skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking the money is (relatively) easy. Plenty of payment processing services will help you with the mechanics of that these days. As many of them enthusiastically demonstrate, the basic charging mechanism often requires just a bit of information to sign up and then a few lines of code (or a simple plugin for WP) to implement. You're probably right about putting that together without too much trouble.

Unfortunately, then you get the other 90% of the job, because you're a business and charging money, and that comes with all sorts of legal, accounting, tax and regulatory obligations that will vary depending on the place(s) you do business and the place(s) you find your customers. This is the stuff the flashy "Take your first payment in five minutes" demos on the homepages of all the payment services don't tell you about, but if you're lucky your accountant might. (If you're less lucky, you might need a more experienced accountant but won't know it, and you might wind up making expensive mistakes. Doing a lot of reading online about the rules that apply in your specific location, for example if your government's tax department offers any guides for new businesses about what they generally need to do, is the only reasonably effective solution I know to this problem.)

In practice, these things almost always come down to

(a) identifying the relevant tax rules based on your location and your customer's

(b) calculating the correct tax on sales, as well as on any payment processing fees, etc.

(c) keeping complete, accurate, systematic records of all transactions

(d) filing the necessary tax returns and/or providing the records to your accountant so they can do the serious business financial paperwork

(e) paying your taxes properly.

None of it is rocket science, it's just that it's often a big, complicated system that you have to work within, and it's full of little details like generating sequential numbering for invoices, or knowing how to handle the tax if you've issued a refund before/after the end of the tax reporting period containing the original sale, or being able to record two non-conflicting pieces of evidence to confirm which country your customer is in. It can be time-consuming and error-prone, and taking enough professional advice to understand your obligations and how to do everything correctly can be a significant expense by start-up standards.

Finally, depending on your market, you may at some (possibly quite early) point want to accept payments through more than one channel: purchase orders and payments to bank accounts, online credit cards, the various direct debit schemes or national card schemes, PayPal, and so on. If you're in that position, the "front line" payment processing services like Stripe or PayPal are unlikely to be sufficient, because it's a level above what they're designed to do. So probably you will either need to use one of the next-layer-up services such as those mentioned elsewhere in today's discussion to co-ordinate things, or you will need to do some substantial programming and database work of your own to do something intelligent about combining the functionality and record-keeping for each service.
The constant nagging for updates could be considered a flaw in design. I think Microsoft has always had the reputation of producing buggy software with usability issues. I think they have gotten a lot better at all that.
Are you sure you got the last update? Because Apple music has been a PITA for me too (especially that I use it with my car bluetooth) and I had the same issues you mentioned here.

However, all the issues were fixed in the last update and so far it is pretty solid. No complaints. (iOS v11.2.5)
>> Why would anyone buy [brand toothpaste vs store-brand toothpaste]

> Taste, familiarity, trust.

That's the idea; familiarity and trust can be manufactured through advertising. You can become familiar with a brand name just by being exposed to it, and trust is harder but advertisers have it down to a science in some important ways.
Satellites Show Warming Is Accelerating Sea Level Rise
I'll hold my praises until I see how this actually works out. Xcode behaves more like a roulette wheel with every update and by now, even Terminal crashes on me every time I use it. It has gotten to the point where I consciously avoid using Apple apps because It Just Doesn't Work. Thank the gods of FOSS for iTerm2.
> Corporations are made up of people, yes, but giving them personhood is a pretty dangerous idea. Should they get to vote? Obviously, the answer has to be "no" or else people will register companies to rig elections.

This logic is hugely flawed. Since we work off of a one-person-gets-one-ballot system, grouping people together (as in a corporation) and giving them a vote wouldn't make any sense. By contrast, you can't "use up" your speech rights: Each person is allowed an unlimited amount of legal speech, and I don't think there's a compelling philosophical argument that a group of people speaking together isn't protected. There may be _pragmatic_ arguments, but that's another ballgame altogether, since the entire point of the Constitution is that it's _not_ subject to the pragmatism/whims of the time.

I'm not saying that "corporations should be legally modeled as people" is an ironclad truth, but none of your objections make sense.
100% into the new job and 0% into the startup, or the other way around?

Either way, why?
Old lead pipes apparently do make water taste sweeter...
Indeed, LLNL have a humongo Lustre/ZFS cluster and kickstarted the ZFSoL project(mucho gracias to LLNL and Brian Behlendorf) and they refer to it as a Zettabyte File System.
Have latest Macbook Pro entry version.
Did all the updates and always keep it up to date.
Had 0 problems so far.

Not sure if you mean to update from old OSX to High Sierra or to keep up-to-date High Sierra itself
http://pop-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/food-brand-...
What is there to "scope out" about platform support, then?
It's not even just in developing countries that this happens. You could substitute New Zealand and you wouldn't be far off the truth.

When I used to work in the restaurant industry, my boss would order wine from one of the wineries using Facebook messenger. There are also social data plans that give you cheaper rates for Facebook, Snapchat, and some other services.

I'd also say that a lot of people I know exclusively get their news from Facebook and it's also very important as a photo sharing application.
The way things have been going is promising but the WSL is still too far away from being able to be considered as a place where full-time development happens. For example a true tiling window manager like i3 gives me tremendous productivity boost, which WSL can in no way deliver.

I appreciate that when I have to use Windows (e.g. for some apps that just don't work on Linux) I can still take advantage of a true Linux system's power. But that's about as far as it goes. Claiming it to be a "dev machine" is still quite an exaggeration. I'll see how it goes in a few years. Hope Microsoft and Canonical can keep up the work, for sure.
We do DevOps without containers in my company for the past two years. As mentioned by others theres 0 requirement to use containers to do devops.
> Quality. I don't care that your algorithm thinks my network is not fast enough for HD. Just let me tell it that it's wrong. Or I could torrent and download something in actual HD within just a few minutes.

This is so true. I have a decently fast connection (75mbps) and Netflix's own speed test tells me the pipe really is that fat. YouTube can play 1080p60fps content without breaking a sweat. But Netflix is always blurry af.
I tried firefox Chrome edge and even the native windows app. The quality is always lesser than what you can get on YouTube.
It's the same on Android. I think it doesn't even show me 720p on my 1440p phone. Even when I pre-download something so the network strength is not an issue.

On the other hand, Amazon prime content is crispy clear 1080p most of the times.
> When I see a hash that satisfies the difficulty, I know it must have taken time. The method by which the delay is accomplished is “work”, but the hash is a proof of time, not work.

I disagree with this characterization.

Mostly because there actually is a more proper concept of Proof-of-Time, that doesn't depend on Bitcoin's dynamic difficulty adjustment to space puzzle solutions a certain time apart on average.

It is what Bram Cohen is trying to use in conjunction with Proof-of-Space to make [1] a greener alternative to Bitcoin.

One candidate problem for proving time is modular square roots. In a group of order 2^k-1, we can square element x (k-1) times to obtain x^(2^(k-1)), which is the square root of x^(2^k)=x. Since the k squarings cannot be parallellized, this takes time proportional to k.

[1] https://chia.net/
Very short sighted researcher. I must question his intelligence if the point of money with no central control doesn't make sense to him.
No idea but GDPR gives folks a lot of reason to figure it out.
A million and one things can happen to airplanes as well. We have learned about them, sometimes at the cost of lives. This is how we arrived at the current level of redundancy and maturity in safety procedures. Not to mention regulation and enforcement.

The energies involved are much greater, that's for sure. This will require more engineering effort.

But "never" is too strong a word. There is no good reason why we can't master this.
> An airliner is on a building scale and carries a slightly less refined petroleum fuel. RP-1 and Jet Fuel are both refined petroleum fuels. Rockets only carry LOX because they go into space where there is no atmospheric oxygen to burn the fuel.

That's true, but a 747 does not burn its weight in fuel in 397 seconds. A Falcon 9 does. It's the difference between igniting a gas barbecue in your back yard, and igniting the propane tank that feeds it. One of those things is something I do on the 4th of July. For the other, I'd prefer to be taking cover in a foxhole.

> Airliners are fully capable of turning themselves into fireballs. It doesn't happen often because we have a lot of experience operating them. The same safety levels are possible with rockets over time.

It's also because the possible margins for safety with airplanes are much higher. You can engineer redundant systems, and overbuild, because you aren't fighting the tyrrany of the rocket equation.

There is no one thing that can go wrong on a 747 that will down the aircraft. The dozen SpaceX launch/landing failures were almost all due to 'one thing went wrong, there went $60-100m USD.'

Incidentally, most other catastrophic launch failures (Including ones that claimed lives) were also due to 'one particular thing went wrong, everyone died.'

Rocket engineers aren't stupid, there's a reason that rockets don't have the amount of rendunancy and capability for failure recovery that a commercial airliner does.
> I think it is rather more than a crystal ball when you are the UK VAT lead for a big 4. This means you get consulted on it by the government

given the cabinet doesn't seem to know what their objective is, this seems like a fantastical claim

> When did you ever pay VAT to the EU?

not directly, but that's why it exists and where (a chunk of) the money goes -- read about the history of the VAT, it used to form the 40% of the EU's budget (down to about 14% these days)

> Not at all, the UK government will enforce on its behalf, as we will expect them to enforce on our behalf.

doesn't work like that in practice, once we're out HMRC isn't going to spend money chasing people for taxes due in Bulgaria, in the same way it doesn't chase people for taxes owed in Russia today

> The UK is in the process of bringing all EU law into UK law (where it isn't already) with the strangely titled Great Repeal Bill.

yes

> so EU law will apply to you.

no, at that point it will be UK law

> Also the government have committed to an open border in Northern Ireland as mandated by the Good-Friday agreement.

depends on what they mean by "open" -- regardless of that: there's nothing that prevents a customs border in the good-friday agreement (have a read, it's only about 10 pages long: [1])

> (various points based on the assumption that the government will commit absolutely to one policy voters don't care about and completely abandon all others)

the government has also committed to leaving the EU customs union and the single market

I agree that it's hard to see how both are possible, but politics is the art of the fudge

> I wonder against that backdrop how you think you are going to be outside of EU law?

I don't accept the premise or the conclusion -- b) doesn't violate the GFA[1] or the confidence and supply agreement[2] (not a coalition)

to be blunt: it seems like you're making things up

> You seem to have a downer on the EU, if you don't mind me saying?

why should I like it? if you're running a medium sized or big business it's fantastic (unless you're a large foreign business like Facebook, Amazon or Microsoft), but I'm trying to run a small business, and it seems like they're doing their best to kill me

hell, if in 5 years we're still subject to the ever increasing mountains of poorly thought out legislation written by morons, I suppose emigration is always an option

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-belfast-agree...

[2]: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/conservative-and-...
I (and most people I know) have had various issues in major widows 10 upgrades.
It’s a bad analogy. The better is because they don’t breath, don’t have a pulse, and don’t have human DNA, they are not really people, and should not be treated as such.
"They used to do market research by installing double-sided mirrors in department stores then taking notes on what people looked at."

I'm not so sure we have progressed that much since then. You search for something on Google, swap to Facebook and an ad appears for that same exact thing on the sidebar - not really any different than using browsing as a determining factor for desire to purchase.

A small aspect of ads, I know but I found it such a ridiculous truth that I can't imagine the rest of their systems are actually all that smart.
I wonder how much the spend advertising on Fox News?
It’s because the message that the algorithm is trying to match you to ads you are interested in is BS. They are matching you to ads that will make you, and others like you buy. So they are ok with pissing off lots of people since it results in shares.

The reality is that people don’t actually want enough to cover ad revenue, but ads make them buy more.
FYI, the DSM does not specify any treatments for any disorder. Its only use in treatment is as a (rather crude) assessment tool for judging the effectiveness of treatment. See https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/feedba...
XPS is amazing.
Gen. Patton in Lorraine: Breaking the Moselle Line (WW2 History, Part 1 of 3)
In this case they ran out because they were relighting three times as many engines.
Rob on Thinking about Utility Tokens and Crypto Innovation Opportunities
That’s just the EU though, no such service exists on the US side. Also again these restrictions are put in place by the content owners, not netflix. It is very feasible to remove said checks but the content owners want them in place for their reasons. One can argue all day about how inconvenient this is but until they make more money without the geographic restrictions they will remain in place.
How I've Grown My Headless Browser Business to $1,000/mo
A lot of payment services can now provide much more useful verification of a customer's location, e.g., checking the country where a card was issued or knowing the country where a certain payment method works or a bank account is located.

This is becoming a necessity since various places, notably the entire EU, now require multi-point proof of customer location for tax compliance for at least some types of sale.

It's easy to pretend you're somewhere else until you need to pay for something. Then you have the entire financial sector's anti-fraud systems to deal with, and a VPN isn't going to fool them for a moment.
California legislator introduces bill to regulate Silicon Valley’s data
> The only group of people more naive and easy to persuade are modern dog people.

That gave me a good laugh, thanks.

Modern dog people are those too sensitive to have lasting relationships or the responsibility of a baby human and therefore their dog is their baby-by-proxy.
Except IPv6 being 128-bit makes fast hardware implementations much easier than if it had to deal with shorter prefix lengths. Nothing shorter than 128 really makes sense at all in an IPv4 replacement.
I have two kids and they are about as different as two kids can be. They are truly the inversion of each other in every way. There's no way to generalize, what works/worked on one would never work on the other. The only exception (sounds corny but it's true) is loads of love. But I don't need a book to tell me that, though sometimes a reminder..
Did the N-1 rocket really "fly"?
I always forget that about ruby strings.

However, I’m not sure I can think through how it changes the performance trade offs of sharing.
Splenda is a brand. Sucralose is a substance. No TM, no brand any more than bananas is.
These "features" are the whole reason you're building the app--so you can collect money (I assume). At my current company, we've spent the last four months rewriting just this part (moving to a different processor) and we're still not done. Our product lineup is not even very complicated, but working with payment processors is quite hellish. Considering this is the most important part of the application, this should always be considered ahead of time and plenty of time budgeted for it. There's no way you can try to speed this up and still implement it properly.
”The legionaries circle can't hold 120 men, or even 100, it's likely closer to 90”

For that to happen, the radius of the circle of Romans has to be ¾ of that of the circle of barbarians. With 2 meters distance between their heads, that would make a radius of 6 meters vs 8 meters, and circumferences of 36 and 48 meters, or about half a meter per man. Tight, but yes, at that scale, the outside army has the benefit.

These armies were larger, though. At 900 defenders and the same distance between the lines, there would be 930 attackers. At 9,000 defenders, there would be 9,030.

”barbarians rush around them causing panic”.

Panic is what I put in as an option, and what surprises me. I would hope the Roman army, knowingly marching into enemy lines in a fairly shallow column would be prepared to see enemies appear in their flanks.

What you describe must have happened, but I don’t see how an army that large with such superior numbers would get there, unless its soldiers weren’t as good as those of the enemy in some way by quite some margin. Lack of leadership decreasing soldier resilience? Lack of experience?
It's recently changed a handful of features (messaging, swiping) which has felt extremely anti-user. Finding out they've been acquired, makes the recent changes make sense.
Not sure I’d call 940/35Mbps gigabit (better providers use that to refer to 1/1Gbps — Charter’s marketing wank doesn’t sit too well :/)
>Why would anyone buy bottled water when it comes practically free from the tap?

A question I often ask myself because the tap water in my house is literally the stuff they put in the bottles (mountain spring fresh etc). And yet the entire family drinks bottled water hauled at great carbon footprint via Costco, probably bottled in California which is 1200 miles away.

My best answer is that if I were to lay down the law and mandate everyone turn on the tap to get their water[1], I'd be viewed as the cook tinfoil hat Dad everyone hates.

How the water-industrial-complex arranged for that to be the state of play is a very intriguing question I think.

[1]Sometimes people prefer bottled water to tap only because they store the bottles in the fridge. Cold water to some people tastes better, but if you ran a blind test where you took their tap water, put it in bottles and chilled them, they can't tell the difference. This does not explain things in my house however because the bottles are kept at room temp.
> Along with the protons, neutrons, and maybe the electrons flying around it.

That is not how reality works. Stuff is quantum mechanical and has no analog in the macroscopic world.

All one can ever see are consequences of interactions. This is what we are seeing.
Is there any advantage in a CPU to doing 32-bit math instead of 128-bit? My first guess is that this would make pointer operations much slower.
How Patton Conquered One of Europe's Deadliest Nazi Fortresses
You'd think so, but Nestle already does this of their own free will and they don't really seem to suffer for it.
It still mostly doesn't show lyrics any more for songs that definitely have lyrics attached that were visible in previous versions.
Good, the world could do with less advertising. At least we now know what the "toxic content" is good for --- much like rat poison. ;)
It seems the ML's cost-reward function maximises profit for the platform.
LOL! You said Adobe...
Brand preferences are overwhelmingly set in the youth years and it's been sliding younger and younger [1].

Sure, they make soap and toothpaste and food and a billion other things, but so do their competitors.

Every sale of a bottle of shower gel is a competition between P&G, Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive, and Henkel; every tube of toothpaste is a competition between P&G, Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive, Church & Dwight, Johnson & Johnson, and GlaxoSmithKline...

And most white-label generic store brands are the product of an alliance between a retailer and a manufacturer, whereby spare plant capacity is used to run a slightly different product through, whose bulk amount was paid for by the retailer ahead of time. This way, the big brand still gets paid, and retailers make better margins on store brand items than big brands.

[1] http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/when-does-brand-loyalt...
2018 and CD burning still painful
Unfortunately, the repetition is probably intentional. It's like the old idea of constantly playing the company jingle. They hope to bludgeon the product into your brain through brute force.

I'm sure it raises "brand awareness" measurements, at the cost of making people hate them.
> I wonder if Alexa or AWS are hiring.

... The very first sentence of the article:

> as the company shifts resources into fast-growing areas like its work on voice assistant Alexa
Iirc VAT laws require 3 sources of proof of country - that’s what we tried to do (IP, billing address and processor reported address) although often it’s only possible to get 2.
But if you’re sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars, or you are already making enormous profits, isn’t it better not to fire people?
View it here in actual life size on your display. http://beta.lifesizer.com/view?user=5&ref=_59&h=1080&w=1920

Edit: based on seeing it in actual size, I would say it would be hard to see it with the naked eye, that said as pointed out in other comments, I suppose not impossible if a human eye can detect a single photon.
This would only explain why you don't reprimand some comments, not why you reprimand the comments you do.

Such as the example I gave in another cooment is definitely holding that comment to a higher standard than those you are more ideological sympathetic too.

If I were to point to a similar comment from the other side of the isle, you would rightly say it followed the site guidelines so it doesnt need to be flagged or the author scolded. However, your overly tight rein on one idiological side leads to a ratcheting down on it.
Saying the need is to skip the model to get to what matters is the same as saying it's not mysterious. You're saying, "shut up you guys, you're just blabbing on about silly things that don't matter. (possibly so that you can justify your cushy university position) There's no mystery here, instead buy my books where I talk about things that really matter."