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> Activation Lock (or whatever the equivalent is for Android, about which I am ignorant).

That's a different argument. One technology by one company, or the existence of a remote kill switch?

Android's ADM gained that ability in October 2013.

> The bill (not law) you reference was first referred to the House five months later, but as far as I can tell was never passed in the Senate.

Some states have implemented it, however [0], and the bill is still going back and forth federally. [1] THe upshot being phones manufactured in California have required a remote kill switch since 2013.

The mere existence of that law should cast doubt on the claim:

> Activation lock caused something like a sustained 50% drop in phone thefts the year it was implemented.

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5834
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You should clarify you mean games. Nvidia has the gpgpu market to themselves on Linux, and nobody cares if the driver is open source in that area.
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Take away the iPhone and Apple is a failing computer manufacturer. Take away Windows and Microsoft is a mediocre console maker and makes Office. So?
Isn't there an automated one of these?
The first thing on the page is a php warning, but please tell me how to operate in a browser based world.
Speaking of the SF Bay Area, we are subdivided into small interconnected towns who have the incentive to underbuild housing (https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/). It is ironic to tell service workers that, in the name of democracy, they can’t vote for the councils who decide the zoning in any of the cities where they spend their economic lives because they happen to live across a town border. It’s more appropriate, and more democratic, to make land-use capacity planning at the regional level where more members of the economy can vote. (https://pedestrianobservations.com/2016/06/18/a-theory-of-zo...)
A proud recipient of the rejection email here! Is there a YC Alumni Association of Rejects? Let's make one if not LOL!
This was my experience as well. I knew and admired schools like Berkeley as the home of Berkeley UNIX, but didn't recognize that the people who went there were considered the upper crust or that colleges were widely categorized into tiers until later on. As none of my family had gone to college, the goal simply seemed to be to get into a "4 year school".

I can appreciate now that these schools offer stellar educational opportunity in contrast with many others. It's just that this should still be seen in the context that a person attends for a brief time when they're young and that perhaps it's not the be-all and end-all of intellectual ability that cultural attitudes (especially seemingly here in New England) might suggest.
I'm fond of this old RAND report from Dreyfus, which is worth skimming if you're mathematically inclined: Dynamic Programming and the Calculus of Variations, https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reports/2006/R441...

One important takeaway is that dynamic programming in the Bellman formulation is a discrete analogue of Hamilton-Jacobi theory in how it writes down an equation for the optimal value as a function of a given endpoint rather than writing down an equation for the path as with the Euler-Lagrange equations. (You can reconstruct the path from the value function after the fact by gradient descent.) The relationship between Hamilton-Jacobi and Euler-Lagrange is the classical version of wave-particle duality. A concrete example in geometrical optics is the eikonal equation, a Hamilton-Jacobi type PDE, versus the geodesic equation, an Euler-Lagrange type ODE. Not coincidentally, one common numerical method for the eikonal equation called the fast marching method is a dynamic programming algorithm, very similar to Dijkstra's algorithm for shortest paths.

It should be mentioned that any "local" equation like a PDE or ODE cannot describe a globally optimal solution without strong assumptions such as convexity. In fact, satisfying the Euler-Lagrange equation isn't even sufficient for local optimality without further qualifications (Weierstrass conditions). But the Bellman dynamic programming equation, being recursive, can describe globally optimal solutions.
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They can hold you in contempt for not providing decryption keys. That would suck if you legitimately forgot your password..
It however has the unintended consequences of making housing unaffordable for their CHILDREN when they grow up and have their own families.

But I don't think many house owners stop and think about that when trying to avoid that property tax.
Like they say in the article it looks like Equifax was only stopping clients from joining a class action against TrustedID. It also doesn't say anything about people suing individually. I suppose we can expect to see every company now put this into their terms and conditions, which is certainly a step back in consumer rights.
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Yes, I mean games. In GPGPU market AMD is popular as well though. Miners buy Vega GPUs like hot cakes, it even creates a shortage. Also, CUDA lock-in will be undermined by Vulkan becoming the new common basis for compute. And AMD hardware is better for it and has more raw power, there is no question about it.
(not OP) I run OpenSuse 42.3 and it works flawlessly.
It is indeed out of the "lab" now and a standard part of the settings page.
"Have you ever spent more than 1 second wondering"

They should add:

- Run a static file server but huh, I don't have a full blown web server and/or php installed on my work station.

Seriously, I think syncthing provides a rather good solution for this problem. You have to install it on every machine though.
That is what I thought.
Demo of Improv on NeXT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbsfvdZXE7s
This screams fraud. Banks in China offer a product which claims a guaranteed rate of return, yet the deposits are invested in securities, loans, other risky investments.
So I guess its like a bond - I only read the first paragraph but would love this explained.
I was rejected 4 times over the years before getting in. We ended up being among the top in our batch after just being around for 2.5 years (this is my 4th company)
"Bias" measures deviance from a parameter. Without agreement on the population being measured and the parameter in question, the term--and quibbling over it--is meaningless. You are defining the population as something close to "people who possess the relevant skills," i.e. the pipeline. Others are using "people who possess the relevant skills but aren't in the pipeline" or "people who could possess the relevant skills if factors out of their control were accounted for". Others, still, disagree with how you're measuring "possess the relevant skills". This is all reasonable disagreement.
Problem is the problem is not limited to "San Francisco, or Malibu, or Los Gatos".

When Google/Facebook moved into Santa Monica and Playa Vista, house prices in near by cities shot up like 100% to 150% in about 4 - 5 years.
Which reminds me of the disturbing case of Chritopher Paul Neil.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Neil
Well, yes, but that's not the point being made: the stock market aggressively prices in expectations ahead of time to avoid losing money. The reason the stock goes down is because the gain is already priced in!
I'm seeing a pattern of a lack of humility that bites him over and over again.
As an example just in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Famine_deat..., due to economic mismanagement. I'd be interested to see any sources showing a similar number of deaths under a capitalist government, which I suspect would be hard as capitalist governments by definition don't exercise complete centralised control over the country's economic production.
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Shouldn't a $1000 phone be waterproof?
Pure speculation ahead:

Suppose for a moment that the Equifax hack was carried out by a nation-state (like, say, North Korea). This is not an issue of consumer trust and safety. It is an issue of national (US) security and safety.

To give another analogy, imagine that in 1920, the Canadian military marched over the border and robbed
> Thefts involving smartphones have declined dramatically in three major cities since manufacturers began implementing “kill switches” that allow the phones to be turned off remotely if they are stolen, authorities said on Tuesday.

> Johnson, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon and New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman were among numerous officials arguing for new laws mandating the kill switches.

So phone theft decreased in cities considering mandating remote kill switches.

That seems less Activation Lock, and more:

> So far, Apple, Samsung and Google have implemented kill switches on their smartphones, and Microsoft is expected to release an operating system for its Windows phones that has one this year

... the fact that everyone is bringing such a technology to market at similar timelines.

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As for the claimed 50% drop:

> The number of stolen iPhones dropped by 40 percent in San Francisco and 25 percent in New York in the 12 months after Apple Inc added a kill switch to its devices in September 2013. In London, smartphone theft dropped by half, according to an announcement by officials in the three cities.

That's an average below 40%, but those aren't stats. They're rounded figures. And only in three cities, over the whole world.
Ordered Uber Eats and when the driver came near on the map, I walked outside and waited on my porch. The driver pulled up parallel to my house but still in the street and parked. Then I stood there waiting for them to pull in the drive way or pull off the road or anywhere besides the middle of the road. The driver just started yelling at me on my porch. I then decided they were more of the common type of Uber driver, so I walked up to their window to grab the food. No tip.
I stopped using Uber Eats when one driver picked up the food, drove near where I live, and then cancelled the ride (presumably stealing the food?) - apparently this is a common issue. I called the support number, but it was some foreign call center and they were unable to understand what I was trying to explain (they just kept saying that they could call the restaurant which wasn't the issue). The Uber Eats Facebook page had support that could actually help.

I only use Door Dash now since the rest of the times I tried Uber Eats the drivers refuse to get out of the car and come to the door even if you have that selected - they just sit in the car and call. Door Dash seems to have a lot better and nicer employees and I've had fewer issues with them in general.
While reading the article i thought if there's no number 6, then the universe can't have more than 5 of anything. So perhaps 5 photons and that's it. There cannot be anything else because then there would be 6 objects in the universe.
I don't think Lowtax or SomethingAwful did much after Lowtax had his brains punched into mush by Uwe Boll.
Disclaimer: I worked at fast-food as a kid, used to live on multi hectokilo USD after university and live on just under 1 decikilo USD now.

People making less have a hard time affording a baseline of basics. So marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is higher for those inelastic demand costs. It's also harder to get a bank account, keep good credit, get discounts like coupons or shop at big-box stores (eg some areas only have convenience stores) and there's less social pressure to save and shop wisely.

Also, when you have only $20 and have to choose between food and gas, it seems impossible to look at a smartphone app like GasBuddy when data is prohibitively expensive.
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Used to love RPS, before most of its best writers left. Now it's a not particularly exceptional group of writers and the most whinging, entitled EiC/owner I've ever seen. There's nothing quite like seeing John Walker act like a 2 year old in every comments section.

As far as other good outlets, I think Techraptr is the only one I know of that holds water these days. Loved Tom Francis' work at PC Gamer back in the day too, before he left.
Question. Do they guarantee a payout (like a bond), but then they themselves assume the risk of the mix of riskier securities? Or are they claiming a guarantee but then offloading the risk onto the consumer and making a false promise?
The current title is misleading. It's not yet clear what effects the new rule would have had on Equifax, and in any case it would've applied to a lot more companies than just Equifax.

Better source (and title): "Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Action Suits" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/business/senate-vote-wall...
We aren't going to fill the courts with that. If there's a manufacturing defect, return it before tampering with it. If it is a common defect, it will be covered by a recall and not a warranty.

Sorry, the line has to be drawn somewhere. You may be competent and I believe you are. However, Joe I Can Solder This With A Lighter is not qualified. We aren't going to tie up the courts determining the difference between you and him.

It's just reality. In principle, I would love to agree with you. However, much like we can't assume perfect information, we're not going to assume perfect repairs. The courts are too valuable to be wasted with frivolity.
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Yahtzee was only funny because it was a brash different kind of game review. Soon realized the shtick wasn't actually that funny.
Great for cheating at Facebook messenger games. Just send whatever score you like!
Not only mobiles, PC OEMs are going to extreme lengths to tie down the users into using whatever crap the manufacturer installs by default.
If you have root, can you not install SSL certificates?
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I see a number of beams going forward. I wonder what this tech can do however to avoid side collisions, number of my friends have been involved in those and those are particularly horrifying - perp running red light and ramming on the side.
Schematically it can be an interesting problem to solve too.
GPL3 is bad because Linus poopooed it? He had no choice, and V3 addresses real weaknesses with V2.
I mostly agree, as a long-time FUDGE fan. And recently it's been interesting to see how much AW has captured the imagination of the indie community. It just really seems to work, and we're seeing it pop-up in so many other places. I've been absolutely adoring Night Witches this year, for example.

I slightly disagree, only inasmuch as I like to see exploration and innovation. Sometimes you're right it really doesn't work, But setting specific mechanics are important, sometimes essential, if very difficult to get right. Call of Cthulhu never worked in it's d20 incarnation, imho. Sometimes, I think, it is better to try and fail, than to take the safer route.
It's not exactly a low-cost build, but Tabletop Simulator has very acceptable RPG mods in the workshop, and is compatible with PC gaming VR gear if you've got a bottomless budget.

My gaming group has used TTS + Skype to regularly bring in a player who moved intercontinental and keep the campaign going.
dang: Can the title be changed? I'm not a startup founder so I don't usually read YC-specific stuff, but this article has nothing to do with YC, its actual title doesn't mention YC, and it is funny and of general interest.
Pure speculation ahead:

Suppose for a moment that the Equifax hack was carried out by a nation-state (like, say, North Korea). This is not an issue of consumer trust and safety. It is an issue of national (US) security and safety.

To give another analogy, imagine that in 1920, the Canadian military marched over the border and robbed some banks. Does it make sense for the patrons of that bank to be able to sue the bank? Maybe. It seems like that's less of an issue than the fact that Canada has seized assets that belong to US citizens.

My point is not that Equifax is innocent, or that the situation is being handled appropriately, but rather that this whole thing looks weird enough that there it's probably a lot worse (and more complicated) than we think it is.
How about not emailing like that from the start without an opt-in?
Ah I see. I'm glad that you have found peace for the meantime. Good luck.
What are some arguments for money in politics; lobbying?
Yes, mine was not any software related product. It was energy-related technology that extends the range of existing and future Electric Vehicles. The show must go on as planned...
That's kind of the failure of Deepfreeze - GG wanted to prove that their claims about journos held water, but when they provided and standardized their data it's so off-putting and clinical that it's hard to not dismiss as a little creepy.
The other possibility is to have a thread in each process just to block in accept4(2), add it to a queue, and send an event to the other thread in the same process.
That’s an oxymoron... not regulating a company because anti trust..
Friend works at a well-rated restaurant in Brooklyn. His restaurant turned UberEats down because they feared it would hurt their brand. At that time, UberEats would buy a few menu items in bulk and then resell them. Those ordering the last items would not be eating food fresh from the kitchen, but inventory which may have been sitting in a car for over an hour.
Maybe, but they did everything wrong in epoll.
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I see. Yes, making standards 'non-public' is an issue. In the past, I had to pay to obtain some standards documents as reference materials for products that I was working on.

It would be much nicer if the standards were freely available, like those released by the IETF.

However, the IEEE isn't the only guilty one including patented technology in their standards. I believe the MPEG-LA also does the same thing (the MP3 and H.264 standards).
"As for Compaq, I told him there was no real future in transportable computers since IBM could do it."

- This is the point I made in a comment yesterday.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15537940

hprotagonist was fretting about the "freight train is barreling down on them in the form of Apple and Google"

I said there, and I'll say again here: Waiting for large companies to innovate is like saying "I won't build the Apple II because I'd rather wait for the IBM PC to be invented".

I think that big companies are under too much market pressure to really innovate freely. Startups are a good thing, and Y Combinator is helping. If you have an idea, please don't just give up and wait for the market leaders - make a startup and make it real.
Same here, Got a rejection mail.
What this actually means is that VCs have no idea if a company will be successful or not and it's basically luck. The ones that survive are the ones who manage to hit one of their gambles with outsized wins, similar to a roulette table.

Why some continue to believe VCs actually know anything or add value is beyond me. Even YC admits as much, saying their best guess is the caliber of the founder, and that there should be at least 2 co-founders. Everything else is a guess.
Yeah, I'll disagree. I work in the field and classic control algorithms are incredibly pervasive and are in no risk of being supplanted. Linear quadratic estimators, Kalman filters, are still used everywhere. Extended Kalman filters are still the standard for navigation systems and GPS. Only a very slight change to linear quadratic estimators gives linear quadratic regulators and these are used just about everywhere. Power flow problems are solved using LQR controls, which is basically our entire power grid. Hell, even my Dad's grill uses simple control algorithms like a PID controller because it works well.

Look, I'm happy that machine learning is hot and it's an interesting research area with some good applications. That said, it's ridiculous to assert that all of the sudden that all of these mature fields are dead. Control algorithms will always have a place because these dynamical systems are based on classical mechanics, which are really accurate for an extremely broad section of the world that we care about. Machine learning algorithms build models using generic functions that don't have information about the underlying physics. Now, could there be hybrid approaches? Absolutely. However, till that point, having an algorithm that works directly on the kinematics of the model is a huge advantage and that's not going anywhere anytime soon.
From what I understand, behaviorally there are two systems. There's active management, i.e. exerting willpower, and there's habitual behavior, i.e. doing what you usually do.

In the same way that "You" are not a monolithic entity, "You" don't pay attention to everything - take the old "think about your breathing" troll, which causes a redirection of attention to an otherwise autonomous function.

In this world, the role of "willpower" is in habit formation - doing something routinely enough that you train 'yourself' to do it automatically. So exercising this ability can help you train yourself to do it more easily - you're meta-training yourself to train yourself.

But the active exercise of will is by no means energetically free, and that's the origin of the original paper's hypothesis. I'd guess that this exercise of will is not especially amenable to alteration beyond gross physical trauma, but I don't think it has much to do with blood glucose.
> they'll get to as long as it's legal for them to do so. Legislation can change that

Eh, we aren't good at keeping law enforcement lawful in America. I'd prefer we figured that out before expanding their capabilities.
>> But I'd say it's not that common.

Then you should look at the actual university policies outlined on their website. At top of line elite schools (Stanford, Princeton level), if your family income <$65-75K, both tuition and housing are free, and <$125K tuition is free.

I know for a fact that state schools like UC Berkeley and UCLA aren't that generous with housing.

>> Just look at the make up of study body at the top 5 schools.

Students from wealthier backgrounds tend to have more access to academic and educational resources and are thus more qualified and more likely to be admitted.

Not a judgement suggesting that a less fortunate child would not succeed in a similar environment; many of them just don't have one.
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DRM is a corporate infection that has an opportunity to advertise to you, monitor your activity and gather intelligence on you.
Seems a lot like PivotTables crossed with a normal spreadsheet.

That's actually pretty cool!
Sometimes I program in an actual programming language using paper and pen, solely for the pleasure of commenting my code in mathematics rather than in English. I make sure that the code is syntactically and semantically valid - stripped out of the comments, it's a perfectly valid program that you can run.
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How about just supporting previously existing features like attaching jar files?

Google: "Sorry we're busy impl'ing features no one's asked for."
Hi, thanks.

None of those 3 sites open here. What kind of information do you need from ipleak.net?

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What looks weird about it?

Most Fortune 500 companies do not have bug bounties and have poor security. One was exploited using a disclosed vulnerability.

This is on the polar opposite side of the spectrum of things that would give you the idea of nation state, before ruling everything else out.