skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full service gas stations have a long history of "old fashioned" card skimming - at least from my experience in New Jersey. My mother uses a separate credit card explicitly for gas stations because her credit card has been skimmed at NJ gas stations a half dozen times over the years.
My queries for LA we're also low. My guess is they base it off the salary information they've collected from their own job listings rather than a more general statistical survey of the job market.
Self promotion warning:

I work at NuCypher (YC S16), and we're doing some pretty interesting stuff on the Ethereum block chain to build a decentralized KMS using proxy re-encryption.
I agree with everything you've written except this:

> The world has a serious problem to resolve here because if there truly is no free will then there is no justification for punishing people for their actions - they had no choice in the matter... in which case the criminal justice system is barbaric and unfounded.

"Free will" has no impact on the role of the justice system. Punishment is based on the circumstances surrounding intent and behavior, it doesn't matter if one "willingly" (in the free will sense) commits a premeditated homicide or one was "determined" to be the type of person that commits a premeditated homicide, either way, deterring and punishing that behavior is the intended goal of the justice system. The faculties of mind that we regard as possible mitigating factors in the administration of justice are unaffected by any philosophical conclusions regarding the nature of free will.
The page you linked to says that gas pumps ("Automatic Fuel Dispensers") are exempted from liability shift until October of this year. But that's actually out of date information: the exemption for ATMs has been pushed to October 2017 (from the original date of October 2015), but gas pumps aren't required to go that route until October 2020:

https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/security/emv-at-the-pum...

While I don't doubt they're already out there, I don't recall ever seeing a gas pump in the US with a chip reader.

Also, it's at leas worth noting that technology for skimming chip-based transactions already exists in the wild:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/atm-shimmers-target-chip...

The "shimmers" take advantage of poor implementations of the EMV standard, but the chances strike me as fairly high that there's going to be a lot of poor implementations of EMV out there in the wild. (Not only is the less secure "chip and signature" approach common in the US, I've made more than one purchase with what could be described as "chip and nothing": put my card in a chip reader and make a purchase without being asked for either a PIN or a signature.)
> I know from my conversations that many people are not satisfied with the result. EME proponents wanted a faster decision with less drama. EME critics want a protective covenant.

I think that pretty much sums it up. The only thing that could've gone better for the corporations is if everyone else just shut the fuck up.

I don't know why he bothered to post that. What a joke.
That audio demo is CRAZY loud. I had my headphones on my desk since I'm on the phone and thought it was playing music through my laptop speakers.
50th percentile i guess is the "fair" wage

I'm ~30% lower than the 25th percentile... :/
Backend Developers are usually working on backend of web apps. DevOps would be closer, but still not quite right.
> once a baby accepts formula, it's nearly impossible to breast feed.

I'm male, but I'm a parent and remember dealing with this stuff.

In addition to difficulty getting the baby to latch after feeding formula very early, there's also the issue of building and maintaining supply. The first few days of life are important for both mother and baby - there isn't a lot of milk being produced at first, and the child's attempts at nursing encourage milk production to begin in earnest. The natural course is that the mother's milk comes in to meet the baby's growing need. If you "skip" a day or two in the beginning, even if you get the kid to latch there isn't going to be enough milk to satisfy them. This leads to supplementing with formula, which in turn solidifies difficulty latching and further delays milk production.

I remember having to be very firm with hospital staff to under no circumstances feed our first daughter formula. In the first couple of days they really pushed us to, justifying it by saying "Momma needs her rest!" and "Dad should experience feeding the baby, too." We had a good experience overall with both our children, but in both cases I had to really take command of the situation to ensure that our wishes were followed. In a couple of cases that was even "against medical advice".
I must not understand "The reason drugs are illegal is because they are addictive."
It's built with Electron, so it's not just like using a javascript app, you are actually using one.

That said, I personally don't have a huge issue with Electron apps on face value - some of them (VSCode, for example) seem to outperform their native counterparts quite handily (in this case, VS - install time, upgrade time, cold start time, warm start time, actual usage). That tells me that the implementation choices affect performance as much as the underlying technology.
"I'd much prefer my policy research to be done by civil service bodies which might at least nominally be impartial."

Like who, specifically?

"If scientists think that something is both true and important, then why should they not speak up about it?"

Scientists agreeing about something would be a "consensus among scientists" not a "scientific consensus".

The latter implies that the consensus itself is scientific, but a consensus is never scientific. The former is still problematic, because scientists are not an anointed class, but it at least assigns some agency and allows questions like "which scientists" (to which the answer is probably "whoever we found at the major universities").

But sure, speak up about the science and what you know and what you have studied. If you want to raise an alarm, do so, but don't speak on behalf of all scientists, and don't claim that the "consensus" itself is scientific.
Why is this comment downvoted? (Honest question)
Good job to everyone involved. I understand that people don't like Electron apps, that Linux this or that, but it's still a lot of work to maintain this app and I know for a fact that it does help lower the barrier of entry for non-experienced, budding developers around the world, so keep it up.
Today I learned that the tulip mania wasn't real. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo5414939...
The one used by advertising: the one that understands something about human nature.
I am pretty introverted. It's not that I'm shy, it's that conversations take a lot of mental energy for me, it's exhausting.
#1 Always ensure you have a password set on your computer. Whether first booting up or coming back from sleep, it should ask for a password. If they are going to steal your laptop, at least make them have to do some work of having to wipe your data.

#2 Glue all electronics to your hip. I don't care where you are or what you have to do. Get a backpack for all of your electronics and never let it out of your sight.

#3 I believe Apple was the first to do it with iPhone, might be available for Macbook, but if password is wrong 10 times, all data is wiped from phone, though I believe password is left intact.
No, you're helping pre-IPO companies raise money now.
I can't believe my tax dollars would be used for such an expensive thing! At least go to the lowest bidder and get MadCatz ones!
44% of US Students Think the First Amendment Does Not Protect Hate Speech
I'm astonished at the fact that this is made in Electron but no Linux version is planned whatsoever. There must be a serious blocking reason for that.
It makes sense (they can share code between Github Desktop standalone and their Atom-plugin, which does more or less the same thing as Github Desktop).

Electron has many benefits (lots of people know JS; CSS is better than the standard macOS tools for GUIs). But with Slack, Atom, Hyper and now Github Desktop running on Electron, the memory usage is getting painful. They all use several hundred MBs each, sometimes with multiple processes so even more in aggregate.

Hopefully with more growth of Electron, there will be more shared resources to spend on improving its memory usage.
> foreign real estate

There's been something of a crackdown on this in the last few months too, AFAICT

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/08/18/china-crack-f...
Maybe that's the happy medium for you, but for others, the happy medium is emailing, calling, or texting your friends to set up a dinner party or a round of golf, making sure to call your folks every week or two, and not worrying too much about those whose only effort to spend time with you is having clicked a button months/years ago.
It is easier to convince(or bribe) the government officials and get the permission. The govt is too dumb or weak or corrupt. Later it is easier to blame the govt.
Oh, I always wanted to use 4gb of RAM to add files to Git.
> There's no real reason outside of developer testing to ever disable Wifi.

When I go for a ramble or cycle in the countryside there's no point having Wifi enabled for four or five hours with no APs within several kilometres, so I disable it.

Likewise I disable Bluetooth and GPS when not needed. Being a 'good RF citizen'.
Let me fix the marketing for you:

GitHub desktop is designed for our non Linux users. We felt like you weren't comfortable with a command line so we targeted you. Minimum system requirements quad core CPU and 32GB of ram.
The Numbers Show Silicon Valley Is Already Fading
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Future Electron apps will open a new tab in Chrome.
The headline does not say "hate speech," it says "extremist content."

> Twitter rival Gab faces domain loss over extremist content
There's probably an order of magnitude or three more readers and POS systems to switch over in the United States vs. Canada.

Considering that Canada's GDP is a rounding error compared to the United States, it's going to take a while to any payment method change to spread nationwide.

That said, I've run into far more "cash only" situations in Canada than in the U.S.
I'm dying of laughs xD Thank you !
Builds the entire business model on top of git, a tool that Torvalds built to maintain Linux but don't give a fuck to Linux users.
DevOps Self-Assessment Rates the Maturity of Your Initiatives
Also, Bountysource:

https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/bountysource

What amuses me is how software projects prefer Patreon instead of Bounstysource
That's not accurate. I keep my iPhones for two years, and when I upgrade I give them to family members who have always gotten another 2-3 years of use out of them. (And Apple has continued to support them during that time with software updates.)

It's actually one of the main things that keeps me in the iPhone ecosystem.
Ah, you're right. The other option is force-touching the Settings icon... but the SE doesn't have force-touch, I believe.
I don't know, but that's one of the two "real" questions:

1. How will China treat miners?

2. Will they go forward with blocking node communication at the port/GFW level?

Re: 1, if they shut down / limit mining it's nbd. If they co-opt it to try & launch 51% attacks it's a big problem, but not, I think, insurmountable and would be a tactical error.
Neat. Some overlap with https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/distroless ; I think one big difference is that Google's approach uses bazel to download and unpack .debs, and this one uses standard Debian tools (debootstrap). But the end result sounds similar.
In my view, there are a lot of cases where people conflate the "clinical" and "popular" definitions of words. For instance if I say that I'm "depressed," it doesn't mean that I've been diagnosed with clinical depression. It just means that I'm bummed.

Unfortunately, people will interpret your comments according to their own biases, and I've that a lot of people are biased to distrust or dislike introverts. For this reason, I would never admit to being an introvert, in a business setting. I would rather tell people that I'm mildly extroverted, and then let them believe what they want.
Do not recall the brand, i just helped install them and set up the initial install of OS and software.
Malthus in, Marx out.
I do it a couple of times every day.

As for the quick access you can customize control center in the Settings app. It doesn't make much sense to me that you can't access that customization directly from control center, but Apple works in mysterious ways.
>Apple seems to be the only tech giant adhering to "do no evil." I've been a developer for a long time, even though development workflows are typically more compatible running on Macs, I've resisted going all in working on a Mac. I also have an Android phone. That is going to change. I trust apple a whole lot more than Google or Microsoft. My next phone will be an iPhone and luckily my Mac book pro is already on its way.

Ugh. As a long-time "all in on Macs" person I've dreaded the day this would happen. As much as I am an Apple whore, the world is worse off when important things are too tightly bound to monopoly players. It's not like I want to ONLY ever have the option of buying Apple products.

I am, however, glad that these values are being "proven right" in society and culture. I just wish they would percolate up through Big Tech more.
Capital One has started issuing contactless credit cards. They began in late June, I think. I have one.
Why conflate the fuzzy "ability to enforce [law]" with specific centralized economic levers? Your comment seems to be saying the former relies on the latter.
It's about 40 MB compressed, and it's only used for authentication. The app will work without it.

I'm really sad it has to be downloaded, but there's no other way to do authentication. Will switch to Servo once it's ready, it's only ~20 MB.
"easily do integrated testing of several disjoined components at once."

It just doesn't work that way.

It's an area of hyper-specialization.

Everything made for space is a 'one off', there really are no economies of focus or scale. Maybe in launch.

There just aren't 'lines of business' in space really.

Once you walk in the situation and spend a few days there, and see what's going on, you get it.

I haven't even scratched the surface of it.

Every process is recorded, needs to be archived.

Every single piece of software hardware ever used needs to be 'kept around' in case something goes wrong. 20 year old computers, floppy disks, have to be managed and 'kept up' in case something from way back needs to be tested.

Purchasing requirements/limitations. Political control (governments pay for this, so they set rules, change them). Security clearances. Accounting standards. Process audits. Insurance audits. Hyper-specialization HR impossibilities (like 10 guys in the world qualified to do ABC activity).

You must wonder why it costs '100M dollars' to film a big movie, have a look at the detailed budgets. A lot comes out of the woodwork.
for anyone else interested in the actual stats, I grifted this from their pr on the image:

The minideb image currently weighs in at around 50MB uncompressed. For comparison the debian library image is 123MB, the alpine image is 5MB, and the newly released amazonlinuximage is 328MB.
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Companies don't get the money, so you're not really investing in the company directly unless you on the primary market (e.g., pre-IPO). You buying stock on a secondary market doesn't give the company more capital to work with.
A permanent emergency: Trump becomes third president to renew post-9/11 powers
How You Could've Hacked Equifax
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15254069
Didn't work that way for me - last time I was filling up, I did pay a bit more before than fit into the tank and checked the bank account later - got charged for the full amount.
Worth adding that cryptoc as a method does not exclude fiat creation. That's an orthogonal distinction.
Sorry, I don't see the value over TortoiseGIT,or any other native client.
Show HN: MaybeFace – Facebook groups based matching
Find people through group members and 'like them' for a purpose (romance, going out, and that other thing :)

why? because you can comment/like to their posts in the group so they'd be aware of your existance, and hope they will do so too!

So if your shy (or smart, considering the 3rd option), that's the tool for you!

It's a side project, fully functional MVP...ish. Will continue the work if the world shows interest.

https://maybeface.com
Maybe they thought nobody would use it.
Would be nice to display the UK numbers in GBP and the European countries in EUR. The numbers in dollars are meaningless.
Germany, too. I've only been to 38 countries and in very few has even magstripe transactions been common. (But that may be the fault of the countries I choose to travel in.)

But since most internet commenters never go anywhere, they buy into the "US is old and backwards and dumb" cliche that makes them feel superior to everyone else.
The OP defines an "efficient" market as one in which active investors cannot consistently outperform the average by selectively picking individual securities. In this regard, the OP is absolutely right that index investing is making markets "efficient," because active and passive managers, when considered as two distinct aggregate groups, must necessarily earn the same average return before fees, expenses, and frictional costs.

HOWEVER, that doesn't necessarily mean the growth of index investing makes markets more accurate at pricing securities.

There's NO evidence of that.

Maybe the growth of index investing is doing the opposite: making markets LESS ACCURATE at pricing securities.

Indeed, by many measures, US stock prices are looking positively FROTHY these days.[1][2][3]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/business/stock-market-mas...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/business/stock-market-val...

[3] http://time.com/money/4943479/wall-street-prediction-stock-m...
It's hilarious to me that the guy who is responsible for turning the open internet into America Online II wants to cosplay as a "hacker."
A slightly cheaper option would be the "Pan Am Experience" in Los Angeles.

The Experience uses a replica 747 cabin (used in Hollywood productions) and serves a full dinner course with everyone in vintage Pan Am uniforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bbRiVuyfDg
Agree with ionised and reddit_clone (below). I'm an introvert and I am definitely not shy, nor are my thoughts 'self centered'. It's simply that it takes more mental energy to engage with those I don't already know.

[edit] to clarify to whom I'm agreeing.
Yeah, I'll be sticking to the old Mac desktop app too. Visual bugs with the commit timeline notwithstanding, it's solid and smooth. The electron replacement is comparatively janky.

If they ever EoL the old true native Github Desktop, I'll probably switch full time to Fork, which is native Cocoa and generally great. I already use it a lot, but there are times when Github Desktop does things a little better.

https://git-fork.com/
Ansible Vault is the bees knees compared to Hashicorp Vault (if you're already using Ansible). Very pleasant to use, A++ would use again.
I love this! Desktop view could use more page width, but I love the concept. Adding in custom RSS URLs as sources could be a good direction to take as well.
"Extremist content" is a vague term. According to the article, the Australian registrar is taking action because of national laws that "prohibit public vilification on the basis of race, religion, or ethnic origin." That's pretty much the definition of hate speech, so I thought that this title would be more precise.

If the mods disagree, they can change it back!
VSCode doesn't beat SublimeText, Vim, Emacs, or Notepad++.

Electron apps might beat other electron apps (VSCode over Atom), but we're still a long sight off from electron apps beating compiled ones in most cases.
I don’t think advertising really contradicts the model: advertising grows demand for a good by increasing an individuals perceived or realized utility for the product.
I'll add to the Electron hating bandwagon.
Not every native app is good and often the UI and design feels crappy. I mean this was the case for decades. But I will still prefer crappy looking performant app over nice looking sluggish electron app.

I really really would not want to use a "productivity" type of application that is made in Electron but I also know that many people do not mind.

This said we are again in the era where it does not matter to most of the users. If it would people would stop using Atom/VScode and others. We all know that there is not a more cost effective way of building multiplatform apps (all things considered).

We will have to cope with this as long as there is not real competition.
I do the opposite: I try to limit recurring transactions to one or two per card.

My cards have been compromised by Target, Home Depot, and other vendors. I never know exactly who, just get the notice from the bank that I'm getting a new card.

The side benefit for me is that these small transactions keep the cards active with regular on-time payments.

If one of them is compromised, I only have one or two recurring payments instead of having to change all of Netflix, Ting, Comcast, Virgin Mobile, Google Play, Apple, NY Times, WSJ, etc.
On Queueing
Directly to the right of where your screenshot is.
It beats my family dying of thirst because of government policy - enforced by legions of armed agents, if necessary - prevents my access to it.

If the price of water is artificially set below market value, then demand is higher and supply is lower than it would otherwise be. If it costs $3 / gallon to transport water to where I live, and the government sets the price of water at $2 / gallon, guess what? No one transports water to where I live. Without that intervention, water might cost $4 / gallon, but at least it's available.
Maybe it's because it's harder for companies to compete with Coke than with bottled water?

If Coca-Cola is selling bottled water, then another company could come in and start selling bottled water as well, and there's really nothing interesting to differentiate them. But while another company can sell soda, they can't sell Coke. So getting people used to Coke means they'll always instinctively reach for Coke when they're thirsty.
Why is the EFF part of the W3C though? It's a standards organization not a political one.
>SLIME wasn't released until 2003.

SLIME replicates the same functionality of the Lisp programming environment of the late 1970s, so most of the features have been available for Lisp long, long ago.
Yeah. Built the entire business model on top of Git, a tool that Torvalds build to maintain Linux but won't release an app for Linux because they think nobody would use it.
Visual Studio is a far more full-featured IDE. A more objective comparison would be VSCode vs. Sublime. There you could say VSCode is comparable at best.
Most negative consequences are caused by society and how the drug addict is treated, not by the drugs themselves.
I looked at the table of contents, and concluded I didn't really need to look further. This isn't an economics textbook - it's a propaganda piece.

Section 1.1 of an economics textbook should not be about "Income Inequality." Any sane treatment would first provide some necessary context and theory to make a discussion of income inequality meaningful. I don't care where you are on the political spectrum, if your goal is to teach rather than indoctrinate this isn't how you start.