skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This used to be the case - until I talked to them last time. Definitely not a US-based CSR, and completely unwilling to help in a very frustrating situation I had done almost everything right on. I don't charge back often (first time on this card ever, after close to a decade) - so it's not like I have a flag on my account for "shitty customer" or anything.

Basically they utterly refused to chargeback, or even block future charges to a specific vendor that had been charging me monthly for a service I could not use due to moving. The vendor said their policy was I had to cancel in person, and refused to do anything else.

Amex absolutely did not have my back, and I have one of their higher-tier cards. Absolutely have been looking around at alternatives now though, after basically being told they'll let a vendor continue charging me against my will forever and there was nothing they would do about it. They said take the vendor to court.

I ended up canceling the card entirely and having it re-issued, since even changing the number on your card these days isn't enough to stop monthly recurring billing - of course that feature is for your "convenience".

All in all it was a pretty horrible experience that they resolved in the favor of a vendor that was quite obviously playing the "make cancelation super hard so we can collect monthly payments from people who continue to put it off" game - Amex literally could not have cared less one of their merchants was essentially engaging in barely-legal consumer fraud.

Utterly horrible customer service, and this was via many reps and a couple low-tier CSR managers. It's quite obvious to me why Chase and the like are eating steadily away at the once-stalwart Amex customer base. Prior to that experience I would not have remotely considered a different card due to them always being stellar whenever I needed them, and they usually went above and beyond any expectations I had for customer service. That trust built over the decades with me is now completely gone, and it's obvious they are simply yet another card issuer these days.
No, the future is interactive multimedia that you can rewind as many times as you like.
The alternative offered is Markdown. How can you say that it's ok for Humans to revert to raw Markdown, but unacceptable to open a legacy .ppt format in an application that may not render with 100% fidelity?
Portworx Solves DevOps Roadblocks at New Context
I know. I experience quite a few with PortableApps.com with open source donations. Unfortunately, if you use something like PayPal, you have to monitor every donation and reverse any suspicious ones and eat the cost regularly. You even have to maintain your own internal list of what email addresses have committed fraud before because PayPal doesn't ban them.
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I was trying to suggest that those stores, here in Europe, have greeters and those greeters are the very epitome of fakeness - which the parent was referring to.

I suspect the confusion comes because people assumed I meant Disney stores in the states.
AFAIK you can still do it in KDE plasma
What is dark data?
100%. My company does too, and in many cases, we ask applicants to include a secret phrase (usually "Welcome to the World of Tomorrow") to indicate that they've actually read the job description. I think if you're going to look at it as a numbers game, you're going to be better off sending 10 quality applications than 100 shots in the dark.
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This is fascinating to learn about, and I definitely understand the reasoning behind it.

When I was in Vienna visiting a friend, we went to a traditional coffee shop where we were waited on by a grumpy old man in a suit (emphasis on grump). Would that be an example of this?
ACH transfers, not paper checks.
> If that happens, you have a cultural problem.

Yes. If happy hours are made and scheduled in a way that missing them would lead to missing "work" then the employer isn't being honest. Pushing happy hours to have your employees work for free is unethical.
If you'll send me one of your cold emails, i'll tell you why you got no response. I've seen it all.
Amen. It's not worth arguing with them. They use "age of a country" to talk down to Americans, but Americans broke off of them to start our own country.

They'll never understand true freedom, and considering their land is under siege its not surprise the level of doublethink they have to do to still agree with their backwards way of life.
I did this exact scenario.

I'm way better off financially. However, I was extremely depressed for a year. I had my whole identity wrapped up in my business, and all of the sudden I had a day job again. Like everything I was just disappeared overnight.

I'm mostly through the depression, but my motivation and personal life took way more of a hit post-sale than they did during 90 hour work weeks and stressing over payroll and constant marketing of myself.

I did not have investors though, so I did wind up with a nice bank account after paying back some loans we took out. All in all, though, I still kind of regret it.
I have disliked her ever since being influenced by this gawker screed some years back:

http://gawker.com/5162532/marissa-mayer-googles-biggest-fail....

Subsequent reporting has hardend my opinion: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-wh...

I have tried to examine what role gender plays in my visceral dislike for Marissa Mayer. I hope it is a small one. I give myself some consolation that I recoil almost equally when reading any news coverage of Travis Kalanick.
Because pure math doesn't make a claim to be anything other than it is. String theory supposedly describes real things in the real universe, and as such it's a valid criticism to say it can't be tested.

Maybe it's a marketing problem. If string theory would move outside of the realm of physics and into that of mathematics I don't think it would have these issues.
>Most of today's software is optimized for usage of mouse, with keyboard only as afterthought.

And can I add my personal pet peeve: Keyboard COMMANDS are referred to as keyboard "shortcuts". As if using the keyboard for anything other than typing text is somehow an invalid usage, and the real way of doing it is with a mouse or something?
the major factor in GM's favor is the depth of their supply chain and depth of expertise they have in all facets of this business. that they have made some really good acquisitions only makes their case stronger.

not many of the large auto makers are making announcements similar, most make note of future plans but not many say "today"
I completely agree with you that this is the normal case and too many people really brush this off as business as usual. Just anecdotal, but Amazon actually has been extremely forthcoming with their service and has made right of every issue I've had with them.
Ask HN: What books can teach me engineering management skills?
I was recently promoted to an engineering management position of a tiny team. I'll be expected to contribute code while we're still small, then gradually fill my hours with more managerial activities as we grow.

I've never managed people, let alone an engineering org. What books can teach me solid principles for maximizing our team's impact? I've read so many horror stories about "We switched to X software development philosophy and it was a disaster: News at 11" I'm wondering if there are classic instructional books/resources that still ring true today, cutting through the latest fads.

Is the Mythical Man Month still a good start for the software/project side of things, for example?
Bitcoins have appreciated 10x since MtGox crashed and took mine. Getting back the dollar value the bitcoins had back then would still piss me off.
Well, that was interesting. I really enjoyed playing Pit Stop II on my friend's C64 back in like '85. It was way better than my own ZX81 at graphical games.

I do sort of remember idly wondering which people built this marvel, already back then. Since then I've read a bunch of books etc, but a personal connection is hard to beat! Thanks for the story!
I've been around a lot of suppressed arms, and aside from one competition rifle that was specifically designed to be silent (and cost many thousands of dollars to get that way), can't recall a single one in which ear protection wouldn't have been dramatically preferred for indoor shooting.

Even for that one (subsonic, small rounds, suppressed, nitro piston), it would probably have been irritating to fire indoors.

Edit: In hindsight, I suppose a suppressed, rimfire 22 would be pretty quiet.
Have you seen https://github.com/atmanos/atmanos ? It may be of interest to you.
And yes, I tried going back to the old driver used in 14.04 (psmouse!) on 16.04 to try and get it to work, and I can't seem to make that work either.

Hardware and Linux. Ugh.
CEOs are often also capitalists, and often specifically major capital holders in the firms of which they are CEO, but, as CEOs, they are elite, highly-compensated employees.

HN may be less pro-capitalist than the WSJ (though it's still pretty pro-capitalist, overall), but if anything it's more pro-elite-employee than the WSJ.
How hard could it be? I'm looking forward to the Hammerhead i-Eagle Thrust Pro Mini Retina Air 2.
Do you have an insurance policy that will unshoot someone you didn't intend to shoot? Because odds are that if you're intending to use your gun for home defense, you are more likely to kill a friend or family member, then you are a robber.
I can't see any sustainable competitive advantage in autonomous car tech.

The iPhone has strong network effects and a luxury brand. But auto driving tech is strictly a commodity - if the next Ford Focus comes with a "Powered by Apple" label nobody will pay more than if the label read "Powered by Google".
According to Steam I'd played around 40 hours, but in reality most likely <10 hours active and stupidly left the game idling a couple of nights which racked up the hours.

THIS. I posted my own comment, but I also suffered from the same crash/hang refund issue. The game was so unplayable I gave up, and shut down my Steam link. Unbeknownst to me, it was still running and therefore Steam refused my refund, and didn't reply to my follow up.
> alacritty (super fast because Rust)

Super fast because of GPU-acceleration would be more realistic.
You make it sound so trivial to do, but in fact if you did that you'd burn out. All that ratholing and reading is in fact resting.

You can only concentrate so many hours a day. Without that resting your productivity drops.

The most productive/best programmer I knew used to piss around flying virtual helicopters for half the afternoon, would throw together prototypes no-one asked him to because he was bored, and went home at 5:30 every day.
DC Circuit strikes down Obama-era caps on prison phone rates
How come the debt is in Yen and not in bitcoin?
I know you worked hard on this and it solves a perceived need. All I'm saying is that optimizing for quantity won't get the best result.

There's no substitute for meeting people and creating genuine relationships, and there's no way to "hack" or speed up that process. That really is a numbers game: you may make 20 friends, and only one of them results in a job. But each friend requires genuine time and effort.

As far as being a senior in college, what about talking to alumni, especially recent ones? What about connections from internships?

Machines can't do the most important part of finding a job, which is to increase the number of people in the world who know your name and like you.
Ummm, that's ~2 lbs per day. Was he running a marathon each day without eating, for 3 weeks straight? That alone should have shut down his heart. Your friend's father is much stronger than an ox, as I am sure most farm animals could not have survived that either.
You aren't off at all. The article is making the same argument that the myth of the 10x engineer is not someone who can crank out 10x more lines of code, but someone who can bring 10x (or InfinityX) business value to the company because of what they spend their time working on.
JavaScript: Tightening the Loop – Embed Applications in Medium Posts
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#3 is basically how Typing of the Dead works, and when you reach high WPM it is indeed faster than using a mouse.
> People are suggesting that it's because of the use of cat.

It is:

> cat /dev/zero | pv >/dev/null
^C97GiB 0:00:05 [1.79GiB/s]

> < /dev/zero pv >/dev/null
^C.3GiB 0:00:06 [10.2GiB/s]
Matricial data is quite hard to explain well in a non-graphical mode, though.
I recently wrote a book using Libreoffice and Microsoft Word, because the publisher demanded it.

The process took about a year. My own estimate is that we lost about 2-3 months to tool-related problems, without any benefit whatsoever. I have never in my 20 year career understood the point of word-processing tools, and never will.

And those tools make money. That is wrong.
if we use a liberal definition of "computer and programming literacy", then it's just as much a requisite for math as it is TeX.

if we use a conservative definition of "computer and programming literacy", then it's not a requisite for either.

markup languages are not programming languages. most people have some familiarity with some markup language.
> I agree, but I think their approach is flawed. A car is more than an AI with wheels and a seat. Tons and tons of engineering expertise goes into making a roadworthy car, and even more goes into making a truly good car. Apple quite simply does not have automotive engineering experience, and the jump from computers to iPhones pales in comparison to the jump from consumer electronics to automobiles.

I agree with you, and I think Cook and Apple do to! The article just says they're focusing on "an autonomous system." When asked if they were going to commit to a full automobile:

> "We’ll see where it takes us," Cook said. "We’re not really saying from a product point of view what we will do."

In other words, they're not making a car, just the AI for it.

Granted, Apple rarely makes 'components'; they make Products. It doesn't really jive with the Apple we know to make part of something without making the _whole_ thing. But I think these comments from Cook are telegraphing that they are--at least for right now--just making a component.

edit to clarify: Based on this and previous rumors, I think the "Apple Car" project (that totally existed, no joke!) has been refocused on the autonomous AI project. Cook and Mansfield realized that a car was big and complicated, and the market was inevitably moving toward self-driving cars. In realizing that without the self-driving component, they wouldn't have a car at all, they refocused the project to see if they could even build such a component. Once they have that, they'll go from there.
1. a lot of currencies aren't as stable as US/EURO.

2. Cypto currencies could be used as a reserve currency
http://btc-times.com/cryptocurrencies-will-become-reserve-cu...

3. could be used as a settlement system
Blocking Go Readers and Writers
Minor point: "foreign" is relative to the country you live in. It always bugs me a little that "international" and "foreign" are used from the American perspective.
Please describe how it is possible to pick such a number. For example, I can readily imagine how to pick a random 32b float, but that it is an entirely problem with a nonzero probability.
Would you have had tool problems if you had just went with Word?
Just to quibble with your last point, I think it would be reasonable to say humans have a biological predisposition to use tools and to defend themselves. I know I have a very primal urge to protect my young children; I could see how that could manifest in someone else as wanting to own a gun to protect one's family.
I wasn't. I was challenging the modern need to just bolt pre-existing frameworks together. I WAS hoping for a discussion about it. Maybe my intent was not clear. Apologies.
Yes, but then this brings up the intent behind the 2nd amendment - to ensure an armed popular militia to defend against corruption of concentrated power. The citizens arms need to actually be effective in such circumstances.

As for 'highly dangerous concealed weapons' - you were probably more likely to encounter this on a day-to-day basis at the time of the constitution being written than even in the most heavily gunned state with low-barrier carry laws.

If you are updating constructions, this also means that the context is important; in the constitutional times people were responsible for defending themselves primarily - if that assumption can/should/has been changed, where then is that change legally codified?
This is a mantra that's been repeated whenever "pro users" feel like Apple is neglecting them, but there isn't actually any evidence that this is true. It may have been true at one point in the 90s, when Apple's customer base was much smaller, but today it sounds more like a jilted ex trying to guilt someone back into a relationship.

I'm still waiting to see this effect in action from when Apple supposedly threw away the Final Cut Pro 7 userbase over night. That was back in 2011, 6 years should have been plenty of time to see this play out. Or perhaps the movers and shakers in Hollywood don't have as much influence as they thought.
I had suspected that actually.
I'm sure that the creditors would love to be paid back the full XBT amount that they lost, but since it's a legal proceeding they essentially have to operate in the currency of the realm which, given that Mt. Gox was a Japanese company, is JPY.
Good point (normally I'd just upvote you but that doesn't do as good a job of communicating you'd influenced the opinion of the person you were responding to)
The exchanges don't represent the whole market for bitcoins. In 2015, the US Marshals auctioned off tens of thousands of bitcoins seized from Silk Road accounts. The price on the exchanges went up for a few days around the auction, but recovered quickly afterward.
So why did they choose to not use proven designs? Honestly I don't have a problem using riskier designs if it could reduce costs. And increased complexity is a risk in itself.
Show HN: Customer service reinvented. Bye bye old tickets
Pure math does not pretend to be a theory explaining the natural world. String theory does, and that's why it must be subject to the standards that describe what is, and what is not, a scientific theory.
Yep, that'd be my guess. Newegg seems to have gotten actual consumer spending out of their goodwill, along with a lot of presumed value in trolls deterred. "We'll go to the mat over noncompetes" probably offers similar benefits in ensuring you don't have to do so again in the future.
I can't speak for the founder of this company, but I would assume their product goes more toward the yearly/monthly recurring software licenses, not for a one-time purchases.

One way around this "limitation" is to store somewhere in the machine that it was activated already, and then you can cancel your service at keygen.sh. Then if you make your sales all in a single month, you only pay $24 (or roughly 1%).
"Just stick to computers" is exactly what they did; they just put a new interface on them to make the smartphone. A CPU is an application processor is a CPU. Apple's pioneering innovations have always been with regards to design, not really technology.
Because she’s A female CEO? Any evidence? Lockheed, Duke Energy, IBM – all female CEOs and they don’t get near the scrutiny of Mayer – probably because they are competent and don’t engage in bombastic grandstanding.

Mayer was a bad CEO – take Alibaba out of the equation and Yahoo became materially worse off expressly because of the decisions she made. Look at the ridiculous acquisitions, look at the brain drain. What the hell is Yahoo’s product? Email? They can’t even keep that secure – compromising a BILLION accounts. They were warned about MD5 in 2008. Yahoo’s Security team was treated like second class citizens – requests being denied because of cost too much or they were considered a low priority. Who set those priorities? Mayer. A a billion accounts got compromised as a result. There is a direct cause-effect.

Complaining about her salary is completely valid – not because it was “high” but because she got such an incomprehensible salary for running the company into the ground. Nobody complains about Tim Cook’s salary because nobody cares – Apple is extremely profitable, which is the entire point of a CEO. Tim Cook is a liberal gay man – so if the idea that people are harder on Mayer is because of her sex – imagine how hard they should ostensibly be on Cook. Yet Cook is actually doing a good job. Nobody cares what someone has between their legs if the share price is good.

Mayer is criticized because she was horrible, ineffective and engaged in substance-poor grandstanding and she got paid enormously for essentially crashing the ship into an iceberg before Verizon came along like the Carpathia. Sure, Yahoo was the Titanic before Mayer arrived, but she knew that and yet still went full-ahead sailing Yahoo into the ice field or irrelevancy.
Hiring managers don't look poorly on generic applications because we're prima donnas who want people to jump through hoops and waste time, we consider generic applications to be an indicator of a weak candidate.

If it's not immediately clear why, imagine that you're a fantastic developer who can get any job you want. How many jobs do you apply for per day? Would you use a web app that automates applying to jobs, even if it worked really well and were free?
But you don't customize the job post to each applicant, right? So "the same" would be a developer spending a few hours writing a cover letter and resume that are sent to a bunch of potential employers without customization.
Is it rude?
I really find some of the SHOW HN threads interesting, in that case asking for the implementation insight of a particular feature or the architecture of product will be considered rude
or is it any unprofessional act ?
There's no (or rather, very slow) movement because it's a legal proceeding, not just a technological and economic challenge.
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1. When you are in maintenance mode and you still manage to introduce more bugs than you are fixing then your are doing something wrong (usually that's a result of limiting the budget of a department and as a consequence hiring less experienced developers)

2. Every new feature the last few years has been ported from iOS and without much care. I still can't believe they have yet to make Siri and Spotlight one unified product (at least make Spotlight more powerful, I can't even set a timer with it).
My workplace provided "active shooter training" in which a police officer demonstrated a potential way for a group of unarmed people to disarm a person with a gun. When one of my coworkers asked "What if they have a knife?" the officer replied with something to the effect of "There's no good way to disarm them without getting your hands cut up, I'd much rather face an assailant with a gun than a knife."
a new file system is a pretty big deal (and a non-trivial one at that, just ask Microsoft). But I'm wondering what features you are want out of MacOS?
I have heard similar stories about Sony's PlayStation store too. If you charge back, they ban your account. Now you cannot play online anymore. Even offline games may not work since the license is tied to your account.
I don't need a new OS, but modernizing AppKit and other frameworks would be a godsend!
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I don't see them being at fault here. You willing entered into a contract.
Good point on mount counts.

Doesn't that problem already exist to an extent for remote FS mounts (NFS, etc), especially over automount?