skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that you could just put some kind of sensor on the inside of the gas pump access door that notifies someone as soon as the door is opened. If you know there is a maintenance guy scheduled for that day/time, then you just ignore the notification. If not, then you know that there has been unauthorized access to the pump.
Cypress: Testing, the way it should be
The server is open source, you can run your own private Signal network and rewrite the authentication if you wanted or remove the sms verification. Now that there's no longer a google play dependency this is possible. There's other software that is designed for nyms and is federated I don't get why people demand Moxie cram more features when what they want is already built.
They paid income tax on the profits (at least the profits earned in the USA). Apple was the number one tax payer on the list by a wide margin. Are they supposed to be taxed on their bank balances also?
To recap:

Glass + Stainless Steel > Aluminum / Plastic > Glass + Aluminum > Glass + Stainless Steel

2010 > 2017

> The lighting effects in Portrait mode, though, are interesting… There have also been a few [shots] where the edges … have confused the hell out of the iPhone’s depth sensing… original Portrait mode last year shipped in similar state… When it works, though, …

> … what exactly was “bionic” about the A11 chip … from Apple marketing-speak to plain English, is that The Bionic Man and Woman were cool, and the A11 chip is very cool.

Brand new iPhone 8 “high-speed charging” vs year-old iPhone 7 charging:

> 30 minutes it was at 54 percent, and at 45 minutes it was at 72 percent

> 30 minutes it was at 43 percent, and at 45 minutes it was at 65 percent

True Tone, mostly software and probably $10 of hardware, is the only noticeable display improvement.

> Last year’s entry model iPhone 7 cost $649. This year’s 64 GB iPhone 8 costs $699. Apple, of course, has no explanation for this.
How we got rejected from Amazon Affiliate Program
Breast feeding is preferred but not always possible for a variety of reasons. Having to fall back on fucking Coke is a pretty grim reality to contemplate.
"Impossible to express" seems a bit much, but you might have to write your own Any type.
I feel like once someone figures out what the next big thing in social media is, facebook will go the way of myspace.

Here's the next big thing: a federated, open source network that allows users to sell their own data.
This one. It was the first one as president.

http://www.businessinsider.com/business-leaders-trump-white-...
> I'm glad Amazon doesn't pay that much in taxes. 1.2T in tax money per year goes to the US Military, which has been responsible for more death and destruction on this planet than could ever be imagined previously.

That's arrant nonsense. Stalin's Holodomor killed 7-10 million people, more than the U.S. military has ever killed, and it starved millions more almost to death. Mao's Great Leap Forward resulted in the deaths of 15-30 million people, more still.

Moreover, the U.S. military is not currently responsible for wanton death and destruction. It has spent the last decade and a half trying to support civilian government and the rule of law both at home & abroad.
I've been making some adjustments to my personal HN and Reddit aggregator - http://stories.rpeden.com

It mostly works the way I want it to - I've just been tweaking the number of stories it shows, and which subreddits it displays. It's not really meant to be useful to anyone other than myself, but it's been fun to work on.
Cue the Cleverbot – New Robot from Wonder Workshop
It's only insane if you subscribe to the idea that the 5 kibibytes of content is the purpose of a news or other site. Maybe as a user that's what you came for, but from a business perspective the purpose of the piece is to sneak 2 mebibytes of crap into your life. The snr on that is much better.

It's only insane if you have the tools to look at what's happening under the hood. Most people don't have any idea.
I'm working on https://oppslist.com, It's an archive of people describing software they want.

Making about $60 MRR.
Just for fun I like to pull up the browser diagnostics on pages, and watch the absurd number of requests build up. It's insane how much junk is downloaded on seemingly simple sites.
Can't you do that with the regular camera? The only reason you need the grid projector is for getting a detailed 3D model.

Haven't checked, but I assume that (like TouchID) they do provide APIs to use it for authentication, but they refuse to give any more data than that.
You should never use the same device to perform transactions and receive your codes. The security of the scheme lies on using two separate devices under your control.

If you were to enter your credit card details on the same device you use to receive codes (most likely your only mobile phone), the attacker having some kind of malware code could first steal your card information and then use your phone to receive the codes to complete the transaction.

This requires infecting just one device, so basically as a fraudster you create a malware and wait for people to have their phones infected. Then you defraud those that use phones for credit card transactions and either don't need separate codes to complete the transaction or use the phone for this.

It is much more difficult to get two devices infected that are used by the same user. This only typically happens in case of targeted attacks and is rarely seen.

My colleague at one of the companies I worked for lost the money he saved to buy a flat this way. He got his phone infected with malware and then over few days he got all his money sucked out of his account in a series of increasing transactions.
In what way? That seems like an extremely serious problem, given how many LOB apps run on Windows Server.
Ask HN: Has anyone heard back about YC Office Hours in Cambridge?
The response date has been steadily moving up. Just wondering if anyone had already heard back.
> The problem is that when we outsource thinking to machines, we are really outsourcing thinking to the organisations that run the machines.

This is the money quote of this article, and it's been on my mind quite a bit as of late.

More than ever, we live in a world where there are many forces ready to take full advantage of our laziness. It takes a bit of introspection to really understand the tradeoffs that are appropriate. When it comes to Facebook, I'm really getting the feeling that my friendships have been hacked (and tainted) for someone else's profit. Fortunately, there is a way around: share important stuff in person instead of on FB—heck, I'm finding myself using email more these days—and keep Facebook usage for the few things it does well, like planning get-togethers.
Sixteen doesn't have 3 as a factor. IIRC, it's not possible to represent .1 (or is it .2) accurately in IEEE 754.

Better to use duodecimal.
Responding "the same problem exists with the custom hardware" isn't what everyone is replying with. Instead they keep going with the trope that it's an open standard and not realizing the example given was an open standard 33 years ago.

Further more, I agree with your parenthetical that the malware angle is the more important argument. I disagree that it's a solveable problem though, but I feel the Xbox controller isn't the reason it isn't solvable. Any platform can be hacked given sufficient motivation.

Honestly I think using these controllers are likely the best approach, but let's not pretend it doesn't have issues (it's just the it's the same issues or less cumbersome issues than alternatives).
I think you need to read the law. Nothing in the law requires you to be connected to the grid. Local laws and rules may require you to be connected to the grid to obtain a certificate of occupancy, but I have found no Florida state law requiring you to be hooked up to a power grid.

The law that is consistently referenced in these mostly conspiracy blogs is just a set of rules regarding offsetting your power consumption from a utility company with a renewable energy generator. It requires you to have a switch that they can access. The articles like this one https://boingboing.net/2017/09/18/rep-ray-rodrigues.html from Cory Doctorow, a Canadian, fundamentally misunderstand the law. They extrapolate from this sentence "Customer-owned renewable generation shall include a utility-interactive inverter, or other device certified pursuant to paragraph (4)(b) that performs the function of automatically isolating the customer-owned generation equipment from the electric grid in the event the electric grid loses power." that you have to shut off your power if the grid loses power. That's fucking nonsense and a complete misreading of that rule. All it requires if that you have a switch that the power company can use to disconnect your power generating house from the grid so that their linemen don't die when they are doing maintenance on a line.

I invite you to find anywhere in this law or any other Florida state law that says you must be connected to the power grid.

https://www.flrules.org/gateway/RuleNo.asp?ID=25-6.065

>What FPL has done is require that solar installations get signed off by their electricians.

No, what the state has done is required that if you're going to hook up to the grid to supplement your solar installation, you should do it safely. Of course FPL and the other utility companies have lobbied to benefit their bottom line, but spreading misinformation is not beneficial in the fight against them. It muddies the waters so that no one even knows what to fight against.
There is one thing I hope they that they fix in iOS, and that is to guide app-makers to understand bilingual users, I type a lot on both danish and english, and having to switch language in the keyboard for every conversation can get pretty tiresome.

Luckily both iMessage and WhatsApp seems to support it now, so I hope they somehow can get other apps in on it. Telegram does not support this :/
Sysadminotaur, funny IT stories
Your smartphone opulence can come from Lamborghini's $2450 Alpha-One instead ;)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4815538/Lambo...
Best Programming Language for Voice Recognition
The price of Bitcoin has a 91% correlation with Google searches for Bitcoin
Mine has the IPS screen, but it ghosts so bad.
iTerm 3.1 released
He's mostly wrong. The entire point of moving to chip is because liability stops being on the retailer if they implement EMV. Chip and EMV go hand-in-hand. Why bother upgrading your terminals for chip and not do EMV? Might as well stick with swipe then, its the same liability agreement.

Its all a stopgap measure to chip and pin anyway. Once everyone is used to EMV and all the terminals have been replaced, we'll have a sunset on swipe and then move to chip and pin, which will be a minor upgrade. This will all take time. Lets remember the United States has a quarter of the world’s credit card transactions, but only 4.5% of its population. Its a very big cc market and change isn't going to come quickly.
Sorry but you come off as a crank. Nobody reads your emails. They're too long and presume trust on the part of the recipient, which you don't have.

How many long, unsolicited, rambling emails that don't get to the point do you bother reading?
The point is not about "you" the HN reader, or you the poster, or me. The point is about all of the millions of users who are unaware, haven't read this article, are tech-illiterate, don't understand the psychology, etc.

You and I are completely insignificant in the face of this horde of people who are becoming increasingly vulnerable to subtle manipulation. That's the point of this article. A rising tide lifts all boats.

We're past the point where telling people to stop using the services would have any measurable effect.
> The issue is that, from what I know, there is nobody who can even tell if they are the same pathology, just that they have some similar symptoms.

I have an auto-immune disease (ulcerative colitis) and the situation is the same for me. Doctors always tell me they can never be entirely sure that's what it is. But I'm sure there are plenty of diagnosis are generalizations about symptoms rather than root cause.

We simply don't know what causes plenty of diseases.

Side-note: given that my aunt has MS while me and multiple of my other aunts have an IBD (irritable bowel diseases: chrohns, colitis) on one side of the family, there seems to be a connection between UC and MS as both are auto-immune related:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17894769
If water isn't scarce, why complain that Coca-Cola is using so much?
The disastrous policies. Could you name them?. Before he died, as afar as i know, Venezuela was getting on just fine. Whats disastrous is Maduro much like the one running the US. Both stupid
Lisp, with SLIME (Lisp IDE tool for Emacs), gives you coding completion with a dynamic language. This isn't exclusive for dynamic languages.

However i don't want to debate "static" vs "dynamic". Static typing has advantages, it's simply that the advantages I see are performance (execution speed) ones. As mentioned above, i don't buy the idea that simple type errors are a serious speed bump in development speed.
It's already beginning. They just introduced "Pages" and Just yesterday I saw a bunch of new users tagging their friends in the posts to "share" with them.
> the iPhone X is just what people expected

But that's the point of iPhones nowadays, isn't it? Shipping features only when they feel ready (e.g. I guess this [1] won't be possible with Face ID). I switched from Android to iOS when I decided that I want a boring (but elegant) smartphone that bothers me as little as possible.

> Apple design, it seems like it's great when Apple does it

What many of their customers value, I think, is that Apple tends to get the big picture and the details right quite often.

The big picture: When I buy an Apple phone, I can be quite sure not to see this on the default lockscreen: [2].

The details: [3]. You don't have to appreciate this level of detail, but some people do.

That being said, not even Gruber claims that recent iPhones are "perfect" design-wise. [4] Just more detail-oriented than most competitors.

> I'm still completely jealous of iPhone battery life though.

Bought an iPhone 7 ½ year ago. I don't think battery life is anything to be jealous about. I hear good things about the Plus models though.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-galaxy-note-8-facial-...

[2] https://twitter.com/dcseifert/status/905104470429851648

[3] https://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/larger/pu...

[4] https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/iphone_x_event_thoughts_a... (Footnote 1)
Agreed. That's bad and a lot of people will expect the old functionality.
Just irony it seems.
> I've always thought that the answer was to have wealth taxes

Oh, I totally think this is where we should be going, too! Income seems like such a weird thing to tax; the wealthiest people don't necessarily have income, and high earners aren't necessarily that wealthy. In terms of "tax the rich", I think wealth taxes are more along the lines of what people envision.

It would simplify things so much, too; you don't have to worry about capital gains vs. ordinary income, or gifts, or the so-called "death tax". Businesses don't need to withhold taxes.

It seems like a simple, low, flat wealth tax, over a certain cut-off, would be best. If would counteract the march to aristocracy and dynastic families, unless the children are similarly able to provide value with their assets. Otherwise their wealth will dwindle over time and others will have a shot.

I think the two negatives I can think of are: 1) dealing with liquidity - you might be "worth" millions, but does that mean you can afford your tax bill? and 2) off-shore havens storing the wealth. But neither seem insurmountable.

I'd love to see any discussions of pros-and-cons of this approach to taxation. I know Islam proscribes a wealth tax, Zakat, but I'm not sure how it works in practice.
You could say that about practically anything.
Sure I know how to view them. I guess the commenter meant the HTTP headers for just this site were 63 bytes. I thought they were speaking on average like they were for 40 bytes for TCP/IP headers.
> Are most people okay with monthly payments on phones

They have been so far.
> These companies add value but they are not the Internet.

Even more importantly, they are not people. By that I mean that (marketing departments in) so many companies just love to take credit for the things people bring to the table. Which is a pet peeve of mine, so this rant is probably a bit besides the point.

It's people, friends or otherwise, who can make simple things like communicating via ASCII fun. In school we exchanged pieces of paper when the teacher wasn't looking, in forums we came up with things, and so on. It's great to have better tools, of course, but it's not like this "enables" us in some fundamental or even very meaningful way - if you don't give us tools, we make our own, if you only make tools to make communication harder we find ways around them. If we don't have decent search engines we use things like web rings or word of mouth. The internet with its routing around faults is a mere shadow of human ingenuity, and the reasons why we do that are also what makes the communication interesting in the first place.

A lot of people seem to be making kind of a cult around completely forgetting that, putting the horse before the cart. The internet isn't that special, we already were a network. Everything is, and scale and speed matter most to people pulling fast ones. The rest want to live in integrity and dignity first and foremost, and then "add value" or numbers.

So the internet isn't special, and the way it's going, since commercial interests came to the forefront, it's becoming kind of a shit show. So if we're going to call that a great achievement of humanity, that's kind of depressing. Maybe it could have been one, but right now we have what we actually have and do what we actually do. Sorry for ranting, but I'm so sick of the hybris over things that are so mediocre in such large parts, that are just becoming more bloated without ever having been good.
In first world countries, populism is often triggered by government overreach.

In third world countries, populism is often triggered by promising people finances from government coffers.

That is why you see populism in Brazil, Venezuela, etc cause the government to overexpand, grow corrupt, and eventually start to implode. First world countries have self sufficient people who would prefer more freedoms, third world countries have people who rely on the government to meet their basic needs.
Some people do stupid things like plugging a generator into a wall socket to feed the house without a transfer switch. I would be wary too if I were a utility worker.
> when you take a dividend you get the tax back that has already been paid

Yea, that needs to stop. This idea of being "taxed twice" is ridiculous because companies are not people. If they were then yes they would be taxed twice and it would be "unfair" but then they'd also be taxed at the proper rate.
I'm getting the X, not cause I love throwing money around, but because I hate the wide width +'s. I'm coming off a 6+ so needless to say 3 years of no one hand texting has made me want to stab my own eyes out. I hate two hand texting.
The title is, provocatively, "to type or not to type."

The top of the article makes it clear that it really, really, really will answer whether we should type or not type. From the top:

>This is a terrific piece of work with immediate practical applications for many project teams. Is it worth the extra effort to add static type annotations to a JavaScript project? Should I use Facebook’s Flow or Microsoft’s TypeScript if so? Will they really catch bugs that would otherwise have made it to master?

>TL;DR: both Flow and TypeScript are pretty good, and conservatively either of them can prevent about 15% of the bugs that end up in committed code.

In this comment I will address wherher this is really enough to deliver on that promise:

Why is bugs a metric instead of bugs per programming hour, or hours of programming including fixing bugs, with or without typescript?

Typescript adds types (and requires programmers to keep them in mind.)

I think it's hardly controversial to claim that typed programs have a lower bug count because type errors are caught. It is also not controversial to claim that programming time is slowed down, because of the need to think of types.

The question is: how much?

If a programming language slowed everyone down by 5x but resulted in 75% fewer bugs, few people would choose it. Most people would choose bugs.

If a programmer language was 100 times faster and only resulted in 5x as many bugs (so, instead of 100 times base rate, 500 times base rate) then I and practically everyone else would always choose it for almost everything. After all if it's 100x more productive you can take 80x productivity gain and sacrifice 20% of your programming wall time to spend on debugging.

So real results around speed and bug count, as well as the insidiousness of bugs, are crucial.

If the bug count were not increased in comparing a and b, but the second language had showstopping bugs that took 100x longer to find and fix, nobody would choose b.

Bugs aren't just a number.
So the skimmers in the article are pretty basic, but there are more advanced ones that have pin hole cameras to record pins too. You could also mitm the keypad too with another patch line.

Two years ago at defcon, someone presented on advanced skimmers that could read chips too. He claimed they need a network connection to work, as there's only a two minute window to reuse the same token.
"The thing about the Fed is that money represents real goods and services. "

It doesn't and never has. There has never been a one to one match between money and stuff. Money is really the emodiment of a human promise, and promises don't always get fulfilled.

The one promise that does, is if you don't pony up the correct currency to pay your taxes you go to jail. And that is what drives a currency at root.
I agree. I once saw a woman feeding a chocolate hostess cake to her <6 month old baby on the subway in NYC and it made me feel sick. This was while I myself had a similarly aged baby.
I think the objection is because there's still a wire between the wall and the pad, and your phone still has to be on the pad. That is, your phone still has to be physically connected, through a wire, to an electrical outlet.

Maybe "plugless" is a term that more accurately describes the benefit. IMO, it's a very nice benefit so I don't mean to minimize it.

We suppose that eventually there will be some kind of charging where you don't even have to set your device on a pad -- I guess it will charge if you just get it into a charging area or room. Then we might want to call that wireless but the term will be taken. I don't think that's really an issue though. That's a marketing issue we can let the marketing people solve if/when we get there. I'd probably try to call it "True Wireless" or "Long Wireless" but that's probably a sign of why I'm not a marketing person.
Idk about that. I used to say that, and some days still do, but Facebook is pretty exceptional in scope and how normalized it is.
John Siracusa and Marco Arment are great at getting to the parts where Apple can improve. My only fault with them is their idea of Windows seems stuck in the days of XP.

Casey Liss, however, is just a cheerleader who would rather self-flagellate about his unworthiness to see Apple's blinding genius.