skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will most banks actually allow that? Taking a picture of a personal check and cashing it instantly? In my experience banks treat personal checks like radioactive waste and getting a bank to cash a check as an individual takes some doing. Last time I had a $2600 check I found out that for any check over $2500, I had to physically take it to the bank and they wanted to know why I was receiving the money.

Anything that cuts payment processors out of the loop is absolutely essential in my book. The current scenario is that the majority of our economy flows through a few payment processor companies who do nothing of value beyond moving numbers down a wire, and they charge a percentage cut for that (because apparently it costs them more to move larger numbers?). That amounts to them being a taxing body. It gives them tremendous control over our entire economy. If we don't tear them out of that position, they will counter-act any actions taken by the government to control the money supply if the government ever dares to do anything which would not maximize the payment processors profit.
So it's a list of things that may be done if we have an (almost mythical)
good manager at hand and the organization in the company is right? Not
a list of concrete responsibilities that just come with the position and if
the guy doesn't fulfil them he's outright incompetent?

Then again, what is the difference between fundamental responsibilities of
project and product manager? The ones that need to be done by one and
cannot be done by the other.
This reminds me of a post the other day where an ex-Googler said that Big G has stopped innovating, and instead is just copying other products. He then gave a list.

Google Bulletin = Nextdoor, and probably a dozen other platforms that do the same thing.
At best! I’ve tried for a long time to use it, but given up. It fails to find even well known locations in densely populated areas, directions are terrible, and in many cases you just get gray blobs where detail is crucial.

I use the web version of google maps more often than not.
I don't think AMP contradicts supporting the open web. Could you share your argument for that?

Here are mine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467736

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14636939
> purely technical reasons

Sure:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc.....
(1) You don't care enough about definitions to argue over them until they're settled? How do you expect a discussion to be resolved, then?

(2) You don't care if secondary or tertiary points are illogical? If they're not important, or if the logical flaws can't be fixed, why do such secondary/tertiary points continue to be included along with the central point? It makes no sense to blame Peterson's camp for this in any case. The opposition should fix their damned arguments.

(3) Can you cite an example of a logical argument presented by JP's opposition that is dismissed with "that's not an argument"? Please make sure what you cite is an actual logical/dialectical statement, and not rhetoric/sophistry... that's the typical problem with neoliberal/postmodern/progressive language.

JP's philosophy needs to be attacked on several fronts, most notably his ridiculous attempts to give religion and particularly Christianity a validity beyond mere myth and collections of historical cultural wisdom, such as it was. But the complaints you raise are absurd.
Desktop native clients will be in declining use, and Mozilla will know this.

I handle most personal email on my phone, and corporate email increasingly requires MFA via a web-client, for which there is no standard for native clients.

I have native desktop clients for email installed, and prefer them, but in reality I hardly ever use them.

Thunderbird is a great project, but relative to other things Mozilla have their sights on, I can certainly see why it's lower priority.
If Thunderbird solved your problem there's your solution

And I agree, it's not very nice to use

But at some point, there isn't much a mail client can do as it's limited by the tech and the stack

A solved problem is not a sports car, it's the 10year old car that costs 1k. Very few people want to pay for a mail client
This, sorry, my first language is French.
Which other views does he have that you think proves your point?

Saying that I know something without saying what you believe I know is not helpful in assisting me in understanding what you are communicating.
exactly. Stephen Bax was the most promising before Volder Z took it this step further :)

I'm so glad someone finally shares my enthusiasm, I have very high hopes to have a full translation in my lifetime. [SPOILERS:] It sounded like someone just needs to find some old knowledgeable Sinti/Roma.
this is the first time I have ever seen someone hate on medieval manuscripts
I hope CUDA will get replaced by Vulkan merged with whatever core OpenCL features it still needs.

Looks like Khronos are looking into converging them in some way:
https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Follow-Neil-Tre...

CUDA unfortuantely is Nvidia's lock-in, so not a good way forward.
> Linguist Thomas Sebeok, for instance, proposed creating an atomic priesthood, where an exclusive political group would use its own rituals and myths to preserve knowledge of radioactive areas, like a church.

Minor spoiler alert: this is a side element in the wonderful novel "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson.
If you would like to read a brilliant but rambling and unsubstantiated account of comparative proto-religions, shamanistic psychology and the creation of metaphor, check out a classic called The Golden Bough. You'll walk away with a deeper understanding toward the rational origins of irrational rituals.
> You must be demented.

We strive for a higher level of discourse at HN.
It's a bit of a tangent, but if you find it pleasing (stirring might be a better word) to contemplate large numbers like this, and are curious about why that may be so, you may be interested in Kant's reflections on the aesthetic appreciation of the sublime, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(philosophy)#Immanuel_... for an intro.
I feel like picking this article apart.

First three paras - Zuck is bad dude for doing what businesses have been doing for centuries if not millenia - stealing ideas and poaching employees. Look hard enough at VF's history and I feel confident you'll find the same behaviors.

Next para - Summary of FB's status.

Next two paras - FB turns out to not be a panacea for social isolation, not a classmates.com on steroids. Like other forms of communication (e.g. TV), it amplifies some human frailties. I am old enough to remember when serial killers would taunt TV stations. People blamed TV for that, maybe with some justification. FB's problem, it seems, stems from its democratization of opinion, especially when it plays a role, however minor, in generating a political outcome that some people dislike.

Next three paras - The bloom is off the rose for FB and other social media sites. Too many stories / rumors about surveillance / psychological manipulation abound, and social media is paying a price for that. The sharks, disguised as regulators and other social paladins, are circling, and giving Zuck et al. a taste of their own medicine. Worded quite speculatively, I might add.

Last two paras - Additional speculation about FB's long-term viability and some whistful karmic comeuppance conjuring.
> Thunderbird is the last way to download emails

Google Takeout supports one-click exporting of emails to an open format; you just need to make sure to actually do it if you're interested.
I was surprised by that too. It's huge. First I thought it's the Moscow area.
Not according to the article we're discussing.

> In his videos, he analyzes classic and biblical texts, he eviscerates identity politics and political correctness and, most important, he delivers stern fatherly lectures to young men on how to be honorable, upright and self-disciplined.
How to make C++ face detection faster? Rewrite it in Rust
Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting users watch videos
Great source. I enjoyed looking at that. Socialized health care is not the silver bullet in terms of cost reduction. No shock there though...
Visualization of funds stored in EtherDelta smart contract
Don't share it. Just wait until the next batch comes in and then cut a few like this while no one is watching.
I am curious about something.

If you were to only offer your service in North America, but someone from the EU comes over to North America on vacation, and somehow becomes recorded in your service.

Does the GDPR still apply in this case?
DuckDuckGo has some open source extensions and SDKs to integrate with their service. DuckDuckGo itself, however, is not open source. Do you realize how misleading it would be if someone said this, and then I showed up with a link to their open source extensions, and how misleading it would be to try and appear as if I'm refuting something that I'm not actually refuting? That's exactly what you've done here with regard to my comment about Pocket.

There's a reason why nobody else posted the link you did in the 12 hours between my comment and yours, including the dozens of Mozilla/Pocket employees who saw what I wrote. It's because that's not Pocket, and what I wrote about Pocket still not being open source is true.
1 fulltime developer ?
Sounds like mozilla is very serious about thunderbird

I wonder who is this lucky person who gonna rewrite whole app.. I think we need better alternatives
Why San Francisco has the second-highest construction costs in the world
The Ritman library is absolutely wonderful, and open to the public without appointment; if you find yourself in Amsterdam, it's absolutely worth it to go ring their doorbell and look around. It was the highlight of my post-high-school Europe trip.
Dovecot has an excellent implementation of 2-way synchronization of mailboxes: run Dovecot on 2 different servers in different physical locations, set up MX records and a SMTP software on both servers and you have your HA solution.
> Even now, the power the biohazard symbol once had to inspire awe and fear has begun to diminish. Today, it appears on everyday clothing and products, slowly becoming more ordinary than extraordinary.

This always annoys me, though it's a form of linguistic change. The worst example of this, IMHO, is the stickers and accessories you can get for guns to make them look like children's toys (e.g. red cap on the end) -- specifically subverting something designed to make children safe. I do think people who do this have a first amendment legal right to do so, but just because you're allowed to do something doesn't mean it's a good idea (there's no law to prevent me from drinking bleach if I want to, but that doesn't make it a good idea).
The problem is convincing your friends to use Google wallet. Venmo has a network effect on its side.
Google Maps has been awful for me lately. Missing turns, not being forward enough (as in, telling me "turn left/right after the current turn). It also has given me completely wrong instructions on where to go at the end of the route to get to the destination, one time even getting me there, having me drive by it, then go a few blocks down a residential street, and say "you've arrived".. when I was clearly not at my destination.

Might try Apple Maps again.
Ah, yeah, there we go I guess. I know as a unmarried straight, white male that expectations are pretty low for me but married women (esp. with kids) seem to be in a catch-22 with all this. The Guardian had a series of articles a while back talking with women about careers and parenthood. It takes a lot of energy to fight against stuff you grew up with as well as conscious or unconscious societal forces.

There's also the factor of having done one thing a certain way for a long time, getting a little possessive of it or thinking it's better. "Well, if you do it like this...". :-/

At least y'all are talking about it and you seem to be concerned with having a good balance.
really? Pretty sure OCS was the same in all Amigas
I guess that's Mount Pinos. You can go a little further north from there into the desert and it's really dark there to see the whole Milky Way across the sky.
NEM (the cryptocurrency that was stolen) isn't decentralized.
Shortly after Trump was elected, there was a major problem in work Slack where people upset at the outcome would make undirected threats of physical violence in #general. After about a week of it, I was able to get it to stop by commenting on it something like: I don't think it's appropriate to make threats of physical violence in logged work chat. Tech companies get sued for things like bullshit patent infringements all the time, and it would be very damaging to the company for this to ever come out in discovery"

Fortunately, this comment made them stop (or move to a private channel, who knows). But the fact that they were making these comments for a week was rather shocking to me. Nobody involved seemed to think there was anything wrong with saying that you would, quote, "beat in the face of the nearest Trump voter" in a work chat room with ~1000 members
Cloud Communities: The Dawn of Global Citizenship?
That which allows mass surveilling?

The insidious thing is that sufficient storage + innocous tech can be transformed into surveillance... when everything's aggregated.
This whole time I thought the biohazard symbol was supposed to be abstractly evocative of a microscope with three lenses, seen as if you were looking up from the slide/stage. Indicating, I supposed, something dangerous that you need a microscope to see. I thought "Hey that's a cool way to convey that idea graphically."

Well, come to find out they were trying to have it not refer to anything. So it becomes just another example of how we (well, I) love to find meaning where there is none.

Examples, none of which is from the right angle:

http://www.scienceprofonline.com/images/science-image-librar...

https://abm-website-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/pharmpro.com/s3f...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/232/512560597_fa29e4d5a4.jpg

This one's closer to the angle but has four lenses:

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/detail-microscope-3429613.jp...
Lots of people still ski for leisure, or for the exercise, or just to enjoy the splendor of the great outdoors. If this is the kind of skiing you enjoy, I would say just pick a pretty mountain and contain yourself to the green runs and you can have a very laid back day.

On the other hand, if you enjoy pushing yourself physically then skiing can also be a thrilling pursuit of your personal limits. When you are competing with yourself, trying to become better at a hobby you are passionate about, you can definitely become emotional and a bit tense.

There are a lot of people all over the mountain that take it pretty seriously just for the fact that it costs a couple hundred bucks just to rent the equipment and get an all-day lift ticket. If you make $1000 a week and you just paid $200 to go skiing, you might be a little bit annoyed if someone is stopped in the middle of the run to take photos, or skiing behind someone who is mashing the bumps down by side-sliding because they rode a lift to a run they couldn't handle.
How is this any different than someone trying to get a loan from a bank without providing their identity?
I'd love to hear a thoughtful response to him. His lecturing style is, according to his own description, more exploratory than explanatory. He's said before that he's not trying to tell people what to think, rather he's basically just thinking out loud on stage.

This approach leaves a lot of room for disagreement, because of course there will be things left out, scholars not mentioned, and plenty of inconsistencies.

But I've yet to hear a real example of such a disagreement. All I hear is anger and contempt for him.
I've run into similar issues and had to switch back to Xorg. Aside from the major issues, the small things really killed my enthusiasm for Wayland. The one that really forced me back to Xorg is an extension for Gnome called "No Title Bar" no longer working. It's such a small thing that I don't expect anyone else to be excited about it, but for me, Gnome just doesn't feel right anymore without it.

I wonder what percentage of 17.10 users have similar nitpicks and switched back. I like the promised enhanced security and performance of Wayland, but it's gonna hurt when they do force the switch.
Once there were 184 Billion Bitcoins
Did Thunderbird ever get the major rewrite that was talked about several years ago?

I don't have any details. I just heard they were planning a major rewrite when I reported a bug a long time ago (over 10 years ago) and in the bug tracker the conclusion was that fixing it should be done as part of the major rewrite that was upcoming.

For anyone curious, here's the bug (from memory).

I had a host with a POP3 mail server running on the normal POP3 port. That host also had a second POP3 mail server on a different port [1].

I tried to set up two email accounts in Thunderbird, one for a POP3 account for user tzs on that host on the standard POP3 port, and the other for tzs on that host on the second port.

The second account could not be created because it said that I already had a tzs POP3 account on that host. Thunderbird was using user/host as a unique account key, rather than the more correct user/host/port (or the even more correct user/host/protocol/port).

I reported this as a bug, figuring that this would be an easy fix. At worst somewhat tedious but no challenge. Soon someone marked the bug as a possible duplicate, linking to a bug from a couple years earlier that was also due to user/host being assumed unique.

In the discussion one of the developers said that the user/host as key assumption was hardwired into the code in too many places, but that was one of the things being redone in the upcoming rewrite.

[1] The second server wasn't actually on that host. That host was using an SSH tunnel to make my work POP3 server appear on my LAN.
> Unix time can represent roughly from 1902 to 2038 in 32 bits.

Uh, several systems have already switched to a 64 bit timestamp that should last for a while. I am relatively certain that OpenBSD and NetBSD have done it, and I vaguely remember Linux doing that, too, but that might be a vague memory or wishful thinking. Other systems probably have switched, too.
You can make the monopoly less relevant or irrelevant by superseding its market. Maybe saying that's a case of "breaking the monopoly" is a stretch, but the point is it's a valid solution to the problems of a monopoly, which emanate from the market and financial power its controller wields.
Is just the elegance in they way it outputs the large number. I could easily do an expontianial of an exponential of exponential repeatedly exponentially and that would be hard to imagine, but it would look hacky
Great comment. I have $0.02 to add:

You may wish to consider writing down a mission statement / manifesto / spec on what you want for the culture. Then get some buy in from above.

Also, have you been happy at this company so far? If so, I’m hopeful you can keep it a place you’ll be happy (I.e keep it on track) If not, you probably still won’t be after this.

Good luck. I look forward to other people’s comments here too.
After a “major” launch anomaly, satellites scrambling to reach orbits
This is awesome! What data does this use? Does it correlate population density with light pollution?
Up to $250K in the US.
It seems like there's another factor of altitude or maybe humidity that makes a difference. In my experience, Atlanta is like you describe - a handful of stars and planets. But in Denver, which is colored the same as Atlanta, I can easily make out Orion for example this time of year.
Why I'm Not Doing the Tide Pod Challenge
No, could be proven by the transitivity of computability under composition.

Provided the function <(,) is computable for all typeof(f) and typeof(g).
Like fucking clockwork haha.
Perhaps that's even why he opted for the reclusive strategy.

Anyway, I love that headshot.
There was definitely a "get off my lawn" aspect to it but the thing that really led to acceptance was the dire economics of ski resorts: they needed boarders because the number of skiiers wasn't growing, and they were aging out.

Sad statistic: of people who put on skis for the first time (and remember first timers get free tickets and equipment at most locations in the US): only 25% of them ever put skis on a second time!
Extensions in Firefox 59
I thought it was more like 20-30% for specific applications, mostly database stuff.
Here in Denmark you can transfer any amount under about 20.000 USD instantly to other people with your banking app (amounts over 20.000 USD requires a call to the bank, at least for me, the one time i tried). We also have the mobilepay app wich makes payment, and peer to peer transfers effortless all for free. Checks ars so outdated here, that they where outlawed last year.
I use Route53 for two reasons:

1. $$$

2. certbot certonly --dns-route53 [...]
Nonetheless, humanity was not wiped out by the absence of phones.
It is telling that the top most comment in reaction to an article about right-wing harassment and doxing campaign is about how the maligned the poor majority is.

Conservative Americans openly advocate for white supremacists but somehow want to escape the label of 'racist'. Since the trouble is having discussions openly, the first step would be to first fully embrace our own positions. It would be far more helpful for the discussion if all these 'what about white men?' types just get the courage of their convictions.
No, when you delete your data (history etc.) it is also deleted from servers and backups. This was previously discussed on HN before, with some input from google SREs.
Here's a short series on math-based Thanksgiving foods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5RyVWI4Onk&list=PLaNzoFtkQ7... It's hard to know where to stop recommending Vi Hart projects, I find them consistently cool and fascinating, so I'll just mention her blog http://vihart.com/ and Patreon https://www.patreon.com/vihart
It's kind of cool seeing tech behemoths battle each other.

They aren't strapped for cash, hire brilliant people, so you really get to see the impact of different strategies and other factors at play.

I'm, at least, enjoying the show.
There are pyopencl and pycuda. Not sure what the best tutorials would be though.
MakerDAO uses collateralized smart contracts to provide stability to their Dai token. Right now, only ETH can be used as collateral, but in Q2 they are starting multi-collateral support.

https://makerdao.com/
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dai/
Are you genuinely unaware of how little they charge for requests?

Our last bill showed around 100 million queries last month, so that cost around $40.

We've got a dozen healthchecks, so that's another $6. $0.50 each is essentially free compared to the time it'd cost us to set up the equivalent healthcheck service with bind.

150 domains costs another $25

So our entire bill for 150 domains and a around 3M DNS queries/day is around $75/month.
This reminds me of a striking example during our UI design class, which eventually led me to conclude that there is no intuitive design of anything, unless you can make specific assumptions about the users.

You have a steering wheel, and turn it to the right. What direction do you turn? It's such a simple question. And if you're used to a car, or a bike, it's so easy to answer. Turn right, go right. Well except every captain with his boat will tell you they will go left.

And there are so many examples of this if you look at them. Our monitoring has a lot of graphs, but why would a rising or a falling graph be good? If it's latency, you want it low but not 0, because 0 would be weird. If it's available capacity, you want it high, but too high is right out as well, since it's a waste. In some cases, we need ports open because we kinda need to answer productive HTTP requests, in other cases, it would be rather silly to expose elasticsearch to the internet.

Intuition and intuitive meaning is such a hard thing.