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>The courts aren’t there to set law, that is for the legislature

I hate this meme. This is explicitly not true in the American legal system, as well as similar systems evolved from the British one.

Case law is just as much part of the law as statutes are.

This is the fundamental difference between common law systems and civil law systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#Common_law_legal_sy...
fyi, i thought about creating a product to automate officiating of sports, but it’s quite complicated to get right, especially for extremely faced fast paced sports, like basketball, you basically need to take video of different angles and process that frame by frame. sportsvu was technology that is able to track things like whether the shooter is behind or on the three point line, but hasnt gotten to the point where it can monitor fouls and such.
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UBS's market cap is $46B. After this was announced, their stock fell 4%. This drop, if permanent, would equate to a loss of ~$1.84B in market cap.

There are many factors that could be influencing price, but if we attribute this 4% delta entirely to the announcement, the market is guessing the actual penalty will amount to $1.84B. This could be bc the market thinks UBS can appeal with a 50% success rate, or can negotiate the penalty down by 50% with high certainty.

Edit: I hadn't considered tax implications. If UBS is able to deduct these penalties pre-tax (which I'd assume they would), then it suggests that they are very likely going to have to pay the full penalty. Of course, this is all guess work. e.g. the market could be scared that this sets a precedent for future additional penalties which would decrease the signalling towards full payment on this penalty.
Over an undefined time span it isn't zero-sum, but on a day-to-day or year-to-year basis it might as well be zero-sum unless you can somehow get the world economy to grow faster than a few percentage points at a time. Especially when so much of that growth is tied up with not very liquid capital assets of a much smaller demograph of wealthy people.
To drive home just how bad this is in the EU, a few days ago the European Commission posted this astounding blog post on Article 13: http://archive.is/snRgE

They pretend that they're helping ordinary citizens fight back against the big internet platforms by creating this law that only big platforms stand a chance of complying with. That they're helping tip the balance in favour of creators by forcing platforms to kill their livelihoods through false positives and outright extortion attempts. That anyone who sees this as it actually is has been brainwashed by the evil, foreign Californian big tech.

They're also the only institution with the power to propose new EU laws - and there's essentially nothing we, as ordinary citizens, can do to replace the current members with people who might actually care about our interests. They're appointed through a process so indirect that any vestige of democracy is practically homeopathic, and they're not even meant to represent us in the first place.
> By artificially inflating the valuations of their old fund, they can demonstrate high performance to LPs, which may help them raise more capital for the new fund.

Where is the line between that and a ponzi scheme? How legal the artificial inflation is? Or is it that the valuation that's being artificially inflated isn't a return per se, but rather highly correlated with returns?
You can never know if a clock is showing the correct time unless you have another, known good point of reference.
There's a potential downside; some commentators may attenuate a strongly held opinion if they discover it is more polarising than they believed. Watering down debate isn't (usually) healthy.

(Rationally speaking, none of us will lie on our deathbeds wishing we'd collected more points in the internet popularity contest, but it's only human to change behaviour in response to external measures)
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Have you not heard Europeans talk about the EU? Pretty much everyone agrees that it's slow, cumbersome, and doesn't address a lot of problems quickly enough. It's also significantly more complex[0] by further dividing the executive position, compared to the American system, and it's only got 28 states.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union#/media/File:Org...
The decision was about whether the 8th applies to states. The lower court is now instructed to evaluate whether the fine was excessive, which it obviously was.
> While certainly child predators are an issue

In what sense "child predators" are an issue? Because they leave disgusting comments?

> perhaps your daughter will grow up preferring to have a more private life

... or perhaps she will grow up preferring to get as much publicity as possible. But if her parents do not publish that video on YouTube - she would lose that opportunity.

In any case, this publishing decision is in hands of her parents, and clearly, parents made up their mind (and decided to publish that video).
Google photos is awful. I do use it (in fact that is where my videos go by default), but sharing stuff isn't a good experience.

If I was worried about the public seeing stuff, I'd just make things unlisted, and sometimes I do.
> I'd love to have it require a comment (reason) to downvote

This has been something I’ve wanted to see in Reddit for a while now. I just recently learned that lobste.rs has this feature, and some other interesting stuff like a public mod-log.

https://lobste.rs/about

I’d like to add a disclaimer that there may be very good reasons not to do this on Reddit or HN, of which I am not aware.
The sound issues I've been running into are not limited to a single type of output. When the sound is out on my computer it is out for internal speakers, Bluetooth, HDMI, USB, and 3.5mm AUX.
I don't see how anything I said was special pleading. You set up a challenge that purported to test whether this content was pornographic. I answered the challenge. It was a bad criteria from the start (as in the answer to the challenge was irrelevant), but I played along.

> I don't know that I could do better than this video did at that stated goal.

What is this supposed to establish? That creeps can get off on this video? Creeps get off on mundane things all the time. It establishes nothing.

>Perhaps legally it doesn't cross a line but can you honestly say that you'd leave your daughter in the care of the person who made this video to do the same?

Since the artists in the video are generally those creating it, sure.

Presumably you mean would I leave my daughter in the care of someone who enjoyed such videos. If I knew them, sure. If I didn't know them, it wouldn't really add much information. It would slightly alter my prior against them, but that's not saying much. In the space of non-pornographic things that creeps would get off on, this video surely ranks higher than average. But this isn't an indictment of the content.
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Don't know if that fact that this is pretty close to reality makes it funny or sad.
It's true, however, if we look at what impacts the money that VCs actually get themselves, "help them raise more capital for the new fund" only matters if they're having trouble with raising that round (as I mention in the post above).

In normal circumstances, where they can raise the amount the next round should have (i.e. one that they can invest with a good return) this isn't helpful. More capital for the fund doesn't necessarily benefit them - they need enough pledged money for the fund, but if they get the ability to pay twice as much for the same startups, that only decreases their take-home carry after the fact; if they have so much capital that they have to invest it in worse startups just to invest it in the expected timeline - that means worse results and less profit for them; if they raise extra capital for the fund that's sitting unused, then it decreases their overall profitability ratios and again means less profit for the VCs personally.

However, if it's difficult for them to get enough investors for the next round (e.g. during an economic downturn) then yes, in such particular cases the PR advantage might be useful. But it's not in most cases, and not now, and the impact isn't that much - the organizations who invest in VC funds (i.e. the limited partners) aren't stupid as well, they can afford to do a lot of due diligence and all the data for the valuations and discussions and doubts about the valuations is available for them. You could just as well argue that if they inflate valuations, then the community of limited partners might think that they're not prudent with their money and avoid investing in their next fund. PR smoke and mirrors works well on the general public, but less well (though not at zero effect) on the large investing institutions.
The sorts of fatigue damage you get from cyclic loading aren’t necessarily a problem for the materials applications they’re targeting. Take the diamond transistor the my talk about — the idea is to apply an elastic strain that’d nominally constant through the lifetime of the device, giving you nominally constant (engineered) electronic properties.
I had no idea this existed, and you just made my day with it.
I hate this attitude. My super cheap budget android phone isn't getting updates, obviously the only solution is to switch to an iPhone that costs 4 times as much. Never mind that there are also Android phones that get updated just as long for the same price as the iPhone. Clearly all Android devices are absolutely identical no matter the price.
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What? No, words mean different things in different contexts. For example, to most people a "graph" means a thing with an x and y axis, but to computer scientists it means a thing with nodes and edges.

So yeah, in certain contexts hacker means someone who breaks into computers. In the context of this site (and MIT culture where the term came from) it means someone who draws on their creativity to make something cool.
Yes it is, that is literally why the Framers gave them the veto power.

The modern conception of the veto as a political power rather than as one of constitutional defense was invented by Andrew Jackson.
It's even worse than that, because laws like this are created and pushed for by the European Commission which isn't elected and doesn't really represent the countries or the people of the EU.
Personally I've long wished we would just get rid of any type of approval signalling behavior for comments (across the web too, not just HN or reddit). Probably (almost certainly likely) in the minority on that one, though.
This is kind of cool, but probably the better link is https://hackingmaterials.github.io/matminer/ which actually talks a bit about what is and how to use it
Actually, from the article it's unclear if he's beaten the S&P500 as an investor. It doesn't mention much about what he invested in before 1980, but it does say he lost about $50 million dollars in a margin call in 1982 so he was already quite wealthy either from BPI (the company started in ~1971) or from investing in the 60's/70's.

If his total investments at that time was $100 million, which seems somewhat reasonable given how much he lost in the margin call, investing that in the S&P500 would be worth $4 billion today, which is quite a bit more than the $2.3 billion he's actually worth.

That's also ignoring his currently $10 million a year income from BPI, so he could have spent 100% of that money.
I think flies can detect carbon dioxide levels to find their hosts (https://journeynorth.org/tm/crane/co2_traps.html)

Why is this fact never mentioned in this article, and did they do any analysis on how wearing a coat can affect CO2 levels around a horse's body?
How do members of the EC come into power?
Surely you meant to say that it's a strong signal of not being completely candid, or of being disingenuous :)

I like the perfectionism vs progressivism thing. My analogy would have been that it's like "the truth": if you think you're in full possession of the full truth, or ever could be, that's silly. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to learn more, be more honest, and so on. "truth" with a small t is still a useful concept. But it's always subjective, and requires people figuring that out both alone, with nothing between themselves and their conscience, and together (which will never change it to being objective, or completely agreed upon by all, or mean 100% the same thing even for two identical twins who "totally agree" on it).

Just like one could say we are the "result" of what our cells are doing all the time (I know you really couldn't simplify it like that at all, but for the sake of argument), society is the result of the daily decisions of the actual people in it - what they think others expect of them, and whether they listen to that or their inner voice, and so on.

It seems to me many want to change society "on" others rather than with them, you might say they would rather attempt to change society on a drawing board to change their neighbours, than get to know their neighbours and themselves in the first place. But societies aren't really that different from personal relations and families. People grow over time, societies grow, decay or heal over time, too -- not as the result of turning a switch or throwing out everything that was before on a dime, just because we really want to.

> Until now the totalitarian belief that everything is possible seems to have proved only that everything can be destroyed.

-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
Is it common that teams sell out a stadium with a bad record? I know there's the Cubs and some other "lovable losers", but I wasn't under the impression that it was exceptional. White sox ticket prices/sales seem responsive to their record.
The amount of restraint shown depends largely on the issue and justices. One of the most infamous overreaches was the Dred Scott case where the court went way beyond the issue at hand and essentially decided the case was invalid because of the defendant’s race.
I... don’t think any of these movies have remakes?

If by the thing you mean the 2011 film, that was a prequel. It had few redeeming qualities, but thing it did unreasonably well was faithfully reproduce specific elements that were shown to have occurred previously in the first film.
The way they’ve formulated the problem, yes, I agree with you. There’s nothing really special about the deep learning model they used, and in fact they also tried gradient boosted decision trees.
> You know what I spend my efforts worrying about? Her getting hit by a car. Drowning. You know, real things.

Privacy is a real thing, and worrying about it isn't mutually exclusive with any other concerns. I'll be honest and say I'm somewhat disturbed by your whataboutism and nonchalant deflection of the fact you're pervasively invading your child's privacy and posting it online for all to see, consent be damned. Yes, you "see no reason" to be concerned, and that's your choice to make as a parent, but at the same time it's an extreme stance you've taken when, as other commentators have pointed out, the safest and most logical thing is to be more conservative with sharing such information.
Hahaha now I'm at 271
I think that norms are what are keep them most things in check and to preserve legitimacy they rule mostly on constitutional issues but I'm sure they can review any ruling in lower courts that they like or even overturn old rulings as they see fit. They cannot write new law as that is explicitly congress but they could take cases and interpret them broadly or narrowly to skew the desired result. If they tried to write laws themselves presumably they would be ignored or removed either via impeachment or by physical force. In a situation where parties are adhering to the rules then either congress can pass new law to clarify intent (and probably fight again) or pass an amendment to constitution or states could call constitutional convention to overrule an undesired court ruling.
If anyone is interested in this sort of thing, I'd highly recommend the (very technical) book Why Stock Markets Crash by Didier Sornette - a guy who comes from a Physics/Geophysics background.

tl;dr - Stock markets crash because of fractals/chaos/complex systems. And there's no such thing as an equilibrium (in the stock market) because if there was, everyone would agree on the true value of a stock and no one would buy or sell for that reason.
Indeed—it's a personal decision that every patient and family have to make based on their individual situation. (Just as mine had to.)

That's why a categorical claim that there's no harm to having fighting attitude is patently wrong...not to mention harmful because it contributes to the stigmatization of accepting and preparing for impending death.
Wikipedia coverage, if ESPN's story is too much:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_NBA_betting_scandal
They don't have a camera under the screen, they have a finger print reader.
The irony of posting this on Medium.
So, it's basically a glorified weather-proof sticker on your license plate. I guess you saved me a click.
WTF? If you have a high paying job, this is a couple of days work, and it is tax deducible in oz if you work in the industry.
It is possible to lose vouching privileges if the mods feel the comments you're vouching for are uncivil or do more harm than good.
Not sure if this applies but new functionality will show up in your profile if you make it far enough in the YC application process. Our team landed an interview for the S2014 batch. There is a whole part of the site that you would only see during this process. I had questions in my profile during the application process (which normally does not appear) and when we were invited to interview there was scheduling tool where you could see the open slots over the four days of interviews. In our batch, they interviewed four teams at a time in 15-minute intervals and you could pick your time in this scheduling grid.

https://github.com/joseph-adam/YCombinator-Application-S14
I agree that most terrorists are dumb - in fact, I wrote a draft post on how I think it came to be that way:

http://braino.org/essays/the_rise_of_the_stupid_terrorist/
>> Adding value to a business process is much easier to define.

But the effects of a business process on society are really important.

Money is a social contract which is universal and fungible. It was designed to be a measure of the value that an individual brings to society and which that individual can redeem from society.

If we lose sight of that fact and focus only on thinking about individual business processes in isolation, then the economy will lose its substance; it will be all smokes and mirrors; and everyone on the planet will end up wasting their lives working on one silly trend after another instead of helping to make actual, lasting progress.
You can't do that when there are $billions on the table. What happens when someone cheats?
The content is pretty good, and the fact that Casaleggio is not alive anymore can be clearly seen on today's big strategic mistakes the 5 star movement is making, and after reading the article I think this is not even a bad fact.
Dude, way to xkcd 169.
The 1password devs specifically say that the Windows team has been playing around with Rust. So they at least seem to be looking into it and treating it as a real possibility.

I don't imagine anything will come from it for a while however.
Speaking as another non-citizen, you should be concerned that something as important as protection of rights of non-citizens, hinges in its entirety on a very convoluted and non-obvious reading of the Due Process Clause of 14A.
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Paradoxically, by employing that subject, you are in a way falling for it. It's not designed to convince you the earth is flat.
> until somewhat recently, we’ve been able to sustain our operations without any external capital [owing to] a product that monetizes itself, from a customer base that gets real value from us.

Translating this bafflegab into english is educational:

> We used to be profitable because people liked our product enough to pay more for it than it cost us to produce. Now we're not, so... unicorn?
Hash maps are O(1)
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Agreed, this would be nice to add. However, it would have been easier if everyone's primary identifier was a number, and a name was just an associated field. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that it was set up this way. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Anybody known if emailing the mods will let this happen?
Is there a name for the evolution of parameters being optimized ? one period will improve A, then the next will improve B etc etc

A bit like a 3D spiral slowly going "up" locally (even one might argue it's folding over itself in the long term)
Good Technology had $556 million in funding:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/good-technology

Per your link, they sold for $425 million.

The investors lost money.

That is not the outcome they were hoping for. However, their preferences did provide them downside protection which was, as I noted, their purpose.
The DCN is currently powering https://merklex.io/trade. Happy to answer any questions.
If it's client side, where does this communication happen?
Empirically speaking, poor people (and the super wealthy) have more kids than the middle class do.
I think that'd be a good thing, honestly. Predatory would be scared away if they have to attach some form of id to their digital identity. I mentioned before, it could be as simple as validating a credit card.
Nobody said it solves the problem. The point is that it helps.

Also, "I am not going to use an unjust power that I have" is hardly an abdication of their role, it's just a choice made using the power of the office.
The investors of the that $100MM round very likely have some downside protection in the agreements, so that the following down round disproportionally dilutes all the owners before that $100MM round - the founders, initial investors, and employees.
I'd like to see a "rolling thread" feature where dupe threads (and links) are automatically merged into an existing thread, with older comments and subthreads being deleted over time.

Hacker News doesn't do a good job of avoiding duplicates anyway, might as well make that a feature.
Thanks, this is hilarious. My response would be, maybe others' lack of information, or disagreement with my understanding of the truth, shouldn't bother me as much as people think it should.
Thanks - that's a useful clarification. It was a while ago that I visited, and while I do drive, and regularly, I didn't drive while there.

Obviously I failed to miss this "subtlety" ;) - good evidence, as if any were needed, which of course it isn't, that drivers can't be trusted.
DOS. It has no privilege escalation exploits, because by design it has no concept of different privileges.

Personally, I think as a regular user of a PC, it's the remote exploits that you really need to worry about, the ones of the form "connect to the Internet and get pwned without doing anything else", fortunately quite rare; and in this era of user-hostile devices, local privilege escalation can even be friendly in terms of rooting and jailbreaks.