skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right - there are startups that are doing this i.e. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/activehours has raised $190m and in the top 20 finance apps in the app store.

I assume these customers have less a need to take out a payday loan, but it could also be the case that expenses > pay regardless of when you receive income throughout the month.
> No, thats not what he said.

No, that's the implication of what they said. If the police don't get involved in bloodless physical assaults then who is going to intervene? Does one have to call out "no slapbacks"?

Or to put it another way, I'm very dubious that one could merrily slap their way down the Thames without the police showing up.
If I were paying a bunch of employees, I'd like to hold onto the money for a couple weeks before paying it out if only to mooch off of the small bank interest.
I think you're missing the point.

The problem is not that developers don't care about standards. And its not that developers are just trying to make as much money as possible.

Most developers have financial obligations that require them to keep their jobs.

The people making unethical decisions are their bosses.

The developers cannot contradict their bosses in this way and keep their jobs.

However, if you make the standards an organization-level thing and tie management and legal into it, it may be come to be that it is some developer's job to report on standards infringement. In which case they could say "no, this is illegal" and if there were legal precedent showing criminal charges or penalties had been applied, the management might consider following the standard. Although at first even if those standards existed, I assume sometimes management would just fire the messenger and hire another one who would claim the standards were upheld.
From what I recall of a report in 2017, the main ways Netflix was able to avoid tax was due to Research Tax Credits and, mostly, due to the way stock options are treated. (I am not a tax lawyer, so go easy) The gist was that companies can claim a discount on stock options exercised by employees.
You're implying that EFF is typical of lobbyists. That's an untenable position.

EFF is probably the antithesis of most lobbyists, certainly the ones being discussed here.
Also, (typical) MAC addresses are not random; the upper 24 bits are constrained to a given smaller set of manufacturer codes, so you can reduce the search space considerably.
> I'm a frigging EXPERT in dozens of stuff that would make people smile now (those who are old enough ;-))

I'd love to read your list. :)
Agree 100%, it has blown me away my whole life how engineers downplay marketing and [product|personal] presentation in spite of the reams of data suggesting it has some of the best ROI possible of anything you can spend your time improving.

Do you want to make more money, get more connections, have everyone like you more and treat you better? It's as simple as buying some nicer shirts, getting regular haircuts, and eating better (which has its own host of plusses).

Some programmers are 55 and really good. They also have stains on their t-shirts, are overweight, and act morose all the time. In a perfect world this wouldn't matter for a job interview, but you are not interviewing or operating for a job in a perfect world.
Can you point out where they said they “believe the world is a meritocracy”?
This spate of reports about performance and reliability problems for electric cars in extremely cold weather has pointed out lots of problem with reliability and reduced range. To be meaningful and useful, these really ought to include comparisons to conventional internal combustion cars.

I lived in Fairbanks for a while, and I found that lots of things don’t work well when it’s -40, especially cars. I had to plug in the block heater at least a few hours in advance of starting, and then idle for at least 15 minutes before driving. A block heater and battery blanket were necessary but sometimes not sufficient. My gas mileage was reduced by about half. There were lots of cars with mechanical problems that only crop up in those conditions. Some had doors, windows, or gas doors that would freeze. Relays and (starter!) solenoids would get stuck. A few had heater cores that would would ice and stop working so the heat and window defrost were not usable. Some displays won’t work when they are cold. The manufacturers say they test for this stuff, but it was obviously not fully addressed.

Don’t assume your ICE car is going to work well when it’s that cold. Nothing works right when it’s that cold. When we use things in an environment that differs greatly form that in which they were engineered and tested are bound to surprise us. Even my bike didn’t work right up there. The grease in the headset and wheel bearings got really viscous and stiff, the cables and shifters were balky, and the breaks felt funny.

I actually managed to bike commute pretty often as a student, partly because it was more reliable then driving. My ski jacket was made plastic so it got really stiff and crumpley feeling like cardboard. When I got to school my phone screen didn’t work, and my laptop wouldn’t turn on until it warmed up, but the bike at least never made me late, which is more than I could say for any car.
> why would the Israel and Faroe Islands outliers exist with many more children

"Many more". Israel: 3.11 (down from 4 in 1960s), Faroe Islands: 2.6 (down from 3.2 in 1970s).

Compare to Niger: 7.24.

And especially compare to muslim countries which just love having kids, don't they? Oh, look dropping from 8 kids per woman to around 2 for most of them (some are understandably lagging behind, like Yemen, Iraq, Gaza)

> That seems to indicate that 2 is not in fact a magic number at all.

I said ~2 kids, i.e. about two kids, not exactly 2 kids. There's nothing magic about this number, it's sub-replacement fertility [1]. 2.1 for developed countries, 3.4 for some developing countries. Yes, some nations will dip below 2, can't see how that disproves my words. Neither culture nor religion have anything to do with it. Give people quality of life, education, access to modern medicine, and they stop having 8 kids per woman, and quickly dip to about replacement fertility rates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
Absolutely not. This is idiotic advice. I'm not paid to be pretty. I earned this gray beard and if you don't respect the years of experience it represents, you and your hipster brogrammer culture can fuck right off.
This just goes to show that all industries need competition. If there's a third company that also provide this service, they could market themselves as more ethical, and if the people truly are as conscientious as it seems to be here, then it will gain market share.
Always deliver superlative value, and your customers take care of you.
I bribed an exchange admin or two and got [firstname]@[really big company].com. This company had a lot of consumer facing stuff, and some of which required an email address. Employees of the company would just put in [customers first name]@[the company].com when they didn't have an email address.

That was fun.
I think modern embedded systems has a bias built in. To be productive, you have to be proficient in a _LOT_ of topics, many of which are not easy to come by experience wise. This tends to bias towards high experience.
Overcoming the disadvantage of a poor high school is the basic idea behind Texas '10% law': any student who graduates among the top 10% of a public high school is guaranteed admission to any public Texas university.
Payday loans are some of the things that the unbanked turn to. Using a payday loan shark does not make one banked.
Too late: I now know how the company thinks about its employees and, frankly how truthful they are with their customers too.

So more Instacart and no more DoorDash for me. Simply uninstalling the app won't cause change, so I contacted both Instacart and DoorDash and asked them to delete my account and all PII and when asked, explained why.

There are plenty of alternatives to both and I suspect we'll pretty quickly figure out which ones are the creepy assholes and which differentiate themselves by being decent human beings. For that matter, it's worth looking at which investors have supported this kind of attitude, as I'm sure this was discussed in board meetings.
The US is a Representative Republic, which differs from a democracy in several significant ways.

It was designed to be difficult to change because democracies always fail when the majority decides the rule of law is no longer important.
Leedarson is an OEM for many light bulbs you've seen on shelves in stores.
I have three sets of AirPods. One got lost, and I accidentally online ordered two.

Of the two that work, one constantly gets reported by callers as unintelligible. The other one I never get comments about except from my mother. Everyone universally agrees that the sound quality of holding the iPhone X to my head is vastly superior.

AirPods are convenient but not very good in my experience. Poor audio quality, almost no sound isolation (which could be viewed as a feature, frankly), short battery life (long conference call and you are doing the one-ear-cycle and pray thing), and a challenge to keep charged (yet another charger/cord needed or a rotation cycle with phone). I have and use mine (get value from my sunk cost) but do not like them. They also hurt my ears after about 15 minutes.

My wired Etymotic mid-range earplugs for $70-ish have vastly better audio and mic quality, insane passive noise isolation and never need charging. Except... no 3.5mm jack and that stupid dongle keeps getting lost when moving between phone and laptop/ipad. Sigh.

What a travesty. Sorry to rant, but it just is not a good product even if it is important to Apple.
Have you ever heard of a relocation bonus? Do you think the notion that an employer can give a new employee $10k+ for moving costs, and then allow them to walk out the door a week later to their competitor is laughable? You might, which is why relocation bonuses almost always have a retention clause: if the employee voluntarily quits before a certain amount of time, then the employee has to pay back all or part of that bonus.

I got a huge relo bonus once to move cross-country. But it had a 2-year clause attached to it, so if I had left after a year, for instance, I would have had to pay back 1/2 of it.

I don't see why the same couldn't be done for education paid by employers.
Thanks for the links.

At least according to the APA, there apparently is a difference in group means, though no one knows why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence:_Knowns_and_Unkno...

But, so what? This is at most a scientific curiosity. There's no rational (let alone ethical) reason to treat people differently based on the distributions of the myriad groups they happen to be a part of.

That's why we take people as we find them, as individuals, not as members of their various trait groups. Getting people to care about this is a lot more important than IQ trivia.
No, it is not. There is a correlation in that the younger you are, and the more education you have, the less likely you were to vote for Brexit, but that doesn't mean that Brexit was only voted for by old uneducated people.
Just spray with windshield washer fluid. Or straight anhydrous methanol, if you like. Windshield washer fluid for sure won't damage the finish. Methanol might, but probably not.

Methanol depresses the freezing point of water at low concentration. Adding ~10% methanol to gasoline was a classic for deicing fuel lines.
Aliens vs. comet junk: Nasa scientist weighs in on Oumuamua debate
I totally understand your frustration and that looks matter even if just subconsciously to everyone is quite the shitty paradigm to navigate. Humans being mimetic creatures results in all sorts of weird unfairness and idiocy.

However when it comes to advice, are we interviewing for a job in an imaginary world, or the real one?

If it's the real world, this is great advice. Just like having a marketing team instead of thinking every product will sell itself is great advice that almost every company in existence learns at some point or another.
If you read the article, there's a little more nuänce than that. One thing listed right up front is a limit on how many times a lender can try to withdraw funds from your account.

If they have, say, a $200 NSF charge, and your payment bounces, they can try every business day, racking up $1,000 a week in NSF fees.

Companies that do this kind of thing aren't trying to collect their original payments in good faith, they're trying to suck every last droplet of blood from those lenders who have a temporary problem but then get some money.

Limiting attempts to two would stop that.
Did the city have much power over marijuana policy? It seems like that was mostly the state legislature, no?
I'll just tell you now I've got a T-shirt with "Copland Driver Kitchen" :-)
I agree, but that applies just as well to downvotes. I don't have good ideas how to run a required-comment-to-vote system, I just don't see the asymmetry between up and down.
Static site generators and the JAMstack in 2019
What other company has the same opportunities or market share as Instacart?
> They should allow anyone on the continent to own a .eu domain

The article is about the UK, which is leaving the EU? Do you think the western bit of Russia, where the majority of their population lives, should have a right to register .eu domains?
That was discussed in the article, yes.
Sonoff-Tasmota
> providing this service for those in embargoed countries could get you shut down quickly.

How come Google can figure out who and where the interested end-user is when emails are actually send by web apps and clicking is done upon email retrieval (I bet some cron with POP3). Moreover emails from "bad" countries are rather filtered out as spam/scam.

Apart of this thread publicly inviting people it may be also hard to distingush the accout from any busy one. But I guess G may have some pattern matching and rate limits for such sinks.
See the original post, it lists all Seattle's current surveillance tech.
Is getting paid daily vs biweekly actually the antidote to payday lending?

There's a few Silicon Valley cos that enable this and they seem to have become really popular.

Could it really be that simple?
Protecting the customers buying the laws of course.
Not only you can do all that confortably and productively in python, but you should.

It's crossplatform, the task has not bottleneck for this vm, and it takes complexity down to one language. One language that as the very specific characteristic of being the best at nothing, but pretty good at everything, which in such an heterogenous software is what you want.
Don't worry, Amazon screws their delivery workers in other ways.
Show HN: Deltatrail.io – The easiest way to track production changes
Anytime I see people defend this kind of practice, the John Ruskin quote comes to mind: “The dullest of all excuses for usury is that some kind of good is done by the usurer.”
This made me laugh. It wasn't the Dark Ages. They thought of code as code. I'm in my 50's, and I took my first programming class in high school in 1980. When I entered college a few years later, most of my engineering classmates had prior experience programming. It really wasn't considered anything mysterious or magical.
A few times, even in the last election, the popular vote did not match the election outcome.

>In contrast, with a pure popular vote count, a few metropolitan areas could outvote the entire rest of the country. Would it be fair for NYC and LA to decide against the wishes of the rest of the nation? What do you think about this?

I think that's totally fair, the federal government should be mainly concerned about issues both affecting those in and outside the city.

>So what is it that you think that I think it achieves which it actually does not? I feel like you're jumping to conclusions about what I think.

No but I doubt that "limiting the ability of large population centers to overwhelm the rest of the country" is something worthwhile to worry about at federal levels in a federated state.
Because the folks that use payday loans are most likely [a] not on a salary and [b] have very inconsistent wages due to inconsistent scheduling and [c] likely don't even have a bank account.
> How common are scenarios where there are multiple ships within visual distance?

In a main shipping channel near a busy port? Very common.

> It's hard for me to understand how they didn't realize they weren't getting useful data from that radar and switch their primary navigation driver to the other radars, lookouts, the commercial position broadcasting system, or the infrared camera, all of which seemingly worked.

Or the old standby, the Mark One eyeball. As I commented elsewhere upthread, the thing that jumped out at me was not having a lookout on both bridge wings (port and starboard). Even with a ship that's shorthanded, that's the last place you should give up personnel, especially when navigating in a crowded shipping channel at night. They should have made up the shortfall from somewhere else.
How many struggling people are spending $200+ monthly for overpriced cell and cable service?
I think the simplest way to tell is if the app requires you to tip before or after the order has been placed.

I've read in other HN threads that Uber Eats tip policy is what we as customers expect, but don't take my word for it.
I've built a few registration systems and always normalize email addresses (remove local part, de-dot gmail addresses) at signup and login.

It helps users who keep trying bobjones@gmail.com when they signed up with bob.jones@gmail.com. Also is pretty good at preventing mass signups using tricks like this.
Looking at my dnsmasq statistics, only 16.3% of 10,776 queries in the last 24 hours have been answered by the cache. Another 21.7% never left the device, since they were in the block lists, but that still leaves 62.0% of queries to be returned by 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1, which is my external DNS provider.

Although this doesn’t count on-client caching, it still seems to back up your guess and my original comment.
Sure, but nobody uses that argument to say that you can't trust AES, RSA or SSL, despite the fact that it applies equally well to them.
Internet comedian Vic Berger made a parody video clowning on FuckJerry and exposing their theft of comedian's material. These guys dismiss requests or pleas from content creators to (at least) please put creators' names on the material that they re-post. So predictably, one of the FuckJerry team (their chief content officer James Ryan Ohliger aka “Krispyshorts”) filed a false DMCA on the video and had it pulled from YouTube. Here is that video: https://vimeo.com/315339461
Lot's of email security specialists in this thread. May I ask (hijack) what allows xtra.co.nz users to receive emails from self?

They seem to have SPF and DKIM setup, but a friend keeps receiving extortion emails (with his old passwords from probably old password leaks).
I think you're misrepresenting server wage.

To style it like your comment, server wage: Base pay starts low (minimum wage), and is reduced by the tip amount. Customers may or may not be aware that servers are paid below minimum wage and that their tips will be appropriated by the business. Businesses don't exactly advertise this.
> The wasting of talent does not always look like someone languishing in a position below their abilities. Waste of talent can also look like someone expending their creativity pushing addictive services or building products for an audience of pampered elitists.

Oh, my heart bleeds for Silicon Valley-type (the TV series) programmers. Sniff.
Do all types emit RF noise? What to look out for to avoid it?
Original author here. Thanks for the kind words!

We would love open source some of the work we did - there are a few edge cases to still work out with deprecated_column and renamed_to before I’d be comfortable doing that, but definitely agree that may be generally useful.
College board is non profit.
I think the existence of these lenders is indicative of a larger problem and allowing them to profit in this manner brings very little benefit to anyone - better to address the mismatched cost of living and revive johnson's war on poverty
You really don't need to go deep at all. Much like Facebook and Twitter, a very large chunk of the most popular accounts just shamelessly steal other people's content.
I don't expect bugs as a screw up, i expect technical debt.
They don't get paid taxes if the self-employed person doesn't have money left over at tax season. Most people are getting by month-to-month. Not because they are bad planners, but because there is not any extra money.

The government will crack down when it realizes poor self-employed people cannot or will not pay taxes and that putting them in jail will just cost more money.
Sure, but which one is easier to solve: predatory payday loans or the unaffordability of life?

The instinct to want to solve the big problem is a good one, but it's a path to hell paved with good intentions. You'll end up struggling to ever solve the big problem, and ignore a series of effective, small fixes along the way.
Someone (http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/theories/twinkies.htm) preserved an old Usenet post comparing Lembas to Twinkies:

From postings to rec.arts.books.tolkien by BThompson <williamt-aaaaaaat-lamar-dawt-colostate.edu>, dated 11 April and 18 September 1995.

Has anyone else noticed the apparent similarities between Lembas and Hostess Twinkies? Please consider the following:

1) Both are lightly-baked cakes with creme filling.

2) Both are hermetically-sealed in some type of wrapper (mallorn leaf for lembas and malleable plastic leaf for Twinkies).

3) Both will remain fresh if their wrapping remains unbroken (in fact, Twinkies are reputed to have a shelf-life of several million years either in or out of their wrapping).

Are lembas an early prototype for the modern-day Twinkies? Any and all comments are welcome.
Creating Jump Gaming Out of Nothing
If you can't survive without grossly misleading your customers then you have no right to survive at all.
It's just one point though. Many of these comapnies engage in a very scummy behavior. Just read the linked PDF.

IRL, scummy behavior often gets you ahead of the honest competitors.
Not one myself but over the years I have seen older engineers who have published a book on a popular technical subject or have had open source contributions in widely used projects are seldom discriminated against!
Unless actual numbers are cited, it is not useful to credit Google with paying taxes which (i) are actually paid by Google's customers if at all and (ii) are generally directly deducted from those customers' own tax obligations and thus generally net to zero.
Windshield washer fluid is generally methanol just fyi
Competition might be necessary to fix this, but it's certainly not sufficient. The restaurant industry is competitive, but according to the Department of Labor [1] "nearly 84 percent of full-service restaurants it investigated between 2010 and 2012 had violated labor standards, including but not limited to tip violations".

[1] https://nyti.ms/2GjqIyu