skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the great response!

I don't think I understand how HTML, CSS, and Javascript interaction makes Gulp development complicated. My CSS files are totally separate from my HTML/javascript, and are just included directly in my index.html. I use JSX with React to do inline HTML markup inside my .js files, which Babel handles just fine through its transform-react-jsx plugin, included easily in a one-line command in my Gulpfile which is just a very simple "babel" function call configurable via a regular .babelrc file.

Basically, I have yet to hit any limitations with the "build-is-code" philosophy, despite years of people telling me it's an awful and horrible thing to do. I can't forsee my <75 line Gulpfile growing too much, as the plugin ecosystem is robust and I already have all the features I could possibly want.

For reference, here is my simple Gulp setup. Each line is easily readable and explainable to anyone who knows basic Javascript (and a single Node.js primitive called "pipe").

As I asked another commentor: If you can point me to a clear tutorial on Make that lets me do all the things this Gulpfile does with extreme ease, I'll abandon Gulp and use Make exclusively for all front-end projects.

https://gist.github.com/c-johnson/b66d376b686c16efeb26484e89...
> encourage Main Street investors to be open to these opportunities, but to ask good questions, demand clear answers and apply good common sense when doing so.

so what, are we going to stop seeing "US IP detected, unable to participate" in ICOs?
Or keep it offshore and use it to finance foreign investments.
While it's a far cry from 1,400x more in fuel tax, semis do get "punished" for their poor fuel mileage (paying more tax per mile driven) compared to a person in a Prius. In Iowa, the tax is 30.8 cents/gallon for gasoline and 32.5 cents/gallon for diesel. [1] At 53 mpg and 6 mpg, the tax cost per miles is 0.616 cents and 5.42 cents respectively. And of course electric vehicles avoid this tax entirely.

Applying the tax on a per-gallon basis is great for environmentalism, as it encourages higher fuel efficiency. Applying it by vehicle classification and cost/mile could eliminate the subsidization, but would be a huge pain to keep track of.

[1] https://tax.iowa.gov/iowa-fuel-tax-rate-changes-effective-ju...
Bundling things together is usually frowned upon by credit card companies. Especially when that money is going to end up in a bunch of different places.

It makes anti-money-laundering practically impossible, because all the payments might contain some legitimate component together with some fraud component.

Also, from the user perspective, if a user is unhappy with any one of the things they are patrons of, they might ask the bank to do a chargeback. That would make their chargeback rate much higher, which is also bad for business.
In fact, they often make special funds available to pay these charges. As long as there is strong demand by researchers to publish in these journals, they will have to pay up or accept subscriptions. And there is very strong demand, because it affects researchers' long-term career prospects: https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-ca...

That said, funders are also somewhat complicit in it by deciding who to fund based on if they published in those journals. Which is the result of those decisions being made by academics who typically cannot read all the research of all applicants: https://theconversation.com/why-i-disagree-with-nobel-laurea...
Wow so that's how FCC got most of their ~300,000 stars
Perhaps there are real world scenarios not totally unlike those from game theory. You can imagine situations like the prisoners' dilemma, where maximizing each individual's expected benefit from taking some action is suboptimal due to no means to cooperate.
You seem to be confusing volume with liquidity. The question is not how many times a bitcoin (allegedly) changes hands on an exchange, but how many USD/CNY/JPY etc. are bidding on bitcoins right now.

Why wouldn’t the CNY/JPY/KRW markets have much higher volume when they have zero trading fees?

The magnitude of an exchange is measured by how many funds they have on deposit, not how often these deposits change owner according to the exchange’s internal database.
The science that’s never been cited
When I was a kid in high school in Belgium, mobile phones were definitely banned in every respectable high school without needing it to be enforced on a national level. You were allowed to carry it with you of course, but if anyone saw you using it, the teachers would take it away from you. That included during recess. I don't recall ever seeing anyone using their phone in class, except maybe some kid trying to be edgy once. It was a pretty okay system that I don't recall anyone really complaining about. Parents were happy they could contact their kids if they were worried, and it sure was nice I that I was easily able to call for help when I broke my arm while riding my bike home that one time.

Of course, this was before the rise of smartphones. Those only took off around the time I got my first job, so I can't really comment on that. I definitely do recall playing Tetris and Wolfenstein 3D on my Texas Instruments calculator though.
That’s the point. Honda Pilot is an 8 passenger SUV. A much less capable car, the model S weighs as much as the Pilot. So if Tesla were to make an 8 passenger hauler, that car would weigh, what, double the size of the Pilot?
I wanted to do this at one point with cryptocurrencies.

Use historical pricing data, NLP and comment volume on cryptocurrency subreddits and threads, frequency of search terms from Google analytics, major exchange status (Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken, etc. - whether they are up or down as dummy variables), frequency of crypto-related news, etc. all plugged in as features into models in Python and linked with Gemini trading API.

I started working on it and then got lazy (and bad RSI from being at my computer way too much) and it never materialized. Plus, I guarantee somebody else is doing it, or models like that probably aren't too successful anyway.

Could be fun though.
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over time it would dramatically increase the size of the pool of talented engineers, among tons of other stuff. That's a great thing for all the tech companies in the city or companies with engineering divisons (and there are quite a few). This is optimistic, but it might create enough demand for immediately adjacent housing that more areas get cleaned up (abandon houses torn down, etc..). Realistically amazon employees are well paid though, so they could live in almost any nearby community with a couple exceptions.

I don't know that it would affect Shipt's business a ton; its not like they are super tied to just the local (grocery) market any more.

That said, as much as I'd love it, Birmingham almost definitely isn't getting HQ2. Public transit is next to non-existent, the greater metro area BARELY meets their minimum requirement (~1.1m as of 2010), and while we are close to some major universities they don't have super strong CS departments (which might not be the end of the world); UAB probably has the strongest (and there are ~18k students total).

But, if somehow BHM HQ2 happens I will glady streak naked through my neighborhood wearing an Amazon box as a helmet.
Huh, wonder why that is. Maybe it's because they try to pitch it to banks?
Data science is actually statistics, which goes quite a bit further than the 1960s. In fact, today's data scientists love to quote Box and Fischer.

Data science and data mining are victories of marketing over common sense.
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I'd never heard of a giro transfer. In the states we use ACH and it takes 2-5 days to clear. The ACH numbers are also reusable - your numbers never change, and they can be used for withdrawal as well as deposit.
Possible dataleak at LDLC.com
This tweet is French, here is a English summary:

Someone has received an email from LDLC.com that explains that they found their email and passwords on another website in the clear.

The mail used is in the form "ldlc@example.com" and is used only on LDLC.com website.

No official comment from LDLC.com.
Electric locomotives have been available since 1879, built by none other than Werner von Siemens, and today the vast majority of trains are electric.

Of course since then we've spent trillions on building a road network that we charge truck drivers basically nothing for, we continue to spend billions yearly on repairing the vast damage "road trains" cause that again we basically charge the logistics companies nothing for, we have not increased taxes on fuel in decades for a shortfall of hundreds of billions of dollars, the use of fossil fuels has caused trillions of external costs that have not been accounted for. Thousands of lives lost due to the enormous kinetic energy required to move trucks and the inherent in their design visibility and movement constraints that surpass the ability of humans to safely maneuver them.

And all of this insanity has combined to make long distance truck transportation cheaper than the vastly more efficient (in any sense of the word) train. Electric trucks have their place: for last mile delivery, transport between plants in a manufacturing process. But they make about as much sense for long distance transport as their ICE brothers.
> Instead of exchange currencies in order to be able to pay taxes, why not accepting payment in the government currency in the first place?

You don't need to exchange all your currency to pay taxes, and in the hypothetical scenario we're discussing you would want the rest to remain in cryptocurrencies because that is what you need to pay all your other expenses. Beyond the network effect, exchanging only the amount you need for taxes would improve security and limit your exposure to currency manipulation.
It's just not a professional solution. I'm not sure who would buy one. It's just a stopgap until the Mac Pro is released.
> Of course in the US with basically unlimited student loan money, no one seems to be in a particular hurry to cut costs.

Well... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-univ...
Here's what worked for me.

1. Make a thing and post it online for free with some degree of regularity.

2. Every post had a small link: "Pssst! Wanna help crowdfund a pagerate for me? Support my comics on Patreon."

3. Every time I made a thing, I'd post it to Patreon; at the end of the month, my backers would get charged based on how many things I made.

4. Over the course of a year, my Patreon went from "paying for my drink at the weekly cartoonist meetup sometimes" to "paying most of my rent on a productive month". And I am doing this by drawing a complicated graphic novel about a lesbian robot with Philip K Dick problems.

I make far more from Patreon than I ever did from ads, and I'm delighted to have been able to turn them off for good.
I have the explanation here:
https://blog.kareldonk.com/on-money-bitcoin-and-cryptocurren...
Some simple starter ideas - sorry no space to go into details - email me if you want more info:

1) Create a website. Join some affiliate programs. Drive traffic to the website. I've done this. Didn't make too much money but it was a small income. I know a lot more now so probably could do a better job.

2) Create a course and sell it via Udemy. Not done this myself (yet).

3) Write an e-book and sell it through joint venture via someone else's website. Done this (back in 2003/2004). Make a couple hundred a month from it. I wrote a book on living in Thailand but you could do anything.

4) Start your own removals company using a rented van. (You only need some insurance a strong back and a few local ads or word of mouth). Having done my own removals a few times plus the same for friends can be a nice little business. Be prepared to walk away from specialist jobs though (no grand pianos)! Free workout with every job. ;)

5) Learn a trade. You an set yourself up as a painter and decorator for next to nothing. This is a nice little side earner for me (and was for my Dad too - he taught me, and his Dad taught him).

6) Set up a little consultancy showing small businesses how to use free software. I've done this too after I got asked to install a free CRM system for a little business (oil services) and they then asked me to work up a training course for them. I then found myself doing various jobs for them like setting up wikis, email, showing them how to use Google Docs etc etc

7) Sign up to UpWork and do odd jobs in an area you can handle.

Lots more ideas but partner home now so I need to go! Good luck!
Whereas Paypal will apparently do 5% and 0.05, which makes the dollar go to $1.10 instead of $1.38.
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At least Liberapay had a good week: https://liberapay.com/about/stats - 50% increase in active users, 8x increase in money deposited.

It's still a rounding error compared to Patreon's size, but I'm happy to see open-source non-profit grow.
>Yes they are a money making organization...that's why they were able to build such a useful service in the first place and yes they paid people to write this letter... who happen to be people that are good at communicating. Does that mean we should question every action they make as insincere because they are self-interested?

Yes! As customers in a cold, realist world, we're doomed to have an adversarial relationship with the organizations trying to profit from us. The question is who wins: Joe Six-pack like you and me, or the suits with the lawyers and PR teams?
I'm also interested in stopping by sometime (I live nearby and am the founder of cocalc.com).
Part of the change was no longer aggregating the charges but running them through individually. They wouldn't have been pocketing most of the fees.

Which honestly makes it even more baffling an idea.
Why would the US go to war with China? What would we gain from it? The US would like real access to the Chinese market, but war isn't a good way to do that, because the Chinese population would refuse to buy anything from US companies. Additionally, the first thing that would happen in a war is that China would stop manufacturing things for US companies, which would massively disrupt the companies, probably cause a stock market crash (for whatever that's worth) because of lowered future profit, and create a shortage of consumer goods. We actually benefit from the way things are now, we get cheap consumer goods, and we get sort-of access to the Chinese market.
Chapo Trap House has exactly one pledge level at $5+, which means this change would have probably benefited them financially. They'd be unlikely to lose many patrons upset about having to pay $5.50 a month instead of $5, and they'd be getting 3-5% more from each pledge due to no longer having to pay transaction fees on their side.
Patreon is a cool product, but do you REALLY need the absolute "best" minds to work on it? That's vastly devaluing the entire rest of the industry and makes me sick. I'm a decent software engineer, and I had fewer job opportunities because I don't want to drop 85% of my income on rent. Why am I not good enough to write an average Joe's app, or a simple payment processor/solution?

I don't like this mindset
Definitely plausible for ATC installs.
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GiveCampus (YC S15) wants Ruby and FE Engineers who are passionate about education
GiveCampus is a Y Combinator-backed company that builds fundraising software for educational institutions. We're working to bring actual innovation to the space, and solve the hair-on-fire problems fundraisers face. We're tired of schools being stuck with crappy software that never changes.

We're growing at an awesome pace, and now need more motivated engineers to help us build out the features and products schools want! Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, expects us to be a household name in the next few years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896296. We were also covered by the Washington Post last year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/1...), and we have grown the number of schools using us by more than 5x since the article was published.

We're still a small team, so if you're looking to join a fast-growing startup and have an immediate impact, we're looking for both full-stack (Ruby on Rails, Postgres) and front-end engineers with at least 2 years of professional experience. Our current team was previously with Facebook, Amazon, and Intel.

Please no recruiters or dev shops.

Reach out to careers@givecampus.com with a bit about why you're passionate about education, and a project you've working on that you're particularly proud of. We're based in DC with an office in SF, so we're looking to hire in both locations.
I have to wonder what the hell those employees are all doing. Kickstarter's in equally-pricey NYC and just has around 50.

I keep getting this vision of Jack Conte just being a really nice guy who's giving sinecure positions to his friends...
Good stainless and induction cookware has a much more even distribution of heat than cast iron, as well.

http://www.cookingissues.com/2010/02/16/heavy-metal-the-scie...
What is missing from the blog post and from comments here as well is something I saw on Twitter: if they unbundle and charge on the "anniversary" of the join date of everyone then anyone shipping physical is utter screwed. They used to have a single day (say, the 6th) when they shipped out to everyone who paid and that was it. Shipping every day for small creators doesn't work -- they need time to create :)
Ooh, I have 7. Perhaps my aversion to social media has consequences.
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A Reddit user is donating 5057 BTC ( 86M USD ) to charities
The market does seem to be frequently bad at that sort of thing. I've done pretty well (better than my index funds) over the years by reading the news and buying shares in companies that seem to have more wealthy futures. I very rarely sell so I can see how they've done over many years and, by and large, pretty well.

Maybe everyone assumes that the market has already factored it all in so they don't bother buying so it isn't factored in because the increased demand never arose. Maybe I'm just out of sync, and as other people start to notice this they'll start buying and it'll turn back around and then the market will have factored these things in because lots of people assume it hasn't.
Yes, at least put a signature block in the protocol.
https://cdn3.img.sputniknews.com/images/103710/55/1037105579...

That is Charles de Gaulle Airport, but I have seen the same type of soldier at train stations in France. Regardless of what it's called, that is the type of weapon they have.
> I understand why they do it: they trying to bring down transaction costs with payment processors. These fees on small amounts is death by thousand cuts.

Then they should have never strayed from the original model, where they charge you once per month for all your pledges, causing only one fee paid to the payment processor.

(If they needed to accommodate people pledging small amounts to very few creators, they could have introduced some sort of quarterly, biannual, or even annual payment option instead of just monthly. I'm curious if they evaluated this option and what they concluded.)
Well, some of them are also complicit in maintaining that incentive structure: https://theconversation.com/why-i-disagree-with-nobel-laurea...

But yeah, it's hard to blame anyone specifically, as the current situation is the result of so many actors: https://medium.com/flockademic/the-vicious-cycle-of-scholarl...

(Apologies for plugging my own article repeatedly, but otherwise I'd be writing the same all the time...)
When Apple or Google had billions of dollars kept overseas like this, they could still invest it outside the US with no additional tax burden. So when these companies were building new datacenters or hiring new employees or doing any sort of investment in their business, there was essentially a 30% discount to do it internationally rather than in the US.
Stuff like this is funny until you've seen & had to deal with enough real production code that's just as terrible. Then it's just depressing.
> At its core, the current cryptocurrency craze is simply an unprecedented wealth transfer to China from the rest of the world.

Actually it's a wealth transfer from china to the US. The chinese are using bitcoins as a means to evade CCP capital controls.

There's a reason why china cracked down on bitcoin. Do you think china would stop wealth transfer to china? Of course not. They are trying to stop wealth transfer from china to the US.
Sounds like the Cobra Effect just waiting to happen.

Besides, if the positions pay well there will be plenty of other candidates willing step in. There is no shortage of examples showing that morals are often secondary to money.
Somewhat related, there's also small advocacy towards releasing publicly funded code under the open source licenses:

https://publiccode.eu/
From the manufacturer:

"Lodge seasons all of its cookware with soy vegetable oil and nothing else. Any food-safe cooking oil/shortening will work for maintaining your cookware. We recommend vegetable oil or canola oil, like our Seasoning Spray."
The For-Profit thing has continued to irk me about Patreon and Kickstarter. Why haven't we seen a 503(c) come out with these services so I can make my contributions to the arts as a tax-deduction?

If I donate to the local theatre, art-in-the-park, PBS, etc. then there is a non-profit organization accepting and then distributing the funds.
Can you ellaborate? Are there any good testing set up platforms or tutorials?
> How do you compare the roadwear problem to the one of massive pollution caused by burning millions of gallons of petroleum every year to move these vehicles around?

Maybe there should be a joule tax applied to all forms of energy, a portion of which is dedicated to environmental efforts and a portion to infrastructure maintenance? There could be a lower tax rate for green energy (perhaps no environmental element, only road and electric infrastructure costs).

There was lots of debate about net metering in Nevada a year or two ago. One element from that discussion was if everyone was on solar, there wouldn't be money for maintaining the grid. My proposal is to avoid that issue by acknowledging there are costs to remaining connected to the grid even if you net meter to 0.

That would address the environmental side. I think a cost/mile applied to vehicles of different classifications would be the best way to address road wear.
kept money from being invested in the US

Not really. Much of the money "kept offshore" is invested in the US[1]. Apple's money, in particular, is managed by their subsidiary in Reno called Braeburn Capital. It just happens to be owned by a Caribbean subsidiary.

[1] https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/me...
Yeah, I know, but imagine if it was fully automated on both ends. The platonic ideal of letting all medium-bitrate video be cheaper is okay or at least not awful.
L. Bob Rife would be proud.
Huh? Bitcoin white paper does not have the word block-chain in it.
Ripple hits all time high
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