skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simplicity. You had to signup and register for an API token for the others, and then read the docs to figure out how to parse the response or work out what field you wanted. Can't get much easier than:

$ curl ipinfo.io
{
"ip": "73.222.35.113",
"hostname": "c-73-222-35-113.hsd1.ca.comcast.net",
"city": "Mountain View",
"region": "California",
"country": "US",
"loc": "37.3885,-122.0741",
"org": "AS7922 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC",
"postal": "94041"
}

Of course it's now evolved past that point. You can signup for an access token, we offer additional data sets (carrier detection, hosted domain details, ip type etc), and we've done a ton of work on infrastructure to handle over 300 million API req/day at very low latencies and without any stability issues, but simplicity and really focusing on developers is what I think helped with the initial growth.
True, it's not your problem if Capital One gets defrauded. But "identity fraud" is a generic term that comprises the entire suite of ways you and/or your bank can be defrauded, and it's not always the bank's problem.

Sticking to the financial space, the monetary losses are theirs to bear-- they don't try to make you split the difference on losses, do they? You dispute it, they perform a perfunctory investigation, accept the losses and move on.

Same goes for data breaches. $150M gets stolen from "the bank." They don't charge everyone 150M/(N customers) to recoup the loss; they file an insurance claim and life goes on with the same amount of money in everyone's accounts.

But the corollary is that it's not Capital One's problem to unfsck your credit history/reputation after a fraudster has impersonated you to open and bust out of HELOCs, credit cards, utilities, and writing/cashing bad checks in your name. That much is between you, the other affected institutions and the credit bureaus.

Credit history is maintained by third parties who aren't inherently concerned with the validity of your accounts (they get paid the same to report whatever data they have either way), and is tied to a rigid set of credentials that are very difficult to change or re-establish.

(To me, this is the bigger problem with victimization-- it's easy for your "identity to be stolen" or to create fraudulent new ones with or without ties to you but very difficult to be granted a legitimate new identity. Even where successful, the ghosts from your falsified past will still haunt you thanks to the number of fourth-parties who cache and resell stale data.)

If someone socially engineers your credentials out of you and reroutes your direct deposit to a disposable account after having supplied harvested username+password, divining the answers to your security questions, verifying the existing account information and somehow spoofing/bypassing 2FA, is that really the bank's problem? They did their due diligence in verifying your identity. The phishing email you responded to literally gave the fraudster the keys to your paycheck.

Government should have less of an excuse. If someone fraudulently files a tax return in my name, that's a federal criminal matter between the IRS and the thief. Either investigate it or make it harder to commit. The problem is that the schemes are initiated from internet cafes in western Africa and eastern Europe and it's far easier to blame me and make it my problem than to perform international investigations and extradite from countries that we have poor relationships with.

Having just left that industry I'll give you that the preventative- and counter-measures implemented and sold to consumers are both a joke, but these are the fundamental problems they exist to mitigate.
The actual paper [0], despite the authors' thoroughness, is actually quite readable and well worth a look at least alongside the various media summaries. There are interesting comparisons to be made to the tobacco lawsuits and to concerns over PR by the sugar industry over the last 50 years, though I think any legal action is most likely to be far in the future as climate damages really ramp up.

0: "Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977–2014)", http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f
The prevailing advice for a long time was 4%, but bond yields have been so low for so long, that people have been questioning whether 4% is truly safe any more.

If you're retiring at 67, 4% is probably safe. $1.5M would be an acceptable target for you at that age.
Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/07/05/Rust-Roadmap-Update.ht... is our "the year is half over" update, and has a link to the overall goals right at the top.
I think you should consider disassociating the TypeScript requirement in the compiler. You'll alienate developers (like me) who prefer Vanilla™ JavaScript. It's one of the things I love about Svelte (which you claim heritage to), in that they really try to conform to vanilla everything, i.e., HTML, CSS, JS.

Everything else sounds terrific, though, especially the ability to do SSR.
Not lucky, you guys just played your cards right. Other nations squandered their chance.
I do agree that the messaging and tone was painfully bad, yes.

I can sympathize with people who spend all day dealing with unwarranted rants and flames letting some of that leak out into their responses to everything, but yes, that should have been handled better.
The end of convertibility didn't occur in a vaccum though: it was a response to a whole bunch of exogenous causes, including oil price shocks.
Uber Q2 financials
I've taken Uber Pool rides where I'm the only passenger to Oakland and it was $8 for 18 miles. There's no way thats sustainable. Its too easy to open Google Maps and pick the cheaper of the two ride shares.

Many times its cheaper for me to Uber somewhere than to drive + pay for parking, and I will stop if its no longer the case.

I'm pretty price-insensitive in situations where I'm grabbing a few drinks with friends etc. and I leave my car at home, and I price that in as part of that evening's "fun" budget.
A question Jessica Livingston didn't like (2014)
Evidence suggests they already have happened several times in earth's history. You might consider doing a little research into the relationship between climate shifts and mass extinction events.
Trees are not a carbon processing factory, they are a carbon battery. If they die the carbon will be released again during decomposition. Once they are planted they must be maintained into perpetuity, unless they are planted where they will naturally survive. Maintaining these forests will probably involve energy usage that releases more carbon.

We need method of fixation that is both permanent and does not have the constraints that tree planting does.
nice diamond emoji
This is not the answer to the question. Alt-right seems now to be everything that is not included in alt-left. Most prominently various scientists like Gad Saad, Jordan Peterson and Carl Benjamin.
You should probably be loading the Roboto font via Google Fonts or similar, because my system does not have Roboto installed by default, so it is defaulting to serif in your comparison.

At least I think that's the issue.
Javascript is also high-level interpreted language, but it's much faster than Python. Python is pretty hard to optimize in a JIT (and it gets much less attention than Javascript).
Time for the walled garden to throw a few perps outside the walls.
quite a nice little set of rhetorical positions you've constructed for yourself
Googlers publicly tweeted that people like Damore should be punched in the face. For having an generalist opinion about certain demographics, and policies based on those.

Let me re-iterate that: Actually encouraging actual violence against a named individual.

Funnily enough Google and twitter had zero issues with that. Unlike what Damore did, that was not against their code of conduct.

This really is PC culture, it's intolerance, and the terrible things it drives fully and perfectly exemplified.
Netflix loves to pick hits for each subscriber _ but how?
There's quite a few multinationals that have underseas cables as part of their network infrastructure (think finance). It's sometimes worth the expense just to lay cable then tunnel through the public internet for peace of mind. On a smaller scale there are plenty of people running long distance microwave networks and paying for direct fiber links that are outside the public internet.
People overestimate over estimate possible improbable odds and underestimate near certain odds.

Much the same way the mental processes enjoy playing the lottery.

See Possibility Effect, Certainty Effect
I see two problems with stenciljs at the moment, but perhaps they can be fixed? 1, going back and forth in browser history, there is a flash of the footer being displayed before the actual content is loaded - it's just 1-2 frames, but very noticeable and disturbing. 2, scroll position is lost when visiting another page and going back.

Those are typical single page app problems, but they will probably not matter when using the framework for a hybrid app (no back button). If I'm to use this for a web app though, those would be nice to have addressed.
Yeah, address coverage and POI coverage are pretty spotty. The address would show on osm.org if it were in the data:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/39.93668/-75.16656
Legally speaking, what is proposed for the app directly would probably fall afoul of pimping/solicitation laws in most jurisdiction which have such laws. Whether it's the moral equivalent of what people think of as pimping or pimping as most commonly practiced is, well, ultimately subjective.

For an investor, it's probably detached enough that general conspiracy/organized crime laws are more applicable than pimping/solicitation.

IANAL, this isn't legal advice, and even if I was and it was, you probably shouldn't take legal advice from pseudonymous accounts on internet discussion forums.
Why successful startups stumble at 40+ employees
I should have quoted the portion I was responding to. I was responding to "I have yet to hear any compelling reason to make these devices dependent on software."
Also with an ebike you are almost never going slow. Accelerating to cruising speed usually takes a couple of pedal cranks, not a full city block.
The atmospheric carbon situation is not good, and we (as a species) need to come up with actionable geo-engineering solutions. Here is one.

Rainwater hits mountains and dissolves silicate minerals into cations that flow into rivers and then oceans. The oceans naturally uptake carbon from the atmosphere by reacting atmospheric carbon with cations in the water that come from those dissolved silicate minerals. This uptake de-acidifies the oceans and produces food for ocean life; for us to collect all the carbon produced in the USA last year, we would need to crush about 60km^3 of silicate rock (which is in abundance) and spread it along coastlines.

To successful sequester enough carbon to save the ecosystem, this might one of the best options we have. This paper [1] does a good job of explaining what I've touched on here.

[1]http://www.greensand.nl/content/user/1/files/rog20004.pdf
The Iowa Attorney General was so incompetent in the digital forensics they barely convicted him the first trial. Only after did they figure out how he did it.
I have heard this line several times before, and it is the environmental equivalent of "What if there is no God, and we are being good to each other for nothing."

It completely ignores tradeoffs. General environmentalism has been very aggresively anti-nuclear. In a world of CO2 caused climate change, it has to rethink that opposition. Another example is with diesel engines. There is a tradeoff between NOX emmisions and efficiency (and thus CO2 emissions). What you decide the tradeoff to be, is influenced by how much you thing climate change is a problem.

Another example is endangered species. If we really are going to have catastrophic global warming, then maybe we don't try as aggressively to protect all species from habitat destruction say from building hydroelectric, wind, solar power plants in Africa.
> Can someone PLEASE tell me why there haven't been more efforts underway to have commnities around the world plant more trees and engage in planned reforestation?

There's no money in it? Whereas there's plenty of money in deforestation.

Tragic, but that is the world we live in.
Hi Rasmus, I think that at the point size at which this is meant to be used—e.g. around 11px (https://rsms.me/interface/lab/?size=11&compare=roboto) —the differences between the two become harder to distinguish. The issue is really that the character of the type is going to be dictated by the systematic decisions: stroke weight, x-height, proportion, spacing. Starting from Roboto and not changing these parameters in your solution means drastically limiting how far away from the original source that you can realistically get. In the end, changing the stroke endings and changing the bounding box of some characters in invisible in the intended use case.

Here is a screenshot comparing Roboto (11.5px) to InterfaceRSMS (11px), which illustrates: http://imgur.com/a/nl5mp

There are plenty of UI typefaces out there that take a noticeably different approach, an easy comparison to Lucida Grande is probably enough to justify the point. (EDIT: for completeness, http://imgur.com/a/CjD06)
He started in 2005 and the investigation started in 2015, so he did get away with it for 10 years. He probably could have won a few, stopped, and gotten away with it if he'd been less greedy.

The code was clever, generating predictable numbers on a few particular days of the year. And it must have been subtle, to survive 10 years of nobody else noticing.
aka the "CADT" model. :)

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

But, not saying that characterization applies here specifically. The article was quite well-reasoned in explaining the proposed changes, as far as I could tell. Disclaimer: I barely know anything about D-Bus.
The situation was never sustainable from the beginning as the economy has actually been rigged and obfuscated since the collapse of Bretton Woods.

It comes down to a confluence of r vs K effects on politics (and it's knock on effect on higher education and student debt), the Fed being a private bank masquerading as a US Government institution, fiat currency, and fractional reserve banking. This is the actual cause for inflation (which erodes the purchasing power of wages), and the so called "business cycle" of boom and bust (e.g. the credit bubble). Globalisation has also further exacerbated wealth transfer and increased the risk of systemic failure.

But this is not actually liberal capitalism's fault. Crony capitalism and Government intervention is to blame. There is nothing "liberal capitalism" about tax payers selectively underwriting shareholders. Under a "liberal capitalism" doctrine, the market is allowed to reward winners and punish losers.

If anything liberal capitalism is the only way to save the system but it will be an extremely rough transition.
> In what way is a book better than a link on Hacker News or Facebook?

Most individual links on HN and FB don't have a few hundred pages long of organized material delving into a topic, and most collections of links won't have the same cohesive nature that a good book does. Some do, but it's atypical. If you put any belief into the idea that other senses contribute to learning, then a book covers more senses than an electronic reference does. And it's easier to go sit in a corner with, without worrying about how much you're draining the battery in some device, or being distracted by other things on the internet. Books don't receive push notifications, and that's a wonderful thing!

> I see a poster upthread mentioning we've "forgotten how to be bored".

> I don't know about people here, but I saw boredom as an awful state of mind even before the proliferation of smartphones.

I see it as a statement that we've forgotten how to drift a bit, contemplate, and allow ourselves to be alone with our thoughts; most people grab for a quick bit of entertainment or information when they've got a few otherwise unoccupied seconds.

> It reminds me of how some of the financial advice for people in debt is to eschew all forms of credit and live on cash only.

Look at it from the perspective of an addict. Sometimes being forced to rent is a smaller negative than crippling piles of credit card debt. And sometimes inaccessibility of your accustomed distractions is a smaller negative than being able to focus on something important for as long as it takes to get it done.
There isn't really a "worst" case here. We can always make it worser...
You could probably throw Zimbabwe, Yugoslavia, and Greece into that mix too. To a lesser extent Iceland, but in that case the "bad actors" were thrown into jail afterwards (which of course doesn't have effects reaching back into time)
Electricity is #1 expense.
Uber's business continued to improve last quarter as bookings rose 17% to $8.7B
Sorry to spoil the joke but this problem has been solved. Emacs now has Vim emulation (called Evil mode).
New York University Abu Dhabi researchers develop 'unhackable' computer chip
So you're saying that the fact that they have new prices now refutes my suggestion that there will be price hikes in the future? I'm saying Google has a habit of pricing something, and then hiking the price later. I said specifically, above, that this announcement is early warning of price hikes: "migrate to standard tier now before the price hikes". Your rebuttal is "but the prices right now haven't gone up"?
It depends on the type of analysis you are doing. It is very difficult to generalize. If you are looking for causation, I would say to not even try it unless you are writing a paper.
Also: When used on a mobile device, it does something to detect whether the device is in airplane mode. It refuses to display the text of the article until it is.
Does C++ Pair<> define operator< and operator>?

That's surprising, and for me looks completely uncalled for.

EDIT: Just looked into Haskell (because it's easier), and tuples do derive Ord there. Is there some universal convention I'm missing?
Industry? Not initially, no. Activity? Absolutely.

One theory is that agriculture prevented another mini-ice age. I don't know where in the "believe, but cannot prove" spectrum this theory lies (a la http://edge.org).

"Feedback loops are notoriously hard to mitigate."

Complex adaptive systems. Disrupt a system's equilibrium and you get chaos. Hard to predict, mitigate.
If you have homebrew you can do:
brew cask install font-roboto
How about betterC# instead? Given that C++/CLR is a thing, I imagine that it would be possible to get D working on it. JVM is a bit more limited in what it allows vs. CLR. For instance, C# has the unsafe keyword that allows pointer arithmetic, which would correspond to @system in D. @safe D would correspond to the normal C# behavior on that front.

Probably a lot of work though and I'm not sure why anybody would bother.
I bet if you have CP you don't wait 30days ...
Yeah could be prone to high roll motion depending on the heading relative to the predominant waves. I'm guessing though that for whatever scientific purposes it would be submerged and not rolling/pitching at all.
While that's true as far as it goes, be careful not to draw unwarranted conclusions. There are always downturns, but the next one could start tomorrow, or in 2025, or in 3025. It will hit some point lower than the point at which the downturn starts, but that point could be higher, lower, or even equal to where the market is today.
Many people? I have absolutely no data whatsoever, but I would have estimated this group of people making up 0.1% of the population or less. Do you know many people who are so interested in their brain that they will take this test without having a known risk of Alzheimer's?
Yes, it is mostly government data! Also, this year there are presidential election in Chile so there is a bias towards that topic.
I recommend you read "Money: The Unauthorized Biography [0]" You'll never look at money the same way again. Money is not a commodity even though we treat it as such. It certainly is not a finite resource.

Plenty of money gets created everyday for thing far more stupid than trying to save the world. Look at how much money has been created (and will be spent) for no good reason at all in the current cryptocoin bubble. The massive capital gains are going to be cashed out and spent somewhere, creating market distortions, making people who contribute nothing insanely wealthy. Money is not sacred. Better we use it to try and save the world than to treat it as if it (and the market) are some all-wise, ever-perfect allocator of human and natural resources.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F1W0DAO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Could you recommend some resources on these techniques?
What is the bounce rate on your page?
Inflation is measured more by price than income. The salaries being stagnant at Walmart and co don't really have much say in the CPI.
Ironically, this offering is precisely the argument against network neutrality -- different customers need different QoS guarantees.
Anyone have access to the Zork variant/predecessor "Dungeon"?
Level of discourse on Hacker News 2017
Related, one of my favorite Wired Magazine stories -- and favorite pieces of long form journalism, period -- Neal Stephenson goes out on a boat to string some cable: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
Related question: how many people have gotten away with things like this that we have no knowledge of?
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PDF is a pretty interesting format. The spec is actually a great read. It's amazing how many features they've needed to add over the years to support everyone's use cases.

It's a display format that doesn't have a whole lot of semantic meaning for the most part. Often every character is individually placed so even extracting words is a pain. It's insane that OCR (which it sounds like this uses) is the easiest way to deal with extraction.

I highly recommend having a look inside a couple of pdfs to see how they look. I've posted about this before but the trick is to expand the streams.

mutool clean -d in.pdf out.pdf
Exactly this. Former you sounds like a sound financial planner. Trust that he knew what he was doing.
Well, I guess Russia sees a lot of reforestation-by-neglect.

This is usually useless forests and they're not very good because succession fails on them due to unbalanced ecosystem, but that's what is aplenty.

Where would you expect new forests to appear? I mean, Eurasia is so huge it probably has more forests than the rest of the planet combined. Most countries only cover a marginal area of the globe and so they can't possibly cause serious reforestation impace.
"A 2016 study by economists and Uber data experts found that when Uber alerted passengers that fares had doubled - part of Uber's older "surge pricing" scheme - ride purchases immediately fell by about 40 percent."

Based on my rough calculation:

1) Say, 100 rides at $2 each = $200
2) Double the price (surging), 40% ride drop: 60 rides at $4 each = $240

Uber still made 20% gain in revenue due to price doubling, right? That's a good thing for Uber, isn't it?
This is reductive. It's not reasonable to simply ignore the devastating fallout of nuclear accidents beyond human causalities.

This doesn't engage with the real world consequences of nuclear accidents that are devastating to life and the environment, long lasting and extremely expensive and complex to cleanup.
The one thing to note is most of these boom and bust cycles were also engineered during Greenspan's time. It will be interesting to see what happens in the coming months and years