skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Paymill is German and Stripe is based in the US, so from a trust viewpoint, I'd go with Paymill, maybe their customer data gets fleeced a bit less by the NSA than Stripe's.
I don't really think you are 'losing' something in the literal sense when meditating. It is probably more akin to exercising/reshaping it. I was just commenting on the public perception.
How does Stripe get away without the paperwork?
Oh - I thought you were criticising the execrable copy.

"The experience of a product."

It's so vague it's meaningless.
Vlad (the other cofounder) now appears to work for ZestFinance according to Linkedin. Daniel's profile is private on linkedin but doesn't show Skysheet in his headline (which I believe it used to).

Startups can survive once the founders have moved on to working on something else full time, but in practice the survival rate of such startups is tiny.
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Fair bit of warning edward, these articles get banned from HN rather quick. Even thought I have attempted to keep talk on things such as the "Syrian Electronic Army" and their hacks discussion has been forcefully muted.

In a now deaded article on the probable chemical attack on Zamalka Syria, I made some comments about my covering the area before[1]. I detailed the location of some of the aggressors on the suburb as well[2].

In the second comment I linked to some footage from Zamalka years ago when open protest was still allowed, much like other Syrian cities people were out in mass after Friday prayer.

In the first comment I posted a panoramic stitch[3] I made from video of an attack on Zamalka from al-Assad neighborhood above it, there is military and officer housing along with artillery and howitzer army space behind it[4].

I also spoke of sectarian cleansing that has been documented in Homs and other areas,[5] where general bombardment and artillery siege displaces Sunnis while Alawite families are moved in to shore up military supply lines.

This latest attack on the fringes of Damascus represent something significant, obvious now due to the reactions it has obtained from other nations. Neighborhoods like al-Assad and Moadamiyet al-Shams have loyalist housing where civilians where brought back to be lynched,[6] and they are now nearing the direct lines of fire. So all attempts are being made to halt the advance to where Assad's war criminals roost, such as mass gassing of residential neighborhoods around it.

[1] From a now hell-banned account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6248545

[2] From a now hell-banned account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6248433

[3] http://i.imgur.com/XM85Q1q.jpg

[4] http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.551696&lon=36.378479&z=...

[5] http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/syrian-army-ren...

[6] http://storyful.com/stories/41049

HN Mods: Please ease up on the "kill all discussion" button. Much of this, like the Syrian Electronic Army assisting the Syrian Arab Army in tracking dissidents in just as related to "Hackers News" as SEA's attacks on Washington Post. Just because it has a whiff of political sentiment doesn't mean it shouldn't be discussed, even worse censored wholly.
What criteria is Stripe looking for to get in the beta? Anyone know?
Node didn't even exist when they started out. At least not in anything which resembled production quality.

And trying to "install" node on Ubuntu or other Debian-based distros for a long time required getting entire Chrome/V8 to build, from source. Something which was near impossible to setup, unless extremely dedicated.

I tried twice and failed.

Your "npm install diaspora" came with a 20page+ distro-wrecking set of instructions for configuring your build-machine. And if you failed, you woiuld probably have to re-install your distro because of the mess you made.

Those "horrible instructions" listed there look extremely friendly in comparison. They may have done lots of things wrong, but chosing RoR over Node was not one of them.
The only way this could take off is if they would offer federation with Facebook.

I would have an account on some Diaspora server, you'd have one on Facebook, and we could post to each other's walls without restrictions.

It would be really easy to hack together an interface. Diaspora would read from Facebook via the API, and post to Facebook via puppet accounts (until they get a proper federation API). Problem is that Facebook will quickly kill the app and delete your account for violating their TOS.

What we really, really need is legislation that forces critical social networks (say, > one million users) to offer federation. All the technical ingredients are already there (protocols like open graph, extensions to XMPP, ...), the corporations just have to allow it. People (and lawmakers) have to realize that social networks have become infrastructure, and need to be regulated to ensure openness and competition.
No need to wait for the "next gen" GC. Right now you can specify min percentage of free space in a heap that triggers giving back memory to the OS. Yes, you need to specify a few more GC parameters, but it's certainly doable to force JVM to behave this way.

I used this approach in the past to keep memory usage lean. I had some spikes in application that required a lot of memory, so had to keep Xmx high, but configured the app to trigger deallocation to the OS when there's more that 20% of free memory. Worked like a charm even on and old ere 1.5 Sun JVM.
You could certainly argue that Apple was the trigger for bringing mass access to computers at least three times; the Apple II heavily inspired what went after, the Mac essentially defined what a UI should be for decades afterward (Xerox had theirs before, but made little effort to introduce it to the consumer, and a lot of Lisa and Mac conceptual additions have persisted), and of course the iPhone created the modern smartphone market.
There is a difference between coding on my own vs. coding for company.

I rather work on learning about Minix, Linux Kernel, 3D graphics rendering, compilers, Bioinformatics than messing with some config file because a production server was upgraded from Stack 1.1 to 1.11 over the weekend.

Company's goal is to serve the business no matter how intellectual my co-workers may be or the technology involved. My goal is to learn for the fun of it.
ex apple store employee here. I'm not sure of the full ramifications but the 1 year out of the box support only works in the country that you buy it in. If you get apple care for your laptop it extends it to global coverage.
Oh, Apple is rarely (in fact, pretty much never) the one who actually makes the dominant product, but it's hard to imagine that a ZTE smartphone would be much like it is today if the iPhone hadn't transformed that market.
Cook is still trying to make a "faster horse" (as was his role during the Jobs era), but with Microsoft on the ropes and Google embroiled in NSA spying (undermining Glass), it's going to be a while yet before any of this matters.
SMS racing: Arcade racing game while texting
Fun to see stripe in europe, however in europe almost nobody pays by card, or let alone: even owns a credit card.

We pay by baking systems such as Ideal (in the netherlands).
No criteria per se -- everyone is welcome. We're just rate-limiting it a bit to make sure that everyone has a good experience.
> The whole crowdfunding space seems to operate pretty illogically.

It's logical to me. I won't be happy if I'm charged upfront, and the project is only half funded. There won't be any incentive to back a project early on, and there will be more unsuccessful projects.

It seems that Indiegogo now also has the "Kickstarter way" of backing as an option. And I'm seeing more and more projects use that.
Completely off-topic - but why does a consultancy company in Munich have a .ie domain? :-)
[Visualized] Gareth Bale's progression from left winger to a more central player
Up next, "large image law".

The internet is blighted by large images, which use up peoples valuable bandwidth. These should be opt in. Before giving the user a large image, a popup should display to ensure the user wants to download a large image.

Can you not see how crazy it is to start down this road?
SpaceGlasses: lot of new possibilities
Debit cards are quite prevalent here, rather than Credit i'd say.
Seconded. Also, I should add that your co-workers aren't your friends. What I mean isn't that you can't make friends at work but rather in a high turnover-prone industry as IT, your friendship might not survive a layoff or a switch to a new job when a bulk of your friendship was founded on the premise of you working together. So going out for lunch or drinks after works takes no additional planning and are just matters of convenience.
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Well, this statement is wrong. In France, at least, virtually everybody has a debit card and we use cards all the time.

However, closer to the point, Germans are known to use cash a lot, so it's interesting that Stripe launch there.
DO eat Raw Salmon!

I eat raw Salmon all the time. It's safe.

Either freeze it first (not ideal) or use Farmed Salmon that is treated for parasites. Soak it in vinegar before using if you are worried about bacteria on the outside.

I go for the farmed option and use Farmed Scottish Salmon (I'm in the UK) as it is proven to be safe for Sashimi. In fact, any EU-produced farmed Salmon is safe to eat raw.

http://learnhowtomakesushi.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/you-can-...

Recipe:

When using supermarket Salmon I rummage around in the fridge looking for the freshest (far away date, firm body, not gooey, no 'leakage') and the most marbled with fat (the fattier the better in my experience). I use the large wedge-shaped steaks as the thin, flat tail-ends have too much surface area for the amount of meat. Farmed trout is also great eaten raw.

When I get it home I skin it and drop it into vinegar & salt for a few minutes (I wait until I see the skin start to whiten a little) before diluting it into a marinade (teriyaki sauce, soy-sauce, ginger, honey, …; or dill, chives, black pepper, …).

Leave for 15 mins to a day or so depending how 'cooked' you want it. If you are going to leave it over night add a little water or booze so the marinade doesn't overpower the delicate fish.

Pat dry with a kitchen roll. Slice into thin rectangular chunks with a large very sharp knife.
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Exactly. Just with all other good writing, you have to show, not tell. Those ads with people talking on Facetime for example were great - they showed how Apple's products made life nicer without actually saying "see how your life will be nicer". These new ads unfortunately go the other way.

Now that can still be OK. If for example Apple is actually trying to change the discourse about how people judge devices - "don't judge devices by how much they cost, or their spec sheet, judge them about how much they improve your life" then an occassional ad that explicitly makes people think about things in that way can be effective. It's not about selling an iPhone, it's about getting people to think about these issues when they are in the shop buying a phone, rather than simply just opting for the cheapest phone they salesperson shows them.

Still, it grates. I think they could have got that message across without explicitly stating the message.
It's important to remember one key takeaway from this. It still applies to offline hashes.

That means, if your db is compromised, it's pretty much game over for your users (who will invariably reuse them elsewhere) if you used simple hashes - another key takeaway. Bcrypt (or better yet, scrypt) is still the better option for this very reason.

Edit: To clarify, it doesn't matter that you limit logins, lockout users after failed login attempts etc... (although, those are good measures to start) The password hashing scheme must withstand bruteforce cracking of this nature to a feasible degree regardless of what limiting protocols you have in place. Just in case...
> It's not hard at all to rack up a couple of million dollars in hospital bills if you get unlucky, and you'd probably never be able to pay that back.

Just go to another country, if you need quality no-hassle healthcare.

pg says in one his essays, that he found after cashing in on Viaweb that he couldn't just walk into a hospital and swipe his card. It just doesn't work like that in America. You need insurance, even if you have 50 mil in your bank.

To top it off, individual health care is very expensive and designed to screw you (and since you're not a big company with hundreds of people signed up, you can't threaten to switch or do any other such sort of thing if they deny you care.) I know someone who needed a very expensive procedure, and his boss basically told the insurance company that if they didn't assent to the procedure, his company would switch to some other provider. As a lone individual, you have less of this kind of leverage.

Now, most other countries (I said most) don't work like that. You can go to any hospital, not have to worry about denials and pay in proportion to the service they render to you. And their fees come nowhere close to what the most U.S. hospitals charge.

As for options, based on my personal experience:

- If you want to go really cheap, choose India. India has a great medical system, but the generally unsanitary state of the country gives me doubts about the hygiene even in hospitals.

- If you are not seriously cash-strapped, try the UAE. They have a lot of really good hospitals, latest technology, and everything just gleams and shines there. For an example of pricing: laparoscopic surgery at premier specialty hospital in the UAE costs about $10k. I assume it'd be in the $50k (or more) in the US. (Au contraire, in India it's probably $1-$2k range.)
While that was true some years ago, right now, in Germany almost everyone I know has a credit card, too. Some popular banks like the DKB hand it to you with no additional cost, perhaps to incentivize the usage of cards away from cash, which is still very prevalent.
...and you end up in a total hole. Picking a place to live doesn't work that way. You want a place with nice interesting people, and these tend to be rich, and... oops you find yourself in a very expensive place. I have yet to see a place good for living which isn't reddish on numbeo map.
The two-year lifespan of an iPad
55 chars. The MD5 and SHA-1 algorithms process data in 512-bit (64 byte) blocks, where the last bytes are the 0x80 0x00 ... 0x00 padding followed by the message size. A message with 55 bytes will end with [0x80 0x37 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00], a message with 54 bytes will end with [0x80 0x00 0x36 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00], and so on.

So the crackers are optimized for single-block messages (passwords), since making the length generic would slow things down. I guess they've added support for that now.
I don't understand how you're the top rated comment, but whatever. The reason the original diaspora team didn't make a success of the diaspora project was that they were new coders. They were way out of their depth, they chose cool technologies and got burnt (mongodb -> mysql).
does this apply to 2013? it is a rank amateur quality of mistake... and has been for quite a long time before 2007, since we lost the constraints on paths in early windows/dos land with Windows 95 I think...
Lord Blair: we need laws to stop 'principled' leaking of state secrets
Oh hallelujah!
> Once expansive touchscreens are cheap, of course, we can display a virtual wall of bookshelves and instantly load a text on the device of choice, or even print on demand.

This is exactly what I had in mind when reading some of the comments. "Discoverability and serendipity", as DanBC pointed out is fixable by this technology. But you don't need huge touchscreens. A medium-sized one (55"?) with something like Cover Flow, where different books slowly move across the screen might be a pretty good solution.
Samsung exec confirms Galaxy Gear and Note III announcement on September 4th
Python 2.3 still had stack traces.
I'm a bit like you (but older - 44 yrs, divorced). I am trying to "build something". I use the spare time I have to practise and practise and practise. And then practise some more.

Edit: After reading a few comments from people feeling sorry for you, I'm afraid I might have missed your call for personal emotional support. Sorry about that. But if you were not after sympathy, then my original post stands. Practise to improve your skills (doesn't have to be programming). Do lots of practise while you have so much free time. When family and friends (and pets) come around, you will wish you were family-less, friendless and pet-less. And don't feel sorry for yourself.
In Europe, you can't generalise.

The countries that make up Europe are extremely diverse.
That really depends on the country, Europe is not homogenic like that. Here in the UK everyone has a debit card and almost everyone has a credit card and people use them to pay online a lot. In France paying with your Carte Bleue online is also pretty standard. Online debit/credit card payments are fairly common is Eastern Europe as well. I could go on.
its takes an especially poor quality of programmer to knowingly write this code when the user can select the path - this has been the case since Win 95 shipped when every programmer worth his salt noticed this without even thinking...
I would even consider flying in from EU.
Raspberry Pi mascot Babbage Bear Skydive
Diaspora* version 0.2.0.0 released
Guessing: "black doggie"?
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thin and then have a different phoneme at the start

I have succeeded with the academic approach, I can pronounce English sounds without an accent when I try and with a very slight accent when I don't try (most people can't hear minor mistakes when I speak)

I can tell you the difference between apical and laminal consonants and actually pronounce it. There is not just one way to learn. But I doubt most people can replicate my success without putting in as much time into it as I have. You have to be genuinely interested in linguistics
Tip: Try to keep your eyes open. Closing your eyes makes it easier to become slouched, wander off and fall asleep.

I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of your post.
Java 7u21 Multiple Flaws, time to upgrade to Java 7u25 is now
Are there any figures on how many people actually care about Litecoin, as opposed to Bitcoin?
I know this is an old article but let me share this:

Nearly everyone who comes back from space says they feel changed, their perspective on life, everything. I like to think that Neil brought some of this back with him, and shared it with the rest of humanity during his time alive on Earth.

Plus Buzz Aldrin punched a guy, so that was cool too.
yeah it appears so. It looks really nice :)
I'm curious if cloudflare will ever just sell its anycast dns as a service.

Don't really need the other stuff but from what I can see their dns performance is on par with dnsmadeeasy/dyn/ultra
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Finding a balance between paralyzingly complicated processes and having to trust single employees with all of your secrets is not easy. I think that's great, since it helps discourage organizations from doing the kind of things that morally outrage their employees.
There is one German company offering a solution (https://www.sofort.com/eng-DE/), but as far as I know, it's still unclear if their users don't break their own banks' ToS-
Decentralized still means pods that the NSA can get a warrant for and access. The only real answer is a peer-to-peer social network.

http://bennolan.com/2013/08/22/social-network-over-webrtc.ht...
Peer to peer social network over WebRTC
Indeed, I just received my invite for the Belgian beta
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Actually most people speak about credit card when they actually mean a debit one.
So he is wanting a new law to cover people who haven't signed the Official Secrets Act from spreading information that is covered by that act?

Given how existing legislation is abused I would hate to see how that could be used. What if I've read something secret that I shouldn't have - would I be commiting Thought Crime?
Intel to release budget Haswell range
>Tor guarantees anonymity.

No it does not, it is always best to use a seperate browser for tor because your browser & OS fingerprint is significant

https://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php?action=log&js=yes

And that is ignoring the fact that most people will continue to login to the HN and facebook accounts.
Hobbit Risks:"The Hobbit" from an Insurance Point of View
What an alarmist headline. A networking study is done, but because they ignored the physics of the actual grid, yielded little or no new information.

One of the changes since the 2003 blackout is automation, monitoring, and control for both distribution and transmission. This provides us a near-real time look at the goings on of the grid. As the article notes, we're still learning how to utilize this data to increase grid stability and reliability.

In short, the electrical grid is in better shape today than it was in 2003 and we're continuing to make it better. Hardly a grid on the edge of failure.
Next time you hear the word 'terrorists', stop listening.
Actually the provisions of the OSA cover you even if you haven't signed it. Signing it is generally just a reminder thing, hence the fact that if you have to sign it once, you will probably end up signing it several times (when you join, when you leave, when you change roles, etc).

The OSA primarily covers how you handle secret information that you legitimately have access to. He was talking about stuff outside the scope of the OSA - i.e. when you acquire material that you shouldn't have to start with.
D'oh, I had no idea, and here I am already having spent months talking to NAB in order to charge USD and support AMEX. Stripe seems a lot cheaper too in terms of fees.

Stripe AU supports AMEX and USD charges, right?
He argues that the release of this knowledge facilitates terrorism. I'm curious, has there actually been a leaked secret that could facilitate terrorism?

Perhaps in the accidental leaks back when the password for all those diplomatic cables leaked?

Or is the only way they facilitate terrorism that they make the public mistrust the authorities?
Stripe interview process
This is not even politics. This is irrelevant politics. The article boils down to a retiree saying something.
Yes thats a huge problem for Paymill, i write them this some time ago, the know it and want to change many things.

But the Problem is not Paymill, it are the acceptance company and many restrictions.
I am not sure if stripe has an another way todo it in germany.
Stripe beta starts rolling out in Belgium
The theme building tool I've always missed! <3
> what if I am not US citizen?

I'm not a US citizen either. Apple's (and Amazon, Google et al.) primary market is the US. "Designed in California" makes no difference to you and I, but it might make the difference between 15 million vs 15.5 million sales if they drop an extra 0.05 cents worth of paint pointing out where the phone was conceived. That, and I truly believe Apple has a strong sense of pride.

> but why adding pride to this?

Evoking emotion sells your product to people who feel it. Those who don't feel it...eh? They'll still buy the product if they like it. Perhaps you can market it to them in a different way. Broad-spectrum marketing.
And here is a link to the second part:

An Ork fortress for over 320 million euros: A virtual claims report for the Film “The Hobbit”. Part II – property damage:

https://www.allianz.com/en/press/news/studies/news_2013-08-2...
"The peer insisted there was material the state had to keep secret, and powers had to be in place to protect it."

How does he propose that we keep a check on the state to make sure that it is not abusing its powers? Did he omit to mention this obvious flaw in his proposal, or is it an omission of the journalist reporting on what he said?