skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some may not realize this, but there is a YC backstory here.

Sam Altman's startup (Loopt) was acquired by Green Dot (the company behind the WMT Money Card) back in 2012.

Many of the GoBank features mentioned in the article (Stash/Vault, Fortune Teller) came directly from Steve Streit (Green Dot CEO), acqui-hired Loopt employees, backed up by IDEO research that was commissioned by Steve several months before the acquisition.

I was working there at the time Loopt was folded in, and was lucky enough to more or less report to Steve. I can tell you he really is deeply passionate about the underbanked community. I saw him fly into a fit of rage when a major outage prevented customers from accessing their funds for a brief time ("Don't f*ck with my customers' money!").

Say what you will about the fees, but these prepaid cards are a very convenient lifeline to many people who would otherwise be shut out of the system.
They cannot get a bank account to get a debit card. Banks and a lot of credit unions have become problematic for low income folks.
> living paycheck to paycheck is now a commonplace middle-class experience

The article states this as fact. Seems wholly bogus, but perhaps I define middle class weirdly. I think of it as robust stability moreso than income earned. Anyone know a plausible source for the assertion?
The constitution didn't say for the powerful. Just because you have money and power doesn't mean you can control other peoples lives, that's not a free society. Get your greedy asses out of the internet. You didn't have anything to do with creating the internet, so stay the fuck out, it's working fine the way it is.
you can overdraft debit cards, and of the college students i've known over the years, that's the most common thing to overdraft.

and then find out about your overdraft (and the 17 following it) a week later when you get a letter in the mail.
I wonder if this also has to do with the mythology of Western religion that says humans are fundamentally flawed and bad. Western religion tends to promote this idea that we are fundamentally bad and our only hope for salvation lies in Jesus. With this mindset then of course if you hear a voice coming from inside your head it must be bad and violent.

I grew up in an extremely fundamentalist Christian cult and I heard many talk fearfully about demon possession and experiencing supernatural phenomena that they attributed to the Devil. Of course later in life I realized that many of those people were probably mentally ill, and not recognizing the symptoms for what they were because they saw things through a different lens, which was one of a world in which Satan was out to get you.

It makes sense that in a culture that reveres the ancestors one would tend to attribute hearing voices to ancestors as well, and could have a more peaceful relationship with their own abnormal experience.
> Now if you want to code on your TV then just buy an AppleTV and use AirPlay to project your Mac's screen to the TV

So I need a thousand dollar device relaying to my hundred dollar device? I see.
For the curious, [0].

[0] https://github.com/zrho/purescript-optic-ui
No, I believe the connotation​ is that it's easier to intimidate people than convince them.
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This is the sort of thing that came to mind around the recent Twilio stock price drop driven by Uber's decreased use.

The whole article is about mobile messaging, but SMS isn't involved at all. I understand Airbnb does use SMS, but apparently only for specific use cases.

It's a bid sad, I think, that SMS is being displaced by either in-app messaging services or brand aggregated things like FB messenger. SMS has the advantage that if I don't like my mobile network, I could change providers and not change my address. The whole messaging space is now set to be highly fragmented.
It's a matter of correctly framing the discussion. Lots of basic income forms already exist in the US, including:

- Pensions
- Alaska Permanent Fund
- Child tax credits
- Stimulus cheques
- Social Security
- Welfare

I just don't think it's a huge stretch to jump from these kinds of payments to an expectation that the government of a wealthy nation would supply all citizens with a stipend.

Maybe the phrase "basic income" is too closely associated with socialism... in that case, call it an automation tax credit or something. Once people start receiving the cheques, they'll realize that it's a pretty good deal— kind of like the ACA.
It's a nice idea. I'd appreciate a tool that lets me enter a library and understand its merits along various dimensions. The problem with this tool is that it doesn't give me that understanding, as I have no idea what the grades mean.

The "enter Github repo, get information" part is there. Now you just have to improve the quality of that information. I think the tipping point past which you will suddenly get an influx of users is when someone can use your website as a tool to actually make informed decisions that they couldn't have without it.

Also, it's a tool for developers, so drop the Bootstrap! Either make it resemble the output of a Unix utility — sparse, clean, and compact — or go all the way and make it as gorgeous as Stripe's docs.
Obviously some people consider those to exist, while others disagree.
I know it wouldn't have enabled you to call his wife, but just for people who might be reading this:

You can do an emergency call without even unlocking the phone. At least in Australia I'm pretty sure it is a requirement to be able to make emergency calls immediately.

Even though my phone has a pattern lock, there's an icon of a telephone handset that you can swipe to make an emergency call without unlocking.
> "Nannies make the world go round. Without them, half the workforce would be stuck at home"

For my entry to Improbable Ideas day.... why don't we bring children to work? After they're no longer infants, its' plausible for children to simply run around the office, sitting quietly in the same rooms as their parents, and perhaps doing odd-jobs.

It'd require a more holistic attitude to education than is presently allowed, but it is certainly possible to implement.
I worked at a satellite office with my whole team working 29@ miles away. I became close to my original team and we worked together well.

On the other hand, trying to gain any influence over the larger organization was almost impossible, especially after the manager who hired me left.
That makes me laugh.. As it so happens, I actually used a webtv when they were first announced. The problem wasnt a lack of apps. Around the same time I also connected a computer to a tv.

It's difficult to understate just how terrible attempting to use a computer on a tv screen is.
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OT, but this comment tree is so bizarre, about 15 first time commenters with accounts ranging from 1 to 60 days old.
333 lines today. No issues closed yet. On days when I am fixing issues, I average about 1 1/2 issues closed a day.
Women don't need permission from a man to travel, make a police complaint or study in China, India and almost everywhere else, certainly not by law like this story. I'm just saying that it is the norm in almost everywhere in the world in 2017, Saudi Arabia is an aberration.
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How ZIP codes nearly masked the lead problem in Flint(2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14237184
Net neutrality is 21st century free speech and MUST, as such, be protected. Retain Title 2 and maintain net neutrality. Big Business must not be allowed to choke off a level playing field for the free exchange of ideas.
In contrast, in David Brin's The Practice Effect objects improve with use instead of wearing out. Rich people hire others to "practice" their possessions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_Effect
That's the toy model presented in introductory courses, but we have good of evidence that it isn't that simple. Or at least that we don't understand the dynamics very well. The resources used for other things do not necessarily help that much globally, they can just accumulate in less useful ways (i.e. trickle down economics is mostly wishful thinking)

The compelling impact of growth pointed out earlier (over centuries) was largely driven by the breaking of monopolies and increase in market access, as well as social change allowing more efficient allocation of resources.
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> People are very bad at it and it happens so infrequently.

Is this really true? Plenty of innovations occur in parallel. Perhaps the people who desire to innovate dwarf the opportunities for innovation.
Your post is weakened by including some popular tropes which are unsupported by the evidence.

The DNC didn't suppress Bernie – he has a great run for someone who wasn't even a member of the party but he was going against the best known name in the party who wasn't the outgoing president.

Similarly, Hillary had the same message – and a far more detailed plan to get there – but a variety of factors (Comey, propaganda, a 3 decade smear campaign, the media obsession with keeping the email story on the front page despite lack of an actual story, etc.) led more Democrats to stay home than Republicans. Both candidates had a small amount of crossover votes but by and large more registered Republicans showed up to vote.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/e...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/registered-voters-who-s...
AFAIK, there's at least 3 kernels running on an Android device.
- LK (1) for the bootloader (the screen you see when launching fastboot, I believe)
- LK (2) for 'Trusty', the crypto engine
- Linux as the bootloader's payload.

If Magenta is also an instance of LK then they can maintain each through a common source tree and the bootloader can initialize the device resources once without needing separate drivers for each distinct kernel.
> Let me remind you the California has a higher GDP than your entire county. My state Georgia has a 1/4 of your GDP with only ~10 million people.

No, my country had a GDP of $18.5 trillion in 2016. You must be thinking of India, which had a nominal GDP of $2.5 trillion.

Though of course, this entire digression has next to nothing to do with my previous comment, so I'm not sure why any of those numbers are relevant.
I think of the current scene dominated by a lower barrier of entry to market and the current rise of indie and "early access" games so maybe it won't be defined by games at all but by the dominance of Steam.
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[06:00] Woken up by cats poking my face, I roll out of bed & feed them a little bit of food then head back to bed.

[08:00] Alarm goes off, I get up, grab a quick shower & take the dog out for a quick morning walk.

[08:40] Feed dog & cats their breakfast. Make a coffee with Irish Creamer (It makes the coffee taste like it has booze in it).

[08:50] Start my first block of uninterrupted coding time at home. I'm a few hours ahead of my colleagues, so this time is my most productive. I listen to an audiobook or podcast to avoid talking to myself.

[11:00] Make another coffee & prep for morning standup call.

[11:10] Sit down on my sofa & start the call.

[11:40] Coffee #3, tell myself I should plan out my afternoon, then promptly start dicking around on social news sites.

[12:00] Make lunch, then take the dog for 1h of exercise. Dog decides its ball should be split in two.

[13:20] Head to the shops to grab food for the next few days & a new ball for the dog.

[14:00] Saw I had a unread message from my Mum. I give her a call to remind her I'm still alive.

[14:30] Finally back to coding. Spend way to long debating about a 4th coffee.

[18:00] Start a load of washing & take the dog out again.

[18:40] Feed animals (saving a little bit of cat food for later), then cook dinner.

[20:00] Remember about washing, then figure out plans to go out for dinner tomorrow with some locals I've met.

[21:00] Decide I should burn some evening oil on getting to a better place for work tomorrow. End up thinking more about side projects & catching up on TV.

[22:30] Sun still hasn't set outside. I take the dog out again for a quick pre-bedtime walk.

[23:00] Feed cats the last of their dinner in a hope they'll let me sleep in a bit more tomorrow.

[23:15] Catchup on news in bed, then sleep.
Are they worth 2x Rap Genius? Only time will tell.
When they said smart bus I imagined they meant the routes were determined in real time according to where people wanted to go.
> sitting quietly

...what does this mean? Is this something that children can do?
What do you mean by "It is $5/mo for accounts with less than $1000, but you're not going to get better than that at a bank."? Aren't there lots of banks that charge nothing even if you only have <$1000?
Yeah it isn't so much conjuring new concepts as it is that the hallucinating mind connects existing concepts in ways never experienced before. So someone would never normally connect the concept of their self identity with the concept of a glass of orange juice while sober, but while high on LSD this could seem like a plausible scenario, and the synaptic connections made during that trip can persist afterward and leave a lingering sense of bizarre connection.

I read a very interesting piece on the use of LSD by creative people and how some felt they benefited immensely from taking LSD precisely because of those random connections that they formed between mental concepts that they had. The basic theory was that creative people in these scenarios had minds full of concepts that would tend to work well together and could benefit because there was a high probability that the connections that formed were valuable and useful ones.
There's a lot that's not written down. Didn't NASA try to coax Apollo engineers out of retirement for their new big space stuff? The engineers had knowledge that wasn't written down, wasn't accessible, or was simply lost.

Sure, with sufficient time you could recreate the knowledge with brand new engineers but you'd be rediscovering lost information.
I remember playing Civ 1 back in the day. It was a great game, albeit easy to win with rapid-expansion strategies. Civ 2 was probably my favourite of the Civilization series (Alpha Centauri being my favourite overall).

As time went on, the designers worked harder and harder to block the best strategies in the game rules. They added more and more convoluted systems of upkeep, corruption, etc. in order to slow down a rapid expanding player. This has probably been my biggest beef with the series: redesigning the rules to counteract the player instead of making the AI opponents smarter. I haven't played Civ 6 but Civ 5 just bored me to tears with how much of that nonsense they did. That game felt like you had a million decisions to make and none of them had much consequence.
I read it. Maybe you should go to a store and actually get one of these cards, then let me know how it works out.

Seriously though, these cards, like many "financial products" come with a variety of price points and fee structures. If you re-read my comment, you'll see that I didn't claim my figures were definitive, but they are definitely in the ballpark.
Silly indeed. Over the decades when Berkshire has elected to retain earnings vs distributing to shareholders, the capital has been compounded at Warren Buffett rates of return (and taxed when it hits the books as profit). If it were distributed the treasury would get a one-time dividend payment, but then the individual shareholders would be unlikely to compound that money at ~20%.
"To be clear, this is an unsandboxed and highly privileged JavaScript interpreter that is used to evaluate untrusted code, by default on all modern Windows systems. This is as surprising as it sounds."

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...
Making the label near meaningless.

Innovation is inevitable; so too are people claiming credit for it.

Honestly, we need a better label for "anti-innovator" (conservative is taken)—they have an oversized personal impact on the world.
This is obviously not an option for embedded stuff, but on many common platforms, it's actually easiest to unit-test C from Python. While you do need to write extra glue code (although ctypes are often "good enough" for tests, significantly reducing that amount), it's just so much easier to set things up in Python - i.e. generate inputs (especially strings!), set up files etc.
Here's a post on how to address trying to map the abnormal while controlling for variance across sample sets: https://medium.com/@uwdata/surprise-maps-showing-the-unexpec...
But it's not Wednesday?
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"SMS has the advantage that if I don't like my mobile network, I could change providers and not change my address."

Only if you live somewhere number porting is possible. I live in China, where it is not.

If I switch carriers, I'll have to switch phone numbers, but luckily iMessage, WeChat etc. can be carried to my new phone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14293325
It sounds a bit counterintuitive, but for me this just confirms that you should only be running Microsoft's AV software and avoiding all that third-party crap like the plague. This bug was more subtle than the ones Tavis has found in the third-party products, and Microsoft responded immediately with a fix instead of giving them the runaround.
The potential benefits are high but there would be no obvious, appreciable and immediate economic impact of blocking IPFS outright tomorrow.
It's simple, if they are not productive, then you tell them they need to be more productive. If they continue to be, you put them on probation as per the standards, and they will have to come into the office.

This isn't nuclear fusion. If this is difficult for a manager they shouldn't be a manager.
http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/income-rank/

If you have a household income of $150K you are in the top 13% of earners.
There aren't many anymore. Banks mostly eliminated or heavily restricted free checking accounts when overdraft fees got capped.

You may be able to find a couple credit unions that do this, but you still have minimum account balances and other hurdles that make it difficult to open an account if you have bad credit and little money (not to mention time or financial savvy).
Is the FCC barring people from commenting on Net Neutrality??
I'm on the site (https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express), right now. But, the site responds so slowly as to appear unusable. Is this by design?
I can relate to this. I often think musicians of the past looked to the future for inspiration. It seems that many now look to just recreate the past. I really believe that interactive procedural music is around the corner. I predict once you can interact with music in settings like VR/AR it will render pop bands as we know them nearly obsolete.
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Often times banking services like this make money off of incidental fees like balance inquiries that would normally be free, or fees to call an agent.
Prove to me that a rocket simply MUST be burnt, to set an orbiting mass in motion.

Propellant is a conventional means, but certainly not the sole means. Magnetic induction could eject a slug from an orbiting platform, or inert gases could jettison to induce motion. Burnt fuel isn't a requirement.

You insist on a rocket motor. But you just resist the idea of this form of orbital weaponry.

A large enough asteroid could enter into earth's gravity well and chart a straight line to impact.

You presume preconceived concept of a weapons platform already in orbit, controlled from the ground, or by a terrestrial entity. But a weapon of lunar origin might insert into the atmosphere differently. As with any weapon, an approach to target should be the least defensible path. After atmospheric re-entry, when position is given away, you'd want the penetrator to travel as perpendicularly to the target as possible, but prior to that moment, any stealthy approach is game.

I'm not 100% wrong. You're 100% obstinate.
You understand the differential of risk right?

You've got a 1 in 10 million or so chance of serious adverse reaction to vaccination.

You've got a 1 in 10 chance of serious adverse reaction if you're exposed to the virus.

You're effectively saying something along the lines of "Do you know how dangerous motorcycle riding is?! We should play russian routlette instead!"
Um, no, you completely made up the numbers, making no attempt to source from the article which laid them out clearly. It's not the same "ballpark".

- It's $1 for the card, not "$5-$10"

- It's free cash withdrawal, not $3

- It's free deposits from direct deposit or government benefits, not $3

You are not approaching this remotely honestly.
It only took two days to fix this and release the patch? Impressed.
Luckily, the existence of confused or insincere persons doesn't provide any evidence against my claims. Any pair of people who believe themselves to have a sincere disagreement about whether mathematics is science are in fact both mistaken; what they really have is a disagreement about what "science" is. Furthermore anyone who thinks mathematics is science must define science to be the whole sum of human knowledge (rendering the word meaningless) or else some uselessly large subset thereof.
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Does anyone know how citymapper makes money; or if they aren't making any money yet what's their path to profitability?
Props on the fast fix; anti-props on running an unsandboxed JavaScript engine at SYSTEM privileges and feeding it files from remote.
It would be interesting if people actually paid for this. It seems too simple to pay for. Do you have a decent number of customers?
Babies feel pain, which you seem to be saying they don't with:

> by 13 he will go through with it. So now there's physical pain as well.
A lot of banks got rid of their free or low cost checking accounts. Hard to find anything less than $12 per month when the balance is below $1500.
What does that mean? If it means, literally, U.S. Gross Domestic Product has reached its peak, then my point that the GDP has grown every year but one since 1950 answers the question. To be clear: Every year since 1950, except one, the U.S. GDP has been larger than the year before.
Well seeing as there is only one capitalist in this equation, I'd say this is feudalism at work.
what I can say, this is a problem I faced every day, especially, I need to add some code in my message or I write a long updates to my team.

I don't see any reason why I make it for free or even open source. I charge my customers monthly fee is not just based on how much time I spend to build, it's about how much commitment I have to keep it working to provide my customers high quality service.

If you think give tips to a waiter/waitress after they serve you meals and drinks makes sense, and then, why I provide my service for free? My pricing mode maybe need to judge a little in the future, but free is never my option.
NScript is the component of mpengine that evaluates any filesystem or network activity that looks like JavaScript. To be clear, this is an unsandboxed and highly privileged JavaScript interpreter that is used to evaluate untrusted code, by default on all modern Windows systems. This is as surprising as it sounds.

Double You Tee Eff.

Why would mpengine ever want to evaluate javascript code coming over the network or file system? Even in a sandboxed environment?

What could they protect against by evaluating the code instead of just trying to lexically scan/parse it?

(I'm sure they had a reason - wondering what it is)
In Palo Alto.
The ~82 million people in America alone with iPhones as of 2015.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/232790/forecast-of-apple...
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