skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The machines (and/or PoS software) are smart enough to know if the card that was swiped contains a chip (it is in the track data on the magnetic stripe). But if the card reader lacks the chip reader, it obviously won't reject the swipe. The incentive to upgrade is that now the retailers will be on the hook for any fraud when a customer has to swipe their chip-enabled card due to lack of support at the store.
OK I haven't experienced that.
I can rule out the co poisoning because I was the only one who got affected in that office. Others did not have such issues
Create a new email account that you're never going to use. Tell the spammy recruiters that you're shutting down your (real) address, and please to contact you at the dummy one instead. Aside from that, put the bad senders in an email filter rule.
Indeed I've also noticed that.

The web had a chaotic growth in the first decades but now it looks as if on one end, the larger websites have killed smaller ones, and on the other it has grown so large that search is no longer enough.

You need organization.

(sorry for the offtopic)
WeChat releases real time foot traffic heat maps
Pretty much every thing and anything had an effect on that.
>If you produce content in the hopes of making money and you don't want to charge your only realistic option is ads.

Which means you should be focusing on making ads that people want to consume. Blocking adblockers rarely goes over well with users; few people are willing to fiddle with their adblock settings for your (easily replaceable) content.
Not necessarily a common thing in practice but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdle_rate
That is very cool. Any chance a company could run that tool on premises? I think there is a market for that.
Agreed, cut out the middleman.
NYC considered it

http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/09/new-york-judge-overturns-p...
The business I work for uses Square, who are rolling out EMV+NFC readers soon and are covering liability in the meantime, which is nice.

Weirdly a couple months ago my local 7-11 upgraded to readers which have the physical EMV slot but those slots are non-functional.
Burnout driven programming.
That is incredible stuff! Just reading the letters-from-the-field, you can see these guys took it all seriously. From storing phosphorus shells point-up (in hot weather it would melt and unbalance the shell) to greasing artillery after every water crossing (rust would retard the slides upon firing, tearing the mounts loose etc) each issue was packed with something for everybody.
Because if the file was legitimate, the site might need it to run under its own context.
To Master Vim, Use It Like Language
You need to boot into recovery mode to create /usr/local (or to disable SIP altogether) because /usr is immutable, so that code executing under an admin account can't inject itself into binaries (or into PATHs) under /usr.

I use Homebrew and will probably keep doing that because Homebrew is really convenient and just generally works better than MacPorts for me, but what Homebrew is demanding --- ownership over /usr/local --- is not in fact reasonable. It makes a lot of sense to me that OSX will want to keep perms on /usr/local (which is in everyone's PATH) locked down, and so it seems extra hacky that they're going to add a 'brew doctor' check to see if Software Update has "broken" those privileges.

The commenter upthread that suggested Homebrew should use ~/.homebrew or something by default is right.
What if your junk includes proprietary or classified technology? What if your nation state at one point put something into orbit that violated a treaty?

I'm sure there are a few reasons that relevant parties might not be totally cool with rival nations pulling their debris from orbit.
Why do companies choose styrofoam anyway? Is it cheapest? Should be illegal based solely on the sound it makes when it rubs together.
I will have to give that a try. Its amazing how much hot reloading speeds up development.
You would loose privacy: A snooper could see exactly what you are downloading. It may not matter in most cases, but still not something browsers want to compromise.

This exposes a general issue that sometimes you want data integrity but not privacy. With https it's all or nothing.
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More victims of the war on drugs...
This is more/less the Dunning-Kruger [1] effect in action. From the student's perspective, all of his knowledge is "obvious common sense that everyone has" (this is his error about others).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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> Were you single

No.

> Did you have kids

Yes.

> Did you have any medical conditions that needed care

Not that I know of.

> Did you use to have a better job before

I moved to the city with a $100 loan from my step-father so I could afford gas to do the 4 hour drive taking nothing with me but what I could fit in my car, which took a 3rd of that $800/mo just to pay.

You know how I moved? I asked a friend, he came and helped me and packed his truck with what I couldn't fit in my car.

Excuses, excuses, excuses.
You know the average American is incapable of saving even 5% of their income, right? That's why this is so unbelievable to some.
If that were possible then you'd expect to see landfills teaming with beetles already. As that isn't mentioned, perhaps something else in the landfill stops them?
The information issue with healthcare and education is even more perverse than in "Market for Lemons" - it's not that the quality of the product is unknown (although it often arguably is), it's that the price is unknown. As the article says, incoming freshman have no idea how much their 2nd through 4th years will cost, just an upper ceiling. They are usually misled to believe their final tuition will be lower than it actually is, skewing their value judgement. Likewise with healthcare, I often get surprise bills from my insurance company for just doing what my doctor instructs me to do. There's a lot of incentive for doctors to do unnecessary procedures without explaining the costs.
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This would be interesting to me if I could put together a small pool of say ~5 friends of the same age (22) and health (good).

If everyone did this, health insurance rates would drop drastically for pools of young, healthy individuals and rise drastically for the old and the sick. Which somewhat defeats the point of insurance - spreading risk over large, heterogeneous portions of the population.
Well... I am not agreeing that his comment was a bit cray. But isn't it common knowledge that generally more educated areas of the country are also more "progressive/left leaning"? Obviously there are exceptions, but even an intelligent man can cling to the wrong idea ;)
The goal of the Web Payements API, from what I understand, is not to create new mechanisms, but to enable websites to leverage existing payment instruments via a standard JS API, with the browser acting as an intermediary.

It’s up to the browser and/or OS to manage the user’s payment instruments and provide them to websites that use the API.
Can't you use raw pointers and .offset()? You can put them in a struct that mutates itself for every method call so it keeps track of the mmap. You'd also probably have to make sure that it has exclusive access to the mmap so another thread won't invalidate its pointers.
Reading the second example, it doesn't, it supports at least both of those.
Using Gabbi and Hypothesis to Test Django APIs
Ms.Fiorina not only acknowledges her association with Silicon Valley, but tauts it, while name dropping SVs and CEOs. So, if anyone discusses her CEO-ship under Microscope, it becomes a political hit piece? Of course, her current presidential run and doing good in polls is getting this kind of attention, but this is not a he said - she said. The body of work is already laid there and the article does narrate a sequence of events which demonstrates her last stint as an Executive.
Why are colleges getting more expensive much faster than inflation then, for decades at a crack? Shouldn't technology be reducing administrative overhead? Shouldn't technology be reducing prices somewhere, while other things remain constant-after-inflation?

I understand the political inclinations behind denying aid is the problem, but if it isn't "student aid has gotten too easy so of course the colleges have raised their prices", it's probably something even worse for the universities politically. That's more or less a morally neutral explanation, a simple and plausible story of incentives gone wrong.
Upsert Lands in Postgres 9.5
If the main goal is static typing, it seems like using a static compile-to-JS language may be better because you can use the whole Node ecosystem. A few choices for static typing (the first two are JS supersets, the second two are just different languages):

* Flow from Facebook

* TypeScript

* Elm

* PureScript
What is Apple's approach to NLP and speech? What algorithms are they using?
For the main HTML document, what would prevent the ISP from simply changing the hash to include/account for the injected ad spam code?[1]

(for iframes, I think this would work fine)

[1]: I'm presuming you're not using TLS, because if you were, then TLS would do this and more.
Hypervelocity is very high velocity, approximately over 3,000 meters per second (6,700 mph, 11,000 km/h, 10,000 ft/s, or Mach 8.8). In particular, hypervelocity is velocity so high that the strength of materials upon impact is very small compared to inertial stresses. Thus, even metals behave like fluids under hypervelocity impact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervelocity

The orbital velocity needed to maintain a stable low Earth orbit is about 7.8 km/s, but reduces with increased orbital altitude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit
Is it really a good idea to convert plastic to CO2?
You equally apply that to Hilary.
Link to post from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10304240
> a lying sociopath, no history of successful leadership, doesn't answer questions, and yet thinks she can be President

1. Not everyone currently running for president is doing so because they believe they actually have a chance of becoming president.

2. I wonder what percentage of people in the US believe that they personally would be a capable president? It's got to be 90%+
Gonna chime in here with a similar story. I was working at a call center a few years ago. Mostly sales stuff, but it was for a web company. I was taking moocs on the side, Udacity first, then coursera. I was always studying and that was noted by my superiors (in my spare time between calls for example) and eventually an internal opening was offered to me. I got luck there, chance to get off the phones and become an excel monkey. But not as lucky as what happened next, at the same time I’d finished the Stanford Databases class, a number of internal reports tied to a database broke. I had exactly the right about of experience to fix the issues and gain a little credit internally. I moved from a temporary role into a perminate one and started coding vba/sql stuff for the office.

From there I continued to learn and was eventually poached to another company. It could have gone faster if I’d been more visible, and I got lucky, but my degree is in Sociology, I learned to code in books and moocs. It can happen if you’re diligent and hard working.
Not clear on your meaning. The fact that the two directories have completely different ports inside of them is the reason you want to add both to the PATH.

The line I pasted, from my own .bash_profile, is identical to the recommended approach: https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.shell.html
Well it's been a while since I compared, but Wealthfront's direct indexing seems to be a really strong advantage at this point, unless I am missing a competing product on Bettermint.

While there is a .20% difference in fees at the 100k+ level, I am content paying Wealthfront's higher fee simply because I believe in what they are doing and I never feel like they are trying to screw me over -- directly or indirectly. Consider it brand loyalty at this point :)

I've also enjoyed their blogs both for engineering and investment. I like to point friends there first when they start looking to invest money somewhere.
What if at least a HEAD request is required?
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"T.F." is that /usr is immutable under SIP, so if you somehow manage to nuke /usr/local, you have to disable it to put it back.

This is a good feature, and it's not a new one: the BSDs have done it for over a decade with securelevels and immutable mounts --- where you also had to take the system down to make alterations.

If you think about it for a second, you'll see that anything that would have allowed you, a normal user typing at the keyboard, to create directories under /usr would probably render the security of SIP meaningless. It's the fact that you do have to go into recovery mode to hack up your filesystem that indicates that there's actually a meaningful security check happening here.

Just think of SIP's filesystem protections as literally just being "you have to boot the system into a special mode to change certain parts of the filesystem". I want that feature, and I hack up my filesystem all the time! The overwhelming majority of Mac users don't even know they want the feature and benefit enormously from it regardless. A major win.
This is not liberal handwringing, its is an analysis of a SV exec about the work she did in while in SV as CEO of HP.
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A lot of negative comments on the grounds that this story is political and hence unsuitable for HN. I disagree. It's only the context (Fiorina is running for President) that makes it political. The story itself is mainly a post-mortem of a bad business decision, and is therefore IMHO entirely appropriate for HN, and would be even if Fiorina were not running for President.
Boosting the kind of armor into orbit that would be necessary to deal with at least the worse scenarios is unfeasible. If you think that cost-to-orbit is high now...
> This was a highly strategic move to block HP/Compaq from installing Windows Media Store on their PCs.

Uhh what? I can understand them wanting to get iTunes on OEM PCs, but I don't recall there ever being a standalone "Windows Media Store," and at the time Microsoft was already bundling Windows Media Player (which did contain a link to a store via the in-built browser) with Windows that this deal didn't do anything to stop...

PS - That is a quote, but cannot source the quote, and no author is given either. May be fictional.
Ask HN: El Capitan what's the verdict? Go or no go?
Worth or it wait a week?
this kind of apps resurfaces every few years... first one that springs to mind is Honestly (formerly known as Unvarnished). it also sparked a huge public backlash when it appeared in 2010, but went nowhere. where these kind of services fall apart is basically numbers: how many people do you know well enough (and care for/hate enough) to write a review for? 5? 6? And how many people would care in what you wrote? 10? 15? Unlike a restaurant, which is frequented by thousands of customers each of which is a possible reviewer, people don't generate enough "traffic" for the system to work (not to mention the overall negative social sentiment, as evident from the backlash - the public reacted just the same 5 years ago).

pity really, as I think some kind of a "reputation" system would really benefit people in general, both for professional and personal reasons. If quantified it might even replace money in the future (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie). I am certain that one day the whole concept of a "stranger" will be obsolete - we shall know everything we need to know about somebody upon meeting them (which is probably going to be the reason we are meeting them in the first place). Of course there will still be jerks but they'll just no longer be able to hide it from unsuspecting others.
There is some really amazing biochemistry going on here. The essential enzymes involved (and understanding their exact mechanism) would be of inestimable value for several reasons; a very large one you (jobu) suggest right here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystyrene#Biodegradation
"... rates of styrene degradation ranged from 0.14 to 0.4 a−1. This is an order of magnitude faster than the most rapid rate of polystyrene degradation identified... Pseudomonas putida is capable of converting styrene oil into the biodegradable plastic PHA. This may be of use in the effective recycling of Polystyrene foam, otherwise thought to be non-biodegradable."
I always like the idea Bertrand Russel raised where if a company realizes it needs half its staff that it would be best to instead reduce all staff to half-hours worked then previous.

Not sure if this is the essay or not. Sorry for the off-topic if it's not this essay.

Too bad with the current additional requirements on employers it's not that simple (health insurance, social security, etc...). Plus the fact that I'm sure some people would prefer not to have 3 places of employment to fill X-hours per week of pay and would rather have 1 employer (simplicity, less commuting, etc). Still, a nice idea in theory.

Maybe if most work was able to be done remotely, and work was done on a contract basis?
If this comes to pass, Google's project Loon won't look so looney. http://www.wired.com/2014/06/google-balloons-year-later/

Unfortunately I don't think there's any feasible replacement for GPS satellites.
Wait a week.
You should come to Mexico, it's like living in a (grim) movie universe.
You're correct. If the merchant has the EMV reader but the bank card only has a mag stripe the bank eats any fraud, period. The merchant is completely off the hook.
Could anyone point me to some sentiment analysis frameworks and/or update the list to include some?
Curation is always the next step after explosion of content. Yahoo was curation of the whole internet. Then it got too hard. Now, we have enough content in tiny sub-niches to need curation on that level. I definitely see the need for curation of resources around the topic I am interested in (Apache Solr).

Unfortunately, I haven't seen a good software platform that actually allows to build a good curation site. Ones that exist want you to build the content for them. I want one I can run/own/brand on my own. I suspect there might be some in the library space though (haven't search _very_ hard yet).
Better to think about it and end up being wrong, than just having blind faith on Father Progress protecting us forever. Just because one Malthus was wrong once doesn't mean that no Malthus will ever be right.

The problem of progress is that by its own definition we can never be sure of what we are doing until we do it. Being cautious has to be an important virtue to keep in mind.
Minneapolis did it this year.

"An ordinance passed last year requires all food and beverages prepared for dine-in or take-out to be placed in reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging.

That includes plates, serving boats and to-go containers -- cups and bowls have until April 22, 2017 to continue using non-recyclable plastic-lined paper.

The ordinance includes all restaurants, food trucks, grocery store delis and other mobile or seasonal vendors."

http://www.kare11.com/story/news/local/2015/04/22/minneapoli...
NASA has an Orbital Debris website.

http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/

It has some nice photos of some of the impacts that spacecraft have had.

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Reading cstross's post at a tangent: I'm interested in how viable it is for a well funded technological terror group (like Aum Shinrikyo used to be) or "rogue nation" to dump a few tons of sand and grit (or depleted uranium, for the mass) into the correct orbits.
Surprised this hasn't made it on here yet. Mobile Operator in Caribbean plans to stem revenue for Internet's heavy hitters unless they share a piece of the pie.

Interested to read what some of the more enlightened Internet minds think about this. There is some sense to it, but it seems to fly completely in the face of net neutrality.
"The worms converted about half of the Styrofoam into carbon dioxide, as they would with any food source."