skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You place an order for an item from me. If you send me counterfeit cash or a bounced check, I'm not sending you the item.

I don't do invoices. I don't do credit.

And if the package is stolen from the mailing service I choose, then hopefully I purchased some type of tracking service for it to fulfill an insurance claim from the post office.

There is no justification for the new "chargeback culture" that exists in our society. Only the most centralized sellers can eat these costs. This is a temporary win for consumers-- just wait until friendly indie sellers are pinched out of existence.
Run an e-commerce business that sells tires.

It seems that a common pattern that’s arising is for a bad actor to use a foreclosed property or rental to ship to, within spitting distance of the billing address, then have the carrier redirect to a pickup store, such as the Fedex store.

They have absolutely no problem walking into the store and signing off, all on camera. Troubling times.
Olympian who stood with Americans in protest honored 50 years later
Motorist who sat in passenger seat of Tesla on UK motorway banned for 18 months
Well, yeah. Most living creatures tend to do whatever it is that they do that has let them live until this point. Inertia is commonly a habit of the successful.
This phenomenon shows how culture and norms perpetuate in societies and companies. And it's notable that it does not originate with senseless malice in the the actors' behavior, but with rational self-preservation.

In company culture, this phenomenon plays out because new entrants would likely hit the same institutional walls, encounter the same defeat, then get disenchanted and leave. The preemptive conditioning is a tool others use in good faith to help a new entrant set realistic expectations, and focus their energy somewhere where it has a higher likelihood of success.

The parallels to the Peters Principle are interesting. It can be controversial to flag phenomenon certain phenomena as self-fulfilling, but there's tautological comfort in declaring everyone's at their current job because they haven't left yet. The Peters Principle explains that by supposing that promotions to management roles tend to be based on performance in non-management roles from which skills don't necessarily transfer, and middling managers no longer get promoted further; this one is about group behavior tends towards further conformity, as disruptors are pacified by others or get frustrated and depart. Over time, the survivors of the group will tend to be more similar than different.
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That seems like a small prize relative to the cost of vaccine development.
That assumes that after tax the systems are equivalent. They're not.

Healthcare is a prime (but not exclusive) example of this.
Do you personally know him or is this just speculation ?

Because most entrepreneurs aren't running businesses primarily for the money.
Study: This is how long it takes adults to make new friends
I'm a Stanford business school grad and harbour no fanatical love for it. I penned a public letter to my Dean [1] five years ago suggesting changes to a curriculum I saw as myopic.

But this article strikes me as a diatribe against capitalism rather than business school alone. And the author's track record of railing against an industry he taught in for years sounds a bit like a publicity effort.

Fwiw, my experience at Stanford was very positive and I found some of the academics to be quite useful even ten years later. And my classmate are incredible and many remain close friends and advisors.

[1] http://www.curiousjuice.com/blog-0/bid/120424/Reform-Stanfor...
> really makes you wonder if a bot with visual recognition, building strategy skills is achievable in this generation. It's a lot of information. Resulting in a massive decision tree.

It really depends on how the bot accesses the game, especially the controls. A bot with direct access to the motion of their character will have 100% accuracy and precision. One that has to use physical controls is far less likely to outpace humans so easily.
Yes. And that this kind of discovery - especially detecting if they lied at you in written text, which for me is an exclusion criterion - requires having read the text...
> Big pharma currently doesn't want to cure medical conditions, it wants to sell drugs continuously. (See also: lack of development of new antibiotics, huge over-investment in anti-depressants, etc.)

I'm so tied of hearing this claim.

Gilead created a cure for hep C and tried to charge users X% of the lifetime cost of the existing interfeuron therapy which only managed symptoms but was not a cure. You would expect that this would be received favorably: patient gets cured, insurance companies save money over the long term, Gilead makes a healthy profit. Wrong; people flipped a shit, screaming about how this was price gouging and that a single treatment should never be this expensive. Gilead has been embattled ever since. If you want pharma companies to make cures, inventivize them to do so.
I don't buy into the libertarian idea that your reputation is a sufficient substitute for proper regulation of commercial activities.
> The first case it was obvious no one tested installing SubEclipse on a fresh install.

That sort of thing is embarrassing. You just know some junior dev thought "well, it worked on my computer!". I don't mind when an experimental new feature doesn't work, or when some obscure corner case is broken; shit happens. But when the main, "happy" path for a major plugin doesn't work, the project is in serious trouble and you know it's time to consider jumping ship.
Facial Emotion Detection Using AI: Use-Cases
I realize that activity and content are what media sites need, but the publish / subscribe model that celebrity accounts reinforce is the antithesis of anything social. I shutdown my Twitter because there is near zero interaction on there. In the same sense, Facebook is very much a media sharing platform, rather than a social platform to connect with people.

I would like to see a paid social network with zero tolerance for programmatic interaction. Maybe tied to a (non voip) phone to make the cost of shill accounts high. I do feel there is a chance to unseat the major sites right now, it just requires a site that provides meaningful interaction instead of ads and corporate interest.
The biggest piece of advice I can gave you: develop everything! What I mean by that is just create lots of applications, and try to change their target so you aren't creating different versions of the same application. I admit I haven't looked at in recent years but I used to read: http://www.dreamincode.net/ a lot. You can search the forums for side project ideas if you are at a loss for your next project.
What is health care if not life extension?
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This sounds like an easy recipe for race conditions. Consider:

declare
FOO BAR % FOO and BAR are not bound to any value yet.
in
thread
{print FOO} % the thread blocks here until FOO is bound to a value.

BAR = 456 % Binds BAR which wake up any thread waiting for it.
end

thread
{print BAR} % the thread blocks here until BAR is bound to a value.

FOO = 132 % Binds FOO which wake up any thread waiting for it.
end

I swapped the instructions in the second thread. Does Oz detect that, or otherwise protect programmer from such mistakes?
Classic HN humblebrag.
Nah I think this is just a personality thing. Coworkers often try to get my hyped up about finishing some release and I've learned that it's just not how I respond. My "celebration" is just to be relieved, go home and tell my wife about it, and start thinking about the next thing.
> And using contiguous integers as user ids is the silliest thing that you can do given that it leaves you also open to enumeration attacks.

I don't think it's silly, you just need to protect your parameters. There's a way to do this as part of the basic programming framework. See my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16947546
Study reveals number of hours it takes to make a friend
> perhaps there should be variants specifying the behavior

It feels like Erlang/OTP is being reinvented right here again.

Once you get deep enough into concurrency the ideas start
to converge on killable isolated processes with asynchronous message passing and programmable behaviors. Because with shared memory killing a thread has unpredictable consequences, you need to either enforce isolation or avoid consequences in some other way, like by not having multithreading and using an event loop. Isolated processes need to communicate with other processes somehow. You need message passing. But it has to be asynchronous to make it possible to implement various waiting behaviors. With event loops you get there via cancellable contexts and higher order programming, but on a single cpu. Getting into multi core or distributed systems yet again requires asynchronous message passing. At the end it's all actors everywhere.
Spending on the requirements, possibly Python and TKinter?
Lactobacilli are among the most salt tolerant of common bacteria. In fact, when making wild ferments, the salt is what selects for them (if you make low salt wild ferments, they're less sour and have off flavors). Yeast do alright in high salinity, but they need oxygen to thrive.

Salt-containing starters will taste fine and be healthy as the short chain fatty acids produced by the lactobacilli are what give most of the flavor and health benefits. Your rise might be a little bit weak though. The best thing you can do is take it out frequently and fold it a few times to oxygenate the dough.
> Those 5 weeks of paid vacation feel more like an insult than a benefit.

Now imagine not having them. I moved from Australia where (due to my contract) I had 6 weeks per year, now in Japan I have two. Feels a lot worse than having them.

> 8 hour workdays are insane

8 hour work days are a breeze, I've regularly done 12-14, and not unknown to have done a few 20hours (sleep at work, I'll be doing this next week a few times due to staff shortages).

I do agree with you about retirement though, kinda worrying that all that money I paid into my Australian superannuation is locked up and will probably not be there when I eventually retire.
Would you also fire someone who takes an office pen home? What about printing personal documents on the office printer?

Sure, they are all technically "stealing" stuff, but lighten up.
Between a potential universal flu vaccines and Norovirus vaccines[0], a lot of currently common illnesses could be slashed in the future. Exciting time to be alive and hopefully not be getting sick. The Norovirus one could also be interesting for another reason, it might be the first vaccine you swallow instead of is injected.

[0] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180302005118/en/Vax...
Don't know where to start contributing to open source
yes, nobody disagrees he was profiting. but he was doing so in a more ethical way than Microsoft profited to created this ecosystem where he can even do this kind of business: monopoly oem coercion.

had microsoft not forced everyone who buys a computer pay for windows and a license sticker without proper restore medias, he wouldn't have a market to sell conveniently packaged restore discs.

as far as the law and my tax should be concerned, courts should have been solving the ecosystem creation problem, not some small fish that is a consequence of it.
Really there are quite a lot of things that work like this. It's a tautological truth that things able to influence their own survival will tend toward doing so, since the one's that don't won't survive and are therefore selected against.

Organizations, societies, cultures, nations, and identities, all memetic lifeforms.
Just in 2017, the US had a $64 billion trade deficit with Germany. 2016 was pretty much the same, and as I said, it's been like that for a long, long time.

And no, that's not by dumping cheap products due to low labor costs. Labor costs in the industrial sector tend to be quite a bit higher in Germany, strong unions and labor protection and all that awful "socialist" stuff.

The surplus is because German products are high quality and are in demand. In fact, most of the top categories of exports are the same for the US and Germany, so it's a pretty direct competition.

Overall, the US trade deficit was $478 billion in 2016. Recently, Germany had a trade surplus with China, despite the much lower Chinese wages.

The US current accounts deficit is very similar in scale, at $462 billion in 2017. That's the difference between the amount that the US (private+public) borrowed from foreign countries and the amount that foreign countries borrowed from the US.
Here's a talk by said artists (sorry about the title) that talks about this and their other work https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9278-ecstasy_10x_yellow_twitter_...
What about the position that there is no dragon?

I find this focus on “eliminating death” to be extremely confusing. Death isn’t actually a thing. It’s a bazillion different things with a bazillion different causes.

You’ve probably seen people criticize the concept of “curing cancer” because cancer is actually a broad term for a bunch of different diseases, and there won’t be a single cure for everything. “Death” is like that times a million.
To save people a click, the bold case being made is "math killed God", ie. mathematics was the key development which allowed us to build useful models of the world and explain natural phenomena without needing to invoke a deity.
He's got a point, and I studied at a top business school.

The points he makes are mostly valid. Not sure if he mentioned this one, though:

The existence of business schools gives society the unjustified idea that there are positions for which business graduates are better suited than most other people.

To compare, medical schools do the same but it is justified.

I wouldn't have surgery performed on me by someone who hadn't been to medical school, but I would be indifferent to hiring a manager who hadn't gone to business school. (One interesting line of thought I did learn at business school was that in the Germanic world, they are less likely to accept the Anglo-Saxon view that management is a separate skill to working. So they get more people stepping up from the ranks.)

So why do I think this? When I studied the business school, it was just very weak intellectually. Kinda like watching documentaries all day; interesting, makes you think you understand something, but ultimately superficial. Reading about Betamax vs VHS is the same; you think you're gaining insight as you do it, but there's nothing really deep in there. There's not really a method or organising principle to decision making, other than "try to think about it in an organized way, keeping in mind relevant precedents" (like SWOT). Basically just common sense as a degree.

That's mostly the strategy part I'm addressing there, which is probably the piece most people associate with business school.

The other parts are also better taught by other departments. Finance can get very interesting when it comes to derivatives and investment strategies, but you're never going to learn this without having a strong applied math background. Organization behaviour and Human Resource Management, there are scientific departments that reach into the same space. Again, there's a big gap between what we can learn about human psychology and how you should use that information practically.

Worst of all is the philosophical angle. So many times I thought to myself "how do you actually know this" with very little answer.

If you want to learn how to solve business problems, there is a course that is uniquely suited for this. Software Engineering. You look at business problems, look at what resources you have available, see how other people solved them (hashmap, quicksort), and cook up your own solution using the same tools that professionals use (git, IDEs, terminals).
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>"Hiring in general seems to go very slowly these days. I don't know if everyone is flooded with fake resumes from "bootcamp grads" or what now, but 5 years ago or so, you could normally expect to hear back within a few days if someone was interested."

This has been my experience and observation as well. I have regularly gotten responses from recruiters months after I applied for roles and have already taken something something elsewhere.

And curiously the recruiters don't ever bother to even acknowledge that months have passed since I applied. Or bother to ask if I am even still looking.

I am curious if anyone knows what the cause of this is. Is this simply the proliferation of incompetent recruiters? Is it just companies advertisings roles that aren't "actually" hiring for at the moment in order source CVs? Something else?

But as you mentioned this was not always the case. This seems to be recent-ish phenomenon in my observation(last ~3 years.) Not even large fortune 500s move as this glacial pace. What's more baffling is that this phenomenon exists at all in a tight labor market.
He robbed value from society by monopolizing the operating systems market with extremely nasty business practices. We are still suffering. Now he gets oodles of credit for throwing the change back at humanitarian projects which sometimes bear fruit. I'll change my mind about him when he donates 10 billion to open source software to offset the damage his company has done. It would be ideal if he gave the rest of his loot to democratic systems that allow local people to decide where to put the money. We don't need kings or emperors.
Another risk is that numerical ids for users (as well as for other database tables) can be used to infer the growth rate of a business. If you record the time that a user is created at, and then repeat the process over a time period, you can work out how many users are joining the app over that time period, and potentially work out the total number of users too.
Ok this might have been a bad example. I'm aware that Futures historically play a role of an insurance for food producers. Are those then by volume the major part of so called food speculation?
He talks about “massive amounts of extremely valuable key material“ needed to be stored for billions of devices.

It’s not like this would be Fort Knox. All that data could be stored on a couple of USB sticks which, really, makes it even scarier. Someone could hold the entire contents in the palm of their hand walk away with everything.
No, it's in the guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think you're right. The money quote from the article: "The damage is done on a very large level because nothing is genuine." Various family members have tried to get me to join social networks over the years, starting with Facebook, then Twitter, then Snapchat, Instagram, and I don't what all.

But after watching them use these platforms, it seemed to me that it's all just churn of useless junk. Even Youtube has degraded considerably. Maybe someday someone will figure out how to achieve the apparently conflicting goals of wide adoption, quality content, civil interactions, and monetization.
I've been trying this for the last few days so here are my thoughts.

Let me preface that I just came back to iOS after two years android, used iOS 10 for a couple of weeks and now iOS 11. I like the design a lot and specifically the dark theme (as well as the dark icon). The creation process was something that was a little weird on my first try but works pretty good now and I like the presets for time based reminders.

What I would've liked would be some alert or note that told me what would happen with the stock reminders once I allow the required permissions. Because once I allowed access to my reminders from this app I would obviously like for the stock reminders app to no longer notify me since this app now does it. So maybe some heads up for the user once he enabled both access to reminders and notifications to disable the notifications of the stock app to avoid duplicate notificaitions. Nothing big, but something that I had to figure out myself that would've been nice to just be told in the app.

What seemed to be possible in iOS 10 was that you could mark a reminder as done from the notification, which doesn't seem to be possible here. Not sure if that's a limitation of iOS 11 or I've set up something wrong but it's rather annoying to go into the app to mark something as done. At least for how I use the reminders, I just want a quick notification to tell me that I need to go into my standup meeting or that I don't forget to order lunch. Right now I only have the option of "Open" (swipe to right), "View" & "Clear" (swipe to left) while all of them leave the reminder untouched. I would just want the notification to be shown, mark it off from the lockscreen and then go to the meeting or whatever. Again, as far as I can tell, the stock reminders behave the same in iOS11, but would be nice if this could be improved upon somehow.

An idea that I had in my head that I would like to have would be to combine time based and location based reminders into one. For example: "Remind me every weekday at 1PM if I'm at work to grab lunch". It's mostly just a quality of life improvement for me, I don't think it'd be that useful apart from these narrow scenarios so I'll probably just stick with time based for now and just tick them off even I'm not at the location.

Thank you for sharing!

P.S.: Used EX9EPF9YWRHY
It is not technical plausible that these measures would be effective enough to avoid the necessity for the deep social changes that Pavlov outlined. I am disappointed in Bostrom for ending his story just when it gets difficult.
Forging Voices and Faces: The Dangers of Audio and Video Fabrication
Another reason: prevent users from incrementing their ID in the URL bar and discovering whatever pages...
Yes but the circular videos get all messed up.
I can't talk about sage, but the Python world in general gives undue credit to some public faces.

There are work horses and show horses ...
Thank you! Expecting to go in live this summer.
I’m not middle class but if you are thrifty and can prioritize freedom over needless expenses ie $5 cup of coffee it isn’t hard to live very comfortably in many parts of the usa. I understand owning property at all can be much more challenging in europe than it is in much of the usa mainland.

Coastland and island living is going to be more expensive for various reasons.
>> This seems to reflect the views of a lot of people on on aging and death itself. "Death is good and natural, and I'll eventually die too, but I'd prefer to die later".

Why do you say this? I have never met anyone who thought that "death is good and natural". I've heard many people say that it is inevitable and it is futile to try and avoid it, but "good and natural"?

There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that happens to Man is ever natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident. And even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

Simone de Beauvoir after Tolkien:

http://confusedneurons.tumblr.com/post/80683906667/all-men-m...
I blame SPA’s.

Nearly impossible to test properly (or was), breaks the whole html model, results in bugs just like this one.
Algorithm gaming and non-organic engagement go hand in hand. A cheeky reading is that juicing sites like Fuelgram are providing a valuable service for their customers. If this is problematic, consider what will happen when Instagram bans them: the demand won't go away, instead the same people will be paying Instagram more, to place their ads wider. For the user, the end result is largely the same.

This is all a numbers game: there's a finite amount of attention-slots in people's minds that everyone wants their content to fit in. Any engine that surfaces unsolicited content will have this issue, from paid ads to algorithmic recommendations.