skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might fail, but it probably won't. Also your card might pick up static and not interface with the terminal. Or you might break it by bending it in your pocket (happened to me a while back). You say there's no UI for cards, but that's only the case for transactions under €20. With phone, no PIN required for transactions over X dollars. One motion for everything.

Then add that you don't need to carry a wallet if you have phone payment. Throw your phone in a sleeve (or use a watch!) and go running, stop for your smoothie on the way home.

Finally, since it's a phone I can call it when it's missing or my watch will tell me if it's in the Uber I just got out of. Even works when intoxicated!
Web technologies have some unique non-technical qualities which trump the technical arguments:

* Standards based with no single entity or company "owning" it.

* Multiple mature competing implementations.

* Massive support across the industry and a huge ecosystem.
I found it mildly amusing to see an article about concerns over data monopoly on a Bloomberg website.
Don't worry, sending mixed messages about their services is part of Google's grand strategy.
Tried to visit redbox.com, but get an access denied: https://imgur.com/a/QoVUJ

> Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.redbox.com/" on this server.
Reference #18.18a9645f.1519288990.4e3b07
Offline-capable todo app with Firebase Firestore
troyhunt - 9 times

Most secure name for a password possible. :D
There are lightbulbs that form mesh networks using lasers. I forget the name but I recall it being on HN last year so it must be true! A quick googling finds something similar https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/14/linux-light-bulbs-allow-de...

If lightbulbs can provide wireless power to devices in the room that would be awesome and have practical applications even if it can't charge something as power-hungry as a phone very quickly.
I never understand one point. I am using bunch of paid services and many free services. For paid services, I am paying from first day but in case of free services when they start charging I find alternatives.
100 page report warning about AI
so you can lose the deed to your house because it gets hacked..?
It sounds to me like the first part you describe(strong social pressure against job hopping) leads to drastically reduced worker mobility (swinging the balance of power in favour of the employers), and thence to the second part (relatively low salary ceiling).
Yup. The default interface for almost every normal users these days is a web interface. Yes, there are mobile apps, but even on mobiles, users will need to use websites, despite the best efforts of vendors at lock-in into their walled app gardens.

Heck, even on desktops, sometimes the UIs feel quaint and antiquated: no back button/undo by default, many times scrolling failures at different resolutions (the settings screen doesn't fit at a certain resolution and the button is out-of-screen somewhere), text can't be selected and copy-paste by default...
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I hope this capability gets to maturity. It consistently seems like anything I want in a language is in progress in Julia; new scientists in 15 years are going to be very spoiled if Julia becomes mainstream.
It might as well not exist in this day and age: https://www.excelsiorjet.com/#pricing

Yes, you can argue: "that's not fair", "for a professional programmer that's worth only a few weeks of work's for massive productivity improvements", etc., but things don't work that way.

Most developers have been conditioned to not use commercial products, if they can. With an extra downside for the commercial product being closed source.
Niantic's Ingress kind of demo'd an early approach to this idea of pedestrians doing map data collection -- http://simplify360.com/blog/ingress-how-google-is-gamifying-...

Quote:
> The game is always prompting the player about his location. In this regard, Michael Carney from PandoDaily said, “To capture a Portal, and harvest the “energy” contained therein for his respective team, a user must physically go to a location and check in. additional energy is available by travelling specific walking paths, bike paths, and inner-city routes dictated by the company, all while the user’s Android device is transmitting GPS and accelerometer data. In some cases, the user will be required to photograph locations or objects along those routes.”
This will open a new can of worms. A new electron app uses some new feature that updates your runtime. But unfortunately the runtime update to make one app work breaks some other app.

The current model isolates the runtime to every app. The download size may be big but I have a guarantee that my app will work without interference from others. Honestly, that guarantee justifies the binary size for me.
Any big 4 if you have experience, most unicorns and established "prestigious" tech companies too. Keep in mind you'll most likely have to live in an area with a high CoL
Hopefully you and those other grad students will have learned more by the time you finish your degree. A proper meta analysis does consider the differences in controls across studies, and can be extremely useful in understanding why different studies got different results and identify bad studies. Not only do they help gain a better understanding of results, but they help find ways to better design future studies.
In Europe we have chips and PIN on cards, most transactions are useless without them so you can't do much with just the card number.

Though some transactions on the internet can be done without them but that's rare and diminishing, and that probably not possible for the contactless cards
Asking someone's opinion is not at all the same thing as giving them a say.
I liked the fizzbuzz example very much because it was so unorthodox.
people can "prefer" what they want.

Problem solvers get the job done
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Being relatively low level is a feature. HTML / CSS / JS are languages, not frameworks. One liner modals are not a feature a language should have.

If you want, you can make a framework on top of it that will behave like a desktop UI framework with standardized elements and behaviours. There are plenty of such frameworks actually. But not having to use such a framework is nice.

Besides, the current browser environment has been historically heavily optimized for websites, not desktop apps. If it became a popular choice for desktop app UI we'd have developed more appropriate features for that use case.
You mean like those "Works in IE/Chrome" standards?

I am yet to see the huge ecosystem for Web components that matches component libraries like those from DevExpress or ComponentOne.
You're not giving him a say, though. You, and you alone, make the decisions.
Wonder if the headline was meant to stoke the fires shortly after the Maldives find themselves with the Chinese Navy in their waters and I assume India freaking out. The timing is uncanny.
Big companies sue small ones to break them. (For reasons, like nipping potential competition in the bud for instance.) Patent trolls sue large ones because there is meat on their bones.
USB over Ethernet
...under false marketing pretense & propaganda
"Getting jobs and being an employee has opportunities, it's easy for many in our industry to get 200K+ salaries"

I wish we would stop repeating this, like it is some kind of universal truth.

It might be easy for tech workers living in specific parts of the US, it is simply not true for the vast majority of their collegues in other parts of the world.
There are more details in this piece, the astronomer was taking just 20 second exposures so he really did witness the breakout phase: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/amateur-astron...

I once accidently captured a supernova in the Fireworks Galaxy (I was aiming for a nearby nebula and missed), but this was one that had been visible for several weeks previously. This was with pretty modest equipment, a 135mm lens and DSLR.
For anyone who sees this and is as confused as I was, this is apparently true for small transactions. I've always had to unlock however, not sure what "small" means here.

From the docs (https://support.google.com/pay/answer/6289406?hl=en):

"To make most purchases, you need to unlock your phone. You won't need to unlock your phone for certain small payments."
The state of the pin is encoded in the type of the variable that is used to access the pin.

This kind of encoding prevents you from making the programming error of writing to an input pin - which is technically possible, just useless.
How does that fit in with a worker not keeping his word about what he is to be paid?
In many times bindings are:

* incomplete

* immature

* not up to date

and definitely out-of-tree, aka not maintained by the folks that make the original toolkit.

Would you bet your company on those bindings?
Things like requiring drug companies to conclusively prove that their treatments actually work and don't kill people when used as intended.
”with a correct workaround which is rounding (for finance) and an horrible evil twin "formatting away and praying" ”

Are you suggesting the “precision as displayed” setting in Excel is that evil twin? Why?
They do that in a prior post:

http://pramode.in/2018/01/31/ti-launchpad-with-rust-new-io/
That was only one example, and I explicitly mentioned Excelsior instead of other alternatives, because it is free for open source projects.
They announced something for this at IO last year: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/17/google-has-an-indoor-posit...
Are the problems that this company is trying to solve actually worth solving?
“As an alternative to cookies, then, we opted to hash the user’s IP address and their User-Agent string”.

So if a user is on a mobile device and switches networks, 50/50 they will receive a consistent version?

Did you consider using Geo based filtering? Iirc Cloudfront has support for geo restrictions, so you could create multiple distributions and restrict one to a geo for rollout.
You can use React and js to build native desktop apps without electron today. Use https://proton-native.js.org/ (based on libui).
Would love to share my experience since it was pretty different from most of my peers. I contributed to VTK, building tools to magnify invisible motion, based on a CSAIL paper [1].

Unlike most people, I hardly had extensive programming background. In fact my core competency was in the image processing (I come from an electrical engineering background). I never considered my programming skills good enough to participate in GSoC. In fact, one of my friends told me about this project a week before the deadline. I was already implementing this algorithm for a course project of mine, though it was in Python. Hence I spent most of my time learning professional programming and ended up successfully completing the project. In the spirit of open source, I have shared my entire GSoC application publicly [2], I hope you find it helpful!

[1] http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/evm/
[2] https://medium.com/@ashray.malhotra/google-summer-of-code-gs...
The flash appeared between two 20 second exposures. Supernova are generally visible for between a few days and a few months.
Two separate issues here:

Don't continue after the trial period ends. This is a successful transaction by the standards of everyone involved, right? The SaaS company successfully induced a user to try it. The user got free use of a product and decided against adopting it. The various parties that come under the heading "credit card companies" were all instrumental in facilitating commerce. The fact that no funds were actually captured is not maximally relevant to anyone here; no harm happened. This is like a user walking into Best Buy and walking out without buying anything; Best Buy is eagerly supportive of that, within reason.

Buyer's remorse is a real thing, but it is not the case that SaaS companies operating aboveboard have 60~70% of users regret their (actually charged) purchases.

Suppose that a particular customer is dissatisfied with a particular SaaS company. The first line of defense is very clear messaging around trial timelines, payment terms, etc; the company should avoid surprising anyone.

The second is likely the SaaS company fielding a CS inquiry from the customer. The overwhelming policy of SaaS companies in response to "I started a free trial and gave you my credit card to do so, and whoops seemed to have gone over by 2 weeks, but didn't actually use the software." would be some variant of a refund and (if they're smart) an offer to extend the trial.

The reason that SaaS companies have their finger on the refund button is that, in the event of them saying "Well, you agreed to these trial terms, and under our terms you do owe us the $29", the customer can open a dispute with the bank which issued their credit card. The bank has wide discretion on whether it wants to side with the person who is their customer (and generates revenue for them) or the SaaS company which is not their customer and doesn't generate revenue for them.

Most people who have run SaaS companies will tell you that disputes are unfun and that, even if one is in the right, one will not successfully win a huge percentage of them, and so one should comport one's affairs to generate as few of them as possible.

Note that any company which sustains a dispute rate of above 1% or so will get a very unfun series of decisions made about their business, by either the credit card brands or their credit card processor. You urgently do not want this to happen to your business.

SaaS businesses are not at a very high risk of this happening, particularly when well-operated. They generally sell a product which mostly works to customers who are relatively savvy, and as they have ongoing relationships with customers, their customers only need to go to the financial system for resolution in extremis.

There exist other businesses which are at substantially higher risk of running afoul of high dispute rates even if they do everything right.

Disclaimer: I work at Stripe and so the above is theoretically professionally relevant to me, but I'm speaking here mostly in my personal capacity, as someone who spent 10 years selling software over the Internet on no-card-required and card-required free trials.
It's shocking this article doesn't take a more concerned stance on this incredibly dangerous technology. If one can without too much difficulty infect a population of rats with an infertility inducing gene, one can probably do the same for humans (or just an "undesirable" population of humans…)
If the dollar continues its downward trend...
Coffeeboy – a gameboy emulator written in coffeescript
I'm not sure you would save that much memory. It would be a similar situation to having Chrome open with a bunch of tabs (those are separate processes as well) - it's the tabs themselves that consume most of the memory, compared to "bare" Chrome.
They don't have monopoly on the data, just on the access. And they start to realise that this can disappear quickly if someone invests enough to provide a competitive interface (e.g. Reuters). Google's in a better position, replicating underlying data is even more expensive.
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I grossly oversimplified what he said, and he's a trained clinical psychologist. The underlying point is exactly what you said: Anti-depressants have very complex mechanisms of action which we don't fully understand, and may not understand for a long time.

That they work is good. That they work about as well as CBT does, poses questions which as you observe goes to: Obviously therapy and other techniques should be attempted before drug prescription
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Or, if you're a complete and utter pessimist: When there are too many solutions looking for a problem, it could also mean that there is too much money in the wrong hands.
Who's the problem solver: the teacher or the student? And what job? Learning? When is that 'done'?
No pois, no maps.

Google is unfortunately still the winner here.
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> The manufacturer can and will make the device more and more difficult to tear apart

The company built the thing. There are tools, parts, and instructions that tell someone how to put it together. There are also tools, parts, and instructions that tell someone how to take it apart.

It may require special tools and parts, but for any mass-market item it won't be difficult with the right tools and the knowledge of how to do it.

The reason for this is that the company will lose more money by making it difficult to repair for themselves than they will ever lose to a DIY repairman.

My solution for DIY repairs:

- Official, real service manual made available. If you allow the company to provide a "monkey" version they certainly will.

- All neccesary parts and tools available at cost, or the cost of their generic equivalent in case of things like proprietary screwdrivers etc.
f--cktrump - 1
f--ckbush - 945
f--ckclinton - 0
f--ckobama - 128

I guess you can draw some conclusions there... maybe
- pwned accounts were created between 2000-2016
- Democrats do worse at secure passwords?
- In 2000-2008 people chosed worse passwords?
I see what you're saying. We all want to improve technology here right. But I don't find it a great deal of effort to leave my phone on a charging mat when I go bed already. I think we're already at an efficient cost of effort over financial cost of an even more effortless technology already.
Ohh! Gotcha. That makes sense.
I am a layman so probably use words inadvisably. Some drugs supress effects in the brain, some enhance. Yet both are seen to be deployed to try and treat depression. This is a very confusing signal. If the condition can present from either too much or not enough of something, what diagnostic determines which to try? What evidence do we have, of a mechanism to determine which except for "suck it and see"
Quite literally trading magic beans to punters, noice. For high-value pedestrian-only areas it would also be quite viable to send out Google employees or gig-workers. Likely with dedicated hardware, which wouldn't have to be very big or alarming: a consumer WinMR headset is already doing a first approximation of the kind of scanning you'd want.
Turn 10 micro sd cards into a sata ssd drive
JavaFX doesn't run on iOS. While your Electron app will be tweaked to make a Cordova app that runs on iOS.

Avalonia is at beta level at best, would you bet your startup on it? Xamarin.Forms ok, but XAML is not 100% the same everywhere, anyway. WPF is not Xamarin.Forms.
Yes, "push a man into a fire, and end his hunger forever" useful stuff fire.
You need trust as soon as you want to interact with real-world entities anyways.
> I blame the rise of "UX", just like "DevOps" is too blame for needless infrastructure.

you can't just drop a sentence like that and not elaborate on it - unless you want to offend somebody.

Each resource hungry "DevOps" tool has its place and has its worth. They're just often misused. A small IT firm with <10 Hypervisors won't need openstack for example. Thats only worth its maintenance if you're working with tens or hundreds or hardware machines.

And a webapp which consists of <10 services probably doesn't need service discovery and advanced de-/commissioning of containers/vms. Administering hundreds of microservices without that is borderline impossible however.
I would slightly amend that to say that it's easy for tech workers willing to live in specific parts of the US. Nobody is tying you down to where you live currently except yourself, and probably more commonly, your own obligations and preferences regarding family/friends/lifestyle

Edit: and also your work permissions status
Curious, when I Google "Microsoft Office" the first non-ad response is literally the page explaining which version is which and how much they cost.
No?

First of all, big companies don't usually have multiple Twitter accounts; rather, all their representatives communicate from a single account.

Second of all, even if a company did want to use a multitude of Twitter accounts for some reason, the ban is on posting the same content to multiple accounts, aka spam. Not simply having multiple accounts available to choose from in the same interface.
This case will go on until Redbox goes bankrupt, settles, or is bought by Disney.

Lords, even IBM vs SCO is still going strong. Huge cases like this just never really end, a curious feature of the US legal system.
As for input it can be always read to check real pin state, for example in open collector where 'high' value is determined by pull-up resistor, because microcontroller just make pin floating
Okay, I may be overstating just how quick it is -- you might have to spend a few days of CPU time to go through the whole list, based on estimates I'm seeing. (Parallelize it however you want.)

But don't act like I don't know there are a finite number of passwords. The number of possible passwords grows exponentially with length, and the number of leaked passwords grows linearly with leaks.

It's about the number of possible passwords you have to check. There's a huge difference in magnitude between having to hash "all 10-character passwords" and "all 10-character passwords that are definitely someone's actual password".
> Even better, in the country where I live, almost all debit cards have a number and a Cv2 code.

You don't have this in every country?
Enough with the snark. I am actually trying to listen to recommendations for better terms and you're deliberately not helping which is really making it hard for me to extend empathy here. (HN is generally a place for constructive intellectual commentary not petty frustrated juvenile crap.) I am not talking about people simply feeling uncomfortable. That should be abundantly clear by now.

Or, we can chalk this one up to you misinterpreting the scope of events to which my initial comment refers...
Fun aside, I once wrote a JVM AOT [0]. Instead of compiling to low level code and building my own GC and runtime, I just transpiled to Go. And it worked, but the Go compiler couldn't handle it well[1] so I started trimming identifier names and shortcutting JRE libs to use Go versions. It became tedious so I gave up. I should revisit that project one day, heh.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/goahead
1 - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18602
I (and I am sure others) have implemented RAID on top of multiple USB sticks on a USB hub. But the documents online which describe how to do this all seem to say "don't do this" For the same reason: when it breaks, its horrid. unlike devices designed to be ganged up, removables have pretty bad failure modes. I would hope the micro-SD has better ones, but I am unsure.

The device looks like its maybe designed for fast parallel programming/writing to cards.
We can have a hundred millions of self-driving cars dumping the sub-centimeter LIDAR data of surrounding to OpenStreetMap at any given time.

Come to think of it, I see zero reasons why you won't own measurements of your self-driving car, and choose to upload them. Yes corporations may try to pass it as their intellectual property, we should fend them so hard they roll back into XIX century.