skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amex is in a bit of trouble for a few reasons:

1. Competing card companies offer much better cards than they used to, and include benefits that only Amex used to provide. For example, Visa Signature and Mastercard's competing product offer return coverage, extended warranties, free rental car insurance, etc.

2. One of the main draws of accepting Amex was that Amex's customer base was more affluent than that of other card companies, but that is no longer the case, partly because of #1.

3. Amex lost the Costco deal. That's a loss of a great deal of credit card fees, and 10% of Amex cards were the Costco card.

The court case was also seen as a blow, but maybe not if it got reversed on appeal. In any case, there are plenty of other problems for Amex to worry about.
Sorry to break the news but this is already done: https://github.com/DennisSnijder/MakeGithubGreatAgain
Then I guess we were reading different articles. The focus here seemed to be "HHE is more expensive and there's no good reason for it". The claim was not "total real consumption is down". If HHE is 10x more expensive for no reason, and technology has reduced the price of everything else, then you can be absolutely correct that consumption of all goods went up ... but that's not the problem under investigation here.

The problem is, why must HHE be so much more expensive despite not delivering comparable value and not being that much more expensive in other countries?

Even when Alexander brought up the resolution you endorse, he went on to say that it doesn't actually resolve the core dilemma because HHE is still overpriced relative to the value it delivers.

So, your comment didn't really justify its dismissive tone if you were essentially saying, "yeah HHE is overpriced for reasons we don't understand, exactly as Alexander is alleging, but it's not big deal because ipads are faster".
Agreed. Luckily Sandboxing, which is pretty much the big feature that sells Chrome for Security will get to FF, it will just take a bit longer. Plus with FF going crazy for Rust, I think FF has a bright future security wise.
Do you know any other way to personalizing search results, making the search results by analytics and even creating a search engine company without putting ads on the page?

Anonymity is one thing but there is no other way of solving this problem without collecting user's data.
To the GitHubbers reading this thread, I like the dark menubar. I thought it was a feature of GitHub Enterprise only though, to distinguish the two :) I guess not!
This thread offers some interesting reading on Daydream and it's ROM image based cousin Darkmatter: http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1722
https://matrix.org fits the bill.
Does Depression has evolutionary Purpose
I'm doing an Instagram series (#GodsOfProgramming – https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/godsofprogramming/). CoIncidentally, we posted about Grace Hoppper today. :)
> the NDK only white lists a restricted set of libraries that aren't POSIX related

Uh, libc?

> Android 7 dynamic linker will kill any app that tries to link to device libraries not part of that list

Yes, it prevents you from depending on things that aren't required to be there. Apps depending on the device's OpenSSL libssl.so were horribly broken when Android switched to BoringSSL after Heartbleed. Preventing apps from loading system libraries guarantees that they won't break when those libraries are changed or removed in future releases.

> the Linux fork lacks APIs like e.g. UNIX IPC.

POSIX/SysV IPC are unusable on any system with untrusted applications. They live in a global namespace not tied to a process, and there's no reasonable way of doing any sort of accounting on them. There isn't even a way to use them correctly. If you shm_open, and fail to shm_unlink (for example, if you're OOM killed), the shared memory object will live forever. In the specific case of shm, Android introduced a far superior API, ashmem, which tracks shared memory objects as file descriptors, instead of manually refcounting names in a global namespace (memfd was added in linux 3.17, which solves the same problem in the same way).
Where do I order cards like these?
QNX IPC is deliberately just a delivery mechanism for a byte string. That's the OS level. You can put JSON, Google protocol buffers, or something else on top of it. In the hard real-time world, it's common to just pass known C structs with the necessary data items around. The OS doesn't care.

If you're implementing microservices, it's quite useful. I did a robot vehicle that way. All the Boston Dynamics robots run QNX.
Why did they change it? It's so distracting now.
This kind of worries are normal when you are used to a job routine, but are out of place once you see how many different opportunities life has to offer, e.g. when traveling around the world. Also how is a good idea to think about the far future when you don't even know where you are the next year?
The Economist has a list of their corresponds and editors on their website http://mediadirectory.economist.com

They don't seem to be significantly younger or more inexperienced than other journalists. However, they don't have journalistic heavyweights that do month-long investigations or pump out one price winning report after another. Those are rare anyway.

I know that they use a lot of stringers that remain unnamed. It is not unusual to have freelancers do research without naming them but as far as I know they also contribute whole articles. Likely these are people that also work for other news outlets.
I think it's not perfect, but for many academic purposes, LaTeX is still the best tool in my opinion. It's definitely not perfect, but there's a lot of historical weight and quirks, but the results look great if a little effort is spent. :)
Why is this not a user preference? Double why can't I color it to the color theme that I would enjoy?
Right, "complex scenes" are never completely static; spaces and textures changes if you move around. I find that particularly interesting because I can perceive and remember details (for instance the pattern of a mosaic), but whenever you check again, it change, so it seems like the buffer were this images are coming from is separated from the region of my brain in charge of remembering my current dream.
Perhaps, but I think that's closer to poisoning the well. Google don't have to be moral to deserve legal representation but since they are far, far from moral it does mean I won't count it as a moral victory when they win a court case.
Ah, thanks! I came across that a while ago but had forgotten about it. It seems to have come along quite a ways.
which library did u use to make this flowcharty UI?
Indeed, lots of people I know (mainly computer science, electrical engineering and physics) still heavily rely on it for long documents and papers.
Thank you for "bricks-n-clicks"
> Java SE, Java EE and JavaME are incompatible.

Hell, JavaME wasn't compatible with JavaME, depending on which vendor versions you were comparing. Sony Ericsson had classes totally different from Samsung or Nokia. Add CLDC versions and varying CPU and memory capabilities to that toxic hellstew to effectively kill the WORA dream.

Sun/Oracle can't blame Google for their abysmal mobile strategy.
Did you actually read the content of my post?

Look at my comment history and let me know if you still think I'm a spam bot.
The dark bar itself isn't really the issue, I'm all for a dark layout for GitHub. But as it is right now, with the header being dark and the rest light, it just looks very jarring and distracting to me. Your attention keeps being pulled to the top bar, but that's not where the real content is.

At first I assumed this was part of an incremental change to go fully dark, although I'm not sure why they would release it part by part.

But then a tweet [0] seems to imply that it's not gonna happen anytime soon.

[0]: https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830210985512218624
> Uh, libc?

libc is the C runtime library, a subset of POSIX.

A conforming ANSI C implementation is not required to provide headers like unistd, or any kind of POSIX compatibility beyond what ISO/IEC 9899 requires.

> POSIX/SysV IPC are unusable on any system with untrusted applications.....

Either POSIX compatibility matters, or it doesn't.
If you can't use your phone number for password recovery or SMS to your phone number as the 2FA, what do you use instead?
> they are actually just selling hosted versions of the existing products

Ha, if that were true, it wouldn't even be that bad. In the niche I work for, what they sell is not even as powerful as their existing on-premises product.

Not that it matters: they simply won't sell or even develop new on-premises, so you either go to their crappy cloud services or you just migrate away. There are now entire companies based on "move your existing Oracle solutions to our product with the minimum fuss and enjoy real power, not a cut-down version of what you already had three years ago".
I am baffled by how Github thought this was a meaningful design change.

It looks jarring to have a top bar that has such a high contrast with the rest of the page. Not to mention the color palette used is very...odd. Very off white and pure black (255, 255, 255) do not go well together. They could have at least made the entire site dark themed in which I doubt there would be so much drama around it.
If you're converting Org documents to PDF, you can use Pandoc (http://pandoc.org/) to automatically convert & send through pdfLaTeX.
Didn't google recently remove the "do no harm" line from their mission statement or something?
You are reading something into this that is not there.

Choosing who from the past that we want to honor is pretty natural. (It's not "redeeming" the past to choose carefully who to honor this way.) Changing an honorary name on a building is different than changing a paragraph on a history book.

As a point of comparison, plenty of street names are changed to honor various historical figures, municipal functionaries, now-famous past residents, etc.
> > The tools to do this are heavily logged and audited.

> how was it discovered that he looked?

That's how they figured it out. Because someone who wasn't fulfilling a support ticket accessed an email account.
Those people are about as atypical as they come.
So, what colour should the bike shed be?
I'm sure today we could create an _even better_ chip focused on the advancements in neural networks and chip design, but it's awesome that a chip from 2012 can still take us so far! AlexNet was just a baby then. I doubt any CPU, GPU, FPGA, or DSP from 2012 would hold up as well.

I dont think you understand their architecture, and neither did LeCun. The Von Neumann Bottleneck is a specific term referring to limited throughput between data in memory and compute in the CPU. TrueNorth is not a Von Neumann architecture and does not have this bottleneck. Memory is located adjacent to compute elements in True North. For comparison, GPU's have very tiny amounts of on chip memory, and have to spend lots of energy copying data back and forth to off chip memory, which is why they are investing heavily in approaches like HBM. FPGAs also dont have as much memory as an ASIC because they need to dedicate space to reprogrammable logic, integrated ARM cores/DSPs, etc.

The chips can be laid out in flexible topologies such as a grid. While it's true that communication between chips is more power intensive than within a chip, this cost is only occurred for the relatively small amount of traffic sent between chips versus computed locally. Hierarchy and small world nature of neural networks can mean that there is more local computation than you would expect naively, and a grid can mean a spike routed from one core to the furthest core would be O(sqrt(N)) instead of O(N).
Is a full extension to run a single line of JS/CSS really necessary? I feel like for things like this, it makes much more sense to use either greasemonkey or stylish, rather than install a whole browser extension just to remove a single CSS class.
Just a heads up that these extensions will stop working soon.

https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830149416556191744

Most of these extensions popping up that revert GitHub's header to white are simply removing the `.header-dark` class which (currently) applies the dark styles and according to @mdo the styles will be permanently applied as a default.

The only way to revert them after this would be to reapply the old styles so if someone really wants that they might want to save them now.
I didn't realize Lucasfilm laugh the first graphical MMO! Seems like they did a lot of groundbreaking work in games -- it is a shame that Disney axed that division.
Club Caribe anyone? I think for people of a certain age at a certain time, that was an "oh wow" CGA preview of what the next 30 years were going to be like.
Ordered through moo.com :)
I needed a diagram to showcase my question. This isn't my UI.

However, I used https://jsplumbtoolkit.com to create my own UI.
I'd imagine that was a Ballmer-era policy. I would be interested to see if there's anything like that coming out of Nadella's Microsoft (keeping in mind that Nadella's Microsoft hired the guy behind Mono).
Agreed, but I do find Kotlin[1] to be a good compromise in the meantime.

1 - https://kotlinlang.org
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/review/w... lists only "public_profile, user_friends and email" as scopes available without a review, accessing posts seems to require a different one.
Oh for sure! I myself no longer feel like I'm getting as much value from my $450/year Platinum charge card with Amex and am looking to switch to the Chase Sapphire Reserve card, as it's a visa (taken everywhere), has a better rewards program, and provides far more services for that same $450/year annual fee.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish[1] Microsoft?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
From the article: "The intentional transmission to interstellar targets of EM signals of a strength greater than Earth’s omni-directional leakage, should be considered as the reckless endangerment of all mankind, and be absolutely proscribed with criminal consequences."

Premature panic, perhaps.

If somebody somewhere has FTL travel, they'd probably be here already. If nobody has FTL travel, about all we can do is try to talk by radio, with a lot of lag.
or just download a more flexible extension like Veneer and modify the CSS yourself
I second moo.com as a provider of fine business cards.
Kali Linux on the Raspberry Pi: 3, 2, 1, and Zero
The internet scammer who loved me (not)
Not expressing any opinions on this but it's not pure black. The shade used is #1e2327 or rgb(30,35,39)

Edit: also 255,255,255 is white, not black.
The terminology's confusing, but there's a court named the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit [1], even though the term "federal circuit court" also colloquially means the Courts of Appeals in general. This Federal Circuit is a non-geographical Court of Appeals, separate from the 11 numbered, geographically based Courts of Appeals, and has exclusive jurisdiction over patent cases (among a few other things). They also have a reputation of being very pro-IP-plaintiff compared to the courts in general.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals...
> Maybe he is an asshole, but at least Larry Ellison didn't build a company to spy on half the planet like Page & Brin.

The toolbars and other crap which the JRE installer / autoupdater tries to sneak on to unwitting users' systems ARE spyware.
> Entitlements come directly out of payroll taxes

When the latter fail to cover the former, those entitlements will be paid out of income taxes.

I don't think it's honest to lump out a preferred pool of spending like that. I could similarly claim all spending linked to corporate and capital gains taxes not be counted as part of the budget.
I coincidentally started using GitHub Dark with Stylish just a few days before these changes went live. I love it: https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark
The actual name of the programming language I believe was A-0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-0_System

If you look at that paper, she gives an example of the language on figure 9 of page 248:

0 b0i I(1,2,3,4,5) 1,2,3,10,6

1 apn 1,10 4

2 x-e 4 5

3 amc 6,1 7

4 ts0 7 8

5 am0 5,8 9

6 yrs 1,9 0(1,2)

7 aaL 1,2,3 1 8,1

8 ust

(I hope I copied the above correctly, the table is a bit hard to interpret.)

It looks rather like assembly language. Except that the mnemonics in column 2 aren't actually assembly opcodes, they identify subroutines written in machine code. Variables are represented by numbers. The third column is used for input arguments, the fourth for output arguments, the fifth for control flow.

It was a "compiler" in the sense that it read the program and wrote out machine code for each instruction to (a) move input arguments from the variables according to the calling convention (b) make the subroutine call (c) move the output arguments back to the memory locations for the variables.

Very primitive, but I don't think anyone else in 1952 was doing any better. (Other 1950s languages look far more modern – such as LISP and FORTRAN – but they were developed 4-5 years later.)
Regarding the new GitHub dark bar... To quote Mr. Horse: "No sir, I don't like it".
Not at all, it means that many mistakenly use Linux syscalls as synonym for POSIX, thus making the same lock-in to GNU/Linux as Google, Apple and Microsoft do to their own systems.

*BSD devs jump of joy having to port GNU/Linux applications that depend on D-BUS, systemd, or any other Linux specific APIs.
It's the first of many iterative design changes coming to Github. It'll all make sense soon enough.
Because messaging is the new web.
These are really beautiful business cards.

But man, does anybody actually get value out of their business cards? No interesting opportunity has ever come up for me as a result of sharing business cards.

At some point I stopped taking them with me. I still have a bunch of them in my desk drawer, they're very outdated, and I only use them for grocery lists.

Is that just me, or are business cards going out of fashion in general?
you truly have an ideal scenario though, for me I make a 100,000 in SF and between my expenses and taxes its the equivalent of making 40000 anywhere else.
Fair enough, but this is a standard term taught in Econ 101 (at least, I was taught the econ meaning of inferior good in my first econ class).
They occasionally go so far as to tear down buildings altogether!
I hope google just abandons java altogether if this is gonna continue.
What program did you use to create the diagram?
I propose we base truth on whatever epistemological grounding that allows one to assert the truth claim of relative truth.
Until they put it back. There's no way of knowing what's facebook is doing today.
Playing devil's advocate, he could have been an employee before being recruited as a paid agitator.
To a large extent this already happens, and is one of the major complaints about gentrification. The rising value of the land & property causes rising rents, which can become a hardship on the lower-income people who were living there before the place became trendy/valuable.

Not to say it shouldn't be done, but there are definitely two edges to that sword.
That is not correct. When one contracting party is in a superior position, courts consistently rule against the drafter of the agreement when there is ambiguous language. It's a long held legal principle taught in contract classes at law school.
In that case I think I would try the argument. But if I were on the jury I wouldn't be thinking "there's no case here".

If I understand how appealing jury decisions works, it isn't going to be anywhere near good enough for Oracle to argue that a reasonable jury might have decided the other way.
Any color that doesn't increase the chances of you misplacing your Enterprise bike.
I made mine using LaTeX for VL/HCC 2016. It's on http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/blog/VLHCC2016.html

I repeated enough times to fill a page, printed it, and cut the cards.
I have to admit that when I saw the dark bar for the first time, I switched to HN to see if someone died.
One hilarious one is basename(3), which is two functions with different behavior, but the same name. The one you get depends on which headers you include, and what _GNU_SOURCE is set to.

See http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/basename.3.html for the manpage.
You made me curious, so I've prepared a simple benchmark - https://gist.github.com/piotrkubisa/8ccc308086378da7d2f6c0d5...
Maybe, this is a little bit off-topic.

But anyone, who tried to use JetBrains IDEs on Ubuntu, might have faced the problem uglier font rendering with OpenJDK and the fix to it is to use the JDK from Oracle.

I thought the different with OpenJDK was largely about the licensing. Anybody with some insight on it ?
I've used PayPal to take payments for my side business, for upwards of a decade -- well over 1000 sales. I've never had a single glitch.

Every once in a while, I look into alternative services. So far, PayPal is the only service that lets me run my business using a static web page. They provide the checkout system and handle the card payment for me.

If I use Stripe, I have to create and maintain some kind of active server to process the transactions. With other services, there's always something that makes it onerous to use.

In the long run, I think the buyer protections are more of a benefit than a risk to me. They reassure the customer that I won't screw with their credit card number, or just vanish overnight with no recourse to them.

Note that as a manufacturer, my cost-of-goods is a small fraction of the selling price, so my risk is less than someone using PayPal for a pure cash transaction such as getting paid for work. Also, a physical good that can be returned kind of sets the bar for any customer who wants to hassle me.

So far, the only disputes I've received have been when somebody orders my gadget by accident, and enters a dispute so I can cancel the transaction.
Not understanding is fine: assuming that something one doesn't understand must be a slur is not fine.
Title changed to clickbait. Tesla has nothing to do with this TAL episode; the Tesla name is never used.

The only connection is that the former NUMMI site now holds Tesla assembly operations.
Four of Iceland’s main volcanoes are preparing for eruption
That's with stock and bonuses and at e4 it's in the middle for pay there
Paypal is offered a lot as an option for virtual goods, such as virtual items or services for games. There is always a lot of caution around it, because anyone that has used it in this area for longer than a day realizes that they can be scammed nearly arbitrary amounts if they decide to trust payments from Paypal.

For this reason, it's generally required either that you do out of bound methods to help verify your identity (i.e. show us a picture of your ID and we will make sure it matches your Paypal name after you pay us), and/or that you have a lot of reputation within whatever community you're working from.

If you do this verification wrong as a merchant, you will find yourself charged back with absolutely no recourse after you have only sold to a few customers. I've seen this happy many times, sometimes with $10 and sometimes with $1,000. Even if you do this verification correct, you can still find yourself charged back with no recourse, so it's advised not to do this with large payments or sketchy customers, especially in the area of virtual goods. This is also commonly done in areas wiht donations, such as Twitch donations of thouands of dollars being charged back after the sender has already recieved their desired reaction/fame/etc.

Given what I have seen, I read this clause as a requirement that you are not allowed to fairy inform users about the risks of Paypal, and depending on how this requirement is enforced, it could mean the end of Paypal as a method in the virtual goods area, as new methods like Bitcoin slowly take over due to the lack of chargebacks.