skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't assume that everyone is happy with whatever level of mediocrity _you_ think is acceptable. It's because of developers prioritizing developer experience and other baggage over user experience that I despise my mobile web surfing experience.

Plenty of people do care about frontend performance (as evidenced by the plethora of efforts ranging from small alt vdom libs by solo devs to large corporate efforts like AMP or m.uber.com[1])

[1] https://eng.uber.com/m-uber/
Whether actually true or not, tobacco companies have definitely used this argument in lobbying against anti-smoking public health efforts, particularly in Eastern Europe.

Of course at best this argument assumes that you are looking at cost for a comparable standard of care, not cost for comparable health outcomes.
WayUp (YC W15) is hiring back end engineers to guide students in their careers
Takeaways from TensorFlow Dev Summit 2018
I first heard about cascara last year and wanted to try some. However I live in the UK and it was withdrawn from sale due to some confusion around "Novel Foods". The EU defines this as “food that has not been consumed to a significant degree by humans in the EU prior to 1997”.

There was for a while a bit of confusion with independent coffee shops if they could sell it and make drinks with etc. -

https://unitedbaristas.com/blog/insights/2017/03/the-cascara...

I think it's been resolved, but I can't find much online about it.
this seems really useful
Iridium flares are reflections from the antennas, not solar panels. The new satellites have a different antenna arrangement which doesn't flare.
> Anger Over Tourists Swarming Vacation Hot Spots

Anger at hot spot marketing department for successfully selling! How dare they!
If, like me, you need context on what an Iridium flare is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare#Iridium_flares
The protocol doesn't have a credit score. That's a concept better suited for the application layer built on top.
Ah thanks for the response. What's the business model?
I know this is anecdotal, but I‘ve taken about 8 years and 10 attempts to successfly quit smoking. On half of those attempts, I made it past the 28-day mark, even past five months on one attempt before relapsing. Physical withdrawal is easy, staying on top of your mind is much harder. I’m at 2+ years now. I‘d say a year of not smoking is a meaningful predictor of not relapsing. 28 days shows you‘re making a serious effort.
The Android app 'ISS detector' can alert your phone when there's a flare (or the ISS) about to assist.
> Silicon Valley and its offshoots are going to become surveillance central. The HQ of a surveillance economy courted by despots at home and abroad. The people working here are going to be the most hated people in the world.

That is already becoming SV's reputation abroad:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/14/tech-companies-are-ruin...

While Hollywood’s influence has waned, America’s leading internet companies ... have spread from Silicon Valley to all corners of the globe, even some untouched by American movies and TV shows.

It’s time for Americans to recognize that they have a new major cultural export, alongside movies and television: the set of modern communications platforms created in the United States that have since overtaken the world. The question then becomes: If the world looks at America and sees Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter as its profile picture, what does the world think?

Americans should be concerned. We’ve reviewed how America’s new major cultural export has been characterized in the international media and other public discourse lately, and based on that we’ve identified three key features that have become associated with it in the eyes of the global audience.

They go on to discuss that SV has a growing reputation as the engine of 1) the spread of "hate and harmful ideas, 2) "foreign intervention in domestic politics", and 3) "the general surrender of privacy". Well worth reading.
Also, there should be an externalities tax on air travel (especially for vacationing) since it has such a disproportionate effect on atmospheric CO2.

https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=air%20travel%20climate%20chang...
In some cases (major world heritage sites), one could argue the tourists' right to visit should be considered along with residents' rights. It's a tough balance and I don't have answers. But, I would hate to be locked out of the Vatican because they realize they can charge $5000/day for visitor passes.

A lottery of some form might work, if prices are kept reasonable.
That is true.

I woke to my phone ringing quickly followed by this exchange of messages: https://imgur.com/a/7aLLw22
I bet in another context you’d happily point out which logical fallacies you just used for points 1 and 2.

I used to think like you - while I was still addicted.
>Which is in effect saying that the residents' right to control access to their city is subordinate to random tourists' right to visit whenever they like. That doesn't sound like a reasonable position.

Interesting position. Competing against that thought you have stuff like United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights #13: Freedom to Move. "We all have the right to go where we want in our own country and to travel as we wish"
The step from tracking zero things to tracking one thing may be larger then the step from tracking one thing to tracking (almost) everything.
> Waymo and GM/Cruise are far ahead with their FSD capabilities than Tesla(again, widely accepted)

As far as I can tell, I can't buy a car from Waymo or GM/Cruise.

I don't mean this as a rebuttal/challenge, but I'm actually legitimately curious: Is it possible to buy a car with better "self-driving" (i.e. lane-keeping, AEB, auto lane changing, etc) than a Tesla right now?
Right. You buy a future that says "I will provide 30,000 units of soybeans in St. Louis in September, at 300/unit" or whatever. You were planning on growing 325 or something, and you hedged the majority of your crop. Somebody buys your futures contract.

Then, demand for soybeans tanks. Price drops. Doesn't matter. Somebody has already paid you for that opportunity and locked in their price.

If soybean demand skyrockets, you miss out on the profits since you already sold, but you locked in your expected profits for the year - congrats!

If your crops all die, there's insurance for that but you could also be somewhat creative about call options on September soybeans to make sure you could buy back in at a decent price to still deliver your goods. Anyway, these markets exist specifically to help smooth out price insecurities on commodities for goods producers.
Bootstrapping a Cryptocurrency Exchange in 2018
They might still be there for a while, just not predictable. Which might make them a bit more special.
For the price of housing one homeless person in the Bay Area, you can house X homeless people in the Midwest or X * Y homeless people in Africa.
To give a contrarian view, what do people have against other people? If the goal is exclusivity, Then this is faux experience. The places are now, temples to humanity and humanity is what they contain.

I have touristed in places packed with locals, the physical effects are no different. It just cultural supremacy to believe because they are "local" somehow your experience is distinct from having a hoarde of little old ladies with rainshields on around you. (Nara for instance, which is jam packed with Japanese of all ages and religions, but few westerners when I was there. The queue to get local food at lunchtime was unbelievable.)
Nurture is the major factor in nearly every aspect of human achievement. Alternative explanations justify genocide, neglect, and let adults off the hook.
It takes longer than 72 hours to clear out nicotine from the body. 4 days for the saliva but upto a year it can be measured in hair samples. Not counting the repair/reorganization the body requires to function again.

28 days is probably a good measure.
Care to provide more details? Why is it wrong?
> Blocks will need to be ~5TB to match Visa transaction volume.

No, it's on the order of 3 gigabytes. Visa claims they can handle up to 25k Tx/s.

226 B / Tx. 600 sec (10 min) per block.

(25000 Tx / s)(226 B / Tx)(600 s / block) = 3.39 • 10^9 B / block

Visa normally handled around 2k Tx/s, which would only require a few hundred megabytes per block.
His point to my mind was that life is viewed too sacrosanct given that there are individuals willing to go.
Right now we expect most loans will be fully collateralized by other crypto-assets. So the default deterrence would be that if you don't pay back your loan, you lose your collateral.

We also support unsecured loans (i.e., loans that are not fully collateralized). We consider these pretty experimental and lenders should do a lot of diligence before investing.

For unsecured loans, counterparties can agree to any kind of default deterrence that they want. Could be off-chain legal agreement, could be a reputation scheme, etc.
Ahh, good catch you're right. The point I was trying to make still stands though. Owning a small percentage isn't strictly bad and there are common scenarios where it can be favorable.
That clause is in the common 3-clause version. The dropped clause from 4 to 3 is the one that was originally #3,

3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed by the <organization>.
This is probably because Howard Marks popularized the idea under that name in "The Most Important Thing". He looks like FS's main source in the detail piece (https://www.fs.blog/2016/04/second-level-thinking/).

I think he does mean it as an analogy to the math concept, like ~x being first order and ~x^2 being second order for x near zero; x dominates but x^2 (the "second order") gets you closer to the truth. And similarly for x^3, x^4, ..., x^n.
When it comes to loafs of bread, my favourite is proper grey bread (which seems to be a lot less popular in the east and is somehow different, less sour in the south), a mixture between white and rye bread.

For bread rolls, I usually go with plain white or white with poppy or white with white-sesame. I'm a simple man.
> The cat is out of the bag and is already something the police could do themselves

Yes. But what’s striking is that by offering this product and heavily marketing its law enforcement use, Amazon are clearly endorsing total surveillance as their preferred model of society.

I don’t imagine this will be incredibly lucrative relative to other AWS products. There’s very few potential customers. Law enforcement access to data is extremely broad, data-osmosis/‘fusion’ with the private sector is rife, and the whole area is pretty much unregulated. The potential for abuse is large.
Yeah, I’m wondering how I would have discovered these. I don’t have a TV, so I miss a lot of cultural events, but this is something that should have crossed my radar before it was too late.
isn't it per infraction, so potentially 4% each time they violate a user?
First, it's not a slippery slope, because there is a simple and logical progression for it, and examples in other fields - seatbelt laws, for example. Also, the article itself mentions tracking alcohol use and weight.

Why would you track smoking? Because the company pays more for insurance. So, it makes sense to track other things that are indicators for worse health outcomes, also causing higher insurance payments.
The conclusions are expected, however it is nice to have experimental confirmation. Now we just need to figure out what are they doing differently to enable such phenomenal recall.

"We investigated recall of recent and remote, predominantly routine, events in HSAMs and controls. Interestingly, HSAMs and controls recall the same amount of information when tested within a few days (up to a week). Beyond this, HSAM participants forget autobiographical details at a far slower rate than do age- and sex-matched controls. Furthermore, in comparison with controls, HSAM participants maintain more richly detailed recollections and their forgetting curve for autobiographical memory is shallow, which should come as no surprise given the nature of their memory (LePort et al., 2012). The data here suggest that HSAMs are not better than controls in acquiring information. However, they are far superior at retaining information."
I do not understand you at all, you comment can be read as a fairly common statement around here: education for rich kids is not always a good thing. While the article is about how families that have time to value their young are much more likely to educate them. How can you compare these two outliers?
The UN isn't talking about tourism.
A warning that Stylish is now owned by an analytics company [1].

If you want a community owned alternative, check out Stylus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/

[1] https://forum.userstyles.org/discussion/53233/announcement-t...
Don't forget Pegasus!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Mail
This isn’t the first project the Computer History Museum has hosted. At this point, I’m sure the thinking is simply that they self-hosted the previous source code drops.

I can imagine additional reasons (e.g., no desire to tie the museum to a third party, even if that party looks like it will be around for a while; who knows what policies Github might adopt in the future or which groups of people they may manage to upset?). But to be honest, I doubt a lot of thought went into this decision, this time.
And that is free market at it's best. If something is in high demand with limited availability then I would expect the price to rise.

Keeping the price artificially low would be like the policy of the old socialistic ideologies.

Isn't that what the free market evangelism teaches? As there is only one Venice, I would hope that the price reflects the amount of demand as well as the the amount of externalities that the tourism is producing.

This last aspect should be covered by taxes to ensure that the tourism not harms the city/environment, as not to fall into the trap of the tragedy of the commons.
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There are many items for which imposing congestion pricing has the potential to be more of a burden for less-well-healed locals than for wealthy tourists - a city can spoiled for its residents just as much by unaffordable prices as it can by mobs of tourists (more imo, in fact).

On the other hand, regulations and fees on hotels, car rentals and tours historically did serve as a limit and a tax on tourism. However, institutions like AirBnb, uber allow the equalization of prices paid by tourists and prices paid by locals. Hypothetically, one could role back these things by regulation but sadly that seems to be opposite of how things are going.
For simple e-commerce websites, Stripe is a fantastic and simple option. If you're trying to do anything remotely interesting with money, Stripe probably isn't for you. Stripe rejected two of our applications for a standard Stripe usage, and they rejected another of our applications for Stripe Atlas. All three applications were completely separate products, using payments in different ways from each other.

They told us that our two applications interfered with their acceptable-use policy[0]. The application for Stripe Atlas was rejected because it interfered with the goals of Stripe's bank(s).

Stripe isn't in control of how their product is used, their product exists almost entirely at the whim of the banking network which Stripe depends on. In my experience, I have learned to avoid Stripe for any use-case which isn't a simple E-commerce site. Stripe is incredibly limiting and, evidently, their primary goal is to avoid risk at the expense of innovation.

We ended up folding all three products, and are considering rejuvenating the third product with cryptocurrency payments instead of dealing with credit cards and banking networks. No doubt, using cryptocurrency payments for our application would be simpler and less limiting. It would just be us and our customers at that point, which is how it should have been all along.

[0] https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses
My parents still do too. It works!
I asked for tables, but the team went with fancy CSS
I saw these for the first time during my trip in SF and it just seemed crazy from first bat; maybe i'm missing something
The fact that these companies can discriminate based protected human attributes like age or gender doesn't make sense in this day and age.
Germany has/had some old institutions [0] that work(ed) that way. The keyword is Stiftung [1].
There seems to be nothing comparable in the US though, and you don't get a tax break for the donation, even though any business it conducts in the states is treated like a 501(c), provided it would be classified a 501(c) if it were a US based institution.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCrgerspital_zum_Heiligen...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung
>> Healthy employees save the company money and are more productive, and Quit Genius thinks it can not only help employees get healthier but give employers a way to track that progress.

> Dystopian.

Yup, but we've long crossed that bridge. We can only suggest that quality employees take a zero tolerance policy towards these invasive employers. I'm afraid we are not going to be able to rely on regulation to stop these practices since anything anti-smoking (or anti-terrorism or anti-CP) can only be seen by most as a benefit. It's a slower form of prohibitionism. People can only see one side of the smoking debate. Similar thing happened with alcohol age. "Can't get a job unless you follow these rules" is very similar to "can't get funds unless you follow these rules". Choice against "good" is disallowed one way or another.
I believe so. I live in Calgary and you can fly to Iceland for less than the cost of a flight from Calgary to Toronto. From Toronto, you can sometimes get there for less than $200. I'm not even sure you could fly Toronto to Montreal for less than $200.
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Did RSS ever go away? Almost all of the blogs I follow still have RSS feeds. Maybe I'm just in a bubble. I think the decline in relative importance of RSS is certainly real, but that's more an effect of people getting their information from more centralized sources (like HN).
Best option is to find some other place in the country to visit. Find an old trail go for a hike. Throw away the traditional bucket list and focus on having fun.
this is largely incorrect. wow air does not run any tours, tour groups, transport, lodging, etc. it's just a budget airline and they are only interested in transport.
The second one created from the same IP worked, so that does not seem to explain it. I think it's unlikely that deng would find the punishment problematic.
Aren't they paying for community / accountability?

Oftentimes the value the user gets is a bit tangental to the concrete product.
If userbase was their only concern, Facebook would likely not have responded to the EU Parliament's request for interview.

Facebook is still registered in Ireland, since 2010, which is still in the EU, making Facebook an entity subject to them. (Ireland has also expressed a desire to rejoin the EU, post-Brexit).
If you're profitable but desire the growth, could you take on debt instead?
Most applications won't need "real-time" data, so I think things like end-of-day balances and transaction history are enough to cover 90% of the developer use-cases. As far as Identity goes, if you're willing to fork out $500/mo + fees for the production tier, you should be able to afford credit data from Transunion or someone else, which is going to be far more reliable than pulling ID info from bank accounts (for the reasons you stated).

I definitely share your concern about how the data gets pulled by Plaid, but as far as I can tell most major banks that have mobile applications have demonstrated that they are at least _marginally_ capable of developing high-availability REST APIs that are reliable enough for purposes like this. I wouldn't be surprised if Plaid somehow managed to get them to agree to using the "mobile app" APIs for their application.
Better to do nothing then the wrong something.

There is a non violent solution to this, I'm just not smart enough to know what that is.
Similar to the question about SALT and EthLend, these are both applications. See our answer there fore more details.

Re. MakerDao, they offer one type of loan, the Collateralized Debt Position, in which a borrower collateralizes ETH and the principal is denominated in DAI. And they have built in many automated mechanisms to keep DAI stable against the value of a US Dollar.

Dharma can support a similar use-case (getting liquidity on crypto-assets without selling them) -- you would collateralize any currency and borrow in DAI. That way you can get fiat liquidity today, but if you pay back your loan on time you can still benefit from appreciation of the asset you collateralized.

In addition, Dharma is capable of supporting other lending use cases: short selling, speculative leverage, venture debt, corporate bonds, muni bonds, etc. etc. We are a platform for any kind of debt agreement and for companies that want to issue these debts.
I have no idea. I'm still using it and all the blogs I read still use it. I'm a little confused. I think the death of rss has been greatly exaggerated. As an aside I described one of my worst experiences with food poisoning as "having the winds" I'm a little biased against the name I guess.
The gate metaphors in the article are so messed up they distracted me from the actual story.

>> Gates Only Work When They’re Raised

Well normally gates swing open and shut, maybe you mean some kind of portcullis, like in a castle? You have to raise those to open them.

>>  a gate that’s far too strong to break
>> through and too high to climb over —
>> this hack gets past it by finding a way
>> to lower it so close to the ground that
>> it can be stepped over

So now gates rise out of the ground? I don't think the author has seen an actual gate.
So ISPs remotely push updates to their customer premises hardware? This doesn't apply to the customer's own equipment, right?
30m sends you home? Watch it on 2x and skip parts you aren't interested in.
Epic is also providing the software rendering engine for the new Millennium Falcon ride at the Star Wars expansion to Disney. This real time ray tracing demo was probably part of the development process for the ride.

https://wdwnt.com/2018/03/first-on-ride-image-revealed-of-mi...
Advice, instructions, and a social group centered around the advice & instructions! Bill Ackman lost a lot of money underestimating the value of the latter.
A recent quote by Evan Czaplicki of Elm fame that I've come to like; "Abstraction is a tool, not a design goal."
>To give a contrarian view, what do people have against other people?

When you flood a place with people who don't share the same culture as the locals, it's disruptive to the culture and it can even permanently destroy it.