skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The use of passport is an example of an attempt to do identity proofing. In the practice of identity management there's a concept of "Identity Assurance Levels" where you have varying levels of validation of a person's identity. If you are interested in this, check out NIST Special Publication 800-63A.

AirBNB is trying to use the passport photo as a way to link you to a real-world identity, cheaply. They are in a sticky situation because their bonkers business model will suffer if customers need to go through intrusive processes. Simultaneously, they need to do something to avoid being held negligent when a fake AirBNB host/guest hurts someone. The problem is that it doesn't really provide assurance of anything other than possession of an image of a passport.

The problem is that it's spewing alot of information that if handled improperly is a high risk for fraudulent use. For example, knowing your citizenship, date, and place of birth makes it trivial to fraudulently obtain your birth certificate. That makes it pretty trivial to do something like obtain a fraudulent driver's license.

There are many ways to do this more effectively and at much lower risk to the customer. For example, you could verify ownership of a bank account with trivial deposits. Or you could mail the customer a token. Or require a notarized document. Or some combination. But the risk to AirBnb of a negative outcome is low, so they push a risk that you may not understand to you.
As I've seen the above comparison already, glibc is the one better overall when size doesn't really matter.
> So, IF you can get to viable technology for specific use cases, there's not much reason to think you can't get to workable economics.

This seems like a good analysis, but are there particularly good reasons to believe we will be able to produce a car that drives through an urban environment, at any cost?
Yep they could have a lot of fun gaming with it for breaking news, sports results, deep analysis pieces etc. Could even personalise what gets charged to who depending on core obsessions (this proof of insight would be huge with advertisers as well)
It’s a pity there isn’t a model like music has (bet no one has ever said that before).

A subscription service which divvys out my subscription fee to the authors (or papers?) that published the stories I read.
Search by region, topic, author, paper etc. I’d pay more than I pay for Spotify and I currently pay zero for news.
Have you actually used the top-down to parallel park?

I don't own a car with one of those rear-view cameras but am always fascinated to watch it. I worry I would trust it too much instead of what I'm used to.
This isn't necessarily true, they could likely justify their valuation by playing a big part in the freight industry and through ubereats (as restaurants decide they no longer want to employ their own drivers).

Abet, these areas still have a long way to go such as their self driving car division does.
Resolving functions are included. I'm using it to power a fully-functional GraphQL service backed by a PostgresQL database. There's a newer version at https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/ by the same author.
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Maybe they're trying to hire people with some intersection between work and passion. If I had two similarly qualified candidates but one has a huge interest in coding on the side, I'd be inclined to pick her over the other one if I were a hiring manager.

And to be fair, I've had many ask me for side projects and whatnot (with me providing nothing) and have still received offers from them after an interview. Sometimes, these things are just nice to haves. From a recruiter's perspective, why not ask?

No one said anything about a brogramming culture but you seem very incensed. Step down from the soap box and take a breath or two.
distance/h the per hour is implied when recording distances, however should the race not exactly record 1h the difference is not simply ignored.

Another example, look a records when the physical pools are slightly off of regulation distances for 100m/200m etc. Record keepers in no way ignore those differences.
If the "Americans" you're talking to online are really Americans as you assume. It's a pretty large group (English-speaking people). If you are running across native-speakers who would type out "irregardles" (irregardless) and "uncult" (uncalled), then you're simply talking to someone that doesn't know their own language.

I've seen this with Spanish-speaking people. My wife was born and college educated in Mexico, has a Masters degree from here in the US as well. I've gleamed some insight from her. Many immigrants to this country, from all nations, don't know their native language. They can survive wherever they're from, but they don't really know Spanish or Cantonese etc, they'll use terms commonly used by the uneducated like "patas" for their feet (patas = paws in Spanish).

I can attest that there's no shortage of monolingual English-speakers who are no different, and don't really know their own language. They can survive here, but are barely educated enough to survive in the US. Some can't, and rely entirely on social programs to make it through life, a large part of the reason is general lack of education. Many Americans are entirely unemployable, and many are already "over-employed" and lucky to have jobs at all. You could easily be meeting up with those people online.
What we're really missing is an analog to the old "stick a quarter in the machine, get a newspaper" model

Plenty of people would gladly pay a bit of money to get access to a day's news when they want to, without a subscription. But it has to be easy, not "type in all my credit card info to get one paper".
Good to see ad support media going away. The programmatic publishing model is a failure on many fronts. As the online payment options sought in recent years, back to subscription is a sensible choice and I will happily follow.
We desperately need the continued work of serious investigative journalism outfits. Even the existence of organizations able (willing?) to report fact-checked stories held to a high editorial standard seems tenuous. These businesses are not a public service but in my estimation all Americans benefit from an independent fourth estate.

If you read NYT articles with any regularity I strongly urge you to subscribe. For me the cost of a digital subscription is trivial relative to the value I get from it.
It's certainly not all by design, e.g.

Uber began winding down [their direct to driver leasing
business] this summer after learning that losses were
$9,000 per car on average, steeply above the previous
estimates of around $500 per car

That's an 18x miscalculation.
I'm not suggesting its anything other than a ridiculous and meaningless thing to write, I was just saying that both GDP and AUM are measured in the same units (USD).

Apparently several people decided this fact was necessary to downvote ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There is 0% chance 3rd-party sellers would be allowed to list prescription drugs.
Happens for companies in StartupChile frequently
As always, Amazon is a big elephant in the room: https://www.amazon.com/The-Washington-Post-Digital-Access/dp...

WaPo is $4 a month for the 50% of US households who have Amazon Prime. That's about a quarter of the price of what NYT is asking for, with a quality and political bent that's fairly similar. NYT can't compete until its on a much closer pricing footing.
Anecdotal, last year as a personal curiosity, I drove for Lyft over 6 weeks, but only 16 hours/wk (2 days x 8 hrs), I was hitting 65-70 miles per 8 hours. In a metro of 2 million people and change.

This was in a 2012 Accord, not an EV. But yeah it seems do-able in a modern EV. Most urban dwellers daily driving is never more than like 20 miles all-day.
I would say "useless" is a little harsh. You have to look take up these resources with a goal in mind.

For the most part they are just regurgitating commonsense and nothing is new under the sun as much as SV would want you to think.

If you want to create a health startup it probably better to become a bioscientist instead of an MBA ... unless you are filthy rich already an just need to learn management skills.

But for those that already have the tech skills and need a little guidance on management, marketing, talking to VCs I think the info is good. Just dont expect to understand how to make the next ubiquitous distributed system (amazon ec2) without any systems/programming knowledge.

In fact I think "startup" should be considered a fad that is over. The word holds little meaning and any meaning it had is now over. The money guys are all over the place and the true "startups" already panned all the easy gold from the river.

Startups as they were (if ever) cannot be create now. Now you just have an internet business. And that pretty cool too.

If anyone happens to know a nanotechnologist working out of their garage I would like to speak to them about a startup project
They've broken those links and they're going to break them even more, so it's very rude to link people to that site that doesn't actually serve articles anymore. It was kinda rude to link people there anyway since it's a massive download of a zillion tracking programs. We should stop playing nice, if we want to link to them at all we should copy and paste their articles to somewhere that still works.
> But, would you write code if you had a billion dollars?

Probably. I enjoy writing code and the challenges associated with designing a solution. If I had unlimited money (meaning I didn't have to work), I would probably write code in my spare time. I do think that it is fun.

> You really can't be a REALLY good programmer without side projects where you get to play around with new technologies, with no deadlines, no managers, no infrastructure, just exploration.

Guess I'll never be one of those really good programmers for the rest of my life. I do like to program, but I have a laundry list of hobbies that doesn't consist of programming. I already do it for a living 40 hours a week.
A rolling fleet could be amazing.

If say a typical car/insurance payment was ~$500 a month, and an on-demand auto car service was $499 a month or less, it could work.

You never have to park. You can work/browse/call on the ride. Get dropped off right in front of wherever you're going. Could work out really awesome.
Then nvm downloads binaries compiled for glibc, not Linux. This is a bug in nvm - not Alpine, not Busybox, not musl, but a bug in nvm. Using tools like nvm is the wrong approach anyway, you should be installing from distro packages - and Alpine supports installing specific versions of a package if you really need that.

>GNU coreutils is the standard user land toolset for Linux

Bullshit. This is the standard: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
Based on my own research, it appears that the first git tag was created before the first git commit.

The first tag (?) points to a tree.

$ git cat-file -p v2.6.11-tree
object c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a
type tree
tag v2.6.11-tree

This is the 2.6.11 tree object.

NOTE! There's no commit for this, since it happened before I started with git.
Eventually we'll import some sort of history, and that should tie this tree
object up to a real commit. In the meantime, this acts as an anchor point for
doing diffs etc under git.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQBCeV/eF3YsRnbiHLsRAl+SAKCVp8lVXwpUhMEvy8N5jVBd16UCmACeOtP6
KLMHist5yj0sw1E4hDTyQa0=
=/bIK
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

First commit

$ git cat-file -p v2.6.12-rc2
object 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
type commit
tag v2.6.12-rc2

Linux v2.6.12-rc2 release
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQBCbW8ZF3YsRnbiHLsRAgFRAKCq/TkuDaEombFABkPqYgGCgWN2lQCcC0qc
wznDbFU45A54dZC8RZ5JxyE=
=ESRP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Unfortunately, I don't think I can confirm my suspicion using git alone. Maybe if I look at some mailing lists around July/August 2005 I could get a more accurate confirmation.

This is due to the fact that those tags pre-date the tagger header which came a short while later.

$ git cat-file -p v2.6.13
object 02b3e4e2d71b6058ec11cc01c72ac651eb3ded2b
type commit
tag v2.6.13
tagger Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> 1125272548 -0700

Linux 2.6.13 release
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQBDEkvwF3YsRnbiHLsRAp5tAKCEK1XmOropxvWp+k9eiTcafNMXXACcDAVb
+hOwdKI+bi84SSNNSGnSXGg=
=cnNS
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Edit:

Just to reenforce the "First Commit" claim, here's the rev-list for the commit and the commit contents. (Notice it has no "parent" commit.

$ git rev-list 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2

$ git dump 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
tree 0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d
author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> 1113690036 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> 1113690036 -0700

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
Have you discovered their e-reader? Stumbled across it accidentally one day and have found it perfect for posting articles on bulletin boards without cutting up my paper, you can print PDFs of individual articles, choosing between text or photocopy: http://ereader.wsj.net/
The numbers in this article are not giving a good picture of the company, at all.

The revenue and operating loss and such do not really give a good idea whether or not the company will survive in the long term. What are they spending the money on? Billions in net revenue for an app with offices all around the globe, fine. But how can you amount such losses with that plus marketing expense?

- Number of unique customers

- Rides/Cust

- CLV

- average customer lifetime

- CAC?

These would be the interesting numbers if you want to assess the company.

Disclaimer: I work in the BI space, but have no formal finance education, so I might miss a thing or two in this assessment.
It's still more available and affordable than paper subscriptions of the past.
I think they've even done one better. They've managed to associate, in the public's mind, the idea of "electric drivetrain" with "conventional but stunning good looks" with "amazing performance."
Python, too. Let's say you import some code that does this, somewhere deep inside:

try:
x = 1 / int(s)
except ZeroDivisionError, ValueError:
print "uh oh"

Oops, you just accidentally overwrote what the term ValueError means, in a way that won't get you a warning or anything. But somewhere else, far away, when you try to refer to ValueError, you're going to get really weird bugs and have no idea where they're coming from, since the stack trace will be nowhere near the code with the bug.
I can only hope that they take steps to control "additives" in pills. My mother (and probably her mother) are allergic to some of the additives in the pill, to the utter disbelief and dismay of many doctors.
I hear this argument against Tesla all the time (disclaimer: I own a Model S). I used to own a BMW 3 series and an X5. Tesla, IMHO, is a far superior car. Interior materials is just one aspect of the car. But a car is a complete package. And Tesla overall gives you much more - an infotainment system that is 100x better than an awful BMW iDrive (or my Hyundais system), monthly software updates, no dealership model, constantly improving autopilot systems, an amazing supercharger network, minimal options package (BMW will charge you for LED lights on 7series), free LTE, free Supercharging (atleast for me), a minimalist interior, huge cabin space etc. etc. I would take a Tesla Model S any day over a 7 series or S class. And a Model 3 any day over a BMW 3 series. A 328i is a 4 cylinder underpowered vehicle that comes with a manual parking brake, a tiny screen, and hundreds of useless controls. Then you have to buy a million option to make the car half decent. And my 335i would break down every other month.
Why doesn't New York Times et al just go for the full donation model? Make the articles free, put a bug Jimmy Wales-style banner at the top, probably rake in more money.
Are they still pretending like they're a prestigious institution or something?
Implementation of xkcd 1923 – Felsius
Saving Capitalism - interview with Robert Reich
I will clarify - I'm referring to the iCloud password reset, not the ability to create a new backup with a different password. You're rebutting my arguments about the former with quotes about the latter.
Blendle? I'm sure there are others like it, too.

It feels like I see comments like yours every other day on HN. Clearly these services need some better marketing.
If you're thinking about subscribing and you want to save some money just cancel. I've been subscribed for a month and this is the result: https://imgur.com/fHETGuW (that's been going on for three months or so).

I found the app hard to use. I think the problem I had with it was that it wasn't clear to me which articles are new and which are old. But I'm not sure anymore.
No GDP is in $/time. Gross domestic product (GDP) is the monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period.

Though GDP is usually calculated on an annual basis, it can be calculated on a quarterly basis as well. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gdp.asp
Front end only these days?
There is a wide range of human experience, but they are not all appropriate for this context specifically.
Driverless cars are unlikely to increase their profitability anytime soon (if ever). I dug into the math on this in some depth here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15744074
The TL;DR is that there is not enough spare profit currently going to drivers to cover the cost of buying driverless cars.
Although WaPo is a great paper, NYT is still worth twice as much to me. There's nothing else like it.
Let's be fair, coreutils are awful for scripting regardless. It is 2017, why are we having to parse and reformat text to pass it between tools? Powershell, which pipes tables of typed objects, is a much better implementation of the same concept.
It's really hard to tell from the overall numbers whether they're in bad shape. If a significant amount of the expense is in acquiring new customers then it makes perfect sense for investors to keep pouring money in.
How has Dave McClure’s departure affected fundraising for 500 Startups?
The problem with NYT is that it always report the point of view of the Gov or of BigCo, not Liberal X Conservative.

Take a look of Chomsky opinion about them:
https://www.salon.com/2015/05/25/noam_chomsky_the_new_york_t...
It wouldn't surprise me. I recall watching a video about researchers trapping and tagging raccoons to study their movements. What they found is that the territories of individual urban raccoons were rather small, and bordered by hazards like busy roads. So, if a busy road is sufficiently dangerous to be an individual's boundary, I'd not be surprised if things like highways through the city made for boarders for larger groups and populations of raccoons.
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I would also be happy to come over (anywhere in Europe) and teach any of the above skills to a small group of interested people. I've taught courses in electronic assembly (SMD), 3d printing (building/using printers, iterative 3d model design using programming) and robot design and construction. I've taught courses at several universities, hackspaces, and conferences.
commenting so I can read at home
What;s the National Organic Program got to do with it?
I agree! You are coding ideas for people, but somebody needs to translate those ideas into code for them to work, and what might be planned might not be the best or most efficient course of action.
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SnapEngage develops live chat software for sales and support teams. We are currently hiring for two Software Engineering roles in Berlin, Germany.

Software Engineer (3 years experience, JavaScript or TypeScript):

We have some great projects for anyone who is intrested in building user interfaces with modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Backbone) or battling with asynchronous TypeScript code for a complex web application. If you happen to have (or be interested in acquiring) some Java or Google Cloud experience, you'll be able to put that to good use as well.

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SnapEngage runs on the Google Cloud Platform, and as a Senior Software Engineer at SnapEngage you will play an important part in our incremental move towards micro-services, perform code reviews and develop / maintain various integrations. If you have experience with GWT or the Google Cloud Platform, it will serve you very well in this role.

SnapEngage has a lovely team, spread across two offices in Boulder, CO and Berlin, DE. The company offers some great perks, including an annual team-building trip (the last two were in Lisbon and Iceland), optional weekly German classes in the office and the option to work Monday and Friday from home.

You must be authorized to work in Berlin, Germany. That means you need to be an EU citizen, or already locally based.

https://snapengage.com/careers/

The first position is not yet advertised on the website, in the meantime if you want to apply for that (or have specific quetsions) feel free to shoot me an email at mikael.kohlmyr@snapengage.com, and I can forward you to the hiring manager.
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That mattress company that advertises on all of your favorite podcasts.

Senior Javascript Engineer: Lead development of our headless CMS using GatsbyJS(GraphQL, React, Redux) and Contentful.
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Senior Frontend Engineer: Role focused on leading our style and component library using PostCSS/React.
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I mixed answers, it was about me being surprised of Pebble going out of business. Sorry.
Check out [0] and similar projects out there. GraphQL is a query language. It doesn't have to be used for APIs - the Apollo team is using it for state management [1] and others are using it to handle all sorts of non-API data. That being said, it is a Facebook technology released in the context of APIs and it is only three years (publicly) old, so naturally, that is where you are going to see the majority of usage.

[0] https://github.com/apollographql/graphql-anywhere
[1] https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-link-state