skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
inline comments are handy for pointing out "non standard" configuration settings for your enviroment. especially on production systems.

It aids in troubleshooting greatly to have inline comments point out "odd" settings in configuration without having to look at seperate (usually old) documentation.
zabbix will do all of this for you....

It's not my favorite tool, but it is free and open source.
The state bank is also looking into creating a digital currency (not necessarily crypto) that should not be controlled by the private banks.

https://archive.li/20171221075726/https://www.ft.com/content...
Normally I'd agree with you, but the world was recently offered "Free Basics by Facebook" and had to decide between no internet vs practically Facebook only which I think the GP is alluding to.

So, it's not an invented hypothetical.
Anecdotes are not data
> Spending credit on crypto isn't a sign of risky behavior -

It most certainly is if you cannot afford to pay it off after making the purchase. The get rich quick aspect of crypto enticed these people to leverage their credit card.
Well, yes, but only as a fellow academic...
You can make that much. You can also win the lottery. Your opportunity cost should not be measured against your best case alternative, it should be measured against a most likely case.
This seems to agree with my own experiences. I've never been able to hold seven things in my head at once, it's definitely closer to the four number.
that's nowhere near as scaleable as "regular" notes that you can spend at any store without question.
As I suggested above, it looks like you are implicitly using a result something like:

"Any number that is relatively prime to all other primes is itself a prime"

You would need to first state and prove this in order for your original post to constitute a rigorous proof.
Interesting. I thought Visa also didn't allow it accept with debit cards, but now I am not sure. A little googl-ing suggests the main reason people can't may have more do with the mortgage lenders than the credit cards.
what about linux users?

Like I get that people don't like Electron because of it's resource heavy nature but it's been a boon to us Linux users who have finally been getting a lot of cross platform apps and I truly appreciate that.

getting a Mac is generally not an option - it's too expensive just for a few GUI apps (and overall pushes the bar of development quiet a bit higher) and in all honesty, it's not great for the developer ecosystem to stick to one platform either (new Macbook with the touch-bar is a good reminder of that).

I am currently fortunate enough to own and work on OS X, but I do remember when I was in university with a Lenovo T420 running Ubuntu 12.04 having issues with quite a lot of tools when I was just getting started.
Credit card companies main business is in transaction processing (both for customer-vendor transactions, and for helping banks administer these revolving loans to customers). The insurance is one feature, not the whole model.
Ehh I feel like this is a little murky. I am having a hard time finding a precedent, and IANAL so maybe one can chime in here, but illegal contracts are unenforceable. Therefore if laws regarding Internet regulation were to change such that contracts between telecomms/municipalities are rendered illegal, then I would think they become void.
It does. Show up at the border any time as an American citizen and they stamp your password and let you in.
The two parties are NOT the same.
A collection of architecture descriptions for software systems
Given that the US ISP industry has shown that it is wholly on-board for zero-rating their own services, have been questioning "why should YouTube get free access to our pipes", and have displayed an active interest in tiering the internet by site and not bandwidth... No. Ajit Pai is not right.

The information to make an informed choice between service providers is meaningless when most of us in the US have no practical choice.
>Even with contactless card payments, I didn't notice much of a difference in time spent

Lately it seems like cash is faster than using an electronic payment.

At the pet store:

- Insert loyalty card or enter ID number

- Insert bank card

- Wait for cashier to notice and push a button

- Wait for cashier to finish ringing up items

- Screen asks "Is $xxx.xx correct?" Push Y/N

- Screen asks "Do you want cash back?" Push Y/N

- Screen asks "Do you want to donate $1 to homeless pets?" Push Y/N

- Screen prints "Enter an amount to donate to [insert local cause here]" Enter 0.00, push Y

- Screen prints "You have xx loyalty points! Do you want to use them today?" Y/N

- Screen prints "Is the total $xxx.xx correct?" Push Y/N

- Authorizing...

- Approved!

- Wait for receipt to print.

- Wait for separate machine to print habit-tracking coupons.

- Take stuff and go.

With cash:

- Cashier rings up purchase.

- Hand cashier money

- Take change, stuff, and go.
How can you ever trust anyone like that ? Unless, you see the line of code that is deleting the data ?. It's kind of unfair when people on HN take Apple by their word and for Google "oh is it really deleted though" ?
I meant they handle cash in the literal sense, with their hands. You have to mail them a check or money order, but either way all of their money exists on a ledger, not in notes and coins. I guess I should say I don't know for sure, but I see no reason they would want or need to.
I basically agree.

Unless you are a founder, go with the money.

Better Estimated Value.
You love this[0]? Ick.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rating#/media/File:Screen...
While we’re here, Strong Towns is doing good work and needs your help, https://www.strongtowns.org/mission/

> The mission of Strong Towns is to support a model of development that allows America's cities, towns and neighborhoods to become
financially strong and resilient. For the United States to be a prosperous country, it must have strong cities, towns and neighborhoods. Enduring prosperity for our communities cannot be artificially created from the outside but must be built from within, incrementally over time.
If you raise VC (series A) you can pay yourself a decent salary while keeping a good chunk of equity and building your company. Not a huge salary and not saving tons of money of you live in SF, but you won't be burning resources.

Very different from using all of your resources to self fund it.

POF was a minimalist app in a well trodden market. You shouldn't raise VC to do something like this, and you shouldn't be able to (though yes it happens far too often).

There are many problems and markets that just don't fit this approach.
comma.ai here, happy to answer any questions.

The open source driving software is here: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot

We have a slack also if you are interested in this project: https://slack.comma.ai
The trend of turning untested hypotheses into clickbait headlines is getting really bad. There is little evidence so far that the headline is true, it's just one hypothesis.
FYI There is a blog post for interested, a reverse engine of AWS Lambda for Python, which does not use RPC/network at all, instead uses shared memory to communicate, which could be more of a challenge.

https://www.denialof.services/lambda/
I think the core of a "fix" is here.

If I were building an engineering org today I'd either go remote-only or build it somewhere which is not SFO/SEA/NYC and friends. An underwhelming bay area compensation package puts you at absolute top-of-market in most European cities.

So Y-Combinator can help companies get out of dodge immediately after raising a seed round. For recruiting, warm up a pipeline of talented engineering managers outside the tiny handful of overheated areas in the US. Provide legal, hr, and accounting assistance with setting up shop elsewhere.

You can always still keep sales, account managers, and fully customer facing-roles in SFO.
I'd recommend reading it. Pretty fun book.
I wonder how sustainable this is.

Its 400k while their stock price is crazy high. But If we really are in a tech bubble, that money is back to the typically 80-120k of most tech jobs.
This is one of the reasons I desperately want Banks’ Culture novels to get more popular. I think it’s a positive vision of the future that would resonate really well with this generation. I’ve even been tossing around the beginnings of a TV script for Consider Phlebas, though I’m not a real writer so I’m not sure it’ll go anywhere.
To add to this: the Australian aborigines actually split their languages a lot, and on purpose. Groups of young people would split off from their tribe and form a new group, and deliberately changed their language (as young people are wont to do to express difference to their parents).

So it's actually opposite to what mmjaa claims: Europeans didn't split their languages on purpose, while non-Europeans did.
Currently a dev at a pre-Series A startup.

Pros:

- both the freedom AND responsibility to build things that'll directly translate into increased growth/profits, or the opposite in the case of failure

- close-knit dev team, and in general everyone is chill, i.e company culture is great so far

Cons:

- my salary compensation is pretty average so I am hoping for an eventual big pay-out, but it's hard to gauge what the payout amount of my shares will be.. maybe this is just due to my ignorance/lack-of-experience (are there tools/calculations to figure this kind of stuff out?)
Banks might accept such more-than-half bills as a courtesy to their customers but ultimately it's the US Treasury that will take them and redeem them. If you have a bunch of partially destroyed notes, you should go to them.

http://bep.gov/services/currencyredemption.html

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/07/535920428/the-office-where-mu...
Exactly this. Also some bank customers may buy (crypto)cash declare bankrupcy and their crypto assets will be unreachable to any debt collector or law enforcement.
Major Brexit backer had multiple meetings with Russian embassy officials
How do you know that the fees didn't go up as much as they would have without the ATMs?

I don't. I know the banks stated that fees would go down, and they didn't. Sounds like a lie to me.
Ditto - I prefer a flexible and generous actual paid time off policy over unlimited PTO. One big benefit to a defined policy is accruing time off you'll be paid out for if you leave. That can be a non-insignificant amount of money for some people.
I'm not saying this is a bad idea, but, I'll try to argue the other side for a moment:

BEGIN THEORY

Startups hire in-house devs because, basically, management does not know exactly:

A. what to build

B. what's possible to build

C. how the real world will react to the initial product/service offering and how the company will need to adjust

So, they bring devs in close, as high availability, high dedication employees, people who are in the center of the decision making. These intimately involved, trustworthy, motivated devs will then be more likely to come up with features and products that workaround management's deficits. And the company will benefit from that quickly and the company will own those features and products.

END THEORY

But, if this were contracted out to an outside stable of roaming rockstar developers, all highly talented but still less motivated and more in need of detailed direction from management -- how much insanely great startup flash-magic would really happen?
It's not good to think of anyone as a demigod but there's a big difference between Elon and Trump. Elon very much has a problem with defensiveness and he tweets too much. Sometimes he's also wrong about things. But I'll give him credit for being both honest and idealistic which Trump certainly isn't.
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Well, we have a lot in common then.

Any basic mortgage calculator would show you that the mortgage is not viable, the interest would accrue faster than it can be paid back. The duration or the rate must go down.

In the 80s, the interest rate was higher and the duration was lower. People didn't make a 30 or 40 years mortgage to buy a flat.
If you're a business, you have tracking on your site. The cookie warning it's almost always warranted.
Indeed, the primary history of the last century has been the growth and centralization of power into the state, via the growth of state-capitalist ideology. Not just in the US, but across the whole world governments are larger and involved in 100x more areas they never were in the early 1900s.

I've posted this here before, but the first half of this book "The Fourth Revolution" has a really great history of how western governments have grown into behemoths.

https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Revolution-Global-Reinvent-Sta...

The 2nd half about moving more towards a Singapore style limited gov - which has proven to be wildly successful there - is less persuasive, even though is fundamentally well motivated. As I believe they benefit from being small by nature not just design. Smaller states > large federated countries, as federalism constantly gets eatten away by centralized growth towards the executive/federal gov, away from state power. Without a concerted push-back and a strong culture, federalism will always result in top heavy administrations, where fewer and fewer people have more and more power over the whole country.
Take stats like this with a grain of salt. The can easily be tortured into saying what you want. I wonder how many couldn't pay their balance at the end of the month regardless. I mean, it is a rolling credit system. A lot of people only ever pay the minimum.

If they are truly doing this to protect vulnerable customers, that's great. It'd be a rare occurrence though. Credit cards are basically designed to sneak credit into people's lives, by merging it with a payment method.
Supporting humane treatment for people who have already illegally immigrated is a bit different than supporting illegal immigration.
"It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart." - M. J. Ranum?
Fascinating. I've used my own hacked-together unsupervised learning to facilitate topic labeling, and this seems to address the bottleneck problem for supervised learning. Will have to dig in deeper though to pick out specifics.

Also interesting that one of the fundamental problems the authors note is "The limits and bias of learning about the world through text", which is essentially a Godelian incompleteness problem. One could say the reverse also applies to embodied/visual data, and a good argument for studying established literature in the abstract.
A dip in the ocean is much less harsh than the much more common environment of money left in a pants pocket when they go in a washer and dryer.
I think you remember wrong. Most of the games were ports from the Atari ST and seldom used the blitter, sprites or dual-playfield. When you have a 80's computer with pretty severe limitations you often design your game visuals around those limitations.

As for your statement on "many of the 8-bit machines", only the C64 had good 50/60fps shooters of the 8-bit home computers. The 8-bit consoles had better graphics hardware than the C64 and sometimes had the better games.

Properly implemented Amiga games were not that many though. It was hard to utilize the machine and it required good graphic artists to make it look fresh and sharp with the limitations of dual playfields.

But take a look at these games, I think they all run on a 512kb chipmem only OCS Amiga.

Mega Typhoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk3LNdPTnMw

Agony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a839o59Bt4s

Apidya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBJNbDidxcM

And of course the R-Type and Turrican series. Those were 12 or 25fps on the ST but silky smooth 50fps on the Amiga 500. Especially Mega Typhoon looks like a Raiden clone. It's very hectic, lots of bullets and big enemies and snake formations. The only thing that stands out is the lack of colors. I suspect this is because of using dual playfield and that limits the number of colors to 8+8+sprite colors.

I'm an old demo coder(C64 and Amiga) and was very picky about framerate back then. The only shootemups I liked that was not 50fps was Battle Squadron and Wings of Death.

And then you talk vaguely about responsiveness. Do you mean the number of cycles spent by the machinery to process and IRQ? I never saw that as a problem. On the Atari ST they use timer IRQ's to make rasterbars in demos and games. Seems to me they would not do that if the cost was too high.

The Amiga mouse-pointer was a sprite. I never saw a delay on that. It felt like a game character. At most 1 frame delay. And dragging Amiga "screens" up and down was usually only one frame after the sprite movement. But that's logical since the system copperlist has to be updated and that is definitely one frame delay on that.
Ask HN: Any resources on doing customer interviews?
I am the point where I have enough customers to start digging in, interviewing, and learning more but I’m not sure where to start.

Any tips on good resources on conducting customer interviews?
As a European: T-Mobile is charging companies for their music zero rating. If you love paying twice for things it might be a good thing. Zero rating is crap.
"Billing issues" are incredibly common (this stuff is complex!); "the provider turning your account off immediately" is not.

Google has incredible technology-- but unfortunately also a tendency to fall down on the operational excellence side.
There's a couple of outliers in your list IMO.

Long-legged "high" chairs raise the child to a comfortable table height. How else do you expect then to sit at the same table as much taller people?

Giving soft food, to people with no teeth, also just seems entirely sensible. We pretty much all just ate the same food at family meals, but even then we'd mush vegetables and pre-chew meat (from about 5-6 months). Otherwise the child is just going to be swallowing under-chewed food and have digestive problems.

People marvel at how our 2yo walks but a few hundred meters (it's bizarre!), if they're not doing a couple of K a day how do you even tire them out! When they're too big for a sling they need to walk.
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Bitcoin prices continue to fall as yet another exchange reports a breach
The difference between 260M and 240M in the Western US is really big. My hometown, Flagstaff, Arizona, goes from being near the ocean to being hundreds of miles away from the ocean, like it is now.
I think this is probably a case of the individual retailer accepting credit cards, but that doesn't mean your credit card's issuing bank is going to approve the purchase.

Obviously if they accept them, there must be some banks that don't mind, but I know that many issuers won't accept the transaction. Kind of like the situation we have here: Wells Fargo blocks cryptocurrency purchases, but not every bank does.
They've also started a marketing campaign. Recently saw a banner on a city bus with 3 "scooter laws" written on the side (helmet, not on sidewalks, etc). Both Lime and Bird have adopted giving out free helmets to frequent riders. Seems they're much more accepted down here as well when compared to SF.
Malawi's Minister of Information and Communications Technology Can't Explain 4G
Doesn't the Washington Post have some sort of policies against 'hate speech'?

I mean.. this kind of qualifies as that.
Commercial suicide: integration at the database level
Perhaps Intel made too many promotions based on time served and not merit and the cuts was a time to correct.
It's ridiculous. Thankfully, many insider reports state that they are indeed changing out the other end that goes into the charger from USB-A to USB-C on the next generation iPhone lineup so at least you'll be able to plug the damn thing into your Macbook Pro. That misstep was probably the most un-Appley thing i've seen them do in quite some time.
A silicon-valley YC startup is mostly cons:

- cult-like obsession with working "hard" that amounts to pressuring people into burning themselves out

- have to be around people who act like everything is great and they're killing it all the time even though in reality running or working for a startup is super stressful and you're usually teetering on the verge of failure

- being compensated in the non-fungible scam that is options instead of equity or shares

- don't know whether you'll still have a job tomorrow

- make less money than you would at a bigger company

Some of those things appeal to some people, and the SV hypetrain tries really hard to act like they're great but mostly they're objectively bad.

I believe that 3/5 of these are avoidable though:

- People who work 60 hrs/week aren't much more productive than people who work 30 hrs/week most of the time. Productivity per hour drops off considerably for jobs that are cognitively intensive. Plus it's unsustainable except for a tiny sliver of the population.

- Unfortunately, my experience in raising money is that it's largely theater, and you have to pretend like everything is great all the time. That act ended up seeping into the rest of my interactions with people because there's a tendency to turn into whatever you pretend to be. I've had to make an effort, but I believe it's possible to stay true to myself and not become a caricature. I'll report back on how that works out for me after a few more years.

- The whole private equity system is fucked for employees and I hope crypto fixes the fungibility issue. In the meantime, anyone who pays their early employees in options should be ashamed of themselves.

Obviously, a startup simply can't compete with a big company on salary or stability, but being honest about the reality of the situation and offering real equity can help.
They're doing this to protect themselves, and by proxy, their customers. Incentives are aligned.
Fine, leave those FAANG "outliers" out. Startup comp is still wildly below market.
> Why is the ability to imagine something at all relevant?

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/#3
Hi! I'm not sure what you meant by that, can you explain? It seems you were implying that you have an understanding of why someone would falsely claim that "both sides" oppose Net Neutrality, when in fact the votes show that it is Republican politicians in Washington that consistently vote against Net Neutrality, while Democratic members of congress consistently vote to protect and safeguard Net Neutrality. I'd love to learn more from you.
It comes down to the question what kind of financial services they want to provide.

What people are doing is to use those cards as speculation devices. You enter a game of speculation, using your card depth as speculation matter against the crypto currency. It's simple currency speculation, nothing new, nothing special.

But, is this what Wells Fargo wants to enable / service with the specific product "credit card"?

It's a matter of product line-up hygiene on the side of Wells Fargo.