skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prior to the widespread adoption of the internet (thinking late 90s) this idea that people's personalities could easily be grouped into distinctive categories was not a widespread idea yet. Buzzfeed "which star wars character are you" quizzes probably grew out of this, but that's tangential. Knowing the category exists is not nearly as beneficial as understanding what makes that category separate and how to interact with those types of people.

Most of the value of loosely grouping people together into groups is understanding how to interact with those people, namely how to approach them about an idea, or how to handle their reaction to negative news, or, why they reacted to something differently than you expected.

In school we studied "True Colors" which breaks personality types down into four primary types, or colors, with strong or weak secondary types. Most people on this forum would be classified as "Green". Then it breaks down how and why those four groups respond to things. This has been hugely helpful in my professional as well as personal life.

Another example of this sort of personality categorization is "The five love languages" by Gary Chapman which breaks down how people share and receive intimacy, which breaks down common things like why some women don't care about getting flowers but for others it's crucially important, and more importantly, why.
It wouldnt be as big a deal, had facebook started as your "public" identity, like linkedin. But instead everybody who signed up 10 years ago was using it as their "private identity with a couple friends."
Those who don't learn about ddclient are doomed to re-implement it.
What? The context shows that what Franklin meant is completely the opposite of what people claim.

He wasn't warning against the dangers of giving up one's rights to the creeping authoritarianism of the state, he was complaining that people were giving up the "essential Liberty" provided by an effective Federal government for the "temporary safety" purchased by refusing to fund it.

Or to quote from the NPR article, "(...) far from being a pro-privacy quotation, if anything, it's a pro-taxation and pro-defense spending quotation."
How Money Became the Measure of Everything (2017)
Ideally memory handling and I/O should be overridable (and often is by creating some kind of "context"), but when it isn't then, yeah it should be obvious from the naming.

If it isn't - and especially if you're dealing with a closed source library - you have to assume the worst and even then you're often unpleasantly suprised :/
To rephrase: as a business, not as a consumer. If differential privacy leads to products consumers prefer over those with no tracking, a business with no tracking would be nonviable, or less viable than one that does some privacy concious, let's call it, tracking.
Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype
> * We bid on a basket of groceries by choosing a store to shop at though*

I'm not sure I agree with this. Most grocery stores stock the same food, so it's not as if going to Lucky instead of Safeway shapes what you can/will get. You're right that if you go for particular sale items, you're more likely to get those. But does that have a basket-level impact? I'm not sure it does. Also, consider that when you go to a grocery store, you probably purchase about .05% of the items they sell. It's not like we go to Safeway and buy most of the things they sell there.
Same email for me..? Are we all on HN or was this sent to more than 13 people?
Stripe offered my 1 man shop a cash advance.

$12,500 $1,250 Fixed fee then 10% of sales withheld.

$18,500. $1,850 Fixed Fee. 14% of sales withheld.

$25,000.00 $2,500 fixed fee. 20% of sales withheld.

terms:
No lengthy application: You’re pre-qualified for your advance—no time-consuming application process required.
No hidden fees: We charge one fixed fee for the advance—there are no interest charges or late fees.
Pay when you get paid: Stripe withholds a set percentage of your daily sales until the total amount owed is paid down, so your daily payment adjusts to your performance.
Bretton Woods ended in 1971.

Edit: More info: https://www.imf.org/external/about/histend.htm
I want a robot, owned by my apartment complex, that I can schedule to pick up my trash.

Getting it to come up the stairs shouldn't bee too hard, right?
Is there some relationship between Mach's poor performance and the ability of macOS to remain functional in low-memory situations? Linux has been called out recently for becoming unusable when free memory is low. Using both, I can say that the Mac is hands-down a better OS for desktop use where having the system not freeze is way more important than a 70% slowdown in file transfer rate.

Why is the Mac so much better under low memory conditions than Linux? Is it the kernel, and if so, is there an inherent trade-off between low memory performance and other kinds of performance?

If there is a trade-off, would reworking the Linux kernel to function better under low memory conditions also create a way forward for a non-dbus, non-systemd, yet modern Linux?
The modern person in a developed country seems to me more human than ever.

Think about the pin makers at the beginning of John Adams' "The Wealth of Nations." Atomation of meanieal tasks like these means the pin makers are replaced by educated generalists (at least to some extent) who operate and maintain machines.
They pay salaries based on the location of the employees, which kinda sucks.
This is cool, but does it scale? What happens if 10,000 people start using it daily?
The N64 lost its console generation and solidified Sony as the market leader, in part because it used cartridges while everyone else used CD-ROMs. Way to choose an example that disproves the very point you were trying to make.

As for load times today, most modern games are implemented as scripts and assets for one of the big engines, usually Unreal or Unity. It's hard enough to manage all the assets that go into a modern game; an optimized loader would just make wrangling them all even more difficult.
Innovative? Do a quick google search for POS Lending ;).
This is a standard offering for most financial institutions that do merchant acquiring. But I'm sure Stripe will greatly improve the experience.
There is no interest, you just have to pay back the fixed fee.
Oh, that might be possible. I mostly remember the photos and not the details of the profile, which by design is pretty thin as it is.
Same with Lithuania. You can pick them up from supermarkets and news stands for a few euro.
Anecdote: I tried a buckwheat pillow and couldn't even make it through one night due to how much noise they make. Every time you roll over or even move your head a little bit it sounds like you're rustling through a pile of dry leaves.
I fear this is going to be OpenMoko all over again.
But LTE and WiFi work just fine on my devkit?
>>But what about just plain old contextual, relevant ads, e.g. ads for car parts on a hot rod site?

Those existed before Google/Facebook/et al were a thing. You don’t need “adtech” for them.

Adtech by and large refers to the insanely complex tech infrastructure behind tracking people across the Internet and using a variety of tricks and dark-semi-dark patterns to try to get them to click ads, at the definite but not immediately obvious expense of privacy.
Would Facebook Dating be competitor to Tinder?
I really miss the shutters they have in Italy:

https://blog.therealitaly.com/2007/08/09/window-technology/
Would you rather have something worthless at no cost, or buy something worthless because you couldn't estimate the cost and then lose all your money?
Stripe is really coming after Square. Square Capital is an extremely similar product (prequalifies you & autopays based on your payment volume).

Square has a platform / payments SDK but if you look at the Github repo it's a disorganized mess versus Stripe's with virtually no "stars".[1] There's also Stripe Terminal which is a platform-y approach to Square's register/terminal. I wonder how much longer until they go after Square's cash app.

[1] https://github.com/square https://github.com/stripe
My name got a hit on a watch list when I flew into Australia one time, several years ago.

I was taken into a side room by 2 plain-clothes policemen, who politely asked my several questions about why I came to Australia. At the end of it all, they apologised and explained that my name matched one on a watch list, but my age, hair colour, build etc didn't match - "but it's procedure". They also said it would happen every time I went to Australia (I never did go back tho).

It seemed incredible to me that they would use only a matching name as their reason to be suspicious of someone!

As I said though, they were very polite about it, and I never felt like I was under any kind of threat or danger, and they didn't invade my privacy (they didn't look at my devices, and didn't even search my bags). A stark contrast to my experiences at US border control, I must say...
You vote for the legislators who hire the bureaucrats who define the algorithm that the engineers implement. Which is not much different from how it works now except there's a more manual process involving human judgement at various levels. You don't vote for the auditor working in the IRS.
Pretty much every level of government is subject to a FOIA equivalent, and in fact, they're generally probably more responsive, because "national security" isn't an excuse they can hide behind.

Meanwhile, I'd like to request Google's search algorithm, and any emails revolving Google's discussion of searches for "mapquest". Any takers?

Which is to say, suggesting FOIA isn't all-inclusive is a pretty bad logical fallacy, when Google is subject to no public accountability whatsoever.
A Philosopher Reviews Judea Pearl's “The Book of Why”
Tearing Down a $1000 E-Ink Display
Request Demo – K12 Learning Analytics Solutions – Renaissance
Apple Is 'Watching Cryptocurrency', Wants to Do More with Tipping and Mobile IDs
Unfortunately, Finnbin is not the current supplier for Scotland's baby box program.
I alternate between this and a shredded memory foam pillow. The Blu is thinner than I would have expected to be comfortable, but at least on my mattress, it keeps my spine almost perfectly straight while on my side, and I generally don't wake up with shoulder pain.

https://www.amazon.com/Blu-Sleep-Products-Memory-Pillow/dp/B...
> (And he notes that almost half of Russel 2000 stocks trade at less than $1 million during the day.)

He notes that 456 (a little under a quarter) of the Russell 2000 trade less than $1MM/day: "“In the Russell 2000 Index, for instance, the vast majority of stocks are lower volume, lower value-traded stocks. Today I counted 1,049 stocks that traded less than $5 million in value during the day. That is over half, and almost half of those -- 456 stocks -- traded less than $1 million during the day."

S&P index funds have an annual turnover of around 2-4% of AUM typically, so the transaction need to track closely is perhaps not as high as one might think.
So am I understanding this correctly?

It is a fixed 10% fee, irrespective of the payment schedule. And then the payment schedule is simply taken as ~12%(increasing as the amount loaned increases) of transactions processed through Stripe until 110% of the loaned amount has been deducted?
so they know your business better than anyone else, making it painless to approve /deny. They also can keep your loan payment directly (on the source, don't send that part to you) Pretty smart.
TL;DR: extracting DNA from the lake to improve knowledge of what plants and animals live there, many species weren't found (sharks, catfishes, sturgeon or plesiosaur) were found. But eels were, so it could be some giant eel.
"What’s 75%, of half a percent, of a million dollars? $37,500"

It's a risk, and as such, one should aim at a billion, not a million, that's what investors expect anyway. So by that logic, the return could be much much bigger.
I'm tempted to get the earliest batch I can, and then purchase a second phone for v2.

I'm a little disapointed the process hasn't been as smooth as I would have hoped, however I feel that is completely offset by the new type of product we're getting.
Considering how concise the constitution’s language is, the second amendment’s wording is clearly representing something.

What that is and why it’s there is debatable. But, plenty of evidence exists that many states did not want this to be unlimited, the language was not direct, and the implementation gave states the option to limit things. That is plenty of room for debate, and in fact this topic has seen plenty of them over time.
It is directly related to the index funds. They are now marketed as the "correct" way of invest into the market where they in fact invest into a very small number of companies creating an artificial wave of the buy orders.

Actively managed funds have choices in what they invest, and how much they put into any of the companies. Index funds do not.

https://www.etf.com/SPY#overview

for an example.
OP here. Sorry if there was confusion. I came across your repo and was giddy with excitement to see it and wanted to immediately tell the world! :-) This book was a big deal for me in the late 1990s, still working as a game programmer. My copies were lost or loaned and I think I heard angels sing (or tracker/chip tunes?) when I discovered your repo. ;-)

I suffixed the headline "2019 V1.1 Release", trying for some clarity, since that was the most recent event I saw in the repo. Then it was re-headlined by someone else because that was also, apparently, confusing. Sorry! But THANK YOU for your work!
After using a handfull of dynamic DNS services my gut feeling is that you should really be running your own DNS server on a static IP and using that for dynamic DNS. It's pretty much the only way you can be sure something isn't just going to disapear over night. I guess that's more or less what's going on here but why bother letting someone else controll it?
This doesn't answer the question. That is exactly what Square Capital does (perhaps PayPal too).
Jumper cables and spare gas cans have been a thing for quite some time; and Li-Ion battery boosters which can start a car multiple times are small enough to carry in a pocket. Everyone driving in the wilderness should have these things in the trunk in addition to a spare tire and some water. The majority of problems which strand people are flat tires / dead batteries / overheating / no gas; which are all trivial to fix on one's own with preparedness appropriate to the environment.

Furthermore, mechanics are readily available in rural areas; and when horse transportation was common, farriers and vets were also common. These people drive out to your location and fix stuff, although you might need to walk to them without a phone. And any rural mechanic can hack a fix to the mechanical components of an internal combustion engine well enough to get it home.

So, if you accept Zipcar's terms of service ("don't remove our interlock / hack the ECU"), this is fundamentally different because it's a failure mode which only Zipcar can fix.
The era of 'supersize me' fast food marketing is long gone. Most fast food restaurants are not targeting that specific of a market anymore, they're aiming at a much large cross-section of the population. A better example would be an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Honestly, 4.7" is probably "small enough" for more people. I had a Nexus 6 and switched to a Moto X when that died, and at 5.2", it's much better. I would prefer another inch or so smaller, but honestly a 4.7" might just be good enough to be comfortable.

That being said, I miss the days when small phones were all the rage (e.g. like in Zoolander). My phone needs to be just big enough to use GPS and basic web browsing (i.e. look up a menu for takeout), and that's about it. I don't need to watch videos or play games (in fact, not being able to is a productivity feature), I just need a simple phone. It seems the "do all the things" market is well served, but the "do only important things" isn't. I just want something in between "smart phone" and "dumb phone" that can fit nicely in my pocket and hand.
Apple places $7B in return to bond market
> I'm an anarchist. The license plate on my Jeep is literally "ANARCHY." I'm actually not sure I could name a political position that's more strongly opposed by more people.

You're not an anarchist and you should stop try to adopt an identity with a vivid anti-capitalist history to represent your desire for corporate feudalism with guns. Anarchists are socialists and anything otherwise is misusing the word.

You aren't harassed for your beliefs because people with your economic beliefs literally hold every branch of government.

I'm sure you'll come back with something about republicans wanting big government to police morality, but those differences mean almost nothing when your economic incentives are aligned.
>it's true for iMessage as well

Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that, according to the security white paper released by Apple, that the key is generated on-device in the Secure Enclave and that Apple never has access to it. The Enclave itself also doesn't have network access so there's no way for that to be transmitted anywhere by any other means except for physical access, which is also limited in the hardware.
But wouldn't this reach some sort of equilibrium point?

IE if a smart person with a lot of money think there is no "smart money" left, wouldn't (s)he just start their own smart money hedge fund to provide / do this?

If nobody is left to do thing X AND thing X is basically guaranteed profit, isn't it natural for people to step in and do thing X?
Controllers for E Ink e-paper displays
Exactly this. Anyone who was gaming and "websurfing" back in the 90s will recognize that load times today are no better than back then, and are often times much worse.

And that view isn't a psychological rewrite of the past. I regularly game on systems from both the 90s and modern day, and the load times for modern games are usually much worse than the CD games of old. The funny thing is that people would complain like crazy about CD load times back then, even citing it as a reason why CDs could never become mainstream.

And yet, here we are present day with obscenely shitty load times for most software.

I think the one area that has improved dramatically has been video streaming though. Real Player and the like were terrible even for their time.
countDownFrom(--n)

There's no reason to reassign the decremented n within the function. Prefer:

countDownFrom(n - 1)
Which browser are they using?
How "absolute beginner" are we talking here? At what point have we distilled a concept to its bare minimum and failure to understand simply requires the person to spend more time with the concept?

If recursion is difficult to grasp, I'm afraid it's not going to get any easier from there.
>Google voice + Hangouts has all the features and more

Most of the features and a boat-load of data and privacy concerns to go along with it.
The government doesn't "police themselves", the system of checks and balances ensures one branch polices another. For instance: The courts have routinely shut down law enforcement agencies' attempts to misuse camera recordings.

This was a recent story I read: https://cdt.org/blog/digital-is-different-pole-camera-ruling...

Meanwhile, Google hid Dragonfly from the internal team that was supposed to review it's projects for ethics issues. And it was pressure from journalists, and then the US Congress that inevitably forced Google to shut it down.

Thankfully, despite NetPAC, it looks like enforcement for Google is finally coming. The hand of justice moves slow, unfortunately, but it eventually gets there.
At some point, someone (or a collective) needs to make a decision about how capital is allocated among different firms.

Traditional money managers may not be the right way to do that, but we should be clear that decisions are still being made somehow.

I guess it's not the investors plowing money into the first index fund they find. And it's not the index fund, because they don't do a lot of management.

So I guess it's a handful of hedge funds that set prices?
There was the little problem of how sub-prime debt got whitewashed and turned into Aaa rated paper by the ratings agencies. All those sub-prime tranches, had they been correctly rated, would not have had such a magnifying effect. It was because of packaged bonds containing multiple tranches that couldn't be priced at anything but $0. Also, the interest bearing portions of loans were split into different bonds, further complicating matters.

There wasn't (and still isn't) a mark-to-market in bonds. Many bonds aren't priced until bought/sold, e.g. illiquid.
There are other dating apps outside of Tinder and Bumble. I am married, so I don't use them personally, but my friends use/used Tinder/Bumble for more casual dating/hook ups. When they were looking for something a little more serious they would use something like OK Cupid to provide matches based on similar interests.

Either way, I don't see how online dating will ever not suck. I have no clue how it is in gay communities, but I do not see straight people's problems ever being different: i.e. Women having to deal with the ocean of terrible men, and Men having the problem of trying to stand out in that ocean (and in some of my male friends cases, not being so picky).
Red Bull have an extraordinarily large and diverse portfolio of sponsored projects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull#Advertising
This idea is explored in an episode of the excellent PBS Space Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ5KV3rzuag

In short, Venus has many advantages over Mars.
Shopify, Amazon, Paypal, Alibaba all have similar concepts.
There's another common C API pattern that I was surprised to not see mentioned. You pass a buffer pointer and the size of the buffer, and the function returns the number of items written to the buffer. If the pointer is null or the size is zero, the return value is the size that you need to allocate to ensure proper function completion.
My understanding is that 926A only applies when you're physically in a vehicle, so even if he picked his luggage up from baggage claim and immediately walked over to check it in he would still be in violation. If he had been able to get a bus to Pennsylvania, he would've been breaking the law while he carried his bag to the bus since New Jersey still considers it "readily accessible" in a locked container.
I know next to nothing about investing, but I thought the article said that passive instruments are a very small portion of the market...and also that in house indexing has always been a thing.
I don't totally get this.. isn't it in the nature of reading via read(2) that it is possible it reads some data and then errors? If this is indeed reflected in the io.Reader.Read interface, then - regardless of who is allocating the buffer - the caller must evaluate both the result and the error.

It would indeed be possible in that scenario to return the buffer, and to return the error in a subsequent call, but this seems to change its behaviour into one that (to me) is surprisingly different.

The same is true for writing; write(2) can write some, but not all of the passed in data, and then err. What kind of API would one want tosee here?
No, I mean "dirty data" as in all your data is collected and there's very little transparency regarding what those apps/companies are doing with your data. I haven't exhaustively tested all these apps but I have tested a few and know that Apple doesn't send any information or data from iMessage to their servers that isn't encrypted on-device. Unlike these other apps, Apple couldn't leak your data or usage from these apps because it's never collected in the first place.
I sense that the modern CS education seems lost a lot of its root in computing fundamentals...

This type of findings are pretty much the daily routines of engineers a decade or longer ago...