skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a dude who makes $800k/yr and still lives paycheck to paycheck. Lack of savings is not necessarily caused by lower income. People tend to shovel money out the door as quickly as it comes in.
I would actually be curious what is the ratio of deaths between batons and tasers.

It might not seem obvious, but I suspect that people tend to be a lot more careful with direct application of force that they can feel (if you have ever punched or hit someone else hard, you know what I mean). Tasers make it much more... impersonal? I dunno what the right word is, but it seems like it's much easier to kill with a Taser while remaining cool, than to do the same with a baton.
Claims can be made and the apparent filing was never done for it to be scheduled.

There's no way a breach like that is discovered and the upper management/execs aren't notified.

They are going to try and push hard to get that narrative in people's heads. We'll know the truth when it gets investigated.
This looks great and sorry you didn't get more traction on your idea here.

First I'd like to say you have a really good idea that's culturally important. Even though growing up I really hated group work, and still do to some extent, a lot has been written about the focus on self-development today is leading people to alienated lives. Essentially the huge focus on the self and self-growth requires so much focus and energy we can't sustain relationships. This focus on the self, isn't really narcissistic, it's necessary if anything considering the decline in social resources and the automation of jobs (don't think it will continue forever but still very bad). Anyway this is a great way of harnessing the desire for increased growth and learning, while still helping with relationships.

Second, good job with the focus on small groups as wel. The problem with Facebook a lot of people point out, like Micki Mcgee from Fordham, is that the groups are just too big. Instead of friends we get audiences. This becomes performance instead of personality. Smaller groups, kind of like AA if anything, are probably the way forward. The NYTimes actually wrote an article about 3 weeks ago on the rise of private groups on Facebook and how the company is now endorsing them.

Anyway again wish you had gotten more posts here. Most books on marketing are terrible, but highly recommend you look into "Traction". Very simple, low cost way (I've recommend it to nonprofit groups as well) to do marketing and a framework (this is so important) for how to think about it.
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Lateral inhibition /s
Yeah, just imagine what would happen if a ride sharing company were the victim of massive cancellation abuse.
For the real thing, Brazil have Local Currencies that are used to foster money lending by banks to small and poor communities. The idea is that the money lent in better terms than elsewhere, will not be used outside of the community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Palmas#Local_Currency

more sources in portuguese (in case anyone want pictures)

https://solidu.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/41-moedas-sociais-ci...

http://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/2014/04/numero-de-moeda...
Fair point. I would argue that Equifax has breached one of the terms of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and possibly other privacy regulations.
I would take Kansas City then Charlotte
This is a good Chinese restaurant, but you hint at a way to improve the menu. The menu should be a grid, properly displaying the matrix.
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I’ve always wondered why they don’t do this in America.

I would surmise it’s one of the reasons trycaviar.com took off the way it did. It swept people from sites like grubhub that had lower quality restaurants with no pics.

In Japan it doesn’t even end with pictures—most restaurants have realistic physical models of their dishes!
I recall one case where a "perpetrator" was charged with attacking the officers, and damaging police equipment.

It was later found out that "attacking" meant that one of the cops hurt their fists while punching him (it nicked the tooth and got scratched, or something like that). And "damaging equipment" was when the guy bled on the cop's shirt and stained it.

"Resisting arrest" is that magic charge that shows up every time the police does something wrong, and tries to cover their ass. If it comes with a license to kill... yeah. No. Just no.
I think you mean, think about a problem abstractly. However, a good abstraction is context specific, which is why it's often hard to deliver one in a interview, because the interviewer is both biased and a working against you.
on the other hand, it seems too gimmicky and too focused on their favorite scrollable interactions
Because we're becoming lazier with each passing day?

I do think we need paper -- a "hard copy" -- at some level, whether for the ballot itself or just a verifiable audit trail. I think 100% electronic voting would be fine so long as there's an audit trail that matches the (electronically) talkied results perfectly. I don't think dealing with millions of paper ballots would be any more advantageous than that -- you'd have to distribute and collect them (although that would happen at the centralized polling places), a few people would have to hand tally them (to ensure everyone's numbers match up), and then securely store them (via very strict "physical security" procedures/protocols) until, at some later point, they can be properly destroyed.

Logistically, electronic voting with a paper audit trail would be much easier, would require fewer people (i.e., election workers -- who are already in short supply), would give us results much quicker, and would be easier to verify/authenticate later (in the event of disputes).
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it"- Henry David Thoreau from Walden
I had a (programming) blog that was mentioned as almost the direct reason I got my first job. I believe at the time I was going through a lot of the Euler problems, and my boss hired me because he could see my thought process etc.

The blog is not up anymore.

It had no readers or visitors, but I mentioned it on my resume.
Usually governor has a friend who just happens to own a company which makes and sells voting machines. All of the sudden the state "needs" voting machines.
Large restaurants can pull off larger menus, but I agree if it is a small restaurant with a big menu some hacks are going on.

That being said in general Chinese restaurants tend to be able to pull off a larger variety of items with a smaller kitchen.
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It's spread across networks in which responsible individuals aren't necessarily lying when they say they didn't cause it.
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I experimented and it looks like they do show full article, they just show the button at the end.

Perhaps the article in the post was a developing story. Still interesting, but not as much "fighting" going on as it seemed on first sight.
Yeah sure there are some rube goldberg schemes you can concoct like printing a hard copy or whatever, where electronic voting might be secure.

But... why? What is the point of adding all this complexity? What problem is electronic voting solving?
Absolutely! I assumed they had open sourced it and was searching for the Github link :(
> Sun went out of its way to make sure that the CDDL and GPL are incompatible.

What evidence is there of this?
One of the rules that goes with more expensive seeming menus is that you should pretend partial dollars don't exist. THIRTEEN is tolerable. NINE FIFTY is off-putting.
> There's usually no enforcement of penalties in small claims court.

perpetuating this mindset that the average consumer is too weak to do anything to these corporations and individuals who hurt them through the court system is nonsense and needs to be avoided. From the article posted below (where my other comment is):

"Allen then reported to a local branch of the bank with sheriff’s deputies, who he instructed to remove cash from the tellers’ drawers, furniture, computers and other property. Approximately one hour later, the Naples News reports, the bank manager produced a check for $5,772.88 to satisfy Allen’s fees and additional costs."

You have a lot more power than you think against corporations and people through our court systems. even small claims courts.
What’s true is my response was a little callous and dickish, I shouldn’t post here after all nighters. But that doesn’t make the OP blanket statements productive.

There is cancer, let’s try to understand it and use a scalpel before chemo.

Maybe just naming the city state and jurisdiction? That at least potentially allows specific issues or causes to be discussed.
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Yes, I can confirm that Chinese restaurants tend to be like that --- and especially when it's a local restaurant, I really like the fun of being able to think "what will I try this time?"

Another thing about them, that stands in stark contrast to the examples in the article, is that their menus also tend to be far less "designed" and more utilitarian; they're often not much more than tables of items with names/descriptions and prices. Here's an (very badly translated, but you can see the format) example: http://jasonandcodi.com/images/20070119/bigchunk.jpg

I actually prefer that style more, even before I read the article, perhaps because I have a subconscious and instinctive aversion to menus "Playing With Your Mind" --- which a highly stylised, price-deemphasising, limited-choice design seems to imply.
The only problem I see with this is so-called "charities" charging $200 for a shirt and claiming an obscured donation to charity. The person buying the shirt can feel good about it, and the company selling the shirt can donate $1 and still keep their promise that they made a donation.

Maybe I'm just cynical, but I think with the current economy and business practices going on that I have a right to be.
Seems like solid evidence that you can't simply "densify" your way out of high prices? Bloomberg says the reason is developers trying to cover the cost of land. Something doesn't add up...
I once (ab)used this approach to express x86 assembly directly in C++: https://github.com/mattbierner/Template-Assembly The library uses standard C++ syntax to build up complex templated types that represent the assembly code. These types are then passed through a simple templated "assembler" at compile time, which spits out a c string of machine code which you can invoke at runtime.

Now if only someone would write a compiletime C compiler in C++ templates...
Sorry, after posting my comment, I went back and elaborated a bit and just so happened to address the questions you asked in the meantime.
The pictures would have to be extremely large for that to be useful, or each item very distinctive, since otherwise a lot of food tends to look like "blob of stuff on a dish". I think listing the ingredients would be far more helpful to understand what you're getting.

...and the obligatory "items may not be exactly as shown" disclaimer would make pictures not reliable for portion sizes either.
(Also posted in the discussion for an article re the lawsuits being filed vs Equifax for the leak)

Credit card companies could provide other businesses such as Equifax distinct mere-reference numbers which the customer doesn't see and which can't be used for purchases - just to absolutely identify which card, for all parties. These could be added to the magnetic stripe or chip in the card, for example. (It might be gilding the Lilly, but many such reference numbers could be used for a given card, re privacy issues or otherwise. But then those numbers couldn't be usefully passed between companies for all purposes.)
There's no need for anyone but the customer and Credit Card company itself to retain the actual credit-obtaining-number (other than to allow future purchases with permission, which is the rarer case, often needs to be prevented not facilitated, and doesn't excuse Equifax having more than a reference number.)
Yet the credit card companies don't do this. Why not? 'Cause humans are idiots, all of us, that's why.
PS - run to the patent office and you might be able to make a ton of money patenting this, since patents are now given to whoever shows up at the patent office with the appropriate fees first. Precedence doesn't matter. You would be implying that you thought the idea up independently, of course, but you're smart, right? That's totally the sort of thing you could think of independently. Then when you're rich, you too can help choose what the patent laws look like, and whether rich people should pay taxes.
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That’s not really the same thing then now is it?
> I don't think you should leave with any proof of who you voted for.

I don't think you should leave without (at least seeing) proof that your votes were properly and accurately recorded.

If that means that you have to be given a "receipt" with the names of those you voted for on it, well, so be it. It isn't like your name and/or any other personally identifiable information would be on it -- just the minimal details needed to achieve the singlemost important purpose: verification.
Maybe some of the evil wasn't inherent to humanity. Consider the lead hypothesis for example.
Remember to leave room for alleys. NYC has no alleys, which is kind of a pain. Also buildings should be able to be built up to 20 stories, not 4. Your city will be popular and you want housing to be cheaper than SF to compete.
> It strikes me that at the very least credit rating agencies should be non-profit and very closely monitored by government.

Personal data should be treated with the same care as nuclear fuel. Very very strict conditions.
Isn't the potential impact from selling access to the data versus selling the data different?
A farmhouse in Kansas is hurricane proof.
I am talking about this type of experiments: http://newatlas.com/quantum-theory-reality-anu/37866/
> Logistically, electronic voting with a paper audit trail would be much easier,

Putting a piece of paper in a box is something everyone understands how to do, even elderly people who have never touched a computer -- how is electronic voting easier?

> would require fewer people (i.e., election workers -- who are already in short supply)

They are? I can't believe it would be more expensive to hire a few more election workers for one day than we're paying for these machines.

> would give us results much quicker,

France uses paper ballots and results are known within hours.

> and would be easier to verify/authenticate later (in the event of disputes).

This is not realistic. We are never going to go back and change an election result whether or not records of the votes were saved. Cf. Florida 2000.
An app I made in college most certainly (but indirectly) led to my current position.

In college I made an app that did some simple calculations to determine the availability of parking spots at my overcrowded commuter school. It was not very advanced at all; it had a label and traffic light for each parking lot and was based on the timing of classes to change the color of the light.

When I showed it to a recruiter, I got an internship that lasted 8 months at a well known software company where I gained enough experience to move on to a better and more organized company.

I didn't receive the best education, and certainly am not the brightest amongst my colleagues, but I have no doubt that developing and publishing that specific app in school led to my current position.
Are you saying it is false that 1.8mil in stock was sold or that the execs didn't know about the leak?

What is your source for this being a 10b5-1 scheduled sale I heard on CNBC a reporter accidentally misspeak (it was clear that she did) and say that it was scheduled but from CNBC website it was not: "The sales don't appear to be the type of regularly scheduled incremental sales that insiders typically use when selling their company holdings" https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/08/suspect-trading-in-equifax-o...

And Bloomberg has also looked at the filings and said that it is not: "none of the filings lists the transactions as being part of 10b5-1 scheduled trading plans." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/three-equ...

These are the 3 Form 4 filings for the stock sales from the execs:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33185/00008992431701...
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33185/00008992431701...
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33185/00008992431701...

For reference here are two filings for when stocks are sold with a 10b5-1 secluded sale plan where you see in the footnotes the sale is a 10b5-1 scheduled sale:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564408/000120919117...
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1325214/000148024814...

For reference on the footnotes of the Form 4 filings:
"A 10b5-1 plan must be established through a third party, but does not need to be filed with the SEC. The only way we get to learn that a transaction is planned is by examining footnotes on the Form 4 filings for references to 10b5-1"
https://blog.form4oracle.com/2009/09/29/10b5-1-plan-planned-...
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I was going to say that I do something similar with mine[1], but I looked at your makefile and saw that it's about 10x more sophisticated than mine, although I've never really had sufficient problems to warrant learning the makefile black magic. I think I'm now thankful that my dotfile needs are so basic!

1. https://github.com/davidr/dotfiles
Out of 250 million adults that seems lower than I would of thought.
>Texas has relatively high property taxes (higher than California)

Compared with most other states, California has lower property tax rate. Since Prop 13 passed in the 70s, the tax rate has been fixed at 1% of assessed value (with maximum yearly increments on the assessed value capped at 2%).
As the article points out, in a directed attack it just has to be an outage which affects the target server: e.g. compromise a firewall, lan DNS, or managed switch in front of the server and "block" duo.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/meet-makers-plastic-foo...

Japan definitely has a great tradition of see before you eat.
Everyone has phones now. Ideally the menu would have a QR code that pops open the menu in your browser. All the items could be hyperlinks that show those huge pictures. That would be lovely.
PBS also reported that if you sign up for this, you give up your right to go after them if something happens - there's some kind of agreement that you have to go thru some process I forget the name of, in which the company usually wins.

Also, although they offer 1 free year, the problem here (social insurance number, etc) is a lot longer than that, so you'd be paying a recurring amount, wouldn't you?
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K&R is a great book and should be read by everyone both for culture and as a model of technical writing.

After working through the problems, two books that would be great followups are Hanson's C Interfaces and Implementations and Bryant and O'Hallaron's Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective.
Communism has less to do with it than centralization of decisions and a smart positioning between free market and dirigisme.
Also the basis of Sambal sauces from Indonesia. I think thy may be shrimp based, though.
The receipt could be hashed, but I agree that these machines are a bad idea either way.
It takes marketing and sales to make a product successful unless you are very, very lucky. Many developers aren't particularly passionate about marketing, they are passionate about development.

If a business / idea / promotion / marketing type person is looking for a product, this would be the target demographic I would assume.
Specifically indicated on their site:

>2). NO WAIVER OF RIGHTS FOR THIS CYBER SECURITY INCIDENT In response to consumer inquiries, we have made it clear that the arbitration clause and class action waiver included in the Equifax and TrustedID Premier terms of use does not apply to this cybersecurity incident.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15204772, which points to Wikipedia.

Normally this site would be the better one to post, but it's down; also the other post was earlier.
I have to ask, do we know that humans and chimpanzees can't produce viable offspring?
That doesn't solve my concern. If your boss at work tells you to go vote and then demands you show your receipt when you get back it wont matter that your name isn't on it. You would be pressure to vote how they told you to.

The proof would be a paper ballot that you turn in. Your actual vote.
Look at the history of their GDP growth, and you can see it take off the moment they got political stability. You see this for a lot of countries. China floundered during the regular purges and political re-alignments. But when the government stopped infighting (at least openly) and instead started pulling in one direction (even though that included a lot of lining their own pockets too), GDP growth shot up.

It's not surprising really - if your government is predictable you can learn to work around most things. If they keep changing the way you have to relate to them, it's much harder.

The perhaps slightly more surprising thing is when you start comparing more countries and see how little internal political factors seem to matter at all. E.g. changing governments rarely produces more than a blip as long as the handover itself is not disruptive.
Thing is, China does not have one dictator. The prime minister changes regularly and his ability to cling to power is limited by opaque (but apparently efficient) check and balances at the top level of the PCC.

I tried to read more about it two years ago and was surprised to see academics complaining about the lack of a political science model of the Chinese government (apart from the one provided by the PCC propaganda). In one word: we don't know how it works.
nice. SSO for govt. why not?
not sure how that helps. if you can verify the hash, it means the baddies can verify the hash as well, which means they can still operate a pay-for-receipts-shows-you-voted-for-our-guy program.
Have you considered moving somewhere more affordable?
Actually HK has plenty of buildable land in the New Territories and elsewhere, but the real estate tycoons that run the whole show obviously aren't going to allow competition without first getting their cut.
auth is a must-have (i've never written an app that did not need basic auth) and admin is a very, very nice to have. It still feels "thick" to me in other areas.
These two sites were invaluable for me when I was in your position: http://iso-9899.info/wiki/Main_Page and http://c-faq.com/
Hmm. It's not true to say under this scheme a judge could jail you for not producing a body. This is more like a situation where the judge could jail you for not allowing people to search the spot where they suspect the body is (eg if you won't let police search your freezer). That's something they can in fact already do. That is to say, they have the right (assuming a warrant) to search where they want to search, and if there is a physical protection (eg a key) it isn't covered by 5th amendment and you have to cough it up.

The 5th amendment doesn't bestow a right to prevent the collection of evidence in general. You could argue that this particular person wanted a jury trial they could easily have got that by disclosing the password and allowing decryption.

That said, forcing disclosure of a password is particularly troubling. On its face it seems obvious that he is deliberately not doing that so as not to reveal the incriminating evidence (ie incriminate himself), which is why he is pleading the 5th amendment right not to be forced to do that.