skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're about 50/50 on the relatively few chargebacks we've had. In 100% of the cases, it was a genuine charge for a real customer, the customer openly acknowledged that when contacted, and this evidence was supplied as part of the dispute.

Our customers have generally been responsive when asked about a chargeback. It seems like in many of the cases there really had been a problem with their card being stolen or the like, but often all subsequent transactions had been disputed by the card issuer, even long-standing recurring charges. It wasn't clear in many of these cases that the customer had requested this, or even knew that it was happening.

Even when customers assured us that they had personally contacted their card issuer to tell them a charge was legitimate, that was no guarantee that the chargeback would be cancelled. Unless we have customers who are spending considerable time writing apologetic emails to us and offering to pay us some other way and yet for some reason lying about that contact, the card issuers aren't keeping up their side of the bargain here.

In 0% of cases was it worth the time we spent putting together comprehensive evidence to dispute a chargeback, even when we won. Like scrollaway, we just don't bother now.

If you have a system where a charge can just be arbitrarily reversed and it's not worth fighting it as the merchant even if you have overwhelming evidence of its legitimacy, that tells you how legitimate the whole system is, doesn't it?
> I add a couple half-hitches to the bowline for extra assurance.

That sounds good, but the thing with that knot is it's not "assurance", it's required, it has a tendency to come undone without it, the free end just works it's way back toward the knot - especially when wet which makes many sailors shun it. Many climbers have also died using this knot without a stopper. The stopper should be considered an integral part of the bowline, there are other bowline variations which also serve this purpose as with your example.
Your entire life is open to Google if you use Gmail. Google has demonstrated a willingness to run algorithms to analyze that life. Google can, at any time, for any reason, ban you from its platform.

If something in your life runs afoul of Google, your identity gets shut down. This wouldn't be a big deal if you weren't using Gmail as the hub for tons of your identity and logons--but many people use it for exactly that.

TLDR; non-meta risk is high and unpredictable if you use Gmail as a life hub, much lower otherwise.
FWIW, Airtable has sensible defaults for this. you can share a table for free (password protected) with non-airtable users. (I do use that for specific team projects)
For many users high contrast is enhanced when it's dark. See Windows High Contrast Mode as an example.
My evidence is that they are a publicly-held company which means they're obligated to make as much money as possible for their shareholders. If they have something of value, (your purchase history) they must make money off it. Giving you free stuff without getting anything in return is "bad" in the eyes of shareholders in the current unregulated business climate.
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Ya that is a really good one! I've been trying to figure out how to get a real answer on a question like that :), like is there something I can ask that shows that without asking it like that.

I.e. how do you store knowledge in the x team? Or, how often would I get to work with someone in x team?
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I remember reading about the Soviet era space program and that to some extent it's speed and efficiency was credited to the program's leadership that in spite of the system were able to convince or compel (by pulling the appropriate levers of government) various groups to work together who otherwise really didn't have any reason to do so. However that didn't last forever and the program started to stall.

It seems to be a universal problem.
>From Overseas Press

"Overseas press" that are regularly quoted on Chinese media:
Europe Times, World Daily, Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao, Hong Kong Wen Wei Po (present in Chinese libraries), American Multimedia Television USA (Chinese name "All America Television"), and a lot more are either controlled or influenced by the party.
If the truth was self-evident fake news would not exist...

Often there isn't even one truth.

And of course when you have two competing versions there is no guarantee that one is true, or that one is not true for that matter.

I'm just saying to people should use caution and not take anything at face value.
The stats are quite clear that protected bicycle lanes improve bicyclist safety. The article literally cites such a study.
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Twitter makes me jump through hoops to even look at the content (oh look, I've been rate-limited for loading their website once today, but they'll happily remote the rate-limit if I install their app!), so yes.
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ah right, great point!
Combatting disinformation will become more and more important for every organization. I'm glad to see at least one government taking it seriously and pushing social/media companies to actually do something and add tools. When will we have degree programs in Disinformation Prevention and Control, Anti-Manipulation, Discourse Integrity? How about job titles like Discourse Protector, Media Accountability Officer, Fact-Checker, and Truth Wielder? I think companies usually hire PR firms to do this work. That's like hiring thieves to protect your valuables. It can work, but is it really the best strategy?
Not a field expert, but I'm fairly sure that China's vast economic growth is due largely to trade normalization with democratic countries in the last 20 years or so that happened after the fall of the USSR.

Both were subject to the 'dont trade with communists' policy during the time they both existed..
I didn't make a claim, so I don't need to support or refute it. But back to the point. Not having money is functionally the same as stopping your supply of food. So if the recession is deep enough that enough people can't buy food anymore there may be riots and looting.

Above posters said that 60% of Americans don't have meaningful savings. That would mean in the event that they can't afford food, more than half of America might start a revolt. (Of course depending on the size of the recession).
It worked in Firefox Developer Edition.

Then I was able to paste it into SublimeText. I pasted it several times. SublimeText says the line is 6 characters long, but the cursor is still at the left edge! Then I copied that line, and my clipboard viewer shows 14 bytes for the Unicode entry, 12 bytes for the 6 characters and a two null bytes. As expected, the characters survive being saved with Trim Trailing Whitespace enabled. Reopening the file with a single-byte encoding (I tried Windows 1252) showed the characters. My hex viewer shows 6 occurrences of E2 80 8B.
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I understand that the pricing is a joke but are the terms supposed to be a separate joke or are they just creepy and illegal?
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Opposition to age of consent laws for minors engaging in sexual activity is also a popular cause among the ancaps.
What about a document database without an enforced schema? For example, you can just install CouchDB, create a new database and start inserting random documents.
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I agree with your general sentiment, but don't think people on electric bikes are going to improve the situation, rather make it much, much worse based on the electric bike share pilot in my city. Someone who owns their ebike might be better, but those on shared bikes are a danger to everyone and never wear a helmet.
Dutch style intersections seem to be really good at making cyclists and pedestrians in protected lanes visible to turners.
I wanted to actually dig into this, and see if there's anything that's underlying the ideas that are worth really considering but I've got to say, this really turned me off:

"When an Island or Peninsula breaks free from a larger country and creates its own legal structure, dramatic increases in prosperity often occur within 1 generation.

Under British rule Hong Kong habour was little more than a dockyard for the Royal Navy. Now thanks to modern trade rules and numerous land reclamation projects, the skyline features an abundance of skyscrapers."

That's just dishonest. Firstly, Hong Kong was not just a dockyard for the British Navy in 1997, it was already an incredibly rich place, with many skyscrapers and huge amounts of autonomy. Try googling a photo of Hong Kong in 1997. Secondly, it is has not broken free from a larger country, it was returned from the British Empire to Chinese control.

"Before World War 2, rickshaws were the primary form of transport in Singapore. Now there is a vast public transport infrastructure, including high speed rail networks and expressways."

Okay, what a funky timeline. Before WW2 Singapore was very poor! Along with basically everyone else in that region. It gained independence in 1959, but let's not talk about what happened in between!

None of the examples they give seem to offer anything other than "Pro tip: Be a tax haven". Singapore, Mauritius, Hong Kong? Notice what these places have in common? Like Jesus Christ guys could you not find a single example of a country whose independence made it wealthy without being a straight up tax haven for the surrounding larger countries?
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People value utility and cost over privacy. They say they don't, but their continued usage of Gmail says they do. That and the fact is most people I think are not vehemently against ads unless they're really annoying.
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The submission seems to have been removed from the front page; is it being flagged?
"Embrace, extend, extinguish" can be thought of as pattern of incentives, not just a policy that might be renounced.

Embrace. We care about our developers and customers. If someone somewhere does something that would be better for them than what we're doing now, of course we're going to pick it up and adapt it for them. Failing to do so would be to fail them.

Extend. We care about our developers and customers. We want to improve the experience we provide them. Sometimes that involves extending standards with additional functionality. Just as everyone else does. We're not going to deny them those improvements while standards processes grind slowly, and especially not when those are retarded by competitors with interests other than the best well being of our developers and customers. And we value maintaining backwards compatibility. [...] Similarly for community infrastructure.

Extinguish. We care about our developers and customers. If we can help that community grow and strengthen, attracting new members from elsewhere, of course we're going to do that for them. Helping competitors, their developers, and their customers, isn't where our focus is. Resources are limited. And if competitors think to steal our hard-earned intellectual property, of course we're going to stop them. (Ok, that last bit is policy.)

"Windows Everywhere"... and scorched earth everywhere else. That systematically torching the surrounding valley, now has less prominence as policy, does seem an improvement. It remains to be seen how different the effects are, of say allocating available water based on the best interests of our developers, customers, and competitive advantage.

One question is what Microsoft is willing to sacrifice for the common good. Taking a hit on DOC, for example, to avoid undermining ISO. Sacrificing the competitive advantage of offensive patent use. There doesn't seem much track record yet, in prioritizing the broader there's-more-here-than-Microsoft ecosystem and community and profession.
Lenovo Smart Clock review: A small smart display that doesn’t display much
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No mention of backpropagation
It's likely that this is contaminated with the copyright of the original — the author admits having had access to the original, and it's likely that some of their code would show "substantial similarity" if examined by a jury, which is sufficient to show copyright infringement under US law. And, notoriously, Caldera has been taken over by shameless criminals even worse than the ones at Oracle — the ones who turned the name "SCO" into an obscenity meaning "to try to steal someone else's work through the courts".

It's outrageous and ridiculous that in 2019 we need to worry about possibly infringing the copyright of code written in the 1970s, when copyright arguably didn't even cover software, by a man who died in 1994 and who probably would have approved of the project. Copyright law is a menace to anyone doing preservation or creative work of any kind — note the recent million-dollar verdict in favor of Nintendo against abandonware ROM sites — and should be abolished or at least scaled back to a reasonable term, like five years.

On another note, the Z80 isn't as obsolete as you might think — like the 8051, it's used relatively often as an embedded core in modern devices, such as the S1 MP3 player from the 2000s and the TI-73+, TI-83+, and TI-84 calculators SirCmpwn wrote KnightOS for. And, unlike the 8051, the Z80 has reasonable self-hosted development tools, including Turbo Pascal.
True. Although spam/search features could be the only thing you want done with your email.

There's no reason why someone couldn't create a GMail clone with both of those features on parity but with a business model that doesn't involve mining your email for receipts.
The more I think about this the more it upsets me to see easyDNS using these fear tactics to advertise their own terrible email service. Whatever you think Google is doing with your email, I guarantee you that the privacy controls at easyDNS are impoverished compared to those at Google. Are they seriously trying to argue that easyDNS has superior insider risk mitigations compared to Google? If so, let's hear about their architecture. We're all breathlessly awaiting the revelations of easyDNS's superior technology. I'm sure it's not just a giant pile of qmail servers that a bunch of random sysadmins have root access to, right?
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I think it's actually reasonable to literally say "Tell me about how people collaborate here at XYZ and on this team."

If people start highlighting all the ways in which they work together, how they help each other, how they do pair programming or how they support each other then that's a great sign.
If they stammer and they give a lame answer then it could mean the culture doesn't really value collaboration.
Juicero went out of business quickly. The same tends not to happen to "strategic" state-owned enterprises that don't pull their weight.
I assume they will hire qualified people to operate them
but no one in the nuclear engineering industry is involved in building any part of a drone
I'm about at the 25 cups point (2-3 pots of coffee a day), and I too have no issues, drinking sunup to sundown (and have done so for close to 20 years).
I lol'd. I hadn't heard that before.
Kinda? Can you be kind enough to elaborate.
The study supports safety for cyclists but i missed any reference to the safety for drivers that the article purports it found
A device to quickly crack PIN codes on older Ford cars with a PIN entry keypad
Postman Disk space used multiplies after each update (2018)