skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damn Your Strong Autistic Guy Makes Everyone Look Weak Wow
The payments clearinghouse in USA is in need of an upgrade but no one wants to pay for it or suffer any downtime or errors. Waiting up to three days is the reason why Paypal/Venmo, credit cards, cash and wire transfers are still so popular but these fast options can carry hefty fees. e.g. Credit cards skim 2% of businesses' revenue, ATMs can charge $3, and wire transfers are 25USD. Banks also benefit from the liquidity problems that can result - it's another reason to apply for credit or leave a larger cash reserve on deposit.
Our Meteor webapp designed for real-time vehicle tracking was built in 2015 using Blaze, DDP, Pub/Sub and Iron Router.

Today, our webapp continues to work better than ever with the above technologies thanks to the continuous improvements made to Meteor by the MDG and the community.

Our business currently has no use for GraphQL or React.
It's the same as a paper contract.
Course: Mathematics for machine learning
As they should be. Just finishing up my 2 year college and I'm about to transfer to a much larger (and more prestigious) state school for my BS and MS. It's turned out a whole hell of a lot cheaper using a community college than paying $23k for four semesters.
If you're into portraits, the Olympus 75mm/1.8 is one of the best M4/3 lenses available.
I like the tried-and-true method of just shooting poachers.
The U.K. has just had its first house purchase signed for using a digital signature for the land registry: https://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/3029651/hm-land-registr...
Blood Sweat and Pixels: The Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
AMA with Marc Andreessen
> Watch movies with original sound and English subtitles.

Something I've heard over and over is that using subtitles actually stunts your growth, because it's too easy to fall back on instead of making sense of what you hear.
Congrats FB.

Best 'voluntary' customer department ever!

>>
Emergency dispatchers are getting calls from Facebook users around the world about five to 10 times each week.

Every time, dispatchers still try to help.

“We try to deal with it and give them some direction. We give them instructions. We may log into Facebook and we may walk them through the process of reporting the issue.” said dispatcher Charleen Manning.

The big question is whether these 911 calls about Facebook could keep dispatchers from handling a real emergency call.
It seems I am one of those in the tarpit.
I think the problem for us engineering types is that there is so much bullshit around marketing, that it's offputting to us. That's the case for me at least. If I spend time/money on a feature, I know how long it will take, how much it will cost and when it will be ready. Compared to this, marketing seems like burning money with voodoo rituals.

It doesn't help that marketing efforts are only meaningfully measurable on a larger scale. If you're bootstrapping something yourself, you don't have 12k to spend on marketing this month. You have $300. It's easy to burn that $300 on adwords or facebook ads and get zero signups, with no meaningful data whatsoever.

The usual advice goes: hire a marketing expert. But how do I hire a marketing expert that a) isn't full of it, b) will even listen to me if my current budgets are in the hundreds of dollars?

I think the article is right on point, but I wish it pointed me to a way to deal with the marketing problem.
You are right -- 3rd St from Broadway to Binney is all new in the last 10 years, previously was dead space or old industrial (i.e. not housing!). Even the old OSF building on Broadway is now gone.

However on 2nd street, between Hampshire and Binney, there are a lot of commercial buildings that I think used to be housing.

1st Street (Hampshire to Land Blvd) is also seeing a lot of regeneration (mostly old retail into new mixed development).
The Nation indulges in fear mongering about cell phones and cancer
The best I have found is "Duplicati" which runs in the background of your computer and can backup to all internet backends(I use it with ondrive and box), a NAS, or a USB stick/attached drive(pretty much anything). It is open source as well! It automatically (locally) encrypts all your files after compression and does it in blocks, making it quite space efficient. It also has versioning.
https://www.duplicati.com/
It's not without problems in Aus as well - Only 1 out of our 'Big Four' banks actually accepts it. I suppose it's a bad example.

However 'Tap and go' is so widely adopted that I haven't carried cash in months and I know people that legitimately don't know their own PIN
I assume it has something to do with how easy it is to connect your data with other aspects of your identity. Presumably with an ISP it is associated with the name of the subscriber, whereas there is some chance with other DNS servers that this is untrue.
I have no affiliation with the author, but I bought this as I love the 'Split Screen' podcast from Kotaku and this is written by one of the podcasters. It is a very insightful look into how video games are made, which is worth a read by anyone who is interested in the video game industry.
So edgy. You made a brand new account just to post this trash?
Yeah, pretty much any browser that was newly installed or updated from late 2012 onwards has tls1.2 support. The population of browsers older than that is <1% at present.
Similarly, I’ve come to rely on BART being late—although instead of arriving too early, I’m more likely to arrive late when I bet on a few minutes to spare, but the train happens to be running on time…and then end up working later to compensate.
IIRC, back when I worked at Wells Fargo, they further audited a certain(7?) percent of the checks being processed.
There are now gold-backed cryptocurrencies for Muslims that conform with Sharia
The people don't have a choice, and the leaders want to maintain control. if they maintain control, and growth continues for a while, I think they are okay with it.
Once in the UK, the cashier didn't want to take my credit card because there was no signature on the back.

I wondered, which kind of graphology training do Tesco cashiers go through in order to be able to identify a fake signature?
Java expression switch feedback from Stephen Colebourne
An upgrade is actually in progress.
https://www.nacha.org/news/nacha-membership-approves-same-da...
More infuriating than that is when you accidentally catch an express that is behind a local and stops at the station you want for five minutes but doesn't open the doors. I've never been to NYC, but that's happened to me sometimes. It's also annoying when it happens to someone else who's like "let me off let me off"
So you don't recommend it or I'm missing something?
Yes, of course, and it was WebRTC. We ended up with a better solution (encoding the metadata we were storing in IPFS in a bytes32 stored in the Ethereum blockchain).

There were extra scripts and setup. Overall moving off simplified our stack, so it was probably a good move despite libp2p's crashing.

Could be totally fixed by now for all I know.

That said, it was believed that most Protocol Labs resources were/would be devoted to Filecoin, which is probably a safe bet.
Going by your hybrid car analogy, electric would make most sense as a brief power boost on takeoff, allowing the aircraft to use smaller, lighter engines to cover cruising power requirements more efficiently.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean there isn't a legal benefit.

A paper contract must be done in two copies. Every page numbered and signed by both parties. That's the only way to cover your ass against the other party replacing pages and terms.
Sure, theoretically, that would work, if I were near either of the 2 bus stops in SF that serve the line I'd need to take. Those buses also only run every 20 minutes when they're on schedule. It's not a great solution.
The incentive for the merchant to collect signatures is fighting chargebacks. If there is a disputed transaction and the merchant cannot retrieve a receipt the customer automatically wins regardless of almost any other fact(s). But on purchases of less than $50 it was decided by the market that skipping the signature saved more money in faster checkouts than it saved in dispute resolution.

The EMV standard includes a purchase total verification step where the customer is shown the number and must press OK to confirm. But again speed has been considered more important. That OK? prompt is going away and Quick Chip will first authorize a dummy amount and send the real amount after the transaction is totaled up. It's not like USA market was using PINs for two factor authentication anyway. Restaurants are allowed to adjust purchase totals for tips and closing out tabs.
>> The F-1 camera was thoroughly superior to the Nikon F and a formidable rival of the (introduced in 1971 as well) Nikon F2

I've some old Canon film gears: a Canonet and Canon P. All of my film SLRs are Nikons and Minoltas.

Let me see this F-1 fellow :)
That's not always true. I bought a car in 2012 and paid by check. Unfortunately I tranposed the cents amount for 89 and 98 in the two number fields. I got a call a few days later saying the check didn't clear because of the mismatch and that I needed to come back ASAP and write a new check with the proper amount in both fields.
A Masters degree is usually qualification to teach college in the field of the degree (regular faculty in community colleges, lecturers in major universities—though lecturers are somewhat rare).

A masters in education is qualification to teach education classes, not other subjects.
My goal is to be able to spend my life spending time with my family. Have them never have to worry about money. Hike the Appalachian Trail. Get in the best shape of my life and take 4 weeks of vacation a year. See the world.

Eventually I'd also like to be an angel investor and help entrepreneur's achieve their dreams too.

My method to achieve that is very unsexy. I am simply working hard to fully fund my retirement account.

Right now I am funded well enough to retire at 60 if I contribute nothing more -- I'm 33 -- but I want enough to be able to retire immediately. Which would be about $6MM USD.

Not so I don't have to work (I'll still work anyway) but so I can be picky about who I work for / what projects I work on. Probably even self-fund some of my own idea.

To help with that I've accumulated as much equity in startups as I can muster through hard work and making the value I added good enough to earn substantial equity.
I’m sure the Ju-88 thing probably happened. IIRC there were at least a couple instances of caputured B-17s trying to slip into formations and shoot at damaged bombers, and there were definitely a few cases of captured allied fighters being used on bombers.
Doesn't play nice with mobile handsets on portrait orientation. Each row is actually rendered as 3 rows.

A (hacky?) fix would be `overflow-x: scroll` I guess.
These Americans are trapped in their jobs: they need to pay $10,000 to quit
Thanks :). Hadn't come across the Germany freelancer visa.
>trusted sources, basically Google or Apple.

I'd say open source apps are more trustworthy that Google or Apple.
wow, thanks for reminding me about that. i read it years ago. its exciting that he holds enough rights that he can distribute it himself!
I had a bank tell me there was nothing they could do because I didn't notify them of a fraudulent transaction on my account within 90 days.

I didn't need 90 days to find a new bank. (A credit union, in fact.)
Yes, I believe some polyglots recommend that you never watch a movie with a disconnect between subtitles and the audio track.

English audio/English subtitles is fine. Assuming you are French, English audio/French subtitles is bad. French audio/English subtitles is also bad but not as bad as the previous combination.

The reason is that if you have subtitles in your native language, you will tend to just focus your brain on reading them and kind of ignore the audio portion.
I know more Canadian/Australians/South Africans in the Berlin Tech Scene than Germans, and they seem to mostly share your motivations and seem rather happy with their choice.

The Freelancer visa rather easily lets you stay for two years. In that time, you can find a company to hire you and sponsor a more permanent visa. IIRC, you can apply for permanent residency after five years in the country.

Berlin was dirt cheap for a long time, and still is compared to cities with similar size in similar countries. It's full of people trying all sorts of alternative approaches to life. As long as it's not criminal[0], you can do almost anything and probably find five to five thousand others than want to do it with you, two journalists than want to make a documentary about it, and one New York Times article declaring it the new trend.

[0]: or probably even if it is
I haven't touched a physical credit card in 2 years. Mobile payments is the future
>why would you want to bring a child into the world knowing the amount of suffering that its is likely to live through?

This statement is all but calling them selfish idiots. Your question is nothing but a self serving rhetorical for conclusions you already made.
See also: Ranges and Range Lights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_lights
My apartment's leasing office accepts UPS/USPS/FedEx/etc. packages on my behalf when I'm not available. Whenever I go in to pick up a package, they ask me for both my ID and my signature on a tablet. Immediately after I tap the 'Confirm' button, I get an email with a PNG of the signature I just "signed". When I first moved into my apartment, I made some effort to give my regular signature. Nowadays, I just make a couple waves with a single finger movement which looks like nothing out of the alphabet. The mailroom staff really couldn't care less how I sign since they've already looked at my ID.

I always wonder what the point of the signature is in this scenario.
Do you still live with your parents or rent from a slum lord who only takes cash? Most landlords seem to only take cash or checks, it's really only the national apartment companies that take online payments.
Why Open-Plan Offices Don't Work (And Some Alternatives That Do)
In what country do you live?
When will autonomous vehicles be “ready”?
That's just going to fuel nationalism.
https://vim-adventures.com
> Does that mean that a high school physics teacher knows nothing more about physics than high school physics?

Probably not; the state policies adopted under the pressure of NCLB and it's successors put strong pressure on districts to hire teachers with at least a bachelor's degree in the field taught for secondary schools, and even teachers that don't will often have additional coursework as part of college breadth requirements.
Interestingly, many credit card companies don't keep the required paperwork to legally collect on their loans.

This is a business decision they've made not to be in compliance.

Cases are routinely deemed uncollectible in court when challenged and they are required to remove the items from your credit report.
Each country in Europe has its own visa, and depending on the visa you might need other visas for other countries if you want to travel around. So the first question is where do you want to go? Do you know other languages than english? (north countries speak English either as first or second language) Oh, don't forget one country is leaving the European Union in the next years (it might impact you).

First find a couple of places you want to live in and then search for their visas, doing it the other way is going to be a nightmare as you already know.
DNS over HTTPS (DoH) works in the latest Firefox Nightly: https://facebookexperimental.github.io/doh-proxy/tutorials/f...
Ad supported publications aren't immune from this though, if anything they are just as susceptible.

To get the most ad revenue they need to cater to the majority. See e.g. clickbait. For stable income, finding a group and catering to their opinions/narratives is also an option, and is also not independent news. See e.g. infowars. Finally, to get any ad revenue, they need ads. Unlikely many corporations will run ads on anything that is perceived even slightly controversial nowadays. See e.g. YouTube.
Amazing internal mechanisms, but the body is very bare.

My favorite is the 4x4 crawler sets.

https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/4X4-Crawler-9398

https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/4x4-Crawler-Exclusive-Edition-41...

BTW if you really want an 8880 you can order a used one here: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=8880...
My landlord takes Chase Quick Pay, which is really nice.
Good is slowly becoming Microsoft. Just when we finally have a handle on worms spread through Word and Excel Macros, now we will have Google Doc Macros.It will be interesting to see what kind of security vs usability we will see. Also, with these Google macros, will an abusive macro that spams, get you locked out of your Google account and unable to access your documents?
Only if you inspect the source, understand the source, and build it yourself. Most people just check if an app is OSS and then install the binary version from the app store.

I've installed plenty of OSS apps but I've never built them myself and while I've looked at the source code, I have no way of knowing if what was in the repository was what got delivered.
Not the constitution, but certain laws were enacted in a similar way by US. Especially in finance and securities:

- banks all over the world have to ask their customers if they aren't American, when signing up for an account. Even a local bank in rural Poland, which couldn't care less about international markets, has to now ask people to explicitly confirm that they are not American citizens

- if you're doing a security offering, and you happen to sell to an American, even if they live in Europe, and you're blocking IPs from U.S., you have to follow the US regulations as well

And yes - it is kind of shitty, but EU wasn't the one to start a trend of applying the local laws on foreign soil.
Gut microbes are vulnerable to wide range of drugs
We’ve had no problem hiring people without degrees in the Netherlands (from outside EU/EER).
But you need a high-skilled job, with requirements to your salary (which with CS you’ll most likely meet), and you need to sign a contract before you can get the visa.
Most
Companies will take care of the visa for you. I don’t know the exact name of the visa, I can look it up for you if you like.
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You can get into the EU through Spain but you need some savings (~30.000€). More info here:

https://qotoqot.com/blog/best-countries/
In Australia, the PayWave system for $100+ purchase will take no longer than signatures if the person doesn't make a mistake. It's just tap your card, press 5 buttons, then a 2-3 seconds processing time and you're off.

The process will naturally become faster as adoption increases and more people get familiar with it.
The time limit is 60 days. Obviously the sooner you report the better. Liability loss limit rises to $500 after just two days!
It is possible to clone chip and pin cards. Not easy, but possible:

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/chip-n-pin-cloning/21502/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/13/chip_and_pin_securi...
Second avenue subway comes to mind. Was a bit funny seeing ads for it all over the subway while the QoS was plunging. Cuomo was certainly quick to come to NYC for endless photo ops when it opened. That was funny too considering it was behind schedule, over-budget, and significantly downsized from the original plan.
It depends on the issuer. Some will sue card (debt?) holders for as little as $1000, probably because attorney fees can be rolled into the judgement.
DAOStack: Scaling Blockchain Governance
doesnt support cashaddr?
For Visa, the merchant should require your card to be signed because a card with no signature is invalid. Other credit card companies are probably the same.

> Unsigned Cards

> While checking card security features, you should also make sure that the card is signed. An unsigned card is considered invalid and should not be accepted. If a customer gives you an unsigned card, the following steps must be taken:

> • Check the cardholder’s ID.

> Ask the cardholder for some form of official government identification, such as a driver’s license or passport. Where permissible by law, the ID serial number and expiration date should be written on the sales receipt before you complete the transaction.

> • Ask the customer to sign the card.

> The card should be signed within your full view, and the signature checked against the customer’s signature on the ID. A refusal to sign means the card is still invalid and cannot be accepted.

> • Ask the customer for a different signed Visa card

> “See ID”

> Some customers write “See ID” or “Ask for ID” in the signature panel, thinking that this is a deterrent against fraud or forgery; that is, if their signature is not on the card, a fraudster will not be able to forge it. In reality, criminals often don’t take the time to practice signatures. They use cards as quickly as possible after a theft and prior to the accounts being blocked. They are actually counting on you not to look at the back of the card and compare signatures; they may even have access to counterfeit identification with a signature in their own handwriting.

> In this situation, follow recommended steps listed above under Unsigned Cards.

https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/card-accept...
No, it's dim, trust me.
Thanks for this Jefro118. This would greatly help us as we are learning from the process.
That's the e-equivalent of initialing every page of a contract. The cursive part is funny. Rituals change slowly. People trust moused signatures and fax machine timestamps more than RSA public keys.
As a matter of morals/competitive edge, companies should try to keep personal data safe and perhaps not collect it at all.

That said, GDPR is ridiculous and in many countries, contradictory. This leads to litigation spaghetti code. It will be exploited in ways we can't yet imagine.

It is dangerous to assume GDPR applies to YOU if you are based in the US. As the world (thankfully) doesn't operate under a one-world government, let the EU live in their ignorant "This site contains cookies" world.
12 Atomic Experiments in Deep Learning
Deep learning remains somewhat of a mysterious art even for frequent practitioners, because we usually run complex experiments on large datasets, which obscures basic relationships between dataset, hyperparameters, and performance.

The goal of this notebook is to provide some basic intuition of deep neural networks by running very simple experiments on small datasets that help understand trends that occur generally on larger datasets. The experiments are designed to be "atomic" in that they try to test one fundamental aspect of deep learning in a controlled way. Furthermore, the experiments do not require specialized hardware (they all run in a few minutes without GPUs. See the elapsed time, measured on a CPU-only machine).
Yeah, I loved Interface Builder. In a sense, it's responsible for me mainly focusing on back-end work. Because after building GUI apps with IB and ObjC, writing anything for Windows seemed like stone knives and bearskins.

I think the reason for modest hardware support was that at the time they were chasing the high-end custom development market that had been so receptive to their workstations. At the time I was working for financial traders. We were buying machines specifically to run our in-house software, so we were happy buying whatever was supported.

Their strategy for broader adoption was OpenStep, which was taking the great NeXT-specific stuff and making it run on Windows NT. It would have been interesting to see where that went, but as you know Apple's acquisition put an end to all that.