skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody here has mentioned the Merchant Category Codes, which is what governs the max amount before a transaction is required to have sig or PIN. I'm sure it varies by country too, but I only have experience with the US system.

Edit:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_category_code
Yeah, interesting "loophole" in the whole loans system. I'll have to do more research.
In the real world, people use Microsoft Word, or even LibreOffice Write. Yet another flavor of Markdown is not helping.
Typosquatting in Programming Language Package Managers [pdf]
Money and Idea is not Enough
Editing PSD without Photoshop
Do employees actually use the word "Googley"? Is this seen in a positive light?
Typescript is ridiculously easy to learn. The only hard part is getting your typings/build/environment set up, the actual semantics of the language are a breeze.

There are some subtle nuances to structural typing and interface definitions if you want to write really slick code, but for the most part you can get by without them.
Coincidentally I just finished reading this. Highly recommended for anyone interested in sci-fi!
This. Notepad++ has been my goto for years. It's tabbed, it does some highlighting. Opens literally anything. I've never wanted for more than Notepad++ offers by default. And if I did... there's plugins.

I know a bunch of people who swear by UltraEdit too. I think Notepad++ vs. UltraEdit is like the far tamer Windows version of Vim vs. Emacs.
Also ponzi schemes.
Brett Victor's Aligator Eggs helped me to finally understand beta reduction in Lambda Calculus. http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/

Something about the colors and pictures clicked in my brain in a way that Greek letters did not.
Sorry for my lack of clarity, I was talking about both types of roofs, since the classic Somerville triple decker has a flat roof, and the classic Philadelphia a pitched roof with shingles. I was wondering about the former since I've never seen one as such, aside from some one story commercial ones when I lived in a higher adjacent apartment.

And thanks for the comments, you've saved me some research when it comes time to replace my roof.
I am curious if a huge DAO-like organization could avoid being a target solely by keeping very of its wealth liquid at any moment... i.e. what would have happened if 99.99% of the DAO's eth were loaned out... would the hacker have bothered? (assuming it wasn't an inside job)
If they'd just adopt chip readers then liability stays with the card companies.

This is actually something that has really puzzled me about the American chip rollout. As of October 2015, any merchant without a chip reader bears full liability for fraudulent chargers. I was sure that this would mean everybody would be switched over on time. Forcing merchants to pay for fraud is a pretty big threat! And yet here we are most of a year later, and I still see tons of stores with no chip readers. Even weirder, I see tons of stores with chip readers that don't work because they haven't activated it on the backend. Why....
Software unveiled to tackle online extremism, violence
> It needs to be clear: you need to know what the name refers to.

> It needs to be precise: you need to know what it does not refer to.

Is there such a generally accepted distinction between the meanings of "clear" and "precise"?
> So anytime anyone has an idea of any kind (i.e. no matter how stringent your standards for patentability), someone else with more resources and hands in a lot of huge markets can just say "cool" and then take it?

If your idea is simple enough that they can easily replicate and improve it, then yeah. Of course.

What are you proposing? An alternative where society will not benefit from this idea because nobody who actually has the means to realize the idea can execute?
Does this article provide anything additional to the BI article to which it links?

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-holding-lady-day-2016-...
That's how design patents work in the USA, also. If you can get secret designs from a competitor and patent them first, you can then wait for the product to become popular and sue.

And design patents are not considered to require examination as to content in the USA. They're just approved if the forms are filled out correctly.

And if any part of the design of a product (even just one rounded corner on a $700 phone) resembles a patented design, you're entitled to 100% of the profit ever made on that product in the USA. China is nowhere near that shifty.
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>> That's as close as you're gonna get to "primary source" folks!

Yes it is. Whenever I think of PKzip I am reminded of the sad tale of Phil Katz death - partly because I share his first and last initials, and now reading his Wikipedia page I see we had more in common. Fortunately alcoholism is not my thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Katz
Show HN: An automated Instagram Scheduler
Instagram does not offer APIs to schedule a post for future. However, we have found a way to do so. Not only scheduling but you can automate things like liking, commenting or even copying followers of your competitors. Give it a look at http://fanharvest.com/
Godel's theorem applies to systems that model the natural numbers (specifically, Robinson arithmetic), not real numbers. The first-order theory of the real numbers is decidable. (The second-order theory is not, since you can define the natural numbers in that, and then Godel's theorem applies.)

Your general point, of course, that Godel's theorem means a specific thing, and people should stop abusing it as if it means "everything has loopholes!", remains correct.
Draft bill would boost H-1B worker pay for big visa users
> The US needs to set some ground rules with our Chinese rivals...

Unlikely to work. China knows what works in their country. I think the TPP approach where we just lay ground rules with people who actually respect us (ie: Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam) and try to get these countries to work with us instead of China... this is a better approach.

I mean, what is the US supposed to say to China? Stop doing things... in your country? That we don't like?

It's China's country. They can do whatever they want. Especially since US Companies are so enamored with the hope of making profits over there.
I created voipspear.com about 8 years ago and have been running it ever since.
Usually the millions of dollars comes after there's some sort of promise shown. This is basically the equivalent of doing an IPO with nothing but a nice-sounding business plan, and having people shower you with money only to discover that, oops, your real business plan is to take the money and flee to the Cayman Islands with it.
NASA Hybrid Electric Research Plane Gets X Number, New Name
Thanks! The "How to build a community site like Yelp" course launches in a few weeks. Then, the most-requested courses that I'll be adding next are 1) how to build an on-demand app like Uber and 2) how to build a chatbot for Slack/FB messenger. So I'm investigating the best way to teach those now :)
We obviously don't hang around the same people/age group. There is always at least one person in my circle of friends that needs a charger.

Obviously 90% of the time a phone could be used (though I don't agree it's faster than credit card tap, roughly the same speed) and a card can be used as backup, but it makes ditching a credit card completely not really an option.
Paywall?
Are you referring to this kind of upgrades https://gist.github.com/Arachnid/4ca9da48d51e23e5cfe0f0e14dd... ? Because you have an important limitation if you use that approach.
GitHub's Chris Kelly: Content Is King and Other Clichés
I like the response of the job titles. I think it's a cool way to draw attention to an issue in a subtle and playful way.

But something feels a little contrived about the hoopla around this.

In my experience with shareholder meetings you have a blend of sophisticated investors interested in the true financial performance of the company on the one side.

On the other it's sprinkled with tiny shareholders who literally have nothing else to do in the middle of the day and are looking for some excitement.

If you're a shareholder, eg you own one share of stock, you're allowed to attend and ask questions.

Since the media has not identified the shareholder (anywhere I can find) my assumption is that this is some grizzled wingnut small shareholder making a nonsensical statement that the media LOVED and grabbed onto to fit like a puzzle piece into a controversial narrative and drive clicks.

Not bad that it's highlighting the issue, but let's understand the context that the media leaves out - eg this is not an institutional investor!
If he's rich, nobody will correct him.
Lost Ethereum due to the DAO debacle? Here's a website to mitigate the damage
I appreciate you not only explaining it but coming up with two, alternate terms that don't sound so dumb. As in, not calling a centralized architecture "serverless". Your names also fit within context of what people are calling other "N as a Service" schemes.
it is a SasS.
With design patents, you don't have to specify transitions or curve radii. It's enough to draw that the corners are curved. There is no examination of the content of design patents and lack of specificity is generally not considered a problem by the PTO and courts.
The set of all real numbers is unconstructable. Gödel's proof requires only a finite amount of natural numbers.
Valid concern for sure. So the answer is basically I've setup lots of tests, monitoring, and alerting (thanks Pingdom, Runscope, and Pagerduty). Quite truthfully the code is stable and mature as this point. Shoot me an e-mail, I can go over more details if you're interested in learning more.
Some offensive examples, and things like the accordian are not accessible, anyway, I gave up after a few seconds, but otherwise a great starting effort perhaps.
Fascinating.

I wonder what the cultural implications are if this passes. Someone generally expects their peer group to make within ~20% of what they make, not "2x."
I'm afraid you can't have it both ways. In part of your comment, you say that attacking someone in a sexist way is quite easy to do because it's unintentional, it's done by people who are not sexist, and broadly applicable statistical heuristics should be used to determine the likelihood that a remark is sexist.

Elsewhere, you say there is a big difference between non-sexist and sexist criticism. A big difference should be observable and definable, thus easy to avoid committing.

My opinion is that there actually is a big difference and your heuristics are wrong. I would not accuse someone of a serious faux pas, which a reasonable thing to feel accused and defensive about, unless I could clearly explain the difference between it and a reasonable remark in a way that others could repeatedly point to when constructing their own remarks. In a statute or regulation, this kind of definition is referred to as a safe harbor.
I've traded comments with those guys on reddit. They live in a completely different reality. And people said Steve Jobs had a "reality distortion field." He had nothing on those guys.
"five-time reduction in the energy required for a private plane to cruise at 175 mph"

5x. Wow!
The London underground ticket barriers support both Apple Pay and contactless cards. Using Apple Pay is a guaranteed way to enrage everybody standing behind you in the queue. It's not fast enough. The fingerprint reader isn't perfectly reliable. And I am terrified of dropping my phone and it being trampled.
Because they aren't breaking any rules.

You're allowed to show different content based on referrers, just not if the user-agent is googlebot.
I agree the debates largely aren't about the dating & inconsistencies in the various transcripts we have today (although that is debated.)

The debates are regarding the underlying source documents that were used to assemble the gospels. E.g. Was there a Q? What was in Q? When was Q written? Who wrote Q? Why do the gospel stories have apparent contradictions? Who wrote those stories? Why? When? Based on what? How did they decide what to include and what to exclude? Do we even know what the original disciples thought of these stories?

There is so much we don't know about that first 100 years. At some point certain collected writings were deemed more authoritative, and there was a systematic purging of any disagreeable texts.

If you accept that parts of the gospel were written later in the first century based on stories that had been communicated verbally over long periods of time between different cities, cultures and languages... then the difference between the canon and the apocrypha becomes a little more blurry.

E.g. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas also date from the second century, and clearly shows wild stories were circulating verbally then being written down and accepted as canon by certain remote churches.

To paraphrase Ehrman & Fredriksen, you can argue that the stories in the gospels evolved and were selected largely to make certain theological points, or to counter the prevalent arguments against the religious movement.
When you pay rent with virtual money suddenly it starts getting more serious.
> users.map {|u| "(" + u.first_name + ")" }

If you need to specify the "u" in order to re-use it in one place only, then your language is syntactically challenged. Use a better language instead of caring about the names. A more flexible language would enable a predefined name like "it" or "_" instead, e.g:

users.map{"(" + it.first_name + ")"}

or even provide syntax to do common stuff, e.g. the asterix in:

users*.{"(" + first_name + ")"}
What a nice reply to come back and find here. Thank you!
Rackspace Mail handles this for over 3 million business users. Their hosted e-mail is fully managed with a 100% uptime SLA and 24/7/365 live support. It's only $2 per mailbox per month.

https://www.rackspace.com/en-us/email-hosting/webmail
thanks, never posted anything on HN before, only reading it. Let me try to submit it there :)
Do such recruiters exist?

My sense at this point is that they basically don't. My experience has been that while there have always been recruiters who were shady and/or flakey, until about 5 years ago a significant enough minority were at least borderline competent at the task they were nominally intended for (to wit: provide ballpark vetting of candidates + finessing the negotiation and relationship, generally). And up until then, they (also) seemed to be in it for the longer haul -- and to at least intuitively understand that referrals and repeat business actually matter, and hence, that one's reputation is extremely important (and not to be jeopardized by flakiness, shabby behavior generally).

That is: I never used to particularly like dealing with them... but there seemed to be about 15% or so of their lot who seemed to be basically honest, and if not particularly gifted at the vetting and relationship-building part, they did manage to create value once in a while. Also, there wasn't nearly the stigma against them (among both companies and developers) like there is now.

By now, though -- it seems this 15% has basically dried up. Now, it's not just fake chumminess (and the considerable slice out of our paychecks), and occasional lies we have to expect in dealing with them -- nowadays, they routinely lie, and routinely blow you off the minute they don't see a commission coming. They blatantly don't care about repeat business with you, or their reputation, at all.

There might be one or two out holdouts from the older, by no means "golden" more more pragmatic, business-oriented days of this profession -- but if there are, I don't see any significant chance that I might run into one.
So maybe we should start to coin the word "parasitOME" as microbiome? I guess the interaction between [ human host <-> parasiitOME (parasites population) <-> parasites' microbiome <-> microbiome ] through immune responses would be the next frontier to be explored

> Two years’ worth of hookworms cost $2,500.

But at the same time I think that whole home-brew therapeutic parasites thing is kind of an overshoot (or scam?) Maybe just live in a third-world country for 2 weeks or 2 months, eating local street food, raw fruits, drinking local water would be easier and more effective to acquire 'necessary' parasites (along with parasites' cultivation conditions) to subdue such immune system 'imbalance'?

Also I don't believe those those home-brew parasites incubators discard or disinfect their extra batch of larvae / embryos or utensils by autoclave or other means - more likely it's just dumped in the toilets and circle to public sewage system. I would not be surprised to see some parasites outbreak in the near future if this is going to be a trend and some home-brew parasites incubators just happen to live near some water treatment plants or upstream some major dams.
If programming didn't take so much handiwork I think I would've taken knitting as something to do while watching TV. My roommate used to take her knitting to the coffee shop and pub, which inadvertently was a good conversation starter for guys.
I spoke to a solutions architect on AWS who said that their recommendation for building a new backend service (eg. a REST API) is to use API gateway and Lambda. I definitely got the impression that he meant full-fledged apps.
Your about page says you have a 5 man team, though?
Is it really ethical to make someone else's labor worthless just because you want to do their job as a hobby?

(The answer: maybe.)
The threats to computing science (1984)
In other compression news, Apple open sourced their implementation of lzfse yesterday: https://github.com/lzfse/lzfse. It's based on a relatively new type of coding - asymmetric numeral systems. Huffman coding is only optimal if you consider one bit as the smallest unit of information. ANS (and more broadly, arithmetic coding) allows for fractional bits and gets closer to the Shannon limit. It's also simpler to implement than (real world) Huffman.

Unfortunately, most open source implementations of ANS are not highly optimized and quite division heavy, so they lag on speed benchmarks. Apple's implementation looks pretty good (they're using it in OS X, err, macOS, and iOS) and there's some promising academic work being done on better implementations (optimizing Huffman for x86, ARM, and FPGA is a pretty well studied problem). The compression story is still being written.
1. China isn't and hasn't been third world by definition. It's second world.

2. Lots of E Asian countries with similar workforces developed without stealing IP. The strong arm tactics against foreigners are a way for the Chinese government to control local industries, not to grow them. It slows down economic development but keeps it under the thumb of the Communist Party.
> from more than a few inches away

Nah, you can always crank up the power in line with the inverse square law. Your other reasons are plausible. RFID tags are fairly cheap, but they can't compete with printing a barcode on a label.
Why not? Isn't the purpose of a file compressor to squeeze file sizes down?
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• Cyrus – it's used by Fastmail and others, and with its perl API somewhat manageable. We e.g. put all configuration in Active Directory and sync it over with said API. It also has reasonable clustering and replication support.

• Google Apps.
Actually, I was thinking of CommonMark when I wrote that. The spec is still ambiguous, and a reference implementation is not a formal grammar...
Ars Technica had an article about running your own mailserver, to include IMAP, awhile back (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to... while it's targeted at the individual user, a lot of the steps would apply to a larger, multi-server organisation. You could extend postfix with a PostgreSQL database, split the different servers onto different hosts &c.

Honestly, these days it's probably easier and cheaper to just buy Google Apps or Office365, but if you want to control your own destiny it's really not difficult.
We said: “We love what we’re doing” and shut down our startup
You should be able to at least add IMAP instead of POP3, no?
The list of methods looks exactly like this

https://users.cs.jmu.edu/buchhofp/forensics/formats/pkzip.ht...
Jury awards $22m to man locked in closet by police for four days
If you can't tell, and you're not a police officer or any other government employee charged with keeping the peace, why does it matter?
Waze Is Fixing One of Its Most Annoying Features
I wonder what the most interesting program you can fit in the number of bytes it takes just to represent this class's name is.
Lots of people have traded serious amounts of real money for those game tokens.
Read the firmware 6.2 release notes.[1] "Automatic Emergency Braking - a new Collision Avoidance Assist feature — is designed to automatically engage the brakes to reduce the impact of an unavoidable frontal collision. Automatic Emergency Braking will stop applying the brakes when you press the accelerator pedal, press the brake pedal, or sharply turn the steering wheel"

In "autopilot" mode, the automatic cruise control prevents you from hitting the car ahead at all. Touch the brake, and you've disabled both Autopilot and Automatic Emergency Braking. Yesterday, that caused another accident.[2]

If you drive a Tesla, failure to carefully read firmware release notes can kill you.

Compare BMW.[3]

[1] https://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/tesla_model_...
[2] http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/another-driver-says-tesl...
[3] http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/7494989/bmw-i3-self-parking...
> Writing a safe smart contract on Ethereum is extremely difficult

Writing may be difficult. It's reading that should be easy. Unless you can read the contract, you can't put your money there and an example of Etherum contract looks like this:

ADD
SWAP1
RETURN
JUMPDEST
PUSH1 0x60
SWAP4
DUP5
MSTORE
PUSH1 0x80
SWAP3
DUP4
MSTORE
PUSH1 0xa0
SWAP2
SWAP1
(750 lines omitted)
Oh my, that's a language glitch due to sleep deprivation. I meant excited.
Yep, that's all part-time contractors. 95% of work is still just me.
This is closer to the core issue in my opinion. Wal-Mart and Home Depot do not want to support processing EMV Debit cards as credit. Most debit processing rails require PIN data to process the transaction. Running a debit card using the signature CVM means processing the transaction over credit networks which costs the retailer more and is more profitable for the issuers.

This is the main reason retailers want to use Chip and PIN all the time and drop signature. It would mean they could simply run debit transactions over debit rails all the time which would cost them less. Obviously the issuers want the opposite since processing over debit rails is less profitable for them.
Not exactly. This opinion only decided that an arbitration clause can disallow class-wide arbitration. The real answer to GP's question is the Federal Arbitration Act (which, by the way, was also the statutory basis for Concepcion): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Arbitration_Act
I talk to Siri in Norwegian, actually =)
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Can't these checks be subverted/modified?
The Online Abuse Playbook
Microsoft Announces VR Ready XBox
If you think the company will keep returning that profit, no more, no less, and it happens to be true, then you will most likely find market participants who are convinced that the company will return more than that in the future. Since their projection of future returns is much higher than yours, they will offer you enough to sell. The new owners won't be content with with the stable return because that's not what they paid big money for.
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