skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
don't agree with berlin either, of course some areas are more criminal (almost anywhere), but going on foot alone is still possible, even at night and i've been to most of the trouble-spots.

Also: Munich, it's unbelievable safe, more boring than berlin, but safer.
Ask them what their minimum credit score is? If they refuse, I'd say you definitely have a legal case to recover your time and lawyer fees
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In my experience, the trick is to accumulate lists of books, links, people, and other potential interests, etc., and dip into them whenever you aren't preoccupied (in lieu of checking what the Attention Merchents want you to [1]) to get your mind going, not forcing yourself on any particular one, and over time you end up using a lot of free moments to continuously ponder the small bits you glimpsed, until one day it strikes you that one particular book is so obviously worth your time that you devour it. (The process is sort of like an avalanche.)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-H...
In pets, the chips are just injected straight out of a large diameter needle into an area with loose skin (e.g. neck scruff). Millions and millions of pets have them.
It broadcasts its ID to anyone with a scanner. I wouldn't call it a secret though.
Have you read the paper? It's on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.05519.pdf
Found: Quite possibly the most sophisticated Android espionage app ever
I think you owe it to yourself to look up how the US defines a job. Most jobs created since 2008 are trmp jobs not actuallu structurally solid jobs so sure there is less unemployment but the employment there is is way more fragile.
This is why I vastly prefer to rent on handshake deals and standard lease agreements with homeowners. It's waaaay more human.
Presumably, the idea is to count sufficiently similar images as the same image when doing the deduplication, so traditional hashing doesn't help here.
It seems that people are too hurried to read the article and are commenting the title and economics on general level.

Basic macroeconomics did fine. Austerity side Alesina/Ardagna/Reinhart/Rogoff camp was utterly wrong. Spreadsheet errors in their studies that became basis for political action etc. Even after the austerity approach has been shown to be baseless in academia it continues to live in politics. Politicians have little or no ability to evaluate what they hear or read.

Backgrounder:

How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/06/06/how-case-austerit...
I think it's actually much more.

I ridiculed a friend when he said he could a stroboscopic effect from wheels in normal daylight.

But it is actually a real thing which I've experienced myself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon-wheel_effect#Truly_conti...
I can do it on a 15 year old chevy impala. I have a hunch that fernstart is verboten in europa because it is a waste of fuel (and emissions.) They have webasto heaters and parked ventilation instead. Aren't all these cars stop/start now?
Not that many people use ad blockers. I'm not sure what the point of people worrying about it is. I now use noscript due to the annoyances created by the adblocker nag screens.
That's true if what you measure is only a proxy for some other reality that you actually want to affect, but that is harder to measure. Cholesterol, for example, has long been targeted because it had shown a high correlation to cardiovascular health and life expectancy. The result was a long series of medications that successfully lowered cholesterol, with occasional death as a side effect.

GDP is pretty close to what you actually want to change. There are some other measures, such as social mobility, Gini, or poverty–but rising GDP has almost always been good for people.
If i'm not mistaking... This is a big thing, because it wasn't possible (untill now)... It was one of the major hurdles of .Net core that System.Drawing was not available ( eg. image resizing).

Good work!

Edit: As mentioned on : https://www.hanselman.com/blog/RFCServersideImageAndGraphics...

Currently, as of the time of this blog post's writing, .NET Core has no good built-in option for image resizing or image generation/creation. There is no System.Drawing because there is no Win32 GDI. There are some options, that I'll point out later, but this clearly hasn't been a priority so it's not done yet. There has been some work on System.Drawing.Graphics, but it seems stalled.

Nathanael Jones is the very accomplished author of ImageResizer and the primary at Imazen, an imaging software company. I've talked about ImageResizer before, it's fantastic. Nathanael has been pushing hard to get folks at Microsoft to commit to a story around Server-side Graphics in ASP.NET 5 and recently updated his own roadmap with respect to ImageResizer and the new ASP.NET 5 (that runs on .NET Core as well as the full .NET Framework). Take a moment and read it, there's a lot there. Concerns about how to call native code, how to distribute managed code that has to call native code, and lots more. I've worked with Nathanael for the last year trying to work out some way to solve this problem but it hasn't worked out well. Big company, sigh.

Edit 2: Even a successfull kickstarter about this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/njones/imageflow-respec...
Rather than build own factories. It would be smarter, and someone will do it, to buy batteries and self driving tech from someone else. Concentrate on their strengths of car design, brand, dealer networks. Rather than enter new and risky tech someone else has 10 year lead on you. Someone else like Tesla.
> If you don't like the laws, work to change them. Don't demonize those who are enforcing them.

We didn't accept "just following orders" at the Nuremburg trials, and those defendants could have been executed for disobeying. I don't see why we should accept it at home from police officers whose only risk is losing their job.
It's gotten a lot of attention on the x86 side for making virtualization safer (e.g. VT-D) but if they're using it they're certainly quiet about it.
That's the epitome of crew (competitive rowing). You get 8 people in a boat shifting their inertia at various speeds, you have a chaotic center of gravity. Slow, smooth, synchronous strokes, where everyone is paying attention to each other, go shockingly faster than 8 people putting all of their strength into it.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon-wheel_effect#Truly_conti...

which I mentioned in a comment above.
It's probably the process for humans now too. Mine was quite a while ago.

I know friends who have had implant birth control just had the needle.
Innovation in AI could see governments introduce human quotas
It is hard to characterize as diverse a field as economics. However, there are some influential sectors of the field of economics that 1) avoids rigorous empirical research, and/or 2) identifies economic policies that benefit their benefactors, and then produce economic theory that support those policies. Which is backwards, or at least distorted.
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a few releases back they 'improved' the partitioning wizard..

(compare to RHEL6/CentOS, which was essentially the old code)

this is the result.

yay progress!
You would get caught immediately when the employees filed their taxes and the IRS had no record of the supposed withholdings.
Interesting thought. Still, possession is more than nine-tenths of being able to put something up for auction. If you could find a buyer sight-unseen, you'd be liable for fraud, alas. And you'd have given someone incentive to sort the mess out in order to charge you.
I said NPV.

Beyond that, the problem would be getting the same results as paying someone directly, while reducing efficiency by inserting a middleman to take a piece for... why, exactly?
Trump signs internet privacy repeal
Whenever you have something like this please put it on Yelp! Many of us will check yelp before renting with a company.
Well, the OS is most strictly the kernel, right? It's honestly all together. It's an SMP system that you can already run on normal ARM and x86 devices.

The team has stated that everything in the kernel is true, and that there's quite a lot there to infer from. What they can't say publicly is the how and why, e.g. how would they hypothetically implement backwards compatibility with Android apps?
Precieicyly what this target is. Simply a goal to fuck someone.
Head out of canary wharf onto the isle of dogs. Or parts of peckham. Or West Ham. Christ.
I know that 'obtaining money or property under false pretenses' is a felony in at least some states. I wonder why this wouldn't apply?
Illegal to use a driver's license number to disambiguate between driving records? God I hope not...
Until DNS requests are encrypted the domain you are accessing is still visible.
Do you need a career if you have that much money?
If this happens to you, you should consider talking to:

1. Your state's AG [1]

2. The local TV news

3. Local police

I don't think I would call it a "legal scam," it sounds remarkably like fraud. Lots of modern fraud takes place over international VoIP calls, so the fact that there's a brick and mortar business with assets that can be seized means you shouldn't give up quickly.

> Even disputing a charge on the credit card — they have copies of our ID, smart.

Dispute it anyways. Yes, it may flip back on you once they disclose the fact that you were there. But just stipulate it upfront that you made the purchase but the terms were unclear or that the claims that they made regarding your rejection are false.

These guys sound like they are clever enough to try and make their scheme as close to legal as possible. They made sure that the amount you're getting scammed isn't worth your time or an attorney's time. But don't let them get away with it.

[1] Texas AG consumer complaints: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/cpd/file-a-consumer-com...
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There is also a troubling cult of personality that plagues the field, where Nobel Prize winners and other luminaries' research is accepted as truth without peer review. Example: Greenspan
Probably Amazon pays them 0-5% of the recharge amount. That's what they're saving on the credit card processing. Same as buying a Steam gift card at CVS or whatever.
Whine much?
It's official: your internet provider can share your web history
Economic crises today are nowhere near the disasters they were in the past. It's pretty obvious that the system's stability has increased–in the past, depression could mean starvation.

> The arrogance of central banks thinking they can manage and control the economic interactions of millions of people in a country...

The arrogance of physicians thinking they can manage and control the biological interactions of billions of cells...

Just because something has a lot of moving parts doesn't make it intractable. "Complex" is just latin for "put together", and we can always try to take it apart, learn about individual parts, and work our way up.

In any case, not doing anything is also a decision. It's a completely arbitrary idea–as if monetary policy were some sort of intrusion into the "natural law" of the economy.
I mean, it is likely that no one in the UK government in 2009 even knew Turing or had anything to do with his persecution. The UK decriminalized homosexual acts between men in 1967 and added further legislation in 1994 and 2000. More likely some of the people in government in 2009 had helped draft the most recent legislation and had no problem with Turing being a homosexual...
Common sense would suggest that a loan collection agency's idea of helping the borrower will be helping them find ways to pay off their loan, which is not necessarily the same as working in the borrower's best interest.
Ask HN: Should I ditch disqus and what are some alternatives
I'm beginning to think that maybe I should ditch disqus from my blog with all the tracking issues, but I still want to keep commenting on my blog. So what are some alternatives?
Does this work on iOS devices?
You're right that overstays are a big problem. Now imagine how much worse it would be if every state got to choose who comes in. The federal government tries real hard to issue visas only to people who won't break the law. They're not entirely successful, but the bar is decently high.

The Syrian refugee hypothetical would have a different problem altogether. The opposition to admitting refugees isn't economic, it's about terrorism. If you can't stop a terrorist posing as a refugee from traveling from California to Texas then the only way to keep Texas safe from that person is to keep him out of the country altogether.

(To be clear, I think the worry over terrorists posing as refugees is just paranoia. But the fear is real.)
Is that the same sovereignty that stopped the US from from drilling their oil after overthrowing their government?

It's odd reason given that narcotics are/were supposedly one of the principal sources of the Taliban’s financing.
I've been through your whole website and I have no idea what you guys actually do other than string buzzwords together.
It's a proprietary credit system. Presumably, they have the ability to tweak the system (possibly though a separate agency under similar ownership that is able to report people with post-dated collections).

I imagine if someone is familiar enough with the law, they might find that some statutes about credit reporting are broad enough to apply to any credit system, and these people might find themselves under indictment if the right entities are alerted.

At a minimum, it's very fishy that a proprietary credit system is being used and people are finding that they just happen to have bogus entries in that system. It would be really interesting to know the total number of companies that use that system and to see the query and reporting history of each...
Bitcoin Becomes Legal Payment Option in Japan
3-5 years. Truck is probably there next or 2nd next model. Expect announcement after model 3delivery.
I've been burned by a major corporate rental before, and will never do that again. Moving in wasn't a problem, though the "Smart Saver" non-refundable deposit they offered should have been enough of a red flag. Once while on a week long company retreat they upgraded their payment system, which removed my payment information not only causing my rent to be late, but they then filed for eviction after only three days. That cost me easily half a month's rent in fees to clear up because of their own technical fuckup. The only notice for the upgrade, of course, was a flyer left hanging from my door which I found when I got home along with a notice on my door. When I moved out they claimed nearly a thousand dollars in cleaning fees, with line items like "trash bag (5), $75 each," which in itself would be bullshit had I not had the place cleaned. When I tried to dispute the charges, the ever so helpful rental agents told me to pay it in thirty days or it would go to collections.

These mega rental corporations just exist to nickel and dime the shit out of everyone and will throw their weight around. You'll just spend more on legal fees, and they bank on that.
Any company like this is going to scam you at move out time as well. One agent told me that nobody gets their full deposit back, ever. They'll make up a list of things they had to do and give you an inflated bill for it.
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Since politicians don't observe the consensus in a more rigorous science (climate), there's even less reason to think they'll observe it in economics.
> the code I write "should be understandable by a kid fresh out of high school"

tl;dr: "you're going to be replaced by a kid fresh out of high school so you might as well make it easier on us to do it"
Usually I'd agree with you, but I'm on the fence on this one.

For me, bad spelling and obviously bad grammar are like fingernails on a blackboard.

Like a learner's screeching violin to someone with perfect pitch.
Yeah, but

>To use your credit, simply purchase an eligible product from one of the following digital categories: Appstore, Kindle books, Digital Video, Digital Music, Digital Software, and Digital Video Games

No physical goods.
> We in Germany already have seen what happens when you let Nazis speak out and act in free, and the same goes for Stalinist ideologies

This is your major fallacy. You're trying to imply that the Holocaust was possible because Germany had free speech for all, which is completely wrong--it was possible because the Nazis were successful in denying free speech to their opponents.
How is that any different from VCs being board members of various startups and those same startups "magically" being acquired by the more successful one?

Why is it OK when VCs do it and not OK when a rank-and-file engineer does it? I think you too are focusing on the wrong things. The startup and VC ecosystem is all sorts of retarded. This case blowing up just gives you a small glimpse into the startup shell game.
I'm confused. How did you determine that the only possible place to look was the laundry? Did you know for sure what time the keys were lost?
The idea is that there are certain investments that give good returns. Governments can currently borrow at rates pretty close to 0%–even negative rates have popped up here and there. And you would actually have to subtract inflation from that as well.

So if some investment, say a new airport or funding for the National Science Foundation increases future growth even just slightly, it's perfectly fine to finance it with debt.
This mythology needs to rest. There has been little shareholder capitalism action in recent history when one would think it would be at its highest.

Let's just look at the financial crisis from 2008, all the fraud, mismanagement, downright criminality with serious consequences for the companies involved has seen little to no shareholder activism. No executives or CEOs have been held accountable for their behavior or called to action by shareholders inspite of taking huge hits on their holdings.

The agency problem, 'short termism' and extravagant compensation and golden parachutes has also seen little action from shareholder activism.

Yet when it comes to anti-social behavior in regard to customers, employees and wider society 'shareholder interests' is rolled out on cue as some 'central plank of capitalism' when it barely works. It's become self serving and meaningless.
I would love to see the look on their face if one of the people they had on the hook and about to sign somehow worked into the conversation that their uncle was State Attorney General, or a local District Attorney or something like that.
So, is there anything anywhere that tells us how this works and how it makes them call you?
If in the first election there's no-one worth voting for, stand at the next election.
I think this quote (from the first chapter of the "book") sums it up nicely:

> Category theory is extreme in the sense that it actively discourages us from looking inside the objects. An object in category theory is an abstract nebulous entity. All you can ever know about it is how it relates to other object — how it connects with them using arrows.

I think it's a great way to learn a different approach to solving math problems and, more importantly, computer science problems. When you start to think of objects not as what they are but what they can be, you get an extremely natural inclination towards immutability and, assuming your chosen language has a powerful type system, an awesome "free" mitigation against programming errors.

With category theory, you easily formulate your thoughts into function composition, and can more readily rely on the type system to validate your code. This is pretty much what you must do in Haskell, but it's useful in imperative languages as well. There's a reason functional paradigms are leaking into Java, C++, Python, etc: they're mighty useful.
How would we have industrialized without massive amounts of coal and oil-fueled power?

Sometimes there are stages you must go through in order to reach the other side (e.g. an excess energy future where we can afford to research and pump out solar panels).
> There could easily be an additional connectivity check that is http-based (that was blocked by the captive portal) before proceeding onto a standard TLS handshake.

Yes, I mentioned that in my comment.

> As 'klodolph mentions, there's a lot of layers of verification for software updates.

I realize that, but my point is that apps that mix HTTP and HTTPS connections have a tendency to provide strange and confusing feedback to the user in situations like this. Some operations work, some don't. Apple News for example will load text but no images on unauthorized captive networks like the one I was using. An app that I worked on had the same problem (API calls went over HTTPS, but CDN-served content did not), and it was always confusing to users when secure connections went through but non-secure did not (or vice-versa). From what I've seen, it's a much better experience and much easier for the user to understand if all connections are treated the same. Having a mixture can lead to confusing situations where some things fail and some don't, and it's very hard for a non-technical person to know why. It just seems broken to them.

For example: think about the experience I had. The device appeared to be online, even downloaded the system update just fine, but then suddenly the Settings app complained that I was not online, even though many network functions (such as email) were still working just fine. A natural response might be to say that captive networks are the problem, but I promise that non-technical users will not see it that way. They will not blame the network. They will blame the app. In their minds, they are either online or not, and if only certain things fail, those things must be the problem.

Captive networks suck, but they are a reality of the world we live in and are not going away. Writing apps such that they always treat connections in the same manner will be far more understandable for users in the long run.
Trump has officially ended federal online privacy rules
The weather forecast is pretty close–it's where chaos theory originated after all, and it's got "forecast" in its name.

And forecasts in that realm have improved tremendously over the last years.
Since there really is a property there, they would probably cleverly slip their application into the "approved" pile.
Major donors have better access to the media than me. I can't educate them if the major donors are spinning opinions. My HN post will reach a negligible proportion of the voters; their prime time ad will reach a huge number.
Why wasn't the flushing automated?

edit: I have worked on many RO systems and we always did auto flushing and I am not sure I ever saw anything other than that. It was pharma though.
>but not an excuse to throw stuff at prod and see what happens

The problem with production traffic is you will never be able to simulate it perfectly. At the end of the day you are required to flip a switch and test things out in the wild.