skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how I feel about this. Balanced has, until recently, seemed like the more flexible, DIY option in the payments space. Their API had some pretty neat features that I hope Stripe picks up at some point.

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Is there any good replacement besides PayPal?
We are targeting MLS integration with our next development phase, however, which would autofill all of this information.
There are a lot of reasons, but the short answer is we're aware of the demand. Stay tuned :).
but as a guy, its biologically fun to be aggressive.

Now what? :-(
The are up to 1.5 millimeters long, and any detailed features of the animal can only be seen with a microscope.
Can't We Just Throw Our Nuclear Waste Down a Deep Hole?
Leave it to me to count the zeroes:

> It contained a defect of effectively point zero zero zero zero one inches. that’s 0.000001.
Danielle Morrill is mostly right about VC deal sourcing; here’s how she’s wrong
If an atom is mostly empty space, what is being represented by the lighter valued "blobs" in these images?
Gosrc.org: Go documentation site
That tag is for launches and major third-party articles, not for posts by the companies themselves.
So my issue with this is that there are numerous counter examples that come readily to mind. I understand that the plural of anecdote is not data, and that naming random exceptions is generally a poor form of argument.

But, Barack Obama was in the "Choom Gang" when he was in high school, which roughly translates to the "Marijuana Gang". Think about that: The current leader of the free world smoked so much as a teenager that he and his friends named their group after the drug itself.

The last three US presidents have said that they smoked marijuana as teenagers and college students. Carl Sagan was a big proponent, and there are many other successful people in the worlds of politics, science and business who smoked pot casually at the least. If it does change the structure of the brain and impair long term memory, what exactly does that mean? Whatever the effect, it apparently doesn't disqualify people from being among the most intelligent and successful in the world.

Brain studies are useful, but we should be cautious when using them to draw sweeping conclusions about social policy.
Where does the data come from? We collect and publish building permit data at the property level which might be a good add-on for investors looking to for info on the the condition of the structure. If you're interested in adding building permit records to your reports I'd love to discuss. You can email me direclty at chris [at] buildzoom.com
Yeah, I waited in line for 2 hours one day to taste the holy Franklin sacrament - lo and behold, no better than Salt Lick.

And as a bonus, no hipsters.
I think that macros are the only real option if you want to have an interface for multiple types and still have some semblance of type-safety. The only alternative I can think of is writing code that takes void* everywhere.
This is a really interesting article. A problem I've discussed on HN before is the "dynamic playlist."[0] Creating a music map like this provides a complete and elegant solution to this problem. Choose starting and ending tiles on the map, find any path between those tiles and you have your playlist. I might try my hand at implementing this soon.

In the past I had focused on using listener-generated data from sites like Last.fm, but if it turns out that musical similarity can be accurately determined using statistical methods that makes the whole thing much, much simpler.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7630167
Oddly enough, I don't see anyone talking about benchmarks for those projects. I found one offhand comment saying it was 2-3 faster than Java for indexing, but only 10% better for search. No real benchmarks or such. I suppose that's not the only reason to want a non-JVM version but it seems like a pretty major reason and something that'd warrant headline treatment in the readme...
Can someone explain why something up to 1.5mm long can "can only be seen with a microscope?" That would make sense if the other dimensions were small. But from the pictures, it appears that this is not the case; tardigrades are approximately oval shaped, not much narrower than they are long. I have a circuit board on my desk here where some surface-mount components are about millimeter-something long, and less than a mm wide. I can plainly see them.
https://github.com/balanced/www.balancedpayments.com/commits...

Even in death, Balanced's radical commitment to transparency lives on.

I'm not aware of any other companies with similar traction that have literally put their main website on GitHub.

What a sad day.
The NY Times had a much more nuanced story recently: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/technology/in-the-sharing-...

HN discussion of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8189034
Have any of the core developers considered creating a very polished / simplified / professional supported client for business?

Stuff like "native look" on OS-X, some shiny features and ability to be easily pre-configured and shipped to people. So I could just give <person-X> a pre-configured little bundle and they just run it, it would generate the cert and do the wizard, but we would have stuff like default push-to-talk, a few default keys, etc.
Yes, they should! This is a very mature and responsible shutdown (I'd also expect it to be mature and responsible, since payments are Very Important, but, on the other hand...).

+1 to the Balanced executives for being mature.
But these are all Kindle books which you can't request refunds for.
Sorry, B is not skepticism. B is another claim. It is the claim that men do not compete more strongly with women than with men in domains outside of physical activity. Unless you have evidence to support this claim, we should be skeptical of it, especially in light of A.
Thank you! Some of us on /r/teslamotors were talking about putting some cash together to get gigafactory progress picks via satellite imaging.
But there again, games developers aren't going to care about an cool new IE feature either unless they're building games that run exclusively or primarily on IE, which I suspect is a very small market.

It's not that "nobody runs Windows", it's that "relatively few people who would find snazzy new IE features useful" run Windows.
Lack of prefunding and escrow was/is a huge one for us.
The Ruby bindings already support ACH via the "source" parameter (see https://stripe.com/blog/unifying-payment-types-in-the-api). We're putting the finishing touches on a guide to make migrating code from Balanced to Stripe as easy as possible: it should be out soon.
You can set who can view a project with Edit Project > Visible To.
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As a male that has been defeated my women at a wide range of activities my whole life I have a hard time understanding it. Even as a varsity basketball player I would often get beat my a girl in a game of horse. The intellectual playing field seems to be even so there is no reason for a man to get upset losing an argument to a women anymore than another man.

I think the problem is that people just suck in general and a lot of people are seeing it as man vs women.
Nothing like paying $4/gallon for water.
The ability to leave your ego out of technical discussions is one of the most important engineering skills there are.

"Winning" on an engineering team needs to be "we built a great product quickly", not "I made the team do things my way".

This is hard, and your first task is to be a person who thinks and acts that way. If you never had to change how you approach and think about things, you're probably not doing that.

When you are angry/frustrated, you can't think clearly. So if someone has reached that point, it's very hard to have a productive discussion.
Play sports before/after work and get it out of your system on the field. Or be aggressive about your product winning in the marketplace.
I feel like this article starts off on the wrong foot:

"An argument is the use of aggressive opposition to weed out weak logic, keeping the strongest ideas possible. The philosophy behind using arguments for problem-solving is that attacking the weak parts of an idea will leave the best solutions."

I'm with you so far. Being able to distinguish good from bad is the basis of critical thought.

"The metaphor for argument in our culture is war. We think of people we argue with as opponents ..."

I know a lot of people who do this, but I certainly don't, and I consider it a sign of maturity when somebody is able to separate ideas from egos. Remember, we started off by talking about the good and bad parts of ideas; not good and bad people. It's not a fight, it's a collaboration to share perspectives and discover new insight.

"... we attack their position and defend our own, we can gain or lose ground, and ultimately we can win or lose arguments—just like battles"

Whether you're focusing on the idea, or the person who generated it, there's really no use in considering them an opponent, and even less use in framing things in terms of winning or losing. Ideas don't "compete" with each other, any more than 1 and 2 compete to see which is the bigger number. There's only truth. If you're winning or losing, you've already missed the point and you're focusing on the wrong thing.

I think "aggression" is unfortunately not the real problem here, the real problem is that people often aren't mature enough to admit they're wrong, or to consider another person's perspective, or to say "I don't know".

I don't want to focus on this aspect of the article, but I find it really discouraging to continually see these articles which try to spin things in terms of gender. Developing this "men vs women" perspective is exactly the kind of "adversarial mind" the author denounces in the introduction.
12 years? Sorry to break it to you, but that's a short time.
> There's an online meme that goes, "Arguing with an engineer is a lot like wrestling with a pig in the mud; after a couple of hours, you realize the pig likes it."

I'm an engineer. I've been online for over 30 years, including Usenet days, and I never even once saw such a "meme".

This is slander, and I object to it.
knowing my demographic, that's what they prefer. If anyone wants to use vim, I point them to the vim person.
Without pre-funding and escrow it's really hard to manage B2B relationships with the Stripe feature set. Ease of disbursement is a use case that made us choose Balanced over Stripe in the first place
No kidding. Nutrition, health, history and psychology seem to be making a lot of course corrections. Unless it's physics or math, I get ticked off any more when I read "now we know..."
Sourceforge was really good and as big in the open source world (between 1999 and 2006) like Github today. Later Google Code took over a larger part but never become as popular as Sourceforge or Github. Sourceforge is still used by many open source projects as download hosting provider (binary files). Google Code already stopped the download functionality several months/years(?) ago. Google Code was a 20% project created by Google devs in their 20% free-project-time, though it never improved beyond its first MVP stage, but was for many years very successful nevertheless.
Thanks guys, I'll collect these thoughts and add them to the blogpost. After all, I want this to be available to all and every one of us!
I have the same struggle. Unfortunately, the solution is to do something, anything, to start until you become more focused and engaged. Since you do like to read, consider going off the web to some more sustained thinking on the topic. I can suggest 4 titles that have a wide range of perspective on what underpins "Imposter Syndrome" First, Feeling Strong: the achievement of authentic power was helpful to me. It's more than the self help treatment it was given by it's publishers. Person does a nice job explaining what power is and is not, not for political leaders but by everyone and debunks quit a bit of what passes as power exerted. Second, this is typically framed as a women's problem. Linda Babcock from Carnegie Mellon wrote Women Don't Ask negotiation and gender divide that takes up how those with survivor syndrome undercut themselves before they even get their first job forever bending their income curve for their entire lives. Overcomng Underearning by Barbara Stanny was a surprise sleeper to me. It also takes up money, but it primarily a workbook of exercises that really helped me. It's also useful for groups to do the work and discuss together and might get you off the hot seat with your friends. There is a whole chapter devoted to what your earning more does to your relationships including friends. I suggest taking a look. Last, Loneliness by Caciippo and Patrick. Admittedly, this one is not for the faint of heart but it does talk extensively about the phenomena of isolation, real and perceived and what it does to people individually and collectively. And I will admit, one of the best things I ever did was to get a therapist to help me put it all together. It never goes away but with tools and knowledge, it gets easier. What I learned that is most important is that you cant change yourself alone, by reading a book, you do it among other people so the task is finding the right ones to do it with.
Given that IDEO is still seen as the pinnacle of design consultancy shops, and most other successful design consultancy shops have similar processes... that seems like a pretty good evidence (yes, I know that is not a particularly rigorous experiment). I'd love to hear from someone who's been at IDEO or frog or wherever chime in with any experiments they've done in alternative practices.
It can, sure, but I think most failures are of the slower sort.

And SSD's only complain if you listen. Does Windows come with a smart checking tool by default? Don't you have to manually install one and check?

I suspect most people with an SSD have no idea where it's holding.

But it doesn't change the "defective by design" nature. It's one thing if you can't do anything about it - but the bricking design is not good. It should go read only on max writes, not brick.
Java overhead is not a huge issue unless you are embedding Lucene into some low spec devices. A consumer search system is usually relying heavily on cache (just like any databases), so even a 30-50% latency hit on cold queries is not that big a deal if > 90% of your queries are served from cache.

GC is a big problem when you don't know the expected query distribution which is the case for Elasticsearch's analytics. There is a lot more to a search engine than packing, decoding and merging posting lists. I've never seen anything that compares with Lucene text analysis and scoring API supports.
Even better are classroom response systems which let all students answer at the same time using their phones or computers. Examples include Socrative or Poll Everywhere.
No, because California already imports water from all over the place. Water shortage isn't a problem unique to California. It's only a matter of time before the rest of the country starts to feel the same pressure that Californians are feeling. Reducing water use now will give us time.
Show HN: Hobnob – Beautiful Invites Sent via Text Message
Or inject them with nano-fibre(?) Use them as a container.
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Ask HN: What language/framework is used to build the Amazon AWS web console?
The Amazon AWS console feels like a combination of different code bases yet it works really well. Does anyone know what framework(s) or language is used to build the Amazon AWS web console?
The pipeline is expensive, and can move only so much volume per second.

You'd need basically and artificial river. Then, there's landscape constrains. And Oregonians will veto any decision about their water siphoned to California anyways.
" you really limit the potential effectiveness of the government. And now California's infrastructure is a mess." Following that same point, you also limit the potential ineffectiveness of the government and apparently that is what the people wanted. Your argument also assumes there is not such thing as too much power in the hands of "the legislative and executive".
You're not getting staff directed to your line, you're just screwing with other passengers who are fed erroneous data:

"The system allows the airport to display to passengers how long the wait in each of its security lines is."

All that system does is show you (ie passenger making decision where to go) which line has fewest people in it.
Oh, yeah, you're probably right. I just thought they were bad at English.
a good online resource is the Konrad Zuse Internet Archive, which is a cooperation with the DT museum

http://zuse.zib.de/

z1: http://zuse-z1.zib.de/
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You might want to check with one of the random aerial photo outfits nearby too, you can get usually find a random guy with a plane and a DSLR for ~$1k, and I'm sure he'd give a big discount if you committed to monthly pics.

Alternatively, from a random Google search, I found these guys (http://interiair.com/faqs/) who take drone pics near Reno. I'd imagine you could get a pretty good deal, although it would take more managing than a satellite option.
Zuse was way ahead. He had working programmability by 1938. Atanasoff in the US got close, but didn't have general programmability. None of the WWII cryptanalysis machines were general purpose computers. Their modern counterpart is a Bitcoin ASIC.

None of those machines put the program in main memory. Memory was a huge problem in the early days. Paper tape and punched cards were slow. Everything else was expensive per bit and hard to address. Atanasoff had a drum of capacitors, but it required a discrete capacitor for each bit and rotating electrical contacts. Tauschek in Austria invented the magnetic drum in 1932, but it wasn't used for computing until after WWII. The big bottleneck in computing for a long time was simply that there was nothing like RAM - there were no random access memory devices.

There were lots of special purpose machines before computers. Much early work went into electronic multiplication, which was really slow mechanically. IBM introduced the IBM 603 Electronic Multiplier in 1946, which was the first electronic digital computing device product. I/O was punched cards, but the multiplier was tubes. There's a long history of mechanical multipliers, going back to Leibniz and ending with the IBM 602A. My favorite is the McClure Multiplying Punch, which had a table-driven mechanical multiplier for pounds/shillings/pence amounts. The ENIAC was a lot of multipliers and adders programmed with huge plugboards, but didn't store programs in memory.

Von Neumann put all the pieces together in 1945 in the "Report on the EDVAC" - general purpose, branching, program and data in main memory, binary, external I/O devices.[1]. He saw that memory was the limitation on general purpose computing, as did others. He wanted 250K bits of memory in the EDVAC. He only got 44K; the mercury tank delay line approach didn't offer much capacity. Von Neumann proposed a CRT memory, the first true random access memory device, which was made to work at the University of Manchester in 1946 as the Williams tube. That technology powered several early machines, including the IBM 701 and the UNIVAC 1103, and competed with delay lines until magnetic core memory started working. Both Williams tubes and mercury tanks were dead-end memory technologies, but they worked well enough to get something done.

Turing was involved with the ACE effort in the UK, but it was under-funded. Pilot ACE only had 4K bits of memory and wasn't running until 1950.

[1] https://archive.org/stream/firstdraftofrepo00vonn
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<tptacek>: Yes, we've been around this circle before, and I don't think we're going to change each other's minds.

As for Aaron Swartz's attorneys, they would have jumped at the chance for probation. They explicitly offered it as a deal to the Feds, who rejected it. Prosecutors held out for a felony plea and prison time: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/15/aaron-swart...

So because of the combination of federal overcriminalization (thank you, Congress) and prosecutorial overzealousness (thank you, Carmen Ortiz), this is what Aaron had to look forward to:

If he plead guilty to a felony, he could have been sentenced to as many as 5 years... Each additional conviction would increase the cap by 5 years, though the guidelines calculation would remain the same. No wonder he didn't want to plead to 13 felonies. Also, Aaron would have had to swear under oath that he committed a crime, something he did not actually believe. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/01/towards-learning-l...
Yes, it is possible to have absolutely, completely emotion-less arguments. No, it is not easy, or particularly common.

If you truly feel like you & your work environment do have such pure-truth-seeking arguments: great. However, please take some time to really critically evaluate & test that assertion -- the people who are most at home in such an environment are the people least likely to notice its negative effects on other team members & potential hires. I'm speaking from experience here: I love arguing (or "debating" as I prefer to think of it), and have been on plenty of teams where it was a common interaction. It was only with some time, helpful feedback from my direct reports, and critical examination that I was really able to see the subtle ways in which it was hurting our org.

Re: gender -- I hope you see why gender was brought up in the article. No, it was not some "spin" or needless us vs. them. Women are, as the article states, the canary in the coal mine of toxic & aggressive interpersonal dynamics. Not because of any weaknesses of women, but rather because men have been shown over and over again to reject the arguments of assertive women no matter their merits, and to accept the same arguments from equally assertive men instead (cited in the article). In other words: an argumentative environment is one which punishes women by putting them in a position where their peers judge them in a gendered way.
My water supply is provided seasonally from melting snow and rainfall. I highly doubt much of that water is trucked the thousand or so miles to California.

Using this seasonally supplied water today won't mean that we have less in the future. Not unless we are hoarding it all, but our reservoirs are only so big anyway, if they were filled to the brim, and that water weren't being used, it'd just be dumped down the overflow and would find its way to the ocean... which is coincidentally where it ends up anyway when I divert it for a nice long shower.

I'm not going to cut back on my excessively long showers just because Californians won't cut back on the damn tree nuts. I'll gladly do my part and cut down on Californian nuts though.
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Is there a prize?
Thanks, Steve! We miss having you around here :)
I'm getting tired of these pseudo-cool programming job titles. Guru, hacker, wizard, ninja.

I haven't met many well-functioning, self-described ninjas.