skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love that they do though... It's so honest, and it gives me the feeling that I can trust that that might be the biggest of their problems, and not something else they don't want to talk about it.
Or it costs a lot more to tell the truth than it does to tell lies.
My favorite quote on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10728995
Here we have a glaring example of the issue. You use feelings instead of data to make your point, the problem is your anecdotal assertions are not backed up by reality. 90% of those killed by police were armed.

So far this year 15 African Americans have been killed while unarmed to 21 White Americans and the numbers are similar for the previous years where data is available

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...

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It is about Ratios WillyOnWheels except police aren't killing a bunch of people for no apparent reason, so ratios will never be one to one based on racial data alone.

More than 90% of police homicide victims were armed, the vast majority of them were during the commission of a crime.

Do we want to go over violent crime stats and how that relates to the likelihood you will be killed by police.

It is your half-assed attempt to apply normative statistics to a non-normative issue that shines a light upon your ignorance and all who parrot the same statement without ever delving into the data

Of course the numbers are irrefutable, so down vote away
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I'd be more curious about TCO including a Verifone terminal and the fees associated with that. Still hard to imagine it climbing up to $999, although there are probably some annual fees that Square instead built into transaction fees and the hardware price.
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Not having cash actually is a feature for some establishments. There's a bar in Berkeley that doesn't allow you to pay with cash, so they had no need for registers. We assumed the purpose was to prevent any incentive to rob the place (even by employees).
I've already started on an app. I've been hoping for an API like this for a couple years now.
or... the influence of social media sites has been underestimated.

Given how much time people spend on facebook, and how often they see ads/stories, and given the attraction to an echo chamber of ideas that most people have, this just doesn't seem all that far-fetched.

We don't seem to question the memeification of things, or 'viral videos' of a dancing dog that gets 50M views in a week - why does this scenario seem all that much more unbelievable?
And even collapsing, fading, and floating can be done with CSS alone. No JavaScript needed.
Mostly by myself, but yes, definitely.
You think Square is the only part of the credit-card purchasing process that's a privacy nightmare?

Credit cards track your purchases. Square maybe makes it a bit more obvious that your purchase history is going up to the internet, but i'm not sure why you think other credit card processors aren't tracking you.
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All payment processors do this- they just don’t make it so obvious
I've heard many anecdotes to the contrary. At this point I don't know what's true about it or not so I just choose not to trust Amazon until I can be convinced otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bVubfUt7ec
For starters, don't use Chrome.

Chrome sends a whole lot of data to Google (and possibly to their data-sharing partners) such as, at the least, what sites you visit and how long you are on each. When combined with Analytics, cookies, profiling and whatever G services you use, and the fact that Chrome is a program (not a site) connecting that all, you have pretty much lost any legitimate hope to privacy before you begin.
Use HTTPS everywhere is a no-brainer, as at least the middle steps won't see the data. IMO, using a commercial VPN is just not that difficult and the speed is close to native, so its a lot easier than TOR.
Neither does the US in sports like baseball. Nobody said salary caps are the problem, so it wouldn't be the cause of the sky falling. It's about the salary amount, not whether it's capped.

Salary caps are about how your society values parity in whichever sport it is applied to. Regardless of the salary cap argument, do expect this to affect soccer as well, though further into the future. Right now many of those salaries, bumps for league promotion, etc are based on similar revenue sharing based on TV deals. And as US soccer eyeballs have grown, US TV deals have just added dollars to the already existing and new TV deals in soccer. They are on the upswing at the moment (kinda), but as fans get fed up with these draconian viewership requirements they are going to have to fight for the same in-between viewers (i.e. ones that would watch, but don't have to at all costs) that US sports are vying for across new mediums.

I should clarify that it won't affect the top teams in these situations. Man U and Barca and what not will still be fine due to ancillary sales and their brand. Rather it will affect the vast majority of other teams. Some owners are willing to take a hit, but only so much and for so long (except the super rich ones for which their team is their play thing).
US? Of course. EU? Subject to data protection, but still quite widespread.
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Isn't that what TOR is all about?
NationBuilder[1] immediately comes to mind. Not as fully featured as you are suggesting, but targeting the same demographic.

[1] http://nationbuilder.com/
Don't get me wrong - I'm 100% in favor of extensibility through plugins and bots.

I don't think that means that the default client can't be lean and efficient.
My suggestions:

1. Don't sell to techies. i.e. ignore any ideas about software testing, cloud base load testing, etc.

2. Pick a solid business domain you know really well. There is no substitute for domain expertise. Sometimes things that look really simple are actually mindblowingly complex. And vice versa. But it sounds like you don't have that so...

3. Do something in HR Tech. Every single company on earth competes for talent, and the HR software industry is already worth many 10s of billions, and is not remotely built out. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of startups in this space already. Also, in HR software you're dealing with people, so there will never be any "one right approach" - you can always sell your crazy HR software product to at least a few wide eyed early adopters somewhere.
Yes. It's not a panacea, but why not if you can DIY in less than five minutes for $5/month? https://github.com/jenh/sevenminutevpn
Absolutely. Every middleman in the chain is repackaging and selling your data.
Hard to believe it's been 15 years of watching this play out.
They seem to be much more lenient with "positive" off-topic news. Meaning news that doesn't cause arguments or controversy.

US Politics by its very nature always causes a flame war, and definitely could overwhelm the front page if allowed to.

I for one am happy with the status quo, I come to HK to read HK relevant articles and discussions. If I want to read US Politics then Reddit, Twitter, and many other social media platforms/forums would suffice.
What happens when ISPs decide you need a "business" subscription plan to use a VPN?
This happens regardless of whether you use a Square till or not: https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/datalogix/inde...
Plus its waaay too walkable! 60% of each lot should be disposed of with parking, plus a few percent on grass that the city will fine you for not watering.

Shibam is a total urban planning fail!
The problem now through is that these guys are "effective" monopolies, but they aren't monopolies according to the court's definition because they can always claim that the consumer doesn't have to use their service, they have choice to use some other dinky competitor.

The problem is that in the internet age, it is not in controlling supply but in effectively unlimited demand created by combination of zero marginal cost to add customers and network effects of the internet.
32 is already the new 16.
This is how the fences in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age work. The drones fly in a honeycomb pattern and are recharged in a mesh network with a few base stations flying around. Whenever a drone has a low battery it steals some power from its nearest neighbor, so the power gets diffused through the network without any of the drones needing to move out of position. If I recall correctly they just bunch up and push you away if you try to walk through them, but otherwise don't obstruct the view. Pretty fun stuff. :)
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I think the easiest way is to get a router capable of running DDWRT or similar that has an OpenVPN server built in to it, flash your router, generate some keys, and hook in with all the OpenVPN clients on Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone, and MacOS. It's really not that bad. I use it all the time when I'm out of my house. I can browse knowing that no one between me and my home can know anything about what I'm doing. Of course, my ISP at home can see everything all the time.

I can even access my home automation system. Shoot, I have one installed at my mom's house and can monitor her furnace when she's on travel in the winter. Everyone would enjoy a personal VPN.

https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/OpenVPN
>My simple advice is to stop looking for ideas and to start looking for problems.

I concur, and add that HN could really help OP by complaining about random stuff here. Just complain about the first thing that comes to mind that's been bugging you, OP will really appreciate it!
> For example, functions that return a different type depending on the values passed in are a useful pattern, but not allowed in staticly typed languages, except those with dependent types (Idris) or runtime downcasting (Go). There's always a way to acheive the same thing, but usually at the cost of safety or much more verbosity.

Look at this verbose OCaml:

type my_return_type = AFloat of float | AnInt of int | AString of string;;

let my_fun n =
if n < 0 then AString "negative"
else if n == 0 then AFloat 0.0
else AnInt n

# my_fun (-4);;
- : my_return_type = AString "negative"
# my_fun 0;;
- : my_return_type = AFloat 0.
# my_fun 42;;
- : my_return_type = AnInt 42

(But yes, to use these values you have to do pattern matching, and if you're in a FUD mood, that is "runtime downcasting" and incurs a "cost of safety".)
It's a cluster of small, drab structures surrounded by dirt. It's the furthest thing from mindblowing, in its current state.
Your second line, if true, makes your first line wrong.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on why you don't recommend that. Think I could learn.
This is a big pos card reader. How is this interesting and on the front page?

Genuine question
A surge of sites and apps are exhausting your CPU to mine cryptocurrency
Or just DIY if you're just a regular Joe or Jane, it's quick, cheap, and easier than most assume.
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I think this company is first of all immediately cutting-out all GOOD developers that might consider working for them. Immediately. With current hunt for dev talent this is simply ridiculous.
It's a convenient theme: "It's the (evil) Russians."

I can't stand how the Democrats are trying to excuse their loss with Russia's influence. Yes, I've seen RT, and other pieces of news, but will they make me vote for a clown vs for a crook? Well, this alone is stereotyping, and patronizing, which is why people like me elected Trump, and why conservatives are winning elections across the globe! People are tired of getting their arms twisted, and being patronized by activists who (to those who know them intimately) resemble the Soviet Commies!

Again, just like America influenced the elections and the events in many countries around the globe, Russia tried and would keep trying. What's the news here?!
You should create a peer 2 peer competitive arcade game with its own blockchain, with an instruction set based on RISC-V and a Cuckoo Cycle hash on completed work to adapt mining difficulty. A very short block time and privacy features lifted from Monero. Storage backed by IPFS.

Deposits put in a few blocks ahead to stop cheating. Store rage quits before time is up, to penalise bad behaviour. Count me in.

New physics engine libraries or games altogether could be registered and stored for a fee, on the blockchain. It would be like an app store. Each time such a games was played, the original uploader could earn royalties collected from the deposits.

Even copyright could be encoded, it could be set to expire automatically in 75 years, for instance.
Thank you for your suggestion! Surely the eases could be improved, maybe the best is to allow to the developers to define their own ease and timing according the use.
Contact me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielpaunescu/

I'm doing something that will blow your mind.
I already have customers, time to build a team and scale
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What're my options? I've heard about using cheap freelancers/dev shops through places like upwork, looked at local freelancers, looked at dusthq.com. Web based MVP would involve profile creation, video/audio/text chat interface, stripe connection, intercom like chat integration for feedback, and notification services (FB messenger, browser Push, and/or twilio). Would also need to be semi-designed by the team building it
Agreed. I was absolutely horrified the first time I got one of their receipt emails after buying a sandwich.
Luckily both communities can peacefully coexist and use the term without confusion as long as they remain largely disjoint. :)
> It wouldn't surprise me if some pro teams massaged their numbers to appear larger than the actual number of fans who show up.

Without any substantiating evidence the opposite wouldn't surprise me either.

Please provide backing evidence that demonstrates the counts are maliciously inflated, at an increased rate, which masks lower turnout.
Comments, likes, follows, and upvotes are free. We only know about a few hundred thousand dollars in ad buys. What we don't know is how much was spent hiring people to create fake identities to promote content.
An app is just a way for your business to be realized. You can build as many apps as you want if you aren't actually solving anything (unless you are in consumer space then things change drastically) you are working on the wrong things.
Ok, but the claim made above didn't have anything to do with "liberal" and "conservative", it was that the Democratic party has never pursued disenfranchisement policies, which is ahistorical to the point of silliness.

Certainly, the Republican party is currently pursuing disenfranchisement to a shameful degree (and in my opinion voters should send them into the wilderness next year to show that this, and other, behavior is not acceptable), but it's not happening because they're fundamentally less moral than the Democrats. It's happening because they won power soon after a census and while facing a future of strong demographic shifts toward the other side. They have both motive and opportunity to skew the system in their favor.

The Democrats would do the same thing in the same situation. We should be discussing system-level fixes rather than blaming a single party for taking advantage of the current system. The Supreme Court has a chance to start moving this in a better direction this session, and I hope they'll take it.
I was in your position 21 months ago - loved reading startup books, money in the bank, fantastic co-founder, but no idea! Advice is cheap but I figured I'd share my experience:

Our attitude was to work on something, anything, no matter how stupid. Which requires a pretty deep font of enthusiasm - it's not easy to get people excited about a self-consciously ridiculous idea. Take the startup seriously, but be willing to drop it if a better idea comes along. Here's what we worked on in 2016:

- Retro-Zine: subscription service for Playboy magazines from the '60s and '70s

- Fruit Mistakes (https://twitter.com/fruitmistakes): pre-sliced fruit subscription for startups

- Rat Dog Capital: trying to buy friends' lifestyle SaaS businesses

- Panel Ninja v1: admin panels as a service (think a SaaSified version of https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin)

- Panel Ninja v2: productivity analytics for enterprise customer support teams

Thanks to YC, Panel Ninja v2 eventually turned into Loop Support, our current startup. We're solving a real problem now (customer support as a service for high-RPU B2C companies [1]) - and like you guys, we had very little to show after a year in the woods.

All the same, I'm really glad that my co-founder and I spent a year eating quail and manna - we got really good at working with each other in a lower-stakes, lower-stress environment. Like training wheels and flight simulators. So don't get discouraged :)

[1] If you work at one of these companies, you're likely stressing out over holiday customer support. 1) Get back to work! And 2) I would love to help! My contact info is in my HN profile.
There's plenty to be done in the bank risk management space. I was part of a group a few years ago that tried to approach this space; however, family issues forced me to leave software and go back to banking.

There's a piece of software, produced by a company called QRM, used within the treasury group of a lot of large banks. This piece of software is both slow (one run at a decent-sized bank can take several hours even spread over hundreds of CPUs) and incredibly user unfriendly (you cannot do any analysis within the software itself; everything must be dumped to Excel first).

Everyone I have talked with in the industry says this software must be replaced; however, it will take quite a long runway to get things up and going.

While I doubt that this piece of software could be implemented as SaaS for bigger banks, I definitely think if you pitched a solution to smaller banks and built up a group able to conduct the type of analysis you would do with this software, you would have a winner. Also, if your CMU guy is looking to come back to Pittsburgh, I might be able to get one or two other people together for an in-person conversation.

If you are interested in learning more, please provide an email address, and I will reach out to you.
Look for a macro trend, find a niche within that trend, then ride it. For me, the current big trend is machine learning and machine vision. What new markets does this trend create? What new needs does it expose? I think testing is an under-served niche here, particularly since I think the next big trend/problem will be regulation, compliance and safety of these products. Position yourselves so that if there is a move towards greater regulation, certification etc... etc... you are in a good position to exploit it.
Washington uses mail-in ballots. Obviously, filling in, and mailing a ballot for a dead, comatose, or absentee relative is possible.

When we're talking about voter disenfranchisement, though, we're not talking about mail-in ballots. We're talking about people showing up at polling stations, and being unable to vote.
Well for that you would probably just spin up containers running your game itself, not unity. This is more for building the game on like a CI I would think.
Is there an English equiv?
Using State Tables for Testing
do you have a source?
Nope but few (if any) platforms will accommodate such a demand. Xamarin will produce different bytecode from mono, for example.
Make it difficult to scrape?

At the end of the day... we know these things get leaked anyway...
> How exactly can you have a citizen that is unable to get a government-issued ID? That is a failure of the government.

This isn't a prima facie truth. I agree that IDs should not be a challenge to procure. But a reasonable electorate may, as Americans have, choose to prioritize other things.
Sounds like a design flaw... adding a centralized database to augment a decentralized version control system.

Comments, issues, pull requests, wiki, etc... should all be first class Git objects. I should be able to create pull requests while offline and push them up when I'm back online.
I have an idea related to recruiting, but cannot figure out how to bootstrap the project with products (aka developers). I have a few ideas related to HR, so I like this suggestion. Solve problems.
Now we just need someone to write a frontend framework that compiles down to CSS.
Chip and pin pads are about $100 - $150, basic mag swipes about $20.

If you have a merchant account of your own there aren't usually extra fees; POS software is paid by b2b subscription site license.
What pisses you off? What makes you angry?

Go build a startup to change that.
How about if by "significant" I mean "has enough impact on elections to merit countermeasures that have been statistically shown to disproportionately reduce election participation [oh noes!] by brown people and people with lower incomes (regardless of race)?"

How about if by "significant" I mean "has enough impact on elections to merit countermeasures that cost at least tens of thousands of dollars per fraudulent vote, but probably hundreds of thousands of dollars per fraudulent vote?" Is there truly no more cost-effective way to spend that money on ensuring election integrity? Perhaps with little things like voter-verifiable paper trails that actually allow auditing of results?

Why, it's almost as if the oh-so-unfortunate side effect of minority and poor disenfranchisement is the purpose and "preventing vote fraud" is just the excuse. I'm sure Paul "our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down" Weyrich would have been heartbroken by that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBAsFwPglw

I also looked through the report cited and found it remarkably light on actual facts. They make a big point of Maureen Erickson's cancellation for being a non-citizen in 2012 and her providing a Guatemalan address. They also note that she'd voted in 14 elections. Honestly, I'm surprised that they also included that the most recent of those was in 2008, 4 years before her registration was cancelled. So what happened in those intervening 4 years? Did this obviously Hispanic woman get thrown out of the country? Or perhaps she moved, married, emigrated, etc. and stopped voting in the US.

I'd classify that whole report as long on the fearmongering and short on the evidence.

Edit: I decided that was a unique enough name to look up, and lo and behold: "In fact, Todd Erickson said, his wife is an American citizen and while she does work as a missionary in Guatemala, her cancellation from Prince William County’s voter rolls in 2012 was a mistake resulting from the confusing voter registration system." and from the well-known lefty rag the Washington Times no less.

Edit: missing words
Facebook estimates 126M people were served Russia-linked content
I can't imagine using bitcoin as a store-of-value, it's so massively volatile.

Also, I don't fancy trusting my money to a small group of Chinese miners, who seem in practice to control the network.
That ethnews article is bizarre
They think the battles are the same. The book of Joshua doesn't say they fought Canaanites, just that they fought "their enemies". The theory is that the Egyptians were the enemies.
Yes, you can typically push PostgreSQL very far while still using a fairly simple setup (e.g. no sharding). Unfortunately too many times people have this mindset that a slow application is the result of a slow/bad database (as in "it's an RDBMS and RDBMS' don't scale"), and not the result of it being misused (e.g. badly written queries, lack of proper indexes, that sort of thing). At GitLab it took quite a while to get everybody to see this.