skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. TL;DR: it's really important to be comfortable with saying "I don't know" and asking questions.

Unfortunately not every developer is comfortable with it, often it's cultural thing at play (talking about developers from countries like India).
Businesses that make lots of deliveries already use services that dispute tickets. This is just aggregating retail customers for those services.
As a European who was disappointed that Stripe isn't in my country yet, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Braintree is every bit as easy to use[1] (took me a half hour to set up a test transaction website), and it's even cheaper than Stripe. (Edit: Seems Braintree's European pricing differs from their US pricing. Braintree's European pricing is 1.8% to 2.6% (everything included) which is considerably cheaper than Stripe).

The only downside I can see is the approval process which in Europe takes 7-10 days.

1) https://www.braintreepayments.com/docs/python/guide/getting_...
"To speed up the color difference calculations we decided to vectorised deltaE. The standard deltaE functions are already implemented in the colormath python package. We ported these to numpy and added a function to take a numpy array of Lab coordinates. When used with large data-sets the vectorised implementation is 25-180 times faster depending on which distance function is used. The vectorised delta E functions are now available in the colormath package and can be used in the following manner."

Uhm.. wouldn't it have been easier to just run a voronoi algorithm on the data set in the labspace? then you have a lookup table/cube. For a paltry 6mb of space, lookup becomes instantaneous. It's what voronoi is for.
We try to provide the best cloud experience possible and part of that is following up on abuse complaints, otherwise we end up with blacklisted IPs and other issues that impact customer service.

There are occasional weird situations like this that come up and I would love to handle every support request directly but unfortunately that's not possible.

We've had to scale the support team to support over 100,000 customers and we didn't get the right customer support director on board till about 2 months ago.

We are constantly looking to improve our service in all areas and Zach is on top of it to ensure that all of our customer support staff get more training in how to better respond to customers.

However, the promise that I make is that if any situation ever arises in any way shape or form with DigitalOcean please contact me directly - moisey --- a-t --- digital0cean - and I will be on top of it as soon as possible.

I hope that helps in response to this issue.

Thanks,
Moisey
I think this is very dependent on what you're actually doing. I'm involved in an attempt to bring some more sustainable/regenerative methods and technology to agriculture, and in that space I'm glad to see anybody show up who's doing the same. I don't have competitors (in my view), because I have a gigantic task in front of me and my main concern is to see that it gets done (even though I'm trying to make money on it at the same time). I go out of my way to help other people who are trying to make a buck in my space.

On the other hand, if you're selling a commodity (e.g. gasoline), then it's pretty hard to say that the guy across the street isn't competition. Perhaps there's a spectrum of appropriateness for cooperation/competition between these two extremes?
Does he really understand what he is doing? Or nobody cares?
The public has very little (it's inaccurate to say "no") means of assessing the safety of banks precisely because the government has told them not to worry about it, to just bank wherever and let the FDIC sort everything out. There is almost no market demand whatsoever for liquidity or safety reporting services in USD banking

Before the FDIC's existence, there was a plethora of publications, audit services, and third-party examiners for banks -- a kind of like Consumer Reports for financial institutions. If fractional reserve banking ever takes hold in Bitcoin (and there's reason to doubt that it will, the system is kind of designed to discourage it as much as possible), I expect something similar will arise in Bitcoin.

Here's a paper talking about the bank reputation ecosystem and how it worked in the pre-FDIC days. Contrary to popular modern perceptions, it wasn't an era of constant boondoggles by shady wildcat banks. http://www.nber.org/papers/w4400.pdf?origin=publication_deta...
So in the region you're describing, the government would rather deprive people entirely of a shared resource than risk the resource be shared without regulation (and money to the government coffers).

Unless they had some kind of rash of people breaking meters that they're reacting to, I'm calling shenanigans on that law. In fact, if they haven't had a _recent_ rash... I'm still calling shenanigans.
I wonder why, for example, Slovakia and Hungary are excluded while Czechia and Poland are not.
It's just extremely popular at this point in time to always locate all responsibility at the individual who's the subject of the self help. It's empowering! Wherever you go, there you are! Never mind that, much like the concept of responsibility itself, it's only a convention.
most people agree that tickets are something which need fixing[0], but you make 'going into politics' sound so easy. Maybe we all think that local politics are institutions rife with internal corruption and are essentially a club of elites? Why not try to push change on them a different way?

[0]http://laist.com/2014/02/26/local_heroes_are_taking_la_to_co...
I found the source of the photo:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/27416195

Not convinced that the auction is legit.

By the way, the American version (military aviation graveyard) of this is pretty fun to look around at too:

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.1572109,-110.8374108,4128m/d...
In case some of you aren't aware of this, PayPal acquired BrainTree a while ago:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/paypal-acquires-payments-ga...
I was thinking the same thing. I love Rdio and I cannot stand Spotify's UI or making everything a playlist.
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That's basically what keeps the paparazzi in business, yes. There's a reason the First Amendment rights were listed first, as well, which is the same reason the Guardian has been doing much of their Snowden coverage out of their New York office; press freedom is a big deal, even when that's inconvenient for you...
Thanks for the thorough reply. We hadn't thought about newborns so maybe it would be best to start with a lower age limit.

We were just chatting about the trust factor, which is clearly the biggest issue. Here's a couple additional things we came up with (I also added these to the OP):

- Strict review process. Similar to Uber, maybe a 1 or 2 strike policy and a sitter is fired

- Video profile that is texted to you when confirming

- Similar to AirBnB, perhaps use Facebook to show that you have a X-degree of separation to the sitter

Let me know what you think.
Does that really work well in practice, though? I find that I might get the base functionality down to a workable state, but then as you add the bells and whistles you're likely to find and fix your own bugs, realize you need to refactor, etc.

You can make all those changes in distinct, clean commits, but if the reviewer works commit by commit, they have to follow the evolution of your code rather than simply review the final state. You might argue that provides a basis for a better review, but it's also much more time consuming for the reviewer.
depends... if you want to raise capital that's one less rockstar to look for. if you're kicking up the next big disruptive startup that's one more guy you should look out for..
I scanned the list to see if North Korea was on there... its not. Great deal for aspiring dictators and human rights violators!
>> Throw away tests that haven’t failed in a year.

That's absolutely f*ing crazy. Throwing those tests away makes it impossible for me to know that any changes I make to the implementation are OK.
Yes, I worked in the City for years and considered living there as a resident too, when I was living in London. Just because it has an unusual structure doesn't alter the fact that it's a governmental body, and to claim otherwise because of its commercial roots is absurd.
I don't know. I feel hard pressed to believe the wonderful folks at NASA wouldn't be ecstatic to develop a probe to explore an ice covered moon of Jupiter.

Curiosity was a huge hit with the public, and although I'm not totally sure of this, I'm of the belief that it was a great success for NASA in a variety of ways.

I'm sure they'd be more than excited to have the funding for another probe.

And I admit, this is an extremely naive viewpoint with little more than my own excitement for such a mission (however shallow) and my intuitions about the nature of the scientists who work at NASA. I could be totally wrong.
Don't underestimate Dwolla - they're a fantastic company, and even if "nobody uses it" if that nobody is fast growing into "somebody", that's really something to consider.
"Changing your environment will not change your circumstances" followed by "How to move on to a better job"

Wait, what?

I'm in complete agreement. The OP seems undecided what his point is supposed to be. "Keep it together until you can get out" would make sense, except for that harped upon quote, and the fact he also talks about "finding out what negative patterns are holding you back from your goals", which really only applies if you keep having crap jobs; one crap job doesn't mean you have a negative pattern you need to get rid of.
To be fair, there are many reasons why North Korea was left alone while Iraq was considered "safer" to invade. Seoul being with range of massive amounts of North Korean artillery is one. The concern of both China and South Korea about the potential for floods of refugees is another.
I'm adding my support for this question by replying since OP cannot see my upvote.
>If a meter is broken you are allowed to park at that meter for the posted time limit, but please report it!

http://sfmta.com/ru/services/streets-sidewalks/maintenance-r...

Although apparently that's not quite true, since there's another rule that says it is two hours max.
You're right. And I'm the first to admit that I cannot even begin to understand the full potential of the application. I'm not from the US and these things are decidedly local and special.

But from where I'm standing, you either park correctly or risk a ticket. In fact, this country here just raised the minimum amount for parking offenses because people did the math and found out that in some cases a ticket was cheaper than paying (parking ground, whatever).

So in my (certainly subjective, shaped, hardly applicable to the service at hand) world view you're just not fighting tickets. You either don't get them or you risked to get them. Exceptions exist, but are a teeny, tiny fraction and wouldn't be enough to keep a service like this afloat.

Could I be totally wrong: Sure.
Anything on the roadmap for Android?
Or someone from a former soviet block country, or Cuban/Venezuelan expats.
China had to launch the most impressive water-pipeline project ever
It's legal to park at a broken meter in DC, but I think you have to call in and report it as broken first and I wouldn't be surprised if you get a ticket anyway (especially if the meter isn't obviously broken).

I would imagine this leads to a lot of intentionally broken meters.
They hold bitcoin, however, probably tens of thousands of them.
Nakamoto could use his money too, if he's worried about security. Whether he does or not isn't up to Newsweek.
It was an advertisement for manned spaceflight that ironically showed why it's a bad idea.
Thanks for the great question. We are actually profitable on every virtual server that we sell.

The reason we raised our seed round is that our growth began to outstrip our ability to acquire hardware and grow the business at the rate at which our customers were spinning up more droplets.

The second round that we raised was again for the same reason. Growth has been completely unbelievable and we are humbled by the support that the community has given us. We thought that our initial Seed round would certainly be enough to cover our growth but quickly saw that growth was actually increasing so we made the decision to raise a second round in a rather short period of time.

We were immediately impressed by Peter Levine's knowledge of the space and we are super excited about having a16z on board as our partners. This round has certainly provided ample funding for us to continue to expand not worry that our growth is going to outstrip our ability to finance it.

Thanks,
Moisey
Well, that's interesting. I guess it's about "living at the forefront of human invention", right? But at the same time, only doing that obviously leads no where. I (the OP of the co-creation post) wrote a blog post called 'A life designed by intuition', describing the opposite of what your PM is doing: http://littke.com/2013/11/11/a-life-designed-by-intuition.ht...

As always, it's about a healthy balance :)
Yes, but looting the corpse of a fallen enemy on an MMO could be described the same way, as well. Should that now be considered a crime?

The line gets very blurry especially when you start accounting for MMOs with official real-world economic links like EVE.

I'm not saying I think theft of bitcoins shouldn't be illegal, just that the situation is a lot blurrier than some people seem to think, and until someone is convicted for (or at the very least charged with) stealing bitcoins there's really no point in debating the matter.
ASK HN: RSVP API tailored for weddings?
Does anyone know of an RSVP API tailored for weddings? I'm trying to build a site in Angular, with an RSVP form for guests to fill out. I am trying to avoid having to manage a backend with another service like Firebase.
What am I missing here? Numerical quadrature has been around for a long time; is there something I'm overlooking that makes this different?
If I bought this, I would totally convert it into a bar.
> when did DigitalOcean redesign their website?

Must have been very recent; I was on it just the other day with the old design.
Catsmolo: A social network to share your cat with your local neighbors. Mobile app enables you to browse current inventory or list your cat. Members can up and downvote cats, based on cuteness or difficulty.

SOMOLO FTW
My kids are now adults, but it would have not been what I would have chosen. We didn't have a non-family member babysit our two kids until they were 3 and four, and never hired an outside one.
Using a reference time to describe the layout is pretty brilliant. Out of curiosity, how would it handle non-time "noise" data that happened to be embedded in the string? Expecting "it'll throw an error, also why would you do that" as the answer, but just curious.
This happened to me. HR refused to acknowledge the situation. Had no choice but to leave.
This would most probably end up being a New Frontiers class mission with a cost cap of a billion dollars or so. This is much less than the proposed 4.7-billion-dollar Jupiter Europa Orbiter [1], and also less than the already very much slimmed-down "Europa Clipper" concept [2] with a price tag of $1.5 billion or so. For reference, the Mars Science Laboratory mission cost about $2.4 billion.

With a sub-billion dollar budget, the achievable science objectives would be severely limited. It would probably still be worth it -- these days we have to take what we're given.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Jupiter_System_Mission

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper
Obviously, the comfort level would have to be there, which is why I think the sites use the matchmaking approach. I know with my kids, they know and love their babysitter, which is a huge incentive to stay with the same person. I would think that once you've established that you like a sitter, you might try to go outside the system and make a side arrangement, so I would guess that you'd want to have a mechanism to request (or deny) a specific sitter or maybe a way to rank them.
So, probably switching back to "The Ukraine" soon then ;)
Facebook rolls out aredesigned News Feed
Like the previous owners.
According to https://www.arin.net/resources/request/reassignments.html it's actually mandatory to provide whois tracking for assignments /29 or shorter prefix, and optional for /30 or longer prefix. I can't find any reason they wouldn't be able to provide it if they wanted to.

Edit: definitely possible http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/12406/which-providers-provi...

So you shouldn't call MIPSpace stupid, thanks.
Libertarians strongly believe in both human rights and property rights. This includes legal/judicial enforcement of contracts and a court with the authority to mediate disputes and punish criminals. Also this includes a police force to help enforce these rights.
Linus Torvalds designs a human-readable file format
Yeah that it has 209 citations and is now named after the author.

Also http://m.care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/10/1225.2.full...
If he did that, he'd quickly be found out as a fraud. Being demure is the only way to be a "plausible" Satoshi.

I'm not saying he is or he isn't. I don't know, obviously, but I do know that people do things for many strange and contradictory reasons.

Here's a real world example: Hundreds of people have claimed that their father, brother, friend, odd uncle, strange neighbor etc were the Zodiac killer.

Many such claims came along with a lot more "evidence" than has yet been presented about "Dorian S. Nakamoto". Clearly, most of those claims (or all) are false.

Or even something like this: http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/11/sweden-notorious-s...
> It's not in the public interest to figure out who the creator of bitcoin is. It serves no purpose. It ads no value to bitcoin.

But it is in Newsweek's interest to find the creator of Bitcoin, if they can get the scoop.

It's the free market plus the Bill of Rights (specifically the First Amendment) in action. A perfectly libertarian thing just happened here, IMHO.
I'm walking the tightrope of surviving a work environment I despise right now. The crux of the game I'm currently locked in is I naively accepted a relocation package, provided in true corporate style by several layers of delightfully asinine outsourced middleman companies. If I leave before a certain date, I'm on the hook for the inflated dollar amount of all that "service", even though I could have moved myself for a tiny fraction of that value. Movers and shakers of the world, keep on making up games for everybody else to play, so we never get bored.
I feel less of a caffeine crash from it, and a more even caffeine buzz. I'm not doing it for calories, as I already do 4HB or paleo breakfast WITH the bulletproof coffee.
I gained nothing by reading that.
We Are All Bitcoin
That is the point: the paper presents this as if it were an original idea, and other people cite it. There have been various blog posts ridiculing it, and for a while there was wikipedia article (subsequently replaced by a redirect to 'trapezoidal rule') [2].

[1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/12/07/ncbi-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tai%27s_method&di...
Show/hide are also super duper helpful.
Am I the only one who thinks that "lifestyle business" doesn't sound demeaning at all? IMO, calling it that makes it sound more appealing, not less.
Alleged Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Denies Bitcoin Involvement
That still doesn't explain the low total time limit. 5000 hours is low compared to the typical 50000+ hours that modern jets are rated for.
I have a trivia app we built as part of a sports hackathon:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hat-trick-daily-sports-trivi...

We won the first round of the hackathon (lost the finals). We've made a little money on in-app purchases and had an investment offer from one of the judges (we declined).

We still work on the app but no one has dropped their full-time job yet. We're thinking of applying to the Disney accelerator with it.
Pointing out that sources aren't credible is throwing mud now?
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Press chases alleged Bitcoin creator through Los Angeles
You can't beat museum opened inside a nuclear silo. And that one is 2-3 hours from where I live :)
Cool idea; I'll pass this along to the team ASAP.
He didn't get rich by just holding the keys, he got rich by getting involved in new tech early. In fact, he helped build something he believes will change the world.

Entirely different scenarios.
Journalist Harrasses Man Believing Him to be Bitcoin Founder Satoshi Nakamoto
Seems unconstitutional/illegal to me.

While a layperson might not be able to fight it, a company who's business model is based on it might definitely be in a better position.
Most people don't know anything in particular about contesting a parking fine. But it's literally these people's job. Also, note the incentives are the right way round: they get paid only if they win.
Really? Seems a bit unnecessary to take the spot completely out of action because the meter is broken.

Here (Melbourne), if a meter is faulty but the council doesn't know, you can SMS your numberplate and the meter ID to their faults number. The automated response tells you that the time limits still apply and gives you the number to call if you still get a ticket.

If the council knows the meter is faulty and they haven't fixed it, they generally put a locked bag over it so no one can use it with instructions that the time limits still apply.
I hear you on that. I guess it depends how narrowly one defines market. And I guess the more narrowly one defines it, the harder it is to justify a valuation.

That being said, I suspect my downvotes were a function of Jack Dorsey fanboys knee-jerking more so that my overly broad definition of the payments market.
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Spare parts are probably attainable (there's a reason retired aircraft are mothballed rather than scrapped), and the major companies that the built the engines, etc, are still around.

Out of 500 or built ~60 are still in service. Getting parts as a civilian operator might be touchy though. It's probably being sold more as a museum piece.

In terms of doing a restoration Russian stuff is usually pretty viable since mechnically they're fairly straightfoward and rugged, and not much in the way of computers or microelectronics of any kind. Even with all that said, it would probably be a $10M+ (quite possibly +++) to get it airworthy again, and even if you did it would be very expensive. Fuel burn on those things is about 2000 gph, and Jet-A is currently ~$6/gal, so you're looking at $12k/hr just in fuel expenses. Maintenance will probably at least double that hourly figure.
Ukraine-Russia to be resolved by April predicts Google
Perhaps I wasn't clear in the original post.

If you are facing bullying, racism or sexism (or indeed any other -ism), then yes, leave immediately.

But for most of us, it's not outright bullying, but the constant grinding down, the non-stop requests for overtime, the occasional "helpful comments" that are actually insults, the constant interference, that really gets us down. Individually, they might mean nothing, but over time, they build up, and make you feel as small as the full stop at the end of this sentence. That's when you must plan to leave, but by first upgrading your skills.
Shame about the mystery meat navigation on the main menu.
Very nicely done. Just finished reading the whole. Hope you'd write the sequel.
Now you have two problems, unresponsive services and managing breakers.
Comic Sans is a nice touch.
When you're implementing an algorithm (one of the places I'm most fond of making sure I have tests), focusing on input/output testing is precisely what you want to do. Partition your inputs into different ways the code needs to deal with them and test for each partition.