skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though you should use stripe (we all love it), you should not directly code for stripe only. Here is how:

- Create an abstract "Ecommerce" module in your app and let it configure different payment gateways. In your case, start with stripe as the only payment gate way to choose from. But doing it this way now lets your app easily plug into other payment APIs in future as needed.

- For the user model, instead of having "Stripe customer id" as a field, I suggest having a user meta table with key/value pairs. So in the usermeta table, you can have {'stripe_customer_id': 'xyz'} for a particular user. This way, you can use other payment gateways and not really limiting to Stripe.

- manage the subscriptions/cancellations/refunds in your app instead of stripe. This way, your app has all records of transactions.
Backblaze engineer here. The private encryption key is a completely standard PEM file from OpenSSL. We have two modes: by default the PEM file is secured by a "pass phrase" known by Backblaze. In this lower security mode, the user data is essentially only secured by their email address and their chosen password on the Backblaze website, and the user can recover their password via email. That is a great mode if you are just backing up stuff you don't terribly mind somebody getting a copy - like photos of your cat.

If you are concerned about security, the second mode is you set your own "pass phrase" on the PEM file. But oh my lord, make sure you remember that pass phrase because Backblaze never writes it to disk and if you forget it, NOBODY ON EARTH is getting your files. Not you, not the USA government, not Backblaze, that data is GONE. You cannot recover that password. This is a good security mode if you would be arrested if the NSA got a copy of your data, because we don't think it can be broken.
Using technology to spur innovation in the education space is so easy to get behind.
I really, overall, love the redesign. It's much cleaner, better organized and it's awesome to have better support for width based scaling. As someone who uses the Django documentation very often, I'm happy to see this redesign.

I must plea, though, that if anyone responsible is reading, it would be extraordinarily helpful if the green highlight color is set back to the system default, or at least a darker color. I have quite a bit of trouble following through blocks of text on a screen or reading black-ish colors on bright white backgrounds, and often use my highlighting tool to help me keep track of location and to distinguish the text from the background. The almost invisible green makes that very difficult for me.
http://python-future.org/compatible_idioms.html

This is a pretty comprehensive guide. It does rely on the future lib, which is a wrapper around six and a few others to make it easier, but you can also just write your own minimal lib for things that need to have:

if py2:
pass # Py2 specific line here
else:
pass # Py3 stuff here

I think Django has chosen the approach of having their own minimal compatibility layer, iirc.
10,041,295,923 now returns exactly one result - the author's page, just as he theorized.

I wonder if it'll return two results soon.
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I would recommend Cryptonomicon.
Then don't waste my time getting me to read a useless pamphlet!
Interesting hire. As a startup it seems an unlikely one, Neal is a wonderful author, and has a sharp wit, but as he explains "his brain is not useful" to the work at hand. I could see consulting with him, but hiring him struck me as odd. In terms of what Magic Leap purportedly does my guess would be that Daniel Suarez (Daemon, Freedom) might be a better choice in terms of a vision that applies somewhat directly.
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Wrong, wrong and wrong. I'll start with the last "wrong" first. The third wrong (for your statement which only includes two issues) is for the typical, and ill thought process of technology. That it won't change, and it won't get better. It will, and it's doing so by leaps and bounds. 3d printers are quite literally coming out with new processes and equipment every single day. There have been a number of announcements in just the last few months that make it appear that even using metals for at home printing at an affordable rate may be possible in the next five years. There is such a fast rate of change and innovation, it's a bit silly to think that your comments on bad quality and materials won't change within the next year (if those comments were correct, they're not.)

As to materials, literally, every month, there are new materials coming out. At this point, I can use my desktop reprap to print ceramics, PET, Nylon, ABS (to just name a few), and all sorts of hybrids/specific compounds of these plastics designed for 3d printing. Nylon, PET, ABS are good enough for probably ~90% (very rough guess, sorry) of most of the plastic products in your home, it's probably good enough for most of the products I (and many others want to make).

As to precision, that's also quite wrong. The printers are quite precise. They're not as precise as the $75,000 CNC Mill that will get me .001" accuracy, but the truth is that most people don't even need .01" accuracy. And my printer cost me $500, quite a large cost premium there in terms of accuracy (ignoring the importance of cutting metal at this time).

As to doing CNC at home. Even a quite crappy homemade CNC mill, built on a real "mill"(something like a g0704) (not the laughable (to me) desktop mills that have come out recently, which are glorified dremels using similar methods of driving the axis' as a 3d printer, which you can cut aluminum at atrociously slow rates) is going to cost you at least $3000 (machine tools are expensive, not just because of the actual mill, but all the tool holders, bits, cutters, precision vises, calipers, etc. etc. that you also need to make it useful). So yes, a CNC mill is great for alot of things, but that homemade CNC mill isn't really going to hold .001 accuracy either, unless you spend a lot of time working on it and you really know what you're doing.

I'm not going to continue on with this argument, but it seems like your view of 3d printers and CNC milling is quite naive.
> wouldn't it be more efficient to introduce an extra layer of mammalian predators?

That's been done. The introduced extra layer went for the native wildlife, which were easier pickings.
Microsoft has been making quality assurance mistakes lately
In my case, a substantial amount of my work on Opus was done literally from my basement (sorry, I didn't have a garage).
It's a pretty exciting day for us, and we'd love to get your feedback.
Don't emulate your competition.

It's something I see over and over again. Blackberry had a huge loyal user base around its keyboard model, but they had to emulate the touch screens of Apple and Google since... well... that's what everyone else was doing.

Result: they lose their loyal customer base who liked that they were different, and they failed to gain any new customers since people who liked touch screens were already using their competitors.
Maybe the internet is different than a coffee shop, but you're not only in the minority, but your tone is insulting to everyone (which is everyone) who disagrees with you. You're not asking hypotheticals, you're telling me I'm wrong if I think Magic Leap has a poorly designed website. That's not discourse.
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That's probably not wise. If he's not concise enough he could end up owing himself valuable time.
Is there history behind the $355MM Series A funding, and does anyone have statistics for other large A rounds? I have never heard of such a large investment on the front side.
> This is the problem, powerful people will be powerful and have an influence on society - through fame, money, etc.

Absolutely, but that's exactly why the government needs to be large and do lots of things. Take minimum wage for example. Assume that tomorrow the government revoked the power to control wages. What happens next?

Fast food chains and big box stores would push their wages as low as the market will bear. Some employees will quit, but a lot will stay because working 80 hours a week and living in abject poverty is still better than literally starving. There's still a minimum wage, it's just now being set by corporate entities that don't (and shouldn't) have any motivations beyond their own company's self interest.

Or maybe the employees unionize. They get organized and set terms for as high a wage as they can extract from the employers. The employee's quality of life goes up, but the business owners now have no recourse but to pay the demanded wages or close. And the new employment contracts start including clauses about mandatory union membership (including dues). Again, a minimum wage is being set by someone, just not someone who has (or should have) any interest in the larger economic repercussions.

The power exists, and it's going to be wielded by somebody somewhere. The government, at least, is ostensibly motivated by the best interests of the populace at large. That interest is, of course, frustrated as often as its honored in the real world. Still, I don't see how taking power from an institution that only intermittently pursues my best interests and handing it to an institution that never does is in any way an improvement.
It grows plenty well in western Europe.
Airpnp: http://www.airpnp.co/
Just go through FF CVEs and look for vulnerabilities that enable remote code execution without .js like .cpp malformed text rendering.

Doesn't seem to me that the FBI cares about hiding the fact your browser has been exploited as their last known attempt (freedom hosting) didn't try very hard to cover it's tracks.
When I started looking through this, I wondered if any of the early-2000s adware platforms would make an appearance... and there it was! Gator at #17 in 2001. I was working at the tech bench at Best Buy in high school and removal of it and the other adware apps of that era must have been 75% of my job.
You can't make the federal government too small without breaking up the union entirely. And even if you did, the regulatory powers would just fall to the states. Not that I'm opposed to breaking up the country into smaller countries, I'm just saying that government power is needed to act as a counterbalance to private power.
These are the tricky bits:

Defining a swap: the OTC market is complex and there is no standard representation for many of the products - this makes reconciling data submitted by each of the firms complex. A simple interest rate swap report could contain up to 1,000 elements to fully describe a trade.

Volume: the 2 major OTC reporting regimes, Dodd-Frank and ESMA, both generate tens of millions of trade reports daily. This data needs to be correct; needs to be both ingested and retrieved quickly and needs to support complex post-reporting processing and queries.

Complex workflow: each swap undergoes many changes during it's lifetime, which complicates the workflow and data for reporting. For example, you may trade a block CDS, which is split into 20 allocations, some of which are new trades and some that alter existing trades (step ins; step outs; terminations; reductions...). Each of the allocations may require different reporting treatments.

And yes, the 'too much data, not enough scientists' problem with interpreting the submissions. Bear in mind that the SEC reporting hasn't started yet - that's 2015...
Stop Copying HelloSign: An Open Letter to DocuSign CEO, Keith Krach
One of the best things I learned from a very senior engineer was "There are far worse things in life than duplicating code." Dependencies are frequently one of those things.
Text formatting library for terminal output, with embedded markup, in Rust
There are these guys:

http://logikcull.com/

(And they're welcome.)
"The marketplace has abandoned our business model? OK, we'll just iterate endless new hardware and firmware until everyone leaves or a miracle happens."

Its a very old story in IT. Some companies survive it, most don't.
I've been using it to to play with fractals and other procedural graphics. I've enjoyed it. The only thing that was slightly unpleasant (besides growing pains and REPL startup time) was getting used to 1-based indices.
I read this article a while back. Probably my favorite part:

> Mike Lazaridis was at home on his treadmill and watching television when he first saw the Apple iPhone in early 2007. There were a few things he didn't understand about the product. So, that summer, he pried one open to look inside and was shocked. It was like Apple had stuffed a Mac computer into a cellphone, he thought.

> To Mr. Lazaridis, a life-long tinkerer who had built an oscilloscope and computer while in high school, the iPhone was a device that broke all the rules. The operating system alone took up 700 megabytes of memory, and the device used two processors. The entire BlackBerry ran on one processor and used 32 MB. Unlike the BlackBerry, the iPhone had a fully Internet-capable browser. That meant it would strain the networks of wireless companies like AT&T Inc., something those carriers hadn't previously allowed. RIM by contrast used a rudimentary browser that limited data usage.
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24 days of Rust – FUSE filesystems, part 2
It's not google.com, facebook.com, and yahoo.com; it's Google, Facebook, and Yahoo. The companies have many different properties.
Darpa tapped this Philly startup to build a tiny, speedy drone
If you don't trust the person to hold your money why do you trust them to decide where your money goes?

>There's no way for the escrow agent to steal the money.

If you're worried about an escrow agent stealing your money if they had the chance then they really really should not be your escrow agent.
Backblaze employee here. Our drives never spin down, although we have considered this because electricity is a large monthly bill to us.

Because it is "backup" we are pretty relaxed about shutting down our pods to do maintenance, like replacing a drive. But that only takes 10 minutes, we try not to have machines offline more than that if possible, or it causes support issues from people trying to restore files.
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Hi, somebody put this link here. Thank you for you comments about main-thread issue, surely it may be the reason behind crash (I would expect warning or exception but hey, I've should read documentation more carefully).

This is a great community, I love you all ;)
I think there are very concrete ways to accomplish this, for example an arbitrarily fast spinning mirror with a 3d scanner and a projector with an arbitrarily high refresh rate. If this system were precise enough, you could have strong stereoscopy with a table.
He's relevant here for many reasons (his tech writing, consulting, other projects, etc.), but particularly it's for his concept of the "Metaverse" which appeared in Snow Crash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
Yep, you are spot on about how it works in the real world. Incidentally, you may get all three (i.e. small profits from daily delta adjustments + theta decay + gamma upside) on some trades, but the bottom line is that it always requires a vol view when you enter into the position, which lends it self to being wrong sometimes. There, you hit on another interesting point - even with all of the mess brewing in Ukraine, realized has been relatively low (and probably way below desks' expectations) this year, which I would bet caused some underperformance across the vol desks this year.

Don't know what was realized vol in oil lately (likely high given recent price action, have no sense of the shape/magnitude), but perhaps that's where he's seen some returns in simulated trading. Needles to say simulated trading is very, very different than the real world, with bid/ask spread dynamics, options illiquidity, collateral requirements, funding costs, borrow costs, etc.
I reread my post to try to understand what you mean, but alas, I have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.
Good for MongoDB. They really need some serious tech people and it seems the acquired team have got the experience, expertise and reputation to lead the technology development.

One thing though: there is one undisputed candidate for the title "the most widely-used embedded data management software in the world", and that is sqlite. BDB is indeed widely used, but sqlite would be deployed in at least one order of magnitude more computers.
> Landlords typically trade between 18 times and 20 times earnings

This is my favorite part. So WeWork is "trading" at 33x on projected annual earnings and yet these contracts can easily be broken. When it all falls down (it will, but probably less dramatically than we've seen in the past) this type of business will be hit the hardest. Not having fixed cost structures are typically why so many tech startups can be valued so highly.
It seems like a pretty cool product. But I have google talk on the side for instance. And It is showing under it
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I know some about it. As it stands right now, law firms need to find, trust, and pay forensic investigators. The firm has to leave some data collection up to the investigator, and then have some data turned over. By data, I mean hard drives, images of hard drives, images of network shares, email exchanges, etc.

The law firm has to pay for the data collection, the disk space to store the data, the transmission of data back and forth (investigator found something good, buys external HD, ships it via the mail), the data analysis, the investigation and reporting, and then sometimes the expert witness.

Sometimes, the law firm does not know what they're looking for, in other words, there is no smoking gun piece of data. Sometimes, the goal is to find something, anything, that would hint, point, or prove a goal.

What this means is that a retainer can either be here is 10hours worth of analysis/investigation to find the email we know was sent that contains this particular text. They do not plan on the analysis and investigation to exceed that and usually the result is we found it/didn't find it and we did it in the time allotted or under the time.

It can also be, "we're looking for evidence that this type of event has occurred". This is where the billed-hours start stacking up. Its hard enough digging through other people's emails, documents, and pictures looking for something, let alone digging without having something in particular to look for.

The point is, I believe that they, the law firms, want to, and need to, bring this in house. This greatly improves the process. But now they need security, real security, because its not their data being stored, it is their client's client's data and so forth. It becomes very sensitive.

They need infrastructure. They need to be able to forensically acquire data. Forensically store data. Forensically analyse data. Forensically share data. The infrastructure needs to be fast, easy, and effecient. We're seeing 6TB hard drives now... shares of much, much larger size. And they do not want to be storing their client's data in someone else's cloud.

Then they either need technicians and investigators or the ability to hire and grant access to their data on their network to the tech/investigator. They need technicians to provide solutions to the inevitable problems run into (i.e. how can I acquire each of the 2 drives in this FusionDrive raid and return to the lab and build the raid on something other than osX?) And they need investigators experienced at honing in on relevant data while digging through vast troves of data.
Boost understands Bitcoin better and is much more plugged into the Bitcoin ecosystem
Secret surveillance of Norway’s leaders detected
Nasa's annual budget is around $17 billion, so $349 million is about 2 percent of it. A better comparison might be to the cost of significant individual programs: commercial crew has a current annual budget of $696 million, down from an administration request of over $800 million. That's not an entirely fair comparison because the expenditure was spread out over several years, but it's still past what I'd consider rounding error.
Then you send them the receipt from when you purchased something or if you paid with a credit card you tell them you're going to submit a charge back.

This doesn't solve a real problem which is the problem with a lot of things bitcoin tries to solve. They are things that aren't real problems or they are things that are already solved just as well.
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I'm guessing ComScore combine metrics from visitors across various sub-properties.

Glam properties on Compete:

Glam.com = ~700k https://siteanalytics.compete.com/glam.com/

Ning.com = ~2 million https://siteanalytics.compete.com/ning.com/

Foodie.com = ~307k https://siteanalytics.compete.com/foodie.com/

etc

So these rankings are not based on singular properties. It probably combines Glams other properties such as Brash, Bliss, Foodie, Tend, etc. They have tons.

Which may be fair since Yahoo is a series of sub-properties, although the branding is more consistent than Glam.
It's definitely not like Airbnb, as the producers own the space, the consumers rent it by the day, and Airbnb connects the two for a fee. WeWork lease the office spaces themselves and rent it directly out to consumers, ala Coworking.

The only secret sauce is if they can get a large enough following nationwide (especially for startups) to get a household name, such that you go directly to their location in your city, rather than Googling for Coworking.
He's a sci-fi author with a particular talent for believable, well-rationed near-future fiction. I recommend reading Snow Crash without looking at the publication date until after you finish the book.
A new type of business: find a number that's not yet in google/bing/etc. - embded it in your text, and then track who's copied you verbatim - some kind of tracking I guess..
It would be nice to change the title to something coherent and useful, like, "Search queries containing only numbers," or something of that sort. As such, there's not a lot of incentive to click on "600613". (Yeah, I did it, mostly just to make this post coherent.)
The link is surprisingly light on details and doesn't even link to the actual release announcement: http://strongloop.com/strongblog/arc-node-js-api-announcemen...
Assuming all 3 made equally attractive offers, I'd go with Company C and get a good mix of cash and stock and the promise that there's a path toward running my own department or division. The hope is that if and when the company makes it to IPO or another liquidity event, I'll be in a good position to take a good portion of the credit for that success, as well as the monetary upside.

I figure company B is what you're leaving and since Company A is in a space that is hard to monetieze/productize (according to the OP they are similar to the idea he has), there may be a long road ahead for them.
Backblaze employee here. Some of the drives are "voided warranty" now, like the ones we "shuck" out of USB enclosures. We just include that into our cost analysis - for example if 5 percent of the drives fail, the warranty saves you 5 percent of cost - so if purchasing the warranty costs 3 percent we do it, but if purchasing the warranty costs 7 percent we do without.
https://www.google.com/search?q=we+work+5billion&oq=we+work+...

and click the first link
Much more similar to private equity financing / bank loans, as opposed to traditional VC investment.

WeWork needs lots of upfront capital to cover security deposits, build out spaces (tenant improvements), prove enough assets to take 250k sq. ft. at a time for 15 year terms, etc.

Lots of coworking spaces have raised significant 6, 7, or 8 figure sums (WeWork definitely getting more than most), that mostly fly under the radar in terms of "companies that raise huge amounts of capital."
This is really exciting.