skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, checks are very common, its how most people pay rent, larger bills, etc in the USA. Credit Unions and Banks here offer "Bill Pay", which is just them mailing out a check on your behalf.

Cash is popular here too, many of the grocers I work with see 40% to 60% of their revenue in cash, though that market segment has discouraged check use (with the exception of Costco).
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this is kind of irrelevant. why do you bring that up?

yes, he might get even more retaliation. but we should care about his message here, that Amazon control the news.

NYT could have reported that there is no longer Amazon ads on the magazine that told truths about them, like it used to have before. without ever receiving the "leak".

the "leak" just stated the obvious that everyone could see anyway.
You missed a few:

- VPN Apps on the iOS App Store

And my favourite from last year:

- Erotic banana eating videos[0].

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36226141
FYI, 'soft T' doesn't mean anything to western English speakers. They have a 'T' and a 'Th', the latter of which is actually a fricative, and not really a 'T' sound in the strict sense. I guess an Indian 'soft T' is better described as a more Italian sounding 'T', articulated mainly against the teeth.
How long ago was it, and what GPU did you try it with? Most relatively modern AMD GPUs (especially Polaris/RX 4xx and newer) work great out of the box these days, but that's a relatively recent phenomenon.
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Isn't it self-evident? Blocks nested five levels, abused for-loop syntax, assignment in testing expressions...
Big players such as Amazon doesn't want this, because it diminishes the value of their existing database of stored credit cards and evens the playing field for new merchants. Most people buy from Amazon because they already have an account there. Even if you find a product somewhere else, you go to Amazon to order it.
It's more about voltage than power, so you are wrong that they necessarily drain the battery when plugged in . Anyways, this isn't new at all, it was the same with PowerBook Duo.
How Electroloom's clothes-printing revolution died
It was at that awkward moment that Amazon decided that it
would punish the New Republic. Our ad sales department
received a note, informing us that Amazon would be yanking
its advertising for its new political comedy, Alpha House.
The missive left nothing to the imagination. “In light of
the cover article about Amazon, Amazon has decided to
terminate the Alpha House campaign currently running on
the New Republic. Please confirm receipt of this email and
that the campaign has been terminated.” It was signed,
“Team Amazon.”

This is one of the reasons I really wish there was a decent, widely supported micropayment system for journalism.

So long as journalists' jobs depend on the ad money coming in, companies can use that leverage to get negative stories spiked. Amazon is one example in this article; HSBC with The Telegraph (and other newspapers) is another [1].

If we want to avoid this disease spreading, we really need some way to pay journalists that doesn't rely on corporate largess.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/17/peter-oborne-t...
There was a "Who's mentoring" thread about 2 weeks ago. You can pick someone from there

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148619
All mistakes are not the same, and there are ones that ought to end a career. When the captain of a Navy ship has an accidental collision, his career is over. A sufficiently bad news article can wreck the lives of multiple innocent people, and kill public trust in the newspaper and the author. In this way, a bad editor or writer can do more damage in one decision than they can make up for in the entire rest their career.

I don't have an opinion on this case in particular, but there are cases where no amount of apologizing is enough. Becoming a copy writer for the rest of one's career does not strike me as a particularly cruel and unusual punishment.
There's NixOS. By default it uses a binary cache, but it'd be easy to disable that if you want to.

And reproducible builds are a work in progress.
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Impraise (YC S14) Is Hiring a Sales Account Executive in NYC
What the hell?! How many times are we going to be lucky before something goes very wrong. I hope they are a lot more careful now, and I mean all sides.
I can't really find the failures you mention in the links you provided, can you point me to a more definitive source?

Rob Pike replies here[1] that direct framebuffer access and networking are easy to get as new devices, although they need to be made available by the kernel. The "everything is a file" mantra doesn't fail, why would it?

In the second link, Carmack just notices that plan9 is pretty dead, and we all know it is :)

[1] https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558695515846&w=4
> CCleaner is not an Anti-Virus

I never said that.

> Defender will not do this.

I know what it does.
I wonder if that book will be for sale on Amazon? And, sadly, if not, will anyone know it exists?
Slack is basically the "open office" of communications. It has become almost mandatory even though most people seem to hate it (at least some of the time).
People miss emails, but it's not anywhere near as common as people missing a slack message...in my experience.
Also doesn't work with FF 57.0a1 Nightly on Win7
Ugh, I feel ashamed for giving them a view on that headline. Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood this morning.
Would it be possible with something like this to locate all the pools in a give area and find the street addresses?
it is for people without small children. small kids require a lot of your time.
Northrop Grumman to buy rocket maker Orbital ATK
China isn't homogenous, enemy is left up to individuals with power to define such. This leads to interesting battles where different factions are using similar laws to fight each other.
With the American election debacle and not being around during Nixon, I have realized the outsized role press has to play. Blogs, citizen journalism do not do it. You need dedicated sharp investigative journalism without fear
Of retribution either from the owner or from the government. It actually becomes important if say Bezos plans to run for president and in fact becomes the president.
Yes, Relish in London tried the same thing. Unlimited plan, advertised up to 50mbit/sec speeds, quickly fell apart, as you're saying sub-dialup speeds at peak times and a mobile operator bought them for the spectrum.
The problem here isn't Amazon, but the business model that TNR chose for itself, and the implications of that.

This covers a period in TNR's history when Chris Hughes (formerly of Facebook) was in charge, and essentially wanted to turn the site into a 'vertically integrated digital media company' (native advertising / clickbait factory).

It shouldn't be a surprise that this had deleterious consequences for journalistic integrity and allowed advertisers to apply undue pressure.

Foer (the author of this piece) didn't want to go along with that, and he and almost the entire staff resigned in protest. Hughes ended up putting the magazine up for sale, and Foer was brought back in under the new editor.

Oh, and Foer's new book is now available on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-Without-Mind-Existential-Thre...
What does he work on nowadays?
it will break when browser optimize a null animation, just like tons of code used to detect if some ad was in view in the past broke.

edit: already happened once with this very project. they started animating clip, but then ie optimised it and now they use outlineColor.
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Google’s new payment app for India uses sound to transfer money
I wonder how many of that were made by bots looking for the best prices...
What exactly is "like never before"? Because it looks like typical charts from
data collected from /proc, individually for each server, and we had that for
more than a decade.
At first, I was also concerned with the keyboard, coming from a 2013 MacBook Air usually equipped with a (Pok3r) mechanical keyboard. Once I got used to it, though, I have to say it's one of the best keyboards I type on.
CAIN AND ABEL (way to get System credentials)
> when it achieves its true value of 0

I don't understand how someone can hold the opinion that Bitcoin has no value. At the very least, it enables a lot of crime, which is valuable to criminals.
No, I'm right there with you. Shitty headline for a shitty article with not even a glimmer of original thought behind it :/
> in applied research, we usually build a number of throwaway prototypes before the real system. Those quick prototypes and proofs of concept are often ugly in many ways.

So basically you just do normal development? In the commercial world, one of those prototypes usually becomes the production code.
Can't you just change that in BIOS? I know I did on my lenovo.
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> I forgot how much I preferred 4:3 screens for work.

I didn't. I love 4:3 on laptops. I wish more people would rediscover it.
I'm admittedly out of the loop, last time I used disk cleanup would have been Win7, I guess MS expanded it to do much more useful work?
Other retailers doing it doesn't absolve Amazon
The T4x0 is the star of the lineup. You can get last year's model dirt cheap through the Lenovo Outlet or refurbished ($500+ US). They finally give you a good screen (remember the T430 and earlier days? Or even the recent 1366x768 screens?), battery is great, the chiclet keyboard isn't as bad as people try to make you believe, and not only did they leave the TrackPoint on, the TouchPads are pretty decent even if they aren't to Apple's level.

Easily repairable or upgrade-able by the end user, thin and light...
That's just management experience.

I've been programming professionally for almost thirty years at this point.

That's admittedly long enough to get some peculiar ideas about programming, but there's a certain kind of person that thinks "statically typing" is a panacea for programming mistakes -- or even that there's a single solution for anything at all...
The original job postings[1][2] were even more egregious. They originally said, "many of us routinely work 70-90 hours/week".

After a lot of criticism on a Facebook post by Andrew Ng[3] (where you can still find residual evidence of the "work 70-90 hours/week" claim), they modified it to, "many of us routinely work and study 70+ hours a week".

So to be precise, they were initially offering you a 43% to 56% pay cut.

Getting paid for 40 hours when you have worked for 70 hours is a 100 * (1.0 - 40 / 70) ≈ 43% pay cut.

Getting paid for 40 hours when you have worked for 90 hours is a 100 * (1.0 - 40 / 90) ≈ 56% pay cut.

[1]: https://www.deeplearning.ai/machinelearningsoftwareengjobdes...

[2]: https://www.deeplearning.ai/fullstacksoftwareengineerjobdesc...

[3]: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.ng.96/posts/1472272026162033
What version will contain dataclasses?
Sorry, but you are a dumbass then.
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You must have the tablet model with the IPS screen.
Do you never run software you haven't written/audited?
Lost Context: How Did We End Up Here?
I hear this security issue all the time. But what kind of issues do the actual end users face because of it? Is it something not noticeable to the end-user? I have many relatives using old versions of android even i gave a 2.3version android to a cousin. But have not heard any security related issues. Comparing it against windows, virus related problems were many. I have known people in India who normally don't buy software buy anti-virus software.
Massively annoying advertising with crappy content, or you can pay for it as a service- your choice.
> SW engineering is not a zero sum game

No, but some stakeholders will see it as such.
Very little travel is my definition of terrible. Without travel, there is nothing to dampen my key presses, meaning my joints and fingers would get more fatigued over time. Apple have shortened the key travel to make their machines thinner, not to give you a better typing experience.

I only care because I worry the effect the Apple RDF will have on other manufacturers. For example, I can no longer buy a mobile phone without a glued-in battery.
The gnu taler project might be a better solution, if it reaches adoption.

One use case that they have in their demo is micro payments to access web sites: https://demo.taler.net/en/
“Peer review” is younger than you think. Does that mean it can go away?
Seriously? I did not know this. The battery in my old MSI died recently (no longer charges) but I can still use it plugged into a wall. I thought "Well that's good. At least it's not like a shitty cellphone where it has to build up a minimum," but .. guess that's not true now for MacBooks?
Does trawling HN for Github repositories and blog posts count as study? Gotta get that market research done somehow!
Is this an official GNU project?
It's not evident, sorry. Despite what you might hear about having over three levels deep being a sin, five levels of nesting is perfectly fine. And that's not an abuse of for-loop syntax -- that's exactly how you're supposed to do an infinite loop. In fact, `while(1)` is the syntax that abuses loop notation, and consequently raises "conditional expression is constant" warnings. Assignment in conditional, though, I guess I can agree with you on...
Cool post!

What happens when every company is doing this ritual?

I'm starting to notice a very bad trend. Just like how LA has record numbers of homeless people, it also has a high vacancy rate.

Similarly, despite plenty of "open positions", candidates are being denied left right and center, even as they do their best to signal that they will do anything for the job.
Private Eye have an interesting model - they are deliberately not online. They do not try and bait and subscribe you.

A lot of what they write is too focused on whitehall and fleet street to be terribly interesting to a wider public. I've often wished they'd expand to do serious journalism too.
He's the co-founder and CTO of Amarisoft, an LTE/4G hardware and software company: https://www.amarisoft.com/company/
Synopsis: Self-Interacting Dark Matter Scores Again
Why does every other laptop manufacturer include circuits to handle this use case, yet Apple has failed to do so for 24 years?

Same deal with the lack of keyboard texturing on Macs, providing a flat surface for bacteria, oils and dirt to collect on your laptop's keyboard. Other manufacturers commonly add an anti-microbial texture to their keyboards, which also wards off most of the grease you see on Mac keyboards.
Is it really okay to do recursion in JS?
While what you're saying is true, in fairness there are two caveats:

1. Virtually all profitable strategies run by hedge funds are inaccessible to small time investors nearly by definition, because they have more capital and lower capacity constraints,

2. The partnership you're talking about with Deutsche Bank doesn't account for most of their returns, and was only in effect in the last decade, not decades before.
What is the Antshares, the China based open source Blockchain platform
StatCounter have started to track iOS versions since June: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/ios/mobil...
The introduction of the new iPhone X — which features wireless charging, facial recognition and a price tag of $999 — appears to be a minor event in the advance of technology. But it’s an excellent illustration of something that has long been denied: the success of capitalism.

Several paragraphs about how great capitalism is

Once the latest iPhone is in stores, some consumers will buy it, and feel really pleased with their purchase. The market provides.
TL;DR: Ted Kaczynski's 35,000-word manifesto mentions technology that is supposed to make our lives better only ends up burdening us more. Combine this for shock value with the release of the iPhone X, make a shout-out to "simpler times" while acknowledging most of us would prefer modern technology over the past. Close with a statement that doesn't make sense due to the fact that the iPhone X is just another in a long line of already existing smart phones.
I think the whole article is an excerpt from a full book, maybe that story continues there?
What a great nostalgic color. I think I'll change my Windows 10 desktop to it.

http://www.colorhexa.com/3a6ea5
For users wanting a stable laptop with secure boot in Thinkpad chasis, supplier list from Libreboot seems like a great place.

There are suppliers who will sell refurbished Thinkpads with Libreboot pre-installed at relatively decent prices.

https://libreboot.org/suppliers.html
As much as I understand a journalist's raison d'etre (reason of being), they hold a lot of power when they can publish to a widespread readership.

This is great if everything is balanced and fair (this is of course all relative and must use reason), however I believe companies and people aren't given the opportunity to share their side of the story - or their counterargument.

Usually you may see a quote of someone's response in to being questioned about something, or perhaps a company will say "no comment at this time" - neither of these are good IMHO.

I feel pre-publishing, a person should be given the opportunity to respond - and at least part of that response be included in the publication - and always there should be a permanent link clearly highlighted to a third-party platform allowing the person's full response (or really all people and organizations mentioned in an article), which a link/response that can be added to/edited later (with version control to view the previous versions - leaving the purpose of editing to expand upon or clarify).

Who pays for the wheels to get going on this kind of system? Is it safe to be government supported? This is an important system I believe we must implement as soon as possible. Getting it adopted is possible, it just takes effort which includes needing enough resources for a longer runway. It feels like it would be a similar type of service of importance as Wikipedia.
I read the article, I am not sure why the iPhone X was used and not "longer lasting chewing gum" or "Adaptive Cruise Control." We upgrade tech all the time, why did this article choose to pick on the iPhone X?

I originally thought this was going to be about knowing peoples faces. I am happy to see it wasn't, but even more sad that it was something worse.
The trend in GIS these days is away from writing code and towards configurable apps, only dropping into code where necessary. Why not just use QGIS instead? Far simpler.
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With all these malware problems I look forward to more heavily sandboxed operating systems based on capabilities. Maybe Fuchsia will be that operating system, if it does not turn out to be a google spyware hell.
those companies are there for at least 10 years! at least! pizza hut over 15. kfc over 10. bk over 7.

...but well, those companies increasing presence explain why the corrupt coup government rushing to sell the country just passed laws removing low-wage workers protection.
Sourceforge revolutionizes open source by providing free hosting for projects!

[later]

Sourceforge - You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

[still later]

Sourceforge is respectable again! (hopefully?)
I hold off upgrading for fear of missing a jailbreak again.
Is there a practical use case for this other than "ain't it cool"?
> Because they know people don't like to pay, they choose to pretend they're free, while at the same time bleeding the visitors for small amounts of indirect money (in attention => time, or computing resources => electricity).

I mean... I get where you're coming from, and I agree that I don't like it either - but I'm curious what the "right" solution is.

I think it's clear that people, on average, hate to pay. They hate to let go of money, and will put up with a surprising amount of bullshit as long as they aren't giving someone else a cent. So what's the winning solution here? Your 402 example is wishful thinking at best, imo.

So far, the only thing I can imagine is some type of system that's built into internet providers. A monetary sharing scheme, based on traffic or viewing receipts, etc. Something to pass revenue via meaningful metrics, and not 402s (which i think are wishful) or crypto mining.

With that said, that seems difficult. Though I do wonder what will happen to these crypto models once they become popular. Suddenly farms will up the hash rate and lower income for site providers. A view will steadily decrease in revenue as hash rate goes up, which will seem to promote longer crypto times. They'll want you to read longer, or wait ~60s before turning to page 2, or etc. All to inch out some extra seconds of crypto time.

Weird world we live in.
I hope other manufacturers don't follow their lead. Greasy, bacteria covered, minimal travel keyboards are a great way to make people hate typing.
This X62 seems like a perfect machine. I'm impressed such a mod made by enthusiasts exists and can actually be bought today.

Meanwhile the Retro Thinkpad, made by Lenovo, seems to be quite a disappointment by just having an old keyboard put on a new thinkpad.

I'm on a x201s since years because I honestly can't find a better machine on the market today (trackpoint, 16/10, great keyboard, matte screen with decent resolution to work, solid as rock, easy to maintain).

Anytime a friend asks me for a cheap laptop buying advice, I tell them to get a used thinkpad. Just add some RAM, SSD and battery if necessary and voila, you have a solid machine that will last you years for less than 400€ total.
Does no one else notice the collusion to suppress calls for anti-trust action against Amazon, Google and Facebook?

These companies have all been actively suppressing any information that would force a review on this issue.

They've effectively closed off the internet, none of these services let consumers follow links off site now and it's made a major difference in the ability to compete.
Tangential: I loved the "When programming is your hobby" part of this blog post. Finally someone accepting, and not dissing, people who actually like to code. The advice is spot-on, too: coding > 40h / week is fine, but why give up your freedom of choosing what to work on, when to work on it, and when to take time off, without any compensation?
Seems to work reasonably well in other countries.
The culprit was the non-free AV. Gone are the days of simple passive signature scanners. Now they all sink their claws deeply into the OS intercepting filesystem operations, network packets, and any other privileged activity. Performance be damned.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you, especially if you are not someone in charge.