skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends on the particular POS system. I'm in the US, and some stores let you swipe while your things are being rung up and others make you wait until the end. I also haven't had to wait a long time for my chip to work, but I haven't used it much.
AlphaGo could probably give it 9 stones and still win, 9p->5d. (Stones go non-linear around the pro ranks, so we can't just count the rank difference in the way we do as amateurs.)
Or, I can speak with my words.
Coke Light => Women

Coke Zero => Men
I've always assumed Stevia hasn't taken off yet because that means companies have to spend money on trying to rework "flavor profiles" to work with Stevia.

I long for a Stevia-powered Coke Zero...until they realize Stevia also causes horrible things in humans :-/
It's annoyingly common how the OP doesn't mark this answer as accepted, or even acknowledge how amazing this answer is from one of the technology's creators -- instead just goes on to ask a followup.
Take a look at Authy as a drop-in replacement for your Google Authenticator app. Codes are encrypted and stored on Authy's servers -- they can be re-synced to your phone after a wipe. There's also a Chrome plugin that syncs with the mobile app.
There is one neighborhood convenience store that approximates that experience but in a low tech way.

http://gizmodo.com/theres-smartphone-powered-store-in-sweden...
This is a sign of their incompetence. Period

Whose incompetence? The cinema? They bought a turn-key, off-the-shelf POS package from a vendor. How much control do you think they have over that system? Card processing starts taking a dump, and you would suggest that the minimum-wage cinema worker running the cards do...?
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9785004. The date at the top of the article is misleading, but if you scroll to the bottom they say it's being reprinted from 2015.
I think that a lot of it is what you're accustomed to drinking. I used to only drink regular colas and hated the taste of diet. I now drink only diet, and regular tastes too sweet to me.
I'm looking into switching to Fastmail. Is the spam filtering so bad? From what I could understand you can train it?
Real-world aimbot: The $17,000 rifle with a Linux-powered scope
> I don't know what (if any) performance boost the VM would get by being converted to LLVM IR

Well you can already convert the VM to LLVM IR today by compiling with clang.
What kind of situation do you think the "good guy with a gun" is really going to enter? They probably only have a handgun. They have limited ammunition. They have a very limited number of targets to consider.

An armed citizen responding to a gun attack isn't going to start a shoot out with lots of cover based shooting like a game of Call of Duty. The armed citizen has most likely one chance to overcome the attackers.

When the cops get there the armed citizen is either dead or has disarmed themselves and is complying with authorities the best he can in a non-aggressive manner especially if they are a well educated individual licensed for concealed carry.
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Changing the user agent to mobile works for me as well.
Data collection is my guess.
It's not 0 calorie, but Coke does have a stevia drink called Coke Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Life)
Up until 2008, it was banned in the US for food use.

Wouldn't be surprised if sugar companies had something to do with that.
That saying is nonsense. Absence of evidence is evidence of absence, with a strength that's determined by how likely it is that you should find evidence given what you've looked for.

Taking your mountain gorilla example, do you have any in your house? I'm guessing you'll say "no." Well, how do you know that? Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, after all. Yet if you look all over your house and don't see any, I'd guess you would accept that as sufficient reason to say that there aren't any in your house. But how can you say that if it's not evidence of absence?

Now, finding no mountain gorillas in your house is very poor evidence for the absence of mountain gorillas on Earth, because you'd expect the same results whether or not they existed on Earth in general. On the other hand, if you've performed a thorough survey of their actual supposed habitat and didn't find any (maybe because they were driven to extinction) then you'd have pretty good (but not perfect!) evidence that they aren't there anymore.

There's essentially no evidence for the absence of aliens in the universe. You'll see this reflected in the opinion of the experts; many, perhaps most, say that it's likely aliens are out there somewhere. There's decent evidence for the absence of aliens around Earth, since we see nothing and we'd expect to see something, but it's possible they're undetectable. There's great evidence for the absence of classical UFOs, since they're clearly things we'd expect to see if they were real (people keep saying they saw them!) but out of all these sightings, none of them have turned out to be anything remarkable at all.
Samsung Pay has worked great for me at a number of locations. The only issue is one of my cards which I think should work wont register and when I try to pay I always get a fingerprint mismatch initially which takes up some time to do a second try
They do have Stevia Coke and Pepsi but I've never had them.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/02/news/companies/coke-pepsi-st...
For some definitions of "easily". For a programmer, yes.

For an enterprise organization with a full gamut of technical ranges from "maintain 40 github repos for fun" to "I still don't trust anything but Word, Excel, Powerpoint and email", pandoc is not the solution (as nice a tool as it is).
Sure there's evidence of that. Maybe not in the move-fast break things social/mobile/local web world, but in the mission/safety/life-critical and real-time systems engineering world there is. Just takes a quick google search, for example:

http://electronicdesign.com/dev-tools/11-myths-about-ada

"As one example of Ada in an undergraduate setting, students at Vermont Technical College in the U.S. used the SPARK language (a formally analyzable subset of Ada) to develop the software for a CubeSat satellite that recently completed a successful two-year orbital mission. SPARK was chosen because of its reliability benefits. The students had no previous experience in Ada, SPARK, or formal methods, but were able to quickly come up to speed.

Of the twelve CubeSats from academic institutions that were included in the launch, the one from Vermont Tech was the only one that completed its mission. Many of the others met their doom because of software errors. The Vermont Tech group credits its success to the SPARK approach, which, for example, allowed them to formally demonstrate the absence of run-time errors."

I've read similar success stories for Lisp and Haskell. Rust will likely add more evidence as it becomes more widely used. Agda and Idris are also capable in this respect.

The problem is too many engineers are just day-jobbers, who want to crank out LOC and quickly add features that get them paid, regardless how sloppy their work or the tools they use may be, or how much work/cost it adds to the maintenance overhead down the road. That work can either be done up front writing bug-free code, or later during maintenance putting out fires, but it can't be avoided. Programmers who chose the former use the excuse "bug-free code is impossible so we don't have to try" to justify pushing the work off on the maintenance team later. But it's demonstrably false.
I'll admit that I do enjoy the occasional sugary soda, but I try to keep that to a minimum. I find that I prefer flavored sparkling water like La Croix (which does not contain any sweetener) over diet soda. I still don't find La Croix in restaurants hardly ever, but it's becoming more and more common in grocery stores.
Why is this getting downvoted...
>it's natural like sugar

cyanide is also natural
I run https://SendToMyCloud.com and https://PrivateForms.com, which are both profitable. SendToMyCloud is an order of magnitude more successful, though.

Both were created in 2015.
I'm not sure because both give me heart burn.
Honestly, I thought things were a whole lot better (from a UX perspective) when you just handed the cashier the card and they operated the card reader for you. They know their system's idiosyncrasies; the customer doesn't.

I'm unhappy that stores have been pushing more and more cashier work onto the customer without adopting an industry standard UI for their payment systems.
Stevia is HUGE. It's biggest benefit is that it can be marketed as "natural" allowing you to put "no artificial sweeteners" on the package. Pretty much everything sugar-free or reduced-sugar in Whole Foods has stevia in it. One of the reasons why you don't see it EVERYWHERE is that it's much more expensive compared to Ace-K and aspartame.
In many countries (such as Germany), Coke adds sodium cyclamate to the usual aspartame + acesulfame-K. I find that cyclamate improves it immensely, and eliminates the bitter aftertaste of aspartame. Unfortunately, in the US it's still banned, even though the consensus is that it's harmless.
RFID didn't work reliably from more than a few inches away and with that many items? Tagging every item including bulk things like produce was a non-starter for merchants due to all the extra labor involved? RFID tags cost much more than the barcode already on product packaging? Check out hardware for this was massively expensive, didn't integrate with existing lane systems smoothly, confused consumers, was largely unavailable due to lack of demand, and was super buggy / unreliable?

Those are all guesses but they all seem likely to me.
Tap to pay isn't what's slow in the US, it is the chipped cards that need to be inserted into a POS device. For whatever reason they are absurdly slow. That should be great news for NFC payment services though, Apple/Android pay seem like speed demons in comparison.
> (Google has donated to over half of Congress according to OpenSecrets.org, in actual cash donated I think Comcast might still be on top, but the gap's closing fast.)

Corporations can't donate to political campaigns. What OpenSecrets.org misleadingly advertises as "corporate" donations to political campaigns are employee donations to campaigns.[1] Google has 57,000 employees. Unsurprisingly, many of them exercise their rights as members of a democracy and support their favorite political candidates.

[1] Specifically, OpenSecrets lists donations from individual employees and company-sponsored PACs. Corporations are banned from contributing directly to political candidates, or from donating to regular PACs. Only Super PACs can accept money from corporations, but those are banned from donating to candidates.
> it's natural like sugar,

Why is that relevant? That's orthogonal to whether it is healthy or unhealthy. There's no reason, based on that information, that I should expect it to be any more or less toxic than Splenda. I mean, the wrong 100% natural mushroom will kill you pretty dead.
Google has people you can call for all paid services.
Some US establishments seem to have stopped requiring a signature under a certain dollar amount but the tap capability isn't universal and I've noticed that it even varies across locations. So either they're pilot testing or some other factor like franchise vs. corporate are at play.
Ask HN: Junior Switzerland developer opportunities for EU citizens?
I'm currently in my very late 20s, looking to do a career shift from years spent in corporate IT functions to development. I've encountered a native startup, in the Eastern side of the European Union, who are doing full-time, non-academic programming courses for people of my age. They look promising, start off by quickly building foundations with processor basics, memory handling, i/o, blocking, caches, linux, windows and cloud, algorithms, then move onto technologies and methodologies such as python, agile, UI/UX, git, javascript, HTML, XML, Rest, Json, SQL and noSQL alike. After about 6-7 months they move onto OOP, and the students essentially end up as junior C# or Java developers with adequate knowledge to get internships at local companies (the startup sources you as interns, so no need for job search) who are desperate for proven quick learners. During your work at the IT company, you start paying off tuition fees monthly, at a reasonable rate, with no contract binding you to the company.

My ultimate goal would be to get a quick and focused programming education in a controlled environment (1.5yrs overall for the course), then by end of 2018 to leave for Switzerland. I would pay my tuition fees from there. I have no formal education in IT/CS, and my unfinished university studies were in unrelated fields. I do have several years of experience working in relevant IT positions, however.

How hard is it, for a fluent English speaker and EU citizen, to find junior C# (Unity, Xamarin) developer jobs in Switzerland? I'd prefer smaller canton centers rather than large cities, as I plan to live on a farm. Learning languages is not an issue, although I would prefer French solely based on taste. I would aim for permanent employment in development, sysops/devops/security/hardening.

Are E. Europeans discriminated against? Is it reasonable for one to apply online and do remote interviews? Are relocation packages a thing?
> ridiculously large number of terminals and cards that would have to be replaced

I've heard from some Canadians running a payment processing company that it was the U.S. credit card companies lobbying for decades against it for precisely this expense. Right nextdoor in Canada they've had chipped cards for over a decade.
> most places seem to ask for a PIN rather than a signature

That is for debit, which is an entirely different thing than credit.

There are no US banks that implement Chip & PIN. Heck, it's nearly impossible to get a Chip & PIN capable card for travel if you have a US issuing bank.

Swipe support will in theory eventually be disabled (e.g. authorizations declined by your issuing bank) at some point in the future when Chip & Signature is being rolled out.

If you're typing your PIN code into a terminal in the US, you are using debit though.
They have Coca Cola Life. Stevia + Sugar. Not particularly great though.
> That was a flaw in the process the banks were using to allow cards in the Apple Pay (without verification), not a flaw in Apple Pay itself.

Agree. However, this does illustrate a point that safety concerns are valid.

Myself, I'm a proponent of mobile payment but I understand the inherited hesitation from some folk about security.
Zero also has less caffeine.
I used to feel that way too, but years ago I dated someone who only ever drank Diet Coke, and I started to like it after repeated exposure. For a long time after that, real sugar drinks were way too sweet tasting and gross to me, though now I can enjoy a regular Coke now and then.
Helix was just announced at Rails Conf 2016, so it's definitely not abandoned.
It is not just the average case, it's the rule in the US. The same terminal will be fast for swipe and NFC transactions while being terribly slow for EMV.
At which point, you get out of the car. They're required to have readers. Tough shit if they break the law in an attempt to dodge paying their share of taxes.
Fantastic writing style. Modern, clever, pre-emptive. Hopefully even accurate. Loved this:

"Since the stuff is synthetic, it’s guaranteed that Joe Mercola and the rest of the anti-chemical Internet dopes are going to try to scare you, and they’ll probably succeed. I didn’t even bother to look."
This: http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/17/thoughts-on-the-dao...
The Generating JSON from SQL episode is cool but i'd really like to see an advanced follow up. For instance I've written a query to serialise a collection of records that have many relationships embedded, that conforms to the jsonapi 1.0 standard. Works great but very messy with deeply nested subqueries - hard to read, hard to reuse or alter. I'd really like to see an episode demonstrating a more composable way to craft a complex query like the aforementioned.
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Zumdahl's Chemistry and the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics were the mainstays of my high school and college chemistry education.
This is pretty easily solved by using different keys for each service you wish to authenticate with (the same idea as using different passwords, basically). I already do this when pushing to GitHub over SSH versus SSHing into my own server.
Maybe there are no specific scenarios, and it's just to be safe. If you were Google, why wouldn't you add such a clause? It's not like it's going to scare customers away.
Most things can be toxic in high doses. Yes, being natural doesn't say much but I wasn't trying to relate that it's healthy for you just because it's natural.
U.S. chip cards ≠ chip and PIN. For the majority of them, we aren't issued pins and it's not even an option.
I remember learning about sucralose along with the rest of saccharides, in college biochem back in the 00's.

Even then it was taught that sucralose is a relatively inert compound that doesn't get taken up through the intestine, and doesn't pose a threat - though the prof did cite some study that sucralose accumulated in rat's liver if they ate huge quantities of it. I don't think chemists have been thinking sucralose is toxic for a while now.

I also remember that if anyone could figure out how to cheaply synthesize L-glucose, they will be billionaires.
Where do the other popular compression utilities (e.g. bzip2, xzip, lzma, 7zip) fit in to this?
Strangely enough, I'd rather have Coke Zero than regular Coke now. After getting used to Coke Zero, if I pick up a regular Coke and drink it, it tastes wrong.
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Actually, the placebo controlled trials are in line with the earlier "miraculous" studies. 50% of the people in the placebo arm experienced remission [1]. Also, studies have shown that the placebo effect in C.Dificile is up to 90% [2].

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pim.12175/full
[2] http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1916296
My wife is a manager of a bank branch and her brother is a credit analyst at another bank, and I've been told the reason it impacts your credit is because you now have less credit available to you, and you're likely now using more of your available credit.

If you have $50 available on one card and $50 on another card, you have $100 of available credit. If you close one of the cards, you now only have $50 of available credit. If one card is maxed out and the other is empty (because you're about to close it), before you close it you are only using 50% of your available credit. Once you close it, you're now using 100% of your available credit, which looks bad.
> How is the original sentence meaningless? "We think you will like this" (rephrasing) definitely has a meaning.

The original sentence is meaningless because it's marketing drivel. In a sales context, this is literally the only thing they can say.

Thus in an information theoretic sense the "We think you will love this" (the original phrasing) conveys exactly zero additional information besides what can be gleaned from the identity of the speaker.
Interesting! I gave that a shot and definitely do hear the difference. I believe the difference you hear is due to the fact that it's a stronger low pass filter to average 3 samples instead of 2. In any case, the result is much less harsh on the ears. I'm adding that to the post, thanks!
I'm referring to the payment network
An increasing number of terminals now reject the swipe, with the screen stating something like "this card has a chip, please insert and wait". Cashiers are starting to ask, before you swipe, "does your card have a chip?" I even used a terminal yesterday where, after inserting the card, it asked me to identify whether my card was a "Citibank Card" or "Visa Debit Card" (ambiguous, since the card was a Citibank card with a Visa logo). The implementation of this chip rollout in the US is a mess.
This is an interesting idea. If you transpile the Ruby runtime to LLVM-IR you can run Ruby's IR in LLVM's tracing JIT mode.

Theoretically the LLVM will optimize your application as its running.

P.S.: I don't know Ruby so YMMV

P.P.S.: If it works with Ruby it'll work with Python too.
I'm not trying to state its health compared to sugar, just that it's not synthetic
So how many apps would this be?
I'm wondering as well. Perhaps the overall impact of needing to tear and reprint when there's an error that needs to be corrected?
opium (for heroine) and coca (used for cocaine) are also natural. Being natural != being healthy.
don't read the CRC Handbook, it's like the encyclopedia though: fun to flip through and you might actually refer to it occasionally.
What I'm thinking of may or may not become part of OpenStack, but it is most certainly in Go.
Imageflow has two parts - libimageflow, and imageflow-server.
Both the library and server offer a JSON API, so it can evolve without breaking changes.

Most users leverage the Dynamic Imaging aspect - you store a single source file in blob storage, then dynamically generate variants as needed. This is like Scene7 or Cloudinary, but open-source, and at 1/1,000th of the cost.
He covers all that, at least in passing. It's a fairly comprehensive rundown.
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You can actually buy Stevia-sweetened drinks and sodas at Whole Foods (I believe they're Zevia brand or something like that).
I'm not sure there is no incompetence involved when the same process is much faster basically anywhere outside the US. That is a question not answered (not even asked) in that episode if I remember correctly. I don't mean the human factor (that will be resolved in some time) but the technology used.
Two stars, because at least it doesn't burn out anything you plug into it. https://www.amazon.com/review/R2XDBFUD9CTN2R/ref=cm_cr_rdp_p...
How does this work with WebSockets?

Like, a bit more than FaaS, but less than PaaS?
The tap to pay has actually become less common, in my experience. At one point, two of my cards supported it. Now, none of them do. Le sigh.
> There's no reason, based on that information, that I should expect it to be any more or less toxic than Splenda.

The fact that it's present in large quantities in at least one living organism shows that it's not fundamentally incompatible with life. And that's especially true in this case, where (according to Wikipedia) there is a 1,500 year history of human use. So all else being equal, I would expect it to be more likely to be safe than some random chemical with no basis in nature.

Out of the 2,000 species of mushrooms in North America, there are maybe 10 that are deadly poisonous. You think your chances of dying after randomly mixing up some unknown chemicals in a lab are really less than 1 in 200?
We do this to run Ruby C extensions on the JVM - compile the extension to LLVM IR instead of native code, then JIT compile the IR using the JVM's JIT. It's fast!
I hope piece comes to these people and their country.

In this day of the Internet, Science and Discovery, conflict seems so pointless.
I'm confused, how does "serverless" play into this? I opened this expecting something about p2p architecture
How does it work? As far as I can remember - Google's API was deprecated and their ToS forbid scraping, right?
I wonder how it handles memory management. I just wrote an article about how memory management is handled with Ruby C extensions. It involves some gnarly platform-specific tricks like scanning the C stack looking for "VALUE" pointers (ie. C pointers to Ruby objects). Also Ruby makes you implement a "mark" function to trace references the Ruby interpreter doesn't know about.

http://blog.reverberate.org/2016/06/12/native-extensions-mem...

I wonder if this works the same for Rust.