skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"like staying at hotels all the time, even though he lived an hour away by train"

Who invests in these things? Even more puzzling: how is it that these hucksters keep raising money to found another startup? I've seen this phenomenon before. I called them "financial serial killers" -- hustlers who raise money, vaporize it all, then raise again. They're "serial failed entrepreneurs," and we're not talking failures where they legitimately tried. We're talking failures that involve lots of stupid asshat money-burning and nothing much of substance at all.

My mind boggles. It's like there's some clique of investors out there who believe in supporting sociopaths as some twisted form of philanthropy. Either that or they're making money too through some as-yet-mysterious means.

I do have one total speculation:

Is it possible that there could be some kind of money laundering going on here? Are these money-burning "investments" actually something else? Sometimes stupid things actually aren't stupid if they're viewed from the right perspective, and things that make no business sense might actually make a lot of sense in some other way.
Trains have served food and water almost since they were first used by travelers, but there have always also been businesses offering those things at some stops[1].

The US used to have much cheaper and more expansive rail travel[2]. One could imagine that with such widespread usage, there would have been service between cities with fewer stops (much like the express trains in New York, which complement the regular, local trains).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_car#History

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transportation_in_the_Uni...
> "I couldn't find any description of how "positivemoney" was actually supposed to work, only lists of problems and appeals for donations. There were no descriptions of what it would do to actually solve the issues in the text."

Thank you for the feedback about the website. I've been attending Positive Money meetings close to where I live, I'll be sure to raise those points at the next meeting I attend.

With regards to the plan, I'll try to give a short summary. I would say there are three central ideas, the rest of the details follow on from these ideas:

1. Control over how much money is created would be moved away from those with the power to spend it.

2. The group in charge of creating money would base their decisions on how much new money to make on economic data, for example keeping unemployment low.

3. The money that was created would be debt-free. Interest would not need to be paid back to the creators of new money.

I can go into some of the implications, but before then do you have any questions about the three points above?
Apple Music just launched on Android.
Well, do bear in mind that the iPhone is pretty popular – so you've probably got a decent chance of wanting to transfer money to someone with a compatible device – maybe 25% or so?

Knowing Apple's UX, it'll be rather easy-to-use if it's available – so I'm not sure that the overhead of 'figuring out if the other person uses an iPhone' would be any higher than figuring out if they use Venmo or PayPal or Square or whatever the other options are.
Your App Startup Is Dead. Long Live Your App Startup
Arguably Bitcoin is there.
Some day, everything will belong to only a few people and the rest of us will be their slaves. But maybe at this time or some day before, some might recognize, that living on profits alone is not possible.
"In the United States, a benefit corporation is a type of for-profit corporate entity, authorized by 30 U.S. states and the District of Columbia[1] that includes positive impact on society and the environment in addition to profit as its legally defined goals. Benefit corporations differ from traditional C corporations in purpose, accountability, and transparency, but not in taxation."
The PC revolution owes its greatest debt not to Gates, but to Kildall, in terms of individual contribution.

It may well be that Gates was driven to purposeful action from a love of computers. That he has had no notable productivity since Altair BASIC (other than third-party accounts of him doing code reviews early at Microsoft), nor any research, would nevertheless make his contributions to the field quite little.
I have seen live ducks and beehives being sent by mail in a post office distribution center (P&DC) with my own eyes.

I was standing there, and one of the boxes moved. I freaked out, and quickly caught the attention of a USPS guy walking by: hey, that box, that box just moved!! He calmly replied, yes, those are ducks. And then pointed a different box, and said those are bees....
I think this is the original article, legally, for free: http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/afriedman/files/how_do_elec...

Protip: google the article's name + pdf, and quite often you'll find the original on the author's website.
>>Stress and mental illness.

Even if that is true. I'd rather be stressed and be wealthy than be poor and forced to make a million sacrifices a day to just merely survive.
Seems to be the latest push by Apple to integrate Apple Pay into some sort of payments ecosystem by force.

I'm not sure why you'd consider this to be 'by force' – surely having a large market share, and offering a decent experience, are enough reasons for an ecosystem to develop because users want it?
Paypal owns Venmo, so they have a fair amount of weight to throw around, especially in the payments/ACH space.
Care to explain your version of 'reality'?
>635 out of 1191

I know it's pretty minor, but it's actually 1,826 in total, so it's 35%.

>A society with a middle class that shrinks and worse prospects for 99% of kids compared to their parents is not absolved if it has 1000 billionaires emerge out of poverty (or middle class). A society with just 10 billionaires but far better social mobility (e.g. like in the 50's) would be much better to live in.

I don't follow this logic at all. Does number of billionaires created affect anything else? They seem somewhat unrelated to me, especially in light of what I said before about the rich constantly turning over.
The question that most interests me is, how does it compare with Microsoft's Surface Pro?
See my sibling comment. We are working on exactly this, but it's not really public yet. Send me an email if you're willing to help us test it in the next couple months.
Defender of the Crown – Extended Collectors Cut
Seems to me like it would be similar to what a fog machine produces. Looks like there have been some studies on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_machine#Adverse_health_eff...
Yes, you're right, I am calling the AES round once per `next()` call. But note that this his could be rewritten as

if(counter_ >= 4) {
counter_ = 0;
u_.words_[0] = _mm_aesenc_si128(u_.words_[0], key_);
}
return u_.state_[counter_++];

Which only uses one AES call every 4 words (and only one block of storage). Instead, I chose to avoid the `if` and compute blocks ahead of time, which makes for more predictable performance.
>I'm not sure how this is in any way related to the discussion at hand. The FPOe never had the opinion that Austria was a victim.

No, but the presence or a large right wing means that old ideas are not totally eliminated now from a totally un-nazified enlightened modern populace, including the idea that Austria has been a victim.
The AP needs to know your network exists to send deauth packets - if you lower the power on your device so that your network is only accessible to you, you'll end up fine. So the argument for the other side would basically be that you're not operating a private device if it's broadcasting so their customers may attempt to connect to it. I think many companies' security groups would have a problem with you saying that someone needs to be able to run a publicly accessible access point in their building.

I think the complication comes here from the fact that they were charging for internet and then preventing people from using their own. If there were hotspots trying to mimic the network, I don't think there would be any problem with deauthing them since that's a security risk but it seems like in this case it was just a money grab.

I guess the question becomes for other companies not doing it for the money grab, if you are offering wifi, do you have a duty to protect your customers from rogue hotspots or is it their problem?
Yes, to gain access to the GitHub repo you need to sign up for an Unreal Engine license which involves accepting this eula:

https://www.unrealengine.com/eula
Your primary school math teacher is weeping in bathroom...
There's plenty of mapping services and there was one predominant one, and yet Apple took a huge chunk of that market from Google just by having their maps preinstalled on their phones.

Apple pay works really nicely. I could see using this new person to person service instead of Venmo if it comes preinstalled, works nicely, has Apple's generally strong privacy controls and policies, and is super simple to use.

Seems like a smart move to me on Apple's part.
>Could anyone comment on some of the more technical CPU architecture reasons for this?

>x86 is hampered by backwards-compatibility.

Those two sentences don't belong in a single comment.
I can't find anything to back this up, but I remember that in the 90ties is was well know (incorrectly or not) that you needed a permission for this.
It doesn't seem to support pagination, e.g. 10 posts per page, next/prev buttons, etc. Is that a Jekyll limitation, or a theme limitation? If the latter, would a reasonably competent Jekyll user be able to implement that?
To be honest, I'm more interested on what the author did before he switched than on how he does things now. A "How I deploy Haskell Code" post gathered my attention just because it's a problem I never expected anybody to have, just like "How I deploy C Code".
I think they are great, but because statically generated sites can limit growth, just because if you want to add backend features (forms, commenting, etc.), you may have to switch platforms or use third party services.

I host my own blog on Jekyll and that works awesomely well and I have no plans for needing a backend server. If I was a startup and wanted to add small marketing features (email collection, surveys, etc.) then I would consider moving off of it.
And both persons should use iPhones? Nope.
Looks like Preet Bharara has found tech headlines even juicier to chase than hedge funds. Unicorns beware.
Just wondering how to communist and socialist get food?

They pull metrics tons of food out of thin air?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S5_%28file_format%29

You can also click on the Ø in the lower-right to remove all that and view it as a normal web page.
>I know it's pretty minor, but it's actually 1,826 in total, so it's 35%

A, thanks. Missed that, thought 1191 was the total given.

I think the rest of the argument remains unaffected though, so wont change it.

>I don't follow this logic at all. Does number of billionaires created affect anything else?

Yes, I don't see the two things as "unrelated" events, but as the difference between a society set up to sustain and grow a strong middle class, and one that caters to a tiny majority of rich (regardless how they got there, by inheritance or bootstrapping) to the detriment of the middle class.

That is, this outcome is not just the effect of random people going about their life more or less independently and succeeding or not, but of a society (laws, education, etc) that has been rigged towards sustaining and growing (but always to a negligible percentage of the total) the upper classes, and milking the middle class and the poor to oblivion.
World's Smallest Fingerprint Scanner Stores Data
There are a lot of encrypted messaging apps but only iMessage is actually usable, plus Apple already has your billing info.
Hopefully I'm not missing something?
90 days ~= 3 months
2k/month*3 months ~= 6k

6k > 4k
Seriously a good idea! I would buy such an app.
This is very interesting. Right now Hedgy is the only option for a trusted third party oracle though. I'm not sure if this is a "real" smart contract... They are just a legal notary service and oracle for prices right now. Could this off blockchain? I think that would only require publicly posting every contract that is agreed, maybe obfuscating the identities.

They will be hashing legal agreements and adding that meta data to the bitcoin transaction so there is a permanent record of it.

Does anyone know of a real world example of a blockchain holding up in court? I know that www.proofofexistance.com does something similar with hashes of documents to prove it hasn't been tampered with. Used for wills and other documents that are traditionally notarized by a person and not a blockchain.
Which means they don't have a huge incumbency.
That is not a distinction the law makes. You are not allowed to operate a GPS jammer for your home safety, either.

There are exceptions, prisons can operate cellphone jammers for example. I don't think there are any for private enterprises.
The story of Sunshine: creating a new kind of weather service
> Venmo which has a huge incumbency advantage at this point

Venmo vs. Apple. I'll take my chances with Apple.

Yes I realize Venmo is controlled by Paypal.
In NYC, iPhone users seem pretty heavily concentrated in Manhattan. This means certain groups of people are probably hanging out in nearly entirely iPhone user enclaves. [0]

[0] - http://www.businessinsider.com/android-is-for-poor-people-ma...
Reproducibility and seed-ability isn't a footgun unless it's easy to do wrong accidentally, or hard to do right accidentally.

The former really isn't a problem except for really poor APIs, and the later isn't made worse by it... although the PCG random author does like to make a point of just how bad it is in C++ (see [1]).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/31857s/random_number_g...
And given the number of Android devices in the wild far, far surpasses the number of iOS devices

That's obviously true globally, but not for some of their more important markets. iOS and Android are roughly equivalent in the US for example, with the latter having maybe 10% more of the market – I think?

While there's no doubt that instant money transfers are particularly useful in less developed markets, it's not like it wouldn't still be a useful service in the US.
It's not just bay area. I'm in Boston, and around here everyone under 30 seems to know of (and mostly use) Venmo, and many technically inclined older folk.
> Knowing Apple's UX, it'll be rather easy-to-use

How can we assume this?

This exact thing has been tried many, many times - and sometimes to great success. What inherently makes you believe Apple's spin will be so much better than the other services and their unique problems?

The challenge Apple will face has nothing to do with UX - it will have to do with userbase.

It's likely (although not absolute) that using this service will require an iOS device. Given Android devices far outnumber iOS devices, this may pose a problem. Other services like PayPal and Square are universal services (device agnostic), and accounts are free (compared to Apple's barrier to entry which will likely cost you an iOS device).
VAT Notice 741A (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-notice-741a-p...) suggests such transactions, assuming they are B2B, are outside the scope of VAT - since the place of supply is outside the EC.

Items outside the scope of VAT do not count towards your flat rate turnover (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-notice-733-fl...).

At least, that would be my excuse ;)

Perhaps I need to add that this is not professional advice?
Doesn't Apple generate more profit per quarter than Paypal does all year?
I'm not sure what stops someone from creating their own channel types.

type MyChannelType chan MyStruct
?
There is no friction to use it, Apple already has the credit card info. Paypal should be scared.
Please, the above outdated concepts, just go out of business.
Dear Design Student: 8 Reasons to Turn Down That Startup Job
Combustion of "safe" molecules can produce unknown chemicals that are potentially hazardous. This is why smoke is bad. Vapes (ecigs) have a pretty wide operating range, especially when modded to operate at different wattages. They claim to only vaporize liquid, but at high operating temperatures they could break down molecules, which is still combustion, just to a lesser degree. When you start adding all assortments of aromatic compounds used in flavoring, saying everything is safe is impossible. They may be food grade flavorings, but they probably weren't all tested under the conditions seen in a vaporizer.

The main argument for vapes is that hey don't produce tar, which is one of the worst parts of cigarettes.

Are they as bad a normal cigs? Probably not. Are they completely, 100% safe? No.
If it lets people write lisp with the same ease of writing Javascript or Python (i.e. without investing time learning a tool specifically for editing s-expressions), then that's an advantage over Paredit kinda like Sublime's advantage over Vim/Emacs.

Trying it out in Atom, it looks really promising. You just kinda start writing, like on the blank line at the end of a function body, and Parinfer fills in the parens depending on your indentation level in an intuitive fashion, merging your form into the tree above it.

In fact, it seems to strictly complement Paredit. Parinfer puts the parens where you want them, and Paredit is there for explicitly editing the tree.
What does "their stake is being diluted in the process" mean specifically in this case? What exactly is getting diluted (does the issuance of extra shares to make up for the lower IPO price constitute dilution, or is it something else)?
> Can someone explain the backlash on e-cigarettes to me?

Mostly everybody distrusts the companies involved. I suspect there is also some PR by tobacco since these liquids don't require the tobacco industrial complex.

E-cigarettes do seem to be "better" for you than standard cigarettes.

However, you probably still don't want adolescents using them. We have mounting evidence that habitual use of nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, etc. all have negative effects on a developing brain that they don't have later on an adult.

In addition, I really don't want to be breathing a miasma of stuff somebody exhales.

However, I'm still torn on bans. Cigarette bans seem to kill local music scenes--which I like very much. I don't know if the ban is the cause, though--it could just be that bans only follow an influx of boring, rich people who displace the artists.
A more direct comparison for Emacs would be `adjust-parens`:

https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/adjust-parens.html
Here's a fellow who spent 15 months in prison for jamming ham radio, so not even for profit:

http://www.eham.net/articles/3908

This guy got seven years, but he was interfering with public safety radios operated by police and the like, so that's not the same:

http://www.eham.net/articles/14858

Looking at other convictions, it seems that the more usual punishment is arrest, probation, and a massive fine. Even compared to that, fining a big hotel $600,000 is a joke.
Riposte: An Anonymous Messaging System Handling Millions of Users [pdf]
I can't thank you enough for this! It's just awesome! I really enjoy learning Clojure / ClojureScript and with Parinfer it will be even more fun! Thanks
Try listening to Study no. 7, it's thrilling.
It's not too hard, and is documented here: http://jekyllrb.com/docs/pagination/.
Conversations with North Koreans
Don't forget the cultural effects such as neopuritanism and anti-hipster-ism.

Some of the backlash is of course the smell, from people insisting on using them indoors or generally in close quarters.

What chemicals are in the liquid is mysterious and vaguely unregulated so who knows. Its not as regulated as food and drink or pharmaceuticals. Its not unrealistic to assume its just different cancer causing materials, not no cancer causing materials at all. Its basically at the patent medicine level of regulation.
Sincerely curious - which is? This sounded like a direct competitor to Venmo to me.
Cryptographically random isn't the aim here - pseudorandom is.

A seedable black-box RNG that guarantees what seed corresponds to what stream is way simpler to use than a list of random numbers, IMHO. It's the difference between copying one number and copying a million.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_the_Federal_Res...

"The U.S. Government does not own shares in the Federal Reserve System or its component banks, but does receive all of the system's annual profits after a statutory dividend of 6% on their capital investment is paid to member banks and a capital account surplus is maintained."

So part of their profits go to member banks. Who are the member banks that profit from these dividends?
Huh, are you the famous philosopher John Searle?
When reach for comment he responded "mess with the best, die like the rest"
I would hope that those security groups you mention would know that, under the law, they do not own the airwaves in their buildings, and therefore it doesn't matter what their opinion is on whether somebody "needs" to run a hotspot. All that matters is that a hotspot is an authorized device and intentionally interfering with the operation of an authorized device is against the law.
Is President Obama Selling the Internet to Foreigners?
Why do you need banks, when you can just transfer Bitcoin?
As a director in a public company, he is very restricted in when and how he sells his stock. In one case I know of that meant placing sell orders 3 - 6 months in advance regardless of the stock performance.
If the price is good, I would assume customers will jump in and buy, they may even schedule their buy to align with this day, to celebrate this day or not doesn't matter imho.
Why would you need to? I'm not sure I understand the point.

You're not indiscriminately preventing wifi from working. If your network is broadcasting with enough power to reach the AP, and therefore customers besides yourself, they would be preventing that.

If someone sets up a wifi access point outside your building with the same name as your wifi, you should be able to prevent people from accidentally connecting to that rogue access point. That's why basically every enterprise AP comes with that ability. I can't imagine if this were actually illegal the FCC would allow the sale of systems with the ability to do that.

The distinction here is that it was done as a money grab and not for security reasons.
Seems that "desktop class hardware" is needed nowadays to run iOS 9 blur smoothly, which was fine in iOS 8 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxtQ8IoiYa4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agsN6Dxwk7g
Thanks, looks straightforward enough.
1. Cross border e-commerce from China is a small portion (~10%) of total e-commerce. So most of the commerce is still internal to China.

2. Who do you think directs the logistics and distribution of products. Alibaba has large stakes in logistics providers and directs the operations (Cainiao). There is no UPS/USPS type provider but a bunch of smaller ones who have to be managed by Alibaba. So while they are ramping up actual ownership of fulfillment centers, they are not like eBay where the seller just creates a shipping label drops it off at the UPS office and it shows up at the buyers door without eBay's involvement.
Square Cash? Facebook's... money thing? (What's it called?) Even PayPal itself!
Use Slack chat in your terminal
Pluto's Tiny Moons Are Spinning Like a Bunch of Hooligans
Who created a HN account just to to smack talk Hofstadter? That seems likely.
Why should the internet be American to begin with?
Breathing high concentrations of water vapor is probably worse for your lungs than propylene glycol. Not that it's good for you, but it's fairly well studied.
Never mind that individuals can't lend other people's money on a fractional-reserve basis. Once you factor that in, the P2P lender is at a huge disadvantage.