skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's more likely to turn into a Venus.

I've always had the feeling that there are people out there worrying about this, but you're the first one I've seen actually admit to it.

The idea is much too ridiculous to even mention. The atmosphere of Venus contains roughly four times the amount of nitrogen as the atmosphere of Earth. You may recall that the atmosphere of Earth is ~80% nitrogen.

The atmosphere of Venus is under 4% nitrogen and over 96% carbon dioxide. The total mass of Venus' atmosphere is about 100 times that of Earth's.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus )

No, the Earth cannot turn into a Venus.
UBI is an absolutely terrible idea by the way. The problems you speak of would only get worse.
Raise corporate income taxes, but deduct all employee compensation from taxable income? Tax capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income? Penalize companies that spend less than X% or their revenues on employee compensation, where X% is the median labor expense fraction in that industry?
How can anyone be so naive as to believe the bill would target a single company.
> I am not sure how much of this is out of genuine concern for the users...

Does it matter as long as it benefits the user?
Wondering if this could enable use-cases for in-person subscription selling. I.e. selling SaaS/subscription content at conferences and tradeshows.
I think this is a great observation, and well put.

FWIW, had you made the same comment a year ago, I'd have only seen Uber, not Airbnb, matching precisely the model you describe. The lore was (and perhaps still is) that Airbnb has a platform substantially different & far better than Uber (e.g. http://archive.is/kE5hq). MSM painted Uber as this ultra-aggressive startup in terms of both company culture and taking on regulators; meanwhile Airbnb was just this wholesome startup simply trying to help student's travel on a shoestring budget and helping people pay rent by letting someone sleep on their couch.

Anyway, that was my interpretation back then; but clearly I'm no Paul Graham. It's clear from his blog post that Paul never saw it this way. To him, Airbnb was always destined to be a platform that disrupted the hotel market. Of course if you're going to 'disrupt' the hotel market in any medium-to-large city, that means thousands of residential homes will need to be converted into short-term vacation rentals.

It was either a carefully planned timing, or merely circumstance, but Airbnb has scaled at exactly the right pace to (like you mention) "become large enough to get a seat at the table when the regulations are reworked". And unlike Uber they have powerful/wealthy friends who piggyback on the Airbnb platform. It seems like almost overnight Airbnb went from an airbed in some student's loft to Corporation-Owned-Whole-Home-No-Host-punch-in-a-pin-code-to-open-the-front-door-fully-automated "STRs".

Living in San Diego I couldn't hate it more. After city council passed a regulation to limit Airbnb's to primary residences (which I believe most SD residence were happy about), Airbnb & HomeAway, and other parties formed a coalition, and hired a bunch of people to gather signatures to skirt our city council's ruling and put this action on a ballet as a referendum (http://archive.is/Yf6GP). In theory I'm not opposed to voter referendum; but here is a case where Airbnb is clearly undermining the ability of our elected official's to govern our city. The voted regulations will now be put on hold until 2020; and there will be nothing but carpet-bombing adverts for the next two years brainwashing san diegans. There's no hope.
> I took some time off to write a little tool called “git”

I wonder how many awesome things we’d have if brilliant engineers just took a bit of a time off to build something that fixes an annoying pain point.

I look forward to what he builds in his time off :)
The paper ballot doesn’t change once you take your eye off it.

Of course election fraud is possible in any system, but it is really easy to make it practically impossible in a paper system by simply allowing observers at any stage of the process. The system is so simple that anyone can detect wrongdoing.
That is of course not true with all-electronic voting.
I don’t think they were comparing 2000 to 95, but both if them to modern OSs (in some sense 8MB vs 64MB is such a small difference compared to modern OSs which basically need 8GB minimum)
It all sounds a bit legalistic. I say that with a grin.
> so the simplest fix is to prevent that from happening (by forcing them to have an abortion).

Who pays for the abortion?

If someone conceives children without permission multiple times, wouldn't be it cheaper just to kill them so as to prevent them from consuming resources without permission? or should we merely forcibly sterilize them?
Is there a component to Keystone I'm missing aside from the agent? Because if launchd can't run it, presumably Keystone wouldn't work.
But raising minimum wage at what cost?

It's already gotten really hard for high school kids to find work. Raising minimum wage will just make that worse.
I think it's important to use multiple search engines in order to see different results and disparities.
DDG, Google & Bing are the 3 I mainly use and there is quite a disparity on every given search.
One thing I noticed about job boards is that they are very generic so that they are relevant for all fields. So I thought it'd be interesting to launch this so that developers can find jobs with interviews that they believe they perform best at.

It's good for both the developer and the company in my opinion, I went in to more detail on the site about that. But basically - this is an MVP site to filter jobs by interview type such as whiteboard interviews (ewww), take home tests, online tests etc. Some developers lean towards take home tests so they aren't under as much pressure while others hate them because they'd spend too much time on it so would rather an online test for example.

It's an MVP as you can probably tell, but in the future I could add more things that developers care about such as open plan offices, remote work and so on.
By "userland" Linus meant actual users of the Linux kernel, not all possible theoretical users of the Linux kernel. For example, if there is a program that just uses quirks of implementation to fingerprint the kernel version, it will get broken all the time and will need updating every kernel release, but as long as people's actual servers, phones, desktops and IoT devices keep working without changes, that's not a breaking change.
I wonder if Stripe or Venmo will be the first to get QR payments going in the US.
Are you sure? The differences between say Samsung J3 and iPhone 6 are negligible (iPhone 8 is even slightly fatter). About 1.5mm thickness and that mostly because plastics have to be thick to survive falls and not because of removable battery.
If it were made partly of steel it could be a match.

The size is different (J3 is bigger) and materials are a bit better in the iPhone... But we're comparing a budget phone with a flagship here.

Oh, and the battery is also bigger.
Thank you very much for the guidance. I should have read the faqs before posting this thread
Growth Can’t Be Green
I didn't mean to imply that skimpiness was the only option , although it is remarkably hard to find an outfit that someone won't sexualise.

I was thinking of this excellent thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/965453047965958...
Maybe you should take a look at the hard numbers before you talk about cutting out the CC companies.

Paypal is leading the game and they are not able to cut out CC companies.
Well right now charging mats require your product to be over a very specific spot. They are trying to just require you to lay your item on the mat and have it charge, no shifting it around and making sure it's in an optimum spot.
> You're not misunderstanding anything, the problem is there's really nothing true about the anti-Amazon media propaganda. It's important to separate the media fantasy from the facts in the real world.

I've hear several conflicting reports on this - enough to understand that there is some variation and Amazon doesn't treat all workers the same way. That's why when one person reports inhuman behavior and another calls it bullshit, they're both right.
This is just from memory. Correct me if I’m wrong.

2005: mobileride.com in Boston, phone-based ridesharing with voluntary cash exchange, shut down in 2006 with regulatory warnings

2006: zipcar hires some of mobileride team and enters rideshare business with shared zipcar rentals among BU students

2007: zimride starts with pre-arranged rideshare at Cornell, works with campus transportation directly to keep it legal.

2007: google rides opens as a platform for several tiers of ride hailing services, dominates the market and then shuts down in 2010

2010: Uber starts in NYC as high-end livery, not sure if they got the license or not, but tweaks business model to have many on-demand part-time drivers instead of full-time, but pays much better portion of fare.

2012: Sidecar in San Francisco allows anybody to accept rides and mobile payments but calls them gratuities instead of fare. Regulators show their will to inaction. Uber responds with massive push into taxi services, completely flouts regulation, and Zimride births Lyft to do the same. CALPERS is rescued from bankruptcy by investment in AirBnB and Uber.
Honestly… The last thing I want in most of my code is "creativity" and "fun".
I'm on a day 4 of a water-only fast and have completed a two-week medically supervised fast as well as many other shorter fast.

As an anecdote, I can say water-only fasting in combination with a high nutrient density plant-based diet has helped me overcome some serious allergies and other health conditions. As an added bonus, I've lost 65 pounds from my peak weight over the last few years and my weight has been stable. It's not a panacea, but I've found it to be a net benefit.

For those interested in a deeper dive on the benefits of water-only fasting and diets that try to mimic its benefits, as well as time-restricted feeding, see:

Valter Longo, Ph.D. on Fasting-Mimicking Diet & Fasting for Longevity, Cancer & Multiple Sclerosis [1]

Dr. Valter Longo on Resetting Autoimmunity and Rejuvenating Systems with Prolonged Fasting & the FMD [2]

Dr. Satchin Panda on Time-Restricted Feeding and Its Effects on Obesity, Muscle Mass & Heart Health [3]

Dr. Satchin Panda on Practical Implementation of Time-Restricted Eating & Shift Work Strategies [4]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PyyatqJSE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evGFWRXEzz8

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R-eqJDQ2nU

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iywhaz5z0qs

[Edit to fix typos and formatting]
Sounds a lot like rags to riches. SMH
If they’re forced to switch, it will be perfect cover for the governor to conduct a voter
disenfranchisement campaign.

Whoops, there aren’t enough paper ballots in some precincts? I wonder which ones. Boy, we were forced to do this in such a rush I guess we made some mistakes.
Hi sharmi, author of newsletter here.

I did had a break while I was changing countries for a couple of weeks, but as of last week my plan is to send every Monday as stated.

Thanks for your feedback and for being a subscriber :)
Wonder how this compares to mainstream JS JITs?

Reading just a bit, they say Pycket includes general features needed for languages like JS, but sounds like someone would need to implement a JS front end. Any volunteers?
You can! I've done it, it's great.

Here's someone who has been working 4 days a week for the past 15 years: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...
Looks great, even though its 2 pages long, since you have lots of experience. Top 1% on kaggle is seriously impressive though

I see a few grammatical errors, "i". The "Subnero" link is broken by the way, might want to point it to the correct spot. If you use google link, I would suggest doing analytics tracking to see how many times its clicked (this gives you a good indication fo how many people read your resume)

I imagine this is for datascience jobs, the things that stood out to me the most were

- youtube links to actual talks is very good

- 1% kaggle is really hard to get

- actual publications

otherwise it looks perfectly fine. Make sure the PDF is OCR readable, and make sure there is an accompaning .docx format as well
(I work at Stripe)

We currently support two devices and will add support for more in the months to come. Please request an invite and let us know if there are particular hardware devices you are interested in us supporting.
All tech companies are rising. It's similar to the dotcom boom in my opinion where all tech stocks went up and everyone thought they were stock picking geniuses. Don't attribute it to anything more than this.

All it takes is for a single payment provider to start dropping rates and it will follow. Right now there hasn't been one yet, because they're know it's mutually-assured destruction. But if someone can get a handle on fraud rates, they can cut the rates down to very thin margins and work off a volume.
I'm starting an affiliate program for my small app, is that dumb?
Hey ya'll,

I thought of kicking off an affiliate program for a small app of mine which does around 1 sale every 10 visits.

I thought that was pretty good conversion, but not sure if I'm being naive, what do you think?

Here's the app: https://thoughttrain.cc
"Cloudflare will forward abuse reports that appear to be substantially complete to the responsible website hosting provider and to the website owner. In response to a substantially complete abuse report, Cloudflare will provide the complainant with the contact information for the responsible website hosting provider so they can be contacted directly."

So where does this abuse report end up?
The law of supply and demand is a law, but many people don't understand that it is a law in a very basic economic model with major assumptions. If you remove the assumptions in real life, then of course the law will no longer always hold.
There is a market writing books, articles, and spamming hackernews with it to promote said books and articles. I am yet to see a good, accepted study linked though.
I have DDG set up on my home machine. However, I keep on switching back to Google for the difficult searches.
(I work at Stripe)

Yes -- we have both native APIs (iOS and soon Android), and a web based API (JavaScript). Our JavaScript SDK is designed for you to easily extend an existing web-based application to enable in-person payments.
I was just wondering the other day if IPFS would get enough traction to reach critical mass. This is a very hopeful sign I think.

Cheers!
Dev Basu on why teams “break” at predictable inflection points
I don't see much Paypal deployment in the physical world. The only place I've ever seen the option to pay with Paypal is at Home Depot. (I didn't try it because it sounded like you had to log in with your password and second factor... which did not sound like a good use of time in the checkout line.)
>I've been using DDG for years now, and the results are exactly as good as Google.

That's mostly because DDG use Googles API, they don't actually search anything themselves.
That’s why Amazon already operates a handful, and opening new warehouses in Poland. Amazon doesn’t even sell in Poland, everything sorted and packed in Poland is shipped back to Germany. Beating EU unions is very easy, you simply move to the next town over the border.
You know what would be really cool? 365 / 5 = 73.

So if we eliminated Saturday and Sunday, we could work all year round. 73 weeks of fun-filled, delicious work each year!
Any plans to support Dat in the future too? I've had a bunch of distributed projects in mind recently, and I've still not decided which platform to start experimenting with properly, but Dat is definitely one of the other interesting ones alongside IPFS.
I've worked at few places that instituted a weekly 'meetingless day' and I can't recommend it enough. It is amazing how much work you can get done when do know you have 8 hours of consecutive focus and can look forward to it weekly.
Yeah, we definitely care about this more for our external apps than internal ones, but as we grow and our internal users expect more and more sophistication from our internal tool, it's becoming a bigger priority. It really does matter. Think the customer support agent or the sales rep who's on the phone and has to make the customer wait just a few more seconds can have an impact... but it's definitely harder to justify.

> I bet they say that people on slow connections are not the target market

That however... there's a LOT of data showing how every seconds count for things like ecommerce or news websites. And for actual B2B type apps, they likely don't have adds after you are logged in. We're gathering a lot of data on this internally, and customers care a -lot- about perf of things like CMSs, CRMs and other enterprisey apps.
Well, that'll certainly solve the problem of housing and feeding those people.
I've heard Europe is more reasonable, but at least as of a few years back before Square got so popular, there was a ton of fees to having a bank-owned card reader. Typically required >$1000 deposit just to get the machine, and then a subscription in excess of $200/month, and if I remember correctly, card present transactions were around a 2.5% fee... oh, and that was typically just for Visa and Mastercard. The people I knew with these machines never sprung for the other networks because the price was so expensive. My parents run some small businesses, and credit card machine fees were one of the major line items in their monthly expenses before getting one of those cheap square phone devices back in 2012 or so. Maybe the banks have made things more competitive though now that Square has taken at least some of their business.
Not sure where you've been the last decade but people who speak against nuclear power are usually also against coal.
Introducing the i‑plate, Joburg’s colossal plate of comfort food
TripAdvisor Wants to Become Your Social Media Network for Travel
I think this must exist? I know you can push the Stripe analytics data to Databox.
When my 2k mac became unsupported after 4 years, Apple lost me permanently.
People are interested in nuclear because it's zero carbon, because it's mature, and because it's suited to base load. It's the only zero carbon source that plugs right into the hole left by fossil fuels. IMO it's really that simple, and you can be pro-nuclear and also pro-renewables.

Personally, I don't really value solely economic arguments about power generation anymore. The cheapest power would be the best power if all the externalities were priced in. But they just never will be.
You can't cut out the cc companies. Both Stripe and Square are riding on their rails. The best they can do is try to negotiate the rates down and either keep a higher percentage for themselves or pass on the savings to their customers.
India’s Supreme Court decriminalizes homosexuality. What comes next?
It's a simple question

Google "Tax Residence" and you'll discover, while the question may be simple, the answer isn't :)
It's a bit random, but we try to give priority to the one that was submitted earlier.
Some of public fear is rational. It doesn't take a degree in statistics to figure out that nuclear disasters happen more often than official estimates of their probability imply.
I would be very curious to see what barriers to entry AirBnB has developed vs. say, Uber. While both are marketplaces, Uber benefits tremendously from understanding traffic patterns, from seeing how people ride, from being able to give drivers the option of traveling certain directions, etc. All of that data is worth billions of dollars and not easily discovered, and technically quite challenging to gather and exploit.

From what I can tell, AirBnB has a brand and a web application. Technically, I can't imagine the latter is more complicated than the average e-commerce site delivered at scale. I am having trouble understanding how big data can create an advantage (maybe to help owners price their rentals?). If a competitor pops up, there's no reason owners can't list on multiple sites without facing any penalties.

AirBnB is not a company I'd invest in for the long term, while I would invest in Uber/Lyft. So, what am I missing?
Love his passion. I know it's possible PG himself missed out on a startups by convincing people not to invest in a simialr way, but the fact that he's not afraid to express his opinion is just as useful.
But will lack of faith in video create a world in which criminals in piwer act with impunity. How can you expose something if all media is suspect. Its a weird future.
I was just thinking about DOS apps, specifically how nice it was when keyboard shortcuts pertinent to your current mode were helpfully displayed at the bottom of the screen.
We wrote a tutorial on setting it up on your own (secure nginx server for ipfs gateway), https://medium.com/textileio/tutorial-setting-up-an-ipfs-pee.... But for sure, for most users, going right through cloudflare is an awesome simplification. Exciting stuff.
It does work for both a boy and a girl!
chernobyl had known reactor design flaws at the time of the accident. even then, there were designs for fail-safe reactors instead of fail-deadly reactors. those have only improved with time.
I'm pretty sure there may be some. Please check my comment in previous post about DDG https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17868117
An ad which is relevant to 1% viewers still sells, likely enough to keep it published.

But it's irrelevant to 99% of the viewers, and it's impossible to tell them from the 1%: among other things, because the viewers are not keen to share too much data about themselves.

I think we should see ads as the (annoying) cost of commercially-produced free content. I wish a micropayment solution would take off to allow for easy and reliable paid opt-out on multiple sites I might visit. (I already have Youtube Red, and it's great.)
I think a mixture of solar, nuclear, and other renewables is probably the best option. Electricity doesn't transport well over long distances, and what's best for one place isn't necessarily good for another. The economics of solar and energy storage vary around the world, depending on factors like clouds, and geography which can support pumped hydro (both lower and upper reservoirs). Solar might make more sense for California, and nuclear for St. Petersberg. I'm sure some combination of decentralised and distributed energy generation will prevail into the future.
Building a Fake API for Testing
Feds: Canadian marijuana users, workers and investors risk lifetime U.S. ban
I wonder why phones don't use GPS to sync clocks? Or do they? Hmm...
The whole point of a union is to protect the rights of people who are doing things that don't take a lot of skill.
Algorithm creates training dataset for tumor detection AI
My concern is about the params. If you use Chrome on Windows at San Francisco user agent is dispersive, but if you connect from a little country using an exotic browser and an exotic OS the user agent data could be enough to identify you.
I've never heard of Cal before, and from looking at his Wikipedia page, he does seem academically successful. But he's neither achieved any "breakout" successes, nor does he have decades of experience to back up his advise.

Which is not to say that his advice is bad. It's mostly a distillation of various psychology studies and research. For example, the whole thing about pursuing Mastery, Autonomy and Purpose, is copied wholesale from Drive, which is itself based on sound research findings.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452796-drive
They're still one step away from Square. This is Stripe Terminal and not Stripe POS. This competes more with Square Reader SDK. If I remember correctly Square Reader SDK only launched fairly recently.

Your point is still valid, but I just wanted to point out that building a POS like Square is a different beast.
Or annoyingly, donations t9 websites like Wikipedia require Paypal