skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absolutely routine in the card payments industry and has been for a long time. People don't like having legitimate recurring charges disrupted just because their card provider mails them some new plastic every few years.

If you want to cancel a service, cancel it with the service provider. Do not rely on anything to do with any payment method that you happen to believe might cancel it. Those mechanisms are for exceptional situations like an abusive merchant who has made it unreasonably difficult to cancel through the proper channels, not for your convenience in avoiding payments you've agreed to make.
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Ideally you should have both features. What if you auto-paid bills with your card?
There's nothing you can do to eliminate the high speed trading case short of outlawing automated trading. As long as computers can trade, they'll compete on speed and nothing you do can prevent that. You could forcibly slow down trades to 1 a minute, and you'll still have bots competing on speed to be the first trade each minute and they'll still beat humans.
You've made an argument for looking through the projects which people whose opinion you care about have starred, not an argument for why GitHub stars are significant. Simply looking at number of stars doesn't provide you with much meaningful information.

It's also worth considering when someone starred a project. In my experience, people don't usually won't go and update their old stars, so it shouldn't be taken as endorsement. You don't know what state the project was in at the time it was starred. It's common for project to evolve over time, and it's not always for the positive.

The significance of starring a project is also poorly defined. Many people use GitHub stars as a form of bookmarking. You generally don't know the reason why someone starred a project. For example, just because someone has starred a library doesn't mean that they'd use it in production.
Great to see indian unicorns expand outwards into other markets.
As twalla mentions, while it's useful for audio, it's especially good for control voltages, which most audio interfaces will filter out. As Bitwig has devices for sending control voltages, it allows you to control modules from the software.
Jerry Bishop played the character in its original run. Way up on channel 32. Wiki says 1970-1973.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_G._Bishop
Assuming you weren't on a trial, that's actually pretty useful. They should ask though.
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For those unfamiliar, what do they do?
Then perhaps you've just been lucky. Sometimes merchants might decide it's not worth the trouble to go after you for a small amount, for example.

For comparison, I work on a service that uses recurring billing, and we have wording in our legal terms specifically so we can go after you for things like the cost of recovery as well if you abuse us like this. Our lawyer didn't include those words just for fun.
Yeah virtual network gateways in Azure are probably the lamest feature ever. Takes literally 40+ minutes to provision one. I've worked about 2+ years on Azure and 5-6 months on AWS and while they both of course have their pros and cons, I prefer AWS for things like this. I do love ARM templates though. <3
so complain that the nytimes journalists can't math. it isn't microsoft's job to explain their charitable giving in the least charitable possible terms.

it isn't as though you go on dates and enumerate your moral failings.
Plugin hybrids make great sense, but they don't sell well: https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
It's not 3% for every price range. For example, $1 M price ranges pay way less.
It's probably not much more abrasive than the music it's sampled from, if the source is mostly modern classical music.

I'm really surprised by how good this is. At times it sounds a lot like something from certain popular experimental electronica artists, e.g. Daniel Lopatin, Tim hecker.
Exactly. Not a problem but a luxury.

But how can I, a healthcare professional, monetize that?

Let’s declare it a disorder and get some tax-funded monies to “treat” it.
How many users do you go after per month?
Yes the Ford 150 and the Chevy 1500 or some such are called light trucks because there are also much heavier trucks, big Diesel engines, maybe dual wheels on the back, able to tow a small yacht, etc.

Typically can get a list of the possible options and dealer's price for each, develop a list of just what want with the dealer's cost, and then take an afternoon and do a search for a dealer who will give you the best price. Start with offers a bit below dealer's cost, try all the dealers, increase by maybe $100 and iterate. Or, maybe a little faster, try a binary search.

Then pay them a small amount and have them place the order, wait about six weeks, and then get what you wanted. I did just this for the last four new cars I bought -- worked fine.

Of those four, I got two muscle cars, a high performance luxury car, and an SUV. The SUV is my favorite. NO MORE luxury cars. Next time, a light truck.
For "just an advertisement" it sure offers a lot of good advice that is still applicable even if you don't buy anything from them.
Chicago's population decline is also a complicated thing. The population might be going down, but demand for housing is high, and rents and home prices are increasing rapidly.

My sense is that what's really going on is that working class families are being pushed out to the suburbs by affluent but childless people.

In my neighborhood, they're building new high-end condo and apartment buildings left and right, but at the same time over 90% of kids in our school qualify as low income, and enrollment is decreasing rapidly. The playground across the street used to be full of kids all summer, but that's changing. The families on my block have steadily been moving out, because people are getting priced out.

When a family of 5 moves out in response to a rent hike, and is replaced by a couple 20somethings with financial sector jobs, that's a net population change of -3. But it's not because people are falling over themselves to get out of the city.
Anyone unable to be responsible can receive their UBI via a cashless welfare card (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashless_Welfare_Card) which quarantines where the money can be spent. It deals with issues like problem gamblers and people with substance abuse problems.
Law firms are typically structured as partnerships. I'm not sure if that's because there's another restriction against operating a law firm as a non-partnership or what.

If a lawyer was part of a company that wasn't a law firm, that would be fine. Actually, this happens pretty frequently--many sports agents happen to be lawyers, because sports agents are responsible for contract negotiations and legal skills are valuable in that situation--though they do not necessarily represent their clients as lawyers and hence the sports agencies they own and operate aren't treated as law firms.

For example, Drew Rosenhaus is a lawyer and a prominent sports agent, and his firm is neither a partnership nor a law firm. Rosenhaus is famous for a number of things, such as being the real-life inspiration for the title character in the film Jerry Maguire and holding a press conference with his famously difficult client Terrell Owens during one of the many controversial incidents he got himself into and responding to every question from the reporters with the phrase, "next question". He was also the agent of Chad Johnson, who famously legally changed his name to Chad Ochocinco for four years to get around league rules preventing him from putting that inaccurate Spanish translation of his jersey number on his jersey in place of his surname.
This is an advantage of driving tractors as a child. Backing up a trailer is second nature for me. I can back around corners, between obstacles, whatever needs to be done, often without taking a hitch. One time I was driving a U-haul pulling a car on a dolly, so there wasn't one but two pivot points. I stupidly pulled into a gas station that didn't have a way to pull through, but I was still able to back out of it rather than suffering the ignominy of unloading the car. My grandfather scoffed when he heard about it; apparently county fairs used to have contests in backing up "four-wheeled wagons" which had similar configurations.

The only thing you need is practice. The next time you use a trailer, take it to a big WalMart parking lot during a slow time and play around with it a little bit. You'll get a feel for where the "fulcrum" is, and start using your mirrors to steer. This isn't an impossible task. All the semi truck drivers you see on the road have to get really good at this in order to pass their CDL, and lots of them never backed up a trailer before they took the course.
I wish my bank offered that as well but another option offered in some countries including mine is to buy a prepaid MasterCard gift card.

Now such gift cards aren’t perfect — you have to pay a bit extra, but for the purpose of signing up for a trial period with any company that automatically turns your trial into a subscription and which is known to make it difficult to cancel the trial it might be a good idea.

However, before even signing up for a trial with a prepaid gift card one needs to be sure that one is not entering into an agreement that legally binds you to a subscription.

I recently bought a prepaid gift card that I intend to use for a 7-day trial with a company that is known to make it difficult to cancel. But I will only sign up for the trial if the automatic subscription is not legally binding.
English-language article in Frankfurter Allgemeine by Shoshana Zuboff, whose book "Surveillance Capitalism" just came out.
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I can only assume GP's wish is for Seattle to get its way and impose its own income tax despite being against the state constitution

Nice strawman! You're a bit off, though. My wish is for the state to create an income tax. I think it's absurd that we have such a regressive tax structure in this state.
https://privacy.com

Been using it for years. Great service.
First Battery-Free Bluetooth Sticker Sensor Tag Demonstrated at NRF
I love supporting this company for this exact reason. There are other DAWs, and some are free, but I am all for quality pro audio on linux.
no, the strategy of divide and conquer exclusively refers to situations in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, in this case they are exactly equal.

In military parlance, it means that you have a much greater advantage against 2 armies of half size separately than against them both simultaneously. This is known as Lanchester's law, and the whole point is that it's non-linear.

In algorithms, the idea is roughly that, given a method which solves a problem, it is often cheaper to split your input, solve each half, then merge them, than it is to run the algorithm on the entire input. Again, non-linear.

Dividing your room into quadrants provides NO advantage to searching your room. You still have to search each unit area methodically.
Original press-release: https://www.wiliot.com/blog/bround
US .gov sites dropping like flies as certs expire
This was one of the Vox episodes.
Same question I always ask, who is using it in prod? How huge the database size is? I’ve used postgresql with almost 200+ GB size of single table and it works like breeze! What are caveats, traps I should be aware of?
That alone won't cause people to have an 'uncontrolable need to accumulate everything'. Buying junk to fill a house that's too big is not the same as hoarding.

Please read the article.
Ask HN: Resources on Postgres for a person who last did RDBMS some 15 years back
Hello HN, I last studied Databases (by which I mean SQL) a while back. Now, with new functional requirements such as High Availability, Scalability, Graph Databases etc being an integral part of modern day applications, how do you recommend I should proceed to get a complete grasp on Postgresql?

I wrote postgresql because it seems to be the most popular and powerful RDBMS around nowadays. I might be wrong.

Regards.
> This simply seems like a case of a company offering something that customers want

Part of the service that government regulation provides is dimensionality reduction.

That is, when you buy X, you might weigh the price up against two to five observable qualities, but there are a hundred more that you can't observe until they bite you later. So capitalism needs some way collapsing those unobservables down. The mechanisms I can think of is:

1. Reputation of the vendor.
2. Other consumers observing what you can't.
3. Government regulation to pin them down to an enforced standard.
4. Other private business partners enforcing government-like rules (for whatever reason).

ggm prefers mechanism 3 to 1,2 and 4. Personally I don't have much faith in any of these four mechanisms, though I am glad when any one of them actually does work.

This seems to be a case are (2) has worked in that MC has decided to make an obscure quality improvement that only some users will notice though many will benefit from, and might become a case of (4) working if they really do cause vendors to improve their behaviour.
The problem is there's no easy way to know which things will actually make you more productive and which won't. Will switching to lisp make me more productive or will it just mean I have to re-write 30 libraries from scratch that aren't written in lisp? Will that productivity multiply as I hire more people or will the fact that it's hard to find lisp programmers mean my options to expand will be limited? Does lisp work well on large teams or does the fact that it's typeless and every programmer makes their own DSL macros mean that it's actually harder to share knowledge?

Will switching from framework X to framework Y really increase my productivity? Is it a matter of not understanding how Y is so much more efficient to build thing than X or is it just hyperbole/marketing/cult. Switching to different product management software, different game engine, different 3d software, different wiki system, etc etc .. How can I know. If I believed everyone I'd be switching every week.
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That would be my guess. Since this is all event driven code, why wouldn’t they bundle them for improved system utilization?
yeah you can do that with html and javascript since the 90s
Oh I have no doubt that's the case. Ableton, remember, began its life as a clip launcher. I have no doubt that its architecture has been built up over so many generations that moving forward in any significant way would require a massive compatibility-breaking re-write. That's why all the changes for the last few versions have been mostly extra effects/instruments and workflow improvements. It also explains why the new Max integration does little more than improve its launch time.

Bitwig has had the advantage of a greenfield redesign based on lessons learned by former Ableton devs. Their choice to implement the audio engine in portable C with proper process isolation and a Java UI is a brilliant move. It is so refreshing to have Bitwig's audio engine crash, and be able to choose to start it again or save my project without losing a thing.
Cool radix trie trick:

Set a fixed-size binary radix trie of 32-bit IP addresses, say 1000 entries. Track the nodes of the trie in a list, LRU order; insert an IP, its node goes to the top of the list.

When you exhaust the available nodes, reclaim from the bottom of the LRU list --- but first, find either a sibling for the node already in the trie, or a parent, or a sibling of what that parent would be, and "merge" the IP address you're losing.

(So in reclaiming 10.0.0.1/32, merge with 10.0.0.0/32 to make 10.0.0.0/31, etc).

Over time, "important" /32s --- really, important prefixes, period, not just /32s --- will "defend" their position towards the top of the LRU, while the noise will get aggregated up, into /16s, /15s, /4s, whatever.

What you're doing here is inferring prefix lengths (netmasks), which is kind of magical.

You can do the same thing with memory addresses in a debugger to infer (course-grained, but without much effort) data structures and allocation patterns. There are probably other integers you can do this with that nobody's thought of.

(The data structure is called Aguri).
Also, in this case, the “f(w, r)” pattern is pervasive in Go web code. Anyone who has written web code in Go will instantly understand what it means and how to use it.
Things have gotten really interesting as we may have gotten very lucky with the timing of the housing market - but I totally agree.

I think most of us don't want this to become a place where normal, non-insanely rich people can live.

For whatever inaction the typical eastsider(sorry, I love you all) are commited to, its great that someone, even Microsoft is doing Something.
In-production automated farm
It's fast, but for a simple site like this I suspect plain HTML + cacheable CSS would be just as fast.
It’s neat but in reality just a marketing stunt.

In places where there’s no phones or Internet you have to trade face to face.

In most places where Internet is censored you’re not allowed to arbitrarily set up your own comms either.

Last but not least, you need to have electricity and a computer. And some sort of Internet access to download and update your OS and app software.
Consumer capitalism caused by an infinitely exponential increase in advertising compared to any other era of human history.
I assume he was sending in the SHA-1s. And yeah, it looks like he (Troy Hunt / site operator) disabled the direct search by SHA-1 now that he's enabled the k-anonymity API. Was able to edit and update my original post to reflect this.
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Doesn't have to be less engagement as long as it's very human like. I went overboard and used tensorflow to guess content of images on other people and leave comments, post stuff, generate comments text via NLP and as long as I used unofficial channels (eg via Javascript using PhantomJS) I had really good interaction.

I got >100k genuine users in my facebook group, 10k users on instagram etc and now I have stopped automation on both as the genuine user interaction suffices for growth.

Got API privileges revoked by twitter and the moral of the story if you have to be a 'crook', go all in ;)

ps: my first version of the project is here: https://github.com/ganeshkrishnan1/socialmediabot

Now I use scala, tensorflow and stanford NLP
My friend jailed overnight, wrists bruised, put in the cold for 1 gram of pot
Tonight I was eating at Hardee's when a friend of mine walked in. He could have been a homeless person by his look: gaunt, breaking out, clothes 2 sizes too small. He told me he had been in jail overnight (it was now evening, so all day too)

Since it was his second possession, in Wisconsin, a single gram of pot is a felony. His wrists were bruised from handcuffs, he had obviously been treated pretty poorly by the officers, and all day, he had been assured that he could collect his belonging at the Oshkosh police station. ( he was at a jail about 5 miles out of town and the police station is downtown )

So, he waited for 45 minutes in 18 degree weather, in the clothes they had given him, a weird turtle neck and a spring jacket, both were too small. No socks either. I mean, it was cold!

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The jail bus took him to the police station, where they acted like he was an idiot for asking for his stuff, and told him to come back during business hours. So he went back into the cold, to the nearest place with heat, Hardee's ( they're like McDonald's ).

There I was by the grace of God, and he was happy to see me, to use my phone, and figure out logistics of how to get home ( he lives a town over ). I let him use the phone, call a few people. Offered him a burger, bought him a sprite.

I'm car-less, but I said we could walk over and borrow my mom's car. The cops left him with no phone, no keys, no laptop, no clothes (that fit), and he was also concerned because he had a bunch of magic cards with him ( geek cred anyone? ) who knows if the cops kept em nice.

This guy is not a criminal. I think he does freelance programming. He's kind of a delicate flower in some ways. Not the most delicate person I know, but he works with computers. He doesn't brave the untamed wilderness with no supplies including no winter gear.

I do Wim Hof method, jump in ice lakes, and all that crazy stuff, and I had on a hat and gloves tonight, because it was so cold. He does none of that, and had a too-small spring jacket and no hat nor gloves, was mis-informed about collecting his belongings, and was set loose with nothing else, all for a single gram of pot, which is legal in a growing number of states.

I dunno what else to say. What should I do?
Pretty sure he wants to fight this with a lawyer. I want to get the laws changed.
Can anyone help?
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I think the appropriate mildly edgy hashtag here is #latestagecapitalism
Came to reply with this. I've been using it for years and even managed to get my wife on board. Don't tell them but I'd be willing to pay a small amount for this service. Any company I deal with that has a recurring payment and makes cancellation painful just gets cut off instead. Major time saver. My one complaint is that some large vendors identify their cards as gits cards and won't accept them.
Twitter is even worse - the adverts when travelling are almost entirely in the local language.

I have used Twitter for a decade. They know where I live, and that I’ve never once indicated that I know Spanish or Japanese or whatever, yet somewhow their targeting setup seems to be “you are in Japan therefore here are Japanese adverts” which is fucking baffling for a company with that amount of engineering resource.
The desire is generally for high availability now and ability to scale out in the future; while a single write db is generally more than enough performance wise, it doesn't give you high availability which is the main desire.
Because they're not building single family homes in Medina? Multi family housing in various parts of the metro (including Snohomish county). The Seattle Times has more information including a bit more about geography:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/microsoft...

The key is zoning and it sounds like they have some local buy-in from politicians (see the attached statement of mayors in that article). I'm skeptical that happens, NIMBYs have a way of stalling up zoning, but it's a still a step in the right direction.
You either die a startup or live long enough for everyone to hate the madman who picked the stack.
Maybe they can roll ozone?
That does not refute what I claimed, even in the loosest of interpretations.
This is funny, but in reality it's not.

Git is one of the most amazing, powerful tools ever conceived, with one of the must byzantine and ridiculously designed 'interfaces' ever conceived.

People confuse the raw power of a tech, with how well it can be feasibly used. Sadly, due to the later issues, git will only ever be a shadow of what it could have been.

With all due respect to Linus, who'd be the first to admit he's not very good at UI stuff (I mean command line as well)... it's truly a sad thing.

This is a major 'problem that needs to be solved' I'm interested to see how it could evolve into something 'better'.
I know which passwords were breached by all the emails I get telling me "we know your password is XXXXXXXXX. Pay up or else". There's 4 or 5 in the first 30 messages in my email spam folder. >:(
As far as I can remember, I independently created that question about 20 years ago. I’m sure I wasn’t the first, and of course it’s entirely possible I heard about it somewhere before using it myself.
In Germany, everything has to have the option to cancel in the same way you signed up. So if you sign up online, you will be able to cancel online.