skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In rule-bound Germany, growing up is surprisingly rule-free.

"Rule-bound" Germany is a common stereotype in the US (and admittedly Germans love ,,Ordnung'') but the US feels far more rule driven.

My son (now adult) grew up back and forth in both the US and Germany. As a very small kid (knowing nothing of politics) he once referred to Germany "the land of freedom" because in the US people were always telling him what not to do.

I had him in a German school in the US for a while. The US parents complained a lot about how dangerous things were (e.g. kindergarteners with access to hammers, nails, hot glue guns and the like).
Fakespot is not so great. It assumes anyone who doesn't have multiple reviews is a bot, which is not a great heuristic in practice.
It relies on a quantity being defined which happens to be equal to the mean, but that value can be arrived at without having defined the mean a priori. The minimizers of (7,11) with respect to the 1-norm defined in the post include all values between 7 and 11. You need not have defined the mean to state this optimization problem. I suppose which median you pick can be considered a heuristic.

I think "removing outliers" is also snugly in the camp of practical heuristics. A mathematical definition might not want to automatically eliminate outliers when "outlier" is also subject to a choice of definition.
> how do you buy crypto with cash?

Right now, you have to open an account with 1 of the exchanges, like Kraken, or Bitstamp, or GDAX, or wallets like Coinbase, link your Bank account and wire money in.

This is like the Wild West these days, with horror stories of wire transfers not getting credited for weeks and some not getting any response from customer support (all do email only, no phone). I think they are also having a hard time with the insane spike in interest. Kraken CEO is claiming that they are seeing 50,000 Account openings per day[1] and are not able to handle it and hence the 5XX HTTP errors that people are seeing on their site.

> This blaze is on fire.

> The recent, unexpected explosion in demand has been overwhelming. Each of the past few days has produced 50,000 new account registrations and 10,000 new support tickets — an order of magnitude above where we were just last quarter. Concurrent users, daily trades and volumes are also hitting new all-time highs. We are struggling to keep up.

[1] Source: https://blog.kraken.com/post/1399/degraded-service-upgrade-n...

One thing I'm still not able to wrap my head around is this. In order to 'BUY' Crypto currency, you have to pay plain old Paper currency like USD or JPY (referred to as FIAT currency in the crypto world). So how does this make Crypto like Bitcoin an independent currency? There are also some stories that 40% of Bitcoin is 'OWNED' by less than 1000 individuals / institutions around the world. That's not the case with paper money though.
> ... it's not an ad for Mr Robot, it's the onboarding experience of an ad for Firefox that ran in Mr Robot.

That doesn't make any sense--if it's an ad for Firefox, why is it in Firefox, which is presumably already being used by the target audience? It should be in some other site or software set up by the Mr Robot production company which directed people to Firefox, no?
For those who don't feel up to brushing off their German, the NYT also had an article about this in May:

https://nytimes.com/2017/05/18/t-magazine/germany-forest-kin...
You might appreciate the other higher generalizations and related measures I pointed to in my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15947157
GOG is the best source (DRM-free): https://www.gog.com

Some ScummVM supported games like The Neverhood however never got a new digital release. So you'd need to buy a used CD on Ebay for example.
If we are talking depression: try getting more veggies, try going for a walk outside. Small steps. Try changing your surrounding a bit. Then seek medical support ? And don't blame yourself.
Yet, here we are.
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They have been cuting the uk police budget year on year for ages

Police numbers are now back where they were in the early 00's. Yes there have been cuts, but only from a historic high in 2009. But if crime really is reducing, then we need fewer police anyway, and if it's not, the police should be focussing what resources they do have on serious crimes. Not "things people say on Twitter" (or "cybercrime" as they call it)
I got a sinking feeling reading this comment and realizing how easily I could imagine myself in this situation (especially as a Mr. Robot fan). While I do agree that transparency and user control are Firefox's most vital components as an alternative to non-free browsers and any failures there are very concerning, I'm also extremely impressed with the Moz foundation in general and the quality of the quantum updates in particular. I don't think this incident alone is enough to irreversibly tarnish Mozilla's reputation, but it's good to know the issue is being taken seriously internally.
I think the benefit of reading widely if that you start to realize how almost nothing is original. Nearly everything has been done before and done better. Once you realize that you can start carving out a piece of original territory as a writer. A writer without that perspective is inevitably going to write low-quality unoriginal books.

Reading widely isn't about reading everything. Any good reader will learn to discriminate between good and bad writing over time, and will inevitably be drawn to books that are worth reading. No man is an island, and no writer is an island either. The whole endeavor of human knowledge is all about being bolstered by the minds that have came before you and adding a little on top of that.
Unrelated. Uber's plan is to buy standard Volvo XC90 SUVs and add their own self-driving implements.
I'm pretty sure websocket is fifo with delivery guarantees and as far as I'm aware cannot be used in the same manner as UDP. I haven't played around with WebRTC, but that might be an option.
Please make this an app
Netflix and Spotify Ask: Can Data Mining Make for Cute Ads?
I wish mental problems could be « gritted out » as easily as physical challenges :).
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> I'd love to support the authors if possible.

Just for the reference, in most cases, those games are now owned by some publishers, and original authors aren't going to get anything.
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"They've always been clear that the intention was to help people on longer journies, not provide free power."

That's right. And I think that most people would agree that if you're frequently "supercharging locally" instead of using your own chargers, then that's against the spirit of the supercharger network.

But this ban isn't directed just at those who are using local superchargers excessively when they have a valid alternative. It's a ban on the use of superchargers by any Tesla vehicle that is operated for any commercial use!

A blanket ban on "any other commercial use" is extremely far reaching:

- Rental car companies can no longer add Tesla vehicles to their fleets, as it will be impractical for renters to drive long distances.

- Taxi companies that sometimes get long-distance fares can no longer consider Tesla vehicles, because they could get stranded far away from their "home base" without access to the supercharger network.

- Businesses and government agencies who operate fleet vehicles will not be able to consider Tesla vehicles, because it will not be practical to drive long distances.

I believe this is a very short-sighted policy. A far better solution would be to simply charge fees to commercial users of the supercharger network. This would prevent excessive supercharger use, while still making long distance travel practical when necessary.
1600 will keep 4 people alive for a few days. Not fat and happy, but alive. A few kilos wold keep them alive for a couple weeks.
What would the perfect thing look like for helping you narrow down your options?

And if it was successful in helping you make informed consumer decisions, would it be something you'd come back for again and again?

Lately, I'm super passionate and vocal about protecting consumers rights. I've been disenfranchised and powerless to act against shady business practices. I've been threatened for leaving negative reviews on purchases. Lawyers only go after high profile high payout cases. Local media seems to be in bed with corporate sponsors.
Can you point to a specific comment where someone saw the behavior unexpectedly?

I've only seen people that saw the addon being installed unexpectedly.

That doesn't lead to thinking any sites have been hacked.
That there isn't a metric is a really interesting problem. I think most debates should start with talking about metrics.

For instance, when talking about skewed power dynamics when it come to gender, you could look at the number of men vs. women in management positions. Being able to fire someone is a form of power. Or you could look at raw salaries, and say that money is a form of power. And so on. Would make many discussions a lot clearer.
Whats the other mystery?
What's the point of obfuscating then?
yay! With hunters who keep the woods overpopulated with deer etc. (because as they age they give better trophies) I can only hope that we will get even more packs in the future throughout the country.

I have read an amazing report on how wolves changed the ecological system of yellowstone national park for the better (not quite sure which article specifically , believe it was https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wolf-reintroduc...) which makes me even more enthusiastic.
So the DoD wanted to brick devices instead of just declaring companies making these devices a threat to national security, banning their products from sale, and setting a good precedent?

:|

Would the intel community really need a botnet like this to operate?
One of the sexual harassment complaints against Mariah Carey was:

> Mariah asked him to come to her room to move some luggage; when he got there, she was allegedly wearing a see-through negligee that was open
>the whitepaper is intentionally indecipherable

Am I seriously reading this?

Are you seriously trying to insinuate that professor Serguei Popov would willingly publish garbage and put his reputation at risk for some crypto coin?

Oh my god.

>The whole community should speak up about IOTA instead.

How about we speak about the fact that because you're not smart enough to understand the whitepaper you claim it's intentionally indecipherable?

The anti-intellectualism is astounding.
If you go back and read your own context you asked:

>"And what's with the swipe at Bodega, as if is it a sacred cow."

The "swipe" was not by the author but by a NYC-based rapper on twitter. Someone for whom bodegas would be essential.

I've articulated why bodegas would be considered special to someone for whom they serve an essential neighborhood function. I have also explained how this is different than the Taxi medallion monopoly systems and bookstores.

Yes taxis exist outside of New York City and cities such as Chicago, S.F and Boston also have regulated monopolies via a taxi medallion system.

You really don't seem to have any kind of arguments other than asking "what about __?" questions.
>But having worked with the government and then also having observed leaks of top secret information and tools coming out the supposedly most secretive government institutions, I cannot believe they would be competent enough to keep that information under a tight lid for long.

What I find interesting is that certain government programs are very leaky and others we have not seen any leaks. For instance we know the NSA has cryptanalysis programs, yet no leaks of US cryptanalysis have occurred. The Snowden documents have very little information on these programs.

Large numbers of people knew about ULTRA across many nations on both sides of the iron curtain. ULTRA was kept secret for 42 years, well past the point that the main utility of keeping it secret has passed.

Why? What makes one program more leaky than another.

>What I can see happening the government not necessarily encouraging but perhaps not discouraging either these rumors from spreading in order to divert attention from say testing of experimental aircraft.

There so many motivations for a disinformation campaign here.
Because people and, perhaps, objects that can't be readily distinguished from people stand on sidewalks and at curbs all the time without an intent to walk into the street. There's a fine line between defensive driving and driving so conservatively that you're constantly applying brakes because "something" might happen.
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This. Apparently, we're still waiting for a Therac-class incident before "don't mess with critical infrastructure for what seems harmless fun to you" will even register on the radar with the "move fast and break other people's things" crowd.
Just wanted to say thanks for the links to your docs. Games like Michael Brough's (Imbroglio, 868-HACK) and Hoplite have really shifted my videogame-playing interest to turn-based stuff lately, and being a bored dev I'm naturally thinking about what's possible with these frameworks. I'm grateful for devs like you who take the time to write about the stuff you've learned. We're all learning and it's so much more fun to find documentation of how similar stuff has been implemented. Seems like it more seamlessly syncs up with the excitement and motivation when you find something like Boardgame.io. Anyway I really appreciate it!
I remember seeing this done in the series Tek War, driving locally you drove yourself then entered a limit access highway and the car was able to take over.

the pros for all is that it is limited access, we already have many areas with HOV and Toll lanes that can be adapted, very simple driving conditions, easy to visually mark and electronically mark as well. Heck you could initially finance it by making them all toll lanes until widespread adoption / etc
I know a lot of parents in the US who would like for their kids to go out and play, and go places on their own. What prevents them:

- Stories of overzealous Child Protection Services agents, child neglect and abuse laws being used to punish parents.

- Stories of neighbors, teachers, and other overly concerned people, sometimes with malicious intent calling CPS.

- Stories of lawsuits because children trespassed, caused noise in the neighborhood.

- Stories of child rapists and serial murderers.

When you live in an litigious, social-media and 24-hour news addicted society, some of the side-effects are ugly. Even if a parent wants to raise their children like "when I grew up", it is very difficult not to get either swept up or cut out.
That story, uh. If you cut off the last couple sentences it would be somewhat convincing. In its entirety it just suggests a very broken process. Where an automatic extension invalidates firefox, but renaming chrome.exe to firefox doesn't invalidate firefox!?
"Free Download" - but it is actually a time-limited demo, and has a $30 license. Dirty Pool. If I can't trust you to not bait-and-switch, I can't trust you.
Yeah, fifo and temporal updates generally tend to not mix well together.
Ahh, yes. I've ridden those before on the GO in Toronto. But the GO Train is certainly not as well-appointed as Metrolink's version looks!
The bystander effect is pretty strong.
I profoundly disagree. Some statements are provably false.
This is very interesting. I can't imagine a 6/7 yo following on cab much less a 4/5 year old catching a bus late night anywhere in New Delhi! Which city was this in?
The Tulip Fever Was Exaggerated
Debugging Lambdas with the Serverless Framework and Serverless Webpack in VSCode
Hehe, you'd be suprised. I took an honors linear algebra course in my first year of university, and abstraction was the word of the day. Everything we did was for abstract vector spaces over arbitrary fields. We didn't look at the determinant as the signed volume of an n-cube, for example, but rather as a homomorphism from the group of matrices to the base field under multiplication. The cross product was never mentioned because it didn't generalize to arbitrary dimensions. It was good preparation for further abstract algebra courses, but not so much for others, like differential geometry, which rely heavily on geometric intuition.
Firefighters in America are doing the same thing, as buildings become more fireproof & smoking declines.
I would add the most important thing is to start getting paid to learn programming. This doesn’t necessarily mean getting a full time job as a software engineer (yet) but smaller more manageable things. For example, take a boring task you already do in work or daily life and try and figure out how you could make it more automatic.

This will be slow, painful and frustrating at first, but if you spend the time banging your head against the wall now, and are truest motivated, it will take you where you want to go.
Or possibly the final words of the article proper:

> Meanwhile, gazing down upon the snowglobe of our disparity was The Corporation. A man in a suit, getting wealthier, plumper, more powerful, a rapacious beast delivering the shocks.
Jerry Pournelle's "Iron Law of Bureaucracy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bu...) seems related.
It's worth noting that Høyre is not just conservative but "value conservative", verdikonservativ in Norwegian.
The basic is to not mess with things that works, but replace what doesn't.

Being politicians they do not follow this at all times, but they are quite far from your typical right wing party elsewhere.

In this case, I hope they follow Venstres lead in this matter and just legalises it. Venstre (Left) is not really a left wing party either, they just entered the government with Høyre and Fremskrittspartiet (Progress party), the party most to the right of the ones in parliament.

This proposition is also supported by SV (Sosialist Left Party), one of the most left wing parties in the parliament but not by the workers party (AP) nor the christians or the farmers.
You are bringing up paper which had literally zero impact in 3 years it's been out. Why should I waste time reading it? Clearly, no scientist who has ever read it has found it worth to even mention it. The burden to show that it is relevant is on you.
The real battle for net neutrality begins: The people v. FCC
Age-appropriate hammers, nails, and hot glue guns I hope? Maybe I'm going to become a helicopter parent, but there are hot glue guns I'd want my kindergartener handling, and hot glue guns I wouldn't. Like the difference between a 15w hobby soldering iron, and a 260w heavy duty soldering iron! :)
Ya, it’s just where we were before and where grandma is.
Aren't the extreme measures a recent thing, like the last 10 or 20 years?

I don't remember being Molly cuddled like today's kids and I'm in my late 30s (UK).
Ah got it, thanks you and the commenter above!
> IOTA is the only big cryptocurrency that seems extremely fishy to me.

BitConnect is in the top 20 market cap, doesn't get much fishier than that.
Clean exploit code could be used maliciously (or accidentally) by people that might not understand the true nature of the program. There is a tradition when releasing exploit code to obfuscate it or introduce obvious errors that make the code safe{,er}. This prevents script kiddies from immediately using it, while anybody who should be reading the code should be able to see through the obfuscation/errors.
HN is a tough crowd to please. Without the disclaimer, I guarantee you that the top comment would have been one requesting the author to add one, along with a warning about not writing your own crypto.
It probably shouldn't be going fast enough in the first place for it to be an issue in suburban situations. It should be able to react in time even if a dog/child appears from behind a large parked vehicle. This should also be true of human drvers, but probably isn't.

But yes, deer beside faster roads etc. should probably trigger precautionary measures to ensure reaction times will be sufficient.
I'm married. I have only my own dozens of years of anecdotal experience of myself and others. Your world view of "exactly the same" can't be changed, but simple testosterone and estrogen differences alone would argue a lot of differences for the average person.

When women start asking men out at a similar rate as men, then maybe there isnt a "natural relationship" anymore. A large preponderance of data from places like Tinder, OK Cupid, etc completely contradict you in a very statistically signifiant way. Call it cultural all you want. I'm just going to call it common sense.
You need some level of technical understanding to be able to determine what is possible. The complexity from a Sunday afternoon project to full time job jumps very quickly. Build a spell checker? Dictionary lookup. Build a context aware spell checker? Learn NLP.
What's the worst that's going to happen with a hot glue gun? I'm chuckling thinking I may have had negligent parents, but it wasn't too far out of kindergarten that I was allowed to use a soldering iron unsupervised.

Edit: I see that as I was writing my comment, you added an edit about soldering irons. Mine was definitely a big Weller "soldering gun"
Lol, of course he can't elaborate. He's a troll. HN has really gone down the drain in the past couple years.
I see a Bugzilla tracker, but I can't find the official git repo for Vassal. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction?
Sounds a lot like scout camp. Look into scouting. There's a lot of bad press about the BSA, but each troop is really very independent, and your local troop may be far more inclusive than you might expect. As a kid we were shooting bows, all kinds of guns, camping, backpacking, roping, fishing, paddling, sailing, firestarting, tomahawk throws, etc... Especially in KS, I have to expect those kinds of parents are around, you just have to find them.
Then again, you don't want to wake up 80 years old and realize you forgot to live. That might not be a problem for you personally but it is for a lot of people. I fear that more than actually dying.
This sounds like an early version of DCC: https://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/

At first glance, I don't see anything that DCC didn't do, what did I miss?
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Yes, and this level of licensing isn't uncommon in some US states (MA, IL come to mind) though one could argue not to the same level of strictness.

I guess my point is there are still a significant number of guns in the U.K. (it's not fun-free), yet gun crimes are exceedingly rare. Why is that?

I would argue it's more than just what the laws are.
Getting someone punished for unproven allegations based on pressure from people whose only knowledge of the case comes from a news article isn't a good thing.
That sounds about right.

My understanding is the standard is in place to avoid giving all first time offenders a free pass and to also actively encourage people to look up laws pertinent to their lives. If it weren't in place, then willful ignorance would be in your best interest. Since it is in place, it is in your best interest to go find out what is and is not legal when, for example, starting a business.
My whole family (except me) does Crossfit. They even compete, and one of my brothers is a coach too. They even do paleo. I'm used to it.