skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes sense to me. You can't buy many cash equivalents with credit card and can't usually get cash advances from a credit card, so this is just correctly implementing that policy. Can you buy stock with a credit card?
I know, except SDL also has OpenGL support ;) Plus enough stuff to handle the rest of your game.

My main confusion is I know some SDL and OpenGL, but no Go. Thus, I don't know how to choose a SDL binding. Fighting with the binding is not a good thing when you want to learn a new language by doing a space invaders clone :)
I paid accident claims for over 5 years. Only a tiny percentage were a case of wrong place, wrong time, shit happens. The vast majority were either accidents waiting to happen or policy abuse, where policyholders were essentially scamming the company completely legally to cover routine chiropractic visits.

My mother is German. I have lived in Europe. I will suggest that the fact that you are European will likely inoculate you against a lot of worst case scenarios because normal American practices that promote disease and injury simply are not part of your culture.

Diet plays a very large role in disease. Immigrants don't typically start living off of fast food burgers. They continue eating largely like they did at home.

Europeans tend to drink responsibly. They have wine with dinner or drinks with friends at a pub. The US has rampant addiction problems killing people.

If you don't plan to abandon your current healthy lifestyle habits, suddenly start drinking and driving just because you set foot on US soil and otherwise abandoning all common sense as you have known it for your entire life, you probably don't need to fear that taking an American job will trap you in American medical poverty hell with no hope of escape.

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Maybe for you but i dont think that is true for a majority of the population.
A physical analog of this would be when an Houston airport reduced complaints by moving it's baggage claim to be farther away from gates. Would you call this deception?

Also: A friend runs a service that analyzes web page design based on tens of thousands of hours of human eye tracking studies. An analysis only takes a matter of milliseconds, but they found that their conversion rate went up if they artificially put in a delay. Again, I wouldn't call the delay a deception; but rather an accommodation of human perception where longer = harder, and thus more valuable.

In the same way most people can't reason about probability, most people also can't fathom how fast computers really are.
Having just returned from China after a year, I must also point out that 支付宝 (Alipay) is also extremely popular for payments.
Also, tsunamifury noted that their theory is that the wave of migrants "...who neither had bank accounts, credit cards, or phones" is partly responsible. Again, I must point out however that WePay requires a linked bank account in order to allow for the transfer of money.
Animal tissue unlike plant tissue accumulates stuff magnitudes more.

Bioaccumulation of harmful substances as we rise through the food chain is a known issue.

Using our best antibiotics to produce 60 billion chickens per year is a state financed suicide and not at all a free market mechanism.
This article lumps a lot of techniques together that are fundamentally different. The ones that are actual deception are not benevolent, and the ones that are benevolent are not actually deception.

Deception is leading someone to believe something that isn't true.

If a deliberate delay is added to a UI to make it clear to the user that actual work is being done, this is not deception. You are leading the user to believe something that actually is true. The natural instantaneous UI is the deceptive one for a user who is led to believe that no actual work happened.

A fake progress bar that shows steady progress when the actual work is stuttering is not benevolent, unless you can be sure the operation will finish in a fixed amount of time approximately at the end of the progress bar. This kind of deception is irritating and not benevolent.

A fake progress bar like the way change.org petitions make it look like people are voting up the petition right now? That is deception, and regardless of the merits of the particular petition I don't think it's benevolent.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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"If it's too good to be true, the seller is probably using it to launder stolen coins." This theory gets floated frequently in the various crypto subreddits.
Even QUIC found that the couple of bytes of "flag" fields in the header were enough for middleboxes to mess with it. It seems incredibly hard to devise a protocol which is extensible without having middleboxes mess it up.
> I'm not very familiar with restrictions on credit card purchases - are there other high-risk purchases that are routinely blocked on credit cards?

Yes; some examples:

https://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/naughty-things...
Echo runs on Android. Amazon Fire runs on Android.
> The govt blocking the access of similar foreign apps (Whatsapp, Skype etc.) to the Chinese people has some role to play in the popularity of it.

This is not accurate. Along with WeChat and QQ, people can freely use Skype and MSN messenger in China. The success behind WeChat and QQ relies on their rich features, fast iterations, etc.

I still remember that during the 360 vs Tencent event, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_v._Tencent, a lot of people switched to Skype as their communication tool to against the company Tencent, but not long after that people switched back to WeChat and QQ. It's simply because WeChat and QQ are easier to use.
In addition, the "market-based" proposals to address this problem mostly exacerbate it. The suggestion is always that patients need more "skin in the game" -- in other words, that they need to be responsible for even more costs out-of-pocket -- and yet it's completely predictable that fewer people are going to seek preventative care if they have trouble paying for medicine now.

This also ends up being a pretty unfair way to apportion care because a rich man couldn't care less about a $100 fee and a poor man can find it prohibitive.
Why do more work on mpeg-2?

Couldn’t that path just be left without acceleration, being it’s a less complex codec to begin with, usage is not growing, and the data sources are likely smaller to begin with (no 4k for example)?
Well, when you're setting the standard of being unable to negotiate or shop around for prices, you're definitely not talking about stuff like flu treatment. Sure, that might not be "elective" care, but it's not the type of care that stops you from making a couple phone calls to different providers. But more likely you know which provider is the "wal-mart" provider vs which is the "Macy's" provider.
Before wasting your time on this hopelessly optimistic article, here is the most important sentence:

“Tencent is a content partner of The Verge in China.”
You made the comment that a solution is to not eat meat product. Then if vegetables are tainted, then how is not eating meat a solution? The correct solution would be stop misusing antibotics.
It's interesting because you pretty much said it in your first paragraph: it's legal, through lobbying. Make proper laws? How, if it's the companies benefiting from the current state of affairs writing those laws? How, if the government isn't serving us the people, but the interests of those that can grease the palms of the persons in charge?
Sounds like an enormous risk to take on for credit card points.
Where do you see the words “work safety “ anywhere in the comment I’m responding to?
>5% of all people even know that the concept exists.

I believe more than 5% are familar with the concept photorealistic computer graphics. Machine learning based face transfer is just a newer iteration that significatnly reduced cost.

Same goes for synthetic voice.
I've always thought of the brain damage as a given; concussions will cause damage, the brain's a little "iffy" on the healing front, and severe concussions are basically unavoidable in football. If you care about whether you get hurt: Don't play, don't let your kids play, and so on.

It was much more interesting to hear how much the NFL had covered up, and the degree to which they directly lied about the evidence of the effects of playing the game.

The cover-up is the scandalous part, so of course that's the part that people are going to focus on.
It's still useful for some applications. ATSC digital broadcasts in the U.S., for example, are in MPEG-2, as are the signals provided by many cable companies. I have an HDHomeRun Prime, and purchased the MPEG-2 HW Decoder license[1] for my Raspberry Pi 3 to make things a bit smoother.

[1]: http://www.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/
Hmm... I'm tempted to say you should be looking at the number of squares uncovered, M.

If you got a good first click, you wouldn't want to waste it on unnecessary risk. If you got a bad first click, you'd want to keep guessing until you either died or uncovered another large section.
> Depends on the State. In Oklahoma, it wasn't allowed. In California, you can.

Aside from state rules, some cards prohibit it, much like this new restriction on cryptocurrency.

Also, CA is one of the states which prohibits this.
Given the amount of activity in porting Chromium to Fuchsia [x], my bet is on Fuchsia eclipsing Chromeos. A possible reason for this would be to get out from under the linux kernel; Fuchsia/Zircon enables google to make changes quickly.

[x] http://bit.ly/2EBckRk
I contend that the United States is the closest to an unregulated free-market system of any country in the OECD. It seems to me that if having a totally free market is a "cure-all," then a more free market ought to be a "cure-some," and yet we observe the opposite.

Further, "skin in the game" is mostly a euphemism for increasing out-of-pocket prices for care to encourage patients to be "discriminating consumers," a concept I've already detailed my objection to.
Allwinner would be pretty foolish not to fully fund this endeavour (including stretch goals). They couldn't do it themselves this cheap. They'd make up the costs in new sales faster from FOSS-minded devs in no time flat and they'll have minimal recurring dev costs in the long run.

To me this is a no-brainer.
As If I Didn't Spent Enough Time on College
You can't always add a few more servers. For example, let's say you have a per-request processing budget of 100ms.

The efficiency of the generated code for your language of choice effectively limits the amount of (non-concurrent, single threaded) code you can run while processing said request.

It's exactly this limit that eventually leads engineering teams at your Dropboxes, Facebooks, Twitters, Tumblrs, etc. to start investigating alternatives or alternative implementations of their favorite dynamic languages (PHP/Python/Ruby -> HHVM/Pyston/?).
I would think that fake progress bars about "triple checking" your taxes would fall into that latter categorization.
>And I'm pretty sure it's always been "technically not allowed" to buy another currency with credit cards.

but you could always buy gold/silver and other extremely liquid and fungible goods, which is as good as money.
I'm a senior in high school, and after applying to college I did some analysis on my essays to identify which prompts are really important, and what colleges want to hear. This post describes the methods and results of the investigation - I would love to hear suggestions on other ways to analyze the data, or other conclusions that could be made.
it would probably be an advantage to measure the shift effect from multiple sources as you travel whatever fraction of the speed of light, giving both your position and derivatives such as velocity
Not with support like yours, no.
> Who's making all the money?

An example of where it goes:

"On June 24, 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported that McKesson Chairman and CEO John Hammergren's pension benefits of $159 million had set a record for "the largest pension on file for a current executive of a public company, and almost certainly the largest ever in corporate America." A study in 2012 by GMI Ratings, which tracks executive pay, found that 60% of CEOs at S&P 500 companies have pensions, and their value averages $11.5 million."[1]

> Increase the supply of X or many other bottlenecks by deregulation and result in decreased price?

Unfortunately, I suspect that increasing the supply of CEO's would somehow be totally ineffective. They seem to exist outside of the usual supply and demand dynamic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKesson_Corporation
Probably the most popular of these are against pneumococcal bacteria (Prevnar, Pneumovax...).
That works a bit better when your opponent is a failing empire that just finished fighting two World Wars and is now facing an insurrection by 400 million people in a land several weeks away by most viable transport methods.

Believe it or not, many ignored/laughed-at people, movements, etc. throughout history wound up not winning.
That really depends on whether the proponents are right or not.
Afaik on the application side most WeChat applications are just NSWebViews or UIWebKit instances.
Then at this point I would rather all the nonfree stuff just go away. (Yes including HN)
Didn't the SEC / IRS rule that crytocurrencies are an asset rather than a currency though?
Working simple and effective ways to mine Bitcoins in 2018 – Part 2
"The security theater appeared to work." (referring to a fake progress bar in a game)

That's not what security theater means.
...unless you have some bitcoins already lying around. in which case you could simultaneously buy and sell at the same time, reducing your risk to almost 0.
My point was that they don’t lead to legality issues. This has been the case since the invention of the digital camera. No matter how convincing digital images (now video) has seemed, they aren’t “proof” in the eyes of the court because they can be faked. There’s nothing new here.
His reply was snarky and created a false dichotomy. The 90% usecase exists in between “lightweight VM’s” and google scale horizontal app deployment. Consider that the former is just as much an outlier as the latter. This post is about a pragmatic minimal Ubuntu base image, which would meet neither case well.
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"anything that gets banned must be righteous"

(you know, like scamming people)
This is an astonishing thing to witness. Many people are familiar with the well known sites, they have seen the temples in pictures or on a TV show, for example Tikal. These sites are commonly depicted after they have been painstakingly reclaimed from the jungle, the structures are stone colored and the paths among them are dirt brown.

What's not commonly seen is the view out from atop one of these tall structures - the chaotic green sea of the jungle canopy is punctuated by tidy triangular mounds as far as the eye can see. The landscape is littered with these structures that were once upon a time built and maintained by many generations. Weep ye mighty!
I get the sense the end goal here isn't in productivity but more for education and creating environments that foster a programming mindset and/or nourish more emergent creativity from being able to code at a higher level (probably the most consistent theme in all of Bret Victor's forays).

In a sense, it's basically just a framework with a text editor that isn't based in an OS but instead a 2d surface that you interact with, using your hands and interacting in a more social medium than something like, say, git.
So I should never pretend that an operation that took 10 ms took 200ms so the users stop hammering the Save button over and over again because there's 'no way' it could have saved that quickly?
People will have karma scores generated by the number of people using their characteristics for their virtual porn. The web will be autocrawled looking for updates to the score.
Personally speaking, I believe it is unethical and disingenuous to lay claim to achievements that are not one's own, especially those that are (supposedly) part of one's ancestry/heritage, a sentiment I first heard from the great George Carlin [1].

> It is the same as modern Westerners looking back on ancient Greeks and Romans.

I'd have to disagree with you somewhat there. Those that forget history are doomed to repeat it. While it is important to live in the present, it is equally important to remember that we are standing on the shoulders of giants. There is a lot of value in casting glances at the past from time to time.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/228332-pride-should-be-rese...
Why?

Buy Bitcoin on credit. Sell immediately. Deposit to bank account. Pay credit card bill. Repeat.
Indeed. Though that issue sort of validated the approach: middlebox vendors will latch on to any unencrypted bits they can. The only way to stop that is to encrypt _everything_.
> Didn't the SEC / IRS rule that crytocurrencies are an asset rather than a currency though? Mm

The IRS decided that that's the category they fall into for certain tax purposes. Not sure why that would have any bearing on the application of credit card issuer policies that are not tied to the particular definitions in the tax code, though.
The main question is: why should we upgrade to Office 2019?
https://github.com/veandco/go-sdl2 is the SDL binding most people are using. It is solid.
As far as a niche. Any stats on how many websites don't have chat?
QQ didn't require a smartphone, while WeChat did. You can basically see WeChat adoption as being correlated with smartphone adoption (and the middle class adopted them first). Also, young people are more likely to use QQ than WeChat because QQ is anonymous and focuses on gaming, they are much less interested in WeChat's location-based and commerce features.

Note that QQ and WeChat are both Tencent, they aren't meant to be in direct competition with each other.
Even when working in closed source environments there is some open source project you will use.

Liked it? Disliked it? Go to github, check their issue list. Most projects have beginner picks, grab one, solve it. Invest 30 minutes a week, and you'll have a solid, steady contribution showing on github.

Contributing is often a matter of minutes, and should be driven by your needs. That helps a lot.

I picked up Go and started contributing to Terraform providers because I use Terraform at work, and it's interesting. Side bonus, now I can fix all issues on my own and submit PRs to make them disappear for others.

For info: it's not a time issue. I run my own company, I have children, I am single parenting, I exercise daily, and enjoy a few leisure activities.
Is it on the lake?
This is highly amusing to me. IRS rules that crypto currencies are not, in fact, currency, but commodities and treated like property for taxation purposes. A couple of banks are now saying, "we won't let you purchase said commodities with credit cards". It's an arbitrary restriction. It goes to show you just how much control large centralized banks have over our purchasing decisions...which, to me, just reinforces the need for decentralized financial technology.

A lot of folks on here are proponents of net neutrality. I think banking should be neutral, too.
My impression was that humans are still routinely bested by indexes in the long run, so being "dominated" by humans sounds downright scathing.

> Those programs may be useful, but they are not A.I. because they are static; they do the same thing over and over until someone changes them.

Oh, I see. It's better because it's AI. My mistake, then.
1) It breaks some webpages, so they probably only want to have it where it's relatively clear that users will prefer their privacy over not having breakages.

2) It pisses off webpage owners, as it hampers their analytics and probably ad revenue. If webpage owners are too pissed off by Firefox or simply don't make enough revenue from it, they'll stop testing/building their webpage against it, which leads to broken webpages in this way as well.
The news for me was that until now they were allowing these transactions.
Not everyone is capable of keeping up with modern life, being responsible for bills, payments, admin, forms etc.. particularly if it is made deliberately convoluted, or if there is a concurrent medical issue.
It happens and some people are malicious, but he was penalized and it was considered a dirty hit. The point is that is the only hit of it's type that was seen during the game which contained thousands of collisions.
If you're paying significant corporate tax isn't being frugal even more important?
This sounds so much like the peak of the .com era. It’s almost as if it’s a prerequisite that you must be a freak in order to get rich from the early days of any technical revolution.
MSN has been dead for years, how can people in China freely use it?
I think it's a bad idea for society to make the decision for them, though.

It's not just a bad idea, it's totally immoral and unacceptable. Denying a person their agency is denying the very essence of what makes them human. It's no different than slavery in principle. Either you have self-ownership or not, there is no middle ground.
Everyone said the same thing about Android.
Protecting people from themselves is a USA tradition. Ask the SEC. I assure you once bitcoin trading has the protections that SEC adds to stocks, JPMorgan & BofA will once again allow credit card purchases of them.
I had a report in Microsoft Access that took about five minutes to run - and the users hated it.

I had the application throw up a fake dialog with fake messages about "Collating data, Cross checking, Sorting" and other such nonsense.

The report now took eight minutes to run because I had to abuse the "On Timer" event for it to work.

The users were delighted with the improvement.
> but collapse the steps together and it's the same as the government saying "give us X shares of the company,"

Great, you've just described taxation.

> which is nationalization -- the government taking control (even fractional control) of a company by force.

How is buying shares on the public market with government money taking control of a company by force? No current shareholder is obligated to sell their shares.

Ah of course, taxation is theft... [1]

> If nothing else, company officers and the board have an obligation to shareholders, which would would not want to see their shares diluted in that way.

Shareholders voluntarily selling their shares to the government does not 'dilute' shares of other shareholders. It doesn't matter if the government's money came from taxing the company, some other company, or individuals.

[1] I'm sorry, but if you want to take advantage of a country's labour force and markets, you are expected to pay taxes. What the government does with that tax money is up to them.
That it's short for cryptography.