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>Personally, if we're talking GIANTS among the Giants the list goes something like: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Sartre, Wittgenstein. (I am of course, limiting myself to Western thought).

I would drop Sartre and add Heidegger instead in that list. And I favor Suarez over Aquinas.
Here's an interesting post about the challenges of currying syntax in new languages:

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
> What I don't get is why the rest of the world must still have magstrip and be open to the related risks

Because, like it or not, it doesn't make economic sense for the issuers to remove them.

The US is still a place where a lot of transactions are done, and despite the last 10-15 years of immigration bullshit, a ton of people still visit the US from abroad. A non-US card issuer isn't going to spend money to get a custom card without a mag stripe in the first place, and also then be at risk of losing customers who do travel to the US. Offering a special mag-stripe-free version of the card for an extra fee likely isn't worth it to them either, especially when they're fine eating the cost of fraud, and don't care that canceling your card is an inconvenience to you.
The only place so far where I can safely use Apple Pay without causing any frustration from cashiers is Whole Foods, cashiers in the rest of the stores either have no idea if the Apple Pay is supported or the terminal itself is not "enabled" to support Apple Pay.
DRM makes it hard for 99% of the people

IMO we have oversupply of interchangeably disposable content fighting for a limited number of clicks, if someone makes it hard for their customers to engage, they are shooting themselves in the foot. E.g. whenever I'm greeted with a paywall, that tab is instaclosed.
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It means bath salts will remain illegal...wait a second...
Religious flamewar is not allowed on HN. Please don't post like this here, regardless of how wrong or annoying other comments are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
small world. I just quit my job at UCSF and I was a programmer in the MS group.
> with MS and hardware manufacturers already working to tighten things from the other end (see HDCP and the various frameworks for "protected content" that MS has been working towards).

HN users would do well to keep this in mind the next time they are singing MS's praises about how MS are embracing open source and becoming the savior of all things programming.
What is remarkable is that given how low interest rates have been and the whole thing still collapses, it makes it looking very suspicious the leveraging was ever in the company's interest.

As one of the comments says it'll be used as textbook example of stripping a company.
I'd first ask on the relevant StackExchange site than ask the salesman. At least I'd probably get more than one opinion.

I may be in the minority for now, but I doubt they can live off that kind of 15m "consultations" when people are willing to do it for free online.
If they are not going to specifically target the language compatibility, then the compatibility doesn't exist. My interpretation of this post basically speaks the death of HHVM support PHP, and start exclusively as runtime for Hack.
> Does such ordinance covers private property?

Generally, they cover the entire incorporated area of any city in the jurisdiction, though there tend to be exceptions for qualified ranges as well as circumstances like self-defense.
"The XPS 15's keyboard still maintains the same plastic keys with 1.3mm of travel, which is a bit on the shallow side."

I do not see dedicated Home - End - PgUp - PgDn buttons either. It's vital. Look at my chosen desktop keyboard https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61gEPhEChqL... see something next to the arrows? Matias Ergo Pro , mounted vertically.
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"Defense" :) always have to laugh about that part
This isn't political, it's ethical.
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Was/is there really a public health effort in the US to curb coffee intake?
This means we're going to get more leaks, right? I'm cool with that.
> In french there's a saying : if you don't care about politics, then politics will take care of you...

There is an English template for expressing this idea; it goes "You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you".

I don't know what originally filled the spot where I've put in "politics".
Nearly all US card issuers don't do chip&pin, it's chip&signature (yes, useless, I know). So the gas stations have little incentive to upgrade since there's nothing to sign. Another poster on this thread suggests that non-EMV chip transactions (which are the vast majority in the US right now) aren't any more secure than a mag strip swipe, so there's not much of a benefit.

I'm not sure, but I'd expect that if you don't have a US zip code you can just go inside and use your card with the cashier.
Stimulants can be pretty dangerous TBH. I don’t think class a drugs should just go on sale, but I don’t think people should be locked up for them. Baby steps.
Oh, but maybe they do think in utilitarian terms (and it's not bad, either). Them staying would legitimize W3C's decision. As it is, many (myself included) look at EFF for early warnings, and them leaving W3C is an important signal (hell, that's why we have this thread in the first place), and made me personally seriously lose trust in W3C.
When will the bitcoin haters finally realize that bitcoin is terrible for illicit transactions. The transactions is recorded forever...on a public ledger...and any money in or out of your address is traceable
Pretty sure the person who delivers my packages doesn't live in another country.
NotebookCheck says the T470p gets up to around 50 C on the keyboard? That just seems ridiculously hot. Much above room temperature get uncomfortable.

(Plus no USB-C or Thunderbolt 3, just to make customers make more decisions.)
IPhone has a lot of R&D required for it to do what it does.

How much R&D is reasonable for some "really simple handles?"
Absolutely true. I just bought a house in Amsterdam. The seller got over three times what he originally paid for it. I don't regret it, but we can only afford it because we both have excellent jobs. A single good income is just not enough anymore. And it's all the fault of people like me who are willing to pay whatever it takes to live in a really nice city.
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Actually most money out there is not backed by any assets at all, it’s all paper money, and yes it’s managed but it only has value because of communal faith. Same as bitcoin.
Also there is a whole industry of developing new substances - the law process does not keep up with this.
yeah, that's what the lazy load plugin is doing right now.

does that mean pngs are preferable to jpegs?
ah got it, thanks
"Not necessarily. When people really want something they will eventually find a way to get it anyway,"

No, not true at all.

Supply and Demand.

The 'cost' of doing drugs in society right now is pretty dam high. Social stigma, the possibility of going to jail, various professional licences lost.

The 'free market price' of synthetic heroin and other drugs would be as cheap as sugar. Walk down to the local store and buy 1Kg of meth for $20. Jesus no.

People are really un-pragmatic about this issue.

I've had my exposure to it: a friend OD'd while in SF, another friend drug related suicide, and a third friend just fell in to a 'crack whole' for 20 years and now he lives full time in a clinic. Another - friend of a friend - has a 'weed' addiction (I know it's not common, but it exists) and he lives in a home as well.

These people were ruined long before they ever passed away or went into a home.

Selling crack or opioids in the corner store would instantly yield a massive public health crises.

'Legal' drugs - i.e. prescription drugs are already a major, major driver of the problem.

Here in Canada - doctors are not required to give out the 'absolute minimum' of opioids after operations etc. You don't get 'a bottle' with 'refills' - you get like 3 pills.

Why? Because there was a public healthcare crises developing even with legal substances.

That's how strict they need to be, because that's what's on the line.

If 'legal drugs' did not cause problems, then I suggest the massive amount of 'doctor shopping' and 'fake prescriptions' all over the US would not be resulting in serious problems, but they are.

It's just one of those things - some people can handle their drugs - most people can't and fall down the slippery slide.
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Yes, why not? Believe it or not it's not an issue Madison ever weighed in on.
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As much as I dislike Apple, this particular thing earns them my respect.
There is no 'danger' from 'not buying stuff from your dealer' anymore.
Yes, absolutely you can go inside and pay, the annoying part there is that you have to guess how big the tank on the rental car is, especially when returning it full.

First world problems, yes :)
I think you basically entirely missed the point of the book, to the point of obtuse deliberate misreading. Given the amount of work you clearly put into your review, and your apparent ability to write (and presumably comprehend) coherent sentences, I’m baffled.

You don’t seem to understand at all what Tufte means by chartjunk (even though he prints dozens of explicit examples and explains what is wrong with each one at length), you don’t seem to understand what he is getting at with the thought-experiment-like demonstrations of chapter 6. You have an overly literal and pedantic reading of his tongue-in-cheek dry humor. And you seem to have completely skipped the detailed analysis and explanations of the principles laid out in the book if you think that “Tufte's principles totally ignore the primary purpose of graphs, which is to show a data set's patterns (or lack thereof) to humans.” My one-sentence summary of the book would be “information graphics need to spend more effort on showing patterns.” That’s the central abiding message of the book, which Tufte hits us all over the head with again and again, on almost every page.
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Would someone mind helping me understand the debate? I don't watch TV or even movies very often (when I do I use Amazon prime). I never watch movies more than once. I do listen to music multiple times. But AFAIK all the MP3s for sale on major sites are DRM-free nowadays. What are the main specific scenarios involving DRM that people are talking about here?
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Drug use might be more prevalent than the official statistics suggest.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSIN135004
I am not sure what he means by that since the contact he provides on his personal page is e-mail. Which works through federation. Which he knows, since his e-mail is working on his own domain (not a 3rd party provider like gmail).
What I'm missing from the article is that Bitcoin often is seen as the "reserve currency" of the cryptocurrency world. Bitcoin might not be superior technology wise, but it is the de facto standard for trading other cryptocurrencies.
What scientific results are you googling exactly? Everything I can find shows a strong consensus that coffee has positive effects across the board. This seems like a good summary:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/upshot/more-consensus-on-...

Highlight from that article:

>There have been two meta-analyses published within the last year or so. The first reviewed 20 studies, including almost a million people, and the second included 17 studies containing more than a million people. Both found that drinking coffee was associated with a significantly reduced chance of death. I can’t think of any other product that has this much positive epidemiologic evidence going for it.

I don't understand how you can claim coffee is bad for your heart in good faith if you have read _any_ of the research... for example, this meta-analysis of 36 studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24201300

> A nonlinear association between coffee consumption and CVD risk was observed in this meta-analysis. Moderate coffee consumption was inversely significantly associated with CVD risk, with the lowest CVD risk at 3 to 5 cups per day, and heavy coffee consumption was not associated with elevated CVD risk.

I think any doctor worth their salt would tell you that there is a strong scientific consensus that drinking coffee is not only completely safe, but it has preventative effects towards cancer, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson's, and Type-2 diabetes.

Here's a bonus review of 112 meta-analyses: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-nutr-07...

> Of the 59 unique outcomes examined in the selected 112 meta-analyses of observational studies, coffee was associated with a probable decreased risk of breast, colorectal, colon, endometrial, and prostate cancers; cardiovascular disease and mortality; Parkinson's disease; and type-2 diabetes.
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Why not PS4 controllers ?
If there aren't already enterprise software firms investigating how to offer their SuperWidgetron 10000 HR system through EME in the browser, I will eat my hat.

The single very small purpose will soon enough be worked around, messed with and extended to do more than it was ever "supposed" to - just look at JavaScript.
You might like LightScript: http://lightscript.org

Good interop with Flow isn't quite there yet, though.
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I'm reading Annotations on Java-Code and generating classes from them, so I need to parse Java first.
>>There's a lot of nuance on how policy, legislation, and technology all interact that I didn't appreciate before I worked for the USDS.

Would you mind sharing some of your insights?
A few pro-tips on drawing schematics:

1. ASME Y14.100 and its references, in particular, Y14.1, Y14.2, and Y14.44.

2. IEEE Std 315 for symbols and reference designators.

3. Zen feng shui a la Tufte.

4. For multi-sheet schematics, provide a list of every reference designator and applicable sheet(s). Use sheet/zone references for all labels that span multiple sheets.

5. In general, functional left-to-right flow tends to be optimal for interpretation. Keep the application intent in mind.

6. Sideways text is never acceptable.

7. Q0O5S2Z1IX...if these characters aren't distinct, your typeface is busted.

8. Minimize net crossings. If you feel cross-eyed looking at any sheet, your schematics are likely busted.

9. Assume black/white printing. If you need colors to disambiguate, your schematics are certainly busted.

10. Electrical schematics convey eletrical intent, mechanical drawings convey mechanical intent. Sometimes it's useful to convey elements of the latter in the former.
They also link to a page on ebay in the article where you can buy those seals.
If you are planning to do equity funding, the $500 to Atlas is cheaper than the $4000 to a lawyer to convert your LLC to a C-corp later.

Disclaimer: happy Atlas user who did previous C-corps the old-fashioned way and did not enjoy doing that.
My wife was recently diagnosed with MS. Luckily she studied biochemistry and is now a data scientists. She spoke immediately with a professional nutritionist at the hospital.
Apparently at the current moment the best is to keep your PH value in the body neutral. It's particularly important to prevent "acidity". Which is not easy as a lot of food we eat is acidic.
The reason why you want to not be acidic is: MS causes inflammation and acidity makes it worse. Or in other words, it slows down the bodies self healing "power".
About 5 years ago I was CTO'ing for a firm upstairs in the same building as GoCardless - both firms moved out of that abandoned shell in Finsbury Square around 3-4 months after I left, I believe. At the time they were focused entirely on validating direct debit payments were something people wanted to do online (they do), and we were figuring out how to move private jets around Europe (long story).

I only met Hiroki briefly, my main interactions were with others there. They seemed like a committed and focused group, determined to build something of value.

I have some empathy for some of this story: I couldn't walk in April of this year and had to have surgery to remove an abscess that caused some quite nasty neuropathy. It happened quite quickly - over a couple of weeks, not a car crash speed, at least. And I was treated by Imperial down in Hammersmith, the same trust who I believe run St Mary's.

Whilst my prognosis was not quite as dramatic - I was told that walking again was "a nice side effect we see in 70%-80% of people in this sort of case" - I was prepared to be in a wheelchair the rest of my life. I told my GF that if she couldn't handle that, I'd understand. The silly cow didn't take her chance... :-)

That moment when you wake up in recovery, try and move your toes and realise nothing has really changed: pretty devastating.

I was lucky. Physiotherapy and time have contributed to me walking pretty well with a stick, and that might go soon. My spinal injury was no more than a compression, in which the nerves will over time regrow mostly - unlike Hiroki's which sounds more like a shear.

I can also empathise with the desire to get through physiotherapy quickly: whilst I still receive weekly physiotherapy sessions (I have one in a couple of hours, actually), I wanted to get off the inpatient unit ASAP: the normal stay was 3-4 months for my sort of case. I got done in 5 weeks. I've heard stories of people being there for years.

Also, being pushed around is stupid. I agree with him on that. My girlfriend, bless her, she did well. But never again.

And yes, it does all make you rethink everything you are and do and value in life, and in some ways accidents like this can be blessings in disguise. I suspect he will now be more focused and determined to do the big things in life that you dream about but never act on: I know I have become so since leaving hospital. No more sitting around watching Netflix every night for me...

I might be lucky in that I can walk again - and 6 months from now you'll never know I went through anything like I have - but I'll always have a certain appreciation for life that only people who have been through something that traumatic can share.

Good luck to him, and to the rest of the GC guys - they're all going to be fine.
It's still a hassle.

I had my card skimmed while on vacation earlier this year. The next week I was eating at a restaurant and got a call from an unknown 800 number that I didn't answer. My card was declined at the end of the meal. I called the number back and it was the issuing bank's fraud department saying my card was used suspiciously and they've cancelled it. Because I was still on vacation it was a big hassle involving finding a place to fax a typed, signed letter to get my new card sent to an address I'd actually be at.
Target cards are chip + pin, IIRC
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Did you genuinely find it difficult to parse the comma delimited representation near the bottom of the article? Just curious. It seemed very natural to me, a minor variation on British style thousand separators.
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The core of the problem is that visible info on the card is enough to authorise payment. Visible info is not secret. Info that you share with every seller is not secret. Public information should not be good enough to authorise payment.

Payment should require some kind of private information, either from the chip, or from the head of the owner (like a PIN), but preferably both.
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I'm in California, a little north of LA, I'm a CNC programmer specializing in 5 axis, prototyping and R & D; but I'm also the shop manager and web developer. Last week, cause today's Monday, I worked about 60 or 70 hours and was at the shop everyday, I also was doing some programming for work at home. If I include that it's probably actually 70 or 80. But it fluctuates, the least number of hours I'll work is 45 but sometimes it will get pretty crazy. We're a small company.
I did an internship at GoCardless last summer - Hiroki is an excellent leader and I'm not surprised to see him bounce back in such an inspiring way
This is false.

Euros are backed by specific classes of assets, and USD is backed by US government debt, and since 2008 a lot of real estate (which was under water for a long time, but coming above water over time).

The US does not just 'print money' and inject it into the economy.

The Fed takes US Gov debt out of the market at market prices, and replaces them with USD of the same value - or the reverse of that.

At least at the 'central bank' level.

Now - when it comes to the notion of 'fractional reserve banking' - that's another issue entirely.
It's not new either, I saw people using xbox controllers to control drones 10ish years ago.

But yeah, why use custom controls when an off-the-shelf product with 15+ years of development iterations which is produced in the tens of millions a year will probably never beat it? A good example of going against Not Invented Here syndrome.
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Yes precisely, but it seems we have all forget that: most of modern web framework are over-engineered and bloated. PHP sticks to this web simplicity.
> if no one is selling.

That's not a realistic scenario though.
You are right, I was wrong.

Specifically, I don't know how I missed Switzerland there. Obviously, I should double check before posting.
You might like Lightscript: http://www.lightscript.org/
There's more than just those edge-cases, but the others are rare in practice. They include +, -, `, < (JSX), ::, / (regex) and maybe a few others.

There's also some odd ASI issues within class bodies.

https://github.com/prettier/prettier/pull/1129 can be a useful reference (and tool!)
I curious how much slower the chip (EMV, or or 'old-style) is than the magetic swipe? Here in EU there is not difference, the transaction is done in couple of seconds max and most of this is the time spent waiting for authorization response. The entry mode chip/magtripe/contactless doesn't make that much difference.
Voxels are so cool. Level sets and distance fields are a very different way of thinking about 3D compared to the "mainstream" triangle-based rendering.

DreamWorks Animation offers a powerful open source library called OpenVDB for storing and manipulating this kind of data:

http://www.openvdb.org
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This is not the assembly we remember from TASM/MASM days though. It seems to include quite many high level constructs.
I would argue, somewhat pedantically, that decriminalization = legalization. Drug use can either be legal or illegal. Drug possession can be either legal or illegal. Same for drug, manufacture, and drug distribution.

In that order: use, possession, manufacture, distribution

I think you will get a reduction in the number of people who would agree with having no restrictions. For instance, drug use is probably ok, but not while driving a vehicle, or playing a competitive sport. Drug possession is probably fine, but not more than X amount. Drug manufacture might be fine, if you are just growing/making for yourself. Drug distribution is probably not ok unless you have a license and follow state/federal guidelines.

I think where the law breaks down is under: 'possession'

If it's legal to possess say, 200 pills of oxy at any time, no Rx, no questions asked, I don't see how that isn't going to result in increased distribution.