skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you learn old English from that (rather than using a modern English translation), it'd still give you a good base (grammar etc.) for then understanding modern English. It might lead to learning a slightly odd/old variation of English, and might not be the most efficient route, but I can see it being effective for being able to understand English.
A good resource is: Rust by Exmple - https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/
Ya, but the effect of that will be to diminish investment in treatments. If you can charge a million dollars per pill for a cancer cure, then you'd be willing to invest an enormous sum to find that cure. If your price is capped at $1000/pill, you will be willing to invest considerably less.

This isn't out of any malice or malfeasance, i'd like to add. This is just a rational calculation. A real person at the top somewhere is investing their own money in this, in the hopes that they'll be able to recover that in the marketplace, and presumably make a profit.
> Click the image to download the LDraw file of this model.

> Model by Koyan

Cool! Just test this MPD-model[0] using latest nightly build of LeoCAD[1,2] - structure of submodels not clear, so need redesign this model a bit (will do it later).

The Super Car, set 8880, was first released in 1994.

Now we need to oil[3] those mechanisms ;-)

[0] http://bricksafe.com/files/blakbird/Technicopedia/LDraw/8880...

[1] http://github.com/leozide/leocad

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14801612

[3] http://i.imgur.com/hQ5Yxox.png
I'm left-handed and grew up writing English. Except in the cases that I take special care to hold my hand somewhat awkwardly off the page, virtually everything I've ever written has some amount of smudging. I have vivid memories of my graphite-coated hand in primary school. In addition, it's harder to see the flow of the word; your hand covers up everything but the last letter or two.

It's clearly something that impacts different people in different ways.
Thanks! Yet another thing to add to "the list of stuff I'm wrong about"... :-)
Not sure if this counts but I still have (and occasionally play with) an Atari 2600.

For you younglings, that piece of hardware is almost 40 years old.
No they don't. Here in Australia, a lot of stores (esp. cafes) will ask before giving you a receipt for low-value transactions.
There are thousands of types of sites, such as geographically focused message boards, local professionals, smaller ecommerce sites, etc. who are exposed under the GDPR but for whom EU traffic is incidental and worth nothing. A US plumber doesn’t need or want appointments in London, but is technically exposed under the GDPR. So for businesses like this, blocking EU traffic should be an easy decision - there is no downside.
Fast, efficient optoelectronic chips to hit market next year
Oddly, wiping the thing out and installing with a brand new download of Windows 10 from MS's site has done wonders. My old install media was pretty old. I haven't installed a single external driver for anything this time around and it hasn't crashed. My Vega video driver was even recognized. I'm gonna let it run for a day or so before declaring any victory. Fun side note, I JUST placed an order for an ASUS mobo to replace this one.
I'm Indian. I became fluent in English watching Cartoon Network when I was around 6 years old.

I remember watching The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Dexter's Laboratory, Powerpuff Girls, etc. Thanks a lot cartoons!
> Less moving parts, so increased reliability.

I use Nikon and haven't heard of a mirror failing on its own. Ever! Dead cameras due to some electronic part that got wet or desoldered OTOH...

> No high precision SLR mechanism means more engineering budget to spend on better sensors, etc

I don't think the way the reflex mirror works has changed for ~50 years.
> First it was the completely useless cookie notifications

It was useless in the sense it was trying to play nice. It was a gentle call for the industry to self-regulate. The only problem with that law was how naïve it was.

Go ahead and block the whole European IP range. See if we care.
As e-biking grows, U.S. cities consider easing rules
Adding more to @bayindirh's comment.
I am currently the active user of this app called 'memrise'. This app will help beginners improve their vocabulary. Also talk to yourself in the language you are learning, that will help you eliminate the translation lag.
I co-run a network of websites that are ad supported. We'd consider our network to be quite optimized in terms of maximizing ad value. If you're unfamiliar with online advertising, 58 tracking services sounds like a lot. To me that just sounds like "optimized" header bidding -- ensuring you're (the publisher) getting the best value for the ads you're displaying. Google does a ton of work ensuring malicious content is not being served, but of course the transfer of user data (which could be considered malicious) is fundamental to their business model, as well as the business models of every company that serves ads to their users. And it's the wild west where that's concerned -- whoever can make the "best" use of the data will pay the highest price.

This is why GDPR is catastrophic for ad-based EU business.

Realistically, if 58 tracking services watching what you're doing is scary to you, you'd better be prepared to either: a.) pay your worth or b.) see many of the sites you use go out of business or have their ability to operate severely diminished.
This is untrue. The signature and the amount in cursive do matter, but not in the way most people think, they matter only after the fact. If a check is unsigned and someone cashes it then you can usually get that money back in small claims court, though not always. Or if the signature doesn't match on a check you can use that to convince your bank that the check is fraudulent. Also, if the amount that the check was cashed for differs from the amount written in cursive, again you have avenues of redress there including small claims court.

As you say, none of this will prevent basically any amount of money from being withdrawn from your account however. But you do absolutely have routes available to you to get your money back. If your bank blamed you instead and didn't let you know what options you had then you had a shitty bank that rolled you, you should get a new bank (or a credit union).
> The only things that are checked are the digits of the amount, and the account number.

YMMV. Simple won't let me deposit a check made out to "Me and Wife" in my personal account - I can only deposit it in our joint. They'll permit me to deposit "Me OR Wife".
No, the size of the sensor has nothing to do with the light exposure.
The amount of light captured is determined by the lens aperture and the photosensitive element size.
The problem with small sensors is that their pixel density is much higher and this increases the noise.
Also to have the same resolution a bigger sensor can use bigger pixel and that increases the amount of light captured by the single element.
For example a full frame sensor with 12MP has a better signal to noise ratio than a 48MP one.
If you use a sensor that is 4 times smaller then if you want to maintain the same resolution the signal to noise ratio is much smaller, if you want to maintain the same low light performance then your resolution will be 4 times smaller.
Just think about a full frame sensor, if you crop the image in the center the final result will be exactly the same as an image captured with a smaller sensor with the same pixel density.
>but I don't see how it's worse than Facebook or Google.

They are worse because you are forced to use an ISP if you wish to access the internet.

>However, Google/Facebook break all the security layers because we explicitly _trust_ them with all our data.

Nobody informed who cares about their privacy ever entrusted Google or Facebook with any personal information.
The author is wrong.

You just do what google does and ask for consent before providing access to the site. The user doesn’t need to log in to consent. Once consented, the site can set a cookie. Then that user becomes part of your “Full interaction users” bucket.
> What's the relevance of learning Rust for someone into web development?

Rust is a language that cares a lot about correctness. If I were particularly interested in making sure the code I wrote worked in production, Rust would be my first choice in the set of a dozen languages I know.

Rust is probably quite a bit faster than whatever you're using for web development. The normal counterpoint to this is that web requests tend to be rate limited by the database. This is mostly true but using Rust pretty much guarantees this will be the case. I believe that this point isn't that compelling with current architectures but would be worthwhile in a CQRS architecture where formatted data gets pushed/cached by the web servers and servicing requests stays on-machine.

Rust is one of the more compelling web assembly languages due to not needing a garbage collector. Demos exist but this is mostly in the exploratory stages.

Longer term, I expect Rust to have a unified async networking stack. You can do blocking IO networking in Rust but I expect most network clients/servers to be mostly async once the Tokio stack settles. This is all expected in node but the networking libraries tend to be fractured in most languages.

I don't think you should run out and switch over to Rust for general web development. There's going to be a big release in the fall that rolls up a bunch of ergonomic/convenience stuff that should make it easier to pick up and less annoying to use. I also think that IDE support will be important for a lot of people learning Rust. The situation is improving but the support is not up to par compared to more mature languages. All told, it's serviceable but I don't expect it to be particularly compelling as a web development language for at least another year or two.
Most European cards use Chip & PIN with pin preference: If the terminal supports it the card will ask for a chip instead of a signature. Chip-based signature transactions are only used as fallback if the terminal doesn't support pins (which is very uncommon).

Unfortunately most US cards don't use a pin code at all. There are a few issuers that provide you with a pin code, but even in those cases there's typically a signature preference and the pin code is only used as fallback if the terminal doesn't support signatures. So if you're using a US card in Europe pretty much the only places where you can use the pin code are automated terminals (e.g., at train stations). At most other places you're going to have to use a signature.

There are a few US issuers that issue Chip & PIN cards with PIN preference - for example UNFCU and First Tech Credit Union. Those cards work great in Europe, but are sometimes a pain to use in the US. E.g., if you're paying at a restaurant and you have to go with the waiter to the terminal in some backroom, because the terminal asks for the pin. That's not an issue in Europe, as waiters usually carry mobile terminals with them.
How about the OS log all the actions taken by an app with respect to contacts and other system data, and allow you to reverse them?

And make an indicator in the status bar similar to how an app recently checked your location.

They might even highlight (in red) new changes in the Contacts app. Or when you get such a message from a new user, the Messages app would do the highlight the first time.

Seems that would mitigate this particular thing.
Same here but I have had maybe 3 out of several thousands of transactions where the cashier asked to see my id because it wasn't signed..

The signature generally smears off after a few weeks anyways.
Just last November I miswrote a check where the digits and written amount differed, and it was processed for the written amount, which has traditionally been the controlling value.
I can't believe I'm saying this... but someone please port this to MacOS. Finder is still a hot mess.
Yeah I see what you mean. There is some stuff that doesn't look like a recursive descent parser to me, but that's probably because there are some JavaScript idioms and that's not my main language.
Bacteria can pass on memory to descendants
I used a self-hosted Piwik (Matomo) instance for analytics at my previous job for a few years. It worked fine for my basic needs and has a great API that I used for custom reports, but I wasn’t doing anything terribly complex. I recommend it, especially if you have full control of the decision and time to learn a bit about it.
How are you tying your ID and the user? If it’s a cookie, you need to get consent and let the user view and rectify information tied to that ID.
It's high time. Nothing irritates me more than a cashier asking for my signature.
I do love Cameron Grey's videos. Often worth reading the YouTube comments too, which not something one would expect to say. In the comments:

>That slot is for RAM for the DSP. Very few things ever used it, but the option did exist. I've never seen one with a SIMM in there, though. IIRC it wants 50ns FPM RAM, and can take up to 1024Kb.
As soon as the safety drivers aren't in the car, people will die. Cruise's software is atrocious.
I travel a lot between the US and Europe and the cultures are very different:

In the US I have my real signature at the back of the card but I just draw a straight line when signing the receipt. No one ever complained about that.

In Europe I sign with my real signature (because I know that cashiers there are more strict) and even then sometimes hear complaints that the signature on the receipt doesn't exactly match the one on the card.
Not because dots don't matter. That's unrelated. It's because people don't know or lie about their own email address.
Read up. Consent under GDPR is like you've never seen before, but like (as a private citizen) you've always dreamed of.
Although you can leverage multiuser capable systems for more security by, say, using different user accounts for playing games and banking, or whatever.
Wow. The named spaces switcher seems promising to me.

I think it would be great to have custom names for spaces, and assign various apps to each space, and then be able to log the time spent in each space to a text file.
For someone not from a Western culture, it will also help them understand a lot of cultural references that won't make much sense otherwise, like "seeing the handwriting on the wall."
New York has almost the same number of people as it did in the 1950s. You can't blame this on population growth.
Can we also standardize the noise the machine makes when the transaction is a success? You know that sound "ENGHH ENGHH ENGHH" that is somehow a positive sound? It's like an alarm clock sound. Why is it not a positive "Ding!" And some will say well it's to remember your card. Well if that's the case, how about force the POS system not to print the receipt until the card is pulled? Or better yet, why does the card have to stay in the machine so long?
What is the hardest part about starting a SaaS company?
Yep.. some people think he’s dumb but I’m not so sure about that. We think that when someone is full of fallacy that they simply don’t know any better, but what about the alternative? You can use fallacies as an effective tool to further your aims. We are so vulnerable to them that we must be educated about them to be able to fend them off. If the audience isn’t educated on how to identify and fend off the fallacy, it will be effective.
When I visited the US in late 2014, most places didn’t support contactless payments; a few did, but the operators didn’t necessarily know it, because basically no US cards supported it. I really confused a Subway employee near San Francisco by using it, and stopped to explain how it was that the transaction had gone through without him noticing.
One should make a habit of checking receipts. It is truly amazing how many mistakes some businesses make.
Not as complex, but I got this for Christmas https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/BMW-R-1200-GS-Adventure-42063 . My friend gave me this gift because I have the real version too. My name is Greg, I am 48, and I still love LEGO
Then why is MICR positioning such a pain? (I work with software that automates the check printing process)

Checks have many safeguards against fraud. "Catch me if you can" exploits have protection.
Gmail can't cure stupid.
Get a girlfrind from the UK, USA, Canada or Australia. That has worked best for me.
You think the mail room staff at your apartment are going to care about your signature, ever?
They can be pretty handy. I don't have a physical checkbook and that causes problems for me once or twice a year. Typically when I am buying motorcycles. Those transactions tend to take place on weekends when my bank is closed and for amounts larger than my ATM cash withdrawal limit. They also tend to occur with parties that do not accept electronic payment methods.
Heh. In 35 years Americans might finally stop writing checks, too.
Why is it awful?
First Impressions of Benewake CE30 Solid-State LIDAR
Ask HN: Account recovery procedures for best user security?
your circular logic translates to “the fact that these allegations even bothered to come out is evidence that they may be false”
Republican senator says Facebook scandals may be 'too big' for company to fix
The American banking system is still basically at the level of the horse and buggy. Inter-bank transfers are next to impossible.

Here in Australia, I can just give out my bank account number freely -- the worst you can do to me with that information is send me money.
Decentralized Computing Language: Features and Goals
> It does say that they exaggerate their costs (presumably so as to argue for patent laws); that lots of those costs are perverse (e.g. bribing doctors); and that the patent laws inhibit innovation in lots of ways.

That's certainly true. Pharma companies spend enormous sums of money on bribing doctors, so to speak (usually it's slightly indirect, because direct bribery is illegal). However, there's an interesting economics point here, which is that: A company should only spend a dollar on advertising it if expects to make 1 + epsilon dollars in return. Which is to say that each dollar of advertising spend shouldn't really be factored into the cost profile of the drug, since each marginal advertising dollar exists only to generate > 1 dollar of profit in return. This is a little bit difficult to wrap your head around, but it's true.

One way to summarize this is that while advertising dollars may cause prices to be higher than they otherwise would be, they don't impact what companies ought to be willing to invest in. Although, that's of course only if you assume that all drugs are equally marketable. Which is almost certainly false. Hmm...will have to think about this a bit.

> Now, if the insurance company has some way of, say, spending $2m to fund medical research that cuts the cost of treating X from $50k to $25k, then that would save them $2.5m in costs. (Making no reference to patenting or even selling the drug.)

This is an interesting idea, but one problem I see here is that it would incentivize insurance companies to silo and keep secret their medical research, because better treatment would be a competitive advantage for them, and cheaper treatment would allow them to charge lower premiums, which is also a big competitive advantage.

> The uncertainty might be handled with a research consultant who makes "educated guesses" as to the expected value of different research paths.

That's exactly what pharmaceutical companies do :).
Realistically though no one is checking, especially on smaller projects. You may be putting yourself at even higher risk since open source contributors are often not vetted as deeply as random employees.
from molf's comment:
>The alternative is to only collect data that is strictly necessary to provide the service.

While I agree with your comment, I suspect that for any given law firm, paramTotalHours_Billable(SubjectID = necessary) will be a much larger value.
> Stanford is a non-profit. It is also charitable.

Yes, but even non-profits have to manage their resources.
A Blockchain is much worse than a credit reporting agency. Instead of one entity having your records, everyone does!
For most American pubs - and hence producing English language content -- there's very little risk. Most of the EU won't read it anyway, and if the uk privacy regulator wants to complain, let them.
Do you have any citations for this belief? The law is pretty explicit that you need consent to collect data from users, they need to be able to view what you collected and they need to be able to delete it.

Are you hoping that nobody notices that you aren’t complying?
I know that this is irrelevant, but is it worth the trouble to learn an esoteric language such as Rust? For me it seems a waste of time to learn a language along with its ecosystem where there are few job prospects.

Right now Go seems to be on an upward trajectory, and despite its ugliness and how primitive it is, it is the job which can pays off when hunting for jobs.
> ShopKeep and Square, two popular small business payment systems, said they do not plan to immediately update their systems to allow retailers to skip signatures on all transactions. (Both currently allow merchants to disable them on transactions below $25.)

> “We’ll play it a little bit by ear,” said Michael DeSimone, ShopKeep’s chief executive. “Right now, I don’t think there’s a high level of awareness about this. Let’s get the changes in place and see how they work operationally, and then we’ll adapt.”

I can't imagine the hell of a place that must be to work when extending a feature which works at $25 to any sum — or no sum at all — is that hard. I can think of some really good reasons for it to be that difficult, but all of them sound like a terrible working environment.
The reason why these kinds of food will not be regulated is fairly simple; unlike previous GMOs, there is no way to tell them apart from 'naturally' bred counterparts. A regulatory regime would have to solely rely on the developer's honesty, which isn't really viable.
With Tesla in a Danger Zone, Can Model 3 Carry It to Safety?
Their Clasp tool lets you code Apps Script from your own editor:

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/clasp
Injecting JavaScript into someone's pages for "security" sounds like one of the very worst ways to go about improving security. I'm surprised I haven't heard of that injection being hacked to do very bad things yet.
Yeah, it hasn't gone well those times i've used antifreeze to get the fire going when smoking my food.
They should really consider using a CI system to run their tests.
The government has a little more than the guns (in the form of the police, the jails), it also has the ability to force resolutions to prisoner's dilemmas and tragedies of the commons that are currently working in our favor. If corporations ever cut out a group of people that should actually be served (for example, denying loans to capable individuals on grounds that have nothing to do with their financial stability), then there is a Schindler's list motivation for corporations to "defect" and include the group. Then, the market dynamics make everyone else a lot worse off unless they also defect.

America already has one experience with a mechanism that can coordinate non-equilibrium behaviors among companies that would individually benefit from defecting: racism. Government fiat is another such mechanism, and as far as the similarities go, it could produce something of the same results. (Groups cut out of society with nowhere to turn.)