skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ken Cochrane has a really good guide to PCI compliance from a developer's standpoint. The main point that it drives home, though, is that you really don't want to ever be in a position where you could be touching card-level data. You want to hand that off to Stripe, Braintree, Balanced, PayPal, someone else before it hits your server.

http://kencochrane.net/blog/2012/01/developers-guide-to-pci-...
You could also use Resolver One[1], which sadly is no longer in development[2]. It is a commercial spreadsheet written in IronPython that uses (almost?) vanilla python files as documents. Needless to say it is extremely scriptable.

I'd love to take a stab at making a lite version in QT or wxPython running in CPython... Sadly, I've gotten too used to Google Spreadsheets to really need a desktop version

Also, of course, LibreOffice has support for Python macros.

[1]: http://www.resolversystems.com/products/resolver-one/

[2]: http://www.resolversystems.com/eol.php
Ridiculous.
Written no doubt, for shock value rather than even the pretense of serious discourse.
It seems they have shifted their focus from providing a cheap consumer alternative to Microsoft Office to instead providing an alternative to Google Docs. It just shows their bigger competitor these days is Google as opposed to Microsoft.
Most folks in your position have a hard time solving their problems because they collectively seem overwhelming.

You are employable, and have no difficult responsibilities (kids, debt, etc), so honestly you are not in a bad position. Also, if you have not considered moving, I would. Psychologically it can make a huge difference to feel like you are starting over, somewhere new. If that seems hard, remember you can always move back. And don't let yourself come up with excuses for why it wouldn't work: it can work.

Write down the problem you want to solve first. Say, getting stable employment.

For this problem, write down a few optimal outcomes. For each outcome, write down what you would advise someone to do to accomplish it. For example, "I want to move to Seattle and get a job at Amazon" (or whatever). Now write down what you would recommend: "Research Seattle; Find acquaintances there; Figure out Amazon's job positions; Social engineer your way into talking to an Amazon employee (probably not hard on this site); Convince them that you would be a good engineer for them".

Now the hard part: Follow your own advice from above. Wake up every day, and step-by-step work towards your goal. If you are worried you cannot, find someone to make you accountable (parents, etc) that you can talk to about it.

Good luck.
> (You are much better off using Stripe or Braintree than doing this yourself.)

Gonna throw in a recommendation for Spreedly (http://spreedly.com) right here. It's a processor-agnostic payment vault, so that you can offload your card storage needs without having to commit to a processor for the life of your business.

Build against Spreedly and if you want to use Stripe today, and some new YC 2014 startup next year, you just change one line of code and you're done. If you store your customers' cards at your processor, you're locked in to that choice to various degrees (from having to request some kind of encrypted hand-over and re-implementing all your billing code, to having to ask every single customer to re-enter their billing info because you chose a processor that won't give you your information when you leave).
It may be your first result on google, but thanks to individualized filtering and filter bubbles [1] there is no way to tell what the first result will be for someone else.

[1] http://www.thefilterbubble.com/ted-talk
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Why didn't the White House use WordPress?
"Exchange" is the critical word. A single promise is extraordinarily different, in the legal world, from a contract.
This was so stupid, it made me laugh out loud.
This is my ebike. 32mph without pedaling.
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2841/10328825565_ef951c4367_b....

The selling point for me (or rather, why I built it) is that I can do my 40 mile round trip every day of the week. If I try to use my road bike alone I am burning 2+ hours a day commuting and fatiguing before the end of the week.

I will say, this thing would be lethal in the city. I commute on country roads and probably the single most important point - it's safer.

My motercycle is the safest, cars do not pass me, reduced 'collision opportunity'.
My road bike is my most dangerous mode of transport. Cars constantly pass me as I do 20mph. Either cutting right in front of me or veering way to far out.

The ebike is somewhere in between and I have not been fitter since starting to use it.

I'm not touching the legality debate with a barge poll.
That they are both horrible and imbalanced.

It's "who cares about poor people" vs. "who cares about rich people"

I would hope for the coming 30 years that we elect moderate politicians instead of radicals, like in the last 30 years, but probably my hope is idle.
I'm sorry if I am not seeing this clearly, but did you change the pricing model? All I am seeing between Test #2 and Test #3 (the succesful one) is that you drop from $150 to $15. The $150 was the Unlimited Plan, and now you have all that for $15.

All I see is price lowering instead a diff price model. I apologize if I am wrong.
Norvig and co. are like drunk men searching for their lost key under a streetlight. It might not be where it lies, but that's the only place where they think think could find something, or at least make some tangible progress. Hofstadter doesn't mind taking the long shot... feeling his way about in the dark, in the hope of inching forward and making progress towards artificial intelligence.

This comparison between complementary approaches is an apt analogy for most fields, where the focus shifts every once in a while, when one of the approaches largely hits a wall and most people switch to the other one. A while later, the trends will almost inevitably reverse and draw inspiration from other approaches. The unfortunate thing is that there's no dialogue between the two camps, which makes it that much harder to port good ideas from one context to the other.

I could provide examples from physics research, or for that matter, trends in static-vs-dynamic blogs :P Also, the more "applied" the field, the shorter these cycles are.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
In order to inject content into the stream, they must be able to decrypt and interpret the stream. It is not quite as simple as a traditional proxy which may not actually have to know the content it is transmitting. They must have all content you send over the stream for a short period of time in-memory in a restorable (if not plaintext) state in order to read from the client's IMAP stream, interpret, then send over the IMAP server's secure SSL stream. The short period of time over which they must keep it does not free them from the security implications. All an intruder must do is gain access, then monitor the stream. I'm not saying that this is impossible to mitigate, just that you're trusting them to do it right.
There is this myth implied by many, explicity said by others, that this would be proportional to the wage increase, so cancel it out.

Studies have shown the price increase would be around 2-5% for most industries who had to provide a living wage.
I think a lot of the resistance comes not from the electric bikes themselves, but by the way they are operated in NYC.

I'm a regular bike commuter and bike through Brooklyn and Manhattan daily. While I'm no angel, I tend to follow major traffic laws.

Most of the electric bikes you see on the street are ridden by delivery drivers, who — rightly or wrongly — have gained a reputation for disregarding laws, riding the wrong way on one-way streets, and being a menace to other bicyclists and pedestrians. For New Yorkers, I think this means that electric bicycles have become associated with reckless behavior and a general safety hazard.
If anyone from Groove is reading these comments, your log in page looks like this on latest Chrome OS X: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7s0mqhu8172bpf/Screenshot%202013-...
woah thanks , i literally had to think out of the box :).
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>that corporations exist to maximize //

Some, probably most, not all.
The difference is selectively picking data to support your hypothesis while ignoring everything that can nullify it.
Let's follow through on this thought. What searches will result in a banner ad for pets.com? "pets.com"? "pets"? "pet supplies"?

If pets.com is the second result for "pet supplies", are they allowed to buy the banner ad? Or do they have to wage an SEO campaign first to claim the top spot, then buy the ad?

Bonus question: Is Black Car Limo (URL blackcar.com) allowed to buy a banner ad for "black car"?
> The "hypothetically perfect search" has absolutely zero ads and only shows results based on merit

Right. What ten results should it show you when you search for "trash cans"?
> Where were all the comp sci grads going? Some were going to Redmond and Silicon Valley for sure. But a lot of them were going to Maryland and Virginia.

Well that's hardly a story, and not the point of the Snowden leaks.

> Why were none of these stories broken before? Couldn't sources have been found to talk off the record? Weren't there people of conscience inside the tech companies who might tell the truth?

What if they're all okay with the things they know about?
I think the Guardian knows what a corporation is. That does not imply that they can't complain about corporate decisions.
I think the "We can get rid of X% of the government" would possibly go over very well in some spheres.

Social Security, SSDI, Welfare, WIC, EITC, SNAP, section 8, etc

The fact it would result in higher SS payments to old folks would likely make it widely popular as well, as well as the removal of Minimum Wage.
$150 was for unlimited everything including agents. New pricing is $15/agent.
There's also Vincent[1], which has some mapping capabilities and is built on top of Vega (a "visualization grammar" for d3js).

[1]: https://github.com/wrobstory/vincent
--- Tim Cook could not have said it better when he summarized Microsoft’s confusion. “..they’re trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs.”

What was the first criticism of smartphones that I heard? They're trying to take PDAs into Cell Phones, and trying to turn Phones into PDAs.

Its like these bloggers can't even imagine a new model of computing. Converged computing is the future. A single device that does more than previous devices is easier to carry, centralizes management and simplifies your life. I frankly prefer the Surface Pro over any of the tablets that exist today.

When you have a keyboard / mouse, then TYPE on the start screen. You know, the auto-search feature? The Start Screen is one of the best keyboard-interfaces I've ever used.
The "dopamine rush" is actually an endorphin rush - they make you feel good, the dopamine is just released along with the endorphins to facilitate habit formation (basically programming you to do that thing again in the future since it makes you feel good). I think it's a distinction worth noting...
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It didn't take very long to reinforce Godwin's Law on this thread...
Should we expect future sequels called Elite: Competent and Elite: Above Average?
The way I read the standard, the string 'soccer1' is a valid/compliant PCI password. At least it for PCI-DSS v2.

8.5.10 Require a minimum password length of at least seven characters.

8.5.11 Use passwords containing both numeric and alphabetic characters.

In fact, the string 'password1' exceeds the requirements.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/24/google-bre...
Here's the reference for those that haven't seen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOeiEKemWeA
He put this in the "cfg": Feel free to contact me at aniwey@gmail.com if you have any comment or question :)
So, if we're late 20s, early 30s, what's the risk in taking a head CT?
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be aware though that it is tile based and that comes with a price. for example you cannot have huge labels. also the dependency on many node.js packages can be annoying.
When I saw Windows 7 I thought I knew where Microsoft was heading. I saw the new task bar with it's "finger friendly" buttons and thought to myself "MS is slowly integrating touch into their interface....makes sense.".

However between awesome Windows 7 and the mess that is Windows 8 something must have happened. Someone inside MS must have preaching that you can't simply make Windows touch friendly. They must have argued for a dedicated touch interface, one that would be made more powerful with each release so as to eventually phase out the "old" windows interface for good.

This approach I feel is wrong, and the disjointed effort in Windows 8 is demonstrating how confused it's making both "regular users" and tech pros alike.

I wish MS stayed focused on their traditional OS model and made Windows 7 even better with Win8. The "touch OS" from Microsoft could then have been born, and evolved on it's own without having to carry the burden of 3 decades of general computing.
Would it be less evil if Google had to put banner ads up to make payroll?

I think so. Google can't really pass this off as "the economic situation forces us to make a really difficult choice."
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Dumping industrial waste into the Hudson, prostitution, and the drug trade are also boosts to the local economy. Think of all the jobs! However, they are are illegal in NYC, just like Airbnb, though the externalities are much worse in those cases. The point is that most laws restrict a bit of economic freedom for other societal benefits. Think of how much cheaper housing would be if only we ditched those pesky building codes!
people riding them seem to feel the need to take up an entire traffic lane with their bike.

In the UK, the highway code indicates that if you're overtaking a bicycle, you should in fact leave as much room as if it was a car; that is, what you're complaining about is intentional in the UK.

I know that many cyclists (in other countries as well) deliberately take up the entire lane for their own safety.
If only it were that easy. Look up "smidsy" (Sorry mate, I didn't see you), and see how big of a problem this is for people in cars versus motorcycles as well.

The problem isn't that people don't know how to judge speed, it's that judging the speed of something moving directly at you is very hard.

The size of the object doesn't change until it's pretty much right upon you, and the cyclists tend to blend into chaotic backgrounds, making them nearly invisible. Having something that doesn't move as you expect it to makes it even harder.
The easiest way to cheat is to save and modify the values. Numbers can be set to `Infinity` as desired to save trouble...
I take protein powder after workouts or long training runs. I take MSM and glucosamine for knees/joints for long runs (42yo, long time runner). I take multi, B complex, and E vitamins (E for my fingernails - guitar player). I don't take each every day.
I've bought a number of domains aftermarket before - all .com. I think .com is important if you can get it a reasonable price but not at the expense of other more important things centered around building the actual product itself.

If your company grows the .com name only goes up in perceived selling value then...ala Facebook, Dropbox, etc.

A lot of people on HN are used to different extensions because that's the world we live in but the general public is used to .coms so I agree that it depends on your audience but if it's a consumer mass market product, I think .com is important. I've spent up to $5000 on different names and I've always been able to get them for about 30-40% of asking price.
GPLv3 contains the "Anti-TiVo" clause which requires that GPLv3 software be able to be swapped out with its equivalent from-source build by the end-user.

Most car manufacturers are very hesitant to give users access to swap out their car's software, often for warranty and safety reasons.
We need large icons in the context of mobile computing because we’re using our fingers and our fingers are fat. You don’t need giant tiles when you’re using the tiny curser of the mouse.

Or perhaps Microsoft is actually forward thinking here and is considering that touch is becoming a more popular interface even on laptop. If you are designing a new UI now to cover the next 5 years, it seems like a good idea to take this into account.

Why would I be forced into a full screen view on a 20-inch monitor? The only reason applications are full screen on mobile devices is that it is assumed that screen real estate is small. Microsoft is indeed very confused.

I also believe you can have two Metro apps beside each other. But aside from that, I took a quick look at my setup and all my applications are full screen except for the Command Prompt instance I have open.
Ok, let's try with another wikipedia article: [1]

"A contract is a legally enforceable promise or undertaking that something will or will not occur. * The word promise can be used as a legal synonym for contract *,[2] although care is required as a promise may not have the full standing of a contract, as when it is an agreement without consideration"

Emphasis is mine :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_law
I tend to agree with much of what is said, at least when I'm in a harshly utilitarian, Malthusian mood: if you want to know what locavorism really means, try buying fresh fruit and vegetables in Japan, where foreign farm produce is taxed of the shelves. But the fact remains that the Anglo-Saxon food culture sucks, and those cheap cheeseburgers are indirectly subsidised by food-stamps and Medicaid for the workforce.
The main problem for me is the artificial bias the government has induced in our diet through subsidy and taxation. He's fighting against this government interference with our diet, that's a good thing.
A good idea. But it very much needs a privacy policy.
The full quote would still be true even if it were a crazy, flashy, graphical doodad as long as it isn't flying around.
Basic Income would probably decrease SS payments to existing retirees if it replaced SS and means-tested programs without additional revenues, since the increase in the number of beneficiaries (compared to existing Social Security) would be greater than the increase in available funds.
ouch, that's no good :( Fixing that asap....Thanks for the heads up!
So I got to speak with Bob Goodlatte a few times before. I generally considered him a generic shmuck, but this legislation is pretty impressive. Kudos, Bobby.
Don't run node.js, but my experience with New Relic has been excellent - great product from folks who have been knowledgeable, responsive and friendly without exception.
We signed up for what they promised us?
What is the difference in:

free trial -> paid subscription?

It says 25% increase in revenue but presumably you have lowered your margins?
And interestingly, these two actions are controlled by two different parts of the brain. So technically, there are two "reserves" of willpower.

I've been reading a lot of research lately and sadly, it looks like willpower is determined by how developed (determined by genetics) or active (determined by exertion of willpower) are the prefrontal cortex regions.

We can train ourselves to have more willpower by exercising these parts of the brain regularly, but not by much. We hit our personal limit pretty fast and the best we can do then is to limit the amount of decisions we make...
PCI is a bullshit standard anyways, in my opinion. Any standard that specifically states that the moment you are breached, you are "out of compliance" is a scam in my opinion. "If you follow this, then you'll be safe, but if you get breached, by default, you weren't in compliance". I'm not really sure who that protects, exactly. I hate it.
Most of what Google does (beta or released) these days is sending me to other options.

Thank you DuckDuckGo for taking a stand for users.
This dude looses me half way through - I think that adults can compartmentalise and choose between international news and hobby tech news. And lets not forget that modern technology is freekin incredible and Apple is the premier brand.
This doesn't sound like the complete set of metrics that should be measured. Surely, the key thing is how much money each model made? What is the average revenue per user in either case for those users converted?

Later on the average lifetime value of a user in each model is needed (plus the cost to get and convert them).

Yes, conversion is part of the equation, but this feels like a vanity metric on its own.

Just so I'm not sounding pedantic, our SaaS tool has a conversion rate of over 40% because it's completely free, permanently. That's the boundary case of moving the pricing.
Another terrible part of the story:

>Junk food costs as little as $1.76 per 1,000 calories, whereas fresh veggies and the like cost more than 10 times as much, found a 2007 University of Washington survey for the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. A 2,000-calorie day of meals would, if you stuck strictly to the good-for-you stuff, cost $36.32, said the study’s lead author, Adam Drewnowski. <

This is rediculous. You can buy fruits, veggies and other good-for-you thinks for much, much less. You just need to learn how to cook half-decent.

Lentils, Chickpeas, rice, flour, and other human diet staples (for the last 6000 years) are dirt cheap. Onions, garlic, carrots, cabbage, potatoes, squash, some greens, beets, and other staple veggies are also very cheap. Fruits can be equally cheap in season (around here peaches get down to a dollar per pound in season), though in winter imported fruits are expensive. Yogurt is a great staple source for dairy and protein, and can be cheap. Meats and fish are more expensive, but again, if you buy less desirable cuts of meat and sustainable fish in season, can be had for a decent price.

But people's eating habits have become silly. We eat too much meat, too many poor-quality carbs (white bread, white flour pasta), and too little fibre. And people spend stupid amounts of money on trendy nonsense (at a local farmers market I saw a lady selling tiny bags of 'gluten-free' rice for $10 dollars).

Want to eat healthy? Grab a few cookbooks about traditional cuisines... Traditional grains, pulses, with lots of veggies and a little meat/fish and you're good to go.
I think it's a fair weakness. Since Go has a mark&sweep GC, which runs at unpredictable moments, for unpredictable durations, the performance and responsiveness of programs can be significantly affected by unpredictable factors, like small code changes, which might or might not trigger the GC. That is not to say that GC is inherently slower than C++ malloc/free or reference counting, but only that small changes in code can lead to large, unpredictable changes in performance.
DNS is also a search, it's just handled by a standardized, multiparty system instead of a single for-profit corporation.

Google also runs actual DNS servers at 8.8.8.8. Would it be ok for them to inject ads there as well?
At one point it was written in javascript. Then in python. Then Go.

I still think a html frontend would be cool, and it's certainly my intent to keep as much of the code in the backend as possible to be able to swap one frontend with another.