skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting a subscription in-person seems like a game-changer.

Also, attribution of in-store purchases to marketing efforts is so hard. I bet Stripe could help with this, e.g. starting with email address, or tying an online account to an in-person transaction.
Everyone should work _7_ days a week. iPhones will come out every year instead of every 18 months! Amazon would have same-day delivery! Uber Eats would answer: "your food is on its way!"

Very acceptable !!!

Stop slacking off by taking 2 days off out of every 5!

(On a serious note, I think you will find that productivity does not scale linearly over the number of days per week worked.)
Companies will not pay a wage that supports a reasonable standard of living for unskilled work. It would be less expensive to automate those jobs away than to pay those people 17 dollars per hour (based on half of the median household income in canada for 2015 https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/170913/dq170...).

I have a different perspective on this:

Countries want people to have children - it's good for the country. However, people expect companies to support people's lifestyles (in exchange for work).
With local companies, it makes sense for the company to want to support the people working there - they at least have a stake.
Large companies are often global entities. As a result, they may have no stake in the people in certain countries - or even any countries.

Shouldn't be the country's people (through paid taxes) and government (through support programs) support the lifestyles of the people?
See also: Butlerian Jihad.
I tell people you only get one freebie when having a kid: giving them a sensible name. Don't give them a dumb name that they have to introduce themselves with for years to come. The only acceptable follow-up sentence to "Hi, my name is Blue" is "....and my dad is Jay Z".
Part of what I wonder is how much worse the experience would really be if you were using an app to hail a yellow cab.
It's specific to the US. Within the US, if have your own merchant account, "card present" is a lot cheaper than "card not present".

So far, companies like Paypal, Square, and now Stripe, don't pass those savings on. They all have one rate that doesn't differentiate.
Their js api only works for the bulkier Verizon Reader.
I don't know why, but the idea of just dropping a day, though plausible, cracked me up.
I worked in payments. Respectfully, you really shouldn't be talking on behalf of Stripe.

It's clear that a card present product, which I believe is new for Stripe, is in direct competition with Square. Even if right now it's not being marketed towards the same customer base as Square, it's clear that with a few tweaks of the app plus a change in the manufacturing process, you could easily create Square-like POS systems. Why would Stripe leave out such a huge, proven market when it's clear this product is a stepping stone towards full POS systems?
Except unlike all other marketing, this "Marketing blurb" is packed with information and likely teaches the reader about new things, like "Filter Bubble" which they probably didn't even realize is a thing.
> Hey, it's great that they managed to get iOS 12 to run on a 5S. It probably runs like an absolute dog, but it runs!

But it runs well. That's the whole point of iOS 12: make iOS run well on older devices.
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Japan is somewhat forced to build nuclear plants in a very seismically active zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire
It seems self evident that you can not run an infinite process in a finite universe. The laws of entropy are your enemy.

In this case the process is not "infinite", but is larger than your universe. An example is trying to brute force an encryption algorithm. You figure out the minimal amount of energy that could be used to compute each step, in terms of electron state changes or some other fundamental unit. Then you calculate the quantity of energy in the universe (assuming mass gets converted into energy as per E=MC^2 and all energy is put in some form you can use) and compare that against the energy per step * problem space. If the latter is larger then you can say that even though the problem is finite, there is not enough resources in the universe to discover the solution.
It does. I think apenwarr has a good outlook on this:

"maybe we can just have the engineers work weekends or something? Well, I think most of us know that's a losing battle. First of all, even if we could get engineers to work, say, on Saturdays without any other losses (eg. burnout), that would only be a 20% improvement. 20%? Give me a break. If I said I was going to do a talk about how to improve your team's efficiency by 20%, you wouldn't even come. You can produce 20% more by hiring one more person for your 5-person team, and nobody even has to work overtime. Forget it.

https://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201712
I use Square all day every day here at my pet store. The killer feature for Square is the consistent pricing. There are no add on fees and no clowning around. You get the same 2.75 percent on (almost) every transaction and it builds a lot of trust. There are a few cards where it goes up a little but not enough to bother me.
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Gmail account name availability is a brilliant way to determine uniqueness, although an uncommon surname might skew results a bit.
Can't you say that about pretty much any time someone asks about a product in a forum where people who are involved with the product have accounts?

The question was asked on 2017-03-12. Weinberg didn't answer until 2018-01-24, 10 months later, after others had answered. After Weinberg answered others continued to add answers.

If it was a setup, they did a really good job of making it look like a "user finds question about something he has first hand knowledge of and answers" situation.

It's good to be cautious, but most of the time the monsters aren't actually coming to Maple Street.
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Did you stop to consider that maybe you conveyed these ideas regardless of whether you meant to?

JavaScript really _isn't_ all that expressive.
We have developed a POS for salons and spa and have been working with various in-store payment solutions - including Square. None of the existing solutions meet our needs.

I have applied for an invite - can't wait to get access.
> Suddenly, companies would be forced to make jobs more desirable than food stamps.

Revised:

Suddenly, companies would be forced to make jobs more desirable than food stamps without housing.

In order for the not working stipulation to work, the social safety net would actually have to be expanded to cover housing as well, since I would much rather have a job where I can have housing and ramen every single meal than slightly better food but homeless.
Neat! Looks like this generally works by building a static index and publishing it to IPFS [1], then having some client-side JS do a lookup in the index, and getting a metadata file for each result [2]?

I made something kinda similar a while ago [3], where I gathered a bunch of metadata about files on IPFS at the time by scraping a Searx instance, with a query like "site:ipfs.io/ipfs" or something like that. It was a quick hack job but was fun, and it's cool to see something similar on a bigger scale!

[1] like https://ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com/ai/_index...

[2] like https://ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com/ai/_index...

[3] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYo5ZWqNW4ib1Ck4zdm6EKteX3zZWw1j4CVfKt..., https://github.com/doesntgolf/ipfs-search, https://github.com/doesntgolf/ipfs-searx-scraper
IMVHO you shoudn't. They are both companies that run proprietary service outside user control.

If you want a different approach you should use something like YaCy witch is a FOSS, distributed, search engine, based on solr. So something you can know (have the code) and that does not run on a single company server.
"Government" of any variety, stripped of all its pomp and circumstance, is just a set of rules for people to agree to follow so they can live next to each other without regular resort to personal violence. "Revoking your consent" to government means that you no longer want to follow those rules. It's not clear why the other people around you should accept your presence without that agreement.

Even anarchy is itself a rule about how people interact; even an anarchist group will have expected processes -- maybe they're ad-hoc, but rules nonetheless.

And I expect you think you should still be privileged to the benefits of the governed society although you refuse the agreement: easy access to goods/services, and a market for your own. Again, why should the other people make that allowance for you when you reject the group?
There is a long list of bug fixes and enhancements that have been made in the fork, many of which are critical in my opinion: https://metacpan.org/pod/Cpanel::JSON::XS#cPanel-fork
I have to frequently fall back, so every time I make the switch to DDG - I quickly switch back out of frustration
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Well, no, that's not the case. To the extent any of those things are illegal it's because they're doing things that are prohibited by existing law.
(I work at Stripe)

The end consumer will have a seamless experience between paying online and offline -- think buy things online, return in-store (or vice-versa). Your customers can initiate a subscription in-store that continues online with Stripe Billing. You will have all your reporting -- for both online and in-person transactions -- within the Stripe Dashboard. In terms of customization, we think our new SDKs will make it really easy for you to build the right checkout experience for your business. Also, you’ll be able to customize some aspects of the reader display (e.g., logos, color theme, splash screen, etc.).
Do you think that because I'm young I haven't experienced significant or profound change? My opinions don't come from a philosophy class. That's a bit naive of you.

I "get" it. There's so much more left for me to experience. But you and I both stand from our positions and project these positions onto the future, inaccurately.

You can't say shit until you're dead, but there's no point in stifling your predictions until then ('cause you'll be dead).
Remember iPhone 5c? People absolutely hated it because it was plastic (well, that, and some other reasons–but mainly because it seemed "cheap").
many people do think that since they make a big deal out of Airbnb and Uber doing something illegal - not realizing that the illegality of what they did is equivalent to getting a parking ticket.
Could you clarify? I'm guessing you mean..

Square: Small/individual merchants, Etsy style physical shops, trade shows, etc.

Stripe: large retailers, grocery stores, stores with many locations etc.
Those are interesting cases. Definitively the will power works as a muscle and has limited resources. Thanks for your comment
Obligatory Xkcd link:

https://xkcd.com/2030/
It's true that the space is really crowded, but we also felt that all the other tools focused on formatting and not much else.

We wanted to consider the whole screenwriting process: collecting first ideas, outlining, distraction-free writing and formatting, collaborating, requesting and managing feedback, versioning...

Also, we want to take collaboration and versioning much much further than any existing tool and accommodate complex workflows, especially for larger writing teams. We're just getting started... :)
> I'm still surprised no one has yet figured out a way to store sensitive data about personal interests and preferences on the client-side and let the client itself pull appropriate ads for the user to see.

Mozilla did this for Firefox, except a step better: the client pulled the same set of ads from the server regardless of the user preferences, but decided (client-side) what to display, so the server could never even infer behavior about the client from the requests.

Unfortunately, people didn't care, and they complained that this was an intrusion of privacy regardless, so they dropped it.

It turns out, there just really isn't market for privacy-focused advertising. People who care about privacy generally dislike advertising in all forms and block it, without regards to whether the advertising actually is an invasion of privacy or not.
More importantly, fraud rates are much lower with CP than CNP. If the Visa/MC in the US goes with a PIN-type system like the rest of the world, fraud rates drop to near zero, which makes Card Present insanely profitable for them.
I don't know about a feature request, but I guess you could at least try to supply a patch to Lucene's merge policy. Then again, I don't know how likely it is to be accepted.

I was thinking one way would be to hook into Elasticsearch's events and trigger some custom script upon deletion that would find relevent documents across nodes and overwrite them in the segment-files or some such, but as I haven't had the chance to look that deeply into it yet I don't know how pratical this solution would be.
I think a lot of that comes from the fact that OS X GUI developers can look to a single authoritative source for a fairly clear set of guidelines.

On the Linux/Unix side, Nextspace can (and, perhaps, should) publish their own guidelines. But, let's face it, it's going to work out like https://xkcd.com/927/
Isn't this law just another way to specify a minimum wage?
Nothing stopping them. And I wish they would. The MC/Visa duopoly needs to be disrupted.
>I mean, the 2000 US presidential election had a recount... that was cancelled. The Brexit referendum had a bunch of spending irregularities... but the result stands. The 2016 US presidential election had allegations of Russian interference... but the result stands.

In none of those cases was there proof that actual vote counts were altered.

There are still ongoing investigations into Russia's interference, but the side that the interference helped is the on that's currently in power, and there's enough ambiguity for them to avoid taking any direct action. If we'd had a paper ballots that proved that Russia hacked voting machines and actually changed 100k or so votes--I'm 100% confident we'd have had a completely different outcome.
R.E. "unified experience", this slots so cleanly into Stripe's stable of products: all of your reporting would be available in Sigma, all of your fraud data available in Radar, and with a little magic in the SDK side, all of your customer data available (unified) in Stripe's database.

Imagine if you're running a web store, and you want to go to a conference or convention or something and start selling your stuff there. All of your tools still work, all of your reporting still works, and crucially your accounting flow remains identical.

The customisation options are probably up in the air right now - I imagine developers won't get the ability to customise the UI available on the PIN pad in the first release, but I imagine that's where they want to get to.
I think this is why a lot of companies in the SF Bay Area have regular work from home days, 2-3 days a week, allowing you to either just focus work or study on those days; leaving meetings for the remaining days
You do not need a shell. A pouch of sufficient strength is good enough. The tricky part is getting it to make contact consistently and to not worsen the cooling too much.
Card-present transactions are typically cheaper, because the risk of fraud is better mitigated. With chip cards, the fraud risk for card-present is almost entirely in physically stolen cards. (Sophisticated shops could duplicate magnetic stripes. That's a lot harder to do with chips.)

Compared to online, where all you have is the card number and the CVV, both of which are easily duplicated. And this is why tokenization is such a big deal. Tokenization means you don't store the actual card number, and the token you do store is tied directly to your merchant, so it's not widely reusable.
Once you use DDG for a while, you will soon realize just how bad google's filter bubble was. I sometimes do '!g' just to see what Google returns and it's just bad. It's mostly packed with ads, it's just so bad.
Reference?

Here's another data point: Even by your definition, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are habitable today, less than 100 years after having been hit by nuclear bombs. Ground zero in those cities are thriving tourist zones. Yes, radiation is dangerous, but the dangers of nuclear power have been VASTLY exaggerated by left-wing propaganda.
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But many don't. Many things are planned on the scale of quarters, not hours. In that case, it doesn't actually matter what hours people work, as long as things are done by the deadline.

I've certainly worked for companies where other companies contracted out their software development tasks to us. They did not care what hours we worked; they spent their money and expected a result X months later. Whether we worked on their project from 9-5 was something they would not even know, much less care about.
I'll take that bait.

What exactly is immoral about selling one's kidneys? Do individuals not own themselves? Are they capable of using or disposing of their own property as they see fit?

If your argument is that people who are forced into such decisions by economic necessity are not capable of making rational decisions, then what criteria do you use to determine if someone is able to make such decisions for themselves? If they fail to meet that bar... who makes those decisions for them?
Do you want to pay more for Amazon products? Because that's what you'll get if Mr. Socialist Sanders has his way.
Good question, I have included some of them (e.g. Meebo, Sparrow). Open to issues in the repo. I feel the inclusion of acquisitions provides a more meaningful view of truly how much exists in their graveyard.
Replacing the battery in an iPhone 4 requires taking off the back cover, not the screen. And it was really a pleasant process when I did it two weeks ago. I had expected much worse, but I only had to get through three screws (granted, they were a bit small, but still).
I also thought it was a race to the bottom, but the rising valuations of payments companies is telling me otherwise.
Yeah! Every question of "how would X work on IPFS?" boils down to data structures.

An example of slightly different approach (a sharded index) is the wikipedia-on-ipfs experiment from last year: https://github.com/magik6k/distributed-wiki-search && https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror
What he said was (AFAICT, the exact "we don't break userland, period" wording only appears in this HN thread. Let's go with the rant that I believe the GP was referencing):

The "first rule of kernel maintenance":

If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the
kernel. We never EVER blame the user programs.

Then later, to drive home the point:

WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!

So, sure, "there was no asterix on his statement saying to read the fine print"--he did better than an asterisk and fine print, he made it part of the main content.
If the Amazon warehouses become fully automated and a big group of people lose their jobs and there's no safety net, the warehouses will be burned to the ground within 24 hours.
Do not ever, and I mean EVER, mistake a banker or finance person as a friend or ally with your interests in mind.

I've had bankers who were very friendly, and whose entire marketing pitch was how much they were there to help the small biz/startup turn around and pull things like call loans early because their other Real Estate dept f*ked up and lost tens of millions in the state -- even tho we were in an entirely different business sector (software/ networking) and had a PERFECT payment and reporting record.

A medium-large biz I did some co-development project had an interesting story from it's early days decades ago. The President was going to the bank for an expansion loan, and was turned down because they said the business was too uncertain. A few days later, he found out that an employee went to the same bank and got a loan for a motorcycle no problem because his paycheck was regular. Since this was obviously stupid as his paycheck depended on the same business, he vowed then and there to not use bank leverage to grow. The biz now owns a good portion of a town not to far away, and has plants all across the US and several other countries.

Keep them at great distance, and use them absolutely as little as possible.
I think the problem is working-class people are sufficiently our of sight, out of mind for the comfortable upper-middle-class people with enough sway to actually change things.

When you reduce people to numbers and abstract ideas, you can treat them pretty poorly and still sleep at night.
That $14B in SNAP benefits is because Walmart is a significant market share grocer and people who receive SNAP benefits buy food at Walmart with those benefits.

I'm not sure how that makes Walmart a villain in the current discussion. Target takes in about $5B revenue from sales under SNAP, Aldi about $4.5B, and Kroger just under $4B. Companies who serve SNAP recipients should be lauded not vilified, IMO. They're serving a generally underserved constituency.
Interesting, I would have thought there would be less. Any guesses as to why that is?

My perception is I encounter them more frequently when browsing a VPN. I would be curious if anyone else has experienced similar.

I think the pervasiveness of the Google recaptcha is one of the biggest scourges of the modern web. I understand the importance of utility of course.
I'm not trying to make a real empirical claim. It may very well not be true that they are over-represented among highly successful people. It may be that they're simply better known, because they're such strong personalities. Would be curious as you are to see some data if anyone has it.
> He pointed out that Twitter was basically a better RSS feed, since it could show you what people thought about an article in addition to the article itself. It allowed you to follow people and not just channels.

This is why I absolutely LOVED FriendFeed. Not only could you follow arbitrary RSS feeds and FriendFeed users, but you could group feeds into "imaginary users". This was great because you could follow anyone you wanted, even if they didn't use FriendFeed themselves.

So what happened to FriendFeed? Acquired by Facebook and then killed.
Which complaints are you talking about? If you're talking about loutish guests, maybe. But landlords deciding they can get more money converting apartments into short-term rentals, in aggregate driving up rents, is a bigger problem the more in-demand the city is.
This is an amazing story. The comments from your friend seem to me very reasonable.
Right now I'm volunteering at a surf shop in Portugal that covers a place to sleep and breakfast. Do i have had time to work on my ideas but I'm not generating any income. I'll keep in mind your friend's experience when tried to work as a contractor for a startup.

Thanks for sharing this story
"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." - Alan Kay
linear no-threshold is weird & unusual for most processes, but it meshes perfectly well with what I understand about radioactivity in general- that is, random & cumulative. See half lives for example.

Is there any real evidence showing LNT is wrong?
A large conspiracy would be caught instantly. But it doesn't have to be a conspiracy. If people know they can vote multiple times and can't get caught (and w/o checking ID I don't see how they can) a certain number will decide to do so. I can't say how often this occurs, but how can you even measure it to determine if there is a problem without some sort of ID verification system at the polls?