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> The exact same books are available electronically nowadays, and are likely to be more up to date than a paper version.

Huh? I was always under the impression that most of the books are still not available electronically. What may be true is that most of the currently published books are also published in e-book format, but that still leaves out a majority of books.
It's bitterly ironic that people teaching Critical Theory, which ought to be a tool for liberation, have become complicit in miring their students in debt slavery, and are often mired in it themselves.

Anyone involved in teaching university students these days has an ethical responsibility to emphasize the price the students are paying to be there, and the implications that will have for their future revenue needs.
Unless the encrypted Voip went through a central server.
Fair. That assumes we wouldn't try and understand the black box. I suspect somebody would have, but I have nothing to base that suspicion.
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Dispatch is a framework for deploying and managing serverless style applications
Oh super - would you have any time to show it to me if I toddled over to Imperial at some point ?
So a decision heroku makes is something he has to be accountable for? He was a developer, he didn't run the joint.

It was OSS before that.

That's their problem, tbh.
Old culture and security concerns being in finance. Though that's breaking down. Once you adopt a product built on the cloud (SaaS offering), the first level of integration is nightmare from the corporate datacenter. Once it takes the toll, thats when you begin to see the mindset change.

It's been 2 years of grind and umpteen number of powerpoint but I see a sea change and hopefully soon....
Luckily I never had to face these predators. Living in a place where universities charge around $1000 per semester and having parents that didn't charge rent allowed me to get by with jobs on the side.

One of our economy teachers explained: "As students you can get a loan from the state with no interest. You're stupid if you don't take it and keep it for some extra interest." I calculated the interest this would generate and decided that it was too much hassle for few extra bucks. And I didn't want the temptation either.
Nerve damage is terrible. Are used to have a problem with my arm related to celiac, gluten ataxia. It would start going numb starting at the fingertips while I was typing, blowing glass, and then at its worst, anytime I laid her down. I would wake up with my arm completely numb. I thought it was carpal tunnel, and vitamin D seemed to help. Now I know that it was an autoimmune reaction, which was not expected.

We rely on our bodies to work, and that’s that. It’s amazing how pain in one little part of the body which you otherwise never even think of can suddenly make life almost impossible.
its shortcomings
Deep Learning in Finance
I have been using ffjson[1] in a couple of private projects, which generates code to encode/decode data, which supposedly is faster than the json library from Go's standard library.

Has somebody any first-hand expertise how this compares to the competition?

(I could, of course, do my own benchmarks, but so far I have not had any performance issues on this end, so it has not been a pressing need. The only problem I have run into with ffjson is that various linters will bark at the generated code, but again, that has not been a big problem.)

[1] https://github.com/pquerna/ffjson
manned submarines though I assume?
From personal experience a decade or so ago, Kroger charged much higher prices for substandard goods in poor/minority, transit-dependent communities, and used the result to subsidize stores in well-to-do areas. This helped them gain market share in competitive neighborhoods.

Amazon certainly engages in price discrimination, but I’d bet its algorithms weigh race much less than the incumbents.

Also, the studies I’ve seen suggest amazon charges rich people more, which is a lot less slimy than systematically overcharging poor minority groups.
> "BTW did you see the super cool world domination mind control fantasizing internal video?"

Care to share?
https://www.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/junkcode/spamsum/README
You misinterpret my intent, batteryhorse.

I fully agree that this debt should be dischargeable, and universities (both public and private) should be on the hook.

My point is that the author is NOT the Rosa Parks of the student loan crisis; there are far better standard-bearers out there.
Not really. As an iOS user I am forced to update the os for software to be supported and receive new security updates.

That Apple makes previous versions of my installed software incompatible when I do upgrade should not be my problem.

(That said, I agree there is a problem here, and I think Apple should ultimately be the one who fixes it)
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I'm surprised by the 3d printing at libraries. Is this used much, and if so, what do people print?
I know you meant it as a joke, but deep inside I feel there might be some truth to it.
Fruits are given to you by nature, no one takes them violently (unless picked unripe, which is a problem on its own in this country). Also unlike dead flesh, they take at most 30ish minutes to digest, not hours where they go rancid in your body like most other foods.
I use the same. The only PITA is unlocking it with my, rather long, pass phrase. I just find it really fiddly on mobile.
I think the point of this library is more to offer a native wrapping UI toolkit, including windows and Darwin, not necessarily a GTK subset, though you probably meant that in terms of a subset of components rather than implementation. This library has no renderer of its own and instead delegates that away.
Relying on a small, niche service to host something you rely upon daily is simply not a good long-term decision. I’d much rather rely on OneDrive or Dropbox for syncing, since the likelihood of their going away suddenly or being acquired by someone else who will tank the service is smaller. Not impossible, but more unlikely.
"That’s what the thieves went after in February 2016: nearly $1 billion, sitting in a Fed-run account"

Has the Fed ever given consideration to not connecting their banking computer directly to the Internet?
Probably just "we view this as too much", confusingly and imprecisely phrased.
> and said fake news is BS

Isn't this a matter of opinion rather than of fact?
I had a serious reaction to food almost every day, sometimes twice a day, for years from celiac. Now I know that what I was often experiencing is called an abdominal migraine, which I didn’t even know existed. Essentially, I would just put my life on hold for hours until I would crawl out of bed, blinking, shaking my head, trying to figure out what happened, and resume my day.
Very true that when you spend half the day laying around in bed feeling like you’re dying, every day, it’s difficult to have a normal life.
There is considerable nervous system involvement in safe exercise. I wonder if playing a twitchy video game would have similar cognitive effects. If hand-eye coordination can improve in teens, I don't see why it can't improve in dementia patients and improved coordination might mask some symptoms.

The assumption is exercise results in higher blood flow which does "something". I know its easier to concentrate when you have practice concentrating, and for many boring people, exercise might be their only daily experience with concentrating, aside from the rare occasional dementia testing. Possibly forcing concentration on a regular basis (via exercise, or whatever alternative) results in better cognitive test results.

I suppose a lot depends on defining exercise as staring at a TV while walking on a treadmill vs playing racquetball.
The rhythm for juggling 3 is fairly straight forward for me. I confess I have not looked at what the equivalent for 4 would be. It seems clearly different in a way that practicing 3 doesn't help get to 4.
The reason I won’t go for a subscription is because I don’t want to find myself locked out of my password manager if I stop paying the subscription.

With IntelliJ (JetBrains) I get perpetual fallback and that makes me super comfortable with a subscription model.

Will AgileBits offer perpetual fallback? I doubt it. Their product works well but their marketing team are a let down.
Please don't post denunciatory rants to HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. Perhaps you owe no better to comparative literature majors, but you do owe this community better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Doubtful, at least for my case. Effect appears immediately and takes hold in under two minutes.
Dynamic syncing and remote encrypted storage is exactly what 1password subscription gives you - I add something and it's available on all my devices right away (or my family's devices if I'm sharing it). There are tons of open source options out there if you're not looking for a paid/hosted option.
Or when people realize that if they don't have much astigmatism (asymmetric vision problems) they can shop at a dollar store for what they need.
People aren't rational agents. They suck at making decisions about their long term well being

But, are legally adults, and that’s what that means.

These arguments about students not knowing what they’re doing has only one solution: raise the age of legal adulthood to 25. Which is not as unreasonable as it sounds; it was 30 in Ancient Greece.
Well, you can always add the audio manually from the original clip. If it marks the timestamps, this could be done by a simple mp4box script.
I use pass[1], which has an unofficial Android app[2]. When you select a password in the Android app, it lets you paste it to any text field using normal copy & paste. Clicking the password does the "copy" part of the operation automatically. After a brief timeout, the password is no longer available to be pasted.

[1] - https://www.passwordstore.org/

[2] - https://github.com/zeapo/Android-Password-Store
What's the Difference Between FTTC and HTTP?
The Graduation Speech: Excellent Advice Not Just for Students
Well, I think abdicating responsibility is the solution proposed in this article. The staggering amount of horrific decisions made by the author (e.g. choosing expensive private school, willfully ignoring the word 'variable', choosing super-cool foreign graduate school, choosing to just not pay her debts for a year, choosing to live and work in ultra-expensive NYC, upgrading her apartment the minute she got a raise, etc) make it a bit challenging to sympathize with her situation.

While there are clearly issues with student loan practices and the cost of higher education, predatory lendors did not conspire to force all of these truely terrible decisions onto this poor woman. If she put the same amount of effort into a budget/financial plan as she did into this creative blog post, she'd already be on her way to a student debt-free existence.

I'd much rather have read a post describing all of the terrible financial decisions the author has made over the last decade and how they've put together a painful, realistic plan to get their financial life back on track. Perhaps with some lessons learned for people facing some of the same decisions. Instead, the author justs rails against the unfairness of it all without actually taking any responsibility for figuring out a solution.
To see how this fares against native code, I ported their benchmark to Rust's JSON library https://serde.rs/. Disclaimer: I am a maintainer of Serde.

Numbers and graphs: https://github.com/serde-rs/json-benchmark/tree/gojay#serde

Rust source code: https://github.com/serde-rs/json-benchmark/blob/gojay/src/li...

TL;DR GoJay ranges from 20% slower to 2.7x slower depending on workload.
Hah, woke up to a ping about a surge in my website traffic. Thanks for submitting OP!

OP of the Facebook Ads Prank here, AMA.
You're not locked out of 1Password, you just can't add new items iirc.
So it's reasonable approach to spend 100K and literally do 0 research into it? and it is someone else's fault if things do not workout?
Nothing is stopping her from having a happy life, except her own idiocy about spending money that she doesn't have on something that doesn't provide value in return. Think about it as an expense than "education", then you start to see the mistake for what it is.

2 - of course we make mistakes and learn. Small or big is up to us. But, the individual should own it, and not write an article about how unfair life is that it let them make those mistakes...
I can always buy an expensive with the rent money for the entire year, but that's not life being unfair to me. It's my failure to see where the path leads in the short term.
So, what is your rule of thumb for how much college debt is acceptable? I'm suspect its about 1.5x your expected starting salary[1] with the degree you are going for. At some point, I need to go through the job stats and do some loan calculations.

1) I mean average, not your dream job in SV for example.
> every version of 1Password in active development...Can be licensed standalone

This is incorrect. The command line client is subscription-only.
That it is I guess a valid point. But people are still taking out those loans even though all this information is one search away.
Yeah, this was a classic pump and dump scam.

If the victim weren’t a giant, ruthless megacorp, I’d probably be outraged instead of amused.

The context here is that WF used to use their back rooms to hold excess inventory, but transitioned to a just in time delivery model. This had two primary effects:

For a few quarters, their numbers looked better than they should, since they were juiced by selling down a bunch of inventory that had been stranded in the supply chain.

The second effect hit after the acquisition: The JIT supply chain they setup was an unreliable disaster, so the availability of goods at the stores plummeted after the buffer of backroom stock was depleted.
When a comment breaks the guidelines, please flag it quietly. There's no need to worsen our discussions by amplifying irritation.
Go is pretty good about Unicode, did you run into issues with Chinese and Vietnamese with standard encoding/json package or with other third-party Go JSON libraries?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDVVo14A_fo

The scary fact is that they do this to an extent with their ads.
I'm sure there's a ton of people lining up to pay $400 for a password manager.
Please don't come to Hacker News to gloat about what a fool someone is and how they deserve their misfortune. Comments here need to have more substance than that, and at least a little more decency. We're all fools anyhow.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not sure everyone is hearing the same sound. Some people hear higher/lower frequencies better than the others. The signal that the brain receives is completely different from person to person. The sense of color is probably more consistent in that respect, although some people see less colors (colorblindness), and some see more (tetrachromacy).
It would allow Zuckerberg to talk more candidly. Public perception and opinion is very important to any of these billion-dollar business leaders. If you have an open hearing then there is a snowball's chance in hell that you will hear anything that wasn't carefully planned by teams of PR guys and lawyers.

A closed hearing won't be picked apart and (mis)interpreted ever which way, so the speaker can try to get their true point across. The speaker can also acknowledge faults and mention some sensitive issues without making their company's stock ride a rollercoaster.
Needs a (2014) in title.
> A commenter below seems outraged about the torch->pytorch change, but really the GitHub contributions and adoptions for each speak for themselves

What are you trying to say exactly? Could you be more explicit?
I never liked 1pass.
I don't like the fact that you have to install a desktop app to use the browser extension.
Also the UI is a bit annoying and sometimes it feels like it just gets in my way. The UX for multiple vaults is not so obvious at times and you don't realize you are only searching one vault instead of everything.
Copying and sharing between vaults is also annoying.

I really don't see what 1pass does better than LastPass. LP has a bad security reputation but other than that it's much more enjoyable to use
Mozilla is hardly "Google's proxy".
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
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Go is "native code" but anyway nice work!
Yeah, I know about sinc and the ideal theory, but nobody uses sinc for production work. Your filter has to be too wide, and the ringing artifacts are too undesirable.

The max sharpness in a digital image, the Nyquist limit, is 1 cycle across 2 pixels. It’s not possible to get any sharper than that. But actually rendering images with frequencies exactly at that limit generally cause aliasing artifacts of some kind. That’s what I mean about getting close to Nyquist.

> Very high resolutions are now practical, too, which changes things a lot. Probably in favor of using filters which never introduce ringing artifacts, like the Gaussian.

Yeah, this is mostly true, and it is one way I justify using a Gaussian.

But it’s important to know and remember that without the right filter, you can get visible ringing artifacts no matter how high your resolution is, and no matter how much you super-sample your pixels. This doesn’t come up all that much in CG film or photography, but I have a digital art project where it matters a lot and comes up all the time. (And I order expensive prints too, where artifacts not very visible on my monitor can become plain & obvious on paper).

> And things like the Lanzos or Mitchell filters exist as compromises between since and Gaussian.

Yes, and I suspect those are the most common ones used in VFX and CG film & print production. But those are balancing sharpness and aliasing. For situations where I really need no aliasing, they aren’t good enough.

I can’t usually see the difference between Gaussian, Lanczos and Mitchell without zooming and studying high frequency regions, but I’ve watched VFX supervisors comment on the softness they feel after watching like 2 seconds of film. Some people have an incredible sensitivity to sharpness.
Well, that seems like the only way to get things done for a large group of countries or states.

An example of this: it is how the constitution of the United States was formed.
Thanks. Sorry about that. Removed the denunciatory part.
security software

> I really don't see what 1pass does better than LastPass

> LP has a bad security reputation
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It is nice to see that you are asking what I think are the truly meaningful questions. All too often we get caught up in the rat race we call this material life.

My humble suggestion would be to put an intention out into the world that you would like to try and find an answer to your questions.

The universe, I hope you will find, is all too willing to share the gift of timeless wisdom to a sincere seeker!
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A friend of mine runs this one in Cambridge, really amazing tech:

Autonomous Marine Systems

http://www.automarinesys.com
A group of friends were playing and really enjoying this game but suffered from these may problem. We all fired up Visual Studio and started debugging while playing and found the problems your discussing, but the problem doesn't have a simple "throw more threads at it" solution because of the deterministic nature of the game simulation relying on the path finding.

What we were able to do was put a hack into the path finding code that bailed on one of the loops after X amount of steps. It made complex paths less accurate (clicking units across the map to attack far away) but actually made the game playable. We could actually control our units whereas with the lag it's completely unplayable late game with 3 players and 3 AI.
Given how many people believe fake news, you simply can’t deny it’s a threat. Not just for democracy, but also in healthcare (antivaxxers) and a host other areas.
I've got a template that I think will solve this kind of cross-talk. Here it goes:

What follows is an institutional critique.

Some content goes here, preferably with citations.

This concludes the institutional critique.

Once the header and footer is in place, the reader is not allowed to make counterarguments based on anecdata or moral speculation about the personal responsibility of the institution's participants.

HN users are perfectly capable of making these distinctions. I'm sure if I post a paper about timing attacks that leverage subnormals, nobody would complain that HTML5 users need to better educate themselves on IEEE 754.

Now that I write that, I'm not so sure-- so please always use the template above when making an institutional critique.
In the video Barron explains why going from odd to even is always easier than going from even to odd.
The population of all these countries is pretty much in the vicinity of seas disputed. The population of China is pretty much not (Hainan is one of the least populated provinces).
> ven if the worst case is true, in legal terms, and you decide that you're forced to redesign the system to make the right to be forgotten (and while I'm not a lawyer I really doubt that that is a sane explanation of the GDPR), then it's just some refactoring work. It's not fundamental to the design or business model of your app (you're a messaging app, not a "sell user data app")

Exactly. Unless the business model is built around collecting and reselling user data, then (without anymore context) it sounds like this should be a (slight) refactor, not an entire redesign.
IDK if this is what the OP is thinking, but Zuckerberg said something like "Anyone who thinks the election was rigged is missing the message that American voters had for the country."

EDIT:

> Mark Zuckerberg has rejected the notion that fake news on Facebook influenced the outcome of the US election, describing it as a “pretty crazy idea”.

> “Voters make decisions based on their lived experience,” he said at the Techonomy conference near San Francisco on Thursday.

> “There is a profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason someone could have voted the way they did is because they saw fake news,” he said, and anyone who believes that has “failed to internalize” the message supporters of Donald Trump sent during the election.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/10/facebook-...

He didn't say fake news doesn't exist; he said it did not determine the American president.
I just went through this - there's a tiny "downloads" link at the bottom of their page that takes you to https://1password.com/downloads/

I just went through this. Install v7, open it, unlock your vault, and it'll prompt you to try a subscription, with a tiny option below to just buy a license.
I can't fire it up right now as I'm away from a system, but does Atlas compare to the awesome famed Warcraft 3 editor (WorldEdit)
Yes he denied the possibility of it influencing an election. https://themoscowproject.org/collusion/zuckerberg-denies-fac...
I'm not sure, in that case, you're using Keychain at all.
Does the Right To Erase apply to archived backups? I.E. we delete an account, but it still exists in database dumps backed up to S3.
Whoa, if they mandated that on boats, I wonder if it could stop the spread of invasive zebra mussels between lakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_mussel#North_American_in...

One way they spread is by sticking to boats that owners take to a different lake without cleaning them. Cleaning isn't optional, but since it takes work it is unrealistic to believe everyone is going to actually do it. So despite campaigns to prevent it, zebra mussels keep spreading.
Right there may be more information, but none of that is personally identifiable without additional information- information that cannot be obtained legally or easily. So the IP is irrelevant.