skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Typically the payment process is be managed by a dedicated payment gateway through an iframe and not the merchant so it should in principle be slightly more secure than it looks. Someone mentioned Poli, one such gateway in Oz.

As being shut down is a genuine business risk they strive for legitimacy - id be surprised if it was in-country and operating without at least tacit agreement of banks. Even slow moving banks could counter against this type of browser automation technically - not to mention legal action. No large merchant would fancy negative security related PR either.

Honestly speaking - the payments industry is full of hacks like this. Look at US p2p systems built on ACH refunds. Or using 3D Secure for identity verification. Or processing pre-auths of 1 cents and rolling back to add a card to a wallet.

Banks are slow and competitive, schemes are just slow, central banks often take a wait-and-see approach. When they get their act together systems like this tend to be replaced or evolved into more sensible and durable solutions - but that can take awhile.

And in the meantime everyone tries every avenue possible to reduce fees or provide a better UX (in this case at the expense of consumer protection).
If someone intercepts the traffic (a hack on sofort's server) they could read all transactions and account info without anyone noticing. Guess with that information you could make a lot of money phishing.
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It's not just a small percentage of activists. I'm 21, and I live in Ohio, which Trump won by 9 points, and it seems like a huge portion of people about my age are proponents of these ideas, on or off of college campuses. People call things "white" as in insult, they constantly say things like "white people have no culture", and really do seem to believe that all evil in the world is the result of things white men do. Anyone who tries to disagree with them gets shouted at and accused of being a long list of terrible buzzwords. As someone from a very poor family who didn't have great opportunities, this shit is infuriating. It basically seems like some sort of cancer is rapidly metasticizing and there's not much of anything that can be done about it. There's 0 willingness to have a discussion about anything.
In another subthread to this I posted numbers for various models of BMW, Audi, and Mercedes. I could find one Mercedes model where they report worse fuel economy and slower 0-100km/h acceleration time for the version with an automatic gearbox, in all the other models I looked at, the manufacturers rate the automatics as more efficient and having better acceleration than the manuals.

These are of course high-end current model year vehicles, if the tech they have hasn't already trickled down into cheaper cars, it will do so very shortly, making my statement even more broadly true.
For this year, the regulations of Formula E were changed to be more flexible and there's more diversity in the drive train.

Now there are cars with no transmission and cars with 4 or 5 forward gears. The engines are slightly different to compensate.
I hope this UI toolkit will take the good parts of CSS and HTML, and perhaps toolkits like React.
It might not just be stubbornness if you take into account the general difference in petrol prices (especially back then with more primitive automatics).

I favour automatic transmission, but still usually drive stick because of the mileage.
> The only difference, of course, is s/African/European/g.

In a literal sense, but the latter is a pretty good example of a white nationalist dog whistle.

> I feel that if this election has taught us anything, it should be that suppression of "undesirable" views only makes them stronger

That's your takeaway? Not that having a presidential candidate on TV giving his implicit approval to these ideas makes them stronger?
So raising awareness for racism is the problem, not racism itself? Or are you saying that racism isn't real? That all those reports are fake? Something else? I can't really tell from your comment.

Btw I'm part of a minority and these kind of posts don't make me "feel worse." Please don't speak for me, thank you very much.
Completely agree. Those indicators ignore that we can't accelerate as fast as a double-clutch automatic in case of emergency.
> Another solution could be encouraging personal projects.

Agree. This is necessary to encourage learning, which helps keep people sharp, which in turn benefits the projects that they are working on in the day job. Even if the technology is the "same old".

A couple of decades ago, many software developers were content using the tools they had and knew. Few demonstrated the eagerness and openness to try something new. These few were also the ones who were better at coming up with out of the box solutions because they were willing to try something new -- both tools and/or approaches. Now, we have reached a point where the bare minimum required of a software developer is familiarity and comfort with the new and shiny, leading to the reverse problem we had early on. Now, people can spend way too much time and energy learning and trying out new tech that they miss out on the opportunity of staying long enough with a technology to learn from experience.

In other words, today we spend way too much time on accidental complexity than on essential complexity.
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In the UK it was solved by making all small transfers instant, while large transfers (direct debits, salaries) are still settled overnight. That way most of the transfers are instant while >90% of the amount transferred is still settled. Avoids issues for the banks' cash management while it's convenient for the user at the same time.

I think the US has the problem that it had to set up that way when clearing was done physically (due to the size of the country) and it's now very costly to change, for very little benefit to the banks.
"Developer" rather than mere "coder" should mean you're aware of the full import of the system from requirement to end user deployment and production. Sometimes it does.
Purpose is to get likes, attention and at some point ad revenue.
The Add method signature could be simplified from void Add(ref Matrix, ref Matrix, out Matrix) to Matrix Add(ref Matrix, ref Matrix).

Also, could you elaborate what you mean by out returns? Normal returns could be considered "out returns", no?
This is an issue we're grappling with at present, as we move all our sites out to AWS: do we build our apps to use the incredibly tempting AWS services, or do it ourselves?

Our present approach is "hell yeah, if it can be outsourced it should be" and that applies to services too. We do keep an awareness of what it would take to do each thing by hand again though.
I ratified peace treaty with Google - I trust their service more than my ability do properly configure backups and servers.

Example here? Someone abusing T&C and making profit on their phones... It's just like printing counterfeit money, stealing profit from the gov. No wonder why they got unhappy.
The trunk capacity of cars in defined as the number of a certain kind of box you can fit into it. Car manufacturers naturally want to maximize this number for their cars. Traditionally there are expert packers (pretty nice job if you ask me) who do this, but there are now some algorithmic approaches:

http://www.joachim-reichel.de/publications/diss.pdf
Very much worth noting that the CBT is a UK-only thing, and meaningless outside the UK.
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Political actors are supposed to have an agenda aren't they?
I explain my job as computer roadie. I get all the black boxes into place so the devs can get up and be Eric Clapton.
> I knew it was rare for people to know manual transmissions, but why such a preference for automatic?

I think this is twofold. First off, most drivers education doesn't teach a manual transmission anymore, nor is drivers education a requirement. While my parents learned on a simulator in school, I learned it from experience (and so happy I did) - my first car was a manual.

But the second part of this is that there tends to be a very small number of cars that even offer a manual transmission: Generally small cars, pickup trucks, and "sporty" cars. I live in Norway now, and have a smallish 4-door sedan with a manual transmission: The same sort of car is difficult to find in the US.

The masculinity still happens, but I think it is simply plays out differently. In a lot of areas, you are just as masculine in a pickup truck as a vehicle.

Sidenote: I am with you with preferring a manual transmission. In fact, knowing how to drive one and understanding the gears helped me with an automatic once.
Good thinking, same here.
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You'll know we're serious about climate change when this changes. Manual gets better gas mileage. Sure it might be a small difference but even just 3 miles per gallon is 10% on 30 mpg. Over hundreds of thousands of cars that adds up. But we can't be bothered. It's an inconvenience. You can't drink your soy latte and drive at the same time if the vehicle is manual. I guess you can say it's a matter of priorities.
3. Are they still doing that though, I don't see any evidence?
Over here (Macedonia) you can buy laptops/PCs from most brands without Windows, cheaper.

4. What really irks me, is a point you missed: they are dealing with corrupt governments everywhere to make sure all government and education computers have Windows and Office, and that is what gets taught in schools.
I would posit that in the US, new drivers are "grand-fathered" in to automatics. There is no driving license restriction in the US for transmission types, so there is little value in learning to drive a manual before your test (you could always learn later if you wanted to). Couple that with the fact that often a new driver's first car is second hand from a more sensible parent or family member who wanted the ease of use of an automatic, repeat for a generation or two, and suddenly you have very few new drivers who even have an opportunitty to learn how to drive a manual.
> To be honest I'm surprised the most that America doesn't have that same psuedo masculinity requirement thing happening.

They have guns.
So many people hate you if you do that. They will pass you angry, just to stop 5m down the road while you get there behind.
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Would anyone be surprised if this is (in part) responsible for the shift in focus for Google Fiber? Why would Google invest Billions for a small portion of coverage while Elon is busy building an ISP for the whole world? Elon and Larry are friends, and Elon has talked about using LEO satellites for internet access before.
My beep-boop sysadmin job is at least 50% internal public relations, in one form or another. Pretty much any job interacting with humans is, I think, which is basically all of them.
> it should be that suppression of "undesirable" views only makes them stronger

100%. Throwing around "white supremacy" and "racist" is strengthening the actual KKK/Nazi types.

> It's almost as if the Founders foresaw this somehow,

I am amazed that the Founding Fathers seemed to have such foresight.

Its hard to see anyone who would be a "Founding Father"-type figure today.
Check out the most recent Last Week tonight. Features clips of President Elect Trump making almost identical comments. In March he claimed a man who rushed the stage at one of his rallies had ties to ISIS. When confronted with the fact that the source he'd linked to was a hoax, his response was, "What do I know about it? All I know is it was on the internet." [1]

Then there was an interview with Bill O'Reilly:
Bill: "You tweeted out that whites killed by blacks - these are statistics you picked up from somewhere - at a rate of 81%. That's totally wrong; whites killed by blacks at a rate of 15%."

Trump: "Hey Bill. Am I going to check every statistic? I've got millions of people... you know what? Fine. But this came out of radio shows and everything else."

Anyway, worth watching the whole show. It's funny, in a painful way.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rSDUsMwakI#t=14m45s
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rSDUsMwakI#t=15m20s
> it's inferior, expensive, less
> fun and car has no way knowing
> details of road situation

I agree, and have believed those things since my mother (literally) taught me them! But I've never driven an automatic, and the small number of people I know in the UK who have switched to an automatic are never, ever going back.

Food for thought.
Are you sure it actually blips the throttle and it's not just the synchromesh gear in the gearbox? There's no need to blip with a synchronized gearbox, which has been the standard in road vehicles since the 1930s or so.

Even if it does blip, you can still utilize engine breaking but you have to shift early and sometimes skip gears.
Won't a double-clutch + kickdown get around the safety limitations though?

As a manual driver I can potentially screw up fast acceleration from a still-stand, e.g. when needing to do a quick merge with pretty bad consequences.

I've also noticed that my shifting is very tuned to the weight of the people normally in the car, I choked the engine twice when on a trip with friends and a full car. Embarassing and potentially dangerous. Note: more than a decade experience on manual.
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Is that even legal? What is the difference between this company and phishers collecting bank logins?

And doesn't it look suspicious if the logins into different accounts are made from the same IP belonging to the online shop? Some banks in my country even require SMS verification if you are logging in from new IP address.
Haha, nice! Which will be the next word that you will convert in something funny?

How about:
deer/dear
or
die/dye

:)
>> Still an issue - tried to buy shoes from Deichmann, they requested my login credentials. WTF.

> It's because Germany has a very low credit card penetration rate and the German debit cards cannot be used to guarantee a transaction.

No, really: WHAT THE F&CK?!?

In Poland we have instant payments services for years already. Each of the
services directs the user to their own bank's website (login form). Payment
clears instantly and confirmation of the payment (which is machine
processable) is sent to the shop in a matter of minutes and with no human
employee whatsoever.

We have these systems working for years, and the use ranges from buying
e-books through food to power tools and clothing in on-line auctions site.
I developed my first SWA with angular 2 + firebase database/hosting.
In one hand, the dev process is really easy and fast (firebase deploy to upload your website).

In the other end, if you want to be fully serverless it's start to getting more complicated. Using external service to manage form (form.io), page pre-rendering (prerender.io), notification...

I don't know why analytic, crash report are only available on Android/iOS because when you are able to do your sdk on 2 platforms. 1 more shouldn't be that hard.
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We're meant to accept those fake viral stories on social media because they fit the narrative. For example, take this tweet from a senior reporter at CNN attacking famed right-wing news cesspit Breitbart for covering the fakery: https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/798263162508177410 The FBI actually said there was a surge in hate crimes in 2015. This in no way confirms the post-election surge of social media stories as he pretends it does. (Which makes his tweet a fake viral claim that a story about fake viral hate crime claims is fake. Confusing, I know.)
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It's pretty amusing when you have to keep repeating to a client that the off-the-shelf tool is better, cheaper, and is immediately available to them. Yet they still argue for the development of a new system. So I don't think this push towards custom builds only comes from the developers side of things.

And another thing worth pointing out is: most employers hire you to write code. That's the job spec. So don't be surprised that that's what we end up doing.
I'm in US, and am always struggling to find new cars when I'm ready to buy because of this probably. Just recently I visited a dealership where the sales guy told me flat out "manual transmissions are extremely rare anymore".

It may be a diagnose-able issue :) but I was a wreck (literally) when I first started driving because I would lose focus on the road.

Manual transmission, it seems to me, gives me a far better "feel" for the current state of the car. How fast I'm going, and because I have to change gears it keeps me more focused on the monotony of driving.

So far in my recent search I've been reluctant to even consider an automatic transmission because of what may or may not be just a psychological crutch.
Youtrack is an unsung hero in this space. It can easily be customized to a wide variety of workflows, and lets you view the same tickets as boards or lists. Plus, the Jetbrains team are helpful and responsive to feature requests.
mrdoob (creator of three.js) retweets a lot of really good WebGL content - https://twitter.com/mrdoob
And for email ?
Ask HN: If you didn't know it, how would you learn Front-end today?
As a developer with a bit over 5 years experience, I am sometimes asked by my friends about starting their own Front-end career. Where do you begin? What is an outdated knowledge, and what important? How do you write code that is at least close to being "production-ready" these days?

That questions asked about Java are a little simpler for me - "Take this book, this one and this. Here are the patterns, just remember these from this book. You'll learn the rest on the way." - few months later this person can be seen sitting as a Junior/Med in some software company. These languages do change, quite a lot, but Front-end is a bit more ... in a hurry - and learning from books does not work for it at all.

Even though Angular and React got most shares of the up-to-date production stack, Front-end environment is still not really settled.
When I google "javascript tutorial", it takes only about 12 pages until I first hear about anything related to ES6.
"Modules?" - "Not this time, mate. But we've got this cool quiz that you can finish and get a JavaScript certificate!"
"When was your guide last updated?" - "1996, but javascript didn't change even a bit, trust us on that! Also, would you like to obtain a FREE JavaScript certificate?"
"React, Angu..." - "Shhh, there, a certificate for your eager spirit!"

When I was learning JavaScript a bit of time ago, there was only jQuery. And RequireJS. And that was pretty much all you needed. Today, new frameworks appear daily. It is not an easy path for a newcomer, when they have to learn at least 2-3 of these frameworks to even get started. And there seems to be no single, intuitive and reliable source to learn the basics from.

tl;dr;

Do you know any quality online tutorial that provide actual introductory knowledge of the current Front-end stack, in a beginners'-friendly form? (Vanilla, React or Angular, common tools like Webpack, ESlint, transpilers, maybe a bit about handling asynchronous code)
Where has it been shown that "almost all of these stories are fake"? Do you have a source? Please share. FWIW, making such an accusation without credible background info makes you sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist.

(I'm not sure what the gas station story was. Was it severe enough that it would have been imperative for any victim or witness to call the police? Were there enough witnesses? If not, the police not having received a call doesn't show anything.)
Exactly. After burnout, I spending a lot of time trying to kill code and make simpler designs. However, my outsource firm does not like that.
The issue is that those stories might be just as fabricated as those macedonian fake news sites. Maybe they're created for different reasons, but how are you supposed to trust a collection of unsourced text snippets?

And even if we are charitable and assume that they are grounded in facts they might still be exaggerated because they are more vivid in the memory of the one reporting them than what actually happened.
I can't speak for Linux/Windows but on OSX IntelliJ destroys Eclipse in every single aspect.

And frankly I don't care whether it has native UI widgets or not I just want it to be fast and smooth.
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Have you tried a car with paddle shifters? There is no clutch, but you still select gears.

Now they don't provide every advantage of a manual transmission, but you can for example downshift to avoid excessive breaking.
Regarding question 1:

(1) Because the First Sale Doctrine is supposed to give people the right to resell their legally acquired goods. Retaliating against people who resell something they paid for already is extremely bad form on Google's part, even if they have found a tortuous way to legally do so.

(2) Regardless of whether Google was justified or legally within their rights to do so, cutting off people's email with no warning is alarming. Many people depend on Google's email and data storage services; if they're going to cut off your access because they don't like what you've done on something completely unrelated that may be a good sign that all of us should stop using Google's services while we can still do so gracefully. What if next they decide that they don't want to continue offering email service to people who bought an iPhone instead of an Android? Or people who voted for Trump? They could most likely determine both of those facts if you are using GMail as your primary email provider...

People here aren't really approving of what those folks out to make a quick buck were doing specifically -- they're concerned about the way Google does business.
This is truly a non-issue once you actually learn how to drive a manual transmission well. It isn't like people keep both hands on the wheel anyway. I'd even argue that people with a manual transmission might react more quickly since they are used to at least keeping both hands readily available anyway. If it is that urgent, you forgo shifting the car.
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This could be done: we need a common git repo with a config for each kernel version per laptop; eg. config-4.4.30 for ThinkPad X200, which only includes the required drivers for the laptop itself.
It also depend on the car engine. Slow revving 4 pots need to stay in a specific range to efficiently move the car weight, so a (proper dual clutch) automatic can get an edge there.

Large six cylinder revving to mid-range (say, 7500) with ample torque at all range can drive the car in overdrive even at city speeds, but an automatic will treat most change in throttle as a downshift. Because they have no ability to understand your intent.

I guess self driving car with an automatic can really fix that, especially because they can get geared optimally to the driving inputs the software tells them and they have 'inside brain' information.
I consider holding the clutch down really unusual. Never did myself except when I was pretty sure that start/stop would trigger unnecessarily.

Now I just don't care about that, since it was too annoying at stop lights, which has led to incidents of auto-stop and immediate start and even a half auto-stop. Didn't notice and bad effects on the car.