skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay let's compare the financial industry with, say, the software industry...

The financial industry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_financial_regulatory_au...

The software industry: [Google] No results found for "list of software development regulatory bodies by country".
I personally enjoy a scheduled meeting via some video client (we use Google hangouts). That way you can be prepared to discuss topics, and it's not an interruption of anybody's work.
As long as we're talking money and priorities: The budget for the film Gravity was $100 million dollars. Sending this Indian probe to Mars cost $69 million dollars.
Sure. I doubt he'd mind the praise. :)

https://github.com/FellowTraveler
We use node-postgres and this is not the case. I think node-postgres has one of the cleanest implementations of LISTEN due to nodejs event callbacks
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I can not allow my (non existent btw) daughter to visit Mr X the Alcoholic, but it's impossible for me to shield her from a culture of alcohol unless I basically remove her from US society. A lot of people don't like that.

Even more people feel that way when it comes to other drugs, which is why they are still mostly illegal.

I'm not saying I agree with their position. I actually largely agree with you. I was just trying to explain to proksoup (the commenter who I originally responded to) how others view the world. He was baffled how people could support the drug war. I think it shows a real lack of imagination and empathy to not see other people's point of view. You don't have to agree with it, but I think it's pretty easy to understand where they're coming from.
If you offer infrastructure services and don't eat your own dogfood you can't be serious.

If you offer infrastructure services and don't tell people where and how you provide it, you can't be serious, too.
I suspect this might be for political, not technical reasons.
The presentation of Creditcard.js is great in terms of styling, and I'm sure the practical example goes a long way in selling something like this to non-developer decision makers. This is probably the market they are aiming for.

Personally, I would much rather use the MIT-licensed jQuery.payment by Stripe. I think $300 or even $149 is prohibitively expensive, and would prefer a script that is actively used and reviewed in public by many developers.

Thanks Alex!
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Looks cool. Here's what I'd love to see: built-in git deployment (ie. take a Dockerfile, build an image from it, and then after a push add the latest source code to /app and start new instances), and some kind of orchestration so you could run a number of app containers behind a load balancer container.
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For example you are visiting a local service provider web site. Would not you like to drop a quick note /review or even ask a question to the public?
Indeed. I'd love to have a look, but the link got nuked.
Since you've brought up the topic of poorly enforceable laws, when was the last conviction.

My reference re: not using encryption is that it is akin to suicide.
You act like the health department is some kind of ivory tower
1 Person + 4 Years = One Amazing Stop-Motion Animation.
A lot of HIPAA compliance comes down to documentation, etc, for example getting AWS to sign BAA

From a technical perspective, here are some highlights.

Run everything in VPC, with private and public subnets only exposing bare minimum externally

All disks are encrypted (we used dm-crypt)

All data at rest on s3 or in flight is encrypted.

Redundant encrypted backups

Enable multi-form auth on AWS signin, audit IAM users

Don't rely on external service providers for anything (except AWS of course)

Make sure have an audit trail for everything. We log every action a user makes including the response.
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Lots of people are confused about this. You guys should have some css app layouts on your front page, along with photos of them on a phone.
And yet it is rarely done. So we need to keep advocating for it.
Which sounds like how cable TV works (at least in the US).

In the old days when city governments granted these monopolies to cable TV companies, part of the deal was community access channels (Wayne's World!). Even if these benefitted hardly anyone, they provided some moral cover and justification.

If I were an old media guy, I'd see Wikimedia Zero as the germ of an idea -- maybe suggesting a way how to squeeze the genie back in the bottle and wrap the internet in a cable TV model. And, hey, in the US most people's ISP is also their cable company. So ... I don't see it as a definitely bad thing, but I see the seeds of potential bad as well as good.

(In general, a lot of bad stuff flies under the flag of a good cause fighting some other bad thing -- "because terrorism", "because children", "because hyper-inflation", etc. Of course a lot of _good_ stuff also flies under good flags. I'm just saying it's not obvious either way.)
The article identifies a problem, but doesn't give much in the way of solutions. Putting a hat on someone just passes the problem off to them - "It's not my poor communication that's the problem, he's captious". It's more interesting to build up skills that help you deal with these people.

> and also hopefully discourage him (because he’ll know you know he’s captious).

He probably won't know he's captious.

> Some students of mine went a step further and actually had hats made with “captious” printed on them so that if anyone did behave captiously, they could hat the cat in question.

I wouldn't like to be in an environment like that.
My co-founder and I are working on a browser extension which will allow you to drop comments while you are on any web site. The extension will also gather existing reviews from popular review sites like google review, yelp, angies etc..
Doesn't Amazon's Whispernet already do this?
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Because they're growing?

There are two types of profitability of concern here:

1 - Is the product itself profitable. In this case: does the cost of providing a payment transaction cost Square more money than they charge for said transaction. A company that fails #1 is a really long way from success.

2 - Is the company itself profitable. You can have #1 but not #2, if you're pouring the bulk of your income into expansion.

Square can very well be making money hand over fist, but still be in the red due to pouring all would-be profits into acquiring more market share and R&D into new markets (aka the Amazon model).

Naturally, this is a risky move - it presumes that the the core product is long-term sustainable (i.e. the new market share you're acquiring is just as profitable as the market share you already have), and that the new markets you're investing massively in are worth it.

All said and done, Square not turning a profit overall doesn't say much about the overall viability of their business model.
2000 employees.
One small consideration is that the American Express number format differs from other cards so the pattern of dots might change as you type.
Interesting idea. Maybe we're just assuming that people who work for the NSA are 1) very competent and 2) really engaged in their work.

Thinking about it I can imagine that even though they collect a lot of 'stuff' that not many people who work for the NSA (or some other BS organisation) are really motivated to do anything with that information. They are mostly, just like any other corporate environment, people who need to pay their mortgage and what to go home at 5pm.
Are you ignorant of the publicly-available plans to impose a Cyprus-style "haircut" on U.S. depositors?

Bernanke stated at the FOMC Press Conference in March that such a haircut was possible.
Sorry for breaking this post into multiple pieces. My initial post seemed to be truncated
I'd go beyond "not that crazy" to say this idea is inevitable once compute power and storage become cheap enough.
This looks like an awesome service. And the image on the site reminds me of Season 2 of The Wire - even better!
Obviously I can't speak for the OP, but here are three things I can think of:

[1] Current Bull Market. (S&P500 is up 22.5% YTD)

[2] Tech IPOs are hot atm. (see TWTR)

[3] Lots of liquidity in the market courtesy of the Federal Reserve (Quantitative Easing)

The general premise is that all bull markets must end at some point. Also the Federal Reserve will start tapering (the liquidity that it is providing to the market via quantitative easing) at some point in the near future. This might mean that the company has a short window to time its IPO to "grab money" at the high end of its valuation (given the current favorable market conditions).

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bullmarket.asp

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-04/best-stock-market-s...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6690043

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
We being Praekelt Foundation [1].

[1]: http://www.praekeltfoundation.org
I wish people would simply not bother being mobile friendly if they can't do it right. I have no trouble reading desktop oriented sites on my phone. Maybe it's cumbersome, but at least I can zoom and pan. It's only when people dick around with fixed viewports and disabled zoom that I have issues.
Cool service but your branding makes it look like you are affiliated with Canonical/Ubuntu.
Space exploration is in the interest of mankind. The more people who know the subject the better. Setting up shop on the moon and other planets gives humans (and other Earthly organisms) redundancy from an ELE (Extinction Level Event).
One of the huge benefits I've found from code reviews is that my reviewer will say, "Actually, we've faced that problem before and there's a solid and proved solution in our utils that handles it already, along with a couple other cases. How about you change it to use that instead?"
I waited tables the whole time I was in college and I can say that these observations are 100% true.

Sometimes I even have nightmares about bad experiences I had.
As I read this on my own hideous Pavilion. It has a keyboard designed by catbert.
Excellent! Will play around with it soon. Thanks for offering this, and best wishes.
Split it into two businesses - a small shop next door that rents DVDs and a bigger shop next door that rents out DVD/BluRay/Video Game playing space. Problem solved.
Wonder if they have an idle/spin up time. Only their one instance plan is $5, but I know I have to buy more than one on heroku to get no idle/spin up time - that or use hacks like constant pingers, etc.. This is important for when I'm doing experiments/UI tests/alpha tests/submitting apps for reviews before they have any consistent traffic, but I don't want them to occasionally get stuck on 15 second spin up times on requests.
from a technical perspective, I love the bookmarklet - don't get me wrong there. It was a solid blog post :D
No, it still sounds equally daft. You are aware that the latest version of Firefox runs on XP, right? So what "services on the web" do you think are affected by running XP?
I projected literally exponential growth of revenue for Twitter. Well, if it does grow exponentially, it won't be bad! Supposedly their costs won't grow as fast, and they'll have some healthy profits.

It will be a quite long-term investment anyway. Like, well, when Forrest Gump invested in AAPL.
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One thing that space exploration detractors seem to have a difficult thing comprehending is exactly what happens to money spent on a space program. Seemingly, they are under the delusion that all that money gets stuffed into a rocket and blasted into space, never to be seen again.

Of course the material cost of the rocket stages and probes/satellites is quite small, the vast majority of money spent on space exploration is spent on earth. Paying earth engineers earth dollars that they will in turn spend on earth. That 25 Billion USD Apollo program? That money didn't get sent to the Moon, damn near all of that money was spent in America.

Hell, think of it this way: India needs satellites, so they can either dump money into another country that will build and launch those satellites for India, or they can dump that money back into India and develop those capabilities themselves. How could you possibly fault India for keeping their space money domestic?
Does he deserve glass? He does.
BitCoin is security amateur hour. That's why the BitCoin protocol and client hasn't been attacked too much. It's just easier to hack some exchange.
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Yes. Yes. That's not the question. The question is why does an insider who is intimately familiar with all the details of the business and has been following it since it started values it so much less than Joe Plumber who is clueless and buying it today on the stock market. If Twitter is such a good business why would I as an owner want to part with it? What is it going to be doing with the cash it raised?

As Warren Buffer says, in the short term the stock market is a beauty contest. So yeah, Twitter is very beautiful today.

The idea behind the stock market is to have a way for businesses to raise money for expansion (other than getting a loan from the bank) and investors buying into the future profit of this expansion. This is capitalism and it's great. It has turned into this casino pumped by easy money with wild up and down swings where any correlation to the soundness of the business, its prospects or performance are purely coincidental.
I thought they wanted to download the Googles to their printer.
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This post feels kind of circlejerky to me.
Paul Graham, this should be linked from the site guidelines.
awesome I will give this a read for sure. Thanks!
This would work wonderfully on a college campus. The only difference would be to make this "bring your own content". Provide fast Internet connectivity, premium cable TV access, VHS, DVD, BluRay, and current/next-gen video game consoles and controllers along with a screen so that kids in the dorms can take in a movie or play games with friends in a place that isn't their tiny dorm room.

If you're worried about copyrights and having your own content, split it into two stores - one small shop that does nothing but rent games/movies and one bigger area (physically separate, two separate entrances, owned by two separate corporations) that provides the viewing area.
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* Amex Corporate that start with 3787
* Australian Bank Cards

But surprisingly handles JCB and Diners Club.
As someone who is looking for better notification system from database, let me tell you that SqlCacheDependency doesn't cut the cake.

1. SqlCacheDependency uses polling.
2. There is another alternative called SqlDependency which doesn't use polling but it is severely restricted.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7588572/what-are-the-limi...

I have looked high and low and could not find any mechanism in SQL Server to send notifications based on the status of arbitrary objects like the original article describes. I would love to be proven wrong about this as I need this functionality bad for the current project I am working on.
Not jealous, just surprisingly misinformed and perhaps narrow minded :) Hope that India is going to work on the communications side of things, exciting times indeed!
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At this point places like coinbase and Gox are holding hundreds of millions of dollars in effectively cash.

At this point they would be huge targets for kidnapping (think of old school bank robberies). Any idea if they are investing in security to deal with that risk?
Technically, this is broken. 4-digit security codes exist, yet this form doesn't allow them.
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We do both, as needed. In this instance, I sent a detailed email this morning. He sent a detailed response in the afternoon, with an invitation to ping him to chat further about one of the topics. A few hours later, I did, and five minutes after that, he called. The emails did the job of all of the background information - facts and basic interpretation, explanation of the problem and our options. The phone call was to agree on how we should proceed.
Are you working on this while doing a day job?
I like these kinds of perspectives :)
Hi dsugarman, in the long term we want to be able to connect the local courier service seamlessly the way you described it. This would offer really competitive prices but as you mentioned it is a quite difficult task. That's why we've been focussing on local courier services first that deliver cross border. I'm talking about services such as DPD or GLS in Europe.
Let's presume, for the sake of the argument, that not every conversation That Guy has is slow and painful. It's far more likely that That Guy only has a problem communicating with some people than that every conversation TG has ever had looks like the one in the article.

This is a fair assumption because otherwise That Guy wouldn't bother trying to talk to anybody anymore. So TG is TG from the perspective of the Normal Person. That Guy may be a normal person from the perspective of many other people.

So my problem with this article is that That Guy's guilt is presumed. In all likelihood this fictitious That Guy expected the conversation to go like this:

NC: “I think the new guy is really getting up to speed quickly.”

TG: “OK, but what do you mean by quickly?”

NC: “After the first week he hasn't interrupted me with questions every
hour, unlike some of the previous interns.”

TG: “Gotcha.”

Here TG discovers that what NC originally described as "getting up to speed" really meant "hasn't interrupted me in a while". And perhaps TG knows that follow up questions are needed to figure out what NC is really saying.

If NC presumes that TG is out to antagonize him then every question will be answered with a short (and unhelpful) reply until both parties are exasperated.
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That's part of what's frustrating about the larger move away from version sniffing (e.g. jQuery no longer supporting it) and IE playing games with its User Agent string. I'm in favor of it in theory, but in practice there are a handful of things where you simply need to know the browser vendor or version in order to provide a usable page.
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If you print some more money is that wealth?
Nice. Tested on mobile safari and it works fine. However it doesn't seem to recognize American Express card number?
Funny, the last time I suggested that in-person (or at least low-friction real-time audio and/or video) communication is extremely beneficial if not crucial to software teams, especially smaller startups iterating quickly, I was lambasted. One great comment I remember distinctly was that if my job required me to regularly ask another programmer something about a system they had worked on, that means the system wasn't sufficiently documented.
Only if you own an Amazon Kindle device. This initiative is aimed at giving every mobile user free access to the knowledge on Wikipedia.
It looks nice, but who would pay $300 for a single Javascript widget? Big companies might, sure, but there are plenty of good free implementations out there that have effectively the same features.
> However, like pornography, I think most of us know it when we see it.

Also like pornography, I think most of us would disagree at least to some degree.

Details matter, sometimes by a great deal. A coworker and I raise objections and ask for clarifications a hundred times a day in the course of our work, and more often than not at the end of that day we discover there are still important details that are missing or incorrect.

Sometimes these so-called "inconsequential details" are what will ultimately sink a project, and in spite of our captious nature the project will try to sail out of the harbor regardless.

[Edit]

Since there seems to be a lot of disagreement on this matter, I'd like to take another stab at exactly why I feel like the article is incorrect.

If a colleague is finding a lot of faults in your idea, that should say two things to you assuming you have respect for your colleague and value their opinion: one, that your colleague has a genuine interest in your idea and is trying to think it through from various angles to find what areas of it need refined; and two, that your idea is in need of refining and you should probably be taking notes.

If, however, you do not have any respect for your colleague, you may dismiss their comments and criticisms and simply call them "captious".

If there is an established cycle of this scenario then there are three possibilities: that you have a lot of ideas that are worth consideration and polish, that you have a lot of bad ideas and lack enough of an understanding of the subject matter to determine what constitutes "petty", or that your colleague has personal issues that need directly addressed. This is how it should and often does play out in the real world.

In the author's scenario, which ironically enough takes place in a classroom, the old adage of "there is no such thing as a stupid question" seems to have been disposed of. They have narrowed the definition of "captious" to target individual issues, which in any normal context would otherwise signal that the person in question is lacking in understanding. Worse still, they are given a "shame hat" for doing so.

You know what sort of fictitious conversations sprung to my mind upon reading this?

Adobe Engineer: We should use bcrypt to secure our users' passwords, it's scalable and processor intensive so it's more secure.

Adobe Middle Manager: Or we can use this other encryption protocol and save on server costs.

Adobe Engineer: But that's encryption, not hashing, we shou-

Adobe Middle Manager: Same difference, stop being captious.

Petty details, indeed.
> Anyway, if you don't want to look at it, that's your loss

Actually, I did look into it several years back. If I remember correctly, CAL was not pure and still lazy. (An explosive combination, if you ask me.)
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There are some websites that will ping your heroku instance every few minutes for free. Works great for me.
OK, sorry about the custom title, I got it from there:
https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/398336912181579776
Why is it important to have a shorter résumé?
I'm spare you the details, but some pages have 'Page Meisters" that you must get by to add to the content.
My point is that the USD price on Mt. Gox isn't accurate because it isn't liquid. If money comes in, but never comes out, how can you know that money is worth x amount? If I give someone x money and they give me something in return that they say is worth the same amount of money that I gave them, but I can't actually get that amount for it, is it really worth that much?
Absolutely. Along similar lines, DigitalOcean has done a great job of encouraging the community to write tutorial and articles, and as a result there are tons of resources to get you started with all kinds of ways to use a VPS. Doing the same would be tremendously beneficial for Stackdock.
That doesn't help at all. I think you mean applications on the web that aren't compatible with Internet Explorer 8 which is the latest version of Internet Explorer that Windows XP can install. But that is negated by the fact that the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox work fine on Windows XP so that is not an issue.
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