skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because swiping is so much more convenient. With a magnetic transaction I can just swipe and put my card away. Most of the time I swipe at the beginning of a long checkout (grocery store). With a chip transaction, I need to leave the card in until the very end. I now need to leave my wallet out, or put the wallet away and then remember to take the card back. More card readers are optimized for swiping with card insertion as an afterthought. Inserting a chipcard is usually at some awkward angle.

As a consumer, chipcard provides no benefit. Yes fraud is theoretically lower, yet the banks aren't passing any of these savings to me (I'm still waiting for lower rates or higher paybacks).
Something close to this is this video from the perspective of the earth, showing the planets at the same distance from earth to the moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYC_Z36rHw
Why Pandas Are Black and White
Only have an anecdote, but when I replaced my latest (last?) generation Apple AirPort Extreme with a trio of Eeros for a ~1700 sq foot two-floor house I immediately wished I'd done it sooner.

Expensive for sure, but setup was a breeze, reliability has been great, and I get 200Mbit+ a floor away from my ISP router, where I used to see 20 on a good day.

I was skeptical of how well a mesh could work, but the performance has sold me.
sounds like Ethereum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum

"Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). This virtual machine can execute Turing-complete scripts using an international network of public nodes and a token called ether. Gas, an internal transaction pricing mechanism, is used to prevent spam on the network and allocate resources proportionally to the incentive offered by the request"

Unrelated, I remember an experiment on Twitch, where hundreds of viewers controlled/played Pokémon Yellow (Gameboy emulator) live on Twitch via chat commands like "left", "right". It more or less worked out fine, but was rather slow progress.
I never claimed to be an "expert" on Somalia, I merely pointed out that it's among those countries that have what supposedly makes a good "libertarian utopia": Barely any regulations, due to the government being ineffective at actually enforcing them, and high rates of firearms ownership.

>Somalia has had a central government since 2007 - but I'm sure you already knew that.

They have some government going that is barely able to project itself across the country.

>I'm also curious about your opinion of the Barre Administration and the (presumably) high standard of living the government provided during that time.

That's a non-sequitur, just because some governments failed/had been ineffective at what they're supposed to do, does not mean that all of them are failing/are ineffective at what they are trying to do.
Containers: Podcast on global trade's transformation of the economy and ourselves
well, there's the rest of the world, and there's the US, where chip cards are recent and still lack chip+pin requirement for now. we still use imperial units, too! not to mention the worst (read: non-existent) maternity-leave laws on earth - worse than many less developed countries.
Getting started with the Ada Drivers Library device drivers
It may simply be the DHCP that's the problem - the step it's hanging on is always "requesting IP address". I've tried fixed IPs and that hasn't helped. Part of the problem is that even though I bought a designated access point device instead of a generalist wifi router (and I suspect it's the same device with marginally different firmware), the configuration process to make this stuff work is completely opaque. I have no idea what I'm doing right or wrong, and every guide says something different - at this point I'm at just "give both networks the same SSID and encryption and password and hope it all works out".
I wish it were otherwise, but the article is correct. I was alive then. Jackson State had no effect on the public consciousness, whereas Kent shocked the nation. Yeah, its racist and wrong, but that's how it was. I was still attending a segregated public school at the time.
I have a partner who hates wires. Wifi is a very normal thing for TV's, Games consoles, Chromecasts... etc;
...reminds me of the "Overview effect" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
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It's worth noting that newer Ubiquity APs no longer support Zero Handoff. Part of the problem was that all the APs needed to be on the same channel, which caused co-channel interference under heavy usage; there was a significant performance impact. (Also, I believe that chipset in the newer Unifi models just don't support it.)

Without it, clients can still roam between APs, but you'll notice ~1 second of packet drops each time your client roams to a new AP. It won't drop a VoIP call, but you'll notice a moment of silence when it happens.

The future is 802.11r/k/v, which will allow clients to roam themselves quickly between participating BSSIDs without needing to renegotiate the connection each time (as opposed to relying on pure AP-based hacks).
Anecdote: I've talked to a couple people who were in jail locally (in the US). Their experience was that "most" of the people in jail with them were in for DUI or child support. "Most" can probably be thought of as "enough to notice."

Of course they didn't survey professionally, yadda yadda.

Of course most men don't end up in jail for anything at all, ever, but it's a common enough experience to notice.

Disclaimer: I'm divorced, paid child support for 15 years, and was nervous all the way to the last payment.
Mr brain literally hurts when I attempt to imagine the final answer behind the universe. I get to a point where my brain quivers and pushes me back like I'm not meant to be lurking there. Off limits, out of bounds.

It's so annoying not knowing. Where did all this matter come from, and if it's always been here, then how the hell has it always been here, and why is it like it is. What caused the nature of nature?

I bet God doesn't have the answers either. Why would God know the source of God? It wouldn't.

This is why I kind of like that recent movie called "Arrival" or the proper name "Story of your life". A new language delivered from Aliens would be great to tackle the big questions.
If taxi regulation is rent-seeking, then Uber and Lyft, bypassing those regulations, should have much lower costs because no rent to pay. So how come they can't profitably offer a cheaper service, or a much better service at the same price?
impl<T> PartialEq<Option<T>> for Option<T> where T: PartialEq<T>

does exist, but I'm not 100% sure why Deref doesn't kick in here, I just know that it doesn't.

> couldn't we have a general impl of PartialEq for Options of Deref types?

I think the issue is None. You'd get a null pointer, which doesn't make any sense in safe rust.
Does anyone know what happened at the top of the dam: http://imgur.com/a/aT4UE

Looks like the side of the spillway or roadway was damaged, since the concrete appears to be broken, although the spillway wall itself might be ok below that vantage point. It's just really hard to tell from that angle, but all of the official drone footage/photos from DWR don't include that area of the spillway, which is curious.
Wonderful; now we can proactively modify Curiosity's code to act as an interplanetary telegraph so Matt Damon doesn't have to do it once he gets stranded there.
yes, the chips protect banks from fraud. your contract with the credit card already protects you from fraud as long as you report it in a timely fashion.
Though blockchain is an ill-defined term, this seems to be missing the most important part of one: consensus. Bitcoin achieves this in two ways:

- Proof-of-Work, which effectively functions as a leader election algorithm
- Consensus programs, which mediate any changes to the blockchain.

Each Bitcoin transaction has an associated script that determines how it can be spent. A conforming block satisfies all of the scripts for all of the transactions being spent.

This particular post illustrates something which I would say is little more than a Merkle tree[1], except it isn't even that. But perhaps it's illustrative for some people.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
More specifically, it chooses by cumulative work. Bitcoin needs that behavior because of retargetting (a lesser height chain may have required more proof of work to build than a higher height one).

If your custom blockchain has a static target, choosing the best chain by height is perfectly fine. Though, I'm not sure how useful a blockchain without retargetting or POW would be.
But does she care? Clearly if someone negotiates to get paid no matter what, they're putting themselves before the company. And based on how she's acted as CEO, I don't see any reason to believe she cares about saving Yahoo!
But wouldn't blue whales which are the largest mammal sleep even less?
Celestia is worth checking out as well: https://celestiaproject.net/
The botched cliche we have now that's says "those who know, do. Those who don't, teach" was originally:

Those who know, do. Those who understand, teach.
AFAIK, Haskell Programming Book is one of the best resources currently. I'm planning on buying it soon
I think you pay US taxes only on 108K, plus taxes on whatever tax jurisdiction you're in. Which is kind of a bummer.

For the first 108K, AFAIK, you just pay taxes to wherever you earned the money. If you made 100k a year selling widgets from Columbia, you're only subject to Columbian income tax.

I don't think there's any such thing as a free lunch - you'll have to pay for one set of taxes no matter what. The US double taxes over 108k.
I was a Computer Science student and teaching assistant at the University of Toronto for a number of years (about a decade ago), and the 20% rule was in full effect: "On a test, if you write 'I don't know', you get 20% of the marks for that question"

As a student, this challenged you to know and understand what you know, and what you don't, and promoted the idea that knowing what you don't know is, in itself, valuable.

As a teaching assistant marking tests, this virtually eliminated long, tedious, often vacuous answers where the student was clearly throwing darts and hoping for a mark or two.
Why do you want to put your card in at the start? Why not put it in at the end when it's time to pay?
Please read the entire context of the OPs post:

>"They are not very accepting towards honest mistakes."

Possessing LSD is not an honest mistake.
> I think the issue is None. You'd get a null pointer, which doesn't make any sense in safe rust.

No, I don't mean an impl between Option<T> and T, I mean a bidirectional impl of PartialEq between Option<T> and Option<U> where U is T's Deref::Target.

In that case, None doesn't cause an issue; None == None, and Some(t) == Some(u) iff *t == u
That's exactly the problem. They're not willing to take information except what they prescribe. They didn't require much much in the first place. You can't be Yahoo, turn around after you require too little verifying information in the beginning, then place tens of thousands of accounts in stasis, when people are piling up willing to move mountains to show that it's really them.

After they've been hacked, how can I be sure that my info wasn't changed? What about with flickr had transitions, was any identifying on the accounts lost?

The photos I have can be matched to other public information I have on the net. I've provided those details already.

My name is on the account.

I was a flickr pro customer. I could give them my billing info of CC's I had around the time.

Blizzard doesn't keep driver's licenses on file before hand, but they use it to prove identity.
Sometimes, context can be ripe for the picking while simultaneously leaving your subject rotting on the vine.

Regardless: I think you answered a question more about "what" than "why"; I know what these models are, and how they are used, but it is still somewhat surprising to me that you can get as good results as people claim without a nearly infinitely dimensional space (and honestly I kind of wonder if this might be more a model of "the kinds of questions humans most often like to ask about words when confronted with a word for the first time or wanting to test a data set" instead of "a true understanding of what is being said encoded as vectors", allowing things like "have opposite gender" to be extremely functional vectors but probably leaving much more important concepts like "are classic opponent in war" on the floor, which is really important semantic information that isn't necessarily transtive and might not even be commutative, a thought process that seems to align with complaints about word2vec from ConceptNet.)

Put differently: I bet the set of 300 axes is actually a more useful result (though one that is more opaque and I don't hear much about attempts to analyze; but I am currently not in this field and haven't been paying attention to the literature) than the actual vector mapping (which is what people always seem excited about). I would love to see more talk of "what questions are these models weirdly good at answering versus questions where they seem so limited as to almost be useless".
They don't need to be on different channels, but it's recommended for performance (due to co-channel interference).

Think of it this way: Each channel provides a fixed amount of bandwidth, and neighboring APs need to overlap slightly to provide seamless coverage. As a first order approximation, if two APs are on the same channel you'll have twice the range, but half the bandwidth because the spectrum would be shared between them.

(It's actually slightly worse than this, because collisions will happen causing additional overhead.)
I guess the optimum has to be some kind of "area under the learning curve" but I think it's pretty clear if you made a binary choice optimising for people who already made the effort makes a lot more sense. Is Clojure really that bad? I don't know it, but I never had the impression there was an anti-newbie community. Sometimes people take these binary positions as a decision-making optimisation too; having that policy just simplifies a lot of discussions, perhaps.
This one comes with extra autism.
As I read it, this is an argument about what it means to be 'real'. The argument goes along the lines of consciousness can only be described behaviouristically. Therefore it is a behaviour. Moreover, consciousness only is a 'metaphor' for the material world, rather than a description of the material world.

This is then taken to mean that it is so far divorced from the material world so as to merely be an illusion.
There were two versions of the NES and the SNES, one for Japan, the other US/EU. Technically the same insides but a different version none the less.
Ouch that's rotten. I thought there was a way to deduct from that 108K whatever you were paying in taxes wherever you were domiciled.
i've always found it to be profoundly messed up that address validation (AVS) and security code validation (CVV/CSC) happen after the funds are authorized and held by the issuing bank.

this means if you choose to decline transactions for cvv or avs reasons in your gateway settings, those funds are still actually held by the customer's bank as pending for ~24h, preventing them from trying the auth again if it puts them over their credit limit.

the only way to release them is for the merchant to call the customer's bank and provide the, cc number and auth code.

we've had to leave these "security" settings off in our payment gateway and just assess the processor codes ourselves. then manually call the bank if there are mismatches. it's a massive pain in the ass and pretty much a neccessity if your avg order is hundreds of dollars. >:(
You could just as easily say that consciousness is all that exists and the physical universe is the illusion. There is no objective reality.
Hi,

Take a look at the Building Umbrella Project from elxirconf: https://github.com/poteto/elixirconf-201620 by Wojtek Mach.

The source: https://github.com/wojtekmach/acme_bank22 is a great example of an umbrella app. For example, he uses two instances of phoenix (backoffice and bank_web). It's a working app, so you can experiment with it too.

The talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NTmUQClHrU18 I found it very instructive.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk
You are making an assumption that obesity is because people overeat, and that "moving around" is somehow a counter to that.
Have you considered the amount of sugar found in virtually all SAD based food could be the problem? (Setting aside the movement debate and the false premise it creates about energy in vs energy out).
Doesn't it enhance to the problem further though? (if yes, then yes, wifi kinda sucks)
>I think part of the issue here is that, in the past, mental health institutions itself had their own huge issues. There was a large movement to move away from mental health institutions, at least in the US, in the 1970s as a result (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation).

There was a new generation of drugs people thought would end the need for institutions. I don't think they even considered the possibility people with mental illnesses would, in a state of mental soundness, decide not to take the drugs necessary to keep them there.

There was also a bit too much optimism when it came to assessing the effectiveness of the drugs.
If you go to http://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/ you can find print-outs of the entire universe all the way to the microwave background (log scale).

They're very cool.
We are experimenting with webworkers to power a very complicated autocomplete and scoring system in our client. So far so good. We're able to keep the UI running at 60fps while we match, score and sort results in a web-worker.
I suppose we could look at consensus as means by which multiple blockchains are collapsed into a single chain which contains the "truth" for multiple entities or aggregates. Once a collapse or consensus occurs, the chain, regardless of who holds it, would contain the truth.
Accept the mountains of information I've provided them:

- Picture of me with my driver's license (which has logins from the area)

- Sworn oath under penalty of perjury

- Proof photos in my public account are linked to me (I have pics of a laptop with an xmonad config open which is the same as my GH) https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2741/4437425032_a059639217_o_... == https://github.com/tony/xmonad-config/blob/master/xmonad
It's faster that way.
> Unrelated, I remember an experiment on Twitch, where hundreds of viewers controlled/played Pokémon Yellow (Gameboy emulator) live on Twitch via chat commands like "left", "right". It more or less worked out fine, but was rather slow progress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pok%C3%A9mon
You can actually put your card in at the beginning with certain machines in the UK, and then it picks it up once the cashier starts the payment process. You'll get weird looks if you do. The slot for the card is almost always at the bottom, under the PIN pad. I assume the US uses different machines, since you need to do some awkward signature thing?
From a quick look at the screenshots, and the other comments here: because it offers more than the basic spectrum view of Audacity?
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Twitch Plays Pokémon
How about a regulation that the driver isn't a violent criminal.

What about a regulation that the vehicle must meet some set of minimum safety standards.

What about some regulation around how far that $10 should get you.

What about some regulation that protects the drivers as a class of employees or contractors.
Perhaps revealing my own biases: it's so unexpected to find such a radical, irreverent, warm teacher as head Latinist of the Vatican, where one might expect to find the most rigid and staid of people. The quotes about and from him are great:

> “Sacred language?” he said when asked about Latin as the “sacred language” of the church. “In the first century every prostitute in Rome spoke it fluently—and much better than most people in the Roman Curia.”

And on his pedagogy:

> What was it that was so revolutionary in Foster’s approach? Some sense of what the experience was like can be found in his new book, the Ossa Latinitatis. The book is divided not into chapters or lessons but “experiences” and “encounters.” The language is significant. Foster’s method was primarily to be present in the room when exposing students to real Latin. He would settle on one particular thing he wanted students to look for, cold-call, and then correct mistakes publicly. About this method he said, “You don’t need a hydrology course to learn to swim. You don’t point at the water and say, ‘This is water, this is how water works.’ you just throw the babies in.”...

> Foster’s method put back together what language courses generally separate: the experience of learning a language and the cultural value of knowing it.

I think a lot of programming and computer science education has moved in this direction, but it's notable that Foster isn't just throwing the babies in to make todo list apps -- they're reading the erudite giants of two millennia of Latin literature. What would a "Great Works" version of a programing or computer science curriculum look like?

(Comment disclaimer: I'm a classmate and friend of the author, a remarkable man in his own right; a Princeton graduate and fluent Latin speaker who lives with his family in a cabin without running water or electricity.)
Also check out this book "TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking" [1], written by the owner of TED himself. I read many books on public speaking and this is by far the best. I've been giving it as gift to friends who do public speaking of any kind.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/TED-Talks-Official-Public-Speaking/dp...
For a US perspective, see "When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners" in The Atlantic.[1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/manufac...
Where do VR offices fit in? [1,2]

[1] http://assets-jpcust.jwpsrv.com/thumbs/nqfIhMYO.jpg

[2] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/i-worked-in-a-vr-...
He says why. With swiping, you can often do the swipe while the clerk is ringing up your groceries and put your wallet away as opposed to having to do the transaction at the end (as you also need to do if you use your phone).

He's not wrong although this is pretty far down my list of life's annoyances :-)
Exactly! He said that with such authority, didn't he? :) Chase just issued me a chip card in the last couple of years, and every time I check out of a store equipped with a terminal that can do both, it's still pretty much a 50/50 chance they'll tell me the chip reader doesn't work yet and I need to swipe.