skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tons of stuff. Random example: doing international payouts basically requires having a subsidiary in each country you want to pay out to, thanks to the credit card company agreements. This is a pretty high barrier to entry for anyone who wants to get started in the space.
The fact that demand exceeds supply when water is basically free doesn't mean it's rare or would be unaffordable if priced correctly. There are tons of affordable things where demand would exceed supply if you priced it at ~0.
I think Simple might have one, though I only came across this repo referencing Simple: https://github.com/wearefractal/bank
Do you need the "how-to" be the sole purpose of the website? I stumble onto how to kinds of things un-gated within other websites. Universities have them on a wide variety of things. Societies and affiliation groups often have them as well. The way to find them is to search how to do something a bit out of the ordinary, for instance how to build the rams horn headress from Game of Thrones or to think differently about how to do something, for instance not being knowledgeable about leds but wanting to use them in an unlikely way that just was not at Instructables, I found them pretty easily elsewhere. People recycle and resource web presence like they do stuff bending what they know or have already into what they want it to be. Even Instagram and tumblr are places to find how to's that communicate. Pinterest has many people who collect how to pages on boards. Lately, I just start there. I've learned to knit recently, much like code, actually and there are major communities that not only instruct but buy and sell. review books and support forums. Ravelry is a good example. Good Luck.
Bill C-51 – the Anti-Terrorism Act
Cannabis is less harmful than tobacco because it can be ingested or vaporized. There are no Tobacco Brownies or candies.
Compared to stripe[0], balanced[1] took very less funding as per the data. Reading from the comments here, their service seems to be liked by users.

In that case, may be they should have looked into funding aspect rather than shutting down and funding might have helped them to become large,independent player as they wished.

Since YC backed, funding should not have been much difficult either. So it is surprising,seeing from outside. Am I missing anything here?

[0] https://angel.co/stripe
[1] https://angel.co/balanced
Have I? Or have we?
90 days to rewrite your payment stack.... Damn, I feel sorry for any startups using Balanced. A startup I worked on used Balanced but went under well before this announcement but had I still been working on it this would have been terrible news (it still is). I really liked balanced and "kickstarted" their debit card push stuff (I have a t-shirt from it). I'm sad to see them go, really wish they could have given more than 90 days though, that's a lot of work in 90 days and god forbid the person who wrote your payment stack is no longer with you...
Travel time is the forgotten innovation of the past 200 years
My understanding of the situation is that he contacted someone advertising contract killing services on his own darknet. The person he contacted was a confidential informant (undercover cop, or someone working with the cops).

Now, don't misunderstand. That was wrong of him. And it was also stupid. But there is a very important difference between finding out about an illegal transaction and participating in one.

If it were prostitution, it would be the difference between watching a john pick up a hooker and arresting them both, or posing as either a john or a hooker and arresting the other when they eventually committed to the crime. The former is acceptable. The latter is not.

It wasn't a case of a contract killer ratting his client out to the police. There never was a contract killer.

In my opinion, if the cops were a necessary component in the commission of the crime, it is entrapment. If they were simply able to exercise a degree of control over the situation such that they are able to immediately arrest all parties to a crime before anyone gets hurt, that's a little creepy, but still acceptable.

Crime requires intent, conduct, concurrence, and causation. Entrapment elides over one or more of those elements.
Schwab's response to Wealthfront CEO
The Science of Superstition
What customers think about your service quality? – callstats.io
Frankly, that's a terrible article, full of sexist stereotypes. She is reading too much into it. Just briefly: Sometimes people argue because they genuinely think their favorite tool is superior, and want to help others be more efficient. Sometimes people speak loudly because they are genuinely excited about something. I doubt there is any authority or respect to win by good arguing about technology (especially on online forums). Furthermore, any authority to be likely won by arguing only exists if people respect it; if one stops caring about people "gaining authority" by arguing, then there will not be any authority to be gained by that. [Edit: She also underestimates curiosity - sometimes I argue and play devil's advocate just because I am curious why the other smart person has a different opinion, how good is their argument?]

The only valid complaint in the article is that people judge assertive women more negatively than assertive men, which is true and unfortunate.

It's also amusing that she blames engineer's arguing for the competitive atmosphere, while being from the US, which has this hyper-competitive capitalist culture, which I rather despise and I am not the only engineer who does. (Another fun fact - I am native Czech speaker, and we have two different words for "argument" - "debata" and "hadka", the former implying a civil one, the other one meaning one where people are angry at each other. I am not really sure which meaning the article uses, and I pretty firmly against the latter - being a sensitive male, but I greatly enjoy the former.)

The article is very clever in one thing, though. Now anyone who argues with it can be labelled as aggressive (or terrorist?). Humans and their mindgames, so funny.
I have a lot of respect for a company that provides a clear way forward for their users.
Voodoo Death
This is kind of sad. Balanced Payments is one of the companies I look up to. Very sad when you lose a role model.
Mumble core developer here. Glad to hear Mumble is useful to you and your coworkers. Always nice to get positive feedback.

If anyone has question about the software or the project feel free to ask.
I occasionaly read the esdiscuss list, and from those discussions, I get a sense that it is incredibly difficult to evolve JS given the legacy compatibility constraints.

In my view having the Dart team trial new features in a new codebase without the legacy constraints allows them to move quickly, and get feedback about new features by shipping real code in real products. The results of this process can give good input back to the ECMAScript process. Perhaps this has already happened, I guess good examples would be SIMD, and the scoping rules around for of loops.

One of the most important improvements I see in Dart, is the focus on reducing start up time. i.e. snapshots and lazy evaluation of top level variable initialisers. They are currently claiming a 10x start up time when snapshots are used. This would be a huge benefit for mobile apps.

Is there any one investigating how you chould change or subset Javascript to allow for snapshotting? Snapshotting seems really beneficial for the web, especially for the mobile web vs native. Currently I only see the Dart team working on this.
The Plan To Build A Skyscraper That Doesn't Cast A Shadow
Given this study, do you think it is more reasonable a) to think this competition extends to other spheres, or b) to think that it does not.

If your answer is b), what evidence do you have to support this?
Ex-COBOL developer here.

In case anyone is wondering if something like this could ever be the "killer app" of COBOL that launches it into modern fame and glory, the answer is "oh god, no."

COBOL isn't a modern language by any stretch of the imagination. For example, advanced math is something that it's particularly bad at. Or do you want to sort some data? Yeah, COBOL will let you sort some data, only if you specify the damned file containing the unsorted data, the file that will hold the data while it's being sorted, the file that will contain the sorted data (http://www.tutorialspoint.com/cobol/cobol_internal_sort.htm). Want to sort an array into another array? Screw you.

However, there's one thing that COBOL is very bad at: unstructured text. Guess what 99% of the Web is?

For example, in their sample code they show this in the working storage section:

01 the-values.
05 COW-query-values occurs 10 times.
10 COW-query-value-name pic x(90).
10 COW-query-value pic x(90).

Guess what "pic x(90)" means? The "x" means it can contain any data (not just alphanumerics), but the 90 means it must be 90 characters long. In other words, if you have color=blue in your query string, "color" will be 90 characters long (probably padded with 85 spaces), and "blue" will be the same (probably padded with 86 spaces).

Thus, when someone else declares color as "pic x(80)" (note the 80 versus 90), even if the color submitted is "blue" for each, one might be 80 characters long and the other might be 90 characters long and if you don't like it, too bad. Have fun comparing them.

COBOL is still the world's most popular programming language, though, if you look at it in terms of lines of code. Sadly, COBOL programmers are aging and there are fewer devs to maintain their programs (I started hacking on COBOL when I was 30 and I was the youngest developer in my department!).
Getting a money transmitter license in virtually every state, many of them requiring six-figure surety bonds, is just one of the many hurdles before you can take your first customer. First you have to raise the cash, then you have to deal with at least this many government agencies:

https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/licenses
Is your product OS-X focused? One of the big things about Mumble for us was the cross-platform support, we have developers on Linux, OS-X and Windows all talking together every day.

What codex are you guys using?
Visual Studio. Toad (for Oracle). MS SQL Management Studio (for MS SQL). Linqpad a bit. Notepad++ a bit. Notepad a bit. ILSpy. A handful of Visual Studio extensions. And web-browsers/development bars.
>>Because most people don't put rat poison in their joints?

Correct. Unless you include users who mix in other substances to increase the efficacy of the cannabis they are smoking.

I've had friends mix everything from coke, meth, crushed barbiturates and yes even tobacco in with their cannabis.
Water, water everywhere in our solar system's moons
Smart Davek Umbrella when Lost sends Alerts to its owner
Bitcoin the ultimate fiat currency
> Creating an environment that encourages aggression gives men an edge

This is true. Lots of men feel humiliated and experience a loss of status when they're defeated by a woman, which effectively means women can't engage with men in that way. That's because the company culture or the men they work with have sexist beliefs.

One workaround is banning arguments. But if you have the power to change the culture that way, why not just ban sexism? That seems like it would do more good.
Sure, it may be dangerous. Here's the thing- I've been around for a while and read a lot of stuff in the mainstream media about which combinations of foods will kill you and which will make you immortal. As these have changed over the years and as I have failed to see convincing evidence in the medical literature I have concluded that people have a strong urge to believe that doing something mildly unpleasant (not eating something delicious) now can somehow prevent much worse things in the future. Its the same mechanism and magical thinking that inspired our ancestors to sacrifice goats to appease the gods and assure a great harvest. Wrapping the explanation in scientific jargon is just the latest iteration of a priest in shiny robes.
From the article, it doesn't sound like much debunking will occur in Psychology due to structural characteristics:

1. Funding's increasingly earmarked for "new" studies v. debunking old studies.

2. Psychology studies have a disproportionate amount of findings that "conclude" positive results (v. effects of randomness).
In the US, methamphetamine is Schedule II, and legal to prescribe (indicated for use in ADHD or obesity, trade brand Desoxyn).

Pot is Schedule I, indicating no medical use and strictly prohibited.
Yeah, they should really be using new water to water that new food.

/s
Bride abandons wedding after groom can't solve arithmetic problem
WhatsApp Rolls Out Voice Calling Feature for All Android Users
Please describe why you believe the product owners owe the userbase something.
The siege of Julian Assange is a farce
We get the software we deserve. Apparently, people aren't ready to spend more money on performance, reliablility and security. When they buy software, they pay the price of a giant ball of mud (if they aren't expecting it to be free!) and they get a giant ball of mud. Simple. You call it insanity, I call it market, supply and demand. Of course, the perfectionists are unhappy about that (being one myself I can certainly empathise) but you have to realize that this kind of perfection in software costs huge amounts of money and requires the most skilled workers in the field.
At last, a theory about why Denver is a mile above sea level
Will we freak out the first time a self driving car kills someone?
Big WFIO moment.

http://scott.a16z.com/2014/03/24/were-fd-its-over-coming-bac...
If your answer is a), what evidence do you have to support this?

A claim requires evidence, skepticism is just asking for evidence to support a claim. B is just skepticism when you paraphrase it fairly.
I think your humor detector needs tuning.
Yeah, I really think a polished / pre-configurable UI for business could be an amazing thing for Mumble (both for business, "use this binary" and for guilds / gamers ... same thing "use this binary" ... binary carries the config, etc). I consider Mumble like IRC, amazing but a bit raw. Someone is going to take shiny interface to it and make a killing in business.
Given that by far most of the water in California is used for growing food, an interesting question would be: at what point is it cheaper to grow the food somewhere else where water is more abundant? Of course the amount of sunlight, temperature etc. would factor in too. But with enough energy, you can simulate the conditions of California anywhere.
HTTP/2 web server that can serve Markdown and Lua scripts as pages
Is making so much use of macros for code generation really suggested practice in C? It seems like it would be difficult to debug.
Even if so, is Google above handing off their customers to a service that is similar?
Out of curiosity, is anyone using Spark in production? We're evaluating whether we should invest in Hadoop or Spark. They're certainly not mutually exclusive, but I would rather invest fully in Spark than have infrastructure split between Spark and Hadoop.
Their old pricing was something like $30/km2 with a minimum of 25km for Quickbird and their Standard resolutions.. so I believe the minimum order was ~$750. Not sure if that applies to their 30cm product too.

I had some success with EarthExplorer, finding a high-res 15cm orthoimagery survey for a waterway that our area of interest happened to be next to. A few GB of .tiff data later and we had terrific resolution satellite photos of our entire site.

PR Release about old pricing: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/digitalglobe-reduces...
Well depending on rate it can be a pollutant or not. Most desalinating plants have a mixing pond where the mix fresh seawater with partially desalinated water (which has a higher salt content) to produce an effluent that is saltier than the unprocessed water but not so salty that it causes issues. That same mixing could, in theory, be done by ocean currents if the water motion was enough.
Good heavens, all of the incorrect uses of "it's" are painful. I may be a bit oversensitive but it is very jarring and distracting to me.
You're right, I'm wrong. An cycle needs to complete before another action can be dispatched (against the same store I believe). I think I need some rest. :-)
> Another fun fact - I am native Czech speaker, and we have two different words for "argument" - "debata" and "hadka", the former implying a civil one, the other one meaning one where people are angry at each other. I am not really sure which meaning the article uses

The problem is that it's the author's responsibility to disambiguate between the possible meanings, and the author of this article makes no such attempt. In fact, it seems like she's conflating the two and implying that they are one and the same -- i.e. that if you competitively evaluate ideas by (calmly or not) debating them, you are automatically engaging in a fight.
'Cell-tweaking' technique offers treatment hope for 'bubble boy disease' SCID
Our bindings actually do support ACH debits. The "source" parameter is a universal param for any kind of incoming payment mechanism. See https://stripe.com/blog/unifying-payment-types-in-the-api for details.

Specifically, for those in the ACH beta you can put a customer's bank account token in that field to charge their bank account.
Your comment is an example of the stuff she's describing... It can be broken down structurally as follows:

- Righteous indignation

- Example with sample size of 1

- Half-hearted praise

- Jocular, superior tone

- Name calling Zinger
We've built exactly this at here https://Holvi.com for business customers. We offer a full bank account replacement with integrated merchant account for online payments. A full API is in private beta at the moment. We are regulated as an authorised payment institution, and can currently service customers in all EU/EEA countries. Email toivotuo@holvi.com for access to the beta.
Prüfer sequence
But he's the white guy
So does this tool automatically pull in the data given a property or do I have to input some of the data?

Definitely looks like something I'd want to use as a home buyer.
Information will be replicated, including newly added information. You can click the migrate button, integrate over the next 90 days, and switch over to Stripe with no discrepancy in information.

Balanced's meta fields will contain the Stripe IDs they were ported to, so you can migrate over to new objects incrementally.
You wrote some jingoist 19th-century bullshit. You're ready to fight in World War 1.

The idea that we need to protect strategic resources is outdated. We continue to do so, at our own detriment. Our sugar costs something like 5x what it costs in the rest of the world, because we place tariffs to keep it from coming in from the Caribbean. We are DESTROYING WEALTH CREATION with this market engineering. It is a tax that we see no benefit from and that is paid to no one.

Increased trade between countries increases stability. Some of my college classmates thought that we were due for a war with China just b/c they're the other huge power. What horseshit--- our mutual trade requires our politicians to play nice and not take any Crassian steps towards war.

If the US actually needed to make sure that we produced all of our strategic resources by ourselves then our economy would be tanked because we wouldn't be taking advantage of factories in BRIC. Do you think we make all the hard drives we would need to sustain a war against the rest of the world?
Multiplayer games where you need to do client-side game logic and then verify that on the server.
Eisenhower Matrix (Time Management)
Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower_Method
Here is what I do to diffuse arguments between me and my co-founder when we have reached the point where all the information has been presented and it's starting to get repetitious.

Agree that both options are off the table now and that a third solution must be found.

Normally if there is an argument both parties do have actual legitimate concerns that need to be addressed. The problem is that often once you get into argument mode, your ability to be creative and modify your solution to fit the other persons concerns can go out the window.

By removing both options you can go back into creative mode.

A lot of the time when doing this we actually have arrived at a much better idea than either of the two presented before that makes us both happy.

Often you end up settling on an idea that is 95% the same as what one of the people suggested in the first place, only now it also addresses the concerns of the other person too and they will now feel on board with it, which is a much better situation than if one person had "won" the argument leaving the other bitter.
Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower_...
I'd love to hear why you were going to stop your Stripe usage. Totally understand if it was for the sake of consolidation, but if there were product needs that we weren't hitting it'd be great to know :).
Right now you can generate a report on the property using as little as Address, Purchase price, Square footage and a guess of beds/baths. We estimate the rest based on market data - the basis for each estimate is shown in the report.
> "regardless of source."

Why? Misery loves company?
Well, the mere fact that a jury convicted someone of violating Federal Law X doesn't mean that Federal Law X is a good, just, or sensible law. Aaron Swartz may well have been convicted of violating Federal Law Y, but that doesn't justify his prosecution (or the existence of Federal Law Y).

Here's a better description of the case:

Seafood dealers were prosecuted and convicted for importing lobster tails from Honduras because they allegedly violated an obscure Honduran regulation requiring that frozen seafood be shipped in cardboard boxes instead of clear plastic bags, and because about three percent of the 70,000 pound shipment consisted of Caribbean spiny lobster tails that were less than 5.5 inches in length, which allegedly violated another Honduran regulation on size limit...

Because the seafood was shipped in clear plastic bags instead of opaque boxes, they were also charged with "smuggling," even though the shipments regularly went through Customs inspections and testing by the Food and Drug Administration at the port near Mobile, Alabama...

There was just one problem with the Justice Department's case: the Honduran regulations that served as the predicate for the charges were later declared to be null and void, repealed, and otherwise of no legal effect by Honduran courts, the Honduran Attorney General, and other high level Honduran officials, including the Honduran Human Rights Commission. The Honduran government took the extraordinary step of filing a brief in the court of appeals, and again in the Supreme Court, providing the official views of the country that the regulations were invalid.

Source: http://www.wlf.org/upload/022404PK.pdf

It sounds like you owe Harvey, who wrote Three Felonies a Day, an apology (he was EFF's first lawyer, I recall, and I wouldn't be surprised if he reads HN occasionally). But I have no brief to defend the book or talk at length about lobster tails; my point was overcriminalization is real.
Will I have the ability to debit ACH w/o verification?

(I currently have this ability with Balanced. Also have very low fraud, chargeback, etc.)
Beyond the grammatical errors, misplaced punctuation and misspellings, and despite the relative novelty of the anecdotes, I thought the writing itself was dull and simplistic. Many paragraphs were just a string of blunt statements without any independent clauses.

According to a copy+paste of the text into http://sarahktyler.com/code/sample.php, the article as a whole reaches Flesch-Kindaid grade level 7.