skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Barclays is quietly working that segment of the market. They are (or were last I checked) the only issuer providing cards to people in the US which actually support chip and PIN (instead of only doing chip and signature).
> "640 K ought to be enough for anybody."

Bill Gates never actually said this [1]. There are those who might attribute this to the Mandela Effect.

[1] https://www.wired.com/1997/01/did-gates-really-say-640k-is-e...
Illness doesn't follow rules the doctor dictates. Rainfall and earthquakes aren't set by the engineering boards. How people adjust, prepare, and respond are where the rules humans can set work. Everything else is unchangeable rules.

In computers, as in some parts of law, we have ample opportunity to address underlying rules as well as the rules around how we adjust, prepare, and react.
This experimental e-book gets edited every time it changes hands
Google "Chicago government corruption".

Having lived in Chicago before, you fear the Chicago Police and your local alderman is the fixer.
I'm interested to watch retention through the first year for this card. The most attractive aspect for myself and many was the sign on bonus which was recently halved (https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/chase-sapphire-...).
Don't forget the next year, when Apple yet again breaks the language and you have to take all your large codebase and convert it to Swift (x+1).
WikiLeaks: ISIS Tunnels Blown Up by MOAB Were Built by CIA
> I agree with what you wrote about lifetimes 100%

Then you wasted a lot of time for both of us by getting sidetracked by a detail that I hadn't even mentioned in my original comment. This is about the issues with having one object being referenced from multiple locations. I gave a concrete example to illustrate this issue, and you spent an entire subthread arguing the specifics of the example without seeming to understand the issue it was meant to illustrate. This is not specific to maps or strings. It's a general issue of manual memory management whenever you're dealing with shared ownership of the same object.

> You replied "No" to that what I wrote about Go which is not true.

I think you are reading to much into an expression of disagreement. You kept fixating on the specifics of go, I was trying to get back to the semantics of GCed languages vs. manual memory management. That's what my "no" was about.

Edit: I also did a quick test for Go, just to end that part of the argument, too. Contrary to your statement, Go doesn't seem to copy strings when adding them to maps, either. While there's no way to take the address of a string literal in Go, you can add lots of instances of a very large string and check the memory usage (compared to an empty string). It turns out to be nearly the same.
But it's hopefully a little bit more neutral than either of the parties embroiled in a lawsuit.
Lack of means of enforcement doesn't void a copyright.

Forbes in this case seems to be able to control it to a certain degree anyways.
$450 yearly fee with $300 travel credit. This includes Uber/Lyft and public transportation. It's basically $150/yr, unless you don't use any of the $300 travel credit.
By "modular", Apple probably means that it is easier for themselves to provide multiple configurations and make updates, rather than end-users having the ability to stick in random cards/drives/memory/CPUs.
What about security concerns? I assume self driving cars could be made to remotely shut down or report tampering. With high profile terrorist attacks using vehicles it will become attractive for safety.
Interesting. What card is this? Can you provide a link? Is there an yearly fee for this card?
Gigabit is available widely now, anywhere that has UFB Fiber (which is most likely what you were on if you were getting 50+ mbit).
Or maybe their market plan already included those potential misses.
I'm curious, most of the people with the skills to build a hackintosh could easily build a Linux box as well and some probably do. However, is there any reason they just don't go to Linux? Is it hardware support or Adobe?
Dries Buytaert is a moron!

http://buytaert.net/php-is-dead-long-live-php
> The question is, how will they catapult out of this?

They could sign a deal with Amazon to provide a Prime card that gives the cardholder $0 Amazon Prime when they use the card.

EDIT: I'm not suggesting that this is the ONLY benefit, just something comparable to the previous Costco arrangement they had.
Nope. Zip archives do not password protect the index. This trick used to work, but not any more.

RAR files used to get through, but now Gmail detects them as well. I think even 7z.
Somewhat related:

In 2010 I implemented a UIView subclass for a simple stylized spinner. In the view controller that contained this spinner, I added two methods to start and stop the spinner. I called them `startSpinner` and `stopSpinner`. Our app was rejected for using “private APIs.” Finding it ridiculous that Apple would use such a common signature internally without any prefixes and actually would check for it in all third-party apps and reject them, we relented and changed our method names.

In 2015, at a new job, in a new city and working on an entirely different project, I had to implement another UI spinner. Since I’m a creature of habit, I again named the methods for starting and stopping the spinner: `startSpinner` and `stopSpinner` respectively. This time the project I was working on was an SDK so all of our clients were being rejected for using a private API, named... “startSpinner” and “stopSpinner”.

Software is hard.
They said the same thing about elevators.
Errr.
It's been done before.
Search the gcc mailing list archives, etc.
So i'm not sure what you are waiting for.

In fact, this type of thing has probably been done about 15-20 times in the past at least that i've seen.

Someone always brings this up.

Someone eventually bothers to run numbers, and it's very consistent that for icc, xlc, gcc, llvm, etc, you gain significantly in what you can do with loops and conditionals, as well as pointer analysis.

Personally, as a pointer analysis maintainer, TBAA buys, on average, 10-20% precision.
There is even a paper in a conference from intel that has the breakdown of where they get precision gains from various parts of aliasing disambiguation.
Wait, you mean self-driving / remote control is good for security?

> "We can disable the ignition but not while you're driving," Melanie Boudreau, a spokesperson at IMETRIK, a Canadian maker of starter interrupt devices that run around $100 each, told Fortune. "We don't want to kill you."
We did uncover many such messages, only we had some problems deciphering the script. And so we forged ahead and for the most part we survived going into the places that were forbidden to us by the various gods of the past.

Curiosity killed the cat for a reason.
What's the point of an Amex or Sapphire compared to a regular VISA or mastercard?

Disclaimer: I am european, Amex doesn't exist here and you can't pay anything anywhere with that. Never heard about Sapphire before today. Maybe you guys don't have VISA and mastercard on your side of the Atlantic?
Punmeister Meisterpunner sees what you did there. ;)
$80 / year is a terrible credit card reward compared to almost all other credit cards. It would have to be free Amazon Prime + 5% back on all Amazon purchases + $500 sign up bonus.
Yes, you're whining about a personal problem that isn't interesting, and has no place here. Perhaps you did it yourself after a night of heavy drinking.
I think you can still use something of a hack to shop at Costco and rack up AmEx rewards. You can purchase gift cards online with pretty much any credit card and then use the gift cards in the warehouse.

A co-worker did that with his rewards Visa for a long time when AmEx was the only credit card accepted in Costco warehouses.
RancherOS Release v1.0.0 – LTS release
> Both of your points are symptoms of the problem that CEOs are vastly overpaid.

How so? I fail to see how even if he was overpaid, either of my points are caused by (i.e. are symptyoms of) him being overpaid.

> People are too picky choosing CEOs because they falsely believe that CEOs' high pay correlates to a large difference in performance from regular peasants. The truth is that many, many people could do a CEO's job. Everyone makes mistakes, this CEO's colossal mistakes are case-in-point.

Based on what evidence? To make this conclusion, you need to compare the quantity and quality of mistakes made by current CEO's and would-be "peasant" replacements. I find it hard to believe you have a factual basis for estimating the types of mistakes your supposed replacement would make.

If you better understand what these CEO's do, I think you'll find the # of ppl who can ACTUALLY do their job is quite small, and it certainly doesn't include "regular peasants" or "many, many people".

Furthermore, these companies have hug market caps. If the optimal CEO generates 1% more company value than his best alternative, it's more than worth the tens of millions he's being paid.
They did have a backdoor in the Dual_EC_DRBG PRNG algorithm that was widely used. It's not a major operating system, but it was used in a lot of products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
>on one hand i feel like there are endless possibilities. on the other hand, why can't i think of one?

Music doesn't have any innate visual element. It's an auditory and tactile medium. In theory, Photoshop or Final Cut could add all sorts of "audiolization" tools, but the idea seems quite odd. Representing sound as visual images scarcely makes any more sense. We're living in a visual culture, so we tend to overlook the importance of the other senses.

VR currently provides no tactile feedback, which is absolutely vital in musical performance and production - muscle memory doesn't function without it. The theremin has been around for a century, but only a handful of people have ever learned to play it well. It's extraordinarily difficult to wave your hands around in mid-air with any amount of precision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l9YcewEumw
Take the precision by which apple makes watches, laptops or iPhones.
They can scale the size up and with the same precision margins you'll get the car parts. You get BMW or someone else to source you the electric motor. And you just need to manufacture the body the interior part and put in your software. Obviously it's a lot more complex than this. But Apple could easily hire 10-20 people from car industry to fill the missing gap and get there in 5-6 years.
The Costco Citi Visa gives pretty solid cash back percentages [1]. What do you use that's better?

1. https://www.citi.com/credit-cards/credit-card-details/citi.a...
That's terrible. I get 2% cash back from Citibank. Easily put that at $1200 per year value to me.
Yep, seeing all kinds of redneck camera mods.
My guess: they saw a flooded market with no brand loyalty because its a box that sits unnoticed in an office or living room and said "We can leave the scraps for Linksys and TP-Link" then saw Tesla's margins and said "Yeah, that looks nice."
Does anyone know anything behind the injunction from the Supreme Court of South Australia?

https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/04/14/eff-lawsuit-oz-judge-injun...
i see them all the time skating, and they are already far less scary than normal drivers :)
They're not at all opposite: one can think of reasoning about types as reasoning about UB. For instance, if a value is of type `int`, it's undefined behaviour for it to be of type `float`, and so the compiler can optimise based on this fact (there's just the added bonus that the compiler also checks this UB "perfectly": code won't violate the rules).

Essentially, undefined behaviour exposed to the user is an extra layer of "types"/rules on top of the underlying type system, both of which the compiler can use for optimisation purposes (but only one of which the compiler checks for the programmer). More and more advanced type systems can push more of the former into the latter (e.g. for index-out-of-bounds, in the limit, dependent typing can allow one to statically ensure that all integers are in range of the arrays they index).
Objective-C isn’t deprecated at all. There is more chance of current valid Swift code being deprecated in a year than Objective-C. In fact, all Swift code written in its first two years of public existence is completely deprecated now. The same code, had it been written in Objective-C would be perfectly valid today.
It's a long list. Google Paul Kennedy.
I have the reserve, and was disappointed that the latest Chase Amazon Visa is also metal.

If too many cards are metal, it becomes less special. The heft of the metal makes me want to spend more, but not if every card has the same heft!
Visa and MC are probably 75% of all cards in the US. Anyone takes them. Discover and Amex are less giant.
It would have to provide a lot more than that. I get several hundred dollars per year of value from the sign up bonus + recurring rewards on my Chase card, enough that I'm willing to eat the $450/year fee. I essentially fly for free all year because of the points. $99/year in benefits isn't enough to get me to switch.
Lotsa downvotes on that guy. So who's got better DNA and why? Genuinely curious.
On the otherhand, it accounts for earnings that your employer doesn't know about - e.g. interest on investments. Which is useful for people who aren't great a money management.
They probably can't, it's likely Chase has an exclusivity arrangement on dealings with Amazon alongside issuing the co-branded credit card.
I hadn't heard about the Sapphire card until a few weeks ago when I read this WSJ story, "If You Have 29 Credit Cards, You’re Probably a Millennial"

http://archive.is/XEYJY

It details the efforts of someone who managed to get a Sapphire Reserve card after dressing up as a Sapphire Reserve card for Halloween and sending a photo of it to Chase:

> “I’m kind of a credit-card—maybe junkie is not the right word—but I’m a credit-card enthusiast,” says Mary Xu, a San Francisco cybersecurity manager. In pursuit of points, she spends more than $1,000 a year on annual fees for high-end cards.

> She was so disappointed to be rejected for the Sapphire Reserve last October that she spent hours constructing a costume of the card out of cardboard. She sent the bank a photo of herself dressed up, hoping for a second chance. She was approved about three months later.
That reminds me, I need to cancel my AMEX...
I think the parent meant (global (optimisation flags)), not ((global optimisation) flags). Of course, some optimisations don't rely on UB, the difference between the unoptimised and optimised code won't be entirely based on UB (a more reasonable comparison for one single type of UB would be passing -fwrapv vs. not, to stop the compiler thinking signed integers never wrap).
True, but I was searching for something comparable to the Costco deal they used to have. That perk was also pretty cheap (Isn't Costco membership in the same ballpark?)

But yeah, throw some extra points/cash back in there as well. I'd go for that in a heartbeat, and so would a lot of the demographic they're currently losing.
There are a lot of startups in the area that work on some aspect needed for self driving cars. Some specialize in the mapping tools needed for current cars (they can only go down streets that have been pre-scanned for them). Others handle the sensors or software to turn that into a useable understanding of the world. My guess is that most of them are either being started, or funded, in hopes of being picked up by one of the big players in this area. I have seen quite a number in Mountain View.
It's the Amex Blue Cash Preferred card.
I've got a Hackintosh as my main system, I love it.

I dual boot macOS (default) and Windows 10 on it. A nice feature is that I can use my Windows installation while I'm using macOS through virtualization (Parallels), yet boot natively to the same Windows installation when I need the full performance.

Getting the Hackintosh working properly was hard as hell though, although I kinda enjoyed it since I'm a geek. Now that I've got it working, it works flawlessly. Recommended for people who want to save money/maximize performance and don't mind the grueling effort required.
Services like UberPool/Lyft Line do benefit from winner-takes-all effects, as the service that can keep its cars full can offer lower prices.
The desperate tricks MS employs to force upgrades to Windows 10
It's worth noting that in this situation, corner-case problem gets worse the smarter the (mechanical) robot becomes.

We've already seen how poorly designed test-data and training combinations can result neural nets that behave in a racist fashion. More broadly, neural nets have been enlisted in quests like find insurance risks or security risks and here they could really bad effects if they get veto power.
They already did that for the Everyday Preferred.
Anecdote: I've been running Linux at home for 10 years, but I can see myself switching to OSX because the input methods for Chinese characters are so much better. Even googles ones are top notch.
I'm not saying that's the only perk. The parent comment was describing all the relationships Amex lost that combined to hurt their membership base. The Costco one could be replaced with a similar setup through Amazon.
A cheaper trick would be to plaster signs on your car saying Self Driving Test Unit - Pre Alpha.
True, but you can't say that it doesn't have a $450 fee, the amex has $200 for travel expenses and $200 for uber but that doesn't mean it has a $150 fee either. The fee is a large upfront cost for most people.
Amex vs Visa/MC - Amex had historically good flight/miles tie-ins (not as good these days), purchase coverage (returns, car insurance, etc), and concierge service for higher level cards. Odd as it sounds, good reporting on billing, and a requirement to pay off at the end of each month, made it appealing to some businesses for corporate credit cards.

Yes, we have both Visa and MC over here.
that's pretty much what I was thinking.
I did read your entire post, I saw that you acknowledged the fact that the AMA was 3 years old.

It's just that your post wasn't interesting, and didn't contain any substance. So I felt the need to warn others who are likely to fall into the same trap I did.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pretty sure the takeaway is that (as above, Tesla excluded) Silicon Valley firms don't have the DNA to do heavy industrial manufacturing.
Amex had that with Costco, until they didn't. I don't know when the Chase agreement expires, but when it does, Amex could learn from their previous losses and aggressively steal that business away from Chase.
The link to your profile from the audiokit.io About page[1] links to "http://https://github.com/adamnemecek/". Same for everyone else with a link to an HTTPS page. There's a bug in the script[2]—it assumes template data will be a domain, and not a fully qualified URL with protocol.

1. http://audiokit.io/about/

2. https://github.com/audiokit/audiokit.github.io/blob/master/_...
Does anyone know how RancherOS compares to Google's Container-Optimized OS?
The Sapphire Reserve is a Visa credit card issued by Chase. It's not a new card network.
I don't think smart wealthy people pay a dime in service fees. I gave the privilege of collecting transaction fees on my purchases to HSBC, who charges me nothing. It has all the usual premium card perks, though not the latest silly ones. I'll buy my own Uber credits.
I would recommand Fastmail (fastmail.com). Not free, but they respect your privacy and there are options to compose and read email in plaintext.
We can only identify user fronting plugins that make themselves known through signatures or js/image/css imports. We do this in an automated fashion by exploiting the predictable folder structure of WordPress. So no maintenance needed here.

There are some very popular plugins (Yoast SEO, Jetpack, W3 Total Cache) that don't import additional files. For these we have hardcoded patterns (under a 100). We do not have anything in place for checking if these patterns break.

We could automate creating a WordPress installation, installing the plugin we want to check, trigger a wp detective scan and then checking the results. But I am note sure it is worth the engineering effort.
While by no means is this an apples to apples comparison, but for me this debate has always felt like PC/Mac vs Unix/Linux computers. Yes, the latter may seem/feel cooler, but there is far more support with the former platforms and to me that's always been the motivating factor.
I think the real test will be how many people pay the renewal fee. You can get 2% cards for cheaper/free so in all but the most frequent travelers keeping it for a second year is more about the status symbol than the benefits.
Pharmaceutical company wins $1M in legal fees from patent troll and Stanford
The original title was sufficient but not click-baity enough, so Quartz seems to have changed it. The URL reveals:

uber-drivers-are-comparing-fares-with-riders-to-check-their-pay-from-the-company/
The sapphire cards are visa cards
What's the difference then?
Overflow checks. Passing silly[7] should do something predictable, i.e. abort the program. This is, for example, what rust does.

Of course studies have been done on how expensive overflow checking is. IIRC around 5% overhead in the most extreme examples.
On the train point, humans have operated fully automatic rail systems for nearly fifty years (the London Underground Victoria Line opened in 1968; BART in San Francisco is similarly automated and open in 1972). The first unattended train to my knowledge, the Vancouver SkyTrain, didn't open til 1985, or 17 years later.

My interpretation: it took a while—17 years—for people to warm up to driverless trains on fixed routes with no at-grade intersections.
Yeah that feels like it was planted in there.

Does anyone really think owning a credit card makes you interesting? Especially one that is produced for the masses? (at least the ones who can afford the $ amount for it....)

Almost every single friend/acquaintance I know has _that_ card and no one thinks each other is more interesting because of it. It was essentially for the 100,000 points (+ travel perks)
Ostriches... is that up by that bizarre castle house that's been turned into a dog kennel?
People like the metal.

Plus, in my experience, most of my friends have it, so it's kind of like a... "ooh you got one too?" social experience.
If you find somewhere with UFB access (you can check the maps here: http://ufb.org.nz/maps/ ) then you'll be able to get up to 1000mbit down/500mbit up with a choice from 10+ ISPs. UFB is available in most of the main centers now, though there are still frustrating gaps in coverage, and then you'll be on some variant of ADSL. There is talk of upgrading the UFB technology from connections from the current 2.5Gbit GPON to 10G-PON also, so they'll be able to offer even faster connections.

Latency and international bandwidth can be bigger issues, US is between 150-250ms, Australia 60-120ms, UK ~300ms. It actually has a pretty significant impact on how 'snappy' browsing feels - Facebook, HN etc feel faster in the US even on a slower connection.

Server-grade/Datacenter transit is very expensive here, especially for international bandwidth. Many of the hosting/VPS companies here (like sitehost.co.nz ) have unlimited national bandwidth and then very small international caps.
This is the only reason I use an ad-blocker. They are often an attack vector for 0day exploits. They remove that risk and the block comes off.
Purple, a Utah mattress startup is on track to unicorndom
It didn't detect revolution slider on my site, which is like one of the most popular plugins.

Still great.
Wow, that is the exact article where I learned this stuff from. (Funny how your memory gets jogged like that.)

I was an Apple guy and a late comer to the PC world, and PC Magazine was pretty much a must-read back in the day. Lots of good technical content.