skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm from Australia. My wife and I regularly use Expedia and other US travel websites to book Australian domestic flights - even after our exchange rate conversion it still works out cheaper (often we save one or two hundred dollars). Australian airfare taxes are insane. The only downside is when things go wrong it is expensive to spend ages on hold while making an international call...
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While you're tweaking things, mind increasing the font size? I typically zoom in, but then the up arrows get pixelated. Such problems!
ORM - you'll write a little more code with Flask + SQLAlchemy to get the same result as using the Django ORM. With Flask, you'll have the flexibility of being able to, say, change a repository implementation to use NoSQL for some set of your models.

Authentication - Django provides UIs that you can skin/replace, and there are Django applications to do OAuth for you. With Flask there are plugins, you have to provide a UI (and UI workflow).

For almost everything Django can do, there is Flask plugin.

You might be able to put together simple sites faster with Django, you will get more flexibility with Flask.
Is there a Quora use-case I'm missing? What is the scenario where you wouldn't want to follow topics on Quora? Granted, I haven't been on Quora much over the last year, so things could have changed.
Also note that airlines can and do choose to show more flight options on their own sites that they deny to any OTA. The actual fares are all by rule and aren't different.
College Board publishes test results:

http://research.collegeboard.org/content/sat-data-tables

This is the interesting one for this question:

http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/S...

494 students scored a 2400 in 2013.

~8,300 students scored better than 2300, the tippy top of the 99th percentile.

So SAT scores might not be serving the most selective institutions, but what about the thousands and thousands of spots available at what are reasonably called good schools?
I'm sure there will be an extremely detailed postmortem. "Tell HN: We Tweaked our Storage"
I don't know if that's a noticeboard feature or someone just stuck the notice in the html template for now :P
Someone going to Phish?
Airlines are masters of dynamic pricing via algorithms which they constantly tune. I've written some AirAsia scraping code in Java + Selenium web driver that runs every hour on a VPS - I use it just to discover the best time to buy holiday flights. Have noticed that prices for a particular route often change several times a day.
It depends where you're coming from. Coming from ASP.NET, Django is almost minimalist. Coming from putting together a simple site using PHP without a framework, Django can look bloated, and Flask will look appealing.
Lots of teenagers are using it now.

:)
Check out the "HackerNew" Chrome extension. It's a much nicer look and interaction, IMO.
You could use a user stylesheet to change the font size without scaling the arrows.
I think I don't have an account with them. But after reading this news, I wanted to make sure I don't have any inactive account with network solutions. So I went to their website and did a forgot userid/password and entered my email address. It appears my email is on their system because it says they have sent an email with my user id.

Its been about 15 minutes and I have not received any email from them. I have checked inbox, spam box..not its not here. I hope they did not activate an inactive account I may have with them or worse I hope they did not create an account I never had in the first place.
Now if Stripe could practice truth in advertising that would be great. SpecificallY:

"Anyone accepting credit card payments must be PCI compliant. Stripe makes it easy to do so:

Serve your payment page over SSL, i.e., the page's web address should begin with “https”, not “http”.

Use Stripe.js or Checkout to accept payment information and transmit it directly to Stripe's servers.

And you'll be PCI compliant!"

https://support.stripe.com/questions/do-i-need-to-be-pci-com...

If it were only so easy. I guess there's no need for the merchant to have a PCI program, properly implement SSL/TLS, have anti-virus, change default passwords, protect agains SQLi, XSS, command injection or any number of other flaws which would give an attacker access to modify the Stripe.js code or the DOM for the page used for the collection of card information within the merchant's same origin. Nope, none of this is necessary because Stripe says that a merchant only needs to use HTTPS & implement their Stripe.js to be PCI compliant.

It's interesting that this isn't how the PCI council sees things:

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/Tokenization_...
Awesome! I love Twilio. Very fun and easy to use (and affordable).

I do plan to put it on GitHub although it needs some refining. I'm a financial analyst by training and trade so my programming skills are below par.
Certainly having gone from a 4 to a 5S, I use my phone an awful lot more.
As belluchan said, "as a scummy, low-quality content farm."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7106091

Which, I suppose, makes this site a "scummy, low-quality content farm farm."
I know it's not a priority but. Will you guys bring your magic to Brazil at some point?

I would be really interested in it.

On a side note I see Australia is in Beta :D which is great.

Thanks
Well... isn't it? Of course trying to shoehorn OOP into C is going to grow wearisome. Just... don't do that.
I certainly haven't seen any.

This is a holdover to the SGML days, where this was a pretty important feature, and used quite frequently in many document formats required for government contracting. As I recall, there was lots of consternation about stuff that was thrown away from SGML when XML was built, but this external entity stuck.
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true, but canvas does have some css things in it, such as, specifically, it uses the Color css submodule.
Is he joining the Board of Directors (via Khosla Ventures' investment this round)? Or in some other capacity?
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I think I read it slightly differently then, the gist was that if wdidle is properly used, the drives "should" be equivalent (since they supposedly share the same hardware, just different firmware).

Reds are made for a NAS context, greens are not. You may or may not make the difference go away by using wdidle. This does make greens inherently dangerous (when compared to reds).
Doubling broadband speeds every 2-3 years? if only they actually did that, i might have some sympathy for them. I get about 15Mbit. This is the same speed i have gotten for approximately the last 6 years. the only thing that is doubling every 2-3 years is the amount they bill me.

>NetFlix and YouTube do not pay the ISPs anything.

bullshit. You think google and netflix have teams of ninjas that go and splice wires into your ISPs lines? There are long standing agreements regarding how the exchange of data happens between Tier-1 providers, and how much it costs to send data to somebody else's network. Netflix is not getting a free ride. The consumer ISPs are trying to get paid twice.
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When I was about 13 (around that time frame) I got a book about VRML. I remember spending literally hundreds of hours making worthless VRML worlds. I wonder whatever happened to that language...
As do I. In fact, one of my favourite Firefox add-ons is called NoSquint, which remembers your zoom setting on a per-site basis. For me, Hacker News is constantly at 150%, and wikipedia is 180%.

As for the arrows being pixelated, rather than having higher resolution images, shouldn't the images be replaced with unicode?

▲ &#9650;

▼ &#9660;
We definitely will. (Sorry we don't have a timeline, though.)
So let's simplify the process by adding more equipment and expense? It doesn't make sense at all.

A group like McDs has had half a century to figure out the most effective way to make this stuff, make it cheaply, and make it safely (for both crew and customer). This is not a direction anyone like them would take.
What, no zero downtime DB deployments?
It seems like the US has a fascination with leadership. I remember when I was in college and going to meet and greets held by companies on campus all I ever heard is that they were looking for leaders. Never smart or hard working, just leaders. So it isn't just colleges it is the whole culture.
Qrutter.com - Allows people to create virtual message boards with QR codes.
The iPhone 3G is a really old and strange device to be using as a benchmark - it was released in 2008, and was already considered rather dated when it was discontinued in 2010. If they're using data from when the iPhone 3G was current, smartphone usage trends have changed drastically since then; if they're using data from users who still have those devices, they're limiting the sample to users who haven't upgraded in at least three and a half years, or who are using a hand-me-down phone (and, either way, probably don't use their phones very much).

The numbers are still interesting to compare between each other, although I'm not sure how significant some of the differences really are.
level0: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=0x0c727bf14da1597acf7c74b4258e2875f4e9ef21, not stripped

And then the output of ldd on ./level0

linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff5cdca000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x0000003337400000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0000003333c00000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003332800000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x0000003332c00000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003332400000)

I know the problem is I am still dynamically linking glibc and whatever system I am running on doesn't have a new enough glibc. I am going to take another crack at it later and try to get it fully statically linked, but once you get to statically linking the C runtime I need to invoke my google foo and it is more time then I had on my lunch break.
I think the issue people are encountering is trying to read an article linked from elsewhere (e.g. Twitter) and having to go through the full onboarding process to read it.
Hm, it looks like that support forum answer needs to be updated -- we actually support filling out PCI SAQs right from our dashboard (and automatically ask users to do so). We'll go update it.

Also, if you'd like to drop me an email at patrick@stripe.com, would be happy to chat about PCI more.
Is that new, or is it the same thing PG et al use to ask YC applicants questions about their applications?
No, he isn't joining the board.
In a projector system you generate light, and then you block it using either photographic film or LCD to produce the image. A lightfield display can be thought of as a 2D, higher resolution generalisation of a lenticular ("no glasses") display, or for example, the display of the 3DS.

In these kinds of displays, you have a light generator (LED or flouro or reflection) with the same surface area as a normal print or display. But to produce the directional light, for say the left eye, you must block the portions of the image that relate to the right eye from the light travelling to the left eye. And vice versa. This halves the amount of light for 2 directional images. thirds it if you want 3. So you end up with an image that is much darker then normal. you must compensate by generating 2 or 3 times the amount of light.
This problem gets worse the more "views" you add on. So if you want 10 omni directional views you have to generate enough light for all of them, since, even if you set everything to "white", as you suggest, most of that white is getting blocked from your view.

Or to put another way, you get allocated a smaller source 2d image plane surface area to generate your viewpoint.
I am a developer interested in integrating a payment system into one of my sites where my target customers are mainly in the US. Could someone outline the major differences between Stripe and Balanced?
Better question: Why are Americans obsessed with 'leadership'? With leadership defined as being charismatic and influential, not necessarily wise, correct, or even logical.

I think a large part of the answer has to do with the belief that if you lead a group of people who do X, then within that group you must be the best at doing X. Which is puzzling, because everyone who has ever had a mediocre boss knows this to be false.
Congrats to the Collison brothers and the entire Stripe team!

Patrick and John are two of the most remarkable people I've ever met.
Congratulations to Stripe. It's great to see a company with an excellent product succeed against the huge incumbents. I use Stripe for all my projects and I can't recommend it enough.
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I am participating in a 2-day, 150 mile, bike ride in memory of my sister who passed away last week to brain cancer. Part of the ride is a requirement that I raise a minimum of $2,500 in support of cancer research.

Has anyone raised this kind of money for charity before? I can't really tap too far into my family because it will be a lot of my family that will be riding, each requiring they raise their own $2,500.

Tips/suggestions/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Instead of just down voting this post, it would be helpful to know what specific parts of it are incorrect. This is the first I've heard of these objections.
I promise to do a post-mortem (with details), but from my perspective the issues that began on Jan 6th are ongoing. It's all I've been working on since then.

Once I get a break I'll write a blog post about it, and try the Matasano/Square and Stripe CTFs :)
The missing package that started all this with the boost regex library. I sent an E-mail asking for all the libboost-dev to get installed that should be more then enough for any problem that you could throw at a c++ developer.
Virtual enterprises through BYOD. VMware provides you a client on whatever you want (laptop, tablet, phone), manages the device management, virtual apps on their server. I've used VMWare View Client to connect to a remote machine a few times from my iPad, and while it's not ideal for large amounts of work, it has saved a few vacations from total ruin, even over LTE. Providing the client wasn't enough, I guess, so now they can offer management of the device, remote wipe of company assets (email, calendar) and revocation of network credentials.
Especially given Stripe doesn't seem to get the same treatment. It's a little odd. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7106377
Just the other day, I was lamenting the fact that there weren't enough targeted ads on my phone. Thankfully these brave and selfless people have provided the answer.
> I think this has quite a bit more to do with the good ol' boy network and less to do with Yale's ability to produce leaders.

But the GOBN is part of leadership. I don't mean this sarcastically and, though I started to write that sentence with "unfortunately" I took that word out since I am not sure whether it's unfortunate or not -- even though I am not a GOB myself.
You can get a lot out of 1 dyno.

On two dynos you can have 1 do background jobs and 1 server content

obviously it varies, but you don't inherently need many.
Much of China's web traffic mysteriously sent to Wyoming shell company
Just curious. Would you be interested in checking (for a fee ofcourse) other web server products that use similar technology. If so please let me know and I would love to connect with you.
If something looks new on HN it probably isn't. I mean just look at the page source; it's tables. I take that back: don't look at the page source.
Of course it is legal. In the same way as it is legal to set the sale price for (most) things at any (arbitrarily high, or low) value - airline ticketing takes place in a free market.

This means sellers can offer tickets at any price they want, and it is up to the purchaser to signal whether they think the price is appropriate by buying the ticket (or not) at some price. The alternative is government interference or regulation of the airline ticket industry, setting fixed prices, which would not be good for the industry.
tiobe is a measure of "search engine results" for the query "$language programming".. including on YouTube.

So it is neither a measure of community nor job market.
Agreed. Additionally, many (most?) apps won't even run on the iPhone 3G anymore because they need a newer version of iOS than it supports (4.2.x, I believe).

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Hey, you're the guy who founded RescueTime! Sure, that makes sense. We'll probably prioritise it for integration after launch. Love to chat about it if you have an interest.
Yes that was the first clause of your original post but evidently not the last.
Just one more data point in a long list showing iOS users are the most engaged. Developers still have no reason to stop being iOS-first.
Not ridiculously easy, rather slightly easier as the merchant still must maintain aspects of their environment covered by the PCI DSS as they are still delivering Stripe.js from their server environment. Here's a bit more information on that:

http://pciguru.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/developers-beware-st...
The ISP are already massively profitable.

The data caps are artificial scarcity to create even more profit or drive people to their own video providers.

Cities have decided to only allow 2 sets of cables to everyones house (and the FCC decided not to make them share between providers) so there is a defacto duopoly - competition is nearly non-existant.

Hence they know they can get away with double and triple dipping. Nexflix has to pay more - guess who they pass it on to?
I've suffered with cached prices before.
Most Androids sold are not of the $600 variety, but around $100-$200, from companies you have never heard of before. And they are new, not including the second hand market.
Flight metasearch sites have contracts with airlines and OTAs for specific markets, so you're likely to see different inventory if you visit a Canadian site instead of a US site, for example. Seeing different prices on the same inventory is much less likely (disregarding taxes and exchange rates.)

Like others have said, Southwest inventory doesn't often appear on sites like Kayak because they want customers to book directly. That cuts out the commission to Kayak and conditions people to look for flights on southwest.com in the future.
tomato, tomato.
These aren't ads. They're app specific notifications.
I don't remember MIT caring much about "leadership" when I attended back in the 80s but I do remember being contacted by the institute in part because they wondered why MIT folks worked at and founded some major companies yet were almost never the CEO (and thus the big financial gifts went elsewhere).

I will say that back then MIT was pretty anti-entrepreneurial; policy was more important (which makes sense when you think about how MIT functioned, and still functions). That seems to have changed somewhat.
Hope to see you guys update the web interface a bit for a performance/little more flexibility. The API is great, but the web interface could use a bit more love :)
Stripe is probably my favorite infrastructure startup of the past few years, and I'm delighted to see them do so well. Looking forward to seeing what happens in the _next_ two and a half years!
Yep, it's a social status dogwhistle, just like requiring college degrees for jobs where it is in no way relevant.

There's also a significant racial component to it. It's not a coincidence that top power-broking universities have moved sharply away from objective towards subjective metrics and increased the percentage of legacy admissions at the same time that increased access for minorities has been sought.
I grew up during the 80s knowing that the Cold War could turn hot and end the world at any moment. Half of Europe lived in oppression. China was barely able to feed its people. Communism was still attempted by countries and defended by some intellectuals despite a 0% success rate at actually improving lives.

Yesterday, the Gates Foundation annual report was linked to from HN. It explained how the world is getting better fast and that extreme poverty could be a thing of the past in a few decades.

So please, go ahead explain and try to justify your claim that the world just gets worse!
Aah. Got it. The first image you've posted in the slideshow is hosted on amazon AWS, and all the other on google drive, which is blocked in my office. So your blog won't work in many offices.
Excellent point.

And as an app.net 3rd party dev, I wouldn't mind paying in BTC however I'm already paid up for the next year. I'm not going to prepare several years in advance either.

So giving a 30 day window for ~$10k when they're not really actively marketing for new users just is asking for failure.
This made me remember that the business school I was at had enough leadership positions in the student clubs to accomodate something like 70% of the student population.

It was basically a joke, hahaha.
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How easy is that to do accidentally? 128MB is enough for 16 screenfulls at 1080p. Can you really trigger the creation of that many hardware-composited layers without intending to?
Good point. It really depends on the size of the data set.

If the size of the input data set m << dictionary data size n, it's a worth trying for caching.

Otherwise, the input word list should be loaded into LinkedList instead of ArrayList which is the most expensive list to be used when we need to access by its index number. Using Set will lose its order.

(I'm just brainstorming the steps for discussion instead of writing code. I'd like to know the best solution and steps to improve it from you guys.)
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I threw a couple of spare video cards at it and generated about 15K of doge over MLK weekend. Use a GPU.
They let clickthroughs (clicksthrough?) from Google read the whole thing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Payments+Startup+Stripe+Join...
You're assuming that Internet usage equates to app usage. I use the Internet a lot on my phone but hardly run apps. In fact my usage of the Internet surely eats into time I might spend running apps.
There's a theory that new world European colonies tend to be more socially dynamic because it's more likely that an "A" will migrate from the home country than a "B", so you get more "A"s overall, which affects the general culture.

I'm not sure if I believe it or think that the premise of social dynamism is that simple, but it's an interesting idea.
> So what's the lesson here? Check the WN site directly instead of depending on search sites.

Kayak and TripAdvisor will give you unpriced WN flights in their search results. You still have to check WN directly for prices, but it's useful for seeing what's available.
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Note that a newly graduated doctor from Harvard Medical School most likely has sufficient debt to put her very deeply in that bottom 50%, but she's still in an extremely enviable position.

Current wealth isn't nearly as important as potential future earnings.
Doesn't Firefox remember your zoom settings on a per-site basis out of the box?
Well Facebook is 10 years old next month and still growing. Thats a pretty meaningful differentiation from the pattern.
One libboost-dev coming right up :).
I think the downvotes have to do with what is a pretty serious accusation and not apparently backed up with facts. What would be helpful is if the accuser produced a better description of what he feels is out of compliance, wrong or misleading.
Stripe is one problem which is solved really really well. Behind the pretty API there is serious amount of work with bureaucracy and traditional systems. Kudos to a job well done.
Ditto. Tried the same thing, and a United flight went from $400 to $356 on Kayak.
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