skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people, myself included, just don't like the inherent pressure around tipping. For services where I almost certainly won't see the person ever again in my life, I just want it to be very transactional where I know what I'm paying up front, and there isn't some implied obligation to leave extra.

Even at restaurants, I dislike the pressure. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive to it, but it just seems like a very unnecessary stressor.

I was absolutely relieved in the UK when I learned that you don't tip at pubs.

I'm also not convinced that riders would not be dinged due to not giving tips. That's the kind of information that seems incredibly valuable for drivers to share, and thus use to discriminate with.

Tipping via apps has gotten really obnoxious because some companies use it in a very pushy manner. For instance, I had an issue with a restaurant called Buffalo here in Mountain View that makes you order your food at the counter, and then swings the screen around for you to leave a tip upon ordering. Tips should be for excellent service rendered, and they are asking for it before I even get my food. In this case I left zero tip there and just left some cash on the table after.

I know I sound like a stingy bastard, but for many people, tipping is just a source of needless anxiety (albeit minor anxiety) that should really be done away with.
What happens if there's a "bank run" where everyone waits for their GD to mature rather than spending it?
I don't believe this is a good idea. Limiting yourself to the 1000 most common words does not necessarily lead to clarity or simplicity.
evasion is theft. avoidance is fiscally prudent.
Direct PDF: https://research.google.com/pubs/archive/44860.pdf

Usenix URL: https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/spring2016/osborn
Deep Learning Books
Guess the next step is to embed them into your eyes when your are born. Built in VR.
> You act as if I am responsible for creating those problems.

You live in a (somewhat) democratic system, you pay taxes and vote. Yes, you absolutely share responsibility.

> Half of people you label as "homeless" are in that state because of severe mental illnesses. Did I have _anything_ to do with causing anyone's schizophrenia? No!

But here you are speaking against measures that could help them because it might cost you a little money.

> What about people that are "homeless" due to domestic violence, or bad luck? Nope, I didn't abuse anyone, and I've never caused anyone to have bad luck.

Again, raising your hands and saying 'I had nothing to do with this problem, just let me ignore it.' is just disgusting, yes you weren't directly involved in these events, but don't fellow humans deserve compassion and empathy?

> What I am against is a system where people that want to make a better life for themselves are blocked by unjust regulations. Think of someone whose passion is cooking, wants to start a new restaurant, but can't afford to buy $100,000 worth of commercial kitchen equipment required by today's laws. Or someone who wants to braid hair, but has to attend cosmetology school to learn to cut hair. Or someone that wants to work in software, but can't afford to live in the #1 city for it because NIMBYs have made it illegal to build new housing for decades.

So you are against a system where the fairly-well-off face minor inconveniences, but people starving on the streets is a-okay? And, yes I agree that there are many stupid regulations that should be eliminated or at least reviewed, but most of these are not major issues, and many regulations are very valuable.
thanks for the extra information
no point messing about with delicious, pinboard should take over yahoo.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627
Medium is a blogging platform. The comparison is just plain wrong.

> ... but here on the web you can have ... pages with sections divided however you want.

Yep, exactly. :-)
I read years ago that the vocabulary used on TV was about 2,000 words. A high school graduate has a vocabulary of 10,000 words, a college graduate 30,000, and there are a million words in the English language.

What was interesting to me was that I could learn a foreign language by only learning 2,000 words!
I'd be curious how you'd approach it with something far more accusatory? Take Airbnb for example: I am very bothered by airbnb's approach to laws. I think they deliberately ignore laws in the name of making a profit. It's probably not "nice" to question why they look the other way in major markets where they know their listings are breaking the law, but it certainly isn't nice that they choose what laws apply to them and which ones they choose to fight a marketing campaign over.
The most annoying application on earth :)

A better application would be to underline words not included in the whitelist and to provide a synonym included in the whitelist upon right clicking.

But as I learned in school: a language's diversity is beautiful, why restrain ourselves in the vocabulary we use?

In particular, a boring text with many repetition is just hard to read, see the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11131391
About a year ago I ran a series of tests where I continuously posted the same 15-20 articles tracking the number of up votes within the first 10-15 minutes.

It turns out it was essentially random, and although every one of the posts were decent enough to make it to the front page 2 or 3 times sometimes it received zero votes, sometimes 10.

It seems somewhat unfair to use the standard ranking system with this being the case, since it's essentially random. I think there would need to be a way to randomly show them to users and have users vote. Similar to /r/starups[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/

BTW I eventually received an email from the YC staff, thank you for not banning me :) No one should do this.
Tesla was part of that program and without that loan they would not be around today. Also, the loans are expected to profitable [1], although I read somewhere that when accounting for administration costs, the program overall would end up slightly in the red[2]. Regardless, the program created/saved thousands of jobs and provided badly needed financing to companies during one of the worst recessions in decades, which in my book means it was very successful.

[1] http://energy.gov/lpo/portfolio
[2] The bill that created the program required that the loans be given out 'at cost'. Had the DOE been allowed to charge even modestly more, or had they asked for stock options as part of their deals, the program could have been wildly profitable.
So in the case of an accident, Brooklyn and Queens are dead, but the South Bronx is awash in water? hmmmmmm. :-)
Artificial Intelligence for Better or Worse?
Sounds intriguing. Some questions:

- Who is the team behind this, and are you working on this full-time right now?

- How much work have you done on the software? (Planning, research, building?)

- Why this specific product? Why do you think this is a better idea than many other possible ideas? How did you come up with it?
Making a presentation with code snippets? Awesome. Wow
This is great... I have something close to that in mind but yours is thorough and has the chance of succeeding. Your site takes pretty long time to return search. I wish you all the best.
I could see the author choose more complicated vocabulary (superfluously) as she progressed through her introduction, and I took it as a demonstration of what she was talking about.
There just aren't that many people out there who are willing and capable of doing the hard work it takes to bring something --anything-- to the point where it usable. Those who are have their own projects already, which they won't abandon based on a forum post. And if they do, they're going to abandon this new project the moment they read about an even cooler idea.

Besides, ideas grow and take on a life of their own as you work on them. By the time your interpretation of the idea takes shape it's going to be distinctly different from the original idea that inspired you.

The only way to keep people from stealing your ideas is by never talking to anybody about them. That's surely the worst of all options.

You can literally try to clone any YC company after demo day. All the startups get covered on techcrunch making their ideas public. Just pick the one you like best and open your favorite editor. They only got a 6 months head start, so what's stopping you?
Dan I think this is great idea (I am all for trying new things). One suggestion I do have is to score a startup not by up votes, but by the quality of the discussion that results.

The commentship of HN is not exactly a representative cross-section of the unwashed masses, but it is filled with amazingly knowledgeable and intelligent people. A startup that generates thoughtful and helpful discussion may well be a stronger signal of success than crude up votes.

Edit. arg! I see Dan already had this idea.
A dog might be what you need. They can be trained to become therapy dogs[1]. These are used as de-stressing tools in universities, schools, disaster areas, etc. Dogs provide a level of companionship that is very nurturing to the heart. :)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapy_dog
There are many resources depending on what exactly your projects are. Justin Jackson's book "Marketing for Developers" was quite helpful to me. Here's my brief review - https://learnetto.com/blog/learning-marketing-from-justin-ja...

I run an online education site where we're going to launch some courses on marketing. I could give you free access if you email me at hrishi@learnetto.com and tell me more about what you're trying to do.
And in general, where does the money come from? You're proposing to start your own private central bank.
I'm a bit puzzled myself given the love of Netflix, but I guess a temporal versus continuous time argument can be made for media versus software. I think it might be the next generation of app bundle, and frankly the iOS App Store has made a lot of software a disposable purchase. I guess its ok or even preferred for TV, movie, and bands but we get testy if someone says its good enough for us.
U.S. Plans to Require Banks to Identify Owners of Shell Companies
Why eBay no longer makes sense for private sellers
Having researched this myself moderately extensively, I do not believe that the event actually happened.

Moreover, the book "Thinking fast and slow" does not contain the word "pottery" (nor "ceramics").
https://github.com/AndrewHynes/eprime-mode
They need a desktop version
My first question is: do you have 1 real potential user that would actually pay real money for this? If so, have you provided the service to them and have they paid? You could do that.

My second question: do you have 10 users that have paid for this?
My age is beginning to show because I think snapchat is the most useless of the social networks
Yeah that was my point.
Or how about the more uncommon the word the more like the background tone it is so that you get instant visual feedback?
Celebrity culture of US is so bizzarelly different from the nightlife culture I know. I understand that some people just want to waste money sitting at the table with a celebrity, but why call this establishment a nightclub in the first place?

Clubs are places to enjoy the music — without phones, without friends, without stupid conversations. Things describes in that article are the exact opposite of this.
But how do you know you are not a better soldier? Assuming you are in the USA, there is no mandatory military service. Who is to say you are not great one, but you just don't know?

On another angle, the point is not about being a soldier specifically. How about doing intelligence, or translation, or manufacturing, or X, or Y, or Z for the purpose of fulfilling whatever mission the President has decided is important?

The point that you are "told" by the government is a weak one. In the US at least, you elect representatives to make the right decisions for you.

I have been to Israel where I saw armed young people welcoming me to the airport and doing their job for their country. Everybody has to do that job for some time. Everybody needs to sacrifice that time during which you cannot "go to the mall."

Maybe if that was the case, there would be less wars as people would think twice about it, as it used to happen in the past in the US.

My point was that we do build up this "social class" called the "military" when most would not ever consider joining. And that is what is hypocritical.
You can find citations to discussions & proposals for how to mitigate that in many places, such as the Wikipedia Carbon Tax article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax#Distributional_impa...
Did you write up this testing? I would love to see some hard number on this effect?
It would be interesting to try this with non-poor people as well, in some closed environment, maybe covered by sponsorship. e.g. at a conference, vacation destination etc. Higher density (due to artificial time pressure).

Helping poor people is morally interesting but they're actually really bad early adopters -- because they're poor the usually have much more risk aversion (because getting screwed on something can be an existential problem; for me, if I lose $100 through anything but fraud or theft, I'll be slightly sad; for a poor person, they might starve or die), and because they're usually less educated/accessible/etc.
Ah this is a good point, if the server records the exact direction of messages, then deniability goes down the toilet.
https://buffer.baremetrics.com/ Specifically https://buffer.baremetrics.com/stats/mrr#start_date=2015-10-...

Buffer has grown from $509K 12 months ago, to $663K a month 6 months ago, to $782K a month now. If being able to quickly iterate helped at all, that $132K is more than covered by the MRR growth from 12 months ago to today.
A great idea. See, the point is to be understood by everyone. Nothing is gained by making crazy sentences out of words that most people have never heard of. Is that supposed to impress people?

I had a friend who seemed to start replacing dead-simple phrases like “seriously!?” with “are you being facetious!?”. Ugh, this doesn’t help at all. It will either scream “hey, everyone, I learned a new word!!!” to the people who know what you said, or “say what!?” to anyone else; and they will be too busy parsing your words to hear whatever you say next.

And this advice isn’t because everyone you meet will be 6 years old or a high school drop-out. Simple words are: (1) WAY easier to pick up for everyone, and (2) many people are not using their native language, including very smart people in fields where people like big words.
The thing is, they also had no evidence of his even having viewed the files, which means that the last access time was unset. Building a system to reset the access time would be pretty involved; more involved, imo, than simply hiding/encrypting a partition.
There will be provisions in the merchant contract for what happens if we run out of USD reserves. In the initial months after we launch, every Gresham Dollar will be 100% backed by USD reserves, so the merchants (and other users) will take no risk in holding GD.

Later on, we will gradually leverage into a fractional reserve, but we will always be completely transparent about our USD reserve levels and how close we are to running out.

Since we don't offer on-demand exchange between USD and GD, it's impossible for there to be a run on our USD reserves. If, at any point, a user doesn't trust that his GD will hold its value, the only way for him to get rid of it involves transferring it to someone else's account, which resets the maturity on the GD, and lessens the need for us to dip into our USD reserves.

In this way, the less that people trust the currency, the stronger it gets.

Does that answer your question?
Analyzing the NPM dependency network
Also because the protocol discussed, now known as Signal, as been announced to have been implemented in WhatsApp yesterday.
SyncMe – Sync Dropbox and Google Drive
I have seen his hard work very near as i stayed in same apartment. As Suresh said his wife "Archana" is his backbone for all his growth. Good luck maacha. Keep up the moment.
Check also Rewordify [1], provides suggestions alongside the original text, has "difficulty" settings, and more, very complete website, highly recommended.
I spent ages looking for something like this.

1.- https://rewordify.com/index.php
For me, it's because I hardly ever use my Windows partition. What happens is that I boot it up once every few months, and then Windows Update immediately has a panic attack and starts downloading vast amounts of stuff behind the scenes and harassing me about reboots --- while I'm trying (and frequently failing) to get work done.

I really want to turn the automatic updates off, because they are actively counterproductive to everything I want to do. I know I need to update it, but I'll update it on my own schedule, thanks (like, when I'm not actually trying to use the computer).

At this point I no longer trust Windows Update to do its job properly. The idea of it even thinking about forcing a reboot terrifies me.
The TextSecure protocol is now named the "Signal Protocol"; it's developed by Open Whisper Systems. It is the protocol used by the Signal app on Android and iPhone, and as of this week, also used by WhatsApp.

Here is an older post where the authors of the protocol explain why not OTR: https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/

The main takeaway: text messaging, unlike traditional instant messaging, is primarily asynchronous with long-lived sessions, where traditional instant messaging is primarily synchronous with short-lived sessions.
I go to school and work 4 days a week, how do I make money in the rest 3
I am often bored during the weekends and a day off I get once in a while during the week. I need the money, for tuition and all, so how would I go on about making money with my free time.

I only have some programming experience. Right now I teach at InstaEdu (Now Chegg tutors) at $20 an hour but it is VERY UNSTABLE. I sometimes can manage $100 in the same day and somedays only $20 for 4-5 hours of work. Pointers?

Also, I can't get a second job because of some government-aid restrictions on me :/ I live in the USA.

Thanks! :)
How is OS X better in userland than Linux?
Better to just rebate a fixed amount to everyone so that you preserve the incentives for cutting back any marginal unit of fossil fuel consumption, while mitigating the overall income effect.
In terms of financial efficiency renewable and nuclear are completely different to fossil fuels.

With a gas power station their is a point at which the fuel is too expensive to compete and the plant is turned off.

With renewable energy the cost is in capital expenditure rather than fuel. It makes sense to run the generator as much as possible, regardless of how little money it makes. In a market dominated by fossil fuels the effective price is therefore always slightly less than the cheapest fossil fuel available. It becomes more valuable as oil or coal prices rise and less valuable as they drop.

Of course that is a ridiculous situation to be in. The only real reason to ever promote renewable energy/ or nuclear is because it is a better product with less negative impact. It is perfectly reasonable that this would cost more than fossil fuel. The only way for a private company to pay off the debt is to charge more than market rates for the energy produced.
Is this a product or a technology project?
Yeah for teens it seems like snapchat a thing.
Optimizing Recurrent Neural Networks in CuDNN 5
How will you differentiate from and compete against the horde of other proofing services (not to mention the horde of proofing services that specialize in CVs)?
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/10/20/donald-t...

He does use very simple words.
My thought on that is if it becomes that big of a deal to maintain then we likely have bigger issues to deal with on societal level, such as end-of-society type things.

Changing archival methods during analog times might have been troublesome, but it has to be getting easier. Hard drive technology can change dramatically but if it interfaces with my current computer then copying files over to it will be trivial.
Pardon my ignorance of Computational topology design. You parameterize the problem and define a "cost" or "reward" as well somehow in the CAD plugin?
I had an opposite experience - I moved to Louisiana from a northern state and was shocked at the amount of racism and bigotry openly displayed. While looking in to buying a house I was told but multiple realtors to avoid certain areas because they are "too black." Also I distinctly remember seeing a bumper sticker that deriding mixed race relationships that ended with "don't be a race-mixing slut." Absolutely blew my mind - I didn't know those attitudes still existed.
Great idea -- good products should sell themselves. :D

UX-wise, I think it'd be engaging if the format would be like 9gag where there'd be popular/hot/new pages. Also, it might be take a while to deal with the poster/voter chicken and egg thing. How about also integrating the product's engagement via various channels (quora, stackshare, fb, tw, ig) but focusing more on the engagement metrics than the vanity popularity metrics? Like a Klout for products. :D
Would this be implemented as only showing pairs within a certain threshold of difference, or would it choose an application purely at random and then the application with the closest score (or even 50/50 the next highest or next lowest)? The former seems like it could lead to cases where applications end up in a void between clusters and stop appearing in votes, preventing late voters from giving an opinion on them.

Is there a name for this kind of voting process?
I agree wholeheartedly, just as of now have decided not to release the procedure. I said elsewhere but Tesla knows of this and so far has chose to not change it. If it becomes a trend which every owner could easily do I have no doubt they would quickly change their minds. Barring that, there is enough information out there for a determined individual to accomplish this.
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Could you post a video of how it works?
The Future of Machine Intelligence: An Interview Series
>Tesla was part of that program and without that loan they would not be around today.

I like Tesla, but it's still not entirely clear Tesla is a viable ongoing enterprise. If Tesla can't make money with the Model 3 it's unlikely to survive in the long term.