skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a correlation based heuristic. Quantifying and splitting countries into 1st, 2nd, 3rd world would be a bit too much. Where to make the cut-offs? As a cohort, and looking simply at correlation being a foreign student in US seems to be correlated with cheating. And I speak this as a former foreign student as well.

> Stating that foreign students cheap more, implies that simply being foreign is what increases your chance of cheating.

Not quite. The article does go into more details showing that a large number of foreign students are Chinese. So it is not as simple as being from another country. Being a foreign student in US doesn't imply being a random sample from all of the world's countries. India and China account for the majority of students and the article does focus on China quite a bit.

> When in fact it would have been more accurate to say 3rd world students cheat more

Ok thinking about it some more. Isn't that more problematic. Is China a 3rd world country? What does 3rd world even mean anymore? Wouldn't that be deeply insulting to them?

> That means you would struggle with getting things like an apartment because simply being foreign labels you.

I would struggle, agreed. But that is their country and if a simple heuristic works for them, well it works for them. Perhaps expanding energy and inquiring what country tenants are coming from or white/blacklisting nationalities, religions, countries and managing rules based on that is just too troublesome so they look at a general correlation.

> I guess in a screwed up way some people might thing this is a more democratic form of racism

It is not quite the same. Unless it is really about another persons' skin color. But it is not, it is about cheating, crime, and so on. It so happens that is also correlated with certain nationalities, cultures or skin colors. Haven't been to Japan. Maybe they are really that racist, but I wouldn't be surprised if landlords just don't want to get ripped off, and managing profits and risk is what they worry about.

> Would it somehow be more fear if we in Europe regarded the US as dangerous as Mexico because we artificially picked the whole of north America including Mexico to make generalizations about everybody living there?

Fair to who? Maybe it would be fair to you if say you were flooded by lots of people from North America who committed crimes, picked pockets, stole, started fights in the street, threw trash all over. It might not be fair some people from US who don't behave that way typically, but the world doesn't operate on fairness.
Even if it's in season doesn't mean your climate is the best place to grow it.

If it was the best place, then it would be competitive on the open market, and produce from your area would be the primary produce on the market - without any hokey social movements.
Unfortunately for me, this would just make things worse. I'm in some in-between state of dreaming and waking and if I can't see physically then my mind will fill in the blanks.

For me it's crucial that I be able to see when the night terror happens. So I have a nightlight.
I wrote a while ago a shell script utilizing curl to do something similar. But many pages stop high speed download after about 100mb. Not just a couple of kb. So using this approach is actually quite nice. https://github.com/BrandiATMuhkuh/downloadAccelerator
Show HN: A pong-pinball-golf hybrid
There's certainly "more cumbersome and expensive than the alternatives" though.
A big thank you to https://github.com/joefitzgerald for the environment handling!
There's likely enough undisclosed OS kernel vulnerabilities known to state actors that this kind of attack would not be very necessary.
And with US civilian ammo production above 12 billion rounds per year and increasing, 3 million rimfire (and not increasing due to the higher capital costs for than machinery), plus substantial imports, plus the seconds we are sold from military production, especially at Lake City (ATK has a win-win-win contract where the DoD can outright cancel orders and ATK can then run the materials they've bought through the government's machinery), well, that barn door has been wide open for 7 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9313_United_States_...
A Logic Named Joe (1946)
China's next social trend: paying celebrities to answer your questions
Yes, but " . . . on behalf of Yale University Press and their Jewish Lives series." Not merely an advert from some publisher.
management science is a great topic and is one of the important applications of various optimization algorithms in mathematics. it's roughly the same field as industrial engineering.

most people get by just figuring out how to put problems in excel and hit "SOLVER" (or Matlab and fmincon) but there is some value in figuring out the algorithm works. then it's a hop skip and jump away from the other classes of optimization that you see in machine learning.
I mean, really? Do you have to give them your phone to get an account?

So much for growth.
I'm not sure how any of the article's contents (and I've only read the first half) is meant to be less racist than "Koreans are good with technology".
I disagree about the teleporter. I think it is one of the best applications of rng in any videogame.

From the wiki:

"Pressing the action button while carrying one will teleport you in the direction you are facing. You will appear a random number of tiles away in the direction you are holding, either 4-8 tiles horizontally or upwards, or 5-9 tiles downwards. Note that you have to jump in order to teleport downwards; otherwise you will just drop the teleporter.

If the destination tile is a solid block, the teleporter tries to find an empty space up to 3 tiles above the selected location - If there is no viable space, the teleporter will warp you into a solid block and you will be killed."

You can indeed use the teleporter 100% safely (as long as your judgement of distance is correct, this of course makes it even more fun) or you can use it as a hail mary in desperate times. Of course, depending on the amount of 4 tile high walls in front of you it might not be much of a risk, this is what makes Spelunky so fun to me, making risk minimizing decision in a split second, I think the teleporter perfectly captures this.
Agree. This is the biggest risk. Right now I think they have enough cache that I would jump to electric for them where I may be too skeptical to buy an electric ford. Delivering high quantity with high quality on time will almost guarantee success.
This applies to many things, including deciding to mow your own lawn instead of outsourcing it. Most people think that their time is worth x, and the yard-guy costs y, and if x>y, they should outsource the mowing. It's not as simple as that, as most people cannot earn X on demand - their total hours are capped by law or arrangement. Additionally, people mistakenly use their gross over net pay to calculate it, and then discount the time needed to arrange, inspect and pay.

The ideal childcare arrangement is bartered, such as an agreement between two families to cover childcare with each other. This takes into consideration attachment of the child to the caregivers.

However, it is more efficient economically to have as many children under a single caregiver, as that frees other adults to create value for society (work with me and imagine every job adds value).

Taxation on that arrangement is just the government capturing some of the value created by it becoming more efficient. I don't necessarily have a problem with that, but the childcare company paying tax, paying payroll tax and then the individual employees paying income tax and the owners paying income tax is taxing the activity too many times.
It had become known that Mario, Prem, and Luca were moving on, but the expectation was that Soni was sticking around and gaining more responsibility. Guess not. Unfortunate for Cisco.
It is in the nature of such languages to grow. We've seen this happen to MIT Runoff, which begat nroff, which begat troff, which begat ditroff, which resulted in TeX. We've seen it happen to HTML, which started as a lightweight markup language. It's happening to markdown right now.

One of the few approaches that hasn't become bloated is Rich Text Format, and that's because nobody uses it.
> the structure [1, 2, 3] still exists in memory, but now the variable x is bound to the value 2

I wasn't talking about data, I was talking about variables. Yeah you just called it "re-binded". I called it "changed" or "mutated".

You have a function, and you see x=1 first and print its value. You'd see "1". Then you can have x=2 maybe a few lines or pages below, print it, you get "2". Variable x has changed its value. I even illustrated with a short example.

> All data is still immutable, the BEAM itself requires so. All data is still immutable, the BEAM itself requires so

Agreed. I don't think I ever talked about data being mutable. Having used BEAM VM for the last 5 years, yes, I noticed data is immutable ;-)
Some countries have stricter standards for graduation and against cheating than others.
India has lots of cheating. Ask an Indian.
Nothing racist about article at all.

Yes there are unqualified students everywhere but clearly some countries will have fewer because of enforcement of standards.

Hell the headline using the word "lured" puts the blame on the univerity/recruiters.
It still struggles with large files. I can crash atom at work often. Never managed to crash vs code. But vs code still lacks plugins. As does sublime nowadays.
Tesla Logs Show That Model X Driver Hit the Accelerator
Five nines isn't enough, as evidenced by the articles lambasting Tesla for a single accident in many millions of aggregate miles. If you assume one decision per second--which is conservative--Tesla is already on the order of 10^9 decisions. Nine nines.
The Ghost Gunner drills/machines the right holes in an 80% receiver, it doesn't start with a 0% receiver: http://www.80percentarms.com/products/0-billet-ar-15-lower-r...

But it's not very difficult to start at that level: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-cartel-gunsmiths $25K for a pro CNC machine isn't much in the scheme of things.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791444 for comments on this.
Why are you wasting your time making this? A map of US hate crimes against immigrants would be more helpful for newcomers than this.
And yet people are still seriously considering online voting.
Sorry, was on my phone. This works:

https://www.facebook.com/LastWeekTonight/videos/912968418832...
I kind of have the opposite feeling. Whenever I die on Spelunky I feel like it was my fault, usually because I was rushing though things too quickly or because I tried to go through a dangerous area without spending resources.

That said, this probably does explain a bit the contradicting reviews from you and the grandparent poster. Not having the game boil down to luck (or feel like that is the case) is what separates the good procedurally generated games from the bad ones.
I came from Notepad2 on windows. Tried sublime, atom, vscode, brackets.

End d up with brackets for a long time but as much as I hate atom. It's where the plugins at. :(
Out of every nine women, less than 9 are able to have children once age and various conditions, medical history, choices etc come into play. I think I was over thinking the scenario...
What will advertising look like in the post-capitalist era?
> You're calling renaming something mutation. It isn't.

I think you are confused though ;-) There is no renaming -- x=1, then x=2. Nothing was renamed. x wasn't renamed, it is still variable x. 1 and 2 wasn't renamed, it is still 1 and 2 (could have been a map, or list for example). So what do you think was renamed there?

> You're referring to static single assignment.

No, I am referring to immutable variables. Variables are not changing, they are immutable in Erlang. In Elxir variables change, they can be assigned different values later in a function. If that is not a change i.e. a mutation I don't know what is.
Like I said, you're free to presume whatever you want. I'm also free to not care, and I have no obligation to prove anything to you.
I'm a veteran roguelike player as well. I've beaten BoI, ascended NetHack quite a few times and beaten Spelunky many times as well. Out of those 3, Spelunky is the only one I keep coming back to. NetHack and BoI, to me, are monstrously tedious exercises in building an "ascension kit" and then merely brute-forcing the remainder of the game with it. Spelunky, on the other hand, stays fresh and challenging no matter what items you get.

As for luck? Spelunky is the least luck-based game out of the 3. It's possible to beat the game with no items at all. The enemies all behave in deterministic ways and there are no dice rolls involved in the combat. Winning comes down to a combination of manual skills and experience at reading the situations and reacting appropriately. Most of the times I die these days come down to taking unnecessary risks (milking the ghost for diamonds or murdering all the shopkeepers in the black market) in the hopes of racking up a really high score.
> How to make it better? that's easy. IT ALREADY EXISTS and is part of Elm. It's just a private API. But it totally does work. It's how the native wrappers are written.

You mean like this: https://github.com/mcapodici/capodicis-notes/blob/master/elm...

That is an example where I connected chrome extension storage functionality using native wrappers.

This is the Elm wrapping for it:

https://github.com/mcapodici/capodicis-notes/blob/master/elm...
I've also found the font rendering on OS X to be better (sharper/cleaner) in Sublime than Atom on a retina display.
Driving away in someone's car isn't always why someone might want to break into it. Someone with enough technical knowledge combined with a mental state compelling them to obsess over a victim could be a scenario where this is an issue.
I never said they were evil. You misconstrue what I am saying.

I am just saying if RH wants something to become the dominant solution it will be, regardless. Doesn't matter if they started the project, or acquired it, or if they just think it's a good idea, or maybe it's just something a subset of their clients want (i.e selinux).

It's not about competition either. Canonical is a terrible example. They are tiny compared to RH in terms of presence in the community. Their efforts are basically safe to ignore because they are downstream of everyone else.

The issue at hand is just how much of the upstream that RH has a stranglehold on.

As I said. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad but even if it's mostly good it doesn't mean that it's not happening.
US is mainly family based immigration and people could comein only if they already had someone here which meant only europeans.

They started work visas in the 90's which let ppl from everywhere in.
It is web only.
Ford? Is that a serious suggestion? Ford is not even in the same ballpark as Tesla in EVs right now, and Ford's company culture would probably choke the Tesla culture to death. Tesla would have nothing to gain from Ford.

You must be thinking that Ford would help with "scaling expertise" and whatnot, but Tesla doesn't need to be acquired to do that. It just needs to hire a few good people to set that up. Also, I think Elon Musk even said in a recent interview that Tesla's cars use like 5% of the components of other cars. Musk prefers to "rethink" everything from scratch, and he has done the same with SpaceX.

In that context, Ford would be more of a hindrance, and not in any way helpful. What Tesla needs most is resources, so it can build its new models faster, hire workers faster, pay them more, install 10x more superchargers, start building 2 more gigafactories (which it will probably need by the time they are finished) and so on. It can't do all of that right now because it requires tens of billions of dollars, which it doesn't have.

I'd much rather see Apple acquire Tesla in 10 years. Then Tesla would have all the resources it needs to accelerate the growth of its car sales, infrastructure, and the Tesla Energy business.

If Elon stays as CEO of Apple after Tim Cook, even better, because he'd probably actually use Apple's cash reserves instead of keeping them in the bank.
The Amistad wasn't importing slaves to the US. From that wikipedia link...

> The African captives, who had been kidnapped in Sierra Leone and illegally sold into slavery and shipped to Cuba
> Try opening the command panel (ctrl+shift+p) both in sublime and atom. At least a 300ms difference.

Opens instantly in Atom for me.
The new cryptocurrency du juor.
I applied for 80k hours for a front-end job (first time I've really applied for a job). Didn't get it but now I see this:

> http://i.imgur.com/2988oNg.png
I wouldn't say I worked with a super large codebase at the customer who used it, but the only compelling feature seemed to be "it played nice with MS infrastructure."

Teams that had issues grasping the fundamentals of VCS in general still had issues. And in return you got the lesser compatibility and greater number of code warts that came with proprietary enterprise software over open source.

But I'm curious, what worked specifically for you in TFS that wasn't in the SVN ecosystem? It's probably the client was unaware of a lot of features.
Moreover, the city planners get to pick one of three doors only one of which has a traffic abatement program. After choosing a door, one of the other doors is revealed to have a goat behind it. Should they switch doors?

http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4132
Sure, most scientists are not going to have time to learn all the ins and outs of JavaScript. But you may be underestimating the potential convenience of composable components. It seems plausible that well-built components, using JSX and whatever rendering engine you prefer, could be much easier to work with than a language like LaTex.

Of course building these components would not be a simple task.
No, I don't think you're seeing the proposed attack here. As I understand it:

1. A company tapes out their chip to be fabbed, as most chips are, off-shore. The design is clean.

2. The backdoor is added after it is out of the company's hands -- say, by the fab. A single register and some wiring are not that difficult to add by hand to the design masks -- effectively, it's just an ECO.

Post tape-out tampering is a mounting concern for our clients. [EDIT: I work for an ASIC Design & Verification consultancy]
This should work pretty well for tc/iptables shaping where you count the bytes in the connection and move to a lower class.

But I guess most of the time something like aria2[1] works better for real downloads - if you shape only for a single tcp stream this should also defeat this or at least speedup the download enough that the rate limit doesn't matter.

On the server side it's probably easy to stop this - nginx seems to have all you need[2],[3]. Just set a unique cookie for the download and deny access otherwise - not sure what the shared hosters are doing but likely something similar (mandatory waiting time before the cookie or url-hash is set, limit access based on connections/hash)

limit_conn_zone $uid_got zone=cookie:10m;

server {
mp4;
limit_conn cookie 1;
limit_rate_after 10m;
limit_rate 512k;

}

On the other hand it probably screws users for mostly no reason most of the time.

1: https://aria2.github.io/

2: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_conn_module.htm...

3: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_userid_module.html
This explains it. Thanks.
Urbit is now in open developer beta
Don't blame the tech guy - I'm a writer and I set that up suddenly when I saw we were getting traffic from HN. Our coder would have done a vastly better job but it's 3am where he is! :)
Co-routines as an alternative to state machines
Intermediate cert definitely missing: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=blogs.office....
That may very well be why I find the game so tedious.

I want a roguelike to offer me tools/equipment/power ups that offset the difficulty such that I don't constantly feel abused by the game.

Spelunky isn't designed that way. You can't stack items so all you can do is pick those items that best match your play style. Beyond that it does very little to help you... it's deeply and fundamentally unforgiving.

Combine that with the lack of variability in level design (while the levels are individually procedurally generated, each major section of the game feels very similar from run to run), and whenever I play I find I'm just waiting for my next jump to not be quite precise enough, leading to YASD.

So I suspect for those that really revel in highly precise platformers with zero room for error, Spelunky is probably a great game. For me it's just game after game of deep frustration.

Edit:

BTW I'll happily admit that what I call bad luck is probably just a lack of skill. Unfortunately I doubt I'll ever develop the level of timing and precision necessary to play Spelunky well. And because the margins of error are so small, it feels like bad luck when I die... again...
fair point, my original response was indeed US-centric.
Google's IPv6 Stats Hit 12% on Fourth Anniversary of World IPv6 Launch
I think so. When I read history from the 19th until the mid-20th century, it's almost like the border didn't exist. People would move back and fourth with little concern.
From everything we know, the most likely scenario is some in flight issue killed the crew and passengers. The pilot managed to redirect the course before succumbing and the auto pilot just kept the plane to that heading until the fuel ran out. The difficulty of tracking may be partially due to whatever damage was caused to the system and just bad luck in that the heading was straight out to the Indian ocean.
I think it's a bit disapointing to see no focus at all on performance.
Energy is a linguistic construct for solving problems in abstract models of reality. That's not too different from how programming works, it's just a different set of models. Thus energy is just a special case of a more general problem solving technique which can be employed in other domains.
It was recently commented on a different thread.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845604
My talks on ECC are an interesting example, as they're talks on research that I didn't myself do (Sean Devlin wrote the challenges for them, and we got the ideas for those challenges from lots of other people).
I'm not sure if I should ask this - but any guesses on which company OP was working for?

"I got a job at a company in the Bay Area, CA that was completely unknown 7 years ago but is now incredibly well known. It is actually quite hard to get a job here now, from what I hear."

I'm not from the Bay Area, so I can't think of a company (other than Facebook) that fits that profile.
OK I think I've fixed this now!
What's so important about Appelbaum that he'd be a state-level target? For any government?

We don't have to speculate about this, because we already know that major social networking sites received court orders (with gag orders) to turn over his information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks-related_Twitter_cour...

I don't buy the conspiracy angle myself, but I don't really know enough that I'd place a bet either way. Clearly he is targeted by state-level actors, however.
Wow, the tab snapping in 1.9 is excellent. Looking forward to seeing that in the release version.
In terms of legacy strictly from an USA auto industry standpoint, I think Elon would find a Telsa led Ford appropriate.

In terms of Elon's long term goals, I think a merger and revitalization of Ford would win him huge political points which he can then use for cutting through red tape for SpaceX.
I wonder if the major Atom users are working with nicer repos than those who lament that they can't use it. The ideal project would maybe be a max of 3 or 4 levels deep (but fewer in most part) with 5-20 folders/files in each folder, and most files less than 200 lines and all less than 1000 lines. A lot of repos are not like this though - they have too much crap in them.
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