skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume this is a step towards that. As a Canadian, I know for a fact we (as in our tech industry) have a lot of business that would go to the US by default if these letters stopped existing.

Well, maybe not now, the damage is done. But it would've, and in time US tech companies' reputation will be repaired. As a foreigner, it doesn't seem like the repair process has started yet. Hope I'm wrong.
I don’t think so because every time they do this, (often), I let them know and they refund that more expensive price, so I’m not sure it would be economical
Yeah it’s a typo. She was in 1932 but her card came after.
If they’re doing that they should stop because it’s a slam-dunk fraud class action. That’s true even without any promotion agreement and even if the customer consents to the higher priced item.
Not only will things break, but they'll also be a pain to use. People will hate doing simple things in their car, and this will make them like the car much less.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14185891
It didn’t get the same coverage as the more “expose“ aspects of the book, but in Kitchen Confidentiall Anthony Bourdin gets into just what makes a failing restaurant, which is most of them. A particularly illuminating section of the book in my opinion, and one which got into just how difficult it is to run a successful restaurant, and how unprepared most owners are.
Uber is not a YC company.
Even worse, he took $20,000 from an old friend and burned through it.

And then began borrowing money from family and in-laws.
Please do not encourage him. He lacks the proper budgeting skills. He starts thinking about expanding shuts down the place for a week and then everything falls apart.
The argument is that the expected value of salary + rsu/stock/options is effectively just salary. These reddit posts basically agree with H1B data. Salaries are the bar. A H1B has to be paid more than the prevailing wage for the position and the company has to have documented that they could not find a qualified American for that role. Prevailing wages are set as a function of the H1B + American workers so over time salaries rise.
Nope.

I would say that post-war, consumer credit drove American economic success, and that the SSN became a key part of that system. Had it not existed, something else would have served that function.
You think they're not working on this kind of stuff already? How many of us have an ez-pass on our car?
Designing a modern web-based application – Dropular.net (2011)
Freelancer Invoicing Software Comparison: Harvest Invoice, Wave Apps, and More
Yeah, you can't even open a Subway for $60,000. Opening a restaurant is generally a bad idea, but he obviously underestimated the cost of opening a restaurant.
> it’s a slam-dunk fraud class action.

Ah, if only it was that simple. Companies just don't let you sue any more. (Including, I hasten to add, almost every single one of those darling HN graduates.)

https://www.instacart.com/terms

CTRL-F, "Arbitration"

> Mandatory Arbitration: If we’re unable to work out a solution amicably, both you and Instacart agree to resolve any disputes arising out of your use of the Services or these Terms through binding arbitration or small claims court.

> CLASS ACTION WAIVER: TO THE EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, ALL CLAIMS MUST BE BROUGHT IN THE PARTIES' INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE ACTION, OR NON-PAGA REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING (COLLECTIVELY “CLASS ACTION WAIVER”). THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE MORE THAN ONE PERSON'S CLAIMS OR ENGAGE IN ANY CLASS ARBITRATION. YOU AGREE THAT, BY ENTERING INTO THESE TERMS, YOU AND INSTACART ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.
Is this really that a factor with 24/7 surveillance and legal repercussions for theft? I mean...you're making it sound like it is, and I believe you but it's just so hard to people employees are that stupid.
To me, this is truth. Not in the sense that the author is right about everything they say -- that is impossible. Rather, it's like reading the results of a years-long research project, and realizing with happy surprise that the results have not been doctored. Self-aware circumspection with a level of filter absence that, to me at least, indicates a level of mental contentedness. It seems to coincide with trustworthiness.
Show HN: Jackson Palmer on Bitcoin Scaling(LIVE)
Glad he is speaking up about this. Unfortunately the business model of the companies mentioned depends on their showing you what they think will keep you engaged. They necessarily have to curate what you see.
We're using it and it 'magically' detects errors in CI that no human would've had detected.
Don't think parent poster was trying to mislead. Sounds more like poster is complaining that SSNs got overloaded beyond their original purpose (as guids for the SSA) to being used for business authentication more generally and that because
they started being used for purposes they weren't originally intended or designed for, it ended up being a generally bad at it.

I tend to agree. Best practices are that we shouldn't use guids as authentication/security mechanisms in software systems because 1. they aren't necessarily random so it's difficult to prevent fraud as a result of guessing and 2. you can't rectify authentication issues (e.g. via rotation of authentication or adding additional entropy) without compromising the identification function see (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122#section-6).

We should never have used them as authentication methods IRL.
Hah, of course. I meant whatever, there is a lot of bad class action litigation. I figured it was worth pointing out here because it would seem like the customer agreeing to the higher priced item would immunize you, but it wouldn’t.
Honestly I see the industry being increasingly taken over by the very people who looked down on you/us.

The econ major banker/consultants are now CS majors and PMs.
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I don't get why PV, wind, geothermal &c get so much more love than the various nuclear fuel cycles.

Perceived tail risk.
No, they digest them. Here's another article with more information.

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-caterpillar-bags-biodegradable...

>To confirm it wasn't just the chewing mechanism of the caterpillars degrading the plastic, the team mashed up some of the worms and smeared them on polyethylene bags, with similar results
Reminds me of https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/01/teens-dru...
I'd run a virtual restaurant, sell only on Grubhub/Doordash/etc, at least to start with.
The fact that he managed to run out of money before he even opened shows that he had no idea of the cost involved in opening and running a restaurant. He then reinforces this by telling us that he was selling his food too cheap, so he was running at a loss.

It seems like he actually did have his processes in order in the end, he got to a point where he was running a bit of a profit, and was on track, until he decided to close for a week, which managed to quickly suck his funds dry and plunge him back into debt. This could've been easily avoided.

Obviously that wasn't his only problem, but it's one of many. The fact that the restaurant succeeds today, without him, is interesting, because it sort of proves that he was the failing factor in the restaurant. Often it's external factors that doom a restaurant, poor location for instance.
You won't go into debt if you have enough capitalization.

Of course, you almost never have enough capitalization.
Why do you say the Mesa OpenGL is a total joke?
I met Bram just last week (and had the honor to do a lightning talk before his Chia presentation!), and I want to clear up some things that people seem confused about:

1. Power consumption. Bram brought up a good point if we take Bitcoin to its ultimate extreme, that it will be people with access to nuclear energy (aka governments) that will take over mining bitcoin, since that is the cheapest route. This does not look like a decentralized future, exactly the opposite.

2. Proof of Time. There are attacks that can happen against purely storage based proofs. Bram's brilliant addition here is a proof of time to get around those problems. I can explain more if people want. NOTE: Filecoin's "Proof of Time and Space" has nothing to do with, nor is remotely related to, Bram's.

3. Decentralized Storage. Despite Bram's prolific work in decentralized storage systems, Chia has nothing to do with storing end user data (like Storj, Sia, Maidsafe, etc.). The data that is stored is junk, but that is okay (see below).

4. Storage waste. One of Bram's points is that this will start an arms race to build better harddrives. If people are successful at that, this will only make Chia better, and also make storage in general cheaper for everyone. So sure, maybe the proofs are wasting storage space, but it will make storage in general more economical.

Anything else I can answer in more detail?

Here is the presentation he (and I) did at Berkeley:

https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleyBlockchain/videos/200606982...
I'm not sure what that even means, knights have moved the same way for thousands of years and we're just discovering how internet society works in real time.

Having the hyper-free-speech internet that we created turned against us in ways that more authoritarian countries are immune to is a huge slap in the face. We need to figure out a way to handle this.
Yes, to the dead reply to my answer. Chinese build mostly with concrete unless the building is over around 30 stories tall, then they have to use steel of course. The reason they use so much concrete is that it’s cheap, and they can use lots of unskilled migrant labor. Remember, china builds as much to keep poor farmers employed as much as it does to actually create the structure. The drawback to this approach is that overbuilding is required and the structure become decrepit more quickly.

The USA uses less concrete for opposite reasons: wood is plentiful, skilled workers to build with steel are also plentiful, and anyways, you can’t import cheap Chinese or Indian workers to build in concrete like the Middle East and Singapore does.
Not that I'm totally sold on it, or grok it fully, but from my rough understanding the very highest level (for Ethereum's Casper)...

The idea is that a double-spend attempt by a cartel of validators could be included in a new block as cryptographic proof to used take away their stake entirely ("slashing" it). Where a BTC miner would merely lose the cost of an attempted double spend block, and could keep mining more bad blocks; removing their stake completely is like burning down their rig.

In order to prevent that punishment, they'd have to control >2/3 of the staked coins on the network. Which means as long as total amount staked grows in value proportional to the network, this will be incredibly expensive. By adding rewards for staking, this further incentives long-term holders to stake part of their holdings, to secure the network.
But it is not harmful.
I see this everywhere. I think this enshrines difference between seniority of a coder. new coders always want to write everything of their own. Senior coders want to write nothing unless they have to, remain dependency free. Learn standard vim / xcode / os keybinding etc etc. because at the end of the day the more something unique is the less chance it can be immediately useful. This works the other way too, defence against homegenity of a large pool of other businesses / coders (but this one is about marketing and not writing code). Great artists steal et al.
http://aplus.rs/2017/highly-maintainable-app-architecture/
Right, i should note that not all the things i’ve seen are smart.... avoiding going into personal debt is fairly straigtforward.

But, I frankly can’t imagine a restaurant business not taking on some debt in some seasons, at least at first.
Then why are such a high percentage of entrepreneurs immigrants from poor countries? Sure the rich kids have it easier. But it's not that difficult to live cheaply for awhile to pursue a business if you are motivated.

It might just be cultural. Rich successful people encourage their children to be successful like they were. It could be genetic. Those immigrants I mentioned go through a fairly difficult and selective process to get into the country. They have higher IQs and conscientiousness than average. Factors which are both fairly heritable, and correlate very well with success in life. Meritocracy rewards the most able and driven. But no one said ability and motivation were distributed fairly.
A good (U.S.-based) autism resource:

https://www.autismspeaks.org/
Watching this video:
https://www.teslarati.com/doug-demuro-tesla-model-3-review-c...

It seems like there are a lot of questionable UI decisions that would make me hate driving it after a week.
The value of a product is equivalent to the amount of labour exerceted in its production.
> force tax havens to bring the lowest rate up to something reasonable

Easier said than done. Not going to happen any time soon (or ever, in my opinion).

> Your race to the bottom would only ensure that governments eventually cede all power to multinational corporations.

If corporate taxes are the only thing standing between where we are now and the downfall of governments or the rise of global feudalism, we're already screwed. The corporate tax rate could be 0, and it really wouldn't make that big of a difference in terms of total tax revenue or government power (individual taxes still make up the vast majority of tax revenue).
It's not a syntactically incomplete HTTP URL..I didn't come up with the syntax; I just use it.
Submanifold Sparse Convolutional Networks
Prime Now and Amazon Fresh seem very different to me. I use Prime Now as a faster version of Amazon.com--if I do something stupid like move apartments and forget to buy a shower curtain until after the shops are closed, I can put in a Prime Now order for first thing in the morning. My wife uses Prime Now as a slower and more cost-effective version of goPuff sometimes.

Amazon Fresh, in contrast, is my primary source of groceries. Unlike Instacart, prices are consistently reasonable, the website actually knows what's in inventory so I don't have to make backup plans for everything I'm trying to get, and when I buy frozen foods, I get handy chunks of dry ice that I can use to make homemade smoke machines. Amazon Fresh is the first service I've ever used--and this includes previous incarnations of Amazon Fresh--that makes me seriously wonder whether I will ever make a trip to the grocery store again.
> what's to prevent Joe from GIVING his identifying info to someone and then claiming identity theft? Or just buying stuff and claiming identity theft?

That would be the same crime as someone using Joe's stolen credit card info - fraud.
Fine, but some of us aren’t so...what?
Can't you make an app and say sell it in the app store of your home country? Or run it out of there? Is that a conflict? What about investments?
There are old smartphones that, at this point, are cheaper than a BNIB dumbphone.
Ethereum's Casper uses the solution that while validator A could double-vote for multiple blocks, validator B could take those multiple vote messages, and submit them as cryptographic proof of A's dishonesty. By submitting such proof, the protocol would allow slashing A's stake, and giving some portion to B as a reward for catching them. Thus validators are strongly incentivized to only vote for one block at the end of the chain.
That’s weird framing. It’s not a “ban” and the public voting to build networks isn’t “rejecting the law”—it’s explicitly contemplated by the law.
I was thinking that too, then I realized he was wrapping the code in `DB.transaction` blocks, which rollback on any type of exception, so that all those staged/checkpoint entries only persistent if the block cleanly executes.

Pretty neat...
YES! We have seen this too. We joked about it too. “How come they picked eggs that are twice as expensive?”
In most cases yes, people just starting do not have faith in themselves and their product. They have faith in their future selves and their future product.

If instacart had not even had an MVP ready, the more likely response would have been to wait for next year.
It's a little off topic, but I was thinking about this while playing a space-fighter simulator; how ridiculous it was that far enough into the future that there'd be combat in space, I'd still be manually controlling the targeting system.

A lot of tv shows and movies have this same problem. It seems no one has accepted the idea that the computers will win out here.
My twin and I have SSNs a single digit apart.
Update..

Edited the "Post a microtask" interface

New screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/IzbBx

You can specify acceptance criteria and also mention coding style.
It's installed by the ISP's setup program which they tell everyone is mandatory (otherwise they won't get the adware kickbacks) and the techs are discouraged from skipping.
I just wanted to make a point, that a work visa by itself is not a real blocker, more of a mental one. At least it was for me :)
Networking for me is about building credibility around myself in the area I will need for a business, online or offline. For education projects, it can be going to education-related meetups or talking to teachers in real life or online.

Market Analysis - there are many books on entrepreneurship (for example - https://goo.gl/tyJSu1) for education tools you can talk to people who will use them - teachers or students, and try to estimate how many of them, and how much they are willing to pay, or if you can make money off ads.

for your example project, you send a to teachers at local community colleges and try to get their feedback and maybe they will recommend it to schools. Also, you can post the link to your project at language learning online forums or meetup groups.

I mean, not every side project will be big business or even business at all, but I think about it as a good practice if you really think about entrepreneur path.

I myself went back to coding for now, I enjoy it too :)
so was it Angular or just a JS codebase?
I'm the one sending the emails, but lots of people receive them. Can't have them all switch.
Agreed. His plan might have worked if he was a millionaire and hired an expert to do all the stuff he didn't know how to do, living off savings until the place got profitable.
I am sceptical about the consequences for user-controlled computing. AMDs GPUs have made a positive development in the past, while Intel is unfriendly to users control over the hardware they buy.
Humans would do all of those things. Maybe aliens would, too, because they respond to the same incentives and threats, but perhaps a prerequisite for cosmic fecundity is a more mature outlook.

I mean, a human could spend their entire life locating and exterminating ant colonies, and ants would fear that about us if they could conceive it, but we generally have better things to do with our time. (Of course if we're in the way...)
> this would absolutely gut higher education research in the US

It will also gut undergraduate education.

All of our science labs are taught by graduate students. As it is, we have more classes than PhD students to teach them. For a few semesters, we've been forced to ask one of our undergraduates to lead a lab. If the bill passes, the university will likely cut classes offered.

This will not only disrupt a semester, but entire degrees. Introductory Chemistry, for example, is a requirement for other upper-level classes. If students can't get into a section, they will have a chain reaction of delayed classes and increased time to graduation. I suspect it will increase the dropout rate of undergraduates as well, beyond the PhDs who decide to drop out with a master's.

Further, the publishing of science will be hurt. Work is mostly done by grad students and postdocs. Not all labs have enough funding for a postdoc, but all of them in our department (chem) have grad students. Without workers, the work can't be done.

Likely, we'll have to rely on more affluent international students to come and suffer through the PhD process. Hopefully they'll stay, but they may leverage their degree into a strong position back home where their family and friends are, and where people speak their language.

American students who have the money to do a PhD probably won't. It's incredibly hard and abstractly rewarding, and academia is not a path to much wealth or power.

Poor kids with a work ethic won't be able to work their ass off through undergrad and get to a PhD program where they only need to worry about work.

The tradeoff of saving for retirement and accruing career momentum will be replaced with students doubling their loan burden to get through the 4 years of undergrad and the 5 years of grad school. Good thing they removed the ability to deduct interest payments.

The American Dream is deep in my heart, and they made the edges razor sharp.
What percentage of those entrepreneur immigrants are already well off?
But that was kind of my point: Delivering anything short of a bobcat[0] instead of a bag of potatoes doesn't matter. Instacart's own terms of service put the onus on running you through the arbitration gauntlet. Well, or small claims, but only one person at a time so they can just drip-dry the entire problem away.

Sure, people will eventually stop using the service if the problem gets bad enough but as long as they keep the salami sliced[1] fairly thin, they'll get away with it for a long time with no outside check.

0 - https://www.xkcd.com/325/

1 - http://scams.wikispaces.com/Salami+Slicing
Nice! this will be a great win for Intel
Yes it's a big factor. Walmart employees, watched by 37 cameras from right over their heads, will still steal cash from the purchase flow. For an organization their size, it's a big problem. You can guess the kind of people you often get for $11 per hour, when you need a million of them (ie 1% stealing means you've got 10,000 people stealing from you).

Not much has actually changed regarding this structurally, the surveillance has been there for 30 years and the legal aspect forever. Desperate and or stupid people, do desperate and stupid things. What has changed, is Walmart now has dramatically less cash flowing through it at the point of sales (due to cards or Walmart Pay et al). Merchandise theft is by far the bigger problem these days for Walmart. The same goes for places like liquor stores (which used to be an extremely cash heavy business, but now are mostly cards).
>>The judgement on demonetization should be withheld for couple of years

How many? 10? 20? After than what happens? People stop taking bribes? Start paying taxes?

Drive around Bangalore anytime during day light. See how many policemen are standing every 1 km negotiating bribes from motorcycle/car users. Go for property registration anywhere, go see what is the going rate for a single registration...

Things like Demonetization changed/changes NOTHING. You need to change people. And that is next to impossible in India.

>>Even though most of the money made back into system

0 Black Money came back into the system, as per the government's own admission.

>>Expect some drastic policy changes with real estate, corporate taxation and gold.

So we learn nothing from the mistakes?

Only thing this will do, is make millions of people jobless. Destroy family incomes, disrupt their ability to provide for their families and put the economy in tremendous strife.

For any policy to work, People need to cooperate. In India its basically every one, all the time optimizing only for personal profit. The only thing you will end up doing in this set up is harming a lot of innocent people, and end up providing immunity training to the crooks.
The Ethereum VM is single threaded, so this isn't actually a problem