skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a mis-leading title. It should be "Building With Stripe's API". Unless I missed it, I didn't see any behind the scenes stuff about the tech or infrastructure Stripe uses to build out and sustain their API.
"My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my intuition on what’s best for our customers."

lack of data that overrides intuition? If it was a pile of data I could understand, but lack? That's when intuition come handy no?
It is as if the whole professional world is on LinkdIn and I am resisting alone. The pressure is too great and I am looking for ways to circumvent the pressure. I am sure there must be others out there with this kind of mentality.
Send SMS with Node.js and Sendhub
Virool (YC S12) is Hiring VP of Network Growth
It's a fair point, and you balance out the spectrum of "touchy feely vs. effective," but it's just that: a spectrum. People don't have to be abrasive and impossible to deal with in order to be brilliant, and people don't have to be in touch with their emotions and have good bedside manner to be incompetent and a waste of oxygen.

I think his point that he "made it so far" on his first try is apropos. He's done a shitload as CEO to capitalize on the opportunity and generate a ton of value (debatable whether that will be long term value) in a way that few people ever do.

To fault the guy for having a good exit letter seems a bit myopic.
> - Their work-around(s) are silly. They are essentially "then use someone else" or "register every single possible sub-domain." No opt-out.

"Use someone else" is the opt-out, whether you take it to mean "use another registrar" or use "other, non-gratis DNS services.

Your other option is to use a wildcard, as I think you understand (though your "register every single possible sub-domain" is a bit misleading).

This behavior sucks, but if it's something that bothers you, you're probably the type that should be using a better DNS provider, anyways. That said, I'm a happy customer of name.com.
I'm just going to put my fingers in my ears and not listen to anything anyone might say (write) that gets close to excusing the current situation or defending Secure Boot!

As such:
Secure Boot is just another lame attempt by Microsoft to slow down/control the competition; they are abusing their position on the market once again, like they did in the past, like they will do in the future. This is their way, "the wolf changes its coat, but not the disposition".

This shows that now more than ever Microsoft is shitting their pants because of Linux/Android/Google/Ubuntu/RHEL/LibreOffice/FOSS SQL/etc; they are slowly but surely losing the war, they are losing market share on every front. The way things are now in 10-15 years I bet they will no longer have the 90% of PCs share they have today, but Secure Boot might give them some help.

I can already imagine mr. Ballmer rubbing his hands in satisfaction: "oh, nice, we'll have the keys to all PC hardware".

My advice: do not buy Microsoft, do not buy hardware on which Secure Boot cannot be disabled. We _must not_ have all PC hardware controlled by a single company - it is just stupid.

And of all systems they chose CA? Really? After the epic way it failed time and again in the SSL cert industry - think Komodo or DigiNotar.

Not to mention keys given to USA and other governments that will be able to easily install malware and other crap to control the "sheep" (the germans already have some "official" trojans lol).

This is madness people.
No, they definitely do check for prior art.

The problem, as I understand it, is that they don't cast their net all that widely, and how they do cast their net doesn't really correspond very well with the way most informed people think about such issues.

In all the cases I've seen, they've cited other patents as evidence of prior art, where the other patent is pretty obviously similar (lots of the same keywords etc). On the other hand, stuff that's so incredibly obvious and widespread that nobody never even considered patenting it before might get through easily, 'cause you know, no prior patents... ><

[I have a Japanese patent, and an attempt to get the same patent in the US was rejected by the USPTO (after years of back-and-forth...) because of prior US patents.]
Lefkofsky and Keywell would have just shot that guy in the face.
Really? It seems to me that a lot of well-compensated but unsuccessful CEOs take the route that Mason pretended to in his first sentence — "I wasn't fired and my departure is completely amicable. I'm just leaving because I suddenly want to pursue new opportunities and/or spend more time with my family." It's sort of like getting broken up with and describing it as "a mutual decision."
KS makes a huge amount of sense in that it's both a publicity channel as well as a funding mechanism. If you can successfully handle a KS initiative to create a meaningful investment "round" and then deliver on some product (with adequate margins) or MVC design that the funders receive well, you will both have some working capital and social proof in one go.

That said, it seems like a daunting challenge for technical-oriented folks - this is exactly where a paired business/technical co-founders model should be very useful.
You could spend all day arguing about where you will learn more, but what you really gain is perspective. Even if you decide that you never want to run a business again you'll be a more effective employee. Without that perspective you'll probably have critically flawed ideas about how businesses work.
McDonalds chicken strips and nuggets have 0 grams of Sugar. There's sugar in the buns, but it's not in the chicken.

http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/getnutrition/nutritionfacts.p...
Do Low Doses of BPA Harm People?
I read an article just recently that argues that the reasonable amount may be much lower than many people think.

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/how-much-alc...

But there is little variation in one respect. The optimal amount of alcohol is somewhere around 5 and 7 g/d, which translates into about the following every day: half a can of beer, half a glass of wine, or half a “shot” of spirit.
Very classy. It makes one empathize with him. He's human and failed. He'll learn from it and do better next time. Or not. Either way I see him in a different light.
I used to work at Groupon, and for all the shit it gets there are a lot of good people working on ambitious problems there and this letter is exemplary of the kind of character that inspired people to work there.

Best of luck to them as they try to turn things around.
You can have a McDouble burger for $1 on the Dollar Menu. It contains 390 kcal and you need ~2300 kcal/day or about 6 burgers or $6. Can you go below that by cooking yourself? Unless you buy food in huge quantities, only eat pasta, or reduce your intake of meat, I think it's pretty hard.
Sorry, I am not buying this.

He knows what he is doing.
So much rubbish. Cavemen could cook. People with modern amenities can cook faster than it takes to drive to McDonald's every day. People get fast food because of the taste and because they're too lazy to add rice to water/put a chicken in the oven/wrap a potato in foil/etc/etc/etc.
Same. I rarely check the recipient addresses in my spam folder, but today there was a LinkedIn-style phishing email to my Dropbox-specific address.
> One of the harder lessons stamped into me by the last few years in finance is just how wrong the myth of the rational consumer is, regardless of my liberal individualist world-view. The best of us make terrible decisions in almost everything we don't consciously analyse, i.e. almost everything. The rest busy ourselves with illustrating Murphy's Law in strings of bad decisions.

That's also a pretty trivial truth in psychology.

Those who claim that people are rational agents probably spend too much time interacting with computers, and then make unwarranted (and, I should say, spectacularly naive) generalizations.
Glucose is, as best we can tell, just fine.

Obviously glucose is fine at some level -- as you say, the body uses it internally.

But that doesn't mean that there wouldn't still be a problem if we only got rid of the fructose we're eating and replaced it with glucose. The quantity of glucose we would then be ingesting with each meal would be quite large, and that might have other negative consequences -- mediated, perhaps, by the even larger insulin release that would be triggered.

But I'm only speculating. I haven't come across any research that bears on this question. If you have, I'd like to see it.
Not entirely. I wished I was able to shorten the time I spent at various stages learning some of the hard-earned lessons.
With luck, this will encourage people to cook their own food. It isn't that hard to do, doesn't really take that much time, and the benefit of knowing what you are eating really helps inform your diet choices.
There's always https://mega.co.nz/
Unlimited passion
It's extremely unwise to assume that someone has the ability to research every topic in front of them in enough detail to make an informed decision, though.
This sex-ed speech was banned because it might teach hackers to rape
This claim reminds me of of these:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4684663
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2545823
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The map puts them in Ashburn, VA, which makes sense as there are massive commercial data centers there. If you have a server or VPS whose location is "east," there's a good chance that it is in an Ashburn data center.
Monetizing the Text-Processing API with Mashape
Rap Genius might have a point about the routing issue, but still being on Bambo and not running with more workers is just plain stupid.
I've know this since June 2011...
The legal genome by docracy
If you're an engineer, HN. If you're responsible for keeping users happy, the support site. But as usual, it seems the only people employed at Dropbox responsible for keeping users happy is the damage control department.
This comment is totally unnecessary given all the caveats downandout made, and as someone who has lived through hard times it upset me to read your comment, although I do appreciate the edit that was made.
"CEO Andrew Mason Replaced By Eric Lefkofsky and Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis At Groupon"

Ha, this is somewhat like Dick Chaney letting Bush take the fall for the Iraq fuck up and then take over in 2008 "to fix things".
(before you start hitting downvotes, read some background about this guy).

1) http://www.businessinsider.com/groupons-cozy-deals-with-lefk...

2) http://mashable.com/2011/06/02/groupon-cash-out/

"Altogether, $946.8 million, or roughly 86% of the funds raised across the three investments, was paid out to Groupon directors, officers and stockholders. Just $151.4 million was retained by the company to use as working capital and for general corporate purposes."
This is pretty exciting. I'm stuck with reading 20 year old books about typography and design and it's not exciting me anymore. I think this will be a boost to my design knowledge.
You know what, this comment is really rude. UEFI is a pretty complex topic, and it's reasonable for people to ask questions about it.
Context:

"Separately, we want to apologize for some of the dismissive responses from our volunteer moderators - since they aren’t employed by Dropbox, they don’t have visibility into issues like this. "

https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=97303&page=2#pos...
While I agree with this to a point, it seems to me this empowers people to at least try to contribute. If even one of these projects leads to something useful, and a few others make people feel like they've helped out by putting their money towards something more useful than cable TV or McDonald's, that seems like an improvement.
I can't see the point of this keyboard but if it is a good thing to have the letters run from a-z starting from the top-left it seems like the numbers should start with 1(or 0) on the top-left as well.
Honest and funny. So rare in the corporate world.
In fairness, what you do is buy the raw ingredients to make 5 ro 10 times the amount of beef stew you want and either freeze the rest or eat stew for 2 or 3 days in a row. That sounds dull if you're single and like variety in your diet, but if you have a family it's quite practical.

Make friends with your freezer. Meat production, like everything else, goes in cycles so at regular intervals producers (and thus) supermarkets will find themselves with excess stock of this or that. The obvious example is buying turkey after Thanksgiving, but I see cycles in things like the price of pork every 4-6 weeks. So about every other month I buy a whole boneless pork loin (a single piece of meat about as long as your forearm) for about $25 instead of the usual cost of around $50. I spend about 20 minutes at home slicing it into pork steaks and freezing most of them, and get 20+ nice thick steaks out of it, so that's about $1.05 each. Add in the cost of the vegetables, other ingredients, energy to cool and cook, and the price of a good size meal is still only $2.50 at most.

That's a particularly good deal (which is why I buy it so regularly) but if you can cook and don't mind forward planning your food a bit, you save a lot of money. Menu planning probably cuts your cost by 50% vs. buying your ingredients on a per-meal basis.
What do you mean?... Can you please elaborate.
Dont really understand what you mean by the second part of your comment.

19 person years means different people had different joining dates.
the key here is Meteor; sure you can go with Jekyll and a bunch others for Rails and Node, for instance, but there is no blogging platform with momentum for folks who want to customize using their Meteor expertise. Granted it's still a young platform, but it's always good to see early, pioneering efforts like these.
Facebook Will Acquire Atlas Advertiser Suite To Close The Ad Spend Loop
You'll be interested in my new startup idea then:

Thug tears—inna bottle! On the internet.
Don't think so... the article talks about the driving factors in the decisions made at Stripe when designing the API that should be exposed as the product of the company.
The article isn't about how to use Stripe's API to build stuff, it is about why they made the decisions to support and not support the functionality they did.
This is a great story. That's what you can do with computer science.
There's examples on almost every page of the docs. For example, here's the docs for buttons: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/buttons.html

Just scroll down to the "Build with Mixins" section.
Tracking my health, and what else?

I would, however, like to build a skin-mounted radio. Would cut down on the gear I have to carry on long bike treks.
I wasn't talking about their nuggets — although, there are a few facts you ought to know: One, the FDA allows you to report nutritional categories at 0g if there is .9g or less per serving. A lot of "low carb" foods push this ruling to its limits.

Second, I wasn't able to find the page for nuggets specifically, but I doubt their preparation of the chicken meat in nuggets is better than their non-breaded, grilled breast filets:

Grilled Chicken Fillet
Allergens: SOY LECITHIN
Chicken breast fillet with rib meat, water, seasoning (rice starch, salt, sugar, yeast extract, canola oil, onion powder, maltodextrin, chicken skin, paprika, flavor, sunflower oil, chicken, garlic powder, chicken fat, spices), sodium phosphates.

Prepared with Liquid Margarine: Liquid soybean oil and hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oils, water, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, salt, soy lecithin, mono-and diglycerides, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (preservatives), artificial flavor, citric acid, vitamin A palmitate, beta carotene (color).

CONTAINS: SOY LECITHIN.

SOURCE: http://www.mcdonalds.com/getnutrition/itemDetailInfo.do?item...

Maltodextrin isn't HFCS but it is a (no doubt corn-)derived sugar. And I highly doubt even most reasonable people would look at a plain grilled chicken patty and assume it has 18 ingredients, including TWO types of sugar (and possibly three — "flavor" is enigmatically opaque).
“I see this in a big picture,” he said.

No details will be forthcoming.
It looks like a nice single handed layout.

I'm not sure about having t, n, s on the weaker fingers.
I spent a little time thinking about this concept and how it relates to just having dummy account you control, for giving to services you don't fully trust.

As long as you use a secure password, and you don't use the same one. I don't see alot of difference, but the ability to sandbox each service to a list of email accounts, so that the attacker never knows the master account, would be an extra layer of security.

Utility exists here. I just don't think there's enough utility to justify the work.
Awesome. Is there somewhere they've documented the wisdom they've gained in more detail? I'd love to hear more about the issues encountered with JavaScript, ctypes, and LLVM, and lessons learned in general.
i too felt that it was very self serving. didn't actually place the blame on himself
It's called a roguelike. Rouge is something akin to mascara.
I think the guy knows his statement is going to be the lede of a lot of very popular news stories.

I don't care who threw the grenade at this point, Mason jumped onto it.

It's a great letter.
I know you never really left HN, but it's really good to have you back edw519.
"exploding"?

Only in the minds of a few people.
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As a former Groupon employee, that's Andrew's personality.
Well yes, of course. I agree. But that's something all CEOs have to do in some time or another.
Orange juice has an advantage of its flavonoids. I didn't really think it made much difference until another health nut pointed me to the studies. It does behave differently than other juices.
Bufferbloat on LTE
Unclear that it was a mistake. Clearly the FBI or whomever would suponea records of every machine that accessed those logs, by letting this 'leak' and having lots of people then access the logs, which then gives the actual bad guys a way to access them with plausible denieability.

Like kidnapping, malware has the problem with externally visibile trails that you can't hide and still pull it off.

The story about the stuxnet C&C servers being setup as an advertising service was clearly to throw off suspicions about random outcalls to those servers.
Here's what I think they mean: without Scss/Sass extension, to get your main div to be 4 columns wide you have to do something along the lines of `<div class="four columns"> ...`. With the ability to extend other classes, you could instead be more semantic and define your div as `<div id="main"> ...` and in your Scss file say `#main { @extend columns; @extend four; }`.

I'd personally stick with the presentation classes for most cases though. The templates likely do it this way so you can just throw the Foundation CSS on and it's ready to go.

EDIT: Thinking more about it, I think a huge advantage is that if you had an already-structured HTML file, you could write up a few @extend rules and apply a grid without having to add classes to everything. (You could use this technique to quickly throw up a grid for something like http://csszengarden.com/)
Agreed, even if it's too sensitive today I'd love to someday hear the real story behind ambiguous statements like that. There's a lasting lesson in there for everybody somewhere.
Andrew Warner of Mixergy interviewed Andrew Mason in 2010 while Groupon was at its peak. I haven't had a chance to re-watch it yet but I imagine it'll be a very interesting watch given recent events.

Here's the video: http://blip.tv/mixergy/mixergy-groupon-andrew-mason-3852853

And transcript: http://mixergy.com/andrew-mason-groupon-interview/
I thought that Tor was hard-coded to always use 3 nodes between you and the internet, no matter how many there are in the system.
Battletoads is definitely one of the best platform games ever created, kudos for the reference. It's playable on online NES emulators such as http://www.playnes.net/play/107/Battletoads.html
> So what's causing this to happen?

4. You're leaking your own email addresses.

Start by looking for malware on every device you touch.
PHP arrays store zval ••. The reason for it has to do with references - basically, if you want to do $a =& $b; and then $a = 1 and want for $b be 1 now too, if symbol table for b is storing zval •, there's no way to change it when $a = 1 is executed. However, if b's entry stores pointer to actual zval •, and so does a's entry, when you change that storage to point to zval with 1 instead, both $a and $b would change. Hope I explain it clearly, hard to do it without drawing a picture :)

So, to receive zval ••, you need to pass zval ••• to the hash function. That's why the type in general is void ••, because generic hash (hashes are used for all kinds of things, not only zvals) stores void •, so to receive it you pass void ••.

Just for fun, there are places in the code IIRC where quadruple pointer can be found (see zend_fcall_info_args_save for example). Pretty rare case though, don't remember any place with five-times pointer.
Interesting. The toggle from "alpha" to "euro" seemed like a neat feature at first, but it's of course completely un-suited to fast typing.

Likewise, compartmentalizing typing into various groups (alphabetic chars, accented chars, capitalized chars, symbols, punctuation, etc.) is logical, but mostly incompatible with just about any modern keyboard workflow.

edit : after doing some further reading, I realize I was judging it based on a completely incorrect set of criteria. It's intended purpose was for non typists, single-hand typing or "environments where conventional two-handed keyboarding does not work" [1]

[1] http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/keyboard.html
I've signed up since then and haven't received any spam at all(also created a new email at the time).
I do run my entire email infrastructure, in this case. During the time period where a lot of these spam messages were received, it was directly hosted on a enterprise fiber line, on its own IP address, which I wouldn't imagine was doing any sort of filtering.

I could be wrong and it's possible that some filtering was happening on the ISPs side, but you'd think that of the thousands of spams that get through, there would be some that looked like guesses.
Note that all the vowels are in the same column, which is reminiscent of how they're all placed on the home row under the left hand in the Dvorak keyboard layout.
To make it more likely to be accepted, the proposal for the EU project contained basically every feature under the sun a language could have.

How common is this in EU projects?
Hi folks. We are fully aware of this issue. We've added it to external issue tracker (https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8...), please follow up there.

Response from us was initially muted because it looked like it only affected M/S apps, but it turns out (a) it can impact HRD as well, and (b) we're pretty unhappy about the level of impact for many M/S apps so we're looking at ways to resolve. It's a high priority and we're looking at a number of ways to address it. It's also a pretty interesting issue, because indirectly it's caused by (a) the large scale that App Engine is running, and (b) the large extent with which GAE is running free applications.

Regardless, apologies to those who felt support was unresponsive. We are working very hard to improve support. For the sophisticated audience that comes to these pages, please link to me on Google+ to get my attention if we are failing you (https://plus.sandbox.google.com/110401818717224273095).
Crap, forgot who I was talking to. Should have known a silly comment about Wire rocking out might send you into a fugue state of attribution hunting. I DIDN'T MEAN IT!
Check out Andrew Mason's bio blurb at WSJ. Weird. http://topics.wsj.com/person/M/Andrew-Mason/6435