skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used Paddle to handle sales of my $25 macOS desktop app, by integrating their macOS SDK + using website integration. Works great, easy to integrate, good admin panel, straightforward to receive payouts. And as an EU business they handle all of the VAT stuff for me (awesome!) -- no VAT MOSS mess. You have a direct B2B relationship with them, where they give you reverse invoices your accountant can book in. Support is also friendly, helpful and very responsive.

In short: would recommend. In my opinion fees are reasonable for the service they supply, and I'm sure they would reduce them if you sell more than say $10k/mo through their platform.

I just knew I wasn't interested in building a complete billing system for 5% + $0.50 per sale, when Apple takes 30% on each sale. They also have affiliate support, which is interesting. But the $0.50 fee might be a bit steep if you're selling a product < $10 -- worth reaching out to them about that.
Bill Drummond from the KLF has since said he regrets doing that stunt.

"Of course I regret it - who wouldn't!" Drummond now says. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3667901.stm
I use paypal where available over direct credit card entry not because of the UX, which isn't perfect IMO and in the past has been worse, or because I particularly like paypal otherwise, but because it limits the amount of places I'm handing my credit card details to. I work under the hope that this reduces the attack surface area for those details being attained by the many ne'er-do-wells out there.
Maybe 3 in a week? This is a refreshing read. I was honestly terrified that most people relish the opportunity to work.
Also using both. First more people used Paypal. Since emphasizing that credit cards are processed by Stripe, way more people use that. Maybe 75%.

Converting and withdrawing is very expensive. Better to use the funds to pay for other services.
Nowhere is it written or stated that it was done in 2012. As has a previous reply highlighted, claiming a capability and demonstrating it are two very different things. The fact that India could back their claims of having ASAT missiles is a great deal.
Home schooling is not legal in Germany.
I love Music for Programming!
What a great work, man! It makes ML way simpler to understand. For those interested in see a similar content to learn advanced Maths, here is good YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
No its the first job of any representative to know what the substantive motion is and any consequentials .

Also any consequentials should be published along with the motions on the order paper / agenda.
From what I understand, the voting order was changed last minute. I am not surprised people screw up in those circumstances.
This would create its own echo-chamber of sorts I'd wager
Well, Redis allows me to store a JavaScript array, add some more with a Ruby client, remove some items with a PHP client, and finally read it back as a Python list just fine. What's the problem that has been unsolved? :)
Ps4 vr port[1]. I say do it. I say it's the only thing with having in vr. I say a bunch of stuff much of it more nonsensical than this. You'll know if you need ps4 vr now or if you don't. There is no trance vibrator or game girl advance review.

[1]https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/rez-infinite-ps4/

[Edit]
Eh, lots of love lower in the thread. Have this instead...

http://www.ultimathule.info/playlists.html
Some MEPs are now saying they accidentally voted the wrong way because the voting order was changed and they were confused: Enough MEPs Say They Mistakenly Voted For Articles 11 & 13 That The Vote Should Have Flipped; EU Parliament Says Too Bad

13 of them registered a correction to their vote on amendments, with 10 of those intending to vote for amendments. However, the corrections aren't used to affect the outcome.

Edit: checking Techdirt's math:

Official vote: 312 for, 317 against, 24 abstained

MEPs that registered a voting correction (blank for abstain):

Name Voted Intended
Gerolf Annemans for
Johannes Cornelis van Baalen against for
Dita Charanzová for
Martina Dlabajová for
Antanas Guoga against for
Eva Joly for
Jo Leinen ? for
Peter Lundgren against for
Michèle Rivasi for
Kristina Winberg against for
Marek Plura for against
Marita Ulvskog for against
Daniel Buda against
After corrections: 320 for, 314 against, 20 abstained

So the vote would have had the opposite result if the corrected votes were used.
I'm not interested in whatever cultural issues some might have, especially since people put too much irrational emotion in their language.

Languages are primarily a tool for communication and i am interested in the practicality of improving that communication - if two people speak different languages and without any common one, they simply cannot communicate.

I do not care if it would be English, Chinese, French or whatever else, that choice is irrelevant. I only said Yes to English because of its popularity, widespread use among many different countries and its position when it comes to computers (which was my original point above).
This was 2-3 years ago. I set up a server and a client. Install some packages, edit some config files. That was the easy part.

Once connected to the server, with a friend (another engineer) also connected to the same server, neither of us could quickly figure out how it worked and how to talk to each other. We managed to after a few minutes, but it wasn't immediate, and I presume a normal person would have just given up.

My guess is that it imitates some other programs which happen to be similar (I heard about teamspeak?) but that neither my friend nor I have used, and that unlike these programs (presumed) it doesn't have a tutorial or enough cues as to how it works.
The ISP can see your traffic going towards entry nodes if I'm not mistaken.
How to Run an æternity Blockchain Node on Amazon Cloud (AWS)
>The public consciousness of Facebook now is such that they're viewed as a pretty malevolent entity in general

The general public doesn't consider Facebook as being even remotely malevolent. I think you're confusing the views within the HN/tech bubble for the mainstream.
I think in the US senate, a senator can request individual verification where each senator has to physically say and verify their vote.
New controls as well?
The irony of the pocket knife (Swiss Army Knife) for me is the amount of times that mine came in handy for the tweezers.

I saved countless people from the agony of a splinter with those little tweezers.

I worked in retail at the time - Saturday job, something kids don't do any more - and many fixtures were made of wood. Splinters happened. I saved the day every time someone was in agony from a splinter. I didn't keep records but at least every fortnight there would be an incident of getting the tweezers out.

In those days leaving the house without my pocket knife would have felt like leaving the house without my keys now. The funny thing was that I didn't have keys, the lock on the door at home was only used once or twice a year when on holidays or visiting distant relatives.

Fires were also another large part of my upbringing. Nowadays we have recycling but there was a time when adults would be okay with kids lighting fires, either in a fireplace, out in the back yard or for amusement with friends and flammable explosives. You wouldn't let a child anywhere near petrol nowadays but back in the day that was something on hand and used to get damp things started. The only punishment would be for using it ineffectively.

My pen knife was mostly used for opening boxes, it was sharpened a few times by adults as a favour. Imagine that today, sharpening a kid's knife for them and that being okay.
> Throwing my content into a network ... really isn't enough of a sell.

That depends on the network you are thrown into. The company I work for saw a substantial increase in new leads after moving the corporate blog from self-hosting to Medium.

As much as I dislike the platform too, it is hard to argue with money
It's almost as if an organized movement to convince people that the solution is the problem is succeeding in its goals.
New 3D-printing spin-off raises a $3M Seed round
That’s their perogative for doing what’s good for their ad business. The real responsibility is with holding our leaders responsible for promoting the funding, transparency, and credibility of organizations such as the FDA and CDC, and educating people in the scientific method in general.

Instead we elect people who demean the very scientists working hard to protect our society.
> VirnetX filed suit in the East Texas judicial district that it favors

That sounds like good patent troll. Did they create any product using the patented technology or just Sue everyone?
What's the reason for Stripe and Coinbase to push Stellar like this? I thought it was just another cryptocurrency and nothing special.
I'd be keen to see a simple example of this pattern in Lisp (or another language). Does anybody have a good link?
Tough titty no? Or are they going to do like with Brexit and keep voting until they get what they want?
Not sure I would call CSV a "standard text format" - I've seen many many problems over the years with badly formed CSV files and bad Unicode handling. CSV appears to be an "almost standard" where 98% of the time it is fine and the remaining 2% are an utter nightmare.
Is this really a brilliant idea though?

Everybody knows RAM became cheaper cheaper, while mechanical disk can't be made faster, and SSD have reliability limits.

It seems entirely logical to expect databases to work on RAM first and then commit on disk for a large performance improvement.
The Swedish reps who pushed wrong said there were some changes last minute to the agenda, confusing them and in effect probably caused the wrong button press. Though I haven't been able to find for certain if this was the case.

I am glad most Swedish reps voted against but will definitely use my vote next election to try and remove the ones that voted for (yes there were some that voted for and not by mistake) and people incompetent enough to not know what button to press when it comes down to it.
Here's an article that covers this info:

https://gizmodo.com/report-european-parliament-screwed-up-th...

Although I'm not sure if I'm not against the law here, linking a copyrighted material like a criminal
Lyft: IPO Will Likely Snap
Mentioned data is here - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=alanwong

15 out of the most recent 30 submissions from your account are China related news, 94% of them are negative. Citing such publicly available stats that can be easily verified by the public is now considered as personal attack? Keep arguing whether 94% or 100% of your submissions are negative doesn't really change anything.

Maybe inkstonenews.com only publish negative China related news articles or you intentionally only submit those negative ones from inkstonenews.com to NH? What is the story here?
Aren't there many other alternatives, too? Admittedly, I'm a bit out of the loop. When Kagi[1] changed their payment structure to discourage small prices, I started using Fastspring[2] for many years for an old shareware project. It works very well. However, I have almost zero sales now so there is not much to work with.

Funny story: Just a few weeks ago, a a guy from Fastspring called me up in Portugal on my landline phone. His accent was Australian or NZ, so I had troubles understanding him and I also suspected a phone scam first. He turned out to be a very nice person, he was interested in my business, how they could help us grow, and about the Lisbon developer scene in general. I had to tell him that I don't know anything about it, but I did mention Y Combinator and the local government's efforts to attract startup companies. I also had to explain the nature of my 'business' to him - that it's no longer a business, only shareware maintained for existing customers. No idea what the real purpose of the call was, but it was a nice chat and I was positively impressed by Fastspring's customer service.

[1] I remember fondly the cheques I got from "Walnut Creek" and how I had to move to Citibank because my local bank treated me like a suspected criminal because of them. Sadly, I've just learned that they shut down in 2016: https://tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-shuts-down-after-falling...

[2] https://fastspring.com/
Educating the public isn’t Facebook’s job, that’s the government’s job (and by proxy, our job as voters and members of society) to ensure we educate our children and neighbors and promote research.

Unfortunately, it seems that people aren’t capable properly of wielding the power democracy gives them.
I'm sure there are technicalities to it, but the Australian parliament allowed a new vote just this year.[0]

In short, the governing party voted in favour of a motion that "It's okay to be white". The vote failed to pass, but the next day (amid condemnation) it was claimed that the vote was due to an administrative error. A new vote was held and the motion was defeated again, unanimously.

I say there may be technicalities as apparently the vote was a "recommittal"[1], but on the face of it the parliament allowed a new vote because the members claimed to have made a mistake.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_OK_to_be_white#Australi...

[1]: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practi...
Too bad that some of our representatives seem to lack the mental capabilities to handle the 3-button voting system.

On the other hand, who says that the reverse hasn't happened as well? I could imagine that there also were some 'yes' voters who accidentally pressed the wrong button.
"wrong"
Facebook is definitely an enabler for this trash. While they can indeed congregate elsewhere (like their own website or forum), people would have to explicitly seek out that “elsewhere”, where as Facebook would promote them for free thanks to their ranking algorithm.
Ah nice! Thanks for enlightening me. That should be the headline (and in the article at the very least)!
I ran it through gcc -E and clang-format.

https://pastebin.com/21qiRDi5
Why is this being downvoted?

A user is willing to share their first-hand experience with the content-matter of an article.

How is that not both interesting and relevant in a HN context?
The Android Jetpack guidelines strongly recommend Dagger 2, and it's a Google product so I thought I should comply.
I am working on it at the moment, but it is extremely hard. You have to communicate with them (through email) and describe what you want to do. They have too many requirements (like you should have the icons of MasterCard and Visa on your website) and it is even harder to convince them to allow you accept payments from the whole world (they usually only let you accept payments within your country).

With PayPal, everything is automatic. You can configure everything yourself and accept payments in no time, without having to communicate with an actual person from PayPal.
I've used SagePay in the past and they offer PayPal payments via their API. Big mistake. You have less control over the payment experience, and when SagePay have an outage, it takes out both their payment method, and PayPal.
> We didn't bank on the ability of idiots to connect too...

The downside of this connecting is not "just" idiots, it's the creation of echo chambers in general.

Pre-Facebook social circles only had the capability to form echo chambers when they reached a certain size, something that was greatly inhibited by the reality of the physical world.

Today, even the most irrational minds can meet and reinforce each other's beliefs without any effort at all, beyond a few mouseclicks.

Idiots are just a subset of the problem. The actual problem is people in general just having their misconceived notions reinforced, rather than having them challenged. It's the opposite of intellectual growth.

IMO, Twitter is even worse in this regard.
This isn't just one startup, these are multiple startups I have talked to that all end up deciding to move off the platform due to cost. Solid containers orchestration platforms like Kubernetes are slowly reducing the need to have one specific cloud platform, but cost control is still extremely relevant with architecture design choices.

As far as language is concerned, Ruby and Ruby on Rails is the usual choice with Heroku and is marketed specifically towards RoR devs (https://www.heroku.com/ruby) and Postgres as db. Most startups who decide to go the RoR route are not going to decide to go with C# as far as the Microsoft ecosystem is concerned, which would be a different set of architecture design choices. If you wanted to market a more performant alternative Go would 100 percent be the way to do it.

I would still somewhat disagree with your conclusion that language choice is imperative though, so much as how well you architect your application and infrastructure. A simple RoR app that pulls in a bunch of static assets from an S3 bucket is going to scale at whatever load compared to an ETL tool like Airflow that might need to process terabytes of data on a daily basis and has to have more planning from the start.
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Thanks! I used HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Yes, that was definitely over the line for the Soviet Union to demand that Finland hand over a buffer zone. But in fairness the soviets did have some reason for concern. Finland had historic ties with Germany. Germany had helped the non-communist side of the Finnish War, notably by training the Jaeger troops.

Still, I expect Finland would have been only too happy to sit out the war as a neutral, like Sweden did. But the Soviets didn't give them that option.
Writing Good Exception Message
Invoice processing – natural language processing – robotic process automation
It's their cryptocurrency
In my career I've experienced alot of engineers that had a desire to shy away from command line or command prompt tools, shell, CMD.exe, batch, scripting, cron and related 'traditional' automation, in favor of GUI, IDE, html, browser etc.

I've even had some young sexy angular-wizard type engineers that had the ear of mgmt sarcastically respond with statements like "I don't do command line".

This article and my experience with AWS development and Amazon leads me to believe this entire company is led and staffed by such engineers.
Growing up, Calvin and Hobbes was my way of escaping and day-dreaming. I had every book. As a young adult I bought the complete collection. It became so popular among my children and their friends that I actually had to buy a second copy so everyone could read at the same time.

An awesome Friday evening: myself, kids, friends, all comfy in the living room with Calvin and Hobbes, snacks and laughter. How did it get to be 11pm and the kids are still up?
I have a leatherman in London with a locking blade. It was a Christmas present from my dad and I emailed the local police about the legality of it.

Ultimately, if you're walking round with it in the bottom of your bag and you have a use for it, you'll be fine. They're looking to stop people from having it in their pocket as they're walking round town. Same with the kitchen knives, got it down the back of your trousers 11pm loitering around, they're gonna get you.

They're legal to have at home as well, and can be bought on Amazon.
You had one job...
CORS isn't a technological protection like a DRM and isn't design as such, it's purely a security measure, by default you don't even specify it. Browsers are free to ignore them as they wish (but with increased security risks of course).
Why people should trust pharma companies considering all the scandals and dick moves? I think we just lost patience and antivaxxers are kinda over-reacting. This is not a problem with misinformation, it's a problem with trust. Patients are always disinformed and act when disinformed wheter they choose to vaccinate or not. Creating and mantaining trust therefore is the main issue.

Edit: gonna specify that I'm in favor of vaccines otherwise some won't read the message and think this is an anti-vaxx post
Funny how one can interpret things so differently. I see a lot of art just like this, like the clothes of the emperor: All nice and well until someone says: Wtf you speak a lot of hefty language but in the end my 4 y/o can do the same thing, but for the hefty language.

Sure, Art can make you think and the way you interpret it may teach you something about yourself (that is how I find value in art), but so can the painting of a 4 y/o and a nice river flowing in the distance.

Call me barbaric but I appreciate art when it took skill to make it. A nicely constructed, elegant, functional Python class with minimal but readable code, that is (also) art to me.

The thing is, I'm often getting away with this opinion because I have a PhD so somehow my intellectualism isn't easily dismissed, it's insane.
One problem is that financing the use of the Internet has been equated with "lets put ads everywhere".

I meet so few people who are willing to pay for most Internet sites and services. They have to deliver some great value to be able to live on paid subscriptions.

Would you pay for Facebook if all ads were gone? Or Twitter? I can barely find a use case for these services anymore. Strip it to Messenger and the event pages and that's 95% of all use cases that go beyond narcissism.

Also, I am not sure if Facebook is responsible for the observed stupidity and idiocy or if it simply reveals them...
You should look at European laws (as should all the European citizens rightfully protesting stupid politicians)... For private blogs, the current process still will apply. I'm not even sure, if it does today include the provider privilege (which basically favors commercial platforms today), thus already enforcing moderation (or selling out discussion to disqus, etc). Also, people today could run around posting extremist propaganda in comments, which makes moderation necessary. As the result of this, most private (german) blogs I know are already implementing human content filters, e.g. post by email.