skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We live in a capitalist country where no endeavor willl be undertaken without some vision for profitability. This is fair. Stakeholders in the new system, the ones that put up the money to build and support the system (Financial Institutions, providers, etc), will need to find a way to compensate themselves for their investment and prove to their share holders the fiduciary value of doing so.

From there, there are three factors that will most influence pricing.

1) Scale: how many transactions the system as a whole will process? We're all familiar with Wires and how expensive they're compared to ACH. That's because they don't have the critical mass or number of transaction ACH does. The more transactions on the system, the less financial burden the system has to assess on the end-users.
2) Market forces: How providers will price their services all depends on the market and their target customers. You mention stripe's percentage model, that's their business decision. Dwolla, a counterpoint, offers a flat fixed monthly model. The intelligence that formed the pricing models is what makes the free market so powerful.
3) Fraud: How this system mitigates fraud (through tokenization, improved fraud sharing among participants, better authorization practices, etc.) will greatly influence how much financial burden is passed on to us, the consumer. Good news is that we're starting over. LOTS OF POTENTIAL HERE!
I had a related comment earlier this week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10930663
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The Washington, DC, neighborhood Hawthorne (a triangle along the city line with Maryland, running east from Rock Creek Park) for a while had many signs reading "no sidewalks in Hawthorne." Among the arguments against sidewalks was that they would attract crime. I don't know how many criminals are willing to commit felonies but not to walk in the street.

And yes, our neighborhood (not Hawthorne) listserve now and then has stuff about "African American male walking down the alley." This usually brings on a quick email storm, since a fair bit of the listserve is AA. Then everyone calms down for a few weeks.
It's a rewards program. A3 means you have earned more than 500 points in the last 365 days.
You earn 1 point per $1 spent (you only earn reward points for orders over $2), 1 point per feedback given and 5 points per day you buy stuff.
With A3 you get Fast refunds.
It has no effect on the speed of shipping.

I've found that Malaysia Post is the worst, they often take 60 days until a package is delivered.
Exactly, and we like the idea that some James Bond guy is working for "our" causes and killing spies, but when it happens in real life in a nice controlled manner.. we act all surprised.
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I think the cop aspect is interesting because:

He is a professional commenting on his own profession. If the topic would be sanitation, Joe Plumbers opinion would hold more weight.

He is speaking against his own colleagues, which might have negative consequences down the line, and has no apparent personal gain in doing so. So he is more likely to be honest than disgruntled joe plumber.
There are better ways.
>In my personal experience neurologists are better at this than psychiatrists.

In my experience, actually psychologists have better understanding of the needs of an individual in the ADS.
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It's interesting that it describes Silicon Valley as being too white, when it seems like there are quite a few Asians. Even working elsewhere, a high percentage of our programmers are Asian, higher than the metro's demographics would suggest.
Should we bother? With a title like that, they don't seem interested in meaningful dialog.
Wolfram (programming) Language
Indeed. To put some numbers around the touchy-feely slice-of-life reporting in the article, education statistics [1] suggest that only 4-5% of BSc CS degree graduates are black, and only 1-2% of MSc CS graduates are black, despite most US universities discriminating in terms of admissions in their favour.

If the applicant pool is disproportionately skewed, you cannot expect the employee base to be any different, and minorities will stick out (which in turn is not necessarily bad for the people if they are good at what they do)...

[1] http://www.exploringcs.org/resources/cs-statistics
My GF and I finally completed our first ever game
So my GF and I made an Android game in our free time. We wanted to keep it simple, since this was really our first big programming project ever. I'm a huge space nerd myself so I decided to make a space-themed rockety game. GF did the graphics, I did the programming (using Corona SDK). Despite it requiring knowledge of Lua and me having no experience with Lua, everything kinda went. In a couple of weeks we realised that we'd made something worth publishing, so we bit the bullet and bought a Google Developer Account ($25 is kind of a big deal when you are a student in a third world country). We would have uploaded it to the Apple store too, but their hardware requirements (and $99 for the account) are still 'a bit' beyond our reach.

It's no Kerbal Space Program, but it's ours and we like how it turned out. :)

It's up on Google Play for free, tell us what you think! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.suavis.thyrocket
How is that text not respectful? It's well-aligned with what I've read about what the courts say is needed in order to fully express that you wish to exercise all your rights, and not give any of them up voluntarily.
Putting Users First
The robustness principle is fine, but it does need to be strictly interpreted, which I should have mentioned. Too often robustness is used as a license to be sloppy or to abuse lenient parsers with invalid input.

Meredith covers this specific issue at 33:25 in her 28c3 talk I referenced ([2]). "Be definite in what you accept" can emulate traditional "liberal" parsers if the compatibility is strictly defined in the grammar.

I really should have phrased that better; the robustness principle is great historically, and is therefor necessary in many current protocols, but newer protocols should be using well-defined either regular grammars or deterministic context-free grammars. As Meredith and Sergey explain in that talk, moving away form Turing complete protocols would prevent an important class of exploits.
How can something be compared as a competitor to spmething else that hasn't even been invented yet? It's difficult arguing the point when you keep regressing back to historically impossible what-ifs.
I haven't used ASP.NET Web Forms but from giving them a brief look I would say so. Combined with SignalR.
>Still, there will be hard times.

Very true... specially when they are toddlers and their tantrums are mistaken for bad behaviour.

I had hard times with my child in the winter without a car and around of very judgemental people.
> One senior, Sarah Jones, ... “There are not a lot of people of color in the Valley—and that, by itself, makes it kind of unwelcoming."

This statement may be true if "people of color" means African American. Otherwise, it is just not the fact. I do think, through my personal experience, the Valley is probably the most diverse place that I have been. I've seen people all over the wrold here: Asian, Latino, European, etc.
Did you? Google FB etc. are hiring MIT, Stanford etc. graduates what a surpise :) they are hiring people who started coding when they were kids as opposed to people who picked up SE in college no way!
Governance? Like they tell Linus what to do or something?

I don't think it's quite like that
Looking forward to your post.
Yes! Reading this I was thinking exactly the same - if they've worked on a way to group the sports posts and comments by game etc, perhaps they'll also let you filter them out of your feed using the same metadata, so that spoilers are no longer an issue.

I think this could actually benefit them, as well as just being a nice feature. As it is I personally avoid Facebook entirely after some games until I catch the highlights, because I know with certainty that I will see the result on my feed.
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Preventing Malicious Request Loops
> did Putin ever suggest forcibly retaking Alaska?

Don't remember him saying so. But what's about Alaska? Do we have some contest of random analogies here?

> wasn't the work of a fringe right wing extremist group

What's more likely - that a State Duma deputy and a KGB and Federal Protective Service member is a part of some fringe extremist group (that has access to radioactive materials), or that Kremlin's siloviki (whom Putin is a part of, himself) have pulled some strings? Obviously, that's not a definite evidence - the article doesn't tell that Putin did this. But a well-probable, so Putin's accused of acknowledging or even ordering the killing.

Well, everything is possible. We can't deny a possibility of a fringe extremist group. We can't either deny the possibility that the killing was done by a extraterrestrial alien shapeshifting as Lugovoy, by the order of alien reptilians from Nibiru. Accusation goes to most probable ones first.

+++++

Edit: oh, sorry! I see, talking about fringe group you meant hyphothetical situation with Snowden. Well, depends on the imaginable case. If we have some ex-CIA agent's fingerprints all over assault UAV's control terminal ;), then it would be reasonable to suspect US Government had something to do with this. Hope you see the idea.
Breaking Down the Essential Elements for DevOps Success
A surprisingly high number of the speakers I went to at AWS Re:Invent were Indian, close to half, and they all worked for Amazon. I found it very interesting.
I believe Frank Harrell's Regression Modeling Strategies is one of the best references for performing regression analysis.

website: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/RmS
Amazon book: http://amzn.to/1UdPWOv
Allwinner used to distribute "SDKs" which was their Linux kernel with binary modules for components that they could not open-source. Allwinner is a fabless semiconductor company and they source components from different vendors.
They did not know that they had to split the Linux kernel source tarball from those binary modules!
That wiki page is not constructive.
Guide to Pair Programming
Believe it or not, I also snore on my side. sigh
"it struck her as a startlingly homogeneous culture, made up of white and Asian people who “like Star Wars and stuff like Pokémon.” When companies began to visit Howard, they’d boast about having on-site playground equipment and volleyball courts—not the kind of thing Jones or her friends got excited about. “Slides are not really appealing,” she says. “There are not a lot of people of color in the Valley—and that, by itself, makes it kind of unwelcoming."

I found the above passage strange. Within the same paragraph they talk with one student who says it is all white and asian and then in the next sentence the same student says there aren't many "people of color" in the valley. What are asians if not people of color.
Thermometer scarf using FLORA
Awesome! Would be cool if this could be integrated into Atom.
I think its kinda ridiculous to say that to be 'SV material' you need to have started studying CS before college
No, you shouldn't. It presents a problem only to tell you many paragraphs later that indeed many companies are working on it. Of course you have to ride their emotional roller-coaster 'til you end up there.
It's very possible many of these cops have no clue they've subtly trained the dog to alert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
I'm surprised that this exists. They just did a spring cleaning of apps, discontinuing Facebook Rooms, Slingshot, etc.
> However, I'm not at all concerned about the stock market. That has never influenced my decision to fund a company.

It probably will as things start to slow down.

During the growth phase of the business cycle, many companies do well. Even some with poor fundamentals that shouldn't. This is the danger of stimulus - it promotes an inefficient and wasteful allocation of resources. But it makes investing easier as a larger pool of companies are succeeding and finding exits for their founders and investors through IPOs and acquisitions, which are both very closely correlated with the health of the stock market.

During the contraction phase, the companies with poor fundamentals are exposed. Ok, no loss there, they were struggling and nobody really believed in their potential anyways. But contractions can also bring down good, solid companies who were just caught unaware and were not holding enough liquid assets to pay their employees and the interest on their debts. Some non-negligible percentage will not make it through a rocky period while liquidity dries up and relatively cheap funding/investing slows down.

I think it's smart to not read too much into the stock market as it can be distracting and noisy, but I think its trajectory and what it indicates about the phase and timing of the next business peak/trough cycle is extremely important and should not be discounted.
What surprised me from the article is that only 8 out of 10 students at Howard are black. Howard is a historically black university and I assumed the percentage would be 90%+. I did some research and found out that the latest numbers I found were 91% "Black or African American" students at Howard. http://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/howard-university/stu...

Offtopic - but Howard has an amazing marching band. They played Rutgers when I was in school (football), and my favorite part of that game was the Howard band at halftime.
Yea. I don't like the way they use it.
Asians and Indians get considered white if they don't fit in the specific narrative, an author wants to tell.

I also don't like the idea, that liking pokemon or star wars makes you "white". There is something wrong with this,I can't seem to put into words.
How to parse HTML data in Node.js
"as the only African American on her team, she didn’t feel she had much in common with her colleagues. “When I went out to lunch or something with my team, it was sort of like, ‘Soooo, what are you guys talking about?’ ” she says"

I find this sentence really shocking, perhaps because I'm french and in France we try to assimilate people more (I don't really know), but I would definitely think that as a white software engineer I have a lot more in common with the black software engineer working with me than with whatever random white dude.
What makes it even more inaccurate is saying "median valuation" and not taking into account stages or quite often even geographies at all.
I have been meaning to. I hope great things come of it.
So now we include fear. So what about the fear that if one right is stripped from us then our other rights are also at risk.
Other way round: Litvinenko was killed years ago, and speculation that it was done by Russian intelligence broke out immediately. The formal investigation was held back until now. It's quite likely that it's only being investigated and publicly blamed on Russia because relations have already gone bad.
WMD story in Iraq was not made by the media, but by the US government, special agencies and the president himself, media only reflected that. Furthermore, you could find alternative opinions and doubts even then, while in Russia any voice that goes against the official propaganda gets silenced fast. It's not quite the same as staging video reports, lying or photoshopping photos.
not sure what you mean by this?
We thought the Cold War was supposed to be over.
Might be cool. I'd like to see how it compares with cscope.
Yes, but clever methods can't bypass physical limits either. Sometimes that's just it.
Allwinner actually signed up as part of an attempt not to be a GPL violator anymore, along with releasing the source to a bunch of their stuff as GPL or LGPL. Thanks to their newly-found interest in compliance I think they may actually be the only company shipping hardware-accelerated MPEG and h.264 decoders that don't require any kind of closed-source code. (Unfortunately, the VP8 decoder is closed still because VP8 isn't copyleft and they can get away with it.)
It will be interesting to sum up those ideas into an awesome list[1][2] at Github.

[1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

[2] https://github.com/tastejs/awesome-app-ideas
Mandatory voting insurance as well, just in case you vote in a politician who does extensive economic damage.
Bridging the “Security Update Gap” with 0patch
Too Good to Be True: How More Evidence Can Decrease Confidence
Docker Acquires Unikernel Systems as It Looks Beyond Containers
My guess would be: for the same reason it does not hire white coders.. incompetence ?
Hamlet doesn't have chapters, it's a play. Sorry - pet peeve. It's like people asking if you've 'read Shakespeare'. Makes as much sense as asking someone if they've read Tarantino. Sure, you can read the script, but it's not how it's meant to be consumed.
Professional Concerns
Backdoor account in several AMX (Harman Professional) devices
Legally she isn't family. So clearly your exception isn't as easy as you think it is.
It's not that I think they'll be motivated by altruism, but they presumably have some commercial skin in the linux game. Enough to get them paying those large foundation membership fees at least.
Is anyone able to explain the comment by Friedland:

"Theoretically it would cause a profound revolution in our understanding of where particles get their mass”? [6 paragraphs from the end]

Presumably neutrinos and antineutrinos being the same entity would somehow indicate our current understanding of the Higg's field is wrong (since it's the interaction of particles with the Higg's field that we understand creates mass, right?) - but there isn't any indication of why this is the case.
I would say statements like that are exactly why some people don't feel welcome in SV.
Being an ISIS fighter involves getting stuff for free, like… uhm, everything they need to survive, so not sure what they need to pay for. But thanks for the downvotes, guys. Thanks for understanding sarcasm properly. Thanks for being objective. ;)
People of lower economic circumstances may not have had access to computers prior to college.
> quite a few Asians

Yes, especially programmers from India - typically not quite as dark-skinned as African-Americans, but pretty close, and many of them have a thick accent, too.
Quantum violation of the pigeonhole principle and nature of quantum correlations
Very cool! :-)

I am one of the authors of dvm and was curious why you created a symbolic link to docker after using dvm to install it. dvm should have put the 1.9.1 docker directory on your path, making the symlink unnecessary. If that did not work, I would love to know more about problem. https://github.com/getcarina/dvm/issues
The same reason as there were no Black people nominated for Oscars.
Well I don't know about that.
When I interviewed for google during my last year in college(on campus interview), they asked for my high school grades, SAT scores, and if I learned any CS principles in middle or high school.
A much better take to look at that data is this: http://www.vox.com/2015/1/22/7871947/oxfam-wealth-statistic

It's the same as to compare someone on absolute salary of $100k in Silicon Valley vs $50k in Estonia, forgetting that the latter can provide a luxurious lifestyle with tons of money to spend, while former can mean being barely break-even.
Yeah, I went down the Relay/GraphQL rabbit hole for a good 1.5 months last year, but unfortunately there is a tremendous amount of work to set up GraphQL servers to even get your data out to Relay, and it is not real-time at the moment (although the 'community' appears to be work on it. I so wish Meteor would provide a drop-in module for just the DDP, I don't even care if its Mongo, their real-time subscription works.
It's dangerous in general. A friend of my dad was cleaning his ears, his wife opened the bathroom door which bumped his arm which pushed the q-tip in and broke his ear.

I use q-tips to clean my ears nearly every day but I take precautions to not stand near any doors and if someone else is in the room I make sure my arm using the q-tip is pointing in a direction unlikely to get bumped.

http://blogs.webmd.com/all-ears/2006/11/q-tips-weapons-of-ea...
For the purpose of this article, they count as white.

According to a quoted student (around 1/3 of the text), Silicon Valley is "a startlingly homogeneous culture, made up of white and Asian people who “like Star Wars and stuff like Pokémon.”"
Ask HN: What should I do with my job?
Hello, HN!

I need your advice!

I have been working on the same project for about 10 years already. This project evolved a few times, but it is kinda the same for many years. It pays good money. It's fully remote programming work. So I don't have to spend more than 4-5 hours completing all tasks for the job. But sometimes I work about 7-8 hours per day and after those pushes I feel super exhausted, sad and depressed for days. I do not get satisfaction from this job and at the end of the day I feel that I have wasted another day.

The work is not hard, it's more on the side of being boring and the challenge if there any is about quantity of tasks. Also I think I am the best in my team/project and I do not see anybody from I can learn in the company - this saddens me very much.

I sporadically take courses about Crypto, AI, do little project for that, but nothing big. I am not sure what is wrong with me? I keep looking for side projects all the time, but since my main job occupies most of my brain, it is hard to have big side projects same time. I feel a little at dead end b/c I have responsibility to feed my family and not sure if I can leave it now.

I have tried to build games, released on for free and was demotivated, that it got very little attention. I have an urge to complete projects, b/c my job does not give me sense of completeness at all. I have doubts which area of expertise to pursue: AI or ML or games in general. I want to have a little pride in what I do.

What would you suggest?

Thank you, HN.
You have been great help in the past.
I had to post from new account b/c of employer can read this.
As soon as a minorty achieves success (and often disproportionate success) they are no longer considered minorities.
I realize this is Canada and not the US, but up here there's a few ways to get burned:

- You can be charged with driving while impaired without failing any kind of field sobriety test/breathalyzer (Criminal Code 253.1)

- Refusing a breathalyzer test or field sobriety test is also a criminal offence (254.5)

And I don't have a cite for this off the top of my head, but I recall that there was a Charter challenge for mass road-side check-stops (we frequently have those during holiday weekends), and the Supreme Court used clause 1 (below) to say that while road-side check-stops do in fact violate your Charter rights, they're justifiable in a free and democratic society.

Clause 1: "...guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."

Edit: at least they do document what the standardized field sobriety test can consist of: http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/regu/sor-2008-196/latest/so...
Google Is Enabling Brotli Compression Support in Chrome
Great article, definitely a good mantra to keep in my head when I struggle against muggle resistance...
The Technological Evolution in the Golf Industry
> we can invite Groovy to the party

Do you mean Apache Groovy? Since the former "Codehaus Groovy" joined the Apache Software Foundation, it's been an Apache requirement that it be referred to as "Apache Groovy" at least once in a prominent place in all promotional literature about it. (Many of the Apache Groovy PMC members are ignoring this requirement though.)
Look at every notable tech company ever, do you see many black people involved in the founding? Why is that?
I hope not, but then again, the conflict inside the Arduino project (Arduino LLC vs Arduino SRL) is a threat, too.