skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We chose Spreedly for our startup and it was really easy to integrate. I like the idea of having the customer's credit cards details saved independently from the Payment Gateway and Merchant account, so that you're free to switch any time you want if you find a better deal in just 5 minutes via the control panel.

Beside this though we found 2 main problems along the path:

1) Setting up a merchant account for multi currency (we charge in USD and get paid in EUR) is a nightmare and it takes a lot of time (in the end it took more than 3 months!). Things get much more complicated and costs can rise quickly. Also, you have to register with American Express separately and you have to do it for 2 separate accounts (one for euros and one for dollars).
So you end up with lots of different accounts (one for Spreedly, one for the payment gateway, one for the Visa+Mastercard merchant account, one for American Express) and this makes things much more complicated to manage.

2) Spreedly decided in the last months to focus just on the Spreedly Core (vaulting the credit card data in a secure place) and sold the subscription part to Pin Payments
http://blog.spreedly.com/2013/07/15/pin-payments-purchases-s...
So this means that the developing of new features was dropped and their minimal control panel stayed the same over the last couple of years. Not sure if this is going to change in the future with Pin Payments, but it's always a big question mark for the future. Support and maintenance is still covered, but I wouldn't expect any new stuff for the future...

So I guess that in the end if I were in your place I would stick with Braintree or Paymill, and we would probably have chosen Braintree if at that time they would have offered the payment gateway and merchant account as well (they started only since last year I think).

I'm looking forward to see Stripe coming in Europe and hopefully cover all the states very soon.
There was a time when you could identify the entire country of Cuba by the "accent" of their CW signals. For whatever reason, probably the popularity of certain homebrew gear designs there, most Cuban CW signals had a characteristic "chirp" due to the frequency shifting a little at the start of each dot and dash. That, and sometimes their average frequency would drift up or down the band, and you'd have to chase them around.

I had a lot of fun with radios as a kid (15--20 years ago). It was so magical to talk all across the world from your bedroom. Then this whole Internet thing happened. ;)
Thialﬁ: A Client Notiﬁcation Service for Internet-Scale Applications
Yes, we need to describe it better. The messages are all symmetrically encrypted using a unique key for each message. The symmetric key is then asymmetrically encrypted using each recipient's public key. We're using strong crypto and we're using it as it is implemented by the platform, so we're not re-inventing the wheel.
Any time one is trying to have a serious argument, one must do it from the Principle of Charity:

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

This article doesn't even come close. Elon Musk is in charge of the design of rockets that have successfully delivered payloads to the ISS. It is just basic competence of a reasoning mind to presume Elon knows some things about thermal expansion (rockets get very hot!).

So someone who is trying to have a reasonable argument would say, okay, he understands this issue, so I wonder what the answer is and why he doesn't think it is a big enough deal to go into detail on this point. Or perhaps I misunderstand something about the design (always a reasonable assumption!)

This article is about as far in bearing from that as can be. I don't find it to be worth reading.
This is fascinating. I wish we had view to the bug report submitted to Microsoft; I would love to see the discussions about this one over there.
> Nothing capital intensive would get done...

I would like to see the categorization of capital-intensive projects, because I wonder if most (not all, but most) of the value of such intensive uses of capital today are related more to financialization than actual leveraging of the sum total knowledge and effort of the species towards a more comfortable future. From my limited vantage point, I think what is happening is not just an alteration of time preferences (time horizon) for capital-intensive projects, but an aversion that leads to an alteration of the "risk horizon" as well.

Where is our generation's Hoover Dam? Or Manhattan Project? Or reaching further back in time, where is our Age of Exploration if you are into more private venture-backed efforts? For every LHC or Tesla, we have dozens of regional wars, hundreds of make-work programs, thousands of financial engineering projects at various Global Fortune 1000 syndicates, and millions of highly-leveraged real estate speculative ventures around the world. Our state-of-art in residential shelter have major subsystems that are still largely recognizable to someone from a century and a half ago; where is the work on cheap aerogel SIPs, more self-maintaining homes, lower energy footprint communities? Why are we generating a giant pile of waste BTUs from air conditioners and not recapturing that back into our water heaters? There appears to be a large disconnect between what we as a civilization know and what we deploy (my personal theory is this has something to do with available energy).

It is not clear to me that all those PE and corporate attorneys are actually allocating capital in the furtherance of general comfort for all, but rather instead they appear to be mini-max'ing for their interests at the relative expense of slowing our current state of advancement. Adam Smith had some warnings about a dominant capital-holding class overriding the "invisible hand" (which my first time through TWoN decades ago I didn't appreciate, and I still have my doubts), and I wonder if he wasn't on to something.
For a counterargument, see http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19848/musks-hyperlo...

I'm all for innovation and pursuing alternate forms of transportation, but I don't pretend Musk's claims are above criticism.

As for the jerrygangi.com article, it grossly misrepresents Warrent Buffet's investment strategy:

>Here’s a piece of news: real investors don’t care what industry they invest in. Warren Buffet has invested in railroads, furniture companies, insurance companies, and hundreds more.

This is in direct opposition to what Buffet has actually said about investing [1]:

"Never invest in a business you cannot understand."

Using Buffet's actual statements and not some misrepresentation of his ideas, it seems clear that Buffet would require a great deal of due diligence to validate Musk's ideas before considering any investment.

[1]http://www.socialphy.com/posts/off-topic/9789/Warren-Buffett...
bitcoin.de has some sort of cooperation with a German Bank:

https://blog.bitcoin.de/en/bitcoin-de-und-fidor-bank-ag-vere...

As from the start of the cooperation, which will be
activated upon the registration with the German Federal
Financial Supervisory Authority, Bitcoin Deutschland GmbH
will become Fidor Bank AG’s so-called “tied agent” to
conduct the bitcoin trading for Fidor Bank AG on
bitcoin.de.

That might help them with most of these things.
IP addresses change all the time

IP addresses assigned by ISPs do, yes. But as I understand it, the IP addresses Craigslist banned in this case were the ones assigned to 3Taps' domain name based on DNS records. That's a different situation.
The problem with taking that tone is that it is by no means obvious that the article poster actually understood the part of the proposal he is criticising.

That makes it very hard to take his criticism seriously, and doubly so when the tone is so condescending.
"if it comes from a big company, it's about fucking you over or taking your money."

Also e.g. social networks and cell phones come from big companies, but for some reason no one is suggesting to ban the technology that they are based on.
The closest I've found is the subreddit r/WeAreTheMusicMakers . Totally not as technically focused as you've outlined above, but I've seen some interesting threads.
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I had the same experience. While that's undoubtedly a credit to our tremendous intellects, it also supports the idea that education in "computers" needs to be rethought.

We've been teaching kids math, writing, reading, etc., for centuries (and we still struggle with it). But coding is relatively new, and our educational system doesn't know what the hell it's doing.
This is a trivial corollary of the Basic Technique For Finding the Correct Answer to a Question on the Internet:

Strongly assert a wrong answer on the Internet.

The correct answer will appear shortly.
I think you're connecting all the wrong dots.

Things Graeber says:

* The ruling class could not wish for a better system (hyperbole of course)

* The ruling class has figured out threats to its position

* Such systems arise organically

Things he does not say:

* The ruling class has engineered this system after figuring out what threatens its position, and made it seem organic
Languages like SML and OCaml are pretty clean, pretty simple and have an awesome parametric polymorphism system.
The post is obnoxious to read. You get like 4 lines at a time on a 15" display.

I know the design is for supposed readability, but if that were the main goal, then why have the gigantic annoying ad banner at the top that you can't close.
Comparison of programming languages and tools side-by-side
Ahh - thanks for the distinction. Makes good sense to me.
The API in question here is the C++ embedder API. It's altogether a different issue to Google changing some Go library APIs.
>> "This is in direct opposition to what Buffet has actually said about investing [1]"

I disagree. Buffet probably knows quite a lot about those industries. You don't need to be an expert you just need to spend some time getting to understand them well enough to make a balanced decision.
I wish we could move away from unclear log levels and sprintf argument mashing. Log4r is complete but it's design is inherited from a static world.

Something simple like console.log() makes it easy for the developer to add more context to the line because he doesn't have to think how he will represent the data or choose a log level.

I've been working on a similar solution in the ruby world. It's nearly stable API-wise and already running in production: https://github.com/zimbatm/lines-ruby
> V8 devs have personally told me they dislike documenting certain aspects of V8 and its internals because they fear that end-users and developers will rely on those internals.

This doesn't strike me as too egregious, personally. I can understand library maintainers taking any steps necessary to prevent people from relying on fluid internals. If anything, this suggests (to me) that the interface might not be rich enough to accomplish what people want. But it isn't a sin to keep documentation of internals private.
Yay! Link yet?
Handwavium just made my day. Thanks for that.
Scala Traits vs Java Interfaces
http://scalatuts.com/blog/2013/08/17/traits/
Great visualization! It might be interesting to normalize mentions by the number of other languages mentioned in each comment. Something like "Looking for JavaScript hacker" is a much stronger vote for JavaScript than "Looking for someone who knows Ruby, Python, and HTML5/CSS/JavaScript. Erlang knowledge is a plus." I think that while JavaScript is growing on the server-side, it's going to be overrepresented due its dominance on the client side.
Silicon Valley funds Instagrams not Hyperloops because it funds things where it can manage risk in a predictable way through capital. Contrary to other comments it's not down to scale of investment. There's a lot of investment cash out there and it's actually VERY hard to find big investment deals - if you have an opportunity to put a ton of cash to work it's appealing.

Hyperloop will be absolutely bogged down in political dealing, backhanders, corrupt politicians, labor unions, incumbent industries so inefficient they'd rather spend money on lobbying and gaming the political system than doing something about their fading competitive position.

This is just not something that allows financial backers to have any kind of forward visibility, even modeled, into their investment.

Silicon Valley isn't TechCrunch. That's just the noise and that kind of startup is just what you see and hear the most.

There's not a lack of thinking big or looking outside the consumer internet software space.

Look at how Silicon Valley bet heavily on Cleantech and got its ass handed to it. That wasn't lack of vision. Or lack of capital. It was venturing into investment arenas where success factors became more political than economic; more corrupt back room dealings than efficient execution and management skills.
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> https://twitter.com/20committee

John Schindler is only a source of "excellent information" on this case in the sense that Ann Coulter provides "excellent political commentary". What a total joke.
Information that moves the market is allowed, as long as all investors have access to the information.

There was some contention about that last year with the NetFlix CEO releasing subscriber numbers on Twitter that affected the stock, but the SEC issued guidance earlier this year that said that disclosure on Twitter and Facebook were ok, as long as the accounts were public.
> In short, Silicon Valley has killed major innovation.

Whether I agree with this statement or not, it to me sounds like postmodernism.

A technological extension to Baudrillard's "death of the real": To wit, we present modest technological change as "innovation," thus stifling actual innovation through a redefinition of what is actually rather status quo.
With all respect, obviously you was able to reproduce the bug and fix it. Maybe you forget, that language barrier to Palestine can be an issue too, so because you make not clear what you asking for, when he send you back a link. Obviously it is more work to post on Mark Zuckerbergs Page than respond in the way you want.

Plus i am very sure, the mistake was on Facebook ends in the first place. I experienced it myself: Since 6 month now i try that Facebook take action, because the break of privacy issues and violation of Facebook terms by a Facebook user - i even not give an response on any channel in tried.

If you really do not give him his reward for the Report and keep you informed, than this is extremely unfair from facebook end. IN this case i strongly recommend WhiteHat Hackers in future cases: Do not count on Facebook Team, publish bugs and security issues on Blogs. Obviously the Facebook team give priority not based if a problem is urgent, only how "public" it is.

Frank
The page was nearly unusable on mobile...here is a web cache link http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
It may be that the little numbers represent how you have to roll. For instance, the {5/12} might mean you have to score a 5 on a roll of 2 6-sided dice (or one 12-sided die).

At the bottom of the whole map, he has a big list of these {N/M} scores along with characters.
Plus, any alternative (Language derivatives? Really?[1]) is going to have an uphill public relations struggle, at least unless they too have a name that sounds vaguely obscene.

[1] I like them a lot, but are they really less cruel than the pumpster?
The best way to take feedback: Keep quiet
Simulating clicking/mouse move events can be a pain for PhantomJS/CasperJS.

PhantomJS also runs some ancient version of WebKit, which means it is not compatible with modern browsers.
Your argument is spot on, however, Hyperloop is just a different game altogether. It is an infrastructure project and those projects are usually bankrolled by governments (local + federal funds). Even SapceX seems to be largely supported by NASA contracts.

The only large SV project I've heard about in recent time is Planetary Resources, the company that wants to mine asteroids. But, the returns for that expensive project would approach the 1000x that SV firms wish for.
Thanks for the detailed explanation of how your brain works - I found it a fascinating read and insightful for my own thought processes as well, also having one of those brains that "won't shut up" as you so aptly put it.
Sorry I missed this. It's an Ubuntu setup, though without the core Ubuntu desktop. I've installed many of the Ubuntu fonts.
By itself there's nothing wrong with it, it just contributes (along with the other problems) to it being very difficult to interact with V8 as a whole.
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Long Live the Add-On: Stormpath Launches on Heroku
Thanks for your thoughtful comment sampo, I agree with all your points. The Nature News title is inflammatory and irresponsible.
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I never argued that Buffet doesn't understand railroads, furniture companies, etc. My point is that there isn't enough information about hyperloop, yet, to truly understand the risks involved in investing in it.
That way you can delude yourself into thinking you are productive, because you are writing code immediately. However, productivity is not to be measured by the number of lines of code; rather, by 1. the amount of actual functionality implemented, 2. the elegance of the design (which saves time refactoring later on).
The more specific production subreddits are a lot better than WATMM I've found - stuff like /r/drums, /r/edmproduction, etc
Those aren't contradictory. If you put the two statements together, the claim is "real investors should understand more industries". You can agree or disagree with that, but it reconciles the two pretty simply.
A foot is about a third of meter, and a mile is about a kilometer and a half. That's all you really need to remember. Heck, in a discussion like this you could pretend a mile equals a kilometer and be fine.

Oh, and a pound is about half a kilogram. I won't expect you to remember all the stupid volume units, but those three tiny conversions are worth knowing.
Responding to the question and answering the question are two different things. Explicitly refusing to answer the question is an especially bad way to dodge a law punishing you for... refusing to answer the question.
The new yardstick for the best Android design is here - Timely Alarm Clock
Okay, but who is Dr. Drang? As nearly as I can tell from a web search, he is someone puts some code on Github and writes a blog. Has he sent rockets into space? Why does he feel like he gets to talk down to someone who has sent rockets into space, on the subject of engineering?
Not really surprised by the inaccuracies. Memories fade over time and are often replaced my an amalgamation of memory fragments and what makes sense.
I appreciate the time he took to write this, but I cannot say the same about his tone.
> So what about SpaceX and Tesla?

Neither of those depend on the kind of engineering necessary for a large terrestrial infrastructure project (and the required engineering is more similar between SpaceX and Tesla than between either and a large civil engineering project.)
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I totally thought the headline was referring to Campbell discontinuing their disgusting beverage. Sadly this news is much sadder.
I ultimately think it comes down to that people don't think they need these things because they have options now (however poor they may be compared to the option that could be built in the future).

"The stock market used to be a place where entrepreneurs went and raised money for their companies. That’s what the stock market used to be. Today the stock market is a place where hedge fund managers and quant traders are shaving fractions of a penny off benign movements in price and volume. One of the byproducts of going from an entrepreneurial stock market to a hyper-traded stock market is that new companies can’t survive unless they have a market cap of at least $10 billion dollars. Don’t even bother going public with less than that. It’s not worth the time, or the money, or the effort."

I think because of the above, that sites like kickstarter and indigogo have become sort of like the new IPO market where would be entrepreneurs and hobbyists can raise funds to make things people want, without the huge burden of the legal liabilities associated with typical investments. (aside: I wonder how people could build on top of this to become sort of the quants of these new platforms?)

To be honest, I don't think people are really craving a faster way to get to their (shitty) jobs, and would much rather a better socioeconomic situation… what does the hyperloop for that look like that would render the current reality obsolete and undesirable comparatively?
I haven't seen the terms come up in this discussion yet, but the concepts of post-scarcity economy or abundance economy are relevant. This article is more focused on the gap of why we aren't in a post-scarcity economy now, and I think there is weight to the thought that we all work so much now because the ingrained philosophy & assumptions of a old system that makes increasingly less sense in the modern world.

On a pure technology basis, does the world have sufficient resources to feed and house every living person? Or are the problems that prevent that economic, political factors?
I think we might be seeing a bit of 80/20 rule playing here...as the old saying goes, the first 80% of the project takes 20% of the time, and the remaining 20% is the most arduous.

If I had piles of cash in the bank, I might be less inclined to see something through once I hit that 20%...from what I hear this seems to be how Notch writes code in general, and now that he is very wealthy...well....
This. On one hand, we hate credentialism and criticize those who arrogantly wave their diplomas around as a substitute for making good arguments. On the other hand, we're enamored enough with SpaceX and Tesla to give Musk the benefit of the doubt, even though:

- The Hyperloop is a very different type of engineering compared to anything Musk and his engineers have done before (competency in one field does not guarantee competency in a very different field),

- The analysis has some serious issues. A trivial example: the thermal expansion issue in this blog post has been brought up in user discussion several times in previously posted Hyperloop articles on HN, and nobody was able to post a good response or justification.
Polymorphism and Conditionals
I'm a big fan of heroku's scrolls gem[1], it uses a key=value format and is intended to be streamed straight into stdout. We're using it with splunk storm[2] which automatically parses logs in the key=value format and from there you can slice/dice the logs using their query language and graphing. This makes it super easy to spot patterns in the logs where there might be an issue.

[1] https://github.com/asenchi/scrolls
[2] https://www.splunkstorm.com/
There is some overlap. EOPL naturally focuses on, and goes deeper into, programming language design topics, but SICP covers it some as well. Chapter 4, especially:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-25.html...
Love the historical map diff.
There is very little that is novel about SpaceX / Tesla. Both were excellent executions of visions that many people had. We've had pure-electric vehicles for more than a century (For example, Detroit Electric built an electric vehicle in 1914 -- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/EdisonEl... is a photo with Thomas Edison).

Hyperloop is different. Others have talked about it, but this is the first time he is truly laying out an idea, so I wouldn't necessarily assume that he will be successful