skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a genuine question, and because text doesn’t convey emotion I want to be very clear that my curiosity is genuine: what is it that you’re doing that is, by appearance to me, a common transaction (perhaps multiple times per day?) wherein you want to be absolutely sure that the customer assented to lengthy terms and conditions and you’re often going into court (at least so often that you want it to be “easier for” you)?

And, as a follow-up, how does this relate to a signature being used as confirmation of payment? (Or did you mean in relation to the signatures for housing transfers?)
I wonder if you could split the battery pack into thirds - each with a modern steerable parachute type glide-return system?

You climb out to cruise altitude - then drop off the "climb battery" which would autonomously return to your takeoff point (somewhere nearby where if can easily/safely land, be retrieved, and recharged for the next flight). You'd cruise to your destination on the "cruise battery", which you'd jettison near the landing point, so it could fly itself there for charging. You'd land with just the "landing battery" which'd have sufficient capacity for go-arounds and/or diversions, just like your fuel reserve in a conventional dinosaur-burning aircraft.

Dropping batteries off and moving the remaining ones around while maintaining safe centre of gravity might be tricker than just pumping liquid fuel around, but surely not insurmountable (the military seem to be able to jettison stunning weights of munitions while flying...) Perhaps youd got for batteries divided into six spread equally for and aft from the cog - and drop them in matched pairs?
My recent apartment lease was delivered online, but required me to go through every page and click a button that filled in my initials in a cursive font. It’s silly, yes, but I’m sure it’s just there to “prove” that I acknowledged each page individually.
That and touching thermal paper is a source of lots of BPA exposure. (Many but not all receipts.)
The idea of spending all weekday hours working and "cherishing" weekends is terrible to me. If I can't go out on any weeknight and enjoy time with friends or family due to having to commute, then I'm looking for a change.
> An electronic signature that records the speed strokes in the signature are made, as well as the final result, is probably a really good way of identifying the purchaser.

Not so sure about that. If I use a different mouse then my "signature" using those metrics will fail, as I'm basically a completely different (inept) person using other mice. Just an example, but I don't think that e-signatures can be trusted by using machine learning techniques, at least not any that I know of today.
Yikes! Wake up call!
Nope they all hand me the receipt when the hand me back my bank card. Then I have to deal with a bag of food, a drink, placing my bank card back in my wallet and dropping the receipt wherever to drive off quickly!

The receipt needs to go the way of signatures and hopefully soon.

Not sure if you are a UX person, but the receipt in 2018 is bad UX for the customer and the business! Just like signatures have been for years..pointless, frustrating and annoying!

I wish I could use Apple Pay everywhere!!!
There are plenty of genuinely interesting things to say about song structure, and it bothers me that Knuth treated the whole thing as a joke.

Read http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2015/11421/pdf/Sampl... instead
Arno Schmidt's Zettels Traum (Bottom's Dream in English) is a mammoth book originally written entirely with a collection of 130,000 index cards. [0][1]

The book's title is German wordplay referencing the medium which Schmidt wrote the book on ("Zettel") and Bottom from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ("Zettel" being the translation of Bottom's name into German).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom%27s_Dream

[1]: https://www.zinzin.com/observations/2013/who-was-arno-schmid...
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The big silence in disruption: education system
The big silence in disruption: education system.
Not the tech supporting it.
The system, per se.
Can speak for India. May be relevant elsewhere too.

The entire syllabus should be replaced.
#AI #jobs #howjobs #scientificupdatessince1950

Guess tech leaders may be most suited to design new syllabi.

Any reactions?

Salut!
20 years too late
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Palm detection on the new MBPs is extremely good. You can rest your palm on the touchpad without any accidental clicks. It's far ahead of any other touchpad I used so far.
It amazes me that cheques are still used. I'm 36 and I've never issued a cheque, I think I was issued a cheque book with my first account but never used it.
Use Apple Pay or Android Pay ... you see the charge right on your home screen and view your transactions whenever.

The receipt needs and will go the way of the dodo bird, credit card signatures and etc...
You can also use the Previous emulator to emulate NeXT hardware if you want to run versions of the OS from before they ported it to x86.

http://previous.alternative-system.com
I rented a property a couple weeks ago in Massachusetts, USA. The rental agency used a web form for signatures. My new landlord used something that looked like Comic Sans. So, I guess this is a thing now. I was a little surprised.
Yea no signature pads are pure shit.
> ... chip in

Unintentional pun. The US public seems to have a huge reluctance to use the chips in the cards too. It's swipe and sign.

(I'm also from Australia and signing for a credit card purchase went away decades ago. PayWave is really popular, my 89 yo mother loves it.)
Watch the same movie in English with the subtitles on. Pick some characters' speeches to memorize. Do this until you truly can do this in the voice of whichever actor interests you right now. I mean until you can do it on your own without the movie going. You will start to get a feel for the larger chunks and idioms, not to mention therhythms and melodies of it. I'd say we speak as much in rhythm and melody as we do in word choice. I'm a native speaker of American English, and I have trouble understanding David Tennant sometimes because of his chunking, melodies and rhythms- so different from American English. One has to get flexible with these. Regionally, just within the United States it can be tricky.
In the US, we're moving away from the time when black people could not board flights. In China, they are moving towards a similar system but for perhaps different people groups.

Also, please be aware that the social credit system that we have in the west has not blackballed you for the comment you just made speaking against it. There is no way for me to report you for your distaste for the biases in the US system, even though you are clearly "inciting unrest." (In repressive countries your comment would be off-limts.)
Agreed, although I'd add it's substantially more complicated to dug tunnels under dense cities. The Underground is a substantial feat in that regard.

As a tangent, London is adding overground trains as part of its expansion. The Overground is pretty recent (and it shows) as is the fully-automated DLR, and now there's a Crossrail making an appearance. NY hasn't invested in a hell of a lot in overground infrastructure and it feels like that's a logical step in the outer boroughs.
Although csvsql is great, the real reason I love csvkit is that most of the tools feel like standard *nix tools that just operate on CSV files (csvcut, csvgrep, etc.)
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Private schools aren’t the top ones in China. The top schools are all public (e.g., 人民中学). Private schools are where rich Chinese and foreigners send their kids because (a) they couldn’t get into better schools or (b) they couldn’t get into any public school because the hukou system is so screwed up. There used to be a range of lower cost private schools for migrant worker kids (and probably still is outside of Beijing).
Over the past 6 years, literally the only thing I've used my checkbook for was security deposit and first month's rent.

But my last two apartments required cashier's checks for both... so honestly, I don't expect to write another check my whole life.
> The Hollywood mention is the non sequitur, because Hollywood does produce lots of original work.

Hollywood producing lots of original work is exactly why I chose that example. You seem to be agreeing with that, but somehow at the same time wanting to disagree with me. It's puzzling.

> And there's a lot more to the entire art of filmmaking than what's encompassed by dubbing.

Absolutely, although this modifies your original claim, which was making original things as opposed to film making. Curiously, that makes the non sequiturness even stronger.

At best I can attribute some correctness to your original statement in the way of opportunity costs. In that being good at dubbing concedes one's ability at being good at film making the same way as being good at mathematics concedes one's ability at being a good dancer. There just isn't enough time to be world class at both. Was your original statement about opportunity cost, or how else would you say that it follows from being a good dubber to conceding the possibility of being a good film maker?

--

PS. I'm not making any claims whatsoever about whether Italians are good/bad at dubbing or film making. I'm merely talking about a critical logic mistake in your statement.
Possibly because the people who you can sell that data to are prepared to pay way more per "product" than the people trying to sell you fast moving consumer goods or ICO de jour...

Wouldn't surprise me at all to find there's a market where intelligence services can purchase lists of TOR users - for example...
Is anyone aware of configurations that mimic i3wm using Phoenix/Hammerspoon or modifications to Amethyst?
Thank you for this advice. You make a strong case for standard notation and I'll keep that in mind as I try and advance as a musician. I've found the 'Masters in Tab' series to offer tabs / standard notation interlaced, so perhaps that would be a good way to transition from one to the other (https://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Guitar-Masters-TAB-Intermedia...).

This also makes me think I should focus the website on where ASCIItab excels over standard notation -- editability as opposed to being a precise blueprint for how to play complex compositions. I think offering an in-browser editor would still make this a good tool for novice composers to get a feel for enhancing / creating music before they advance to standard notation.
I was asking because the topic of this discussion is specifically running SQL queries (that's what TextQL does).

But, there certainly are good reasons for using SQL in R. Packages like sqldf exist, so their authors would probably be able to give the best answer to your question.

Some reasons:

- SQL is a very widely-known DSL for working with tabular data, so it may make sense to make that interface available within R.

- For certain operations (e.g. specific types of joins) it may be more natural / easier to express the operation in SQL.

- For large data sets, some operations in R have large memory footprints, and doing the operations in a database may have lower memory requirements.
Wow. They don’t even require you to enter a PIN number or show your id here for small amounts. Just put the card near the reader (NFC) and go. Now I understand why Apple Pay is a thing
How does Bluetooth compare to ANT+ in that regard?
> The only things that are checked are the digits of the amount, and the account number.

Well, the payee is also usually verified to match the destination account, and a few other elements are technically required for it to be a legal financial instrument (even if banks don't spend the time to check them every time). Legally, a check could be written on the back of a napkin and still be valid - as long as it has a few required details.

The thing I've come to learn about checks is that their security features are not necessarily intended to prevent fraud, but rather to legally prove fraud after it has occurred. So no, banks often will not check those things, but anyone with access to the ACH network can reach into anyone's account and move funds around if fraud is suspected (it's basically a shared database with surprisingly little security). It inherently relies on the legal system to sort things out after the fact, which is a completely different approach from what we see in modern information security (where preventing unauthorized access/behavior upfront is the primary concern).
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I'm 36 too but I've issued hundreds of checks... and also issued some indirectly (Bank of America's bill payments issue paper checks to companies when they don't accept electronic payments)
Cloning is not possible with chip cards pin or no pin. That's the whole reason US issuers switched to chips from mag stripes.
China already has a strong caste system via its hukou (residency) system.
I'm sure I'm missing something, but where would the economic incentive to develop the majority of (specifically) client-side applications have come from especially in the era before the .com boom?
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Start reading the built in docs. They are pretty good.
You already made that agreement when you signed up for the credit card. You havn't needed a signature for _every_ purchase in a long long time. This is just getting rid of them all together.
For all intents your checking account is a locker full of money that’s unlocked for the taking. The check is nothing more than an archaic means of conveying your “locker number” to someone else’s bank. I highly recommend keeping your checking account balance as low as you can, and either disable overdraft protection on it or point the overdraft protection to a credit account.

The other info on the check isn’t meaningless. It will (should) be examined when there’s some kind of fraud or dispute about a check payment - but it effectively does nothing to prevent fraud or theft.
The density argument is probably incorrect. The city wasn't significantly less dense 6 years ago and things were a lot better.

This is a reflection of under investment and lack of maintenance and upkeep which was exacerbated by Hurrixane Sandy damaging the subway system significantly. It brought the chickens home to roost.
In Australia, all in-person card transactions above the $100 PayWave/PayPass limit require PINs.

Fraud cause from in-person transactions is very low and hence our merchant fees are also very low. 10-20¢ for debit transactions and approx. 1.2% for credit transactions.
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What about diacritics used in English, aren't they part of the "English alphabet" too?

The New Yorker is (in)famous for coöperate, naïve, reëlect, etc.

Some people spell French loan words the French way, e.g. café, resumé, etc.

French/German/Spanish/etc proper names commonly keep their diacritics in English texts. Many people see Gödel as more correct (even in English) than Goedel.

In New Zealand English, Māori loan words commonly keep the macron. Certainly if you look at New Zealand government web sites you will see that happening.

But if English contains just as many diacritics as French/German/Māori/etc (albeit with rarer and less consistent usage) is there really a distinct "English alphabet"? Or just one Latin alphabet shared by many languages? (I know the page author attempts to address this objection, but I'm not satisfied with the response.)
That's the cost of introducing the GDPR.

Once the GDPR has been around for a few years, everybody in the workforce will (or at least should) know what it is and how it works. The cost of training will only felt when somebody enters the workforce.
Do you mean that the private schools could use social credit scores to select students? That is possible, maybe even likely. But one would think or at least hope that there will be diversity, as some private schools may then cater to the unmet demands by others. Remember private schools are in the business of competing for both revenue and talents. A "best" private school that refuses to accept the best students may soon find that they are no longer the "best" school anymore.

OP was talking about a government ban. I could only find cases of courts enforcing civil judgement this way at some cities.
A recent study indicates clinical evidence for remission through diet in IBD:

"Clinical remission was achieved by week 6 by 11/15 (73%) of study participants, and all 11 maintained clinical remission during the maintenance phase of the study."

Konijeti, Gauree Gupta et al. “Efficacy of the Autoimmune Protocol Diet for Inflammatory Bowel Disease.” Inflammatory bowel diseases 23.11 (2017): 2054–2060. PMC. Web. 9 Apr. 2018.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5647120/
Yes, part of it would require some level of standardization of the electronic pad/pen.

I'm not really suggesting it as "trust" thing, but a better "pin" code that could be combined with the current shopping history/etc metrics being used to detect fraud.
This isn't a tech consideration. Tech can be made anywhere in the world. In Canada however, there are only a few places that overlap in terms of places I want to be and that have plenty of opportunities. This is pretty limited to Vancouver and maybe Montreal. So it's more of consideration towards exploration. Cultural and otherwise. Vancouver is great, but it's outrageously expensive and lacks any cultural flavor. Montreal has cultural flavor but lacks mountains and so on.

There are other considerations as well, such as the vastness of Canada vs the closer proximity of mainland Europe to other countries. I'm from Winnipeg, and it's a 6 hour drive to the next minor city.

Edit:
I don't think these interests are rare, but I get the feeling that people more or less want to find a paying job that let's them buy a single family home and move out to the suburbs. I don't subscribe to this idea, and want to explore other avenues of living.

Furthermore, work culture here hasn't been desirable so far in my career. I don't necessarily expect it to be different elsewhere, but why not broaden my horizons in that respect too?
This article is not totally accurate.

For ex. you can track anon visitors fine if you generate an ID identifiable ONLY on your DB. So if you store only an ID in the DB(awaiting to be matched when a conversion is made with consent given) is totally fine because even if someone hacks your DB can't be able to match that ID to any person, even if they have other data from Facebook, Google etc.

In case of an IP it's a different thing. If you get an IP, you can actually identify a person if you have a DB with the IP+other personal information about it.
There's this genuinely interesting web toy that splits a song into multiple fragments and uses the song structure to create songs that loop forever http://infinitejukebox.playlistmachinery.com/
> It's a matter of whether the children are resolved before the parents, or the parents are resolved before the children.

Yep, and Narcissus resolves the parents before the children by virtue of `Script` calling `Statements`, `Statements` calling `Statement`, etc. before ever actually seeing the bodies of their corresponding production rules.

A bottom-up parser doesn't work that way at all. Its states aren't determined by what they're about to parse, but by what has already been parsed. The `pushTarget` function in Narcissus is completely unrelated to bottom-up parsing.
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Musician here. I completely agree. But I think anyone can do this. We musicians transcribe solos of jazz players- not because we want to play like them, but because we want the feel in our vocaulary-- because we want to hear and understand better. Every musician I know learns languages easily and many are good at immitating accents and word choice. This is exactly what we do when we improvise in the style of... Mozart or whoever. It works!
Here in NZ we don't sign for credit card transactions - I can't remember the last time I had to sign. Instead you insert your card into the reader and use your PIN to verify the transaction. And if the card reader has contactless payments (PayWave, PayPass, etc) then you don't even need your PIN for transactions less than $80.
I see a lot of comments about the Dell XPS line. I like my XPS 15. But please be aware of the silly webcam placement (due to the infinity edge screen). If you work a remote job and/or have to use the webcam for communication it's really an unflattering angle looking up from the keyboard. You can have a video chat and have your colleagues check for boogers at the same time.
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I wouldn't accept their evasions and eventually they gave up and credited me.
I'll bite on the off-topic part: I'm more of a fan of peanut oil for those use cases, but I also tend to fall on the side of peanut-fried kettle chips (for instance, I thought that the original Tim's cascade style chips were much better than the current recipe).
Xi suffered during the cultural revolution but was also deeply shaped by it. For example, most of his education got cut, and he was only able to get a nominal education afterwards (the first Chinese president to not even bother practicing as a non-official). Xi is basically part of the lost generation that is severely limited compared to those before and after it.

The next generation of Chinese leaders will be the first modern ones to have been completely untouched by Maoism. Well, that’s assuming they are allowed to take power...
General rule with Amtrak in the Northeast:
- Acela is pretty reliable
- NE Regional and Keystone are a bit less so (Acelas seem to get priority when things are going sour)
- All bets are off for everything else (i.e. anything not going from Boston to DC, or NY to Harrisburg). Amtrak doesn't own those lines, and massive delays are common.
Where does it say on the receipt that I am agreeing to the cardholder agreement?

This sounds like the old myth that "if you don't sign the back of your card, you can't be held liable for the debts you incur if you contest it later."

This is of course not true.
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Palo Alto biking is helped by the pedestrian/bike bridges that join it to Menlo Park and Mountain View on either side and by Bryant St. being blocked off every couple of blocks, making it a bike thoroughfare.

Years ago, I used to bike from Sunnyvale to Menlo Park once or twice a week, and 85% of the route was away from traffic. The delay was in crossing Embarcadero.
I agree. To play devil's advocate you can choose not to use Facebook or Gmail or Android. In many areas (of USA) there's exactly two choices for Internet access, and in some there's only one. Additionally the quid pro quo of free online services for personal data may be considered less objectionable than additional monetization on top of the monthly fee.
Absolutely buy an external USB webcam if this is the case.
Heh, I've considered it. Wouldn't be impossible, but not feasible right now.
I had to study the novel in high school as you mentioned the 21 chapter thing is important because the book is divided into 3 parts of 7 chapters and there is supposed to be an element of symmetry in the progression.

One of the central themes running through the book is free will and choice. It has been a fair amount of time now since I've read it but I believe the book opens with the quote "So what is it going to be then?" and ends with Alex making the choice to set aside his past. Importantly he also says something along the lines that if he ever has children he won't try to stop them making the same choices as he has.

One of the things our teacher repeatedly stressed was Saint Augustine and Anthony Burgess's Catholic background.
That's a fair analogy! I do think having a service like stripe for pii would make things easier. Why would we need first name and email address? As programmer I only need user ID!
As someone with vitiligo, wonder if there is something similar in us.