skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just tried clicking the blog link from the bottom of this page https://www.balancedpayments.com/community and got this error:

SSL Error

This is probably not the site you are looking for!
You attempted to reach blog.balancedpayments.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as secure.static.tumblr.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of blog.balancedpayments.com.
You should not proceed, especially if you have never seen this warning before for this site.
The 2012 Election Day Through the Facebook Lens
Python's not awesome packaging back in the easy_install days really put me off of using django as much as I could have. I liked python a lot, but I ended up in ruby more because gems were a much nicer way to go and bundler made it nice. Good to see python catching up a bit in that regard, but I enjoy ruby and Sinatra too much to switch back at this point.
The author seems to have a different view of what an enterprise application is than I do. Of all the companies he mentioned, only Salesforce and Workday look "enterprisy" to me (plus maybe Box on the lighter side of enterprisy). If I had to guess, I would say that's the source of the style over substance disconnect.
"Patent pending" doesn't have legal effect ( i think it's a warning to copycat-wannabes). "Patent granted" has lots and lots of meaning.
Thanks, didn't see your comment. Appreciate it.
Orca and systems like it are also not particularly relevant to electoral outcomes, compared to all of the other things that campaigns use/build.
TBH he said "act like a new employee", not "act like an employee on his first day of work".
Excellent list.

One thing - to fix your HR (and medical insurance, 401k, and other things) you might want to consider to outsource everything to something like TriNet (http://www.trinet.com/). Depends on company size but it really helps having 401k and other things already as a part of your package.

In general, I would suggest the following approach:

- outsource legal to a lawyer (she will tell you to check code, about 83B, etc.)

- outsource finance to your accountant (the good one (like mine), will actually explain you the best practices and how to organize things not directly under his control - like spreadsheet templates, which SW to use, etc)

- outsource HR to HR company or HR consultant
Have you bought any electronic with storage at all in the past 10 years? Not even hard drives come with the advertised storage -- they've had to repurpose what 'GB' means (base-10 instead of base-2).
dear god it's ugly
What a biting restaurant review can teach about responding to negative feedback
You are right that standards going forward may be able to rewrite the conditions BUT they cannot set the license prices themselves that would be anti-competitive against the patent holders* . And it could render existing standards for video encoding, mobile telephony, wifi, bluetooth and many more unusable or at least with rising costs if two or three patent holders each try to squeeze as much as they can out each standard.

The anti-trust aspect comes in because the patent only becomes important because of it's inclusion by the standards body(/industry cartel).

The patent owner has the monopoly on the technology but they cannot form a cartel to push people to implement the technology they have a monopoly on (unless they make FRAND or similar commitments).

[* A former colleague of mine led the establishment of a group to create an industry standard outside of ETSI although the output was later submitted there to become one of their standards. The line he had to walk to get it legally set up correctly was tricky with massive fines on the member companies if the European Commission decided that he had got it wrong (anti-competitive behaviour can be fined upto 10% of group global turnover and Sony was doing a bit better then than now).]

Edit: Got my * right without italics
"useful storage"

Like the iPad and nearly every CE product, they advertised physical storage. This doesn't make Microsoft (or Apple, Motorola, Nintendo, etc.) any less in the wrong, but they still advertised by the same conventions everyone else has.
Humans vs. Robots: Showdown in Space
This is the inherent problem with building your product with dependencies on other products. You are tied to their system in such a way that your existence relies on the faith that they keep doing what they do and do not change to a system that blocks you or inhibits your functions.

I see the need/desire for hackers to make things useful and unique in a way that they envision things but you will never hear me apologize for my remarks on this subject. If you are building your business or product depending on someone else's and are not a form of contractual partner you can be kicked in the ass down the line and there's no accountability to you they owe.
Why Selligy doesn't have job descriptions
Not your fault, of course, but it kills me that consumers in most areas in the US let the ISP market die. The monopoly players gave great intro prices and they all jumped ship.

For years, I've paid Speakeasy and Sonic more than I could have paid to a phone or cable incumbent. And I've been happy to do it, because when something goes wrong I get to talk to actual smart people who want to fix things.

I'm also sad that our competition regulators allowed this to happen. A pseudo-choice between two basically equivalent options isn't enough for the magic of the free market to work.
>Start spending $10 a month or so on HBO

You can't spend that $10 marginal price for HBO without spending a bunch more money on stuff you will never watch. For example, even if you never watch sports you're pretty much forced to get a cable package with ESPN included, which is a sizable chunk of your subscription cost.

I'd like to see cable companies offer ala carte channel choices, or even better, offer usage-based billing like they do for their data packages. Until that day, many people are going to take the free option instead.
The fastest web server in the world?
> Afaict, the really new thing Balanced is doing that I haven't seen anywhere else is programmatically authorizing merchant accounts.

There's three main things marketplaces have expressed that they like about Balanced:
1. Compliance. This includes PCI and the ability to underwrite merchants through the API
2. Payouts. Depositing money in a merchant's bank account the next business day and having full control over when you issue the deposit. With this launch, we made it easier for marketplaces to use us just for payouts—something we saw existing customers doing
3. Taxes. We handle the tax reporting for the merchants

There's no one else that provides any of the three above.
Cartesian Closed Comic: Equality
5 Lessons Learned From Organizing a Hackathon
Here's a few interesting things I learned from organizing a hackathon in NYC last weekend.
Not perfect, but looks much better. I'm always embarrassed to show people the default admin... with its cyan and yellow header, yuck. Yes it can be changed, but when writing a new app you've already got more than enough to do.

How to get one of these bootstrap themes shipped as the default? Any Django core developers here?
I was primarily making an argument the other way around: I said that understanding the subcomponents (i.e. the letters) did not guarantee understanding of the whole (i.e. the sentence), while you're giving an example in which someone builds a whole, presumably by understanding and replicating the connections of major components, but does not understand the parts. More analogous to my point would be attempting to understand the workings of a clock by examining each gear.

Also, I don't know that your thought experiment holds water. I can certainly conceive of a universe in which a person never makes the logical leap from holding a clock and parts—or even having a thorough understanding of the workings of the subcomponents of a clock—to building their own. The pre-Columbian New World civilizations, for example, had all the resources to build wheeled vehicles, and certainly understood the principle behind them enough to build wheeled toys or use rolling logs to transport large objects, and the Inca Empire even had a sprawling complex of roads—but never in their long history did the notion of a wheeled cart occur to any of them. Which is to say: the search space of ideas is vast, and one can't reasonably be expected to exhaust them all even with help.
There are things clients do much better than the website. Tweetbot, for instance, makes having multiple accounts a LOT easier than logging out and back in. Plus stuff like OS notifications, general OS integration, filtering ("oh god I'm sick of hearing about #obama and #romney, I already voted")… Clients definitely make Twitter more worthwhile for a user.

Sadly what makes Twitter more valuable for a user does not necessarily make the user more valuable for Twitter.
False advertising.

Most jurisdictions have laws against it. Microsoft may believe that it has an out with respect to their "fine print", but that also can only go so far, since they actively advertise a 32GB Surface as having 32GB storage (implying that it's user-available, because all of the Surface's competitors explicitly state user-available storage). None of my iPhones, my iPads, nor my Nexus 7 have provided half the advertised storage the way that the 32GB Surface does.

I'm not a lawyer, but I think that Microsoft is going to be changing some labelling so that we see user-available storage clearly. It'll work better for Microsoft in the end, too.

From a technical perspective, I can't believe that Microsoft couldn't figure out a way to make this work without exposing this to users.
I typed in google and ended up in a store somewhere.
Show HN: Showing HN
> grep 'processor' /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l

or use "grep -c" instead of piping through wc
I don't know if this is a common question, but it is a question I have about every data storage and retrieval engine, be it an SQL database or a NoSQL datastore:

How would you re-architect it if you knew ahead of time it would only sit on SSDs - never on spinning media?
I don't suppose you have ever sat at a craps table in Vegas with a couple of hundred thousand dollars on the 'pass' line?

One of the weird things that happened to me when I was living in Las Vegas as a young man was that it really warped my sense of 'money'. People would roll into Vegas, lose a few hundred thousand and drive out with a 'see you next year' attitude. People would walk into a casino with a couple of hundred dollars and walk out with several thousand. Basically "money you had" was completely disassociated from "your work product" because if you won or lost was just random chance. So there was no confusion about having "worked" for this money, or "scrimped and saved" this money, it was just "Oh look, here is a bag of money where no money was before."

If you were living off a modest to low burn rate (like practically nothing) then you knew you could 'lose it all' and not a whole lot would change in your life. So betting everything you had on the next roll of the dice wasn't crazy, it was fun, either you'd keep playing or your fun was over for the night.

A number of people in the early days of the dot.com explosion were stunned at how 'easy' it was to 'make' a ton of money. There was even a cartoon about it where the CEO of some startup says "And the police never show up?" and the VC/Investor is saying "That's the beauty of it, its all totally legit!" When you're in that mode, and you've made your first few million, I could see thinking "Doesn't matter if I lose it all, I'll just make more. It's not that hard." When the music stopped if you were currently 'up' by a large margin you did a double take perhaps.

Having known people who are that agnostic to 'money', it just doesn't mean that much to them, it doesn't present like sociopathic behavior. The sociopaths I've known have always had some sort of 'score' system running as a way of evaluating whether or not they were 'winning' and money is a very attractive scoring system.
Then you will eventually either shift to a normal usage pattern (a habit many people have learned when roving) or call them up for support.
Great checklist. The only thing I can think to add:

* If you're going to do business with larger companies, make sure your licensing is up-to-date in every city and state that you have employees. There are fines for getting this wrong, but they're not (as I recall) that big a deal; the bigger problem is, big client purchasing departments will sometimes verify compliance it very inopportune times; this can cost you deals.
In 200 years, they can open up a pack of Twinkies from today and still experience them as we do now.
State of Technology #84
We haven't seen much demand for supporting bitcoin. If you would like us to support bitcoin, could you create a GitHub issue, so we can track interest?

https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues

We use GitHub to track feature requests like international support: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/23
Point taken but I don't understand your aversion to no more magic quotes. Yeah, it's helpful when you run third party code but the benefits outweigh the costs. Anyone running third party code should be testing it first anyway and in the long run magic quotes gave people a false sense of security and promoted a very lax attitude toward security no matter how many times people screamed about not relying on magics quotes.
Who says that quantum mechanics does not describe the human brain? As far as we know, it describes it perfectly.
I've watched this from a distance with interest. Developers have a special place within the overall Internet ecosystem. As a non developer, everything Twitter has said and done in the last 12 months or more tells me "We don't need a healthy 3rd party ecosystem and we don't want one. Hobbysits can stay filling odd niche requirements and here's our cap. Everyone else though? Sorry" I have no emotion around this as I'm not a developer. I feel as though many developers can't wrap their mind around this concept of not being wanted. They're used to being very wanted initially and then at best still wanted but with a few controlling parameters around activity (see "all App Store/Developer discussions"). I suspect it might be a slightly over exaggerated sense of self importance that's meant it's taken a long time for the obvious to set in. Perhaps that's why Marco only just connected the dots? (as usual I'm not talking about all developers - I've seen many who got it right from the get go)
I didn't choose the examples; just reposted them from the Techcrunch article.

As for Williams and Elon, true. But they did continue starting companies. Is there a difference in a first-time startup and follow-ups? Sure. Better networks; experience breeding efficiencies; reputation opening doors.

But the risk and the hard work (generally) are still there. Not too mention expectations of others and yourself from previous success can be the biggest hurdle faced. Been there, done that.

The point remains the same though. Startup founders are all ages, and there are many more 30+ founders out there than are trumpeted by the media. This is especially true in the non-technical startup realm.
The quality of a design is measurable by how well it works, not how pretty it is.
With the exception of a few of these things (2, 8, 10, 14) I find many of these things to be a huge time suck and I would suggest avoiding them until absolutely necessary.

Its easy to focus way too much effort on operations at the expense of actually building your business.
You know this is a good explanation of the technique because in retrospect it seems obvious and clear.
The adoption rate may be slow but the market is massive, probably comparable to consumer web when you include all the medium and large business in the world. Combined with the fact that smart phones are becoming more and more popular among the consumers (i.e. the employees of these businesses), the uncaptured market size is growing fast.

Even now in slow industries like ECAD and MCAD I see AutoDesk, Dassault Solidworks, and Altium working on more collaborative software like their PDMs (like Solidworks Vault) and more mobile applications to view and annotate CAD models. AutoDesk especially has exploded with many web and mobile apps ranging from 3D scanning to editing and 3d printing.

I don't think 2013 is the year but it is certainly only the beginning.
Some will. But that's advanced enough that most people just won't bother.

Most people pirate stuff because it's easy. If it's not easy, they'll just shift to paying for things.

Me, I would just have made purchasing of content much easier, but I suppose if you're in Hollywood it somehow seems sensible to just make everything in the world harder instead.
How about "don't build your business on a free service's platform".
Except that the one in Italy comes with an envelope misplaced in your hotel room desk drawer.
My business cards, even back to my first industry job in Palo Alto, have always had nothing listed for a position. On the "smaller title is import important" measure, I win!
That's not false advertising. The drives are measured in SI bytes, which is a decimal system.
Doesn't work in stock, patched Safari on Lion (no extensions.) Doesn't work in Chrome on Lion, AdBlock Plus and Ghostery. Doesn't work in stock, patched IE7 on XP.

Does work in Chrome on XP. Wish it didn't; I regret seeing the results.
being able to do next day payouts to sellers is very unique afaik and pretty awesome.
Hi, two weeks ago I asked you a question about which css framework you recommended and I believe you may not have seen it, as there was a very large discussion. As I have no other way to contact you I wonder if you could answer here?
I'd already posted it publicly, so I didn't even try to charge them.
Well, if "software is eating everything", soon traditional books will become extinct. The next generation will probably find page-turning effects a bizarre thing that their computer does (similar to how very few people understand why "radio buttons" are named thusly ).
I'll take it even furthe: Not only would I never pay for google drive storage, I wouldn't use it even if it were free. Now if they want to offer me a discount since I'm not going to use those add-ons, that's a different story. Until then, it's still $250.
It works fine with chrome, but not with the default browser. IIRC from 4.2 the default browser will be chrome as well.
I hope innovations like this could reduce the price of book scanning. I recently used a book service in San Jose to scan all my books: http://1dollarscan.com. It was good experience, with good support, but a bit pricey with their extras.
What was the app written in?
What's wrong with

LANG=es_ES LC_MESSAGES=en_US

(or GUI equivalent)?
Three words: Economies of Scale

A lot of stretch goals I have seen are things like upgraded components, extra colors, and the like which are wuite possible as your order sizes push your per-unit costs down. This is doubly so for software based offerings since marginal costs are zero for each additional pledge so you can take what would be pure profit to fund additional features.
You missed the point. It's not about "conventions", it's about expectations. Apple Computer has a popular product called "iPad" which advertises "32G" of storage. Microsoft released a new product to directly compete with iPad (I assume you agree with this part) and also advertised "32G" of storage.

Yet the Surface has about half the space available. I think a very reasonable argument can be made that this was wrong in context in a way that it is not wrong for Apple to have done so.
> The Arab world is already awash in antisemitic propaganda.

Funny how the word 'antisemitic' gets thrown around; Arabs are Semites too.
I honestly think the best approach is a blended one. Some time physically in person with your team, and the rest of the time WFH. I find my occasional trips into the office (2 hours away) to be incredibly useful and productive. The key is finding the right balance between in office and WFH to get the most done and benefit the most psychologically.
Sorry for the late reply, I don't have reply notifications set up. During the ablation itself, I felt nothing because I was drugged. However, they have to repro the problem in order to know what to zap. That was an interesting process with all kinds of non-painful (though not entirely pleasant) stuff to feel. The details are still up if you care: http://psychocross.blogspot.com/2007/10/next-in-continuing-s...
well it's not like twitter benefits from correcting that.
Building cloud- and API-driven mobile apps
Doesn't work in Opera, either.
While I agree it can be a huge time suck, the way to deal with many of these things is to find the right people to outsource to (particularly for HR, corporate contracts, etc) rather than ignore entirely
It makes it a little harder to prove. If you do something sketchy and get bitcoins in wallet 1, and then buy something from wallet 1, people will see that the same wallet that did something sketchy also bought something.

On the other hand, if you move bitcoins from wallet 1 to wallet 2, then do the buying from wallet 2, there's some separation and people aren't sure if it's the same person.
And native has features that web doesn't have. Growl on OS X, for example.
Petition to stop indefinite wait to file I-485 for GC
If Coke is going to pay $X to guarantee that picture appears in all the friends feeds, perhaps they can spend $X/10 on a human to quickly judge the photo.
I think "over exaggerated sense of self importance" is far from the crux of this issue.

Developers are pissed off at Twitter for two main reasons:

1) Developers helped build Twitter as it exists today. With their hard work, sleepless nights and toil, they created the ecosystem that allowed Twitter to grow into the giant they are today. Now that Twitter is big, they are saying thank you by more or less shutting down their API for any serious Twitter integrations.

2) Twitter said, "we'll work with you" regarding API limits, but they didn't mean it. People that built things in good faith are now realizing that Twitter didn't act as such. If you put a lot of effort into building an app that utilizes Twitter's API, you'd be rightly pissed about this too.

I agree that it may have taken a long time for "the obvious" to set in with regards to Twitter not caring about their 3rd party developer ecosystem. Hopefully, as the OP points out, its pretty obvious you'd be a fool to build anything on Twitter anymore.
It'd only make you cry. Ignorance is bliss.
How 3-D Printing Will Turn Homes Into Mini Factories
Do the Surface package and main website homepage tell you exactly how much usable memory it includes?
My current and previous jobs have been 100% (or certainly >90% including travel) working from home. You need to let them know in your initial contact and they need to already have remote workers. The ones who say "maybe" will wait until the end of the interview process and change their mind.

It does take a lot more applications to get an offer and it does mean you have to write off most the big players (Facebook, Google, Apple generally won't have new hires working from home) but it's totally possible and I doubt I'll ever work in an office (or maybe even for an employer in Scotland where I work from) ever again.
You may want to change in the blog URL https -> http
I am Russian.
Years ago I had strange experience: my friend invited me as unofficial expert.

I was amazed: the guys whom I talked were "right guys". One of them told me: "From the call log I can tell more than a guy think himself" (Excuse me for bad English)
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