skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I have to input my name as it appears on my credit card"

This is only true with AMEX as they are the only major processor that checks the inputed name.

Visa and Mastercard do not check on the name at all - you can use any strings you like.

All of the online shopping and ordering I do (including Amazon, etc.) is with a made up First/Last. I have done this for almost 15 years with various Visa cards with no problems.
How are you going to cash that out? Do you want to hold onto a lifestyle company shares when there's no potential liquidity event in discussion?

I'm not going to exercise my options in that situation and you'd be crazy to pay taxes on this year after year.
I get it... but literally, there are THOUSAND extensions already injecting javascript on their site.

are they going after all of them? if that's the case, I'd understand.
>I guess you can call that a "meme" if you want, but that doesn't make it "not education".

The kind of memes I'm referring to transmit spontaneously, though no doubt intentional cultivation is beneficial in some cases. There's a technical term due to Daniel Dennett: synanthropic memes. These are extremely sticky behaviours/ideas that thrive autonomously in the presence of humans, just as some biological species do, e.g. pigeons, rats, barn swallows. Some are bad. For example, swearing, bullying and perhaps even certain motor tics are memetic and these are considered bad by many.

Our ideas about education are pretty messed up and thus we ultimately have some disturbing realities to face, quite apart from the mounting student debt :-/ Hopefully there will be a clearing up if and when we develop AGI and thus gain a better understanding of how the mind works.
You may not be interested in identity politics, but identity politics is interested in you.
I've been listening for about a half hour now. It feels like I joined a meeting and I'm completely ignoring it. It's so satisfying.
Decentralized, especially when there’s a single company behind it.
Does this mean all public officials are not allowed to block twitter users? Or this court ruling only works on Trump?
You can still have multiple drives on either side. Sure they are expensive, but if we're talking hundreds or thousands of tapes (we have the size of a station wagon to work with), there's a budget for more than one drive on either side. Even with drives, if you get too elaborate of an enclosure or JBOD, you're looking at thousands too.

Hell, you could even bring the drives with the tapes!
When I was 12 or so I had an interest in being an artist. I was also playing a game that happened to be looking for art work. Specifically, they wanted some models for new monsters in the game.

I put together my best attempt and submitted it. The work was subsequently torn to shreds by the people on the board, and rightly so: The "monster" looked like a walking boob, and everyone said that the special attack could be to squirt milk.

I wish I'd been old enough to laugh it off, since it's quite hilarious, but in reality I just stopped trying to be a 3D artist. Stuff like this can have a big impact at a young age.
Look into pickup communities.

Don't take it as gospel, in fact ignore most of it (specially negging, and any other kind of power plays).

But you'll see that it's possible, you will also learn to read signs.

Mostly dating consists of improving oneself, be social, don't objectify people and learn the unwritten rules.
I just want to say thanks for putting this followup and their email up. I like having these things to point to when I choose alternative services or convince companies to stop doing business with other companies.
Good work.

For a next step, I would suggest giving a try at breaking it up into multiple files using import/export statements (it doesn't need it but it's good practice), and using a bundler like Parcel to build the finished file.

npm i --save-dev parcel-bundler

...then move your source JS files to a folder named src, and add to package.json...

"scripts": {
"prepare": "parcel --target node src/index.js"
"start": " node dist/index.js"
}

In your individual files, you do like...

// file-1.js

import somethingName, { whateverName } from './file-2'

// file-2.js

export function whateverName { ... }

const somethingName = '...';
export default somethingName;

...and then run...

npm run prepare
npm run start

(The prepare script is also a "magic word" that will auto-run anytime someone does 'npm install', so usually an end user won't have to manually run it.)

A bundler isn't strictly necessary if you plan to only run something in Node, but it lets you make a package that's usable in both Node and web projects, and it makes it simple to use Babel, which lets you Javascript features from the future that aren't actually in Node proper yet.
Huh? How about the huge crossover work of the last decade? Jazz is influencing hip hop left and right and there are huge crossover records like Black Radio that combine elements of both. Snarky Puppy has taken the indie genre of "giant band with 30 people" into jazz and is writing groove based music that is totally accessible to average consumers. We've got collaborations between Brad Mehldau and electronic musicians like Mark Guiliana as well as bluegrass musicians like Chris Thile. Electronic albums are including collaborations with people like Herbie Hancock. Thundercat is a big crossover hit. Jazz is more productive in this decade than most.

Jazz instrumentation is also breaking through with bands like Moon Hooch, Trombone Shorty, and Too Many Zoos.
People buy Coltrane shirts and records too. Guess jazz isn't dead after all.
According to history, odds are yes
And that inevitable callback that goes to the attendee's voicemail instead.

A good number of "Training" videos at my work are recorded meetings / webinars in which someone demonstrated a skill or walked through an issue. I've watched maybe 40 of these archived videos so far. There is not a single one that does not have the meeting eventually brought to an abrupt halt when an attendee starts shouting "MAILBOX OF EXTENSION X-X-X-X IS NOT AVAILABLE."
That's a really good question. I grew up in Austin, and while Stubb's isn't bad, I wouldn't consider it a top-tier Texas BBQ sauce. It's popular primarily because it's associated with a popular tourist music venue in Austin. I'm guessing it's a reverse transfer because the significant number of Eastern European immigrants in parts of South/Central Texas.
Does it matter if there is one step or ten steps if the final step is genocide and China is confidently walking down the path?
In many jurisdictions you can't be bound by an agreement if not explicitly agreeing. It most likely boils down to where Gervasio lives. In my country for example I'd be certain Slack would have no standing at all with this. Though even in the US Slack would have to pull an Oracle to win this (which, well, is the risk that they might). Good reminder though in which moral category of enterprises Slack has to be sorted in.

It does not matter, he does not want to fight this.
It's not about you as an individual, it's about the market and if it's realistic for the competitor to enter it.

If it is, the incumbent will be more restrained in their prices, to avoid inducing the competitor to enter that market.

That's basically the crux of the matter, and the judge rules both ways of looking at things are reasonable since no one knows the future.
Show HN: Golang Cafe a Golang-only job board /w no recruiters and clear salaries
I was a "late bloomer" when it came to dating and didn't really start dating at all until I moved to NYC in 2007 (age 26).

Here is what happened for me:

- Used Match then POF then OKC

- Probably went on about 150 dates over the course of about 4-5 years. Sounds like a lot but averages out to 1 every 2 weeks. In reality it was probably 4 to 5 over a two week span every couple of months. Most of the time was just sending LOTS of "requests" out and playing the law of large numbers. I liked OKC too b/c they had some gamification circa early 2010s that helped you find people who were attracted to you.

- Most of the dates did not translate into 2nd dates for a long time. I attribute this to not being good at "dating" in general, flirting in particular and the low switching costs of dating in NYC for the other side e.g. if you are a pretty girl in your 20's in NYC there will "be another one soon"

-Read "The Game" by Neil Strauss. Changed my life. Primarily, I realized my model for interacting with women was based on familial roles e.g. empathy, sharing emotions etc. I realized that is great for family or long term relationships but not for first dating and the first three months.

The book taught me that being "playful" and "good natured teasing" were the most important parts initially. I realized I already had those parts of my personality but I wasn't exposing them because I thought that wasn't how dating "worked".

A lot of the stories in the book are not practical for finding quality long term relationships but a couple of points stuck out to me:

- One a lot of what you think think are limits in social interaction are in your head and therefore can be ignored

- He has a quote in the book where he says "My friends and my family failed me because they love me for who I was and not for who I could become"

- Human interaction (be it with men or women) is a lot more "programmatic" than you think it is. e.g. Saying phrase1, phrase2, phrase3 can be very different than saying phr3, phr1, phr2. How you say something can have way more impact than what you say.

- Like with persuasion in general, it can sometimes border on manipulation so it's important to have your own "line" to cross. That being said, it's a lot like working out physically: you can get bigger muscles but you can't get taller. In personality terms: you can learn funny stories to help you make friends but that won't make you a comedian. In other words, there is always a way to improve but don't fight too hard to change things you can't and don't be someone you're not.

I would also recommend these guys: https://theartofcharm.com/

They definitely offer the best combination of practical advice while also being respectful to women and offering lots of great non-dating advice.

This was a very frustrating process for me and if people are interested in the above I am happy to add more color/suggestions if it saves others the time and frustration I went through.
As someone who spent over a decade working with heard of hearinga nd hearing amplification devices, I would argue that (much in line with your statement) we don't "hear" anything until the auditory center in the brain process the sound.

Even those with normal hearing do not process all sounds that arrive at out Tympanic Membranes (and if we did...we would likely go insane from over stimulation).

I had quite a few patitents that lost most of there hearing yet still had constant tinnitus.

A small few even reported the tinnitus changing from a constant tone (whne they had mild hearing loss) to almost recognizable speech and/ or music once they had severe hearing loss.

It could be argued that even though they had next to no hearing they still "heard" more than they cared for.
Surety is not a trusted central authority. There is no mathematically feasible way to backdate a document and weave it into the chain. The only way to circumvent the system would be to generate the same submitted hash value (using two different hash algorithms) with a different document. Additionally, for it to be actually useful, you would need to generate a hash collision for a different document with a purposeful modification (for example, changing the amount due for an invoice.) I can't begin to calculate the odds on making that happen.

Also note the hash values sent to Surety were calculated on the end user's computer. Surety never sees the actual file being timestamped.

As for the safety deposit box metaphor, the Haber-Stornetta approach is akin to nailing the hash to a post in the town square.
The music is perfectly done, very understated and somewhere between soothing and menacing. I'm not even sure what to compare it to, some of the better produced podcasts maybe. Indirectly, Starship Titanic or Lot 2046 or something?
Sorry, but this is still totally relevant: http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...
Side Note: ASM is American Society for Metals.

Not to be confused with ASM International, the semiconductor equipment company in Almere, Netherlands.
If those investors had put their money into the S&P500 instead, they would have had a better return on their investment.
"...if you listen long enough." O__O That much conference call purgatory is not healthy
They host a lot of forms. Forms that do fancy things. And engineers cost a lot of money in the Bay Area. Hope that helps.
> it infects more than just the place you need it — you almost always have to add it upwards and downwards

> Cancellation/timeout is arguably so core to the language that it should be an implicit part of the runtime

This is exactly what I mean, thank you for putting it so succinctly! I would go even further to claim that Go 1 goroutines are fundamentally incomplete due to missing this ability to control their behavior from the outside, and context is an attempt to paper over the missing functionality.

The key-value store built into them is also an attempt to paper over a large gap in the language: the absence of GLS (goroutine-local storage :P).

That context combines two ugly coverups of major deficiencies with the fact that using it means doubling almost all apis and infecting the whole ecosystem is why I dislike it so much.
http://danluu.com/sounds-easy/

edit: there's a lot of stuff they offer beyond the basic surveys - https://www.surveymonkey.com/what-is-surveymonkey/.
AlterAeon is still going!
http://alteraeon.org/
It's not "impressive," but subverting audience expectations can be interesting. But the fiftieth guy "subverting" expectations in exactly the same way has kind of missed the boat.
If you think marriage equality is a “complex policy issue”, then the issue is you.

The other examples listed are not exactly good hills to die on if you want to be perceived as a serious thinker rather than a knee jerk bigot.

Beyond that, if you find youself personally getting called a bigot a lot, you should probably stop and reflect more.
Does it also surprise you that DocuSign is a company worth over $10B?
That's not bad! For most people (and especially for your kids), stability means happiness and success, as long as you can chill out and enjoy the moment.
Doesn't really apply here, as the lake side to homes a bit higher up is maybe <100m. IIRC 1600 - 1700. That difference is not effecting anyone.
That has been tried occasionally but it isn't common. Suffocation isn't a real risk since once you pass out you'll drop the balloon and breathe air again, although if you're standing up you might fall and hurt yourself.

Most retail gas suppliers prefer to sell only pure gasses. If they have to do custom mixing it requires extra processing steps for blending and analysis, plus they're taking on additional liability. So you can probably get heliox if you ask, but you'll pay more for it.

Gas suppliers keep all their helium in one big set of storage tanks. The only real difference between various helium grades they sell is how careful they are about pulling a vacuum on your cylinder before filling it.
sure sounds like an opportunity
I missed the initial announcement, what was all the outrage about?
That's so freaking cool. Git rocks, and I remember how psyched I was when I learned about it. What's your next project?
I got into a similar pickle recently and did some press about it: http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/getting-from-cease-and-...

I'm also working on a Chrome Extension that modifies the functionality of a website, but this is giving me second thoughts.
To get some credentials you need a body of work or a degree. Volunteer program, either for a charity or an open source project. Then you can reference that.

A number of years ago, a friend of mine did some work on an open source C++ library. Google called him.
"I say that without judgement [...] But if you want meaning"

Pull the other one. The judgment is very obvious. Just go ahead and own your opinion. (For the record, I do plan to raise children.)
Holy strawman Batman!
Great work! I made a quick Observable notebook out of your code, in case anyone wants to see what it does without downloading or running it on their own machine:

https://beta.observablehq.com/@jrus/wolfram-cellular-automat...
I'm intentionally delaying marriage and kids partly for this reason. I think it's important to not feel like too much is left on the table before settling down. I'm 27 now and not planning to have kids until 35 at the earliest.

A lot of it is that I'm only just evolving into the person I want to be (more disciplined, focused on the right objectives, happier, etc), and I want to capitalize on that. I studied pretty hard all the way through to the end of college. Then worked really hard after that. I think I missed out on a good amount of what makes youth enjoyable as a result.

So I look at the time between my late-twenties and mid-thirties as a chance at a redo, but this time with better financial security. It's actually a lot more fun when you're more experienced, know more about what makes you tick, and have optionality.

I sometimes wonder how many very ambitious people have a similar life experience.
> VR social chat is not going to be a big thing, even after gen-Z. People tend to forget what social chat is for, communication. VR just adds no value to that process.

This is not out experience using VR chat for some of our meetings. We're a fully remote team building a VR product so we're in a somewhat unique position where all our employees have high end VR gear and we have a big need for effective remote collaboration and communication.

A big advantage of VR over voice or video conference calls is being able to see where everyone is looking. This makes for smoother flowing conversations as you're able to look at someone when you pause and want their input. It's a real advantage over video conferencing. This is true even with very primitive avatars that don't reflect any facial expressions. Being able to collaborate around virtual objects in the environment is also useful in some situations, although virtual whiteboards are still quite primitive in most apps. Social VR is a very different experience from an MMO played in a 2D window.

The hardware cost will continue to come down but it's already not a major barrier for many enterprise use cases. Is certainly not a top concern for our customers.
Human minds are not "computational devices". They are biological organs.

Our current computers function almost nothing like human brains.

All we can say, is that we can write some programs now that give similar output to humans for certain well defined, limited problems. But even then, the mechanism via which those outputs are produced are very, very different.

The mistake is assuming machines that can perform tasks better than humans, will be essentially "like" humans in some fundamental, profound way. There is no reason to believe this is true. These machines may be able to mimic us very well, but their true underlying nature, their goals, ambitions, subjective experience, and values could be very, very different from us in ways that could be very unpleasant for us.
9. Bookmark this page, so you can come back and see the wonderful advice that you got when you were 12. It will make more sense as you get older.
The mods discourage humor because it tends to metastasize into tedious offtopic threads, which I guess is true enough.

Readers think they punish bad jokes and reward good ones, but the stupid Butts pun is doing great while the absurdist gem about Leonard Nimoy secretly wanting to be Kirk and living it out for a year in the white pages (and then someone working with him forgetting his name!) was nuked from orbit.
A lot.

Travel now is part of conspicuous consumption as much as a flashy purse is. Displaying that you went to some small French village on your Instagram can generate a fair amount of prestige and envy. Also, unlike purses though, there is a permanent record of your purchase for all to see.
> My dad showed me git

Cheater! :) Seriously though, great work. I started around your age (which I guess means I've been coding for half my life at this point.) Keep challenging yourself with new and interesting projects and you're going to learn a lot and have a lot of fun.
That's pretty quick!

Do you have any plans for future projects? Maybe a simple place where you could chart your progress?

I think one of my favorite uses of cellular automata besides conway's game of life (if you are interested in it) is modeling simple fluid mechanics (water flowing from place to place) in games like dwarf fortress http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
> treat people's names as a potentially very long and entirely arbitrary text field

The problem is that you still need to deal with unicode attacks, sql attacks, js attacks, css attacks, regex attacks, etc. There's nothing 'arbitrary' about sanitizing any user-inputted text field, and it's especially difficult to do so a culturally sensitive way.

It's a good problem you're solving though. It's a great job interview question to have people write some code and talk through, since to get someone's first name given their full name it takes maybe 20 minutes to write something that works 99% of the time, but then to write something that works 99.99% of the time it takes maybe 20 years.
I suffer very much from the same issue, although I'm not motivated by recurring revenue. I also figured out that I'm only motivated on a couple of evenings a month to really contribute to side projects.

What helped me in the past was to write down a single thing that I want to add the next time I feel motivated again and then spend the whole evening focussed on shipping that particular thing.
Because I always feel motivated and focussed I can keep my attention span up for several months, previously I would totally get bored after a couple of days.
Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you
Kalifornia Keto
1. Finding things that drive and recharge me. I feel like I tend to mindlessly go through motions but I am not getting much value out of my day-to-day and find after a while I am worn out and tend to blow up at some part of my life.

2. Ensuring I build time for myself and not lose my personal identity while being in a relationship. I tend to put my personal needs on the back burner and go out of my way to please my partner, which leads to resentment.

The two feed in to each other.. I only seem to gain value from 2, which leads to problems, and when I have time to myself I have no idea what to do with my time to make me feel like I am enjoying myself so I choose to have less time for myself.
I was there in 2005 and again 2012 and was astonished at how high the lake had risen, buildings were swamped out, beaches w1here we used to go gone.

The lake was also getting dirty. Actually saw a documentary the other day on how this has only gotten worse. Some terrible pictures of how the lake looks at certain times of the year.
I guess this must be it. IRC could in theory do everything Slack does but setting up a server is a pain and shiny clients are rare...

I wonder about the rest of the competition, for a while everybody was using hipchat, I never used it myself, I wonder why nobody talks about it anymore.
So the same company that gave paycuts to their entire staff (except the CEO and Director of People) 8 months ago, has enough money to buy out their investors? Interesting.

Paycut Discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861043
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Very much in the same boat, I've been doing something similar and trying to pursue some long-term lofty objectives without compromising my current work/life situation. Making steady progress on personal projects helps a ton.
great stuff :) this is innovation :)