skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I have no fewer than 4 checking accounts. I have a debit card for all them. I don't use any of the debit cards except at the ATM once in a while so I could probably go without three of them on my person.

Then I have 4 credit cards.*

That's 8 cards right there. Then I do my shopping at 3 different grocery stores, so they all get their cards. 3 because I take advantage of the sales at each and the selection. One doesn't have some of the stuff I want but the others do. This is pretty common, I know if I want a particular product I have to go to a particular store to get it. I go grocery shopping probably 3-4 times a week because I only buy enough stuff for 1-3 meals. This is to reduce waste. Less often shopping leads to food waste for me.

Sure they can look me up, and I used to not carry the grocery store cards, but I find flashing the card about 1000 times more convenient.

We are up to 12 cards.

I have to carry two IDs, driver's license and US GOVT ID. Card count 14.

Then I have a drugstore card that I use to get "points" for filling my prescriptions. These points are really worth it - you cash them in for merchandise and they are very generous with them. While they have ALL MY INFO (after all, they need it to fill the prescription) but about 70% of the time they want my card, I don't know why. It is just a billion times easier to have it on me.

Card count 15.

Library card - card count 16.

The rest are just random rarely used loyalty cards I don't need to carry but at this point why not carry them?

I don't get gift cards.

People ask why I have so many checking accounts, and it is to better manage my money (for example, I get just enough of my paycheck auto deposited to cover automatic withdraws and put that in a separate account so I know that's my "no touch" money) and take maximum advantages of all the rewards and benefits of each card or bank account.

I don't find any of this that daunting. When you already have to carry a few adding a few more isn't that big of a deal. I don't really have a problem with carrying these around and I prefer separate cards to some "smart card" that is some electronic thing to charge and break.

*I want to mention even with 4 CCs I don't have any CC debt.
A lot developing in this space. Will have more to talk about soon :)
Hey Chase - this looks super crisp. Congratulations!

I'm also a fan of builtwith.com and trying to understand if you're doing the same thing or have a different objective.

P.S. I think the UI is super clean and very easy. Great job there.
It's kind of counter-intuitive that it's possible to sail against the wind.
I'll be fitting some 12v-based USB wall sockets, much like the type you can fit in a car. These can then provide power for phones.

Regarding computers, I've so far only considered my desktop. You can get ready made DC to DC ATX power supplies quite easily [1].

[1] http://www.mini-box.com/DC-DC
>> "iOS's autocorrection for their keyboard"

I'm pretty sure nothing you type leaves the device on iOS unless you give permission (which you can do with third party keyboards).
The platform creates one on their behalf, it's transparent to them.
> making one of the most densely populated areas a big hole in the map.

Which, legally, it is.
Liked the Ingredient suggestion thing in the editor, And also ingredients on the side bar makes it easy while cooking !
Good job
I was simply commenting on the semantic nature of "it wasn't illegal, but it wasn't legal."

That said, "unlicensed hotel" is a quandary that has been argued a thousand times over. A hotel and a boarding house are legally distinct. Legally speaking, hotels have separate rooms for guests which is distinct from subletting either a single room as well as from subletting the entirety of the property. Legally speaking, an AirBNB rental most closely correlates to a "lodging house", which does not provide food for its guests, which is a requirement for a hotel, or inn (per Black's, anyway).

Legally speaking, what we are likely talking about is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of all AirBNB rentals that are now being lumped together into a single term, which only muddies the argument even further.

The idea that a sublet, lodging house, or boarding house is "close enough" to a hotel to be considered under the purview of hotel licensure is ... optimistic, and to me, smacks of the state's unwillingness to let some revenue go uncaptured.

But, that's just my opinion, and I appreciate that the argument is nuanced, and there are potentially safety concerns as well.
You probably just didn't talk to anyone. You will pay much less than that if you go with a bursting plan.
We're in agreement, it's just semantics :)

Yeah, that officer in South Carolina did that break the law (shoot someone without cause). I'm just saying that a DEA agent posing as someone else on Facebook may not actually be illegal.
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Fascinating article. One part in particular answered a question I've had about Houston for ages:

I visited Houston with a friend about a decade ago and we were both puzzled about the Chinatown area of the city. Why, we asked, would a city smack in the middle of the country have such a large Chinese population? NYC & California made sense, but Texas?

And as it turns out:

"Rain and his companions walked for a full day and most of the night, until, before dawn, they came to a road, where an associate of the smugglers picked them up. They went to Houston first, and from there a van took them straight to New York."

Waystation city on the international Chinese immigrants smuggling route for folks who just crossed the Mexican border. Fascinating.

EDIT: Aaaaaaand I'm wrong. Thank you shiftpgdn for the Wikipedia link and background.
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Super cool that modern software companies are applying an ethic the old-school software companies (Adobe, Microsoft) have used for a while.

The benevolent goal is to make good software affordable to those just learning and starting out.

The more sinister goal is to get young impressionable minds hooked on your software.

Regardless I support this, and I imagine a lot of people will be digging up their .edu email accounts to get this.
Hacker News was not meant to be something actually used, it was originally designed to be a way to test Arc[0]. Additionally, the code was meant to be a short as possible[1].

[0] http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

[1] http://paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html
"proceeds to live on a boat"

As an older guy who was into sailing and boating as a youth, possibly the only positive effect of the hyperinflation in housing prices / "housing bubble" is spending $5000 to install a toilet has gone from an insane outrageous expense to "you got a pretty good deal compared to what home depot wanted to charge". And the permanent long term decline in wealth/income means what used to be "middle class" sailboats are getting really cheap, what with the decline of the middle class. A used 30 footer used to cost about 4 of my dad's new commuter cars in better economic decades, now its less than the cost of my commuter car because the buyer pool is drying up.

The old line about a boat being a hole in the water you throw money into doesn't sound so bad now that houses are an even worse "investment".
The iOS 6 update broke wifi for many people for the same reason -- it would hit a certain Apple page to determine if there was through connectivity, and if that test failed it would decide that the wifi connection needed authentication. Apple fixed it by putting up the page it was expecting.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/09/fix-wi-fi-connectivity-is...

It seems to be a recurring tactic.
I disagree. I think things are wrong on principle, and not just because of the results.

See deontology for a better alternative to consequentialism: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1og/deontology_for_consequentialists...
Depends. Am I going to continue on my current standard of living? Then it would be two years. I could go on much longer without a car, some memberships etc., so with a slight reduction in comfort it would raise to about 8 years. Eating cheaper stuff, selling the house, canceling my monthly donations and so on would be a big ouchie, but then it would be a dozens of years.
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It is done in GWT ?
Wow, this looks great. Very clear and nice design. I'll bookmark it for future reference.
Or that a boat can sail faster than the wind, say on a broad reach. But it's what makes sailing fun...
I find this hugely compelling. Fraud protection is a huge time sync for most e-commerce providers.

Bill - could you please explain some of the fine print? Are all chargebacks covered? Do you provide the ability to select which countries to accept payments from? Thanks so much!
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>> "I play pirated copies of games I bought and own on steam because I don't want steam to know how many hours I play my games, when I play them, from what place etc. I consider that is not anyone's business."

Just a hypothetical:

If the developer was giving you a discount on Steam because they could collect this information would you still buy it from Steam and then pirate it (getting the discount but not providing the information) or would you pay full price somewhere else? Not judging, just curious.
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Right, both products are expensive. I get them through work (for work). You can get the free (and very limited) version of IDA for hobby stuff:

https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download_freew...
Could you be a little more specific?
there are some details if you are interested http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2014/04/17/animatron-html5-an...
The Constitution says, "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech."

What is "the freedom of speech?"

You can take it literally: the freedom to say anything you can speak. You probably don't want to go down that route, because the obvious corollary is: "fine, then the First Amendment doesn't cover publication, electronic communications, or expression" because those things are outside the dictionary definition of "speech."

You can also treat it as a phrase that has meaning in context, like "object" does in computer science. But you can't have your cake and eat it too: the same interpretive process the Supreme Court has used to create exceptions to the freedom of speech has also been used to take the freedom far beyond what literally qualifies as "speech." This is particularly true if you're talking about obscenities laws, which mostly deal with things like images and performances which aren't literally speech.
This is the same play as PandoDaily. Free channel of press for VC's and their connections.
Actually, the various government levels of the United States have done bad things to the citizenry from almost day one. Looking through history you can see several small "revolutions" that only affected the level of government that was involved with the injustice. It's just that not much happens on a federal level that would be involve the nation as a whole, using the Civil War as an example.

I would say it seems that most of these small revolutions I speak of happened in the days that the local populace could possibly be armed with the weapons of their choice. It would be interesting to do some type of comparison of the behavior of local governments that led to such incidents to today in areas where gun control is heavy.

Plus, I guess it depends on how you define revolution. Some might say what's been happening in Ferguson or Hong Kong is a form of revolution, just mostly peaceful in nature. Maybe it's just that as society progresses the level of the boiling point for violent revolt increases over time. But that also suggests the consequences of the outcome may be greater as well.
Why? Wouldn't any garbage collector collect the file object when it goes out of scope?

def foolish():
f = open('filename.txt')

Once `foolish` returns, `f` goes out of scope, refcounting or not. Once `f` goes out of scope, its destructor closes the file. In CPython, the destructor is called when the refcount reaches zero. In Pypy, the destructor is called when there are no more references to `f`. Both happen when `foolish` returns, in both Pypy and CPython.

This is an implementation detail of file, not CPython.

Or did I fundamentally misunderstand something here?
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Sorry about that. I will try to convert everything to video on the next week.
This is fantastic. Thanks! I had problems getting Traceur to work with our codebase (and was unhappy about the fact that it added about 100KB to our JS bundle), but this one just slotted right in.
I think I get it. I could build my own with Authorize.net, then I'd get screwed by fraud. I can go with PayPal, and get fraud protection, but my customers will be bombarded with stupid "Bill Me Later" bullshit, gateway pages and duplicated emails. I should choose WePay because I get fraud protection and white label.

Makes sense.
more like the "wow great PR" moment
You are welcome and thanks for the link. Really glad that you liked it.. )
How is this the fault of companies using Slack? That's nothing more than victim-blaming.
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First thought: this person has described a clear way in which his job is (truly, seemingly unfixably) broken.

Second thought: this seems like a business opportunity. Why are there such high-ritual organizations employing these people?

Third thought: Why are university professors allowed to do research at all if this isn't profitable? You'd expect if it makes them money they'd actually help, that's not happening, so it must not, but why have them spend so much time on it anyway? I keep hearing about publish or perish... what on earth is going on?
Wow, you're really narrowing this down now. OK, there aren't many tools in the portable C# game-hacking-with-a-GUI space. Why is that such a great issue, and why is it relevant to this article?
I'd love to support other providers (BitBucket) and have generic Git support. This is a quick first pass since GitHub comes built in to python-social-auth and their API is really well documented and has good python wrappers.

I think it'd be interesting to have a daemon sitting on devs' computers that could track unpushed commits or even in-progress code. It might be a little bit intrusive but I think that having more insight could be really neat.
Ok, after that last post and re-reading your original, I can now see we're on the same track.
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A little improvement in the graphics would make this much more intuitive.

#1) Which is the front end of the boat? Not that hard to have a pointed end and a not pointy end.

#2) The sail shouldn't go all the way around, nor rotate around its center. If you are approximating something like a Laser it can go through about a 210 degree arc. Other boats, more like 120-160 degrees.

#3) So the wind is coming from the left? Note that almost all things generally show the fluids as streamlines, so at first glance it seemed to me that the wind was coming from the top and the boat was moving to the left.

#4) It's missing the force vector from the boat in the water. That's what really explains what is going on. The force vectors don't add up to the motion shown.
That's not the real reason at all. First Houston is major port city, the fourth largest city in the country, the most diverse in the country and it's certainly not "smack in the middle of the country." Houston has two China towns. The east downtown China Town area was established in the 50s-70s but later abandoned due to white(yellow?) flight as the new Chinatown area expanded in the west of the city in the 1980s. This was also fed by Vietnamese "boat-people" who were typically of Chinese descent.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Chinese_American...
1 day, if you mean having a place to sleep.

I have 30 dollars, and desktop PC and phone I could sell. I'm 25, never had any income.

I live with parents, so they would have to kick me out of the house.
On the HN front page most of the links are static and the important dynamic link is "More".

At one end of the spectrum of asynchronous design, the behavior of "More" is determined after the user has clicked on it. At the other other end of the spectrum, the "More" link's behavior is determined at the time the page is constructed. HN uses the latter approach.

Assuming a click on "More", with early binding, the application only reads it's state once (at the time of page construction). With late binding it reads it's state twice, once for page construction and again to construct the next page.

With early binding, only the name of the function has to be passed back immediately, construction of the function itself can be queued depending on server load (e.g. the function can be built 100ms later) and the user is likely unaffected. With late binding a 100ms delay in page building due to server load happens while the user is waiting.

The cost of the continuation approach is that a lot of continuations may be constructed that never get run. That's often less of a worry for people with garbage collectors.
Based on purchasing power parity, which is useful for some comparisons but not for others.
It's not the continuations which are the problem, it's relying on state at all. As the submission describes, storing the state used too much RAM and required pruning. The solution was to reformulate the problem so as not to require state, if possible.
Congrats! Just wanted to take the chance to say 'thank you' for gridster!
I'm 31 and my long term plan is to live on a the water on a 40-50ft sailboat. Sure, I'm going to spend at least $100-150K on it between purchase, retrofit, etc, but that's less than the purchase price of most inventory in major metro areas. I can anchor off the coast of most of Florida or SFBA, or pickup and head anywhere in the world. I can even take a tax deduction on the interest as my primary residence.

The economics have definitely shifted in favor of that scenario, something I wouldn't have imagined 10-15 years ago.
We have anti-vote-ring and anti-vote-spam in place. Similar to HN actually. They and also people of the reddit team help us a lot.

Additionally we have a moderator team that additionally looks for in-balanced behaviour.

I understand that a lot of people are asking on twitter for upvotes - so far we are able to filter those in the rankings. We are considering to communicate the policies even more public - but step by step.

Disclaimer: CTO @ PH.
But why should I put time into phone calls and the like? Most friends ask me to do things, which waste my time, and they don't do much in return and often won't do useful things when I ask them to.

The optimal number of friends when we were hunter gatherers might have been 150, but the optimal number of friends for a developer who gets asked to do work by a new person every week and contacted by a recruiter twice a day and doesn't have much use for any friends beyond graphics designers is probably much less.
Thanks! We believe that the payments are a commodity, but that good risk management is really valuable.

One important item to note - WePay Clear is built for platforms - services that connect buyers and sellers like online marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & SMB commerce tools. We shield them from fraud losses by underwriting the merchants directly, and taking the losses ourselves when we're wrong.

It is not built for standalone e-commerce merchants to protect them from fraud. We are exploring this for the future, however - you can imagine that a seller using one of our platform partners need protecting too.

You can accept payments from anywhere, as long as it's a Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover. Sellers must be based in the U.S. or Canada, though expanding the scope of this is our #1 company priority.
Is there any other (realistic) way of doing it though?

EDIT: I added realistic, as not just anybody can get venture capital or have rich friends/family willing to invest a little.
On an unrelated note... why does the image have so much white space?! [1] It is driving me nuts.

[1] https://www.plastc.com/assets/card-static/banks.png
A few years ago I took 2 years off and drove Alaska->Argentina.

Right now I'm gearing up to drive a 2 year lap of Africa, then Europe->SE Asia, then likely a lap of Australia/NZ.

Should be ~5 years without any income, and my savings will cover it nicely.
Forever. Like Gloria Gaynor.
Thanks Bill.

Is there anything about the fraud protection that's particularly noteworthy?

I thought Stripe Marketplaces addresses this use case, but perhaps the liability still falls on me (the developer) with Marketplaces?
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Time is diffmatic.
Immigrants in Europe often don't assimilate because the host countries don't provide a path to citizenship for them or their children. Once the native populations fall to critical levels, I suspect these practices will change. Once it does, then the situation may reverse itself.
Absolutely awesome. Makes me want to look into real sailing. Sadly season for sailing has pretty much ended -- will look into it next year then.

Thanks for sharing, would love to see any improvements toward making it more realistic (as a teaching tool for sailing or something).
If we have to choose between criminals just stopping crime but getting away, and maybe catching them while destroying freedoms in the process, let's go with the first one. The goal should be to stop crime, period, without damaging the lives of the innocent.
Depending on the system they can still get an account/card number. They shouldn't be storing it but...

They can certainly get cardholder names and that sort of thing though. Maybe they've figured out a way to generate a unique token based only on non-secure data.
I think keyboard controls would make this easier to tack/navigate. Left and right to rotate boat and up down for sail. I could see this being a cool racing game with obstacles and changing wind direction. Thanks for sharing.
That's not necessarily the reason for Houston having such a large Chinese community. The majority of Chinese in Houston are legal and often more educated immigrants that would not have gone through Mexico.

The people profiled in the article were from specific poor areas in China (eg Fujian) that could be considered the Chinese equivalent of Appalachia.
Nicely done! Binding every HN story as an object would have been the simplest approach, that makes sense.

Is the source available somewhere?
God love the EFF, but they're using this as a platform to talk about one of their favorite hobby horses, and that's kind of obscuring the problem. Read the original article in which this was discovered -- this has nothing to do with DRM.

http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/10/06/adobe-spying-users-...

Adobe is collecting data about every ebook on your system, regardless of whether it's using DRM and even regardless of whether it's even being managed by the Adobe Digital Edition reader. (And for an added security bonus, they're sending it in plain text.) If you install and launch the new version of ADE, it's going to do this whether or not every single ebook you have on your system is DRM-free.

This is certainly an electronic privacy issue, but it's not a DRM issue just because Adobe Digital Editions supports Adobe DRM, and the EFF's headline is a little disingenuous. Adobe's rationale for this collection is indeed claimed to be related to licensing, but the biggest problem is how wide a net they're casting and how intrusive this information is -- ironically enough, if it was only sending this information about DRM-encumbered books, it'd arguably be much less of a scandal. (Although the fifty-eight people in the world using Adobe DRM would still have every right to be pissed.)
You should add 6 months. Its the commonly suggested minimum.