skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one-time PAN patents (and the merchant or tx-bound PAN) patents of the late '90s are largely expired at this point, so it is open art now. I see more and more companies starting to implement it more broadly (Citi, BofA, CapitalOne). It's nifty because you don't have the hefty "Verified by Visa" type integration (nor any of that SET stuff also from the 90s).

The last time I logged into my PayPal pre-paid debit card portal, they still had this functionality (sans Browser plug-in), but I don't recall seeing it on PayPal proper for a while...

The last time I talked to the MC folks (granted, it has been a long while), they actually thought it (OTP) was a nifty client-side (plus closed-loop) technique and was a nice (and orthogonal) add-on to the types of security that they are pushing vis-a-vis tokenization on the merchant side...
I was casually reading this article when I noticed a familiar bug when quickly moving the pieces. A quick "Inspect" reveals they are using one of my JavaScript components :)

https://chessboardjs.com/
I'm in basically a similar situation right now and I'm honestly wondering if going back to school for a more engineering focused degree would be the best move.

Does anybody know how a Software+Aerospace engineer would be valued at an aerospace company? Most job listings I find are basically one or the other.
I'm just about to turn 30 and I'm looking for a way out. One issue is that it's simply less lucrative where I am (New Zealand) than it is in the US. Here it's a solidly lower middle class career trajectory.

Another reason is I don't think software development is very respected. Look at job advertisements - the most important skill you can have is to already have experience with a given tech stack. This trumps domain knowledge, communication skills, or even total experience in the industry. How much more clear can society make it? We're highly replaceable cogs who need to have limited responsibility and autonomy.

My job is half business analyst, which is a good thing, but transitioning to pure BA would mean starting again at entry level. To me my options are pursue management aggressively, start my own business, or accept that I'll have about the same standard of living as blue collar workers a generation ago.
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot is a parkour master
Since 2014 I can find 34 citations, none of which are an actual experimental realization of their scheme [1]. Anyhow,

TL;DR: They theoretically propose the following experiment:

First, accelerate electrons to just below the speed of light and fire them into a slab of gold. This creates the beam of nessesary high-energy photons.

Second, fire a high-energy laser at the inner surface of a tiny hohlraum (German for ‘empty room’) gold can, to create a thermal radiation field which generates light similar to that emitted by stars.

Finally, direct the photon beam from (1) through the centre of the can, causing the photons from the two sources to collide and form electrons and positrons. It would then be possible to detect the formation of the electrons and positrons when they exited the can.

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[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270858006_A_photon-...
Been using this for decades; my first boss, a PhD physicist, out of college got me started on using this.
It's still being sold today:
https://www.amazon.com/National-Computation-Notebook-Inches-...
I am a big fan of 'trying out' future managers in the team leader role.
EFF funds other people’s lawsuits too. Isn’t that the exact same thing you are complaining about?
Learning to backflip is almost entirely mental. With the proper coaching just about anyone in average-to-good shape can learn it in an afternoon (though not necessarily with great technique).

https://youtu.be/eMKoU_I4F1A?t=34
I don't have time. I want to teach electronics and stuff because I want to help people who are marginalized to have the opportunities that frankly, I didn't deserve but I wish everyone had. But I also have a lot to learn first, and I'm not going to do that if I spend all my time like I did my first couple of years here, doing forced social things with people who will never want to see me again.

I mean...it's painful, but I already tried the 'something else' thing for awhile and it only hurt more. That's where I got this whole 'everyone hates me on the off chance that they deign to notice me' thing. Maybe at least trying to do something productive and useful will pay off someday, if I can figure more stuff out and come up with a succinct way to get people interested. And who knows how much longer we'll have access to this wonderland of cheap components that an unfair globalized market provides? I don't have time.
uh, "Welcome to nginx!" ...
+1 for an answer to this question. Fintech seems to me to be as walled off to outsiders as game companies are, only tending to hire amongst their own. The job descriptions seem to require more specialized "arcane wizardry" skills than the normal above-average C++ or mobile developer. If you're a commoner who broke into the biz, I'd be interested in learning your story.
Discussion regaring profile options:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4855004

For years I resorted to hacking /etc/hosts to block HN. Mentally, I just assumed that no website would have such settings so I never bothered to learn what noprocrast meant.
Why does the cap gains deferral need to be fixed? The gov't will get its money one day. Who cares if exactly when gets moved around a few years one way or the other?
Also a bug bounty: https://bugcrowd.com/tesla
Sorry, i just worded it badly. The point is that without downforce, you can't overcome the traction issue. To a first approximation at 1g accel from a standing start, your resulting force vector is at 45 degrees (mass at 1g down, accel at 1g forward). Accelerating harder just makes the problem worse. At speed, the answer to this is downforce (e.g. how F1 cars can corner as fast as they can).

But for the first couple of seconds, you can't generate much downforce from aerodynamics because you aren't going fast enough. And there are limits to what a spoiler, etc. can generate. For a lot of street legal sports cars, this all evens out about the same way, and they end up with very similar 0-60 times.

If you try and systematically knock down all of these problems, you'll end up with a top fuel car. In that case you may get ~1000lb of downforce from exhaust alone, which gets you past the first bit while you are going too slow for the big wing to be really effective.
Wow, just read this on Wikipedia:

> Meclofenoxate (centrophenoxine), as well as DMAE, have been found to increase the lifespans of mice by 30–50%, and thus may be anti-aging drugs/supplements.

Are you taking it for a specific reason? Or do you consider this a generally good supplement?
I'm asking him to back his opinion up because his question was a loaded question:

Question: "Why not just use another crypto-currency?"

Load Question: "Why not just use a crypto-currency that isn't clogged by developers trying to make people use their proprietary service?"

He is applying bias to it from the get go, your comment is a bit strange, asking a question doesn't exempt you from asking honest questions that aren't loaded, you don't enter some realm of sanctity just because you're asking a question. You can ask for further clarity as to what the person is asking before answering it.
A friend of mine who owns a Leaf and a BMW 3-series was impressed that the Leaf was amazingly quick from a dead start... up to low speeds. The Bolt is faster than a Leaf, so there's your awesome, at least from my BMW-loving friend.
I do ~39-42/wk with an ~20-25min commute each way, and the only time I see my kids during the week that I'm not frantically prepping them (and myself) for the day or frantically prepping them for bed is while we're eating dinner, and the prep/cleaning of that usually eats into my and my wife's sit-down time that we're only sitting there with them maybe 15 minutes.

So even at "standard" work hours I have almost zero quality time with my kids 5 days a week. If I worked 50 I'd basically not see them except to get them around in the morning and tuck them in.

> What is an acceptable amount to work then?

The amount of time I think ordinary non-owner workers should strive for (by which I mean in a collective action, trying-to-pass-legislation way), as far as FTE work hours, is 24/wk. 32/wk would be a good start. Hell, even just not letting companies abuse exempt status would help.
Pretty much anything that requires sudo I would have an alias like:

alias apt="sudo apt"
...
Yes we do things every day where trust is integral, but I do verify independently accordingly. This is relative to the importance of the thing off course. That is just common sense.

I accept googles answer when I ask for the weather. If google is wrong on this it mostly has no effect. So it is absolutely appropriate to accept this answer blindly.

I trust my doctor when I have a minor illness, but I did select my doctor carefully and I would get a second opinion if it is something serious.

Putting the same care into both of these things would either be dangerous or obsessive. It does terrify me that people here are suggesting that there are people who put less care into answering medical or safety related questions for themselves than I do reading a weather report for the day. It's crazy.
Perusing the financial statements of publicly traded trading firms might be an interesting experience for anyone who's not familiar with the industry.

1. How many people work at your chosen company? How big is the entire tech heavy trading industry?

2. What is the average total compensation?

3. Which way have revenues been trending? Revenues per employee?

For anyone who's interested in comparing it to the glory days, look at the historical numbers in the GETCO/Knight S-4.
> A phone with a special "spy mode" in which it looks like it is turned off but actually is working like one of these watches might trigger the law

All phones have this mode; it's a feature to consume less battery by shutting off the display when you're not using it.
My company (spire.com) often has a variety of software positions open depending on your level of experience. You can drop me an email (in my profile) if you're curious.
There would still be slow and complicated tying (and untying), because if the rim was permanently closed then there would be no way to remove it from the finished bread without destroying it. It's not visible in the carbonized bread, or the fresco, so we know it wasn't left in place, and it seems unlikely that an individual net was made for every piece of bread.
Time travel through a wormhole is feasible under the rules of physics
Okay, fine, that’s slightly exagerrated. A key pioneer of the early web, inventor of Javascript, grandfather of the open web movement, and somebody working diligently on core web intrarstructure for over 20 years. That better?
Ask HN: Best independent web analytics tools?
I'm looking for a good web analytics tool for my website, but want to avoid the big players to take my small responsibility in balancing the market. It should be web based and non-local for convenience and the price fair for the value they add to the site. What service am I looking for?
This! I honestly can't understand how one can blame Thiel for killing free speech. He basically evened the chances in front of justice. If there's anyone to blame for killing free speech it's the legal system who decided against Gawker.
"What he basically did was say, "don't ever print anything negative about a billionaire because they can take down your entire business""

No, he didn't. Gawker died on its own merits; in an alternative world where Gawker continued to flaunt the law because someone couldn't afford to fund a lawsuit, I'm OK with this outcome. Not to mention, Gawker did themselves absolutely no favors, from ignoring a federal judge to flippantly answering questions under oath, they garnered no pity from me.
isn't this similar to what was done by rational (the company thst ibm bought iirc) as part of their clearcase product ? my experience with that was not so great unfortunately. it seemed very clunky to use and i think required an army of system-administration folks to run.
It's less Trump and Gawker and more his (older than either of those) perceived (accurately, as far as I can tell) association with the explicitly anti-democratic and pro-aristocratic neoreactionary movement.

His support for Trump fits into that, though, because it's seen as part and parcel of Thiel's neoreactionary politics.
A cli of this would be useful.
Y Combinator blocked this app post that finds chances of startup getting accepted
Startups should do things in order. I’m sure better engines are in the pipeline, but you can’t do everything overnight.
Infrastructure investment: Providing today's solutions, one generation from now.
I’m 35 and I hear from recruiters every day. If I’m about to fall off a cliff, I can’t see it from here. I’m not an exceptional dev by any means but my code works.
The hard stance you speak of was always simple containment and ignoring, and then when their leader would start shaking sabres and making threats, he would get appeased with free food.

That was exactly my point. The problem was ignored, and at times when it couldn't be ignored, NK would bluff, and the rest of the world would appease them.
but how many people who are middle age try to "enter" the industry and succeed? I can answer that for you: those who have close friends in power who wish to hire them. As you age yourself, you may see this if you are sensitive to it. We need to separate the two groups, because thrre are two issues here. 1.aging programmers already working in the industry and 2.those who are accomplished in another dying field who decided to/had the good fortune to be able to reeducate themselves in a new field for them--programming. It's the second group that have trouble even getting an interview, and when they do, are often passed up for a younger "junior dev" who is not as skilled. I realize I can only speak to what I've seen here in NYC, but I keep seeing it, and I see it a lot. So are we going to acknowledge it? i hope so. I hope we can find a way to allow people to change paths in life when their path ends, if they are humble and willing to work hard. That is the kind of society I'd like to foster.
Yes - but in order for something to be rigged it has to be rigged "against" someone, and I believe that someone is the consumer. Advertisers and publishers benefit, but the consumers see intrusively targeted, annoying ads everywhere they go. Ad blockers have re-balanced the equation in favor of consumers (at the expense of publishers), but publishers are resorting to video because it's easier to force someone's attention the more passive they are, even though that defeats the entire value proposition of digital marketing for many places, which is higher user engagement/tracking...

Maybe the most profitable and effective way to do advertising is still direct sales, but call me old-fashioned.
"If you want to convince me that computer vision is a bad domain to specialize in for journeyman programmers because it takes post-grad education to get a job, that'll be a quick and easy argument."

Are you sure about that? I mean sure, if we're talking someone who wants a deep learning research project to improve the metric for recognizing human faces from 99.7% to 99.78%, then we're talking about PHDs.

But there are plenty of "simpler" problems that one can work on, and plenty of more engineering-oriented problems that one can work on. Lots of companies just need to apply semi-standard techniques to problems that are specific to their business, and nothing more complicated or research-y.
Moody's upgrades India's government bond rating to Baa2 from Baa3
Health Giant Sutter Destroys Evidence in Crucial Antitrust Case Over High Prices
Have you tried volunteering?

Just a confirmation for this. As just one example, I spend a lot of time volunteering at an animal shelter. Makes me wished I'd volunteered as a younger man, as there are some hot chix there, and we obviously all like dogs. :-) Piggishness aside, I meet all kinds of people there and take my pick of relationships had I more time. Even if I don't speak to another person, I get to hang out with a variety of dogs while I'm there, and if no human thanks me the dogs sure do seem to appreciate it.

Or Meetups for your chosen hobby. As yet another example, I play bluegrass music. Not in a band, just "jamming" with other people. I could play bluegrass music with other people at least three days a week if I wanted to (and sometimes do), probably more if I'd drive just a bit further. In addition to meeting other people at the jams, and bluegrassers will talk to you as long as you can stand it, that leads to going to bluegrass festivals, where you spend an entire weekend playing with other people after the bands get off stage.

Just some ideas. Because I do think a valid "complaint" of Seattle in general is that you're always welcome, but we're not going to explicitly invite you.
Your link 1 is from 2015/08/21. Electrolysis was rolled out with Firefox 48 on 2016/08/02. The respective Developer Edition build was released on 2016/04/25.
The Seattle metro area is 15th in size on that chart; it's much lower than (44th) that if you sort by growth rate.

By absolute growth (which isn't in the chart, so I had to copy the data into a spreadsheet) it is 9th:

METRO POP. GROWTH 2010–16
----- ------
1 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land 852054
2 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 807109
3 New York-Newark-Jersey City 586224
4 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell 502972
5 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 501752
6 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 495745
7 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 481610
8 Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale 468650
9 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue 359093
10 San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward 343775
1. In Gitlab, after you get +2, you can still commit changes and merge. Gerrit will make sure that you seek +2 again on the new set of commits. 2. Gerrit allows you to create draft comments on review and submit all comments in one shot after u reveiew them. 3. Require +2 rather then two +1 is a very interesting idea in Gerrit
I wouldnt get into HFT, its commoditized. The future of finance is in processing huge volume (internet scale) unstructured data and analyzing it in real time. HFT of website data if you will, right now we are in the infancy
I noticed a 0F 1F NOP, which breaks older processors. This is in an update that goes back to Office 2007.
That’s a pretty deep troll
YouTube is Not Expressive
I doubt it is one those two things. You need to think of the overall personality, all the small and big things, the ideology, the narcissism... these add up, and overtime one just get fed up. I am not connected to YC, but when I read that that's how what I presume happened, because I wish there were more people with a low tolerance for narcissistic personalities.
> Democracy only works if you have an educated public that values critical thinking.

Thiel has openly said that democracy has become incompatible with his notion of freedom (and seems to prefer the latter given the conflict), so its not hard to see why he might not support something essential to the function of democracy.
Exactly. But it does work. I’m being down voted by the clueless brigade.
> Nobody treats you like a human being if you're in tech. They treat you like a wallet; how do you think it feels to never be smiled at or even acknowledged unless you're about to pay for something?

How does that even work? Do you have a tattoo on your forehead that says "I work in tech"?
Popular Science Writing: A  Challenge to Academic  Cultures [pdf]
blood boys - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/this-anti-aging-star...

>why Peter Thiel so so hated.

he just receives back what he gives. I mean there is huge difference between being disappointed/critical/etc. (i'm not a big fan of humanity myself) which is necessary for the progress and being hellbent on promulgating hate for and destroying, just for the sake of personal comfort, those few good things we, humans, have been able to achieve so far.
Seattle needs to aggressively address the ridiculous single-family zoning issues before we end up like the Bay Area. The city's only real advantage over San Fran/Palo Alto is it's relative affordability for tech workers and the talent pool that AMZN pulls. Beyond that, Seattle has neither the VC money or the number of start-ups and aggressively growing companies to compete with the Bay Area. If we lose that comparative affordability then the talent and businesses will start moving to lower-cost of living cities like Denver/Boulder, Salt Lake City, and Atlanta. It's going to very interesting to see what happens when AMZN selects it's second HQ. Word is it's now between Atlanta and Denver.
Peter Thiel is not universally hated. He’s only hated by a subset of society. He’s greatly admired by another subset.
> I said = 2017 - Sell house for $2M

> I said = 2017 - Buy new house for $1M

> you said = But it might be (for the "buy new house") $1.6 million, not $1 million, in your example...

> I said = so they can still afford it.

> you said = You don't get to keep the whole $2M. That's the point.

So, let's do this again.

1. Sell house for $2M

2. Buy house for $1.6M as you suggested

3. Congrats you now have $1.6M in illiquid assets and $400k in liquid assets (cash)

Note - I recognize that my original example was buy at $1M and sell for $2M, where you are correct you're not taxed on the first $500k and the remaining $500k is taxed at capital gains. I also recognize that this whole scenario is purely illustrative and doesn't take into acount all of the transation fees.
Were Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates and any number of drop-out founders uneducated and unable to critically think? Of course not. If anyone thinks a university degree means you are educated, you haven’t been in the world very much. My little company deals with mental health professionals with masters and PhD, yet some of them can barely write a coherent sentence (spend five minutes in our support ticket system and you’d be amazed.)

The sooner we detach a degree from the concept of “being educated,” the better.

College degree != educated

Many educated people have a college degree but they aren’t educated by virtue of that degree. My dad isn’t a high school graduate who was a precision machinist who built high tolerance devices for NASA. He worked with Dr. Smalley at Rice University and built some incredible things — stuff that led to Smalley’s Nobel prize. He’s hardly uneducated and unable to think critically.

Education IS important, but college is just a means, not an end.
As someone approaching 50 myself, I've seen my career growth options limited as an individual contributor. I love coding and have never been interested in management, and I think this has limited my salary increases. As an experienced Java back-end developer there is no shortage of employment options, I get contacted by recruiters all the time, but the salary range I am being offered seems to have reached a plateau.

I would prefer to stay in the technical track, but I probably need to specialize in a hot field, i.e. machine learning, in order to become more sought after and less of a commodity.
Don’t worry brave handle that’s case with a refund.
There's a few areas that these would overlap in, like ADCS and AOCS. That said, I wouldnt call both necessarily mandatory to work in that space, more often you find people who have gone deep in one and picked up enough of the other to contribute.

Software engineers (in my personal experience hiring), especially senior ones, are harder to find and hire than aerospace engineers today. Depending on an area of focus, you can be just as involved with key decisions in the spacecraft design as a software person.

Feel free to drop me a line, I'd be happy to talk for a few minutes about your experience and what you want to do and give you what insight I have into the industry.