skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MTV isn't "hostile" to tech. It just got greedy and is trying to get more out of its resident tech companies.

"So we have all these big tech companies opening offices in our town... How do we get more out of them... Let's force their employees to buy their food in local stores by banning free food... Let's tax them a bit more..."

Etc.

This will work in the short term, especially when some of these rules only apply to new offices.

It will fail on the long term, as more and more companies question the wisdom of setting up shops in the Valley and California in general, and move to locations with much lower tax and restrictions, such as Austin TX.
Individuals cannot register their "intellectual property" to another jurisdiction other than the one they operate in right?
The right to self-rule outside the enumerated powers of the federal government (and thus, the general police power of the states) is a right of the people against the federal government.
As they say, real estate is hyper local. Wouldn't surprise me if the rest of the US slows down, but we don't seem to be there yet in the Bay area.
This is really impressive, like the rest of the Stripe API! Although many people here are asking about creating virtual banks and issuing cards to customers, it appears that the intended audience of this API is a business that has a Stripe account, that wants to be able to issue cards to employees/trusted officials that charge against that single Stripe account. There is no mention of issuing cards to external customers that link against their own, external accounts, right?

I ask because the webhook that Stripe fires at purchase time is fantastic, and you could build some great things if their API gave you access to authorized real-time purchase data for customers. This doesn't appear to facilitate that though.

Does anyone know of an API that would allow a Credit Card user the ability to grant real-time webhooks to a 3rd party as they swipe their card? The closest I've ever found would be setting up spending email spending alerts (that certain banks allow), and then forwarding the emails to said 3rd party. It's clunky, and would only work with a few banks. Something like this issuing API would work if Stripe allowed you to issue a card that was linked to a customer's existing card/account. They'd basically be saying, "If I swipe _this_ card that you sent me, I'm agreeing to let you get notified." The other way I've considered would involve creating your own bank and issuing your own cards, but that's real work on both the developer and the customer's part :)
swindle? Are you being serious?
That doesn't answer the question of which network and what rules the transaction is governed by.
I spent a year in a lab learning how to clone genes into E.Coli. it's amazing how easy it is to screw up. Once, we got a bottle of broth back from the autoclave (it should be completely sterile) and within a week or so of sitting on the shelf, unopened, there was already a cloudy membrane growing inside.

What I learned from the process is that it's all about control experiments and troubleshooting. To make a real discovery today, or even just convince yourself you succeeded in a process, you need to be outright paranoid about every component in your system. I wasted a lot of time because I started with only negative controls, and learned the hard way that you need positive controls.

That doesn't even begin to describe all the problems I had extracting reliable data from gels. I'm convinced that all the dark secrets in biology are in the gels.

Even when I worked for a major biotech company, when i talked to the guys who ran the continuous fermentors said they always saw strange fluctuations in things like bulk metabolic rate, drug production, etc, that they couldn't explain, and they were the experts in reliably growing liters of e.coli.
Wasn't Spotify originally written in C++?
I deleted Facebook before deleting Facebook was cool. I'm sure there are few good benefits but drawbacks and ads dwarf them all.

One more thing - the last time when I met my school buddies back in my hometown, we had more things to share, discuss and appreciate. It really felt good and real. Previously this experience was diluted by constant barrage of FB feed, there was nothing new to share or discuss.
You know what also dumb? If you have an explicit song in a playlist and then that song becomes un-available due to some licensing deal from the original licenser but is still available (in explicit and explicit) form another licenser sometimes your explicit song will get swapped for the clean version. It's incredibly jarring and at least the last time I dealt with the issue it was really hard to find the explicit song from the mobile app to fix my playlist and had to do it on the desktop.
There is a lot of good food in this area (San Antonio shopping center in Mountain View), places that would draw the workers on their own merits anyway. Sajj, Chef Chu’s, Dittmers, Mamacitas food truck, Paul Martin, Pacific Fresh, several pho places, I could go on.
My rules for writing software
Airline seat prices, adjusted for inflation, are a lot lower than they used to be in the golden era of North American airlines. Yes seats are crappy and you have to pay for food and luggage, if you're not flying with a lot of mileage points. But adjusted for inflation, costs for something typical like a Seattle to Boston flight are like half of what it cost in 1982.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-air...

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/air-travel-today-is-a-damn-b...
3blue1brown's calculus and linear algebra series are what I wish I had when I was first studying math at that level

http://www.3blue1brown.com/
Exactly. Why waste space for cafeteria. I like to eat at my desk anyways.
We'll be improving the mobile experience soon :)
I'd just like to point out that Amazon HQ isn't in California, it's in Washington over near Microsoft, separated by half of California and the state of Oregon. Either way, I hope the same
They changed the country/region of an existing Apple ID, they didn't change their Apple ID.
thanks for the tip, I didn't know about that. I was expecting the up and down arrow keys to move between articles in view mode 3, but looks like j and k works, thanks!
Here is how transactions go at a local store: I insert my chip and the machine says "please swipe." I swipe and it says "please use the chip." At which point using the chip succeeds.
So you can construct a cafeteria so long as it's "offsite", and even give employees free meals if they show their badge?
The decision to charge a penny by the company doesn't change that in any meaningful way, AFAICT, so it may be a tax issue for employees, but it doesn't seem relevant to the proposal that was being discussed.
Polyglot – a code counting tool written in ATS
Seeking Wisdom is also really, really good. Super approachable and underrated.

The Personal MBA is also great, but I do agree that it's poor form for Josh to recommend his own book.
Very likely! But some years ago, back when I still played Flash browser games, Unity games didn't work in a browser for Linux, the only platform I use. Maybe that situation has changed? :)
Yup. Then it comes down to capacity - how many scans you can do a day vs. how many people need the diagnostic vs. how many people could use the diagnostic.
Hey, thanks! I've just released it, so it's too early to say if it will sale enough.
I quit to start this company :)
The article misses General Magic's most successful alum, Pierre Omidyar, who founded EBay while working at GM.
GCC progress was pretty slow before the rise of clang. Clang introduced many features that werent really on the radar of GCC, like better formatting of error messages, tight integration of tools like thread and address sanitizer, and in some areas even more and better warnings.

Meanwhile - at least for a short period - gcc was on this optimization fad where they'd just take any occurrence of UB as a reason to silently eliminate chunks of code and render the whole program useless in some cases. With 4.8 they even broke SPEC 2006. The GCC folks always argued that doing so is legal by the standard, but eventually there was enough backlash that the worst instances of such aggressive optimizations were removed.
It's likely legal for states to do it
It would not be legal for the feds.

There are fun loopholes though.
Here's the text of the condition for facebook.

"CAFETERIA CONDITION: In order to foster synergy between office, restaurant, and retail uses in the Center and realize the economic vitality of the project, the project anticipates employees in the office space will utilize food and retail services available in the Center. The applicant will encourage tenants and employees of tenants to utilize food and retail services available in the Center. Neither the applicant nor tenant(s) will subsidize meals by more than fifty percent (50%) or provide free meals for employees in the office space on a regular daily basis. An employer can subsidize or pay for employee meals as long as they are patronizing restaurants in the Center.

In addition: The applicant may make a request to amend this condition. The City Manager or a designee may make a recommendation to the City Council on this matter."

So for example:

Facebook could open a restaurant in the center. If it does, it cannot legally choose to discriminate in who they serve (in california, anyway. In a lot of states you often can).

It can, however, legally price discriminate in various ways (AFAIK, if someone has case law otherwise, love to see it). This is in fact, quite common.

So for example, it could charge the public that walks in 1 million a meal.
It could offer advance tickets to employees at no charge, and no one else.

This is also non-discriminatory on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin (which is what the 1964 civil rights act covers), disabilities (covering the ADA), etc.

I don't believe it would be found discriminatory to a protected class in most states (a lot of states add political affiliation, etc).

(this is just an example, and one i'm sure the IRS would have fun with :P)
I was a contractor/consultant and our client decided to buy out my contract and hire me full time.
I don't think it works like that.

Do employees today get taxed on the value of the free food ? Why would that be different if it costs 1$ , and how do you define the value of the free food anyways ?
Import/export tool is in beta now and will be available for all users on launch. Export is available now via the web interface but it's a little clunky. The reason this stuff is complex and taking a while is not nefarious, it's because most people don't want just ciphertext when they export their mail.
We basically just need to set loose that abandoned Canadian mine full of an unthinkable quantity arsenic dust, and the rest will sort itself out.
Got an offer to become a cofounder in a new consulting company (not a startup). It worked out pretty well :)
You broke the LGPL license, you didn't state changes:

https://github.com/snowkylin/ntm/blob/master/LICENSE

Moreover, in the paper 5 times you write:

"Our implementation"

You also don't acknowledge that you are piggybacking on snowkylin's code. You didn't make it magically "stable", like fixed NaNs or anything like that.

And you want to be cited as follows:

title={Implementing Neural Turing Machines,
author={Collier, Mark and Beel, Joeran},

That's just very bad.

You should:

1. State changes (orbifold did it for you below). Acknowledge snowkylin. Link to them.

2. Title it "Improved initialization in NTM" or something like that, not "Implementing NTM".
>middle class

? That doesn't add up to the rest of your comment.
Very cool. I'm wondering if the future of banking is actually online credit unions created using something like this.
>It will fail on the long term, as more and more companies question the wisdom of setting up shops in the Valley and California in general, and move to locations with much lower tax and restrictions, such as Austin TX.

But that will only last a decade or two before they turn Austin (or wherever) into SF 2.0 and all the business goes elsewhere.
The UK has a regulator and rules about commercial advertising, but last I checked neither apply to political advertising. In normal elections there's often a row about some advert or other (eg the Tony Blair demon eyes poster) but nothing much comes of it.

In this case there is a widespread view that the referendum was decided by misinformed voters and activists are trying to intervene on that basis to halt Brexit.
You need some bases in philosophy to understand that. Moleynieux tried to explain it in two videos for the general public. Your question is answered by the second answer of this video (although the whole is interesting): https://youtu.be/MYY11Ro4h54
It wasn't a last minute change of direction, they had about a year to put the DK and app store together. I believe the final decision was made shortly after SDC in 2007.

They couldn't have released an SDK in 2007 though, it simply didn't exist every system app was essentially put together by hand as part of the system and debugged and tested alongside the OS. At least that's what it sounds like from the interviews I've seen with developers on the project.
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43754737
You mean like this?
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6252/1095
or this?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25994576
Since the article doesn't have it that i saw, here's the text of the facebook development condition in san antonio center:

""CAFETERIA CONDITION: In order to foster synergy between office, restaurant, and retail uses in the Center and realize the economic vitality of the project, the project anticipates employees in the office space will utilize food and retail services available in the Center. The applicant will encourage tenants and employees of tenants to utilize food and retail services available in the Center. Neither the applicant nor tenant(s) will subsidize meals by more than fifty percent (50%) or provide free meals for employees in the office space on a regular daily basis. An employer can subsidize or pay for employee meals as long as they are patronizing restaurants in the Center.

In addition: The applicant may make a request to amend this condition. The City Manager or a designee may make a recommendation to the City Council on this matter."
Yep, and then the name too
Google (and likely others) tend to block these types of virtual cards, similar to how they block Twilio generated phone numbers from being used in registration.

How do you ensure the card numbers will be respected?

Last time I asked this in another thread I got one response that indicated it may be to prevent card number inception, of sorts...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17524398
I've found that any math subject makes a lot more sense when coding it out in a language you're comfortable with. Especially when you write unit tests for it and think of edge cases. It forces you to reproduce what you've learned and reason about it.
Emerged here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light from the Wikipedia rabbit hole, could be considered related.
For your discussion - can we use this hypothesis to evaluate the behavior of ourselves and others we know?

This article has appeared in several guises - such as exposure to T. gondii causes impulsive risk-taking behavior more generally.

I have several friends who have been highly exposed to cats, but not sure how many of my other friends have not, so no control group AFAIK.
About the network they are quite clear right upfront.

> "Stripe Issuing is certified directly with all major card networks as an issuing processor, which ensures reliability and rapid feature releases"

As for the rules I guess the business needs needs to adhere to the rules of whichever country it operates out of. Don't see Stripe helping there. They have built the roads, it's upto the driver to procure valid license.
Thank you for posting the first link. I know BBVA are behind many companies such as Simple, Azlo, Holvi; either as investing in them or buying them outright.

But I hadn't come across that link when searching on google. I am highly appreciative! I'll send them an email in the morning.
It's true that the investment does need to be recouped for purchasing future machines, but once you have one, it's a sunk cost.

And even then, if it's a big $5M machine [0] that lasts 10 years [1], and we generously assume it takes 1 hour per patient [2] and runs 12 hours a day, 300 days a year [3], the cost can be recouped if each test costs $140.

But an MRI bill easily costs 20 times the cost to recoup the investment.

[0]: They're usually $1-3M, and extremity scanners (hands, feet etc.) can be under $500k.
[1]: The average age of an MRI machine is ~11 years, i.e. they typically last 22 years
[2]: Most procedures take less than half an hour of scan time, but there's some shuffle and overhead
[3]: Medicine does not run on banker's hours
This looks really intriguing. I wish it provided some clues on pricing (e.g., order of magnitude numbers on what it will cost to issue a card, monthly fees per card?). That would help one better determine what kinds of business models could use it.
they are not uncommon in omlettes. Spanish Omlette- olives & red pepper. Also, I would imagine that the Japanese eat miso soup with mushrooms for breakfast.
I flagged this because of the gross hyperbole in the title and the article itself.
I have not used it personally (and am not affiliated) but I've heard good things about ALEKS. It provides an adaptive learning path that supposedly adjusts to you as you master topics. Now that I think about it I think Kahn academy might have a similar feature. For personal use ALEKS has a subscription plan that provides access to their whole catalogue.

https://www.aleks.com/independent
That would be a great use case for this.
I get the sentiment but it is a CEOs job to make as much money for the shareholders as possible. Its not just their own salary and bonus CEOs are trying to grow they are trying to get top dollar for shareholders as well.
I play too much CSGO and was hoping to leverage that to find a group of French players, but I've not really managed yet, still only learning to swear in Russian ... another suggestion is to watch a favourite program on Netflix in your target language. Most adult stuff is too fast/complex for me as yet though, so I'm looking for a kids show (Hello Duggy in French would be super).
It seems to me your assertions assumes that the randomness you get out of a quantum mechanical system is essentially same as psuedo-random sequences in quality. which may very well be true functionally (as in being able to simulate specific behaviors) but it is still completely deterministic (unless you use a true random event like decay of a nuclei etc). Until then your option-2 fall into the phys-zombie mode.

If I peer deeper into that line of thought I'd say it assumes that consciousness is simulate-able by physical deterministic processes and then goes onto say Ah look the behavior is indistinguishable so we have simulated the consciousness. BTW you can tell I am not a believer in turing tests like setup for 'measuring consciousness'. IMO its of a completely different nature.

here is my take:
Could it be that consciousness needs quantum mechanics to actually 'express' itself in human brain? this is borrowed from Penrose's Orchestrated-Objective-Reduction thesis. if so we could have either of those outcomes depending on the sophistication of your simulation and handling of various perturbations in human brain architecture. personally I lean more towards this option, especially after learning that QM processes play more central role in biology than we thought originally despite 'it' being too warm, wet & noisy. In short, if there is any evolutionary advantage to be had from QM effects, biology will adapt to exploit it.

I'd argue Option 2 is not silly sophistry if you consider following scenario:

1) Lets say we create a planet sized computer with enough capacity to simulate every human being in the way you described. then we decide Ah we dont need to be in meatspace anymore because what difference it makes anyways.. so we simulate all human minds and 'upload' each human into this computer. now if we are wrong about consciousness then essentially we would have willfully committed genocide on our own race (& every other living thing).

2) suppose we develop a Opt-2 based super-intelligent AI which is way better then us at everything. now why should it keep such resource hogs as humans around? IMO precise definition of consciousness matters quite a bit here as it creates a quality worth preserving/exploring further.
Drop 20K from your production Angular app
Start-up ISPs doing high speed last mile and middle mile access with self-built infrastructure. It's not sexy cloud based SaaS bullshit. You can't do it all sitting at a desk in a shared office in a WeWork studio. It requires physically going places and doing things at OSI layer 1.

But there are still a number of places in the world (and indeed within the US and Canada) that lack real broadband Internet. Or have truly terrible shitty noncompetitive options. It's capital intensive and requires a team encompassing the "full stack" of network engineering skill sets. If you're unhappy with Comcast type huge shitty unethical ISPs, build your own. Make a principled commitment to not "selling out", network neutrality, and high quality attentive customer service and no-nonsense billing.

There are plenty of challenges out there if you seek them out.
Ask HN: What to do if my new book is being pirated?
Hi,

I want to understand the options I have as an author if I see my book getting distributed at no charge at piracy websites. Also, I wonder what other authors do and if there is any governing body which looks into this matter? Like MPAA or RIAA equivalent to protect books and authors.
Fees rising in 5, 4, 3....
Jupiter and the Sun orbit a point located outside of the Sun. Using your definition would this make Jupiter a double planet with the Sun? A double star, and thus not a planet?
I don't think that's the point -- the problem isn't that "oh there are other processes that [...]," it's that this wave of technology is misused, is bias, and care must be taken when any of the signals we create.

This is especially important as automation enters the equation.
Soon we'll see a wave of products for startup growth hackers like the "raw water"... except it's pills of cat shit from feral colonies.

EDIT: If you aren't aware, t. gondii is spread by cat feces as their normal lifecycle uses cats and mice.
There's no shame in a $100M startup
Can someone parse this sentence?
This is my question too. I want to know how these generated Stripe cards are classified by the major credit card processors, because generated cards often get declined if determined to be temporary/gift cards.
Juul and Its House of Smoke and Horrors
It would be nice if the site was usable with privacy tools, such as Tor, without being Cloudflare-banned.
It's not entirely true that extra tests are only an issue because they reveal untreated disease that insurers would rather not pay for.

There are non-trivial false positive rates for many diagnostics that can and do lead to unnecessary follow-up tests, procedures, and emotional distress.

For example, "About half of the women getting annual mammograms over a 10-year period will have a false-positive finding." [0]

The US Task Force for Preventative Services works to clarify when diagnostics are appropriate given rates of false positives and false negatives for many different preventative services. And there are many groups that work to establish and record evidence-based guidelines for escalations of care outside of preventative care as well. Intermountain is one example.

[0] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/breast-cancer/screening-tests-...
MongoDB and Python