skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best part is that previous reporting on this company (discussed on HN contemporaneously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7817895) indicated that they weren't actually even doing the laundry. All that stuff had been outsourced to another company, called "Wash Then Fold" (WTF, nice touch).

At the time, I wondered if there actually proved to be any money to be made here what would stop Wash Then Fold from just setting up their own app and cutting Washio out of the transaction entirely. Three years later, here we are and lo and behold:

https://www.washthenfold.com
Yeah that's insane. We use a local one here in SF (Sudzee) though it also can take a day or two to pick up and a day or two to return, and on weekends that's a bummer. And it costs $45 each time for over 40lbs of laundry.

I miss my days of $12 wash and fold in Brooklyn :-/
Stitch – A small Python library for writing reproducible reports in Markdown
> Washing your clothes does not take that much time

35 minutes to wash, 45 minutes to dry. 10 minutes to get to the laundromat, 5 minutes to move your clothes from washer to dryer, 10 minutes to haul it back, and let's say 20 minutes to fold it.

That's two hours, assuming there is no wait, no other interruptions, etc.

In New York, our local laundromat charged a pretty low cost in comparison to feeding quarters into a machine, so it made complete sense to just drop the laundry off on the way to work, and pick it up on the way back. (I don't remember the exact costs, but I do remember being surprised at just how cheap it was, especially considering the time it would save me.)
But 40 of the 41 would have accepted the settlement so why should they be on the hook for the fees when only one refused the settlement.
Ghosted after an interview? It's becoming more common
It seems like the incentive is to become an accountant and seek employment at the shadiest big company you can find in hopes of hitting a whistleblower jackpot.
> Unfortunately, it appears that places with more 'interesting' stuff to work on are also those that end up paying more.

I don't understand. How is this unfortunate?
HIBP doesn't store passwords, it only stores usernames and email addresses.
You can design it to be light and fast, but you wouldn't know unless you test it right? Good to know that a cheap droplet can at least handle rendering the landing page though.
You could have a toggle where you divide by the overall population of each city. So basically let the user switch between percentage and absolute.

Another ranking to consider is the h-index metric for academic papers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index), where you use the number of members of each meetup group in place of citations. So a city with a score h has h meetups each of which has at least h members.
I don't think you understand where ivory comes from at all. Drugs come from plants and processing, ivory comes from slaughtering/mutilating endangered species
Except they don't believe that. It is said to cure illnesses and is in some cases a status symbol. Belief that it is used as an aphrodisiac was supposedly fabricated.
A Mechanical Turk-based system could be a good middle ground.
Haha, sure, but the main point is that I don't think it was a catastrophe for the person who lost their clothes, either - at least, not on the level of losing nearly all of your clothes for a month.

Plus, since I knew the laundromat it came from, I could just return it and they could put up a "did you lose this shirt" sign, and have a reasonable chance of finding the owner.
> Almost all valuable research cannot be supported by a profit motive

I disagree entirely. Only a profit motive can support valuable research.

We obviously see the world differently, but would probably get along just great if we were spending time together, so - help me understand your perspectives a bit better.

What book or author would you recommend, who makes a strong case for your point of view? I'll give it a read.

Thanks!
That means that for each five months working, you build up reserves enough to last you one month without working. It's not a lot, but it's something. Now make some effort to push it to a 33% savings rate, and for each three months worked, you'll have one month of expenses saved. And so on. At some point, it becomes a game of cutting expenses and raising income.

If you get to live on 20/25% of your income and invest the rest, in 5 to 6 years you should have enough invested to pay your expenses for the rest of your life, assuming an yearly average return of 4% over inflation. This formula was made popular by Jacob from Early Retirement Extreme blog/book/forum/wiki: http://earlyretirementextreme.com
1. China makes so much fake stuff any way why not fake ivory.

2. How is the market for trinkets that big.
Use Fanout to Send Messages to Your Ionic2 App in About 20 Minutes
It's not exactly a small change over time. There is ~350 billion in charitable giving in the US per year. If you assume that was taxed at say 20% on average and ignoring inflation or interest * 238 years that's 16.6 trillion or close to the national debt.

Of course our GDP and tax rates has grown over time, but not nearly as quickly as debt interest. So, without doing excessive analysis we would probably have a national surplus if literally nothing else changed in the tax code or spending.

Granted, arguments about lowered GDP and other knock on effects are reasonable. But, suggesting no long term tax breaks seems unlikely.
It's always interesting to hear another person talk about this. I've seen an article or two talking about how under served the working class is in regards to software.

Makes me wonder how much of it is economic, and how much of it is social.
Would you use parse-server for new projects?
Hello, has anyone created a new project using the open source parse-server? Would you recommend using it for new projects?
Any other alternative that we can use that has the same feature-sets or better than parse-server?

Thanks
There is also a great resource with more up do date stuff on hashing and benchmarks right here: https://github.com/rurban/smhasher/
>> "It is written in highly portable C, making it suitable for practically every platform used today"

I love C, it is not the enemy everyone makes it out to be.

It's already in debian: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/zstd and judging by the small requirements,it is portable indeed.
This submission would have done better if its title indicated that it was a post-mortem by the creator, who talks about how it all got started. Otherwise I would've guessed that it was just another another-service-I-use-shuts-down rant by a TC blogger.
A potentially decent platform for hardware products. I would like to see something similar for software products to.
Not meaning to badmouth your project, but I've never understood the need for snippets as in code that I can copy and paste.

If I repeat myself I use a library, or a more concise language or IDE autocomplete.

On the other hand I do use Textmate's snippets feature, but those are interactive templates that I can invoke by pressing a letter and then fill them out by tabbing through them.
https://www.foldimate.com/

I was curious if it existed.
This is the same thinking of those that thing recreational drug use should be illegal. The reality is there will be a huge market for it potentially forever, and burning cash and power to fight it is an exercise in futility.

Instead ask yourself what's something we can do right now that will completely take the oxygen out of the illegal ivory trade.

Don't you see the legality is part of the mystique around ivory? When it becomes an every day product then morons will stop believing it has secret medicinal powers and move on.
You are conflating the concept of scarcity and shortage. They aren't the same thing.

Scarcity = not everyone who wants something can have it. This means that some sort of rationing mechanism must be used (e.g. price) to distribute that thing.

Shortage = the price of a good is $X but not everyone willing to pay $X will receive the good.

Shortage is a market condition, usually a symptom of a broken market. Scarcity is just a fundamental fact of counting. It is not fair to say there is a shortage of Mercedes, but it is fair to say that Mercedes are a scarce resource.
I was actually thinking of using a custom network, not truly IPFS.
I feel like this should be the link instead and you can have a fairly prominent link on the post pointing to the app
Everything we know about NSO Group
Again, I'm not disagreeing that PNG is better. I'm saying that, even if you insist on JPG, you can still do much better than what Amazon's got going on 90% of their splash pages.
Have you played with Online's bucket service, C14 [0]? They seem to have the lowest pricing on the market.

[0] https://www.online.net/fr/c14
Does aging face surgery change how we perceive the female face?
While it is very cool...I cannot help thinking how many sorters are going to lose their jobs because of this. Scary.
If you're on a Mac, 1Password is a monumentally better experience.
Ask HN: How did you try, but fail to escape 9 to 5?

(to fight the survivors bias)
> I don't think there was any logic involved in her decision at all.

Yeah, probably. I guess I'd prefer to think that she knew what she was doing, but who knows. I can't imagine Cinemark is very happy with the results, since rather than the case going away quietly they got a $700k judgement they can't do anything with. But then insurance gets involved, and I'm not going to pretend I know that will work out.
I browse with tin foil hat settings so I authenticate multiple times a day.
When you say, "X has a right to Y", a reasonable interpretation of that is, "Someone(Z) is punished if X is denied access to Y".

For example, I could say I have a right to structurally secure buildings. If the floor of the mall falls apart underneath me, I can sue them for damages for not obeying the building code. If the mall's owners refuse to pay, the police will storm their house to extract payment(and if they resist, they could be shot). The police could end up shooting someone to enforce this right.

When you say, "This commenter has a right to Penny's information", a reasonable interpretation is, "Penny or any other person declining to support this right and provide this information will be punished or hurt in some way."

It's specifically that word "right" that you used that's in question. It makes me think of "enforcement", and I don't consider the right you described to be worthy of enforcement.
Using State Machines to Power Citus Cloud (our Database as a Service)
I'm considering using this google service to backup an s3 bucket to google cloud.

Does anyone have experience for how fast this transfers and is there any info about how efficient the service is in terms of API calls? With a bucket with millions of objects, needless extra calls to List or Get can really add up to a ton of money.
Nice, so really browsers and servers can implement it independently. Seems elegant, I like that browsers can advertise multiple compression formats. Thanks for the info!
> 1. China makes so much fake stuff any way why not fake ivory.

People have been suggesting this for some time but it would probably only drive the interest in genuine ivory

> 2. How is the market for trinkets that big.

Ivory in China has been historically a symbol of wealth. The growing middle and upper classes in China want to show off their wealth, what better way than by buying something like this

https://geography3822.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/ivory-on-s...
How about if a single byte changes? Now the encrypted output looks 100% unique, and you have to treat it as an entirely new file. You lose the ability to do diffs on a file by file basis or proper deduplication across all files.
You are basing your theory of ideological agendas on the other guy's histrionics. I don't think the question, "Should we pay teachers more, or should we instead trick more teenagers into taking loans," is one that involves debating whether or not you believe in capitalism, or that needs you posting a bunch of links about segregation all of the sudden.
Yes, true. I'm probably overstating things. Just excited about the prospect of having these things in Ocaml. Scala is an impressive language but it's a big language. I prefer the relative simplicity of Ocaml and (even more) SML.

Also, performance-wise, with multicore and the new optimizations with flambda, Ocaml will be particularly interesting.
not really - I get the offer fairly often when looking up a route somewhere, and I don't have Uber installed.
Alternatively, attack the buyer mentality? Promote awareness of the issue to problem countries.
I think he can easily extend the system to use the missing variables. Scratch marks, color, texture and prickles are easily enhanced by digital image processing. Maybe use a different network for each feature and use this output to feed into another network to get the correct classification-function.
REWRITING THE TABLET – How Lenovo brought a dream design to life
Yes. I definitely should have clarified that I mean "if you can't write FizzBuzz in the first few minutes of the interview..." not as the only question in an hour-long interview. I've used a FizzBuzz-like question as the first question of a phone screen, for example, to determine if more in-depth questions are a waste of everyone's time.

I agree entirely that it doesn't prove anything about a candidate's likely success as a hire, but it is a reasonably strong signal about their likely failure.
This shifts the issue from elephants being killed indiscriminately for their tusks to an issue of state collected taxes and fees. In the long term it's much better to have the latter.

You determine the origin by creating a system that leaves paper trails everywhere, from those that collect to those that sell, to exporters. The beauty of a legal system is that everything is recorded and on the books.

Enforcement is easy when your project is self-funded through the internal and legal trade of ivory.
Except when the correct process isn't followed and they just buy one, which unfortunately occurs. http://everytown.org/press/new-fbi-data-shows-mental-health-...
unfortunate because even if one couldn't get into a high paying job, one could try getting into an interesting one. Since they're the same, it's both or nothing. Thus it's fortunate for those that get those, but unfortunate for the rest. : )
Whats their weissman score?
> The reality is there will be a huge market for it potentially forever, and burning cash and power to fight it is an exercise in futility.

No there won't. The situation wasn't that bad until 2008 when CITES lifted restrictions on selling ivory which let some African countries sell their ivory to Japan and China. The situation has gotten a lot worse since then.

> Instead ask yourself what's something we can do right now that will completely take the oxygen out of the illegal ivory trade.

Where do you get 'legal' ivory?
Ah, my bad. This info is not readily visible on mobile (because it's a hover tool tip). Will fix that...

Small = 1GB RAM, Medium = 4GB RAM, Large = 8GB RAM. We generally suggest people to start out with small and take it from there. If your server is getting overloaded, it will let you know and you can simply upgrade to bigger model from the UI.
I agree that, ultimately, the only person who really cares about your security is you. That is certainly where the buck stops, and if a service has security you don't agree with stop doing business with them.

However, a forced password and session reset on accounts whose credentials have become public knowledge isn't "hand holding." It's SysAdmin101. It should be the first thing you do. Unless I'm misreading you, the stated stance is "Anyone using dropbox got what they deserved," but not everyone has the knowledge to perform a security audit. The user is not without blame or having made mistakes, but Dropbox isn't taking ownership of their own mistakes or being transparent to every affected user about what those mistakes were and/or led to. If they want to be a service that does hand-holding, they can give the correct advice. If they don't, they NEED to be transparent about what occurred and what information was released or the onus is entirely on them. Right now, they're doing neither. I think that is criminally negligent, though I'm certain no legal action will be taken.

I feel that lowering those expectations of a service only helps justify these shitty, lazy practices to others.

The only thing that would've been exposed in the breach relating to me are the e-mail address and password for that service itself (alongside all the crappy memes I stored there), but I'm not ready to watch the world burn from the sidelines. The security of others is just as much your personal security, and the more of it others sacrifice the more you'll be expected to do the same and suffer repercussions for not doing so.
I'm not sure it's rhetorical, I think the implication is that human sorters are also imperfect so what's there accuracy level? Is it 70% (a tie), 90% (clearly better), or 50% (the computer is better).
lawyers serve clients and a system; they aren't paid to give a shit about the truth (or justice for that matter), and most don't.
Well, yes :)
That isn't how 1Password works. Passwords are encrypted clientside, in a standalone native application.
I'd also be keen to see one if these unreleased tools. My own experience getting into investing out of uni right at the start of the GFC taught me a hell of a lot about these straight line "predictions".
As long as this monopolized sale volume is zero, so that elephants aren't being killed, I'm all for it. Except that it won't make a difference in that case (see below).

Your analogy is flawed because: legalization of, say, marijuana doesn't stop marijuana plants from being killed in large numbers.

The goal behind marijuana being illicit isn't to protect the marijuana plant from extinction. (The goal is rather the application of an ideology that is fully understood only by certain people who want to control other people's lives.)

Drug legalization only works when it makes drugs widely available and inexpensive. That's what removes the incentive of the hardened criminals to engage in trafficking, along with all the collateral crime and violence --- not the fact that anything has become legal.

If some commodity is legal but controlled, and licenses are not actually handed out in any significant numbers so that it is still scarce, then the trafficking will continue exactly as before, in the same manner.
Featuring Lieutenant Wesley Crusher
Without a doubt, C# In Depth by Jon Skeet. As the title suggests, it's a book which deep dives into how C# works.
Does he think it prudent for someone to challenge the payment processors with a new network?

More specifically, does he think it's possible to supplant the current payment landscape with a new centralized system (non-cryptocurrency)?

The background for this question is that it seems like everybody hates PayPal. Venmo, while gaining quite a bit of traction, doesn't seem like it's going to be the one. The rest of the challengers seem to have either died off due to regulation or lack of uptake.
If the construction 1Password standalone uses to encrypt passwords is broken, we have bigger concerns than our passwords.
After having actually used the new G+ for a couple hours, the speed is amazing, especially on the Brave browser (probably because I don't have extensions slowing it down). Plus the ability to put links and images in comments finally brings that part on par with Twitter.

I think the people who do use G+ are going to use it a hell of a lot more now that it is so much faster. Plus the people who get frustrated by Twitter's 140 character limit from time to time may be easily swayed.
A lot of organizations are trying to do that. Yao Ming is also trying to work on this https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ex-rocket-yao-ming-aims...

His previous shark fin campaign was successful the demand dropped by like 80% IIRC.
That sounds like a lot of ivory. There are 7 billion people on the planet. 1.4 billion in China where ivory is highly coveted. There are not even a million elephants?
Changing thousands of years of culture saying ivory is a sign of wealth and that you should show it off may prove very difficult, unfortunately. Many people simply don't care.
You didn't answer the question where the legal ivory comes from.
The CIA's Venture Capital Firm
Coinbase (YC S12) is hiring engineers to help build an open financial system
Why Agile Is Critical for Attracting Millennial Engineers
Also flippa.com
Improving Inception and Image Classification in TensorFlow
Ask HN: Co-founder woes. Pl advice
I have a background in UX/UI and biz-dev, and my (technical) co-founder is a full stack developer with a focus on back-end.

I've known my co-founder for over 15 yrs now, and he is like family to me. A few years back we decided to work on a side project with a goal to launch it as a business. We failed. The reasons were typical - but mainly because we couldn't execute and develop a prototype to take to customers on time.
I learned about my shortcomings and continue to work on them. I also had a painful realization - I had overestimated my co-founder's tech skills, aptitude, attitude, and basic understanding of what it takes to build & launch a startup.

We decided to put the project on hold, and pursue another idea for which I have domain expertise. It also seemed more promising and d-able. We talked candidly about the lessons learned from the failed project, concerns, red flags etc. We also decided to keep our day jobs while we worked on building the prototype/ product - so we knew that it would take longer than usual.

Now we've been working on the product for over 2.5 years. And we are running into similar issues. We even outsourced some of the development - at the risk of delaying the project further. So far we've managed to build out 60% of the product (and validated the idea with several potential users/ customers), but I feel hopeless about completing the remaining 40%. It has been buggy/ incomplete since it was developed (some of it 1.5 yrs back). And my co-founder seems clueless.
After so many missteps, I've stopped bouncing product ideas off him (something that co-founders naturally do). I've stopped depending on him to help with custom/er demo's, and I'm finding it harder to trust his judgement & approach when it comes to solving problems.

I want to help him. And it is partly for this reason that I want this project to be successful. But trying to do so is taking a toll on my health, family life, and my general well being.

Please advice!
Is it necessarily service's fault? Could the e-mail address have been intercepted when some confirmation e-mail was being delivered? Not likely, I agree, but still...
If Africa cannot establish a safe habitat for these creatures, we need to establish a breeding reserve for them in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_rewilding
Clinton emailed classified information after leaving State Department
That's true. I phrased my point poorly. He's certainly appealing to a sense of frustration. But he's not providing actual viable solutions. Of course, mere pandering is more than the party elites are doing. They've been counting on success repackaging the same tired ideological lines that no one really cares about when they're actually losing their clout.
We should introduce them in Texas and Mexico as invasive species. I know it sounds silly but they'd probably really thrive.
> I really enjoyed the first two pages

Ha! Well that made me laugh out loud.

Yes, we write all those comments by hand and often make a point of customizing them. I even plant little bits of entertainment in there sometimes (hopefully not at anyone's expense), on the theory that the hivemind enjoys tidbits of variety.
I can't imagine charging people $60 for a game that wasn't finished, that goes just as much for the makers of NMS as any other game.

As for beauty, very much eye of the beholder I guess.