skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi there!

Balanced employee here.

You're right. That tutorial could be made much more clear. In fact, this guide and others are being extensively rewritten. The example itself is specific to charging a Card. Therefore, the guide assumes you have an existing Customer since Customer creation is a separate topic. You are correct that the card_uri is an example of one that would be obtained from the previous example. Let me clear up how to charge a credit card.

First, the card needs to be tokenized (information sent to Balanced and securely vaulted), https://docs.balancedpayments.com/current/api.html?language=....

Next, either find an existing Customer or create a new one, https://docs.balancedpayments.com/current/api.html?language=....

Now add the Card to the Customer, https://docs.balancedpayments.com/current/api.html?language=....

Lastly, go ahead and create a new debit, https://docs.balancedpayments.com/current/api.html?language=....

A requirement of the current API is that a Card or BankAccount must first be associated to a Customer before it can be used. This is mainly due to the fact that v1.0 of the API is very Customer resource centric, something that's changing in the upcoming 1.1 release. A Customer resource will no longer be required to charge Cards.

If you have any other questions feel free to hop in #balanced on freenode IRC. We love questions!
I've also retained numerous memories of significant events from early ages. But not the day-to-day events.

Were you an introspective child? Because I used to run back over my memories as I grew up, thinking through them in chronological order, just to test how much I could remember. That is probably what let them sink in and last though to my older age.

I also find it interesting that I recall my memory being better. When I was around 12, I remember being able to recall most of my childhood, but now it is just significant or emotional moments.
There is no such thing as "ethically permitted". Ethics is not about being allowed or not being allowed to do things, but about how to do things in such a way that it's a nice way to live together. You see, the general principle that you have control over what you own is one that in general makes a nice way to live together. That does not mean, though, that any conditions you technically might be able to set also make for a nice way to live together. If you have tons of bread, say, and your neighbour is starving, you sure can set as a condition that he has to cut of his left arm before you give him bread, and he obviously is free to refuse your offer. But I hope you would not consider treating your neighbour that way to be the ethically right thing to do that would make for a generally nice way to live in society.

Oh, and by the way, there even are legal restrictions on the kinds of conditions you can set, at least where I live. If you reserve the right to cut off your neighbour's left arm after he has accepted your bread, for example, you would not be able to enforce that contract. And you wouldn't get your bread back either.

As I think that the ability to communicate privately is similary important as protection from bodily harm, I would think it would be appropriate to have similar norms as far as snooping on communication is concerned - and even where they are not legal norms, they would still make good ethical norms.

So, no, noone should be able to force you to provide access to your WiFi, but still, if you do provide access, you should go to jail if you do listen in, with contract clauses allowing you to do so being unenforcable.
The difference is that with Haskell you can wrap a nice, clean, type-safe interface around all that ugly optimization. With C, you're still dealing with casts, null pointer checks, array bounds checks and all sorts of other tedious bug sources that Haskell users don't have to deal with -- unless there's a library bug, of course.
There's no joke here. And little harm being done. RapGenius is a well loved by its market.

If you believe that how people dress and speak defines their worthiness as a human being (and it seems you do) then go along your own way.

I do not.
Congress shouldn't have that much influence over the SEC. I always assumed it was because Dimon is the only CEO able to admit he's not infallable. I also think JPM is ahead of the curve on action against them. Again, they'll admit mistakes and take the fines. The rest of the street is denying everything but I believe they'll eventually be targetted as well.
When I was 13 my social sciences teacher got my class to draw the world map with the intent to do it again two years later with the theory that our drawings would have become more specified as we learnt more about the world.

Unfortunately, he lost the original drawings.
Apparently no one knows about New Zealand.
"Children aged 5, 6, and 7 remembered 60% or more of the early-life events. In contrast, children aged 8 and 9 years remembered fewer than 40% of the early-life events".

It is wrong to disbelieve him without knowing the standard deviation of the results. 40% is an average! For all we know (I can't check, as I don't have access to the original paper), there could have been two kids who had 90% recall and eight kids who had less than 40% recall. Knowing the standard deviation (and the nature of the distribution of results, whether it's a bell curve or whatever), would allow us to determine the probability of somebody having 90% recall post-childhood amnesia. Even if that probability was only 1/100, considering more than 100 people frequent this site it's expected that a few of them would have said 90% recall.
Don't remember for sure, might have been a Windows machine. I just tried it on my Mavericks OS X. It was allowed, but instead of:

sdf/index.html

it auto-translated to this:

sdf:index.html

(i'm assuming that's not a Sublime Text 3 thing, which is what I just tested on)
Yahoo acquired Aviate (Android launcher)
Same here. I consciously reinforced memories from earlier childhood, but I know I've lost many of them. My earliest, from before 3, are still there in sketchy form. There are no photos, just memories of playing alone and questions I asked my Mom which she doesn't remember, so I'm pretty sure they're genuine.

I wonder if solitude and quiet play are conducive to preserving memories. My children have much more stimulating, entertained lives than I had -- I had no computer, very little TV until age 10 or so. They seem more mature than I was, socially and cosmopolitanly, but also less introspective and thoughtful.
> But on the other hand a permissive licence could just as well be a road block preventing 'certain entities' from contributing code

A permissive license, by definition, cannot prevent an entity from contributing to it. I've never heard anyone tell me they won't use a permissively licensed project for any reason related to its licensing.

> In short, in lack of any data to back either of these hypothesises means they are just that, hypothesises.

If you still think this claim requires data, then I'm afraid you're missing the point. The claim is using a priori reasoning, and makes an assumption about removing road blocks from using open source projects. The claim does not make any quantitative claims relating permissively licensed projects and GPL projects.

In any case, making a quantitative claim here is nearly impossible. There are too many confounding factors.

> Nothing wrong with that, but there's also nothing wrong with wanting to licence your code so that end users of your code and it's derivatives are given rights (which include the source).

I don't understand your point here. I didn't say there was anything wrong with that. I merely stated that the claim made by dragonwriter actually factors into my decision to use permissive licenses. i.e., Anecdotally, the GPL is enough of a barrier that I perceive a permissive license as better if I want to maximize the number of people using my software.
Shockingly, non-USAsians get a case of teh butthurt. "Americans aren't aware of the shape/location/existence of my country! Grrr!"

It's a cool pre-college art project, though.
The part of "Surely You're Joking" where he cracks the safe at Los Alamos makes me wonder more if he would have gone the way of Aaron Swartz, in today's world.
Viable Blackhole Successor Could Take Years to Emerge
I don't understand the server part? Is he just talking
about using FileZilla, or learning to program Sql? Don't
most programers know how to set up a server? I'm not
being mean--just curious. One other question, I'm assuming
most web Coders know java, ROR and django--not just html
and css?
rap is the vocal part of it. you can do it to music or not. one can rap on a street corner with no accompaniment whatsoever, or in the shower, etc.

hip hop is the wider genre of music, much of which has rapping in it, but not all of it. there are instrumental hip hop songs, and hip hop songs with only non-rap singing.

kool keith, beastie boys and jurassic 5 come to mind for instrumental tracks, out of the stuff i've heard. that is, hip hop tracks with no rapping.

DJs like z-trip also produce hip-hop backing tracks suitable for rapping over but wouldn't be called rap music by itself.
Ask HN: What's the best way to get 5% on a million dollars?
What do you think is the best way to get the lowest risk, 5% annual return on a million dollars?

I'm also interested in how you could get 8% or 10%, though I know that would likely include more risk.
Hilariously bad data visualization of the "hottest languages"
BitSets have efficient set operations, eg: set intersection => bitwise AND, etc.

see also: https://github.com/kisielk/bigset/blob/master/bigset.go
Why Charles Stross Doesn’t Know a Thing about Bitcoin
I believe you -- I also have 2-3 y.o memories. But most people I know don't, so I can understand their skepticism. I've encountered one or two young children (age 2-3) who seem to remember their own births, but those memories definitely fade -- they don't recall it a few years later. They're also hard to authenticate, since the distinction between reality and imagination is sometimes approximate at that age :)
That's what firing is for.
I put off reading the article for about a day now...
Are there such arbitrary restrictions on budget spending by public libraries (in which states, or is that a federal thing)? I can accept that public libraries might be somewhat underfunded, and choose to not advertise -- but it sounds strange that they are somehow forbidden to do so? (At least here in Norway most of the public libraries does quite a lot of advertising -- it's hard to imagine any service remaining visible if it's banned from marketing...).
Is the email form broken? I get "Account already exists" for any email I enter.
Often with settings like this, they will flip the preference name to something like `security.tls.max_version` or something so user-set and extension-set overrides are invalidated. They've done this with other common, significant settings that users often overrode.
1. Because it costs time and money.

2. It doesn't help yourself. So for many companies the cost can't be justified to the shareholders.
Sure it's stupid, but the other reasons are not, so encouraging google to fight the whole thing because of the stupidity of the cookie directive is to gloss over the issue.
This is pretty cool. Does Light Table have plain text configuration that can be stored in git? I would consider an editor that isn't configured that way to be a regression.
Isn't there also a phenomenon of elderly people recovering childhood memories? I've always heard of this, and relatives in their 60s and 70s have told me of vivid memories of their early life. In the same age range, they have less memory of more recent events. It's as if the transition to childhood amnesia is reversed. If some of this is true, it should provide clues for researchers to pursue.
The point about efficiency increasing seems wrong. Yes, efficiency of hashing has increased, but it's an arms race. When Visa buys more efficient computers, we use less electricity to accomplish a goal. When I buy a better ASIC I still pour as much juice into it as I can afford to churn out hashes - and if the network is producing too many hashes they up the difficulty. As efficiency increases, with bitcoin we keep pouring the same amount of electricity into mining, but we're also pouring resources into building single-purpose chips that will be useless when bitcoin migrates to a different hashing algorithm.
Try: https://apple.com without the www part.

Update: https://www.microsoft.com also breaks.
> It seems to me that not believing you is the right thing to do.

I'm sorry, but you have your science backwards. You don't dismiss evidence because it doesn't fit your current hypothesis.

Most significantly though, you grossly misunderstand statistics/surveys if you think it's possible to extract definitive physiological truths out of a subjective "how do you feel about remembering X?" survey.

For what it's worth anecdotally, I also can access memories from when I was 3-4 years old, and I can easily prove they're not fabricated memories because the memories in particular were not retold, and in some cases took some effort to actually confirm when I was the only one remembering them (even parents forgot).

Usually the memories are misc. trivia -- e.g. the design of the wallpaper of a house I only lived in until I was 4, a certain set of kids' cups I only used until I was 6, etc. There is no way these are false memories, because nobody told such things to me. I also remember some of my thoughts as a very young child, which is interesting, because they're very different from adult thoughts (though obviously I can't really "confirm" this in the same way I can physical memories).

Anyone saying childhood amnesia occurs completely is completely misguided. Of course, I have "childhood amnesia" like everyone else in the sense that most of those memories I haven't accessed in a long time, and can't recall them instantly at will. But they're still there, and I can access them with meditation if I want.
Having used GitHub Pages, S3 and my own VPS for hosting, a homebuilt host is by far the easiest. rsync is easier to use than git, which is a million times easier to use than S3.

I might go so far as to say that storing compiled HTML on git is an antipattern, but that isn't to say that you can't mirror the generator and posts on GitHub.
Don't trust reporting to be precise and clear in every detail.

I worked at Amazon. They don't put accountants as bar raisers on engineering loops. There is a bit more specificity than that.

Regarding “didn't know much about a specific programming language”, I would guess that the candidate represented himself as fluent in that language, or had worked in it for many years. A good bar raiser doesn't play trivia.
I'm a big fan of Datomic and am interested to see how people will apply it.

One thing that fascinates me is that Datalog (the query language of Datomic and a precursor to SQL) doesn't have negation. (ie in an SQL query you can use the NOT operator in your WHERE clause - but you don't have the equivalent in Datomic datalog at present). It seems to be a low priority feature.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/datomic/UBWzp4nYOMk

They very gently touch on this in the rationale page:
Datalog with negation is of equivalent power to relational algebra with recursion.
Which seems to suggest you don't need it.

http://www.datomic.com/rationale.html
It all happened in 2008. So what?

- Countrywide: January 2008

- Bear Stearns: March 2008

- WaMu: September 2008
I think the Clojure community manages to do pretty well in discouraging macros except as thin sugar over functionality avaible through normal channels. It also has some very complicated macros that give it a type system and lightweight threading and channels that would have have had to be implemented by the language designers in other languages.

I'm willing to run into the occasional macro abuse to get goodies like core.async and core.typed.
The most common attacks we have seen come from DNS, SNMP, and Chargen. You can get up to a 50k byte packet from a 64 byte response, but this is highly variable.

SNMP is more prevalent than you might think, it is present and unsecured in many firewalls, routers, and printers.
This isn't complicated.

There's a difference between identity and affectation. When your affectation conflates "acting black" (as if that's even a thing one can do) with "acting moronic", your affectation is intrinsically racist. And when you willfully adopt a racist affectation because despite being a Yale/Stanford Law grad you're apparently incapable of understanding how fucking offensive that is, I am not obligated to show you one single iota of respect.

These guys don't represent anyone but themselves, and—of late—they're doing a poor job of it.

(btw — I think Rap Genius is a great product. I hope its founders don't ruin it.)
The state has exactly the right to regulate contracts. We don't actually live in the libertarian dream you are pretending we do. Many people like to live in a democracy where money is not the only form of power, but where votes are powerful too.
Okay Glass, Goodbye
To aspiring indie devs
Yea--I grew up in the "if you want something to eat learn
how to cook Dude". Plus, my girlfriends we so terrible(I think they were rebelling, or though it was cute?)
at cooking. One of the first things I learned how to
make was bread, but it always came out terrible, except pizza dough. I have perfected rice with a steamer though.
Rice is cheap if you are strapped.
Why did the AK-47 become so popular?
Does that count warehouse / fulfillment-center employees? If so you can't compare it to other tech companies, because they will skew the average.
Heh, I think some significant memories can be retained. I know that my 4 year old son will forever remember what happens when you play with a loaded mouse trap.
US ISS Funding Extended to 2024
I backed this on Kickstarter and I'm very disappointed that it's now GPL and not BSD/MIT-licensed.
When I was at Amazon, BRs did maybe 5 interviews a week, and that was considered a lot. If BRs are really doing 10 a week these days, it's probably due to a temporary shortage of BRs.
As a counter-point here, I would point out that there are cases where we've found (with the LedgerSMB project) drastic increases in performance in switching to CTE's, especially with recursive ones.

The reason is that if you have a stable result set which is complex to calculate (particularly if it involves recursive processing), but needs to be checked against multiple conditions in different subqueries, it is far better to materialize it once and check a few times, than to materialize it in every subquery.

For example, our menu uses a simple referential tree. Generating this with connectby() when we had to support 8.3 primarily usually worked unless you wanted to exclude a large number of rows based on permissions. In that case, it would take better part of a minute to run. Not good for a web app.

Moving to recursive CTE's cut the execution time of our best performance in half, and increased our worst cases by orders of magnitude.

To be honest though, for shareable code, I think views are often better because they represent a stable interface that can be documented regarding acceptable uses (should you join this view? self-join it?). What CTE's often buy you though is an ability to break a query off into multiple, independently testable pieces (where a view might be overkill due to a lack of sharing), and that allows you to better debug when something goes wrong.
Torrents are definitely the way to deal with data this size.
TED Talks are Megachurch Infotainment
Missing the key detail that huge parts of the Android stack, even then, were not interpreted Java. (Skia, for example)
defense.net and Prolexic come to mind before Black Lotus or CloudFlare. Black Lotus and CloudFlare are bottom of the bucket options compared to defense and Prolexic.

Keep in mind that Prolexic was recently acquired by Akamai, so prices will skyrocket soon.
How and when the iMac and Mac Pro can go Retina
I see. You would like it if anyone could sell exceptions, not just the copyright holders. Hm. I'd have to think about this.
I can only recommend asking some old people about this. Your grandparents?
Fair enough. However, I believe my circumstances are starkly different. My parents are native Koreans, and they couldn't speak English worth a damn until I was much older. I really can't see how they could convey these stories to me at such a young age when I couldn't even understand them most of the time.
Great list. And while not a blog, <shameless plug> GrowthHackers.com is like HN for growth knowledge. </shameless plug>
Oh, Haskell can have it's share of weird error messages. But generics are not really a source of them.
Negation is a pretty common addition to datalog, along with group-by, max, min and other non-monotonic operators. It merely requires stratification.

http://webdam.inria.fr/Alice/pdfs/Chapter-15.pdf
I suppose you're not the first person to attack macro systems, but can you be clear why it would devolve into madness? It seems like you're saying that developing a common language within an organization is madness, even though this just appears to be factoring common work into syntax.

In the example you cited, it seems like a pretty good language versus other examples I have seen for defining Javascript types?
Even if the deviation were zero, 40% recall (or 20%, or 2%) of early-life events is more than enough to remember one thing. It's very definitely wrong for someone to take the position attributed to the history professor, "that this is impossible, because children can't remember anything before the age of 3". To the contrary, we know that they can.
>> This isn't complicated.

Stop insinuating that I don't understand you. I understand you, I just disagree with you.

>> There's a difference between identity and affectation. When your affectation conflates "acting black" (as if that's even a thing one can do) with "acting moronic", your affectation is intrinsically racist.

Do you think that they believe they are acting moronically?

Or is this perception of moronic behaviour your own? If it's the latter - which I expect it is - then you are projecting racism onto them. It's not something which is intrinsic - it requires the perceiver to have your value system.

(My perception is that they are not acting like morons. And that it's all just good fun.)

The problem I have with this whole argument is that even if a guy had a popped collar, was wearing dark sunglasses inside and kept saying everything was "baller", I'd prefer him infinitely over the guy that looked at him and declared him to be "moronic" and a "douchebag" because of his style. One is harmless but the other is something which to me signifies a close-minded asshole.
I am surprised RuneScape isn't on the list.
https://www.runescape.com/game?html5=1

Absolutely amazing (the client). They released the client last year and its pretty cool what they can do with the technology, I am pretty certain that they are one of the few games that was fully ported that wasn't an indie game. Not only did they make the new client in HTML5, but it actually offers more features than the original java client (at least from what I heard, haven't played in years) If any HTML5 game of 2013 should get the award, it honestly should be this.
The GPL is meant to preserve equal rights for everyone other than the owner. A more permissive license allows freeloading, while the GPL does not.
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. Decide the level of risk first. That dictates your stock/bond mix. After that, you get whatever the market gives you.

If you're looking for a guaranteed 5%, it doesn't exist right now, and it won't be back unless inflation spikes close to 5%.
But not 9% that would just be weird...
Navia's INDUCT officially for sale for $250,000
Move to India. 9% annual return, 0 risk.