skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making a social media platform invite only was such an obvious mistake, I'm surprised a company like Google made it. The product in G+ was not the platform but the potential social element of it (the user's friends and family).

"Hey here is an invite to this thing that none of your friends can get on"
you dont need an ebike for that, unless its up hill both ways.

< 5 miles is very doable with pedaling. my commute is to work is 5 miles and my best time is 23 minutes (in Boston).

You can spend nothing and get a free gym membership out of it.
Stripe + Plaid is super cool! But I wish they allowed you to payout users with via ACH, instead of just receiving ACH payments. Anyone know of any offerings, besides Paypal Mass Pay?
Then why did you bring it up?
What do you propose instead?
my word - that's a key sign they are in trouble...
Have you used TFS?
What do you think of the chest trauma being caused by airdropped anti personnel mines? Or other smallish explosive?

Wouldnt these leave some evidence via empty canisters? The wiki said scrap metal was found near by. But I'd imagine there would be some more obvious evidence near the ground when the rescue team arrived.
If only there was a location more convenient to the Mission =\
How does that system handle four-five people wanting to go see a concert together?
You wanted innovation? We gave you Clippy the Paperclip in your IM client
Obama a liar? You racist.
It's a scale thing, I think. In NZ if you are a bank wanting to introduce new technology for payments then you have exactly 5 other banks that you need to get on board. In the US there's many thousands.

e.g. The NZ banks jointly own the company that processes EFTPOS payments. A system like that could never emerge in the US. Instead, people have debit cards, which are manageable because they go through the credit card companies and there are only a handful of those.

But yeah, it's all incredibly primitive and fraud-prone compared to NZ or Europe (I've lived in all three).
Another recent example is Under Secretary Butch Blazer of the USDA. He "resigned" 3-weeks ago:

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2016/...

The press release conveniently leaves out the Office of Inspector General's investigation of Butch, his wife and his step-son regarding a marijuana investment promising $44 million in revenue. Nor the fraud, extortion and numerous scams by his step-son.

His step-son, Doug Fierro, is a "shaman"-

http://amazonshaman.com/about.html
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What's your coworking spot of choice in tko?
A computer generated check is absolutely as valid as a paper check from your checkbook. I routinely generate images of checks which I then snap a picture of right off the monitor in order to remote deposit. Of course this is always done with the written and signed consent of the account holder.

Since you can't ACH outside of the US (I think) and any bank in the US has pretty strict "Know Your Customer" requirements, you will know for sure at least the first hop of where the money went.

I've heard of "work from home" schemes to include people acting as a middle-man for funds like this. They receive the ACH funds, and then they wire them overseas or send them via Western Union. These people, whether they were honestly duped or not, have committed a felony.

So when people worry about checks containing all the data you need for someone to empty your account, the first thing to consider is deterrence is very strong in this area because the penalty is massive, and tracking where the money was sent via ACH is easy.

That said, it would be nice if they could phase in a new standard which used one-time codes and provided real-time validation for this sort of thing. ACH transfer fees are extremely low compared to credit cards after all.
15M is nearly 5% of Twitter's active users, or all the growth they've had in 2015. Assuming these bots are "active".
That's correct. I worked at a bank for years and once a month I would get a check written from the same older gentleman on half a sheet of yellow legal pad.

He apparently thought buy checks were a scam and he saw no reason to buy them when he could just use a sheet of paper.
We pay our rent with a check because the online system our landlord wants us to use charges us a 5% convenience fee. Much cheaper to just buy a stamp.
I disagree. Controlling transferability could give their 'official' secondary market more marketshare, denying other secondary markets access to the tickets (EDIT: e.g., the NFL, for example, controlling transfers, could allow transfers only through certain secondary markets and not others). Also, he's the former CEO, so his interests might not be entirely aligned with TicketMaster.

Finally, perhaps you can find a more respectful way to address other people's ideas.
Firefox still supports XP SP2 and Vista.
I use paper checks a lot these days. It costs me about $1 to clear a check, and $25 to send a wire transfer.

I'd much prefer to do everything electronically, but I'm not going to pay an extra $24 to do it...
I would love to move away from checks, but (ironically) they're the cheapest, quickest, most robust way for me to transfer money digitally between family and friends. Write a check, endorse the back, take a photo with a banking app, and money is moved from one account to another without any additional fees.
Turning down Russia I can (sort of?) understand. The last conservative government was keen on playing hardball with the Kremlin over Arctic sovereignty - seems there's no reason to back off that stance now.

Turning down American help was strange though. I'd like an explanation for that..
>[Steve Jobs] was a genius who essentially invented new product categories

What product categories did Steve/Apple invent? All of their major breakthroughs (iPod, iPhone, iPad) were already existing product categories but Apple just made them right / what customers wanted. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Opinions vary; here's a very busy BBS for ebike and other EV DIY-ers: https://endless-sphere.com/forums/
...And that's why it was banned in big cities, which have famously bad air pollution problems. As opposed to the country.
Not directly related, but that comp ramp-up between years 1-4 and 4-6 seems similar to what I see at my current place, which is starting to cause some discontent and potential retention fun down the line, with people getting used to everything ramping up quickly initially and then slowing down once they get to a more mature level (and title changes get further apart too, since you're expected to do more and more at each role).

Interesting to see similar numbers from elsewhere.
Here's a nice quote for your personal collection:

"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution."
- Igor Stravinsky
Turning help from Russia was stupid they actually got allot of experience the great northern forests of Russia are probably the closest environment to Canada and if they go a blaze it can cause an extinction level event on a planetary scale so they are actually well prepared for that at least as well as anyone can be.
They even have reportedly tested killing forest fires with nukes if a Siberian tundra fire goes out of control.
Likewise kick scooters. Fast and quiet enough to make pedestrians think "you are like a bike and I should treat you like one," but in fact far too slow for roads and unexpectedly agile on sidewalks.

Basically, all the vehicles that sit in the intermediate gradients of speed/acceleration are in a position for their simple existence to offend everyone else.
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Assuming they're honest here, is it possible it's other apps tapping the microphone, correlating it with your Facebook account, and somehow placing items in your newsfeed/etc.? I'm not familiar with the capabilities of FB ad platform to know if this is feasible. Otherwise, like someone else here said, it's probably contracted out to a third-party doing the mic listening.
I was given a salary figure, until I got on-site for the final round, at which i got a very hard sell and the reveal -- some of the salary was "in kind" -- free shuttle bus, 401k match, etc (all in policy, not in offer letter.) Policy changed shortly after I joined, and I learned the policy change was being discussed months before I joined -- so the hiring manager extracted these concessions knowing full well they perks may be reduced or removed.
You find more about this here: https://mic.com/articles/144228/echoes-exposed-the-secret-sy...
MEMS company acquired by company developing advanced cancer treatments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826647
Agreed. I pay royalties to a lot of different accounts and Paypal is simply the only option available. How come its super hard to go "here is my ACH account, put $XX into this ACH account"?

I'm not even taking someone else's money, I'm trying to give money! I even have the tax paperwork to accompany that payment.
I'm not sure there's a problem that needs solving. While I don't like what they do, I don't have to buy a ticket if I'm unhappy. At most, perhaps some transparency would be appropriate.

They are not selling healthcare or something else essential, for which distributing it based on buying power would be wrong. I'm not a free market fundamentalist but I think it works fine for concert tickets.
You could've been your own boss or negotiated for more.

People are more careful with expensive things and treat them better.

You aren't working at the leisurely indiscretion of the company.

You become a more efficient, effective, objective, focused and self-directed employee when you focus on and realize your cost/value proposition.

Of course if you were working for a foundation or charity then sure... This doesn't apply.
"Big difference for example, between expert Python dev and expert C++ dev writing display drivers or graphics engines."

I'd encourage you not to sell your earning potential short by negotiating against yourself like this. C++ display driver writers sound more impressive and might be in shorter supply, but so are the companies that need them. Even if it's legitimately harder!

There are a lot of companies who bring in a lot of revenue off of web-stack stuff that need Python devs, and so are in a position where it makes sense for them to pay a lot for that skill set, and that's where the value side comes from.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833718
well that's fair.

but why do you think the over reaction is ok, which punishes innocent people not the people who created the system.

again two wrongs don't make a right, all it does is continue a negative cycle.
I've been to both WeWork spaces in Austin (where I live) and the one downtown hosts a lot of events that I believe WeWork customers have priority at them (discount tickets and other things).
By the time Russia came along, much of the populated area's were out of harms way. Adding more aircraft that are all using 1 or 2 airports is just more congestion.
Donald Knuth was saying this how many years ago? It's got to be something like 10 years now. This is why he stopped sending out checks for people finding bugs in his books.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news08.html
As I said, I don't live there. So no, I didn't know that. But I do know that the bulk of Rob Ford's support is/was mostly in the outlying suburbs of Toronto, and not "old toronto". Substitute Markham for someplace like Etobicoke and I think the point still stands.
WeDontWork
>Why not just say "Does not use your microphone without tapping a record button" (and make sure it's implemented like that).

Because it does. From the article:

"We only access your microphone if you have given our app permission and if you are actively using a specific feature that requires audio. This might include recording a video or using an optional feature we introduced two years ago to include music or other audio in your status updates."
Once a month from my roommate in the US.
They get in line together to purchase?

Or, quantity limits per purchased are relaxed after the initial sale surge is complete.
Ehhh, unless you see the motor, he might just be pounding along with his own two legs. I ride year round so I'm in pretty good shape for biking but I still occasionally get smoked (uphill) by some guy on a MTB with a seat that's too low and sporting a rusty orange chain.
As a happy Nester it's been sad to see...
MacArthur Foundation Will Award $100M for Solution to a Global Problem
Beyond what everyone else is saying about the limitations on what the actual language indicates, both the length and the tone of this message sound questionable...
That always struck me as lame. If someone that well off wants to eliminate that decision, then just have a professional clothes person create clothing matches. 'A' goes with 'A'. 'B' goes with 'B'.

What it really is, is someone making a statement about how important their decisions are.

Lots of well off people still wear interesting clothing.
Sure, but when you make a request to a system you don't control (file system as per the example) all bets are off as far as formal correctness goes. It's beyond silly to test for the class of issues that your gp brought up as an example since it would effectively be testing if you wrote malware, which you shouldn't, unless you're a malware author. I get that untested and unaccounted for side effects can feel like malware sometimes, but neither types nor tests will save you from yourself if you act like an unattended dog in a chocolate factory (I count wanton use of side effects to avoid making a clear design decision as such behavior).
He didn't lie. He deflected by using "targeting" and he was right.
What does your VPN have to do with data consumption?
The psychology seems to be: "since we can't see them win out this game, we'll save our money for a possible game 7".

Same results for the World Series and NHL Finals. Resale prices for Game 3 in San Jose have dropped significantly.
Resale prices for the 2012 NLCS Game 6 dropped a lot after the Giants fell behind 3 games to 1. etc. etc.
Monday's standup:
Y: Fired Tony Fadell

T: Realized that we made him an "advisor", dealing with backlash from that
For those reasons I wanted to go with Brain Tree, but they don't support ACH.
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27, in New Zealand.

I've never owned a checkbook, and the only checks I've ever received were from my grandparents (on my birthday) or a Tax refund. And tax refunds switched to direct deposits around 10 years back.
You can also use fdopen to get a FILE* from a file descriptor, and then use the buffering and read/write logic of the C library, rather than having to write your own write_in_full function.
How do we report spam users?

jackson_1 seems to be both "final year of studying computer science" and "So I'm a 3rd year electrical engineering student" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11825550)

the text from both of those questions mentions reddit, and can be googled and traced to ~2010...
I think the author has a misunderstanding of the market.

Movie theatres and TV can charge so much not only due to the quality/type of content, but also because of the audience expectations.

YouTube and the like are a 'consume random bits of content' platform. The customer expectation is to not pay directly. The advertisers are paying what the market values the content at.

I've been sent links to videos on (I think) Vimeo which had a paywall. $5 for something. I didn't pay it. Was the quality of content worth it? I have no idea. It clearly didn't grab me enough, and looking at the vimeo logo, I am trained to consider that a platform of free content.

Netflix is completely different, even though I'm sitting at the same computer consuming media. I expect to pay a monthly fee. If Netflix popped up and told me I had to pay for premium content, I'd probably not watch it. That's not what they sold me on.

When I go to a theatre (once every 3 years or so) I expect to pay. I don't expect to sit through 30 minutes of advertisements. Growing up without ads in theatres, the unspoken agreement was that I would pay for the content and not be interrupted by ads.

So, $1000 CPM? Nice headline, but not realistic in the way the author is suggesting.
I generally agreed, and enjoyed your structure. Any disagreement was with the last line which implied warmongers are even half as good as animals.
Well, I just googled around and found my idea is not super unique.. already found 2 teams working on it:

https://www.jukedeck.com
http://juke-bot.com/
Their collisions are ok... I like this stuff from Disney:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHfQL5UjXhk

Those knots are gnarly!
Thanks for saving me the time!
It was sarcastic.
none of which matter in GNOME or KDE, which is what this thread (great grandparent on) has been about.

So, how is your reply not moving goalposts?
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I haven't yet seen any benchmarks for Vivaldi, but yeah, Chrome/-ium is known for criminally eating through battery life.
So you spent $40,000 to reveal those bots? All to write a short blog post?

Am I missing something?
Our coworking space did not get your memo: http://www.bespokesf.co/
I suspect that the processes to produce these will get patented if not the results, but it's still encouraging that new treatments can be made by using cells from our own bodies.
That's what they do for some electric cars.
I have visited We Work after hours for meet ups but never during the day. Could someone describe what the staff does or what they should do? Isn't it substantially a real estate company, so is it all leasing/sales plus some facilities work?
Libp2p – p2p network stack
Turning on "no self intersect" produces much more realistic-looking results; any reason you don't have that on by default?
It would be great if this conversation didn't decay into a semantic argument about the definition of lying.
Business accounts are even worse - they're governed by the Uniform Commercial Code rather than consumer law, and you only get 24 hours to report fraud. If someone sucks $200k out of your account and you don't catch it in 24 hours, there's a possibility you'll never see that money again.

What a lot of people do is set up an 'incoming payments' account, an 'outgoing payments' account, and a 'storage' account. Have your bank block all external withdrawals from the incoming account, block all external deposits to the outgoing account, and automatically move money once-a-day from the incoming account to storage and from storage to outgoing(keep say $10,000 in there at all times). Never write checks against the storage account, or give the number out in any way.

On one hand, ACH is technically insecure. On the other hand, if a scammer can get away with the money a terrorist could get funded with the money, so money laundering and anti-terrorism laws have the side effect of making it hard for people to get away with it. And then you just throw the scammer in jail.

The article mentions handing a check to your landlord. Personally, as a landlord I set up an incoming rent checking account, hand out the checking account information to tenants, and let the tenant deposit the money electronically or by driving to the bank. I've asked my bank to reject withdrawals but accept deposits from that account, and use a debit card to pay for maintenance and utilities. I'm considering using SaaS software to collect this, mainly to ease accounting; I'm not worried about security here.
I would vote for mobile internet.

Yes, Blackberry had a smart(ish) phone. But it was really just a mobile email phone. Apple was the first phone manufacturer to provide a full featured, no compromises mobile internet browsing experience.

I would then add the whole mobile app store concept. Blackberry's version was really nothing much.
I think that's how much it would cost or the full amount. I do think they spent $400 though. Very weirdly written article.
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do you at least have an idea where you'd like to move to?
A non-transferable ticket can't be sold on any secondary market. That's what makes them non-transferable.
Canada and Russia recently got into a pissing match over another Russia space craft coming down near. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-says-it-didn...
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Even when it's true, "this doesn't need a blockchain" is such a content-free criticism. It's new technology. People will discover when it's useful to use a blockchain even when it's not the cheapest approach, just like we've done with garbage collectors and virtual machines.

Use blockchains for whatever you want.
An advantage of all Soviet-era planes is they can use any crappy airfield without breaking a sweat.
My guess is that this is a way for the non-compete agreement to be enforceable until enough things get fixed so Tony's knowledge about what is broken no longer matters.
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Elon Musk believes we are characters in advanced civilization's video game
Anyone know when's this going to be ready for prime time?
I'm with you 100%. Both terms just feel shallow.
The underpricing is the core problem. We're trying to assign tickets to people, so the question is what rules to use to do the assignment. A typical price system is one set of rules (and IMO the best one). Some kind of contest where people show off how badly they want a ticket would be another option. Or maybe you could base it on how frequently someone's bought tickets in the past. There are of course lots of other options too.

The point is to get the tickets to the people who want them the most. I think a lottery does a poor job of that.
They have a pretty short comment history and no (visible) prior warnings (I was curious, so I looked). From the outside, the request is not unreasonable given the statement about "[t]his comment and others you've posted".
But how do I know that you've actually gotten the grades to earn the B+ in Calc 2 or whatever?

I feel like the blockchain only works when there is a binary yes/no of factuality, and grades can't be defined on a binary factuality.
With all due respect, I don't think you understand how the Canadian system works.

Out of 338 seats in our parliament, 231 are held in Ontario and points east.
This. Can't mention luck and coincidence enough. Most startups can trace their success to meeting person x at the right time in the right way. X be an investor, an engineer, a business developer, whatever.
I think most of the cost of local roads is paid for from regular taxes. Not to mention that the capital and maintenance cost of roads depends very heavily on the weight of the vehicles using it. cough trucks cough Freeways are very expensive because the DOT requires them to be able to carry commercial trucks[1].

[1] Santa Clara country, paid to extend HWY85 out of their own pocket and as a result, trucks are banned. Last time I drove it, it was still seemed in good shape after mumble twenty years. Compare with HWY880 though Oakland CA. Always being worked on, always broken up.
Texas teacher had sex with her age 13 English student ‘on almost a daily basis’
Soon to be followed by "Upon further review, some developers may have abused the microphone permission and used it for internally unauthorized purposes."
This is the kind of comment you could just post for any article without reading it.
I don't understand why people set up automatic payments on the payee's site. If you initiate the payment from the bank, you have more control over when it goes it out, can review the bill before authorizing the withdrawal, can see all of your pending payments and their effect on your balance, etc. I don't like giving anyone access to one of my accounts. Credit cards are a decent buffer against this, as you get time to review the bill before paying.