skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to know what part of "Everybody knows" does everybody not actually know. The director of a film I have actually heard of, took 5% of net.

But everyone knows you want a percentage of gross. When was this not known to people working in the industry?

This also adds to my totally unsubstantiated belief that a large portion of fortune 500 would be unprofitable without tax dodges
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Because Square is not a MOTO processor, it's a card-present processor. You can't use Square to take payments on a website. The interchange fees for card-present transactions are less than 1/2 the average fees for card-not-present transactions. If they're paying 1% but charging you 2.75%, that easily covers the fixed fee you're comparing to.

They shouldn't be compared to PayPal, Stripe, etc. but to the standard merchant accounts brick-and-mortar stores get.
Worth of product = (quality of idea) * (quality of execution).

An idea, on its own, is worth nothing (good idea * no execution = nothing).

HOWEVER...

Kickstarter (and other similar companies) are changing this notion a bit. Many companies have raised significant capital off of ideas alone, although producing a convincing video takes no small effort and the well-funded campaigns are usually run by people who have done their fair share of execution in the past. Capital does not equal profit necessarily, but it can if an excess of capital is raised.
Etymologically, the word 'spirit' originally meant one's life force or 'breath'; its supernatural connotations came later.
> please don't compete on price

It strikes me as very sad that in bringing down a monopoly (Paypal), already you are advocating price collusion amongst the new players in the industry...
The record companies real problem with filesharing is that they feel that not paying musicians is their own special prerogative and it annoys them for everybody else to be getting in on the act, especially in a manner so unprofessional that it doesn't even bother including absurdly written contracts.
Gah, the website ruined what I was typing. I meant 2 to the power of 100. Which is a 100 bit integer, and certainly not correctly calculated in JavaScript.
And banned in 5...4...3...2...
> my opting out poses less risk to the travelling public than being scanned poses a risk to me

Since you are part of the traveling public, you can further simplify your sentence to: "my opting out poses less risk to the travelling public than being scanned". That's like a 5-word trim! :)
I do support red light cameras. Mostly because I'm a pedestrian that listens to music when walking around town. I have nearly been hit by careless drivers on more than one occasion.

However, I think they should be more lenient on drivers that just barely infringe on a red light by a few milliseconds. And I think they should never be used to ticket speeders. Obviously, I also don't support shortening yellow lights to rake in more ticket dollars.
The larger company will have losses from unsuccessful ventures, which will offset the profits.
I can see things starting to go in that direction - the tech industry is always on the bleeding edge, and things like kickstarter is only going to become more and more mainstream.

For example, a band could kickstart their own record/tour by asking for crowd funding. These sorts of funding means that they aren't somehow tied up by commercial record companie's business tactics which would obviously benefit the record company, and not the actual person/group making the creative work. This way is the way forward, as surely as water falls off a waterfall.
Technology ripe for abuse in the air over an area already subject to one of the most brutal, reactionary gangs of thugs ever to be handed the reins of power in the US, Oakland PD. Yaaay
This is a nice start but you're missing a huge opportunity to show off your sites in a visual way. Why do you think outbound links are the best way to represent your work?
Isn't this a prime candidate to be out-competed by stripe?
But then the shell company could just be collapsed, and all its debt obligations (which is really to yourself) could be all moot. Thus, you avoid paying tax like that as well?
Really well done! Love where the payments space is going.
Traditional Marketing is Dead.  What's Next?
Google Weighs Mobile-Patent Antitrust Settlement
Surveillance that is only triggered by a (dangerous) infraction is a far cry from the kind you read about in dystopian novels, or the newspaper for that matter.
My reaction when the Node.js guy speaks about simplicity
"The studies I've read from the Motor Accident Commission and the Victorian police here in Australia show a clear correlation between speed cameras and reduced incidences of accidents and fatalities"

You also have to be careful with some of these statistics. Speed cameras often get put up in reaction to a series of accidents. But statistically you would expect the amount of crashes to go up and down, and if you have just had an unusually high level of accidents on a stretch of road, then you would expect the average measured afterwards to be lower in the majority of cases, irrespective of whether a speed camera was installed.
The drone will probably be considered a military officer just like dogs. Either that, or it's the same as shooting a police officer's car when he's not in it. Don't forget about the consequences.
"Outlawed" is a difficult concept at this level. All justice above "street level" is simply politics.

The executive summary is that if you did it, it would be fraud because you haven't made enough campaign contributions.
My favorite bits were putting in the reflection of his hand holding the phone to take the picture and then photographing his screen with the same phone to make the picture realistically _bad_ and create correct EXIF data.

There are quite a few telltales that it's a hoax (e.g. he fails to match the DOF of the photo), but they're far more obvious in hindsight. Kudos to Android Police for picking up queues such as the mismatched times -- I'm surprised, based on this discrepancy, they didn't call hoax rather than suggest is was a mockup or prototype.
I'm planning on tweaking with modals that show logos and descriptions of specific projects and companies. The other option is having logos appear on over of the names.

I really wanted content to be king, so I didn't include the immediate clutter of a bunch of logos and galleries. The modals make it more interactive.
Some of these systems use a Tivo-like system where they're constantly recording, then when triggered they section off a few seconds. This allows the person reviewing it to find the best view of the plate.
Good one.

Sometime back, I designed my resume on similar lines. I used hResume microformats and some CSS goodies too.

Here's the live resume: http://veerasundar.com/resume/ and a blog post explaining the design: http://veerasundar.com/blog/2012/06/redesigning-my-resume-wi...
An infographic that shows you where your friends travel
Congrats on making Eagle. There are so few of us out there.
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It's not that it's dangerous, or not, but "something must be done" when someone, somewhere, at some point, mis-used a liquid. It's not really meant to make sense.
Thanks for the feedback. I want to have better info on the individual companies by somehow incorporating their logos - I'm considering a modal or a popover at the moment.

The subtle grey background is a good suggestion. I'll experiment with some things, and if you do anything cool on a fork, please put in a pull request!
MacKay's Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/

Elementals of Statistical Learning: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/index.html
The Victorian studies also show that the number of fines from a specific speed camera typically goes down over time, presumably because repeat offenders get fines/lose their licences http://www.camerassavelives.vic.gov.au/home/statistics/trend...

In many Australian states (including South Australia) the payments from fines goes to a Community Road Safety Fund which is then given mostly (except for funding for holiday double demerit campaigns) to community and motorist groups to run their road safety activities, not the road authorities or police who would advise on where to put the cameras. So hopefully there is no incentive for "revenue raising" cameras - wouldn't the potential and actual crashes in the underpass have caused the camera to be installed?
Even if thunderbolt provided enough bandwidth, wouldn't the whole idea fall apart because the data has to pass through another protocol (making it slower) vs having the GPU directly interfaced?
You should go visit Yellowstone. That way you can stand on a supervolcano that is due to blow any day now (using geological timelines). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera#Volcanic_ha...

Some idea of what would happen when it blows: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/supervolcano/arti...

People are very resilient so I have no doubt that some would survive, adapt and then flourish. No worries for the species.

The effects could be minimised through standard civil defense type measures. However it would require far greater cross border cooperation than is typical today.
what?

longer version - I have no idea how your comment relates to the story I just read
I clicked the article title in dread fearing someone had turned Stripe the company into a mirror image of everything we loathe about Paypal. I was relieved to realize the OP meant the ease of use part of Paypal, and not all the rest of the baggage that comes with Paypal.

I'd have clicked the article with less dread had it been titled "How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days".
Thank you! Justifiable contentiousness of the parent organization aside, I am proud of the achievement. In terms of a resume, the Eagle award is unique as the one part of pre-college life that will stay on the resume forever.
Good stuff.
FYI, tried on Android, didn't work (nothing happens).
I have my resume like this but I also made sure it is easy for others to make their own at my site's expense:
http://www.cvstash.com
Before police got into traffic enforcement, the average citizen would have had very little interaction with them.
I've been reading hacker news for a long time, and actually making companies also... more than just reading.

The "legal risks" here are with the SEC and IRS -- the top two most risky legal risks in the universe. Both send people to prison.
While the general idea of this is obviously gross and greedy, this part makes perfect sense:

>with some of the big studios, some of this money involves paying itself for advertising on its own properties.

The idea of opportunity cost applies to advertising; any advertising they do on their own properties is advertising they could have sold to somebody else. So it's clearly legitimate to count that as a cost.
are you scraping results into your database from their site?
Also, are you familiar with sportsML and sportsdb[1] ?

I ask because I am also working on a sports product for release in November.

Nice work!

[1] - http://www.sportsdb.org/sd
Those are nothing compared to SEC laws and IRS requirements. Run afoul of them, and prison is in the cards.

And PayPal didn't break any banking laws, only ran into parochial issues in some states.

And Uber is having trouble too, aren't they?
Downtown Palo Alto could use red light cameras.

I haven't seen a many drivers running red while trying to cross on a late yellow. Instead the problem is drivers sitting at a red and driving through it because they're frustrated.
Yes, these sorts of problems can be confusing. But the confusion is propagated by educators who refuse to recognize that what they asked is not what they intended to ask, and so they provide inconsistent answers.

Say you are on a game show, and pick Door #1. The host opens door #3 to show that it does not have the prize, and offers to let you switch to door #2. Should you? Most people will initially reason that door #3 is prize-less 2/3 of the time, evenly split between cases where the prize is behind door #1 and door #2. So it would be pointless to switch. But that is wrong. Few educators will explain why by solving the problem rigorously. They will use an analogy like pointing out how the original choice is right only 1/3 of the time, and since the host can always open a prize-less door, that can’t change.

People don’t believe these educators because their 1/2 answer is indeed more rigorous than the analogy. It just makes a mistake. The probabilities to use are not the probabilities that the cases exist, but the probabilities that the observed result would occur. The existence probabilities are the same, but the probability of the observed result when the initial door was correct is half of what it is when the initial choice was incorrect.
CES:Context Event and State
How to translate business logic into a ubiouitous language? what kind of ubiouitous language can contain OO and FP(Funtcion programming)?
Fossil has built-in issues and wiki. It just never became popular.
The part I like is version-controlled on GitHub. Now if I can just 'git log' my employment history ...
Oops, I only cut-and-pasted half of what I wanted. This comes after my other reply.

Yes, these sorts of problems can be confusing. But the confusion is propagated by educators who refuse to recognize that what they asked is not what they intended to ask, and so they provide inconsistent answers.

Say you are on a game show, and pick Door #1. The host opens door #3 to show that it does not have the prize, and offers to let you switch to door #2. Should you? Most people will initially reason that door #3 is prize-less 2/3 of the time, evenly split between cases where the prize is behind door #1 and door #2. So it would be pointless to switch. But that is wrong. Few educators will explain why by solving the problem rigorously. They will use an analogy like pointing out how the original choice is right only 1/3 of the time, and since the host can always open a prize-less door, that can’t change.

People don’t believe these educators because their 1/2 answer is indeed more rigorous than the analogy. It just makes a mistake. The probabilities to use are not the probabilities that the cases exist, but the probabilities that the observed result would occur. The existence probabilities are the same, but the probability of the observed result when the initial door was correct is half of what it is when the initial choice was incorrect.
This is precisely the kind of appeal to emotion that needs to be removed from all lawmaking.

And it's "cue".
Hey Drew,

Site looks great-

Hate to tell you though, I beat you to it by a few months :)

http://easybill.co

Different pricing structure. Driving keyword traffic has been a bit of a challenge. I think that this is a tough value prop for customers.

Overall, site looks great, wish you the best with it.
"FWIW, we have a friend who sells mw equipment, and he refuses to go through them for safety reasons."

He should probably stop selling them then.
I wonder if there are people who continuously trawl the streams of Picasa, Flickr, imgur, and other photo sites.
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None? Why is 'social' stuff so cool this days? I still strongly believe word of mouth is the best way to share what you believe is worth showing. When you browse the internet you are constantly bombarded with things a friend of a friend of a shared that you do not really care, but if someone you trust told you personally to check out a website, the you check the fuck out of that website. Therefore, is a social integration really needed? If so, why?
Always great to see awesome things built on .Net!

I sent this to my sports and statistics obsessed friends. They will definitely love this.
Can you recommend any better alternatives? They seem to be a defacto standard, but I've found them..."fussy" to work with.
> Larry Pogemiller needs to go. Earlier today, he said Coursera-affiliated universities needed to register (and, pay up) "to prevent people from wasting their time."

I can find no such quote attributed to Pogemiller. The closest I see is in the Slate article (http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/18/minnesota...) where the reporter writes,

> The law's intent is to protect Minnesota students from wasting their money on degrees from substandard institutions, Roedler [George, a manager at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education] says. [...]

> The thing is, no one is wasting their money on Coursera courses, because they're free. (Yes, says Roedler, but they could still be wasting their time.)

Not by Larry Pogemiller. Not in quotes (reporter's paraphrase). Defending the law in general, not this specific application of it.

> Pogemiller only backed down from being a Government-sponsored bully when the press picked it up, and when asked, was surprised that Coursera didn't just roll over and pay up.

No evidence of any of this.

There are plenty of abuses of power in government, but your outrage here seems misplaced at best.
Production costs are rapidly approaching zero. Both the equipment to record, and the skills to manage the recording and mixing process, are much cheaper/easier than they were. The current #2 album on the Billboard 200, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' "The Heist," is completely independently produced.
That tool would be my very tired but somewhat functional human brain late at night and on weekends. And as I describe above, it's not sad at all. It was actually awesome to be able to speak with so many cool folks.
"He's using Indiegogo to try to raise $80,000 in order to get the device certified by Underwriter's Laboratories." First of all, there's absolutely no need for UL certification for a product like this.

Unless what they are talking about is FCC certification which costs a lot less than $80K.

Second of all, this would be made illegal in a New York minute. To a politician, money==power and they get all pissy when you interfere with a revenue stream.

In the New York area, some 'red light cameras' are still cameras, but some actually record video as well. When you get the ticket they give you a URL and you can view the video of your car.
Not bad.

How did you find development with the Apple tools? Does it still cost $100 for the developer account - that's a lot of dough for a 13 year old.
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What do they offer? An ungodly and unparalleled level of marketing. Any artist can put their music on iTunes but nothing organic can ever compare to a $200 million media blitz.

"Popular" music will always be predominantly influenced by deep pockets. Not exclusively, but damn near close.
Well, when you're paying loan-shark interest rates on loans you've made against yourself, it's kinda pricey.
Hello there - I've tried to respond to almost everyone that wrote back. If I missed you I'll go back and check my drafts because sometimes I have additional questions that I want to ask folks after taking a look at their notes or their blog/website/github and don't want to piss away an oppty to have a real conversation being trigger happy on responses.
Flash "freezes" the image to allow for a clear picture.
There is an application of DDR RAM in storage. It was developed by Gigabyte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM
Disagree with the tacky/tasteless part but yes, as I describe above, it did indeed work for me. Thanks for your feedback.
The error in your reasoning is that all these things do have external effects, but the connection between an external effect and the source is not always apparent. To specifically use the example of fraud, a great number of business operations are under forced reporting requirements for specifically this reason. Your answer to this point is flatly incorrect, as fraud cannot and is not effectively detected in this manner today.

Regarding murder, you suggest "if someone is missing, start an investigation." Of course, the error in your logic is that we do have evidence of drug crime -- and plenty of it. There is no question that Alameda county is full of grow-ops, which produce drugs for the surrounding region. I know, because I live here. There are many, many busts every year. Mountains of evidence.

The reason to limit this sort of investigation is found in the 4th amendment, and it is more than adequate when applied here. Kyllo v. United States is very clear on this point.
Will do! Thanks man.
Ask HN: Anybody want to build a WinRT app?
I pre-ordered a Surface RT and have been reading up on the WinRT APIs and have a fair amount of .NET/C# background. Just wanted to see if people want to see a specific app on the Windows Store?
Shouldn't you be a less careless pedestrian by not listening to music while in the road?
Please keep your eyes attentive. Whatever the laws in your country province or state about hitting a pedestrian, you are small and a car is big, and at any reasonable speed, there's a chance it will kill you.

Pedestrians need more respect of the big metal things zooming around and potentially not doing everything right (hey, the brakes could fail)
>I do support red light cameras. Mostly because I'm a pedestrian that listens to music when walking around town. I have nearly been hit by careless drivers on more than one occasion.

Then you should not support red light cameras. Instead, you should support longer yellow lights, or accelerating to beat them.

Studies have pretty well nailed down that traffic light cameras do not reduce accidents. Any benefit they have as a deterrent is canceled by drivers slamming on the brakes at yellow lights.

Worse, many local governments have been caught illegally shortening yellow lights to increase ticket revenue from traffic light cameras. That's particularly awful because increasing the duration of the yellow light has been shown to be one of the most reliable ways to reduce traffic light accidents.
This exploit mad the rounds on Amazon.com and others five years ago and was fixed then on any reputable site.

The spiritually same exploit made the rounds on cgi forms (form to mail) 15 years ago, and on mail servers (open relay) 20 years ago.
Why does stripe need to out-compete this? They still get their cut.
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I really hope you aren't being sarcastic, as that would be funnier. Here's how to make an x-ray machine strong enough to work with standard film that you can plug in the wall and uses old tv parts. Be careful in doing this as dosimeters apparently are required. http://www.belljar.net/xray.htm