skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? What possible good would come about in making Go a better language by stopping the discussion? A language that doesn't grow isn't "complete" it's dying. And strategic complaint is one of the most effective ways to bring about change.

-- Continuously bring up that something is wrong.

-- Get them to agree that their viewpoint is good but not perfect.

-- Get them to agree that a change wouldn't be bad.

-- Get them to admit that a change might be good.

-- etc.

We're just now finishing the first step the are into the second. We keep going. Fight on soldiers!
The interchange which is what the bank gets and which they use to pay Apple.

For Maestro/MasterCard Debit/VPay/Visa Debit that's 0.2% in the whole EU (UK & DE included).

The girocard scheme negotiates the fees with the merchants and it's around 0.15% - 0.2%.

At least for the banks, it's not a big difference.
Law enforcement uses this technique when necessary. They also have a device to help move a wall-plugged device without powering it off.

I have heard confirmation of this from friends arrested in the UK (by Scotland Yard) and in the USA (by the FBI). I don't believe they actually witnessed it being done,just that they had what was needed. Though my infosec instructor in university was in the RCMP (Canada) and mentioned hqving done it himself so I'm rather confident law enforcement globally has had this in their arsenal for awhile.
All of the "alternatives" that came into town after uber/lyft left are absolutely terrible.

I have a car, but there are many in Austin (students in particular) who relied on uber/lyft to get around. Nothing available today can offer the same speed and reliability of service.
Love the sentiment, need data on the accuracy. Even during the golden years of SNL, you had sketch artists like Chris Farley whom we were constantly being asked to laugh AT. And in Farley's case, it contributed to mental illness and his eventual death.

Edit:I was thinking of the Murray/Belushi days and don't know why I thought Farley was around the same time
Bash first came out in 1989, but the typical shell of the time was sh, and it ran on Unix systems with more memory, storage, and CPU power than the typical PC. Thus it's no surprise that the sh family started with more features, while COMMAND which cmd evolved from was extremely minimalistic. DOS 1.0's COMMAND.COM was just slightly more than 3 kilobytes and didn't have conditional nor goto statements:

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-1-0-and-1-1/dos-1-0-dir/

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-1-0-and-1-1/
Movie written by AI turns out to be hilarious and intense
Have the line ending wars ended yet? Apple is finally Unix \n, but most internet protocols are \r\n as are Windows.

Though honestly, Windows just doesn't even matter any more to me, I haven't needed to touch an MS product in years...
A nice spice-up for my X-files watching routine, thanks.
As you say, it's better if you don't rely on coal for electricity production, but it's important to note, because there's lots of propaganda doing its best to suggest otherwise, that it's still a good idea if you're using coal.

Using coal is of course a ridiculous thing to do, and should be phased out immediately, but still, electric cars make sense even in that horrible scenario.
You lost me when you used Vitamin D as the reason why Jesus rose from the dead.
A few piecemeal service / new ride-share services have cropped up... but by and large we're stuck using taxis again.

And taxis suck.
Those are local projects (Waterloo/Kitchener/Cambridge), right? Are they actually planning on improving the very slow and intermittent rail connection to Toronto?
No a lot of us are either staying here and working remotely for companies stateside or we are moving to the states altogether. This is especially true of Waterloo. Most of the Waterloo devs I know, and they are really good mind you, are either in Seattle or Bay Area working for one of the Big 4. To stay competitive, Toronto will have to reel these individuals in and I don't believe there's sufficient incentive to accomplish that right now. See this[1] for instance.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/2d7818/w...
The "terms" may forbid that practice (discount for cash) but I see it all the time especially at smaller merchants.

I also see it on any "public" transaction. Try to pay your property or income taxes, university tuition, etc. using a credit card -- there will be a "processing fee" tacked on.
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No Canadian citizen would ever be paid less than minimum wage it was only the TFW who could be paid that.

I'm not sure of the exact wage but I know it was less than the minimum wage which is roughly $11/hour, although each province sets its own rate.

There were also problems of TFWs being house in apartments that the business owner owned and took wages for rent. Often having a dozens of people in a small apartment.

Other reports of passports being confiscated and return tickets home revoked. It's an embarrassment and thankfully the previous right wing government has been turfed.

I think the law now states TFW get the same pay and only to fill labour shortages since the program was meant to fix a labour shortage and nothing to do with wages.
Yeah. But that's not the endgame.

Cashiers will almost assuredly offer a Walmart branded MasterCard or Amex if they were trying to buy with visa.

Bingo- Walmart has both eliminated visas Costs and developed a new revenue stream. And I imagine their quants know how many of their visa customers have alternate credit cards or debit capabilities.
What makes you think that the oil has anything to do with it?

Really the connection between electric cars and oil is the long term thinking that both require, the kind of forward thinking that drove Norway to INVEST the tax income from the oil instead of SQUANDERING it as the UK did.

I lived the first 30 years of my life in the UK so I saw at first hand how it was done there and I've been in Norway now for another 30 years and this sort of thing is definitely handled better here (no it's not paradise but there seem to be fewer people trying to turn it into hell).
How PayPal Plans to Get Back on Top in Digital Payments
Great, dowvoted for reporting a problem. Typical HN.
Obama's election says otherwise.

Trump's and Cruz's victories say otherwise.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11875829
So luck is the key. If your mutations are good you live a long healthy life.
IIRC there was a doctor posting in other threads about his bone-marrow stem cell banking startup. My understanding was that these stem cells were stored when young, and could be multiplied in a lab environment and then re-injected therapeutically (to cure MS or arthritis or whatever). Would these kind of banked stem cells (say, banked in one's early or late twenties) also potentially assist with life extension?
bash came out in 1989. The Bourne shell it's backwards compatible with is from 1977. But both were designed to run on Unix on multi-user multi-process machines. DOS batch language was designed to run on a single-user single-process machine. There's a reason they used to make a distinction between "minicomputers" and "microcomputers".
WebViews do suck on mobile and it's not a myth. People talk about how it's catching up but that's the problem: it will be a perpetual "catching up" game, forever. Devices are built with proprietary technologies and they will forever keep adding new features. HTML is a standard which can only progress through a long process of debate and agreement. They will probably end up implementing only those features that are at the intersection of Android and iOS feature sets.

The title of this post is a lie. What the OP is saying is "It sucks but what are we gonna do? Hire more native developers for all platforms?". I don't know how that's a "myth debunking" for "webviews suck".
That's a very poetic way to describe the war-subsidized SUVs that many Americans drive.
See: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality by Clay Shirky (February 8, 2003) http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/powerlaw_w...

"In systems where many people are free to choose between many options, a small subset of the whole will get a disproportionate amount of traffic (or attention, or income), even if no members of the system actively work towards such an outcome. This has nothing to do with moral weakness, selling out, or any other psychological explanation. The very act of choosing, spread widely enough and freely enough, creates a power law distribution."

For a much bigger look at similar effects, see Critical Mass by Philip Ball https://www.amazon.co.uk/Critical-Mass-Thing-Leads-Another/d...
They are available to non residents; but only if they were allowed to get an SSN.
Artificial genome could create a ‘blank slate’ human template
I work at a company producing a competing product, but I don't see why you were downvoted. Convox fills a particular niche for pure-AWS shops.
You are overstating the power of the fingerprint. It's only 2^17 if every bit of your entropy is random between you and other users of the browser. Likely many of those bits have very common settings shared by many users.
The economy is not the only, or even the main, measure of a nation's success. Even if it were, the US is not at the top in many important economic measures, so the evidence seems to go against your thesis.
No Waterloo is not and will not call itself a part of greater Toronto. It's like saying Baltimore is a part of DC (just a little bit closer), or like saying Philadelphia is a part of New York City (just a little bit farther).

Kitchener-Waterloo is a distinct town, and is a part of the original Canadian "Tech Triangle" - with the demise of RIM/Blackberry, it's lost the lustre but there's no way anyone can take seriously bundling Waterloo into the Greater Toronto Area.
If I could downvote you, I would. That's probably why I'm not allowed to. :)
Maybe you guys should check out Jason www.jsonclient.org which I posted yesterday :)
I'm not sure. We have both strong desires to escape blame, but also the strong desires to blame others. And once we've become accustomed to blaming people for a particular thing, it's hard to let go.

To what extent the mental is distinct (or not) from the physical body/brain, well... we have no frakking clue. We have a laundry list of disorders previously thought to be purely "mental", that are now known to be physical. Then the rest we just kind of blame people for.

I think really what we should ask is, "Does blame work in case X, Y or Z"?

e.g.

- Does blame cause your child to do better in school and stop acting like a monster? Yes? Great, use blame.

- Does blame cause PTSD victims to get over it? No? Then stop blaming them, lets find another way (possibly physical) to fix it.
There has been surprisingly little of cancer in mice with overexpression of telomerase. In fact mice with increased telomerase expression have less cancer, for reasons yet to be explored. Perhaps increased immune surveillance in old individuals, though that is pure speculation.

Still, mice and humans have different telomere dynamics, and so it is wise - I think - to be wary of the cancer risk question. More testing of telomerase overexpression needs to be done in other mammals with more human-like telomere dynamics.
>The idea that the universe runs on a simple program with simple rules hasn't failed us so far.

Uhhhh... yes it has. The universe has myriad levels at which a simple program works. If the universe "really" runs on a simple program with simple rules, it's got so large a parameter space that even knowing the program itself is mostly useless to us.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6738
All information are provided from your domain / your server software. Try to hide some information like removes SERVER-Header amd comments in sourcecode.
Germany?
It's required by the regulation and now also the contracts of MasterCard, Visa and even Girocard. It's just almost all German merchants that don't care following that.
Bughouse: A Crazy, Addictive Variation on Chess
I think I know what you mean -- Even if on the surface he appears to be making fun of Joe Cocker [1], Belushi's impersonation was the deepest form of respect [2] [3]! Trump's impersonation of Serge Kovaleski [4], on the other hand...

[1] http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=26b_1315119865

[2] http://ultimateclassicrock.com/joe-cocker-john-belushi/

[3] http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGAqmaBjQxg
For example this mini page: http://builtwith.com/geoip.appspot.com
There's a few means of fingerprinting which are pretty much impossible to protect against, most obviously what fonts you have installed, which in combination with user agent and screen-size actually gets you a heckuva long way with fingerprinting.

Hopefully we can try and vastly reduce the leakage from navigator.plugins, but that might be hard to do without breaking the web, sadly.
Most the talent gets drawn to Silicon Valley, from what I've seen.
What matters in schools is teachers. Fortunately, teaching can be taught
Riot games moves people to Santa Monica where rent on a two bedroom is $4K/month, pays them the same amount they will make elsewhere, and then fires them for weird shit after they already have a lease on an apartment, and you think that's unlike the Stanford prison experiment? Those people will likely take a year or more to recover from the financial disaster of working for that company.
A few months ago, I was in hospital for a major surgery. It went OK, I saw family but was going to be in for a few days to deal with recovery. Heavy painkillers.

After a few days, I woke up just after sunrise and discovered an eerie silence. I realized that I had been kidnapped and put on a train to some foreign country - they had been coming in every few hours to interrogate me and check my papers as we passed through different territories - but now the train had stopped and I was completely alone.

There was a strange city outside the window and I knew that it was my job to escape - I am a security operative and I'd been taken against my will.

They were putting drugs in me to keep me sedated - I ripped the IV out of my arm and made my way to a closet area where I ripped through supplies until I found street clothes (I realized that there was another sedated agent in the train car as well - he stirred, but I managed not to wake him.)

I snuck out of the train and into the landing tube, which was empty except for some thugs at the far end; I snuck the other way and had made it to the elevators before I was caught.

And gently led back to my hospital room, had the blood cleaned from my arm, and put back into my hospital bed. Where I woke up a few hours later, with memories of this strange dream.

But it wasn't a dream - I did rip out my IV and try to escape from a hospital. There was a strange city outside my window - I had to travel for surgery. And I was conscious when I made my escape and completely and utterly convinced that what I thought was reasonable and real. Of course I was such a valuable individual that they would kidnap me - and that there was an external "they" (or to put it another way "the other") that was doing something to me.

I believed this completely - it was as true to me as my cat (or what I like to think of as my cat, if you prefer) throwing up on the carpet in front of me right now.

But now I know that my cat is not doing this on purpose, nor was he poisoned by the NSA.

Andy, I'm very sorry that you're going through what you're going through, and my experience informs me that what you feel is absolutely real is what is real to you - but there are objective and subjective realities and if you can externalize yourself from the situation you find yourself in, you may discover that coincidences are coincidences and you don't need to find a hypothesis to fit a random pattern.

I think that pareidolia can be applied to situations and feelings as well as visual artifacts. Humans pattern match compulsively.
Git for Windows asks during installation if you want to replace your Windows line endings with Unix-style. You can have it replace LF with CRLF on checkout and revert on commit, or you can just have it do the revert (swap CRLF with LF) on commit and not do the first replace. Or you can just leave everything as-is.

Interestingly, when manually making a multi-line string in Powershell, only the LF character ( `n ) is needed to make a new line. Using CRLF ( 'r'n ) gives identical behavior in most strings.
His economic plan would require all the wealth produced by the top 100 U.S. companies. He also previously and openly called for nationalization of U.S. companies. Oh and if you look at his past votes they're almost all opposite of his campaign.

Bernie isn't a moderate (by U.S. standards anyways) he's far left.

I'll give it to you Hillery and Trump are also awful, but they are all pretty distasteful.
That's a real bug, but I'm not sure that it means powershell is garbage.
Not a substitute at all. It would be like getting rid of football, but still wanting people to go to stadiums for the sake of going to stadiums. Football was the reason they went.

The religions bind mostly due to the doctrine of the religion, not the activities of it. UU has no real doctrines and no binding point. Without that doctrine motivating you to do the activities, people just stop or don't bother. This is why secular attempts will mostly fail, because the doctrines they do have tend to be extremely narrow and non-universal, i.e. knowledge worker-style atheism.
It's a reality in the states. But, yes, it's weird.

We model credit worthiness largely on past payments of credit; which means that we are incented to use the system.

I don't see using my credit card as really "using credit." I use it as a charge card and pay every bill as it comes; so it's merely a (30-59 day) float. I, of course, have a difference financial capability than much of the US, and recognize that privilege. For many people, CC float is what let's them live paycheck to paycheck and is the first brick in Americans penchant for debt.

That being said; there is a huge benefit to many consumers having a short term credit facility. It's as if the CC industry made a micro loans initiative. (And then proceeded to abuse it).
No-fee checking accounts typically pay no interest and have a minumum balance requirement. That is what makes them profitable to the bank.
> I live here and it is still beautiful

Me too. Never been further north than Steinkjer though.
Last time I was there a good friend cost around $300 an hour
Gas stations make most of their money off the convenience store and not the pumps. If you pay cash, you have to walk into the store so you're more likely to buy a high margin candy bar. The greater than 3% discount could be trying to incentivize entering the store.
Many banks offer notifications for offline transactions too. I get an SMS for every charge.
These people found an ally in California's anti-mind control candidate for U.S. Senate:

"... the freedom to think one's own thoughts free from interferance such as that from Voice to Skull (V2K) mind control technology ... legislation to ban non-consensual human experimentation and mind control slavery by means of satellite weapons systems and and GWEN Tower platforms ..."

http://www.massiemunroe4ussenator.com
It seemed like the game is not necessarily rigged, but information is power. Regular traders are playing for table scraps compared to the really huge people who play politics, not markets.

For example, http://priceonomics.com/the-trade-of-the-century-when-george...

What did Soros know about what would happen and what did he actually cause to happen? The story sounds nice on the surface (I made a multi-billion dollar bet on a quote from some guy - lol), but I wouldn't be surprised if there was some back channelling going on.
I live in Austin and sold my car about 2 years ago to Uber exclusively. Any given month of ubering costs about a quarter what my commuting costs would be with my own car. My wife is unable to drive for health reasons, so now that Uber is gone, just buying a car isn't ideal, regardless of economics.

While I'm grateful for the new ride sharing companies, I wish Uber was back. There are a lot of tiny details that Uber nailed that without, my day-to-day life requires quite a bit more mental overhead.

For example, I cannot have multiple cards on file, so I often have to remember to swap out the card before I can call a ride based on whether it's a business meeting. Uber would almost always pick me up within 3 or 5 minutes; even when the new apps show drivers right around the corner, I usually get matched with someone 15 minutes away—and the ETA is always way off. This makes scheduling things more difficult. They're quite a bit more expensive.

None of those things are deal-breakers, of course. But it's kinda like having an iPhone and then going back to a flip-phone. It still works, you're glad you can still call people, but a lot of the magic is gone. And while I know all of the companies are working hard to catch up, the edge cases are numerous enough that I don't think it's realistic for them to deliver a magical experience anytime soon.
I'm an old timer. Farley's tenure is well past the years I'm referring to, as best I remember.
>> or use a language that fits your purpose better.

There is no other language that fits my purpose better. Does that have to mean Go is perfect? That I have to stop complaining ... even if it means no change will come about? Even if you think it may be perfect but I don't?

I think Go makes a very nice general purpose language. Better than the others I've tried: C#, Java, D, Rust, Dart, Python, Elixir, and more. All have critical flaws that make them worse for my purposes. If another better language comes along I'll switch. In the meantime I'll continue to use it but will complain about the things I wish I could change but don't have the ability to change myself.

>> ...although I think the same of _most_ languages.

Please elaborate on the non-mosts. I likely have missed many in my searches.
Merriam Webster definition of 'deadly':

1: likely to cause or capable of producing death <deadly poison>

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deadly
That is not how an engineer should think. An engineer designs the right tool for the job and does so as efficiently as possible (think money and time-wise). Say customer wants an app where its clients login, fill a couple of forms, do a couple of queries. What would a well trained engineer do for such app? Spend 4x to gain a 5-10% better UI experience and maybe a 30-40% battery efficiency? Or, would she sacrifice a bit of both but deliver a single code base that solves the problem?

Now, if such engineer faces a game or a camera/gps intensive app, she would probably choose native.

In any case, the good engineer never generalizes the solutions. Context is crucial.
> Does every single screen need to have 60 fps animations, with activities that launch from where my finger touches the screen? Does fidelity matter on an admin screen?

But this is the exact "myth" you claimed to "debunk". This is why people claim WebViews suck.

If you want to trade user experience away to reduce development work, that's fine. Lots of people make that compromise. But your claiming this is a "myth", and then admitting it's true.

Users may not always articulate this fully, but users do notice when apps are "janky" -- when animations aren't fluid, or when UI doesn't accurately respond directly to their input, or when screens "flash funny" because your switching between native activities and webviews.

You may not care about the experience that has been lost. And perhaps your particular customers don't mind that loss of care for the details. That's not inherently bad in any way. But it's not a "myth" either, you have lost a part of the experience you could have offered.
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You're on Hacker News. Most people who say they hate powershell have done so little posh they don't even know 'select' or 'where'.