skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct.

But it depends. A lot on jurisdiction and local law.

Most banking systems I've worked with have a field 'cheque book issued' which is sometimes linked to a rule 'cheques outstanding'.

If the 'cheque book issued' field is false, no kind of cheque will be cleared. I'm not familiar with the US, but if an account was named a 'chequeing accound' would imply this is always set to true. Various red flags also exist, as a cheque book has cheques numbered, so the same number being used would result in payment denied. In the UK, payee blank cheques were disallowed in the 1990s, etc.

A long list of red flags, because banks hate cheques. The industry term is 'Manually Initiated Fund Transfer' which means, at some part of the transaction (any transaction - could be updating an interest rate, or an authorised signer), a manual step was involved. This creates huge risk of fraud, banks dislike fraud, and legal punishments are large, especially for the bank which has a procedure with holes to let it happen.

Cheques are manual, the responsibility is on the bank. An online initiated transfer, the responsibility is on the customer to ensure their password is safe (and the bank to also do automated checks - unusual IPs, 2nd factor confirmation, but much easier to automate). So a bank refusing to authorise payment from a cheque written on a napkin can be expected, as long as the process is documented as fraud control. Printing on company-headed document would probably work - the first small payment would raise many red flags, but if that cleared, future similar payments would be OK'd.

A single cheque to empty an account? Some kind of 2nd factor authentication would be employed by any sane bank, such as an old-fashioned call to the number the account is registered with.
can confirm; am writing business plan and looking for seed funding ;-D.
Retric was distinguishing between "the highest score" and "the best result". A higher score on an exam doesn't always turn into a higher grade in the class. If your outcomes are bucketed, you may be able to increase the odds you fall in the highest bucket by decreasing your probable final score.
With a wildfire there's no point in fighting 99% of it - you fight the edges that are near people/property, try to contain it, and wait for rain and for it to run out of fuel. So of a 1000 sq km fire it may only be a few dozen linear kilometers that are being actively fought.
Similarly, governments cannot exist without some taxable profits (aka business)
Bro pages – crowdsourced man pages
jeez this article and the washington post article on hiring being in a 6 yr low is really freaking me out. I'm currently in a coding boot camp while working as a waiter parttime. should I be worried?
Yishan-style CEOs?
Fixed:

Canada seems to be in so much trouble - I am wondering how things are there.

# Massive flooring of the Canadian dollar.

# Continued job losses months on end - Unemployment rate of 7.1% !

# Most expensive Natural Disaster in Canadian history.

# They got their Obama.
Anecdotally, most people I know and talk to in Canada (myself included) are doing fine; the low dollar hurts if you want imports or to travel abroad, but is good for exports and tourism. Alberta is hurting because of oil, but other provinces are doing decently well employment wise.
Apple HomeKit support. I think it's absurd the Nest doesn't natively support it.
I think this is more about distributions than it is about expected values. If VC and PE generate roughly the same returns to their investors (say 20% to 25% IRR), what does this mean for the companies they invest in? Fred Wilson notes (http://avc.com/2009/03/what-is-a-good-venture-return/) that with a five year average horizon, he expects roughly three buckets of outcomes:

1. 1/3 of investments go to zero, i.e. blow up and lose substantially all of investors' money.

2. 1/3 return 1.0x to 1.5x (on average across the bucket).

3. 1/3 return 7.5x (on average across the bucket).

That is wide distribution of outcomes. In PE, on the other hand, you'd get a much tighter distribution of outcomes around 2.7x returns. A single investment (much less 1/3) going to zero would destroy the fund, so PE funds want to prevent that from happening. The conclusion is that Vista is pretty sure it can get a 2.7x outcome or better, and it's also pretty sure it wont zero its investment.

So should Ping's competitors rejoice after the Vista buyout? It really depends on how quickly they're growing and how much market share they think they can win. Do they believe that either [1] Vista will fail in 2.7x-ing Ping, or [2] they can succeed even in this 2.7x world? If they believe either of these things, then the buyout is probably good news for them; if they don't, then it's probably bad news for them.
>IBM also doesn't talk any more about Packed Objects

Of course they do. You're just not looking in the right place.

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-spec-experts/
Facebook manages the public and private lives of over a billion people and is publicly traded. They will use the former every way legal plausibly deniable to help the latter.

This much power, I'm surprised that people are surprised. At this scale, I'd put a high estimation that there are multiple abuses from:
1) Private citizens who work there
2) Hackers with undisclosed access to their infrastructure
3) Governments around the world that have jurisdiction to suboena them
4) Governments that they want curry favor with (ie Germany, EU, USA)

I would guess that there were breaches that would be a scandal but, were caught quietly and handled internally and never made it out.

They have billions of dollars in the bank, some of the smartest people on the planet and a CEO that wants to change the world.

It's not like a conspiracy. It's just simple math. With software written by humans being as fragile and imperfect as it is and that much information as centralized as it is, it's crazy to trust that it's always stayed safe in the hands of Facebook and that your view of the world through Facebook's filter isn't being changed at all.
Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable:

Generally, for services provided, Accounts Payable aim for 60 days after service provided, and Accounts Receivable aim for 30 days since service provided.

I dislike it, and have a far nicer relationship with companies that pay on-the-spot. Indeed, I bend over backwards for such clients.
It's less that they don't have to pick the clothes. And more that they don't give a shit (about variation in style.)
We already have good alternatives to these things. My financial life runs entirely in bitcoin, except for the shrinking list of payees who are still allowed to request payment in fiat money. Of course, I had to move out, live elsewhere, and continue trading from there, to make it happen. But then again, everything is so much cheaper here ...
Leaked slides imply Intel Goldmont offers 30% better CPU performance
Ian {∅, M} Banks was the Honorary President of the Heriot-Watt University Science Fiction society when I was there; this coincided with me trying to give it up. kicking myself
And who will prosecute America?
I agree with you and your implications! Only through our efforts can we push back though.
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 coming to gaming notebooks
You are not really announcing it, due to the second price nature of the eBay "bidding agent", but tough luck when two high price bidders happen to bid on the same copy. With multiple auctions, bidding becomes surprisingly tactical.
If it seems like there's a chance someone might improve, we'd rather give them that chance.
What you are quoting is basically saying they'll use your microphone for anything they can think of, because obviously using the microphone is related to audio. To spell it out, tailoring content based on what they hear is a "feature that requires audio". The permission part they mention is an iOS restriction they can't get around.
> please be wary of writing scripts that deviate from these abstractions, and have significant data manipulation in the shell process itself.

I appreciate he mentions this first. Shell scripting is excellent in its domain, just as SQL is great in its.

You would write an application in SQL and you shouldn't write one in shell.
That email thread is worth a read. There were some serious misunderstandings and petty drama in there and it's hard to take any unsubstantiated accusations seriously after reading that.
Here Is the Powerful Letter the Stanford Victim Read Aloud to Her Attacker
I've been a remote worker for the past ten years. When I started my company 4 years ago, we took a remote-first stance. As time marched on though and as we wanted to become more tightly connected to the entrepreneurial community in Portland, Oregon, it was a no-brainer to move into the WeWork / Customs House building. It has been good for our team and it has enabled us to be closer to our customers and prospective customers. If we just wanted cheaper square footage, I'm sure we could find it -- but in a less desirable location and not with the benefit of month-to-month terms and the quality of facility.

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This is the correct answer.

From a forestry management perspective, you don't want the forest to live forever, and trying to prevent old, dead trees from burning is a nightmare. Let the fire burn, protect the property, and the forest will reseed itself during the fire.
Can you link to the mailing list? I'd like to read the replies.
Why are you not encrypting your MySQL connections with SSL? If you're in the cloud, you absolutely should be encrypting. Even if you're in your own colos, you should be encrypting (in the chance of inter-colo queries). Seriously, why aren't you encrypting this traffic? Query intelligence isn't an valid excuse. Turn on query logs instead. Percona has shown that the logging impact is very minimal (even if the link is 7 years old now) [0].

[0] https://www.percona.com/blog/2009/02/10/impact-of-logging-on...
Building a Raspberry-Pi Stratum-1 NTP Server
This is out of control awesome on so many levels. Data and relationships presented in a way that I want to explore, explore, explore. Way beyond "Oh, that's cute" and moving on.

mind blown.
You'll be fine. Just learn your trade. Lots of companies can't hire enough good programmers. And by good programmer, I just mean someone who can do at least one thing well and is a good worker.
My reading of the OP was just that there are tons and tons of C programmers, who almost certainly use C for many different reasons, and it's hard to believe any sweeping generalisation of such a large diverse group.... and therefore it's difficult to believe that none of the large and diverse number of C programmers trust anything after K&R.
If someone throws a chair at me, I will fuck them up. I don't care what their paygrade is or what authority they think they have.

Signed, someone who is normally calm, reserved and respectful.
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>>>I routinely generate images of checks which I then snap a picture of right off the monitor in order to remote deposit. Of course this is always done with the written and signed consent of the account holder.

This is clever on your part, but holy cow there should be a better system than this.
Bash is the love of my life! I have been working for years on this problem now (not full-time of course), gradually moving in the direction of finally being able to challenge this:

"Inappropriate use

shell is the main domain specific language designed to manipulate the UNIX abstractions for data and logic, i.e. files and processes. ... Correspondingly, please be wary of writing scripts that deviate from these abstractions, and have significant data manipulation in the shell process itself. While flexible, shell is not designed as a general purpose language and becomes unwieldly when ... "

Another person has actually solved the most important show stopper already: http://ctypes.sh.

What now remains to be solved, are a few minor, additional details, and then simply writing a good manual of how to very successfully use bash as a general-purpose language.

My personal belief is that everything that you can do in other scripting languages, you can also do in Bash, only better.
I agree that it's probably (let's say 60% confidence) impossible to satisfy all of these at once.

That said, if we have to pick just one, I think it's worth asking what information is conveyed by the test. For instance, if all that is reported is "pass/fail", we should pick a scoring rule that maximizes a test taker's chance of passing when they are well calibrated.

Most interesting to me is how different these scoring rules wind up being...
I can't prove whether or not the Facebook app is listening and reporting back to the mothership, however I do know that I've seen my battery life more than double since I deleted the FB app and switched to using the mobile website (which is extremely well implemented, btw) instead.

After removing the FB app, FB Messenger app, Instagram (which I never used anyway) and WhatsApp (ditto), I've gone from 20-30 hours between charges to 60-70 hours between charges. This is on an iPhone 6 that admittedly isn't used for much more than SMS, RSS, music in the car, and light browsing. Now, I can't say with certainty that removing those apps removed any battery-hogging 24/7 microphone monitoring, but no matter what it's clear the FB apps were draining the battery. Again, I'm still accessing FB just as much as I did before (about twice a day, for about 10 minutes at a time) but it's via the web browser.

Also, my data use has dropped, though not as significantly as battery life; where I was using about 1.5GB of data per month, now I'm just under 1GB/month (estimated based on the ~450MB used in the two weeks I've been FB-free)
What I mean is it won't tell you how a BI will affect the economy as a whole. Not that studying a pension scheme will either, but it can probably provide you with insights that are just as useful as YC's study will.
Always when it is about payments in the US I understand more and more why fintech startups are so successful in the US. In Germany I don't really see the point. Wire transfers and deposit entries are cheap, reliable and they work with every bank.

So fintech startups here have a much harder time to explain, what is different about them.

BTW. The case what is describe in the article sounds for me like some kind of deposit entry fraud. Something I feared for a while in Germany, because deposit entries are very common for e.g. phone bills. But they seem to be one difference, in Germany you can simply cancel it and get your money back, usually 6 weeks but courts already ruled that this is just the minimum time.
Smartphone with night vision
Not within Canada, and it's nontrivial (both in terms of paperwork and cost) for moving money from the USA to Canada.

I inquired at my bank about electronic funds transfer (think ACH, but in Canada) and it would have cost around $100/month to sign up for that.
If there's one thing I've learned it's not to cheap out on common life luxuries. I've actually gotten rid of any friends who thought it was worth the sacrifice of huddling with a blanket to save $50 a month. Especially when I was over their homes. Fuck that. Don't tout your own incapacities as wisdom.
Well there is ALFS, but i'm not sure if that is exactly what you are talking about.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/
At that range a malicious actor would be better served by attacking your actual wifi network.
It has nothing at all to do with programmable Vs. non-programmable. All of the homes I mentioned above, including ours, have a programmable thermostat.

You don't need a C wire for a programmable thermostat. The other channels provide power, the C wire just provides more. It is useful if you want to run a color LCD screen or WiFi. If you have a thermostat with a black & white calculator-like LCD, it likely doesn't have a C wire running to it.

> I've actually more commonly heard of some control boards that mess with the fan if you use the C wire rather than the power extension kit, since the control board basically fakes the C wire using the G wire as the Nest does if you don't have a C wire.

What? That would burn out thermostats. How would the control board know to pass 24Vac through a low voltage line? Can you link anything to this "common thing" that control boards do? Sorry but I'm extremely skeptical of that, it doesn't even make sense from a thermostat signal point of view, since they'd just assume you would run C if C was required during installation rather than doing the hack you're suggesting here.

The reality is that C isn't required on almost any included thermostat, programmable or simple. Good installers run the C but terminate it, bad installers just don't run the unneeded C. I've never heard or read about a first party control board which acts like a bypass kit out of the box, and I don't even understand the point.
I am talking about Yishan Wong, formerly of Reddit.
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I had two Honeywell Smart thermostats get fried by power surges. Because the design of these 'smart' thermostats is just stupid.

It's wrong for any of these thermostats to be using these wires for power. That is not the purpose of those wires. For that matter, it's shit engineering to require the thermostat be mounted on the wall hooked up to those wires like your old thermostat. The purpose of those wires, with their 24V AC, is to toggle relays. They could just as easily be done directly _at the furnace_, or just have a low-power battery powered radio module on the relay wires, with a WiFi or other wireless receptor talking to your sensors elsewhere, and with an app on your phone or tablet to control it.

Nest is an absolutely terrible design that everyone else copied. Its terrible design is crap for installation, customer support, and maintenance. It's needlessly complex.

But it looks nice?
Cheers fellow MTB'er :)

I had a pretty strong knee-jerk reaction to the electric mountain bike proposition initially. We're not really seeing the trails get overcrowded with them though, and I don't expect that any time particularly soon. With regular mountain bikes already costing an insane amount, I don't think any regular riders will risk it until prices become reasonable. I guess the weight requirements can be lessened though, which could help the cost.

I always assumed dirt bikes tore the hell out of trails (and some do), but what surprised me was trials bikes - with low pressure and good riding style, these actually have far less impact that your typical mountain biker (or hiker), even on sensitive moss/loam. With luck, we could have a similar situation with ebikes, perhaps even semi-automated.

My initial reaction I think was more disgust that untrained, out-of-shape people would be clamouring on my favourite trails en-masse, wrecking it in short order. That's a pretty exclusive/elitist opinion though, and doesn't make my athletic endeavours any less worthy. Plus that no e-bike is going to make descending shore-style trails any easier (probably the opposite).

Hopefully these things can evolve in a way that's inclusive, sustainable, and respectful to all trail users. Personally, I'd just like a little re-gen from my brakes :)

And for commuting, I think they're just about perfect. Once I have a long commute again, I'll probably nab one.
In our case, IP issues dictated for us to get off of university grounds. As anything you build can be claimed to belong to the school if developed on its property.

WeWork provided a good / cheap alternative for a small group of ppl.
It's trivial for them to see that you've auto-bid because of the increment and the speed at which a second bid is placed if they place one higher. So you are kind of announcing it. And on similar items, they can work one up to your limit, determine the limit, then return to best it on all the other items at the last minute.
I don't think it is, this was an effort by Tom Tromey and me on the side, not something the gcc/gdb community decided to do.

Also, without a stable abi I'd caution against having a separate frontend. The language "standard" isn't ready yet, either; it doesn't exist as a single document.
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Yes, for several years.