skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I buy most things online and I still don't see the appeal. Would you otherwise spend $80 on shipping a year? That's an awful lot for just shipping.

I guess I see it this way: If I buy a whisk, or a hard drive, or a vacuum cleaner, or a video game I don't need it this second, I take the free or saver shipping and I get it when it comes, which is 2-4 days 99% of the time. Like the old fashion "put it on the shopping list" method. There's no urgency in me to get it in two days.

The non-perishables like toilet paper, paper towels, shampoo, etc. I stock up on when they go on sale so I don't generally run out so there's rarely urgency. But paying attention to your stock accomplishes the same thing.

The few times I've needed something earlier, like when my phone broke and I ordered a new phone, I paid $6 to upgrade to two day shipping. That's the one case I can think of when I could wait two days but not four.

The typical Prime buyer basically never comparison shops or wait for sales. It encourages this behavior.

I get people have different proprieties than me though even though I can't personally understand it. When my brother moved into his own place he bought a bunch home type stuff and ordered it all off Amazon because "Prime." Later on I mentioned something about comparison shopping and he told me he didn't even think to comparison shop for any of that stuff. He was like "oh... I should have done that" (On a related note, ordering directly from the manufacturer on some of that sort of stuff gets you the best prices)
All space tech is necessarily dual-use military. I'm certain the concern is that space launch cooperation with PR China will result in unintentional transfer of militarily relevant technologies.

Also, China is responsible for the largest single space debris generating event in history, from the intentional destruction of Fengyun-1C in 2007. That kind of thing doesn't matter to the politicians so much, but it was kind of a dick move, and had all the appearances of gratuitous saber-rattling. Space is too important for nationalist dick-measuring contests in LEO when it is already perilously close to Kessler cascade.
Isn't it kind of weird that a college won't let you take whatever math class you want?
For a lot of things. I admit Best Buy has got a lot better.

But there's still pain points. A lot of hard drive SKUs are tied to retailers, so the same Toshiba hard drive will have an ever-so-slightly different model number, despite being the same drive (and I know there are legitimate reasons for the same), allowing the retailer to deny the price match.

"I know these are both Toshiba X300 5TB 3.5" SATA 3 128MB 7200rpm drives, but this is the X300-BBY, not the X300-AMZN, sorry".
I'd already replied to it. :)

(I'm kind of speaking in general about DFW's writing, not about this particular piece, which I am not a fan of.)
Basically, but personally I think that people are trying to pay more attention but the tools and methods for attention/information control have gotten so much better that the end effect is similar.

Most people think about politics in terms of how much they can trust individual politicians to tell the truth or maybe in terms of spin and narratives and talking points. But we live in a world where people like Vladislav Surkov exist [1][2][3], the professionals are working at a level that is barely understandable to the rest of us.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Surkov
[2] http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21577421-what-departure... (from 2013, Surkov is currently a personal advisor to Putin)
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyop0d30UqQ
I have my stolen identity in the past, and had over 15 transactions in next few days.

most are buying credit for online services, like online data storage, care.com, etc. and to throw a curve ball, they created yahoo account with my first name plus extra characters and created a subscription to USA today, verified with my fake yahoo account, and sent it to my home.

it happened after I went out with friends to a bar and they had my Amex and ID on a tap.
I went into this article expecting to cheer it on: I'm grateful for everyone who's pushing back against our modern insistence on overprotective parenting, all too often backed by the brute force of law.

But barely a page into it (by the end of paragraph 6, and heavily reinforced in paragraph 7), I'm already barreled over by what looks like some seriously intense sexism. Maybe the article misrepresents him, but Mike Lanza appears to place the blame for overprotective parenting primarily on moms ("mom philosophy", he calls it, though the article's author tries to shelter him by generalizing the term) dominating "passive dads". He describes the fun and freedom that he advocates as "masculine experiences". While the article does mention and show some girls, most of the quotes from Lanza are about boys and what they need. (The article even politely specifies that "his focus is on boys", without comment.)

I'm not okay with any of that. I could express that as anger on behalf of my wife (who doesn't buy into overprotective parenting any more than I do) or on behalf of my daughter (who was begging me just this week to lift her into a tree again and again). But honestly I'd be just as annoyed if they weren't in my life. It ought to be obvious in this day and age that "I blame moms!" is an embarrassing (and harmful) way to ground an argument.

Calling for revival of the term "sissy" and normalizing bullying as "normal, boyish aggression" in paragraph 9 was just one step too much for me. Sorry: I'm out. There are plenty of people advocating similar "free range kids" philosophies who aren't also assholes.
And conveniently, from a user's perspective, damn near impossible to discern from poor network management.
YC, Thiel and Trump – 100 Shades of Gray
I agree, and that matches my own behavior, but I was looking more at what kids are doing as a sign of the disruption. This is just anecdotal observation as a parent, but I see my kids and their friends spend hours a day watching YouTube and Twitch, rarely Netflix, and never broadcast/cable TV. They'll watch a movie once every couple weeks, and go to a theater a few times a year. To them Rosanna Pansino is a HUGE star, and they don't know who Steven Spielberg is.
Based on my experience and that of many of the Infinite Summer readers, the first 250 pages or so are really difficult, and it (generally) gets more palatable after that.
I like listening to Sid Meier, he has certain clarity in his design thinking. Civ is clearly a complex game/product, but at the same time loved by millions of people. When you listen to Sid, you realize that he has always had a clear product vision and has made deliberate design decisions that have kept Civ approachable by masses.
Irrational optimism and self confidence can be really helpful...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738903
We had the same experience, unfortunately most of stripes "declined" charges are actually declined by the bank and stripe cannot, nor is willing to help you out. They are just a gateway. Once it happened on my own site with my own card, I called my bank's security team and asked what is the exact reason on their side and all they could tell me over the phone that they declined the transaction only because it was too "high risk"

My theory (just a theory) is:

A. banks fraud detection systems just don't like the way stripe is avoiding the whole merchant account game, so stipe just has a bad rep at banks

B. stripe is so easy to set up and use, therefore various stripe websites
has fraudulent transactions going on, so from the bank point of view just
being a new merchant coming through stripe is automatically high risk

The whole machine learning for fraud detection imho is very annoying from a merchant point of view, because there is no real way to fix it. We have had cards that got declined only the second-third month in a rent-to-own business and the only thing we can do is to ask the customer to call their bank.

Hopefully once fraud detection happens at the stripe level instead of the bank level,
banks will see less fraud coming from stripe and the overall decline rate will ... decline.
Very interesting article.

I'm an example by-product of the opposite extreme. My parents kept me from my neighbors, other kids in school and other people in church (I can count on one hand the number of guests that came over to hang out with me throughout my childhood). I also had no access to TV, the internet, the library, etc. I was isolated to such an extreme that the only thing I think I really developed was an active imagination. I guess my parents were a little more extreme than typical "helicopter" parents, but also unable to afford any structured activities for me, so I was closely watched and kept indoors all the time.

By my teenage years, the home-schooling program my parents were putting me through was so isolating and so obviously worthless on its own that I started to spiral into depression and contemplated suicide. By that point, I was convinced that I was wasting away mentally and physically such that when I would attempt to enter the adult world, that I would fall on my face and simply never be able to "catch up" with my peers who had two decades of normal development.

Things did get orders of magnitude better when I was in college the next year and working multiple jobs. I managed to move out somewhere after I turned 18 with nice roommates and cheap rent. I think I managed to close most of the mental/social/physical gap that I had perceived in my teenage years, but I would be lying if I said that I was a completely normal 25-year old. I have the strangest deficiencies that crop up now and again in my life, and I have a strong suspicion that kids who come from "helicopter" households will share these problems (such as difficulty reading people's emotions, difficulty in executive function, strange worries, low self-esteem).

So when I consider the possibility of having kids, I really like the idea of letting them socialize with other people, explore, and solve problems on their own without my constant interference. That's much better than my experience of growing up, with only fantasies of being outside and doing stuff. But if that's culturally unacceptable, then there will be a generation or two of people like me, who struggle daily with the little things I never had a chance to deal with growing up.
As a counter point to your anecdote, I did all those things as a kid and went on to be an injecting drug user (meth and Heroin, whatever else was laying around) for all of my 20's, assaulted a few people, and got charged with drug trafficking.

So it's no guarantee.

At 35 I have a good job now, and am part of the wealthy property owning class (read: mortgagee), and am building a business with my wife, so maybe it worked out ok?
Just the filmography footnote and the 'game' later on are worth getting through the initial difficult pages, in my opinion!
It sounds like the issue is there are too many high schools offering classes in AP calculus which don't do a decent job of actually teaching the concepts to the students. Having a good teacher for these classes makes all the difference. Additional testing at the college level would help assess a student's ability level but it does not solve the problem of time wasted when the course must be retaken.

Another issue this brings up is it causes a larger gap to form between trigonometry and calculus 2. Where memorization of hundreds of trig identities builds on top of the identities learned in trig. If a student takes Trig -> pre-calc->AP calc -> Calc 1 -> Calc 2
They will have a much harder time in Calc 2. That is what happened to me. I had to take Calc 2 a couple times before I got it sorted out.

http://www.ansep.net/programmatic-outcomes/statistical-data

I think the answer is to get more qualified teachers in the schools teaching the AP level classes. There is a program in Alaska called ANSEP (Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program) who have this figured out. Middle school students who enter the program come to the university during the summer time and take math classes from university professors. Many of the students are completely finished with their math track (for engineering programs) before they start university their freshmen year. These kids are all the way through partial differential equations at 17.

The graduation rate for ANSEP students who enter engineering programs is around double the national average. There are many other important aspects to it. Including mandatory study sessions and living with other students who are also taking the same classes. Students are also given well paid internships in the industry during the summer time. When looked at as a whole, there is no doubt that they have figured out a far more effective means for getting students through STEM programs and jobs once they graduate.

Full Disclosure: I am good friends with a few of the people running this program.
This. Seriously. It's completely different from letting older kids play unsupervised in the backyard. Toddlers easily drown in a garden pond, let alone a swimming pool. Leaving a toddler alone near a body of water, even for five minutes is asking for a catastrophe.
Here is the BBC's portal site for the micro:bit aimed specifically at kids

https://www.microbit.co.uk/

Hopefully, all the videos on the site are accessible to international viewers, otherwise it would be a missed opportunity to spread the knowledge to everyone.
he nailed the social factors, but his attempt to describe the mean-value theorem was incoherent, and his attempts at cyber-punky computer descriptions i found to be basically mimicking language without a deep understanding, resulting in something somewhat ridiculous.

i think stuff by e. g. william gibson from even earlier still holds up, so it's not just a "oh, time passed him by" thing.

apparently the book originally had much more of a cyber-punk bent, and his editor convinced him to trim most of that out, which has got to be one of the all-time great wins in editing.
I wish they would just not say "Unlimited" if there is going to be a disclaimer, but the current situation is at least fairly clear.

Marketing and sales is the root of all evil.

I'll go out on a limb here and say that 'unlimited' in the case of data/telecom services should be a controlled and regulated word, much like 'organic' and 'natural' are in food.
Here's a counter example: Casey Neistat.

He might not be a blockbuster movie superstar, but he does have the most subscribed YouTube channel (5mio subs) and he won GQ man of the year. For doing 10min vlogs.
Film was disrupted with the release of DV cams.

I have a full-length feature on DVD on Amazon recorded on DV.
As a rule all consumer services are on a "best effort" basis. Service with guaranteed performance exists, but is marketed exclusively to businesses and is much more expensive. It turns out that providing guaranteed service costs a lot more even if the end result is the same 90% of the time, that last 10% is a real margin killer. Consumers would generally rather accept the occasional less-than-stellar service than pay nearly twice as much for it.
"It is SO easy to break NetNanny an the like"

IIRC, people in china have no problem using a vpn or whatever to bypass the great firewall? Why would government purchases blocking software be more effective than parent purchased blocking software?
Check out the pages in 'info gdb' on your system. Lots of good info (no pun intended) in there. Completely changed how I used it, mostly because I'd forgotten a lot of that stuff from the one undergrad course that integrated GDB into the course.

One of the true game changers in my current office's work. We're doing a lot of stuff (new-ish here) in embedded linux (versus self-hosted executables). It's a pain in the ass to load different versions of the software (by the way the rest of the system works, we can't load it on-the-fly because we will miss various timeouts that we can't control and the whole system will go into a failed state; can't load and save it because the OS is stored in nonvolatile memory that we can't directly alter without going into u-boot). For debugging this, we have the system load, and, before gdb executes, download just a specifically named file over the network containing these gdb commands for whatever we want to obtain. So you want to know if function foo ever gets called with a parameter of 4? Put that into the command file and reboot, run the tests and see the output in the serial console, download the log before rebooting again.
IMO "We're x for y" is not a catch all. The convention is used to explain what can be a complex mission statement to people usually outside your space and though this is particularly necessary for SV-shenanigans -> regular people, I would recommend playing around with taglines your team can personally find compelling rather then trying to fit that mold.

YMMV and always get feed back, but don't artificially constrain yourselves... there are enough natural constrains in the world.
With Beagle 2 (ESA's other attempt to land on Mars), we also lost the signal, but it turned out that it made a safe landing. But solar panels failed to unfold and that blocked transmission.
It might, but for me it was therapeutic. It made me want to get out of that state of mind and go out and experience life and connect with people again.
That's fair, I'm not using that for my work, however. Once you start getting into different extremes you have to choose the appropriate tool.

EDIT: We also have a system where we were running on embedded linux, but due to constraints simply couldn't get gdb involved. printf-style, implemented by way of a logging function where we could specify logging levels, was the effective solution for us.
Ask HN: How to get into game development
Hi,
I'm really interested in the game development, I myself is a front-end developer and have some basic c++ skill. I wonder where to start if I want to get into the game development. Should I start with some course or books?
So it boils down to people who know they live in extreme conformist echo chambers, and think everyone else is trapped in a similar cell, repeatedly are surprised when the isolated echo chamber fails to accurately model reality, and when that happens, its always someone else's fault because some third party are dicks, cunts, have no idea whats going on, or they're scary. The theoretical model, and the echo chamber, are immaculately conceived and error free and the source of the problem is always elsewhere.

Since I can't think of a response better than restating it myself, I think I'll leave it right there? I mean there's really nothing else to say. To paraphrase Newton what doesn't work will continue not to work unless a force is applied.
So are we coming full circle? Are malls going to be popular again?
> Verizon has the broadest LTE coverage at 95.3%, followed by T-Mobile with 91.7%.

higher than in Germany, great!
The quotas on wireless ISPs are already very low and people exceed them very regularly. What can be done to actually improve the situation? What choice do consumers have?
What the article is about, is the history of Slavery in the North-American continent since the time of the English Colonies. The actual content is pretty interesting, from a historical point of view.

The headline was meant to highlight a crap shot the author takes at current American society; everybody claims that every perceived slight to their dignity is equivalent to an actual attempt at their freedom.

However, that is not what this piece is about and you will do yourself a diservice if you skip it because it is 'click-baity'. Just trim down the first 2 paragraphs and the last one and you will filter out the noise without any lose of the actual signal.
>Anger exists for a reason and it exists for good reasons.

I don't think I've ever seen someone build an apple orchard with anger, or sink a well, or construct a road between two nicely cooperating villages.

Anger exists to provide homage to entropy, and that really is about it. Life, mostly though, can exist at the other end of the spectrum without much anger required.
This looks good, and is sorely needed.

It seems one of Stripe's biggest risks is the impending PSD2/XS2A changes within the EU/UK. This means banks/merchants/retailers will ditch traditional card networks (and their fees) to instruct P2P payments directly. This probably opens up a host of very effective anti-fraud measures too (eg. 2FA with mobile devices).

I wonder how Stripe will react to this major change in the market?

For example: https://developer.americanexpress.com/products/accept-amex
This is a glorified email. The only respectable thing to do, at this point, is go to court to unseal the illegal orders.
Airbnb Proposes Cracking Down on New York City Hosts
Just to be clear, I wasn't trying to cast doubt on your other comment, I just recalled reading that disclaimer and thought it was worth mentioning that they have the specific small print now.
I'm currently waiting for a package ordered in september with a "2-3 days" shipping time. Apparently everyone and their dog are running drop-shipping businesses nowadays, and ordering from amazon gets you the same reliability and speed as aliexpress.com does.
That's "just" the orbiter IIUC, what we are waiting for is signs of life from the lander.
How many passes did it take for HiRISE to build up that picture of Beagle 2?
Introduction to Unix assembly programming
Revslider, MailPoet, GravityForms Exploits Bypass Cloudflare WAF
I'm spending a lot of time going through Internet Archive books (the one indicated has relevance to the whole advertising-supported nature of the Internet as well, I submitted it as an HN article earlier today). So I'm somewhat attuned to the visual appearance.

Different paper ages differently, and I believe that much of the highly-yellowed paper is high-pulp content, as opposed to archival-quality, acid-free rag. The degree of yellowing can vary, and in some cases it's rather more than I'd prefer for comfortable reading. In modest amounts, it's not bad though.
Google: Recruitment and Retention
Looks interesting. Some possible improvements:

* add salary info (where that's available)
* offer the possibility to search for remote jobs
Related to this topic: someone (Derbasti) once recommended me [1] "Thinking: Fast and Slow" by economy Nobel-winning Kahneman. This is a book about dozens of ways humans fail to reason properly and a huge part of this book addresses the problem of heuristics we use to estimate risk, probability, costs... absolutely a must-read.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555148
Doubt it, Snowden has much more propaganda value making Russia look like the good guys protecting the world from evil USA.
Go intentionally introduces randomness when reading maps so developers don't write code dependent on order.
Couple of days ago I tried the "scanning" feature. Had dozens of receipts that I needed to scan. I was really impressed with document edge detection. I was also able to stack 2 receipts and scan as one document. The edge detection was failing in some cases. However, I was able to correct the edges manually.
I had a document with 2 different color background, the app had some issues detecting the edges on it. It was detecting the only part of the document with same color. But again I was able to manually select the edges and able to scan entire document.