skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks incredibly awesome. A few questions though.

1.) Can I open a business account?
2.) FDIC insured?
3.) Out of South Africa makes me very nervous. What protections/assurances are offered for US customers?

Reminds me of when I first saw /dev/payments (Stripe) launch. Great potential.
On a side note, it's hard to believe my off-hand dredging of historical knowledge would be a viable critique for a piece posted on Reuters, an establishment I genuinely respect. I'm no journalist, but maybe I could have a chance at helping them out. To quote the great Tyler Durden, "I can do this job from home."
I think the point is that the states, being states, are in the same situation as the federal government is. They can tell creditors to go *k themselves. And then both sides get to bear the consequences.

In truth, something similar is true for local governments as well, in practice.
By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the Amazon® Echo Look™, so far as sight went. He could be heard, of course, but so long as he stayed in his present position he could not be seen.
Proganda shit!
Germany has in oft the biggest low deployement sector in Europe.
I dont think he knows what he is talking about. I spent 3 weeks in China in February, and used cash for pretty much everything including accommodation. Admittedly, there are lots of options for paying for things with wechat, etc. but it was nowhere near cashless.
Not to take away from his talking the good talk, but I don't think that his moral position is very meaningful given that it is demonstrably ineffective. If it was demonstrably effective and he said it was immoral, those words would carry much more weight. But he has little to lose by saying that it's morally wrong when it doesn't work. The illegality is also moot when discussing legalization.
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The article asks why there are so many successful mid-size companies in Germany, and it lists reasons such as continuity of leadership, scientific competencies, system of apprenticeships and others.

I don't see how this answers the question in the title. How does the school of mathematics of the University of Goettingen help make German factory workers competitive with Chinese ones? Why aren't these companies moving their production to cheaper markets like companies elsewhere do?
"Silicon Valley" touched on this last week:

“It’s a VR play,” Bachman says. “That’s the frothiest space in the Valley right now. Nobody understands it but everyone wants in. Any idiot could walk into a fucking room, utter the letters ‘v’ and ‘r’, and VC’s would hurl bricks of cash at them.

“By the time they find out it’s vaporware, it’s too late. I’ve got to get into this.”
I think you underestimate the effects of weather, amount of poorly lined roads out there, etc.
> Nobody would reasonably argue that extreme surveillance measures, patriot act, etc., is necessary to stop the vast majority of crimes from occurring, so why is it so easy for seemingly serious/intelligent people to think this nonsense is reasonable?

This depends on what kind of crime you talk about. And is "the vast majority of crimes" actually prevented from occurring? How do you get numbers for this?

Calling people who don't agree with you stupid is not going to advance your cause. At all.

> I am surprised anyone can still use the word "terrorism" with a straight face anymore after it's become so clear that there is no large existential threat (merely the occasional zealot who acts out due to his/her own mental health issues).

Two points:

1. The occasional zealot is all it takes to make people feel unsafe, affect their behaviour towards other people and just generally ruin a lot of peoples days.

2. Blaming all terrorist attacks on mental issues alone without taking into account viral ideologies is dishonest.

edit: i forgot this:

> And in spite of a historically unprecedented global surveillance system there have been no attacks thwarted.

Provably wrong.
Marx is trivially easy to refute. Try this exercise: See how far you're going to get with your startup by offering to pay software engineers "enough to sustain them".

This is cartoonish. I can't believe people say stuff like this in the 21st century.
I feel like I'm missing a trick here.

I'm just clearly not the demographic for this, because though the echo is a popular device, damned if I can figure out what the hell its use case is *that the phone in your pocket can't already do.

This adds a camera to the formula and I'm more confused.

So they're building a modern cellular telephone in reverse?
These are only for m class and above or does the lowly t class get some love?
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One thing that I think can get lost is that to "Get into VR" if you are already a great software engineer you may not need to learn anything new, just find a place to work where you can immediately apply the skills you already have, towards a VR-oriented product. From there, look for opportunities to develop VR-specific skills like the ones mentioned in this article.

For example, at our company (AltspaceVR) we have a huge need for engineers of all stripes, not just the types of folks you'd normally think of for what is traditionally thought of as a "game" (this term, too, is probably about to become very stale.) It's a huge challenge for us to get great engineers who are not in the games industry to realize that working in this space, depending on the application, can be much like hopping, say, from a web app to a mobile app. Are there new skills to learn? Yes, tons. But that doesn't mean you are starting at ground zero nor that your current skills aren't going to highly valued and critical to an organization's success.

We need people to help build our backend systems (Rails, Kafka, etc), manage ops (Ansible, Datadog, AWS), create deployment tools, build UI (React, but rendered in VR!), work on our mobile app (React Native), build analytics pipelines, the list goes on. In fact I'd argue if you are looking at an organization that doesn't understand the need for such a wide spectrum engineering talent to deliver a great application, you should be careful!

Basically for VR companies who are working on applications that will leverage VR, the "VR-specific" slice of the engineering work is probably a lot smaller than you'd expect, just like for companies developing mobile applications, the "mobile specific" part of engineering work is only a part of the effort.

In other words, don't think you can't get into this field just because you aren't a graphics geek.

(Oh yeah, we're hiring :) https://altvr.com/careers)
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> The globalization before world wars was the type which favored the British through exploitation of colonies.

Much of it yes, but the history of global trade is a lot longer than the British empire, a lot wider too.

>Looks like the rest of the world is not a slave to colonization any more and are making the most of it. Do you disagree they don't deserve to try to improve their lives?

They can try all they want, but don't expect the working class in the rest of the world to sit idly by while their standard of living disappears. Ask you'r grandfather about the revolutions that happen when the working class get screwed.
Does anyone here remember the clipper chip? If you don't, I'd recommend boning up on this chapter of the crypto wars.

The 'because terrorism' excuse falls a bit flat with me.

Thought experiment: how hard would it be for a terrorist organization with access to 100's of millions of dollars (eg. ISIS) to come up with a secure communications scheme? One time pad. A reasonable cipher that hasn't had any 'help' during development. Even run an encrypted channel over a backdoored product. I'm sure many of us could come up with something in a day (with decryption over an airgap). How about a hostile government with multi-billion dollar budgets (and who have been using OTP already for decades).

Is this about terrorists, or is this about citizens? My bet is on the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
Am I overly paranoid to remember that Huawei phones were found to be phoning home to China and spying in the past?
Great find and thank you for kicking in - what the backstory might not address is that in pursuit of the 8.5% return, the fund management engaged in exceptionally risky investment schemes. Took trips to "scope out opportunities" on the Pension tab year after year totaling a bunch. The whole operation was shady and unchecked for at least a decade.

By the time anybody started paying attention, the wound had festered into a real infection. An almost uncontrolled fiasco of promises to the Police/Fire Unions and no chance of hitting the returns, and essentially gambling away millions that will only lose more in 10 years if that garbage isn't unwound like a bunch of bad Bear Stearns Swaps.

It's so ugly. It's an embarrassment. And the people who end up holding the bag look terrible for telling a 53 year old retired cop he shouldn't be able to pull out $1.7M in benefits and put a run on the account. Ugh!
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BLM grazing fees for 2017 are $1.87 per "animal unit" per month. An AU is a cow and calf, a horse, or five sheep or goats. That is roughly 1 acre in terms of area.

https://www.blm.gov/press-release/blm-and-forest-service-ann...
Sorry but what you are saying is since people are too stupid to understand the contract they signed and to do some math it is the companies fault?

My wife and I at one point were in the hole nearly 1m. The crash put my house way under and the job money fun time went away. It sucked. You know what we did. We canceled the cable TV, we stopped eating out. We watched every penny. I work jobs I hated, hated, hated. We got credit councling and got on a plan with them and stuck to it. We paid our debt.

I am by no means saying that banckrucy should not be an option in some cases. Our medical systems is a mess and that is a huge cause of banckrucy. However let's be clear people signed those loans without understanding it and it is their fault. I knew the cost of the interest only loan I had. I got burned but it was a bet I entered after doing research and math, etc. When it did not work out I sucked it up and delt with it.

I agree that some companies did some shady stuff, but really? You get something to good to be true and you don't question it? The consumer has to take some responsibility for their actions.
There are plenty of use cases on that website, such as being able to use it as a mirror alternative. I'm a male and I still can see that it can be beneficial.

If you still can't see the benefit, then you really probably are not the target audience as you say.
No, reality really is

> an equal number of female and male voices.

and I really would tell those stories... If I made movies. Don't pretend it isn't nor I wouldn't. And don't pretend they wouldn't be great movies because they would. They're just not being made and that's sexism plain and simple.

If you let the misrepresentations tell you what the reality is, you'll think there's no such women stories of course. If you open your eyes and heart and feel and think for yourself I know you'll see those stories that Hollywood could be making, but hasn't.

Or maybe you don't want to believe that, nor hear those voices, nor see those stories, nor tell them. I don't know, that's for you to think about it.

But the problem is not that the stories are not there, they really are. Nor that the stories are not great stories, they really are. The problem is that the stories, these stories, these womens stories, are not getting told. That's the problem. And that's sexist.
Last time this was posted, people thought it was a joke, because who would ever want this thing?

My sisters and my mom would absolutely use this thing. I'm sure they would think it was really, really cool.

(Granted, that is only 2 in 5 sisters, I'm sure the other 3 would think it was silly)

Never forget that you live in a bubble. Better yet, try to identify the boundaries of your bubble, and try to move outside of them.
Reading the reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/692cr4/new_google_d...) it appears that they've fixed the issue, or at least shut down the scammer behind the attack.
That's actually a good point. I originally wrote this as a private message to each of the Congressional candidates in the Georgia 6th district and in that format there was not the bio and all the surrounding blog template. It feels weird to be to lead with it too, but I'm trying to answer real quick to a politician who does not know the science why he or she should read on to the next paragraph.
Selfie app can't take your picture hands free. You cant take a picture of yourself from the back to see how your butt looks in certain outfits.

The same subtle convenience from the old Echo model applies here as well. It's these subtle things that add up to make a huge difference
You might as well say the only investment any human can make is in producing excess heat in the universe.
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It's a ploy to get people comfortable with the idea of an internet-connected fixed camera in their bedroom for commercial purposes.
Doesn't anyone remember why President Obama appointed a Republican FBI Director in the first place?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05...
Good question. Maybe because she reminds people of their grandmas?
Initially, yes, then networking effect and shrewd business practices (ensuring barriers to entry) ensure that they stay on top. I mean petroleum to power cars was a great, cheap product when it started as was the incandescent lightbulb. Coal was far more price effective than wood / steam turbines by a long shot. Yet we still use them 100+ years later. Why? Because the people that produce those technologies don't want to go out of business and they do everything their war chests will allow to make sure that won't happen.
Yes I think it would be to their advantage to say, well you just paid $149 for the service call to hear your fridge is dead, and we love you so here is a $200 voucher towards your next Fisher and Paykel fridge.
It uses machine learning to tell you which outfits look good as far as I know. Which is quite amazing.
After Twitter, emoji, AirBnB, the resurgence of GIFs, and President Trump; I have admitted to myself that I have absolutely no aptitude for predicting success.

That said, this is _surely_ going to flop...
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It looks like the error on that page is asking you to create an API account and authenticate. So maybe not an error in the API itself, but an oversight in documentation?
> and that if we don't change something, we are fucked.

This simply isn't true, it's outlandish even, and is part of why moderation is tricky. Why do you believe this?

We are not 'fucked' even at the worst estimates.

In 1990 almost 2 billion people were on less than $2.00 per day.

Were we 'fucked' in 1990?

Are we currently 'fucked' with 700 million people on less than $2.00 per day.
I can understand Amazon Echo. I have one, even though I'm aware of the risks and most of the time am really paranoid about such things, I still use it (for playing music and setting timers or getting news/weather).

I can't, however, understand the Echo Look. I know people like to take selfies and have no problem blasting them out into the internet, but I think Amazon is really playing the risk card here. A camera watching you undress.. what could go wrong?!
I can understand Amazon Echo. I have one, even though I'm aware of the risks and most of the time really paranoid, I still use it (for playing music and setting timers or getting news/weather).

I can't, however, understand the Echo Look.

I know people like to take selfies and have no problem blasting them out into the internet, but I think Amazon is really playing the risk card here. A camera watching you undress.. what could go wrong?!
I'm increasingly convinced everyone is going to continue not to care, and then suddenly a 9/11-scale (or greater) event will occur, and it'll be 2002 all over again -- wild overreaction driven by hysteria.
I think you're discovering that text written for one medium might benefit from revision when published elsewhere. :-)

Also, I think it's reasonable these days to write hardcopy letters that look more like websites -- multiple columns, a bio section, etc. Don't restrict yourself to obsolete and arbitrary etiquette.
Is the ability to bail them stupid or the instance?

I don't think the ability is stupid. Is the instance? Can't tell.
New York and London definitely attract global talent. Toronto is not like them.

This is a speculation bubble.
Are you sure? Yet again, privacy is being challenged, and it'll continue to be challenged. It seems like a battle with entropy, lost whenever a bill squeaks by under the public's consciousness.

Regardless, I derive emotional sustenance from your optimism.
The classic paper on minimum wage hikes and employment rates is Card and Krueger.

On April 1, 1992 New Jersey's minimum wage increased from $4.25 to $5.05 per hour. To evaluate the impact of the law we surveyed 410 fast food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania before and after the rise in the minimum. Comparisons of the changes in wages, employment, and prices at stores in New Jersey relative to stores in Pennsylvania (where the minimum wage remained fixed at $4.25 per hour) yield simple estimates of the effect of the higher minimum wage. Our empirical findings challenge the prediction that a rise in the minimum reduces employment. Relative to stores in Pennsylvania, fast food restaurants in New Jersey increased employment by 13 percent. We also compare employment growth at stores in New Jersey that were initially paying high wages (and were unaffected by the new law) to employment changes at lower-wage stores. Stores that were unaffected by the minimum wage had the same employment growth as stores in Pennsylvania, while stores that had to increase their wages increased their employment.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w4509
For congressional consumption, I suspect arguments like this need to be dumbed way, way, down.

Tim Cook's "software equivalent of cancer" is an example of an effective dumbed down take on it, but it need not be the last one. The more ways the point can be re-worded concisely so that lay people will understand it, the better.
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Seems like a net good, I'd rather a strong middle class due to decent trade policies than a "free" market causing severe wealth stratification with the bulk of the populace being poor.
Therein lies another problem - verification. Quite often, the Chinese simply do not listen to what you tell them (or just can't understand it even when broken down into simple specifications. I've run into this with many Chinese LED manufacturers) and quite often you end up with a product you didn't ask for. I've never had that problem ordering anything from Germany.
This is hardly the first time engineered paranoia has gripped the country ... I was a kid during the mid-to-late Cold War (post "duck and cover") and somehow I was never able to take it seriously.

Unfortunately, the threat was (and still very much is) real:

Stanislav Petrov: The man who may have saved the world
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24280831

Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/27/vasili...

Not that paranoia is a particularly useful response, but it did not require much engineering.
Seems all classes(including t2) pricing are reduced. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricin...
As a non-Puerto Rican, I have my own selfish reasons for wanting statehood: Can we make Spanish an official language already, please? I like the idea of Puerto Rican statehood, because I believe it would force our country (i.e. the US as a whole) to reconsider this issue.
If you love to travel, you should pick up as much Spanish as you possibly can! The best analogy I can think of is that it's like learning to scuba dive - it grants you access to a whole new fantastic world that you previously could only spectate on TV. Latin America is huge and diverse and wonderful (for that matter, Spain is pretty awesome too).
How secure is Echo? I presume that it uses HTTPS. But let's say that your LAN is pwned. Could an adversary MitM the connection, and exfiltrate traffic? I can imagine lulz.
It's really validating to see Yelp putting a GraphQL API out there as there were a number of questions on whether or not GraphQL made sense as we approached introducing a new API. We (Kiva) also just released our own GraphQL API, though very much in "Beta" it is available at https://api.kivaws.org/graphql with some general API info at https://build.kiva.org

We're still working on documentation among other things before further publicizing it. Hope to take lessons from Yelp and others on best practices with it.
Already, many of us are disenfranchised cybercriminals who torrent music in bold defiance of the highest courts in Washington!
> And anyway, in a republic, inheritance is abhorrent. We don't need another aristocracy

In the modern age, making decisions based on feelings rather than statistical evidence is abhorrent. $10 million dollars is peanuts for a successful business and if the majority of the wealth is tied up in a business what you are in effect doing is destroying a productive asset of the US economy for short term gain.

Rather than using your misguided moralisms to decide policy we should use evidence to decide on the policy that results in the best outcomes.
Banks lend out of their clients' holdings, so they wouldn't approach 100%.
That's a fair point, I guess it just outlived its set of standards.
Once you create an account you will also get an error about needing a business_id. But using the pre-filled example or sample above it won't work.
There is a flip side to this. If someone is a complete asshole to me, I should feel comfortable to express my displeasure with their behavior. That isn't escalating, that is communicating. But if I have to fear that the other person has a gun, it silences my legitimate right to communicate.
The show is about a year, year and a half out of date. Anecdotally, the funding climate for VR was stupid in 2015, more restrained in 2016 and today. (I think AR might be frothier at this point.)

That said, I haven't seen the episode yet, but the show is usually pretty spot on.
Apple Makes $1B Commitment Toward More U.S. Manufacturing Jobs
Google actively assisted in selling illegal pharmaceuticals due to the lucrative ad revenue. It was coordinated and driven by the chief executives.
The article specifically states that he doesn't want a backdoor:

“We’ve had very good open and productive conversations with the private sector over the last 18 months about this issue, because everybody realizes we care about the same things. We all love privacy, we all care about public safety and none of us want backdoors — we don’t want access to devices built in in some way. What we want to work with the manufacturers on is to figure out how can we accommodate both interests in a sensible way”
Hey, I keep trying to expand my bubble :)
If write about german economy and you dont mention the biggest low deployment sector in Europa, than it is just Propaganda nonsense.
The germans killed with their neoliberal strategy the middle-class in the Rest oft the EU.
We are too dump to produce products we really consume ourselfs. When we say we have done our homework in economy, it means that we pass our shit and problems to other European countries.