skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure there are a lot of companies that do not offer their hires the option to be paid in cash, its bank account or nothing. Plus some countries are moving to card-only economy where some stores don't take cash.
The “victim” was clearly asking for it; not only is shouting “I got a gun” in a state where gun ownership is legal a bit stupid, but involving an innocent third-party (aka the Uber driver) into your stalking games also not a smart move. Not to mention, what would’ve happened to this Uber driver had he not exercised his self-defense right?
Sorry I didn't realize the distinction you were making! you are right that seems to be an electronic equivalent to cash.
I don't mean to be rude, but if you're worried about the "do not track" setting identifying, you honestly shouldn't be on the internet. Or you should be using it like rms does [1] (scroll to "How I use the internet").

[1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
I read it as “excess”—seems like I’m the outlier?
To live in a world where markets can be perfectly efficient and everyone happy because we stop staking the lives of people to their worth as determined by the market.
I have moved the meat of the optimizations to separate libraries, they're linked in the readme.
Is this surprising? MC and Visa collect and sell user data. They track everything you spend money on, and use that to get you to spend more money. Collaborate with Google to make that happen? Of course they would.
The issue with peering with Netflix is that Netflix only peers in certain locations, so you need to buy transport to the exchange where Netflix is present.
Not to mention you get a language that is enjoyable but also compiles to native code. My first Rust project was a Haml parser and I created a CLI for it too that is similar to the Ruby version. It is nice being able to ship the 8Mb executable and not have to worry about users having the right runtime.
UBS closes its UK robo-advice service to new customers
Doesn't help for online purchases. Likewise crypto is too user unfriendly for the masses to adopt and very few vendors accept it
Basically everyone had summer jobs. But how many kids in a class of 30 will have a profile with 20k followers? I'd guess one at best, likely less. (average)

I know a ton of teachers and am friends with a bunch of people with monetised channels like these, but it's really not like a summer job. Virtually everyone had a summer job at some point, but in a class of 30 you'd be hard pressed to find a kid with a profile of 10-20k users. Usually it's like 5-10 kids in a school of 500-1000 who've got some instagram side hustle going on.

Otherwise nice article though, things have definitely changed and as long as parents keep an eye out I think it's a pretty cool development.

On the other hand, I'd question the extent to which kids will say no to crappy brands that offer money, whereas in my experience most serious channels by young adults will often not recommend bad products they don't believe in. If you look at all the insta feeds they're all basically clones of each other anyway, kind of low-quality reviews and just all about advertising, promotions, chances to win something etc. Seems like a pure money-grab, whereas young adults tend to build more of an experience, mention products they don't profit from, offer more varied content. I'm honestly a bit surprised at the amount of followers they got, but then you can wonder how much is real.

Honestly can't blame them, when I was a kid I always had some silly side hustle too. I just wanted to buy games, candy, fireworks and a football haha, quality wasn't the nr 1 priority.
Actually, you can smash Debian & ubuntu together, you just get a terrible monster called frankendebian. As a youngster I tried this, it didn't pan out.
Pull money out at an ATM and pay for things with cash I guess. Not great, but it's an option.
What you're likely seeing, and what the siblinb comments are referring to with the "support" you get for years, is that RedHat (and CentOS by extension) do "back-patching", which is to either take the existing patch diff and alter it to work with a slightly older version of the software, apply it and shit that as an update (with the same software version number but increased release number), or to create a wholly new patch to fix it if required and do the same.

This allows you to have a stable "base" with unchanging software requirements, configuration and features to work on for extended periods while also staying very secure, which is why it's favored by enterprises. You can find more information on this on their Life Cycle documentation.[1]

This behavior actually extends to the kernel itself, which is likely why the Debian developer is quotes talking about "the majority of the world runs Debian or they run their own kernel", as Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc run custom kernels that they've patched. You can see this in different bugfixes for a package, and how they have the same version number for the software, but different release numbers, which come after the version in the filename.[2][3]

There are some more nuances to this model, where you can actually get newer software versions at select points, or where they will actually backport new features and not just bugfixes, but those are somewhat separate, and happen much less frequently (point releases in RHEL terminology).

1: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

2: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:2576

3: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:2926
GNU Taler can't come soon enough.
Http://Taler.net

> When you pay with Taler, your identity does not have to be revealed. Just like payments in cash, nobody else can track how you spent your electronic money. However, you obtain a legally valid proof of payment.
Not really. It’s definitely not how the theatre intended it to work, but this isn’t really stealing - the theatre is willfully giving you more popcorn on the basis that you have an existing popcorn box. They are free to not do so and enforce more controls on which basis they give away this “free” popcorn.
Google users give up their PII the moment they sign up for an account. If you also use Google Wallet or pay for any Google service, you've given them the ability to associate some representation of your credit cards with you as well.

Together with Location Services, they know everywhere you physically go, so given the last 4 digits of your cards and a transaction list it's pretty easy to guess who you are.
Not necessarily it being insulting, with Navy sailors, there is a very real chance that when they are needing to read that manual, they are under attack, and thus don't have the time or ability to think through what the step is actually trying to say. Making it extremely clear means that even when being fired on, the correct thing can be done.
The best way to encourage shops to accept cash, and generally encourage countries to stick with cash, is to use cash whenever possible.
I agree that it definitely can't be completely without cost. But I'll speculate that they may have arranged for the don't-care bits in the pointers to all be 0 when GC is not running and doesn't need the bits. If so, that could mitigate the TLB waste during periods when GC isn't running.

In other words, just because the alternate mappings exist doesn't mean the pointers always have values that actually use them.
I use wikitravel and buy books from publishers like lonely planet. If I rent a car, i always try to find some smart-phone app that can do narration based on location. A lot of these apps are done by a local person/company and provide information on what their favorite places are.
Sure, but they don't need to capture a drone to figure out how to jam its radios.
As a Web Dev I am split on a movement like this. I understand the need for users to control what data they allow companies to have on them, but if other browsers do not follow suit, what will that mean for deployment and making sites consistent across browsers? If Firefox is blocking popular libraries or scripts that end up breaking some webpages the user experience still suffers
I am close to 2m and also broad (my shoulders stick out quite a bit) and I could not do that. Usually in this case the person in front and/or beside me will start complaining to the staff and they will relocate me. I have been put in premium and swapped with people in exit seats because I physically do not sit and every movement bothers people around me.
Followed the link. Read the description at

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068

There is absolutely nothing written about this being a way to opt out of their purchasing and tracking credit card use.
US customers prepared to pay 40% more for cleaner electricity
The key here is "double-blind encryption" - assuming they got that right, neither can see exactly what I am buying, so I'm good. Bigger point: I'd be ok with any company tracking my activities _as long as_ one of two conditions are met: a) it benefits me (and me only), or b) it benefits them _but_ they cannot identify me.
This is great info. Airlines should publicize and market on stuff like this more often but it’s generally not easy to find out stuff like this!
Would be good if they didn't tell you the answer after each question...

['t', 'R', 'a', 's', 'S', 'c', 'C', 'g', 'G'] are the easiest to spot IMHO. You can get most of these with the lowercase c alone
Without opt out? How is this even LEGAL???????
https://getmonero.org/
I worked on the Meltdown mitigations, at Intel, during the embargo. I still work on Linux at Intel.

Intel told quite a few members of the Linux community about this well before late December. Some got told because they work for traditional distributions and others were contacted directly because they are community maintainers or subject matter experts.

Unfortunately, Greg was not one of those folks that was told early. It's pretty clear at this point that it would have been a lot better had he and folks like him been involved earlier. This is especially true for Greg since he plays such a crucial role in stable kernel maintenance, which is how a lot of the world consumes their kernels (including distros like Debian).

I'm glad Greg thinks "Intel has gotten better at this." I'd like to think so too.
Just out of curiosity, what feels shady about ProtonMail?
I've just purchased this. For a 9 hour flight from Auckland to Honolulu, it's $230 USD additional per couple. Basically you're paying $230 for the extra seat, for more seat pitch, and for a leg rest that turns into a flat surface. It's really great!
They double ROT-13 the email address that each side collected so they can correlate, but not identify, individual consumers -- or something, TFA didn't specify the actual encryption algorithm.
If you become a target you're screwed. If you're minding your own business and not trying to start a revolution then a VPN may help prevent you from piquing their interest and becoming a target in the first place.
> They also claim 77% of students graduate with no debt[0]

How many of them have their parents paying anyways?
Helvetica has a few very easy tells; look at the 'e' and 'c', the 'F' and 'E' and the 'A' and 'Y' in these examples, and you'll get 20/20. Oh, and the 'G' and 'R' ofcourse.
Unlikely. What will end up happening is that MasterCard will be making money from this deal, which will incentivize it to either drop merchant fees (leading to merchant offers for buyers to use MasterCard) or increase card member benefits to get more data to sell, which will make people use MasterCard cards more.

The average buyer would rather get cash back to allow Google to report to merchants how their ads resulted in credit card payments than to not get cash back and hide this information. This is the same economics for how loyalty card programs work.
I wish it was 13 inch. I need 13 incher with 32-64GB of RAM, 4k screen and decent CPU.
Ten Agile Axioms That Make Managers Anxious
Net throttling is unrelated to net neutrality. Ironically, revoking net neutrality also potentially helps firefighters. If identifiable, their traffic could be prioritized over yours.

In reality prioritizing first responder traffic over my YouTube cat video will prove impossible. What will happen is the ISP will insert cat videos in to first responder traffic. Therefore, net neutrality is the best we could ever hope for. I’ve called my senator and my representative. I hope you have too.
From the comment section at Ars Technica, "the wired gigabit ethernet is a custom port and dongle."

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X ... -p/1590270
I'd love to both participate and lurk :)
Yeah, this is like them stepping into my house. This whole time they’ve been peering through every window but now, they’ve let themselves in.
Even business class is outstanding on the A380.
Thank you, I am aware of the alternatives but it's an uphill battle to fight a monopoly, i.e. I have only Comcast here as Internet option, etc.
My company uses a mix of 2 and 3 week sprints (not on the same teams). My team uses 3 week. I mostly agree with you. Many of our tasks are done well within the 3-week period, but some take more time, and 3 weeks seems to be a happy middle ground. We could probably do 2 week sprints, but our “miss rate” would go up a bit. And at the end of the day, our clients can’t absorb changes that fast anyways.
It wasn't a Super Nintendo, and it wasn't built out of a wireless keyboard. Quality title.
This headline is misleading.

Native raised venture capital, it wasn't disclosed but there's plenty of PR surrounding it.

Tuft and Needle was started by engineers that had a good bit of personal cash saved in the bank, then later borrowed $500,000.

MVNT raised Money.

It's not like these companies didn't raise a bunch of money, they just didn't use VC $$ supposedly.

The common denominator here is the direct to consumer model with the use of growth hacking via social media campaigns and the rise of such social media platforms.

I.E. Make product that people want to buy and market it efficiently on social channels.
You can’t learn in a vacuum: lessons from 6 open source software maintainers
How the F-35 May Have Benefited from Soviet Technology
Off-topic, the driver's words to the hothead before the driver shoots the hothead are pretty ironic and funny:

[Hothead violently swerves in front of Uber Driver's car and slams on his brakes. He then jumps out of his car and moves towards the Uber Driver]

Uber Driver: "Did I say something?"
Why a non-developer like myself uses Go
There are two things that really amaze me

No glue
Powered by lego electric motors

I can accept that there is important subframe and wheels not in Lego. It's still masterful and essentially a work of art.
Take a listen to the samples from "Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis" by the Tacotron team. It's pretty compelling. https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/speaker_adapt...
Flights in Asia are generally far cheaper and, in my experience, more comfortable. Business class on longer flights in Asia is much cheaper than the same distance in other places I visit. But usually economy has less seats / more space too, at least in the airlines I fly with.
'Trump says' are the most important words of the headline, why were they removed?
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme: Hex-Core, GTX 1050 Ti, 64GB RAM, Under 4 Pounds
I can’t say that I’m surprised, two burning skyscrapers and tow burning jets are going to be carcinogenic minefields. A friend of mine who was an EMT back then still talks about the incredible smell and particulates that we’re at the pit. A lot of guys knew they were taking long term risks with their health, but the work had to be done and they hoped for survivors.

All I can say is that I hope we have measures in place to provide respiratory and full-body protection for first responders if something like this happens again.
> I'm kindof surprised that either Duo or LastPass haven't bought out krypt.co yet…

Would be the perfect move for LastPass - around the beginning of this year Lastpass started a beta program for LastPass connect [0], however, was suddenly put on hold [1][2], and I think krypt's technology would be the perfect candidate to pull together the app.

I also trust LogMeIn much more than I trust Krypt to not push out malicious binaries, so there's a plus for that.

0: https://www.lp-labs.com/

1: https://judge.sh/VBRJP4n.png

2: https://www.androidauthority.com/lastpass-connect-861342/
Yes, but that's organic and pretty normal. Aren't meteors and say moon dust dangerous because its very sharp and jagged?
a heater, but not a/c, is part of the building code in LA.

my apartment has a heater and no a/c, but has a flow-through design that naturally keeps it cool in the summer. my heater and my portable a/c unit each get used about 2 weeks a year. the weather is really that great here.
Or we could just write better applications such that I don't need a 64gb RAM laptop in the future to browse the web and play an FPS
Handyman Price Calculator
Soyuz wouldn't have much. Good thing it's in the orbital module; there are much more problematic places for a hole.

MMOD protection for visiting vehicles is actually a bit tough; they are on orbit for quite a while but have constraints around shielding. Both the new Boeing and SpaceX vehicles have had problems achieving high enough statistical survivability rates, mostly due to MMOD strikes. (Soyuz probably wouldn't pass those criteria either, but it's not asked to.)
In the 90's, Democrats wanted to revive the "Fairness Doctrine" in response to Rush Limbaugh's and Sean Hannity's rise in popularity on talk radio. The Fairness Doctrine was in place at the FCC for parts of five decades, from 1949 to 1987. It will be interesting to see if interest is raised in reapplying a Fairness Doctrine today towards these companies, which may well need to be reclassified in some instances as communication utilities to be regulated. I personally think this is more likely for Facebook and Twitter than Google, but who knows. Another bigger situation could come into play if the infrastructure providers (AWS, Azure) start causing antitrust problems, but thankfully they do not seem to be a big issue yet.
On 2016 Abigail Fisher sued the university of texas for the same reason, the supreme court stood with the university.

Can anyone tell me why not here and what's the difference?
Buy them from @jacquesm:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/

:-)
And?

It means that folks won't lose their job when the doctor orders bed rest in the last month. It gives time for proper care of children. And so on. You might be helping pay for someone else's benefits, but if you ever need them, you are paying for your own as well.

Heck, I'm childless by choice (and female on top of this) and I completely approve of such things - for both mothers and fathers. I'm fine with parents getting more sick leave for their children. After all, they have more responsibility than I do. Children with proper support are more likely to grow up to be good adults. I will probably need these adults as I age.

And it isn't like this sort of cost is limited to such things as parental leave. If you pay for your hospital bill, you are helping pay for folks that do not. Shop retail? You are paying for theft, charity work they do, and whatever benefits they give their employees. Pay taxes? You are helping pay for roads you don't use, wars you don't agree with, politician benefits and pay, and a slew of other things.

I'll add that sometimes the placement of price makes all the difference. For example, when taxes are included in the price on the shelf, there is no more pain at the register. Most places have electronic receipts that can tell you how much tax you've paid, so the cost isn't hidden. Taxpayer-funded health care means you can better budget for everyday life's ups and downs, especially the health things that are out of one's control. It matters where the price and cost actually are.
I find git to be one of the best CLI programs I've ever used.

There are a few things I don't like, like how `git blame` requires me to put my terminal in fullscreen to see the output properly. I wish there was an option to make the output group changes of a commit together. It could put the commit details on a line before and add a single character prefix to all lines to differentiate between file lines and commit lines, just like how ag/ack/rg improve grep's output format for human viewing.

There's also a long-standing bug in `git log --graph` that causes the lines of the graph to sometimes move back to the previous line at the end of a commit description.

I love the -p/--patch option that's available in many subcommands. It's really quick to work with.

What specific things do you not like about git's CLI?
So? Is 6.8 tons per person carbon neutral? No? Then Europe needs to be cutting, not increasing, their emissions.
https://applepaycash.greendot.com/termsconditions/

It appears that Apple Pay cash doesn’t share much, although they do say ‘We may disclose information that is not personally identifiable for other purposes.’

What they mean exactly by ‘personally identifiable’ is open to interpretation.
Or take a layover. Explore Addis Ababa, take a break, check out Dublin, then reach Washington.
Yeah but it's less nice, and if you're running on a distant server you have to deal with X forwarding
The privacy aspects are important, but it is also worth considering the impact this sort of stuff has on society. We like to think of ourselves as semi-immune to advertisement (and manipulation), but we really aren't. The 2016 presidential election proved that. Putting more and more data into the hands of Google and others just gives them more power over the public at large. Are we OK with that? Is the discussion even really happening?
" With it, marketers see aggregate sales figures and estimates of how many they can attribute to Google ads -- but they don’t see a shoppers’ personal information, how much they spend or what exactly they buy. The tests are only available for retailers, not the companies that make the items sold inside stores, the spokeswoman said. The service only applies to its search and shopping ads, she said."
A couple of years ago, I decided to go with Runbox for email along with some self-hosted solutions. It has been great - Gmail over IMAP is relegated to newsletter subscriptions. I also use LineageOS on my phones and tablets.
As much as people dislike Trump, it's nice that the US has a president who is not afraid to stand up to big corporations. Just drawing attention to this oligopoly is a good step in the right direction.
Yes, it's very frustrating when someone reports an absolute number without any idea of the base rate. Given that everyone dies of cancer if they live long enough to, how are we supposed to know whether 15 deaths in 17 years is more or less than you'd naively expect? It doesn't seem very high?
I would expect much more stuff to be in the air under zero gravity. On earth dust will settle on the ground but I assume in the ISS it will keep floating around.
Not sure how this works specifically, but usually you step back a bit and say that what you actually want to determine is not whether a user performed a transaction, but how many users who saw a specific ad bought a product, and then you develop a (statistical) zero knowledge proof/protocol to achieve this.

I don't actually know how to do this, so this is a bit like the "draw the rest of the owl" meme :)
“Little Languages” by Jon Bentley (1986) [pdf]
What Do Pilots (Actually) Do on Long Flights?
This is great news for startups
it may not be fashionable in the field of psychology currently to acknowledge "learning styles" but.. "is dead" seems to say "we can prove this does not exist" .. the strongest possible statement about it, in the field of psychology... psychology is accepted as a science, I guess, but really.. the mind is a massive thing.. which mind ? the one that responds when you drop a weight on your foot ? the one that responds after talking to a dear friend ? really.. this is so closed minded..
Why Airline Pilots Can't Chit Chat Below 10,000 Feet (2017)