skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So for requirements, I wasn't thinking of a list of features, but more like requirements for the outcomes: 'When a customer visits the AirBnB site, they should be able to find and book somewhere to stay within 5 minutes'.

Any requirements are going to be constraints, and may not be reflective of reality, good practices, market needs, user expectations, etc. In your example, discovery and purchase are often not performed in the same transaction/visit/mental process. Different modalities will result in different realistic time constraints. A UX person brought in to come up with "a variety of design concepts" is going to pitch discovery (vacation planning, pinterest-style aspirational ideation, reading travel stories, etc.) as independent from purchase (booking last minute, booking for the future, booking for a specific destination, booking for a specific cost, etc.). If time (efficiency, shorter is better) is a metric they're going to pitch time (time to bounce, longer is better) instead.

Any constraints are going to limit your possibilities, and might result in a local maximum. If you're okay with that, fine, just say it up front, so everyone is on the same page.

UX job titles are pretty varied, because UX roles tend to fill the space left by whatever expertise the product team is missing, whether research, or user contact, or interaction design, or visual design, etc. Again, I think you'd be better served by looking for types of experience.

Designer, UX designer, product designer, UX strategist, all might work as titles. Someone with research experience is probably necessary, but someone that is a dedicated researcher probably won't also be able to do the design work, and someone that specializes in visual design probably won't be able to do the research.

Does that help?
If anyone is interested about the topic, there is an introductory MOOC from Wageningen University about the intestinal microbiome and it's effects on health.

https://www.edx.org/course/nutrition-health-human-microbiome...
Well. Surely, this is what cryptocurrencies are for: to route around the evil monopoly banks. One assumes the way that cryptocurrency exchanges handle this will reveal once and for all the true utility of cryptocurrency in the modern economy.
This seems a lot more like ‘build your own maps’ for a side scrolling engine than ‘build your own video games’.
It depends on if you commit fraud. It’s completey legal to forge people’s signature on a pad of paper over and over.

It’s illegal if you commit fraud with that forgery by signing a check.
> Sure there is a "show" menu item but who really clicks on that?

I click everyday. The Show HN section is much more interesting than the frontpage.
Title completely wrong and off point
That makes no difference to the conversation in hand.

What parent is saying that unlike other purchases with credit cards, you can't really do much about cryptocurrencies.

For instance if you purchased a physical product, in case of a problem (like fraud or something), at least you can go to the place where the delivery of the physical product happened and find it.

Similarly in case of a digital good (like ebook or pdf, since it's mostly copied from one destination to the other) if the product wasn't delivered, then it can be redelivered with no cost to the producer.

It's the first time we are encountering a digital good with non-duplicability of physical world goods with hard tracability of cash.
> artificial intelligence has an edge over the natural kind because of the inherent emotional and psychological weaknesses that encumber human reasoning.

It's Mr Spock's problem. He always produced inferior decisions because he failed to take into account the emotions of others.
DevOps: Bloody hell, we've got to think about security too Sigh
Programming: Mostly a Hate Story
I feel like the phrase "coupon abuse" is madeup crap. A Business gives discounts in order to (hopefully) make more money, then try to ensure that we all see people who actually use those discounts as "abusers".

Don't fall for it.

It's not that complicated. If you are a business, don't sell stuff at a loss. If you want to sell stuff at a loss to drive traffic to your store, you're going to take a loss. Don't blame your customers.
It's funny that you bring that up - it does seem like the concept of 'extended cognition' is one of the biggest benefits that we've collectively realized from computers (and other relatively nonvolatile communication mediums like books.)

This is a computer-oriented analogy, but most fields have their own tables and charts and maths that are tedious to keep on the tip of your mind. Still, for example, I don't need to remember the details of every API that I use; I can just remember that there is a 'do X' call available, and refer to the documentation when and if I need to actually use it.

In the same vein, I can quickly get a feel for whether an idea is possible by stringing together a bunch of abstract mental models. "Can I do X?" becomes, "are there good tools available for doing A, B, C, and D?", and that information is only a quick search away. Actually using those tools involves an enormous amount of detail, but it's detail that I can ignore when putting an idea together.

And in most cases, that 'detail' is a library or part that already abstracts a broad range of deeper complexities into something that I don't have to think about.

The question becomes something like: how do we expose people to enough information that they are aware of how much they can learn if they need to, without drowning them in trivia that they will never be interested in?
How about go fuck yourself, this train isn't stopping. God, I hope they burn.
I neglect personal and avocational responsibilities for days at a time.
Who knows? Maybe they were losing money to frauds / chargeback claims that haven't been plublicized.
Weinberg either does not understand the multiverse theory or he intentionally misrepresents it. It is not the case that the universe splits when a measurement is made. That description begs the question because it doesn't specify what counts as a measurement. It's putting lipstick on the Copenhagen pig. A much better (though still not very good) description of the multiverse can be found in David Deutsch's book "The beginning of infinity" chapter 11. Universes do not "come into being" when measurements are made. The entire multiverse always exists. This is the pithy summary:

"Universes, histories, particles and their instances are not referred to by quantum theory at all – any more than are planets, and human beings and their lives and loves. Those are all approximate, emergent phenomena in the multiverse."

Indeed, time itself is an emergent phenomenon:

"[T]ime is an entanglement phenomenon, which places all equal clock readings (of correctly prepared clocks – or of any objects usable as clocks) into the same history."

Here is Weinberg's fundamental problem:

"[T]he vista of all these parallel histories is deeply unsettling, and like many other physicists I would prefer a single history."

Well, I'm sorry Steven, but you can't have it. That's just not how the world is, and wishing it were so sounds as naive and petulant as an undergrad wishing Galilean relativity were true, or Einstein wishing that particles really do have definite positions and velocities at all times. Yes, it would be nice if all these things were true. But they aren't.
Because iMuzz said "sell when it covered the fees/principal". If you sold immediately, you'd be down a little bit each time because of cash advance fees/coinbase fees. So instead, s/he was just getting lucky buying bitcoin as the price kept rising. That same plan would not have done well so far in 2018..
> "Allwinner would be pretty foolish not to fully fund this endeavour"

Why would they fund it? If they saw the potential benefits, they could probably open source their own closed source drivers and avoid this Kickstarter being needed, or at the very least provide documentation to speed this work along.
Why wouldn't you instead show a timestamp of the last save, giving confirmation that the save really went through?
Well, the old quote "never attribute to malice what can equally be explained by stupidity" may, while sort of flippant in this case, be appropriate. You say that the doctors "take great joy in milking you" and while it's possible that that's what's going on (malice) I think it's a lot more believable that they're honestly just having trouble figuring out what's wrong with you ('stupidity' for lack of a more complimentary term), and have to exhaust all the possibilities. I guess I'm just sort of sensitive to those sorts of accusations because I've been working as a computer programmer my whole life and am used to, when I need to do some actual research to diagnose a problem, being myself accused of "dragging my feet" for some inexplicable reason - as if I did, in fact, know immediately off the top of my head exactly how to fix the problem at hand, but was for some reason refusing to provide it.
Flip the situation: a) I can be frugal and pay corporate tax; or b) I can be frugal and pay no corporate tax. He picked option b.. which is fine.

You don't start a business from the notion of funding the state.
Well I'd like to point out that 微信 (WeChat) does require a personal bank card in order for monies to be transferred/stored on a persons account.

I think the two main contenders for payment apps are Wexin and Alipay (支付宝). Both are vastly more popular than QQ these days.

WeChat and its dominance in its early days to a number of factors. Primarily in its infancy this is: good advertising, uniqueness compared to QQ (think MySpace -> FB), solid interface and voice memos. Voice memos were a killer feature that is massively more popular than in England (my experience) and I assume most of the West. Later on payments were added which enables anyone to have a business (receive money for services) and huge convenience for shopping or sending money to friends.

Alipay at the moment is less focused on social media like WeChat and more on interlinking services (Cinema, Shopping, Mobile payments, Utilities, Lifestyle etc). Also there's a massive advertisement campaign driving its use; currently each 24 hours users can scan a red envelope (红包) QR code an receive credit on their balance. I've receive $4~5 dollars a day, with an average of $1. Thats a free breakfast for most people.
They are not blocking purchasing of these from all accounts, just credit accounts. You can still purchase via ACH and debit. What they are doing is not allowing you to use their money to buy:

>The move doesn’t affect debit cards, according to Betty Riess, a spokeswoman for the Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender.

>Allowing purchases of cryptocurrencies can create big headaches for card lenders, which can be left on the hook if a borrower bets wrong and can’t repay. There’s also the risk that thieves will abuse cards that were purloined or based on stolen identities, turning them into crypto hoards. Banks also are required by regulators to monitor customer transactions for signs of money laundering -- which isn’t as easy once dollars are converted into digital coins.
Yes, I'm serious. All too many people just claim the system is broken and nothing can be done to fix it. Understanding how it works and fixing it can and does work. Can't speak for the US, but in Europe, it certainly can work.
The best "Ruby" at the time is Crystal..no doubt
I hadn't realized that QQ and WeChat are part of Tencent, but are part of different divisions. It would be interesting to know how collaborative or rivalrous the relation between them is.
The NYT example is interesting.

During the US presidential election I interpreted the needle’s fluctuations (on what was a simulation of an analog gauge–a skeuomorphism) to indicate some form of uncertainty in the data. This would not be deceptive (at least according to my own mental model of how such a gauge would operate in real life).

However, according to this article many interpreted the movement as the needle reflecting actual changes in data. In this interpretation (the gauge reading reflects at all times the actual data) this would be deceptive.

I realized that I haven’t seen one of those gauges in real life for a very long time. Have people in general (or, inversely, the NYT) forgotten how analog gauges are supposed to work?
it's because there are cameras connected to loss prevention who look at "ticket switching" every bit as much as any other method of shop lifting
Exactly! Brokerages and credit card issuers don't permit you buy equities with credit cards either.
Isn't buying crypto on a credit card basically leveraged speculative trading on an extremely volatile asset? Considering that many people who are buying crypto are doing it for investment purposes, it's pretty obvious why banks would frown on this. The downside risk is enormous, it distorts their credit models, and they have no way to contain damage by margin calling.
Optional.get() is code smell
Credit card issuers refuse all sorts of transactions though.

They have legitimate reason to not take on the downside risk of crytocurrencies and their card agreements make it clear enough that they can't be used for everything.
Until 2017, As a US corporation, earnings earned overseas were taxable in the US, but the taxes were only assessed if the earnings were brought into the US (repatriated).

Since 2018, as a US corporation, earnings earned overseas are not taxable in the US in the general tax (20%ish); they are taxable in the alternative minimum tax (10%ish), but there is a credit for taxes paid overseas.

As a transition, in the 2018 tax year, any prior earnings earned overseas and not previously repatriated are subject to a one time transition tax.
I'm not sure I understand the distinction. How could TCP guarantee that packets will be received in order without re-transmissions? Re-transmission is a mechanism for making this a guarantee. If the receiver just ACKs everything it gets, then isn't that effectively making no guarantees about the order?
Well the idea of TruffleRuby is you get the same speed of development, but also get high speed of the application in production as well. So you don't have to pay more for either.
Crazy amount of joy from searching "to be or not to be, that is the question"
VISA sponsorship by any chance?
http://shrug.es/ : look ma, no unnecessary styling ;)
I don't think that rate is particularly extreme or controversial. At least in NYC or the Bay Area. Second, if your clients are paying this and you keep getting clients, congrats, you're well within the market price for this.
As good as money is a bit of a stretch.
> Protecting people from themselves is a USA tradition.

Um.... they aren't protecting people from themselves. The bank is are protecting themselves from their customers -- both from fraud the bank becomes liable for and god knows what legal regulations.

BofA doesn't give a fuck about you, they are doing this to cover their own ass.
There will be no next election in the US.
Much of the world seems to be retreating to feudalism. China seems to be accelerating in this direction and Russia is already there.
I think they know some will make 15-20% on their transaction thus being able to pay off debt faster. If they ban crypto tranactions, they keep things as is. Why do they care where you spend your money? If they allow one to buy some collectables on ebay that will generate no value, then they should not care about crypto, especially since long term investments see great returns.

Think about it. Wide adoption at the end of 2017, bit licenses, crypto-funds, etc etc. Look at the data. It does not lie. It's a good investment and they see some consumers using this as tool to reduce their debt faster.

Again, buying some plastic toys on ebay is ok, but crpyto is bad? It's bs.

They want $.
Yep. And as someone engaged in the RISC-V community, I've seen zero evidence of Google involvement outside of Patterson. Normally if they had something brewing, you would start to see signs on the forums, email, or Github.
Taking account of other's emotions and being affected by emotions and biases yourself are two different things.

That's exactly why I never believed Spock-like characters in fiction. Human psychology isn't that complicated. If you're logical and smart, how on Earth wouldn't you be capable of understanding human emotions?
you shouldn't have to shop around for medical care
Is that true? If coinbase detects a chargeback due to fraud from a bitcoin purchase in your account couldn’t they just freeze your account and prevent any outbound transfer from happening?
Good point. People voluntarily parted with money to pay for the first.

The second company, well if you take a minute to read this article it explains the price society pays for the second policy: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-risi...

I'm not really defending the first example, but america has a bit too much "privatize profits, externalize losses" for my taste. These policies do have impacts on the life of the median american.
Or a quick tooltip that flashes "Document saved" before disappearing?

Or disable the button for a second after saved?

Or show a cute little "save complete" icon?

Or autosave on change and disregard the save button entirely?
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The rules have changed slightly with the rise of the moderation culture in the past few years. In earlier HN times, your interpretation was more correct and it seems dupe submissions would attach to the previous submission for a longer period than now. I have seen repeat submissions (within reason) encouraged nowadays in order to get cream to rise to the top.
Replying to myself because I can't reply to my reply - guess too many reply levels.

Thank you mr/mrs/whatever gameswithgo! That's what I wanted to hear!
> This is not accurate. Along with WeChat and QQ, people can freely use Skype and MSN messenger in China. The success behind WeChat and QQ relies on their rich features, fast iterations, etc.

Really?

I am not sure about Skype which is not even a strong contender anymore in our mobile generation, but WhatsApp is definitely blocked by China[1]. And MSN was dead long ago.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/25/whatsapp-blocked-in-china/
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Original poster didn't make any mention of water in the 70%, but quoted detergents. I quoted the real value, which is 8%.
Yes, but if the act of buying any of those on a credit card became common enough that they started seeing the problems from them, I guarantee that they would be banned as well.

They can't whitelist what you can buy with a credit card, so instead they blacklist things when they become big enough to matter.
"They" or "We"?
And yet post Glass-Steagell banks will happily borrow equities to short them, even with money provided by investors.
I'm thinking of doing the same too.
Say this account gets hacked. Hacker purchases $1000 worth of Bitcoin or Ethereum and transfers this to a random wallet on the network. Now a chargeback leaves someone paying the bill, because the BTC or ETH can't be recovered.
No, because it's not a problem. It's just a thing that we have to acknowledge: it's possible and someone will do something nasty with it, as with everything and every new invention.

Also: you are already unable to "establish veracity of the images and movies that I am receiving from the Internet" so why bother?
They could, but you could have already transferred the funds to another wallet they don't control.
Reminds me of Manna [1].

1: http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
What do you see as the "first line" options if a company is behaving maliciously and consumer choice alone hasn't put them out of business?

I'd rather have some kind of regulation at that point rather than, say, media shaming - the former is more likely to result in a process that looks at evidence when deciding if enforcement is needed, versus hysteria.
Too much coke
1491 is great. It's twelve years old now; I keep waiting for a similar book updated with new scholarship. Things are changing fast.
If you want to make sure I am not lying just polygraph me!!! don't make me memorize useless algorithms that I will never use! looool
Do you post the same comment in multiple forums often?
https://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11695375&cid=5...
It's funny you say that because when you see deletions of it it's typically a copyright claim. I'm not sure if they're claiming ownership of the person's face or using the face that they're typically stealing another video to put this face on to bring it down but ultimately that seems to be one of the most prominent take downs.
QQ was a desktop focused app and WeChat was a ground up write of messaging for mobile. Competing against themselves is pretty brilliant IMO, it creates alternatives for the users but still allows their company to own the market.

Interesting YC blog about Tencent and WeChat. [1]

1. http://blog.ycombinator.com/lessons-from-wechat/
You're trying to make it sound like an overly complicated and not that likely situation. It's quite simple: money is free speech and legislators are listening. It's absolutely, 100% the case that tax laws are written to favor large businesses.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/7/16618038/h...
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And I believe you don't understand what I say.

You say I am a individualistic lonewolf, because I don't like common groups that much and don't feel part of them, but rather be part of other groups to which I feel connected and therefore then also feel with that group?

How does that add up.

"> is either force or alcohol.

In fact it is neither. It is the very same thing that provides you with impetus to comment here."

And no, when I refer to a common school group for example, it is a group bound together by force - they all have to go to school and don't have much say which class etc.

And when I refer to common drunk people on mainstream festivals who are friends as long as they are drunk, then they are bound mainly by alcohol, even though it does satisfy some social needs for them.

And yes, next to intellectual curiosity, I also read and comment here because of the HN community, to which I feel connected. Did I ever said otherwise?

(oh and by the way, wolves are also very social beeings and the lone wolf hunting is a very rare thing)
TCP layer of your IP stack does re-ordering and presents them to the client in order. UDP layer doesn't. So by acking every packet, TCP layer will still present what it DOES receive in order.
Here is my belief, may be different from yours:

There is a massive generational theft that's been happening over many centuries. Property prices inflating along with the rising cost of education and loans are further rigging the system towards the older, wealthy and established.

Instead of this trend slowing, it's accelerating at the expense of class mobility for the young, poor and intelligent. This disillusions these individuals en masse.

Where have disillusioned intelligent people recently been life-changingly rewarded for their efforts? Cryptocurrencies have done so, loudly. In fact, there are developer celebrities in many of these communities.

The choice to the young and intelligent:
Seemingly immediate power, prestige, and potential class mobility versus an stressful period of self improvement that causes extreme debt (college).

The game needs to be better for the young and intelligent or they are going to play a different one. Many already are.

I'm extremely long on cryptocurrency for this (and other) reasons. For a sense of time scale, I have an iota retirement plan that begins distribution in 10 years and lasts 35.
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Yup. LinkedIn is the place where everyone wants to be nice, shiny and happy because of business and where it's so unfashionable to say no.
The pirating community appears to have embraced HEVC however, and they can have a lot of influence in determining which codecs/containers are supported on playback devices like game consoles, phones and tvs.