skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get a virtual card in the app and "pay" with it by loading on the exact amount you need to pay with before checking out (or just buying it in the app). So it "needs" a card, but that's really just a weird thing they didn't abstract from the app, it's not actually an inconvenience (at least to me)
> If the operand is the name of an object [...] what does it mean to evaluate `n`?

When you say "n", syntactically, you have a primary expression that is an identifier. So you follow the rules for evaluating an identifier, which will produce the value. C doesn't describe it very well, but the value of the expression is the value of the object. In terms of how it is implemented in actual compilers, this would mean issuing a load of the memory location, which is dead unless `n` is a volatile variable.
So, this firm has customers that want better graphics, but they’re not willing to invest in that.

It also seems the games aren’t easily modded (at least, the blog post nor this HN discussion mention it).

I’m sure it won’t be enough for all or even most critics, but that, to me, seems a missed opportunity. Looking at the games, the look of the tiles won’t affect gameplay (as I tight if, for example, the programs do a flood-fill of the map at some time) so it shouldn’t be hard to, at startup, check for the presence of a ‘tiles.png’ or ‘tiles.bmp’ file, and read tiles from it, if present.
I've always thought that the main reason for Starbucks to push their card and reward program is to save on per-transaction credit card fees.

By my understanding, in the US, typical merchant fees to accept a card are a flat $0.20-$0.30 transaction fee, plus 2-3% of the total dollar amount.

The article mentions the interchange fee (the 2-3%), but for small purchases the transaction fee is more significant.

I assume the majority of purchases are individuals buying a single beverage. If an average drink costs $4, a $0.30 transaction fee alone is eating 7.5% of your gross revenue. That's an absolutely huge amount.

Even if Starbucks cards are bought/topped up with a credit card, that $0.30 fee is being amortized over $20+ worth of product instead of $4 worth.

I also figured this tied in with Starbucks' contract with Square some years back - as one of Square's value props is eliminating the per-transaction fee for credit cards. Not sure why that was cancelled, though.
1. Don't hold them responsible when edge cases they were supposed to ignore cause downtime or headaches
2. Hold the business leaders responsible for failure to identify and document edge cases early enough in the process to include it in the dev plan
Add marmalade and other typed of conserves and deserts.
You'd be better off posting this as a Show HN. See https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html for an overview and look at https://news.ycombinator.com/show for examples of how people do this. Make the submission link to your site, and add your text as a first comment to the new thread. (Don't make it a text post; those are penalized compared to posts with URLs.) If you have questions, email hn@ycombinator.com. Good luck!
Remember that despite all the self-improvements, you will die.

Having kids gives you a chance in making a more significant impression than just exist and disappear.
Wow, I think this is a fantastic idea and obvious in hindsight!
Interesting-FF says that nytimes.com is unsafe
I have 2 kids.. first one was terrible, she did not want to sleep more then 2-3 hours till she was 8 month or so. Wife dealt with it, fed her and took care of her at night, while I worked, cooked during the day, took kid out for walks etc
I'm not disagreeing that the US is going into too much debt in the current economic climate. The current administration is starving future ones of the tools that can be used to deal with a recession.

However, you'll notice that the debt/gdp ratio has been stable for the past 5 years, or so.
I don't honestly remember who was the victim of that contraption. And I don't have to book nearby to re-read the passage. It's just that the silliness of that idea is somehow burned into my memory.
>This kind of pattern matching is also fairly evidently not all that difficult, since much simpler brains than ours can manage it, as can ML models with caveats (albeit caveats often misunderstood and exaggerated).

Do tell me, since I'm writing a paper on a related topic, which current ML models can "pattern match" to recognize or generate multimodal (ie: visual, auditory, and tactile) percepts of cats, in arbitrary poses, in any context where cats are usually/realistically found?

Or did you just mean that the "cat" subset of Imagenet is as "solved" as the rest of Imagenet?
Dang has mentioned that they have a lot of fairly sophisticated code that they're always tuning to prevent spam, upvote rings, bots, etc. I believe they intentionally keep their methods secret to make them more difficult to circumvent.

Outside of those efforts, what makes you think HN is not full of bots? Lots of links are posted by new-ish accounts, and we have no idea whether upvotes are human or bot.

If the bots behave convincingly enough like good HN citizens, there may be no way (or no desire) to shut them out at all, and none of us would ever know.

As for comments, it's likely that much of the anti-bot policing is first done by algorithm, and then the remaining effort is by us, the readers, leading to the high-quality comments that we typically see.
Is there any guestimation on nust the sheer volume of data sent each day wit iMessage (blue messages, not green sms ones)
info readline instead perhaps
I picture a meta-service that manages this. When you click to play a show, it quickly and automatically signs you up for whichever service, and if you haven't watched a show on that service for more than 2 weeks, it cancels your subscription. Presumably the problem would be that streaming sites might not like customers canceling their service 4 or 5 times per year.
Is cable TV programming political campaigning? How about youtube videos funded by the Kochs or Soros?

"Election security," as in mandate, at the federal level, what the states do? Centralizing power (maximizing the possibility of a single point of failures) makes elections more vulnerable. Voting machines are air-gaped. Our elections were influenced by propaganda on social media, just like the Arab Spring.

Evaluating actual 'cause and effect' is helpful when trying to understand situations.
I love Spiderweb Software and the games they produce but I see what you did their Jeff.

Come on guys this is clearly a precisely crafted, controversial traffic increasing blog (ahem advertisement) piece to stir additional attention for his soon to be released latest game. Plus he gets to rant a bit with IMHO reasonable justifications.

As in it has already created salty posts on the front page of hacker news (+ other news outlets). He is turning what is perceived as many as a weakness of his games into another advantage, bloody brilliant and well done sir! =)
You're welcome! That ten bucks is like 1.5 Starbucks visits.
I get the humor in your statement, but there's a lot of truth there. At the end of the day, when Netflix, Hulu, and Prime don't have it, tpb does. In perfect, uninterrupted HD. The only downside? Waiting 5 minutes for it to download. It's hard to justify the $15/mo I'm paying for Netflix when that is an option, and especially hard to justify paying for all 3 (which I'm doing, for some reason.)
It shouldn't really be necessary to do this. In normal printing, infill can have gaps of several millimeters and the final surface will still look smooth if it's flat. The plastic essentially bridges the gap before hardening, and over successive layers the imperfections are averaged out. The same thing should happen when moving in both X/Y and Z like this - the first layer will be non-perfect, but if you do 3-4 layers it should end up fairly smooth.
But even Linux was ultimately developed in USA. So was/is Unity. I don't know if Linux would've ever been the success it is had Linus Torvalds stayed in Finland developing it.

I'd hope we would have a big list of recent examples of major innovations from the Nordics but unfortunately nearly all the major digital products or innovations seem to be decades old. I can't think of almost any globally really promising Finnish digital startup right now.
Employees connect nuclear plant to the internet so they can mine cryptocurrency
They can't. But if there was a single standard for low-overhead payments to these companies I'd definitely use more than I do today.
An optical path simulation I found (or maybe it was mentioned here or elsewhere?):

https://ricktu288.github.io/ray-optics/
> each of these companies could simply pursue their own independent stored-value liability programs. But wouldn't an alliance be better?

Obviously it woudln't. He even provides the evidence why not. People top up their starbucks because they need coffee every day - it's basically a subscription , but they dont buy the same stuff at walmart every day - and the cost levels are widely different. Something similar happens to virtual credits for different games - Experts will tell you that it is better to have a separate economy for each game rather than one unified economy - and you should not even allow players to pay each other. Same reason why stock photo sites want you to buy credits for each one of them, or why each newspaper wants a separate subscription. The "Breakage" breaks up when the economies are unified.
This number way about 40 billion in 2014: https://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/28/apple-40-billion-imessa...
What other languages have it built in?

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.levenshtein.php
Well, yes.

The US is a highly religious society, as it always had been ever since the Mayflower landing. The current religions don't mention "God" much, though, they talk more about "justice", "liberty", "equality", etc.

The US has effectively limited its party system to the minimum possible size of two parties, without any chance for a third (to say nothing of fourth or fifth) party to emerge as serious player.

The US is populated by us humans, who are very easy to trigger into an irrational "us vs them" rivalry which tolerates no nuance.

What could go wrong? Well, it went, and keeps going.
> By my understanding, in the US, typical merchant fees to accept a card are a flat $0.20-$0.30 transaction fee, plus 2-3% of the total dollar amount.

That's correct, generally. But those can always be negotiated. And Starbucks probably has the volume to have some negotiating power. I'd be surprised if they didn't have a lower rate.
It's not a great solution, but I share a slack channel with my extended friends group. It all revolves around personal projects, so we kind of meetup sometimes to work on our own things in the same space, maybe collaborate. It's definitely not like IRC, but I'm not sure if big bubbles of interesting people are an achievable goal anymore.
Scientist: "assuming a frictionless sphere in a vacuum... ...we can build a limited but useful model"

Media: "Scientist was wrong because the world is not a vacuum"
When did Nintendo have custom profile pictures?
A post on Category Theory from UT that doesn't mention Steedman or Baldridge?!
South Korea rotated over 320,000 ground combat troops through Vietnam over 11+ year period, maintaining 2 Army Divisions and 1 Marine Brigade, to help US and South Vietnam.

edit: 320,000 is not a typo. Well over a quarter of a million S. Korean troops served 1 year tour of duty in Vietnam.

It means after end of WW2, S. Korea sent more combat troops abroad to help US in a semi-active/active armed conflict than any other allies such as UK, Australia, France etc. Kinda mind boggling.

I recommend vietvet.co.kr for anyone interested in reading about stories/battles/personal-recollection related to South Korean troops. The site has Korean and English versions. The English version is not a direct mirror of the Korean version but largely same stories.

You have to keep in mind the South Korean troops in Vietnam in 1960s - 1970 were very likely old enough to remember the Korean war, the war started by the communists of North Korea. Or they at least had immediate family members who experienced it and passed on the stories.

So there was a personal hatred of anything related to communists.
This is the answer.

I work on software that deals with millions of dollars daily; mistakes would be very costly and our team spans multiple timezones. Two things my team has going are that our lead dev understands the business case (10 years of industry experience - not just tech), when the dev team runs into an edge case our default is to email the interested parties (product owner, UX, QA) to say "I ran into this edge case that isn't covered by the stated requirements; please open a work item and prioritize accordingly". The lines of communication between DEV/UX/QA/Product needs to be very open and judgment free to deliver on an ongoing basis
There's nothing correct about political correctness – but it is political
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But on the other hand, any meaningful comparisons get harder and less relevant for us if we use a time span of the past 150 years. I don't know if it really even matters that much that most companies die eventually. They're still producing lots of value right now. While Nokia is certainly not doing particularly well nowadays despite having a long and partially very successful history.

Edit: year
I think the specific issue was that subclasses didn't support the semantics of the classes they inherited from correctly.
They have a captive audience. They literally only have to provide a rate that's roughly equivalent to the usurious "last chance currency exchange" counters at the airports.

Heck, since probably no one is paying attention that closely to their statements, they could provide even less favorable rates, and simply issue refunds to anyone that actually notices and complains, and still make more money that way.
Even if they were a competitor, it's still something worth sharing. I wish more companies shared technology that made software more secure.

We're kinda of all in this together. Security shouldn't be a feature or a competitive advantage, it should be a standard practice that all developers follow and participate in.

Everyone benefits when software is more secure.
What the article describes is not a new phenomenon, but just another incarnation of an anthropological pattern wherein behavioural feedback loops act to enforce ever-more rigorous standards of social, cultural or ideological "hygiene". Throughout history people have competed to be the most puritan adherents of their particular sect. As recently as the Victorian age, the middle classes engaged in an internecine competition to adhere to ever more obscure and asburd formal standards and rituals that were justified on the basis of ethics and what was considered "proper" in civilised society.

If the 20th century was characterised by a gradual relaxation, at least in the West, of those socially demanded standards of dress, attitude and behaviour, it's perhaps unsurprisingly that, eventually, the needle would begin to swing the other way. People will, of course, find ways to justify these new standards on the grounds of impartial ethics and rationalism in the same way people in the past justified them on divine action and the gospels.

Such cults of cultural hygiene can be relatively harmless, except to the social standing of those who choose not to participate. However, in the event that true believers gain real power, they can be extremely dangerous to those same persons. History does not instill much confidence that this is something humanity has grown beyond.
I think their point is not anti-competition, but rather anti-fragmentation.

Really the issue is an issue of frontends. If there were a frontend that transparently handled all the different providers and let you pay for what you wanted to watch when you wanted to watch it, that would be much more pleasant to navigate.

But media companies want to control the frontend, for both lock-in and advertising potential. And don't forget DRM!
Yeah, they're back to owing Spring again. I wonder about the future of developer-centric Pivotal products. VMWare already acquired Spring, RabbitMQ, and GemFire back in 2009/2010 and then spun them off into Pivotal. So now that they've gone and acquired them again, will they divest again and just hold on to the K8s bits? VMWare is totally geared toward selling into IT orgs and has never seemed interested in dealing with developers.
Agreed! I've gathered that it's a powerful toolset "if" tuned to your environment. But as a new midsize customer of CbDefense we've encountered many performance issues (many of them network file access related) with sensor v3.4. So rolled back to v3.2 but then found out that only Win7 endpoints could use v3.2 and Win10 requires v3.4... SMH
The FSF "embraced" it by calling it lesser ;)
> Presumably the problem would be that streaming sites might not like customers canceling their service 4 or 5 times per year.

Maybe they "bundle" to avoid the constant cancelling.
Before I get to the main point, it would seem that I must clarify my point about governmental agencies: New Mexico gets to spend nearly three times what Puerto Rico spends on preserving its legacy and history, despite having about a third fewer residents. This is the privilege of statehood.

I'm not endorsing "paternal colonialism" when I say that we must interpret the desires of island peoples; I'm talking literally about the fact that, since their delegates cannot vote, it is our votes which carry their desired change in the law. I would like to remind you that I am on the side of giving those delegates votes, and further, giving them votes which would normalize their relations with the rest of the States and the Union; I think that we ought to end the paternally-(neo)colonialist practice of non-voting delegations of second-class residents, in favor of voting Reps and Senators.
Sadly, his attempts to get rid of stock borrowing, and specifically shorting will be fought by those who keep the truth burning.

Instant reconciliation is possible today, and it should be the basis of an economic system that trades in stock.

T-zero is an improvement over T3 and T2.
Internet: "Earth has 4 corner simultaneous 4-day time cube within single rotation. Wake up sheeple!"
> Is it reasonable to expect an all-in-one streaming service?

Philosophically, yes. Vertical integration reduces competition, reduces standardization, leaves less room for innovative newcomers, and is ultimately bad for consumers.

Economically, it's plausibly more profitable to play the bundling and siloing games.
That salary price is nowhere near the minimum wage in the US. $45,000 is around $21.63/hr. Although most places pay more than minimum wage, the current federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr.

Also, you'll be hard pressed to find a livable house for that cheap. The average price of a home in the US in 2019 is $226,800 [2].

The numbers just don't work. Most people can't afford a house right now.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_S...
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/cost-to-buy-a-house-in-every...
Internet Explorer is a normal Windows application, at least mostly. It has access to a couple of entitlements that normal applications don't get, since it needs to do things like access MSN Passport and launch ActiveX components, but it's possible to have the app itself crash without hosing the entire OS. The problems we're seeing here, however, are issues where Internet Explorer's (buggy) frameworks are being loaded into the Explorer.exe process (which is essentially the UI shell for Windows) and this is what is crashing, causing the computer to be unusable.

2002 called.
I never actually used any of these, but have stumbled upon some tools which create/apply diffs on ASTs of your source rather than lines[1]. I think the keywords to search is "semantic diff/patch/merge", "AST diff" or some combination of these.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/315686/
I just thought it would be funny to quote the article there, I'm not too hung up on which representation is used.
> Undo is ^_ (ctrl+shift+-)

I use ctrl-/. I don't recall whether it's a default binding or not, but at least you don't have to press the shift key :-)
u mean .org
I really doubt it's that. Probably more to do with how little sunshine there is over the winter (which is long and cold).
Muslims aren't a race, the affected countries were about 10% of global Muslim population, and the countries of concern listed in the travel ban were designated in late 2015 under a different administration.
Kim Il Sung, ruler of N. Korea at the time, formally apologized and sent letter saying so. Only time he did so in fact.

All because of the show of force. There was a MASSIVE show of force because of the killing.
Such a shame so many Web 1.0 websites went away. You can click "random username" and get a feel for what the Old Web was like. Props to this project for rescuing this many sites, although I'm kind of sad they couldn't get them all...
I've heard this called a deletion neighborhood
If braves BAT (Basic Attention Token) thing could ever really take off, it'd make for a nice solution to all of this. Just sort of pitch a penny here or there, and after enough people pitching pennies the content has earned a worthy revenue.
It's one of those scenarios where it sounds like it could be great for the consumer but usually ends up being horrible for the content producer because there's no competition, so the 1 platform can do whatever it pleases. Eventually it becomes bad for consumers because quality content producers go elsewhere (such as making their own platform).

You see this happen not just with movies and shows but any digital media that can be distributed across multiple platforms.
D does https://dlang.org/library/std/algorithm/comparison/levenshte...
You banned so much stuff, you created the most powerful black market in the world: The Russian Mob.

I'm sorry to report that I feel your government is at war with my country.
The difference being that with iMessage people can trigger the bug remotely and there's little you can do about it except turn it off completely (as someone I know did end up doing). Hey, I didn't say that what they were doing was a good idea :)
> which I'm doing, for some reason

Convenience has value. Even if tpb is easy enough, there's still friction. So long as streaming services stay convenient and cheap enough, they will keep customers. The interesting dynamic is that the more players enter the space, the less convenience there is. Justwatch.com is already trying to add that convenience back, but the fact that we need that meta step is already frustrating.
What's to know there? Obviously Libra will rack up loads of data on people's spending. Obviously any kind of financial middleman organization these days immediately invests money that it gets from clients for virtual bucks. (I'm surprised to learn that PayPal is limited in this regard, but maybe this report isn't the Singapore PayPal which serves European accounts?)
Competition is fragmentation.
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