skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question: What do you do about those who make poor spending decisions and use credit card debt as a piggy bank? Wouldn't this simply provide them with more income that they then leverage into more debt?

Or is the argument that the social good created by BI would outweigh such cases?
I'm just getting a blank white page...
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We'll fix that soon and let you know.
I agree with gp, over here the evangelical churches are almost always more extreme in their doctrine so myself and my friends perceive them as fundamentalists. You often find other Christians present themselves by their sect to distance themselves from the evangelicals.
I read somewhere, a while ago that games like Clash of Clans are really just payment apps disguised as entertainment.

On a somewhat related note, I tried playing Clash of Clans for a month and once the time to complete a building took too unbearingly long, i just became disinterested in the game and opened it less often.

Feels like there some variation of the law of diminishing returns, or at least a system suggested by the post that weeds out the patient and stimulates instant gratification.

Glad I didn't get addicted :)
A $5 app isn't expensive: Customers need to help fix the App Store economy
"cash injections are still the most effective means to stimulate an economy, especially small, local economies."

The economist in me thinks the effectiveness of cash stimulus is still mostly inflated away if the economic problem is structural, especially when injections are unrelated to any productive improvements in small, local economies. To the extent this scheme works because the cash injections are occasional and unpredictable and landlords, local Big Men and monopoly local goods suppliers haven't yet found a way of creaming off most of the cash injection. I wish them all the best and hope the positive results their followup studies have shown reflect something other than weaknesses in study methodology, but unfortunately I think this is patching the symptoms and can't scale without adding in some more precisely-targeted larger-scale aid.
If our current payouts schedule isn't working for you, we'd be happy to help out. Feel free to ping me at amber@stripe.com.
Most of the offers I got were below market value, I only received one offer that was /kind/ of close to what people are paying good engineers in NYC but they did not want to continue since apparently they were looking for somebody to work 80 hour weeks.

No thanks.
How soon do you estimate having international bank transfers?
It may be limiting to call the API object "Recipient" then. It precludes a bidirectional ACH object. Maybe "Bank Account" or something would have been more future proof.
Make the nonce and the secret long enough, and you would have to break SHA512.
I don't understand why this warranted a blog post or posting here. There is nothing here to learn or interesting to digest. In addition, doing payouts to other companies has already been done by other billing providers.
If Google partnered with local retailers to provide check-out via wallet and delivery via automated cars, it would disrupt more than just Amazon.

That's still hugely inefficient, though. The optimal solution is what Amazon does for most things- a giant, central warehouse with stuff that you deliver.
> I doubt that. Define 'good name'.

A good name is pronoucable, spellable, memorable. Common English words can be good choices. Compare the number of common English words (thousands) with the number of Sourceforge, Github, Google Code, Codeplex, Bitbucket, etc. projects (millions).

> Ok, why not just name it jQuery then?

jQuery is a) perhaps the world's most popular project in the domain of Javascript libraries, and b) not a proper English word.

'Derby' is a relatively common English word and two Derby projects are in mildly different domains. I don't personally know of anyone using either project (unlike of course 'jQuery').
I'm not convinced I buy this argument. I mean, yes Romeo and Juliet were probably 13 or 14, but if we didn't accept that we can hold ourselves to higher moral standard than our predecessors we'd still be crucifying rebellious slaves on the road side.

Just from the _comedies_ we've inherited from the Renaissance, we can tell that young girls marrying old men was pretty common until pretty recently. We can also tell that they didn't much like it. Tbh, I think age of consent laws are as much about women's rights as public decency.

Arguably the age of consent laws in the U.S. are being perverted by the far right, but that's a whole different argument. The age of consent rules (both in theory and in terms of enforcement) in the U.K. are, I believe, on the whole moral and sensible.
Curious if this means that the Heap SDK will require for the shipped app to be symbolicated or not, given how their example is written.
Ask HN: Why should you ship fast?
Is it really that necessary.
Does it ever makes sense to develop something in its entirety (some level which kind of makes it feel like a complete product and not a in-haste release).

Thoughts? Did you ever do otherwise and were successful?
Same-day delivery is the next big battle in the eCommerce space, but the real challenge isn't on the delivery end. It's on the logistics and supply chain end. Amazon has been investing heavily in distribution centers, inventory management, and fulfillment. (And even Amazon has a largely expensive, small, and inefficient distribution network as compared to, say, Walmart's).

As seamless as the front-ends of eCommerce have become, it's easy to forget how much brute force is still required on the operations side of the business.

Automated cars can make deliveries pretty easily, but they can't move merchandise in quantity between locations. The latter is the bigger barrier to scaling the system.
I can see with my own habits that the snooze button is too soft on me, so this could help with some extra discipline :)

But in practice, can I just spin the phone around in the air whilst still lying in bed or is it detecting for a wider circumference of movement than that?
> It depends

No, claims about the "purpose of morality" are non-factual statements of personal preference in any context. It doesn't depend.

> In America, most people agree with my statement.

Aside from the fact that this is irrelevant, I see no evidence that this is true.

> But so what? There is no universally-accepted statement of anything, anywhere.

There's a categorical difference between logical claims (which are abstract and which are true or false independent of factual context), fact claims (which are, in principal at least, subject to objective validation as true or false), and value (including moral) claims (which are statements of personal preference).

The problem with your claim about the purpose of morality is that it presented a value claim as if it were a true statement of fact.
Prisoner's Dilemma (with visible source code) Tournament
Well that explains the hysterics at the end...
Being able to receive international bank transfers on Stripe would be amazing. Our bank charges us $15 per received wire.
I think that already exists–at least for driving and driving + texting [1]. I'm actually okay with it for those uses (I have a teen and 3 smaller kids).

I don't need to know where my teen is at all times but if I can reduce (a) her chances of dying and (b) my car insurance bill, sweet.

[1] http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/aaa-testing-device-tra...
Do you have any case studies showing what the actual overhead is? I love the idea but would worry about negatively impacting the customer experience.
Alternatively, keep calling it a donation and let people donate whatever they want, with $9 as the minimum. A good RSS reader is worth a lot more than $9 a year to some people.
I've been thinking a lot about basic income schemes lately, which do exactly that for everyone (not just the poor, though they'd benefit the most). You calculate how much it costs a person to pay their basic living expenses: food, a decent place to live, maybe a transit pass. Then you pay everyone in the population that amount of money each month, unconditionally (no means testing).

I once calculated that such a system, if applied in Canada, would require something like a 36% flat income tax if it were entirely funded that way, and it would have a break-even point at about $65k annual income (below that, you receive more than you put in). I expect the situation in the US to be similar.

Part of that cost could be offset by reducing or eliminating existing welfare and social security programs, including food stamps, employment insurance, and subsidized housing. It would also let you eliminate minimum wage, since you no longer have to be concerned about wages covering basic living expenses.

There are a lot of questions about how this would affect an economy. Would it cause massive inflation? Unemployment? Substance abuse? Or would it be the most effective social program ever? I have no idea. But I think it's worth a try. My hunch is that you will see all of those negative effects increase somewhat (inflation, unemployment, substance abuse) or in some people, but that the positive effects will greatly outweigh the negatives.

You needn't implement it all at once. You could apply it first to a random sample, say 1% of the population. Those people receive basic income and pay the tax required to fund it. They would also become ineligible for the social programs that would be removed if you rolled it out nationally (the details of that part may be tricky). Only roll it out to the whole population if the results are positive after a few years.
Out of curiosity how much do you pay your dog walker for a one hour walk?
Grand Central also has the 7 and S.
Yes you're over reacting a little. But why should a company be allowed to advertise an offer which they don't really want to pay out on. Do you have any organisation in the US of A like an advertising standards agency where you can complain. If the terms and conditions of the price match are so flexible in Expedia's favour then I don't think they should be allowed to use it in their online marketing

Ps. I never use Expedia after a family member of mine booked an hotel with them. After turning up at the hotel they said they had no record of the booking. My family member had to call Expedia and stay on hold for ages while they sorted it.
In many jurisdictions, if the car was stolen and used in a crime, you could be charged for negligence.
This might be nice for one off orders of brand name items but it doesn't look to really challenge Amazon or any e-retailer that manages its own inventory. There are at least two main issues I see:

1) Selection - It’s easy to sell the popular stuff. It’s hard to sell the tail of demand. Aggregating together big box retailers can never compete on selection. People want to order things together, from the same place. Selection is crucial.

2) Supply Chain - It’s hard enough to have an effective supply chain when all the inventory is under your control. It will be nearly impossible to deal with N retailers supply chain systems - inventory availability, location, cross-company orders, etc and be efficient enough to make a buck.

Unless Google is willing to physically get in the game and manage some warehouses I don’t see this being much of a threat although it might provide some nice competition for next and same day orders.
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start building!
Can I buy HN karma points like this? PG could clean out :)

I feel like I am addicted to increasing my karma points sometimes. I submit so many things and so few of them get up there on the main page. The one thing that made it to the main page got me addicted to trying, but sadly the ones subsequent to them haven't had the same effect.

And imagine - instead of flame wars, we could deploy little hacker-warrior-bots!
I ask for a couple reasons. First of all, if you are spending as much as you are talking about to get a good desktop, you are limiting yourself pretty significantly by only looking at machines with pre-installed ubuntu. If you can install packages from the command line and partition your laptop, you will have zero trouble installing ubuntu.

Second, if you are going to program in any serious manner, then being able to tear down and rebuild a linux install will be a good core skill.
I'd say improve your JS skills, if your aim is to work as a web developer then that's where things are going. Get your head around some JS framework like AngularJS or backbone. Alternatively, Ruby always comes in handy (have a look at Sinatra first before you jump onto Rails). Alternatively, Python is useful, too, though I guess it's not the primary choice when it comes to web development (have a look at Python flask). hope this helps.
The general public thinks that if you open a jar and the lid goes "pop" that means it hasn't been opened before.

Of course, elementary school science is enough to figure out that if you bought a jar of apple juice from the store, replaced some of the contents with hot goat urine and shook it up before fully closing the lid again, as the air inside cooled it would pull the clicker back down. And you could return it to the store.

But if I read an article about mysterious tampering with "unopened" products in local grocery stores, I hope the police (and particularly, food packaging or food security experts) wouldn't be so baffled about it when discussing it with reporters.
Why do you have such a simplistic binary view of the world (hint: the world isn't like that), and why the sock puppet account? (hint: you're a shill)
> Never trust nobody. Trust comes from the German trost, meaning comfort and consolation. “In business, there is no comfort zone,” Eckō said. “You will inadvertently create an ivory tower in your mind.”

I think the author is playing with words there. Also trust is important for business relationships and psychologists have shown that if you give trust you get it back.
Sure, but those fictional characters are practically synonyms for romantic love and played thousands of times each year, all over the world, often by teenagers.

And yet, if it happened as originally written, Romeo would be considered worse than any other kind of criminal and a target for lynch mobs, even here on HN.
The highly-paid, tech sector bubble rears its head again. None of these systems will ever be mainstream if it involves a 20% premium, let alone 50%.
Seconds I believe.

I have no source but I recall seeing a story where people were able to fake a BMW remote by plugging directly into the OBDII port on the cars and running a quick program on an attached arduino. As for remote access I'm sure its equally plausible to crack if you know the right steps to take.
This is an open forum and the comments about Balanced are entirely on topic.
That's a great idea and we'll add it soon. Really glad you like Yumcoin!
For those into old-school typography, I've come upon http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~cs704-1/PAPERS/mccarthy.pdf
Scroll down further. The author found the same laminated shoe rack on Amazon for $16.17, and notes that having a Shopping membership (equivalent to Amazon Prime membership) removes the shipping fee. That means that a price comparison of the same product was $16.17 vs $13.24.

Personally I think fretting over three dollars on a shoerack is a bit silly, since the shoes it's holding will each be at least an order of magnitude more expensive than the rack.

Also relevant: http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Sam_Vimes_Theory_...
That's only true for your own legal fees. If the deal falls apart, you don't have to pay the VC's legal fees.
php? use haskell and lisp or ruby. if possible throw in some cancerous nodejs as well. That's what the kool script kitties are doing nowadays
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I've been using Shopping Express for a while now, and can say that's definitely not true. Many of my deliveries have arrived while I'm at work.

When you place an order, there's a checkbox to indicate whether you want to require a signature, and a blank field for delivery instructions. It's up to you: if you don't request a signature, they'll happily leave your order wherever you ask them to.

(UPS/FedEx, on the other hand, will just leave a delivery note on my door. Depending on how risk-averse the sender and driver are feeling that day, I can sometimes leave a signature for the next delivery attempt.)
That's a great point. I'm not sure we'll ever know for sure, but that kind of heavy load has been known to bring down both of these sites in the past.
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Going back to school was the best money I ever invested.

The curriculum was what I made of it. Read it all and challenge yourself. When the book say "we leave <blah> as an exercise to the read", do the flipping exercise.

Whether other people attend class has little affect on you personally. Caveat: unless it's class that makes use of group work (e.g. software engineering).

A good portion of humanity's knowledge sits on your desk and at your fingertips. So augment the resource you're given with the ones that the previous generation of students created.

The professors might be tired of students not caring. _Go_to_office_hours_ and ask them questions. When you're doing those exercises from above and get stuck, go talk to the professor. They chose this line of work for a reason once a upon a time, they'll be glad to talk about something that interests them.

Everyone requires a paycheck, don't judge people for working for one.

What does it say about a professor that came to a foreign land and is qualified to teach computer science? To me it means they (often) had to overcome obstacles you and I didn't to do something cool. And remember, English sounds as weird to them as their language does to you.

Find someone to commute with, find a closer school, take any online classes they offer.
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I really agree that you have to like running, but sometimes that new pair of shoes or equipment can be what ignites you. For instance I have been using endomondo with gps tracking and a bluetooth heart rate monitor, and getting so much data on each run, and statistics over time really motivate to keep getting better. And for other people getting their fitbit to 10000 each day may be just the extra bit of motivation they need.
I'm not saying that Musk didn't build a hell of a car. He did. What I'm saying is that government shouldn't be using my tax dollars to give out loans to private companies on the off chance that they might be successful and be able to repay the loan. Plenty haven't been.
Pretty sure that almost all charities and welfare related groups see a spike in improvement of the lives of individuals on the onset of their service. The problem usually becomes dependence on the system. Could someone illustrate how this implementation solves the issue of dependence?
Thinking about getting one of these for my GF to make sure she gets enough daily exercise.
6cm is the wavelength at 5GHz and most sensing devices have issues with sub-wavelength objects. If you're paranoid you can hang a bunch of strips of aluminum foil that are 3cm long all around your house, which could confuse the sensor. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure))
No you can't, you need to keep 2 thumbs on the screen in the same position while you spin around. And you also need to keep the device flat. It's foolproof :)
Ruby? Ewwww .. might as well use VB
Way to misrepresent the process that is happening in Norway. The Scandinavian countries are having a large, sudden increase in economic inequality.

A school was closed in the area and a lot of families lost support. THAT is what is causing unrest amongst the predominately Muslim people in that area. The spark was the fact that police executed a man threatening his wife in a domestic dispute (police job is to calm and not escalate disputes, escalation is for military). If this consistent with Jihad I have same bridges to sell.

To be honest if you want a parallel this is closest to Britain's demonstration last year (IIRC) and similarly to do with growing economic inequality. Unless the Brittain blackies are on the Jihad train along with Zionist and aliens. And KKK.
Testing your Domain Name
If they want to "give directly" why not just hand people cash?
Any chance of open-sourcing it? Following the same model as newsblur.com
NYTimes takedown regarding my 7-min-workout open app, anyone feels like drawing?
I thought the reason for the activesync/exchange shutoff is that it had to be licensed. aka that google paid microsoft for being able to use it? If so maybe it isn't worth it due to a licensing increase or just not used by many people (for some value, google is crazy about numbers guiding decisions).
> I'm not convinced I buy this argument. I mean, yes Romeo and Juliet were probably 13 or 14

Romeo and Juliet were probably fictional characters of undefined age whose actual age -- as distinct from their status within their families and the broader society -- are completely irrelevant.

> but if we didn't accept that we can hold ourselves to higher moral standard than our predecessors we'd still be crucifying rebellious slaves on the road side.

I'm not sure expanding the duration during which people are deprived of rights because they haven't acheived a particular, globally applied, chronological milestone is a "higher moral standard".
The tint on your windows probably contributes -- they can't see inside, so they break in just in case there might be something worth stealing.
I don't know anything about planes but as others pointed out, this looks promising. Have you tried reaching out to some media outlets to pick up your story? It is interesting for sure especially considering the price perspective.
We need more mobile metrics innovation so I welcome this.

Coincidentally just today I released an open source library on iDevRecipes to do smarter metrics. My approach is to use base classes.

To achieve the no extra code part, is the SDK using swizzling‎?
And I'd suggest that you're full of it if you claim the iPhone looks nothing like the LG Prada.

You attempted to describe the iPhone in 4 points. 2 of those points exactly described the LG Prada, the other 2 were very similar (a 2x3 grid instead of a 4x4 grid, 2 large buttons instead of 1 large button).
"Multi-Dimensional Analog Literals" in C++ (2006)
From what I know of existing EEG technology, the news here is left-right signaling, rather than simple on/off.

Fascinating and cool as hell, but really limited for HCI applications.
"It turns out that investors are generally about as involved as they are invested."

I suspect that if an entrepreneur raised money from a few thousand people on kickstarter (or similar) and then asked them all to help with certain things, they'd get a lot of people willing to do stuff. Maybe only 1 in 100 per ask, but if you have a couple thousand people reading your emails then that's more than enough. I don't think there's anything wrong with party rounds, rather that with the way they're currently done it's just too small of a party with the wrong people invited. You need a lot of people who really like the product and want to see it succeed, rather than a small number of people who like bragging about the fact that they're investors but who don't really have that much money.
> On the other hand, you can't really blame Riot...

Of course not, they are free to employ whichever model they want. I think his reply was more directed at the statement: "I think League of Legends or maybe Team Fortress 2 are about as good as it gets..."

LoL is somewhere in the middle of the spectrum of "purely cosmetic" and "pay to win" while Dota 2 is on the "purely cosmetic" end. So in the category of Dota-like games, Dota 2 is perhaps as good at it gets, in terms of its free-to-play model.