skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The situation in Orange County isn't comparable to Puerto Rico. OC bought derivatives for leverage and wiped out their pension fund. Unlike PR, OC is generally well managed and has a vibrant private sector economy. The courts also forced OC to repay most of the defaulted money.
You could write a project-finding app using JS and Ruby/Elixir/JS for the backend

I'm thinking of scraping GitHub, Bitbucket, HackerOne, etc for metrics that correspond to projects that a) need help and b) need the kind of help you'd want to give.

This is the problem you're staring at right now, so you're already interested in solving it.
Depends entirely on when they plan to retire and life expectancy.

Yields went negative during the crisis and with 10 years since, have only returned to 75 to 100 bps while real interest rates still lie below 0%. 4% withdrawal rate with zero earnings/dividend/asset appreciation isn't very sustainable even with "a couple million" depending upon where they live and how big of a cushion they want.

Also - let's not forget that during a crisis, there can be a run on the bank which could lead to liquidity crisis where a bank might have it's position unwound in unfavorable terms where not everyone gets back what they put in. Even FDIC only insures 250k per account per bank, AFAIK.
I was watching the hearing during lunch, had to attend to work meetings, and then saw this article which is what spurred me to post my open letter to Congress tonight and share it here on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14261423. We have to get this information out there in a format that Congress and our non-techie friends and family understand.
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Not to mention that there's tons of techy jobs in Austin, bunches in Dallas, and plenty in Houston.

And all of these cities are downright cheap compared to pretty much anywhere on either of the coasts.
Dumb move by Qualcomm. They just put a bullet thru the head of any remaining modem business they had with Apple.

But maybe it had already reached that point? Qualcomm might already have lost all further modem design wins with Apple? So now they have nothing to lose by shifting to the ITC to battle exclusively on the patent front?
Which states are at risk of default?
> Second is that actually thiefs are not picking locks but smashing doors or opening them with crowbar.

I think people have an implicit threat-model that their home/business would be robbed by a cat burglar, rather than a robber. Because, if they, as a regular person, wanted to steal stuff, cat burglary is what they'd do, because it makes it a lot easier to get away with.

People don't realize, of course, that thieves are usually people rather desperately in need of money—people who need a short-term solution to an urgent problem—and so not only don't care as much about the long-term risk of their actions, but really don't have time to "case the joint" or come up with a stealthy solution.
Adding HTTPS plausibly adds a single low-cardinality signal but it removes a ton of other ones for network-level observers. When it comes to hostile site owners, realistically you're screwed but from a privacy perspective it's a question of whether you're one of the small percentage of users who have a) failed to install updates and b) disabled JavaScript.

That's a pretty small percentage of users for whom HTTPS isn't an across-the-board win for privacy.
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It seems entirely reasonable for someone to create a MicroPython wrapper generator. It appears to have a C/C++ API so it should be similar to the existing CPython Generator and Runtime.
"maybe-not-intentional-but-pretty-much-everywhere-nonetheless discrimination" is so vague it can be immediately dismissed.

If you're talking about culture or traditional gender roles, then I put forward that these are not primarily a result of discrimination but mostly evolved over quite a long time based on biological differences.

If we are going to deconstruct aspects of culture because we consider them unjust, we'd better be honest about why things are and what we might lose if we try to force certain outcomes.

A recent examination of a Scandinavian country purported to be globally the least discriminatory (Denmark or Norway - I don't recall which) of gender distributions in different fields showed increased unevenness.

In other words, given the agency by their culture, women tend to avoid STEM fields.

I think it's fair to say that everyone should be given the opportunities and challenges they can rise to, but no one should be coerced into any role for the sake of an asinine idea like "gender representation".
As I just put it in my open letter: "Let me be clear. This distinction that the Director makes has no basis in fact or science. Any imaginable key escrow system that would by design provide routine access to encrypted data is a backdoor that will be able to be hacked. Any such system of so called lawful intercept is an unfixable, mandated security vulnerability that will make Americans less safe both at home and abroad." (https://rietta.com/blog/2017/05/03/americans-access-to-stron...)
Even assuming your conservative adoption/relevance curve of the technology itself, I don't think we need too many more incremental steps before society has to stand up and take notice of an unemployment problem that can't keep up. AI / automation might not turn our day to day lives into the Jetsons in 5 years, but if it gives us 25%+ real unemployment we're still going to be in for a ride.
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I'm not sure; I never got that involved in it. Back when I was involved, there were some communities entirely centered around taking apart individual games and figuring out how to tinker with them. Things like loading up the unused tracks in Mario Kart and changing the colours etc. to make "custom" courses.

Here's one of the main pages I used as a reference at the time: http://doc.kodewerx.org/hacking_nds.html Even without ASM, you could still write to arbitrary memory addresses, jump around with conditionals, patch, copy memory, and all sorts of things. The linked page also touches on the basics of ARM/THUMB ASM tinkering. I seem to have lost my notes, so this is all I can get you :(
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Remote might be your issue.
Most of that is probably due to Swift's runtime library.
There is also a joy and inherent value to real craftsmanship that transcends shallow desires for ostentation.
That's exactly what I do: I buy the physical media and since this doesn't limit my rights in how do I store the music contained inside, I just rip it off that physical media and keep it safely on my machine. That way I also give all the corporations the finger and I am hopeful that even if several tens of thousands of other people do the same, they'll notice a lack of growth at least and reconsider.

I don't seriously believe the corps would actually change their ways to benefit the customer -- but this is my rebellion against their business model and it's an exercise of the small power I have.

Plus I don't break the law. I simply actively don't feed them money in their scheme which I feel are very unethical and greedy.
> I think it's mostly a matter of training and historical accident that security is even a separate discipline.

Puts me in mind of the sort of systems you create working with the military: every line of code not only has to do its job, but has to be hardened against both electronic warfare (e.g. memory corruption from radiation from a maser) and cyberwarfare. It really does feel all of a piece when you get into that mindset.
This sounds good in theory because it correlates with trends in the IT industry. Centralized compute/storage/app delivery on an IaaS but in the real world, with our actual physical stuff instead of data. In practice I'd wager that this lifestyle of moving constantly and having robots move your stuff around for you would be prohibitively expensive. Also, who wants to containerize their life? How could this ever be sustainable for someone with kids.

I think we should be less focused on autonomous driving, and more focused on reforming our tax code, infrastructure spend (too little), and healthcare spend (too much).
Do you mean the politicians or the people who would vote for Democrats?
Probably some sort of live reload functionality for development
Yup I learned it there. It's there for the basics of CS like learning recursion they don't really mention if it is functional tbh.
Sovereign states eponymously don't need bankruptcy protection, as banks cannot collect from them.

Countries pay back loans because they like to keep a good reputation for future loans, but this does not work in a situation where there is nothing to lose since you can't service loans anyway.

(Of course banks can enlist other states to do strong-arming: See eg Greece who were pressured to accept a deal worse than default to benefit foreign EU banks)
That file is a document filed by Waymo. We should expect that the Waymo attorneys present their case in a manner that makes it appear that Uber and Levandowski are liable with 100% certainty.

The expert witness report is much less cut and dry: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3515476-Declaration-...

I don't think the expert witness report necessarily demonstrates Levandowski intended to steal the Google/Waymo project files. The Goobuntu distro was installed, which necessitates a reformat from NTFS to ext4 or whatever filesystem it uses.

It sure as hell looks like Levandowski meant to steal the files, especially with his copious 5th Amendment testimony refusals, but it's possible he didn't.
The issue here isn't that you are claiming that Medicaid is means tested (it is), the issue is that you are mixing up the rules for one group of people with the rules for another.

It's a fine thing if you want to argue that Medicaid should more generously protect the assets of the elderly, go ahead. Just don't make shit up out of whole cloth about how a young mother is going into debt to the government when she and her child have bills paid through Medicaid. That's just flat out not true. Maybe ask your doctor wife about that.

I do understand that Medicare doesn't do much for long term care. But long term care isn't a big source of the million dollar medical events you are ranting about, absent the need for further medical care, it generates a reasonably predictable monthly bill.
I dunno man, I think Uber is just in the HN wheelhouse and has been stealing our focus lately. Wells Fargo illegally signed people up for countless credit lines they didn't ask for. HSBC got a slap on the wrist for laundering billions in drug money. People in power routinely break the rules and there's basically no penalty.
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Had a taste of both Miranda and Prolog in my college programming languages course (2000?). Miranda made it much easier for me to reason about C++ templates a few years later when C++ compilers finally started getting better.
Sorry, should've made it clear that I was making a separate point - that it doesn't matter either way when someone else can make a decision and limit follow up. It's long been a frustration for many with Google services.
At one place I worked, our commercial (wordpress) site got hacked and defaced by some Turkish outfit. The devs at our company reverted the site, and were joking about the hackers just being script kiddies. They didn't seem to understand my point of "... but we were hacked by those script kiddies, why are we laughing?"
Very cool! Business (vs. what I call place) is interesting, indeed. I'm working in local media with 150+ year content archives so for this ask I'm more interested in telling the story about a location on earth then the business that currently occupies it. Businesses come and go (or move around) but looking at a single place on earth can be quite the storytelling opportunity too!
For the Spanish speakers of HNs, NPR's Radio Ambulante has an excellent episode (called "deuda") that they did last year explaining the complexity of the situation.

The short version is that a lot of the debt is held by the people of PR themselves in form of bonds that were sold when the economy was good.

The reason it was artificially good is that for a long period it had great US tax benefits when compared with other US territories/states. During that time several corporstions (particularly pharma) had factories and jobs there. During that time there was a boom in bond sales - a lot of predatory practices that are reminiscent of the US housing bubble were done there, too. Once the tax loophole was closed, corporations left the island, jobs went to shit, the bonds could not be repaid, and all well, you get the picture. Except that in this case, "not paying debt", literally means not paying a huge chunk of all the life savings that people poured (arguably even patriotically) to their own bond system (see the parallels to the housing crisis?).

You could technically boost the enconomy there by reintroducing similar tax loopholes, but it would be a temporary fix, and there would be significant struggles in the Senate and Congress... Taxation without representation sucks big time...

Link to podcast:https://16683.mc.tritondigital.com/NPR_510315/media-session/...
In the expert witness testimony, they just pulled it from the laptop's hard drive. I'm guessing just some run-of-the-mill file carving software.

Google Drive logs file downloads, so that's how they got those records.

Plenty of enterprises have certificate-based access to their employee network, none of this seems particularly creepy on Google's part.

Testimony: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3515476-Declaration-...
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I'm going to have to go back to listen to the entirety of the Senate hearing at some point. With so much talk about Russia hacking and influence and then they flip the switch and want backdoors into encryption even though any mandated tool the government demands for so called lawful intercept can be hacked by or ordered by the judges in Russia! There is a strange disconnect and I think it hurts us that the public discourse is security vs privacy rather than being about the personal security off all citizens.
Whether we are looking at 1.5C vs 8C is absolutely enormous in terms of what policies we should be looking to enact. Everything in this discussion is shrouded in a cloud of uncertainty due to the complexity of weather, and the thousands of negative and positive feedback loops which can take thousands of years to stabilize.

Popular science articles misrepresent the science and ignore the variance/complexity, in the end hurting the cause in the eyes of those who don't agree with the prescribed policies to address it.
The problem is the the holders of the bonds are largely the people of PR themselves...
That was my question. The US is one of two countries where US citizens are required to file taxes even if they're not living in the country (the other is Eritrea).
> OC is generally well managed

Lol, it looks like the bankrupts are allowed to write HN comments from bankruptcy court.
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Sourcegraph CEO here. There are indeed some glitches in syntax highlighting, on other languages as well. I hope it doesn't significantly detract from the product value, but I understand it is not good.

Here's why it's happening:

We're using TextMate syntax bundles, which require the Oniguruma regexp engine, which only has partial pure-JavaScript implementations that can run in the browser. We use https://github.com/bcoe/onigurumajs, which is great. We think something in this stack is producing different results than using C-based Oniguruma, and we'll work on it.

The good news is that we'll open-source whatever improvements we do make, so other folks building web-based syntax highlighting components will benefit.
I apologize if I came off as hostile. I don't feel hostile. In any case, I think it's fine to ask folks for clarification. But I think it's rude to assert: "What you're trying to say is..."

Also, even if Vanadium flow batteries achieve commercial success and drop energy storage costs down to 5 cents a kWh, that's still above wholesale electricity prices of 2-4 cents a kWh:

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/wholesale_mar...

Lastly, the EAI disagrees with your assertion that solar will be local (which I interpret to mean rooftop). It forecasts lower costs and higher volumes for utility-scale installations, which benefit from greater economies of scale.
To craftsmanship, yes. To goods made by that craftsperson? Aren't they only ever a proxy for human skill and achievement? (beyond some basic level of usefulness)

A skilled stonemason these days might find him or herself doing quite a lot of work for the wealthy, creating buildings that have traditional-style features but are not good or authentic architecture. That doesn't demean the craftsmanship involved (thankfully), and keeps the skills alive, but the end product is more or less waste.
Thanks! Eek! An XML interface definition. In 2017!
As a sovereign I demand my privacy!
Nooooooooooo! Don't choose my favorite Taco spot as your sample query. The line is already too long.
Have you guys experimented with LeapMotion?
What percentage of the debt is held by private individuals and what percentage is bets by traders?
I would caution that the poster has maybe never raised over $5-10MM. This is a very early stage mentality and does not jive with investors as partners, certainly, there is truth in it, but it's not the crux.
Yes, I agree, although revoking the scope should remove the access (and I assume Google did that for everyone already).
Did they ever solve the privacy issues with browser client certificates?
>There is no reason why you shouldn't be running various security scanning tools against your application during testing/pre-production, such as web application scanners

Likely one reason is cost. When each individual tool costs 10k+ with the vendors trying to throw in consulting, it adds up.
You can go to the museum to see that. If you need to own it, though, it's cuz you're doing it to advertise your wealth.
mobile is a huge deal for me. continuity is very important for my toolset. i also do over 50% of casual code reading mobile. mobile is also where i have the biggest issue that you solve. on desktop, i don't really need your product, on mobile i desperately do.
There are ways to monetize in a respectful way - for example, by making new games in the universe that your previous "platform" made so popular. You don't have to nickle & dime all the time to make a buck.
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These are usually the same people. Pension funds hold bonds.
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Because they vote for their party, and california is a blue party state.
> But people love to put all the blame on the banks, and none on themselves for not being prudent.

Yes, I blame the supposed experts, not the folks they suckered.
I have a handful of rather nice images, photos taken of the Moon, rainbows, or crepuscular rays. As I said, they're rather nice, but as you suggest, I really wish I had my Nikon on me at the time. They wouldn't just be "rather nice," they could be incredible.
Yes, but that is a normal economic utility rather than the type that attaches to a Veblen good.

I had a roommate years ago who made a living selling knockoffs of expensive handbags, but who would occasionally get busted and have his merchandise confiscated. (I personally think it should be legal to sell fakes but that's another story.) Anyway he switched to buy non-branded handbags, of really excellent quality, arguably as good or better than the fashionable ones. His business went well, as far as I know, but he had to sell more units to overcome the branding 'deficiency'.
Thomas’s dissent is not about whether as a policy matter, someone should receive their money back. I suspect everyone thinks the Petitioners’ should get refunds. Rather, it’s about whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that right.

In his view, based on previous precedent, it does not. As a matter of previous precedent, the majorities approach is somewhat legally strained based on the Due Process Clause. But as a matter of policy, the majority's decision seems correct.
You can load balance your app for 3.5k $ on additional server. By reducing load, time spend in GC will be less. Additionality by having more hardware you can use more aggressive strategy[0].

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Are there any other industries where AI is expected to be big?

I'm pretty bearish on self-driving cars.
The compelling speech argument would not have held up in court. Apple was putting on a show because they had already advertised to customers that they wouldn't unlock phones for law enforcement.
As much as I want to see an immoral company to crash and burn, the presented evidences so far have been circumstantial. There is a lack of direct evidences that Uber was stealing IP, as opposed to Levandowski.
I wrote a similar letter: https://medium.com/@flukes1/my-letter-to-amber-rudd-on-encry...
The more likely outcome would be to nonsensically ban open-source implementations and instead give a monopoly to a small list of "governmentally approved security companies." These companies in turn would be required to produce massive volumes of paper report to "manage the risk and prove that their software is secure."
Sure, priced like a contemporary drug, the price of a life extender would infinite.

But then again, priced like a contemporary drug, the price of air or water would be infinite too. Fortunately, we have much of this around, so far, for nearly nothing (air more than water, so far again).

What about the Hep C drug makes it expensive? The research? The production process? The patents racket? If you knew the recipe could you make it in your basement with some ingredient of modest cost? Of expensive cost?
To sell you need the car to be a better driver than the customer thinks they are which is a higher bar since most drivers think they are better than average.
> they are processed on our server

So, they are sent to at least three different entities: your ISP, your hosting provider and you.
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The FBI director is a fool playing politics under the scrutiny of multitudes upon multitudes, but thinks he only performs for his benefactors in private
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Also they seem to have pivoted to business management system
Original purpose was to flush out illegal immigrants. Benefit distribution came later.