skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, I just recently asked for support on a linux version of a game for a bug that affected only the linux version of the game, the support staff was extremely quick and responsive, the problem was an easy fix when I found out what it was, I didn't ask for a refund because of this and because of my interactions with their support team I wouldn't hesitate to buy another game from them in the future.

Now, same thing happened with one of the worms games, Team17 was dismissive and rude. I ended up just getting a refund. I've been a fan of the series since the very first one, i've bought a bunch of their games over various systems, I own a copy of worms 3d on both GameCube and ps2, but I don't plan on buying another worms game or anything else they put out any more.
Excited about sharing the new interface we're building for Apache Spark.

We're also trying live screen gifs for the first time - quite an effort to get GIF size down.
I don’t think labeling GMOs is going to help anything. There’s strong evidence that GMOs are safe: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pbi.12798

I think there’s a much stronger case to be made for getting rid of high fructose corn syrup subsidies. Added sugar is the real enemy.
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> What is an internet company? Simply, it’s a company that does the majority of its sales via the internet.

What a sleazy, slimeball argument.

> But we firmly believe the opposite.

Who is "we" exactly?
My god yes.
It shouldn't even be physically possible for a prisoner to assault another prisoner. I'd even give the prisoners privacy so that they can't see or hear each other. Oddly, people argue that it is somehow cruel to protect the prisoners from each other. There is no pleasing everybody, and some people can't ever be pleased.
I do not think you can wait on a critical section or a condition variable with WaitForMultipleEvents in windows. The same is true in linux. You can use select/poll/epoll on signalfd though.
> In what way have past presidents been determined by elites more so than they have now? The US doesn't really seem any more or less democratic than it's been for the previous 100 years.

The primary process has been dominated by elite party members basically since the inception of the country.
I feel like China is in their "Wild West" period. Somewhat lawless and dangerous, but lots of opportunity for diamonds in the rough.
I'm still looking for help upgrading/maintaining the Lookout add-on. This add-on allows opening the proprietary Microsoft Winmail.dat files

I don't have as much free time as I used to, that and Thunderbird is removing legacy add-on support faster than I would like.

https://github.com/TB-throwback/LookOut-fix-version
We use MangoPay.

The customer service or tech support isn't as great as Stripe but they have a really intuitive model for marketplaces
That's not really a solution when the scammers are either picking random VOIP numbers out of a hat or spoofing them.
As reasonable as demanding the employees not to use cars to get to work for the same goal.
That's not their reason for discontinuing it though - there's no reason for them to sell the 3, 4, and 5. Probably retooled the 4's assembly line to make 5's.
It is worth mentioning that today "you're willing to wait" actually means just some minutes.

I've actually started using BitCoin to pay for things recently and I was surprised to find out how easy and quick this actually is. This really is a no-bullshit electronic cash. No registration, no verification, no borders, quick and easy. I hope more goods and services are going to be offered for cryptocurrencies in future.
I'm curious how well Replicache composes together with web state management libraries such as Redux and Apollo GraphQL. My closest experience with something like Replicache's offline view is optimistic responses in GraphQL[1]. Maybe some more web-specific examples can be added to the site?

[1] https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/performance/optimis...
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I could see restorative justice being effective for many crimes. However, for crimes resulting in permanent harm (murder, maiming, rape, etc.) I don't see how restorative justice can work if the harm cannot be restored.
This is such a clean and easy to read write-up on how the control flow led to the bug, and how it’s exploited.

Of course, that’s partly because it’s so damn easy to exploit. Here’s what an exploit email actually looks like;

$ nc 127.0.0.1 25
220 obsd66.example.org ESMTP OpenSMTPD
HELO professor.falken
250 obsd66.example.org Hello professor.falken [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
MAIL FROM:<;sleep 66;>
250 2.0.0 O.k
...

That executes “sleep 66” as root.

There simply must be a better way to parameterize calls to the MTA that contain remote/attacker provided input than exec’ing a shell. It should not all come down to being “absolutely sure” the input is escaped properly.
Multiple businesses but most common is direct wire transfer/bank transfer. The smaller business: generate invoices, send them to the customer, customer has a few choices, the only international ones are IBAN or PayPal (adds fees). Most common used is direct bank transfer. AVG transaction: €2500. Larger business: mostly commerce payments, over 90% is iDEAL (Dutch native payment system - does instant wire transfers between Dutch banks), the rest is either Apple Pay or by invoice/manual bank transfer. Some sub-0.1% uses Credit Cards but it almost costs more to keep it available than the revenue it generates. In all cases we use native banking APIs, no middlemen/broker/processors, except Credit Card. AVG transaction: €50.
Every time I read about this I'm amazed it isn't getting more attention in the wider press.
Pin Payments, for cards.

They have an Australian focus but global capability. If you use a scheme card for Fastmail, you probably paid via Pin Payments.

Pin have a Stripe-like API but a small-team feel during contact i.e. we know one another by name, and when escalating a technical query I've had dialogue directly with a dev lead. I've even received hand-written Christmas cards from them.

I live in mortal terror of Pin being bought by Stripe, or (worse) an Australian financial institution, with all the consequences for competence and customer service level that follow.

We also handle bulk/large payments via CS2 (the Aus equivalent of ACH, for Usonian readers), with handling fee.
Lots of factors contribute to our "obesogenic environment", and it isn't quite as simple as pinning it down on any particular food, habit or practice. I recently read this paper on the "ecology" of obesity and I thought it provided a fairly good assessment of this viewpoint:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2127317/pdf/928...
View from a Burning Country
There are way too many stories about Google and Apple suddenly closing accounts and removing apps to trust them with your business.
> I'm an American citizen and visited Iran back 2017 with no problems

The irony here is that if you weren't American, this trip would have cost you visa-free access to America.
I’m surprised there’s so much demand for that.

Also I bet you’re excited for starlink.
Sure, but where's the code golfing fun in there ;)
Next time you get a call, waste their time a little pretending to be slow and then do something to make them angry such as explain that you've been wasting their time and don't approve of their business methods. They'll put you on some uber-mark list as retaliation, and you'll get a couple of dozen calls over the next few days.
I'm not sure that I follow your reasoning. How would inflicting a punishment on an innocent person be justice?
For hobby development, I'm trying to speed up the unofficial PlayStation emulator on the Nintendo 3DS. There are all kinds of interesting problems there, like SD reads being so slow that it tanks the framerate any time the emulator hits the disk (so I might be writing a read thread + precache?), and some apparent room for hardware-specific optimization in the lighting and blending routines.

It's been fun to work around the constraints on an underpowered device. It's also an excuse to learn ARM assembly, and a nice break from all the JavaScript I've been spending my time in lately!
That's still a tough issue. Ever since we had phones that could move around, phone numbers weren't linked to physical location. Should my Skype For Business VoIP number change when I'm on client site in a different location?
So where did Google get 8.5x the conversational data than the OpenAI set? Reading text messages? Reading instant messages sent over their platform? Gmail? Google Voice? Google Plus?
Whoa! My uncle was the curator of that exhibition, Software, at the Jewish Museum of NY. Fun fact, that exhibit lost so much money that the museum stopped doing art exhibitions for a long time. I believe they only resumed doing them in the past few years.
Yeah, this really gets me. How can a civilized society allow for systematic torture of people. The two are mutually exclusive.
I've been wanting to disrupt orthodontistry for quite a long time. With the state of 3d scanners, 3d printers, 3d software modeling, why hasn't the market price of orthodontist treatments dropped to cost-of-materials yet? As soon as at least one satisfactory / integrated open-source stack exists I think it's only a matter of time before it does...
Explain? Can you make it for vr?
People prefer to marry those who have similar intelligence to themselves.

When one gets out 2, 3, 4, 5 standard deviations from the mean, there's only a very small number of others of similar intellect. Very very very small at the high end.

The chance of finding someone who is of compatible intellect and who is also compatible in even basic other ways is extremely small.

This accounts for the results of the study. There's no need to propose mechanisms whereby the exceptionally intelligent somehow foolishly believe that their intelligence gives them a pass, which it obviously doesn't. Mere observation and life experience shows that to be the opposite of reality.
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At Olodolo.com we process a few payments a day through CoinPayments. Haven't had any issues.
Don't raise that third. Hold it there in the final chord and let it ring.

As you do, say this:

"He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector."

Now shift the chord down by thirds (tonally) to play a lushly spaced, unexpected major triad.

Then say this:

"A Dark Knight."

And finally, play the chord again loudly.
I've been learning how to design game play mechanics for the Ethereum EVM by building a game dapp with features I haven't seen before.
You technically can! Meet Lenny.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RRhRImp6kKQ
> This forces developers to consider conflict resolution at the point they are writing APIs

Would an example of what you have in mind be writing an atomic "/increment" endpoint instead of a "/set?value=possiblyOldValue+1" endpoint? (using GET notation instead of POST just to make illustration easier)
Humbly disagree with this whole argument. Bloomberg got this one right:

> Apple’s new revenue strategy isn’t a bad one. It’s, basically, sell the customer an iPhone every three to five years, and make a bunch of money in the years between by selling them a new Apple Watch or AirPods (which only last about three years tops before you need a new pair -- batteries!) and services. If a user subscribes to all of Apple’s services for two years straight, that’s about equal to revenue from a new iPhone. So in those cases, if that user doesn’t buy a new iPhone for a couple years, it’s not a big deal.

Really, what seems more likely: services like AppleTV will bust out and become bigger than Netflix (smaller than AirPods), or in five years they'll follow up iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods with another hit piece of hardware?
What does this look like to you? The CNAM presented on a SIP call should be authenticated against what?
The same can be said for drug dealers, or mob enforcers, or any number of other jobs that prey on other people. While it may explain why they're doing what they're doing, it doesn't excuse it.

To be clear, I'm talking about the people perpetrating these scams, not any racial group; Indians or otherwise.
Symbolic math for students. More generally, UI principles for tree manipulation.

Why am I still using pen and paper for math homework? Why do I have to rewrite the whole friggin thing every step?

And there's a hope that whatever I learn might be useful for lisps, too.
Can you point us to the community?

Any other insights you’ve discovered? I tracked my data for a year and discovered strawberries were a potent mood enhancer.
What if you were mistakenly or maliciously targeted?
A single US individual listed on the paperwork.

Will they manage to match that to a breathing body?
The current problem is a kind of technological loophole. Scammers outside the US can anonymously and for (almost) free perform what are basically phishing attacks on everyone with a phone. Unlike other kinds of internet-based scams, there is no technology layer like spam filters that can screen calls for people since they spoof whatever area code and number they want. It needs to be fixed.

And you should read about these "scammer districts" in India. They didn't exist not that long ago and sprang up overnight as this "opportunity" arose. Most of the employees aren't exactly the cream of the crop by India or anyone else's standards. Make it take more effort and brain power to scam people and you drastically reduce the number of scammers.
Maybe the problem you're seeing is not in the prison system, but rather in the non-prison population of citizens.
Maybe healthcare, education, food & shelter are basic human needs and something any decent society should provide for its citizens.
Would you guys please stop? This is beyond excessive:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Zune%2C%20Google%20Glass%2C%20...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20Life%20on%20Other%20Plan...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Netflix%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%98T...
No, I'm just stating facts. iMessage runs on multiple Apple operating systems, and while you can't run the iOS family reliably on anything but Apple hardware, you can run macOS on non-Apple hardware.

I'm intentionally trying to point out that the generalised statement was wrong without context, while at the same time providing wording that would probably match the intended message instead of the one that ended up getting posted.
> That's very reasonable logic, but in practice, that falls apart immediately, because the US has already spied on citizens of the UK[1], and there's absolutely no reason to believe this program has ended. It's rather pointless to argue that the CCP is more likely to spy on UK citizens than the US, when we already know the US has spied on UK citizens.

Absolute b.s. propaganda right here. No, the US isn't anymore likely because unlikr Chinese APT groups, the NSA has no history of hacking anyone to steal corporate secrets. As for stealing state secrets, even if they succeed they are a geopolitical ally of the UK. If the NSA wants to stalk a UK citizen all they have to do is ask. Regardless of your b.s. comparison, we've seen the immense hostile influence China exerts as a result of the HK protests, their hostility is not isolated to that. There are countless Chinese APT groups that have already harmed the interests of UK citizens. If China wasn't powerful they'd be on the receiving end of a military invasion.

The rest of your comment is pure bait and switch propaganda. Chinese hostilities towards western countries is well documented,your comparison with the US is meaningless. As for human rights, you can't even begin to compare the US and the UK, but even if the US was just as inhumanely cruel as China, the fact remains that to the UK, China is as close as you come tona foreign enemy and the US is as close as you come to a foreign ally. Your comparison I suspect is part of an attempt to have UK readers distrust theit ally in favor of their clear and present enemy
It'd inform those that weren't aware at least...

Some of which may find it reprehensible. And maybe lobby to change.
I normally roll my eyes at "wrong generation" stuff, but holy shit it seems like it would have been really fun to have grown up or even worked in the industry during the golden age.
In a better language than C, you could encode valid addresses in a proper type whose constructor would fail. But yes, you can treat everything as a string in any language.
Consider it this way: if a non-profit pays a for-profit company for services rendered (pure expense on the balance sheet), are they "passing on" your donation to the for-profit? I would think not. Non-profits need to be able to pay for things. At the most basic office-management level, they would need to rent office space, buy paper and coffee filters, contract a janitorial service, etc.

Would there be a limit? I don't think so. If I was running, say, a non-profit website host, 100% of my raised donations would be going, as expenses, to a for-profit company (some commercial cloud-hosting provider.) That's still an entirely-legitimate model for a non-profit to operate under.
Lets quote a bit more

"Also regarding the reviews on a new app it's called marketing you should look into it. "

Which was a reply to weird 5 star reviews. And no, posting arguably false good reviews on your product as id you were a random user is not marketting.
Watchdog algorithm explained:

The Runner receivers JS code, I wrote a babel plugin [1] to insert watchdog checks inside each loop (for, while, dowhile), also in each arrow function, that checks each time a function executes.

If the check scope is async, the watchdog awaits for a Promise that resolves immediately to give the opportunity to other functions in the thread, this function collaborative, does not hijack nodejs thread, so, it is allowed to run 10 minutes default.

If the scope is not async, the nodejs thread can be hijacked, so, it is allowed to run 100 milliseconds.

The watchdog stops the function by throwing a TimeoutError if the time is consumed in each case.

Finally, a check in inserted on each `catch`, and `finally` statements for the following cases:

try {
// infinite loop
} catch(e) {
// infinite loop
} finally {
// infinite loop
}

[1] https://github.com/yosbelms/remote-func/blob/master/server/f...
That only works for remote support type calls, you'll get opposite results if you try those tactics with free cruise or fake credit rate adjustment calls.
Move to another country. Seriously. Not all places are this bad. Some have free healthcare and education.
We've always dreamt of having a conversation with a bot without actually constructing the intelligence behind that bot. And it's not going to work.

Well, at least the ML people have.

This is automated nattering. These systems have no clue, but pretend they do. It's autocomplete with a big data set. The illusion falls apart after about three sentences or interactions. That's not much better than classic Eliza.

Most of the systems that can actually answer questions have some notion of "slots". As in, you ask "How do I get to X", and that matches something like "How do I get to DESTINATION from STARTINGPOINT by TRANSPORTATIONMODE". There are limited systems like that, slightly smarter than phone trees. You can get something done them in their limited area.

MIT has the START system which does something like that. Stanford has the SQUAD database. Both draw heavily from Wikipedia. I gather Alexa works something like that when ordering, using the Amazon catalog. Eliza had a few "slots"; if you revealed your name, or the name of wife/mother/siblings, those were stored for later template instantiation. It's not much of a mental model, but it's something.

Few of these systems have enough smarts that if you ask a question that needs clarification, they ask you a question to get the data they need. "How do I get to Pittsburgh?" ought to come back with "Where are you", or "Pittsburgh, PA, or Pittsburgh, CA", to fill in the slots. Without someone having to make up a menu tree for that class of question.
Your reply here seems to try to twist the thread to a point where all uses of 'open' or 'non-walled' has to equate FOSS or EFF ideals, while you probably know that is neither feasible nor what is being discussed. It feels like you're intentionally acting obtuse at this point.
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Where does deep learning come in?
If there are any software companies on this planet that can afford to keep tabs on the legality of its own source code, I hope that Microsoft with their trillion-dollar market cap (and already very complex licensing situation) is one of them. It would be very sad for everyone in this whole industry if they weren't. It's honestly getting very tired to hear excuses about these F100 companies not being able to afford to do something. That isn't why they refuse to do it, and you know this.
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Sounds interesting. Can you explain more?
Haha, I very nearly quoted that deck in my summary, I've read it a few times. When people ask "why can't you just show the cheapest flights" I usually pull out their Chicago example. The computational complexity is just enormous.

I've found, however that for one way routes I can do fairly well, and for return journeys I have to just sample the space and hope that I'm hitting some good dates in there, currently.
There's a bunch of stuff the US can do to a mostly-ally short of publicly threatening sanctions to get cooperation on international crime.
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It's account federation, so no. You are still going to be able to log in with a local account or another federated authentication system.
Yeah, the basic strategy seems to be increasing the average value of a customer that buys an iPhone. Some of that is similar to what they've done in the past with software integration between their hardware products (AirPods, Watch), and now they're expanding into services probably because those are simply easier and more cost effective to build than new hardware products. It's also easier to get people to pay for a monthly software subscription than it is to buy hardware (even with 0% APR on credit)
Damn, I'd love to know the things she has done since then, there must be some pretty interesting stuff among them.