skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference between a "scam" business and a "failed" business. The scam business never had any intent on doing what they promised. The failed business planned on doing something, but for whatever reason, was not able to do it successfully.

It is not realistic to have a 100% graduation rate. Obviously, some people will fail/not complete any training. A lot of that has to do with the expectations and commitment of the students.

Lambda is not a "scam". They have every intention of actually teaching and training people to become successful Engineers. They might be making numerous mistakes. They might even be doing a poor job. But they are not a "scam". People are successfully learning and getting jobs. Even if the real rate is closer to 50% instead of 80%.

If being manipulative in marketing makes the company a scam, then pretty much every company is a scam.

I think it is completely fair to critique Lambda and to point out deceptive promises. However, when you go overboard and try to characterize the whole business as a "scam", I think you are going too far. When you go overboard like that, you actually hurt your own argument.
True North is the point the axis of rotation passes through. So, assuming you're aware that you're stood on a sphere (which basically anybody who'd thought about it hard enough or had conquered enough of the planet to do experiments knew since antiquity) and that the sphere is spinning then you know in some sense which way North is by watching the stars apparently gracefully moving in the night sky.

If you're lucky, as the stars move one of them stays still or almost still, it points North (or, in the other hemisphere you've got one pointing South). Today Polaris fills that role and we call it the "North Star".
ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) Holdings, ltd Cambridge, England (co-founder)

Championed the spinout of Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) from Acorn plc and served on ARM’s board for 13 years.

That turned out fairly well....
Ask HN: What are you using for managing reference data?
Hi HN,
In almost every company I have ever worked in, we had some in-house solution for managing so-called dictionaries/parameters/reference-data.
If you still wonder what I am talking about: assume you would have some data that normally you would put in an enum, but it would have to be dynamic and business people would need to have control over it, what would you use? Admin panel would be probably the first choice, but sometimes there are not enough resources or budgets to do so. Feature toggles are the closest thing that comes to my mind when I think about the potential product, but its use case is somewhat different (lack of queries, versioning, it is not suited to have lots of data). I have decided with my friends that we could deliver a solution to this problem, but I wonder if this is something that you would use or maybe you already using some solution that solves this problem?
Holy Crap! Makani's idea is brilliant, and I haven't even heard of them!

As a child, I recall getting a kite high enough such that it was in a constant wind, such that it could be tethered, and it would basically "fly itself".

Well, Makani's idea appears to be a version of the above -- but you also put propellers/turbines and generators on the kite, and the kite is replaced by a more solid glider airframe...

Net result if it works?

The glider flys high up enough in the air such that there is always a windstream. That windstream drives propeller/turbine blades (much like in stationary windfarms), which in turn, turn generators.

Then you send the electric power back down to the earth via the tether, which is also an electric cord...

A brilliant idea.

I wonder exactly what went wrong, such that this project had to be shelved...
How would that be workable? I am a Dutch EU citizen living in Indonesia; does that mean that all Indonesian businesses I interact with should follow the EU GDPR law?
The 8080 had A, B, C, D, E, H and L. These mostly carried over to the 8085. Newer chips have ax/al/ah, eax, rax type names the grew out of the original names. The Zilog Z80 and Sharp LR35902 were mostly 8080 compatible.

The MOS 6502 has, as gmfawcett said, single-letter names. These in turn carried over to Western Design Center (WDC)'s 65C816. There are actually separate instructions for loading and storing in A, X, Y and Z at least on the '816. LDX, STX, and so on. This means the Ricoh 2A03, Ricoh 5A22, Hitachi 6309, MOS 8501, MOS 8502, and the later MOS 65xx series and the CSG chips. A fun fact is that the 6502 had especially fast access to its zero page memory and special instructions for some functions on that page, the first 256 bytes of RAM. Language implementers sometimes made up for the dearth of registers by treating certain addresses in the zero page as additional registers.

The Motorola 6800 had two accumulators, A and B. The stack pointer was merely S. X is the index register. It also treats the zero page specially. The 68000 series broke with this, having eight address registers a0-a7 and eight data registers d0-d7.

All of the above used A as an accumulator at least by convention in the materials.

SP is the literal name of the stack pointer on x86 in 16-bit mode. It's also used as an alias for R13 in at least some Arm (AArch32 on v7 and earlier for example). SP and PC are the stack pointer and program counter on the PDP-11. It's aliased to r1 on the Intel 80960 (i960) since that is the stack pointer on that platform.

The PDP-8 used similar zero-page tricks to the MOS 6502, only given that it had one (1 !!!) register, that was necessary.

All of these processors where CPUs for commercially successful systems. They might "only" be microcontrollers today.

The MOS 6502 / 6510 and its variant the WDC 65C816 was in the Commodore 64, Commodore PET, the Vic-20, the Apple II, the Atari 2600, the Atari 400/800/600XL/800XL/1200XL/800XE/65XE/130XE, Nintendo Famicom, SuperFamicom, the NES, the SuperNES, BBC Micro, Ohio Scientific Challenger 4, Atari Lynx, Apple III, Apple IIgs, Acorn Atom, Acorn Electron, Franklin Ace, and loads of clones.

The Z80 was in most Amstrad models, in the original TRS-80, the MSX standard, VTech Laser, Intercompex Hobbit, Mattel Aquarius, the Microbee, the NEC PC-6000 & PC-8800 series, Sinclair ZX line & Timex Sinclair, Coleco Adam, and again a bunch of clones.

The Motorola 6809 was in the Tandy Color Computer, while the smaller CoCo MC-10 used the 6803. A few other companies built around this chip family, too.

The Commodore 128 featured both a 6500 series processor and a Z80.

Several of these processors still have versions produced in 2020, although they're not for your main desktop or your phone. Several of them are targets for emulation or new hobbyist software due to the popularity of their platforms. And yes, some of them are used as microcontrollers. Microcontrollers need code written for them, too.
Correct, edited the statement to actually make sense.
The 3rd biggest online market is barely a blip? And probably the 2nd biggest for the US because of the shared language.

Poorly informed comments like this pop up a lot, they don't understand the reality of just how big the UK economy is compared to the vast majority of coutnries that make up the EU.

The UK was 20% of the EU's GDP, 1/5th of the total GDP out of 27 countries.
From an ethical perspective (also a freelancer), I think it's my job to warn my clients when I think a particular idea won't work and help guide them to either abandon it or find a better idea. It is, after all, why they hired an expert -- presumably I know more about the specialty than they do so why wouldn't they expect that their money is paying for my honest advice?

If the insist on doing it the way they want, I am happy to admit that they may well know more about the business than me and do it anyway. But I'd rather have a reputation for steering my clients in good directions with both advice and direct technical help. That way people will be confident I'm not trying to take them for a ride. Plus better technical specs out of it and clarity around what needs to be done.
The title is off because e-mail is as secure as a letter with a stamp. As secure as you and your recipient are.
I'm basing this on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22363476 and the fact that the Wikipedia article has a precise date. I sure hope it isn't wrong; that would be awful. I also emailed Alan to ask if he had a minute to come and post about it, because moments like this are learning occasions for younger (and not so younger) community members who don't know the history.
So, basically: "Fuck your laws, you won't dare to do anything, because your citizens cannot live without us anyway, lol"?
Highlighting text and scrolling is broken too.
Well, you are free to block those and, differently from Javascript, will miss no functionality.
Singapore aims to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040
I created my account before 2018, but my domain/product was registered with Stripe in 2018. Which side do I fall in?

Alternatively, how do I check this myself?
Second Order Effects of the Coronavirus
Number of hits on the web server.
decentraleyes plugin, although I wish there was an easy way to add local sources
So they just picked an arbitrary number that felt right? I expected the story to be more interesting than that, given the title. Still, there was some interesting trivia surrounding the core question.

Reminds me of the IPv6 adoption problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14986324
Trump administration backs Oracle in Supreme Court battle against Google
There is evidence from the leaks it was an inside job - basically the time stamps indicate the files were copied at USB2 speeds.
The axis isn't strictly fixed; it shifts as the plates etc. shift.
One use case I don't see mentioned, though, is "I sent you an email that I think you might tamper with the contents of. By doing authenticate and then encrypt, you might be able to claim you never got it, but I prevent you from claiming the email to be different than it is."
> windows breaks faster and must be replaced more often

Or they are replaced more often just because they are cheaper.

There is a second hand market for Apple stuff, on the PC land that's unthinkable.
This is as good of a demonstration of the big "common sense" gap that end-to-end computer vision approaches have as it is of adversarial examples.
Even with an occluded speed limit sign, humans have strong priors on what a sensible speed limit would be based on a more general understanding of the environment (width of lanes, curvature of roads, visibility, road quality, frequency of law enforcement vehicles ;), etc.).
+1 adding my anecdata to this.

If you don’t need irrational numbers (few financial applications do?), the tuple of (value, scale) can take you very far.
> It's selling out because it was a nonprofit project, and now the Man owns it, and will try to monetize it. This is textbook selling out.

I don't know if anyone is reading these comments anymore, but I'd like to point out that Waterfox has never been non-profit and even received investment (and similar criticism, which turned out to be unwarranted) in 2014.

> At some point, MrAlex94 will be made to compromise his principles.

People said the same in 2014, and 6 years on I never did. I'd hope that warrants some level of trust.
Some more context: this has been around for a couple years (for only new Stripe users). Payments are costing more to process. Card network fees have been gradually increasing over the years.

Stripe has kept this at bay for its longtime users for as long as we could, even as it's been getting more expensive. But with the water rising across the whole pond, we sadly have to start charging for some of these things.
"Dana Rohrabacher has been a great Congressman for his District"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/10593174266539335...
regarding verification; checking the presence of specific headers, and checking that the date falls within a certain window, and checking a Digest... are all good things to do. It's not so difficult to do them yourself, even if the spec doesn't require it. You could say the spec doesn't go far enough.

Apigee (API Gateway) has an HTTPSignature verification callout that does all of those things. You just need to configure it.
> Non-gov't innovation could discover really interesting models that gov't wouldn't take the risk on.

When it comes to education the literature is littered with failed "innovation" models that sound good but fail. In fact, we could commission research institutions (publicly owned universities!) to do the legwork...in fact many of them have varied educational models. The government merely funds them; it doesn't execute the teaching model. (And Lambda's teaching model is pretty bog-standard, all said and told)

For profit vocational schools have existed for eons. If the only novelty is the "ISA" -- which is not all that new, innovative or effective what with progressive taxation -- then what exactly are Lambda offering? Overpriced, poorly executed courses for 0-upfront cost, subsidized "teaching" by TAs w/o any actual knowledge?

The price of failure in this space is very high. It's gambling with student's futures. Fast iteration and failure recovery is not easily possible. This is not a space where VC acceleration makes sense.
No. The problem this article is talking about isn't "bozos".
Emoluments Clause be damned, he's cashing in more than just a book deal after this. Private dinners with the POTUS at Mar A Lago don't come cheap.
It's clearer now, definitely. This was in the late 90s and both my parents were humanities academics.

I ended up getting a master's in English and taught essay writing for a while. Many decisions later, I work as security analyst and end up writing a lot on the job, so I like to think things have worked out. I guess. I wish I knew C and more low level cs concepts like some of my coworkers.
Of all the things that aren't evidence, an indictment is possibly among the most not-evidence things.

A judge famously said you could indict a ham sandwich. In practice, grand juries say whatever a prosecutor wants them to say.

And as Russian nationals, it's also unlikely they'll ever have to actually stand trial, which is when evidence would be required to enter the public record to convict them.
Please keep religious flamebait off HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
From his resume:

1962-1964 Stanford University Departments of Genetics and Computer Science
programmer
Something I see some developers do which I don't recommend is using SQLite for testing environments when they're using PostgreSQL in production. SQLite3 doesn't support a lot of types that PostgreSQL does and it doesn't support things like full outer joins. Save the headaches of debugging in production and spin up a docker PostgreSQL instance since testing environments should emulate production environments as much as possible.
Email support@stripe.com (feel free to CC edwin@stripe.com) and we can check.
Very little media attention.
> The heat seems to kill these things over time.

I think it's more about how well balanced all of the individual LED's in the bulb are. Unbalanced circuits have more current flowing through some paths than others and leads to premature failure of individual elements and it's usually rapidly downhill from there for the rest of the bulb.
> An employee familiar with the planned move said that British privacy rules, which at least for now track GDPR, would continue to apply to that government’s requests for data from Google’s U.S. headquarters.

It quite literally says the opposite of that. I don't think Google could continue to do business in the UK if they just ignore regulation, nor could they ask users to waive their own rights.

All this seems to be is moving the location at which data-related requests for the UK are handled, which is probably because the Irish office is smaller and it is easier to keep them focussed solely on EU law.
Love the PhD. "Thesis advisor: Claude Shannon".

For those that aren't familiar, the TX-2 is one of the systems that led to modern interactive computers. It was far more powerful than you would expect for a computer in 1958, the company DEC was basically founded on this computer's architecture, remarkably advanced computer graphics and image perception was being done (https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/11589/3395912...)

lincoln labs, where it was hosted, was a fertile area of research at a time when far more people were in favor of academic military research (MIT played a huge role in WWII).

I built a visual programming system for grid computing a while ago and it's interesting how often this paradigm keeps coming up in random places, like music making, blender effects pipelines, etc, etc. You'd think that researchers would design neural network architectures in visual programming space, not in a programming language.
Sorry, I don't have time right now to read your link but I will get back to it after my event this evening.

My citation for hogs... my father was a breeder of fine, pedigreed Duroc-Jersey swine. He literally lived through (and helped lead) the switch from selecting for maximum lard production to selecting for minimum back-fat.

By the time I was cleaning barns after school, we were well into the "minimize fat" era. Which in my opinion has been taken too far, as pork now is often very dry. A little marbling would go a long way.

(Aside: I vividly recall one night, near the end of the second cup of coffee, a nasty differential equations pset that was kicking my ass. I remember to this day saying to myself: You have two options here: a) wrap your mind around diffeq, and get that engineering degree, or b) go home and clean hog barns for the rest of your life. I chose option 'a'. Powerful motivation.)
> WSJ announced 5400 people in California are under quarantine today. 700 people in WA under supervision from authorities.

I was curious about the source for this so I searched and found this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-has-u-s-cities-stre...

It states the 5400 Californians are under "self quarantine", as opposed to the Washington State enforced quarantine of 700.
True, I have a Ph.D. and am very skilled with electronics and embedded programming. If you handed me an iPhone I would have no idea how to read text messages (actual situation).

Same with the people I help technically at work. They're all brilliant scientists. They get confused by the difference between VGA, DisplayPort, HDMI, and DVI. Or get extremely frustrated when a button on the UI moves.

I think software developers don't quite understand how big a deal it is to a 70 year old when the button to do something moves. Probably a quarter of my day is often just figuring out how to reconfigure things to their liking or else spend an hour retraining them because of some unnecessary UI change in Windows 10, after which they will still forget and ask for help again.

God forbid you break apart an application into multiple programs or have online activation or a license server. I think I hear at least a daily rant about how you can't just buy software anymore and now you can only rent it for a bit.

We have versions of software that are 13 years old because the publisher switched from an unlimited permanent license to a per-seat per-year license model. Rarely worth it when the instructors get confused by new software anyway.
Do you then use variable length for the precision depending on the currency?
The level of complexity involved in developing even a basic CRUD solution these days requires knowing a tech stack going from DAL over networking, protocols to Front-end. Just getting all that shit to work and being able to reason through to get something working requires years of experience.

If you can produce something working that satisfies the requirements you can't be terrible in my book, no matter what I think of your style
Redirects to a major retailer for pet and animal products.
Modern research says no.

There has been a lot of research on this topic. You can not measure the testosterone in a group and make a prediction about who is going to commit a crime. If you measure testosterone on criminals, you can't make any prediction about what kind of crime they did.

There are weak associations such as risk taking (possible facilitated through increased dopamine transmitters), but there are much stronger links between criminals. To mention a few: Social economical status, social support structure, and childhood trauma is much better predictors than high testosterone.

Hormones are a terrible explanation for crime, even if they often have a weak association. Did you know that women are much more likely to have committed a crime during pms? The crime statistics support the link, but ask a researcher and they will list multiple reason why such correlation make for very weak association rather than strong evidence of a link between hormones and crime.
In a religion that has a priesthood tradition, like the Catholic church, a real priest is one that has been ordained (I'm not sure what the correct catholic terminology would be) by someone else that has authority to do so. You can't just declare yourself a catholic priest. You have to be made a catholic priest by someone higher up.
It applies to EU residents regardless of where the data processor is located, and anyone anywhere whose data is processed by an EU based company (or the EU subsidiary of a multinational):

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
Here are some tweets about it:

https://twitter.com/search?q=Bert%20Sutherland&src=typed_que...

This one appears to be the first (18 hours ago):

https://twitter.com/harrymccracken/status/123000105692436070...

The Computer History Museum has since tweeted about it:

https://twitter.com/ComputerHistory/status/12302002771412500...
In those days, leather was very much a part of many manufactured goods. Not to mention, the primary mode of transportation was the horse, which required a saddle.
> to protect sources and methods.

Either you "protect sources and methods", and not make strong public accusations, or you make accusations and disclose evidence.

Doing one but not the other is indistinguishable from just making false claims - which the US is known to have done repeatedly in the past (another example - Gulf of Tonkin).
So in response to my point that people may value things differently than how someone rando on the Internet thinks they should, your response is that they clearly just don’t know what’s good for them :)
Completely agree. People are missing the pile-on economic effects of this virus and what a shock to the system it is.
>> Until 3 years ago, J.P. Morgan chase would only store the first 8 characters of your password. They would accept more but silently discard it

Oh, I am sure they do. The big question for this thread is: how come this "8-character all-uppercase" password is a thing in States, but less of a thing in e.g. Europe.
I don't agree; there have been a number of enforcements which very much improved things.

See e.g. [1] and [2].

Is it perfect? No. But these kind of things don't change overnight.

[1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/guess-what-gdpr-enforcement-is...

[2]: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
> and it doesn't support things like full outer joins

This at least is possible to fake. But in the era of premade docker packages for postgres, I do wonder why the practice you describe persists.
I hope we can move to a world with ubiquitous two-factor and hardware roots of trust (FIDO2, U2F, etc) across enterprises. That is the only way I see things like this ending.
Normally the LEDs are wired in series so that they all have the same current.
I also very much doubt the US government will want to go through a discovery phase with these people, so I'm not sure the DoJ really wants a trial to actually take place.