skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why Venmo is such a popular app. I've always used Square Cash and just recently tried Venmo for the first time. My sister and I had dinner and she offered to split the tab. She refused to try Square Cash and had me download Venmo. On the iPhone it felt like buggy port with some weird social feature that allows users to see public transaction.
One paragraph in I thought to myself "haven't I read this before?"

A quick google later: https://qz.com/687395/venmo-is-turning-our-friends-into-pett...
Yep, it was my mistake. I believed when I wrote my response that it was the article title.
Yes it is anecdotal but I was giving my perspective based on the last couple of years of taking my parents to their physician appointments. Given that we have long-standing relationships with our doctors they have shared their displeasure with the new systems and how it is resulting in longer wait times to get appointments. We have repeatedly experienced this. I know many individuals who are not and find that doctors offices who are not accepting new Medicare patients are experiencing this less than those that are still accepting new patients.

It is likely that these issues are also geographical in nature as some areas are not experiencing the physician shortages or patient loads that other areas and physicians are experiencing.
If your code is bulletproof and you don't have any problem to solve then you move onto the next piece of software, I've never heard a programmer saying he has too much free time and not enough projects to work on.
Not if the website uses CA pinning though?
> see geology pre plate tectonics for an example of mainstream science being in short supply of doubt

Did you mean to say not in short supply of doubt? I thought this was something with little certainty. Or are you saying that little certainty translates to little doubt? Honest question.
Venmo significantly predates Square Cash, and once you get used to using a particular app for a task switching is a burden, especially for something like this with a powerful network effect.
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I'm pretty sure nothing has changed, it's just easier to split bills now.
You can easily keep your transactions private on Venmo. I think the benefits outweigh the negativity mentioned in the article - it has made our lives more efficient.

However, their scam protection (https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/19/15997768/venmo-scam-fake-...) has room for improvement..
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Do you understand that you're commenting this on an article that literally disproves what you're saying?
Ask HN: Resources for learning software design?
Last week, a colleague came to me to ask for advice. He's a senior systems administrator who's now in a developer role. He's competent in writing and editing code in general, but feels like he's lacking experience in software design.

He's eager to learn about the subject, but I couldn't quite help him. I consider myself reasonably competent in designing software, but that's the result of 15 years trial-and-error-based learning, so I cannot point him to any resource. Can you recommend a book, webpage or other material (or maybe just some advice) that might help him build this skill?
I couldn't agree more, as a programmer you get assigned tasks because non-technical people think throwing software at a problem solves it, good programmers can solve problems with code, the best programmer is the one that can identify when code is really needed for problem-solving.
We owe it to ourselves to treat doubt about particle physics like any other valid doubt, perhaps?

There is no "valid" doubt about mainstream particle physics, or climate change, etc. because those fields embrace that doubt and then try to eliminate it.

Equating climate science with early stage geology is extremely ignorant of the data and analysis that happens in climate science. Drive-by smearing like that should not be acceptable to you, as a healthily skeptical person, because you cannot back up that claim. Such skepticism must be applied evenly and not merely against one direction of claims.
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is it really effective?
Look, writing software is a trade. If you're not getting satisfaction from the act of creating something and doing a good job of it, even if that something is less "amazing" than you were hoping it would be, you probably need a different career. In any skilled trade the majority of the projects you do will be of the more mundane sort, but a skilled practitioner derives satisfaction from the doing and the mastery. You wouldn't work for years as a watchmaker, hunched over a bench 8 hours a day, if you didn't get satisfaction from making watches. Programming is more analogous to that than not, imo.
Why was the article title changed on submission?
I question starting people on Ruby for web development. It was big and popular, but I feel that the popularity is fading (has faded?) for new projects, and there's a lot of magic in that language, too.

Anyone starting web development now would do well to stick with Javascript. No, it's not the nicest language, but there's no avoided it. And you can always use that on the backend if you have to - and if you need to spend time learning something for the backend part you'd be better served learning about relational databases than Ruby.

Anyway, between JS, HTML, and CSS, you're going to have a lot to learn. At least with CSS these days you can pretty much start with flexbox for layout, and maybe if you're lucky you'll never have to learn all the old horrible methods of getting things to look reasonable - or you'll have a solid foundation when you do encounter them.
Depends on what you mean by 'computational'.

- Computational as in 'using programming and computers'

- Computational as in 'solving a math problem' (as opposed to 'theoretical': definitions/theorems/proofs/lemmas).

My guess is that the posted link means the first kind, hence almost all of linear algebra texts are non-computational, i.e., you can become an expert in linear algebra without knowing how to program, and without knowing a single programming language.

For the second kind, most of beginner and intermediate linear algebra is computational, but not all. There's plenty of theory of linear algebra, and it has connections with representation theory, abstract algebra, as well as analysis, topology, and geometry. Study of infinite-dimensional vector spaces is purely non-computational.
A side note. The cost of living here in Pittsburgh is much, much lower than in SF or in NYC. According to a Cost of Living calculator, to maintain the same living standard in Pittsburgh at $60K, you have to make $137K in SF.
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Additionally installed CA certificates override key pinning, for exactly this use case (at least in the major browsers, it's possible some niche ones don't do this)
How do I read this article? 2 pop-ins and no way to dismiss one of them.
Maybe its because I live in a semi-rural part of the Midwest, but I've never even heard of Venmo.

> Ms. Pennoyer agreed and recalled childhood taxi rides, when two adults would fight to treat the other

That still happens around here. (Well, we don't really have many Taxis around here, but it happens with meals at restaurants and such. I can recall occasions not too long ago where friends and I would all try and sneakily pay for the meal before the others noticed.)

My wife and I lived in SF for a while and stuff like that is part of the reason we came back.
Maybe because the submitter thought the question-type headline was even more clickbaitish?
That's a good point. Even if the distribution of excellent to horrid developers is the same for India as for any other nationality - and I have no reason to think it isn't - the fact India has a high population and a higher percentage of their population going into development than Western nations means you're more likely to run into the not-so-excellent Indian developer. What you can't do is use the fact they're Indian to deduce a priori how good of a developer they are. You gotta figure that out on a case-by-case basis just as you do for everyone else.
I wonder what the "rot factor" is for scientific citations? Some professional societies I am in mandate URLs for bibliographical references. Most of the time these are peer-reviewed articles. But they can be softer references like Wiki reviews, data repositories, etc.
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The so-called “pragmatic viewpoint” is virtually identical to the reasoning that argues for standardizing DRM in the W3C.
It is possible to make one’s ledger and contacts private, but many users overlook these options ...

I'm sorry, what? The default is to make all of my transactions public? What the absolute living f---.
I see systems like Venmo being commoditized and Venmo being an acquisition target or being disruptive for large banks . My reasoning is below.

I must not be a true milennial (29) .The new hip social networks don’t make sense to me or don’t work. Not only that but if this is a feature of Vennmo I’ll stay with only transferring cash to people with boring old Chase
Quickpay with a bank account I don’t have to pay for without Venmo fees.

Edit: Sorry I should have read up on this.
Yes, however my French is primarily writing/reading, so I personally never do that.

In fact my pronunciation is horrible and I struggle to understand spoken French (this is improving).
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A lot of cost in installations is now other factors such as casing, peripheral electronicls like invertors, labor, financing, etc.
This is only the case if you were very late to p2p transactions. Venmo was well embedded in my social circles by the time there was any competition (with the possible exception of Google wallet. With something so utility-oriented, why go out of your way to rebuild an entire network?

You may as well ask why anyone uses Facebook when Google+ had better features on launch (like post visibility granularity).
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It's not using React. "X for Y" is an analogy, as in "it's like React, but for CLI apps!"
The one who invents a heat-to-electricity converter with suitable efficiency will be the winner of XXIst century. In nuclear installations, we're around 33% efficiency (plus, notably, half this electricity is produced during night). I read about Seebeck generators (heat-to-electricity with no moving parts), but they're even less efficient, and all those generators require a source of cold and warm it up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator
SegWit is in use by LiteCoin for a year already and the first proposal for Bitcoin was at least two years ago.
When hiring junior developers, I look for experience in at least two general purpose languages, because I think comparing and contrasting at least two languages gives you a valuable and necessary perspective. In web software engineering, Ruby+JavaScript (or Python+JavaScript or Go+JavaScript, etc) is a convenient and powerful way to check this box, but "full-stack JavaScript" falls short.
Ask HN: Are there any professionally valuable MOOCs on data science?
Hello everyone, a bit of a context here: I am in my mid-thirties, living in France and I have the equivalent of Higher National Diploma (2 years in college) in Computer Science with a few years of coding experience (mostly Python, Ruby and SQL). For the last couple of years, I have been working as an IT coordinator in an educational institution, which ended up being an administrative position and not very stimulating to me. Today, I want my career to be more intellectually-challenging and I aim to have a job related to Data Science: the problem is I don’t have a lot of knowledge neither in R nor in the statistical methods. Obviously, there are A LOT of offerings, but are there any certifications well-regarded by international employers available online? Thanks in advance for your feedback!
Even then this should be possible to gather quite quickly and if not they'd still be able to collect it in a batch job and send result later by mail.
Pinboard sees similar effects: https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/501406303747457024
Also rare among people over 40.
> I must not be a true milennial (29) .The new hip social networks don’t make sense to me or don’t work. Not only that but if this is a feature of Vennmo I’ll stay with only transferring cash to people with boring old Chase Quickpay with a bank account I don’t have to pay for without Venmo fees.

I think this is less "not a hip millennial" and more "commenting on something you don't understand". Venmo doesn't have fees.

The reason everyone started using venmo is because it predates anything even remotely as usable (try getting bank account numbers from 15 people at a dinner). The introduction of usable p2p transfer by eg banks was motivated by venmo's success.
makes sense, i believe the current understanding is that HIV spread from bovines to felines, so they would have the longest history of fighting the virus
I'm pleasantly surprised to see the capability nevertheless IS actually possible, with only ca. 50% more than the really old and primarily 2D only card that is referenced here.

To be so close to running the stack on a specialist 2D multiple monitor graphics adapter sold almost exclusively to the trading desk users of banks and control rooms, is pretty awesome in my book. I insisted on more GPU just for my bbg term box!
I don't think it is that simple, good enough doesn't mean good.

It's easy to fool yourself if you're just getting by work day to day thinking everything is going well until one day it isn't.

Validation might be vanity but feedback is important. Trying to figure if you are a good programmer is the first step to actually being good, willingness to continuously learn and self-improvement is a key trait of good programmers IMO.
I mentioned Basque, but Basque is in Spain.

No, I know that Occitan and French are not that different, but they're still pretty different. Like you say, similar to Spanish in closeness -- I would definitely consider them distinct languages that take effort to learn.
That will change as soon as your fridge/washer-drier/TV much less hairdrier, AC, or stove turn on (it's peaky so net neetering really helps). Typical 3 person SFH uses ~1.5kw average or 1000kWh/mo ($110/mo at CA rates).

Well installed solar at US lattitudes in a very sunny area generally gives you something like 25-30% of peak as an average (it's not up half the day and averages less than 45deg over the day ignoring clouds).
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I didn't know that. But i also work in HFT (have heard of Hudson River plenty of times) and I'm not sure that really gives any extra expertise.

I say BTC lack economic understanding not from some theoretical view but from some of the almost religious decisions that comes from the project (fixed issue, low tx volume, etc). It is almost like they don't want people to use it for anything important.

But i will search out Alex's posts more often though.
Yeah, I only use Venmo when I'm on the coasts. None of my friends in the Midwest have it, and maybe I'm just used to it, but it just felt inefficient to split the bill and wait for each person to pay with their own credit card rather than having one person pay and Venmo them back.
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I share the same opinion, TBH, there's much more to being a good programmer than writing good code.
Yeah, I second that it removes friction. I hate the "lets split the bill evenly"-approach. It makes me feel like I leech of others if I want something expensive, and the other way around if I'm not very hungry but have to pay for everybody else having three courses.
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I think the problem here is expectations. If you went to dinner with a friend, and thought everything was covered but then later received a bill in the mail there's an aspect of unexpected demands in it. If your friend said ahead of time "hey I've got this app that will let us split the bill easily, that okay?" then you'd be expecting it and there's no social transgression.

Social norms and expectations are the fiction here, not the money itself.

This app won't get much transaction in Canada though- in Toronto at least most waiters easily handle individual bills for groups. I was at a party of 12 or so the other day- no issues will the bills, everyone paid for what they ordered. Better software, or maybe better wait staff, whatever it is, it works.
I've never even heard of Square Cash before and I don't know anyone who uses it. "Sending money for free" is a very simple story, so whichever app is most widely installed wins. I already have and use Venmo and Google Wallet regularly; I'm not installing a third. Too many things to keep track of.
Once you live there, you can fool yourself that you found microbes when in fact you spread them!

That's why everything is decontaminated before blasting off to Mars :)
Not sure what my exact search had been but at any rate none of your search results give practical advice into how to trick a different man into thinking he's the father, if you're already pregnant by someone else. If you're really intent on reproducing my results maybe add something about how you're already pregnant. I certainly am not making up my results as I had never heard the term paternity fraud (or some equivalent term.)

Note: parent comment is a male based on username, this is apparently just research.
This "fire Core" situation reminds me of Uber. You can be killing it 24/7 and still get fired if you cause enough non-technical damage.
Venmo was already acquired by PayPal last year. I don't think it's an acquisition target anymore.
Thanks for the "no u".

One thing you're correct about: I have avoided debating it, because debating concepts like this is pointless and has nothing to do with real-world code. Which brings me back to the point I made on the article: why does he care so much that he can't have an immutable map? What problem can he not solve as a result of it? The example he's given is a toy problem, and the constraints that make him want such a thing are left unspecified.
There's a difference between "as explained by this comment" and "because this comment says so".

Then again, it relies on a level of self-confidence in one's ability to understand the analysis that you probably lack if you can't tell the difference between the above statements.
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It's probably important to remember that despite the anti-Catholic hysteria the Church did have a few issues. For example: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-mass-grave-ireland-201703...
What's interesting in this post ? I struggle to understand and suspect that it's getting upvoted due to the magical combination of Keras, Tensorflow and NVidia used in one sentence !
Classic pre-venmo humor article
"Caltech Physicists Successfully Split the Bill".
http://www.theonion.com/article/caltech-physicists-successfu...

In the old days it could take as long to split the bill as to eat for a double digit dinner party. Not to mention cheapskates who conveniently forget beverages and appetizers.
>how to sort a list efficiently

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Whatever happened to DOI? (Or leveraging Google's knowledge of redirects?) A lot of rot is hosting changes; the documents, if the author cared, could well be hosted somewhere else.
I find Venmo very useful, but one of the first things I did was make any payment from or to me private. I don't understand why anyone would want to make that public.
Yeah, that's way better, and is actually something that might excite people who are into astronomy. The original article was written by someone who simply didn't know what they were talking about at all, and used copious marketing speak to try to make up for it.
ORCA/C was available since the mid/late 1980's (IIRC). It is still being sold too https://store.syndicomm.com/syn/complete-c-bundle/.

They also had a pascal. Granted it was targeted to the IIGS rather than the straight II line, but given my personal experiences running apple pascal on a machine with only a single floppy drive it was just as well. In a way Jobs was right, BASIC+assembly were a better target for the 8 bit apple II than pcode and the long development turnaround time for pascal. Worse the resulting applications were slow, not just running but the extra delay loading the pascal system from 5.25" disk rarely made for a good user experience.

That said, to this day, I compare all new languages I learn to object pascal/delphi, and frankly I have yet to find one that seems as polished, productive, well documented, resistant to bugs, etc.
I would suspect it strongly depends on the dessert size. In North America desserts are huge and that's a problem. A small two-bite dessert won't hurt and would give the same satisfaction as a big one. Also a small (and I mean really small) shot of fortified sweet wine (e.g. port or madeira) is a traditional way to finish a meal in some parts of Europe, which I suspect is healthier than a typical North American dessert.
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What are the bridge-related issues? You appear to have a lot more bridges than Manhattan<->Brooklyn, which is nice.

Is it the lack of proper bike lanes on the bridges?
I have never disagreed with something so much.

While I'm financially not doing so bad, I grew up poor. When I was college age going out with friends was complicated- if we all handled our own bills it was one thing, but when I'm not drinking and only eating cheap food to save money splitting the check would literally mean I'm subsidizing other people friends and could be the difference between being able to afford to go out or not.

Apps like this level the playing field and make it a lot easier for people of different incomes to socialize together with less awkwardness.
If you're going to be open about salaries, it makes sense to be open about the explanations for them too. You seem to want to keep them secret?
That's true. Although I used pen and paper to calculate offsets, I could write simple routines right away in machine code when I was 12 years old.
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I can't provide details on any innovations we've done with sites like google, but in general if you want to crawl google you'll want to get "many, many" IP addresses. I've heard of people using services like 2captcha.com but the best way is to obfuscate who you are.

If you can hit Google 60 times per minute per IP before getting blocked and you need to crawl them 1000 times per minute, you need 17 IPs per hour. Randomize headers to look like real people coming from schools, office buildings, etc... Lots of work but possible.
Seems very cool, but limited to compiled software if I read it correctly?
Dietary fat and body fat are different things. Keto is associated with the former, but if anything it reduces the latter. I think his claim is that (excess) body fat is what makes you stupid.

I don't know what specifically this is supported by, but your objection is based on misunderstanding the claim.

Edit: I just Googled it and I think he probably means this CMU study: http://www.menshealth.com/weight-loss/how-being-fat-makes-yo...
Exactly. Saddle points are like a magnet for them!
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It hasn't been "stopped", it's simply been contained. Said containment needs ongoing monitoring and maintenance.
Well, there is a multi-billion dollar industry built on top of public transaction records...
People bring their own devices to work these days. And look, this is not something that I fundamentally agree with or anything. I just want to make sure we understand the arguments of both sides.