skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wooo this is awesome! Robinhood gets it :) I already use Robinhood for trading, so this would be a one stop shop. Plus the fact that it integrates with TurboTax means there's zero work to pay taxes on trades. Keeping track of the taxes is my biggest hassle trading crypto.

Hey Robinhood if you're reading I'd like

BTC, ETH, LTC, XMR, DOGE, XRP, XLM, XEM
> Despite the regulations, I’ve been food poisoned by restaurants around half a dozen times in my life.

Did you wash your hands before you ate?
Here's another idea: change your profile pic to a banner saying you're quitting social media. The social pressure against being called out for breaking your pledge will help make it stick. You'll be less able to silently return (like you can if you "disable" your account), and you can still use your account in limited, less addictive ways (e.g. logins, messaging with people who don't have other contact info, etc).
Note: It is in Beta, and we have limited data. Thus, expect a work in progress.

Right now we need funds to continue development and add more data. So we will be charging if you don't provide feedback - so please help us improve! :)
Was recently aggressively recruited by a startup, who needs both my deep industry knowledge as well as tech skills. They proceeded to give me some generic algorithm challenge take home, taking 4 hours.
In other words, they don't confiscate, they deface the phones.
> 19 orders of magnitude down from 1 meter is about five orders of magnitude smaller than a hydrogen atom.

How to remember sizes is the first section of my slowly-loading wasn't-written-for-public page http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/Atoms .
>If the stock market is priced efficiently, it is as much a gamble as Bitcoin.

Well... we're just shoving a poor definition of investment off onto a poor definition of gamble. If potential drawdown could be considered part of the risk of 'investing' )or 'gambling') then Bitcoin is definitely more of a gamble.
I think the feature makes lots of sense for Robinhood from a business perspective, but I cannot see the majority of Robinhood users fully understanding the risks of buying cryptocurrencies as an investment. It feels similar penny stocks and late-90s tech IPOs in that the price is driven primarily by uncertainty/unknowability in outcome and hype from recent returns.

Also I'm curious if Robinhood Gold (Robinhood's version of margin accounts) will work here, letting people easily borrow money to buy cryptocurrencies. This seems particularly dangerous for a product targeting small/layman investor.
(Pure speculation warning) I was wondering why they were taking so long to put out their options trading and web UI. I wonder if this had something to do with it.
> Playing with your cell phone is a lot less easily justified than singing bladly or dancing too wildly

Taking a photo to commemorate a once-in-a-lifetime experience, recording video to show friends, checking the time because you can't stay until the very end, checking the babysitter hasn't called to say the kids are in hospital, ... there are many reasons I can think of that, whilst they may be annoying, and may to a very small extent detract from your experience, are still 'valid' and necessary from the other's point of view.

> If someone is talking over the concert or spilling beer on me I'm going to ask them to stop, too.

Right. I must admit, I wouldn't do that in the same situation, partly because I'm conflict-averse but also because it wouldn't bother me that much. However, I wouldn't argue that beer can't be served at the event or no-one's allowed to talk at all. I have no problem with you politely asking someone else to take their cell phone out of your face, but I see no reason why that has to result in a blanket ban.
Oops, I got my OSs mixed up. The bootloop was after I installed LineageOS, then OnePlus flashed it back to the official OxygenOS.
In gambling, you stand to lose your entire stake if luck is against you.

In (spot) market movements, your value goes down as the market declines, but you don't stand to lose everything in a moment.
> Seriously, steps 1-4 building the large car are the exact same steps needed to build the small skateboard.

They are, but the scale is vastly different.

> I think he's really trying to say "lower your requirements to go live", and then from their do incremental improvements. Does that seem like a fair assessment?

Sure.
Pretty sure they can just require the band/attendees to sign away their liability.
If any one interested in building your trading bot here is open api spec for robinhood. https://github.com/sabareeshkkanan/robinhood
> For two generations political protests were virtually 100% violence-free

Two generations? So 60 years? Political protests were virtually 100% violence free? [1][2][3]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Conve...
I really don't know.

But in any case I really thank you for the links.

It's great when shit like that gets real. And probably not only the fans that were at the gig, but a ton of other people will have a pleasurable experience with the result (and respect that band even more).
I went through this same process. Registered for Medium... googled on Bing how to subscribe to RSS, and then added the feed to my reader and logged back out of Medium.
When you put money into blackjack you're not buying an asset. A crypto coin is an asset that can be held. Just like a share of a company, or a dollar itself.
Needs to be an OR, IMHO. Sometimes we pick up games, play 30-ish minutes, come back 2-3weeks later when there is more time, and bam. Game-breaking issues. (Especially with corrupt saved games. Seriously, how is it difficult to check integrity of a file after you write it out to disk)
The Top 5 Reasons Developers Stay Happy in Their Jobs (2016)
I hope not
Agree entirely.
A serverless solution to schedule your Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand Backup
Uber is operating at a loss worldwide. So, yes, "working" could mean "operating at a loss", it's still a valid example.

Also it's not like Fi was my entire point. My actual point was that Google has an utter crap track record at launching stuff outside the US.
Side note with nothing to do with the original discussion: My father decided to be honest and give constructive feedback during his exit interview when leaving a company similar in size and importance to Google. Then most of his peers retired and they asked him to come back and offered pretty massive incentives for a pretty small commitment. When he decided to accept? HR got involved and insisted he not be hired because he was "disgruntled" in his exit interview. So now when I leave a company my exit interview is 100% peachy with a vague cliche about why I'm leaving, and I might tell one or two very close friends who work there why I'm leaving. If I trust a company to value my feedback honestly enough, I probably won't be leaving for a while.
Yes I did, sorry. Fastmail does have a GMail import (and tags become folders). The UI is different, yes.
There have been public complaints about this too, such as that "cancer findings don't reproduce" editorial (where "reproduce" is defined as "generalize") that got lots of press 5 years ago. My best understanding of the situation is that big pharma and research are going at opposite purposes. Big pharma wants something that generalizes and can lead to drugs that hit almost all of the target population. Research emphasizes novelty, and finding new stuff, which most often won't generalize.

Chasing the findings in "leading journals" is going to escalate this disconnect. Leading journals go for novelty and surprise alone. These are exactly the findings that are least likely to generalize.

I'd love to see how and where VC is funding life science research. It seems unlikely that the types of projects that VC funds would overlap the type of research that NIH funds, but I would love to be wrong on that!
If you know even one person who works for an airline, you can tell from the beginning that this article is just emotional mindless trash.

The author pines for the "good old days" of Edinburgh. Talk to anyone over 50 from Edinburgh. It wasn't great. It wasn't even nice. I mean, you're in Scotland. This was never the promised land. It's perhaps more plastic now, but the vomit was there already.

Travel is one of the most eye-opening, empathy-instilling, educational practices a human can muster. What the author is really railing against is mindless tourism, not travel. But they're too narrow-minded and angry to think past their blunderous miswording.

I am all in favor of limiting tourism, and virtually eliminating eco-tourism. But travel? Honest-to-god, mind-expanding, awe-inspiring, information-sharing, culture-trading, value-shifting travel? The world needs more of it now than ever. If I have to listen to another fucking nationalist prick talk about how their country needs to be more white and be more hostile to foreign nations and peoples, I'll puke.

If you want to save the planet, curbing plane rides is not the way. Every nation's pollution has different causes and solutions. And pulling back from technology is not going to help us - it would cause the death of countless millions that would have died years ago if their health wasn't extended by modern innovations. Being smarter about how we use and regulate it would be the best benefit.

For every tourist flying to Japan to see the cherry blossoms in spring, we should be instilling in them the need to get into the suburbs and have natto with a host family. Sitting there with their bowl of soy snot, silently contemplating how a city with no trash cans can be so clean, they might appreciate their own breakfast more, and begin to think that their world can change if they simply choose to. That's what travel can do.
The Atlas of Redistricting
His "independent blog" was Blogger: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/

Let's call it a sidestep.
I worked at a 'best place to work', and... the pay/benefits for many of the 'regular' folks was pretty good - above average for sure. and overall it was nice to work there, but the politics in the IT dept were difficult for me to deal with. I asked for a transfer to another project or another area and was declined so... there wasn't much option except to leave. I had one guy telling me to 'chill out' and relax some - he was dating the niece of the dept manager, so, there wasn't much chance of him having issues there. there was very much a culture of "person X has worked here longer, listen to them" regardless of how much experience they had with respect to the actual domain or technology on the project, which was frustrating. The managers I had were, most of them, nice people - I liked them. But it didn't seem they noticed or cared about the inefficiencies and politics going on. More than a few people said - "if you want to move up here, it's going to take 5-10 years of just 'being around'" and... I didn't care to wait that long (especially not when the gospel preached was about merit and ability being the measuring sticks).
Another site that does this well: I always review the top10 for days that I was too busy to check into HN.

https://hckrnews.com/
I did exactly this 2 years ago and it was just as painless as you described. Took a few months of slowly migrating various accounts to new email via forwarding. I’m just annoyed at myself for not having done it sooner.
These things could happen, but since the product/service is about carpooling, I tend to pick up the same people repeatedly. Any time you work with a new person, there is a risk. That risk goes down significantly with repeated rides. I initially had issues with pick up and drop off location, due to Waze letting you pick how many minutes you're willing to walk. With new riders, I have a chat before accepting so they understand the nuances of Waze Carpool.
Oh thank you! I corrected that caps now but I wasn't even talking about the guidelines. I was talking about how the vast majority of HN users don't want anyone to use the downvote button as a disagree button, which is quite evident when you search for: downvote disagree site:ycombinator.com

Also, I didn't comment about the downvotes on my comment. I said "it's kinda like X".

Anyway, you completely ignored the bulk of my comment. So, I'll continue to rest assured that my logic is sound and that nobody can really argue against it. Thanks!
Is buying gold not an investment?
I’ve done all of that except for gmail and that account is slowly turning into my ancient Hotmail account.

I don’t miss Google services - apart from Maps—Apple Maps is usable, just.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, I'm not claiming there isn't a valid line of reasoning that gets us to the end state. Of course there are reasons and of course some of them might be outside Google's control.
What complaining? I said "it's kinda like how X..."

That's not a complaint, thank you very much :)
> Although your original $x are not completely wasted, you still only have $y instead of the $y + $z you could have had.

That just makes $x grow to $previous_x + $y.
> My first statement is likely stronger than it needs to be. My main question back to you is, how do you look for something that you imagine may exist, but couldn't say how?

I certainly agree with you, thus seeking for life similar than ours is the only feasible way to spend time in deep space research; we cannot look for something different, because we don't know what to look for.
> A lot of people get to the point where they simply don't like coming into work everyday, and have to come up for a reason why they feel that way.

Since they "don't like coming into work", the reason already exists, they just (maybe) don't know it yet. As such, it isn't so much inventing a reason as it is discovering it.
That may work for you as a single individual but in general it's just not realistic. Times have changed. The world has moved on.
You might want to Google Images for Brasília (Brazil's capital), built in the 50's with godzilions of reinforced concrete. It's still spectacular but it's high maintenance and you can see concrete cancer everywhere. I'm not sure if it was a good idea to use it there but surely it is gorgeous due to the architectural possibilities of reinforced concrete.
Cozy public launch: open-source, self-hosted (or not) personal cloud
Are you talking about the small rooms inside of trains you see in Black and White movies?
I've been using http://hckrnews.com/ for the last few months.

It surprises me how many interesting stories get flagged off the front page.

Edit: beaten by softawre
Closer to Midnight: The Doomsday Clock and the Threat of Nuclear War
Ask HN: A company I know in Chicago is doing a scammy ICO. What should I do?
Their product's pitch is "get paid to listen to Spotify in our app". You can earn more coins depending on the number of other users you refer. They are advertising that Mark Cuban is a backer, but this is because he invested in their different business years ago. I joined their Telegram group and their admins speculated as to how much the ICO could pop once listed. Their CEO Dan Novaes is known for having bounced from one failed business idea to another for years (while spinning them as successes).

I wrote up what I know, took screenshots, and sent a tip to the SEC.

Is there anything else I should do?

Their website is tokensale dot current dot us.
The main draw for me is no commission fees on virtually any stock or ETF.

Although I did just try to buy SPXH (S&P500 + Volatility Hedge) and for some mysterious reason it was "not available for trading on Robinhood", even though it's an ETF with a not-miniscule AUM ($50M). I pinged their support about this, and it took them over a week to get back to me to ask what type of security SPXH is.
We had a similar service 20-30 years ago operating mostly out of Quebec and Ontario (Canada). Sadly regulators did not see it very kindly (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/province-stops-allo-stop-1.211...). Story does not say though how thik was the kraft envelop that was exchanged, if there was ever such exchange, or was just an overzealous civil servant. The service had been operating for some time already and was quite successful and popular. That decision came out of nowhere and the service was forced to stop operations. All this well before smart phones apps and the web... well technically the web was present but the service had started well before that and was mostly operating with phone calls to an actual office and bulletin boards and such.

For Allo-Stop yes there was exchange of money but the amounts were such that it would be barely more than the split expenses for gas for the trip.

Wonder if this will be allowed, seeing how Uber is being forced to get taxi licences and such for it's drivers, I doubt this will go very far around here.
I can hold a lottery ticket.
My daughter got severe acne after becoming a full vegan. When she introduced eggs, dairy, and fish back into her diet, her acne got much better.
The one thing Amazon lacks, and why it matters a ton
The reconstructions of most dinosaurs are just terrible. I've found that artists do a much better job than scientists of creating realistic looking animals. The good ones are no more or less speculative than the scientist reconstructions, they just have more thought put into the coloring and how the animal may have looked as it moved about and lived its life. Here are some examples of dinosaurs as they may have actually looked by an artist named John Conway. Quite different than how they're often portrayed:

* Velociraptor: http://johnconway.co/images/medium/velociraptor-mongoliensis...

* Shuvuuia deserti: http://johnconway.co/images/medium/shuvuuia-deserti.jpeg

* Pterosaurs: https://www.wnyc.org/i/raw/1/dinoart5.png
As a matter of HN etiquette, whenever I recommend a book I always give an Amazon referral link. It's a technique I picked up from an HN alum and gets me in the mindset to always be selling.

Is that something that would have been discouraged on HN itself?
JS is a mess.

I think this blog post highlights the frustrating viral nature that is async functions:

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...
GRLC!
My favorite part is the amazing train that goes into the suburbs into the city. Fast, clean, and cheap.
Microsoft’s “Ink to Code” turns drawings into user interfaces
The car example is fun but very unrealistic. The up front investment to build something big (car, house, PhotoShop, AutoCAD) requires up front planning. It's difficult to get right but that doesn't mean it's always bad or unnecessary.

There's a sweet spot for CI and other incremental delivery processes. Websites and modern apps are a great fit but there's lots of SW development projects that can benefit from good old fashioned planning.
I wouldn't trivialize food delivery. Eating is literally something everyone has to do, multiple times a day. Improving it by eg making it cheaper, or healthier, is an enormous benefit to society.

I mean, I didn't think about it much before, but now that I have a child, the days of just throwing together random things from the fridge doesn't cut it, and ordering takeout is too expensive. It's either cook every few days or spend tons of money.

If the market starts giving me cheaper, healthier options than ordering pizza, then I'd consider it a huge quality of life improvement, not to mention a huge time saver.
Exactly true for stocks, but I don't think Apex or any equities clearinghouse is clearing cryptocurrencies (exception: clearport for CME futures). So we're left guessing as to whose balance sheet holds the crypto assets.
Integration Testing Done Right – No Stubs
I'm friends with one of the authors of the book and was all excited to see what I thought was a new interview about his work. :(

edit: and for more general reasons, because HN has a policy of identifying things from previous years as such in their titles, whether they're still relevant or not.
As someone (who is white) that works for a China company, mamahuhu (马马虎虎) may or may not be enough. I have been learning for years and still have speaking gaps, however I can read and write way better.
How Hackers Are Hiding Content and Links via PNG Files
SpaceX has test fired its Falcon Heavy rocket
Campaign (+ helpline) setup to find missing Blockstream co-founder Greg Maxwell
Part of it is about changing the incentives and how people are "paid" for their work in large organizations.
What drives performance for individuals or groups within an organization, isn't necessarily going to ensure that the organization as whole operates without friction. For me, this fits under the topic of "alignment" that leadership teams in large organizations talk about, but many people are ignorant to, especially when coming from acquired startups.

If you decide that identity (user management, directory services or whatever broad feature) is a core service and put a group in ownership of that then every other team may end up with a dependency on that group. Initially, pooling resources seems like a good idea, but it becomes the critical path and they end up taking more and more incongruent feature requests as the rest of the organization grows.

Eventually identity are a bottleneck, but are challenged with feature request brokering between other teams. Relative to other groups in the org identity becomes this monster team and you are left wondering if it should really be one group, or include leadership from other parts of your organization to ensure it can account for all requests and more effectively broker.
> But try telling people you're using SQLite to store critical data...

SQLite is solid and trusted by many but for some unknown reason some people refuse to see it as a solution for their needs. I have seen many databases that could easily been replaced by SQLite.
Steve sees systems so when he describes problems he describes them using language that describes systems. And as his take on the challenge Google faces is largely similar to that of many others (including myself), I don't think it will hurt him to have this out there "forever."
I think you're saying a lot more about Oracle than about Influx :)

I also am using Influx at my company and the experience is not that great, mostly due to it being immature yes. For example, I currently have runaway disk usage and I have no way to know what table is using it. So I have to choose between losing data or continuously increasing storage.
Survey – State of Kotlin programming language
By that definition, even a nuclear family is a degenerate form of state. Let's not foist frankenstein phrases on ill-fitting subjects to justify an invalid premise.
Cryptocurrency Scammers Are Running Wild on Telegram
Same here. I'm a full-stack dev and would love to bootstrap something small and revenue-oriented.

Any marketing/sales/etc. people out there with domain expertise in a problem space and a semi-validated idea please feel free to reach out via the contact info in my profile.
The funny thing is that this policy assumes that the ushers are bad. (Otherwise, why do you need this if it's something that the ushers can handle)
I'm a bit confused by this comment, because the article isn't really about the "why", it's mostly just a description of the phenomenon. Maybe you're responding to the clickbaity title? The nest is interesting to me, if for no other reason than that it's pretty.

That said, I can imagine that understanding the behavior of social insects, generally, might have practical implications in designing swarm robot behavior.