skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is called carrier billing and is sometimes used in the mobile market. At least in the US, ISPs aren't willing to act as bandwidth utilities and you can bet they would also attempt to treat payments as a strategic competitive weapon. And then you have all the usual unsolved problems with micropayments (mental transaction costs vs. stealing etc.).
Runescape is the best for this. Learned everything I ever needed to learn about scamming from that game... well that and eve online.
My fitness tracker just turned into ransomware
According to the Economist article I linked to above, £1.3 million back then, as a percent of Britain's economy, would be £3.6 billion today, so a bond issue of £200,000 in 1822 would be over £550 million today. Either way, it's not peanuts.
Ask HN: What was the app that lets you see a website's technologies?
A while ago I believe I saw a web app that allowed you to type in a URL and see the tech that company used. Like the marketing stack apps (SumoMe, Aweber, etc) as well as the tech stack (PHP, Ruby, etc).

Anyone know what site that was?
First European to set foot in California
What if the dominant discourse on poverty is just wrong? What if the problem isn’t that poor people have bad morals – that they’re lazy and impulsive and irresponsible and have no family values – or that they lack the skills and smarts to fit in with our shiny 21st-century economy? What if the problem is that poverty is profitable?

Let me rephrase these biased questions with the opposite bias (well actually I think my version is fair...):

"What if the leftist discourse on poverty is just wrong? What if the problem isn't greedy capitalist profiteers tricking the downtrodden out of their hard earned money? What if the problem was a self-perpetuating cycle where short term lack of resources lead to the inability to make long term plans, or take advantage of opportunities? What if changes in the technology and the economy meant that skills and education are required that large sections of the population do not have?"
Ask HN: Is there evidence regarding PG's theory about powerful languages?
Paul Graham claims that startups should use the most powerful language for a job, like Lisp. I'm looking for statistical evidence for or against this theory.

For example, amongst the thousands of YC startups, have ones that used Lisp or Smalltalk or other esoteric but powerful language succeeded more than startups that used a mainstream language like Python, Java or C++? Do we have statistics of success rate by language?

One should not look at a single startup (ITA software) that used Lisp and succeeded and conclude that it pays for the average startup to use Lisp (or other powerful language like Smalltalk).
There's a version of this on EVE where you open up buy orders for something not offered locally for 10x what it's worth. Then you transfer all your money to an alt character, so you can't fulfill it, then your alt brings in the item and offers to sell it for 5x.
On Software Demos and Potemkin Villages
This is not argument from authority. You're free to believe that Justin Schuh is a fraud, or a moron, or just plain wrong in this one instance, but when a person who is an expert in a subject makes a statement that is pertinent to that subject, that is merely called "expertise".
Rather than respond to what you think I might have written, how about actually reading the suggestion and responding to its points. This would be more valuable to both of us.
Not when all your code, bug reports, wiki, etc. etc. etc are on a single platform, as a service.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not nearly as fanatic about this as Stallman and I'm fine using GitHub for everything, but it is a non-free dependency for every single project hosted on it.
What you forget is that some jobs just cannot pay enough to make it worth for non-impoverished people. A very clear example is farm jobs in the US. If farmers had to pay real salaries, production costs would go dramatically up. So they depend on undocumented workers. This is similar for the fast food industry and so many other industries that are now operating in third world countries. For these industries, poverty is the natural resource that they depend on. If poverty ended all over the world, a lot of industries would disappear or have to change dramatically to continue existing.
I have my certificate and know many career pilots. I can for aure say that pilots want a schedule more than anything. When they're on the road so much all they look forward to is getting home. Leaving that up to the mercy of a free market wouldn't work for a majority of career pilots. Many young pilots do charters and it's basically slave labor like this... The charter co's will only fly the jet home if the leg is paid for. So these guys end up spending a lot of time doing nothing while they wait for new legs to be booked. And those legs will turn into many stops before coming home. It's grueling work but pilots do it to build a lot of hours. Number one complaint is not knowing when they're going home.
That's an all-but-inevitable result of any popularity-based ranking system.
Ugh, this thread is disgusting.

The problem is complex and takes no sides. The poor are unskilled with money because of their environment, upbringing, relationships, and situation; and also because of inherent features. The rich are rich because of their luck, circumstances, upbringing, and situation; and also because of inherent features. The combinations of all of those factors and the interaction between them defines the problem, not any one aspect. This you must understand first.

So yes, absolutely, one of the problems of poverty is that it's profitable to other people; because the poor are powerless to stop it, and the rich are powerful and easily take advantage to the extent they can under their laws and morals. That is the reality, and arguing otherwise reveals our collective immaturity in terms of understanding systems and complexity—the true root cause of our unfair and unbalanced society. Instead of seeing reality, we are often limited by our human capacity and biases that don't help us understand the world—much less respond to in a constructive way.

So let's talk about the systems that influence us all—the article is about one of those systemic problems, and it's fascinating and evidential. It's a good discussion, and it's the right one to have, and I'm always sad that discussions of poverty or inequality devolve into talk of individuals and what they should or should not do. Let's keep our eye on the ball and talk about the whole, and the productive construction of a society that works better.
It will be there eventually.
It is definitely not there now, despite what some may have you think :)
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", published in 1841, is still worth a read. Read about version 1.0 of the classic big scams, from the South Sea Bubble to Tulip Mania.
One thing I find interesting about the current state of affairs is that the top 1% own more than 50% of the world's wealth. Which means that on average if a person just up and decided to not recognize money and property in the current system, they would in theory come up ahead. Now, this might sound technical and perhaps unrealistic, but if this level of wealth inequality continues, then one day enough people (i.e. a significant majority of the people in the world) will realize that they gain a lot just by shrugging off the chains put on them through social conventions, such as the current implementations of money. They can refuse to work and demand changes, and it seems like there wouldn't be any way to pacify that many people except by catering to them and allowing some sort of income equality. Just an interesting, theoretical thought.
NVLink and CAPI[1] both have huge potential for machine learning. However, a lot of the benefits of NVLink for ML come from GPU-to-GPU NVLink, which doesn't require CPU support.

1. CAPI doesn't seem to get mentioned to much around here, but imagine an FPGA directly accessing some shared system memory. It's neat.
With the money that the series has generated, it's probably gone over some threshold to consider it a "national security" issue.
For those (like me) wondering what became of that P != NP proof. It seems to have generally been discredited (though not yet retracted). Note that I'm just reporting what I found here: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=458

But I don't keep up with this area, so maybe the status of that work is more contentious than Scott Aaronson makes it appear.
Wrong. From your second link:

"Under the U.S. first to file system the inventor will still have a personal grace-period, which is not available to inventors outside the U.S. in many countries that follow a more traditional formulation of the first to file rule. This personal grace-period says that the inventor’s own disclosures, or the disclosures of others who have derived from the inventor, are not used as prior art as long as they occurred within 12 months of the filing date of a patent application relating to the invention. However, and this is a very big however, disclosures of third-parties who independently arrived at the invention information will be used against the inventor unless the disclosure is of the same subject matter. Said another way, there is virtually no chance that a grace-period will exist relative to third party, independently created disclosures."

Prior art indeed does invalidate the ability to patent something, unless the prior art was yours, and you patented said art within 12 months of its disclosure.
Another way poverty is profitable is that the existence of a hungry underclass helps to keep wages down in low-end jobs. Back when the US had welfare, some employers complained they had trouble filling low-paying jobs.
With ATC notified, the helicopter could revert to Mode-C [0] transponder mode, using an assigned transponder code and ATC would still track them safely. TCAS [1] would also still function safely when interrogated by secondary radar.

ADS-B reduces controller workload as they don't have to manually tag individual aircraft, especially in a high traffic area. ADS-B also works without secondary radar interrogation.

When there is a high speed chase near an airport, sometimes the tower controller will request the helicopter remain under a certain altitude or clear of a specific area.

Additionally, websites like FlightAware.com have limited direct ADS-B coverage and also display the FAA 5-minute delayed feed. I've never heard of a "criminal" in the US using an ADS-B receiver to evade police helicopters in real time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_transponder_interroga...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...
What if more people read "Games People Play" by Eric Berne?

http://www.ericberne.com/games-people-play/
Why do people always feel like they are wasting time? How exactly do you waste your time? I ask people this every time I am told, by them, I am wasting my time playing games on my computer. I love playing games... why is doing something you love wasting time?
> even more money comes from businesses serving wealthier people

Not really. It depends on the country. Some third-world countries have most of the population in poverty, so in that case capitalists can make a lot of money from poor people and have no incentive to do otherwise.
If you consider aging and death in old age as a _positive_, well, go for it.
Definitely both of those.
If you enjoyed this you might also like Wayback HN, a past project of mine! You can look at top posts by year, month, and day. http://www.waybackhn.com
Don't forget food stamp fraud.
Do they? There's no reason to think that anything creepy was going on. Surely one of GCHQ's legitimate missions is simple OSINT, and certainly forum trawling. Someone posts a copy of the supposed manuscript to some forum, some GCHQ minion sees it, off-handedly mentions it to a supervisor who is a Harry Potter fan, the supervisor calls the publisher, mentions he's from GCHQ, and 11 years later it's mentioned in a retrospective story.

When I was in the military, I discovered a vulnerability in a website while I was browsing the web bored at work. I did mention I was an airman. If somehow that resulted in a news story, I don't think it would be fair to demand a response from the Air Force. Sure, they were technically paying for me to do that, but it wasn't really the mission.
Most likely it was builtwith.com
I work at a large airport near where these operations have occurred. From what I understand the local FAA office is well aware of them. I've been told "Don't ask" when we see unusual flight patterns. Commercial aircraft tend to follow well established patterns (STARs and SIDs etc) near major airports. As long as these flights stay below certain altitudes and away from the arrival and departure paths I don't think it would be a big deal for ATC.
Awesome Article! Something This relates to is data compression. The way I've always imagined time travel was as if the world was x,y,z,t. This is easily done when all calculations are mathematically handleable as its an f(t) equation, however creating those equations is far less easy. When a random seed exists it can still be done though it would be computationally expensive since each time a random is retrieved is an important difference from other worlds. The saving the player data as you put it seems extremely difficult as you would have to save every single choice and the tick it happened. This is similar to what you mentioned only saving variables as they changed but you probably saved each npc's data as well (which would make regeneration much faster). This relates to data compression because it is unknown what the next byte will be, only that there are a series of them. Additionally, writing a streaming compressor that easily streams back out again isn't as easy as I want to believe it is.
Asian fusion restaurants are a thing, particularly in places where Asian restaurants are scarce. This is why you end up with places like e.g. Mt. Fuji Thai. (Not an exaggeration.)
I think the problem is most rich people aren't smart. This creates flawed systems, bad business models and poor public infrastructure.

I don't know many people in Silicon Valley but I know a lot of rich people. They definitely have a lack of compunction and some use confidence games to scam and exploit people.

I am not suggesting they are all bad but 90% act like my friends who live in trailers in the Midwest on welfare.

Human nature doesn't care about privilege. I believe education fails to teach critical thinking and tools to face adversity. And this creates situations where rich people lie, or honest investment bankers launder drug money. Or doctors overprescribe drugs, surgeons do unnecessary surgies and rich men exploit young girls. But they all self-rationalize their decisions and never think they are part of the problem. Arrogance, incompetence, greed, stupidity, etc.

There are a ton of successful incompetent people.

In general, I agree with you that it is the individual's job to transcend these challenges but it is ignorant politicians and lazy wealthy and influential people who sustain a system that has so much friction, so much chaos and so many challenges to overcome to get a fraction of what the alleged "elite" get.

My point is, for the most part there is nothing elite about the 1%. There is no secret group controlling the world. If we want to change things, we can.
I made a script for shell profiles which does something similar last year: https://github.com/brightghost/memento-mori
Those are typically called "Asian Fusion" where I live. It's every popular dish in every Asian cuisine all in one place, though they usually exclude Indian food.
Many commercial operations don't have ADS-B installed (I wish! That would make my life easier.). They use other systems like MLAT and primary radar to track them.
The example saying:

This means that the compiler is allowed to optimize

volatile int *p = somevalue;
int s = *p + *p;

as if it said

volatile int *p = somevalue;
int tmp = *p;
int s = tmp + tmp;

is incorrect. The clause about sequence points starts with "Futhermore, " so it is an additional restriction, and to boot it only talks about stores to the volatile-qualified object, not loads, so it is entirely inapplicable to this example.

The prior clause saying "Therefore any expression referring to such an object shall be evaluated strictly according to the rules of the abstract machine, as described in 5.1.2.3." applies, and the rules of the abstract machine for the binary + operator are that each operand is evaluated (in an unspecified order). So both dereferences must be evaluated.
The Beef / Chicken Jalfrezi at Shalimar (in Tenderloin SF or in Fremont) dish is a Pakistani take on Chinese food, one of the best things I've ever eaten. I try to time my flights back to the SF Bay Area so I can swing by the Tenderloin location after picking up my rental car. I agree it's not something to miss.
Amazing that all publicly traded companies are not by law required to have bug bounties.

Same goes for any major open source project too.
I have to say, I'm really not against this. I used to read about privacy people getting pissed at all the CCTV surveillance in London, etc. And it concerned me.

But then I got into photography. And in that case, police were trying to trample on the rights of photographers. But the main idea is that photographers are allowed to photograph pretty much anywhere in public. And I agree with this. You can't make laws forbidding photographing a particular building, for example.

That got me thinking, if we can't forbid citizens from photographing in public, why should we forbid our government? In fact, when crimes happen, most of the time these days, video surveillance is a huge help.

If that data were made publicly accessible, would it be a problem that it was being recorded? What are the drawbacks of public surveillance?
This is already happening in New Jersey.
While sending an email might be a good solution, I don't think it is a good idea to be confrontational about it. I think you need to make them see that they've been behaving like immature idiots, but without it escalating into a confrontation.

I think all reasonable people will be on your side if you handle it well. I like the idea that someone else came up with of posting this thread up on the noticeboard. That might embarrass them into shutting the fuck up and make them realise what a bunch of ignorant, immature dicks they've been :)
And now you understand what Richard M. Stallman means when he refers to "freedom" in relation to software.

This software was not free, and does not respect your freedoms.
Out of curiosity, how many hours of work typically goes into one of those restorations?
Language Log often notes how the English and Chinese names on Chinese restaurants are typically wildly different.[0, 1]

The Chinese Restaurant Worldwide Documentation Project is a good resource for restaurant names in both languages.[2]

[0] http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=9943

[1] http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4424

[2] https://www.flickr.com/groups/twchineserestaurantsdp/pool/wi...
> General Tso's Chicken might be the most popular Chinese dish in the western world

Ah, the definition of 'western world' that starts at North America's west coast and ends at its east coast...
Updated: I've added submissions from 2006-2008. Now it includes the entire HN history.

Also, ranking by category: https://github.com/antontarasenko/smq/blob/master/reports/ha...
I tried to gently inform you that you had misinterpreted what I said. That was your opportunity to pause and think, and realize that I did not say what you thought I said, but you missed it.

> The point is, the idea that it's somehow "unprofessional" to write a recursive function is an absurd assertion.

...which is why I didn't say that. What I said was, "[E]ven in Scheme, most times where you would write a recursive function, you should be writing something with one of the higher-order functions. 99.9% of recursive functions contain a buggy hand-rolled implementation of map, reduce, or filter."

There are certainly cases where writing a recursive function is cleaner, and I would never say it's "unprofessional" to write a recursive function. However, I've debugged enough Scheme to know that if you're writing a recursive function you're probably reimplementing one of the core higher-order functions, and in doing so you're increasing your chance of bugs. You're also making your code less composable. If you're not experience enough with Scheme to have recognized this fact yet, you're probably not experienced enough to recognize exceptions to the rule.

> Many, many functional languages beyond just "academic" ones use recursion as a standard idiom, and using that to dismiss Scheme is itself an inflammatory statement especially on a site that is literally running on top of a Scheme derivative.

Scheme is my favored language for personal projects. I write more Python because there's more work available for Python, but when it has been my choice I've chosen Scheme. The reason I've written so much Python in a functional style was because I learned that style from Scheme. So if you think I'm dismissing Scheme, you're hilariously wrong. My statement isn't inflammatory; you became inflamed all on your own.

> I realize it is these days considered "un-Pythonic" to consider there to be more than one way to do something, but that is in fact one of the reasons why I no longer use Python. The attitude of its creator and its community have shifted against creative solutions and I have no use for that attitude in a technology field.

Cool. I thought I was the one being inflammatory.

It seems that you saw me say, "Scheme is a more academic language" and decided to take offense to that. Well, news flash, Scheme was designed at the MIT AI Lab. It's an academic language. That doesn't mean it's a "toy language" or that it's only an academic language; I didn't say either of those things. It's also ridiculous that you needed to bring Erlang into the conversation to defend Scheme: Scheme has plenty of history of professional use at both HP and Sun and is perfectly well respected in its own right.

Please try to learn something from this experience.
I used to wonder why there was no Chinese restaurant in all of Capitol Hill in Seattle. Some have opened more recently, but it turns out one was there all along – called Regent Bakery & Cafe. Truly hidden from my Chinese restaurant radar due to the name.
Dominus – 2 year side project. Multiplayer social strategy game made with Meteor
I think they'd call themselves Aurors.
Also: Don't implement chacha20-poly1305 or AES-GCM yourself, unless you're a crypto expert.

You'll more than likely make a mistake.

Libsodium offers both (but AES-256-GCM is only available if you have hardware support for constant-time implementations).

crypto_aead_chacha20poly1305_encrypt()
crypto_aead_chacha20poly1305_decrypt()
crypto_aead_aes256gcm_encrypt()
crypto_aead_aes256gcm_decrypt()

https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium
Do something that you enjoy.
Top Talent is a myth... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talent_Myth