skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Former British India and Colonial Indochina¸ along with nations like Egypt have done pretty well economically given their socioeconomic conditions at the end of colonization, and considering the massive drain of wealth and resources to their colonizers undertaken over centuries.
Can you think of many payment processors that would tolerate an ongoing 2% chargeback rate?
I wrote a book about autocrats’ design tastes. U.S. president would fit right in
Bill Clinton's last election was more than twenty years ago. Party composition and behavior has radically changed in that time.
One of my top-ten rules for staying sane on the Internet is 'Never leave any money in your PayPal account.' Served me well so far - I had my account frozen but there was only $2 in the account. PayPal is horrible.
It's compounded by needing so much outbound sales when you have no reputation and such small capacity. I work at a mid-size consulting shop where we are maybe 50/50 outbound and inbound. Inbound sales are like gift-wrapped christmas presents but they require so much effort to get to. Outbound sales is extremely costly.
My thoughts exactly. The issue of "fake news" being this global menace appeared seemingly out of nowhere despite the fact "fake news" has been a part of internet culture for pretty much its entire existence.
I may be splitting hairs, but "chronic fatigue" is a symptom. When its aetiology is unknown it is often classified as CFS. I would not be surprised to find that as medicine progresses many cases of CFS become re-classified.

Certainly, stress would exacerbate any symptoms of fatigue.
Has anyone managed autoimmunity with food? I've seen several people who went on a keto diet and psoriasis disappeared. I've seen people who go on a low fat vegan diet and it cleared up. There's seems to be a handful of diets which give some people success so I'm not advocating one diet over the other. Just that there may be a way to manage it and was wondering if anyone has had success?
> The truth is, I had no idea what autoimmune disease really was. For years, I’d known that two of my mother’s sisters had rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis (and my father’s youngest sister had recently learned she had Hashimoto’s). But I didn’t understand that these diseases might somehow be connected. At Christmas, I’d had lunch with three of my mother’s sisters—humorous, unself-pitying Irish-American women in their fifties—at my grandmother’s condo on the Jersey Shore, and they told me that two of my cousins had been feeling inexplicably debilitated. “None of the doctors can figure out what it is,” one said, “but I think it’s thyroid-related.” Another aunt told us that, along with the rheumatoid arthritis she’d had for years, she, too, had recently been given a diagnosis of Hashimoto’s, and both were autoimmune in nature. The third aunt had ulcerative colitis, and told me that a cousin had just been given that diagnosis, too. “They’re all connected,” one of them explained.

They certainly are. It's an interesting area of genetic correlations, the autoimmune cluster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_correlation#Disease Also notable for relatively large genetic effects from the large and difficult MHC gene.
Not seeing anything about any penalties in the bill.

These wellness programs are voluntary with the premise of the employee getting some sort of benefits for participating. So the only way I can think of where this can be presented as a "penalty" is if a company establishes a wellness program and the only way to get the benefits is to comply with the rules of the said program, of which dna testing can legally become a part of if this passes.
The Underground Railroad for Refugees
Interesting article. As someone he would have likely considered a "beast of semi-human nature" myself, I'm admittedly biased against Lovecraft.

At any rate I found it interesting that the New Yorker didn't squeeze in a throwaway mention of this awful aspect of Lovecraft's personality, given the sympathy it evokes for the member of another oppressed class (homosexuals): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft#Race.2C_ethnic...

Although actually now having read through it more carefully, it's really an article about Barlow, and I can see how delving into Lovecraft's despicable attitudes would just be a distraction.

EDIT: Actually, they did squeeze in exactly said throwaway mention I would have expected, so my original observation was just plain wrong. Thanks ffm for the correction.
That's fair, and to be fair, Lyft does some scummy stuff, too.

But while he might have ulterior motives, I'm not sure he's wrong.
Your chargeback rate is very high. Do those customers usually contact you first to resolve it? If you know there are quality issues, you should refund as soon as you have a complaint, not wait for a chargeback.

To the matter at hand: I think you'll eventually get the account back, probably within a week or two. (Just my personal opinion assuming the facts you have are true, I obviously can't guarantee anything.) Keep on calling, asking where to submit additional information.

If you're low on cash flow, figure out how much time you have. You will definitely eventually get the money, so if you can borrow to cover for some time at reasonable interest rates, do so.

Try not to argue with the people you speak to. Just keep on asking for what steps to take to get the account back.
I have been through the same. I am 33 now and I was diagnosed with Hashimoto when I was 28. I am still managing the whole situation as best as I can. Today I am physically more fit that I even was in my entire life. Although I have many sessions of unexplained memory loss and brain fog.

The funny thing is that if you have one autoimmune disease, it is highly likely that sooner or later you will also encounter another one. I was diagnosed with three. Including one affecting my eyes pretty badly.

The way I am managing it all is by
1. making sure my adrenal does not deplete(went through a super adrenal crash last year)
2. good dental hygiene(it does help massively)
3. avoid sugar, refined carbs, alcohol.
4. Probiotic natural Yogurt and apple cider vinegar seems to keep my system happy, milk makes things worse.
5. B-complex and Vitamin - D on a regular basis.

point 3 and 4 are to ensure that my gut is maintained well.

The important thing is to make sure that you try to take good care of your adrenal gland and pituitary , because they tends to overwork to compensate the malfunctioning organ that is under attack at the time.

The longer I continue my unrefined diet, good sleep cycle and avoid stress, the more my body heals.

I used to be quite a sharp minded computer scientist, now that sharpness comes and goes, other times there is fog, which is not very nice :-) But I have hope that eventually I will be better, I am already much better than last few years :-)
It is complicated, but most health related matters are regulated by the provinces. Everything has to be in compliance with the Canada Health Act though.
I take issue with their representation of determinism: since chains of cause and effect are what connects your actions to your will, it should in fact be the only version of the game where the player gets to control the snake :)
"set up a nightly sweep from PayPal to a proper bank account"

That is by far the best advice one can get, and it's not hard to do.
For me, the advantage of PayPal is that I don't need to host my own web server (at home or in the cloud) and maintain code in order to take credit card payments. I realize it's just programming, but it's programming that I don't trust myself to do in a way that's reliable and secure.

Also, PP makes my accounting extremely easy. I use my PP debit card for all of my business purchases, so I just download a CSV of the entire year's transactions, and compute my results in a spreadsheet, for my taxes.

Given the horror stories, I realize it's a risk, and I periodically go out and look for alternatives. Best case would be to have two options for customers, so my business could at least take orders even if one of the two goes down.
Supporting internationalization (multi-lingual) in Angular 2
As someone who's written / taught a CS intro class in Python. This is a nice addition to my tool belt. When I taught labs, we used a really crappy Python IDE that consistently froze and would delete student's code.

I'm pretty partial to the VS Code and command line approach, myself. It teaches you basic command line stuff, which is good for anyone learning CS in the long run, and it teaches you how to NOT rely on an IDE for most of your syntax and semantics which is enormously helpful for those starting out (even though the learning curve is a bit steep).
That fiduciary duty myth you've just restated is just that, a myth. Created from whole cloth (like many others) by Milton Friedman.

http://evonomics.com/the-myth-of-maximizing-shareholder-valu...
Awesome use of pyrasite, great job!
--luke (pyrasite author)
Can practice can improve memory?
Different abstraction levels are normally different ways of talking about the same physical phenomena. That is, they are parallel; they don't stack. The most basic one is the one that doesn't exist in our heads and doesn't have a model with predictions to violate.

What does "real" mean here? I'm using it as a proxy for truth, or perhaps better, accuracy in a model. That is, if a model of the world makes predictions about the world, the model is "real" to the degree that the predictions are correct. But all human models of the world have their limits, usually forced by our tiny little brains and meagre data input senses.

We take something that we've decided to categorize, and create symbols to represent commonalities, and theorize relations between the symbols, and test these theories, and gradually refine a calculus of symbols that we can use to apply to the world, and the system works, in so far as the commonalities stay common, and the symbols aim squarely at the average of the referents. But it's not reality; it's all made up, like mathematics. It's just a story, it's all in our heads and in narratives we communicate with one another. The symbols don't stick; the world moves on. People change; humans are animals that evolve over time, and continue to evolve. We can't even decide what a human is - the evergreen abortion debate - and other fictions like races, species and planets etc. shift as we change our mind.

So when you want to get serious about causes, you're going to be using a system. You're going to be using symbols and relations between symbols; you're going to define your symbols in terms of commonalities between events and matter that appear to repeat reliably. But it only works because we have so little thinking matter, so little data, so little input; it's the only way we can squeeze the enormity of the world into our tiny heads.
Yes, and that is probably part of the "new technologies allow more accurate readings."

I've only been on one ship built in the last decade that had that, and you could read the number on a computer screen. (FYI, the computer systems and automation on ships are a joke, if you can do it better than the current companies, you could make some money. Also, tangentially related to why we'll never have fully-automated ships. Stuff breaks, and ships lose money every day they're in port for repairs.)

However not all fuel that goes to the engine ends up being burned. Fuel is always being pumped through the fuel line at a high pressure, and only a fraction of that is burned when the cam system actuates the injectors to inject fuel into the engine cylinders. The rest of the fuel is returned to the tank.

As for the ship I was on that had a more accurate measurement, I don't know exactly what was measured. I can only speculate it was the fuel in minus the fuel out.
any diet which keeps your gut healthy will work. Lots of fruits and vegetables and seeds and probiotic works well. It works for me.
From Schneier's IPSec paper

Conclusions

We are of two minds about IPsec. On the one hand, IPsec is far better than any IP security protocol that has come before: Microsoft PPTP, L2TP, etc.

On the other hand, we do not believe that it will ever result in a secure operational system.

It is far too complex, and the complexity has lead to a large number of ambiguities, contradictions, inefficiencies, and weaknesses.

It has been very hard work to perform any kind of security analysis; we do not feel that we fully understand the system, let alone have fully analyzed it.
I think some of the big tech companies get it, or at least the the value of having "us" on their side, and have some influence on law makers. It might help that those people vote too, since if someone goes around saying they want legal taps into toaster, the people with the toasters might start thinking about how that's kind of scary.
Nope.

Political solutions are required to impose high tariffs on traded goods, services and intellectual property.

Free trade is a race to the bottom in terms of labor exploitation and unregulated ruination of natural resources.

Each jurisdiction should have as much of full-stack manufacturing as possible to best employ their workforce. Global firms can operate factories in jurisdictions where the products are consumed.

Politicians are the ones to set the tariffs. They are very much needed.
Yes, that's pretty much what I said. With the addition that if you look at the overall evidence it does seem to be pointing towards stress as the cause.
This might be naive, but.. Shouldnt the internet be as far removed from regulation as possible? This just opens the doors for more regulation by central authorities.
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1) the lottery has a negative expected value, investment does not. In the long run, this is a qualitative difference.

2) That is federal income tax, you've missed state, medicare and social security, and are also completely discounting the fact that the capital gains rate is bounded from above by the income tax rate.

3) most importantly, 165000/year isn't very much money. It is plenty to generate personal wealth. Most of the actual income in america is made well in excess of 165k/year, and much of that income is in the form of capital gains.

If you need a better breakdown, I can't do it better than this https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-top-1-percent-earns-...
Oortmessen/Aardappel's point here isn't that OOP is dead. I've seen his code (he runs the OSS Cube engine games and has made multiple hobby languages), he writes in C++ and uses objects where needed.

His point is in slavish love of OOP concepts. Of excessive abstraction and storing state everywhere. I've worked on multiple projects where I can only describe the code as "bureaucratic". Oodles of little classes imperiously demanding you work through them to get anywhere inspite of terrible mismatches and the overcomplication it creates.
That same level of testing could be required without requiring an employer's involvement, and all the potential for abuse, discrimination, harassment, and pain that might imply.

You're forcing a false dichotomy. Under colour of sympathy to boot.

I'm sorry for your pain, but your suggestion and justification are both exceedingly poor.
They're politically invested against action taken to mitigate climate change, and the best way to push those policies is to convince people that climate change isn't important and the people who say it's important are either idiots or lying.
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It could also be an innocent miscommunication between the two parties. E.g.:

- "Some guy called and said you're ok with me."

- "We don't have any record of that."

Both are right but saying different things. (ie seller was -called-, PayPal don't have any record that -the OK- was given).
Why not just tax them for the excessive pollution?
> which have lent $400bn secured on smoke-spewing

Shipping bubble?
We never had control of our personal data. The WWW wasn't designed with personal data in mind. If it was then https would be the standard. I'm hearing a lot of Chicken Littles. Either adapt to the new age or die. For us this should go without saying.
The companies can charge you higher premiums for opting out. I think 30% higher.
I sell on eBay, and if you don't accept PayPal very few people will buy from you.
Thanks for putting up with all these questions. You seem to have your own "Big Bang Theory" going on, but with more tears.
There's a ton of other stuff in the movie that attempts to make the case against testing, but IMO it's all overshadowed by the main plot wherein a failure of testing likely results in a major problem for an important mission.
National Grid considers deal with DeepMind to optimize grid performance
A large portion of that is likely because many approach house ownership as a investment rather than a living expense.

Very few buy gas from the pump with the expectation of selling it again once the price rises.

Housing as an investment object is a disease of the mind.
The article actually does actually mention something along the lines of "Lovecraft's literary legacy is threatened in the 50s by his rumored homosexuality and today by his latent racist attitudes". But yes, you're absolutely right, an article about a man's tragic life really has no place in loudly screaming that one of his early influences was racist.
as a you poor HN comment reader I look forward to what you're working on
This exactly.

Certain shapes and patterns of particles become larger and larger semantic entities. Particle patterns that repeat or recur become self-referential and correlated. With systems that are complex, chaotic and highly sensitive to initial conditions -- there is no "reason" or the "reason" can be everything -- there is no separability of part from whole.
No. It's based on ancestry. While those are obviously tightly related, the distinction is important.

There are no genes that are identified as "First Nations genes" for this purpose.
That's adorable and lovely. You're going to have quite a life together.
Forty Signs of Rain, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Fifty Degrees Below

Sixty Days and Counting
Corporations still manage to maintain the illusion of decency and customer service

I'm baffled by this. Paypal does not. 28 days ago I wrote this comment on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13624393. I'm sure that in the future I'll be reading another Paypal horror story from someone like you, who somehow thought, "It won't happen to me!"
You stopped advertising and still had passive income of 10k monthly ?
Nope, he's correct, and his synopsis would make a great episode of "How it Should Have Ended". The protagonist wasn't an idiot, but the rest of that is accurate.
Android's Optimising App  has a bug and wasted user time?
You only need to meet once.

With a few GB (a couple bucks in a supermarket will buy a 8GB usb stick) you can communicate in text about 16 thousand books worth of words.

In other words, to deplete the pad you would have to write sixteen thousand books.

I think that's pretty convenient, as far as literally unbreakable encryption goes!
This is a case of KYC. Paypal wants to get to know you. Just talk to them. This looks scary to people who dont deal with banks and entities that act like banks, but paypal is doing this because they need to protect themselves from aiding people in money laundering, which is a pretty big deal.

If you explain to them what youre doing and come up with some proof, they will release your money. They do not want to steal it. Almost all these cases revolve around someone not communicating with paypal and then acting surprised when they freeze funds.

Any bank would do that. If my bank is hit wit ha 100k transfer and I don't say a word about it and then appear at the local branch and demand to cash it all out without an explanation of whats going on, they will refuse that, as well. And probably call the cops just to cover their asses. Seriously. Talk to them.
Come to think of it, the same is true for gasoline. No other use for it than to run combustion engines. Turns out we are all doing those oil companies a pretty big favor, unless we used their product, they would have to pump all of those distillates back into the ground.
There's more than one country interested in pulling off these attacks. The US can say, "Do us this favor and we won't look too hard at your tax avoidance schemes," but China or Russia might have an easier time planting a few employees.
Problem is, except from some prebiotic supplements and cultured micro organisms, there is not much money to be had, and therefore will not be funded broadly.
It's hard to categorize exactly what OOP is exactly, though somehow we are able to discuss this and mostly agree about it's scope.

It's more encompassing today than the traditional model of sending messages to objects to make them change their internal state. This model doesn't exactly lend itself to being great in managing complexity either.

What about the concepts of Encapsulation, Inheritance And Polymorphism? In the form that they are often employed create more complexity and problems than they solve in any non-trivial scope.

It's often said that naming things is one of the hardest problems in computer science. This is particularly applicable to OO style of programming, where the available code reuse capabilities are so limited as to force a programmer to write the same blocks of code over, and over and over again in an increasingly complex codebases, stitching up names along. Seriously, just grep an OO codebase for terms such as "Adapter", or "Strategy".

You should also find it ironic that the only semblance of progress in the OOP landscape in the past decade had nothing at all to do with OOP concepts. But rather it's the incorporation of ideas from Functional Programming into mainstream OO languages that have led to the biggest productivity gains.

Maybe it's a good tool in some contexts, fine. But as the de facto standard across an entire industry of solving problems with Software? A mediocre solution at best!

Object-oriented programming wasn't a failure.

It's an ongoing one.
Shows how carefully I was reading it. Thanks for the correction.
Is there a reason why you decided to completely overlook the aspects in the film around discrimination and segregation of the labour force?
You wouldn't. The argument is so straw-man that it verges on trolling.
Wireless device prevents unnecessary walks to the bathroom
There's all sorts of other ways PayPal can decide to hold your funds as well.

For example, they have a really simplistic implementation of OFAC regulatory compliance. Make a transaction that has the right strings in it, even in a comment, and it gets your whole account frozen. And some of these magic strings are very common names. Such that if someone named John Smith ends up on the OFAC list, any transaction with that string in it, anywhere, triggers chaos.

That's just one additional way they can choose to freeze funds. Many others exist.
So... how come they are selling them?
Beijing to release national artificial intelligence development plan
The Ken Thompson Hack
If you take a look at the definition of engineer, nowhere does it say that you must have a license.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...

Its opinion, but there are definitely people out there who support this approach, such as Neil Postman. Its called crap detection.
No, all of the child's memory mappings are shared with its parent. Upon write, though, that becomes a new committed mapping; I believe the entire page is copied, so you could end up committing another 4k with a one-byte write from the child.
I just remembered that the mold was an accident. The bacteria were being grown in dishes. Science accuracy.