skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any information on support for Europe? And if support for Europe were to be in the pipeline, would it be for the whole of Europe or only specific countries? We'd love to use Stripe for billing as well, but because Stripe is an American company, we feel like as Europeans we're constantly an afterthought and would therefore prefer a European provider. What's your opinion on this?

Btw, I was at the Stripe offices 2 years ago and it was an amazing experience. I really like what Stripe has done over the years. Keep it going and thanks!
I've forgotten to activate a card and it still worked, complete with the sticker still on it... And no signature on the back. Hell I don't think a single card I have is actually signed.
You can't knock everything else just because it's not a Mac. I've personally had my fair share of Mac problems and when I worked Help Desk we had our fair share of Mac Laptop problems that were comparable if not greater than our failure rate of Thinkpad's. This was in 2017 too.
Planet Earth II has an episode about this as well. Can’t remember if they mention the darwinsm aspect, but pretty sure I remember the Anthropocene term was introduced.
Other countries have already done this (e.g. Canada). So it's really only about the money and not about the culture.
> The only really glaring issue is ConEmu and related Windows terminal ecosystem is still hot garbage compared to any Linux or OSX terminal.

...and that bites you in a surprising number of ways.

I recently tried porting some software that runs just fine under Ubuntu-on-x86 to Ubuntu-on-WSL, and I found three different failure modes in the console/pty mechanism before I gave up. I then tried running it under Cygwin and it ran correctly out of the box.

Perhaps the easiest way to see this is to try to run a program like GNU screen under WSL, but the core problem isn’t any specific application. Any program that does anything even moderately tricky with ptys is likely to fail under WSL.
Older Americans Are ‘Hooked’ on Vitamins
Nix is the right way to build an OS; declare everything.
I'm the GNU coreutils maintainer and have fuzzed them extensively. For example a recent bad bug in TZ handling was found using AFL and fixed by: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=94...

We put a lot of effort into the test suite which makes it easy for others to test various experimental security checkers. This has been detailed in the "third party testing" section at: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-testing.html
Yes, and that's a good scaling rule. the person with $50 dollars is likely clueless and stumbling around trying to figure out what the rules are. The person with $50 billion can do serious damage when they screw up.

The rules in place are exactly backwards. the $50 dollar team is held to a high standard, with no affordances. the $50 billion dollar team is part of the club, so enforcers look the other way when they screw up.
Let me guess, you're a PHP developer.
Solar geoengineering proposals of this ilk are positively Strangelove-ian. Silver bullet solutions have unintended consequences, but the people who implement them are never held accountable when things go terribly wrong.
Yes, I quite agree - reading the news once a week can lead you to be incredibly well-informed. But since the OP was asserting that one oughtn't read the news at all, I find "once/week" to be a rather different proposition.
So does TutaNota and ProtonMail. So I'm okay with this one :)
In reality you don't even need to sign the paper. You will still get charged and the signature is irrelevant
Dell XPS laptops are very high quality and a definite suitable replacement for a Macbook Pro if you can justify getting rid of OSX. XPS laptops are also fully Linux supported out of the box.
GraphQL Subscriptions with React, Node, Apollo and Postgres
Some banks allow the user to choose the pin when ordering the card so they can save the postage on one extra letter.
So basically these stats are representation of the usage of your SDK over your userbase right? And it seems that your SDK is not that popular with those using non native technologies?

Are your SDKs installed on at least 90% of all apps in PlayStore? If not 90% what is the percentage?
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0213-lost-or-stolen-cr...

There are also state laws that may go further in consumer protection. The card network may also have additional protections. Finally as I've mentioned the issuer often waives all fraud loss liability.
Wow, this looks great! Does anyone have experience with it first hand? This might be what pushes me over the edge to finally pick up the Daydream View.
Does this support international wire transfers as an invoice payment method?

If so, that's a killer feature for us, as US-based customers have other options including simply mailing a check; it is our international customers exclusively who are interested in wire transfer...
Always make sure you are on the same page as those who you are following or getting information from. For instance, if you are friends with a journalist, make sure they don’t and up with bits and pieces of your story before it goes on to spread to become nationally syndicated news. You may end up reading another story that contains parts of those facts where all of it isn’t fully correct as it has dysiminated from other sources. When you are constantly exposed you may be imprinted to believe something else.
Great. Several people have pointed how this can essentially be used to read minds.

So it WILL be built, to keep the homeland safe. :-(

Almost forgot: “I love Big Brother!”
Why don't you go for it? I'd like to hear.
Then why submit it for peer review at all?
Curtains.vim
This is great! We've invested a lot of time into making lanes for our mobile build, and have found that we get a lot of fixes for "free", such as updates to newer more stable endpoints.
Depends on the person, I suppose. Most people go into voting booths fairly poorly-informed, so really any research you do is great.

I don't think normal humans will do homework before voting, since normal American humans vote pretty infrequently to begin with. But I think doing such homework can be a great alternative to staying engaged with the news consistently - I do it (sometimes/reasonably often but certainly not always) when voting for judges, or offices that never come up in the news I read.

The problem with that approach, beyond remembering to do your homework, is that it can be kinda hard to catch up on everything. Like, let's say there's something your mayor does that you hate, or would hate if you knew about it - are you sure that's gonna come up during your research? If it's a big deal it might.
> How to integrate billions of base pairs of genomic data, and 10 times that amount of proteomic data, and historical patient data, and the results of pharmacological screens into a coherent account of how somebody got sick and what to do to make them better? How to make actionable an endless stream of new temperature and precipitation data, and oceanographic and volcanic and seismic data? How to build, and make sense of, a neuron-by-neuron map of a thinking brain? Equipping scientists with computational notebooks, or some evolved form of them, might bring their minds to a level with problems now out of reach.

The article seems to conflate the praxis of science with the archival of it. Scientists do all of the above on gigantic clusters, not on an IPython/Mathematica notebook. The purpose of publishing papers, on the other hand, is adding to the archival of knowledge, and they can be easily rendered in a laptop with LaTeX.

And they are excellent at archival, by the way. You can see papers from the 19th century still being cited. On the other hand I have had issues running a Mathematica notebook from a few releases back -- and I seriously doubt one will be able to read any of my Mathematica notebooks 150 years from now. The same with the nifty web-based redesign of the Nature paper that is mentioned: I bet the original Nature article will be readable 150 years from now, whereas I doubt the web version will last 20.
I'm so excited about this. We were looking into Recurly, but the migration from Stripe to them seemed like a huge hassle. Not sure yet, but it looks like this will allow us to unify all billing in 1 place, without a large dev or monthly cost. #awesome
What’s the input to the agent? Just all the pixels on the screen?
My bad, another commenter pointed out that GNU Patch is not part of coreutils. The GNU umbrella is quite wide these days...
Dynimizer: A JIT Compiler for MySQL
Thanks for the hard work, this is awesome
A way to create and associate variants of a plan for FX would be cool. Kinda like bronze_plan:eur, etc.
Have you ever built a basic invoicing app? I have.
In all fairness, languages are tied to national identity in a way that, say, date formats aren't.

But honestly the fact is that the various schemes mentioned aren't seen as problems by the vast percentage of Americans and transitioning to something else would be painful to various degrees. And where it's important/useful to have metric and Celsius measurement scales, they're mostly used.
Ask HN: Anyone interested in Google engineer looking for job
Using a throw-away to protect my identity.

I currently work as a senior software engineer for Google and I am looking for a part time job as a software engineer. I am very well compensated and very happy with my current job, but for personal reason need some additional income for the next 12 to 18 months. I have extensive experience with Rust, Java, React, nodejs, ruby, mobile app development and distributed systems. I can generally pick-up any language pretty quickly.

Below are some of the things I can do for you:

- Write high-quality code,
- Set-up or improve your CI/CD pipeline to improve your engineers productity. Great tooling for engineer is something I am generally very passionate about.
- Set-up and build rich and interactive mobile, web apps with the ability to work on either the front-end or the back-end.

Is there anyone here looking for an experienced engineer to join their team or to build their prototype? Is there anyone here that have done that in the past and could you share your experience.

Disclaimer: Obviously I will only be able to help if you operate in a field that do not compete directly with my current employer.

Thank you.
I have never received the pin by post. My bank sends me the card, then I have to go online to activate it and set the pin on the website - the card never has a pin assigned to it by default.
> there is a disproportionate focus on paper quality over "project quality"

One problem is bitrot. Stuff that runs now is not guaranteed to work in 1 or 2 years, let alone 10 years.

Even more so when it runs on fancy hardware, like GPUs.
If I were an exchange and would earn tons of cash from Goldman on trading commissions, I would bail them out too, I guess.
I don't think it's money laundering as much as money stashing. A lot of this money is flowing in from areas where the banks are unreliable, personally owning real estate is not certain (there are a preponderance of eminent domain seizures) and your control of your in-country assets is subject to the government's opinion of you.

I don't think this is laundering as much as finding a mattress to hide it under that pays back a bit on your investment. So that if you lose everything you can liquidate your hidden little pockets of real estate and maybe make a bit of cash while fleeing to where ever.
Major blockchain group says Europe should exempt Bitcoin from GDPR
Existing users that hit 1 mil won't get a new 0.4% fee added?
Verge (XVG) Mining Exploit Attack Megathread
Good luck leaving your Uber driver less than five stars
Imagine coming back from lunch, you start to unwrap your sandwich at your desk. Then, your boss walks by and throws your sandwich across the room and explains while you were out your bug caused 440 million dollars of erroneous trades - and the company now no longer exists.

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/knight-capital-says-...
> <initializer_list> is "built-in"

You still need to include the header for any of the following:

1. Constructors (or functions) with `initializer_list` parameters.

template<typename T> struct S {
vector<T> vec;

S(initializer_list<T> il)
: vec(il) {}
};

2. `initializer_list` literals in range-for loops.[1]

for (int prime : {2, 3, 5, 7, 11})
// ...

3. Named `initializer_list` variables.

const auto primes = {2, 3, 5, 7, 11};
const initializer_list<int> primes2 =
{13, 17, 19, 23, 29};

> <iterator> is generally subsumed by "auto" and type inference.

The iterator adapters[2] are still pretty useful and (I thought?) commonly used.

Also, the "range access" and (new for C++17) "container access" free functions are very useful for writing template code that works with both C arrays and STL-style containers, but they're defined in many other headers.

[1] Useful with variadic templates:

[](auto&&... args) {
for (auto &&arg : {args...})
// ...
}

[2] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/iterator#Iterator_adaptors
> gentle spray of plain water

gentle, my eye. Here its usually forceful enough that it seems it would fountain out through my head. IMO way better than smearing things around and calling it clean.
1. and 3. can be combined with git lfs
> This looks like an attempt to censor anyone who's not thrilled with the Modi government. I didn't know HN also had armies of Sanghies.

Please keep Reddit and Twitter-like comments out of HN.
Here's an very clear article talking about this problem in general as well as specifically in Israel, where housing prices have more than doubled in the past decade:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/do-israels-ghost-apartments-ex...
Possibly because in a lot of Europe most people learn their native language AND english, and this isn't that much more difficult.

Plus, langauge preserves a culture (literature, etc), which isn't really the same as measurement systems. I wish the UK (where I live) would hurry up and ditch it's remaining imperial units (e.g. miles). It would make life easier.
That's actually the reason why I posted this. There is a lot of interest from programmers in rust right now, but the jobs in it aren't well known at all. Companies that have difficulty hiring now could benefit by switching some of their engineering to rust.
There are N^2 sets of rules. At the end of the day you have two counterparties engaged in voluntary exchange. Everything is negotiable, anything is possible -- you just have to ask or pay. What people don't seem to grasp about modern finance is how mind boggingly complex and dynamic it really is. The idea that a tier one investment bank and a small trader should be held to the same "rules" is so wondrously silly... it's hard to describe but there ought to be a word for it.

The only thing really annoying here is that all this wackiness is backstopped by the Federal government. Nobody has any doubt that at the end of the day they will step in to save GS if everything really goes sideways. And that's probably a good thing. But it's very strange that the big banks, which are essentially quasi-state actors at this point, get to keep so much of their profits when the public is bearing so much of the risk.

This is the real difference between China and America: in China the government does everything in its power to make sure its state-owned enterprises succeed and then it takes its pound of flesh. In America the government does everything in its power to make sure its state-owned enterprises succeed and then it gives them a huge tax cut to make the shareholders that much richer. It's a bold move, let's see how it plays out.
I got the impression it was about the Mac Pro, but you're right, it doesn't say that, and it's kind of hard to tell.
You're no worse off with the manager-takes-over scheme, though. Without this scheme, you just end up with a shitty racist server that gives you shitty service. With the manager taking over when the shitty racist server abuses the system to foist off customers they're bigoted against, either you end up with a shitty racist manager (so you have the same situation), or a good manager that actually gives you good service. And the good manager also has the opportunity to see that you're a good customer and draw the conclusion that the server that dumped you did so for shitty, racist reasons.

> Maybe if you just had to just stfu and deal with serving everyone, you get the opportunity to realize that X person isn't bad and actually does tip.

That's the current situation though, right? Seems like it's not working.
Has Plex added Google Home/Assistant support yet? Here is a thread with hundreds of posts asking about it which the developers are ignoring in favor of adding News feeds, VR and tons of other things that do not have demand:

http://forums.plex.tv/discussion/244317/google-home-integrat...

Strange company that Plex. I've cancelled my PlexPass because of this.
"Apples uniqueness here is their OS and the applications that run on it."

I really think you're wrong. Even a lot of people who run Windows or Linux prefer Apple hardware.
To those asking “Why doesn’t the US use chip+PIN?” there is a good article from the same source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/chip-pin-vs-chip-signatu...

Basically: the form of fraud it protects against is very rare in the US, and consumers find memorizing another number painful. Europe adopted chip+PIN not because anyone really wanted it but because it was mandated by law. It’s unclear that it has actually been effective.
but a $50 trade has a much smaller effect on everyone than a $50 billion trade
Pretty much this. It's also the reason why I believe cryptocurrencies will continue to do well in the coming years -- there's a need for a state independent store of wealth.
The problem is not the ability to "do one thing well", but rather that the power means the tool ends up doing a lot of other things ... not so well.

Patch does a good job of patching. There is no reason why it should also have the job of being able to run arbitrary scripts.

FWIW, perl was what convinced me that the previous Unix-y ideal of "do one thing well", was overhyped.
The original SlateStarCodex post addresses this. He argues that a microscopic amount of neurogenesis that is too small to be responsible for the effects everyone cares about (depression, brain plasticity, etc.) should be rounded to zero.
https://www.wiforms.com
How sad that British were able to sow enough seeds of hatred and division in India that brothers in arms ended up fighting each other and separating into two not quite at peace neighbors less than a hundred years later.
However the US is unique in not paying waiting staff minimum wage, which makes tips a whole other thing.
Ranking VPS servers based on in-depth performance tests
Well there's a few ways to look at this.

One diplomatically. The EFF doesn't want to overtly suggest that law enforcement are scumbags and thugs who abuse any system and can't ever be trusted. All sorts of people would rally together to defend poor law enforcement and that fight isn't productive.

Two, there is no perfect system. There can be no perfect system. For starters we wouldn't know what perfection looks like if we saw it. Between the flaws in people, tools, technology, etc a perfect system is impossible. There will always be flaws, even if the flaws are largely people using a pretty good system. hence the argument about flawed systems. It's a pretty safe argument to make because it aligns with what happens in the real world.

>If someone were to design such a system but without flaws in its implementation, would EFF be OK with that?

Call us up when that outcome ever occurs. I'm predicting sometime after the 5th of Never.
It's more than that. It has to be 25%-30% to also cover all the extra payroll tax that the restaurant now has to pay. In the end you lose customers to restaurants that aren't doing this. And if all restaurants do this, you just end up with people eating out less to the point where overall you're losing money.
With Matrix, switching to another server is painful because one's identity is tied to the particular server. I've done such a move and it requires rejoining all rooms and re-establishing any elevated privileges on each. Also, other people will still seen any People (one-to-one / direct message) rooms associated with the old account and may try to use them.
Practicing Buddhism is a scale not a binary thing. I’ve been a veggie since birth and meditated on and off. What I do like about Buddhism is less “do what I told you in a book” but more of “look inside yourself, find what works for you, and do that”.
Devout meat-eater here. I've had it. The burger is quite delicious. I was really impressed with what they've done. My burger was done sort of in the style of smash and scrape, which gave it a wonderful, crispy texture. The flavor is not exactly the same as a burger, it's more like the abstract idea of "meat". That's not a turn off though, it was quite good.
I don't believe the source of lack of change would be pure stupidity, but rather an extreme weighing in the favour of short term money making.

Most EMV countries have standardised on Chip + PIN, and before that on magstripe + PIN, and it is used equally across all of them.

Perhaps the problem is that people still think in terms of 'good guy' and 'bad guy' and nobody wants to be the 'bad guy' that made everyone upgrade their system to some sort of secure payment method. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/us-dete...
SEC chief acknowledges regulators may change their minds about tokens one day
+1 for Europe

Is there anything like it in Germany?
Krebs on 'shimmers' : https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/atm-shimmers-target-chip...
There's zero evidence that this is true. Apple is aggregating an incredible amount of consumer demand on iOS, so developers will jump through a ton of hoops to serve that market.

Is there any evidence that iOS doesn't have as many great apps because developers are fleeing because there's not a Mac Pro that they like?
Isn't this what Void Linux does too?

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16670337
And in terms of papers like Spalding et al., 2013 which "assessed the generation of hippocampal cells in humans by measuring the concentration of nuclear-bomb-test-derived 14C in genomic DNA"?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286741...
That way dictatorship lies...
That sounds correct. Although I feel like there might have been expanded version of this story somewhere, but this is definitely where I remember it from.

For posterity, this is bit more canonical source for the piece:

https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/coreutils-4.5.4/html_nod...

> Why GNU su does not support the `wheel' group

> (This section is by Richard Stallman.)

> Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and keeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I wouldn't know how to do that in Unix.)

> However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual su mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizes with the ordinary users, he or she can tell the rest. The "wheel group" feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the power of the rulers.

> I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you are used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you might find this idea strange at first.
The advantage of property being it will always be worth something.
If you're going to take a daily multivitamin for "insurance" then make sure it's not a megadose. In fact taking a children's vitamin isn't a bad idea.
kubernetes dashboard[0] is still very much alive afaik.

Some providers / distros may have deprecated it, but the community hasn't.

0 - https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard