skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I assume he has to if the law comes into place, or he'd be breaking it.

I'm fine with the government tracking everything as long as it goes both ways. If this goes through, Turnbull shouldn't be able to so much as send a fucking Facebook poke without the population of Australia knowing it.
Who knows, maybe cryptocurrency will be the answer for this, by accepting Bitcoins/Litecoins at the cashier.
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businesses do not generally* offer discounts to customers that pay in cash so consumers use the high return cards that also cost businesses the most in fees. Aka, it's the current inefficient market standard.

*business that have lots of small transactions often charge extra for credit card purchases below a certain amount and big purchases will also charge extra since the marginal/absolute cost is a lot.
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For those who are interested in these kind of things, you should check out UPI API built by the government of India. With a singular goal - to kill Visa and MasterCard and make digital payments free in India.

The ultimate goal is to tax on consumption - tax payer base in the world's fastest growing economy is abysmally small. So the economists kind of gave up there and leapfrogged into building a digital economy : make all transactions free and charge GST on consumption.

The API is brilliant - recurring charges, refunds, text message payments, etc - basically all the venture funded startups in the US are all free in India.
Most seem to miss the bigger picture with this study. People don't like rank in general, even when it's reversed. In other words most people, in there heart of hearts are communists and would prefer a classes society.
If one has money and power, one can get away with almost everything.
Not sure banning kids from being named a certain name really compares to the actual human rights violations at place in China...
That mysterious font actually is an adaptation of one of the oldest typefaces around specifically designed for optical character recognition. OCR-B (1968), by Adrian Frutiger. It’s used everywhere still, on credit cards, wire transfer forms, license plates, etc. etc. It’s even an industry standard (ISO 1073-2:1976).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-B

So, it’s as ‘custom’ as Apple’s (pre San Francisco) systemfont Myriad, compared to Frutiger’s Frutiger, who said of the adaptation: “not badly done” while feeling that the similarities had gone “a little too far”… —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad_(typeface)
At 5 dollar transaction fees [1], credit cards are much cheaper for most cases (they also give rewards for purchases).

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6gek0z/average_bitcoin...
Is it ever okay to take a harmful job in order to do more good?
meanwhile, AU:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-27/is-australia-on-the-br...
This. Note. Is. Legal. Tender. For. All. Debts. Public. And. Private. Which of these words does Visa not understand?
That would completely depend on your definition of 'annoying': ticks spread more diseases than just Lyme. For example, I'm really not sure whether Human Anaplasmosis [1] is only as annoying as a leech.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/anaplasmosis/symptoms/index.html
As far as I know, Alibaba Cloud doesn't use OpenStack at all.
Do you see any undead around that poster? No? So it seems to be working, hmm?
Swipe before you buy or they refuse service.
Well, it needs some work, but pretty cool nonetheless, can see where it was going with this :)

http://imgur.com/jxsWrEq
I was wondering, too. From the article,

>"I hope like me you were immediately drawn to the ‘auth’ fields. As the name implies this field contains authentication information for controlling this object in the RIPE database. RIPE supports a couple of different auth types like Single Sign On (SSO), public key cryptography, and of course md5."

It's authentication to manage that entry in the RIPE database.
May as well let's ban talking. Wait, and thinking too! Except for dickheads that run for office because ... (somebody smarter and better connected than me please end this sentence in a way that makes sense).
That's not legally binding.
Call your representative and let them know!
That's what off chain payments is for.
At my uni (Oregon State) we had MIS (Management Information Systems), which covered a wide range of these topics. I switched to this from CS my junior year because I felt it wasn't preparing me for the professional world, and I was right- to a degree.

My CS curriculum had some Software Engineering classes (I believe they were actually called Software Engineering I and II) where we did requirements gathering, estimation, etc- it felt like all of SEII was requirements gathering and documentation. Besides those though, it was very theoretical, and since I was already working in the field while going to school I realized that the theories would be helpful, but not nearly as helpful as being able to plan, document, and manage tasks in the context of a project.

If CS is producing developers, MIS is definitely producing technical analysts. It was extremely light on any development (there were a few classes where people had to write code and it was like every other student was being asked to build a rocket to go to Mars). But it did a great job of teaching how to identify problems and apply technology based solutions to them. Not just fixing things by making code, organizational level solutions.

Armed with MIS and a minor CS (and one class short of a math minor) I hit the ground running and was quickly leading projects, then dev teams. Six years in I was a Director and was also leading a skunkworks Innovation Lab where I got to keep my hands dirty.

The absolute fundamental difference is that I got the hard core tech depth from so much time in CS (and actually using the tech in practice) but I got the study I needed for it's useful application in a business environment. Selling to leadership, planning, source control processes, etc.

Most developers show up with the mindset of a craftsman toiling away in their shop, wanting only to emerge with their beautiful creation when it's ready. Pragmatism and being able to accept trade offs because of time/money/whatever will always make developers stand out.
The mobile-friendly view, recommended on top of the article - is kind of a usability disaster: I really like the authors approach using plain HTML. But using the mobile-friendly view has many usability pitfalls like: No links, no ability to copy text, no ability to search on page and switching to another browser-tab will lose the current position where you were reading at.
As said in the article, sometimes its better to keep things which just work and are used by the majority like that. Same goes for using some styles or a blog template to provide a a fully mobile friendly read for the user, not a compromise of two bad options (plain article or mobile-"friendly" view).
>I suppose they can pay this person a pittance in comparison.

Totally false understanding of the H1B visa program. H1B employees are not cheap labor, in fact full-time H1B employees are paid on-par or more than American citizens. Employers are required, by law, to file the prevailing wages during labor certification before filing H1B visa.

Employers hire full-time H1B visa holders for only one reason: they simply can't find the people. And the business would suffer if they wait to only hire citizens or green card holders. So they spend exorbitant amount of money for visa and attorney fees and wait for through the whole H1B transfer process. It's not because H1Bs are cheap!
https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/vis...
I'm not sure which way you mean this, but I'd be surprised if less than 80% of transactions in the US were on a credit or debit card (though I'd love to see real numbers, my anecdotal observation is surely biased).
Perhaps because it was clear that he wasn't missing the car so much? The bike cut his commuting time without taking away what he had gained by walking, the challenge. Also maintaining the bike will be less than the cost of the fuel.
And I think that is a good thing.
We need to take a page out of the old Russian system. Get the younger generation prepared for a STEM field to excel. The USSR did a lot of things in hamfisted ways, but one thing they did right was strengthening their STEM education and cranking out very good scientists and mathematicians. We can do that too, if we put the effort into it.

Instead we crank out liberal arts kids and other low value add degrees --I mean, nice to have well rounded education, but don't add to the economy as much as they could in other fields.

China isn't getting to where they are by having a bunch of kids graduating with humanities degrees, that's for sure.
If I woke up and found that my securities had been instantly and irreversibly transferred to China overnight, I would not be happy, at all.
There are many flaws with your absolutism here, starting with our government system not being one of absolutes.

In this instance, no debt is created before a transaction. As long as the merchant states up front, "no cash," you are free to walk away if all you have is cash.
This is quite an amazing technology. With new products like HoloLens and this, i think Microsoft is finally coming around.
As someone else in this thread noted, they can just not give you stuff until you've paid by card. Then you do not have a debt, so legal tender doesn't apply.
> I'm sure he'll sell Zeit to the first high-bidder and completely throw the development team under the bus ( like he did to TJ at his last startup ).

Care to share more?
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War-mongering Republicans prefer to eliminate Mohammad first. Islam is a much more evil ideology than Communism.
I'm assuming that all the stores for which accepting card payment makes a difference already adjusted their prices (in one way or another) to cover it. By using cash you're just paying more to offset the card fees. A lot of small places I know tell you to pay the card fee extra instead - and that's a pretty cool solution.

The card fees are not the main source of income as far as I understand: it's the interest and other fees that really bring in the big money.
Those costs are only so high because of reward systems that pay credit card users for purchases.

Get rid of all of the rewards and 1% is easily enough to cover transaction costs.
If they tell you up front, "no cash," before you order, you are free to walk away and the merchant is under no obligation to enter into the transaction with you.
Let me guess, every missed milestone, was traded with the customer against additional features (for free of course?).

Some CEOs just try to postpone the day of deafeat to infinity by allowing customers to glue stuff to the device. Its like the captain of a sinking ship deciding to freeze all the water in it - making it float by the virtue of beeing a iceberg with scrap on the side.

It ponzi-scheme kinda works for a hellish year, and then it usually implodes under the weight of a crust of hacks.
And from my experience New Zealand was a decade ahead of the US for a long time. Growing up everywhere accepted card payments. I had a bank card when I was about 10 and that's how I spent my pocket money. Over here in Germany some places that do accept card only accept EC cards, which my N26 MasterCard isn't. Not having the right payment method to pay the people who installed the kitchen in the apartment I was renting was a very foreign situation.
It seems that it would not be legal, unless announced upfront : http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/watchdog/2014/12/24/as...
As a Chinese, I need to clarify some facts.

I think that the Communist Party of China made a really big mistake, which caused a serious impact on China's national image. But I also do not agree with Liu Xiaobo's political views.

Finally, China's political environment indeed bad, but most of the Western media coverage distorted the facts, including the Liu Xiaobo event.
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That phrase doesn't mean what you think it means. Allowed to use it =/= must be accepted.

Edit: here are the Feds words.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm
Im sympathetic to your money-disadvantaged position in this pursuit, but its just what it is. You got out-monied in this and have to continue looking for a feature that wont be copied down easily. It's not a defensible position if a competitor can copy it immediately.
On being the employee who “needs improvement”
> I’m not bothered by the Windows Store limitation very much, but not being able to set another browser by default is ridiculous. If Chrome or a newcomer ever arrives in the Windows Store, I should be free to set those as my default.

It's worse than that. Windows 10 S is like iOS in that it forbids any other browser or JavaScript engine on the platform. So you'll never be able to run true Firefox or Chrome or any other alternative browser engine on Windows 10 S.

For my purposes this makes Windows 10 S unusable. I don't want to use EdgeHTML, I want to use real Firefox:

https://mspoweruser.com/google-chrome-may-not-able-come-wind...
Then how do they operate in the EU, where the fees are capped at 0.3%?
Frankly I believe that Intel could sell processors now with ten times more cache per core, and the queue for them at $50,000 a socket would be just immense.

I probably underestimate the likely cost by several times and then the cooling would be a great science fiction set properly to 1:12 scale, but I certainly know businesses who have a real desire for a product like that.

Am I missing a showstopper preventing the possibility? I'm not going to be persuaded that it couldn't be done by mere impracticalities. I'm quite prepared to take heatsinks the size of Cantelupes...
What makes payments related companies so special?
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It is very safe ... ecologically (species other than mosquitoes aren't affected at all)

In this case it seems to be for a species of mosquitos only having arrived in 2013. Could even call that an invasive and exotic, so no, it won't be misssed.

However in other situations this might be a bit of a stretch: mosquito larvae are part of the aquatic food chain. After that stage they become food for e.g. birds, spiders, bats. So it's really not as simple as 'other species arent't affected', instead it would have to be considered on a per-case basis whether that truly is the case. I can imagine certain localized climates where mosquitos and their larvae make up a critical percentage of the food chain in a way that, should they all disappear, other species start to suffer as well.

That being said: mosquitos are considered the most dangerous insects, so even if destroying them weren't 100% safe in one way or another, that would probably not at all outweight the benefit (for humans) to not get rid of them.

edit was too fast again, see toplevel comment by WaxProlix for example, which also addresses this issue and was already there for hours :]
It's superior because of outcomes for a given cost, not customer experience. The suggestion if Bupa was probably made because of your expectations of prompt service.
That looks really interesting. But, the government will hold a lot of information about their citizen, how they will use that? I do not know if something like this could be replicated in every country.
Cloud skepticism was never on the level of blockchain skepticism.

Cloud solves a real problem of scalable and efficient resource allocation and provisioning for distributed applications, as you note, in both public and private cloud settings, a problem and concept well-understood in the research community that long predates "cloud" as an enterprisey business buzzword.

And as applied, e.g. to centralized financial institution ledgers, cloud skepticism has born out. Workhorse mainframes are still doing bread-and-butter work in mission-critical settings just fine. Where they are "modernized" it is not always to anything resembling "cloud" configuration.

Blockchain, on the other hand, "solves" the invented problems of cypherpunk, crypto-libertarian fantasy. There is essentially no application where it has met with unqualified success or demonstrated advantage outside of the criminal underworld. Bitcoin did very much help make monetized ransomware a thing, so there's that.
ngUpgrade is kind of a joke in practice. Most 1 to 4 migrations end up being total rewrites.
Amazing! Got an old HTC Desire with a cracked screen lying around. I know what I'm doing tonight.

As for the Alpine Linux it's based on, that stuff is seriously nifty in its own right. Any old decrepit box is a decent server with Alpine on it.
This will slow things down at some places such as 7-11 and Starbucks. It bugs me when I'm in line behind someone using a credit card and an affinity card. There's all this waiting, and pointing and clicking, and signing. Plus the additional delays caused by cloud-hosted point of sale systems. A cash sale takes about ten seconds.
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Heck it could even be a great teaching aid for English!
Some ecosystems stay like this for a long time (JavaScript).
You name fantastic cryptographic technologies!
I was an R&D engineer in a European Telco, so maybe my understanding could be useful but my ideas may not be shared by all:

>> did engineers actually accept/design more heterogeneity in the physical network as a result of Shannon's ideas?

I would say engineers have little to say about decisions in a huge company like ATT. In a company having hundreds of thousands employees, decisions are taken 3 or 4 levels of hierarchy above them.

And those decisions are, as usual in human matters, mostly never rational from the company PoV, more than often a decision is taken between CEOs only, or because someone high in the food chain wants to go higher or gain some power on a related organisation or gain corruption money by pushing a manufacturer technology.

That said I think engineers were never bothered with Shannon work. It is quite arid and when we read it now, more than 50 years later, we may read things that were not written intentionnaly in the original paper. I must confess that when I read Shannon's seminal paper out of curiosity in the 2000', I was hugely disappointed.
Good for them, the little buggers. Here's to another half a billion years. I have no doubt they'll outlast humans.
Because resources don't last forever? Nor are they distributed among the land equally (for example oil,rare earth elements, uranium).
Wow, interesting, I had no idea something like that would be a problem. Still seems surprising to me that whoever creates the blockchain couldn't just maintain the data structure as a centralized trusted authority, e.g. if they are going to be the one paying out the bond later anyway.
Im sure they do not have a problem with one particular minority rejecting any culture other than there own and knifing people.
The government already holds a lot of information about their citizen. I think this worry is particularly American and not shared by most people.

You ask, how they will use that? They don't much use what they already have, so the best guess is that there will be no use. Which is pity, since it can be used for a lot of good. But I guess you would say it is lucky, since it can be used for a lot of bad.
This is pretty amazing work. I'm very excited for the future here.

I do wonder if using linux will make battery management hard
the government will hold a lot of information about their citizen, how they will use that?

Exactly the way they've already announced that they'll use it: To collect tax.
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These days in the UK you simply touch your card to the reader, no PIN, no signature. It is definitely quicker than cash. Only works for under £30, above that value you have to put your PIN in.
Isn't that better than a couple of private companies, Visa and Madtercard, holding the information (and taxing you meanwhile)?
Note that I didn't write that it was better in general. It was briefly better for the subset of users that knew exactly what to search for in their specific niches, until e.g. people got used to SEO and the like.

If you knew from past experience and searches that most people used term X when they wrote about Y, Altavista gave you more precise tools to narrow your search.

The whole point being that a subset of users were blinded by our in depth experience with Altavista into not seeing the advantages of Google as early on - we knew exactly how to work around the limitations.

The problem for Altavista, and advantage for Google, is that this doesn't scale. It takes a lot of effort to expand this to learning how to search in any new subject, and that effort grows dramatically as the amount of indexed pages increases and it becomes harder to find terms that act as good filters. It was only viable for a short period of time when the web was small and most people didn't think about SEO, and as long as we were still conditioned to treat a search engine as something you used for things you couldn't e.g. find in a directory.
Yes, I meant programming language, but the title restricts us up to 80 characters.

Apologies for not being obvious in the first place.
Same in other parts of Europe, Australia, and New Zealand
I mean, I guess I could also provide counter anicdotes (such as it taking 1 week to get adequate medication for a chronic condition in Japan, which in 15 years I'd been unable to obtain in the U.K.).

But I'm not sure it would be helpful. Instead maybe the WHO World Health Care report ranking is a useful datapoint?

http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
> But I guess you would say it is lucky, since it can be used for a lot of bad.

"whatever can be used for bad will be used for bad" - murphy's law
This was the only solution that worked for me.
> If I get a piece of paper that says I own some asset there is offices full of people who are dedicated to ensuring that piece of paper properly represents some piece of land, car, security etc. Why would you not want to automate such a system?

I've been saying this for couple of years now: the most likely "disruption" from blockchain technology is going to be in notarial functions. The concept of coloured coins[0] allows to use a globally available, publicly verifiable, and for all intents and purposes a forgery-immune register to verify contracts.

Cutting through all the [templated] legalese, we can say: "Contract A, between parties K and L, concerning transaction T: T shall be considered done and legally binding once Coloured Coin X has been paid from address [foo] to address [bar], and has been verified by no less than 20 subsequent blocks."

There will be lawyers involved, of course. Someone has to actually enforce the contracts and deal with off-blockchain disputes. But dealing with the actual physical transactions and transfers of ownership could be streamlined.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_coins
I'll be the non-US person to point it out this time: This is a US problem, not a credit card problem. In Oz, I've got both the store card and the credit card on my phone. The first gets scanned while the items are being processed. The second gets touched at the end and takes max 5 seconds till "approved". In the UK it's even faster.

Even that would be faster if the shop moved to the "insert cash or card, or select cashback amount" method popular in the UK rather than having to tap "card", "no cashback", "full amount" first (Oz / coles)

Actually, for the fastest system I know, see London Underground. For a while now you can tap your credit card instead of the usual Oyster and you'll get close to immediate access.
Though when you look at FBI or whatever vs Apple last year ... what does it even matter? All this proclamation does is claim that OZ gov't entities are incompetent compared to their US counterparts.