skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This just a payment provider like many others. The only difference I see is that they use a 'REST-like' API instead of the usual Web-Service API.
App.net Is Just an Identity Provider
I think this is the article you are referencing: http://bernardi.me/2012/06/startup-copycats-youre-doing-it-w...

And the original HN comment thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4091462

Interestingly enough the first startup the author suggests should be cloned is Stripe.
Sounds to me like AMD simply improved the yield in production such that they are confident increasing the clock rate on new chips. An old chip may or may not be good enough to run at the higher rate.
Interesting. What are you replacing Recurly with?
So only those with a religion that does not encourage many children (or those with no religion) should be fed? If so, let's take it further - should we actively go around refusing food to those who want large families?
Agriculture is boom-and-bust, precisely due to the unpredictability of the weather, infestations, etc. It's more predictable today than in the past, but there is still a lot of guesswork going on. There are sophisticated mechanisms in place for mitigating this, such as the futures market and insurance.

I'd wager that the "compensation" the hay farmer mentioned above is part of an insurance-type scheme. Maybe like this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/drough...
It's running right now on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zielm.emac...

It's even 24.1. I only have patchy wifi now so I haven't been able to finish the install yet on my tablet but it installed and ran M-x tetris just fine on my phone.
That's not the union, that's the business. I guarantee that they would have no trouble getting rid of anyone, even a union employee, for stealing baggage: simply calling the police and charging them would take care of the problem. It's just that in the absence of government regulation[1] or a market with more competition, it's cheaper to pretend bag theft doesn't happen and let passengers pay for private insurance.

At this point, our best chance is probably convincing people that the bag theft rings are ripe for terrorist exploitation and we need point-to-point video tracking to prevent mass mayhem.

1. e.g. banning the “we reimburse everything at $2/pound & $0 for anything which uses electricity" clauses in every airline's ToS
It's does seem rather sci-fi to send a robot in your place or to embody a robot that is at a location where regular people are also located. I can more easily accept the idea of a telepresence robot in an office, but even that is rather uncanny.

It will be interesting to see if this tech really goes mainstream over the coming decades -- I predict it will.

Just an observation: a telepresence robot at a restaurant would not do much good in that the it cannot eat for you. But robotic servers -- that's entirely feasible.
With this announcement, might be a good time to review my design analysis of the BERG Little Printer. I compared it to a related, unreleased "alternative printer" project I designed several years ago:

http://vitor.io/little-printer-design-analysis
Perl does something similar, see the [feature] keyword.

[feature]: http://perldoc.perl.org/feature.html
With pleasure, your comment showed great insight.
Thx, freelanceswitch.com looks awesome, it has plenty of jobs she could apply for. We'll start there for sure
Unlikely. This stuff is our bread and butter. We are under DDoS attack 40% of the time 24/7 (see: http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-wednesday-witching-hour-cloud...). A 10Gbps attack is not unusual for us and we've seen much higher. We have a lot of experience dealing with DDoS attacks.
thanks for accepting them as customers. i hope that it works out (i imagine a larger test will be when something with less popular support - neo nazis or child porn or whatever - becomes a client). free speech matters. and controlling speech should be - in the end - something that is done through a visible, accountable process.

[edited to change "taking a stand" to something less objectionable(?). but contrast this with the payment service providers.]
That's fair I suppose.
I didn't realize who you were at first.

You best set up a page that just says, "as long as this page is up, we have NOT been served a National Security Letter from the FBI".

Because it's going to contain a gag-order that prevents you from even talking to your lawyer. So probably want to ask them ahead of time what to do when you get the letter.
> Looks like they're a PHP shop and only offer PHP client libs yet. Seems they didn't even understand the message Stripe has in kinds of developer focus.

The APIs are REST. You don't need a client library.
Caveat emptor, and I've always been aware that updates I get direct from the GPU manufacturer may not work on a particular implementation. It is highly likely that they just don't hardware qualify all the vendors that use their GPUs, so cannot state which ones will benefit. Sensible policy that says more about the vendors that integrate the GPU than it does about the supplier.
This image reminds me of starting in the morning: sun's up, there's plenty to do, let's get started.

On another note, I would love to hear the sound of whatever Martian breeze is blowing while Curiosity's wheels crunch over the gravel.
Kickstarter is US-only because Amazon Payments is US-only (well at least, they only denominate payments in dollars).

Kickstarter's payment needs are pretty different from other crowdfunding sites, as the credit card is authed right away... but not charged until the project is funded AND the deadline is reached (up to 60 days). There are very few payment vendors that will hold a conditional credit card charge like that, and certainly not any that will hold off on charging the card for 60 days.

Amazon Payments recently announced that they are going to stop "boarding fresh crowdfunding accounts at this time," and also kicked book crowdfunder unglue.it off their payments platform. Amazon's explanation was that, "we have regulatory obligations as a licensed money services business for how we operate."

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120809/09213019977/amazon...

In order to expand beyond the US, Kickstarter needs to either wait for a major payments provider to support their unique payment requirements... or to build up their own international payments provider. It's hard enough building a startup; building a second payments startup is a huge additional endeavour.

In short: payments is often much harder than it seems. It's not just a matter of translation and miniscule expenses... there is real engineering work required to tap into international payments and understand how payments work on a country-by-country basis.
Wedbush Securities admits to hyping Facebook
^ this. It's not a protocol, just an API, one hosted centrally by a business who is making a lot of promises. I'd like to give DC the benefit of the doubt, but let's face it; since when has a startup founder planned to stick with a company until the bitter end. What is to prevent, say, Yahoo from buying them out and locking down the API? Nothing. What's to prevent them from jacking up prices once they do get traction? Can you be absolutely sure that they won't block you (as a developer) if you build a competitive service on top of their API? What happens when they get investments from a company building "AppPic", and you're trying to build a different photo sharing service on it?

I completely agree with open protocols and standards, and if we're trying to change the world, this is the way to do it. OpenID and OpenAuth solve a true pain point in people's lives, and look how long it's taken to get even a moderate amount of traction. But it's finally happening to some extent (even if it is with corporate players like FB/Google). If you want to change the world, this is the way to do it. Walled gardens, corporate promises, and hype are not going to do it.
Sensativity to grammar errors leads to distraction. What's good about not being fault tolerant? If Bush botches something, you're distracted and don't hear the next 30 seconds.

Being fault tolerant is obviously better, especially if you interact with nonnative speakers who make mistakes.

We are social creatures and pecking-order is very important and we use grammar for IQ and status. Apart from that, what's so great about not being fault tolerant?

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Of course, we live in the real world and unless you want your listeners zoning into thoughts of "he made a mistake! Damn, did you see that? He made a mistake!", you'd be wise not making mistakes!

Nothing would be more awful than a prime-time piano concert where there's a catastrophic mistake! Nobody feels good. Remarkibly, it doesn't happen!

Dan Quail...

I have to be careful -- I now see it as worse than I did.

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God says...

C:\Text\WEALTH.TXT

y proportioned to the demand.

"But there are also some callings which, though useful and even
necessary in a state, bring no advantage or pleasure to any individual;
and the supreme power is obliged to alter its conduct with regard to the
retainers of those professions. It must give them public encouragement
in order to their subsistence; and it must provide against that
negligence to which they will naturally be subject, either by annexing
particular honours to profession, by establishing a long
Thank you - reported to the design team :).
Why not just check?

http://ycombinator.com/images/grayarrow@2x.gif

It doesn't.
Funny that is does not know what Javascript means ;)

For the rest, cool plugin and i cannot agree more with the tips by grk and imjared.
Maybe it is confirmation bias, but I can't imagine reading a book or even a long magazine article in sans-serif.
Frankly, HN is a better place if people value their accounts and their reputation. This is a Good Thing.
This is a beautiful twitter bootstrap site...
Louis Theroux is an excellent reporter. He really has the gift of getting in touch with the people and stories he covers. I mean, the guy spent a lot of time with the WBC and still tried to understand them instead of going crazy like a lot of people would have.
Sorry, I'm not seeing how this differs from the G+ conversation scheme.
Sure, startups & companies should operate worldwide, but the Samwer business model is really scummy. I could understand if they would build the clone with the background to avoid monopols, but they just try to fill a niche market with a stolen idea and make money with it. Just look at http://www.lazada.com.my/, an amazon clone for countries, where amazon doesn't operate(d) yet. They even use the same layout. I wouldn't say that cloning something is bad in general, if your main focus lies on the extension of an existing idea, but the Samwer brothers nearly copy the idea 1:1 without innovation and creativity and sell it to the mother company later. Thats a really bad motivation for the real entrepreneurs, who try to be innovative. Startups should really start worldwide, to avoid that these copycats make further money with their ideas.
Android is Winning
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It's worth noting that CloudFlare is not 'taking a stand' on this. Wikileaks approached us about becoming a customer and as they are a high traffic site they had to go through manual sign up. Once that was done they are live.
envelopE. the word is envelope. please. "envelop" is a verb and completely throws the reader. twice.
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Why is there a black patch on the back of the rover?
What's with the recent surge of upvotes and naïve comments about ad plastered pages that just take content from NASA?

Here the picture is really small and the ads block a large percentage of it.

edit: That said, NASA doesn't do a very good job with photos itself either: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery-ind...

edit2: Ah, nevermind, it was a flash problem! The content is certainly valuable!
What are the reasons for hiding it?
As a similar one liner I heard the other day:

"If you're forced to eat shit, don't nibble."
the regulatory environment variations between countries is a great point

to address the point more generally, the IFC (private investment arm of the World Bank) does a report ranking the ease of doing business across countries: http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings
not to be too pedantic, but The New Yorker uses Caslon, which while gorgeous and second in my mind only to Garamond, is a rather old type face and is widely used because it is 1) very readable, and (possibly more importantly) 2) uses a lot less ink than other similar type faces
You can't see the difference in text, particularly small text? Nytimes.com for example, is much harder for me to read on my wife's iPad 1 vs my new iPad or nexus 7. Comparing photos, I don't notice the resolution so much as the increased color gamut.
There is hardly anything to hear since the atmosphere is so thin.
Don't let the art schools hear about this! LOL. Not that they're big on empirical stuff anyway. (Except as an occasional brief aside to "prove" why their arbitrary choice is "better" than anyone else's arbitrary choice.)
But 3D HD 4k streaming in real-time!
Posting in the IRC channel seems also like a good solution to get upvotes. But it feels still a bit odd that your post can't get on the front page on a normal way.
It fails to reveal what problem it solves; it even fails to reveal what use it could be. The marketing here is beyond terrible, and make it looks like a useless, expensive gadget.

(Hint: As many, I have way too many gadgets and stuff around; I need another gadget to be seriously useful to even consider the possibility of acquiring it).
Andrew Wakefield lost his license to practice medicine due to his quackery, so you should probably use a different 'authority' for your argument from authority.
That's what the code on github is for?
Nice to see a post with some real experiments and data (even if it's qualitative), instead of the usual over-generalised productivity advice.
and what's your definition of those on another planet that doesn't have a magnetic pole ? Is the "North" the "top" of the rotation - which way is the top ?? (here's a link that shows what a compass would do on the surface of Mars : http://mgs-mager.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/grl_28_connerney... )
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Lorenz Attractor in 101 bytes of JS
This is crazy, but the craziest thing is that it's not at all unbelievable. Those "lower rates" come precisely because of this; they bully people into taking awful deals just to get it over with. I'm glad Matt's family didn't give up and fought for what is rightfully theirs. Here's hoping word will get out and force some change.
When my parents split up in the early 70's, I lived in San Diego and frequently flew by myself to Seattle (from age 8 til adult). It was a great experience, and I wouldn't trade it for much. Now as a father of two daughters, I'd be a little less cavalier, but I'd still want them to stretch their wings and learn a little resilience/independence.
tl;dr: if you ignore your customers, pretty soon they will ignore you.

(Almost all of their customers said that they needed a particular feature. Not having it was costing them production time. The few customers who didn't explicitly say they needed it were considered evidence that nobody really needed it. Selective deafness.)
Don't forget Ask Metafilter (http://ask.metafilter.com/), going strong since 2003.
"Sending someone a direct link to your post results in an invalid upvote."

Is that true? When I share a story that I find interesting I send the direct link on identi.ca, twitter, and/or irc, and when I am the one who sumbitted the link I can see the upvote of people telling me that they have just upvoted. Has it always been a lucky coincidence? I can't think so.

Anyway, I think the only sure and valid way to get on the front page is to submit your (or others) stories only when you really think they are of interest for this particular community. This is what I do and it naturally works most of the time.
I've been behind a large often-targeted service for the last 10 years or so, and most of the large attacks we get are pretty easily filtered as our service is TCP (like CloudFlare), and most of the attacks we get are either ping or UDP floods, which we drop at the boundary.

a little harder is the SYN flood with spoofed addresses, how on earth can you filter those?
These panoramas are "hand-made" from NASA's images, not just reposted content.
I agree, they should at least enable this plugin on word definition pages. If I want to check out another word I found in the definition I need to switch to a different interface and lose context (I also hate having to do that with my Kindle).
Tilda, the Arduino-compatible wireless conference badge
The rotational pole, I would imagine. Just as the geographic poles are sometimes referenced on Earth.
Pretty accurate for my case. I have a nice new home, a good family, a good job, etc... but I spend a decent amount of my spare time working on a game as a side project because it's really my passion. I try not to complain about it though because I do realize I am very fortunate. However, I do definitely feel that catch-22 where if I didn't have a full time job I'd be able to dedicate more time for my game but without my job I'd be kind of screwed. At the end of the day though, I'm happy just to try and make my game work but I can't really complain about much even if it doesn't. I won't blame anyone else or even myself really, I do try hard. I'll just keep implementing the crappy ideas of the people in power instead.
you need to write something interesting

Please do this and only this.

Send the link...to at least 20 people from different locations that you know will upvote or submit it....Now you change the link...and send the frontpage to people when asking to upvote going forward. I would try to send to another 10 people.

Please don't do this.

Just let your submission speak for itself. When you game the system in any way at all, you're just fucking it up for everyone else. Trust the rest of us to upvote what we like and let the site continue to grow organically.

If you game the system for your own temporary satisfaction, you're turning what should be quality content for a demanding audience into a middle school popularity contest. In the long run, the site suffers and we all suffer.

Is slowly killing the golden goose worth that one day surge?
Learning to Love the Boring Bits of CSS
I get the difference between buying a finished product and helping fund the prospect of one you believe in. It's speculation with the return measured in non-monetary means. A point that could've been made in a tweet, on Twitter even.
Working for Big Software Companies: Pros and Cons
you should probably use a different 'authority'

What if I don't braveheart?
I remember getting to sit in the flight engineer's seat while he took a break. My grandfather had been a Pan Am pilot, so this was heaven for me. Nowadays they don't have flight engineers, jump seats etc. All squashed up like a bus, and we wonder why they treat us like cattle.
I like the aesthetics of the hardware, but don't like the environmental impact this will make.

In my personal opinion design should strive to solve problems or answer hard to answer questions like 'how can I print without the environmental impact printing has had for quite some time' instead of creating aesthetically pleasing toys.

For this same reason I'm in dubio about 3D printing & fablabs in general. Unless we find a way to re-use materials we're just creating more junk and roadside litter.

Maybe BERG should rethink Little Printer and let it output eatable paper so we can use the freshly printed news as part of our breakfast ;)
You understand that one of the old authors (Matthew Murray) wrote this story, right? :)
To be fair, a technician is categorically not an engineer or scientist. They're a technician.
TL;DR

Startup founders, pay attention to the

1. aesthetics

2. recognizability

3. psychology of your logo type.

The article had to do more with the aesthetics than the science behind the types. I wanted to add that Microsoft did a lot of research on this in the 80s and 90s with the development of their Office Suite (more recently here: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfonts/wordrecognition....) . I particularly feel that startup founders need to pay attention to the recognizability of their logos given the word shape and neural network modeling hypotheses given in the Microsoft paper. And it's one reason why I switched my logo from being all caps (like ORACLE) to all lower case (like facebook), although cursive (like airbnb) has its advantages as well.

On the other hand, there's the psychology of serif fonts which was left out in the article (i.e. research to support that documents in serif type is viewed with more importance) and is the reasoning behind law books, legal documents and a lot of résumés written in serif type.
IMHO selecting text (it doesn't detect double-clicking, it is a way to select a word implemented by the browser) is the intuitive way to do this. It gives me instant feedback and doesn't distract me when I didn't mean to hover a word while reading.
I made it to the front page one time by doing something neat and hacker-y. It wasn't business oriented but I had fun.
https://gocardless.com looks quite nice but unfortunately it's UK only at the moment.
The Julia Language hits a new speed milestone
I don't know how accurate it is, but this article

http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines

provides an explanation of the chronic financial problems that airlines find themselves in. Briefly, the senior pilots get to negotiate their own pay rates, and since they have the airlines over a barrel they always wind up taking any profit themselves.

Of course that means that airline management is permanently strapped for cash and has to spend the bare minimum on everything else.