skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We launched a new brand of cell phone mount products several months ago. We were set up and going on sales with Amazon in a trivial amount of time. Meanwhile, on Ebay. Tried to start a new account to match our brand name. Pretty much immediately banned, I think it was because I used a Chinese cell phone number in my contact info with the account, but not sure, as it was never actually clear why I was banned. Then, after about a week of back-and-forths proving I personally am an American and we were selling with an American corporation. Got the account reinstated. Finally, trying to list the products in coordination with our shopify store was a nightmare, the products wouldn't list, and as I recall we had another round of account troubles due to just trying to list our products. I finally said screw Ebay, I give up. Well, surprise. If you can't onboard sellers then good luck staying in business!
I believe you. Providers are ultimately the profit center, and insurance operations the cost center.
What if life is actively being destroyed by some powerful civilization? For us life may be some beautiful miracle worth cherishing but perhaps there’s a brutal species out there with no greater regard for it than the weeds growing in our gardens.

On an intergalactic timescale humanity has only been around for the blink of an eye. So probably not long enough for a civilization that operates on cosmic scale heartbeats to have noticed us yet. When they do though, they might cast off a gamma ray burst in our direction and sentence us to death, checking back to see the carnage several lightyears later, just like they have done with so many other planets teeming with life.

They have made a critical error though: they are entirely too late. They should have done it when we were little more advanced than the beasts who graze on the grasslands. We are now on the brink of exponential technological advancement. By the time they fire off their attack we’ll see them coming and have time to prepare. They will have given away their position, and by the time they look for the dust of what was once our home they will find a hundred new starships and space stations, expanding rapidly away but a great portion moving closer in an ominous pattern.

Then they will realize what they have done. This time, they messed with the wrong species.
And then our message will arrive.

As they look at each other right to left and left to right with some alien expression of panic, a malevolent vibration will carry the voice of humanity unified in a way that it has never been before. This will not be the peaceful, optimistic greeting of our Voyager. This will be something unmistakable in it’s intent, something that can only be promised by a civilization that’s been killing itself and nearly killing it’s own planet for all it’s existence, and now thirsting for revenge with a rage handed down from generation to generation. Whenever these beings sleep, if they must sleep, they will be haunted with echoes of our message, still ringing in their heads loud and clear: "We’re coming for you—motherfuckers."
That's easy?
Huh. I've read about boson sampling, but didn't realise you could construct a universal quantum circuit model around it. Interesting.
For some reason it kept coming up in Chrome with an extra / at the end of the URL.. but its working now.
eBay is worth $37 billion today. They very clearly were not being valued at a negative market cap.

There are no examples in recent US stock market history of a large, extremely profitable corporation with a positive balance sheet being valued at a negative market cap. There's a reason for that.

The combined unit was suffering a discount. That's precisely why PayPal was separated. If your premise were right, eBay today would be worthless, not trading for $37 billion.
Yes, sorry. I'll try to explain in the future, and be less negative.

(Edit) I tried to re-write it and still sounded like a dick. Guess that one will go in the bin, hah.
Not his call, Facebook has to follow the law.

If I were him I would stop this freedom of expression stuff: nobody cares. Users don't actually want the crazies, religious nutjobs and political fighting. It almost killed Reddit and Twitter.
I don't know if its "yikes". But we are still waiting for them to detect something first and prove it is real by pointing where to look. I mean if you were waiting for that kind of evidence to begin with.
The Picolisp project has been around for ages and has been used for production work and is extremely impressive in my opinion. Generally speaking, only the APL family languages require less code (based off of looking at dozens of examples on Rosetta Code). Rebol is probably just as terse too, but not much else.

As a language it is tiny and easy to understand. It can interface to C or Java and Android. It also has a built-in prolog like system. I like many of the choices made by the creator "Alexander Burger".
Here is my analysis of StubHub business:

1- TM is licking down access to the tickets, making it hard for Stubhub.

2- AEG and other primary concert ticket issuers are building their own ticketing system.

3- StubHub acquisition of ticketbiz and their international ambitions are failing because of very soft secondary landscape.

4- StubHub leadership and culture inspires politics, back stabbing and values BS over innovation.

5- New StubHub CTO is known failure at Amazon. He is bringing a lot of ex-Amazon to SH. There is feeling that something is fishy!

6- Vivid is spending much more in Marketing than SH.

Based on these, I think eBay will spin off StubHub in next 6 month.
Can't you solve "what if we need it later?" mentality with git (or some other append-only repo) and static analysis?
You mean a round bed? I get that technically it would be a cylinder but people also don’t commonly refer to a normal rectangular bed as a cuboid bed :)
I do not know vscode but Atom's C++ parts are in a separate repo https://github.com/atom/superstring
I'm pretty sure some nifty JavaScript code will come to save the day!
A great deal of the flavoring from bourbon casks goes into the bourbon. American straight whiskeys always require new, charred oak. Hmmm, I wonder if any Scotch gets aged in casks that were used for rye whiskey, and how much difference there would be compared to a bourbon cask?

Scotch can be aged in any oak, new or previously used, and more recently, there have been other types of casks (such as port, or French oak) used for either aging or short-term finishing.
I have a lot of respect for Henry Rollins. From working at an ice cream store to front man for the world's biggest punk act, to poet and actor. If you get a chance, watch him in He Never Died

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2386404/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Motion is hiring back end engineers to rebuild care for injuries and body pain
Why do you think Inserting NOP instructions will not work?
Yea...it uses "de" to define a function instead of "defun". People always hate on it for no macros, but macros don't make since when you only have an interpreter. I don't fully understand how, but I've heard people in the past explain how they're irrelevant in Picolisp and how you can still extend the syntax with standard functions somehow. Maybe a picolisper could give some examples?

Shout out that there are two free online books on Picolisp.
Mozilla was so eager to get WhatsApp on Firefox OS that it wrote a proof of concept J2ME.js interrupter [1] (repurposing Shumway's Flash-to-JS JIT) to run WhatsApp's Java applet. But WhatsApp was not interested. This was a big blow because lack of WhatsApp support was one of the top complaints or deal breakers for Firefox OS users in its initial markets.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet
With respect, the most reliable speedtest site that I have ever found is the one at DSLreports -- see https://www.dslreports.com/speedtest

The Ookla speedtest.net reports are far too easily gamed.
> Additionally, American furniture companies that make custom beds would not make larger-than-standard mattresses as they only cut down from existing models.

These guys will make you any size mattress you like: https://www.originalmattress.com/custom-size
Or cheaper Glendronach for that matter? It's 40-60% more expensive than Macallan here.
A better opening line: "Hi, I'm looking for volunteers to help me test a mattress I'm building, and you look pretty hefty and sensitive..."
Amazon is much more expensive and even more buyer-centric.

Groupon isn't particularly busy and definitely aren't good with sellers. I've heard a lot of horror stories.

Overstock is probably the worst, and I'd say downright abusive to their sellers. They also have no API or FTP.

Rakuten, nee buy.com is a strange beast. They will pause your account for strange reasons. No API either.

Walmart has little useful online presence for 3rd party sellers and no API.

Newegg also has no API. I haven't heard any real bad things about them otherwise.

There are a lot of niche marketplaces that do very well in their domain. They aren't using APIs. Some are absurdly expensive and others are cheaper.

It doesn't really matter. No online market takes care of the seller, and honestly, the buyer is far more common than a seller. One seller leaves and another takes their place.
Unfortunately, inferring sarcasm is becoming a lost art.
Thanks, sounds very interesting. I'll take a look.
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Indeed, this book is well worth anyone's read. Many insights on sleep and productivity (the effect of alcohol on sleep quality was particularly shocking).
As least now they acknowledge that BuzzFeed.com is free of journalism.
My mum was on holiday in the US and had to go to hospital in NYC. For 2 days in hospital - no operations and only a few xrays - the bill was around $30,000. I had a look at the bill and over $10,000 of this was for drugs. If she had been given what they said she would have been dead. Basically the hospital just made up a number and fudged expenses. We asked friends about it and they said the way the system works is that they give you a bill then you negotiate - usually you pay around 30% of the first amount - pretty similar to the way bazaars work around the world. Luckily she had travel insurance so just gave it all to them to sort out.
I never thought I'd hear a Finnish accent in Latin, very cool.
>making a GUI requires front end/backend development, UX, visual, research,

Doing a CLI also requires, at least, back-end development and research. Doing a decent one requires a tremendous focus on UX.
Which is why the (really) underground post-rock “scene” in Brisbane is still going; no one knows it exists except the bands and about 100 people who go to the gigs! There’s even a distinctive sound to it.
Than Mac 12! Yeah, sorry: Mac 12 is probably a good value. The comparison I’m always seeing made is to Mac 18.

(Actually, Binny’s current Mac 12 price in Chicago appears to be higher than Abunadh or Dronach 12 [which is fantastic]).
> even if there is an off the shelf version done by dedicated professionals

Hahaha. Ahem. Hahahahaha

Source: am dedicated professional
Exactly, I'm surprised there isn't more concern about facebook's proposed use of AI to remove/censor posts.

Zuckerberg has championed AI as a more fair way of performing this censoring, however it is easy for AI to pick up biases (Microsoft's Tay bot for example) depending upon the training data. AI also provides scapegoats and plausible deniability: "we're constantly working to improve our algorithms" "the algorithms aren't perfect". Since news feeds are personalized & private, it is difficult for anyone who isn't facebook to audit or even detect biases.

It's a tough problem, but I believe 'fake news' is best fought with truth & facts, not censorship. Censorship has a long history of abuse.
It was actually detected by two gravitational wave facilities (Hanford and Livingston) before the GRB was detected by Fermi. What you're referring to is that the gravitational wave was in a third facility's blind spot (Virgo). So yes, they had to dig it out of Virgo's data to triangulate the location of the signal so that they could confirm the event in optical wavelengths (which they did). No, that doesn't affect my opinion, because your characterization is inaccurate. It was in fact detected independently as a GW and a GWB.
Only in the extremely short term and only for those who are participating in the racket. It would be a great net gain for society.
Absolutely. And no sex unless it's really, truly love.
And is a YC founder (post-books)
If we had a similarly broken system for say, acquiring groceries, no one would even question firing everyone involved to replace it with something different for the greater good.
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I doubt there would be much difference between ex-rye and ex-bourbon. The first fill of American spirit strips most of the flavor out of the barrel and doesn’t leave really anything behind. (There’s a cool Woodford Reserve demo bottling you can get that demonstrates this).
"My WPM rate is sufficient that I can type almost as fast as I can think"

I _so_ wish I could think as fast as I can type.
Maintaining a sleep schedule is actually awesome but you could try "pre-sleep", kinda like "pre-gaming" on a drinking night, just a biphasic sleep version. Go home early and go to bed early. Then wake up in the middle of the night to date, socialize, and drink. Then get whatever sleep you can when you get home. Worked well during the world cup for me.
I think the issue that we are all grappling with is the amount, speed of dissemination, reach, and substance of all the speech that Facebook allows is something humanity has never grappled with.

We generally agree that speech should be free, but obviously we put limits on it. For instance we do not allow yelling “fire” in a crowded theater. The reason is that people are directly harmed by that speech, and it has no upside.

It’s perfectly reasonable to consider much of what goes on, on Facebook in the same vein. If holocaust denial, or other types of hate speech or misinformation are spread rapidly, and cause moral panic, possibly harm to others, should we not consider limiting it?

It’s not a black and white issue of “speech should be free at all times”.

Facebook and social media is fundamentally changing (has changed) how humanity communicates. Thinking though and questioning the ethics and moral obligations of those services is quite important.
Fraud detection needs to be balanced against the massive amounts of bad will being generated. It seems like anti-fraud has taken over. If Google keeps this up they aren't going to have many real customers to "protect".
If you are local to the Bay Area and can afford to take a weekday off this is a chance to take half or full day classes from cool instructors (Raymond Hettinger, Paige Bailey, Wes Chun, etc) in a bunch of areas where Python is used - ML, Data Science and Viz, Web Dev, etc.

Or come over the weekend to hear ~40 talks from all those folks - I'm personally looking forwards to the keynote on AI Ethics from Rachel Thomas.

I've been volunteering with PyBay for all three years it has run. I'm happy to answer questions if you've got em...
Not necessarily. Byod is commom. And quite frankly even if it is my employers box im not gonna put up with restrictions against installing a web browser. Or deal with some paperwork request, I'll work around it and just do it.
Well, Microsoft "blocks" Google being pre-installed on Windows and everything else so let's fine Microsoft, too.
in the context of a lunch container it conveys "nothing special", inexpensive, utilitarian, practical as opposed to fancy , expensive, extravagant "three martini" lunch
I was watching the Expanse tv show and they were talking about how half the population was on Basic Assistance.

I am not sure if it will ever happen, especially not in America were work is sacred. But paying people not to have jobs seems like a good deal. Keeps them from fucking up and maybe they can do something productive for society like growing wine or teaching children in Bangladesh to read.
> Android closed-source, by choosing the licenses accordingly or maybe have some kind of early-access or migration-support agreements (IANAL).

Absolutely. Something akin to https://licensezero.com might fit the bill. There’s plenty of innovation left to do in the space of source code licensing.
After Lucene has spent some variable amount of time depending on how many documents match the query...
How does this near extinction compare to previous ones?
> If you’re asking him to shut down Facebook, you are asking him to relinquish an amount of power that maybe 5 people in history have walked away from.

Tangent: who are some of the people you perceive walked away from a similar level of power?
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I don’t know, it sounds like he’s trying to not judge as much as possible, only removing posts actively promoting harm or harassing.

And what’s the alternative to Zuck? Should Facebook be controlled by the U.S. government? A panel of elders? When is it okay to dismantle a company in these such cases? Who makes _that_ judgment?
We sell to large, mostly state owned, corporations. In most cases that means going through answering Request for Proposals (RFP) where you need to show how you will meet a set of requirements for a price. Prior to issuing a RFP, often the organization will try to look for what is possible or what exists out there, this is usually done through a request for information (RFI). We usually try to build a relationship prior to these processes by regularly talking to people in these companies, helping them to solve some of their problems. That way they know about us and notify or invite us to answer when they issue an RFI or RFP. That all takes a long time, sometimes years, and you don’t get revenues for any of this.

Now this probably is not the most appropriate course of action for you. We initially started as a proof of concept for a branch of a large state owned company. If it’s small enough and doesn’t require too much spending or too much involvement, you can probably avoid the RFP process. But you need to know someone in charge inside, ideally more than one. You can try cold calling or meeting them in a conference but it is easier if you can use a network. If someone else in their industry or their company or maybe a well expert or industry researchers can vouch for you.

Also since it’s a potential ML project, if it’s a public organisation, you may be able to access the data though other means either because it is already public or by simply requesting it. In some jurisdictions, you may request data from public institutions. Once you have the data, you can build you proof of concept and pitch it to the organisation or someone you could use to network your way in.
> Where are you getting cheap Aberlour A'bunadh?? It's my favorite scotch but I cannot find it for less than 2 to 3 times the price of Macallan 12.

I was going to ask that, as well. :-) In Chicagoland at least, there isn't a huge price difference, though ($67 for Macallan 12, $90 for A'bunadh). On the other hand, last time I had a bottle of A'bunadh, it was in the $60-$65 range.

Fortunately, being cask strength, the A'bunadh bottle can go farther, provided you dilute it properly.

While I like the Speyside style, I like peated Islays as well. I'm interested in the Lagavulin 8 - the 16 is still just a bit too dear (though down in price from a few years ago).
eBay has created a one-sided marketplace, where sellers are getting ripped off with impunity. It's great for buyers like me, but I would never sell anything on there because it's so easy to get ripped off.

When you have an unhealthy marketplace like this, of course it will suffer.
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Edit: internal inconsistency is just as adequate
I also noticed this when I visited China. Drivers and pedestrians seemed much more aware, presumably out of necessity. Interestingly the road toll in China looks to be X10 worse than in the US from this wiki page, so make of that what you will. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Where functional programming really shines is in large, complicated codebases. Pure functions helps you reason about code and the way different pieces of code interact. This is probably controversial, but I think that for scripts/small applications, imperative programming is probably easier. If the scope is small enough that I can keep track of the state in my head, the primary benefit of functional programming is not as useful. And if you're dealing with a simple problem, its probably an easy mapping from problem domain to imperative program. Though again, this is a pretty small set of programs. Anything large needs to handle state, and pure functions is a great way to do that.
Does the batting material between the bottom layers matter?
My wife bought a cal king purple a few months ago and we love it. I was skeptical because it looked like memory foam but it isn't at all. I was also worried it would sag when you leaned over an edge since there was no special side support. But it doesn't sag at all which is a mystery to me.
The US is a democracy. The people in the racket vote. Its why democracies are oil tankers that can only change course slowly.
Did you know Obamacare fined you $695 or 2.5% of your household's income (whichever is greater) if you went for more than 2 months without health insurance? That doesn't seem very laudable.
iMindMap is a pretty good software. I am using it to build mindmap for iOS interviews.
I am also thinking of creating algo related one in future. There seems to be around 50-60ish main patterns in coding problems that are being repeated in almost all of the problems i've seen so far. If you can learn those you can use them as lego bricks to build your solutions. Interview problems have obvious constraints of time, whiteboard space and difficulty. If you master problems that fall within those constraints you can pass any interview.
What about the cases outside the US where politically-motivated fake stories have led to innocent people being murdered by mobs? That must seem like "a bad thing" to the victims.

I hear what you're saying, but Facebook (and good-forbid, Twitter) are profit-making enterprises, governed by all sorts of rules. Free speech has never meant that you can do or say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means you can speak or write your thoughts without going to jail. That's all it has ever meant.

EDIT:
To be even more clear,

-you can't hold-forth in a synagogue about how evil Jews are, and wouldn't expect to.

-You can't do it in your office, either, and expect to keep your job.

-You can't use the free speech argument to get responsible news organizations to publish your demonstrably false beliefs.

If Facebook is really such an important cultural resource that free speech matters there, they should ensure they're actually doing good on-balance in important matters.
Ask HN: What would you want out of a cryptocurrency/blockchain newsletter?
I run Grasshopper Capital Daily. We have about 900 subscribers. I've been playing around with different formats. I'm trying to be like Stratechery for cryptocurrency and am looking for feedback. Here are the archives: https://us17.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=c940b226bf9e756fb6db6f0f7&id=f29ad470fa
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Having trouble going to the therapist is not even close to the same as not engaging with the therapist once you're there. What are you talking about?
Always ship with tracking, proof of receipt and insurance to cover the transaction value plus any out of pocket expenses.
My wife used to run a small volume eBay shop, maybe 50 listings at a time. About once a month she would have to deal with outright fraud, and eBay almost always sided with the buyers. I'm talking about things like brand new items of clothing returned completely destroyed by the buyer---huge tears, burn marks, etc---and my wife would be forced to refund the purchase price and shipping costs. It certainly wasn't worth her time or all of the stress.
"burners" is that really a term people use?