nobody would blame you for that. Most reasonable people who will be doing actual business with Stripe have dealt with processors/merchants before and know what goes on with these deals, it's all about hedging risk.

But when you phrase it like you're trying to do the right thing and CYA is just an incidental inconvenience pressed on you by some big corp who's really the bad guy here... well, that's just disingenuous and people know it.

Beyond that people are aware that Stripe is growing, and growing fast. Large companies have inconsistencies with this sort of stuff, PayPal is a prime example. And while I've had amazing experiences as a lone developer with my own projects I've also had some not-so-great experiences with Stripe in my professional life (obviously I don't speak for my employer or any prior ones). Again, this makes sense, a lone developer is a lot less risky than someone who's already funneling funny looking money through your system, but trying to whitewash this clear fact as if you were in fact "doing the right thing" the whole time makes people frustrated and reduces people's ability to predict Stripe's actions. And nobody wants to deal with an unpredictable payment provider.

I realize that a decent amount of the article here talks about risk and how it's hedged, but you continually phrase things like the OMGYes case study as if your hands were tied in some non-moralistic decision, which again rings disingenuous. Same with the "Businesses that pose a brand risk" bullet point.

Last but not least, you guys squirreled away the most important piece of information in this article to a small paragraph. "Contact us first if you're at all worried" should be bolded in 60pt font at the very top. Asking people to do that and being very explicit and upfront about your CYA policy before trying to explain the nuances would go very far with how people interpret the message, even if there's nothing explicitly wrong with how it's done now.
But the axiom of choice is logically independent of the other zermelo frankel axioms. You can assume zermelo franked plus choice, and get the standard framework (ZFC) that let's you build the reals.

But you can also assume ZF plus the negation of the axiom of choice, and get a system that is consistent if and only if ZF is consistent. It's not clear (to me, at least) that this other system will let you build the real numbers.
The diamond industry depends on the illusion of scarcity. The real scare for them is that this guy has a diamond mine with a plant equipped to detect large diamonds by X-ray transmission and automatically kick them out of the rock stream before they hit the rock crusher. Five months after he installed that, he got this huge diamond. What are the odds another one will show up in the output bin in the next year or two?

The diamond synthesis industry keeps getting better. De Beers can't stop them any more.[1] (They tried with Gemesys, now Pure Grown Diamonds. The CEO was a retired US Army general and wasn't intimidated.) There's even a startup in SF now. "Your diamond is hot-forged from pure atoms in our California foundry."[2] De Beers has been frantically trying to keep ahead with machines that can distinguish synthetic from natural diamonds. They claim to be succeeding, but the test equipment required is getting more and more expensive. The diamond industry dug itself into a hole by convincing buyers that the best diamond is a flawless crystal. Making flawless crystals is what the semiconductor materials industry does, and the techniques transfer to diamond making.

Small diamonds are very cheap. Diamond grit for cutting tools is about $100/Kg on Alibaba.

[1] https://www.puregrowndiamonds.com/
[2] https://www.diamondfoundry.com
"many high sensation seekers’ problematic behaviors involve intense experiences that can be pursued impulsively and without obvious immediate consequences, such as binge drinking or drug use....Joseph wonders if that energy could be redirected into high-arousal activities—such as rock climbing, but with protective gear—that by their nature involve constraint, premeditation, and specific goals, reinforcing different life patterns."

I read some time ago about a drug treatment program centered around rock climbing, said to have astonishingly high success rates. But then I never heard much more about it. Perhaps it doesn't scale due to small supply of climbing teachers and/or large supply of skeptics?
> They’re there during the school year, too, even during the winter — it’s the only way they can complete their online math homework.

Why is there homework online? Has this been shown to be better in any way for children learning math or just a cop out by lazy teachers to be able to automatically grade the assignments?

I can't imagine learning math with anything besides a pencil and paper (yes even calculators are mostly bullshit).
I will most definitely steal your last sentence as a word of wisdom in our company. We don't need to make things secret, but I sometimes fear our engineers don't try to add new things on their own because they fear the discussion before they've built it...
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And if Stripe wanted to, they could've decided to accept nearly all businesses, but restrict some of the businesses to BitCoin only, as Bitcoin does not apply tough restrictions on partners. And many of the other "problematic" businesses aren't banned by Visa or MC at all... Stripe is flat-out lying when they pretend that every Stripe banned business is banned because of their partners.

No, Stripe's actions make clear that they care more about building a big, profitable, us-based company than they care about facilitating these niche "problem" customers. Which is fine.

They have correctly determined that these other lines of business are worth one pandering blog post in which they pretend that there was absolutely no way for them to serve these markets (an obvious lie), and they go about their business.

It's a smart play. I hope I'd make the same play, if I were in their shoes. Build profitable products for the big market, write a blog post for the tiny one. And maybe, someday, once the big market is sufficiently secure, add the incremental revenue from the tiny market.
Your average bookstore makes like 5% profit (if they're not losing money). Barnes and Noble could become a non-profit tomorrow and prices would go down so little you wouldn't notice. It's not profit versus non-profit that means the difference between "affordable" and "unaffordable." It's the ability to use tax dollars to offer a service for a fraction of what it costs.
> This is why I wonder about working the wallet angle, and if insurance can be part of the solution.

Personal insurance requires personal liability to insure.

But if you establish personal liability (which is not an easy legal issue, among other complications), that itself is essentially the whole ballgame, whether or not there is an insurance mandate and even whether or not the liability is even insurable.

> Could a concerted #TaxpayersLivesMatter campaign put enough political pressure on mayors and governors (and counteract the police unions) to change the way these legal settlements work today?

Or would the effort backfire, and taxpayer concerns align with police unions to create even more barriers to public agencies being held liable, which would deal with the taxpayer issue without dealing with the police violence issue at all.
I travelled for 7 years doing iOS Apps. We would spend the visa limit amount of time in a country before moving to the next one, minimizing our travel days and maximizing our work days.

It was wonderful in a lot of ways, but there were a couple problems:

-- We still spent too much time getting acclimated and set up in the new place to work. For instance, we stayed in AirBnB places almost the whole time, but we kept having to buy office chairs because most chairs in rental places are not conducive to sitting for 8 hours a day.

-- It cost too much. It's hard to "go native" quickly and optimize your food and other expenses, so we would be spending more than we needed to even in poor countries eating like Americans either because we didn't know what a lot of the food was or we ate out too much. We were not earning enough from our apps business to cover our expenses.

-- Visas are a hassle, and border agents don't understand the concept of "I'm going to spend 90 days in your country and I haven't planned out all 90 of them, in fact, I haven't planned out any of them." Almost got refused entry to England when I wasn't able to name a lot of specific tourist things we planned to do. "We're gonna go to Bath and hang out, basically". Got chastised as if it was somehow rude for me to answer the question honestly. (Personally I think it was low class low income tinpot dictator with a beef taking it out on me for being able to live like this when she was stuck in her stupid job.)

There's a lot to recommend it, but it involves a nontrivial cost and effort.

One mistake we made: we would often spend the time with ourselves. It wasn't until we were in one country a couple years (got year long visas there) that we started mingling with the local groups where locals and foreigners would meet regularly (to practice language skills). That was a mistake- had a lot more fun once we started doing that.)
Is there a way to get a legal copy if you don't have access to a mac?

I've only been able to see a purchase option involving the mac app store.
Awesome! Yeah I find it can work very well with teams, including in-person (you don't use the video or chat as much, but it's still cool to be in sync and see what each other is working on.)
> For the reasons I mentioned, as long as the socket is open in the application on host B, I don't think the kernel can conclude that the program is done with it.

Wow. Awesome explanation. Ok, so basically as long as socket is in CLOSE-WAIT the server may want to send() something.

Do you happen to know what are the detailed semantics of `tcp_fin_timeout` sysctl? Will FIN-WAIT-2 progress to cleanup after 60 seconds, or after 60 seconds since last received packet?

Would this be sane:

- Let's allow kernel to expire CLOSE-WAIT if the application didn't send anything for more than 60 seconds.
I'm planning on working remote from Jakarta for a year after working in for Boston about 7 months (which has been… meh).

A lot cheaper, a lot nicer (plus more space) apt/amenities at my doorstep (pool/gym/tennis courts/malls & stores if I feel consumerist) and cheaper travel in asia for my visa runs every 30 days if I don't want to bother for a longer visa. My gf and her fam are pretty cool, so I kinda have "home" life. Traffic is shit, but gojek and uber make it not matter much. I feel like I'm getting more for less compared to in Boston. Though use of decriminalized substances in Boston wont result in penalties like death, I think its a fair tradeoff.

This works for me more than trying to travel so much which just sounds tiring both mentally and physically.
Not every electronic lock have batteries. Some of them are powered by the user spinning the dial. (for example the Kaba Mas X-10)

Electronic locksmithing is not in it's infancy. The FF-L-2740B specification is already a 5 year old.
> That seems to miss the point of having distributed workers

Not wasting 5-10 hours per week in rush hour traffic is a pretty big perk, even if the working hours are pretty much set.
This is how many municipal electrical utilities are operated. Essentially as independently run entities. It's actually worth pointing out that many government bodies are overseen by politically appointees (library boards, parking commissions, liquor control boards, etc.) creating a space in which civil servants are working with much more direct civilian oversight. As lampooned as this is in comedy (see Parks and Rec or Yes Minister), it's generally a fairly effective check against what you are speaking of. My library, for example, has a fairly robust law enforcement inquiry policy set by its board.
Privileged or not, I suggest every one living or working in the U.S. read this publication periodically:

https://www.aclu.org/files/kyr/kyr_english.pdf

It may save your life. After learning what was going on in this country, I read it several times before the stasi's forcible, warrantless entry into my home in the middle of the night. I believe it has saved my life on more than one occasion. The reach of the police state in the US has extended to the more fortunate of us, I'm afraid. If you don't think it could happen to you, please reconsider. I'll tell you my stories some time.
How do you breathe when you exercise? What exercise are you doing?
I tried some experiments like this between hackerspaces in Austin and Houston. What I found is that there is little engagement, unless images are "eye level" and at the apparent size of a present person. I'm not sure how well this would work with video chat on the desktop.
I have been running one for over a year now no problems at all updated to el capitan no problem everything works great.
What exactly is a "pomo"?
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I do...I no longer tell people Google it, I now say Alphabet it and once I feel they are sufficiently trained I simply say bet it. Try it and watch it catch on to the people around you.
i think it works better with people you know than looking at strangers working ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36893303 Secret library in Syria
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It's a sign of trolling being an unsolved problem, not proof a solution doesn't exist.
I brought both porn and guns with Visa and Mastercards. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find a porn store or a gun shop that doesn't accept at least one type of credit card.

And yet Stripe prohibits both pornography and firearms.

Not just Stripe, all the other major payment processors i.e. Paypal/Braintree, Square, Amazon Payments have similar prohibition clauses.
About 1200 INR, which I rounded in USD. To the best of my knowledge, only Hyderabad has unlimited options.
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No offense, and knowing nothing about your situation, the experience you describe suggests to me that you are so out of shape, you haven't experienced the point where the sense of well-being starts to move the other way.

I've been there, and I've gotten over that hump (and fallen back into it, several times), but it took a lot more work than most people seem to assume it will. Not in terms of effort - if anything, overdoing intensity early on can be sabotaging, since it >will< make you feel like shit, but in terms of consistency. People often throw themselves headlong into an exercise program, overdo it, and make themselves feel like crap, fall off the wagon, and never really experience the benefits, where what really works is consistent, constant improvement.

High intensity intervale training, for example, really isn't all that 'High Intensity' if done correctly. The goal is to keep your heart rate at about ~80% (I forget the number) of maximum. This is actually quite a achievable with only slightly more effort than feels 'easy', but because of the words 'High Intensity' (and a lot of shitty journalism around the concept) people who aren't actively monitoring their heart rate throw themselves at it so hard that can't sustain the effort for more than a dozen paces.

The key thing is to be putting yourself just at the edge of discomfort, consistently, for months. Just a few more pounts in your 5x5 weightlifting routine, or simply keeping your HR monitor at 150 bpm or so for a minute at a time.
I'll use a link shortener to prevent spoilers. This link elaborates exactly which rules are abused:
https://goo.gl/mu5xtr

"These requirements are a willful violation of the JavaScript specification current at the time of writing. The JavaScript specification requires that ToBoolean return true for all objects, and does not have provisions for objects acting as if they were undefined for the purposes of certain operators. This violation is motivated by a desire for compatibility..." with old Internet Explorer.
The quote I've heard is "It's better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6".
I relied on my public library for internet access for years ... luckily though, I had my own computer.

Do any libraries have some kind of persisted 'virtualized' environment that migrated between public-use machines?

For example, at the library I was at, you could not install software you needed - things were pretty locked down. And one day you may use machine #5, another day it might be machine #10.

Imagine you wanted to teach yourself programming. A few tools would need to be installed. I don't see how this would be possible in the library I was in (using public computers).
It's perfectly consistent to want to stay fit, and at the same time have staying fit on your priority list as something like #3, behind e.g. succeeding at your career, or spending time with your kids, or getting adequate sleep, or whatever.

"I don't have time" is a somewhat common situation for anything that's important but not #1 important, since a single priority area can easily sometimes take all the waking hours in a week and more than that (on account of e.g. "sleep debt"); and getting an hour for something you want means taking that hour away from something you need.
It allows the teachers to utilize online services built for education, which allow other "features" that online grading does not do.

- It provides feedback on how long students are doing each section, so they can identify if students are spending too much time on homework.

- It makes it interactive, which for primary school children helps keep education fun. They can even receive awards (gold medals, virtual stickers in their collection, etc) to keep them motivated.

But yes, pencil and paper are used for these as you can see the problem and write the answer, but do the work on your own, as needed.
I actually posted a question to quora, "Is it legal to use review information from websites to calculate an average score?"

Replied:
"In the US, so long as you have the legal right to access the data to begin with (i.e., you didn't crack into someone's system to get it), yes. Simple facts, and things like mathematical analysis of those facts, cannot be copyrighted.

Calculating an average is just a mathematical process. It doesn't require the type of creativity that would allow for copyright."

Link:https://www.quora.com/Is-it-legal-to-use-review-information-...
> FDR implemented it, it was called the Civilian Conservation Corp and it was awesome

Its an awesome solution to a particular kind of transitory unemployment (and, at the scale it had at its height, perfectly sensible when there is a large, national, temporary economic dislocation) where you expect that the kind of work that people were doing before will be in demand again.

Its less good as a way of dealing with long-term structural changes in the economy -- either in the proportion of people employable at living wages in the marketplace or the jobs demanded. Particularly the latter, since locking people into public make-work jobs with mostly or entirely in-kind, survival-necessity payment provides little opportunity for adjustment to labor market changes.
Be it as it may the quality of service is way better then what I can get with Comcast at about 1/10th the price :)
I can see the huge cost savings from doing it this way, you can print far smaller textbooks that aren't loaded with questions, you can grade assignments much more quickly and have one teacher do more subjects or classes.

I don't know if that's any better on an academic level as I personally loved puzzling out math problems on pen & paper (which I suppose you could still do in your notebook), but I definitely see the cost savings.
Sorry I meant 'any kind of sport' instead of 'anything'

Walking is actually is genuinely beneficial as exercise in itself [1] [2]. Just do more of that. I don't think it would help if you're overweight, but if it's maintaining fitness over decades then it sure works.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17exercise-t.html

[2]: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/stressed-at-work-try-a-lunchtime-walk/
I climbed back down the same way I came up. This was early in the season in the Alberta rockies, and the crack I climbed was full of ice, and quite slippery.

There was a ledge to the right of where I got hung up that led safely out of the danger zone, but it was just out of my reach, I tried traversing over to that ledge about 30 times before deciding my only option was to go back down the sketchy crack I came up.

No one would have rescued me, I was in the middle of nowhere.
Wow, that is a lot for insurance. My parents pay this for me so I don't know what it is, but from a random Dutch comparison site I see prices around 100eur/month (1200/year).

I assume "a $18k deductible" means "you pay the first $18k of costs yourself". It almost doesn't seem worth having insurance anymore at all at those rates. Is this normal for the country where you live or are there any particularities?
You don't seem to understand the difference between marketing on the package and the nutrition label. Do you acknowledge these are different?
Are you seriously claiming that the only non-working government dependents are the elderly and disabled?

I've linked to this expose by NPR on disability fraud before: http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
The minimum wage in US would be $1200 per month. So if the average price in the US is $55, that's about 4.5% of a monthly salary.

Given your quoted numbers, the price in Ukraine is actually higher at 5% of a monthly salary.

Of course the US doesn't have a monthly minimum wage (not sure how that works in Ukraine) so many people in the US might only have part time jobs paying the minimum hourly wage, hence they make considerably less than $1200 a month.
I wouldn't send anything but PDF. The only way that it will look the same you intended to.

Parsers are based on millions of CV-s as inputs and they are looking for patterns. I'd guess that layout is much more important than format.