skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (An example which is just a boggling fact about the world: what’s your finger-to-a-wind guesstimate about what percentage of credit card payments fail with error code I Don’t Know Sometimes Things Fail In Credit Card Land? Hint: it’s higher than you think. Those failed payments cost conversions at the margin. When Stripe fights that number down by a basis point, that creates value across our entire portfolio, forever.)

I have no idea what the percentage is but I recently had a decline I think may have been from Stripe itself.

A few months back I’d dropped my car off at the shop and tried to Lyft home. I’m a very infrequent Lyft/Uber user. Lyft refused to accept my payment. Tried with two different cards (Chase, AmEx) both directly, via Apple Pay and via PayPal. Couldn’t hail a car.

So then I try with Uber. Same thing! Payment rejected, no car for you.

I wrote to both Lyft and Uber customer support. Never heard back from Uber. Lyft claimed my card was denied (“It appears that the card is not working due to a decline from your bank. Because the information we receive about bank declines is very limited, you’ll need to reach out to your bank directly for more information as to why the transaction was denied.”) I contact both my card companies - they tell me there are no blocks on my card nor anything that would cause the payment to be rejected.

The only thing I could find Lyft/Uber had in common was they both used Stripe.

(But that doesn’t explain not being able to pay via Apple Pay/PayPal unless those somehow route through Stripe.)

Never did figure out what it was (“Jay, I had checked and verified that the last four of the card that you have provided is already added on this account. There shouldn't be any issues in requesting for a ride. If you had any issues with your Lyft request. Please kindly send a screen shot so that we will be able to see and rectify the issue.”) and haven’t had cause to use Lyft/Uber since.

This incident is the only time I can recall payments being rejected like that. I think Chase once temporarily blocked an Internet payment, sent me a notification immediately, I indicated the charge was legitimate, tried again and it went through.

Oh well. (I ended up getting a ride home in the shop’s customer service van.)
Maybe that would have been a little too "on the nose"? I always thought that "stripe" refers to the magnetic stripe on the back of a credit card.
Not every job can be remote if people need shared equipment or resources. There's a lot of intangible benefits to having everyone working nearby. I get a lot of help from people just because they are nearby and I can ask them a question about something or their advice, and I think that alone outweighs for me being able to sit on my couch in sweatpants with my laptop.
I'm not so sure the network effect is significant here.

Slack is designed as a space for team communication, so it seems like a situation where the network effect is at it's least powerful. After all, teams are about the smallest size imaginable. Any alternative is also going to be on the Internet, be it another product, IRC, or a mailing list. The only inertia you have to overcome is the inertia to create an account.

Second of all, the value of peers on a team network is not equal. The team leadership and top contributors are the most valuable members of the network. If they decide to jump ship to another product, your choice is to either follow suit or essentially exclude yourself from the team.

Would you seriously not work someplace or not contribute to a product because it meant you couldn't use Slack and had to use Hangouts or IRC? I'll agree that Slack's product is better and -- baring complaints common to many Electron apps -- relatively without fault, but requiring it seems a bit excessive.
Ah, it's not so precise, especially at a startup. A lot of bias and favoritism, and employee hired after you might curry favor with the CTO and show up 4 hours a week and never get fired, while you get hounded for more (no extra pay) overtime. Such is Silicon Valley.
NASA 2018 budget is $20.7B. It is not in any way "second after military".

NIH 2018 budget is $37B, NSF is $7.8B. DOD budget just for R&D and test/evaluation is $88B.
Trump “would never get in a self-driving car”
We want a zero degree increase things are good as they have been for thousands of years. Now if we go up to 1.5C we lose a lot of fish. We will have 6.5% more fish then if we go to 3C increase so the "so what" is we stand to lose millions of peoples jobs, livelihoods, and the only way they feed their families. It means by doing nothing we are potentially sentencing millions of people to their demise. I just don't get how anyone can sit here and say "so what". And I truly do think this is a rich person problem too because you watch what happens when millions of people are pushed from their homes in a short period of time it will be pandemonium. What are we going to do when essentially an entire nation is pushed from their homes? What country is going to accept them or do we just let them die? So for me there is a huge amount at risk if their estimates in this study are true. I have kids that I want to leave a future earth to.
How phones went from $200 to $2k
Looking back a hundred or more years when the market was more free, your vision of how things might work does not hold. There were no insurance markets for potential injury due to riding a horse, no private certification of stables that lent horses to ensure animals were fit and free of issues of temperament that might cause them to throw a rider.

The free market is not a panacea that solves every problem. It does solve some problems. Arguably for a very long time some degree of freedom has been better than the alternative of centrally controlled economies, but that doesn't mean that no better alternative or balance of the forces exists.
Mendeley also encrypts your PDFs so that you can't access them with other software.
I work in SF. It really depends on the company and team, rather than the region. Lately I have been working 35-40 hours per week at Google, but there are times when I've worked more like 50 hours.
It's pretty much effectively mandatory right now. Just try buying a new car that doesn't have a GPS tracker installed, and that doesn't regularly phone home to the manufacturer.
Whoa, what caused your brakes to give out briefly?
That might be true for the FAA, but it's not true for the FDA. They will ask companies for original data and then replicate analyses.
That's gross revenue. Their business model probably ends up giving them 5-7% of that in average net.
I work at a large company in NYC. Based wholly on personal observation, long hours are not uncommon. I often see folks eating dinner at the office. I suspect most people put in ~50 hours a week if not a little more than that.

The number tends to increase with the extent of one’s responsibilities (n.b. extent, not gravity).

As far as expectations go, I don’t think these are normally elaborated in terms of hours for salaried employees. You’re just expected to get your work done, regardless of whether or not it takes you more than 40. The expectation is probably that you put in ~40-50? This is purely speculation on my part, mind you.
> I observe no denigration in his comment. These people made a choice.

It's not even my personal opinion. I am merely describing the biases of the general public that result in the discrepancy in newsworthiness. It's not due to some coastal conspiracy against inland states. Florida is viewed by many as a backwards state, a popular target for mockery and derision, so a bias against inland states does not explain why hurricanes in Florida get more news coverage than floods in inland states.

To reiterate myself a third time, the discrepancy arises from a perceived, not actual difference in culpability of the victims. People who are hit by hurricanes are thought to be the victims of bad chance, while the people living on floodplains are thought to be people who knowingly tempted fate. That this is not squared up with reality is of little consequence because newsworthiness is not some objective trait; newsworthiness is the product of the subjective biases and worldviews of the general public.

I'll offer another reason for why the discrepancy exists, again relating to hurricanes being named. When a community gets hit by some hurricane, they're not hit by some generic hurricane but rather by a particular hurricane, that had a name and it's own news cycle leading up to contact with the coast. And throughout that news coverage, the location that the hurricane would come to shore at was up in the air. The weather forecasters were offering up stochastic predictions, but none knew for certain. The result of this is it feels like it was pure chance that the hurricane hit one community and not the other. Hurricanes are viewed as discrete independent events that could randomly hit your community, while the more rational point of view would be that at some point your coastal community is probably going to get hit by some hurricane.

In floodplains the chance of a flood is considered as a flat probability per year, or century. The "hundred year flood" is a concept most people are familiar with, even if they misunderstand it[1]. People don't think of hurricanes like that, they don't consider a general hurricane threat. They consider the threat of each individual hurricane as it comes along. The "hundred year flood" concept is not considered for coastal regions, even though it's just as valid there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EACkiMRT0pc
Fantastic (note that the article mentions (or at least hints at) medical exemptions, which of course makes sense)! Now ... if only we could make this happen here in the US!
Age and the Entrepreneur, Part 1: Some Data
Good question. The research done by these folks suggests the following (from the article):

> "They found that if climate change is limited to 1.5 °C, the biomass of the top revenue-generating fish species will be on average 6.5% higher than it would be with 3.5 °C of warming. Sustainable catch levels of these species will be 7.3%, or 3.3 million metric tons, greater than they would be if we stay on our current trajectory."

So, 1.5C warming is better than 3.5C warming because the top-revenue-generating fish biomass with 1.5C warming is 6.5% higher than with 3.5 C warming. Put another way, excessive warming (3.5C) decreases fish biomass availability relative to less extreme warming scenarios.

Curtailing the progression of climatic warming, therefore, appears to be an important step in ensuring sustainable fish stocks. This is the "so what."
This is a nice follow-on. The one additional thing I'd point out is that when a Class B driver gets the quote from this carrier of $1,684 but gets a quote of $1,100 from another carrier, they're likely to head for the cheaper option, providing further benefit to the carrier using the trackers.

Also, I haven't worked in property/casualty insurance, but my understanding of these trackers is that they don't include GPS capabilities, almost certainly for those sorts of reasons you mention. The risk of bad headlines incentivizes carriers to do what they can to ensure that the false-positive Class B drivers are not correlated with anything potentially sensitive.
That...makes perfect sense actually. Would you happen to have any more information on this topic?
> and the lack of visual and system-level customization options takes a lot of the joy out of system setup, management, and exploration

Exactly this. A good part of the joy I get in seeking out an awesome ultra-portable (and in doing so, experimenting with my mobile workflow) is the high customization I get from Linux machines. Sadly the two best portable contenders (ChromeOS and Windows) in terms of feasibility, don't meet this.
Not really, because C is a compiled language instead of interpreted. So you would have to distribute binaries. This library does not help with that.
I really hope PBS is working with other service providers (Apple? Google Play?) to bring the same programming. I don't want to pay Amazon tax (additional $10 per month prime fees) to be able to use this service.
I went to the mall last week for the first time in ages. About half of the directories were replaced with signs telling you to install the Westfield shopping app, for "TURN BY TURN DIRECTIONS" through the mall. Like, really? There are only 2 walkways through the mall...
About time too. Hopefully the UK and rest of Europe will follow suit.
> Those who opposed the motion were readily dismissed as being “jerks.”

That is true. I wrote a comment on HN back then, saying I thought it didn't belong in the spec and was promptly called a jerk and downvoted.
I see there are those who agree with the FAA's decision that the MCAS didn't represent a change worthy of mention, nor new materials, new factories... "nothing to see here folks." I think by now it's obvious that was a "puzzling" decision.
Transitive closure is the first thing nearly every introduction to datalog (or Prolog, for that matter) will show you. All you had to do was click the link and scroll down:

Edge("a", "b").
Edge("b", "c").

Path(x, y) :-
Edge(x, y).

Path(x, z) :-
Path(x, y),
Edge(y, z).

Symmetric closure, assuming I'm understanding correctly, is also trivial:

SymmetricEdge(Left, Right) :-
Edge(Left, Right).
SymmetricEdge(Left, Right) :-
Edge(Right, Left).
Not patio11 but if he would be so kind as to allow me to hazard a guess I’d say intellectual curiosity and tenacity. Don’t stop asking why and keep digging. You’ll want to mix in emotional intelligence so when you communicate with stakeholders, you do so in a way that they feel a desire to assist you in your endeavor, perhaps finding ways to align everyone’s incentives for success.

I could be entirely wrong though.
This is a great post. I already thought highly of Stripe, but knowing a little more about the way people work there makes me all the more impressed.
That is why I question any involuntary distributed file protocol.

What separates a simple file host from a complicit active member? I think at that point you're one in the same.

This matter isn't about an isolated machine; it's about a networked machine.

And to the rest of what you've said... I can't do anything but disagree with you.
Inside Garageband, the Little App Ruling the Sound of Modern Music
Remember the crap Tom Clancy took after 9/11, so folks do sometimes blame writers for the actions of others, so asking scifi writers isn't out of the realm of possibilities.
I appreciate the OP (of the reddit post) wants to keep his/her identity secret but I remain completely unsatisfied with the response to someone asking exactly what they need this analogue computer for

> My job is to make and maintain models of economic trends in my company’s industry. I find analogue computing to be the best way for me to easily and effectively model dynamic real world systems.

I don't have much of an understanding of analgoue computers so I can't grasp why this computer is better at solving this sort of problem over a digital one.
My husband sent this to me.

We had a small Jersey house cow,years ago, with only 1 ac to graze and 1/4 ac veg garden, that one cow produced more nutrient load than the land could absorb... composted before (there by reducing volume) spreading. Friends with a real dairy herd had 150 acres to use, and even they had a problem using it all.

This device is brilliant for the larger milk producers, and even a small New England
Herds kept inside for the winter. Even a few hours eating in the atanchion barn leaves a lot of waste. To be able to collect and redirect this urine is solving
Many problems on many levels. It makes a world of Common Sense to
Me.

As to the manure waste, many country’s burn dry dung, and the clever folks who designed ‘Cow Pots’, have redirected manure in a beneficial way.

In Africa they still ‘pave’ the floors with cow dung and seal it with blood. It wouldn’t be a Martha Stewart approved design here, but certainly dried dung (mostly odorless cellulose) could be added to wood chips and made into bricks for fuel.

I think the Cow Toilet is a practical device and hope it will be affordable to any dairy that wants to implement it.

As for feed lots like the escresent ones in Coilinga CA.& elsewhere, be they Bovine or Porcine, or poultry; understand that the rules on the books need to be Enforced, and the graft/lobbyist elements removed. They’d get cleaned up or shut down darn fast without the greedy business machinery supporting them in government hallways.

A restoration farmers point of view from seven decades looking at life
So start a not-for-profit side project then (assuming a side project is something you're interested in) ... if your employment at this current place ever ends, then you have something tangible to take with you and show off; and side projects have a way of being more valuable than purely what money they can bring in (experience, clout, connections, etc)
unfortunately this has been going on with all of google search results since people figured out their algos could be gamed.
No. Dont play games with userspace/kernelspace translation. This always ends in security flaws that allow complete take over of the machine.
So not only do you need a phone number, it must be a mobile phone ?
We've definitely noticed with our kids that they get grumpy and overwhelmed by too many presents. It's really difficult though, as you say, to push back on this. We've tried gently asking our family not to buy so much stuff. The result is A) they think we're oddballs B) they take offense and C) they ignore our request and continue to buy way too much junk.
If that's what you want, don't wait for the institution of a national policy. Talk to your local Board of Education.
You can purchase a house without a mortgage.
Closest that I've come is working with opamp circuits. Generally speaking: Doing almost anything in analog is more expensive than doing it digitally. These days, the only things you do in analog are things that are impossible to do digitally, like anti-aliasing filters. RF is another story, but even there the economics are changing with direct-sampling ADCs.

1% resistors are easy to find. 0.1% can be found at a high price. 0.01% can also be found, for roughly 1 USD/ea, and only on the E12 sequence. Capacitors are worse by a factor of 5 or so. Those tolerances turn into scale-factor error, common-mode rejection ratio, DC bias, and so on. Without breaking the bank, you can easily build a circuit to maybe 7 bits of accuracy, and for a small timer you can do maybe 12 bits or so. But in volume, its almost always better economically to use a lower-accuracy circuit and perform calibration at the factory or in the field.

Aside: I fact-checked myself on Digikey and was pleasantly surprised to find that you can get 0.01% resistors without "calling for quote." A few years ago the limit for small-timers was effectively only about 0.1%. Even still 1 USD/ea is a BOM budget-buster for all but the most narrow of uses.
How many Library of Congresses is that?
Sadly, today, PBS is an infomercial for ancillary products, so it makes perfect sense that they have been partnering with Amazon.

(You don't get rich by producing a show for PBS, but plenty of people have gotten rich(er) through the promotional power of parading their own products on national tv inside a pseudo 'non commercial' bubble.)
> However, better fuel efficiency resulting in cheaper flights leads to people flying more. That's bad.

This part sounds complicated. It might be good for the people but bad for the environment. On the other hand, it probably also displaces some long-distance driving, and we have to estimate how much that is. Even if the environmental impact of reduced driving doesn't cancel out the cost of added flights, it's probably worth putting a value on the safety benefit. (Even though the current thread is about plane crashes, flying is overall much safer than driving, and reducing driving by even a little saves lives.)
Thank you, bookmarking this for later
This is very true. I have a colleague who is changing careers and while his lack of knowledge frustrates me from time to time, he is willing to learn, but instead of reading git manuals and bash tutorials at work he had made a deal with management, that he will do overtime now so that he can go home earlier to learn that stuff. And it's all the most basic stuff without which the colleague really wouldn't be able to do their job. (I would honestly not have hired them for their current position but I can't judge).
Do restaurants who use OpenTable usually have an analog option? (Eg: call and ask for a table?)
I work in SF, I am working 55 hours per week for a startup but I am from a third world country and making good money to send back home, so I feel lucky.
How Rock 'N' Roll Can Explain the U.S. Economy (2013)
Mine on a non-funded research project. Must have done something wrong...
Doctors and lawyers are required to do more overtime. That us one reason.

Also, doctors and lawyers and teachers do spend some of their out of work time learning.
Not sure about their Paypal integration but worth noting that with ApplePay, they're likely still using stripe as the processor (ApplePay generates an authorized payment token which is then passed to Stripe for processing). So if there was a Stripe problem, ApplePay being busted too makes sense.
Sexual harassment continues in transport system despite women-only carriages
Ask HN: Have You Worked for Crossover?
What's your opinion? They have a 4-week paid bootcamp process that is a bit controversial.
The purpose of MCAS was precisely that it didn't change procedure. There was already an existing procedure for runaway trim control. In the case of the Lion Air crash at least, applying that existing procedure would have allowed the pilots to fly the plane normally, albeit without the benefit of automatic trim. For reasons we will never fully know, the pilots did not apply that existing non-MAX specific procedure.
> I presume these guns must have been illegally imported from somewhere.

Turns out the AR15 5 shot semi automatic used were sold in NZ. Perhaps no more.
Does it have USB C?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-pro-6/8zcnc665slq5...

1 x full-size USB 3.0

3.5 mm headphone jack

Mini DisplayPort

1 x Surface Connect port

Surface Type Cover port6

MicroSDXC card reader

Compatible with Surface Dial*

Doesn't seem to...
Or, sadly soon, the UK and the EU ?
If everything will work out, at one point this side project will become your main project

And than after some time, You will need a side project again

And this cycle can last forever.

That's the life of the entrepreneur

Always chasing about something new
Most children in non-english countries, especially in US influenced countries, have to learn English for up to 12 years in school.

I'm not sure, if there are any other benefits than being able to communicate in English. But in Germany we even force a 3rd language for at least 4 years to all students in the higher education school path. So there might be evidence for educational benefits?

The US might benefit from adding mandatory Spanish from a very young age with so many native speakers in the country and on the continent.
Scorpions are really scary looking, but they aren't as aggressive as you would assume based on the general fear of them.

When I find them in the house (Las Vegas), I just pick them up by the tail with chop sticks and put them outside.
> You’re just expected to get your work done

What does it mean exactly? there is always something new to do when you are done with what you had to do.