skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Were consumer advocacy groups included in that consortium?
> In this case it seems like there was a conspiracy to deliberately cheat the certification only implementing the 16 drug checks that the examiner was going to check.

There's a lot more than the drug code hardcoding in this case.
Fwiw, you can roll your own fraud warning system independent of payment solution:

https://www.maxmind.com/en/minfraud-services
I do not agree that the picture there really describes a hard work. Yes, the author itself might suffer greatly when forced to do it but it does not necessary apply to the ladies photographed.

The sky looks to be overcast, so it is not particularly hot, air is supposedly fresh, the work is not mentally challenging, so you can think your thoughts, sing or socialize.

Unless they push themselves too hard.

Work is hard when you push or you are forced to push yourself due to external forces - environment, used heavy equipment, management expectations etc.
Thanks! I really appreciate the feedback.

The price of the options eating into returns is reflected in the number we present (we assume a consistent valuation growth by stage and at exit), but taxes aren't and those can 40%+ in the US, which people don't necessarily expect. Limited exercise windows are one of the things we have in the list of ways this can go horribly wrong, but you are right that it is something that you can plan for if you know it's coming.

Thinking about it, that and early exercise might both be candidates for some sort of "list of questions to ask" tool...
I'm not even joking when I say: I really hope they do. These are the kinds of people who buy into Koch's philosophy (as opposed to Gates' philosophy). Once this country is rid of Dark money, the political system might finally start serving its citizens, and not just its wealthy citizens.
It's hard to prove numbers without Google sharing them. But suffice to say... You may recall this blog about fake download button ads: https://security.googleblog.com/2016/02/no-more-deceptive-do...

...That's the Chrome team. But fake download buttons are alive and well at Google AdWords. (Most of them you'll find on sites like paint.net are from Google.) As far as I understand, they aren't even against Google AdWords' policy. Google allows malicious ads which Google says are bad.

And as a computer technician, most malware I remove, I check web history to figure out where they got it. Almost always it's a malicious Google ad at the top of search, which Google has progressively made look more and more like real search results over the years. Great for Google's bottom line, but terrible for everyone else.
Facebook will still learn which websites you visit (provided they have the "like" widget) and what articles you read on the NYT, unless you use a good tracking blocker.

So, that's one downside, I think.
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Float or double?
It's really sad what has happened with Russian science and technology under Putin.

One very important factor the article failed to mention is the corrupt, crony capitalist economic system that Putin has cultivated. Big companies are protected by the regime in exchange for pay-offs and political support. That means they don't have to innovate to compete domestically or internationally.

There are some exceptions, but on the whole the amount of tech invention coming out of Russia today is not one-tenth what you would expect out of such a large industrialized nation.
> The biggest one is made-up ideas. The best startups come from personal experience. It was something you or someone you know needed.

My cofounder and I chose our idea as a result of reading research papers. We were so prescient with our analysis that we found many people within our circles who needed what we built. I became a user myself -- it ended up saving me!

Guess I'll have to pass on getting funding from pb. :-)
there is another option. that, even understanding that climate change is real, a group in power has decided that its more convenient for them to ignore than step up and be adults about it.
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Google can use the ad-blocking thing to stamp out ad-network competition.
not sure if he's letting the success get to his head, or he is actually trying to ward off competitors

Have you considered the possibility that he's using some humor to point out the fate of all the much-better-funded but now-defunct competitors that a typical HN commenter would've expected to crush Pinboard and win the market?
I've never had as little faith in my government and country as today.
Ask HN: How many months after launch until your project was ramen profitable?
Time to pivot haha! The competitors could give away their service for free and then setup an ad platform to target Stripe users. That lead gen might even make them more money.

And since they have the financial data, they could proactively recommend the most cost-effective service to switch to. Kind of like a Credit Karma model.
I find people struggle to be bold in the beginning. Did you have this childlike quality beaten out of you once you became and adult as well?
IIRC it also still has a non-standard build process (go run make.go) for the same reason (it was being written while the library/language were in their infancy).
Of which Google is a founding member and the only traditional ad publisher (AdSense/AdX/etc) who serves ads to 3rd party properties. [1] I'm sure they have plenty of control to shape the standards to their benefit. In other words, the "consortium" is biased by Google themselves.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/coaltion-for-better-ads-launc...
> Facebook was great in the early years.

That seems to be depressingly true of any social website. There seems to be a sort, sweet spot that exists briefly between the implementation of a good idea and when the parasites catch on and move in to ruin it.
I do the same thing (but more than once a day; sigh), but I still see creepy tracking ads. Recently I saw ads on FB for an item that my wife had been shopping for on a different computer. I'd be curious to know how they're making this connection — based on IP address, or using something like Drawbridge? https://www.drawbridge.com/
This is especially true in this time where even successful companies drag their feet when it comes to IPO. If you don't think you can't afford to buy the options and pay the taxes (yes, there's taxes when exercising illiquid options), then you have to discount the chances of still being with the company at the time of a liquidity event.

This means you can find yourself valuing stock options very little, even in cases where you have full faith in the company making it and being very profitable. A growing company is very different year to year. What are the chances that you'll love the same company in 6 years?

My personal calculation is that I have a 50% chance of leaving a job every year, so if I am guessing that it'll take 6 years to IPO, and I don't think I can just keep large amounts of money frozen in options, I have to discount the value of said options over 95% on top of the traditional calculations. RSUs from he big four don't have that problem.
but he was OK with all the other things Trump did?
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It's also possible to put in negative numbers :D
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I do not believe Uber's future value to investors is equal to the amount of money already put into it, let alone orders of magnitude higher (and "trillions" of dollars -- as you suggest -- is laughable).
Since many things happen in that period this is not a controlled experiment so you can't have strong conclusions, they can notice some correlations at most such as the program did not increased the number of unemployed people, maybe something else balanced this program but this was not found so the authors are challenging others to look at the data and find things that support the idea that unemployment would rise or other bad side effects.
Proxie (formerly known as Cellist) is nice and lightweight, and Mac native (not Java based like Charles)

Not affiliated, just a happy user.
Android being beholden to OEMs seems like a big loss for end-users though. At least Google is forcing a bit of decency, bit by bit.
I found out they have a Dribbble account recently! https://dribbble.com/stripe
If terrorists decided to put bombs in laptops, it's not clear (to me at least) how putting them in the hold would make anyone safer. I mean, maybe someone in the cabin could put it right up against the side of the plane and make it more likely to blow a hole in it, as a Somalian bomber did in 2016. But it's not obvious to me that something like that wouldn't be noticed by the other passengers and stopped before any serious damage was done (like with the underwear bomber).

At any rate, the burden of proof rests on the administration to show that the threat is real, not imagined, and that the proposed restrictions are narrowly tailored to prevent the threat. None of this has happened yet.
This is an area that YC has the oppotunity to step up and lead founders to be transparent but chooses not to. I wish i understood why.
How about etcd?
https://github.com/coreos/etcd
+ Most new sparkly eyed employees who sacrificed cash pay for options are blissfully unaware of preferred shared.

This could keep slider at $0.00 for a longer (further on the right side).
+1 on the standard lib. It's done so nicely in most places, that it's easy to convince myself to take a minute and read implementations of routines I'm reading godocs for, even though the docs are 100% clear... cuz it's actually a pleasant read.

In contrast, I've worked in places where I needed a drink or 3 before I can build up the gumption to open my text editor :-)
I find it interesting this article says nothing about the actual details of the agreement.
I was thinking the same thing. That's just writing software in general.

How long is this going to take?

I don't know I've never done it before.

Don't get me wrong it's not nearly as bad as 20 years ago.
Yes, yes. I was just poking fun. Like the other commenter, I too have small kids and have had to explain to both of them the shape of the human heart and how it differs from the heart shape.
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Thanks! I really appreciate you letting me know; it's fixed now :)

(For the curious, I added a click mask to the modal contents and forgot to update the links to fire anyway.)
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I've been going through the challenges and projects at freeCodeCamp to shore up my JS skills. I had been using React and started to focus on the D3.js projects. Started a new project with React and now I'm being told that React.createClass is being deprecated in v16. JS the language is getting better and more powerful. The frameworks and the libraries are a moving target.
Are you sure about that?

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edit: I see you stealth edited your post.
It's not at all like that, unless you have found a way in which people encrypting their communications with ROT13 can keep the society running.
Enjoy your excuse for tax avoidance :)
Interesting offering. I wonder who they're targeting with this and the problem they're trying to solve.

* Is the expectation that everyone can write SQL?

* If the customer can write SQL and they're sufficiently large, won't they export the data into their own in-house data architectures to use the tools and processes they already have?

* Is data exporting that hard from stripe that they decided to offer a query tool instead?

I'm thinking they're going after the lower end of the customer base, the customers that may have medium to small transaction volumes. Plus those customers might not yet have any data warehousing to speak of.

If I was BareMetrics, I would be especially concerned because it will be a matter of time before Stripe has their own compelling offer that does almost everything it does and more. There have been other examples of building businesses around other companies APIs (granted theres always exceptions to the rule but I want to point out its a huge risk):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9512441

https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/14/why-you-shouldnt-build-a-b...
Induced traffic is the reason country roads always have bumper to bumper traffic. Oh wait...
If they offered you the name for $35k you'd be a fool not to buy it!!!
Agreed, although Mapbox comes close imho.
I am very sad, that it is possible, that one man brings us back into the dark ages of early industrialization with all its problems for humanity.

In the 90s we thought, that our generation is better and knows it better than any prior generation. Now we see, that humanity has not made much progress from the middle ages.

Today, we are worse: in the middle ages, humans had no science. But today we have it and ignore it, because it does not fit into our live-plans.
I'm sorry, but I don't grok the utility of this. Can someone "explain this like I am five"?

We are a fairly long-running Stripe customer, and we mirror all transaction data, with the exception of actual card info, into our internal dbms. I am presuming nearly all Stripe customers do this as well, considering how easy API integration is. So what is the utility of this service versus querying internal data - particularly when one can join on data sets that Stripe has no access to?
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Whenever I see Gruber talking about openess and standards I smell hipocrysy - same way we can say iOS ecosystem is an attack on open computing (walled garden).
Just curious, but would it be enough to subsist in a rural part of the country?

Just curious what the amount of money could cover, in terms of food and shelter.
The last step of the Scientific Method is not "make policy".
I dig that you use so much Rust, but I have an OT question: I've noticed on pictures of your locks that there doesn't seem to be a way to mechanically unlock it, say if there's an electrical failure in the lock or something. It's maybe a little paranoid but the engineer in me always looks for a "failproof" backup system when all goes wrong. How do you address this?
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Yeah I think this just means you aren't their target customer. I'm sure there are people out there who will see this and happily pay hundreds or thousands a month because this solves a burning problem for them.

Stripe sells to businesses, they aren't gonna drive their bottom line off $10/mo.
Some ( pro-facebook?) people in this thread appear to have very little empathy for people, like me, who were not able to pull themselves away from the designed-to-be-addictive social media platform, without deleting it completely.

Yes. Having an account sitting around, with all of my friends attached to it, was too much of a temptation for me. Purging the entire thing from my life was the only thing that worked.

I like to make things easy on myself: I don't keep booze around because I drink it like a fish. I don't keep weed around because I smoke it like Snoop Dogg. I don't keep junk-food around because I eat it. I live right next to my gym to make it easy to get to. I don't keep facebook around because I browse it.
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The money would not be enough for you to have a decent live, maybe if you already have your own house and living is cheap, but in some countries I know that if you benefit from such program you will have to work for the community, dirty jobs like cleaning garbage from the fields or whatever the community needs, so is not free.
Sounds like a huge web page.
This sounds like a conflict of interest. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020515/busine...

On the other hand, I feel like we've been here with Google before, and they've generally done The Right Thing[tm]. How do we generally feel about people using this? Has Google done enough right that we might feel comfortable with them doing this? The general sense of other comments looks fairly bleak.
Do you have any experience with any other EHR software and if so what do you like? Years ago I did installs of Amazing Charts for small offices. And where I initially was optimistic about their growth prospects I was eventually disappointed in their growth after government requirements took effect. At the time eCW and E-MDs were the cool products on the main physician message board and at least one of my former clients eventually migrated. I had thought they were in better hands though perhaps not.
From a purely monetary and risk-based viewpoint, whether to join a start-up depends on how much money you already have.

Suppose you regard tldroptions.io's probability distributions and outcomes as correct, and the only thing you care about is maximizing the long-term rate of goal of your capital. Then the Kelly Criterion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion , a.k.a. Fortune's Formula) says that you should try to maximize the geometric mean of your capital, which amounts to maximizing the expected logarithm of your capital.

To make this concrete, suppose you are choosing between two options:

- (Startup): Working at series C+ start-up for three years, where you receive 1% equity and $100k/yr salary, and have a 20% chance of getting ~$60 million in 3 years (according to tldroptions.io)

- (AmaGooFaceSoft): Working at AmaGooFaceSoft for three years, where you receive $300k/yr total comp (according to patio11)

For simplicity, I will ignore taxes and the time value of money. All monetary amounts below are in millions of dollars. If you have no money in the bank to start with, the geometric means of your alternatives after 3 years are:

- (Startup): exp(.2 log[60+0.3 ] + .8 log[0.3]) = $0.86 million

- (AmaGooFaceSoft) = $0.9 million

In this case, AmaGooFaceSoft is slightly better.

On the other hand, suppose you already have $1 million. After 3 years you will still have the $1 million, plus your salary and whatever money you get from your equity. Here the geometric means are:

- (Startup) exp(0.2 log[6+1+0.3] + .8 log[1 + 0.3]) = $2.8 million

- (AmaGooFaceSoft): 1+0.9 = $1.9 million

In this case, it's better to join the start-up.

The base salary matters a lot. If you have no money in the bank, but you get $150k year at the startup instead of $100k, then the geometric mean of the Startup option after 3 years is better than that of AmaGooFaceSoft:

- (Startup): exp(.2 log[60+0.45 ] + .8 log[0.45]) = $1.2 million
It's actually within 13 km of breaking, as of May 31: http://www.projectmidas.org/blog/another-step-closer/
> We curate the quality of the data for you so you don't have to yourself.

If this is done well, that's a huge value. Data cleaning often takes more work than actually figuring out what queries you want to run against your data or running them.
In this case, I'm not sure the details matter. Why should anyone assume Trump has any other reasons for doing this than those which are in plain view? The ideas and intentions behind the action are what matter.
Should we work to lessen our importance on the world? At some point we need to realize wherever we go, they go as well.
It may depend on the airport. When I flew last Christmas, the Austin airport had a sign exempting the Surface Pro from being put in a separate bin (you could leave it in your backpack), which implies they thought it was less risky.