skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good luck calling the police on someone who's leaving because the restaurant won't take the cash they have

I'm getting the popcorn for that

Even better luck trying this in front of a judge
Would you please stop violating the guidelines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And deservedly so. Years later, he still defended their use despite all the evidence to the contrary: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dan-rather-stands...
Even with notice, the same logic applies, and, anyway, what are they going to do when you leave cash on the table? Not deposit it and treat the person who paid it like a dine-and-dasher?

On the fast-food and fast-casual end with payment up front, OTOH, this might work in theory, but that's the segment that can least afford to exclude the unbanked, so the payment is going to have to be significant.
Ugh the libertarian in me just died a little inside.
I do a lot of photography, if I have a client for an hour, or I pay for a model I'd average 500 pictures in an hour.

Of those I delete the obviously-terrible images, where the exposure was off, the person blinked, or had their mouth open in an awkward position as we were talking during the shooting process.

The result of a good shoot is 20 images that are worth publishing, and a poor shoot might result in only 10.

All my images are RAW (.CR2), so they're pretty large. Despite that keeping them all is the only approach I feel comfortable with.

Backups are handled by archiving to a local NAS, and uploading offsite once per evening. I'm careful to ensure that when I import the images to my desktop system I don't erase the CF cards before I have that offsite copy uploaded (which sometimes takes a few days).
Bitcoin will never work as a consumer-to-merchant payment system. Even with 1GB blocks (1000 times today), it would max out at ~7,000 TPS, where VISA does 200,000 during peak. We need something off-chain to be able to scale to +100k TPS (unless you consider 100 GB blocks realistic).
Jeff Bezos has asked for charitable giving advice–here it is
> BT pairing on phones works nowadays, thanks in part to the popularity of wearable devices, but it barely functioned 5 years ago

Huh? Pairing worked like 10 years ago. And sending files between phones. Everyone in school was sending J2ME games/apps around :D Audio with media control also worked. And modem (using the phone's GPRS/EDGE connection on a PC).
At some point potentially soon if you want really good economic growth you have to decouple economic growth from energy growth. That is a step more fundamental than decoupling energy growth from coal and oil.
What about using a debit card? That's not a loan.
I am starting a small business. One of the decisions I must account for is network performance versus price. Perhaps I choose to partner with a company that my network deprioritizes. I am already at a disadvantage because I cannot afford to run my own lines or peer like large corporations.

These same corporations can invest or purchase smaller new buisness and enhance their portfolio. Some already support network neutrality as they understand this.

I know my buisness depends upon my own effort. But I am sure many other small buisness owners face the same difficulty.

I know it is hard to be fair and objective in allowing access to the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Thanks for the article.
But it begs the obvious question, why use Google Analytics at all? If it's just about gathering statistics there's several non-invasive ways to acquire that data.
A service worker can improve page load performance. A website can "become a PWA" for that reason alone.
I would if they made the corporate / generic edition ;) It's better than slack
Leaving cash on the table at a sit-down restaurant to pay for a meal isn't “trying to get a free meal.”
Images can now be stored in the DNA of living things
Encoding of a digital movie into the genomes of a population of living bacteria
Well in UK there is no Jay-Walking Law (Pedestrians have right of way).

The crossing time is set at 1.2 m/s, to complete the crossing from the end of the Green.
> Well, a simple statement saying "any ISP who abuses net neutrality will have their customers cut off from Google products". No Google search, no YouTube, no Gmail

So you are suggesting that they harm their own business interests? For how long exactly?
Something to think about, while young people and middle-age people have never lived under a non-EU ruled UK, old people have seen what the UK was like with the EU and not the EU around. They offer a unique perspective on this matter.
Thank you for posting the link! It has some choice information:

> The irony of discussing disclosures and transparency with the “Campaign for Accountability” is that this group consistently refuses to name its corporate funders. And those backers won’t ‘fess up either. The one funder the world does know about is Oracle, which is running a well-documented lobbying campaign against us. In its own name and through proxies, Oracle has funded many hundreds of articles, research papers, symposia and reports.
> If it could be drawn while crossing zero lines, then yes

What would prevent this?
Excellent point. And this does seem to be the case:

> United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes and dues. Foreign gold or silver coins are not legal tender for debts.
Like all anonymous messageboard apps, I expect them to fold when it inevitably gets co-opted for gossip, outrageous allegations, bullying etc.

Juicycampus anyone?
Help Preserve the Open Internet: Repeal and Replace Google AMP
Here is an article from couple of days back. https://scroll.in/latest/843200/home-minister-rajnath-singh-... - Near the end there is a section about Darjeeling.

I live in Darjeeling but at the foothills where the Internet hasn't been blocked. I have friends who have been suffering.

Banks can't function without internet.

Doctors cannot look up medicines without the internet.

Its a mess.

People are not tech savvy enough to use FireChat.

We have free voice calls on mobile(3G/4G). Where does one start to build a data on voice app?

Thank you for the support! Please spread the word :)
You might be interested by the Sensorimotor Contingencies theory of O'Regan. Here's a summary [0]. I find it really convincing. He also wrote a book if you want to go deeper in the subject (the final draft version is available on his website [1]).

0: http://www.whatfeelingislike.net/tiki-index.php?page=The+Sen...
1: http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/
How the Death of Net Neutrality Could Be the Death of Blockchain
Do you think it's free for YouTube or Netflix to upload their content? Is bandwidth free for you when you host a VM on AWS? If you read about the economics of the internet backbone [1], while slightly old (2004), you can get a more informed view.

Netflix or YouTube, via their commercial internet providers (or the one used by AWS in Netflix's case) have to pay for the packets they exchange with other backbone providers, one way or another. If they sent too many bytes per second, the backbones providers would adjust their prices accordingly.
Those 'backbone providers' have no way of enforcing non net-neutral behavior, they would simply be avoided by everyone else. But consumer-facing ISP would want to abuse their unique position between the consumers and the other ISPs and either take the consumers hostage, or the companies that are trying to reach those customers.

Big tech are starting to take measures to prevent themselves from being taken hostage that way (i.e. Google Fiber), but how do we know 20 years from now these companies wouldn't want to engage in the same behavior as the current consumer-facing ISPs want today. Title II classification would ensure this net neutrality stays.

> someone's grandma who only emails and very light browsing, so she's subsidizing my use of Youtube and Netflix already today.

If this was a big problem, providers could provide non-unlimited internet, where you pay per Gb/s used. But if those Gb come from me watching 4k videos, or someone's grandma downloading the entire Wikipedia pages for offline consumption shouldn't matter, they should all come at the same speed, untethered, for everyone.

[1] http://www.netinst.org/ECONOMICS_OF_THE_INTERNET_BACKBONE.pd...
He's arguing that Title II regulation is bad, not net neutrality as a concept.

I agree that Title II is the wrong way to go about ensuring or helping ensure net neutrality.
This is actually useful! I had unfollowed every one of my friends and my home page is always empty.
State and local taxes screw over businesses selling those goods and services. Consumers and businesses buy elsewhere.
Bitcoin is global and decentralized while SEPA is EU-only and centralized. The two are not in competition; neither is an alternative to the other.
"As companies continue to generate more profits than they need to fund their own growth, the question becomes: Who will decide what to do with all those profits—managers or investors?"

That's not the question that comes to my mind at all. Why limit it to just managers and investors? What about employees? Citizens of the countries that enabled these companies to make all that money in the first place?

That agglomeration of wealth is just absurd and frankly immoral.
i think this is the right approach, you're not after all, the person you were 5 years ago, or even a week. most interests change with time, I lose interest in a topic very fast, and
gain interest in another topic just as quickly. No good recommender system should be based off a reading of my "personality", whatever that may be - the most stable aspects of my personality, even if they can be divined from my viewing history, say little as to what I would be interested in watching next.
On a past life I used to be an IGDA member, attended GDCE a couple of times, and knew personally developers working in a few European game studios, until deciding boring IT work was a better way to make a living and enjoying life.
The problem with this is that the people who Google makes money from often aren't the biggest users, that would be blocking the users rather than the customers. I'm unsure if that matters, it would certainly be a massive wake up call to a lot of people.
So that shady servers can take away your card, copy the numbers including the 3 digit extra "security" code and then use it to buy things online with it.

At least if restaurants had those portable scanner machine like they do in other countries, but they don't here in US usually.
It's not "obvious" that it violates either of those.

The general consensus is that normal GA tracking alone does not meet the standards to trigger either the EU or the stricter Dutch cookie notification requirements since they are using first-party cookies not tied to PII and don't follow you across sites. And that's assuming a standard GA snippet, not the smaller subset of data Mozilla is collecting here.

And the GA ToS require you to have a privacy policy and to make users aware of it. It doesn't require a link on every page. You already agreed to the Mozilla privacy policy as part of the Firefox install process, right?
Much of the telephone network is also packet switched these days anyways.
So since it doesn't do everything you want you are totally against it?
> if the server doesn't explicitly state this (or require payment) prior to ordering.

Seems like asking for an immediate credit card pre-auth wouldn't be that much of a shift in cultural norms.
I dealt with this issue as a young boy when trying to pay for some candy at the local bodega with a large sack of pennies. The clerk simply refused my business.

I was outraged and asked some lawyers in my family to look into it. Turns out the business had no obligation to accept the transaction. "Legal Tender" means that the currency may be legally used as currency, not that it must be accepted when offered/tendered.
Total applications: 192 (including the 65 from 2016)

Total phone interviews: 17

Total take-home code challenges: 6

Total technical screens: 5

Total onsites: 3

Total offers: 1

Total time to offer: 6 weeks

Success Rate: 0.52%

Wow.
The marketing for Net Neutrality is very poor. Just asked a few non-technical friends about it. A few responded with "Do you believe everything you read on the Internet?". Now if all their favorite websites were shutdown for a day, that would get everyones attention.
That's definitely debatable; I'd guess that many people globally live in cities because that's where the work is, not for any of the other aspects you mentioned.
After debts incurred, yes.
Not wasting electricity is a good idea.

But I don't understand how transaction fees relate to it. That just means a different person pays to waste electricity.

And pricing in externalities won't actually stop people from wasting power, so you'd better have a good system set up to use that money to counteract the externalities.
That bugged me a lot too. The weight of the cost of user privacy should be infinite so, unless they found an infinite benefit, the choice should have been clear.
Why measure bytes and not selectors used in the first place?
It's not a mystery why economics is treated with such disdain, when economists are portrayed as bumbling idiots unable to comprehend anything outside of the narrow mindset of perpetual growth and deregulation.

It's a fun read (of a hopefully fictional story), but I would seriously doubt the qualifications of any such "economist" had they replied in the same manner in real life.

It should, however, be noted that Economics is a fairly young science, so people trained in the 20th century maybe be stuck in their obsolete growth mindsets forever. Unfortunately there seems to be little hope to change their minds, so we should all do our best to ignore them, since their views no longer represent reality when you consider the newest data.
Street Fighter IV: Champion Edition Finally on Apple iPad
Intellectual property is one of the worst things ever created, used extensively by that certain group of humans to hold back progress for the entire species. People in the future will view these laws as barbaric and evil. We would probably have advanced space ships, and certainly world peace and material abundance by now if not for people treating abstract ideas as property.
Yes, but by "functions that can be used to track you", you're including user accounts, logins, forms, surveys, &c.

The term "tracking" has become abstracted to a point where many forget that they usually want to be "tracked" (by hitting "reply" here on HN, YCombinator is "tracking" who I am - user account - and what I've written).

If you'd be happy with a browser exclusively to view public, static content, then it could be done.

For selectively disabling tracking, you need uMatrix[0], but a component of the Firefox bug being reported here is that the extensions API used by uMatrix is failing to block GA in this particular case.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
Wouldn't that both be horrible for business and also run them into major anti-trust issues?
Too many syllables for a good slogan. Need something like "It's my internet!" or "Fight internet extortion!"
No, if anonimity is a concern then you shouldn't be using a VPN at all. You should be using Tor. Anonimity should not be part of your evaluation of a VPN.
Oh sweet, works in Safari as well
It's not solved at all. You eat your meal. Now you owe a debt. Pay with cash. The whole point of legal tender laws is that you can always settle a debt with cash, regardless of what is says on the menu.

What the restaurant would need to do is ask you to pay up front with visa, or to provide your visa prior to ordering so that they could charge you. That would solve the problem if they charged you before you ate the meal, but if they try to charge your visa after the meal and the charge is declined, you can still settle with cash.

But somehow, with the tax avoidance issues with tips, they would either not do this or ask for the tip in cash.
To state the obvious, this proposal is antithetical to the concept of network neutrality.

Also, the belief that there would be "competitors in the user's area that don't play stupid games" that offer comparable services (eg, within a factor of 5x bandwidth-per-dollar value) seems to be a misunderstanding of the utility/monopoly/duopoly economics in play in many regions of the USA.
There is also the option of having a Visa Debit Card and just pay from your own deposit account. Is that uncommon in the US?
As of the most recent release, that's now

const USAGE: &str = "usage string";

and there's talk of maybe making it

const USAGE = "usage string";

> The part I hated the most was the Rust macro language.

We don't like it either; there's a replacement coming. We reserved the "macro" keyword before 1.0 and made the current one use the less-good "macro_rules" to help ease the eventual transition.
From the article:

"What about debts already incurred, such as a restaurant bill presented after the meal is eaten, a lawsuit judgment or an annual tax bill? For those debts, a plain reading of the Coinage Act suggests that any kind of legal tender, whether coins or bills, must be accepted."
"It's really time to move past the 2016 election"

Net neutrality has been a concern since long before the 2016 election.
Just wondering: Can a patent holder give up his rights and invalidate the patent? Or can a copyright holder put his work into the public domain?
I'll stop eating at any place that doesn't take cash. I mostly use cash for small transactions, because I like it.

As you say, I see no reason why the CC cartel should get 1/50th of retail transactions by virtue of being too big to fail (or too big to stop from colluding).
Correct. That's why I explicitly said

> A charge on a credit card
So if I understand your point here, it's basically that ISPs had an informal "code of conduct" if you will, that "All packets are created equal." That this was an informal contract with the users that everyone tacitly agreed to - what you state as a condition.

Starting in the early 2000s however some groups started breaking that informal contract and the goal in the early 2000s was to codify that into law.

So "net neutrality" in this case is trying to make a formal system out of what would be considered common law.

Makes sense holistically. Thanks.
it just needs to cache the fonts locally to avoid most of the tracking.

Caching is one of the ways of tracking you. If site A says it needs some custom font, the browser will have to download it. If then site B (affiliated with A) asks for the same font, and the browser loads it from cache instead of asking site B, then it knows that you've been to site A.
Too much, imho.
What value are you talking about exactly?

Newer designs offer the same service with improvements like scrypt and other algorithms to prevent ASIC attacks which just centralize control to hardware designers/producers, like these warehouses in China.

Exchanges can and have artificially inflated prices:

http://www.coindesk.com/bot-named-willy-did-mt-goxs-automate...
AI Creates Fake Obama Video
ooops...moving back to a facebook product.
I agree. I was imagining a situation where the (bad faith) customer insists on using cash, the restaurant does not have the infrastructure for cash, and as a result (for whatever reason) the customer ends up not paying. Leaving cash on the table would be a good faith customer.
Storage management in LXD 2.15
From what I can tell, Visa is offering an essay contest food establishments can enter on why their store would benefit from going cashless. Then they "pledge" to go cashless and get the money. Hard to say for sure when the site for it says "details coming" and every article is using the same press release.

So, an ad campaign saying "credit cards are better than cash."
That depends on the nature of the threat. Running out of feedstock for plastic? Not a problem. That's the sort of thing for which one can assume a technology fix will happen, and there is probably plenty of time. On the other hand, missing the population slow-down projections and ending up with a 20 billion population? That's doom, and there is no techno-savior.
what basis do they have to arrest you when the restaurant won't take your money?
It's not cost competitive for you at 10 cents. Why bother? I'd kill for that kind of price in electricity. Our total cost with solar is around 13c per kwh over 20 years.
Does social/political smog not count?
Show me the programming language community that's a fan of the language it's intending to supplant and we'll talk. :)
Netflix's recommendation system is only good at recommending Netflix shows now.
Regarding Amazon:

"Oh, you bought a wallet? Here are twenty wallets of the exact same type but with slightly different colors that you might want to buy, too"
Oh no. Not just another package manager ... a package manager generator... runs :-)
Nah, let Visa destroy themselves with terrible business decisions. If they successfully eliminate cash then the logical step is to create a nationalized payment processor.
I mostly do play single player these days, which I found excellent as well :)
I gave up on Bluetooth at home around a year ago. Not sure what it is, but I'd pretty much have to put my phone right next to the bluetooth speaker for it it work reliably. Might as well use a cable.

I had high hopes for Google Chromecast Audio for my music at work and at home. Probably my fault for jinxing myself by asking "What could possibly be worse than Bluetooth?" Chromecast Audio has definitively answered that.

For one thing, you can't limit who can interact with the Chromecast. Anyone on the network can see it. At work, my music would usually pause ~4 times a day as someone else's phone would see it and connect to it. I'd have to set up a new wifi network that only I could use to fix this. Since I only listen to music a few hours a day, that's pretty frequent.

It also gets confused if I leave work and then try to use Google Play Music elsewhere: my Google Home in the bathroom will play a song and then stop, I think because "google play is being used on another device", but it doesn't tell you that.

Maybe I should just go back to using something like a Raspberry Pi with access to my music library, it still is mostly songs I have the CDs for and ripped, though I've added probably 50-100 songs over the last year on Google Play, my 600 CDs I have all in FLACs.
And websites supporting this. I recently came across some site providing a paper that wouldn't even load the raw text without JS.
Usually game developers changed language when the OS or game console's SDK release forced them to do so.

> These languages are not good choices for a game engine

I have seen these words written against C, Turbo Pascal, Modula-2, C++.

Some of the games I saw "written" in C for MS-DOS were like this all over the place:

void my_func(void)
{
asm {
/* 100% of my_func actual code */
}
}

Just as if C was a macro assembler.
There are some here:
https://prism-break.org/en/subcategories/windows-instant-mes...

You didn't say what OS, so I assumed Windows. You want an IM/VideoIM that respects your freedoms as well as works better.

It is not free or open source but on mobile devices we use Line:
https://line.me/en-US/download

We talk to family in Thailand using it instead of a phone. All in-laws and family in Thailand got an iPhone or Android phone that uses Line.