skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the reasons why I'm so excited about VR.

There's still an issue with timezones but I think the communication/camaraderie problems will be fixed in a VR workplace. This gives you all the benefits of remote and mitigates many of the downsides. If the downsides are sufficiently depressed then many more teams will be able to be remote and distributed and that may have a dramatic effect on society.
That sucks. They were the only people in the payments industry that could (or would) do same-day transfers to your bank account. The best Stripe will do is a 2 day rolling schedule.
>> It was, for all intents and purposes, an almost-blank slate and was created basically from scratch.

In Arena, they introduced the provinces, the races, and some other bits.

In Daggerfall you are introduced to many of the important features of the setting, as you can see by the list of in-game books [0]:
- The story of Tiber Septim and the Septim dynasty,
- The Aedra, the Daedra and Oblivion
- The MAges Guild, Fighters Guild, Dark Brotherhood and The Psijic Order
- And you already have some glimpses into some bits that would be expanded later (Like the Dwarves and the Numidium)

Now, you can argue that more was added in Morrowind that in the any other game. I agree, and add that more was added in Morrowind that in all other entries together.

Sure, they are awesome, weird, and generate most of the modern discussions about TES lore. And don't forget that the Dragon Break only exists because Daggerfall has multiple endings.

About the "things aren't like they used to", I disagree. There is more text and fluff in modern games than before. Yes, in the 80's you has massive instruction manuals full of lore, and feelies, and other stuff. But the games themselves were many times lacking. Nowadays you have lot's on in-game logs and books. Almost every item has some flavour text associated.

And, IIRC, King's Quest has a framework pretty much similar to Mass Effect. You follow a linear path, with well crafted setpieces, but not much store about "other stuff". How big is the kingdom? What to they believe in? Who was the previous king? And the One before that? Were there any wars? etc..

[0] http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Books
I think the optimal base is actually the natural log e, or about 2.71. I saw a derivation of this before but can't find the reference. Ternary actually comes about a bit better from an information density standpoint, but all the other points you made about difficulties with base 3 and benefits of base 2 still stand.
"Companies, too, are drawn to the intimate communal areas, amenities and activities of co-working/co-living spaces. Nine remote-working employees of Automattic, a web development corporation gathered for a work meetup this month at the Surf Office in Gran Canaria, taking over the 10-room property for six days “to build relationships, have real-time interaction and also work on projects that are best done in person,” the company said." from

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/business/co-working-on-vac...
It should be noted for onlookers that this is the abbreviated form; !-3:4 goes back to the third-to-last command and refers to its fourth argument, and similarly !-3:$ is its last argument.

It's also apparently not universally known that bash has csh-style (similar to sed) editing, so "s^foo^bar" will repeat the previous command with "bar" substituted at for bar. So "ls foo" becomes "ls bar".

Similarly with !-3:s^foo^bar

I freely mix these things with readline-editing, depending on what needs to be done.

Since csh gets a lot of disrespect these days, to give credit where due: these are all Bill Joy features from the original csh -- it's a good thing that bash borrowed innovations from various shells beyond Bourne shell and ksh.

Historical footnote: We donated code to him to do readline-style editing circa 1978, but he said raw mode was bogging down the pdp 11 too much. Systems were a bit slower back then.
well played sir, well played.
Prescription drug users also experience memory loss and poor long-term effects. Though I did smoke quite a bit when I was younger.... uh... forgot what I was gonna say ;)
Probably not helpful, but after reading this I can't stop wanting to make a device that appears to be ~20-30 devices by randomizing its MAC address quickly and causing extra staff to be sent to my line any time I was at a place that used a system like this.
In by that you're thinking Google could legally ship that in China without China having backdoor access to it?
Making use of the same bits of code on both the client and server (or whatever platforms you need to support). So if you have, let's say, some code that formats relative dates, Haxe allows you to write that code in one language and reuse it on both the server- and client-side, whereas normally you'd have to write a separate version of that in Python and in AS3.
All these companies are buying up rights to fresh water sources - it's like the next oil crisis.

Maybe instead of the US invading other countries for oil we will have people coming to us for water.
Physics: What We Do and Don’t Know (2013)
... Wow, after all that work building a product on Balanced.
Migrant workers will move a lot more easily than a whole agricultual and peripheral industries. They aren't going to willingly abandon productive land in California so long as no one forces them to stop sucking water out of the ground. If water rights laws are abrogated toward the approximate reality that everyone owns that water, and only a fraction can properly be removed such that this maintaining the productivity of California agricultural land is non-competitive compared to other areas of the country, that'd be the free-market solution. But that implodes both the tax and voter based in California, so the incentive now is that the politics will dictate the continued legislated alternative to a market solution. Both the politicians favor this as does the agricultural business interests. Imagine some 35% of California farmland being made fallow, how does California replace that tax base? One of the reasons why it's such a rich state is because of its massive agriculture. Just in wine alone it'd be like saying, OK France can't grow grapes anymore. No matter whether you go with a market solution, a legislated solution, or a hybrid solution, it's all just plain icky. The technical solution is how to cheapen desalination such that it keeps California sufficiently competitive, i.e. things get more expensive but not untenably so.
1. "Software or music" doesn't require water... most of them anyways.

2. Software / data and more modern approaches to agriculture can potentially optimize water usage.

3. startup / company opportunity here, if the policy makers can incentivize the agriculture industry to innovate instead of keeping the old inefficient ways.
I also had a brainfart and incorrectly assumed that the gender of the noun in German has anything to do at all with the English translation. I guess it wouldn't matter, all that matters is does the pronoun refer to a person personally, or "the prosecution" which is a non-human neutral entity in English.

Whether it translates "her" or "its" depends entirely on what the rest of the sentence means in English, the fact that nouns in German are gendered and this one is innately feminine does not even enter into the equation.

Thank you for figuring that out.
I'm so bummed about this. We choose Balanced for www.seedwise.com specifically for its per order escrow feature. We'll be missing that in Stripe as we move over.
VPN is a better tool for mass-surveillance, DMA access is better for targeted attacks., no ?
Sometimes I wonder what a booze/pot/acid/ecstasy free me would be like. Binged on all of them as a teenager. Would I be 10% smarter? 20%? More? Better moods?
It's a bit difficult ethically to assign one group of teenagers to the marijuana group and one to the clean group...
Dude you know YOU will take the heat in that case. NOT your boss. This is why I had to quit. If I can't stand behind my damn work and you not get out of my damn way, I'm leaving.

And if you've never clashed with your boss over ideological or philosophical issues (either productively or destructively), then I dare say you may not care very much about your work. (Or maybe, not far enough along in a career to have enough to say about it yet. I've been doing this for 18 years. I think that if you get to the point I got, where you care more about your work than your next paycheck... that that is a good thing.)

There were actually MANY times when I clashed productively with this guy. I respected him and he respected me. In fact I know that in the final battle we were both simply acting rationally. The directions were just completely at odds. And that is why I harbor no grudge or ill will towards that guy. Hell I'd probably have a beer with him still. I bet you that guy still respects me. It was just time to go.
Waw, thank you, I wasn't aware of that :)
Declan, you know you're oversimplifying the Swartz case. We've discussed this before. You are technically correct that the gap between "likely" and "possible" is decades, but that outlandish "possible" is, well, outlandish.

The difference between the 7 months Swartz was threatened with by prosecutors and "50 years" is the question of whether multiple CFAA counts for the same crime "group". We know the answer to this: they do. Defendants convicted on multiple counts of CFAA offenses for the same underlying criminal act serve a sentence for a single count (the most severe). A judge could override this, but the onus should be on the "50 years" people to cite a CFAA case in which a judge has ever manipulated CFAA grouping rules to amp up a sentence. The argument seems to suggest that a judge might be so upset by Swartz that they'd throw out a chunk of the sentencing guidelines.

Swartz's own attorney wrote, after his death, that a conviction on all counts might still leave Swartz at a sentencing level that allowed probation: his crime was non-remunerative, the statute he was charged on is oriented heavily towards financial crimes, his primary victim was unmotivated, and he had no criminal record.

When Swartz's sentence is brought up on a message board, what's really being discussed is the nature of judicial discretion versus the federal sentencing guidelines.

That's unfortunate. Leaving aside the fact that any custodial sentence for Swartz would have miscarried justice, and beyond the trauma of enduring a federal criminal prosecution, the likely guideline sentence for Swartz's charge (if you stipulate that he was guilty, which you can't do here) is not prima facie insane.

But other CFAA sentences are totally insane. When you handwave around Swartz's sentence, you make it easy for people who understand (at least a bit about) federal sentencing to laugh off other CFAA sentences. But there have been recent cases in which the CFAA's sentencing process is much more clearly unjust.
It's quite sad actually into what future we're running into, so many people just don't care.
If you ask a question like "Wouldn't you want to be on the right platform?", people will answer the question.

I don't know the tone of voice you were going for with the text, but it stirs ugly emotions in me.

You should remove "Why can I only sign in with Twitter?" as the text following it ("What is the Twitter integration?") is much more informative.

The site looks great though and it's an interesting idea - congratulations on shipping
Almonds use 10% of the water[1], and we're risking a empty aquifers for them when they're 0.3% of state GDP?

[1] My only source on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whyenot

[2] 2013 GDP: ~$2 trillion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California
It's back on line now
All of this reminds me of a trip I took about 10 years ago to Palm Desert. Even then I was stunned by opulence of their water use and the utter disregard for sustainability. It's a city built in the desert that regularly reaches 100+ degrees, and yet every house had a bright green grass with sprinklers running constantly. One of the main attractions was their huge amounts of golf courses, that were of course always kept green and watered. I guess it makes sense, a third of the population is 65+, they won't be around when the consequences of their unconscionable actions really hit.
I worked on the customer review team at Amazon once upon a time. There are definitely fake reviews, and Amazon is well aware of "review rings" where people trade reviews, vote each other's reviews up, etc. Much like Google, they stop some and allow others, because the more feedback you give scammers in general, the better they can adapt.

In short: fake reviews and fake review upvotes very much exist and are WAY more rampant than you'd ever believe. It's an 80/20 or maybe 90/10 problem - most of the review content on Amazon comes from a small percentage of active users, and as soon as you become active on the site you start to get sucked into this sort of thing.
Was worried about this for some time. They didn't support major third party shopping carts and ignored Github support tickets for months on end despite IRC help staff suggesting to submit them.

They had great payout rules but when Stripe cut down on those times... Balanced was in a bad spot.

Happy to see they will transition smoothly to an industry leader, even if their platforms aren't even close to being the same.
Sad to hear this news. I had a wonderful time at Balanced. Payments is a very, very hard space, business-wise. All my best to my former co-workers.
This felt like an April Fool's joke at first. I mean...I understand that Stripe is crushing it, but Balanced has a great product, and it really felt like they were making incremental gains in the marketplace.

No matter how you slice it, competition is good and necessary, and it really sucks to see this happen to a good team.
I'm not a tax lawyer, but since I don't make any money from French-EU companies probably isn't relevant to French income tax rules.

If you live and work in a place, the rule of thumb is that your earned income will be taxable there, regardless of who is paying you.

(my brief understanding is that France does have an exception for income that is sourced from the US. But this means things like investment income. Work for hire performed in France for US companies would not be attributable to the US under such a rule)
you won't notice difference.
How does the membrane stay clean of marine growth?
I'm talking about actual pipelines from the midwest/southeast to the southwest U.S. ... much larger scale projects... I know we transport water across states, but I'm talking across the country.
I've had good productive sessions by using Skype video screen sharing with headsets for talking. Some benefits over doing this at the office on a workstation include:

- less disruptive to others in an open space

- both have a good full screen view of the code

- both can use their second monitor to look things up or try something during the session

- it's easy to switch from one "master" computer to the other (eg. I fix something, commit, and we continue the session on the coworker's screen, on the environment he's comfortable with)

None of these things are exclusive to doing things remotely, but they're included by default.

While I prefer this for pair programming, I find coaching works best in person, where body language (understanding), off-screen talking and drawing stuff on a piece of paper, are more important.
I can't comment too much on the pair programming aspect. I know Floobits[1] has been floated around often. It seems most of the pair programming we do is with interns or junior developers, who are located at HQ until joining full-time/gaining more experience.

As mentioned below Screenhero is really great for 1v1s (they plan on adding team collaboration early this year).

For reference I wrote a post a while ago with some tools and methods we use at Catalyze. The only tools we've added to the list that aren't in this[2] post are trello and teamspeak.

1. https://floobits.com/

2. http://m97.co/writing/working-remotely-as-a-designer.html
Stripe does that now too which may have contributed to this.
France and the U.S. also have a special relationship.

France was technically the first ally of the U.S. That alliance has been pretty stable, except under the following circumstances:

- France or the U.S. is having a civil war.
- France and Britain are at war.
- France is under foreign occupation.

That's not just diplomacy. France and the U.S. are very consistently on the same side of international issues, and when exceptions occur, it is usually when the U.S. has a conservative government while France has a liberal one, and there is little more than pro forma dissent, as one side or the other remains neutral rather than truly oppose.

If NATO did not exist, France would be one of the few non-Commonwealth nations for whom the U.S. would declare an actual, full-engagement war to defend, without even much argument from the voting public--unless it was the UK attacking it, obviously.

The full "special" list is probably Canada, UK, France, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel.
Stripe cofounder here. I just wanted to tip our hats to the folks at Balanced. Stripe and Balanced have certainly competed against each other in the marketplace space for a few years, but we have a lot of respect for how Matin and his team executed with creatively and determination. While we're of course glad Balanced decided that migrating to Stripe was the best thing for their users, today is kinda bittersweet for us.
> You don't need encryption to provide integrity

That's not really the point. With SHA1/MD5 etc you may only ensure integrity against random non-malicious errors. But think of a malicious attacker targeting existential forgery using chosen message attack where she may change both the message and the hash.

Don't think I'm missing your idea to secure only the hash distribution, but you simply delay the same problem one step ahead. So you decouple the hashes [h{1}, h{2}, ... h{n}] from the contents (or messages) they are derived from. [m{1}, m{2}.. m{n}) and you think you may ensure the secure distribution of the hashes without their "messages". Now in recursion your new "content" are now those hashes which require their own confidentiality and integrity check which may better be done using an authenticated encryption with mac. Ultimately an attacker may simply forge hashes and provide contents for them.

Think of 10K of linux distro files with hashes being the target of a malicious government who wants to install modified versions of those files. Only SHAx etc won't help you to achieve "integrity". At some point you need secure hashes or macs (which are hashes secured with keys).
Three ReactJS and Flux commandments
One of the biggest problems we faced from the offset was optimising our PHP codebase and to get the best response times possible.

There was only so much we could do before we hit the limits of the existing system, and turning to HHVM really helped to push our API further.

Here's some simple benchmarks we did whilst we were optimising: http://i.imgur.com/vFOXWfl.png
It's too bad. Balanced was the only service of it's kind to provide ACH payments. Hopefully Stripe or Braintree will pick up this feature.
It seems wrong for this guy to generalize entirely about remote work arrangements based on his experience with 2 guys.

I've been a part of 3 teams, that each were rather different, with significant remote reliance. It was great each time, productivity and collaboration, developer happiness were all at highs. Maybe he was just working with the wrong personalities and timezones, since two of the big problems he cited were "work-life balance," something that is very personality oriented, and another being East-West coast related.

Unfortunately it seems, people who are against remote work typically just want employees to invest more into their product, as too much independence for the employees is viewed as a bad thing. This is always a factor to keep in mind.
Heh, I actually agree with you (and emodendroket's) observation that Yelp buries reviews by new posters. (That's discouraged me from posting, too.)

Maybe I was too generous by saying their system works "decently well"; though I don't think I'd say "complete crap"--unless my business had been burned by fake bad reviews, which it sounds like happened to you.

Perhaps this illustrates how subtle/difficult this problem is.
I don't think it's entirely meaningless. As said, it intends to be polite. Its meaning just isn't the face value.
How to explain Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems to a 12-year-old
That's true, thanks for pointing that out. Java-based solutions can target the web "for free".
Language as homeland and collective consciousness
Why not attach it to the dog? Or a Roomba?
The inability to transfer funds into Stripe makes it hard to use it as a payouts mechanism like you can with Balanced.
The supplied link suggests it's not production ready, but it's the wrong link. This is the correct link.
John Spray, a senior software engineer at Red Hat, "Some people are already using it in production; we're terrified of this. It's really not ready yet."
http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-storage-futures/

EDIT: And I'm not suggestion it isn't badass, just that the idea Ceph as a first suggestion for general purpose RAID replacement is probably not a good idea just yet, and that there's an alternative.
How do you get that to happen? There is nothing in the docs about it.
The emergence of Spark
How a gruesome 18th century execution made Voltaire a crusader for the innocent
ACH(Balanced) is unprofitable if it doesn't have massive volume (fixed$/trans) . CC(Stripe) is more profitable - %rates are toggled.
From where I sit... that's 90 days.
That's sad. I haven't used their product but I remember them fondly for their excellent blog post about their rigorous unit testing and continuous deployment methodology.

http://blog.balancedpayments.com/balanced-payments-operation...
You can fully control the transfer schedule for any recipient with Stripe -- I think this should do what you want. (Feel free to drop us an email if you're having trouble; I'm patrick@stripe.com.)
We do this twice a year. Just got back from a week with the team in Brazil.
Fair enough. I just like that on wikipedia you can look behind the curtain and see who is editing what and see the discussion leading to what is in the articles on controversial topics so you can attempt to weigh what biases are in play. I guess I could see someone make an argument about "what if you don't even know its a controversial topic?", but I don't think that happens enough to hurt wikipedia's value. Of course that might just be my personal biases messing with me.
Yes, sadness is a normal part of life and we don't want to treat sadness as a medical condition. Sometimes that sadness interferes with day to day life, and it doesn't seem to be going away. Most people who experience grief will work through it; the grief changes. So when these problems start interfering with day to day living is when people need help.

And for most people that's going to be small interventions - having a coffee with a friend who is talking to you for example. The interventions taper up as the severity of the illness increases. Talking therapies; medication; hospital in-patient stays; rarely, if someone is at risk of death or of harming other people they can be hospitalised against their will; even more rarely there's ECT.

We know that early intervention is important. And modern mental health services should be talking about "resilience" which increases someones ability to cope with daily life.