skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We spend so much money paying pensions that it's a given we'd default one way or the other.

That contradicts the "give it a couple of decades, at most" sentence right before it. In a couple of decades you can expect a lot of the pensions you are referring to to not be payed anymore due to natural causes (deaths).

While you clearly have a point to make here, you lose in the details

> He can act as a smart-ass all he wants in his books, but we were here and we experienced first hand the results of his reign. Once we get rid of this charade of imbeciles that act as the government, he and many of his former colleagues will end up in jail for their actions. There he will have plenty of time to write memoirs.

And that's clearly belief/propaganda talking. Feel free to believe in it, but don't be surprised if it doesn't work out that way
Not at 11AM it isn't.
It doesn't technically solve a problem I have yet, but if more banks did it, it could.

I like to immediately take 10% of my pay check off the top for my savings account and investments. As a contractor, I also needed to take money out on my own for taxes. My hours are variable and I was getting paper checks.

Being able to just deposit my check and have a script run that automatically takes care of all of that would be great.
>Furthermore, you can't just default on the debt just by saying so. There's a naivety among mostly Greeks that just by going back to drachma and defaulting on our debt will magically solve all of our problems. In a country that imports pretty much everything that would be catastrophic.

Well thinking from a trader perspective, by defaulting and going back to the drachma (and leaving the EU), Greece would have more flexibility wrt what goods they can import and from where compared to now with all the restrictions on trading that being within the EU imposes.

Combine that with land access to the rest of Europe, I can imagine a prosperous almost black market for such goods that would provide much needed inflows of capital to the Greek economy (outside of selling junk sovereign bonds and hoping pensioners die faster).
It'll only go open source if it reaches its crowdfunding goal. Otherwise, I won't open source and will have to find a different way to make money from the project. Possibly by closed-source manufacturing.
What protections are in place so that third party doesn't have a glitch and take all a person's money?
Rackspace CEO Taylor Rhodes Resigns
Yeah but this article is silly. Solar isn't a given, you can have a cloudy day. Or days. So the grid already has to be prepared to deal with this.

It's a known problem, happens every night. The company that solves storage in a meaningful way is gonna get rich. By meaningful I mean at scale and portable. I know you can pump water up to a reservoir and let it back out to generate power but that's not portable. Anyone know if someone has an answer other than Musk's powerwall (which is kinda cool in that it is the definition of portable, completely distributed, but also sort of limited).

Seems like a fun problem to work on.
Omnia has a similar opt-in feature. Everything is open source though (including hardware).
Fighting Algorithmic Bias and Homogenous Thinking in A.I
This is an interesting story, but correlation is not causation. The article even admits this, stating "The truth is that it’s not that easy to determine how many bankruptcies are caused by medical debt. Examining the paperwork doesn’t always offer insight because debtors often juggle their indebtedness, for example, using a credit card to pay an outstanding medical bill while leaving other debts unpaid."

The bankruptcy code itself changed tremendously in 2005: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/new-bankruptcy-law-ch...

The housing market bubble mostly likely had a tremendous effect on bankruptcies as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_housing_bubble
Of course, it is a fine line between an ISP allowing someone (who is not a customer) to pay them for higher priority, vs the ISP purposely maintaining a low quality route to certain other web sites to "encourage" them to pay up (this is what Comcast did with Netflix a while ago -- Netflix traffic came through a smaller pipe into Comcast, until Netflix paid up).
You might check into the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Financial_Exchange format. Software like Quicken is able to download transactions from several banks and brokerages using it. (I don't know what's involved in getting access to its endpoints, though.)
Slashdot’s moderation and meta-moderation system (https://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml) always comes to mind. Could something like that work for Facebook self-moderation?
A Critique of Wired's “ Brilliant Young Hackers Who’ll Soon Shape the World”
> What about the Uber example? That's seem pretty cool.

edit: I didn't see the Uber example, so I was working off an incorrect premise. It actually makes sense.

How would that work in real life? Uber doesn't charge you before your ride is complete, and at that point your payment would bounce, and now you're in trouble.

Ditto for fast-food diet; nobody's going to be happy when you walk up to the counter at 16 Handles with your big bucket of ice cream and your card doesn't go through.

I suppose the idea is to keep all of this in mind, but it still seems odd.

But you're right - someone will come up with an interesting use case for it. (My first idea was a card for my kid, so they can only make $10 worth of in-game purchases a month.)
How startup funding works
No, I mean, I'm not comfortable working over the network, I need everything to be local and offline.
>You closed the page immediately after learning that it has been built with Electron? Thanks for letting us know. The ideas are nice indeed, but stating that doesn't make your comment add anything to the (potential) discussion

Well, what I implied was: I don't think this will go anywhere as long as its tied to Electron.

It might be OK for exploration of the UX space, but not for any kind of practical everyday terminal replacement (and I've used the one in VS Code).
"We need to add this feature to the car immediately!"

"We can't do that because it would mean we would have to re-test the codebase, meaning we'd have to test-drive the car for hundreds of thousands of miles."

"Can't we take a shortcut? I believe the change is quite innocent. And the competitor already has this feature."

"Ok, sounds reasonable. Make the change."
I can see the use being other for power users who want to have triggers for their own stuff "warn me if the cellphone bill is over the regular price so I check the overcharges". Myself if I go under my limit I have before the end of the day to correct the situation (I don't like to leave much money on the current account), so the first thing I would do is a simple script that warns me when that happens to avoid bank fees or even automatically correct if no correction had been done at 23h30.

Or for companies who would like a processing pipeline that treat customer's orders once their wire payment arrive (send a confirmation email, activate the product, ...).

Or of course like their snippet shows, for hip companies who want to post activities events on their social powered feed, because "bob bought bagels" is the information you need live at the office !
[GraphAPI] Fetch Facebook page’s feed in 3 Step
Is this South Africa only? Any plans on coming to the US? :)
Good to know - I've yet to have my passport refused anywhere, but it's annoying to have to carry it around, let alone potentially lose it on a night out

A document that permits someone to enter the country isn't acceptable to prove their age. Wacky.
AFAIK the best way to access German bank accounts programmatically is AqBanking, which is used by e.g. GNUCash. It also comes with a CLI: https://www.aquamaniac.de/sites/aqbanking/cli.php
Based on my experience reporting security issues to them and their condescending and irrelevant responses, I would just call the police. I wouldn't bother with Facebook.
Yeah but think of a typical .net application. Probably some business application used by a lawyer or a doctor. They don't install DirectX on their machine.
> We need to move to companies seeing that data as a liability, not an asset

this could lead to serious limitations on legitimate future progress including on anything built using statistical methods that require large training data sets.
Being in EU, we don't know the grilling at UK, Denmark or any other EU (Schengen participants to be specific), (it's more or less like going from one state to the other in USA), so the comparison doesn't help much to parent poster.
I disagree that it is a 'fundamental' limit, I think you can practice holding "impossible" things in your head so that you can work out where the places are where the "possible" things are at the edge. Using your example, you can't accurately imagine what it's like to be a genius but you can "pretend" you're a genius, and imagine that if you were a genius you would know lots of stuff about a lot of different things, and from there recognize you would need to learn about lots of different things. And from there recognize that you'd need to know how to learn quickly so that you could know lots of different things. And from there find techniques for learning things quickly and start trying different ones to see if any work for you.

That is the 'walking it in reverse' idea, if you start with this impossible idea (your own or someone else has presented it to you) and you want to figure out sort of that impossible idea might come to be real.
Right, wouldn't NASA be SpaceX's largest customer? They gave them $1.6 billion for those resupply missions (right when SpaceX needed it to stay alive) and a further $3 billion for that crewed vehicle development you mention.
So? We have 1000s in the bay are building the next chat bot, cat pic ai engine etc.
If anyone's looking for API access to UK high street banks: https://teller.io
I was an awkward kid with few friends, and turned to computers because they were fascinating and more fun than interacting with people.

Could be that people with [insert unusual trait here] are naturally drawn to computers for similar reasons, be they autistic, transgendered, disabled, or just plain weird.
As far as Alacritty is concerned, modularity can easily come with a cost.

once you add in e.g. tmux for multiplexing and scrollback, then you are bottlenecked at tmux's speeds, as opposed to the terminal emulator's speeds (not like it really matters, but its an interesting effect)
How about streaming your transactions to a budgeting service to approve or deny if you've gone over budget for the month.

Or build your own rules to deny certain transactions if you are approaching 0 balance.

I think there are lots of use cases you could think of that are custom to you that no bank would ever build.
Show HN: Ugnis – visual programming language for web apps
That's strange! Here's a direct link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/cone-live-color-picker/id122...

I'll look into the issue.
The difference is that the Democratic party "rebased" itself. They've basically removed blue collar white people as a constituency that they focus on.

This created a problem, as the get out the vote efforts from groups like unions and others were tepid as a result, and the GOP isn't stupid and courted these voters pretty heavily. The other thing is that the Democrats over-relied on minority voters as a key base, which didn't work out for a variety of reasons.

I think strategically they missed the fact the ethnic voting requires an ethnic candidate. They also missed that certain key platform positions alienate ethnic factions of their voting base. In the old days, the Irish-Catholic political machines didn't run aging teetotaler baptists as candidates for a good reason!

Basically, Mrs. Clinton ran a campaign that was divided, disorganized and poorly administered, which crippled her ability to make appropriate decisions. Trump's opportunism, marketing savvy, and tight team made his campaign agile and tightly focused on the objective. When the campaign had internal divisions, he purged the dissenters and moved on.
The job postings say "must have undergraduate in X".
That would require a thoughtful examination of our housing policies in the US that are designed first and foremost to drive up property as an asset class. It's probably the single biggest driver of inflation in the US that necessitates increases in wages.
> If you're a stereotypically ethnic Polish person no one is going to even look cross-eyed at you

Why is that? Are Polish persons more grown up looking?
Snoozing and muting emails are added functionalities. The AI makes the following desicions:
1. Which Emails are important and need a reply.
2. Which sent Emails require follow ups and what is the best time for a follow up.
3. Which contacts are important to you and which ones are drifting away and need to be reconnected with.
Meanwhile in the UK I have had many places accept my expired US license from a rural state most have not even heard of. Once at a supermarket, a cashier asked me for ID and I absent mindedly said "No thanks". He was satisfied with that answer, and I didn't realize what I had said until I had already left with my drinks in hand.
> He observes that these two ideas fit together in Krivine-style realizability models of classical logic: every formula can be interpreted as a set of proofs and refutations, and the interaction of a proof with a refutation yields a behaviour in the answer type.

I've wanted to see this paradigm implemented in the Isbell envelope of a category, whose objects are pairs of a presheaf and copresheaf T, E and a natural transformation from T(-) x E(--) ~> Hom(-,--) . I think it would be really striking if the answer type could be Hom itself, which I like to think of as a formalisation of the turnstile |- by itself.
Yeah, but look at the alternative. There was no winning in that election :(
Why would they do that? I'm sure Trump voters click on adverts as much as anyone else.
Barely, because for the most part USA citizens are politically inert and/or incompetent and they wouldn't care, but in theory it would be perfectly normal.
Some people feel guilty for wearing (or even owning) furs, supporting an "evil" country or an "evil" corp is clearly a worse conduct.
Thanks for your reply, I really appreciate it. :) I'll read that article for sure. I have a working app (not mvp yet) and I'm planning to share some screenshots and write about the features in more detail soon.
My grandmother had what I would call food racism. She would regularly dismiss rice as being ethnic food. It was profoundly annoying to deal with, but I always felt that I really had no right to confront her about it. I wish I could articulate why I felt that way. It's almost exactly the same pattern of thought that people racism is (but without victims).

She didn't really have a good system for describing what made food (or by extension, people) good, and instead of just living with some uncertainty, her brain created a bunch of rules that correlated with her enjoyment. Then she lazily conflated that with an honest to god definition of good food (people), and used that to exclude just about everything else as uncivilized.

I don't think that the author of this article would consider this the underlying cause of the problem, and I agree that he comes off as a bit whiny, but I think he's noticing a real problem. Maybe the most intractible problem that we have.
I moved away from Etsy once I started comparing prices to EBay . Products on Etsy is overpriced for some reason.
If BarZapp did do database lookups, it seems like a route to cloning part of a DMV registry...
I don't know how common the personal safety situations you mention are, but if they are anything more than complete anamoly, then our society is in sad shape indeed.

Other developed countries in Europe and Asia have much lower intentional homicide rates. Why are we such a murderous bunch in the US?
How does the Amazon Echo Look determine your 'style rating'?
Recomended minidoc "Field of Vision - The Moderators"
https://vimeo.com/213152344
1. Sweeping funds from one account to another based on business events.

2. Fraud detection.

3. Real-time reporting.
I think it's doing a little more than that:

"Caspy’s AI learns from your email history to figure out what types of emails you send replies to. With that knowledge, it will alert you only when an email needs a reply."
There's no reason these days something like an efi partition couldn't be put in flash next to the firmware, cheap. SSDs on the other hand are still expensive, after many years I was just able to afford a 512GB.

In the 90s I used the ibm? (I think) boot manager with 4 or 5 OSs, it took a one or two megabytes and worked quite well. That is more choices than are practical, honestly. And with VMs and containers less necessary than ever. (I do like GPT.) Doesn't have to be that small today, but shows what is possible. Xosl too.

Thirdly developing a completely new proprietary OS (uefi) when embedded Linux exists is about as cynical and wasteful as they come.
Annoyingly fallacious headline. Illustrative example: The Rapture Is So Real Even Non-Christians Say It's Coming.

Bad habit to evaluate the reality of a thing by how many & what kinds of people say it's "coming."

And this basic skepticism is well-deserved here, because there's no way hauling around your own 2-ton machine to get places, is ever going to be sustainable, no matter how it's powered.
We laughed when China added x thousands to their great firewall content moderation team.
To get an idea of how rom hacking works, check out this video from doublefine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FolqIgQRtl0

Its mostly setting watches and breakpoints in the emulator, not digging through code. My mind was blown the first time I watched it.
Any idea when this will launch in beta? Really keen to try it out.
Most recent stats are for February and from the link CAN -> US travels are up 7.2% compared with February 2016
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/170420/dq170420b-en...
June stats will be released 18-Aug
What we see as problems, the folks in charge see as profits.
Yes and no. Yes in that some of the many billions of combinations of antibody genes can recognize self proteins, which is a problem. However, during maturation of B cells, the immune system has a mechanism for killing of those B cells which would produce anti-self antibodies before they mature. There are times when this fails to work--think Grave's Disease, many forms of lupus, alopecia, etc.

I think in the sense you are asking, though, is that any long-lived plasma cell or memory B cell that is active will probably not change to the extent that they would attack self. I don't know off the top of my head if there are examples of this, but I can't think of any.
I was curious about the NSAID number. Doing some quick research I came across this quote:

"Mortality reported with NSAID use is generally linked to NSAID-associated GI bleeding, and the reported incidence is quite variable. Much of the literature reports 16,500 deaths annually as a result of NSAID-induced GI bleeding. However, it is important to put this number into perspective. This estimate was published in a 1999 observational study evaluating data from the Arthritis, Rheumatism, and Aging Medical Information System (ARAMIS).5 The database captured 19 NSAID-related GI bleeding deaths; the authors then extrapolated this number to the overall US population with arthritis. The 16,500 deaths has been considered overestimated or inaccurate because it was based on a small number of actual deaths and extrapolated inappropriately.6,7 A much smaller number was reported by Tarone and colleagues.7 They reported 3,200 deaths annually as a result of NSAID-induced GI bleeding based on US mortality data reported in the 1990s."

Unfortunately I can't access the sources right now.

https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/treatments/pharmacol...
Unit load devices (e.g. an LD3) have standardized dimensions, so you don't get much by having a taller cargo hold than any other widebody. At best you want to ensure that a person can stand up (or mostly stand up) in the cargo hold as it makes operations easier.
too bad, so sad.

If companies were trustworthy with data, than that wouldn't be an issue. Why should they get a free lunch on my dime?
You are neglecting the medical costs of treatment prior to death and also treating those who are injured by guns but not killed. I don't know the exact numbers but I have to imagine that $2bn worth of gun safety courses comes pretty close to paying for itself when all costs are included.
In a very near total solar eclipse in I believe the summer of 1991, it was a blistering hot day in Arizona and during the eclipse the temperature dropped substantially. I don't know the numbers, but I remember being surprised at how nice and comfortable the temperature drop was, which lasted for much longer than 5 minutes.
Not surprising, he'd been there a long time. I have a lot of respect for Taylor Rhodes, he's generally seemed to have pushed the company in the right direction when it needed pushing. I think Rackspace will be an excellent services business and if Accenture and the like are smart, one of them will pick them up and add it to their consulting arm.
True :) Alistair MacLean novels come to mind. Good entertaining writing, at least some parts of his books. Read them a lot as a kid. The only parts that were a bit tedious were the long descriptions of bad weather conditions in some of the novels set at sea, like Ice Station Zebra, H.M.S. Ulysses, etc. He tended to overdo those parts.
Mr zuckerberg's involvement signals it is a huge problem, one unable to spin away..

People always figure out a way around the latest attempt to control - and these measures will be overcome by bad intenders.

So if FB admits it has a community safety and fake news problem - by hiring 3000 additional enforcement agents, why would one stay with FB if there is an alternative. Which there isn't.

I would like a FB lite. Photo sharing and comments and discovery of old friends. No news. No menu of features.

I wish there could be an alternative. ("Its just like. fB but without the news and crap)
Bear in mind that the A321 is a small-ish plane. The A380 has a huge cargo hold in comparison.
> I wouldn't blame the Germans and French for trying to contain a crisis at its origin..

The origin is that banks can lend money without any risk. End of story.

Banks get interest for various reasons - one reason is risk of not seeing the money again and that has to be a real risk or banks will just lend money without thinking twice.
Build a side-project about something you're passionate about that you can showcase, both in production and Github.

I've always done this, and it worked out great for me even to the point of forgoing the technical part of a couple of interviews (two of which landed me jobs).
You can curry in Lisp too, and if you do you can get rid of all but one of the unnecessary parens as well.

(curry f a b c d)
These days I cringe when I see 'AI powered' and am wary of products that have it in their marketing lib.
Feels like a gimmick due to the hype around AI.
Where can I pre order?
Nine minutes per piece of content would be _significantly_ more than any other company I've seen has given to reporting of user-generated content. I would also agree that unless it's a video, nine minutes is enough time.
Okay, you're right. I checked in a few online dictionaries. I was earlier under the impression that crispy was wrong usage.
There was an article a couple months ago about this.

> “People on the plant floor need to be much more skilled than they were in the past. There are no jobs for high school graduates at Siemens today.”

These jobs also pay well (for factory work). $40k for a starting job at a John Deere factory. $50-$80k pay range at a Siemens factory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/education/edlife/factory-...
Venezuela veers toward political chaos as Maduro presents new constitution
It was an independent report that compared Boeing and Airbus, so I have my doubts.