skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all love retailers who have very low friction in order to let us buy things without hassles, one click, etc. And when you create your home business using a convenient service like Square of course you also want to offer this no-hassle payment service to your customers.

But what many people don't realize that these businesses also often are eating chargebacks - considering them a necessary part of business in order - to offer the low friction purchasing. When you're an individual and a $175 chargeback stings your checkbook (as it would for many of us) then it sucks to have to learn this lesson the hard way.

I will say at least with standard merchant accounts when a chargeback occurs the bank will often get you and the customer on the phone together to figure out the problem. It usually reverses most chargebacks. Many times it's simply a mistake because the customer didn't recognize the charge. If Square is not doing something like this then you probably are taking on a lot more risk using their service compared to a traditional merchant account.
Agreed. His examples are nonsensical, in almost every case comparing handling an error in C with signalling an error in C++. To see what I'm talking about, here's his first comparison:

// C
int rc = fx ();
if (rc != 0)
handle_error ();

// C++
int rc = fx ();
if (rc != 0)
throw std::exception ();

This is absurd. This is not the same thing in two different languages. These two pieces of code do two different things. One handles the error, and the other signals that there's an error that should be handled elsewhere. For an apples-to-apples comparison, let's consider both cases in each language. If this is the appropriate place to handle the error, then you handle it. It looks like this:

// C
int rc = fx ();
if (rc != 0)
handle_error ();

// C++
int rc = fx ();
if (rc != 0)
handle_error ();

I.e., exactly the same. If you DON'T want to handle the error here, then you return an error code or throw an exception:

// C
int rc = fx ();
if (rc != 0)
// There's no way to know where or whether this will be handled
return some_error_code;

// C++
int rc = fx ();
if (rc != 0)
// There's no way to know where or whether this will be handled
throw some_exception();

You're in the same boat in C and in C++. The error must be handled elsewhere, and nothing you do here can ensure that it will be. Exceptions have some advantages, though:

1. You do not have to anticipate inconvenient collisions between error return values and valid return values.

2. If the calling function is not the appropriate place to handle the error, then no boilerplate is required in the calling function to pass the error up the stack.

3. Exceptions let you use destructors instead of explicit cleanup blocks.

4. Failure to write error-handling code will not result in an operation proceeding in an invalid state, deceptively reporting success, or silently corrupting state. An error return value can simply be ignored. An unhandled exception will cause a cascading failure that cannot be mistaken for successful completion of an operation.

5. You can always use return values to report errors if they happen to be preferable in some cases.

P.S. The more I understand his complaints, the more I think he is just trying to get too fancy. If construction and destruction are problematic for some objects, then classes with trivial constructors and destructors give him exactly the struct-like behavior he wants, so what is wrong with that? How in the world do you get into worries about exceptions thrown from constructors and half-initialized objects (exception in the sense that any allocated-but-not-initialized struct is in a "half-initialized" state)? This is like saying knives are too dangerous to have the in the kitchen because you are in the habit of thrusting your hand blindly into the knife drawer.
SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace to Offer Crewed Missions to Private Space Stations
I hope you're going with this where i think you're going with this.

This is way beyond essential mixes . . . I haven't come across one good dj mix sharing website out there.

Linking to already hosted content is 100% the way to go.

Please keep it going.
I thought Ms. Dewey was going to change the direction of search UI, but somehow it died.
As a general policy, censorware companies don't want people to be able to see the lists of blocked URLs because they're so embarrassingly over-reaching.
To continue with the above comment, I'd like to point out that RMS has valid concerns regarding non-free software running inside your body.

You don't want to have a buggy pacemaker with unencrypted unprotected wireless access.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/27/buggy_pacemaker_code...

https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2010/transparent-m...

Moreover I don't feel comfortable using a technology that is owned, developed and maintained exclusively by one company.
In The bay Area? Show up for a Programming Role in a nice Suit with a tie.
Not quite underdressing -- but you'll likely be judged as less capable solely on the way your are dressed.
I think you have your tongue in cheek, but I'm going to bite because I have something to say even if you're not being serious ;-)

I'm an online publisher who has a significant percentage of income that comes via advertising and I think ad blocking is a good force for the Web. I don't use it, but I don't have a problem with those who do.

Ad blockers typically block poorly performing display advertising (the CTRs on banners nowadays is ridiculously low and the levels of recall have been shown to be abysmally low in studies) and text link advertising from the big networks.

Ad blockers typically do not block 'content marketing', videos on sites like YouTube, editorial mentions of products, references to products and services within content, adverts in podcasts, job ads (usually), sponsors in e-mail newsletters, and a whole myriad of other ways that smart advertisers and publishers are using.

It's about time we killed off mass market display advertising online. Why? Because it gives publishers an incentive to actually work to provide experiences that benefit both readers and advertisers and not sit on their fat asses collecting checks for doing sod all.
MCU - This is an incredible response. You win. :-)
I agree but, like last time, the social crash will ripple through the real businesses too.
The UX should be the equivalent of the current EV UX, but the point is that if your browser supports DPF then you don't need to look. If you got there after typing bank.secure, you should be good. If the screen is red (and hopefully doesn't have an "accept this risk" button) then you didn't.

I should point out this is about more than TLS, and more than the web. We have a short window during which we can create an Internet category that is both clear to the user in it's goals and specific in its requirements for hosts. Our hope is to create an extensible protocol with DPF, one that can be extended to give domain registries and registrants the ability to choose higher privacy protections, limit risk to CA compromise, and secure other protocols like SMTP.
Nice to hear of teams that found sustainable approaches to sw development and still pushing to improve.
Thank you very much! A really interesting report.
you won't get too far with a web app, can't upload/take pictures with HTML5.
I've been in situations like this and have involved lawyers to no avail. The reason why I did not complain about former deadbeat clients to the next one is that a manager that hears that I was taken advantage will say to himself, "If some other savvy businessman was able to get away with screwing this guy and I don't, I look like an idiot."
I don't understand how a person can be a dick for how they dress. The concept does not make sense to me. It doesn't seem theoretically possible.
You're an inspiring type. Certainly hope I never need to interview with the likes of you. The guy is owed money. he should be paid, regardless of your love affair with Miso.
What the airline industry can teach us about broadband caps
I was thinking about this just the other day as I was getting a flu vaccine. As far as accepting closed source technology in your life, that seems like the vastly more salient domain.
Most of my friends on Facebook thought it was a scam. Seems like a good way to get a ton of one-time users and a whole bunch of negative press.
And there I was thinking that IANAL was a sexual preference.
Why would you ever set this system up so that the employee would have to remember to claim the bonus unless you never really expect to pay it? Surely the company could very easily determine who is woed bonuses when, and automatically disburse them? Mine certainly does!

It's great for you that you don't care about $10,000 owed to you, but not everyone is in that position, and that doesn't make them worse people then you
Don't Go to Conferences, Don't Raise Money.
For people who are new to the genre, Essential Mixes are one of the best ways to get to really know EDM artists. While artists typically get popular through hit singles, in full sets artists make a lot of experimental tweaks and changes to make it a unique experience. In the same way that CD's killed the full-album experience, live sets are bringing that "full" artist experience back.

I've compiled a short list of well respected DJs in case you want to use this site to explore other big names in this type of music beyond the usual suspects (Deadmau5.) There are many, many more and this is just a sampling of different sounds from the most recent mixes only.

Above & Beyond,
Kaskade,
Nero,
Cosmic Gate,
Flux Pavilion (dubstep),
Jamie XX
Contact the CA department of labor and ask them how strong your case is. CA's department of labor will handle the process of arbitrating any unpaid wages and can likely tell you about labor law much better than most people here.

http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToFileWageCLaim.htm
"Unpaid wages, including commissions and bonuses."
"A claim based on an oral agreement must be filed within two years from the date the claim arose."

Personally I think they lost their case as soon as their executive mentioned that the reason they would withhold payment was because of mistakes made on the job. By doing such they appear to acknowledge the debt and state their reasoning for not complying with payment is related to such reasons. Regardless of any future emails that kind of breaks CA labor code as far as I know. I'm not a lawyer though so what do I know.
I haven't seen any articles by users, but Couchbase looks pretty interesting: http://www.couchbase.com/couchdb
Angels are early-stage investors, and are often close advisers to the people they invest in.
If your company is too stupid to have backups in place that's your own damn fault. The fact that he blew the data away is irrelevant. It can happen to anyone.

And you think screwing someone out of money they're contractually owed is ok? I'm sure you'll do well..
Wow, that's at least multiple items per month across the millions of people in tech.

Worse, it takes the expression of subjective personal opinion and turns even that into some sort of offensive assault. That site offends me as a man, thus I will add it to my masculism site.
On Linux you can mix compilers as long as they implement the Itanium ABI. At least I haven't had to recompile anything after upgrading GCC.
From a marketing perspective, this actually seems pretty clever. I could see a lot of people wanting to use "citibank.secure" or "amazon.secure" or "gmail.secure", just from the way it sounds. It's the first TLD I've ever come across that feels it could actually compete with .com.

Of course, the first time one of the sites gets hacked, who knows what will happen to the TLD's reputation...
Are they really going to blame statistical significance for a 47th place showing? As if a bigger sample pushes CA up to a podium finish.

Also found the "large urban districts" comment interesting. I understand it's an Orange County paper in which an Orange County supervisor is telling his constituents that the story isn't representative of Orange County. But it shouldn't be okay for "urban" kids to be 47th in science?
I was going to leave the same feedback about skipping ;)

One other thing.. the pause || & |> is misaligned (Windows Chrome) in the circle (it sits a little bottom-left rather than central)

Other than that, great work :)
Actually, there are in fact complete specifications from AMD for the 3D aspects of the hardware:

http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/pages/default.aspx#open_gpu

Yes, they omit parts that are covered by macrovision copy-protection and the like, but those are not necessary for full 3D support. That is why I qualified my earlier statement.

The real reason is as you pointed out, writing drivers is hard and the skillset is scarce.

I just wanted to point out that most people believe the myth that full specifications == instant, great open source drivers.
Wikipedia has a lot of value, but it's certainly got some major technical flaws, and a community of people who are resistant to change.

If someone forked wikipedia's content, but used modern UI and modern web technology ... maybe it could work. But Wikipedia would never accept your edits, and it would be hard to get a critical mass of users.

I think the only way to really disrupt wikipedia would be to jump from wikipedia's central authority to some sort of git-style workflow (or some new metaphor of multiple development streams)
I heard a variation say that the dumb and energetic were cannon fodder.
Everybody screws up something sometime. It is embarrassing and bad, but the fact of life is that nobody is perfect, and everybody can and will screw up sometimes. To own what you have done, however bad it is, is not shameful (however shameful was the original screwup by itself) and is not the reason to abandon all your rights and not get what you are due.
No.
Nope.
No thanks.
Not at this time.
No way, Jose.
Never.
its not an allegation when you link to richardstallman.org. What he said was

"Dutch pedophiles have formed a political party to campaign for legalization.

I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."
Stopping Malware Distribution at the Source
Wow that sounds pretty awesome. Did you kayak out to there? I guess I should make friends with someone that lives on Lanikai and try it out.
The people buying the shares are ultimately the public; the bankers are just middlemen, and replaceable ones at that.

If facebook actually did need the cash, why wait until they hit the 500 investor limit? Hitting that limit is clearly playing a role in the timing of the IPO, even if it didn't "force" an IPO.
>> The idea of a referral bonus is rewarding someone for /growing/ the team, and if you leave before that term is up, or if you leave before you file for the bonus, it's ridiculous to ask for it later – especially when you've already deflated your good will with a company

What is the "term" that you're referring to in "leaving before the term?" From the blog post, it seems like the author "grew" the team by successfully referring an employee who stayed for minimum of 6 months, which gives him the entitlement of the 10k bonus as per email discussions.
There's nothing wrong with badmouthing brogrammers, true story.
however the company did not specify at what point the bonus was due to him.

Of course it did.
Quote from the article:

the payout was contingent on said employee staying for a minimum of a 6 month period at the position

If that's the really the full text of the agreement (which seems plausible to me, I've seen similar e-mails) then there is nothing unclear about that. Even if he had quit immediately after referring that other guy he'd still get the bonus. Period.

well established practice.

Certainly not around here.
beyond that, children really don't have a sexuality until at least puberty. There is no such thing as "voluntary" pedophilia.
It seems to me there's a giant elephant in the room that no one wants to speak about. There is something broken with our educational system, specifically related to blacks. If you look at the top 10 states, they are not racially diverse consisting of large white populations. If you go from the bottom up, you pretty much have locales ranked in their density of black population. THIS IS A MAJOR PROBLEM. Until someone can stand up and say there is a problem culturally in black populations that needs fixing, or can determine what our school systems are doing wrong specifically to harm our black population our country will continue to suffer the consequences. This is not an easy subject to address, but it needs to be approached head on. We have a problem and it needs to be acknowledged before it can be fixed.
> The only way I could justify this is if I began developing a free replacement for that very program.

If the Oracle suit taught me anything, it's to be careful when using APIs.
This sounds like the biggest problem:

> The exams measure knowledge and understanding of physical, life, Earth and space sciences.

> In California, eighth-grade students are only taught in physical science, not in Earth or space sciences
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Thats the plan, and you guys will be the one keeping this going. Thanks for encouragement.
I'm really not trying to be an ass, but if I go to "bing.com", type "test", press "enter". I don't see "advanced" anywhere. The closest I see is a 'gear' that takes me to a completely different page that is not an advanced search.

Like, I ctrl+f'd to make sure I'm not just blind.
Ummm ... since when are leather boots considered business attire? I'd also call that dressing down, though in a more rugged style.
Naming and shaming is not in this guy's immediate interests at all. It does not change the chances of him getting compensated, and future employers may view the act negatively (although this may act as a useful filter for rremoncake, the kind of people that wouldn't hire him because of this are probably not the kind of people he'd want to work for anyway).

The founders of Miso will now be perceived by many people (myself amongst them) as highly unethical and shortsighted individuals. Being either of those things makes them undesirable as employers/employees/coworkers.

I'm reminded of the altruistic primates that run shrieking through the forest to warn their clan of an approaching predator, at the risk of being eaten themselves... If rremoncake saved some hackers from putting in a few years with these guys only to be hosed after an acquisition, then I think he's done something pretty positive, and should be commended. Sorry if you get eaten.
My thoughts exactly. I think they're actually getting a lot of stuff right.
I spent a lot of time this winter up in Tahoe. My days consisted of hitting the mountain for first lift, snowboarding for a few hours, back at the condo by noon and spend the rest of the day working. My productivity during these days was absolutely insane. Not being able to meet anyone for drinks, dinner, etc. just means you end up with an awesome 8-12 hour block of completely uninterrupted time to just crank through shit.
Facebook as the corporate entity doesn't need the cash; the investors and employees need the exit. In light of that, Mark as an investor and employee does need their cash.

If the exit wasn't important, they would stay private and run the business.
It's not "squeezing money." It's trying to collect what he's owed. There is nothing wrong with doing that, at all. I can't fathom why you would think that's a bad thing to do.
Interesting that no one's really thought of approaching Instagram's lack of web presence as an opportunity. I suppose it seemed like a bit of a foregone conclusion, like it was one of those products where that solution would be superfluous, but seeing all of the images in the waterfall layout makes a lot of sense, more, arguably, than it does in Facebook or the Instagram app.
That would be John Nack.
If it's your car and that's the only way to get the cruise control fixed, then you probably should.
I invite you to watch this illuminating interview with the creator of The Wire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qulcqNMHVic
We have a problem in poor communities. Black communities are disproportionately poor due to historical factors. The problem isn't that we tap-dance around the issue, the problem is we don't like the solutions.
There are also network effects at play - your co-workers create .psd files, and your printing company takes .psd files, so you use Photoshop. There is also ample training material, frequent conferences, etc.

That was Corel's problem - not matter how good a tool they made, printers either could not open the files, or were scared off by bad experiences with previous versions.

Google docs has only succeed because "close enough" formatting was good enough for business docs and spreadsheets. Not so in graphic design.
Just out of curiosity, is that $300 for just the components or does that cost include everything else as well such as assembly, research, design, marketing, etc. etc?
Sounds like an absolute dream. Last time I went skiing I was wondering if something like this might work, glad to hear that it did for you --- I'd love to try it in the future!
And I still can't figure out how to fax/e-sign directly from my google docs folder, my main use case. I hope to see this soon :)

And congrats guys, you're killing it!
The Journal reported in April that hedge funds and other
investors were making bets in the credit-default swap
markets to take advantage of volatility that stemmed from
the trades done by Mr. Iksil, who worked out of the Chief
Investment Office.

After everything that's happened, they're still allowed to play the CDS lottery? I'm really disappointed regulators haven't put a stop to this.

For a great insight into the role of CDS'es in the recent economic events, I highly recommend this documentary:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/money-power-wall-str...
New Mayan Calender Shows World Will Continue For Trillions Of Years
Perl and Python are both in the "pending someone mentioning something they did that noone else has done before" part of the page, they aren't considered part of the list.
There's a sweet spot to be found, and I might even argue that their sample is too large if it isn't stratified in some meaningful sense. (It seems it isn't stratified: "Scores were not broken down beyond the state level.")

We're talking an average of 2400 students from each state.
That's plenty for certain tests, such as the question of whether or not all states perform equally well. Since it's not stratified, we're basically talking about a rank order test concerning 50 means (depending on how you formulate it). A sample size of 120,000 is so enormously huge (for a question like that) that it might even be detrimental.

The quote about small sample sizes is just wrong. If anything, this sample is too large, such that even minuscule differences would appear to be statistically significant, when in fact that might not be "practically different."
"We thought it would be hilarious to combine them because they are two of the hottest and most valuable companies on the planet"

Sigh. Are we really that lodged inside of our own startup bubble?
My recollection is that the statute of limitations on debt is something like 7 years. Months is definitely not an appropriate amount of time for a debt to expire. If I stop paying my mortgage and the bank neglects to follow up for a few months, do I own my house free and clear? Of course not. If they let it go for years then, and only then, can it work out that way.