skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to admit, if I worked at a bank and a customer (particularly a senior citizen) came in wanting to draw out $150,000 in cash that would raise all sorts of red flags and if I was in a decision making position, they would not get that money without investigation on the bank side. My immediate thought would be that he's in the process of being a victim of fraud.

There's also the question of how law enforcement tends to handle large amounts of cash, also known as civil forfeiture. Finally, I know banks are required to report deposits of large amounts of cash, are they also required to report large withdrawals? I seem to recall that being a factor in Dennis Hastert's legal problems because I think part of what he was doing was structuring withdrawals to avoid reporting requirements.

(edit: Yes, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_transaction_report)
Am I the only one who hates "Am I the only one" as the start of an argument? It's a disingenuous question, you are never the only one.
The actual headline is 'Venmo is offering users an (ugly) physical debit card,' so the '(ugly)' part complicates this. From a quick search, it seems like 'an' is correct here, because the '(ugly)' part isn't an independent clause... or something like that.
Nah, you're wrong! [You're not totally wrong, tho you wrote in really broad absolutes.] Even your example would be a much better app with offline support. The app shouldn't stop working just because of a hiccup in the user's internet connectivity.

If I, the user, switch from the when-is-the-next-bus-coming app to another app and then switch back (within, say, a few minutes), it'd be really great if the app could default to showing me info based on the data it just downloaded instead of automatically resetting the UI and waiting to update it until it downloads the data again.
Considering how bad these violations were, and how carefully FF and Chrome are documenting everything, I'd say about never.
In addition to the question of whether a bank branch would have that much cash available -- there's about $1.2T in circulation and about 100k bank branches, so I'd put this in the category of "unlikely but not impossible" -- banks have a responsibility to treat unusual requests with caution. I've never taken more than $1000 of cash at a time; if I suddenly ask for $150k without having a very good explanation, I'd hope that the bank's response would be to phone the police and say "we think someone may be coercing Colin".

Kidnapping and extortion are real things, and many people do make the mistake of not calling the police.
You can already add PWA's to your home screen: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/engage-and-re...

It's not that far of a leap to think they'll be added to the app store.
>Linux can be upgraded without a full reboot using the now-somewhat-ancient two-kernel-monte, or kexec?

Sure, and some time is saved, as the firmware/bootloader doesn't need to run. But otherwise, like with a reboot, everything is shut down and restarted.

Minix3 can update system servers and drivers in place, without rebooting and without user processes even feeling a hiccup. It can even go back to the older, working version if there's any issue with the new one.

>I love when people make crazy claims like "NO ONE ELSE CAN DO THIS... I MEAN WE NEVER ACTUALLY VERIFIED THIS OR LOOKED BUT WE'RE PRETTY SURE NO ONE ELSE CAN DO THIS!"

And I'm still waiting to see such an example. Linux's kexec is not.
Yeah because Politifact is a totally unbiased trustworthy source....
Nice, but it would be good to know who wrote what. Not for standard wire-service stuff about floods etc., but anything with an element of opinion.
Bitcoin Cash is a fork of BTC with large blocks, which increases capacity and therefore reduces fees. They're about US$0.01 right now.
I disabled my nextlesson.com for now.

My food side project was a custom site I wrote in Go.
Atleast for me 10% right off the top of my paycheck immediately gets moved to my Ally account.

It really angered me when I realized how terrible all the big banks are when it comes to the saving account. After moving my money in my savings there, the first couple interest payments ended up being more money than I'd gotten from the entire life of my savings account at Bank of America.
When Katrina hit, I remember finding the blog of a guy who had a company doing custom websites in New Orleans on the front page of hacker news. He stayed there through the storm and after, and I remember sitting in the undergraduate library at Wayne State University fighting back tears reading it. This had a similar affect on me. Very powerful story.

It wasn't clear to me, but I'd love to learn more about the tech powering this app. Is it open source? Is it somehow decentralized?
I find it amusing how much these churches have adopted the very practices that Martin Luther rebelled against. Yet they have no problem casting aspersions upon the Roman church.
While that makes sense in a generic, economic theory, this isn't how Amazon has operated. Ever. So I don't see why you're picking this hill to die on.

My money is on Amazon doing what they have always done: compete with wide selections and the cheapest pricing possible while using Whole Foods to bring their Fresh delivery service to far more markets at a higher efficiency.
But they are (a) no longer reddit's problem, largely and (b) banished to Voat with the paedophiles and the more obvious Nazis, where they will languish in obscurity, because no-one really goes there. They can no longer propagandise to a wide audience on Reddit; they're stuck with a small, already awful audience on Voat.
I like my idea: A short story I wrote about Jesus being the first zombie/walking dead: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TOsLLQgExgnBArMBJNvCTHpH...

:)
Glances – A cross-platform monitoring tool
This is delusional. How many colleges are out there like Wheaton (?) or Hillsdale. Is the ration less than 1000:1?

And anyway it doesn't address the point. Restrictions on speech at Hillsdale don't come from rules against "hate speech". The real problem with "hate speech" is it doesn't actually mean anything. You can keep redefining it until only speech you like gets spoken.
LE wildcards are coming early 2018 I believe so you'll still have a month or two gap.
> "when the software’s ready"

Ummmmmm...

So, what I really got out of the article, is GM and Cruise are now where Tesla has been for a little while, in that 1. They can install sensors on the assembly line that they think will enable level 5 autonomy and 2. They have a way to remotely update autonomy software on the cars.
Your link says the size is 6,300sqms. That is not a plot.

According to [1], a plot is about 648sqm so the above is roughly about 10 plots.

[1] - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/understanding-land-sizes-meas...
just a thought, when thinking about the pros and cons of this, try not to just think about it from a US lifestyle point of view.

a lot of countries are more densely packed or have governments that can just arbitrarily enact new laws.
Venmo, like many of these services, earns income in transaction fees and on interest on the float. It makes all the sense in the world from the business side to encourage users to treat Venmo like a proper bank account.

From the user side, it's interesting because it would allow one to spend money directly from the Venmo account without having a bank account at all. Not sure who operates that way, but if it's even 1% of their users that might be 100K people or so.
It's about level 1-5 autonomy.
I remember the same blog. He talked about fuel running out, posted pictures from the high rise etc?
But "distrust" doesn't convey the full meaning. They're not talking about merely not trusting Symantec certificates; they're talking about removing existing trust in the certificates.
A good read on the topic of electricity production and distribution in the age of renewable, distributed sources: https://www.amazon.com/Grid-Fraying-Between-Americans-Energy...
I was concerned before I got my first electric car that the electricity bills would be massive.

That should have been an easy calculation to at least get a ballpark figure of what to expect.

But I use the car every day, charge it at home 70% of the time and I have hardly noticed an increase in my bills.

Any decent charger should be able to tell you, once you tell it how much you pay for electricity, how much you spend each month to charge. For us, it's about $20/month compared to $60 or $70 for ICE. And that car never needs to spend time at a gas station, which once we owned an electric, is more of a hassle than I thought.
In short, yes. In my experience MPPT and PWM generally are used in similar situations, the difference mainly being in how they charge and MPPT "making the most" of the available power (which is why they tend to be more expensive) and charge the same types of batteries.

Both charge batteries using pulses rather than a constant voltage which extends the lifetime of the batteries compared to a cheap automotive charger that would over time reduce the capacity of the battery), all of which is geared towards lead acid.

Most PWM or MPPT charge controllers I've seen only support lead acid (which come in a variety of configurations, some vented some not) and do not do li-ion, at least not out of the box. Theoretically they have the hardware to do it (my CC can do 12v, 24v, and 48v systems) but maybe not the software.

Lead acid batteries have been probably the most commonly used in renewable energy projects for a while due to their cost-density but li-ion seems like a superior choice if you can front the initial cost. I've been looking at them but also feeling like in 5-10 years there might be more alternatives so replacing lead acid batteries every 5-10 years seems better for me at this point.
The best one is their stupid Chromodo "Secure" Browser, that used --disable-web-security:

https://threatpost.com/chromodo-browser-disables-same-origin...
I was right with you until:

> an additional draw of 1kW per driver

> 100M additional electric cars ... 1,000GW

Looks like you're off by an order of magnitude; that should be:

1kw (continuous) * 100M drivers = 100GW (continuous)

for the typical commuting patterns. That's a lot of power of course, I agree it would increase cumulative consumer demand for electricity by about 25%.

But the key is that this is nearly perfectly dispatchable demand. It won't cause anything like the same disruption to the grid as non-dispatchable, or even weakly dispatchable demand like air conditioning (which can flex how much is consumed briefly, but will annoy users if it varies across too long a time span).
These services exist only because the US banking system is still mostly stuck in the seventies.

During a contract in New Zealand we'd send .25 to pay for a cookie or several thousand for an apartment deposit without blinking an eye, took a few clicks, free.

How? The banks talk to each other ((boggle)).
I share your distaste for Venmo, but I've often found it inconvenient to get everyone on Google Wallet or similar. You can actually set your privacy to never allow public posts when sending or receiving money.
there are countless facets to tribalism, and racism doesn't have to be one of them. But in any case my point is more general in nature and not about tribalism.
I refuse to use Venmo due to the creepy social aspect. I don't need to know that a friend of a friend just paid for their rent, and I certainly don't want my transactions being broadcast for all the world to see.
I was thinking the same thing. Some way to make radio easier to use etc.
Automation, I don't think anyone is suggesting you should do this by hand.
If given a choice between changing from what you are used to which has drawbacks, to something new that has drawbacks, even if those drawbacks are markedly milder, almost everyone will choose to stick with where they already are. Consciously choosing a position which has drawbacks that you know about makes you feel personally responsible for those when they occur. That is infinitely worse than suffering the drawbacks of the "default" you stay with which you can give yourself a moral pass on because it wasn't a situation you chose to begin with.

There's also the issue of what a self-driving car could do... and what they WILL do. Much technology COULD be amazing... if companies did not function in the ways that they actually do. Because of that, technology often fails to meet any of the promises made. Development is supposed to be cheap and fast, and safety and security get left at the door. No company is held liable for such things, and it would be expensive and bothersome to fix, so they're not about to bother.
He's using them for a Keynote presentation. I think it's probably okay.
This type of error creeps in a lot when redrafting sentences. For example, maybe the submitter originally wrote "an actual debit card", then decided that saying "physical" instead would make the distinction clearer. It's very easy to just change the word and forget to check the words around it.

Edit: Or, as wrigby pointed out, they removed the word "(ugly)" from the techcrunch headline.
Mass transit enables people to live in low-density areas who otherwise could not.

A massive proportion of the DC area population lives in the burbs, drives to a cheap/nearby parking garage at a transit center, and then takes mass transit into the city to work.

This lifestyle would be impossible without mass transit.

What makes you think that density/economic output are the main factors in how much public transit actually gets built?

EDIT: I actually love public transit, but I just don't see any evidence that it does anything but encourage sprawl just like cars do. Also, public mass transit's environmental advantage over cars will vanish with electrification. What public transit does do extremely well is get people from A to B with high throughput. That by itself is highly valuable in any major city.
Hasn't been updated in a year though.
Atomic CSS sounds great until you actually try it on a big project and you run into all sorts of issues. Mostly that your html ends up looking like a total mess which slows down the rest of your work, and that it's not flexible enough.
In CSS if several components have similar styles it is often better to copy-paste because in future you might need to change those components independently.
> The parts between a user and a given webpage -- the isp, interconnects, bgp routing, dns, and hosting/vps-providers/clouds -- have largely chosen to be dumb pipes offering services to anyone who pays.

I say we have not seen this recently. DNS and hosting providers are deciding that some websites are too offensive for them to host. DDOS protection providers, for example Cloudflare also the same. Search engines also now downgrade content that they view as extremist. Large social networks will censor user produced content that they find offensive. All these examples could be considered as modern infrastructure between the user and content generated by another user.

With the ongoing centralization of the internet, what is considered as infrastructure is going to have be more than just ISP's and Interconnects. The internet is no longer spread out over a billion websites. Probably 95% of content that people access is probably a few dozen sites at most, and the long tail of other sites is found through a search engine like Google. In addition, the ability to monetize a site is controlled by just a few companies. This has profound implications for the social principle of free speech.

True, these companies are private companies and thus are not bound to the laws of free speech as they are not a government entity. They are fully within their rights to determine who they provide service to. However, in decrying this regulation, they are appealing not to the law, but to the social principle of free speech. If they plan to appeal to the social principle of free speech in decrying certain regulations, they should be adhering to the social principle of free speech, or the public is going to get cynical fast.
I'd be interested to know, do you have a few examples?
PayPal is not very trustworthy, I agree. I use it as a last resort, and cash out any deposits of over $50 immediately. Facebook and Square are my preferred methods. But when I have to deal with people who have Venmo, but have never heard of Square and Facebook Messenger Payments… PayPal is usually a decent middle ground. It's pretty ubiquitous.
It's almost like most people are underpaid and most products overpriced. What a revelation!
What I try to do is 'take what works and leave the rest'.

My only gripe with AA so far is that it is 80% white men where I live. I hope other places have more diversity, fewer people there trying to take advantage of vulnerable women, and fewer people there for court-ordered probation moreso than actually wanting to make lasting changes.
They may dominate lots of durable goods categories in terms of online sales. They don't dominate many when sales from all channels are taken into consideration. I would be careful using generalities like you just used.
Practically everywhere in the UK for example.
What is the definition of mass-production?
"a" vs "an" is solely a matter of pronunciation; you go off of the next word no matter what it is.
I don't think a native speaker would ever make this mistake - it sounds incredibly awkward. It's not in the same class as many well-known and common spelling mistakes, like grocer's apostrophe, loosers, and others. This case the poster probably went back to remove the missing word because of the character limit on HN descriptions.
You've confused kin selection with kin discrimination. The idea "because friends are genetically similar, an individual with the opposite genotype at a specific allele poses a bigger threat to your survival/fitness than someone with the same genotype at that allele."

Additionally:

> formal analysis has shown that
selection for group adaptations requires special circumstances,
with negligible within group selection (Fig. 4), such
as when (a) the group is composed of genetically identical
individuals (clonal groups, r=1), or (b) there is complete
repression of competition between groups (i.e., no conflict
within groups; Gardner & Grafen, 2009).
It is useful here to distinguish adaptation and design from
dynamics of how selection leads to design. The dynamics of
selection can be examined with either an individual
(inclusive fitness or kin selection) or group selection
approach. However, only the individual level approach
provides a general model of adaptation. The idea that
individuals strive to maximise their inclusive fitness holds
irrespective of the intensity of selection operating within and
between groups (Section 2; Fig. 4). In contrast, as discussed
above, group adaptations or maximization of fitness at the
group level are only expected in the extreme case where
there is no within group selection.

I really doubt your view is consistent with the conditions for selection in the group. If non-tribe-member competition caused significant competition between groups, then it far outweighs the pressure of in-group adaptation. If "friends are genetically similar" is a genetic adaptation from tribalism, then it has to be an enhancement from within the group when it lacks competition - you benefit from the adaptation relative to people within your tribe that don't have it. FYI the paper disagrees with the notion that friend similarity is likely a result of decision.

Personally I think that 1% relative similarity could easily be explained in the ambiguous language they use to explain why it was "mostly" homogenously European - why would it surprise me that the non-Europeans would tend to have less DNA in common with the friends they have while also likely having fewer friends per capita?

Though, possibly, because the most likely to be similar SNPs were related to smell (and therefore taste), and to linoleic acid, maybe it reaffirms that people who break you bread are your companions - and that there is a real difference between butter cultures and olive oil cultures :P

[0] https://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/group/west/pdf/WestElMoudenGardner_...
The study addresses this:

"Additionally, given that companies and governments are increasingly usingcomputer vision algorithms to detect people’s intimate traits, our findings expose a threat to the privacy and safety of gay men and women." (page 2)
I never mentioned antifa and I don't care to discuss whether violence is or is not effective at making social change. I'm personally not a violent person, so that's not my path.

Secondly it is a component of decision theory and yes philosophers can propose mathematical propositions that do get rigorously investigated by real mathematicians. Saying a philosopher can't do math is probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
> Especially considering it'll take 10+ years for electric cars to be widely used by a significant fraction of the US workforce.

This is key, plus I think we're overstating how fast this will happen.

In 2016 we're still at sub 1% of all new car sales being electric, at 0.9%. i.e. for every 100 cars we're adding to our roads, not even one full electric car is added. Not to mention about half of the electric cars are hybrids.

Average age of cars is about 12 years. So if the 1:99 ratio is overturned say in a decade to favour electric cars (which seems ambitious itself[0]), it'll take at least another decade to phase out existing cars and see the fleet get replaced by new, mostly electric.

So 10+ I think is conservative, it's probably 20+.

Another thing to mention is that we can generate a lot more electricity with our existing capacity than we do. Why don't we? Because at night the demand simply isn't there. But with a software-based transport & fueling system that EV offer, a lot of this extra demand can be shifted during times of low-demand, without needing to install extra capacity, but rather just not taking as much capacity offline nightly.

Finally, I cautiously expect a shift away from personal transport and public transport, but towards semi-public/personal. i.e., I'd be quite feasible if you could hail a self-driving pod in 20 years, get in, have your destination set via whatever has replaced our smartphone (e.g. software assistent), and get out, paying automatically, a la uber today. The pod drives according to your personal wishes, but it's part of a shared public transport system. I expect this to make driving safer and more fuel efficient in driving behaviour, more efficient in terms of capacity (no more 4-seater cars full of 1 person, no more driving around with vacation-level storage that's mostly empty on 9/10 trips), more efficient in terms of size (lighter vehicles, less crumple zone required). This shift too may significantly increase the km per kwh spent in the next few decades.

[0] As for whether electric becoming the majority of car sales within 10 or 20 years is feasible... a little context: it must be noted that the US sold 96k electric vehicles in 2013. In 2016 it's 157k. Growth rates are a little under 18% yoy. If you'd grow at 32% a year, which is twice the annual growth rate compared to the past few years, you'd sell 2.5 million electric vehicles in 2026, annually. But the US sells more than 17 million non-electrics annually today, so you're still not making a huge dent. That's a shitty calculation of course, but it's some context. Typical forecasts predict something like 30% of new car sales to be electric in 2030. Again, that's new sales. About 8% of cars are retired each year, if you replace them by 30% electric cars, it takes about a decade after 2030 to even get to 30% of the actual car fleet to be electric.

So all in all, I don't really think the grid is the biggest challenge here, although there are obviously very large investments to be made.
My point is that Sexuality is not classifiable like Eye Color is classifiable, and we should not treat it as such.
I recently had two < $.50 fee BTC transactions quickly verified. Segwit, among other things, is a block increase and enables the lightning network which will allow fast, cheap transfers.