skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to reread what I wrote and understand what I'm arguing.

The OP argued inelastic demand drives price gouging which isn't true in the case of gasoline. Price gouging in medicine isn't driven by inelasticity, its driven by a dearth of suppliers.

In Denmark, you have few suppliers but the suppliers you do have are owned and regulated by the government. It's not a relevant comparison. They are not a market-based supplier.
>And at that point is the added complexity worth not just ~rendering with rails~ using Node.js for your server?
Because we all know that an entire company can, at a given time, either write blog posts or solve infrastructural issues, never both.
Seed Funds Are Finding the Midwest, but We've Been Here All Along
Are you able to flag if the IP is from a TOR network?
Just as a thought experiment, imagine a line of 20 vehicles all traveling at a safe distance going the exact same speed--the legal maximum limit.

Does this sound like a utopia to you, or a nightmare? Do you think this would make traffic more optimal, or would it cause untold safety issues?

If somebody in the left lane is traveling at the legal maximum speed and it causes traffic to stack up behind them, does this create the optimal traffic pattern or a safety hazard?

You might point out that most accidents are caused by speed differentials and involve somebody traveling much slower than the rest of traffic. I am still unclear why that would be blamed on the slower driver if everyone else is breaking the law.
Something happened around the time computer programmers started calling themselves "engineers" -- they became self-important. And in doing so, convinced others that they are indispensable.

I tell people, if you don't have a flashing light and a siren, your job is not that important.

My employer tethers me to a work cell phone that I never ever use. Why? In case the web site goes down while I'm not at work. Except that the site is on an intranet. And the entire company is 9-5. If I'm not there, nobody else is there, either, to see if the site has crashed. But somewhere along the line, coding became more mission critical than it really is.
It also incorrectly predicted it from 2013-2017.
Easily.

Just distinguish between the quantity of resumes you receive (a lot) and the quality of those candidates (mostly low/okay).

You still have a hiring shortage if the ratio of sufficiently qualified candidates in the hiring pool, times the size of that pool, is fewer than the number of people you want to hire.
How is it that this can't be prevented by the Bitcoin network? The network should be able to mark coins stolen and unusable...oh wait it can't. Because in order to do that you'd need a trusted third party to verify the coins were stolen defeating the purpose of a distributed ledger that doesn't require third party trust. Yet another shortcoming of trying to replicate cash.
Not to mentioned it's already a socialized program... who foots the bill when nobody pays? Me & you.
Support between browsers can be iffy. I had a grid implementation on cole.codes and it looked perfect on Chrome but disappeared entirely from Firefox. It wasn't supported at all in Safari at the time.

You will need fallbacks. Flexbox isn't going anywhere.
Every form of electricity production consumes an array of limited natural resources. Wind and solar power don't have no direct CO2 emissions, but minerals need to be mined, plenty of clean water is consumed during manufacturing, and wildlife habitats are impacted by land-use change (wind and solar plants have a comparatively larger land footprint than fossil fuel plants).

Fun Fact: The article says Bitcoin mining consumes ~1.1 GW of power. There is currently a massive political struggle over the construction of "Site C", a 1.1 GW Hydroelectric dam in British Columbia, Canada. Construction on that dam began last year, but public opposition caused a new provincial government to review the dam construction. The dam will flood 93 square kilometers of land but produce 5.1 GWh of low-carbon electricity annually, about 53% of the articles assumed Bitcoin mining consumption of 9.6 GWh (which is = 1.1 GW x 8760 hours/year). Whether construction of the dam will be cancelled or resumed, the decision will be controversial! (The decision will be announced before the end of the year).

In summary, bitcoin mining from renewable energy sources is desirable, but bitcoin mining (and all other forms of computing) will always have some negative impact. That is something we need to be aware of.
Ad agencies generally use a variety of fee structures: https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/advertising-agency-fee-st.... If you step back one level of abstraction, I'm not sure pay-per-click nets advertises more ad revenue than other billing models would, it's just an easy way to calculate things. And in the legal field, fixed fee or hybrid fee structures are very common. In practice, those options aren't cheaper than just negotiating for a discount on hourly rates; they just allocate the risks over/under-estimation differently.

Also, plaintiffs have huge incentives to move cases along quickly, because very often some or all of their compensation is tied to the outcome. But cases with contingency lawyers who aren't getting paid until the client gets paid don't move any more quickly than other kinds of cases.

As for why there are not more judges: what do you think of this proposal to create a whole bunch of new judgeships? https://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/calabre....
Devils advocate: why not a casino blackjack dealer asking you how sane you feel about your bets?
I meant something like https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/210...

Which is a top result searching Google for "coinbase transaction limits".
Is there not a little bit of irony in someone writing this and then posting it on Medium?
I've seen this pop up a few times now... what verification? Coinbase hasn't asked me for any proof of who I am at all.
"Please keep buying our product but don't say we didn't warn you"
Boswell's Life of Johnson. I have an old OUP hardback in Scotch Roman that is an old-fashioned experience in itself.
Have you seen America? :)
Tangential but I find it funny that such a simple service has libraries for so many different languages. Is one simple HTTP call and JSON deserialization that hard? Personally I'd be more concerned about bringing yet another 3rd party module (leftpad, security, maintenance) than doing GET + JSON.parse but maybe convenience is what's most important.
All digital currency that Coinbase holds *online* is fully insured.

The way they word it, only their hot wallet is insured which is ~<2% of holdings. They definitely like to make it confusing.

https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/166237...
> my own time

The co-option of that by the forces of capitalism is much of what the author is complaining about.
If someone stoles cash from you, how do you mark that cash as stolen?
Having your password in some IRC channel gets remotely exploitable quickly.
You and I go to the bank and get two loans backed by the same reserve. We party and spend those new dollars which in part didn't exist before. Then we work to repay the bank and make the debt and credit columns agree in the books. Btw, the money of salaries we get could be borrowed too.

Another shot at it with a thought experiment. Everybody goes to the bank and borrows 10k every month. The bank never asks them back for the first five years. Result? Inflation, possibly hyperinflation. Same as if they would be printing money (and they'll won't get anything back when the five years are past.)
You can see all the datapoints we provide by visiting our homepage https://ipdata.co or by making a call in your terminal via curl https://api.ipdata.co
Great advice. I've written more to-do lists and checklists in the past 3 months than I have in the past 10 years. Room inventories, flights to book, moving checklists, it never stops.

And you're right about the opportunity. I keep telling myself that one day I will be settled into my new place, with everything behind me and thinking about that is whats keeping me going.
When I was in school for Wildlife Management, we learned pretty much the same thing about hunting. More money gets made by, outfitting companies, tour guides and local communities by having a lottery style big game hunt than an open season. It attracts a few people who are willing to spend upwards of $20000 just to shoot one animal as opposed to many hunters coming in and not spending as much overall. It also tends to be better for the survival of the population as a whole though it does tend to lead to an overall weakening of the population though as only the biggest and strongest animals, that should be breeding, get removed.
The way it works is, i go to exchange a, and tell them hey i have this cryptocurrency and i have enough cash to back it up. People can withdraw money from me using these.

If you do not verify my claims, you think this is a great idea, because now you can transact with usd(t). Formally these exchanges only used cross-coin exchanges.

Now this is not a problem as long as you have _enough_ money to support withdrawals on an ongoing basis. Nobody knows you dont have enough cash to support all issued tokens, because seemingly, everything works nicely. With the recent hype, money keeps flowing. Until a mass withdrawal happens.
You definitely can, but without cooperation of the rest of the network, they will still be able to spend the money. If you could identify where the person re-spent the stolen coins, and found cooperative courts, you could try to go after them that way, but it's an uphill battle.

In Ethereum's DAO hack, tokens were also stolen, but they got lucky and the money wasn't spendable for a while (because of how the transaction/contract was written), so they were actually able to convince the entire network[1] to agree to reverse that theft as part of the protocol and recover the tokens that way.

[1] Minus a fragment that became EthereumClassic.
It means users' puzzle and game progress was never interrupted, along with login sessions. A half-played puzzle before the cutover could be picked up as it was afterward.
As a former developer at a social media company that saw both the need for improved availability and messaging to users, I have no complaints about this post. Unlike most social media platforms, CoinBase users can easily move their money/BTC to another rival exchange, so CoinBase is right to address the concerns of people, not just their technical shortcomings.

Users can easily rile each other up in a tizzy when one user comes up with a (sometimes) plausibly sounding conspiracy theory and others latch onto it. Some on HN were doing this yesterday. I think it's fair that CoinBase remind their users that they are still growing and trying to keep up pace with the demand to buy into the BTC market, which has been experiencing a hockey-stick growth for over a year now.
It turns out this isn't the case. London recently reorganized stroke services because it was shown that survival rates were much better if patients could be taken directly to a specialist unit, and now if you're suspected of having a stroke you'll go straight to one of 8 hyper-acute centers.
Actually this is wrong. There is an abundance of retailers to buy your gas from. However in any given area they ALL get their gas from the same refinery. Any retailer that doesn't will have to to pay much higher shipping fees and thus cannot compete. That means the refinery has a monopoly even though you have a choice of names on the sign. (note that the station can choose additives so it isn't completely irrelevant)

During the golf war (first) I used to laugh at gas stations advertising that they sell gas made in the US. The refinery is in the US, but all the crude came from Canada. (This of course only applies the particular city I lived in at the time)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of high taxes, and I completely agree on upper middle class levels of taxation. The percentage level that a coastal professional making $300k pays is ridiculous, especially in comparison with what some billionaire in Texas is paying. And it's about to get even worse. But I digress.

I lived in SF and NYC and eventually found my way to Nashville, partly for low taxes. However, I'll be moving back to NYC, because despite the ridiculous levels of taxation, I just can't help myself and I'm fortunate to be able to afford it. I'm always looking for ways to manage my tax burden though.
Indeed, no mention of insurance on the offline storage page: https://www.coinbase.com/security?locale=en
But it may be a good way to not lose money.
I find it really sad you would think people are more concerned with pissing off privacy-conscious citizens than with blocking spammers. What a world you live in :/

It's not a belief, it's an area I'm interested in, and I've talked to a lot of people about it. I've never found anyone block cloudflare (or disposable emails) because they "hate privacy".
I signed up earlier today and bought some ETH. Coinbase hasn't asked me for any sort of verification, ID, or photo.

It says my transaction will take 8 days, but that's the only waiting I've experienced.
IPFS just keeps looking more and more useful. I'm starting to wonder about planning future text-rich applications (forums, news, blog, etc..) with article backups to IPFS and a link on the live site.

Would require extra storage and overhead, but the result is maybe even more helpful than a tor site for important content.
Ask HN: Books or writings on disasters, crashes, scams or failures?
I find I learn a lot more about a system by how it has been broken or how it has failed. What are some good books, articles about how things break?
I understand the craze. But c'mon...

http://www.castingcall.club serves over 1M pageviews a month. Total hobby project. It has a hybrid of what this article describes. I have my `/app/assets` folder for most of the pages on the site and I've got my webpack `/frontend` folder which handles the complex components.

I also run http://program.reforge.com. Same approach. Rails asset pipeline for the pages that are simple and React on the pages that need to be componentized.
This is something that really bugs me about the socialized medicine debate in the US. We've had socialized medicine since the law was passed in 1986 that said ERs couldn't turn people away. Everything since then has just been a debate about how to socialize it and how to pay for it.
If you want me to take you seriously talking about revenue, don't show me half a balance sheet.
Understood. The thing I really like about pwpush is the Alfred integration. Do you have any plans to do the same? Thank you
I hate this bullshit. What person ever has been helped by hearing someone tell them how it could be worse or about the "starving children in Africa"?

I'm assuming that your life is 100% awesome and rosy and you never experience any frustration or vent to anyone about your troubles, right? By your own standard, you really shouldn't, because literally billions have it worse than you.

EDIT: I also flagged you for the childish name-calling.
Monitor this page: https://status.coinbase.com/

Also, they've had verification problems on and off for months. Back when I did it, the app didn't work, but the website did.
The article explicitly says that she is talking about a typical 40 hour work week.

"Sorry, you can’t exercise to make up for sitting or standing at one place for 40 hours a week.

Also I’d like to have kids myself. I respect people who want to do the 40-hour-work-week and kids, but I can’t imagine doing that myself."
I agree. The laws themselves read very anachronistically and I can only hope over time they are rolled over to have a much smaller scope. i.e. the government can require specific well-labeled qualifications for its own projects.

There are millions of examples of the law being broken in its literal form that would show its absurdity, ranging from computers to cars to banks to universities and classrooms.

Good on this man for fighting it in court.
The below probably fits your criteria. Probably the best piece of sports writing that I've read, DFW's love and knowledge of the game really comes through without being overwhelming to those who don't have much knowledge about tennis.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20fede...
That guy that bought in at $19340 last night, is only down $4000 twelve hours later.
I wasn't disagreeing with him saying it's not the norm, I'm disagreeing with his suggestion to the parent to basically 'suck it up, princess'.

36 accounts for time spent eating lunch and taking breaks. It's a good target. It also handles common schedules some folks have of 4x9 and 3x12.
Original title: The surprising factors driving murder rates: income inequality and respect (emphasis mine)

Surprising, really?
If you have to support IE - their implementation is different from the rest. And by different, I mean they are compliant with an earlier spec of CSS Grid. It is very likely not to work.

The evergreen browsers (chrome, ff, edge, safari, etc...) were well supported.
So she wants people to work less and get paid more? To work on stupid things, that aren't critical? And someone is willing to pay a lot of money for you to do that?

Also, her idea that getting paid well means nothing because there are people who make more money left me scratching my head.
These Ancient tribal masks confirm the existence of Crash Bandicoot
Kickstarter definitely would have been a better way to launch. Especially since the funding goal to get a book illustrated would be less than $2k on the conservative side. If I were doing it again I would probably use KickStarter.

Making the front page of HN was unexpected. I'll have to update the post once I see how much it improves sales.
That matches my observations very well.
Article is from seven months ago. I'd be curious to see if there is an update to this.
Show HN: Lockbox – simple encryption with key management
I would highly recommend "Sales EQ" by Jeb Blount as a first sales book - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XFBMZVC/. Does a very god job of outlining the psychology of selling, the psychology of buying, and what needs to go into a successful sales process (without laying out a prescriptive program). Conversational writing style, very rich in information. It will be very useful in improving "non-sales" selling aka presenting, convincing colleagues of things, etc

Though things like New Strategic Sales and Spin Selling are useful, they are not good beginner books - they are technical approaches to developing enterprise sales process, and primarily targeted at professionals in sales management. As a less than exact analogy, Sales EQ is much more like SICP, while Spin selling is like an O'Reilly language reference. I know non-programmers that have gotten a lot out of SICP as the only cs book they have read
To answer several instances of the same question at once:

Regardless of whether you think "pay me $COUPON every 6 months until date D when you pay me $PRINCPIAL" might be considered "synthetic" surely you must all admit it's far less synthetic than "Pay me $X if and when CORPORATION defaults"!
Finding companies that this article doesn't apply to doesn't invalidate the article. Everything has to be taken in context. You can apply your own layer of analysis and contextualize it differently. For e.g. Having a hygienic and safe place to work is critical because if an employee doesn't feel safe at work, they won't be able to work as effectively, or stress causes lower productivity, etc, etc.

The primary, unchanging goal of any business anywhere is to stay in business. Sales bring in cash, and cash is king. Nothing else will keep you in business other than cash. All of those companies you mentioned were financed by burning through millions of dollars of somebody else's money. That is not the majority of companies. IMHO, the article makes a lot of sense. I'd rank software development either equal or below sales too. YMMV.
> But the 20% that don't, I flip them off every time, since they fucking deserve it.

Man, that's harsh! If these victims of yours are doing 45 on the interstate then a flash and a honk is certainly in order, but I sincerely hope you're not acting this way to people doing 75 when you want to be doing 90. In any case, if someone's going a little slower than you, as long as it's not jeapordizing your safety (i.e. backing up aggressive drivers behind you), then ask yourself why do you have to be in such a hurry?

I see far too much aggressive driving that seems needless, given the very real risk of serious injury or death. While I agree that slow driving can be just as dangerous as fast driving, all I ask is that you try to keep to the speed limit and only exceed it reasonably when safe to do so, keep a safe distance around other vehicles, and keep the bird on the steering wheel :)

A little civility and due regard for the fact that everyone wants to get home in one piece!
Good to hear, but I'd still be a bit concerned that the wording above might lead some inexperienced/not-security-conscious person to send you their details via email outright.
One of the first things people tend to look at for an API is whether or not there's a library that makes integration as easy as possible. One HTTP call and JSON deserialization is often more thought and effort than people want to put in.
> Yet another shortcoming

Really depends on your point of view. The entire use-case of Bitcoin is that no one can reach back in time and "undo" transactions. There is no point for it to exist otherwise.

It's a feature, not a bug.
1) freegeoip is locally hosted - unlimited queries

2) OK.

3) freegeoip is faster and locally hosted - no network latency

The entire thing runs as a one command docker instance - database updates are automatically managed
You're missing the point. Gas is priced competitively in areas where there are no alternatives to its purchase. This is possible because there are lots of people who compete to supply gas. Basic econ 101.

With hospitals, you have one local monopoly to choose from. Therefore you get monopoly pricing.

Yes, if you're shot, you're not going to be too choosy about where the ambulance takes you. But most medical emergencies have some lead up to diagnosis and some wait time for the actual operation.

Even cancer is not treated immediately. You schedule an appointment to have it treated over a long period of time.

Now with all this time, you theoretically have the ability to compare suppliers. But in our world, there is one regional monopoly providing care.

THAT ISN'T THE ONLY REASON CARE IS EXPENSIVE. But it is a factor worth talking about and considering.
He who holds the keys holds the coins.
>Second Measure analyzes billions of credit card transactions to answer real-time questions about consumer behavior. Unless otherwise noted, the data below comes from our platform.

Last time Second Measure came up on HN (April 2016), someone replied that the underlying data came from Yodlee.[1] Is that still the case?

Also, if it's analyzing a subset of -- instead of the complete -- transaction logs from Visa/Mastercard/AMEX networks, is there any bias in the data because the samples are limited to users of the Yodlee platform?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodlee
If it’s all speculation, where do you suggest I store my wealth? The underlying characteristics of bitcoin lead me to believe it’s the safest asset in existence. It’s volatility is a result of people slowly discovering this.
Hmm, the "Unlocking with Apple Watch..." sequence breaks when you hit a key and then displays the standard password field, so that you can type in your password instead. This seems really unusual.