skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overwatch is an EXTREMELY polished version of TF2. There is really nothing at its level at this point. I play both Titanfall 2 and Overwatch now. Titanfall 2 is a great, super fast team action shooter. Overwatch is completely focused on balanced team combat, each player has a unique character, with unique abilities to counter other character abilities. No two players can have the same character on one team, and the "scoring" is quite unique. KD is really not taken into account, and in fact, you can't even see that ratio at any point during the game, except for your own number of kills, and deaths. Points are awarded at the end for a wide variety of things, and ALL players vote the top 4 players, based on these types of achievements. It's pretty awesome.
> USA's birthright citizenship is somewhat unique amongst countries.

It's certainly not unique. It's the norm in the Americas, including for example Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

> It's certainly at least questionable that children of citizens of other countries born here are subject to our jurisdiction.

Some people question whether you have to pay income tax too.

Jus soli in the United States is long since settled legal doctrine. Changing it would require a constitutional amendment.
True, the goal isn't to kick back money, but the goal is to refer people to Amazon that wouldn't have purchased from there otherwise. They have good fraud detection systems in place to make sure that people aren't just using the affiliate program to give Amazon discounts to themselves, friends, family.

Ultimately Amazon does what every company does in some form or another as it scales--cut incentives, trim margins, increase on-site advertising, etc. It's one long life cycle game that plays out again and again.
Flexport is hiring a VP of Marketing
Sears died the minute Jeff Bezos paid Network Solutions $50 to register amazon.com. They just didn't know it for a while. Blaming some random political philosophy you happen to disagree with isn't enlightening.
as a longtime follower of this site, i can tell you for certain that usernames do not change once the account is banned. from an architectural standpoint, it would be impossible, because internally, users are identified with their username strings, rather than some kind of opaque user id.
Does Cloudflare sign BAAs?
Show HN: Realtime snow chain requirements for Lake Tahoe
I don't think it's the end of freedom of the press, but it's a dangerous step towards it. The fact that other groups have more reach doesn't lessen the damage excluding a major news organization just because you don't like what they're reporting. If they're not reporting the truth that's one thing, but this isn't that.
White House Bars CNN, NY Times, Politico, LA Times and BuzzFeed from Brief Access
Would one of the apparently many happy FM subscribers share details of what kind of security they provide?

(It bears repeating: No email can be very secure.)
> surgical gerrymandering

Also known as "state lines", a great many of which have been in place for over a century.
Professionals get paid either to entertain or as part of an entry fee Ponzi scheme. The latter is what you see in Judo and Jiu Jitsu with the federations raking in the money.
It's not a success for Sweden. Unless the migrants cause Sweden to become safer and more prosperous, it is a failure. Swedish culture is also of value, but will be extinct within a generation or two.

There is something demented about a country that puts the rest of the world first, destroying itself in a futile effort to save the world.
So did anyone find out why so many Google accounts got "action required" alerts yesterday ?
Can't rate a driver who didn't start a trip. That's how they fly under the radar. Forcing the driver to be the one who cancels will get them on the radar and out of the system. Excessive cancel rates get drivers deactivated more than anything.
Oh, I didn't note the electronics in the headline. Not sure where that's from – quite probably an error, based on what you wrote. In fact, the headline should have been something like "Amazon cuts volume pricing, greatly reducing affiliate commissions"

I don't think it's half in most categories.

(To be clear, I didn't write the headline. Had just been attempting to explain it)
It is sad that we measure it terms of our material wealth. There is plenty positive to be said about creating material wealth over all. Not that it is the only possible objective either, of course.
Language planning/standardization - ensuring prevalence of standard varieties of a language, suppressing non-standard varieties or at least letting people understand how and why they're non-standard

(David Foster Wallace wrote a long piece about this in 2001 called "Tense Present" http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-0... and there's also a long story about nationalist movements trying to design, and teach, a standard prestige version of their national languages, which does require grammar instruction to create and maintain because it's somewhat different from all or most students' home language varieties)

Written vs. spoken language - may have different grammatical norms

Non-native speakers - want explicit instruction because they lack native-speaker intuition about some aspects of grammar

Appreciating language intellectually - curiosity and appreciation about how your language works, independent of your ability to produce sentences other speakers accept as correct
I spent a few minutes making as many mistakes in a terminal I could to give an idea of what zsh can do. I'm not sure if it is what you are looking for but hopefully it's helpful and if not oh well.

https://asciinema.org/a/bbis1intm13ya7vw3jyk0a2rl

Note: anytime something odd happens and things pop up I pressed <TAB>
I'd like to do this as well.

One of Servo's 2017 goals is to "Determine product opportunities for a standalone Servo browser or embeddable library." I'm following this very closely. I'd love to use a Rust equivalent of Electron in some projects.

I think Servo has much greater potential to be a viable high-end gaming platform than Firefox[0] (sans Quantum). HTML/CSS/JS UI with WebRender and some 3D rendering API which is not susceptible to bad GC pauses looks like the holy grail of game programming to me.

[0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Games
SF educators still waiting for promised teacher housing
The market for internet access is not just wires running in the street; it's also wireless. Railroads seemed a natural monopoly too, until trucks came along. Thus the Staggers Act, so the "natural monopoly" rail rates are not regulated.

Now it's the reverse. In the dawn of a new technological age, people want to shackle the old technology rather than deregulate it.

My economic philosophy is no religion; the government regulates the distribution of wireless spectrum and I have no objection to that, nor do I object to the regulation of wireline operators in exchange for their use of public rights-of-way. But this regulation should be measured and the minimum amount necessary. Net neutrality regulations are far beyond minimal.

So please continue on with demonstrating where what I have said is provably incorrect?
Ask and you shall receive: https://www.servethehome.com/the-dell-4x-m-2-pcie-x16-versio...
This was a half marathon.

There was a famous example of cheating (using EPO) a few years ago.

"In that time [roughly two years, I think], he won nearly $40,000 in prize money in more than 75 races, including international competitions, United States championships and local road races."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/sports/runner-christian-he...
I'd say it's more like the decision was made to make sure that the districts represented the demographics of the state. It would be significantly less fair if every single district was majority white just because the white areas were more contiguous than the minority areas, especially when the reason that minorities live in those areas is in part because they were forced there due to policies like redlining.

The way you've represented what I've said is absurd. If representatives are to be representative of the population you'll have to create some funny looking districts somewhere. If Illinois was really gerrymandering as much as say, Wisconsin, our district map would look like a tentacled monster extending from Chicago and reaching down through the rest of the state.
> This also means that you can't currently trust code that runs on the blockchain since there are likely more bugs like the one that was exploited.

To elaborate, it's especially hard to trust ETH code because it's not provable in any way. Bugs will hide, and people will find them. If ETH wasn't turing-complete this would be less problematic (because static analysis would be much easier, and possible), but as it stands there's no way to trust Ethereum contracts.
Node.js supported encodings
If you think about industry/categorical margins, the new rates more closely reflect them. As others have pointed out, the more appealing prior rates were to encourage people to "push" and advertise products in categories that amazon wasn't a dominant player. They are now doing better so they have let off the gas on those products; they don't need to advertise them as much.
I clarified my statement to say I don't have direct knowledge. But do you? I know they have compliance departments, but every town has law enforcement and yet crime still happens.
Not really, because our ability to do anything in the world is largely determined by material wealth. Wealth is only as vain as what it's used for.
Cloudflare security incident and impact on Yarn users
BTW, this model makes a falsifiable prediction: that any system with FPTP and primaries (and specifically "one member, one vote" primaries) will have runaway partisanship. So if there's a country out there that has FPTP and broad primaries, and doesn't have an increasing trend of partisanship, then that would disprove the theory, or at least poke a big hole in it.

I haven't really looked at all other countries to verify if this is the case, and I would appreciate if other people more familiar with their respective political systems could do so.

So far as I can tell, based on my limited reading, UK and Canada have FPTP, but they don't have primaries similar to the likes of US, or (in case of UK) didn't until very recently.
When I was a kid I used to say "rash" of bacon because I thought the plural was "rashes", not "rashers".
That's how it's most commonly referred to in law, because it doesn't require a criminal conviction or even charges to take place, and disputes over liability are resolved.in civil court.
Uber denies this (not that I'm defending their history):
http://www.recode.net/2017/2/24/14728660/uber-says-its-not-b...
Why the need to login with Twitter?
>society's overall wealth and power

Your response demonstrates a lack of understanding. Identify those trying to maximize this in a BR and compare to the priority and power of other players.

I would suggest that no one in any significant position of power cares about 'overall wealth and power' - otherwise you'd see a different result.
This appears to be a weak attempt to spin as positive the news that Google have abandoned the end-to-end project... mysteriously posted when everyone is busy processing the SHA1 and Cloudbleed news. From the post:

E2EMail is not a Google product, it’s now a fully community-driven open source project, to which passionate security engineers from across the industry have already contributed.

Contrast that with their Github repo, which has seen no commits since August, as well as pull requests and issues that nobody has responded to.

I would dearly love to be proven wrong; if there has been ongoing work from "passionate security engineers" somewhere else and I'm just missing it, hopefully someone can post some details here?

(edit: Disclosure, I work on Mailpile, which is arguably a "competitor" to both e2e and GMail. But I did genuinely want to see this project succeed and improve e-mail security.)
Help fund FLOSS lights out server management software
Is there any reason that Arabic language is not available? I hope they are not prioritizing one type of immigrant over another...
Don't you think there's enough demand for halfway decent VPN service that a fair bit of market incentive exists for T-Mobile not to hinder opaque packets too much?
Heh. Actually I have a neck injury from a UFC fighter that was busted for doping. I don't blame him. He was just trying to keep his kids clothed and fed.
That happened to me once at a bookstore I worked at. We realized that a coursebook we sold decently in-store was getting ordered on Amazon a bunch too, to the point we'd sell out. So next semester we sent a bunch to FBA, sold them all. Next semester, same thing. After another semester of the same, we didn't get our order from the publisher on time since Amazon had cleared them out. We didn't know that was why they were late when we sent our batch to Amazon and Amazon's hadn't listed yet when we did either. By the time ours got there, Amazon was selling theirs for less than the wholesale cost we had just paid the publisher. We had to sell a few thousand books for a loss, since we couldn't return them to the publisher and shipping them back from Amazon would cost too much money anyway. Lesson learned.
I have personally witnessed (and have evidence to support) Uber being extremely heavy-handed in response to valid allegations about them. My experience was they absolutely have people standing-by to research and goto great lengths to undermine negative truths that arise about the company.
Android Development Best Architecture
I got an email about it from amazon yesterday.
5 AWESOME Cool Gadgets You Can Buy on Amazon
>The author clearly tried

...to cram as many links as possible for the recognition without putting the effort into the curation that make these "Awesome" lists worth anything more than a Google search.
> With Google there is just no way to bullshit people anymore.

The existence of spam, nigerian prince scams, "Windows Tech Support" scammers, phishing, etc. show there's more than enough bullshit to go around. At what rate do they say suckers are born?
It might not be Uber. It could be regular internet misogynists.
Actually, the Ragel generated code (fragment) looks like it's already pretty SaferCPlusPlus compliant, since it itself doesn't declare any buffers or pointer/iterators. So I guess the recommendation instead would be for CloudFlare, and anyone else writing nginx modules in C/C++, to wrap any nginx-supplied buffers in a bounds-checked wrapper (like an array_view[1], gsl::span, or RandomAccessSection[2]).

[1] https://github.com/rhysd/array_view

[2] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus#txscoperand...
> That has nothing to do with the fact that if you are an illegal immigrant yourself there are cities in this country that refuse to obey immigration law.

No, there are cities that refuse to expend local resources enforcing federal immigration law, leaving that enforcement to the feds.

This is not refusing to obey federal immigration law; in fact, the freedom of states (and therefore subordinate entities like cities, if not prohibited by state law) to refuse to enforce federal law is inherent in the Constitutional separation of state and federal spheres of sovereignty. This freedom was the basis of laws adopted by numerous states prohibiting state enforcement of the federal Fugitive Slave Laws in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842).
>> that's all I know
>> I can't find a compelling reason to switch

See The Blub paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

You should learn a few languages even if you don't need them, just for the mind expansion and learning what is necessary and what is your culture's conventions. It's like travelling to a different country, beware the patriot who has never left his home country!
My understanding is that Day 0 is the only important day here (or actually, Day 365 doesn't matter). You pay $10K on Day 0 and you earn no "income", so you do not owe any tax.

On Day 900, if your shares are worthless, you can then take that $10K as a long-term capital loss. If and how that can carry forward is something you'll want a tax accountant for.

Here's some of what the IRS has to say about that, but of course - Get an Accountant: https://www.irs.gov/uac/irs-reminds-taxpayers-they-can-use-s...
My understanding of the challenge (which could have been wrong...) was that you had to use at least one half of the array (every other number).

So if the array was [-1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6], the 'max sum' would be -9 ([-1, -3, -5]).

I can't think of a non-brute force solution for an extended sequence of negative numbers...
I've been building a startup to address this need in the cloud hosting space that I'm calling Pagefog[1]. I'm very close to release soon. Would you be interested in talking to me about your needs and seeing if it could be a good fit?

My goal is to make an easier service for managed WP hosting on your own cloud servers whether you use AWS, Digital Ocean, or a VM in your datacenter. Everything that is built out is setup for performance and tuned for WordPress. There are some unique feature like auto-setup of SSL certs with LetsEncrypt as well.

[1]: http://pagefog.com
Agreed, but I assume most of these were in terrible condition to start with. I'm surprised they don't mention it in their FAQ so I could be wrong.

As an example they have this to say about the 14th century samurai sword:

While lovely, the blade has a number of micro-fractures that made it unsuitable,
and potentially dangerous, as a collectible.
> "If you mean instantaneous bandwidth, then you are saying that both Youtube customers and Netflix customers should be able to use a circuit that they primarily use for watching video to also be equally optimized for real time protocols.

> If you argue that a VOIP customer should be able to place a call with the absolute minimal latency the network can provide, even if it means that video content will (on average) buffer for an extra second, that is not an example of a fair system, just one that is extremely friendly to VOIP."

That's the real straw man. The current state of the art for QoS is active queue management that both increases effective link utilization and reduces latency to a point that VoIP is usable, as compared with naive FIFO queuing with tail drops when the queues are full. That's why I said QoS isn't a zero-sum game. In the real world, you don't actually have to choose between throughput and latency; both can be good enough for what people normally want to do. VoIP traffic doesn't cost enough bandwidth to have a significant impact on Netflix video quality, and firing up a Netflix stream doesn't have to produce queuing latencies that make VoIP unusable. And none of this requires any traffic shaping rules that deliberately identify what's video or VoIP—that's an objective criteria for "neutral" that doesn't force ISPs to use naive sub-optimal traffic management.
By allowing upstart MVNO's to avoid arduous regulation processes. I am involved with 2 MVNO's that have been trying to merge for over a year, they don't have that many customers, and no one opposes it. Yet the FCC dragged their feet with no updates and no reason for the delay. This has real world, multi-million dollar consequences. The process is moving forward now since Ajit got hired.

Armchair technologists read an article about net neutrality on arstechnica and think it's black and white. News flash - telecom and ISP's have been shaping traffic since the beginning! You think NetFlix has high quality video on shitty connections because they are nice? Wrong! They pay for the privilege.[0]

I say, let the free market decide. The history of telecom is beyond insane. If you actually care about this stuff maybe you should learn more. This book is pretty esoteric but it gives the true history https://www.amazon.com/Great-Telecom-Meltdown-Fred-Goldstein...

[0]https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304834704579401...
I use 128 gb too but here we call it SSD
You literally defined gerrymandering, so don't get too sanctimonious.
PewDiePie – how about that
Now that is how a company pro-actively communicates to their userbase and the public at large! Honest information but inspiring confidence in their platform as well as their support. Well done fastmail! Kudos!!
This is an atrocity.
Disabling hyper-threading only makes sense if you're getting messed up by the OS's scheduler.
I'm wondering if Fastmail provides better deliverability of incoming emails (have issues with lost emails in free Gmail account)?

Also if something goes wrong is there a mitigation plan in place to recover data and restore access of the user?

That's another major concern - to lose access to the account and not be able to recover it - because Gmail has no support.
I've worked in finance. Even if you're a ground-level shmuck without the means to insider trade you're still heavily regulated. Most firms require you to report investments and any trades you make as soon as you make them. Often the regulations extend to your immediate family as well. The only people I can imagine getting away with insider trading are those who don't have a direct connection to the business and trade amounts small enough that it's hard to prove.

If you want hard data, in 2016 the SEC handed out $4B in fines: https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-212.html
You can buy fossils including Dinosaur ones for fairly cheap in many places in the world.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/sis.html?_nkw=Fossil+Collection+Spin...

Most fossils are "trash" and often end up in aggregate especially marine fossils.
Is it possible to download fauna to play with it on my own?
I was referring to the BND report taking about "1.1%", not that...
With respect, I see your opinion as the naive one. Qualia and all that...

The whole argument against "net neutrality" is plainly spoken as: A financial scheme to create a "new market" that I'll call "packet tollbooths."

The financialists run the world, so we'll carve out these new schemes that benefit the wealthy more than humanity.

When we could simply build newer, cheaper, higher capacity hardware, and keep installing it. Which we're going to do to some extent anyway. The extent is also determined more by financialists than the public and their needs.

Needs which could be articulated plainly by engineers and those that know how technology works. But again, they're pushed aside to serve their financialist masters as well.

It's another class based division, which shits on democratic process.

"Can't pay the toll? Slow lane for you! Enjoy Netflix Potato quality streams."
It looks like Google just pulled the plug on this: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/e2email-research-pro...

HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13728327

(Genuinely hoping someone will find the good news I'm missing here)
The critical issue here is not something's value as a "collectible." We're not caddisfly larvae.
This guy is taking Roy off the grid.
https://www.fastmail.com/help/ourservice/security.html

- happy FM subscriber for 3 years