skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it hilarious that you claim no one is using BTC but lots of people are using BCH. Dogecoin does more transactions than BCH.
Here's the program so far: EU targets Google, US then targets German automakers with emissions-gate, EU targets US tech companies with global revenue fines and data restrictions (Google + Facebook = $180b in revenue in the near future, an EU targeted pot of gold meant to be an offset for Ireland's tax policies).

Next up: the US targets Germany's auto industry - a backbone to their economy - with tariffs or other import restrictions, seeking to damage BMW, Mercedes, and Volkswagen in any and all ways possible. Easy cover: Germany having the world's largest current account surplus, at 8% of GDP. Recourse after that: more restrictions, regulations, targeting of US tech giants in the EU, and tariffs on various US products.

France says: Germany and its trade policies are a problem, seeks to reduce German dominance while trying to remain more neutral with the US:

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-says-german-...

It's going to be a very interesting year or two.
> I've been developing so-called "REST" services for over ten years (and SOAP services before that), and not even once were REST principles actually applied in the projects I worked on.

As a consultant who has talked at conferences on APIs and is brought in to explicitly fix these kind of issues I have seen a lot of this too but correct REST APIs do exist. I know because my team builds them.

You're experience is anecdotal and as is mine. But just because a lot of people assume REST is something it isn't doesn't mean REST is inferior to SOAP.

> Re: statefulness ("order matters")

My order matters comment had nothing to do with statefulness. I mean in the XML. In SOP this might work:

<order>
<token>ABC</token>
<price>19.95</price>
</order>

But this will fail:

<order>
<price>19.95</price>
<token>ABC</token>
</order>

Why the heck does the order of keys in my object make the API fail!?

Granted that is not a limitation of SOAP but more XML schemas in general. Json is more likely to be order of values agnostic.

But to play devil's advocate I can see the argument where if you are using SOAP to make multiple RPC calls in the same envelope than order is important.
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Jewelry looks pretty. Bitcoins don't.
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I think the train complains if the doors are being leaned on - you certainly get an announcement from the driver, so I reckon the train won't go if that's happening.
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Throughout the '50s, the FBI hung on Dorothy Parker's every word
Ask HN: Easiest way to process payments (starting witho a business entity)
I've got a side project, and I'd like to see if it has legs (image-scale.com). It's a SaaS business. I would like to charge customers for use i.e. get a credit card at sign-up.

After a little searching, it looks like I need a business entity (LLC, C-Corp, etc.), along with a bank account to make this happen.

I am an American citizen, but I currently live in Switzerland.

Best-case scenario, I could find a purely electronic way to sign up for what I need and find a payment processor (I've used braintree in the past). Any ideas?
The ARM-based servers have never been viable yet, because you can't buy affordable/standard sized motherboards from any of the top ten Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers yet. It's a chicken or egg problem for whitebox server platform adoption. It's all custom order stuff. Nothing like where you can buy a $400 Supermicro, Tyan or MSI dual socket server motherboard, put two $350 Xeons in it, add RAM, etc.
That filing did hurt, the stock's gone from 1.35 at the open to 0.94 cents now. Heck the short sale rule is in effect for them now.

Now they have to convince their customers to use the service less, while trying to increase the number of subscribers they get reoccurring revenue from .

That's an almost sisyphean task.

Even harder will be convincing one of the chains to buy them.

I'm guessing that if we don't see an announcement of a sale to one of the movie theater chains in the next week they'll end up bankrupt and one of hte major theater chains will by at least their data at that point.

How do you go about convincing a company to buy you when they know that you'll be there in bankruptcy court to buy at a cheaper price.
difference being that (at least in NYC), youre not standing directly in front of the door of bus, squashed like you are on trains
So what? I just want to know if the 8x speed increase was achieve at roughly the same cost (i.e same numbers of TPUs) or not.

If the 8x speed increase was achieve with 4x more TPUs (and roughly 4x the cost) like it seems it was, then this is just marketing bullshit, and we should really expect a 2x improvement in cost/perf ratio not 8x.
As a US citizen, and a former service member, and I can confirm that most independent businesses and corporations are more trustworthy than the US government.
Since nobody has mentioned it, ToodleDo is a good tool with a slightly dated UI and a terrible name. It has mobile apps, 2FA, projects / subtasks / scheduling / optional alarms, and a variety of other related features. There's a free restricted version, also a paid version, which is reassuring.
I really think this opinion is short-sighted. And it comes from a less extreme version of the same place that 9/11 deniers operate from; normal humans don't want to naturally think about loss of control and what that loss of control would look like. So its easier to just say "if this happens we're all fucked, don't even try"

There is practically no evidence in history where gold had fungible value then became worthless. Nothing else matters; everything else is conjecture, opinion, and extrapolation.

Yes, we live in a very fragile society. Yes, if complete collapse happened, there would be a period of extreme chaos when millions, hundreds of millions, die.

But the chaos would stabilize, barring any extenuating factors like a T-Virus. And in that world, maybe US Dollars would still hold some value. History says Gold probably will. Bitcoin though? Bitcoin requires a global network of miners. It would require having access to the original blockchain that gives your wallet value. In the best likelihood, the currency would splinter into every small network that can still run miners. And when energy is so expensive that you need all of it to power your lights, vehicles, and medical equipment, why would anyone spend it on an expensive mining rig, even if all the complex computer equipment necessary to make it run were widely available?

And then a guy walks into town with a bag full of gold. Suddenly Bitcoin isn't looking all that valuable as a currency. I'll sell my extra food to the guy with the gold, because the guy with antibiotics down the street would also sell to the guy with the gold, and the guy in the town over with car parts would also sell to the guy with the gold. That's what makes currency work; people, not software.
> TFA mentions train operators will preemptively slow down to keep their job. Nothing to do with a union, but keep trying to shoe horn that in.

As alluded to in the article, the TWU has been fighting very aggressively against the reforms for most of the issues documented in this article.
Because fuck you, that's why
I'm sure this is right for someone, everyone has different requirements, but I don't really want a lighter-weight Airflow. I want an Airflow that runs and scales in the cloud, has extensive observability (monitoring, tracing), has a full API, and maybe some clear way to test workflows.

I was looking into how Google's Cloud Composer is run, which is a managed Airflow service. They use gcsfuse to mount a directory for logs, because Airflow insists on writing logs to local disk with no cleanup system, even if you configure logs to be sent to S3/GCS. To health check the scheduler they query Stackdriver Logging to see if has logged anything in the last five minutes, because the scheduler has no /healthz or other way to check health. There is no built it way to monitor workflows, so you can't easily do something like graph failures by workflow, email on failure is about all you get. A GUI-first app that requires local storage is not what I expect these days.
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I don't consider the present highly problematic, though it is imperfect.

The problem is the relatively imminent (next 50-100 years) reality of nearly complete human obsolescence. That's when you'll see societal degradation at previously unthinkable levels. And no that's not Luddite fallacy. The next epoch of technological innovation is going to be unlike any that came before.

A lot of people champion UBI, while forgetting that something like 3B+ people currently live on less than $2.50 a day. That's really all the evidence you need to know that the future is going to be pretty grim. Do we think it's more likely that plutocratic systems will award sustainable UBI packages to the mass unemployed via wealth transfer (which is anathema in said systems) or that market forces will discover the absolute minimum survivable income level and create new strata in first-world societies that hover just above pure barbarism?
The article didn't mention it earlier or I missed it and no one in the thread had brought it up.
iPhones do useful things which aren’t dependent on you selling them. There’s nothing which you can do with bitcoin other than buy things so it’s only valuable to the extent that it does that better than the alternatives.
Yes, but maybe I wasn't enough specific there. I did not say they are "crucial", and they probably aren't. But at least I would say they have been important, it's hard to quantify, but my point is that they are not dead at all. Anarchist groups and individuals that have been around since way before the creation of the CDRs have been a relevant part in the organization of many local concentrations, rallies and road blocks, the very own CDRs (at least at the start, nowadays the situation is a bit more complicated and many have walked away from them), and many have played a big part in their coordination thanks to their previous experience and contacts. Especially at that local level, they have indeed been important. I mean, they have always been doing that, they just have had the chance to be even more active lately.

This said, I'm not talking about the rallies from september 11's and those organized by ANC and Òmnium Cultural, which have been the most massive ones. Neither they are the sole organizers of every local action, but they have been actively participating in most.

Most anarchists doing real work do not really talk about themselves as anarchists so much. There's a lot of people that pretend and talk a lot but in contrast do and know very little. That's common and it's easy to be confused by it. Most anarchists doing real work I have met are very wary of letting themselves be identified or put themselves in front of the cameras, both figuratively and literally.
The click-through is itself likely violating the regulation. All it takes is for someone to complain; it's not enough for 99% of people to click through.
I prefer to hand write my notes, I've found I internalize what I'm writing down much more. I then use the Scan Document feature within Dropbox to digitize the notes.

The downsides are the notes aren't searchable in their current state, but it's been the best system for me thus far.
For 2 dollar transactions at Taco Bell and giving petty money to friends?

But even if we are back to that model, it still uses ultra rare BTC where there are 21,000,000 BTC ever ever ever.

The US currency just keeps inflating.
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Don't fool yourself. That's not possible with the current iOS configuration and the link you provided doesn't dispute that. If anything, Apple has closed any potential backdoors that could have been exploited.
Those are code generators. The code they generate is for the computer. The spec is still an abstraction layer designed for humans.

I am not aware of any code generators that read the swagger file every single API call and use that as if it were the code.
They have a massive sales team. Hundreds of people on it.
Inferential Statistics lets us make estimates about some quantity given a set of assumptions about how a sample was drawn. E.g., you might assume data is distributed normally.

From a theoretical standpoint, Machine Learning basically just explores what happens if you remove that assumption, and try to draw conclusions that apply no matter what the underlying distribution was.

The book does build up that theory. You need to understand the Probably Approximately Correct framework (e.g., how many data points do you need to be 90% sure your algorithm will generalize with less than 5% generalization error) and VC dimension (basically a measure of how much different algorithms overfit.) It doesn't even introduce an algorithm until chapter 8!

VC dimension is sort of the equivalent of O(n) style complexity for machine learning. You can use this framework to estimate the effectiveness of different algorithms from a theoretical standpoint given a certain amount of data. For example, Linear Regression's VC dimension grows as O(n) with the number of features, while Decision Trees grow as O(2^n) with depth. This means that Trees are much more likely to overfit on small data, but more likely to be find complex structure in larger datasets.
Most donation platforms don’t provide details as to where funding is being applied. With Fundra, you’re never in the dark about where your money is going. Fundra helps donors donate with confidence by giving you the ability to track your donation and see how the nonprofit / program you supported is keeping up on their expenses. For nonprofits, Fundra helps you raise funding for the monthly expenses you really need help with; right down to the financial statement line.

Fundra allows nonprofits to raise money for monthly expenses; ranging all the way from electric bills, to rent, or even their upkeep fees. Fundra also provides a seamless experience to donors; allowing them to discover nonprofits across the globe, and effortlessly make donations to them.
ConsenSys to Create 60 Jobs in Dublin
It's very interesting that you mention the culture be "northern" in nature.

Mid-day nap culture is still very much alive in really hot countries, where it's practically impossible to work mid-day.
Only if you ignore mainframes.
Placing a timezone designator after Z is invalid under ISO 8601 [0]; you are thinking of any of the plus, minus or hyphen symbols, which do require values.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_zone_designators
Yes, the Transit Workers Union has specifically been fighting against reforming the flagging rules for decades. They're more than "somewhat" responsible for this situation.
I wish, but knowing the general public they’ll just see this as yet another screen to click through to get their daily dose of bullshit memes, game invitations from their “friends” and other bullshit.
>the transition from our current situation to a deflationary one would be absolutely brutal.

We currently have many currencies, if Bitcoin is so absurdly better, then maybe there would be a transition. Otherwise I'm sure many currencies will be used based on the application.
if you use cash exclusively, then you have no credit to exploit. equifax knows about me, but no one will give me a loan.
"Principal" is a fine title for singular/small efforts where you're the prime mover as well.
> Can you just loan your money directly to the US Government?

Well, you can buy, e.g., savings bonds directly, but only $25,000 worth per year.
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And if those ads tip an election based on psychological pressure points chosen on the basis of your preferences? That's an even bigger risk than safety and environmental issues in my book.
Using a Google OS?
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Recording calls without both parties' knowledge can be illegal.
As a on and off tobacco addict with an addiction-prone brain/personality: Unlike coffee, video games, etc, tobacco addiction is terrible and you can really feel your health declining over a decade and more. It's not so much about dying 10 years earlier that's worrisome, it's about not having much quality of life.

As to being addicted to nicotine itself and consume it in the form of vapour: much less worrisome. Still, it's not great: withdrawal feels awful and is psychologically debilitating.

As to being addicted to nicotine as a high schooler: this is quite bad because the brain is still in heavy development and drug habits picked up in this timeframe tend to stay with you forever. Quite a compromise.
Apache nifi (https://nifi.apache.org/) is a software which handles streaming ETL processing.

From a previous post I made about it:
"We have HTTP endpoints set up to receive data from our ERP's accounting system to send data to Concur and to update customers' Lawson punchout ordering systems with shipment information. The 'E' is an HTTP post with an XML payload. The 'T' consists of using the payload to query other databases to build the 'L' payload, and the 'L' is an HTTP post to the consumer's endpoints."
What does it even mean to be conditional? Is the EU saying that FB has to provide their service to Europeans? Does the EU also require that businesses sell their services and products at a loss? Doesn't FB have some right to deny usage of their service to those who choose not to abide by FB's policies? Whether it's disapproval of tracking or behavior violations, it seems like FB should be able to say they don't want to provide their service to particular individuals.
Sure we do, quick editing txt, cfg and ini files.
> But in business, this trope is implying "You're free to abandon your career, study chemical engineering, get financing to start a lab, hire a large staff of experts, buy the machinery, run an advertising campaign, establish the customer base ..."

On the other hand, this trope also implies that you have to pay for all of this, and perphaps $13 is not a good price for the drug.

What is an appropriate price for this drug?

You say it's abuse and incompetence, but could it be that you're wrong and it's a rational decision?
I really like the interactive terminal-based menu, that's neat!
You should try to substitute Apple for IBM, iPhones for tabulation machines and China for Nazi Germany.

It would be a fine mental exercise just to see not how far Apple fans would be willing to go to justify Apple's behavior but to see what kind of mental gymnastics they would be willing to do just to avoid saying "Apple will sell its users if it means keeping/gaining the market"
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25 days of vacation is 5 weeks of vacation, 30 days is 6 (we only count work days.) And by free education I mean from 1 year until university. If you have kids that is a huge difference. Plus sickness, etc, which is expensive over there. Plus, my friends working in the US tell me it is normal to work 50/60 hours there, specially in the companies where you make the big bucks, but maybe you can really work less if you are assertive with your boss and colleagues...?

I still agree that it is financially better to live in the US if you work as senior at Google/Amazon/Facebook scale, because the difference becomes huge. I still prefer Berlin due to live-style issues (50/60 hour work weeks, car life, commutes, no clubbing, overall capitalistic mentality.)
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Managers are generally not allowed to be union members since they have an adversarial relationship with the workers.
That would be fun indeed. But i think it's just one of those internet outrages, which at some point turns around and bites back , and in a few months people will be outraged certain aspects of GDPR itself.
Yeah, I wonder what the people who started the business even had in mind. Did they decide to just wing it long term?
According to another HN commenter, they were making over $170m in revenue and were growing 30% year on year. A 7x multiple on sales does not seem that weird for a price. it is way more reasonable than 90% of the unicorns startups we see now.
Will it ever happen? When the current generation of children reaches office-holding age, a majority of them may understand internet culture, but I don't think a significant fraction will ever understand the internet in a technical sense.
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What are inline namespaces for?
My comment shouldn’t come off as all bad/anti-blockchain.

While modern view has corporation as these evil centralized entities...the first “stock corporations” were a welcome invention, allowing distribution of risk and a share in profits.

I personally love the idea of an immutable and distributed ledger. And while bitcoin may have been helpful as an example of a potential use for a blockchain, it has failed to fulfill the intended use of the creator (peer 2 peer digital currency). I think in a lot of ways because while blockchain itself may have some democratic characteristics, the example of bitcoin as a currency is anything but democratic. Bitcoin is something bought and sold, the inventor(s) have 1,000,000 and new comers will be hard pressed to have equal power.

Then again the way democracy is used as a term and romanticized is kind of a joke to me. From the fact the US is often called a democracy (it’s not it’s a constitutional republic), to the idea it took women about 2,500 years to get the right vote, to the realities of democracy only works until it doesn’t then might is right (see the democratically elected parties: taliban, hezbollah, hamas).
Stripe is the best for this.
I could easily imagine myself signing up for a service like this and then forgetting about it for a month or two at a time.
This story would not be news on HN for any other carmaker (and shouldn’t be for Tesla, IMO). But generally, local news orgs do cover fatal crashes, especially with multiple young victims.
Google’s AI sounds like a human on the phone – should we be worried?
Well the company had vague promises of utilizing the vast subscriber base and information to sell to third parties.

As an amateur stock picker, I've been on the sidelines watching the back and forth commentary on this company (Helios and Matheson) and MoviePass since it was (I believe) in the 30's.

It seemed like everyone knew from the get go that the model wasn't going to turn a profit, but they were hoping for some of the other stuff to generate a return somehow (the information being valuable).

The stock price partially is because a Netflix co-founder is behind the company. However, part of me wonders whether it was a pump-and-dump scheme.
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