skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's great that there are companies targeting these specific geographies -- however, if the market is large enough and worth going into, wouldn't Stripe itself want to solve these issues? Of course, having senior leadership / on the ground folks in India is an advantage to navigating that, but isn't that what international offices are for~
This would always piss me off, eventually I put this into my rc file https://gist.github.com/adamnemecek/bf9d8e4c0356bfdd86c2

What I then do is that I select a file in the directory I want to cd into, hit CMD + C, switch to terminal and run sd on CMD+V. The script basically cd's into the same dir as the file you selected.

I realize that this workflow might not be for everyone but it's kind of ok for me.
Finding a new job is a simple as creating one! Find something you do that provides value to others and market it.

No boss, no hours, no office. Who is holding you back (but you?)
Congrats on launching in India. It's great to see activity in this space.

I see a tab called "Education" which seems to list a specific use-case for a payment processor. Any particular reason you have that as a dedicated tab there? Is that the market you're positioning the service for?

Also, just curious, mind elaborating on this from the article:

"Right now, for a business to take online payments in the country,
it needs to go through a lot of paperwork, bureaucratic red tape, and wait time,
often in a process that needs to be done region-by-region."

Specifically, how do you guys work around this?
I love the game but I don't understand the exact mechanics for when I unlock a gate. Do I just need to be near the key when it is the right colour? Because that doesn't seem to work all the time.
This is great! Doesn't work in Safari or IE though due to vendor prefixing. If I get time, I'd like to push my shims at you :)
Agreed. This sounds like a fun thing to do when you have some spare time or are bored.
Perhaps it's powered by bumblebees.
Hi, You are right, we want to make the pricing more uniform as we go. But there are some limitations around that we need to solve.
As for instamojo, they have a good product but they are not a payment gateway in the stripe sense, they are more of gumroad. They support specific type of products whose amounts needs to be pre-decided on their platform. While, we support all kinds of online transactions which you can integrate directly on your site.
(Just an aside: Wikipedia says "the frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade Pez candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager in 1997 to interest the media, which were not interested in the company's previous explanation about wanting to create a 'perfect market')
I'm a bit embarrassed to admit I didn't realize you'd already solved this, because I hadn't played all the way until level 25 the first time around. Your method looks fantastic.
People do some crazy things. It's hard to imagine spending $100k on beanie babies or pez dispensers. In the 80s it was comics. In the 90s it was beanie babies and pez. I'm not sure what it is now in a few years, after the crash, we'll be hearing stories.
Not only are some people often unreasonable, but nobody is always reasonable.

Every single one of us has flaws that can be exploited (on purpose or just by coincidence) to cause us to act unreasonably in some situations... even when we're fully aware of this fact and actively trying to correct for it.

Being reasonable even just most of the time is difficult work given all of the essentially hardwired flaws we are working against.
Or it might be that linear increase in intelligence requires exponentially more effort/thought to work through all the possible interactions and complexities needed to make it work. Instead of being exponential, we might end up stuck on a sub-linear trajectory forever, with breakthroughs and improvements less and less common, even with the help of superhuman intelligence. Really, assuming that the amount of intelligence you get out is linearly proportional to the amount you put in seems pretty silly, actually... its not like that works with adding programmers to a project.

The logistic curve looks exponential right up until it isn't.
Unfortunately, if you point to that site, certain Estonians will claim it's political bullshit.
Leak in Mars rover Curiosity's wet chemistry test finds organics
You weren't, you got me addicted to Joe too!
Completely agree. It is atypical in any progamming language to have names of functions/operators that do not bear some relation with the nature of the function/operation.

While your suggestion suffers from a lack of concision, the point remains: A single word replacement that approximates the nature of what "currying" does, would be helpful.
I suspect they'd get more applications for suppliers than requests for work.
Ah yes, I was only comparing from a seller's PoV. Most non-ecommerce startups have fixed plans/pricing I guess.

B/w you might want to link to the http://docs.razorpay.com site in the "documentation" link on your homepage. And maybe rename that /documentation url to /faq instead.

In all the excitement, I did forget: Congrats on launching ~!
If they do a good job, Stripe may just want to buy them.
I'm not really sure what point you are trying to make here.

In general, the whole thing about passing a reference by value is just BS. What you need to ask is, "What am I passing to the function?"

If you are passing an object, and Java (or whatever language you are using) determines a reference (memory address or whatever), then passes that reference to the function, then you are, by definition, passing an object by reference. The important thing to focus on in this argument is, "What am I passing?" The answer for this scenario is that the programmer is trying to pass the object itself. Who cares about the address / location of the object.

If you decide to pass the reference explicitly, then you are passing a reference, not the object. This would be like explicitly passing a pointer in c++, and is apparently a controversial topic when it comes to Java. A reference will nearly always (I can't actually think of a case where it isn't) be a primitive, and therefore, be passed by value.

For argument sake, say I'm wrong about all this. My question would be, "What would it look like to pass an object by reference, and how does that differ from what is currently happening?"
Author here. Sorry, I abandoned this two or three years ago. Please look at this in the context of a project done several years ago and never completed. (I do ML research these days -- you can see my blog here: http://colah.github.io/)

Julia Longtin took up working on ImplicitCAD a few months ago. I'm not sure how much she's progressed with it.

Honestly, I no longer believe ImplicitCAD was the right approach to the problem, or that there's even as much of a problem as I originally thought. In particular, the system ImplicitCAD uses to represent objects, a variant of f-rep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_representation) has issues. (f-rep is awesome, I just tried to have my cake and eat it too with some trade offs, and thought I was being really clever! :P)

After ImplicitCAD, I worked with Rob Gilson on a SVG/WebGL constraint-based modelling tool, mech.ly. We got some neat stuff working, but never got to a point where we wanted to release things. I'm pretty persuaded this is the right direction to go.

I learned a lot from both projects. I also matured a lot intellectually. For example, I now review academic literature before diving into solving hard problems! :)
Indeed it does, but the main idea presented by the website is an alternative to monospaced fonts which is an interesting and novel idea but impractical in a few scenarios as mentioned before. I work mainly in Brackets and for my on screen work, a proportional font would be perfectly usable, I however stick to Source Code Pro because I like the even pacing of the code on the screen.
"FinderPath 0.9.5
March 23, 2015

Changelog
Improved compatibility with OS X Yosemite"
I believe you need all the keys to turn the same color as the gate, simultaneously.
Our initially entry point in the market was education sector but now we offer gateway to any business accepting online payments.

We have to follow the law of land and regulatory compliance but most of the red tape that the current gateways ask for is not required by regulation. The gateways are trying to make onboarding too safe and hence end up making it very complex. We want to protect the merchants from the dirty work of dealing with regulation through a very streamlined interface and we handle everything in the background.
That keyboard sound is orgasmic.
"These aren't the tie fighters you're looking for."
?? A 'frivolous' lawsuit is a case with no merit. From Merriam-Webster:

Full Definition of FRIVOLOUS

a : of little weight or importance
b : having no sound basis (as in fact or law) <a frivolous lawsuit>

Granted, it's only my opinion the case has no merit, that she's filed a frivolous lawsuit.

And even if she loses, her "In for a penny, in for a pound" team of lawyers will probably appeal -- they're probably working pro-bono ("Yay! We're going to get rich suing the almighty KPCB!") and might well think "we got this far, filing the appeal has a chance and it's not that much more work."

If she'd had a few female witnesses back up her story that "gender discrimination is rampant at KPCB, and gender discrimination is why I was never promoted."

She's got none. ZERO. Her whole case is 'gender discrimination.' Since there are no witnesses to concur, it's looking more and more that the stuff she pulled on Komisar and her list of enemies at the firm really do add up to "crummy performer" as the reason she didn't get a promo.

Are you aware that she told her bosses "give me ten million dollars and I'll disappear" ? That comes across as borderline extortion.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ellen-pao-asked-for-10-millio...
ASCAP/BMI monitor shows as well.
Thank you! Your method works.

With it I beat the game. The game really helped my understand special relativity in a "intuitive" way.
Mercury. It's like react but designed the way react should have been.
I'm not sure it's true. It looks like there have been a lot of evaluations over the years. Here's one from 2003:

http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/ADA428790.pdf

A relevant quote from the executive summary:

"A 2001 DSB study calculated the cost of fuel delivered in-flight to be $17.50 per gallon, using USAF provided figures, excluding the capital cost of tankers. Previous studies valued all fuel at about one dollar per gallon."

While it looks like that oversight may have happened before, by 2003 they were looking at something like the real cost of tanker fuel.

As for how that oversight is possible, this report discusses at lengths how evaluating the cost of tanker-delivered fuel is extremely difficult, because how much you use tankers depends a lot on exactly what kind of missions you fly, and a lot of the cost of tanker-delivered fuel is tied up in things like maintenance and operating overhead in the tanker fleet, so to save that 15x multiplier would involve reducing the tanker fleet as the B-52s needed it less, not just the simple act of burning less fuel. The report also mentions that only about 10% of the B-52's fuel was delivered in flight, so while it's expensive, it's not large in quantity. Put it all together and it's sensible to just do a conservative analysis where you assume fuel costs are the price at the pump.

I'm not at all convinced that the relevant factor that changed the outcome of this recommendation was accounting for tanker costs. There are a ton of factors discussed, and it's a complex subject. One obvious factor can ben seen here:

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=jet-fuel&mo...

Why did a 2003 study find that more efficient engines were worth the cost, while previous ones did not? I'm not sure exactly when the previous ones were done (this study just says there were three previous ones since 1996) but the fact that jet fuel suddenly got a lot more expensive right around the time this study was being done is certainly suggestive.

In short, when a journalist says "they forgot" what it can actually mean is that in the analysis of a complex problem, a reasonable simplification was made.
Yes, you can do this using "Services" from the system (they appear in Finder contextual menus at appropriate times) but not all Services are enabled by default.

Go to: System Preferences >> Keyboard >> Shortcuts tab and select the Services list item. In the list you will find a section named "Files and Folders", which contains "New Terminal at Folder" and "New Terminal Tab at Folder". If you download 3rd party terminal replacements such as mine (MacTerm), you will see Services for those applications as well. :)
I am okay with a benevolent dictator. As Arrow and Sen showed that we can't talk about agrregate social interest or about the public will, it is better to have a LKY to ramp up a country.

Somehow, LKY planted all his family members in powerful roles of the government and the government run companies.

Government linked corporations (GLC) controll 60 percent of the singapore Economy. Tamasek holdings is one such. The CEO of Tamasek is the wife of the current prime minister, who is the son of LKY.

Another benevolent dictator in the making? Maybe, the elections can tell.

My friend's brother went to Singapore from India as an electrician in 2010. He was making S$550 per month, and was living in a shack somewhere in Singapore. Cheap labor imported from Malaysia, Indian, China, Thai, Burma, Phils help the government linked companies make profits. And this explains why Singapore does not have minimum wage.
How does it compare with Jmacs (part of JOE)?

BTW, anyone have a copy of Gosling's emacs? I know it went closed source, but I doubt it matters at this point.
Frankly, we were tired of waiting for Stripe to come and improve the payment ecosystem that existed in India :D
On a more serious note, Stripe has only entered payments markets that are similar to US. India is very different from those markets and for tackling it they will have to modify the product significantly to meet the regulatory rules like 3D Secure and support the dominant local payment methods. And if they do try to do that, we will still have a couple of years head-start.
Except you still have no way to modify the variable binding on the caller's stack. This is what all of us in the "Java is call-by-value" camp keep yammering on about: changing a value on the heap (an array or object in Java) is not the same as changing a variable on the stack (a local variable in Java). In Java, you can never touch local variables on parent functions' stacks, therefore, Java cannot be considered pass-by-reference.

The rest of it (const, const_cast, arrays-are-kinda-pointers in C++, taking the address of stack variables, etc.) are just weird quirks in the language semantics. (Honestly, C++ is already a quirky enough language on its own to make detailed comparisons inherently problematic.)

At the most fundamental level, C++ supports both call-by-value and call-by-reference, while Java only supports call-by-value.
I'm certain the vast majority of interviewers wouldn't care in the slightest if you demonstrated that knowledge; I just happen to have a degree in classics and thus a bias towards such things! (Not that knowing the meaning of two fairly common Greek roots really demonstrates much knowledge of classical languages, but there we are.)
And that is OK.
How much Tech Debt does America have?
Remember, you get what you pay for.

Check out the fine print for what you're giving away here.
I think there are two fundamental reasons why even intelligent, technical people look down on making money through finance. One is lack of financial literacy and deep understanding understanding of how it works. Second is that with finance, one can make money without creating a tangible product or service- anathema to the engineer mindset.

While I do not do finance for a living, I have scratched the surface and recognize that there are infinite interesting problems out there in finance waiting to be solved.
Wikipedia also has something to say about how the Tulip Mania was much less than has been portrayed. These fun stories tend to have a life of their own.
And 30% cash?
It was real estate most recently.
Just curious - what has it ruined?

I use the free version, and while I noticed it is a bit different since a few weeks, didn't really notice anything that would bother me.
Try jmacs (part of JOE). It supports Unicode.
Kano – A computer you make yourself
Well there you go! I hate it when I find myself perpetuating urban legends. Thank you.

I'll just have to go back to advising audiences that changing their Facebook profile picture on a regular basis will help cure cancer, prevent child abuse, catch Kony, and either impeach or re-elect President Obama (I'm never quite sure which).
I'm afraid that I have to add my voice to the list of people raised in Spanish speaking countries prior to the 90s who was VERY clearly taught that rr was a separate letter.

This is what I recall from my childhood:
http://img.docstoccdn.com/thumb/orig/113964108.png
> Also, this is the crap that got copied onto my clipboard when I tried to copy that quote:

Tynt says "hi!" They are true pioneers in making the web a more hateful place.
Once corporate business analysts, business intelligence or banking teams realize that the definition of "simple, grunt-like programming task" could probably include Excel munging (e.g. VBA macros), I'm sure request volume will hockey-stick.

Might need another example on their website, since the current ones are very developer-centric, which may not reflect their true positioning intent for the service.
At the bottom of the website:

"Get in touch (we're hiring!)"

Which is a mailto link for hello@ilikerabbits.com.
Yes! Just in case anyone doesn't know, when you install joe, it adds a soft link to /usr/bin/jmacs. When you run 'jmacs', joe checks argv[0], and if it's jmacs, it binds all the functions to familar emacs commands.

This is very convenient, as joe/jmacs is about 1/16th the binary size of emacs.

There are also soft links to jpico and jstar and rjoe. jpico and jstar I assume run with bindings for pico and wordstar. I don't know what rjoe does.
What’s changed
Amazing video. The only other person I've watched handle the press with such clarity and grace is Malcolm X.
Author of ImplicitCAD here. I completely agree.

At first, I tried to implement constraints in a Haskell DSL. Unfortunately, constraints usually only partially describe your object. Even a well-constrained object can be flipped and maintain the constraints, in most systems. I coudln't find a reasonable way to implement a text-based interface for this. It really needs to be graphical.

I abandoned ImplicitCAD to write a constraint-based CAD program with my friend Rob Gilson. (I handled constraint solving with gradient descent, which worked surprisingly well, and a dab of grobner bases here and there.) We got some neat stuff working, but eventually got pulled away to other projects.

I think there's a lot of interesting work to be done linking programmatic and graphical CAD. In particular, I think there's neat connections between constraint based CAD which is a form of visual logic programming, and functional programming. (Aside: I like Bret Victor's talk "Stop Drawing Dead Fish" which is on a kind of related topic.)

Unfortunately, I'm too busy with ML research these days to work on this stuff!
Writing SSE code using compiler intrinsics is indeed a fun puzzle, but it has huge drawbacks: 1) it's Intel-specific, and 2) it's a maintenance risk unless everyone in the shop knows how to write and maintain SSE code. Unfortunately nobody else at my job knows how to do it, so I am not allowed to check any in :(
You can use skydns[1] to implement service discovery based on DNS. It has etcd as a backend and creating/updating a DNS entry is done by creating an entry in etcd with a TTL. Then, you can use DNS the same way you are already doing without service discovery.

[1] https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns
Oh - haha - no problem. One of my favorite parts of watching people who know about relativity play this game is seeing them a) think of an effect that isn't shown in the game, and state that out loud, then b) reach the level that the effect is introduced. (Doppler shift, aberration, etc.) Makes me smile every time.
Exploding offers are a standard move in the VC startup playbook. You're probably going to get a standard "just an engineer" startup experience. Is this what you want?

Here, read this and think it over: https://al3x.net/2013/05/23/letter-to-a-young-programmer.htm...
I don't see anything in the fine print about release of data, are you seeing something different?
I was thinking the same thing.

I mean, I can run full GNU Emacs on my Raspberry Pi. What's the point of a "micro emacs" missing all the good parts?
Love this: like 99designs for code. Bet you'll get a lot of pushback on this "devaluing coding" just like 99designs has for design, which just means you're on the right track. Of course it doesn't; it just commoditizes basic coding skills, and more importantly makes the accessible to a wider set of people.

I especially liked the example that was scraping data off a bunch of pages and returning a spreadsheet/csv of the results; that's a great example of something a smart business person that thinks algorithmically can identify, but can't/won't implement themselves. I actually wonder if it would work well to target this service specifically at algorithmically minded business folks.

Hope this works well for you - great idea, and looks well executed so far.
0 - Payzippy was discontinued. And even so, their offerings were not much different from other gateways in the country.

Juspay offers their integration on top of other gateways. Thus, it solves only part of the problem, since you still have to deal with tough onboarding process.

1 - We are very grateful of the open-source community and do plan to give back to it in whatever ways we can. Follow our github organisation and you will not be disappointed.

2 - YC partners are really great and have provided most of the mentoring we needed. Plus, other YC companies alums form a very strong network which help you out when you need it.
The first instance of 8 way unrolling

loop:
acc += A
acc += B ...

was inefficient because each add instruction is dependent on the one before it. The CPU has to pause constantly to wait for the result in acc in order to continue.

The correct way to do this is to have 8 accumulators (or whatever the loop unrolling depth is) and then to sum those together at the end. This helps to keep the processor's pipelines full.

loop:
acc1 += A
acc2 += B

acc = acc1 + acc2

The author's use of SIMD instructions is even better still, where multiple variables were used. However intrinsics would have been far more readable.

For further speed improvements, streaming intrinsics (since all reads are only done once, and never written to) could be useful. Also OpenMP for multithreading would be a good fit here.
Thanks! Yeah, that's a good point, we will fix that.
"unless your employer is a moron..."

I'd like to point out that having a moron for an employer, and in fact, a passle of morons in management is not a far fetched scenario.... I'd go so far as to say it's somewhat regular.

Don't believe me? Just ask the average employee:)
"Here’s the brilliant part: Mr. Haber didn’t spend a dime on tuition or fees. Instead, he gorged from the smorgasbord of free courses offered by top universities."

This is harder to achieve in some courses. Science for example, and I suspect some aspects of tech that require infrastructure.
Testers Wanted: Sit the Test Test Builder Beta
Chrome isn't trying to not let other (non-chrome) processes read info. It's trying not to let other chrome processes (other webpages, native client, etc) not read info. In other words, stuff running inside Chrome can't read stuff it's not supposed to be able to since nearly all that code is untrusted.