skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to have something like this for Germany. I am willing to pay 10€/month for a simple API access to my bank account. I need neither hosted code nor push. Just give me remote access for my scripts.

Probably I'm asking for the impossible because of the heavy regulation in Germany but just wanted to put it out there.
I had no idea non traffic light cross walks even existed on el Camino! (I generally consider el camino to be a death trap overall)
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OK, 7500 people dealing with (according to the article) millions of reports every week. So let's assume 2M reports, the smallest number that counts as plural "millions". Assuming a 40 hour week and no breaks, this give FB 300K man-hours to handle 2M reports, meaning each person has an average of at most 9 minutes to view the content, investigate, make a judgment and take an action. Anybody who's worked in such a role: Is that enough time?
That's not really a relevant question. The problem is that the "neighborhoods" are too large for there to be a location that's walkable for enough people.
yep found it: https://developers.monzo.com/
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What problem does this attempt to solve? Their slack example doesn't seem particularly pressing.
>What's weird is that Facebook cannot rely on their users to report blatantly criminal acts witnessed by thousands of people...and makes me doubt that doubling this or that team size can make a meaningful difference.

Then wouldn't it make sense to add more people whose job specifically is to report criminal acts instead of relying on the users to do it?
Deactivation merely resets the AMT settings. You can only turn it off by following these instructions.
Default is a solution if you have a plan to not ever incur sovereign debt. This however is impossible with neoliberal social state governing models.
"a dumb access point" is correct. It's all about vowel position in the very next word as spoken/written. =)
>> I don't understand the growing demonization of cultural diffusion by labeling it "cultural appropriation."

Either do I. The one thing I notice today is how everything is "sacred", whether it be certain a person's feelings, words, culture, activities, etc. It makes it very hard to have a reasonable discussion about a topic that a person feels is sacred to them.
I definitely get this feeling. She means Chinese food is cool, but not when she's eating it. It's trendy when someone white picks it up (mostly because they're eating things that white people are accustomed to). It's because she's eating something that's more "authentic", which likely is less palatable. I know I make an effort to only share certain foods with people who aren't accustomed to actual Chinese food, because I get a lot of dirty looks when offering some dishes.
Taxation is theft :)
Looks like it's a more complete API, with methods to change/approve/reject transactions as they happen, rather than more of a record API.

For instance, with the reference to a "programmable card". I'm not sure exactly what that means, but it sounds like a feature Monzo doesn't have.
Its a fascinating theme I see repeating in political news:

* Jah-Rule on fyre festival: "this is not by fault but I take full responsibility"

* Hillary Clinton on losing election: "this is misogyny and fake news fault but I take full responsibility"

* Heather Bresch on Mylan price gouging: "The real fault is in the supply chain but I take full responsibility"
This county was shit! It didn't have pond hockey?
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in France you have to turn off your phone, then handle it to them. I couldn't turn off mine (it was badly broken xD) so I just took the luminosity to the lowest and they didn't see anything.
Have you thought about using a headless browser or web scraping?
I use an Asus RT-68P. The EULA did scare me off from running all of the services listed in the article, with the exception of "Web History", where I do not recall having seen any indication that my history would be leaked. But, regardless I just turned off that function.

I agree with the author's disappointment in Dynamic DNS support. But, I followed instructions on the web[1] and added a cheap USB thumb-drive to run a script on every router boot. This script sets up a cron job that supports DuckDNS.org, and fixes other annoyances like turning off all the router's LEDs.

[1] https://www.securityforrealpeople.com/2015/08/cron-on-asus.h...

Edit: Grammar, and a clarification.
Thank you for the link, the whole thread was very informative, for the various ideas being weighed and some kind of consensus forming as to the proposed solution.

It got a bit daunting to see in more detail the potential complexity of the problem. Someone noted in the comments here, that there have been countless attempts at solving this "shared runtime for cross-platform apps" idea, apparently with a still unsatisfactory history.

Reading through the thread does give me hope, since the discussion is on-going after 2+ years, which means people are interested in an efficient solution. Seeing the HN crowd go at this Electron topic again and again, always with a kind of emotional "turbulence", implies that this is a worthy problem to solve.

I like that one of the recent suggestions is to "split the Electron", to accommodate bindings with theoretically any language.
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Why would this be down voted? It's a legit question, and a followup in the comment chain.

I understand why SWIG needs a .i file, as it doesn't understand much about the code. But when you control the compiler you can 1> as in the example I gave, look at actual explicit instantiation instead of doing the synthetic thing SWIG does, as well as make other, smarter decisions and 2> use #pragmas or attributes to direct translation at the point of use.

And the author even said himself that "code two files is a pain."

Thus my question remains: why the need for a .clif file?
> the US simply seems culturally incapable of healthy approaches to easing kids through becoming adults on a number of dimensions

I couldn't agree more, and numerous problems are pretty much a direct result.
...um even if you are entirely swamped and way confused by the dialog it's still pokemon.

You'll be fine.
Yeah, random acts of violence getting exposure as they're live-streamed on Facebook has been interesting, to say the least. Without the criminal's willful publication of their act, the crimes may have gone unsolved and ignored for a very long time.

I'm not sure that we really need to stop people from publishing videos of themselves executing old men at random. It certainly seems to lead to a speedy resolution and really heightens the impact over the impersonal "Another shooting today..." on the evening news. It's virtually the same as walking yourself into the police station, with the added bonus that the whole country now hates you and is looking for you.
1. The incentives were just so aligned that I think a lot of people might have had their private misgivings, but held their nose and went ahead.

Apart from the AAA rating, government bonds also had a very low risk rating in the Basel accords (Basel I, and Basel II that just came into effect during the global financial crisis 2008).

Basically, the Basel accords specify a minimum capital adequacy ratio, that is a certain minimum capital level to support given risk weighted assets. (Capital in the bank context basically refers to equity - i.e. funding that can absorb losses without the bank going bankrupt due to debt obligations they cannot fulfil.)

Now, the risk weight for government bonds is zero! (in Basel II, they had to be AA or AAA, and it gets complicated quick, but basically...) So you can load up on them without having to increase your equity cushion.

2. This allowed banks to increase their Return on Equity, which influenced bankers' pay.

3. Furthermore, I think they were all implicitly banking on either bailouts (directed at individual banks) or a version of "The EU would never allow a member government to go bust".

So, I think everyone was in it to an extent (while formally "correct" and "safe"), cashing out merrily, and hoping for the best.

Another great book on this, by the way, is The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig.

(Funny side note: I searched "bankers new clothes" on Amazon to get the author names right, and got a page with dress shirts and briefcases.... :-)
Thanks! Curiously the plan is to attach a comrade's fiberlaser to it for some steel sheet lasercutting.
Like the videos that sparked Black Lives Matter and United? Are you sure you want them silenced? And which hurt and kill is sharing worthy?

Any rule that limits speech can be twisted into censorship of worthy causes. And the restrictions on speech always hurt the weaker sides.

(not talking about first amendment which is about who has the right to limit it and in what conditions, just the effects of said limitations)
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There's been a lot of discussion lately around the percentage of companies founded by immigrants. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11309080

While most solutions for a startup visa are caught in policy, workarounds like Global EIR are scaling quickly.

What role do universities play in the innovation ecosystem? How can a solution like Global EIR connect to more universities?

Global EIR featured on NPR Morning Edition today:
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/05/03/526549402/without-a-special-visa-foreign-startup-founders-turn-to-a-workaround
Sounds like a worthy goal. There will always be infelicities (as with human language translation as well) but why not?
It might be useful for businesses that wish to API control over their money.
What? Why would I ever pay someone else to generate crypto tokens for me? This is a slap in the face to every safety procedure surrounding private keys. A key escrow is bad juju.
Machine Learning and AI are dropping the ball here?
Do you have any source for your assertion that one is required to have a powered battery when entering the country? On the face of it, that seems absurd.
Technically, adding a 5th prong to a middle of fork that bends backward is "innovative". But is it useful?

Okay that was a bit snarky, but.. aside from the primitive monkey part of my brain that cringes at any electron app's resource (ab)use, there's the fact that these apps are proliferating like crazy, and the resource usage adds up after a while.

If all you're running is Atom, you probably don't care. But when you're using Atom, Simplenote, Discord, Slack, Nylas, and Brave all on the same box at the same time (hi!), it's enough to bring even a modern desktop processor to its knees when any of them misbehave. With Moore's law on its way to being broken, I'd like to see tighter development, rather than this sprawl of easy-but-wasteful tools.

Electron is to app development as Keurig machines are to coffee. Easy, convenient, horribly wasteful and inefficient.
What about this smells like bad stats to you? Given that the answer to at least one of your questions is in the article (or easily searchable online if you don't have wsj access), it seems like maybe you are assuming it is bad stats because you don't like the conclusion?

To me the engineer's study uses data that should be free from obvious bias (duration at facebook) while the company study uses data that one might expect to exhibit the same bias as that they are intending to study (promotion decisions and code review decisions). While there are undoubtedly improvements that could be done with more data or more time, I would be inclined to take the results at face value rather than assuming something must be wrong.
Land not owned by anyone is land that can be claimed by anyone. Which means that anyone can build a hut there and then legally claim the land as their own private property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius
That's good but pricey. The new $49 expression bin board on kickstarter based on the Marvell Armada Aarch64 SOC with mainline support seems delightful for a router.

But the Turris may be a more suitable alternative to an off the shelf router.
I would also add that with the number of online communities there are, you could almost 'expect' to see at least one community that's largely made of transgender people even when it doesn't really have anything to do with stuff related to being transgender. Emulators probably aren't the only scene like this. That said, it's not like there can't be other factors as well.
>I'm not sure how a router like this could actually perform this functionality without sending information to an upstream service to manage the data.

Simple logging and graph construction aren't a big deal and don't take up many resources. Most likely the development work would have cost x dollars but Trend called up and said they'd do it for free, by selling this data, so ASUS took the deal. Your ASUS has a 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor. That's on par with entry-level server CPUs from less than 5-6 years ago and beats the Intel Atom today. Its not some anemic chipset unable to do anything. There's a powerhouse in that little box.

Let's not excuse greedy corporate decisions that ultimately victimize customers. If there's no corporate political will for privacy then this stuff will only continue. We certainly have the CPU, RAM, and storage heft to handle this even on budget devices.
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I'm worried that with another free product like this, we'll get another Unroll.me on our hands.
You can simulate a browser and act as if you're a normal, browser using customer. Encapsulate it and you've got an "API"; though it'll be a bit painful as a lot of banks' web backends are fucked up and you'll need to keep up to date with their changes, but still. I did it for my French bank account at one point (get balance + submit transfer).
So that means it's still exploitable over the network? (I thought it would cut it down to local-only). Lenovo is lying to me when it says "disable AMT"?

Then again, maybe it's not actually enabled, since I didn't use the software to do so.
Most places in the US will criminally charge the server for selling alcohol to a minor. In my jurisdiction it is a misdemeanor with a $5000 fine for a first offense. Police regularly conduct "sting" operations to catch minimum wage store clerks. The business might also face a penalty but the primary punishment falls on the clerk/server/bartender.

It's all pretty bonkers.
Compare to Bangladesh, Vietnam, or the Phillipines. Low-wage American workers are not very competitive in a global marketplace. If the cost of shipping and importing goods and services < the cost of complying with U.S. regulations and paying American workers, there's every economic reason to have the work sent out to less regulated, lower-paid regimes.

The way to fix this is to even the playing field by ensuring that it's not cheaper to pay to have this done overseas. Otherwise, the "American-made" companies just have to hope that's enough to convince customers to help them make up the gap in profits ... and it's usually not.
Yea they say cut the AMT fuse.
That's 7500 people whom will be "forced" as much as free employment can constitute force to do nothing but look at questionable often offensive content.

What a funny way our economy has evolved. 100 years ago many of these people might have worked in farms, 50 years ago they might have worked in factories. Today they sit in an office looking at ostensibly offensive material that facebook deems the rest of society should not be exposed to.
N26 has got a quite decent REST API if you are willing to use your dev tools for a bit :)

Edit: Most banks also seem to support FinTS [0], but it seems a bit of a PITA.

Edit 2: figo might be worth a try as well, though I don't know their pricing.

Edit 3: bunq is quite nice as well. I implemented a few basic calls in node when they launched the API. Not the easiest API to work with, but acceptable.

[0]: https://www.hbci-zka.de/index.htm

[1]: https://www.figo.io/en/

[2]: https://www.bunq.com/de/api

[3]: https://github.com/c0dr/bunq
I'm kind of surprised that it only supports .NET Standard 1.6. I would expect it to be the first .NET to support .NET Standard 2.0, since, you know, it should already be implementing all the APIs covered by the standard.

I wonder what's missing.
That's a pretty solid argument that a lot of people aren't going to like.
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I'm a huntsman, but I disagree: those federal lands are essentially a subsidy paid for by everyone but which I get to enjoy. I have no problem with them being given to the states and/or sold to private owners. Indeed, I think that the expiration of the Homestead Act was a very sad thing for our republic: the idea that someone could move to public lands and set up his own home is very freeing.
Exactly. IMHO, this is quite similar to Python indentation rules, except it is up to writers of Lisp code to be disciplined enough to maintain the proper indentation.
huh? Are we all not citizens of the United States?
NY is tough for a junior. You have a lot of bootcamps, universities, people who want to live there, etc. looking for the same jobs as you. Try opening your geographical preferences.
They boggle your mind. But they represent the will of the people.

I live in a small desert community that was largely agricultural in my youth. Today, most of the water rights have been sold away and most of the farm land has been developed for other uses.

I think it is unfortunate. Sometimes I think the remaining farm land should be protected from development. But I do not own the land, and I did not do all the work to turn it into farm land. I believe the owners of the property have the right to do as they decide for themselves.

So, if I really want the land to be preserved, I can try to raise millions of dollars and buy the land from the farmers. But I can't otherwise just block them from selling it to a developer.

If you think state officials mismanage public lands and would prefer the feds to mismanage it, the feds should buy it from the state. This should not be a forced sale, either.

If a state has willingly sold its land to the feds... well, I guess they can't complain. Can you tell me how the federal government came to own 80+% of Nevada? Ask the Sheahans [1] and the Bundys [2].

Edit: Corrected typo

[1] http://origin-stage.reviewjournal.com/news/military/family-f...

[2] http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/04/16/why-does-federal-gove...
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It's worth noting that today, Square Enix is a massive multimedia empire with tons of resources to devote to localization; in the early nineties it would have been a small-ish shop and a localization effort for any given game would have been costlier in proportion to their size even without the additional technical onstacles. So they had to pick their battles as to which games to bring to western markets.
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Here's two good papers to follow up: 1- From MIT, Ricardo J. Caballero which covers the process of creative destruction in depth: https://economics.mit.edu/files/1785 2- From Yale, William D. Nordhaus: Schumpeterian Profits and the Alchemist Fallacy which states that most "profit" of new innovations go to consumer surplus: http://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Working-...
> But a 'negative' way to seem competent is, simply, never to make mistakes. How much of what we learn to do -- and learn to think -- is of this other variety?

Is it an interesting question, but I feel like the words "competent" and "expertise" set up misleading expectations. Most people are experts at walking and eating, but not nuclear physics or the history of Asian music.

I guess almost all of what we do at any given moment - look, talk, eat, sleep, walk, read, etc. - is this type. We abstract everything and don't consciously process most of what we see & do. Lots of people have speculated that if we were consciously thinking about every sensory input and every action we took, living would be unbearable.

But for learning new things, for establishing what it means to be an expert in a new field by being better than others, by doing research, by breaking new ground -- it has to be asked, what good does learned knowledge and not making mistakes serve? What is ever learned if someone doesn't make a mistake? Science doesn't move without mistakes. Nor does evolution. With competence, there's no change.

Maybe I'm just coming to the conclusion that being competent and becoming an expert are two completely different things?

> Presumably, experts have more effective censors than the rest of us

I'm honestly not sure why this is presumed. A lot of us would recognize that someone who's made more mistakes and learned from them is more expert than someone who's tried nothing new and has only relied on the learned "book knowledge" of mistakes of others.

> It annoys me how frequently people suggest that the 'secret' of making creative machines might lie in providing some sort of random or chaotic kind of search generator. Nonsense!

I couldn't agree more with this, it hits home having spent time practicing digital art. So many people talk about adding a random number generator as if that's going to find new things and add some magical discovery to the process. It doesn't, and there are almost always better alternatives.
Many years ago my lecturer used to hammer this point home (he wrote telecoms systems back in the 'old days' (80's/early 90's).

Good guy, bit odd but a hell of a programmer.
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I would be surprised if safety was not very high on the list of priorities. Getting hacked is always a nebulous proposal but I think it is quite easy to describe the consequences of somebody being hurt or killed by your product.
The person who makes $16.50 an hour probably costs near $25 an hour. Cash payroll doesn't include employee benefits, including medical, dental, other insurance, paid time off, bonuses, and company share of payroll taxes. It's not unreasonable to estimate the entry level jobs pay about $26,000 a year in cash, and another $10,000 a year in benefits, for a total of around $36,000 a year. In Alabama.

You can't have a discussion about pay levels without accounting for total compensation. These are good jobs that pay well given it's an employer trained position that unskilled laborers could get.
"report blatantly criminal acts"

The marketing campaign will be against murderers, the implementation will be against people who voted for Trump.
Ben 'Silence Dogood' Franklin - could've be one of the first fakes?
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In 2010, the SCOTUS found that the right to bear arms (the Second Amendment) is incorporated by the 14th amendment against the states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_v._City_of_Chicago So states have restricted power and authority to regulate or restrict your freedom to bear arms.

Now, regarding flying... If we ignore the machine used to travel / the mode of transportation (be it a plane, a car, a space saucer, etc) -- the basic question we're asking here is: do the people have a travel freely within their country regardless of what machine or contraption they use to do so?

A basic analysis of the constitution would reveal that the right to travel freely (using whatever contraption or machine to do so) was something so obviously a right, that it did not require to be explicitly stated as a protected right (and likely implicitly covered under the 9th).

Imagine states in 1800, requiring licensing (i.e. government approval) before you could ride a horse. There would've been an uproar.
Isn't there a lot of cultural and language nuance in determining what's objectionable though? I can't see that working out well.