skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's not easy to see the justification when looking at the front page, especially since Cake is still pretty young, but we designed Cake to scale to conversations with thousands of posts in order to allow for the kinds of long-lived conversations that continue to attract a trickle of new posts for months or even years.

Cake also uses client-side routing when JS is enabled. While the initial pageview might be on the large side since it contains all the data necessary to render the entire page (albeit gzipped for most clients, so typically much smaller than the uncompressed sizes you shared), subsequent pageviews will load a much smaller amount of data.

We also use a few heuristics to avoid serving a server-rendered page if we know the client can render it more efficiently, which can further reduce the size of the initial pageview (pretty significantly actually). So you're pretty much measuring our worst case scenario. :)
Hey Lachyg - it seems that this is designed party to allow companies to issue cards on behalf of their customers. Is there a way to draw the funds directly from the customer's checking account? Potentially being on the hook for a charge if something goes funky with the customer seems like a big risk for the Stripe Issuing user.

Also, my understanding of payments is that the issuing bank is a big recipient of the fees that merchants pay. (This is of course what makes rewards cards possible.) In this case, Stripe is the issuing bank, so presumably gets a big chunk of the fees. Are there plans to share that with the Stripe Issuing developer? (For example, let's say I plan to launch the Zip Line Adventure Bonus Card - ZLABC. For every dollar a ZLABC customer spends, they get a point, and after 10,000 points I pay for them to go on a zip line adventure at a partner park. As a normal bank, I could fund that because I get somewhere in the 1%-2% of each transaction that my customer spends. In this case, Stripe gets it, but if Stripe shares some of that with me, I could find my wacky wimpy rewards card idea.)
It's accepted everyday by people everywhere now.
I actually think they might just be proving how easy it really is... compared to the longtime incumbents who do their best to make it look hard (or do it the hard way), and charge appropriately. Which doesn't take anything away from the accomplishment.
To be fair, it's not quite 'economy 101'.

Or rather, 'economy 101' is that anyone with enough leverage, will use monopoly powers in one area, to take control of an adjacent economy.

American Oil empires were not built on some new amazing way to get at oil, it was because some had control of the railroads, and charged their competitors a little more to transport therefore putting them out of business (through aggressive consolidation).

The FB cafeteria example is not a very good one admittedly, but an alternative could be 'they buy up all the restaurants in the area and make them exclusively available for FB staff'. Which they very well could do, and it would then seem kind of crazy, no?

Economically speaking, it would be 'above bar'. After all, 'free market', right? If neighbourhood residents want to eat in a restaurant, screw them, they can go across town!

We live in communities, not economies.

The city ordinance is stupid, but the motivation is not.

Ironically, these are 'rich people problems' ... the kinds of things that happen when little dots of wealth blow up and there is a huge economic inequality, even if most people are 'kind of well off'.
The same guy who does these videos also does many of the math lectures for Khan Academy, which are also good.
Why should corporate taxes be zero but employee compensation should be taxed?
We can do minty:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acssynbio.5b00092
Your teammate should said immediately that it was you who took the initiative and creativity on that refactor.
Cannot bundle a free meal with your job because it's abusing your position to stifle competition. I jest but I imagine it may be hard for some restaurants to open and offer lunch menu's in these areas.
tldr: AndroidX (Support Libs) development is moving to public AOSP
> This does work but is so far only implemented in Firefox. Follow here for other browser updates. https://codepen.io/matuzo/post/animating-css-grid-layout-pro...
I work for a medium sized company in the commercial insurance space in PA. We have a cafeteria. They do charge for meals, but we have access to unlimited drinks. I think larger companies in general will have a cafeteria of some kind, but free food is very much a perk of software companies on the whole, I do believe.
Why would the interchange fee be any different or get paid to anyone else in this instance?
Especially if it resulted in a lower Connect transaction fee when payouts are issued on Card.
I can kind of see where Mountain View is coming from, basically the "San Antonio Center" (if you didn't read the article, MV is only applying the restriction in that particular place, not in the whole MV) is one of two places in MV with some life and bustle (it's kinda the day destination, having a bunch of grocery shops as well as a walmart, kohls and target and the other is kind of the night destination, being more focused around restaurants and nightclubs), and if they allow some big company to have their own cafeterias and self-segregate it could risk killing the life of the place.

One thing they should do in my opinion is make the place more pedestrian friendly. Maybe they could replace the big parking lots that create sprawl with denser garages?
Pretty much anybody with enough training in the right techniques and access to the right catalogs could do this in a garage. It's harder (labs have a lot of conveniences), but not impossible.
Many drugs at the population level cause more damage than harm, no matter how much we try to convince ourselves otherwise. (e.g. alcohol, marijuana)

Unfortunately, so does banning them.

There's an individualistic vs societal interest aspect to this as well. For some people marijuana is the best treatment or their illness, so do we inflict suffering on them for the greater society?

It doesn't mean that novel approaches couldn't be effective. It would be relatively easy to contaminate/poison the supply rather than stop it, but rather morally reprehensible.

Also, the current political climate benefits from a drugged populace (dumber, less motivated) with the second-class citizens (cheap labor) criminality creates.
That's the message some groups are sending. But, many people have an incentive to save money by reducing testing even it costs many people their lives.

So their exists some cases of over testing, but under testing is also common and a huge risk.
> They were identified as possibly being criminals.

And you've highlighted the _exact_ problem here. That is not at all what has happened, they have been identified as "possibly having a similar appearance to one or more particular images of a suspected criminal."

> And an officer can review the evidence presented by the report and make a human determination to follow up with a physical arrest.

Which already presumes that the system will only have false positives. When the system produces false negatives, then this mode of investigation is entirely flawed.
Typical splitting of hairs. We have a group of people playing a glorified game of tiddlywinks/Monopoly/cards, proclaiming that they know more than us about the dreaded blockchain, believing that the blockchain will change everything and giving themselves grand 'fintech' job titles. A respected publication deems this activity 'non-economic' with some broad brush strokes, actually being generous by including the exchange of 'tiddlywinks' for 'marbles'/'Monopoly money' as actually 'economic'.

Before the web when kids had to interact you could have a grand game of monopoly playing, kids and neighbours kids involved. There could be high stakes rents being 'earned' and all kinds of virtual activity. Meanwhile the gardening-jobs for pocket money, the car washing for pocket money, the preparing of food for actual food might not be getting done due to the distraction of the all important Monopoly game.

A parent could gently infer that the Monopoly game with side bets for tiddlywinks was not real economic value, thinking that getting the car washed, the garden done and the food prepared was 'economic value' as pocket money, albeit in mere 'fiat' currency was involved.

Wanting to perpetuate the game the most irksome of the children could claim that their Monopoly game was economic value, after all the light and heat is on and some distant coal miner is getting paid for that. They could also claim that there is wear and tear going on and that Parker Games/Waddingtons are profiting from making replacement Monopoly games. They could also claim that washing the car was not 'economic value' as that pocket money is merely transferred inside the household.

Give the article some credit, we have got some rather self absorbed individuals devoting their lives to playing around with digital tiddlywinks, ponzi-kittens and the coin to rule them all - Bitcoin. In the broader sense, after the closing of The Silk Road, evidence is extremely thin on the ground that any of this activity is economically useful.

Is Uber 'economically useful'? I'm as critical as the next person of Uber however, love it or loath it, Uber does get people from A to B and provides a means for people to earn a living. That much is clear and I don't have to ask my inner nine year old child for spurious reasons to argue otherwise.
Nice. This means frequent VM repaving for security reasons / OS updates will not reset the sustained use discount.
Yes I didn't get the latest stock price, but I think the point stands.
Wouldn't Newtonian models be off in their predictions for those extreme cases?
Diversity quotas suck. Here's why.
Are there any good Twitter Lists for Alzheimer's research?
Except a declined payment doesn’t take you off the hook for paying what is owed, so you could still find yourself in collections.
This is super cool! Only sort of related, I wonder how long they stared at that name and that it had `tit` in it before they decided to go all lowercase because they thought it was funny. I can't imagine that discussion didn't happen while planning to launch this.

What's weird is that my eye sees the word `tit` before the rest of the context. I'm not a weird pervert or anything as far as I know. It actually does cut through the signal to noise in internet promo.
I like the term "world" to denote a roughly spherical body with evidence of interesting dynamics happening, or at least having happened. It's poetic and evocative—but not excessively so. Emily Lakdawalla of Planetary Society fame uses it in that sense.
Did the "foreign" elements stamp out react elements or interact with their properties?
That's how I am reading it. And if their aim is to drum up foot traffic on streets to stimulate local business, I don't think that violates the spirit of the legislation.
only when it's obvious: Lay-It-Out.com would have been a better domain name, 2001 style
(I work on Stripe Issuing.)

We've been primarily focused to date on companies where issuing cards is core to providing their business to customers, for example a startup that provides expensing customers, or a platform that needs to purchase goods in the real world. We're less focused on a business just using it for their own expensing (as we don't have receipt upload functionality, etc).

To your two other questions though:

(1) Could users approve things in real time? Sort of. We provide the ability (as you noticed) through API, but it needs to be responded to in < 2s, which means it's not possible for a human to be in the flow.

(2) Could this be linked to an external bank account? Again, sort of. To get in the weeds: as soon as we approve an authorization, we're on the hook for those funds. A debit to an external balance (or bank account) may fail and Stripe would be on the line. This is why we typically require funds to be in a Stripe account prior to purchases taking place.
Management made demands that exceeded resources available and kept blocking my vacation to try to meet deadlines. I literally left with 100% of my vacation accumulated.
Disclaimer: I am a lay person that does not know a lot about this subject, but have read a few things on it and have people in my family this could potentially affect.

I think the Herpes research is much more promising than trying to fight Alzheimer's by removing plaques. Catching it earlier in the process seems potentially better?

Especially since the plaques are thought to be a protective immune response to invaders, like viruses, because the plaques encapsulate them to prevent them from affecting the brain.

Plaques may still potentially be a cause of issues- but is enough known that reducing their quantity will significantly help without destroying the beneficial nature of the immune response that causes the plaques? and do we know for sure that the plaques themselves cause the decline, or are they just a by-product that seemed like a potential candidate that got latched onto?
Considering how slow banks move on tech, I think this is exactly right.
I don't see what's anticompetitive about it - surely they buy the food they give out from local retailers?
Had six changes of management in 14 months time, and something like an 80% attrition rate during that time.
I got tired of executive doublespeak. The company made lots of promises during recruitment that never materialized. It has made me super aware of the importance of culture. I haven't found any full-time positions that fit me yet. In the meantime, I am taking a break from corporate life and freelancing.
Bored. The people I really liked working with weren't there anymore. Development environment was getting more overbearing (emphasizing process just for the sake of it while ignoring its flaws). Finally just got sick of getting up every day and coming to work.
California's found a unique way to incorporate only the shitty parts of European socialism without adding in any of the massive benefits. We get the same high taxes and restrictive overreaching laws without any of the free healthcare, free university tuition, or pension plans.
Internal politics.

I hate them, refuse to play along, and the moment I can no longer keep the drama at least a meter away from me I start talking to recruiters.
Effective and accurate. Not sure why this isn't standard across the world.
It sounds like you're saying using jQuery and a modern component-ized front-end framework are mutually exclusive. jQuery and modern front-end components can go together very easily -- albeit not specifically with React and Vue.

Our company built an in-house front-end framework heavily inspired by React and Vue. The components built using the framework work with or without jQuery. No manual DOM manipulations, one-way data binding, sane state management, templating, etc. Many of us prefer to use jQuery because of how compact and expressive the syntax is.

It really surprises me how many people think that jQuery === old school manual DOM manipulations. It definitely doesn't have to be that way.
A lot of potential here to be the best CSS Grid visual editor, but there's some bugs to be ironed out for sure. Currently I can't finish my grid. I'm trying to increase the number of columns on my "Body" grid but when I hit the "Add" column button it's adding columns to my "Header" grid, despite my "Body" grid being selected. I also seem to be stuck in my "Body" grid and can't select other grids. Chrome 65 on Ubuntu.
> I think the whole bone of contention with the statement is pretty much a semantic argument.

> What is "trust"?

Actually I was talking exclusively about the phrase "trust but verify". Absent context, "trust" is like "know"; it's a useful shorthand but shouldn't be used if you're trying to speak rigorously about what's actually happening.
That literally gives zero information about whether it's processed as debit or credit. There are very different sets of rules depending on which one it is.
I thought our product was being used in unethical ways, so I jumped ship to a more neutral industry.
> 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.

I don't think local government in Texas is as amenable to well-meaning but ultimately intrusive and disruptive policies like in Northern California.
> arbitrary distinctions.

Exactly, the current definition of planet is not that useful. If a moon happens to exist in the goldilocks zone it could easily support life even if it's sitting next to a Jupiter sized planet that does not.
What's the minimum they can charge?
I've worked in several places with on-site cafeterias (IBM, a former IBM site, THD, McKesson, Infostrada, Swisscom). None of them were free tho.
My last job was a freelancer, which was fantastic. But then I met three ambitious guys and we built a company with now over 100 employees in just two years.
Learning styles is a myth..

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/13/teachers-n...

I used to believe this nonsense myself.
I was way overworked on a way overrun project and since I was one of the most senior ICs, being pushed into leadership due to literal lack of actual managers for a while due to turnover and family leave.

That wasn't great, but it was managable because everyone understood our circumstances. When I went on my own family leave as my daughter was born, and came back to new management, I shouldered a lot of blame for the project because I was the last one left (it was a series of bad technical decisions from before my time) and still overworked despite having a newborn at home.

After finally going live, even when I warned them it would be a bad idea, I was in charge of the horrible production website. I gritted my teeth and left when my daughter was 9 months old, with no job in sight because I just needed a break.

Best decision I ever made. They fired my problematic boss 3 days before I left (he was one of the new managers, not good at managing or doing his technical work) and it took months to get the production site working. No idea if the next phase went through or not.

I had a nice five month sabbatical with my family and educational projects while I interviewed. It ended up with four job offers, and I'm thrilled with the ones I chose.
The media is not supposed to simply parrot government talking points, at least not in a free society.

Even if Saddam did have WMDs, so what? So does North Korea and other hostile regimes, and so does the US. Couldn't the media have questioned whether or not that was a valid excuse for war?

That's the type of thing Phil Donahue of MSNBC did, and his questioning of the war got him fired.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program

History is important, too, but apparently not to them. Was it ever mentioned in the mainstream media that the US itself had provided billions of dollars in military equipment and support to Saddam, including dual use technologies used for chemical and biological weapons?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Ir...

"You know we armed Iraq...during the Gulf War those intelligence reports would come out"--

'Iraq, incredible weapons! Incredible weapons!'

"...How do you know that?"

'Well...we looked at the receipts. But as soon as that check clears we're going in!'

-Bill Hicks

https://youtu.be/MyG2c-Wddzo
> Don't hold up a descriptive model of sociopathic behavior as a normative model of social behavior.

Do you use Uber, Apple, Github or Amazon? Because if you do you are accepting these principals as just being part of business and it comes down to money. Most CEOs and/or founders exhibit a significant degree of sociopathic behavior and it's clearly accepted (evidenced by the support seen in HN discussions). Yes simple models can be neither 100% or complete but do show a general trend. Move fast and break things, easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, all is fair in love andwar (and business). Im not saying its right, Im saying Im not surprised and expect this behavior from most companies and also expect some sort of insane justification when caught.
So make tests cheaper - sounds like an opportunity that gets a win for everyone without political miracles.

(I don’t know the market I am talking about at all, but) Maybe they could incentivize cheap tests by capping the cost per test that can be administered without some large red tape process. The market will provide tests under that cap where possible, so they can be administered more frequently & frictionessly. Patients are thoroughly tested, Doctors cover their butts, and test supply companies get to keep selling lots of tests.
Technically the FAANG profits are somewhat reflected in the stock price. With their 20-50% in annual gains, holding stock in some of these allows you and retirees and other US stockholders to partake in the gains. The stock growth then rewards tax shifters vs non-tax shifters. This is essentially a wealth shift from tax global tax revenue that gets distributed by politics to global shareholders who are able and aware enough to invest in US fast-growing corporates (while possibly bubbling stock prices a bit).
As a middle-school CS teacher, I wrote a networking simulation [1] to help my students get a sense of how the packets get routed to their destinations. Importantly, it's vulnerable to spoofing, snooping, and censorship... students figure out how to do this mischief on their own, which leads to some great discussions of technical, policy, and ethical aspects of the Internet.

[1] https://github.com/cproctor/tcp-ip-simulation
Deep Learning Drone Detects Fights, Bombs, Shootings in Crowds
Could you expand on the platform part please? I'm sure many people here would be interested and exposure on HN is free, so why not? ;)
Stripe invested in Monzo's last round I think!
The leave campaigns were recently found to be in violation of election law, so no, this isn't just a "moral" issue:

> the Electoral Commission found that the youth-focused campaign, BeLeave, had been joint-working with the official Vote Leave campaign — yet the pair had not jointly declared spending thereby enabling the official campaign to overspend by almost half a million pounds. And that overspend went straight to Aggregate IQ to run targeted Facebook ads.

More broadly, we're in a new era of political advertising that we haven't fully grappled with yet. It used to be that all of your advertising was public, so it was possible to see what promises are being made, what kind of terminology is being used, etc. etc. In the Facebook era you can hyper-target your ads to only show to a small subsection of people, without anyone knowing what you're saying. Facebook's recent moves have meant that advertisers have to publicly disclose all the ads they are showing to avoid this issue, but it wasn't retroactive. This data is from before Facebook disclosed that information.
I believe Visa and MasterCard merchant agreements prohibit retailers from denying specific cards. That's why AMC theaters can't block MoviePass customers from purchasing tickets, because they are regular MasterCard credit cards.
As I understand it, Java has features that make the time complexity (in the O(n^2) sense) and the general implementation complexity (in the probablity of bugs sense) of the Java byte code verifier worse than WebAssembly validation.
If you have to save, I'd probably advise against doing it through long-only pensions. In 2008 when everything was wiped out, a lot of retirees had to settle for next to nothing.

I'd strongly recommend watching this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBVx0Fw1VXo

It totally flipped my savings approach.