skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they were required to accept it. They are collecting taxes for the government (I'm not sure if the VA DMV is directly run by the government, or is a contractor doing business for the government, but it doesn't make a difference in this case), which means they have to accept legal US money, in any denomination, because of this section of US code, which he mentions on his website[0]:

As per section 31 U.S.C. 5103 of the "United States Coinage Act of 1965" Federal law specifically says: "United States coins and currency are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."

Even charging an extra handling fee for dealing with all the coins is difficult to justify given the wording of the law. Luckily, carrying around 5 wheelbarrows of coins is also inconvenient for the person who's doing the protesting, so you really only see this sort of thing when someone is really aggravated and has lots of free time and money, it's not like we have a rash of DMV offices being crushed under a singularity's worth of pennies.

[0]http://www.craftvinyl.com/page165 (He actually got the BBC to link directly to his site, wow, he just made another million I bet!)
I wish there were car reviews out there that take software quality in account in particular for things like lane keep assist. When I was in the market for a car the reviews that I have seen only mention if they have the feature, not how well it actually works.
> No I am claiming the opposite. That people care as much today as they did back in the 90s.

> People didn't vote on Trump because of those things that politfact measured. There weren't watching the debates to figure out who was the most well argued person based on some basic idea of their rhetorical skills.

I have not mentioned "well argued" nor talked about rhetoric. I've talked about speaking the truth or lying. You can speak the truth as an illiterate 5 year old.

Are you deliberately changing your arguments/moving goal posts between all your responses?
I don't have the time to learn a new language that doesn't expose POSIX/Linux APIs. I may never use them, but I want them there in case I need them. You never know.
Actually, your other comment says it's been open for a whole year :)
It is even possible that dimes should go away.

"The United States abandoned its own most worthless coin, the half-cent, in 1857, when a half-cent was worth more than a dime is today." [http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/04/04/bringing-dol...]

We need to drop the paper dollar too. The biggest problem is that the new dollar coin is too close in size to the quarter and people get confused (especially elderly) but I think we have to suck it up and say tough. Some countries even have $2 and $5 dollar coins. As things go more and more digital, we need these denominations less and less.

As for the rounding or difference up to a quarter, make that a federal sales tax to fund currency production. If you pay with cash, you incur an additional cost of up to $0.24 per transaction to support the cost of money. If you pay digitally, you pay the exact amount. Just a thought...... :)
I'd call Indians actual humans, but the second part "to get access to my account" might not have happened.
>If you've ever been near a major automaker's test engineering lab

I think the op is claiming industry experience.
> like having long and synchronous opening animations in response to an action, which only serve to waste the user’s time.

Oooooh, don't get me started on DVD menu screen navigation. What shambling, drooling idiot decided that it was critical for me to watch an unskippable spoiler-rich montage of scenes from the entire length of the movie before I can click "Play Film", followed by another unskippable montage afterward? Insanity.
It also mentions Really Bad Chess, a refreshing take on Chess that's free for iPhone and Andriod. Check it out!

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It's actually not a contradiction — they just have different definitions of "read a book." If both are true, then it means that 84% of Americans started reading a book, but that only 56% finished at least one.

But yes, it would be good if the Literacy Project Foundation linked to publicly-available sources.
Amazon just got slapped with a $1M fine for misleading pricing
Hi everyone,

Instamotor is one of the fastest growing peer to peer used car marketplace, with financial services coming soon in 2017. We are based in San Francisco and currently process over $300 million/year worth of transactions, and projecting to reach $1 billion in 2017. Led by a team of industry veterans from Amazon, Google, Lending Club and Nest—we’re driven by the principle that buying a safe and trustworthy used vehicle is a fundamental consumer right. Instamotor currently has over $8 million in funding from top investors who successfully funded companies such as Airbnb, Square, Uber, Zappos and more.

We are looking for a technically solid, product-driven senior full-stack engineer to work on both our marketplace and lending platform.

Responsibilities

Drive company vision and technical execution
Help gather technical requirements for new features
Work directly with backend and frontend teams to drive feature delivery, and occasionally with other cross-functional teams.
Lead feature development by working directly with management,
Review pull request code, drive technical roadmap, and contribute best-practices to the engineering team
Identify areas of the code base in need of refactor
Monitor production system and identify performance improvements
Be awesome, have fun, and enjoy the joys and tribulations of a fast-growth startup :slightly_smiling_face:

Preferred Skillset:
- Ruby / Elixir / Node
- Html / CSS
- Reasonable UI/UX skills and ability to work with our UX team
- Bonus: postgres / newsql / docker / redis / elastic search...etc, as well as SEO/page-optimizations

Our Technical Stack

Our web frontend uses a react/redux/node stack with a slightly modified version of bootstrap for markup/styling. Our backend API is written in Ruby / Elixir, and we current use three different storage technology: (1) postgres for transactional; (2) redis for caching; (3) and elasticsearch to support search functionality in our app. Our services run on AWS, are dockerize, and get continuously integrated via a jenkin/github setup. Lastly, we have monitor our infrastructure with tools such as New Relic, Rollbar, Papertrail, Cloudwatch...etc. Lastly, we also have native apps for both iOS (swift/obj-c) and Android (java/kotlin).

If you are interested, send your resume along with your Github account information to tina@instamotor. Thank you and have a great day!
Ask HN: Developers in Germany, do you include a picture in your CV?
The only things I usually include on my CV are: name, surname, country and city of residence, email, phone, some links (e.g. GitHub profile), and of course professional experience, education, and skills. I've never included picture, the birthplace or birthdate.

Now I'm thinking applying for a job in Germany (only English-speaking companies from startups to medium-big sized). Do you think I should include a picture, the birthdate and birthplace too?

Thanks.
IMO, the same question could be asked with respect to any abstraction that hides complexity. The answer will always be/has always been: No, it won't. Rather, engineers who can think creatively about the role of pre-built ML models in mainstream applications will be in high demand.
I have worked with NaOH before, and I think the amount required would probably be more than a (US tank-style) water heater and less than a typical above-ground swimming pool.

I think you would need some of the tables typically found in chemical engineering manuals to work out the exact amount.

You would need the heat capacities for 50% and 30% (wt%) aqueous NaOH, mass fractions, enthalpy of dilution, and maybe activity coefficients. It sounds like a homework problem for a ChemE student.
Amazon Payments Becomes Amazon Pay – Rebranding
Do you not see how this is a huge hedge for Google? You control the platform and APIs, you rule the world.

Why do you think I don't see that?

On top of that, if you have to compete in the browser space by forking off of Google's rendering engine and web platform, you're always going to be behind.

Why? That's certainly not what happened with Google's browser.
be a whole lot cooler if they'd spend those millions just hiring Americans in the first place. 3 months of voice training isn't going to trump having english as your first/primary language your whole life, and those voip connections are the worst.
Like gpgv or symcryptrun, maybe?

https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/gpgv.html#gpgv

https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/symcryptrun.ht...
There's another more technical instance of engineered luck in video games: too-simple RNGs (as a result of system limitations) that they've been fully reverse-engineered. Tool-assisted speed runs of games have their own category for runs which utilize these shennanigans: http://tasvideos.org/LuckManipulation.html

Most of thoses require faster-than-human actions, though. But some RNGs are even simpler: in the GBA RPG Golden Sun, the RNG is seeded only when the system is turned on, so you can engineer any rare drop just by following an action script. (I wrote a blog post about this specific instance awhile ago: http://minimaxir.com/2013/05/guaranteed-to-be-random/ )
I don't work at Naughty Dog, and I don't have any secret knowledge of Jak & Daxter, except what I figured out myself from the disc. So a lot of this may well be wrong. Take a pinch of salt with it.

Isn't there an HN regular who did work at Naughty Dog, at least in the Crash Bandicoot days? Was he still around by the J&D days to fact-check?
Canada did away with pennies: http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/about-the-mint/phasing-out-the...

From Wikipedia:

Production of the penny ceased in May 2012, and the Royal Canadian Mint ceased the distribution of them as of February 4, 2013. However, like all discontinued currency in the Canadian monetary system, the coin remains legal tender. Once distribution of the coin ceased, though, vendors no longer were expected to return pennies as change for cash purchases, and were encouraged to round purchases to the nearest five cents. Non-cash transactions are still denominated to the cent.
Interesting read! If you want to read more about the programming of Jak & Dexter, as well as its predecessor Crash Bandicoot, check out Andy Gavin's awesome blog: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ban...
If your browser has the password saved then you can extract it now and save it to a more secure place, like a password manager. Presumably you could then use it to update your Yahoo! account email to a current, working address.

As noted here - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30013032/prevent-user-to-... you can get it using your browser's web inspector dev tool.
To add to my point, once a few key parties chose Bernstein's crypto, network effects did most of the rest.

Adam Langley [1] of Google authored the very first draft [2] of ChaCha20 and Poly1305 in TLS in September 2013 and started the feature request in Mozilla NSS that same month [3], while it presumably shipped in Chromium and BoringSSL earlier. A 2014 Google blog post credits the Poly1305 implementation to Andrew Moon (floodyberry) [4], and the ChaCha20 implementation to Ted Krovetz of CSU Sacramento [5][6].

Meanwhile, a very similar Chacha20+Poly1305 was added [7] to OpenSSH in November 2013 by Damien Miller (djm) [8], who is a longtime OpenSSH contributor but since 2006 has worked for Google.

Google likely did this to find a fast cipher that works on hardware that lacks AES acceleration (e.g. phones), but once they did it everyone else followed. This was of course during that awkward time in mid-2013 when no browser supported TLSv1.2 yet, and all TLSv1.1 ciphersuites were insecure [9]. This also coincided with Brian Smith of Mozilla blogging about cutting down on the number of different ciphersuites browsers are to use in the future [10][11], which began a big purge in ciphersuites [12].

[1] https://www.imperialviolet.org/
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-chacha20poly1305-0...
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917571
[4] https://github.com/floodyberry?tab=repositories&q=poly
[5] http://krovetz.net/csus/
[6] https://github.com/coruus/chacha/tree/master/ext/supercop/kr...
[7] http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/cip...
[8] http://www.mindrot.org/~djm/
[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12393830
[10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12393683
[11] https://briansmith.org/browser-ciphersuites-01
[12] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036765
No, but the use case he criticizes it for (a first-party service) is outside the scope of SemVer, so applying SemVer there would be an antipattern. That's generally true of apply a good pattern outside of its explicit domain.

You use SemVer when you are distributing a software package supporting a public API to third parties. If you are just running a service thst you develop.In house supporting a public API, you don't need SemVer. Arguably, SemVer is less useful if the software supports multiple public APIs for which independent, versions specs are available, though it is still meaningful and may be worthwhile in that case; though simple sequential versioning with a statement on API version compliance of each product version is probably more valuable.

Ultimately, it's a matter of choosing the right tool for the job, and SemVer is well-suited to the job it is intended for.
Neither gpg2 nor gpg1's defaults make short passwords safe; really, though, with a single targeted password, your passphrase needs to be extreme no matter what settings you use.

I'm not sure why an 8 byte block would materially impact file encryption. The kinds of attacks where short blocks come in handy are all online, CCA-style attacks. You might worry about things like CTR counter block sizes, but, again, not an issue for GPG1's defaults.

I'm not saying they're good settings. And: in particular, if you used them to encrypt something like session cookies, you could have serious vulnerabilities. But like I said: it's easy to encrypt files, and some things that are survivable for files aren't for other applications.
>Now, there's no reason to innovate because someone spends big bucks to actually do what everyone else is lying about.

This statement just doesn't make sense. If we punish actors who cheat the incentive is to innovate towards meeting the goal. If there's no mandate, and no punishment then there's no reason to innovate in a direction that protects the commons. There's simply no market mechanism for protecting the commons that works in practice.
> like having long and synchronous opening animations in response to an action

I love animations when they make the UI more understandable. I can't stand them when they are more than a couple hundred milliseconds though. I don't even think "synchronous" when I think of animations. That sounds terrible. If they are quick animations it doesn't seem as big of a deal as the long running ones though.
I have a booq[1] (not this specific model, my model is older has it is black/red but this is very similar) and I've been extremely happy with it. I bought it like 4-5 years ago, it has served me extremely well, I used it extensively for 3.5 years for nearly everything imaginable under all weather conditions. It was a great product, deserved every penny.

[1] https://www.booqbags.com/collections/macbook-laptop-backpack...
I think a conversation about innovation and competition in the browser space is interesting. A conversation about apportioning gratitude, not at all.
While the wording may not have been the best, the "Indian call centre" is just a place where people have been turned into drones (these exist in the US too, but the fact that it's been out-sourced to India reflects more on the "cost-cutting" mentality around support that the company itself has). They have a script to follow and not much agency to do anything (and possible penalties for escalating issues rather than "resolving" them at the first tier of support).
the armchair-lawyer in me feels like the status of being legal tender doesn't itself mandate the acceptance of any particular item of currency.
> But having browsers bless one company's subdomain with special rules that apply only to it is about as anti-open web as you can get.

I totally agree with you on that. They could easily get rid of their cache domain for serving AMP, or people could build browser extensions and other projects avoiding it while still using AMP, but only because all the publishers behind it already serve AMP if you ask for it. Which is why I made the point that it is not just Google serving it, which I clearly should have explained better.
"Apple is not only devoting a lot of resources towards wearables research but is also very interested in a number of other areas, including machine learning, virtual reality and augmented reality."

Just like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.
It is really great, I have it running on two cheapo linux VMs as well as my gaming box back home. It's great to be able to watch on my phone, iPad, netbook, laptop, desktop etc and the Fix Incorrect Match feature works just fine.. I don't even create the Season XX folders, just /media/TV/ShowName/Filename.SxxExx.mkv{or whatever} and most multi-worded series dont match correctly by themselves, editing it once and putting spaces in works 95% of the time.
It goes even deeper than that. At the time at Cambridge there was only one subject to study, called the Tripos, which included all these things. Overtime they've gradually stripped parts of the course into their own separate subjects. The only thing left is mathematics, which leads to a curious ceremony when you graduate with a maths degree which none of the other subjects have. So to Newton Theology and Maths were taught in the same major!
A couple of years ago, I went to a museum exhibition of DaVinci's notebooks.

I was completely unprepared for what was my primary reaction: that DaVinci just documented every idea in his head, and that some of them just happened to pan out. But for some reason, we credit him for the small percentage of ideas that just happened to work, and ignore all the wrong ideas. To me, he didn't seem like a genius, he seemed very much like a broken clock that just happened to be right twice a day.

There's a certain survivor bias in these sorts of discussions, where we identify great contributors as taking huge risks, and so forth and so on. This is true, but we also maybe tend to give them too much credit because we ignore all their failures. We tell ourselves that's why perseverence is so important, but then turn around and make fun of people or even become angry at them for wasting our time when so many things don't turn out. The difference between perseverence and shotgun approaches to pursuing knowledge seems arbitrary to me lots of times.

If you followed every one of DaVinci's ideas, for example, you'd be screwed, because he was so wrong about so many things. Today, he'd probably be seen as a crackpot because it would be so difficult to know when his idea was right and when it was wrong. The value of his ideas lies as much in his audience, the people who realized what of his ideas was correct, as much as, if not more, than in DaVinci himself.

I guess I've grown really disillusioned with advancements in science, because so much of it involves a sort of mythmaking that seems fairy-tale to me. To me, the reality seems more distributed, involving small contributions, gradually changing over time, with a lot of randomness involved.

I don't mean to come across as saying we shouldn't encourage experimentation and tinkering, or that it shouldn't be valued. In fact, I'd argue the opposite. But at the same time something seems off about our incentive structures--the way we give credit seems off.

Think of it this way: we do science because at some level, what's correct and what's not is an empirical idea. You could have 10 very reasonable explanations and 9 of them will be wrong "just because." In many cases, being intelligent has nothing to do with why the 9 are wrong, otherwise all we'd need would be philosophy and math. So why do we pretend that the 1 person who was correct was correct because they are a genius? It seems like you can't have geniuses and a need for science at the same time.
This definitely isn't what they're saying.

Lepton (one of the examples they mentioned) losslessly compresses a JPEG to Lepton format, then losslessly decompresses it back to JPEG. The pixels are never decompressed and in fact a JPEG decompressed from Lepton is bit-exact the same as the original. I've tested and verified this on several million images.
Inferno sounds interesting, I wish I could use it for projects. But React has grown to the point where there are components for it you can npm install and import in whatever components you want.

Should the Inferno community start porting over stuff to their ecosystem it'll be easier to sell to clients.
Microflora in your gut. That's what lactose intolerance basically means--it doesn't directly harm you, but when it's not taken up by the intestines because you lack the lactase enzyme it's consumed by microflora, which create gas and other issues. Kinda like beans which haven't been properly prepared and contain too much non-digestible starch.

It's also why some people who are genetically completely lactose intolerant can actually consume quite alot of lactose, and conversely why people who are genetically lactose tolerant can suffer from gastrointestinal issues pretty easily from dairy products, especially if they haven't consumed them in awhile. The tolerance or intolerance boils down to how the microflora react, not specifically to whether the person produces lactase.
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The other thing they don't spend money on is making their app work. For me it often fails to load images and has to be closed and restarted and it maybe displays images. I mean, c'mon, that's your core task, don't fail at this.

Also I have found an issue where they replaced the Flash based profile avatar chooser by HTML5 but forgot to test on computers without Flash installed so it was still not shown. Apparently nobody noticed for months. To their credit, I spoke to one of their engineers and it was solved very quickly.
How much is absorbed by middlemen seems like a bit of a red herring. Mylan raised the price of the pens from $100 in '07 to $600 this year. Hard to blame that on pharmacies and wholesalers taking their cut.
Anyone know if this TV interface can be set up on a HTPC?

The Netflix experience on a Windows HTPC is quite frankly, abysmal (whether it's the Windows Store app or through the web browser).
I am not a native English speaker, and it's pretty easy to notice the accent.

American/English sounding names they introduce themselves are all the more jarring because of that. I've got no problem talking to Prakash or Dharmesh (or whoever from wherever), but comically-obviously-not-Steve instantly gets me annoyed (it doesn't help that so far, 100% of these occurences have been spam calls).
This is “Hacker News”.
This is possibly controversial, but /r/TheRedPill has helped me a lot recently.

https://www.reddit.com/r/theredpill