skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its funny but I helped a company setup their MSP from tech point of view (integration) and being in high risk business, 3 years later they got dropped by 4 major MSPs in USA and only one that stays with them is.. Bank of America Merchants.

Not only that, but with high risk their rates used to be 6-8% fee; with BOA its 1.7%.

My take is that BOA is so huge that they don't pay as much attention to chargebacks as other players. Of course eventually you might get kicked out if you misbehave, but on the other hand with EMS they went through 3 months of application process (and over 30 changes to their website to satisfy compliance department), and then got dropped at the first chargeback after processing 500 transactions. EMS explanation - you can't have more than 0.00% chargebacks on your account, which, unless you don't sell online at all, is impossible.

As of stripe, I never looked at them seriously enough, cause I was turned off by their false advertisement: happy woman that says "all my funds are at my bank account overnight, no questions ask". If you ever processed a dollar in USA, you know how far from truth that is -- in fact, process more than 5% of your monthly average with most MSPs and your funds will be on hold for few days for "manual review". That's a standard procedure and google's search for "stripe holds my funds" clearly shows this behavior. Stripe knows this but with their ads they target naive or non-experienced sellers.
Downvote? wtf..
...However, if HL3 becomes console exclusive, Valve will lose the PC hardcore demographic that makes up their fanbase. I myself would never forgive them. This Steam Controller is okay, but keyboard and mouse is really the only way to play FPS.
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Yeah, you can really tell you don't work in front-end development from that insane suggestion. What you're suggesting simply isn't practical.
You don't need complex tools to build complex systems.

The rapid pace of change in the javascript world is what he's poking fun at.
I have read about parents begging for euthanasia before I think - in notes about poster parents of the nazi empire or something.
Well, you could put Gentoo on your ERL-3:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MIPS/ERLite-3
Great Talk: Building a React Native App for 80M Users
Yes, that's the goal :)
Hah good one. It's a google maps feature. I think there is a way to disable it. But I could say that ski slopes are there to make a job position even more attractive :)
The Media's complete silence on important issues is slowly undermining democracy in Sweden.
RE:DOM is now 1.0
I do feel that the javascript people have made C++ look simple. Not so much the language perhaps, but making programs in it..
>I appreciate this reply a bit more, though it's worth noting that this approach doesn't really scale all that well.

That's OK for personal businesses. Not everything needs to be a billion dollar company.
exactly what i was going to say!!!!!
This crazy mod shaves off the iPhone edges using gigantic saw and belt sander
Also, Adobe Photoshop (or any other program) is of course free to dynamically link to the libflif library. The LGPL allows that.
Build bots in minutes without code, deploy them anywhere
Smart phone apps for the blind are great and important but from what I've read they don't seem to be having the impact on blind employment that Braille has had.

74% of the blind are unemployed [1] (there is another figure you will occasionally see of 13% unemployment for the blind, that's a US Government statistic that excludes anyone not considered in the list of potentially employed people).

Braille literacy is highly correlated with employment among the blind, and rates of Braille literacy are falling rapidly in the US, from a peak of around 50% in the 1950's to more like 12% today [1].

Hopefully someone here will know of a survey reporting measurable economic gains for the new generation of Braille-illiterate technologically assisted blind, thus far what I've heard anecdotally on that front has not been encouraging.

[1] http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/braille/needforbraille.html
"-Ever heard of Python 3?" (go to top)
The UK's gold standard evidence is probably the MacPherson report: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
This is very unlikely. See previous HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240401
> In the first six months of 2016, Uber sustained $1.2 billion in losses, a stunning amount.

How will Juno fare with less than half of Uber's commission?
Surely you can learn enough about this stuff in 4 weeks of full-time unemployment to pass an interview.
Curious if the previous experiences were working with a friend. This seems more like a case where just paying your friend's professional rate, and invoicing the client for that work [after markup] is a better fit for the relationship.

I mean, the goal isn't to profit at the expense of your friend.
There's also no fsck for NTFS on linux, so in the event of a power failure (or out-of-battery), you're stuck with a useless FS until you visit someplace with windows/osx machines.
the pheromone trails are known to lead to sub-optimal paths

does this algorithm lead to the same conclusion?
> If it takes a day...

You misunderstand. hueving didn't ask me for a citation for this point, he asked me to provide citations in general. I don't intend to spend MY day (not "a" day) providing citations for every statement I make in general. If people ask for a specific citation fair enough; that's not what happened here.

> Do you have first-hand experience of this evidence, or are you just assured it exists by sources you consider "reasonable".

I worked with the people who ran various RCTs for the police, and listened to them present their findings which were then implemented as policy. So no, not first-hand, no, but good enough for me.
>>But you're right. Sense prevailed, and I eventually started charging money in exchange for goods and services.

MADNESS!
In many ways it's not preventing accidents that's important it's preventing people getting hurt.

Being a defensive driver can drastically change your odds of being killed by some random yahoo. Further, the kind of car you drive can make a significant difference and improvements in car design are largely responsible for a huge reduction in fatalities.

Remember, our dealing with V^2 and slow reaction time so a 50MPH car has half the energy of a 70MPH car.
From what I can tell, something.js if the amount of code is equivalent.

Having a patch or two in angular doesn't seem to move the needle.
I feel like knowing which tools are useful, which ones are currently dominating, and which ones are going to continue being supported in the future is the best place to start learning JavaScript. This is difficult because the ecosystem is so wildly fragmented and insane. You'll get a lot of different opinions if you go searching for them, so here are mine.

ES2015 is the place to start, it is a finished stable release of the latest version of JavaScript. It represents the single largest update to the language in a long time and includes many features that make development easier. It is being phased into web browsers natively and is the future of the language.

For maximum browser support you need a transpiler, this would be a matter of preference because it isn't for you, it's for the computer. TypeScript however is a very very clean transpiler and it offers optional features which are for you, should you choose to use them.

Once you have that setup, you really don't need anything else. You don't need jQuery unless you're trying to support IE8, which is a tiny proportion of the browser market and that will gum up your code significantly.

Speaking of gumming up your code, nearly every single library out there is bloat and can or should be avoided. React is very popular but it suits one very specific use case, it should be used almost nowhere else. Particularly since it is still new and evolving, it is going to cause more headaches than it will resolve. Webpack is an enormous bloated nightmare for example, it messes with even static html for little or no perceivable benefit and honestly just avoid all of it if you're trying to learn JavaScript.

If you want the full-stack experience, Node.js is rapidly becoming the largest JavaScript community on the net. You'll have your questions answered quickly and there are modules for everything you want to do. Choose a markup tool for html and css, such as pug and less.

There you go. State of the art front end JavaScript with two tools. Full stack with five. If it wasn't for the whirlwind massive chaos of the JavaScript community currently, fewer new developers would feel discouraged from becoming involved.
> If it takes a day, then I assume the evidence isn't at hand, in which case how do you know it exists?

Or there's so much it would take to long to paint the wonderfully detailed picture. But in case you'd like to waste a day, here's a few million results: https://www.google.com/search?q=historical+racism+uk+police&...
It's so interesting to me that so many people complain and no one does anything.

If Javascript is so bad just make any other JIT compiler run in browsers. Defeat the argument with action.

I'm comfortable with my build process. I have a package.json and a gulpfile.js. I run npm i, then gulp dev. For every new project this is automatic.

Don't follow trends if you don't want to, but I don't believe anything in the OP was difficult if you understand why you're doing it and learn it properly.
5 Problems with Docker Swarm
Far from being "simple to implement", it's patent encumbered, making implementations for many OSs highly unlikely.
If by 'before' you mean in 1920, when mining employment peaked at around 1.2 million. In 1970, 5 years before Thatcher was elected there were around 300,000. [0]

To your second point, I come from a mining background, you can find my name on many pit disaster monuments and you can take it from me that that benefit is very much recognised.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_Ki...
Stripe is a good option for developers, but they are very expensive. They lowered their prices two times this year in France (2.9%+30c -> 1.8%+25c -> 1.4%+25c), but that's not enough to compete with local alternatives for medium to large businesses. It's very common to get "Interchange+" pricing in France, where the actual costs of processing are passed onto the merchant, plus a more transparent gateway fee (like a few cents).

The fact they lack some critical features for cheap and reliable card payments (3DS, Carte Bancaire network + transparent pricing) is a no-no for more traditional businesses.
Having recently started using ZeroMQ at work, I must admit that Pieter gave the world a really elegant message queue solution.

The world is losing another great hacker.

Would a black bar be considered?
There hadn't been a million jobs in coal mining since the 1920s. By 1979 there were about 200k coal jobs left. The tax payer was subsidizing coal to the tune of £1.3 billion a year, just under 1% of total national GDP, not including the increased costs to power and steel industries that were prevented from using cheaper alternatives.

When Arthur Scargill appeared before a Parliamentary committee and was asked at what level of loss it was acceptable to close a pit he answered “As far as I can see, the loss is without limits.”

Coal was fatally wounded in the 70s when the industry became more heavily subsidized, less productive (by 6% in 5 years) and failed to implement any meaningful modernization or reform programs (Plan for Coal). By the 1980s it was just too late to save it.
> and that's how you can use express.js to run a service that uses a different protocol to HTTP.

Excuses, excuses. Good defaults are important. 99.99% of developers won't care about it.

Getting form data is Web development 101
The proliferation of frameworks is people's attempts to do something about it. But then XKCD 927 applies.
You have to make a sharp jerk motion with the phone to catch (same as that used to throw - as far as I can tell).
I can not emphasize this enough. Keep it simple. I see to many software written through solutions just because they are a hype. Pick the right tools for the job.
The "Think of the Children" is worth pasting it here :

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Many people have asked my PayPal address ph@imatix.com, to send a donation for my children.
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Right, hence my third paragraph:

> But again, your goal might only be to reach a certain size and live comfortably. If so, then you're probably fine. I suppose my qualm was more with the image conveyed by your language more than anything else.
Thouless himself wrote one:

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Quantum_Mechanics_o...

It doesn't assume graduate level physics.... but it may be a bit advanced for undergraduate. I can't recall.
>If harnessed properly, a mass-switch to renewables could generate millions of jobs

There are excellent reasons why it shouldn't. Jobs are a cost of doing something, not a benefit.
We cant force browsers to support other front end languages. JS is the only reasonable choice for front end development, Dart didn't end up going anywhere.
Just watching Pieter's interview with Adam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApqI9XLRk4k

Thank you for the journey, Pieter.
Daily Mail isn't news, it's poorly researched clickbait.

Rape is horrible and I'm certain immigrants also rape, just as the natives do. But let's not kid ourselves, at least in my home country Sweden the number of sexual offences (including rape) have not increased significantly over time despite decades of scaremongering news about them, including on swedish state tv.

I base this on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden#Victim_surveys
And in Swedish more recent: https://www.bra.se/bra/brott-och-statistik/valdtakt-och-sexu...

We'll see what the numbers for 2015 and 2016 say, but I somehow doubt they'll show a country in free fall despite 163k asylum seekers in 2015.
It's possible that this could be the "end of 4chan as we know it" (although, many have worried about such things before and it's never really come to fruition). moot was always very honest though about the options available to him, and it seems Nishimura is doing the same.
Link for the lazy: https://xkcd.com/927/
3D secure is a funny beast.

We've seen conversion rates with 3D secure for certain products drop up to 40%.

You need to tradeoff fraud/dispute stuff vs usability/conversions.
I am the author of the original blog post - https://blog.clevertap.com/sleepless-nights-with-mongodb-wir... and I handle the dev ops at CleverTap. I wanted to make a few clarifications about the article:

Firstly, the original article mentioned 18K operations/minute per node. This was a publishing mistake. We actually do 18K operations/second (the graph on the original post has the numbers as reported by MMS). Sorry about this :(

We've posted a couple of updates on our blog, in case you're interested in following this through.

And yes, we did file a bug report with Mongo.
> Because they are human beings. I think than that's more than enough.

No it is not. Everyone is responsible for him or herself.

Why should I give up my resources to feed people that have been indoctrinated by an aggressive, violent and fundamentally dysfunctional culture whose only export seems to be either oil or terrorism.

We often had refugees coming in here but I've never seen a group of refugees that hates us so much and disregards all our laws. They must literally think we are subhumans or stupid because they didn't seem to deal drugs and rape at will in their own countries.

Someone please explain to me what on earth they must be thinking to come here as guests, be fed and housed by us for free just to then go out and rape local women and children.

We had a case here where a "refugee" raped a 10 year old boy and later claimed in court (with a smirk on his face) that it was a sexual emergency. He didn't have sex for 6 months. In his mind this was a valid excuse.
No. Because nobody knows about your something.js

Getting something on Angular means you were able to get your changes approved and merged (team work)

Situation is better if you can have a bigger project or more people using your something.js
Why would you force anyone to do anything?

Just do it. You've got dozens of these threads full of competent software engineers and no one can put 10/100 people together and fix this?

I think it's easy to not want to learn something. It's hard to read this article and say "hey I want to learn all of that". But because it is hard it is valuable.
What's wrong with “ancient wisdom”?
> I still feel like a bad coder because i'm not doing it their way. :(

I've only been at it for about 2-3 years, and I must say, I feel this exact same way. Started on the LAMP stack in school and now I know nothing because what I know is "uncool" and outdated since MEAN and all of the encompassing JS libraries have become popular.

I caved and started to dabble in MEAN (even though I haven't perfected LAMP by a long shot yet..) and must say it is the most fun I have had while coding and setting up projects ever, however I can't help but feel it is like you say, "a frigging nightmare to maintain and deploy". Nothing seems intuitive...
Can you provide a source for that? Would like to read that paper.
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http://hintjens.com/blog:123

Heart-wrenching.
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Impractical how? I'm curious. Writing JS strikes me as impractical from the get-go. Writing in a managed language that will compile down to JS and give you an escape hatch for when you really need it strikes me as far more practical in the long run.

To clarify, what I mean is that someone who can't learn Elm, PureScript, Bucklescript or the like, very likely isn't a very inquisitive person and isn't someone I'd like to work with. On top of that, someone who can't see why you'd want to write in any of those languages instead of JS very likely isn't someone who I would want to work with, for fairly obvious reasons.
It's Morning Light Mountain
That "actual" data has no 'actual' prices and is only about the difference from the previous year.

This compares actual prices with the rest of Europe (from 2009, but still relevant): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/46...

Is 4x higher prices a reasonable reflection of the higher cost of doing business in the UK or simply price gouging? What do you think?

But hey, as your report points out people are relatively happy with the level of information provision by station staff. So it's fine.
Parts of Sweden are descending into chaos, some parts (Rosengård in Malmö. Biskopsgården in Göteborg, Järva in Stockholm, etc - these are the 'no-go zones') already have. The news you get to see in the US and elsewhere often comes from these areas. Elsewhere in Sweden things are more like they used to be, although the problem with 'utanförskapsområder' (areas where a parallel society takes shape, areas which are no longer part of Swedish society) is growing. This is caused in large part by the fact that migrants are allowed to choose where they want to live. They often choose to live with others from their home countries and/or cultures, which leads to areas becoming dominated by non-Swedish and for the largest part non-western culture, which in turn leads to the remaining native Swedes moving out either voluntarily or being harassed until they leave. It is these areas which can turn into no-go zones where gangs rule the streets, where police can not operate without being harassed or literally attacked, where both ambulances and fire trucks get bombarded with stones by 'angry youths'.

In other words, these areas end up in a spiral of violence and destruction, leading to an exodus of people - native Swedes as well as well-integrated migrants - who are fed up with the violence. The ones who remain are either those who cause the problems or those who can not afford to move for whatever reason.
How refreshing to come across someone who understands the economics and doesn't just blame Thatcher.
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I share your surprise. I'm disappointed in the comments here; usually this is where I come to find level-headed conversations based on data and evidence. Instead the top comments are all unsupported and political.
Good question.

From TFA:

there was no significant difference in complaints between officers wearing cameras that week and those going without

This suggested to me that it was the study, not the cameras, that caused the reduction in complaints.
In my experience the whole complex JavaScript comes when you try to build the entire thing using JavaScript.

If you are developing a web app, restrict JS to the client side only, get something like react to do it.

On the server side I stick with Go(lang). This separation helps me and my team think of these two separate problems, well.. separately. Isomorphic this isomorphic that is when things start to go all in sane.

tldr; JS for front-end. Go for back-end.
Thanks :) I am a cfengine fan myself, it inspired me to start working on what would eventually become Dotcloud then Docker. There was also Radmind and ISconf, which did not enjoy the same success.

I still remember reading the "infrastructure thinking" paper [1] and being blowm away by the concept. Back then (around 2005) calling it infrastructure as opposed to just "servers" was radical and unusual.

There was also a paper on "computer immunology" which I found really inspiring.

[1] http://www.infrastructures.org

[2] http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/biosec/readings/burgess-...
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