skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to see some sample tests. From the data section: The measure of IQ used in the analysis was obtained from tests of cognitive ability administered by the Norwegian military to all draft-eligible men at approximately the age of 19 y as part of the universal military draft in Norway. The data from these tests have been widely used and interpreted as IQ scores for research purposes.

Also interesting, the historical summary of the "distributed" nature of the Norway educational system: The reform [...] required that all municipalities provide their youths with an additional 2 y of standardized education in the eighth and ninth grades. [...] The reform was introduced at the municipality level, the lowest of three administrative levels in Norway, with the other two levels being the national level, which has responsibility for higher (tertiary) education, and the county level, which has responsibility for secondary education. [...] Following the reform, the new type of middle school was administered by the municipalities. Each separate municipality was able to introduce the full compulsory schooling reform after local officials submitted a reform plan to a national committee, provided national funds [...]

It sounds like they used a bottom-up approach rather than a plan forced from on top, which seems like a good thing.

This makes me want to learn more about how school systems / school boards work. It seems to be a city-level organizational structure, but there are provincial/state, and federal rules too. This is a lot of APIs: you pay federal, provincial, municipal, and school taxes, and then some portion of your taxes comes to the schools. Surely there's room for simplification...
Just for clarity, the "forgot password" flow emailed you the current password of the account (not a temporarily one)?

That's insane...
Clover collects tons of data about its patients, probably more than most health plans. They may only have 19,000 patients, but they also like to talk about how their data is very wide. Most health plans I've worked with do a terrible job of even collecting the simplest types of data and outsource a vast majority of their data collection processes. These health plans have aging technology and a reluctance to use new and open source tools. A great example of this is how many health plans manage to somehow overpay claims to the tune of 10-100s of millions of dollars per year, and have no idea why. There's an entire cottage industry devoted to solving this problem for insurers.

Most of the tests you mention above are wasteful for your typical Medicare Advantage enrollee. There's a ton of low hanging fruit for a start-up like Clover to make a meaningful impact. Trying to change human behavior through diet or exercise is incredibly difficult, especially for those from disadvantaged communities or of lower socioeconomic status. Kudos to Clover to trying to make a marginal impact on that front; most insurance plans wouldn't do anything.
> Please, someone explain to me what does this thing do that Browserify can't.

Native ES2015 modules support?
Makes sense, and I guess I agree with quite a few of your points. I actually moved from New York City, where I did my undergrad, so I totally feel you on the horrible public transportation infrastructure. But I don't find California to be less lively. Granted, I live in Berkeley, so it's more urban than, say South Bay or the LA suburbs. I would consider moving back to NYC if the weather wasn't much worse and if there were actually jobs in my field (Electrical Engineering).
How about amazon? Are you still prone to the brick scam there?
That's the right question to ask. The answer is no, because new security vulnerabilities are disclosed every hour.

A large organisation will implement layered security (otherwise known as layers of the onion) to prevent this type of attack. This means; more secure passwords to access the password database, fewer people with access, rotation of access passwords, auditing of backup storage and encryption, etc etc. Clearly Yahoo's layers of security were all broken to allow this type of theft.
There are two reasons why someone might sell their house to Opendoor...

A) They are willing to sacrifice some of the money for a much easier sales experience.
B) They really, really need to finish the sale now.

The size of the first group will follow a constant trend, but the second group will fluctuate based on various factors. So Opendoor can infer the desperation of the sellers in the market based on their numbers of sales.

Most other factors are publically available, but the desperation of sellers isn't publicly tracked. Regular real-estate agents will be exposed to the same desperation, but it's in their best interest to hide any desperation, to maximise the sale price.

Lenders will also know when some homeowners are falling behind on payments, but again they don't publish those numbers until a foreclosure actually happens.

It's not like Opendoor is going to predict the crash before it happens, but as long as they can spot the crash early, before it really picks up steam, they can minimise their exposure.
Right, I imagine most people will not run their own servers. At least today. But as that get's easier, I'm optimistic that will change. For now, in the context of Standard Notes, early adopters will run their own servers, but I imagine others would just pay for a shared hosting service. Which isn't perfect, but the content will be encrypted locally so the privacy concerns are somewhat mitigated.

Android client would be convenient. I'm pretty close to finalizing a first release of the spec. Then I'm going to start on the iOS client.

Any contributions you make could accelerate progress on the spec substantially. Follow the mailing list on https://standardnotes.org or follow for updates on Twitter @standardnotes. If you're serious about building a client, shoot me a message @bitario.
If you're just starting out, the worst decision you can make is to incorporate as a C-corp. An LLC makes vastly more sense, even for the tiny proportion of companies that want VC funding (and specifically institutional funding - funding from other sources would not matter as much - I'll explain why below). Stripe Atlas really ought to make the default an LLC.

The two major reasons why:

1. When you're a C-corp, you pay taxes twice. Once at the corporate level, and once at the individual level. This matters both for ongoing income but also for any liquidation event - as most liquidation events are asset, not stock, sales, you're getting taxed twice here too.

2. You can go from LLC -> C-corp easily but not the reverse. Why would you make the decision before you have to? Start as an LLC. In the very unlikely event you are taking institutional funding you can convert; in most cases, you'll happily stay as an LLC and keep the extra tax dollars you'd be giving the government.

Finally - all this business that VCs prefer to invest in Delaware C corps because of the legal knowledge there is - sorry - bullshit. They do it because they have to invest in taxed entities, because they themselves are partnerships so their interest in any flow-through entity will flow up to their investors, some of which are non-profits. Non-profits, like pensions, risk losing their non-profit status if they have unrelated business taxable income. There is a solution here, which is to have a special purpose blocker corp that sits in between the VC partnership and the LLC. This is done all the time in private equity but not in VC and there is no principled reason why not.

So there you have it. Don't do Stripe Atlas because you're forcing yourself to make a decision you don't need to make right now, that's irreversible, and that may end up costing you a lot of money.

IANAL, but I am a Wharton MBA
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As long as the vehicle requires human intervention, they should not be allowed to enter autonomous mode in a dense, urban environment.
I have parents in Bloomington, Indiana. It's a surprisingly vibrant town with restaurants and culture, arguably on equal footing with the more populous Indianapolis, and much much greater than surrounding communitites.

Oh, right, and it has a Big Ten university in it noncoincidentally.

I'm surprised these shitty / declining areas don't take advantage of the incredibly expensive college in other areas by setting up new colleges in their areas and subsidizing the tuition, and investing in them to make them great.

Granted that takes a while to accomplish, but the positive feedback of major schools is undeniable... and it ain't just the football team.
As I said, that's an option among others, it has drawbacks.

For a website like Yahoo with billions of abandoned accounts, that's a serious drawback ^^
I'm sure you are right that it is a low percentage, but I bet there are a lot. When I used Yahoo, I paid, as did my wife. For the extra storage, no ads, and I could be misremembering, but I think paying got you access to imap or pop3, which wasn't generally available before the iPhone.
your life can either be the single best big-city experience in the country, or a hellish, dystopian nightmare that will send you into a suicidal depression.

That's a valid assessment.
I want to write and name a macro after you! Anytime I want, I can just append -obe or -ist to any word in any document I'm writing...regardless of context or meaning! As a bonus, it will recognize file-extension-neutral files (all 822 of them!).
Let's take the Type 2 diabetes example given in the article.

You might want to take care here -- to be honest I don't know all the things we do in home visits for diabetes assessment (though I am working a few desks over from the person building the next version of our diabetes assessment, so I could find out but then I'm unsure whether I can publicly detail the whole thing), but I'm pretty sure no matter how many things there are, an article like this one isn't going to go into enough deep medical detail to satisfy you :)
This is why I'm starting to consider taking video of me packing and placing goods in the shipping box (while at the shipping company), placing the shipping label on the package, and dropping them off directly with UPS/USPS/FEDEX (all in a non clipped video). Then also recording the opening of any packages received in returns. Problem is this probably still wouldn't be enough evidence and sufficient for eBay.
Ugh, sorry you had to go through this. I was in a similar case not too long ago. Basically the same start... the item arrived and a claim was filed stating that the phone wasn't working. I offered to help since it was perfectly fine before I shipped it, but I was ignored. I waited until the last date before accepting the return. As Matt mentioned, eBay basically forces you to accept the return or you lose the item.

The buyer never shipped it back so it finally timed out after another 30 days and I was able to file a claim and get my money back. Good to know I can unlink from PayPal since they pulled the funds directly from my account. I was in a negative balance.

Here's the kicker. If you decide to checkout on any site using PayPal, they'll actually authorize the full balance behind the scenes. I was definitely surprised when I saw a $400 charge for a $11 item I paid for.

eBay sucks for sellers, but you typically still get the best value aside from dealing with criagslist.
(Plethora Founder/CEO here)

Haha - I appreciate the neck beard call out John - well trolled ;-)

My reaction to this is essentially: "Why would Google make another search engine if Yahoo already did it?" which is a pretty common trope for most startups to hear. We're not worried about it.

I tend to think companies that don't change much in ten years are more victim to their lack of execution/ambition than actually hitting some external roadblock (competition, etc.).

The SF location is less for the good coffee and more about being close to some of the most progressive customers, employees, and investors. The Bay Area overall has been so good for us, and we're excited to keep growing locally and beyond.
Yes.

Not self-entitled part, but the idiot (on a particular topic) part. I think lobbyists could sell the public on things they could never sell senators on.

Now lobbying is a problem, but the solution should be in our picking and regulatory mechanisms, not in letting them lobby the public directly.
Being a Fortune 500 CISO must be so easy. Corporate expectations are evidently low enough that you probably don't have to show up for work.
> 1. It motivates moving to sv because there are "lots" of successful startups. Is the rate of successful startups higher than elsewhere?

Probably, yes, but hard to say since a 2–3x "acquihire" can be a big success for another a city but considered a failure in SF, so how "success" is defined is different.

Even with that, the probability of hopping on a rocketship is still very low < 1%. It might be higher in the Bay Area than elsewhere, but I felt the article was disingenuous if the intent was to suggest an engineer has good odds of picking the right rocketship at the early stage. It's not science.
Being ready to take the helm at any time is required by law, at this point. It applies to Google's test cars, to Tesla Autopilot, etc.
I recently switched from PHPStorm (which I already buy license for) to VS Code, and for me the main problem was Java engine on Windows which PHPStorm runs on. I just didn't have a luck to make it work smooth enough, while my computer is quite strong in and of itself. Those occasional hiccups when the editor or whole IDE just frozen for a few seconds driven me crazy sometimes.

So for me, VS Code is a lot faster, not just a little bit. Also command invocation is faster via F1 key.

Apart from that, VS Code just feel a bit more "modern", for example in the areas:

- git integration is more straightforward, or "just better".

- settings are also better organized, no more browsing various dialogs, everything is in one json file.
I mean it is due to human error. The human error resides somewhere within Uber-hq.
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It sounds like they still have their money and eBay is "demanding payment". Is there any reason to give into this demand? Obviously the Ukrainian scammer is not going to sue. It seems unlikely that eBay is going to sue over $465. So, keep the money and don't use eBay anymore (which it seems like was the case anyway).
So I have an off topic question?

I originally got into tech because I hate my life and thought that tech was this outlet that could actually make some change. I come from a world of violence and abuse and never really cared for the powers that be. Tech seemed like the answer.

So my question to the people who don't feel this way: why are you in tech? Serious question. Tech only seems interesting because you can move fast. What value do you find from working in this field if you don't feel this way? If you have to work inside some system?

This comes from a person who lived in an abusive household most of my life and still struggling to find something outside of QA while I work on my own projects, but I don't really get the appeal of this field if all you want is a house with kids and work within the system. It comes off as mediocre to me. So as a person reaching almost 30 who hates life the way it is and wants to see a change, please explain to me what you get out of this.

Thanks for those who answer this seriously.
One day, this will be Google announcing they've had a breach of this size. Not looking forward to that day.
A discrepancy P-square implementation in Boost.Accumulators and the original paper
Ask HN: What company or person came up with whiteboard interviews?
Researching the history of technical interviews (in all forms), and I haven't yet tracked down the origins of the whiteboard interview. Whose idea was it that writing code on a whiteboard should be part of the interview process? Also interested in any anecdotes re: managers who adopted the practice, more context re: how it spread, etc.
unsure if the dmv requires a human operator since uber's argument for not needing dmv's permission is there is a human operator in the car, and therefore it's not a self-driving car.
The future of the VR web: everyone who uses it gives patent indemnity across their whole portfolio to Facebook. Facebook only gives reciprocation across the narrow patents covered by React/ReactVR, not their full portfolio.

If you build a part of your business on this, they can pull the license if you sue them for infringement in some completely unrelated area and leave you screwed.
You're assuming engineering is just sitting on their thumbs, reviewing their code once a week, thinking of ways to optimize it.

In reality, they're constantly under pressure to develop new features, fix reported bugs, move on to the next project, keep the site from falling over, etc etc.

And the ones who choose NOT to work hard aren't sitting around reviewing old code either.
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My old Nexus 6 had similar issues, but then the wifi chip failed and I had it rma'ed. The camera fails as well when I try to autofocus. It seems like Nexus devices are somewhat plagued with issues. I'm knocking on wood that Google/HTC get it right with the Pixel.
They could, but there is no incentive to do so.
eBay is centralized moderation. Maybe a distributed p2p market-based moderation with reputation scores for moderators in addition to sellers, like openbazaar, is the solution: https://blog.openbazaar.org/how-moderators-and-dispute-resol...
I'm amazed he had (access to) funds to hire 2 designers, seemingly on a wim.

Anyway, the new logo looks great.
>Not sure how you say Alaska isn't innovative.

Since VX has had those exact same amenities plus additional others for longer, and AS is not going to keep the Airbuses around...from the perspective of a Virgin flyer, Alaskan wouldn't seem that innovative.
Once a week I do a really hard stint (6-8-10 hours) to come atop of all the little and big things I was leaving behind.
Uhm, Belmont isn't exactly a ghetto.
>It's a huge amount of work //

Really? Moving from doing md5(password) to bcrypt(password,salt)? I see organisations make things hard and legacy code-base, yadda, yadda but surely if Yahoo couldn't do this then they couldn't manage scratching their own butt; it really seems like quite a small change in the scheme of things. Like one senior engineer, one afternoon of work (then testing, etc., OK, sure) ... ?
My opinion, as someone whose code got broken by a library micro version update just yesterday, is that the responsible thing to do is add a new function with the new args instead of changing the old one. Change the implementation of the old one so it calls through to the new one with suitable parameter values & and mark the old version as deprecated, but please don't remove it until the next major release!
if you have that gnawing feeling of "needing to get out" then fuck yeah go to the west coast.

but remember, it's all sorts of a fucked up and competitive out here so be prepared to work your ass off. don't move out here to just make friends.

try it out at. you will miss your friends and your family.
I should also note that the internal APIs are not the problem for Julia. We usually pick those up immediately. Rather, doing validation for a new release on all platforms, reducing, filing, fixing any regressions, etc is what takes the time (in addition to only a few of us knowing LLVM well enough to do so).
It's not clear that Uber has hit a regulatory wall. The DMV wrote them a stern note, yes. Uber has received various scary-sounding threats of government sanction and has overcome them in the past (for example, at one point a German judge threatened to fine them 250k euros per car per day). They have often been successful in arguing their case or in going above or around uncooperative regulators.

The California state government is not a monolith, and Uber is an experienced lobbyist and negotiator. It's certainly possible that the DMV will prevail here, but not a certainty. And even if the DMV does prevail, Uber can get the appropriate permits and then resume, or else just pilot the program in one of the 49 other states.
The problem that the author describes is that eBay does not accept proof and offers no way to submit it.
Link?

Don't even know what DMV is.
> OK, so if i want to build a program that proves my haskell code with a similar ease as using quickcheck[0] it would be possible, its just that nobody has done it yet

Yes, kind of. For certain values of "similar ease" and "Haskell". AFAIK Agda is pretty much Haskell, but its proving part is not all that automatic. On the other hand, Isabelle has a lot of proof automation (and includes an implementation of QuickCheck that it applies automatically to every property you state when you start proving it!), but its own variant of functional programming is not exactly Haskell. I think you can extract Haskell programs from it, though.

> I would guess an database of previously proved lemmas for all the used libraries would help

It may help, but it may also confuse the proof search if it gets lost in a sea of irrelevant lemmas. Which is what I was trying to say above, I never said anything about recomputing stuff.
Probably in a similar way they tackled fake news, with all the finesse of a bull in a china shop.
Why not just pick "no returns accepted" when selling?
I currently have a California LLC (single founder) not looking to raise VC. While the LLC has been nice because it greatly simplifies taxes, do be aware there is a mandatory $800 tax every year (no matter how much revenue you make). The $800 tax sucks, because when you're just starting out, $800 a year can be painful if your startup is making less than $1,000 a month.
One of my last eBay experiences ~9 years ago involved a package forwarding service, but I don't believe there was a scam.

I had shipped out a piece of recording equipment. It was packed pretty well- certainly good enough for domestic shipping. I sent it off to somewhere in Seattle, and according to my shipping records it arrived.

Strangely, like 3-4 weeks later the buyer is like, "Whoa, it arrived damaged!", to which I felt terrible, as I liked shipping things properly. I told him to ship it back to me, and I'd refund him, or to take it to the USPS store for the insurance claim. He said he couldn't ship it back to me, or that it would be $100 to ship, and there was no USPS store. I told him that was absurd, because it only cost me $15 to ship it to him.

It was then uncovered that he was in another country, and that it had been shipped on a container ship to get there. I hadn't packaged the thing for international travel.

Anyway, we resolved it and I paid him a bit (somewhat begrudgingly) for 'poor shipping packaging'. But it taught me a lesson about shipping.

Had he simply been transparent, I'd have added yet one more box layer. As-is, it looked like a forklift drove through it.
> Feel free to ask me if you have any questions or comments, in particular about things you'd like to see us cover in the future.

There is still no writeup why Stockfighter was wound down, though this was promised by Thomas H. Ptacek/tqbf on https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/771533037666390017

Concerning the blog post here: As you surely know in Germany credit cards are still not common (by SEPA direct debit mandate and there exists an IMHO far better option; this option exists in the whole EU, though it is particularly popular in German). This is IMHO an important limitation of Stripe (and Stripe Atlas) for German customers (I would even call it a road block for this market) not to offer SEPA direct debit. Are there any plans to add this option in near future?
Yahoo admits it’s been hacked again, and 1B accounts were exposed
I take a video while boxing and make sure to capture the label. Like you said though, I doubt this would be enough to win an appeal.