skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the deal: Chip-and-PIN is slow to function because it is a two decade old technology. Modern "tap my phone to pay" (Apple/Android Pay) is a lot more secure thanks to tokenization and mandatory PIN/fingerprint use. It is the future, but it's not yet at 100% penetration. Banks can't issue you a new phone when you sign up for an account. So merchants and card networks are squabbling over how to evolve the baseline method of physical cards that will still be around for awhile.

There is no reason to think that the 2-3% tax is going away anytime soon once you understand the network dynamics. The key element that almost everyone overlooks, even people on HN building alternative payment systems, is that that tax mostly gets refunded to consumers via reward programs. It does not just go into Visa or the banks' coffers. They certainly take a healthy slice of it at scale but they key point is, they have aligned themselves with consumer interests. Reward programs keep consumers loyal to the "high tax" system, because the tax mainly goes to them.

This can be demonstrated very simply by comparing credit and debit usage rates. There is already a "low tax" payment method that has near 100% adoption in every consumer pocket and merchant register. It's called debit cards. They work exactly the same as credit cards at the register -- you can even sign for them (and it's no more expensive than PIN thanks to the Durbin amendment). Yet consumers still widely use credit cards. Why? Because no rewards. It's mostly merchants who would benefit from lower interchange fees, at least in the short run.

So this is why Apple Pay et al did not try to build a lower-fee system. It would have misaligned them with consumers. This might shed some light on why Bitcoin never had much of a chance as an alternative consumer payment method.
What about Android phones, which are over 80% of the market?
Exempting whistleblowers from the negative effects might be a great way to mitigate the ill effects, but we're not generally great at whistleblower protections.
Have the police individually get policies. That way they have skin in the game to not be a complete fucktard.

This way you reward officers that don't have issues and penalize the ones that do. Suddenly transferring a bad officer to make him someone else's problem doesn't work as he wont be able to get "jerk insurance".
<The difference is a single police officer would have personal responsibility>

You're speaking of private insurance, then. If you were an insurer, would you offer such a policy at a premium low enough for public agencies to justify buying? And even if so, I see a lawsuit risk there: "This agency must have known that Officer Dicey was a ticking time bomb -- they even took out an insurance policy on him!" How do you think your average American jury would react to that?
Citation needed. All credible research I've seen indicates that age specific mortality has decreased over the ages (from city living onward) across the board, not just infant mortality.
What's the relation between UFOs and aliens? If you have evidence of one or more UFOs how are you relating them to aliens? Why not just magic or secret super heroes?
Well it's still the most interesting part to me. It's crazy that a medical condition as objective as diarrhea or stomach pain can be so heavily influenced by psychology.
Would we ever exhaust the pool of qualified officers? I like the idea of the taxpayers not footing THIS bill. But would the individual officers be paying out? or the entire department? I'm assuming the officer would be liable for their own insurance.
The patent is invalid if prior art exists,so publishing it is enough to avoid it being poached by others
Ask HN: Own a young SAAS app?  Be my tech mentor I'll be your marketing mentor
3yrs ago I decided to learn web dev and make a commercial product out of a tool I was using in-house for my clients. Prior to this change I was running a successful online marketing consultancy for many years in San Francisco.

The MVP is live and I'm 3 months into an open beta (https://www.getbridgeanalytics.com). I currently have paying customers and the user base is growing slow and steady.

Up to this point I've been able to work my way through any technical hurdles within a few days. However, the app is growing at a pace now that makes it hard for me to keep my head above water technically. I don't need help writing code, I mostly just need pointed in the right direction conceptually.

I know from reading HN daily that there are technical folks that have the opposite problem: solid technical foundation but trouble getting marketing going. I'd like to form an ongoing relationship where we can help each other.

I'm open to suggestions but here is what I envision:

We each block off a Friday afternoon twice a month. We spend half the time discussing technical concepts with Bridge and we spend the other half talking about your marketing efforts (current progress, technical execution, brainstorming). Let me be clear in that I will not be asking you to write any code for my application.

Here is an example of an issue I'd like to chat about:

I have an external script on each client's site that sets cookies if certain params are met (think Google Analytics). It has a bad smell and I know it could be much more efficient. I have a few different approaches in mind but before rewriting it all I'd love to get a more expert opinion.

Outside of the obvious value of shared expertise I think this would really motivate us both to improve the opposite side of the coin and become more well rounded SAAS owners.

If you are interested, shoot me an email mike@getbridgeanalytics.com
Haha. Yeah, the real story would probably be better told as a horror story...

Captain Kube captures Phippy and locks him in a dark container on his ship and forces him to perform repetitive work around the clock without any breaks - To make matters worse, Captain Kube begins carrying out highly hazardous experiments on Phippy which involves cloning him, messing with the clones and then mercilessly slaughtering them one by one in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and suffering.
Here in the nice parts of the bay area my friend who is black is pulled over once a month because he drives a Lexus SUV, and the police don't believe that it's his car. They ask him "is this your car?" He'll reply, "yes," to which they always ask "are you sure?" Every month.
ASUS and MSI send GPU with edited VBIOS to the press
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In the USA, anyway, malpractice insurance can apply to lawyers as well:

http://www.americanbar.org/portals/solo_lawyers/going_solo/m...
Yes, I want merging, but I imagine there could also be an indication that the merge was automatic and in an IDE setting, I'd expect to be able to easily split out the types, if I want.
Perhaps a relevant question is whether this is caused by a bug in Ethereum itself or just someone using Ethereum wrong. The Bitcoin developers have rolled back transactions that were caused by a bug in Bitcoin itself but they do not intervene in the many cases of user error.

Arguably, Solidity makes it so hard to write secure contracts that it is negligent. If the Ethereum team decides to take responsibility for The DAO, I hope they fix Solidity once and for all, not just bail out this one contract.
I could say the same of you, but it would be equally worthless to the discussion. Perhaps you can offer something besides attacks on the commenter, which are useless and damaging to discourse.
My kindle is literally covered in dust because of this.

Not to mention that with the paperback I own something, while with the kindle version I have a revokable license to download a DRM covered file...
Over time I collected many tips, blog posts and links to prepare for interviews at companies like Google, FB etc. But I didn't prepare for them yet, but I hope you'll use them.

Granddaddy of all collections:

===

https://github.com/andreis/interview

Blogs

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https://medium.com/always-be-coding/abc-always-be-coding-d5f...

https://medium.com/always-be-coding/four-steps-to-google-wit...

https://medium.com/@dpup/whiteboarding-4df873dbba2e#.z3ya1rp...

http://www.restlessprogrammer.com/2013/09/hacking-coding-int...

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/get-that...

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things...

http://haseebq.com/ <--- just added after comment from @arkro

Hiring Companies (like TripleByte) or Companies giving you training for a fee:

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https://www.hireart.com/

https://hired.com/

http://interviewkickstart.com/

https://www.interviewcake.com/

https://www.pramp.com/

https://triplebyte.com/

https://www.smarthires.com/

Interview Prep Sites
===

http://leetcode.com/

http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/

https://www.careercup.com/

https://community.topcoder.com/tc?module=ProblemArchive

https://codility.com/programmers/

http://interviewing.io/

https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-difficult-algorithm-d...

http://www.gainlo.co/#!/

https://www.interviewbit.com/

https://github.com/mission-peace/interview/wiki
I was sad when I finally finished the Dark Forest after listening to the three body problem on my walk to/from work.
Written code, yes; blog posts, not yet.

If you think of an array as a function that maps a linearized index to an element value, you get most of APL for free in Haskell.
Interesting topic, but the presentation makes me happy to be done with school. I don't miss sitting through 50 minute lectures that could be condensed to 10 minutes, or read even quicker.
I can relate. I'm biracial and I'm stopped often with a branded company polo and they're always amusingly surprised to learn I work in IT but live in the ghetto.
It's ironic that Zoe Lofgren is behind this. She has been the biggest H1-B advocate in Congress, including pushing to continue the program during the "financial crisis".

She's a former San Jose City Council member. Her 19th District includes southeastern Silicon Valley.
I doubt he'll get the $22 mi.

l Daniel Chong[0] was held five days in a very similar situation in California. He only got $4 mil. Younger guy, drank his own piss, broke his eye glasses and wrote 'sorry mom' on his arm when he thought he was going to die. Kidneys were close to shutting down when they let him out. Makes me sick and angry. Stories like this are why people hate cops. No excuse for this.

0.http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/30/justice/california-dea-set...
I think the only way to affect change is to have it tied to pensions, so that there is an internal incentive for them to behave. As it exists, any 'fine' levied on police just gets shuffled over to taxpayers (and an insurance policy would be no different -- just another cost of keeping your children safe).
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Holy false dichotomy, batman. Everyone should get paid for their work - why in the hell do you think I think otherwise?! Agh!
>Here’s our big insight / little secret — selling to restaurants is a dead end.

But fantastic if you can make it work a la Grubhub and Seamless who got $360 million in revenues primarily by selling to restaurants.

The restaurant business is indeed hard, but lucky (or good) sales people have had tremendous success and profitability tackling it.
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I might have misunderstood the comment chain here, but I was responding to this: "There's only evidence if you assume that this is a purely material world".

I wouldn't call that an assumption, that's the evidence based worldview at the moment. Any arguments that don't assume that have an additional burden of proof placed on them.
That would certainly explain why chains like REWE actually set up their own card acquirer... and yes, with the cheap terminals I actually referred to C4L (disclaimer: not related by work, just a happy customer).
Yeah, didn't see that
instanceof(recruiter,engineer) == holy grail
I'll try and help explain it as a new user. The app will sync your LinkedIn information to build a profile. From there you can look at events, communities, conferences, etc... that are happening in your area or an area you may be in. If you decide to join it, you will be able to swipe left/right on other attendees and if you match chat with them. I can see this to be very useful to find prospects or likeminded people to reach out to before getting to an event and using time there to meet folks. (Hopefully I did the app some justice with my explanation)
And of course, there are outliers. Stanley Kubrick did both insane amounts of planning _and_ an insane number of shots. Eyes Wide Shut, at 2 hours, 39 minutes, took 400 days of filming (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120663/trivia). I guess that gets you over the 100:1 ratio.

On the sitcom front, there is Fawlty Towers, where they six spent weeks writing and up to 25 hours of editing on each _episode_ (http://www.tv.com/shows/fawlty-towers/)
The selection was because your card had multiple AID's on it. Some terminals still need some work, and sometimes configuration, to handle AID selection properly. The US Common Debit AID is still not widely supported, which is why many grocery stores still haven't rolled out Chip & PIN support - they don't want to pay the credit card interchange fees because their merchant or terminals don't support the debit AID.

So yes, the chip rollout here in the states is a giant clusterfuck for the time being. It will get better soon, once the hodgepodge of banks and hardware vendors get everything straightened out.
10000s to 100000s roughly.

I think the important part is to think about how to properly modularize your codebase and not overdoing it.
That gets you an "internal" library ecosystem and not only ensures that incremental builds are fast (not really a concern anymore on nowadays) but also fast parallel compiles and deploys.

Code reviews are of course important so that developers are on the same page, but Scala is really great about isolating parts that have to be complicated from the rest (not like Java's " oh, you used a wildcard over there, let's infect the whole codebase with it").

So life is pretty good and I don't think there are huge issues you have to keep in mind compared to other languages, despite the goodness Scala provides you with.

I think most outside concerns are largely overblown: E. g. some people coming from Java might be excited in the first week bring able to define some operators, but it doesn't really matter. Most of the symbols you see in practice are pretty standard (+, -, ... for arithmetic, a few collection things like +
(add one thing), ++ (add multiple things) etc.).
Going overboard with it is considered bad style, so most libraries out there just don't do it anymore.

Tooling is pretty great overall, although IDEs could always be a bit better.

Compatibility is great and releases are rock-solid, even things like Scala.js which hasn't even reached 1.0 yet.
Oakland resident here. Oakland's IRV is terrible because we have no idea who will win the election and even as a relatively informed voter I have no idea who most of the 30-ish mayoral candidates are or what they stand for.

I think Oakland shows elections work both ways. One way, we pick leaders who represent our deeply held views. The other, elections force us, the electorate, to face facts about what combination of policies produces a workable governing consensus, and maybe even changes our views to create a consensus. When it comes to Oakland mayor, we just randomly declare a preference in the dark and someone is declared winner with no real way to form a coalition.

California's new top two system on the other hand is great. In liberal or conservative areas we get offered two meaningful choices that reflect the ideological split in the area. That is, do we want to be radical progressives or just pro-business liberals? Alternately are we reactionary conservatives or more just chamber of commerce Republicans? This gives real choice to the general election electorate and helps forge meaningful consensus.
I'm missing the bit where there was a word of appreciation for the paying customers and I suspect that they didn't rate a mention is a factor in why this company was unsuccessful.
220K - probably. $2 mil - absolutely. Can I do it more than once?
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Thoughts?

Exactly the wrong thing to do. Civil penalties will be never be sufficient to deter bad behavior like this. Letting cops (or rent-a-cops) carry "insurance" will even further shield them from the true costs of their action -- and deaden their inborn capacities for empathy and common sense even further, also.

Simply put, in egregious and utterly indefensible cases like these, law enforcement officials need to held criminally liable for their actions. That means: jail time; felony convictions (where appropriate); and temporary or (where appropriate) lifetime bans on the privilege of serving in a similar capacity, in either the public or private sphere.

And in this case of what happened to Arnold Black -- all of the above (including a lifetime ban) would seem to be entirely appropriate.
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Just have the police pension fund also act as the insurance pool.
I'm pretty certain Umbel uses a bit of Go. They do host the Go monthly Meetup after all. I know many companies are using it, but it's not their primary.
I don't mean "troll" as an insult here. I mean it as the description of the activity that is not about opinions it is about facts.

Usually there could be a gray area where it is not clear whether some online activity can be classified as trolling -- r/The_Donald is not one these cases -- the signal is very clear. You could use any common definition e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29

Though some of the submissions might be genuine (given the demographic) due to Poe's law (extreme views and their parody are hard to distinguish) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
"when we had to tell 10 talented teammates that their journey with us was over" - Gavin Belson
Terrible speaker basically spouting nonsense.
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If I understand this correctly, each request will run the Javascript handler which in turns will spawn a process that happens to be written in Go. Which means we've basically come back to CGI. I thought that CGI was bad because creating a new process on each and every request was expensive. Is Lambda somehow different ?
No, it would be equivalent to LeBron James going head to head with a talented amateur basketball player. Of course he would still win every time, but it would at least be a game of basketball.
Yes it is fascinating. It's well established that the stress system modulates bowel motility (via crh) and absorption (via cortisol).
My father teaching me to type PKUNZIP on files that "ended with .zip" in the DOS shell (not long before the Norton Commander kind of GUI arrived to our computer) is one of my earliest memories as a toddler: I would ask him "What does it mean?" and he would simply not know. It was 1990 and I was 3 and a half I think. When I learned what it stood for it was kind of epic, for me.
It's fine if you know you are going to get out.

It's much less fine if you honestly believe you could die in there.
speaking as a software engineer I'd prefer an agent
And another one: you are not IN a traffic jam, you ARE the traffic jam.
Did you intend to link the answer, maybe?
I like the concepts introduced in the video. But, the Q syntax hurts my eyes. I am personally, not in favor of fitting my entire program in a tweet. Readability helps!
As a leader you get criticized. When we're assertive, men are called assholes and women bitches. I think the difference is men tend not to care what they think and believe they're right, regardless. This is useful in that it lets you press on despite the adversity, but detrimental if there really is an issue. It's good that women listen better and are more aware than men of peoples' feedback, it makes them a different kind of leader. Perhaps we need corporate cultures that value listening more. We all have our strengths.
Everyone from Google, Facebook, and little consulting firms don't care about people either.

Agreed - internal recruiters are about 99.99% as bad (and useless, and often counterproductive) as the external kind. Just there's a huge bubble going on right now, whereby many companies (particularly startups) are completely oblivious t this fact.
No, you're thinking of a dish served at Chipotle.
Tap-to-pay and chip cards all use the same standard, EMV. Most of the problems with chip cards in the US are because of incredibly slow terminals or applications on the smart card themselves. Since the terminals are much faster dealing with tap-to-pay I'm guessing their either just take forever to initialize the smart card, or it's the latter issue (application on the card itself).

I'm curious as to the experience of people taking EMV cards from the US to Europe, is it any faster than in the states on the same terminal hardware?
I think people knew the logo redesign was a joke immediately. It was obvious she was the wrong person to run such a large company and no-one liked the company to begin with. It's hard to blame people for having the advantage of hindsight when they were criticizing her at the time. Being an average executive at that level just doesn't cut it.
There's more than 0 and 1 or true and false people
Friendly reminder: it's been more than 15 years now, but we basically still can't have firefox handling textboxes right when using a dark gtk theme.

Link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315

Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11147547
>I just don't see women doing this.

I'm not a woman but that was my first thought as well
Yep. To make it even less likely, I get my nicer clothing tailored for me, making it less likely to fit others and a far higher replacement cost if damaged. But who'd want to wear my less-nice clothing? No one.

Guys, can you truly see yourselves renting a suit from the guy down the block? If not, why assume someone else would?
>That means: jail time; felony convictions (where appropriate); and temporary or (where appropriate) lifetime bans on the privilege of serving in a similar capacity, in either the public or private sphere.And in this case, all of the above (including a lifetime ban) would seem to be entirely appropriate.

Well said. They're citizens working for citizens. They should be shielded no more than a first time offender guilty of ANY violent crime.
There is about a 3-stone difference between 9p and 1p, 1p is probably about 8d, and there is about a 3-stone difference between 8d and 5d. So in total 6+ stones (AlphaGo may be stronger than 9p, of course).

The version of AlphaGo that beat Fan Hui won 77% of games against the strong engine Crazy Stone giving a 4-stone handicap, even when running on a single machine. Crazy Stone has improved since then, though.
So if I enter a casino with 100 bucks set on betting on number 23, it means I actually own 1000 bucks? (or whatever that gives you?) Giving stock on a public company you can sell the moment that vests is valuable. Owning stock on a private company that you can't sell, can't probably cash in unless they IPO, etc is not.