skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because someone is forcing you use the chip DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT'S AN EMV TRANSACTION

There is no way too know if you are actually doing and EMV transaction.

The EMV spec has nothing at all to do with security. PCI controls security. I can read the card data via the chip and it's all in the clear. EMV is about process integrity, and the integrity testing is ridiculous. Chip cards are harder to forge, but that's about it. The new rules about liability puts the liability for processing a forged card on the merchant, if the transaction isn't done with EMV.
Speaking as someone twice your age who has felt similarly I'd say the best advice on this thread is to time schedule everything and have a clear output for anything. Force yourself only to think a couple of weeks ahead for the next 6 months and nail that habit, then your tendency to project everything forward ad infinitum may become a useful tool rather than persistent curse.
> Your approach of trying to make an open source driver is a losing one, it requires a lot of work and you can't reasonably keep up with it.

Not necessarily, the more diverse the devices you have drivers for, the more code you can reuse and finally the more devices you can "recycle".

Of course, the big if there is: Can you reach the critical mass of drivers without the project exhausting itself.
The Death of the Stock Split
IMO it will be the same as with weed fashion. There will be a large group of people seeing only benefits of it, lobbying it, swearing by it and not seeing a problem it might cause. And then there will be the rest.

The issue probably will be more social (sustaining people that are hooked in through social welfare) and rise in inequality.
How to Convert Video to Audio
The answer to that is obvious not a question mark.
I had to read this title 3 times
Mea Culpa. I installed 2016 to try and find the issue with my system, I haven't searched around the UI for bug reporting tools, didn't even know Microsoft had added them. Just found it now, indeed it looks quite useful.

I'm going to update my post with more information because actually, there's a lot of great tips from these comments!
Unsure why you're being downvoted. I'm in Australia and cannot access the site either :(
He never rationalized immoral behavior, unless you consider climbing Mt Everest immoral.

A lot of people risk their lives every day in their jobs. It's not typically seen as immoral to do this.

I agree markets have failures, and they also shouldn't justify immoral behavior--I really sincerely agree with you on that--but in those cases, that happens because of externalities. In this case the externality is the dead bodies and litter, so a market solution isn't typically bad in this context.
Always wanted to play LCP as a kid, never got the chance. Should really fire up the emulator...
As an aside, pretty baffling that people go to all the trouble to travel through such a unique, pristine environment and still won't bother to clean up their rubbish (just to be clear, actual garbage, not human remains).
Yup.

A lesson for the designers among us: almost no-one is viewing your site on your 5k iMac screen. Design accordingly
It's a centuries old question. I for myself am a Kantian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative) when it comes to morals (or at least I try to be one), but leaving aside what I believe, I think it is fair to say that majority rule has historically been against lots of things that we now see as being "morally good", so to speak.
Mathematical Foundations of Computing (2015) [pdf]
I have given feedback many times (and on the same bugs) with zero results – I have never received a feedback and the reported bugs are still present … it is less frustrating to use workarounds.
get one of those annotated texts where the original is on one page and the annotation is on the facing page. read both concurrently. keep google and other references close by.

I've never watched a Shakespeare play but I can't imagine understanding people speaking early modern English if I can't even understand it very well reading it and having the luxury of going over the sentences again and again.
In Australia, and can see it fine here... (Telstra network).
Google giving "free" money for mozilla org ?
- you should know by now, google is not your friend.
- why tesla do not give free development money to bmw ?

Wakeup Mozilla, this sounds silly.
Hey dude,
I'm in pretty much the same position: mid twenties, white male, working tech industry etc but with a twist - I live in South Africa where inequality is a dinner table topic.

So, how do I deal with shit? Mostly I don't, to be honest. But whats been keeping me sane is this:

1 )Work towards a goal that you know will enable you to give back. If it's donating to charity or volunteering work, its this crazy thing that happens when you start really thinking of giving back to people with less with no expectation of getting anything in return.

And:

2) Meditation. Being able to view your thoughts as thoughts and nothing more. Learning to become mindful of whats currently around you and how to appreciate it, especially yourself.

Hope this helps. More than keen to chat about it if you want.
But you can't use it as an extended battery when you need it.
Watch a Shakespeare movie. The plays are written to be performed by actors, not to be read. My favorite is Henry V in the Branagh version, and it is a good place to start.

Take a scene like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHAAH8PCnMo. Just listen to the rythm and poetry and how the intensity builds, and appreciate how great actors make the text live.

But there are a wealth of great Shakespeare films. Often they are creative in how they stage the story, like Ian McKelleans Richard III, which takes place in a kind of 1930's fascist Britain. This might seem disconcerting at first, but the original plays didn't care a lot for historical or geographical accuracy anyway.

Be aware that Shakespeares strong points are not plotting and pacing. Movies and stage version often cut and rearrange a lot to satisfy the modern audience. Also the stories are typically taken from somewhere else, so the genius of Shakespeare is not the overall story, but rather in the poetry and the language and the unique characterizations.
Are we about to witness the most unequal societies in history?
If a sherpa detects a foreigner wont make it to the top, shoots him and returns with the equpiment- would the church of economics and the great magus consider that a blessed act?
Ask HN: What traction do I need to raise $1M?
Solo founder.
Taught myself to code for 2 years.
Two days ago version 1.0 of my productivity app was accepted onto the Apple App Store.
>> going to be forbidden unless you consent

This was exactly my point a while back. That the default option should be to get explicit permission for each piece of data you collect AND infer, even if the inference is being done in situ as the code executes (otherwise it will become another out clause). Of course, the geeks who get all delirious by seeing a mountain of data to analyze would not want that kind of friction in the process.

I wonder what would happen if someone would spend the time to completely dissect and reverse engineer exactly how lookalike profiles are being generated. My guess is that it will expose data collection practices which will confirm our worst fears.
But what about unit cost?
Bit hyperbolic. Go at it's heart is a pretty basic game, just tricky combinatorics. The fact that you can do unsupervised learning simplifies it even more. I think there are much better true indicators, such as better translation, speech to text, auto driving, etc.
3 hours for the prep and cleanup for 2 meals is quite a bit longer than our experience as a family of 4. Breakfast and lunch prep/cleanup is closer to 15 minutes than 90 and dinner prep/cleanup might be 30-60 for most meals.

Breakfast and lunch also seem less amenable to delivery as they're often eaten "on a schedule" with little room for screwups or delays.

I agree that delivery has a place; I'm not so sure it's going to be from a centralized location/coordinated kitchens. That central location is unlikely to be experts at sushi, Vietnamese, pizza, subs, have the fries I love, Thai, etc.
The computer supremacy certainly took something out of chess, but it also added a lot : it makes checking tactics trivial even for amateurs, it enormously enriched opening theory, and it made learning much easier for players of all levels (even Grand Masters).
Publications never have "all the details".
Having music on YouTube prevents piracy, says Google
Former uber employee says he was fired for reporting harassment
Here's slides from a recent talk on it: https://www.percona.com/live/17/sites/default/files/slides/A...
I've been following this for a few months.

It looks neat but too new to entrust to any major project in my opinion. Also seems too new to put together and meaningful performance comparison since it still seems they're finding frequent improvements.

I really wished this could have been distributed as an extension rather than a totally separate Postgres package. It is much easier to play with extensions... I read somewhere they can't do it since they have to modify non-extensible bits of code:(
> Go at it's heart is a pretty basic game, just tricky combinatorics.

This goes for every turn based game and a lot of card games as well.

If you just had perfect memory you'd be a formidable chess and cards player.
I really loved programming it. The Z80 was nice and concise but quite restrictive, 68k really opened up with addressing modes and registers. I've had a quick scan through that page and recognise most of them from the dim distant past.

One thing I didn't see mentioned is it had a small instruction pipeline so we could squeeze better performance out of it by by careful instruction sequence. For example you wouldn't load a register and then use in in the next instruction because it wouldn't be ready and could stall. By what is effectively interleaving code where possible you could keep it running flat out. Every cycle matters!
Where will they post these ads if I don't visit facebook?
It's the iron law of oligarchy at work. I struggle to find many tech companies outside of the big four that didn't begin to decline long term post-IPO.
It is not clickbaity, it is a clever play on words.
That's why you only bring this up with attractive individuals.
>> Let's not forget the enormous in-built demand for fiat currencies via taxation.
> I understand that the whole libertarian-hipster-goldbug thing is in vogue right now, but what does this even mean?

If an in-built currency for fiat taxation is on the cover of Vogue (psst, it's Bloomberg), then what does this even mean?
The linked page says "High level != inefficient" and shows an example program which will print "every TCP packet".

With no "if" anywhere in the code, I wondered how it knew to print only TCP packets and not others. And the answer turns out to be that it throws a C++ exception on every non-TCP packet!

If most of the packets on your network are TCP, this is sort of OK. But if you have mostly non-TCP packets, this toy program costs about 10x the CPU utilization that it would if it used "if" instead of magic.
It's scary how coverage of this match in China, which is extensive, actually manages to censor the association between Deepmind and Google.
I was under impression that Apple regularly beats Android with hardware. CPU, GPU, screen, touch hardware (not sure lately for these two) and others I'm sure.
There are several activities right now that people keep doing despite machines being better suited: martial arts (and more in point, HEMA[1]), handicrafts, several Olympic sports. Why would anyone attempt to run a marathon under two hours, when any car can do it in 30 minutes?

I think the answer lies less in "I will be the absolute best", and more along the lines of "I will do it better than anyone before me". And sometimes, even "I will do my best" is an excellent reason for doing things.

I don't think Go players were in it due to a need for expertise that machines could not fulfill until now. And if people nowadays keep practicing with swords several centuries after the invention of firearms, Go players will do just fine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_European_martial_ar...
in the UK a few restaurants are experimenting with this and years a go one of my local Indian restaurants also had a take away only kitchen.
not sure many people would be happy with eating 100% microwaved tv diners - not sure its particularly healthy either
No, I just received an email today... seems like it was one hour sooner on HN than in my inbox.
Nevermind the svg, what is used to generate those ASCII charts!?
Oranges and lemons – the FX scandal in perspective (2014)
> a lost art form

Yes, totally, and one that only flowered for a quarter century! Although if somebody released a generalised program that allowed others to create their own screensavers as plugins, perhaps they could flourish once again?
Yes, lets have Gates investing our app, google provide stats, facebook for logings. What's wrong ?

Some companies make me laugh loud. How many petitions you really can take part, before you recognise that your facebook site is blocked and youtube account deleted.

I hope people could wakeup for reality.
How Bayesian Inference Works (2016)
I was thinking more about using the editor with our polymer and vuejs applications.
Honestly, I never seriously considered it. I thought it was more-or-less an "Apple thing". OFC it is supported on other platforms, but seemingly not widely used (I write scientific code that really only has to work on Linux).

But after looking at its feature set, I wonder how easy it is to get by without templates? It seemingly uses weak typing instead like Go for scenarios that would normally require generics/templates. My attitude towards templates/generics is that they are absolutely necessary for a good standard library and core containers, but implementation of new templates in your own code should be rare.

Also, I do like namespaces in general, although not necessarily C++'s implementation of them.
If this is a good example of the impostors syndrome you'll be happy to read about it and start feeling better. There is probably no unique answer but this might help https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
The microphones used in the post match discussion featured the name “Google” quite prominently. I imagine that was a negotiated detail.
The Merchandising of Virtue
in a way, life is just a simple game with tricky combinatorics, and fairly trivial to attack with the tools of unsupervised learning.
Mythic is working on analog/digital neural network chips. Some others also. Much better power-consumption.

Maybe Apple aims on those ? it will certainly achieve a much higher WOW factor, which is key here.
Though if they released the code Tencent would incorporate it in their rival so I can see the argument for delaying a bit.
In other news, scientists have deduced that if you make downloading legal, there won't be any illegal downloading anymore!
British Airways: Computer problems cause flight delays
So, basically, users believe in the platform Bitfinex (which I haven't heard of), because they want to believe because the price is high and they could take their BTC to a different platform and trade for USD?

Then why is it a bubble, ie. how would it burst? Are you alleging Bitfinex was a Ponzi-Scheme?

Why is the price higher, which incentives does the platform have to simulate a higher price that it can't back?
I'm not sure of the percentages, but I would say many scientists feel pressure to publish "new groundbreaking results that fit a lofty hypothesis"

This situation is a little different because their hypothesis actually wasn't lofty, but their results were.

But it is decently undeniable in my eyes that scientists are facing pressure from the MBAs to set goals first and then brute force the results to match the goals.
Removable storage is problematic when it comes to reliability. Simply powering the device off while it is writing will cause issues, worse is when you have vibration momentarily overcoming the sprung contacts to the card.

Also mentioned by others are SLC industrial grade cards which have more stable flash memory technology, better controllers, wider operating temperatures and not to mention are much much faster. It all comes down to cost, but trying to build a reliable system with removable cards is not a good idea.

The Pi design team should consider adding some reasonable quality onboard eMMC memory in the future.

Regarding cards, I can vouch for http://www.atpinc.com which we use where I work, expensive but very reliable.
This is really a nice visual comparison of Google Maps and Apple Maps over the years.

The gist of the article is that Google has deemphasized roads in favor of showing places, e.g. bars, restaurants, shops, etc.
Ah, thanks, I think I get it now.

So, if my understanding of the situation is right, there are a number of conflicts that involve militant Islamic groups, but some of these conflicts are being spurred on by foreign powers with ulterior motives. These foreign powers provide support to some of these groups (in the form of arms, training, and/or direct combat support?)

And the solution would be for these foreign powers to, in one way or another, directly address and resolve their disagreements? At that point there's no reason to be waging proxy wars and the foreign powers can withdraw their support / intervention, or intervene with more benign motives (e.g. humanitarian) where appropriate.

Just to preface this, my understanding of what's happening in the middle-east is tenuous at best. But I think one possible wrinkle is that we now have a situation where there are 'proxy wars within proxy wars'. Starting from the outermost layer, you've got the US on one side and Russia on the other (I think?). I'm actually not 100% clear on their motivations. And on the inside layer you have two opposing regional powers and major oil producers (i.e. economic competitors, despite the recent tepid OPEC agreement) who also have religious differences: Saudi Arabia (Sunni / Wahhabi - US aligned) and Iran & Syria (Shia - Russia aligned). These two might engage in some direct military action (not with each other though), but also fund groups like Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah (who are variously thought of as legitimate political entities, terrorists, resistance movements and so on depending on where you stand).

And then there are 'third-party' groups who I'm not sure are strongly aligned with one side or another, but are nonetheless involved: IS / Daesh (who are religiously opposed to Iran, but to whom Saudi Arabia responded by building a 600 mile wall to try and keep them [Daesh] out of their territory), Turkey(?), Kurdistan and Israel (who, weirdly, I guess are nominally aligned with Saudi Arabia and the US, given their concerns about Iranian nukes and conflicts with Hezbollah).

Does that sound right to you, or have I gone horribly wrong somewhere?
Related: A huge spike in activity in japan https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14407589
The CTO made me sick
Oh, thanks for this. Had totally forgotten about this!
68k, Atari ST, DevPac. Some of the funnest coding ever. When i discovered x86 ~10 years later I was horrified at how shit it was.
If you have out-of-band connections with all your friends and you have friends who are willing to jump through weird, nerdy, technical hoops, what do you need Facebook for?
At this point you are bootstrapping a parallel social network, with all the pitfalls this entails.
This is great - one thing I'd clarify is the bit on bullshit.

Learn what bullshit is. Bullshit is something anything or anyone that is working against your goals or general happiness.

Once you see some bullshit DON'T tolerate it. Remove it from your life as much as possible. You only have the ability to have one thought or feeling at a time. Do you really want that thought to be on bullshit?
I would prefer a way of downvoting things like this but i can't. Instead i read it because it was posted.

Is there a relevant amount on information of going out of business, no one used and no one cared for?
It's still a good point. Scaling a company is orthogonal to scaling it profitably. One is primarily an engineering problem and the other is a business problem.
Ah, good to know. Just tried sbt (build tool for scala) with Nix (have no experience with Guix, but like that everything is in the same language) and it indeed creates .ivy and .sbt caches in the home directory. Everything else goes into the store like it should.
VueJS popover component based popper.js
I think that's a very fair point, but we should be able to decouple these two things and begin to address CO2 emissions outside the context of driverless cars.
Too many prisons make people worse
Your standard auto insurance is not going to cover using your car as a taxi. It will have to be disclosed, and you will pay for it.

The calculus is simple: liabltiy has increased and you have responsibility due to the commercial transaction.
I'd recommend watching rather than reading his plays. The Royal Shakespeare Company has recordings of many of their stagings on DVD (with english subtitles that will make things a bit easier), and there's several good movie adaptations as well.
Ask HN: How to start with network programming?
I want to know the best sequence of steps for learning network programming. I have done a lot of programming but none of it seems to help me get a better understanding of how networking works. Sure, I have read a lot of books for that but they don't provide a practical and more pragmatic approach to learning networking. Also, what language would be best suited for this task? I am well versed in C++, Java and Python, have also done some web development in Django and Spring
Lessons Learned from AlphaGo [pdf]
Have they done a human and AlphaGo vs AlphaGo yet? As I understand it centaur teams of human and computer in chess are superior to computers or humans playing alone. It would be interesting to see if this holds with go as well.
> patches of moss

That's interesting, do you think the radioactive material helped moss to grow, or that the moss patches catch the radioactive material flying around?
The active version appears to be hosted here:
https://github.com/eribertomota/packit
"And another one bites the dust" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE)

Personally better/fancier food delivered sounds strange. I cook at home when i like good food or i go out and enjoy it outside.
Google I/0 2017: Highlights and excerpts from the mega event
Seems pretty major. I'm currently stuck on a flight that can't depart as they can't get any flight plans etc. Also BA's main website is down.
> It'd be silly to draw conclusions towards all Orthodox Christians or Catholics.

But I'm not. I'm not worried about tourists from any country in general, I'm worried about people that come to Europe expecting a free ride while not think they have to adapt. Then somehow if they get frustrated "it's the west's fault". Come on.

And get rid of the well financed ones that "are asking for asylum" because "they're persecuted in their home country" (for being an islamist)

> is therefore A or B even if it does statistically speaking (merely) increase the likelihood.

"Merely" is ending up with a lot of people killed.
Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: The Small-Town Gas Station Example
Federal Reserve Well-Being Survey Shows American Economic Needs
"my driver"

What a world we live in. Most of the country (and planet) is so broke they are just scraping by, while programmers have "drivers" and personal shoppers. Wouldn't want to distract those people who have to get to work every day to figure out how to sell the poor people ads!