skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> or you've got some cool projects for me to undertake, feel free to get in touch (see my profile or the gaisma page) vados@gaisma.co.jp

Are you on the Hacker News Tokyo Slack forum? [1]

@jason_tko (Jay Winder Make Leaps CEO who runs the Hacker News Tokyo community meetup that you mentioned - also on Meetup [2]) just launched it.

You could join and introduce your self perhaps ...

It's mainly an expat community but there is going to be a bilingual forum soon too, which is in waitlist right now - some Japanese language skills required for signup. [3]

[1] https://hackernewstokyo.slack.com

[2] https://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-Tokyo-Japan/

[3] https://www.kinmate.io

Edit: sorry Victor - re-read your post more carefully and realized that you already attend the community meetup.
> You seem to assume that each pledge is a separate transaction.

Incorrect. I know how Patreon used to work before this announcement. My understanding is they are splitting it up into separate transactions, which makes sense if you understand how credit card processing, monetary transactions, and all the legal ramifications around them operate.

What I do hear is a lot of people who haven't worked in the CC industry making baseless assumptions about how all this works.
I don't really understand why this guy would feel like he needed to use a lot of his own time and $6000 to try and help Uber. In the article it says that he felt like it was a larger competitor attacking a larger competitor, but its not like Uber is some small plucky startup. With revenue in the billions, its not like they couldn't even afford millions in legal fees easily. Or is it that its not helping Uber, but fighting against what he feels are predatory practices from Alphabet?
It's likely that they'll sell their assets to a buyer intending to continue the line of business. (Maybe under another brand name.)
Upvoted, probably futilely, because it's unpleasantly true
i'm training to be a teacher next year - the programme is in the school of education and social work.
> What I might try is sampling a couple random start times

My gut says this would be a better value, but I don’t have the evidence to prove it
Total funding on Speedera was $51M. So assume a liquidation preference takes at least $51M off the top. He was an engineer and not a founder or an exec. So yeah, I’ll take him at his word. He probably didn’t clear anywhere near a $1M.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/speedera-networks
I believed the futures are “cash settled”, basically betting on the price of Bitcoin on other exchanges, not real Bitcoins.
I smell more bullshit here than when I drive past my local farms on fertilizing day.
One thing the story doesn't cover is that real estate investor will use the services of a lawyer (because he knows to do so) and lower the $30,000 value of the house to the $3500 that both he and the original owner paid for the property.

So at a $500 monthly rent he will have his investment back in 7 months and a 90% reduction in his property taxes.
The QB's completion percentage is ~57%, meanwhile seatle had one of the best running backs in the league with 4.25 yards per carry in the game.

wilson doesnt throw many interceptions, but Lynch almost never fumbles, Wilson was 4 times more likely to turn over the ball than Lynch was. write that down, if they turn the ball over they loose the game. the play they choose increased their risk of loosing over 400%.

wilson scores 28% of the time from the 10 (dont have 1 or 5 yard stats), lynch scores 42% of the time from the 5. he even scores more than wilson from 10 yards out (37%), which is not even a valid comparison because they only need 1 yard.

There is just no way to cut it, it was a bad decision.
I have to be picky here. If only 20% of your overall diet this year was keto, then really whatever you were doing the other 80% of the time is 80% (in other words, way more) responsible.
and if I do become insulin dependent then I am basically needing to shoot insulin like a Type 1 user needs to? How does one realize they are becoming insulin dependent? I mean I usually don't see a Dr except 2-3 times per year. How would I know to see a Dr sooner?
Ask HN: Who's hiring?
Though I'm not a solopreneur, I've been through similar streaks of difficult mornings. One thing realised - I was pretty weak on a sense of purpose those days. I wasn't sure what my immediate / 1 year / 2 year goals were and this led to complacency. Maybe deciding where you want to be in a year's time might help. A goal/mission to look forward is certainly a good thing to have. All the best!
From the webpack team to Devon:

Thank you so much for this work! Not only are we happy to see a real contender in the bundling space, but also look forward to not only work together, but also learn from parcel in ways we can help make webpack more flexible and easy to use for those who want "zero configuration".

Welcome to the bundler family!

Sean
webpack team
Return on AI – Hedge funds embrace some machine learning
Adult Content Policies: A Textbook Case of Private Censorship
Reminds me of the Hulk Hogan situation
Well if he'd sold below valuation (and in the middle of a lawsuit to his prosecutors no less!) it would be plausible that he didn't make out well. But I don't see how one can live in Los Altos Hills without having a lot of wealth.

EDIT: The comment below points out that Speedera took $51M in funding
People often adopted English surnames or Anglicized their names, especially around WWI (also when the huge number of German language newspapers mostly closed and even towns named after German places were renamed).
The Advent of Void: Day 6: Jq
The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone
IIRC, you now get the "foreigner card" during immigration. You still have to register at the local ward, though.
I've worked for BigCo and startups, and don't have a degree. It has never been an issue, anywhere I've worked, ever. I've asked. They don't care. The only time it would matter is if it was a legal requirement for professional engineering (anything involving safety).

Yes, BigCo wants to hire middle of the spectrum folks who live in the suburbs and do a decent job for a fair wage. But they also want to (and do) hire hackers.
> The entire point of Patreon is to spread the transaction fee across the people you are backing at $1/month or $1/post.

That's decidedly false. The entire point of Patreon is to support creators, and to make it easy for creators to get that support.

> There is no good reason for this,

There are. Legal reasons. Banking reason. Simply put, lumping together transactions is dangerous. Dangerous for creators, dangerous for patreons, and dangerous for customers. I'm surprised they did it this long.

> as even paying to the creator should be lump sum via ACH,

What does this have to do with the majority of people paying via CC?
The writer is Peter Watts. He writes science fiction, with arguably dystopic aspects. One of his books, Blindsight, is available to read for free on his website:
http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

In fact, it was HN that introduced me to this writer.
Indeed. Grew up around grand rapids, spent 15 years in Ann arbor, a year or so in Boston, and now back in GR. Once you get past the winters and the fact that there are a lot of very religious people around (sometimes good, sometimes bad), it's a good place to be.
it is a delight.

though I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that team jack hollis is on a path to do that yearly. if they follow through on the user-based stuff, they'll end up doing exactly what you were hoping for, @mmjaa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULdBWNOskoY
That's a good question... I'd love to hear from you what you saw.

Any estimate at what live simultaneous users on your site peaked at?
The paperclip maximizer example starts with a human asking an AGI to make some paperclips. That turning into an all-consuming goal at the expense of everything else the AGI would understand humans to care about is the problem with the thought experiment.

However a more complicated example like having the AGI bring about world peace or clean up the environment could have undesirable side-effects because we don't know how to specify what we really want, or have conflicting goals. But that's the same problem we have with existing power structures like governments or corporations.
Is this only in our web client or also in our desktop client?
iPhone charger
Didn't see one of these for December. I work for www.litbit.com, where we are working on smartphone-based AI in San Jose, CA.

We are currently looking for front-end engineering talent to add to our team. FE + UI/UX is very key to our success, as it's important for us to deliver the ease and intuitive gains learned in the consumer space to the enterprise, in our product.

Here is our technology stack (in addition to our own open-source code:)

Front-End: React / Redux, React.Native, CSS, Javascript, HTML

Data Infrastructure: SMACK stack (Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka,) MQTT

In-Memory Compute / Datastore: Ignite, Redis.

Machine Learning: Combust, MLlib, Tensorflow

Systems: Amazon EC2, MS Azure and on-premise x86 / ARM based hardware

The functionality stack of our engine scales both horizontally, via cluster, as well as vertically-- from Cloud to on-premise & in-machine. With the huge data flow of IoT, processing at the right place is key.

If interested reach out to kal [at] litbit.com
Instead of org and curl, some might like to give restclient a call. You put a # comment, then a rest call and maybe some data. It's still organized like a notebook, though, so you can point to any call and punch Ctrl-return and the result pops up in another buffer. Simple and slick without all the Org markup.

https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
huh. I didn't realize there was a standard format. I wonder if there's one for Melbourne. It took forever just to get Melb's transit data into Gmaps et. al.
US prices are magnitude higher than other countries. I have frequent jumper's knee and use Voltaren Gel which my insurance won't cover. Out of pocket, it is $1200 per tube for generic. In Canada its $10.
Thanks! Site looks pretty cool — much more readable than mine :)
Wells Fargo sanctions are on ice under Trump official
> I'm not exactly sure how to create stories that help us build the capacity for understanding and appreciating how complex systems operate, but I think we desperately need them.

This is exactly what I was starting to work on. Until May of 2016 when I realized our "story dissemination systems" were completely failing due to ~oblivious technologists with utopian visions (Zuckerberg is a great example — "oh lets just connect the world up without thinking about how this system will be used to manipulate and destabilize everything we care about"). No matter how valuable a story is, it doesn't matter if no one sees it because our systems show people less valuable things instead (it also doesn't matter if society collapses).

So I've been focusing on addressing dissemination issues every since, though I still personally care more about explaining complex systems. I think there is lots of opportunity to improve in this space, and I'll be back on it when and if this whole dissemination failure is sufficiently addressed.
I think there is something of term-of-art here.

"Clearing brokers" (like Goldman) vet the clients who send transactions to the exchange. If the client defaults on a trade, Goldman is likely liable to the clearing house for the default amount, so it is in their interest to clear only those clients with sufficient collateral to provide margin.

Note that a clearing broker is different from a clearing house. The clearing house serves as a back end settlement layer to an exchange, which serves as a front-end matching engine.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/clearingbroker.asp

Edit: There must be a bona fide finance guy here on HN to answer this knowledgably?
Two autistic sons. Both are happy. I've gotten questions before about their future. I tell people that if they are as happy as they are now in the future, what does it matter what they do? I know people that apparently have a good job and good education and all that, and they aren't happy.

Your perspective shifts.
The article states he was a co-founder and the crunchbase page has two other cofounders
By claiming the impossibility of an AI apocalypse, Chollet attempts to avoid discussing any other possibility / plausibility / likelihood than zero, but claiming impossibility brings with it a burden of proof that his arguments cannot carry.

As to whether an AI apocalypse is more or less likely than an invasion by predatory aliens, I would guess that it might be the more likely one, but I wouldn't put much effort into defending that position.
"Wenzhao Wei and Dan Rederth are the first to earn physics PhDs within the state of South Dakota."
I got my PhD in this field and now develop methods like these. They can work, but the field is still immature - there are plenty of models in circulation that haven't been proved to deliver any useful information. Although I agree with the list of improvements suggested by the authors, I would put "more validation" above all of them.
Reminds me of some great graffiti I saw once: "get out and face your world". It was doing to me, breached it's a one word change from the normal "get out and face the world". But that one word change makes you realize it's one world, but it's very different for each of us.
No interest in Amazon Key. Just wondering about any other keyless products worth looking at like Schlange etc.
(I'll take your point.)
You should definitely checkout Shamir's Secret Sharing.
Exercise. It'll really help mentally and physically. Seriously.
> I would rather deal with the Japanese administration, which asks for ridiculous amount of documents but does its job. And a country with working services (transports, post) is also a big plus.

Among developed countries, certainly France is in the best choices available, but as many pointed out in this thread, Japan, while having highly reliable services, is also kind of a late adopter for many technologies and often goes in trends that are quite different from the rest of the world.
Thanks very much. I'm glad I asked. Clearly, I had failed to really internalize what it means to be a linear operator!
How Australian Tech Companies Can Think About Silicon Valley
It is in the top search result for "who's hiring"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15824597
Litbit | San Jose | Full-time | www.litbit.com

Litbit is smartphone-based AI that anyone can train and use.

We are currently looking for front-end engineering talent to add to our team. FE + UI/UX is very key to our success, as it's important for us to deliver the ease and intuitive gains learned in the consumer space to the enterprise, in our product.

Here is our technology stack (in addition to our own open-source code:)

Front-End: React / Redux, React.Native, CSS, Javascript, HTML

Data Infrastructure: SMACK stack (Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka,) MQTT

In-Memory Compute / Datastore: Ignite, Redis.

Machine Learning: Combust, MLlib, Tensorflow

Systems: Amazon EC2, MS Azure and on-premise x86 / ARM based hardware

The functionality stack of our engine scales both horizontally, via cluster, as well as vertically-- from Cloud to on-premise & in-machine. With the huge data flow of IoT, processing at the right place is key.

Let me know if you'd be interested in meeting, either in person or via phone, to compare notes and learn more. You can email kal [at] litbit.com for more info.
Homicide rate seems a ridiculous rate to use; I suspect the homicide rate per 100,000 startup founders is a rounding error of — for example — road traffic accidents.
> Here's a list of the top 100 American surnames. The majority of them are British/Scottish/Welsh

Lots of people of other origins adopted English surnames because the British were the dominant early group, and then later people with British names were, even though not always of British descent.

So, now, sure, British surnames are dominant, but that's often not indicative of British descent.
It definitely drops the last word for the cell phone app. I often talk using the desktop client to someone using the cell phone app, and every last word of a sentence she says seems dropped
NUMTOT check-in
/home/your_username/.pioneer

Hm. They'd better use XDG base directory spec.
In Tokyo it is possible to get a job as a software developer without speaking Japanese. After living here a couple years someone decides they like life here, but want to run their own business. Maybe they want to run a SaaS or something that targets a global audience. For visa purposes, they need a Japanese company.

By this time they’ve maybe picked up up some basic Japanese but aren’t fluent. Becoming fluent in a language is quite challenging, especially if you’re working full time in an English language environment. Even without fluency, it’s possible to enjoy life here.
Yeah, I just assume there is more to the story. It's fun to speculate what it might be.
Household Debt: Recent Developments and Challenges [pdf]
Posting a public article is seeking sympathy. If I were her husband, I would be upset at her for opening private family matters to the public.

Ramp access, parking spaces, etc, is not an unreasonable expectation at all. But to demand it is another thing. It shouldn’t be a law, but that’s just my opinion. It is law. The funny thing is the disability act has made it worse for those who would really benefit from it.

And yes, going out to dinner in a wheelchair is uncomfortable and difficult. That will never change. The fact is that most people are not in that situation. So most establishments don’t often deal with it. That’s the way it is.

So, I guess that’s the point my dad was making. Restaurants are mandated to accommodate, if they want to or not. You can tell those who are just following the law. They have no little to no appreciation for the business in someone’s unusual situation. But there are those restaurant owners who really make accommodation a part of their business culture and really want and appreciate people in such a situation. Those really do make it easy and comfortable for people in that situation.

Bottom line — there is no blanket right answer. It can’t be answered with legislation. But you can find people who go above and beyond.
You're probably imagining an assembly line, where one step follows another in a logical procession, and there doesn't seem to be much of a branching factor. However, each step along that line is the process of many deep optimizations. It is more complicated than you think; thousands of people work on it. Consider just the case of choosing a screw, probably one of the most simple steps in building a car. These 24 pages only scratch the surface of the choices available: http://www.fastecindustrial.com/images/MediaCatFastener.pdf
This looks just like pwpush. Have you seen pwpush.com?
> There was a myriad of stories about traders and even banks that tried to pull of some shady statretgy in the stocks markets that the SEC shut down

OK, let's hear a few of the stories. Or at least a few links.

(And I promise my pockets aren't deep enough to execute on them.)
Did you intend to write $1200? That's two order of magnitude greater. Astonishing.
How times change.

That would've taken half a hour on a dial-up connection.
Yes, very safe indeed. It can be quite fun when you are in your 20s, if you live in big urban centers (night life, etc.) - but it's also an impenetrable society. Not being Japanese will place barriers around you in many aspects of the society, sooner or later (even if you are fluent in the language). It's important to be aware of this.
There is an interesting interview with Robert Reich on foundations and philanthropy here:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/09/rob_reich_on_fo.htm...

Transcript at the bottom. Coincidentally, Reich offers anecdote regarding Soros and taxes at about 30 minutes into interview. However, I'm posting this for its general coverage of the topic. (edited to clarify)
This was in Illinois. Chicago has a vastly different hiring environment than any other place I've lived in. The interviews are long, there are a ton of behaviour questions (one interview had a solid hour dedicated to behaviour questions; and they wanted really detailed specifics).

It's a far departure from other markets I've worked in. I've personally never even asked behaviour questions during an interview, and really I think you can get a good judge of behaviour just by watching the candidate answer technical questions.

I'm not sure if non-competes are the norm. I have a feeling they might be as they recently passed laws to ban them for low income earners. I've only had one job offer, and they refused to remove it. I have no problem signing NDAs, IP wavers, patent wavers, etc. But I refuse to sign anything that restricts my right to work after a company stops paying me. If it turns out all of them do the same thing, I might have to head back to the west coast.
Those ads were for things like Digital and Aerospace - not Power, or Capital, or Transportation (which is located in my hometown, and will probably shut down in the next decade.)
Discord was right to ban them once they became aware of them, but it's very easy to create a private Discord server to do bad things just as it's very easy to create an AIM/MSN/Skype group chat to do bad things. The portrayal of Discord as somehow naturally encouraging or inducing neo-Nazis to use their platform is silly. Once a communication system (telephone, email, IM) becomes popular enough, bad people are inevitably going to use it as well.
Noctis 4 was a game I played extensively when I was a bit younger. No Mans Sky is one I thoroughly enjoyed for the same reasons more recently, and still pick up everyone once in a while. Unfortunately, that means that unless a game brings something new to the table, the "market is saturated" from my perspective, and the site provides very little to go on.
You're exactly right, but Discord is a carrier and not a social platform or community.
remind me of my old project :) https://mohdhazwan.github.io/instaniche/
You get the card at the airport, but it's useless without the stamp. Can confirm that the dependency graph stated by the parent is a (the?) correct way to navigate the system. The only thing I'd modify is that you can save money by bringing your own phone, and getting a phone+data SIM card from Bic, which you can set up on a recurring plan with a foreign credit card.
Not sure if other industries are the same but I find this sense of forced optimism almost oppressive in SV tech companies. The place where I work holds optimism as an explicit value. So when they cut a perk or change things in a way that makes everyone’s job more difficult, etc, there is a low-level pressure to talk about how it’s actually good. That type of thing.

Of course optimism goes out the window when we need to figure out how people will defraud the company, or when a change that would make employees’ lives better is considered. Very conditional optimism, you know.
This is very true. I take Prednizone 1-2 times per year for an allergy I have to nickel, cobalt and gold. In the U.S. a few days of pills (maybe 30 pills) is around $30usd with my insurance.

I am traveling in China right now and needed Prednizone after coming into contact with nickel. 100 pills was 4rmb which is only $0.64usd
At my last company, I tended to avoid all company-designated events but would still every couple months arrange a Friday after work drinking get-together at some local bar. Work parties felt like (unpaid) work or requisite to fit in with the 'company culture' vs after work drinks where you could blow off some steam without consequences and actually bond.
1. No idea.

2. No idea.

3. No idea.

4. About 0%. They're laughably unscalable and wasteful.