skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Balanced employee here. You can compare yourself:

* http://blog.balancedpayments.com/volume-pricing/

* https://stripe.com/us/pricing

* https://www.braintreepayments.com/faq control-f pricing

TL;DR: Everyone has 2.9% + 30¢ on their page, Stripe mentions to email them for a discount if you're doing over $1MM/year.
The problem here doesn't seem to be the restraining order itself, it seems to be -- if the description of how the invite in question could have been generated is correct -- that the police made an arrest without anything approaching probable cause to suspect that the arrestee had done anything prohibited by the order or otherwise criminal.
Why has it been a nightmare? I find it pretty neat. Was using django-compressor earlier but it didn't have support for Python 3.
DM messaging might open HN up to all sorts of attention it would rather not have.

Right now, (almost) all communication on it is public. If some three letter authority wants to know what's going on, they can just browse.

I'm not particularly defending the behaviour of three letter authorities. Rather, I'm pointing out one implication that comes to mind. (PG could talk to the Reddit people, for one -- our could he? -- to learn what their experience has been with DM's that exist under a similar platform model.)

As it stands, I see HN as a fairly minimal and absolute model of "opt in". If you want to be available for private messages, you get and display an email address. Or a URL. Or whatever. What that point of contact is and how it relates to your life, is up to you.

If you don't want to field private messages, for whatever reason, you just go with the status quo. No need to actively filter them out, nor to explain that no, you never read crazy_joes message or that at least you didn't take him/her seriously.
Most of Siri's Watson-style smarts are just Wolfram Alpha queries, no?
I agree with collyw; Lisp is too much for most scientists, who just care about getting their research done and can't be bother to learn all this weird FP/paren stuff [1]. Supplying an obvious, familiar syntax that looks like math written on paper for, e.g., matrix operations, is critical. This is actually one of the core tensions in Julia development imho: balancing having a sane, well designed language (from a programmer's perspective) vs. having a tool that allows scientists to quickly and easily crank out results.

[1]: Note; I am not insinuating that Lisp is bad, I like it personally. Just relaying the response you will get from most practicing scientists who are not trained as programmers.
No, not at all. Unique pointers are awesome and are the foundation for lots of other features.

Now, some of the syntax for using them might still change. That's yet to be decided. But it wouldn't be Rust without unique pointers.
Im currently taking calculus, but im not sure if I have already dealt with linear algebra before. Is it its own subject, or does Algebra and Algebra II cover the content?
Developers of the EVE Online space MMO. http://www.eveonline.com/
There are many pseudo-coders here.
> If there were a single global universal fiat currency, that might not be the case, but ethereal isn't one.

I think we may see this if bitcoin becomes too popular. I mean, it may be too late by then, but why not try right? Oppressors gotta oppress.
Considering they aren't charging a 20% transaction fee, I like them better already.
Ford VP: 'We have GPS in your car, so we know what you’re doing'
Have you ever used BTC to buy something? It's the ease of amazon's "one click buy", but everywhere.

It's really, really awesome.
England first country to mandate programming in primary and secondary schools
Merely contacting someone may violate the specific terms of a specific restraining order. Restraining orders very often, by design, restrain conduct that would not, absent the order, be prohibited by any law (they would generally be unnecessary if they didn't, since the law itself already restrains any conduct it prohibits.)
I've taken 4 or 5 versions of this test many times over the last 14 years, and have always gotten the same result. Even when I went back and answered differently for questions I was on the fence for. The description was always very accurate too, but I don't like the Idea that there are only 16 models of people.
Wheelmap.org: OpenStreetMap-based map of wheelchair accessibility
That seems like a narrow definition of software freedom , but in that case I'd argue that the utility gained from software freedom is not as valuable to users as the incentive gained by developers for being able to distribute their software under a more permissive licence.
I get the I/E distinction, I understand the F/T dimension, but I've never read a good explanation of N/S and J/P. Anyone care to explain?
Sorry if I upset you. Your feature list is no stronger a point than my response, though. Features don't make a language great. Clarity, consistency, simplicity, and orthogonality do. PHP has none of those qualities. I know, because I used it extensively for a decade.

I stand by my comment. I can see why people like PHP but nobody in their right mind should deny that it is a mess and that it was constructed haphazardly.
4chan conjecture: all forums evolve to approximate 4chan or they die by the death of long tail.

imo
You linked a shitty mobile game. Doesn't seem like an apt comparison.
i lived in Norway for a little over one year; for anyone who has every lived there, you become aware of the outrageously high cost of just about everything. During my time there i felt like i everything i purchased was from a New York City hotel mini-bar.

The high cost is largely due to the very steep VAT (unlike the US, but like almost most everywhere else, the prices of goods in the shops include VAT) which is 25%.

the cost of a private university is prohibitive for many if not most families.

in addition, the personal income tax has a high lowest-rate (which i believe is 28%, and a max rate of 50%).

personal accounts for frequent-flier points are taxed; the tax paid on a new car can easily exceed 85% (that's 80 + 5 not 8.5!); gasoline prices are silly--about $13 per gallon (if i did my maths correctly).

i just checked a cost-of-living Site (Numbeo.com) and sure enough, Norway is #1 in Consumer Price Index with 173.85, over 22 points above second place Switzerland.

How does this compare with other countries of similar oil wealth? For instance, Kuwait's oil annual oil exports are about the same as Norway's (though the lifting costs differ significantly).

In Kuwait, education is free, all the way through university and there is no VAT (sales tax).
I believe nowadays they are an acquired taste, which is a big shame.
So how do you define "fair share" if it is not defined by following the tax laws as written?
Also, the ones in this article are square shaped, so you can't even see total site growth over time in them, which would be interesting and relevant.

I came here to say that (although your other points are good, too). The title of the article is "Fascinating Graphs Show How Reddit Got Huge by Going Mainstream" but then they normalize away all of the growth info and make it completely impossible to see how traffic growth is related to anything they are displaying.
> Do you feel responsible for all negative consequences caused by your tax dollars?

I've got other political enemies as well. If by "negative consequences of my tax dollars", you mean "things our governments spend money on that I disagree with"...no, I don't feel wholly responsible for them, since I fight the proponents of those things, too.
If it's not what you're most comfortable with, that means you're not actually an extravert. An extravert is someone who is energized by dealing with the external world, and an introvert is energized by dealing with their internal world. There are introverts who are very outgoing and good with people. It just tends to take a lot out of them.
It doesn't really matter if they produced wheat or not - as it's a globally traded commodity, the price of Egyptian wheat would've been the same (unless the country stepped out of international free trade agreements, which would've had massive consequences).
I got the solutions in 5 minutes. I'll email it to you
much needed service
typical INTJ most of the time :(
The best recruiters I've ever talked to have been from VC firms. I've actually ended up friends with recruiters working at VC firms that I've gotten calls from. With the better firms, they realize it's not all about placing people in one of their companies today, but rather fostering a positive relationship.
That's an excellent article you linked -- thanks! From it I gather that no one really knows why serifs exist in the first place; that there is absolutely no meaningful evidence to support a contention in favor of either style on the basis of legibility; and that, at basis, the question is one of aesthetic preference.
I'm not seeing the connection between regulation today and the IHS or (D)ARPA decades ago. Both the IHS and the Internet were created in an era with dramatically fewer pages in the Federal Register.
Interesting but not surprisingly INTJ has most votes being one of the rarest of the personality types.
Australia is an interesting contrast to Norway. Efforts to increase revenues from resources failed due to pressure from a mega rich elite. There is no equivalent fund to invest windfalls from resources. As a result once Australia's mining boom is over there will be nothing for future generations.
The traditional libertarian viewpoint isn't that the government shouldn't use the money it has to foster innovation, or that the government shouldn't have any money to use for anything, or even that the government should be tiny. It's that the government should be more decentralized.

And while the libertarians in the US today have a large number of differences with the more historic libertarians, some of the historic viewpoints can be seen in the contemporary US.

One of the main defining points for libertarianism, historically and currently, is individualism. Individualism isn't strictly anti-government, but anti-authoritarian. The government using its means to foster innovation is completely separate from most other points. Even small or distributed government should foster innovation if possible.
Conversely: with an ebook reader, you can bring your entire collection with you wherever you go, and you can add to it from the device without having to wait 2 days, pay shipping, figure out where you're going to put the book, settle on an organization system so you don't lose it...

There are some good points here, such as the fact that in most (all?) major ebook ecosystems the distributor can take away your ability to read a book, but some of his points (like "Attention Profit vs. Attention Deficit") are because he was reading from iBooks on an iPad.
Awesome work! I have a nascent project in the healthcare space and I will definitely consider using this for all HIPPA related issues.

One tidbit - will you have some kind of "HIPPA Compliant" image that can be placed on partner sites using your API? Sort of like the "Secured by VeriSign" graphic that shows up on eCommerce sites to give the end user more trust that their data is secure, etc.
As others have already written, people with engineering degrees who speak English shouldn't have a hard time getting a job in the major cities. I work as a developer in Oslo, and know for a fact that developers are in high demand.
Soon!

Migrations[0] are being included in Django 1.7 which is currently under development. For those unaware, Andrew Godwin, the author of South, ran a successful Kickstarter campaign[1] the fund this effort to incorporate migrations in Django core.

[0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migr...
I work in a norwegian (infosec) company [1] and we have hired several english (only) speaking persons to get the best talents.

Norway have quotas for people with specific skills and it is my understanding that it is not that hard to get a Visa.

I also know several other companies, e.g. Opera Software, are mostly english speaking and most large companies in Norway within Oil&Gas, and Finance have english as a corporate language.

[1] http://www.mnemonic.no/en/Andre-sprak/English/Career/Jobs-at...
Somehow I missed Red Pitaya, that looks awesome!
I could have sworn INTJ is supposedly the rarest of types, found in only about 1% of people, and yet it has by far the most votes here.
What about a world where you can Kickstart the open sourcing of this code?

I'd be willing to pledge ~$1000 towards its release? Could you get ~50 other developers to pledge the same?
I know - I was replying in the context of the parent's comment:

"I'd wager a guess that when you're a startup founder, it greatly helps to be an E."

Not sure if it necessarily helps - it's going to depend on what your other skills are and who, if anyone, else is on your team. I'm an I but get mistaken for an E.
Is there any actual research evidence for that?
I apologize in advance for the hand waving vagueness, but here's how I think of it.

N=abstract thinker, likes ideas and concepts and big picture
S=concrete thinker, likes real things and details

J=likes rules and systems and binary partitions
P=thinks in terms of guidelines and heuristics and rules of thumb and grey areas.

Most programmers are Ns, but I have met quite a few DBAs who are Ss.
I'm a P (could you tell) although close to the middle. I like to make the joke that Ps are always 5 minutes late, but don't think of that as being late ;)

Hope this helps.
Will an awesome user experience be enough? :) Plus, merchants can reproduce this UX by integrating Paypal, or perhaps Venmo in the future. The user experience is not a fundamental advantage to bitcoin.
Sentenced For Circling: Google+ Invite Puts Man Behind Bars
Uhh, I really hate INTJ personalities, most are so uptight centered on being judgmental. The "worker bee" personality that I see at IT/software places.

INFP ftw, feeling up and perceiving people over thinking and judging people!
Food security is not the same as milk security. Food security is a matter of national security, milk security is not. A country can do quite well with a reduced supply of milk.

In Egypt the cost of weat increased toghether with the price of all other grains. And people need grains (but not weat), so they revolted.

Also, what their agriculture changed for is not very relevant, the root of the problem is that their agriculture does not produce enough value for direct consuption or exchange into food (what made their money worth less, and imported food expensive). Growing fruits probably helped reduce the problem.
He is from Belgium, and it is not common. Maybe it was a requirement for his course.
@quickpost: We are on the same wavelength about the "Secured by TrueVault" badge :)
Sure, it's not like an individual citizen could go to his bank and withdraw the funds, but it's a national wealth and is being expressed as an amount per person.

It's the same with your $200k debt per US citizen number. The Norwegian government just happens to have $160k in an investment fund per citizen.

I'm not sure what the overall budget for Norway looks like, but I'd guess it's a bit better than the US budget.
Income tax is not flat. It peaks at 50% (of the salary > $80K).
Also education is free for everyone. Very few attend private unis.
Yeah, it doesn't work that way. Does anyone give Norway free metal or food? No, they buy it. Their oil prices are also average, so if anything, blame the top 6 exporters for the high overall price :-)
3,111 email addresses and $15,798: The story of my first successful product
We recently began accepting it on our typing education websites http://www.Typing.com and http://www.NitroType.com, though to an unfortunately meager response. Hopefully between Zynga and Overstock Bitcoin begins to be accepted as a true medium of exchange.

The initial reaction was simply confusion and a lot of "what the heck is bitcoin??? is it paypal??", so the rollout really was more of a educational session than anything else.
Closenes to optimum of your perception that happens to be between "boring" and "so much chaos you can't figure what you are looking at".
Fairness is defined by law? Interesting idea. By "fair share" I mean, unsurprisingly, a share that is fair. Corporations are subject to taxation. A corporation that makes healthy profits, in part driven by publicly funded infrastructure, should be required to give back to maintain said infrastructure.
I think most hackers are NT - abstraction and thinking. The E/I and J/P varies.
This makes me want to finally get one :-) If only I didn't live in San Diego haha
"Commotion" and Protecting Privacy Through Mesh Networks
So I did get an early version working, but 5 minutes to join to 4MB PDF's encrypt and compress.

Final fize size of 746kb though made me feel a bit happy.
Citizens also changing their methods because of Snowden Leaks
Caveat: Small site, low enough traffic that a few kilobytes per request won't break us.

I just enable gzipping and don't worry about minification of my own assets. Sure, it means larger initial downloads (since they're cached), but it's typically in the single digit kilobytes, and simplifies debugging like nothing else.
Interesting counterpoint - more than one test-giver has told me that, no, in fact, your 'score' doesn't change. I don't believe that for a moment, because taking the test is rather mood dependent - I've taken MB multiple times, and while overall, I come out similar in some areas (always an I, for example), the T and F have changed on occasion. It make total sense - my view of things changes over time - but these administrators were rather adamant that it doesn't change.

I guess if I'm an INTJ, taking the test the next day, I wouldn't expect to be an ESFP, but... over 10 years, I wouldn't be surprised to see an INTJ get a different 'score'.
Your feelings make you weak.

All joking aside, definitionally feelers are going to place higher weight on their personal feelings, which makes discussing technical subjects difficult, because they're less willing to evaluate different things on their merits alone.
Wow. I wish they could provide an open source library. But that was probably too much to ask for. Still, this is amazing news.
Obligatory references on the subject of the unvalidated Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/myers-b...

"Now, 50 years after the first time anyone paid money for the test, the Myers-Briggs legacy is reaching the end of the family line. The youngest heirs don’t want it. And it’s not clear whether organizations should, either.

. . . .

"Yet despite its widespread use and vast financial success, and although it was derived from the work of Carl Jung, one of the most famous psychologists of the 20th century, the test is highly questioned by the scientific community."

http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html

http://www.psychometric-success.com/personality-tests/person...

"Overall, the review committee concluded that the MBTI has not demonstrated adequate validity although its popularity and use has been steadily increasing. The National Academy of Sciences review committee concluded that: 'at this time, there is not sufficient, well-designed research to justify the use of the MBTI in career counseling programs,' the very thing that it is most often used for."

http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/deve...

http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Personality-Testing-Annie-Murphy/...

Please, ladies and gentlemen who participate on Hacker News, do yourselves the favor to read some psychological research literature that was written after you were born, so that you find out that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® was never widely accepted by psychologists and that it now languishes on the ash heap of history. For a long time now, factor-analytic models of human personality have been the fruitful research paradigm, and currently the Big Five model

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~cdeyoung/Pubs/DeYoung_Intelligence-Pe...

enjoys a fair amount of research support across multiple countries with some good confirmation by multiple researchers. The Big Five theory still needs work, but it is much more productive of understanding human personality than the Myers-Briggs model ever was.

Don't forget to up vote the poll to get more data.

Note that the HN poll here suffers BIG-TIME from all the usual problems of voluntary response polls, just like the Literary Digest poll that failed in predicting the result of the 1936 United States presidential election despite a high response rate.
The revolution will not be televised!

(it will be available for streaming on Amazon Prime HD, or as this nice 3-disc BluRay set)
> My experience is that the whitespace is totally arbitrary: totally inconsistently placed 0 - n spaces with random indentation levels.

This is usually due to:

1) Lack of a consistent style guide.

2) Lack of style guide enforcement.

3) A language where white space doesn't matter.

If you think about this critically though, these random indentation changes would either break all of the code (e.g. it wouldn't run, or would run but not work correctly) or it would make code maintenance a nightmare. Yet there are plenty of Python shops out there, and we don't hear horror stories of Python white space maintenance nightmares. Either the Python community is doing a good job of hiding these issues, or they really aren't issues in practice.

Of the people I've talked to in-person about Python semantic white-space, the common threads are either:

1) It's different than what I'm used to.

2) It's cramping my style. My code is art, and restricting how I can structure my code is an affront to my very being.
Thank you so much for sharing :-) Great inspiration for my own little project!
Very, very true. Brunei and Kuwait are terrible offenders - huge sections of the population (more than half in Brunei) aren't citizens and can't be, no matter how many generations they've been there.

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States also have a ton of foreign workers who aren't citizens. Saudi Arabia is second to the US in remittances sent out... http://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/economy/2013/10/27/...

Think about big that has to be - it's more than any of the most developed EU states to the rest of the EU (how many foreign workers are in the UK? Germany? A lot. And they probably pay much better). It's more than comes out of Russia, when half the GDP of some of the ex-Soviet states is Russian remittances.

So while maybe you're entitled to certain things as a citizen, a huge amount of what makes that possible is done by people who aren't.
"Secured by VeriSign" style badges are pointless advertising for the vendor. I'd love to see an A/B test with them that isn't sponsored by the vendor - they all tout conversion with internal tests that could easily be biased. Given that I can just grab the image and slap it on any old website, they offer no benefits.
Avoid single words on line breaks with BuddySystem.js
Close, but not exactly, Andrew Godwin, the creator of South, has added support for migrations into the dev branch of Django, to be part of the Django 1.7 release.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/

Andrew has significantly rethought migrations and applied the lessons he's learned from years of maintaining and developing South.

He's kept a developer diary that has been pretty fascinating to read (YMMV):

http://www.aeracode.org/2013/11/27/new-apps-migrations/

and others at:

http://www.aeracode.org/category/django-diaries/

[update: route3 is faster than me, but still it's worth checking out the developer diaries]
I think the bigger worry should be regarding whether or not you're writing something people will buy.

The reason so many things suck these days is that people worry about edge cases, and build in rules/sucky experiences to protect against them.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7029596
Quite prominent grafiti in the first demo says: "F*ck Cracow's police" but in polish and without asterisk.

We are not very PC in Poland.