skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clash of Clans needs a revenue stream since there's a server component. The alternative to in app purchases would be a subscription for everyone. One non cynical way to look at it is: here is a free game for many people that is funded by obsessive/competitive players.
(I work at Stripe.)

With Stripe Connect, your users have to have Stripe accounts. This makes sense for, say, Squarespace, where their users are likely to want to manage the business themselves: logging in to their Stripe account, watching their analytics, providing refunds, handling customer service, etc.

This is designed for cases like paying Lyft drivers. The drivers don't really care about the internals; they just want money to appear in their bank account.

There's more at https://support.stripe.com/questions/stripe-connect-vs-sendi....
It's a good time to be in Marketing and Ecommerce related enterprise software. First Salesforce acquires ExactTarget, then IBM acquires SoftLayer and now SAP buys Hybris.

Two interesting trends right; marketing pratically differentiates companies, ecommerce is the de facto way people start shopping.
I never understood why all the paranoia with pedo...

Have you ever been close to someone who suffered from the aftermath of sexual abuse, especially as a child? It is not pretty.

Pedophiles are are a sociopathic rot, and should be treated as the worthless dangerous filth that they are. I'd feel worse stepping on a spider than I would putting a bullet in a child pornographer.

But... teenagers having sex with each other is not pedophelia. It may be stupid, but it's not abusive.

Edit: by pedophile, I mean someone who has acted on their urges or intends to do so. Someone who can control themselves is worthy of compassion. Those who will not are worthy of nothing in my eyes.
It sounds like April 29, 1992 and Occupy rolled into one.
Each of your marketplace customers would need their own stripe account (we do this now). This would enable a single stripe account to be used for charging the cards, and your app controls the transfer of funds back to the marketplace vendors
To be fair, every time I watch Darwin Beetles throwing each other out of giant trees, I'm a little amazed.
Yes, but that's not really Google's responsibility.

They deliberately gave a three month sunset for users to find another solution. That's entirely the point of a sunset.

Their product is also free, so it's not like they're hurting businesses or real customers by not helping them find alternatives. They're not really obligated to even do anything at all - it was a free service. If they were being paid it would make more sense.
I'm responding mainly to this "Well, then I'll just expand on my previous comment to add racial groups to the cultural/religious groups that you should probably re-examine your views on if everybody finds them offensive."

The guy upthread related an anecdote as an example of where people might engage in doublethink, the example included a guy who was a muslim because that is who he happened to have the conversation with.

He then stated that he is hesitant to use muslims as an example because that tends to bring with it all kinds of personal biases. Then you made the comment quoted above, which is what I am mainly referring too.

You talk about "the liberal coast of america" as if it is some defining oracle of truth and if you disagree with it, then you are wrong.
Nice extremes. Now where does this current story fit in with your argument?
You are pointing out that for the most part investors function as a collective with demands for industry 'normal profits' that essentially make the entire marketplace act as though shareholders are a single collective owner.

Amazon just happens to be the only company which the investor collective allows to actually compete, something which otherwise doesn't happen unless a company is at risk of failing.
Tl;dr: we work with a bank to do this; we do lots of checks; and you're required to verify the identity of the recipients. See https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/sending-transfers#verifyin... for more info.
Just curious but has there ever been a day one where Amazon had to step backwards or some idea failed? It's hard to believe that everything Amazon touches is gold and I personally feel like we learn more from our failures than our successes. Just wondering if you know any Amazon failures from the past?
Nice idea. One piece of feedback though: I'd rather see a list of actual features, rather than a list of blog posts.

In this implementation, I'd have to click through to each individual blog post to figure out everything that's changed.
(I work at Stripe.)

Right. Those are both things that are on our product roadmap. (:
"less secular" is not the only problem "less humble" is another.

examples:

- a blind man approached minister of health and says "we can't live with minimum-wage. Please improve current situations." And this is what the minister says: "You are blind and we gave you job. How dare you want more?" Source news article: http://gundem.milliyet.com.tr/bakan-akdag-gozlerin-gormuyor-...

- they don't have shame. we are using one of the most expensive oil in the world and after the last raise government said: "we didn't raise the price of oil, we just raised the tax". I can't find anything to say about that.

- These people protested against "internet ban": http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0nternetime_Dokunma! What did government say? "These people are just a bunch of teenage porn-lovers"

- The PM said: "Not everyone need to go to college. People who are educated too much are miserable." http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=144718

I can go on and on.
Github will automatically recognize your educational email account if you have an educational email account. The problem for people taking a Coursera class is that they might not be enrolled in any school. I don't think that many of those students need to upgrade to the Bitbucket student account where they get more than 5 users.

It is pretty interesting how people are using version control in these classes. Here's one that distributes the assignments as a repository on Github[1]

[1] https://github.com/uwescience/datasci_course_materials
The V comics are full of stuff like that.
Faster image filters in Python with Parakeet
It's over 7%, I still wouldn't call that uncommon and say few people use it.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syst...
Ran a sample query of "Rails" vs. "Django" on Chrome 27 on 64-bit Windows 7 Professional, but unfortunately all I get is "Too many queries are running, you may only run 2 queries at a time."
When will Amazon buy Fedex or UPS or (gasp) USPS?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelkanellos/2012/03/26/will-...
Identity Crisis. Why Bad Logos Happen to Good People
Google Play for Education; A Game Changer for the Use of Tablets in Schools
Crowd funded: The Nikola Tesla statue officially coming to Silicon Valley
It supports substantially more complicated movements of money. Stripe Connect is basically "Bring your own Stripe account. We handle the API integration for you." This lets you do things like (hypothetical case for Airbnb-clone) "Pay the room lister 90% of the amount charged 5 days after the later of 'satisfactory feedback received from renter' or '10 days after checkout'. Then, pay us our 10% fee for enabling the transaction."

Bonus: with this, the lister doesn't need a Stripe account and will perceive all of their interactions with money being handled by you or their bank. This means you don't have to, as a part of making the sale to them to list their room, convince them "You should really open a Stripe account."
The Kingdom of Loathing's model seems to do pretty well. (And they've been at it for 10 years now, well before "free to play" was a thing.) You can pay for in-game items, but you can also buy them with in-game currency[1].

So you could let players pay to get the special items/upgrades instantly, but still let hardcore players get them without paying through some sort of grinding. So long as you don't have to exchange too much time to be maximally powerful without paying for the privilege, players don't seem to mind in practice. (You will get people loudly bitching about things no matter what you do -- this is the internet.) So: you make it so that players only have a few of the upgrades active at a time, then you can introduce new items in a regular stream without unbalancing things.

1. Well, in KoL you can only buy them from other players with regular currency. Unless your game plans to have a full fledged economy, I guess you'd want to sell them directly.
XKCD 1
If the app allowed me to asses my dogs mood then this would be useful. I have an extremely energetic West Highland Terrier and there is a fine balance between enough exercise to tire him out and too much to turn him in to a grumpy, slightly snappy, stroppy teenager. We think the sweet spot is somewhere between 45 mins and 1.5 hours of walking per day - which is quite a big window
Investigators are trying to shut down a black market economy that harms children, and going after the consumers in that economy is one effective strategy. Going after the producers is important, too, but as I said, they can be extraordinarily difficult to find and prosecute.

There are unfortunate cases, like the one in this article, in which a person possesses child porn but may not have intentionally purchased or downloaded it. However, these are edge cases.

If prosecutors had to prove that the offender purchased the material in every case, it would create a very high burden for law enforcement, enabling people to violate child protection laws that are already difficult to enforce.
So marrying at 13 is fine as long as you don’t consummate the marriage until you’re 18? I haven’t met many Christians who feel that way. Most of the time, the rationale is ’those were different times, it was normal then’.
I've been using Tiny Tiny RSS since Google Readers announcement of shutdown. It's worked really great and since you can host it yourself the only person you can blame for it getting shutdown is yourself. The updating of RSS feeds is a little janky, but certainly not a show stopper. I have been very happy with it so far.
There are two scenarios:

1) The founders haven't been working especially long on the company and haven't incorporated (maybe they have an LLC, but not a C Corp). In this case it actually is pretty common for the # of founder shares to be set at the time of investment. Founders pay far less (really just a token amount like $.01) than investors. In this case the price per share is independent (and kind of meaningless. Do you want 3.5M shares worth $1 each, or 35M shares worth $.10 each. Though there are psychological norms people tend to stick to).

2) The founders have been working on the company for a while and incorporated well before taking investment. This is the scenario you describe. I added a 2nd sheet ("scenario 2") to cover this case.

As you can see it also contains no circular references.

As you said price per share is no longer arbitrary here as it's fixed by the # of founder shares created pre-funding. Sometimes you might do a split (or reverse split) here to adjust the price per share to the same psychological norms as above.
Unless the article is very long, I prefer to read it like that.
Free hugs and kisses from me when you guys roll it out (really gets my cofounder motivated, so thought I'd try it here!)
If by 'charity' you mean the only efficient company on Wall Street. If things are properly efficient profit will be near 0. Large profits mean that competition has failed.
Misleading. Substantive protection of rights in the UK is, overall, as strong or stronger as in the US (weaker in some areas, stronger in others). That the sources of those rights (centuries of common law tradition, ECHR & HRA rights, the EU, and more) aren't a convenient single document with the words "The Constitution" at the top doesn't mean they don't exist.
Mmh. That suggestion mentions MathJax, but the WordPress LaTeX plugin many blogs use is not so fancy. That plugin insert formulas as images, dynamically generated by a PHP script, using URL's like this one:

http://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=%5Cdisplaystyle+H%5E%2A%28%5Cmathrm%7Btmf%7D%3B+%5Cmathbb%7BZ%7D%2F2%29+%5Csimeq+%5Cmathcal%7BA%7D+%5Cotimes_%7B%5Cmathcal%7BA%7D%282%29%7D+%5Cmathbb%7BZ%7D%2F2%2C+&bg=ffffff&fg=000000&s=0

That is most likely much easier to support than MathJax, which involves running JavaScript code. Having MathJax support too would be great, but I'd be satisfied with the WordPress PHP LaTeX plugin thingy.
"So you took the dogs for a long walk then, and didn't just stop at the pub?"
How hard is it for civilians to buy gas masks like the police are wearing?

It seems like that would negate most of the tear gas / pepper spray problems.
Seems like a cool concept for owners that leave their dog at home during the day. Could finally figure out what those rascals are up to.

Or if an uncommon spike of activity happens in the middle of the day, you may want to check in at home.
Teach Above the Test
Since 37s can't run this service until the end of time then it seems reasonable to expect it to end at some point.
We can track people, cool! And probably kids too! What about dogs and cats? Rats, mice, and cockroaches?

What's the range on this technology, and what happens if we move the router around with us? Maybe we take it to a new building and plug it in there? Or maybe we can use the wifi modules on phones to do this also? It sounds like a great scanning device. And how long before we can also see huge chunks of metal or strong magnets with this technology, based on how radio waves interact with them?
The barriers involved in selling used cars are so high that people have established a billion dollar industry by simply taking the cars from people for free and promising them money later through tax receipts.

Just let that sink in.
That's Finland. Sweden have fixed fines for traffic violations. For minor crimes, there is "dagsböter" that is scaled by the income of the perpetrator (notionally by 30-150 days' salary, but in actual use the fine is set much lower).
Unfortunately not this year :(
It is traditionally a famous generic male name, like "Joe": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_cadence
Does this mean they need to ship an additional scripting runtime?
Apart from Balanced Payments and Dwolla I don't think anyone gives a simple way (means using API) to send payouts. This could be huge!
Do we really want other companies to be like Amazon? If the Amazon endgame is "own the entire retail sector," I'm not sure that we ("we" meaning "society at large", not just "Amazon shareholders") want any company to be like Amazon... even Amazon.

Not to mention that when the endgame is "own the entire retail sector," even if other companies want to be like Amazon, in the end they'd have to kill Amazon to do it. Owning the entire retail sector is incompatible with the existence of lots of thriving alternatives. It's like the Highlander -- there can be only one.
It's likely that baseload and renewables will meet half way. Supposedly, adding a small amount of battery capacity to wind turbines dramatically increases their power output predictability.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514331/wind-turbines-ba...
link: http://www.skycraftairplanes.com
Your grasp of justice is about as firm as Attila the Hun's understanding of orbital mechanics.
The Launch is Dead
I'm still looking for one with a spiffy UI, a backend written in Python with Flask not Django, and not using MongoDB as a back end. I'd piece together my own but it's tempting to just use NewsBlur or one of the others that don't quite meet all those but see active development.
Could I start a TokuMX replica to get the data across then shut off the master and switch to using it?

We have a very large install and migrating the data on production systems would be very difficult otherwise.
Please bring this to Canadian Bank accounts. Please, please please. :-)
I want one for me! :)
A lot depends on what happens the 6% of the time it fails. If failure just means that it fails to recognize that there was a gesture, then 94% is probably fine. It's not that big of a deal to have to gesture twice 6% of the time to turn off a light or skip to the next track.

Failures where the gesture is recognized as another gesture would be a lot more annoying.
They just started in India.

https://www.amazon.in/
This is a really good example of how to write a shutter letter. But it's not appropriate to criticize companies that shutter free services (i.e. Google) for not doing every single checkmark on this list (especially if they only miss one of them[1]).

Google has a lot of free products. Notably, Google's shut down of Reader comes under a lot of flak for how it was delivered to the public. But 37signals sold Breeze for $10. Google Reader was free. And yet, Google did everything 37signals did here except recommend alternatives. They even gave a longer sunset.

37Signals had customers - Google only had users. There is a world of difference in the utility and obligations in the company-user relationship there. Google could shutter any product it wants without telling anyone. It would be bad press, but doing anything more is a kindness and respect for users in imitation of how companies should treat customers. You didn't earn that kind of respect or attention from Google, they gave blog posts and announcements and free data and sunsets because they care. In most cases you would only get that kind of attention because companies don't want to burn paying customers from using their other products.

This in no way criticizes 37signals. It's a great discontinuation announcement. But stop deifying them and demonizing Google when Google actually went above and beyond in letting you know. Those comments aren't productive, they're just angry.

[1]: http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-googl...
I've signed up for this beta release - even without ACID transactions on a cluster-wide basis, the other features alone are worth it, especially the compression.
He did say "minor as far as sex is concerned" - i.e. talking about the age of consent.
Balanced Payments only allows transfers to customers with Wells Fargo accounts, right? Does Stripe allow transfers to all banks?
Point #1 is a recent lesson learned for me. I remember seeing Robert De Niro on Inside The Actor's Studio saying essentially the same thing. He can't tell anymore while filming a movie how good it will be based on how the shoot is going, since he's been on well-run productions that flopped and chaotic stressful ones that came out great. Now he just concentrates on giving a great performance no matter what and doing a lot of work.

Also: http://dcurt.is/what-a-stupid-idea
The product looks amazing. Congrats to Ben, Steven, Nate, Kevin and the rest of the team working on this. Great job.
I too would love to be able to accept ACH payments. Our customer base is currently organizations that are happy to pay via ACH, but CC is not usually good option. (B2B)
That's crazy I have a Westie also, and you are right on point with trying to find the right balance.

The reason I posted this was that I love the concept of tracking the amount exercise "Toodles" is getting to see how it affects her mood. The device looks like it's on a big dog, and I'm wondering how it will look on a small/medium size dog as well.
You could checkout Balanced Payments (https://balancedpayments.com/) - a YC company that does ACH.
On an only moderately related note... here are two more things that I would love to see on the roadmap:

1) Better support for disputes in the API (right now to get all our disputes, we have to pull _all_ charges and walk them...)

2) The ability to generate test disputes. You guys provide an awesome test API, but there's no way to generate disputed charges in testing, so I can't test any of that functionality...
Citation needed.

Of course, here you are:

"Historians have demonstrated that peasants married at significantly later ages than aristocrats. Whereas members of the nobility usually married between age 14 and age 20, peasants probably married in their mid- to late twenties. It is likely that new families could not form until the parents of the potential couple were either dead or old enough to retire, so that they could turn over their land and dwelling to the new couple." [Linda Mitchell, Family Life in the Middle Ages, Greenwood 2007, p. 40]

"Reliable statistics are rare for the Middle Ages, but the evidence suggests that the typical age of marriage among the peasantry was the late twenties for men, the early twenties for women; similar ages probably applied for the urban laboring classes. The ages decline, particularly for women, further up the social scale. Among prosperous urban families, the marriage age for women was typically the late teens; the age varied widely for men. In the aristocracy, ages in the mid-teens for women and early twenties for men seem to have been common." [Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Daily Life in Medieval Europe, Greenwood 1999, p. 27]

[The following text is concerned with the very beginning of Early Modern period-post Late Middle Ages] "When individual ages are looked at, however, we do find very occasional marriages in the early teens. One girl gave her age as thirteen, none as fourteen, four as fifteen, twelve as sixteen, but all the rest of the brides in the sample, 990 of them, were seventeen or over, and more than four out of five had reached the age of twenty. Only ten of the men were younger than this. The commonest age for women was twenty-two, for men twenty-four; the median - the age below which as many got married as above it - was some 22.75 for women, 25.5 for men." [Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost: Further Explored, Routledge 2001, p. 83]
Wow, thinking of the determinant as the product of generalized eigenvalues is much more intuitive than the computational definition. Thanks!
CSS-only: Load images on demand
CSS only approach to implement lazy image loading. Warning: hacks around.
This American Life is always great and The Complete Guide to Everything is actually really humbling to listen to (in an odd way)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5824286

Currently #9 on the front page.
The title of this submission ("Did you notice Github's Spamming") implies that Github is doing this. Is that the case, or rather is it the case that spammers are USING Github?
Really neat feature.

Is a rollout to scandinavia in the weeks, months or years-timeframe?
Ask HN: Will Apple ever reject apps with unethical in-app purchase schemes?
I teach high school, and I watch otherwise reasonable students sink significant money into silly click-bait games. Their eyes open a bit when I objectively help them understand how they are being manipulated. They laugh a bit, and then go right back to playing the games.

Do you think Apple will ever reject apps that have abusive in-app purchase schemes? It would mean turning away from a lot of money in the short term, but it might be a smart move if these games are likely to create a really strong backlash anyway.
Yes, but profitability also delineates users from customers. One will naturally get more attention than another.

Comparing Google Reader to 37signals' Breeze is comparing apples to oranges, and it's not fair to subsequently conclude Google didn't do everything it could when it gave a longer sunset, but no alternatives. That's the one thing they didn't do, and their users were free.
Anything beyond basic, generic "IT" will need people to manage it.

Is everyone on 4G wireless? How do you control security and access to company intellectual property? You just trust third party solutions that could go down at any time?

There's a million reasons you'll need IT.
I like the look of it. However, before I give you access to my data some more information on how it works, who you are, why I should use it, etc. would be nice.

That said, I hope you this gets traction. We need more options.