skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you elaborate on the "regardless of the price" part of that? Are you saying that popular tickets should always just be allocated by lottery? Would you say that about other scarce goods (e.g. last-minute plane tickets), or is there something different about tickets?
I've turned down $350k for frontend work before around the Valley (2.5 years of experience at the time) - I have a unique master-level specialty in Angular.js (contributor, major involvement in the open source community including maintainer status in 2 of the 3 most used third party libraries in the ecosystem).

I've not seen anywhere close to that number since (I opted for a $160k position in an industry I like, expanded experience, and the ability to work even as low as 30 hours a week should I choose to), but it has given me supreme confidence to turn down offers that don't have a minimum compensation along with my desired benefits/perks.
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Ha! I was working on this very concept for a hackathon at work (edX) as a way to think about the future of credentials / authenticity for students taking ad-hoc courses.

It's really cool to see others working on this sort of thing. One of the questions I saw, about identity, reminded me of an idea I had to solve this very problem.

The hardest part about putting this stuff on the blockchain is that you need to be able to prove that a transaction (containing your credential metadata) that went to address A is an address you own, that you can sign for. Like the credential proof itself, an easy way to associate ownership is to put some hashed metadata in a transaction, sent from the address you intend to prove you own.

This was the hardest part to do, IMO, in a way that is both high-assurance and low complexity. Since academic credentials are most often checked for employment, I thought that maybe using metadata that you wouldn't normally share with anyone except for an employer (like social security #) would be reasonable. Define a list of secret-ish values, define a specification for what values are valid, how to order and format that, and how to generate a hash from it. This way, third-parties are able to independently verify things so long as they can get the values from you.

If you wanted to prove to a third-party that you, in fact, are the person (bitcoin address) you say you are, you'd give them the shared bits of information, they would hash it, and then check all the bitcoin transactions and stitch together the web of trust that establishes your credentials. The intention being that you wouldn't normally be compelled to fake credentials for someone else -- take classes and then let them subsume the credit -- because it would involve more than just letting them assume your name, you'd have to give them sensitive values like SSN, etc.

Other ideas included something like a standardized format for fingerprint data, or something biometric -- very hard to easily replicate or steal -- as a way to more closer tie the person to their address.. but I couldn't seem to find anything that provided such a standard, and since giving blood or fingerprints is kind of an uneven exchange.. never went down that avenue.

I'd really love to see some sort of solution to this.
He's pushing for better public transit, not necessarily private transit ;) #UberScandal
>I use paper checks a lot these days. It costs me about $1 to clear a check, and $25 to send a wire transfer.

Is ACH not an option?
If it's true, I wonder what effect it will have on the value of Twitter(I do assume this isn't the only one).

If it turns out half the use base is made out of bots or non-active registered users that is.
Before you go accusing folks on the internet; perhaps consider that they too might know a thing or two about the subject at hand?

And I was attempting to articulate why someone may have down-voted you by being overly critical; I didn't feel negatively towards your original comment either way.
Wow, from a German perspective that sounds absurd. Bank transfers in the Euro zone are free (SEPA). Within Germany they've been free as long as I can remember. I've never written a cheque in my life.
The racism of unhinged racists is also unhinged? I'm shocked.
This may have been impossible depending on his contract.
It's worth pointing out this is two years and three months after nest was acquired.
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They're still very useful in the US. If I want to give someone money and I know their name and address, often the easiest way to do this is by writing a check and mailing it to them.
Do these really sell for $6K+? I'd love to have an electric assist option for my 30 mi round trip, but the cost is a tough pill to swallow... $3K I'd do in a minute.
I guess Russia is still unpopular on HN.

Russia has allot of experience with wildfires it has the largest and densest northern forests in the world combined with a permafrost that holds insane amount of methane and other carbohydrates.

Climate change and forest fires are huge national security issue to Russia and if they go out of control it can cause horrible damage to Russia and even then entire planet as it can cause a Permian extinction style event which happened before when the Siberian carbon traps went up in flames.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extin...

Russia has been dealing with huge wild fires every several years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_wildfires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires

They are one of the few countries that designs and builds dedicated firefighting aircraft designed to combat large forest fires.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_Be-200
And while they might be arseholes on the political scene otherwise every time there is a large scale fire they do extend their hand and come in with serious help.
Few sellers would list tickets for far-in-advance sale, then. The strategy seems to be to do huge volume and let fraud get lost in the noise. They fail to see the risk of high-volume, planned fraud of well-in-advance sales for pricey events that are guaranteed to happen (say, the Final Four or Indy 500): sell bogus tickets a month out, collect payment, close accounts behind you, profit.
I wear a collared shirt and black pants to work every day, but the shirts are different colours. Frankly, my fashion sense isn't great but I look decent in a nice collated shirt and my wife does have a great sense of style (heck, she makes a dork like me look good, I'm always in awe of this ability - it's like a superpower!) so this makes complete sense to me.
This is, owing to some of the social peculiarities of work here, a "feel free to ask me privately" question. My email is trivially discoverable.
In France, both are free, and we use cheques a lot... For example, a lot of doctors don't want to deal with cash and don't accept credit card.
No it doesn't.

"Might include..."

They want you understand that without having to be pinned to having said it. This is really carefully worded to get you to think exactly what you did. Why not just say "Doesn't use your microphone without tapping a record button"? It's reasonable to assume because that statement would be false.
It seems no one has a sense of humor.

But seriously, when I was a young guy I learned quickly that we are all temporary. One day your working the next day you could be on out on your ass. That's when I started living like I could be on the street tomorrow. Happily I can say that I was never without work but as a result of living with what I need and not what I want I amassed a small fortune and financial freedom.
It's truly trivial to select clothing to wear during the day. If someone told me that they were 'saving resources' by wearing the same thing most of the time I think I would laugh in their face. I have to think it was just some personal branding on Jobs part, as in Everytime you see the dude he's 'the same'/consistent, depending on how you interpret that.
A separate class for each unit of measurement isn't the right way to perform compile-time dimensional analysis. It doesn't easily support forming compound units from more basic ones.
I'm no expert on ocean current modelling but it seems to me you should multiply the probabilities from each find, not add them up.
In the US, there are plenty of stores and restaurants that do not take any form of electronic payment. It's cash or check. Ask the business owner and it's always because of the fees.
BTW, does this mean that (((Jesus))) must be wrapped accordingly, too?
The shortening certainly works better in newspaper headlines and song lyrics!
It's not cynical. No really it isn't. Anymore that it's cynical to assume the mafia are involved in crime. Any other approach is just plain idiotic because evidence.
Stop it with those short PGP key IDs
Any of them from the past few decades. Obama's administration has made secret courts and laws more common than ever before while prosecuting a record number of whistleblowers.
There's the rub, I think the NSA revelations and everyone collaborating with them, wittingly or unwittingly, proves we never can.
It sounds like more of an ASD symptom. Having routines and being unable to break them. I have mild ASD and often wear the same clothes/copies of the same stupid free startup tshirt for no real reason other than subconsciously I hate change. I also really haven't bought new clothes for years due to it being too much change to handle. I do make sure they are clean when I wear them tho!
I can't recommend Reviewable highly enough! We've been using it for a long time now on Servo (https://github.com/servo/servo/). The author has been amazingly responsive with fixing bugs, dealing with GitHub issues, improving scalability on reviews with thousands of files or hundreds of thousands of lines of changes, making it work with really horrific rebase-heavy workflows, etc.

If you're using the GitHub code review UI today, reviewable is pretty much an immediate upgrade. We've found that we use it for anything non-trivial. So, if it's more than a few lines or would take more than a couple of comments, we use Reviewable instead.

Pretty much the only things we have issues with are:

- The UI is a little fancy. Sometimes figuring out how to get back to the PR itself so that I can tell our autolander service (http://homu.io/) to land the PR is hard because the dancing CSS butterflies get in the way :-)

- We're a Mozilla project, so we disproportionately use Firefox. Let's just say it's not the browser of primary testing (though it's ahead of some others!), given the demographic of developers who access GitHub.

- Every once in a while really long-lived PRs get rebased, squashed, and reordered so many times that all of the introduced pseudo-commits are bigger than the actual thing to review itself. I'm really not sure what could be done to help here, though.
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If you're on Vim or Emacs you already (maybe) know you have integration with shellcheck

Emacs - https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

Vim - part of syntactic - https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic/blob/master/syntax_c...
The google shell style guide linked now lives here and is probably an even better starting point than this article:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml
That's just semantics.

"Made them right / what customers wanted" covers so much ground for those products, it's fair to say they were first in a new category of product.

For example, "smart phone" means "phone that works like an iPhone", more or less.
You use the BT to get it to use YOUR (the attacker's) wifi.
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That is beautiful. This one also impressed me, modeling individual yarns: http://www.gmrv.es/~gcirio/pdf/YarnLevelWovenCloth_SIGASIA20...
You're not missing anything other than the ability to sell people on it.
This "motorcycle" can only do 40km/hr so it can't even reach the speed limit. A lot of e-bikes used in China are much faster than that. Safety there isn't the problem you'd expect because they often move in packs and drivers are slower and more cautious than in the west. Also, streets are built to accommodate them.

I don't really understand why this is a kickstarter. Just buy a well established e-bike brand with the specs you want.
At West Loop, there are two front desks, each staffed by 1-2 people; one at reception, one on the second floor, which I assume is there for member services? Then there are 3-4 at-large workers in black WeWork t-shirts taking out trash, delivering mail? No, wait, no they don't deliver anything. I think they just take out the trash.

Then there's a night crew that comes in and cleans the building.
I am not sure why learned members of HN don't get sarcasm.

But anecdotally Trudeau was worried about carbon footprints from a camp fire he once attended, but these wildfires don't bother him.
It will be beautiful when we disrupt the use of the word delight.
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The thing is the stakeholders do not benefit from bad behavior. For the reasons you enumerated above (adverse selection, etc). I'm not sure how you fail to connect the dots. Google, for example, is very aggressive about ad fraud. We all would love to completely end ad fraud because it would get us paid more. I've told you this. Large ad buyers in this thread have told you this.

Mocking 3% conversion rates (a 97% failure rate) is dumb. The world is stochastic.

You think because you have crappy clients that all ad buyers are incompetent? Or that giant cpg companies waste their ad spending, or have never thought to run tests around it?

I think this entire conversation has reinforced my prior that people calling themselves "Thought Leaders" are anything but.
By locking your credit however you are denying them the future business of selling your credit profile. Think if everyone did it.

But yes it's completely outrageous - you have to pay someone you didn't approve of having you data in the first place from giving it to another party likely did't approve of also having it.
AH the ole Assange approach. Anyone else see a pattern here? Threaten the surveillance state (TOR) and they come after you.
This.

Also: Look to promote people who already work for you. If you know someone is good that is much easier than hiring an unknown.

Also: Delegate & follow up.
$1M from 15M fake accounts is rather low.

6.67 cents per account.

Isn't it easier and much more profitable to fake click ads at such scales?

Also getting 15M fake accounts means getting 15M fake emails, which isn't cheap:

https://buyaccs.com/en/
Sometimes you don't have to work under them, just with them. And they can be people in an influential team. For me that was many years ago where I was abused one too many times by someone I considered a friend. There's no excuse, but I turned into a jerk - and years later I recognised this failure in my personality.

I have to work very hard not to be that person nowadays. I think I largely succeed, and my current job isn't that well paid or require deep skills, but I'm happier with myself.

It's not easy realising you are a part of the reason the system is rotten. Often, even if you do acknowledge it, you aren't part of that system so you have to bring that hard earned and lived experience to the next organisation. It's worth it, but it's a pity it often takes being outside the system to realise it, and an even bigger pity when you realise it whilst in the system but then find it impossible to change...
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I commuted on an electric bicycle (and didn't own a car) in 2010-2012 on a eZee Torq http://ezeebike.com/bikes-and-options/torq/ it cost less than 2k.

I'm a bit out of touch of the latest developments in the market (I walk to work these days) but I'm sure you can find plenty of good options under 3k.
How is the learning capability harmful?
Especially helpfull for engineers, the salaries and titles of H1B visa holders is public
Disclaimer, I am at BEST a hobby investor, if even that much, please do not take my advice.

You have a few obvious options. A bear market in equities increases the relative strength of the dollar, so going long USDX or similar is an option. You can can short something like SPY as well, to try and get the direct impact.

"once it's happened" there's the fine art of catching the knife. Close out the above and take inverted positions when you think the dip is bottoming out.

Now; people who ACTUALLY know a thing or two about investing, please tell me why this is a terrible idea! (I'm not being glib, I actually have no faith in my mental models and want to learn more)
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seems like we can reasonably expect him to come in swinging the axe again, then.
Yes, always take the private chat logs of a socially awkward guy in his early twenties trying to sound flippant/cool in front of his friend as a complete and eternal expression of someone's innermost character. How substantive, how insightful!

And in fairness, there are very few people from 18-25 who would not be classified as "dumb" when it comes to thinking through privacy, consequences, and boundaries.
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because you can't trust assuming sarcasm on this site.
Working from home definitely has its own hardships. For me, its really messed with my sleep. When I worked from an office my most productive time was around 8am - 12pm. From home my post productive times are from 11pm - 3am. You can imagine some of the adverse effects this can have..
It would seem this is only helpful if you have more outflow of payments than inflow. If other customers/suppliers are using the same tactic, all it does is slow down delivering products and services.
By people paying to read the article.
He was an advisor for an analytics startup I used to work for. Really unimaginative and uninspiring. Zero vision. I was very surprised how he was appointed as an advisor (and got a good chunk of equity).
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Oh, none of that was really doable at the time. It was a DoD contracting job, and the way they structure the contracts you pretty much either accept what they give you or you leave. Which I eventually did.

But for a few years it was great.
On a tangentially related point, I attended a Christian private school where we were taught that it stood for Common Error, rather the Era, and that it's was somehow a diabolic plan to subvert Christianity. This among other reasons us probably why I am now an atheist.
I'm a member--through the company I work for--at the WeWork on Dupont Circle in Washington DC. I've been in a lot of coworking spaces over the years and this is certainly the largest so far. My 2nd day at work I got lost trying to remember how to get back to our 6-person office. And that's just one floor, there is a whole other floor.

There are a LOT of people working there. What's really surprising to see is how many of them are non-profits. The company I work for can swing it because we are a very profitable consulting company. But I don't get how the non-profs do it.

And there are always at least three people behind the reception desk. I don't ever see anyone actually using the reception desk, but there are three people manning it just in case. I did a loop around the halls and found no less than 4 custodians working at the same time. It's not like there is anything dirty going on. Everyone is working with computers.

I mean, there's free beer in the kitchen. How can this not be expensive? My CEO told me what he was paying for rent not too long ago. It was ludicrous. We could rent a warehouse in the city I actually live (Alexandria) and have 10 times as much room, and still have enough left over to renovate and make the warehouse into a "livable" office space.
I don't know about the legal effect of this, and I don't know about the situation in the US, but here in Australia the requirement that you must use a cheque form supplied by the bank is generally listed in the account's terms and conditions which are contractually binding.
Wow, what a massively convoluted process. So you don't have the concept of bank account numbers in the US?

Speaking as a Scandinavian expat, in Norway, a bank account number is all that's required for an IB transaction - whether to a private individual or an institution for paying bills etc (which will also require a reference, typically). The account number incorporates all required processing information.

In Australia it's slightly more complex by the availability of options; the routing info is split out into a BSB (bank branch identifier) so you need that as well as account number - and account name - for a payment to an individual.

For bills you have BPay through your Internet Banking (very similar to a BSB+Account No payment yet a different method, and it doesn't require you to enter a name as the BPay number will resolve to a named organisation). There are typically no transaction fees.

Outside of Internet Banking there is also a similar Australia Post system, as well as credit card payment methods.

Anyway I thought the Australian system was a bit hard or confusing at first, but the concept of creating digital images of cheques sounds outdated and painful.
Is that who is behind that? Why does this agency not have a higher profile?
You don't need to verify email to use Twitter.
I hope this is indicative of plans to revive the rust gcc frontend. The existence of that frontend was a major plus for the language as a stable standard.
You really put that in the right perspective for me. I've always thought of Jobs as a sociopath, but I also thought it was because of his demeanor that his employees created such amazing things.

No. You are right - he succeeded despite being a douche.
23, Australian, have written maybe a dozen personal cheques and a couple of bank cheques, and received maybe 3 or 4. Last time was depositing $20 from my grandmother as a birthday present a couple of months ago...
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If I recall correctly, the US has much weaker regulation on credit card merchant fees than the EU and other Western countries?
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "withdrawing supply"? Are you worried that sellers will hold some tickets back from the auction, or that resellers will buy the tickets that go up for auction?
Shell hasn't changed much, if at all, since, has it?
Would he even be liberal leader?
I'm a road cyclist, and one of the most fun things I've ever done was racing an e-bike up a long (~8km) climb. E-bikes here are limited to 250W, which made it pretty fair. He'd blast the flatter parts, and I'd try to hang on, and then on the steeper parts the extra weight of the ebike slowed him so I'd catch up again.

Made me want to get one.

I agree with your point about MTB versions
Does lifelock actually work though? What can they possibly due to keep your data safe? If there is a breach at one of the big three credit reporting agencies and your data is accessed how doe Lifelock help you? They remind of the same sham commercial there used to be for agencies that "helped you repair your bad credit" which also was and still isn't possible.
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My point is that society itself is unfair due to vast wealth inequality. From that basis, a fair system cannot occur if it depends on unequal wealth to allocate its scarce resources. It is a case of leveraging an advantage from one area into another.