skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a user in the Mondex card trial in 1995. This was like modern chip cards, but a stored wallet instead of online auth to an account:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondex

The banks outfitted buses, bars, pretty much everywhere with readers but even after inducements to use it such as half price beer(!) it still failed. Why? Because it was soooo slow. Waiting for ~45 seconds at the bar for a payment to go through got old really fast. It barely lasted a year.

I'd have thought the friction of the payment would have been a lesson learned, but here we are 22 years later and it's still a pain.
>LTSB is a victim of poor marketing

Put another way, LTSB is like free marketing research handed to MS on a platter. It tells them that there is a demand for an LTS OS, which is how all LTS linux distros are. i.e., No bullshit, stable, and user has all the control. I don't know what the differences between Home, Pro and Enterprise editions are, but one of them ought to be what the users expect LTSB to be, which currently isn't the case.
I can't fathom free ads from Sega, I will gladly pay the handful of George Washingtons to keep my kids away from the onslaught of unregulated ads that this storied franchise is about to endure
ETOPS is covered in this easy-to-digest video by Wendover Productions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSxSgbNQi-g
My life revolves around tech and food, so I wanted to comment on this OP but didn't see a reply that resonated until the very end... I'm in a similar position, 185 since 18, going on 36... I eat/drink even more than I want to and it doesn't change, same for generations... the good news for everyone else is this likely means there is a 'gene' for it. Otherwise, it's all the hard work and deep sleep responsible.
> That's a big part of the situation you left out. MFN 3rd-party is rarely going to beat any FBA for the buy box, even on a $7 difference.

The discussion was about comparison shopping. They can buy from our site or Amazon. We don't care.

So for purposes of the original comment it was irrelevant and it still isn't relevant really.

The original bit of the chain was this:

> One fascinating niche are online retailers which fill market voids Amazon deliberately creates out of corporate policy. For instance in the US one can readily purchase firearms and ammunition through the internet. Due to various legal formalities, Amazon won't touch that particular market segment. Visiting sites like www.sgammo.com, www.palmettostatearmory.com, or www.midwayusa.com, is like stepping into an uncanny PHP laden alternate reality where Amazon never existed. This federation of specialized retailers offers a glimpse into what the online shopping experience _could_ have become, if it weren't for Amazon's hegemony.

I was arguing that was absurd and is unique to that niche. Also, Amazon isn't benevolent.

I didn't argue that I cared about the mechanics of how Amazon screwed its customers.

> Also, I'm pretty sure you're allowed to set different prices on different marketplaces. Your Amazon offer must be the lowest though right?

Correct. And charging customers via FBA $62.25 is untenable for Amazon as well as us which is why they charge noticeably more.

We _could_ charge their customers $65 and ours $65 but:

1) Amazon will find compliance issues with our identical products.

1b) If we comply, Amazon will drop prices until we stop competing with them and/or use their size to pressure a manufacturer into obedience (a la Walmart).

2) We will be cannibalizing our own sales channel to drive more people to Amazon by lowering Amazon's price to the customer $4. This is objectively a terrible decision.

So why bother?

FBA is a _terrible_ idea if you are in competition with Amazon on any level. The sales they'll send you aren't worth selling MFN at a better price point.
I'm just a low level cog in the wheel here, but hearing things like that is certainly very nice.

I wouldn't sell yourself short though, rocket launches tend to make for good press, and often make the front page of HN, but anyone who works hard at a job is worthy of respect whether they're building web apps, or spaceships, or anything else.
True,

But punishing people for exercising their rights, is quite similar to placing restrictions on said rights.

I'm no lawyer, but you generally can't out-smart the law :)
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"Associate Doctors" - seriously a brilliant idea in my eyes.
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Would you hire somebody for c# coding if they have spent a year in school five years ago getting VB.net certification?

How about if they just had a job in Vb.net form a year and then worked other languages for five years.

I guess it's a very fine difference.
That is why I am starting to randomly click on ads simply so they waste the money and get a lesser ROI and scewed stats.
>You're out of touch with reality Linus. In what world would anyone sign up for your "generous" offer to be called clowns, that their patches are garbage, that they should do thousands of hours of work for free for a bunch of multi-billion dollar corporations that aren't contributing a single dime or any direct work back?

Seems a strange thing to say for a company whose revenue is completely dependent on a product, and it's source code, which they obtain for free, to modify and sell for profit.
Thanks! I love Elm too. Elm is functional programming for the masses! Recently I'm kind of more curious about ClojureScript.

That said, you can totally use Flow or TypeScript with hyperapp.
To quote Eric Moody, captain of what was at the time the world's largest commercial glider after a quadruple engine failure:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
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"One function of elevator cables is the emergency brake system "

With this maglev system (as with conventional elevators, trains and trolleys), there is a speed governor system. When the governor spins too fast, the centrifugal force activates a braking system.
Because you need the key with you to register it with a site, and if they are being stored in separate locations, you need to do it when you have access.
The top left is always a close button, click it at any time to close the add.
I'm trying on Upwork but I find that it's hard to get the first few jobs. Did you build up a strong portfolio to get the first few jobs?
Indeed, given how Musk operates, you're right. (however, there's no quote in that sense :) )
It's free (as in money), but "free (as in money)" is a very limited definition of free
> To use your analogy, the article's title is "The key to jobs in the future is not water but land."

No, it isn't.

> I don't think it's an over-reaction to understand that they are implying that the water is unimportant,

Not only do they not say that, I seriously doubt they think that.

> and also implying that the water won't help to fulfill the same needs that the land might fulfill.

Well, that's a matter of opinion and you're welcome to disagree with the article, but I think that there are many important jobs that software can't do well. I certainly don't think that it's obvious that software will do all those things well any time soon.

> there's no reason why analytical skills can't help us improve services that require a lot of emotional empathy

Maybe, but the article says no such thing.

> they are not as separate as "land" vs "water.

At this point they are.

> what I find ironic is an article that places such importance on emotional empathy is happy to use a divisive title like "The future is not X but Y

What I find ironic is that this is not the title at all.

> Obviously the people that personally hold greater weight for X are going to be annoyed.

Why? That's not the title nor explicitly or implicitly said in the article at any point. What annoys me is that not only are you now in the position having far more power, but are annoyed at the claim that others may have some power as well, insisting that your power dominates theirs and balking at the idea that it may not.
"Logan's Run". It's here.
The CDN is run by a friend, so its alright.
Sure, we can work on that.
If they don't care about engineers being cheap, why did Google, Apple and Intel collude to keep wages down?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/16/silicon_valley_415m...
The Github link was blocked?
AI publishes in arXiv. There's still hope ;)
Yep we are now switching to advising its use for the human rights defenders and journalists that we work with.
Good movie, good ending.
Now imagine Randy continuing with his behaviour and you having that chat with him once every x months.
After few of these, what would you tell Randy?

Imagine Randy worked for you, or under you on a project.

I've been on teams where people left quietly or loudly because of "Randies", going through the pains to change jobs.

Will you still have the same response for Randy?
> When the inevitable human fatalities are realised, we will see that everyone involved had done their best:

Have you seen the movie called "the challenger disaster". If not, you should see it. It might helps to gain a bit of perspective about these things.
> It makes more sense for the $1k investor to pick one stock they feel good about it and hope to get 10-20% or more return on that

If you're going to invest $1k, does it even make sense to do it at all even for that 10-20%? I recently for the first time bought some stocks (about 5k), and I don't like that I'm refreshing my etrade account all the time. In the end it would have been better I feel to spend it on something else. If you're gonna invest, I say invest in the liberal 5-digits, if you don't have means to do that, don't invest in stocks. (that's the reason why I asked the original question... I'm curious if others who are earning "engineering salaries" are investing in stocks only by small amounts or going all in)
> Modern nuclear bombs are ~20Mt, with the biggest at 100Mt.

IIRC US (and other Western ones as well I guess) ICBM warheads are about 300Kt, Russian ones about 1Mt.

The Russian did test a 50Mt device (Tsar Bomba) during the cold war (technically, there's apparently no upper limit how big you can make them), but such large devices are not really militarily useful to the point of justifying their bulk/weight/expense.
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Maybe we were a million users ?
"Kate Bush was 19 when she released Wuthering Heights (and had been writing for years before that)."

I've been comparing Lorde to Kate Bush for ages now, so I agree with you on that comparison (and I'm a huge Stevie Wonder fan, including his childhood songs..."Up Tight", recorded when he was 15, is among my favorites to holler along with while cooking dinner). But...there's gonna be a lot more of those kids. I'd bet there already are and I just don't follow pop music.

I can name maybe a half dozen super-talented kids that have come along in the pre-internet age; they were exceptional. But, I think they'll be less the exception as time goes on...partly due to tech.

YouTube recommended Grace Vanderwaal to me just last night. Her music isn't really my thing, but it's hard to argue she's not stunningly skilled for her age.
No time for testing the system going to handle India's biggest Tax Reform
Agreed. Im just trying to make myself clear that there is problem, not taking it as a legal advice. Mostly looking out for other options or better be aware etc.,
I'm not sure gold is the right analogy in this case.. I think that is holding grsecurity's work in higher esteem than is necessary. Don't forget, the code is just part of the work. Ones attitude in contributing that code is another large part of what makes the work "gold".

A better analogy might person A be handing person B back an improvement on person B's own recipe. However, the improvement is written on a piece of paper drenched in piss.

Don't forget, the entire reason grsecurity is able to exist at all is because the Linux kernel is open source and because countless of volunteers and companies have dedicated their time and energy doing exactly what grsecurity fails to do, contributing back in a manner which makes live livable for the maintainers. Each and every one of them could've decided to not bother properly splitting up patches, to not bother documenting their changes properly, and they personally wouldn't have been worse off in a lot of cases. However, because they decided to use proper communication skills (eg. not be a dick), everyone wins.
"It is well known that men favor working with things and women favor working with other people."
The problem is that you use the status quo as an argument for why things cannot change.
There have been a lot of things in history that were "well known" until they stopped being that way.
I'm not ignoring the fact here that certain gender-specific evolutionary hardwiring exists. But that does not rule out that there could be ways to get more men to work closely with other people. Such as, as suggested by a commentator above, renaming professions. By the way, doctors work with people, and doctors are often male. It's likely more about status than the degree of work with people.
I don't remember the db schema but it's highly possible there were domains/categories. I remember publisher/editor (which could be a nice filter).
The point is if they punish you (such as discontinue business relationship) because you send a request to obtain the source, and exercise the rights you've been granted in the GPL, well, that's an additional restriction.

I'm no lawyer, but the spirit of the law or a contract matters.
You can't avoid a speeding ticket because the wheels of your car wasn't touching the road in the photo :)
> Syngas can be easily converted to DME (dimethyl ether), which is a cleaner diesel replacement. It's stored just like LNG, in pressurized containers at 0.5 MPa - typical roadbike tyre pressure.

Presumably you meant LPG. LNG is another thing entirely..
I disagree (and have been severely depressed in the past). In many cases, depression is in fact your brain telling you that something is wrong in your life and you need to change it. [0]

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/theory-knowledge/201603...
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> IF you had invested in FAANG

Sounds like a big if, and sounds like you missed that boat yourself. Not to mention over the last 5 years you'd have to avoid investing in Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, VMWare, Intuit, etc.
Unlike police or muni drivers or Detroit auto works, programmers are among the most frequent job changers

Also unlike police or muni drivers, if the union makes it too expensive to continue to pay your wages and work within the constraints of the union contract, the company will either outsource your job somewhere cheaper, or it will go out of business and be replaced by a company with cheaper workers.

Detroit Auto Workers found this out when the Big Three decentralized and moved jobs out of Detroit and they were under intense competition with foreign car makers.
That's exactly my point. You need a lawyer to tell you if there's no problem, a small problem, or a large problem. The armchair lawyers on HN may give you confident-sounding answers, but the advice won't be sound enough to build a business on.

Consulting a lawyer about this should cost you less than $500. You can usually find startup lawyers who will work for equity (or just the promise of future business) if cash is that tight.
OK, we changed the title to the first sentence of the article.
To bastardize Churchill (or whoever he was quoting), it's a horrible system, and it'd be the worst except for all the other governments I could move to.
> The world might be ready for a "Well, that sucked. Let's move on" type mindset....

"Well, that sucked (that people are dead)?, but let us move on (like nothing has ever happened?)", is that the mindset you want the world to adopt?
that's excellent. i think 'age discomfort' by younger hiring managers can be alleviated if they are reasonable; just be about the task at hand. The unreasonables aren't desirable to work for anyway.
Uber is what it is today because the board and Kalanick had no ethics and complete diregard for the law since the beginning.

They showed that from their very early days. If you supported the company until last year, then you supported their behavior as a whole. You cannot have your pie and eat it too.
Am I the only one getting a blank page on Firefox, Chromium and Opera included the google cache and archive.org versions ?
As far as I understand that is the opposite of how it works. The linux foundation was set up to receive funds from big business contributors - like Intel, Microsoft etc, who have an interest in the continuation of the linux kernel and wish to pay for jobs which didn't have a source of funding (i.e. Linus's job and other maintainer) and who wished to remain non-partisan. So these companies provide both code and money. That money isn't meant to be kicked back to profit-making companies as far as I understand.
Some of the details are in the "Family Jewels," finally made public in 2007. The CIA not the FBI, my mistake there, would either arrange the post to be moved to a separate room or sneak mail out in briefcases or pockets.

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/family-je...
Yeah, not in Canada. Prices are insane here. Absolute ripoff.
According to the article she was in rural Oregon at the time, and now she appears to be in Seattle.
Hey, you can lock certain parts of the screen from touch on the iPhone. It locks the phone inside an app and you can define "dead" parts of the screen, really handy.
You know, one can be a jerk when others don't actually deserve his accomplishments.

Also, jerk-circlejerk is a construct sometimes used as a protection from overly emotional people to actually get things done.
Linus is a bully.
You missed the part where I said solar and wind can simply turn themselves off ("curtailment") in order to balance the grid if demand is too low.

People get a bit excited about negative prices, as if it heralds the end of sanity. But it's usually a very sensible, market-driven response to either subsidies (which to be clear, think are a good thing) or to inflexible coal generation which would rather pay money than throttle down for short periods.

There's also this idea that it'll destroy the grid by overproducing. When really the worst that'll happen is something like the infamous duck curve, where gas plants can't ramp up as far and as fast as needed. The shocking solution? Just turn them on early so they've got time to ramp and curtail the solar being produced at that time.

Since a bit of extra curtailment in Spring is such a boring solution I have to wonder at the motives of the people who report on the Duck Curve as a looming threat to the grid.
> we could work together to build a standard protocol so anyone could start an online retailing site and interop with any other online marketplace.

https://xkcd.com/927/

If I recall correctly, US telcos couldn't even agree on which mobile payment system to use, because every company wanted to partner with someone and get a larger piece of the pie. Now it seems the only mobile payment system anyone actually uses is Apple Pay.

That anecdote aside, I agree it would be awesome if such a standard existed. I just don't see it working out since retail is such a cut throat business and everyone will be looking to undercut their competitors.

Remember, competition is good for the consumer and bad for companies.
As an aside, the same guys that did the Sonic native ports are now working on a new Sonic game in the classic style. It's the most excited I've been about a new game in years - http://store.steampowered.com/app/584400/Sonic_Mania/
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just another reason we'll move faster into blockchain and decentralized crypto currencies...
No surprise here. Ever heard of AdWords?
Indeed, wish there was more documentation on how to use the CLI
Are you familiar with the "Old economy Steve"-memes? Not all places have those magical cheap homes readily available. The US (and Canada/EU) in 2017 are made of two kinds of places: 1) Incredibly expensive housing 2) No jobs.
How much refurbishing goes into preparing a previously used rocket before it is reused?

What technological breakthrough of recent times has made this sort of quick inspection and reuse possible, that was not possible earlier?
This is pretty cool. It seems impossible to mouse away while maintaining the orientation. I want to be able to perturb the weights and watch from different angles. Very cool though, nonetheless.
Though the drawback is that union workers tend only to want to work with union workers. So you can't go with the union workers to do your foundation, and use a non-union contractor to do other work.

An employer I used to work for found this out the hard way when word got out that they had hired a non-union carpenter to do some custom cabinetry on an office build out (he was an expert craftsman who was not cheap, so it wasn't done for cost savings).

Suddenly it got very hard to find workers to finish the electrical and plumbing work.
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> This tells you everything you need to know about the quality of AirAsia pilots.

Setting aside that this might just have been part of the checklist (given airline’s home country is predominantly Muslim), your comment reads as if you suggest causal relationship between pilot’s abilities and religious views.
The flip side of all the prestige incentives that everyone mentioned is that there's little downside. Either your institution will foot the bill for the cost of publication or it's built into grants. On the other end, the institutions researchers are affiliated with pay for access to many of the top journals and, even if you don't have direct access to the journal version of a paper, you can normally find it somewhere else, like the author's website.
> This is about unlocking electronic equipment (phones) based on biometrics and not pin/passwords

That makes more sense...

Similar to how the police can require you to unlock the trunk of your car. It's a physical key.
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A $640k house is an amazing home almost everywhere in the country. The problem you're describing here is that the region you're living in has insanely high real-estate prices compared to the rest of the country and you cannot afford to live there.
Don't forget the Iraq war.

Edit: Nvmd, you didn't
Although it wasn't earth shattering, my personal favorite is the Motorola MC14500B 1-bit microprocessor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_MC14500B
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Not if you're making a $120,000 salary.
Except of course no one in this system is interested in reducing costs.
For entertainment purposes only. Mobile & desktop friendly. stack: react, react-swipeable, redux, built via create-react-app

(edit: whoops, clearly this violates the guidelines posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. moderators, please feel free to scrap my post entirely. thx)
Running your tests against a different DB than what you're using is an anti-pattern IMO. You'll not be able to trust the results, and you'll be limited to the lowest common denominator of the databases your using.
Have you read the article? ...the part about human rights?

What are some street slang bits against a billion dollars money making depravity that keeps the world from spreading the know-how needed to solve problems right now at the front door?

I'll never understand why disrespectful words are more comment-worthy than disrespectful actions at a global scale. At least the former can be ignored. If you really feel that upset help the OP to find the right words to adequately express his overwhelming emotions.