skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any chance you guys are going to support funding the marketplace balance via the bank account?
Using Phi Accural Failure Detectors to Improve Occupancy Sensors
I nearly joined Balanced a little over a year ago, but went another route. I was really impressed with their founding team and employees, very much a class act with some smart, passionate people. Sorry to hear.
Apparently there isn't a lot of "Get Smart" on YouTube or else I could have pointed to that ~20 years earlier.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6950646. Most famous for its potentially offensive name.

The project itself hasn't been updated since its initial commit. Would've been funny to go on with it for at least a little while.
Sounds like a lot of Phoenix.
Since it's still in beta we haven't solidified the cost yet. Feel free to reach out to sales@stripe.com if you wanted to discuss pricing for your account. We're honoring existing Balanced pricing, so it'll be at least as cheap as what you're currently paying :).
One can get a decent drawing tablet for about $50 these days. Pretty minimal investment.
It's a weird perceptual twist that has Apple losing its dominance in affordable consumer electronics.
It's sort of a double edged sword isn't it? You're right, the space is saturated with developers and games, but on the other hand, interest in indie games is at an all time high. I'm not sure it's true that it's harder to "get noticed" now than, say, 10 years ago. There were fewer games back then, but there were also fewer gamers interested in playing indies.
I'm an American expat, 15 years in the EU, and 10 years working cross-border within the EU.

The IRS is very clear that you have to file with them regardless, though you may not have to pay anything (due to FEIE or similar).

What you haven't mentioned is your legal status in "Spain." Are you on a tourist visa, or do you have legal residency? Do you have a work permit?

If you are in Spain under a tourist visa, then you cannot legally be employed in Spain, which means you have no tax duty in Spain. If you happen to be employed by some US company and you happen to be doing work for them while you happen to be sitting in a cafe in Barcelona, well, you are in a legal grey zone-- you do not have the right to work in Spain. You cannot "come clean" with the Spanish government, as you have no right to work there without the proper residency permit. The best you can hope for is they ignore it, the worst is they prosecute you for visa violations.

European health systems are tied to legal residency, which can (but does not always) include some duty to pay taxes. If you have a Spanish residency permit, then you have rights to Spanish health care.

If you also have a Spanish work permit, the next question is if your employer is registered as a Spanish employer (most US startups are not). If not, again there are problems which make it difficult for you to pay income taxes in Spain.

Note that I'm only talking income from your employer. Interest/dividends/capital gains are a whole nuther thing.

I'm guessing you are on a tourist visa. Enjoy your time, don't stay longer than 90 days, and buy private insurance. Also, if you try to stretch the 90 days by a quick trip to England, this might only work the first time.
Definitely a fair point.

http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=files/Animal-products

shows 10.19 litres/calorie beef vs 1.34 liters/calorie vegetables. Which is an even greater distance than the gallons per pound I mentioned. This obvioulsy can't be right. I will argue that theory wise it makes sense that a plant based diet would use less than a diet consisting of eating animals that ate the plant based diet. The animals are expending energy! You could argue that we can feed animals lower water usage plants than we can feed humans, but does that really make a healthy animal for human consumption?

That said, there are other negatives associated with beef production and consumption :).

Also - not all calories are created equal.
Google already did this back in 2005. Google Secure Access was a similar VPN service to protect your traffic on open Wi-Fi networks. I wonder what other shuttered Google projects from ten years ago might be interesting again.

http://lifehacker.com/126454/google-secure-access---encrypt-...
Let me see if I get this right: if the government doesn't do anything, the beautiful free market will automatically redistribute a scarce resource evenly between all the interested parts. Got it!

In any case, 2), 3), 4) doesn't seem to produce any beautiful fix for 1) in your list, apart from maybe stabilizing produce prices.
By default support@balancedpayments.com can help you out, since they have more info on your account. If you have questions that you'd rather direct my way, feel free to ping me at bkrausz@stripe.com
Things That Happy People Are Doing Differently
Understanding the influence of all nodes in a network (open access)
This from the medical journal "Duh".
There's always a tendency to focus in on a few "pivotal creators" when the reality is much more diffuse. People like to know who the inventor of X was and the reality is that the enshrined inventor, at best, made a particular advance in commercialization or practicality--or simply got the good press.

Hackers is a good read but it arguably sacrifices historical completeness for narrative flow. You mention the focus on the AI lab but then it also makes the argument everything that happened on the east coast was eclipsed. But then, that's what good stories do. I watched The Imitation Game last night and it took enormous historical liberties--probably too many. Breaking the Code is better in that regard. On the other hand, I saw a historical play about the invention of ether last year that I felt was harmed by too literal attention to less important threads of the central story.
COBOL (or perhaps these days Cobol, lower-case) just received a new edition of its standard last year. By far its most major overhaul was in 2002, with the introduction of OO and recursion.

Not to say that you should be quick to build your startup on COBOL, but the present language is pretty tolerable. Most of the COBOL that actually runs, I think, is 74-era code, however. That is certainly painful.

It could always be worse, however. It could be MUMPS.
Emacs, vim (increasingly less), rxvt-unicode (terminal emulator), org-mode, org-agenda-mode, and xmonad window manager.

My goal is to be able to interactively develop all languages I may come across with a repl and at least a stepping debugger for when I need it.

I like to keep it all in emacs so I can add tasks to my todo list/agenda with minimal effort (C-c C-r) no matter where I'm at then get back to work without even switching windows.
You know son, when I was younger, I kept to the straight and narrow, and it made me who I am today. looks back on life with regret
you'd hope that the water they used was at least from waste water treatment plants.. however that water was fresh at one time, and used by a big city in the middle of the desert.
This seems likely. Even if you get him on the phone, you could have an officer drive by sometime in the next day to visually inspect that the ankle bracelet is still there.

(Of course I would get a second bracelet and strap a dummy one to my leg to show to the officer. Officer would need some way of verifying he's seeing the right one.)
There's also the problem of what to do with the high salinity waste water that is generated from the process. Simply dumping it back into the ocean can cause environmental problems.
Stripe are definitely kicking ass at the moment.

Paypal's login process is not very well thought out atm. If you go to paypal.com log in, then 90% of the screen is taken up by an ad asking you to sign up ( even though you are logged in ). You need to click on "My Paypal" that takes up 3% of the screen, before you see your dashboard.
It is harder getting noticed, unless you do something other people are not doing, or developing some new kind of game - which has never been easier.
One major problem that needs to be tackled is that much of California (and the world) is still using flood irrigation[1], which wastes massive amounts of water to runoff and evaporation. Fortunately this is starting to be tackled due to higher water costs and government subsidies. (But of course it's only part of the problem, and these subsidies carry some moral hazard[2]. Also, it's interesting to note that not all of the water "wasted" in less efficient methods of irrigation is actually wasted.[3])

[1] http://www.mullerranch.com/making_news/sacbee_drip_2_2014.ht...

[2] http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2014/world/conserve-wa...

[3] http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5942
Chatting works that way. But your video and audio don't.
How much experience did they have working remotely?
I don't understand. The first example charges $150 an hour for general labor. Who would pay that much for unskilled labor?
My back-of-the-napkin calculation tells me that watering an acre of alfalfa uses the same amount of water as having a nine-month shower with an inefficient flow.

If a Pigovean tax of 1c/gallon was applied to California, an 8-minute shower would cost about 20-40c more while an acre of alfalfa would cost an extra $20,0000.
If we allow 18 year olds to move out on their own and take up spelunking and basejumping as hobbies, I think we'll be okay if we trust them with a little weed.
Is that actually true in the past decade, or is it, like, true, man?

(We should end cannabis prohibition, and are obviously in the process of doing that, but I'm having no trouble turning up tons of recent cannabis research studies.)
Weird. I was only looking at the Balanced site for the first time yesterday, researching payment services that offer ACH. I understand Stripe has an ACH implementation in private beta though?

Greetings from a fellow "Limerician" btw :)
Anyone know what pricing is like? Skybox wouldn't return my numerous emails.
OK, yes that makes sense.

I'm more interested in the FEIE myself. I'm traveling Europe, UK, and Morocco in a motorhome, earning income from an app along the way.

I think this means that as I'm < 3 months in any one country I do not need to pay taxes in any of them. And for the US I can claim the foreign earned income exclusion as I'm out of the country > 330 days of the year.
That all started due to NJ state law requiring everything to have an expiry date.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/water-never-goes-ba...
It's as if reputation matters.
Thanks for the benchmarks, they look interesting. Any issues you ran into with the HHVM?
Not sure what all the hate is about. He presented some interesting anecdotes about the quirks of software engineering and then tied it all together with some concrete lessons.

Maybe 5K words without any sort of lists or clickbait titles is just too much for the average reader.
http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourc...

(Also, in what way is cannabis worse on paper than methamphetamine?)
Update: I was probably wrong in disagreeing; actions from actions works if they are on different stores, but to stay away from trouble you're probably better off creating "followup async actions" from stores rather than other actions.

Original comment:

I'm not sure I agree with the first point. Let's say your store's HTTP requests fails and you want to inform the user (through the view component). You want to listen to yet another event from the same store to catch this? An alternative is to do exactly what you say you shouldn't do in step 1; basically have a "loadDataAction" that you fire off when your component gets mounted, using some unique id or something. Prior to this action, the store will return whatever it has (synchronously, similar to what you describe). The action then handles the HTTP request. If it succeeds, it updates the store, and the listener will get the updated data (yes, I agree, the component should always have a listener to the store). If it fails, the same "loadDataAction" will fire off a "showMessageAction" which also alters some store that your component listens to that will display the error message. Typically this would be caught by some higher-up global "show message" component. Like most people, I'm pretty new to a lot of this as well, but I have found that trying to keep most async stuff in the actions works a lot better than async everywhere. YMMV.
Just because you don't need to collaborate or whiteboard things out, doesn't mean others don't find it useful.
> tobacco

Why would cannabis be less harmful than tobacco? The smoke from each is roughly the same, with the obvious differences being nicotine in tobacco and cannbinoids in cannabis.

Maybe cannabis smokers smoke less frequently than cigarette smokers; but maybe they inhale the smoke deeper and hold it longer.

It's a bit frustrating that anyone who expresses any concern about cannabis is written off as a propagandist of an oppressive government.

(I'm pro legalisation)
at the time of this reply, this was the furthest-buried response, downvoted to very faint grey. Disgusting.
How about find and replace?

:%s/foo/bar/gc

The "gc" will apply the find and replace globally, and ask for confirmation before changing an occurrence of "foo".
Yea, Patrick phrased it well when he said it's a bittersweet day for Stripe. We have a ton of respect for the team and what they've built.

Hopefully we can make the transition as smooth as possible. If you run into any trouble, feel free to email me at bkrausz@stripe.com.
I learned to say to myself "my thoughts only, my emotions only" and it helped quite a bit in those rough times.
The mouth(?) is so geometric and symmetrical that it almost looks man-made. I want to plug my headphones into it.
"I work remotely, and don't really understand why it's hard to shut down the work-laptop after you finish work and not open it again till you start work the next day."

The key phrase there is "after you finish work". For some people, that point is not clear. Also, for some companies, your work laptop might be your laptop.

"I guess I can see why some folks would find the balance hard in the "life/fun" end being too heavy and fail to drag themselves to the keyboard for 8 hours a day."

For me, this is one of the things that I was worried about. Currently, there isn't a good place conducive to getting work done in my home.
ditto here, in the early days we didn't ask the right screening questions, now we do.

We just hit around 128 people, all remote, all over the world.
Running a startup? You should stop reading tech blogs
You wouldn't need a device, would you? Just a rooted Android phone and an app. Maybe a custom kernel.
Is slide 34 correct?

My tests show that the top example is incorrect.

https://slides.com/concise/js/fullscreen#/34
IMO, most of the serious professional media (i.e., publications like the NY Times; I'm not sure cable news qualifies) is far more reliable than Wikipedia. If someone from the NYPD secretly edited a NY Times article, it would be a shock. At Wikipedia, it's a dog bites man story, with similar things happening every hour of every day.

> They are also pretty bad at providing concise overviews for somebody who hasn't been following the story since the beginning

I strongly agree and would go further: The Times pages you cite are inadequate to the task. They are stuck in the print media past. They should be updating their own public knowledge base; I think it would generate quite a bit of traffic on its own, and they could link to it from each relevant article to provide context (and save a few redundant paragraphs of writing in each story). Also, the way many reporters write, unaware of key developments, history, or issues, they could use it internally. I'd much rather read the Washington Post's knowledge base page on ISIS than Wikipedia's, for example.

> what do you suggest I use instead? Unless you have some actual suggestions, then your complaint isn't really useful. I already know that wikipedia is flawed.

It may be so flawed as to be useless, at least for any situation where accurate information is valuable to you. A lack of accurate information does not make false information a useful alternative. I do think Wikipedia is good for the links and references.

By the way, for everything but current events and pop culture, Encyclopedia Britannica is excellent. Concise, authored by actual experts, and usually well-written.

"In matters of science the authority of thousands is not worth the humble reasoning of one single person." - Galileo (maybe apocryphal)
What are the reasons that you don't support Transfer API in Europe? We would need that but are forced to operate with a different model on a top of Braintree at the moment.
Remote teams certainly doesn't work for big enterprise companies. My team is remote in a big software company. Most of remote employees are pure slackers. I don't do much of work either. Because if you want to do a code review it can take two days because of "time difference" and "personal issues".

I can see how remote teams can work for a couple of super passionate startup founder/employees but if it's in a highly political giant enterprise it never works.
Man I wish sococo supported linux, our team is a mix of linux and mac and we would love to use it and pay for it. We've got 128 people around the world but without linux support we can't :(

If you can give me any timeline till a linux version I would appreciate it, bwbbwb@gmail.com
For 150 an hour, you could actually attract skilled labor...
3 other large cities within a 3 hour drive (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio). The Gulf coast is also around 3 hours away. Not close, but it's something.
Sorry to see Balanced go. They were definitely the most flexible platform available and always pushed the envelope.

If you're not using Spreedly, I recommend it because it's a big help in this situation because it allows you to seamlessly switch services without losing any of your customer card data.
I was in the Central Valley the other week and asked my dad about these little tanks that had popped up on farms in the area. He told me they were part of new drip irrigation systems. So things are changing slowly.
What about putting the waste water in a salt pan?
ReadMe (YC W15) Creates Crisp Documentation for Developers Using Your APIs
Crib notes on decision trees and forests and their efficient implementations
Or writing at higher level than a 12 or 13 year old :-)
Your comment came off as a humblebrag at first, but then I read the link and saw that they mentioned transitioning customer to Stripe. So, if anyone had the same reaction as me; just read the link first.
Because it should never have been used in the first place.
Gedankenexperiments
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boys and girls in gym class,
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The study this observation is derived from only talks about competitions of physical ability.
ACH support?
I recently got going with ReadMe for a side project* for documenting my API and can attest that both Greg and Gabe have been extremely responsive at fielding my bugs and feature requests.

The ReadMe product is very well polished and the support of Markdown means writing documentation is easy without a complicated editor layer to learn. There's also a palette of pre-configured widgets that you can drop into your pages to handle embedding code, images, custom HTML/CSS, tables, etc. if you want to get fancy.

Nearly every time I log in there's a new feature, bug fix or enhancement - it's great to see the guys build such a useful tool so quickly but without impacting quality or uptime.

* ReadMe powers http://dev.avisohq.com (warning: work-in-progress)
If I found that my company laptop and my main computer were the same, I for one would buy myself a personal computer!

Home-work requires a home-office. At least a bedroom with a desk you don't mind never-leaving. I live alone, so it's easy. Working from home when I was 23 living in a shared house would have been way harder, indeed.
I think it's simply amazing what they built with a very limited amount of funding ($3.6M announced). Looking at there fundraising efforts, it looks like they never managed to get to a Series A. I wonder why?
I don't mind people going faster or slower than me as long as they're in the right lane.
There's also a Difference Engine at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. A block or two down from Google.

The interesting thing about the Difference Engine was that it was Babbage's unrealized design. It wasn't built until the early 2000s, funded by HN favourite Nathan Myhrvold. He funded one for the British Museum, another one for himself. The one at the Computer History Museum is Myhrvold's own, on loan.
That's infuriating. Agriculture is the main consumer of water in CA by a mile, but the sort of self-indulgence you describe sets a disproportionately bad example and avoidably confuses the issue.
Sounds like the MaHaLo Hawaii Deep Sea Water project[1]. They use that water in Ocean Vodka interestingly enough[2], which is where I found out about it. On the tour they indicated this project seems to be working out quite well.

[1] http://hawaiideepseawater.com/source
[2] http://oceanvodka.com/our-vodka/ingredients/
We are very sad to see Balanced go at https://www.artsy.net - we were an early and loyal customer. Balanced has been very good to us throughout the years. Thank you.

We've actually had some support for Stripe too for a small service, an experiment, but were going to delete it and continue using Balanced 100% of the time.
It doesn't look like MAC randomization is relevant to this scenario unless you're cycling the device on and off the network while you're waiting in line.

What it would do is prevent them from tracking you at different locations or trips, although obviously the TSA & airlines still know you were there.
I've also implemented a lot of algorithms from papers, and their story has me nodding my head in agreement. Some algorithms papers are just downright impenetrable.
During the migration, is our information ported over to Stripe or is it replicated? I want to start the migration but it doesn't specify whether or not it will cause Balanced users to lose access to the API all together.
Your dollar buys less in the valley, sounds like the guy has to commute in from Napa.
Because most people don't put rat poison in their joints?

The comparison I've heard is that a regularly smoking 1 joint a day is roughly equivalent to smoking 1 self-rolled cigarette using tobacco grown without additives.
We just released an open-source sync database for Unity, so you can write multi-device games without writing network code: http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile/unity/

It might be a quick win for adding a social aspect to existing Unity projects.

[Edit] oops I jumped straight to one of the game lists and didn't see the web-only restriction. In that case, PouchDB. :)
Smoke for smoke, cannabis and tobacco are probably equally harmful. It's the combustion of plant matter and the inhalation of smoke, not the nicotine per se, that makes tobacco so harmful. The same applies for smoked cannabis, and indeed, some studies have found cannabis smoke slightly more harmful in that regard, in so far as cannabis isn't usually smoked with a filter.

But unlike tobacco, cannabis does not contain a chemical as highly addictive as nicotine. Your average tobacco smoker probably smokes an order of magnitude more tobacco than your average cannabis smoker smokes cannabis. Evidently there is a nonzero risk of physical or psychological dependency for marijuana, but it's nowhere near the risk profile of tobacco.
It doesn't seem too unbelievable. I often feel physical symptoms from emotions, and judging from idioms (butterflys in the stomach, etc) it's not unusual.

That a business tactic based not on making a better product but instead hurting the market would shock someone unused to such matters seems perfectly reasonable. To feel you were supporting that would just make it worse.