skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like an interesting statement. What are the main differences in lending money at nation scale vs. local bank (or payday loan)? We can agree that both lenders are in it to improve their economical/financial stance? Beyond possible political levers, I can't think of how they are that much different.
Probably unrelated. This crisis is due to aggressive lending to unreliable parties, leading to mass default. The Lehman analogy is apt and to the point.
Time for laws on platform economies.
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If they just got in, didn't break stuff, didn't copy test papers or change grades, didn't victimise anyone - just took some electric and processing power - then they resisted a lot of temptation (or didn't realise quite the power they were holding).

Give the proceeds to charity, repay the electric from their own pockets (eg by doing chores), get them on a course or give them hardware to set up comps they can hack at legally.
Nothing strategic there. It would be bizarre and unprecedented to ban any e-cigarette flavour. There are thousands, and there’s nothing special about menthol.
It's really not clear what's going on in the Indian state.

IL&FS apparently has funded quite a large number of infrastructure projects, which unlike Lehman have tangible value. NHAI, the state highways agency is said to owe a great deal of payments to IL&FS (rumoured to be on the order of $ 5 B).
I... think it's important to know what's up. It especially helps to give a reason to participate in the electoral process.

But soooooo much political reporting nowadays is basically gossip columns. They talk a lot of inside baseball and completely neglect the "the thing happening is actually bad!" aspect. Instead of debating policy, people want to debate the optics of policies.

Cable news is awful about this, but I think newspapers are even worse with their opinion pages. People getting paid 6-digit salaries to just say what their opinion on a thing is! And of course with basically no fact checking. They're just bloggers!

Meanwhile the journalists twist themselves into knots to give the benefit of the doubt to the most cynical leaders we've had in decades. Unless one of them insults journalism, in which case it's a holy war. But if the discussion is just a policy position, there's no issue.
The subtract expression in Lisp looks like

(- my var)

because Lisp uses prefix notation. You would never run into ambiguities since there are no infix operators in Lisp at all.
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I wonder if they fear higher liquidity in cryptos leading to lower liquidity in bonds.
The school taped passwords for anyone's eyes. What did they expect? Based on the available info, all the boys did was use available login details, and installed remote login software and cypto mining software and played cia surveillance.

The school's extremely negligent / tech poor and they want to hide their embarrassment by blowing up the skills of the boys. Anyone who has used team viewer will testify that it's impossible to hide a remote viewing session from the client screen.

The boys should sue for entrapment.
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It. Alexa is a a device, not a person.
> but the interesting parts of Bell Labs, i.e. the ones we use today (UNIX, C, etc) wasn't any "fundamental research" either.

What about transistors? Don't we use them today?
You've just shifted the problem to "how to I buy bitcoin anonymously" because all the easy and obvious ways involve disclosing your name.
You look forward to "not having to worry about" a healthy network of independent service and parts manufacturers and instead pay 3x as much to have a service technician press a button to allow your car to continue operation every year until it reaches the planned obsolescence age and the manufacturer forces you to discard your perfectly functional car for "safety reasons"?
We might be doppelgängers. However, you do have to acknowledge that schools and budgets for education infrastructure will NEVER be adequate.
I do agree with your suggestions though: tap into those students and offer them an outlet, while stressing the ethical and legal concerns with this line of work.
I'm not sure who the planned intervention is for, but it looks very much like it's for the corporate sectors.

The MSME sector, which is touted to employ 92% of India's labour has widely been reported as having taken a very bad hit after the double attack of GST and demonetization. RBI on the other hand is said to favor vulture funds (resembling IMF's 'solution' during the Asian crisis).

Then again, the Indian state has let high profile defaulter escape with impunity in the past few years. There are indications that this was done consciously, through PMO/CBI intervention.

All in all, I have very little trust in any institution of the Indian state.
Indeed, in worst case scenario, a PC can hold like 20+ pieces of silicon running their own OSes. Even something as primitive as a PMIC, signal switch, or a USB hub can hold a fully features RTOS
My understanding (and I am not a historian) is that many of the founding fathers were not Christians (e.g. they were deists, agnostic, or atheists); however, they did come from a Christian culture and espoused/endorsed Christian ethical principles. There also were founding fathers who were Christians (e.g. Sam Adams, Washington, and Patrick Henry).

My interpretation of this is that America was founded based on Christian ethics, culture, and philosophy; even if many of the founders were not practicing Christians. In my opinion, this does not necessarily imply that America is/should be a Christian nation in the right wing/culture war sense.
Metafilter? Pretty sure the reason there are no arguments is they purged everyone who doesn't follow the groupthink. And the fee helps with banned people not rejoining ofcourse.
It helps that the community is smaller and we've had the occasional meta thread discussing rules & phenomenons, with moderators and active posters alike present. We also have a somewhat tight knit community of active participants & mods on IRC. I think this makes the whole thing more human.

There are other factors, for example downvoting because you disagree isn't seen as a valid reason for downvotes on Lobsters. In fact, when you downvote, you must specify a reason (there's a list of choices). Of course people can abuse the system, but I think it sort of encourages people to go down the right path.

The invite system probably helps keep worst of the worst out.

Tags help people ignore the topics they find frustrating.

Speaking of tags, all stories must be tagged and if you can't find an appropriate tag, the story most likely doesn't belong.

We've been trying to focus on purely technical content (and by that I mean really technical and not non-technical stories that are somehow related to technology) with some art, while avoiding politics, inactionable news, opinion pieces and the like. To be fair, as the community has grown larger, it seems like we've been slipping more and more from this ideal and opinion pieces about "practices" (that's a tag) and "culture" (yeah...) have gotten annoyingly common. We can still filter out those tags.

As for getting an account... I think there's something written about that on the site.
I'm wondering how one would break into a CCTV system without physical access. Are these systems connected to the internet?
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It is not. The difference is choice. Mass surveillance does not offer you a choice about participating, or ties that choice to some everyday activity. Putting an Echo in your home is a choice.
With the school being technically inept, how did they get caught?
Indeed, I suspect demonetization was in part a scheme to replenish the reserves of the state banks.
GDPR is only for European citizens
And with it, economic repair is dead.

Since we have both systems today -- a dealer/warranty sphere and an independent repair sphere -- it's easy to compare the two and to realize just what kind of nightmare we're signing up for by putting control into the hands of the manufacturer.
... of course low credit rate means money has a tendency to go into unproductive sectors (ala Japan's Bubble heydays).

(I'm glad to see Economist reflect my understanding.)
Maybe it's because nothing related to files is showing up. For example, Java has packages, classes, protocols (interfaces), methods, and documentation. All of these are visualized in a Java IDE. But Java _also_ has folders and files, so these need to be visualized, as well.

At least in Java there's a pretty clear mapping from packages and classes to folders and files. In PHP, the mapping is not so clear.

Edit: I'm not saying I agree with the author, I'm just pointing out one aspect.
Usds never "had it", it's always been handled by MULTIPLE contractors. This last version one contractor works on backed, one works on frontend, one is responsible for documentation and testing, and none of them communicate.
So close to my own memories! Back in Sydney the mid 90s at perhaps 15 I reconfigured a modem to allow for dial-in then explored the regional network of the NSW education department remotely in the evenings. The machine was intended to serve code, which we set up for diskless network boot and distributed games like Quake for network deathmatch (we also wrote our own from scratch, eg. we had a nibbles.bas hacking competition where we modified multiplayer single keyboard versions to add features ... I recall flamethrowers, mines and lasers). We also used to play crobots. I stopped exploring the network after teachers started perplexingly asking questions if anyone was in the school computer room later in the evening. Similar to the subject of this story, it was really just curiosity, and I was also later offered a job with an ISP as a result of the control obtained, where I made my first RIP advert mistake, learned to tar to and from tape, and other such fun. Also managed to intern at Fuji-Xerox where the Unix admin department had me learn bash scripting, walked me through cabling and network topology management techniques and I got to self-educate through a broad range of Cisco online learning courses. Fun times. Years later used essentially that body of knowledge to design and operate substantial Linux clusters. I have worked in many continents in areas as diverse as embedded, clustering, mobile, digital video, finance, and now run a robotics company in China. At the time I recall I just hungered for knowledge and wanted nothing more than a teacher to point the way to new areas. One of the accidental teachers who popped up on my periphery was Julian Assange, whose strobe got me in to protocol analysis and much reading of RFCs which resulted in announcing ~1999 many discoveries of undisclosed remote OS detection techniques across protocols like ICMP, IGMP, and even ARP. I've since written a few internet standards drafts of my own. Key insight for kids in these spaces ... it's harder to create a system and defend it than to find holes in them. The parents are correct to encourage building versus breaking. Breaking is very important also, however, but should ideally be encouraged with a parallel focus on professional ethical development and perhaps anthropological/philosophical insights as a personal frame of reference in to the established national/educational/legal bureaucracies who may otherwise seek to spurn talented and unique individuals such as these.
It has been demonstrated that it does not send network traffic apart from requests made to it; e.g. it is not continuously streaming data. Of course that could be changed at any time with a software update that you have no choice about accepting. To prove it is not recording locally could be much more difficult, but there are practical questions there. What media is it recording to, and if the recordings are never sent to the cloud, what is the purpose of keeping them?
The „etc“ is the word that turns a seemingly clear rule into an interpretation battle.

Etc here could allow almost everything or nothing. Depending on what argument you want to push.

Ultimately it’s Apple‘s walled garden and they have the final say.
Maybe I misinterpreted your reply. I thought you were implying that people who might not participate are more likely to be Democrats and that is why I should not encourage them. I am an independent. I have no party affiliation. I desire to reduce the power of the parties. Even if I were to choose a party, I want more participation, regardless of party. Many are cynical like you. This creates a feedback loop where people are more likely to be cynical. I am exploring ways to improve that.
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I have not seen a cogent explanation for the ban, other than their volatility. I suspect the ban is because of the fact that governments are wary of cash outflow from the country. This is a problem with developing countries, especially. I think probably crypto currencies are being equated with "hawala"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
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> Is there another choice?

Not yet, I guess. But the $35K Model 3 should be delivered mid 2019 and the first used sales should be available soon after. I doubt Tesla will decrease its prices (they're slowly securing the industry's profits, à la Apple).

I'd expect most people to spend more on EV than did on ICE. I wonder if this legitimate question (when people wonder how much to spend on an EV vs cheap ICE) will be later compared to the famous 2007 Ballmer moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycUOENFIBs :)
never going to be paid back

Many investors in government bonds don’t want to be paid back. They just want interest payments forever. So the rating is really just about the confidence that it will happen.

I was chatting to a guy from Sybase once who had written some special date-handling code at the request of a customer who was still handling payment streams from the time of Napoleon.
>And you're building a strawman with GDPR supporters, I don't think anybody said that nobody would ever try to abuse it.

I don't think the accusation is fair. All discussions I saw here about GDPR contained the line where opponents were raising the issues of trust to authorities, and supporters dismissing them.
Also happened to me when I was in high school, but luckily my mom was able to convinve the school to drop everything.

The school is not only incapable of provoding a quality education for these super smart kids, but they also were exposing everyones data in a negligent and reckless way. Where is the punushment for the network admin?

Seems like the real lesson here is dont be a black hat hacker, or at least if you are gonna do that, dont get caught no matter what. The truth is if they werent minors theyd be totally fucked for this. I imagine lots of us here had similar experiences. Its natural enough to want to explore and play with this kind of thing. But life isnt fair, and that is an important lesson we all have to learn at some point.

If I knew either of these guys I would hire and mentor them right now.
I don't think that's due to 'freedom of press'; I think it's probably more due to 'lack of intellect'. Don't worry this affects every other part of the world.
Google also does not prevent Alternative App Stores, or Sideloading.

For example I use FDriod as much as possible only using the Play Store to get the few non-open source apps I use
At the ETS in Amsterdam the system was set up in such a way that you only got so many compute seconds per schoolyear. I spent nearly all my budget defeating the accounting system so I could have unlimited computer access. That and drafting classes were the few interesting things in that school, the remainder was very basic electro technical and electronics stuff.
The thing you're missing is that government debt has an automatic expiry date to it, for example 10 years. So the question is, if I lend the US government my money for 10 years am I more or less likely to get it all back than if I lent it to a third world nation?

With the US gov whether the republicans or the democrats are in power I can reasonably assume I'll get my money back, can I say the same about the various political parties in a third world country were they to be elected?

The AAA/AAB style ratings are simply estimates of that reality.
>>You get a mechanic to look at for a couple of hours once a year and that's it.

The problem in taking it there as much as is paying for the privilege :)

Does anyone know if electric cars have less problems that require expensive repairs?
Exactly. Pension systems where generation i+1 pays for generation i are fundamentally broken. If the population size sinks, generation i+1 will pay more. If paying more and thus having less disposable income makes them defer having babies, you have your bad feedback loop right there.

A better and stable system is where generation i pays for generation i.
That study makes no mention of age groups.

People who vape know that flavors make it more attractive, and it's orders of magnitude better than smoking
I don’t really understand why figures like this matter, if people are willing to pay for the electricity at a profitable rate, then the grid infrastructure to meet that demand can be built. There must be very high global costs in maintaining the existing grid, but we don’t get breathless articles saying “global grid must find $x trillion or else blackouts will occur within 5 years”. If there was a sudden spike in demand there would be a sudden availability of private capital willing to meet that demand, the barrier should that occur would be equipment, materials and skill related, but I doubt it would be held back by access to capital.

Also, it doesn’t make sense to talk about “affordable electric cars” as a monolith. Electric cars are already cheaper than the alternatives for some people when you calculate Total Cost of Ownership, it depends on your requirements and use case. That will become mainstream step by step in different sections of the market.
Or... We could shift the model to one of purchasing miles, wherein we pay for actual transportation rather than vehicles.

Think of it like paying for thrust on jet engines rather than the engine itself. Then manufacturers are incentivized to optimize lifetime, efficiency, and maintainability rather than selling new engines.
"Alexa, John Smith is murdering me.".

Now, on my cell phone in the Alexa app, this text is present, regardless of anything else. Amazon also has this data. They absolutely have every command/request sent to them, even if the request was not understood/processed.
Everything is relative. Even with all the problems in the US, the world has decided that it is still where they should put most of their trust. Also, having the most powerful military means it can do whatever it needs to keep itself going (not that it necessarily will, but it can, so that adds to the trust).
Is it me, or are there 3:42 (three minutes, forty two seconds) of silence at the start of the video?
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The manufacturer recommended maintenance schedule for our EV consists of rotating tires, checking braking fluid and changing salon air filter.
This might not be relevant with modern systems, but about five years ago security camera systems were common where the individual cameras were connected to the local network and to watch them you would open some special program on a Windows machine. The cameras themselves had administration pages served over HTTP and they ran an ancient version of Linux.

Although I never tried, I’m guessing that all you would have to do is guess a password (not hard if it’s in a spreadsheet) to a UDP stream accessible through VLC. If you couldn’t guess the password, the software on the cameras is so old that you could find a plethora of exploits to use to get root and reset the password.
As others have pointed out, this makes no sense. Apple allows tons of apps in categories that compete with theirs. How many calendar or email or stock tracker apps are there? They make no money from Screen Time, whereas they do make money from apps sold in the App Store.

If they do kill this category of app, I’d say there’s a 99% chance it’s either for technical (for example battery drain) or more likely, privacy reasons.
And yet it is: https://onedrive.live.com/View.aspx?resid=5BB61284E6FFA69C!1... (note that the last column is the mean time spent in commute / source: https://www.bts.gov/content/commuting-work)
Which they did, described in article. As I was reading it I kept coming up with “why not X instead” and a paragraph or two later they recognized that point and addressed it to my satisfaction.
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I'm a bit like that. I think this is mostly due to living inside of my head most of the times, so when there are no people around very small part of my world is missing. Second factor is that (paradoxically) I'm very driven by people around me so when they are not there I feel freedom.

I also hate travel, because for me it's just suffering through bodily inconveniences and achieving nothing else than slight change of background, that's as I said is not a big part of my world.

For me, solitary sounds like the best, safest and least troubling place to be in prison.
Looking at the National Household Transportation Survey, I came up with 12½ miles as the average commute length.

Other sources report the average as 16 miles or most within 25 miles, with a very few up to 200 miles.

https://nhts.ornl.gov
https://www.creditdonkey.com/commute-statistics.html
https://itstillruns.com/far-americans-drive-work-average-744...

PS How cool is it that I can do even half baked data analysis on my pocket computer at the spur of the moment on such a thing. Didn't have to pay anything or even make an account. Thank you U.S. Department of Transportation.
Question: if I analyze 100 junk datasets and come up with 1 which has a statistically significant relationship (especially following some horrid-fit trendline like this) isn't there going to be some name for this?

After 100 datasets you're virtually necessarily going to come across these misleading conclusions, no?
Red-Black trees are isomorphic to B-trees of node size 4. If you take a Red-Black tree and put each black node together with all its red children into a single node then you get a B-tree of node size 4. An insertion/deletion algorithm for Red-Black trees gives a corresponding insertion/deletion algorithm for B-trees of size 4 and vice versa. Putting those nodes together in a single node probably improves performance already because you have fewer pointers, and you can improve performance further by increasing the size of the B-tree nodes to, say, 32 instead of 4.
Counter argument:
It’s not just you. When your privacy is invaded, that data can be used to damage all of us. Just as we saw happen during Brexit and the 2016 US election, where data collected on individuals was used to microtarget propaganda.

See Cory Doctorow on how privacy invasion socializes risk.

https://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-o...
Unfortunately what you are quoting is text written by a journalist, not a direct quote of a prosecutor. Since journalists often misunderstand everything about the subject of their discourse, there is no way to know what prosecutors are actually hoping to find.
> I would love to drive an EV, as the distances I drive are small, but Nissan Leaf is way too small for my family and a Tesla 3 would mean I'm paying a bit too much for that warm fuzzy feeling. Is there another choice?

Something like a Mitsubishi Outlander? You’d need to run the calculations, but $17k over the course of a decade in fuel and maintenance costs leaves a lost of leeway.
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