skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I signed up to those two cards, it was $3k spend in 3 months for each card. I also signed up at different times. For my Amex platinum I actually put my security deposit on it for 2k and 2k down on a car haha.

You can manufacture spending and spend something like $10,000 a month on gift cards, then turn that back into cash to pay your credit card bill. Not sure how to do it and its also risky. AMEX/Chase have been closing accounts for it and one guy was doing it with Money Orders and the US Postal Service went after him for money laundering.

As for me I have a natural spend of about 5500 a month for all expenses and rent. I paid rent using Plastiq (2.5% fee) for a while and got triple points before Chase cut off the triple points offer on Plastiq's services. They re-categorized it as a business service instead of travel.

It definitely favors higher incomes for sure.

I can put 4-5000 a month on a card and with point bonuses, earn something like 6-8000 points per month. So in 2 years we'll have enough to go on another dream vacation (Probably Japan again cause it was amazing!).

EDIT: You can down grade your card to a no fee card after you've gotten your bonuses. Then later re apply. AMEX has language in their Terms that limits you to 1 bonus per card per lifetime, but recently some of their cards do not have that language. Chase limits you to 5 cards opened in a 24 month period, regardless of the credit card servicer. Citi also has some form of restriction. This all recently started in the last year or 2.
Launch HN: CocuSocial (YC S17) – Marketplace for cooking classes at restaurants
Hi HN,

I am Billy Guan, co-founder of CocuSocial (https://www.cocusocial.com/) participating in YC S17 batch. CocuSocial is a marketplace for cooking classes that are hosted at restaurants and hotels.

Traditional cooking classes are expensive and intensive, but we want to make them affordable, easy to access and fun. We offer a relaxed way of learning, whether it is an interesting background about a cuisine, a useful cooking technique or a delicious recipe.

To lower down the cost of cooking class and make it accessible to everyone, we partner with local restaurants and hotels who host cooking classes during their slow nights or weekends.

We encourage everyone who love food or cooking to try us (only in New York so far) especially if you are celebrating a birthday, anniversary, or any other special occasions. We also help planning private events like corporate team building activities, bachelorette parties, bridal showers, fundraising events, etc.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback and thoughts. Thanks!
For a long time there was no free option to validate json schema with the latest norm.
Compare SJSU being impacted in all majors, including CS.
Whenever possible I rely on folks who are better writers than me to express ideas I agree with. This is one of those cases. From a journalist I respect:

"k, let's nip this in the bud right now: James Damore is not a whistleblower, just as any other sniveling white dudes crying about the presence of people of color and/or women at their workplace are also not whistleblowers.

Having personal biases and misogynistic views doesn't mean Damore was exposing institution-wide crimes. What Damore posted essentially boils down to an argument over management styles. Now, he went about this in the dumbest, most sensationalist way possible because he circulated a fucking memo about it and it got posted everywhere. I imagine any company in the world would probably be pretty cheesed off about an employee doing that.

Now, there are institutional crimes at play here, but Damore didn't expose them. For example, Google is currently battling a wage discrimination investigation by the US Department of Labor, which has found that Google routinely pays women less than men in comparable roles. That's a serious issue, not the fact that women are working at the company in the first place.

What's funny about all of this is most of the people (read: white men) complaining about Damore's firing also defend companies' rights to fire employees at will. If they were really concerned about protecting employees' ability to internally dissent without jeopardizing their job, they would strongly support unions and the right to collectively bargain, but they're been silent on those issues. Why? Because this isn't really about protecting workers or "whistleblowers." This is about a group of pissed off white dudes fighting for the rights of other pissed off white dudes to bitch about diversity and bully and intimidate their co-workers who are people of color and/or women. "
I stumbled on that one too. But of course a high cost of living results in a low score and vice versa. Probably should have called it affordability.
To protect voting use paper.

Why did anyone ever think computerising voting was a good or useful idea?
I didn't necessarily have a specific attack in mind when I looked for the issue.

However, the way I would use it is any scenario where I want to either find out more information about a certain list of people, or where I want to alter the content I show to specfic people.

It is a pretty specific attack vector, but a verifiable identification could be high impact in those few cases, and it would also be trivial to fix it.
I'd also argue that a small business is just a business where the goal is to provide goods or services to customers and work to employees, whereas a lifestyle business has a strong focus on creating and maintaining a good work-life balance for everyone. Which means in our case reinvesting the profit in our team's happiness.

Happiness: happiness being a very abstract word that I chose on purpose. Because it means different things for different people and it also changes over time.
I have a dead simple method. If I'm hungry I drink water. If I'm still hungry after I drank water then I eat a modest amount of what I fancy. Most of the time this will end up being something I need rather than something I want which is always the problem with eating properly.

The human body is pretty good at telling you what it needs.

I've eaten a banana, pear, cereal, chicken and rice today and drank about 2L of water. Feel fantastic :)
I think it's a bit too early to worry about that. Don't believe everything you read.
This is not true and proven again and again with people in hardcore keto. On a similar note though, the best diet is the one you can keep on doing.
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From the point of view of somebody brute forcing their way in, there is very little difference between a password that stays the same and one that changes all the time.

Those are great against key-loggers, not so against people that have insider info.
I want to take your example one step further to see if I understand what you are implying.

If you select all persons from groups A and B that pass a certain threshold, then you will have a smaller number of A than B. Let's say the split is 40% A and 60% B.

We then analyze the population at our company and find we have 7% A and 93% B. Does this mean the company has a bias towards B, and needs to take special action to search for more A candidates to bring the ratio closer to 40/60?

It's not a question of "diversity", just an optimal hiring algorithm - the company is not utilizing a pool of hireable people in a time of scarcity, and its in their best interest to source more from that pool.

Of course the math gets more complicated when the supply of A is drastically different than the supply of B.
What else could cryptocurrency game theory be?
I agree that taking the Kolmogorov option is justifiable in direct proportion to the risk of your situation and the difficulty of causing change. Appealing to it in the US today is vastly less convincing than appealing to it in the USSR of the 50s and 60s.

That said, I'd also note that writing an article like this inherently means not taking the Kolmogorov option. This is a clear case of "do it, don't say it" - Kolmogorov himself would have been risking his life by publishing a piece like this, since it raises an air of "I might have unacceptable views I'm not announcing".

(I'm not sure where the Trump bit comes in here - it seems like Aaronson's one mention of him is in exactly the opposite direction of yours.)
Most of the people who hate Common Core have no idea what it is and hate it because That Muslim is associated with it.

It's pure politics.
There's actually scientific support for that theory. You gave an example of 'diffused mode' [1] of thinking as opposed to the 'focused mode' of thinking.

Neither is necessarily 'better'; both have their place in our daily lives. The 'diffused mode' regularly doesn't get the credit it deserves as people (e.g. educational systems) are hammering too much on the 'focused mode'.

If you are interested in learning how to use the 'diffused mode', more things related to learning, and optimizing the way you learn I can recommend the free course on Coursera called Learning How To Learn by Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski.

[1] https://staciechoice1010.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/focused-vs...

[2] https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
People optimize for different lifestyles, but what I described is a fairly common goal. The Wikipedia article on lifestyle businesses even cites The Four Hour Workweek.
honestly...why?

You call it Irony, I call it subject matter expertise.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentine_Codex

What I remember is that their criteria to choose who were they throwing to the volcano was very varied and nonsensical. Like "children with more than one hair swirl" (not sure about last word, hope it is clear).

And sometimes they didn't use a volcano but just remove the skin of victimes and store them in a cave. They will use the skins to dress up and dance a month later.

In any case, victims were members of their society. It was maybe an honor. Yeah, colonizers were brutal, but it seems it was the state of the art back then...
> I do not read his words as "google is illegally discriminating".

FWIW, he has said this more directly in an interview: https://youtu.be/agU-mHFcXdw?t=331

"They were telling us about a lot of these potentially illegal practices that they've been doing to try to increase diversity."

"What kind of practices?"

"Well, basically, treating people differently based on what their race is, or gender --"

"Oh, you mean racism."

"Yeah, basically."

"Mmhmm, I see. And it was ultra-secret and unrecorded in what manner?"

"So-- most meetings at Google are recorded, anyone at Google can watch it, we're trying to be really open about everything, except for this. They don't want any paper trail for any of these things."

"Whoa, okay, why?"

"Because, I think, it's illegal. I mean, as some of the internal polls showed, there were a large percent of people that agreed with me on the document. And so if everyone got to see this stuff, then they would really bring up some criticism."
How Gender, Age and Race Shape Our View of What Makes a Great Black Athlete
Chris Espinosa talks about weird `man` output related to 70s pinfeed printers
Oh, so you know what he is actually thinking even though he doesn't say it and says things that are contrary to it. I see.

This, too, helps me understand the outrage. Thank you for being honest.

(I do hope the 'thank you' above can be read by people in a calm, snark-less voice. It is genuine. I appreciate Ptacek being forthright. I learned from it. It really does make the thread better and furthers the conversation in a productive way.)
No, Common Core mandates what kids need to learn when, not how they're taught.
There is a great class of Game Theory for free on Youtube. It is from YaleCourses with the professor Ben Polak.

http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-159/lecture-1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM3rTU927io&list=PL6EF60E102...
In a nutshell?

It's complicated, but basically an oil has two main functions:

1) lubricate

2) circulate and take away all impurities and metal debris (which are then - as much as possible - filtered and absorbed by the filter and - at least the steel ones - by one or more magnets), i.e. to "clean" (continuously)

So the oil has many components inside, some of which with different weight (i.e. that may tend to separate) some of them that may be affected by water (the air that inevitably enters the engine can condensate) some by the oxigen in the air itself (i.e. oxidate).

Moreover some metal parts in the engine that are normally covered by a thin film of oil may well, after some longer period of inactivity "dry up" and thus develop some oxidation themselves or "run dry" thus creating more debris (that will be washed at next start and thus contaminate the oil).

And then there is the temperature cycles, an oil needs to be fluid enough when very cold yet do not become too fluid when heated, which adds the need of more components that may suffer from these cycles.

As an example in some industrial setups (think of static diesel electric generators) the oil in the engine is pre-heated electrically to keep it always from going under a given temperature.

All in all keeping it continuously mixed/moved and within a given temperature range is "better" for the oil.
iOS ARKit Tutorial: Drawing in the Air with Bare Fingers
Google News Blows Now These Guys Don't
A timely eclipse prediction also figures in Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_A...
our media is a wonderful thing
Exactly.

The Laser turntable was a really bad idea, one that attempts to solve a problem that doesn't really exist in practice: record wear.

A stylus rides on the physical surface of the record. The information (audio) is on the physical height and x-position of the groove, not on the image of the groove. Thus the laser turntable also reads dirt and even damage that wouldn't be read if the stylus was used.

On a proper turntable with a proper (reasonable quality, not-worn) stylus, a vinyl record can be played in excess of 1000 times before noticing audio degradation, according to AES tests done in the '60s. Under an electron microscope it was reported that the vinyl surface appears to "flow" or "compress" under the action of the stylus.

78rpm "shellac" records are designed so the needle wears (!). For this, the osmium needles of the era should be discarded after two record sides. What happened in real life was that the needles weren't discarded, so they developed cutting edges that did damage the records.
Google can probably prevent the information leak via image tags by not using a 302 redirect and instead using a 200 response and a combination of <meta refresh> and JS document.location.

This way, the image tag will always fire the onError
That's why I said 5 or so. I was specifically looking for, "a function returns a value," which is 5.

If you worked in Delphi, it most certainly isn't trivia. It's like asking what does void mean in C type dialects or what does the = vs == do. It's not trivia, it's trivial.
I wouldn't worry about that too much. Their entire business model is predicated on the at-will disposability of their "employees".
DFS+Fanduel+NFL+Minnesota+Vikings+vs+Buffalo+Bills+8/10/17
Show HN: Sign-up and on-boarding system written in ReactJS and NodeJS
What exactly is misleading? The next line explains further

> Monsanto’s internal emails tell a different story. The correspondence shows the company’s chief of regulatory science, William Heydens, and other Monsanto scientists were heavily involved in organizing, reviewing, and editing drafts submitted by the outside experts. At one point, Heydens even vetoed explicit requests by some of the panelists to tone down what one of them wrote was the review’s “inflammatory” criticisms of IARC.
I believe their characterization is accurate. Not just anyone can download files from VT. You have to have access to their private API which is a premium billed (and anecdotally very expensive) service.[0]

That, to me, qualifies the term "VirusTotal and their partners" as accurate, since this is only a select group of companies who are paying VT a large sum for access to the data.

[0] https://www.virustotal.com/en/documentation/private-api/#fil...
I played a lot of video games growing up, particularly first person shooters. I feel like I just had an epiphany. I am incredibly terrible with direction sense in real life. I wonder if video games and relying on map overlays had something to do with it.
Jordan Peterson Interviews James Damore
"I'm not sure what you are arguing in favor of exactly."

I'm not really arguing in favor of anything. Just pointing out that personal success and well-being is indeed currently driven by luck, regardless of whether we like it or even realize it. Pretending that the only variable involved is merit or "hard work" is ignorant of the existence of billions of perfectly capable and "hard working" people currently unable to achieve such personal success due to circumstances entirely out of their control.

That problem is currently unsolvable (or at least very difficult to solve, and with no clear solution). I'm certainly not going to assume that I - of all people - have some kind of magical answer there.

It is, however, possible to at least gradually address the problem through whatever hard work it takes to make the next generation a little luckier: folks lending their shoulders for their children to stand on, and their children in turn lending their shoulders to their children, and so on. It sounds like your own ancestors did precisely that, as did mine. Whether we call it "luck" or "fortune" is a terminology issue that is irrelevant to the main point: the playing field is by no means level, and neither of us chose to be born into our respective families.
> Sadly the "long passphrase" advice is also out of date. It relies on the naive idea that all password cracking is done brute-force, one character at a time.

I thought the point was that a increasing the length typically does more for you in terms of entropy than increasing the size of the alphabet.

> The tl;dr is that any strategy short of full randomness is wrong.

I don't know. You might want to have a password with some regularity to make it easier to remember (at the expense of being longer for a given entropy).
I think they were asking you what do the parents in your organization do on some of these longer outings - do they come and bring their kids, come without their families, or stay home?
So White people are all one race, now?

Germans and Slavs and Scandinavians and Italians are all the same?

When did that happen?
What are you waiting for to convince you that now it's time to take this seriously?
I happened to be watching a PBS show that mentioned Caldwell Esselstyn and the diet he recommends (he is a heart surgeon.) I was blown away by how much I misunderstood about a good diet. Lots of the standard "good diet" advice now looks like "fad" to me (eg. Mediterranean as a role model - since it really only shines in comparison to our horrible Western diet.) Of course, now it is even harder to eat a good diet...

Perhaps his key observation is the relationship between oils and so many of our modern diseases. I do suspect that some oils have benefits which outweigh the costs (a subtlety which isn't reflected by his coarse data) For example I suspect that oils from Salmon and Walnuts may have benefits yet to be fully quantified.
The whole "shake things up" meme was among the dumbest. It made me think of:

"Honey, the toilet isn't working again! Those dammed plumbers don't know WTF they're doing. I'm calling an electrician to shake the f'n toilette! We'll just see how that works!"

Seriously, this is kakistocracy levels of thinking, but that's what happens when people are a.) legitimately frustrated and b.) have no idea how to vent it. So they basically just role the dice and go with the stink bomb approach. All I can think of is we're just going to have to collectively suffer, and hopefully learn from the mistake but at this point the pain level isn't high enough for a proper feedback loop to kick in. Everyone is still really attached to the idea their tribe is just inherently obviously vastly superior and the others are either stupid or traitors.

Politics by emotion. And embrace of denialism.
Oh please, those outlets you've mentioned have been marginalized and made the butt of every joke since the 1990s, just about as long as they have existed. They are the original echo chambers. Saying that one is allowed to preach to the choir is a straw man.

If you want examples about these things happening, YouTube channels like this one have had their money taken away by Google due to being "offensive" when it is actually just not on the same side of the political fence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DshdVX_MlSo
"A good lifestyle business could even be turned into a multi-million dollar company, if that’s what you want.": I've stopped reading there, I don't understand how articles that empty can arrive on top of HN. These questions (where to work? On what? How much?) get way better answers in "Ask HN" threads, articles coming from nowhere with a topbar selling me something are really not making me dream anymore.
That's strawmanning my point pretty hard.

There is no "us" and "them" in what I'm saying. There's a bunch of varying individuals, and ad-hoc grouping whereever there's some perceived similarity.

The problem is that that grouping instinct goes overboard, and when nonsense or applicability of what emerges from the grouping pressure isn't questioned at all. This happens in small groups as well as large ones, so it's not even a majority vs minority issue. It's simply one of being swept up in our default reactionary ways, and when that is challenged, projecting an assumption that everybody is swept up in the same way as ourself (as the author does) because of that exact same instinct.
> There are probably less non dictionary words than dictionary words

There are infinitely many non dictionary words.

I also didn't say to use _strictly_ non dictionary words.
> ...incessant anti-conservative tech culture

Not sure I'd silo this as a tech culture thing. Education has been shown to negatively correlate with conservatism so it'd be reasonable to expect to see low numbers of conservatives in any field with higher educational barriers.

http://www.people-press.org/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-g...
I think people significantly underestimate the economic power of the United States. For quality of life, income, and opportunity, you'd almost certainly want to be in, say, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Kansas City, or St. Louis (none of which are on the list) than Lagos, Nairobi, Bogota, Bratislava, or Bucharest (all of which are on the list).

I know, I know. You think of those as nowhere places. But that's because, again, you're vastly underestimating the economic power of the United States and its cities.
Except go does have inheritance... basically:

https://play.golang.org/p/yDejKzS4EQ
I concur. I did the same in the Mediterraneans, working from a beach for a month; whenever I felt like I took a little swim in the sea, being refreshed, and it did wonders to my productivity. Not sure why wouldn't you do this if you could...
It's a bit less passive than that.