skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> ... you don't get rich by your neighbor becoming poorer.
> It's not about getting rich, it's about getting non-poor.

So far so good. Unfortunately, you immediately contradict yourself:

> Taxing a third of the money from the rich could greatly improve the lives of the entire bottom 80%.

Taxing the rich doesn't do anything for the poor. It's like in that joke with step 2 ??? - you jumped from taxing the rich to "helps the poor".

You're assuming that step 2 is: distributing the results of that taxation to the poor people. Hint: that never happens. What actually happens is 1) the rich find loopholes, 2) the rich move away, 3) the taxes are spent on the politicians' friends, 4) other things.
"Ethically touching base about monetizing enterprises will make us leaders in the world-class core competency industry."

My sides!
https://hubot.github.com and https://github.com/atmos/heaven.
>Substances designed to mimic illegal drugs

Substances that are legal but feel too good are prohibited?
VPN would be my guess.
I agree. And in that light, I can't really see where they "fucked" him, not in the least.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_thief Here.
Indie VC Term Sheet
> $500 for a Mac (with a license to all their "free" software) is not terribly far from $200 for Windows 8 Pro.

Amazon: Windows 8.1 OEM, $89.99

Amazon: Windows 8.1, $99.97

Amazon: Windows 8.1 Pro, $174.99

Windows 8.1 Pro provides no tools you really need for software development[0][1] (although client hyper-v is nice), you can develop on the standard edition of 8.1 just fine.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/products-...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8_editions
Given that USB 3.1 + Type C ports support USB PD (100 Watts), and 10 Gigabit signaling rate (7.1 Gigabits demonstrated transmit) - the need for thunderbolt devices will be so excessively rare for the average consumer as to be a non-issue.

For the few Pro Users who Specifically paid a small fortune for their thunderbolt device - they will certainly know which port to plug it into, there will be zero confusion.

What's nice (awesome) about this, though, is that when Apple/Microsoft/Sony/Asus/whoever decides to differentiate their high-end products by offering Thunderbolt 3 ports that people will rarely have a use for, they can actually make use of them immediately as USB 3.1 ports. Right now I have a MacBook Air w/2 USB + 1 Thunderbolt Port. I have too carry Ethernet Dongles for both Thunderbolt and USB to cover the situation in which I run out of ports and need ethernet. And I frequently run into a situation in which I've used up my two USB ports, and my third adapter isn't thunderbolt (I know, I should carry a Thunderbolt -> USB adapter, but god, I carry so many cables already).

In this new world - I would have three, fully functional USB ports, with one of them also capable of functioning as a thunderbolt port should I have a Thunderbolt peripheral.

Awesomeness.
Good argumentation. Yes, the advantage you have had your whole life (and previous generations before) is something you don't experience as such. But if that advantage is decreased just the slightest bit, then suddenly you feel very disadvantaged, while you are actually still "ahead".

Also in a society were sexism isn't considered a topic it's also hard for women to see their disadvantages. They feel a lot of pressure from society and family, but it's the same for their friends and (female) colleagues. Failing to fulfil them while other women around you struggle to achieve them makes you look like a loser. So Chinese women also support the status quo, which makes it even harder for Chinese men to see the point.
Remember instac.at? Well 4 years later we productized it
I map a few of them:

" Filesystem browser
map <F2> :Explore<CR>

" Show whitespace
set listchars=eol:↵,tab:>·,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:<,space:␣
map <F4> :set list!<CR>
I find it really disturbing that the federal government can do an end-run around the 2nd Amendment by putting the squeeze on banks and payment processors via the DoJ / FDIC to shut down bank accounts of firearms retailers and prevent them from processing credit cards. Regardless of how you feel about firearms, it's still a Constitutionally-protected right.

(Noticing that "weapons and munitions" are on Stripe's prohibited businesses list and the corresponding category in Operation Choke Point)
Bill Gross: The single biggest reason why startups succeed
Source? Sure, it's theoretically possible that a TB3 5K@60Hz monitor won't work when plugged into a USB Type C port. But there would be no good reason for that, it should downgrade smoothly to either 5K@30Hz or 4K@60Hz.
"spider-skull-island" can I get access?
Not my page, but I found this to have some good reasons: https://wubthecaptain.eu/github.html
The 'merged once deployed to production' thing, yes, I know even if advocated by GitHub, seems extremely weird to me. It does seem they have a staging check first, which is good.

It seems you'd want to merge it first, so that you know it when merged with "all the things" on master, so it more closely mirrors what you are going to get once it's merged in.

So they could just merge first, and then if staging passes in their CI system, automatically deploy to prod, which is the way many orgs do it.

My point is though, you'd want to deal with the merge fun (if any) first, else you are deciding to test branches (pull requests) that only have ALL of the commits from master (rebased, etc), so it's easier to just make sure they hop on master first, else you might "remove" something from prod for a while until it's merged in. Not good.

They may have some things to deal with that, but in this case, it doesn't seem like something I'd recommend for most people, and feels weird and organically evolved. One branch may not have the commits another has and both could be deployed without merging, leaving the github deployed code state fluctuating back and forth as one commit drops out and another drops in, before finally both are in at the same time.

I wonder how this is handled?
If their software was called 'seed' tracker and they didn't mention Marijuana overtly, would it still be an issue?

I think so... As others have pointed out (including the Stripe CEO apparently) the banking industry is very paranoid about the legal marijuana industry right now. There is just too much grey area, even in states where it's legal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point

As for Uber and ABB, although there has been a lot of press around them and some setbacks for them here and there I just don't think people get nearly as excited about them as they are about the recent relaxation of marijuana laws. People get very hyped about marijuana (and drugs in general) being legal; it seems like one of those issues that people are pretty passionate about, whether for or against.
If banking partners are the problem, why did you mislead him by blaming "customer disputes"?

(Pedantic note: I know full well that the second part of the sentence that actually places the blame on the "risk" doesn't mention customer disputes as the source, but the former part does, and since it's clearly intentionally misleading I am asking why it was necessary to mislead him by mentioning customer disputes. Those seem far from the core problem here, if not outright irrelevant.)
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Good news, my weekly status report is now complete!
OMG, I need to add this to my .vimrc. Thanks :D
Exactly! I've been asked the followup question: "now assume that you have 8 petabytes of log files to search", which leads into distributed computing, realtime vs on-demand collection, eventually consistent counters, the pros and cons of sampling vs exact counts, and so on.

The unbounded form of that question can be astonishingly hard, and for the kinds of jobs I'd be interviewing for I'd expect the challenging next questions.

I'd still answer along the lines of "for a quick solution I'd grep for the error level and count the number of lines, but that's not scalable".
Digital Ocean blocks outgoing port 25 and 587 on IPv6
> If inequality is very high and there is still subjective poverty in the country, that country's government is not taking poverty seriously... do not believe them, they have the resources! Any external help that is not advisory is essentially subsidizing the rich of that country; instead if we want to support those in poverty we should sanction that government until they act appropriately.

Interesting point. What would you recommend to a relatively well-off citizen of such a country, would donating personal time, money, and labor to alleviate poverty then constitute a subsidy of the rich/political class?
The misplaced hero worship of startup founders
I'm not sure if you'd agree with it or not, but I'd want to emphasize something: this behavior is not limited to foreign governments that have antithetical interests to the USA. Even publicly, the CIA recognizes that it has teams of employees working on social media to push people (particularly in the Middle East) to support positions more consistent with American interests.

And it'd surely be pretty damn profitable in the USA domestically to offer a service where a bunch of trolls would push your product, service, or candidate on the Internet.

(This comment may or may not be brought to you by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.)
> that mainly produces pro-Putin propaganda, in both English and Russian.

And also seems to be testing disinformation campaigns in the US, such as spreading panic about (fake) disasters.
1. You can't raise the minimum wage without also having rent control or more public (section 8) housing. People on minimum wage usually have little negotiating power. Landlords servo the rents to what the market will bear. The market isn't sympathetic to low wage earners.

2. The California prices mentioned seem to be weighted to population (Rent in large cities). I have a 2br. rental unit in the eastern sierra, and the market there only allows me to charge $900.00/Month.
I'd guess, for the same reason I use Ctrl-[ instead of the Esc key.
F keys put you out of the home row (at least in full size keyboards).
...% to navigate quickly within a line.

"%" works fine for moving around, but when I use it to edit it always surprises me, which direction it goes. I almost think vim is psychic, because "%" goes the wrong direction for me at least 80% of the time. There must be a deterministic rule governing this, but can anyone explain to me what it is?
It's always an opportunity to sell to someone how is desperate and has deep pockets, especially when you're currently looking for an exit. Minecraft, Wunderlist, ...
> I just get screwed.

Oh come on, own your own mistake.

You didn't just get screwed... you screwed yourself.

You screwed yourself the day you chose not to read Stripes ToS. You screwed yourself the day you chose to violate Stripe's ToS. You screwed yourself the day you chose to ignore Federal Law.
breast pumps are not a panacea.
I don't think that would happen since you would not find such a result googling for "how to get a pgp key".

Makes me want to do a parody webpage explaining how to setup PGP by just copy/pasting one
That's an insane list. Some of these are really non-obvious, especially for non-Americans, so I think they should be communicated much clearer up front.

(By non-obvious I mean, stuff millions of people are used to paying for online and offline with various legal forms of payment other than cash, including credit cards. That btw also puts a bit of a question mark on the "it's the banking partners, not us" argument.)
CLI is no more, it all but stopped in 1997. http://computationallogic.com/news/index.html

While you might be referring to Austin City Limits (the television show), you might also be referring to the ACL Festival, which didn't launch until 2002.
How can an ordinary person tell if one of these spy planes is currently overhead?

Is there some way to dink with them, similar to Matt Blaze's in-band signalling vulnerabilities discovery(s) (http://www.crypto.com/papers/wiretap.pdf) ? You know, use old phones that still have SIM cards, but have them try to register constantly? I'm a bit vague on cellphone protocol details, so spare me the nit picking, and get on with the revelations.
Lately I use neovim, because it allows using 24 bit color themes in the terminal.
We have built a map of Montreal #Startups
I don't think we have enough detail about Thunderbolt 3 yet to know whether devices will be able to detect that they are connected to a USB port and not a Thunderbolt port. If they can detect that, they may well be able to choose to degrade.

It seems like an ideal way for Apple to be able to ship a display which can be connected to both thunderbolt and USB-C hosts, without the user having to care.

Obviously some Thunderbolt devices (e.g. PCI-E chassis) wouldn't reasonably be able to degrade to USB, but a good proportion of them, would.

I very much hope this is what is going to happen!
I looked at the source a long time ago as well. I think chrome API exposes some way to open a socket which they then use as a socks proxy.
Another lesson to avoid becoming completely dependent on any product. Always good to have a backup plan.
But he's OK that you can't tell USB v1 from USB v2 visually. Somehow he's able to discern or recall the date of manufacture but won't be able to remember that it's a Thunderbolt port.
Microsoft Canadian Data Centres Opening Soon
We tried Slack. And Failed.
But there was no source on the problem, thanks for the link!
It's not though. A fetus is not a person, and the act is not unlawful. So abortion is logically not murder, and therefore no doublethink is involved.
As rockslide said, it's not incorrect, it's just overly verbose.
> I really do mean language, too. When I'm using vim, I feel a lot more like I'm communicating with my computer than trying to figure out how to do what I want to do.

I tell people learning Vim or Emacs that they should treat it like learning a new programming language -- a programming language for text manipulation. (In particular, don't attempt a first project in C++ while writing your first report in LaTeX, both in Vim for the first time -- it will not be a pleasant experience!)
That's a bit of a dramatic exaggeration for theatrical effect. The ASCII art definitely does not take 100 hours to understand.

If you use a beginner's guide, you can get the basics in a couple hours - after that, you start having fun but of course it takes a very long time to learn and understand all of the subtleties of the game (but that's true of any good strategy game).

O'reilly has published a book about the game, I highly recommend it. You can start really grokking the game within an afternoon.
> Some of these are really non-obvious, especially for non-Americans, so I think they should be communicated much clearer up front.

When you sign up for service, you are asked to read and agree to their Terms of Service. How much more obvious should it be?
For my own use, games. For example, multiple objects moving: The message updating the position of one taking longer than another shouldn't block the other from being handled. Also, an object being moved over time: You only care about the latest position, within reason.

There are other models of simulation that aren't as loose (lock step-style for example).

Other messages would not be unreliable/unordered. Important state changes, chat messages, etc.

I know voice and video applications can cope with lost packets as well. This is in fact what SCTP was built for.
I happily admit that at its core, Dwarf Fortress is ANYTHING BUT simple. And yes, I've played the hell out of it for years and years.

However, the concept of Dwarf Fortress is extremely simple- you're a band of dwarves, you start out with limited supplies, here's this open world for you to go live in, now try not to die. Minecraft is the same way in that regard- here's this world you've been plopped down in, it's theoretically infinitely big, try not to die.
But the keys are public...
FWIW, one reason would be that they'd needed to have somehow worked a USB connection into the mix, for pure DisplayPort ports, otherwise you have no way to control the brightness, use the camera, or the audio output.
Why are people giving Strip a hard time, when banks themselves refuse to deal with MJ dealers? http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/09/18/local-ban...
Or if you want to avoid a useless use of wc -

$ grep -c ^ERROR
Reverse Image Search for Content Developers and Business Owners
The issue what is a reasonable life? We make our enlisted soldiers live in a barracks and eat cafeteria food. Minimum wage could afford that sort of lifestye. And I think it's fair to expect a job to provide for that. It could provide a dorm experience.

But I don't think it's fair to expect it to support a family or a solo apartment.

Because a lot of minimum wage workers do live with mom and dad or live in a bunch of buddies. Artificially increasing their salaries hurts families who have to pay more for products and services.
It is not illegal, even under Federal law, to build an app to help dispensaries in Washington/Oregon/Colorado/DC manage their local regulatory compliance. Marijuana is illegal under Federal law, but this software, as a tangential service, is not. If it were, no one online could sell grow tents or grow lights or high-nitrogen fertilizer etc., even though it's obvious what market those items are intended for.
care to suggest any resources that helped you reach wizard-like levels of usage? I very much wish to work towards that kind of ability in vi/vim.
Always thought he'd opensource Minecraft and then sell it to Unicef (or Unesco) for 1 dollar. But alas it was not to be :-(
It looks like they'd work with a startup. I'm not sure on what as I can only see what they've got on their site. From their Pricing page:

"We're an early stage startup wanting to support multiple gateway types out of the gate. Can you help?

Contact [sales addr] to discuss our startup package which is focused on pre-funded startups needing to work with multiple payment gateways."
...Which makes things worse for any CPU that doesn't have this bug.
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I've heard this said. However, I'm pretty sure most of the companies I've worked for have nobody in this category, at least among developers.

I work for small tech companies (generally under 50 devs) though. I can believe it's more common in big tech companies, where I just don't know.
More Women Founding Startups Especially in Las Vegas
I've used Stripe for years and I'm firmly on your (Stripe's) side here. As a small business owner, Stripe has always been the most reliable, trustworthy and just plain best implementation. We don't take PayPal at all, despite its ubiquity.
FBI behind mysterious fleet of aircraft conducting surveillance over US cities
Bonzi Buddy: Riding the Hype Cycle of Targeted Advertising
And they leave out the one thing that would be interesting, a wiring diagram.

the C port is interesting in that it provides both USB pins and a set of pins that can be used for a number of functions (Displayport being its out of the gate use).

If this leave the USB pins alone, and make use of the supplemental pins for Thunderbolt, there will be no port confusion. Especially as Tunderbolt is already set up to carry Displayport data anyways.

Then it just comes down to the chipset to negotiate the right protocols.
With bash, if 'fg' is too long to type you can just type '%'.
> No, the media has evolved to become advertising.

If true, it was quite a long time ago -- advertising has been the dominant source of revenue, and media has served that revenue source for a long time. Even in the days when print newspapers were strong, their "paid circulation" wasn't important because it brought in a lot of revenue, it was important because advertisers viewed it as the best indicator of engaged audience.

For-profit businesses serve their owners and generally act to maximize profits; there are exceptions, but expecting something different to be the norm without any structurally-imposed constraints mandating is naïve.

If you want a media whose mission is educating the public, You aren't going to get it from privately-owned, for-profit, media corporations because "educating the public" isn't something they can monetize as well as providing a combination of both a source of distress and the appearance of a salve for that distress for a targeted demographic to get them dependent, and then selling advertising access targeted to that demographic.
Interesting enquiry and article, though obviously they are much worse at hiding their tracks than the US Government trolls.
I love impossible ideas. I'm just finishing up executing one now. You may feel you've already received enough feedback, but running the idea by HN can't hurt. Care to share? You'll get better advice if you do.

There are a number of VCs in Dublin, which is a short drive (by American standards) from anywhere in Ireland. VCs like you to be local, but for a good idea they will be flexible on that, and 3.5 hours away is reasonably local. So, it might be worthwhile running your idea by the VCs in Dublin. Contrary to popular wisdom, it is actually possible to cold approach VCs, you just need the ability to hear 'No' a hundred times without giving up. Not everyone is cut out for this, but a deep belief in your idea can make even the most milquetoast of us into a good salesperson.

It's been a while since I did the cold approach method. The best thing to do is do your research and find which partners at the VC firms you approach are interested in the area you are working in. Then directly address your contacts to that person, instead of to the firm as a whole. That way, you will most likely at least get a read or a listen before you get the 'No'.

The farther along in development you are, the better your chances of getting funded will be. So, developing it on your own is good. They will ask how much you've done on your own. Your most important job before approaching a VC is to do work to reduce the risk to an acceptable level (both technical and market risk). Of course, you can spend 20 years doing this on your own, but then you don't need a VC.
Yep. It's awesome that Dan mentions us and has a very valid use case with Spreedly. That said the use case we primarily solve for is marketplaces and platforms working across multiple gateways or third party API's (Expedia, StubHub etc) simultaneously. So I can see why you'd feel $99 was too high in your case. (Spreedly CEO)
Find first brace to the right of the cursor (be either an opening or closing brace) and jump to the matching one. If the cursor is at the beginning of a line of matched parentheses, % will go to the closing parenthesis of the first group, as in my example in a cousin comment.
I can't recall where I read the stories I mentioned earlier but you can find more stories in some books like this

On Amazon
- Made in Korea: Chung Ju Yung and the Rise of Hyundai

Another legend about Chung Ju Yung. While he was out supervising construction of first highway ever (connecting Seoul to Busan) of Korea, he was so busy that he didn't take off his socks for a week at a time. I guess he went about his work until the moment he dropped off to sleep, for days. He was practically a soldier on the front line.

But to know how Hyundai Shipyard and other Korean industries rose, you have to know about this man, army-general/coup-leader/president/dictator, Park Chung Hee. You can read about him.
- The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea

His daughter is currently the president of S Korea.
The pressure was there, but the increased power let her do the divorce anyway, even though she wasn't in that "five year period".
It seems to me that they didn't participate in the drug market, they participated in the software market.

[EDIT: redacting the second part of my comment as further information in other comments seems to imply it was probably incorrect.]