skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if this one is going to be any easier, but I've been slowly going through Max Born's Atomic Physics after I picked up it used for really cheap. I like the way he goes through each step historically and presents quantum mechanics as a progression of discoveries based on what people were thinking at the time, which for me made it easier to reason about.
Are there any numbers for Google Play Music subscribers? I've been a user of that for several years and I'm curious to see how they compare.
It's problematic when people die because of bullshit marketing claims. A member of my neighbor's family got cancer. They tried to treat it with Juice Plus (MLM health food supplements). They're dead. They were a provider. The family is struggling.

The alternative medical/healthcare industry preys on ignorance and there are huge swaths of victims.
halite.io reminds me of screeps on steam
Nothing in the constitution says that a jurisdiction can’t ban free food.
Those companies are still around, flying under the radar under silly code names like "General magic", remember most of them try and fail. You have to look for them, be in the know (probably because you've worked with one of the early employees and impressed them) or be one of the founders. I lived in the valley for 20 years and only ever worked for startups, only got one job (the first one) that was advertised
Honestly, if you are applying to YC and want someone to read your application and give you feedback (which is in no way required)... I recommend you reach out to YC alumni directly. You can find a list of YC companies here: http://www.ycombinator.com/companies/
Have a look at:

https://openplatformbbva.com

https://synapsefi.com

https://www.marqeta.com
I'm increasingly frustrated with their response to Community Ideas and feature requests.

Here's a really dumb, simple one: They won't allow you to filter out explicit songs. Even though they already have the metadata indicating a song has explicit lyrics. Lots of customers have asked for it. It has been voted highly on "Community Idea". Still no progress multiple years later.
> A solid 100% of the gains in wealth we've seen over the past decade have gone straight to this new aristocracy

No, much of it went to the old financial aristocracy, the tech firms have just been a vehicle.bits not like the investors profiting from tech have all had their capital stakes come from tech.

Also, breaking up the firms that have already had their big zero-to-giant growth phase probably doesn't reduce the flow of money into he hands of the already super-rich aristocrats; those aren't the places the aristocrats are making the most new gains, and, as you point out below, breakup actually accelerates gains by the elites owning the firm (because they are also the owners of the successor firms.)

> Rockefeller was forced by the DOJ to break things up at the height of our first gilded age, and the subsequent companies went on to be hundreds of times more valuable than Standard Oil alone

So the aristocrats get far richer due to the breakup (which doesn't redistribute ownership). How does this help the problem of narrow wealth gains?
I doubt they would have removed a liver if the risks where that low.

So, really it's saving lives at the cost of a fixed but low number of false positives and a lot of wasted tests not a 10,000 extra removed livers per life saved.
Well, your Apple ID is the key to your music library.

How else would they tie it? Anything else used as the key would still cause you to lose your library if you changed it.

Besides, was it really lost? You can switch your old ID to a new ID and keep your library. Was it lost or merely waiting for you to link it to the new ID?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201389
I don’t think EOF is from the 80s. WebObjects certainly isn’t.
Even more importantly... I would focus on writing code and talking to users.
What Maldini meant by that quote was that as a defender, you should be in the right position so that the dangerous pass is never made, or the attacker doesn't have the chance to run past you. Tackling is sort of a last-ditch effort to stop the other player, and comes with risks of conceding fouls/penalties.
That's surprising, my Spotify Discover Weekly playlist is usually super eclectic. I guess you're talking about the Radio, though?
How gamers destroyed Ultima's virtual ecology almost immediately
The U.S. Housing Market Looks Headed for Its Worst Slowdown in Years
the drug's ability to slow down cognitive decline was small but statistically significant and dose dependent. It is a huge deal. It is also interesting that the drug selectively targets protofibrils. This is interesting because A/Beta peptide is difficult to target because there is so much of it. Fibrils are difficult to target because they are insoluble. Selectively targeting protofibrils means the drug binds an accessible target and will not be titrated out by A/Beta peptide.
"The restriction aims to increase business for local food retailers."

Wow. Incredibly corrupt. I'm guessing next lunch boxes are going to be banned?
Can you solve this Blockchain Puzzle?
In the ideal world, corporate tax rates and taxes on investment income are zero. Google et al should be paying taxes on its earnings when it spends it on compensating employees, buying equipment for their offices, renting office space, etc.
Does this make something like Monzo seem trivial?

Like it seems like everything Monzo has done as easy to replicate (not to do, im sure a lot of time and effort went into the guys at Stripe making this).
Ask HN: State of OCR in 2018
What is the state of OCR in 2018? Has the technology progressed over the past 20 years?
The problem is not that C-sections are riskier than "we" might think, and certainly not that I might think because I'm extraordinarily unlikely to be in a situation to decide whether to do one or not. The important question is whether they are riskier than the alternative (natural child delivery) in the specific instances where a C-section is practiced.

It's entirely plausible that C-sections are done too casually and doing them less often would result in better outcomes. It's also plausible that they are not. The cynical in me finds very plausible that the answer to that question varies widely doctor to doctor.
And the data is "racist" as well because...?

This whole topic is racially charged because incarceration rates are a race issue and you are being disingenuous with your comment pretending the problem with facial recognition can somehow exist and be fixed in isolation.
I share your doubts. For instance, I have a URL saved on my home computer where the (admittedly non-universal) HN consensus was that the CLRS algorithms book recommended here is not a great one to learn from.

However, I think your faith that it's easy to find good recommendations by subject matter experts underestimates the difficulty of finding them in the mass of things on the internet. To take one example, I remember reading a post about two approaches to denotational semantics, along with recommendations about the best textbooks, but have never subsequently been able to find that link.
US life expectancy rate relates to poor healthcare and poor public health more than over testing. When you let a large chunk of the population die from treatable illnesses it's hard to make up for that by treating a subset even better than average.

The US homeless population for example is 1.56 million people and they don't get good healthcare.
> In that sense mining pool distributions are double-counting

Let's say I have a customer who pays me, and I pay a bunch of employees or contractors who helped me deliver services to that customer, keeping some profit for myself. Does that have no economic value? Because that's what mining pools do.

> I wouldn't be surprised if there are bots that enter lots of offsetting trades on both sides of the orderbook to generate volume around specific events.

There is no order book on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others. The order books are on web based exchanges, and yeah, there's a lot of fake trading. Most of it is clearly generated by the exchanges themselves and is completely fake. That stuff is so obvious when you look. In those cases the volume dwarfs the depth, so most orders miraculously attract counter parties instantaneously while the rest of the orders just sit there. Exchanges fake it to get a better rank on coinmarketcap, which blindly trusts the trade data from the APIs. And there's wash trades by users of these web based exchanges, but I believe it's significantly less volume than the pure fakes because those guys have to put up real funds so it's only useful to make shitcoins look more popular. In any case, none of that actually makes a transaction on a blockchain. It's just shifting balances in some centralized database.
Created a channel/blog but won't start using it before it adds support for rich formatting (codeblocks, ...). €200/year is ok for me for such a frictionless experience.
I used to love YNAB, until they went to the web-based, and threw away their fat client.

This only proves that they have had your financial data since they moved to the web client, and probably sell that juicy data.
This is how businesses get driven to the suburbs.
That's why teamwork is so important in every step of the development process, every step needs a review. If someone is such a rockstar they don't to have their items reviewed, all the review will do is show their rockstarness to someone else.
Indeed, the apparently now-inactive Swallow2011.
NetSpot ensures your wireless router will be at its best capacity
Or basically one Adobe. Which is pretty wild. But honestly, this is a short-term mis-pricing and over-reaction. Might as well think of this as "Facebook stock on sale, 20% off!". But since Facebook makes up such a big percentage of an S&P 500, simply load up on $SPY, $VFINX, or one of your other ETFs/index funds and buy on the dip without having to risk over-exposure to one stock.
Even if it is, it's just a few pennies per day.
FWIW, Mountain View is definitely a suburb, and was the first city to propose the ban.
as someone who works in a place a solid few miles from restaurants, and has a break room with a few microwaves/a toaster oven as well as a vending machine with gas station tier food... how common are workplace cafeterias like this? is it just sv megacompanies or is it smaller firms across the country?
The stupid thing is that most of the tech companies, outside of the giant ones, get their food from local retailers.
This reminded me of this joke:

Two brokers walk on the street and suddenly one of them proposes: if you eat that shit on the ground you get a million dollars. He eats it very quickly and is amazingly happy with his profit.

A moment later the guy who had eaten the shit proposes the other: if you eat this shit you get a million from me. He also eats it without thinking. After 10 minutes one of them asks: why have we eaten all that shit?

The other replies: Don't you see we have created two million trading volume?

(Apologies if it isn't funny. Don't remember exactly the original and I'm also not a real joke teller type. )
Good reminder.

The official Postgres manual instantly comes to mind whenever I think about great documentation. There's just something about the way it's split up, and especially the typical length of a leaf page, that makes it absurdly helpful.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/index.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/reference.html
I think calling it "lazy" is uncharitable, unless you're also going to chastise developers who target only one platform -- they're likewise not doing the cross-platform work.

Manually targeting multiple platforms is really hard. How could one person possibly keep track of all the battery-saving API changes in OSX, iOS, Windows, Linux, and Android?

Yeah, it's annoying that Electron apps are so bloated. But the alternative would be > 50% of people can't use those apps at all because you only targeted one platform.
Create unique and human readable IDs
This is very interesting, I had never considered the impact free food at a large office has on its surroundings. The legislation certainly sounds backwards, but to me the situation is reminiscent of a company using profits from one sector to subsidize another, in order to drown out competitors in that space. I don't think Facebook is actually trying to kill off restaurants, but this is definitely how you would do it in an anti-competitive way.
It's a massive undertaking for very little benefit. And there's a large group of card holders who hate when their number changes.
(I work on Issuing.)

Not really. We make it easy for institutions like Monzo to issue and manage cards, but I imagine that's just a fraction of what they've needed to build to run a regulated bank, service their customers, etc etc.
That is the usual refrain from the "die techie scum" SF denizens: "go back to the suburbs!"

Unfortunately the suburbs are now hostile too: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/New-Facebook-Offices-M...
Chinese shipping firm infected by ransomware
Possible? Sure, anything is possible - but apply your argument the other way round. People contain molecules, molecules contain atoms, atoms electrons and so on - does it then seem reasonable to ask whether that goes on forever? And if not, why should it be reasonable if you go upwards in the scale?
Freedom of religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly. Nope food's not in there, but perhaps I'm being too originalist. Eminent Domain is a thing too.
I guess my question is: what's the downside to not having those resources?
It wouldn't matter either way.

You may have missed the part about me doing this specifically so I can raise everyone's salaries, not because I'm sharing secrets or being a braggart or some mundane thing like that.
Indeed... Here is hoping that our next president (AMLO) who is kind of leftist and admires Cárdenas, will finally legalize drugs.
Hacking campaign uses old Microsoft Office flaws to create backdoors steal files
True but its mostly Northern Cal legislators right? I guess restaurants have lobbied successfully. They want some of that tech money too.
Mountain View is the quintessential suburb.
Normal interchange would apply to the merchant but for debit cards it's pretty small. Interchange accrues to the issuer which in this case appears to be Stripe (and/or its issuing partner).
Sure. In the highest income bracket that's half a penny per meal out of your paycheck.

In fact, you could just add a stipend to your paycheck, subtract a "food cost", and the food isn't free anymore.
I'm tickled that my book was helpful!
The simple message is that over testing causes harm and does not reduce all cause mortality.
You must hate money then, because these companies have been caught conspiring to suppress software developer wages. Employee of one or not, you'd be paid more today if they did not control the earnings ceiling for the better part of the past 15 years. Such conspiracy (and anti-competitive practices in general) are enabled by their size, we've known this for at least a century now. Somebody posted an article here just the other day showing how slowly tech salaries have grown. It's not a coincidence.
Yes, being able to create a station based on an artist, album or song is great for discovery. The stations are somewhat finite and pre-generated, I think (a few times I've seen it outright fail/come up empty with newer niche artists, like it hadn't gotten around to processing them yet) but what it does uncover has been good.
Yes, making the use of tax havens illegal is very hard. It's basically a giant game of whack-a-mole, where the corporations have more people with stronger incentives working to get around the tax laws than the government has trying to write new ones.

Here's a fun explanation of the kinds of hoops corporations will jump through to dodge taxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
That doesn't tell you anything about which network and rules the transactions go through on, in theory they can process it as credit even if they require it to be prefunded
Without any explanation of why this is ideal, this just comes across as a way of rewarding the rich 'land holders' and forcing the tax burden on the poor.

What the logic behind this 'ideal'?
Surely the labels are to blame for that and Spotify is just the messenger.
You can’t tell corporations how to spend their money either, as money is a form of speech. Isn’t that the gist of the Citizens United decision?
18% is not a quarter.
Some issues and general observations:

* Making plates is hard. You really need an autoclave, and a laminar flow hood is also very helpful. For a DIY approach, you need a pressure cooker and a bunsen burner (in a relatively still room, the bunsen burner creates a radius of sterile space around it. Yes, this is legitimate lab technique, if a bit old-school). Those plates were clearly contaminated, and without proper sterile technique, nothing whatsoever is going to work. The kit's instructions, in my view, are unlikely to produce sterile plates. They provide sterilized agar, but need to be poured in a sterile area, but make no provision for this.

* The instructions for the kit are just barely sufficient. There are a million different ways you can do things incorrectly, so very clear and thorough steps are needed for a novice to have a chance at success. A lot of troubleshooting material should be included as well. This is a setup for failure in my view. For instance, an un-inoculated control plate is a bare minimum control. For a HN-friendly analogy, it would be like debugging software without any error reporting, print statements, etc.

* Lab equipment is mostly fridges, water baths, plastic disposables, and moderately specialized stuff like tabletop centrifuges and thermocyclers. It seems relatively accessible, which gets people excited about DIY microbiology, but it's deceptive. Temperatures, and the stability of temperatures, can matter a lot. Reliable equipment is very important. Someone seriously looking to do this (it's certainly possible!) needs to be able to devote a fair amount of space and resources to their home lab.

* The #1 difference between a 'real' lab and a home lab is access to troubleshooting resources. Shit goes wrong all the time, and experienced post-docs, lab techs, colleagues, etc. are what make research possible. You also very often need access to quality materials for positive and negative controls. It's not uncommon for entire labs to grind to a halt for weeks or months until some tricky bit of troubleshooting is resolved.

Some people are commenting that this isn't 'CRISPR'. It is. The transformation provides a plasmid that will not convey resistance on it's own (unless they're being dishonest about what's in the kit). Only when a stable transformation of the genome occurs will resistance be seen.
Does anyone know if the government tried to get any of the companies to try to partner with local food places? Like grahamburger mentioned in their post?
Have only spent 10 minutes skimming through various docs.

Seems like it's upto the businesses to treat an issued card as debit or credit. I can even see use cases for overdraft.

Below is a snippet from their doc[1]

> Any use of an issued card that results in funds entering or leaving your Stripe account

Here's what I've understood so far.

1. Businesses create, maintain and own customer accounts. It's upto the businesses to figure out how to get money from the customers. Could be prefunded (i.e., debit card) or postpaid (i.e., credit card).

2. Said business then creates cards and associates them with the above customer accounts and issues them that card.

3. Customers are now enabled to use those card wherever credit/debit cards are accepted.

4. Businesses need to maintain balance with Stripe. Stripe deducts from this account upon successful authorisation.

5. Now as I've mentioned in #1 it's upto the business to figure out a way to charge the customer.

Money movement is happening in two steps.

1. Business account -> Merchant (via stripe).

2. Consumer -> Business (Stripe isn't involved here).

Whether #2 happens before or after determines if the card is a debit card or credit card respectively.

So, what Stripe has done essentially is connect accounts holding money with rest of the world. I.e., anyone can now become a bank, in a sense.

In my previous job my team worked with a similar third party provider to launch a virtual card product[2]. But what Stripe has done is game changing.

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/issuing/transactions
[2] https://www.freecharge.in/mobile/freecharge-go

Edit: Minor correction.
> Is it because "making the use of tax havens illegal" is hard/impossible?

It is at the very least hard. How would the law work?

Will it be illegal for a company to sell/transfer their intellectual property to a company in the Caribbean? Will it be illegal for that company to license intellectual property to a company in the US?

Everyone feels they can recognize tax evasion when they see it, but to come up with a set of quantitative tests that can be applied fairly is difficult. Being able to apply the law consistently is essential, as the government will picking market winners and losers if they let some companies get away with tax evasion but not others.

One of my biggest criticisms of income tax is that it is such a nightmare to implement fairly as income is very fungible.
currencyfair.com has been going for a long time and is also very good imo
I currently use Emby for handling movie streaming and Gitlab for local development, which I serve with Docker containers running in Docker swarm across 6 Odroid machines.
>> Maybe this is a silly question, but why don't we just lower the corporate tax rate significantly (maybe 10 or 15%), and make the use of tax havens illegal?

We should do only one of those things.

Every person should incorporate themselves and do what the big guys do.
Yes but once you have the machine, 2 people using it today or 20 makes very marginal difference.
We at http://draftss.com has part of a process where we test designers through a game in which we provide a finished design. Then we change the brief's key element, Eg. premium, fun, serious, friendly, affordable, complex. This game helps us in learning and teaching the principles of visual design. It's currently used internally, but we are planning to launch it for public and making the whole thing open source.
TLDR: I don't think her examples are any good, so this clip gives the "rationale" behind it but no actual-world examples to really understand the differences.

I don't think the example she uses is a good one. That thing is obviously achievable using absolute positioning, which in this case is arguably easier and will give you much better browser support.

Also, the other examples she uses are really weird. Boxes of varying widths and heights. This is just not a thing in current websites.

The flexbox example where she ends up with 3 items on the first row and 4 on the second is just fantasy according to my experience. That would only work for a manually crafted page, whereas most websites with that much content items are auto-generated from some backend (even if it is markdown files in a static website generator). Otherwise please show me how can I achieve that effect with similarly sized items and how do I make it responsive.
Yes, the penny-per-meal charge would be a tiny amount of income which, presuming deductible business expenses did not increase to absorb it, would be subject to corporate income tax (which is really a retained profits tax.)

None of the companies involved are even going to notice it.
Management, it's almost always management. It's quite horrifying to watch the rest of that companies software department either leave or be driven out by the single problematic person.
My bet is that it makes no difference.

FB workers are rich, and they'll not want to eat every day in the caf, and they'll be out and about as much as they would otherwise.

The alternative won't be 'restos' it will be 'the microwave'.
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