skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could this be a manifestation of power law at work through historical accidents/events? i.e., the amount of information in the vogue about countries is distributed as a power law with ~20% of countries like the US, China taking 80% of the share of international headlines.

But I do remember Scientific American(mention unintentional, but could be the same power law) debunking power law's presence in many networks.
You appear to be a Star Citizen backer. The composition of those statements are a dead giveaway because it contains all the same talking points you guys spread around to attack him for voicing his opinions on the project.

Line Of Defense isn't crowd-funded. It was released on Steam Early Access. His games traditionally take a long time to develop and release because they are complex, and he doesn't have a large team or resources.

Comparing an indie funding his own games to a company that has taken over $200 million Dollars in crowd-funding, and also investor money, is laughably foolish.
Well, "it is stated that at least US$3.5 billion has been stolen from Malaysia's 1MDB state-owned fund" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Malaysia_Development_Berhad)

Even if guilty, what GS has to do with any debt beyond what it raised for 1mdb (us$6b)?

You write: "Given that GS was the underwriter and allegedly the key enabler of the scandal, punishing GS by making them pay at least the majority of those taxpayer losses seems unjustified or unfair to you? What amount do you believe is fair?"

But from reading the first paragraph under the History section here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Malaysia_Development_Berhad

it is clear that by the time Goldman started raising money for 1mdb (2012 if i am not mistaken), a lot of money been raised already, i.e. GS wasn't the key enabler.

So why blame Goldman for all the debt accumulated under 1mdb?
FWIW I've got a Samsung S8, and I'm located in Norway.

Points 1-3 has not happened to me, or if it has so rarely I can't remember. Point 4 has happened, though I've since set my phone to prefer cellular, which to a large extent mitigates this.

Point 5 I experience a variant of. My phone is set to not connect to open/random AP's, so I don't have directly the issue mentioned. Rather I see the phone clinging on to a known AP for too long, where switching to cellular would be better.

For example when I'm on my way home, I want to check the real-time bus schedule. By the time I've loaded up the app, I'm on the outskirts of the wifi AP's range. So for a minute or so I'm without any internet while my phone tries to get in touch with the AP before finally giving up.

Ideally my phone should have noticed that the range to the AP is declining steadily and that I have good cellular coverage, so it should have switched proactively when the wifi signal gets very low.

Overall though, both calls and internet just works for me.
The this I refer to is "the principle of etendue": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etendue

and I agree it's counterintuitive and it's OK for people to come up with ideas, but when you hit the point of "hey, the thermo people have a nice collection of proofs demonstrating this, and it fits very well with the underlying theory, oh, and if you do manage to violate etendue, you could probably build a perpetual motion machine", if you willingly continue to argue and get shot down, it's time to go back and re-read the books.

BTW, what's your obsession with Monroe? What he's referring to is a scientific phenomenon, Monroe is just a science popularizer, and if he got the details wrong- well, the point of xkcds like that is more to inspire people with ideas, than get the exact details right.
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Are you in the EU? If you are, then you are covered under the 'right to be forgotten' (article 17 of the GDPR[0]). Otherwise, you are likely out of luck.

[0]: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
I think it would make people think about risks and start feeling unsafe. Bad for business, so that wouldn’t be implemented.
> any accusation of appointment beyond merit is just a lot of speculation and rhetoric.

Juxtaposed with:

> Boston Consulting Group, and PWC have decades long record of employing 20 something scions of officials for well paid senior positions in every major country you can think of.

Asks for some citation or proof.
With a sufficiently isolated vacuum flask containing the tender and with an optical opening only large enough to view the moon, you wouldn't even need to concentrate the scattered light from the moon. The temperature of the inside of the flask would eventually reach the approximate blackbody temperature of the reflected light from the Sun (corrected for whatever frequencies are absorbed by the Moon).

The only reason the moon's surface doesn't reach such high temperatures is that the moon's surface is not thermally isolated from the rest of the night sky or from the body of the moon itself (which is also not isolated from the night sky).
> will try to keep the Indians in a state of limbo, ready to deport them at the drop of a hat. Which of course won't work at these kind of numbers, anyway

Well, worked for the US with H1B/20 year wait time for EB2
You’ve really never heard of Sichuan, Hunan, or Canton (aka Gaungdong) ?
Slack banned anyone who had accessed their account from an embargoed country, regardless of if they were citizens or not and if they were there or not.
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It would probably be better if the US stopped allowing US companies to cruise from US ports carrying primarily US passengers using boats flying foreign flags--all so the company can avoid US regulations.
I spent few years building the elements for my Unified Communication project
I spent countless hours building the necessary technology to make possible Fonoster Inc. As a solopreneur with almost no budget and only few hours a day available for this project, I knew I had a low chance at winning. By the time I had an MVP companies like Twilio were years ahead.

It was fun and I learned a lot, but it is time for me to move on. I already published several projects on github, but today I wanted to share the core element that makes possible to create VoIP networks.

Github repo: https://github.com/fonoster/routr
UBI-based money would resolve that issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18635547
I took two cruises each year 2017 and 2018, and I'm not retired. I also flew somewhere on vacation those years, more times. The stats mean, some people have leisure time.
Are you seriously saying that opinions of ONE man is somehow so important to the success or failure of a $200M crowd-funded company?

There has to be a reason why you guys always can't seem to help but drag him into all your discussions about Star Citizen. That's how ALL of you made him an integral part of the discussion. And that is how you all gave him the power to shape the narrative, while aiding in the complete destruction of the reputation of the project.

He says so himself:

http://www.dereksmart.org/2015/08/star-citizen-how-i-got-inv...
This is very similar to the "Minimum Energy Curve" fairness metric, which minimizes sum of of bending energy, which in turn is proportional to curvature squared. And, thanks to basic physics, curvature is proportional to the centripetal force given a constant velocity.

The problem with MEC is that it tends to optimize for low tension; for inputs that are not well behaved, it sometimes optimizes for infinitely low tension, ie an infinitely long road. So there are other metrics, like Minimum Variation of Curvature, that work better for actual spline use, even though they have an energy metric that's "worse."

These curves are absolutely useful for path planning. A lot of the literature on "clothoids" from a hundred years or so ago is on transition curves for railroads. The G2 continuity condition basically means that you never have to suddenly turn the steering wheel to follow the curve, it's always moving continuously.
there is credible, replicable, evidence that CBD is effective for a number of problems. You do need to be an expert in drugs and scientific literature to appreciate this. I don't generally use appeal to authority, but this is a case where I am knowledgeable (20+ years in drug discovery, interest in CBD) and have read enough literature to see that there is enough evidence to pass the necessary bars.
How Technology Is Slowly Killing You?
>looking at submissions from that domain, I think the writing in a couple of the other articles seem very similar.

It's a quick webpage creator, akin to pastebin with formatting[0], so that won't tell you much about the author.

[0] http://txti.es/about
I bet the median is one per year though. Out of everyone I know who goes on cruises, they just go once a year.

I imagine there are quite a few people that go multiple times a year that would pull the average away from the median. Cruises are often cheaper than retirement homes and provide better service assuming the passenger does not have a serious ailment.
In EU, there's an unspoken rule for cars to report speeds inflated by 5%.

This is possibly based on an old research of SAAB which used a reverse logarithmic speedometer, giving feeling of exaggerated acceleration until 120-130 KM/h or so. Then the scale tightened so much that going significantly faster didn't move the speedometer that much. Also the needle hit top left quadrant much faster, hinting that you're going really fast.

Also, EU uses L/100KM concept instead of MPG. When the speed is 0, most cars switch to L/h scale. Toyotas also show an infinity symbol when in MPG mode while the speed is 0.
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"Extradited", re: recent news about their CFO being detained in Canada on a US charge
You are not arguing in good faith. WHile I agree with the statement, "Most sellers of CBD oil are outright committing fraud with claims they make", the legitimate scientific establishment has demonstrated several valid applications. The scientific community never claimed it was a cure-all.
Maybe your car GPS is reporting higher? All cars I've driven were reporting %5-%10 more.
Yeah not electron, but chromium, etc. I figured it’s a similar end result.
What long run harm in Europe are you talking about?
Nah, all Japan would need to do is teach abstinence-only education.
Im not suggesting 'waterfall' . As far as I'm concerned waterfall was conceived simply to be an bad example.

I can sum up my point very quickly..
They used CryEngine.. Maybe the worst possible choice imaginable for this kind of game. They needed someone early on to choose not Cryengine, to choose some tech-stack that they wouldnt be fighting a constant losing battle against.
Suggesting that one political party "have become power hungry" is just not good optics. It's definitely the case though that R policies generally lead to more affordable child-rearing and household formation - and I just can't tell why some people here are bringing up "religiosity" as if it had any relevance to this basic fact. The affordances there are what's very different, regardless of any additional difference in inclination.
> Each of their component countries have their own president, their own political countries, and in a good part and their own policies, besides the group common policies.

US states have their own governor, their own political counties, and in a good part and their own policies, besides the common group policies.

> Would you put California, Wall Street, Shenzhen and a few more at the same level as countries?

Tennessee has approximately the same population, GDP, land area, etc. as Ireland. Texas was an independent country before it was a state.
It's very good, but I think the problem is "too many parameters." In some contexts that's fine (animators are used to it) but in others it might not be ideal. People don't use that spline for font design work; why? The Hobby spline has a tension parameter, which is said to be "very useful" in the paper, but when Apple adapted it for Pages, they left it out of the UI. Was that a mistake, or did they make an informed user experience tradeoff? (Incidentally, I believe tension is in there, as part of the illusion of extensibility, but deeply hidden)

So whether this spline is better for, say, animation, is what I consider a fascinating research question. Hopefully putting it out there will start to get answers.
Their recently released financial accounting is all the evidence needed to show that not only was Derek Smart right when he claimed in July 2015 that the game could never be made for $150M (they had raised $85M at the time), but also that it could never been made as has been pitched by Chris Roberts.

https://cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/corporate/cfo-comment-20...

Right now Star Citizen is barely a proof-of-concept tech demo, while Squadron 42 which was coming in 2014, is still almost 2 years away from BETA.

After blowing through $200 million of backer money, in May 2015 they sold 10% of the company to an off-shore investor for $46M to continue funding development. And Derek Smart was the first to leak that info as well, and almost a full week before CIG made it public that this was in the works since May 2018 (when Derek Smart first leaked that something was in the works).

http://dereksmart.com/forums/reply/6792/
GS already has a rotten reputation. I don’t think they care.

Both point are also true for Facebook, if you want an example closer to our industry, to understand the people and motives involved.
Dashboards are user or factory configurable. Our Ford Focus had a button to change between L/100KM and MPG.

My friend's VW Bora's dashboard was OBDII configurable. The options were Japan/US/EU IIRC. Setting to US not only changed it to MPG scale, enabled the door-open beeps. :D
Huh? I've never been through a single coding interview that had nothing to do with the job. Would you mind sharing some of your experiences?
Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?
What's your favourite talks of 2018? It can be anything, programming, management, life, anything.
The trick is, of course, if the boat at least makes a 'technical stop' in another country on the cruise, then it's totally fine to be a non US flagged boat.
It's not really a company, just me, but I'm making a music video game. And yes, the last few months have been a burst of creativity, after something of a slump the first half of the year. Leaving Google and going out on my own has been good for me. Now, if only I had a source of income...
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> I was surprised that the Korean War barely stood out compared to most other conflicts

Especially with regards to more controversial conflicts, this says more about what NYT chooses to drive. I'd argue in many cases they attempt to deliver narratives instead of reacting on them.
Indeed, in a similar vein, it's impossible to open the windows more than just a crack in college dormitories any more.
In China many of the top party officials are billionaires. Vladimir Putin is widely believed to have massively enriched himself during his reign.

Even in the US many politicians are far, far wealthier than their official salaries would suggest is plausible.

Update: By the downvoting I know that you all know I mean the Clintons.
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Show HN: “i_before_e_except_after_c” is bullshit
Server-sent events might be a good fit here.

Note that SSE belongs to the content layer (HTML) rather than the transfer layer (HTTP) so its specifically about notifications to active clients about content changes to resources they're observing.

Here's someone describing their experience with it: https://medium.com/axiomzenteam/websockets-http-2-and-sse-5c...
I'm bummed that the raw string literals are delayed, but the new switch statement does look nice.
Best comment I've read this year.
Thank you. As you note, the story here is very clear. It's under GPL so there is no friction for it being used in open source creative apps like Inkscape, and for uses outside GPL I want people to buy an exception[0]. I've had success with this licensing model in the past and am hopeful it can continue.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.en.html
It should totally be possible, I trust without clicking that they have an impressive proof of concept. But I've never seen it implemented in a commercial product. The only purpose would be when GPS is not available (indoors? Perhaps in a cave or on a space station? Not very common scenarios to not fly on auto pilot), so it makes sense that nobody bothered.
I read the Billion Dollar Whale book about the scandal and there are a lot of references to western/global financial companies sending up red flags about 1MDB for years and years, but then some companies (or parts) would turn their head for a contract. Goldman Sachs private banking wouldn't give Jho Low (the apparent mastermind behind it all) a private banking account b/c they thought he was going to launder money through it. 1MDB fired one of the Big 4 auditors every year, because their books were shady.

Giant investment firms like Goldman Sachs do their own due diligence before entering in any deals. They did several deals with 1MDB over the years, and the corruption should have been obvious earlier if they actually cared to check for it.
What are some of the bullet points you've learned here?

I learned a ton from working for other CEOs, which put me in a great position to see what to emulate and what to ignore.

I'm having a hard time understanding what can really be teased out of watching someone do a day's CEO work for 4-8 hours, so curious what you have personally taken away.

(PS - I am going to give this a try because I do think it can be valuable, but I feel like you'd need to go in with a mindset that you shouldn't just blindly copy others)
Java 12 is not a long term support release and will only be supported until September 2019 (so don't switch to it in 2 years :).

Interesting to see the faster pace releases to get feedback on features, but many major libraries are just getting Java 11 support.
> Anyway, that also means the US doesn’t dominate as much as you might think.

Look at Berlingske today. There's a story about the US/China trade war that's brewing, there's a story about the US stock market going down, there's a story about the US government shutting down, and a story about a hypothetical US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

By contrast, there's an opinion piece about Ireland and Brexit. And there's story about Germany and China.

And it tends to be like this. All the other countries are there from time to time, but the USA is always there x3.
I don't think anyone would say an apology is sufficient response. It's only a necessary component of a full response. But if a company screws up the apology right off the bat (as so many companies do), you can tell that things are not going to turn out well for them. So it's pretty interesting that so many companies (and individuals) write such bad apologies, so much so that it's pretty rare to see an apology even as good as this one.
I don't know. What if you need to abandon ship?
As someone who simply dislikes the half-baked approach of HATEoas and its alternatives, this anew approach suits me better.
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U2F support in Firefox should work out of the box if the developers use the WebAuthn API and not the old JS library: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/using-hardware-token-based...
Given the shockingly naive comments about drone disabling being proposed, I'm going to assume only a very tiny handful of people who visit this site has ever flown or seen a drone before. Let's cure some of this naivety:

- GPS jamming doesn't jam video feed.

- Wifi and radio jamming doesn't stop landmark-driven/return-to-home navigation.

- UK refusal to fire on the craft is absurd because rubber bullets, simunitions, and less-than-lethal rounds are more than capable of destabilizing the hull and structure of the craft... while inflicting no damage on distant landed craft or personnel. (I wouldn't expect HN to know this, tbh)

-Sending piles of off-the-shelf consumer drones up to ram into it would have been sufficient as well.

Because of those last two points, the bumbling incompetence of UK security forces suggests to me that this event is purely pretext for even more rigid anti-drone legislation in a country that already has extreme anti-drone legislation. If true, then the question is, "What has changed that has made Airstrip One suddenly paranoid about drones?"
I saved this page from the English Wikipedia as input.txt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinz%C5%8D_Abe

C:\Users\local\tmp>python --version
Python 3.7.1

C:\Users\local\tmp>python foo.py Diet Parliament
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "foo.py", line 7, in <module>
text = f.read()
File "C:\Users\local\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\encodings\
cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 107: char
acter maps to <undefined>

Imagine I wasn't a developer who has spent dozens of hours on fixing encoding problems in Python. Imagine I'm just some person using some software I've been given and this is what I encounter. Can I actually complete my work? Is this a good user experience?
I don’t think there’s any technical reason they couldn’t - often on military ships around helipads the barriers around it are netted and fold down when it’s operational so you don’t fall off.

Bit cruise ships are huge. For fall nets to be really effective, you’d probably have to have one under every level you could fall from. Some of these things are dozens of storeys tall - if you just had one around the bottom, it would have to stick out and be absolutely massive. Either way, the cost would be phenomenal.

If they really wanted to make it completely safe they’d just make the balustrades taller than average head height and with no gaps a person could fit through, or put mesh screening all around or glass or something. But that would probably be ugly and would diminish the view people are paying for. So they’ve made the trade off.
> What good does it actually do to know just the names from memory. Without any context they are rather useless.

Point is if you don't know any names, you don't know any context either.
I hadn't and wouldn't flag it; but FWIW, I found it presented no meaningful contribution, and they try to avoid that sort of thing on these forums.

Honestly, it sounded like you took any opportunity, no matter how remote, to put a couple of soundbites from a domestic politics menu. They may be your fervently held beliefs, that's great, but if your goal is to persuade,you need to provide backing and details and reason; if your goal is to contribute, it has to be connected to conversation at hand; if your goal is to rant, mission accomplished but not everybody is interested in this forum becoming a soundbite board.

There's an international audience here, and though we're all amply aware of US politics and have our own opinions, discussing Japanese demographics and as a non-sequitur injecting "Democrats are trying to bring in people to vote for them", well... if you cannot see your post from other people's eyes, you may be too deep into specific partisanship for a random person on the internet like me to aid.

(additional two points:
- I would react the same way no matter which side is picked; I don't like Michael Moore any more than Ann Coulter, Al Franken more than Glenn Beck. There's people who want to engage in meaningful discussion, and there's people who want to spew soundbits and propaganda.
- That being said, on average Hackernews audience does have an overall leaning, which your post may have gone against)

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