skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please read up on this particular charity. Because of the way they target the aid, they seem to be largely free of the ill effects you imagine.
I use their free 4G service now.

Yes, there are 101 up-sells and add-ons that cost money. However, as long as you use that 5MB minimum none of them are surprises. The '$2 fee' you speak of is (as you implied) not so much a fee as 'recharging your prepaid card.' They we're upfront about it and they make it easy to disable.

Everything else is a GoDaddy style up-sell. Annoying, but very easy to ignore.

Other than the initial purchase I haven't paid them a cent.
Firstly I thought it was a parody, then I moved to the Company page and figured out it isn't.
Well, maybe there is a market for this after all.
I just used Stripe for one of my major annual events. I used PayPal the first two years, and all I can say is Stripe is far superior to PayPal. I do wish the dashboard was a little more configurable, but that's minor. Everything else is so much better.

Pros:
+ auto deposit into the back account without having to make requests

+ easy refund process

+ easy charge identification process

Cons:

- a few customers like using PayPal, so there's that. We dropped PayPal entirely from the online sign up and payment so for the users who wanted PayPal we had to send them our PayPal address. Not entirely smooth or professional, but that's not Stripe's fault, it's the reality of having an entrenched payment processor.

- the dashboard displays total volume, and that's it. Would like this to be configurable. Showing total volume since day 1 is pretty useless, especially since it does not appear to remove refunds.
Noah Kagan's "Ultimate Entrepreneur Getaway"
I can't help this nagging feeling that this logo is "inspired" from someone else - http://in.pycon.org/_themes/pyconindia2013/img/2013/sponsors...

My brain says it's either Square Enix or Dice but a simple image search proves me wrong.

EDIT - FOUND IT! It's shockingly similar to the Nintendo's Gamecube logo - http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vylf7fWwu3A/TsGdXHP9UsI/AAAAAAAAAA...
The article does not compare apples to apples unfortunately.

The author compares buying a shoe rack on Google Shopping Express to buying on Amazon. He is impressed that a plywood laminated shoe rack sourced by Target is only $12 while a bamboo shoe rack on Amazon is $20, and makes much of imagining, zomg-like, 50% savings on his Amazon purchases over the year.

If you look at the same Amazon search results page where the author finds the bamboo rack, there is a serviceable resin rack for $13 (the author is obviously not going high-end with his plywood one). Four results down from his bamboo rack is a natural wood rack for under $16.

The real gorilla horse in the room is that the author goes on to lament $5 shipping for Google, which swamps any savings he was getting by going with inferior product. "Now, Google has to make sure its free delivery thing becomes well adopted the way Amazon Prime was, because the $4.99 delivery was a non-starter for me, and ruined the economics."

Twist ending?
If you read the article, they have 2 signals, one corresponding to what you're imagining your right hand doing, one to what your left is doing.

With this you have turn left, turn right, and both together is turn up.

To really fly it you need another control for speed. (They just made the speed constant.)
You're right, I do not, and I admit I thought little about how important data continuity is. Everything below is speculative and clarification would be greatly appreciated:

I just read up on the OCO and that really does suck. In this case I doubt $280 mil would have paid for 2 launches without making it half-reliable but perhaps a spread on risk across multiple similar missions would work. If (and this is a big if) there are enough missions that need roughly the same payload volume/size, orbit, etc. they can split the cost of a third rocket and both build a carbon copy backup, or if a backup would be too expensive invest in maintaining the staff and tooling for the most expensive instrumentation for a faster, cheaper backup build later on. If one of the mission fails, they have a third backup launch and a realistic shot of having/making a second satellite. If they both succeed, the launch is sold for profit to someone who really really needs the launch window or donated to civilian and less critical mission satellites.

This is of course stretching into changing NASA bureaucracy and would have tons of unforeseen consequences but would have the interesting side-effect of providing more low-cost or even free piggy back launch opportunities, especially for CubeSats. Also, talking to an engineer at Orbital, the increased volume could really help lower costs for everyone Also, in the case of critical staff for calibration, operation, etc., how the cost/opportunity cost of having them just sit there while the mission rebuilds versus losing them to other projects?

My thought isn't to passively set aside part of the budget for backups but to actively use the resources to create a smart risk management system that (and I'm making a big assumption) looks at the satellite and launch hardware as far more expendable than it is now, in exchange for more overall throughput. Thinking about the OCO, it's difficult to tell if it's an example of why it wouldn't work or if the delay in what (I would think) would be a critical data source on our impact on our planet is an argument for a shift in philosophy. It would be like going from "Once in a while, the launch will fail but it's rare so let's focus on making the satellite stay up as long as possible" to "Rockets blow up all the time so let's make sure we're not the ones stuck without a backup for what is already a ten to hundred million range dollar project." With the rapid progression of everything from electronics to materials to information technology, it might be beneficial to start thinking on shorter mission time lines for Earth orbiting missions.

Rereading your comments though, it seems that I am under the delusion that a larger portion of NASA's mission are exploratory and more flexible versus missions that support critical infrastructure or carry instruments for data that is far too valuable. Or maybe the bureaucracy carries more overhead than I think it does and the days of NASA taking risks like the explorers of the Old and New world are behind it.
Just wondering, do standard wi-fi chipsets provide the raw signals needed to implement things depending on spectrum-analysis like this? Some super-raw mode?
How about Bluetooth chips? Sound chips (for supersonic)?
Especially when the author could actually do an apple-to-apples comparison. The shoe organizer that cost $18 at Google (with shipping) is $16 at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001M2D9D0
Sticking Fact: in front of something doesn't make it true.

Living your best life, and achieving your own goals, doesn't mean ignoring everyone else in the world's well-being (for most values of "your own goals" and "your best life").
The quote you started off with directly contradicts the rest of your post. You say people should live the life they want to, then you tell people how they should live their lives.

If someone wants to donate money to charity, they should donate money to charity. That's the life they want to live.
Mifare fobs do use a challenge response protocol. Old fobs use small keys though.
Python has been available since v8.4: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/plpython.html.
Ask HN: Suggest me a Linux (Ubuntu) Desktop Computer for coding
I am coding side projects at home using a laptop that has both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11 installed in partitions. Pretty amateur stuff.

Looking to buy a desktop with dual monitor to get serious about coding at home/home office. Anyone has any recommendations for a pre-configured desktop with Ubuntu setup ? Or would you recommend buying a desktop and loading Ubuntu on its own ? Please recommend dual monitors as well if possible.

Note: I am not a Mac guy. So I would just stick to what I know best.

BUDEGET:Upto 3,000 USD.
That probably means the keyfob needs a receiver (which I suspect they don't by current design). But I agree, a two-way communication would be nice as the keyfob could then report whether the car was locked properly.
Finally an RSS reader that does just what you would expect from an RSS reader, and that does it well.

This may be the first real Google Reader alternative I've seen so far.
I was calling it a donation, because I do offer the service for free.

I wanted to offer the service to people that might not be able to afford it, and not have them punished by having fewer features.
Seems like a good candidate for machine learning. Train a neuralnet to recognize the EEG patterns that a given person wants to use to do a given operation.

For example, this one was having the subject think about making a fist, but it could be that having them "will" the copter to move right could be more intuitive. And with the right machine learning/recognizer it might be feasible.

This would be a serious amount of fun to work on.
Tesla has momentum, however. And most people hate dealerships. They want the Apple experience for cars - and Tesla is ready to give it to them.

It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
The 4/5/6 line is the busiest line in the country. It gets more traffic than the entirety of Washington's, Chicago's, Boston's and San Francisco's lines.
Are you really going to suggest that Apple took LG's Prada concept, which was announced on the 12 December 2006, and copied their version (which looks nothing like the Prada, which was a feature phone) which they announced 28 days later, bearing in mind that this was over the Christmas period? I've worked in manufacturing for a nearly 2 decades and I can assure you that it is actually impossible to do this. Neither the iPhone or the Galaxy S look anything like the LG Prada. Incidentally, the Samsung device was announced over 3 years after the iPhone was initially launched. I'd suggest that the point that you are trying to make is void of any merit whatsoever.
Thanks so much!! <3
| Google is opening up CardDAV

CardDAV was accessible, but it was not documented. Some Googling could get you some archived mailing list threads where people posted the 'secret' URLs[1]. Even then, I couldn't get responses to all of the requests defined in the RFC. I remember getting a listing of supported request types from the server, but not all of them worked. Also "All Contacts" was not accessible. "My Contacts" was the only address book accessible to CardDAV.

For reference, I've put the stuff I was playing around with on Github: https://github.com/bsandrow/scratchpad-google-carddav

[1] I say secret because those mailing list posts were the only references I could find to them, so I don't know how they were obtained.
New WPMU DEV Pricing
Beautiful design. Great work Shoplocket!
Hi, Mike Levin here. Sorry, can't help following my Referrers (HitTail habits die hard). The "knowing where to start" problem is exactly what I'm trying to address with Levinux. Something I didn't get into in the interview was how I actually started out on the Amiga computer, and had the carpet pulled out from under me, and then moved to Active Server Pages in Windows, and again had the carpet pulled out from under me. The short stack is a fool me twice, shame on me reaction to the state of dev-tech. If not your main dev platform, then at least a safety net.
Anyone who believes that charity and giving are not morally good actions clearly has a warped and extremely cynical worldview.
If I was Amazon I'd be more worried about self-driving cars.

Self-driving cars will make natural delivery vehicles. If Google partnered with local retailers to provide check-out via wallet and delivery via automated cars, it would disrupt more than just Amazon.

Google has all of the nascent building blocks in place: Google Wallet, Google Shopping Express, Google Shopping, Google Maps with StreetView for routing, automated vehicles, and, of course, eyeballs.
I don't have children, but this is my understanding:

> Do these make me a pedo?

In the eyes of the law, likely.

> What about similar pictures my in laws have taken?

Yes, it's not advisable to take these kind of pictures.

> What about pictures of my young nieces and nephews doing similar things?

Yes, if there's nudity.

> Additionally, have you been around kids in bathing suits?

Not a problem.

> Sometimes the ones for little girls don't fit too well. There aren't exactly many curves to hold things in position at that age. What about accidental pictures of those mishaps?

Don't take pictures of kids in bathing suits.

Pretty much the rule is don't be around kids and don't touch kids unless they're yours, and I think everybody knows this today. And as a global rule, don't take pictures of kids at all, but especially avoid any that could involve any type of nudity, intentional or accidental (I'd avoid bathing suit shots for sure).

There might be a greater societal harm being done here, because as a male in my 20s, I have almost no interaction with children (which I think is fairly typical, at least among my peers). This could be a problem for my generation, as we're less likely to know how to handle kids; and it could be a problem for the younger generations as they don't get to interact with many adults besides their immediate family and friends. Either way, I think the societal rules about what's ok and what's not ok are reasonably well defined, if very arbitrary.
OP appears to be extrapolating his money savings incorrectly? They base their savings off of one purchase and its cost difference. There are a ton of things I buy off Amazon that are significantly cheaper than big box stores, most of them electronics / audio related.
Just so you know, mushroom networks controls patents that are the reason why there are so few connection load balancers on the market.

The cheapest box they sell sells for $2500 and probably has as much hardware in it as a $250 router.

They are definitely not a patent troll (they have a product) but they're commanding a premium price because of (1) this patent and (2) the complete unwillingness of the ISP industry to provide premium products to people who are willing to pay for them.
Not in the video posted. Both cars look like they are on a driveway.
Altruism or selflessness is the principle or practice of concern for the welfare of others. It is a traditional virtue in many cultures and a core aspect of various religious traditions, though the concept of "others" toward whom concern should be directed can vary among cultures and religions. Altruism or selflessness is the opposite of selfishness. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism
Which parts of the dashboard in particular? Would love to hear your feedback at amber@stripe.com!
A Test::Class Anti-Pattern
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001M2D9D0
the articles say 4 directions, but I'm going to assume that's because it's what they've been able to find clear enough patterns to map actions to. If they thought up a few more, ex "think about kicking your left leg" to move forwards, it could probably work. The leader talked about using wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs.
Same here, slid.es is brilliant!

I had to learn more before I throw out PowerPoint, so I Googled (which is difficult because of the top level domain in the name, had to search with quotations).
http://ltlatnd.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/slid-es-for-lightwei...

TLDNR: Formerly Rvl.io, free tier, commenting. Paid tier at $7/mo has revision history, private slides and offline export.

And no, I don't work or know Hakim :)
Reader used to be a fantastic way to share great content with your friends. When the sharing was replaced with +1 it indicated the Google wanted the sharing to happen on Google+ [1]. Which means content creators have to get on G+ to syndicate, despite every CMS having RSS output already.

[1] http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/chris-wetherll-google-reader/
What does it have to do with American media in general? Or were you just randomly bashing?

Versus the amazing quality of Chinese or Russian media? Brazilian media? Romanian media? Or maybe it's the French that have outstanding journalistic integrity and never make mistakes!
I just think you should spend money in a way that maximizes your own happiness.

Studies indicate that spending money on others is one of the best ways to increase your own happiness. I don't have references handy, but check out the book "Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending." That is loaded with references to studies that support that claim.
Thanks, the service looks pretty cool, you should maybe consider a categorised catalog of items.
Most important question: How often do you check for new content? A RSS feed reader is useless to me if you will only check my feeds once a day for new content. Bare minimum reall needs to be once every 30 minutes for me to consider it.
quote from the article:
"I’d pay 20-50% more for products just to avoid the inconvenience (and corresponding delay) in going to a physical store, like Target."

i stopped reading after that.
first, open a text editor.

two, write

<?php

that's your first line of code.
I don't know if a game with miniatures will be appropriate but Zombicide is pretty amazing.
Integrating Stripe Payouts into Exec
If "monitoring your dog's daily activity" isn't a first world problem, I don't know what is.

That being said, I would buy a similar/simpler device for my cat–not because I give a damn if my cat how many steps it takes but because I want to know where it goes all day (on a map).
Well, depending on your goals. I'm doing a pretty good job meeting mine with the resources I've got, so I don't mind kicking in a bit to give other people the opportunity to do the same.
I think you're missing out the core conceit of this thread: ENDING the mortgage deduction hits all current house owners, and drives down prices for all currently owned houses.
With shipping Google is now more expensive. Author needs to realize that prices fluctuate on Amazon.
"Now we are all sons of bitches."
— Kenneth Bainbridge

Yes, yes, yes and yes.

I'm not even saying that I would act differently if I were a military commander. War is hell, granted. But that doesn't make it right, and we should be honest with ourselves. It's not right. Killing innocents is not okay; using civilians as leverage in an act of terror is never okay.

We should strive to be better than that.
The uk beta is awesome! I would love to know when we can send money to UK and other EU accounts. Any stripe employees care to comment on any potential roll out roadmap outside of the US?
"People should keep their money (earned by trading time from their lives)"

What about people born into wealth, who inherited the money their parents or grandparents earned by doing something useful for society? Where do they fit into your picture?

On the flip side, what about people who cannot find any job that pays enough for them to save money, who are literally living paycheck to paycheck. Do you want to live in a society where we have a class of people who have no social mobility at all, and who lack the power needed to change anything about that?

Ayn Rand's image of the heroic capitalist who amasses a fortune by solving society's problems is very unrealistic. Even people like Mike Bloomberg and Bill Gates, billionaires whose fortunes were amassed as a result of their own work, received help early on. Who do you think paid for Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg to go to Harvard, where they met the people that worked with them to build their businesses?
That looks totally sweet! self promotion
Until 120. Brains never stop growing and changing - it slows down, but there is no bright line.
Indian student scores with DOB and school addresses
how many education bodies store data and how easy it is to retrieve such data, ooh this scares me ... every time i fill a form with my data in it, i should keep in mind that it is now known to world !!
Implementing smarter iOS metrics
postgres 9.3 is bringing writes to FDW and this will be really interesting
Strange that this is the same hacker news that will crucify someone for telling a dick joke within earshot of a woman. But child abuse? No biggy...
It's a crime to possess images of children that are "lewd and lascivious." In fact, there have been many cases of people carrying images of their children or grandchildren. Convictions in such cases are extremely rare under this standard because the possession doesn't qualify as lewd and lascivious. The problem in this case is a court's interpretation of a statute, not the statute itself.

And the idea behind targeting the consumers of child porn is really quite simple. If we can agree that creating sexual videos of a minor constitutes abuse, then those who purchase the tapes are supporting the abuse.
I actually value any kind of well writen advice & constructive criticism.
"just put the hard work into the interesting parts of the code, and avoid reinventing the wheel."
That's probably my real problem, what to do when I feel that I need to reinvent the wheel, to have a full control over my code.
Thanks for that, and best use of ‘[...]’ ever. Given how people think, those blanks will be filled in with way dirtier words than I used before.
Ahn? I think a self-driving car would still need someone to carry the product from the car to the door, or am I missing something?
Right now it's every 20 minutes. If I get enough donations I can reduce this by adding a few more servers to the parsing farm :)
On latency and the layered system constraint you have a point.

> Even if it's 'oh they're just two different APIs working together', it's not a singular API, which is what we're talking about here.

I thought we were talking about the utility of REST architecture for the API(s) involved. Obviously, if you have requirements which require two different APIs where the consumers of one API are the providers of the other API, then regardless of architecture, it won't be one API, but that's orthogonal to the architecture appropriate to either or both APIs.
You know, I could be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure they were also fictional characters, and the actors didn't even have sex on stage?
PLEASE charge $30+ per year for this, so I can use it and not have to worry if it's going to be taken down due to lack of funds later on.
"Fact: to achieve your own goals, you need 100% of your time, money and effort."

Well, this guy would disagree:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_ford
Google Entices Mobile Developers To Its Cloud With Kinvey
Well, it's offtop, but I hate when somebody calls me a liar.

In Wikipedia: "6 декабря 1908 года Толстой записал в дневнике: «Люди любят меня за те пустяки — „Война и мир“ и т. п., которые им кажутся очень важными»".

In English: (google translate)
December 6, 1908, Tolstoy wrote in his diary: "People love me for the trivia -" War and Peace "and the like, which they seem to be very important".

I don't read Reddit at all, so I don't care about their Redditisms.
I've been working with Balanced's API since they were Poundpay. I think most of your comments about copying are very misguided. The style of their documentation format is completely irrelevant to the quality of the product (and wrong IMO), which in my > two years of experience, has been superb. Your comments about test cards are just wholly incorrect, and the style of their website and how they present their products is as homogeneous as anyone else offerring a developer product.

Re: UUID's, Jeff Atwood has a good post explaining their pros and cons: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/03/primary-keys-ids-ve....

> From my complete outsider point of view it feels like Balanced is full of slightly subpar copy ninjas.

I couldn't disagree more. Over the past couple of years, I've come to trust and admire the product as much as any other, including Stripe. These guys know what they're doing.
Ah gotcha - didn't realize you were planning to self host, that makes sense.