skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. A big part of limiting cheating comes down to the specific game design and implementation. You need a server implementation that is as distrusting of clients as possible, you need secure (networking) code, etc. Anti-cheat is not a cure-all.

Unfortunately that's just not realistic for a large category of games. If you can trust the clients to some degree then you can really really offload a lot of server work. It's not feasible to process user's mouse input on the server in an FPS for example. Not just from a server load standpoint but from a latency standpoint.
Sound like a pretty neat introduction! This is exactly the kind of thing I needed, coming from tf/keras and looking to switch to pytorch for research
I used to watch shows like Cold Case Files. It was mentioned by an expert in such things as part of the profiling process for one of the suspects.
Apparently that was their original idea, which was rejected by Bethesda's legal team.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/844t22/some_of_the...

At this point I'm fairly convinced that Bethesda is going to announce a 10th anniversary release of Fallout 3 at E3 and don't want the competition.
Everything I've read has said that sociopathy is uncorrelated with IQ. You can have genius sociopaths and dumb sociopaths. Genius sociopath is the stereotype. Dumb sociopath might be the jerk next door who calls the cops when your newborn cries in the middle of the night. Nobody thinks he might be a sociopath, even though the whole neighborhood thinks he's an insensitive, insufferable, but harmless jerk--typical sociopath behavior, even though not exclusive to sociopaths.
Maybe, or we just don’t understand all of the rules.
It's much easier to include C source code in an application than Ada.
But it does mean that the less efficient manner will never be done, which was the parent comment's entire point.

Sure, it may be hypothetically possible. But is it realistically going to happen? Of course not.
How about instead of "unrealistic claims" simply prohibit claims about unproven future monetary performance of an asset?
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Alphabet didn't break itself apart. It reorganized. There is a big difference. Standard Oil was broken apart into different companies.
Why do you think schadenfreude is a negative personality trait or a personality disorder? It is just a name for a specific emotional state. It seems perfectly apt here.
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I paid a bookkeeper a few to five hundred dollars per month and never had to worry about it. Best money I ever spent.
They'd presumably already have any number of superior minds, able to be spun up in whatever quantity required.
IBM Teams up with Cloudflare for server security and performance
Very interesting. Have you seen it used?
We should not overlook the fact that in the 1970s, trauma surgeons practiced in the Bronx. Nothing ever really changes in the human condition, but new generations forget the old lessons.
Intel Rolls Out Updated, Post-Spectre CPU Microcode (20180312)
"might". But we are talking about a specific case here. Does anyone have any evidence that SEC attorneys used considerations other than legal strategies in their decision to settle with Holmes? No? I rest my case.
That must have been awesome! I was lucky enough to see Vijay & Wadada in Chicago last year. Indian music is crazy/complex/awesome - I learned a tiny bit about it when learning about Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time."
Dark Matter was first discovered because the galaxies are not rotating at the correct amount, if you only consider the 'light' matter we can see. That all the dark matter halos should rotate at this rate, despite the decoupling from light matter, is strange given what we know about dark matter [0]. Obviously, more data needs to be taken, but the result that all the galaxies are rotating at the same rate is not something we should suppose from first principals.

AFAIK, dark matter is kinda thought of as a sparsely non-interacting gas. Over the eons, the dark matter particle with enough momentum to have escape velocity have mostly evaporated from the galactic halos, leaving the light matter galaxies and large clouds/halos of dark matter. As we have seen in the Bullet Galaxy collision, the halos really don't interact, thus dark matter is non interacting.

What then makes the similar spinning rates of galaxies interesting is that the halos of dark matter should not be the same size, given that they don't interact. The halos should not all be the same size, they should be different sizes. If they are different, then the rotation rates should be different too.

Just like a figure skater pulling in her arms to spin faster, the smaller galaxies should be spinning faster. This was the original problem that made us look for dark matter, the galaxies are spinning faster than we think they should. Big galaxies should fling themselves apart. We now think that all the galaxies are just embedded in dark matter halos, solving the angular momentum issue. Essentially, the light matter is like an ant on a spinning Frisbee.

But if the galaxies are now all spinning at the same rate, and that the amount of light matter in a galaxy is independent from spin rate, that must mean that all the dark matter halos are of roughly the same size. Which sounds crazy, thus the news article.

If anyone with a better understanding is out there, PLEASE let me know where I am making a mistake. Thank you!

[0] Essentially all we know about dark matter is that 'it falls down', in that it interacts gravitationally and not in really any other way. This is opposed to so-called dark energy (the stuff driving the acceleration of the cosmos) in that the dark energy 'makes things fall up.'
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My use case is I write a GUI tool in C#/.net, publish it and then hand it over to field service and production and they never bug me again unless they need a feature added.

> and even Java exist.

When you mention this, I think you are trolling. I can see starting a greenfield project in C#/.net. There isn't any reason to start a green field Java project. Just like there is little reason to start a greenfield C++ project.
Well, parsing that statement:

> claimed that Theranos’ products were deployed by the U.S. Department of Defense on the battlefield in Afghanistan and on medevac helicopters

That is clearly a statement looking at past events, so if it was false it was clearly a lie

> the company would generate more than $100 million in revenue in 2014.

The important word there appears to be "would", in which case it was a forward-looking statement so easier to argue it was based on projections that just didn't pan out.
No, again DST changes clock time, not agreed times of work (which vary by industry anyway).
> it's a short and murky step ... to outright fraud.

Staying vigilant against the normalization of deviance[1] is difficult even in ideal situations. Choosing to normalize deviance as a business strategy is practically guaranteed to rapidly accelerate deviations from acceptable behavior.

In any system - including every business - resilience and safety means fixing small problems before they grow into bigger, more damaging problems[2].

> rationalizations for unethical behavior

Often, it doesn't even need to be rationalized. When deviant behavior is slowly normalized in small steps, the human mind tends to only see the "small, insignificant problems", and often skips[3] over big changes that should be "obvious".

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Diane_Vaughan_...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLYEDpNu60

[3] https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/se367/10/presentation_local...
The 4th Amendment is an, uh, amendment to the Constitution. Scary to think how things would have worked out had there not been a Bill of Rights.
I still find it crazy that her response to a question on how the tech worked was:

"A chemistry is performed so that a chemical reaction occurs and generates a signal from the chemical interaction with the sample, which is translated into a result, which is then reviewed by certified laboratory personnel."
Percentages in and of themselves are progressive pricing! If we believe we can get the student a 100k+ job, we'll definitely be incentivized to help them get there instead of telling them to settle for a 50k job.

The progressive^2 pricing model is interesting though. It's a little legally complex unfortunately so we have to look into it, but I also like the aspect of the idea where the less you make as a student, the more a lower percentage could help you live more comfortably.
Supposedly some file formats have changed between Fallout 3 and 4 so you'd need to convert said files as well. Not exactly an insurmountable technical hurdle. There is at least one other similar project that isn't shutting down.

The rule with these things is typically "If you make us give you an answer about if you can do it, it will be no."
Everyone loves a comeback story, though. In a few years she'll take the circuit of podcasts / news outlets.

"I thought we could do it. It started with a single, tiny lie and then it snowballed. I get out of control. I took some time off and now I'm starting my own company. We will be the most transparent company in the world and we're innovating X!"

Something along those lines. It's not a life or career ender IMO.
I suspect that is just a matter of taste. I find source->source transformations pretty darn useful. You end up writing boilerplate code in all languages. Being able to just abstract that away is comfortable, and I don't really see the problem (together with what I suspect is the vast majority of lispers).

You can of course provide libraries that "extend" the language, but sometimes you will never be able to lose the feeling of it being bolted on, because the semantics of the la guage doesn't lend itself to that certain way of doing it.

Lisp macros solve that, at least for me. We use them like regular procedures and as long as you keep the simple rule that you sbouldnt make a macro of something you want to compose with procedures, there really isnt much that gets in the way of understanding a program, because most of the time whether something is a macro or not does not matter.
I think its because they don't see themselves as criminals doing it. Even blatantly criminal acts can be justified as being un-criminal or "good" pretty easily.

I've found this to be particularly rampant in software development.
it'a available on the website. there's a link to the website from the gh page.
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If you grew up with Unix commands it makes sense (mostly), if you grew up with Photoshop it's really not very friendly.

Stackoverflow top item on how to redo a commit (one of most common things a new user may need to do):

$ git commit -m "Something terribly misguided"
$ git reset HEAD~
<< edit files as necessary >>
$ git add ...
$ git commit -c ORIG_HEAD

I run a ton of aliases - some of them functions - just to do basics. I really like git - but it is a very steep learning curve for many.
You think all liberals (~30% of americans or whatever it is) have a hidden agenda?
I hadn't seen this before, or if I had, I've forgotten, but Theranos created an account on HN to post to the "Who is hiring?" threads

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Theranos

First message was May 5, 2014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7701095

> Visit a lab for a Doctors appointment recently? Two vials of blood is a lot isn't it? Theranos is looking to completely redefine healthcare by solving speed and accuracy issues of current lab testing by combining SW engineering and life sciences using 1/1000 less blood than what is typically drawn today; our process have results in Doctors’ hands in as little as 2 hours allowing them to provide significantly more accurate treatments in a timely manner.

The first time someone replied:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8401792

> I was rather disappointed that the site doesn't say much about the underlying assay technologies you're using.
I come across reverence for these publications regularly but I don’t say anything because I fear bipartisan reactionism would label me a conspiracist before I have a chance to defend myself.

I actually get most of my news filtered through HN comments and from independent podcasts by journalists I trust.
There's an old narrative, so familiar we hardly notice it, that American cities are dangerous and crime-ridden. It's something that many WSJ readers and others grew up hearing, and which is a popular setting in entertainment - a setting for genre we all know, like the Victorian period pieces - and entertainment is the only exposure many have to cities outside of commercial and entertainment districts. That narrative is obsolete; generally, crime is very low, gangs are a thing of the past, and so are drug wars. I've spent time in cities, outside the commercial and entertainment (and wealthy loft) districts, and you'd be surprised what you find - regular people going about regular days, boringly normal. Lots of infrastructure that needs attention too.

I'm concerned that articles like this one further the old, dramatic narrative, and there's a cost: It depicts these places as almost different countries, stereotyped settings for genre entertainment like a Hollywood backlot, not as real communities; and it writes off the residents as a criminal class that need to be suppressed by police (and fuels a lot of racism), not as people with talent, hard work and dreams who need transit, education, jobs, freedom, opportunity, and all the same things we need sitting at our desks reading about it.

(There are dangerous, crime-ridden areas in the U.S.; some are in cities and some are not. On the other hand, I guess Wall Street is in a city, and what's the per capita crime rate there? They should send JAG for training!)

EDIT: Some minor edits
Certainly it's worth noting (as you do) how entertainified TV networks "news and magazine" shows have become, post-regulation; with a justifiable loss of reputation. This suggests that industry self-correction (as viewers realize they've often been duped or distracted rather than informed) has its limits.
> All evidence suggests they did so here.

What evidence? I have flipped through the SEC filing and some news articles and I don't see anything about it being referred to the DOJ.
> Can the preprint be updated by the authors

Yes, it can, altough it's not consistently done in every discipline, so unless you are familiar with a discipline, you can't rely on the research being most up-to-date.

> Is this research then suggesting that peer-review does little?

I think it's important to make a distinction between the formal peer review process, and the concept of peer review. There's a lot of remarks to be made about the former. In some disciplines, however, it's common to share research on arXiv, collect feedback from readers there, and submit a version to a journal that incorporates that feedback - it's not a stretch to call that peer review as well.

But to somewhat answer the question: practices between disciplines on arXiv vary too much to draw conclusions about the formal peer review process based on this research, in my opinion.
I run a SaaS company, and I'm curious why I would need a product like this. Here's how I handle things now:

1. Stripe charges my customers' credit cards every month, and deposits money into my bank account once a week. If I want to check my revenues, I just go to Stripe's website and download the CSVs.

2. All expenses are run through a company credit card. If I want to check my expenses, I just go to my bank's site and download transaction CSVs for the card. If I want to graph them by month or whatever, I can just import that CSV into Excel.

3. For tax purposes, I need to break down #2 into categories of deductible expenses. I just wrote a perl script parse the credit card CSVs and match descriptions. So for example, it'd have a rule like "/digitalocean/ -> Cloud Hosting" and so on.

I admit I'm super-ignorant in this area, but the above solution seems to work without requiring any ongoing effort on my part. How would something like Pilot improve things for me?
>They know exactly what they are doing

Yep, it's deliberate. They're the backalley version of a regular stock offering.

They're marketing themselves as "opening investments up to the people" but they're simply a way to get money from investors without any of the very reasonable legal securities and obligations that come with a company going public.
As another commenter points in another thread, this article is explcitly about the red-shift-calculated velocity of stars at the outer edge of galaxies, and not about the spiral arms' apparent motion.
Thank you both for the thoughtful answers :). I think what you both said makes a lot of sense.

The one thing I'll throw in is that graphic notation (which I don't know a lot about) is an area where something like the OP can also have relevance - a way of visually expressing musical ideas (including, perhaps, some ideological content meant to inform attitude of the musician). It's also a blurry place between "functional" music notation and art.

I hadn't looked closely at the actual notation in the article - sounds like it may have lacked some rigor.
Sociopath is not actually a defined clinical term. It is one of the reasons I use it. It helps convey something people will tend to colloquially understand, but there is no formal definition, so its meaning is flexible.

But my understanding from an Intro to Psych class that I had years ago is that serial killers typically have six traits, including high IQ, plus other traits we would consider sociopathic, like lack of empathy.

Generally speaking, if someone has a low IQ, I just consider them to be mentally retarded and not pathological. I don't know why anyone would call someone sociopathic who lacks the mental faculty to comprehend the consequences of their actions.
Interesting. I love programming in Nim but I'm not sure if I would consider developing something like SQLite in Nim. It still has a few rough edges IMHO.
> Testing hardware and extracting firmware is VERY likely to require soldering skills.

Yeah, headers will be removed, etc. You may not have easy access to the pins you need.

This is a useful collection of soldering/desoldering tips for those that don't do it much.

If everybody should learn to code, maybe everybody should learn to mod hardware without destroying it or hurting yourself.
I hear you, but I agree with the parent that it would be something they'd be for (now) because it benefits them in the long run. If there's an ID system that uses a public/private key kind of system, if they screw up and expose your public one, you could then regenerate a public key with the private key and disable the old public. With SSN, you're forced to just hope nothing bad happens. This would greatly reduce their future liability for the next incident.
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> As less and less content is served over HTTP, it becomes more and more realistic for an attacker to simply inject their garbage into every unencrypted connection that has a browser user agent in it.

I've already covered the general case above. Anyone in a position to intercept HTTP communications like that (into every unencrypted connection) is in a position where if they intercept and do enough to materially harm me or my users through their act, then they will likely be discovered and the world will turn against them. They have far more to lose than to gain by doing something actively malicious that can be perceived by the user. So I don't realistically see it happening.

> Regardless of how likely it is that someone is waiting for you to hit a HTTP site right now so they can screw with it, why even take that risk when the alternative is so easy?

I already said I use HTTPS, so your advice isn't really warranted. I also specifically asked how likely it is, so you can't just "regardless" it away. I get that there's a theoretical risk, and I've already addressed it. But as a thought experiment, it is helpful to know how realistic the threat actually is. So far, I haven't really been convinced it actually is anything other than a theoretical attack vector.
Ask HN: YC Hackathon rules?
I just saw the YC Hackathon, but I'm a bit unclear with its rules.

it says:

"This hackathon is for projects you're just starting. "

Does this mean that I can bring a project that I'm currently making?
Exactly. Cryptocurrency valuations at the moment are 99% speculation about future utility. Actually it may be 99.9%.
Tell HN: Digg Reader Shutting Down March 26, 2018
Got this notice on Digg and haven't seen it reported anywhere yet. Short notice so I thought I'd post here for those that want to retrieve their data.

From the pop-up that appears when I login:

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It means taking joy in someone else's suffering, which is basically sadism. I don't see that as being the same thing as being happy to see the truth come out and justice finally happen.
> if you want to lie about some drone-based burrito delivery service

I wouldn't suggest lying about anything in the aviation sector either.
Those people have not worked on large enough teams; we had 50+ committers to an SVN repo before switching to Git, and it was very apparent where the limitations with that 'simple' workflow were.
They are now. But before ecommerce as a whole was such a tiny fraction of the overall retail market. They do still have one of the largest online retail websites.
I do agree that reading the documentation is helpful. But nothing beats using it.

If people have a test machine or a VM to download/install git and create toy projects to learn the basics of git, that would be far more effective. Try branching, merging, diffing, committing, etc to get a better feel of how the source control system works.

If you have background in subversion or other source control ( hell even experience in source safe might help ), then it would help you get caught up much faster.

Also, there are tons of youtube videos on git if you learn better via video.

But at the end of the day, if you don't use it, you aren't going to understand git.
As of right now, it might be upside down if you're stuck in Syria or Yemen?

In the US, you might recall the outcome of the Rodney King verdict as an example.
It's hard to say why specific comments have been downvoted. Often it's because they break the site guidelines in ways the author didn't notice. Sometimes it's simply not fair, and other users need to (and often do) fix that by giving a corrective upvote.

Plenty of comments arguing that Airbnb/Uber might be doing more harm than good routinely get heavily upvoted, so I'd question your overall generalization.
And very few people can know 100% 100% times. We build software on top of abstractions. Abstraction leaks, abstraction breaks and abstraction isolates you from "know what you are doing".

If you build software in C, you will build abstractions in C, and debugging / analysis tools help to understand these abstractions.
> With a boatload of associated semantics, quite a bunch bein in practice compiler-dependent (looking at you, MSVC volatile).

Which is not part of C. Your argument that "C is complicated" doesn't work if you cite an egregious misuse of nonstandard extensions.
I think it's very likely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis#Ancestor...

It's not a testable claim right now, but it might be in the future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis#Testing_...