skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guy's English _is_ excellent (100% intelligible and reads fine), but there can still be a long way between excellent/"functional fluency" and a native speaker. A native speaker wouldn't say "I'm exposed to English when I'm ~4 yo" (they would say "I _was_ exposed..." or "I've been exposed... since...") or capitalise "Job". Small things in the grand scheme of things, but they make it fairly obvious it's a non-native speaker.
But there's a legal sanction for doing so; it's a condition of their license.
Landlords only want cashier's checks if they don't trust you. If they don't trust you, they're less likely to rent to you. So requiring cashier's checks is uncommon, barring some extenuating circumstance like you've previously written a bad check or been late.
DPI is Dots per inch. It's a density. As a matter of fact, 2560×1440 on a 14" notebook display is nearly identical to 5120×2880 on a 27" display.
Wey: Fast open source Slack desktop app
Sorry to hear your woes. Most inter-bank transfers are settled within the hour here. Overnight at most. Hopefully your systems improve.
> The optical viewfinder is the main negative of the SLR

I'm going to have to disagree with you there. A 0 latency view of exactly what your composition will look like is what I need.

> It often doesn't give a great representation of the actual digital image

In auto modes your camera is clever enough to take a "good" exposure. In manual mode you should know how to expose a photo properly.

> requires bulk for the mirror

The mirror is a small part of the weight / size of a camera. The main disadvantage of an SLR always has been and always will be the flange focal distance.

> the mirror itself is loud and doesn't permit using the viewfinder while taking video.

Agreed

> you can't overlay nearly asuch information on the viewfinder.

Good! I want less information in my way, not more.

> The battery life problem is being solved.

Maybe, but the reality is still that even the A7 III has only half the battery life of a comparable DSLR. That is a problem for heavy shooting.
Look at System76 Linux line. The same configs MacBooks are about a third cheaper. The cases arent as elegant as Apples or other big name manufacturers.
There was a demo the other day of Rust outperforming JS for stuff JS usually does. Presumably this will continue to improve, so it won't even be a case of equivalent, it'll be a case of "thoroughly beats the pants off".
The Magazine Rack: a collection of digitized magazines and monthly publications
[The] U.S. the third-highest rate of fraud worldwide, and was the only country to remain in the top three from 2014 to 2016.
Additional research from the Nilson Report, October 2016 stated that in 2015 alone, the U.S. accounted for 38.7 percent of the worldwide payment card fraud losses

https://due.com/blog/addressing-rising-payment-fraud-rates-u...
Might not be as old as some others as I have throughly modernized this January but https://github.com/ddev/git-blameall is very useful: this is a tool similar to git-blame, but it shows every line that was ever in the file, along with information about when it was added or deleted.
As far as data that is stored "in the cloud", I primarily use tarsnap (with the data stored on AWS S3) as well as S3 directly.

Most of my (not at home) stuff is backed up to a server (that I own) at $work (ISP), though.

I'm still looking for the perfect solution (for me).
Not my experience. Replacing head gaskets isn't cheap, but it's cheaper than a rebore and new rings. Thicker oil is a very short term band aid.
Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus vs Google Pixel 2 XL – Antutu Benchmark
> because top-10 colleges, as far as I can tell, give you dramatically better returns if you graduate

That is probably dependent upon major and level.

I suspect that for engineering, for example, a "mid-tier" school probably is better for your average undergrad. I never saw the 400+ student lectures that are universally lousy at a mid-tier (20-50) university. You also got professors teaching classes at far lower levels (my Electronics 101 and Signals and Systems were taught by the Dean, himself)

This may be unique to engineering given that engineering schools actually have to answer to an accreditation body (ABET).
If it's DocuSign, they actually let you pick your own font from a list, so you can claim it's "your" handwriting because you chose it. And it's been a while, but I think they let you mouse a signature and initials if you don't like any of the fonts.

The funny thing is that for the last few years, I've been trying to make my own handwriting resemble an italic serif font as much as possible, so I actually do write like a font. But for everything except my signature. I never sign anything the same way twice, and my signature is always just a random scribble. Sometimes it's even an X.
According to my Ublock Origin, NoScript, Privacy Badger, and Cookie AutoDelete plugins, it's doing no such thing.
I love this comment. Waiting for people to take the bait and reply to you!
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada

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Self-hosted Piwik isn't an option?
The posthumous revenge of the USSR perhaps?
http://thoughtmaybe.com/hypernormalisation/
Yeah at a local college I used to work at I was there a month ago and it has guest registration and as long as your number is valid the email is irrelevant. I didn't put my real email I got a bit creative, hoping someone looks at that log and chuckles.
Installing PHP 7 and Composer on Windows 10
https://github.com/fabiospampinato/phoenix/blob/master/READM...

From a user higher up in the thread. Nice example.
I usually draw a house or a scene representing the weather outside. Sometimes it makes the cashier giggle or smile and I like that.
That's kind of a confusing line of questioning. People are pointing out problems yes (I often agree with them, I'm a socialist), but that doesn't change the definitions of words. If we muddy the words, we won't even know what we're talking about and that favors the status quo. The remedy for ambiguity is clarity.
Was thinking about the 15/1.7 Summilux in fact.

If I'd want it for portratiure I'd probably get the Leica, even if it's more expensive. It's a standard lens which you'll most likely end up using a lot, it's metal and will keep dimensional characteristics in time and with use, the optics are probably some of the best you can get on mFT, bokeh is just wonderful.
download them all and watch later?
Ehhhh, I'd leave it as is. Unless you have business licenses in EU countries, EU laws have no legal authority over you. If you do have such licenses, then you're probably big enough to foot the bill and possibly also can't afford to not foot the bill (due to suspended licenses).

This privacy thing is, like, their option, man. Even if you and I agree with the EU.
True.

I'm just starting out making my first game and I'm beginning with mechanics. Movement, inventory, NPCs, compbat, character build, stats, etc. Once they're solid, then I can build whatever worlds I want which includes the art, sound, and critically, the story.
«Anything not trusted can't install, unless you've rooted the phone»

Not true on Android. Apps can be installed from third party sources, without having to root the phone.
There are some good comments here, but I'm curious if there's any reason you can't take lessons? I would recommend going to your local British Council (or the American equivalent, forgot the name) and try to get classes there. If for whatever reason you can't (too expensive, you live in a place with limited access), then you have lots of good comments here, but IMH(and somewhat biased)O if you want to get a good, professional level of English, you can't avoid classes.
Thanks for the link! Brings back memories. I recognize this car and I can swear I played with it somewhere as a kid - maybe at friend's, maybe at some science or LEGO festival in town.

That said, I found the one model I dreamed about as a kid. I still remember its picture in the worn LEGO catalog I had. The Space Shuttle:

http://www.technicopedia.com/8480.html

(Also, now I understand why it was so absurdly expensive, way beyond the financial reach of my parents. I didn't imagine it was that complex inside. Still, I'm going to get one.)
>There are tens of millions of Americans who don't have enough credit banked to board a flight

what is this "credit" required to board a flight that you speak of? you can pay for tickets with debit or cash at the counter, so it's not like you need a credit card to fly. if you mean payment for the ticket, i think that's a very reasonable requirement in exchange for the service provided. i did a quick search for a roundtrip flight from new york to chicago on google flights, and it works out to $168 on amirican airlines and $50 on spirit airlines. there might be "tens of millions of Americans" who don't have that much money saved up, if you can't save $50 for a plane ticket, you probably have bigger things to worry about than not being able to get from new york to chicago.
Home Depot emails me a receipt after every credit card transaction with them. Is PDF not an open standard and a piece of data that could be routed appropriately?

Electronic documents can already carry the same force as paper legal documents. What’s the holdup?
A less oddly prescriptivist one than yours, apparently.
It's called Advanced Placement.

You can rack up quite a lot of credits with AP courses.

As an engineer, I wiped out all my English requirements (6 credits). I wiped out Chemistry (6 credits and a really annoying lab at 4 credits). And I wiped out my first Calc class (4 credits). I think I killed a foreign language requirement, too (probably 6 credits).

That's 30 credits--or, a full year.

The big problem was that I was feeding into engineering which really doesn't let you wipe a lot out--knocking off Chemistry was a big deal (I also had an AP History score which didn't do anything for me, for example). Generally, all your good science scores just let you switch to a "more researchy" track where you take "deeper theoretical" (read: a shitton more work) classes.
I'm inclined to agree with you but consider this alternative point of view. The credit system in the country is essentially mandatory and fraud isn't necessary for it to hurt ordinary people. If someone (a poor person!) is denied a job (with which they hoped to remedy their poverty!) based on the ordinary operation of the credit system with correct information in it irrelevant to the position, that's a travesty.

Power and who has it can be more subtle than guns. However, I agree that the guns add quite a kick. One step deeper though one might interrogate the extent to which government power is used to support corporations. People get shot and go to jail over such things.
Do you have some examples of lenses with comparable optical properties that are smaller in mirrorless mounts?

AFAIK demand for corner-to-corner sharpness wide open has made lenses huge NOT whether there is a mirror or not. I have a bunch of old school Nikon primes that are tiny compared to modern lenses but are essentially "portrait only" lenses until f/4.
> Speakers with English as a mother tongue on seeing an unfamiliar word will ask how to pronounce it rather than making educated guesses at how to say it because any rule is often broken, and we learn not to trust our guesses. In fact someone who is well read but mispronounces words (intuited from spelling) is often laughed at.

I disagree - I guess at pronunciations frequently (as a native speaker), and it is a useful skill to be able to do so. For a learner, it may be _helpful_ to ask how to pronounce (especially to avoid reinforcing misconceptions), but I don't think it's a universal rule of English that people ask how to pronounce words. I also find that many of the mispronunciations are regional variations or misconceptions (e.g. hearing Worchester as "War-chester" instead of "Wus-ter", or Yorkshire as "York-shy-er" instead of "York-sha"), so even if you ask, you might not learn the "true"/regionally appropriate pronunciation.

I've also never come across the later -- I know plenty of well-read people (native and non-native) who have made mistakes in pronunciation (such as a friend who read "parser" as "pa-ray-ser"; native speaker) and they are simply corrected, not laughed at.
... and has had security incidents

http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2012/04/google-attack-...
The main line of defense is the permissions system. If an app wants to access the user's camera, contacts, etc, it needs to come up with a good excuse for why or risk the user just tapping "deny". This seriously limits the damage a malicious app can do.

Aside from making the permissions system even _more_ fine-grained, I don't know how you'd make the situation much better than it already is.
It's about time browsers started including UBlock Origin by default. Mozilla anyway, I can't see google doing it any time soon.
Steve Allen had some comments on that also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAyxatBvKfg
I stopped signing credit cards several years ago, as an experiment; how long will it take someone to notice?

I'm still waiting.
Take the bait? I’m not saying anything controversial. A large percentage of websites are directed at the home country of their owners anyway, and EU traffic is often incidental and worthless to them. A US dentist or doctor likely has no interest in receiving appointments from people in the EU, for example. An online store based in the US, who would have to charge outlandish shipping rates to ship to the EU, is unlikely to get orders from the EU and thus should have no interest in that traffic. An online message board where nurses in a US city talk to each other probably wouldn’t want to spend the money to comply with GDPR even if the occasional nurse from the EU might pop in with an interesting comment every now and then.

So EU traffic means nothing to any of the above example sites, yet all of them will be massively exposed under the GDPR. If I ran a web hosting company, I’d offer EU IP blocking as an optional, free service.
> Tiny tolerance/alignment differences between the target mount and adapted mount can cause the lens to become decentered or be mounted at a tiny angle to the sensor plane.

It is certainly possible to make an accurate mount adapter; see the Pentax m42 → K mount adapter. The "problem" is people don't want to pay for a good one; the Pentax adapter costs about 2x as much as the adapters everyone seems to buy.
Good point. One backup is onsite, one is offsite (that one only updated every few months).
> His usage is at a level I would consider intermediate at best. ... There is no shame in not being 100% fluent.

Your notions about language proficiency are wildly out of whack. The speaker you're talking about is clearly articulating their ideas, coherently and without (one presumes) halting or grasping. That's fluency.
Terrific instant throwback to my then beloved 8865 that I got for Christmas as a kid. Very crude in comparison, but arguably the precursor to 8880.
Original Windows File Manager with enhancements
At least the Guardian isn't a Putin operation.
ISO is bound to the front wheel under your pointer finger, press it in to select ISO mode. Have the back wheel on mine bound to shutter speed (top dial set to 'T') and the top function button to switch between the electronic and mechanical shutter. White balance is the only thing that seems a bit out of reach.
I’ve been looking into this, as I run several sites myself, and apparently this isn’t true. They can go after you even if you have no EU presence, and US courts will domesticate any EU judgment against you for fines levied under it.
I used to take notes that way in college sometimes (i.e. more that once, but not for anything very important). It felt almost natural to mirror the letters while also writing right-to-left.
And, Precision Approach Path Indicator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_approach_path_indica...
Asian shares started flat-Monday as P.Donal Trump kept up TWTR war with China
Slightly related: Penrose tilings generate particularly fascinating Moire patterns: https://youtu.be/cvWF_Q5-Kt8
So pretty much every page is going to get a "loading page" again where users have to confirm if they will allow Google Analytics, etc. to be used? And probably a warning about cookies? That's how this is going to play out, yeah? At least for sites that fall under it.

Not sure that really accomplishes the intent... seems like it'll just be an annoyance to all non-cookied users.
Half the time, I write an actual X. Especially when it's those shitty touchscreens that don't pick up much of anything. I've never had a problem.

During election years, I always tell myself I'm going to sign as the presidential candidates, but I never get around to it.
You would need to emulate both a Motorola 68040 and an Intel i860, plus whatever other unusual silicon was present.
Australia, pretty much everyone accepts BPay which is an online direct payment system or direct bank to bank transfers. These both take < 3 business days
This is really cool. Is there anything like that for Windows?
The EU has a population of over half a billion people and a GDP per capita of $41k PPP (although those numbers will shrink a little bit post-Brexit). Ignoring Europe as a potential market ignores half the western world - and it is westerners, for the most part, who have disposable income to spend money on goods and services.

Ignore Europe if you like. Just be aware that you are allowing your competitors to gain an uncontested foothold without having to fight for it. Once they are the incumbent in the European market, they will be hard to unseat, even if you change your mind later.
Here in Australia I'm not even sure if my real estate agent would accept a cheque for rent at all - I'm pretty sure they told us from the outset that electronic payment was the only option they offer.
1. Not everyone can remote in due to security reasons.
2. Not everyone can remote in due to crappy upstream bandwidth or latency.
3. Even if they can, not everyone is pulling enough FPS to make it reasonable, depending on the type of work they are doing.
As a landlord, I always request cash or cashiers check for move in money. I don't want you living there for 3 months for free while I fight your bad check through the court system to get you evicted.

It may sound shocking, but some people will do this. Source: me, landlord since 2001.
I can imagine how this evolved -- somewhere at Apple HQ, a whiteboarding session about classes of information and capabilities that the OS will gatekeep, which got us to Contacts, Photos, Camera, Microphone, Location. Presumably apps would be extensively curated, keeping out the scummiest of the lot, and apps were envisioned as asking for permissions directly relevant to their utility so having separate read/write permissions would be overkill.

When Android cloned the same model, they got much more granular with permissions [1][2], but then completely undermined it by making it occur only once at app install. As someone put it [3], they're not permissions because you can't turn them off -- they're warnings about what the app does. Then they further mucked this up, by eventually grouping them together into broad categories within which apps could automagically gain all other permissions without your approval [4].

Then, the following year, in 2015, they finally introduced iOS-style runtime-granted permissions, if your device was lucky enough to be up-to-date and your apps were gracious enough to target the new API level; otherwise you missed out on this change.

In fairness, by this point, hoover-style request-everything permission requests were extremely common among mainstream apps like Facebook, Messenger, Snapchat... so reigning in on contact-harvesting flashlight apps was a bit of a lost cause.

[1] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per... [2] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per...
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7959925 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7959660
What?

In my experience Apple Pay is faster than other payment methods.

In what way do you see it as slower?
That's not covert if the blocker can see them. The headline had me imagining the Guardian site was proxying tracking data to these 58 other trackers from their own client-side tracking that goes back to their origin.

But nope, just the usual tracking script/cookie/beacon nonsense.
I don't see any mention of Apps Script in that blog post.
In Sweden there are plenty of jobs and if you have several years of working experience no one is asking for your degree. Jobs with relocation option could be found, among others, on Stackoverflow or on local labor agency website (Arbetsförmedlingen [1], in Swedish;)

After four years in Sweden you would be granted a permanent residence, and one year later you could apply for Swedish passport.

The requirement of 'degree in computer science' is just a part of standard job description, at least I was never asked about my (missing) degree.

One interesting option to consider are 'consultant agencies'. They hire you on a permanent basis (often offering relocation) and then offer you to companies. This way you may reach companies not offering relocation themselves (e.g. startups). A small consultancy I am working for now, Go See Talents [2], is offering relocation from outside EU (along with mentoring for less experienced developers, which is probably not the case for you)

[1] https://www.arbetsformedlingen.se

[2] http://goseetalents.com
Does a 1957 Sputnik celebration Vostok mechanical wristwatch count as "old hardware"?
How’s the situation for folks over 30 without a degree trying to get in eu?
HOW CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL COLLABORATED WITH UNSCRUPULOUS SCIENTISTS
For the specific services listed in the post, I trust them in the order listed, but just these — Apple iCloud and Dropbox. I don't like the idea of Google (or anyone else) scanning my data, even though the security practices may be good.

I store the really sensitive information encrypted using a volume (which appears as a file when not mounted and when uploaded) created by Veracrpyt [1] (a replacement for TrueCrypt). I use a long pass phrase to encrypt this volume. For slightly less sensitive information, like photos, I store them on SpiderOak.

I avoid putting sensitive information anywhere unless it's encrypted before the upload starts (on my end). I also prefer paying for services.

I would strongly recommend using client side encryption, and checking out the options others have mentioned.

[1]: https://www.veracrypt.fr
Contactless payment is so widely adopted that it's given me no particular reason to use Google Pay or any other mobile payment system as they're not particularly better from just using my card...
Offtopic: Audible. Big fan. Perfect for commutes and a lot of situations where having a book/device in front of you is not an option.
The only time I ever sign for credit card stuff is when I visit the US. When it comes to banking it feels like the US is always chasing Canada who is always chasing Europe.
That has not been my experience. I've had multiple checks rejects for mis-matches between the written out line, and the numeric amount. I've also had checks deducted based on the written amount and the numeric amount ignored.

In the old days, they would print a computer-readable version of the amount on the bottom of the check, right-justified with the account number. Once that was there, most banks just processed that, and ignored the rest of the check.
Give me something that can run ReactDOM.renderToString() faster, and I'm all ears. Until that day (and I'm kinda hoping it comes) I'm a bit stuck.
What if there are three?

Also this should refer to the temporally closer element, so your choices are backwards.