skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've banned this account for continuing to use HN for ideological battle after we asked you to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Robot odyssey (google for binaries and play in dosbox). Intended for kids, but definitely age-appropriate for adults, and hard as nails.
I ones met a man named Jo Å. Have started to use that name when testing names in it systems.

People named Null also have a hard time: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160325-the-names-that-brea...
What's funny about this is that I and many others use Classic Shell to get exactly this "multi-level start menu from hell" back in Windows 10.

On Linux I only use Desktop and Window Managers that I can configure relatively freely and easily. No need to patronize users.
It sounds reasonable that the richest industry/workers in the area don't get free perks at the expense of other taxpayers.

Non-financial compensations are taxed in many countries, I really don't see what's wrong here.
Just wanted to say I've used them and they're great. You can set limits on the virtual card. As well as have them lock to only one vendor. So as soon as the sale goes through no other vendors can charge the card.
Was the Self Driving Car Invented in the 1980s?
Yeah but TLS is using STATTLS which is trivially downgradable, most smtp servers on the internet use invalid (selfsigned or expired) certs, and no one validates anything. As for spf, dkim, they are nice hints for spam level but are not used to block spoofed traffic.

So all these features are a thin layer in of lipstick on the pig and don’t really make the problem a solved problem.
Given that the EU has open borders and markets (for the most part), isn't it a germaine discussion if that supranational entity wants to enlarge its borders to include ports of entry from a somewhat unstable country? I mean... britain wouldn't be the ones policing the border, it would be turkey.

You may be confusing the EU with the Schengen area, which is indeed (relatively) physical border less.

While most EU countries are in the Schengen area (including the non-EU members Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland) the UK was never part of the Schengen accord and manages its own borders.

While you're never asked for identification when you fly from Dusseldorf to Zurich, border controls are quite strict (on both sides) if you fly from Prague to Manchester (or to Manila for that matter).

Taking back control of the borders was always pretty much a bullshit argument, if not an outright lie by the Brexiteers, since britain never gave that up.
Personal attacks and ideological battle are not allowed here, so please don't do these things in HN comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fake banking apps on Google Play leak stolen credit card data of victims
Please keep generic ideological tangents off HN. Nothing but hellish flamewar comes of it, and it's all boring.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
i switched for org mode. spacemacs keeps the vim keys and offers great discover of commands.
initially learning to navigate files and buffers is awkward though
On premise is apparently not big enough as a market for Atlassian. This does not surprise me: it needs a lot of hand holding; and saas gets you revenue much cheaper because you get economies of scale and much less support headaches. On top of that people get stuck on old versions of your product, which you then need to support as well because they payed you a premium for it. With SAAS you just have one version to worry about: the current one. So I don't expect Slack will be very eager to do on premise installations any time soon. The whole point of Slack is not doing that. In the same way, on site salesforce installations are not a thing, or on site Google docs. Even MS is moving away from on premise with office 365. Seat based, annual license revenue is a nice thing too for them.

Those who really want to do on premise, will find their way to one of several niche products in this space. But I don't think any of these players will grab a lot of market share. Ultimately anything run on site is going to be expensive to support and why bother when you get cloud based offerings. Compliance issues can be addressed in the cloud as well.
I suppose it's how the Earth ecosystem delivers the bill for our damaging behavior.

I still believe the planetary ecosystem has a way of ridding itself of annoying biomass if a tipping point is reached. Who knows what will hit us and how fast it will hit us.

Permafrost viruses, dramatic temperature changes and generally more energy in the weather system due to global warming, catastrophic ocean acidification leading to the death of trillions and trillions of plankton, robbing us of oxygen to breathe.... there's likely a trove of "problems" we will face sooner rather than later.
The clichéd answer on HN would be to change your employer if your working environment doesn't allow you to concentrate on the job.

As for devops alarms, those should be firing on multiple protocols and platforms anyhow.

Anything else can usually be better accomplished by announcing "office hours" during which you can be reached 1-on-1.
Thanks for the clarification. Mine was still an honest question.
For me, this is a bad name for the theorem. Free will is not just indeterminism, it also includes agency.

If I understood the argument correctly, there is still one possibility of global determinism: imagine a "God function", a random oracle that gives all results to all measurements, unpredictable but fully deterministic. Even if it can't be predicted from previous states of the world, it can still maintain some sort of "determinism". It can even be tractable: imagine a pseudo-random generator with some seed and "external" state as this God function. It should all work.
Not blocked, but in Gmail at least you get a nice big red warning if the SPF or DKIM does not match up.
Yes, it's borderline unusable. Typing is supposed to save time, not cost it.
To confirm, you meaning Stripe?

Does this work in all banking jurisdictions?
Nationalistic battle is not ok here. Please do not post like this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh!! Good to know, thanks :-) Half our codebase is still typespec'ed from when we were optimistic believers, so we'll give it another go for sure :-)
Payback (1999, Mel Gibson) trailer contains a scene not in theatrical release. The main poster for the movie shows Mel Gibson in a scene which never made it to theatrical release either.

Usually I avoid trailers. It's marketing, spoilers, trying to sell you the movie. For me, they might be clever, but that's all. The Payback trailer is clever because it has no dialog...
https://youtu.be/ji6aaZRACew

Drama behind the scenes on Payback saw the director fired by the studio and replaced, a completely new ending written and shot.

Normally when studios mess with the writing, the film suffers, but not in this case. The theatrical release of Payback is better than the "director's cut" released on video a few years later. The director's cut has a boring ending, just generic gun fights and a mess of scenes. The theatrical release has a good twist, more substance and style.
> The excuse is always the NSA

This generalisation is pretty bad. The excuse was Firesheep (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep) in 2010. Another one was ISPs injecting ads and malware into pages (https://thehackernews.com/2016/02/china-hacker-malware.html). Another one is BGP hijack of public DNS (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17178905)

Even with NSA, encryption pretty much kills passive data collection, as long as the other end is not compromised.

Sure, it won't help you if you're targeted. But that's not a good reason to drop encrypt-everything efforts.
> As far as I can tell the only way for free will to exist is if consciousness somehow transcends the physical existence and is more than a series of physical reactions

Yep, that's why I don't think there is a free will. Removing it from the model simplifies everything and doesn't change any predictions.
Major Browsers Initiative SSL/TLS Certificate Is Must for All Websites from 2018
>millions of man years wasted streaming mind numbing video.

..millions of man years wasted waiting.

>zoning out of the real world people around you to doodle on your phone that’s sad.

..humoring pointless gossip so people will like you, that's sad.

My point is that these seem very subjective and judgmental.
I agree with you that Keybase should release their backend code. My comment about (server source code- derived) trust was made in the context of users who would remain using the official keybase.io API servers, which would probably be the vast majority of Keybase users.

It’s not all of the time, or even most of the time, but frequently there are reasons for preferring binaries:

- build systems which are more annoying to setup than just straight reading the assembly / IL dump (ex: android)

- you might want to reverse and/or edit the binary anyway — to look at compiler output, as one example

- it’s sometimes faster to understand the asm than it is to go over the code, compile it, and compare [non-]matching binary outputs (this is regularly true for smaller programs)

- the tools for analyzing binaries are often more advanced than code tools
If you use a framework like Laravel it probably covers most things.

You could easily write a massively insecure application in core python, but things like Zulip use Django which shields you from most of it.
Probably not a conspiracy theory. Just an inevitable "if you can't beat em, join em" sort of mentality. For big companies regulation is generally easier to build loopholes into than fight.
Does it support a full range of markdown or similar in comments?

Slack's asinine take on Markdown [1] is one of the things driving me away from it. Our organisation intensively uses Markdown via Gitlab and other products and being stuck with the half functional version in Slack is extremely annoying.

[1] https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/202288908-Format-yo...
I wonder if it would be feasible to use this as personal service, ie issue a card for each online shop or service I use and generate myself the bills and reports for that... Though I don't think it's meant to be ~~ab~~used for personal gain...
Portal + Portal 2

115 comments without any mention, is this too obvious?
Remote Management. Work Schedule
> Slack doesn't have an on-prem option.

Yes it does, the thing is you have to talk to them to get it and it costs about 10 times as much as on-prem HipChat.

The company I previously worked for switched to RocketChat for this reason (Slack asked ~100K vs HipChat ~10K). RocketChat is free but you'll have to manage it yourself.
Will keep an eye out in the coming weeks for:

Setting the balance or editing it (could find nothing on it, maybe it was by invite)
Are the funds reduced from your income? Guess there will be API's to move funds between acceptance and issuing
Webhook on the settled amount of every swipe (for several MCC's this changes considerably)
I see active/inactive which block the card, maybe a call to disable/enable transactions will help
Requesting Stripe to considering getting the CVV/CVC as a separate GET call for security reasons
a lambda'esque authorization code editor with custom logic rather than setting mcc rules may open up more use cases

And Stripe - please ping me when you launch this in India or start issuing with an international BIN :D For anyone looking for a service like this in India, checkout

https://platformdocs.bon.pe/

It also has an API to create "paylater" cards. In which case during the authorization of every swipe - an auction takes place between lenders to decide who gets to fund that transaction based on a custom credit score, mcc, and interest rate bids for that mcc. Bon works with a bunch of gig economies here already.

~Bosky
Why are you assuming there even are restaurants near the office? A bunch of people getting into their cars and clogging up roads at lunch time doesn't sound like an improvement to me.
> No amount of tech worker foot traffic is going to clean up an area if the government isn't willing to police it.

And policing will just drive the problem somewhere else. What America desperately needs is a new approach to a lot of issues that goes way beyond ever more police, courts and jails:

- drugs and addictions (now that enough white middle class people suffer from heroin or worse, something hopefully will be done beyond the "put them all in prison" attitude that caused the War on Drugs in the first place)

- mental health resources, whose lack of is directly affecting or even causing much of the homeless population

- medical resources

- housing
> all browsers support QUIC

Try blocking your network's access to www.google-analytics.com (with a fast-loading block notice page) and you will see that most webpages become unusable with a 30-second delay before page load completes.

If QUIC only works when the network has no partitions, then QUIC doesn't work.
I would really love to see techies take over, only to see them forced to acknowledge the misery they usually turn a blind eye on.
I think there are mechanisms in most civilized countries that allow you to somehow stop this kind of malice. Therefore maybe it is more useful to ask ourselves the question "Why doesn't the US?".
4) Dumbphones work for week(s) with one charge, a big pro in my book

5) Probably phone home less data about you and your connections

6) Don't fuel your FOMO and don't feel like you are on pager duty

...
google search of this news in Russian language provides multiple references, but most of them do not seem very reliable. The titles look like a click bait. "Ancient creatures have awakened in Russia! No one knows what it is!".
I, for one, would like to see normal package upgrade process - atleast for debian-based distros.

I really don't like the current way of "copy old directory somewehere, copy a new one and replace some files from the old one". That is very painfull and this process does not really invoke a lot of confidence.

edit: typo
Lounge works fine on a smartphone because the actual IRC connection would be handled by a server where you host it, not your own phone.
If you're going to Mars there is plenty of room for cancer research as part of that. Unless spending years exposed to the solar wind is fine with everyone. Plus this argument is bullshit. Why spend more on cancer when only a third or less money is spent on mental illness affecting huge numbers of younger people many of whom turn to suicide? Once you play this game we end up with the poorest of societies focussed on the very bottom of a needs hierarchy exploding a useless population.
All RFC's have links to Obsoleted by and Updated by sections in HTML format where applicable. For example: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822
Kerbal Space Program. You will intuitively understand orbital mechanics after a few days playing this game.
SpaceX has entered a new stage of reusability
It's more than you think.

>Interchange++ consists of the following components:

>Interchange fee charged by the banks who issued the card

>Scheme fee charged by the card schemes

>Applicable acquirer markup

More than likely, you'll pay $0.12 + 1.7% interchange on average for card fees + 1.x% in Adyen's fees if you're a small business.

It takes serious volume to get steep discounts, and the entire industry is full of snakes. If your business does enough volume, keep shopping around and pitting people against each other.

I recently renegotiated our rate down to interchange + 2 basis points. (0.02%) along with very reasonable terminal fees, the whole process took several months.

My advice? Focus on growing before optimizing these things.
> those objects

What are you talking about, quasars? They emit heaps of light for all I know.
I would say that is hard to have an unusual name everywhere.

If I could receive some money each time I teach people how to write it I would be rich by now :) and my name is only mildly unusual. So, future parents of this world, think carefully before naming your children.
So this is a comparison of three extremist atheists against whom? The average Christian or Muslim? The doctrine of some organized religion, for which there are as many interpretations as there are believers?

The atheists in the article only argued that many wars have been started by religious groups for religious reasons, while the same isn't true of atheists or agnostics.

The War in Afghanistan is given as an example of the "New Atheists" being violent, but it was initiated by Christian leaders in response to an attack that was explicitly religious.

The title (and entire article) should be: "Three famous atheists supported wars while criticizing religion for being violent".
For anyone who missed this, it's being made into a tv series: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/the...
Maybe for registering to government systems...

Using desktop applications is still a nightmare, where opening any document from the internet or navigating to a foreign page is hit or miss.

Also, the main frustration is not that it happens often; it's that when you encounter it, fixing it may involve studying the whole software stack to find out where the setting is switched or at what point in the toolchain the format was mishandled.
For one thing, you immediately make that function unit-testable.
Is two factor authentication something you can't live without, then?
The invoice the company pays for the meal. If cooked on-site, the bills for supplies and salary of the cooks, etc. These things are why companies are required to keep books of accounts.
I remember that building! I used to pass it all the time going to the then Sunnyvale main post office at the corner of Mary and Maude (now, shockingly, an Apple building).
My friend has a Chinese driver's license since he lived there for 4 years, and he had to use his Chinese name for it. I don't know why (inability to enter Latin into their system?) But they insisted he give them a Chinese name.
This is really curious because this suggest that Chinese database does not have a unique identifying number for each individual. Can there even be a database without a unique identifier? There must be millions of individuals with the same name.
It's ridiculous on the face of it (especially as they suggest Ethereum), but there are in fact blockchains that preserve the anonymity of the people involved in the transaction. I'm a little sad these distinctions aren't more well-known.
Anyone have a link to the actual document that's hidden behind the harvesting form?

edit: a web search picked up https://www.bsimm.com/content/dam/bsimm/reports/bsimm8.pdf, I'd guess it's this one.
At relativistic speeds, Mars and Earth are ludicrously close - between 4 and 20 minutes apart at light speed. So even travelling arbitrarily close to the speed of light, at the greatest possible distance, you could only gain 20 minutes on the folks back home per trip.

A round trip weekly at average distance (just going with 12mins/trip because the details get complicated), 48 weeks a year for 40 years would leave you just over a month younger than those who stay put.
World’s first blockchain-based airline digital wallet by Singapore Airlines
Cryptonetworks and Cities: Analogies
Its amazing what war can do to equal rights. Britain had the planes but it was short on pilots- the battle of Britain was a war of attrition.
V1 is too clunky to figure out by developers (or any human being for that matter) and looks like something designed in the 90-ties.
It wouldn't surprise me if there is a tendency for an inner gestation period whereby fundamental ideas prosper from exposure to additional experience before maturing. Perhaps largely subconsciously.
Yeah, I need to open my banking app and approve the payment there. I think it needs to be supported by the vendor though
The mastercard network was down recently (maestro cards also operate on it), which did really bad things to basically everything that accepted only plastic. Of course you know in the abstract that this full plastic stuff is a bad idea (it's so obvious), but it's very sobering still to see this in practice.
The Pioneer: Oregon Trail game.
Configuring permissions in Kubernetes with RBAC
It is actually quite hard to keep up to date to many open source projects: issues, new features, and the whole are of knowledge it works on... if they really need to take another direction and still want to keep the framework that would become a huge big ball or technical debt which many companies cannot pay or would rather invest on moving to another framework.
I think they meant taking out the entire company, say 30+ people, rather than just having lunch among your friend group, which is probably very overlapping with your team, and therefore encourages "silos", which the company already has enough of.
The world is bigger than the US, and in a lot of places in the world it is indeed mandatory to carry some form of ID.
This is great news for everyone on the Paleo Diet.
Sometimes less is more. Consider with a dumb phone you don't have to turn off notifications and disable apps (some are not even possible btw) ootb. Or don't have to do this again when an update changes it on a whim.
That'd be a great answer. Sadly, it's not the one people I've met who've abandoned their smartphone go for. They don't use 2FA, or they use SMS where they don't have a choice.

I'm all for people taking control of their life, but having a smartphone can have a material impact on the security of the services you use, and abandoning that in order to stop yourself using Facebook as much is a Bad Idea.
But then what do you do when some media outlets gave a history of attacking you?

You might get them to publish a retraction (since it wasn't true) but hasn't the damage already been done?

What when those same papers write stuff that is technically true (but leave out why it was done)?: "founder sends millions to foreign bank account." "Founder declines to comment." ?
A movie can work even if you know how these things. The how is just as important as the what in a movie, even if, for example, you know the twist of a movie, it can be just as fun to watch how you get there, how all the scenes and narration from the trailer is strung together into the movie.
They forgot to mention bitcoin...because it bitcoins!
I don't recall -ever- (which covers some time lemme tell ya) seeing Mars so big and bright as it is right now. Move over Jupiter!
i feel like you missed the major point there. in every other point you talked about, you actually mention the major advantage of smartphones which is convenience.
everything smartphones can do was already being done, and of course communication has been around since "day one".

smartphones enable you to channel a lot of your time to other things instead of "having to download podcasts in advance" or "check posted transit schedules".
Move to China and work with us. A month ago I pitched Tony Fadell of General Magic personally, passed his filter, and got our current raise material through. He didn't invest in the end (we are raising quite a large round) but we remain in touch. He left a good impression, and I believe we did too.
E-Commerce Branding: Return and Refund Policy
> Flash player had a open access spec and there was more than just the Adobe Flash Player as implementations.

No, the compiler maybe, Action Script maybe, but not the player. The player is entirely closed source and there is no open spec for the player. Or you need to show it to me.

> there was more than just the Adobe Flash Player as implementations.

Only Adobe's implementation could run all swf files. Scaleform was not an alternative flash player. Any attempt at creating an alternative and feature complete flash player failed.

Flash the tech is not open, at all.