skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rent payment processing is another hard business to enter. It's not so much technically a difficult problem as a fraud problem.

The problem with online payments is chargebacks. Except now instead of say a few hundred dollars, what happens if you have a tenant that does a chargeback for half a year's worth of rent? That's a LOT of money!!

And unlike say a retail company where you can vet your own customers, you cannot vet the tenants of your customers (the property owners). Therefore if someone is renting to lower quality tenants, and there are chargebacks, what happens? Who's responsible? How long will it be before you start to have problems with the credit companies? How long before the payment processing company will require all kinds of hoops before they accept people into their systems?

You basically need to become a Paypal for online payments. And so most of your time ends up being spent dealing with fraud because the amounts are so big and as a result the impact is so large. That's the hard problem you have to resolve to stay in that business.

All the while remember that payment processing is a low margin business. You cannot charge more than 3-5% for accepting credit cards. For many property owners paying an extra 3-5% to accept rents is a non-starter. remember that real estate renting is often a business built on leverage, so when you make 5%, that's 5% of the leveraged amount and can be quite significant in comparison to your cash investment. It's a double edged sword, and getting hit with an addition 3-5% can have a significant impact.

During all this time remember that there are tenants who are actively looking for these kinds of rentals, to take advantage of this possibility. They aren't the majority, but at the same time the majority of rentals don't accept credit cards for rent payments.

What we tend to see people asking for this are trying it for the first time. Most will eventually find a way to try it, and after a short while the vast majority stop because of the above. You generally only see the bigger companies offer it over time, and that's because they are bigger and can more easily absorb the issues. Not only that but they have processes in place, have better negotiating power, and so on, so it's easier in comparison for them. But that generally means you're dealing with companies with thousands of units, and they aren't the bulk of investors and/or property management companies in the market.

It's a tough business. It's really a subset of a Paypal/Stripe type of business, but with larger amounts and biggest potentials for fraud...
This is all well and good, but if you check in intentionally broken code, or if you fail to check in your code because it is intentionally broken, it will drive me bananas, and I will look for you, and I will find you.
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DX sold me a 2 amp USB charger that fried my raspberry pi upon first use. I won't take that chance again.
> That is to say, stuff that's sensitive OPSEC stuff can often be declassified in a matter of hours or weeks... because the actions described by the classified information have taken place and everyone knows that they took place.

Minor quibble - this isn't always true.

If a hacker knows two vulnerabilities to exploit, but only exploits one of them, he keeps an advantage by keeping the extent of his intelligence a secret. If he only knows of the one that was exploited, he's not benefitted by admitting a lack of intelligence.

Apply to enemy troop positions and competitor pricing strategies as appropriate.
I think this is a fantastic idea for Wikipedia. There have been tons of times I've wanted to watch a video or listen to an audio recording on Wikipedia, only to have it completely fail to work correctly on my device.

To me, it couldn't be more of a win-win: increased access and prominence of video content on Wikipedia, but everything is also available or mastered in an unencumbered format.

I just don't see how offering an alternative format makes Wikipedia "less free" like the majority of editors seem to believe.
Mr. Obama hasn't changed more than would be expected over several years and, while I can't speak with certainty, I would be very surprised to find out that he was lying about his views during the presidential campaign (I don't know about his promises).

He has more information than he did then. And he trusts himself to use these powers more than he did the Bush administration.

Even postulating some revolutionary secret information seems to me to be unnecessary.

Obama has always trusted himself. Most people do. What's changed is that the president is now someone who is trusted by Obama. Everything that's happened up to this point falls nicely out of those circumstances.
Balanced is looking for infrastructure/system engineers
We're working on some really cool things at Balanced, most of which is completely open source. We process hundreds of millions of dollars [1] per year, so we're looking for strong candidates who have a passion for building robust automation pipelines, tools, and fixing making [2] as we strive to maintain our excellent uptimes [3].

We primarily use Chef and heavily invested in it. We hired one of Chef's core engineers [4] to do just that.

We're an open company [5], so we don't want other people or companies to rebuild all of this again. We started an open project, called Poise [6], that is meant at making elegant operations.

Right now, we're 10 engineers [7] looking for smart, dedicated, and self-motivated individuals to come help us hack on infrastructure to help reinvent automation and tooling as an example to other companies for building highly-available, zero-downtime systems.

If you're interested, shoot us an email with why we'd consider you and impress us some how: jobs+infra@balancedpayments.com

Remote is OK, but you must be able to work in the US.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/16/balanced/

[2] https://coderanger.net/2013/10/fixing-making/

[3] https://status.balancedpayments.com

[4] https://coderanger.net

[5] https://balancedpayments.com/open

[6] https://github.com/poise

[7] https://balancedpayments.com/about
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> Minor quibble - this isn't always true.

I know. That's why I said "often can be declassified", rather than saying "always can be declassified". :)
There really is more than a dozen front-end frameworks to chose between. Check out http://todomvc.com/ for examples.
A very good point. The Eiffel tower photos will only show up when people are ironically taking photos from the tower, instead of the tower. It's much too big to get a good photo of with normal point and shoot lenses. There will be related hotspots such as from across the river, but lots of random photos on the streets will be of the tower from different angles.

Whereas the Moulin Rouge is tucked into a street, and that street is the only place you can snap it.

A great innovation in camera tech would be to tag the 'main' object being photographed if it is more than xm away from the camera itself. Using GPS for direction, and using some type of algorithm for detecting the main image, I'm sure you could get a decent approximation of the target as well as the shooters location. That would make for some interesting data and you'd be able to sort on landscape vs portrait photos just by examining the GPS data.
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On the other hand when looking at type X you don't don't which set of interfaces it supports.

Not very good for large scale programming, I would say.

As for comparing with Java, well, yes it is true.

However there are plenty of strong typed languages which offer similar capabilities.
Similar story. Signed up to post this :)

In 2009, our development team lost a whole 10 hours to a degraded Linux mdadm RAID1 that wouldn't rebuild due to an obscure error after a digger severed our power and internet connection. No internet access as power came up first so no access to online help. mdadm is buggy. Documentation sucks. Error messages suck. Only recourse was a full restore from tape which took a long time. This was the last straw after over a decade of dealing with this crap from network dropouts, laziness, half-arsed features, distro wars, politics and churn.

Some previous Unix experience in the late 1990s with OpenBSD on an old SparcStation 5 (the only thing that would run on that machine nicely) jumped into my mind on the way home. It had that warm, fuzzy, well-engineered, well-documented feeling about it, like an old HP RPN calculator. Got home, downloaded it and installed it on my laptop, replacing Ubuntu.

4 years down the line: one happy person with the same laptop running 5.4 still with that warm, fuzzy, well-engineered, well-documented feeling.

Not once has it let me down. Not for a minute in the 4000+ hours I've been using it. It just works.
For a home NAS intended to stream video, my experience is 'no, don't'. I ran btrfs on my home NAS (on mdadm RAID1), and playing video from it was awful - pausing every few minutes. I thought it was just my misconfiguration of samba, but a rebuild using xfs fixed it, and a friend having the same problems on a btrfs (no raid) home media server now make me gun-shy. I don't need the benefits btrfs has on my box, so I'll stick with xfs.

I am very much not a filesystem expert, but my experience is that for me, btrfs is no benefits and significant problems.
It's not just about shame, but political assassination and public ridicule. The right kind of narrative could destroy, not only Obama's personal prospects after his presidency, but everything else he worked on during his presidency, including healthcare reform. The political fallout of a large enough scandal could damage the perception of the entire political party, and the balance of power to shift. The political fallout from Clinton's scandals happened during his second term, affected leadership in the House of Representatives, and the outcome of the 2000 Presidential campaign.
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> I downloaded it (For the NSA, that means I torrented it from thepiratebay, just so we are clear)

Oh you don't have to tell them that :p
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Have you seen this? ruBSD last year http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ru13-deraadt
Noise can have a positive effect on creativity and cognition...
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665048

I for one am in favour of less intense scrutiny on measurable productivity and concentration for a diverse startup. I think you want to place your engineers in a quiet zone that is fine but to promote a blanket strategy of shhh zoning the office. sounds like a prescription for some bad interpersonal conflicts down the line.
I'm not claiming that the United States or other capitalist countries are as bad off as North Korea. I'd no doubt put North Korea in my top 10 places not to live. But I'd like to point out that many of the scenes of poverty and a privileged elite could also be filmed in the United States. For example, see the five part Desani series on a homeless child in New York: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/invisible-child/#/?chap...
Is there really an application platform that does everything the joint browser-as-application-platform and browser-as-hypertext-viewer can do? Please enlighten me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there is, and I think that's why so many people have been working on improving the experience of the browser-as-application-platform.
Where are you getting the idea that Blub refers to Lisp? If you read the actual essay, it seems to refer to Java or something similar. The whole metaphor is about why developers don't all use the most powerful languages, and he is clearly saying that Lisp is one of those.
so does this mean that windows is itself essentially a botnet that microsoft owns?
[0] is true in theory. in reality, people get friends/relatives to be roommates and give them a portion of the discount, thus incenting them keep the scheme quiet
On Zoning, Everyone Likes the Status Quo
> they really shouldn't.

Please, elaborate.
I went through what you're experiencing. Stick with it! It's a normal experience for new managers transitioning from sole-contributor.

Never do the work of your team. You have to let them succeed and/or fail on their own. You should set them up to succeed, but don't do their work. Draw clear boundaries, such as you might set requirements or dictate certain architectural details, but be sure that you don't get involved in any implementation-time decisions. This helps guarantee that you won't ultimately be involved in future fixes and re-work. If your team fails, it's not your fault! It's only your fault if you take no corrective managerial action (such as hiring, firing, or changing the way you plan/manage things).

Also stay on top of work as it progresses. Ask people how they're doing. Ask for demos and explanations.

Set good deadlines. Communicate your realistic (conservative) expectations to your managers, but set ambitious deadlines for your workers. Create actionable plans everyone on the team is accountable to.

Identify leaders. If you're the manager, find someone under you to be a lead developer. If your team ends up asking you technical implementation questions, redirect them to your lead dev.

Hold regular hours. Don't be available 24/7 for every problem that arises. Make your team self-sufficient and productive without you constantly around.

Be very careful hiring. Unproductive devs bring the whole team down by constantly failing and creating extra work for others. Fire people who make the team worse.
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Just don't put it in AWS US East, and you can talk about AWS outages just fine.
Does Go provide functions for iterating grapheme by grapheme?
Fun fact: you can actually read the transcript of rulings on clearance decisions for DoD contractors: http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/doha/industrial/2013.html

It's true that many people are denied because of their finances, but it's not as cut and dry as you might think.

You also have to wonder what some of these people were thinking. That the DoD wouldn't notice you're on probation and a drug user?
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Take a look at Seattle: https://kwelia.com/maps/cbsa_census_tract?cbsa=Seattle-Tacom...
If the NSA are about to take a big hit in Congress because some Congress members were educated on the actual reality, having advance notions of the nature of the enlightenment of those Congress members would help the NSA prepare a position policy for handling the issue.

Do you not understand that there is nothing honorable about this agency, and this infrastructure? At all? The system is entirely corrupt, corruptible, and absolutely functional as a tool for political power. This is not the time to be milquetoast on the devices we are discovering are being used, indiscriminately, with World-changing powers, by people who were not authorized to do so by the democracy that allowed them the luxury of doing such things, for a living.

These people have constructed their own private search engine - consisting of EVERYONE ELSES DATA. Anyone who cares about the society our children will inherit, must act to promote the destruction of this heinous info-apparat! Before, indeed: it is too late.

There are but 3 small tigers in between the free democratic society and totalitarian fascist state, and those tigers are made of paper, electrons, and gasoline ..
Or that one wasn't open. Schedule tetris for Congresspeople and a SCIF might be a hard problem.
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There seems to be an optimal mix between "work" eg:designing and "pseudo-work" like having meetings to discuss ideas. Which of those activities will lead to a better design is unclear, since much of the "deep thinking" which is the basis of coming up with something original happens outside of consciously focused thought eg: many writers only write 4 hours a day and do something else the rest of the day, or the common belief that many problems are solved in your sleep and "realized" in the shower.

So, lets not go in either direction for any one person; and let everyone optimize towards their own mix of work and pseudo-work to come to their own original ideas about X.

Some people will not have any original ideas and will therefore advocate work as a method to "focus" on derivative outcomes that make money.

Other people will "find inspiration" while taking a bath and run out of the bathroom to write down the genuinely valuable result and advise everyone to do the same.

These two groups are very different and most of us are somewhere in between.
...there isn't very much documentation/open accounting...

So your feeling is similar to that toward a homeless dude? You'll give him a sandwich but not cash? If they're saying power is the shortfall, maybe we just need to buy them some solar panels or wind generators or something.
While NSA is busy being menace, you can mitigate damage by using TextSecure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian_Project_%28softwa...
> the browser keeps being pushed as an application platform

Grumpy nitpick. The browser-as-platform hasn't been so much pushed on the rest of us, as if by some narrow conspiracy. It's been pulled along by mass economic force. Its ubiquity, extensive reach across OSes and devices, and freedom both in terms of beer and speech make it the best bang for buck a high percentage of the time, all things considered.

I agree though that the hypertext-browser and application-platform paradigms haven't always been easy to reconcile.
In this particular case it may also have something to do with the LTOV's association with Marxist economics. The only thing Americans are expected to know about anything even vaguely associated with Marxism is that it's bad (mmmkay?), so U.S. educational institutions tend to avoid teaching things in that category to students who aren't specializing in economics. Which leads to Americans coming up with their own labels and descriptions for things that Marx observed and labeled long ago.

All of which is too bad, because Marx had a lot of interesting and valuable things to say about the problems of industrial economies (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0 for a good introduction), even if the solutions that were tried in his name didn't work out. It just wastes people's time and energy having them spin their wheels re-discovering things he discovered 150 years ago.
6 Things that will kill your call center in 2014
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The one with the gold makes all the rules.
> Your MLK example would be more convincing if it actually worked.

That has nothing to do with my example. I don't believe you are really that naive.

adul·ter·at·ed: to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element;

You could have easily looked this up. You are being purposefully obtuse and it's not fooling anyone. I'll call a spade a spade.
Your point is well taken. However, propaganda in America is much more insidious than propaganda in North Korea. Don't get me wrong, North Korea is a brutal place and I thank my lucky stars I was born here and not there.

In America, there is always the illusion of a raging debate, which causes people to identify with the views they are presented. In places like North Korea, the propaganda is much more heavy-handed and if you step out of line you are punished much more severely. This causes people to pay lip service to the official views, but not necessarily to believe it in their hearts. In America, stepping out of line is tolerated - to a degree.

EDIT: So perhaps what I should have said originally is not that America is the most heavily propagandized population, but that Americans are the victims of the most sophisticated propaganda machine.
But the Fed can just prints money and out compete you.
SCIF are not only military in nature. Plenty of DOE sites have them, national labs, federal buildings, etc.
That's the real kicker. They are all "forty-niners".
There is some full implementation of SSH in Java that I found the one time I looked for. There's also Putty, but that's just the client.
Gentrification is a real social concern that needs careful but focused solutions

Not really: Up until the Petaluma City Plan was found legal in the 1970s (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petaluma,_California#History for more) and the growth of height-limit acts in major cities, places that experienced growth built more buildings to accommodate new residents, so prices stayed (relatively) low for most people moving to a given locale.

We're seeing the end game of extreme supply restrictions in popular major urban areas: very high prices as increasing demand hits limited supply. The solution is to increase supply, but SF has mostly chosen not to do this: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francis... .
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it also weakens the congresspeople's position the next time they talk to the NSA if the NSA knows the limits of what they know.
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Agreed in this regard. Whenever I have to leave in the computer before I have the chance to finish something, I usually just make a comment with the string `WIP` in it:

/* WIP: make sure to initialize buffer by calling function foo() */

... the idea is that I'll remember that I left my code in an unfinished state, search for the `WIP`, get my bearings and then go off. Of course, that's easy to forget -- but impossible to forget if your WIP note is uncompilable.
info pages are yet another artifact of RMS's sad devotion to ITS and other dead environments.
I won't leave code intentionally broken, but I always save some small trivial task for the next morning to immediately get into the swing of things. I really like being able to come in first thing and get something done, even if it's small. If the first thing I have to do requires a lot of deep thinking, I'm likely to procrastinate.
In my C# code I like to leave a "throw new NotImplementedException();" behind if I can't finish something. I'm with some of the other posters though in that I like to leave stuff working at the end of the day.
This fundamentally goes against the Unix philosophy though which is to provide small well-defined parts from which you can construct a complete solution from.

If you need a complex manual for a complex program, something is wrong.
as a consumer, i would never return an item that was dirty. that's just too extreme.
Chrome's updates are signed with a reasonably trustworthy certificate.
I've noticed that most people here when thinking about real estate related business focus on finding rentals. That's because that's what renters tend to see and therefore know.

Unfortunately happens to a very saturated business. Not only that but it's extremely hard to make a profit. Who pays for the service? I've yet to see anyone but the property owner that's lasted.

But more importantly is it worth paying for? Is the website big enough to have enough people looking on it for rentals? Maybe craigslist, but what about a new website?

It's a chicken and egg problem. Until you have enough rentals no one uses your website to find rentals. So what these companies tend to do is scrape content, or load it from somewhere. But is it sustainable?

It basically falls into a winner takes all type of business. And sadly I haven't anyone get big enough to take a commanding lead, so most look like sites that were slapped together and eventually had to fall back to ads, and then have been left to slowly rot. Not all but that's the majority...
I agree-- I don't adopt every tool I play with, but how are you ever going to learn better patterns for working if you never look at other ways people do things?
Is it fair to use the "Show HN" tag if the product was released (and later received $1.5M seed funding) a year ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jlemoine
If you use bash, have a look at HISTIGNORE and HISTCONTROL.