skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thought is an overestimation most people's relationship with gender issues. The level above "ignorant apathy" is "battle of the sexes", which is where most gender-activistish people are. Thoughtful reflection is rarified air.
I think "position" was meant more literally.
Which protectionist laws are these?
I read this as "Emacsulating" and was disappointed to find I had misread it.
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Keeping the NSA's program(s) running would be easier if they keep Snowden out of the news.

Fighting with Russia for him would just draw more attention to it.
Wonderful. This reads like an evolution of CurveCP, with the goals of real acceptance and downstream flexibility.
This is an interesting perspective. I always thought smartphones emasculated the other parties in the conversation, as in "I'm playing with my phone because I don't think you're as important as what's on this screen."
The corrolary to your argument would seem to be that Obama is negotiating with Russia for Snowden's release. It strikes me as more likely that he is not. The whole issue is a domestic nightmare, having turned Obama from "good guy" to "bad guy" in the eyes of many (notably the primary demographic of this site).

He doesn't want a trial for this guy. He just wants the issue to go away. The security damage has already been done, if you believe the bit about Snowden having distribute d encrypted copies of the documents, etc...
No Tesco here in Malta :)
You really think you need direct GPU access for a simple blur effect?

There's already plenty of ways to accomplish blur effects with CSS and JS. Do a little research.
0.05% is a tiny amount. This is the first shot though across the bow on lowering the transactional rates set by Stripe, Braintree etc.
It doesn't "matter," I was just putting in my two cents. Penning a micro-editorial on a bit I perceived to be inconsistent, if you will. I'm trying to post a hopefully discussion-provoking comment on a small forum community; I'm clearly in agreement on the media and their knee-jerk public lashings.
Is FreeBSD supported?
That article is very confused. It starts by claiming that Ecuador did what the letter said. Then it points out that the letter is not an official document (it was unsigned). Then it concludes that everything in the letter is still true, even though the Ecuadorian government pointed out that it isn't.
Innovative policies, hatred assured.
Of course mobile apps are always running slower than native, but that wasn't the issue here. The claim was that web apps CANNOT do what iOS 7 does and that's just horseshit.
The cat is out of the bag, really catching snowden at this point is just to serve as an example for others, not in strategic value of its own...

China already has whatever they wanted from snowden,
Russia already has whatever they wanted from snowden,
Encrypted copies of his data are in the hands of probably dozens of journalists and ambasadors,
and the story is already on the news...
Shouldn't they have waited until they actually have Snowden? Isn't he in Russia now?
“I’m convinced that nature is far more imaginative than we are." - Stamatios Krimigis

Love that quote.
Kevin Bacon had better get on a plane to Ecuador before he's arrested for treason.
I read through this article and I don't believe it has a real bearing on most of HN's audience. I can understand politico-technical news and politics with underlying technology, but this is just pure government policy.
And the fact that Snowden brought everything he had into Russia, and you have to be a complete idiot to believe Putin's line that nobody from the Russian government or intelligence has talked to Snowden about it, or gotten a copy yet.
It bothers me that this is the highest voted comment to this thread thus far.

Why should anyone have to subject their ideals of what their wedding, a deeply personal experience to them, and basically nobody else, ought to look like?

Why should the extravagance of their wedding be cause for anyone to criticize them? It wasn't tax dollars being spent, nor was the money stolen from any of the complainants. The cost of the Parker wedding doesn't affect anybody else, and could arguably seen as a beneficial set of activities as pertaining to trickle-down economics.
Wait, wait, one of the guys who was behind facebook and the creator of napster (both of which use the internet to profit from other people's information or creative efforts) wants us to feel bad that something he held sacred was violated on the internet?

Um, what?
And yet, isn't having the strongest species the goal of an evolutionary algorithm? Having multiple players do multiple runs (parallelization) and ending up with the same / a similar species sounds like a goal to me.

Perhaps you'd like to see more varied species get comparable end-results, but I think you'll need a more varied obstacle course / 'goals' in that case.
That wasn't an article. That was an ad. Nice to see TechCrunch still takes paychecks for fluff pieces.
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"Sign up and develop. When you're ready to go live, tell us a little about your business."

It's actually more of a "PayMill" model than a Stripe model. So they allow you to begin development but they don't actually promise immediate on-boarding.
Everyone commits 3 hypothetical felonies a day - he just has more assets he's risking and does things that draw more attention.

This is why very wealthy people have to have lawyers to circumscribe their actions, and security guards to protect them, and ... Not a wonderful way to go through life, I suppose, and unfortunate that we live in a world that requires things like that.
Search is the main feature that I find it extremely helpful with GReader. I usually search for something in my GReader, before going to the web search. This should be at the top of priority list.
And what is your opinion of the act of aggression of the NSA towards you and every other US citizen by surveilling you without a warrant?

Ecuador is providing protection to a whistleblower that is trying to help you question an unconstitutional program and reign in abuses. In a way that makes Ecuador a greater defender of the US Constitution than the USG.

I don't know about you, but my loyalty is to the system of governance and rights laid out by the Constitution before some amorphous geographic shape determined by natural boundaries and history. I see Ecuador as helping the person that is helping protect the Constitution. I don't necessarily know their motivations or agree with the reason they may be acting the way they are, but I do know that the World needs more people like Snowden, and people willing to go to bat for Snowden, if we are going to be able to defend the Bill of Rights and other documents/policies outlining basic human rights.

P.S. Threatening economic sanctions isn't "nice" or "classy" either. The US is as guilty as Ecuador for making this into an adversarial tete-a-tete.
Are you sure they didn't?

Refunds could easily have been something evaluated on a 1-by-1 basis, quietly, to avoid creating a stampede of requests even by those negligibly affected.

Notably, despite all the public feuding, RapGenius today still appears to be served by Heroku.
Oddly, until reading this article I was always under the impression the Shepard Fairey created the Firefox logo...something seemed off redesigning the Firefox logo and not mentioning Shepard, so I looked into it and...

It turns out Shepard Fairey created the red "Mozilla.org logo and mascot" (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_%28mascot%29).
(I built the first version of Stripe and work here.)

I think the unfortunate aspect of these clones is that they're lazy. I have huge respect for anyone that innovates in payments -- I know how hard it is, and I'd imagine it's even harder to do that as part of a larger company.

What I find disappointing is when a product copies everything about Stripe -- everything from Stripe.js to the "live/test" switch to the "1/2/3" getting started pop-up when you create your account to the nomenclature of "InvoiceItems" to the ordering of tabs in the account settings.

It's certainly MasterCard's (and anyone's) prerogative to do that, but I don't think it's particularly worthy of support from other engineers and makers.

We should encourage each other any time we see great, original work -- creativity is hard, and new ideas are often delicate in the early days. It'd be really cool if MasterCard did that, but Simplify unfortunately doesn't seem to have anything that's new. (Please correct me if I'm wrong!)
Let's call it HURD!
Yeah, but none of those announcements have come from NASA. In fact, one of the recent solar system exit announcements triggered NASA to publish a press release [1] to let everyone know that Voyager 1 has, in fact, NOT left the solar system and all these announcements are wild speculation by people who don't directly work on the Voyager 1 team.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20130320.ht...
In holland, if bank robbery and manslaughter would give you 10 years each, then combining those two at the same time would probably give you something like 12 years. Moreover, if you are doing these crimes apart while not being caught in between, you might get a 'combined' sentencing of 14 years.
Add-on provisioning can fail (independent of fork). In that case fork still continues the rest of the process.

If you find it's always the same addon(s), please let us know.
Further, it does not appear on this list:

http://www.cr.nps.gov/archeology/sites/antiquities/Monuments...

I'm assuming you made an error.
Sure. But Amazon's raison d'etre is medium to large customers who need the flexibility and power and don't mind the complexity. If you are smaller then simply go higher up in the stack with the "built on Amazon" services e.g. Heroku, IronMQ/IronIO, MongoHQ.
My point was that being confident in itself doesn't make you good at something.
I think that's a bit harsh. The UK went into Europe based on the ideals of the common market, what came after isn't what anybody signed up for, so there's a constant mistrust of the overarching nature of the EU bureaucracy from the population at large, which the politicians who want votes reflect (and obviously stir up too).

I think this clip from the classic comedy 'Yes, Minister' sums up Europe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVrN-gkzVYI

The UK doesn't hate the rest of Europe, but clearly each nation will play its hand for its own political reasons.
57kb of raw text without the images -- text is cheap. :)
As usual, there is no information at all on which countries that is supported, I guess this is only supported in USA. Maybe I'm the only one outside of America...

Edit: Yeah, after registering, confirming my email and trying to apply for a full account, I know that it's only for America. Sigh...
That's what's so baffling about it: our solar system is Hotel California.
AWS has good support for provisioning scripts through OpsWorks (I believe they use chef).
Wait when were weddings ever sacred?

How willfully ignorant of humanity do you have to be to think that a wedding like that was going to just go without comment?
This seems a bit cynical. Either Mastercard is changing their organization around from the top, or there happened to be a rogue product team that managed to fight their way through the bureaucracy to launch something cool.

Either way, props to em.
When to ask for help
If you're doing a million in sales, you should negotiate a rate with your CC provider which will be far lower than the list price. All of the providers - Stripe, Braintree, PayPal, Authorize.net, and most likely these guys - will negotiate a rate with you, and if you're doing any volume you ought to give them a call and ask.

When you call, they will ask you two important things:

1. What is your current volume (if you're looking at switching from someone else)

2. What is your chargeback rate? (How often do angry customers call the credit card company to issue a chargeback against you?)

If you are growing and have increasing transaction volume, and you aren't defrauding your customers, then you can absolutely get a lower rate than you're paying now.

This is true for so many things in business - the list price means nothing!
They are also disturbing because they increase maximum prison times.

If real criminals are getting short sentences (because they were smart, and took a plea bargain), then politicians will be forced to increase sentences. Eventually, you reach a state where the maximum sentences are insanely high, to compensate for the fact that criminals will always get them discounted.
Mind blowing story!
Bellroy.com: a really nice product website
The remarkable thing is, everyone had already forgotten about how much they hate Whoever Parker until he wrote this. If he really wanted to be left alone he would have just shut up about it. This is just attention grabbing and trying to re-write history, painting himself as a sympathetic figure that shouldn't be picked on for living an extravagant life while the majority of his countrymen are getting kicked out of the middle class.
How about 23 hour solitary confinement for multiple years as a cruel punishment?
That is good news, and reminded me to go to eff.org and invest some money in our future via a donation.

I try to read everything that Bruce Schneier writes on security, politics, and policy.
We wish. If that was the case, we would keep paying them. :)
You're saying that you're not arguing about semantics, but that's the entire content of your argument. The talk of "practitioners of civil disobedience" taints any arguments that follow. I could just as easily say "other practitioners of yoga feel that actions needed to be guided by energy to be considered justified", and say that Snowden's actions are unjusitifed for that reason (hearty apologies to any yogis out there).

So strip the labels entirely before applying them ruthlessly.

That said, let me talk to the heart of your argument, which is more about whether his actions are justified, rather than what they are called. I would say that Snowden's goals are twofold, in my mind. One goal is to expose a secretive and possibly illegal operation perpetrated by a government that is supposed to represent the will of its people, that was being kept secret despite the fact that publicly acknowledging it arguably does not compromise it as a means of stopping the organizations that it is purportedly targeting, and thus the secrecy was not essential to the operation, but rather was to keep people ignorant of the violation of their privacy.

The second goals is to encourage other people to come forward with information that they feel satisfies these criteria.

The third goal, which is really, in my mind, a non-goal, is to expose the government's harsh treatment of people who reveal government secrets.

Facing trial and potentially being incarcerated furthers only the third of these goals, which is not really even a goal. It hurts the second goal significantly. And it is largely irrelevant to the first goal, which is accomplished whether or not he is penalized. Successfully fleeing prosecution advances the second goal significantly, and only hurts the third goal. I don't see how the fleeing prosecution affects the first goal in either direction, which is the most important one.

So are his actions justified? I think, as do many others on this site, that the first two goals here are very important ones, and the third is not important, so in my opinion, yes, justified. I hope his conscience is clear. The other question, whether they are effective, is separate, and remains to be seen. I am not optimistic; violations of privacy cause no real substantial harm until they do, and at that point it is too late to protest. I haven't even switched away from google, and my parents don't even know who Edward Snowden is.
Nope, just various linux flavours
Not wanting to sound like an ahole but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_an...

As for the parent comment, I know it changed everything. But beyond the initial years, how has it changed your life over, say the past 2 years. Is everything back to normal? How long do you continue changing your behaviour and living in fear? (I realise you're not American, just asking)
It's largely the workout.

Chest workouts use pushing movements, which encourage you to round your shoulders forward. Pulling movements, such as pullups or deadlifts encourage you to bring your shoulders back.
Isn't the current situation of 20% as a bottom limit the same?

The US has a history of cartel like behavior in finance. Just look at the percentage charged for IPOs [0]. I'm sure if you created a similar graph for venture capital financing that you'd see a black line on the graph just like the one created by Mark Abrahamson, Tim Jenkinson, and Howard Jones.

Trying to break that 20% barrier would seem acceptable. After all, the goal here isn't to get the VCs to take less equity for the same amount of money, but to provide more flexibility in the tradeoff between cash and equity.

[0] http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/people/Documents/Tim%20Jenk...
Indeed. Obama can play the diplomatic equivalent of "We do not negotiate with terrorists" (like "We do not negotiate with allies", I guess), as a machismo stance while Snowden conveniently walks free until he's forgotten by the mainstream American media and stops being a political problem.

The problem with this approach is that it doesn't buy Obama much with the people he's disappointed on this issue. But it does get the matter out of the public eye and prevent additional embarrassment.
Thwarting Wiretapping: Can a refrigerator function as a Faraday Cage?
Not yet but apparently they started working on it: https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-oce...
AWS has recently added "OpsWorks" which is essentially Chef integrated with AWS. I played with it and it has a nice interface and good tutorials, but what's actually going on under the hood was a little mysterious.
Hey buddy,

Thanks for the feedback. We've gotten a lot of the feedback. What we did was make the frontpage more clearer. It used to be images/videos on the frontpage, but they were now replaced by Product Boxes.

Pre-ordering is currently being contemplating. What do you think?
At some point, when you become famous enough (or infamous, in Parker's case), things like extravagant weddings are going to get attention from the media, whether you like it or not. I would not be entirely surprised if Zuckerberg took this into consideration when he planned his surprise, low-key backyard wedding. In the wake of the great recession, which most of America is still slowly recovering from, fancy cars and nice suits aren't going to win you sympathy from the American public. If you care about the public's perception of you, then adopting a low-key lifestyle would be a prudent effort in managing that. If you don't care, then feel free to live extravagantly, and be prepared to either tune out the blogs and trolls, or have some thick skin and learn to deal with them.
I would imagine it's more a case that they come from the "startup world".

Most entrepreneurs like hearing and supporting success stories.
> Off the top of my head, I remember that multiple people suggested that text should be allowed to contain NUL characters (not just at the end), which I agreed to. That's not terribly significant, though.

This seems contrary to what the docs[1] say:
> Text is always UTF-8 encoded and NUL-terminated.

Which is right?

[1] http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/language.html
Your argument is that Hiroshima didn't change anything?
> The sun produces a plasma of charged particles called the solar wind, which get blown supersonically from its atmosphere at more than 1 million km/h.

On earth, that'd be 'supersonic', by a "slim margin". But what's that even mean in space?
"At this time, however, the merchant must be a U.S. business."

https://simplify.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/1173591-s...
The only thing I really miss when not using AWS is security groups, iptables isn't hard to use but its nice to have this as a simple external service.
Two day payouts looks like a great innovation to me. :)
Wikileaks is refuting some elements of this story on Twitter, https://twitter.com/wikileaks:

"A wired article today misdescribes a volunteer's role. Earlier statement: http://wikileaks.org/Eight-FBI-agents-conduct.html … description of role: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/herbert-snorraso... …"

"At no time did Sigurdur Thordarson 'work' for WikiLeaks. At no time did he have access to sourcing or publishing systems."
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Actually have to agree - I ended up buying one of their wallets based on the site (I was looking at several other too)
Ask HN: How does Austin, TX compare to other tech cities?
Hello Everyone,

I am a developer that worked in a few startups in San Francisco and Mountain View. I then moved to New York for family reasons. But there is one thing that bothers me in the Valley or Manhattan. Housing is very expensive. I have a salary of 90k, but that does not allow me to live in my "dream" house in any of these cities.

I noticed that housing is really cheap in Austin, TX and it makes me want to move there. I was wondering for any of you that moved between a big tech city and Austin, how does Austin compare to the rest.

How are salaries ?
Is there a lot of cool startups ?
How is living in Austin, TX ? Too hot ? Is there a lot of restaurants ?

Please share your experience!
Thank you!
Look at the bright side. This is complete validation for your approach. Now MC is copying your business model and got to market strategy. You're defining the landscape. Powerful stuff.
To Stripe's discredit, that's not a new idea :-). Don't worry; we'll fix this soon.
Measuring the "average" in any power-law distribution is mostly meaningless.
"I was backed into a corner and had no choice but to give in to any demands made of me by the hotel or the commission."

The California Coastal Commission waited until 20 days before the wedding to blackmail him for one million dollars, simply because he could afford it. How on earth do they get away with this abuse of power?
Hey, the content of this page changed! I found the original: http://www.neurope.eu/news/wire/ecuador-says-letter-safe-con...
Are all the staffers of those members of congress and the counter-parties with whom they interact also exempt? If you know someone's address book, you can spy on them while maintaining the appearance of spying on others.
Like a bird flying into a strong wind you will slow down and may even start to move backwards.

In a way, this reminds me more of something I read from a computing book as a child, about early time-shared mainframes, where when overloaded a mainframe would spend more time loading programs from disk to memory and saving them back than it would work on any program. At one point, called a "beached whale", the system is constantly loading and saving because there is no time for any processing, as too many processes are fighting for CPU cycles.
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Remotely modifying iptables terrifies me.
I'm so happy somebody brought up his wacky paragraph about steelhead trout that classified them as a "fancy" rainbow trout, which is like exactly how Glenn Beck would have put it. It's exactly the kind of equivocating BS that a professional editor would have caught and cut.

Also, there's some irony that Parker chose to publish this rant about click bait (and other journalistic sins) in Techcrunch.
New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and Bcc lines of e-mail data
PLEASE tell the world why it's so damn difficult to let non-US businesses use a payment service? We're dying to know.

Is it because of bullshit regulations everywhere? Why has it taken you forever to set up shop in a couple of places in Europe? Why not the rest too?

Seriously. What is it?