skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because what you are saying is incorrect. You asserted that someone specifically told FanDuel that they didn't need to move. However, the cease and desist says nothing of the sort. In fact, in spells out the many legal reasons that it must not operate there.
I thought it was pretty well-known that you're the product of a bank, not the customer. I don't pay any fees to my bank (my balance is high enough that they waive them all), and they actually pay me some miniscule interest rate. But in return they get to use my savings to make loans on high-priced mortgages and credit cards, which earns them literally thousands in interest charges.

Retail banking locations are a market-share grab. They want to make it as convenient as possible to put your savings in a bank, because then they have access to your deposits, which can be loaned out as a lucrative product.

It's much like the Chrome Omnibox or Google Toolbar for Google, or the Facebook mobile app. These derive no revenue, but they make it as convenient as possible to use the company's products. That user attention can then be sold to advertisers for a nice profit.

Ditto Hacker News as well - your comments here don't benefit YCombinator at all, and they have to spend money maintaining & moderating it. However, insightful comments on HN attract intellectual people interested in startups, which are YCombinator's prime customer demographic, and so your contributions here are effectively very cheap advertising for YCombinator.
No - you aren't the only one, this infuriates me sometimes. The worst is when you have a file that someone accidentally mixed indentations or something, or use 2 spaces instead of 4 (even 4 spaces seems to break for me) for continuation/promise stuff. I'll enter insert mode and it'll be in-explicably tabbed out 5-6 times further than it should and I have to exit insert mode and manually move over to the correct spot or finish typing the function in shit-mode then manually fix the indenting. There's been several times where I've given up in frustration and opened up VIM or sublime text because I don't want to deal with it anymore.
Doesn't your Paris Hilton example prove GPs point, rather than refute it? It's precisely due to her family's considerable wealth that she was able to make more than she'll inherit. Would Julia Louis-Dreyfus have been able to pursue an acting career so easily without family wealth? But I'm not sure it's even useful to consider celebrities when discussing wealth acquisition in our country. I'd consider them outliers, in the grand scheme of things.
Why invest in Equities?
If their goal is to avoid bad PR, they'd probably just pay landlord hush money. (I'm sure they're already doing this)
And Eiffel and Bertrand Meyer!
If you do away with money, what will you use as a medium of exchange of the value of production?
I agree.

I'm just saying that a lot of the people who normally discuss these "But it's not that hard or impossible to become rich, what are you talking about?" stories, are the kind of people who somehow magically were able to go to an ivy league school or similar.

They say they became rich on their own, and that most of the mega rich also became rich on their own, but forget that compared to the vast majority of the population, even confined to the US, they were already born rich and have a massive leg-up in the world from day 1.

edit: As Donald Trump would say "I made all my own money. My dad only gave me a small 1 million dollar loan, and with that I was able to make my own fortune."
I have been using it since its early releases in 2003 and the feature set really reflects the continuous development.
Is there a version of this site without the distracting animated text, so I can see what is going on?
Fuck the FCC. We need open source radios.
Nvidia launches Jetson TX1 GPU module to handle AI on drones and robots
Annotations in very early printed books
very well done. even though native apps have the momentum, I'm still rooting for the web to win. examples like this show it's possible to have fully featured mobile product experiences with smooth performance on the web, given the right tech choices and attention to detail
Actually not.

A Lisp program is data. The Lisp system does not care if it comes from a text file or if it is constructed as data by a program:

(list '+ '1 '2) constructs a program which can be evaluated.
Apple in talks with banks about PayPal and Venmo competitor
When the lady featured in the article "brings her own hot spot network", what is powering it? Is she plugging it into the network jack in the room? Is it cellular?
The guy who wrote this post literally has no idea what he's talking about.

He makes two completely faulty assumptions:

1) Only Chinese people buy from Alibaba.

I co-own a retail store here in the US and we order a lot of stuff from Aliexpress. We are a Gold VIP on Aliexpress ($4,000 in sales every 90 days to maintain this level; we do about $1.5-2K/month average on there.)

If you read the reviews of products on Aliexpress, you'll see reviews in just about every language--English, French, Russian, etc. In fact, very few of the reviews are from Chinese customers. Ali is most definitely a platform (two different platforms, actually, with Aliexpress and Alibaba) for China to sell to the rest of the world. Not necessarily for China to sell to China.

2) They'd need some sort of huge fulfillment centers a la Amazon.

The genius of the Aliexpress business model is that it works like eBay (Alibaba I'd more likely compare to LinkedIn, as it's even less centralized.) Sellers fulfill orders themselves, post tracking numbers, and live chat/message with buyers to complete the loop. Some sellers take Alipay, which is the Paypal to Aliexpress's eBay. Others take Paypal, wire transfers, etc. There is absolutely no gigantic warehouse needed by Alibaba.

All of these assumptions that he guessed so wrong on could have easily been disproven by ordering a few $2 items off Aliexpress and having them shipped to his house to see how the business model works. It's pretty straightforward!
Somewhat unrelated, but I was pretty impressed by Hiromi Uehara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HcKrd3K8_A&list=RD-HcKrd3K8...
Reagan lowered max cap gains rates from 39% down to 20% but then back up to 28%. At the same time he lowered the max rate on ordinary income from 70% down to 50% then down to 28%. So ya, at the end their they were briefly the same (which is why I used the word almost). But in general my point stands. Capital gains rates are generally lower than ordinary income rates as a matter of public policy.

A similar point holds for the carried interest rule. Those taking advantage of it aren't doing so because they've hired amazing accountants to file their taxes. They're just following relatively straight forward tax law.

Adjacently, while I generally agree with you on the topic of carried interest I did find this column thought provoking. You might enjoy it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/business/capital-gains-vs-...
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I used to develop games for PC in the 90s (Ultima 7 and Netstorm). The combination of complex products and hard holiday deadlines was just a bitch.

Console development still sucks. Mobile and PC with online distribution are much less stressful.

If you develop tools ship dates don't matter too much as long as you're consistently improving in ways that your customers care about.
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I'm sure it's just a good example of a potential app store. Bigcommerce has a similar one.
I'm like you, but realise that you are paying a fee by keeping your balance high enough in a low interest account to avoid other fees.

I like to have cash at the ready but that doesn't matter to the bank. They get 1 or 2k for nothing.
The article is talking about cellular-to-wifi equipment.
At least give us a cup of coffee (preferably pour-over, this is Brooklyn...) to offset the ATM service fees.
>"[f]ully 1,191 members of the list are self-made billionaires, while just 230 inherited their wealth"[1]. The top 3 richest people on the planet at this point made their money themselves, and 2 of them (Gates & Buffett) are not going to pass their wealth down the family tree.

@Natsu, my point of contention is the very liberal definition of "self-made" and "made their money themselves". If you give every reader on HN a trust fund, and a few start successful companies, would these individuals be considered "self-made"?

I don't think so. Self made means start with zero net worth. That means no trust funds, no loans at 0% from parents with infinite payback periods, and no parent board members making absurdly lucrative deals that you'd never get otherwise. Just money you've made from your own labor, and loans you've received without nepotism. You'd be surprised how few entrepreneurs fall under this category.

If you don't restrict your definition in this way, then every rich person is self made, because the interest accruing in their trust fund happened during their lifetimes.
I take it you have not developed plugins for both. In my experience, Volusion is not in the same league as Shopify with respect to ease/flexibility/features of integration.
Nice estimates. The nominal US estate tax rate for estates $1M over the exclusion is 40% so I would say your estimate of 6.5% shows how effective the 1% have been at sheltering their wealth from estate tax. The GRAT was invented (and patented[1]) as a way to transfer money tax free after congress closed the GRIT loophole in 1990:

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

[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US6567790
I switched from Ubuntu to a Mac in ~2010. This was one of my initial complaints, but over time, I found that not having so many configurable things made me much less likely to be fiddling with configuration that ultimately doesn't matter, which frees up my time to work on things that do.
Made just good enough to get a job
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> Why would running a credit card require wired internet?

Perhaps credit card point-of-sale devices don't have WiFi?
An array, a structure or a cyclic cons structure are just as basic as a list.

In Lisp the cons structure is actually the primitive. Lists are built on top.
Sounds like they enabled HTTP CONNECT without limiting the accepted port range, so any protocol will go through.

Maybe this is why Microsoft Azure never allowed ICMP travseral through their outer firewall despite frequent request from users....
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I worked at ROO Media (which KIT Digital acquired) and met with Kaleil a number of times. None of us who worked there are even remotely surprised. No signs of revenue, yet we would spend like crazy and even acquire companies with magical "stock money".

It was the most corrupt place I have ever worked in my life. The COO was a ghost who just spent money (like staying at hotels all the time, even though he lived an hour away by train) making 400K+ at a startup with no revenue, the CEO (who Kaleil replaced) drove the company into the ground and subsequently started another startup that is now under lawsuit as well after lying to his employees and not paying them for months. Absolutely crazy stories.

Happy to answer any questions :)
AFAIK the shareholders of the Fed are not publically known, are you suggesting that the identity of these shareholders is public knowledge?
> back when WEP was popular and HTTPS less-so

SSL has been used for online card transactions for longer than Windows 95 has been out, it was basically invented for that purpose.

Was there really a time when WiFi was in common use and people carried out financial transactions over HTTP?
Who is "they" and what is "manually"?

This post declined in rank because users flagged it.
Seems like grabbing the dependencies and being able to compile the source would be a great first step. After getting the project setup, I'd post on the forums or check the trello board! Otherwise I'd check out that IRC link and post in there, pretty responsive bunch.

I offered my skills (FE Web) on the forums, but it seems they don't need web work.
No there's not.
Perfecto Mobile lands $35M in funding
Good, good, good.

I know that he is talking about mobile apps as a business rather than the end user experience, but I am disliking mobile apps from a user experience more and more.

I access Twitter and Facebook on my Android Note 4 via their web apps - I like the user experience just fine, thank you, and I don't worry as much about giving mobile apps permissions that I don't think they need. I also logoff after using the web versions of Twitter and Facebook. Maybe with finer grained access controls in Android version 6 I might change my mind but probably not.

On my iPad, I find it much nicer reading GMail using the browser (not mobile) version of the web app, including access to the calendar. Use the apps: no thanks.

Web HTML 5 standards are fantastic - let's use them.
I suppose that should have been obvious. I would have liked to see rough prices quoted for this since I imagine it could be pricey as well.
Not about software at all for me, its about flexibility, experience and ability to customize OS. Even Linux that lacks a lot of software (mainly Photoshop) makes up in so many different ways. I'm amazed that Mac has become the OS of choice for software developers. I do get that it is POSIX based, but for me Macs have always been for non-savvy users.
Why did you keep working there?
The fact she went to a language school in Monterey is a good hint as to her background at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Language_Institute
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Well, are his ideas/comments/arguments valid or invalid? Or are you simply dismissing it because it's too-similar to a line of thinking that is often popularized by a single book?
I'm pretty sure you're an idiot.
I agree with this sentiment, it's why I personally choose not to contribute to UE4.

I want to see a profit sharing or bug/feature bounties either from Epic with Unreal Engine, or from a competitor.

A side note: I thought it would make for a cool platform, where a website "hosted" products/projects and users put up bounties for things they want fixed or features they want. Alternatively, a platform for small companies/projects that sell software licenses but are otherwise open source, where it's open about what the company/project is making, and a share of the profits can be split among the community contributors.

[Edit] I just posed the question here: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/332100/can-epic-g...
Completely separate from the rest of this discussion, but I am amazed that you can patent something like that.
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I'm honestly a bit surprised, come to think of it, that all supermarket sales aren't actually accounted as online orders from a webshop hosted on the Isles of Man with express delivery from warehouse at the customer's location. Then the sale would be on the Isle of Man, and VAT would be correspondingly low.

Given majority of food types are already zero rated for VAT what is the benefit to either the supermarket or consumer?
Based on a very quick check, these two fare much better:

https://www.techinasia.com/alibaba-crushes-records-brings-14...

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34773940
I don't have specific numbers on traders, but I do know that 80% of mutual funds underperform their benchmarks. One reason (of many) is that they're under pressure to provide numbers every quarter, or to seem like they're reacting when something short-term happens, so they sell out of positions that would have been more profitable had they held onto them.

Index funds are a great solution for investors who want to invest passively and get the market return (which averages 10% a year over the long term -- might be -20% and +30% year-over-year, though).

The thing with shorting bubbles is extremely difficult to get right, and "finding the right price" doesn't necessarily mean you're making a good decision. Amazon was trading around $300 a share earlier this year -- which many trader types saw as outrageous -- but it has doubled this year alone.

I suppose, in general, I follow the Black Swan approach: humans are terrible at predicting the future. Absolutely awful at it. But I'll take a "bet" on -- by which I mean, buy part of -- a company with great management/people and solid financials (i.e., no debt, positive revenue growth, FCF positive).
Happy? Sad? Forget age, Microsoft can now guess your emotions
> Are you suggesting that Indians have better working and living conditions in India than what they have when they come working to San Francisco?

Many of them? Yes. But it's usually worth it for them. The difference between our local market and most of India is incredible. The absolute pay difference is like 10x.

To put it in perspective: It's like if you could move to a very expensive location (Richville) and get worked like a dog, but they paid you $1.5 million/year.

Of course a house costs $20-$30 million. And sending your kids to a good school would set you back $500k/year. And you are having to share house with 4 other people you don't really like to afford the rent. And you have very little free time because of all the hours you work. Etc etc. But by living cheaply you manage to save 15% of your salary ($225k USD).

In Richville that isn't even enough to get your kid into a good school, but when you go back to the US you will be very well off.

> What is your solution to that?

Change the h1b system to be an auction based bidding system. That problem with the current system is you distort the local market and make the locals worse off.
Square operates entirely over WiFi (or cellular networks) and has done so for years, so this is a completely invalid argument.
I worked with some great people, and we all had hope we can jointly help turn things around. Obviously , we were wrong.

In retrospect, we should have went to the board like we discussed and tried to salvage the company which could have had a decent product, were it not for the constant corruption and idiotic decision making.
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Capitalism at its finest. Is it fair that people buy up parcels of acres of real estate for practically nothing in hopes that it will one day become developed and be able to sell it for millions? One could also argue the same about art. Is it fair that people buy art for a few hundred bucks and sell it for XX?
Every company is a learning company
code should have an ROI. Also, code is inflexible compared to a person. if there is a process that's done once a week for 10 minutes by an $15/hr employee that's only going to net you $130 per year. 10 employees 8 hours per day. $29k now you have something with a return. focus on the biggest wins.
Static lighting upsets our internal clocks
Forever Alone Day™

Maybe on February 13th? Or to be cruel Feb 29th.
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This is actually not a bad model at all for this. It leaves all parties (except the US government, which ostensibly has no authority to block it) with everything they wanted.

The US government is still undoubtedly going to get the data no matter who stores it, but they're going to have to risk pissing off the German government to get it.
That PCG is ostensibly less predictable is not a prime selling point, more a small nice-to-have in the scheme of things.

Of course, PCG doesn't exist to secure secrets. That's for cryptographic primitives, not any old RNG. However, there are downsides for using trivially predictable RNGs. A randomized algorithm might degrade performance with carefully-crafted inputs. This may expose you to DOS attacks. Hashes are a better known issue, where several languages have moved to make hashing less predictable, and thus less game-able.

It would surely be better for an implementation to avoid exposing any of this altogether, but an RNG intended for general use should have the worst-case scenario in mind.

The reason not to go full-on cryptographic is simply that the alternatives are faster and have more features. A list of some of the cool stuff PCG has is on the front-page, but here goes:

It's extremely fast, pretty much the best non-cryptographic RNG out there distribution wise, of those tested, and a tiny dependency. The RNG is reproducible and supports multiple streams, including streams dependent on the address space. This also allows emulating Haskell's RNG splitting (where one RNG creates two new independent ones), which is neat if you don't want to share state between multiple parts of your program but still want global reproducibility, or even if you're just a functional programmer. You can skip it backwards and forwards, which is little used but a ton of help when you do want it. Each instantiated RNG is a few bytes big. Something like the Mersenne Twister is a bad thing to instantiate wildly, especially on memory-constrained systems. Not a massive issue, but it's still silly any RNG fails at this. Last but certainly not least, it's a tiny dependency.
The patronymic is also frequently used - to address someone respectfully, you'd use their first name and patronymic, not their first-and-last name. (e.g., Dmitriy Alekseyevich Kuznetsov would typically be addressed as Dmitriy Alekseyevich in just about any non-informal context.)
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I do have experience of the full stack (including AngularJS and Coffeescript; see below) but am looking for work primarily involving the back end of the stack, or server admin / reliability / scaling. In previous lives I've run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica.

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They may be easier to load, but which has the best content? That's always the #1 concern here.

We've changed to the BBC url for now. Previously http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/11/us-alibaba-singles....