skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I will say that the strategy of declaring a dividend in nontransferable magic beans to hose short sellers is, on its face, too easy. If this works, and if you can do it with the pure goal of messing with short sellers, then lots of companies would do it.

I think a fair number of CEOs would love to see this work.
OP: do this. If you love it, great, and if you're on the fence, you've got 90 days to decide.
What I dislike about functional programming is that when objects are not supported or they are avoided I have seen poorly documented and complex hashes/collections data structures that end up reinventing the oop wheel (and the problem the wheel was solving in the first place).

It feels like a false choice and you can have rich FP capabilities in a language that supports objects and relationships between objects.
Absolutely agreed. Especially since, in spite of my disagreement with the handling of things, the sheriff may have a point in the authorization angle.

My initial comment pointed more generally to an example of politics within a company though.
Congratulations to the Stripe team. Truly great product and company. The fact that WeWork truly thought that they were $12B more valuable than Stripe is insane to me.
Yes, that's definitely a goal of ours over time. We're starting with the existing Lightning community, but we plan to continue to reduce the technical requirements so that users don't need to know anything about Lightning to use Sparkswap.
A direct listing is definitely not the most likely option. Only two major tech companies have done direct listings and there are also a lot more reasons you would want to do an IPO instead of a direct listing

1) Neither SPOT or WORK has done great, especially WORK

2) IPO allows you to choose your investors. This gives you the opportunity to choose major institutional investors that are in for the long term which will help reduce stock volatility.

3) Even if you don't need money, raising billions can open up a lot of opportunities for the business and give you a warchest to derisk potential market downturns.
Matt Levine is the only reason I have a subscription to Bloomberg. He does great work.
Well deserved. Stripe is and has been best in class and best in industry for years.
Parked too far from pump -1. Didn't check air pressure in tires -1. Drove too quickly -1. Yawned too much, driving while tired -10 points. Did have correct national flag in rear window +1. That is all easily within current AI abilities.
Way to Learn
If most of the world's practical alternative to US corn is palm oil and other cheap slash and burn crops - abandoning corn won't be good for the environment.
Futuristic Patents by US Navy Researcher Salvatore Cezar Pais
What do you define as diverse? You wouldn't call a diet that consisted of 90% rice and beans, and 10% whatever else diverse. As opposed to a diet that consisted of 25% rice, 25% beans, 25% leafy greens, 25% meat.
In the office we have had to replace about 25% of all MBP butterfly keyboards. They wear down easily.
The trackpads though... nothing better out there.
Hi! I work at Stripe on the Dashboard.

You can delete all of your test data by clicking a button in Settings > Data (/account/data). We also recently launched a feature that lets you delete multiple customers at a time, and hope to expand that to more different types of objects soon!

Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming :)
> Support for asm goto, enabling for example the mainline Linux kernel
for x86_64 to build with Clang

This is an awesome step!
From their most recent update, it sounds like Pine64 is getting close to this:

https://www.pine64.org/2019/09/05/september-update-the-pinep...

It's definitely a device for tinkerers and open source enthusiasts, but the price and the number of different projects supporting it is pretty exciting.

Some more technical details on the project:

https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Project_Don't_be_evil
It's a carefully worded answer. No plans != doesn't want to. And also, I'd read "no plans" as "no plans that we're gonna tell you about right this minute".
I appreciate that you took the time to explain this.
It depends what you mean by "OOP". Generally most mainstreams programming languages are mixed: that is they support more than one paradigm (e.g. procedural, class based OOP, functional, etc).

Though I've noticed that programmers these days often equate OOP with classes. Therefore anything with classes is OOP whereas anything without isn't. This comes up a lot with languages, such as Rust, that are OOP but lack the class keyword.
Correction 3-4% in 2040!

In other words not even close to being a realistic alternative.
Previous discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21016724
> "Support for asm goto, enabling for example the mainline Linux kernel for x86_64 to build with Clang"

This is big. Support for asm goto was merged into the mainline earlier this year, but now it's released [1]. Aside from the obvious implications of this - being able to build the kernel with LLVM - working with eBPF/XDP just got way easier [2].

[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/784929d0454c4df6...

[2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg544057.html
>> "I work at Stripe on the Dashboard."

I thought I saw someone running around in there.
Wanted to hop in and say thank you for starting Stripe. At my first startup, we had to integrate with an old merchant processor for payments and it was a nightmare. With my current startup, we were able to setup Stripe in the first week of operations and take payments seamlessly without too much hassle. Freeing us up from thinking about how to take payments allows us to focus on our product and building out our company. I'd imagine this is a similar story for thousands of other startups too. Hats off to you, your brother, and all the Stripes.
> I hope he gets the mental help he needs to get better.

It does sound weird, but on what basis can you or I claim to be better informed about that situation than he is?
> working touch exposure control

what do you mean? A long press gives you immediate access to exposure on the iPhone. There are also dedicated photo apps (like Halide, mentioned in the article) that offer more advanced controls.
Agreed. By the per capita metric my pants have 2000 cameras per 1000 inhabitants.
If you close a Lightning channel (or use a service provider to translate a Lightning payment to an on-chain payment, a common way to "withdraw" from Lightning channels), you will incur a blockchain transaction fee, similar to using regular exchange. You'll have more control over that fee based on your time preference, and importantly, you won't need to incur that fee to make sure that the Bitcoin is actually in your possession.
So it will likely end up about neutral cost-wise (maybe slightly cheaper?) but you'll have more control over the whole lifecycle.
Isn't this, like, the opposite of the truth? Theater revenue is a small fraction of the total revenue from a film. From where did you draw the impression that it was otherwise?
All phones are mass spyware devices. Do you want someone who has control over your life, the ability to imprison you, or physically come to your house to know everything about you...

Or someone who is kept completely away from you by those sworn to protect you?

Google and Apple and etc are controlled by the American government. The one who can actually do something to you.

The CCP can't do anything to me. Try getting to me. The USA has power over me. The CCP has zero power in my life.

So yes, I would prefer my spyware to be sending my info to someone with zero capability to put it to use.
Reposting my comment from yet another HN post on these pretty mundane videos.

Gofast is just a weather balloon.

https://youtu.be/PLyEO0jNt6M

Gimbal is a jet. The perceived rotation is an artifact of the camera rotating on a gimbal.

https://youtu.be/4X1PRDbtiF0

Nimitz is also a jet. It’s far away, and blurry.

https://youtu.be/s1oTg0kxzDs

It would be really cool if these were alien spaceships. They’re likely not.
I'm leaning towards improving on what we have rather than forking, not only it would be faster but we would not have to rewrite all the apps and everything which realistically would not work and would not be an efficient use of the resources.

For instance, to get specific, if one wanted to fix Facebook by making it user centric, one would only have to do these:

- Remove all the algos related to metrification and sorting.
- Newsfeed sorted exclusively by time, descending, so the newest postings would be on top.
- Newsfeed contains exclusively postings from your contacts, nothing more nothing less.
- Remove ads from newsfeed, keep them on the sidebar. Newsfeed should contain strictly posts from one's contacts.
- Remove all the tracking and bloat code.
- Remove all the clutter design wise.
- All privacy options ON by default upon account creation.
- Redesign the groups in a blend of HN fashion that encourages better content.
- Comments only by contacts and visible only to contacts
- Optional $10/year for people who want to remove the sidebar ads.
- By making these adjustments the postings for likes would go away and people would be encouraged to post only if they have something worth posting.

This would keep it a billion dollar business (hello shareholders) and the keyword here is business, it will actually make a proper, sustainable business out it, connecting people has been a long and profitable business, one only needs to look at history. All the above does not require any special technology while the benefits would be tremendous, both technological (as per leanternet principles) and psychological. One's deep in the rabbit hole, so it would not be an overnight effect.

Then you might have something worth using that is not addictive, it would serve it's primary function of connecting people and would make people more happy, I would sign up to the above, who doesn't like to connect with their people. The reality is that most people would simply not go through the lengths of setting up their own website and all that, even if it's seemingly easy, not all people care about the technicalities, and that's fine, which is where Facebook is in a unique position to actually get things straight in their space.

These kind of adjustments can be done across the board with great results while we get to solve the issue of fair monetization based in sound business practices. We can find balance, we only have to want to!
> However Pixel comes with unlimited (!!) photo and 4k video storage [2].

Yup, this is why we switched to Pixel, back when the first version came out, and we haven't looked back.
And if they start putting dampers on the doors. There are two ways I can tell UPS is delivering:

* The extremely loud engine and exhaust. (They are loud and unpleasant to listen to - it ain't no Ferrari)

* The slamming of the doors open and closed.

If I hear a loud agricultural sounding engine and then a loud slamming sliding type door... I know it's UPS - 100%. I don't even need to look outside.
Birds Are Vanishing from North America
Do we make solar PV companies to pay into funds for people who get sick from heavy metal poisoning (which does happen and is expected to continue happening, it turns out solar is cheaper if you ship the waste to a third world country)? Do hydroelectric dams pay for water loss from evaporation?

I don't disagree that the externalities are worse for fossil fuels than other energy sources, and that's a good reason to decarbonize our energy supply. But externalities are exactly that: impacts external to the cost of power generation. When someone says "we subsidized X industry by $Y" to me it means that $Y worth of goods and services was given to that industry. In reality, the fossil fuel industry received nowhere near that amount of money. This "subsidy" is really a speculative cost of externalities. Especially when the projected cost of externalities vary widely, equating externalities with subsidies comes off as intellectually dishonest. If externalities account for effectively the entirety of this so called subsidy, you're better off calling it an externality rather than trying to redefine a term.
It's just a town, like Roswell, but instead of EBEs and UFOs it has g-men and drones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantico,_Virginia

"There are no significant highways passing through Quantico. All road vehicles must pass through MCB Quantico in order to reach the town. Therefore, all vehicle drivers must present a valid driver’s license to the military security officer stationed at the gate, and may be required to state their destination and reason for visiting. More thorough searches and checks may also be undertaken, according to the discretion and authority of base security.[10]

Amtrak and Virginia Railway Express trains stop at the Quantico station."
The brain may actively forget during dream sleep
By and large, American grocers don’t sell food like that, so we don’t really have the choice.

In the U.S. no one is going to force you to buy anything, but no one will save you when your market disappears.

It’s a kind of freedom, but it’s not “more choice”. It’s often less choice.
I disagree - if anything this highlights exactly how inconvenient streaming has gotten:

- Maintaining 7-8 active subscriptions

- Finding the right service that's streaming a particular show

- Hope they haven't implemented some sort of time limitation so you can never watch episode 1 of a show again

- Paying more than cable for that privilege
I still don't get the point of immutability. Sure state change is a problem. How about a log like data structure that stores all modifications of the data?

I'm sticking to procedural coding for the next 10 years and I will try my best to unwash young coders from poop.
@H8crilA how dare you suggest that a traditional finance person (and a successful one at that) have anything useful to say on history or finance.

Didn’t u hear that stripe just raised at $35bn?

Has Ray ever raised at that valuation, no?

Downvote!
You can write mutation-style java tersely too...

void alignCenter(String[] text) {
int maxLength = 0;
for (String line : text) maxLength = Math.max(maxLength, line.length());
for (int i = 0; i < text.length; ++i) {
text[i] = " ".repeat((maxLength - text[i].length()) / 2) + text[i];
}
}

No lambdas to be found.
I've gone through a couple X1 Carbons. The first one (2012) had a fan failure, but I got a replacement cooler on ebay for $20 and it was easy enough to replace. Eventually it died when a drink spilled on it.

The second one (2014) had awful soft-touch function keys. They were so bad that the softkey to change the F-number to brightness/volume sometimes didn't work, so I'd get stuck in one mode or the other. Eventually, the down-arrow and Delete keys stopped working. It also had the mouse buttons integrated into the trackpad, which was terrible.

I love the form factor otherwise. Thankfully they've moved away from the softkeys and integrated mouse buttons, so I'm comfortable recommending it again.
What do you mean? They look like they're on a fast path to disrupt like all of banking! The banking industry has to be bigger than the bed and breakfast advertising industry.
I think you are overlooking that the US has optimized policy for this excess consumption in areas like capital formation, agriculture, labor, healthcare, etc. If there was different policy the economy would reallocate capital to other purposes.
Like: a scenario that comes up all the time in ordinary web application testing: your authorized target interacts with a third-party API, for which you are not authorized to test. Pentesters generally get this right, because if you get it wrong, no matter what your client tells you, you're liable. (Indemnification may come into play here, but it won't matter criminally).
Dell XPS laptops can come factory-installed with Ubuntu, with official support.
NASA Does Not Detect “Largest Asteroid to Pass This Close to Earth in a Century”
People always need to put a single face on everything, a name to hate.

In public perception, wars are never the result of socioeconomic balances tipping. It is always a personal battle. Churchill, Hitler and Stalin. Bush and Bin Laden. We do not need to acknowledge the rotten core of the medical industry in the US, just arrest the bad guy - Shrikeli. Musk is Tesla. Gates is Microsoft.

And it could not possibly be our societal values causing climate change. It must be these guys I can count on one hand with their pompous jets flying everywhere, we think as we sit in our SUVs pondering whether Amazon will keep their promise to deliver the new single IOT lamp socket today...
'We see with the brain': creating a comic book for blind people
Or just use Scala
>Support for asm goto, enabling for example the mainline Linux kernel for x86_64 to build with Clang

This is great for Linux, no longer being dependent on a single compiler for one of the most popular ISAs can only be a good thing for the overall health of the project. To be clear, I have nothing against gcc.
I doubt a manufacturer like Huawei is willing to lock themselves into F-Droid's level of FLOSS requirements.
The horse with dwarfism and hightops is making me uncomfortable. But the gopher will haunt my dreams.
Show HN: I made a Pitchfork's album reviews list, with scores. Updated daily
"so rather than relying on semantics, make the argument you're really trying to make, which, by context, seems to be that you don't think externalized costs should be used in the comparison."

No, externalized costs are important to take into account when making policy decision. Obviously we should be worried about the costs of climate change.

The point I really want to make is that this is the wrong context in which to include externalities in the definition of subsidy because we are already implicitly using a definition of subsidy provided by the OP which excludes externalities.
There are morons everywhere, but humans are generally correct in the aggregate. See examples here: https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/the-wisdom-of-cro...

Just slap a captcha on there or something or avoid bots
It's already easier with a plugin hybrid. You can drive electric for a huge amount of the typical 20 mile daily commute, and rarely having to visit the gas station, with most of your miles being powered by the grid.

If you're interested in that route, there are a ton of used Chevy Volts on the market now for $15-20k. And PHEVs are great for people in areas without good public charging infra, or who can't afford the current crop of high-range EVs (the latter being my case).

If instead you live on i.e. the West Coast, and can afford a high range pure-EV, you can go almost everywhere on electricity alone.
No doubt! I crashed violently, twice, at highway speeds, in tiny 80s economy cars. Im fine. They must be safe! /s
Show HN: Socket.io Hooks for React
If solar costs less than a third what nuclear does (which is where we're headed, we're already down to half), why do you need nuclear base load? Why not just do this gas conversion?

Nuclear is basically dead right now because of cost. The biggest factor in nuclear cost is financing and interest rates, which are very risk-sensitive. When existing nuclear plants are shutting down right now, because they're losing major customers to cheaper wind power, what happens to the risk on 50 year investment scales? Risk goes up, interest goes up, and plant cost skyrockets. So the very fact that nuclear costs more than renewables makes nuclear even more expensive than before.
Woman shows up at hospital with blue blood
Great idea. We are experimenting with a similar page after sign-up. We'll send you an email with more on this if you're willing to give some feedback!
Germany's parcel service DHL builds up a fleet of small electric delivery vans since 2014

In Chicago, FedEx has had electric delivery vans since at least 2005.

I saw a UPS truck in Nevada last month that I thought was a regular UPS truck until it sped away almost silently. I guess UPS has been converting its fleet, but I don't know for how long..
Scaling Teachable – Our Journey to $2M a Month
To me this looks like perl golfing, but for some reason perl golfing is bad but writing extremely terse functional programs is not.

Personally I like to combine both approaches. In swift I would write something like this:

let l = ["abc", "ab", "abcdef", "abcdefgh"]
width = l.reduce(0, { max($0, $1.count) })
let centered = l.map({
(line: String) -> String in
var padding = (width - line.count) / 2
return String(repeating:" ", count: padding) + line
})
The hard drive from my MBP, which is soldered to the motherboard, just died. Will probably be ridiculously expensive to fix.. thinking of getting a razer blade, but i've heard they have quality issues too =\
Besides the benefits to American agriculture and rural industry - cheap corn offers the world an environmentally better option compared to the alternatives of palm oil and other slash and burn crops.
one of the few that actually deserves it. thank you.
I imagine if food production was not subsidized, much of it would naturally move to other countries with cheaper labour forces.

The USA doesn't want to be dependent on other countries for basic goods like food; imagine if there was an "OPEC" of food in 1973 and they decided to cut off the food supply to protest US support of Israel.
No! OK, perhaps if you have some kind of disability that prevents you from standing, but otherwise you can walk.
> which has absolutely nothing to do with going IPO

Sure it does. You can't do an IPO in a day. A company starting the process now risks having the recession start before the IPO goes live.
I prefer functional programming because referentially transparent functions are easier to reason about and test. Brevity of control flow hasn't brought me much benefit.
We have guards in place to protect against fraud by verifying your identity in a few different ways, but this is something we'll monitor and make improvements to over time. It's critical to the survival of the business that we have strong fraud detection methods.

However, we also think that the experience of instant transfers is valuable, so on a risk-based approach we allow instant transfers using ACH for certain customers and certain transaction sizes.
>Nuclear power plants need to run close to max capacity all the time to make financial sense at all.

That's right. And we know that they work and they can scale with our needs. We know we can make them cleaner and more efficient.

Maybe wind and solar just isn't the technology of the future for anything by niche applications.
I understand people can "get by" without any higher level CS knowledge in a results-oriented programming world, especially in the era of framework mix and match monkeycoding, but there are fundamental things that the theory of computation, operating systems, and complexity theory gave me.

Aside from single-row pulls (and even still), should someone that doesn't understand basic big-O be allowed to write any code that accesses a database?
But the example you posted has more to do with whether a language or author has the aesthetics of preferring succinctness and symbols (Perl-like) to words (Ruby-like).
Email sent!

I'm pretty nostalgic, so I do miss the old Charges API sometimes. But Charges assumed payments were binary—and we all know they're most definitley not. This also doesn't help with the new SCA regulations that started rolling out last Saturday (https://stripe.com/sca).

We've built Payment Intents to be future-proof. It tracks your customer's checkout flow, actually provides logic for retrying payments (subscriptions!), and also triggers authentication when necessary—so you'll meet SCA requirements.

Many have told us this has been pretty easy (and improved conversion too), so I'm really sorry that you got unhelpful advice earlier. (Would be great if you could forward that to me: edwin@stripe.com.)
It's the WordPress foundation. It's on Wikipedia.
The dose makes the poison, caffeine is a pesticide.