skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd personally go with Coinbase (we're going to add it shortly), since they have probably the best API.

All of the Bitcoin options suffer from a long delay between "oh, I want to use your product/service" and "can pay", if your user doesn't already have bitcoin. As long as 5 days.

What I'd recommend, if you're selling a service, is to do a 15-30 day trial AND take Bitcoin (or give someone free initial service IFF they pay with bitcoin, if you don't do demo anyway), to give them a chance to get started immediately. Unless you're shipping a physical product, losing 5 days of service if someone's bitcoin payment doesn't happen isn't a big deal, usually.
Amazon is still a viable alternative to PayPal.

I used it to buy the latest Humble Bundle.
Can someone explain this to me? I read the article but it didn't make sense.

The physical object as I understand it provides a source of random data, with the property that it is fast to do a single lookup (shine an arbitrary light pattern on it), but slow to copy the whole data.

This means that an attacker who steals the object, but doesn't know which lookups will be done, won't be able to copy all the data.

Now my objection is that the only lookups that the person who steals the object will not be able to do, is the ones based on random patterns that have not been published, i.e. the ones that are generated next time Alice and Bob meet.

But from that point of view, it would be no less safe if Alice and Bob simply generated a one time pad and stored it when they met.
Edit: site changed to TeeLaunch. Nice responsive time guys.
One thing to note re engine failure vs battery failures. In the 787 the electrical power generation for hydraulic systems has been replaced by electrical systems powered by these batteries.

If an engine fails, you can still land the plane. If these batteries fail, you cannot. You have no power to guide the plane to a safe landing.
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And it's $25/yr for what flickr was offering, essentially. Thanks!
Isn't that a little like asking about simple problems that graph theory or compiler theory could solve as the basis of a startup?
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I'm late to the party on this, but unless I'm misreading things... the author used Riak the wrong way and it failed, and then he used it the right way, and it succeeded.

Granted, as the author says, Basho tries to delay the necessity of "breaking the news" about the flaws of LWW to prospective Riak users, but the author references the Dynamo paper. The Dynamo paper is chock full of information about about siblings and the key role they play. If you read the Dynamo paper, you would know immediately that using a system like Riak without thinking through sibling resolution is akin to lighting your data on fire. This complexity of siblings is the tradeoff you pay for high availability (no silver bullet, etc).

And if your scaling/availability problems are serious enough to even begin saying "we a distributed database like Riak!", hopefully it's not asking too much to have you read the Dynamo paper to understand how these sorts of databases actually work.

( note - we admin a largish riak cluster here at bu.mp )
This is the real story. They're not shutting down at all, they're pivoting their focus within payments to mobile/physical presence. Getting rid of 'card not present' situations means cheaper and more reliable processing, and the physical focus that goes with mobile payments gives additional reasons for Android users to leave their credit card details with Google. Google's fastest growth right now must be in Android-driven Google account signups. I can see why they're focusing on that area, rather than some old, first financial world only, pre-monopolized, credit card not present delayed payments reverse charges web based fraud rule quagmire.
I believe, as of now, the price is still $25. From my own "manage your pro account page":

Your Flickr Pro subscription:

1-year Pro at $24.95
Your Pro account will renew automatically on 3rd September, 2013

https://secure.flickr.com/account/order/manage
The latest: a recruiter submitted my resume to D.E. Shaw without asking. The recruiter calls, I tell them I'm grieving a loss in my family and at the same time I'm on a death march--can we discuss this later. I then receive an email informing me that my resume has been submitted. I made the mistake of picking up the phone when they call to hector me about submitting to the recruitment process. I'm afraid they left the company with the impression that I was initially interested, but changed my mind.

In some cases they can be aggressive and schedule interviews, or act as if we had spoken previously and that my memory was defective. I don't tolerate gaslighting and tell them. I never hear from them again.
That's my biggest concern. The other is, often I find their claims to be mis-repesented. "We have a large media client downtown" really meant "a company of 20 people, and 3 developers". If they had told me the name, I would have seen right through the BS.
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I use ozforex.com.au. They build their fee into the rate, and still seem to offer better rates than anyone else I've found.

Basically you pay into their US bank account, they pay into your Aus bank account a day later.
I think that's actually the point of the piece: David is so focused on product that he doesn't want to deal with things like operations or revenue that the deal makes sense. Yahoo will take care of those things, and David can focus on the only thing he cares about, product.
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> I'm a pretty good looking guy with a good job that goes to a great school. So why the fuck is adding someone on FB

Not that I think that your friend request was creepy, but why would a judgment as to the creepiness of your actions depend on any of these things?

Or are you just accepting the reality that people are labeled 'creepy' based on their desirability and not the inherent creepiness of their actions.
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>What if we could train ourselves to think like Einstein?

The answer is that we can, and the method is right in front of us: Mathematics. Though many people have either forgot or never understood it, there's a good reason that math is one of the core subjects we learn. It teaches us to think. Understanding and doing real, advanced, mathematics forces you to think creatively and critically, not to mention reasoning logically. Relentless practice and study of Math creates that creative and critical filter in your brain. In short, it forces you to think.

That's why every time I hear of a teacher teaching math as rote memorization of steps or symbol manipulation with no regard to the structure and meaning of a question or concept, I get physically upset. They're completely taking the thinking out of it. It's like taking a reading class, but only making it a requirement to move your eyes over the words.

It really works me up that the not-so-secret to healthy creative and critical thought is being locked away in the marginalization of students who can't or won't do pointless tasks like factoring polynomials for the sake of knowing the steps. As if that weren't enough, those students then turn into parents and teachers who push on to the next generation the broken concept of math that was fed to them.

What were we talking about again? Oh yeah, math is awesome.
Um, did you read the post or just the headline. Aren't they just replacing Google Checkout with Google Wallet and isn't Google Wallet better than Google Checkout? It sounds like an upgrade to me. What am I missing?

Is it just a messaging problem? If they had instead said "We're renaming Google Checkout to Google Wallet. We're introducing API v2. API v1 is deprecated and will be turned off in 6 months so upgrade your apps." would that have changed your response?
private charity to friends but once they pay me back

If you're expecting your money back, it's not charity. It's just a loan.
I honestly don't know. I am hard put to explain what malpractice might be for a lawyer or doctor that wouldn't be the same for the largest US manufacturer of aircraft and her engineers.

This was a huge mistake, and it seemed as though they should've known.
Gave it a try but gave up. Looking at compute engine.
I suppose this is because there are two outcomes for these huge user bases like instagram and twitter.

1) Get bought by a larger company that can use add your user base to their total user base

2) Start advertising intrusively and hope that you can make enough before your service is no longer favorable

Instagram comes to mind for #1. I'm thinking Twitter will go with #2 when investors get sick of no returns year after year.
Idea/product guy.
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In his defense, he probably said 'back' because he has a skin like this [1]. I wouldn't call that a case, either.

1. http://www.jackbacks.com/collections/parts/products/iphone5-...
I gave AEB a try with django about 3 months ago and let me say it was a major headache. Some times it would work other times the load balancer would fail other times it would just laugh in your face( there were many more but you get the point). I wasted weeks trying to get our app running, when it came down to only 3days before our demo run I made some bash and fabric scripts and all was running on multiple instances in about 1hr. Took a snapshot of our state and used that Ami for auto scaling. I myself won't be trying AEB again anytime soon.
"Google" + "Shutdown" = instant successful headline
And will they build my Arduino-powered E-ink Watch Card Game for me?
> Incidentally, does anyone know if mergers like these affect which drugs get offered by a company?

I think the FTC can (and does) block pharma mergers which severely reduce competition -- they will either block a merger or force spin-offs of certain divisions in an effort to prevent the acquiring company to corner a market on certain drug therapies (e.g., http://ftc.gov/opa/2009/10/pfizer.shtm)

Finally, I don't know which acquisition is more "important", but I think the primary reason that the Tumblr acquisition makes news is because it has the feeling of a "lottery win".

Everybody likes this story: 26-year old CEO, a handful of employees. Maybe they worked hard, but they also caught the wave at the right time. Bunch of young people get rich over the course of a few years. *edit: Many people like to believe that they could get lucky and have a similar payday.

That's much more appealing than: company works hard, grows slowly, makes drugs, has setbacks, expands, has more setbacks, gets bought. Middle-aged people then get laid-off so that the acquiring company can squeeze more $$ out of WC's drugs.
I couldn't help but agree with a lot in this article. Youtube's video page tends to be too busy and distracting. It's more of an entertainment/pop culture platform, if anything. It's really hard for tutorial/educational content to rise, and since they don't reach that many page views many channels don't collect much revenue from youtube.

which is why, recently I launched a site called Starseed - it's a youtube-like platform just for tutorial/educational videos. Starseed.io was created so that tutorial authors can upload tutorials on any topic they care about – no matter how advanced – for free and start collecting donations on their video’s page from day one. It's sort of like each channel on starseed is like the PBS network - getting funded by its viewers.

you can check it out at http://www.starseed.io/.

I hope, one day, educational channels can sit on a platform meant for their growth and not competing against epic meal time lol.
I thought this was going to be a designer blog advocating for more use of Impact (better known as the font on almost every meme picture ever). Glad I was wrong!
The comment you're replying to was implying that the median job in software development tends to be significantly better than most other available jobs. Software developers are alone among professionals in the control they have over their own schedules. They're in far more stable demand than lawyers are. They work vastly better hours than doctors. And, obviously, software developers don't come home every day barely able to move from the physical toll of their job.

It seems like what you did with your comment was to reframe his comment, without his consent, so that instead of the median it referred to some platonic ideal you have regarding the role software developers should have in the market.

What do you think line of business devs at Global 2000 companies do all day? Hew nuggets of C#/ADO code out of solid rock in a dank tunnel with only the lamp affixed to their helmet to see it with? No, they lead exactly the life the parent commenter said they do.

For that matter, how many 40 year old developers do you know? The last 8 years of my career have been a tour of every conceivable kind of software developer, and I've met lots and lots of 40 year olds, and 50 year olds, and (gasp) older. I do not know a lot of 40 year old developers who think of their lot as "dogshit". Your ageism assessment isn't even valid in startupland! Look at the stats on tech entrepreneurship. The only place 40 year olds are disfavored is on message boards, and (if we want to stipulate any part of your argument) on the small subset of startups that are important primarily to message board nerds.

No (P)rofession has an easier time raising children than software developers. Corp lawyers have 50%+ travel burdens and work 60-70 hour weeks. High-paid accountants work for firms that similarly keep them on the road half the year. Doctors? Heh. I raised 2 kids while starting two startups and working for a third and saw my kids all the time. And that's startupland. Most developers do - not - work - for - startups. Line of business software developers at State Farm do not work 70 hour weeks.

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"Tumblr’s industry of interactive advertising is less profitable than Yahoo’s display advertising industry."

Banner ads are the future, you guys! Forbes said it first!
I think he was referring to a yacht so large that you can land your helicopter on it (ie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jynvdeg6uWw) in which case it's not the helicopter that's expensive...
Here's a question you might be able to answer... what exactly do Nvidia cards do better than AMD cards? In the bitcoin and litecoin worlds, Nvidia is horribly outclassed for hash algorithms like sha-256 or scrypt. In the gaming world it's closer, but ATI's 79xx series still wins. (Especially when you consider in the cases a single 7970 isn't enough, which is true for several games, you can get 2 7970s for less than the price of a GTX Titan and win that way. Or a single 7990.) 32bit and 64bit floating point benchmarks favor AMD, the openCL Sala and Room benchmarks in Luxmark favor AMD... (Not exactly fair for that one since it's not CUDA, but the difference is enough that a performance boost from CUDA likely wouldn't close the gap.)

I suspect Nvidia's advantage is their proprietary software like PhysX and other software used in high-end computing or scientific-computing, and possibly they scale better (or simply there are Nvidia-supported solutions) when you want to add dozens of cards together. Is this the case? Because I don't see how one can claim AMD needs to "catch up" in performance if you're looking solely on a card-by-card basis.

Edit: Comparing http://clbenchmark.com/device-info.jsp?config=14470292&t... and http://clbenchmark.com/device-info.jsp?config=11905561&t... (easier comparison: http://clbenchmark.com/compare.jsp?config_0=11905561&con...), the only ones where Nvidia trounces are on Mergesort and memory usage of Gaussian blur; mergesort is mentioned in the submission. So what about the rest? And factoring in being able to buy two 7970s for the price of one Titan?
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The post says they are transitioning over to Wallet in the very first sentence. It's amazing how many people are commenting without even getting that far into the link.
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It's also really interesting, right?

Consider that, once upon a time, to successfully creep on somebody you actually had to show up in person, or send mail, or something like this. That took time, and resources.

Now, I have to spend ~30 seconds slinging out a fast message to attempt and reconnect, and if I hear no response, I may do the same thing in a few hours--note that my time spent is less than two minutes/day, which subjectively seems perfectly reasonable. To the receiving party, if communication isn't desired, this seems like a huge deal.

Moreover, limiting only to a certain class of stereotypical male (the hacker), it's very easy to get in a situation where you mistake lack of communication for a channel problem instead of an interested problem, and so you resend over and over--especially if you think that hey, maybe the message got lost or something.

Compound this now with the way people leak information online all the time, and the way that these companies (in order to foster connectedness/advertising) practically rub information and personal data in our faces. A message out of the blue (because it's so easy to send) about a person's shared interest in a common album (because my social network provider told me about it) is immediately tagged as creepy, even though the data and message were trivially put into motion.

(I say this having made and sometimes still making these mistakes.)

I think that a new sort of manners need to evolve that actually recognize just how easy it is to communicate nowadays. People need thicker skin, and they probably need much more explicit flow control ("Not interested, fuck off." instead of silence). On the other side, people need to appreciate when they might be making others uncomfortable by spamming too much or doing too much cyber-sleuthing (which is, again, something that once took real dedication; "I remember when being a stalker used to mean something" lol).
"Ignore the raw values"

You can't ignore the raw values and just look at means, aggregates and weighted probability functions when the problem we're talking about is inequality.

"chance of payoff for startups is low ..."

What you're describing is entrepreneurial risk, not the price of labor.
Is anyone aware of an up to date comparison of the various orchestration systems?

I have rolled my own which, being totally biased, I do believe is more full featured than most of those mentioned in this thread, as well as more redeployable/generic. (100% pluggable platforms, built to integrate tightly with build services and developer environments, etc.). Limited internal testing at this stage (1000s of VMs instantiated, across three cloud providers (one internal), only two distinct OS deployment environments targeted thus far).

However, it'd be great to have an overview of this area... it's certainly exciting. I am beginning to feel like the DevOps batton has been passed from large companies with massive infrastructure requirements back to the community over this last year, as more developers are becoming aware of the pitfalls of single provider cloud solutions and the rough edges and missing features of existing multi-cloud deployment APIs. We can probably expect great things in this area over the next 12 months.
True, but aren't they 'supposed' to buy high grade HDDs for datacenter usage?
Thanks. We haven't published pricing yet but we are aiming to make it in the ballpark of the hardware & operational costs of the machines required to run a particular size cluster. I.e. if you are running a FoundationDB cluster at 50% load then the licensing costs shouldn't be out of sync with the costs of owning and operating, or renting, the machines in the cluster.

It does look likely that we will open source Flow at some point, but it will take a good amount of work to do it properly and right now there is plenty of it to go round. Always good to hear interest for it though!
We came across this issue as well, we'd been wasting too much time setting up Postgres. RDS seemed liked a good choice, except that MySQL is just that much worse than Postgres.
We had just used things like concurrent indexes.

We ended up going with Heroku's hosted Postgres solution.
It costs the exact same we were spending w/ two High CPU instances w/ provisioned IOPS volumes.
Now we get fully managed, same price, and all the features of Postgres.

We still host our full application on AWS, the only thing is that we have a managed database. While Postgres makes it easy to setup replication and what not, AWS hardware just sucks. It takes time to properly tune it.
I use it. I like that I don't have to worry about scalability and administration is a breeze.
I'm happy with it! Been using it since 2009.
Keep in mind that the ad-free experience also means visitors don't see any ads when browsing your photos if you are a pro user. This may or may not be important to you, but is arguably worth the $25 per year for any use that approaches professional level.
If I recall correctly, Yahoo!, under Mayer's watch, sold out half of its Alibaba stake at a valuation of $40bn. That sale is looking like a colossally bad decision (that is, a $12b loss).

The 70% rise that Yahoo has had since she started is about $12bn in market cap. Yahoo's remaining 20% stake in Alibaba went from 40bn to a projected 100bn, netting $12bn. So, do you think Mayer's management is responsible, or is it that a legacy asset increased in price?

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/why-alibaba-could-be-...
looks like kickstarter links will redirect to /profile/ if you don't include the entire uri.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1484284472/windcatcher-i...
Cleverly disguised trolling scattered with obscure facts is an easy way to gain attention and score karma.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-05-17/
What's involved in the handling of this glass? They claim security because heating the glass damages its structure. A fingerprint or scratch would also damage it. Is it secure because it's just so fragile that it is plain unworkable in real world conditions?

Also this article doesn't touch on whether the randomness generated is sufficiently random for cryptographic purposes. With enough error correction and an improper random distribution, it can become possible to break even OTP.
I see so from 1997 - 2008 things were awesome, then they sucked, but now they're great again!

Do you honestly think web development technologies have hit some inflection point after which everyone can build their own web applications? People have been saying that about technology for hundreds of years (that it can't possibly improve) and they are always wrong. If you are trying to sell your services and you are competing with commodity web developers as the author plainly implied is now the case Im afraid I have some bad news for you: you suck at selling and should work to improve that before learning the next hot technology. There will always be more work.
I have a prominent link at the top of CV/Resume/linkedin to my "Note to recruiters" which helps with all this - http://www.rogerbinns.com/recruiters.html

For example it says to name the company (and why) and that if the recruiter has trust issues with their client that I don't want to get involved. It becomes very obvious which recruiters have actually read the note to make sure the company and I are possibly matched, versus those that are indistinguishable from spammers.

Several years ago I was interviewing somewhere and Googled the job blurb. There were over 100 recruiters who had copied the job details from the company website and pretended it was their own client. (I checked with the company - they had in house recruiters and did not accept external ones - all those external ones were charlatans.)

Thankfully there are some good recruiters out there, but sadly they are seriously outnumbered.