skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon sells gift cards. You can even specify one-day shipping on gift card. Amazon does a wholesale business in Amazon credits that have the effect of lowering transaction prices. For example, Coinstar machines don't charge a fee if you take an Amazon credit in return for your coins.
Congrats on the launch.

Couple questions

1. Is this another A/B testing framework? Or is it for feature enablement?

2. What level of granularity(user, cohort etc.) does the platform support?
It's effectively the only way to do it but the way around it is fairly simple: use a bank account on another country, one that is OK with crypto along with non-US based exchanges.
https://github.com/radi-js/radi/blob/eace84e9b74c944b233f631...

It parses the source code of the view function at run time, matching parentheses, but ignoring whether those are present in strings or regexes. Likewise, the comment stripper will turn

"/*whoops*/"

into the empty string...

In other words, the parser is buggy :-/
This is the MOTD when connecting: https://i.imgur.com/A8XP0eK.png
It's not elitist at all. Anyone can learn TeX.
>>they're trying to reign it in with gloved hands before it becomes one and it turns into a big economic mess that the government will have to foot the bill to eventually clean up.

The government has no obligation to clean up anything. Claiming otherwise is just an excuse to prohibit people from investing into high-risk assets.

>>common people like your grandparents and uninformed but good hearted relatives are providing liquidity for a growing number of new millionaires and billionaires

If the common good-hearted people are too stupid to control their own money, then they should be deprived of the right to vote and other semblances of legal persohood. What you're suggesting, which is to restrict the rights of everyone, is a disproportionate and illiberal response, characteristic of Big Brother states rather than free societies.
From googling "saas referral tool" it appears there are plenty solutions already available. What was wrong with those alternatives?
The irony of stopping major OS support for older phones because you introduced yet another layer of abstraction to make major OS support for older phones easier.
This only works for US-based exchanges though.
It's visually distinctive as well. As soon as I saw the screen capture I thought "that's an XOR".
So, first, what you are describing is not high EQ. EQ (Emotional Quotient) typically is analogous to IQ in that it is about your ability to recognize and handle emotions. So, you may have high EQ, because you were able to recognize an emotional problem and ask for some advice, but that is not the name of your problem.

Classically, you would be described as "sensitive". That's not a bad thing, but it can be a difficult trait to function with as a team lead. I'm rather sensitive too, and it has prevented me from taking appropriate actions when a team member wasn't pulling their weight. So, that's a problem.

I find that what helps me is to realize that if you worry too much about hurting one person (the focus of whatever current problem you are managing), that not correcting the issue will result in the hurt of other team members later. Your team trusts you to look ahead and prevent future hurts (that's why you are the leader), so you really shouldn't make that trade. It's not easy to do, but once you've made that mistake once its easy to remember the other hurt team members that will be unhappy if you don't address the immediate issue. In short, experience is a harsh teacher - do you want to learn from the mistakes of others or the hard way?

This is also a good way to help distinguish whether you should take action when someone is wrong. Everyone is wrong sometimes, but some kinds of wrong are harmless, and taking it easy is the better thing to do in that case.
We should elect better leaders and avoid getting in bed with such regimes.

“Be the change you want to see in the world”

“Practice what you preach”

From a previous article

“Most people do not share the belief that a process must be morally pure before its results can be celebrated; they can be jubilant about the Falcon Heavy and question Tesla’s treatment of its workers at the same time, without the one invalidating the other. “
Snow Crash here we come.
A yank test on process and infrastructure is more than a 'did it come up'. It's a "if we totally nuke the thing" - say, were we to rip the hard drives out of a server, fry it, and recreate it - does it come up identicall(is).

That way we know our CMDB is accurate, our workflows are accurate, credentials, ansible, terraform, images, etc. Right down to tickets.

It's how we manage all of our cloud customers.
Terminals Are Weird (2015)
The biggest issue I have with NPR is selection bias. They spend a large fraction of the day airing stories of poverty and despair, closely related to hot-button political issues (USA healthcare, etc) that end in a tone of "we stated the facts of the matter, and the facts are that people are suffering." It is obvious that they are imploring the listener toward more liberal viewpoints.
Simple Bitcoin Cash Explanation
For some their contract/lease hasn't even run out yet. This is ridiculous.
You might want to talk to the editor of the website India of the Past [0] who collects not only old recipes [1] but also interesting facts on how much money bought how many items [2][3].

[0] http://www.indiaofthepast.org/contribute-memories

[1] Recipes | http://www.indiaofthepast.org/contribute-memories/read-contr...

[2] Old Lahore | You could buy up to 25 seers of flour for one rupee, and gold was only Rs 17 a tola. | http://www.indiaofthepast.org/contribute-memories/read-contr...

[3] Pindi Memoirs by a Sikh Son of the Soil Part 3 | Asli ghee was Rs. 14 for a tin. Eggs were two annas a dozen, and bananas were eight annas per dozen. Gold was Rs. 22 per tola (about 10 grams). | http://www.indiaofthepast.org/contribute-memories/read-contr...
Some of the comments By interviewees in this article are so backwards it's comical:

> "From a practitioner's perspective, it sounds to me that it was drafted by trying to implement a certain perspective of how the world should be without taking into account how technology actually works," Steiner said. "The way [public decentralized network] architecture works, means there is no such thing as the deletion of personal data. The issue with information is once it's out, it's out."

My answer to this is - don't put personal information in the blockchain then! What's the purpose of technology that doesn't serve human needs?

It's a bizarre worldview that positions technology as the master, not the servant of mankind.
Political neutrality is defined by the frame, and it includes the fact that facts, themselves, are political, in that some political views are incompatible with certain facts. Therefore, including certain facts in your worldview pushes some political sources out of the frame as being factually incorrect, which is a form of bias.

For example, political views from someone who insists that global warming isn't happening are out-of-frame as being factually incorrect. That means a number of right-wing sites are gone, as the insistence that there is no global warming is more of a right-wing conceit than left-wing.

The alternative is not ignoring anyone, regardless of how lunatic they are, which means you admit known nutcases like whale.to and Natural News into your news diet, and that will give you a very warped view of the world.
If you put data that's considered personal into a public blockchain, or any decentralized system, who becomes the owner of that data? Was it the company/service that originally published it on the blockchain? or is every node required to treat it as their own GDPR-compliant data?
>>if an entrepreneur can invent their own money and subsume the one issued by a government then you don't have a government. I for one prefer having a government.

Nonsense. We've had non-political money before. During the free banking era we had thousands of bank-issued currencies that competed in an open market, and the state was alive and well.

The state exists as long as it has a monopoly on force within its jurisdiction. It doesn't need to monopolize the control of money and imprison anyone who has wrong-think about what they consider to be money.

I understand that a lot of people here don't like cryptocurrency and the get-rich mentality around it, but understand that when you call for laws to prohibit various uses of it, you're calling for people to see the inside of a prison cell because they have different ideas about what money is than you.
It’s certainly different, but I think it should be in the comparison.

I drive 10 hours a week, not per day. But there’s a cost. To say “you make $10/hour” and an Uber driver makes $8.55 after expenses and taxes is not very useful because the Uber driver has more cash in pocket.

I think this is useful for an academic paper to compare apples to oranges. And the author directly compared this to minimum wage which seems like an amateur mistake for a researcher from MIT. Unless they have a policy angle they are promoting and are not a fair broker of info.
Android P isn’t going to be released until later this year. So if you ignore prerelease builds, these devices will have had the latest OS for about three years after they first went on sale.
Er, I didn't say that. But the three presentations are to teach devs how to use their platform. I'm sure you were just being snarky with the assumption that it will just be another celebrity appearance, but I'm pointing out that there is about to be a windfall of info about their device, it's capabilities and real world demos.
> I think for many, music is just background noise...

That's me 90% of the time.

So names doesn't matter much AND I'd actually be happy if the artists got paid better, directly and without feeding the middle men in todays music industry.
It sounds like Poloniex (Circle) might have made a shady deal with the SEC. They could be the only ones that have though.
> But some tests, I have no idea what changed that made them break.

Michael Feathers in "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" defines a unit test as a test with two qualities:

1. It runs fast (1ms is slow for a unit test)
2. Has excellent locality, so when a test fails it's obvious what code broke it

From my experience fixing sparc64 package builds for Debian the second quality is hard to get right. Many times I would encounter a test failure that was the result of a complicated chain of function calls and it wasn't obvious what was broken.

When I was fixing the gtk build I discovered their codebase is sprinkled with ASSERTs which turned out to be SUPER useful, particularly because they communicated exactly where a precondition wasn't holding up. Previously I was never that interested in asserts but that experience makes me want to look into them again.
> joy to work with

Color me skeptical. React is quite literally the only framework I've ever found to be enjoyable (and maintainable).
You make a very good point. As PG says explains in [1], in a regime dominated by tail events, if most attempts are a moderate success (and no black swan successes), then the portfolio was probably too conservative.

On the other hand, due to limited resources, I get the feeling that most academics are operating in the risk-averse mode. See, for eg [2] -- it seems to be solid advice for succeeding in academia (I'd like to hear counterpoints to that from people who've had an extended/successful academic career), but it seems wholly focused on small predictable improvements.

I wonder whether this problem is a consequence of enforcing "accountability" in a regime dominated by fat tails.

Maybe we've picked up all the low-hanging fruit in research and we can only hope for slow incremental progress (which is what the management structure is set up to optimize), and we need to come to terms with that and stop wistful discussions about not having black swan successes.

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/swan.html

[2]: http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/tips-google-summer-code-a...
The BBC is pretty biased for UK news and for rest of world their bureaus are thin on the ground.

Pre David Kelly they used to take their commitment more seriously.
Can you elaborate? It is still unclear to me.
there's only one way to tell! double blinded study with repetitions!
I really can't understand the hatred directed towards Magic Leap. All we know at this point in time is a) those who have experienced the technology are impressed (but obviously bound to NDA) and b) ML has raised near-unprecedented amounts of money for a company with no product on sale (2.3MM by CB[1]). To think Google and Alibaba, not to mention other big funders, are so wrong in their large contributions is serious - such a mistake is historic. I'm not suggesting they will deliver, only that all we can say is we don't know.

[1]https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap
Fairly recently? 1996?
“Dig Once” rule requiring fiber deployment is finally set to become US law
For comparison; the iPhone 5s from September 2013 is still receiving updates, and still runs like a charm.
I think it would be any exchange holding Americans' assets. Note that lots of countries will follow the US lead on this too.
Reading and Lego are going to stimulate imagination, tablet use doesn't seem as good in this respect, to me. Physical interaction - like taking stuff apart - to me is highly beneficial too, much more than interaction with digital media (though that has some value).

Do people really interact with their kids when the child is playing on a tablet; my observation is that the contrary is the case. The tablet is given to "shut up" the child and avoid interacting with them.
Well, I've been in some of them last year and I had a different experience.

Sure, the 5 star hotels and the people I do business with speak English well. Anyone else, not so much.
> There's a reason that who it is matters, and unfortunately, that still leads to people being selected who reflect the starting set of less-than-diverse people.

I'd agree with arguments that this is true more because of network effects than whether others can do the job or not.

If you're only looking to repeat success, skilled folks are the best bet.

But it leaves others who want to learn behind. And a lot of the folks with skills got there because someone propped them up.

I'm just totally done with the idea our economy needs to be this fucking "always grow, always invent" scheme. So much of it is pointless shit that doesn't add to human discovery, rather it serves to change values in a bank account.

I'd rather we focus on getting the basics right; healthcare, food, shelter, for the masses. Make that our daily focus, and give people time otherwise to find their talent or cool idea.

But we're too addicted to universities telling us economics are like laws of physics and thus we must abide and live by them. Which is not much different than churches telling us the Bible is like laws of physics and the only model for living and we must abide.

Smart folks get lost in their discoveries and pretend they apply to all of us. And manipulative folks will take that and make it the law of the land for their benefit.
To know exactly what the contents of your mind were at that time, you'd need to make a full copy of it

To know it exactly. But I don't need that. I just remember how I felt and why, and that's what we were talking about, not about some sci-fi cloning feat.

Persons are different and experiment life, memories and emotions in different ways. I was once talking to a friend and then certain night arised in the conversation. It turned out that she had forgotten we had had sex five years before. I don't know which of us was more dumbfounded.
Those clocks being off is just a slight annoyance, the actual problem is the threat to grid stability.
By my read, neither of those are ever converted into currency.

I'm reminded of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer":

I am just a poor boy
Though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
Agree wholeheartedly. I've posted my fair share of cringeworthy things over the years, but that has improved as my sense of self-identity has stabilized and my insecurities have faded. What makes me cringe is usually not the content of the message but the way that I say it -- a tone of superiority, condescension, anger, self-pity, or attention seeking. Without being too reductive, my feelings about myself have changed and that's made it easier to be nicer to myself and by extension to others.
Company opens its district heating network to anyone with excess heat
PressReader on mobile is pretty decent, there are tons of free sample papers and magazines available you can give a try to get a feel for it to see if it's your thing or not.

There's some annoying hiccups with the NYTimes replica edition that bug me, if you pull up the text-view of an article that's on the front page and continued elsewhere you'll often get just the continuation instead of the full article (I don't know who to blame here, it's not deal-breaking but it is annoying) - but in general scrolling and paging around feels good, the app always downloads content to your device so offline viewing is there 100% of the time and the interface is workable. One other little nuisance is you can't link your NYTimes replica edition account to your existing PressReader account, so you have to manage them separately and sign into both (which the app allows, fortunately).

Overall, would recommend, but give it a try before you commit to spending any money.
Wouldn't know :)
The version I heard, the item being cooked is cut in half because the grandmother had a smaller oven, and otherwise it would not fit.
Why do you think $5 tips are rare? 20% rounded up to the nearest dollar is my usual practice, and I don’t think of myself as someone who throws money around.
We have a toddler and long for the simple joy of some quiet time in nature, so totally with you
The Greatest Showman Had the First Ever Drone Catch in a Major Motion Picture
Which markets are those? Besides black markets
Why Crystal is my favorite programming language of 2017 and beyond
They take the most of the money so the artists won't get rich too early (or at all). That way the artists has to be creative and come up with something new next years as well.

I love the music industry.

/s
Salt is generally good for you, and enhances sweetness in baked goods. There is no good reason to omit it.
Still not a security as it's not intended as stake in a business
You're putting too much moral value in media. Think of how many TV shows & movies put adolescent rebelling in a good light, puts value in materialism, or highly correlates good/bad behavior and storyline importance with character attractiveness.
The GitHut numbers show repository count. I'm sure there all sorts of small JS repos with 50 lines of code, boosting project porfolios of people everywhere. Of course lines of code also don't mean something good: some languages are a bit more verbose than others. The TIOBE index shows what programmers search for, which is likely unbiased by LoC or repository count. My goal really is to help show you that JS is popular, but not nearly as widely used (or desired) as people make it out to be. As uncool as Java and C are, they still dominate software development. If you're dead-set on your position however, and don't wish to believe those data, then by all means let's disagree. :)
Fair Is Not the Default
> as a random white person, caucasian floridians I have met are racist as hell. You would not believe the things that come out of their mouths when there are no ethnic/religious minorities within earshot and they believe you to be a person that might agree with their worldview.

Where did you come to in Florida? I haven't met people like what you are describing. Or perhaps you brought up the subject with them? When you say "as a random caucasian" that gives me the impression that there is a little racism in the air.
even worse for spotify: Tim Cook said that Apple isn't particularly interested in on Apple Music turning a profit - when asked the question directly, he responded: "you're right, we're not in it for the money. I think it’s important for artists. If we’re going to continue to have a great creative community, [artists] have to be funded."[1]

I'd say his stated rationale for not caring about money (artists getting funded) is at best a low priority and at worst total fluff - they don't care because they make money on phones/hardware, and it also long-term allows them to price competitors (like spotify) out of the business (I don't think it's a coincidence that he gave this interview in the days before spotify's F-1 went public). to apple, streaming is an ongoing marketing campaign for their hardware and hey, if it breaks even great, but even at a loss they can make it up in hardware profits.

I would not be surprised if apple is planning to waiting to announce a significant price or other change to Apple Music right before spotify's first or second quarterly earnings report - not very nice, but it would be a pretty smart thing to do.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/40525409/why-apple-is-the-worlds...
Cairo is a library that has a great balance between the simplicity of it's abstractions and the power it gives you.

Christoph Reiter has been doing some great work to revive and update the python bindings.

https://github.com/pygobject/pycairo/

I'd also like to point out Cairo generally has a friendly mailinglist, and is quite a fun library to make graphics with.
Aw, I was hoping you'd actually follow up with some meaningful data. :(
taxes? lol...it's crypto so YOLO
This may get me some downvotes, but I imagine that the same ethical issue exists with any weapon.
Guns and bullets exist to kill, and in both human society and the animal kingdom, elimination of a few people can increase the overall population and livelihood of the entire group.

I think what you're arguing is about effectiveness of those weapons, not their use.

However, I truly believe that the right direction for life on this planet is the elimination of death of people or animals.
Sure, you could take a bullet to every jaywalker or tax cheat, but I think we've learned more productive ways to handle those situations, and I hope/pray that we'll learn new ways in how to handle terrorists and other violent criminals that could lead to their redemption.

But in the meantime, we may have to accept a lesser of two evils while searching for a good, and I think more intelligent and selective killing is better than widespread killing.
My big worry isn't so much the killing part (not because it's foreigners, but because they are hopefully only attacking murderers), but the erasure of civil rights via intelligent surveillance employed in the name of security.

That to me seems far more insidious and dangerous (which of course is easy to say when it's not my life or my family's that's being ended, but I'm speaking collectively rather than individually there).
Can you exchange the "coins" with other coins/money or they are only "points"/"miles" with a misleading name?
I think measuring research performance is a dead end. People can do this, although they carry a ton of blindness and blindspots. Bureaucracies, systems and such can't. They end up measuring what they can measure, like grades, attendance, number of published papers, number of citations maybe... It just won't end well.

But, we can have systems that promote performance without measuring it. I think those are the kinds of ideas we should look at.
Peter Thiel’s Money Talks, in Contentious Ways. But What Does He Say?
Netlify's microservices deployment process always aims for zero downtime