skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Now I am working with a freelance developer on it, hoping we work well together so one day he can be my co-founder.

Not to be all doom and gloom, but one of pg's top advice points is that each co-founder should be someone you already know (and are hopefully at least acquaintances with, preferably friends with) before the startup is put down on paper. Building a startup from scratch is hard, and you need to do it with someone you're comfortable spending a ton of time with. All the co-founders need to be on the same wavelength and need to communicate well and frequently.

I don't know your circumstances, or where you found said freelance developer, but seeking out someone just to help develop some of the ideas you have is usually not the way to go to make a company. To make one product, perhaps, but probably not a company.
Even if Gmail is the reason I hope they'll add an option to verify the transfer anyway. It looks like something that is easy to use other vulnerabilities to mount an attack.
I don't think they're using ACH, at least not exclusively. You can't do an ACH transfer with a debit card number.
Just because one can be done without the other does not mean that doing one without the other is preferable to doing both.
Ha. Actually engineers in general are sought after out here simply because there's a shortage; which is likely due to the fact that outsiders hold your viewpoint.

NOT EVERYONE WHO MOVES TO THE BAY AREA LIVES OR NEEDS TO LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO. THERE ARE A PLETHORA OF OPTIONS.

Look at a map, jeesh.
Thus, if it's happiness, success has no root at all in the objective reality, but is completely subjective... What is quite a hard thing to say, but sounds completely logical.

And yeah, I'm removing the subject's brain from my definition of "objective reality". If I don't do that, "subjective" would be meaningless.
I saw the wind-down language but it lacks specifics. I figure there's a slim chance of non-renewal anyway but sometimes these things get awkward.

Interesting thing about Veeva is that unlike every other saas company on earth, they actually have a healthy operating margin despite being in hyper-growth mode. This will close on the first day of trading with a $4.5 billion enterprise value.
Why doesn't that guy post more often? He's hilarious!
Devils in Red Dress
A man with a crowbar will beat you for your password even if you assure him you can't divulge it. The problem is with the man with the crowbar, not whether or not you use a secure system.
Thank you, the douchey isn't intended, but it's helpful feedback on a writing style I'm trying to pin down.

Thanks for the honesty and 'chin up', it's appreciated.
Looks like an excellent target for phishing attacks!
I assume the extension is Firefox-only? It would be really cool to have Safari support for this.
I'm surprised that so many people remember this.
Owning a home is a terrible investment when compared to other investments, but you really shouldn't compare it to other investments (at least with your primary residence) because the choice isn't "spend money on a house" vs "spend money buying stocks". You have to live somewhere, and the choice to not buy a house (i.e. the choice to rent) brings with it a significant chunk of spending on which you lose every cent you put into it.
That 'deeming' is the ATO / certification act. That's what I was asking: has any federal CIO or AO actually certified and granted an ATO to GitHub? This would be fantastic news, but I doubt it.

Also, Github (the SaaS) is a 'cloud' service, so it would need FedRAMP approval (which could be done via the agency ATO if they desired) as well, but it wasn't on the FedRAMP site last I checked.
am I the only one who is surprised at how ugly it is?
I've had a debit gift card for 10 months with $35 on it. Just used this to send that money to myself. Awesome.

Amazing what you can do with a card number and expiration date. Don't loose your debit cards!
That's promising. If you are willing to watch out for their gotchas, you can manage. And, they make some things super simple and relatively affordable (e.g. SSL certs). Having accumulated a good number of domains there over the years, I haven't wanted to switch.

So, that shadier/confusing stuff is unnecessary. They have a chance to be a really good company. Glad to hear they are working on it.
> Even with Square, I'd be hesitant to enter my debit card number.

Are you afraid of entering your debit card number? How do you make purchases online?
The deposit is instant and it does not use ACH.

Here's another comment that describes someone's actual experience with the product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6557516
Skype does not provide the same feature set as Gmail account with to searchable archives
> A VM or high level compiler abstraction, especially with GC, tends to interfere with #1, and sandboxed environments with abstract APIs for accessing hardware tend to interfere with #2.

For #1, asm.js doesn't have GC, by and large (there are a couple of places where the GC gets used when interacting with Web APIs, but those are fixable and don't matter much in practice). For #2, "a sandboxed environment with abstract APIs for accessing hardware" precisely describes Pepper!

> Asm.js provides predictability in terms of GC, but it does not ensure predictability in terms of performance (because of differing JIT implementations), nor does it give the direct access to hardware resources one would like (e.g. SMP).

I don't understand what you mean. The performance predictability is fixed by "use asm" and AOT compilation. V8 is opposed, but your point (rightly, IMHO!) argues against that choice. If you're just arguing that there will be multiple implementations of asm.js and that's bad for predictability I don't see that being fixed with any solution outside of a browser monopoly. If PNaCl is to become a cross-browser solution, then you must be open to alternative implementations.

As for threads, we can continue to evolve JavaScript so that it is supported, at least in asm.js mode. I don't see this as some fundamental obstacle.
I would imagine that if you're a random person only just finding the project now and aren't already involved in it (by working for or with Stack Exchange), then you probably wouldn't get all that much value out of the commit history.

Feel free to dispute that, though. There may be some scenarios I'm not considering.
I very much doubt engineers laid off from a well-regarded startup like Path would take low-ball offers. I've seen similar situations firsthand many times now, and I'm almost certain they will get multiple competitive offers.
Archive.org had much of the NIST content mirrored, if you just need specific pub references/etc. (and not trying to work with the people specifically).

Getting GitHub for DoD would be great...
P as in Pterodactyl
The security here is very very questionable. It is non-existent and that worries me.
I'm completely taken back by the simplicity of this + that it's free. So many times have I paid a contractor via PayPal as a "friend" to reduce PayPal's fees.

Moreover, why hasn't a bank or credit card company done something like this yet? Amazing how the solution disappears into a cc: address line and unique link in your email.
An opportunity for popstar.
A bias/agenda towards attacking powerful people or the status quo would most reasonably be called "journalism" wouldn't it?

That's it's function, at least in the context where you use terms like the "fourth estate". That's the bias you want in journalism in order to attempt to inform the public.

Not that I don't think Greenwald doesn't have biases, he does, but this particular one isn't a bias to complain about, it's what makes an investigative journalist. I'm also a long-time reader of his.
you can just install Koding chrome app and you got free virtual machine, text editor and all other you need to develop.
also there are 2 koding chrome apps,
Terminal app : http://bit.ly/GQtPh1 and koding app http://bit.ly/17sCYmv, you can also visit https://www.koding.com if you dont want to download anything.
It is suspicious though that the Rubinius project just lost funding from Engine Yard, and now (like a week later?) the maintainer has declared Ruby dead and Rubinius X is the answer. It seems like death throes (of Rubinius) to me, rather than any substantial commentary on Ruby in general.
Easy OpenCL with Python
I believe it's a combination of a necessarily present (as opposed to future) bias, and stress reducing available concentration for good decisions, because that's what the studies on the matter support.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/3880

http://www.cepr.eu/meets/wkcn/7/770/papers/Banerjee.pdf

Have a good look at yourself in the mirror.
Since it's based on email, the same as email. You can encrypt the body but not (most of) the headers. So yes, there's a privacy concern there.
Finance is a circular argument, due to the nature of finance (see what I did there?).

It's fiat currency and fractional reserve banking - the initial bootstrapping of the system is a giant 'just trust us' and 'go with it' moment for society. Debt is easiest way to grow an economy, as loaning money helps create new wealth. It allows banks to turn $5 actual dollars into $15 actual dollars, without having to take $10 actual dollars from anybody. It's magic, but it only works when people trust the system to not disappear/default, and borrow money. Without debt, there is no growth of the overall economy, there is only shifting of reserves from point a to point b.
> - The most important part of the Dvorak keyboard is that the most frequent English letters are on the home row with the vowels pushed to the left. This means that you're less likely to move your fingers from the home row and more likely to switch between hands for each letter. Thats the theory of why Dvorak is faster and more comfortable. It's a little crazy that E isn't on the Qwerty home row.

> - It was much harder to switch to a new layout than I expected. It took about a month of typing with Dvorak every day and destroyed my ability to type on a qwerty keyboard. For a period during this transition I couldn't really type well on either keyboard, not fun, and not easy to explain to my boss why I couldn't fucking type. Interestingly I can still type fine on my iphone qwerty keyboard, so it is apparently a separate process in my brain.

This so accurately describes my experience, that I'm now piqued to see if others respond the same as well. I took on Dvirak as a learning challenge as I was finishing up my degree (and also to stop people from using my user account at work). It took me 4 weeks to become comfortable in Dvorak, one year to become proficient (Dvorak wpm > qwerty wpm) and about two years to regain proficiency in qwerty. It helps tremendously that I use both, equally, throughout the day thanks to shared computers.

As a side note: holy hell writing HN comments within Reeder on ios is a pain.
I don't even read units at the press anymore. I developed some kind of blindness that, when I see a unit all the information I gather is a label from the set {SI, meaningless}.
> Sorry I meant type "tags" in the sense of modifying the language syntax to have required type annotations.

There are already multiple types in JavaScript, and this already affects performance; for example "+" is defined for both numbers and strings. All JavaScript engines handle this in the same way, more or less. You start out with a "baseline JIT" that does not make assumptions about the types of objects and has type-check-and-dispatch on operations like "+". These type checks record the types of objects that have flowed through each point. Once enough types have flowed through so that we can reasonably predict the types, we recompile the function to assume that the same type (for example, number) goes through, which enables greater optimizations. You then hoist type guards up (or eliminate them if you can prove them never taken) so that you deoptimize and bail out.

Value objects don't change this overall picture, they just add more types.

All of this, however, is irrelevant to asm.js. With an ahead-of-time optimizing compiler, we know what the types are beforehand via the asm.js spec. So there are no type guards inserted at all, and none of this is an issue. For example, NaN-boxing is not used in the Firefox asm.js compiler (OdinMonkey). We know which values are doubles and which are integers, so we need no runtime guards or type tests at all.
Apple and China
Get back into that shit next semester, no excuses.

You're a freshman, I take it? If you start giving up on shit as "too hard" now, everything's going to be too hard in the future. Learning only gets harder when you get older. If you need to enroll in a more remedial class first, fine, but don't waste your and your parents' money by avoiding classes that are "too hard" for four years of college. You are what you repeatedly do.
Yes, I understand. However the article didnt impliy he was starting his own organization- he could be joining other journalists to start a new organization.

My example was propublica.org -- a news organization that was founded after an angel donor provided funding to form an organization for investigative journalism after Rupert Murdoch bought the wall street journal.

I'm not saying its not the case, I just didnt see that implication. Personally, I think it would be a mistake for him to start "his own" organization. First, it would be hard for him to keep doing what he's good at as he would be pulled in more directions and into more discussions about organization, money etc. Secondly, I think a "G Magazine" would not have nearly the impact that a propublica-clone would have.

We need less personality and more people willing to grind the shit out.
EFF Pioneer Award
Faster transfers are possible. Some companies (Kabbage maybe?) are able to do same day or instant transfers without wiring.

I believe it's done by opening bank accounts at major banks, and then using the interbank transfer system which is instantaneous and only requires an account number and a name. Other services offer pushes to credit cards or debit cards using bill pay systems or blind credits.

It isn't actually that hard to move money from person to person. The real issues with this sort of stuff are:
a) payments fraud
b) money transmission law and regulatory compliance
They just fired the person who updates their website
Since you haven't seen the offer, how do you know that you need to negotiate?
My Origin: From watching Dad Program to Founder
Out of curiosity: Do you know whether the $1 is listed as "available funds"? Some (all?) banks list pending transactions like check deposits and include those funds in your account total, but then have a separate header for "available funds" that are actually usable to spend or move.
Looks great.

Would still love to see a non-developer centric site to point customers at so they can understand who/what Stripe is in order to integrate with our site via Stripe Connect.
> I'm sure the fees are significantly lower for debit vs. credit cards.

This used to be the case, but in recent discussions with retail owners I've been told that the fees are now comparable.
You say you wrote down everything you ate and its calorie value... what did you base calorie count on in situations where you ate out? E.g. lunch with the boss, &c.
What degree of accuracy do you think is necessary?
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I'm going to guess with credit cards.

Credit card numbers are much safer to use online than debit cards, mostly because credit card dispute mechanisms give consumers a lot more power. If a merchant behaves in an unsavory way, with a credit card you can usually just call your bank, issue a chargeback and that's the end of it. You can't do that with a debit card.
I cannot believe this is happening. This is extremely cool...

But didn't we agree that email wasn't a safe protocol?... How long do I have to cancel a transaction? Are they going to honor the fake ones like Visa does?...
If anyone is interested more about the state of transferring money and ACH in the US, there was a good Planet Money episode [1] about it recently.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episode-...
I used virtualbox a lot for work and play, always with a debian guest. While my overall experience was good, there were two gotchas that really annoyed me:

1. When cloning VMs I would always have networking issues. The fix was known and simple (https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/660) but not intuitive to a casual user.

2. Installing the guest additions (drag-and-drop file support, shared clipboard, basically stuff you really want) as a kernel module can be a huge pain in the ass depending on what kernel you run. I never had any issues with a "stable" 2.x kernel, but with 3.x I had a difficult time finding the correct kernel headers and putting them in the correct place.
The issue is also that people will just squat on compromised accounts and then nick funds as they appear. Low probability I suppose, and that's what they're betting on.
On the second and third points, all other things being equal, (which they aren't because of government intervention) people would be far better off with a diversified portfolio of debt and equity than a house.
I am they client since 5 years ago, and I always saying my partner (after chating or e-mailing their support) that "please do me remember to never change of hosting company".
The host is very good but what is really wonderfull is their support (many times they even solve some coding errors I made, so my code works without problem)
That was my first impression. I could rip the site, post it to my own domain, and start sending out emails saying "you've got cash, give me your credit card number so we can credit it" in about 10 minutes. Great concept, and I plan to use the service, but as it gains momentum and acceptance, it's going to be a great attack vector for the Nigerians.
In my bank (Capital One 360, formerly ING Direct) the deposit is listed as cleared & available. The $1 I sent him back is in a pending status (and thus removed from my available balance)
I haven't used the realtime API specifically, but my experiences building a startup around the Drive API leaves me extremely wary about relying on Google/Drive for anything critical. I currently wrap any call to their api in a try_5_times function since they 500 so frequently, and have to put all drive-related tasks in an exponential-backoff queue even after that for when they go down more seriously. Not what I'd want for core realtime functionality.

Would be very curious to hear from others who've used the actual realtime api, however.
Via https://squareup.com/help/en-us/article/5144-square-cash-sec...

> Square verifies each Square Cash email to authenticate that it comes from a legitimate sender. For added security, we send you a text confirmation each time you send Cash if you have linked your mobile phone number.
There's a pretty straightforward SMS confirmation thing you can enable by logging in to your Square account. Tested and it seems to work well. Also note that the weekly transfer limit is $250 if you don't verify yourself, so the risk is somewhat limited.
What he fails to observe is that most kids don't have motivation to do anything.
That would be awesome. Exactly what I wanted to do but no idea how to accomplish it.
You don't just get a static site though. We handle all the whole build process: minifying, bundling, image optimization, giving each asset a unique content based URL and pushing them all to Akamai.

BitBalloon also makes forms work without having to do any brackens programming (or fitting in an external form service and try to get it to look like part of your site).

There's lots more timesavers included as well, so if your time is with anything to you, those $60 for a year of hosting will pay for themselves.
>can I ask what the reporting of someone who was impartial look like?

There's no such thing as impartiality. Every journalist has bias. I'm sick of people pretending that GG doesn't, just because they agree with his bias.
It's amazing that they are doing $200m on 170 customers, but, just to raise it - there aren't that many big pharma companies out there. So what does that say about their future growth?
> I like the parallelized hash chain construction idea; I've never seen that before.

Which, given that it's cryptography we're talking about, probably just means that it's completely insecure. :)
We're a little further along it looks like, but feel free to checkout 'Barc.com' -- we're chat but not IRC compatible.

I'm a big believer that chat rooms will make a comeback!
I just scoured the site and saw no limits for receiving through square cash. I can't imagine that this is actually the case; does anyone have any idea what the actual policies are?
Is that actually widely available? They announced it a long time ago but it has yet to ever show up in my gmail.
I've abandoned truecrypt for Tomb in the meantime http://www.dyne.org/software/tomb/
Since it is javascript i guess it should run anywhere like pdf.js.
I use rtl-sdr successfully on a mac, almost everything I needed was in macports including a nice GUI
Cool! Maybe, finally, as a result of public scrutiny, TrueCrypt will have a public repository. You know, it's 2013. I cannot think of any reason why the software you will possibly trust with your life does not have code in a public repository.

Till then time, we will and we should doubt it.
Not the OP. Basically, they expect you to work overtime (go on call) for free. If you take that into account, their offerings are nothing special.
A man with a crowbar won't continue to beat you for your password if you can prove that you can't divulge it, unless he is beyond the reach of logic. At that point he might as well be beating you because he doesn't like the color of the moon, and you would best get together with some of your friends and divest the lunatic of his crowbar.
> (i.e. the choice to rent) brings with it a significant chunk of spending on which you lose every cent you put into it.

I really dislike this line of thinking. Renting is not "throwing money away" because you have to live somewhere. Buying gives you the opportunity to capture any upward movement in the housing market and provides a stable payment over the long run but it also exposes you to risk of downward pressure and makes for a very illiquid asset. Renting gives you the ability to relocate on very little notice (in most places, your maximum is a year, assuming you get a better offer within a day of signing a new lease) and shelters you from immediate maintenance costs.

The problem is that primary housing isn't an investment. It's just as much an emotional and financial decision as buying a car (versus, say, going car-free or leasing a car).
Is it faster than JSC's new interpreter? That thing is quite fast.
So um how do we know that none of the people conducting this audit are secretly working for NSA?

Somewhat james bond-y idea but you get the point.
They are not using ACH for this, but rather probably using the PIN-debit networks such as star, interlink, nyce and accel.
The United States.

They're more into passive spying and subtle manipulation/influencing, instead of active restriction and arresting of dissidents.
What cities in Russia would you currently consider decent for someone with a career in IT? Honest question.
Does this mean that he is done with the "first wave" the of Snowden revelations, and or that he doesn't trust me The Guardian, and or that he wants to to capitalize at his peak popularity moment? Was this planned before the Snowden story?
Seems to be USA only?