skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They can't store the numbers themselves except the last four digits IIRC

Companies can store the whole number. That's how on-file payments and automatic subscription renewal payments work.

What you are probably recalling is a PCI rule that requires keeping the credit card number protected, such as storing it encrypted and only letting things that are sending transactions to the credit card network have access to the plaintext. That rule has an exception for the last 4 digits and the first 6 digits.

For example, when your customer support people look up the history of a customer they are helping, if your account info viewing tool shows a list of prior transaction details, it could not show the credit card number used for each transaction, but it could show the first 6 and the last 4 digits.
The European Parliament votes non-bindingly to reintroduce visas for Americans
Okay, my day is over and I'm going home. I'm done.
> Journalism is pretty much about about selection of data. The opposite is.. well, like a data viewer for a repository of stats.

Humans aren't good at dealing with data, especially on complex on nuanced subjects, or on topics where the data they need may seem unrelated and get disregarded by impatient humans, or data that doesn't fit their political narratives. Both humans and AI rely on heuristics and have false-positives and false-negatives, but it's intuitive that AI would be much more accurate overall.

> How would having makefiles for articles help things? Wouldn't it just make it more efficient/cheaper for biased editors to create articles using cherry-picked data?

Yes, but it would make it cheaper for them to be fact-checked.
> for Rust the compiler version is not pinned

Oh, you just need another layer of abstraction! Install rustup, and then (from memory, might be slightly wrong):

rustup install 1.15.1
rustup run 1.15.1 cargo build

rustup will take care of getting hold of the right versions of cargo and rustc, and then use them to run the build. I admit that it's not as nice as having the build tool download the right version of everything, but it does work, and you could hide this inside a pretty small shell script or function if you wanted it to be neater.
also Kuh-Damm
There are two spillways, the main spillway and the emergency spillway.

The main spillway is the concrete spillway, and it developed a hole in late January. Due to very real concerns that it would deteriorate, the decision was made to use the emergency spillway until the concrete spillway would be fixed.

The emergency spillway is basically a concrete weir--when the lake level reaches a certain height, it spills out over concrete and runs down the hillside. This is considered an emergency spillway, and erosion is usually expected for such spillways (the regulatory definition of an emergency spillway is basically "it can be used once and then it needs a long downtime while it's repaired).

When the emergency spillway was in use, what happened was the very same erosion that was underpinning the main spillway was also occurring near the concrete weir. If left unchecked, the fear was that it would start eroding the concrete weir leading to potential collapse of the concrete weir. This prompted the decision to evacuate as much water as possible using the damaged main spillway which greatly exacerbated the damage (as the pictures show, a large section of the spillway now fails to exist, and it looks like most of the lower spillway would need to be torn up instead of being unused).

I'm not a geologist, and I certainly don't have detailed nature of the local geology. But my suspicion is that the prolonged drought followed by the intense wet season destabilized the slope (by weakening the organic stabilization of the slope and then loading it heavily with water), so spilling any dam water anywhere on it would lead to massive erosion (including undermining the concrete structures). The emergency spillway is supposed to be able to carry far more water loads. I don't think the severe-drought-then-extreme-rain scenario was envisioned during the dam construction (although it really should be after this event), so I don't know if the spillway would have performed as badly in "expected" conditions.
1 isn't obvious to me. What makes the location of cars 'material'?
Are you saying innovation denotes positive social change?
Because that's the primary way that governments aren't just corporations: if the rulers (the majority, in a democracy) believe that Uber needs to go out, or at least needs to stop participating in the market in certain ways, the government can enforce that via its monopoly on violence.

This has historically worked pretty well for human society; for instance, if someone gets the clever idea to participate in a market by impersonating an existing, trusted market participant, or offering counterfeit goods, or using slave labor to plant cotton, or whatever other bad idea that is short-term profitable, the government can step in and say that this isn't long-term good for society.

Whether Portland is correct to stop Uber is a legitimate matter of debate, but that Portland legitimately has the ability to choose to stop Uber is, I'd hope, uncontroversial.
I'm not reading this because I'm wearing my best mascara today.
Not everything needs awesome music.

With service, we can now implement a better version of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPM1o9QKw1Q

(This has already existed for years on iOS and Android, but they could be improved).

There's also video games and a lot of amateur youtube videos that could use it as well.
Uber leadership provides yet another reason to be happy with deleting their app. A weak apology that didn't even mention their most egregious behaviors??! Travis, you should do the right thing and step down as CEO. You will never be thought of as trustable or honorable again (if you ever were...)
Is Microsoft mandating all OEMs/hardware vendors to configure secure boot with a MS signing key?

Basically yes; it's required to get the Windows sticker. I haven't heard that MS charges money to sign bootloaders, though.
If they're not entirely self-serving, that's almost a certainty in my mind. There will likely be scenarios where AIs take themselves out for the greater good.
How does that square with this article?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/10/23/u-s-has-w...

To sum up, there was a $450 renunciation fee as well as a $450 fee for relinquishment, but both were jacked up from $450 to $2,350. This does not include exit taxes and the like, but while $4700 might seem trivial to the well-heeled, it's a far cry from free (and unilateral).
>You can vote, run for office, petition, volunteer, protest,etc to the local, state, and federal government to have policies that reflect your values.

You can do ALL of those things with uber. You can vote as a shareholder, apply for a job, petition, volunteer, protest, etc...
I don't get the analogy... Cloudflare is trying to protect websites from hacking attempts and similar, most of which is illegal. Their treatment of Tor also wasn't a deliberate decision but the result of empirical data they collected.

A government official (or anyone, actually) trying to check for compliance with the law isn't doing anything illegal.

Uber may be within their rights because companies usually have wide latitude to refuse doing business with someone, although that will ultimately depend on what kind of violations they were trying to hide, how invasive their stalking of customers was etc.

Morally, though, this is just more of the shady shit that's been coming out day after day. How any investor would be willing to trust them with their money is beyond me. Considering how intransparent their financials are, I wouldn't be surprised if this ends in an Enron-style meltdown.
So much bad news all at once for Uber, recently. Is there some sort of campaign in motion to buy them out or destroy them?
I'm a little split on this...

I personally couldn't imagine ever doing something like this...but on the other hand Uber has clearly demonstrated demand for their service that's been fought at every corner with entrenched interests that have government connections, alluded to in the article.

I'm not endorsing it...but I can understand what would drive them to do it. Uber's playing dirty ball that's all about winning at all costs. The problem is that their opposition, for the most part...is ALSO playing dirty ball.
Sure, and MS Word is way easier to use than Vim or Emacs or LaTex, and has a much bigger market share, but it didn't kill those projects.

Exchange is a lot easier to use than Sendmail, but didn't kill that one either.

When you need power and flexibility, which is generally the case when your project gets to any reasonable size, then you go with the pro tool with the learning curve.
I agree. The article seems to point to Greyball as proof that Uber is being shady.

Greyball is just the tool they used to keep from getting caught.

The shady part is that they operate in cities were they aren't welcome (by city officials at least, customers and drivers seemed to welcome them with open arms). If Uber operating in Portland is a night burglar, Greyball is his dark clothes and mask.
You know, shoe face, the classic make work gambit where you employ people to makes shoes with their faces because it's inefficient you have to employ a lot of people to have any sort of production. It's pretty common in the East.
I miss those times when newspapers were about news. This is something a teenage girl would write for English class.

It's a very touching story, but it feels inappropriate coming from a newspaper.
When you buy shares
Heartbreaking. Not sure what else there is to say.
National security. When there's civil unrest, or war, all the permission channels are going to go down. Cash is freedom.
This is the sort of thing that reminds me there is life outside work, and that we should spend a lot more time enjoying the people we are supposed to be spending it with.

(Commuting home, so the time spent online and tapping this out is not misplaced.)

At the same time, it is a remarkably poignant and romantic way for her to both affirm her love and reinstate my faith in mankind.

My heart goes out to her and her family.
Nope. I have a well-known history of avoiding any company function outside of company hours. Come 5PM, we're on my time, my rules.

I've gone out drinking/movie watching/pool playing just to hang out with co-workers, but those were not by any means company-involved events. Just things we did to have fun. And they weren't even remotely mandatory or expected.
Then we get President Trump.
"As a result, (personal experience and anecdotal evidence suggest that) for complex continuously available systems, Operations Error tends to be the weakest link in the uptime chain."

https://zvzzt.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/a-note-on-uptime/
This is the most banal possible observation: increased supply drives prices down. It is literally econ 101, probably literally first week of econ 101.

There may be wrinkles or complexities. Obviously, in an infill situation, if you tear down existing housing and then build new housing, it's less clear that overall affordability will increase. There may be a backlog of demand that means that as new stock comes onto the market, the affordability increases less than you would imagine.

But is it basically true? Sure. Even if you build new units only for millionaires, that takes the millionaires out of competition for other high end markets, which then makes people who were previously marginal for those units get them, and takes them out of competition for the next tier down, etc.
Well, fuck.

edit: Those aren't the feelings I wanted on a Friday evening.

Guess I'll go hug my SO
Can you describe the steps that would lead to Uber becoming a monopoly? I can't imagine that happening without government help, can you? And if it requires that kind of help, is the problem with Uber or government?
I was going home and instead after reading this I'll keep studying Japanese (a hobby I love).
Deceiving the government does not necessarily extend to deceiving the people. It depends on whether the government represents people's interest in the case. In the Portland's case in particularly, it's absolutely certain the the government was not siding with the interest of the majority of the people.

Similarly, if someone is protesting drone strike, it does not mean he is protesting against the US people.
Are they actually too big to fail?

Not even close. If Uber disappeared tomorrow it would have literally zero impact. You'd get the same driver in the same car via another app and one ride later you'd have forgotten Uber ever existed.
ALWAYS put life/family/friends/experiences before work. The old adage that no one on their death bed ever wishes they worked more, is 100% true.
Probably worth highlighting the gogs/gitea split: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/1304#issuecomment-1191...

I would guess given that, gitea would be the better road at the moment.
Χαίρετε! Try this word-track...

'Thrilled we could make this call happen. I've read the position summary, did some research on your company. I'm very interested. However, I want to respect your time. Before we dive too deep, would you be able to share the compensation band for this role?'

A seasoned interviewer isn't solely looking for low-priced candidates. Several criteria go into determining a good match...(skills, experience, & cultural fit). High price point candidates often win by demonstrating value-- essentially, CAN YOU do the job? WILL you do the job? and Can they LIVE with you?
It's also a poignant reminder to live for what's important... tomorrow isn't promised.
Thanks for the response! Here are my reasons.

First, I think the legal industry as it stands is due for a huge shake up. Alot of junior associate work will be automated away.

Second, I enjoy creating things. Law doesn't really put me in a position to do that. Making my first silly game was really cool.

Third, my personality fits better with engineers. People are more relaxed and interested in solving problems rather than focusing on appearances.

Fourth, the dream. I spent sometime in the West coast and want to see if I can make it as an entrepreneur.

Does that help?

Thanks in advance!
The collapse of the Japanese population, and with it, its economy, education system, and way of life?
I agree. It's genius in a Lex Luthor kind of way. If I understood the full scope of the application, I like to think i'd decline to work on that. It's easy to imagine engineers working on small parts of the system, and never really connecting the dots that the whole point is to evade law enforcement.

There's a big difference between keeping secrets for market advantage and to evade the law. In the first case, I want to tell people because i'm building cool stuff, but i can't, at least not until the product is ready. In the latter case, i'd be at least embarrassed, if not ashamed of the tools.

But I agree, it's slick. It's easy to be an armchair quarterback when it's not my career at stake. With millions or billions of dollars on the line, my ethics might erode much faster than i want to admit. In that case, I'd hope evil jfoutz (or ethically devoid jfoutz) would build such a sophisticated tool.
For comparison, check out the Missoula Floods (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_Floods) in eastern Washington...

"U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist Jim O'Connor and Spanish Center of Environmental Studies scientist Gerard Benito have found evidence of at least twenty-five massive floods, the largest discharging ≈10 cubic kilometers per hour (2.7 million m³/s, 13 times the Amazon River). Alternate estimates for the peak flow rate of the largest flood include 17 cubic kilometers per hour and range up to 60 cubic kilometers per hour."
How in god's name could this be anything like a high school essay. Are you made of stone?
It's a sad story but I love the way in which she welcomes the potential lover that will one day replace her. Makes me think of what the polyamorous call compersion.
I meant the choice of low-end hardware. I feel like they could have been more successful in the ~$200 market where Nokia Lumia models did well for a while, but presumably the hardware partners didn't want to build those. And meanwhile engineering was set on a path that wouldn't work for $40 phones.
Modern Love is a column in the NYTimes that has been running since 2004 (and one I personally enjoy reading).

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/style/the-10-best-modern-...
If the government had lost the consent of the governed it wouldn't have been elected / it won't be elected again. That's basically what all this is about. Sure, democracy, elections, all this things may not be the best system, but it is very effective at damage control. You don't govern well? You're out after four or five years. All other system known have far worse damage control.
so all japan needs to do is completely destroy their own culture, its so simple now
Why should a majority be able to decide who and who doesn't get to participate in the market?
The paper trail is perfect only if bitcoin was exchanged for money. It is possible to construct a chain of transactions without touching any money (I buy a widget from China with bitcoins, widget's owner buys something else with these bitcoins, etc).
> -sigma < x < 0 < y < sigma, abs(x - y) > sigma

This statement works fine. If the numbers are farther than sigma apart then `abs(x - y) > sigma` is true as it should be. It's not distance to 0, it's distance from each other related to 0 that matters.

> There are also problems with granularity. Suppose x and y are both much, much larger than sigma

This is part of the same problem. You have to choose a maximum acceptable value. And ensure you don't overflow it, and then you can choose a sigma based on that maximum value such that the difference between any two numbers never exceeds sigma. In practice you already have a maximum value for your domain that the simulation should never exceed or it means it is incorrect anyway.
Because there are huge side effects by copying the "US way". If you want a much smaller scale and a weaker version of the US then adopt it. That is definitely not what the Japanese people want.
> Kind of weird IMO to think of a company as deserving or not deserving something.

Companies have patterns of behavior just like any other entity. As much as the idea of 'deserving' applies at all, it can apply to companies.

> It's much more constructive to want the organization to get better than to cheer on some kind of punishment we think it's owed

It's a strange implication that this is different from how we should treat individuals. We should be more focused on rehabilitation when it's an individual.
You can definitely buy more rugged phones. Often they lag behind in specs compared to popular flagship models, but they're not bad. For instance, I currently use a CAT S60 phone: http://www.catphones.com/en-gb/phones/s60-smartphone

After a normal day of use I'll still have 60% of battery life. It's normally water resistant down to 6 feet for 30 minutes, flipping two switches makes it water resistant down to 15 feet for 30 minutes (and it even comes with a "drying" app that helps it to dry faster by, I think, vibrating the speakers.)

This particular phone comes with FLIR imaging, which probably isn't useful to the general population...
It seems like a good idea until you think more about it.

I at least wouldn't let the US Government, NSA included, have even more access to private data.
I also don't think sexism is limited to gender1 < gender2.

That said, I think you're argument's too broad. If you want to call it harrassment, call it harrassment, but I don't get sexism.

> (how many men report anxieties about being taken less seriously because they show too much skin?).

How many guys wear tank tops at work? Some do. In order for your criteria to be consistent, you're saying that if a man were to wear a tank top at Uber and his boss told him not to wear a tank top, that it'd be sexist? I think that's what you're saying. If so, that's a slippery slope as it would lead to ALL dress codes being discriminatory.
Pretty much. I tried using my account from France, and now my account is locked, and there are a bunch of hoops to jump through to restore access. No thanks.
Cloudability as primary.

Cost Explorer as secondary or more detailed views.

We're mostly done migrating to a subaccount per squad (or even service) model, which means there's a useful report in cost explorer on the micro level. (We started in one massive, central, shared account and tried to get by with tagging; that was largely a failure on the tagging front, but it also made it quite difficult to ensure that you had all the access and freedom you needed without inadvertently having more access than you wanted to someone else's stuff.)
> We should be aiming to become software engineers, not grease monkeys. A engineer calculates and design a solution before he even attempts to make something. A grease monkey first thought is to hit it with a wrench.

That is very inspiring. Thank you!
Maybe people at NASA.
Ever heard of a Stingray?

https://www.aclu.org/map/stingray-tracking-devices-whos-got-...
It's from the weekly "Modern Love" column of the Style/Fashion section. It doesn't seem very out of place in that context.
The only odd thing for me was it got stuck at a loading screen when I was redirected to my account page. Other than that, I didnt have any problems.

Also it would be nice if Ally was a bank you could link directly with... but I understand if there is some technical issues that prevent certain banks from being able to link automatically.
>charitable, intelligent billionaire CEO.

The creepy and megalomaniacal strains of his personality, though, still seem to be there in full force and are reflected in his company and product.
It also helps to only round once. Calculate and save intermediate values.

fee = accountX * 0.01
accountY = accountY + fee
accountX = accountX - fee

vs

accountY = accountY + accountX * 0.01
accountX = accountX * 0.99

I've seen a fair bit of (non financial) accounting go wrong like this, where fractions just slip through the cracks.
More or less Redbox' strategy too, from what I can tell. Prices have been creeping up ever since the major competition (Blockbuster et al) dropped out of the market. And I suspect it's not because the costs to run machines has been increasing...
Reread it. It's a few appeals about one guy. It's not that special AT ALL.

It's like HN users today are reading this and wistfully thinking of the one that got away or something.

It has nothing to do with technology whatsoever and the core message is carpe diem, oldest motivational in the book.
I'm a German that used to live in the USA for a while. I worked as an engineer in the US, with what would be considered "decent" insurance, and it was still crappy. You couldn't pay me enough to go back.
Almost certainly a violation of their agreement with their card processor. If you want to be a jerk, you can pressure them into taking your card.
The state is an entity designed to benefit all at the cost of the few, but thanks to the corruption of uneven power, the state ends up benefitting those in power at the cost of those not in power.
True, though no one with life ahead wishes for less financial security.