skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have loved to have a range fan or a kitchen fume hood. However in my case opening a window meant opening the sliding glass door.

You are standing in the middle of my apartment, to your left is the sliding glass door, right above you are two smoke alarms, and to your right is the stove top/kitchen.

No matter how much I would have loved to open a window and turn on a range fan to solve the problem the damn smoke has to travel underneath/past the smoke alarms to go outside. No, my kitchen did not have a window in it.

I know a LOT of people that were living in that apartment complex that while they lived there removed the smoke detectors from the living/kitchen area and replaced them for the once a year that maintenance would come by to replace the batteries...

The maintenance guy even recommended to me to just take them down.

It wasn't really a danger either, there was a smoke alarm/CO detector in every bed room (which was 3 ft from the other smoke detector, but you can close bed room doors while cooking), along with a full building alarm system.
He's almost correct. :)

Perhaps surprisingly, there's a golf course in the Bronx, up in Van Courtlandt Park.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Van+Cortlandt+Park+Golf+Cours...

It's not new:

"The Van Cortlandt Golf Course opened on July 6, 1895, as the first public golf course in the United States."

http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/X092/highlights/11046
If you need to send more than 2^68 bytes of data, you've got bigger problems than your crypto breaking.
No, not at all, until they want to screen a suspect list for anyone with a history of limping, say, or baldness, or some other damn fool thing.

Better question: is fraud detection and reporting really worth leaking your personal data to the .gov?

I think not.

EDIT:

Downvote, downvote, but don't be surprised when this turns out to be a terrible idea.
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"Do you use illegal drugs? If so which ones. When did you last use? How often do you use?"

Yeah no risk at all with this...
I agree, but it doesn't make Chromebooks useless. Your average user just wants to be able to type and set a few basic formatting options in a WYSIWYG editor, which Google Docs easily provides.

Chromebooks are fine "Mom Machines" most of the time, or fine laptops to stash in your car in case of unanticipated need.

My opinion is that people need to stop attempting to conflate the market of true casuals, served by phones on the low end, tablets on the middle end, and netbooks like the Chromebook on the high end, with the market of serious users needing real desktop operating systems and applications, using laptops on the low end and high-powered desktops on the high end.

They are separate use cases, and we're best served if each segment focuses on itself instead of trying to be all things to all people. Manufacturers seem scared that if they don't provide it all, they'll be obsoleted, but I believe it's just the opposite; there's enough overlap in these markets to share (for instance, I have a smartphone, a tablet, a Chromebook, a real laptop, and multiple big huge desktops; certainly atypical, but normal people are fairly likely to have a smartphone, tablet or Chromebook, and a real laptop, and that's not going to change anytime soon). The paranoia is wasting a lot of our time.
Until it is explicitly stated, yes. I want to know how my personal data is being used, especially when the data is gathered through a program that I do not support.
> If you attempt to contribute to an open source project, you will quickly get feedback on what you're missing.

You hope. And if you do, you hope what you are missing is not some semi-arbitrary whim of the particular project you wish to contribute to.[1]

I certainly think it is good advice for some people; I do not think it is good blanket advice. I also don't think it is a suggestion that should be tossed out as lightly as some people do.

[1] Of course, that could be seen as great practice for dealing with the semi-arbitrary whims of the particular company you will be working for someday.
Also, bundled developer tools can be nice when you're trying to debug an issue on a user's machine. It's a small thing, but it's nice to not make them install some plugin.
How many startups do you really believe are more technically sophisticated than, say, Chevron, Hapag-Lloyd, Cargill, ADP or Goldman Sachs?

It's easy for a couple of 20-somethings sipping lattes at The Creamery to imagine that industries like agriculture and trucking are filled with bumpkins who don't "have software in their DNA", but that doesn't mean this is reality.

If you remove yourself from the Bay Area bubble, it's quite difficult to find industries that are not already using data and technology in very sophisticated ways.

> ...software excellence is something in the DNA of SV startup culture...

What is "software excellence"?

Look at the page source for the websites of the companies the author has invested in: most of them exhibit more than one easily-avoided front-end worst practice.

Obviously, this doesn't mean that these services are of no value, but it's kind of silly to throw around phrases like "software excellence" and "engineering-first" when the type of companies that are supposed to be exhibiting these things apparently can't find the time to push clean, efficient front-end code to production.
Personally, I think about this differently; Startups who are outspoken about what they do early on are generally hoping to benefit from inbound interest.

From what I observed in YC, launching a TechCrunch article typically doesn't lead to a ton of inbound interest (at least for B2B companies this is true - if you're Uber/Vine/Tinder/Grouper, it's a different story).

For B2B companies, press helps get investor attention, can help with inbound hiring, and can potentially help get clients, if your press releases are well targeted enough (which most aren't).

From our perspective, staying quiet was the default. Now we're at the point where we're interested in reaching a slightly broader audience.
The "law enforcement" part is common in privacy policies; if whoever's running a web site gets a subpoena for personal information (or something more exotic, like an NSL), they don't really have the option of keeping it to themselves, and the clause just acknowledges that.

This leaves "audit activities"; is that a phrase defined elsewhere in the document?
Looking forward to reading your reply to the current #1 comment by saurik
I think ultimately the big identity services will basically be how we pay for things on the internet. That's this Pay with Amazon one-click button, where pay with GMail will go, and what Facebook will eventually come to if they ever care about payments. This causes some problems as your accounts become all the more valuable, but why should I ever have to enter my credit card info on the web more than once?
That is truly impressive and mostly all over my head. I feel that somewhere on that page we should be able to find a graphical solution to the factorization of large primes unless maybe that code would need to run on a computer residing in the fourth or fifth dimension?
You're assuming someone has micro-USB devices and a charger already. If you have an iPhone/iPad you might not.

If Apple ever comes out with a MacBook Air powered by ARM they better use the Lightning connector.
Documentation for utilizing this with Python and Flask :)

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python-websockets
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PayPal does things like let Brazilians pay in their local currency.

I'd love to use Stripe if I could, but they're nowhere even remotely international enough.
Thanks for the response! I was kind of wondering if you'd had a lot of pre-release devs or not, I'm always curious at what point people release.

I'm on what I'll call a floater business operations contract. It's an ongoing thing at 40 hours a week (at a great company) working on several different projects and providing assistance where needed. As far as stack, it's mainly a Microsoft establishment with other things sprinkled in (and getting more so with newer projects).

Best of luck!
I hate this idea that concerts are this more nobel endeavor and the saviour of music.

Concerts for most popular music are a low-value-add phenomenon. It's the equivalent of going to a WWE show. They usually involve childish antics which then passes as an 'amazing' concert performance. It's never really about the music, yet is considered 'authentic.'
> Is due process the wrong term? Can't due process occur after the fact?

I think due process would be limited to simply removing the DNS entry, not resolving to a site that is promoting other commercial sites. Just think if coke accused pepsi and got pepsi.com to resolve to coke.com?
Absolutely there's a problem. The current wording puts no limits on how the data may be used. If the purpose is solely for fraud detection then it needs to say that and there needs to be serious penalties for violating it.
> "I honestly get the impression that they outsource all of their development for Amazon Payments and no longer have any expertise in-house required to actually maintain the software once deployed."

Nope.
I'll attempt a layman's explanation of a Riemann sphere for anyone who has no idea what this is about:

The Riemann sphere lets you deal with dividing by 0 by adding one more point to the complex plane: ∞[1]. Imagine putting it in the air above the origin, 0, and folding the midpoints of the four sides of your graph paper to meet there. (Yup, put all 4 points of the arrows in the same spot!) That's the Reimann sphere[2].

Going from a point the sphere back to the plane is a little weird.

1. Put a cow (point) on the top of the biodome (sphere) at infinity.

2. Pick the point on the sphere that you want to give a home on the complex plane.

3. Have the cow fire a laser beam (draw a line from infinity) through the point.

4. Follow that line back to wherever it hits the plane. That's the equivalent point on your complex plane.

Play with this a bit. Points near the top of the sphere (near the cow, at infinity) will shoot laser beams way off into the distance. Points near the bottom of the sphere will burn the grass right nearby on the plane itself.

You can then reverse the process ("If my cow were to shoot a laser at this grass, what part of the the biodome will get hit?"), to go from the plane to the sphere, because "folding up the sides of paper" doesn't accurately model what happened to make the sphere.

[1] Math with ∞ is what you'd expect: 3/0 = ∞. 3/∞ = 0.

[2] Since there is an infinite number of points on a sphere, this is entirely possible, and only mildly unsettling.
See the Reedy Creek Improvement District, for a US analog:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_Distric...
How APIs Will Evolve
One of the reasons. I think tabs were actually a bigger deal back then. Although Opera had them first, Firefox was the one that put them front and center. Back then, Opera was still championing a gesture-based interface, and Firefox felt a lot more solid and polished.
This is the future of fusion, not D-T fusion. Or use Lithium instead of Boron.

Lithium is even better than Boron because you don't need isotope separation (since both work), and you get more power out of it.

The Boron or Lithium doesn't need to be a plasma, and you don't need to confine it. This makes it much simpler to handle.

You leave it as a solid and just hit it with protons. Not all the protons will do anything. If you can recycle the energy of the failed protons then the low efficiency can be mitigated.

Those that hit will leave behind helium (both H3 and H4) you probably need to remove that to prevent interfering with incoming protons. But there is no other ash to worry about. (And the H3 is very useful - you can even use it for energy.)
Facebook is really pick about their buttons and keeping anything that goes into the News Feed tightly controlled (I don't think it's a bad call by them, in my experience, the News Feed ads have been pretty relevant to me, and I don't feel overly spammed). "Use App" could definitely use some work, but I'm not sure if I have a better general purpose call to action to suggest, and it seems like most of the use cases are covered by the other options (at least for now). Maybe in the future they will allow some kind of user submission that they can approve to allow a bit more flexibility?

Twitter cards are incredible, and really promising. Now Twitter just has to figure out a way to get people that advertisers reach with them to actually spend money (not to mention the miles they have to catch up with Facebook on attribution and conversion tracking).
And then a robots.txt appears, preventing access to the historical content (via archive.org, anyway).
Well, the NFPA seems to think it's a problem.

http://www.nfpa.org/research/statistical-reports/fire-protec...

I also know most of the people I'm related to have pulled the batteries at one point or another. Unless you think it's some genetic defect to have struck both my mother's and father's lineages, that probably points to a wider problem, too.
How do I (the seller) get my money? I didn't see anything about their sending regular payments to my business' bank account (but I may have missed it).
Is there a politically neutral group that compared this text to the fine print with other insurance providers? The Weekly Standard is a notably conservative, anti-obamacare group (and I wonder to what extent they are overblowing what seems like standard text)

NOTE: I don't mean to suggest that the message is diminished by the political colors of the bearer, but the highlighted clauses seem like fairly standard legal language that appear in other insurance website privacy policies (in contrast to the implication in the article).
I'm having the same problem as gingerlime -- can you point out where? It's not in any of the docs I'm seeing.
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Does this take care of subscriptions, or is this for one-time payments?
FWIW, when Stripe launched they did not have any way to correlate chargebacks at all, nor did they offer separate authorization/capture phases (which is required to ship physical goods: you are not allowed to actually charge someone's credit card for a purchase you are shipping until you're about to actually ship the product). They also had rather weak webhook retry support (it would retry a couple times over short periods of time, if I remember correctly). They have since fixed these issues, but in the mean time their main benefits have been cloned by PayPal (easier to read documentation, and a JSON-based API that can be used from a browser).

Their prices were also fixed at the highest end of PayPal's fees (2.9% + $0.30), and while they now mention you can get volume discounts, they make it clear you shouldn't even attempt to discuss this with them until you are looking at over a million dollars processed every year. PayPal and Amazon, in comparison, list discount pricing on their websites for volumes as low as forty thousand dollars a year. Meanwhile, if your average receipt price is less than about $12, you probably aren't even considering Stripe, because PayPal will offer the same service to you with "micropayments" pricing: on a $1 purchase this will save you over 20% of revenue on processing fees.

I have not evaluated Balanced as a payments provider (I only remember them being usable for outgoing payments, not incoming ones; is this feature new? regardless, their pricing is as high as Stripe), but for the purpose of payouts you are looking at a tradeoff: they charge $0.25 per transaction, with $1 if the payment fails; in comparison, using PayPal MassPay costs 2% of the transaction cost, but is capped at $1. If you are building a large marketplace, and end up having to do a lot of dinky payouts, PayPal is going to be more cost effective. You also will have to file less paperwork using PayPal (you don't need to 1099-MISC someone if you use a third-party payment network, as PayPal will send a 1099-K instead, but you do if you use ACH), and will more easily be able to support international merchants.
The EU has more people, but they're spread through 28 countries, each of which probably has different laws regulating financial transactions and payment processing, making it a lot more work.
Sure, if there was no radiation at all, it'd be utterly useless.
Thank you for participating!

I am a happy user of Amazon Simple Payments, which is, as promised, simple, works well, and has good support. As another user posts though, I'm a bit confused at the role the various payment solutions play. In other words, we now have Login and Pay, but also Amazon FPS. What's what?
According to the article, the FBI jumped straight to "give us all the SSL keys for everything", and would not let him to that selective warrant.

He rightly observed that those leaked keys would then get into the hands of God-only-knows-who.
No way in hell will I ever pay for an 'API Hub'. Unless it's something I absolutely can't live without.
Can someone weight in on what this means or why it is an issue?
I agree with the other reply. Stripe would be ideal but when looking for international solutions, they just aren't there yet. We are looking into payment solutions to cover our LatAm customers and it is very difficult right now.
You definitely did not read the article.
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Different laws, and different languages!
Exactly - we figure that our biggest strengths as a team (given a combination of Machine Learning/Data Mining/Information Retrieval backgrounds and a strong Design/Mobile contingent) will be in indexing deep app content (which obviously is a much richer dataset in commerce apps than it is in, say, mobile games).

It seems like Facebook sees the same thing happening.

Of course, I am curious to see how this affects game developers - I've encountered a few who have rolled their own retargeting solutions on top of house ads. It seems like game developers are especially reluctant to pay for anything except to pump up their install count in order to reach the top of app store rankings (seems like using SEM to boost your SEO).

Any predictions?
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Anyone have a reference for the mentioned "you once called open source 'brutal'"? Googling it now is polluted with reposts of the current article.
Yeah, there is a real opportunity here not to just read saurik's well-thought out reply, but respond to it. I have no doubt that he has sent very detailed emails to them, speaking as one engineer to another, and there is no better way to turn someone off than to ignore them after they go through such pains to make your product better.

We are watching ;)
2) There is a lot of Boron 11, it makes up 80% of Boron.

3) Yes! You can use this for energy. In fact see my other post - I believe this is the future of fusion. The Boron doesn't need to be a plasma, so you don't need to confine it. You just leave it as a solid and hit it with protons.

4) You can also use Lithium (both isotopes) and Nitrogen (the rare 15 one).
To my understanding this is what I would expect to happen. He handed over the cert to the FBI, so from a security standpoint it's useless now and should be considered compromised.
Serious spreadsheet users - the sort who run overnight calculations. For that job, Excel is simply the best there is. These people then make damn sure everyone else has MS Office too.

LibreOffice Calc sucks, but LO know it, and Kohei Yoshida is working very hard to make it not suck. LO 4.2 will be much faster. Then they just need to recreate VBA ...
Yeah, it's insane. I actually brought up my concerns to my manager and, to my surprise, he completely agreed with me. So we're going to have a meeting with the VP of Engineering to come up with some sort of process.
I've read a bunch of these type of articles over the past 3-4 years; the better articles make it clear(er) that there is nothing resembling evidence for these claims (which isn't to say it is impossible that there could be some truth). OTOH, I've found the workrave and redshift applications to be very useful to me. I encourage software and OS designers to consider what is possible and useful to a person sitting in front of a computer and how to integrate this. It seem like a minimally explored realm of applications that a good number of people may just like independent of any psudo-medical hand waving.
Several news organizations have already made subsidy calculators. They just don't have specific plan details.
It does combine both, as to work without headphones, but if you wear the headphones, you will have the binaural thing on top of the modulation. Two for the price of one ;-)
This is why I would never use any PaaS, only IaaS. IaaS providers don't do blog posts proudly declaring that they now support 3 year old technology.
Reminds me of those:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQdIYUtAHg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlrs2Vorw2Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCRPUv8V22o

:)
Which is why, as I have said elsewhere, webmail is the problem here; more generally, you cannot have security or privacy as a service.

This is it in a nutshell.
Demanding the SSL keys to the entire database was clearly an insane overreach on the FBI's part, a mistake that they compounded if it's true that they refused to work with Lavar on the more targeted approach he suggested. I would like to kick in some bucks towards Ladar's defense, but I'd rather do it through the EFF (where I'm already a member) rather than rally.org, which I've never heard of.

Does anyone have any experience with (or thoughts about) rally.org -- or, for that matter, any knowledge of why the EFF isn't running point on this case?
You're assuming a correct implementation with a 64-bit counter, though.
I agree with keypusher.
Firefox 'took off' long before the whole add-ons/extensions became popular. It was being able to use tabs which caused many too switch back in the day (plus it was faster to, or at least felt that way). And yes I'm also aware opera did this first.
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They transfer to your bank account at your request.

"You can withdraw funds from your Amazon Payments account at any time. Transfer can be made to a verified bank account or an Amazon.com Gift Card."

https://payments.amazon.com/help/Marketplace-Seller-and-Kick...
oh, thanks. Didn't know that. Won't do it in the future :-)
Perhaps they went back to IE7.
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I like the specific mention of Agri-business. I'll admit to being pretty blind to it until a close friend went to one that is doing amazing things and producing very sophisticated devices. They're currently switching out the old for the new similar to what you were replying to. They have the "startup" mindset but it seems they are already entrenched with money to burn, looks like a good position to be in.

And I drove by the place all the time, never realizing it was on the cutting edge of one of the world's biggest business sectors.
Slaves did not get paid for their work too , what's your point? are you ready to code for free ?