skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really excited about this because Stripe is the most popular gateway for our WordPress plugin and this opens new doors for many of our customers in the UK that don't wan't to use Paypal.

Would love to see them continue spreading East.
Learn cooking ! Its a great way to unwind and take your mind off things. Get a COSCTO membership and a Pasta/Rice cooker. You will eat healthy, impress your dates.

Nobody will remember or care about how you sacrificed your well-being/health to put in extra effort at work. Except your body and it will remind you of this as you grow older.
Another point to consider is how is the winning number selected. Here the lottery numbers is decided through a powerball mechanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerball). So given that there is only a fixed amount of numbered balls the winning number is drawn from, this skews the probability of the winning number being 111111 versus another random number.

For example normally, if the numbers chosen are truly random, the odds of 1111111 being the winning number is 1 / 10 000 000.

But lets say in the powerball bin, there is 7 '1' balls, 7 '2' balls and so forth, then the odds that first drawn number will be '1' is 7 / 63. That ball is then removed from the bin. The odds that second number will be '1' is now 6 / 62 etc.

That brings the odds of 1111111 to 7x6x5x4x3x2x1 / 63x62x61x60x59x58x57 = 2 / 1 000 000 000.

Quite a bit less... The effect will vary depending on how many balls of each number there is in the bin, and how balls are replaced once selected. Some powerball lotteries has a preselection draw which determines which balls are in the final draw, but the same argument is still valid.
C++ is a bad example. C itself is mindblowinly complex, and C++ layers more on top of that. A better example might be Python, or possibly Lua. Languages that have been designed, rather than grown organically, unlike C++/C/Javascript.
Given that you eat out only once a week and buy lots of fresh veg and fish I take it you like to cook, which is exactly what the original poster claimed he wanted to avoid. How much do you think it would cost you to eat as well as you do now, but with almost all meals eaten at restaurants? I imagine that $1000 a month isn't too unreasonable.
It depends on the JVM you are using. If it is an open source one you can look yourself.

A little old but Oracle JRockit: The Definitive Guide is a pretty good book on the JRockit JVM.
Even lots of low latency standard Java is tending towards single threaded non blocking models without synchronisation.

The costs of synchronised blocks is high on the JVM. They defer to the operating system for thread scheduling, they enforce a memory barrier meaning all data is flushed out to RAM rather than CPU caches, and multithreaded code dirties CPU caches, reducing performance.

More server side code should be single threaded than not in my opinion.
I live in Africa, so my odds of winning the lottery isn't too bad...
Google worker held as a dam spy
The US worked very hard to restart the Japanese economy after WWII. To suggest that the US wants to keep them held down or "doing reasonably ok because we let it" is beyond silly. If a Japan in shambles was the goal, all the US had to do was just leave them alone after the war.
Depends on the attackers attitude to risk: $5,700 worth of BTC might be a lot harder to track than the sale of an exploit. He doesn't have to trust any other human beings (i.e. the person he is selling to at least) not to dob him in at a moment's notice. A safe 5K might be very much preferable to him than a less safe 20+K.

(caveat: unless otherwise stated numbers in this post, and many of my others, are plucked from thin air)
I don't think it's actually a safer alternative to base your diet on a reddit comment. Just saying.
Stripe now open for business in UK, other countries and currencies coming soon
Thanks for sharing. I'm working (very slowly at the moment) on an AVR simulator in order to teach myself C. I think this is a great little program to compile and test with.
I'd argue it's a client error. Whoever's hosting the info is happy to host it, while the client needs to go vote out the politician that censored it.
I agree with the premise but not the justification you use. I see the opposite at work, where the submitter is changing the intent of the author.

Sidenote: Why would someone down vote this parent comment?
There's nothing wrong with admitting that JavaScript is a really bad language.

Your use of the word 'admitting' is peculiar. There's nothing wrong with claiming that JS is bad. There's also nothing wrong with claiming it's good.

I enjoy programming in CoffeeScript more than any other language I've used (Ruby, Python, Objective-C, a little Java, a little C). Plus, as dynamic languages go, it's fast. To me, these two things make CoffeeScript a fantastic language.

And since CoffeeScript is just syntactic sugar on top of JavaScript, well, I suppose JavaScript must at heart be a fantastic language too.

(Evidently today's my "someone is wrong on the Internet" day).
Michael Crichton was excellent for identifying the latest "worry" that was making the US anxious (sexual harrassment, nano-technology etc) and writing a novel about them.

Rising Sun was written when a lot of people were worried that Japan would overtake the US as an economic power. We all know how that turned out. It's also why I'm sceptical when people talk about China being the next economic superpower.
... as opposed to a random blog post?
I'm working in a experimental library to do a similar thing, but using echo state networks (https://github.com/neuromancer/libmind).
It will be nice to compare both approaches with a SVM to classify words.
This is great! I have been waiting for this for a loooooong time! I hope they will come also to other European countries soon. But at least in UK! This is great!
This is good news, and hopefully websites will vote with their feet.

Stripe may work out more expensive than PayPal, but that extra cost is probably offset by the amount spent on heart medication.
Yeah GUI widgets done in js in general for some reason have really poor quality and no attention to subtle details that make up the polished experience on desktop. Well at least they take 2 KB instead of 5 KB gzipped, that's totally a win.
As I've commented before: it provides a perverse incentive to editorialize a title until it gets upvoted to the front page and gets enough attention from a mod to be corrected. It makes the game of titling a submission even more complex.

When I see something with Title A in the morning and re-click the link with Title B later in the day, and to my surprise they are not only the same article but the very same HN submission, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This happens a lot, perhaps because I'm on the East Coast and the mods are on the West?

I've started spending less and less time on HN partly due to this, and all the meta-discussion that it generates. Reddit has successfully managed to take these types of discussions off into subreddits where they can be safely ignored, it is the first discussion board of any significant note to not shove meta issues in front of everyone. I'm actually starting to wish that HN would become more like Reddit, in some ways.
Maybe you should start...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12531837
You know, I thought of another fallacy behind all this stuff.

We're told this is to prevent the next 9/11, but there's a problem with that. It's very unlikely -- for basic political reasons -- that this will be used to investigate the rich and powerful.

Huh? I thought people in caves in Afghanistan attacked us cause they hated our freedom?

The cave dweller thing is probably the biggest lie about 9/11. Bin Laden was rich, from an even richer family, was financed by some of the richest people on Earth, and had state support.

The next Osama bin Laden probably owns stock in the companies that are acting as contractors for the NSA right now. Or if he doesn't, his supporters and financiers probably do.

Case in point:

So now the DEA is using it to bust drug dealers. Why isn't the SEC using it to bust criminals on Wall St.? Think about it. Who's richer? Who's more connected? Who's gonna lawyer up and bust your chops hard if you come after them? Who's got friends and family members who might actually sit on committees in Washington that oversee your project?

Edit:

Given the above, I also consider it a good possibility that systems like this could be used against us. Recall 9/11 again. They were our planes that were flown into our buildings, not someone else's. What's the probability that a well-connected rich state-linked international terrorist will use systems like this to gather intel against the United States itself in preparation for a terrorist attack.

Want to smuggle in a nuke? Wouldn't it be helpful to pull all the personal information and movement schedules for all the people who work security at the Port of Long Beach...? to give just one example. That could be made to look like a routine investigation quite easily, and if Snowden can exfiltrate so much data so can someone else-- especially someone with a higher level of expertise and sponsorship.

How many NSA analysts have access to these systems? How much does that job pay?

And do any of them have dangerous personality traits or ideological affiliations? Guerilla domestic terrorism from within is also a possibility. Remember this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerball#Fortune_cookie_payout
No; you shouldn't put any numbers onto your lottery ticket because you shouldn't have a lottery ticket.
The easiest way to fix the sentence is to put the least precise term at the end + using the oxford comma.

> Having interviewed Timothy May, Phil Zimmermann, and Cryptome founder is probably how (…).
....really? I was more a fan of the Underworld diptych :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the...
I saw that article a while back, it explains why : http://www.ireallylikefood.com/760978972/is-prison-food-tort...
Yes.... but it didn't catch my attention because the domain was atlantic.com but now... is schneier.com so the context changed, at least for me.

I have one message to the executives of those companies: fight.
Great post. I especially loved the screen shots of the signup and payment forms that very clearly had Wufoo branding all over them. It really goes to show that if you have a good idea you don't need to have all your I's dotted and T's crossed in your MVP; If people like the idea they'll look past those little lumps.
Why Big Brands Want to Be More Like Your Startup
Wow. I've been doing internet marketing for 12 years! Where does the time go?
Sorry, but this is not true.

Just a few days ago I was muttering to myself about why I couldn't just stop caring about the opinion of an essentially meaningless person, and enjoy the excellent things around me. The moment I had a beer, I stopped worrying about them, and got on with it. The understanding that I had previously been an idiot outlasted the mild inebriation.

I will be exploring why one drink was so remarkably helpful here. In the meantime, it was helpful, and I would have been in a healthier mindset if I had drunk it sooner.

Many things -- alcohol, caffeine, food, exercise, work, video games, reading -- affect how we think and feel. We can use those effects for good and bad. The trick is to understand those effects, get the good, and avoid the bad.
They are already available in France (and apparently Ireland too):

https://support.stripe.com/questions/what-countries-does-str...
Not exactly fortune cookie but there was a similar occurrence.

There was a set of numbers that appeared in one of the episodes for the TV show "Lost" and coincidentally, 4 of the numbers matched the numbers from the MegaMillions jackpot. Exactly 41,763 people matched those four numbers and each came off with $150 apiece.

source: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/06/entertainment/la-et-...
Debunking the myth of RAID10 as best practice for MongoDB on AWS
I don't think it can be considered as random once a whole million dollar compaign was launched around it (compared to a reddit comment I mean, whatever is written still means nothing till you have a product). And I kind of find Rhinehart post a little more detailed : http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424
"They agree that two chains in contact can react but there is an activation barrier that prevents this happening readily." So, it's really strong but if it ever actually breaks it will explode?
We're in private beta in France and Ireland. (I work at Stripe.) We try to make sure that things are very comprehensively tested before we allow public signups.
When the state comes and asks you to help fight its war, this is not a request. It's an order. If you do not cooperate, there's quite a bit that can be done to you. A lot of it is in the category of "soft power" -- your stock price falls, your shareholders vote you off, your offshore accounts will be investigated, you might get anti-trust scrutiny...

Google wins massive points to me for asking questions at all. Granted it was a timid little hand raised in the classroom of a psychotic nun with a ruler in her hand, but it's something.
Yeah, but writing a large, maintainable program in Javascript is if anything even harder than in C.
Okay, digging about some more, and actually running Gumbo in its html5lib wrapper, it appears no quicker than html5lib itself (the cost of the tree building dominates the actual parsing). :(
I'd really be interested in knowing why it's not "Stripe EU" instead. What sort of problems they had trying to do that, and what needs improvement for that to become reality.
In light of some of the revelations about companies being coerced into providing access to user data, it's made me wonder about other potential targets. Has anyone inquired whether GoToMeeting, TeamViewer, Carbonite, CrashPlan, Mozy, etc. have anything to say about government access to their systems? All of these companies protect vast amounts of what's thought to be private data, and seem like they'd be prime targets for the "collect it all" philosophy.
Thanks for your advice.

Can you point a relevant link with regards to Zed Shaw.
Why not start your own similar message board? I'm not just being glib. You know HN is based reddit's free software, right? I would love to see more competition and more variants of moderation policies. I've watched reddit's and slashdot's both evolve in interesting ways. I've run phpBB forums and ended them quickly b/c of the load of moderating. I've been on usenet groups with extremely high signal to noise ratio. I've got many more ideas on how to solve the problem of optimizing signal to noise, so I know many more people must have them. I say, GO FOR IT!
For any Ruby on Rails developers in the UK who may now be jumping into Stripe for the first time because of this, Pete Keen has just released (or is releasing today) a new book called Mastering Modern Payments (http://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments) which focus on Stripe and Rails.
Your post is content-free. What do you consider explicit advantages of Javascript over Dart? Because to my eyes Javascript looks like a similar language with no type system and terrible scoping.
Lavabit's Ladar Levison is a national hero
"If you pick SAX for a typical web-app, you've screwed up."

Way too glib. There's lots of good reasons you may choose to go with that, and there's lots of reasons why you may not. DOM-based approaches pay a lot of resources for their functionality. If you don't use all of that functionality, you may lose over a SAX-based approach. If you're resource rich, hey, great, go with DOM unconditionally, but not all web apps are in that situation.

It's one advantage the XML ecosystem has over the JSON ecosystem; while JSON can be parsed in a streaming manner, you can generally count on a good XML event-based library for your environment, whereas streaming JSON parsing libraries seem more unusual. If you need it, you can count on it in XML.
Maybe the same performance but not the same programmer productivity. (Speaking from experience here)
Be a sociopath—or just act like one
If we're going to make this analogy work, the guy who died could have easily worn a bullet-proof vest or avoided getting in the fight at all.
Are you sure you read the full Vanity Fair article? It's pretty strongly suggested from the article (assuming the picture there is complete) that he didn't actually take any business or trading strategies.
> I don't think it can be considered as random once a whole million dollar compaign was launched around it.

This is an argument for relying on existing products, which have development budgets in the tens of millions, decades of research and experience and dozens of dietitians and scientists working on perfecting them.
Smaller companies are mostly hosted on the "cloud." Hell even bigger ones like Netflix are.

They don't need to cooperate. All their data is already there at the data center. Only the cloud provider needs to cooperate. So the question really to ask is: is Amazon, Linode, Digital Ocean, RackSpace, etc. cooperating?
I would say a world hero.
It is my impression that Meal Replacement Plans aren't generally designed to be lived off of exclusively, but as intermittent substitutes to normal meals, or temporary replacements for them. That is a very different goal than what Soylent is trying to accomplish.
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Our Internet access is being censored in secret because of entrenched interests in big media companies. The desire to prevent piracy is not childish in and of itself, but this is a doomed approach with considerable collateral damage. Successful digital content delivery services have proved the viability of alternative business models that actually benefit consumers. So, a better analogy would be asking whether you'd have been upset at losing a job making horse drawn carriages when the car got invented. Probably yes, no-one likes losing their job - but you'd have to be pretty selfish to lobby for a blanket ban on automobiles.
"I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who, on pretence of managing the public, only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out; first, that they may, without danger, preserve all that they have so ill-acquired, and then, that they may engage the poor to toil and labour for them at as low rates as possible, and oppress them as much as they please; and if they can but prevail to get these contrivances established by the show of public authority, which is considered as the representative of the whole people, then they are accounted laws."

-Sir Thomas More, "Utopia", 1517
I think it's for familiarity for C++ programmers:

enum Day {
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, ...
}

You can assign values too:

enum Color {
Red = 0xff0000,
Green = 0x00ff00,
Blue = 0x0000ff
}
I don't think it's actually a safer alternative to base your diet on a powdered formulation of anything. Just saying.
could you post some authoritative proof/references for the black boxes?
"How does this advice stack up against the recent security issues with compressed HTTP traffic?"

It doesn't. The recent issues with HTTPS suggest there may be a fundamental tension there between performance and security. In fact the recent issues don't particularly care "where" in the HTTPS connection the compression occurs, it just has to be inside of it. It won't matter whether you use standard HTTP compression or roll your own (which on the TCP socket won't look all that much different anyhow, you'll just be giving up browser support for automatic decompression).
Does this CV appeal to your business?
My answer is 'yes', that those two are equal. And that it doesn't matter if the first try is specified -- it is an equal chance for either of those to occur on the first try.

If that is wrong, I'd love to know why. Can someone summarize why entropy would make those sequences unequally random for a fair coin? I guess it's not clear to me why they'd have 'different entropy values'.
It's a great electric car, not a great car. Hence all of the awards are for being a "Green Car", and not general awards.
You can write lock free algorithms that are not single threaded as well. If you design your system so that only 1 thread is doing the writing of data you avoid a lot of the negative performance implications you mention.

That said, I completely agree. Many times making a single threaded system faster will improve performance vs making it parallel.
Lua is elegant, small and fast, especially when you're using LuaJIT. It's the language I reach for first when I need to embed a scripting language in a system (perhaps to replace configuration files).

Its only real drawback is a lack of libraries/package manager compared to, say, Python/Ruby (respectively). I guess some people might miss built-in support for classes.
Most of the MRP I found are ultra-high on protein and overall aimed toward muscle development. A comparison with Soylent (once its out) could be very interesting though.
That 'trusted' privacy policy link in the footer of nearly all commercial websites? That's backed up by legislation that makes it about 'privacy' protection, yeah?
Like Lotus 1-2-3 as well, and lots of other software back in the 8 and 16 bit days.
I agree that I see a lot of title edits that are simply worse than the original. This is pretty much classic micromanagement. Someone who doesn't know the details thinks they know better and force their opinion on everyone else.
The Unity game engine calls their equivalent to this the Unity Asset Store (http://blogs.unity3d.com/2013/07/19/funding-indie-games-asse...) which was discussed previously here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2500426 ("Unity Asset Store: $3000 revenue in 5 days from a spline drawing tool").
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Isn't anybody going to talk about the irony of a developer service that found success without writing any code? I think the take away is git or ftp, ruby or php, sql or a text file, json or xml. Customers don't care, not even developers. I find that interesting.
I'd consider it as much of an error as a 404 in this context.

1) Link works: 200

2) Take down notice arrives

Now:

3) Link not found: 404

Then:

3) Link not available: 451
I once felt this was kind of extreme, but I now increasingly find it rational...

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-se...
Stripe has flat pricing:

https://stripe.com/gb/help/pricing

Paypal has tiered pricing:

https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-receiv...

So, it depends on which tier you're on for PayPal, it may go either way. However, I suspect most people are sitting on 3.4%+20p on PayPal will find Stripe cheaper.
Osama bin Laden didn't go to Harvard. His (half?) brother, Abdullah bin Laden, graduated from Harvard Law School.