skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously Rockstar had to devote some resources to this question, otherwise developing cheats would be so easy no one would bother to buy them. Rockstar think they've spent enough, so now it's on the Australian courts to spend Australian public resources on this vitally important Australian public interest. One doubts that a developer of e.g. educational software could expect such generous treatment.
The systemic risk is that those defaulters now lack capital to spend on other things, e.g. mortgages. There's a lot of concern already around millenial home-ownership rates, for example.
TWC is owned by IBM as well. With TWC absorbing Weather Underground you would think they would continue to support the great work from wunderground. In reality, seems that is not the case.
Really? Who would have thought!
This is what happens after generations of brain drain. I wouldn't attribute it to malice, so much as the leftovers that didn't return to the west are running the show now.
You can chalk it up to Jordan Peterson and his fanboys insisting that white men are the most oppressed group in this upside down new world we live in. That segment really likes to paint Canada as the thought-police boogie man.
Hmm. It certainly exists for startups. I've been part of teams for many startups where the team is shitty, the idea is shitty, and the startup has no future, but they're able to get funded to the tune of $100k easily before they crash and burn. There are certainly no obligations attached to most VC money.

Meanwhile, if I want to build something sustainable, even if I'm willing to give up a decent share of my company, and submit myself to oversight of how this money is spent and great terms for repayment or equity, I can't get anywhere. VCs aren't willing to consider a $XX MM market, only a $XXXX MM market. Even for a good team and a good idea, I've gotten nowhere. I'm totally willing to give up some double-digit percentage of a company, I'm just not willing to have to risk $100k if I want to start a company that requires $100k.
Guide to User Data Security (updated)
Or we can do as many other nations do, adequately fund public universities (with cost controls on extravagance) causing market forces on private universities to be more price competitive.
Is it a safe assumption that any company on the list who was in operation as of October 2015 with a valuation below $300 million at the time was accepted into YC Continuity?
Is the Pope Catholic?
Maintaining anything like our lifestyle in a low-carbon world requires widespread electrical energy storage. (Nuclear plants cannot load-balance by starting and stopping. Fusion is unlikely to overcome this limitation in the foreseeable future.) Such technologies are in their infancy.

Political and economic reform may not be happening at the pace it needs to, but developing energy storage technology will go a long way towards being able to implement the reforms when people are willing to accept them.

The same argument applies to lab-grown meat and some kinds of carbon capture for industrial processes that necessarily release CO2, particularly cement and steel production. Ensuring that we have the technology makes it easier to use it when people are willing to.
On your first point I really don't think this is true in CA with community colleges providing a solid (relatively easy) path to the UCs. I was able to go from a local CC to a local UC and because of that I was able to finish with no debt. This lack of debt has afforded me a great deal of flexibility after college which has so far worked out well for me. Things would have been way different if I had a bunch of debt hanging over me.

Another positive about CCs is since they are so cheap you can actually take your time a find the right major for you. I tried a bunch of different stuff before something stuck and with the exception of opportunity costs that extra exploration cost me about $500. I consider that a pretty good deal.
> The most used websites such as Facebook or Twitter are proof that users don't really care about old school vertical rhythm.

Facebook and Twitter are aggregations of ultra-short-form mixed media content; vertical rhythm is a technique applicable (or at least most applicable) to long-form textual (or at least text-dominant) content.
Over the past few years, the increase in zero-effort contributions have all but destroyed the quality of discussions on HN. And you aren't doing anything about it. HN is looking more indistinguishable from Reddit and I'll be damned if I let that happen.

Civility should be reserved for people who are looking to argue and discuss in good faith.
That won't work.

Imagine a collection of average households, not much different from one another. Each household could spend 10 thousand dollars improving insulation, and with the cap and div scheme it would be paid back in 5 years. After 5 years you are net ahead, so that seems reasonable, right?

Except that with the improvements the money they make back is now less, because the total amount of money that gets paid into the cap-and-div is less, so they have essentially lost money, even though the system is supposed to the revenue neutral.

Granted in the real world it would be more complicated because not every household is the same, but the system would still not give us a free lunch.
They wouldn't be manufacturing it if there were no demand for it.
The saddest part to me is: Finance is purposefully something not taught in most high schools.

As soon as you are legally allowed to be bound to a contract, our own government swoops in and tries to steal your future life savings before you even have the knowledge to know what's happening.

It's predatory lending at it's finest. And the loans come directly from the government. AND they're the only loans you CAN'T default on.

I wonder if any government in history has ever been good to its people. But, man, does it really seem like governments now are really fucking the 90% over.
It's not easy to prevent cheating, especially in open world games. There's a pretty good high level read on this here - https://www.pcgamer.com/why-is-it-so-hard-to-stop-cheating-i...

In essence you pretty much have to delegate some of the computation of game physics etc to the client - doing everything on the server isn't going to scale. But the moment you delegate that to the client you open the door for cheating.

The current best practice in preventing cheating seems to be "referee" code that performs checks that what a player is doing is actually "sane" within the rules of the game. But in the end it's an arms race between cheats and anti-cheats, which means game companies are always going to be playing catch up.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231963.
Personally, I want us to find a way to hold universities accountable for handing out bullshit degrees that aren't remotely worth what they charge.

A dead give-away that there is a problem is that every degree costs the same to acquire. That is insane and archaic.
Kids today have it difficult!

A real computer, by definition is something you can program.

Today you don't just find accessible devices meeting that requirement in the wild.

In the microcomputer era you pressed the power button and you had a REPL prompt.

Today there _is_ a computer hidden somewhere inside you laptop or mobile device, but you need to know where to dig to find it.

In the 80s a newly hatched geek just had to crawl over the beach sand until he reached a device and it was a computer.

Today's kids are surrounded by computers, but they are all deeply embedded in the devices around them.

After hatching, a modern geek needs someone needs to break the husk around their device to get at the computer first.

So your recipe is exactly the recipe for exposing him/her to a computer.
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100%. I am not suggesting these characteristics are only found in a specific age group. I am suggesting that I find this to be true the older someone is. I still would like to believe that the majority of the issues are not true ageism.
The economic value of trust is staggering
> as good hardware is expensive

They don't need to sell hardware to achieve what they're doing. In the current form, they are mainly selling a service (SMTP relay on EC2) disguised as hardware (imx board inside a fancy box).

Why not charge the service for $100/year and allow anyone to use a Raspberry Pi and USB flash drive, which costs $35+$20? If they're using Linux on an imx, then there's likely little difficulty in porting to Raspberry Pi.
i suggest perusing the bibliography before you get your hopes up.
Gates is a hack, and so is anyone else more concerned about the carbon cycle than these things:

Sulfur Hexaflouride
Ah Nitrogen
Plastics in the ocean

Why are these things more directly important?

Sulfur Hexaflouride has no known stochiometic pathways.

Rampant one-way nitrogen conversion from noble to reactive species is killing the ocean literally, and to sustain ourselves, with or without meat; we continue to produce more every year for ag purposes.

Plastic use is so widespread and so bad the fish in your cabinet right now probably has plastic in it
I think it is more PR for technophobes and spiteful terror tactics to be "tough on crime" than anything else really.

Destruction of evidence is itself a damning crime which may be used to infer guilt and encrypting it after being subpoenaed or given a search warrant is pretty much destruction unless they reverse on request. Even with a destruction policy upon demand they need to pull out all stops or start making regular backups.
Can the normal customer service do that? And is it $50 a month or a one time fee? Were you able to unlock outgoing port 25? (Fellow AT&T user here)
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> They freeze the money in case you're guilty and try to run with it. If you're found innocent, you'll regain access.

this is the exact opposite of basis on which most legal systems are based on - innocence until proven guilty.

> If your objection is that freezing their assets is inhumane, that's incorrect.

no, that's their opinion. one i agree with. you can disagree with both of us, but that too is also just your opinion.

> ... granted a reasonable stipend

that is also your opinion, and also varies heavily based on what you mean by "reasonable"

> ... for the duration of the case.

and what if it takes two years?

be reasonable here. rockstar have made an immense amount of money from the GTA franchise. rockstar probably incur more financial damage from floating point rounding error.

the actions taken by the australian court system (one known for its.. reasonable decisions RE gaming) are catastrophically disproportionate.
We've been duped. It's a dupe! rimshot
"Collecting data" isn't really avoidable though, or is it? it has to store and display your call history. The beef I have is "We may use this information to inform the ads we show you across our platforms"
Not to defend the guy you're replying too, but it's quite a stretch to imply the author is in jail - or on the chopping block for, even.

The quote you originally had shoots down your complaints anyway, if you're upfront about it you can plan around it. And if people have strong preferences for same sex lodgings they can plan that upfront, or if not, maybe I'm misunderstanding your complaint?
In high school I made a tic-tac-toe game that implemented what I thought was a clever trick for its has-winner? routine: starting with a 3x3 grid of ones, I multiplied each of its rows, columns, and diagonals by a unique prime number. This results in a board that internally looks something like

238, 22, 494

21, 10659, 39

665, 55, 1105

so checking for a winner was equivalent to checking if the gcd of a player’s spaces was greater than 1.

Much less efficient! But it looks like I was on the right track in searching for compact numerical alternatives to traversing the board and measuring strides.

Edit: fixed an arithmetic error
1. stop using icloud for synching and storing stuff (since it goes through Apple and is not E2E encrypted as your devices don't share keys)

2. stop using publication stuff (gamecenter) since that's literally public information Apple broadcasts for you

3. that's about it, the rest is various accounts information e.g. your appstore/itunes purchases, your retail stuff, repairs, … basically your files at Apple, the only way to request that Apple does not generate it is to delete your account (which the portal lets you, there's an option to nuke your account entirely and permanently) and stop interacting with Apple entirely, or at least in such a way that they can link things together (e.g. appleid when purchasing devices, that kind of stuff)
How founders can be better designers (with no experience)
>That's why those platforms are so toxic. It's overrun with news media employees and spammed content.

4Chan isn't exactly overrun with spammers and it's the same toxic cespool that Reddit is (granted Reddit has better manners and at least pretends to emulate civil conversation). I don't think the news sites spamming their articles is more than a minor contributing factor.
The site seems to be down (403) - but I found some related pages:

IchigoJam BASIC on Raspberry Pi - https://ichigojam.github.io/RPi/

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/IchigoJam
I really need an open source composition of preexisting technologies that this product is trying to solve.
Is there some reason why it would be mal-adaptive for a plant to have both retinal (yellow and green) and chlorophyll (red and blue) photosynthesis? Seems like it would greatly increase the energy it could harvest, which would probably be especially helpful to a shade plant.
You spent 50x longer typing that than Trump spent thinking about it. That’s more the issue.
If the police can compel individuals to give up their passwords then none of this matters.
In the tradition of naming things terribly this is called std::nth_element in C++
Obviously! They make money running ads, that shouldn't be a secret anymore at this point. So of course they will collect information to inform them.

If you don't want that, then you and the other 3B internet users need to start paying for the services you use
A somewhat entertaining one is that a business in Quebec cannot have an English-only sign on their business; the sign must have French, and French must be more prominent than English[1]. Zooming out a little bit to the Canadian Charter, there's two significant pieces that are relevant:

- the limitations clause: "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."

- the notwithstanding clause: (too long to paste but here's Wikipeida's summary): "The Parliament of Canada, a provincial legislature or a territorial legislature may declare that one of its laws or part of a law applies temporarily ("notwithstanding") countermanding sections of the Charter, thereby nullifying any judicial review by overriding the Charter protections for a limited period of time"[2]

Basically, we have "freedom of speech", but it's not an absolute right, it's limited by "reasonable limits" (as decided by the courts). Further, even if the courts decide that some kind of provincial law violates the charter, the province can invoke the Notwithstanding Clause and continue enforcing the law. I'd argue that, in general, this all works out pretty well, but it's not really that strong of protection relative to the American Constitution.

[1] https://www.educaloi.qc.ca/en/capsules/language-laws-and-doi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Cha...
I would never have made it through Project Euler 1-100 without that thing
> - Resident state college education. This may mean delaying your start a year to establish residency but can pay off big time. UT Austin has an excellent CS program an in-state tuition is quite affordable last time I looked.

I was curious about this so I looked it up: Full-time students pay roughly ~$5.3-5.6K per semester, or ~$11K a year [1]. Easy to see how one would accumulate ~$50K in debt from just tuition expenses alone.

1: https://utexas.app.box.com/v/ug-tuition-18-19-long
> The most confusing is that I keep getting ads from the same company I bought my wedding ring at. Like, I’m not divorced, and I don’t need a second. Why would they re-target me?

I'm guessing there's a good reason for this. Did you visit the company's website? And did you buy in person? If so, you're seeing the online to offline problem: specifically, it's hard to correlate your online data with your offline data, so it's hard to tell the difference between someone who already bought a ring from somebody who hasn't yet bought a ring. And I'd bet most people who visited the website haven't bought a ring yet.

So you bring up an interesting point: this is an externality of 1. wasted ads, 2. irritation for the user, 3. a useless invasion of your privacy.
Anything is possible. You can never prove anything. In science/real life true means very likely and false means very unlikely.
So yes the simulation could be wrong, but I guess with everything we know and the error bars the answer was clearly no.
No, but the fact that OSI is just a random 501(c) that didn't even invent the term "open source" does.
Your points are important but at the same time it's inaccurate to discount the educational component. Good universities instill a sense of intellectual rigor in their students that carries across many fields--reading critically, expressing arguments clearly, and perhaps most of understanding what "good enough" really means when working on solutions to difficult problems.
Except for very specific niches of people who care about their privacy. Most people I have interacted with, don't care about this at all. I think that the real problem is how to make people more aware of the importance of their privacy. They only care about the usability and utility of the solution they're using. Which is unfortunate. But until they're more aware, nothing is stopping Facebook from doing this and lying to their teeth about it.
Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
> Article recommends indentation on first line of a new paragraph,

No, it doesn't, generally.

It notes spaced paragraphs are the norm on the web while indentation is common in print, explains how to do indented paragraphs properly on the web, and then recommends indentation for certain content, specifically “for texts that aren’t broken down into different sections, divided by titles or a lot of images.”

> but as far as I can tell, they use double (or at least extended) vertical spacing as paragraph seperation

And the article is divided by both titles every few paragraphs and frequent images, so it doesn’t fall into the class of content for which it recommends indentation of paragraphs.
Yes, that makes sense... but a bag of money exists nowhere else in the game... so why can the assets be spawned at all?

Part of that policing should be done server-side, especially with a max player limit of 32 per server instance (that's manageable).

The server should recognize not every single player in the instance can be set on fire simultaneously... and when a player dies and respawns, why is their player-state not reset? Instead, they remain on fire and die again and again and again...

There's definitely some low-hanging fruit Rockstar could fix to combat a lot of the griefing that goes on.
Internet-wide Catastrophe–Last Year (2005)
TL;DR: The Portal gadgets are built upon Messenger infrastructure and therefore collect the same kind of metadata which presumably ends up in the same big pot of information to be mined. That really doesn’t sound unreasonable to me and is actually kind of what any reasonable tech-savvy person would likely expect (it certainly matches my preconceived notions on the issue).
What is FusionAuth? Is this like an Auth0 or something like that?
Had a pleasure of setting up and running a personal mail server before, and honestly, unless you are highly technical and enjoy doing that, a consumer solution is nice to have. It’s not just the original setup that takes a long time, it’s configuration and maintenance, software updates, mail delivery hacks... Basically if you’ve ever wanted your own mail server, Helm should be it.
Did anyone mention Quicksort - one of the top 10 algorithms of the last century?
source: https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/lectures/23Quicksort.pdf
It is not even April 1st.
Doesn't the National Weather Service (U.S.) have a free API? Is it just not as full featured as WU's was?
Blurbs: Laser-Mounted Humvees, Conspiracy Theories, Web for Autocrats and More [pdf]
The crime is depriving a corporation of potential profit, that's the worst crime imaginable.
In the steady state cows are carbon neutral. CO2 form the air forms grass, cows turn grass into methane, methane decays into CO2, repeat. But increasing the number of cows increases the amount of methane in the air at any given time and methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Likewise, reducing the number of cows would lead to a reduction in the amount of greenhouse gas in the air.

Methane in the atmosphere has a fairly short half life of 7 years so the effects of increasing or decreasing the number of cows is felt relatively quickly.
The distribution by batch is pretty interesting:

S2011 10
W2012 10
S2012 9
S2014 7
W2013 7
S2013 6
W2016 6
W2015 6
S2016 5
W2014 5
S2010 4
S2015 4
W2011 4
S2009 3
W2008 2
W2007 2
W2017 2
S2006 2
W2009 1
W2018 1
W2010 1
S2008 1
S2005 1
S2007 1

The top three batches were consecutive starting from summer 2011 through summer of 2012. That period happens to also be when the seed and venture capital ecosystem started its recovery from the 2008 crisis [0].

What I wonder is, which way does the arrow of causation point? Did the success of these companies lift the entire ecosystem? Or were macroeconomic factors the dominant driver of capital entering this market, and those three batches happened to benefit?

edit: There's another possibility here, which is that there are two curves that may have maximized for companies around that time period. The first is the batch size, which has increased from ~10 companies to ~100 over the years. And the other curve is that companies take something like 5-10 years to mature. Maybe it's just that the companies of that vintage are just old enough to be really valuable, and that there were enough companies in the batch to push them to the top of this ranking.

My money is on macro effects, though.

[0] https://medium.com/the-mission/state-of-seed-investing-in-20...
Agreed! I was there recently and although I have been a CTO and done pretty damn well with several areas of the business, I wasn't quite good enough at a technical test that required the use of Regexs without being allowed to use an online reference!