skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TSA style airport security screening was put in place in the 1970's. The main thing that happened after 9/11 is they changed from using private security firms to having the federal government oversee it.
War tends to increase violence. The anxieties that are reflected in elections recently as well as the people taking advantage of them to rise to power will make it easier to start one.
You mean they recently stopped you using a debit card to pay money into your bank account? Why would you do that? If you want to move money between banks you can do so instantly with faster payments.

I don't say that to be facetious, I think there's a difference of perspective here which is only going to widen if you think they are a prepaid card. They set out to make a bank, and started with prepaid cards, but that was never the end goal, it was just a way to test out the UI before getting a banking license, so expecting people to pay money in as you would to any other bank account makes perfect sense. This is not a prepaid card you load up, it's a bank account, and they don't want users to think of it as a prepaid card.

So I think their user satisfaction for people who want a bank account is doing well - as evidenced by their new customer growth. Can't wait to see them launch in the US market as it is also ripe for disruption and I think they have the scale and ambition to do well there.
>These are all simply opinions and without any hard evidence

Sure, some of it is speculation on my part but not much. We know WikiLeaks is a dump for Russian intelligence. WikiLeaks coordinating with the Russians goes all the way back to Snowden when Assange brokered asylum for him. We have multitudes of data points on that including statements from most Western intelligence agencies, including American, German, French and British. Wikipedia has a nice summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Allegations_of_Russi...

All fake news?

>Mueller isn't making much if anything public and we're told to prepare for disappointment regarding the whole Russia narrative

I never thought that Trump coordinated with the Russians. Putin hated Clinton and Russia has a policy to fuck with the West - those two things are enough to explain them helping Trump without needing Trump to be directly involved. I do suspect that Trump may have engaged in some shady deals in Russia back when he was a private citizen and maybe there's a chance that the Russians have something damaging on Trump - but I freely admit this is just speculation on my part.

But the Trump collusion is a separate question to Wikileaks coordinating with the Russians or being a front for Russian intelligence.
0x15 is a laser-projectable PDF that's also a ZIP containing, among other things, another PDF that is also a Git repo of its own source code.

0x17 is a PDF that's also a valid ZIP and valid firmware for Apollo Guidance Computer.

And that's just the tip of an iceberg. This project is absolutely crazy, in the most positive possible way.
“internet free speech“

What is this?

Personally, I find that lack of moderation sucks for everyone. If you want to join Gab and say whatever you want you are more than welcome.
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So you make 40 times more now than at the start of your career? Thats insane! I make a very good salary in Sweden and I've only doubled my salary in my 10 year long career.
Out of the tarpit. Moseley & Marks 2006

http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf
Has there actually been any research showing significant impact on voting preference based on seeing paid Facebook ads? In my experience, most people are putting credence in content specifically shared by their like-minded network, not paid targeted ads.
- I agree that eliminating those closed components is a good goal

- I think we should avoid setting the main bar for system76 at purism or vice versa. I say this as a big Purism fan, reading this post is very exciting for all fans of openness in computing.
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That will certainly help Amazon maintain its monopoly.
It's a configurable setting. For some, I imagine, having to unlock the phone, then the app with the same fingerprint credential seems pointless.
It's common to interact with UI code and gameplay macros through the text interface.

The system might come off as insecure, but frankly that flexibility added a lot of value to WoW over its lifespan.
>This is rather unconvincing.

I bet it is to you. You can always contort facts to fit your conclusion, but I don't think that's honest. How about the fact that pretty much every western intelligence agency, including American, French, German and British, has noted the connection between Russian intelligence and WikiLeaks? Wikipedia has a nice summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Allegations_of_Russi...

Fake news, right?
How is a notebook without proper software to handle it in any way more useful then other structured plaintext-file? Yes, JSON can be prettyprinted in a browser, but what then? It's still a useless mess you can't work with.
> ...and one of three that have the rights to print their own bank notes.

Wow, I've never heard of this before - who are the others?
I may be unusual but those sites both work great on my 7 year old Macbook Pro running Google Chrome on a 5O Mbs internet connection.

Which brings up the point someone brought up is that the developers, QA testers, and managers at those companies probably have more modern computers and even faster network. But there are some ways around that like VMs and virtual network interfaces that intentionally throttle the speed and performance and I would be surprised (although not TOO surprised) if no one on the QA teams at those companies used them.

Another thing as others pointed out is that these apps are insanely complicated. They have live updating, undo, advertising, inline preview of links, search, autocomplete, etc... tons of features that many users will never use.

And that's just the client-side complexity.

Part of that is due to user demand and part of it is due to the app just slowly getting more complicated over time (call it feature creep and technical debt). And part of that may also be because as one cynical (albeit probably not wrong) person put it, there are huge teams working on many of these features[1] that need to justify their budget by showing "results."

You may also be assuming that 1000 features that are easy to build, maintain, and keep bug free scales to a single system that is easy to do those things. It rarely works that way because components need to interact with each other and by necessity you have multiple people (multiple teams in fact) who need to integrate their stuff together.

[1] Some of the features I'm sure have more team members than my entire startup company just to build one feature.
> "Okay look dude, we're here to help each other learn and solve problems. If you're going to ridicule someone for asking a clearly-framed question, you're not doing a good job at that. That's a serious problem. How can I help you practice that?"

It might be just me, but this comes across as condescending or patronising. I'd be inclined to be more straight forward and just say something like "I was asking <your question> to <valid reason a senior would ask said question>. I don't appreciate you ridiculing me for what should be a perfectly normal thing to ask, so please don't do that again."

Obviously don't go that route if they aren't owning the ridicule. If they try to weasel out of it or be passive aggressive then sometimes you just have to pin people to their implications.
Your comment is extremely vague, and I cited quite a bit of data in my prior comment. Please refine your comment so people besides yourself grasp what exactly you are referring to.
This was costing them millions of pounds a year in fees. Quite a pricey tactic to remove friction of funds flowing in and totally reasonable for them not to sustain it while pre/early revenue.

Edit: Bank transfers are instant in most cases and don’t cost Monzo. So we should do our part to help them if we want something better.
I'm keeping in touch with a dozen people via emails. They never had Facebook, and as far as I can tell, they are better off than most people. Our mail exchanges are long form and meaningful, with pictures, links to interesting things, and so on. They can be sporadic, sometimes months go inbetween, but we always come around to write a couple pages to the other person.

Facebook Messenger is a convenience that I have, but the people who do reach out to me usually do so just to organize a night out. They said they would call if they couldn't write.. We have group talks organizing board game nights, because communication is easier, and we have group chats for sharing random cute shit like cat videos. I do not get rid of it because for one specific friend I'd need to use Whatsapp anyway, because he is precious and I understand that he doesn't want Yet Another Secure Messaging App (telegram to be specific) on his phone/desktop just for me.
I believe it. I don't think Trump coordinated with Russians. I think Putin's hatred of Hillary and Russia's policy to fuck with the West is enough of a reason for Russia to help Trump without needing Trump to be directly engaged.

Having said that, WikiLeaks collusion with Russia is a separate question and that one has already been show. For one thing, every major western intelligence agency has already made this point. Wikipedia has a nice write-up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Allegations_of_Russi...
Revenue vs user satisfaction isn't entirely a binary choice though. If Monzo offer a feature which costs them a lot but offers user's some convenience, it's a bit of a balancing act to figure out what the convenience is actually worth. Debit card top-ups were costing Monzo millions per year, and seems to me to be only marginally more convenient than a bank transfer.

Debit card payment into a bank account is kind of an odd feature anyway, it seems like a bit of a relic from back when Monzo weren't a fully-fledged bank, and were just offering a prepaid card.
The problem is that "over many plays" would be like thousands at this tempo. I played up until generation 20 or something and it was still completely random who I decided to kill last.
I believe the opposite is the problem: thanks to social media, everyone is exposed to countless comments to which they are in mortal opposition.

Everyone feels besieged. It's difficult to keep your head in a disagreement when you feel there is some horribly misguided revolution going on, and you're part of a small band of hold-outs.

It's not just that we spend too much time online with people who will nod at us in agreement. It's that we spend too much time in a state of rage, bickering with people who won't, and are unlikely to ever.
I think the comment was around reduced usuability. It used to be if you wanted to move money into a Monzo account, you could do in all in-app, via a linked debit card.

This provided a nice usuable way to get money into the account from a "legacy" bank that doesn't have a good mobile story.

Now if you have Monzo + a legacy account (as many do) you have to go log-in to the legacy account to move money to Monzo.

Ofc once you go "full monzo" that's not a problem any more but it's still early days for that and Monzo have had enough service glitches to make people a little nervous of committing to having it as their only account, I think.
Which puts a severe damper on grassroots campaigns that don't have huge budgets to meet the minimum needed for print, radio, and TV. Glad it works for you in Europe... or does it?
You can certainly turn on Face ID (and thus I assume Touch ID and passcode authentication too).

Personally I love that this is optional; I already authenticate securely with my phone, so it seems weird to mandatorily require an additional authentication step.
Its even more ironic to consider who are getting investments from Saudi Arabia, whose corruption and human rights situation are far worse than China.
We're definitely aware of the iOS performance issues and we're working to fix them. We're frustrated by it too.
Quite a what-if. "The Library of Alexandria was not lost, merely hidden"
There’s a basic web app available, but you have to understand the the whole point of this service is banking by app.
I imagine they are moving away from pre-paid cards, and towards full accounts. The pre-paid cards were just there to get them off the ground, and isn't their main focus anymore.

They recently released a savings "pot" (how they split up money) with interest (1%, provided by another company). Which is a step towards offerings of other banks, and in my book is a step towards user satisfaction.
"but do all of the other filtering later on in the pipeline?"

I believe the parent comment was claiming there is no general filter and/or vetting for others - only for Zuck.
1sec response times on almost any touch event. (comments on the forum suggest this is because they use O(N) algorithms somewhere, and after 2y worth of events the app slows to a crawl. doesn't inspire confidence, to be honest.)

This is not my experience on a few different iOS devices over the years - things respond pretty much instantly (iPhone 6 and 8), never seen 1 second waits. There's something wrong with it on your phone (not sure what, and that is an old model), but that is not the experience on a newer phone. I have a few years of transactions in there, was an early user so it's not that either. Perhaps SE particularly suffers though and it's just masked because I have a faster device.

I do hope their friendly support can cope with their growth, I agree it's one of the best bits of the customer experience.
Ask HN: How to get started with astrophysics
I've been reading a lot of Neil deGrasse Tyson, I watch Sixty Symbols and Deep Sky Videos and since being 10 years old I was interested in space/exploration. Not mentioning all the sci-fi books/movies/games I went over. I feel passionate about it, started my own observations with my first ever telescope (it is great!) and I would like to push it to the next level.

I wonder which books/courses are recommended to start with astrophysics more as a science then ad hoc hobby. I've started the edX program https://www.edx.org/xseries/astrophysics but there might be better resources (especially books as I'm more a reader than a watcher).
Where are you going, if not a secret?
For MPAs security is as "simple" as:

- Throwing away everything you don't need.
- Don't trust inputs. Actually you shouldn't trust anything - not even this comment.
- Since you dont trust inputs, add a version tag for all you input because your app will evolve.
- Sanitize all input (ints should be ints, not drop database strings for instance).
- Assume system/framework/service calls can fail. Log that.
- Check your routes. Some frameworks expose routes that you didn't knew about until some bastard asks Googlebot the path to remove some data and drives you mad for weeks.
- Remember to log all input data for further analysis. Well, maybe not all; but 1-5% of all (and tell users about that and dont' use that data for other stuff).

For me Javascript is good for small stuff. Maybe a simple "micro" service that updates something is good. Angular, React, and friends are too much for me because I need too much stuff to debug a simple app.

And don't misjudge the programmer time. Some frameworks allow you to start iterating quickly, but debugging is a nightmare. Also, don't use two (or more) technologies at the same time that you are still learning. One is fine, but learning two at the same time makes debugging #@!ng hard.
The ex-SolarCity employee who sued Tesla has quite a litigious past
* It could also imply
Is that your personal experience?
I read almost only negative opinions about Upwork, and it's seems another broken solution looking for a problem to solve.
Precisely. I bought from them because I know that Linux will work - and it did flawlessly. I am not even using their distro, standard Ubuntu or Kubuntu has no issues, and I can't say the same about many other laptops.
I spent 5+ years in the industry and felt weird calling myself senior. Just because you are a friend with CEO and he can vouch for your title doesn't make you senior.

In 2 years of experience how many serious products can you take from start to finish? In my opinion, a senior developer is a person who did this multiple times.

It's almost like calling yourself lead developer of 1 man team...
This is how you get Brundlefly :O
Having a proper server available is even more reason to use a proper fileformat. The client doesn't care what the server handles and the server doesn't need to send raw datastructures directly from the storage.

Actually, fixing the fileformat-mess should be very simple. Just change the file-load/save-functions. Use a folder-structure with every cell being a seperate file. Or switch to XML. Or make a generic interface and allow to save in whatever the people want. Saving notebooks in Mongodb or some SQL-Database seems like a good goal for dedicated services.
They have an emergency-access version at http://web.monzo.com but they're a mobile app bank.. not really much more than that to say, website wanters aren't the market they're serving
The "when travelling at highway speeds" in the excerpt I quoted does sound like this is a "field of view" issue considering that Autopilot may be turned on from 17mph.

As the car's speed increases, it must be able to look further ahead and to make sense of what it sees in order to avoid slow/stationary objects, and it seems to me that they have a limitation there.

It seems crazy to supply ignore "objects with large relative speed differences". These are the most dangerous ones!

They say Autopilot can detect a potential front collision within 160m and has an emergency braking feature, but the statement above seems to contradict that.
"By January 15, 1915, the Western Union Telegraph
Company had begun using a printing telegraph
system that combined aspects of the Murray and
Morkrum codes. It used Murray’s codes for the letters
and controls, but generally followed the Morkrum
conventions for which figures should be paired with
which letters. Like the Morkrum code and the later
English Murray code, the Western Union code used
separate line feed and carriage return characters
instead of a single line character."

Damn you, Western Union!
Monzo are brilliant.

Prior to the existence of their mobile app, I used cash wherever possible because it didn't require an extra budgeting step (10 quid in my wallet = 10 quid left for today, with a debit card I'd have to write things down or wait ages for online banking to load whenever I did a thing).

Because their app actually updates in real time and doesn't require 50 levels of nonsense 'authentication', I don't need to do that any more.

I do worry about privacy. I'd prefer to have an anonymous digital payment method. We need to step up UX to get to this level of simplicity.
I do not believe that standing up to sexual harassment or other morally objectionable things as "dragging the company into the mud in the press". They are calling Google out on a multitude of shady business practices like any good employee would do. Keeping sexual harassment under wraps will just cause it to ferment inside the inner workings of the company and eventually it will boil over in an even larger scandal. It should be taken care of as soon as it comes up.
The recent root DNSSEC key rollover: summary and next steps
Reversing ALPC: Where are your windows bugs and sandbox escapes?
Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank of Scotland, fill out the three scottish issuing banks

It leads to some "interesting" times if you get money out in Scotland and then go somewhere like London, where they're less used to scottish notes. Merchants outside of Scotland, don't have to take them if they don't want to, but many do.
False. 50% of the current starting QB's are trash. Kaepernick has proven success.
How to use the cloud to build applications faster
That's funny. This post is about the effects of extending high income activities to the rest of mortals.
Weren't patents designed because they were beneficial to society (and to people who had ideas) ?

I think these days patents are mostly high resistance and very few social value.
The interviewer's questions are a barely coherent assemblage of critical theory buzzwords and attempts to hitch the subject to well worn topics like capitalism and the war on terror. The interviewee does their best to answer using the half remembered analogies and terminology that seems to be the sum total of the their knowledge in this field.

This has not improved my already dim view of the Humanities bandwagoning developments in machine learning (or AI as they call it). I wish there were a better way for them to contribute in this area, perhaps someone can point me to some better Humanities contributions to the field?
Not really, it is kinda "unseen" as its not part of the money that goes into you pocket after taxes. You only get into your pocket when retired.
Given that there are a lot of different methods and many different file formats I do not think this can be automated to the extent to catch every single file with steganographic content without massive amount of false positives.
Everything you ever wanted to know about WebSockets, literally
Chinese students are using Mu (an IDE for beginners) to learn Python
Speaking as someone who used to top up by debit all the time, a couple of clicks in the app was far easier than switching apps, re-authenticating with my main bank and then making the payment. I don't blame them for doing it - apparently it was costing around £4 million in fees - but it's definitely harmed the UX unless you want to go full Monzo.
did you mean to comment on this other post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18341572
Moved away - they shut down all the pre-paid cards earlier this year

https://monzo.com/blog/2018/01/18/future-of-prepaid/

Edit: More relevant link: https://monzo.com/blog/2018/04/04/ending-prepaid/
I have something like that in paper version for Spain.
Get ready to be able to publish in physical format and get an ISBN.

Also collect and get press contacts for anyone. Journalists usually have a hard time getting that information and investors will be glad to get press exposure, not just people spamming ideas.
Oh, I agree. The bar shouldn't be set any lower than completely open systems. Unfortunately, while they remain on x86 - and Intel and/or AMD refuse to manufacture chips without the Management Engine or the Platform Security Processor or provide documentation - they'll always be less open than alternative architecture implementations like RISC-V's SiFive or OpenPOWER's IBM POWER and their vendors/integrators like Raptor Computing Systems.
That would be a great scifi plot.
We are better but also not good:

- No healthcare for everyone
- War over oil
- closed borders and no asylum support but cheap foreign labor
Sun made a big mistake shipping Java 1.0 without serialization.

Back then I was writing applets for science education that would do things like send a mesh to a finite element solver and get the mesh back with stress information.

Back then 2/3 of the code and most of the loading time came from hand-written code to serialize and deserialize data structures. Eg. an applet could have been small and fast loading if serialization was built into the platform.

Java 1.1 added serialization, but it took a long time to get into browsers, Netscape added their own lame serialization scheme, etc... By then the rot was already setting in.