skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Lufthansa and Emirates A380s, there are 4, but I can't remember exactly the views. One is forward from the vertical stabilizer, one is straight down from the belly of the plane... I want to say another is front landing gear or cockpit?
The US was way ahead on credit cards to begin with, and was then leapfrogged by countries building payment infrastructure with newer technology. There’s no reason the US couldn’t re-leapfrog with its next generation.
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I've never understood this AddOn. Maybe it's because I use less than 8 tabs and am diligent about closing ones I don't need.

Does it reduce memory because it's more like a temporary bookmark system?

Why does it look so ugly :(
I believe you misunderstood. The issue is not whether software can be ported to a touch platform. It is that keyboard/mouse-oriented UI and ergonomics and a touch-oriented UI and ergonomics cannot successfully co-exist. It’s not a programming challenge.
I can't say I'm a fan of these sorts of articles. "Which strategy is most performant?!" is rarely the appropriate measure for an error handling strategy, it's more nuanced than that. Concerns like what makes a recoverable error vs an unrecoverable one are more important. Ensuring correctness is more important. The usability of an API is more important. Readability and maintainability are more important. Knowing what errors mean in terms of your domain model is more important.

Use what fits for your situation, don't take the "when all I have's a hammer..." attitude to anything. Sometimes return codes make sense (eg in hot-loop code). Sometimes exceptions make sense (in constructors, for example. And no, two-step initialisation is not a good alternative.). Sometimes neither make sense and you actually should just terminate the whole program (out-of-memory). Sometimes contracts make more sense (precondition checks, validating function arguments).

Anyway, regardless of your strategy if you can provide some method of querying if a thing can succeed to your API, do so; it's always better to handle errors by just making sure you don't cause them!
I recently started using Firefox more. I love containers. Firefox should make the extension part of the Firefox install wizard or ask the user to install it after you install the firefox.
FTC orders Facebook, Amazon, and others to disclose 10 years of acquisitions
I don’t take investing so seriously like pouring over financial statements outside of skimming through earnings reports. I don’t live everyday worrying Tim Cook is committing massive accounting fraud. I invest in companies I understand, use/like, and reasonably trust, and it’s worked out well for me. There may come a time the whole market crashes again, but my gains are far above the index fund over the last 10 years, and if I need to derisk I will make that decision at a later time.

Again, I just thinking screaming “anything except index funds is stupid gambling and irresponsible” is untrue. I also think those who become truly wealthy in life necessarily have to do things that the average person is unwilling to do, like invest understanding there’s a risk involved.
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I think this is even more true for Phoenix
Edit: flowing water = no fields, because plus and minus ions evens out, no net charge. However if one is small as a molecule and really close to the water, then I suppose one would feel the fields of individual dissolved salt ions passing by
That's actually a genius idea. While I strongly believe that everyone should do some research about any charity before they donate to it, the tappable/waveable donation boards would definitely reduce friction to donating (as well as bringing up awareness of the charity to be researched in the first place).
Slow? I don't find it slow at all, and my phone isn't exactly top-end; what kind of hardware were you running on?

(I don't use uBlock on mobile, but I might go look into it...)

My only complaint is that it doesn't integrate quite as well as Chrome, but I don't think that's Mozilla's fault.
.NET Core 3.1 is a good LTS release and no time like the present to start migrating to it. Unlike .NET Framework, there's a lot less emphasis in .NET Core on machine-wide installs and a lot more capabilities for application-specific framework deployments. .NET Core even has tools to bundle all of your framework dependencies into a single "EXE", and tree-shaking that down to at least something of a minimal bundle size. There's a small but growing world of "go-like" small utilities that are entirely self-contained .NET Core dependencies.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MakingATinyNETCore30EntirelyS...

There's even fun experiments of AOT compiling to get interesting in "EXE golf" results from .NET Core applications such as getting them below 8 KB or running on Windows 3.1 (because why not):

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/NETEverywhereApparentlyAlsoMe...

.NET 5 will integrate further AOT capabilities as the Mono world is merging in, in addition to the raw marketing advantage that 5 > 4 for anyone still struggling to convince non-technical managers that .NET Core is a better investment in 2020 than .NET Framework.
Been using this as well. The CSS Grid Editor has been amazing. I think this is in the mainline now too.

Also the blue icon looks better I think
This is a very US biased thing. In the UK it’s been months since I last encountered a card reader that didn’t do contactless, and almost as long since I’ve been told a place doesn’t accept cards. These days you’ll get looked at funny if you put your card in the machine unless you’re doing a substantial transaction.

I still carry a small amount of cash on me just in case, but the same £10 note has been sitting unused in my wallet since November now, slowly gathering dust.
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Googlers traditionally resign in February after collecting in January their annual bonus for the previous year.
I was a nuclear-trained operator on a boat of the same vintage as the Thresher. I joined it in 1970 just after it had been retrofitted with SubSafe systems and better operational procedures that came directly from the loss of the Thresher.

I'm convinced that the loss of the Thresher, as tragic as it was, saved a lot of lives.

As for the documents, you need to know that Rickover classified almost everything about the nuclear program. I suspect that kind of thinking still exists and is responsible for the slow release of the document.
This used to be the case for me but in my area almost every terminal accepts it and so these days I don’t even carry my wallet to pet places.
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> (Remember "material design?" Whatever happened to that?)

The new hotness is "neumorphism": https://uxdesign.cc/neumorphism-in-user-interfaces-b47cef3bf...
Some highlights:

* Essentially a database that updates continuously materialized views upon write

* For read heavy web applications

* Speaks MySQL Protocol (caveats apply)
I have no idea how they did it. In Fireworks you could just slice up your design and export all the assets in one go, all at the desired quality settings. It even supported 32bit png files with alpha transparency. You could have multiple pages and each of those pages could have different states. You could have buttons all over your website that would change everywhere if you edited them in one place (symbols). It was just perfect for web dev.
> copyright doesn't cover facts derived from books

EU database right can and does.
5% by transaction count or by value?
SPAs have created an "inner platform" effect. Developers are forced to recreate / provide basic browser functionality.
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From the wording of the article

> The requested documents – more than 50 years old – should be unclassified and releasable by now under federal declassification rules

...

> “The plaintiff believes this document review is overly complex,” Eatinger said during the hearing. “When we filed this case, the records were in an automatic 50-year review project. We were told it would be complete in May 2019.”

these are (or should be) formerly classified documents. The Navy seems to be dragging its feet with the mandatory declassification review. As Eatinger said, it is well past time that the review should have completed and de- or re-classified as appropriate.
...except that's the point of the OP - this date is no longer extinct.
Lyft opens ‘pit stop’ driver center in San Diego
Ask HN: What are your favourite news aggregators?
This question comes up once and a while and I’m curious what people are using these days.

What’s your favourite news aggregator site?

I’m looking for something like https://skimfeed.com but more up to date
The findings are included in the pre-print of a paper on arXiv [1], meaning the paper has been moderated but not fully peer reviewed.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.10275.pdf
Until the people slip up and use the same pad twice
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/19/russia_one_time_pad...
You can never trust VPN but it is important to have a legal case. Let’s say VPN is in a country where mass surveillance is illegal, then at least in future you can sue the VPN company if they are found out to be breaking their contract.
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Looks like there are plans for this[0] (both support for a dedicated app and digital wallets); Wikipedia suggest 2021, but I expect it won't be out by next year.

I actually assumed Clipper was RFID, but turns out it's NFC after all (the Wikipedia article also notes that it's a common misconception that it uses RFID).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_card#Clipper_2.0
This would be cool. Founding year and # of companies would be helpful. I think these are a long game and a lot of them seem to fade out after 3-4 batches.
At that time it was not certain that Brexit would be equal to no deal (at least for finance services). Now that this is the most probable outcome they have to take action.
Right. They repeated whatever election processes it took to get the outcome they wanted. Sauce it up with whatever you want it’s still manufacturing consent.
I fell in love with them when I took a class on them in Library School, back in 2007. Like many others in the Topic Maps space, I now work mostly with RDF and OWL.
While I agree with you it's definitely an exaggeration, part of the UX that's a bit of a pain for the purchaser is when the terminal is locked up until the cashier confirms the purchase. Either you're forced to leave your card in or you can't put your card in until they're ready.

I really think some messaging to change it from "Please Wait" to "Waiting for cashier" would help the real non-tech-savvy people. My parents almost always have issues with the chip because of this. They'll pull out the card at the wrong time and such.
The currently-available reports[0-3] are a worthwhile read for anyone interested. The evidence (given the silver braze joint failures on Thresher and other boats) was there before the accident, but nobody connected the dots.

[0]https://www.jag.navy.mil/library/investigations/USS%20THRESH...

[1]https://www.jag.navy.mil/library/investigations/USS%20THRESH...

[2]https://www.jag.navy.mil/library/investigations/USS%20THRESH...

[3]https://www.jag.navy.mil/library/investigations/USS%20THRESH...
It's not about electricity. Las Vegas is literally the worst place to build a large city with extravagant outdoor swimming pools, fountains, etc because those things require water and those things lose water at a ridiculous rate in the middle of a desert. Water is also not generally abundant in a desert (by virtue of it being a, uh, desert)
I don’t mean to be rude, but it’s quite obvious by what you wrote that you are barely literate in cryptography, yet you are fairly certain of yourself. Your confidence is misplaced. This isn’t the type of thing that encourages actual experts to bother replying.

Examples: “side channel such as a backdoor that secretly stores keys used somewhere”, “blowfish”, nonsensical mixing of block ciphers and stream ciphers without regard for the complete construction or the implementation (by far the largest weak point), etc.
I feel this just a little bit too, when there's an actual cashier. It just sort of screams "tech yuppie". But that alone I can live with; I just always make sure to check that it'll work beforehand, because if it actually holds up the line that's super uncomfortable.
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I actually recently realized that my local pharmacy chain (in WA) had that "wave" NFC icon on screen, so I decided to try tapping my credit card. To my surprise, it worked without a hitch, so now i consciously try to spot those. Quite a few places have those now, but they all seem to also support Apple Pay, so it makes more sense to use that for reliability (because all the ones supporting a card tap also support Apple Pay, but the reverse doesn't seem to be true).
I work in this industry. We have detailed reports on damn near everything, including private hedge funds and how they perform. 80-85% of any active management or financial advisory services have not beat low cost index investing over the long haul. The top 15% or so can and do, but the vast majority of the active investments players (that 80% or so) don't make enough to beat passive investment once their fees are taken into account and an appropriate passive benchmark is used. Meaning, if they are actively investing for their client using only US securities and products, we use a major US benchmark to compare against. If they are global, Asia-Pac, Dev/emg, etc. we use one of those to compare against so we are looking at apples to apples. A lot of times they will simply invest in a high growth emerging market and tell their clients that they are beating the S&P 500. Yeah, of course you are. But you aren't beating the relevant emerging markets growth products.
I like lobste.rs, Racket Stories and tilde.news.
TL;DR Firefox development is focused on helping web developers deliver more junk to users, safely.

Mozilla never actually caring about user features:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520119

Mozilla introducing unnecessary complexity and denying sane configuration management in the name of performance:
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/08/03/new-backend-for-s...

Mozilla just being bored I guess:
https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-get-old-firefox...
> It rolls a new number every time I use it, so i can pay at sketchy gas stations at 2 AM

Nope. That's deliberately confusing Apple marketing. You get one PAN per device. The new "number" is just the EMV unpredictable number. You get that with any EMV card.

https://emvlab.org/emvtags/show/t9F37/

> and not care about skimming.

Because the PAN is only valid for online authorized EMV transactions.
Me too, I'm trying to get over it. It's kinda silly to worry about mildly inconveniencing someone, and it'll be nice once it's the norm.
The great part of self-driving cars is that just like when there are major airplane accidents there is a thorough learning process afterwards and all flights become safer as a result on a frequent basis.

This is the same reality for self-driving cars. The edge cases will happen but they won't keep happening with rigorous improvements in the models and trained behaviour.

Flight safety has improved dramatically over the past century and the ability for self driving cars to adapt will be even faster, as it's mostly just software.

Of course this implies that an accident had to happen for such an improvement to take place. But we have both simulation improving drastically to help alleviate that plus the alternative is the current situation where the same types of accidents keep happening again and again with only the occasional improvement to car technology and safety features.
The device "card" number doesn't change with each purchase but it does have an additional one-time unique crytpogram as well as a dynamic security code that is needed to use that device number.
I don't know what the OP uses, but I used Mumble and it was fantastic. Super light, and unbelievable quality.
> Is his app really the best option in that product space?

Does it have to be the best? Is the best for you? or for the consumer segment he targeted? Who's judging?

> I think it's unethical. It's very similar to all of the paid content garbage that's saturated Google over the last few years.

Do you prefer cold-call? Door-too-door salesman? One of your subscriber emails slip it in?

> Nothing gets published without some marketing related alterior motive.

Why is this ruining the internet? 99% of the content is about the SaaS he used to run his businesses and one of them happened to be "X" that he mentioned down the list. He disclose it and he's nothing more than dog-fooding his own stuff.

This is MILESSSS better than anything else out there.

By your litmus-test, YCombinator (and hackernews) have some marketing related ulterior motives as well.
A perhaps useful next step would be a “common app” to fill out one application and apply to all of these at once.
I have no idea how this article overlooked D3 which has excellent capabilities here.

You can then view your icon as data (no need to send the whole SVG if that doesn't make sense), use their affine transforms and force simulations and all that good stuff that is important to get exactly right.

Visualization people have done plenty of animated and interactive SVGs. I find performance issues past a certain size but ease of implementation is very good once you get the hang of it.
> First, the AI hype train.

Yes! I really wished we would call this something more descriptive of the boring statistics involved. Artificial Intelligence is just too cool sounding name not to get excited about it. And what people don’t realize is that this is really just a statistical inference model, nothing intelligence. Machine Learning is better, but it is still not descriptive enough.

I think if we called it something like Computational Reinforcement Modelling or Iterative Weight Inference people might stop having the idea that there are machines making “smart” choices involved and finally seeing that really we are just inferring based some computations on provided data.

Really, “Machine Learning” deserves no more hype than the boring sounding Kalman Filter.
Europe loves card payments, but you’re much more likely to see people using debit cards because the EU regulates card fees, making it much less common to get credit cards that do cash back or similar reward programs.
I find it super convenient from my Apple Watch and use it for most of my payments, but I'd agree that I'm also surprised by 5%. I rarely see anyone else using it even in the Bay Area at stores that have supported it for years.
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I don't think I've ever seen a US chip reader take 5 seconds. 10-20 seconds seems to be the norm (at least for businesses that have always-on internet connections). Google Pay for me definitely takes under 5 seconds, unless the reader is particular about where I hold my phone, and I don't get it right on the first try.
Good call on the ingore_missing_imports. I just moved that from the [mypy] section into a [mypy-pyspark.*] and found 4 errors that I didn't notice before.

The first result in Google for this error points here https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/3905 which explains the issue. I'm ashamed to say I probably just read the first reply, added it to my config and carried on with my day without actually reading what it did.
I'm consistently surprised at the negative comments on EDA on Hacker News because there are so many examples of major organizations successfully implementing and running EDA at scale. Here are a few examples:

Uber:

- https://eng.uber.com/ureplicator/

- https://eng.uber.com/reliable-reprocessing/

Google:

- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/implementing-an-e...

Twilio:

- https://signal.twilio.com/2017/sf/sessions/18530/building-ro...

Stripe:

- https://stripe.com/blog/canonical-log-lines

My hypothesis about why this is, is that most organizations probably don't need EDA yet. They don't have that many data producers and consumers and don't have HA and other requirements that drive the need, so implementing it is overkill, and so their experiences have been bad.
You can pay using Apple Pay at restaurants? Has to be a special case right?
My biggest issue with FF mobile (android) is sometimes when you open a link from a different app, it opens in an existing tab navigating away from a page you already had open. It should always open a new tab.

So I might open a link in my email app, then when I tap the back button on the phone, the expected behaviour is it will close the tab and return to the email app. Instead I'm finding it navigating back to the page that was open previously on the tab that was already open.
Direct link to the GitHub repository: https://github.com/kiosk-sh/kiosk
What are the consequences of simply refusing to pay the bill? I know your credit rating would suffer and you will get many calls from collectors but are there more serious consequences? At least in California? For example, can the insurance or hospital refuse to give you care or cancel your policy?

One of my friends did this after the insurance refused ambulance bills and while the experience was harrowing, just refusing to pay might just be how to deal with this.
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The banks seem to be implementing their own version. Eg. UBS now has an icon on their app that puts it into card-payment mode. Only works on Android though.
China has launched an app so people can check their risk of catching coronavirus
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Justified is standard in scientific writing.
I see a use case: ads.

I develop ads for a living. A tool like motion is a GODSEND in this industry.
Phoenix dactilifera never went extinct (and the origin of this date is still questionable IMHO).
> We are hyper conscious of making sure that when we introduce ads into the maps experience we're doing in a way that is useful and that is additive to the experience and not a distraction or something that's going to get in your way.

Google Maps was the final straw that got me to get Google out of my machines -- particularly mobile -- altogether (to the best of my ability).

What happened was that I was walking into a store and got an ad pushed to my phone for something in that store. That completely freaked me out, and I spent time investigating what happened. What happened was that Google Maps was keeping track of my location, and was the ultimate source of that ad being pushed.

That was a bridge too far, and I embarked on getting Google out of my life. So I find it ironic to read that comment I quoted above. I have zero faith in their ability to be well-behaved.
Well, we might in 2000 years.