skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the "point" of contactless is to make the transactions quicker. Where it used to (in the UK) take 30 seconds to put your card in the chip and pin machine, enter your pin number and wait for the transaction to be confirmed, now its literally 3 seconds. Over the course of a year that is a massive time saving for the retailer and so a cost saving (less staff).

With chip and pin the customer was liable for all transactions when their pin number was used. It was your responsibility to ensure it wasn't exposed.

Now with contactless there is no risk to the customer, the bank/retailer takes on the full risk of fraud for contactless payments. You will not be out of pocket for a fraudulent contactless transaction. This is why contactless transaction are limited to £30 (initially was £20), it limits the bank/retailers potential exposure to contactless fraud, its also handily set to just about the average card transaction in the UK.
I'm sure there are some people reading this site for whom this is news, but that doesn't change my point. It's extremely basic information that's more appropriate elsewhere. I don't want the front page to be full of articles like "how to declare a variable" or "what even is a variable" or "how to plug in your monitor." I'm sure there are some people reading this site who don't know how to plug in a monitor, but that doesn't mean such a thing would belong here.
Sounds about right, I have 6 cell in my x220 (with Win7) and I'd guess its life is around 2.5 hours with those settings. It's short enough that I don't feel comfortable using it on the go, keep x220 at home almost always plugged in to AC. The battery difference between it and the UX305 is huge.
I'm afraid that I have to agree with you here. But Apple (and the FBI) recognize that this is the first salvo in a battle that will rage for MANY years. These early skirmishes could dis-proportionally affect the outcome - hence the ensuing PR battle.
Yeah it can be a problem fitting it in, but if it's really what you want to do then you somehow have to manage it.

Engineering comes in lots of forms, "frontend" working with the clients, 3d models, etc. "backend" handling events and networking. And much more in between, if that's what interests you.

With a background in maths and data science, and knowledge of engineering? There are a lot of areas in Game Development where you could fit in. One that I might suggest is in "Game Design"? By this I mean a person who "thinks up" features (and/or whole games), does the math to calculate values of x and y, and the like. To figure out ways it could be exploited, and to circumvent them.

Using your data science knowledge to find out what parts of the game are used and where it could use further development.

Typically at our company we get given a game design document from the game designer, this can contain anything from a basic overview of how things function, to projections, maximum possible outcomes (think for example, the maximum amount of gold a player could gain from this scenario) etc.
In my experience, the people you should look to for advice are the ones that succeeded despite lots of disadvantages, particularly those people who have succeeded repeatedly in very different areas.

Often the people who succeed most spectacularly are either very gifted or lucky. It is pretty rare for someone to be gifted/lucky in many different areas.
Even though ReactOS' current main architecture is 32-bit x86, I would hope that the NTVDM gets ported over to the 64-bit version, which would be quite awesome.

Something I rather enjoy about Wine is that it supports 16-, 32-, and 64-bit applications all from the same prefix. Quite a nice advantage over Windows :)
Again, true. But why is that worth posting here? This is Computer Use 101 material. That doesn't mean it's not valuable to some people, but for this particular audience it's about as obvious as "water your plants if you want them to grow" would be on Farmer News.
I believe this is to deter theft.
I think US govt would be kinda ok with that idea if Apple didn't park their profit overseas to avoid paying tax...
Ok, so I have started 3 different consultancies which I sold 2 (failed horrible at the other) and I have run larger groups too. My 2 cents:

1. Do not hire traditional sales staff and base compensation on a commission structure. It is the 100% wrong structure for a consultancy.

2. Do not hire sales staff before you have excess capacity in the form of employees, beside yourself.

3. When you do hire sales staff, do not hire sales in the form of client closers, instead hire lead generation staff that finds clients and passes "hot leads" to the principle for closing.

4. If you need help getting deals moving, you can initially reach out to a friend or others, but very specifically structure it as a referral fee for any deal you can close. e.g. you own the customer, they bring the customer to you, you set the terms, project guidelines and tone for the entire relationship with the customer. Once the deal is closed the referral gets paid a fee (8-15%), usually deferred until the client has made their first payment. So this way they can't bring you someone, then the client closes a deal but never pays you but you still had to pay a referral. Sometimes people balk at this, but to me it is non-negotiable, and the first time you ignore it and pay out a $10k referral for a client that cancels or stiffs you, it will become non-negotiable to you too.

Traditional sales staff is motivated by getting the client through the door and tells them all kinds of wonky things to get that done and get a signature on the dotted line. Then you have to live with that in the deal because the customer will come back and say, well I was told XYZ. Then you are caught between a rock and a hard place, even if the contract doesn't state it, you could still be on the hook if for no other reason then to keep a customer happy. This doesn't happen when the PM or Principle manages the customer because they own the project to completion. Hence, when you get bigger, let the lead generation staff get you the clients to talk to, you or an account/project manager then close the deals.

If you were selling product it would be totally different, but you are selling your and other peoples time which is much harder to do correctly. I have probably made most mistakes possible and paid some heavy prices for them in the past, but using referrals and lead people always worked well.
It's just not possible.

It's like arguing that the developers of Windows or MacOS or Linux or whatever should just start over and do everything right this time. Or Intel and AMD should create a new CPU architecture and do it right this time. What you'll quickly find are a million reasons why things are done the way they are, and that this whole restarting project was a terrible idea.

Yeah it sounds great, but anyone who knows what that actually means realizes it's a retarded idea.
I was going to recommend Open Live Writer but apparently it's not that kind of editor you're looking for ;-)

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingOpenLiveWriterAnOpen...
Most credit and debit cards are not contactless and can only be read when inserted into a reader. Why not use one of those?
When does peer review make no damn sense
Watch this https://archive.org/details/Online_No_One_Knows_Youre_Dead
I think, as a society, it boils down to this: "And while the government may argue that its use would be limited to this case, there is no way to guarantee such control."

Can a private, for profit, company deny the will of an elected government working to solve a heinous crime based not on what they say they will do but because they cannot give a 100% guarantee that this is the only time/way it'll be used? Apple acknowledges that the government is saying it's limited to this case but because there's no guarantee (100% certainty) they feel they can deny it?

If yes, what does that mean as a broader precedent. Are we comfortable with private companies denying an elected government based not on what they agree to, but instead because there's a chance it'll be used in other ways?

As terribly flawed one might feel about government very few would think it has less accountability than a private company.
I think that "having fun" stimulates brain growth. And rats really like running on that wheel.
>> And now there's a bunch of good ideas that I know are not being exploited for value by anybody.

I feel your pain. It's bad enough that the company that holds the patent isn't using it, but you can't use it in future employment. I'll always have this nagging desire to just do it the easy/awesome way, but that's off limits now. The money they give to get a patent isn't worth the roadblock you create for yourself down the road.
Honestly i have the few extra seconds. My security and peace are fully worth that.

Also we have fingerprint scanners on android now. So contactless plus verification is not a issue at all.

Contactless without verification is just lazy. There is really nothing to argue.
Charge a penny and then refund it to capture the details for a recurring charge. 30 days from then you can hit the card with a $5 charge using some ambiguous merchant name like "Card validation services".

90% of people don't inspect their bank statements close enough to notice something like this. Get 1000 people and that's a healthy sum for a criminal to live off of.
Rather than tracking down a specific celebrity, you would do better to speak to the large, friendly group at https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/

They'll advise you to start small. Instead of making something meaningful for the world on your first try, make something meaningful for yourself. It is extremely common for new learners to show up saying "I don't know how to do anything. How do I make my own World of Warcraft??" I always advise them to start with making Pong, then Breakout, then Gradius, then Super Mario Bros or Zelda. After that, you'll have a good idea what to do next.

If you are familiar with Python, PyGame is a great tool to start with.
Something I thought was interesting, I have a friend who banks with česká spořitelna, and she gets an SMS for each transaction. Nothing fancy, no app, no 'platform', just .. better banking in eastern europe than in the UK.
Sorry, I agree, spying may be a stretch. But so too is Big Data. It doesn't take a complex algorithm to determine IsBuyingBirthControl vs. IsNotBuyingBirthControl. I would like to think that I have the option to keep this information private from my employer. The employer's best interest is to minimize costs not to improve my health, most of the time these two correspond but not always.
If you don't speak press-release, this is a cool project to create an in-memory interop format for columnar data, so various tools can share data without a serialize/deserialize step which is very expensive compared to copying or sharing memory on the same machine or within a local network.

https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=arrow.git;a=blob;f...

(edited post because I fail reading git and didn't notice the java implementation)
> You ever get in a fight where it wasn't 100% clear who was right and who was wrong? You were both a little bit right and a little bit wrong?

I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make. Yes, the world is not black and white, but neither is math.

If you have e.g. a car crash where one person was speeding and the other failed to yield the right of way, they're both at fault. Maybe one is more at fault than the other and therefore has to pay a higher percentage of the damages, but how is that not still an algorithm?

The hard part is designing the right algorithm ahead of time. But throwing up your hands and saying that problem is hard and therefore we should give up on having laws and just let judges decide everything on a case by case basis isn't democracy and isn't the rule of law. It's the rule of whatever the judge says it is today.
Interesting. In the US most businesses use magnetic stripe readers which take ~1 second from swipe to approval.
Bcrypt isn't an industry standard.
I don't know the history of China's takeover of Macau.
But in case of Hong Kong it was mostly legal and diplomatic reasons (of the UK). Taiwan is an independent democracy, it's very unlikely they'd willingly agree to that.

Personally I'd rather bet on the CCP loosing/giving-up power than Taiwan joining the Mainland. And Hong Kong could possibly be one of the triggers.

Not to mention US loosing Taiwan [and South Korea] as huge allies would be almost as bad as loosing Israel. They won't let that happen.
China has too many nervous neighbors for any change in relationship between TW and CN to change the USs role in the SCS region. You have Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Taiwan all having disputes with China. So even if TW were to drop claims, you have quite a few restless neighbors left. Besides, Mr Ma the acquiescer is stepping down. And most young people prefer an independent identity.
We've been using Clubhouse for about two weeks, having transitioned from Asana, which we found lacking in many respects. (Before then, we used Trello, which we also found to be not fit our workflow very well.)

So far, Clubhouse has been working really well. They are emulating the Slack aesthetic pretty hard, and that's not a bad thing. It's pretty responsive and well designed. I find the story card view friendlier than Trello's.

Clubhouse is really a clone of PivotTracker, and I don't mean that as a criticism. They even use the same terminology (points, stories, epics, workflow) and categories (bug, chore, feature). However, there's less of a focus on iterations, and the UI is decidely smoother from my perspective.

There are some features I'd like. For example, I would like their Slack integration to PM me personally about changes; Clubhouse can currently post updates to a Slack channel, but monitoring all the story activity is just not an option when you're on a team working on many different things.

There are also some rough edges in the UI. You can save your story view as a workspace, but if you alter anything (e.g. hide an epic), you have to save it under a new name, then remove the old workspace. I expect stuff like this to improve over time.
They cracked only the older 3-wheel version of the machine. And their achievements were all well known to the Brits, they just didn't help after 4th and 5th wheel was added, along with other complications.
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And who pays for the fraud? The consumer. Thats already a huge issue with credit cards, if this now gets normal as well...

I am so glad nobody looks strange in my country when you pay with cash. Most people do, its efficient, depending on the currency fast enough, has privacy in mind and is as safe as myself.
At this price it might be cheaper to ship it from ThinkGeek (although they seem only only have the S.H.I.E.L.D. model nowadays...): https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1d95/
There are several other border disputes, especially between China and India:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/tarek-fatah/chinas-border-dis...
Renaming Iceweasel to Firefox
How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016
Definitely not a UK train.
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...where on earth did you get that idea from? I'm right-handed and both hold and unlock my phone with the fingers on my right hand.
It seems that the extraordinary claim requires data. I haven't seen the line item on Apple's earnings report that breaks out where they're making money from customer data.
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It is indeed a carriage from one of the Russian underground systems. I vaguely recall having seen this story sometime ago, and back then it was reported that this guy was spotted in Moscow underground, but these kinds of carriages can be seen in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev and possibly other cities.
Lololololol

A masterful troll statement!
They want 119 USD for a screen that is 1366 * 768? I have to imagine they could put together better specs and still squeeze in some profit for themselves.
No need, there are so many others looking for yield who would buy the bonds.
This was my reaction.

If you're skimming cards, you probably want to make sure your target is unaware of what you're doing less someone sees you and notifies transit cops or some other authorities and you get arrested.
But if details matter (they do for a lot of Mac users), nothing beats a drop in dock. There's also no wear to the plugs or ports with a drop-in dock.

When I was a die-hard Mac user, that was perhaps the only thing that I wish Macs had, minus the crashiness that docks caused on Windows.
It's not possible to make a perfect system. It's completely possible to let the first person to find an imperfection take advantage of it but then immediately fix it.

Which would create an incentive for finding imperfections and therefore fix more of them faster.
Based on the description it really sounds great. I didn't really try it, but I intend to, because even though there are a lot of options, unfortunately, they are all lacking. It seems the general topic of work and organizing work is much more difficult then we are willing to admit.
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Cityhash successor port to C.
Their measurements appear to include whipped cream but this isn't mentioned in the article.

For example: the pictured Starbucks Venti White Chocolate Mocha is accused of 18tsp sugar but Starbucks nutrition info[1] says 15tsp (55g) sugar without whipped cream.

[1] https://news.starbucks.com/uploads/documents/nutrition.pdf

Edit: incorrect quote
I agree that there are other purposes, but from society's standpoint "backup" is the fundamental purpose. If the existing contest rules are not well geared towards that objective, then they should tweak the rules.
I don't know how you could drink some of those Starbucks "coffee" drinks and think they were anything other than milkshakes. There are also some misconceptions around the caffeine content of these coffee drinks. Most espresso is around 30-50mg caffeine per shot, so a 20oz frappacino will have 60-100 mg caffeine vs a 20 oz coffee which will have ~350-400 mg caffeine.
Of course this is possible. Sign up for a Stripw account, feed it a PAN (credit card number), and charge it. With anti fraud mechanisms however, you're not going to get very far.
No sympathy for terrorists, no sympathy for weakening encryption.

I can understand someone outside of tech not understanding how those are comparable statements, but if anything the latter is more important.
We don't currently have any official integrations with external issue trackers.

We do have a full API though (https://clubhouse.io/api/) so it probably wouldn't take much effort to build something for your issue tracker of choice, which some of our users have already done.
I changed banks about things like this. My bank once thought that i have to have Online Banking with my account, while all i wanted (and still do) is absolutely no remote access except with the debit card. They also told me that their eTan is much safer than the classic Tan system via post so they stopped it.

I really think less is more when it goes about the safety of my money.
How sad it is that the can of coke is used as a comparison. It almost makes it look like a reasonable drink.

The World Health Organization has recently suggested cutting the recommended sugar intake for adults in half, to about 25 grams, around 6 teaspoons, of sugar for a normal weight adult a day.

Here is my favorite site that shows the amounts of sugar cubes in various unhealthy food: http://www.sugarstacks.com/

According to that information you can drink a half can of coke (most left one in the picture in the link) to satisfy that daily need. That implies that all other food you eat that day will not include any sugar! That is an impossible standard to reach. Solution, don't drink drinks with sugar.
The conclusions presented by the article gel with my experience. There is nothing like cardio for helping me think better. Anything more intense forces my mind to concentrate on the exercise. Less intense and I don't really get any benefit from the exercise, might as well be sitting or laying down.

When I did HIIT-style cardio, the train of thought would be broken during the intense periods. I found that doing longer periods of less-intense activity was perfect for braining.
It is an old state of things, but the data is not an executable installer (that is usually the problem, as SF has a bad habit of infect them with malware), it's a ISO image. For nightly (trunk) builds ReactOS uses its own servers, so I guess it's about the maximal bandwidth that may be of concern here especially when the new version are released, and SF may address exactly that.
I'm fairly certain you don't need to use chip, but you do need to use the PIN.
Accept a resume where candidate misspells name of current company?
Clearly this candidate has English as a second language. I have no problems with that, especially having lived in another country myself. However, my standards for a resume are very high. And I'm concerned that the candidate has managed to misspell the name of the company s/he is currently working for. I can only imagine what other areas they would make a mess of and I'm concerned their communication is so bad they would be difficult to work with, as the resume has some additional spelling and grammar errors. Any thoughts on this?
Well, he mentioned developers and I'd like to think for the majority of developers those few extra steps wouldn't present a major challenge. Also the hardware is 100% supported when using a linux kernel optimized for pixel - https://github.com/raphael/linux-samus.
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You can use an integration like Zapier or our API [1] to automatically generate stories based on some external event. As already mentioned you can update the state within the story dialog, or using our GitHub integration you can partially automate the process by setting up rules like so:

- When pull request is opened on master, move story to Ready for Review

- When branch is merged to master, move story to Ready for Deploy

We use these rules ourselves, and they not only reduce process overhead, they make your cycle time data more realistic vs. doing these steps manually.

[1] https://clubhouse.io/api
That sounds really interesting to me. What size is your company? Would it make sense to work at a large company and get immersed? Do some mobile development? Design Mario maker levels?

I've done basic game development before (built centipede). Really like the design considerations involved in VR. Would love to start playing with that.
by your logic PHP/Hack should be used by everyone because it can handle the site-scale of Facebook...
Its really a pretty impressive design. Android phones are lacking here.
Ah, thanks. That makes more sense.
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For me I would say its about simply initial orientation of setting my hands down. Its hard to articulate but like the OP I will never buy one without it again - its just a nice feature that I have decided is essential.
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I found this article about this [1] to be rather enlightening.

1) http://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/02/17/apple-can-comply-with...
Disclosure I am a committer on Apache Drill and Apache Arrow.

This isn't actually true. The java implementation has been complete and used in Apache Drill, a distributed SQL engine, for the past few years. While we anticipate a few small changes to make sure the standard works well across new systems, this is by no means an announcement without tested code.

https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=arrow.git;a=commit...
The War on Cash
You can get an entire functioning laptop for under $100 these days.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Acer-Asp...

It doesn't run Windows 10 very well, with only 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage (neither of which are user-upgradeable), but is actually a surprisingly nice with a light Linux distro.