skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least here in the US, retailers already do better than this with their closed-loop (merchant-specific) gift cards: you pay them an activation fee to get the card and they make interest on the money until it's spent.

That also has its own unique problems - if a retailer goes into bankruptcy, the gift cards are likely to be worthless (they're considered "unsecured debt"). Buying gift cards from a brand-new startup would be taking considerable risk.

Then there's the IT integration hassles, since existing closed-loop cards are coded into their POS etc. Adding "Credits" is going to take additional development - why are retailers going to spend money to do that?

The other option would be an open-network style card, but those are typically issued (again, in the US) by companies like MasterCard and Visa & carry the usual processing fees.
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Um, no, the problem is that they are dishonest to the core and refuse to accept valid evidence presented to them because they don't want to believe that evolution occurs. Demanding impossible evidence is just a corollary.

"to the point of beeing unnoticeable"

It's not unnoticeable; read the fricking article.
I totally agree with this. I believe he needs to make a living out of the whole thing, but something that has a wide use-case like this should have been open-source, with some basic feature set at least.
Turning off notifications for messenger ("We noticed notifications are off, would you like to turn it on? Yes/No), I kid you not, took at least 30 to 40 times as of a few months ago for it to stop bugging me to turn it back on. Few months before that, 25 times at least. Who knows what that number is now. That kind of engagement should be flat out illegal or regulated.
FYI BitPay offers buying Amazon gift cards with Bitcoins since 2017 https://blog.bitpay.com/amazon-gift-cards/

You can buy until $ 2000 daily.
I forgot to expand on the DAB analogy. My point was that they both tried to solve a problem nobody really had, and as such took over 20 years to really start to gain traction. By that time, the problem space had changed drastically.

For DAB, the rise of mobile data means far fewer listens to radio. Any audio quality increase turned out to be moot (they added more channels instead, besides streaming services has similar or better quality).

For IPv6, we now have a huge amount of actual clients (primarily mobile devices) with relatively few actual servers. In addition, security means companies use VPN or similar. This means the pool of devices who needs to be globally addressable is much smaller than it was. However the mobile devices can hop from network to network, and this isn't something IPv6 addresses any better than IPv4 (they'd still get a new address).

That's just my uninformed POV of course and I'm probably a bit harsh on IPv6 given all the frustrations I've had trying to get it working.
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Well, most recruiters would say "the honest answer" - but the reality is that you need to make it clear that you want to be doing their kind of work; because that way they feel comfortable that you're not going to up and leave.

Honestly, upon some reflection and having done some talking to other people both currently in and (like me) formerly in recruiting, this question might indicate a place that's afraid of high turnover - or on a dimmer note, one where they're worried about the work environment might cause people to leave if they're not 100% bought-in on the company's methodology.
For some reason this comment collected a few down votes so here is a reference to the Chinese GPS system [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_Sy...
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In case they start launching satellites I'm gonna trademark the name SwiGNSS.
Unfortunately for those with telescopes, there's been a planet-wide dust storm since middle of June that's made seeing any surface features difficult. It's related to it being a particular good opposition, since it's closer to the sun (and Earth) this time, the extra solar energy is contributing to the storm and it may take months to dissipate.

Observations from amateurs around the time the dust storm was going global:
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/616612-2018-mars-oppositi...
I was thinking more about squirrels and such
Just because it played a part in those events doesn't mean that it's not a tool for free press. One could argue that the fact that that speech wasn't able to be passed through traditional media is a point in favor of free speech, even if it resulted in violence.
What sort of hardware are you running? I'm looking to set something up myself, and I like the look of FreeNAS as it sounds like it fits my use case but the HW recommendations are a little out of my budget at the moment.
See also Trump's tariffs. WTO roles forbid arbitrary tariffs, unless the government claims they are for the sale of "national security."
I deleted my account a few weeks back.

I haven't missed a single thing.

I realized Facebook had become the digital equivalent of walking into the kitchen and opening the fridge. You know what's inside, but you still end up looking.
I've done all the same steps over a number of years. One more item I'd add is that mbasic.facebook.com still allows you to get messages.

For no valid technical reason I'm aware of, they removed the ability to view messages in the standard mobile site. It used to work, and frankly it worked really well. But I'm sure the engagement and quantity of data they sucked up were orders of magnitude better with Facebook Messenger.
"might be what you're looking for", when that person was looking for a "basic poly fill for all the cross platform issues jQuery actually excels at"
FM/VHF is barely better than line of sight and doesn't even go around hills too well. Range is about 25 miles or so. LW will manage over 1,000 miles on a good day.
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Another tweet says that removing chaining improved readability...

https://twitter.com/mislav/status/1022409388013834240

But this I'd say is very close to BS territory..
Where POSIX or XPG6 are insufficient, use core functions from libc, having verified that they exist on all OS targets and that they behave the same, and build the required functionality on top of those.
Nothing on that list is a specific requirement for a specific methodology. “The most efficient and effective method of
conveying information to and within a development
team is face-to-face conversation.”

That does not say you can’t have a distributed team. It simply says face to face communication is best.
The ad creation tool is working fine. It's the "Page" I created. Can't view it, modify it, publish it, etc, i just get the error page. And because of that I can't launch an ad campaign.
I recently tried using a computer set up with only an IPv6 stack to do some websocket testing. Turned out that the websocket implementation in iOS version of WebKit (including iOS 12 beta4) still has some issues. Also most of the internet isn't connected. Ended up using 'show cached' from Google results a lot.
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For your last case, isn't it just as likely the opposite would happen? If Fred don't deserve any blame for being a mass murderer, why should Sally get any credit for not giving in to her instinct to see him hang for it? And what would the point of trying to be compassionate be?
The trouble is that the people who are fooled by Facebook in emerging markets aren't likely to be a big source of profit for Facebook.

In India, for instance, Facebook is especially popular among old people like my parents, or poorer people. The former won't spent much money online because habit. The latter don't have much money to spend.
> Hi, Jimmy from Optimizely here. The practice you describe is actually perfectly fine, so long as ...

Lotsa things are OK so long as you are doing X and Y etc.

Take a look at a portion clinical trial[1] guidance from FDA. Note specifically the basic Stats guidance:

6.9.1 A description of the statistical methods to
be employed, including timing of any planned
interim analysis(ses).

6.9.2 The number of subjects planned to be
enrolled. In multicenter trials, the numbers of
enrolled subjects projected for each trial site
should be specified. Reason for choice of
sample size, including reflections on (or
calculations of) the power of the trial and
clinical justification.

I don't it's recommended practice anywhere to start collecting data, do a simple t-test after each observation, and declare a significant difference after p < 5%.

Of course, if every other patient is suffering serious consequences, or becoming miraculously well on the second day of the trial, you stop. In those cases, you generally don't need a statistical test to tell you that your a priori evaluation of the drug or intervention was wrong.

I fail to see what is so vital about some web site A/B test that one cannot be bothered to think ahead about what defines an observational unit, how many of those one might need to detect an improvement, and wait until after that sample has been attained to test (and, if the web site doesn't get enough visitors to fulfill your sample size requirement for that particular test, that is a different problem entirely).

[1]: https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegula...
I use duplicity for create, encrypt backups. To store them I use two USB SSD drives (in two separate locations); for off-site I use AWS' glacier.

The backups are scheduled with jobs in self-hosted Jenkins instances.
It has the same persistence if you haven't posted in awhile. I haven't posted a status in over a year, and the first few months I got countless notifications along the lines of "OMG YOU HAVEN'T POSTED IN ___ WEEKS! GET STARTED AGAIN".

Also, there's no reason for a "starter message" and prompt when I add a friend.
I don't follow your reasoning at all. You seem to be quite confused over how beliefs could possibly work in a predetermined world.

Firstly, a lack of free will does not imply predetermination, since it's possible that some things are fundamentally random.

Secondly, even if everything is predetermined, it can still be the case that our choices can be influenced by our belief in free will. You could imagine two instances of a fairly simple bot which has a "isFreeWillBelieved" property. One of them has it set to true and the other to false, and they make different choices accordingly.

Thirdly, whilst we can't "opt" to believe in free will or not, whether or not we believe in it can certainly change over time due to building evidence and argumentation.
Although the US has always fantasised about its military having a much better GPS than everybody else, and it seems technically to be in a position to arrange this, the reality is always that a $5 civilian device is available in every store and the $8000 military device is back-ordered and won't be in stock until after the war is won, so you use the civilian device even though it's theoretically worse.

"Selective Availability" was the first incarnation of this pipe dream. Civilian GPS would be deliberately corrupted by up to 100 metres and the correct offset would be transmitted separately to authorised military devices. But, see above, in practice when the US military needed GPS it found civilian devices were available while accurate military ones were not, so it reduces the induced error to zero and bought civilian kit for the Gulf War.

The M-code won't be deployed until 2022 (probably later, these things always get delayed). That's when those Block IIIA birds "go live" even though some will be in orbit for years before that.

Jamming the M-code is not really harder than jamming other codes, this is a broadcast radio signal you can easily transmit a more powerful signal yourself. The Block IIIA birds have an extra transmitter so they can increase power... but they still can't drown out even a relatively disposable local jammer.

Spoof genuinely is harder with an extra code... and this is the supposed benefit with owning any of the GNSS systems, you can keep a secret shared key that makes your system spoof proof until bad guys learn the key. But again, in practice when war breaks out you turn out not to have thousands of expensive military-only devices with the shared secret, so you rely on the civilian stuff anyway.
What are those "many" ways? I can only think of one: it's easier to design good sounding analog synths/effects. The imperfections get you complexity of sound for free, and you don't have to worry about aliasing. But in a hypothetical world where everybody is a DSP genius, I see no reason for analog audio processing at all.
This is a public forum. For insider trading you need private info.
For me, it was the mobile interface interlaced with so many video ads that killed my usage. I do open the app sometimes to check what some of my distant friends post, but my usage has drastically gone down. I think 5 years back I spent at least 30 mins on the app every day, now I don't even open it on a few days. To top that, the Cambridge Analytica incident.

That said, I remain invested in FB, since my hypothesis was that 'a majority of people are not like me'. Looks like I am being proven wrong, but let's see the long term impact.
Don't tell me,tell the OP who's questions none of you keto evangelists bothered to read.
Actually gaming GPS is well within the pockets of anyone.

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/using-a-hackrf-to-spoof-gps-navigati...

The same principle is likely applicable to other standards as well, until the day they add encryption, which will probably need a lot of time and research to overcome the inevitable associated timing problems.

If doable at military level, the possible scenarios are catastrophic: country A launches say 5 test missiles, country B from nearby hidden submarine launches 5 much smaller and stealth jamming missiles. The jamming missiles approach the bigger ones then jam them into believing they're slightly off course forcing them to adjust, while in reality they're being slowly directed to country C.
Of course any loss of control by ground base should be interpreted as self destruct by the missile, so it'd be near impossible to do it actually, but if other signals could be spoofed as well as positioning, then that would be a problem.
Or more abstractly: influencers and followers. What makes them trolls, exactly?

Also, no surprise things die down after an election, since it’s not the hot topic anymore.
Maybe...but it sounds like the "warnings" that grape juice manufacturers placed on their products during Prohibition, to prevent turning them into wine accidentally by letting them ferment.
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The experience of free will can be real, without free will being real. An individual believing it has free will, will certainly act different to an individual that believes all actions are predetermined. I think what your parent commenter meant was that society might be better off if the notion of free will was not taken for granted by its individuals, hoping this would inspire compassion and tolerance. Of course, if free will isn't real, this isn't something anyone would be able to influence. It would still be possible to come to that conclusion deterministically.

Looking at this from the angle of social organisation, I think without the notion of personal responsibility, we lose more good things than we would gain by assuming life is deterministic, and I don't see how we can keep personal responsibility when giving up on free will. There is a consideration of trusting other people to be cooperative if they stand nothing to lose by being selfish to the detriment of others hidden somewhere in there too.
> If free will doesn't exist, then our lives, thoughts and choices are predetermined, and thus they can't be "influenced" by our belief in free will (or lack thereof).

Something that is predetermined can be influenced. See a collision of 2 balls in Newtonian universe - it's predetermined, yet you're justified in saying "collision influenced paths of these balls".

The only thing determinism takes from you is choice. There is still causality (stuff influencing other stuff), there can still be thoughts and beliefs influencing behavior of people and (indirectly) the state of the universe. The only difference is - these people had no choice how to react to these ideas.
> tax evasion

Not only tax evasion. Stupid tax evasion. Tax evasion that leaves a screaming paper trail. None of this is being enforced right now. But in a downturn? Particularly if the offender has assets? Enormously stupid way to do an already stupidly-risky thing.
Readme.io is down and all its customer's docs too
Conway proves the existence of free will not by nebulous philosophical arguments but by a combination of quantum mechanics and relativity.

Note the definition of 'free will' here is specific: fundamental particles future states cannot be purely a function of the information in their past light cones and so only 'they' can fully determine their future state, and this is not the same thing as them having random number generators; they truly are free
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If you find this topic interesting, I highly recommend watching this talk by Sam Harris [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCofmZlC72g
Ted Chiang has a short story "What's expected of us" about possible consequences of proving the absence of free will:

https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a
But unstable prefixes are not a fundamental problem with IPv6, more of a teething problem where some ISPs may take some time to get clued in.

Meanwhile it never hurts to automate your handling of renumbering, it'll happen eventually anyway - just like letsencrypt short expiration times actually help you avoid cert expiration problems.
It was a major outage, taking many Docs offline, but now it's back online.
Institutional investors are waiting for the crypto ETF
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In the article on complex.com the author talks about statements of the anti-vaccine group that are "scientificly unproven" and thinks that is sufficient to simply not believe them.
This is a logical error since there was never any scientific research investigating the link between vaccines and diseases, but there is data that indicates that there might be a link and the scientific research should be done.

Today I received a message that JFK Junior was banned from facebook because he is urging for scientific research since before the vaccine explosion in 1989 only 14% of children had diseases and today 55% of children have diseases.
I suggest to look at the banned video and conclude if facebook was right to ban the request for scientific research here: https://www.real.video/5813705248001
This may be true, but I don't see how it applies to this story. You need to explicitly opt in for your data to be used for research. So if you have asked for your data to be deleted it would obviously not be used for this kind of work.
Assuming that their earnings per Asian user do not increase, they need 10 Asian users for every US American user?

That doesn't sound unrealistic.
Internet for people
I think it’s time to create a new network (internet) for people.
Internet has became synonymous with www or web as you prefer. But internet is not just web. There are many protocols but people think internet=web.
That’s because of ignorance and because of simplicity. But, as you know, the web is bloated of rubbish in terms of tracking activity (because our informations are priceless data to sell) and in terms of security.
I think the problem is the web itself, it’s controlled by few and not by the people. They let us think that we need facebook or twitter and they gave us wonderful smartphones we couldn’t live without.

Why not use forgotten protocols like gopher for example? It could replace the web for the rest of us.
Should be implemented with security layers, data encryption and combined with ssh.
As you all have already understand I’m not a technician but I’d like to share my ideas with you and ask what’s your point of view.

Ps
Sorry for my poor English

Sincerely
Alex
From my POV (maybe I'm just looking in a different direction?) I see way more people programming out of intellectual curiosity and fun than ever before. As just one example the 2018 Global Game Jam had 8,608 game created in a weekend. The Unity community is HUGE. The Processing community, the Open Frameworks community, the Three.js community. Not seeing a lack of people doing programming for curiosity and fun.
I live within 20 miles of the coast. I'll often listen to it last thing, or pick up the shipping forecast from the Met Office site. The fixed length and wording means you know when to take notice better than chatty general forecasts.

It gives an awful lot of info that's simply not in general forecasts and apps. Specialised apps can go the other way and give way too much. You mention flying, back when I used to fly a little I found it's a heck of a lot more friendly than decoding METARs, so it's a good starting point if thinking of flying next day. The main thing missing is cloudbase - that's easy, poke your head out the door. :)
Very interesting read. I always wonder about the criticisms of new solutions that are working as magically as they seem to be in the article. The kids started taking antibiotics, and soon thereafter had obvious improvement that led to them being cured eventually. Of course you can say sample size wasn't large enough to make any conclusions, but what is their (critics of PANDAS) answer to the fact that the antibiotics worked? Is it pure coincidence? Or some other mechanism in play?

If it was another mechanism in play then at the very least I would think that autoimmune treatment should be used as a backup plan in case typical OCD, ADHD, etc. drugs aren't working as shown through the article.

Of course I am not a medical researcher so this may have an obvious answer, but I always wanted to know how critics go beyond the "n=1" argument to disprove new solutions that seem to work perfectly.
I personally wouldn’t use their services for fear insurance companies obtain the data. Not just now but at any point in your life (through bankruptcy, change of ownership , etc.)
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Hmmm. A certain amount is accepted/supported today. Just consider the number of startups that get funded with the expectaion that the majority will not survive. On the flip side how would a supporter distinguish repeated failures toward success vs futility? It's very difficult so cap it in some manner. The best we can do is to document the attempts for others to study, learn, and continue.
Great idea. The recent work to open up the git protocol mmakes it easier to add in this kind of smart behaviour: advertise a 'bundle' command that returns a URI to fetch the bundle from.