skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you ever had to change gateways?

Several times. And have lost customers in the process, since any customer info stored at the gateway is lost and getting hundreds of people to re-type their billing info in is a big undertaking and a big pain.

The cost of "hopping gateways" for any SaaS has little to do with the cost of the gateway or the cost of development. It's all about customer retention.

When I left one merchant account provider which had ratcheted up its rates every month for years to the point that continuing with them was absurd, the gateway refused to provide my customer info to me or transfer it to a new provider. It simply wasn't mine to have, in their view. That will never happen again; even if I leave Spreedly, they will give me the info to take with me.

> They charge 2 cents on top of gateway fees

Whether it's a $29/month customer or a $2000/month customer, 2 pennies just doesn't register. Let's say I have 500 customers that get charged each month. That's $10/month in transaction fees from Spreedly. That would buy me... 2 more ad clicks from Google. Or the peace of mind that my business's billing info and cash flow can't disappear overnight.
Why have the silly laws protecting the whistle-blowers then?
I'm not attacking anyone. Argument in grandparent was he wants X so everyone needs to do X which is frankly repulsive in a country with a free press.
The downvotes are because no one cares about whether VK ripped Facebook, and your comment is nonsensical.

If this project is not based on the source code of HHVM there is no way a conclusion can be made about its features or performance compared to HHVM, regardless of any relation between VK and FB.
Spotify acquires The Echo Nest
Reminds me of how Flash sites looked when Flash Player was not installed (or with a flash blocker installed). We made a 360 on needless Web design apparently :-)
Aside from the thing that jessaustin mentioned, there's also the problem that Hubble and the ISS have completely different orbits and that you can't just take your back mounted whatever-it-is-called and fly between them.
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CloudBees raises $11M in funding
Boys with toys. Toys for killing people.
- Seller writes "u" and "dissamble" in "We can therefore dissamble the Plane so u can get one or all of the turbines exclusively"

- Price tag of US $3,000,000.

Well, I'm convinced. Here is my credit card!
BlueMix is IBM's rollout of the open source Cloud Foundry product (I work on Cloud Foundry). You can also check out our own example rollout at run.pivotal.io if you want to see how they stack up.
For anyone else who was curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra-rotating_propellers
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As I said in my original post - if you take the story literally, yes. I'd be surprised if the real story wasn't quite a bit more complicated.
Would have been nice if they'd asked the media to leave Mr. Nakamoto alone. Just another opportunity to bag on about how decentralised and wonderful it is and how this changes nothing.
Here's a list of no-ones using Go in the real world: https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoUsers
Promikos: a next generation parking optimizer
Those would be journalists who are not acting professionally.
Like all process you have to do what works for you. First, to steal from the recent airbnb article, the bar for testing has to be so low you trip over it. The testing framework should make it easy to get down to writing tests.

Second, start writing tests to verify bug reports and then fix the bug. In large systems I find this critical to honing in on the exact problem. The mental exercise of crafting the test to trigger the bug helps me really understand the problem.

Finally, start new features by first writing a test to simply drive your new codes golden path. When working in a large system I find writing a test to run my new code a much faster development turn around time than rebooting the entire system. This is compounded when there are many systems or moving parts which is common today.
Eleven-year-old entrepreneur builds startup: inspired by Facebook founder
Fireside Chat with Ben Horowitz
But seriously, is there any reasonable advantage to putting a JS layer between the user and the HTML/CSS?
Here's another: deck, a Go package for presentations

http://github.com/ajstarks/deck
https://speakerdeck.com/ajstarks/deck-a-go-package-for-prese...
So, serious argument:

What if you purposely did not have a mailbox on your home but at the edge of your property (like much of rural America vs suburban) and you had no obvious front-door.

Would a person then be entitled to wander around your property looking for you? I would hope not.

So by having a front-door you are suggesting people are allowed to just walk onto your property, up to the door, anytime they feel like it and harass you?

If no door or you do not answer, how about your back window? Bathroom window?

I'm curious how the logic works.
Working on something similar actually.
Is the company willing to do video chats after work hours, for example 8pm? I, and I assume many others, will not be able to have a video chat during work hours. I can get away for a phone call, but not a video chat.
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What? This is the Founders Fund headed by Peter Thiel who is constantly in the news for his very strident libertarianism. They've never shied away from controversy in the least.
More info:

MS stands for Maritime Strike

http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-Bear.html
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys

Looks like 3-year-old me was on to something when I was bugging my parents about how absolutely everything worked.

That said, while this seems like an excellent tool for something like car diagnostics, as described in the wikipedia article, I'd be more hesitant to try it with a person and their motivations unless it was someone I was incredibly close with. I'd especially feel weird doing it with a direct superior. It seems like in most circumstances it would be difficult to word a line of questioning like this in a way that didn't seem like criticizing their judgement.
Well at least they do approve the beta requests quickly. It seems to be based on http://cloudfoundry.com/, which isn't obvious from their initial landing page.
those stats are skewed because a huge part of the bottom are people who have zero or very little bitcoin at all. If you only consider the "people who have at least 1 bitcoin" as a serious user, it's not that bad. Moreover, look at the barrier of entry to the top 20%: $600. So for one month's salary (at the low end of salaries) you can be in the top 20% of this economy.
The linguistic analysis actually holds up pretty well (both his writing style and his coding style), and the totality of the circumstances wherein Satoshi matches Bitcoin Satoshi makes it very unlikely that this is a "shoddy piece of journalism."

Also, you must not have read the part of the article where the journalist runs through and describes why the other Satoshis are not the Bitcoin Satoshi.
"What a shoddy piece of journalism."

You base this conclusion on one line of speculation in the article? Did you miss the part where the journalist flew out, went to the person's house and spoke to them to confirm it was really him before running the story? Sounds like excellent journalism to me.
Well, yes, of course it causes cognitive dissonance. It is 2014 year now and buzz around his personality is going for a pretty long time already. Both virtual and that one Satoshi-s are said to be worried about anonimity, using VPN to send emails, etc. And yet it is said he used his real name all this time. And being discovered only now by some journalist. Seriously, it is weird just by itself, not mentioning all these little discrepancies in their appearing personalities.

And both "Satoshi" and "Nakamoto" are fairly common japanese name and surname by the way, so I doubt if this one is really the only programmer Satoshi Nakamoto.
At least NASA is out from under Cold War hidden agendas and can be an actual science institution. It will take some time for that to fully shake out.
Ignoring Python for a bit and thinking as a designer of some hypothetical future language: there is a nice rule given here for evaluation in a Boolean context. I wonder whether it should be taken as a general guideline for future languages.

The rule, in its entirety, is this:

- Booleans are falsy when false.

- Numbers are falsy when zero.

- Containers are falsy when empty.

- None is always falsy.

- No other type of value is ever falsy.

I can think of two ways we might possibly want to alter the rule.

The first is to expand the idea of number to include arbitrary groups (or monoids?), with the identity element being falsy. So, for example, a matrix with all entries zero might be falsy. Or a 3-D transformation might be falsy if it does not move anything.

The second is one I have encountered in C++. There, an I/O stream is falsy if it is in an error state. This makes error checking easy; there is one less member-function name to remember. We might expand this idea to include things like Python's urllib, or any object that wraps a connection or stream of some kind.

EDIT: OTOH, there is the Haskell philosophy, where the only thing that can be evaluated in a Boolean context is a Bool, so the only falsy thing is False.

EDIT 2: The comment by clarkevans (quoting a message from INADA Naoki) already partially addressed the above group idea: "I feel zero value of non abelian group should not mean False in bool context."
How do they do that loading thing at the top with the green bar?

I've seen similar with red on Youtube, but I just assumed it was a google perk for running on google chrome.
Well then bitcoin is definitely the currency we want in the revolution ... ...
Zero has important, special properties not shared by any other number.
Yeah that's a fair point. If you don't talk to your customers today it might make sense to automate this via email.

Most likely you will have a much lower success rate since the biggest point of conversion in the approach outlined in the post is at the "2nd ask" (which is hard to do via email).

But it's a lot better than not asking for referrals in the first place :)

Would love to hear what kind of results you would see doing this!
I don't use Chrome (I don't use Google products) and I wasn't defending it. It's a critical bug in the browser, but that doesn't mean it's okay for Netflix and Facebook exploit it.
And that's exactly what I'm talking about, that was my point.
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To clarify; I wasn't saying the first actually gives journalists the right to trespass or harass individuals.

Just that some poorly trained journalists and misguided internet armchair pundits choose to interpret it that way.
Hey Steli, quick question: You suggest we should ask for the referral right when the customer makes the purchase. In the case of a SaaS solution (like ours) they haven't experienced the product at all right when they make the purchase...isn't it better to wait until they have experienced the product to ask for a referral (eg when they've had a success on the platform)?
You are betting against something like the chance of there being a Satoshi Nakamoto who is not involved in writing bitcoin, but may have done something else using bitcoin that makes him not want to talk to the press enough to spook a newsweek reporter.

I don't think I know enough either way to make a good bet and I'm not sure that reporter does either.
The additional property which makes a monoid a group is the existence of inverse elements. So list is a good example for your point, because there are no "inverse lists".
Man, I was hoping that they would have added Hue support to Mac as well as Windows :(
There's a couple of libraries that help you implement this. http://ricostacruz.com/nprogress/ is one.
...yeah, sure, let me just call my buddy who used to be a mechanic for Tupolev.
And this is why programmers who know math are better programmers.
Jokes are generally not very well accepted here, unless they're being made by someone on the leaderboard and/or they are abnormally witty (although I'm sure it would be easy to find counterexamples).
Still closed source.

What a shame.
Yeah I did miss that part. From what I read, the journalist spoke to him for about 15 seconds, within which he didn't really say anything at all, and was then shown the metaphorical door.
If I recall, the object they were tethered too was rotating. So it would be centrifugal force.
>don't marry your job. there's no point getting emotional about things you don't own.

I need to learn this advice.

> if someone does an incredibly stupid decision, it's their problem.

Where I struggle is when someone make a very stupid decision, and part of that decision is making it my problem. They just keep lumping more and more responsibilities my way. It's at the point where I'm coming in from 1am-5am most weeks, I get called late on Sunday nights, etc. etc. I'm a salaried employee and not paid for that.

> in practice though, i have problems not getting emotional when people are trying to do incredibly stupid decisions.

Me too, and I still don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. If I stopped caring, I'd be useless. I think I need to find the middle ground.
Justin from Spreedly here. Dan, thanks for the kind mention! Dan's use case is one of the main driver's we see. We also see most interest from businesses/services that need their own vault as they work across multiple payment gateways. Either a SaaS billing/booking platform or someone working with 3 or 4 different gateway's globally. Single API/Single Vault/No PCI headache. Many of our customers are weighing up PCI L1 for card storage and/or integration to multiple gateways or Spreedly.

In terms of Dan's scenario we had a customer whose primary gateway was unresponsive early Sunday morning which happened to be their biggest day of the week. They brought a Stripe account up in around 5 - 10 minutes and processed 6 figures that day. Not sure how you ROI that against our fees but they were happy!
Android pls.
> They are (should be) always True.

This is the obvious intuition, which doesn't match the current implementation.

> Why would anyone evaluate dates in a boolean context?

I'd guess, usually to tell whether a variable has a date or None. For example, maybe you have some kind of GUI with a form where the user is supposed to fill in a time, and some variable somewhere in the code is set to None [1] when the time field is blank [2], and a time object representing the time entered by the user otherwise.

Maybe you want to require the user to fill in all fields in the form before advancing to the next step in your program's workflow. If you like falsiness, you might write:

if not form.time_field:
show_warning("You must enter a time to proceed")
continue_current_phase()
else:
proceed_to_next_phase()

You actually intended the first line to be:

if form.time_field is not None:

But the only way you'd find this bug is when a user on the East Coast complains that the form won't accept 7:00 (UTC midnight). It will accept 6:59 or 7:01, but not 7:00. Of course you're on the West Coast, so you close their ticket as "can't reproduce" since 7:00 works just fine for you...

[1] None is the Python equivalent of other programming languages' null (or NULL).

[2] Or unparseable
You think that it would be the polite thing to do for reporters not to pursue him. I agree with you. I think where we differ is with the respect to the obligation of journalists.

Journalists are in the business of finding out information that's useful for an open democratic society in making decisions. If this person might be the genuine Satoshi, then it stands to reason he might offer useful information or a new perspective on Bitcoin or money in general.

Thus I think to not pursue this story as a journalist would be a violation of j-ethics.
West coast is so soft.
You actually have a good point but the first was a bit mean and a little much.
The worst part about updating Flux is that you have to quit the currently running version, with the white flash that hurts your eyes.
No, it's perfectly legal but unethical.

In the words of Lebowski: It's not wrong, it's being an asshole.
I think it is only being discovered now because nobody really looked before, at least not in the sense of actual research and journalism as opposed to googling some shit and doing a blog post.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are other programmers named Satoshi Nakamoto. McBay is a fairly uncommon name and I'm not even the only programmer named George McBay and the other one (who as far as I know isn't directly related in any way) is from Japan! Small world!

But that aside it isn't just the tech/math background, it is the total picture as laid out in the article. Unless the article is totally fabricated, which I have no reason to believe it is, the case it makes is pretty compelling.
Yeah, it's funny how getting $100k from NASA in research grants requires proposals and peer review, but super-expensive interplanetary probes happen, or not, without any scientist input whatsoever.
huge fan of f.lux - couldn't work without it - I actually switched from iOS to Android over the want for this single app!
I've found Lux Auto Brightness to be a reasonable substitute.
It's a common enough way to put it, I think it needs commentary. Putting it the other way round it becomes funny:

- If you love your job you shouldn't leave it for any reason

- Conditions and circumstances don't matter, do something you like

- Your 8h at work are more important than the 16h left in the day
I love the Darkroom feature. I think that'll have some surprisingly handy applications.

Edit: Unfortunately, it seems to completely break when my screensaver kicks in.
How applicable is this approach for a low-touch B2B SaaS business? We don't have active sales communications with customers, it's more of a value creation during the trial period.

I have noticed that customers referred by their friends (without us asking) move through the process very quickly. They already trust us.
I hope they're pushing the latest changes to their linux repo at some time. I love flux but all those nice Mac features make me jealous...
We are getting there - the Windows one was fading too early at night, so we had to get the schedule right first. The new schedule is a big deal, and we can build a lot from it.
Uh huh. Sure. An officer isn't aware of a digital currency that has been the topic of dozens of mainstream news reports over the past few months, and which had a strong relationship to drug and property crimes.
f.lux was basically unusable in its previous version that was tied to sunset. In Toronto, for example, f.lux would start kicking in at 5pm in the winter which is no where near most people's bedtimes.

My solution was to continually disable it for an hour at a time until I had enough and uninstalled it. Happy to be able to try it out again.
"A healthy circadian rhythm depends on seeing bright light while you’re awake, not just avoiding bright light before bed"

This statement cannot be emphasized enough. Especially for Hackers and other indoor/Desk bound folks, the amount of bright sunlight exposure is critically important for two reasons:

1) Sunlight is the "moderator" of our circadian Rhythm via Melatonin and other Neuro-chemicals

2) A large percentage of people are Vitamin-D deficient, more Sunlight (on skin) = greater chance of Combating this issue

Taken together, fixing these will resolve many issues..
They are probably referring to the engines. Engines are rated in hours.
Founder of Bitcoin Identified
(I'm an engineer at Braintree.)

Hey Luke, we had an internal discussion about what happened with RaceMetrics and came to several conclusions about what we could do better. The restrictions on who can use Braintree and who can't now are listed here: https://www.braintreepayments.com/faq#restricted-business-ty...

Your experience with us was before we launched our Marketplace product, which eliminates the need for many people to onboard as a TPPA. If you were to apply now, things would be a lot better.
I love f.lux, but it's ironic that their page has a white background, blinding me coming from the Dark Hacker News [1].

[1] http://userstyles.org/styles/71155/georgify-dark-hacker-news
It's been suggested that Satoshi lost or deleted his keys when he left Bitcoin around 2009. It's entirely possible he no longer has (access to) these Bitcoins.
It's supposed to be tied to the time you turn your lights on (with their different color temp), not when you go to bed. But maybe some people use it differently?
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I like and with this mindset very much! Thanks for giving me a useful term to describe this movement.
If this person is the Real Satoshi, why are all forum posts except the ones bitcointalk.org about model trains and Royal Danish Cookies?

Not a single post in any programming forum, not a single stackoverflow question, zero online participation in anything related to cryptography or programming.

If we are to believe that the developer of Bitcoin didn't mind using his real name online, what's the explanation for this?
f.lux now shows you when the sun’s up

We need to get out more...
Curious - what is "Lobsters?"
Just don't tell Bloomberg.
The article quotes Gavin Andresen as saying "He went to great lengths to protect his anonymity.", but other than that doesn't offer anything to show that he actually was actively trying to hide his identity or was ever using a pseudonym.
Redshift is good too, and it works on Linux, Mac and Windows.

[1] http://jonls.dk/redshift/
Lux works really great if you have a Nexus 4. Instead of just overlaying a partially transparent block of color, it actually adjusts the screen temperature at a much lower level in the OS.

There is a Nexus 4 plugin on the Play Store to intsall if you want to try it out, made by the same developer.
I'm curious how your logic works. For someone so deeply worried about people intruding onto your property, you seem not to have ever heard of no soliciting/trespassing signs, and somehow leaped to the conclusion that the only proper response to the horror of strangers knocking on your door is to live in some doorless, windowless dystopian nightmare.
It's been some time since I've seen it, so you may be right. However, the situation you describe would only obtain once the entire system was rotating. As I recall, the female astronaut grabbed onto the object and the tether immediately stretched out tight, with no time to impart angular momentum to the tether or to the male astronaut. In that situation, I would expect the tether to wind around the object somewhat in the interim before the male came loose, and in that case he would have been imparted with some lateral momentum that would have taken him past the object (although not necessarily within retrieval distance) rather than straight away from it as I dimly recall from the film.
https://www.shockwave-sound.com/
The problem I had with flux is I couldn't keep my gamma settings on my displays. (windows + intel graphics driver software)