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I'm not sure American cultural messaging is so monolithic. Some is like that, but plenty of people argue something like the reverse (e.g., parents infantilizing their children, participation awards).
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Eliminate take-home exams. As for collections of answers or old tests, those have always been around and generally aren't considered cheating. In fact they're good preparation for allowing students to get familiar with the testing environment.

But there's no excuse for lazy professors/instructors and each new test should be distinct. Re-using an old test or old test questions is questionable behavior by a professor.

I agree with what Veen posted earlier: the cheating students should be expelled.
the SEC shutting down centralized exchanges would be a short term shock to the value of BTC but long-term would be a disaster for regulators.

Decentralized P2P exchanges exist(bisq/hodlhodl), and shutting down centralized exchanges would force people to use those as the on/off ramps.

The best way for regulators to fight bitcoin imo is to slowly assimilate it into the legacy finance infrastructure to the point that it becomes similar to gold reserves, something only central banks and large institutions hold, while the public might only hold IOUs. Similar to what paypal is already doing.
I don't know, a $400 Apple Cam™ might do the trick.
Looks amazing, been wanting something like this for a while :)
Obviously if on average everything gets better you still don't ignore potentially long term harmful effects. It's clear that microplastics have been infiltrating our systems dormantly since microplastics have been around and so its probably a good idea to find out why so that we dont construct a world in which we are entirely dependent on them if they do turn out to have a significantly bad long term effect. Oh wait, that's already the world we live in.
The problem is laptop lids are a lot thinner than smartphones and just don't have the depth to contain a decent optic. Apple have tried to mitigate this a bit in the new M1 machines using some computational photography to improve the image.

The Surface machines from Microsoft actually stand out in this regard. Because the brains of the machine are in the same section as the screen and camera, they are a lot thicker and can put in pretty decent camera modules.
You already licensed those comments to HN for distribution ;)
The AMT is fine. The issue is that the implied gain at exercise of an ISO is subject to AMT.
Bcrypt is very common on the Internet, though.
I wonder if it's implicitly acknowledging that social media (at least Google and Facebook) are authentication providers for thousands/millions of other services. So it's more of a "protect the keys to the kingdom" suggestion for those that use Facebook/Google to sign in to everything (not that I recommend doing that often).
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I can't see anything obvious. Maybe the cold weather makes tunnels a cheaper option?

Here it is in GMaps: https://goo.gl/maps/ijR9TG3LbyKo3wW7A

Note that the map in the parent seems to be rotated.
I have definitely been on the code review for abstractions which did nothing other than remove some duplicate lines of code. The author admitted as much and was certain it was still a good idea.
This looks very good, congratulations!
I'm so glad Hollywood found another host for it's corrupt parasite - the one that used to live in Orrin Hatch.
Along with a legal battle I hope these companies are engaging in a technical battle as well. Because suppressing NSO using legal means will not make the vulnerabilities go away -- it will still be there, waiting to be exploited by someone else.

Microsoft for example has 30+ year old C/C++ code in Office applications that customers install on their machines. This is an attack vector. Adobe Acrobat is another well known attack vector. These products should be rewritten in a safer language, like Rust.

Roughly 70% of the security issues seen by Microsoft are memory safety issues. This means that if that software had been written in Rust, 70% of these security issues would most likely have been eliminated. See: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/22/why-rust-for-safe...

These companies should be held accountable for not investing in securing their code, instead of brushing them under the carpet and pretending that breaches are simply law-and-order issues, or that we need more laws to solve the problem.
In addition, I'll say that your documentation team should use real technical writing software like FrameMaker and not some lame ascii markup thingy like Markdown, RST, etc. Programmer written documentation should be embedded in their code.

Just joking. Do whatever you want - it's a free country (mostly).
Personally, my issue is more with DRM. I considered buying a few Blu-rays, but I have little use for a bunch of copyrigh-protected plastic, and circumventing the DRM on it might be a hassle, plus drives cost quite a bit.

I just want some GoG-like store for movies. Have sales like Steam, price competition, keep what you buy, "complete your collection" bundles, etc.

THis could really work with federation: each rightholder sets up their own shop on a common marketplace. Transfer encryption keys. Maybe even use torrents for distribution? But final files should have no DRM.
I lived in a mobile home for 6 years. 920 square feet purchased for $50,000 with $600/month rent on land. I live in New Jersey where apartments cost no less than $1,200 in my area.

Simple calculation says I saved about $40,000 so far while living in a better environment and space. Buying a house in this area costs no less than $200,000 and land taxes come out to ~$500/month anyway.

I highly recommend mobile home living for just-married couples.

ps - our community does not allow people to rent their homes out, so everyone who lives here takes care of the property well. I suspect this may be an important feature for better quality of life in such a community. And there are no trailers -- all homes are stationary.
-> when they dropped the white phosphorous on villagers, massacred children, burned down peoples farms, etc in the war that occured between 2001-present

Please cite sources.
This article does seem to skirt around the obvious, that you _can_ buy a decent webcam, if you pay Logitech the money they want. Given how often they've been sold out this year, people are buying them.

Both the C920[1] and the StreamCam[2] work well.

1 - https://www.logitech.com/en-gb/products/webcams/c920-pro-hd-...

2 - https://www.logitech.com/en-gb/products/webcams/streamcam.96...
Once you've outsourced it's hard to bring it back because it's very expensive in the short term. Where would the EU countries' defense budget come from without increasing taxes or cutting social programs? It's the same reason US has a hard time bringing back manufacturing once it has become reliant on China.
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Then don't watch those movies. The fact is, many people enjoy these things - there's market research on that - and you are not the target audience. The sum amount of enjoyment from a big budget production is much higher than what 3B1B produces (who I also like!). And that enjoyment would not exist if not for IP law.
Here is a litle bit something:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-59...

"For the code compilation speed tests were compiking Apache, PHP, the Linux kernel, ImageMagick, GDB, LLVM, FFmpeg, and MPlayer."
The entire package that legislators are asked to vote upon is 5000 pages long. It starts on page 2539.

https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/file...
> A Google spokesperson said such agreements over antitrust threats are extremely common.

Really? Any examples?
They physical wheel was fragile and the internal HDDs weren't quite big enough for a good music library. They were also a little too big and heavy, and they used Firewire as the interface which wasn't well supported at the time (or ever) on PCs.
>Again, the sensor size doesn't matter, what matters is the focal length.

Well, yes, but the two are obviously tightly linked if we're comparing a DSLR to a phone camera.

I'm going by the calculation in the 'Cameras' section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk It explains why only the f-number is relevant. If you plug values for an iPhone into the 'x =' equation, you'll see that an iPhone camera is not really close to being limited by diffraction. The minimum separation distance at 500nm wavelength at f1.6 comes out to 976nm. Along an 8mm sensor dimension that's 8188 line pairs. Now sure, that's by the Rayleigh criterion, so you're not resolving 8188 perfectly sharp line pairs. But that's a still a good margin over the sensor resolution, and it's an open question how good sharpening algorithms can get.
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A used GoPro is probably fine for people who want more than a junk camera but less than some pro level stuff.

I wonder how easy it is to get OS to treat a GoPro as a webcam?
The vast majority of content creators disagree.
There's a difference between no known mechanism (and the effect being completely swamped by the environment) versus actually having a contaminant persist in the body, which historically is usually the precursor of larger effects.

I.e. asbestos is harmless, and would be harmless if didn't remain in the lungs, and we just breathed it back out.

Hell, you can handle most radioactive isotopes quite safely provided they don't enter the body in a persistent way.
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No, I’m at a school that is highly ranked for engineering. The engineering students have barely any electives at all. They’re always working their butts off and super stressed out all the time. For the few electives they do have they tend to choose bird courses.

I’m a pure math student though. Math students tend to have way more flexibility in what they study. You can take extremely rigorous courses like functional analysis and algebraic topology. Or you can do a math-based accounting program and pretty much stop taking hard math courses after first year.
This camera seems to check all of the boxes for what he was looking for.
https://thorbroadcast.com/product/4k-hdmi-and-usb-e-ptz-comp...
Yes, no state income tax but they make up for it in other ways.

To be fair, half of my property taxes $7.8k go to fund schools. Someone has to pay for the artificial turf football field and 8 million dollar sport facility at the middle school (grade 5-8).
Not necessarily. Reddit was riding the coattails of Digg for a long time until Digg actively alienated it's user base with a redesign. Also, MySpace losing to Facebook.
I don't see why movie piracy wouldn't help to sell studio-branded merchandise. Think everyone buying baby Yodas this Christmas paid for the stream?

Just a random thought.
I feel personally attacked.

Truly. I purchased Murfie, and am attempting to re-build their business. It's a streaming service that leverages media people own to give them access to that content.

This feels like a targeted attack on my business plan by Disney. I can't see another reason it would be so targeted.

BUT... I believe the service I'm providing is legal and I'll fight this battle to the end.
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These tests should have been taken in-person. Online testing is fundamentally an insecure medium prone to fraud.
> This field pushes away the Van Allen Belts, a radiation swim-floaty that surrounds Earth's middle.

"swim-floaty"? I get what they are referencing, but can we really not come up with a better term than... "swim-floaty"?
C920 is literally 8 years old.
I was also stuck on that word. Thank you.
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I don't think this is a good tactic when you have an audience that is even halfway awake. when I see this happen on a topic I'm not very familiar with, my first reaction is to think it was an incisive question that OP realized they did not have a good response to.

I find that there is usually a fairly small number of "gotcha" questions that come up over and over for a particular topic. the "trans people in competitive sports" question in this thread is a good example. what makes these types of questions rhetorically effective is that they're usually at least half-rooted in truth. in my experience it's more effective to recognize the likely gotchas and have a response ready, or better yet, preempt it entirely. at the very least, you should explain why you're not answering the question, lest it appear that you are the one arguing in bad faith. you have to keep in mind that you're not just trying to convince your interlocutor but also your audience.
Who's dying of paper cuts? It's easy to see who's dying of denied insurance
Currently I'm playing with this: https://github.com/bionanoimaging/UC2-GIT
which does a lot of that (mainly for educational purposes- I think most scientists should focus on getting grant money to buy professional equipment).
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Here’s the same kind of cheating.

I was working at a well-funded ($86M Series B) fiberoptic startup in Fremont in 2000. We were trying to develop a polarization-maintaining fused fiber coupler, which we knew little about except for reading some papers. We were led by a young Chinese guy who kept everything he knew pretty much to himself. We all went out for pizza. I asked him, how did you solve so-and-so problem? Remarkably, without hesitation he said, I called up my friend at so-and-so COMPETING STARTUP, and asked him how they did it. (And he didn’t share with me any details of the solution, either). Then, I knew Silicon Valley was immersed in a sea of electrons…
That suppositions might carry some weight if Hollywood Accounting didn't deny every penny possible to those same people.

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
I would not use SQL to implement the actual algorithm, but I would certainly consider using it to hold all of the data around such an operation as required. For instance, tables like Samples, Spectrograms, etc.
I look at it from the other perspective (interviewer). We always have an "adjustment" period for the candidate to settle in. We smile with them, ask them how they're doing, bring them water, ask them if they have to freshen up [restroom, go wash]. Let them cool down a bit if it was hot, or get warm if it was cold outside. We'll ask them if they'd like a drink [coffee, coco] and may prepare one for them. They notice the view (directly facing the mediterranean) and we invite them to the balcony: it's soothing.

We'll ask them about logistics, if they need to be somewhere else, if they mention they came by car we'll confirm they're not parked somewhere where it will be towed. We try and put all conditions so the candidate feels free of other things. In some occasions, they came when we were having a birthday party and they were welcomed.

We try and bring the conversation towards something the candidate is comfortable with, a project they've done or a topic they've worked on. Something that anchors them. We'll ask questions on how they solved things, etc. Then we ease into other problems.

Our sessions feel like we're colleagues trying to tackle a problem together. A few minutes in, they're not stressed and they can actually do some thinking on the issue at hand and do their best.

That's our way to deal with it so we don't rely on the candidate's maturity or confidence levels for the interview to go well. We do that upstream.
> personally instigating legal action on millions of others

how so?
There are at least some people for whom twitter and other social media sites are important professional assets.

And I'll echo another comment that if you login with Facebook or Google, that increases the value of that password.

On a similar note, your very strongest password should be whatever controls the email where your password resets get sent to.
This doesn't make any sense. Mirrorless cameras cost a couple thousand dollars (I have one) and the last thing I am going to wear down/abuse this equipment with, is to jump into daily meeting lol.
At the low end, there are decent webcams, like Logitech HD 1080p, but it costs over 100$ and honestly, it's a couple of years behind the current. There don't seem to be webcams of around 100 to 200$ that are state of the art. If you look at mobile phones, you see the difference. Those mobile cameras are like 1/5 or 1/10th of the size a webcam could be, so there is LOTs of room for improvement, even in this price segment.

I am pretty sure we could easily get 4k recording with decent, artificial depth-of-field (LIDAR & all) under decent lighting conditions (which is why this can be done cheap) at a price point of 100 to 200$. Just nobody seems to be doing it.

And yeah we definitely do stream 1080p over meetings and most people are always like "Oh wow, what kind of webcam are you using". That's for my years old logitech... The bitrates are pretty low, even for 4k. You can definitely have a couple of those over almost any current internet connection without issues.

My main gripe is depth-of-field. Add some LIDAR and I am happy. Apple webcam anyone?
This was a wonderful read. I learned a fair bit that I didn't know about Nim before and there are a few very useful tips in there.
Completely off-topic, but I was surprised about how you made such a smooth graphic with ASCII, but it was my glasses that were dirty.
I'm absolutely positive the DoJ can find a way to bend the definition of "for-profit" to go after a person who shares their Plex service with other people.

The question of "did they profit" is a pretty low bar to clear. And in an era where people mindlessly exchange money via Venmo and similar platforms, it's probably not going to be difficult to find a union of the set "was granted access to plex account" and "has exchanged money in the past." I've seen prosecutors try to sell some rather asinine arguments, so there might not even be a requirement for money to change hands to be considered selling "for-profit," maybe bringing over some pizzas once or something is enough.
What point are you trying to make about the purple phone?
I love that, at the end, he justifies not naming-and-shaming the angel who pulled out by quoting... scripture, and claiming to take the high, spiritual road, while this is the giant, flaming trash-fire-visible-from-space raging behind him.
Not quite. I was charged by the SEC.
Interesting. Perhaps the studios should quadruple the price of streaming to recoup their losses.

But of course that would send even more to piracy....

It makes you wonder if Steve Jobs was correct that people that pirate (songs, Napster back in the day) would be willing to pay for music if it was easy (iTunes) and cheap ($0.99).

I'm not sure if I agree but it is an interesting foil.
This is actually not a bad idea at all. Plastic at macroscopic scales is easier to clean out of water ways (since you can see it) and if we could design materials with a lower bound on granulation they'd just settle out as sediment rather then being able to enter organisms.

It's not really clear how you'd do that though.
So what destroyed or displaced the efforts of the original concept - was it the profit incentive associated with Bitcoin's structure, essentially maligning incentives?
The only book I found helpful in learning functional programming was Lambda calculus and combinators by Hindley. Although you can find it online for free it’s worth buying. What I discovered was that books on Haskell simply weren’t enough to understand the language, you really do need to understand lambda calculus first.
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For a college as selective as West Point, I'm surprised so many students had to cheat on a Calculus test.
All you have to do is not make copies of content the creators don't want to give to you.

It costs you nothing to not infringe.

Do you also want to live in a society without personal property? Can I come to your home to borrow anything you aren't using at the moment?
The article does have neutral statements on findings "Their effect in the body is unknown but scientists say there is an urgent need to assess the issue, particularly for infants." And the quoted statements from journals are also stating the facts and the general concern because the placenta is crucial for foetal development.

But prior to that in the article are statements like “It is like having a cyborg baby: no longer composed only of human cells, but a mixture of biological and inorganic entities,” and "the scientists said they could carry chemicals that could cause long-term damage or upset the foetus’s developing immune system"

The article presents these attention grabbing statements prior to some of the medical journal entries which is why they are likely accusing the article of "fear-mongering".
I think you can still tick the "shipped" box even if you have bugs with subjective levels of severity. Otherwise, I'd never ship :/
Tangent: I really wish that Apple would make it easier to use the iPhone camera as a webcam when using a Mac. It would be a killer feature since so many people are in the ecosystem and iPhone cameras completely outperform webcams these days. I tired EpocCam but I wasn't completely satisfied with it. This seems like a missed opportunity for Apple, given their seamless integration experience mantra.
The DMCA is never abused so I am sure would never be
We kind of don't. Only a very small percentage vote in primary elections, which is the election that determines who will be on the ballot in the general election.
I live in a township with no local income tax, so property tax funds everything local -- public schools, local + county roads, local police, county sherif, fire department, libraries, etc.
They want to mimic the office as much as possible, that's really all the argument tends to boil down to.

Some will claim it is for charisma --> sorry, no amount of charisma is going to fix a bad cam and bad audio.

Some will claim it is more productive --> I really only need to hear your words or see your screenshare, your face moving in front of my screen is distracting.

Some will claim it is more natural --> Try looking at a whiteboard while everyone stares at you from the front. That's about what happens when you use videochat in important meetings. I don't think that's the way people used to have meetings.

Some will claim it is to read body language --> Don't depend on body language and stop assuming things from audio alone. We're adults. People will tell you when something is up.

The only argument I can't go against is bonding. But if you don't want to bond with your team past business-only, that argument is voided.

And I haven't named the cons yet. One of my pet peeves being people will start calling you over every single thing, make you repeat yourself often, misunderstand or even forget what was said in 10 minutes. You don't have that problem with asynchronous communication, and it also yanks the callee away from their flow.
Lynching has always been a crime and that’s why nobody was lynched ever. The mob already has protection because their numbers. It is everyone but the mob that needs the protection.
taking payments is here they can intervene, by forcing payment systems to block those platforms. Good thing we have crypto
Yes lets make sharing things on the internet a felony, especially with modern OSes and software that users have little control over.

Good job, I'm glad to hear our legislature is still "getting things done" during the lame duck congress.