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Can we learn from other countries that achieve greater outcomes without fancy technologies, before introducing unproven fads like Instagram to the classroom?

US education is just depressingly terrible in so many ways. If I had a kid, I feel like sending him/her to public school would be borderline unethical.
Kapor Capital’s Immigrant Founders Are the Future of Tech
Those are far from perfect tactics. Unless the objective is to create a groupthink echo chamber where the mob defines what constitutes "truth".
> Do you want to have pets?

At least in the competitive housing markets of San Jose and Seattle this is not much of an issue as every apartment I've visited allows pets and most even have accommodations for them as perks. I suppose there are limits though so maybe if you wanted to have 4 dogs that might not be allowed
> they are not consumers, they are locusts

That's a bannable offense and we've banned this account.

All: if you can't post civilly, please don't post here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Equifax dump (again, if it's really as described) is literally 10x larger than OPM. It's true that the OPM data was "worse" by abstract ideas of personal privacy, but not that the breach is worse from the perspective of "will drive government action".

Again, if there are really 144M valid SSN/name/address tuples out there in the wild, then very soon banks will simply no longer be able to authenticate applications for new accounts. They'll be swamped with fraud (remember that by US law, credit card fraud is their liability, not the consumer's), and demand action by the government to fix it.

But like I said, "if".
Try hundreds of meters deep in seawater, all around the earth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines#...

Bandwidth is even worse though (<<1 baud), and don't start on antenna length.
The performance cost of native JavaScript modules
This is such a good representation of the data. Great Job.
Being the sole seller and negotiating "ruthlessly" leaves a lot of room for black market.
PA to lead the investigation https://twitter.com/PAAttorneyGen/status/906244506844110848
CityLab and Traditional Front End Development: A Love Story
Thanks, I must have pushed a little too lightly on the 5 key.
They're the only altcoin out there with a real company doing real work to solve a real problem for other real companies.
What type of evidence are you looking for? Constitutional rights are violated every day on a large scale basis by those who have sworn to uphold its principles
The 18F email is still the best place to go. I'm not on the login.gov team, but I can forward the link to them.
Just chiming in to say that I was able to freeze all three online yesterday. No calls needed!
Welcome to WWIII, now in progress. The Russians are kicking our teeth in: they managed to trick us into electing Donald Trump as President...
That many people don't go to prison, they get fines or community service or probation.
A power plant that don't have a scrubber is likely still less polluting that 10000 power plants that have to weigh 150kg and that have an equally low likelihood of having any environmentally friendly implements.
well ... that's kind of ... disturbing
Ah, here we go: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/01/smaller-dep...

"The average length of time for a single first-time buyer to save a 15% deposit in the fourth quarter of 2016 was a whole year longer than in the fourth quarter of 2015"

http://colresearch.typepad.com/colresearch/2017/03/trends-in...

It probably is doable, but at median incomes of £29k most people are barely keeping up with the rent in London and making zero savings.
It was the best I could find. My understanding is that here in CA, if your landlord does not refund your deposit (or properly itemize legitimate expenses against said deposit) you can sue in small claims court and recover 3x damages, up to the small claims court maximum of $7500.

That said, I've never tried it, so it's possible my understanding is wrong.
Salt Lake City, Utah. There's more than a million people in the metro area, so it's not that "less crowded". And it sits in a valley, and as it continues to grow, it's going to run out of land.

That's the bad part. The good part: You're 45 minutes away from world-class skiing. (There's a reason they call it "the greatest snow on earth".) Want a trout stream? Also 45 minutes away. Mountain biking? Same. Want the red-rock desert? Four or five hours away.

Want to get away from people? Leave town, in any direction. The next big city is Denver, over 400 miles away.

Las Vegas is 450 miles, Interstate the whole way. Call it 6 hours drive time, maybe 6 1/2. Too far? Wendover, Nevada is 90 minutes away (but that's a pretty dinky, depressing town, so it's only for someone with a serious urge to gamble).

There's a lot of tech here, and in the Orem/Provo area. Housing costs are reasonable (maybe $350K for 3800 square feet in a decent part of town). Drive times are reasonable - half an hour will get you pretty much anywhere, unless you do something like live at the very south end of the valley and work downtown.

It's a university town, with an educated population. There's a very good children's hospital. (The zoo's kind of dinky, though.)

Despite its reputation, yes, you can get a drink here. There are some pretty good (even award-winning) brewpubs.

The religious aspects sometimes drive me nuts. The air pollution can be moderately bad at times (not bad by LA standards, and not even as bad as it was in the 70s, but still worse than I like). And it's not really uncrowded, at least by my standards. (A million people is a million people, no way around it. But it's like 2 million for the whole state, and it's a pretty big state.) There's some crime downtown, and the homeless can be problematic, but it's nothing like SF or LA. All in all, it's a pretty nice place to live.
Yes, it does seem like we should wait for more confirmation of a story like this. On HN there's no harm in doing so.

> EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes!

Please don't do that—the site guidelines ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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You clearly don't know what it's like to live on minimum wage right now. It's extremely difficult to live anywhere even close to the Bay area on minimum wage, which let's be real, a call center employee would be on. Public transportation options get figured in there too. I'm very fortunate to have a good job now, but it wasn't all that long ago I was scraping by on near minimum wage.
For anyone that hasn't been following them over the last year or so, they've made amazing inroads into the banking industry.
Kindly don't shoot the messenger(i.e. me) but pipenv does the work of pip + virtualenv + requirements.txt so packaging tool seems like a good name for it. Virtual environments aren't a lot of fun without local packages and reproducibility I assume.
Copperheads are also not particularly dangerous, to the point where antivenom is usually not administered, as the risk of a negative immune reaction is worse than leaving it untreated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_contortrix#Venom
So, whats the incentive to keep these maintained?

If it's anything like the USA they'll all be vandalized or worn out in a few years, and no one will spend any money to fix 'em because they don't make anyone any money.
Rent is NOT throwing money away, it is HIGHLY dependent on where you're living. There are MANY sunk one-time costs you have to pay when buying a home, including:

--realtor commission (averages 6% of home price, or approximately 1.5 years of 30 year mortgage payments)

--title fees (frequently 1% of purchase price)

--other legal and bank fees

The NYT has a buy vs rent calculator that helps make decisions like these:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
Wasn't it Germany that had the electronic voting machines compromised?
Of course I'm talking about the first amendment, the only protection of free speech that exists in the USA. Any time someone brings up free speech and it's involving non-government entitites is just kidding themselves that they believe they have a "right" to express their views however they want.
Coming South Park game is harder for black characters
I remember really loving Oreilly's "Head First" series of intro web programming books [0]. The way they laid things out
in a relatable fashion really stuck with me as a beginner programmer. There's definitely a lot to be said for losing the ego and "dumbing" things down to easily digested formats so long as it's being done by an expert.

https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-JavaScript-Programming-Bra... [0]
That isn't the only thing that needs to be done. We need to make a new SSN system that is based on Public Key Crypto.
Make 2 keys, one fully private stored offline completely by the government, one for us that we then use to create multiple hashes based on what we are doing. 1 for taxes, 1 for loans, 1 for SSN info, 1 for voting (so we can sign for our online voting), 1 for proof of work, etc. then when someone steals our info we can axe a key for that form, and create a new one. the primary key that we hold can't be changed without our knowledge, but in the case that our info is breached, and we lose either of the keys we then go to a government office and verify fully (with a few keys that had already been used and then get a new one. In the case of a bank breach though, we could just kill the existing one and change it at a local branch or online if we trusted that.
> There is mo way to even estimate the damage as some devious ways of it harming us may not even exist yet.

Scifi story idea:

Far future. Life extension possible. The government will provide it free (if you want it) - one time only though - when you are near the end of your first life. Upon extension, this technology also turns the clock back to renew you to 20 years old.

You're 78 years old, frail, ready to kick it, but decide to do the extension. You go into the clinic. Give them your information, etc.

Bzzt.

We're sorry, you've already been rejuvenated before. We can't help you, unless you want to pay $$$$$$ for us to go ahead with the procedure.

lolwhut

yep.
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It is important that the LCBO not be the only source. It needs to be opened up from the get-go and not have to follow the mini-step half measures that we have to go through to get alcohol in grocery stores. The sourcing of alcohol is still controlled by the province. It is a govt sponsored racket and monopoly.
It is ironic that if westerners restricted themselves to just knowing about china through Chinese media, they would have a worse impression of china than if they only consumed "biased" western media.
All the superchargers I've seen have been really well maintained(in fact Centralia just got a whole new batch) but I agree that the other networks can be a bit spotty at times.
Sounds like we treat alcohol differently. I don't drink to get drunk. If I want to try a new whisky or wine I'd like to be able to get some feedback on it, not an eye roll from a college-aged kid whose only insight is saying, "This one's probably better because it costs more".
But sadly no streaming yet
Tools to test my code before commit in a Kubernetes based micro services app
Hi all, I was hoping i could get some pointers WRT testing my code and getting it to work before i commit it and run through the cycles of integration testing... The code i'm working on is part of a bigger project, x0 containers, some are Java based (memory consumption can be high); So I can unit-test my code, fine but it's a bit out-of-context testing that i'm running. Yet running the entire application may be too long and require a lot of resources for me (others) to run it frequently enough to test every code change... I tried to "minimize the app a bit and tired to use Minikube (it's great!) but it does not scale high enough for the tests i need to run. What's the alternative if more than one node is needed for testing + the load is greater than a single VM on a laptop??
Really interested in learning my options here..
Thanks all!
Looks great. I would buy it.
I kinda disagree. A small language is one thing, but to "learn a language," (to be productive) you need to know the ecosystem, idioms, libraries, etc. A lot of people say design patterns are language smell--deficiencies in the language. For example, the Group of Four's book was for C++ at the time it was written. True or not, my point is that it's a part of being productive in that language and part of "learning" it. K&R and nice and short, but I've heard it argued that it doesn't teach the best (modern) C practices.

C was probably the first language I learned, but I wouldn't say I "know" it. I still have no idea which calls are safe or preferred or how to structure a larger program.

It depends what you want to get out of it. If you want to learn for its historical value, to learn more about the language that a majority of other languages adopted ideas from, K&R is probably good enough. If you want to grok a bit of random C code, that might be good enough, too, but you'll probably need a bit more. If you want to contribute to the Linux Kernel or similar project, or even put C on your resume, that's definitely not enough.
>pursue your own individual case with the lawyer(s) of your choosing

Fewer people than most realize are actually able to do this. Good lawyers don't generally take contingency cases, and if the case is even remotely involved, fees quickly reach to six figures.

Perhaps worse is the stress. Once initiated, you have virtually no control over the process, and it can take over your life. The motions and counter-motions, delays and hearings will wear you down. If the adversary is much better-funded, then they can make it nearly unbearable.

The legal system is not what most people imagine, especially those who flippantly threaten to sue. You have to go through an action (or be close to someone who is) to really get that. Engaging is stressful and costly and, unless you're a combative type with deep pockets who just loves to fight, you'll likely feel like you lost, no matter the outcome.

This, as much as anything, is why class actions are so prevalent.
> Spacecraft operations: May experience surface charging and tracking problems, corrections may be needed for orientation problems.

What causes the tracking and orientation problems? Are they being pushed, or do satellites control their orbit?
Fantastic storytelling! Great job.

@sndean I also have to wonder how many years home ownership is taking off my life expectancy, due to the stress of trying to maintain the house and associated payments!?!
You can't stop breaches, but there are minimum things you can do that help.

1. Collect the minimum amount of information you actually need

2. Hash and salt the data you store

3. Tell the people the truth about what happened to their data within a reasonable time

These are all things that can potentially be enforced.
Apologists please STFU you're making me sick.

Everyone else, call your representative.

You know how people say, "Pictures or it didn't happen?"

Call your representatives and tell them what you think, or it might as well have never happened.
> I wouldn't be surprised if they were required, by the government, to use them, precisely because it is the closest thing to an official "unique identifier".

I read something somewhere else (maybe on a different HN thread, maybe here?) that this was changed in 2000 for something called "red flag laws", IIRC.

So yeah - it is required.
If you wipe out the investors, they will start demanding security before investing in a company. And, if you wipe out the stock, you also wipe out big chunks of the compensation of the CEO, CFO, CTO, etc.

Until this starts hitting important people in the wallet, nothing will change.
Also: "people who use this kind of language to insist that the only way to achieve this is through the state are just looking for excuses to be mean to people who don't trust the state" deserves an eye roll so hard.

You can roll your eyes all you want, but there are valid historical reasons for being concerned about the extent and disposition of the data that a government collects on its citizens or subjects.

Corporations didn't intentionally kill 100 million of their own customers in the last century alone. It took governments to do that.
Here are the steps for restore (although they can be terse)

1. Install Backup and Sync on new computer

2. Add an empty folder "Temp" to backup

3. Let the folder be backed up so that a Computers > My New Computer > TEMP is created on the cloud.

4. Go to cloud and move the top level folders in Computers > My Old Computer > Documents/Downloads/etc into Computers > My New Computer

5. Create empty folders with the same name on the new computer.

6. Add them each in the Preferences. In version 3.36+, the application will recognize that it exists in the cloud. It will then tell the user it will merge the folders.

7. Uncheck the TEMP folder you added

8. Click Apply

All your content will be downloaded.
> Now seems like the time to set the expectation that this service may not ever be used by private websites.

Wha-huh? Why? What specifically is wrong with login.gov (or any government agency) running an oauth server and private websites allowing users to authenticate with it? How does that result in "a major new point of U.S. government control over the Internet"?
There is incredible mark-up in alcohol prices - there is little to no benefit of their bulk purchasing to be seen. The taxes are pretty high.
"1 million kilowatt hours of power per day" cringe, *energy. Or 1 million kilowatt hours per day of power, but that's a mess. Just state the power in watts jesus
It's communism
> This is worse than a useless comment.

Oh no, please don't attack others like this in comments here. Even if you clearly mean well (which I'd say is the case here), it can only cause harm.

geocar's comments are consistently excellent (including for explaining the niceties of kdb and array languages to the community) and having fewer of them would make this place worse. Not everything needs to be spelled out, and besides, sometimes there just isn't time to do so. It can be a lot more work!
Reasonable acquisition to expand the Volvo Concierge [0] services. The digital services are likely the strongest selling point in a few years when luxuary car makers all offers self driving, electric powered cars.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKDy7k5hHE
This is a US Digital Service project for 18F. Probably the best engineers in the world working on it.
Actually, auto exhausts in first tier cities that implement stricter emissions standards and disallow selling low quality gasoline are not that bad. The problem are the blue trucks that come in from the provinces at night that don't have good emissions equipment and are running on crappy gas. You could actually see the air quality get WORSE in Beijing after 11 pm, when few personal cars are on the road but the Hebei trucks start coming in.
The point is that SSNs are perfectly good for what they were designed for. The problem arose when companies decided to treat a username as a password but weren't forced to absorb the cost of their negligence.
Essentially, this is about creating alternative training data to "seed" a recommender engine - if the engine has no previous data about a video series, what other data (cover art) can be used to recommend a given viewer to watch or not watch?

Is a recommender a type of Machine Learning?
Ask HN: How much money can actually be taken out of cryptocurrency?
All these hundred million dollar USD ICO's have me wondering, how much money can actually be taken out of the cryptocurrency ecosystem right now? Say I owned USD$1,000,000,000 worth of BTC - how much of it could I actually sell for fiat in, say, the next quarter? Is there any way to get even a rough estimate of this number?
Thanks for chiming in. I feel I would have done the same, become obsessed with the price every day. Not worth it in the end.

Seems the only reasonable way to do it is with 'fuck money', pardon the term. You know, money you happened to have forgotten about or came about that you didn't budget for.
When you get a chance, try out Hatch and its `use` command i.e. `hatch use myenv pip install ...`

https://github.com/ofek/hatch/blob/master/COMMANDS.rst#use
One "enters the field" of the arts, classics, history, law, medicine, and computer science often as children. The difference in paths taken is this: when one enters the arts or literature or history, there is a good chance one will have to leave it at some point. Many lawyers are former "writers" who while in law school get inspired by a great constitutional law professor or who while in the early days of their profession get inspired by a colleague who becomes a mentor and helps them form a new identity as writer who is also really really into law...and as I said, many doctors I know were former artists and musicians who bring that same drive toward innovation they learned in the arts to medicine. Most of those people encounter a great mentor while in their residency who helps them find a new inspiration. But a great teacher can be the content itself, or an innovator one learns about. Then, they are on that path to excellence, and even more so than someone who just did medicine the whole time. They have a depth and breadth that other doctors lack, which is why med schools have started to include literature courses these days. (i'll look for a good link on this) My point is, no one is studying actual Dijkstra in a bootcamp and he doesn't work in one either. There may be possible future Dijkstras or the like attending the bootcamp, but they often feel like they jumped into the intellectual equivalent of a quick Happy Meal when they really wanted a quick plate of gorgeous figs. Still quick, but somehow more inspiring...more nutritious.

Computer scientists often begin as children (like the others) but never have to leave their field because after all the gaming and taking stuff apart and building, they go on to be computer scientists who have excellent money making prospects when compared to literature majors.
Well the only way to drive down price is to either increase supply or decrease demand. So make cities shitier and denser.

Is this a case where a small increase in supply would decrease the price significantly? I doubt it.

So, is there some reason we (as a nation) need to double population density of our largest cities? With the huge advances we are likely to see in autonomous zero-emission delivery infrastructure and remote communication over the next 20 years, not to mention the increasing likelihood of natural disasters and WMDs hitting these cities, I really don't see the point of pushing for so much urban growth.
> should be just as accountable for their actions as any political organization must be

They are. Vote with your... profile?

In the same way that your vote gives the president power, your consumption of services gives those providers power.
They build renewables out west yet don't have the grid yet to move any of that power to the east where it would be used. So the rate of renewable production is still far higher than renewable consumption.

They will probably fix that eventually, but it just goes to show about the weirdness of rapid growth.

Also, china will never have the renewable capacity of Norway, which gets almost all of its electricity from hydro.
I live on a farm about 35 miles south of Minneapolis, MN USA.

I wouldn't pitch it :-)
Hackers who broke into Equifax exploited a flaw in open-source server software
Ooo, touched a nerve there I think?

What's the square-root of two?